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  1. I Can See Clearly Now says:
    March 15, 2015 at 3:44 pm

    Not on The One O’Clock News …. but on the website:

    MP Sarah Champion claims £17 poppy wreath expenses

    Oh dear; just when she was getting such good PR. Never mind, it’s not as if it was broadcast on the box.

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  2. Thoughtful says:
    March 15, 2015 at 4:15 pm

    Another BBC right on talentless leftie looks like coming unstuck in America before his show even starts !

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2995137/James-Corden-s-dress-rehearsal-Late-Late-fails-impress.html

    James Cordon has his own chat show in the US called “The Late Late Show”, however the producers are asking him to do a series of practice runs, so concerned are they that Cordons accent is difficult to understand, and that his jokes aren’t funny.

    Well we’ve known this for a long time, but as a BBC luvvie and fellow traveller we haven’t really been able to have a say as to whether we want his efforts. A compulsory funded broadcaster does not need pay any heed to audience figures nor to approval ratings.

    America being a freer country is different though, and talent and audience approval is vital if the series is going to survive. Cordon is finding this out the hard way, although I have no doubt that Cordons BBC chums will be ready to welcome him back with open arms if and when America doesn’t work out for him.

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  3. Martin says:
    March 15, 2015 at 5:03 pm

    The BBC news 24 channel persistently repeated (ad nauseum) the fawning interview with Justine Thornton/Miliband, why would a neutral public media body do that?. Ironically, when Kinnock and Brown used their wives to the same effect both resulted in election disaster.

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    • DownBoy says:
      March 15, 2015 at 9:11 pm

      Go for it, BBC. Give us special Ed and his wife Justine twenty-four seven on all channels. This would be Lynton Crosby’s Christmases all come at once. T’would be good for UKIP, too.

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      • Essex Man says:
        March 15, 2015 at 10:51 pm

        Farage is going to resign as kippers leader if he doesn`t win his Thanet seat , a good opportunity for the Conservatives & even The Pub Landlord . Who will the kippers rally round next ,as leader next then ?

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  4. Thoughtful says:
    March 15, 2015 at 5:03 pm

    Early warning for Radio 4 Tuesday at 16:00 Sarfraz Manzoor “In Search of Moderate Muslims”

    Sarfraz Manzoor asks if moderate Muslims exist and, if not, where did they go?

    Sarfraz describes himself as a moderate Muslim. He says he can’t get too offended by a cartoon and belongs firmly among the liberal and progressive. But he wonders if he is now something of an oddity.

    Is the idea of tolerance and integration a hopeful myth and the reality something more troubling?We’re often told the vast majority of Muslims in Britain are moderate – but what exactly does that mean?

    I’m quite sure that the BBC will find that there are only moderate Muslims, after all the ‘religion of peace’ couldn’t possible spawn anyone violent, and anyone who says otherwise is just Islamofauxbic !

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  5. Charlatans says:
    March 15, 2015 at 5:36 pm

    Just amazing how much BBC ‘slagging off’ is incorporated in the comments of the Nations most popular political blog:

    http://order-order.com

    EXAMPLES from just one short page, (but almost every page has some anti-BBC comments):

    Neville Cross • 3 minutes ago
    Al Beeb still working itself into a frenzy:

    “Labour MP Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, welcomed the action taken by the Turkish authorities, adding: “We need to be vigilant. Clearly this flight of young people to Turkey in order to go to Syria is on a much larger scale than we envisaged.”

    Rick Neville Cross • 11 minutes ago
    The Keith Vaz who wanted the Rochdale Pakistani paedophile gangs story to be swept under the rug in case making it public would inflame tensions? Why is he not sharing a cell with muzzie peedos?

    CassandraKing • 16 minutes ago
    Are you?

    black (Brownings or right wing blacks or coconuts not recognised)

    Gay (inferior in to muslims)

    Muslim (class 1 grade A approved BBC victim trumps all other groups, special status to be cleansed of all and any blame for anything)

    Minority (Strictly only BBC approved classes allowed, colour and race determines ranking)

    Victim (colour and religion restrictions apply and affects ranking)

    The BBC has a place for you, a space where all your actions can be blamed on someone else not on the approved list of victimhood(restrictions apply). As long as your victimhood does not negatively affect the victim status of other victims higher on the scale you can expect all the resources of the BBC and their wholly sympathetic coverage

    English Aborigine • an hour ago
    Public information Broadcaster the BBC describe a teenage male 19 years old deported from Turkey on their main news as a child, lots of children fought in the WW1 and WW2 then

    They even flew Spitfires, how times have changed, anyhow

    After the children meet they’re defence lawyers I reckon it’ll go along these lines

    Family funeral/marriage/birth

    Computer studies

    Further Education

    Humanitarian work/aid

    Tourist trip

    Case dismissed by the ECHR five years from now plus compensation for the victims of British Injustice
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    CassandraKing English Aborigine • 29 minutes ago
    The BBC uses the word “child” because its designed to invoke sympathy in the viewer, the proper description of ‘man’ wouldnt have the same effect.

    ‘Man goes off to join a terrorist gang of killers’ just doesnt have the same ring to it does it? The BBC is all about shaping perceptions, setting their ideological stall out in subtle and not so subtle ways to point the viewer in the direction they require and evoke the required emotional response. Dishonest propagandists? That is what the BBC is and who they are.
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    BEN E FITS English Aborigine • 37 minutes ago
    Maybe the Arabic word Child and teenager gets mixed up in translation
    That would explain why they are continually being convicted for shagging our children ?
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    Anonymous • an hour ago

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    Bryan Tomlinson Anonymous • an hour ago
    Labour nightmare.
    White van, Tommy and Jezza.
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    ABDULS ONE WAY SYRIAN TOURS Anonymous • an hour ago
    Saville loving lefty twat with fuck all better to d

    And who asked this twat for his opinion? And how much did he charge for it?

    Tony Blair has called for an “education for open minds” in tackling radicalisation among young people:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-31861023

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  6. George R says:
    March 15, 2015 at 6:21 pm

    BBC Democrat: reporting for Black Ferguson against Whites.

    Note deliberately ambiguous wording of Beeboid headline this evening-

    “Arrest over Ferguson police shooting”

    [Excerpt]-
    “Ferguson has been a flashpoint for race relations following the shooting of black teenager Michael Brown by a while police officer in August 2014.”
    ( I think Beeboids mean to say ‘white’ here.)

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-31897876

    Note how Beeboids censor on whether it was a black man who shot white policemen.

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  7. I Can See Clearly Now says:
    March 15, 2015 at 7:36 pm

    Major fem-fest in The Observer:
    Election 2015: the women journalists asking the hard questions

    Each gets asked:
    What are the main issues you’ll be grilling politicians on this year?
    Which topics interest you personally?

    Answers are sooo predictable. (Where they’re not, they’re carefully crafted PC.)

    As an example…. Kirsty Squawk:
    Which topics interest you personally? It’s a big step to decide to leave Europe. My father would be horrified at the idea after what he fought for in the Second World War.

    Full marks to Kay Burley for identifying immigration as the main issue.

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    • Guest Who says:
      March 15, 2015 at 10:19 pm

      Quite interesting. Not least the Kirsty quote.

      Clever using her dad as a degree of separation (mine fought too; slightly different views on what he was fighting for, such as actual democratically elected representatives and legislative influence. Not to create a big a nice big club whose accounts can’t get signed off and who fancy their own army to throw at the guy with the nukes).

      But sure she leaves her politics at the door.

      Shame Jasmine wasn’t invited on, as one of those pervasive awfully good producers whispering down earwigs.

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  8. George R says:
    March 15, 2015 at 7:41 pm

    “BBC in more hot water after ‘Savile-Clarkson’ comparisons slammed by victims of Savile.”

    By Dominic Harris

    http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/bbc-in-more-hot-water-after-savileclarkson-comparisons-slammed-by-victims-of-savile-31068399.html?

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  9. Angrymanupnorth says:
    March 15, 2015 at 7:48 pm

    Richard Galpin has given this offering on the BBC website.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31897304

    Evidently, rumours are abound regarding the health and or whereabouts of one Vladimir Putin, however, facts are somewhat sparse. Whilst I’m not sure that facts are too much of a concern for modern BBC News output, the penultimate paragraph made me laugh,

    “..The Kremlin controls the flow of information so tightly that it is extremely difficult to get even a hint of what is happening at the highest levels of government..”

    as I thought to myself, ‘ The BBC controls the flow of information so tightly that it is extremely difficult to get even a hint of what was happening outside Downing Street on the 8th February 2015.’

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  10. George R says:
    March 15, 2015 at 7:59 pm

    Biting report about ex- BBC Director General, Mark THOMPSON-

    “Media Monkey’s Diary: BBC’s biting comedy, Staggers’ luxury time”

    [Excerpt]:-

    “for it was in 1988, when Birt had recently arrived from ITV and Hall was a high-flier in the BBC news empire, that a frustrated Mark Thompson (then editing the Nine O’Clock News) is said to have sunk his teeth into an underling’s arm in the newsroom – ‘horseplay’, the Beeb insisted once the story had emerged much later when Thommo was director general, but at the time his victim wrote that he had to ‘pull my arm out of his jaws, like a stick out of the jaws of a labrador’. Happy days!”

    http://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2015/mar/15/media-monkey-diary-bbc-new-statesman?

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  11. Angrymanupnorth says:
    March 15, 2015 at 8:17 pm

    Perhaps we in the UK need the dudes and dudettes who work for the Turkish Goverment to take up a few jobs in our country.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31897667

    They arrest three terrorists and before a Turkish human rights lawyer can shout ‘hang on a minute, this is £3million + job for me’, deport them to their country of origin, resulting in minimal cost to the Turkish taxpayer.

    The dudes and dudettes who work for our goverment ensure that the process takes in the region of a decade.

    Its a good job that British taxpayers, unlike their Turkish counterparts, would much rather their money was transferred into the impoverished bank accounts (Swiss) of Human Rights Lawyers, than left in their own wallets!

    I don’t get it. Bernard Hogan Howe clarified last week in a select committee hearing that the three female terror suspects would not be charged, irrespective of what crimes they may have committed. Do the UN, the ECoHR, the EU and the Turkish government not realise that the UK government can not be relied upon to guarantee a fair trial for these three ‘terrorists’?

    Either which way, I’d best start saving, because I know the UK government will be sending me a bill associated with this matter in the near future.

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    • I Can See Clearly Now says:
      March 15, 2015 at 8:34 pm

      They arrest three terrorists…

      Not so fast, Rickenbacker! The Beeb are reporting that a friend suggests that they might not be terrorists.

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  12. George R says:
    March 15, 2015 at 9:58 pm

    “Life under Isis:

    The everyday reality of living in the Islamic ‘Caliphate’ with its 7th Century laws, very modern methods and merciless violence.”

    By Patrick Cockburn.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/life-under-isis-the-everyday-reality-of-living-in-the-islamic-caliphate-with-its-7th-century-laws-very-modern-methods-and-merciless-violence-10109655.html

    This is our Islamofascist enemy, which so many Muslims from Britain volunteer for, and are now serving, so they too are our jihadist enemy, as INBBC should know.

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    • George R says:
      March 15, 2015 at 10:15 pm

      ‘Independent’ is apparently going to run reports from Cockburn on (Islamofascist) Islamic State every day this week.

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  13. George R says:
    March 15, 2015 at 10:37 pm

    For Beeboids:-

    Ferguson-

    “Police charged a young African-American man Sunday in connection with the shooting in Ferguson last week that wounded two police officers and rekindled tension in the racially troubled Missouri city.”

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-2996025/Suspect-arrested-Ferguson-police-shooting-police.html

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    • Alex says:
      March 16, 2015 at 7:13 am

      When a black man kills a white man/or police officer, the BBC and the Left don’t seem as hysterical.

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  14. thoughtful says:
    March 15, 2015 at 11:19 pm

    WTF is going on here?

    Global teacher prize winner
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-31861022

    Bill Clinton together with Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the vice-president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Dubai.

    Although the video & article doesn’t explain it, the front row is chock full of Arabs who we might have thought would have little interest in such a thing.

    Makes me wonder what exactly is being taught at these schools, and Clinton who it would appear has enriched himself nearly as much as Bliar, appearing with these people only further reinforces my deep suspicion of corruption.

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  15. Alex says:
    March 16, 2015 at 7:12 am

    On bail for goodness sakes? They should never have been allowed to come back…

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31901847

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  16. Ian Rushlow says:
    March 16, 2015 at 7:55 am

    The home page of the BBC website currently reports the sad news that “Toto bass-player Mike Porcaro dies at 59” (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-31900407). Who? What? For the benefit of many readers, it should be explained that Toto were, briefly, a slight-to-moderately successful beat combo group from the American colonies. Porcaro’s death is a tragedy for his family and friends, but why does this merit a front page report on the BBC?
    The clue possibly lies in one of Toto’s small number of hits, a song called ‘Africa’, the video of which featured a black schoolmistress in a smart suit. Real trailblazing stuff for the 1980’s, when most black people in the world were slaves in the Deep South, living under the yoke of South African apartheid or waiting for ‘Sir’ Bob Geldof to come and feed them. In the BBC hive mind, currently swimming with the success of yet another Red Noise Day (sic/sick) it all merges together in one glorious premonition of the Glorious Diverse Future! In fact, they are at the stage where they probably don’t even have to consciously think about this – the links are fully automatic and wired in.

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  17. AsISeeIt says:
    March 16, 2015 at 8:31 am

    Naturally our sympathies go out to those who may have suffered from weather conditions in the Pacific over recent days.

    Can’t help but notice however that just as soon as the BBC journos had made their indent for plane tickets the storm has been quietly downgraded from ‘the worst ever’ to simply ‘bad’.

    BBC, you leaping on these events and shouting ‘worst ever’ without first getting the facts is not a good look.

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    • Guest Who says:
      March 16, 2015 at 9:00 am

      From what I have seen, if there was a case for immediate, massive humanitarian aid this was it. A natural disaster the world needs to help with.

      However, as you say, the usual suspects trying to milk human suffering to shoehorn in other agendas will only backfire.

      More and more people crammed on a planet that regularly experiences bad weather will always see sad records set in terms of casualty & damage.

      Excuses for a business class flight and pool view at the next climate conference they are not, Leo.

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    • Old Goat says:
      March 16, 2015 at 9:24 am

      It’s the “worst ever” again, according to Today this morning – as predicted, the latest cyclone which has laid waste to the south Pacific archipelago, has been caused by climate change.

      They wheeled on a professor to say so, and tell us all about the models. John Humphrys tried a weak, and limp-wristed attempt at suggesting that “some” climate models were a ‘bit suspect’, when he should have laid into this professor, or at least interviewed someone with a balancing argument. But this was the BBC – it ain’t gonna happen, is it?

      Windspeeds (210 mph) had “never been recorded before” in such a storm, apparently. We shall see.

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  18. AsISeeIt says:
    March 16, 2015 at 9:09 am

    Casual Leftism

    This morning on the Breakfast sofa we have guests talking about life in the 1950s. A youngster describes the role of women in the home and says it is now considered ‘weird’ for a woman to be a stay-at-home mum. She corrects herself – perhaps realising the word ‘weird’ is just a tad strong even on the BBC

    Her sentiments are acknowledged but not really to be expressed so blatantly – eh?

    Everyday casual Leftism at work on the BBC

    See link below to a blog that is a good read on these kinds of issues. NB this is not an official Conservative site – fear not, they are no fans of Cameron

    http://conservativewoman.co.uk/kathy-gyngell-another-commercial-day-our-poor-children-will-never-know-the-point-of-mothering-sunday/

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  19. Dave666 says:
    March 16, 2015 at 2:52 pm

    I’ve been in this afternoon. Did anyone else witness the new afternoon game show “The Edge”? It’s not in the least edgy apart from the edge. I won’t spoil it for those who missed it. Is this some of the “slow” television we are going to be subjected to? They might as well of shown paint drying.

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