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  1. gb123 says:
    August 17, 2020 at 3:26 pm

    With the A level issue they should have got Neil Fergusson to model the result. With his precision and margin for error there would have been a 500,000 percent A* pass rate.
    On a more serious note I would expect many universities would be using their discretion to allow those with offers to take places even if the grades were not met. After all, they will be short of foreign students this year so could mitigate their losses.

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  2. digg says:
    August 17, 2020 at 3:38 pm

    So….. lots of kids roll up outside Parliament to let them know how badly they have been treated and the BBC, Guardian and Independent have a goodly staff of reporters right there on the scene ready to go.

    The BBC would like you to think that this was a spontaneous event sparked by the kids real concern, however if you analyse the footage or news photographs a different picture emerges.

    A lot of the kids are carrying what appear to be “home-made” placards but oddly all the placards appear to be of an identical style, brown cardboard and painted slogans etc. etc.

    What a coincidence that all these kids turned up displaying the very same kind of graffiti! Certainly homespun in style to make it look like the kids knocked these together themselves but very suspiciously samey, samey complete with sophisticated activist messages unlike those that would have been created spontaneously by a child.

    This almost certainly means the event was totally orchestrated and very carefully controlled, including making sure the correct press were in place.

    So who are the masterminds behind this then?

    I give you five potential culprits.

    1. Teachers with many of their children/pupils?
    2. Teachers Union reps with many of their children?
    3. Momentum activists etc. with many of their children?
    4. Labour Councillors with many of their children?
    5. Disgruntled Remainer bubble-dweller with many of their children?
    6. BBC / Guardian / Independent staffers with many of their children?

    Quite possibly a vibrant mixture of all of the above.

    Meaning this is not really about the results it’s about grudge and revenge against Boris.

    My guess is that we are facing much more of this manipulation into the future, it’s a new way of “pseudo-democracy”, the new screaming democracy of the professionally offended lefties.

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  3. Emmanuel Goldstein says:
    August 17, 2020 at 3:43 pm

    Just seen the daily deaths in the DM.

    Yesterday (previous 24 hours) saw 5 die with Covid.
    Today (last 24 hours) saw 2 die with Covid.

    I think more people die putting their trousers on (ban trousers?)

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  4. Roland Deschain says:
    August 17, 2020 at 4:09 pm

    Let’s take bets on what BBC Unreality Check will find.

    “But there is no evidence of widespread fraud, according to numerous nationwide and state-level studies over the years.”

    I’m sure no one saw that coming.

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  5. Emmanuel Goldstein says:
    August 17, 2020 at 4:11 pm

    Once we are out of the eu at the end of the year there is no longer any reason to vote conservative as they are more or less all the same, liblabcon.
    That is the reason Boris got the 80 seat majority. It was Brexit that won him the majority.

    When were safely out we can vote for a Party which will be the new conservatives and not the liberal conservatives we are stuck with now.
    That’s the time for Nigel to get the Reform Party started.
    Nigel on the Right, all the rest (of the main Parties) on the Left.

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    • G.W.F. says:
      August 17, 2020 at 4:21 pm

      Agree And when Boris reneges on Brexit and fails to stand up to the BBC there will be good reason to support the Reform Party.

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  6. G.W.F. says:
    August 17, 2020 at 4:26 pm

    More details on the arrest of Millie Weaver, Infowars correspondent.

    Accused of stealing a fifty dollar phone in an altercation with her mother . Looks to me as if they are doing a TR on her, shutting her up.

    https://heavy.com/news/2020/08/millie-weaver-update-charges-arrest/

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  7. Richard Pinder says:
    August 17, 2020 at 4:29 pm

    Guessing what A Level Maths is like today.

    Within the BBC, there is no such thing as “Maths”. With Identity politics there is only “White Maths”, “Russian Maths”, “Jewish Maths”, etc. The implied objective of this line of thought is a nightmare world in which the BBC, or some ruling clique, controls not only the future, but the past. So today I presume that A Level Maths is turning into “Black Maths”

    This is my guess for the future of A Level “Black” Maths

    (1) Who in 1895, wrote 2 + 2 = 5
    (2) Who in 1920, wrote 2 x 2 = 5
    (3) Who in 1931, wrote the 2 + 2 = 5 year plan
    (4) Who in 1949, wrote 2 + 2 = 5 in 1984
    (5) Who in 2003, sang 2 + 2 = 5
    (6) Who in 2020, passed A Level Maths with 2 + 2 = 6 wrong questions?

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  8. theisland says:
    August 17, 2020 at 4:34 pm

    They have given in to the coordinated screeching.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53810655
    A-levels and GCSEs: Teacher estimates to be used for exam results

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  9. Guest Who says:
    August 17, 2020 at 4:35 pm

    One might think that even the most rabid TDS reporter might see this as a bit professionally OTT, and anti democratic, but likely not.

    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2020/08/17/study-150-times-more-negative-news-trump-biden

    Being eaten by crocodiles last seems an odd career ambition.

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    • Guest Who says:
      August 17, 2020 at 6:11 pm

      I wonder if any from American BS RT’d it?

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  10. Sluff says:
    August 17, 2020 at 4:41 pm

    So…..the government have again cravenly capitulated to the mob, in favour of the ‘All shall have prizes’ exam results policy.

    Quite how it is fair on students whose teachers gave an honest opinion versus students whose teachers wildly over-exaggerated the grades is not at all clear. Because it isn’t. Neither is it fair on students from past years. We know teacher over-grading has occurred in massive measure, as it was necessary to downgrade 35% of grades just to get the overall level to the same pass level as last year. As a result, A/A* pass rates, having been between 25 and 27% for the past three years will jump to 38%. Totally insane and undefendable morally and intellectually. But clearly not politically.

    By the way. Was there not a role for OFSTED here? I mean, what have they actually been doing these past months when no schools could be inspected? Could they not have overseen the teacher assessments to ensure reliability? Obviously not.

    But is the government really to blame, when yet again a public body on which all governments must rely , this time Ofqual, is revealed as useless?

    Boris has a massive job reforming institutions which are useless, do not want to be reformed, and conveniently can hide behind the political opposition of their buddies on the Left.

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    • Dave S says:
      August 17, 2020 at 6:16 pm

      Who really cares? This is the age of stupid so let them all get 100%. Stops the whining and the useless universities get to fill the useless courses with the dumbest bunch of students this side of Valhalla.
      Bet the Chinese had their exams as usual.

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  11. scribblingscribe says:
    August 17, 2020 at 4:45 pm

    John Pienaar on Times Radio still in full BBC mode. Directing some lass into blaming the government for the exam’s results problems.

    Really John? Nothing to do with the Chinese or the WHO?

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    • Jeff says:
      August 17, 2020 at 5:59 pm

      No, it is the government’s fault this fiasco occurred, because Boris didn’t need to follow the advice of the utterly useless and discredited WHO, or our own hopelessly incompetent SAGE advisors. The buck stops at number 10.

      Remember these expert pillocks advised emptying our hospitals of the elderly, vulnerable and sick to “save the NHS”. He didn’t have to take it.
      Boris’s mantra is “We’re following the science…” That’s not nearly good enough.

      Boris isn’t a leader, he’s a follower. He’s dragged our economy to the edge of the precipice, put our elderly in danger and quarantined our young and able bodied. The man’s a dangerous and cowardly idiot.
      At the next election I shall follow my instincts.

      And they won’t be telling me to vote for him…

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  12. BigBrotherCorporation says:
    August 17, 2020 at 5:03 pm

    When ALL students get straight As then an A means nothing at all.

    Education has been heading that way for decades now.

    Has anyone watched Idiocracy?

    The intro is the best bit though:

    I assume it was meant to be a comedy, but it turns out it was a documentary after all.

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  13. vlad says:
    August 17, 2020 at 5:06 pm

    It would be wrong to say that our schoolchildren have not learnt anything in recent months – they’ve learnt how to be radical activists.

    Groomed by their Marxist teachers and egged on by the Marxist beeb, first they went on strike against climate change, then they dutifully joined in the riots in support of the Marxist BLM, and now they’re protesting against the exam farrago, brandishing highly politicised placards – eagerly displayed by the beeb – such as “Trust Teachers Not Classist Tories”.

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  14. Darcy3 says:
    August 17, 2020 at 5:28 pm

    Another black racist on video we can be sure the bbc will be all over it, not,

    tumbleweed moment over there, but would have been w@nking into their lattes if the racist was white

    “North Korean asylum seeker claims she is victim of campaign of abuse by her neighbour over their BINS after she is ‘told you’re not from this country’ in latest row

    Footage shows neighbour appearing to push woman and throwing a bin at her
    The resident is told: ‘You’re an asylum seeker. You’re not from this country’
    Two CCTV clips were posted to Facebook by Myunseo, who lives in Croydon
    She claimed row erupted over bins and has been ongoing since last November

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8634749/Shocking-moment-North-Korean-asylum-seeker-told-youre-not-country-neighbour.html

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  15. StewGreen says:
    August 17, 2020 at 5:28 pm

    The way police act against conspiracy theorists
    ..doesn’t half fuel conspiracy theories
    Ezra tweeted update within the last hour

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    • StewGreen says:
      August 17, 2020 at 5:32 pm

      Live feed seems to show her being put into a black police vehicle wearing an orange jumpsuit
      ..commentary say “they are processing her for release” and thumbs up.

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    • StewGreen says:
      August 17, 2020 at 6:15 pm

      Ezra just played this video that proves that the lefty anti-Trump supporters are the bigots

      her full 44 min uncut version

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    • StewGreen says:
      August 17, 2020 at 10:26 pm

      OK The Millie run down
      When stuff doesn’t make sense it’s tempting to say it’s a big conspiracy
      .. but without proper evidence the conspiracy remains just a possible scenario .
      And as ever cockup is often more likely than conspiracy
      – The best source of info for Millie is Tore Says second twitter account
      Her first account is banned at the moment
      But she has direct access to Millie and no one else does
      – Cockup #1 are the prosecuting a crime that had already been withdrawn ?
      Her mother had complained to the police back in April after Millie had seized her $50 phone to delete a recording
      The mother says the dispute had been settled & thought the court had been withdrawn
      – Cockup #2 Did the police go on a Friday instead of waiting until Monday ?
      So dumb cop is sent on a Friday afternoon to make an arrest, he is given no known reason
      This might be possible say for a murder, you want the person off the street.
      But you don’t hold a person on a minor crime on a Friday and tell them they won’t see a judge until Monday cos that is punishing them when they might end up judged innocent.
      – Tore was able to phone Millie in prison and she put up the full 20 minute call with the first 2 mins edited to be silent
      .. There are possible further cockups in the way she her and her husband were denied scheduled calls on Monday morning
      – Monday comes : Cockup #3 The police have to consider the situation of the kids like what will happen to them if the parents are denied bail & kept in jail.
      But instead of scheduling the family court for AFTERWARDS they scheduled it for BEFORE.
      So the kids were unnecessarily dragged to court
      where the lawyer said the court should wait, and the judge agreed.
      So then it’s the adults turn and the judge
      says ‘yep you can have bail’
      so then the family court got cancelled and the 3 adults were released.
      The bail terms had some terms about the offences are not allowed to be discussed.
      The judge also said ‘You have followers who think that these arrests are to do with another issue, you need to tell them this is not the case.’

      So loads of people are going to look at the series of cockups
      and say ‘no this has to be clear punishment for the ShadowGate documentary release’

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  16. StewGreen says:
    August 17, 2020 at 6:03 pm

    I was having a nap
    and had a terrible nightmare
    that we had a blue-socialist government, that always caves in to what the Guardianlalaland bubbleworld demands
    .. Thank God I woke up

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  17. fakenewswatcher says:
    August 17, 2020 at 6:05 pm

    Nothing about asylum hotels on beeb 6pm TV news. Nowt on the silent invasion.
    The big story is students/exams. Government folds; who would have thought? Belorussia. Storms. Covid 19, etc etc
    Nothing about the asylum floods, their hotel accomodation and hand-outs, all over the country.
    Hitler missed a trick: in ’39! – he should have forgotten about the Blitz. Lotsa young German men, coming over to look for asylum in little boats. No need for a Churchill. A silent invasion. It would have been so simple.
    And saved A LOT of lives. Many millions. We could all be speaking German.
    How stupid was the Fuehrer?
    Never mind, instead we can watch Starmer, Lammy, Butler & Co. on beeb…

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  18. StewGreen says:
    August 17, 2020 at 6:14 pm

    Local ITV news
    – A-level frenzy report
    – The two Muslim kids that frowned in Southport, statement from Imam etc.
    – Bradford teenager Marium Zameer urges people to get involved in Covid medical trials
    .. people particularly from BAME community are needed

    Halifax/Calderdale infection rates are rising
    continuous background pic, mosque and minaret

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    • StewGreen says:
      August 17, 2020 at 6:26 pm

      Item 5
      “Safeguard our water supplies against Climate Change before time runs out”
      A claim that UK won’t have enough water by 2050
      claim more hot dry summers
      “Maybe even earlier 2040 will be Crisis Point”
      Then voice
      Judy Ling-Wong, President of the Black Environment Network ..looks ethnic Chinese

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  19. Guest Who says:
    August 17, 2020 at 6:20 pm

    He used to present the BBc impartiality show, you know.

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  20. Emmanuel Goldstein says:
    August 17, 2020 at 6:27 pm

    We are privileged to be living in the year of the genius.

    The last 5 years have seen the pass rate at 26% with a variation of about 0.1% or so of that number.
    This year it’s jumped by an incredible 11.0% to an over 37% pass rate.
    This is all the more amazing considering there has been no school since March.

    This crop of youngsters must be incredibly brainy and we’ll most likely never see a pass rate this high until the grade inflation goes up over the years to reach this fabulous pass rate.

    This years lot are so much more intelligent and better than all other years. Far better than last years duffers who only managed 26% passes.

    We should use the same system to test our surgeons, airline pilots and nuclear engineers. The teachers could grade them until we have lots more and in no time at all we would be World leaders in the higher level jobs.
    Why bother with a driving test, just pass everybody, it’s only fair.

    As none of the msm are questioning this almost 50% rise in passes we must assume it is all correct and there’s nothing at all not quite right about it.

    However, if I was interviewing any of these Mensa level youngsters for a job, this years results would mean absolutely nothing as they are totally devalued.

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  21. fakenewswatcher says:
    August 17, 2020 at 6:32 pm

    Germany 2015. Britain 2020. After ‘Brexit’ Boris does a Merkel.
    Let’s face it, they were more honest about stuffing up their own people, it seems, than we. BUT: asylum seekers welcome here as there!
    The Christian Democrats there, the ‘Conservatives’ here. Both pretending to be ‘conservative’.
    There the public broadcasters were open about the invasion. Here not. We have a feast of issues like education and Covid 19 paraded before us. And the oh so undemocratic leader of Belorussia, who actually appears in public to explain himself.
    Beeb is happy to report how his people boo him. It pains me to say it, but it seems they are wiser, and have more courage, than we Brits.
    Then again, perhaps they don’t have a bbc!

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  22. Guest Who says:
    August 17, 2020 at 6:35 pm

    The Clan Newsnight is very tight.

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    • StewGreen says:
      August 17, 2020 at 7:04 pm

      I’ve got a degree
      Do you think I should have been awarded a PhD or professorship instead ?

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      • Sluff says:
        August 17, 2020 at 7:19 pm

        Professorships are typically awarded depending on how much research cash you can bring in from grants, industry, and overseas ‘sources’. You don’t have to be that good.

        Stew. Be pleased with your degree.

        A certain person is one of the BBC’s favourite go-to people for astronomy matters. Said person is a Professor and has a gong.
        But…..said person and I are both in the same late 70s group photo doing the same Uni course!!!
        And we both got the same degree classification. Arguably I even did slightly better (having once sneaked a view of the detailed results).

        The decorated professor on the BBC is no cleverer than you or I, Stew.

        They just chose a public sector career that comes with special job titles and an easy route to a Buck House gong, allegedly in lieu of salary.

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        • JamesArthur says:
          August 18, 2020 at 6:26 am

          Sluff
          Couldn’t agree more. I have a PhD and know quite a few Profs…..few are particularly bright…the much older ones got there because they were..the younger ones not so much….
          I teach at undergrad level and it is becoming so difficult to fail a student……it is no longer about education but money.
          The Left have ruined just about every system and organisation in the UK that was once the envy of the world….

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      • Fred Stubber says:
        August 18, 2020 at 2:21 am

        I’ve got a One Width of the Baths Certificate, A Cycling Proficiency Certificate (Grade IV), and a Green Cross Code Badge. Should I be upgraded to Cleverest Person In England ?

        Fred

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    • Dobyns says:
      August 17, 2020 at 7:17 pm

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  23. StewGreen says:
    August 17, 2020 at 6:35 pm

    BBC Local news
    #1 Calorie counts to be on pub menus an takeaway menus
    #2 Remarkable baby
    #3 Hull cyclelines
    #4 Teenagers, Minecraft game Coronavirus
    .. wot no banging on about A-levels !

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    • StewGreen says:
      August 17, 2020 at 6:58 pm

      Oh they had a brief line about The Royal Hotel in Hull above the train station being used to house asylum seekers *

      Now started on A-levels , by playing a vid of a students response
      (less than 60 sec item)

      Now Minecraft

      *Ah they had to cos there is a big Daily Mail article

      comment “I see picture of 1 smoking I take it we feeding him his habit ?”

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      • Sluff says:
        August 17, 2020 at 7:11 pm

        Not only cigs.
        How do they pay their phone bills?

        You know, given that they are vulnerable and destitute?

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        • Kaiser says:
          August 17, 2020 at 9:09 pm

          seen the vid of them chucking their credit cards in the channel??

          within a few days they will have a new card delivered

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      • digg says:
        August 17, 2020 at 8:17 pm

        I can probably add another Hotel to the list. Before the lockdown I used to travel to Derby from the South Coast to stay at a Travelodge whilst working for a nearby client in-house.

        I have never previously had any problem making a booking in 5 years of doing this even making some bookings only a day or so in advance.

        Being able to travel again, I just tried to set up a booking at the same hotel for a couple of weeks time, it was fully booked….and despite trying dates 2-3 months into the future just out of interest, the hotel is still fully booked however far ahead I try!!!

        Needless to say I will remember this and will NEVER be using that hotel or group again come what may.

        They may have taken the Home Office shilling but won’t be seeing mine ever again.

        My guess is that the Home Office have simply turned the whole issue over to Capita who will be taking their cut before the rest gets handed over to Travelodge.

        It’s a money game and very, very shortsighted!

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  24. Sluff says:
    August 17, 2020 at 6:37 pm

    Re. A* grades for all at A level.

    In ‘The Gondoliers’ in 1889, there is a song ‘ There was a King’.

    And the final words are
    ‘When everyone is somebodee
    Then no-one’s anybodee’.

    Not much change then in over 130 years.

    PS the BBC 1 6 pm news was unutterably awful. We lasted out until 6.15 pm and then we had yet another whinge-athon doom and gloom story. And we switched off.

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  25. Guest Who says:
    August 17, 2020 at 6:45 pm

    Nick likes things explicit.

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  26. Broadcasting-on-Behalf-of-the-Caliphate says:
    August 17, 2020 at 6:46 pm

    With the recent software upgrade do all comments with http links now get permanently frozen / hidden with “awaiting moderation”? I posted one with 15 links and the comment has been hidden behind moderation.

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    • Guest Who says:
      August 17, 2020 at 6:49 pm

      The limit is three, I think. Has been for a while.

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      • Broadcasting-on-Behalf-of-the-Caliphate says:
        August 17, 2020 at 6:54 pm

        I have posted comments in the past which have had more than three links but I can’t recall any of them being permanently hidden behind a “needs to pass moderation” message.

        Does that include images as well? So not more than three of:
        image links + https links + other links

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  27. davylars says:
    August 17, 2020 at 7:27 pm

    Another Record…

    Here we have the BBC once again pushing their global warming agenda..

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53788018

    We have the BBC expert’s disputing the previous record.

    ‘(BBC)…A higher reading of 134F, or 56.6C a century earlier, also in Death Valley, is disputed. It is believed by some modern weather experts to have been erroneous, along with several other searing temperatures recorded that summer. According to a 2016 analysis from weather historian Christopher Burt, other temperatures in the region recorded in 1913 do not corroborate the Death Valley reading.’

    However, even the Guardian doesn’t go so far as to completely dismiss the previous record..

    (From the Guardian) …. Death Valley’s all-time record high, according to the World Meteorological Organization, is 134F (56.7°C) taken on 10 July 1913 at Greenland Ranch. That reading still stands as the hottest ever recorded on the planet’s surface, according to the WMO.

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  28. fakenewswatcher says:
    August 17, 2020 at 7:32 pm

    Germany 2015. Britain 2020.
    What we do have now, to learn from, is a precedent. A model. How it all works. Who pays for everything. How a duplicitous leadership carries on machinations behind the scenes, to stay in power, regardless. There the “Christian Democrats” stayed in power through a formal ‘grand coalition’ with the socialist SPD. Here the “Conservatives” don’t need one: they have an 80 seat majority!
    There the powerbrokers at ARD and ZDF etc kept the public informed about the greatness of the Dear Leader from the GDR. Here the bbc etc keep the public informed about the greatness of the Dear would-be Leader from Holborn & St Pancras, who seems to set the agenda. (The coalition with Boris is more informal than the coalition running Germany.)
    It has to be said though, that our Dear Leader is better at sailing down wires than their Dear Leader. (Our Dear would-be Leader desists from such acrobatics. We know from beeb that he is a serious man, or -as they would say in Byelorussia- “seriousne”)
    But one wonders: how many socialists (& big business in coalition) are hiding under cover of the ‘Conservative’ label? One can hear the thinking: hotels can survive now, government will pay. Help the little boats along. Bring in as many Merkel/Macron guests as possible. Sunak has deep pockets.
    Gives “send in the navy” a whole new meaning.
    Never mind, we have a great leader. And we know what he is all about, cos he has told us:
    “Get Brexit done”
    Does it hurt? Only when I laugh, doctor.

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  29. Guest Who says:
    August 17, 2020 at 7:33 pm

    Presuming this is duhlibrite.

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  30. digg says:
    August 17, 2020 at 7:37 pm

    Trump is going to have his work cut out in the upcoming election because he isn’t just up against Biden. Trails I have been following are starting to show that he will be opposed by many organisations, some open about it like The Clinton Project and Obama and some deeply underground like Open Democracy, Bill Gates, Facebook, Google, Disney, Most of Hollywood, Local Authorities in most US States, Local Judiciaries in most US states….the list goes on and of course aided and abetted as much as possible by our own lovely MSM including the BBC.

    And they are all going to fight dirty!

    Anyone less than Trump would give me serious doubts but I hope to hell he wins because if not, the ripples will go around the World and impact every democracy on the planet. I fully expect to see Antifa and BLM raised to the status of “Sheriffs” with legal powers that will turn the USA into a crime-driven banana republic. Even the Mafia will pale into insignificance if this comes to fruition.

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  31. Sluff says:
    August 17, 2020 at 7:38 pm

    Towards the end of the execrable BBC 6 pm news, they interview four ‘students’ about the A level capitulation.

    One of the four is not only pleased with the outcome but off to a demo. later in the week as she wants to overthrow the whole system !!!!!!

    Isn’t it amazing how the BBC manages to find such ‘representative’ people.

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  32. Guest Who says:
    August 17, 2020 at 7:42 pm

    And…. next…

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    • Sluff says:
      August 17, 2020 at 7:49 pm

      Is she about to take over Newshite from Emily Mateless, Katie Razzall, and Emma Barnett?

      She seems to have all the necessary and required credentials.

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  33. Sluff says:
    August 17, 2020 at 7:44 pm

    Funny how the BBC were rather quieter about the change in Scotland ( SNP) last week and almost totally silent about today’s equivalent change in Wales (Labour).

    Try as I might, I just can’t imagine why. It must just be some sort of forgetful oversight.

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  34. john in cheshire says:
    August 17, 2020 at 7:53 pm

    This is nothing to do with the racist far-left bbc.

    Today I’ve spent my whole time updating my PC and laptop to Windows 10, version 2004.

    This is to alert anyone who has yet to do the same and ask a question of those who have already gone through the process, was it the same for you?

    My laptop: from start to finish it took approximately 7 hours, with no errors.
    My desktop PC: it took 12 hours, from 7am to 7pm this evening. The PC crashed after 5 hours, which obviously added to the long duration since the update effectively had to start again.

    And past experience has taught me that the PC cannot be left alone to get on with it because as happened, the update operation fails the first time on at least one of my machines.

    Is it me or is it Microsoft? You’d think after all these years they’d have perfected the updating procedure.

    As someone said, if Microsoft can’t get their software to work, why should we expect their vaccines to be any better.

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    • Roland Deschain says:
      August 17, 2020 at 10:39 pm

      My laptop took the entire evening last week, probably about four hours. Still takes forever to boot up.

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    • JimS says:
      August 17, 2020 at 11:56 pm

      The moral remains:

      “Never update software until you have to. (Let others find the bugs).”

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      • Up2snuff says:
        August 18, 2020 at 11:37 am

        JimS, that’s what I don’t like about Win10. Microsoft have control over your computer.

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    • Up2snuff says:
      August 18, 2020 at 11:35 am

      j-i-c, have a look at the IT Thread that FedUp2 started when this site had a problem with the WordPress update. Win10 not liked by me. Not liked by NCBBC.

      On your PC crashing, it could be your ISP went to sleep for a bit. Mine does.

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      • john in cheshire says:
        August 18, 2020 at 6:10 pm

        Up2snuff, I don’t think it’s to do with the ISP. I quite regularly get the blue screen that tells me there’s been a catastrophic ( I think is their term but I am not certain) failure, they just want to collect some data then I can restart my machine. Then the machine just freezes. The counter is fixed a 0%. Then I have to reboot. In my experience that’s a windows ‘feature’.
        I’ve been using the Microsoft operating system from the early days; probably back to ’87 or ’88 when it comprised a whole pile of disks that had to be loaded one by one. I remember back then there was a help line and on a few occasions, they sent me a disk with the software updates to sort out whatever problem I’d had.
        Now, it seems you just have to wait and hope that they’ll issue a corrective update over the internet. And sometimes, it can take months.

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  35. Guest Who says:
    August 17, 2020 at 7:57 pm

    😉

       10 likes

  36. Guest Who says:
    August 17, 2020 at 7:59 pm

    What’s weird is most bbc moppets upset have been worried about not getting into Oxford.

       16 likes

    • Broadcasting-on-Behalf-of-the-Caliphate says:
      August 17, 2020 at 8:15 pm

      From Wikipedia:

      “Priyamvada Gopal is a Professor in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, where she is a Fellow of Churchill College. Her main teaching and research interests are in colonial and postcolonial literature and theory, gender and feminism, Marxism and critical race studies …”

      She is one of many academic activists who have been campaigning to de-white and de-colonise and to remove white straight men from the curriculum. Her and others worldview is that Western society is racist, sexist etc. Her research group focuses on finding this racism, sexism and colonialism within British society of the past and of today. This she teaches to her English students and tells them they must fight to change this society after graduation. This message is fairly popular and she has got lots of research grants out of it as well as a professorship.

         23 likes

      • Richard Pinder says:
        August 18, 2020 at 1:46 am

        If Western society is racist, sexist etc. Why doesn’t she return to paradise.

        And why has de-fellow culturally appropriated de-English Language at de-University.
        Only a critical race hypocrite would speak English to English students. Also, de-research into race studies would need to de-study the “Bell Curve” conclusions.

        And if she removes all the white straight men from the curriculum, she would have to credit Marxism with Jenny Marx, and Albert Einstein’s work with Mrs Heisenberg. Also, She would need to de-teach Mathematics, to educationally reduced it to Zero. But I suppose if you look at BBC employees they seem to have already been successfully de-academically, de-educated.

        Also, aren’t the Colonies now called British Overseas Territories.

        Britain should insist on de-funding de-professor, for trying to de-educate the University of Cambridge.

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    • Guest Who says:
      August 17, 2020 at 10:25 pm

      Amazingly, she is another with a singular skill set that appeals to bbc producers.

         13 likes

  37. taffman says:
    August 17, 2020 at 8:12 pm

    Consider this scenario for an Al Beeb TV film: An offshore island votes democratically to leave the European Empire. The emperor is not happy with the situation because it ‘may give ideas’ of independence to the other nations in the empire.
    To counter this, the emperor orders a ‘mercenary force’ consisting of thousands of commandos to land covertly on the island’s beaches in small boats with orders to teach them a lesson and to bring down the island’s economy by hook or crook.
    Unsuspectingly, the freedom seeking island treats the invading force of commandos as ‘tourists’ and, instead of defending the nation from attack by a hostile force, it puts them up in luxury hotels.
    Na, no one would believe it, I wont bother with that storyline.

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  38. Dazed and Confused says:
    August 17, 2020 at 9:20 pm

    Oh dear.

    Guess who the least trusted news outlet is with the British public?

       20 likes

  39. Guest Who says:
    August 17, 2020 at 9:56 pm

    And the bbc is in the thick of it all.

       6 likes

  40. Guest Who says:
    August 17, 2020 at 10:15 pm

    Sales going well.

       2 likes

  41. Guest Who says:
    August 17, 2020 at 10:28 pm

    Lewis rather stolen BBC Young Reporter ‘Today’s Headlines’ pick.

    Not often the Fail gets full BBC spotlights.

       10 likes

  42. Guest Who says:
    August 17, 2020 at 10:45 pm

    Eloquent.

       12 likes

  43. StewGreen says:
    August 17, 2020 at 10:57 pm

    Police management act like stasi against potential recruits who say they believe you can’t change biological sex

       6 likes

  44. Guest Who says:
    August 17, 2020 at 10:57 pm

    BBC News

    “Growing up, I remember my whole body tensing every time I heard my father’s key in the back door.”

    BBC journalist Victoria Derbyshire talks about her violent father, and fear for lockdown victims.

    (via BBC Panorama) bbc.in/3gZnj9s

    ***
    Much explained. Though again the logic of such a person hired to handle women’s issues impartially seems most BBowenian.

       10 likes

  45. vlad says:
    August 17, 2020 at 11:11 pm

    Hey beeb, you reporting this? Some peaceful BLM demonstrators beating the crap out of a trans woman, and then a guy who comes to her aid.

       12 likes

    • Guest Who says:
      August 18, 2020 at 8:30 am

      BBC knows all about the right questions to ask. Albeit with post event selective wisdom.

      Or what not to go near.

      Has VD made a comeback? Seems everywhere.

         4 likes

    • theleftwilleatitself says:
      August 18, 2020 at 11:52 am

      Utterly disgusting that these vermin get a free pass from the likes of al beeb ????
      The hypocrisy of BLM scum and those lefty twats in W1 needs to be shown, told and proven by us on here to anyone who is willing to listen ????????

         6 likes

  46. StewGreen says:
    August 17, 2020 at 11:13 pm

    Good job no one has done anything big to fuel modern youths massive sense of entitlement.

       14 likes

  47. lordelpus says:
    August 17, 2020 at 11:13 pm

    John in Cheshire,
    Windows 10 update 2004 took three attempts over one week to successfully download on my laptop!These “feature” updates occur every 12 months,and sadly are a pain in the a–e every time!How I detest them,you would think MICROSOFT would iron out the bugs before releasing them.

       11 likes

  48. Richard Pinder says:
    August 18, 2020 at 2:03 am

    I think a Professor at the University of Cambridge and the BBC have convinced me that most University educated people today seem to have been successfully de-academically, de-educated.

    For me it was Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and James Clerk Maxwell. For BBC employees it’s three books of fiction written by brown and black people from the colonies.

       17 likes

  49. digg says:
    August 18, 2020 at 6:44 am

    The BBC are wetting themselves this morning because Michelle Obama has been rolled out by the Dems.

    To me it feels like when your ex-wife turns up at your second wedding uninvited.

    There is no doubt now that the BBC are getting their anti-Trump campaign bunker locked and loaded.

    Meanwhile they are still trying hard to get at Boris with the results crap along with the Guardian, The Independent, Socialist Worker etc.

    Meanwhile Tucker Carleson at Fox news gets a bucket of poo on his head for mis-pronouncing the Holy Kamala which apparently should be Comma-la and not Kamal-a. He really is the devil incarnate isn’t he? I will go with my choice…. COMMY ALLAH!

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    • Guest Who says:
      August 18, 2020 at 7:48 am

      Digg; not just ‘news’, BBC Moaning Emole scathing ‘News’…

      ***
      Obama makes Biden pitch

      Former First Lady Michelle Obama has urged Americans to vote for Joe Biden “like our lives depend on it” at November’s presidential election. She addressed the country as part of a four-day, all-virtual Democrat convention, which is kicking off two months of frenetic campaigning.

      In a scathing attack, Mrs Obama said Donald Trump was “in over his head”, especially in the fight against coronavirus. That accusation was reinforced by another contributor, Kristin Urquiza, who blamed President Trump for her father’s death. BBC North America reporter Anthony Zurcher said Michelle Obama may insist she hates politics, but she’s a natural at it.

      Find out what else to look out for at this very unusual convention, and more about what Joe Biden is promising to do if he wins in November. We also have a really simple guide to the election which is good place to start.

      ***
      See, an unelected lady of color said it, so they can quote it. Allll of it. No idea who Kirsten is. Lurch clearly in love.

      Meanwhile Melania may have not held Don’s hand.

      Which is probably a good place to start if you are simple.

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  50. andyjsnape says:
    August 18, 2020 at 7:06 am

    Front page news
    Ellen DeGeneres: Three producers fired over ‘toxic workplace’ claims, “reports” the beeb

    GUILTY, not yet proven either way

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53815705

    Any news YET on the invaders from France????? Still waiting

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