Time for another one of these….any bias about? Perhaps some careless talk?…such as Emma Barnett talking of ‘IRA soldiers’ giving the murderous terrorists a massive amount of undue respect that the BBC never affords to British soldiers whom they hound at every opportunity….Barnett, as she rejected claims that there was a witch-hunt against British troops in NI, never once mentioning Phil Shiner’s fall and the false claims he made that the BBC peddled as fact for years.
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A fine piece of Common Purpose lobbying this morning from former BBC man Greig Dyke and four elderly white colleagues – all grist to the BBC mill.
Seems the Football Association has too many middle-aged white men. Oh and another thing, there’s tons and tons of cash to be had from the Premier League if only the Government could be persuaded to reform the FA so as it could then syphon off more of that free lucre.
Wipe away the old geezers in blazers and just think of the potential for employment for thousands more of those liberal-minded Common Purpose types!
Yes, it was very striking that the BBC, in the form of the Today programme, accepted the description of the football association as ‘old white men’ without demur or question. I had hoped Nick Robinson would have asked Greg Dyke about that appellation, but … not a word. I wondered whether NR would have been outraged if the problems of West Indian Cricket been attributed to that fact that ‘old black men’ were in charge?
Yes, “out of touch, elderly white men” pointedly used as a derogatory term is on loop today, on tv and radio. Don t recall it being used for any other race on the BBC. We of course wait for the out of touch elderly hideously white top echelon of the BBC to throw themselves on their swords … probably for quite a while.
Seems the FA seeks more young, non white men.
Maybe… the kind that take free kicks to the backs of women on underground stairwells?
OWM out and about causing mayhem worldwide, the bastards…
https://www.allsingaporestuff.com/article/tired-ang-mo-sleeps-mrt-cause-civil-war-among-netizens
Monday morning Breakfast off we go. Think tank I’ve never heard of reports on migrants right to stay in the UK after BREXIT. Yes the BBc using a report from some “think tank” to further their agenda. An old white man tells us Fifa is full of old white men. A cheery tale of the illegal immigrant who is 16 , yea right, first filmed in Calais, before illegally entering England. . With some do gooder “headmaster” hasn’t he got a school to run. His gripe is that he only mixes with migrants and doesn’t improve English. Perhaps he could sleep on the streets with the indigenous homeless to improve his language skills.
Yes I heard that too and was going to post on the appalling pro migrant left wing bias that is the core of the BBC.
There was no challenge of the story at all he says he is a Kurd which is a technique Turks use to claim asylum after they persecute them so extensively. He might well not have been Kurdish at all.
No mention of the fact that he passed through several countries to get here first and failed to claim asylum there.
No reason given for his asylum claim
No explanation of whether he really is the age he claims and if he has been tested for this age.
In fact they were lauding the far leftist ex headmaster who has probably spent a lifetime indoctrinating the kids he was supposed to ‘educate’.
No wonder Britains edukashun system is so poorly ranked on a world scale.
Most Turks can’t speak Kurdish so that would be the first test of anyone claiming to be a Kurd.
The lad only came to Britain for, wait for it… a better life.
Well good for him. Now he is being fostered and educated at our expense. I doubt the taxpayer is getting much change out of £20,000 a year for the pleasure of his company. Multiply this by hundreds of thousands and tell me again why this country is in such dire straits.
Meanwhile, continue to blame the old white folk, who spent a lifetime working and paying taxes, for the failures of the social care system.
Just another day in the BBC parallel universe.
And where do we go, ‘for a better life’?
R i C – solid post.
Nice to see the brekkie sofasleuths derailed this morning…..
Telling us that we need to get used to squid for dinner due to global warming…..
Away to interview a fishmonger oop north….
Asked who it us that buys the squid on display….goes off message:
“Oh it’s mainly ethnics and chinese” says he.
Asked next if squid will replace cod?
” squid will NEVER replace cod” came the reply..
Cue rapid end to interview.
More and more ‘Brexit fear’ as the propaganda is piling up ………..
“UK’s current GDP growth rate won’t last, warns business body”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38284554
From the article:
“The business body expects GDP to grow by 2.1% this year, up from the 1.8% it forecast just three months ago.”
So, if they couldn’t get that prediction correct, why should their latest one be any more believable?
“UK’s current GDP growth rate won’t last”
when did it ever, in or out
The British Boards of Commerce, CBI, Treasury, Bank of England and many others always get their forecasts very wrong. Why should anyone take any notice of them ?
They have ‘British’ in their titles, which means, oh, er… carry on.
These Political news programmes are like watching Groundhog Day. The same questions on Brexit day after day after day to differing pundits is like waterboarding – bloody torture ! No-one gets anywhere, Fatty Boulton, Randy Murnaghan, Andrew Marr, Brillo, et al have the same mantra, including rights of the British living in Europe, triggering Article 50, terms of the single market, free movement, and so it goes on and on. Don’t these presenters ever get bored with the repetition of it all, because we are.
Noted on the telly earlier that Channel 4 were bemoaning the lack of disabled people in the workplace.
How many Remploy refugees could Channel 4 employ of they got rid of Snow, Newman etc-instead of them waving their hankies over the poor and disabled in the hope that Theresa May will fund their daycare?
No reason why we`ve not got scads of disabled autocue readers, art critics, panel chairmen and weather girls is there?
I mean it`s not like they need legs, and a low IQ could only help them cipher the liberal crap that Snow and Frei do…and we could employ 500 jobless workshy fops instead of the Big Six bludgers at Channel 4 News.
On Today, Webb said, “Good Brexit news?” and the business reporter added, “Economic forecasts have been revised up.” But he added, “It’s a recovery of two halves with good IT jobs in the south and poor warehouse jobs in the north.”
He could have added, and birds fly south in the winter, but he wasn’t that kind of ‘expert’.
We are so lucky to have the BBC expertise providing such useful and incisive analysis.
Friday thread on Monday still ?
Again on Today – “We should have dropped aid to Syria using drones instead of huge, vulnerable aircraft, but it’s too late now and that’s the fault of the Government and Labour.”
Who are these idiots? I guess they think Amazon could have done it.
And the same idiots think the UK could actually make a difference in Syria up against, Assad, Putin, Iran and Saudi. The level of naivety is just mind boggling.
Maplin could do a roaring trade pre Xmas.
And what sort of payload can a drone carry ? Amazing ignorance !
“Ten MQ-9 Reaper Unmanned aerial vehicles have been purchased to support operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.” Wikepedia. Well 10 drones would make all the difference. I think not. “Fitted with six stores pylons; the inner stores pylons can carry a maximum of 1,500 pounds (680 kg) each and allow carriage of external fuel tanks. The mid-wing stores pylons can carry a maximum of 600 pounds (270 kg) each, while the outer stores pylons can carry a maximum of 200 pounds (91 kg) each. An MQ-9 with two 1,000 pounds (450 kg) external fuel tanks and a thousand pounds of munitions has an endurance of 42 hours.” Of course all they then need to do is manufacture, build and test some kind of delivery system.
Dave, that’s going to be a bit below the capacity of the Berlin Airlift.
For context, the normal daily food requirement for Berlin was 2,000 tons. By April 1949 allied supply aircraft were landing at the rate of 1 per minute. But then, the BBC doesn’t do real history.
RJ,
The BBC does not do reality , full stop !
Dave666,
That is not many bags of rice !
Far right group National Action to be banned under terror laws
A British neo-Nazi movement is to become the first far-right group to be banned under terrorism laws in the UK. Home Secretary Amber Rudd said National Action was “a racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic organisation”. An order laid in Parliament to proscribe the group – making it a criminal offence to join or support it – is due to come into effect on Friday.
It will be the first time a group engaged in extreme right-wing activities has been proscribed. Under the Terrorism Act 2000, the home secretary can proscribe an organisation if it is believed to be “concerned in terrorism”.
‘Vile ideology’
National Action describes itself as a “National Socialist youth organisation” and says its movement is aimed at the “broken right-wing”. Ms Rudd said the group had “no place” in Britain. She said: “National Action is a racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic organisation which stirs up hatred, glorifies violence and promotes a vile ideology, and I will not stand for it.”
Proscription makes it a criminal offence to belong to the organisation, arrange meetings in support of the group or wear clothing or carry articles in public which arouse reasonable suspicion. Penalties for proscription offences can be a maximum of 10 years in prison and an unlimited fine. The order will be debated in parliament later this week, before becoming operationally effective on Friday.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38286708
Hmmm. I’ve never heard of this ‘National Action’ outfit. Anyone else? Still, well done progressives for finally (finally!) finding a ‘far-right neo-Nazi’ group to swing the banhammer down on. It took you a while, but you did it – even if nobody’s ever heard of the group in question.
Just one thing. All that talk about ‘not standing’ for “…racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic organisation which stirs up hatred, glorifies violence and promotes a vile ideology…” leaves me wondering when you intend to start a frank conversation with our friends from the Religion of Peace about some of their attitudes to queers, jews and and women?
No?
I guess not. Some extremist, totalitarian, racists, bigots, anti-semites and homophobes are forever above the law.
Wot, more antisemitic than the Labour Party AND the BBC?
Never heard of them. But , at least , it sets a precedent. HMG will have to explain why they do not ban similar muslim groups and groups on the Far Left.
Because there aren’t any, of course.
Roland,
Silly me !
Never heard of them, and I do scour the net for far left and right groups because I am interested in all aspects of politics, as I once taught political philosophy
I suspect it is an appeasement job to please the Moslem Council. Meanwhile it sends a message out to far right outfits like UKIP, who are denounced as Nazis by Anntifa and UAF, supported by Diane Abbot, Livingstone, and Cameron.
I guess amber Amber and her boss will claim expenses for this move from their Saudi paymasters
Never heard of them either…..just sent my congratulations to my MP on the decisive prompt action taken to eliminate antisemitism and homophobia, and asked him when they intend to apply that to the ROP…..
Don’t expect an answer….
Fairly obvious that St Jo of the White Helmets is being used to sell the BBC/Government clampdown on the so far non-existent far right. Jo is featured in the article.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38286708
Watch out UKIP, they will be coming for you soon, followed by ‘hateful Brexiters’.
Is this what Jo wanted?
Well yes, I’m wondering when they’ll get round to this site?
“Is this what Jo wanted?”
The real question, is this what the people who put the gun in Mair’s hand wanted?
Give it time and see what the Poles do.
Not noted for their love of Islam.
We are successfully importing all the elements for future civil war. Well done!
Grant
I think the PM and Government have already explained why they have not banned similar Moslem groups. Islam is a religion of peace. Don’t you know that?
As for the far left – most interesting. Occasionally they get arrested for trivial things like blocking an airport or smashing up a shop or two, but the cases are usually dismissed or minimal fines imposed.
Let’s hope they investigate David Cameron’s UAF using the same standards. But there again,the UAF could be building gas chambers for Jews but politicians /establishment/police would still find nothing wrong with them.
UAF are untouchable.
“National Action….is a racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic organisation which stirs up hatred, glorifies violence and promotes a vile ideology, and I will not stand for it.”
1. This description fits Islam exactly.
2. Islam has millions and millions of adherents who openly admit their affiliation. Over a million live in the UK.
3. National Action probably has no more that 50 adherents and is now proscribed.
Which of the two organisations is the greatest threat to our National Security?
DS, My thoughts exactly.
But the ban does make it look like they’re taking an interest and will appeal to all those that have a predilection for double standards of which there are quite a few.
Islam has millions and millions of adherents who openly admit their affiliation. Over a million live in the UK.
And to think, 50 years ago, in a more gentler time, all we had to worry about was whether there was a Red under the bed ! not a million bloody foreigners with the capability of being a walking bomb !
Using the politicians’ trick of answering a different question to the one asked.
The question was, why do you revel in anti British stories and neglect any pro British ones? The reply, such as it is, looks rather like something software generated.
THE BBC REPLY:-
“I understand that you feel it to be overall of a low standard and unbalanced.
Choosing the stories to include in our bulletins; the order in which they appear and the length of time devoted to them is a subjective matter and one which we know not every viewer and listener will feel we get right every time.
Factors such as whether it is news that has just come in and needs immediate coverage, how unusual the story is and how much national interest there is in the subject matter will all play a part in deciding the level of coverage and where it falls within a bulletin.
Essentially this is a judgement call rather than an exact science but BBC News does appreciate the feedback when viewers and listeners feel we may have overlooked or neglected a story.
Incidents such as fires, car accidents, robbery and rape are extremely tragic and have great resonance with parts of our audience. However, the sad truth is that these are relatively common occurrences in society and it’s simply not possible to include every story in our bulletins. It is fairly unusual for these kinds of reports to appear on national news programmes as there tends to be a greater local interest in such events. When they are covered, they are therefore usually included in the BBC’s regional news programmes.”
On Victoria Derbyshire this morning (as elsewhere) prominent members of the FA have issued a statement that the FA is out of date and is dominated ‘by old white men’ – age-ism, sexism and racism issued in one sentence?
I for one would welcome reform and if it means putting the best people in place (regardless of race, sex or age) then so be it.
There’s a Have Your Say on this subject at the moment:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38274152
Not for long, I’d suggest, going by the top-rated comments. My favourite comment is this one:
I’m actually amazed it’s still up. The BBC’s problem here is grounds for removal, given their headline, without appearing hypocritical though I don’t think that’s bothered them in the past.
statement that the FA is out of date and is dominated ‘by old white men’ –
Shame that the same cant be said for the BBC ! when they ruled the roost we had programmes that we understood, laughed at and were suitable for family viewing !!
BBC – Anti-Semitism: Official definition ‘will fight hatred’
“Conservative MP and special envoy for post-holocaust issues, Sir Eric Pickles, told the BBC that the new definition “catches up with modern anti-Semitism”.
“I think it’s important not to conflate Jewish people with Israel,” he said. “That actually is the point in the definition.”
Absolutely … WRONG in every sense, typical clueless Tories who are obviously counting their corrupt petrodollar support
An official definition “will fight hatred”. eh?
No it won’t. It is of no use, as we continue to import millions who follow an anti-Semitic political ideology/religion. the main influence for Nazism.
Anti Israel sentiment is now blatant, no matter how the words are mixed up or how it is dressed up – Anti-Semitism? the buzzword now of course is Anti-Zionism which deploys against Jews collectively now in the form of the Jewish state, but put simply just repeats many of the principal stratagems and tropes that traditional anti-Semitism directed at the Jewish people as individuals.
This is how any normal Jewish support for Israel or Zionism is maliciously spun in these political circles, causing hostility to mainstream Jewish positions and of course thus risks Anti Semitic outcomes.
Allowing this is an absolute fundamental to how our Labour Party ended up in its current mess around Jewish people, so now the fingers can point at Israel but not Jewish people, ie point at Jews collectively?
As usual with the Tories flawed, fundamentally and totally flawed.
Envy of the world…
https://bbcwatch.org/2016/12/12/bbc-news-reports-new-uk-definition-of-antisemitism-without-the-definition/
a bit of light relief 🙂
Leha,
LOL ! To be banned from the BBC is an accolade of honour !
I don’t envy the BBC et al – living in denial has profound and toxic psychological effects.
Islam does not countenance, homosexuals, trans genders, non Muslims, the other kind of Muslims and as for their attitude towards women – best not go there.
Complete Double Standards of the British Government –
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/12/tolerance-of-islamic-intolerance-is-now-the-british-governments-cardinal-doctrine
Not mine sadly …
A wily politician called May
Was overheard one day to say
“I’ll whitewash sharia
if it helps my career
Your grandkids … will just have to pay”,
Yorkshire Post : Bradford girl carried on getting raped by Asian gangs cos AFTER she reported rape Bradford council shelved their anti-abuse team for 2 years
more
The Yorkshire Post revealed on Saturday that an unprecedented level of abuse is being uncovered in the Bradford district with at least 80 per cent more crimes linked to CSE than elsewhere in South and West Yorks
Read more at: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/our-region/west-yorkshire-and-the-dales/bradford/exclusive-bradford-council-shelved-key-sex-abuse-post-1-8285024
Panorama Special? ……….. nah.
The Yorkshire Post revealed on Saturday that an unprecedented level of abuse is being uncovered in the Bradford district with at least 80 per cent more crimes linked to CSE than elsewhere in South and WestYorkshire. The serious case review published last week disclosed a catalogue of mistakes and missed opportunities from police, social services and allied agencies.
Interesting news report :-
“Now a Muslim community group, set up in West Yorkshire to tackle street grooming, says what’s pivotal to tackling CSE is engagement with communities rather than apportioning blame”.
“But MP Naz Shah claims what is happening in Bradford is indicative of what is happening across the country. “Is there a culture of abuse in Bradford?” she said. “It’s no different to the culture of abuse in football that is now engulfing us, to the culture of abuse within the church”.
No different? Really?? … Naz Shah have you recovered from your anti-Semitism yet? where ever did that come from?
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/crime/huge-rise-in-crimes-linked-to-child-abuse-across-bradford-1-8283381
Tried the worlds No1 News site … surprise surprise
There were no results for “Bradford, rise in crimes linked to child abuse”
Its a pity I didn t put the shoe on the other foot.
BBC News – Main Page The Forest Hill Attack.
Forest Hill station attack: Man stabbed on Over ground train
“Witnesses said after the attack, at Forest Hill station at about 13:20 GMT, a man then chased other people outside the station.
People said they saw a man attack another on the train then run out of the station shouting “he wanted to kill Muslims”. A 38-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm and remains in police custody.”
Stew,
I am shocked, truly shocked .
Sunday Times
What happens to child refugees after they are brought from Calais camp legally to UK ?
Many disappear back into hands of traffickers
“We’ve got your little brother in France, so unless you come and work your ass for us to pay back your debt …”
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
I wonder to what extent the British Police are complicit in this ?
Our Islamic Mayor of London is reported to be doing away with the term “Ladies & Gentlemen”, so that the Transgender community will not be offended. I kid you not.
I think my dogs might be offended at being left out, so what about “Bitches & Dogs ” !!!!
Bit like Sodom and Gomorrah then?
And, he s doing away with any posters with ladies in bikini s or scantily clad … could be “objectifying women” or “body shaming”
Hmmmm shaming? interesting terminology Sadiq
(baby step by baby step eh!)
Anyone remember “Sadiq Khan condemns burkini ban”
‘Don’t tell women what to wear’ ‘I don’t think anyone should tell women what they can and can’t wear. Full stop’ … I think the word is hypocrite
“Ladies & Gentlemen”, how long before its only Muslims and kaffirs?
noggi,
But will he tell muslim “men ” to stop beating women ? Or will he say that it is ok because it is in the frigging Koran ?
The Caliphate of London – they did promise it would come to pass all those years ago.
Just wondering if anyone here has head of the US economist Thomas Sowell ?
You’d think he’d be a BBC favourite being an eminent Black academic …. but unfortunately he doesn’t share their rabid left wing views. Here are some quotes:
“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
“The word ‘racism’ is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything – and demanding evidence makes you a ‘racist.'”
“Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.”
“Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated – preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary.”
“The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.”
This guy speaks our language ! Little wonder that the BBC do nothing to promote his ideas or raise his profile !
I like the cut of his jib!
BBC is all over GWPF report on Britain’s Climate Change Act costing £319bn by 2030
About £10K per household.
Introduced by Matt Ridley in Today’s Times.
It was also covered yesterday by wattsupwiththat.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/12/11/report-reveals-300-billion-cost-of-britains-climate-change-act/
In which the BBC house journal digs a hole, then brings in a JCB.
From the Guardian article cited above
theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/12/murdoch-sky-bid-culture-secretary-to-answer-urgent-question?CMP=share_btn_tw …
‘Vince Cable, the former Lib Dem business secretary who referred Murdoch’s previous bid for a public interest test in 2010, said on Friday: “The way Theresa May’s government deals with this is a test of their independence from the influence of large proprietors.”’
Vince Cable is correct. Treezer will face a test of loyalty to the BBC, and her government will obey.
Why should this Government feel any loyalty for the BBC?
For that matter, apart from those on the BBC payroll, why should anyone?
Because it’s relying on the BBC to do all it can to derail Brexit.
Fake climate news of the day: ‘BBC weakness has encouraged doubt about man-made climate change’
https://mobile.twitter.com/thegwpfcom/status/808349982331961345
BBC Online News:
“”Trump calls CIA’s Russia hacking report ‘a conspiracy theory’””
(“”Trump Mocks Hacking ‘Conspiracy Theory””)
“”Despite Donald Trump’s boasts to the contrary, he’s entering the White House with a very tenuous claims to a presidential mandate. He trails Democrat Hillary Clinton in the popular vote by 2.8 million votes, and while he posted a comfortable Electoral College win, by historical standards it ranks towards the bottom of victory margins (46th out of 58 presidential contests)””.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38292392
…..very tenuous claims to a presidential mandate?? He won !!!
Daily, the BBC are fighting for their beloved Clinton. And of course also for the Remain campaign.
Why? They are hoping to prepare the ground and mould the public to accept a mew Referendum/Parliamentary Decision on Brexit and a rerun of the US election.
Dear BBC, Your useless correspondents in the USA might do some light reading on the US Electoral process. The “popular vote” is irrelevant in the existing electoral process. It carries no official mandate. It is used by the press as something to put up on their gazillion stats and charts with knowing nods and deep pontificating voices, but is not used to elect the President of the USA. Do you get it or do you need to go back to school with the five year olds?
I think the BBC are struggling to keep the “popular vote” story alive. Everyone in the UK knows that here we don’t elect our governments by a “populare vote”, we use constituencies.
In the UK which ever party takes the most constituencies wins. In the USA whoever takes the largest number of states (adjusted for the differing size of electorates) wins. We have an instinctive understanding of the system because we were brought up with a similar one. The BBC are flogging a dead horse on this one – or to mix the metaphor, it’s all sound and fury, signifying nothing.
See my link below 7:06pm to Guardian article quoting to knowvthe source : leak not hack he says
If all this were in a movie – I’d be unable to suspend my disbelief. As it is …….
The more I read of Thomas Sowell the more I like him !
Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right?
That could easily be translated to the illegal child migrants from Calais!
The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals’ expansion of the welfare state.
Terrorist arrests the weekend – would they be Islamic by any chance?
BBC Website . Philip Hammond urging “interim Brexit deal ” whatever that means. Don’t trust that slimy wimpo !
More evidence of the malignancy of the EU…..the article 50 rule is that 2 years is the limit for withdrawal negotiations……..
Impossible! cry the heirs of Churchill……….
…………….Invoke 50 Now!!!
“BBC Website . Philip Hammond urging “interim Brexit deal ” whatever that means. Don’t trust that slimy wimpo !”
As soon as we accept and interim deal it will suddenly become final.
It’s rather like the banks offering you a loan. They call it credit, but as soon as you accept it becomes debt.
Let’s not forget it’s not just the BBC that wants to manipulate our thoughts. The ITV main news just now:
1. Main headline. Far-right group we’ve never heard of banned under terror laws. A few minutes of scary footage making it seem like a big big problem.
2. Second headline. Man goes on the rampage with a knife targeting Muslims. A few minutes of scary footage of interviews with scared passengers. Muslim presenter says possible terrorist incident.
3. 10 seconds – yes 10 seconds – briefly mentioning 6 arrests made. I’m not sure that Alistair Stewart even mentioned they were terror arrests given the brevity.
Didn’t Sinn Fein and the Provisional IRA get banned for a few years?
Remember all the arguments about it “just forcing them underground” or the ban “being the best recruiting sergeant they ever had”?
how times change.
“Let’s not forget it’s not just the BBC that wants to manipulate our thoughts”
Well, I’m an uneducated, mislead, Brexit voter and it ain’t working on me!
Yes Q, it was so noticeable that the ‘arrests’ were skipped over, to quickly report on yet another quote by Donald Trump ! Honest to God if suicide bombers raided the tv studios at the BBC they’d be waived through, and ‘now its over to the weather’ !!!!
For headline 2 did they mention he was a non-white? The BBC written report did, which makes it a tricky one – does black trump Muslim?
@Tomo Direct quotes from The Guardian article
\\Craig Murray, the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, who is a close associate of Assange, called the CIA claims “bullshit”, adding: “They are absolutely making it up.”
“I know who leaked them,” Murray said. “I’ve met the person who leaked them, and they are certainly not Russian and it’s an insider. It’s a leak, not a hack; the two are different things.//
Craig Murray was sacked as Blairite Ambassador to Uzbekistan for interfering in Uzbek politics and being “honey-trapped ” so many times by Uzbek girls ( and boys ) , he compromised his position. He is a lunatic fantasist , to be ignored.
Not to mention drugs in the British Embassy !
Fair points : 1 persons claim doesn’t carry much weight whoever he is anyway
He was weird then, he’s weird now.
gax,
Just look at his blog if you want to see how mentally ill Craig Murray is !
The criticism of Trump/Farage/Brexiteers goes beyond the infantile and utterly pathetic.
In fact a considered, “Nah, nah, Trump smells and picks his nose”, would raise their ‘intellectual’ argument several points.
As opposed St Gordon.
How was that clown Chancellor?? I’m lost for words.
A great number of Islamic bombs around the World this weekend.
Maybe a small percentage but they’re killing hundreds and getting better at it every day. They won’t stop and their weapons will get bigger and better but let’s pretend it’s not happening and just hate Trump, Farage, Russia, racists and arious ‘phobics. After all if we bend over for Islam they’re sure to use a sharp beheading knife on us – surely?
BBC Online News:
“”Does the presence of armed police reassure people?””
“”As two policemen with machine-guns were photographed smiling for the camera at a Christmas market in Newcastle, BBC News questions whether armed officers on the streets reassure people, or make them feel less safe””
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-38290297
BBC News questions…
This would not be asked by the National broadcaster in any other country that faces ongoing Islamic terrorism.
Today on their best Backstairs Billy mode this morning then?
To hear Webb gossing over Theresa Mays leather trousers and the import of this-with Cleggs latte licker and another political leech from the Blair era or whenever-was great fixing to die airtime putrefaction.
Who calls this news-and why was it on?
And running the show into the sand for 9am is not an excuse.
Backstairs Billy bitching from the scullery to no effect.The BBC really have lost the plot.
Not like she’s spending it on drugs or rent boys?
She is free to spend her money on what she wants. So long as she is not charging it to the taxpayer .
I’m not an expert on leather trousers, or any other type of leather garment, but I do know that good clothing can last a long time.
I suppose if she preferred stretch polyester from Primark (you know, the sort with loops under the feet), that would be something else to sneer at.
None of my business.
Andrew,
” I am not an expert on leather trousers” . On this site, we are broad-minded and take your statement at face value.
Neither am I Grant. Leather underpants, on the other hand …..
Rubber – now that’s another matter entirely.
[There’s a Have Your Say on this subject at the moment:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38274152
Not for long, I’d suggest, going by the top-rated comments. My favourite comment is this one:
11. Bill M
Wrong. It has been held back by people with low IQs and a lack of understanding of football, for decades.
There is no need to bring white hating into this. (Although I am sure the BBC will be delighted you did.)
I’m actually amazed it’s still up. The BBC’s problem here is grounds for removal, given their headline, without appearing hypocritical though I don’t think that’s bothered them in the past.]
They are having a problem with this HYS. If you try and up-vote any of the highest rated comments (all ferociously anti-BBC) you get this message: “We’re having some problems rating this comment at the moment. Sorry. We’re doing our best to fix it.” I bet you are. . .
Or this one:-
21. Posted by Teaguel
on
14 hours ago
“Elderly white men. The one demographic group that can be slated without criticism.
What other group could be condemned purely on the basis on their gender and ethnicity in this way?
They may or may not be incompetent but not just because they are old and white.”
As a member of that racial demographic, I find that headline highly offensive. However, from past experience, my views are beneath contempt at the BBC. Complaint?? What’s that?? We got it about right.
PS. The scissor brigade must be on strike.
I notice that 5 hideously white old men have provided the bBBC with a cheap shot at the Football Association, which was hammered into the back of the net with glee in news programmes and the website.
What if the following had been said of another well known organisation….
‘is run by elderly brown men’
‘inability to reform and modernise’
‘women not represented’
‘like going back to 752’
Wouldn’t get a mention.
Interesting letter in the DT today.
“Why does Michael Barnier, appointed by the European Commission appear to be heading the EU’s negotiations on Brexit?
Perhaps he hasn’t read ARticle 50, which does not even mention the European Commission, only the Council. It says that the agreement “shall be concluded on behalf of the Union by the Council, acting by a QUALIFIED MAJORITY, after obtaining the consent of the European Parliament.””
Ref the Gambia unfortunately the “retiring” President has taken lessons from the Liberal Democrats and is now contesting the result.
You will see several mentions in the press over numbers of “houses” built in various years. It is well to remember that as a result of Prescott the whole industry threw up lots and lots of flats in the noughties, which are easier to produce for the numbers game, so always remember to check if the figures quoted split it into flats and houses or just lump them together.
BBC Online News:
“”Weatherman Ian McCaskill dies, aged 78″”
“”McCaskill was born in Glasgow and educated at Queen’s Park School, Glasgow and Glasgow University, where he studied science””.
“”National Service took him into the RAF and in 1959, he joined the Meteorological Corps as an airman meteorologist””.
“”He left the RAF in 1961 to join the Met Office and was posted to Glasgow Prestwick Airport, Malta as well as the Manchester Weather Centre””.
“”He transferred to the London Weather Centre in 1978 and became a member of the BBC’s forecasting team””
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38294661
R.I.P.
He was a trained and experienced seaweed basher. (I use that term endearingly).
Very much unlike the neutered BBC males who are siphoned from drama school today.
I just caught the end of BBC Four ‘Time Commander’ tonight in which they replay historic battles using computer graphics and discuss the tactics and historic outcomes. Last series was on 2005 so I thought “Great the BBC have made another series of an educational programme that is nothing like the usual vote a celebrity doing something rubbish we have on TV today – well done the BBC”….
…..but then….
…I noticed something wasn’t quite right about the female historian Dr Lynette Nusbacher. She used to be a he. Has the BBC made a 3rd series of “Time Commanders” because it is a good programme or have they just made it so they can tick a box?
There is much reported about anti-semitism by the BBC. And rightly so.
Does the BBC quantify as a percentage the amount committed by Muslims?
This from ‘The Spectator’:-
“”It’s OK to mention anti-Semitic attacks – but not who commits them””
“”Here’s the thing. I will bet every penny I have and more besides that virtually all of the anti-Semitic attacks in this country — and in France and Germany and Belgium — have been perpetrated by Muslims. And because they have been perpetrated by Muslims, that fact will simply not be reported, even when it is plainly obvious that the attackers were Muslim””
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2014/08/its-ok-to-mention-anti-semitic-attacks-but-not-who-commits-them/
Since al beebus are so obsessed with the circumstances of Trump’s victory, I wonder what prominence they’ll devote to this:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/12/12/even-bigger-win-wisconsin-recount-ends-trump-gains-even-more-votes/#more-125658
OT, but Ch4’s finest tackling the big issues…
This one, less so..
At least the BBC has acknowledged it, but some of the comments are quite.. ‘special’