If you read the 69 pages of the ‘BBC Annual Plan 2021 – 2022’ – published this week – you recognise a number of recurring themes .1. That the BBC is ‘London centric ‘ 2. It is worried about viewing figures 3. It knows it cannot compete with online subscription services 4. It is worried about the word ‘impartial – which features a countless number of times 5.It thinks it is British – and fails to mention Brexit or its ‘ EU fan club at all . Reading the Plan – knowing the reality as opposed to the BBC fantasy -that it is unbiased – one plays a game of reading between the lines and seeing that the users of this website ( on behalf of the good British public ) are slowly but surely winning and that the days of the current BBC are numbered .
Midweek Thread 31 March 2021
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And then, there is Newsnight.
Who?
Strange.
Surveys suggest surveys are…?
BBC WEB-SITE-Watch #1 – really?
A motorsport with a conscience, which aims to raise awareness and act upon climate change and equality, using an equal split of men and women racing off-road ‘electric SUVs’ in remote areas of the globe which have been affected by global warming.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/56596874
Duher! Saudi Arabia is hot because of its geographical location, close to the Equator – nothing to do with Global Warming – although to be fair the desert gets cold at night. I’ve seen the film ‘Lawrence of Arabia’.
As for the environmental consideration of transporting the whole circus via a dirty, polluting, marine-fuel carbon powered vessel, that bit of virtue signalling is just plain daft greenwash. Especially so, when apparently the drivers will fly out to races.
This is all so typical deceiving nonsense, no wonder the BBC signed up for it!
Jesus Floyd
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56606418
lets see what details the so called BBC leave out today
BBC R4 News at 2300 told me that the court heard that the two paramedics arrived a the scene and saw that, although already dead, the officer still had their knee on his neck.
Earlier on the 1st, not exactly following the proceedings in detail, I was informed that the criminal Floyd died elsewhere an hour or so after the paramedics arrived. Now I’m confused. It’s either one or the other. Instincts naturally favour the, ‘died an hour after’ as the BBC lie so much. But which is it? Anybody help?
The BBC should use Holy Week to reflect on its anti-Christian bias
The Bishop of Ripon has complained that religion is continually ‘siloed’ by the BBC. But that’s just part of the problem …(edited for brevity)
…. We now live in an era in which the mass media, for better or worse, shapes our public morality. Observing this changed landscape, many social conservatives are apt to point the finger of blame at the Church of England itself; it is the C of E, they say, which by bending before the prevailing wind of permissive liberal attitudes has allowed the old Christian morality to be repudiated and replaced by a new “media morality”.
Bishop Hartley says that the BBC has relegated religion to a “God-slot” where safely “siloed away” as she puts it, the Corporation can fulfil its quota of “religious broadcasting” without troubling the general audience overmuch. And she asks a pertinent question:
“Where are the documentaries that challenge us to rethink the world we live in? Or the dramas that ask us to re-imagine our human relationships? Instead of congratulating itself on producing more content than ever, I wonder if it’s time for the BBC to ask just what is the point of religion on the telly, or the radio for that matter?”
Good question, Bishop. The truth is that the BBC shies away from any explanation of the ills that afflict contemporary society which might undermine belief in the tenets of a permissive, liberal, interpretation of “progress”. The BBC seemingly does not wish to engage with ideas that implicitly cast doubt on the benefits of our modern morality. Nor does it wish to explore the debt that the liberalism it so enthusiastically embraces owes to Christianity; for, in truth, without Christianity there would be no liberalism.
No Human rights and slavery would still be here (ignored by the BBC as it would never have had a label on it).
So what has this to do with religious broadcasting and the BBC? Only this: that in order to understand our society, so concerned as it is with “rights” we have to understand where the notion of “human rights” comes from.
The BBC’s worldview consciously militates against incorporating in its output an understanding of religion and its importance in human affairs. This is, in my experience, primarily because the BBC is staffed by people contemptuous of, and often also ignorant of, Christian history and teachings. Most programme-makers in the BBC are highly educated folk who have come through the atheistic degree-factories of Oxbridge. Many of these pocket intellectuals seem to think that all human progress began when the beliefs that dominated the years they call the “Dark Ages” were discarded in favour of the rational ideas of people like Voltaire.
But our modern intellectual class (to whom BBC people largely belong) reject the Christian contribution to western civilisation – which is immeasurable. This has led to distorted news values; it is why, for instance, the BBC rightly reports extensively on the plight of the Muslim Uighurs but consistently underplays the persecution of Christians in Muslim countries like Pakistan.
In its skewed view the BBC seems to think that highlighting and campaigning for better treatment for Christians would show some kind of favouritism whereas, by championing the cause of the Muslim Uighurs it demonstrates its “impartiality”. It is a shockingly partisan stance which only demonstrates the Corporation’s inherent antagonism towards Christianity.
Over the years there have been many complaints about the BBC’s perceived anti-Christian stance – something we might term its “Christophobia”. Back in 2011 Cardinal Keith O’Brien, the RC leader of Scotland’s Catholics, commissioned research into BBC news coverage after which he levelled the charge that the BBC was institutionally biased against Christianity. Peter Sissons, for many years one of the BBC’s most recognisable newsreaders, wrote in his memoirs about the Corporation’s animus against Christianity; he said the BBC saw Christians as “fair game”. And just a few years ago a BBC World Service journalist of 30 years’ standing, Catherine Utley, went public with criticisms of how the BBC covers stories involving Christians.
So Bishop Helen-Ann’s strictures on the BBC’s religious programmes are in good company. But the BBC will likely take no notice of her whatsoever. She will be airily dismissed along with all the complaints of those listed above – and many others. Supremely confident of its own good intentions, and convinced of its own superior wisdom, the BBC is leading our society down the wrong path. And that, in this Holy Week, is my Thought for the Day.
First appeared in the Radio Times. Published today in the Telegraph.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2021/04/01/bbc-should-use-holy-week-reflect-anti-christian-bias/
“Every customer must sign in when pubs reopen”
I though that the pubs were safest places to be before the last lock down ? Safer than supermarkets .
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56608632
Other media : The BBC and the Guardian is usually the same BS
Every Guardian story seems to BS, so it’s not even worth reading.
I skim the Times Magazine, it’s all middle class BS
But I made notes on the 20th cos it seems woke-plus
Times Magazine
#1 Caitlan Moran’s “Take Back The Streets article”
listing all the weird sexual harassment her and her daughter get whilst walking the dogs
.. whereas her husband’s life is much freer.He can jog in the dark etc.
#2 Long article about Paris sex clubs
the female owner insisting they are centred around women’s pleasure
and of course single women are let in whereas single males are excluded.
#3 The BAME journo Sanghera interviews a black guy about him bringing the Black American TV version of Dragons Den to UK with Channel4
He’s started a firm Impact X to invest in black biz.
He then ironically goes on about racism
and how there should be more blacks in the rich list.
#4 Same journo has another 1 page article about “systematic racism”
talk about a chip on the shoulder
There’s a lot of hyperbole and cherry picking
“re-emergence of violent white supremacy”
… (really ? where are the bodies ?)
He mentions that black men seem to experience more psychiatric problems
.. but fails to mention that white males have much mote suicides.
It also seems some of his stats come from the way non-whites are concentrated in urban areas etc.
#5 Article : The Woke Handbook
by Stuart Heritage
includes a list of baddies eg Laurence Fox
#6 Woke Culture guide
#7 “Promoted Content” : Ben Fogle Drives His Electric Car
#8 The Ruler of Dubai who abducts his own daughters
#9 Middle Class parents Giles Coren and his wife
The Grauniad. The print wing of the provisional bbc.
Watch out watch, out there’s a troll about!
maxincony is working ‘nights’!
‘Safe distancing’ is the order of the day.
???? Look out, there’s a maxincony …
It seems to me that much of the ‘institutional racism’ in our society today resides with al beeb and their fellow travellers in the MSM
This country is the most welcoming, tolerant and easy going of any on earth.
It must be as otherwise 100s wouldn’t risk life and limb on a daily basis to get here.
The pound £ closed at €1.1744 today . It won’t be long before it returns to €1.20. Will Al Beeb rejoice then ?
taff, no because it will make it more expensive for EU to buy from a resurgent Britain
taffman,
“Will Al Beeb rejoice then ?”
When Cameron announced there was going to be a Brexit referendum the Pound was at 1.4 Euro.
When Farage announced the Brexit referendum had been lost the Pound was at 1.3 Euro.
And now, five years later, it’s worth 1.17 Euro.
Let’s all rejoice. So much winning!
maxi
At that time the pound was considered to be over priced.
€1.175 vs £1 today so the it’s partially about the Euro still falling
Has anyone ever got 1.30 or 1.40 …?
It was about 1.27 the week before the vote
Looks to be that MSM fake polls and fake news is what pushed it up to 1.30 the days before the vote.
Was there a day that “When Cameron announced there was going to be a Brexit referendum” ?
In 2015 he made a bill saying there could be a referendum
The went of to get concessions from the EU
They spat in his face
Then 20 Feb 2016 announced the referendum date
That day the rate was 1.29
2013 Had said he was thinking about a referendum
2015 May 27 European Union Referendum Bill was unveiled in the Queen’s Speech.
From March 15th to November 28th 2015 the rate was always above 1.35 but was super volatile, sometimes touching 1.41
… even 1.44 one day in July
https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=GBP&to=EUR&view=10Y
Stew, I remember getting a bit over 1.30 in Jan 15 when we were in Madeira
Daily Fail reports the outgoing PM will unveil an outline ‘vaccine passport scheme’ on Monday for Theatres and Sports venues, but also saying the passport may be the only way to unlock fully….
Of course he has, because though it’s about controlling a virus.
Furthermore Doris explains the problems in France will be in this country in a few weeks.
Of course, it’s about controlling a virus…. with the borders not protected from illegals….
Still 6 months ago they said vaccine passports ‘weren’t on the agenda’ then Gove scuttled off somewhere and is even now drawing up his plans for us.
Still, it’s about a virus….
maxincony
It’s time you got yourself a real job instead of behaving like a ‘twirly.
The one top right looks thrilled.
The BBC rejoices. Per picture.
(June Sarpong not present).
Guest, looking at that Glasto pic, is there anyone under the age of thirty-five years there?
On the gate and serving in the bars.
Front row looks like a bbc commissioning editor office, or a Biden cabinet shortlist. Maybe some women too.
Here’s the BBC’s fave redhead doing what she does best.
Here’s the BBC NAnana BS boss…
All in order to perpetuate electoral fraud like this ….
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/04/election_fraud_hotspots__10_of_the_data_are_70_of_the_fraud.html
And rack.
Woah… no Marianna call out?!
20 engagements.
It’s funny…in media world…..everybody is brilliant, lovely, fantastic, amazing etc.
same language that theatre *actors* use.
A year of being the Marianna Spring PR agency more like!
Jon and irony.
Match made in heaven.
Jon’s mates.
Unlucky country.
BBC News
Dozens of Hollywood stars have relocated to the country during the pandemic while at least 40,000 Australians remain shut out and stranded overseas.
TOADY Watch #1 – BBC just love that ‘fear’ generating thing … oh, and Brexit got bashed, too
Business during the first half-hour and Katy Business was on to not do the business with a UK plastic manufacturer for the automtive sector. The BBC have been trying to do the best to stir up fears of a plastics shortage and “that will lead to a food shortage”. They do love those, the BBC on TOADY. I remember Jim Naughtie on completely unfounded coffee and sugar ‘scares’.
The shortage of poly granules is due in large part to severe Global Cooling in Texas recently that hit oil production and the unfortunate incident with a driver, gender unspecified, trying to do a three point turn in the Suez Canal with a large container ship.
The helpful contributor kept mentioning Brexit, I lost count of the times; he must have been an enraged Remain voter. Boy, they can carry a grudge, can’t they?!
Katy Business just didn’t do the business on him and ask why a Middle Eastern & USA & Indonesian product (plastics granules are made from oil) would be affected by Brexit. I suspect a Kiwi like Dominic (who Katy was deputising for) might have pushed a bit harder for some clarification there.
Reading between the lines, I guess the plastics granules reach the UK via a European wholesaler. Why a company making plastic parts for the automotive industry was being interviewed about plastics & packaging shortages affecting food supplies, I know not. I guess it gave the BBC a chance to attack Brexit.
It also suggested that this spokesperson was not really a competent business manager, because there has been 4¾ years of news, discussions and negotiations about how Brexit would affect the UK automotive industry. This gent has obviously 1. not been paying attention, 2. has been completely dilatory in ensuring a supply chain for his company post-Brexit, 3. has not been communicating with his customers at all, and, 4. has probably been hoping that the vote to Leave the EU would be overturned. The shareholders ought to think about sacking him.
Katy Business should also have a little chat with the Head of BBC N&CA about how to do her job a little better.
Up2snuff
As usual no mention of a multi billion UK company called INEOS that own Grangemouth Oil Refinery…..plastic granules are made there …don’t know why I occasionally listen to any BBC dross , and there was also going to be a discussion on the Far Right problem ….Sorry BBC Its the Far Left thats the problem buried deep in your organisation…OFF SWITCH AGAIN
Indeed, Charlie, we are importing oil all the time because – I am told – our Brent crude is too good and has to be used to mix with the thick dirty stuff. Think it might be the latter’s leftovers that they make the granules from – and other important stuff as well.
Cui Bono edition
On the frontpage of a national newspaper this morning: ‘Corona Extra‘ – don’t panic, it’s not some scary mutant varient.
It’s not even some supposed long-term lingering condition you heard about in the media and thought that might well be the reason you’re still feeling a bit dicky.
It’s just the Sun with a frontpage advert for a pack of cheap Mexican supermarket beer. And long may the pubs stay shut, pray the likes of Mr Tesco and Mr Sainsbury this Easter.
The ‘i‘ newspaper is a generally Left-leaning title and they do a good job of pointing out the widescale incidence of Tory (and civil service) corporate cronyism this morning: ‘Public service …private gain. Revealed: At least 66 of David Cameron’s ministers and officials found private sector jobs linked to their role in government within two years of stepping down‘ – and yet noticing this suspect trend our Lefty media continue to be 100% compliant with Boris Johnson’s administration’s lockdowns and mass vaccination policies – cui bono? – I guess they haven’t thought this one through.
The Guardian too can see the problem but just can’t seem to join the dots: ‘Tory donor asked minister to speed up £65m PPE deal‘
And that’s your thought for the day.
What, you want some more?
We’ve a few concessions to the religious aspect of Easter in the press be they few and far between – the ‘i‘ asks: ‘2021: What would Jesus do?‘ – well, Matthew tells us that when the leper approached Christ: “Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man”
And you want an and finally?
‘How did Scotland Yard miss a Nazi in its ranks?‘ (Dail Mail)
Juxataposed with the headline: ‘Covid passport trails to begin‘
Happy Easter
Asians, eh? What are they like?
Especially East ones.
Isn’t it weird how the BBC has a sort of institutional amnesia?
At 0710 on Toady. They interviewed one of the favourites, Shami Chakribati, about vaccine passports.
Justremainin described her as a Human Rights Lawyer and former director of Liberty.
She then went off on one of those ‘outrage’ tirades with lists of adverbs and adjectives that sounded like a throwback to the Trots of the 70s. Just like ‘Dave Spart’ in Private Eye.
What Justremainin somehow forgot to mention in his intro. was that she is also a Labour peer, and was in Jeremy Corbyn’s team when he was Labour Party leader, and among other wrote a whitewash report about anti-semitism (absence of) in the Labour Party.
With forgetfulness like that, I think the BBC should exercise their employee Health and Safety duty and check him out for early onset Dementia.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/31/a-migrant-girl-drowns-in-the-rio-grande-and-corporate-media-shrug/?
They are…. ‘selective’, at best.
The Rubin podcast “things AOC is not talking about” was one of the 5 topics.
…Mexican kids crammed in cages cos of open border policies.
Nice bit of #tellitoftenenough from the house journal
Those that can …brainwash.
In the hope that I’m not teaching my peers to suck eggs, the actual phrase is:
‘Those that can, do. Those that can’t, teach.’
“Those that blow chunks on everything… become journalists*”
*Or BBC specialist reporters
TOADY Watch #2 – the BBC love the Government being in Court to face a legal challenge
Mishal is woefully ignorant of the UK retirement (pension) age: it is now 66 or 67 or 68 years of age, not age 65, depending on when you were born. But she manages to get through 8.10 a.m. prime interview slot with a spokeswoman for one of the groups taking the Government to Court over human rights and equality for residents of Care Homes.
Mishal has trouble discerning between Government guidelines and legislation and the fact that the Court case is about neither. The thought struck me that where a Care Home resident is fully ‘compos mentis’ that they are of an age that will have seen and enjoyed the film ‘The Great Escape’ many, many, times and would be arranging to emulate the exploits with their fellow Care Home residents.
Anyone got a motor bike?
Up2
Your post was far too long.
You had said it all by the 4th word of the second paragraph.
Or perhaps even more tellingly by the 7th.
Sluff, that gave me a chuckle.
8am news “And you are warned with the coastal erosion in our area , not to take picnics at the base of cliffs
… top temperature today 9 degrees……..”
They should have saved that warning for an actual weekend when someone would do a coastal picnic.
Tuesday morning it starts at -1C
BBC News
The BBC discovered that Dorothy Perkins and Coast, which are both owned by online retailer Boohoo, sold exactly the same coat but it cost £34 more at Coast.
***
Not £200? Because of Brexit?
Jenny from a different block to the usual Beeb moppets.
Boohoo to probe price differences for same clothing
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56506859?
They are now both priced at £18.
The BBC continues to charge what others give away for free, often just ‘quoting’ them and adding the vig.
Ms. Ball and Botney are not staying multimillionaires any other way.
wait until BBC discovers that
a branded can
and an supermarket label one often have the same contents from the same factory.
Retail pricing is about charging what you can get away with.
Its not a communist business.
And there are reasons
eg They have 3 dress designs costing £5 to manufacture and put a £15 price on them.
One turns out to be fashionable
but the others 2 don’t
so the super-markup cross-subsidises the lossmaking there.
Very well said. I suspect they can’t grasp how enterprise can also go horribly wrong…and ones investment / life savings lost!
Of course not, Garry, the BBC are on an inflation proofed, guaranteed income.
For now.
The BBC ‘Today’ programme continues to find and interview, almost exclusively, critics of the report released by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, which found that institutional racism did not exist in the UK.
This morning was the turn of some former, very senior, member of the Police Force (I can’t be bothered to wait until the recording becomes available to get his name correct).
He was one of the actual participants who were consulted by the Commission, during its work. Since his participation, he hadn’t apparently mentioned any problem arising with the Commission and its study. But suddenly (dare one suggest that this is perhaps because he didn’t personally agree with the Commission’s findings, and that perhaps he’s been ‘leaned on’ by ‘interested’ groups ?), he’s become very disparaging about the report.
He let a huge cat out of the bag, however, as to why he was now virulently opposed to the findings, when he commented that one of the key flaws in the Commission was that he believed now that the members tended towards the Right of the political spectrum. Never mind that 11 out of the 12 members of the commission were non-white – clearly their political viewpoint was not the correct one.
The BBC did not, of course, challenge any of his clearly politically motivated bilge, obviously believing, as he does, that the only people who can be allowed to have any say on the issue of racism must be politically left-wing, and BAME community members.
The BBC – supporting diversity, but, of course, only the right kind of diversity.
Update – interviewee was Dal Babu, from the BAME community, obviously, and former Chief Superintendent of the Met. – interviewed, almost predictably, given the topic, by Mishal Hussain.
I honestly don’t know how you can bear to watch such programs on the BBC now.
If I watch a new TV program, if a black person appears within the first 5 minutes, I turn it off because 99% chance is the usual woke rubbish where white people are bad and all black people are good.
Though they are almost always falsley accused of being bad at the start by racist whitey.
JohnC – I think I subscribe (as I suspect many other contributors to this site do also) to the ‘Know thy Enemy …..’ philosophy.
Also, (probably like many others) listening to early morning Radio 4 is about the only time I participate in the BBC’s audience figures.
…..but I know just what you mean.
John,
For me, any film of Netflix which depicts a black actor in the photo is not watched. Simples.
I hardly watch any television at all, now – partly because it’s universally rubbish, but mainly because I’m sick of having BAMEs thrust in my face in adverts, which insist that every family, every partnership, and every marriage is mixed race – when I know otherwise. So I just don’t bother. Far more interesting and entertaining things going on on the various platforms on the internet, and (at the moment), if you don’t like or approve of something, you can bloody well say so!
Have to agree with the posts above. I seem to spend more time now looking for something to watch than actually watching anything and now turn to older films and simpler foreign fare, especially on YouTube, where I often don’t know the actors involved and where the films actually make sense.
So many modern “Hollywood” twist plots seem nonsensical, CGI incredulous, scenes of sex and violence are often unnecessarily graphic and gratuitous and many of the characters, especially those that we are supposed to empathise with, are both incredibly unlikeable and increasingly stupid.
I realise that the actors playing the parts are acting, that it’s not real, but we now know too much about them as people, that they are often deeply flawed and unpleasant, and that so many of them simply play the same part in the same franchise-film over and over again. It has become nearly impossible to disassociate them from their incessant political posturing and hypocritical lecturing on the environment and our lifestyle choices. Shoe-horned into often unsuitable and unbelievable roles simply because of their gender, colour or sexuality and without any discernible talent, many people are just not convinced by them anymore.
As so many actors have lost their appeal so to have the films and programmes that now lazily rely on rapidly fading star names living on past glories, prime example De Niro, or flavour-of-the-month celebrities and “influencers”.
This is not enough anymore, it can’t hide the lack of creativity or substance, the constant remaking and rehashing of plots simply to provide content, films remade a few years apart or stolen from foreign markets and ruined by the need for diversity and by pandering to the woke. The glamour has gone, style has replaced substance, but the style is tasteless and ugly. Androgynous, plain women and effeminate males don’t offer an audience any pleasure or any escape from their everyday lives, they are all so unappealing and mundane themselves, “gritty” and “edgy” are in reality dull and it’s all been done before.
As for the new obsession with all things “Black”, it all seems so shallow. The black culture portrayed and promoted by Netflix and others just seems superficial and materialistic. I don’t like it and so don’t watch it. If there is a market for it fair enough, but I think that if this content wasn’t propped up by by those often females who watch teenage dramas and “mummy porn” on the same platforms, the real market would be very small, not financially viable, and not “diverse” at all.
Goat – You are spot on for both reasons. The interesting question for both is : “Why?”.
We used to get decent programmes when I was a lot younger, why is it now universally rubbish? (There is the odd gem, but that is now a rarity). The same, if not more, resources are now available to the beeb et al. Is there a reason why we seem to be ‘dumbing down’?
When 85% of the UK population is Caucasian, why those ads? One would think the advertisers would want not to irritate customers? I, for one, see these ads as a cue NOT to buy the product. I don’t like being re-educated to accept a new ‘reality’, if that is the purpose. There are very few ‘people who don’t look like me’ (the new favourite gripe) around in my little town. We are almost all hideously white/pink.
Are we all ‘racists’? It can’t be that there is a link between these two factors, because there are many intelligent and creative people of colour about in Britain and the US. On the socio-political side, we never get to see or hear many of them, because they are conservative. They are off message?
Simon Webb has been banned from YouTube for 12 days
Covid rules are the reason he’s been given.
He thinks it’s cos he quoted the old WHO mask advice and not the new.
It is possible that
#1 YouTube AI scanned his clip and found an infraction
but I suspect
#2 that cos he does anti-woke and anti-immigration videos, some lefty has maliciously reported him
..
and that actually his video does comply with YT rules, but if you don’t challenge they believe the reporter.
His new explanation video, after his ban – https://youtu.be/HFxQUuofm2s
Priti tough on overseas students after leaving education? No fear!!
Ability to remain for 6 months and work increased to 2 years.
https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/briefing-paper/490/risks-of-reviving-the-defective-post-study-work-route
Everybody assumes that the dates specified will be monitored by some Government department which will alert the ‘student worker’ just before their time is up and and informing them, its now time to leave. Dream on. This will become an ‘open ticket’ to remain. Even if they follow the legal procedure, they’ll probably be confronted by a non-native (good chance it will be a ‘fellow’ countryman) in the Home Office who will be sympathetic and turn a blind eye. That’s the way dishonesty works. That’s the way the Third World works.
The Tories have seriously miscalculated what the public want in terms of immigration. Put simply, the public want the doors to be closed. Period. Priti Useless is fooling no one.
It has happend, G, in the past. A few decades back, I got to know a South Korean and helped with their application to a University. After the friend graduated, it was made quite clear that the newly qualified had to go home to SK. Irony is that back at home an application was made to the British Council for a scholarship to do a Masters at the Royal College of Art funded by …. the UK taxpayer.
If I lived in the Domenican Republic in the Caribbean where
around 15% of the population is of Caucasion ethnicity . I
would find the BBC internet feature on ” England lockdown
countdown to freedom ” feature perfectly demographically
acceptable. Changing it to a Domenican perspective.
But I happen to live in the UK and I don’t find it acceptable
for the BBC’S modus operandi of presenting
mock up pictures or E moji or photos as if only 15% of the
demographics of make of the population are Caucasian.
This default position must be under control of BIG BROTHER
from the Diversity department .
BBC articles on the new racism report are accompanied by BBC-truthspeak paragraphs.
Simon Webb says they are riddled with falsehoods
The bBC ‘history’ he refers to:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-52939694
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/tv/bbc-breakfast-viewers-switch-off-23833464
Naga looking like getting all the gongs from the sistas this year.
And the women.
Naga is a prime example of a token. Clearly not up to the job, lacking ability to follow an argument.
A repeat, but this is the BBc.
It’s almost as if Saint Michelle was discriminating by race.
AZ- vaccine “BBC covers up key facts in Astra Zeneca safety report”
a video posted by Mr Politico
(For the purposes of Maxi, posting material doesn’t mean we endorse that view, rather we are having a discussion
And I always welcome new info that brings arguments forward)
I suppose most UK people I know have had a Covid vaccine, a portion got side effects for a couple of days like flu symptoms or headache, most didn’t. Of all the people I know only 3 remote contacts have actually had Covid.
https://youtu.be/BAOTXQZk0DQ
He has about 8 other videos in the last 2 months, that you can check out too.
What seems the commonsense ‘Covid Passport’ plan is a bit of a Catch-22 for our politicians – which might explain why Jeremy Corbyn and Ian Duncan-Smith appear to be singing from the same crib-sheet.
The problem, of course, is if say a highly qualified and valued jobseeker is denied the post of Chief Constable, brain surgeon, architect or any such worthy position simply because, for perfectly understandable reasons, heshe has decided against a vaccine jab, that denial would inevitably be based purely on racism – and institutional racism at that.
What a conundrum!
Good point : vaccine passport policing
will quickly breakdown as people shout “racism”
Radio guy just made the point
The problem in London is workers don’t feel safe on public transport.
There’s a difference between getting on a bus
– in a country where you know 90% of the bus will have been vaccinated
– vs a country where you know 10% of the bus will have been vaccinated
StewGreen – “Good point : vaccine passport policing will quickly breakdown as people shout “racism””
That was the whole point of ‘Shammy’ Chakrabarti’s interview this morning on the BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ Programme – although she never quite clearly articulated it that way.
She believes that a vaccine passport will be divisive and discriminatory – what she means to say is that, since significant numbers of the BAME population are refusing to have the vaccine, they will be at a self-inflicted disadvantage compared to others who decide to take the vaccine if these ‘passports’ are widely used – and we can’t have that, obviously, can we ‘Shammy’ ?
Strangely, she never believed that the ‘institutional racism’ in her beloved Labour Party against Jews was ‘divisive and discriminatory’ – to the extent that she prostituted herself on a whitewash to get a peerage.
Beltane/ Stew
Good points here. I think the idea of vaccine passports should be a pragmatic balance of risk issue. But it will of course get hijacked by people with firm views on either side.
For instance. In a night club there is no way social distancing can be observed. In fact to do so would go against the whole purpose of a night club. Now you might argue that it doesnt matter. Nightclubs are mainly frequented by the young who are unlikely to get seriously ill even if they catch covid. But they might pass it on to a vulnerable person. At what point are we happy with that risk? At what point do we allow for the possibility, even likelihood, of significant levels of community transmission on the basis that around 80% of those vaccinated will be safe. I’m not offering an answer but someone does have to enact one.
Nicely put Sluff, but for me a night club is another name for a sleeping pill.
Not at all the BBC but I saw this advert for the first time on telly last night. The new All-Electric Mini advert, has anybody posted about it already?
I can’t decide what I like about it best:
– The diverse cast
– The complete absence of anything resembling normal safe driving
– The Union Jack tail light inserts
– The traditional English pastime of basketball
– The beautifully random shots of a Muslim woman on a bus (this is a car advert, right?) and black people in a hairdressers.
– The only discordant notes in this vision of a British idyll are the white people – a weird red-haired biddy, a healthy-looking woman on a mobility scooter and a bloke raging about a parking ticket
I love it, it makes me feel so at home!
To add to your woes it is left hand drive with possibly a Dublin registration.
And they’re crap.
Special Easter programming tonight
7:30pm BBC2 BBC chums arrive at “the magnificent Suleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul”
Adrian Chiles, Edwina Currie, Fatima Whitbread, Mim Shaikh, Amar Latif, Dom Joly and Pauline McLynn
Oh on BBC4
7pm Sacred Songs – The Secrets of Our Hearts
“British vocal ensemble Tenebrae give a special performance of music for Easter, with all 20 of its singers filmed and recorded separately, within their enforced isolation at home”
Meanwhile Radio 4 has an Arabic script title
for its repeat prog
“Mayday tells the extraordinary real story of the man who organised the White Helmet and investigates claims that, far from being heroes, they are part of a very elaborate hoax.”
Went there once and found it to be a vast empty space decorated with intricate yet convoluted scrolls, totally lacking in any inspirational sense of deity or ‘presence’. Hagia Sophia – this before Erdogan’s improvements – by contrast was properly awesome.
For sure, the more gifted might poo-poo (no intended implication there) my assessment but for me it spoke volumes.
BBC progs are often made by ex-BBC staff who started production companies
Radio4 Feedback was marked
“Roger Bolton in a Whistledown productions”
now it’s marked
“Roger Bolton in a Juniper TV production”
..what happened ? was one company bought by the other
http://www.junipertv.co.uk/radio.html
Don’t waste time watching the Floyd George trial on the BBC. Numerous companies are live streaming direct from the court. Some offer opinions during the breaks, but Sky
has the best tune. Enjoy.
I was with you up to here: Don’t waste time watching the Floyd George trial on the BBC.
That is good news from the unfunny tosser. Sadly I am sure he will pop up in some god awful show on another channel. Most likely C4 as their recent so called comedy attempts have been dire.
I know it’s not the bBBc but why do so many reporters and presenters on Sly have such poor diction and such terrible voices.
There is of course Beff, there’s the gobby Northern Asian guy who asked William if his family were racists, a quite camp Senior Ireland correspondent, and there’s another bloke who speaks as if his hearing aids are faulty. I don’t believe he actually wears any.
It’s just that Sophy Ridge is on Sly Views at the minute and bearing in mind that she is supposed to be one of their best “journalists”, her voice is really grating, erring on the masculine, her accent is terrible and her delivery is dull.
I just don’t understand why so many people in the media who rely on their purported vocal skills and talents for a living, and there are many on the bBbc as well, can get away with being such poor orators.
Rich: For diction, love listening to Raheem Kassam, e.g. yesterday speaking of ‘journalistic malfeasance’ at the NYT. There’s a lot of that about in the UK, especially at the beeb.
Raheem is not only good diction personified, but also a man of common sense, sharp wit, excellent analysis. Want to know what goes in the US? Forget the third-rate propagandists at ‘Americast’. Raheem has the goods. (No, I’m not on a commission- never met or spoken to him personally)
Oh yes, and he also runs ‘The National Pulse’, which is always worth a peek. On Rumble, if you can’t find it elsewhere.
Talking about Rumble, I see there’s a new interview with DJT on the Mark Levin show. Pretty calm, when you consider what he was robbed of…
45, that is, not Mark Levin.
That Rubin video covers the side by side story
Then NYT dismissed at Trump’s spending plan as way too ambitious
Now NYTs pleasure at Biden’s way bigger spending plan in less time
2 min video direct link
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Facebook and Instagram banned this interview with Donald Trump on the Right View with Lara Trump
Rumble link https://rumble.com/vf9a83-the-full-donald-trump-interview-facebook-doesnt-want-you-to-see.html
“Under a post-Brexit agreement, the French have until the end of April to fish in the territory’s waters and they are seemingly taking full advantange.”
We know who are to blame then – Johnson, Gove, Frost etc.
island – you have a few names, but I regret to add that I can’t think of a single current cabinet minister who impresses. Not one.
OT but rather important imo.
After wondering for weeks and months about the amazingly low covid death rates in Germany, I came across a paper from the LSE and here is a rather interesting paragraph.
Quote.
In Germany, if a person dies in their own home or a care or nursing home, the doctor (who may not be the normal attending doctor) may not know whether the person has been infected with the virus. In such cases, it is at the doctor’s discretion to determine the cause of death and complete the death certificate. Doctors can request a posthumous test for COVID-19, however the cost is not covered by social health insurance, so there is an incentive not to ask for a test.
An interesting paper that I cannot remember the BBC ever discussing. Too keen to highlight the UK’s comparative performance especially when its not very good.
Click to access 10-20-Anne-West.pdf
Maybe the UK’s biggest covid problem is honest reporting.
You can pick up screenshots of the report on Twitter
I don’t know if anything has changed
but at the time of the report in November
– France never counted any deaths at home
– Germany never gave a Covid death unless the person the person had tested positive
either before or after death
… Germany did have a higher test rate than a lot of countries but surely missed some deaths.
Breaking news from BBC US Capital on Lockdown. No information at present but BBC remember riots of Trump supporters in January.
Obviously, Trump is to blame
My God, she won’t stop reminding us of the riots of Trump supporters.
GWF – ….that is, IF the actual rioters (rather than the mass gatherers) WERE actually Trump supporters….
reasons to doubt, exist…
fakenewswatcher
I should have been clearer. There was no riot on Jan 6. I was mimicking the BBC reporter.
My mistake, then!
Local BBC ITV
“Here we are at the coast, where traders say it’s a really disappointing start to the bank holiday weekend”
.. hardly surprising
#1 The weather is cold
#2 You media guys keep telling us to stay away from the coast
The media’s love of alarmist pseudoscience
as opposed to the proper science method
thread
Blimey. Unlike that bloke and the Mash Report…..I delivered a hit series…..and they said they had big plans and not to go elsewhere. Then….silence…..until I enquired a few months later.
Seems they had enough white middle aged men presenters. I would never have known if I hadn’t have asked!
I think the behaviour is par for the course…..he must know that surely?