766 Responses to Easter Weekend Open Thread

  1. scribblingscribe says:

    Stewgreen mentions Tallboy’s site above.

    If you want an alternative take on climate to that of the BBC/Guardian, it is one of the best websites and is always of interest.

    https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2018/03/29/uncertainty-about-human-caused-climate-changed-were-deleted-from-ipcc-report/

    “Uncertainties about human caused climate change were deleted from IPCC report.”

    From the Wall Street Journal: “Abstract:
    Frederick Seitz asserts that the report on global warming released in Jun 1996 by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is not the same version that was approved by the contributing body of scientists listed on the title page. Seitz explains how the events that led to the IPCC report are “a disturbing corruption of the peer-review process” and says the deleted passages removed “hints of the skepticism” with which many scientists regard claims about global warming.”

    I have also read how the Global Climate Report of 2015 was adjusted by political factions because it initially expressed wonderment about why the world had not warmed. It actually offered 3 separate theories as to why the original Global Warming theory was wrong.

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    • Old Goat says:

      I’m currently reading Marc Morano’s book “The politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change”.

      It’s well worth a read, he’s spot on with all of it. My only problem is with the writing, which is pretty sloppy, really – especially as he comes over so well on the telly.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Re Activist troublemakers rigging IPCC reports
      Donna Laframbroise is the Canadian journo who exposes them.
      https://nofrakkingconsensus.com

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  2. Annunaki says:

    Lineker : excelled at his chosen profession and can talk with authority about it, Norton: excells at limp wristed campness like a bad carry on film well he may be an authority upon that but Alan Carr is stealing his thunder as another who seems to make a career out of the endless amusement offered by a big fat man talking like a squealing teenage schoolgirl, well done both of you, at least your mentor could tell peoples’ futures through the stars, nevertheless the BBC cant get enough of this quality entertainment and no salary is too much to keep you employed in your chosen profession whatever that may be…

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  3. fakenewswatcher says:

    ‘Die Welt’ (Hamburg) leads with two articles on knife crime in Germany.
    The contexts are eerily familiar. Our capital city is not so unique…

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  4. fakenewswatcher says:

    …while the NYT speculates yet again on how Trump might be impeached. Yawn…
    (The beeb will, no doubt, pick it up.)

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  5. JimS says:

    A bit of technical bias: Sunday gave us RAF at 100 with Ewan and Colin McGregor which continued the usual BBC Spitfire-centric view of the 1939-45 air war.

    There was the usual brief mention of the Hurricane in the Battle of Britain but otherwise it was all Spitfire. Later we were told about some of the vital work carried out during the war by the RAF, photo reconnaissance and RAF Medmenham. All those wonderful ‘3-D’ images collected by – Spitfires! No mention of the best photo reconnaissance ‘platform’ operated by any airforce, including that of the US, during WW2, the Mosquito. At various times in the war it would have been the fastest, highest and furthest flying aircraft. Its larger size compared to the Spitfire allowed greater spacing of cameras producing better ‘3-D’ images, its specialist navigator and the use of aids such as Gee permitted precision target aquisition day and night, illuminated by ‘flash bombs’.

    (I wonder if a Spitfire had once dropped a 50lb bomb on Berlin if the Lancaster would have been written out of history too?)

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    • Oaknash says:

      Jim – Our “World Class” broadcaster always happy to re-write history especially if it gives our history a more PC perspective, makes our culture and values look worthless or just out of sheer laziness.

      I will never forget the Dam busters raid anniversary re-enactment when who did the BBC elect to cover the raid from within the Lancaster? but the emptiest of empty vessels Chris “bloody” Evans. I think that, on this day by using that particular simpering, verbally incontinent presenter the BBC was making a statement – That They consider that there is nothing in our history that is sacred, courageous or worthwhile that they cannot reduce down to the level of cheap entertainment.

      I am afraid these days the BBC only reserves respect for Islam. transgenders wacko feminists and of course Comrade Jeremy.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Jim
      These days it must be an inconvenience for al beeb to acknowledge that the Second World War happened – you know the one -that French guy with the hat who is on the column in Trafalgar Square near the maccydee yeah?

      They’re all dying now and did that brexit thing yeah?

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      • Oaknash says:

        FE2 – The cat on the column – I think Bro that was that military dude- what was is name – I know Sergeant Saunders, hmmmmm or was it Colonel Pepper or somfing. Anyways dude it dont matter cos we is now well advanced these days with I fones and these laser tellies.
        History is for oldsters only!

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        • Al Shubtill says:

          Those statues will eventually all have to come down, as totally unacceptable representations of Britain’s appalling legacy of empire; colonialism; racism; violent subjugation; war and white supremacy.
          It’s happening in the US right now and we’re usually only 10 – 15 years behind them in these things; particularly as Britons gradually slip into (despised) minority status within their own homeland.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Jim – buried away on more4 is a documentary about the mozzie . The mozzie is close to me because there was a furniture factory close to where my mum lived during the war which the krauts bombed and blew up her family home .

      Great plane – the mozzie , The spit , the lanc and the typhoon …

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      • Payne by name says:

        Fedup2 – that can’t be right. The Germans bombing us – I thought it was only ourselves and the blood thirsty Bomber Harris that were hitting the homes of innocent civilians…

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  6. ChrisMorrison says:

    The notorious meeting in January 2006, when a group of anti-scientists and green activists locked the BBC into accepting that global warming is only due to man-made CO2, was a body blow to the idea that the Corporation exists to promote independent journalism. The affair was a significant step in the campaign by activists seeking to close down all scientific debate about climate change as they sought to de-industralise the world within 40 years.

    The BBC tried to keep the meeting secret for six years resisting all freedom of information attempts to disclose the delegate list. When the list finally surfaced it included all the usual activist suspects such as Greenpeace and Stop Climate Change. Almost all the 30 people present had a green agenda including the representative from the Church of England Claire Foster, described in her cv as a “spiritual environmentalist”. One name caused particular concern. Trevor Evans from the US Embassy was invited and found himself as a member of the US government called to advise the British state’s broadcaster on its official editorial policy.

    The writer Clive James has long criticised the BBC’s anti-science editorial stance noting that the Corporation behaves “as if its true aim were to reproduce the thought control that prevailed in the Soviet Union”. The global warming scam is just the latest in a long line of green scares and is starting to run out of steam after 30 years of misinformation and fake “settled” science. Many eminent real scientists now believe that global temperatures move up and down due to a variety of natural variations. Man-made CO2 may play a part but it is likely to be very small. To date small increases in the atmosphere over the last 30 years seem to have had a beneficial effect with CO2, also know as plant food, contributing to increased vegetation and lower levels of global famine. The latest fashionable scare is to talk about “extreme” weather – useful for the Harrabin/ Monibot faction to sound off whenever the wind blows in the Caribbean and the temperatures rise above 25C in the UK.

    Not only does the BBC stand accused of taking advise on its editorial line from a foreign power, but it would appear to have been in direct contravention of its own charter. Science seems to exists at the BBC as a political force used by the liberal elites to recast the planet as a Lovelockian Gaia, freed in their wildest dreams of all those dreadful humans stinking up the place and spoiling it for the organic few. As Rupert Darwell noted in his recent brilliant book Green Tyranny – take away the global military domination and the killing of the Jews and it all sounds similar to the manifesto of the Nazi party. There is a seeming need to deny actual science and to outlaw debate in pursuit of a craving for a new religion as the old ideals of Christianity fade away. A world where they will raise the costs of plentiful oil and gas to astronomic levels. A world of course where they will continue with their own lifestyles but condemn millions in the developing world to poverty., disease and famine.

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  7. Cassandra says:

    One of the BBC’s favourite current affairs commentators makes a hard hitting objective point…

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Shows the value of a peerage now eh? Jeremy will be looking round for Jewish labour supporters to put in there next time to show he really likes Jewish people and not just his Palestine hisbolla friends

      Time to kill off the house of bribes and privilege methinks

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  8. Thoughtful says:

    Even the BBC is admitting that the appalling Mel & Sue PC duo have made an absolute disaster out of the rehashed Generation Game.

    Unfunny jokes which the audience failed to laugh at and canned laughter needing to be used instead is one observation.

    The BBC apparently made 4 shows, but they were so awful that only two have been deemed fit to broadcast prompting comment that the two were broadcast were the best??

    Critics appear united in their condemnation of yet another sorry BBC Political Correctness attempt which has wrecked a much loved classic.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43617852

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Thoughtful
      Having grown up with those magical Saturday family shows with the late Brucie (rip) why would I want to watch a couple of queer oxbridge types mucking it up? Same with that baking thing which I never bothered with because of smug dyke presenters

      Sounds like ideal day time stuff like the rest of the insulting dross they put out . Glad not to pay for it. Still waiting for the tv tax person

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    • Tabs says:

      I remember when Jim Davidson presented the Generation Game and made it an entertaining programme to watch. Then the BBC started to go through a politically correct era and fast forward to now we have utterly shite presenters who only got the job because they put gay/ lesbian on their CVs.

      I’ve also noticed a one armed weather presenter girl in BBC recently. She can’t present at all but she does tick the woman and disabled boxes… tick tick!

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      • MartinW says:

        Fide: You Tube Jethro’s Norfolk Dyke Dish.

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      • Holly Selassie says:

        Presumably whilst getting the clipboard held down for her by somebody with that trusty second arm.
        With requisite fingers of course.
        Note that Doddy and Hawking have their portraits together in the National Portrait Gallery. Doddys is fine-probaly a Rolf Harris one so it`ll be good.
        But poor old Hawking looks like he did his own self portrait, or maybe a Michael J Fox effort.
        No longer have a BBC Licence-but happy top pass on my worst observations to them in Salford. The Now Show would surely bite.

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    • Holly Selassie says:

      Was Richard Osman or Steve Coogan involved in the rehashing of this Generation Game idea?
      I find that Endemol, or Stupid Cow Productions seem to make an awful lot of BBC filler, under the guise of “independent production companies”
      Good to see those reviews-and , OF COURSE, the Guardian won`t slag it off.
      If they did, the BBC might buy less copies and put them further into the swamp.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Times review : The new run of The Generation Game has been cut from four to two episodes amid rumours that the shows were “not good enough”.
      Amazing. So what we saw was the cream?
      The mind boggles. It opened … removed that was so weak even the tumbleweed looked embarrassed.
      Carol Midgley, The Times, 2nd April 2018

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  9. Beeb Brother says:

    Though it was never explicitly defined, the assumption of multiculturalism was that we would have the best of all the world’s ideas fused magically and harmoniously together.

    In reality it can accentuate the negative sides of cultures. So combine ROP misogyny with British over politeness and we have the perfect storm of Rotherham. Even in hell holes like El Salvador they would not let gangs wait outside schools to rape the children.

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    • JimS says:

      It used to be said:

      Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the
      mechanics German, the lovers are Italian and it’s all organised by the
      Swiss.
      Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the
      lovers are Swiss, the police German and it’s all organised by the Italians.

      Now Hell is where the police (and judges) are British Muslims, the cooks are French Somalis, the mechanics German Turks, the lovers are Italian Libyans and it’s all organised by Swiss bankers with Saudi money.

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  10. Thoughtful says:

    Remember coming up to the Brexit referendum and UKIPs popularity in the lead up to the general election? Remember every time some loon said something inappropriate the BBC claimed it was the view of the entire party and tried to convince people they were representative of the entire party?

    Well compare that to their coverage of the anti Semitism of Labour when they are desperately attempting to personalise it, and suggest that it is a few individuals and not the entire party.

    Completely the opposite to how they presented a similar issue when it was a party the disapproved of.

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    • Payne by name says:

      Excellent point. It’s almost the same thing as a white Brexiteer killing an MP being representative of all Brexiteers whilst a suicide Jihadi is just a lone wolf.

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  11. Dover Sentry says:

    Good point, Thoughtful.

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  12. Guest Who says:

    Wet bank holiday Monday?

    Never fails to amuse:

    https://twitter.com/holbornlolz/status/980798103019311108?s=21

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    • Cooper_Man says:

      Sorry, I thought this was some kind of April Fool’s Day joke until I just did some research. I had no idea that the BBC were producing services in ‘Pidgin’ or any other language for that matter. Why are the BBC spending license money on a service that is basically ‘English with rotten spelling’ with the service based out of Nigeria? What is it about the ‘British’ part of their name that they don’t understand? So glad I don’t have a license.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Their take on Winnie popping orf may be fun, especially as half the BBC top floors are surely off sporting black armbands to show their respects from the balconies of the Jo’Burg Sheraton.

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    • Holly Selassie says:

      Mi fattart big momma bitch Winnieman dun burn de buckket. She do mi stompie bad, and paydi rispex in cellblakk H yi diggidy.
      Nelson gotdi hooch a boyly, dem ram a gud tyme.
      Diss di Lagos Beebya Zee, and now here di wedda in Esperanto.
      Hot,

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      • Dysgwr_Cymraeg says:

        That is priceless Holly, I’m so gonna steal it for my facebook page….er….with your authority of course..

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        • Holly Selassie says:

          But of course D.C-feel free.
          But I know there`s someone else on this site who started this, and does it really well.
          I`m sitting on the shoulders of a Lieutenant Pidgin, I`m just a Pygmy Pidgin in comparison.

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  13. Tabs says:

    South Africa’s Winnie Mandela dies at 81
    “South African anti-apartheid campaigner Winnie Mandela has died aged 81, her personal assistant says.”

    Oh for a moment I thought the other Winnie Mandela had died, the convicted criminal one who kidnapped and beat children. That one that also made clear that burning people alive is the way to remove whites from ruling South Africa.

    As the BBC have made no mention of the convicted criminal Winnie Mandela they must be talking about a different one – my mistake!

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    • Thoughtful says:

      Remember Stompie Moketsie ?

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    • StewGreen says:

      4pm BBC News lead : Saint Winnie Mandela has died
      “her reputation sullied by a series of poor judgements”
      yes they actually asserted that ordering a car tyre to be put round someone’s neck and burning them to death ..is poor judgement

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      • Holly Selassie says:

        Now THAT`S a bit strong from our BBC isn`t it?
        ” Her reputation would appear to have been somewhat tarnished by some alleged regrettable life choices”.
        But she was a prisoners wife, and Tory cuts had possibly created bad mood music, that inevitably led to inappropriate decisions.

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    • gb123 says:

      One thing they wont mention to much will be the Mandela United Football Club. Even though the beeb like wimins football !

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  14. Lobster says:

    I see that that old witch Winnie Mandela has popped her clogs.
    Black armbands all round at the Beeb.

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    • Lobster says:

      Edit
      Sorry Tabs – you beat me to it!

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Lob
      Al beeb has now found a way of getting Corbyn and is anti Jewish comrades off the hook . No news for 24 hours for fedup as they go through the sobbing and loss of a fucking icon routine .

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    • Despairada says:

      I’d rather shed a tear for the brilliant Steve Boccho. BBC Radio 4 news progs have been reporting it ok but no mention of the superb humour in Hill Street Blues. Lt Hunter (“your brown types”) and Mick Belker not exactly PC characters.

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  15. Moodswing6 says:

    OK. WARNING! I am about to let go big time. Readers are advised that the following comments may be considered as unsuitable for children under 30 or upsetting to certain individuals. Should you decide to continue then it is entirely at your own decision.

    Given the Grenfell Tower tragedy and the media coverage, especially the BBC I think it’s reasonable to have a few words.
    I’ve returned home to my high floor flat (I prefer to call it an apartment) The lifts Usually have trash on the floor. This morning it was reasonable with only a couple of items on the floor. One of them was a cotton bud. Which part of the body it had been inserted into I don’t know. On returning this afternoon I decided to use my cordless vac to quickly clean up the foyer outside the lifts.
    The only reason the building remains clean and habitatble is because the cleaners work their butts off to continually dispose of the shit mess that the majority of residents leave behind them. My foyer wasn’t too bad today until I discovered cigarette ash on the floor. Normally there is a used cigarette butt left there but since the Grenfell fire I thought that who ever was using my foyer to smoke had had a wake up call as to how dangerous this might be. Yet recently the smoking, illegally in public spaces of the building has begun again. This brings me to say that I will never believe that an exploding fridge was the cause of that fire in Grenfell. Given what I see in my building I’m convinced that the fire was caused by individual stupid neglince. The inappropriate cladding was of course a factor but how much rubbish was blocking corridors, how many people were there illegally making the building overcrowded and unsafe. The truth will never be told because it goes against PC agenda. If I’m wrong and only going crazy over someone having a smoke in my building, despite them doing it illegally and having the disgusting audacity to think it’s acceptable to simply stub out their cigarette butt on the floor when the decent thing to do would be to go outside into public space, then I am more than willing to apologise. However I have absolutely no hope of getting anyone to do something to stop this. Should I try it will be me who will be the trouble maker, the inconvenient person causing waves. I’m the one who the BBC and the estate managers of this building would refer to as racist, rude and mentally unstable. Who ever is endangering my life and those who live in this tower could be from any country or any religion but the majority of residents are………

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    • Despairada says:

      Hello Moodswing,
      Is there a part 2 to this?
      Anyway, I feel your pain. I could write a book about the peculiar psychology of flat dwellers. My block is a small private one but still presents many problems. For example, no one but him indoors and I would ever dream of clearing litter from the car park. People aren’t configured to live in flats – or apartments – because they have no sense of communal responsibility. Instead of obsessing on here I should be thinking of ways to make enough money to buy a house, not a mansion, just a teeny house with space all the way round, but it’s all too interesting.
      Grenfell should be knocked down.

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      • Moodswing6 says:

        Hi Despairada. There could be several years of this if I can convince the BBC to option a pilot episode. I had the good fortune to live in one building which was immaculate and luxurious. You really felt special when you walked into the foyer.
        Flats can be a challenge but I’ve heard some nasty neighbour house stories too. On the positive side there is not likely to be any BBC staff living in this building. Unless Lord Hall is on the top floor and I haven’t bumped into him yet.

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        • Despairada says:

          True it’s difficult to escape neighbour problems. Even if you think you have no neighbours, your neighbour is most likely a farmer which can be problematic.

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  16. Halifax says:

    Just watching Diamands are Forever on ITV. Non PC British Cinema at it’s best. Sadly we will never see the like again.

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  17. scribblingscribe says:

    You might try Filfth from 2013. A brilliant film from which the BBC would run away so quickly that Usain Bolt would struggle to keep up.

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  18. BRISSLES says:

    I have never watched Ant & Dec from highchairs to high 5’s, Gogglebox, nor any of the other puerile soaps/reality/talent that currently inhabit our airwaves; but from what I’ve read, Ant / Dec seem to be on the receiving end of ‘so much love’ and how marvellous that Dec did a show all on his little ownion, and how being on his own is only temporary until his ‘mate’ is back in tow again – WTF ? Big headlines last weekend about McPartlands drinking and ‘demons’ – but excuse me, who has a ‘botched’ knee operation when their bank balance is in the millions ??? so why didn’t he get it fixed ??? This weekend you’d be forgiven for imagining that McPartland is just having a well earned break from the tele, instead of being in rehab for putting a child in hospital. Personally, I hope he gets the book thrown at him, and hope that the judge is not too starry eyed when handing out the sentence.

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  19. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Have we got more older people than the rest of Europe?

    In the daily express there is an article saying our nhs is collecting far less (over £500 million) for health treatment given to EU people than it is paying out to EU countries.
    A reason they give is that many ex pats are old retired people requiring treatment abroad.

    I thought all the old people were here in England blocking up the beds in the nhs.
    I also thought they were all going to die early because every one of them smoked.

    Remember when Nigel mentioned the cost of treating non British in the nhs and was roundly boo’ed by the impartial selected audience.

    Still, as long as we have enough of the top class managers, the ones where you must pay them huge sums to get the best, we will somehow accept this loss of revenue which is there for the asking.
    Although,
    on the news now it says the nhs winter crisis will now be permanent over the summer.
    Probably the old people again.

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Personally, it needs someone like Donald Trump to be in charge of the NHS.

      During my time there, I saw piles and piles of perfectly good bedlinen thrown away, skips full of discarded chairs that were neither broken nor ripped (in fact us secretaries were retrieving them back again), umpteen tins of unopened paint were also discarded, functioning desks that were being replaced by ‘upgraded’ versions were also doomed for the skip. The general public would be horrified to see the waste that goes on within the NHS, but those in charge would never ‘rock the boat’ but are glad for their new comfy office chairs and smart desks, and to hell with the patients (sorry, ‘service users’) who have barely warm meals served to them, and are kicked out of their beds at the earliest opportunity. (it was my sad experience when in for a replacement hip, to have a cold chicken curry placed in front of me -imagine that ! and a ward manager who insisted I should go home 2 days after my operation – with no one to care for me, lovely. I dug my heels in and stayed an extra day as I wasn’t feeling well).

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    • RJ says:

      “Although, on the news now it says the nhs winter crisis will now be permanent over the summer.”

      The NHS is in crisis at the moment because of a unique event – a 4 day weekend, “allegedly” caused by some Christian festival called Easter This is very rare and only happens once every 365 days. The Christians insist on making life difficult for NHS managers by changing the date every year, making it impossible to plan for.

      If only the government would ban these disruptive Christian festivals life would be so much simpler.

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    • Terminal Moraine says:

      Maybe it’s me, but I find ‘crisis’ to be one of those mots du jour, so beloved of Islington dinner parties and bloggers struggling to make themselves heard above the background hum of ho-hum.

      Like ‘toxic’, ‘backlash’ and ‘weaponised’, it doesn’t clarify anything of note. I’m still waiting for a Guardian headline to go full retard with “Toxic weaponised backlash crisis”.

      Can’t be long now.

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  20. StewGreen says:

    Last week : Oh terrible an MP tweeted a link to a “vile” story on a boo-word “far right” website.
    The libmob shout “You crossed the line you are Satan !”
    BUT We in the real world know there are grades of offence, and that to get to the truth sometimes get close to the line.
    And in the case of highlighting issues of mass rape you do risk being called a racist, but the greater offence by miles is the mass rape itself.
    Those grades : “saying something that could be construed as racist”, mass rape, Hitler’s genocide etc are vastly different.
    Just like Labour’s highlighting trigger happiness of Israel gov should not be said to be antisemitism,
    but it is easy to see how criticising the Israeli gov can slip into criticising all Jews.

    A few days ago the press screamed at @BobBlackmann MP cos he dared to retweet a story
    \\ Muslim Somali Sex Gang Say Raping White British Children
    “Part Of Their Culture”
    http://www.hardcoreusanews.com/2018/03/10/white-british-children-part-of-their-culture //

    Oh how horrible that sounds racist as if saying all Somalis are rapists

    Oh, and that story comes from a far-right website

    Burn him, burn him, he’s a witch

    Despite the fact that 12 hours after he posted it he deleted it… he was declared evil

    Well if you check that title is made from an apostrophed quote in the text
    when the prosecutor spoke

    Anna Vigars, prosecuting at Bristol Crown Court,
    said: ‘He wanted her to have sex with his friends, that that was his tradition, his culture and that that was what always happened.

    Furthermore that story has taken that bit from the 2014 Daily Mail article
    ..I tweeted screenshots

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    • Beeb Brother says:

      They shout ‘arsonist’ at people brave enough to try and put the fires out.

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  21. Beeb Brother says:

    Lenny Henry doing a programme about Britain’s relationship with the Carribean tonight. I feel sick just thinking about it.

    Though the programme is sure to be abysmal, the lunatic lefties at the Beeb will pat themselves on the back for another sparkling paving slab on that road to paradise which is ‘peak diversity.’

    What definite evidence is there that ‘diversity’ is good? It sounds great but so did communism. I suspect the most successful societies have focussed on shared ideals to bind people together and provide stability. None of the ancient Greeks were concerned about making their art ‘accessible’ or not offensive to Spartans but they achieved more than any other group in history. ‘Diversity’ is such an ill-defined goal which makes it a stupid ideal to bet the house on.

    In the Platonic dialogues they discuss truth, love, beauty etc. They never argue about ‘diversity’ because it is meaningless.

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    • Holly Selassie says:

      Didn`t he do some jokes about Jamaican Airways with spliffs and incompetence, rum and reggae? Might as well ask The lads who wrote Dreadlock Holiday to do the show.
      Coconut Airways indeed-but the BBCs own token gets all these gigs doesn`t he?
      Did a good David Bellamy once, and has been Geldofed into a fixture none of us wants.

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    • vlad says:

      The libtards who dream of and plot for a multi-cultural, multi-racial, multi-gender, multi everything paradise are more likely to end up with some hellish dystopian future like in Blade Runner, where ‘diverse’ creatures rub shoulders but no-one belongs, no-one cares, everyone’s hustling to get by in ugly, soulless, inhuman cityscapes.

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      • Rick Bradford says:

        Solzhenitsyn called the paradise of ‘equality’ in the Soviet Union as ‘everyone having the same rotten piece of bread’.

        That’s where the progressives, who hate competence, and regard success as proof of being an ‘oppressor’, are taking us.

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    • Emmanuel Goldstein says:

      BB,
      They should have got Jim Davidson to do it.

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  22. BRISSLES says:

    Who’s interested in Lenny Henry’s journey to Jamaica or wherever anyway ? I could do a reminiscent journey back to the Isle of Thanet with tales of my teenage life in the 60’s (second thoughts, perhaps not !!!)

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    • Beeb Brother says:

      I wish they could pay for their own holidays.

      Giles Coren, who just happens to have an extremely cushy job at the BBC lols his father and sister, has a show where he tours the best hotels in the world. All paid for by us, what a p**s take!

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  23. StewGreen says:

    Last Thursday : Radio4 did the art of Guantanomo
    … FFS it’s radio you idiots
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09wvgg4

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    • Guest Who says:

      Jonny from Fast Show on commentary?

      “Orange… is the new black… black like the burning souls of jihadis taken by Kurdish female snipers….!”

      Bit Boschesque in inspiration maybe, but look nice framed over the bog.

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  24. Halifax says:

    Just watching Celebrity Masteridiots. They just asked (remember it’s 100 years of the RAF) the following question, and I quote. “Who said in reference to BRITISH airmen in 1940. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”…….errr Pass. So it wasn’t RAF pilots which would include Czech, Poles Canadians etc …..they can’t even get the question right never mind getting the answer right. Disgusting

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    • BRISSLES says:

      So called ‘slebs’ have no shame in revealing how thick they are. My current ‘thicko’ is Jay Blades (yes, I know I’ve mentioned him before, but he REALLY gets my goat), on Repair Shop, he takes the art of being stupid to the next level. He says “woz this for” / “woz that do then” . Its me that needs putting out of my misery.

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      • Alicia Sinclair says:

        Jay Blades?
        Thick as Angela Rayner or any of of those twerps who reads links for Channel 4 shows during the day?
        I think that Bob Ainsworth (some Labour thickie way back) is the thickest person I`ve heard in public life.
        I`ll do a top ten when I`m feeling silly.

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  25. StewGreen says:

    Snippets :
    Times : in 2016 drugs corps paid 17K doctors £170m between them ie avg of £10K EACH top up money for testing drugs/writing reports etc.

    At the Guardian someone once scrawled about Melannie Phillips
    “She maybe a woman, but she’s not a sister”
    That’s typical of the libmob thinking, they first look to see if you are a cormformer , one of them, and if you are not..they hate you.

    Son of Angolan ex-president was charged with fraud for tranferring $500m to UK
    Jose Filomeno dos Santos
    His sister Isabel is Africa’s richest woman
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-43544327

    Oh Japan builds houses at a quicker rate than the UK
    ..Yes you dimwits, cos they build them out of wood , and they don’t last as long as brick.

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  26. StewGreen says:

    More snippets
    I can’t see Divyang-Shukla the surgeon with a Hindu name , getting acquitted of sex charges.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5549383/Divyang-Shukla-Blakeslands-Hospital-molested-patient-quizzed-sex-life.html

    London murders : even the Daily Star reports the story BBC doesn’t
    https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/691643/London-news-murders-killings-violence-knife-crime-gun-Metropolitan-Police

    Wonder why BBC banged on about The London mosque van attack
    but not about Paul Moore in Leicester who got 20 years
    His victim survived but it shouldn’t depend on that

    I saw someone criticise the Iraqi statue in Trafalgar Square
    well it is to signify the archaeology destroyed by ISIS in Iraq
    So that seems fair enough to me.

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  27. fakenewswatcher says:

    Lenny…Jamaica….I feel a bout of Colonialism coming on…Gotta find my decolonisation tablets quick…

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  28. StewGreen says:

    BBC is bringing in Guardian guy Jason Phipps to build the podcast brand
    https://www.prolificnorth.co.uk/news/appointments/2018/03/bbc-hires-guardians-phipps-its-first-head-podcasts
    Which is weird cos a lot of new BBC podcasts have popped up which are not even broadcast on the radio
    And I thought ‘hang on the BBC is making Guardian podcasts free for them”
    ..And strangely wacky conspiracy theorist psychologogist has popped up twice recently in random progs and given only enough words to give his name and accuse everyone else a conspiracy theorist
    (On : You’re Doing It Wrong : The Environment
    and Post Truth)

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  29. MarkyMark says:

    BBC £3.5bn News Service pass on disinformation and break EU new regulations … will they be fined?

    BBC Breakfast falls for newspaper’s April Fools Brexit joke
    A story in The Observer about Brexit emojis fooled the BBC Breakfast team. {bbc.co.uk 01apr2018}

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  30. vlad says:

    So farewell then Winnie, “anti-apartheid campaigner, Mother of the Nation”, and mistress of necklacing.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-43621112

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    • Alicia Sinclair says:

      Maybe there`s a nice new eco line of jewellery that Camilla Batmangedghli could produce, using her Kids Company kiddies-a railway arch by Euston seems to be available if she`s quick.
      Of course you`ll need a very fat neck to carry off the look-but Camillas neck is not only very fat. But it`s brass too, which should set off the earthy black and organic tones of the tyres themselves.
      My name is Rosie Millard. How outre.

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  31. fakenewswatcher says:

    John Carlin getting quite carried away in his tribute to Winnie Mandela in a lengthy feature on BBC news at 8.oopm, waxing lyrical, could have droned on and on. We caught glimpses of an aggressive, nasty person, involved in murder, quite surprised the beeb even gave that a brief mention in the 20 minutes of ‘obligatory’ adulation. We would have expected that of the Corporation…
    The ‘necklacing’, quite a unique horror, given a harmless label; yup, we’ve forgotten all about the burning fuel…
    the news wasn’t about to remind us…
    I believe the name of ‘Stompie’ Sipei wasn’t mentioned at all in the twenty minutes…tsk ,tsk – airbrushed out of history…

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    • TrickCyclist says:

      Just wondered if anyone else’s experience of today’s news chimes with mine. I’ve had a smartphone for about a year, with Mail Online and BBC News apps installed for most of that time. The Mail gives me notifications just about every day, about stories both major and trivial. I can’t ever remember getting a notification from the BBC, to the extent that I assumed their app didn’t send them. So I was a bit surprised when one popped up from BBC News today – “Winnie Mandela has died.”
      I guess they were just waiting for a story that was important enough. . .

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  32. MarkyMark says:

    Malala (shot to pieces by religion of peaces in Pakistan, saved by Western medicine, family now live in UK) visits Religion of Peace in Pakistan … Religion of Peace hold an anti-Malala day in the name of Peace.

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  33. fakenewswatcher says:

    I notice Stompie is mentioned in the beeb’s webpage article on Winnie Mandela, right near the end, so I guess I sort of have to half apologise to them. Drat.
    He was one of the children of the ‘mother of the nation’.

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    • The Sage says:

      Let’s not forget that Winnie “necklace” Mandela (and former wife of the convicted terrorist Nelson) was found guilty of the murder of young Stompie by the South African criminal system, but later let off with a fine thanks to her violent chums in the ANC. Yes, a fine for ordering the murder of a young boy and some of his pals.

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    • Alicia Sinclair says:

      Did Winnie even get some ticket for lighting fires in a smokeless zone?
      And where was Roger Harrabin to report on this unconscionable crime against Mamma Earth?
      Global Warming is for life-and I make no apology for mentioning this, so we can all see what a criminal she was.
      Ironic really-poor Stompie probably is the only black murdered who actually MIGHT have become a good footballer. Yet he`s never mentioned.

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  34. StewGreen says:

    Corbyn PR blustering
    In the Times, Jewish News Editor Richard Ferrer gives his account of Corbyn’s interview with the publication last week and it makes grim reading for the Labour leader.
    “When you listen to his words, he’s ice-cold. There’s no genuine conversation.
    . British Jews should be in no doubt: There can be no common ground with this Labour leader,”
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/corbyn-cannot-be-trusted-by-the-jewish-community-gktbw2lq0

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  35. G says:

    So, China has hit back with tarrifs on US products. It’s all to do with the unfair way in which China expects to do business with the World. Expect this to get a lot worse. It can only be expected when the POTUS is endeavouring to re-boot the World and drag it back from all the crack-pot political ideas that are currently ruining the World. China? I look at it this way. They’ve got 1,415,045,928 mouths to feed. That’s 1.4 Billion – a lot of ‘gobs’ to fill. The US? 326 Million. I know where I would place my bet on the winner of any trade war…….
    When China now switches to intensifying its interest in Europe and elsewhere to make up the difference, wait for the sparks to fly.

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    • Kaiser says:

      if they put (even higher) tarriffs on stuff they already dont buy

      whats the loss exactly

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  36. MarkyMark says:

    Yemen – where a religion of peace meets a religion of peace. Twice the level of peace.

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    “We know that Islam is a religion of peace, and it has nothing to do with the ideologies of our enemies.” – Theresa May

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  37. Dover Sentry says:

    Only a year left now for the BBC to make it’s first pro-Brexit programme.

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  38. Roland Deschain says:

    http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-43622001/muslim-woman-sues-michigan-hospital-after-attack

    Muslim woman sues Michigan hospital after attack
    A 19-year-old Muslim woman is suing Beaumont Hospital in Dearborn, Michigan after she was attacked in the emergency room by a man. Her lawyer says the attack may have been religiously motivated.

    This story was heavily promoted on the BBC news page. Now, I have to confess I can’t actually see the accompanying video, because apparently my browser needs to install an outdated and dangerous attachment called Flash which most reputable sites have abandoned. But I’d lay good money that this turns out to be a domestic family feud and nothing to do with anti-Muslim attacks. Not that you’ll hear much from the BBC if it turns out I’m right.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Feb 10 th Genuine attack by schizo who’d been discharged earlier.
      Hope she is OK & she probably is if the attack was 7 weeks ago and now bbc is repirting cos lawyer id seeking $25K
      Hospital security seems to have failed duty of care.
      \\ John Salvatore Deliz, Dearborn police said,
      while local WDIV TV noted that he was discharged from the hospital that day and had been harassing *people* in the lobby.//
      Nutters hang around and when they punch the non Muslim in the room no BBC coverage
      But the one time they hit a Muslim, suddenly the Islamophobia flag goes up and its BBC operationBanginOn

      – ” Moughni said the hospital knew Deliz has a medical condition, but the staff discharged him instead of treating him.
      – Deliz, who is bipolar and schizophrenic, said in court he escaped a group home without taking his medication, the attorney told the network.”

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      • Roland Deschain says:

        I stand corrected, then. However it does seem strange that the BBC must have surely known it was someone with mental problems, yet were happy to leave open the likelihood of it being religiously motivated.

        Actually, it doesn’t. The “mental health issues” get out is only to be used in certain circumstances. And these were most definitely not those circumstances.

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    • Terminal Moraine says:

      Hmm. “19-year-old Muslim woman”?

      Surely the correct description is “Michigan teenager”, no?

      Our beloved ﻅ‎ﻅ‎ﺡ‎‎ ‎(Peace Be Upon It). Trusted and impartial as always.

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  39. StewGreen says:

    Expert 50/50 by April 2019
    Are there many women pilots ? and 5%
    So why would you expect experts in every field to be split evenly between male/female ?
    My uni course 100 men and 1 woman
    A modern a languages course 80 women and 5 men.
    Plus experts tend to be mist experienced older people, and many women drop out before that.

    One daily prog is exempted from the 50/50 rule.
    Guess which one.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5568271/BBC-vows-equal-number-male-female-experts-programmes-April-year.html

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    • Alicia Sinclair says:

      You`ll not catch me reversing a plane!
      And no-I`ve checked-that is not self-loathing sexism.
      Why don`t the BBC check this, as we try to do things like this in a borrowed hijab? I`d watch it.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Wear a hijab in the west and become empowered.
        Take off a hijab in the Middle East and get beaten and sent to prison.

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  40. Beltane says:

    Now Momentum in a desperate attempt to appear balanced, politically mature and conciliatory – forgetting for the moment all the doorstep threats and intimidation – are admitting the Semitic mote in Labour’s eye and urge like minds to cast out their devils.
    Sadly, the newly appointed sun-beam that is Edwina Izzard (Esq. of a sort) will undo all their efforts to be as one with their voting public by the arch of a pencilled eyebrow. Lucky that Prescott’s now elevated or a bit of desk-chasing might have been on the agenda.

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    • BRISSLES says:

      ….Sadly, the newly appointed sun-beam that is Edwina Izzard (Esq. of a sort) will undo all their efforts to be as one with their voting public by the arch of a pencilled eyebrow. Lucky that Prescott’s now elevated or a bit of desk-chasing might have been on the agenda…….

      Lol !!! Nominated as my chuckle of the day !!!!

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  41. Jeff says:

    I see the Beeb are doing their level best to give the sainted Winnie a good send off.
    Let’s overlook her occasional lapses into homicidal debauchery. Let’s forget for the moment she had opposition members murdered. It would be bad form to mention the “necklacing.” Don’t hint that she was a foul and unrepentant racist.
    No, we’ll save all that “racist” bollocks for Brexit voters and Donald Trump.
    RIP Winnie. She’s on a par with that other recently deceased peace campaigner.
    Martin McGuiness…

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    • Holly Selassie says:

      I imagine that we all need to buy up the old tyres at QuckFit and blag a jerry can of fuel, before setting fire to ourselves outside the local BBC studio.
      Granted it`s hardly jam butties and tickling stick, but how else will we commemorate Winnies demise to show how much we cared?

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  42. Sir_Arthur_Strebe-Grebling says:

    I enjoyed seeing the bBBC ‘news’ at mid-day as they squirmed over how to handle the top two items.
    Terrorist murderer died.
    Feminazi lawyer sacked.
    But by later on in the day they’d got it all sorted out and their two heroes were being treated as the victims.

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    • Sluff says:

      Sir Arthur.
      Yep . Let us shed no tears ar all for the dearly departing DPP.
      Who within days of getting the job announced she wanted to see an increase in conviction rates for men accused of rape.
      The thought that some of them might be falsely accused didn’t get much of a look-in. And here we are, five years later, with a litany of failed rape cases and ‘information in the hands of the DPP and the Police not made known to the defence’, the latter described by the outgoing DPP as ‘regrettable’.
      Wrong, luv. It was your disgraceful appointment in the first place that was ‘regrettable’.

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  43. StewGreen says:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5568189/Health-chiefs-flying-lessons-karting-five-star-hotels-McDonalds-trips-credit-cards.html
    And:
    “Town halls spend over £1m on celebrities while cutting services and raising council tax”
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/04/01/town-halls-spend-1m-celebrities-cutting-services-raising-council/
    “Nearly 100 councils spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on engaging celebrities including Jo Coburn Daily Politics presenter who was paid a £2,500 day appearance fee by Brent Council

    See I told you faffing about PAYE was BS
    What counts is total earning gained via platform of BBC : that includes book rights, photo rights, appearance fees etc.

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  44. StewGreen says:

    Full broadsheet page on Jason Muhammad
    “Strong Muslim faith”
    Taken over from Christian : Claire Balding
    He now Co presents her Sunday show with a female priest : audience 3million over 3 hours
    He had hymns at his wedding to Nicola, 3 kids now.
    His father was Pakistani bus driver in Cardiff.
    His mother is Welsh… He speaks Welsh.
    Saturdays he studied at the Madrassa
    His children have all faiths.
    He doesn’t work on Thursdays and Fridays and goes to the mosque.
    He used to host radio Wales phone in for 10 years.

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      Never heard of him, the BBC having so many ‘stars’.
      He looks bent, especially with that naff scarf, but apparently not;
      he has 3 children –
      Lili Mohammad, Max Mohammad, Poppy Mohammad.
      I guess he can easily afford them, force funded by the christian and atheist licence payers.
      The name Max seems terribly popular with the well heeled dinner party crowd.
      Will Max Mohammad become the new John Smith?

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    • Banania says:

      What exactly is there to be proud about in being a Moslem?

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  45. BRISSLES says:

    Funny how those of us who are Christian don’t make a big deal of it. We don’t go around saying I’m British and Christian – perhaps as most of the population would ‘identify’ as C of E there’s no need to do so, but neither are we as devout as those of other religions. Up until mass immigration took hold, the only mixed marriages (like mine) were between Catholics and Protestants ! and even then it was easy come easy go. Now, we have the religion of other lands rammed down our throats, and we don’t like it, but the genie is out of the bottle, and we’re stuffed !

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    • Rick Bradford says:

      The idea being relentlessly pushed by the ‘progressives’ is that Islam is a proper faith, a true path to follow in life, while Christianity is some outdated form of irrational lunacy.

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  46. Payne by name says:

    Not related to the Beeb but I’m sure you guys will understand my point.

    I’ve just watched again the film The Bodyguard with Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner. It was made in 1992 and I was surprised to see that in the final scenes of the film Houston is at the Oscars collecting an award for best actress.

    Now I know it’s a work for fiction but this can’t be realistic can it? A film made in 1992 depicting a black actress winning an Oscar, that’s just not possible.

    I was under the impression from all the BS spouted about Black Panther and from the mouhs of Jada Smith and Spike Lee, that even in ’92 Blacks were still being victimised, marginalised and ignored.

    A mainstream film advancing the notion that a black actress could win an Oscar. This shouldn’t be a simple and popular romance action film but something in the pantheon of ground breaking civil rights.

    Or of course maybe we aren’t living in the racist state, and haven’t been for some years now, that the self validating BLM and HNH would have the world believe. It’s like, you know, we moved on years ago but they don’t want to recognise it because their existence would be irrelevant – just a thought.

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  47. Sluff says:

    Payne.
    Not forgetting Hattie Macdaniel, who won best supporting actress in….errr…….1940.

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  48. BRISSLES says:

    Yes, and I think the only one after Hattie, came Halle Berry in 2002 who was listed as the first black woman to win the Best Actress award, which she was, and still is the only one.

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  49. taffman says:

    I understand that a British firm are challenging the government on its passport contract ?
    Perhaps Al Beeb may read this and report it?
    I am pretty sure that Al Beeb’s researchers read this website to get their ‘heads up’ from?
    We will see in the morning.

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