312 Responses to Start the Week 8th March 2021

  1. Deborah says:

    First 2 minutes of the BBC1 news with Sophie Rayworth (I couldn’t stand any more) and everything that M* and H* have said must be true – the BBC’s favourite words of ‘claimed’ and ‘suggested’ just didn’t appear. I think they keep them for Israelis to say when the Palestinians shoot homemade rockets from Gaza or Trump gave good news.

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    • Lefty Wright says:

      Deborah
      “Claimed, suggested” Yes it’s the little words and phrases used by the MSM which mean “we don’t know but—–we need you to believe it”
      My favourite is “It is thought” used by archeologists.
      All I ask for is facts — the bare unvarnished facts.
      If the broadcasters don’t know the facts then all they are doing is reporting hearsay and opinions.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Truth or dire?

        http://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2021/03/why-not-bbc-news.html

        When the BBC is not playing games with editorial guidelines to turn an unknown to the next best thing next to truthiness, if not a confirmed fact, they are outright lying to suit an ideological agenda.

        Dangerous in any media. Should be terminal for one supposedly representing the nation compelled to pay for it.

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      • tamimisledus says:

        The muslims waiting for the call from the BBC at the next terror attack to tell us that islam is a religion of peace must be getting pissed of by now. What with the non-news about Covid, crashed economies, ruined societies, £22 Billion NHS (for yes it is the NHS) Track and Trace, Megxit etc., their (muslim) opportunities to islamify the West are being severely curtailed.

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  2. StewGreen says:

    ITV local news 10 days ago

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  3. Guest Who says:

    BBC Newsbeat

    It’s 100 years since the FA banned women’s football. The ban lasted for close to 50 years.

    But even today, Lewes FC believes its the only football club to pay its women players the same as the men

    ***
    Luckily, the focus image is a young lady of color.

    Otherwise there would have been hell to pay.

    Also, ‘belief’, a bbc staple.

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  4. G.W.F. says:

    If anyone thinks that the Megan/Harry/Oprah interview is revealing, just wait for the numerous interviews after the royal divorce.

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  5. theisland says:

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    • taffman says:

      theisland
      Its becoming more and more like collusion by our Tory Government with the French Government ?
      it is not Conservative anymore . We have Liberal MPs in ‘Conservative clothing’.

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  6. taffman says:

    “Meghan and Harry interview: Tabloid racism ‘large part’ of why we left UK, says duke”
    Any person who has travelled the globe would agree with me that Great Britain is probably the least racist country in the world .

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    • G says:

      I vividly remember my introduction to Saudi Arabia. The flight in stopped off in Jeddah before becoming a ‘domestic’ on the final leg to Riyadh. Incoming international passengers had an hour or so before resuming their journey. So, sat in coffee bar and witnessed the open beating up of an American by two Saudi’s – for no apparent reason. The only thing I could see that made the yank a target was the wearing of a massive Stetson hat and cowboy boots. That’s discrimination for you.

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  7. Foscari says:

    I apologize if anybody else has written about this, But
    GCHQ in Cheltenham have advertised for positions in
    their IT depart. Apparently only those from the ethnic minority
    or women can apply .
    To be honest I don’t think that GCHQ are the only ones
    using this woke practice. Or could I say this racist practice.
    It would not surprise me in the least if the BBC were not
    just applying this to all their recruitment And not just for
    sporting representation. But the BBC i am sure would
    include several more diverse categories as well.

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    • Dover Sentry says:

      The Met police have done this for the past twenty years. Legal they say.

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    • StewGreen says:

      @Fos you don’t have to apologise for double posting
      As it happens @TVKev mentioned it on his Friday show
      and that got me to David Kurten’s tweet
      which I posted.

      They argue that it’s just a form of extended advertising
      and that phase 2 adds white candidates into the mix.

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  8. Dover Sentry says:

    BBC Online News:

    “Lewes FC: The football club that pays women the same as men”

    “But while the men’s squad is way down in the seventh tier of English football, the women’s team is in The Championship, the sport’s second highest division.”

    “Once you’ve watched women’s football you can’t not be inspired by it, and want to be part of it.”

    “She’s adamant, along with everyone we speak to, that the equal pay system here could, and should, be put in place across the board.”

    “But less than ten minute’s drive from The Dripping Pan is a huge reminder of how much would need to change for that to happen.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-56281664

    Utter delusional feminist bollards… ????

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    • JimS says:

      ‘Sell out games’

      Sweden v Thailand 9,354

      Not much ‘selling out’ until the finals.

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  9. taffman says:

    \\Asylum seekers: Napier Barracks and Penally camp ‘filthy and run-down’//

    Perhaps the “freebooting residents” should clean them up themselves .
    If they are good enough for British Soldiers, they would certainly be good for them. Or they can always return to from whence they came.

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  10. taffman says:

    As we get back to normal, its time for true Brits to start challenging all the Marxism hidden under the cloak of ‘Wokeness’ wherever it is met .
    The lockdown has been the vehicle that has been used insidiously, to promote the growing tentacles of the promoters Woke culture.

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  11. Doobster78 says:

    ????????????????

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  12. davylars says:

    Ginge & Minge Don’t wait for the birth to announce the sex of the forthcoming baby.

    Is this just in case we expressed concerns the newborn will be a boy or a girl?……..”What”. Sexist…

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  13. digg says:

    Seems like a lot of folks aren’t in step with the BBC over the Oprah shit-show…

    https://unredacted.co.uk/2021/03/08/oprah-forced-to-clarify-skin-colour-comments/

    Not one comment in support!

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  14. StewGreen says:

    Harra has been busy editing his John Kerry Global Warming story all day
    No he adds words from an apparent Newsnight interview

    Asked during the interview whether the UK should be planning a controversial new coal mine in Cumbria, he replied:
    “The marketplace has made a decision that coal is not the future.

    (Harra left off any closing quotation mark)

    That last line is rubbish
    a group of investors have literally come into the marketplace and said to the steal companies
    ‘if we bring steel, can you use it instead of imported coal as you turn iron ore into iron, you will.
    Good, then we will invest our money opening up the old Cumbria coal mine’
    and save a load of transportation CO2 in the process’

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    • StewGreen says:

      I see how Harra and Newsnight spun J Kerry’s words
      Asked during the interview whether the UK should be planning a controversial new coal mine in Cumbria, he replied: “The marketplace has made a decision that coal is not the future.
      FALSE
      that cut makes it sound like he’s talking about that specific mine
      Harra has cut off the “GENERALLY speaking” at the beginning and “FUEL”
      at the end

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      • G says:

        “…….all over the world coal plants are closing……”

        Seems China has not got the message………

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  15. Nibor says:

    Next week Megan and Harry show how to clean their underwear, and the week after it’s what temperature to get bedding feeling fresh .
    Don’t miss Megan and Harry’s washing their dirty linen in public on any chat show in the future .

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  16. Fedup2 says:

    Good luck to anyone choosing to watch an American actress and ex prince being chatted too by a fellow multimillionaire –

    Personally this day has been a total media blackout – so I hope a war hasn’t started near or far ….

    Media blackout carries through into Tuesday too …

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  17. pugnazious says:

    The Markle saga is a perfect example of what is happening to Britain as whole, writ small….Brown person brought into family, welcomed and asked to fit in….has no intention of fitting in and decides instead to try and destroy the family. Curious how many families Markle can tear apart….her own and the Royals so far….when she dumps Harry as his usefulness expires don’t be in a rush to join the Markle misery tour.

    It’s fact then….100% fact…the Royal Family is racist…I know because the BBC has been telling me this is so all day long.

    The BBC charged straight in there and called out the Royals for the bigoted racists they are…..Meghan said it’s the ‘truth’ and it becomes the ‘truth’ as the BBC turns legend into fact…with no proof at all of course…but then why let facts get in the way of a well rehearsed narrative about racist Britain?

    Now we know….Meghan was essentially tarred and feathered and run out of town fearing for her life….thank god she made it out before she was put in chains and made to work the plantations round the back of Buck House!

    Heaven knows why she even contemplated marrying into this family of neo-Nazis….just what attracted her to the multi-millionaire prince who guaranteed her fame and fortune for the rest of her life regardless of whatever happened after the marriage?

    Not saying she’s a calculating, opportunistic, gold-digging chancer…even though that’s the impression given. Naturally to the BBC she is ‘Meghan Markle The Martyr’ and I’ve heard the barest minimum of criticism or scepticism about her tales from the BBC.

    What we have had is an endless stream of pro-Markle, anti-Royalist, Marxist, Blacktivist commentators wheeled in to give us their ‘truth’…much of it verging on madness but the BBC presenters remained stoically silent and refused to express any doubt or surprise at the madness being spoken.

    The BBC loves facts….well, alternate facts….facts you just make up….as long as you’re black. Black facts…or little Black Lies you might say.

    Markle says Archie was denied a title….erm…he’s an Earl…and protocol, long established, defines exactly who and when a child gets what title such as ‘Prince’….and at present Archie isn’t entitled to that title.

    She claims someone, that’s ‘one’, commented on Archie’s possible skin colour…she said ‘”concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he’s born”‘….carefully chosen words to convey the idea that this was a racist comment…there were ‘concerns’ about his skin colour….really?

    She wasn’t there…apparently this was Harry telling her…we have no verbatim script, no real idea of what was said, if anything, nor what the context was, what the real intention was behind the comment…..was it in fact not a concern, as Markle is intimating, that he’d be black and how awful that would be, but in fact a concern about any possible racism from others and how the family and Palace should react….not racism but genuine concern for the welfare of the baby and family? The BBC does not ask….it prefers to make huge headlines about a racist Royal Family.

    And isn’t it pretty evil not to name names….Harry generously says it’s not the Queen or Phillip….so he sets the hounds running and speculation is rife…all other members of the family are now suspected of being racists and condemned by default…..either spill the beans and allow the person their own defence or shut up and don’t smear everyone as racists.

    Markle’s other central claim is that the Media drove her out…..and all she wants is a private life…..toxic media coverage almost drove her to suicide. OK…but we have no proof of that sensationalist claim that the BBC also chooses to highlight…and present as fact. But hang on….one she’s not exactly shy when it comes to doing interviews when it suits…and as for toxic media being a modern evil….she, and Harry, have chosen to launch a malign and vicious attack on his family and the Royal institution which does so much good around the world, as part of a cynical money-making exercise to boost their profile making those sensationalist claims that portray the Royals as racist, uncaring and bullying…..but the Royal family has had no choice in this….they have just been pilloried across the world by a pair of selfish, cynical, money-grubbing chancers and they have no real right of reply…whatever they say the mud has been slung and the legend made fact…helped by the BBC. Markle seems to have no concern about toxic media when it comes to others….it’s just herself and her own life that is apparently out of bounds.

    The BBC’s coverage has been outrageous and despicable….they couldn’t wait to condemn the Royals and portray Markle as that martyred figure run out of racist Britain.

    Here’s a sample of the BBC’s narrative…

    BBC presenter….‘These are really fundamental issues that need to be aired.’ So they’re all absolutely true then…and you have the proof? No? Just speculation then.

    Or same presenter….‘There were racist undertones to the press coverage…’…..really? Where and when….proof again? No? Thought not.

    Same presenter says the claims Markle bullied staff were merely ‘alleged’ but the racism was proven.

    We have Naga asking ‘What can we do with people who don’t believe they are privileged(being white)?’….so the racist construct of the idea of ‘white privilege’ is BBC orthodoxy…but then June Sarpong, the BBC’s diversity queen, is fully on-board with that and critical race theory claptrap.

    Naga tells us that there were ‘stark allegations of racism’ and ‘Shocking claims about racism’….so pretty much fact then? No?

    Naturally just about every guest or commentator was also on-board as we hear that Archie was ‘othered’ even before he was born…by the Royal family talking about race. Oddly the same speaker then insisted that the Royals had lost the opportunity to talk about race and diversity and how they could work to improve things…..hmmmm…maybe that was exactly what was the intention behind the alleged ‘racist’ comment…if any was made at all.

    We hear that Markle’s experience epitomizes the experience of black women in Britain today of insidious racism.

    We hear that Markle was ‘running for her life’ and that ‘it all paints a very sinister picture of what her life must have been like in the Royal family.’

    We hear from a Harvard professor no less that all the racist rage comes from the fact that 400 years ago plantation owners made a pact with poor white workers as slaves took their jobs that Blacks would never be richer or more powerful than them….seeing Obama as President and other successful blacks, the billionaire Opera Winfrey for example, just drives those poor whites mad….not sure the Royals could be described as poor whites. Poor whites were promised ‘white privilege’ and yet they are losers…and that’s where the racist rage comes from.

    Naga of course ties it all into the trial of the George Floyd cop….we hear from her guest, top black lawyer, that a verdict in favour of the police would be ‘against justice’ and Minneapolis would burn…and rightly so he intimates. He suggests that because the cop kneeling on Floyd didn’t seem concerned that he was being filmed this indicated he knew he wouldn’t be held accountable and that there was thus a clear culture in the police department that was racist…..or….maybe, I might suggest, he thought he wasn’t doing anything wrong…Floyd was after all talking loudly and animatedly all along as he claimed he couldn’t breathe….the cop could have no idea he’d die of cardiac arrest….and Floyd was resisting arrest….but Naga said he wasn’t.

    Shouldn’t our national broadcaster be standing back from the fray and be providing measured, balanced comment based on facts and intelligent thought not providing scurrilous tittle-tattle presented as fact in as lurid a way as possible intended to do as much damage as possible to the Royals….this is the BBC as tabloid as any tabloid…precisely what the licence fee was supposed to guarantee we didn’t get.

    What is the point of a licence fee funded broadcaster if it tries to out-tabloid the tabloids with toxic half-truths and outright lies presented in as sensationalist way as possible without even an attempt at impartiality and truth?

    #DefundtheBBC

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    • Zelazek says:

      Brilliant post, Pug, as usual. I think it is worth noting how clever and cunning Markle is. It is she who brings up the charge of racism but makes sure it is based on an incident involving Harry and not her. His testimony and corroboration makes her charge more credible than if it came from her lips alone. She has probably spent many months coaching Harry and persuading him that this innocent remark carried heavy racist overtones.
      My feeling is that some such off-hand, speculative remark would have been uttered in every household in the country, genetics and the variation of inherited characteristics being such a fascinating topic.

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  18. Dover Sentry says:

    I wonder how much the M & H saga is exploited by agents and publicists?

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    • tomo says:

      It’s certainly being exploited by “Inside The Beltway” USA Today Newsquest UK’s fleet of 200 local rags…. they’ve got hacks all over it…

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  19. pugnazious says:

    lol

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  20. StewGreen says:

    R4 This morning’s Vaccination tech series
    was entirely about BAME

    – Imam Qari Muhammad Asim, Chair, Mosques & Imams National Advisory Board,
    – Dr Habib Naqvi – Director, NHS Race and Health Observatory
    – Dr Onyi Okonkwo, GP and clinical lead for BAME network at Birmingham

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  21. taffman says:

    “Nigel Farage: Brexit-backing politician to quit as leader of Reform UK”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56311599
    It appears that Nigel Farage is going to fight Al Beeb and The Wokees?
    If true, he is going to do the job that ‘BoJo and the Tory band’ should be doing.

    He had to do the same for Brexit . He was the true man that got “Brexit Done” at the same time as BoJo and his band were talking about “putting Nigel back in his box”.
    Fingers crossed this career move by Nigel will spell the end of Al Beeb.

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  22. StewGreen says:

    TV licence : R4 12:15pm
    “I had a new visit”
    “I’m old and get pension credits, but they said no
    … I’d moved house and they wouldn’t believe me
    He came at night to the door
    I was alone, I was crying
    .. he seemed genuine not a scammer”
    .. “They now say I do qualify , they promised to send me a licence
    but it’s been 6 weeks and they haven’t”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000sy2p

    They then listed other people wrongly served with letters

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  23. StewGreen says:

    BBC shows only exist to plug their political agendas
    R4 Arts Show tonight : eco-fiction
    Novelist Oana Aristide discusses her debut novel Under the Blue
    : a reclusive artist forced to abandon his home
    and follow two young sisters across a post-pandemic Europe in search of a safe place.
    it explores themes of environmental destruction,
    the melting of the polar ice, eco-terrorism,
    all within a suspenseful story of three survivors on a terrifying road trip.

    AFAIK Arctic ice is not lower than recent years

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    • Kaiser says:

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      • JimS says:

        Our own BBC broadcast a two hour programme The Weather Machine on BBC2 on 12 October 1974, essentially warning about the New Ice Age.

        At least the BBC is consistent, it doesn’t matter what happens, ‘we’ are doomed and it is your fault!

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      • theisland says:

        At 11:20 Tony Heller says:
        “These people have no integrity and they are also completely insane.”
        This just about covers everything we are forced to endure nowadays – and not just the ‘climate change’ fiasco.

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  24. tomo says:

    Retirement Plan

    Go to France
    Throw away passport and docs
    Buy rubber boat

    … you know the rest

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    • Old Goat says:

      My retirement plan, fourteen years ago:

      Go to France
      Find somewhere isolated and rural
      Live in peace and quiet
      Keep head down (apart from forays on line)
      Stay there.

      Working well, thus far.

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  25. vlad says:

    That Interview: the unspeakable interviewed by the unviewable.

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  26. BRISSLES says:

    I find it staggering that all the new stations are taking what the hapless twosome are saying as the truth !! Cue a Hollywood tear being dabbed. The pregnant one has even made Kate a liar !

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  27. DYKEVISIONS says:

    The chickens have definitely come home to roost..

    Watched ITV 11pm news; just as bad as seemingly the BBC.
    The left wing media grip on both sides of the pond going full tilt.
    Killary Clinton, Whoopi cushion Goldberg, ‘circle round’ Psaki, (Bunker Biden’s mouthpiece) all praising Sparkle’s ‘bravery’…

    Btw, did we just find out we paid for a pretend Wedding..?

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    • JohnC says:

      And of course none of them dare open this topic for public comments.
      I don’t care one bit about this story. It’s the Left wing fascism I’m watching.
      How on Earth did the Human Race end up like this ?. It’s like a sci-fi film everyone laughed at from 50 years ago.

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      • JimS says:

        I got told of here for calling her a slut. She’s certainly no lady.

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      • JohnC says:

        Just seen the Telegraphs ‘Letters’ page is open for comment.
        All of them similar to what people are saying here. I didn’t see a single one in support of them.
        I wonder if it has dawned on Harry just what Meghan has done to him. She has burnt the only bridge he had for when they split up.

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  28. Up2snuff says:

    Actresses act, now there’s a surprise.

    That ‘living quietly’ was an act, apparently, after all that was said.

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  29. gb123 says:

    Didn’t pay much attention to the M&H saga as it is yet another publicity stunt to grab $$$ from being victims.
    It led me to an odd train of thought . What if the latest Kim took after his dad and arranged the kidnapping of an actress to perform in propaganda movies. We could have anti-woke, anti-climate change movies with goose stepping Korean women soldiers.

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  30. Kinell says:

    Thank goodness that interview is over and we won’t have to hear any more about the whole saga.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      The Duke & Duchess of Excessive have slagged off the UK tabloid press and by inference the rest of the media. If I was a newspaper Editor (preferably not of a tabloid) I would do the equivalent of the old ‘offended’ press photographers trick: when a celebrity got a bit above themselves, the ‘press pack’ (I am told) would at the next appearance of said celebrity, put their cameras on top of their camera bags on the ground in front of them and stand with arms ostentatiously folded.

      It was said to work miraculously and the ‘stars’ management and the celebrity themselves would be grovelling for a week, very apologetic, and paying the hefty bar bills for some very thirsty photographers.

      I think the Duke & Duchess of Excessive have done just enough to get their wish of living very quietly as far as the UK media are concerned. The Americans will of course love it and the US based freelancers with the longest of long lenses will be all over the pair. The (un)happy couple may have to slink home to the UK with their tails (and their tales!) between their legs.

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    • Doublethinker says:

      You are sadly mistaken. This will run and run as the bitch builds her brand which rests on the highly fashionable pillars of victim of racism and mental health.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        You could be right, double, but there is a thing in the MSM known as ‘news fatigue’. The D&D of E will go on another show, and another, and another, telling the same stories and after a while people – even the Americans who still carry a grudge back to Boston – will start to yawn and fidget a bit. The viewing figures will reflect that and the UK channels – unless staunch Republican oriented – may decline to show yet another bout of ‘poor me’ snowflaking.

        The pair may become toxic in time.

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    • digg says:

      By no means over Kinell, the largely left-wing media in the UK have now been handed a cudgel with the golden words ‘race” on it which they will use repeatedly to try to smash the Royal Family who stand between them and their utopian communist future.

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  31. Doublethinker says:

    So now we know it’s possible gender but please remember that only when it is old enough to speak its truth will we know for certain what gender it will choose from the hundreds available in the modern world. But of course the question that is on everyone’s mind but no one dare ask is , what shade it will be?

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  32. Sluff says:

    Will they ever give up ?

    On Toady at 0710 and the BBC are still race-baiting on the back of the Meghan and Harry boreathon.

    The featured story is the incendiary revelation that someone wondered what colour Archie would turn out to be,
    Shock. Horror. I call it curiousity. They call it racist.
    For an impartial assessment, the BBC wheel on…….errr……..Dianne Flabbot.

    Off switch.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Questions to which the answer is ‘no’..

      BBC Moaning Emole, replete with ‘analysis’ from someone who knows, or wants to know, nothing but speculation.

      ***

      Harry blames racism for departure

      By Owen Amos

      Harry: Racism ‘large part’ of why we left UK

      Story detail

      On Sunday night, the interview between the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and Oprah Winfrey was aired in the US. But it turns out there was more to come. Unaired clips were shown on American breakfast TV – and in one, Prince Harry said racism was “a large part” of why the couple left the UK.

      He said he didn’t think the UK public was bigoted, but the press – “specifically the tabloids” – were. “But unfortunately if the source of information is inherently corrupt, or racist, or biased, then that filters out to the rest of society,” he said. In response, the UK’s Society of Editors said: “The UK media is not bigoted and will not be swayed from its vital role holding the rich and powerful to account.”

      Harry and Meghan’s interview has sparked interest around the world. US President Joe Biden’s press secretary, Jen Psaki, said it had taken “courage” for the couple to speak out. The interview was shown in the UK on ITV on Monday night – if you didn’t see it, here are 12 things we learned. And here’s full analysis from our royal correspondent Jonny Dymond, with an excerpt below.

      Rattling the gilded cage from the outside

      Alongside the personal pain and anger rippling through Meghan’s testimony, there came from Harry condemnation of the institution – the suggestion that it was incapable of change, incapable of love, incapable of understanding.

      The contradictions of the Palace, and of the monarchy, are exactly that which makes it so special, so strange, so interesting and so difficult to work within – the merging of personal and public roles, the accretion of tradition, the mix of public accountability, ceaseless media interest and the need to remain relevant.

      Harry’s suggestion that his family too – his father Prince Charles, his brother Prince William – are “trapped” in their world, and that he felt “compassion” for them, was a velvet-covered knife into the heart of the modern monarchy.

      Royal life is conducted from within a gilded cage; the players are not meant to rattle the bars from the outside.

      ****

      Jonny and his colleagues embody the ‘profession’ today.

      https://melaniephillips.substack.com/p/the-contemptible-oprah-sussex-circus?

      “And in America, where the pair have apparently solid support, we can see exposed the yawning culture gap with Britain.”

      And the national broadcaster. Hence ‘Americast’, with Jon and BS, who now know they can say anything they, and the bubble, likes.

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  33. vlad says:

    Predictably the bbc are oozing with sympathy for Little Miss Victim, and swallowing her story hook line and sinker.

    ‘Suicidal thoughts’, ‘racism’, ‘misogyny’, ‘victimhood’: all their favourite buzzwords, tick, tick, tick, tick.

    They must think it’s Christmas.

    Alex Belfield remains unconvinced, and so – to his credit – does Piers Morgan.

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    • G says:

      I must confess that when Markle arrived on the scene and even some years later, I had no idea she was, “black”. She displays a tan, common in those from California.

      I don’t buy newspapers so I must principally thank the BBC, our own, “Worlds Most Trusted Broadcaster” for informing me Markle is “black”. I wouldn’t have guessed otherwise. So, BBC, many thanks, I will mentally segregate other “black” people when I have the opportunity and I will see, ‘blackness’ everywhere as you promote and I will leave myself open to disassociate from ‘black’ people even when the ‘black’ element was some generations before. Indeed, BBC, like Markle, perhaps you could research and print a list of those who appear totally white but carry a hint of ‘blackness’ so I’ll know in the future to treat them accordingly.

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      • JimS says:

        It’s worse than that.

        You know that you aren’t ‘black’, that means that you are now the ‘other’. That is the one certainty that you are now left with.

        There you were, possibly living in the same place as your family has for at least two hundred years. Possibly possessing the skin colour that provides the ‘just about right’ filtering of the sun’s rays for the latitude, eating the crops and animals that have also found their place, wearing the clothing suited to the climate.

        Now it is you that is the stranger. The Trudeau doctrine has been forced onto you. (Trudeau alleges that there is no Canadian culture. The present tenants are the idle who only live there by chance of birth, the real Canadian is the person who wants to live there, to take over what used to be considered the inheritance of the tenant).

        Everyone that you see is now potentially your new overlord. Clearly that lippy black African ‘academic’ is, the woman with covered hair, the man in his pyjamas, but what about that blonde pushing a buggy?

        “Przestań płakać kochanie!”, she says to the child.

        Know your place.

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  34. Dover Sentry says:

    Can James Hewitt demand a DNA test? If he is the father, it would collapse the circus.

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  35. AsISeeIt says:

    I’m with the Daily Star this morning: ‘Our telly broke at 8:59pm last night. Did we miss anything?

    Meanwhile it is somewhat of a relief to note the FT tucks this headline away in their “Briefing” section, for which one tends to employ a magnifying glass: ‘Royal rift aired in explosive interview

    The only question being once the actress who bagged (or should that be debagged – or even de-cojonesed?) her prince has played her race card, then where does she go from there?

    Our print media would seem to present their acres of coverage and ask, a la Russell Crowe in the movie Gladiator: “Are you not entertained?

    On the contrary, is our reply. To borrow a suitable phrase: “We are NOT amused

    At least we get to know who our friends are: ‘Duchess has shown courage, says Biden‘ (Telegraph) – and with diplomatic skills of that order it must surely be just a matter of time before the doddery old geezer with his liver-spotted trembling wrinkly hand hovering over the nuclear button, pisses off some really hostile head of state.

    The Mirror presents a front page pic of school kids that appears to show Asia is: ‘Back to school… and a new world‘ – each of the three kids being of asian or east asian ethnicity. However, the report does refer to Blighty. New world indeed.

    With some form of synchronicity the FT’s frontpage advert is from SOAS, University of London offering: ‘Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art‘ – I’d venture there’s many a media picture editor up for one of those.

    The ‘i‘ attempts to show it’s too cool for school, but employs a phrase that’s SO last decade: ‘Friends reunited. Smooth return to the classroom at many schools with “encouraging” support for tests and masks

    All is apparently sweetness and light for teachers and their now gagged and muzzled little pets. All set for teacher self-tested “A” grades all across the board. The Telegraph lets off a stink bomb: ‘“No scientific basis” in school covid test plan

    The BBC, always helpful in some respect to someone or other’s interests, provides: ‘Coronavirus testing: How to do a lateral flow test at home

    You take a suitably-sized coin. Toss it in the air… I’m joshing, of course, self-administered dodgy PCR testing will be an absolute boon.

    Mummy, please, I don’t want to go to school. Please do a covid test for me!

    The Guardian is of course happily grandstanding over a government policy that is reasonably likely to backfire spectacularly: ‘Return to school may delay end of lockdown‘ – maybe. The difference with last September’s return to school was that the reopening coincided with the onset of the winter flu season. The public were readily willing to associate the two factors in their minds. This time we have a spring reopening.

    And finally… Dr Seuss and his Cat In The Hat has recently been censured and then rapidly censored for the dreaded racism. Now the Daily Star has apparently #MeToo’ed a cartoon character: ‘Pepe Le Pew “A sex pest”

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    • JohnC says:

      It is on good authority that Martin Luther King was a terrible womaniser and had many affairs. It is even claimed from a credible source that when he encountered a woman being raped, he encouraged the man to get on with it.
      But as he was black, the boundless hypocrisy and double standards of the Left means nobody is allowed to mention it.
      Don’t expect to see any of his statues being toppled.

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  36. Jack in the Green says:

    “Pre-lockdown knife crime rate in Suffolk doubles”, local headlines declare. Multi-culturalism – The gift that keeps on giving.

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  37. Guest Who says:

    It could be called Spring Break.

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    • G says:

      GW,

      All part of the process to stop any free speech. Just think, where will all of these restrictions be in 10 / 15 / 20 years time? I won’t be here, thank goodness.

      Perhaps the Government should come clean and explain that they are so impressed with the draconian control of speech in China, they are slowly emulating the same controls here. Come, Boris, be the first Western ‘leader’ who explains what they’re up to.

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      • Tabs says:

        BBC staff have been pushing this victimhood for a few weeks now. Any criticism of their ability to do their job is now “abuse”.

        e.g. making fun of Marriana Spring wearing a mask upside down = abuse/death threats. Criticising Sonja McLaughlan for her agressive interviewing = abuse. Criticising Naga Munchetty for anything = racism

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    • Grumbler says:

      I see what you did there.

         5 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      School bully gang ..complain someone shouted at them a couple of times

      … Did you see the state of them outside Cummings house ?
      ..Reuters chalking the pavement
      .. The video billboard truck from Greenpeace front group Led By Donkeys
      etc.

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  38. Guest Who says:

    ????

       19 likes

    • andyjsnape says:

      bBC news reviews were 1.3 stars a few weeks ago, things are in the right direction then 🙂

         14 likes

    • Tabs says:

      Marianna Spring will probably do an article on the “people paying for fake BBC 1 star reviews”.

         5 likes

      • StewGreen says:

        Her first point should be that Trustpilot
        doesn’t let you leave zero star reviews.

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  39. Guest Who says:

    It defeats me how the BBC is still allowed to get away with its blatant ideological baiting.

    Classic BBC ‘calls for’, either creating internally or allowing itself to be used to further an agenda shared by few outside a deranged, obsessive bubble.

    Why should they dance to this tune?

    At the end of the day it is no more than a family spat created by a sheep of color brought into the fold performing precisely as expected by all save morons and credulous media.

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    • Guest Who says:

      No… I take it all back!

      It is clearly a genius move concocted by Dom and Kayleigh.

      Think about it… hire an actress to perform a role to sucker in the blob to perfection.

      Boris steers clear.
      Buck House steers clear.

      The entire US MSM and most U.K., especially BBC, go hypocritically batsh*t over claims as credible as a Newsnight BIJ mental patient, and drag in everyone from Sleepy and HRC to Di the Daft.

      Sit back, allow to simmer… then boom… explosive bombshell metaphors comprised of egg on smug, thick, woke faces.

      Genius!

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      • Emmanuel Goldstein says:

        GW.

        I’m not surprised Boris is steering clear as he has his own controller in Yoko symonds.

        Regarding Yoko Murkle, she seems to have fallen out with all her own family as well as our royle lot.
        She has all the woke shit stirrers on her side.
        Donald (see above) saw through her and warned Harry.

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    • Thatcherrevolutionary says:

      They’ll keep poking them with that stick.

      Best thing is to ignore completely.

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  40. Beltane says:

    Meghan gains all the limelight, as planned, but good old Hal knows which side to butter his toast – yes, that’s another job he’ll have to learn for himself – with his constant references to ‘granny’.
    M must have stressed the importance of not slagging off the Queen, that would be a major mistake, so give the impression she’s on side with ‘frequent’ intimate phone calls, warmth and consolation unique among the barrage of palace hatred.
    It’s only a matter of time before he starts to call HM his ‘rock’ – but somehow I feel there’s just a hint of desperation blended in with the deception, probably with as much self-deception too.
    I believe HM will be apoplectic with rage and while Harry fears his mother’s history repeating itself, HM will see tragic parallels with her ‘Uncle David’ with all that attendant duplicity and treasonous behaviour. If The DofE dies in hospital, Harry might remember how the Windsor’s were treated after hastening the death of George VI and rue the day.

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  41. Non Snowflake says:

    Quite interesting that when Donald Trump made his quite correct and justified claims about vote rigging, he was dismissed by the MSM as having no proof etc etc

    And now we have controversial claims from Meghan Ono and Harry Hewitt where there is literally zero evidence and yet the MSM led of course by the bBBC can’t get enough.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Excellent @Non-Snowflake
      ..Where are the Twitter stamps saying “There is no evidence of Racial Fraud in the Royal Family” ?

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      • StewGreen says:

        I see Twitter are now stamping tweets with
        “Claims about racism in the Royal Family are disputed”

        /sarc

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  42. StewGreen says:

    Sima Kotecha is on the Radio again just like she was on Saturday
    … I check about the guy she had arrested for shouting at her in Leicester city centre in May when the BBC made the extraordinary decision do set up a public show during lockdown
    and when she elevated that charge
    FROM “using threatening/abusive/insulting words/behaviour
    to cause harassment/alarm/distress”
    TO ” causing RACIALLY aggravated alarm or distress”

    ..when the recording showed no racial words
    “BBC Satanic child abuse”
    “go home don’t come back”
    Those words appear directed at the whole crew
    AS they left he said
    “Bye Bye BBC get out of town, don’t come back
    and take your litter with you”

    Seems to me they bailed him, made him go through pleading and then dropped the case

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  43. StewGreen says:

    On Humberside Kofi is going on about “White fragility”
    People are complaining he dedicated the show to Megan & Harry next
    He sneers at the people who condemn Meghan

    He’s reading listener comments
    they complain “where’s the LOCAL news”
    “Kofi you keep defining people by the colour of their skin, then when someone disagrees with you, say they must be racist cos of their skin colour”
    “well done addressing the colour conversation”
    “white people get bullied ”
    … Kofi replies “see people DENYING racism ..a lot of people denying people don’t want to admit”

    listener comment “I reckon they’ve got barely suppressed racism ..why are they denying … White fragility is such a good word”

    The next presenter says he will be keeping his show Meghan free

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    • StewGreen says:

      His show promotion tweet seems to insult some listeners
      (His Monday tweet also)

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    • Loobyloo says:

      Ugghh! Another revolting limelight hugging luvvie. Can’t stand him. Anyway….a couple of years back wasn’t he giving up acting to go into politics? That didn’t happen then…

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  44. StewGreen says:

    ITV are claiming 11 million viewers last night
    so 56m didn’t watch
    That’s 5 to 1
    So 16% of UK population watched the Meghan show

    I see figs of 11.3, 11.4 and “peaked at 12.3 million viewers”

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    • Old Goat says:

      Mme Goat insisted she would watch it (in the kitchen, and well away from me). It clashed with Master Chef. What to do, what to do? (I didn’t suggest recording it, and she didn’t think of that…).

      She apparently channel hopped between the two, so H & M weren’t that rivetting, after all.

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    • DYKEVISIONS says:

      Australia have been watching; especially Mr Alan Jones, quoting Shakespeare but also reaching for the chuck bucket!
      Great summation of where we are…

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  45. Tabs says:

    BBC News website right now…

    Victimhood: Urgent Palace talks over Harry and Meghan claims
    Scare mongering: Whitty warns of further surge as society opens up
    Victimhood: ‘If Covid didn’t kill me, nothing ever will’
    Agenda pushing: Unilever drops word ‘normal’ from beauty products
    Science: Meteorite chuck found ***actual news!***
    Cancel culture: Jess Glynne apologises for ‘unacceptable’ trans slur
    Utter rubbish: ‘First dogs’ leave White House over biting incident
    Agenda pushing: Stars await Bafta nominations amid diversity push
    Agenda pushing: Ministers ‘must ban LGBT+ conversion therapy soon’
    Scare mongering: Restrictions on Scots outdoor meetings to be eased
    Sex with kids article: England and Wales child abuse laws to be expanded
    Scare mongering: Sainsbury’s warns of shortage of pet food pouches
    News: Harry Dunn suspect ‘would do community service’ ***actual news! ***

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  46. G says:

    “China Is Winning the Great 21st Century Tech War”

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17160/china-tech-war

    ……..and will continue to, while the Fake President has his afternoon nap in the White House. ‘Bring Back Trump’

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  47. digg says:

    With the BBC, The Guardian and the Independent all mirroring the anti Royal Family diatribe today spouted by the left-wing CNN we now know exactly where they stand on UK sovereignty.

    https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/09/uk/royal-family-harry-meghan-succession-intl/index.html

    This is boiling down to a reprisal attack against this Country not only by partisan members of other left-leaning countries but aided and abetted by our own media, I’m pretty sure the Brexit vote is also a factor.

    To me this is verging on insurrection carried out on the British Nation and it’s population by it’s own media and applauded by it’s enemies in foreign left-wing media.

    Simply put, the Global media is using all its tactics to try to enslave the UK back into the Globalist Master plan.

    We don’t have to buy the Guardian or the Independent but we can withdraw support from our National Broadcaster and should do so now before they wreak any more damage to this nation.

    I have never in my longish life witnessed such a sustained and vicious attack on our Nation’s very core.

    This will end up being very nasty.

    Weird and telling that the only voice standing up against the deceit his her own father!

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    • Rich says:

      Digg,

      It’s only a matter of time before someone from the “black community” comes out against her for not being “black” enough.

      Other commenters have noted that unless told they wouldn’t guessed from her appearance that Meghan was black but it’s not just her appearance. as we’re talking about colour I’ll use broad brush strokes here.

      Everything about her seems to me to be so stereotypically Californian white – her wokeness, her sense of entitlement and moral superiority, her eco-conscience, her yoga, her rescue hens, her general overall demeanour – it’s all so “white” in the way that is claimed to be wrong by so many black race-baiters. Apparently she was raised to a large extent by her father, I think it shows.

      I know I’m stereotyping but she lacks the vivacity and colour that so many black women claim to have and that modern black culture celebrates. Where’s her bling, the bright colours and outgoing personality. She’s dull, conservative and “preppy”.

      I don’t think the black community as a whole will tolerate her fairness, her lack of authenticity. The media blacks like Oprah and Don Lemon will further their own goals and agitators like Abbot, Dr Shola and the many mixed-race “celebrities” who feel obliged to support her purely because of her colour, or lack of.

      They will soon realise that she is not the real deal. She has had a reasonably privileged and comfortable upbringing, no ghetto upbringing here, and she has become even more privileged by embracing the side of her heritage that she now feigns resentment of.

      She’ll be found out, the true colours of her character will become clear to those that are at present concerned more with the colour of her skin and when this happens she’ll find the “community” that she seems so intent on maligning won’t be there to offer the affirmation she so selfishly seems to crave.

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      • Rich says:

        Was editing this and got timed out. The pre-emptive text on this Kindle is driving me nuts at the minute, I’m having to retype so many simple words.

        Fairness should read fakeness and there a few words missing. The edited version made more sense and was better written but hopefully you’ll get the jist of it.

        Simply put, she is much more Brittney than Beyonce, obviously influenced and shaped by the part of her mixed heritage that she once wholeheartedly embraced but now so opportunistically derides.

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      • Kaiser says:

        looking at her ex’s she doesnt seem very keen on black men

        and looking at pictures of her “old” female friends most of them appear to be white as well

        perhaps shes waycist

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    • Beltane says:

      ‘We don’t have to buy the Guardian or the Independent…..’
      Indeed we don’t digg – in common with close to 99.5% of the population.
      Without google news and the BBC to keep them artificially ‘alive’ both titles would have been consigned to history many years ago. Their actual contribution and relevance is precisely on a par with the LibDems.

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  48. Loobyloo says:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56331268

    LOL!! x4 First dogs have to leave the Whitehouse over biting incident!!

    After all that guff about the first rescue dogs to be in there, blah, blah, blah, – it must be better and great cos it’s Biden, and he’s like the messiah compared to Trump who was, and everything around him, completely evil.

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    • JimS says:

      If they had been Trump’s dogs they would be Blondi Mk.1 and Blondi Mk.2 and we would have had lots of ‘analysis’ about how pets take after their owners, so we all ‘know’ where their bad behaviour came from!

      C’mon man! They are just dogs!

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  49. tomo says:

    I suppose it might be of some interest here – one cheek of the BBC arse -> The Guardian…

    They’ve an advertiser info pack 2019…

    Monthly print readership among quality newsbrands

    1.4 million for the Independent, in 2019 ? – superficially that’s quite an achievement since it stopped officially being printed on Saturday 26 March 2016 🙂

    Does that qualify as fake news?

    – can’t help wondering what the GMG media folk would do with BBC viewership / listener figures….

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