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Not bias as such but newsreader Clare Runacres is just too ‘smiley’ voiced – all news is good news.
But perhaps it is a bias of sorts, “nothing to worry about you plebs, just keep on ‘liking’ on Facebook, voting on ‘Strictly’ while we steal your money”.
What’s the betting that the five are Anglo-saxon white Christians?
After all, they do represent the majority community so surely the chances are they must be from that cultural grouping, yes?
Which would be great, as in my experience, that group is ‘significantly under-represented’ in arrests of this kind.
I’d expect the bBBC to be banging the drum on this issue, in the interests of equality and diversity.
LOL.
Sophie Okonedo, the star of the excruciatingly bad new BBC series “Undercover”, claims in an interview that it was very satisfying to get the role when her race wasn’t a factor.
Looking at a picture of the cast, it might not have been for her but it certainly was for the others.
Which one is she? The dog? With 3% of the population being Afro-Caribbean, what are the odds that 5 leading actors in one programme would all be such if casting was not based on race? I make it about 1 in 40,000,000.
How does she know anyway. However, at least she admits that race was a factor in her being chosen for other roles .
I am sure that when the programme was pitched race wasn’t mentioned. It’s a pure accident that all the lead characters are black, they were simply the best actors for the roles.
Race wasn’t a factor at all, how could anyone possibly think such a thing?
Is this the cast for a new production of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five series? Oh no, there are 6.
I’ll go back and lie down again in my cupboard!
Given the PR topic picked up by complementary media, had anyone told BBC Press office?
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/mar/08/two-black-actors-bbc1-thriller-undercover-sophie-okonedo-adrian-lester-primetime-first-
Move over Claire Balding, she’ll be presenting the Boat Race next. The agenda rolls on
I hope it’s Halal! Honestly, you couldn’t make it up could you? You really couldn’t.
Maybe the Queen will wear a headscarf and convert to Islam.
There was a time – not so long ago – when the Queen was just about the only British woman who wore a headscarf.
LOL !!!
Come on, every other Bake Off winner has been commissioned to make a cake for the Queen haven’t they? No special treatment here, move along now…
Do monarchs still have food tasters ?
BBC approved cake Nothing to do with Islam
Well God knows (or should I say Allah) what design she’ll come up with, as her ‘creations’ on bake-off (I’m thinking of the lurid peacock (?) ) were not exactly trophy worthy. But coming up with an orange or lemon drizzle cake is about as basic as you can get, so she’s playing safe without throwing any curry spices in it (probably been warned by her Maj’s flunkeys to keep it simple.
Hope someone keeps an eye on her making the cake in case she spits in it.
I wonder if the kitchens have one of those ‘Now wash your hands’ signs in the staff loos? If it is not too culturally insensitive.
One of the constant undercurrents on the Top of The Pops saga was that it had all ended long ago. So I was curious to read this piece from All saints, currently making a comeback, on what happened to them in the late 1990s.
http://www.gigwise.com/news/106471/all-saints-interview-forced-to-appear-naked-on-top-of-the-pops
Now you could say they were old enough to refuse, but TOTP was still a big enough program even at this stage to exploit and pressurize young people (of either sex) because of the power they welded. Exploitation of anyone in a vulnerable position for any reason is pretty reprehensible.
I don’t believe this story, just a way for them to get some publicity for their umpteenth reunion and crappy new song.
Are we seriously supposed to believe that even in 1999 the BBC would have broadcast topless women at 7.30 in the evening?
This story has the whiff of imaginary victimhood and desperate virtue signalling about it.
Nobody believed the Jimmy Saville or Rolf Harris stories either.
I wasn’t aware that the victims of the above were given a choice in the matter….
Exploitation of anyone in a vulnerable position for any reason is pretty reprehensible.
Indeed, though a) I find ‘vulnerable’ is a much devalued adjective these days and b) I smell a slight whiff of moral relativism here – not comparing it to exploitation by Muslim, industrial-scale paedophile rape/torture/murder in Rotherham Oxford, Rochdale, Slough, Derby etc. etc. etc. etc. by any chance?
This site thrives on examples of bias from the BBC, but the item on Newsnight (Wed.13) revealing Whittingdale’s peccadilloes was a classic. Introduced by Emily Maitlis as ‘breaking news’ in a transparent attempt to prove up-to-the-minute authenticity – it used archive footage and video interviews, which must have required extensive research, splicing and voicing-over – work which obviously taken hours of finalisation and equally obviously days, probably weeks of assembly and preparation. As ‘breaking news’ it was as pathetic as it was outrageous and, as we now learn today, very much the background handiwork of sleazy ‘Blue Max’ Moseley and embittered Polyfilla Toynbee.
Like many a can of worms, though, the revelations open up several new options. John Whittingdale, let’s face it, does not come across as the hardnosed fireball prepared to take no prisoners in the task of cleaning up and de-politicizing the BBC. How could it be that an MP and Cabinet Minister, with clearly exotic tastes in escorts, web-sites and a penchant for Amsterdam with all the delights that European centre of culture offers, be given a post which must in essence require probity above and well beyond the norm? Are we expected to believe that there were no investigations into his private life before he became ‘Culture Secretary’, let alone before the vital remit of clearing all the shits and men of straw out of the BBC stables?
Surely he could not have been selected in the clear knowledge that, as charter renewal draws ever closer, he would need to be replaced? The fact that he enjoys ‘the PM’s backing’ would ring alarm bells in any politician’s mind, and the simple truth is that the more draconian his conclusions and advice the more compromised they will appear to be. This might – by one of those odd coincidences that crop up in politics now and then – suit a vacillating government and an entrenched organization, doggedly set on social engineering, rather well.
Introduced by Emily Maitlis as ‘breaking news’….
The press were aware of the relationship some two years ago but chose not to report it as it was considered a personal matter – an opinion held even by that tubby little mischief-maker himself, Tom Watson. Unless the BBC’s 4000 world-beating journalists were on collective holiday (or maybe a ‘climate change’ conference?) or are in fact the world’s worst journalists (er….another time) they too would have been aware.
So why ‘break’ it now?
Oh, and can they explain the coincident public outrage of Hacked Off, those noble defenders of personal privacy?
The afore mentioned BBC Sunday Night drama ‘Undercover’ lost 1 million viewers in its first week and was beaten by ITV’s ‘Home Fires’ and 2.5 million behind the previous Sunday drama ‘The Night Manager’.
Should we be surprised, demographics alone would maybe dictate interest in it?
You left out a lot of info about last Sunday:
BBC1 thriller Undercover shed 1 million viewers on its second outing on Sunday night.
The drama, a rarity for UK primetime featuring two black actors as leads, drew an average audience of 4.2 million and an 18.7% share of total TV viewing between 9pm and 10pm on Sunday.
The first episode of the six-part drama, which stars Sophie Okonedo and Adrian Lester, drew 5.2 million viewers and a 24% share.
The drama lost out to Home Fires, ITV’s world war two drama, which drew 4.7 million viewers and a 21.3% share of total viewing between 9pm and 10.05pm.
However, Home Fires also lost audience week on week, having debuted with 5.2 million.
The biggest drama of the night was The Durrells, starring Keeley Hawes and based on the memoirs of Gerald Durrell, which drew 5.9 million viewers and a 24.9% share between 8pm and 9pm.
Viewing of the Durrells was down 500,000 on the 6.4 million (29% share) who tuned in to the first episode of the six-part series.
Basically everybody took a bath, partly due to our Danny getting the Green Blazer. It’s also pretty normal for viewers to drop off after week one. The Night Manager was an exception.
War & Peace hit 9.33M week one and fell by Week 2 to 7.3M
Marcella lost 500K by week 2
Continuing series are more likely to keep their audience Happy Valley scored higher ratings than any of these but doesn’t seem to get the same critical success, whilst I’d recommend Line of Duty with the caveat that the lovely Ms Hawes has become genuine ball breaker 🙂
LDV ‘Basically everybody took a bath, partly due to our Danny getting the Green Blazer.’
Are you saying that programs lost audiences because Danny Cohen is no longer trousering over third a million quid of taxpayers dosh each year?
Good series will pick up viewers as people chat about them around the out of order water cooler. Vis-à-vis, Sopranos, The Wire, True Detective, Game of Thrones. Oddly, all programs the poorly remunerated Danny, ‘I could earn double in the private sector’ Cohen was kept well away from.
I guess we will miss his genius for ensuring that all comedy panel shows should have woman on it. How we laughed.
The man who took the took the ticklish situation of Clarkson thumping a guy and made it a national disaster by driving the series into the hands of the BBC rivals.
The man who thought that the BBC was ‘free access to all’ – so easy to forget the compulsory tax of £145 a year when you earn so much.
The man who allowed his pals at the Guardian to take over the already left wing Newsnight and fly it up into the Guardian mind-set, where it orbits out of reach of sane thought.
The man under whom Doctor Who became a paean for Guardian letter writers. Did it really have to lecture we foolish and stupid viewers about how racism is wrong, gays are always good and the Tories are scum. And, most importantly, Dr Who writers, I totally object to the message that young ladies cannot have relationships with crusty, older men. Please. I live in hope.
The same Danny Cohen who ensured the BBC cannot mention what happened in Rotherham but will bore us for hours if someone daubs some paint on a mosque.
Agree with you about Line of Duty though. Breathless writing, scenes with such an emotional impact I’ll need a well-qualified surgeon to get my heart out of my mouth. The direction matches the quality of writing. All the artists are brilliant and great to see Keeley showing American actress’ that you don’t have to look like a scary skeleton to play lead.
Let Danny wander off to make his millions and please find someone who is not an up their own arse, mindless lefty to take his seat.
Danny Willets was watched by 2.5m on Sunday night. He won a green blazer. Do keep up.
Not everyone belongs to a golf club, LDV, so an understandable mistake.
What handicap do you play off, btw?
Handicap of smug stupidity apparently 😉
Ah. Thank you LDV. Thankfully as ancient as I am, I am still too young to keep up with golf.
And hopefully, the point about the audiences for drama series not necessarily falling off after the first episode resonated somewhere.
I suggest that next time you wish to make a point either add surnames or a reference. Its called communication. Hope that is helpful.
I wonder if the sort of people who watch a golf final are exactly the same demographic as those who would watch a right-on drama about black lawyers saving the world? Or is it just possible that people tried one epsiode of “Undercover”, decided it was crap, and gave it a miss next time out?
The million Superior White people like me and Piers Corbyn, would have turned over to watch BBC 4. It had a Horizon documentary about Solar Storms – The Threat To Planet Earth, at this time. All the actors where real White Male Astronomers, but although they where all white, sadly as is now typical of the BBC, they where all Americans, with only Andrew Richards known to me, and Doug Biesecker and Robert Rutledge names on some documents I have. The BBC must regard British Solar Astronomers as taboo, because they keep telling the BBC that Climate Change is caused by the Sun.
That was a few years ago, but now it has got even worse. The BBC now places two ordinary scientists in every science documentary, who have only a basic knowledge of the subject at hand. One is an Ethnic, and the other a Woman. But all the specialists are still American white males. And I am sure that the physically disabled UKIP supporter, Sir Patrick Moore thought that able bodied Chris Lintott could present Sky at Night without any assistance, as he did when he could travel around without any assistance. I bet Sky at Night’s costs have not decreased after the costs needed to assist a disabled presenter have been preserved for Politically Correct purposes.
Surprise surprise, Merkel allows “enquiry” (i.e. prosecution) of German satirist that had a go at (Adolf) Erdogan…
No comment from the BBC about erosion of freedom of speech in Europe or very clear appeasement of Islamofascists.
Coming to a Eurabian Super-State near you soon if you vote to stay in UK!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36055488
Colboy, I wonder what she would if Erdogan demands extradition ? I did not know that, under German Law, it is illegal to insult any Head of State. Fascism is still alive and well .
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36055488
Germany Turkey: Merkel allows inquiry into comic’s Erdogan insult
Angela Merkel, bought & paid for by Sunni Muslim oil wealth ! It’s not an inquiry either, it’s a go ahead for a prosecution, but can you imagine the BBC ever allowing a comedian (if they ever allowed one on air) to insult any Muslim, let alone the president of a Muslim country?
“Jan Boehmermann had recited a satirical poem on television which made sexual references to Recep Tayyip Erdogan.”
Here is the poem translated and I have to admit he did go a bit far, but never the less there’s no way the freedom enjoyed by Germans could be enjoyed in oppressive Britain:
The ‘poem’ is named “abusive criticism”
„Sod-dumb, cowardly and hesitant
Is Erdogan the President
His boner smells like Döner
Even a pig’s fart smells finer
He’s the man who punches girls
while wearing a bloody rubber mask
Things he loves the most
is shagging goats
and oppressing minorities
This kind of criticism would be illegal!
Kicking Kurds, beating up Christians
while watching child porn
And in the evening instead of a nap
Fellatio with a hundred sheep
Erdogan is all things considered
a President with a tiny wang
I repeat this is an example of what would be illegal!
Every Turk can be heard whispering
This dumb pig has got shrivel-balls
From Ankara to Istanbul
Everyone knows this man is gay
perverted and zoophile
Recep Fritzl Priklopil
His head as empty as his balls
the star guest on every gang-bang party
until his tiny wang starts to burn while having a piss
That’s Reccep Erdogan
So now you know what the poem said, and there’s not much chance of it being translated for the British media publication, let alone the BBC.
The point here is though that freedom in Germany (which is now under attack) meant that he was able to say it, and it was broadcast. Something to think about.
I certainly have no brief for Erdogan , having been under his jackboot when he was Mayor of istanbul, but my concern is that the poem seems to be defamatory . In UK, I would have thought that to fall within Civil Law ?
There is a law of criminal libel, but anything which falls under civil law would require the injured party to bring a case. There is no similar law about insulting foreign heads of state, but then there’s no need for one!
The BBC which is the largest media outlet by far won’t allow any criticism of those it approves of (Erdogan seemingly), but feels free to have a pop at anyone it doesn’t, such as Bush / Trump / Putin etc.
Criminal libel and sedition disappeared in 2010. So Thoughtful won’t be done for printing the poem(which makes the graffiti on bogs read like Shakespeare). It’s childish but underlines Erdogan’s insecurities. It would be pretty disgraceful if any serious media outlet published/broadcast such trash. Next they’ll be saying our PM puts his boner into pig’s mouths.
LDV, LOL ! Yes , I think Criminal Libel withered on the vine in the UK anyway. Must have been decades since the last case , I guess.
I suggest that if you want to perform a mucky poem or song about a politician without prosecution do it in a large crowd.
To be fair it’s probably a google translation of the German, and if Beowulf had been translated by google then it would certainly lack the flair of Seamus Heaney.
Take it for what it is, a crude illustration, which in the name of freedom I thought, and still believe, people have the right to know, except that they will not be allowed to if they rely on mainstream media.
I don’t think you are seeing the deeper reason behind this though. It’s not the poem, or the ‘insult’ to Erdogan it is a challenge to Merkel and a man bravely standing up to authority to challenge what he sees as wrong doing.
It’s also a challenge to the law, and a cry to the people that their freedom is under threat – which it is.
This is so much more than it first appears at face value.
Oh & criminal Libel & sedition might have disappeared, but the corrupt BLiar government replaced it with The Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 – an affront to freedom and democracy if ever there was one.
Everything the Blair government did was an affront to freedom and democracy.
Both he and Kinnock – wealthy ‘socialists’. They both back the EU .
Now, I wonder why ?
Perhaps our regular trolls will tell us why.
I meant EU of course (Freudian slip?)
BBC TV News 6pm
Leads with the arrest of four men and one woman from Birmingham in connection with the terrorist attacks in Paris and Belgium.
A commentator states to camera that Birmingham has a high density population which would account for more terrorist arrests. I couldn’t grasp what he meant.
Of course, Frank Gardner appeared and stated that the UK had the highest proportion of CCTV cameras in Europe. I couldn’t grasp what he meant.
No mention that they were muslims but the word Jihadist was used. Ten years ago I wouldn’t have had a clue what jihadist meant.
I’ll watch it again later and try to make sense of it all.
Tokyo has a high population density as well, but i’m pretty sure there were no arrests there. Now, I wonder what we have lots of that the Japanese don’t….? Answers on a postcard to ………..
A couple of years ago the BBC Midland News programme ran and ran the complaints by Muslims about the numbers of CCTV cameras in Muslim areas. We all knew why the police had them installed, but with the wholehearted propaganda from the BBC; usual interviews with Muslim leaders protesting about intrusion etc. they were taken down, and the police meekly apologized. The cost was £millions. Oh how they are needed and should be reinstalled.
Never mentioned by the BBC but stories run by local Birmingham papers reveal the extent to which Muslim gangs control organised crime in the Midlands.
Of course not all muslims are terrorists. On the other hand, the ones who deal in drugs, illegal immigrant rackets, motor insurance scams and child rape probably prefer not to do it on CCTV as well.
Was watching BBC News 24 in the pharmacy – yes, that exciting – the dialogue of which was translated into subtitles. It must be an automated system as there were so many spelling/grammatical errors, the funniest of which was the translation of Nigel Farage as ‘Nigel far right’. This phrase must be on a list of commonly used (terms of bias), to be mistaken for his surname. I rest my case.
I noticed recently, the BBC dressing up EU scaremongering/propaganda as news. As today with the Chancellor.
When Osbourne is in full swing, blathering on about post EU economics he can’t possibly predict with any accuracy , the BBC allow him to go unchallenged, because it suits their narrative.
When the same man talks of austerity, or reduced public spending, the same BBC becomes a pack of salivating wolves, trying to discredit the guy before he has even fully stated his case, and use a dozen talking heads on various news outlets to spout emotional, sentimental, rhetoric, instead of debating the issues.
How is this fair considering the importance of the issue?
When the word ‘likely’ is used by anyone, pol or faithful media reporter, it’s a fair bet it really isn’t.
Thought Nick Robinson did his job reasonably well on Today before the 8am news.
Granted it hardly took Darling apart-but he hit home with the Marxist Lefty pretty well.
The Left simply are no longer used to arguing especially at the BBC or in a university setting..so Darling got quite aerated and flustered when Nick said
1. You`re basically only able to run a project fear campaign.
2. Because you yourselves know that to stay in the EU is as risky as not staying in.
3,Given the fact that you and all those who want to stay in never once foresaw the collapse of Europes borders, the disintegration of the whole Eurozone catastrophe.
4. So why do you persist in trying to scare people about risks in leaving the EU,when you yourself brought about far bigger disruptions and fissures in the Euro Project to abolish the nation state-by simply acquiescing in the EU madness since 2007.
I thought Nick passed the test that-for once-a BBC journalist was asking the questions that I would have asked him-and Darling was all over the place, floundering and clueless.
Compare and contrast with Mishal Husains smarm piece with International Rescues top puppet, David Miliband.
He did every bit as well chrisH, and surprisingly so too, in presenting the first part of the EEC/EU Story (Part 2 next week) an excellent piece of TV and an in-depth expose of the extraordinary levels of duplicity, insult and deceit we have been subjected to over the past 40 years by France in particular and Europe in general. In fact I find it amazing that the program seems to have passed the usual contributors on here by. Surely Mary Berry isn’t all that fascinating?
Name of programme and channel please for a catch up visit.
Thank you.
‘Europe – them or us?’ Tuesday BBC2 9 o’clock. Have a stiff drink handy, remove throw-able heavy objects from vicinity. Enjoy.
I am hoping that the relentless negative campaigning by the remainers , fully supported by the BBC, will be counterproductive. Surely most people must smell a rat by now ?
I mentioned it last night…I agree entirely with you.
Somebody else mentioned that that Heath was supercilious, pompous contemptuous of the electorate…and Jenkins was a smarmy liar.
Benn and Powell emerge as prophets.
Thanks for that chrisH, it looks like I’ve not been reading enough posts. That said, I would have expected much more on the subject, and it might be equally true to say that we didn’t need a TV program 40 years after the event to recognise that Heath was supercilious, pompous, contemptuous of the electorate and probably – among several vying for the title – the worst PM in our history. He certainly told the biggest lies, not least to himself, but then perhaps his whole life was a lie, although oddly in tune with current BBC approval levels. I wonder what he was like at baking?
Another twist was that you could well add Gaitskell to Benn and Powell’s prophetic status, though of the three Enoch was awesomely perceptive. And his demise can also be laid at Heath’s door of course. What wondrous claims to fame the man had, so much so that I retract my previous uncertainly, the bastard really was the worst of the lot.
Heath was one troubled bloke.
As a student he saw the Nuremburg ralies as Hitlers Germany took shape in front of him.
So, post-war you could see that he`d never want to see the continent at war again.
And the British economy was a seeming basket case too under Wilson…and, in truth he himself showed himself to be a clueless hypocrite who never survived the death of McLeod…and created the hyper ministries, abolished long-held country arrangements as well as Barbers hyperinflation that was catastrophic to the country throughout the seventies-until Maggie turned it around, albeit painfully.
So Heath had plenty reason to think as he did-but he had no mandate for it, and saw his role as forcing us all into his liberal technocratic and managerial nirvana with no borders and one currency, all under one shared sovereignty
Ironic really-Hitler wanted exactly the same-and Merkels EU is right on cue to repeat the evil, with the inevitable inferno that will follow.
You`re right, Heath is the biggest deluded boob of a PM that we ever had…but still had some vision and abilities…as opposed to Blair, who was a bare-faced traitor who killed more of his people that Heath did.
I believe it is called something like the Interruption index when you note down the number of interruptions and (normally) the party that is being interviewed, and miraculously find UKIP are number one with the Tories a close second.
I believe it works on the principle that you tend not to interrupt someone when they are saying something you agree with.
The EU “matter” is producing some strange bedfellows!
When you are aware of this you can easily detect the sympathies of the interviewers.
A little bit of local news, hidden away in ‘Beds, Bucks and Herts’: a former police officer, Mohammad Arshad, has today been jailed for 23 years for rape and other crimes against young girls.
Nothing much to see here, move along now.
An interesting comment by Bedfordshire Police following the jailing of Pc Mohamed Arshad:
“”Bedfordshire Police said it had reviewed its vetting process to prevent the likes of Arshad from joining the force again””
How??
That should be on the BBC news, surely ? LOL !
The resonse of “Ali’s Snack Bar” to any criticism could be a clue.
I’m not convinced he was the only one in Luton, the only one they’ve sacrificed perhaps. I’m sure there’s way more after reading Tommy Robinsons book I find it difficult to believe that this “policeman ” is the only rapist there.
With a name like Arshad the mind boggles what he’s into…..
BBC Scotland TV News tonight on the Edinburgh Schools scandal. “PFI was introduced under the Major Government ” ( Photo of John Major ). No mention that it was massively increased by Dirty Brown or that the SNP Executive failed to identify the problem. Bias ? What bias ?
I’ve just watched that. It’s a troubling and extremely partial account of the history of PFI which the Tories did start, but in a limited and specific form. As one site says, when Blair came to power it became a doctrine for Labour. The BBC in Scotland, though, seem to imply that it was improved by Blair. So as far as this story goes, it was Tories bad, Labour good, SNP better.
One of the schemes that the BBC seemed to put at the Tory’s door was the controversial Edinburgh Infirmary scheme. From what I can se this was enacted in 2003 when the hospital was built.
It’s at times like this when I wish that I was filthy rich and had the money to waste to seek a judicial review of the BBC’s failure to adhere to the obligations of its Charter and its binding obligation to report with due impartiality, accuracy, honesty and fairness.
Another bit of local news that doesn’t seem to have been important enough for the bBBC to report, although the ‘search’ function on the bBBC website is so poor that we can’t always find things.
http://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/corrupt-southwark-council-housing-officer-makes-mates-homeless-get-council-homes/
A former Southwark Council officer has been convicted of helping fraudsters find council homes on fake homelessness claims.
Trudy Ali-Balogun, a homeless-caseworker, handled 24 bogus cases between 2003 and 2005.
She appeared at Inner London Crown Court on April 1 with four of her clients: Biayo Awotiwon of Devon Mansions in Tooley Street, Adeyemi Olalekan Oyedele of Webb Street in Bermondsey, Kudiartu Falana of Inville Road in Walworth, and Joseph Akin Olaiya of Gillingham, Kent.
Among the dodgy documents she knowingly approved were false birth certificates for children who never existed, as well as made-up wage slips and bank statements, and fake foreign passports.
Ali-Balogun abused her position with the council by using her knowledge of housing legislation to make the fraudsters “homeless”.
It was later discovered that the applicants she was responsible for processing did not have the immigration-status required to claim the cash and accommodation they had swindled.
The 55-year-old, who studied criminology at university, was found guilty by a jury on Friday April 1 in Inner London Crown Court.
No prizes for guessing the ethnicity of the criminals, or why the bbBC might want us not to know about them.
She studied Criminology ? Obviously didn’t get a First !
Au contraire, she seems to have picked up a lot of tips.
I imagine this sordid tale is repeated a thousand times across the country. Of course we have a “housing crisis”, the country is full of foreign criminals and scam artists who cost us billions in the name of diversity.
They want to know what the public thinks. Well, they say they do.
How do you spell “certain”, or should it be ceratin?
Does David Jordan, Director, Editorial Policy and Standards, have a CSE in English?
Perhaps this is a part of the new Shariah Dictionary.
Pr@ 😀
David Vance on 5Live Nolan just now on the topic of food banks and child poverty. Also present were Carmel and Alison who represented the “free food” sector which David saw acting as a natural draw because who doesn’t want free stuff? David also raised the issue of the increasing childhood obesity rate and the parenting skills of those children affected. It got quite shouty in a 2 v 1, but David held his position, and concluded by saying there was a political agenda to “weaponise poverty”. Worth a listen on iplayer later. From about 20 minutes in.
Question
What does Al Beeb’s security correspondent know about Security ?
Over to their Trolls to answer that one……..
This chap should stick to making biscuits.
Some time ago we were warned that NOT joining the Euro would be detrimental to the economy ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36058152
Is the UN ‘not fit for purpose’ ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-36060484
What has it actually achieved in the last twenty years ?