This is an extract from the BBC website – you decide fantasy from reality . …..
The Royal Charter sets out the BBC’s Public Purposes:
1 To provide impartial news and information to help people understand and engage with the world around them.
2 To support learning for people of all ages.
3 To show the most creative, highest quality and distinctive output and services.
4To reflect, represent and serve the diverse communities of all of the United Kingdom’s nations and regions and, in doing so, support the creative economy across the United Kingdom.
5 To reflect the United Kingdom, its culture and values to the world.
What… were the odds?
Bike lad decides to do a bit of shoe shopping and finds an unfortunate typo/translation that plays right into his high profile search for a new outrage narrative.
The troops rally. He is tired.
FIN.
“Most likely a translation/misunderstanding issue from the seller which is a Chinese company”
See how the French site for same company Rinco
shows you a black shoe yet uses the English words “Color : White”
Given the variations in spelling of colo/ur, seems possible.
There is a report section to most post systems.
Mr. Lammy is more a ‘straight to screeching’ kind of guy.
And then gets the love from JHB to Surkeer He craves.
They deleted the UK page Lammy mentioned but I can get the exact same shoe in French
by going to the right page and selecting the colour option
It’s a two tone shoe so in French I go for brown
and it is labelled as “marron N-word”
instead of “marron noire”
Sorry for the shoe pic above
I just put the page’s address
but It seems Amazon pages auto-embed here
I rather suspect that Lammy was just doing a fishing trip in the hope of finding something he could whinge about.
And landed… The Indy!
Now Newsnight can do a special.
He is a really sad man….with all that is happening in London you might think he had better things to do.
He must realise at some level that he is making race relations worse with his constant ‘micro aggression’….it wasn’t a racist shoe advert either – it was a typo – as there was no intent to be racist – or maybe there was if they were Chinese 🙂
Pathetic for this to even be rated as news..I despair…..
Dare we ask who the organ grinder is?
theisland
As always, “Follow the Money”
Guest
He does humour – bit troubling though because if you go on amazon and put the word ‘nigger’ in as a search you get various responses – many books by black people with ‘nigger’ in the title .
Presumably my Lammy s end game is to make the word ‘nigger ‘ illegal and burn every thing with the word ‘nigger ‘ in it .
It’s a bit too much of an intellectual challenge for the likes of Lammy . For instance – amazon sells a replica ‘ green book ‘ which includes ‘nigger ‘ in it . Would be ban them Green Book . ?
Which is ( the film ) a far more powerful Discussion of race than any of the dangerous infantile crap going on now …..
By the way amazon is also selling those uniforms black men wear when parading through Brixton on Saturday afternoons – you get a free chip with it ( this may all be a fib )
I’m limiting my exposure to this made up race outrage in the UK – which is personally easy since I Abstain from the BBC And am outside the country …..
As an aside Lord Charles Moore gives some advice to over 75 s about the TV licence …. he wonders at the spectacle of some 85 year old being dragged out of their home on a non payment of fine warrant regarding the TV licence …
But as we know – some laws are rigorously enforced and some which are ‘inconvenient ‘ such as the public order act 1936 – are happily ignored . …..
Ah, actually it’s a well known thing
N-word Brown used to the name for a shade of brown
& it still crops up in China cos they are using old dictionaries
see this 2007 Snopes article
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hue-cry/
It’s been suggested that Lammy got it from some racebaiter first searched Amazon for the N-word
Then made a back story
cos it is unlikely they were just about to by a pair of shoes from this new seller who had zero reviews listed.
Last week on Twitter an American talked about the same word being used by a Chinese wool company, which it emerged in Dec 2019 used the term as well as “rape yellow”.
Amazon couldn’t just ban the word
cos that would exclude Rap Music stuff albums, T-shirts etc.
Despite the claim that the shoe page was removed, my French link I gave above, still works.
Honestly ? what are the chances that Lammy of all people just happened to chance upon an Amazon item that he could whinge about ? Its just a coincidence too far. Of course it could be someone else who spotted it, but knew that Lammy could get the publicity needed.
Getting even more hilarious hour by hour.
Now the troops are forming a defensive circle around the size noted.
Next up Priti Patel will be sending Typhoons to strafe brogue smugglers coming into Tilbury.
Maybe it should be described as Lammy Brown.
No RTs from American Beauty and squad.
As yet.
Readers! Don’t bother with ‘Boris the buffoon’ and his bumbling bluster, stop moaning, watch this and cease paying the telly protection racket ……………………….
I received my umpteenth red warning letter today, bin them, they can’t chase us all. The rich Al Beeb want to screw the poor pensioners for something they don’t want.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-africa-53614694/americans-in-africa-why-we-left-america-to-live-in-africa
Good for them, they should be given every aid and assistance to achieve their aspirations.
(1) The place created for the return of America’s Blacks back to Africa:
The African nation of Liberia began as a settlement of “The Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America”, commonly known as the American Colonization Society (ACS). Founded in 1816 to encourage and support the voluntary migration of African-Americans back to the continent of Africa, they believed that black people would face better chances for freedom and prosperity back in Africa. The country declared its independence on July 26, 1847, with Virginia-born Joseph Jenkins Roberts becoming the nations first President. The Liberian constitution and flag were modelled on those of the US.
Liberia’s capital city Monrovia, is named in honour of US President James Monroe a prominent supporter of The Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America.
(2) The place created for the return of Britain’s Blacks back to Africa:
The African nation of Sierra Leone began as a settlement of the “Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor” of London. British Government officials helped the Committee with “The Sierra Leone Resettlement Scheme” because they saw the scheme as a useful tool to remove the black poor from the streets of London. They established the ‘Province of Freedom’ on 15 May 1787. Sierra Leone’s capital city Freetown, was founded in 1792 for the settlement of Blacks from the British colony of Nova Scotia. Freetown became a crown colony in 1808, and with the Royal Navy enforcing the ban on the slave trade, the fleet brought liberated slaves to Sierra Leone, and by 1864, tens of thousands of Blacks had been sent back to Africa, and Freetown in particular. Sierra Leone became an independent Realm of the Queen in 1961, and a republic in 1971.
What ever has happened to the Conservative Party ?
Are there any Tory Party supporters here that can offer some sort of explanation ?
Any ?
cmon smoogie wtf is going on
I joined the party recently with the intention of giving them my views on various problems in this country often and in detail. I was heartened to receive an e-mail from them just over a week ago saying I could expect shortly a letter from Boris Johnson. Splendid, I thought, an opportunity to vent my spleen. However, this letter when it arrived was a request to donate to party funds followed by another tacky e-mail repeating my first name over and over again, informing me that I only had until midnight that day to donate and help them with all their good and important works, also what a great supporter I was ( I’ve only been a member for about a month), to say I was underwhelmed would be an understatement.
‘another tacky e-mail repeating my first name over and over again, informing me that I only had until midnight that day to donate and help them with all their good and important works”
By sheer coincidence, just now, from 38 BeeGees:
Subject: The voice of the British public (the other one to the BBC)
Rube,
Breaking: UK Trade Secretary, Liz Truss, is in Washington RIGHT NOW (for effect) negotiating a UK-US trade deal. But our government still hasn’t taken concrete action to protect OUR NHS (c)Corbyn, J. So we’re taking our message directly to US trade officials, via the medium of beaten saucepan.
More than 70,000 of us, that’s nearly the entire country, have already signed the open letter telling US trade negotiators directly: hands off our NHS. Bet they are utterly impressed. If Liz Truss hears from her US counterparts that the British public are taking this stand when we are rightly ignored by those the rest of the country elected, it could (c) BBC be enough to force her to corpse, and finally put the NHS on the negotiating table for the lolz.
But if we want to make sure Liz Truss hears about it before she leaves Washington tomorrow, thousands more of us need to add our names today, to nudge us to slightly more than not very many. Every time 100 of us sign, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer will be notified via email. And his spam filter will deal with it. Let’s make sure this is pinging in his inbox all day – so much so that he asks Liz who these loons are.
So Rube, will you sign the open letter we have drafted for you now, and help send a clear message to US trade officials: this country is being run by idiot petitions?
SIGN NOW
Thanks for all that you do,
Sarah, Chloe, Megan, Molly, Sharnice, Tarquin (us either) and the 38 BeeGees team
38 Beegees can’t blow funds like an EU wine waiter without you, Rube.
38 Beegees has no big donors or corporate sponsors. Everything we achieve together is only possible because of fivers and tenners and little baggies from ordinary people like you.
Please will you consider chipping in a fiver, a tenner or whatever you can spare now. Hoxton Square cafes are, like, mental pricey.
I too, remain less than whelmed.
2+2 = 4 is racist according to moronic BLM activist teacher.
According to ‘intersectionality’ and ‘critical race theory’, EVERYTHING is racist (or sexist).
Hopefully the whole pile of garbage will eventually implode under the weight of its own absurdity.
And hopefully the BBC will follow shortly thereafter.
Just out of interest, when they test people for Covid-19 do they ever test for any other virus?
Could it be, for example, that 90% of the population would test positive for a flu variant yet not have symptoms?
How’s that faux-Churchillian blimp Johnson doing in his finest hour?
He’s masked us on the buses, masked us on the trains and in the supermarkets. He’s defended our borders with waning confidence.
There’s a welcome mat going up along the English Channel. Against the BBC he has nothing to offer but bluster, soiled pants, fears and empty threat. He’s a tool and he’s not doing his job. On Brexit he’s doing the worst, except for all the others.
What happens when all the 4 Star hotels are full ?
All done under the cover of “Covid”. Then, will that be his “finest hour”?
And finally, here is a tip for a good outsider as a runner for the next PM .
Nigel Farage at 66/1.
taffman- Nice thought – ‘twould usher in our finest hour, perhaps?
Regrettably, the PM has to be elected by the party with a majority in parliament. At the moment that would be Blue Labour.
But who knows, we live in a strange, nay -bizarre world, in which anything is possible..?
Two of the events that happened years ago on this day broadcast on Radio 4 were that on this day in 1918 Hitler was given the Iron cross recommended by a Jewish general Hugo Gutman. This was followed by that on this day Anne Frank was betrayed and the perpetrator who betrayed her was never found. This is saying that Jews are responsible for their own downfall. How dare they! To the BBC Jews lives don’t matter.
The Dutch are careful about the war. With good reason. What happened to the Dutch Jews? That is a question you should not ask.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52933323
Usual fearmongering from the BBC.
The following excerpt from the article really makes no sense.
‘They analysed what happens when Reception, Year 1 and Year Six go back at the start of June; followed by all primary school pupils in July; secondary pupils in Year 10 and 12 having some contact in July and all secondary schools going back in September.’
Surely, it should be ‘what happened’
Bad grammar?
No not bad grammar.
A case of bad fearmongering
This article first appeared on the 6th June. The same headline is on today’s front page.
Kids went back to school in July and nothing happened.
BBC Moaning Emole in complement.
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By Andrew McFarlane
Fears of second wave after schools reopen
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Darth Andy knows what gets you promoted.
BBC Local Radio social media…
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Current testing and contact tracing is inadequate to prevent a second wave of coronavirus after schools in the UK reopen, scientists have warned.
Researchers said getting pupils back to school was important – but more work was needed to keep the virus in check.
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National Fear Service, scientists have warned.
Interestingly on radio an ad just now warning about fake news driving fear.
carter,
It’s not bad grammar as it’s the bBC’s writing history in advance.
Facts, as they come in, will be emphasised, modified, and ignored to fit the previously written narrative.
BBC news is unwatchable, however I stumbled upon –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53642923
Fox is not in the government so was it ‘the Russians’?
After a short ‘google’ – something about the wording here
https://www.reddit. com/r/worldpolitics/comments/dkzlfc/officialsensitive_great_britain_is_practically/
The bbc knows its base.
The BBC are going all out to get ‘sleepy joe’ elected
Good news though –
I hope so. Trump is flawed and always has been but he is on the side of the good guys and because of this the bad guys hate him. He makes mistakes and talks too much but maybe there are enough voters who understand this and that he is really trying to hold the line against those who want the US destroyed as a nation.
Newsnight not asking the minister for brogues of color about Rotherham and she not asking Newsnight about McAlpine or child safety standards in bbc car parks.
Did she mention the alleged rapes in the Labour Party where the victims were told not to report the crimes and then hushed up the assaults?
“Phillips talking to the daughter of a convicted brothel keeper/human trafficker about the need to feel safe from rapists at work…”
“Don’t remember her saying anything about her mates John woodcock And Ivan Lewis Thinking face”
“em, she voted against suspending and naming back in 2016”
Recipe for BBC ‘News’.
1) Take a dump on the floor.
2) Spoon it in to a bowl.
3) Allow to fester.
4) Stir.
Not forgetting to feed it to the mushrooms and charge them for the privilege GW.
Meanwhile, more ‘BbC News’…
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The US Navy Seals have launched an investigation after the footage from an event last year emerged.
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Seems some sponsored brogues were sunk.
Exhibit B.. BC.
Bet she couldn’t breathe.
And her a civil servant!
As a matter of interest, how does the bbc HR prioritise BAME candidates without profiling on a racial basis?
Do the curiously over featured Antiques Roadshow guests feel in any way ‘profiled’?
I didn’t want to watch that but –
1 two sides to a story
2 notice how the race of the accuser isn’t mentioned
but is relevant
3 if she is the calibre of the civil service god help us
4 if she’d been identified as a suspect why wasn’t she
arrested ?
5 the interviewer didn’t interview
6 reinforces my view that the BBC is an enemy looking
To cause serious public disorder
7 end the BBC
I think this racist positive discrimination has caused the Civil Service to be a bloated, over manned organisation. My reasoning is that:
the racist anti-white managers want to show how inclusive they are so they employ lots of ethnics, just because they aren’t white. But they need to some people in the Civil Service who have some modicum of intelligence and work ethic so they have to also employ whites. Which means there are many tokens with their hand in our pocket, and probably an equal or fewer number of whites who can actually do the work.
Bit harsh, but maybe if they invite Greta back in the BBC will get them off their backs?
R4 doing a great piece (:-) on ‘young people’ spreading CV19. So they ask ‘young people’ who all say we are doing a good job wearing masks etc etc…fair enough…
So it isn’t young people then, so let’s ask old people – no can’t be them because they would die…
hmm who else can we turn into victims BBC..it must be Muslims – no isn’t them cos they are in poverty…
BLM protestors – no can’t be them cos they are righteous..
hmmm who is left..oh those middle aged white people on beaches (except NHS workers and Teachers)..oh then who is it?
It must be all the white private sectors workers who have to work to earn money and pay the taxes so everyone else can be furloughed, demand higher public sector wage rises and golden pensions
Me cynical…yep..the BBC seem to be intent on spreading fear and division and I really don’t understand what Boris and Cummings are going to do about it. You have to hope that they are biding their time…
BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – No new record
But ‘in the UK’s obesity crisis’ – for which the BBC’s favoured remedy is to make food more expensive – the BBC Home Page has eight food items on it today. That equals the record, if I recall correctly.
Irony of ironies: having spent a couple of days urging Government to tax food, today one of the BBC’s food items is titled ‘How to use the ‘eat out to help out’ scheme’ !
The BBC has long loved ‘expensive food’ and ‘eating out’ because the dream of most of their producers is to either own a small holding, selling named chickens for £100 each, or running a restaurant with four seats, open two days per week, yet still ‘earn’ £500k+ p.a.
Or artisanal coffee shops as Bbc directors, taking Fridays off when the sideline is busy.
Jim, would you have anyone in mind for that role, a Beeboid’s son and grandson, perchance? Or someone who hosts a radio food panel quiz programme perhaps?
Slightly off subject but does anyone know if the female protester, who tried to set fire to the Cenotaph flag, has been to court? Absolutely nothing on the media and they originally stated she was due in July.
No, it appears there has been no news of the 20 yo female
on Twitter.
Please tell me if I am paranoid . But I feel when I am watch BBC
that I should feel guilty about being a white male.
Fos
Before I gave it up I got to thinking that it is there solely to induce depression or thoughts of suicide . I think it’s a real ‘happy accident ‘ That young people are away watching Netflix or prime or porn and not being exposed to one ‘hard done by ‘ case after the next …..
Too fat too black too male too female too white plus – ‘l want ‘
– justice – compensation – an operation – a free this and a free that –
Which just about covers 90% of the output ?
10am R4 How can you help your children to identify fake news on the internet?
With the explosion of different platforms it can be hard to keep tabs on what they are watching.
Jane finds out from the editor of ‘The Week Junior’, Anna Bassi, and Juliane von Reppert-Bismarck, the founder of ‘Lie Detectors’, an award-winning news literacy project which empowers schoolchildren to identify propaganda and distorted facts online.
… Teaching critical thinking would be great
but that is the opposite what the BBC does
which is pick a side and sneer at the opposite side.
Oh JVRB was recently interacting with Stephan Lewandowsky
the notorious global warming nutter.
A psychologist who says he is busting conspiracy theories, while actually he is the one pushing conspiracy theories and false information.
The @theweekjunior is a kind od Guardian kids edition
The Xmas cover shows faces of people they like with smiles
whereas the cartoon has grim Trump and Mrs May
Other time they ran a headline saying Trump tweeted racism.
JVRB said she was horrified in 2016 that a school girl told her
“in the school election , half the school votedfor Trump”
… JVRB then cited a fakenews post from Instagram about Hillary killing people
.. as if this was the only reason
Stew
Critical thinking..yes I love teaching it to my students, but when you hear BBC reporting on this story and laughing that you realise we are doomed…
“John Boyne, the author behind The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
needed to find out how red clothes dye is traditionally made, he did a Google search. At least, that’s what says he “must have” done when it emerged that several fantasy ingredients from The Legend of Zelda have appeared in his most recent book, A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom”
Me, on the other had just sighed….it shows how dumb people have got…no thinking, no questioning. It’s on google..it’s on FB it’s on Twitter etc – so it must be true…
Critical thinking along with truth and facts have little relevance…it is just the narrative…
ambush naming, like calling yourselves propaganda fighters whilst pushing propaganda is a typical libmob tactic.
SG,
Rather, Dr Susan Goebbels. Her namesake would be proud.
Are there no white children left ?
Just a note about someone who worked for an earlier decent version of the BBC – Sydney Lotterby – who was a producer for the likes of ‘porridge ‘ and ‘yes minister ‘ passed on aged 93. That was when a – now – evil organisation did British comedy RiP.
The entire western world seems to be caught up in wave after wave of perpetual panic.
The Insane screaming and intolerable tantrums by Remainers went on for over three years. Their arguments were always apocalyptic, their predictions catastrophic. We were “going off a cliff”. We were facing an economic Armageddon. We would have no food. We wouldn’t be able to get medicinal drugs.
As soon as that was sorted we had the militant greenies on our streets causing mayhem. We were facing the end of the world; we had ten years at most. Aged hippies and screaming teenagers glued themselves to roads and bridges. People sat at the feet of a rather silly, deeply neurotic schoolgirl and the police (what the hell’s happened to them?) were seen dancing and cavorting with protesters…so as not to “upset them.” FFS!
Now we have “The Virus”. All the other hyperbolic, catastrophic, dystopian nightmares seem to have been forgotten as we battle the plague. To combat this unpleasant, flu like condition, we’ve strangled our economy, imprisoned our citizens and forced everyone to wear bizarre outfits and to comply with new societal rules that make absolutely no sense. And what’s even worse, instead of telling our governing halfwits to shove their masks, goggles and sanitisers where the sun don’t shine, most of the public say “Thankyou” and want even more of this lunacy!
And then, to top it all, we have the deeply racist, moronic Marxists of BLM. Do we stand up to these bullying, half-witted thugs? Oh no, the police decide to “take the knee” in one of the most gut wrenchingly ghastly spectacles I’ve ever witnessed.
Indeed, in this topsy turvy lunatic asylum that used to be called Great Britain, you’re actually criticised if you don’t take part in this abject act of subjugation.
These are really strange times. Most of humanity has never had it so good. We’re wealthier, healthier and luckier than any previous generations…and yet. We’re like children. Either terrified of a bogeyman plague, or having destructive tantrums when we can’t get our own way. Where are the adults? They’re not at the BBC and, sad to say, they’re certainly not in Downing Street. These two institutions are actually part of the problem.
We need a strong, calm hand at the tiller, but what have we got?
It will take decades before we can sit down and sensibly assess this extraordinary age we’re living through.
But by that time it will be too late…
Jeff
I tried to work out what the side effects of lockdown and project fear 2 would be . Conceited ? Maybe .
But I got a number of things wrong at the outset .
1 I didn’t believe the whole population would lock down
2 I didn’t believe it would comply so long
3 I didn’t work out how fearful people would become
4 I didn’t realise that al though the initial response would be shaky it would remain so
5 I didn’t see the race nonsense coming – but perhaps should have realised Corbyn momentum would not just go away – they got lucky rebadging with the colour nonsense
6 the collective hysteria experienced by the population has been channelled quite easily by BBC SJWs ( is that the term ?) to a kind of mental breakdown .
But nothing stays the same and taxes always go up .
Jeff
Your item paints a very bleak picture but is absolutely spot on! I have arrived at the very same conclusion.
The most scary feature I have found is that the whole bloody affair is being policed by most of the victims, more so if they are under say 60 years old. It is impossible to challenge anyone in this group on the rationality of what is going on, I have now gone silent on this after being on the receiving end of abvious disgust approaching hate at even trying to suggest that what is happening is at the very least bizarre, possibly unnecessary and probably extremely damaging. Losing friends is very easy right now!
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You should have made it known more if you voted Brexit – I found out who my friends were back then 🙂
but agree, challenge is almost impossible – facts don’t matter and everyone is an expert….at everything apparently
Worth watching these speeches from the weekend (if not already done so).
The craven laxity of the authorities towards the muslim paedo rape gangs is shocking.
Time to resign Priti. You do not serve British people or Britain’s laws.
At least we can poke fun at FFF, fawned over by Priti, Boris and Dick. Hope it isn’t racist to mock them. Thank you BLM for restoring our comedy
island – The unelected judges are going to try. And unless our spineless elected MPs find some bottle from somewhere, and the pathetic Executive actually start asserting themselves, people like Hale, every bit as convinced of their own right to make final decisions as was Schikelgruber ’33-’45, and Merkel for the last 15 years, will try to run the show. We must make sure they don’t. WE ARE THE PEOPLE!!!
Set-ups like the unelected, overpaid bbc, with its constant flow of ‘minority’ propaganda, who also think they are accountable to nobody, and can do whatever they like, to conduct a war against everything we traditionally held dear, from the family to the nation, without consequences, must be educated. WE ARE THE PEOPLE!!!
So much lip service for democracy, so much little actual democracy!
@Taffman 11am on R4 includes two items about Wales
@timhhartley tweeted
” Football without fans? Very strange. My experience of a game behind closed doors is on ‘From our Home Correspondent’ @BBCRadio4 1100″
#2 BBC Radio Cymru’s Garry Owen visited one cheese-maker in Carmarthenshire
On Toady this morning the BBC decided to elicit our sympathy for the grandmother of three children who are stuck in a refugee camp in Syria. The mother ran off with her husband and kids to join ISIS. He died and she may have remarried another jihadist with Trinidanian connections. But what about the kids?
Know what? The BBC have failed. I don’t give a toss. They can stay there for the duration.
Yet that is not quite the only story. After among other things the Rashford food vouchers ‘ initiative’ the state is increasingly taking over responsibility for children and away from the parents, as foreshadowed by Aldous Huxley in the 1930s.
The legions of single unmarried mothers on priority benefits and housing also give testimony to this drift, as does the safeguarding industry.
So the government, having thus systematically backed itself into a corner, could take back the above grandchildren and simply argue quite logically that it is only being consistent.
How we allowed ourselves to get into this mess is another issue……..
Here’s a bit of Good News to counterbalance the BBC’s Propaganda and Gloom and Doom.
In Kent yesterday there was another single figure increase in Covid-19 infections, the first for just over a month. I expect a number in the teens for the next few days before another fall but it was good to see the single digit yesterday. According the BBC, the national average is running at just 5 per 100,000 persons per day.
Even better when you read the bbc thread comments.
I wonder if Audi do campers?
A commercial organisation feels the need to withdraw an advertising image so the BBC decides to make news of it by republishing that image of which few would have been aware.
Therefore a fast track for an organisation to get its name in the news is the deliberate publishing of an iffy image and swift apologetic retraction – happily containing a bit of advertising copy.
Definition of a safe space. A Waitrose car park with an Audi 4×4 taking up three parking spaces.
How dare they assume that the little girl doesn’t own the car!
Isn’t that what ‘equality’ is all about nowadays?
I see the BBC have no issue in promoting the image of this little girl posing as an adult model and suggestively going down on a banana.
When you examine the BBC closer you realize there is a lot of hypocrisy, superficiality and fanatical agenda pushing (which includes fake news).
Remember Tommy R arrested and the full force of the law thrown at him for giving details about a grooming gang trial which were already in the public domain.
So how is it that Class War, the gang that harassed Rees Mogg’s family, can provide a name on their FB page for the Tory MP under investigation for an alleged rape?
They have made it public. Surely the law which took on TR should be applied here.
There is something about Tommy that frightens them. I wonder what?
UEA sociology professor justifies censorship
Beeb TV1 lunchtime news. Full of complaints about ‘racism’. Full of attempts to get ISIS families back into Britain, as per Shemima B. Full of criticism of government track and trace. Nothing about the real news worldwide.
In other words, situation normal.
Defund the BBC.
I see that there is another episode of Jack Whitehall’s Sporting Nation tonight, it is entitled “Class”. I hope it is a repeat of something I saw a little of last week, as that told us that cricket was a class ridden sport & showed us Boris as sporting buffoon, whilst Blair was an expert at keepy uppies. If not a repeat it will be even more appalling.
Some familiar template phraseology in this one, plus some rather weird new phaseology.
‘Alexander Kareem death: Seven arrests in Shepherd’s Bush shooting’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-53649069
‘Seven people have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a man who was shot dead in west London’
Here’s the familiar:
‘Det Ch Insp Wayne Jolley said… “I believe this murder to have been a case of mistaken identity..”‘
Like when the Guardian published a picture of rapper Kano instead of grime artist Wiley – yeah, easy mistake to make, I can’t tell my rap from my grime. Except the Guardian could have googled whereas the gang shooter in this incident only had a postcode and an unknown black lad on a moped to go on.
The BBC has dropped the odd clanger too.
‘BBC bosses have apologised after a cock-up during a social media story in which they shared a photo of the wrong black woman with the caption ‘so proud of the woman I’ve become’.’
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8760641/bbc-wrong-photo-persona-challenge-black-woman/
‘The BBC wrongly identified a black female Labour MP’
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/feb/04/news-outlets-in-racism-row-over-mislabelling-photos-of-black-mps
‘Ms Kareem said her brother had planned to start university in September to study computer science.’ Pretty familiar story. Although it’s moot, considering the fears for a second wave of Chinese flu might just have forstalled University.
And now the odd phrasing:
‘Alexander Kareem’s sister, Khafi Kareem, is an officer for the Met Police’
Officer FOR the Met…?
Glen Campbell was famously a lineman for the county. Perhaps this is some awkward new American import – like Black Lives Matter?
There’s a further very odd piece of phrasing but it is probably not the fault of the BBC as it comes in a quotation from a relative of this poor chap, so I won’t repeat it here. You can read it in the BBC report. They don’t care what they put out there, whether it makes sense or not.
Excellent. I have got several examples of the BBC accusing white Conservative men of being racist for confusing one black person for another.
Is Cat Stevens changing his name back ?
The R2 Folk trailer just used the name Cat Stevens throughout.
Someone tracked the name evolution
: his birthname”Stephen Demetre Georgiou”
changed to Cat Stevens as pop star
He converted to Islam Yusaf Islam
then to just Yusaf
then Yusaf/Cat Stevens
His current Twitter account is
“Yusuf / Cat Stevens @YusufCatStevens
Yusuf Islam the Artist also known as Cat Stevens catstevens.com”
Maybe it’s part of promoting his new music video that explores plastic pollution.
It’s an updated video for his ‘70s song
“Where Will the Children Play?”
Context : born Muslims are not allowed to convert out.
Converts can convert back out of Islam
but it would be tricky for Yusuf to formally renounce Islam.
Stevens has a new interview in Radio Times
‘I got left out of Live Aid cos Elton overran
I accept that was the right decision
.. I left music for 20 years then’
https://newsflash.one/2020/07/27/cat-stevens-speaks-out-on-1985s-live-aid-snub-they-made-the-right-decision
In principle once you have submitted to Islam it is a lifelong commitment. If you then renounce Islam that is punishable by death under some jurisdictions. You will certainly be condemned to an eternity of hell and if something happened that made your journey to hell quicker then that would be Allah’s way.
There is no such thing as a convert to Islam, according to the doctrine we are all Muslims but some of us have strayed.
When we say the magic words of submission we revert to Islam.
Ernie Rea, presenter of Beyond Belief, once asked an imam what happened to those who chose to leave Islam. The response was quick, certain and unchallenged – “Death!”
Em, I don’t see how you can contradict what I said by mere assertion
I lived in Malaysia and Indonesia and I saw cases quoted in the papers
I think he must have found that the name Yusuf Islam didn’t sell many records.
Not to me, at any rate.
Anyone who cant make their mind up, or don’t know what their name is, should be ignored. Perhaps he’ll change again from a cat to a dog (like you do), and go for Snoop Dogg 2.
Honest to God, these manboys – remember ‘Donovan’, Boy George (boy ??), never grow up. Now we have prats like ‘Stormzy’. Doesn’t it make you vomit.
‘Taking on Trump’ tonight at 8.00 on R4- guess what?
MSM ”Good Morning Britain’ witnessing the handovers.
Even a bBC reporter (half-heartedly?) reports.
Mike asking Serco questions.
At the risk of annoying Fed with numbers, @LFC_blano reports over 100 arrived this morning so far (nearly one hotel’s worth).
R4 Drama serial now
The Yorkshire man character is a buffoon
A typical role for their white characters.
In which of the diverse BBC dramas is a black man a buffoon ?
Maybe Citizen Khan is a buffoon ?
I don’t know cos I don’t watch it.
All over various media’s (not the bbbc of course) are the hundreds of ‘asylum seekers’ popping over the channel, escorted by the French and then welcomed by our lot.
All the comments are against this with 48,000 currently living in four star hotels costing who knows what and all are asking why Boris and Priti are twiddling their thumbs and doing nothing about it.
I’m stating the obvious here but if they wanted to stop them coming they would do so. The truth is they are not interested in stopping them coming.
The odd words from Priti are just empty words, meaningless and will change nothing.
I’ll say it again, if the government wanted to stop them coming they could do it today but there’s no will to do anything.
What the Brits want is irrelevant and nothing will be done until the run up to the next election when the politicians will all suddenly start saying they will stop it (only to forget it all again once elected)
British Army = 79,300 trained soldiers?
Asylum seekers in UK = 48, 000.
This is not looking good for the Tory Government and its MPs .
Anything on Al Beeb about this threat to security?
I smell a rat.
EG
You are right of course.
The security and defence of the nation is the government’s primary task.
Therefore the government should be doing just that before anything else.
That means stopping invasions of illegals now and deporting illegals and criminals now.
What military personnel we have should be called upon to plan and assist now.
Everything else can wait as far as I’m concerned.
Sargon vid from Monday
“The One Issue Black Lives Matter Won’t Address”
Modern Day Slavery in Libya etc.
cos BLM isn’t really pro Black Lives, it’s anti-white
https://youtu.be/TltquLGdRNE
Hi, this is a note to StewGreen, Fedup and others concerning some strange global expansion of the BBC enterprise.
So I was on the BBC website checking its headlines and in the Australia news section I clicked on a headline – and it took me to something that looked like part of the BBC website (with connecting menu links) but it came up with the following additional message:
“This website is produced by BBC Global News, a commercial company owned by the BBC (and just the BBC). No money from the licence fee was used to create this website. The money we make from it is re-invested to help fund the BBC’s international journalism.”
It seems to me that the BBC are using its “British” reputation to create commercial ventures (“BBC Global News”) into international news propaganda and making a commercial profit out of it – presumably it is selling news as well as promoting things (dressed up as news) and getting paid for that too. It says no money from the license fee is being used for that website – but surely the BBC are profiting out of the reputation of the BBC (paid for by the British licence payer & taxpayer) & its association with “Britain” as well as the BBC infrastructure.
Here is the website:
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/
I would be grateful for any thoughts or comments on this.
Caliph
Ive seen the site but not the funding . Its easy to just shout ‘defund’ / kill the BBC .
But perhaps these overseas so called self funding operations justify the dilution of the BBC away from this publicly funded ‘giant baby ‘ immune to commercial pressures into the subscription service it needs to be .
We know – and i think they know – that it would not last a year on its output .
But when the BBC shouts about being ‘unique’ and immune from market forces the overseas stuff could be a method deconstruct it .
I think the national brand image and the international one is different and overseas viewers are slowly catching up to where people on this site are in relation to 24/7 bias and message sending
I looked up bbc’s commercial ‘world service’ on Wiki and got some interesting background. It gets quite complicated, but alleges there is an entire ‘world service’, not funded by the licence fee, with agreements /outlets all over the world under various guises. Beeb suddenly becomes a lot more opaque, as you are left to guess what funds flow where and in which direction, and from what source. It is defined as an international PAY TV service, and you can get it anywhere from Afghanistan and Sweden to Nepal and New Zealand.
While the ‘worklife’ website gives you an intro to a wide variety of ‘worklife’ topics, the Wiki article takes you to a ‘world news’ website in which the lead article is on tourism to Venice. The presenter is not -as you might have suspected – Francesco de Mosto, whose family has lived in Venice for many centuries, but typical ‘Venetian’, Ade Adepitan, doing a bit of cultural appropriation.
Anyway, this claims to be a 24 hour international news channel, available everywhere, which could, say in the US, appear on cable, and there are more than half a dozen cable services there alone, on which you can access the bbc.
BTW the Talk discussion on that Wikipedia page alludes to the text reading as if it’s written by the BBC’s PR dept.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:BBC_World_News
The relationship between the BBC and its commercial units is like that between Mother and children
Does the daughter have a successful private business selling cakes
.. if her mother gives her free office rent, her free training, free intellectual property like bags with logos ?
What if the mother sells a weeks worth of cakes for £600 and the daughter retails them for a £1000 has £300 costs/salary and hands the mother £100 profit.?
And then the neighbour comes along and offers a proper market rate of £800 for the cakes £100/week for IP
has £200 costs and shrewdly sells on the cakes for £1200.
The mother would actually be £200 /week better off.
I am concerned that the BBC’s children are given cheap studio rental in Broadcasting House, already trained staff, no rent for BBC IP etc.
and that amounts to a subsidy paid for by the licence payer.
FFS the daughter only generates a profit of 50p a year !
BBC Global News gave a profit of £8m in 2018/19 and £2m in 2017/18
That is practically nothing
One thing I forgot is what about BBC Global News Assets
maybe the BBC started it up with £400m of existing assets
…. assets which the licence payer paid for.
His Robinsononian dome must have been the result of a lifetime of swirlies.
Next, Barry on states, Sleepy Joe on… everything.
Wonder if Mark Thommo gets Maggie to give the BBC a heads up?
But maybe it was deliberate by President Trump.
If it did nothing else, it got Zurcher the lurker ( or is it Zurcher the lurcher) reporting it. So more free publicity for President Trump.
This year in Scotland because of schools being closed during exam season the decision was made to let the teachers “guess’ what the pupils would have scored.
As a teachers performance rating for themselves relies partly on the success rate of their students this right away seems a loaded way to proceed but hey ho…
So in Scotland results are in and guess what grades are recording higher then ever pass rates. with most up by 5 – 10 percent over previous years which kinda illustrates my point above.
Apparently though this is not the whole story, the grades the teachers submitted were actually even higher and had to be cut back (so as not to look too dodgy)!
So the BBC headline goes on the attack!
Scotland’s results day: Thousands of pupils have exam grades lowered
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-53636296
At he bottom of the article is a graph that clearly shows record levels of results actually awarded despite the headline.
Teachers are our friends… So BBC!
And here’s the hidden reason for the BBC bellyache..
“Opposition politicians have warned that there will now be a “deluge” of appeals, and accused the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) of treating the professional judgement of teachers with “contempt” by changing so many grades.”
Oh it’s those noble opposition politicians again…
Opposition Politicians are our friends, So BBC!
If the teachers weren’t teaching but the marks go up by 10% do they need teachers at all?
Going with OMG! on this one.
What Jez and especially the girls go with, who knows? Even the women.
Jez is on it.
I don’t know if anyone else watched “Celebrity Masterchef”, but it was on in our house.
Throughout the series, the best amateur chef had been Sir Matthew Pinsent. In the final, he produced three perfect courses. Another finalist was a gay Irishman with an Iraqi father, some sort of vlogger (the definition of “celebrity” is very wide nowadays). He produced three courses, but his sorbet had gone hard and turned into a steamed puddding.
Guess who won? Hint: it wasn’t the straight white Englishman.
Of course the two judges, John and Greg, are themselves straight white men, so for career reasons they were never going to pick another white man as winner, no matter how good his cooking was.
Now I read that one of the ex-SAS men on “Who Dares Wins” is to be replaced by a person of colour. I feel as if being white is a crime with no possibility of parole.
I used to wonder when we would have had enough, and refuse to take any more, but I think we have had the stuffing knocked out of us by the left wing establishment, which of course includes the BBC, MSM and police. I just don’t see much of a future for ordinary white British people. We have been colonised without even realising.
Rob I strongly agree with you that we are being colonised ‘without realising’, but strongly disagree with you that we are stuffed. AVOID DEFEATISM!
It is set-ups like the bbc and most MSM who would like you to believe that. BUT NOW WE KNOW! And because we are aware, we can stand up and do something. The woke don’t have a monopoly on activism. If conservatives became activists in their cause, the picture would quickly change. That would include badgering our docile, lazy MPs, who are probably convinced they have to compromise with wokism, cos that’s who they hear from all the time! And kicking some ‘journalist’ butt, metaphorically speaking. From boycotting their outlets to boycotting advertised products, to challenging what they write. This morning I bought an unusual basket of shopping, shopping list in one hand, product boycott in the other. And I let them know, all of them.
So, if everyone stood up for themselves and RESISTED, it would quickly be ‘game over’. We still have the numbers. It has been the will that has been missing.
The enemy has been puny, but puff themselves up. Let’s pull ourselves together and pull together.
I don’t think I’m alone here, but with the sodding endless press articles, tv programmes and adverts proclaiming everything that is black (or shades of), its driving me nuts ! and I’m sick to death of reading/watching it. Far from promoting the plight of the black man and giving them a fair share of publicity/air time, its done the opposite and making me resent them ! and I hate the establishment for making me feel like this. I’ve always been fair minded and rubbed along like the rest of us, but jesus, we are being pushed to the limit , and when airing these views with friends, they suddenly opened up and felt exactly the same !!
So the following is a clear example of BBC agenda pushing rather than reporting on the news.
On the BBC Welsh News section we have this that appeared yesterday:
Basically the BBC along with certain activists (with political influence) are claiming the deaths of these two Muslims from Covid-19 is due to structural racism in Welsh Society and are demanding the Welsh government do something about it.
This is the top story in the BBC Welsh News section as of now:
Where the BBC through images and narratives are blaming “alcoholic” white welsh youth for spreading Coronavirus and ruining it for the good people by gathering together in their “hundreds”.
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And let’s not forgot the BBC constantly promoting youths to come together to march for Black Lives Matter as in this CBBC story which celebrates more than 15,000 people coming together to support BLM:
The BBC agenda is obvious and farcical. It is neither “news reporting” nor “journalism”. It is certainly time to defund the BBC as it is not fit for purpose.