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He’s too obsessed with “the genocide in Palestine”.
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Sharia from cowardice media central … UK update
Never mind Carlie Hebdo … and Mohamhead
Oxford University Press bans mention of pork and pigs in books to ‘avoid offending Muslims …………….. or Jews, (oops! read Muslims)
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/oxford-university-press-bans-mention-pork-pigs-books-avoid-offending-muslims-jews-1483378
“More abject surrender and dhimmitude from Ludicrous Britannia. OUP says they are avoiding mentioning pork and pigs in books to avoid offending Muslims and Jews, but … Jews have never taken offence at such things”
R Spencer
Perhaps they ran, (oui, oui , oui, all the way home) … to Tariq Ramadan, for advice from his Qatari funded seat in Oxford Univ.?
You can check out BBC Oxford, but … it ain t there
You would think it would be prescient with all this, freedom of speech/expression? … No1 in the news stories?
for the “je suis Charlie” Al BBC eh!
the BBC does have this though
… “Alice in Wonderland stamps issued ”
… the irony
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/01/oxford-university-press-bans-mention-of-pigs-in-books-to-avoid-offending-muslims
and what is the BBC doing?
Going all out to mention THE prophet Mohamhead as many times in one day as possible
Sun TV news Canada …video
the …”prophet” mohamhead
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/featured/prime-time/867432237001/the-prophet-muhammad/3980824228001/page/3
i had noticed previously the use by the Press especially the BBC of including Jews with Muslims when worrying about their sensibilities. The Jews have become the useful dupes to make Islam acceptable. Ironic really. Does the OUP in this instance really think that Peppa Pig really offends Jews? Should Alice in Wonderland be banned because one of the queens (sorry I forget which one) carries a pig?
Where I am less certain is the push to mark or ban kosher or halal meat. I see this as anti-Semitic. I understand that halal meat can be from prestunned animals. It is not enough for kosher meat to come from an animal correctly killed, but only the fore quarter. It has always been that the steaks etc, ie the expensive cuts from an animal killed in the kosher way can go into the main meat trade being of advantage to everyone.
Shouldn’t halal meat be marked as such? If Muslim mumbo jumbo has been muttered over the carcass, then non-Muslims are being involved unknowingly in a Muslim rite. How would Muslims feel about unknowingly eating pork? The usual double standards.
That is my objection. I have no wish to participate, even by proxy, in the practices of what I, as a Christian, regard as a false and demonically inspired religion. I have no problem with kosher meat.
Plus, a requirement for Halal is that the slaughtering and processing is done by Muslims. So Halal meat necessarily puts non-Muslim people and abattoirs out of business.
We get a lot of flyers from takeaways round our way, and they describe food as halal, but only in Arabic script.
Deb,
Jewish people go to a Kosher butchers, and would never
push to have its produce foisted upon a public unknowingly, or insist on the general public eating kosher meat in schools or offices, or criminally omit its labelling.
Because of their (Islamic) intellectually defective, retarded and cruel ideology, I do not want halal meat
here, I do not want to unknowingly contribute one penny
to a dangerous and retrograde cult either, and I vote with my feet any food outlets foisting halal, I ignore –
Halal is unnecessarily cruel ban it.
Just came across this site and would like to say I have complained to the BBC about the reporter Tim Wilcox and his handling of interviewees, in particular the poor french Jewish lady who he almost reduced to tears by suggesting that what happened in France
(ie islamic terrorists)
was almost her fault because of israeli policies.
I believe the BBC no longer remains impartial and for what its worth will be writing to my MP and whoever else will listen.
Welcome!
Welcome to the blog “maidmarion”
I suspect, in the wake of BBC appeasement of all things Islamic, following this latest outrage, many other good folk will be searching the web to vent frustration about the BBC.
They really have shot themselves in the foot, leg, both arse cheeks and hands this time.
Don’t forget he also said that they (Jew’s) won’t be voting labour because they don’t want to pay the mansion tax on their ……..MANSIONS.
What a crass remark from our national broadcaster. No wonder this subliminal antisemitism results in the murder of people simply buying food for their Sabbath.
INBBC seems uninterested, politically reflecting its appeasing attitude to self-censorship on behalf of Islamic interests.
Cartoonist/illustrator Bosch FAWSTIN has this-
” End Islamic Pigotry ”
http://fawstin.blogspot.co.uk/
Sounds like the book “1984”. Are these clowns for real???
“BBC will not bow to ‘naked bullying’ from critics, Lord Hall says”
(- and will continue to appease Islam, and to support the Labour Party).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/11345648/BBC-will-not-bow-to-naked-bullying-from-critics-Lord-Hall-says.html
What a joke.
The whole rotten structure needs to be obliterated. But pending that, the country has had a huge population boost over the last few years; the extra numbers paying in should allow a sizeable reduction in the licence fee.
And will aid and abet bullying in the case of Ched Evans and anyone in football who says anything they consider racist or anyone at all even slightly critical of the RoP and creeping islamofascism
Yes, Hadda. I notice that Dennis McShane phoned in to Todsy this morning to rebut some claim made Nigel Farage, but was not mentioned as the “convicted fraudster Dennis McShane”.
‘Vowing the BBC would never bend to political pressures, he added his staff would not “confuse justifiable complaints with naked bullying” and would report “without fear or favour”’.
Ergo, my staff will not deviate from our objective to undermine UKIP, return a Labour Government, appease Islamists, and stick it on Israel wherever possible.
That’s stating the obvious as the BBC don’t believe anyone has a ‘justifiable complaint’ !
As has become customary at the GuardiaGraph where adverse comment is expected (at the time of posting (18:05)) no comments are allowed. Blimey, even the real Guardian occasionally allows adverse comment at CiF (even if many comments are, in the end, edited out).
‘Naked bullying’?
This from a £4billion, taxpayer-funded. allegedly impartial national broadcaster with a near-monoploy 70% news coverage which abuses its privelege to discredit global warming sceptics, Israelis, UKIP supporters, Margaret Thatcher and any right-of-centre viewpoint you care to mention, using a protected clique of leftist commentators, ‘celebrities’ and Guardian-recruited employees.
Is he taking the piss or just completely starved of self-awareness?
Video animation satire on BBC bias in wake of #jesuischarlie http://youtu.be/8cMy-OnV-ks
Well done truth doctor.
Clear, concise, brief. Well done sir.
Scrap the telly tax.
I am offended by the BBC continually referring to “the Prophet Mohammed.” He isn’t my “Prophet” and never will be. As far as I am concerned he was a paedophile who died 1400 years ago. However I doubt my feelings count do they?
It’s actually a very intriguing question. If we are to believe reports carried by the BBC itself, all that is required is for someone to feel ‘offended’ for them to be able to call up the old bill for some instant retribution.
I wonder what would happen if people actually tried turning the Left’s own weapon of mass deception against it?
Here is the reply from the BBC on the matter which appears to be put simply, we’re doing what the Muslims want us to do.
“Thanks for contacting us regarding BBC News.
We understand that you feel BBC reporters should not refer to the “Prophet” Muhammad.
Our approach is guided by the fact that all Muslims would refer to Muhammad as the “Prophet Muhammad” or the equivalent in their language.
As a rule he is never called just Muhammad and Muslims have kept that tradition alive in a very strong way, ultimately as a mark of respect.
Accordingly the scripting of our reports takes into consideration how he is culturally referred to in both written and verbal form.
Going further, this pattern is evident in other religions where a Sikh would always refer to Guru Nanak and not Nanak and a Hindu would always refer to Lord Ram or Shri Ram.
Another key point is that Christianity doesn’t seem to have the same uniform approach to Jesus where, for example, he isn’t referred to with a title by all Christians as the other examples above. Indeed Muslims also refer to Jesus as the Prophet Jesus.”
A wholly inadequate response, because they could say ‘The Muslim Prophet Mohammed’ which would satisfy everyone.
It appears like equality some phrases are more politically correct than others.
If they were to be consistent, they should also add “peace be upon him” after the name as that is also standard Muslim practice. Why don’t they go the whole hog? (Pun not originally intended, but my subconscious obviously hasn’t been brainwashed enough).
It has always amused me that the devout need to pbuh by those with an idiosyncratic English accent
makes the blessing sound more like “piss be upon him”. Perhaps they should stone themselves to death for blasphemy?
What about his Holiness the Dalai Lama, or “The” as referred to by bbc.
If they were being strictly impartial they should also use ‘The Lord Jesus’, so it’s probably worth a complaint.
(As much as any complaint is worth making to the BBC’s complaints department.)
It should be “Jesus, son of God”. That would always trump a mere prophet.
They probably get brownie points for every time they mention it, and an undertaking that nothing nasty will happen to any of them. They must be well in credit, at the moment.
Doesn’t work like that. Appeasers don’t get off; they are usually some of the first to go. The BBC spent decades sympathising with the IRA and still got bombed.
I can only think they use the term to make a distinction – Mohammeds now being two a penny in this country, an’ all that.
1400………1400……. rings a bell………
How the BBC perpetuates the ‘climate change’ religion:
“Charlie Hebdo, Climate Skepticism & Free Speech”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/01/12/charlie-hebdo-climate-skepticism-free-speech/
Our childrens’ minds are being polluted. By the BBC. Again.
Scrap the telly tax.
Do you want totalitarianism? Vote UKIP.
>Do you want totalitarianism? Vote UKIP.<
Or the pub landlord… his manifesto is here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11345488/Watch-Al-Murray-Pub-Landlord-to-take-on-Nigel-Farage.html
Al Murray = “next” establishment stooge (serial BBC Channel 4 cash recipient).
Al Murray = Replacement for Russell ‘busted flush’ Brand
Al Murray= Knob
Vote UKIP.
He will end up the same as Ester Rantzen, loosing his deposit but getting his profile boosted on the cheap.
They should make the deposit £100k, that will keep the publicity hungry loosers at bay. No problem if they have a good manifesto and actualy think they could win.
Not too sure on that.
She was already a joke figure and establishment stooge, despite being on the telly.
Al is current comedic royalty, a twitter veteran and looks like every white van groupie’s dream man, despite being a (very smart) grad. The first two ensure all students and/or HIGNFT/MtW viewers will get the message…. fairly, objectively and democratically, of course (nudge nudge)
The only Achilles Heel is whether the voting public finds him wanting on sincerity as well as ability in local representation. It is often forgotten by the bubble that is what many voters look at.
My local MP is a good guy and I will support him on that basis, up to a point. But his party and especially leader are straining that compromise.
That all said, it is clear some well established rosette on sticks would struggle to locate their constituencies except to collect the rent from the second home tenants.
As an angry man from down south I would counsel you not to worry too much ,judging by this poll from kent online, he will be taking votes from labour
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/al-murrays-pub-landlord-to-30154/
As the lady Thornberry debacle proved they like his brand of patrician class snobbery
I also note that my MP Sir Hugh Robertson is standing down at next election ,so yey another opotunity for UKIP in Kent
“He also promises “1p a pint”, although “crisps will remain at the current price”
Sounds a winner. Clearly costed in a manner used and approved by Eds, Dims & the Ladies Who Green.
The BBC will be right behind it. And when he prevails, the corridors of W1A will be strewn with cans of lager.
As jokes go, this one is getting expensive, in perhaps more ways than one, quickly…
http://order-order.com/2015/01/15/metro-ad-fukp-for-al-murray/
‘So a BBC stooge drops £36K on an advert to attack Farage and you dont smell a rat?’
Going well so far…
‘Telegraph’ (£)-
“BBC’s Lord Hall should appear before MPs to discuss EU bias, David Cameron says.
“Prime Minister says BBC bosses should appear before select committee when summoned after Telegraph reveals Lord Hall repeatedly rejected requests to give evidence.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/11345167/BBCs-Lord-Hall-should-appear-before-MPs-to-discuss-EU-bias-David-Cameron-says.html
Director General HALL, the bureaucrat par excellence, takes his political lead
from European Union in Brussels, NOT from British Parliament, nor British licencepayers.
Lord Hall….
Only missing one vowel to make him Lord HALAL.
David Camoron said ” The role of the government is to protect it citizens from terrorism.”
So why do we have open borders then ?
And Tories-Labour-LibDems-Beeboids campaign for 80 million Muslim Turks to join E.U:-
“I’d welcome Turkey into the EU, says PM:
“Cameron says it remains ‘long-standing goal’ for country to join despite his drive to reduce net migration.
“David Cameron made remarks on visit to Turkish capital Ankara.
“They are likely to provoke anger from Conservative backbenchers.
“Visit was to discuss young British jihadis flying to Syria via Turkey.”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2867835/I-d-welcome-Turkey-EU-says-PM-Cameron-says-remains-long-standing-goal-country-join-despite-drive-reduce-net-migration.html#ixzz3OoeyJTEc
Exactly, David. Gordon Brown used those very same words following the London Bombings in 2007. I hope to see them both on trial one day.
At…. http://tinyurl.com/onv5ml8
It was outrageous hypocrisy that Pres. Mahmud Abbas of the Palestine Authority (PA) was allowed to march at the head of the parade in Paris commemorating the 17 people murdered in France by extremist Islamic terrorists. Who started the campaign of Islamic terrorism in modern times? The PLO, the Palestine Liberation Organization, when it attacked airliners killing hundreds of people, including blowing up a Jewish restaurant in Paris in 1982. And who is the current head of the PLO? Why it’s Mahmud Abbas! And when his spokesmen and he say they do not support terrorism, this is a damned lie. They give money to “martyrs” (shahid) who have murdered Israelis and also give financial support to their families, money that comes out of the funds that are given to the PA by naieve donors, such as France the UK and the USA.
And INBBC censors this connection-
“Fatah glorifies terror one day after Abbas attends Paris rally”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/01/fatah-glorifies-terror-one-day-after-abbas-attends-paris-rally
” march at the head of the parade in Paris”
The 40 or so World leaders didn’t march at the head of the parade. The Police cordoned off a side street where they walked down by themselves for a staged photo opportunity. Do you think the Ruling Elite are going get down with the great unwashed ?
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/paris-world-leaders-unity-march-a-staged-event-I1ztdD9uRmGCKSdXKpQ4kg.html
Not great on press freedom, either
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5050/letter-president-france
oh, the hypocrisy!
I see that “firetimwilcox” is trending on the Internet, being as he’s a disgusting anti Semite and all..
https://twitter.com/hashtag/FireTimWillcox?src=hash
Uh oh, Channel 4 tonight 10.00pm a programme titled ‘Angry, White and Proud,’ in which it documents the rise of the Far Right !! Love the biased title.The reality is the Far Left is in control.
There is no “Far right” movement in Britain at this current time…It’s just the Socialist left need to have a boogeyman to justify their very being..
My observations seemed to have vanished or are else where. Typical portrayal of the “far Right” as low IQ football thugs. It implied that the now disbanded EDL are/were the “far right”. As far as I’m aware the EDL is still going, I may be wrong but a quick search show a web site. EDL was a proscribed organisation for several other “far right” organisations. I have more than a sneaking suspicion the bloke they were following, can’t recall his name, was a plant. He got into the “darker” side of things until the end when he “had found himself” and had “grown Up” a miraculous transformation from some of the earlier footage. He did however reveal that there were plots to kick peoples doors in and assault targeted individuals. I assume that unless there have been D notices posted it never happened and was added for effect. Things to note were how the police were more than keen to grab hold of protestors without any obvious need to. The cameras followed the “splinter” group to a demonstration against choudaray outside a Mosque. The presenter told us about the “peaceful” followers of the cult and even had an interview with a worshipper decrying choudaray. However when they left a portion were filmed attacking the “far right” because their prayers were interrupted the film didn’t show them attacking chodaray as his meeting was also outside the mosque you would have thought he would have also interrupted them as well. It also followed them to a protest in Rochdale. The presenter noted the “far right” were getting some support from locals, in fact from what I saw they seemed to be getting a lot of support. Somewhere along the way they mentioned combat18, do they really still exist? So what could have been an informative documentary turned into the usual stereotype try and ramp up the shock horror exercise.
I see the bBC continues to black wash the facts about Birmingham
How will Fox News comments hit tourism in Birmingham?
“Birmingham has enjoyed a number of good tourism tidings in recent years. The city has been lauded by US publications, but how will claims on Fox News that it is a “no-go city” for non-Muslims affect its image abroad?”….”in 2012, Birmingham was the only English city outside London to be selected for the New York Times’ list of 45 Places to Go. It was described as “big-shouldered, friendly and fun”
So the bBC knocks out a list of visitors (In thousands who visit Birmingstan (I visited last year and I thought I was in Pakistan)
And it includes as International visitors:
Polish, Hungarians, Irish, Italians and Americans. (I wonder if the people from European countries such as Italy,France and Holland are Muslims who once they gain an EU passport flock over the water, you know like Somalians) as for the Poles, 113 thousand visited in 2013, really, as for the Irish do they really come to visit or do they come for work in a city that used to be known for its Irish population. Yet while the bBC lists the US, it leaves out a source of visitors who come in their hundreds of thousands, why unlike the US which has no direct flights to Birmingham, this country the bBC left out does, I refer of course to…..Pakistan. I wonder why the bBC left that out?
Birmingham Airport has special washing facilities for faithful Muslims who are going on pilgrimage to Mecca (“Hajj”). I’ve been in airports in Muslim countries that don’t actually have them.
Birmingham,? Now a third world city, live nearby and try to avoid the place, had to go in a few times in the run up to ‘winterval ‘ and the city centre is just flowing with people for who English is not their language of choice. I don’t count the West Indians as in any way foreign these days, in any case they are a very small number in relation to the others. All the accents of Eastern Europe are on display including a very high number of Roma. Then their is the party tables set up opposite Waterstones on a daily basis playing music and verses from old mo’s handbook with half a dozen ‘brothers’ offering anyone who will stop and listen the route to eternal paradise and a free copy of the Little book as well, how delightful in the middle of the city, and I bet Waterstones don’t sell any copies either.
The thing that gets your goat is that on supposedly work days the vast number of people who are just sitting around or prowling shops obviously eyeing up the chance to help themselves, usually male , usually under 30, don’t speaka da lingo, probably right out the back of a truck on the M6….I do remember thirty years ago when it was an Irish and West Indian City, all spoke the same language, all worshiped the same god, problems yes but not out of control, these days, the place just resembles Budapest or Mogadishu, all the above by the way just refers to the city centre, I will no longer walk or drive through any of the local inner city areas, even in daylight, and if you heard any of the stories of the ex policeman who lives across the road from me and worked there before retiring before Christmas you’d know why. Fox had it half right, Muslims are just half of the problem.
We know the “stories”, we are just told that we are making them up. 🙁
Birmingham does have SPECIAL facilities for English Children. ‘Enter Mr CHIPS (Challenging Homophobia in Primary Schools) is being rolled out in ‘select’ primary schools – with the support of Birmingham City Council, starting this March. The CHIPS into small children requires them to participate in cross gender dressing, see a preview screening of a US 7-year old boy identifies as a girl pleading to use the girls’ toilets! Meanwhile back in the UK (Birmingham):
Mr CHIPS (Head teacher has been arrested for gross misconduct and indecency in a public place):
http://www.dudleynews.co.uk/news/local/1450887.Man__58__fined_for_sex_act_with_headmaster_at_park/
Birmingham Madras schools are not be required to offer Mr. CHIPS school activities.
Telly Savalas Birmingham ‘ my kinda town.’ from 1980.
Not a burqa to be seen!
Meanwhile, the ever informative BBC tells us what the issues are surrounding the depiction of the Muslim prophet Muhammad (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30813742). Strangely enough it doesn’t mention its own policy on the matter, which is never to depict him. However, it does bravely show the headline only from the cover of the latest issue of Charlie Hebdo.
They have clearly been burning the midnight oil, and the page that had problems and/or was in error, is restored in all its glory:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/page/guidance-stills-photographs-full
Being BBC Editorial Guidelines, they will of course be used ruthlessly by the likes of CECUTT to suppress any query from uppity public.
BBC staff of course, can interpret them at will. Or just ignore, like an email from Hugs.
No time to review at present, but betting BBC Watch will catch a breach soon, which a BBC spokesdroid will ignore or dismiss, because she can.
Yet more NHS problems announced in the main news bulletin and even more in my area news, as well as continual exhortations to visit the BBC’s NHS website to check how badly my local NHS is performing.
Result of that secret meeting between BBC execs and Miliband re weaponizing the NHS?
I’ve got to laugh the bBC has for years been screaming (Like only the left can) that:
The Far right are growing in strength
That the British army are guilty of abuse
and that Islam is a religion of peace
and guess what all of the above are false. Can somebody please explain how the hell the bBC can get away with calling itself a news agency?
My pleasure. The definition of an agency is:
“A business or organization providing a particular service on behalf of another business, person, or group.”
The BBC provides news on behalf of the Establishment, Globalists, Islamists and Leftists. In fact, it has now become so good at this it can actually create the news itself, rather than wait for things to happen.
i wish the bbc would stop feeding the muslim grievance victimhood industry,all i have heard on the bbc since last wednesday is all these self appointed so called muslims leaders bleating on about they are more victims of this islamic muslim terrorist attacks than the victims themselves,where is this backlash they are bleating on about,i have heard of non,this is the deception trick that the muslim community always play on the bbc and radio 5 live after there is a terrorist outrage in the name of islam and that is they are as much the victims as the victims themselves, i think that narrative was truly exposed as a falsehood if you watched that quiet disturbing exposure of radical islam within so called moderate muslim groups on panorama on bbc1 monday night.
That really is unfair. A Muslim being looked at with suspicion in the street or on public transport because there are Muslim killers on the loose is every bit as bad as being shot in cold blood because you are a Jew.
Being a Jew isn’t a choice. Being a Muslim is.
C4 rather stupidly went around asking Muslims on the street if they were offended by the latest Charlie Hebdo. They seemed to rather pleased by the response “As a Muslim I would’nt use violence myself but am rather pleased when someone posing as a Muslim does the job for me”. They think this is convincing proof that Muslims eschew violence. Though Matt Frei has started pondering the “fundamentalism of Free Speech”
Brilliant thought. In effect the West is using Free Speech to oppress Muslims. Muslim fundamentalism is the justified response to Western Free-Speech fundamentalism.
That is bordeline insanity. I’ve often thought that Frei is an odious specimen – this mental contortion confirms it.
The Pope seems to have come round to Frei’s view.
There must be limits to freedom of speech.
Papal bull? Duos habet et bene pendentes?
Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum.
bBC reporter Kitty Kaye reports on MSNBC:
“I’m already getting reports from people in France that some schools in those strongly Muslim neighborhoods, the kids didn’t stand for the minute’s silence,” “They see those attackers as heroes.
Anybody seen the bBC report this?
The BBC reliably informs us on PM that the Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet’s publishing bits of Charlie Hebdo is ” a risk in a 90% Muslim country”. The problem can’t be the Votaries of the Religion of Peace. Must be another extreme UKIPist cell that poses the threat.
I mean there won’t be any problem in Muslim countries at all would there?
I am sure Little Eddy will not be out scouring the area for those 40 arseholes to offer them British passports.
I mean, it’s not as if they haven’t scoured the world for “New Britons” before, is it?
I see the BBC are going to serialise Wolf Hall a novel of Tudor times by Hilery Mantel. I wonder how they are going to shoe in their diversity mantra here.. Perhaps we will see a black Henry the VIII or maybe Anne Bolyn was a lesbian that’s why she got he chop, an example of homophobia in the ruling classes.
Lots of scope. Henry VIII had a black trumpet player. Elizabeth I received a letter from the ruler of the Ottoman Empire (saved us from the Spanish Armada according to Trevor Philips, former head of the CRE Gestapo). Shakespeare had an ear stud (the only man in Elizabethan England to do so – clearly a gay rights pioneer). Remember – where there’s a will there’s a way.
A black trumpet player? Like Dizzy Gillespie?
Yes in this new “Socialist Hall” production , you can bet the Tudors will be portrayed , with lots of effnicks parachuted in to their mists. I wonder what Dr. David Starkey will be thinking about this .
This Hilary Mantel:
Or this?
Have the vowels in her surname been swapped around?
There was a trailer on R4 earlier from someone I think called Gillian Anderson (no not the lovely Gillian ‘sigh’)
Anyway back to the point. The beeboid told us we were going to have a series all about the great thinkers of history and then we were given a little taster as to some of the thinkers..,
‘Thomas Aquinas, Karl Marx and Eric Hobsbawn’.
I was most surprised at this BBC list of great thinkers (NOT).
It has probably never even occurred to the Student Grant types who run the bbc that this list is like a wet dream at a lefty student meeting. They truly are in a self reinforcing bubble with a narrow metro-lib, middle class view of the world.
And next week they have Plato, Aristotle and Lenny Henry.
They need a great black philosopher to meet the diversity quotas.
What`s all this crap about the Tories being scared of debate in the coming elections?
How come there`s not been the usual shilling for the Greens ?
Cameron surely is defending their right to be part of the “national conversation”…the BBC normally would like that?
Oh wait-might split the lefty vote…might deprive Labour of some seats if the Greens can wave the socialist, urban guerrilla flag instead of their tin twonk Milibamd.
Cameron will hopefully stick to his guns-the Greens deserve far more time than the Liberals…and to see the liberal left and the media trying to tell me why their beloved greens don`t deserve a berth is pitiful.
So much for your fellow travellers Lucas…like Charlie Hebdo, they stab you once you`ve served their purposes.
And if the Greens don`t implode once we`ve all heard Aussie lefty Natalie Bennett-I`ll be surprised.
That said-the Tories are shit!
The Greens don’t stand a chance of election, and the problem for the BBC is that it is ‘the broadcasters’ who have made the decision to exclude the Greens.
Having said that the Fib Dems are never going to get even into coalition next time and are polling similar figures to the Greens.
Cameron has nothing to gain & everything to lose in a TV debate. Over the past couple of days there was a Radio 4 program analysing the position, and for a change it was correctly done with a more matter of fact approach.
There was an analysis of the previous debates which really didn’t affect either of the two main parties, but helped Clegg from the minor parties vote.
I do think UKIP are right though, Farrage ripped Clegg apart although Clegg is too detached from reality to realise what happened !
Chaos on Sky News; approx. 19.40.
Dharshini David seemed ready to soil her underwear. She was interviewing an ex-employee of the French magazine when the lady castigated Sky for not showing the cover and proceeded to display it to the camera.
Cue rapid switch to Dharshini who was in a flap and proceeded to offer a grovelling apology to ‘anyone who may have been offended’.
Puke.
Guido has the movie:
http://order-order.com/2015/01/14/sky-news-stop-charlie-hebdo-cartoonist-showing-mohammed/
Well, the mask certainly slipped completely there. We hear quite a lot about swivel eyed loons these days but I didn’t realise they read the news on Sky.
And Adam Boulton caved in , as he followed her.
Last time i`ll listen to that craven blimp.
The very point that Fourest was making-that the media in the UK are snivelling lickspittles for Islam as they praise the brave Hebdo slain-at one and the same time-needs no further clarification.
A few clips is worth a thousand aimless wafflefests…and Sky BBC can both go to hell…two cheeks of the same arse being bared for Islams boot…or even worse….
ISTR that Boulton was very popular with the Blair junta. Sky is just like the BBC with paid for adverts, as opposed to endless self-promotional ones.
Boulton was very popular with the Blair junta
That might be connected to his missus being Blair’s right-hand-woman:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anji_Hunter
At first I started to laugh, then my laughter turned to head-shaking disbelief which then turned to an overwhelming sadness that the BBC – the great broadcasting corporation of Richard Dimbleby, Robin Day, Huw Weldon and the young, untainted David Attenborough I grew up with from my early childhood in the fifties – has turned it’s news, current affairs and documentary programming into a form of self-parody more akin to a never-ending Monty Python sketch.
There was a 4-5 minute spell on the lunchtime news where the it was trying desperately to promote the ‘extreme weather’ agenda – you know, the one it committed to in its hushed-up meeting with global warming activists (aka 28gate).
First we went to Scotland, where they’d had 4 inches of snow – yes, that’s right – 4 inches! Well if that wasn’t enough, the snow was expected to turn to rain later with some gales. Well blow me down, who’d have believed it? And all this on top of hurricane-force winds last week! (No mention of the powerful jet stream they have yet to link in any scientific sense to CO2 emissions)
Then we were off to Northern Ireland where (newscaster to reporter) ‘You’re having some pretty ferocious weather!’ Switch to reporter in the hills, stood in a field of snow about 2 inches deep with not a flake of snow or breath of wind in sight. ‘Yes over 100 schools have had to close and if you look over there you’ll see some dark grey cloud so I’m sure there’s more on the way’.
Then off to Dartmoor to another reporter stood in a field. ‘Don’t be fooled by the sunshine. The gritters were out all night and 2cm of snow has fallen since then. The forecast is for gales later with perhaps some rain.’
Pure and utter farce, so embarrassing you felt like looking the other way.
So take a look at yourself, BBC. You have become a tawdry tart, ever-willing to get down on your knees and do the bidding of your mates from the country-wrecking subversive network of leftist pressure groups and charities that now infest our country from Greenpeace to Common Purpose, 38 Degrees to Hope Not Hate.
Aussies or Yanks watching your lunchtime news will have pissed themselves at the wimpy Brits and their over-reaction to a couple of inches of snow and a strong wind, which is a bad enough impression for you to give on our behalf.
But here at b-BBC, we know it’s far, far worse than that.
Excellent post! Sometimes it seems as if almost every item on the BBC’s news programmes has been chosen and then presented in such a way as to grind a political axe.
Very Good jonnythefish. Very good post. Sadly, add to your list The Royal Society.
From earlier this week, on the end of the ‘start of the week’ thread :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30744203
Comment by ‘A Scientist’ in response to ‘Steve Jones’.
Its even worse than far, far worse than that.
‘He warned that the “constant anti-immigration rhetoric” from UKIP and “other mainstream parties” was damaging the UK’s ability to recruit world-class scientists.’
Being a scientist, he must have proof for that comment?
No?
Silly me, he’s the dickhead who’s trashed the Society’s motto Nullius in verba (take nobody’s word) by telling us that man-made global warming is real and not up for debate.
He’s just another Common Purpose subversive.
Honest science in this country – RIP.
Has anyone compared the response by the BBC to criticism of their showing of “Gerry Springer, The Opera”, and their refusal to show any thing that may upset the Muslims.
Sky News show courage in standing up to a Charlie Hebdo reporter and refuses to show cartoon of the alleged founder of some crappy cult that supports terror.
Sad, the cowardice runs through the media. Hey, why was the bint in Sky News appearing without her face covered?
For many, many years the press and media of this nation have lampooned, humiliated and even blasphemed the religion of this great country of Britain – Christianity, because they knew that there would hardly be any repercussions. But now they are afraid to adopt the same stance to a new religion, alien to this nation that threatens serious consequences. The French press have more guts than the cowards who represent and work for our news media.
Firebombs and pigs heads thrown into mosques as anti-Muslim attacks increase after Paris shootings
Twenty-six mosques around France have been subject to attack by firebombs, gunfire, pig heads, and grenades as Muslims are targeted with violence in the wake of the Paris attacks.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/firebombs-and-pigs-heads-thrown-into-mosques-as-antimuslim-attacks-increase-after-paris-shootings-9977423.html
You know what, good. I want Muslims in the West to fully understand that their barbaric ways in which to intimidate us all is wrong and if it takes the act of striking terror into their hearts, then so be it. Our way of life is not to be ruined by the followers of the fucking gay death cult simply becasue they find offence in everything and anything and so resort to the bullet and the bomb in which to get their way.
They need to understand that Liberty is our way since the days of Cromwell. The words of the great man;
‘All the money of this Nation would not have tempted men to fight upon such an account as they have here been engaged in, if they had not had hopes of Liberty ‘of Conscience’ better than Episcopacy granted them, or than would have been afforded by a Scots Presbytery,-or an English either, if it had made such steps, and been as sharp and rigid, as it threatened when first set up! This, I say, is a Fundamental. It ought to be so. It is for us and the generations to come.’
Click to access speech_5.pdf
How thrilling to read the words of that man, nearly 400 years ago. He delivered freedom for all the generations since then. Are we going to give it up now? Shame on us, if we do.
Yeah, Old Warty was really big on religious freedom. Images of saints and figures from the Bible? Fine, have as many as you want, no worries, we won’t be sending the religious police round to smash them up for you.
Richard Dawkins believes in religious freedom, but that’s dog-bites-man. The magic of Cromwell was that he could be devoutly religious himself while seeing the benefits of tolerance. That possibility seems lost on followers of The Religion Of Peace.
Cromwell’s intolerance was directed particularly at those Christians whom he believed to be in error.
In other news, throughout the whole of Europe it was another week when not a single Muslim was injured or killed for being a Muslim.
The difficulty I have with this report is that it is such an isolated one that I find it difficult to accept its true.
If it was true I think we all know the BBC would have been all over it as major headline news. I not sure I agree that leaving a pigs head in proximity of a Mosque counts as an attack.
My neighbour (int the flat below me) got a box with a pigs head dumped on our communal doorstep last year (by some pikeys)
I didn’t see the BBC covering that…
Mind you, he’s a white, Christian English man…nowt to see here lads.
“I not sure I agree that leaving a pigs head in proximity of a Mosque counts as an attack. ”
It would seem the courts disagree with you.
In my opinion a big problem with muslim integration into western countries is that (apart from a very small number of modern heretics) they can’t handle disagreeing with their religion – be it Sunni or Shi’ite. It’s like they all have a herd like mentality – which was no doubt like your average Puritan or radical Catholic here albeit back in the 17th Century.
Not being allowed to disagree with their scripture is bad enough, but it also ingrained disdain and violence for followers of other religions.
I’m not religious myself, but no sensible person could ever wish to see Islam as the dominant force in the UK, which it will be unless we get leaders who can pull us back from the precipice.
I’m going to report all those to Tell Mama oh wait they already reported them before they happened
Sorry not related to BBC bias but what a disgusting and vile left-wing extremist rag the Independent is; almost as bad as Channel 4 ‘News’. Full of anti-Semitic Islamic extremist apologists. I loathe its very existence and have taken up an enjoyable hobby of winding up its pathetically naive and infantile readers on the comments pages.
With this groundbreaking story, the Guardian demonstrates why it should be regarded as a serious, finger-on-the-pulse paper….
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/14/trans-life-getting-hair-cut-you-want
How blessed their lives must be if that’s the most pressing thing they have to worry about…
Biased BBC continue to stoke up the NHS ‘crisis’, ignoring the record numbers that they are actually treating. Local bulletins are picking up stories that the national news readers haven’t got time for (filtering, as they are other more important stories)’
And you can join in. ‘Self select’ to pile on the pressure on the government. The BBC, on their ‘find out how badly the NHS is doing’ site, tell us;
Get involved on:
Facebook – the BBC News #nhswinter Facebook page
Twitter – Using #nhswinter on Twitter
WhatsApp – Send us your videos, photos and stories to 07593142641 (please respect privacy of others)
Actually the BBC activism is worse than I thought.
Tap in you postcode and you get these ‘metrics’. It’s a bloody outrage pointedly partisan – no doubt after Miliband’s secret meeting with senior BBC Executives.
And there’s no balance – unlike the NHS Choices site that includes patient ratings of the care that they receive.
% Patients seen in 4 hours – It tells us that, ‘The government target is that 95% of patients arriving at a major Accident and Emergency should be seen within four hours.’
Attendance at A&E – The number of people who visit the unit during the week
Emergency admissions – ‘These are when patients need to be admitted into the hospital for further treatment. The majority come via A&E, but some also arrive after GP referrals or after outpatient appointments. The figure shown only includes those patients who have been admitted by A&E.’
People who have to wait more than 4 hours to be admitted – ‘The number of people who have waited longer than the target of four-hours to be seen or admitted into hospital.’
Ambulances queuing outside A&E – ‘Ambulances can only leave A&E when they have formally transferred a patient into the care of hospital staff. The NHS is meant to do this within 15 minutes of an ambulance arrival. A queuing ambulance is classed as one that has waited at least 30 minutes.’
Planned operations cancelled – ‘Pressure on A&E can affect other parts of the hospital. This measures the number of non-emergency operations cancelled, which includes treatments such as hip and knee replacements.’
Beds blocked – ‘Some patients, particularly the frail elderly, can only be discharged when the hospital is satisfied there is the right care in the community, either from social care or the NHS, for them to be properly cared for. This is an indication of how many days have been lost due to patients being kept in hospital when they are ready for discharge because of insufficient services available out of hospital. The figures are calculated by adding together the number of beds blocked each day to create a weekly total.’
Bed days lost to norovirus – ‘Figure is calculated by adding the number of beds unavailable each day due to diarrhoea and vomiting or norovirus-like symptoms over the week.’
Andy Burnham must be rubbing his hands with glee. Invited week in week out by the BBC to tell us how badly the Tories are doing…without the risk of him having to answer any difficult questions – ABOUT STAFFORD, perhaps.
And as for us, asking the powerful BBC to account for themselves, well apparently we just bullies!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2910565/Daily-Politics-presenter-Jo-Coburn-paid-2-500-Labour-council-advise-cuts.html
“Richard Ayre, chairman of the BBC Trust’s editorial standards committee, yesterday confirmed it receives numerous complaints about its European coverage – including eight separate cases over the last three years. But he said it had not upheld any complaints on the issue since at least 2007.
Lord Hall’s refusal to attend was raised with the Prime Minister yesterday
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2910254/BBC-chief-Lord-Hall-locked-stand-Commons-refusing-answer-questions-MPs-peer.html#ixzz3OqAxLvso
The BBC rather clearly is seeking to redefine conflict of interest, from the top down.
The notion that a Public sector CEO can pull an exemption to accountability on the basis of an honourific from a fellow ideological traveller is both funny and tragic.
Amazing! I was looking for a supposed Churchill quote on and found this in the Daily Mail, 28th April 2014.
The passage from the book, written by the wartime Prime Minister and first published in 1899, focuses on Churchill’s observations about Islam while serving during the Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of the Sudan.
Mr Weston told his audience: ‘Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
‘Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the faith: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
‘No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.’
Police officers arrested Mr Weston, mid-speech, for failing to comply with their request to move on under the powers of a dispersal order made against him.
He was further arrested on suspicion of religious or racial harrassment.
Have Plod been on training courses in Saudi Arabia or Iran ?
I see the President of Argentina is currently facing claims that she covered up the biggest terrorist attack (by Iran) on Jews(84 dead) by asking for Oil from the mad Mullahs.
and from the world famous bBC……Nothing, yet the left wing Guardian has no problem reporting the story.
Funny that. It appears that it isn’t just cartoons of Paedophiles the bBC won’t publish.
A bit off topic this but what happened to that ballsy sky news channel after deciding not to show the representation of the great Mo………?
I thought that journalist were dedicated and always were courageously seeking the truth etc etc….
I have just witnessed the scrumptious lorna dunkley try and justify the decision by sky news not to broadcast any representation of Mo on the basis that an employer has a responsibility to protect its employees…….so sky news’ policy is screw freedom for the sake of health and safety at work?
So where do I go for true, unadulterated news where I decide whether or not I am interested in the subject matter?
Perhaps I could try the bbbc world news channnel?…………..No, just joking……………
“I have just witnessed the scrumptious lorna dunkley try and justify the decision by sky news not to broadcast any representation of Mo on the basis that an employer has a responsibility to protect its employees…….”
Surely, it is the responsibility of the British Government, and the police to protect our broadcasters’ employees form any danger associated with defence of freedom of speech?
You would have thought do. The prime duty of government is to protect the people and their freedoms. In an older England this was always so but in this new caring so empathetic non judgemental England this is no longer true.
Freedom .like all morality and law ,is open to interpretation and Sky like the liberal elite interprets it in the modern fashion. That means what is expedient and without principal.
With morals and leaders like this in past days this land would have long ago succumbed to tyrrany.
Spot on, Dave s.
From the M. o. D. website:
‘An Enduring Covenant Between The People of the United Kingdom, Her Majesty’s Government and all those who serve or have served in the Armed Forces of the Crown And their Families’.
‘The first duty of government is the defence of the realm’
As they say, ‘Not a lot of people know that’.
Click to access the_armed_forces_covenant.pdf
According to this government the first duty of the government is the defence of all foreigners at the expense of its own citizens
The abject simpering Sky presenter is letting the tail wag the dog. Instead of apologising for the merest glimpse of PART of the cover of Charlie Hebdo, she should be apologising to the British people for failing to show the whole cover.
(Oh, sorry, I forgot. Can’t talk about dogs, they are haram as well. I apologise to any who might be offfended by my canine reference.)
Time goes on, year after year, and our journalists talk pompous, high-minded stuff about ‘freedom of speech’. Churchill is mentioned regularly (by Tory politicians as well.) But you know well that they are imposters. Lloyd Bentson’s ‘I knew Jack Kennedy, son – Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine.’ comes to mind. They’ve been well exposed now. They will never live this down, at least not in the lifetimes of those who have witnessed their gutless response.
The UK media regularly reflect the national prejudice that the French are cowardly; expect to see our French friends take revenge in the future.
This has not been out finest hour.
Churchill should be quoted more often.
Right about the Nazis, right about Islam
Truth is unknown among them. A single typical incident displays the standpoint from which they regard an oath. In any dispute about a field boundary, it is customary for both claimants to walk round the boundary he claims, with a Koran in his hand, swearing that all the time he is walking on his own land. To meet the difficulty of a false oath, while he is walking over his neighbor’s land, he puts a little dust from his own field into his shoes. As both sides are acquainted with the trick, the dismal farce of swearing is usually soon abandoned, in favor of an appeal to force.
What has also been missing from most of the spineless BBC coverage is the CONTEXT – that France has for centuries been a SECULAR state. With religion kept in its place. All religions. The burqa ban, for example, is entirely consistent with this notion – but the BBC keeps implying that it shows specific hostility towards Muslims.
Is anyone here going to be able to sit through QT this evening? Medhi Hasbeen and David Starkey are on the panel; I’m not altogether sure I’ll be up to it.
What’s this? Mehdi on QT?
What is it about the two-faced besuited dissembler that attracted the BBC’s bookers to him? Again.
Is the attraction that he is a two-faced besuited dissembler? As in: like follows like? stick with your own kind? perfect match for BBC culture? That sort of thing?
Never watch it these days, haven’t done for several years now just like newsnight.
Free spech, eh?
What are you gonna do?
http://bbcwatch.org/2015/01/15/bbc-ws-whys-facebook-moderation-fails-again/
Seems if you are the BBC, make sure no one is insulted in some places, and get a bit sloppy on guarding against it in others.
Bit of a dilemma for the ‘close down all who host hate speech’ there. Presumably you are all on the BBC’s case now? Let us know how that works out.
The main headline on the BBc – more people die from lack of exercise than obesity – have a reporter live in Blackpool to show us that it’s windy. And a “man” from Ohio has been arrested for plotting an “Islamic state inspired attack”
Greif! There’s another reporter in Penarth to show us how windy it is in Wales. However in the background the water is as flat as a millpond.
It would appear that the Tory government is not just inept in government, but it’s inept in PR too ! (Always assuming Cameron actually does want to be re-elected).
Dr Clifford Mann of the college of emergency medicine has told MPs that £700 Million allocated by the government for A&E has not reached the intended recipient, and there are fears that apparatchiks have spent the money elsewhere.
It wouldn’t surprise me to find that the ‘A&E crisis’ has been deliberately created by Labour supporting chief execs or others in management.
But where are the stories? There’s one in the Times behind the paywall but precious little else.
The Telegraph carries an interesting article with comments by the same doctor about Millibands ‘Toxic’ use of the NHS as a weapon in the coming election.
It wouldn’t surprise me to find that the ‘A&E crisis’ has been deliberately created by Labour supporting chief execs or others in management.
For sure… with the active connivance of Health Service Unions. The NHS, unlike a business, is not a zero sum game; rather, all on the teat are constantly manoeuvring to get a bigger and bigger slice of the national pie. They’ve been pretty successful.
What is really galling is the arrogant refusal to check that those who turn up for treatment are eligible, rather than newly arrived from overseas with their baby due in a day or two.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-30824375
Christopher Cornell, 20, is charged with attempting to kill a US government officer, according to court documents.
He came to the attention of the FBI after tweeting support for extremist groups like Islamic State.
Obviously it has nothing to do with Islam though, and I’ve heard very little about this on the broadcast media.
Bad Guys, Good Girls
Did anyone see BBC 10 o’clock News last night?
I don’t recall ever having seen BBC’s campaigning zealots go to work on our Judicial system in such an unrestrained manner, and so quickly after the closure of Court proceedings.
First this case
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-30820349
‘An ex-lover of paedophile Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins has been cleared of child sex abuse image offences’
The BBC report positively purred with approval at the outcome of this trial. The campaigning nature of the BBC treatment was hammered home with a statement about the CPS needing to reconsider how it treated such cases.
Then this case
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-30824569
‘Stuart Kerner, 44, from Kent, received an 18-month suspended sentence for two counts of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust. A tweet from the Attorney General’s Office said it had received complaints the sentence was unduly lenient’
To my mind the BBC tv news report overstepped the mark even further than in the previous case report mounting an all out attack on the Judge for her remarks and sentence. Balance went out of the window as the BBC with bared teenth snarled disapproval.
Is the concept Bad Guys, Good Girls to become Law in this country no matter the circumstances or facts?
“Is the concept Bad Guys, Good Girls to become Law in this country no matter the circumstances or facts?”
Probably. Within the BBC, the concept of Good Guys and Bad Guys hasn’t been based on reason for some considerable time. Position on the victim totem pole trumps everything else.
‘Today’ were really stirring this up this morning. It’s going to be yet another ’cause célèbre’ for the feminist left, a la Ched Evans.
On Sky last night, one of the news reviewers repeated the mantra that it is ‘impossible’ for a 16 year old ‘child’ to make these decisions and stalk someone. Echoing the criticism of a judge last year who described a young girl as ‘predatory’. ‘Not possible’, said the Harmonistas. (When are the BBC REALLY going to pursue her and her husband over their links to PIE?)
I am afraid that we are in the grip of sexual politics and from their track record, we all know what position the BBC will take.
Re my earlier posts.
I tuned in to Five Live this morning to hear yet another interview with Burnham.
Now, I really don’t sit with my ear glued to the BBC all day and every day, but by my reckoning that must be the 7th time I have heard him being ‘interviewed’ in the last three or four weeks – and there must be many more occasions across their dozens of platforms.
In that time, by the way, I have heard the Health Secretary, Hunt, just the once.
Have the BBC given Burnham a staff pass? Or are his regular appearances part of the BBC’s deal to support the weaponsising of the NHS?
Undoubtedly the latter.
Well, the Health Secretary has an actual job to be getting on with; Burnham doesn’t.
BREAKING: BBC News Channel – Oxford Council offices burning down. Car driven into the front.
SKY: Suspected arson attack on three separate buildings.
Just watching now. Unfortunately BBc has Burnham on telling us he can’t understand the long tables on cereal boxes after presenter reads comment from member of the public telling him you don’t need a chemistry degree to understand it. On breakfast he was inferring the ingredients information was to complicated for the pleb proletariat. Earlier he said he wasn’t going to ban high strength cider. Haven’t they been going on about “traffic light” ratings on food for about the last decade. More bollox just to keep the health agenda running. Interesting to note he stated people shouldn’t expect the NHS to do everything in the future. What even under a glorious new Liebour regime?
Mr. B, along with the BBC and almost all of Westminster, is an English Grad I think. If not PPE. Oxford Uni, for sure.
So the assessing of nutritional info’s ability to flummox cretins right up their respective alleys.
Was not the matter of labeling for health, carbon, etc all handled years ago, and if so under whom?
I do recall it was getting a mighty jumble, and even a pack of Mentos needed a CDR attached to describe all required, or guidelined or… whatever. And that CDR needed a label to show how it could be recycled (where facilities exist).
I tend to go on the traffic light that most use, and it works OK. I discovered my ‘healthy’ Morrisons smoothie had just as much sugar as my kids’ Coke rush. And the salt in a Fray Bentos corned beef would pay a Roman cohort for a month.
What next PR as news to get the BBC’s kohl-eyed boy some more airtime?
‘Earlier he said he wasn’t going to ban high strength cider. ‘
I’m not surprised. Judging by the bollocks he spouts he must be permanently high on the stuff.
Perhaps the, erm, “offence” … of anyone questioning Oxford Univ Press decision to ban depictions of any piggies, or the even mention of pork … Ex below
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/top-publisher-bans-mentions-of-pigs-or-pork-so-as-not-to-offend-muslims-or-jews-9976568.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11345369/Oxford-University-Press-bans-use-of-pig-sausage-or-pork-related-words-to-avoid-offending-Muslims.html
has just erm … suddenly “overcome” (is that the word)
a certain Religion of Paeds we could mention?
Well folks, BBC Oxford
Still doesn t know anything about it, luckily they ve found plenty of space for this.
… Bridge study gets funding
AHH! … Just kidding …
although this does look particularly orchestrated
Clearly Now, surely you must have got it wrong – isn’t Oxford a multiculti success story? Well, excepting a bit of bother last year with some local ‘men’ and children. Btw, I’ve just tuned in to Howard Bentham on BBC local Radio Oxford, and there seems to be a lot of upbeat chat about football, sport, obesity and computer gaming, oh yes, and a brief mention of the fire brigade and local council offices and a building somewhere else in Oxfordshire also ‘caught fire’. So there we have it direct from the BBC – the council offices just ‘caught fire’. That’s it, done, move on now.
On ‘man’ arrested ?
I wonder if they’ll name him……
Ha Ha…. They probably ‘caught fire’ after the guy knocked the top of a gas container and threw a match in!
Uncomfortably close to RAF Benson…
Council office fire. Any names revealed? Or is this going to be another Bin Laden bin lorry news block?
Bbc r 5 at 11-30 reports a 47 yo man arrested. As the fires involve the council offices, a thatched cottage and a undertakers / place of rest I think we can assume this is going to be a far more ordinary story of country folks inheritance issues rather than those naughty ” men” again.
Far more likely targets for them in the area would be RAF Benson or even more likely RAF Croughton home of the CIA and the NSA in the uk and a major listening post .
More likely a planning issue.
Yes, council offices are an odd target. More likely to be a man with a grudge against the council than anything else. We shall see in due course.
In which case, what a great moral equivalence angle this gives the BBC!
Menwith Hill ,North Yorkshire is NSA , RAF Croughton , ground station for US Forces European Command , & Central Command . Its an uplink ground station for satellite communications back to USA . RAF Oakhanger down in Hants . does similar job for British Forces.Although , the left anti American mob, will always claim something ,in their eyes ,more sinister .
Going for a ‘we shall just have to see’ on this.
I remain unimpressed at the level of multiple standards, but on Glasgow I am prepared to adopt a patient approach IF the caution is to ensure no proceedings are tainted by undue speculation.
This of course is way too late in too many other cases where the BBC has joined the MSM in stomping over legality in their size nines.
Well yes, that’s what happens isn’t it?
Buildings catch fire, bombs go off, people die, youths do stuff, men’s heads fall off … etc
Probably spontaneous combustion exacerbated by Global Warming.
That’s life.
Just a thought , there’s a report that says the car was driven into the council building with gas canisters on board………remind you of anything???? 2007 Glasgow Airport.
The perp tossed one through the undertakers window too – seems like a weapon of choice and plentiful in rural areas which aren’t on mains gas.
It was quite a feat mind as there are two sets of doors to SODC’s lobby and no direct run up, the drive is offset to the front doors and blocked by bollards. Must have been a fairly slow impact.
It’s also taken out the VAOWHDC web shite so I can’t pay me council tax. Just so inconsiderate …
Oh look it was a disgruntled local.
BBC censorship worse than Aljazeera:
http://www.forumpoliticum.com/2015/01/15/bbc-censorship-worse-than-aljazeera/
Alumni evolution? No sure it’s quite the best of pegs to have.
Those ‘militants’ have been at it again….
“Nigeria’s government has disputed reports that as many as 2,000 were killed, putting the toll at just 150.” – So that’s OK then just 150 innocent people murdered because they happen not to follow a certain religion. Unbelievable!
If you can bear to read this utter nonsense that doesn’t once mention the M word or the T word. Oh actually sorry it does mention it once – “Declared terrorist group by US in 2013.” But from the tone you can tell that they may as well add that that was the US so it isn’t true.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30826582
‘So that’s OK then just 150 innocent people murdered because they happen not to follow a certain religion. Unbelievable!’
Mishal’s Morally Relative Rules clearly apply.
According to the Platitude for the Day Blog, in this morning’s Thought for the Day, the words of wisdom from Graham James, Bishop of Norwich reduced to “St Francis of Assisi used to hate Muslims. Then he met one and decided that we should try to get along with them. From this, we learn that we should try to get along with Muslims.”
For the past week TFTD has turned from endless sermonising on “climate change” and the vital impoverishment of the UK to enrich kleptocrats worldwide to endless repetition of the mantra “it’s nothing to do with Islam (which BTW is the Religion of Peace)”. Why do we never hear from a cleric who is prepared to say – or even admit the possibility – that the Charlie Hebdo and supermarket murders (and the Boko Haram and countless other massacres) are the logical end to Islamic belief and practice?
To pose the question is to answer it. To the BBC and its fans in the real and metaphorical Islington the idea that a significant proportion of the population of the UK (which has, by Labour’s own admission, been deliberately and cynically expanded to bolster the electoral prospects of Labour) could be prey to a death-cult which poses significant danger to those not in its thrall, is anathema. Apparently, the BBC would rather see the wholesale exodus of British Jews in order to placate the BBC’s protected clientele in Rotherham and elsewhere than admit that maybe, just maybe, Islam is a wicked perversion of the genuinely great religions of the world. If you’ve got half an hour to spare, just listen to Christopher Hitchens give the shaky foundations of the “Religion of Peace” an overdue and rarely heard kicking.
“we should try to get along with Muslims”
My elderly Muslim neighbours seem decent enough folk and I’ve tried to get along with them beyond the occasional nod and hello. But it’s not easy. Neither of them speak English. Lame excuse, I know, and I’m probably being a horrid “islamaphobe” for not bothering to learn Urdu.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30812439
Funny how a negative story only depicts white folk, yet any positive story always has more than the token ethnic.
Neil. Yes another good old BBc ploy Once you know the game it’s almost entertaining. You start to ask yourself why they are only showing video of white people. The other “trick” they employ it close in tight shots to make a group look like a bigger crowd. The BBc, always an agenda at work
Similarly, immigrants work for the NHS but never seem to be patients.
Unless it’s a patient patiently waiting in A&E like the perfectly decent sounding chap they interviewed on 5Live last week. But then it was from Bradford, so they probably had no choice.
Hey BBC, this name and shame malarkey only really works if you actually….. name…. all the businesses…. named.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30822565
‘Minimum wage: 37 firms named for failing to pay rate’
So, although H&M and Welcome Break may well be the bigger household names, lets spread the love (as space allows) to one or two more of the 37.
Chip Yi Group Ltd, Middleton neglected to pay £15,566.78 to 13 workers
http://www.chiyip.co.uk/
Counted4 Community Interest Company, Sunderland, neglected to pay £930.73 to a worker
http://www.counted4.co.uk/
Mr Jinit Shah trading as Crystal Financial Solutions, Middlesex, neglected to pay £941.65 to a worker
http://www.crystalfs.co.uk/
Full list here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-names-and-shames-37-national-minimum-wage-offenders
Alistair Campbell involved in punch-up. This from the BBC – just joking; from Guido Fawkes:
http://order-order.com/2015/01/15/watch-alastair-campbell-punch-up-cctv-footage/
Where’s the Beeb on this??? If it was a senior UKIP figure, they would be all over it.
As a commenter notes the thick plotten perhaps given the go-to guy was first George Galloway, once a BBC tag-team certainty with Mehdi.
The former Anilinctor Maximus of Mad Mullah TV now works for RT. Isn’t there some bad feeling between the BBC and RT for some reason?.
His “two cheeks” jest was good. Someone should have said “Yes,, and when you pull the butt cheeks apart, you find a hairy little arsehole and that is you George”.
Liebour MP for Aberdeen just saying that we hope the price of oil goes up. WTF! . Yea right of course we all want our fuel prices to go up don’t we. So lets support an organisation that makes no money. Funny how Mr consumer is only just beginning to see some benefit from price reductions when the oil business appears or is implied to appear to be in terminal decline. There was some MSP on earlier when asked how this would have effected an independent Scotland told us that he didn’t want to rake up the past.
Poor Ed! How’s he going to play this one? Lower oil price = good for his ‘cost of living crisis’ BUT = bad for the Little Scotlanders he’s desperate to prise from the grip of the Scottish Marxist – sorry, Nationalist – Party.
Wonder if the BBC will cover Ed’s dilemma? What do you think, reader?
Oil will see $25-$30 a barrel before it sees $100 again.
The Independent has an article by Robert Fisk:
Saudi Arabia’s history of hypocrisy we choose to ignore
As Irish columnist Fintan O’Toole pointed out this week, there are two words that must not be spoken in all the official rhetoric about Charlie Hebdo’s dead: Saudi Arabia. “A hundred billion dollars buys you a lot of silence,” he wrote. “The house of Saud runs a vicious tyranny that… while the Charlie Hebdo killers were going about their ultimate acts of censorship… was savagely lashing the blogger Raif Badawi for daring to promote public debate.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabias-history-of-hypocrisy-we-choose-to-ignore-9978493.html
The BBC, by contrast, will tell you if an illegal immigrant had his lunch delayed in a detention centre, but steadfastly refuse to report Saudi brutality.
You mean this sort of thing?
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=550_1421270303
Strange how quiet all those lefty feminists groups promoted by the BBC are when this sort of thing happens. Then there is Ched Evans.
You make your point but a warning on this – I didn’t watch it – I do not want to see a woman decapitated.
yes CCE, I did not link the public beheading directly, but offered a closed link to the act, with the inherent warning in place. Therefore the option to view is either yes or no.
I watched it thinking all the time of the things that outrage western feminists.
Unreal. I’ve avoided such things before, but thought I should watch one. Phew! The cold-heartedness of the dozens of b*stards standing around is what struck me. All done in compliance with the law.
As David Cameron said, ‘Islam is one of the world’s great religions, The Religion Of Peace’.
Yes but it did shut her up.
Yes, things such as a man holding a door open for them.
Well, that’s quite graphic, in a 20 yards away shaky phone way, you do see the concern of the swordsman to avoid hitting one of the many (police ? ) Milling around trying to help keep her head up for a good follow through action. The bloke gives up in the end and just puts her down flat and strikes through her neck and hits the concrete, probably the blunting of the sword on the first hit ( the one that makes her scream) was responsible for needing three attempts before getting a clean separation. Hope he didn’t jar his hand when that happened. Good to see the ambulance was on the spot to remove the body ( and the casually thrown head ) quickly. Was that some parade ground ? What with the pedestrian crossing and all, didn’t look like downtown Mecca as there didn’t seem to be a big audience. Will we see this on the bbc? I jest, will we see a screen grab in the independent ? Or the Guardian, seeing they are all for wimmins rights ? More jesting on my part. Sorry for the callous reporting but I think my style fits in with the humdrum everyday way all concerned ( apart from the woman, obviously) went about their business, I was reminded of the scene from Life Of Brian where Eric Idle as the pen pusher asks the prisoners what sentence they have had; ” Hanging? Crucifixion? ” all in a days work for him and so all in a days work for these men, plenty more to send to Allah tomorrow.
In other news, the bbc finds more space to be disgusted by the fact that for the second time in 20 years no space can be found to nominate a black man or woman for an Oscar, you know, bad things happen out there but the bbc manages to keep things in proportion for the well being of its viewers, bless.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/entertainment-arts-30736046
Health alert!
Further to a recent outbreak of backlashaphobia, now this:
Evidence would suggest that there has been a backlash from the murderous event in Paris last week, in the form of ‘islamaphobiaphobia’.
Islamaphobiaphobia. [Definition: {irrational} Fear of Islamaphobia]
The evidence from BBC output since the untimely death of 17 French men and women at the hands of Islamic extremists on 7th January 2015, suggests that the outbreak of islamaphobiaphobia within the staff at the BBC is of a particularly virulent form. Journalists based at Sky, Channel 4, ITV and swathes of the written print and online media have contracted the condition, though certain journalists (e.g., Douglas Murray and Mark Steyn, amongst others) have demonstrated a natural internal resistance. It is yet to be determined whether any scope exists for a cure to this ailment. Initial studies are looking into a correlation with the presence or absence of a spinal column and/or digestive tract.
As yet, the BBC has yet to clarify the definition of the word “islamaphobia” used by many, if not all, of their staff. This lack of definition is proving to be an obstacle to the determination of facts and hence the truth.
Will the BBC broadcast an agreed definition for the term (less than 5 words please), to allow studies of this nationally damaging, culturally corrosive condition to be investigated further?
Whatever ‘islamaphobia’ may be, there is, beyond reasonable doubt, a widespread vociferously expressed fear of it, particularly at the BBC.
Scrap the telly tax
Very good, Islamophobiaphobia……….I like it.
I also think most Beeboids are also infected with that most pernicious of ailments – Jihadophilia.
Someone told me to read this today-
http://orwell.ru/library/essays/nationalism/english/e_nat
A George Orwell essay from 1945. He notes how the Left “intellectuals” glorified the murderous Stalin and ignored all his atrocities. And if Stalin did commit atrocities then these could be explained or excused.
“The average intellectual of the Left believed, for instance, that the war was lost in 1940, that the Germans were bound to overrun Egypt in 1942, that the Japanese would never be driven out of the lands they had conquered, and that the Anglo-American bombing offensive was making no impression on Germany. He could believe these things because his hatred for the British ruling class forbade him to admit that British plans could succeed. ”
Substitute communism for Islam and this could have been written yesterday. Well worth a read when you have a spare 10 minutes.
“Scrap the telly tax”
I recall about 15 years ago explaining to some Americans that we have to have a license to operate a TV in the UK. They all looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language, then they looked at each other, and one said “are you fu*kin’ commies, or somethin’, in England?” (there is no UK to many Americans – only England). This was in rural Kansas, about as out-in-the-sticks- mid-west-farming-country-one-street-town-called-‘Podunk’ it’s possible to get.
My reply? “pretty much, I’m afraid…”.
Luckily, nobody pulled out a shotgun on me…