A date which will go down in infamy
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Infamy, infamy etc, probably lost on our millenials
Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in infamy!
16 years ago today. A colleague of mine at the time.. His wife was travelling to work as normal in London. Thanks to a medieval death cult blowing up a bus near Tavistock Square she lost both legs, and was lucky to survive. Never forget what these savages did.
Our tragedy Harry is that they are not savages. True, their savagery is reflected in their atrocities, but the acts are planned and designed to inflict maximum hurt and damage to ‘unbelievers’.
They turn the brutality of IRA bombings into petty political squabbles, because they reflect the tenets of a world-wide religion, and many regard religious beliefs as being among the highest expressions of human achievement. Sadly.
Catchup links to most recent posts on previous thread
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There is an idiot who is a favourite with the current tv crowd because he is black, and I saw an advert for one of his shows, called “Judge Romesh” or something like that, and his snidey humour said “if you don’t understand the title maybe TV is not for you”
displaying his limited grasp of the English language whilst calling others thick, as he does not understand judge is both a noun and a verb
Sri Lankan, I believe. Although in these weird times even an octaroon like Sparkles can pass as Blackety Black.
Most of the humour produced by indigenous English in my opinion anyway seems to be of the self mocking style yet we have the above and another nasty one with a series called travel man where he takes the piss out of other cultures
I did complain to the bbc about two other black men doing a fake chinese accent whilst taking the piss out of asians and I was told their racism was “light hearted”
thats ok then
We can expect reruns of Benny Hill, then!!!!! The snowflakes would need counselling.
Maybe the bbc could produce a list of the races we are all allowed to abuse, jewish, chinese, japanese ?
The BBC is doomed. Viewing figures are dropping like a lead ballon.
Yes most definitely taffman, if they keep up the absolute unprecedented mad exposure of Association Football which is now presented on every programme and is the first as piece one hears on the main News-no I am not a follow of Soccer changing to Rugby when 13, which I enjoyed much more-of course it would good to think of the amount of enthusiasm being displayed over this sport would be shown by the followers as much for their own country in time of need as of now. The BBC paid millions from the licence fee,no doubt for the TV rights to this soccer competition, which as far as I can see has left the coffers dry to offer anything worthwile other than repeats ad infinitum. Definitely on the downward slope.
tarien, you may have caught the BBC broadcast this morning from a school, somewhere in London I think where the teachers had dressed all the children up as Viking Swede football supporters in a sickeningly childish attempt to divert them from getting to “English Nationalist” I assume.
Whilst that in itself says much about the unhinged view of the BBC the killer was that the BBC interviewer picked out the only black “Faux Swede child” to give a speech.
Double woke, go to the top of the class BBC!
“Huge surge in number of pupils sent home due to Covid”
Not only is our economy wrecked but our children have lost out in their education. Our nation’s future ‘captains of industry’.
“Captain” ? how very dare you, I suspect most of the few hours spent in school will be all about driving these very notions out of enquiring minds, Cap non binary person maybe
I wonder how far in the future will this 18 month of Covid be blamed for lack of educational performance by our children. 5 years ? 10 years ? 25 years ?
The British are very good at finding an excuse for any failings in all walks of life, as we all know when we’ve called public services, energy companies, a local carpenter……………zzzzzzzz
Given the appalling literacy rates and intellectual laziness of our youth, coupled with their device dependance, I have no faith in any of them becoming ‘captains’ of anything worthwhile.
But they do not care, given their salaries by the taxpayer. they are not subject to market forces
Morning.
Wot, no T first thing?
Kat has stuff to say.
QT glory awaits?
Good news.
Ben Hunte been scrambled?
A homosexual from Frome,
Took a lesbian up to his room,
They argued all night
About who had the right
To do what and do which and to whom.
(Old rugby ditty – 1966).
I thought it was an old poof from Khartoum!
Who cares what she is.
The BBC is creating a whole new Editorial division in Brighton.
Apparently.
About as relevant as a Joe Biden ice cream pantomime.
The BBC running a smoke generator for one of ‘Merika’s prominent Covid criminals…
World to Gov Cuomo’s daughter:
No-one gives a toss.
Message ends.
A condition which sadly afflicted Robert Peston, I believe. Thank goodness for medical science.
What the report should really say is ‘People with mental health issues are more likely to be LGB’. Subtle but important wording.
How’s Sweden doing?
https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-19-sweden-drops-face-mask-recommendation-never-mandated-them-2021-7?r=US&IR=T
Do masks work, perhaps Al Beeb will ‘fact check’ for us?
“Follow the science”
Being The Hill, Sopes’ and Lurch’s ‘analysis’ will be valuable when they RT.
“our community” that does not want to be discriminated against, “communities” they used to be called families, every time I listen to the news these so called communities seem to be stabbing eachother
BBC Cubicle Garden heroine garners adoration from the faithful, and the odd counterpoint.
There’s another bit of footage of another thick coloured female Labour MP asking the Foreign Secretary a question about bellroos- somewhere she obviously had no idea about and couldn’t even pronounce – Raab s ‘response was far kinder than it should have been .
They are there because:
1) they are selected because they are female and
2) because the people who vote them in are racist.
As much as the media and Lefties such as the BBC spin it and put so much lipstick on the pig that you can’t see the pig any more, that is the basic truth of why they are there.
Their entire agenda begins with lies.
Alas as we know, parliament is a talking shop, and with no party more ineffective useless and incompetent than the Tory party. They enact legislation which they know damn fine well is never going to be implemented by the people at the sharp end such as the Gestapo which they created by gifting control of them to Labour.
We know from bitter experience that the Fascist left sees no issue in different justice for those the see as on side to those they know are against them. We see this now in America with the horrible Biden in charge, and Antifa being allowed to murder opponents with impuity and charges dropped, and summary detention without trial for those accused of tresspass, including torture whilst in detention leading to significant physical injury.
We saw this in absolute black and white terms in the UK with a drunk White idiot who urinated on a small plaque being sent to prison for the ‘outrage’ he caused – in reality no physical damage was caused to the plaque, and the Fascists who toppled the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol were let off with a caution, and it needed central government intervention to stop the Gestapo officers from such ridiculous biased ‘enforcement’.
Everyone is looking at the maximum sentence but that is never ever handed down, they should be looking to the minimum sentence, because that is definitely going to the one used most often especially where the Gestapo are Labour Fascist controlled.
I cannot find the minimum sentencing guidelines It appears that this is merely an addition to existing legislation which will never be used, but like so much of the cowardly useless incomeptent Tories actions, it is there to give the appearance they are doing something whilst in reality doing nothing at all.
It will still be possible for the Gestapo to let off the far left with cautions, but now it will be possible for the courts to hand down even more egregious sentences to those who are not of the far left.
It’s just what you might expect from this ridiculous far left Tory government.
Damage to Statues of Muhammad would also be covered by this bill wouldn’t they? What is their problem….?
The difference being Naz that they don’t set about trying to behead statue topplers. Maybe too subtle a point of difference for you?
That seems to me to be a contradiction:
So if an Indian or a Bangladeshi Britisher
BBC Moaning Scare from Rog.
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Why North America’s killer heat scares me
We’ve just enjoyed our first blissful sleepover weekend with our 20-month granddaughter, Hazel, so maybe that softened me up. Or perhaps it was a week’s leave away from the news that rusted my BBC armour of emotional detachment from the climate story. Either way, I confess to a gut-tightening sense of foreboding when Hazel left and I caught up with North America’s killer heat dome on TV.
That’s not because new record temperatures were set in the north-western US and Canada – that happens from time to time. No, it’s because old records were smashed so dramatically. Normally records like this are over-topped by a fraction of a degree, but this year the former high was obliterated on three days running. Climatologists are nervous of being accused of alarmism – but many have been frankly alarmed for some time now.
Read full analysis >
Roger Harrabin
BBC environment alarmist
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‘Emotional detachment’ 😅
Standard wevvah tactics – weather around the UK not doing what they want – goose up a skewed story about the other side of the planet – just putrid misdirection.
Me – July, opens front door – brrr – closes front door gets fleece jacket, opens front door….
Unprecedented, tipping point, crisis blah, blah effin blah
Al Beeb……..
“Government must clearly communicate Covid rule changes, say psychologists”
IMHO the government has already heeded too much to the psychologists. Do masks work? Why wasn’t the benefit of having a “game changing” vaccine taken advantage of?
https://www.petertatchellfoundation.org/bbc-arabic-service-colludes-with-homophobia-in-the-middle-east/?
They find new offices after theirs on the roof of that building IDF took out fell down?
One roof fewer from which to fling LGBTQI people.
What’s not to celebrate?
It would probably take a few to change a light bulb
SNP wants more control of the BBC . This vexed me as I thought they had total control in Scotland already . Apparently some Scots national socialists are getting fed up with footy pundits talking about England . This must stop – minor countries like Scotland deserve an equal exposure by pundits – same with Wales .
Maybe after Wednesday night we might hear a bit less … will there be booing of the knee by the 60000 at Wembley ? This time I reckon not – because of the type of people turning up ….
And even if there is booing there will only be sounds and images of muppets clapping .
Strange isn’t it that during the general football season the BBC view fanatical supporters as not much more than racist neanderthals, then suddenly when England get within striking distance of winning something big on the World stage they morph into a “Wimbledon Crowd like” adoration of the sport, couldn’t be anything to do with the huge viewer audiences that this might generate could it?
Digg
I don’t get it – it’s like an instant jingoistic fever – perhaps the team has an ‘approved ‘ outlook – I nearly wrote “thought “ but footballers and ‘thinking ‘ don’t really meet …
Maybe if Scotland qualified or progressed beyond the group stage of these tournaments they might receive more coverage…..just saying…
fedup2
– booing ? – I feel confident that an alternative pre approved soundtrack has been recorded and will be substituted for the live feed should things not go the BBC + FA’s way.
An external organisation wants more control of the BBC?
They’ll have to form a queue behind the BBC’s own internal activists – there’s only 24 hours a day !
My son was in Rome for the match he reported that the booing of the knee was the loudest noise if the night…fact.
In a perfect example of how the left work to control the narrative, the Independent tells us:
UK must lead the way by making ‘ecocide’ a criminal offence, Green Party peer urges
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/ecocide-crime-nature-green-party-b1878534.html
This has nothing to do with the environment but it has everything to do with taking over power and control for the left.
You first urge the Government to enshrine in law penalties against manufactured and bogus actions which offend your own group and ideology, we have already seen this happen in other spheres such as hate speech etc.
The mission is to take control of the narrative and thereby criminalise anyone who disagrees with your mantra.
There are already stringent regulations concerning environmental damage but the power of control over these rests with the Government Authorities which does not play into the hands of these people.
What the Greens are trying to do is to take this power and control over for themselves. It can then be used to weaponise attacks on any institution or person who doesn’t fit with their left-wing outlook.
We have witnessed this slowly but surely happen in many areas including social media, sport, big tech, news and many corporate companies. Hence their desire to cleanse themselves by appearing as woke as possible to stay the right side of this new form of private policing by attitude.
Why the H are we the people of this nation and its government so utterly mixed up and seemingly confused? Its plain to see, we are being invaded and this invasion has been going on for decades, not that BBC would recognise. A messy war is on the cards.
And it’s these same invaders that keep going on about an ” occupation ” and wave a terrorist flag . It’s us that have been occupied, large swathes of our cities. We didn’t vote for or agree to their arrival.
BBC selling books.
Open the box! Take the munny!
Lick?
Or sniff?
Probably in the same way when the Iranians test their first nuclear bomb – ‘I only want to talk about nice things ‘…
Not what Jill Dando would have wanted.
Springster going to again refer to hurty tweets? Remember when Lord Hall Hall got a close protection team for one from ‘Europe’?
Yes let’s uphold the freedom of the press to spout ‘approved thought ‘ and suppress anything with which it disagrees . ….
Has been given a Political Spectrum Label yet….
and as were all aware there is only
Left
Centre-Left
Centre
ALT-Right
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/587212
Hold a binding referendum on the future of the TV licence.
The government has ‘revised’ its response at the request of the Petitions Committee saying pretty much the same thing as before.
There are two sides to every coin, at least if one can tolerate the bbc and their political mantra we are not subject to the endless blackverts, just the in house ones
it is interesting that I can wander around and rarely see a black person yet I am informed every two minutes that they are all around, and more interesting that they all have white wives
In line with there being more than two of everything in broadcast, the BBC is introducing an ‘of color’ licence. Free to any from all the communities the BBC likes, paid for by those it doesn’t. Sources close to Timmeh! say. Apparently.
We all make mistakes, I got a black and white dog because I thought the licence would be cheaper
So let me get this straight, we’re going by the data not dates. Boris says most legal restrictions and guidance in England should be removed from 19 July. But confirmation of the lifting of restrictions and guidance won’t actually happen until 12 July.
Meanwhile: ‘quarantine rules to last until mid-August’ (Daily Mail). The FT and Telegraph name the day as August 16.
BBC: ‘The whole of Scotland is due to move to Covid level 0 on 19 July, with all final legal restrictions lifted by 9 August’
‘the next review of measures in Wales is due on 15 July’
‘some rules in Northern Ireland have just changed, with another review due on 8 July’ – Postcode lottery, BBC?
Sounds an awful lot like we’re being ruled by the calendar to me.
The vax was supposed to be voluntary, right? There’s a little something in internationally agreed ethics (I resist the term international law) that covered it in what they call the Nuremberg Code (1947) – care of Dr Josef Mengele and his ilk.
But now we get: ‘Freedom boost for the double-jabbed. Millions who have been double-jabbed will not have to isolate’ (Daily Express) – what do you call the opposite of freedom? So what do we call the state of affairs for our un-jabbed, second class citizenship, apartheid?
I don’t personally have fixed convictions about vaccination but I do enjoy calling out the hypocrisy and pricking the bubbles of leftist sloganeering.
I really don’t know what to believe anymore about this so-called pandemic. I want to protect grandad but why exactly are the Chinese still keeping mum about their lab leak? Apparently our pet cats can catch this thing but getting on for two years from the start our expert international scientists still can’t find the bat… or was it a pangolin… whatever they are.. that started the bloody thing? I smell a rat.
Let’s go with the flow and allow ourselves to be distracted by the football.
Another big media conundrum is – given the large numbers of purportedly typical women pictured on our newspaper frontpages cheering on the men’s football, which whatever actual level of female enthusiasm for the sport you accept, seems to suggest the ladies follow the men’s game – then how come the likes of the BBC insist on ramming the lacklustre female version of the game down our throats?
Its all pretty lacklustre to me-dull and boring, can’t see how people can get so worked up-I like most sports having played them all, but always was against bringing professionalism into sport, ruination of what the sport was meant for proceeds.
Some dross on the Nuremberg Code from the ever-unreliable Full Fact:
https://fullfact.org/health/nuremberg-code-covid/#:~:text=The%20Nuremberg%20Code%20is%20a,consent%E2%80%94during%20World%20War%20Two.
And from July of last year:
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-long-it-took-to-develop-other-vaccines-in-history-2020-7?op=1&r=US&IR=T
Even Johns Hopkins state a typical vaccine development timeline is 5-10 years. God love Trump, but his Operation Warp Speed circus act was entirely political, not that it saved him. A tool of oppression and division, willingly guided into mainstream acceptance by millions of glassy-eyed citizens who can’t think past their next holiday or visit to Wallyworld. To state this vaccine rollout is anything less than experimental is an outright lie. I’ve no beef with anybody who receives the jab – you reap what you sow – but the voluntary nature of this process is fundamental and those who opt out should be respected equally for their choice.
In lieu of a full blown newspaper review this morning I’m doing some cultural archaeology – so you don’t have to.
From humble beginnings old-fashioned cockney newspaperman Derek Jameson rose to the editorship of several national dailies and latterly in his Fleet Street career became a TV personality with his BBC2 show which reviewed foreign media coverage of current UK affairs – in that show he famously employed his catchphrase “Do They Mean Us?”
To give you some inkling of the difference between Jameson’s no nonsense take on the news and the uniformity of refined opinion one might see on the BBC more recently, in his obituary in the Scotsman his show was dismissed as “a decidedly patriotic examination of foreign television networks’ British coverage”.
Compare and contrast that with BBC News Channel’s Dateline London where the ever so humble Mr Nice Guy, Gavin Esler – latterly coming out to no one’s surprise as a dedicated anti-Brexit campaigner – would mediate between four disparate foreign correspondents… all slagging off Britain.
Anyway, to borrow a leaf from our main bugbear’s book, part of the remit hereabouts is surely to entertain, not just to educate and inform…
Jameson once made a novelty record. Lyrics are transcribed as faithfully as a tin ear will permit.
References are decidedly 1980s but remain oddly relevant.
(Vaguely to a tune aimed uncomfortably somewhere between Knees up Mother Brown and My Ol’ Man’s a Dustman)
Now my ol’ mum God bless ‘er, she had this dream for me
Go out my son and tell ‘em, the way it ought to be
Be bold, be brave, be honest, the best in all the land
Don’t talk a load of cobblers, then they won’t understand
Hang about, leave it out, do not make a fuss
Show ‘em your British bottle and say: Do they mean us?
Those rascals down in Fleet Street, they tremble and they shake
That dreadful man on telly, he says they’re all a fake
See all their barmy headlines the truth they claim to tell
What a load of old rubbish, you can’t fool good ol’ Del
Our economic miracle a splendid sight to see
Three million idle on the dole, God bless the EEC
The youth are in rebellion, the police misunderstood
The pound is sinking fast but you’ve never had it so good.
Hang about, leave it out, do not make a fuss
Show ‘em your British bottle and say: Do they mean us?
Mornin’, mornin’, what a barmy year!
Mrs Thatcher told the Queen it just won’t do my dear
Why are we fightin’? I’ll do what suits you best
Kinnock can run the country and tell the old BS
Up there in Scouseland, Hatton was all smiles
Kinnock tried to sink him, but he missed by miles
The loony Trots rejoiceth they all screamed defiance
Said David One to David Two, they want to join the Alliance
Hang about, leave it out, do not make a fuss
Show ‘em your British bottle and say: Do they mean us?
Those politicians tell us the truth was never clearer
Three more years of sweat and tears, we’ll catch up with Korea
Del knows you know, he’s been there, it wasn’t Eton or Harrah
If you want to know a secret, he learnt it on a barrah
Derek Jameson – Do They Mean Us? (single) here.
I would not mind the non entities the TV companies insist upon asking for their expert opinion just because they are in possesion of a vagina,if only they could pronounce “ball” rather than “baw” and remember the letter “T” now and again,
Possession of body parts, orifices, or not is of course part of BBC Producer Guidelines. Hence Champion’s pervasive presence.
Just browsing the BBC and thought I would simply put bbc.com and see what greets me from the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Among the top few things in the world at the moment seems to be:
Dilip Kumar: Legendary Indian actor dies at 98
I’m sure the vast majority of the British people who funded that report are deeply upset to know that.
But the biggest picture on the page was:
The images that have defined atrocities
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210706-kent-monkmans-the-scream-images-that-define-atrocities
Why they would run such an article confused me at first – but then I realised : they can tell us a completely lop-sided narrative where whitey is the villain because nobody paints pictures of the slaughters in Africa and the likes by black people.
Sure enough, the only black people in there are being shot by whiteys.
What a shame no artist depicted people being strung up and burned alive or lines of people in a street being driven over in a bulldozer by ISIS or entire villages in Rawanda being brutally hacked into pieces with machetes. But of course the article wouldn’t have included them even if they had.
They will play every dirty trick they can to make sure we only get told what they want us to know.
Leadership material.
Got to ensure QT panel glory in perpetuity.
I just love the blinking dead air.
So Labour are serving up her, Dawn of the Dead, Di Hard of Thinking, the Young One on MC, Fick Ange, Jess in the Graun Photo Studio, Baroness Inquiry, Dave ‘He’s Behind You’, etc to the BBC as… alternatives?
No wonder Vile is pushing Champion. She may be literally a good communist, but at least is less of an embarrassment. Plus seems handy around the studios when off air.
Buroos….
Thanks for posting that – obviously cultural …
Bit like BBC ‘views their own’ staff, and entire programme feeds, when they realise they are losing.
Eh, Wendy?
Claudia must have strong ties to Bella roose or berooss. I can’t think why . Look – she’s another one as thick as – er – mince . But perhaps I am – too – because if you asked me to pick out bela roose on a map -I think I would fail . …
At least if there is trouble in Belorus then I’m sure th ReichEU will solve it . After all – they’ve been there before …
John, I know what you mean, it is the kind of stunt you’d expect the BBC to pull.
.. but the painting does NOT depict a black crowd
It’s kind of trick of the brain, cos the painting is dark and two of the four central faces do look a bit African, but the rest of the oppressed and all the dead bodies are white.
Spanish court painter of Charles IV, Fracisco GOYA depicted the massacre of Spanish citizens by Napoleon’s army in his The Third of May, 1808.
The painting is often referred to when talking about a brutal state punishing a heroic crowd.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_of_May_1808
Bet the BBC didn’t choose the pic either
The BBC story doesn’t look original, earlier webpages mention his painting being inspired by that specific Goya
So I expect the BBC cutNpasted from the artist’s PR material
The BBC’s justification of the news-story is a painting by a Canadian Native American artist
“The painting by Cree artist Kent Monkman depicts the atrocities of the catholic church and the government. ”
They could in fact used his BLM paintings
The artist received criticism from US black activists or the way he depicts black people
and fails to acknowledge the American tribal people also kept black slaves.
https://nutmegandsage.blog/2020/05/21/miss-anti-blackness-kent-monkman-and-black-imagery/
How many Christian churches bombed, Christians attacked around the world ? one will have to search far and wide to find that truth, but look at muslims on the bbc as victims, the very same victims responsible for 90% of wars in the world
Might be worth them dropping BBC Politics an FOI on bbc pensions, especially Botney’s.
Surely it’s a good thing to pay extra for that ageing population the pro-immigration lobby told us was the economic reason to import half of the third world?
There is no big pot of the pensioner’s pension contributions that the government can use.
… That was all spent by the state as soon as they paid it in their youth.
So today’s 8% pension rise means magicking up money from the magic money tree
..by taxing today’s youth more and borrowing in their children’s names.
From Wiki, concerning Yentob’s pension:
“In July 2009 he was revealed to have accumulated a pension worth £6.3m, giving an annual retirement income of £216,667 for the rest of his life. This is one of the biggest pensions in the public sector.”
Suddenly the bbc decide it’s OK to fly a flag tonight without being vilified
try that in Luton when the Pakistani cricket team are playing, I can guarantee you will be verbally abused at the least by those with a br i ish pa ss por iniit bruv
What a magnificent patriotic group of people.
Begs the question why they are all here in a country full of people they hate.
12 year old girls and taxi drivers and the bbc demands we feel sorry for them , I spent two years working in that hovel and it is informing there are a few there standing with their arms folded orchestrating the whole thing
just remember they are asylum seekers so oppressed
BBC giving plenty of prominence to this…
‘Peter R de Vries: Dutch crime journalist wounded in Amsterdam shooting’
‘Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte described the shooting as “shocking and incomprehensible,” adding it was an attack on a “courageous journalist” and on the freedom on the press.’
The BBC that tried to shut down GB News even before it began broadcasting, the BBC that constantly attacks and smears Fox News and The Mail, the BBC that tried to shut down Murdoch’s News Corp via Leveson.
There’s a pattern there….all right leaning organisations.
The Woke left have a near monopoly of news in the UK and USA and across a lot of the EU, even in Australia ABC is amongst the most Woke outfits on the planet. They are extending their tentacles in the UK in recent years, the Mail and Telegraph have newish editors who are much more Woke than were their predecessors, the Express has been taken over by the Mirror group, Ofcom is a Woke regulator.
They will relentlessly attack any outfit which threatens their grip on what the people are allowed to see and hear, other points of view are considered by them to be highly dangerous to their mission to change the way people see the world and think. Sadly most governments share their world view. I think that many ordinary folks don’t realise the extent to which they are being brainwashed to hold liberal left Woke views. Legislation is in place which makes it a crime to say what you think on an increasing range of issues. Soon the only thing on which you can have an opinion which you dare to freely express will be the weather and I’m sure that within a few years it will be manadatory to blame climate change for the hail storm which wrecks your dahlias, wet weather at the cricket , the lack of rain which ruined the harvest etc.
I wish GBN well but it really is David v Goliath.
Wendy and Springster out in the BBC foyer yet with non hurty masking tape of color over their laptops?
That’s terrible, truth tellers being deprived of their lives without due process
… just wait until I tell Julian Assange
You just could not make this up ..
A BBC article about how if organisations only employ people that think like themselves, they cannot perform well !
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-57698821
Example hypocritical quote ..
“The tragedy is that people in echo chambers often don’t even realise they are trapped”
BBC trying to promote diversity but instead writing about themselves in their left wing echo chamber.
You just can’t make it up !!
I’ve often said the Left are the most outrageous hypocrites of anyone.
The fact the BBC only recruit Guardian readers should tell them something isn’t right.
One of the main reasons am a lefty who no longer supports the left. Suffocating.
@Brexiteer So BBC have paid Matthew Syed to write that article
yet many voices have complained that GBnews is just views rather than news
… Isn’t most BBCnews output views ?
The idea of orgs getting stuck in eco-chambers is a central part of Matthew Syed’s 4 year old book
he mentions them 4 times in that short article.
So when he was commissioned they knew what to expect
and it wasn’t a hard job for him.
Bottomline in BBC/Guardianworld
Diversity = Diversity of face, but conformity of thought.
.. If your THOUGHT doesn’t fit, you ain’t coming in.
Very true. .. Different races orientations and all the rest of it are great for lefties, but different points of view are not.
BBC still pushing ‘the problem is Israel/Zionists’ narrative….
‘Stalemate: Israel and the Palestinians after Gaza’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000xkzj
The problem, as the BBC sees it, is Jews wanting their own state….the idea that the problem is in fact Palestinians wanting everything and to wipe out the Jews just doesn’t arise…nor the fact that they have a state they just choose not to build into a peaceful and viable society and economy, preferring instead to keep Israel in a permanent state of war…..somehow Jordan, carved out of old Palestine just as Israel was, gets a free pass.
Just how many times can the BBC mention the word ‘apartheid’?…lots it would seem…almost as if they want you to associate it with Israel. There seems some disgruntlement that the Jewish state of Israel, set up to provide a safe haven for Jews, would not want a one state solution…sharing all with the Palestinians….the ‘Zionists’ just wouldn’t allow it…..well yeah….no surprise there…why hand over your country to people that hate you and want to kill you?
The BBC yet again spinning for the terrorists of Hamas and those who want to see Israel destroyed…but not Muslim Jordan or Pakistan for some reason.
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2021-07-05/debates/24D0FCFD-C6AB-4854-A9A0-2629FA4AEE20/PoliceCrimeSentencingAndCourtsBill
Naz Shah (‘British’ Passport holder) 5/7/21
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As a Muslim, for me and millions of Muslims across this country and a quarter of the world’s population who are Muslim too, with each day and each breath there is not a single thing in the world that we commemorate and honour more than our beloved Prophet, Mohammed, peace be upon him. But when bigots and racists defame, slander or abuse our Prophet, peace be upon him, just like some people do the likes of Churchill, the emotional harm caused upon our hearts is unbearable, because for 2 billion Muslims, he is the leader we commemorate in our hearts and honour in our lives, and he forms the basis of our identity and our very existence.
Incompatible with being British imo.
Is it not the case that there is abundant evidence that this so called ‘prophet’ was a thoroughly bad lot. Allegedly no better than the ‘H’ man who anyone today would be ashamed of having supported.
Why are people not ashamed of being followers of said prophet.
This is assuming that the fellow existed, which is a whole other can of worms. but he was then invented as a thoroughly bad lot.
Why can’t the BBC do a ground breaking discussion program on this topic?
Last night GBN had an item on the growing number of channel crossing invaders followed by one on the impact of a declining birth rate . At no point was the fact mentioned that despite the decline birth rate was the population increasing!
I think we have all the evidence we need to be sure that whilst GBN will and does challenge the Woke narrative of the MSM on many topics it will toe the line on anything to do with migration.
Double, I could be worng on this but I think the UK birthrate went positive two or three years ago. We may be the only country in western Europe to have a positive birth rate.
The graph doesn’t show it going positive ie above 2 per woman
It bottomed at 1.66 in 2005 , back up to 1.86, 1.87 in 2010, 2015 then back down to 1.75 (2020)
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1033074/fertility-rate-uk-1800-2020
How many registered kids actually live in Poland but collect UK family allowance ?
Stew, as you frequently remind me, any decimal point above 1.0 is a positive increase in the birth rate or the Covid infection rate. It is normally accepted that a couple need to replace themselves and that a figure above 2.0 is required for that. Is there an ONS figure for the UK birth rate?
@Up2Snuff Those figures are from ONS
the graph label clearly says
Statistica like a lot of websites generates content by scraping it from other websites
in this case from the ONS
Covid needs a rate above 1 for infection base to grow
Population needs a growth rate of 2 per woman for the base to grow
… cos men don’t give birth.
From The Independent but is classic ‘Sopel’ type hyperbole and sensationalist misreporting…Trump is ‘paranoid…falsely claiming he won, is undermining democracy and is guilty of mounting a coup on January 6’….a very BBC narrative…and completely false..
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/donald-trump-might-just-save-democracy-by-accident/ar-AALQyFq?ocid=msedgntp
‘Republicans, in short, are tripping over themselves to kiss Trump’s orange appendages. That in itself is not hopeful. Trump is still falsely claiming the 2020 election was illegitimate, and most Republicans still believe the lie. The ex-president’s paranoid delegitimization of democracy has already led local election officials to try to pass laws giving local Republicans greater power to overturn election results. It’s not hard to imagine a Trumpist GOP in 2024 engaging in another coup attempt like that of January 6th.
But the thing about Trump is that he is not selectively destructive. He is doing his best to knock out the guardrails that safeguard democracy from authoritarianism.’
You have to laugh at the whole thing…completely unaware of the massive hypocrisy….no comment that Clinton has spent the last 5 years proclaiming she won 2016…or any note that she also supported a barrier to stop illegal immigration. And how about the Republicans trying to corrupt democracy by, er, demanding IDs and properly regulated elections…that’s deligitimizing democracy…
‘The ex-president’s paranoid delegitimization of democracy has already led local election officials to try to pass laws giving local Republicans greater power to overturn election results. ‘
However the truth about how the Democrats win…by rigging the system…is acceptable….just give them the time and it must be done….
‘Of course, you can’t trust Trump to save democracy, even inadvertently. It’s ultimately up to activists and voters to demand, and Democrats to institute, changes that will help protect our democracy. We have to abolish gerrymandering, institute nationwide AVR, pass a new voting rights act, enfranchise DC, expand the Supreme Court, and more. Trump’s incompetence may, ironically, end up giving us slightly more time to do what needs to be done.’
And According to wiki the independent is owned by –
vgeny Lebedev (41%)
Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel (30%)
Justin Byam Shaw (26%)
Minor shareholders (3%)
Good believers in democracy eh?
And founded, don’t forget, by the father of our current PM’s wife – a lady of significant and specific political leanings.
And with some very odd and fanatical friends indeed.
The Democrats and the MSM (and the British left) really need the prop of DJT – heaven forbid they have to elaborate on their own policies and explain how they might work – or indeed are working….
Indy ? who is the author ?
Noah Berlatsky
Famous for his 2015 article
“Kermit Has A New Girlfriend?
Good. His Last One Was A Domestic Abuser”
His bio : NBC Think, Atlantic, WaPo, Pitchfork, Guardian, FP. Blog editor @ProstasiaInc
Wrote a book on Bondage
Noah is a massive hater of Trump
and produces bonkers articles.
There is a Twitter bubble world around him
I wonder is a tram of people run his account.
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi fully vaccinated
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57744824
With a picture of her looking sad.
‘It is unclear when the 76-year-old former leader received the jabs, or which vaccine she was given.’
Who on Earth at the BBC decided that this was a suitable story for a front page article ?.
Classic BBC trying to keep an agenda story going when there is no story. Except this is a very clumsy attempt at doing it. Most likely from one of the useless box-ticking idiots we have been experiencing a lot recently.
It’s no coincidence that the standard of everything they churn out has plummeted since wokeness got a hold. They need reminding why they are there.
I was in the City of London on business a few years ago,and across the road a lady (see above) arrived in a car and there were four or five members of the religion of peace shouting abuse at her with the placards they seem to be given at birth.
It was loud enough to disturb our meeting, they do shout.
Next day it was headline news, funny that, four or five gobby wankers are given that status, she handled muslims a but like the Japanese and Chinese do , anyone want a guess how many muslims in Japan ?
kind of like Fedup’s popcorn moments, its a wimmin thats ok its a black wimmin thats fantastic, can do no wrong….hang on wheres the popcorn
TWatO Watch #1 – I’m not keen on footie during the cricket season but the BBC are vile
I had to hit the off-switch. It’s not something I do very often listening to TWatO but really! The Montacutie and the BBC are encouraging the Scots and the Welsh to switch on their TVs tonight …. and support Denmark. The BBC are truly despicable.
I hope England produce a great performance tonight and a drubbing for Denmark ….. as well as the BBC.
Bbc hates the idea of England.
Following on from yesterday announcement of BBC super-salaries league (and Apologies to FedUp) with another ‘cut-and-paste’ job – but I thought this was worth illustrating how perverse the BBC has become since John Birt made the BBC into effectively ‘The Guardian’ new’s channel… dropping any pretense of ‘impartiality’.
(quote)
Surely “public service broadcasting” was never meant to be so highly remunerative? Back in the day there was an understanding among BBC staff that working for the Corporation was a rare privilege and that’s why the pay was modest. Quaint old notions like that were swept away in the Birt years in the 1990s which ushered in an era of excess (at one point the Director-General, Mark Thompson, was paying himself £800,000 a year – a salary which the BBC itself came to realise gave offence to licence-fee payers and which had to be trimmed back). Even so, the BBC’s best paid people are by most people’s standards, rolling in it…
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2021/07/07/no-newsreader-even-great-huw-edwards-worth-429000-year/
And I remember it was Mark Thompson who was criticiced under the cross-party public accounts committee by Patricai Hodge who was infuriated at the ‘expenses’ scandle of the BBC at the same time of ‘Jimmy Saville’ expose saga. Plus the BBC practice of ‘advising’ BBC ‘top performers’ to be paid ‘offshore’ or via ‘PPC’ – (Private Personal Contracts) – that were later stopped by the HMG Inland Revenue (as they were shown to be — not at all ‘freelance’ or ‘self employed’ – but employed only by the BBC). So tax avoidance by any measure. And the BBC had to pay back all the missing PAYE tax itself – but never admitted any ‘wrong’ doing. Some even set up false TAXI cab companies to pay for going to work at the BBC tax free (Chris Moyles was guilty of that one). Others blamed it on the BBC for ‘advice’.
Now they get around this ‘TAX” by paying ‘extra income’; via BBC worldwide Limited – that is NOT subject to (any) Freedom of Information request – because that is ‘private’ and can get lost in ‘expenditure’. So the true ‘salary’ may be in the millions for BBC top spot performers. Every one’s a winner!
Another delicious irony is that phrase, trotted out so regularly in defense of the indefensible, ‘…they are paid the going rate….’
No-one seems able to define, or even query, what the ‘going rate’ might be but it would seem close to a figure conjured with quite remarkable dishonesty from license payers by a mixture of fertile imagination and financially ‘astute’ agents.
Re. the Telegraph article, one person I feel confident would never begin to query or suggest any guilt association for the amount and value for money provided by Huw Edwards would be Huw Edwards.
AFAIK reporters are on the books
but the elephant is that the very highest paid stars like Graham Norton who is paid a lot more than Lineker, are freelances paid through BBC studios.
I am not against star salaries for star performance like Clarkson or managers like James Dyson.
But salaries should not be paid to mediocres
eg write the contracts so if overseas are low. you don’t get a bonus.
we are gathering thousands upon thousands of single mothers demanding council houses and yet more when they get on the disabled band wagon, whilst I am sure there are some who need help, it it the racist white who are held rsponsible for the plight of the poor blacks who, living next to me in a council house never having done a days work in their sorry lives , the woman so bloody fat she has to walk sideways into the house and given a new car yet demands home deliveriies from Watrose
New essay on Council Housing in the UK – Part 1
https://independencedaily.co.uk/a-brief-history-of-council-housing-in-the-uk-part-1/
I had the nerve to complain whilst she was shouting on her phone in the garden at 2 AM when I had to be in Stratford for a meeting at 8 AM and the reply was “kiss my f@@cking arse” and I had the police arrive next evening to try and arrest me, they did not get very far, luckily I recorded it
The child, however it was concieved. gets driven to school by taxi with another person in a yellow tabard as an escort, whos job it seems is to wake them up and yet they have been given a new car
It will be pregnant at sixteen and top of the coucil list for a council house
There used to be a facilty for council houses available for those on lower incomes, I am no expert on economics but it seems plain that those with no income whatsoever and no chance of ever working a day are top of the list
most of whom are, apparently, experts at breeding, God knows how they manage it, bbc are promoting masks I would suggest blindfolds
TOADY Watch #1 and TWatO Watch #2 combined – a sad story and wise words from a bereaved mother
I get the impression that the BBC report of the Court verdict on the murder of the two sisters in Fryent Park by Danyal Hussein carried a significant amount of diversion from talking about a certain religion to talking about the ‘Far Right’. The retired Anglican Archdeacon Mina Smallman spoke about the killer on TOADY in the 6 a.m. News.
Mina Smallman feared that the convicted killer will be ‘radicalised’ in prison and when released will kill again and again. I think we know who does the ‘radicalising’ in UK prisons and I am certain it is not Conservative Party members who voted to leave the EU in 2016. Would the BBC name them? No.
It is ‘Squirrel Time’ at the BBC.