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  1. flexdream says:
    March 12, 2015 at 10:01 pm

    Spot the missing word ….
    http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-31850098
    Well, at least the BBC didn’t blame ‘conservative’ values.

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  2. I Can See Clearly Now says:
    March 12, 2015 at 10:12 pm

    Have you noticed how the ‘random?’ clips from the past on some BBC web pages all seem to anti-UKIP?

    Question Time
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006t1q9
    Clip (from last December):
    Russell Brand: Farage a ‘pound shop Powell’

    Pienaar’s Politics
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tl965
    Clips (On a story from April 2014):
    “ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING” HUNT ON LENNY HENRY REMARKS
    UKIP’S NEIL HAMILTON ON LENNY HENRY RACIST REMARK

    Funny enough, Brillo’s shows, The Daily Politics and This Week, simply use un-contentious clips from the latest shows. Co-incidence?

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  3. thoughtful says:
    March 13, 2015 at 12:43 am

    When will Camoron learn to stop investing political capital into anything involving Muslims? And when will the BBC start honestly reporting the goings on instead of playing it down?

    Former finance chief and ex-department head at free school charged with fraud offences

    Sajid Raza, Daud Khan and Shabana Hussain to appear before magistrates

    David Cameron visited and praised school a year after its completion
    Staff ‘claimed more than ÂŁ86,000 in funds that were not put to intended use’

    The school’s founder, Sajid Raza, who gave David Cameron a guided tour of the academy after setting it up in 2011, was charged with a range of offences including fraud by false representation last week.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2992029/Former-finance-chief-ex-department-head-free-school-charged-fraud-offences.html

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  4. Brian Mac says:
    March 13, 2015 at 12:49 am

    I have just heard that CAGE are that bad that even amnesty international has just severed any links with them. Sure all is not lost for CAGE. Auntie Beeb has a big bed, and she’s very willing to share it with them.

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  5. Pounce says:
    March 13, 2015 at 2:03 am

    Does anybody know why the bBC hasn’t reported this story about that black girl attacked by a gang inside a McDonalds in Brooklyn
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hRszuS9qK34

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    • dez says:
      March 13, 2015 at 2:40 am

      Pounce,

      “Does anybody know why the bBC hasn’t reported this story about that black girl attacked by a gang inside a McDonalds in Brooklyn”

      Bunch of people having a fight; so what?

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      • Guest Who says:
        March 13, 2015 at 7:32 am

        As neat a summary of BBC editorial integrity in deciding what is news vs. ‘not news’ (c) A. Newsroom Tealady, as could be hoped for.

        We’ll just have to see who fighting whom they can clear schedules for or see trending next.

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      • AsISeeIt says:
        March 13, 2015 at 8:47 am

        ‘…black girl attacked by a gang…’

        Yes yes yes… hold the front page…

        By a gang of black girls…

        Sorry, spiked

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  6. Nibor says:
    March 13, 2015 at 2:59 am

    Liblabcon , unions , BBC, Chanel 4 , Guardian , Mirror , Independent , Times , UAF , Polly , Owen Jones , BBC “comedians” , The Powers That Be , academics , etc etc all combine to denounce Nigel Farage .
    Then Milliband says NF is ; – ‘ divisive’
    ?!
    He got them all together .

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  7. Jeff Waters says:
    March 13, 2015 at 6:41 am

    But in present-day Britain, Gandhi is largely revered by a generation that is embarrassed about its colonial history. – http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-31847578

    If they are embarrassed, it’s only because of brainwashing by the likes of yourself and the liberal educational establishment.

    Colonialism brought benefits to the commonwealth countries. It isn’t the one sided issue the BBC would like us to think it is.

    ‘Hindu hardliners in India, emboldened perhaps by the sweeping national election victory last year of the pro-Hindu nationalist party, the BJP, are increasingly vocal in criticising Gandhi.

    They accuse him of having betrayed Hindus by being too pro-Muslim. […]

    That, of course, was the belief of Nathuram Godse, the man who assassinated Gandhi in January 1948. Godse’s reputation too is being revised.

    This year, the anniversary of Gandhi’s murder was marked by attempts by right-wing Hindus to build a temple to honour Godse, a man they now describe as a hero for ridding the nation of Gandhi.’

    I love the way the BBC tell us that right wingers see Godse as a hero, as if there were something inherently right wing about idolizing a murderer (when, ironically, it’s generally the left who wants murderers to be loved and understood and the right who wants them to be hung).

    If they’d written ‘extreme right wing Hindus’, it wouldn’t have been so bad, but I refuse to believe that any but a tiny minority of ringt wing Hindus idolize a murderer.

    BTW, it’s curious that the BBC neglects to tell us about Gandhi’s racist anti-black writings from his time in South Africa, such as:

    “A general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.”

    And:

    “it was a gross injustice to seek to place Indians in the same class as the Kaffirs.” (From http://www.gandhism.net/southafricanblacks.php)

    I guess it would be asking too much to expect the BBC to expose the racism of a hero of the left…

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  8. AsISeeIt says:
    March 13, 2015 at 8:36 am

    Hey Johnny, what are you rebelling against?

    What have you got?

    Last night I happened to catch about 15 minutes of BBC Three’s ‘Fighting the System’

    Fascinating.

    The BBC describes their show on their young channel thus:

    ‘More young people than ever are disillusioned by society and a system where capitalism is king. They are fighting back. This groundswell has given birth to a new breed of young activists…. yada yada yada..’

    In fact the youngsters involved were invariably self-centred egotists constantly in search of self validation. Often referring to their protest activity in terms of a substitute to work or sport – the ‘adrenalin rush’ it gave them after a goal achieved, ‘the excitement’ the ‘achievement’ etc.

    But it was just a game. The comradeship of the group. The cat and mouse games with the Police. The avoidance of actual personal consequences to themeselves. The thrill of Russell Brand retweeting their messages and eventually the buzz from that right-on aristocrat actually turning up at their protest. Nirvana.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b055qs67

    15 minutes of this generally sympathetic documentary told me much more about the motivations of leftist activists than a 100 BBC regional news bulletins – which such protests feed on a daily basis.

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  9. Dave666 says:
    March 13, 2015 at 9:03 am

    Joy unbound. It’s the shitefest of red nose day. Breakfast has already started with weatherwoman going to see Dermot O’Leary shuffling around, apparently he’s a broadcaster and red nose day fundraiser who is doing a sponsored dance. He also wants money to go to some street kid project as he’s just come back from Kenya . Wonder how big the carbon footprint is for all these “personalities” jetting off to Africa. So we won’t be watching any BBc 1 this evening. Hang on that’s what happens anyway.

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  10. The Old Bloke says:
    March 13, 2015 at 9:09 am

    BBC Radio 4, 08.50. Yet another piece of diatribe from Roger Harrabin concerning his pet subject Climate Change. Climate Change a well used phrase that has now become meaningless, simply because everyone knows that the climate has always changed and always will. But our Mr Harrabin still bangs on about man made Co2 causing Global Warming and that the new summit must reduce global warming to just 2% or else we are all doomed and the planet will be a wasteland. What our Mr Harrabin does not tell us is that despite record levels of Co2 going out into the atmosphere (the crops plants are very happy with this) there has been no global warming for 18 years now and if the sun spot activity continues to decline (as it is) then the earth will start cooling (which it is). I have three questions for Mr Harrabin though. Supposing you are right and that man made Co2 increases temperature, by how much do we need to reduce man made Co2 to maintain a standard temperature and what is that standard temperature? If we are unable to control that standard temperature (we are not a thermostat Mr Harrabin) and that temperature falls below the standard temperature, will we need to create more Co2 to create warming to bring us back to the standard temperature? I never hear what Mr Harrabin actually wants, even though he is constantly banging the drum for something! The man, in my opinion, is unhinged and therefore, dangerous and his diatribes of what he thinks, (and not actual facts) are becoming more and more desperate.

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    • John Anderson says:
      March 13, 2015 at 9:22 am

      I have yet to be convinced that a long-run temperature increase of 2 degrees would be catastrophic.

      In any event – there has been less than a 1 degree rise – and even on that the figures are suspect because there is so much doctoring of the raw data by Warmist zealots. Even the latest IPCC report conceded that 2 degrees was just a “maybe”.

      On the same programme it was mentioned that energy bulls in the UK have increased by 87% in recent years. A lot of that is due to Government / EU interference in the energy market, deliberately pricing out more economic energy sources. Harrabin never mentions the near-doubling of our fuel bills. He can be very graphic with his scare stories about Global Warming (which has ceased – he forgets to add) – but is never graphic about fuel poverty and the consequent deaths among old and poorer people.

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    • Old Goat says:
      March 13, 2015 at 9:46 am

      Harrabin et al will be continuing to spout from the same prepared script, even as the ice encroaches south, and electricity becomes a product which most of us won’t see much of, and be prepared to fight for.

      It truly is unbelievable how people fall for this crap, and would rather indulge a group of overfunded left wing liars, over what they can observe for themselves, and the warnings that history has given us. It’s even more unbelievable that, with the advent of the internet, we’d all fall for it, hook, line and sinker.

      They want us dead. There’s no other explanation. They might just as well install tureens of poisonous vile, green substance in every village, and invite us to imbibe, to save ourselves from certain doom on earth, and guarantee us the new green Nirvana to be found in heaven. Didn’t somebody else have a cult which tried that (with some success)?

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  11. Thoughtful says:
    March 13, 2015 at 9:12 am

    Appalling bias on Desert Island discs which they have used to front a call to stop imprisoning Black US criminals. Crazy manipulation of statistics to say that if you are young and black then you have a 1 in 3 chance of being locked up rather than the truth that 1 in 3 blacks is caught committing crime so serious it attracts a prison sentence !

    “Kirsty Young’s guest this week is Bryan Stevenson.

    An American lawyer, he is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a private, not-for-profit organisation working on death penalty cases, cases of children sentenced as adults, prison and sentencing reform, and issues of race and poverty.

    His great grandparents were slaves and he himself went to a segregated school in southern Delaware. Although from a poor African American background he made it to Harvard Law School. Since then he has secured relief for over a hundred prisoners sentenced to death. He has argued in front of the Supreme Court six times and won landmark rulings about the sentencing of children for both homicide and non-homicide offences. His TED talk from March 2012 has been viewed over two million times.”

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  12. John Anderson says:
    March 13, 2015 at 9:13 am

    BBC Today programme was shamelessly trying to get parents of soldiers killed in Afghanistan to say they disapproved of our efforts there. The interviewer was sanctimoniously trying to probe away at a parent’s pain. On the day when these and many other young people’s sacrifice is being honoured at St Paul’s Cathedral.

    How sick can the BBC get ?

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  13. The Old Bloke says:
    March 13, 2015 at 9:31 am

    Good morning Scotty.

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  14. George R says:
    March 13, 2015 at 9:32 am

    ” GUARDIANISIS .”

    Richard LITTLEJOHN-

    “As the columnist who coined the expression ‘Guardianistas’ to describe the various Lefties who march under that newspaper’s banner, including the people who run the BBC, I’m beginning to think it’s time for a rebranding.
    “Given that they like to blame Britain for those they call Islamist ‘militants’ and have never met a terrorist they don’t like, perhaps they should in future be known as GuardianISIS.”

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2992574/Racist-No-Nigel-Farage-simply-stating-obvious-writes-RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN.html#ixzz3UFwMbmz2

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  15. Captain Panick says:
    March 13, 2015 at 12:00 pm

    Mr Cohen, you know you want that summons letter delivered to that man Clarkson, the one who isn’t one of us? Yes Twynan. Well why don’t we get a courier to take it from here, and have a helicopter filming the journey, and have a BBC News Crew giving on the spot commentary? We could even enter the coverage for awards!

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  17. Dave666 says:
    March 13, 2015 at 6:10 pm

    STOP THE PRESS!!!!! 3 Syrian so called isis groupies filmed on mobile phone. Thought to be near the Syrian border! Filmed 3 weeks ago!” I and I know many others couldn’t give a toss.

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  18. Dave666 says:
    March 13, 2015 at 8:23 pm

    Apart from the Top of the pops re-runs which aren’t always on because obviously cutting Saville out on the ones he presented is too much effort the only other program I actually make an effort to watch is F1. So http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11461550/BBC-axes-live-F1-races-to-save-money-then-hires-more-staff.htmlyu “Anne Bulford, Managing Director of Finance and Operations at the BBC, said: “For just ÂŁ2.80 a week the BBC provides great value to licence fee payer” Does it f**k!

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