The BBC were ecstatic yesterday as it thought Brexit was broken by May’s double dealing….getting a bit shriller today as the Remain joy is dashed….ironically by the BBC’s own reporting of the slippery concession May made to the IRA.
Lots to talk about I’m sure…list it all here…..
I’d just like to introduce a little light relief, after all the Brexit angst, into the mix.
We’ve just had that annual love fest for the lefty art establishment, the ( utterly ridiculous) Turner Prize.
I used to find this pretentious, back slapping claptrap immensely irritating. Just watching these preening poseurs picking up enormous and undeserved prize money drove me up the wall. Now I just laugh at it.
This year’s winner is 63 year old Lubaina Himid, “a woman of colour” and the oldest person to take the prize.
Her “art” seems to consist primarily of old editions of the Guardian (natch!) with some of her images splodged over the headlines. There were also a few pots with black people painted on them.
Most of her contributions looked as though a seven year old could have done them but they come with a political angle, a sort of “Black Lives Matter” for the art establishment.
The Guardian (and the Beeb) have told us that Lubaina has been “overlooked for most of her life.” The majority of her art was made during her “wilderness years.”
Take a gander at this year’s Turner Prize and I think you’ll understand why her art has been overlooked.
It’s crap!
Jeff
I thought The Lubyanka was in Russia.
Ah well, you see Jeff your reaction is understandable but, in essence, so typical of the uninformed. It is a sad fact that so few have the depth of understanding, the nuanced appreciation, that fine level of mental tuning to allow the momentous message Hamid’s work brings to the artistic world to fully impinge – and thereby embrace the psyche of those gifted enough to be counted among today’s true disciples. In short, if you will allow me to suggest, BBC2 and the Guardian will enable you to start on the journey of self-awareness.
Be strong, be resolute, be like Will Gompertz.
PS I think it fair to add that Will Gompertz credentials – have to confess, not sure how to apostrophise a ‘z’ – whatever, his credentials rely heavily on being an acquaintance of Alan Yentob together with walking up and down Dover street occasionally.
As a student at the Central School, back in the 60s, I too walked and wondered in Dover street, the experience planting the very firm, and I believe, educated impression that ‘modern art’ is absurdly over-valued and self-centered garbage and has been for decades. It is sold by the same sort of people who infect PR, advertising, the media and most especially the BBC.
Why do they never have a panel of kids to judge these art contests? As a primary school teacher, I find that they can spot a phoney a mile off, and always choose the best picture,
Only applies up until the age of 10/11 when they turn into sheep like their arty parents.
Mishal Hussain interviewed the winning artist Lubaina Himid on BBC R4 Today this morning. The Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire’s pots run the standard post-colonial guilt themes: Bristol / Liverpool all built on slavery, black faces on whitey’s-trad-shaped crockery, ooh the irony!
Also Today ran an extended PR piece on behalf of hipster ROP-ers, featuring (i) a right-on halal farmstead in Oxfordshire where they whisper the Islamic incantation to the animals prior to slaughter; and (ii) a young American female muslim who has set up an app that delivers quotes & interpretation from the Koran to one’s mobile device.
I and – I suspect – many others, would have appreciated a more interrogative approach. What exactly is un-Islamic about “so-called” Islamic state? What do those interviewed know about “Taqiya”?
Later in the day – after 9am – we had an earnest prog about the importance of combating “fake news”!
It had been a long car journey, and by that stage I was shouting at the radio : – D
Then a news item on the discovery of a bomb & knife plot to murder the PM. No mention of the ROP but the suspect’s name was a giveaway.
P.S. last night’s PM featured an interview with the grandfather of a victim of the Manchester attacks. IHO one of the main problems is shortage funding for the police. Border control and ROP ideology didn’t get a mention. I feel for him, but victim-hood does not necessarily bestow expertise, and al-Beeb shouldn’t pretend it does.
So instead of letting poor migrants INTO her mansions, Saint Lily is throwing a family of Italian migrants OUT of one of her homes, in the cold, at Christmas of all times.
Has the woman no heart?
Answer: only when there’s a camera crew present to record her fake tears.
The beebistan website is not touching the story at all, which is strange given that it has all the ingredients they love: a leftie celeb, migrants, homelessness…
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/5063913/lilly-allen-tenant-flat-row-removal-van-pictures/
Re your earlier comments about, and links to, the ‘investigation’ into Trump/Russia, TPO, for which many thanks, the big problem seems to be Sessions. In particular, him recusing himself from the Russian investigations, setting the scene for Rosenstein to appoint Mueller. From there on the appointment of a stream of ‘impartial’ lawyers, about as ‘impartial’ as our own dear BBC, to the Mueller team. Half of them Democratic donors. And people like SHTRONK.
Food for thought: here in the UK we don’t have a Trump at the helm. But we do have a lot of people like Sessions in the UK cabinet. And they would be the good news, as -over the hill- waits Jeremy.
The odd thing is I don’t listen to any of these people … intentionally … article
They’re not even ‘stars’, as mentioned in the blurb, but just well over-paid autocue-readers, incapable of treading outside the footprints their under-managers set out for them.
As for people like Norton, he was the irritating prick on Father Ted, who just annoyed everyone back then, and still does. Can’t stand him, but then most normal people can’t either. Don’t follow football, so can’t comment on Lineker, but he’s already trash here as he’s a remoaner numpty.
Can’t say I know much about any of the others, except Humphrys, who is well pst his listen-to-date but there’s a damn good hospital in desperate need of funds if we can get them all to fuck off.
Steve Wright-sack the lot of the rest of them. Keep Steve though!
Good balloon game this Christmas,
Steve Wright ? I gave up on him years ago when he shouted his way through his programme. Alan Shearer refused to sign autographs for the kids when Newcastle played non-league Stevenage in the early rounds of the FA Cup. Alex Jones couldn’t interview her way out of a tea-cup. Claudia Winkleman – lucky to have a media savvy mother, Eve Pollard. Stephen Nolan ? who he ????
Steve has little to commend him, but he IS from South London and seems to have had an upbringing that we`d relate to. Normal.
Likes Essex girls too, so I`m loyal to him.
Used to like “Ask Elvis” as a student, and did a good David Bowie tribute last year (Lady Grinning Soul, so chosen like a real fan).
Like Ken Bruce-seems to have some sense of humility and non-conformity as far as I can tell.
0. Islam asks you to have zero thought about it’s origins and practices. And make zero comparisons with successful cultures.
1. Islam asks for one simple thing. Islam asks for everything – finance, religion, police, morals, schools, law, food, science, clothes, art and your body to be Islamic.
2. Islam only has two problems – Muhammed and Mohammed. Once the first problem has been solved then the second one can be solved easily.
3. Islam offers three things. In the Koran it offers Peace, War and then a Continuation of War. In your life Islam wants you to subjugate yourself, subjugate your family and then subjugate everyone else.
– Just found a reason to add zero. “FOXNEWS: British media are reporting that two men (terrorists) due in court on terror charges plotted to assassinate (Islamic method: bomb and cut her head off) Prime Minister Theresa May.”
How danger affects the life of a PM is also good PRs when that PM is plotting to remain so plainly and we just found out that the Manchester attack could have been avoided
All schools should have this lot of BBC grooming monkeys on a watch list.
Two faces on already-how many more faces will they need to call Crime Stoppers on if they dare to get neat the school gates? Must be hundreds of the buggers,
Would make a fine big chart anyway-let`s do one for the schools.
Avoid these people-they may have sweeties, but so did their Jimmy Savile too!
Maybe it could help students by showing the footage caught on mobile of CNN orchestrating and positioning the renta muslim mob that they gathered together to convince naïve viewers that an impromptu crowd of Muslims had gathered to show their solidarity with the London Bridge atrocity. That was the one that the Beeb also showed and promoted.
useful
Blimey! How long has NI been part of Poland?
Beltane,
As the Islamification of our country continues apace I suspect that increasing numbers of Brits will wish that we were run by a government that took its lead from Poland and Hungary.
Stew,
Certainly sounded like it the last time I walked through our town.
A Polish family have just bought the house opposite me, good area, not cheap, so I was surprised it was bought by foreign nationals. There are several houses around me, a well established and aspired to private estate we had to work on moving to when finding our second marital home, that are rented to Poles as older residents die and inheritors wait for the values to increase before they sell.
Their youngest child was born here, starts school next year, not a word of English. He’s a mechanic, she’s a chlldminder working from home with what seem to be all Polish kids, so with cash-in-hand jobs like that you have to wonder how a mortgage was secured. Still, there are worse neighbours to have.
As a childminder she will be being paid for by U.K. taxpayer subsidising the childcare costs of those other Polish mothers.
Yes Peter, or black market cleaning, catering, shop or warehouse jobs, often part-time. Many of the legitimate low skilled jobs will also be part-time with one person taking two or three on top of their child benefit and tax credits. Although there are many who don’t seem to work at all once they qualify for benefits and start families. The Eastern European work ethic is a bit of an urban myth.
Many of these casual jobs used to be done by local teenagers or students who, in bBbc news yesterday, find it more difficult to find jobs such as these now. No shit. I don’t think this reason was mentioned by them although I’m sure Brexit was.
Rich,
Ditto the Lithuanians near me: very low paid jobs so the State is supporting the ‘tenant’ of the rented house which I find, recently, is rented to the woman alone so, with 2 children, the benefit is high. Perhaps that’s why she is able to run around in a fairly new, top of the range BMW. Moreover, I discover that her cohabitee has been with her permanently for the 5 years tenancy. No squeak from the landlord. I whistleblow to the DWP. No apparent action at all leading me to conclude that there is another set of rules for EU nationals claiming benefits.
G,
Not surprised at their apparent inaction.
If someone working in a Jobs & Benefits Office (JBO) in their Customer Enquiry Team (CET), ie, the people who deal face to face with claimants, known as customers, catches or expects someone sitting in front of them of benefits fraud or attempted fraud they have to contact the Fraud Squad, not their real name, by email using a template and this, when received by the Fraud Squad boss, is then allocated to an Investigator when one is available. This could be days or weeks and depends on the initial information received being thorough and correct, the i s dotted and ts stroked, if it is to be passed on and investigated at all. The amount of money doesn’t matter to bureaucracy, all of these possible opportunities to recover fraudulently received government monies are treated with the same level of urgency.
This happens even if the Fraud Unit are in the same building as the CET. They could be in the next room or even at the next desk. It doesn’t matter, procedures must be followed and positions justified.
No word of mouth or acting on a hunch or colleagues cooperating, it’s really all targets, and managing the workload of part-timers and jobsharers, and making sure no customers’ rights of privacy are infringed upon. It’s a culture of sixth form politics,empathy and talking shops taking precedence over action.
This part of our civil service is as lazy and pampered as most of the rest of it, at all levels, and they do not give a shit about austerity or the need to properly manage public money. Is it any real surprise that so many of these workers are cheerleaders for the causes of Labour and Remain? They are an inefficient and ineffective joke. Remind you of any other recipient of public monies?
‘This part of our civil service is as lazy and pampered as most of the rest of it, at all levels, and they do not give a shit about austerity or the need to properly manage public money. Is it any real surprise that so many of these workers are cheerleaders for the causes of Labour and Remain? They are an inefficient and ineffective joke. Remind you of any other recipient of public monies’?
Great statement, Rich! Spot on!
Applies to just about everyone in Kent County Council.
They’re a wasteful, expensive, tiresome bunch of very highly-paid nonentities, who really do nothing except piss our taxes up against the wall. Their record of achieving anything is just woeful.
They’re an absolute disgrace.
also coming on JHB
“Can’t the 1 in 4 obese nurses share their cakes and pasties
… with the ones that are *supposedly* using food banks?”
Bariatric beds for all!
Reinforced hammocks at the nursing station?
Our NHS in 2017. And sickness leave( Bulimia Cyclical Disorder) at an all time high. Oh-AND smoking?
Now, you and I might think this is due to lack of fatty willpower, too many lardy cakes and overpayment, too much time on their screens. No-this will be “stress”…”overwork”…”lack of training in occupational therapies” and of course-“austerity cuts”. Do fat angels of mercy fly as well I wonder?…cherubs and syllabubs….
If any lefty ever accuses Brillo of being right wing biased – see his interrogation of Greg hands MP – over the incompetent conservative mess that is DUP Brexit negotiating and the reports created on the projected impact of Brexit on Blighty.
A case study in a slimy Tory mp being roasted followed nicely by a Labour mp being roasted because labour wants to borrow £25 000 000 000 for ‘investment’ without is costing anything – or was it £500 000 000 000 – which is my understanding of what a billion actually is. Even all though zeros don’t make it mean much.
I wonder if this is mrs mays’ last PMQ ? For the record I wrote to my MP ids – who I wholeheartedly support – to encourage him and JRM and the others in their real campaign for Blighty.
Thanks to this site I’m aware of the existence of Jon Sopel, the North American editor for the BBC and his virulent hate for everything about President Trump – and last night I actually got to listen to the chump for a couple of minutes while on a work break. Huw Edwards had him on to discuss the President’s intentions in moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and he asked Sopel why Trump was doing it and why now. Sopel didn’t know – “that’s a very good question, Hew, and no one I’ve spoken to in Washington seems to know.” or words to that affect. If the ignorant chump had any journalistic integrity whatsoever he would know that the U.S. Congress unanimously passed “The Jerusalem Embassy Act” way back in 1995 – it passed 374-47 in the House of Representatives and 93-5 in the Senate – but the act of actually implementing the Law has been continuously kicked down the road by every President since by the issuance of National Security waivers. Obama’s last waiver ran out at midnight December 5th, and President Trump has decided not to extend it. That is the why and the why now for the woefully ignorant Jon Sopel, Huw Edwards and everyone else at the BBC – the current President actually has a pair of testicles.
Laws are made for breaking or ignoring. Come dream with me and the undocumented dreamers and hold hands … oh, is that a knife?
Coop-
It must be terrible for a prospective president to make a promise in the campaign and then follow it when in power.
I have limited knowledge about the issue and would have thought Jerusalem would be best belonging to no one and every one. But that s just a left footer like me. Blood shed and the Holy Land is madness .
As for Sopel -his bias and hate is consistent – the beauty
My Bible Series for Advent has LOADS of references to Jerusalem in the readings set for them. Isaiah?…the Psalms?…at least 100 thus far as i`m counting. There`ll be more i`m sure.
Funnily enough not ONE mention of Jerusalem(Al Quds) in the Koran though-clearly too far away, full of Jews and not on Muhammads satnav at all. Ah but-once the Romans booted the Jews out and to the for winds by way of punishment and exile-the “Palestinians”-subjects of the Roman province-decide that the Jews won`t be back any time soon,and took the leasehold. But NOT the Freehold-this is G-ds alone to give. And He gave it to Israel/Judah and the Jewish people. Like it or not-G-ds call, not ours.
No-Palestine is merely Jordan and Syria-it has no claim to Jerusalem apart from illegal squatting of Jewish land, once the Romans had wiped the Jews away in the mid 2nd Century. The best that Islam has is some dream that Muhammad had, as he flew off to heaven on a unicorn( maybe Emirates, not sure)from a tower in Al Quds…so it`s thought.
Ossies Dream is far more believable-he DID get to Wembley and his knees-as yet confirmed, but who`s not to say-may WELL have gone all trembly? But I`m not claiming Buenos Aires as a suburb of Melksham am I?
Chris:
Apparently Mohammed (pbuh) flew to a place he called al-Quds one night on a winged horse, as you do. Back in time for breakfast and sex with a nine year old no doubt.
Now muslims choose to site “al-Quds” in Jerusalem. Hmm.
Problem 1: Mohammed (pbuh) didn’t fly to al-Quds on a winged horse. Winged horses don’t exist. They have never existed. They will never exist. Therefore Mohammed (pbuh) did not fly to al-Quds on a winged horse. The muslims have no claim to al-Quds because his flight on a winged horse plainly never happened.
Problem 2: Where the hell is al-Quds? The Koran won’t tell you. Jerusalem was very well known at the time. It even had a name. Jerusalem. So if Mohammed (pbuh) had flown on his winged horse to Jerusalem, why not say so? Where did “al-Quds” come from?
Problem 3: The islamic religion was founded by a man who thought God was speaking to him in a cave. Sadly, God was telling him it was OK to murder people, steal their land and property, and rape their wives and children. What could possibly go wrong? Believing that he rode a non-existent winged horse to a non-existent place called “al-Quds” is the least of their problems. Or ours.
Chris
The Quranic passage that talks about the “night journey” of Mohammad to the “farthest mosque” took place sometime in the year 621 while the mosque in Jerusalem was not built till the year 705 AD. Which means, to whichever mosque Mohammad flew, it certainly was NOT in Jerusalem!
While King David made Jerusalem the capital of Israel, never in the history of the world was Jerusalem ever a capital city of an Arab country, certainly not one called Palestine which NEVER existed in antiquity.
The North American editor Sloppy Sopel obviously thinks he does not have to pay any attention to what Trump says. And quite likely he thought Trump wouldn’t win in 2016 and probably did not look at Trump’s Facebook account at all:
I add the Facebook link here (but I am not sure how it will finally display):
Only fulfilling a solemn electoral pledge isn`t he?
Thought the BBC would approve of this willingness to follow through on a manifesto pledge-God knows, they moan eniough when Politians DON`T do “this kinda t`ing”. But the BBC seem decidedly uppity-some political promises like Jerusalem, Brexit or walking out of Climate Change wind tunnels in Paris are NOT to be honoured.
Thank you Mr Trump. But the BBC says we`ll not like the Muslims when they get angry afterwards-and the BBC harpie on the news tells me there are two cases for the Old Bailey on Dec 20th, re attempting to kill Mrs May or tell mates where Prince George is going to school. Oh Mr Trump-you`re making the Muzzies angry-it`s all been going so well until this!
Agree Cooper – I didn’t really understand why Trump did this and so looked up the history.. easy to see…It’s a bit like North Korea..all previous presidents knew it was a problem but just kept passing on it…until Trump.
Sopel is a slightly simple man with a huge Trump chip on his shoulder and like the BBC would rather imagine history to fit their ‘narrative’ than examine it for truth
C_M, superb research and post. Some of Sopel’s no doubt vast salary & expense allowance should be handed to you.
Sopel did not sound a happy bunny on TODAYay.
I do not rate President Trump that much but I applaud him for 1. upsetting Jon Sopel, 2. having some guts or intestinal fortitude as the cousins like to call it (esp. in light of content of your post and all his predecessors who bottled it), 3. upsetting Jon Sopel. and, 4. upsetting that guy, that little grumpy dude, what’s his name? – who is the BBC’s North America Editor.
I’m not going to elaborate on all the reasons why I think Trump has to succeed in his presidency, but he has my gratitude for not doing what every politician does when it comes to difficult and delicate problems – namely in kicking the can down the road for future generations to deal with. The West is particularly at fault in doing that when it comes to the issue of Islam, and decades of appeasement has done nothing other than making it more difficult to resolve in the future. Whether Trump succeeds in getting any kind of lasting peace in the Middle East is debatable – but at least he is determined to try and do it. And upsetting Jon Sopel is a bonus.
If the diminutive little bile-spurter Sopel doesn’t know anyone in Washington who can tell him what’s going on, then perhaps he’s so far out of his depth, he can reapply to the bbbc for a new post, hopefully in Rotherham.
Common sense tells me that he doesn’t know for two reasons: – 1) nobody bothers to talk to him and 2) nobody else does either.
He’s supposed to be a ‘journalist’ for God’s sake, not a prick on the end of a phone, waiting for calls.
The Strange Death Of Europe – Douglas Murray (1 of 2) Audiobook {youtube}
“We hear of times past, where our ancestors were faced with tribulation and had to overcome it. They had an option, fight for change and sanity and thus secure a brighter future or watch in silence and cowardness as the looming dark clouds approach to precipitate their madness. “
“UK electoral system faces ‘perfect storm’ of threats, says watchdog”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42250010
So, what threats does the BBC head straight for?
Now, I don’t know if that’s partly because good Sir John failed entirely to notice it, but it’s telling that there seems not to be a solitary reference in that entire article to postal votes. These are surely a threat to the integrity of the electoral system of a magnitude vastly in excess of any interference from Mr Putin. Crafty Mr Putin is evidently too stupid to disguise the fact that he has a finger in every digital pie, but any influence must be dwarfed by certain sections of the community using postal votes to vote for their entire, very extended family.
As many of those who have commented seem to have twigged.
Has brave Sir John even LOOKED at this years fiddles. Muslims, students and home bankers for labour stitch ups in university towns, Muslim hotspots and Labour rottern boroughs? Scandals aplenty-but as yet , not one step taken to address this.
bbc and a bunch of children talking about fake news
children who hate donald trump
childrens mental health suffering from anxiety
negative news causes anxiety and damages childrens mental health
child says brexit causes anxiety , see above line
bbc ruining childrens mental health see above line
oldies spread fake news with their terrible opinions (ie its fake if you dont like it)
children cant filter out fake news as well as oldies (but oldies were all affected by the russians)
honestly this program is a joke
under 10s more affected by fake news,
really really your primary school age children pays attention to the news
you really need to look after you babies and let them be children you complete bunch of morons
some one texted in to say the BBC were the biggest purveyors of fake news on the planet
and the beeboid started to lose it and went on the attack you could hear the hatred and bile rising in his voice
and the latest quote “how to cope with this deluge of fake news that comes from everywhere except the BBC”
BBC teaching kids how to spot fake news. A bit rich from an organisation that thinks men and women are the same, all cultures are equal and Islam is a religion of peace.
What next? Rotherham social services coming in to give advice on how to keep children safe?
1400 child sadistic rapes turned into a programme called ‘3 Girls’ to hide the real number … fake programmes and fake news!
to be fair wasnt 3 girls rochdale and the number 30 something (claimed/known of)
as opposed to the rotherham 1400 that got its own program called 0 ‘Girls’
lies by ommision
the mantra not all muslims just a tiny minority
Note on Rotherham: According to Andrew Norfolk in The Times on 24 February 2016, “The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has begun 55 (October 2016 56) investigations into alleged police misconduct linked to Rotherham child sex crimes. It has received complaints against 92 named officers. An investigation into all past sex grooming cases in the town, begun in June and led by the National Crime Agency, has identified more than 300 suspects and 9,000 lines of inquiry.” In April 2017 there were 14,055 lines of enquiry. In October 2016 the NCA confirmed Professor Jay’s 1,400 still appears a sound estimate. On 11 February 2017, there were more than 100 active investigations into CSE in Rotherham. In November 2017 Operation Stovewood” were actively engaged with 239 victims. According to the 2011 census, there were around 3,000 Muslim men of working age in Rotherham. If 300 of these are suspects, that’s one in every ten Rotherham Muslim men of working age who are police suspects.
and even that presumes the police can identify all the suspects / perps
Note on Keighley: On the basis of 2011 census data, one in every 250 Keighley Muslim men of working age were in the dock for the one 2016 rape case
Rotherham in today’s news
Blame the BBC.
Didn`t they first come up with some hippie chick comedy show called “Take Three Girls”. And didn`t the Muslims just act on this suggestion from the BBC? Albeit with their legendary inability to do maths, so took a few more to be on their own safe side?
The Left always have a million at THEIR counts on “Grenfell” “Orgreave” etc-but there`s only ever ten marchers st UKIP, Football Lads and License Fee demos.
Good old Met doing the counts as ever. Must be true.
chris, ah but, no but, the original had a catchy signature tune.
Every thing since has been accompanied by awkward silences and the shuffling of papers, files, tea cups & coffee mugs and the sound of feet leaving rooms and doors closing quietly.
Yes it was good-was it ” Night Flight” by Bert Janschs band?
Close, but no cigar. ‘Light Flight’ by Pentangle.
BB,
“BBC teaching kids how to spot fake news.” Absolutely: its akin to have given the BBC’s Jimmy Saville free reign to roam a children’s home. Oh! hang on though. That is a reality is it not?
Interesting news from Germany – http://newobserveronline.com/236-invader-centers-attacked-this-year-in-germany/
Note the German Government is offering a bribe (taxpayers money) to ‘assist’ the invaders to go home. But surely, there’s only one person that should foot the bribe bill – Merkel – after all, she invited the invasion with no consent from the German taxpayer.
Didn`t bother to watch PMQ, but did catch the last bit with May spluttering something silly about Stoke to a squit on her own side. Must have been all of 19 this lad.
But immediately when PMQ ended-wherever you go on Freeview , there was “analysis” Kuennsberg, Faisal, Neil and assorted chinless Tories and snippy commies all under their ragged flags of irrelevance. Singing their regimental songs that nobody now cares for.
My point?
When did all this “expert rush to judgement and stating the bleeding banal or obvious”-and all on our tab on Freeview to be rolled over again and again? Whence came it?
Did it start with Clough, Dougan, Hill and Allison etc on thise interminably useless windbag “World Cup Panels”of 1973/4 etc? Not enough to watch the footy-but we needed pointless thick “personalities” to read the runes and get a wad from the producers for extending the airtime taken from 90 mins to three hours?
Since then, all we`ve had are food critics, dance critics, home experts, gymnastic and ice skating prisspots, sheer dressage banalities, and “best forelegs, top forelocks in Show”.
Perpetual critiques by the media of nothing worth a wet wipe.
Dance, acts, show ponies,food presentations etc…have we all lost sense of reality?
For this ringmaster crap from ” Her Satanic Majestiies Request” now permeates the political elite. Who the fuck CARES what Faisal or Laura, Andrew or Kay think about May and PMQs “performance”?
Nobody voted for the political arm of the Media Parties that are BBC dominated, but now this lot of nomarks feel emboldened enough to presume to judge our elected representatives. WE do that Kuennsberg and Islam…now piss off and get a job between you. Hot airing gobshites, doing stool analysis of dancing monkeys is NOT politics,,,it`s gossip.
All this analysis-anal lies-leads to paralysis. The left want that-we want Trump honoured and a howlingly hard Brexit that kills Alastair Campbell with a coronary…dare to dream eh?
Just bear this in mind when listening to any of the BBC output about the US move of the Embassy to Jerusalem.
This was a unanimous vote of the US senate 90 – 0 in favour https://www.timesofisrael.com/senate-unanimously-passes-bill-marking-50-years-since-jerusalem-reunification/
So when the BBC in all their pompous HATE of the President are yet again provably generating fake news as it wasn’t him who decided this.
BBC Leeds doing its #DieselsRPaedos campaigning
‘UK electoral system faces perfect storm of threats.’
Apparently ‘Russian meddling on social media’ is a problem. Someone posting something on social media is not a substantive threat. What is a real and proven problem is members of a certain peaceful community committing voter fraud on an industrial scale, as well as telling people they must vote a certain way or their God will be upset. This undermines the very fabric of democracy upon which our freedom is based; there should be outrage that any group should seek to subvert it in this way, but of course the Beeb is reticent. Their article mentions Tower Hamlets in passing, choosing instead focus on the issue of ‘Russian meddling.’ Once again they downplay the real and present danger whilst focusing on an imaginary bogeyman.
They honestly think they are the ones to lead the fight against fake news? They seem incapable of saying or doing anything without this compulsive desire to deceive.
The BBC’s current lead story in their Technology News Section is a pile of shit, literally:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42251421
Thank you for giving me a laugh! On the serious side though – it is worrying for the future of those who think this is important.
One Laura Benson – a Liberal Democrat Council has been suspended from her party, according to al Beeb, because she wrote on her Facebook page how the president of the United States should be beheaded.
I assume this has been reported to the US federal authorities because I understand it is a federal offence to threaten the president . Maybe she ll be extradited…. al Beeb reported it with due neutrality in the same way that the plan to kill the PM was reported – when they named those charged – they only gave the name of one – and it was not the one called ‘mohammed’ – I wonder why?
Time Magazine Person of the Year : The people who “Broke the silence on sexual abuse”
– Someone could do a photoshop showing the faces of people who have been fighting to expose sexual abuse cover ups for years
Is Harvey WeinsteinVerified account the man who created the global conversation around sexual misconduct? Did he win the award?
If only the abuse victims in Rotherham and Rochdale had launched a ‘movement’. Perhaps they weren’t properly advised by their PR and social media teams?
A few ‘rotten apples’ in the higher echelons of the entertainment industry represent the acceptable face of sexual impropriety. Which is neatly solvable by fostering a more equitable working culture. The perpetrators express shock, go to therapy, ask the public for forgiveness for their errant ways.
Re-education for the win.
Simples. Isn’t it?
Facebook bans women for saying “men are scum”
Enrichment news
Benefits of enrichment from Romania
SG,
As from Westmonster – http://www.westmonster.com/convicted-romanian-sex-attackers-come-to-britain-and-rape-again/
I’ll bet we won’t hear this news from our, ‘most trusted’ BBC.
If the BBC only report selected news
then that is deception by omission
and reporting without full context is also deception
therefore over all #Biasedbbc is *a FakeNews beauty*
Times : Africa can do more to solve the migrant crisis,
Instead of demanding more aid, its leaders should tackle corruption and economic failure
reproduced here
https://www.almendron.com/tribuna/africa-can-do-more-to-solve-the-migrant-crisis/
BTW Since the BBC claims it own output is middle of the road, yet I can find many such non-lefty articles in the Times
that suggests that the Times must be some untra-rightwing paper ..it isn’t
SG,
Africa: the open ‘sink-hole’ for aid. Play back any news you like from yesteryear and I’ll bet it is the same as current African news. It needs a good dose of colonialism dare I say.
How is it possible that I can be typing Theresa May assassination into the search engine of the Beeb website and get absolutely nothing. And even when I type Theresa May murder plot comes up with a Victoria Derbyshire feature and a piece on the newspapers.
Would it be because of the identity of the two suspects?
As others have said, the irony of her criticising Trump about those nasty tweets that tried to draw attention to the actions of a certain religious group, whilst that very group is being prevented from murdering her, is amazing.
Cos BBC can’t do IT , just like it can’t do science , or engineering
Whereas a Google search is intelligent, it automatically looks for other tense forms of the verbs and synonyms
eg you type “murder” it also looks “for death”
But it the BBC search you have to GUESS the correct word
searching : Murder Theresa May ..does NOT get you today’s story
…but searching : Kill Theresa May …does
How do you deal with Fake-News, send the BBC Fake-News-Foxes to protect the henhouse ?
FFS Look at this panel
: First News is a propaganda newspaper that pushes climate change alarmism and multi-cultural dreams at kids
Baroness Joanna Shields wrote the Times Thunderer column today , supporting the BBC’s initiative
Move over Faisal; never fear, Nihal is here. Really.
Meanwhile, the BBC is LIVE on Facebook:
“Fake News: The BBC is launching a scheme to help school children identify fake news and false information that’s being spread online.
BBC news presenter Huw Edwards and Social Media Editor Mark Frankel are here to talk about the project and the purpose behind.
Post your questions in the comments below.”
Not going well LIVE either. Not sure that unfinished sentence helps the cause much either.
If it`s got a BBC or CNN logo…then its spotted kids!
Hey look at that conference photo, don’t the screen and big slogan banners look Orwellian ?
BBC Radio4 pioneers in DIVERSITY
.. by giving endless series to the SAME old favourite lesbians
YCMIU
sweepstake on how many times Calman sez “MY WIFE” anyone
Thank you BBC, I have often said there are just not enough Scottish lesbians on the TV and radio, but I never thought anyone would listen to me. You have restored my faith.
Rob In Cheshire.
Sarcastic thought for the day. Loved it, this could be a theme.
Dear BBC-was about to listen to Humprys interview with the Palestinian this morning about Trump and Jerusalem, but had a staff meeting instead. Will you tell me if John and Palestinian chap were
a) happy about Jerusalem being the new Israeli capital , supporting it as a great idea.
or b) indifferent to it, makes no odds
or
c) catastrophe, riots and making the Muslims angry enough to continue to blow us all up as usual?
Do tell-I`m dying to know.
Would the term ‘up-hill’ gardening apply, or simply cross fertilisation?
Ta for posting Stew,
That`s MY Pirelli calendar sorted for next year, always rather fancied Boris Yeltsin.
Hope Irn Bru will do another load of Lesby Jock hotties in their plaids and Docs so we can dream of lefty lady loveliness.
Pat Arrowsmith, Vera Baird-Beard, Joan Maynard and Audrey Wise…Barbara (Pat) Roche and the Eagle Brothers…my very heart sings of thee…
4:30 R4Media Show
” we lift the lid on the intimate and sometimes fraught relationship between political party directors of communication and spin doctors on the one hand, and political programmes and broadcasters on the other.
Each side needs the other, but what happens when their interests do not coincide? We gain an insight into the rows, manipulation and behind-the-scenes deals from three insiders:
Sue Inglish, the former head of political programmes for BBC News
Tom Baldwin, who was director of communications for then Labour leader Ed Miliband
Ben de Pear, editor of Channel 4 News”
Lefty. lefty, and lefty
So while May and the rest of the elite fumed at Trump’s ‘anti Muslim’ Tweets, someone was plotting to murder the Prime Minister.
As Trump hit back, deal with Islamic extremism before having a go at me. There was no outrage that people are actively plotting mass murder. It is so bizarre you could not make it up.
Once again, Trump is right. How the elites must hate him for that. They were all having a whale of time pretending everything was fine until he showed up; their money and power insulates them from the problems most face. They value having an easy life far above the welfare of their people.
Not to mention Prince George being a target. Where is the national outrage? I fear that the electorate has been sedated. It is now so bleeding obvious that so many reported crimes are perpetrated by foreigners or descendants of immigrants (recent). Hence no Crimewatch. And no commenting on it – surely a hate crime.
Maybe the Muslims fear that Prince George will now be gay, after that vicar with a gimp collar prayed for same last week.(Preyed, more like)
I`d arrest that vicar for inciting the likes of this vulnerable lovely who was only wanting to send a birthday card to the prince i`m sure.
Holly,
The idea of a pervert vicar sexualising a four year old in the name of his preferment fit buggery really is enough . He should go read the gospels and seek forgiveness for his perversion .
All creatures like him think about is where to put his private parts
There`s an openly gay church that I call by to in Brighton when I`m out there.
Nice people alright-but their sexuality clearly trumps any attempt to preach the gospel. Jesus said nothing about sex( well, you need to look carefully: and be prepared to argue)-so how come the gays see it as their god?
If they were Christians first-then gay as a secondary consideration-they could do so much better. But , for now, It`s more a pick up place where they can swap stories of real(or imagined) oppression.
But that Scottish oaf not only prays for a four year old to be gay, but lets a Muslim commit blasphemy in his own pulpit during the Epiphany Service earlier this year-gets no lower than that.
ahh the irony of sharia may defending them, whilst they were plotting to kill her
you really could not make it up
its not islamophobia if they really are trying to kill you
They are throwing a lot behind it. Like napalm on a tyre fire.
Anyone listen to the R4 media show? What a waste of time…mainly the Guardian talking to the BBC and other friends having a chat…and avoiding any sense of reality about bias..I am sorry Amol is so lightweight he would blow away in the draught of a passing moth
James ,
I always listened when Steve Hewlett had it – however bad his conduct was during the Murdock docklands dispute – a sad loss – but the token presenter sounds more like a salesman than s journo ( if you’re a salesman and upset by my comparison – tough . )
Amol’s used cos he’s pliant ?
..being Indian born is he naive about British things ?
Fedup, salesman? I think he’s a dead ringer for Gary Bellamy. chrisH is already posting “Votizpoynt” on here.
What is the point of us having the English Channel between us and Europe, if the world and Europe will be able to cross the soft border from Eire into N.Ireland then hop onto a ferry into England ? It makes a farce of migration control.
So BBC on the situation with Brexit. Quoted a YouGov poll – selectively…whilst tentatively their expert said it is still split – they then went on to say that of those that voted to remain there is swing back towards wanting to leave….well actually it deepnds on the question and the extent….when you look at their own poll…
1. Should the Government continue with Brexit – Yes June 17% Sept 13% ( of those who voted to leave)
2. Should the Government alter its aims and seek a softer Brexit Yes June 34% Sept 15% ( there are actually 2 questions here and what is a soft brexit? – so a waste of time)
3. In June 30% of Remoaners said we should have second referendum and 31% in Sept ( so almost 70% didn’t want another referendum – which is actually the important figure – not mentioned in BBC)
4. In June 14% of Remoaners said we should abandon Brexit and stay in EU, in Sept 30% – so still 70% didn’t say that..
In summary the BBC simply presented the figures in as negative way as they could..Surprise…Perhaps they should use it as an example of fake news when teaching the school kids
The Conservative Party or any Government cannot exist with the BBC around. It needs to be reigned in – it is now detrimental to democracy feeding people snippets of what it believes is news, what it thinks the public can handle, what it thinks the world would be like if only it could control the world.
DR Congo displacement crisis ‘worse than Middle East’ {bbc.co.uk 06dec2017}
DR Congo has been hit by years of instability, with rival militias (who?) fighting for control of territory.
Word Search: Religion x 0; islam x 0; Muslim x 0; Christianity x 0;
Listening to Al Beeb tonight, its all fury and vitriol coming from their reporters when discussing the POTU Donald Trump. They sound very bitter for ‘impartial’ broadcasters.
Why would the black-cabs blog say that they BBC/EStandard won’t cover their charity work ?
http://taxileaks.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/something-you-won-be-reading-about-in.html
Fake news from the BBC that upset Mensa members.
(1) The BBC says that “Anthropogenic Global Warming is a fact”; the IPCC, pushed by the wishful thinking of environmental activists and politicians says ‘likely’ and the BBC, which claims to be impartial, says ‘fact’.
(2) None of the BBC’s ‘best scientific experts’ had any scientific qualifications relevant to the causes of Climate Change.
(3) The BBC thinks evidence is extracted from computer modelling.
(3) The BBC thinks evidence is extracted from computer modelling.
Just take a look at the computer modelling for the current UK cold spell where they are in total disagreement. If they can’t model a few hours ahead how can they manage for decades? No wonder so many of the models already maturing are hopelessly wrong and the current crop show no sign of improving.
The climate is bound to be warming, we haven’t had a volcanic eruption of any size since Pinatubo 20 years ago, and volcanos cool the earth considerably.
Since the announcement about the Royal couple I have lost sleep worrying about the wedding guest list.
Matters have not been helped by the Independent suggesting that Mr and Mrs Obama might be invited instead of President Trump and the US First Lady.
I suspect this is a deliberate Government leak to test the British reaction – use a crappy newspaper to carry the story, and withdraw it if it goes against public opinion.
But since the Indie’s article there have been suggestions that HM has blocked the invitation and a flood of claims that the story of the blocking is fake news.
So please BBC investigate the facts about this royal occasion and let me get some sleep
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/meghan-markle-prince-harry-engaged-royal-wedding-barack-obama-michelle-invited-donald-trump-melania-a8079431.html
“London mayor calls on UK to apologize for colonial massacre that killed hundreds of Sikhs.”
Sadiq Khan, the biggest **** on the planet.
Any chance of you or one your muzzie mates apologising for the colonial murder of hundreds of millions Hindus in one thousand years of persecution by your muzzie ancestors?
Any chance of you one your muzzie mates apologising for the enslavement of tens of millions in 1500 years of loveable behaviour by your muzzie ancestors?
Plenty more examples where those came from.
Khan, you stupid, nasty, ****; YOU and your fellow muzzies do not get to lecture ANYBODY, ANYWHERE, ANYWHEN. The muzzies have the worst record in history. Best to just shut your lying mouths for about 5000 years and hope everyone else forgets just how awful Muslims were and are.
Indeed and we all know why they want Israel disappeared in their part of the World?
So they can get down to the real business of killing the ‘other kind’ of Muslims.
bBbc Radio Hourly News Bulletins.
Brexit shambles according to Vince and Theresa and Arlene private and personal telephone call tensions.
Trump is the Devil and will force the Arabs to burn Jerusalem because it’s the capital of Israel, tyrant Putin seeking reelection.
Time Magazine gives a much deserved award to the men and women who have campaigned tirelessly and courageously against rape and misogyny using the power of #metoo.
I’ve paraphrased a little.
Plot to murder our Prime Minister and to attack and destroy the political core of a Christian and democratic country, our nation.
Not really that important it seems. No mention of it in the latest bBbc Radio News Headlines.
Scum.
Rich
Plot to murder our Prime Minister and to attack and destroy the political core of a Christian and democratic country, our nation.
Treezer probably listens to the Emir. She is now considering how to increase sentences for anyone involved in an anti Moslem backlash over this matter.
Hardly mentioned on the BBC because I assume they are abiding by Government requests not to publish details about terrorism
Rich/GWF – I suppose it has all been ignored by the msm/BBC at the behest of the Government to continue the illusion that Theresa and Amber still have events under control.
Whilst I could not give a flying F##K about Theresa May this would have been an attack on democracy and by definition all of us. Maybe thats why Theresa appears not to be that bothered she lost interest in upholding democratic principles and representing the electorate a long time ago.
Must be a bit embarrassing for Sharia all that finger wagging about Trump giving muzzies a bad press and suddenly bingo – shes next on the hit Jihad list.
Oak,
Both you and G are of course right and this incident is probably being downplayed for security reasons, although it really just highlights further how shallow and fickle the establishment are. They move incestuously in ever decreasing circles from collusion to conflict, faux outrage in a Faustian pact where politicians have become needlessly entwined with a toxic media full of their own self importance.
All a game to them, but unfortunately for us they’re trying to play chess with snakes-and-ladders brains.
It would seem massive crime increases are also part and parcel of living in our great capital city.
The London Underground now carries warning posters that there are 300 moped-based mobile phone crimes. A year? No. Every month! This when a mobile phone is no longer a relatively expensive, relative rarity but an everyday item.
Back in the days when they were a new consumer device, there might have been 300 to 600 robberies per year in London. Many of them would probably have made the news broadcasts, certainly featured in local news and may have been picked up by the national newspapers.
I would not be surprised if people now have two or three phones. OK, high end devices cost a lot but thieves on a moped coming up behind a potential victim who is using a cellphone are unlikely to be able to discern that it is the latest iPhone.
Things have obviously deteriorated during the time that Boris Johnson and Sadiq Khan have been in post if we are now getting 3,600 phone thefts per year on the streets of the capital.
Is the BBC, the BBC that says that it is concerned that young people should “have the skills to filter out fakery from the truth” and have taken onto themselves the duty of informing our children about fake news, the same BBC that ‘cleansed’ the slaughter of 11-year old Ebba Akerlund from their news reports?
Have the BBC forgotten the story of Little Red Riding Hood? Storytelling was one of the traditional ways of teaching children to beware of the sort of fake news that the likes of the BBC peddle. In the story of Little Red Riding Hood, after the child and her grandmother had been devoured and the bloated wolf had fallen to sleep, a woodcutter came to their rescue. He cut open the sleeping wolf with his axe and Little Red Riding Hood, with her grandmother, emerged unharmed and filled the wolf’s body with heavy stones.
Moral of the story: Children, beware of the BBC because they, like the wolf, propagate cowardly, lying, hypocritical fake news.
NNN – Thats easy – the main skill they need to filter out fake news is to hit the “off” switch as soon as they see the logo for BBC or Channel 4 “news”.
The BBC is teaching kids about FakeNews
…………………………………………. well they are the eff-ing experts
Ladies and Gentlemen, The President of The United States
i do like the measured muzzie responses
violence
bloodshed
deplorable and unacceptable
dont be spreading hate now fellas
A President doing the right thing and keeping his election promise
A leader acting like a leader and standing by and taking ownership for his decisions rather than the British version who is more like a dodgy market trader selling shoddy goods to the masses. First sign of trouble she shuts her case and legs it to the next street corner where she repeats the whole procedure.
Like all loathe Trump at least he is not afraid to stick his head above the parapet.
Respect is earned and up to now Sharia has earned very little. Even the BBC who seem to dictate her every move bloody hate her!
I see “MEN” plotting to kill the PM has got pushed off the front page already
gosh must be a lot of news today
quorn sausage row
poo emoji farce
massive advocado
yep lots of news
Kaiser
I’m surprised it even made midday – al beeb avoids including the word ‘muslim’ or ‘Islam ‘ in its ‘terror’ reports and if one of these evil monsters is called Mohammed he won’t be named . It’s beyond bias – it’s clear Orwellian policy .
Meanwhile the son of a bus driver is in his homeland getting votes thousands of miles from Blighty – getting ready to be the first mussie PM – unless he drives into a tunnel in Paris of course
Now on R4 Moral Maze seems to be about ALL contemporary morality
whether it’s taking sex reports seriously
– Or Brexit side taking and division
– Staue toppling
– University safe spaces
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09h3v2v
Hi can someone (StewGreen, MarkyMark … ?) do a screen capture of the BBC’s news homepage, in particular the “Must See” Section and post it here – as it has the most inappropriate juxtaposition of images possible. Talk about the possibility of causing offence – it has images of turds alongside images of ready to eat food:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news
I have screen captured it for my own files, but don’t know how to upload the image.
Lack of self awareness is a #BiasedBbc speciality
BbcNews webpage juxtaposes Quorn sausage rolls with images of turds
#tasteful
But is that unusual ?
Isn’t the BBCnews webpage filled with weird crap ?
And FFS the stories are in the “Must see” section…seem hardly vital to me.
also direct link to screenshot
Other “Must See” stories
– Hawaii avocado ‘as big as my head’
– A royal wedding guide to the cast of Suits
..excuse me if I don’t bother seeing them
BBCaliph – it’s easy enough to upload images just so you can in future.
Either an image is already online or else it’s on your computer.
For the former just get the link to the picture by right clicking on the picture and select ‘copy link address’.
For the latter you will need to open a free account on any of the websites that offer free image hosting. I use TinyPic which works fine. You first upload your picture to whichever host you choose. It will then give you the link to that picture.
Then all you need to do is to click on the ‘add image to comment’ link below where your entering your comment here and add the url .
Bingo