Blacker Dread, otherwise known as Steve Martin, is the subject of a BBC film, Being Blacker [March 12 BBC2]…a bit of a love story really, between the film-maker, Molly Dineen, and Dread. Dineen didn’t want to ask him any awkward questions that might put responsibility for his troubles onto him as it might have come between them and they would have lost that ‘fundamental sense of friendship’. So not a critical and impartial film then. Is there anything that might result in any criticism…such as being a leading figure in the Brixton Riots or being jailed for a massive money laundering scheme? No…his problems are all down to racism…the film apparently a ‘unique insight into what it is to be black in Britain today.’
Once again the BBC concentrates on the bad, the grievances, the racism and the alleged failure of Black people to be successful in Britain due to that.
When will the BBC tell the truth and bring a positive view of Black communities and people to the screen? The BBC is so intent on creating a case against Whites as the cause of all Black peoples’ problems that it fails to do justice to that community. Are there no successful Black people in Britain? No business-people, no academics, no musicians, no actors, no sports-people, no scientists or engineers or philosophers or inspirational teachers? No, in the BBC world Blacks are all gangsters, crooks or failures, victims of white racism and oppression. That’s the message the BBC sends out…it’s a deliberate message shaped to generate white guilt and political action and some positive discrimination…but all it does is send a message that Blacks have no place in Britain, they can’t succeed with the odds, allegedly, stacked so high against them. Once again the BBC spreads dangerous, divisive and wilfully misleading messages that does enormous harm to Black people and utlimately to the whole of society.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions…so if you spot any more of those BBC good intentions raise the alarm and list them here……
Rhod Sharp’s overnight R5 Show, talking voice (Politico ?) asserted Trump is doing badly and has approval rating of 35%
..emm real world latest is 49% down from 50% last week
34% is STRONGLY approve.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_feb28
I wonder if OFCOM and the DCMS are as exempted from answering question about the BBC as the BBC is?
Eat a doughnut … support a religious political view.
Dig into a KFC … support a religious political view.
Toast some bread … support a religious political view.
Have a scoop of ice cream … support a religious political view.
#EatDontHate
Tragic story on the Devon website of a building worker killed when the trench he was working on collapsed. His employer, Mr. Crawford, was reluctant to pay the cost of expensive safety equipment. It is right that this man is going through the courts. Interesting how BBC Devon are reporting it – ‘Former Devon UKIP candidate’s cost cutting killed workman’. The court case is fully explained. The final paragaph reads ‘Mr. Crawford, a former solider was UKIP candidate for Exeter in the 2010 and 2015 general elections losing to Ben Bradshaw on both occasions’. (Mr. Bradshaw is a former BBC radio reporter) Never miss a chance do they?
If his employer was Muslim, I wonder if the BBC would have reported it as “Mr Mohammed Mohammed, a Muslim and follower of Islam, was reluctant to the pay for basic safety equipment … & this led to the death of … “
Take a look at the video on the beeb website showing Eddie Jones getting abused by some fine human (possibly) specimens from north of the border. Independence can’t come soon enough in my eyes. Also they are giving advice on the whether you have to go to work if its snowing. Jesus, I give up.
So taking a train as a sports celebrity now puts you at risk?
Maybe Branson and Corbyn , unions etc-as well as sports media and the like-might ask themselves how we`ve got to this.
They accept this for Farage, and now its going into sport.
Maybe they all need to think how such a toxic god as “sport” replaces real faith-and they are responsible for the climate and culture that the thick and needy have created.
It`s going to get worse too, I fear.
Times : City of London law firm has become the first large business in Britain to make gender transition surgery an employment perk
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Who ultimately pays for this free thing for trans? Unicorns ?
Nope it’ll be you, via the lawyers winning court cases against the government , mining companies etc.
Enrichment news : is the BBC reporting in the trial of the Czech Romas operating slavery operation in Newcastle ?
Brought workers in from Czech used them as slaves and claimed benefits in their names.
Some already pleaded GB guilty.
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/alleged-traffickers-accused-keeping-slaves-14344132
Course not. Not even under Tyne & Wear!!
Corbyn, Starmer and Thornberry take a ride with Soubry.
Brexit Battle Lines Drawn
Really doesn`t matter what the Moaning deadbeats threaten. We voted to go.
If votes no longer mean anything, then we`ll find other ways to express our will. Might not be as comfortable for them, despite their thinking they`re getting away with this.
Once you lose the trust of the people, you forfeit the right to make laws, or exert governance.
How long does it take to develop a new invisible missile? Is this Trumps fault as well?
During the two-hour televised speech to a joint sitting of both houses of parliament, he (Putin) encouraged Russians to suggest names for the two systems. He argued that Russia had reacted after years of pleading with the US not to break away from anti-missile treaties.
The actor in this photo is a right far left liberal loon as you might expect.
I think the Russians have developed a relatively cheap missile that can reach Mach 10, effectively rendering aircraft carriers obsolete except against Third World countries; since a missile which can fly that fast is virtually impossible to defend against and even without a warhead could sink a warship if it were to be hit by one.
https://sputniknews.com/politics/201708221056695530-russia-hypersonic-missiles/
Was bloody good of President osama to give up on the Middle East ( red lines – chemical weapons ) and allow our Russian friends to test out new weapons and tactics for the next time they need to do a proper overseas military excursion.
Hopefully the Europeans will spend money on defending themselves and not leave it to the Americans. Perhaps they’ll use the Brexit bribe to get some weapons but somehow I doubt it.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/air-force-hypersonic-missiles-china-russia-pose-growing-danger-u-s/
Whilst Russia (and the bbC) bleat about their invisible missiles, the US have had in service the AGM-158 JASSM for quite a few years. Its a very large stealth cruise missile with a 2000lb warhead. In fact Poland bought a load last year. They have just inducted the LRASM, which is a stealth Anti-ship missile.
For the UK we have the stealth storm shadow which has been in service for 16 years. The Germans have had the Taurus KEPD 350 for 13 years
If anything the West have been in front in this field for years.
Radio4 Anti-Amazon man is on AGAIN is plugging his book
“After a 10.5 hour shift in the Amazon warehouse my feet were bleeding, cos I’d walked 16 miles”
… Tosh
..That is what happens when you wear the wrong shoes… You can walk 26 miles in 4 hours and he had 10.5
When you do long distance walking a novice should wear good boots and two pairs of socks.
Those with hardened feet could use a pair of trainers.
“Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you’ll be a mile away and have his shoes.”
I wonder what happens in the Army .. do they drive everywhere?
No – that is the police.
But I thought that the health police always told us to walk more. I’m confused …..
“When it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them, my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars, the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive, the rational world is my friend because I am the friend of happiness. When these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and government. Independence is my happiness, the world is my country and my religion is to do good.”
― Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
“Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership . . . not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”
– Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
The current mayor of London is starting a fashion of changing the names of London tube stations . ‘Latimer Road’ is to be renamed ‘ “ grenfell ‘. I kid you not.
This new fashion has great attractions – every place can be renamed all the time . It’s far too easy getting about – knowing the name of the place one is going to.
I’m waiting for the mayor to have a station named after his father – who was a bus driver . Perhaps he can have a tower hamlets one renamed in Arabic or a language appropriate to the local majority ethnic minority – as it were….
It’s great that the mayor has time for such important decisions .
Latimer – of course is a Christian saint burnt at the stake . Nice touch on the good old muzzie mayor.
Next will be
White city
Turnam green
Blackhorse Road
Charing Cross
Good game on a snowy day in the greatest city on earth ( apparently)
For the record, the name of the station called ‘Latimer Road’ should have been changed 50 years ago when the Westway was built, because it’s grossly misleading. The road outside the station is Bramley Road. You’ll need to search the A to Z (other maps are available) carefully to find Latimer Road, cut off all those years ago by an urban motorway. It’s the other side of the big elevated roundabout and a good fifteen-minute walk by a very devious route.
It doesn’t really matter what it’s going to be called; almost anything would be an improvement. Bramley Road, Notting Dale, Les Ferdinand, Grenfell, whatever. I suspect that many of the very mixed community served by the station would go along with Grenfell; have you ever used that station?
Wild woman – yes I’ve had the misfortune to use Latimer – I wish you well with your Grenfell station and your very mixed community – I’m just one of these people who is ultra sensitive to Muslim politicians changing names from Christian saints to something they find more agreeable .
Latimer was one of the Houses in my school . I’m guessing for many the name means nothing .
Plenty of beeboids in that neck of the woods too eh?
Shalfleet Drive?
Grenfell Tower was named after Field Marshall Lord Grenfell (1841-1925). Hardly an ‘acceptable’ name in these ‘multicultural’ times!
Goddamit! He probably fought the fuzzy wuzzies!
Jim
I doubt whether their mayors ‘ staff would have the intellectual capability to google the origins of the name- the nearest they’d get is ‘joyce’ .
Field Marshal Francis Wallace Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell, GCB, GCMG, PC (29 April 1841 – 27 January 1925) was a British Army officer. After serving as aide-de-camp to the Commander-in-Chief, South Africa, he fought in the 9th Xhosa War, the Anglo-Zulu War and then the Anglo-Egyptian War. He went on to become Sirdar (Commander-in-Chief) of the Egyptian Army and commanded the forces at the Battle of Suakin in December 1888 and at the Battle of Toski in August 1889 during the Mahdist War. After that he became Governor of Malta and then Commander-in-Chief, Ireland before retiring in 1908. Wikipedia
Good guess about the ‘fuzzy wuzzies’ then!
We must show respect to the victims of GT and ban Dad’s Army and the racist Corporal Jones!
Field Marshal Francis Wallace Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell, GCB, GCMG, PC (29 April 1841 – 27 January 1925) was a British Army officer. After serving as aide-de-camp to the Commander-in-Chief, South Africa, he fought in the 9th Xhosa War, the Anglo-Zulu War and then the Anglo-Egyptian War. He went on to become Sirdar (Commander-in-Chief) of the Egyptian Army and commanded the forces at the Battle of Suakin in December 1888 and at the Battle of Toski in August 1889 during the Mahdist War. After that he became Governor of Malta and then Commander-in-Chief, Ireland before retiring in 1908. Wikipedia
How did that “tower” come to be named after him?
The tower was named after the road.
Roads in London used to be named after people who had served this country.
Saw that the Grenfell clean up revealed some cannabis farm from one of our enrichers.
Called Eamon, not Irish though I gather.
He got a fine, had butane cylinders for extra heating I think.
Suppose there`s no chance of asking if Eid or Cannabis production were in any way involved…maybe if we tell them that Trump might have left a Russian guide book there, they might give a damn.
Butane cylinders, eh? They must have helped.
I think the etymology of the surname Latimer came from medieval times and signified someone who could translate Latin. It’d be a stretch to find ‘locals’ who could translate English in many parts of London nowadays.
There must be quite a few Latinists in the East End, after Boris’s encouragement.
Snowflake alert.
Snowflakes seen at Paddington Station earlier this morning,
Station closed.
Trains from the west terminating at Reading.
No replacement buses.
Pathetic does not even begin to cover it.
“There have only been two groups in recent years who have tried to blow up the British people, the IRA and Islamists. And one of the few things that links them is the support of Mr. (Jeremy) Corbyn.” – Murray @18:13
China’s status quo won’t let go easily ….
China will block all non-approved VPNs from next month {feb2018}
For all its “capitalism” China is still run and controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.
A few stories you won’t hear from the bBC:
UK: Meanwhile in the Uk
Saw this on Guido:
Start the week? It’s Thursday! We have had Sir Martin Donnelly, Major, Blair etc. All talking bollocks. The Remainers are well organised and well funded. Far too good for May. Let’s get over to Dublin, corner Veradker and day, let’s work out a technical solution. Forget the EU.
Talking of purges … I wonder if Facebook will help the Pakistani Government on this request …
“Pakistani court wants names, ages & family info of those who left Islam”
A Pakistani court has ordered the citizen database to hand over a list of an estimated 10,000 people believed to have requested a change of religion. The petition is the latest move by mainstream Muslims to criminalize Qadianism.
Dimitris Avramopoulos, the European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship, recently published a startling opinion, advocating for more immigration as an inescapable reality to which European citizens should just adapt without any further discussion.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11698/mass-migration-european-commission
“If you worship your enemy, you are defeated.
If you adopt your enemy’s religion, you are enslaved.
If you breed with your enemy, you are destroyed.”
Polydorus of Sparta
Why, pray, is it invariably a black male and a white female? Why not white male/black female? Just asking….
I’m old fashioned. I find it an uncomfortable image.
Hmm why’d they hide how trusted the BBC is ?
Local Media Works a local media lobby group have released a Yougov poll that says Local Newspapers are the most trusted.
… I just wonder why they don’t mention the BBC
https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2018/news/press-is-most-trusted-local-news-source-new-research-reveals-embargoed-00-01-1318
Looks like BBC complaints are on a roll. This one seems a nifty complement to the ‘rich seam of satire’ they selectively invoke when slagging off folk the BBC does not like.
https://bbcwatch.org/2018/03/01/bbc-complaints-claims-anti-israel-slurs-part-of-legitimate-debate/
‘the response received included the claim that such calumnies are part of a “legitimate debate”.’
The BBC: approach with caution.
Currently the bBC, is bleating about the super Russian nuclear missiles and in their own warped way claim it is in response to President Trump:
Last month, the US proposed diversifying its nuclear arsenal and developing new, smaller atomic bombs, largely to counter Russia.”
That these are peaceful weapons:
Russia’s military power was built to maintain peace in the world, he argued. However, if anyone fired a nuclear weapon against Russia, he said it would be met with instantaneous retaliation.
However what the bBC doesn’t tell you is modern weapons take years to develop, these new missiles would have been started when a certain Obama was in power.
The weapons that Trump talked about last week, was about how the US fears that Russia feels that the US won’t respond to Russia using small tactical nukes against Europe. Hence the reason for the US to develop their own tac nukes.
Funny how the bBC doesn’t mention that.
Came across this the other day.
http://anonhq.com/no-common-sense-putin-destroys-bbc-journalist/
Clearly written from a particular point of view, and without perhaps necessary context, but this seems like Vlad coming up with his version of ‘another beauty;.
Certainly the Liberator of Kabul’s expression suggest such comments could have been less than welcome.
Still, he is worth it. Allegedly.
Ofcom to count proportion of gay, ethnic minority and disabled people appearing on-screen on BBC shows for first time, in new diversity drive
Quote Ifcim claims “BBC has a woeful lack of diversity, fails to leas eg only 47% women , that’s lower than C4, ITV, C5/Viacom”
ridiculous cos the available workforce is almost cetsinly lower than 47% female
Quite #2 ‘minorities have a less favourable view of BBC than older/middle Class have’
…hmm but last category DINT respect BBC so seems fishy
Point #3 Gay people are often not honest about their gayness eg Catholics and Muslims
#4 Ofcom said “We’ll be asking people what they expect of BBC’
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bbc-audit-to-ensure-gay-and-black-screen-talent-l23dwtj09
Goebells would be proud
Are they going to count them on adverts next?
If you did that you might think you’re living in a rainbow nation. Personally the more multicultural an advert is the less I would use its product. I do like those stereotype adverts of kfc or McDonald’s which seems to target black people for their products .
There’s no black or brown in a rainbow though.
And that is what is so good about the Union Jack.
Times Letter : Re Proms 50/50 rule for new composers
‘Now thru pro female measures the industry playing field is relatively level
BUT the BBC plan will see young female composers disproportionately favoured against older male composers’
Sally Cavender , Faber Music
That’s the Proms finally stuffed for me, then. It’s been getting pretty dire, anyway.
Man walks out with a limp …
Man caught passing wind ….
Man holds hands together ….
Man wears white shirt ….
Four men in photo … #PhotoShootGenderGap
BBC/SKY FIND SOME REAL NEWS…£3.5bn News Service!!!!!!!
Wonder if his mush liked like a man you just kissed goodbye to 40 000 000 000 Euro marks when we get a full cooked Brexit . Can but hope .
Mrs Mays big speech is tomorrow so I’m guessing the EUreich will be leaking it to their bitch supporters like Clarke Clegg Soubry and Adonis for a full al Beeb remainer onslaught .
Whenever I hear Tusk and Barniet talking in their pidgeon English, I’m always reminded of those movies where the Germans say … “ve ‘ave vays ov making you talk”, – always make me chuckle. They could be straight out of Central Casting for a Carry On film.
‘For you ze vor ist ofer’
Speaking to Sharia “handes hoch”
Sharia to Barnier and Tusk “Dont shoot Fritz – I give up- In truth I gave up long ago! “
This could create a lot of infighting … welcome to 2018 …
BBC Proms pledges 50-50 gender split for modern composers
BBC audit to ensure gay and black screen talent
“By 2020, the BBC wants its employees to comprise 50% women, 8% disabled people, 8% lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people and 15% people from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds.{bbc.co.uk 14sep2017}”
Nollywood and Bollywood have yet to respond …
If they implement that, then soon after its viewers will comprise similar percentages; it couldn’t happen to a nicer organization.
8% disabled.
Does that mean we will get a few hours a day of fly on the wall coverage of EMI (that’s Elderly Mentally Infirm) care homes? That’s the reality of the disability stats. Think wheelchair use.
8% LGBT? Are they just taking whatever Stonewall tell them and ignoring any actual evidence, such as the 3% of marriages that are gay?
Absolutely pathetic biased BBC virtue signalling
It seems to be a feature of the BBC acting as some kind of job creation scheme for anyone unable to get a job in the real world.
The cubicle gardens are rammed with young pea-brains who consider ‘journalism’ either surfing social media or cut and pasting press releases.
There thousands of them, and despite the BBC adding new platforms daily, there is still a lot of time and space to fill that a lot of wastes of space have zero clue how to do so.
All ‘uniquely funded’ and too big to be allowed to face market forces and consumer choice.
Newsbeat
Just friends apparently…????
Skepta and Naomi Campbell pose topless for GQ
BBC.CO.UK
Newsbeat
Following the success of Nike’s Nothing Beats a Londoner ad – a comedian makes a parody using talent from Birmingham.
Nothing Beats a Brummie
BBC.CO.UK
GQ and Nike doubtless thrilled. Unless they read the comments… which could be going better.
Who’s Skepta?
Nice to see Newsbeat looking so ethnic and diverse. (At time of writing)
And I can’t help notice in the illustration for My Boyfriend Could Have Killed Me, that the man (boo) looks whiteish and the female victim (cheers) looks darkish.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat
No idea.
There are many others, but Newsbeat seems the bbc’s prime ‘sex, drugs and rock and roll’ outlet, with a few trannies thrown in.
Oh, and on occasion something rude and tee-hee about a politician elsewhere.
The bbc reception must be busy signing for all the ‘complimentary’ items that come their way after a nice bit of coverage.
Try listening to Radio 1, or-even better-Radio 1 Extra.
This is where we are.
Theres always the asian network . I hope that has gender and ethnicity and religious targets too from ofcom
Marky ,
This is excellent news, it means the sons and daughters of those already infesting al Beeb will have jobs – not too sure if the hideous m beard has bred though…
That target must make a hell of a Venn diagram
irrelevant the BBC is over time now. if it goes down the road it proposes then it’s end will be that much sooner. In the real world talent and ability is all.
Asian sales push Dyson sales up 40% to £3.5bn
Worried about this one Stew was it “Asian men” buying them – If so maybe Dyson should consider paying for therapy or PTSD counselling for them all.
So you think the bbC are biased, blinkered and often arrogant? Well get this: ‘journalists’ from the ARD and ZDF (the German BBC1 &2) have written to Austrian Chancellor, Kurz, to get him to ‘clamp down’ on his Vice Chancellor, Strache, who has the audacity to express views.
They don’t like the fact that Strache has said nasty things about one or two ‘journalists’ from the Austrian ORF, eg that they might be putting out ‘fake news’. (ORF, think Austrian BBC)
The ARD, ZDF and ORF have for years had a free hand in promoting PC/left-wing views. Now that nasty populist, Strache, has the audacity to challenge that dominance in Austria. The German crowd, who are great supporters of Mutti and the red/green parties, hate freedom of expression, if it’s not their own.
And the ORF, surprise, surprise have said nasty things about Strache’s party, who are in their eyes-you guessed it -‘populists’. The ORF were outraged that Strache could say nasty things back.
So the German ‘journalists’ have taken it upon themselves to interfere with democratic government in Austria. Arrogant or what? If they’re so worried about freedom of expression, they need to look at publicly force-funded TV in Germany first. There is a heck of a lot of work to do to restore freedom of expression in Mutti’s imperium.
The elite across Europe are subverting democracy. A key reason to be out of the EU
Free speech is a loose concept in the EU nowadays
A global liberal elite crave the smack of Max Mosley, the hipster graspings of Mark Zuckerberg-and whatever happens-absolutely NO democratic possibllity of their New World Order being thwarted or railroaded by “the little people”. Like us.
Heard ” Thinking Allowed” on iPlayer-to hear Laurie Taylor and guests seeing us all as mutant aberrations from the lower classes was quite revelaing, disgusting too.
If we`re lab rats or a segment for one of their social research projects-then we`re doing our job for them.
But if we dare to vote or think in ways that don`t suit the Gadarene rush to Caracas or Havana?…well, we`ll need nipping chipping , pinning, surveys and re-education and intervention counselling.
Paul Simon describes it well in “Mrs Robinson”-therapeutic Trots like Taylor are a menace who will bring on the civil war, we probably are heading for.
Expected more from Kenan Malik, but the BBC probably edit them all these days, Laurie is free range-will only say what he`s told to anyway.
And his son was on Moral Maze too-four hours, two Taylors,,,but Anne McElvoy was on twice within half an hour earlier today that`s our BBC.
Speaking of Anne.
She did the History of Socialism, she seemed to go straight from the Jarrow march to Nye Bevans NHS with barely a mention of what the Left were up to as Hitler rose to power, went to war-and as Churchill stood largely alone, certainly despised by Uncle Joes little helpers here. Hitler was a socialist, as was Stalin-it was a capitalist, boss class war. And the left wanted no defence in the face of Hitler , right up to June 1940.
But not a peep from Anne.
And apparently the NHS was all thanks to Bevan-and Labour.
As for William Beveridge and his report?…well, hardly Ellen Wilkinson was he?
Only at the bBC
http://www.mcb.org.uk/bbc-adds-another-pillar-in-islam/
There must be hundreds of thousands of ‘pillars of Islam’ now so I’m not surprised that the BBC got it wrong.
There are at least twenty guarding our town centre shopping centre alone!
Sometimes the bias we highlight is true but perhaps not the worst sin.
At other times the bias is positively insidiously Orwellian.
Let’s take the country that the bBBC editorial socialists have a problem with……Venezuela.
On the bBBC website we have a story buried in the Latin America section of opposition squabbles leading up to the next so-called election.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-43221952
What they don’t mention is the news that the state intelligence service has raided the opposition leader’s house.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-lopez/venezuela-police-enter-home-of-imprisoned-opposition-leader-lopez-wife-idUSKCN1GD5LR
Let’s bury the bad news of the socialist government killing off democracy and instead focus on the squabbling of the residual opposition.
Truly madly deeply disgusting.
Buried, you say?
South Africa
Gas Explosions
Men in cars
China
North Korea
German Politics
Labour Party
Left wing terrorism
Hollywood
Good list GW.
The German Politics is particularly salient.
Wouldn`t you have thought that a badly divided , dead-man-walking political zombie like Merkel would be fair game for a Brexit targeting, and a patriotic BBC would (at the very least) point out the potential for a hard Brexit…cold, clear one if that`s nicer?
But no.
And the disgusting efforts of the EU to open up Ulster for Adams and Sinn Fein/IRA for sheer malice and political purposes. Thay gay Indian PM of theirs(Leo Varadkar is it?) is playing a very stupid game-but absolutely NO analysis from the BBC for those of us still paying.
And I`ve left out Italy and Catalonia-again, no efforts to pan the EU project, now on deathwatch.
Until the end of this month anyway.
Glover`s being kind-the BBC,(like Merkel/CDU) is dead, but nobody has told it.
I wouldn’t even give the BBC 15 years. People simply won’t put up with the tax even if they are non political and blind to the bias
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5447965/The-BBC-not-15-years.html
It is ironic . The BBC is going to go down not because it is so poor and biased but because it is like any other large company that fails. Out performed and out financed.
If it was in the private sector the advice would be to sell it’s shares and wait for a predator or administration.
England
It’s hard to work out whether albeeb will last for another 15 in its current format. If it is true that younger viewers got the majority of imaging from streamed sources such as Netflix then the habit of dependency which has kept al Beeb going could be broken .
I don’t pay for any tv so it’s a bit hard for me to guess the attractiveness of Netflix , amazon et al
Personally I think it all hinges on a successful full Brexit and thereafter a move away from the nanny state .
My brother writes from the east coast of the United States having read that we are having problems with a snowstorm – “what we in Connecticut call last Wednesday”. He notes that the BBC informs him that the National Grid is running short of natural gas. “How can this be, he asks, when the UK is floating on an ocean of the stuff?”
I explain that such questions are banned on the BBC where the official line is to wrap up warm and build more windmills. That at least is the instructions that it takes from the green loonies. Head loony, the Green Party, is committed to stop fracking for gas, telling obvious lies that tapping the almost unlimited supply under the UK will “not lower energy bills”. Such is its influence that fracking has barely begun in this country.
Meanwhile in the land of Trump they are all as warm as toast since fracking provides lots of cheap local gas and has significantly cut the flow of money to Middle Eastern dictators.
CM – solid post.
The clown world that is what the UK has become was displayed again today, when gas supplies to industry will have to be reduced to ensure domestic demand isn’t compromised.
NLASC – No Longer A Serious Country.
See attached screenshot of the BBC website – Europe page.
I found it interesting how many times nationality was mentioned in news headlines, particularly negative headlines (circled red).
There was one story however that didn’t mention nationality (circled blue). Curious I clicked in to the story and it turns out the attacker is a ‘Failed Palestinian Asylum Seeker’. He killed a 50-year-old man and seriously wounded six other people.
Must just be a co-incidence the BBC chose not to highlight his nationality…
Why would someone be given life for attacking a supermarket?
According to Jeremy Vine today our ’empowered’ young women are “left with no option” but to respond to adverts offering accomodation for sex.
If they are typical of their sex should they be allowed to vote, become doctors, engineers, chief executives, politicians or even prime minister?
[Other sensible women are available. Terms and conditions may apply.]
Tonight on PM radio 4 was a piece on the legality of staying home when the weather is too bad to travel into work, and the astonishing advice that you are not free to do as you please, in a age when everyone networks you are expected to phone in and ask what work you can do from home!
Are these people so insulated from the real world that they don’t realise that a chef can’t cook a meal at home, or a fork lift driver pick his pallets from the armchair?
There are a million and one jobs which require hands on staff not networking from home, incredible the BBC staff have forgotten this.
BBC reality check about snow
Global warming causes more snow
“In the past, the Great Lakes would have been more often covered by ice in winter, effectively putting a lid on them and preventing moisture from evaporating into the atmosphere to make snow.
With less ice on the lakes in recent winters, there’s more evaporation – and so more snow.”
Glad we have cleared that one up….
So, what you’re saying is, Global Warming is responsible for me feeling taters 🙂
So what you are saying is that Trump’s rejection of the Paris agreement means that my bloody car is stuck in a snowdrift.
Well that’s a lie as the Great Lakes have had more ice on them than ever this year !
Heres the link:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/02/18/nasa-unusually-cold-winter-causes-lake-erie-to-ice-over-nearly-60-of-all-lakes-covered-with-ice/
It must be about time that al Beeb demanded that the government does something about the weather – or shows pictures of empty grit bins and blames austerity for this and that.
Then there are the shortages of things and empty shelves sprinkled with failing international Health Service again .
We ve had the first dead dog walker incident which is always followed up with more .
Then there’s the embarrassing everyone coming together socialist propaganda crap. All coming our way soon . … and floods of course .
Not moaning – just stating facts .
I note some recent concern on this post about the BBC 50/50 gender split for new composers featured at the Proms. Here is what I posted earlier in another place.
“On a lighter note, the BBC announced this week that it is committed to a 50/50 gender split for contemporary music composers showcased at its Proms concerts. Another case where artistic merit is replaced by identity politics, although of course nothing new here. Your correspondent is an occasional patron of the summerfest, happy to get a small refund on his license fee by buying a subsidised seat. The new composer section is usually something to be endured. As one who brushes the dust off the keys in the blues and jazz idioms, I don’t mind a little dissonance. But this modern stuff is often frightful self-indulgent atonal noise, the product of recherché music colleges. Frankly I don’t care who composes it, I just wish they wouldn’t.
I am with maestro Sir Thomas Beecham on this one. Asked his opinion on Stockhausen, he said he had not heard any, but he might have trodden in some”.
Al Beeb seems to think that it’s a good thing for the current uk tax payer to pay for child abuse from the 1940s when kids were sent to the colonies – as well as the mandatory meaningless apology
There are – apparently about 2000 aging victims of the policy of sending young kids overseas.
Where does such a policy stop ? Individuals sue ing the kraut governments for dropping bombs on them ?
FE2 – Expect to hear a lot more on this sixty year old story as the sexual abuse was committed by whites. Just goes to prove that us whiteys are ten times worse than “asian men”
‘Allowed’? They probably handed him the script along with the mic and studio.
So the beeb giving our Tony yet more airtime. He claims to get a lot of abuse over his stance on Brexit. Well here’s a bit more Tony. F%#@ OFF, the majority have had their say.
Horrible histories just now
Shows nuns embroidering the Bayeux tapestry
but they keep shouting out “monks going past”
..and then they run to the window and make catcalls at them
#BBCinverted sexism on CBBC kids channel
Can you imagine the uproar on al Beebus, if this had happened at a place of worship in the UK of any religion other than Christianity. Instead: tumbleweed.
https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/appeal-following-racially-aggravated-criminal-damage-in-newport-pagnell-1-8391313
By definition, no personage of tinge could ever perpetrate such an outrage. It’s a UKIP black op , obviously.
Bacon crime and it’s all over the beebistan.
This is much worse and as you say, tumbleweed.
Apparently today – for the first time in a long time Blighty is earning more than it is borrowing each day .
That’s quite something in the run up to the ( maybe ) coming recession . ( no I don’t want to talk the economy down like al beeb but it’s gonna happen sometime ).
I picked this up on Twitter not al beeb
Gridwatch.templar.co.uk
For those interested is the website which shows real time energy consumption by type . We are probably at maximum for the year
Re the above – for those of an Irish heritage ( like me ) one might notice that there is no solar energy this Thursday night – I’m not sure why ☀️
Not the 9 o’clock news, nor 10, nor 11:
India: Muslims gang-rape girl after she refuses to convert to Islam
https://www.jihadwatch.org/
Nor this:
Nigeria: Muslims murder Christian woman’s baby, rape and impregnate her for refusing to convert to Islam
https://www.jihadwatch.org/
Nor this: Khamenei repeats: Israel “won’t be around in 25 years!”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/
Strange with so many important things going on in the world the al beeb current affairs programme •panorama” spends an hour trawling over American film producer screws actresses 15 years ago shock – again .
A bubble issue blown up to affect every chap.
Off switch time
I’ve just seen a story on Yahoo News about a homeless British man who has died from the severely cold weather we’ve been having (must be the global warming) I searched BBC News but couldn’t find anything. Perhaps if he had been Syrian…….?
“A homeless man has been found dead in a tent as freezing temperatures continue to grip the UK.
The body of the man, who was known locally as Ben, was discovered in a tent near St Swithun’s Church in Retford, Lincolnshire.
He was found dead in the early hours of Tuesday morning, as snow and freezing weather hit the region.
Speaking to Lincolnshire Live, Scout leader Hazel Newstead said: ‘We’re so shocked and saddened by this. He seemed to be a lovely, friendly chap.
‘He was living in a tent between a wall and the old church hall off Churchgate near our scout hut.
‘He told us he was 53 and used to be a brickie – he even offered to re-do the brickwork on our building.
‘We used to chat to Ben over the wall. He was happy here and didn’t want to go to a shelter in Worksop.’
Local resident Kenny Roach, meanwhile, claims that Ben had just come out of hospital after suffering from pneumonia.
‘He had had his stuff pinched so I arranged to meet up with him to give him some camping gear, money and food’, he said.
‘Ben was quite comfortable where he was and didn’t want to go to Worksop. He wanted nothing to do with drugs. All he needed was a break. This is so sad.’
The man’s death is the latest in a string of tragic passings in the cold weather. “
Always rely on the NHS for good advice.
Or a nurse.