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  1. NISA says:
    August 14, 2015 at 2:48 pm

    I wonder if this US case of wrongful imprisonment will attract the attention of the biggest newsroom in the world. Lewis Fogle being white

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11803163/DNA-test-sees-convict-freed-after-34-years.html

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    • Flexdream says:
      August 14, 2015 at 3:25 pm

      Nothing yet, but ‘Chelsea Manning ‘could face indefinite solitary confinement” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33912462. Helpfully heshe is described as a ‘US Army whistleblower’, who knew whistleblowing was a criminal offence in the US eh?

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      • Twizzle says:
        August 14, 2015 at 5:34 pm

        Since when has whistleblowing been illegal in the US?

        All government employees take an oath to the constituation. If the government is breaking the constitution doesn’t that indicate that there is every possibility it is breaking the law?

        So you’re saying that the government can do whatever it wants to do and you will always, always back it? Ever heard of a guy called Hitler?

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        • taffman says:
          August 14, 2015 at 6:00 pm

          I think the use of the term ‘whistle-blowing’ here is a very misleading word for ‘treason’. He was “convicted in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act”

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          • Number 88 says:
            August 14, 2015 at 7:01 pm

            Yes, he was a spy, as was the Guardian’s / BBC’s favourite scumbag, Snowden.

            Snowden went out of his way, moving from one contractor to another, specifically to hoover up secret information. Rusbridger and his fellow lefties at the Guardian were handling and laundering secret information, information that risked the life of people who would keep us safe

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        • Flexdream says:
          August 14, 2015 at 9:16 pm

          @Twizzle – you mentioned Hitler first – I win 🙂

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        • Thoughtful says:
          August 16, 2015 at 8:23 am

          Yes but Hitler was an active Socialist who like todays proto Fascists had a fascination with Islam, if he didn’t actually convert.

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      • Thoughtful says:
        August 16, 2015 at 9:37 am

        Solitary confinement is considered to be a form of psychological torture when the period of confinement is longer than a few weeks or is continued indefinitely. The International Red Cross has expressed concern of ‘significant problems’ with U.S. confinement techniques, and U.S. prison policies have faced mounting legal challenges. America’s detention system is far below the basic minimum standards for treatment of prisoners under international law. The United States’ increasingly harsh treatment of its civilian prison population in maximum-security prisons (“supermax facilities”) nationwide has caused an international human rights concern. America’s solitary confinement practices contravene international treaty law, violate established international norms, and do not represent sound policy.

        Negative psychological effects have been documented, leading one judge in a 2001 suit to rule that “[Solitary confinement] units are virtual incubators of psychoses—seeding illness in otherwise healthy inmates and exacerbating illness in those already suffering from mental infirmities.”

        Criminals might deserve to have their liberties taken away, but they do not deserve to be tortured, which is what the maximum sentence is.

        There is little doubt the US government under Obama is subjecting Chelsea Manning to at least cruel treatment if not direct torture, being told that she will ‘be disappeared at Guantanamo bay’.

        If she was black there would be riots – she’s white and therefore matters very little.

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  2. Al Shubtill says:
    August 14, 2015 at 4:41 pm

    Had a reminder of just how thick Jeremy Vine is today, during his 11.30 chat with Ken Bruce, which touched on the upcoming interview with Andy Burnham on Vine’s show.

    “We’ve done Corbyn and Kendal and Cooper, the three C’s” (WTF?) “…and we’ve now got Burnham, the B.”

    This bloke is supposed to be a journalist FFS!

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    • Richard Pinder says:
      August 14, 2015 at 5:40 pm

      Either Its a typical Jeremy Co-Vine Show error, or, he could be a closet Tory. Which means it was code for:

      “We’ve done Corbyn and Kendal and Cooper, the three Cunt’s, and we’ve now got Burnham, the Bastard”

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    • chrisH says:
      August 14, 2015 at 8:30 pm

      Caught a few minutes of The Brain myself after 12.
      He spoke to a farmer who suggested that we ought to kill our dairy herd to keep the price up.
      Then some Lady Bountiful type who doesn`t like farmers, but keep them after the farmers are done with them…old hippy do-gooder with plenty money from hubby/daddy, no doubt.
      Jizz seemed to think that SHE could help the problem by taking some…how many was left to us.
      He mentioned something about a gay bull, I baled out at this point.
      Boy he`s thick…he never listened to a word the farmer said, until he said the tears were shed over his cow last Saturday night.
      He likey that!
      Vine is a waste of a good skin.

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  3. Jerry Owen says:
    August 14, 2015 at 5:29 pm

    I have watched ‘New Tricks’ on the BBC for what must be decade now, it has got steadily worse and more PC and of course the old successful cast have been gradually ‘retired’. The new boss of course being an even younger female than the pretty good Amanda Redman.
    Denis Waterman is the last of the old crew to go in Mondays episode, clearly being white male and ‘conservative’ the BBC had to get rid of him.
    I wonder who his replacement will be, I reckon the odds for a person of colour are pretty high…possibly female, and quite possibly lesbian….oh, and wheelchair bound?

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  4. Invicta 1066 says:
    August 14, 2015 at 5:54 pm

    Anyone want to guess why the main headline in the Times Newspaper had no mention on the Today review of the papers at 7.40.?
    Shia and Sunni Muslims reflecting the Isis conflict causing even more division among Muslims in the UK. The Shias are a minority compared with Sunnis and facing violence; one Shia claimed to have fled to the USA because of attacks on him and his family.
    Of course for many years Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslims in the UK have not got on and required separate Mosques and public facilities. Totally ignored or denied by the BBC…except about 20 years ago when a programme on Bradford informed us that after building separate youth centres for Pakistani, Bangladeshi and black communities , they had run out of money to refurbish those for the rest of the populations youth.
    More recently, the BBC website had an item condemning a planned protest by the EDL about another Mosque in Sunderland.
    A quote from a local resident claimed the whole community got on well together and the racist EDL were unwelcome.
    The reason for the proposed new Mosque, not of course mentioned in the BBC item? The fairly recently arrived Pakistanis had been using a Bangladeshi Mosque, but felt unwelcome and there was growing tension, thus they wanted one of their very own!

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  5. The Old Bloke says:
    August 14, 2015 at 7:25 pm

    Mr Harrabin keeps troubled company:
    https://tthomas061.wordpress.com/2015/07/19/its-official-warmists-are-mad/

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    • GCooper says:
      August 14, 2015 at 8:42 pm

      That was a really interesting link, thank you. There’s long been a recognised connection between millenarianism (the ‘second coming’ nonsense) group-based delusional conditions and AGW alarmists, whose cult-like behaviour is plain to see. That blog posts actually shows some quite specific cases.

      Ironically, of course, it is those very same warmists who like to pretend that objective scepticism is itself a mental illness.

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    • Richard Pinder says:
      August 15, 2015 at 3:09 am

      I bet Britain’s first female Professor of Atmospheric Physics Joanna Haigh is crying buckets. But most loony Warmists seem to be either EnvironMENTALists pretending to be scientific experts, or if they do have some scientific qualification like geneticist, geologist or female Oceanographer, they do not seem to know anything about thermodynamics. Which could be a cure for the mental illness of Warmism.

      I know some scientists are receiving more and more loony emails about the need to recruit more and more Climate Reality Leaders. But I heard a rumour that Phil Jones was travelling around Lincolnshire, and that he was feeling a bit better than he was when he was last on the BBC, talking to that cancer expert and left-wing loony Paul Nurse. The suspicion was that he had recovered and has become a closet Climate sceptic.

      But the BBC has done a “Thinking Allowed” about mental illness in Climate Science. But they did not invite any Climate Scientists to talk about their mental problems. Instead, the BBC invited a couple of “on message” Psychiatrists who seemed to be suggesting that an “off message” Climate Scientist who disagreed with the opinion of a psychiatrist, about the core basics of calibrating carbon dioxide warming in a planetary atmosphere, was or is a loony, even if the scientist hasn’t talked to a psychiatrist about the issue.

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  6. The Old Bloke says:
    August 14, 2015 at 7:31 pm

    Now read this this about “our” Roger;
    http://ccgi.newbery1.plus.com/blog/?p=117

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    • Richard Pinder says:
      August 15, 2015 at 3:33 am

      So Roger Harrabin regards the BBC and all those other taxpayer funded Climate Change institutions as media gatekeepers.

      More and more people are noticing that the gate is firmly shut at the BBC, so are looking else where to break through the induced closed gate culture of journalistic ignorance.

      The best place for Climate science is Google Scholar. Sometimes there is a pay wall. But I find that if you then go back to an advanced meta search engine with the title of the scientific paper concerned. You can always find the Paper in PDF form, on the internet, free.

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  7. The Old Bloke says:
    August 14, 2015 at 7:49 pm

    Anybody fancy a frost tonight?

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    • Lock13 says:
      August 14, 2015 at 9:47 pm

      I thought I read somewhere that the way ice ages start is it gets wetter and colder. The ground gets very wet and then it freezes. Then it gets wetter and it freezes and we start to get permafrost. Remind anybody of any recent weather patterns anywhere ? not the UK obviously where 20 degrees in August is now considered scorchio

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  8. David Brims says:
    August 14, 2015 at 9:03 pm

    The cast list of Radio 4 Any Questions, Andy Burnham MP Left, Tom Conti theatrical luvie Left, Germaine Greer writer Left, Matt Hancock MP Conservative, probably Left of the party. Not much diversity in that line up,

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  9. The Old Bloke says:
    August 14, 2015 at 10:58 pm

    With temperatures on the west side of the U.K. falling like stones, and stations at 22.30 already showing single figures of 6 degrees, I would say that a frost is very likely tonight/tomorrow morning should the skies remain clear. We have already had several “frost days” around the U.K. in August so tonight might add more to that count. With the Jetstream running south of the U.K. for about 6 days, a cold air will sit over us and without cloud cover in the night, we might well see more “Frost days” over that period. I’ll be looking at my weather data records to see what the record is for August for “Frost Days” as we must already be getting close to that even though it is only the 14th. I have no doubt that the Met Office and/or the BBC will not tell us if it is a record or even if it gets close as it does not suit their agenda to tell us does it?

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    • Essexman says:
      August 14, 2015 at 11:38 pm

      Keep the good work on the Dartmoor weather , er you don`t live in Princetown do you, Mr O. B? I hope you don`t get `trapped` up there ,this winter .

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      • The Old Bloke says:
        August 15, 2015 at 7:45 am

        Hi Essexman, no I don’t live at Princetown (thank goodness) but about 7 miles east at 1,000 ft asl. In a slight rain shadow from the west but directly facing a winters blast from the East. Sheltered enough to have the gales go over my head and sheltered enough to have frosts on my car in August. 😎 Interestingly, I was “trapped” a few winters go, not funny I can tell you. 8-(

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        • Essexman says:
          August 15, 2015 at 12:06 pm

          1000 ft , that`s very interesting , I am 225ft AMSL , so you are going to be about 2.5 C colder ,than me plus wind chill , slightly wetter too , thanks for the info , my sister use to live near Down St Mary , before that near Dartington , been up on the Moor a few times . Thanks, keep up the good met. observations .

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  11. Guest Who says:
    August 14, 2015 at 11:58 pm

    A quick final social media surf before snooze time, and what’s this… the latest from BBC sack of rats central?

    Newsbeat on Facebook has some convoluted post with anonymous spokeseweasels in full denial mode about Sir Tom Jones and some silly show they paid too much for (shocked, I tell you.. shocked) called ‘The Voice’.

    Can’t be bothered to check now, but operating on the usually safe basis that whatever the BBC says, the opposite will likely be the case.

    Popcorn may be required with the dawn.

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    • Guest Who says:
      August 15, 2015 at 8:00 am

      I see the Daily Star claims (little seems clear) has Will.I.am off too.

      If so, another genius set if calls by the talent at the top of the BBC.

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  12. chrisH says:
    August 15, 2015 at 12:19 am

    Depressing that the BBC have hung out Alex Dyke to dry down here on Radio Solent.
    He talks through his arse, but that used to be what was wanted-he`s funny and knows his music-his Bubblegum and Cheese Show is good.
    What cheeses me off is that his comment that breastfeeding mums have moustaches and work in libraries is just fun, nonsense and not worth the Twitterbitches that don`t see the joke.
    The craven BBC, of course;throw him to the hyenas-and I lose the only programme on radio fit to follow Brian Matthew on Saturday mornings.
    As ever-the Left and its legendary humour bypass-as can be witnessed in all their “Radio 4 Comedies and Quiz Shows on the telly”.
    Hope Alex is back soon.

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    • The Lord says:
      August 15, 2015 at 8:51 am

      Yes, and decisions like this only encourage the thick, whining bitches to believe that anyone (normal) gives a toss what they say or think about anything.

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    • Pollystuscanyvilla says:
      August 15, 2015 at 12:59 pm

      …But racist Diane Fatbott is a regular at the Beeb. Odd.

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  13. taffman says:
    August 15, 2015 at 1:03 am

    Anyone who works nights and has the misfortune to have to listen to AliBaba Broadcasting will know how much a waste of money it is and will understand why so many people want to call an end to this rubbish and useless service.

    According to the ‘Mature Times’ newspaper, August 2015, ÂŁ254 Million was spent on this service 2014-15. This money would be better used to provide more doctors and nurses for the NHS.
    Come on you Members of Parliament, think of your own people for a change.

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    • taffman says:
      August 15, 2015 at 1:16 am

      Note. That’s the ‘World Service’ for the above.

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    • TrueToo says:
      August 15, 2015 at 10:29 am

      Anyone who works nights and has the misfortune to have to listen to AliBaba Broadcasting will know how much a waste of money it is and will understand why so many people want to call an end to this rubbish and useless service.

      Couldn’t agree more. When I worked night shift in Israel without access to the Internet more than a decade ago, the World Service was the only English-language station I could access on medium wave on that old thing called a radio.

      This bad habit persisted unabated when I changed to the day shift, until it was moderated a few years ago when the BBC reduced broadcasts to Israel and ceased in April this year when broadcasts were abruptly cut altogether.

      Since then my working days have been totally free of BBC bias. These days I grit my teeth and access the bias on the Internet from home.

      The cessation of broadcasts to Israel naturally aroused my curiosity as to whether the Palestinians could pick up the World Service in their areas on radio on medium wave. I couldn’t find anything but came across a fascinating snippet of info on Wiki:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_World_Service

      Scroll down to the table to find the startling disclosure that the World Service operated a Hebrew language service from October 1949 to October 1968.

      The time span is really interesting. I imagine in the first two decades after the establishment of the State the BBC thought Israelis would be receptive to its propaganda – what with the socialist idealism of the kibbutz movement and the return to the land. There might also have been a touch of sympathy for the survivors of the Holocaust. But by 1968 the left had begun to fall out of love with Israel, especially since Israel’s comprehensive thrashing of its Arab enemies and occupation of Arab territory in 1967 had made the country appear to be a rogue state when viewed through typical leftie tunnel vision.

      In stark contrast, the World Service has had an Arabic Service since 1938 and a Persian Service since 1940 and launched an Arabic and Persian language TV news channel in 2007.

      Speaks volumes.

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  14. NISA says:
    August 15, 2015 at 8:42 am

    Is it a change of BBC policy not to have a post match analysis/BBC spin from the Political Editor at the end of a “Today” interview with a party leader? No such contribution after this morning’s interview with the Prime Minister. We have to hope that Justin’s questioning was sufficient to impress on the audience the mistake they made in failing to vote in a government that would be more encouraging to immigrants & more generous with benefits.

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  15. ID says:
    August 15, 2015 at 8:44 am

    Cameron being interviewed on R4’s Today programme was asked if welcoming migrants into Britain was not “an act of love”
    I suppose being screwed hard by immigrants for decades could be thought of as a multiple “act of love”.

    These people are completely unaware of their own ridiculousness.

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    • chrisH says:
      August 15, 2015 at 12:40 pm

      Heard the interview-and like the BBCs squits and screams over Corbyn-we only see hos out-of-touch, and downright venal and stupid they are.
      Don`t they know that we voted for the very opposite of what they regard as “issues”…words like “swarm” mean something only to the bedwetting liberal louchebags…which is why they obsess about it all.
      Corbyn-yes please-Brand-fine by me-the Left is dead, at last.
      Not a real British person doing a job could work for such a Party that can`t even conduct its own vote without letting thousands of illegals in…imagine what`d be happening NOW if Labour had got in!

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  16. St George says:
    August 15, 2015 at 8:53 am

    Just noticed the BBC has replaced Sir Tom Jones with the ex convict and prostitute abuser Boy George…..nothing surprises me anymore with these bunch of cunts!!

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    • Geoff says:
      August 15, 2015 at 10:39 am

      Was going to post similar, but sacking Tom Jones replacing with Boy George and keeping Will-i-am on shows exactly their priority in what type of viewers they are prioritising. Its a poor mans X Factor and that’s cr@p.

      The bBC are determinted to make this expensive (to us telly tax payers) failure work, it never will its soul less. It seems to me that some exec has made the decision at all costs to justify his own decision in purchasing this tripe.

      With a guaranteed income, its easy eh? ITV would have put this turkey down after one series!

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  17. John Anderson says:
    August 15, 2015 at 9:31 am

    As Jon Sopel carries on the BBC tradition of limp and biased reporting on US affairs – here is why we should blame Obama for the chaos in Iraq.

    The “surge” initiated by George Bush got the Sunni tribes in Anwar province etc on side again. Obama was being asked by the military to keep 20,000 troops in Iraq, and the politicians there would have accepted this. But Obama wanted a virtually complete withdrawal, and lost the chance to beef up the new Iraqi army and keep pressure on the Shia government to play nice with the Sunnis – and the Kurds –

    http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/08/who-lost-iraq.php

    And never expect the BBC to tell us how corrupt Castro and Hugo Chavez have been :

    http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/08/socialism-the-most-corrupt-path-to-great-wealth.php.

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  18. Dover Sentry says:
    August 15, 2015 at 10:41 am

    BBC TV Sofa NEWS this morning.

    Feature on the commemoration of the defeat of Japan in WW2.

    Reconciliation! WW2 American fighter pilot who hated the Japanese after WW2 now loves them and is reconciled. Shots of him at temples in Japan and sad music.
    No mention by the BBC of Japans vast and brutal war crimes resulting in the deaths of millions. Why did he hate them, I wonder? Not asked of course by the BBC.
    This would spoil their narrative. America bad v good Japan.

    Moves on to Trafalgar Square to speak to a British veteran. Not once were Japanese atrocities mentioned or referred to. The veteran I think went off script and mentioned something about remembering the PoWs.

    And now back to the studio…

    In the background I could almost hear the hisss of an airbrush.

    ..

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    • Grant says:
      August 15, 2015 at 11:05 am

      The BBC reporting all through has been a disgrace. Anyone not aware of the true history would not know about the sheer barbarism of the Japanese. They were worse than animals. I hope the truth is taught in British schools but I have my doubts.

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  19. Grant says:
    August 15, 2015 at 10:58 am

    VJ Service just now. The odious Naughtie refers to Lord Mountbatten dying in 1979. Obviously he couldn’t remember the cause of death ! Peacefully in his bed, maybe ?

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  20. Guest Who says:
    August 15, 2015 at 12:11 pm

    Actual LoL (no, really, that is the info graphic) to a BBC News via BBC News Magazine (me either) Facebook post…

    “10 things we didn’t know last week”

    If getting news from the BBC, ten a day would be on the low side.

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  21. tvlicensingblog says:
    August 15, 2015 at 2:00 pm

    New from the BBC TV Licensing Blog this week:

    – A known TV Licensing goon, collecting revenue on behalf of the BBC, refuses to show his ID and falsely claims to be from the gas board as he tries to trick his way into a correctly unlicensed property: Read more here.
    – In a related story a fake TV Licensing goon tries his hand at distraction burglary in Scarborough: Read more here.
    – Tom Jones slams BBC bosses after he is unceremoniously dumped from BBC One’s The Voice UK show: Read more here.

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  22. Coeur de lion says:
    August 15, 2015 at 3:33 pm

    Some of you will be wondering about the silence of George R, that trenchant critic of all things Islamic. I am sorry to report that George has had a stroke. He became ill soon after the general election; I refrain from saying if the shock of the Cameron victory had anything to do with it. Sadly, George has been too unwell to post since. This site was a big part of his life, and I hope he will one day be able to return.

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    • Teddy Bear says:
      August 15, 2015 at 4:01 pm

      Please extend our best wishes for a full recovery to him.

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    • Umbongo says:
      August 15, 2015 at 4:03 pm

      Please give George my best wishes and my hopes that he will recover from his illness: he’s missed here.

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    • TrueToo says:
      August 15, 2015 at 4:38 pm

      Best wishes to George and here’s hoping he has a full recovery. He has done a lot of fine work here exposing BBC bias and hopefully he will be able to continue.

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    • nogginator says:
      August 15, 2015 at 5:54 pm

      “that trenchant critic of all things Islamic”
      His objectivity, as anything else on Islam is never needed,
      Sticking with the factual, as anything other is never needed.
      Islam does it all to itself, to others, and by itself,
      George knows that, and simply reports it, his greatest strength

      Get well, take your time, hope to read you again buddy
      … real soon.

      BBC bias and Islam … like that they are …(crosses fingers)

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    • Deborah says:
      August 16, 2015 at 6:50 pm

      Please Coeur, send George our very best wishes, I am sure that applies to all us regulars. We had missed him and we wish him better.

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  23. Umbongo says:
    August 15, 2015 at 4:18 pm

    Once again Today demonstrated its lack of journalistic competence mixed with bias: the questions in the interview with the PM this morning were entirely from a left-wing stance. Not just left but a party political position not 1/10th of an inch from Labour. Of course, until Corbyn is crowned, the BBC sees itself as the offcial opposition so no real surprise there.

    Difficult to believe I know, but the government has its critics on the right too although you’d never think that based on Webb’s fatuous and ineffective “interrogation”. It might have been salutary, even interesting to pose a question, say, about the maximum number of immigrants (legal or otherwise) that Cameron considers this country can or should take. But no, Webb wasted everybody’s time getting angry about Cameron’s use of the word “swarm”. As it was, Webb’s questions were swatted off by Cameron with embarrassing ease and, as usual, I was no wiser after the interview than before it. The only result of the 10/15 minute item was to confirm Webb’s (and the BBC’s) unfailing uselessness and partiality – again!

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    • TrueToo says:
      August 15, 2015 at 4:51 pm

      How the incompetent Justin Webb ever became a journalist is a mystery.

      Or perhaps not, since he only would have had to pass the BBC’s leftie PeeCee test at his interview to get the job.

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      • MartinW says:
        August 15, 2015 at 5:36 pm

        I particularly dislike the whining, complaining, aggrieved tone he affects in his questions when he’s not getting the answers he wants.

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        • TrueToo says:
          August 15, 2015 at 6:12 pm

          I’ve said the following a few times before, but I’ll repeat in the hope that none of my esteemed colleagues who read it here will have seen it previously:

          Years ago when Webb was North America ‘Editor’ he ‘interviewed’ Obama. I use quotes because what he mostly did was sit there mesmerised by the great man’s presence like a rabbit caught in a car’s headlights.

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    • NISA says:
      August 15, 2015 at 7:14 pm

      The questions posed in BBC interviews always come from the left.
      On a cheerier note, Brillo appears to have made himself very happy

      http://order-order.com/2015/08/15/congratulations-to-the-newly-weds-mr-mrs-neil/#:mPm0PLdZqmg_8A

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  24. Coeur de lion says:
    August 15, 2015 at 4:19 pm

    I will pass on all good wishes. He is not well enough to post at present. He is, however, making a slow recovery. I knew the regulars would have noticed his absence.

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    • Deborah says:
      August 16, 2015 at 6:52 pm

      I have just posted higher up, but yes our thoughts are with him and wish him much improvement soon.

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  25. Rufus McDufus says:
    August 15, 2015 at 5:13 pm

    “Sallow skinned” – is this BBC code?
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-33945953

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  26. chrisH says:
    August 15, 2015 at 6:02 pm

    Good rule of thumb in Beebworld is to ask the one question.
    WHO IS IN THEIR DOCK?
    So, in regard of the asylum hordes in Calais…who clearly are never asked to account for their role in this shambles include
    A)The E.U-I mean if they can`t create a seamless repellent to this invasion from Africa…then what the hell are they for?
    Unless they actually WANT the disintegration so they can step in with prosecutions and media controls on anybody opposed to their wilful indolence and undemocratic carve up of what were once sovereign states that acted in some kind of tandem.
    But they`re never asked-never made to explain their fetid inertia.
    B) Organisation for African Unity
    C) Organisation of Islamic States at the UN-busy trying to get a Palestinian Olympic team, whilst locking their borders, giving no passports or hospitality to fellow Muslims stinking rich, lots of space…but the asylum seekers are much more useful as a tool for the Caliphate as things stand.
    But-again-no questioning of either of the above…what else do we expect of the poor lambs?
    No-forever in the dock are Katie Hopkins, Cameron, Donald Trump and UKIP types…the REAL criminals get wheeled out as prosecuting counsel, witness and jury.
    I reckon the Lord HawHaw whinnying of the BBC ends up egging on Africas scum to have a go and get here…we look like a right crock of liberal shite as long as the BBC dare to speak for us.

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    • Kennedy says:
      August 16, 2015 at 7:20 am

      Chris,

      The OAU became the African Union around the turn of the millennium, a bit like the EEC becoming the EU. It’s pretty useless and seems to spend much of its time trying to keep criminal leaders out of the ICC at the Hague.

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  27. Dave666 says:
    August 15, 2015 at 6:07 pm

    Sir Tom Jones whingeing about not being on the next series of the voice. I so don’t care. http://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/news/tom-jones-slams-bbc-over-sacking-from-the-voice/ar-BBlLazo
    I won’t be watching it yet again

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    • TrueToo says:
      August 15, 2015 at 6:21 pm

      I was never that fond of Jones with his obligatory wiggling of his bottom. Surely there must have been times when he thought, “Do I really have to go through this routine again?”

      Still, the BBC could have handled his dismissal with a bit of due respect. What was his crime? Is he right wing or something?

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  28. Brett says:
    August 15, 2015 at 7:08 pm

    Best wishes George

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  29. Brett says:
    August 15, 2015 at 7:15 pm

    Was forwarded this earlier by a friend in America, Muslim in charge of us citizenship, nice one obama. http://muslimobserver.compresidenditfatima-noor/ not that savvy with links etc but thats the address

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  30. Brett says:
    August 15, 2015 at 7:21 pm

    Links not working, but try the Muslim observer website

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  31. AsISeeIt says:
    August 15, 2015 at 7:21 pm

    The Telegraph tells us how to speak Corbynite

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11804199/How-to-speak-like-a-Corbynite-a-helpful-guide.html?x

    Here’s a tip or two on how to speak BBC

    Struggling to understand what the BBC is on about?

    Controversial – any policy or institution of which the BBC disapproves eg ‘The controversial migrant detention centre’

    Divisive – conviction politicians on the right of the political spectrum. eg Nigel Farage, Margaret Thatcher. Note : their left of centre equilvalents eg Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn, are never described as divisive

    Austerity – ie capitalism

    Anti-Austerity – ie marxist eg ‘Look at all these anti-austerity protesters’ (in fact the protesters will be supporting marxism)

    Asian – hardly need to tell you this, but it means Muslim in cases involving groups of men arested for particular crimes in certain towns and cities. Often Pakistani is an accurate enough description

    Of North African and Middle Eastern descent – sometimes used as above when the word Asian would be factually incorrect. Remember the term Muslim is to be avoided at all costs

    British – term used, often for for Asians (see above), when they get into trouble abroad ie outside of the UK

    Migrant – illegal immigrant

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  32. G.W.F. says:
    August 15, 2015 at 8:39 pm

    Not directly on topic, but I do feel that this college student has potential as a future BBC reporter. Nothing like the spread of white guilt, and hatred of whites by whitey

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    • David Brims says:
      August 15, 2015 at 8:46 pm

      ” White Extinction = No White Privilege.” Perhaps she should start the ball rolling on white genocide by committing suicide then.

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      • Essexman says:
        August 15, 2015 at 11:53 pm

        So I guess she is going to be “Spit Roasted ” in due course , a favourite pastime of those who have arrived in the West from, “Out of Africa”.

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    • Angrymanupnorth says:
      August 15, 2015 at 10:25 pm

      Megan, fortunately, isn’t representative of the gullibility of young women. Check out these comments from some lovely women who are in control of their own brains:

      http://womenagainstfeminism.tumblr.com/

      Gives one hope!

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    • nogginator says:
      August 16, 2015 at 9:46 am

      The only thing missing from her prospective BBC CV would appear to be that she hasn t been gang raped by Islamic adherents as a child, and when finding the courage to speak out, getting the intimidating indignity and insult of an Islamic Al BBC reporter to interview her … or an Islamic police officer to call her a “known Prostitute” at 11 … or Islamic local councillor to repeatedly ignore her plight.
      That could be the clincher.

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    • spudicus says:
      August 16, 2015 at 10:08 am

      that picture of megan is photoshopped one big giveaway is if you look at her right hand at the end of her fingers it is gray and you can see the white border of the superimposed image.

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  33. Dover Sentry says:
    August 15, 2015 at 8:52 pm

    #whitelivesdon’tmatter ??

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    • Grant says:
      August 15, 2015 at 9:02 pm

      Photoshop ?

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      • Dover Sentry says:
        August 15, 2015 at 10:00 pm

        I agree it smells of photoshop.
        ‘Feminism and African Studies Double Major’ sounds like a wind-up as does the rest of the composition.
        And she’s too good looking to be a feminist 😉

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        • Grant says:
          August 15, 2015 at 10:08 pm

          Dover, LOL ! The way she is holding the placard looks wrong. And I don’t think I have ever heard the phrase ” black men of color ” before . None of it feels quite right. Possibly a pisstake ?

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          • David Brims says:
            August 15, 2015 at 10:38 pm

            Check this out from Professor Noel Ignatiev, ”Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity. The white race is a historically constructed social formation. It consists of all those who partake of the privileges of the white skin in this society. Its most wretched members share a status higher, in certain respects, than that of the most exalted persons excluded from it, in return for which they give their support to a system that degrades them.

            The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race — in other words, to abolish the privileges of the white skin. Until that task is accomplished, even partial reform will prove elusive, because white influence permeates every issue, domestic and foreign, in U.S. society.

            The way to abolish the white race is to challenge, disrupt and eventually overturn the institutions and behavior patterns that reproduce the privileges of whiteness, including the schools, job and housing markets, and the criminal justice system. The abolitionists do not limit themselves to socially acceptable means of protest, but reject in advance no means of attaining their goal.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Ignatiev

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            • David Brims says:
              August 15, 2015 at 10:45 pm

              He’s another Saul Alinsky.

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              • Stuart Beaker says:
                August 16, 2015 at 12:03 am

                I don’t think so – Dr Alinsky created a systematic, pragmatic and comprehensive framework for the ignition and utilisation of community conflict for progressive purposes. Many of the principles and methods he describes in Rules for Radicals could just as easily be used by those whose political persuasions are poles apart from his own.

                I would recommend anyone who is at all interested in patterns of influence and activism as practised by community workers, to read this book carefully and learn from it.

                Prof Ignatiev is, by comparison, a blow-hard of limited imagination and an inability to construct anything more than a string of slogans.

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          • G.W.F. says:
            August 15, 2015 at 10:54 pm

            I went back and checked the source of the above photograph and cannot verify that it is not photoshopped, and from the language used it could well be a set up. But a quick scan of Google/facebook will reveal a large collection of white hating white material, some of it may be faked, other perhaps not. Listening to reports from the student’s unions here in the UK, the views expressed in the picture -apart from the curious ‘black men of color – would not be out of place. The Black Lives Matter movement has had a powerful impact on many of our mindless students.

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            • Jason says:
              August 15, 2015 at 11:03 pm

              The girl in the picture is protesting about what was said to her by the police when she reported being raped.

              http://autoimg.frauenzimmer.de/galerie/1901783/550×320/project-unbreakable-das-haben-unsere-vergewaltiger-zu-uns-gesagt.jpg

              It’s disgusting seeing it used this way, and David Brims who the hell do you think you are suggesting she commit suicide? Scum.

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              • G.W.F. says:
                August 16, 2015 at 9:20 am

                The clincher might be, as Dover Sentry says, ‘she is too good looking to be a feminist’. I have just caught a glimpse of the feminists protesting outside the Jack the Ripper Museum in Cable Street, in response to the Guardian attack on the place. My goodness, what an ugly bunch. Interesting how the Guardian and the Cable Street feminazis do not extend their concerns to the victims of muslim grooming gangs. I did try to raise the issue with them, but they said I was being Islamophobic and that my attitude was misogynist.

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                • Grant says:
                  August 16, 2015 at 9:31 am

                  The other strange bit is that it says “reproduce with black men “. That would surely dilute their blackness ?

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              • TrueToo says:
                August 16, 2015 at 9:28 am

                When I first saw that #Blacklivesmatter text I had an idea it might be fake because it was so over the top and didn’t seem to apply to the young girl holding the poster..

                I’d be interested to know how you found out that she was in fact holding a poster with text that she had been raped.

                Apparently several centuries ago someone made this astute observation:

                A lie is halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on

                This is a really disturbing aspect of social media and of course other media. So often it is the lie that prevails and is accepted while the truth is bypassed.

                You should hold back on judging David Brims. His was probably just a knee-jerk reaction. Also, it could be somebody impersonating him. It’s happened before a lot on this site.

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  34. Coeur de lion says:
    August 15, 2015 at 9:10 pm

    I chose my words carefully when I described George R as a ‘trenchant critic of all things Islamic’. If I may be allowed to speak for him – and I may have to do so for some time yet – I would say that 9/11 was the turning point. It then became impossible to say ‘nothing to do with Islam’. Or did it, home secretary?

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  35. The Old Bloke says:
    August 15, 2015 at 10:43 pm

    As we all know, the BBC just love to tell us when there is a “record” (?) high temperature for a month (July) even when that temperature is a questionable one from Heathrow airport. But I wonder if the same people at the BBC who droned on for days about that “record” temperature will be just as keen to tell us that a new low temperature record might be set tonight in the U.K. for the month of August. The current record low was set last year in N.Ireland with a low of minus 1.9 degrees. Many parts of the U.K. are once again seeing temperatures tumble and with no wind and clear skies, many reporting stations are already showing (at the time of writing this) below 4 degrees. With 6 hours available for falling temperatures, there is a very good chance that the record might go. Oh, and by the way, Dartmoor had a frost last night on the west side, but tonight just about anywhere on the moor, and even around Exeter.
    Isn’t it interesting that the Met Office and the BBC have never yet mentioned the lack of sunspot and sun radiation activity might be a cause for the cooling of our climate? In fact, the lack of sun spot activity never gets a mention by anybody much and most definitely not by Mr Harrabin. I wonder why?

       26 likes

    • Lock13 says:
      August 16, 2015 at 7:57 am

      It was bloody cold in Hertfordshire last night.

         9 likes

      • David Brims says:
        August 16, 2015 at 8:23 am

        It’ll soon be Christmas, last year I saw Christmas products in my local supermarket in September.

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    • Old Goat says:
      August 16, 2015 at 8:36 am

      Mr. Harrabin has no interest in (or time for) inconvenient truths.

         14 likes

      • Lock13 says:
        August 16, 2015 at 8:46 am

        The thing is Roger is one of those pansy type blokes so you can bet he had his heating on if he was in Hampstead last night . He knows and we know he is lying. It can’t be good for his health, imagine having to wake up and lie to yourself every day for a living while the people he speaks to nod knowingly and go yes of course your right Rog – and thats only his family

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  36. Alex says:
    August 16, 2015 at 12:25 am

    The BBC are using the pathetic PC euphemism ‘unyielding’ to describe the disgusting and barbaric behaviour of the Japanese during WW2. It was right that we dropped those two bombs as it saved hundreds and thousands of lives and brought a vile, savage and cruel regime to an end. What many sandal-wearing do-gooders, who only exist in their present form because of those WW2 heroes who paid the ultimate sacrifice, also fail to realise is that it has also appears to have stopped anyone unleashing such a bomb ever since. Seventy years on and no countries have dared use this weapon since; kind of supports the argument that such armaments act as a deterrent. Listening to those few heroes who are left makes me despise the far-

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    • Grant says:
      August 16, 2015 at 9:20 am

      The BBC appear to have totally airbrushed the Japanese atrocities in China and other Asian countries which started well before Pearl Harbour. The BBC are a total disgrace to this country .

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  37. taffman says:
    August 16, 2015 at 12:39 am

    Everyone!
    The obvious truth to enlighten AliBaba telly and the P.C. liberals is that we (and they) should thank God that we got the atomic bomb before the Germans and the Japanese did.
    Because they could have.
    Simples.

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  38. taffman says:
    August 16, 2015 at 12:49 am

    ‘Gove: Scrap laws on BBC Licence Fee.’
    No Mr Gove , just scrap the licence fee altogether. If the BBC is so good, as we are often told, it will pay for itself and make a profit for the taxpayer.
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/11805598/Gove-scrap-laws-on-the-BBC-licence-fee.html

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  39. deegee says:
    August 16, 2015 at 1:07 am

    Islamic State leader Baghdadi ‘raped Kayla Mueller’

    The BBC skips over Mueller’s involvement with the International Solidarity Movement against Israel with a brief worked with humanitarian aid groups in northern India, Israel and the Palestinian territories..

    At the beginning of this decade there were a number of stories about the rape/‘seduction’ of international volunteers in the Palestinian Territories and Gaza. Still going on? Did Mueller know about this?

    The MSM never picked up the story although there is at least some evidence that Rachel Corrie endangered her life in response to hostility from the local Gazan women who believed their husbands were sleeping with the internationals.

    I don’t celebrate her death but I do wonder that while being repeatedly raped by the self-proclaimed ‘Caliph of the Islamic State’ she might have finally wondered if she had picked the right side.

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  40. Guest Who says:
    August 16, 2015 at 8:16 am

    Via a BBC Newsbeat post on Facebook entitled ‘Apparently they’re worth it’.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33951026

    Bitter much, BBC?

    The comments, as always, not really going the BBC’s way. If only the British public acted like the audience the BBC claims it speaks for.

    Lucky they still have… no choice.

       12 likes

  41. Guest Who says:
    August 16, 2015 at 8:45 am

    Just to do one’s bit for the BBC PR team…

    @TheSun EXCLUSIVE: BBC’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover is so steamy it borders on porn. See the steamy pics! http://t.co/7P0x1txh9y http://t.co/bS8694flT9

    Now, how did they get those pics and this story I wonder?

    Educational and informative. Oh, and vital.

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  42. Gunner says:
    August 16, 2015 at 9:27 am

    Beeboid scribblers just love quotation marks. They love them not only for their intended purpose i.e. quoting what somebody actually said, but also to use around a single word as a subtle (or not so subtle ) nudge to the reader that the saintly beeboid scribbler in question does not agree with, or simply does not believe the person or the source of information he/she is writing about. The following headline is an example from today’s website : Calais migrant crisis: Breaches of Eurotunnel ‘down’. Why the need for quotation marks around the word ‘down’? This is a fact or it is not; either the numbers of ‘migrants’ trying to to ‘break-in’ are down or they are not down and it would seem self-evident with the extra fencing, dogs, and guards that many of the unfortunate ‘migrants’ and people smugglers have buggered off to pastures new in recent days. Is the intention to signify that the writer somehow feels a little saddened, or even guilty at this news and that we should share in this ? Or maybe that the statistics are somehow being manipulated ? Who can say. No doubt today’s Songs of Praise will enlighten us all.

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  43. MartinW says:
    August 16, 2015 at 9:33 am

    Can anyone confirm that the Radio 4 ‘Sunday’ programme is to be renamed ‘Labour Party on Sunday’ ?

       14 likes

  44. Coeur de lion says:
    August 16, 2015 at 9:49 am

    So no Desert Island Discs today. Frankly I will not miss it. Am I the only one who is sick of Kirsty Young smooching with her left-wing friends? It would not be so bad if they had any taste in music… Roy Plomley will be turning in his grave.

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  45. AsISeeIt says:
    August 16, 2015 at 10:03 am

    “Urghhhhh!”

    Paddy O’Connell just after 9am this morning on BBC Radio 4 was virtue signalling like a crazy man with his reaction to an archive recording of novelist Laurence Durrell (1912-1990) in conversation with Malcolm Muggeridge.

    What could have been the offending sound bite (employing an anachronistic moniker such as sound bite seems absurd but appropriate perhaps for a single line drawn from an interview recorded at least three – perhaps four or five or possibly as far as six decades ago) which elicited that audible – almost visceral – reaction from our Paddy?

    Durrell : (in the cut glass tones and languid – indeed – knowing acedemic wit of a bygone age in reply to Muggeridge’s challenge about his literary and personal relations with women)

    “I’m like a Turk, I don’t believe they have souls”

    Paddy O’Connell : “Urghhhhh!”

    Personnally, I was left unsure whether O’Connell’s rather desperate virtue signalling was flagging up his loudly assumed offense for and on behalf of women, Turks or both.

    Perhaps readers here who heard Paddy’s gasp could share their opinion?

    Perhaps, thinking of current BBC concerns, it was about Paddy’s disapproval of Durrell’s take on Islamic ideology – of which the BBC seems to be something of an arbiter. eg ‘Islam is the religion of peace’ (TM BBC)?

    There is a BBC radio house-style at work in O’Connell’s gutteral exclaimations. C/f Victoria Derbyshire on Radio 5 Live. In interview with the internet/Guardian annoymous personality ‘The Secret Footballer’ Derbyshire was anxious to hone in on an example of ‘racism’. Pressing her interviewee for an example she extracted an annecdote concerning the placing of a banana on the dressing room seat of a black player. Derbyshire’s gasp and Lady Bracknell-like exclaimation “A Banana!” might have made Oscar Wilde proud – although I doubt he would have tuned his wireless to 5 Live. The playright might, however, have followed Radio 4 – if he had been fortunate enough to have lived to be 160. You see some attitudes change over lengthy periods of time. Less so religious attitudes.

    Thre’s your though for the day.

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    • Grant says:
      August 16, 2015 at 12:02 pm

      It would never occur to a left-wing idiot like Paddy, that Durrell may have been making a joke.

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      • AsISeeIt says:
        August 16, 2015 at 1:33 pm

        ‘It would never occur to a left-wing idiot like Paddy, that Durrell may have been making a joke.’

        If the joke had occurred – which, given the wider context of the interview, it may well have done – this would not have fitted Paddy or his employer’s intention – which was to contrast their own PC attitudes with that of Durrell (a nasty old white man) and by extention to signal to the listener : this is a writer of whom we do not approve.

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    • deegee says:
      August 17, 2015 at 8:01 am

      Do Muslims believe that humans have souls? Just asking.

         0 likes

  46. Thoughtful says:
    August 16, 2015 at 10:36 am

    Just a comment from a thread elsewhere on TB.

    “TB was virtually eradicated in the UK and reared it’s ugly head in the late 80’s with the influx of immigrants from Asia. I worked at the time in the NHS Dept of Community Medicine, TB was rife, but was kept under wraps so as not to incite racial comment, abuse etc. You could be sat on a bus next to someone with it and easily catch it !”

    This is what the authorities under the BLiar regime were forcing the public sector to do. The BBC were enthusiastic supporters and have actively sought to suppress the truth about TB in the UK.

    This highly contagious killer disease known as the Captain of Death is now making a resurgence in the UK, and the lefties don’t care and are hushing it up, because white lives don’t matter !

       31 likes

    • Doyle says:
      August 16, 2015 at 10:55 am

      The late 80’s would correspond to the Thatcher era so all governments of all persuasions are equally guilty regarding this. I have direct experience of this because around about the same time my sister caught it (presumably from the Bangladeshi girl she hung around with). At the doctors my dad asks, rather naively, where she’d got it from. The doctor who’d been writing at his desk looked up, “Pakis” he said.

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  47. nogginator says:
    August 16, 2015 at 11:25 am

    Unspeakable thing Laurie penny, “Europe shouldn’t worry about migrants. It should worry about (far right far right!) creeping fascism” / on questioning the veil “This isn’t ‘feminism’. It’s just Islamophobia”
    Wordy Rappinghood Akala, who is incapable of defining racism?, last seen getting humiliated by Tommy Robinson on “Free Speech”
    and … Frank erm apologies … Kellie Maloney
    Another programme of potted garbage that is supposedly the flagship for religious and moral issues, on Al BBC 1 on a Sunday morning

       24 likes

    • Grant says:
      August 16, 2015 at 11:59 am

      What about “Far Right” “migrants” ? Or are they all left wing ?

         16 likes

    • Pollystuscanyvilla says:
      August 16, 2015 at 12:49 pm

      I’d love the foul Laurie Penny go head to head with Douglas Murray.

      Starkey made her look like the jumped-up-snurty-little-privileged-faux-cialist-brat she is imagine what the Murray would do.

         19 likes

  48. Thoughtful says:
    August 16, 2015 at 11:41 am

    BBC Radio 4 continuing its far left output with its pro Muslim pro Jihad program, the reunion “Guantanamo Bay”

    It’s an appalling left wing diatribe against the Americans and wholly unquestioning of the Muslims imprisoned there.

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  49. AsISeeIt says:
    August 16, 2015 at 12:24 pm

    Interesting newly coined syndrome here

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_mutism

    Perhaps with some relevance to the BBC?

    ‘Selective mutism (SM) is an anxiety disorder in which a person who is normally capable of speech does not speak in specific situations or to specific people. Selective mutism usually co-exists with shyness or social anxiety. People with selective mutism stay silent even when the consequences of their silence include shame, social ostracism or even punishment.’

    ‘Children and adults with selective mutism are fully capable of speech and understanding language but fail to speak in certain situations, though speech is expected of them’

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  50. Thoughtful says:
    August 16, 2015 at 12:48 pm

    http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/double-stabbing-oldham-turns-murder-9864650

    This is rumoured to be a fight between Pakistani Muslims, (the 5 strong gang and North African Muslim (asylum / migrants?).

    I wonder if the BBC will even cover it.

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