Start The Week Open Thread

 

What an utter insensitive b*****d that Andy Murray is….cold, heartless and calculating, doesn’t he have any feelings for those tennis players who don’t have kids…do they not also have a stake in succeeding in the tennis world as well?

“The last thing I looked at before I went on court today was a picture of my daughter,” Murray said.

“I feel like that’s what I’m playing for now, so that in a few years hopefully she can be proud of what I have achieved.”

Murray was reticent about whether he thinks his daughter, who was born on 7 February, will change his game.

He said: “I think obviously priorities change significantly.”

Anyway, another week and lots of bias, bad journalism or just plain stupidity…you judge….the floor’s yours once again.

 

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320 Responses to Start The Week Open Thread

  1. Thoughtful says:

    Thinking Allowed with the sanctimonious Laurie Taylor whose Wikipedia entry shows his political independent thought and position: “Taylor was then a member of the Trotskyist International Socialists.”

    So when he runs a program on the EDL can we expect a decent dispassionate view? Of course not! Laurie and his guests were as biased and Islamophilic as you might expect, they so detached from reality and justified in their far left beliefs (which lead them to believe they are perfect and criticism is simply (insert ism or phobia as appropriate !)) that they are unable to see that it is their behaviour which has created the EDL in the first place !

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07jyw97

    The English Defence League; ‘Real’ immigrants

    The English Defence League: A study of the individuals who comprise this far right movement. Hilary Pilkington, Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, provides fresh and timely insights into a politics built on English identity and opposition to ‘Islamism’. They’re joined by Nasar Meer, Professor of Comparative Citizenship and Social Policy at Strathclyde University,

    Who’s a ‘real’ immigrant and who’s ‘not really’ an immigrant? Martina Byrne, Lecturer in the School of Social Policy, Social Policy and Social Justice at University College, Dublin, discusses her study into middle class attitudes to immigration. Why do white Irish professionals consider that white Eastern Europeans are immigrants but white French and Australians are not?

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  2. BRISSLES says:

    Oh the irony !
    BBC1 9.00 pm tonight “Saving Lives at Sea”

    BBC2 9.00 pm tonight “Exodus – Our Journey to Europe” (apparently our intrepid Syrian Ahmad, has finally succeeded in getting into Britain courtesy of a lorry, and is in Wakefield awaiting processing of his asylum claim)

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    • RJ says:

      I think I’ll go with BBC4 – The Titfield Thunderbolt.

      Another victory of the little people over the Establishment.

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    • Sluff says:

      Someone, somewhere in bBBc la la land, decided that the Exodus programme should be commissioned. Where pray, in the bBBC’s core statement ( educate, inform, entertain) does it say indoctrinate?
      No doubt the fuckwits that decided on this pile of wank will be all getting their diversity bonuses, paid for of course by us.

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  3. Guest Who says:

    At least the BBC ill always have the Graun…

    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jul/12/bbc-jimmy-savile-tony-hall-child-protection-complaints-whistleblowing?

    Bless. No comments enabled. Likely wise.

    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jul/12/chris-evans-top-gear-jeremy-clarkson-bbc?

    That would not be the one with internationally known Matt LeBlanc in it, by chance?

    ‘Davie received total remuneration last year of £664,000, including a bonus of £224,000, despite BBC Worldwide profits shrinking.’

    That is a talent. Not sure if it is quite market rate.

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  4. Mike Hunt says:

    Wallace in No 11. Finally something makes sense. Fetch me slippers, lad.

    And it looks as if Theresa May has got stuck into product placement early in her tenure: that giant post-it stuck to her dress should help boost 3M’s share price, shouldn’t it?

    Talking of which, has anyone seen the FTSE 250 recently? What’s that you say – not in the headlines???

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    http://media.breitbart.com/media/2016/07/GettyImages-547086476-640×480.png

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    • Mike Hunt says:

      That should have been “Wallace in No 10”.

      Not sure why the image above doesn’t display properly, let’s try this one instead.

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      PS. The big question of the day should surely be, will Grommit replace Larry the cat?!?

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  5. G.W.F. says:

    One good appointment has to be David Davis as the Brexit Minister.
    However, we scoundrels here should be looking for a replacement of Winteringsmackbum, someone to stand up to the BBC. Is there any hope?

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    • Al Shubtill says:

      Davis in that role should be excellent, it will be interesting to see the team assembled around him; I hope it includes: Daniel Hannan; David Owen; Ghisela Stewart and (possibly) Michael Gove.

      I doubt Farage will get a look in, despite Davis and he being part of the same Brexit campaign group prior to the referendum.

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  6. Sluff says:

    Busy news day today, blink and youll miss it but the bias is still there.
    Nick Robinson has been wheeled out to review Cameron’s time ( why btw? Is Lightweight Laura not deemed up to the task?)
    Right at the end of the review Robinson gets to the Brexit vote, and in context and in terms, describes it as a terrible result.
    Nick, we don’t want to hear the biased BBC’s opinions, thank you. The public voted and to the majority it is not a terrible result at all, it is a wonderful result.
    So how about reporting it as such, you barefaced biased morons.

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  7. TruthSeeker says:

    Some bint in the BBC staff wanted advertiser.
    David Cameron has ruined the life chances of young people.
    No love.
    EU nationals moving to the UK in their millions, damaged their chances.
    Non-EU nationals imported into the UK by the Labour Party in their millions, damaged their chances.
    Mario Draghi doing “whatever it takes” to save the Euro, damaged their chances, and the chances of the 50% youth unemployed in Greece, 40% in Spain etc.
    NUT and other teaching unions replacing education with lefty propaganda, damaged their chances.
    NUT and other teaching unions advising the young that the family and the nation state were evil, damaged their chances.
    All political parties turning a blind eye to grade inflation in schools and universities, damaged their chances.
    All political parties trying to get the indoctrinated youth indebted to the government for everything, damaged their chances.
    Everyone not teaching the youth personal endeavour, personal responsibility and self-reliance, damaged their chances.
    Anyone fancy pointing this out to Lucy Webster? Thanks.
    I cannot do it myself, persona non grata in the Guardian until I get another email address

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    • wronged says:

      Laura Kuenssberg
      ‏@bbc

      ‘Clear tonight Osborne was told his services were no longer required – the ‘brand’ became too tarnished over recent months’

      Sounded like a short conversation.

      I’m pleased for Boris being made Foreign Secretary. But I’m now worried that he might start a few wars.

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    • TruthSeeker says:

      Part 2 :-
      Business “leaders” moving jobs overseas to increase their own income, damaged their chances.
      Business “leaders” employing aliens preferentially, to increase their own income, damaged their chances.
      MPs preferentially employing aliens, many illegally in the UK, damaged their chances.
      The Guardian dismissing white people as sub human at every opportunity, damaged their chances.

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  8. G.W.F. says:

    Theresa is married to an old BBC favourite, Arthur Askey

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    Hello Playmates.

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  9. wronged says:

    Yes, well done GWF.
    There is a real similarity there.

    I thought maybe a likeness with the Wealdstone Raider, but the Askey likeness is even better.

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    • Larry Dart says:

      What about Teresa and Greta Scacchi ? (ignoring the luggage under the eyes, Teresa’s that is)
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      • Mike Hunt says:

        What about Teresa and Greta Scacchi ? (ignoring the luggage under the eyes, Teresa’s that is)

        Ta Larry – dead ringers! (Maybe the link below will work better…)

        greta-scacchi-05.jpg

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        • Cranmer says:

          Mrs May puts me in mind of a frumpier older sister of Joanna Lumley, who was studying for her degree in Librarian studies sipping cocoa at home while her younger sister was out partying and drinking Bollie.

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