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You can hire cherrypickers, boobytrap them and start smashing up a factory wall And the police will just watch and… - Lucy Pevensey Dec 26, 23:05
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Stew, I forgot about News Sniffer. I haven’t used it in a long time. It’s a good resource. - Deborah Dec 26, 22:56
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Popeye, I think the scales fell from my eyes when Tony Blair became Prime Minister. Every day the Toady programme… - StewGreen Dec 26, 22:54
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Forget the forensic one with the personality bypass, and the new LibDem I’ve honestly already forgotten, the opposition appears at last to have found their hero. And contrary to what Tina Turner insisted “We don’t need another hero… All we want is life beyond the Thunderdome” it seems the opposition do indeed long for a hero with a passion. I mean, their longing is passionate.
Who would have guessed our libreal media would one day hang on the baldie Brexit boffin’s every beef, bitch and bad mouthing? Seems his eccentric brand of white board scribblings and off-the-cuff brainstorming suddenly have a whole new class of fans.
BLM didn’t play so well over here as it did across the pond. Corbyn’s magic money tree has been happily transplated into Rishi’s back yard. And for all the project fear we the people never gave up on our Brexit. So they go to plan B… The headlines were already written before Cummings took his seat and the live feed was connected to the edit suite: ‘“Tens of thousands of people died who didn’t need to die”‘ (‘i’) Yep, that’ll be the money shot quote. The Guardian has had that one type set from the get go – as the old hot lead men might have put it. ‘Chaos and complacency at 10 Downing Street revealed in seven hours of devastating evidence by Prime Minister’s former aide‘ (‘i’)
The ‘i’ newspaper tempted to take the piss, we note, with their frontpage teaser for a relationships feature: ‘How to break up well‘
The highlight for this observer was Dom’s considered and analytic summary of Carrie Symonds as quoted in the Times: ‘“Desperate to get rid of me”‘ – I’m sure the press corps identified with that. And: ‘”Crackers“‘ – Princess Nut Nut is crackers? What’s with all the savories? All we need now is for BBC man Gary Lineker to post a Twitter selfie with a pack of crisps and we’ll have the full salted buffet.
I’m reminded of that old classic Two Ronnies’s sketch where Ronnie Barker is the insolent butler waiting on table at the stately home – it went something along the lines of – “You’re crackers, me lord. You’re nuts me lady”
Perhaps in a new order where politicians all think alike then the broadcasters and journos really are the only feasible opposition?
The BBC seems to think so: ‘The BBC visits the colleagues of the arrested journalist, Roman Protesevich’ – he’s the Belarus chap who’s putting a rather pointed complaint into Ryanair.
BBC: ‘Belarus plane: Lukashenko hits back at condemnation of journalist’s arrest‘
Enough already, BBC, we get the point. Journos = good, President = bad.
In serious news: ‘More woe for high street M&S shuts stores after £200m loss‘ (Express)
‘The world’s biggest dairy exporter has forecast that prices could hit a record over the next year‘ (FT)
They call it the dismal science but not all economic news is worrying, or at least not for all concerned: ‘Two £1bn deals bouy pharma sector. Britain’s healthcare sector is buzzing with activity’ (FT)
AISI: ” And: ‘”Crackers“‘ – Princess Nut Nut is crackers? What’s with all the savories? All we need now is for BBC man Gary Lineker to post a Twitter selfie with a pack of crisps and we’ll have the full salted buffet.”
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant!
“All we need now is for BBC man Gary Lineker to post a Twitter selfie with a pack of crisps and we’ll have the full salted buffet”.
Ha ha ha, Up!
I was just in Waitrose, where they have several shelves full of Walkers’ dross!
So it stayed there, untouched of course – as I tell anyone who’s nearby!
Lineker = Waitrose = John Lewis = BBBC = MPs = disinterest = zilch from the Scroblene household!
Job done!
The BBC Moaning Emole is… very BBC.
Let’s just say that on matters Covid handling they have managed to ‘report’ from the USA in an almost diametrically opposite way to the U.K.
Now imagine Lurch on anything from his RT list of American media on anything from those he shares their impartial loathing of.
Dinosaur thinks people still watch television 😁
Taffman – has Cygnus been published? They slapped ‘ secret’ on it upto now . I was assuming a sanitised version would be published for the Public Inquiry / whitewash in 2024…
I caught the early news about NHS crisis – 28 million visits to GPs in March .
Thats either one very sick person or half the UK population has thrown a sickie….
28 million ?
They have thrown in the ones attending for their jabs .
To misparaphrase Golda, my concerns on the BBC currently outweigh those I have on the woeful state of #politicsoftheleastbad governance.
Let’s just say #CCBGB
Samira gets more traction.
If one thing is without doubt, for bbc staff the most important thing is money.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/as-staff-demand-tax-justice-the-bbc-rot-worsens/
QED
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9618673/Disgraced-Martin-Bashir-pocketing-2k-week-BBC.html
What… were the odds?
Luckily all proven impartial, trusted, transparent professionals.
According to the BBC.
Same arse – different cheek.
Andrew Neil needs his BBC pension!
Man loses job.
Man gets to complain about losing job to everyone.
Man decides which evidence you get to see.
Man is rich and does not worry about money – it’s just a game.
Man wanted Brexit to stop discussion on immigration.
At the Ogilvy Nudgestock Conference in 2017, Dominic Cummings gave a presentation on how ‘Leave’ won the referendum.
Yesterday I asked if anyone knew the number of tests taken each day to give us the 2,000 or so positives.
Deborah kindly put me onto a website (covid daily summary) which gives the number of tests as around 780,000 per day.
This is less than 0.3% positives.
I think some positives are multi tested which will increase the number of positives.
This gives us some idea of the scale of covid here in the UK.
How come every test centre I see is virtualy empty ..
We arrived early having been asked to attend due to a test my wife had (she is a teacher).
Around eight G4S folk in hi-viz sitting around.
They got quite excited to see us.
Ironically, we then had to go in sequence.
PCR Test has led to thousdands of false/positives-PCR testing should not be used to ascertain a degree of the Covid virus. Governments worldwide had no option but to use the PCR test-what else could they do as they knew full well from the scientific information available that the PCT test was not fit for the purpose. A real mess up.
I notice on TOADY that the Biden ‘administration’ has now admitted that the virus may not have originated from a ‘wet-market’ in Wuhan, but from a Wuhan lab. WHETHER THIS WAS ACCIDENTAL OR A DELIBERATE leak from the lab (there are several in Wuhan, some connected to the CPLA.) is not something the BBC tells us. Nor does it mention the involvement of one Dr Fauci, or whether there were any ‘gain of function’ experiments, which ‘weaponised’ the virus.
To say that the BBC have been sluggish on this is an understatement. Downright negligent is more like it. But, of course, there is the Cummings story to go after, on behalf of ‘Labour’. Big hopes at beeb, no doubt, that this will finally be the breakthrough Surkeer the Kneeler, requires.
Various US sites and publications e.g. Raheem Kassam’s ‘National Pulse’ and D Beattie’s ‘Revolver’ have been on to this for about a year. Not to mention Bannon’s ‘War Room Pandemic’. But the real origin of the virus has been hushed up by the MSM, just as what really happened in the US on Nov 3rd last (Biden most likely lost) has been hushed up.
Both of these stories are emerging into the light. The BBC will not only be VERY LATE in starting off on THE TELLING these truths, THEY WILL OBVIOUSLY FOLLOW THE NARRATIVE. SO PREPARE FOR MUCH OBFUSCATION!
Biden loves the Chinese
So naturally he’d rather peddle the conspiracy theory the Chinese are geniuses that can create or manipulate viruses in their laboratories, rather than the embarrassing truth that it was down to thier filthy and retarted eating habits.
Eddy- I’m not so sure. This “conspiracy theory” is far more credible than the ‘filthy’ eating habits theory. Anyway, it’s NOT Biden peddling the idea the Chinese can manipulate viruses, although he does love the Chinese (source of income). Do a little research…
And do distinguish between the Chinese and the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese People’s Liberation Army.
Samantha Cameron: Chinese factories can be better than British ‘sweat shops’
Cameron said her fashion label Cefinn is manufactured in China because British factories failed the audit
By
Anita Singh,
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
26 June 2020 • 7:27pm
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/26/samantha-cameron-chinese-factories-can-better-british-sweat/
BBC remove it … then congratulate themselves on adding it! HA HA HA!
BBC Proms to welcome back audiences – and Rule, Britannia!
By Mark Savage
BBC music reporter
Published8 hours ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57252649
HA HA HA!
“The talented Kanneh-Mason family receive their very own Prom in August”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57252649
MarkyMark
Will they be playing Rule Britannia ?
Rule Wankanda!
Palestinian (a country) flags on all the seats?
They are very clever musicians, however if gaining sympathy for any black movement is what this is all about, I fear it will not work-These islands off the north coast of Europe were populated by people whose skin eventually became white living in a much colder climate that those whose skin is coloured/black living as they have done in much hotter climates. I do not wish to feel a minority in the country of my birth and of my ancesters-however why do people of my white colour feel it so necessary to alter things that should not be aletered.
Surely African drums played by white people is cultural appropriation.
What about British playing French horns?
In the BBc world of ‘news’ vs not news, it seems a young man who played a drummer in a movie a long time ago has sadly died in a car accident in America.
Schedules have been cleared.
Surely black people playing western classical music is also cultural appropriation.
1963 … “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by their character.”
1963
2021 … “BLM site removes page on ‘nuclear family structure’ amid NFL vet’s criticism”
https://nypost.com/2020/09/24/blm-removes-website-language-blasting-nuclear-family-structure/
“Batley school protests: Teacher allowed back in Prophet Muhammad image row”
“The school said it would offer more guidance and training for staff.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-57261147
Training ? or “Re-Educating” ?
Where are the normally vociferous Teaching Unions on this ?
Many societies throughout history have practised slavery, and Muslim societies were no exception.
It’s thought that as many people were enslaved in the Eastern slave trade as in the Atlantic slave trade.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/slavery_1.shtml
The majority of traditional sources state that Aisha was betrothed to Muhammad at the age of six or seven, but she stayed in her parents’ home until the age of nine, or ten according to Ibn Hisham, when the marriage was consummated with Muhammad, then 53, in Medina.
Late missionary nurse friend of mine who worked in Kenya used to relate history of plundering of East Africa by Arabs sailing their dhows out of the Gulfs into the Arabian Sea and down the Indian Ocean. This would be the history taught in Kenyan schools at the time 1960s-1980s.
Due to Brexit?
I heard that Taffman…not a single word of support for teacher ,not a single word saying what he did was ok, not a single word of condemnation of muslim death threats….but loads about sorry for offence, guidance etc..basically it wont hapoen again..they will never show fuckw*t prophet images again…so who won? Not freedom of speech, not British values and not education…
This chamber has parroted every BBC obsession faithfully… Brexit, Climate, race….
https://www.greaterbirminghamchambers.com/latest-news/news/2021/5/27/watch-birmingham-to-be-biggest-beneficiary-of-bbc-relocation/
No wonder they are a laughing stock too.
When will Al Beeb stand for Great Britain and attack “wokeness” for its utter absurdity ?
After all, the people of Great Britain pay for Al Beeb’s very existence.
North Yorkshire Police find nine people in uninsured car
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-57261144
“people”! The location of “North Yorkshire” is BBC code for Bradford.
“Despite two doors not opening on the hatchback, there were five passengers on the back seat and two women in the boot.”
At least they were not rear ending folk at roundabouts in Brum.
They were amazed by all the space.
You can get at least 12 in a Tuk-tuk in Islamabad.
Romanians who work in the factories near Malton by the looks of it.
Encourage cheap labour to expensive UK, then act surprised when they dangerously cram into cars and accommodation to save money
Eddy Booth
Lots more coming this way across the English Channel thanks to our Home Secretary, The French Navy, Border Farce, the RNLI and fair weather.
Next we will have the liberal lefties shouting that there is a “housing shortage !” while the Greens will cry to save the Greenfield areas from new planning rules .
We need a government that looks after the people of Great Britain, not the rest of the world and its extended families .
Manchester Arena bomber was rescued from Libya by Royal Navy
This article is more than 2 years old
Salman Abedi, who killed 22 people in a suicide attack last year, was saved from civil war in 2014
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/31/manchester-arena-bomber-was-rescued-from-libya-by-royal-navy
so many questions
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2020-005649_EN.html
In 2015 and 2019, the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in Wuhan (China) – where the COVID-19 virus is reported to have originated – received grants from the European Union.
EUR 73 375 were granted in 2015 and EUR 88 436 in 2019.
1. Can the Commission comment on the context in which the WIV received these grants?
2. Has a European Union delegation visited this institute in the past five years?
3. How did the EU monitor whether the recipient of the grants spent the money effectively?
Well, well, well, it seems Trump was right all along to at least question whether the China virus might have originated in a lab.
How the BBC and the rest of the msm mocked him at the time: the fool, the racist, the conspiracy theorist!
Now the BBC are pleased to announce their darling Biden is ordering an investigation into its origin. But there’s little mention that one of Beijing Biden’s first acts was to shut down an earlier investigation launched by Trump – or that Sleazy Joe is only investigating the theory now because of mounting pressure.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/25/politics/biden-shut-down-trump-effort-coronavirus-chinese-lab/index.html
Footnote to the sorry saga: Facebook is to lift their ban on posts about a possible lab origin. How very nice of them, but what the hell right did they have to ban such discussion in the first place?
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/26/facebook-ban-covid-man-made-491053
Britain is in a very similar position that which it was in during the Thirties. The only differences are that, in addition to external threats, there are now lots of ‘Nazis’ (to stick to the parallel) within. Perhaps two others: the US is unlikely to be in a position to help; on the contrary, Nigel is in the US, revealing how their open Southern border is allowing thousands of ‘migrants’ to enter the States illegally every day.
That will mean he is not here to draw attention to the ‘little boats’ that will be arriving daily on British coasts. With the connivance of the Border Farce and sympathetic clucking (if at all) from the BBC.
And no sign of a Winston Churchill, this time around. Are we really in much greater peril than in the Thirties, while the orchestra (see above) plays happily away?
Farage follows the investment funds.
Very true. I suppose he has to earn a living. But he was still the only key player filming on the beaches. (Do I hesitate to use the word ‘invasion’?) Nigel is now in the States, a source of income -quite likely, but also courageous work on the dangerous US Southern border. Defending the concept and practice of ‘National Sovereignty’ is his game, but that won’t pay his bills.
The globalists/NWO/ Davos lot certainly won’t be either.
The BBC would be, if they were honest brokers, who wanted to report REAL NEWS rather than NARRATIVE. But alas, we can think of a dozen reasons they would put up as to why they couldn’t possibly use (and pay for) reports by Nigel. They would rather use the Bashirs of this world. Or Narrative pursuers like Evan Davis, Carolyn Quinn, and Amol Rajan
Maybe Farage is distancing himself after backing Blair for Vaccine government leader.
TOADY Watch #2 – yer ‘avin a larff, mate
BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – ditto
I was greeted on the 6 a.m. News with an extremely chuckleworthy item: one of the next fives years is likely to see global temperatures increase by 1.5°C. Yeaher, roigghht, I hear the Norfolk sceptic in my head say. The WMO have chosen to tell us in the UK – after a long spell of cold – that Global Warming is an ever present threat. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57261670
I quote David Shukman: “A major study says by 2025 there’s a 40% chance of at least one year being 1.5C hotter than the pre-industrial level.
That’s the lower of two temperature limits set by the Paris Agreement on climate change.
The conclusion comes in a report published by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The analysis is based on modelling by the UK Met Office and climate researchers in 10 countries including the US and China.
In the last decade, it was estimated that the chance of any one year reaching the 1.5C threshold was only 20%.”
Note that last para of Shukman’s and ask yourself is a BBC Editor telling a lie? In the last decade, the BBC have been telling us that we would definitely all be frying at the start of the decade, because they had been telling us for each of the previous ten years that we would all be frying and dried to a shrivel by 2010.
But Shukman gets worse: “This new assessment puts that risk at 40%.”. That is not what the newsreader said. They were rather more definite than that.
You cannot trust the BBC on Politics. You cannot trust the BBC on Global Warming.
I read claims that the PM’s girlfriend has her own office & staff without having been elected or properly appointed to office.
Wonder why the BBC aren’t on that like a rash – is there a bust of Roger Harrabin on Carrie’s mantlepiece?
Probably right tomo, but her real favourite will be Chris Packham, and that should be of even greater concern.
Didn’t Mrs Cameron have a personal shopper paid for by us?
The BBC are loving the Cummings side-show mainly because they hope it will take the heat off their own scandal.
“On Friday, If David Cameron wants to get 60 people together and blame them” (oh my aching sides)
Dominic Cummings speech at IPPR – The Hollow Men (2014)
The former adviser to Michael Gove and now Special Adviser to the Prime Minister discussed his experiences at the Department for Education, his view of how Westminster and Whitehall need to change, and a frank assessment of Team Cameron – its priorities, personalities and dysfunction
“So what did Dominic Cummings learn, he learned that Carrie had more power over Boris than he did. I wonder how that played in his hollow man view. Back to the black board Dominic.” – Comment
Other highlights from the 2021 programme include:
A celebration of The Golden Age of Broadway with the BBC Concert Orchestra performing hits from the musicals (31 July)
The Aurora Orchestra playing Igor Stravinsky’s 1945 suite from
The Firebird from memory (11 August)
An evening of music from across Africa with boundary-crossing cellist Abel Selaocoe (15 August)
The Chineke! Orchestra celebrating the work of black composers, including Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Fela Sowande and Florence Price (24 August)
All seven of the Kanneh-Mason siblings performing Camille Saint-Saëns’s much-loved suite The Carnival of the Animals, which gets a “fresh update” with new poems and narration from former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo (29 August)
The Glyndebourne Festival Opera playing Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde (31 August)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57252649
The Manchester Arena suicide bomber was rescued by the Royal Navy from the civil war in Libya three years before he killed 22 people at a pop concert, it has emerged.
Salman Abedi was 19 when he boarded the HMS Enterprise in Tripoli in August 2014 with his younger brother Hashem and more than 100 other British citizens.
It is understood Abedi’s name was on a list of stranded citizens handed to the crew in charge of the evacuation. The vessel took them to Malta where they caught a flight back to the UK.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/31/manchester-arena-bomber-was-rescued-from-libya-by-royal-navy
The idiot Left think that if we help these people, they will be our friends. They have zero experience of the real world – particularly the most vocal and arrogant of all : the students and twitter mob.
Anyone who has spent time in developing countries knows that kindness is treated as a weakness and is exploited. For Muslims, we will always be infidels no matter how much we give them.
Just try to imagine a world where the situation was reversed and we were depending on them to save us from our own barbarity and corruption. They would do to us what they want to do to Israel.
Rising patient numbers threaten to overwhelm GPs
By Nick Triggle
Health correspondent
Published10 hours ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57229848
I work in healthcare and am fed up with all this crap about GPs being stressed, overworked throughout pandemic and now threaten to be overwhelmed .I am sure some do work hard…but look at the stats..the percent working part time is huge in my area 85 % on 3 days…average salary 70k….stop bloody moaning…
“In general, West Minister and Whitehall are dominated by arts graduates with very poor quantitive skills, little to no understanding of technological issues, little or no experience of successful organisations or responsibility for big organisations. To think of the scale mismatch most MPs haven’t been involved managing a 100 people then are put in charge of managing 10K people. ” – Dominic Cummings 2014
Samantha Cameron: Chinese factories can be better than British ‘sweat shops’
Cameron said her fashion label Cefinn is manufactured in China because British factories failed the audit
26 June 2020 • 7:27pm
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/26/samantha-cameron-chinese-factories-can-better-british-sweat/
After we learnt from the COVID hotspots where these factories are, who they are full of and the ethics of the people who run them, I would use China as well.
#ironyalert
Who has the BBC, here, not blocked, or banned when it suited?
2017 … Pakistan: man sentenced to death for blasphemy on Facebook
Taimoor Raza was found guilty of insulting the prophet Muhammad during an argument on social media with a counter-terrorism official
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/11/pakistan-man-sentenced-to-death-for-blasphemy-on-facebook
The BBC seems to have missed this major news story . At the very least it should have been headline news .
The Head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog confirmed that Iran is enriching uranium to levels that only countries seeking to make atomic weapons reach, He added that Tehran’s nuclear program can no longer be dialed back to where it stood six years ago.
“A country enriching at 60 percent is a very serious thing — only countries making bombs are reaching this level,” International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi said, adding that “60 percent is almost weapons-grade, commercial enrichment is two, three [percent].”
The head of the UN watchdog expressed skepticism about whether a return to the 2015 nuclear agreement with the Islamic Republic would stop this development. “The Iranian program has grown, become more sophisticated, so the linear return to 2015 is no longer possible,” Grossi noted.
The bombshell remarks came after world powers resumed talks with Iran to save the 2015 deal that put limitations on Tehran’s nuclear program in return for sanctions relief. In 2018, the US pulled out of the pact and reimposed crippling penalties, after which the Islamic Republic began to renege on its promises.
“You cannot put the genie back into the bottle — once you know how to do stuff, you know, and the only way to check this is through verification,” Grossi said on Wednesday, referring to checks by UN monitors.
https://honestreporting.com/ibn-20212605-iaea-remarks-antisemitic-acts-embassy-palestinians-precise-strikes-nasrallah/#bullet1
“Cuba supports Iran’s program to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes[4] though the countries agreed to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Former President of Cuba Fidel Castro spoke admiringly of Iran “increasing its ability to fight big powers by the day.”[3]”
BBC TV news at 1 managed a sentence on Biden’s reluctant admission that the virus may be connected to the Wuhan lab.
Anyone who has been so inclined, could have followed the Wuhan lab(s) saga for many, many months.
And there is a lot more than a sentence available on this saga. A lot!
But it does not fit the bbc narrative any more than it does the CNN, MSNBC narrative, etc etc. Then again, one does not expect any INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM FROM THE BBC. So the chances of easily uncovering the truth about this story remain slim.
(There ARE investigative journalists though, that insist they WILL get to the bottom of this tale…Our national broadcaster isn’t one of them; they apparently don’t have the quality staff such depth and independence would require. Or could it be that there are even vested interests? Surely not…?)
Norway is ranked first in the Index for the fifth year running even though its media have complained of a lack of access to state-held information about the pandemic.
https://rsf.org/en/2021-world-press-freedom-index-journalism-vaccine-against-disinformation-blocked-more-130-countries
Go back to April 2020
Fact checked by the BBC, so it must be true…
All over the world where tyrannies rule 1984 is banned, but of course it is pirated. And sales have surged too in countries known as stable democracies. In India and the UK, in China and Poland people are turning to 1984. In the US, sales surged as people searched for a way of getting to grips with the reality of the Trump administration.
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Sky Australia, one of few good guys in the MSM, reported yesterday that they had been pushing the possibility that the virus was man made in the lab at Wuhan for over a year. They had been repeatedly rubbished by the ABC , ie Aussie BBC for doing so. But yesterday , surprise surprise , ABC began to report that there was indeed a possibility that the virus had escaped from the lab. A complete reversal of their stance over the last year. Sky thought that the reasoning behind this volte face was that previously the ABC’s Trump Derangement Syndrome required them to rubbish anything and everything that Orange Man said regardless of whether it was true or not.
For ABC read CNC , MSNBC, BBC, Sky GB, Times , NYT, Washington Post , Guardian and all the rest of the leftist apologies for broadcasters and newspapers.
Despite the UK government’s stated commitment to defending global media freedom, domestic restrictions remained cause for concern. A secret government unit appeared to serve as a clearing house for freedom of information requests, and critical media outlets found themselves blacklisted or facing other restrictions. Critical reporting on the government’s Covid-19 response was met with vindictive official reactions.
https://rsf.org/en/united-kingdom
Made he laugh … “In many countries, websites, social media and blogs are controlled by oppressive leaders. Young people, in particular, are forced to grow up in systems where their opinion is heavily manipulated by governmental disinformation campaigns.”
https://www.uncensoredlibrary.com/en
Facebook Ends Ban on Posts Asserting Covid-19 Was Man-Made
Social media titan’s policy shift reflects a deepening debate over the origins of the virus first identified in Wuhan, China
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-ends-ban-on-posts-asserting-covid-19-was-man-made-11622094890
I wonder how long it’ll be before they also begin to allow pro-Trump comments, given that it’s very likely that his election failure was a complete and utter fraud. The truth is slowly emerging.
Very interesting trip to Tesco looking at the newspaper stand, very very different and clear bias split down the middle with the Tory papers attacking Cummings, and the Labour ones attacking Johnson.
Nowhere was there a clear news story reporting the facts, and therin is the problem.
There needs to be a clear format for all media imposed by law outlining what constitutes a newspaper such as a requirement in the first section, for dispassionate reporting of the facts with a second section for opinion pieces. The fact that today not a single newspaper carried the bare facts without bias is evidence of that.
Those who wish to carry on business as usual could cease to be newspapers and carry on as political activist pamphlets and lose the privilidges they currently have,
This I believe is the only way to reisntill confidence in the MSM, and that could also be pushed over to the BBC.
Thoughtful – We seldom get ‘dispassionate reporting of the facts’ from the bbc. It has its agendas and those will be pushed, no ‘other side’ to any story. And many other big stories will be excluded entirely, if they don’t suit the narrative.
So Biden’s admission about the Wuhan lab (a really BIG story, if you think of the many hours, days, weeks, months devoted to the virus) received a sentence on bbc TV News at 1. Marcus Rashford , on the other hand, received extensive coverage of his ‘racism’ claims. Now I don’t do Twitter; whatever ‘racist’ comments there were on him are unnecessary and reprehensible. Nothing further to be said. Here a sentence would have sufficed. Simon Stone says Rashfordhad a poor game..
But this is a favourite bbc theme and it will rant at length…
The possibility that the virus originated in a Wuhan lab, whether the virus ‘leaked out’ or was possibly deliberately ‘weaponised’, if so -by whom –all of no comparative importance, it seems? No attempt to ask whether certain labs may be working on other viruses? Encouraged by whom? Why? Which ones? Could they arrive here tomorrow? Nope, nothing to be seen here. Who ‘took the knee’ at football and who didn’t is much more important…
TWatO Watch #1 – are Marianna’s days at the BBC numbered?
TWat O Presenter Sarah Montague brought on a new name and voice, so new that I have forgotten it already. Speaking of forgetting things, I wonder whether the BBC HR Dept forgets how many people it employs for Corporation and keeps recruiting more and more. After all, there’s a bottomless pit of TV Licence Fee-payer money to pay for it.
Anyway, this gent was a chip off our Marianna’s block, probably came out of the same mould: he accepted without a question of doubt that a Secretary of State was responsible for going shopping. He and the Montacutie did not consider for one moment that contributors might not be telling the truth, and might be politically motivated to make a Conservative Party government look bad.
Dear Winston Smith in the Memory Hole Department of the BBC,
I hope you are well and that viewing complaints all day does not make you biased against the BBC in anyway.
I noticed that on the BBC News programme that the programme text said 50 migrants and the presenter said 66 migrants arrived on the coast of the UK fleeing from the shores of the EU27.
This could cause untold mental health problems, imagine a person watching with the sound off and another person listening and not really watching the screen. These two people meet and cannot agree what number of migrants left the troubled shores of the EU27 to reach the UK – creating two confused people who might then think they are going mental and not hearing the right thing.
I suppose the question is which was the correct number or do viewers complete some Orwell maths such as 2+2=5?
Many Thanks,
Mr. H.
** “fleeing from the shores of the EU27” was added by myself.
Complaint Summary: The omission is the most powerful form of lie …
Full Complaint: “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed (May and Corbyn’s old speeches): everything else is public relations.” – Orwell
Theresa May … being put forward as Prime Minister and issuing a general election on implementing Brexit which was about immigration and sovereignty. … these speeches were never mentioned on the BBC £3.5bn news or other media outlets …
1978 … “The moment the minority threatens to become a big one, people get frightened.” – Margaret Thatcher 1978
2012 … “Two and a half years ago, the coalition government was formed, and we made a clear promise to the British public. After thirteen years of uncontrolled mass immigration, this government would reduce and control immigration.” – Theresa May 2012
2015 … “Because when immigration is too high (no figure given), when the pace of change is too fast, it’s impossible to build a cohesive society.” – Theresa May 2015
Jeremy Corbyn … with all the news on BBC £3.5bn Service regarding the Iran Nuclear Deal, Jeremy Corbyn has not been asked why he backs Al Quds protests and has spoken at them or why his is not vocal on Iran’s ‘death to’ position with Israel.
2012 … Jeremy Corbyn speaks at Al Quds march, Al Quds is the protest for all the oppressed but was initiated by an oppressor Ayatollah Khomeini. Jeremy Corbyn does not chastise the Iranian regime.
2018 … Iran release a ‘Death to Israel’ and ‘Death to America’ Government approved emoji. But this is not mentioned when talking about Iran by the BBC or other outlets.
MPs expenses …. it was in 2008 that MPs used expenses to fill their own pockets or shredded. UK MPs on both sides have talked about reducing expenses and recession and austerity. Yet, since 2010 MPs have enjoyed a pay increased of 18%. How come the BBC news has not reported on this when talking to MPs?
“The omission is the most powerful form of lie, and it is the duty of the historian to ensure that those lies do not creep into the history books.” – George Orwell
BBC NONE RESPONSE …
Thank you for getting in touch regarding BBC News.
I understand you have concerns about the integrity of BBC News reporting over the last few years.
BBC News aims to show the political reality and provide a forum for discussion on issues, giving full opportunity for all sides of the debate to be heard and explored. Senior editorial staff within BBC News and the BBC’s Executive Board ensure that editorial guidelines are adhered to.
Our News editors ensure that over a reasonable period of time we reflect the range of significant views, opinions and trends on particular issues, but it’s important to add here that our published Editorial Guidelines explain that not every issue or viewpoint necessarily has to be included in each individual report.
The key point is that the BBC as an organisation has no view or position itself on anything we may report upon – our aim is to identify all significant views, and to test them rigorously and fairly on behalf of our audiences.
In dealing with any controversial issue, we are required to give a fair and balanced report, but balance cannot be judged simply on the basis of the amount of time allocated to the representatives of either side of an argument. One spokesperson may make their points concisely, while another needs rather longer to explain a point of view or a complex issue, plus a change to the existing position or status quo may take longer to clarify.
Account also needs to be taken of the way a subject is covered over a period of time; perfect balance is difficult to achieve on every single individual occasion, while overall it is a more achievable goal taking into account our coverage as a whole over a period of time.
That said, we do value your feedback about this issue. All complaints are sent to senior management every morning and I included your points in this overnight report.
These reports are among the most widely read sources of feedback in the BBC and ensures that your complaint has been seen by the right people quickly. This helps inform their decisions about current and future programmes.
Once again, thank you for contacting us.
Kind regards
Gareth Murray
BBC Complaints Team
China has denounced US efforts to further investigate whether Covid-19 came from a Chinese lab.
US President Joe Biden has called on intelligence officials to “redouble” their work to find out how the virus was first transmitted to humans.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-57267729
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China replaces Germany as UK’s biggest import market
Trade with EU falls 23% from 2018 as Brexit and Covid disrupt exports from Britain
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China
Coronavirus Cases: 91,038
Deaths: 4,636
Recovered: 86,075
United Kingdom
Coronavirus Cases: 4,470,297
Deaths: 127,748
Recovered: 4,308,117
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/
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The UK Government has flown over 21 million pieces of PPE and more than 1,000 ventilators to the NHS and Social Care Services from China over the last three weeks.
Today
BBC Radio 4, Wednesday 24 March 2021
In an item about proposed Government changes to immigration rules we interviewed a Syrian teacher and filmmaker now living in the UK, Hassan Akkad. We (BBC) should have made clear Mr Akkad is a member of the Labour Party as this might have helped the audience evaluate his contribution, without casting into doubt his personal knowledge of the issue.
18/05/2021
corrections_clarifications
I wonder if there is an empirical measure of the proportion of ‘speakers ‘ who are put on the BBC who are lefties – as well as those not properly introduced?
I somehow think that those of the Right are fully introduced ( smeared If possible ) whereas the friendly coloured female GP bitching about NHS shortages ( stereotyping by me ) isn’t introduced as a member of the Labour Party .
And I often think the medical mafia get the ‘respectability ‘ they don’t deserve ….
Ex BBC Newsnight; the programme of McAlpine.
Strumpet and Lewis still there.
“Casting their next vote” –
Jack Straw regrets opening door to Eastern Europe migrants
Jeremy Corbyn says he regrets calling Hamas and Hezbollah ‘friends’
The inquiry team found examples of “children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone”.
Under Tory and Labour …
“The report found: “Several staff described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought as racist; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so.””
I’ve read the article. After the opening remarks- Analysis – no mention of race at all. Rest of article – no mention of race at all. It’s as if the BBC have looked at it, entered “That’s hot stuff and not what we want to hear, so ignore it” mode. It makes me thoroughly sick to think that they brush it aside as if it’s a minor matter. It’s the whole reason for the grooming gangs, they aren’t sickoes, paedos or any of the fluffy names you may have. They are muslims doing what their book says is acceptable. That is what the police need to say, if you want to do that then do it, just not in this country.
Disappointing news for Londoners – the mayors girl (£127k p.a. Plus package ) says that London isn’t going to be getting 3000 more plod after all .
That is a shame for those who admire plod who take the manadatory knee – celebrate freedom for Palestine -or take selfies of dead people at crime scenes …or be part or drugs gangs..
Happy Eid …
“The main point of BBC interviews is that you’re interviewed by someone who hasn’t read your book, who then tries to catch you out on it.” – Douglas Murray
Wait until BBC Fact checking gets Sultana in on stats matters.
Islam means peace.
The BBC used be overseen by an entity called ‘The Trust’.
“Islam means peace.”
“Submission” – which is a kind of peace.
How many listen to R4 like it is Gospel vs. BBC Politics?
Hamas are still our friends in Labour? (c) Jeremy COrbyn
Mail reports covid frenzy in London’s China town – people without Health numbers ( illegals ) welcome – please let it be a scam by the border force to deport a few thousand illegals …….
…but I think it’s not.
Pakistan: man sentenced to death for blasphemy on Facebook
Taimoor Raza was found guilty of insulting the prophet Muhammad during an argument on social media with a counter-terrorism official
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/11/pakistan-man-sentenced-to-death-for-blasphemy-on-facebook
In a sane rational World every Nation supporting the ideal of Free Speech and fair justice would immediately close ALL relationships with any tin-pot dictatorship using these methods to control their populations including absorbing any more of their people or buying any of their products or sending them “Aid”.
This is real stuff not made-up woke garbage, a man is to be put to death for speaking his mind, utterly barbaric.
So come on UK, USA, UN, Australia, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany put your money where your mouth is for God’s sake!
GOOGLE SUPPRESSES MEMO REVEALING PLANS TO CLOSELY TRACK SEARCH USERS IN CHINA
The company forced employees to delete the document, which stated that a Chinese partner would have “unilateral access” to user data.
https://theintercept.com/2018/09/21/google-suppresses-memo-revealing-plans-to-closely-track-search-users-in-china/
“…and it shouldn’t have been our high commissioner (UKs) called in by the Pakistani Government to be lectured, we should have pulled in the envoy of Pakistan here and said ‘Stop that right now (protesting by blowing things up), or do without the aid we give you (Pakistan) …'”
– Christopher Hitchens had a point in 2007
https://youtu.be/Hmv2sL2qkIM?t=3m22s
“Covid: Boris Johnson says England may need to wait to end restrictions”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57269032
More Goalpost manoeuvres?
They are allowing ‘Comments’, get yours in now.
Oh, and don’t forget the “house rules”, or you will get ‘cancelled.
Evan Davis wants to know on R4 news at 5 whether you have links to slavery?
I shall have to read Giles Milton: ‘White Gold’ to see if I can find an answer. Something about an imperial palace in Morocco built by Christian slave labour…
vonrecht
Me my ancestors were forced to work underground digging coal at the age of 8 for a 10 hour shifts. The ponies that they managed at the time were looked after far better than my ancestors .
Ponies had to be purchased, while people were replaceable.
Taffman
My Dad and his twin brother worked in a Welsh pit at 14 …..lucky in a way as they didn’t get enlisted and sent to France for the WW1 Slaughter !
Scott Trust commissions research into Guardian founder’s possible links to slave trade
This article is more than 10 months old
Chairman Alex Graham says ‘no evidence’ John Edward Taylor was directly involved but ‘all organisations must understand and discuss their histories’