OK, here you go, on time and ready for you to complete with details of egregious bias.
START THE WEEK OPEN THREAD..
Bookmark the permalink.
Search Biased BBC
Recent Comments
- StewGreen Nov 15, 00:27
Midweek 13th November 2024
Quick bit of info from GBnews.. “Musk has retweeted GBnews twice in the last 24 hours” One tweet was about… - StewGreen Nov 15, 00:20
Midweek 13th November 2024
The Alison Pearson case The police are now saying she was wrong to say it was a non-crime hate incident… - StewGreen Nov 15, 00:17
Midweek 13th November 2024
Police breaking the law again. They cleared someone 2 months ago But only decided to tell her tonight Yes #TheProcessIsThePunishment… - JohnC Nov 14, 23:48
Midweek 13th November 2024
University cash crisis to get worse despite tuition fee rise, BBC told https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c14lv7e61d3o [img]https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/c006/live/66b8a290-a27e-11ef-9881-317cd05de9c4.jpg.webp[/img] By one of the BBC’s own… - Guest Who Nov 14, 22:28
Midweek 13th November 2024
https://order-order.com/2024/11/14/guardians-self-deplatforming-post-420-times-more-popular-than-average-tweet/? - non-licence payer Nov 14, 22:01
Midweek 13th November 2024
Zephir, how times are changed. This was the sort of advice that was printed in the Socialist Worker. It is… - vlad Nov 14, 21:58
Midweek 13th November 2024
After woke Welby, next woke Francis maybe? (Any non-Catholics, take it from me: he’s just as bad.) - Nibor Nov 14, 21:56
Midweek 13th November 2024
Taffy, Make friends. I’m a moaner and complainer and haven’t paid the telly tax for 20 years, and other taxes. - vlad Nov 14, 21:55
Midweek 13th November 2024
I’ll be a Socialist for 1 night. Nah, too high a price. - Eddy Booth Nov 14, 21:19
Midweek 13th November 2024
He’s too obsessed with “the genocide in Palestine”.
Categories
agw anti-American anti-conservative anti-Israel anti Israel. pro Palestinian Antisemitism BBC - sickeningly biased at all times. BBC agenda BBC bias bbc bias and balance. bbc bias by omission BBC censorship BBC Question Time BBC selectivity bias Biased BBC climate change dhimmis general thread immigration Islam israel Mark Mardell obama obama bias Obamalove open thread pro-labour pro-palestinian pro EU pro Hamas pro Islam pro Labour bias pro Obama PRO OBAMA AT ALL COSTS. pro Obama BBC agenda question time question time live Richard Black save gordon. USA politics US economy US News US politics US presidential elections
Al Beeb as decided to treat Jacob RM as a figure of fun to undermine his credibility and clarity of thought and speech. In a short interview on today the standard technical problem was used to interrupt him and then the hobby Robinson ( £250000? Or more ) asked him about the use of the longest word nonsense. So al Beeb game JRM a pat on the head and decided he is not a threat to their views anymore.
Jacob Rees-Mogg is being attacked, but that is a good thing as it will show if he can take the pressure, see what happened to Diane Abbott.
But it is interesting about trivialising the interview … in this one Owen “1%er” Jones ends with references to correcting himself on the Lion King (Children’s Disney animation) rather than his thoughts on real world events … “Obviously what you will takeaway from that interview is that I got the Lion King wrong. It’s Mufasa who dies, not Simba. The little lion. It’s a pleasure, he’s a colourful figure. {youtube – Owen Jones meets Jacob Rees-Mogg}“
Isn’t it odd how often the BBC “loses the line” just as someone they dislike is developing an argument? They sometimes “get the line back”, but often the person has then lost the thread of his argument. It is a strange coincidence isn’t it? You might think that a broadcaster with experience going back to 1922, and funded to the tune of £4 billion pa would have got the hang of something like this by now, but strangely, it seems to be beyond them.
I seem to remember that when NASA was talking to men on the surface of the Moon, they never “lost the line”. Maybe they couild give the BBC a few tips?
I wonder if is the same line such as Beds Police are so concerning about crossing?
Not from the left, of course.
Righty tighty.
That would be these thin blue numpties…
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/08/01/bedfordshire-police-introduce-right-wing-extremism-simulator-ends-murder/
Spotted that one G – I hope dumping the green nonsense is on the list of a decent government after Brexit. I will never accept that we know enough about the climate to be able to predict it.
Man told bacon is evil. Eats bacon. Nothing happens. Man still believes bacon is evil.
Does man believe drawing cartoons is evil?
Does man believe being homosexual is evil?
Does man believe books of fiction should be burnt?
Does man believe kids dolls shouldn’t have faces?
Does man believe Mecca should be closed to all non-Muslims?
Does man believe only Muslims should slaughter animals under Halal which is positive employment discrimination?
Why don’t we all post similar photos showing chicken/lamb/beef on a plate and say we are insulted at being offered Halal meat in the supermarkets and restaurants. Lets see the response then from the media.
The EU leaders must be quite pleased, Australia is now infected with muslim terror –
http://www.newobserveronline.com/2017/07/australia-16th-muslim-terror-plot.html
Now, they think, how will me bribe the Visegrad Four to share with the rest of Europe and experience the cultural benefits of muslim terrorism. Anyone for a stabbing or maybe a decapitation?
http://www.asianimage.co.uk/news/15435454.JAILED__Dad__77__among_four_members_of_drug_dealing_family_with_10_000_Oxford_customers/?ref=ar
more enrichment! From same website as “the bacon story” above referenced by MM – “something like this is very serious. I’m worried about my children going now.” said Mr. Ali – what, like to going to an Ariana Grande concert!
I can see I’m going to be visiting this website again.
JAILED: Dad, 77, among four members of drug dealing family with 10,000 Oxford customers
“A FAMILY who flooded the city with heroin and crack cocaine and dealt to thousands of drug addicts out of their East Oxford home have been jailed. …
The Ahmed family was only busted after an undercover police officer infiltrated the gang (What about Prevent Strategy? The local Muslim community reporting such things?) and discovered the use of a ‘Rugrats line’, a mobile phone number named for the popular 1990’s children’s TV series, which they used to deal Class A drugs. …
Stronghold is our campaign that asks for the community and partners to work in partnership with us to tackle the misery of drugs.
Only with continued information from the members of the public can we tackle the issue of serious organised crime.”
.. in another related story from the BBC in 2013 … regarding Oxford …
Note ‘Muslim’ word is not used in the article.
Muslim x 0; Islamic x 1; Allah x 0; Eritrea x 1;
Oxford rape and trafficking: Who were the abusers?{bbc.co.uk 2013}
“The Dogar brothers were well-known faces in the east Oxford community. ” (So much for the community raising the alarm.)
Det Insp Simon Morton, of Thames Valley Police, said: “They start out at 11 or 12 as ordinary girls, in our case, and by the time they’re finished they’re hollow. They are shells of what they should be and the little girl in there is gone. It’s sexual atrocities, it’s torture.””
“They took the girls out in cars and to hotels, guesthouses, empty houses, parks and woods where they raped them and charged other men to do the same.
Men would even be invited from Bradford, Leeds, Slough and other parts of the country to come to Oxford – and charged to take their turn to rape the girls.”
Now a proper investigative reporter having read that story would be out of the door in a flash. The suggestion that there was a nationwide network involved in abusing girls would be all it took.
Who organises it? How many are involved? Where are they based? Why has this vice ring been able to flourish unchecked?There are so many questions….
Which, of course, means the BBC, obsessed with ‘Brexit’, ‘Trump’ and ‘asylum seekers’ will do absolutely nothing about it.
Today’s report is about a load of brothers “the Ahmed family”
The 2013 rape/trafficking trial report names a convict as
“Zeeshan Ahmed, 27, lived above a grocer’s shop on the Cowley Road.”
Could be from a completely different family I suppose.
Well, yes, it could be. But isn’t that something we licence holders actually pay for? So that the BBC can use its vast resources to find out for us?
Instead we are expected to sit, passively, while we are fed a diet of lies and propaganda masquerading as news.
I noticed that surname connection ‘Zeeshan Ahmed’ and did a quick compare but couldn’t cross match.
But they can use middle names I suppose or their Islamic name which is given on converting to Islam – so maybe the BBC should report both if available.
Slightly connected which is of interest …
Saudi Arabia’s interior ministry said it had ordered a ban on the names because they contradicted the religion or the culture of the Kingdom.
Along with western names such as Sandy, Linda and Elaine (banned!), the interior ministry has forbidden Saudi parents from giving their children names with royal connotations, such as Malika (Queen) and Amir (Prince).
Some religious names have also been deemed inappropriate, or even blasphemous.
Parents will no longer be able to have a baby Malak (Angel), Nabi (Prophet) or Jibreel (Gabriel), names which are popular across the Middle East and in Islamic countries. {telegraph mar2014}
Totalitarian – relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state. {gulfnews mar2014}
So no chance of having a kid called “Bacon Sarnie” or “Single Malt” then?
nor “piggy sue” or “sow ellen”
I think my numbers up …youtube showing me adverts for “JIMAS Abu Muntasir – Terrorism Response” … “It’s an abuse of religious belief (terrorism by ISIS) and evil twisting of divine truth. (He promotes Islam to the end)”.
#MetroBubble Radio Woman’s Hour on at 10am
“Melanin Millennials is an award-winning podcast created by Imrie Morgan and Satia Sa Dias.
Their target audience is black British women, and they say they don’t hold back. They believe that British TV and radio doesn’t appeal to women like them, and they’re on a mission to do something about it.
BBC R4 TODAY Programme from 6am – for three hours.
All babies to be offered multi-vaccine jab from today. No mention of (i) risk, and (ii) cost to the NHS.
All over age 60 recommended to be given Statins whether needed or not. Tiny mention of (i) risk but glossed over, and (ii) no mention of cost to the NHS.
Now, remind me. Exactly how long did we have to endure endless reporting and emoting from BBC R4 N&CAs over the NHS being short of money last autumn, through the winter and into this spring?
They are creating another generation of lefties, its all legal, neuro- toxin’s, are the diffence between us [over 40] and them [under 40 ], the only difference between them is how badly the adult autistic type disorder effects them, whether it removes all or little cognitive logical rational processing.
They permanently inhabit a netherland between adolescence and adulthood,……………kidulthood.
9pm BBC2 Is It Safe To Be Gay in The UK?
“homophobic hate crime a daily occurrence and on the rise -but why”
bet they don’t contemplate effect of immigration from non-tolerant cultures
In the web report they give 4 examples, in one the attacker is a South African with African name.
I would have thought the greatest number of ‘hate crime’ (a ridiculous concept in any case) would be against people who admit to having voted to leave the EU.
But I can’t see the BBC investigating that, can you? Not when they commit it daily.
This BBC facebook page is pretty much all SJW action rather than straight reporting
https://www.facebook.com/BBCStories/
Arsenal owner launches Hunting and Shooting TV channel
Normal media suspects shout outrage ‘sickeining to watch animals being shot”
I wonder if channel is deliberately stirring to get free publicity.
Doesn’t BBC often show lions ripping the heads off other animals etc. ?
https://twitter.com/OnlineMagazin/status/891341678640074752
Something we are all aware of, I’m sure.
“The problem is exacerbated by a culture of political thought control under which soldiers and police officers are frightened to report suspicious behaviour for fear of being branded racist.”
Religious infiltration almost complete …
USA 2009
On November 5, 2009, a mass shooting took place at Fort Hood, near Killeen, Texas, (USA). Nidal Hasan, a U.S. Army major and psychiatrist, fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others. The shooting was the worst mass shooting on an American military base.
Berlin, Germany 2016
Arrested German spy was a onetime gay porn actor — and a secret Islamist {washingtonpost nov2016}
“BERLIN — Two weeks ago, German intelligence agents noticed an unusual user in a chat room known as a digital hideout for Islamic militants. The man claimed to be one of them — and said he was a German spy. He was offering to help Islamists infiltrate his agency’s (In April 2016, the man began working for the BfV, assigned to monitoring potentially violent Islamists in Germany.) defenses to stage a strike.
Agents lured him into a private chat, and he gave away so many details about the spy agency — and his own directives within it to thwart Islamists — that they quickly identified him, arresting the 51-year-old the next day. Only then would the extent of his double life become clear.
…
It’s not only a rather bizarre, but also a quite scary, story that an agency, whose central role it is to engage in counterespionage, hired an Islamist who potentially had access to classified information, who might have even tried to spread Islamist propaganda and to recruit others to let themselves be hired by and possibly launch an attack”
USA 2017 (no lessons learnt)
US Army names Muslim chaplain spiritual leader of 14,000 mostly Christian soldiers {jihadwatch feb2017}
“Army Lt. Col. Khallid Shabazz, a Muslim chaplain, has accepted the job of handling the spiritual affairs of 14,000 mostly Christian soldiers.”
… find this Muslim Chaplin,Khallid Shabazz, on youtube …
“The Koran says don’t let the hatred of a people move you to deal with people unjustly. The Prophet Mohammed beheaded people who were extremely unjust to him. {youtube mar2015}”
– Army Lt. Col. Khallid Shabazz, March 2015
– Current US Chaplin (feb 2017), who is Muslim, in charge of spiritual guidance of 14,000 Christian soldiers says beheading is OK under Islam!
Historically, all invading armies first focus their attention on securing and taking control of the invaded state’s broadcasting capability. In the UK, this has already been achieved: negative discrimination has been all but abandoned. Just parade the disproportionate number of foreign and muslim announcers, so-called ‘specialists’, outside correspondents and researchers. Indeed, the BBC has a policy of positive discrimination with a particular penchant for muslims. Viewers/listeners see the effect of this discrimination every day.
I’m sure that those who really control the BBC on a day-to-day basis, see the annual £145 as jizya (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizya). Almost certainly they will refer to it as such in private conversations. Why would they not?
The BBC 2017 wage scandal, wages funded by the public under threat of prison, should be continued until the BBC changes.
The media should be using this on the front page, everyday, for the next 100+ days (as per the BBC Trump Campaign), this chance will soon disappear. The BBC having to report on itself (or not) will reveal the bias even more.
… let us travel back in time … only 3 years ago …
Panorama Comic Relief investigation: BBC boss Tony Hall wants postponed programme to be screened {mirror oct2013}
Lord Hall told MPs on the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee: “When you have a programme which is controversial, and right to be controversial, making big claims, and right to be making big claims, you shouldn’t set a transmission date.”
The Panorama programme is the first test of the BBC’s ability to investigate itself since the dropped Newsnight report into child abuse allegations against former BBC DJ Jimmy Savile.
…
Former Culture Secretary and ex-BBC reporter Ben Bradshaw said: “There are worrying parallels here with what happened over Savile, don’t you think?”
BBC TV Tax Payers request information on all payments made to all the arrested criminal paedophiles found in safe spaces in the BBC.
BBC TV Tax Payers request Gary Lineker and friends responds to all people (180,000 in 2013) who have been charged with not paying his wages, sorry I mean the TV Tax, sorry I mean avoiding the TV License, sorry I mean undocumented TV License usage.
Time for the BBC to say how much Top Gear/Chris Evans cost the BBC Tax Payer – I was not interested in the program so would like a refund from my enforced BBC TV Tax please.
‘Panic’ forces up Top Gear budget: BBC now lavishing an extra £200,000 an episode on the show as bosses fear it will fail {dailymail mar2016}
* Around £450,000 was spent when Jeremy Clarkson fronted the hit show
* But up to £650,000 is apparently now being spent as Chris Evans presents
“A lot of the money is going on the programme’s seven presenters. Mr Evans is being paid £3million over two-and-a-half years, partly funded by the BBC’s commercial arm, BBC Worldwide.
Meanwhile, former Friends star Matt Le Blanc is being paid £500,000 per series. (did he pay UK tax?)”
– Is Chris Evans still getting this pay even though the program failed? Is that why he is on £2.2m salary (paid by public under threat of prison)
– Can I have a refund as I never watched this program and can the BBC say how much the Top Gear reboot cost them in the end?
Oops – maybe I am a bit slow, but your comment made me think – guess that CE’s top Gear fees are on top of the ‘announced’ fees from last week?? Because Top Gear is produced by another company?
Hey, ‘unique’ and ‘vital’ do not come cheap. Apparently.
Lucky the funding model can adjust.
R4 4:30m The actress, Maxine Peak nominates her hero, a conservative capitalist.
NOT not really
“The actress, Maxine Peak nominates her working class hero, Ellen Wilkinson as a great life.
Ellen is regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of British * RADICAL LEFT * politics.
She joined the Communist party, met Lenin and Trotsky in Moscow
and then went on to become one of the Labour Party’s youngest people entering parliament in 1924.”
http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/time-off.html
Odd. Usually the BBC is keen to out scoop everyone.
http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/i-know-where-im-going.html
Clearly the BBC is unique in many ways. Or not saying.
I often think is this website just for folk like me,old paranoid fogies who think or know that the
BBC is biased ,to say the least. During the day I watched on one of the SKY channels about 40 minutes
of one , if not the favourite of all my musicals SOUTH PACIFIC and last night went to see
42ND STREET in the West End, which originates from the 1933 musical.
They brought back memories of watching these either at the cinema or in the case of
42nd street on the TV with my parents in the late 1950’S. I actually said to a friend
last night how my mum would of loved the show.
I read a review of 42nd Street in the Guardian and in typical Guardian and BBC analysis
the critic thought some of the songs by Harry Warren and lyricist Al Dubin were sexist. Oh for
crying out loud!! I began to think would the BBC ever put on the film of 42nd Street or
South Pacific again? As it happens Rogers +Hammerstein often covered racial prejudice or
social prejudice in their musicals. South Pacific, The Sound of Music, The King and I, Carousel,
Oklahoma. However in South Pacific there is a stereotype Polynesian main character by the
name of BLOODY MARY, she sings one of Richard Rogers best songs Bali Hai.
Can anyone remember the last time South Pacific was on the BBC? Ok it’s not as if it was
the DAM BUSTERS with the black Labrador with a name rhyming with Digger. Heaven forbid if
the BBC was to show this!! To be honest I am surprised they even show the 100 year commemoration
of Passchendael. I would of thought there would of been too many indigenous Brits for their liking.
No I don’t think we will see South Pacific or 42nd Street on the BBC again. Too politically incorrect for them.
And the diversity is of the wrong kind , so far as they are concerned.
Heard a couple of camp classics on “Front Row” telling me that the latest Meatloaf, Dylan juke box musicals are fab and great-whereas The Spice Girl musical isn`t?
They now like the Queen one and the Abba one, presumably because they were successful. They also like Carole Kings one and the Four Seasons one. My point?
No originality, creativity whatsoever-just pimping a song book and tacking some kind of nonsense narrative to link the hits and get some money out of Broadway.
Snobs, lazy and camp followers-not an original bone or spark of creativity in their bodies.
Pays well though, and the Guardian and BBC critics can enjoy the kitsch and costumes.
Think I prefer Soviet Realism to THIS patronising liberal guff.
Absolutely Alicia- I call them ” Karaoke Musicals. ” BUT 90% of the public like them
much more than an original musical. The reason is simple ,they know the tunes from
the Karaoke stuff.
I remember friends telling me when the first saw ” Les Mis” ” not a memorable song in the show. ”
And the irony of that is quite a few of the best tunes are very similar , I wont say plagiarized from
songs ,or music from other musicals or opera.. The obvious one being ” Bring him home” which is
the humming chorus from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly.But I better not get started on
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Puccini. Wrong website! Biased BBC ? sorry for this,just replying to
Alicia.
Glad you enjoyed it Foscari. I saw it 3 times in the 80’s when it appeared in the west end, and will see this version for the second time in October. Its one helluva of a show !
JHB on Talk Radio is arguing a very good case that socialism doesn’t work giving Venezuela as one example. Discussion happening now.
EDIT: discussion over. However now talking about robots taking over the world! Is that before or after the Muslims take it over?
It is not that socialism ‘doesn’t work’; it is these days simply ‘alt. abled’.
As in Finding Unpleasant Bits Are Repeating.
German study shows fake news appetite with far-right blog
“A fake news blog created by German university researchers found an eager audience among far-right sympathisers who shared racially charged stories. … That story reached 11,000 people within four days and was shared more than 150 times, German SWR radio reported. … free prostitutes for asylum seekers”
Dear BBC, you still have your fake far left news on your website which removes a nasty migrant from the story, I think it is still misleading people from September 2015.
Why not tell us how many people visited your BBC page and were taken in by the story?
Chaos as police stop Hungary migrant train – Gavin Hewitt – BBC -Sep 2015 @53s | BBC story
“… the a really distressing incident happened. A women who was carrying a small baby began crying for help (photo of lady carrying baby). One of her companions tried to help her (photo of man with women on track, riot police reaching towards them) Somehow there became a push and a shove with the police. She ended up on the railway lines (by the male refugee dragging her and the baby to the floor, but this is not reported by Gaving Hewitt @ BBC {youtube fullvideo}) with the riot police trying to pull her back, and this of course inflamed all the other people…”
-Gavin Hewitt – Sep 2015
BBC, can I suggest you tag the story as “FAKENEWS” and change the introduction to – “Male refugee forces pregnant women refugee holding child down onto a train track, police drag him away for her safety. Riot police then lift women with child off train track with tender arms.”
Sweden
“Underage girl sodomized at the Emmaboda Festival
Published 25 July 2017 kl 09.13
INTERIOR. An underage girl reported that she had been violated during the Emmaboda Festival in Småland, Sweden on Monday. Police say that they are taking the incident very seriously, writes Aftonbladet.”
The incident happened before the first band had played
Stew,
It is these men again. Muslims seem to have a thing about sodomy. Maybe that is one reason the BBC love them.
Sweden : BBC more or Less podcast : update on earlier story
Many more boys than girls in Sweden due to so called refugees
“123 boys for every 100 girls among 16 and 17-year-olds.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p059y73y
Item incluiudes a photo of “typical swedish children”
They said it’s cos refugees are typically claiming to be under 18’s cos that puts you in a privileged category
eg once accepted they have a right to bring in entire family
The update said
#1 The numbers won’t turn out that way, cos Sweden is enforcing the first country rule and expelling these seekers
so figures will drop to 100/110
#2 They claim the previous background level was 100/105 so it’s not a big leap
#3 Sweden is cracking down and less migrants will come in future
Labour Councillor who is evangelical Christian starts sending out anti gay tweets
Mother in the news “Kathryn Smith beat and stamped her baby daughter Ayeeshia to death. ”
is there something in the way a white woman would give her daughter an Islamic name ?
“Aisha was married to Muhammad at the age of six or seven, “
Channel 4 say “we spent £1.5bn outside London in last years”
..and how much did they spend in London ?
Typo Channel 4 say “we spent £1.5bn outside London in 10 last years”
Its annual budget is about £1bn
“2008 annual content budget of £598.6m ”
so in 10 years it spends £6bn on content , so £1.5bn is just 25% of that
So it spends 75% in London
Anybody else notice the prominence given by the BBC to the conviction of a Dane and some foreign named bloke in Britan for putting horsemeat in our Findus lasagnes back in 2013?
This follows some conviction in 2013 of a Dutch bloke who managed to get Irish, Polish and Rumanian horses through Bulgaria and the Sinta/Roma into the foodchains so we in Britain could taste the delights of Shergar and Dobbin.
Did I say “prominence”? You`ll know of course that the BBC said nothing.
Juncker wouldn`t like this, and it`s hardly chlorine on chickenskins is it? Where are UKIP and Brexit types? We need our food chains back so the EU can`t allow this louche regime of food inspection ever again.
This is NOT one the BBC etc are flagging up-I think that we should.
It was a scandal-and typically ignored by Junckers Bunker scum in W12.
The EU Horse Meat scam could have ran longer if it wasn’t for … Identification chips belonging to horses named Trak and Wiktor from the Lodz region of Poland, and a third Irish hunter horse called Carnesella Lady from county Galway were found in the meat in 2012.{bbc.co.uk jul2017}
– do you mean this story?
– not that once we all get identification chips we will at least know who we are eating!
{biasedbbc post}
Nephew found laptop that filmed his uncle being ‘murdered by fake policeman in sex game’
yet for 2 years police thought it was just a death from simple house fire.
“an accident and that a fire had been sparked by a faulty light which may have fallen on to a bed.”
That doesn’t sound like there was a proper investigation if you ask me. #PoliceFail
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-40779337
BBC R4 about 4:20pm Presenter says
” Do you think that if (Cameron’s) Big-Society scheme had worked , then we have avoided Brexit ?”
(said on tone of voice that implied Brexit is a bad thing
Baron Wei replied “yes the protest vote”
.. You Metrobubble idiots Brexit was NOT a protest vote ..it was a logical vote.
Stew,
FFS. ” Big society “. What the hell did that mean ? These people are mentally deranged .
The Big Society Network was set up in 2010 in order “to generate, develop and showcase new ideas to help people to come together in their neighbourhoods to do good things.
It was owned by a charity called The Society Network Foundation. During its first four years of existence the Big Society Network was funded with approximately £2 million of National Lottery funding and public-sector grants.
In July 2014, a National Audit Office report criticised the way that money was allocated to and used by the network and The Independent newspaper claimed that and the Charity Commission had begun an investigation into alleged misuse of funds by the network.In 2014 the Big Society Network was put into administration owing money to the government (the tax payer in reality) and an application was made to the Charity Commission to have the organisation wound up.
Only between 11% and 9% of respondents to a YouGov survey declared that the ‘Big Society will probably work’, while an overwhelming majority, between 68% and 73% of respondents, during the same time span, argued the opposite. In addition, a 2010 Ipsos-Mori poll found that 57% of respondents agreed that the Big Society was ‘just an excuse’ to save money by cutting public services.
See my comment – Big-Society scheme was never going to work so why bring it up? To make Cameron look good for something that never worked, but could have stopped Brexit even though it never worked?
Even the yougov poll said 11% decalred ‘Big Society will probably work’ – before it even started. But hey, we are the Government and we know best on how to spend/waste your money!
If only David Cameron had lowered Tampon VAT earlier, the EU would have looked excellent and then Brexit would never have happened.
R4 3:30pm Making History
They had an item about ” the Charter of the Forest which was made law 800 years ago in 1217.”
and suddenly up pops The Eco-Advocate: Professor Nicholas Robinson talking about the danger of Climate change
He heads ‘International Union for Conservation of Nature’
They also had a long segment about where the old Bolsheviks used to meet in London
Charlotte St (strangely near to Channel 4 ‘s original building)
And in Whitechapel
Lenin, Trotsky Stalin and Shirley Williams Mum ! met
Then 9pm R4 “Tonight on #insidehealth blah blah blah and gender bias”
To change the subject but not the deceit.
Has anyone else noticed that when a politician at local or sometimes even national level is being shown on screen giving their views their name and position is usally given. However only sometimes is their political allegiance shown. Is this perhaps their choice, or is it only shown if they are in a BBC approved party, or giving a BBC approved view?
Avoiding albeeb I watch PBS America. It’s been running a series about Clinton. I watched it with perspective on how Trump won against Hilary . And how, previously , bush won against al gore. And doing that you do a kind of counter factual of ‘what if’ 9.11 hasn’t had happened and all of the subsequent events would have been different.
I remember the day before 9/11 was a nice day and we seemed to be going into a happier better world. Waste of thought I guess.
“The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.We are the custodians of life’s meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.”
“A Universe Not Made For Us (Carl Sagan on religion)” – Carl Sagan
Enjoyed this, but think he`s wrong.
God and Jesus as revealed in the Gospels and in Jewish scripture is reasoned and very logical. There is no contradiction. Science asks the “how” questions”, whereas religion asks the “why” questions.
The likes of Newton and Einstein were religious people, as far as I`m concerned, Faraday and Martin Luther King too. Walesa and Solzhenitsyn.
Faith and conviction compel the best at times, there is a “social justice” within that makes our best reason, test and create something beautiful for God.
Sagan seems keen on showing “beauty” in his pictures and images-there surely is no scientific basis for beauty, let alone thankfulness is there, unless they are God add ons ?
I feel really sorry for people who no longer have the vocabulary or need to get theological backing for their positions, especially when it comes to what islam is doing and how secular humanism and Marxist materialism have given a mirage of meaning and purpose.
Far easier to belive in God and act accordingly-and if that`s not possible, then respect and be ready to argue your faith led opponents.
Dawkins has no answers which is why the BBC likes his like.
Islam at least makes room for a version of Jesus, and beileves in virgin births and miracles for him-more than most so called “Christian” demonimations!
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, nothing more, nothing less.
Not albeeb
Went to see Dunkirk. Got taken in by the hype. It’s not a great film but the cast is British and no yanks. The 1955 version in black and white is more emotionally engaging despite all the cgi thrown at the 2017 version. Don’t think there will be many oscars for this one. Others will think differently – the pictures was full .
I believe there is no CGI in “Dunkirk”. The director is old school and does not like it. He also shoots on to film rather than digital.
I have heard criticism of the film, but I think its heart is in the right place.
I don’t think many yanks will be turning up to see it either, if these comments following Mark Steyn’s review are anything to go by:
“John Wilson • Jul 30, 2017 at 09:50
I saw this movie Friday night hoping to get some perspective on how the British feel about the event. I was hoping to see heroism.What I saw was a small movie about small men.I wondered aloud to my wife if the film maker was projecting his own cowardice onto historic events. The most vivid picture was of the men in the beached boat trying to sacrifice each other to the German target practice. In my idealized world, I see British soldiers of 1940 all willing to take one for the team. As an American, I’ll have to wait to see what my British friends have to say about the movie.
John Wilson John Wilson • Jul 30, 2017 at 10:44
I forgot to mention that I did see 3 heroes: the Moonstone captain, the 2nd pilot, and the port master when he stayed for the French. I had hoped to see a movie chock full o’ heroes. I guess I’m an anachronism looking for heroes in a world content with survival. Funny thing that: when you’re content with survival, it never works out.”
“Small men”? No heroes? Implication of cowardice? I could fall out very seriously with this fool. He should stick to Batman films.
Mark Steyn’s review is quite good although I don’t generally give a stuff about film reviews.
Snowflake alert.
On bBBC London first headline story.
A family called Pike. Mother goes on holiday to Turkey with no travel insurance. Has heart attack and is in a serious condition.
Shock. Horror. The European Health Insurance Card does not apply to Turkey. Truly amazing. Not. So they are having to spend their own money on the healthcare of the lady.
The Beeb obviously want me to feel how unfair this is. It is after all their chosen first item
My problem is that I am not a snowflake so perhaps the family in question should have tumbled that Turkey is not in the EU and that travel insurance might have been a good idea.
The bBBC clearly think otherwise. #Justicefor…..somebodyorother.
Just say she’s a refugee … works everywhere else in the World …
“Art 89 of LFIP provides that “international protection applicants and status holders who are not covered by any medical insurance scheme and do not have the financial means to afford medical services” shall be considered to be covered under Turkey’s general health insurance scheme and as such have the right to access free of charge healthcare services provided by public healthcare service providers. “
Refugees, conditional refugees, subsidiary protection, applicants of international protection, and over 2 million Syrians which are “under temporary protection”.
Turkey, a signatory to the 1951 Geneva Refugee Convention and 1967 Protocol with geographical-limitation, faced with an overwhelming flow of asylum seekers during the last five years and the “Law on Foreigners and International Protection, No. 6458” that came into effect in April 2014 to provide a holistic approach to the issue.
Smile , that was a smile one for me.
Having be bought up with personal responsibility in mind and do not depend on any one else I always enjoy these stories . I get upset when fools bail these idiots out because they won’t learn to be self dependent.
The welfare state got out of control a long time ago. It was meant to be a safety net and not a way of life. No politician is brave or mad enough to take it on. Look what happened to IDS . After Brexit if economy is hit for a while the government may have to cut their bloated wasteful welfare bill – including funding for al Beeb and sale of the awful c4. The system will want revenge if they run the Diana tapes programme.
I love the ‘stories’ of people on cruises getting the squits!
Anybody would think that the great steaming boats full of passengers with no cleansing facilities applied to immigrants, but I may be wrong…
An interesting piece on the iPM on Radio 4 about the failed state of Venezuela.
They talk about the fact that the USA (note when they approve it’s the USA and not ‘Trump’?) has condemned the arrest of political opponents followed by the EU, although they don’t seem quite sure that the leader denounced as a criminal actually is so.
They talk about the oil riches of the country, and that it was one of the richest countries in the world, and how the noble Ugo shavezzzzzzz used that wealth in the pursuit of social justice and ‘equality’ (whatever that means). They failed to mention that Venezuela continues to be run by Socialists and they have brought it to its knees. Instead they blame the falling price of oil and never once did they mention Socialism at all.
Eddie Mair the reasonably well renumerated public servant was on hand earlier this evening to read some words which explain why Venezuela is a dangerous basket case society. Apparently they were the richest country in S America thanks to oil wealth and then they elected a government which lowered inequality and improved the social programmes.
Then what happened was the oil price went down and now there is chaos.
Seriously who writes this cr*p? Leon Trotsky??
ha ha stoopid socialists just like the scottish nazi party betting everything on a volatile commodity
Under the Scots Nazis, Scotland would have been like Venezuela with sleet.
All learned from the Mugabe book of economics!
After the hoo haa of the bBBC top salaries the more gullible in society go back to sleep and forget to consider those many other public sector institutions for whom telephone number salaries for the ‘in crowd’ are just an expected way of life.
Take for instance Haringey Council. There the deputy CEO, one Tracie Evans is getting by on £153,000 , who appears to be also acting as Chief Finance Officer,
Click to access senior_salaries_gt_50k.pdf
Can this be the same Tracie Evans,who, according to the Tottenham Journal, while working as Haringey Council’s Chief Operating Officer, was reprimanded for forging her co-director’s signature on some company accounts back in 2011 or 12?
http://www.tottenhamjournal.co.uk/news/politics/haringey-finance-chief-guilty-of-financial-misconduct-in-private-consultancy-firm-1-3749593
Imagine the furore at the bBBC if that had happened in the private sector and the employee continued to work in a senior position. But I suppose in the London socialist republics, anything goes.
They all move around, don’t they Sluff.
Two years max in a cushy number, then straight into another place with a huge increase and much enlarged pension.
When I want to do something more interesting than watch paint dry, I’ll tot up the salaries of the sorry top lot in Kent County Council. Most of them do exactly bugger all.
Attack on a mosque in Afghanistan. Probably Asians, men with psychological problems, or the far right.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40797016
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/835734/explosion-mosque-attack-herat-afghanistan
Sunni v. Shiite.
Plus ca change.
As an OT aside, I was planning to name a lunatic speed boat ‘Shiite Hawk’ – sources say(c. BBC) this would refer to a desert eagle (nothing to do with US firearm).
Needless to say it was VETOED by Mrs 7.
🙂
A new day, and I hope I don’t have to listen anymore about how breastfeeding at home and in public should be spoken of in schools ! Dear God, what IS it about this generation of lactating mothers that they want to expose themselves in public anyway ? Previous generations made sure their babies were fed before they went out, and if the occasion arose to feed baby whilst out, they went off in private to do the deed. We’re told that the likes of me has the problem of seeing babies fed in public – well, actually yes I do have a problem with that. Would I want to see a baby have its nappy changed in public while I’m having lunch ? er no; do we see toddlers have their bottoms wiped whilst having a coffee? er, no. There are certain functions in life that are not for public consumption, and rightly so. When in Japan recently I was in a coffee shop, and it wasn’t until it was pointed out, but a young lady having coffee with her friends was feeding her baby at the same time. The baby was happily feeding under a specially designed cover-up. Splendid idea and everyone was happy. Shame those mums claiming ‘their rights’ don’t have a little more decorum in this country. Rant over.
My wife breastfed our three and I totally agree with you.
We were to tight to buy formula milk.
Good rant.
Brissles, as a mere mortal could you please advise me of the age when a baby should be weaned. My personal and familial (younger siblings) memory is a bit dim at present. I thought it was at about one year of age.
If it is around twelve months, then that would completely negate this so-called ‘initiative’.
I agree with No.7. You are quite right in your rant.
Gorka making Sukhar look like the amateur he is.
Sukhar really looking complete clown on russia colusion, on Hardtalk.
Gorka wouldnt let him keep shifting the goal-posts, so Sukhar got nasty, and was ;ut in his place for that aswell.
These beeboids really do believe they can talk or treat anyone just how they like, they think people fear them that much.
Just a general moan about something that’s continually driving me mad… the overuse & misuse of the word CLEARLY + variations. Do all media types get trained by the same people… tell them it’s clear etc & they will think of themselves as dim if they think it isn’t clear. PLEASE drop it.
Yet another major reshuffle of the channels on Freeview today. I read somewhere (here, perhaps?) that Freeview was brought about to suit the BBC. If that is true it is yet another reason to despise the organisation.
Every time the channels are rearranged I hope there will be something worth watching but there never is. Where I am watching today, they don’t even broadcast BBC Four in HD, which is a measure of how amateurish and crass the BBC is. The one channel which would really benefit from HD for its art, nature and faux science programmes and it’s not shown in high quality. They reserve that for Eastenders.
It cost a lot of money to establish Freeview (both public and private, given the new equipment people had to buy) and yet it is still complete rubbish. Endless repeats, recycled American bilge, pornography, +1 channels for the dwindling handful that still watch live TV, shopping channels for the deranged… all to protect the BBC’s poll tax.
What a mess British broadcasting is. And we all know who is to blame.