256 Responses to Weekend Thread 10 October 2020

  1. StewGreen says:

    #TheGreatOverrepresentation
    I’m looking at the Times TV Guide
    The broadcasters stuff the schedules with BAME to tick boxes
    then the Times TV Guide people deliberately amplify the BAME actors , to virtue signal.

    Likewise Radio4 magazine shows are stuffed with BAME to tick boxes
    Today
    5:45am Rufaro Mazarura discusses what the class of 2020 have learned from the pandemic.
    9:00am Saturday Live
    – Actor Jude Akuwudike was born in Nigeria and lived there until he was six when a baffling illness lead to his parents, who were studying in London, to bring him to the UK for treatment.
    He recovered but the Civil War prevented his family returning to Nigeria
    – Listener tells about her father, member of the Communist Party being watched for decades by MI5.
    – Tori Amos shared her Inheritance Tracks.
    – Portillo was made to recount the Channel4 show where he role swapped with a low income mother of 4
    6:15pm Loose Ends
    – Mawaan Rizwan is Pakistani-born British actor
    – Artist Dawinder Bansal (Indian-Kenyan)
    – Sarathy Korwar is a US-born, Indian-raised, London-based drummer,
    – 2 white comedians and a white musician

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    • StewGreen says:

      Then the Times’ Weekend section has the British Bangladeshi Bird Girl on the gover
      on account of he £250K book deal
      astonishing for an 18 yo who’s never written a books.
      There are 1.5 pages inside on her
      The other half is filled with an article about a bird watching club founded by 2 black guys The Urban Birdwatchers Club.

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  2. Guest Who says:

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    • Doobster78 says:

      BBC on the wrong side of public opinion ….AGAIN !!!

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    • Jeff says:

      Can anyone even begin to imagine a transgender rugby player?
      It’s a tough and dangerous contact sport. Women would get seriously hurt.
      Apart from that…Just the thought of Bill Beaumont charging along in a blonde wig is enough to turn my stomach…
      And WTF would happen in the showers?

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      • Foscari says:

        Jeff- Doesn’t this feature just say everything about the BBC?
        Can you just imagine what would be going on in the scrum
        let alone the showers. The picture covering the story
        for sure goes down as one of my pictures of the year!!
        Douglas Murray tells us that gays don’t get on with lesbians
        and they both dislike transgenders. I can imagine fouls
        going on one had never thought were possible.I can’t wait
        for footballs MOTD being replaced by women’s rugby
        and netball match of the day. I just wonder who would present
        it and who or it would be the pundits? Any suggestions?

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  3. Guest Who says:

    Colour me astounded.

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  4. Guest Who says:

    Lawyers.

    Shakespearean.

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    • StewGreen says:

      What and multiple attacks on police
      had nothing to do with MSM stirring up BLM rhetoric ?

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  5. Guest Who says:

    Sky getting slaughtered for a ‘Sir, Sir! Attempt on social distancing.

    Lurch would fit right in.

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  6. StewGreen says:

    As usual the Times Arts cover doesn’t have a white man
    Today it has Chinese artist AiWeiWei .. OK he is a big topic , so it is justified.
    – pg 2 Advert for the London BAME panto
    We get 3 pages on AiWeiWei ,
    then a page on Sir David Adjaye OBE who won the RIBA architect prize (last year in her election bid Elsie Owusu had said that RIBA is racist)
    He was born in Tanzania to Ghanaian parents
    – page on then Bob Marley biography written by his son Ziggy
    – The book charts where #6 is “Why I no longer talk to white people about race”
    #7 Is a book by the Secret pretend barrister
    – BTW there is a page advert for Times Radio “We interview, not interrupt” .. I wonder who they are comparing to ?

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    • StewGreen says:

      Sunday/ Monday #TheGreatOverrepresentation steps up
      Sunday
      BBC 2
      – 9-11pm The Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson
      – 11pm A United Kingdom , movie about a white woman falling for a black law student
      – 9pm Channel4 The Bridge a new Scottish Island big brother reality show
      which features only 5 white people in the 12 contestants
      – 11pm Get Out – a horror film about a white girl taking her black boyfriend to meet her parents.. turns out they want to steal his body to put their own brain in.

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      Monday
      – Panorama about the Belly Mujinga case
      The black station worker who died of coronavirus
      The BBC’s star young black investigative reporter was close to the family
      She quoted Belly’s husband after CPS decided their was no case against a guy who allegedly spat on her
      : “I am hurting and feel very bad, this is all so unjust and unfair. I am disappointed in the decision, but not surprise”

      In the 11pm-12am slot you have a helluva choice
      – BBC1 Lenny Henry biography
      – BBC2 11:30pm Being Blacker biography of a reggae producer.
      – ITV 10:45pm MLK biography with Trevor McDonald
      – ITV 11:45pm Blacks in school
      – BBC4 10:30pm an anti-Thatcher play

      The Times Catchup recommendation is the Lenny Henry show about classical music.

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  7. Guest Who says:

    The American BS RT will be awesome.

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  8. Guest Who says:

    You know the BBC loves NYT folk?

    The comments are fun.

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    • richard D says:

      I don’t remember the BBC trying to make the same point about the “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech made by the great philanderer, President J F Kennedy, from a balcony in Berlin.

      I suspect it’s probably nothing to do with politics and political parties supported by the BBC, though. (/sarc)

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  9. Guest Who says:

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  10. Guest Who says:

    Nancy Pelosi looking better.

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    • tarien says:

      Guestwho-we the UK need such a sum. We had better stop funding the Africans, we have done so for far too long-about time they pulled themselves together and begin by throwing out their coruptive governments-I have seen it first hand. Their culture is greed, war, and a contemptible attitude to any who would strive to help them. They are not worth our concern we have to look to our own situation.

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      • richard D says:

        I guess they’ll be able to get it from their new BFF, China.

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        • BRISSLES says:

          Why bother sending money, most of ’em will be scrambling on li-los to cross the Med, Europe and then the Channel anyway.

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  11. Guest Who says:

    This just gets better and better.

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  12. Guest Who says:

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  13. Doobster78 says:

    Don’t worry Darren, the Police took a similar hard stance on the BBC ‘s Jo Brand advocating throwing acid on Nigel Farage, a similar hard stance on Sophie Duker for comments on the BBC about killing whitey , and a similar hard stance on Miriam Margolyes for wanting Boris dead.

    It’s not like there is one rule for one and one for another is it ??

    DISGUSTING

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    • StewGreen says:

      or
      ” White lives don’t matter” Gopal – supported by CamBs Uni,

      The Met is a bit choosy?

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  14. StewGreen says:

    BBC is IMPARTIAL
    They certainly don’t make progs which look like campaigning
    and then promote them with endless trailers
    BBC Two trailer “climate change and the pandemic” Attenborough on BBC Sounds
    I spot that 5 Live also made their own 3 minute trailer for the 22 minute episode.

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    • Richard Pinder says:

      Question: The excesses that the capitalist system has brought us have got to be curbed somehow. The Father of Ignorance & Environmentalism, David Attenborough.

      Answer: The excesses of supply that the capitalist system has brought us are curbed by a drop in costs or demand, or the excesses of demand that the capitalist system has brought us are curbed by an increase in costs or supply. The Father of Economics & Capitalism, Adam Smith.

      Also, A greedy but unhappy BBC Environmentalist, paid more than the Prime Minister, says that his experience of greed, is that it does not lead to joy.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Sir Boaty clearly missed the latest UN wimmin body language tutorial on mansplaining.

      I am so disturbed by this imagery I might need to throw another log on the fire.

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  15. Halifax says:

    Its never ending. Even horror films feature BME actors.
    I have to ask the question……has anyone ever seen a black ghost ?????

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    • Guest Who says:

      ‘Casper Meets Venom’ production is stalled because of Covid, apparently. And racism, obvs.

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  16. Bulldog says:

    Clearly a greater diversity in the representation of ghostly apparitions is now called for.

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  17. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    I wonder when we will be seeing films with a black Hitler, a black Jack the Ripper, a black Jimmy Saville or other disgusting people from the past.

    I’d like to complain about a film.
    Zulu.
    There were no white ones, no Chinese ones, none in wheelchairs, no wimmin ones and more than 3% of them were black.

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    • Richard Pinder says:

      Apparently according to the BBC’s Black History people. I have had a picture of a Black Roman Emperor in the top right hand corner of my Children’s Enclopedia since 1960.

      The Children’s Encyclopaedia: Arthur Mee: Volume Four: Pages 2878 & 2879: Pictures of Fifty Roman Emperors.

      Question for family was: Which Roman Emperor looks Black?

      Answer was: They all look White

      Question: Ok then, according to the BBC, which one was born in Africa

      Answer: Look on the Internet

      Looking up Septimius Severus on the Internet shows that he was born in the city of Leptis Magna in the Roman province of Africa, of a Punic father and a Roman mother. The whole continent of Africa was eventually named after this tiny bit of Tunisia & Northern Libya. Also there is no mention of Blacks in the scholarly records as the Punic father was descended from the same family of people as the Jews, not Sub-Saharan Africans.

      It shows that unlike the BBC, Arthur Mee didn’t brainwash our childhood with lies.

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  18. JohnC says:

    I see we have an article giving some in-depth publicity to 3 specially selected members of the 1,200 independent candidates in the USA election.
    One is a black, ex-beauty-queen BLM supporter whose main complaint seems to be that she hasn’t got the special attention she thinks she deserves given current BLM status. Another is a native American standing up for native Americans and ‘people of colour. The third is an ex-actor who is clearly a complete liberal.
    Good luck to them : it’s a free country. But as usual, the BBC has absolutely no balance for opposing politcial opinions.
    The lack of impartiality and obvious bias is beyond a joke now.

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  19. StewGreen says:

    7am The @BBCRadio4 Sunday Religion prog looks to be more about #BiasedBBC pet agendas like racebaiting
    than actual religion.
    They’re really interested in the charity Christian Aid cos the head is a black woman, so they can get her to shout racism.

    “But Where are You Really From’, is a new book by Amanda Khozi Mukwashi, the CEO of the international aid charity Christian Aid.
    It tells the story of her family’s migration across southern Africa and her own journey to the UK. As we mark Black History Month

    Other topics : The Church of England coming to terms with the way it covered up child sex abuse to protect its reputation.
    – Jewish body relaxing rules to allow a Jewish ceremony even when one partner is not Jewish.

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  20. StewGreen says:

    11am Desert Island Discs
    Baroness Floella Benjamin, DBE

    4pm Book prog
    “Chris Power talks to Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi about her novel The First Woman, a coming of age story set in the era of Idi Amin in Uganda and explores New Dutch Writing.”

    4:30pm Poetry show
    “Writer Noo Saro-Wiwa”

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    • Guest Who says:

      Barclays is celebrating Viking month. Not blondes though.

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      • BRISSLES says:

        Black Professionals Forum ?????? Ok, so if thats alright, then shouldn’t there be a White Professionals Forum too ???

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  21. StewGreen says:

    5pm.Radio4 The Guardian Beauty correspondent’s documentary where she says she is a victim of immense cyber bullying.
    Now social media is like a school playground, so everyone gets bullied and trolled.

    A quick check finds someone saying there is another side to the story and that she is the bully.. Like why has the Guardian writer gone back and deleted lots of her own tweets which seem to be incriminating ?
    https://limegoss.com/sali-hughes-trolling/

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    • Guest Who says:

      That #Backendofbusism is as ignored by the media industry is as unsurprising as it is clearly rife, despite them seldom finding an ism they cannot outrage over.

      Especially given the much more subjective nature of ‘beauty’, those hired to debate and arbitrate err on a particular type.

      In other news, CNN enters its fourth day of informing the world that Blonde Stunna Taylor Shifty has come out in fave of Joe.

      Katty may have RTd. Maybe not. Give her time; she has young children.

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    • StewGreen says:

      The prog brought of the Muslim guy from the HnH front group The Centre For Countering Digital Hate
      ..then there quite a lot of time was spent with Jess Philips who played the part of a super victim
      when to all intents she is one of the biggest trolls around
      “look at me I have to have all these security devices in my house”
      .. FFS you are a controversial MP .. not a normal person
      “You know I had 600 posts in one hour with men discussing whether they would or would not rape me”
      .. that is extreme misrepresentation of the situation
      No one was threatening to rape her. The discussion was about a guy saying he certainly would not rape her and then her reaction which was to say she found this extremely offensive.

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  22. Guest Who says:

    Well, BS liked it, so that is something.

    Wise to be vague on the quote author.

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  23. Guest Who says:

    Luvvie gets served, big time.

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  24. Guest Who says:

    Always interesting when the BBC just runs a straight quote.

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  25. Guest Who says:

    American BS RTs the New Yorker a lot too.

    You can see why.

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  26. Guest Who says:

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    • andyjsnape says:

      Hi Guest

      I’ve never been into my local shop and insisted to the asian man that more WHITE people need to be in charge of shops and also..

      I guess as the population has always been majority white, do we throw the people out of jobs to get asian/black into the market place

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      • popeye says:

        Let us pretend that we on here are all billionaires and explain why immigration is so good. A growing population shops for food, clothes, household items etc. – we have shares in all these providers and our dividends increase yearly. Immigrants need somewhere to live so land value goes up, housebuilding increases, rent increases and so on. We have shares in that lot also so again our dividends increase yearly. Increased availability of manpower lowers wages so the cost of manufacture goes down and profits go up. We own shares in manufacturing, our dividends increase yearly.

        We won’t mention the investment opportunities of the Climate Change scam!

        But there is a PR problem, the people wouldn’t like it if the benefits of immigration were so obviously ours alone. Fortunately we have many useful idiots, who we encourage and reward, who sincerely believe that it is the nation’s moral duty to bring justice to the world by spreading our hard-earned standard of living to poorer parts by importing their “workers” (let’s ignore our generous International Aid and third-world corruption of course). The logical conclusion to their plans is that the world achieves an average standard of living – something like a Brazilian slum perhaps? Except we billionaires, of course – we have our gated communities, estates and islands.

        But idealists are not enough, we need the help of those in positions of power such as politicians, the media, charities etc. Fortunately, we billionaires are benefitting so much from these policies that we can afford to “persuade” the venal leaders and influencers by the judicious use of just a fraction of our wealth by rewarding them with lucrative positions (look at the remuneration of ex-politicians, charity leaders, local councils, the BBC!).

        Of course, there are downsides. Riots and crime may increase but they don’t really affect us billionaires who are the real citizens of the world, being able to fly and live wherever we like. In fact, a good riot gets us even more money, we own building companies, building suppliers and furnishers! What’s not to like?

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        • tarien says:

          Popeye, could not have put it better myself, excellent. Supporters of the United Kingdom? No, they are only supporters of themselves and their families-what a sad land we now live in.

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        • Up2snuff says:

          popeye, you have the economics of it just so. To a ‘t’. Right on. Perfectomundo.

          Just don’t mention the Social Security scam that the basic rate taxpayer pays for. And a bunch of these people had the cheek to write to the Chancellor last week asking for tax cuts and encouraging him to ‘go for growth’. Ruth Lea was one of them and she, of all people, ought to know better.

          To be fair, once upon a time in economics it was believed that growth came from low taxes on the high paid and wealthy. I studied at a time when that was being proved untrue (probably for the first time – late 1970s) and my teacher – a Broker’s analyst by day – was grounded enough to point out both theories, old and new, and explain that economics is a science because it relies on observation. “Wait and see.” teacher said.

          Now we know better. It has been proved true in every decade since. The true drivers of economic growth are those in the middle, The JAMmed, the bulk of the population; not the wealthy and high earners. The wealthy and high earners, with some notable exceptions, only tend to want more and more and have the leverage to get it.

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        • popeye says:

          I forgot to add one of the really big ones: war! Trump has to go because we billionaires own the military-industrial complex and boy, do we make a packet from arms sales! That bastard in the White House has not declared a single war in his four years in power so we will do everything in our power to get rid of him by our usual tactic of employing the “democrats”, social justice warriors, bien pensants, BLM, millionaire “celebrities”, the bought and paid for media and politicians to lie on our behalf and bring him down. We are so powerful and rich that we can afford to drown out all opposition and make the peasants think they are in a minority. We now own social media and search engines so WE WILL WIN

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          • Up2snuff says:

            Right on, again, popeye.

            Who wants a deal-maker who is interested in keeping his hotels and resorts in one piece – along with everyone else and their homes and places of work in one piece – in the White House. It just isn’t good for the military.

            A friend, clearly suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, wrote a letter or e-mail to me in a complete state of panic just after President Trump was elected for the first time and was certain the world was about to end. This was someone who had lived through most of the Cold War under threat of nuclear annihilation. Ho hum.

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      • Guest Who says:

        And yet the BBC feels the need to ask this ‘question’.

        Maybe the denizens of the cubicle gardens look around the W1A diversity pool shallow end and think ‘we represent the country’, so why not all my cousins?

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    • BRISSLES says:

      …so few black, Asian and Ethnics at the top of Uk businesses ????

      Well, every time I open a paper I see that its always an Asian or ethnic who are the millionaire/billionaire owners of many High Street nationwide companies, Sanja Gupt owns Tata Steel, the Hinduja brothers, Gopichand and Srichand, have reclaimed their crown as the UK’s wealthiest people, according to the annual Rich List survey. The Indian-born, London-based industrialists are estimated to be worth £22bn, up £1.35bn on last year’s list, and I read this week that a ‘Mohammed ‘millionaire who like to be photographed with celebrities has been arrested on money laundering charges.

      So this Teresa woman needs to do a bit of research, and she’ll find that one way or another many ‘whiteys’ are the employees of BAME’s.

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  27. Peter Grimes says:

    Marr this morning, pushing the revolt in t’North, has the political editor of the Yorkshire Post discussing the newspapers. This child is a Twatter and Instangratification Queen who produces gems of wisdom like this…

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    • StewGreen says:

      Context : Twitter by default is set to PUBLIC
      whereas Instagram by default is set to PRIVATE
      So when you spot a journo spouting politics on TV it is entirely normal to look at their Twitter and also ask for access to their Instagram
      ..cos you expect them to to be giving political info there not just pictures of food.

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  28. G says:

    All the good work the US under the POTUS is putting in!
    Mostly all unrecognised by all the rest – communist/Globalists. Check this one out:

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/10/justice-department-seizes-92-iranian-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps-websites-spreading-pro-biden-propaganda?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_2020_10_11_jihad_watch_daily_digest&utm_term=2020-10-11

    DJT is rapidly winding the clock back. The next four years will not be enough. Pity we don’t have a PM that sees things the same way and does what the majority of the British want.

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  29. Up2snuff says:

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – “I wanna pizza!”

    The BBC’s web-site informs me that our university students are angry. They have been forced into lockdown and as the BBC inform me, in their prisons they are only being given ‘junk’ food. Er, pardon me, but isn’t that what teenagers choose to eat anyway?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54486269

    The photo prominently shows some fresh fruit and some bread of the sort halfway between white and brown wholemeal. That was just the breakfast meal. According to the article, the students have had to request fresh fruit and vegetables from their parents on the ‘outside’.

    Precisely how many teenagers in the UK cook and eat fresh vegetables for breakfast, BBC?

    What happened to cereal, toast and marmalade, tea and coffee and fruit juice for breakfast?

    Oh, I get it now. The students want to finish off the rest of the doner kebab or mixed meat noodles that they brought home in a drunken state and abandoned on their kitchen worktops before going to bed.

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  30. fakenewswatcher says:

    If you’re listening in to R4 at the mo, why you’ll be just in time to hear the ever cheerful Alvin Hall from the US moaning about ‘racism’.
    He hadn’t thought he was in that place, but now he thinks he is and ooooooh, it’s a bad discovery.
    Someone else has found a thing on slavery in the Telegraph. Britain lost 17000 men getting rid of slavery. But Alvin, who has turned into a prime racist himself, is not impressed. Don’t confuse him with facts.
    Those 17000 were probably all racists anyway.
    This is ‘Broadcast House’ with Paddy O Connel, so expect this sort of thing as a matter of course.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Alvin’s chosen newspaper article to discuss ?
      A hit piece against Trump from the NYT…’Yeh, that Trump is in the swamp
      .. yeh cos lots of people are spending big money to stay at his resorts purely so they can lobby him
      ..see he profiting personally from the money they spend’

      Presenter Paddy ” Now this will be labelled fake news, so what is the answer to that ?”

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      • Guest Who says:

        Is the ex DG of the BBC still heading up the NYT?

        BBC American BS RTs it as much as CNN and The Hill.

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  31. Darcy3 says:

    Funny, bbbc are blind to real, overt, unequivocal racism which makes those at the bbbc the REAL racists:

    Any examination of our muslim immigrants gang raping white children will reveal the terminology many used whilst tying them to beds and whipping them : white c*** was a common one used on an Oxford 12 year old

    Please, Let Me Go: The Horrific True Story of a Girl’s Life In The Hands of Sex Traffickers
    by Caitlin Spencer

    Another gang arrested last week : how many more are out there ?

    why this is tolerated is beyond me, just imagine if their kids were being routinely raped they would be on the streets in no time with their ever ready placards and their purple hair mates

    And white farmers murdered and their wives raped in South Africa by African black racists ignored by the bbbc, and Christians and their churches torched and murdered by muslim racists around the world ignored by the bbbc

    Racism is all around us REAL racism where people are killed and it has been ignored for years

    Real racism not the petty tribalism or casual comments paraded by the bbbc and other professional sh*t stirrers as racism which it is not

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  32. Roland Deschain says:

    To anyone here who is desperate to take the Covid vaccine, you really should read this article first.


    (Direct link here)

    It sets out the goals of a trial. Preventing deaths isn’t one of them. It also details the shortcuts necessary to get a vaccine ready by 2023.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Why not try Dr Fedups patented placebo medicine ? Bound to cure you of covid and all your ailments . A snip at £99.99 – warning contains snake oil.

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  33. Darcy3 says:

    Until the industrial scale racially motivated mass rape of our chilren and genocide of white people and Christians around the world is acknowledged by the msm, especially the bbbc I will treat the bbbc and BLM and the Lammys and Abbots of this world with the complete and utter contempt they so richly deserve

    Their behaviour is as racist as those they seek to vilify

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Ah, Darcy, I’m holding you responsible!

      Since our little chat following the death of Eddie van Halen, I’ve had ‘Jump’ almost continuously playing in my head.

      “Who will rid me of this turbulent tune?”

      I know. The Queen. I will have to have it rhapsodised.

      Eeeeeek!

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      • Darcy3 says:

        Count yourself fortunate it was not the Spice bints …

        I wanna I wanna a zig a zag a Ahhh

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      • BRISSLES says:

        uP2 – Get a grip man !

        It could be worse. I cant get ‘Stayin Alive’ out of my head (although it could be prudent in these times 🙂 )

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        • Darcy3 says:

          Now thats enough to give anyone the Heebie-jeebies

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          • Up2snuff says:

            Thanks for the laughs, folks.

            Brissles, Rod Stewart’s ‘Sailing’ might also be appropriate as a getaway but on the other hand, thinking of the Diamond Princess and all that, maybe not.

            Darcy, (Austro-German Psychiatrist type voice and accent): “Zit on mein couch here und lie back und relax. Und so, venn dit zhis obsession mit der Spices striken you? Und are you obsessed vid ze vun in particular? Dis ist vairry hinterestink!”

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            • Darcy3 says:

              It may have something to do with being inolved in concert promotion on a small scale but still seeing hundreds of bands with talented musicians touring and working their socks off and never getting any recognition

              Then rhis bunch of worthless tw@ts come along, who could not even sing, formed by a man, tought to partially be able to sing by a man, promoted by men, managed by men

              then they get some ill deserved recognition and whitter on about “girl power” ffs

              where are the tablets upsnuff I need some

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              • BRISSLES says:

                I agree, and would say further to that Darcy, I always thought it was a strange anomaly to see 4 or 5 grown men singing like girls (high pitched voices) prancing around in an attempt to be sexy, yet being referred to as BOY bands – er, really ? which begs the question, is an 18 year old upwards who can drive a car, have sex, get married, and vote, still a boy ???? So glad to see the back of them, although I see they’re all running out of money and are back on the road as the geriatric boy bands 🙂

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                • Up2snuff says:

                  Brissles, they’ve obviously had a tax bill, having been a bit imprudent with cash. Great timing! Back on the road during Covid.

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              • Up2snuff says:

                Darcy, I met one of them once, that was enough. I was underwhelmed.

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  34. StewGreen says:

    Wow stunning Daily Mail investigation into corps exploiting windfarm subsidy loopholes

    The top comment is
    These bloody useless Wind Turbines cost 4.5 Million Pounds each and hardly produce any electricity as they rarely ever turn. ….. All our energy bills have 12% Government Green Issues added and then 5% VAT added to that. ….. Climate Change is the worst HOAX ever,
    and the BBC are the worst instigator of all.
    ….. Don’t renew your TV licence

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8824707/amp/Windfarm-farce-blew-1-4billion-taxpayers-money.html
    comments

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  35. Halifax says:

    12 Pakistanis arrested in Pakistan for the rape and murder of a two year old girl. We let these people and thier barbaric culture freely into our country.

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  36. fakenewswatcher says:

    Is it true that the National Maritime Museum are reviewing Nelson’s statue?
    If so, they each need a torpedo up where the sun don’t shine?

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    • theisland says:

      Laurence has noticed so hopefully he will raise awareness of this lunacy in the run up to Trafalgar Day on October 21.

      According to the Telegraph report
      Nelson displays could be subject to “wholesale changes” in future, and the “more complex” nature of his heroism will be tackled by curators re-evaluating “historical events and people” as part of a new strategy.

      A select group of trustees and community groups will guide the new strategy being rolled out to address “issues raised by the BLM movement”, purging outdated archive language and using a database to root out links to slavery.

      I would question the ability of these curators, selected trustees and ‘community groups’ to ‘re-evaluate’. The role of a curator is to organise and look after things, i.e. to conserve and not to PURGE. Having said that HR have probably already redefined the role according to Common Purpose guidelines.

      As the author of the article says “This cultural slide has got to stop.”

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  37. StewGreen says:

    propaganda is more important to them than truth.

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  38. Up2snuff says:

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #2 – Just like billions before her …..

    Except, Paloma Faith is a (multi-?)millionaire ‘pop star’ and Sleb. Pregnancy is a risky time for a woman, two to care for right from conception and plenty to go wrong. Until relatively recently in the history of the world, childbirth was the biggest cause of death for fertile women.

    The BBC have turned UK females into high anxiety, poor mental health, weaklings and this article keeps the propaganda going. Most of the girls and women I have encountered, with one or two notable exceptions, have been really strong, capable human beings. That was especially so in my childhood, teens and early adult years. My grandmother, one one side of the family, had been a widow nigh on twenty years by the time she was dangling a baby me on her knee and she had survived. Sure, she had help from a daughter and others.

    When you can call on the best medical help in an advanced country, it’s not quite like giving birth in the Karen highlands in Myanmar & Thailand or on a collective farm in western China or in a favela in northern Brazil.

    Then, as you read down the article, this woman has the cheek to bemoan the publicity which helped to turn her into a millionaire music star. Worse comes if you check her Wiki page (usual disclaimers about accuracy) and you find that she loves the dangers and agonies of pregnancy and childbirth so much that she has had six rounds of IVF to go through it all again.

    Hah!

    Mucky PR fingerprints all over this and shame on the BBC for pandering to it. All the BBC do now is mere churnalism.

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  39. LastChanceSaloon says:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/tennis/50283761

    [Except it is usually five minutes later than live, up to the second scores can be obtained from any of the big bookmaker’s website. This applies to all BBC “live text reports”.]

    “Whenever Nadal, Djokovic or the great Roger Federer reach a Grand Slam final it’s about more than the here and now.

    It’s about each player’s quest to become the greatest male player the sport has ever seen.”

    [So the claim here is that the women players are better!]

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  40. Doobster78 says:

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  41. Dobyns says:

    Not the bbbc

    How will the medical version of the Kray Twins and Mopsie respond now?

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/who-official-urges-world-leaders-to-stop-using-lockdowns-as-primary-virus-control-method/ar-BB19TBUo

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  42. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Doobs.

    If you’re wondering what else the police get up to look at this.
    4 mph over the limit and he’s in court.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12899708/fast-show-paul-whitehouse-in-court-for-speeding/

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  43. Fedup2 says:

    I understand that the scottish lady MP who carried covid on public transport to the hated westminster – who was elected under an SNP flag has given an interview where she says she is staying on as an ££££££ MP.
    Now i am sure that the BBC has treated her in the same way as other figures caught out breaching the rules – camped outside her home – filming her family and neighbours –
    Giving her the unrelenting 24 hour treatment some loved of the sneery BBC .

    Or does the BBC – turn and look the other way when it is one of their own ?

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  44. taffman says:

    \\Migrant crisis: Dinghies to UK could be ‘disabled using nets’//
    Add that to this list of other ideas…………….
    Cameron’s fence at Calais
    Paying the French £M to prevent this .
    Using far away islands to process them .
    Using laid up , offshore cruise ships to process them.
    RAF spotter planes.
    Drones.
    Oh yes and a Covert, former Royal Marine to solve the problem.
    All this bluster to play for time so the UK and French government can stuff more illegals into the UK.
    Finally in the small print we get this from our Covert Royal Marine, “The problem with that currently is that the French won’t accept them back.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54499958

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    • Concrete sea says:

      taffman, The whole thing is a complete joke. Perhaps we could release some marauding hungry Great White sharks in the Channel. This ‘problem’ has been ‘current’, on and off depending on the weather, tides, availability of dinghies etc since at least 2015 when our Government promised to address the problem.
      ‘Totally impotent’ springs to mind and unfortunately the hooman rights lawyers have the upper hand. My local Council at a South Coast ‘International’ Port can no longer take illegal minors as they are ‘full up’. Yet still they flood in. Ferry crossings, for example, have substantially decreased, yet September was a record month for illegals.
      You really couldn’t make this up and I actually wonder if the UK has erected advertising hoardings in Afghanistan, Sudan etc with big arrows pointing ‘This way to the Promised Land’ and ‘Catch the number 34A bus from Khartoum bus station’.

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      • taffman says:

        Concrete sea
        Readers Have courage . Speak to your MPs whatever side they sit on the fence and voice your concerns. Subscribe to the Brexit Party and UKIP.
        But very importantly, remember this fiasco when you next vote.
        Parliament is presently stuffed with ‘Actors’ , fake politicians and ‘men of straw’ .
        WE are British and will win, we always have done!

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  45. taffman says:

    \\Migrant crisis: Dinghies to UK could be ‘disabled using nets’//
    Add that to this list of other ideas?…………….
    Cameron’s £6m fence at Calais.
    Paying the French £M to prevent this .
    Using far away islands to process them .
    Using laid up , offshore cruise ships to process them.
    RAF spotter planes.
    Drones.
    Oh yes, and a Covert, former Royal Marine Officer to solve the problem.
    All this bluster to play for time so the UK and French governments can stuff more illegals into the UK.
    Finally, in the small print we get this from our “Covert” Royal Marine,
    “The problem with that currently is that the French won’t accept them back.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54499958

    Was it Sir Francis Drake that said \\ England must be prepared, ` most of all by sea.’ ` Stop him now and stop him ever’ //
    One thing for certain is that putting them up in 4 Star Hotels is not working. All this while the good people of Britain are in lockdown.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      More importantly, taffy, while UK ex-servicemen and ex-servicewomen – admittedly many with PTSD and/or drug and/or alcohol and/or emotional relationship problems – cannot get a roof over their heads becuase Local Authorities are sitting on land banks and not building apartments.

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  46. Up2snuff says:

    The muse has struck but I cannot guarantee AISI quality or regularity: – A Newspaper front page Review

    The Sunday People get pole position from the BBC for an attack on the PM, likening Bojo to Mrs T. Both made bad decisions and poor decisions. In the 1979-1989 period Mrs Thatcher was under attack from about half of the print and broadcast media. The current PM seems to be attacked by all broadcast media, especially the BBC, and almost all of the print media. News journalism has left the various buildings.

    The Sunday Telegraph becomes rather more factual, reporting on local lockdowns and, unusually, using a picture of Prince William on the front page rather than the so beloved of the tabloids, Duchess of Cambridge. ‘Eat yer ‘eart aht, Mrs Sussex.’ Unfortunately, the Duke of Cambridge appears to have swallowed the BBcAttenborough Cake all in one go and has found a liking for it.

    Everyone is revolting in the Sunday Express against ‘Boris’ Lockdown’ and The Observer decides to interview the Princess of School Truancy, Greta Thunberg to prove it. The previous King of Football also gets a front page taster for an article on ‘How I dun it’ so Spurs supporters should look away now. BBC favourite Dame deMoment and that of some posters in these hallowed halls, June Sarpong, also gets a top billing. Text space is left for a front page attack on the PM and the Home Secretary. Surprise? Not.

    Food is never far from UK newspaper front pages, no wonder we are becoming a nation of fatties. The Sunday Times is treading a different path with a top page story on the food favourite of Islingtonians and Socialists everywhere, the avocado. The BBC will be relieved to learn that Waitrose stopped buying avocados from a farm accused of beatings, rape and murder. Only yesterday an internet news provider was encouraging oldies to eat avocados. Oh dear, what to do?

    The Sunday Mirror claims that Cabinet Ministers’ constituencies are being given an easy ride when it comes to local lockdowns. Well, they would, wouldn’t they? The Red-top Mirror attacking the Government, that is.

    More surprising is an attack, apparently based on foundless gossip according to the BBC, from the Sunday Mail of all papers, on Matt Hancock, the well-known Spoonerism too far. According to the Far-Right Mail, h h Hancock ha had a ‘swift hh ha half’ after local Lockdown time in a House of Commons Bar euphemistically known as ‘The Tea Room’.

    To distract from all that, the Star on Sunday, Beeboid JustRemainIn Webb’s favourite newspaper, has a picture of a couple of moggle’s cleavages before demonstrating that its own journalism is really well away with the fairies.

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    • Dobyns says:

      The Times also has a concerning story on p2.

      “Contract-tracing data harvested from pubs and restaurants being sold on”.

      Apparently, by using a QR Code provided to the business in question by a certain firm, one gives consent to having one’s data flogged on for advertising and other purposes. Another firm supplying QR Codes asserts their rights to keep one’s data for 25 years.

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  47. theisland says:

    Oh but wait

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    • Dobyns says:

      This is because successive Commissioners of the once proud Met and rulers of Londonistan have removed the spine from and emasculated the MPC in the name of ‘policing by consent’ and later on Wokedness.

      Thou shant say the ‘Muslim Terrorist’ phrase, thou shant object to the collective psychosis known as LBGQTV, thou SHALL bow to Globalism, and above all #BLM

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  48. Guest Who says:

    Then you read Phil’s bio…. 🙂

       2 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      FFS @GW don’t give the punters clickbait and send them on a goose chase. Just give them the bio.
      TV Correspondent in LA
      (sometimes @GMB @newsy @ajenglish).
      Ex Sky News/C5/BBC
      Anchor & Corr.
      Gym/tech-obsessed adopted Californian; Scouse tendencies”

      Tweeted last year
      “Dec 30, 2019
      Oh @maitlis. I love you but your book is driving me crazy!
      Not the writing. Or the stories. But the length. I can’t put it down ..”

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  49. Guest Who says:

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    • theleftwilleatitself says:

      al beeb – “a polar bear on a receding piece of ice” ????
      Excellent description ????????

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