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  1. G.W.F. says:
    August 21, 2016 at 6:57 pm

    Awaiting a comment from the BBC. Suspicious package found in the Emir of London’s land.

    Could be a packet of bacon as the Met are on the look out for serious crimes.

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/borough-high-street-london-closed-8678901

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  2. chrisH says:
    August 21, 2016 at 8:41 pm

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/702382/Sturgeon-s-EU-slum-Squalor-filth-and-sex-crime-in-constituency-branded-shame-of-Scotland
    WE need far more of this-poor old Sturgeon clearly isn`t very good when she meets real people is she?
    And-in a similar way-I gathered that the constituents of Owen Smith would like to see HIM take a few selfies round his Pontypridd area-again, looks like Venezuela or any other Socialist dream when his media tram aren`t covering it…so said Radio Wales anyway!

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  3. Dover Sentry says:
    August 21, 2016 at 8:41 pm

    BBC Online News:

    “”Hande Kader: Outcry in Turkey over transgender woman’s murder””

    “”The murder of Hande Kader, a transgender woman, has caused an outcry in Turkey’s biggest city Istanbul. Turkey remains conservative on LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) issues, but on Sunday activists will stage a rare protest in Istanbul, writes Rengin Arslan of BBC Turkish””

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37143879

    Hmmmm….. “Turkey remains conservative on gay and transgender issues””

    Such views here would be called homophobic and bigoted with a 1,000 hashtags to follow. But Turkey being Islamic is given a free-pass by the BBC.

    Oh, and the BBC ‘forgot’ to mention that Turkey is an Islamic country and that the Koran preaches death to all gays.

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    • chrisH says:
      August 21, 2016 at 10:37 pm

      Desperate story this one re Hande Kader.
      Somebodys son once.
      When will the virtue signallers stop offering up needless sacrifices.
      This is Turkey FFS…this is not Tel Aviv, so is anybody surprised at this?
      This is a Muslim country that has just been threatened with a coup and the nastiest bloke in power there is locking up journalists, threatening all sorts and-to be fair-has IS committing atrocities, threats of incursions from Syria and longstanding problems with the Kurds.
      These are not good times to put out your Radiohead CD, and expect the authorities to behave like Ian Blair or Brian Paddick.
      This lad…now a cadaver…but will now be feted as a “FEMALE” one…so well done Cait..so the BBC and the Left can wallow in the “sacrifice”.
      Poor kid was a prostitute-which is often the only way such people get to make a living…they can`t ALL get onto Channel 5 you know!
      So-Muslim-Turkey-sex change-prostitute-coup and IS/Kurds…what a mixture.
      Still eh?…a gig for Paris Lees or Eddie Izzard come the inevitable press reviews later.
      Obscene…poor kid.RIP

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    • Nibor says:
      August 21, 2016 at 11:00 pm

      Didn’t it use to be the Gay and Lesbian community ? Now it’s the LGBTI which is Lesbian And Gays in reverse . But now there is the I to make LGBT the LGBTI . Is this the injection model ? It used to be that the Range Rover Vogue Special Edition was the longest nomenclature in cars which shortened is RRVSE but why stop there ?
      Why not the LGBTIFIADHPPAxellottl
      Which is lesbian ,gay, bisexual ,transgender ,intersex ( first time spellcheck doesn’t click in ) , fetish , impotent , disinterested , hermaphrodite , Peter Pan and the funny aquatic creature in school bio labs .
      And that’s not putting in illegal and deviant practices . Or the way that plants , amoebae and single cell structures procreate . Or planets , stars and satellites in space .
      Then there’s the B&ME groups to add , or is that Black and ethnic minority reversed again by BBC types .?
      Never mind that High Society was filled with barons , Dukes ,earls , lords , MBEs KCMGs etc.
      So at a London bus stop you may hail a driver who passed the Passenger Service Vehicles test , is an ethnic minority and swings all ways .
      So that’s a PSVBMELGBTI . Don’t ask if he has a BA hons .

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  4. G.W.F. says:
    August 21, 2016 at 8:57 pm

    Paul Watson on the media hoax over Islamophobia and he slams the BBC

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  5. Number 6 says:
    August 21, 2016 at 10:34 pm

    Just saw a trailer for new series of Would I lie to You…..

    Guess who’s appearing……thats right….muslim cake genius Nadiya

    Presumably renaming her episode ‘Taqqiya’ especially for her

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    • manchesterlad says:
      August 21, 2016 at 10:54 pm

      I might complain to the BBC that we really are not seeing Nadiya enough

      Surely, after baking a cake for the queen, shouldn’t she now be reading the news every day? And that Matt Le Blanc on Top Gear – who the hell does he think he is? We want our Nadiya adding her insights into baking to enhance that show too, how many eggs does it take to make a Maserati? We need to know.

      I think the BBC are getting a bit Nadiyaphobic, hiding her away when we obviously want to see her on our screens EVERY DAY!

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      • Nibor says:
        August 21, 2016 at 11:29 pm

        Perhaps she’s not LGBT enough .

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      • GCooper says:
        August 21, 2016 at 11:36 pm

        I think I could almost be able to stomach more of this ridiculous Somalian (or whatever she is) cake baker as the relief at the end of the school-sports-day-on-steroids (Literally) spreads through the house.

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  6. Geoff says:
    August 21, 2016 at 11:34 pm

    Catch this series whilst you still can, they have been hidden away on BBC4 in during the Olympics in the early hours of the morning on BBC4, probably because the BBC don’t want to remind us of the Britain that we have lost, the Nayida free, hideously white (to coin a phrase) un-diversified British Britain of the 50’s and 60’s.

    ‘Britain On Film’

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02126sx/episodes/player

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  7. Guest Who says:
    August 22, 2016 at 7:28 am

    Oops. When you lose the core…

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    • Number 6 says:
      August 22, 2016 at 8:11 am

      The mind boggles as to the direction these remakes will take

      I think we all know what will be shoehorned in to tick as many lefty crap boxes as humanly possible

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  8. Guest Who says:
    August 22, 2016 at 7:42 am

    They are soon doing a special from a sack of rats. Apparently.

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  9. Number 6 says:
    August 22, 2016 at 8:18 am

    On RT

    Germans told to stockpile food and water enough for 10 days in case of attack

    So called bbc?

    Big party in Rio last night

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  10. AsISeeIt says:
    August 22, 2016 at 8:19 am

    Rio Olympic stadiums half-full (according to BBC correspondent Wyre Davies) or half-empty – judging by news that the Paralympics are having to put out the begging bowl to cover the funding shortfall?

    Well, we know the BBC have taken on the role of Olympic PR and glee club.

    By the way, don’t worry about missing out on the wheelchair racing – Channel 4 will be picking up the public broadcaster baton on that one. Meanwhile there’s BBC favourite Tani Grey-Thompson (what is it with double-barrelled female athletes – are they taking this concept of posh sports too far?). Tani has a plan to overcome the lack of funds due to Brasil having emptied their wad on the ‘carnival’ closing ceremony – “…I’m sure Britain and some of the big countries will want to cover the shortfall…”

    Er, no.

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:
      August 22, 2016 at 11:32 am

      The Brazilians are some of the most body conscious people on Earth. They love cosmetic surgery, and it’s no coincidence that a “Brazilian” is a sort of pubic hair trim to look good in tiny beachwear. So it is no surprise that they will not be queuing up to watch disabled athletes. We may disapprove, but unless Brazilians are forced at gunpoint into the stadiums, the Paralympics will be take place in front of tiny crowds. All nations are not the same, and London 2012 might have been a one-off in this regard.

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  11. AsISeeIt says:
    August 22, 2016 at 8:33 am

    The must BBC take viewers for complete Charlies if they think we can’t guess what they mean by prison Chaplins. What religion do these clowns think vetting for extremist views ought to apply to? So why must the BBC remain silent?

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  12. Guest Who says:
    August 22, 2016 at 8:46 am

    Must confess, this was not unexpected, or unwelcome to enliven a grey Monday:

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    • EnglandExpects says:
      August 22, 2016 at 9:19 am

      The same article mentions that there were two Scots in the last series ie an over- representation as they are under one twelfth of the UK population.. The grievance culture in Scotland goes on and on. I would happily trade them a place on Bake Off if they would give up say 10 of the many female Scottish reporters who seem to dominate bBC news and sport ( much the same these days).

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    • Number 6 says:
      August 22, 2016 at 9:19 am

      From the comments at the graun…..shows you how mentally ill leftards actually are….

      Lorna’s an excellent broadcaster. Heaven knows why she stayed at Britain’s equivalent of Fox News.

      ……………….

      Oh dear. Britain’s equivalent of Fox News???! In what way can you possibly say that other than the Murdoch connection? Certainly not editorially.

      ……………….

      The right wing bias of their coverage is obvious.

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    • Demon says:
      August 22, 2016 at 9:23 am

      The Guardian are gloating about it. He didn’t downplay the homophobic nature of the attack but was rightly linking it to attacks against other people which are clearly linked. Jones was having none of that as he clearly doesn’t regard other human beings being as worthy as LGBTEFLPGers (I guessed some of the initials). Jones was basically being heterophobic. So the Guardian not telling the truth – well there’s a surprise.

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    • Up2snuff says:
      August 22, 2016 at 9:48 am

      Am surprised that Sky is still financially viable in the UK as our favourite national broadcaster has thrown a lot of effort into scandalising the Murdoch family and their print operation in the recent past. In addition, they surely cannot have many fans on ‘the left’ and we are told how overwhelmingly ‘active’ this brave, Corbyn-led movement is at the present time, leading 4:1 against the Conservatives, per the TOADY prog this a.m..

      And it’s not even half time.

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  14. Dave666 says:
    August 22, 2016 at 9:10 am

    The Olympics are over, thank goodness. Well apart from BBc Breakfast where the drones are still banging on about it.

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    • GCooper says:
      August 22, 2016 at 9:25 am

      The BBC is obviously completely uninterested in the many licence payers who can’t abide sport. It just swept its schedules aside for this international boreathon.

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      • AsISeeIt says:
        August 22, 2016 at 9:34 am

        Faux sports patriotism, massive empolyee beano, lashings of public funding, the potential for the liberal media to create PC-approved ‘personalities’ to force on the public, corrupt internationalist organisation with tax immunity and elite guest status …. from a BBC point of view, what’s not to like?

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        • GCooper says:
          August 22, 2016 at 9:38 am

          I completely agree. And to that list you can add the bogus ‘one world’ codswallop the BBC worships.

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