434 Responses to Start the Week 9 August 2021

  1. theisland says:

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Ban him – he admits he is a domestic violence fiend – kill his first born – de list him – where is that ducking stool?

         3 likes

  2. Guest Who says:

    Sorely missed.

    Even by Springster.

    The New Statesman, eh?

       4 likes

  3. Guest Who says:

    Leo helps.

    Or, possibly, not.

       9 likes

    • digg says:

      BBC claiming that in India sea levels are rising to swamp communities due to climate change. Now correct me if Iā€™m wrong but sea levels are distributed around the globe. I live on the South Coast of the UK and about 2m above normal sea level. We have had torrential rain for 2 days but the sea level has not bloody moved. So does India have a different sea level than we have here?

      Itā€™s total frigging lies and nonsense. Simply local wind and tide conditions.

      There is no doubt that the media are under mind control by a few influential nut cases and we are being lied to on a gigantic scale in the interests of some shady globalists.

      Shout backā€¦ you are lying to us!

      Donā€™t take this evil crap any more.

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      • digg says:

        I have now little doubt that the whole climate change crap is being driven by left wing communist types. The constraint to industry and commerce would play right into their hands.

        As my mum would say it will all come out in the wash!

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        • Ian Rushlow says:

          Better to think of it as a symbiotic relationship between the globalist capitalists and communists. Communists are motivated by the desire to control people’s lives, to define what they can and cannot do, both as a means in itself but primarily to prevent any political opposition. Globalists share the same goals, but view them as only a means to an end, which is making money. The debt-based economy is not sustainable indefinitely, with the financial crisis of 2007-2008 acting as the wake up call. The new model is based around creating and maintaining artificial shortages in energy, food, transport and medical care under the pretext of sustainability, in order to increase privatisation and maximise profits. Most of the Left do not realise that they have been co-opted to achieve this goal, and safely derailed from challenging global capitalism by having their energies directed towards the fatuous goals of identify politics. A few, more cerebal Marxists, having got past the first page of Das Kapital, are keen to advance monopoly capitalism on the basis that it is a pre-cursor to the establishment of worldwide communism.

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  4. StewGreen says:

    3:06pm Radio Lincolnshire
    “Here we are with The Climate Conscious Students”

    They start with a fair point about seaside takeaways using polystyrene trays, and getting them to move to cardboard.

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  5. Dover Sentry says:

    BBC Online Front Page. Covered in Climate Change garbage.

    But, Vodafone roaming charges news is read more than BBC Climate Change hysteria.

    The order of most read:

    1. Man dies after being attacked in park.

    2. Vodafone to bring back roaming charges.

    3. Climate report is Code Red for humanity.

    Seems that the BBC readership has seen through the garbage.

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

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    • digg says:

      I really hope so itā€™s manufactured blather and the only reason the BBC get behind it is to damage the status quo. Eg Boris and co.

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  6. theisland says:

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1474319/France-news-Rwandan-refugee-kills-priest-Vendee-Emmanuel-Abayisenga-Nantes-cathedral-fire

    Rwandan refugee ‘arrested for killing priest’ who welcomed him into region
    A REFUGEE in France has been arrested with reports claiming he walked into a police station on Monday over allegedly killing a priest.

    The refugee was previously charged of setting fire to the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral in Nantes last year, and is awaiting trial.

    Police have said they are not currently treating the incident as a terrorist attack.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      ā€œā€¦and donā€™t you worry. Itā€™s coming to a place near youā€¦we cannot have state subsidized preachersā€¦give it up or give it to your deadliest enemy and pay for the rope that will choke you.ā€œ

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    • digg says:

      BBC, nothing to see here!

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  7. Guest Who says:

    BBC News

    In the interview, activist Greta Thunberg said she last bought a new item of clothing three years ago and “it was second-hand”.

    ***
    https://www.tatler.com/article/emily-maitlis-is-september-2020-cover

    ā€œwearing a Christian Dior power suit on the cover and wearing further chic tailoring by Dolce & Gabbana and Michael Kors in the accompanying shoot.ā€

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    • TrickCyclist says:

      ‘Greta Thunberg said she last bought a new item of clothing three years ago and ā€œit was second-handā€.’
      Three years ago when she was what, fifteen?
      Is disordered eating and stunted growth any kind of recommendation for saving the world?

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    • Guest Who says:

      #CCBGB

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Women to stop wearing makeup and nice clothes – ha ha ha – drag queens to wear a sack.

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      • Scroblene says:

        Normal citizens tell stupid kids to shut up and pay attention to proper grown-ups.

        The BBC crawls around, slavering over the ‘comments’ of a seriously sick child.

        Pathetic.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Sheā€™s not gonna talk about her mental health again is she ? When every other sad effer is doing the same ā€¦.

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      • digg says:

        Ha ha ha ha ha ha you couldnā€™t make it up, what a false twat she is!

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  8. Guest Who says:

    BBC News

    Why is gold so important for British Asians?

    https://bbc.in/3CFO8uP

    ***
    Checked with the missus.

    She thinks they mean the ones who turned up for a canoe trip this morning en famile of scores and the middle of the park one yoof decided a perfect time and place for a public whizz.

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  9. Guest Who says:

    BBC is very comfy with exemptions.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Remember BBC has been colluding with activists since #28Gate and before
      Ā£50K they spent trying to deny there’d been a big meeting with 28 activists
      then someone pointed out they’d accidentally released the info
      and tried to delete it but had got caught.

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  10. Sluff says:

    Anyone seen the covid vaccine earnings forecasts?

    Pfizer expect sales of $10bn in the first half.
    Biontech expect sales of $7bn in the same period.
    Dear, stupid, woke Astra Zeneca expect sales of $1.2bn.

    What that means in the real world not inhabited by the BBC, wokes, and the moronic members of Oxford University, is that Pfizer and Biontech will be able to increase their market competitiveness as they will be able to re-invest $billions into research, technology, new products, new product development, and patent protection. Investment that AZ will be unable to make as they are not allowed to make any profit. So there will be a nett loss of jobs, taxes, and prosperity from the UK and Sweden to Germany and the USA.

    And that, dear reader, is what happens when virtue-signalling takes the place of the market economy.

    None of which of course is remotely of interest to the BBC who don’t have to compete, they just receive.

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Ah yes, but don’t forget they sometimes have to pay out $2.3 billion fines for ‘mis-representative marketing’ (or what might be called ‘lying’, by the ignorant man in the street). Not all plain sailing being a pharma giant with a licence to print money…

      https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/business/03health.html

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    • Scroblene says:

      “None of which of course is remotely of interest to the BBC who donā€™t have to compete, they just receive.”

      Spot on Sluffy!

      Have an O.B.E.!

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      • Sluff says:

        Thanks for the offer but OBEs have never been the same since Ken Dodd defined the term as One Boiled Egg.

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  11. Sick of it all says:

    Meanwhile down by the pool, everything is all right with the world again. Cheers, indeed.

    https://www.usmagazine.com/stylish/pictures/simone-biles-enjoys-pool-day-in-tie-dye-bikini-after-olympics/cheers-26/

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    • Guest Who says:

      This before meeting up with the Norwegish Volley ball team in their full body scuba onesies in the hot tub to discuss mental health with a gaggle of Cougar titles and gagging paps invited by their coaches and agents?

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  12. MarkyMark says:

    Paying for the rope to hang you … The father-of-four (Anjem Choudary preaching hate 1999-2016) takes home more than Ā£25,000 a year in benefits and lives in a Ā£320,000 house in Leytonstone

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279972/Anjem-Choudary-Hate-preacher-pocketing-25-000-year-benefits-calls-fanatics-live-state.html#ixzz4lTcYXtpQ

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  13. MarkyMark says:

    Let us all stop funding UK terrorism! It would seem Khalid Masood (Westminster Attack 22.03.2017 5 Innocents Killed) was on benefits which comes out of National Insurance payments by the workers of the UK. Thus, it would seem prior to these findings the workers in the UK were unknowingly funding terrorism. But now we know terrorists operate using welfare benefits it would seem we are knowingly paying terrorists.
    Can I suggest that the Government please make sure NI payments by UK workers donā€™t go into the hands of terrorists by removing the terrorists in the first place. Can you also calculate how much we have/are funded terrorism via welfare benefits by simply getting all known terrorists (left,right,islamic) arrested to-date and those on the watch list and check welfare payments made to them or their immediate family (under various names possibly).

    Another example is where imams preaching intolerance such as Anjem Choudary (preached hate 1999-2016) to his hundreds of worshippers (5 times a day, everyday), can all imams be checked if they are on welfare benefits, paid by UK workers, and these payments be stopped immediately. It is the community that needs to fund the imams if they want religious teachings, similar to how the Church of England was funded with donations in the past.

    The father-of-four (Anjem Choudary preaching hate 1999-2016) takes home more than Ā£25,000 a year in benefits and lives in a Ā£320,000 house in Leytonstone

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  14. MarkyMark says:

    One of the bigger providers of Covid PCR test kits has responded after images of overflowing drop boxes were shared online.

    The firm, Randox, said it was increasing the number of drop boxes and the frequency of box collections.

    The move comes after people posted pictures of returned test kits piled high on top of drop boxes in Sutton and Hampstead over the weekend.

    One MP said the “pointless” tests were “becoming a bad joke”.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58149951

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Marky – by a weird co incidence – I am due to use a randox day 2 test later this week.. and as long as I am back in Blighty – I couldnā€™t give a damn what they do with the Ā£43 box ā€¦

      By the way Ā£43 is at the lower end of costā€¦

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  15. MarkyMark says:

    NO LINK TO REPORT IN THE BBC PAGE – very bad reporting.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58130705

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  16. Guest Who says:

    Never did get an answer on EdGuds for ā€œquotesā€ vs. ā€˜quotesā€™.

    Before being banned.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The Carrington Event[1] was a powerful geomagnetic storm on September 1ā€“2, 1859, during solar cycle 10 (1855ā€“1867). A solar coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth’s magnetosphere and induced the largest geomagnetic storm on record. The associated “white light flare” in the solar photosphere was observed and recorded by British astronomers Richard Carrington and Richard Hodgson. The storm created strong auroral displays and caused serious damage to telegraph systems. The now-standard unique IAU identifier for this flare is SOL1859-09-01.

      A solar storm of this magnitude occurring today would cause widespread electrical disruptions, blackouts, and damage due to extended outages of the electrical grid.[2][3] The solar storm of 2012 was of similar magnitude, but it passed Earth’s orbit without striking the planet, missing by nine days.[4]

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      • Fedup2 says:

        I reckon the sun has a bit to do with the climate – except at night of course – witchcraft stalks the realm ā€¦

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  17. StewGreen says:

    PR folks earning big bonuses tonight
    #1 Hyperbolic claims about the Hull wind blade factory

    #2 ClimateFearPorn
    Local farmers with surname Ward preaching climate doom.
    Do they have vested interests ?
    That farmer is heavily into solar/wind and biogas from his pig unit.
    He must be earning lots of green energy subsidies.

    Presenter girl “John, warnings are pretty clear aren’t they
    Yes they are ?”

    #3 Now a preview of the main national news
    Code Red for Climate

    #4 South Asian Heritage month
    Asian Presenter introduces Wasim 31 who came out as gay

    #5 ” Arif has the sport”

    The other edition found another doom farmer in Rotherham
    https://www.twitter.com/itvcalendar/status/1424760290613280772

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    • StewGreen says:

      Oh to illustrate CC flooding they used footage of the Wainfleet floods
      not caused by CC, rather a drainage canal is higher than the farm
      and the bank massively breached
      that suggests proper monitoring and maintenance weren’t done, maybe workers stayed awayso not to scare badgers.

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  18. Guest Who says:

    Line to take established.

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  19. Guest Who says:

    Taffman. Sorry, mate.

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  20. Guest Who says:

    HuffPo inadvertently makes Springsterā€™s job more tricky.

    https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/bbc-olympics-studio-not-real-technical-glitch_uk_610e4c0fe4b0e28b31e19d8c?

    Especially as most the BBC produces is a fair way from reality.

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  21. StewGreen says:

    BBC local news
    #1 “Humanity must act now”
    In Hull Windfarm blade factory
    with Kwasi Kwateng”
    massive PR

    “And here at the forefront of climate change”
    showed local flooding
    … not caused by Climate Change

    #2 BBC Beach Litter pickup

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  22. Scroblene says:

    Scrobs is getting to the point where all good chums here (minus a few sad little trolls), say everything he wants to say before he gets to the keyboard!

    The sodding computer is on all day, right in the middle of the house, and I pass it about fifty times, and need to see what’s occurring, rather like a nosey neighbour…

    A daughter bought me an iPhone for my birthday, and even now, I have to peer at it, maybe not understanding what’s going on, but I’m getting that new joint in the neck from the mindless glare at such an inanimate object!

    Please help…

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  23. Jeff says:

    Well, here we go again…

    According to “scientists” we’re facing a global catastrophe. “Irreversible, man made climate change…code red for humanity…heatwaves…droughts…flooding…blah-blah-blah…”
    If you didn’t know that this would be the result of the UN report, then you’ve not been paying attention.
    Even Prof’ Fergusson could have predicted this one correctly…

    It’s interesting to note that the graph both the BBC and the equally sinister Sky News choose to bring us, shows the weather patterns from the mid 19th century to the present. Why not go back a little further? Well, we know why, because it would clearly show how often our climate changes. That’s what it does…

    The Romans, as every schoolboy (of my generation) could tell you, were able to grow grapes the length and breadth of England. Even with all our modern advantages, we struggle to do that today. It was warmer than it is now.

    Further back still, dinosaurs roamed a planet considerably hotter and wetter than the present. These giants beasts needed massive vegetation. There’s nothing like it today. The bones of a huge diplodocus were found close to Charing Cross Station. Poor blighter would either starve or freeze to death these days. “Man made” climate change couldn’t possibly be responsible for the temperature of the Earth back then; we didn’t exist…

    So, we’re just emerging from one hysterical, utterly futile, over reaction to a very nasty virus, heavily manipulate by the media and now we’re being primed to be terrified all over again.

    To get the right level of fear instilled in a gullible public I reckon they should change the sound track they use for the beginning of the BBC News…

    How about theme tune from Jaws?

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  24. vlad says:

    The BBC sort-of report on the murder of a French priest. The self-confessed murderer is a Rwandan ‘asylum seeker’ who, last year, was arrested for setting fire to a church.

    The French extradition procedure being apparently as useless as ours, he was still in France and on the loose when he murdered the priest.

    The useless BBC refers to the arsonist / murderer as “the unnamed Rwandan”.

    Now, I don’t have a budget of Ā£4.9 billion, nor a staff of 35,400 – but it took me precisely 30 seconds to find his name on my clapped out laptop: may I introduce you to Mr. Abayisenga. I guess it doesn’t sound Norwegian enough for the BBC.

    I also found a photo in 10 seconds flat – perhaps a bit too tanned for the BBC, who would like us to take in more such savages.

    And, in honour of the priest, below is Father Olivier Maire (whose name the BBC also manage to get wrong in their pisspoor ‘article’).

    BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58145468

    DM: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9876513/Catholic-priest-murdered-France-Rwandan-believed-set-fire-destroyed-cathedral.html

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTwKrV16K3s1tk-HjN743-XizRPg9H0yM9iVw&usqp=CAU

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    • Fedup2 says:

      RIP
      The coloured one can fry

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      • vlad says:

        But he won’t. He’ll probably get a light sentence for mental problems, and then French citizenship and benefits… or he might even hop on a dinghy to old Blighty.

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  25. Northern Voter says:

    Vis a vis the Siemens wind farm manufacturing plant in Hull. I believe that it is sited in Alexandra Dock, that it is on land owned by Associated British Ports. I sincerely hope Siemens checked their contract with ABP with a fine tooth comb. I worked in Hull, in a local government authority sampling foodstuffs and water on vessels and Docks. There was a large company importing fish from Russian catching vessels. There office was nowhere near the Docks. I was talking to the managing director one day and asked why they weren’t on the Docks in an office. This was his reply, why should this company build a shed with offices for Ā£500,000 on ABP land, when after 10 years the said shed and offices become ABP property and we have to pay rent.Would you build there he said!

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    • Sluff says:

      Cheer up everyone.
      With the next Olympics in Paris and plenty of practice already in the can, courtesy of tens of thousands of economic chancers…….errr I mean poor vulnerable refugees… having escaped from that undemocratic, war-torn, unsafe, food-rationed country……..errrr….France, Team GB should be a shoe-in for Gold in all the canoeing events and maybe open water swimming..

      Indeed what fun is to be had from thinking up new Olympic events.

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  26. taffman says:

    Has Al Beeb posted the photograph of the polar bear drifting away on the ever decreasing melting block of ice ?
    The bear obviously can’t swim.
    Propaganda at its best. Bingo !

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Polar bears, official name Ursus maritimis or “sea bear”. Able to swim vast distances:
      ‘Researchers tracked 52 sows in the southern Beaufort Sea off Alaska with GPS system collars. Fifty long-distance swims were recorded; the longest at 354 kilometres (220 mi), with an average of 155 kilometres (96 mi). The length of these swims ranged from most of a day to ten days.

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  27. taffman says:

    Over a year ago I turned away from Al Beeb radio to LBC on advice from many posters on this site. Unfortunately it went woke first by getting rid of Nigel Farage.
    I then went over to Talk Radio and alas ! Its beginning to go woke. There is some lefty bloke on there now .
    Where next readers ?

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    • Banania says:

      The only candidate is GB News, who are showing signs of enlightenment, but it is early to say.

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    • Jeff says:

      Talk Radio have lost a number of their regular presenters to GB News and are suffering a bit as a consequence.

      Two of their best are off on their hol’s this week, Julia Hartley Brewer and Mike Graham.

      Mind you, it’s still head and shoulders above the BBC and LBC.

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  28. Thoughtful says:

    Surprised no one has posted the siege of the BBC by pro freedom anti propaganda protestors this evening:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9876735/Anti-vax-assault-BBC-Police-battle-defend-broadcasters-London-HQ.html

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  29. Thoughtful says:

    I had to re-confirm I don’t need a TV licence today, but what I found in their new list of reasons you need a licence really did surprise me.

    I wonder if reasons know that they say that watching live content on you tube now make you liable to need a licence. Even if you are watching live content from a foreign country – say Pakistan the BBC claim they have a right to charge you to watch it !

    Watching GB News without a licence on you tube is also illegal !

    Why should a corporation be entitled to claim an income from someone elses product not even in the same country which it has no connection to in any way.
    It’s just yet another massive anachronism in the TV Tax.

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  30. vlad says:

    Of all the photos of all the vaxers in all the centres in Britain, Al-Beeb choose this one to illustrate their article on Covid. Quite by chance, of course. No subliminal message there at all.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/europe

    Z

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    • MarkyMark says:

      School children across Lincolnshire will be asked to wear a hijab for a day in a bid to fight discrimination. Lincoln Muslim Sisters are in talks with schools from across the county to organise a day in November 2019 or February 2020.5 Aug 2019

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      • vlad says:

        It sounds horrendous (but those dates are old).

        Why not go the whole hog and wear full terrorist gear… maybe even stage a beheading?

        Can parents opt out or would that be islamophobic?

        images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSIabnRAr3olDqhs8Ito14JkiPTOwU4PJK2fw&usqp=CAU

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    • theisland says:

      Stops the spread of nits I suppose, but all that hanging extra material looks unhygienic.

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    • Banania says:

      @vlad
      Where is the scythe?

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      • Northern Voter says:

        Will the Muslims be asked not to wear hijabs so that they can feel the freedom that us whiteys have?

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      • vlad says:

        It really is a death cult, all shrouded in black as though for a permanent funeral.

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  31. Fedup2 says:

    In my meaningless void filling pramble to this thread i ask what would the BBC do without the olympics ?

    Answer – the world ending – man made climate change making things worse .

    Solution – cut the population by a billion or three.
    Im sure the BBC is trying to drive listeners / viewers to suicide with depressing ā€˜ all gonna die UN crap ā€˜

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    • MarkyMark says:

      They believe humans shouldn’t have children. Who are the anti-natalists – and how far are they willing to push their ideas?

      “Wouldn’t it just be better to blow a hole in the side of the earth and just have done with everything?”

      Thomas, 29, lives in the east of England, and although his idea of blowing up the world is something of a thought experiment, he is certain about one thing – humans should not have babies, and our species should gradually go extinct.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-49298720

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  32. SpinningReith says:

    Only Connect…
    Mixed race couple – tick
    Gay couple – tick (why do they pick couples where at least one is SO GAY)
    I quite like attempting the questions, but the wokeness, and that smug Coren woman, are getting on my t*ts.

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  33. MarkyMark says:

    But they are united in their desire to stop human procreation. And although they are a fringe movement, some of their views, particularly on the state of the earth, are increasingly creeping into mainstream discussion.

    While not an anti-natalist, the Duke of Sussex recently said he and his wife were planning to have a maximum of two children, because of environmental concerns.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-49298720

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    • Peter Grimes says:

      ā€œ But they are united in their desire to stop human procreation.ā€

      Ah, thatā€™s why they want everyone to transition. Thanks for the heads up, makes perfect sense.

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  34. MarkyMark says:

    China’s carbon emissions are vast and growing, dwarfing those of other countries.

    Experts agree that without big reductions in China’s emissions, the world cannot win the fight against climate change.

    China’s President Xi Jinping has said his country will aim for its emissions to reach their highest point before 2030 and for carbon neutrality to be achieved by 2060.

    President Xi has not said how China will achieve this extremely ambitious goal.

    CHINA WILL DESTORY THE WEST????

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-57483492

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  35. MarkyMark says:

    Buy from amazon, send Geoff to space, keep China great again.

    “”Unless China decarbonises, we’re not going to beat climate change,” says prof David Tyfield of the Lancaster Environment Centre.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-57483492

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  36. MarkyMark says:

    Houses for everyone …

    Hong Kong UK Property Investment Set to Increase
    Itā€™s not just mainland China investing in the UK, though, as Hong Kong buyers are also emerging and showing interest in the country.

    The UK government recently launched a special visa offering permanent citizenship after five years for around three million people living in Hong Kong.

    Under current laws, those holding a BNO (British National Overseas) passport can visit the UK for up to six months without applying for residency visas.

    However, from January 2021, passport holders from Hong Kong and their immediate dependents will be able to apply for residency visas with the view to achieving permanent residence.

    The Financial Times has already reported that the UK is the top overseas market for Hong Kong buyers.

    With this new influx of potential UK citizens, Hong Kong and Chinese investors will continue to flock to the UK. Hong Kong UK property investment will undoubtedly continue to increase.

    https://www.rw-invest.com/uk/chinese-investment-in-uk-property/

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  37. MarkyMark says:

    Elton John defends Harry and Meghan’s use of private jets
    Published19 August 2019

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49398852

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    • vlad says:

      Well he would, wouldn’t he?

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    • JohnC says:

      If you see him as he really is on some youtube videos, you quickly realise that Elton is a typical nasty, bitchy old queen.
      I suspect it’s not too long now before Harry and Meghan implode. When it starts going wrong, she will blame him.

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    • Banania says:

      That face would turn the milk sour.

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  38. Dover Sentry says:

    I had a short online discussion recently with a Climate Change enthusiast. I sent him graphs as to how the climate has naturally changed over millions of years (source ice-core comparisons in Greenland).

    He said it was better to be safe and drastically change our economies just in case the graphs are wrong.

    Our BBC would approve.

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    • JohnC says:

      Just as it’s right to spend trillions we can’t afford on reducing our own output to make a global difference of a fraction of a percent.
      The only justification I have seen for it is ‘It will be a good example for the rest of the world’.
      Right. Like any of those in the top 20 worst CO2 emitters care what we do.

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  39. MarkyMark says:

    What Effect Do Solar Cycles Have on Earthā€™s Climate?
    According to the United Nationsā€™ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the current scientific consensus is that long and short-term variations in solar activity play only a very small role in Earthā€™s climate. Warming from increased levels of human-produced greenhouse gases is actually many times stronger than any effects due to recent variations in solar activity.

    For more than 40 years, satellites have observed the Sun’s energy output, which has gone up or down by less than 0.1 percent during that period. Since 1750, the warming driven by greenhouse gases coming from the human burning of fossil fuels is over 50 times greater than the slight extra warming coming from the Sun itself over that same time interval.

    https://climate.nasa.gov/blog/2910/what-is-the-suns-role-in-climate-change/

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    • Jeff says:

      We were still emerging from a mini ice age in 1750, but don’t allow the facts to interfere with our present paranoia.

      There’s a fascinating piece of film, available on you Tube and narrated by the late Leonard Nimoy… all about global cooling. It’s what we’d now call “fear porn” and bangs on about the coming climate catastrophe, but from a totally different angle.

      He mentions the three coldest winters (since records began) all occurring in the last ten years. It’s so interesting noting how the language is almost identical to the present propaganda.

      He tells us how the climate is changing rapidly and very soon we’ll be stuck in another ice-age. It’s the complete obverse of what we’re hearing constantly today. I think it dates from about 1979, or thereabouts.

      It’s worth a gander…

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  40. Dover Sentry says:

    BBC Online News:

    “British Sea Power: Indie band drop the word British from their name”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58150537

    Me neither…

    But a woke unknown band suits our BBC’s anti-British beliefs.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      UK indie band British Sea Power have announced they are changing their name to simply Sea Power, in a bid to separate themselves from the recent “wave of crass nationalism”.

      . . . . .

      Vinny Codrington, Middlesex chief executive, confirmed that the club had received ā€œone or twoā€ complaints from Muslim communities concerned that the name was a reference to the medieval Christian crusades which saw military wars waged against other faiths.

      He denied the move had been made for reasons of political correctness but said that some people found the name ā€œrather upsettingā€. He added: ā€œWe wanted more kids to pick up a cricket bat, thatā€™s why it was devised. We were on a crusade to get children into cricket.ā€

      He went on: ā€œThe name was nothing whatsoever to do with the crusades in the 11th and 12th century.ā€

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      • JohnC says:

        Which is a completely different to what they say in the BBC article.
        Liars.
        Then at the end we get:
        ‘Sea Power’s new single to go with their new name, Two Fingers, is the first offering from their upcoming album Everything Was Forever’
        Obviously friends with someone at the BBC and the whole thing is taxpayer funded PR.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The band added they did not wish to be associated with “isolationist, antagonistic nationalism”, noting how “we have always been internationalist in our mindset, something made clear in songs like Waving Flags, an anthem to pan-European idealism”.

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      • TrickCyclist says:

        From memory, British Sea Power were a bit of a favourite on the Jeremy Vine Show. . .

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        • Guest Who says:

          If so, surely they should now be called ā€˜Sea Serviceā€™?

          Very popular in 4* hotel bars.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Hits the British public andā€¦

      #CCBGB

      Bet they are thrilled the British Being Cautious got excited now.

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    • Demon says:

      Now It’s time for the BBC to do the same. From now on it should be known as the BC. Bolshevik Cretins.

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    • Banania says:

      “Tidal Barrage” might be more topical.

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  41. Northern Voter says:

    Talking of woke, climate change hypocrites, I was talking to a person I know (I wouldn’t call him a friend) about CO2 in the air. I said “take a breath and hold it in, let it out now” then “how much of that breath was CO2, he answered 20%. This person believes everything, written, spoken or off the Web about climate change. He has Alexa on his table, asked what percentage of the atmosphere was Nitrogen, got the answer 80% Oxygen 20%. Doesn’t believe that of course. This person has 2 cars, 1 van, 1 camper van, I diesel powered digger, 1 diesel powered dumper truck, 1 petrol sit on mower and various other petrol driven garden tools. Prat of the first order! Wants everyone to drive electric! It is not Chris Packham.

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  42. tomo says:

    Alex hates plastic pollution

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  43. Sluff says:

    Sometimes I think the BBC regards itself as so utterly untouchable that it just takes the p*** out of its viewers.

    On University Challenge tonight….
    A whole set of questions about the wrongful arrest of various BAME personages ( the answering team happily had no idea about two of the questions) …….
    ……was followed by a question about the ultra liberal US Supreme Court judge who died last year……..
    Which was followed by a set of questions about socialists on strike!

    Itā€™s like Monty Pythonā€™s Communist Quiz come true……..
    All thatā€™s missing is the lounge suite prize.

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    • JohnC says:

      The Left don’t have the wit or humour to take the p*ss.
      They are pushing it in your face through sheer spite. It’s a ‘f*ck you’ aimed at the Right. The BBC have been doing it a lot ever since the referendum.

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  44. Jack in the Green says:

    Usual line of questions on University Challenge followed by gangsta rap advert for minority misery on BBC Twee, followed by programme on the 2011 violence, robbery and arson committed by a bunch of lawless crims in our wonderful capital city. Sorry, got that wrong. I meant by groups of righteously disaffected and totally justified freedom fighters.
    I wish someone would free me from the BBC !

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    • Londoner says:

      Hopefully Jack, the whole nation will one day be freed from the appalling BBC. University Challenge was one of the last programmes I’ve still been following on that benighted broadcaster, but the woke PC propaganda has finally seeped its poison into the style of questions on there.

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      • TrickCyclist says:

        I am sure things could always get worse with the BBC.
        Can you imagine what a resurrected version of Ask The Family would look like these days?

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        • Doublethinker says:

          Ah long lost happy days of childhood. You are spot on . I bet that there would one or two token white families but they would be seriously outnumbered by lots of BAMEs . The contest would be rigged so that the BAMES won easily.

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      • taffman says:

        Jack in the Green
        Just say “no” to the tax.
        Simples.

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  45. StewGreen says:

    The ex-alarmist is debating Betts on GBnews now

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    • StewGreen says:

      Cheating bBC B’stards
      have stealth edited their page which used to explain that 19% of children have CLIMATE NIGHMARES

      Climate anxiety: Survey for BBC Newsround shows children losing sleep over climate change and the environment

      Current page

      Five tips if you’re feeling worried about climate change
      3 Mar 20203 Mar 2020
      It’s normal to have some worries about big issues like climate change and the environment.

      Original page
      Nearly one in five of those we asked admitted to having a bad dream about climate change (19%)

      A similar number (17%) told us that they have had their sleeping and eating habits affected by their concerns.

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      Archive comparison (you may need to halt the autoreload the BBC builds into new pages )
      March 2020 vs June 29, 2020
      Basically the current page has been edited down to leave only the section “Are there ways to feel less worried?” that was on the original page
      but even that has been rw-edited a lot

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      • StewGreen says:

        Look news pages are supposed to be a source of record
        You are not supposed to release them
        and then completely re-edit them months later
        The NYT did that though last month
        when it came out that the Chinese government had paid for some articles the NYT ..quietly deleted a fe.

        BTW the June edition of that BBC page had live comments from children saying they had Climate nightmares
        .. These too are now invsible unless you go to the archive like i did.

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        • Guest Who says:

          The BBC is exempted from professional standards.

          Hence ā€˜stealth edittingā€™ is simply ā€˜evolving the storyā€™ as they still get touchy about getting spotlighted.

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      • popeye says:

        “How are children being affected by Climate Change?” Headline says “nearly 1 in 5”. Hmm. 17% is far nearer 1 in 6 (16.66%) than 1 in 5 (20%). Media Studies obviously doesn’t cover Maths.

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        • Scroblene says:

          Page three of the Vegan Gender Studies ‘degree’ states that: – if you chuck any old number in the pot, it’ll tell you sod all, but beeboids will believe you!

          Fact!

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      • Banania says:

        If children are having nightmares about climate change they have either silly woke parents or silly woke teachers.

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  46. Fedup2 says:

    Iā€™m getting rather disappointed with the propaganda effort of the MSM. There are daily blatant scare stories about people dying from the Chinese virus because they didnā€™t get a jab .

    It is so obviously an organised concerted message from the State via its ā€˜press ā€˜ ā€¦ the transparency of this control is embarrassing now .

    I write this as one who believes the whole country should be jabbed by now and we should be making big bucks selling it to anyone who can afford it ā€¦. And discounts for our ā€˜friends ā€˜ like the Aussies and Canadians ā€¦ not the woke ones ā€¦

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    • Banania says:

      There are plenty of people dying because they did get it. Plenty more will die because they have had it. Natural immunity is stronger than anything these experimental injections can do for you; in fact, it has now been proved that they can do nothing. The sooner this all comes out, the better.

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  47. tomo says:

    ICYMI

    I checked and it apparently does emanate from The White House….

    as one commenter said….

    “Well this is a game changer for me. Iā€™m totally pro vax and pro mask now.”

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  48. Sluff says:

    Not BBC but nearly.

    On ITV news they briefly cover the issue that China produces 27% of all CO2 emissions and has masses of coal power stations. Hurrah. About time.

    Unfortunately it then winds that line up very quickly and then goes all neurotic about the UKā€™s 1% of total emissions ( ignoring even they are down 50% since 1970 whereas China will not reach peak CO2 emissions until 2030) and reverts to the sackcloth and ashes routine with words like catastrophe etc etc.

    An opportunity for reality sadly missed.

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  49. taffman says:

    “Greensill: David Cameron ‘made $10m’ before companyā€™s collapse”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58149765
    Hello, hello , what’s been going on ere then ?

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  50. taffman says:

    Message to Al Beeb – why this country is in need of leadership……………………..

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