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Lots to talk about …Nadiya, Mardell’s latest, the IMF praising Osborne, the EU exit campaign and of course the most important front page news….Murdoch’s latest Tweet…….over to you…

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  1. JimS says:
    October 11, 2015 at 10:30 pm

    Obviously not BBC bias as I saw this on Channel 4 News tonight, but they are all of the same mindset.
    Bad things have happened in ‘Palestine’; a bit of collateral damage from an Israeli airstrike, not good. Any explanation as to why the Israelis might have carried out an airstrike? Dunno, the Israelis are bastards? Your guess is as good as anyone.

    Is Putin sane? What you mean as in looking after Russian interests? Was it sane for the EU to stir up trouble in the Ukraine? Was it sane for the West to attack Assad’s opponents, who then turn out to be our opponents? Is it sane to keep backing the Saudis who are determined to overthrow the West?

    Do all the London media live in the same wine bar?

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  2. Geoff says:
    October 11, 2015 at 11:12 pm

    Just catching up on some classic comedy, last nights Dads Army which for some reason my Freesat PVR recorded on BBC Scotland, probably because of it conflicting with Mrs G’s Strictly (BBC2 Scotland is on a different transponder).

    I had to replay the start twice to check I wasn’t hearing things, I wasn’t, the continuity announcer proudly says “now we’re off to Warminster on Sea for Dads Army”

    FFS 1) Its Warmington on Sea 2) Warminster is nowhere near the f*cking sea!

    Do these ‘professional’ BBC employees know anything? Surely they certainly should about such a classic BBC product, maybe lesser a bit of geography!

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    • BRISSLES says:
      October 12, 2015 at 1:10 am

      Ideal candidates for Pointless then ! as no-one under 40 who is a contestant have barely a clue what Geography is !

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      • Lobster says:
        October 12, 2015 at 10:32 am

        From what I’ve seen most of the contestants under 40 (especially the women) don’t seem to have a clue about anything, unless it involves soap operas or “celebrities”.

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  3. Flexdream says:
    October 11, 2015 at 11:48 pm

    Bias?

    Remember how obsessed/interested al Beeba was in the allegations of what a schoolboy Nigel Farage said to a teacher? Why then is al Beeba so strangely incurious over the fresh revelations of support for the IRA by the Leader of the Opposition and the Shadow Chancellor?
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/Jeremy_Corbyn/11924431/Revealed-Jeremy-Corbyn-and-John-McDonnells-close-IRA-links.html

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  4. Number 7 says:
    October 11, 2015 at 11:56 pm

    It seems that the Beeb have gone strangely quiet about Tw@son and his wild accusations.

    However, this is from their favoured rag:-

    http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/11/deserved-downfall-tom-watson-leon-brittan

    Another one to go down the memory hole.

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  5. Dover Sentry says:
    October 12, 2015 at 9:07 am

    BBC Online News:

    “”Migrant crisis: UK response criticised by senior former judges””

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34502419

    Former Senior Judges (who are they to demand?) state that we should open the gates to immigration. I’ll deal with these extracts one by one. They are typical Left wing demands that haven’t been thought through for obvious practical problems.

    “”One way of doing this would be to create a system of “humanitarian visas” so that refugees did not have to undertake dangerous journeys to reach Europe””.
    1/ Who issues these visas?
    2/ What would the visas state?
    3/ How do we contact the people who need these visas?
    4/ How do we meet these people to assess they are genuine applicants?
    5/ Where do we meet them? Any Health and Safety issues in their home countries for the assessment teams? IS?
    6/ How do we ensure that no forgeries are created?
    7/ Who pays for their travel?
    8/ Who decides which country they can opt for?
    9/ Who verifies these visas and how?
    10/ Who pays for the visa system?

    “”The letter also calls for the suspension of the so-called Dublin system, which means asylum seekers must claim asylum in the first EU country in which they arrive.””
    1/ Why should an EU rule be suspended? Should they all be suspended when a political end is obstructed and they become inconvenient?

    “”The lawyers and judges are calling for the establishment of safe, legal routes into the EU.””
    1/ What does ‘establishment’ mean?
    2/ What does ‘legal route’ mean?
    3/ Who enforces it’s legality?
    4/ What happens if there are objections from countries that have these ‘legal routes’ over their territory?

    “”Among others to put their name to the open letter to the press is former president of the European Court of Human Rights, Sir Nicolas Bratza.””
    1/ He is a former Human Rights Barrister and supporter of free movement. No axe to grind, then?

    But if objections are raised, the response would be, “so you thinks it’s right that children should drown when trying to make their way to safety?”
    “Think of the children!” blackmail.

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  6. GCooper says:
    October 12, 2015 at 9:16 am

    We shouldn’t be surprised. The Law was one of the professions targeted by the Left when the process of entryism was being planned. It’s easier to stuff our courts with unelected para-legislators than it is to win elections.

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  7. Oldspeaker says:
    October 13, 2015 at 6:51 pm

    Horrific news,

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34513753

    Very difficult to put a spin on events like this, terror attacks by any other name.

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    • Guest Who says:
      October 13, 2015 at 7:15 pm

      ‘Is social media driving Israel-Palestinian violence?’

      Ya think? Plus the good old fashioned BBC kind. I wonder if Mishal’s tally is up to a point where she’s happy now.

      ‘Can Israel and the Palestinians contain spiralling violence?’

      ‘The Palestinians’ are the spirallers, so no. Israel likely can, but would need to eject BBC ‘reporters’ at the scene like Orla before employing necessary measures to do so.

      ‘Other Israeli residents hurled insults in the direction of Arab residents’

      Any context, Orla? Maybe they were handing out sweets.

      This is what happens when a civilised society either embraces or is forced to embrace hostile elements to suit the demands of visiting media social engineers, who then lurk like vultures to feed off the chaos.

      Now, how’s Calais?

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  8. G.W.F. says:
    October 13, 2015 at 7:01 pm

    Oldspeaker
    From the BBC report you quote.
    ‘Another Israeli died after being run down and stabbed elsewhere in the city’.

    That is brief isn’t it?
    Following widespread circulation on the social media the Mirror has published the video of this so called stabbing. The victim was run over by a vehicle then hacked to death with machetes. Not a stabbing but a bloodthirsty ritual. Thanks to the social media the entire world can see what the BBC is covering up.

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/horrifying-video-shows-moment-knife-6628010

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  9. G.W.F. says:
    October 13, 2015 at 7:19 pm

    Another source of BBC bias.
    Begin the article with a question – the wrong question. eg. Is social media driving the Israel-Palestine violence?

    So you prepare for an analysis of the social media. Whereas the question should touch on religious fanaticism perhaps. Eventually the BBC does mention a religious issue in the conflict, but the main issue – the driving force of moslems to kill Jews – has been diverted.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34513693

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34513693

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