454 Responses to START THE WEEK OPEN THREAD….

  1. nofanofpoliticians says:

    This could be a great fun week in the world of beebland!

    Their report on equal pay will be released, and if advance commentary is correct it looks as though the BBC will not come out of it looking too good. Their hypocrisy will be exposed on an issue which they themselves have been championing for as long as I can remember.

    Will be interesting to see how they try to spin it.

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    • Guest Who says:

      ‘Market rate talent’ may see a redefinition.

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      • nofanofpoliticians says:

        We could see a guy on one side of the BBC Breakfast couch earning more than the gal sitting next to him.

        Can’t see this working out well!

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        • Wild Bill says:

          I would pay those idiots about £6 an hour, and I’m being genorous, all they do is drink tea and talk shite!

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      • Doublethinker says:

        When one organisation dominates the market place with a 70% share the market ceases to function and the dominant player can dictate what it pays its suppliers and in this case its so called talent. The BBC is spendthrift with tax payers money , if it had to fight its corner in the commercial world there is no doubt that it would pay its so called talent much less than it does at present. Just another reason the BBC should be put on a fully commercial footing with a subscription funding system.

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        • Scroblene says:

          Trouble is Double, they all have their snouts in the public purse, so style, ingenuity, skills in journalism, ability to communicate etc are not really high up the agenda of bbbc autocue readers and their ‘management’. Autpmorons really.

          Rather like MPs and their ‘staff’, who are only geared to do feck all really, they never get held to account like a normal business model demands. (Sorry Scrobs, do you mean the actual UK businesses which earn their money and pay tax, not just waste it)? er – yes…

          OK, election results matter for MPs, (not so much for the electorate) but that seems to come to nothing when there are so many hangers-on who are also in the trough. e.g., why on earth is that pratt Clegg even being plastered all over the news of late? Not even an MP, but still a toad on lame TV snapshots of past failure.

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    • MartinW says:

      If it is true that female are paid less than the males in the BBC and they equalising pay, then Government should instruct (yes, instruct) the BBC to reduce their male salaries accordingly. We all know that salaries are unwarrantedly high in the BBC, and it would be intolerable if the BBC were to raise the women’s to match the men’s.

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  2. DownBoy says:

    Yes this will be fun.
    They will squirm due to the lack of pay parity despite lecturing everyone else. Plus they will squirm on the actual astronomical pay packets of many of their staff.

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    • Beltane says:

      Sadly they won’t squirm in embarrassment at their astronomical pay packets since they are very easily convinced of being worth every penny – and of course there’s no-one to significantly challenge or control how they spend our money anyway. Risibly, that’s the job of our government but they don’t seem bothered.
      It’s the same BBC mindset that believes everything in the Guardian and reproduces it as news.

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      • Scroblene says:

        You can bet that Ladies’ salaries will rise to the same level as blokes.

        I don’t have a problem with all this one jot, but why has the Commissariat in W1A left it so late? They waste money in all directions already, and I’d have thought that they were really letting themselves down by not paying some decent, clever journos, a decent wedge.

        Perhaps they feel that the ladies aren’t up to it? Can’t think of another reason.

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  3. ThomasR says:

    Also, will we learn of some of the colluded re-muneration schemes to avoid employers national insurance and high rate income tax ?

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  4. ThomasR says:

    Also, will we learn of some of the colluded re-muneration schemes to avoid employers national insurance and high rate income tax ?

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  5. Fedup says:

    TODAY WATCH
    still limiting exposure to 30 minutes .
    But…. 0730… long feature on the PREVENT strategy which gleefully declared that a third of those referred to it are potential’ extreme right winger’ associated to edl and others. An Asian reporter interviewed someone using the voice of her producer to cover the punters identity.

    I gave up before the end in disbelief. It was classic al Beeb twisting of reality. It shows thatPREVENT is being used as a political tool and not purely a counter terrorism one. As far as I heard neither Muslim or Islam or Isis was mentioned. I almost laughed at this and felt the urge to dust of my well read copy of 1984. We really are going there.

    On the basis that probably half of prevent is being used on domestic – Christian – potential threats as identified by the state any one stating non liberal or non multicultural views are on the states’ target list. In other words – ladies and gentlemen- we are probably on a list somewhere. Frightening isn’t it?

    I really chose my user name well didn’t I?

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    • Fedup says:

      Update
      Later in the programme the Welshman – humpreys – had a chat with a so-called academic of fascism when they chewed over right wing threats . How comfortable they were. One mention of islam then get stuck into English Nationalism .

      Not a lot of pretence about lack of al beeb bias . The false academic is a kid called Paul stocker . Since there was no one there to give balance I looked him up on twitter. Guess what? Anti brexit anti Trump and comments akin to a kidult like so much on that largely infantile site. Enough.

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      • Grant says:

        Fedup,

        The BBC, world leaders in Fake News.

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        • nofanofpoliticians says:

          Academics and scientists.

          Fast becoming the go-to people for all BBC factual news and analysis. Hardly ever see someone of any serious practitioner experience in the subject at hand coming forward to discuss.

          Are they ever asked?

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          • Scroblene says:

            Simple answer – real business people aren’t going to waste time posturing to immature questions from beeboids who are not really commercial enough to understand real work.

            Academics and their ilk love it, especially on the same terms as that stupid clown Abbott and her mates.

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        • LynetteO says:

          Worth repeating here .

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          • Loobyloo says:

            Very interesting, thanks. My comment to it is that I think most of the left-wingers do know they are doing it, but don’t care. Two examples come to mind immediately (there are so many…) – today
            http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-40627847
            Another seemingly senseless (accident?) loss of life at the hands of the US police, BBC comments:
            ‘Over the past few years the US has seen a series of civilian killings at the hands of police that have caused widespread concern and criticism.’ No mention of race, riots as a result etc, because this woman is white and Australian. I suspect there will be little widespread outrage or rioting.

            The other example is the widespread media cover up of the details of this shooting:
            http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/05/coulter-immigrant-of-the-week-henry-bello-obotetukudo/

            A great piece by Ann Coulter – not racist at all, but a really intelligent analysis of why so many immigrants fail to integrate into Western society and then end up as criminals, sadly often shooters. Of course the politicians and media don’t want to look at the truth because it doesn’t reflect their rosy world of multiculturalism.

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      • Nibor says:

        He was never asked “which is the greater danger ?”

        I reckon most of the referrals about right wing extremism will be over reactions to someone not been keen on immigration , and most of the Islamic extremism won’t be reported at all .

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  6. Dave666 says:

    The couldn’t care less Dr Who story makes front page news, you really have to ask yourself why. Meanwhile on the Breakfast sofa as they take comments from more than one view, which lets face it is a novelty for the BBc these days The parrot faced female sloth pulls a face like she just ate a lemon as the other sloth reads a comment from Whovians who will no longer be watching the pc crapfest. Her college crumples the note into a ball.
    Elsewhere I read the “BBc” are going to provide “protection” to their talent when wage details are released on Wednesday. You would have thought if they were worth it their wouldn’t be an issue.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      Protection from whom though?

      Although people like Lineker are leftie snowflakes the really nasty Strumabteilung of the Fascist Left hate them with a passion. Why don’t the BBC indicate where they see the threat coming from which necessitates spending all this taxpayers money?

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  7. Dave666 says:

    Dr Who yawnfest continues at 09:00 hey no one on to say they aren’t going to watch it anymore. So BBc back to normal with a one-sided debate.

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    • Sluff says:

      Been watching The Loch on Itv.
      Two female detectives eventually solve a serial killer case, in which all the suspects are male.
      Elsewhere we have Happy Valley (same plot as above), Broadchurch (Ditto), Fearless, not to mention the Scandi wooly jumper series. And now, Dr Whoette.
      Are male hero leads actually banned fron TV these days?
      A debate unlikely to feature on the bBBC any time soon.

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      • BRISSLES says:

        Sluff, its happening all around the world too. Did you not see the new 10 part Spanish thriller on Saturday night on BBC4 ? (subtitled dramas on BBC4 tend to be the only things worth watching). It had the main prosecuting lawyer as a woman, with her male colleague depicted as a bed-hopping dipstick ! (the male equivalent of a blonde bimbo I suppose)

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      • Deborah says:

        Stuff, it is because the BBC make all female characters strong, that actually make news of a female Dr Who at best not news and actually just plain boring. In the Archers all the females are stronger than the male halves (well they were, I haven’t listened since the producers pushed Nigel off the roof); Inspector Lynley was always dependent on his cleverer working class female sidekick, even in Poldark boring old Aiden is reduced to smouldering eyes looking up while Demelza is the strong character. Again the fuss the BBC are making over a female appointment, surely someone’s gender shouldn’t matter.

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      • Dave666 says:

        I actually enjoyed that series until the slightly naff twist in the tail. But now you mention it I see exactly what you are saying.

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    • Doublethinker says:

      Dave,
      I haven’t watched Dr Who for decades but if this new Doctor wears leather and offers enough flesh then I might be persuaded to take up where I left off in the eighties. Has anything of note happened since then? I’m sure that she won’t be a blue stocking academic. Anyway leather, flesh and plenty of pouting is just what the doctor ordered. I’m sure the feministas will be pleased with the increase in male viewing figures that my suggested formula will bring.

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    • Scroblene says:

      Stopped watching Dr Who after the first bloke in the crap Edwardian castoffs had to ‘confront’ some sort of plastic compost heap wandering around with a sort of a dick as a nose and gibbering rubbish.

      The dicknose suffered serious problems when it eventually reached a flight of stairs…

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  8. Thoughtful says:

    Just waiting for the BBC to report the shocking and terrible news that there’s been a fire at the Manchester Nasfat Islamic Centre, however now the politcal correctness enforcement squad we used to know as “the Police” have now upgraded this into being a Mosque – despite the fact it clearly isn’t. Local Muslims are convinced this was an ‘islamofaubik’ attack and therefore the PCES will treat it as if it is.

    “A spokesman for the centre said there was no one at the centre at the time, and that they received a call in the night to say ‘it was being attacked’.”

    Yeah because every arsonist phones you up in the middle of the night to tell you what they’re doing! Looking at the building its a scruffy wreck before it caught light so this might well turn out to be yet another self ignition for a Muslim group looking for a new building and a nice insurance claim whilst blaming whitey, and a snowflake press and government only to willing to believe everything they say !

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    • Dave666 says:

      You would have thought with the “massive” increase in “hate crime” North West were bleating on about this last night whilst covering some meeting where it appeared about 10 people had turned up for solidarity the site would be covered by cctv. I’ll look forward to the press showing the footage, if it exists.

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  9. Fedup says:

    Thoughtful,
    I don’t think Islam allows insurance cos it’s gods will ( or that might be a policy exclusion) anyway – seemed the same for the tenants in that burnt tower block. My family has never been well off but always insured rather than paying for Sky or some other overpriced tv provider.

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      • Fedup says:

        Thanks for the information Dave,
        I generally don’t want to know about their following but you kind of confirm my comment . Don’t worry though- there was a rip round and the burnt out tenants are all getting detached houses in Kensington – their ‘home ‘ community .,

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    • Scroblene says:

      Be nice to find out the actual number of occupiers who actually were insured, Fed.

      Somewhere between none and 5%?

      Thank God for that, it keeps my premiums down at any rate.

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  10. pulsar2000 says:

    Ok so slightly off topic Maybe, But here we go begining of the Week, and BBC News (which is a News Channel ?)
    ok So big story Lots of Air time and interview, Jovial Talk ,
    Big Scoop – The BBC New Doctor Who Actress –
    Now isnt this self Promotion of the BBC yet again – Advertising to a form.
    This is Hardly News in my opinion,

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  11. thirdoption says:

    This morning I expected the BBC to demonstrate what a responsible, globally respected, impartial broadcaster it claims to be and lead it’s news channels with the shocking news that The Labour Party lied through it’s dentures about wiping out the £110 billion student debt; that it’s whole manifesto was based on a fraud and the young people who had voted for it were misled and deceived in the worst possible way.

    All I got instead was the news that Dr Who will now be a woman.

    I’m off to the bookies to put a few quid on Nadiya being the next reincarnation.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “For the Many (u-turns in the Labour Manifesto to come), Not the Few (costed bits of the Labour Manifesto)”

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    • Scroblene says:

      Not sure who Nadiya is, but should we wish him luck?

      I suppose I should stop reading good novels, serious gardening, seeing the countryside, talking for hours with Mrs Scroblene about close family and friends, seeing the gorgeous birds on the new bird table, riding my bike in the hedgerows (more often than you’d think after a tincture or three), and just hearing real life go on around me without the electric wireless or the television.

      So all my news comes from here, with an anecdote or three from Guido and perhaps a glance at The Express occasionally.

      Life’s too short to consider anything from the bbbc.

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  12. Dave666 says:

    BBc Right on the money my kitchen table is less wooden than Denise Lewis

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    • Lobster says:

      I can’t imagine how she got the job ……….

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      • Dave666 says:

        LOL Lobster I almost added that phrase to the post.

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      • Scroblene says:

        Only because she was in some TV prog about a copper from some uni town…

        The main bloke drank beer at lunchtime, because it helped him to think!

        Nothing wrong with that…

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  13. Charlie Martel says:

    According to the DM, halal labelling is to be rolled out.
    I beg any animal lovers to avoid ANY halal meat. All meat involves a degree of cruelty to animals. but halal especially so.
    And never believe the liars who talk about a surgical painless cut. If you have the stomach, look at some smuggled out videos on how ‘clean’ the process is. Why is everything about that medieval cult so cruel and barbaric?
    Lord help us.

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    • Dave666 says:

      I’ve tried to avoid it for the last 10 years I even had a complaint with the BBc many years ago when one of the followers of the cult said it was the “best meat” on a cookery program of course as with all my complaints to the BBc I was wrong. That means I don’t give Subway or KFC and others my custom and have not for several years.

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      There is nothing particular pleasant about any of the ways in which animals are slaughtered, as a visit to even the best run abatoir will quickly confirm. Other important issues besides the actual method of killing include: hygiene; traceability; quality of life of the animals; the type of foodstuffs they ate. For most human beings who have ever existed, being able to obtain any meat-based protein at all has been a priority and a luxury – the notion that animals have to be slaughtered in a particular manner, or that certain plentiful and nutrious meats are off-limits for so-called religious reasons, is bizarre. The issue here is that meat which has been killed according to halal methods should be clearly labelled as such, so those who want to avoid it or those who wish to eat it can do so. At present, the majority of chicken sold in British supermarkets and a substantial percentage of the lamb (including most New Zealand lamb) is halal, without any legal requirement for it to be labelled as such. In fact, unless you are a vegetarian or eat only pork then you are almost certainly consuming halal meat on a regular basis.

      By way of precedent, consider the current labelling requirements for most foodstuffs. We are told: country of origin; salt, sugar, fat levels; ingredients; additives; preservatives; whether it is organic; allergens; calorific value and so on. It is clearly believed by the powers that currently be that such information is important, yet on this they are strangely quiet.

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      • LynetteO says:

        Developing animal-free meat
        Posted on May 28, 2017 ( Israelactive.com)

        Previously reported (24th July) about Israel’s SuperMeat which is culturing meat to save the planet. Israel is now the center of this new industry and held the first-ever Cultured Meat Conference at Israel’s Technion Institute. Also, some videos from … to continue reading search Israelactive.com )

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      • MarkyMark says:

        If the process of producing ‘Halal’ meat adds to the cost or means you are supporting a way of life such as employing an imam who has to read a book to an animal that is about to die, but the animal does not understand it, or the words being read out. Then details must be added to the food labels – possibly with a picture of the imam (Shia, Sunni?), the version of the Koran read out at the time of the animals death (Wahhabism?) into it’s non-Arabic ears.

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      • Loobyloo says:

        I am vehemently against halal. Mostly vegetarian anyway, but out of interest, I don’t suppose chickens are stunned before slaughter anyway? And I don’t think they will bring in this labelling as it spells 1) higher prices 2) lower sales.

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      • Scroblene says:

        “By way of precedent, consider the current labelling requirements for most foodstuffs. We are told: country of origin; salt, sugar, fat levels; ingredients; additives; preservatives; whether it is organic; allergens; calorific value and so on. It is clearly believed by the powers that currently be that such information is important, yet on this they are strangely quiet.”

        But to trace illegal immigrants – forget it. We don’t do that do we…

        Thanks Blair. you duplicitous arsehole.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Dhaka flooding: Why are there ‘rivers of blood’ at Eid? {bbc.co.uk sep2016}
      As Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Adha, people in Dhaka have been sharing pictures showing streets flooded with blood-stained water. Nearly 100,000 livestock were sacrificed in Dhaka this year, according to BBC Bengali, mainly on the streets or at underground car parks in residential buildings. Goats and cows are bought from markets by Muslim families and slaughtered, to thank Allah for sparing Ishmael, after an imam has read verses from the Koran.

      Question, when you buy Halal food, or any religious authorised food, have you submitted to the religion – have you agreed that it is right and righteous?

      “As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood.”
      – Virgil’s Aeneid

      … sorry for the photo, but this is how Halal is carried out in the traditional way

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      People slaughter sacrificial camel at Nazimabad area during the third day of Eid ul azha in Karachi. (09-11-2011)

      Religious slaughter of animals in the EU – Nov2012 (pdf link) – “The Regulation (EU) allows the existing slaughter methods with no stunning for religious reasons (special privilege, more privileges to come) to continue “

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      • Manxman says:

        MM that has truly sickened me to the stomach, look at the animals face, the scream, i cannot begin to describe the hate building in me towards these people, they are disgusting barbaric pigs.

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Hate crime warning. Please stop hating … it is a crime.

          … no need for it. If they want to do incantations then by all means do them at home into the fridge, but if we are paying for a reading from a religious book and the holy cleric then no thank you.

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      • Longtom says:

        I do realise that this picture makes a major impact-more than words-but please please please do consider removing it, it is so upsetting and sickening. Utter savages.

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Longtom – I don’t mind it being removed or better still if someone could pixelate the bloodshed.

          But in all honesty the idea that all traditions are equal (this was 2011 and still goes on) and should not be under scrutiny is the worst ‘hate crime’ ever – we are told/programmed not to hate or ridicule!

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          • Manxman says:

            No i do not agree, their barbarity needs to reach as wider an audience as possible, the bbc celebrating the rivers of blood will have the opposite effect, but they are so sure their ”conditioning” of us to it being perfectly normal will let it be celebrated on English streets they are blind to the simmering fury they are creating, it is a subtle ratcheting up of the molevolant intimidation.

            Or it’s a speeding up of the civilisational conflict and breakdown the marxists so desire.

            The re-boot of humanity, the rise of the PHD-ed ”social” scienced moron.

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          • Longtom says:

            Dear Marky Mark
            I agree with your intention to bring this to a wider audience. My query is with the venue; I come to this site for the wit and comment regarding the bBBC. I wasn’t expecting a graphic image of a suffering being, I had youngsters in the room as I scrolled down and there were hysterics. Perhaps a warning of some sort would be in order if we should now be expecting this kind of image.
            You have every right to your opinion of course. The solution is with me really-I shall not return to this site.

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            • MarkyMark says:

              Longtom – my apologies, I do tend to stay in textual version where possible – next time I will add the link with notice of the graphic content.
              My emotions and anger got the better of me in this case. Sorry if it has taken you away from the site – not my intention at all.

              “… sorry for the photo, but this is how Halal is carried out in the traditional way …”

              In all honesty this is a mild version of the reality that is happening, a soft presentation of the hard facts but showing how children are seeing this – every year as part of joyful celebrations?

              In the future I will link to the image with a disclaimer and as I said, I will leave it with the editors to change or remove the image with a link , which would be a better option.

              And my sincere apologies for frightening your children.

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              • Teddy Bear says:

                MM – I feel something strange about the ‘reaction’ of Longtom about the picture you posted.
                Firstly it is the first time he has chosen to post anything on this site.
                Next apparently his young children were not only in the room with him but must have been watching what he was doing on his computer at the same time.
                Considering that most posts here just contain the written word is it likely that children would be absorbed watching their father reading on the net?
                What age are his children? Most would have to be in school during term time. If they are that young that they are not even in school they are less likely to be watching their father read to himself.

                Rather smells a bit to me. I certainly don’t need to see images to know how horrific a particular scene must be, but I can say that watching a TV documentary about how animals are slaughtered in the UK in the early 80’s turned me instantly to be a vegetarian ever since then. I simply didn’t want to contribute further to it.

                I don’t think you have anything to apologise for, and you did give a warning.

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        • Fedup says:

          Long ,
          Wait til they find the remains of a goat in the burnt tower block . I have seen these people keep a goat in the council tower block with my own eyes. Incredible .

          I don’t think you’re see a feature on halal slaughtering fronted by John Lefty Craven on al beeb Country File eh?

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        • Loobyloo says:

          it is horrendous but I think people need to realise how bad this is. Like sacrificing a goat next to an aircraft in Pakistan, for good luck. I hope I never have to go to that country.

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      • Charlie Martel says:

        Animals! And I don’t mean the animals.

        Strangely nothing on Al Beebistan about this quaint ethnic practice, just docs on how muslims invented everything, ever.

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      • Charlie Martel says:

        Kids there too. Good training for slaughtering infidels, Jews and gays later in life.

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      • Alicia Sinclair says:

        No PETA, no RSPCA , no Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth types either I notice. No hunt sabs and no EU, no Greens either.
        Anyone would think that they were shit scared of islam-but we`ve all seen how they treat lab workers or hunters, hounded old people for their life savings-so it can`t be that.

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      • Charlie Martel says:

        What a repulsive ‘religion’, and what a repulsive vision of the Deity who relishes such torture.

        I know, let’s let more of them in, that’s what we need.

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      • EnglandExpects says:

        This is useful practice, too, for Borough Market type activities. Don’t you just feel the enrichment?

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      • Doublethinker says:

        By , Muslims, are disgusting.

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      • Dystopian says:

        Is this the sick mentality of these “people” our politicians are inviting into our country.
        Where are all the lefty libtard do gooders looking out for animal rights, women’s rights instead of embracing this disgusting “culture”

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    • Doublethinker says:

      Totally agree. We should never allowed such barbaric practises in our country, nor allowed halal meat to be imported. You are spot on about the Adherents of this foul religion taking the country back to the Middle Ages. Yet the BBC , RSPCA, and the rest of the establishment of the country are letting it happen and in some cases actively encouraging Islamification. No chance of a referendum on whether we want any more of this lot in our country. Perhaps a boycott of any stores that sell this meat would wake people up.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Diners ‘unknowingly eating Halal’ at Wembley {bbc.co.uk sep2010}
      “Sporting venues across London routinely serve Halal meat to customers without informing them, it has emerged. … Many Muslims only eat Halal meat, which is from animals whose throats have been cut to drain them of blood while they are still alive and conscious.”

      What is halal meat? {bbc.co.uk may2014}
      “The Islamic form of slaughtering animals or poultry, dhabiha, involves killing through a cut to the jugular vein, carotid artery and windpipe. … Animals must be alive and healthy at the time of slaughter and all blood is drained from the carcass. During the process, a Muslim will recite a dedication, know as tasmiya or shahada.”

      – BBC 2010 report omits incantation to Allah
      – BBC 2014 uses words ‘blood is drained from the carcass‘ rather than 2010 – ‘still alive and conscious‘ (some improvement as introducing stunning?)
      – BBC 2014 Stunning cannot be used to kill an animal, according to the ‘Halal Food Authority’ ( ‘Morality Police’? Plus they still want it alive and conscious?)?

      Hold on here … go to the ‘Halal Food Authority – Definitions Of Halal‘ …..
      … a Muslim will recite tasmiya orshahada … (not allowed by a non-Muslim)
      1. An animal should not be dead prior to slaughter
      2. A Muslim should perform slaughter (for Halal – MUSLIMS NEED ONLY APPLY!)
      3. Any flowing blood of the carcass should be completely drained
      4. Choice of modern and in vogue method has to be considered with caution and, it should be in line with Islamic principles

      For Halal – MUSLIMS NEED ONLY APPLY – if this is true then it’s religious discrimination/privilege at the slaughter work place?

      Does this mean that Warburtons and anyone on their approved list are implicit in positive discrimination? Interesting to find out.

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    • maxincony says:

      Charlie Martel,

      I beg any animal lovers to avoid ANY halal meat. All meat involves a degree of cruelty to animals. but halal especially so.

      How strange…

      80% of Halal meat produced in this country comes from pre-stunned animals.

      0% of Kosher meat produced in this country (or anywhere else) comes from pre-stunned animals.

      Yet all the ‘animal lovers’ here are obsessed by the ‘cruelty’ of Halal whilst tucking into their industrial meat slurry sandwiches.

      | eat meat because I don’t care. Neither does anyone else who stuffs themselves with a fat, greasy, pork sausage.

      Pretending you’re somehow morally superior, because the animal you chose to torture for all-of-its-short-miserable-stall-bread-shit-stained-life had a slightly less excruciating last twenty seconds before being fed through the mincer, is the hight of hypocrisy.

      If you care about animals; don’t eat meat. Simple as.

      Everything else about “how it’s killed” doesn’t add up to much for a chicken getting it’s throat cut.

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      • Manxman says:

        You have never caught prepared and eaten your own lunch/dinner in your whole miserable beta existence.
        If the shelves ever emptied you would starve.

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      • pertelote says:

        “all-of-its-short-miserable-stall-bread-shit-stained-life ”
        …”stall bread”…stale bread I’ve seen..but “stall bread”.. never.

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  14. BRISSLES says:

    Charlie, I already refuse to eat such stuff. In a motorway station near to me there is a pop-up Chinese takeaway – I think its called Chopstix, with a sign saying their meat is Halal. This meant that all the chicken was Halal, and seeing as how most Chinese meals are made up of chicken, I walked away. Lost business for them, but I don’t suppose for one minute that they’re bothered. How dare these food outlets dictate what I eat !

       51 likes

    • Lobster says:

      Brissles –
      The postman (sorry to be gender specific, but he/she/it appears to be a bloke) has just been and has delivered a new Tesco Clubcard. The leaflet enclosed in the envelope shows two cashiers, one male and one female – the male one is a black man sporting an Islamic-style beard and the female one is wearing a Hijab.
      The BBC would be so proud.
      Just off to Morrisons …….

         72 likes

      • Charlie Martel says:

        Halal Tesco eh? Avoid!

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      • Deborahanother says:

        Lobster ,

        This is commonplace now in most leaflets and information packs .It used to be confined to council and government info but is spreading like a PC rash.When I get the council Pravda ,my council still produces it against government rules ,its full of diversity .The only thing missing is someone who looks like me.

        TV adverts are crammed with non whites now ,not too many hijabs as yet but time will tell.

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      • Ian Rushlow says:

        I’ve just received a brochure from Sainsburys. It has my name and address on it, but if I didn’t know better I would say it had been prepared for the West Indian or Nigerian markets.
        Also take a look at Tesco’s ‘Food Love Stories’ promotion that they have been running in their stores. Lots of smiling pictures of ethnics. What appears to be a ‘same sex’ couple’. Everything on display except a standard, white, British heterosexual couple.

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      • Scroblene says:

        Lobs, that’s worrying.

        On every receipt you get at Twongos, there’s a chance to say what you want. If that’s the case then for 25 ‘points’ they can get the lot from me about halalalala trashy stuff. It only takes a few minutes, far less than complaining to the bbbc or other crap orgs!

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    • charmbrights says:

      Brissles, You asked “How dare these food outlets dictate what I eat !”. They don’t. They offer a product. If you want it then it is your choice, if you don’t similarly. I never patronise vegetarian restaurants as I know that I like meat in my meals. That is my choice and if everyone had my tastes they would be out of business but it is still a free country.

      The time to complain is when (as the BBC obviously hope and pray) it is suggested that halal is the only meat available. Or maybe before it becomes compulsory.

         23 likes

      • MarkyMark says:

        … but can we have horrible photos on the EU/Halal packaging like cigarette packets to show what you are buying into and supporting? Just replace the word “Halal” with images of slaughtered animals lying on the street in Majority Muslim countries …

        Shocked woman claims “terrible” warning photo plastered on cigarette packets around world is her dead DAD {mirror apr2017}

        Today (Eid-ul-Adha – 04 October 2014) Muslims all over the world who can afford it , sacrifice a sheep (sometimes a goat) as a reminder of Ibrahim’s obedience to Allah. In Britain, the animal has to be killed at a slaughterhouse. {bbc.co.uk }

        .. reminder of Ibrahim’s obedience to Allah” in other words (my own), “…be careful or else your son or you could be next on the chopping block, a threat made real by slaughtering animals in the modern day when there is no need for it.”.

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        • Andy S. says:

          More plagiarism by Mohammed, or whoever wrote the stories in the Koran. The story which Eid celebrates is nothing more than a carbon copy of the Abraham and his son Isaac Old Testament tale. They just changed the names to make it more palatable for Muslim Jew haters.

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      • Ian Rushlow says:

        The problem is that usually people don’t have a choice, as per my posting above. Yes, people can explicitly choose to avoid outlets that advertise themselves as halal, should they so wish, but most restaurants and cafés that use catering suppliers for their ingredients will be serving halal meat, even if they are not aware of it.

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Time for the EU suggestions department (enforcement) – if anything greater than 0% of ingredients is Halal in a restaurant then you must have this poster outside your shop – showing Muslim families slitting the throats of a defenceless animal in front of children with smiles and clapping and happiness.

          A great way for EU to make money and enforce fines. Poster is size A1, generate your own version with the Rasterbator.net site (I am not affiliated with this site).

             14 likes

        • MarkyMark says:

          Maybe the only way is to un-Halal the food to be sure? Not sure how you would do that … bless it with a different god?

             6 likes

        • Doublethinker says:

          Ian,
          Good point but if people even started asking if the meat was Halal before ordering and refusing if it was , it would raise the profile of the issue.

             8 likes

      • Grant says:

        charmbrights,

        “It is still a free country “. That is debatable. Maybe, but it is becoming less free every day.

           24 likes

      • BRISSLES says:

        Charmy, …… Yes I agree I do have a choice, and perhaps I worded my comments wrong. I meant that wanting to buy a Chinese meal and Halal only is displayed, they were the ones dictating my choice, because there was no choice – it was either Halal or leave it. So I did.

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      • Loobyloo says:

        Disagree charmbrights. The time to complain is NOW, before there is no other option. We are allowing our food to be prepared according to procedures that are clearly in infringement of our own laws on humane animal slaughter, and then are being fed it, unknown to us. The point is that we are not being informed. As someone pointed out, there is allsorts of labelling, except about slaughter of meat products. And yes, Brissles did take her custom elsewhere, as I would. But pretty soon, you will have to be veggie in major cities.
        Sorry for the off topic, but it is one of the BBCs pet subjects – bigging up Islam.

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      • Scroblene says:

        Charms, Brissles may have just fancied a Chinese, so why does she have to be told it’s halal stuff and be told it’s the way of a Chinese meal? She may not like it like that.

        I wouldn’t have a clue what they’re talking about if I saw a notice such as that, but then I don’t like sodium glutamate either, and as Mrs Scroblene knows a damn sight more than most English cooks about far eastern nosh, then it’s not a problem for me!

        You’re right about the BBC wandering about trying new food progs. Can’t think why, most idiots who watch trashy foody progs get their fast-stuff from KFC or McDonalds anyway.

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    • Alicia Sinclair says:

      If there`s no pork on the menu-we leave.
      Not that we even order it, just sick of Islam creeping in and under the kitchen door.
      This also works if we see a Guardian for reading in the coffee shop or pub.
      Mail and Telegraph, Times if Melanie or similar are in it.
      About time WE started targetting the lefties and the muslims…works both ways.

         24 likes

      • Loobyloo says:

        One of the good things about the USA. There is bacon and sausage everywhere…but for how long!

           7 likes

        • Scroblene says:

          Loobs, just go to a Shoneys and savour the crispy bacon, then you’ll feel much happier!

          I’d struggle on a 54 oz steak though – that would last me 27 meals nowadays, but then I am seventy on Wednesday, so will have to be excused!

             6 likes

          • Lobster says:

            Scroblene –
            Happy birthday for Wednesday!
            I hope you don’t get one of Nadia’s lop-sided cakes (Halal, natch ….)!

               4 likes

            • Scroblene says:

              Thanks, Lobster!

              I certainly will not ask, as my local village pub would probably think that Nadia had a load of ‘Chronicles’ named after him, and they’d just wander off to make my ham sandwich as usual…

              Might go for a BLT this time, as they’re very good!

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  15. Deborahanother says:

    Re The Gender pay gap at BEEB .

    Sorry to be a downer but they will not be embarrassed or ashamed because they never are .The astronomical pay offs they gave staff were dissected all over the news and select committee some years back and they just shuffled the deck chairs around .

    They believe they are safe on the tax payers teat for years to come and will carry on regardless.The only thing to stop them is a true consumer revolution.i have stopped watching but most people are a bit sheeplike and shrug and say Oh but I like Strictly …..

       26 likes

    • charmbrights says:

      They don’t care if you don’t watch/listen. It doesn’t affect the money they get, unlike a commercial channel where advertisers won’t pay for non viewers.

         35 likes

      • Grant says:

        charmbrights,

        Quite right. The BBC can keep on churning out the endless crap in the knowledge that it does not matter.

           20 likes

        • Scroblene says:

          Trouble is, Grant that they’re doing much the same as our elected ‘government’ now.

          Protected by law, unaccountable until the next election, and quite frankly not up to scratch.

          Luckily, I read so many more books these days; just finished ‘The Chequer board’ by Nevil Shute, and that would DEFINITELY have never reached Langham Plaza in a programme of any sort nowadays.

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  16. Tabs says:

    Joined up thinking?!?

    UK plans age verification for porn websites from 2018
    An NSPCC report in 2016 said online pornography could damage a child’s development and decision-making and had been seen by 65% of 15-16 year olds and 48% of 11-16 year olds.

    Then the BBC link to a similar article from March…

    ‘Why compulsory sex education is important to faith schools and LGBTQ pupils’
    The ruling is “really important” as it will equip young people with essential information on sex and relationships, Laura Hannah, the education and training manager for leading UK sexual health charity Brook, says.

    I guess what is going on here is restricting children from discovering sex online and instead making it compulsory for sex to be taught by a Leftie teacher who will force their own view of what is normal for sex and relationships. ie. gay and trans relationships.

    Taking this further I can see heterosexual online porn being heavily restricted in the future but gay porn available to everyone including the cbeebies website as that is “not porn but a show of love”.

       28 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      People to be forced to hand over credit card details before being able to see porn
      What could go wrong ?
      ..a million things I guess
      Also
      #1 The porn corps will love it, thy’ll be looking for ways to accidentally charge peoples cards
      #2 Where’s the local pilot study ?
      ..You should never roll out such changes over a whole country without doing proper pilot studies

         8 likes

    • Loobyloo says:

      There’s lots of gay sex in mainstream porn, isn’t there….but it’s usually between the ladies (or so I’ve heard…)

         3 likes

  17. EnglandExpects says:

    The low white birthrate certainly won’t be helped by all this gender questioning ! Meanwhile our Muslim brothers have no interest in ‘gender identity ‘ issues, don’t have to comply with this obsession like the rest of us, and carry on outbreeding us by being hideously heterosexual. Their takeover looms ever nearer. Not a happy outcome for LGBT obsessives or anyone who doesn’t want to submit to Allah.The nation continues busily constructing its own funeral pyre.

       40 likes

    • Grant says:

      EE,

      Quite agree. I see no evidence that the non-muslims are doing anything to stop the rot. In fact the Establishment “elite” are aiding and abetting the muslim takeover. Quite amazing.

         29 likes

      • EnglandExpects says:

        Grant, Douglas Murray’s latest book is a must-read on how the political establishment across western Europe has led on this Muslim takeover and indeed punished anyone who has complained publicly.

           17 likes

    • Al Shubtill says:

      The nation’s elite are busily heaping up OUR funeral pyre, which they are under the misapprehension won’t include them.

         16 likes

  18. MarkyMark says:

    Choosing the right words, for the right story …

    ‘Trump is deporting our (illegal for 21 years) parents’ {bbc.co.uk jul2017}
    The four Duarte children were getting ready for school when their parents were arrested and taken into custody by US Border Control. The eldest, 19-year-old Francisco Junior, was left in charge of his 12-year-old twin sisters and teenage brother. The children – American citizens – never thought it would come to this.

    * Why is it missing illegal for 21 years in the title and text? @0:30 in the video.
    * You could change the title to ‘Trump is enacting the law of the USA’
    * How come the children aren’t asked “If a person breaks the law of a country, should they pay consequences?”
    – “If an American had illegally stayed in Mexico for 21 years, should the government remove them?”
    * “What did the parents do to try and gain legal status in the USA? What could they have done? Does the USA have a process?”

       26 likes

    • Dystopian says:

      His father “sold ice cream”?
      I bet he offered more than just bubble gum in his screwballs!

         11 likes

    • Tabs says:

      The word illegal is in the video at 0:30s but I agree the title would be better if it read
      “Trump is deporting our illegal parents”
      or
      “Trump is twice as effective as Obama is fighting illegal immigrants”
      or a impartial title could be
      “US Border Patrol are deporting our parents”

      I’m amazed the BBC didn’t get the eldest son to say he was gay or transgender to really play the game well. No mention whether the illegal immigrant parents paid any taxes. I doubt they did as they wouldn’t want the authorities to know about them.

         15 likes

      • MarkyMark says:

        Was the illegal parents ice cream van uninsured? So if the van was involved in an accident or ran some children over (risk is high as children run after ice cream vans) there wouldn’t be insurance to pay for medical bills?

        I think what the press is missing here is that these very stories are reasons for illegals to think twice – it will impact on your children’s lives, this in itself (laws actually being implemented) is a Wall!

        “Stop our beloved Mexican people leaving our own Country, Mexico! Let’s Build our own Wall!”

           8 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      @MarkyMark That Web piece is the warmup act for tonight’s Panorama

      Just like BBC’s Global Warming operation was retitled “Stop Climate Change”
      BBC’s stop “Trump Getting Elected” operation was changed to “Try to push Trump into Impeachment”

         13 likes

      • Alicia Sinclair says:

        Has the BBC EVER done a piece or programme on somebody who was rightfully deported, benefits stopped or otherwise banged to rights.
        You know?
        Just to show the taxpayers that the state CAN take action on abuses, DOES care about the money it extracts from us all? Course not.
        Showing the state as a free ride, a patsy or useless is all part of the lefts intention.
        Occupy good-Tea Party bad.
        A mission to explain.

           18 likes

        • Scroblene says:

          Alicia, once ‘The State’ gets involved, we kiss goodbye to reasoned argument and action.

          Salaries in hangers-on at government level are at an all time high, and MPs will just fiddle around and write letters.

          Meanwhile, my self-saved pension pays for another few ugly, fat, feckless wasters to breed indiscriminately, buy loads of fags and a dozen cans of Tenants at a whim.

             10 likes

      • Manxman says:

        their first 100 days abuse vehicle will run the first 4yrs probably 8yrs if they cannot incite some wingnut to kill him to save the world, especially saving the planet from climate change and the planet destroyer……

           9 likes

      • MarkyMark says:

        Obama says the border fence is ‘now basically complete’ {politifact.com may2011 – Barely True Rating}

        I do hope BBC Panorama ‘Trumps Fortress America’ will look at the history promised before Donald Trump ….
        “In his speech in El Paso on immigration reform on May 10, 2011, President Obama declared that the fence along the border with Mexico is ‘now basically complete.’ (basically complete as opposed to complete?)…
        Still, he predicted that many Republican opponents won’t be satisfied. …
        ‘They’ll want want a higher fence,’ Obama said. ‘Maybe they’ll need a moat. Maybe they want alligators in the moat. They’ll never be satisfied. And I understand that. That’s politics.’
        ‘Five years ago, legislation was passed to build a 700-mile double-layer border fence along the southwest border,’ DeMint wrote. ‘This is a promise that has not been kept. Today, according to staff at the Department of Homeland Security, just 5 percent of the double-layer fencing is complete, only 36.3 miles.(625 promised)'”

        Check out the article to see the poles classed as a border – where people or motorbikes can get through. A quick review of other countries with borders wouldn’t go amiss on the show:
        * Saudis build 1,000-mile Yemen border fence {bbc apr2013}
        * The migrant trail through Mexico {bbc.co.uk jul2007}

        We should accept them all! But what are the unintended consequences …
        “With professional classes on the move (illegally going to the USA, words before undocumented came into being), Honduras is being drained of the very people it needs to help it out of its poverty.

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    • Andy S. says:

      The parents have been in the US illegally for 21 years. They could have, at any time during that period, applied for legal residency and work permits that would have allowed them to stay. If the parents have been working in the black economy then they will not have paid taxes, yet they’ve obviously availed themselves of the local medical facilities when their children were born. Have the children also been educated at school during their parents illegal residency? So the BBC give us a one sided report sympathetic to the plight of the children being parted from their parents without considering the actions – or inaction – to address their immigration status. Typically slanted BBC “news”.

         17 likes

  19. G says:

    Question: When the Saudi’s financed and spread the word of islam in Africa mere decades ago, did they anticipate that it would spawn so many violent terrorist groups acting in the name of islam?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Organizations_designated_as_terrorist_in_Africa

    “Pages in category “Organizations designated as terrorist in Africa”
    The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes (learn more).
    A
    Abdullah Azzam Brigades
    Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
    Allied Democratic Forces
    Ansar al-Sharia (Libya)
    Ansar al-Sharia (Tunisia)
    Ansar Bait al-Maqdis
    Ansar Dine
    Ansar ul Islam
    Ansaru
    Armed Islamic Group of Algeria
    B
    Al-Barakat
    Boko Haram
    E
    Egyptian Islamic Jihad
    G
    Al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya
    I
    Islamic State in Somalia
    Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya
    J
    Jabhatul Islamiya
    L
    Libyan Islamic Fighting Group
    Lord’s Resistance Army
    M
    Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group
    Al-Mourabitoun (militant group)
    Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin
    Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa
    Muaskar Anole
    Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem
    Muslim Brotherhood
    Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt
    R
    Ras Kamboni Brigades
    S
    Al-Shabaab (militant group)
    Soldiers of Egypt
    T
    Tunisian Combatant Group”

    This leads to the obvious question, do the Saudi’s, (in view of their financing the development of islam in the UK) anticipate as many anti-islam “terrorist” groups in the UK as islam takes hold?
    http://www.newsweek.com/uk-report-terror-saudi-arabia-public-finding-618508

    As we know from history, wherever islam goes, war and murder and mayhem is not far behind even if it is only ‘squabbles’ amongst their own sort, viz. sunni/shia.
    I suggest that there will be, sooner or later, a ‘push-back’ from the British Public and, hey presto! we will have murder and mayhem on our streets – the worst sort of fighting: almost impossible for the State to deal with. First, all the street cameras will be blanket targeted, then highly organised raids on armouries and stores selling weapons……………….

       25 likes

    • Lucy Pevensey says:

      G,
      Da’wah

      The declaration of Abdallah, King of Saudi Arabia, in August 2008:

      “We do not need democracy; we do not need political parties; we do not need Western human rights, and we do not need their freedom of speech. What we need is the Qur’an. It regulates our life perfectly. It is the best legislation in the history of mankind; it is the word of Allah. There is nothing better than Allah’s law. Only Islam must be dominant.”
      https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/dawah-qablal-jihad/

         14 likes

    • Dystopian says:

      “but why not all of them ???”

      I guess that depends upon for which side you were fighting.

         12 likes

  20. TonyR says:

    BBC anti-Brexit, anti-May campaign
    In order to get a non-biased view of Brexit negotiations, I have to go to overseas broadcasters like Bloomberg, who today are very optimistic for Britain’s future after 2021, by which time both Brexit and the assumed transition period will be done with.
    The BBC has never given a balanced view of Brexit, has always pushed the Remain and Pretend-brexit camps, and have edited their clips to denigrate May and extol Corbyn. Now they are running a glamour campaign on Amber Rudd, puffing up her successes, and using their clip of week, Amber walking into No.10. Is she the BBC’s choice for next Tory leader? she’s not the Tories’.

       38 likes

    • Roland Deschain says:

      Neither was David Cameron, originally. Until the BBC gave him a glowing report.

         16 likes

      • Al Shubtill says:

        Well Cameron was pro-EU, whereas David Davis wasn’t so it was a no brainer for Al beebus who they’d be shilling for and look how bad a PM he turned out to be.

           9 likes

    • Fedup says:

      With a bit of luck if the apparent Cabinet in fighting continues with the clock ticking so fast there will be little agreement by the time article 50 runs out and we really do go our own way .

      There may be pain on both sides – particularly since we import more stuff from them than export to them .
      We might even be able to depopulate Blighty a bit with people booking a single ticket out .

      Just hope HMG has lined up trade deals with our real friends

         6 likes

      • Scroblene says:

        Don’t worry, Fed.

        There are lots of serious buyers waiting in the wings for when the EU crap crowd is kicked screaming into touch, and they’ll be knocking on our doors as soon as they can – actually they started a year ago to be honest!

        Hang in there my friend, all will be well, and forget the bbbc stuff, they’re being excluded from real discussions! Well, wouldn’t you keep them out of it? If you had a deal in the offing, and if the bbbc got hold of it, it might well go pear-shaped?

           7 likes

  21. TonyR says:

    Grenfell House Enquiry
    I see that Corbyn wants the Grenfell House Enquiry panel to be reconfigured to include representatives from ‘minority’ populations: recent immigrants and amnestied illegal immigrants, I assume he means.

    Surely what we need is an informed, far-ranging, impartial, and expert enquiry, not an ill-informed, narrow, politically imbalanced, and amateur enquiry.

       39 likes

    • Roland Deschain says:

      That depends whether your aim is to find out what really happened or to pander to your own voting base and ensure they are not blamed for any of their failings. Couldn’t possibly guess which of those is Corbyn’s aim.

         24 likes

    • Fedup says:

      Was always bound to turn into a witch hunt – once you give them victim plus status anything can happen

         7 likes

  22. Thoughtful says:

    Typical bloody useless Tories under their newly bought red flag! The BBC announce ridiculous sky high salaries – £350 K for Kuenssberg (£1000 per day! and more than her boss James Harding £340K) and the only thing the useless Nu Labour Tories can come up with is a so called gender paygap where there aren’t enough women included!

    Never mind the fact that the DG Lard Hall Hall is receiving over £500K pa ! Never mind the screamingly obvious gravy train running at public expense, the only thing they’re concerned about is their aren’t enough female piggies getting their snouts in the trough.

    There really is an opening for UKIP to present themselves as the Tory party now the original inhabitants have abandoned it !

       37 likes

    • Alicia Sinclair says:

      Do the BBC consider THEMSELVES to be public sector workers?
      If so, what is the average pay of a public sector worker if we include the BBC payroll in the calculation. As opposed to if we don`t.
      I`d say that if we sloughed off the BBC and made them private-then we could find that 350 million pounds per day that Brexit offered to fund Laura Kuennsberg on that bus of ours.
      (Thanks to Dianne Abbott for these figures)

         13 likes

    • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

      Oh come come, Thoughtful! Market rate Lord Hall-Hall is cheap at the price!

      DG Mark Thompson (the one before the useless Entwhistle of Savile fame) got over £700,000 and Mark Byford (no, me neither) got nearly £950,000 and he wasn’t even a DG!

         4 likes

    • taffman says:

      Now that Dr Who is to be a woman isn’t it time that Director General Hall was replaced with a woman?
      The Tory Party have led by example – two female Prime Ministers.
      Over to you Al Beeb…………………

         8 likes

  23. Tabs says:

    Interestinglyt when you raise a BBC complaint online and fill out the boxes the options for ‘What is the best category to describe your complaint?’ are (in this order)…

    bias
    factual error or inaccuracy
    offence
    poor quality
    scheduling
    standards of interviewing/presenting
    too much coverage
    too little coverage
    other

    Seems strange that an impartial broadcaster would choose to put ‘bias’ on the list and even more strange they put it at the top of the list.

       18 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      It’s to speed up the process.

      You will never guess what said process is.

         6 likes

  24. Thoughtful says:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-40629812

    Just as predicted, and now most of the media are peddling fake news that this was in fact a Mosque, when it was an Islamic Centre.
    Already we have the Fascists out blaming whitey as usual:

    Local Labour councillor John Flanagan said: “It is early days but if this was an attack the mosque it is a hate crime.”

    It is far more likely that this was a self inflicted attack on a building which was pretty run down, for the sympathy of the Fascists and for a new building to be provided.

    Especially probable given it was a Nigerian centre, and it’s not the first time Muslim property has been destroyed by themselves in order to secure something better! The claims made by the attendees are simply not credible.

    A spokesman for the centre said there was no one inside at the time, and that they received a call in the night to say ‘it was being attacked’.

    So ‘someone’ instead of phoning the Police or Fire, phones another person and tells them not that the centre is on fire, but that it is ‘under attack’ (who says that?) The alleged break in happened around the rear of the building which cannot be seen, so how would anyone know that someone was trying to ‘attack it’ .

    Then there was this ridiculous claim :

    Monsurat Adebanjo-Aremu, secretary, says this is the third such major fire incident in a year.

    She says people have also urinated outside and two pigs’ heads have been thrown into the mosque during worship.

    Note that she has now changed this ridiculous story and claims that there was one fire three years ago. If someone had ever run into Friday prayers and thrown a pigs head into the assembly it would have been national news, and the Political Correctness Enforcement Squad would have thrown every man into finding those responsible – for it to happen twice is stretching credulity past breaking point and where would you get a pigs head from anyway?

    No reports of the people attending the place being hassled by anyone does not seem to add up to hostility from the local community either.

    No doubt with the Fascists and the media so ready to believe every claim of waycism and Islamofauxbia the possibilty that these so called ‘attacks’ are in reality self inflicted for insurance and sympathy.

       27 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Whilst some religious buildings are burning in the UK, some cannot be built abroad … Indonesia police fire tear gas on Muslims protesting construction of (Catholic,Bekasi) church {hindustantimes.com mar2017}
      “Several hundred protesters from a group called Forum for Bekasi Muslim Friendship demonstrated in front of the Santa Clara church in Kaliabang, a neighborhood of Bekasi city, after Friday prayers. … Some also threw rocks and bottles (Muslim Friendship?)… they (Muslims) would not disperse until authorities met their demand to cancel the (Catholic) church’s construction …”

      “There is no compulsion (constraint) in religion.” (Qu’ran 2:256) {mcb.org.uk}

         8 likes

    • LynetteO says:

      Contrast the way in which a knife wielding attacker near a mosque in Bristol was treated http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/knife-wielding-men-arrested-near-98135 with the way a man seen near a synagogue was treated.
      Man brandishing knives detained near synagogue in Hendon – The …
      https://www.thejc.com/…/man-brandishing-knives-detained-near-synagogue-1.44152…

         6 likes

    • maxincony says:

      Thoughtful,

      Just as predicted, and now most of the media are peddling fake news that this was in fact a Mosque, when it was an Islamic Centre

      Islamic Centres tend to be used like a Church / Church Hall; as a place of worship at certain times and for community activities at others. So it’s entirely correct to describe it as a Mosque.

      Already we have the Fascists out blaming whitey as usual:

      Local Labour councillor John Flanagan said…’It is early days but if this was an attack the mosque it is a hate crime.’

      Erm, no mention of “White People” or ethnicity there. You wouldn’t be ‘projecting’ would you ‘Thoughtful’?

      It is far more likely that this was a self inflicted attack… Especially probable given it was a Nigerian centre, and it’s not the first time Muslim property has been destroyed by themselves…

      Ah yes, you would.

      Especially probable given it was a Nigerian centre

      And you’re the same person who claims “There’s no such thing as racism”.

      A spokesman for the centre said there was no one inside at the time, and that they received a call in the night to say ‘it was being attacked’.

      So ‘someone’ instead of phoning the Police or Fire, phones another person and tells them not that the centre is on fire, but that it is ‘under attack’

      Where does it say someone phoned him instead of phoning the Police or Fire?

      What was that about “peddling fake news”?

      (who says that?)

      Well you just did for a start: “It is far more likely that this was a self inflicted attack

      The alleged break in happened around the rear of the building which cannot be seen, so how would anyone know that someone was trying to ‘attack it’

      The Mosque is surrounded by houses. The rear of the building is in full view of several houses opposite.

      You really haven’t got a clue have you?

      No reports of the people attending the place being hassled by anyone does not seem to add up to hostility from the local community either… No doubt with the Fascists and the media so ready to believe every claim of waycism and Islamofauxbia….

      So to summarise:-

      If an anti-Muslim attack on a Mosque isn’t reported by the media – IT DIDN’T HAPPEN.

      If an anti-Muslim attack on a Mosque is reported by the media – IT DIDN’T HAPPEN.

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      • taffman says:

        Hello maxincony
        Still no offer of any Al Beeb bias from you?
        You continue to defend Al Beeb, what’s your motivation?
        You do more harm to Al Beeb by posting here.
        You should set up your own “I love Al Beeb site “

           10 likes

  25. Up2snuff says:

    WatO Monday. I come home to hear Lord Heseltine complaining about leaks and traitors within Cabinet and blaming it all on Brexiteers. He wants Brexit scrapped and an immigration limit imposed, or so he hinted. No intelligent questioning from Ed Stourton. So a Remain campaigner is a traitor outside Cabinet as well as – in his day – from within?

    Now, there’s a thing.

    He’s given free airtime and an easy ride by the BBC.

    Well, there’s another thing.

    Keep this up BBC, Lord Heseltine and your ilk and you can look forward to 2018 or 2019 with around 45 million + voting age adults in the UK all screaming about the EU – “Get us out!” “Get us out, now!”

       19 likes

    • Grant says:

      Why should anyone listen to a has-been silly old fool like Heseltine who was a total failure as a Minister ?

         17 likes

      • Alicia Sinclair says:

        The BBC introduced this great statesman as “the former deputy prime minister”.
        This in the Don Revie era really-when ANYBODY got a title under majors inept government.
        Imagine Heseltine has an emergency button direct to the BBC, whereas most other failures in lifes departure lounge have a nurse.
        How come he`s not been done yet for strangling a dog? Where are the hunt sab/PETA nasties when you need them?

           9 likes

      • Scroblene says:

        And a coward when he withdreww his nomination to take over from Mrs Thatcher.

        Wimp.

           6 likes

    • DickMart says:

      Blair yesterday; Heseltine today; Major tomorrow? BBC no longer bothering to be subtle about their systematic anti-Brexit propaganda.

         22 likes

  26. Pounce says:

    Got to love how the bBC reports on the story of how quite a few Students voted twice at the GE:
    Elections watchdog wants double voting rules tightened
    Reports of people voting more than once in June’s election are “troubling” but there is little evidence of widespread abuse, the elections watchdog has said. The Electoral Commission said 38 MPs had highlighted people, including students, claiming to have voted twice, which is a criminal offence. It said individual electoral registers run by councils should be better joined up to help identify duplicate entries.

    So the above is how the bBC reports on how Students have been reported for voting twice. However as this is the bBC they follow that up with this:
    “Labour warned against making it harder for young people to register to vote.

    Well it can’t have been that hard, with so many voting twice can it?

    The bBC, the mouth piece (And arsehole) for the Labour Party.

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  27. StewGreen says:

    Times : Rochdale Prosecutor lays into Police (Nazir Afzal)
    \\Criminals are going free because “lazy” and “deskilled” police do not understand the law, a former senior prosecutor has claimed.
    .. even basic inquiries are beset with problems because police are “not investigating properly” and are “charging cases prematurely”.
    * Senior officers are prone to political pressure * and police are “more detached” from their communities than ever before, he believes.
    Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, he said levels of experience had fallen so far that retired officers had had to be brought back every time there was a major investigation.
    “What could be happening, isn’t happening,” he said. “People are not addressing themselves to what’s required in…
    they don’t understand the rules of disclosure (so fail to hand over info ..so defence gets cases thrown out)
    They get over focussed on one suspect and fail to follow up alternative lines
    Lazy as the go for the easuest option (not that they don’t put the hours in)
    (CPS wastes time fixing up cases they got wrong due to police rushing investigations in the first place//
    It’s from a speech he prepared for APCC, but he left cos they tried to prevent him speaking publicly on Question Time

       11 likes

  28. StewGreen says:

    Meanwhile the public immediately jump on a Robbery Thug, he dies 2 days later
    and the BBC reports it as :”Tributes to Ashby robbery suspect”
    (he was carrying a golf club and his mate tried to run people over)
    Obviously the RACIST public would have just let him go, had he been white.

       23 likes

  29. Lucy Pevensey says:

    Of course multi-cultural liberal values work if you just give them a chance right? Islam is just a misunderstood religion, right Beeby?

    A women’s rights activist who established a “liberal” mosque where burkas are banned has been placed under 24-hour police protection after receiving a deluge of death threats.
    http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/founder-of-liberal-berlin-mosque-given-24hour-police-guards-after-deluge-of-death-threats-a3579116.html

       26 likes

    • G says:

      Lucy,
      As Dave Clark sang, ‘I feel Glad all Over’. Womens rights activist: Couldn’t have happened to a nicer person. Pity more leftie liberals are not threatened by the ‘religion of peace’ similarly.

         14 likes

      • Thatcherrevolutionary says:

        Would be great if the likes of this filth went into W1 with a baseball bat and golf club and swatted some of these lefty cucks.

           6 likes

  30. Grant says:

    The BBC always get it wrong. Cricket today. 2 hours ago BBC website says ” England SLIDING to defeat. What follows is a toatal collapse 133 all out. The BBC are like the kiss of death !

       11 likes

  31. Pounce says:

    Here’s a little something the bBC isn’t reporting:
    Germany: Angela Merkel rejects limits for refugees

       12 likes

  32. Pounce says:

    Well it didn’t take long for this bBC favourite to show her own colours:
    Having eaten her way around the country for her new BBC series, Bake Off champ Nadiya Hussain has a startling verdict on our native cuisine:’British food doesn’t exist’
    Really you daft bat? Maybe you should ask the bBC to lend you this video of a real chef who travelled the UK looking at..British Food:
    Rick Stein’s Food Heroes

       15 likes

    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      Thanks for that, Nadiya.

      I expect for her next trick, she will be telling us that the British don’t exist either, and that we are just a mongrel nation of immigrants.

         17 likes

      • Grant says:

        Nadia,

        A bitch, but she is a puppet and just being fed propaganda which she is re-gurgitating. She is just a whore who will do anything for money.

           14 likes

  33. StewGreen says:

    R4 You and Yours dropped the scheduled item about Halal Labelling
    Then the Times tells me there is a controversy
    The tick label indicates the animal was stunned before killing
    The same label with Arabic writing instead is preferred by about half observing Muslims, cos it indicates there was no stunning, and that half believe stunning is UNislamic.

       19 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      or the Halal details of the imam (Shia, Sunni?)reading the Koran, the version of the Koran read out at the time of the animals death (Wahhabism?) into the animal’s non-Arabic ear.

      What is halal meat? {bbc.co.uk may2014}
      Animals must be alive and healthy at the time of slaughter and all blood is drained from the carcass. During the process, a Muslim will recite a dedication, know as tasmiya or shahada.

         7 likes

      • Al Shubtill says:

        Halal slaughter will never be banned in this country under grounds of animal cruelty, as to do so would also necessitate that kosher slaughter cease for the same reason and that simply isn’t going to happen.

           12 likes

        • BRISSLES says:

          So British food doesn’t exist eh Nadia ? will you be telling us next that Halal meat is the only true meat ? God almighty, this woman has got 8 (EIGHT) programmes under her belt to teach us Brits a thing or two. And this from a BRITISH Muslim who was born here. It makes me weep.

             23 likes

          • Scroblene says:

            That’s eight more progs that I won’t ever watch, Brissles.

            I can give you a recipe for our greenhouse tomatoes if you like. I won’t charge you a penny, and they’re all non halal!

               8 likes

            • BRISSLES says:

              Thanks Scrobby, – and have a great seven oh on Wednesday !!! (mine’s next year, but I’m deliberately going to forget it – unless I REALLY start to forget it, oh God !!!!)

                 7 likes

              • Scroblene says:

                Brissles, at least we’re getting there, despite the harbingers of doom trying to stop us all!

                My blood pressure is so much reduced from not watching any television now! There’s much more interesting news here, and I don’t have to see overpaid idiots cavorting around places like the HOC, football stadiums, inner cities etc!

                Might mow the lawn today, and I’ve got a little crop gathering (Cherokee Trail of Tears, runners, peas, spuds and courgettes) to do for lunch…

                (ps – What time is The World at One on please – I forget…)

                   6 likes

        • Kaiser says:

          ive decided to vote with my wallet and mouth, I don’t eat meat unless i can guarantee the source, basically because i cant certify it as not halal/kosher

          i dont buy stuff from muslims, full stop

          I dont buy walkers kellogs etc etc

          you piss me off, i withdraw my money

          it may be more hassle for me and not noticed by them, but its a start and makes me feel better

             18 likes

          • pertelote says:

            indeed! Me too!! I am careful with restaurants/take-aways/taxi drivers/shops in general

            I just won’t spend my money (knowingly) with (inter alia) muzzlins

            ..if we all did that!?

            freeze ’em out as far as you can.

               12 likes

          • Scroblene says:

            Kaiser, spot on!

            I hope Waitrose lamb isn’t halal or kosher, as I bought a chunk yesterday…

               3 likes

    • Loobyloo says:

      I wouldn’t buy it anyway

         1 likes

  34. TonyR says:

    A little bit of PATRIOTISM, is that too much to ask?
    We pay your licence fee, BBC. We know you don’t want Brexit to happen, but if you cannot find one positive thing to say about David Davies’ speech to the EU, then just show his speech without comments.

       21 likes

    • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

      Andrea Leadsom didn’t fare too well when she called for a little more BBC patriotism over Brexit in a NewsShite interview with Emily Maitlis. Emily’s faux outrage was a joy to behold.

         10 likes

  35. Beeb Brother says:

    I just read that the BBC employs 3000 journalists! What on Earth do they do? The news last night had two ‘stories’ about empowerment of women, one about how Dr Who is moving into the 21st century and another long segment about Jane Austen. What ‘journalism’ is required for such propaghanda? It is not even journalism. 3000 to produce this!

    What do ‘journalists’ learn? How to convert Guardian articles into programmes? Given the actual state of the country versus the PC fantasy they project, surely any actual objective investigation of reality would constitute hate speech.

       26 likes

    • Grant says:

      Beeb,

      Who needs journalists or politicians anyway ?

         11 likes

      • Manxman says:

        Journalist’s and Politician’s.
        2 parasites that mutually sustain each other.

           13 likes

        • Scroblene says:

          Prezactly, Manx and Grant!

          Funny how we have to wonder where all their money comes from…

          Nope, I just know where it comes from.

             5 likes

  36. StewGreen says:

    “The UK chief executive of Airbus, one of the earliest and most outspoken critics of Brexit, has lost his job.”

       14 likes

    • Beeb Brother says:

      With all their talk of public sector pay cuts, could they not do their jobs just as well on half the money and give the remaining cash to nurses? Why even bother with news as there are so many other available sources? It’s like a cash-strapped team paying a player a fortune just to sit on the bench. Who gets their ‘news’ from the BBC these days?

      Rod Liddle refers to the licence fee as ‘antidiluvian’ and he is spot on. I do not see how the next generation will pay the licence fee as they can get such better stuff elsewhere. I have been playing Grand Theft Auto and it is so fantastic – not PC, fun and edgy. Who wants to pay to be lectured about racism and gender all the time?

         20 likes

  37. StewGreen says:

    Tonights Virtue Signalling TV
    BBC1
    8:30 Panorama : Trump is not nice to (illegal) immigrants
    9pm Look at us we are building a home for a Muscular Dystrophy family rpt
    BBC2
    8:30 Nadiya’s *British* Food Adventure
    Asparagus: Nadiya “rustles up, alfresco, an Indian five-spice vegetable stir-fry”
    ..yeh like very British
    (she also does smoked haddock rarebit and Eton mess *cheesecake*)
    10:00 Normal for Norfolk : probably mocking normal Norfolk people
    9:00 BBC4 Science and Islam
    10:00 C4 Is Love Racist ?
    ..em no ..like how many people fancy people who look way different to their sister ?

       12 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Virtue Signal Radio4
      R4 Today : usual echo chamber of our BBC mates
      10am David Mitchell : book of the week from our BBC mate
      10:45am Daily Drama this week : Autobiography of Assata Shakur Black Panther
      11am A Gay seek Sikh marries white guy Gary
      11:30 Alleged comedy with Susan Calman (alleged comic) and BBC Gay lmate
      4pm Three part series on gay art
      8:30pm BBC Oxford Uni mate pours scorn on popularists like Trump and Corbyn

      I note the 7:15pm Comedy show started with long spot virtue signalling their hate for Trump and then Farage

         11 likes

  38. Guest Who says:

    🙂 To know them is to know them.

    https://twitter.com/gnugaz/status/886913512471187457

       15 likes

  39. An English Gentleman says:

    England has lost the second test against South Africa, today so I have no doubt that the bbbc will include it as a news item……

       14 likes

    • Grant says:

      English,

      Not an easy decision for the BBC. How can they reconcile their hatred of white english with their hatred of white South Africans ?

         12 likes

      • Doublethinker says:

        They will focus on the none white South Africans just as they do with the none white players in the England team.

           12 likes

  40. Guest Who says:

    Admirable honesty I guess:

    It’s like he never really left.

    ‘When theatre meets journalism’ or, in the hands of the BBC, ‘news’.

       14 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      “Journalism turned into Theatre/Opinion/Recycled Tweets” – BBC repeated,redacted and omitted because we care!
      p.s. I’ve not read it or seen it, just wanted to add an idea.

         3 likes

  41. Manxman says:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40632745

    Why the cheetah is a champion sprinter

    I havent read it, but i will wager my house it is because they had the fastest running prey to catch.

       10 likes

  42. Manxman says:

    Another bbc climate change expert advising that meat is a ”luxury” that should be taxed, hello vat.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-40636196/farmer-simon-fairlie-on-meat-and-climate-change

       9 likes

  43. Fedup says:

    Dear esteemed website.
    I think I might be coming to the end of submissions of comments because I intend to limit my ingestion of al Beeb products to a minimum – which probably means programmes where Brillo is in charge , JRM is guesting and Dads Army repeats.

    On another issue -webmaster – what has happened to one Halleys Comet who was posting yesterday ( think it about the new doctor who) but was found out by a colleague to be telling fibs about their background ? They said they were going away because they ‘ didn’t like right wing old men moaning all the time’ or words of a similar nature….

    I suppose they’ll come back as some other beeboid spy.

    Forgot to mention – watching RT news – showing Italian town mayors going on hunger strike in protest at central government/EU swamping them with illegal migrants straight off the boats. Wonder why no coverage on al Beeb ?

       25 likes

    • Old Goat says:

      You don’t need to go – I gave up BBC brainwashing several years ago, but find it cathartic to keep posting every now and then, because I hear things through other media, about the awful BBC, and feel a need to vent my spleen occasionally.

         24 likes

    • Deborah says:

      Me too Fed Up et al. I used to think it was my duty to know what was happening in the world and pre the internet that meant the BBC. However these days the BBC is either no news (female Dr Who) or Fake News. I just about believe my local news when sadly someone riding a bike has been killed (although I wouldn’t rely on whose fault it was because in the BBC’s eyes it would always be the lorry/car driver) and I just about believed tonight’s the story about seagulls stopping the postmen working in Bridlington (but maybe it was just too hot?). If people link to stories here from about the world, I will try to read with an open mind – but really all I know (and do I sound like Donald Romsfeld?) that there is the stuff we know, and the stuff we don’t know and then there is the stuff that we know we don’t know – and that is usually what the BBC refuses to tell us eg re immigration, what is really happening in the Conservative Party, the case for Brexit, the fact that a few warm days in July doesn’t mean the end of the world, etc etc.

         16 likes

  44. Deborahanother says:

    I must admit I also have to limit my time here because I hardly watch or listen to anything BBC these days so its difficult to come up with the bias when I only channel hop.

    But I still read the posts and add what I can . I had to stop watching because of my blood pressure ,I was getting obsessed …..

       13 likes

    • Oaknash says:

      Same here Deborah – Most of my comments these days are of a generalist nature or a comment on someones comments. The fact is – is that since the General election (if possible ) the BBC has become positively rabid in their pursuit of all things pc and left wing. Most of the time these days I listen to classic FM . Its almost as if they want us to switch off – maybe thats it – so they can carry on with “the devils work” using the airwaves to issue instructions to their followers via “Radio Grenfell”

         15 likes

      • Manxman says:

        I just come to vent or ”chat”……. the bbc are disgusting, the links provided here are my portals, i dont go there just to browse, i’m happy with the sound of kids and wood pigeons coming in thru the open doors all day, and the lab snoring, dont go looking to have my guts twisted by them.

           4 likes

    • Fedup says:

      Debora / Goat,

      Thanks for the comment . I feel fairly defeated by albeeb / msm. At least with RT you know where you stand and they have different news values. Problem for me, like others here , is that I’m a bit of a news junky. I care greatly about Blighty and dispise what has and is being done with it .
      And the only time we get to comment on it is in the EU vote which so many are seeking to undermine.

         10 likes

      • Scroblene says:

        Deborah – Goat – Fed…

        Same here! Mrs Scroblene and I always used to turn on the 6:00 pm news and watch with a tincture, and now we never bother with the bbbc as the tincture is so much more interesting, and the blood pressure stays low enough for a frequent refill!

        So it’s a win – win situation, no bbbc crap, and a long and loving chat with a lovely wife, and a few tinctures to lead us towards a good book each, or occasionally in my case, a few dips into a good ‘Genesis’ Youtube – preferable a long one…

        Life is so much nicer without the bbbc.

           15 likes

  45. Foscari says:

    My grand-daughter filled out an application for me ad my wife to go on “POINTLESS”.Although
    pointless is partly amusing and they don’t expect the contestants to be entrants for the Brain of
    Britain, they do ask questions on the application to see if you are not going to make a complete
    fool of yourself.
    I have always wanted to go on MASTERMIND I have a few specialist subjects, the main ones being
    VERDI and the NORMANDY CAMPAIGN 1944. But my general knowledge isn’t quite good enough to say
    get more than 35% of the questions correct.
    I would like to ask the BBC a question to the producers of “CELEBRITY MASTERMIND” What do some
    of the contestants need to know other than their names to get on the show? We saw a lady this evening
    who had won two gold medals at the Olympics who other than knowing what her name was, knew practically
    nothing else. In a way it was rather like inverted racism by the diversity staff at the BBC who picked her.

       22 likes

    • Scroblene says:

      David Lammy springs to mind…

         13 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      It’s not what you know, it’s what the BBC didn’t tell you that matters.” … Possibly an early warning for future generations.

         10 likes

      • Scroblene says:

        Always think the opposite to what you hear on the bbc.

        That way, you’ll be well informed.

           2 likes

    • Deborah says:

      Things didn’t go to plan on Mastermind tonight, did it? And it was a repeat which I am surprised they showed again.
      The two older men did far better that the two young women. One of the women looked Asian and was a CBeebies presenter or something. However limiting her specialist subject to Jurassic Park films must have meant that she could answer all the questions – but not quite. She was also so bouncy that she was a pain in the neck. It was not racism on my part, she would have been irritating if she had been sky blue pink. The black female paraolympian – received 3 points over both sections – even worse than David Lammy I think. Her specialist subject was Arsenal Football Club (didn’t quite hit the right-on BBC spot and demand questions on the women’s team) I cannot remember whether she limited the specialist questions to a few short years but certainly there were no questions from say the 1920s. David Aaronovitch looked to be doing brilliantly and with some proper questions in the general knowledge (not the questions about Girls Aloud and Spandex that had gone before). Then suddenly he was thrown some googlies, those impossible questions for anybody but a true Mastermind freak. Those questions slowed him down and he came in second. But a greying male breakfast presenter (Tim somebody or other but I couldn’t tell you who) flew past David to win the award.
      I remember reading on here once that an insider said that nothing on the BBC happens by chance. I always suspect that on quiz shows there are two sets of questions and that if, having had a proper education, you appear to be doing too well, the presenter, either via paper questions or those that appear on their personal screen, will suddenly go harder. If you are hopeless (and a 3 in any Mastermind is just that) then the questions suddenly get easier. Watch any quiz show and you can see when the questions change.

         21 likes

      • BRISSLES says:

        Good points Deb. I rather suspected as much when watching the infuriating Eggheads. There is always a choice of going first or second, and after the first couple or so, the questions appear to favour the resident team. My blood pressure is affected so I never get to see the end.

        As for ‘celebrity’ quizzes or ‘Christmas specials’, most of the participants be they ‘personalities or sports people’, can barely string a sentence together without a script, so I never watch them.

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  46. AsISeeIt says:

    A Tardis may become a useful accessory for the modern woman

    “… whether you like it or not!”

    Colin Baker (one of the rubbish Doctors – not Tom Baker who was a rather good Doctor Who) wheels himself out today in defence of his beloved BBC. He is quoted in the Evening Standard as saying “She IS the Doctor whether you like it or not”.

    How very BBC. Can you imagine a commercial entertainment provider expressing such distain for the tastes of its paying customers?

    And there were we thinking the show in question was light entertainment mainly aimed at the young. Turns out it is in fact some weird public sinecure which must be handed around among various identity groups.

    I’m also taken aback by comments that this will provide a positive role model for girls – to grow up to be…. Time Lords? Really?

    Mind you, as more and more young women are pressured into the workplace as a matter of public (and BBC) policy, I guess that ever more forty somethings will be realising their frustation at being without a family and then require their own Tardis in order to send their reproductive organs back in time.

       17 likes

  47. davylars says:

    BBC look north lunchtime today
    Yet another article on a mosque open day.
    Another crew sent down to South Shields mosque to film a bunch of cub scouts being brainwashed into how wonderful and peaceful Islam is.
    What is it with the people who run BBC look north and their infatuation with Islam.
    It’s rammed down our throats every other week. Anything to do with muslim’s or Islam has to be broadcast throughout the N. East.

    Do other “local” BBC stations do this on such a frequent basis? Or is this just reserved for us pagans that live up north.

       18 likes

  48. Pounce says:

    The bBC, Not the Nine O/Clock News and another Gerald the Gorilla story:

    Today (As it does at least once a week) the bBC has aired another rise in Islamophobia story:
    Finsbury Park Mosque fears rise in Islamaphobic hate crime
    The chairman of Finsbury Park Mosque has warned Islamophobia has risen since the recent terror attacks in the UK.
    Mohammed Kozbar said the mosque had experienced “a rise of hate letters, threatening letters… and something needs to be done about it”.

    And here is what the bBC doesn’t want you to know:
    Anti-Semitic crime rose 44 percent in Britain since 2014
    Anti-Semitic crime in the United Kingdom rose 44 percent in the past two years, according to a new audit released by the Campaign Against Antisemitism. The 2016 National Antisemitic Crime Audit registered a total of 1,078 anti-Semitic crimes, including 105 that were violent — about one in 10. Only one of the violent crimes was prosecuted, according to the audit. In total, only 15 cases were prosecuted, leading to the conviction of 17 suspects, according to the Campaign Against Antisemitism.

    As for Gerald:

       14 likes

    • Scroblene says:

      Marvellous, Pounce…

      One of the funniest sketches ever produced, and none of the leftie rubbish at all!

      Most of the phrases from here are in everyday lines chez Scrobs, and have been for years…

      ‘Lots of mates’ being the favourite, but ‘Not in the biblical sense’ is a close second!

         6 likes