492 Responses to Midweek Thread 8 September 2021

  1. taffman says:

    “Bomb squad called as man held by terror officers in Basingstoke”

    And so it begins. Let’s all hope the security services have their ‘fingers on the pulse’.

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  2. JohnC says:

    Afghanistan: Journalists tell of beatings by Taliban
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58500579

    After what I’ve seen since Brexit, I’m having a lot of trouble having any sympathy about this.

    Perhaps the world would be a better place if these people had a few more ethics about right and wrong and a few less about their own extremist left-wing ideology.

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  3. JohnC says:

    ‘I’ll be at front of queue to change my slave name’
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58492848

    Not even UK. Complete woke rubbish. Gets 1,150 words.

    Just to put this in perspective, compare it to the singular article the BBC wrote about:
    ‘Sadistic’ abuser Abdul Elahi targeted 2,000 victims online
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-57386159

    That headline is very misleading about the extent of the crimes by Abdul:
    ‘They included multiple counts of blackmail, disclosing private sexual films and photographs to cause distress, making and distributing indecent images of children, encouraging the sexual assault of children, sexually assaulting a boy, causing or inciting children to engage in sexual activity, fraud and possessing more than 65,000 indecent images of children.’
    Note that description is from elsewhere. The BBC cut it down to:
    ‘His offences include possessing more than 65,000 indecent images of children as well as some of sexual assault, blackmail and disclosing private, sexual photographs.’

    And how many words did this outrageous activity by ‘Abdul’ warrant from the BBC ?.
    450. Just over a third as many as black people in Holland getting to change their slave names from 150 years ago for free.

    Is there any wonder we are sick to the back teeth of the BBC and the Left ?. I’m sure their ideology has a good reason why they warp the truth so much. So did Hitler.

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    • G says:

      John,

      “Is there any wonder we are sick to the back teeth of the BBC and the Left”

      Victor Davis Hanson. I have a good deal of respect for this mans views and thoughts.

      Bit long but well worth a watch on his most recent lecture.

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  4. Guest Who says:

    Surprised the BBC has not made him Head of ‘News’.

    https://countrysquire.co.uk/2021/09/10/chris-packham-serial-liar/

    Springster still on feet?

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    • Guest Who says:

      Nope. But on another bbc narrow track.

      Not even mostly.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Meanwhile…. from not long ago…

        https://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2021/09/september-continuing-open-thread.html#

        Charlie

        https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-58020985.amp

        What’s annoying about this minor story where someone claimed to be cut by a razor blade is that it was a unsubstantiated Twitter thread which the BBC converted it into one of their main stories.

        It turns out that the complainant has form and also said that she had been disembowelled two weeks ago.

        It looks like a case of fake news and no fact checking or research was undertaken by the BBC journalist who wrote it.

        h/t to ‘nice hat’ who researched the facts. (Unlike the BBC). It should never have been published.

        ***
        Four misleading Covid claims fact-checked

        Next on the BBC… five?

        Or… not news?

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      • JohnC says:

        He was falsely accused.
        Unlike the actual BLM protestor who has been falsely not accused.

        The story is that a BLM protestor burnt the Union Jack. Doesn;t matter who did it. The BBC are just trying to obfuscate that fact.

        I find his placard of ‘The UK Invented Racism’ to be offensive and racist. Clearly the BBC do not.

        ‘The 23-year-old Londoner is a recent graduate, working as a tutor and looking to set up a sustainable fashion brand.’

        Another Lefty no use in the real world whatsoever then. I bet he eventually applies for a job at the BBC.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        BBC in discrimination row after opening trainee role only to ethnic minorities
        https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/bbc-discrimination-row-advertising-job-ethnic-monorities-b941600.html

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  5. Guest Who says:

    BBC do like its anniversaries. The Moaning Emole…. From Frank…

    ***
    Lessons learned (or not) since 9/11

    As Afghanistan is once more ruled by the movement that sheltered al-Qaeda, are we any wiser than we were on the morning of 11 September 2001? The so-called “War on Terror” led to the invasion of Afghanistan, then Iraq, to the rise of Isis and the proliferation of Iranian-backed militias across the Middle East, and the deaths of thousands of servicemen and women and many more civilians.

    Terrorism has not been eliminated – every major European country has suffered attacks in recent years – but there have been successes too. To date, there has never been an attack approaching the scale of 9/11. Al-Qaeda’s bases in Afghanistan were destroyed, its leaders hunted down in Pakistan. The self-declared Isis caliphate that terrorised much of Syria and Iraq has been dismantled.

    ***
    Soon to be ‘debated’ as only BBC can?

    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/sep/16/terrorismandthemedia.bbc

    Or now Sleepy is in, selection of panel and questions tuned accordingly?

    Lucky no well armed nut jobs around now, eh, Frank?

    Read full analysis >

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  6. Guest Who says:

    BBC knows how to please an audience.

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  7. Guest Who says:

    Ash know?

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  8. Guest Who says:

    New BBC TV Licence letter writes itself.

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    • tomo says:

      From what I read, see + hear – the population’s patience is doing likewise wrt to Biden and his crew….

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  9. Guest Who says:

    Somewhere in an obscure bbc outpost, a chastened intern is reminded to try a bit harder.

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  10. Guest Who says:

    The estate agents are impressively on the ball though.

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  11. Foscari says:

    I wonder if BIG BROTHER at the diversity department at the BBC is a little uneasy at the sight of Emma Raducanu with a cross
    around her neck ,at the USA Open?

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    • Foscari says:

      Of course it will be terrific if she wins at Flushing Meadows.
      THEN Big Brother would be in terrible dilemma , when
      Emma wins Sports Personality of the year. can he, she, or it tell Emma not to wear the cross because it may offend some.

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  12. Guest Who says:

    Huge amounts of people unable to house themselves in certain areas… it’s a mystery.

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    • JimS says:

      Not so surprised now, in our once immigrant free neighbourhood, to see a brown female with head covered. More surprised to hear her speaking German to her companion.

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  13. Guest Who says:

    Keep it vague, Lou… keep it vague…

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    • MarkyMark says:

      He had evidence and ignored it just like the BBC and is now making money from it! HA HA HA HA!

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  14. Guest Who says:

    OT, but…

    The unintelligible in pursuit of the unconscionable.

    And despite this, Boris is actually making Labour look a better option.

    Strange days.

    If the MSM went on strike and Slick vanished from the airwaves, they’d walk it.

    Frankly we need more BBC bottle blondes and baldy Knobs screaming ASAP.

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  15. Guest Who says:

    BBC News

    Descendants of African slaves have said they will change their surnames, after a Dutch city decided to scrap fees for the procedure.

    ***
    Jeremy Kinte Hunt at the front of the queue after all the male BBC studio ‘mis speaks’ that oddly did not affect Labour HoP colleagues?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      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.

      It’s ironic that when the Atlantic slave trade was abolished the Eastern trade expanded, suggesting that for some Africans the abolition of the Atlantic trade didn’t lead to freedom, but merely changed their slave destination.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/slavery_1.shtml

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  16. G says:

    Pug,

    “A candle in the wind”

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  17. MarkyMark says:

    From John Gatto, it’s not just children that don’t want to know about the real working world anymore. Swap child for adults in the following article …

    The children I teach are indifferent to the adult world. This defies the experience of thousands of years. A close study of what big people were up to was always the most exciting occupation of youth, but nobody wants to grow up these days and who can blame them? Toys are us. … Time for a return to democracy, individuality, and family. I’ve said my piece. Thank you. {naturalchild.org – john gatto – jan1990}

    relates to Westerners: Guilty of Reading the News {atestoneinstitute.org 27sep2017}

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  18. AsISeeIt says:

    …on 18 April 1930, the BBC’s news announcer had nothing to communicate. “There is no news,” was the script of the 20:45 news bulletin, before piano music was played for the rest of the 15-minute segment

    This was the BBC’s nostalgic reflection on simpler times expressed recently in the wake of Theresa May’s annoucement of a snap General Election in April 2017 – OK, that was news and I’m sure if Ramsay MacDonald’s failing second Labour government had collapsed some fifteen months earlier than it did, in August 1931, then that would certainly have made the BBC’s contemporary definition of news.

    In 2017 the BBC were fairly candid about how things had moved on news-wise: ‘These days, the BBC has more staff and more capacity than it did in 1930. But it also has a different definition of what the news is‘ – you can say that again. Which is a major factor in why Mr AsI junked his TV licence and sadly now never tunes into Radio 5 and especially not Radio 4.

    The rest of the corporate media are not much better. But since I can’t tell you there’s no news today and return you to the Wagner opera Parsifal being performed at the Queen’s Hall in Langham Place, London – although, come to think of it, in these days of internet links I probably could – let’s not strain the moderator’s patience and instead delve in to see what purports to be news in our print press.

    It’s ANT and DECades‘ chuckles the Daily Mailas duo scoop top TV award for 20th year running’ – providing almost the very definition of our complaint “Not News!”

    Awards, eh? In the much contested category of “someone said something” we have the formerly patriotic Times with: ‘Queen and her family are BLM supporters, royal insider claims‘ – and there was me thinking where the Royals are concerned the taking the knee went quite the other way around?

    To the subcategory of “someone said something rude” where the Daily Mirror takes a hopeful punt (or should that be a duff penalty kick?) on retired footballer: ‘Rio Ferdinand heartbreak. My family’s racism torment. Star says those closest to him broken by online abuse‘ – now how did I guess this wasn’t some nasty name calling encountered at his local supermarket, some discrimination on a plane or train, or being shunned by neighbours over his garden wall? Of course it was online.

    Nearly half of NHS staff not medically trained‘ (Telegraph) – no surprise revelation there.

    Deadly toll of “remote” GPs. Coroner links deaths to lack of face-to-face appointments ++ But doctors vow: Phone and video calls are here to stay‘ (Mail) – this we already know. Having encountered those signs at the local NHS clinic warning “If you feel unwell please do not enter surgery

    The Guardian features actress and film director Karen Gillan who has gone from some typical female celeb angst in 2018 :”I’m living with a consistent, subtle homesickness” to ‘Hollywood action hero… female-led, John Wick-inspired franchise starter might be more of the same but it’s done with just about enough flair to pass the time‘ – how could the Gruan give it a thumbs down, it was female-led?

    Admittedly I don’t understand feminist politics. I saw a sign the other day reading “free period products” and I thought it was an antiques sale.

    Perhaps I should watch: ‘The return of Sex Education. TV’s funniest, smartest show about initimacy. Its stars and creator talk to ‘i’”- yes, but that’s not news, is it?

    Commuters clash over mask rules‘ shouts the freebie Metro. But then rows back faster than an out of service bus past a stop at the end of a driver’s shift on a rainy day: ‘Traveller in mask as officer, perhaps exempt, stays mask-free on a London train‘ and ‘Passengers with and without face coverings share Tube carriage yesterday. Some may have medical reasons not to wear one‘ – please tell me this frontpage splash was a joke.

    Huge rise in protection from Covid booster jabs‘ (Times)

    Oxford jab professor: we don’t need mass boosters‘ (Telegraph)

    You pays your money for your news and frankly… you wastes your money.

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  19. MarkyMark says:

    On Saturday America will be marking the twentieth anniversary of 9/11. The observances will be muted, because the world’s superpower managed to lose the war on terror so totally preposterously that it has made itself a global laughingstock. So instead I thought we’d revisit the summer of 2001 with a few columns of mine from the days before “the day the world changed”.
    https://www.steynonline.com/11681/what-we-were-talking-about

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  20. MarkyMark says:

    Ah, the White Man’s Burden, Millennium Edition: no matter how long ago the stiff-upper-lipped Brit scrammed out of Africa, it’s still his fault. Anti-racism, like the abolitionist movement, is a Western concept, always tinged with a bit of progressive self-loathing. But in Durban it became clear that anti-racism has shrivelled into the modern world’s most acceptable form of racism – anti-white. Its international evolution thus mirrors its development in the pace-setting Western jurisdictions that invented it.

    https://www.steynonline.com/11681/what-we-were-talking-about

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  21. MarkyMark says:

    Hamas are our friends (c) Corbyn from Labour who was thrown out of Labour.

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  22. R P McMurphy says:

    Don’t forget that disgusting Question Time, the BBC should have been closed down the next day.

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    As seen from AslSeeIt ….

    The proportion of clinical staff who are professionally trained has declined from 55.5 per cent in 2013 to just 52.5 per cent now, meaning 47.5 per cent of staff have no medical qualifications.13 hours ago

    Nearly half of all NHS staff have no medical qualifications

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    • JimS says:

      Recent visits to hospital prompts me to ask two questions:

      a) Where are the men?
      b) Where are the grey-haired?

      Certainly not among the staff. The NHS has become young and female, meaning that we now have to train two to four times as many as in Doctor In The House days just to keep existing posts filled.

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  24. StewGreen says:

    9am Yet another BBC prog that says #WhiteManBad #BlackPeopleAreVictims

    Certainly old injustices like the Mangrove 9 should be remembered
    equally with all the other injustices the BBC chooses to ignore

    Prog opens by framing that UK was racist
    Then first of the black guys, says he got to Britain by being a stowaway … and that is treated as some mind of laugh.
    Another admits he made money on the ship by gambling against people who were naive.
    .. that hints he was cheating them

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    • StewGreen says:

      The prog is often word for word the same as the Wikipedia page
      … that is strange

      So far neither mention the charges that the men were found guilty of, just that were found NotGuilty of the main charges.

      The prog does mention about a severed pigs head being used as a main part of the demo
      to signify police.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Prog ends ..announcement that Hillary Clinton really recommends the book that the following prog is based on
      The book about Kurdish all female fighting units beating iSIS

      After that prog we had a trailer for the new season’s BBC football coverage .. it only featured a female commentator.

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  25. G says:

    “230 refugees from Afghanistan have arrived in Wales and are being resettled here. The majority of those arriving have supported the Welsh armed forces over the last two decades”

    Welsh armed forces?

    “Wales is now now accommodating 50 families, comprising approximately 230 individuals” That’s an average of 4.6 members of a family – so far.
    https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/230-refugees-afghanistan-arrived-wales-21530633?

    Those who died. All white:
    https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/welsh-soldiers-who-died-afghanistan-21331179

    That’s ‘White Privilege’ for you.

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  26. MarkyMark says:

    Cheeky BBC …. (or not) ….

    Afghanistan crisis: Five lessons learned (or not) since 9/11

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58502199

    What lessons, if any, … ISLAM IS RIGHT ABOUT WOMEN!

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    Racism in Saudi Arabia extends to allegations of imprisonment, physical abuse, rape, murder, [1] overwork, and wage theft, especially of foreign workers who are given little protections under the law.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Saudi_Arabia

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    • tomo says:

      allegations?

      pffff…..

      KSA isn’t that different in reality to other peninsula states … some just have more paid-for shills in the media.

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    • G says:

      MM,

      With the Saudi elite joining in. Bless. They even agreed with Marcos in the 80’s to redirect remittances to him rather than to the families of the Philippine ex-pats. Strikes ensued no matter that strikes were banned.

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  28. G.W.F. says:

    Remember the BBC’s response to 9/11.

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    • tomo says:

      what was the first vid?

         2 likes

      • StewGreen says:

        I looked at the html and it looks the 2 YouTube vids are the same
        but the first one has a suffix telling me that the link was picked up from the page when it was in PLAYLIST mode.
        Normally for the link to work here, you have pick up a clean link
        by right clicking over the video as it it playing

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      • G.W.F. says:

        tomo

        Both vids are the same. They are frequently removed from you tube, but people keep putting them up. Eventually I found one that I could share.

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  29. MarkyMark says:

    British Intelligence Services ….

    “The fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban is likely to have “emboldened” so-called UK terrorists, the director general of MI5 has warned.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58512901

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  30. MarkyMark says:

    Shhh …. HSBC Hong Kong Bank is good ….

    A museum commemorating the deadly 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown has been raided by Hong Kong police.

    Officers were later seen carrying exhibits out of the June 4 Museum.

    Four members of the group that ran the museum, the Hong Kong Alliance, were detained on Wednesday – including prominent pro-democracy activist and barrister Chow Hang Tung.

    The arrests were made under the national security law, which has a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

    Police have accused Ms Chow of inciting subversion, her lawyers said.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-58506598

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  31. MarkyMark says:

    BBC urged to remove sculpture of naked boy from outside Broadcasting House because creator raped his daughters
    Eric Gill’s statue Prospero And Ariel stands in front of Broadcasting House
    Sculptor’s diary revealed he molested two of his daughters and family dog
    He also had an incestuous relationship with his younger sister Gladys
    Sexual abuse charity says it is ‘an insult’ to keep the statue on display
    By OLIVIA WILLIAMS

    PUBLISHED: 20:59, 22 April 2013 | UPDATED: 23:14, 22 April 2013

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    • tomo says:

      Do as we say and not as we do then?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      According to racial equality activist Richard Lapchick, the NBA in 2020 was composed of 74.2 percent black players, 16.9 percent white players, 2.2 percent Latino players of any race, and 0.4 percent Asian players. There were 6.3 percent of the players classified as “other” races.

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    • G.W.F. says:

      BBC urged to remove sculpture of naked boy from outside Broadcasting House because creator raped his daughters

      Perhaps the BBC got the idea for this show from the artist

      9k=

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      • JohnC says:

        If the BBC can turn a blind eye to peodophilia across Islam and it’s prophet, one little statue won’t bother them.
        Besides : isn’t the BBC where the peodo’s fit in best ?. Like the Nazi party leadership, they cover up for their own deviants. Just ask Jimmy.

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  32. StewGreen says:

    10am local news : First 3 stories were all sport
    #1 Female British* tennis player reaches US final
    #2 Yorkshire Cricket Club report has said that there was “no question” Azeem Rafiq was the victim of racial harassment and bullying during his first spell at the county.

    #3 Test match suddenly abandoned
    .. Last night all the Indian players tested negative
    It was known backroom staff had Covid , but play was expected to continue.
    First reports said India had forfeited the match.. this has now been changed.
    (Coincidentally if the Indian players now isolate for 10 days, they will all be considered safe for the opening of the million dollar Indian cricket league in 11 days time)

    #4 “Covid will get worse, here’s a local voice that we fished around for ”
    #5 ‘Vaccine expert says a booster is not necessary for all, only limited groups’

    * “Raducanu was born on 13 November 2002 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Ion Răducanu and Renée, who originate from Bucharest, Romania and Shenyang, China “

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  33. StewGreen says:

    “On Plymouth Hoe, site of one of England’s greatest victories, the statue of Francis Drake is to have a plaque added telling of his involvement in slavery.
    So why not ?
    Nelson Mandela – Terrorist Bomber.
    Martin Luther King – Adulterer.
    Gandhi – Racist.”

    Emily Pankhurst & the Suffragettes – violent terrorists that put back women’s rights
    JFK – serial womaniser
    Churchill – drunk

    Surely there are principles
    like “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone”

    To me it’s not that Mandela statue needs a warning
    It’s that the Drake one didn’t
    Everyone knows that the statue is commemorating POSITIVE SPIRITS of some occasions .. eg standing up to the Armada

    Yet the same applies to Mandela : that at the time of handover to majority rule, he went for reconciliation not vengeance ..and it was other people that later did things against that spirit.

    In another setting you could talk about the bad things that Drake and Mandela did at earlier points in their lives.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      I used to defend the BBC. Now I’m switching off
      The Today programme in particular has given up all pretence to presenting an objective point of view

      MICHAEL HOWARD
      9 September 2021 • 8:00pm

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    • StewGreen says:

      Lord Michael Howard:
      The Today programme has crossed the boundary from which it could have been regarded as a plausibly authoritative, if biased, guide to the national discourse to a place where it seems to have given up all pretence to an objective point of view.

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  34. Rob in Cheshire says:

    I stopped listening to the Today programme after being a loyal listener for about 30 years, and it feels great!

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  35. MarkyMark says:

    YOUR TAX. PAYING FOR TERRORISM IN THE UK.

    A Camden theatre that receives tens of thousands of taxpayer funding has been slammed for hosting a three-day event with a group that Boris previously described as “apologists for terror”. In April 2021 they were given a £33,671 grant by DCMS…
    (order-order)

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  36. StewGreen says:

    Local news “Almost 1 million people had Covid in the last week
    .. most under 24”

    em, that’s great news, that’s another 1 million kids naturally immune
    and that’s better than vaccine
    Can’t be many weeks until almost all have immunity.

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  37. micknotmike says:

    Well it’s a sombre anniversary tomorrow, so i thought I’d see how the BBC were handling it. There is a short video of “How did the world respond?” On comes the inevitable talking hijab. “I notice open hostility to muslims now, i don’t feel welcome in this country”. Good. How I remember it is the BBC showing Palestinians firing into the air and dancing for joy. You don’t have to go to Gaza now, any UK inner city will be a fair replica.

    I bought an internet radio a while back, as LBC is woker than a woke thing on wokeday. I’ve taken to listening to cheesy Southern country stations, particularly WQSB in Boaz, Ala. They play the stars and stripes in full at noon every day (6pm our time). They had an advert earlier, something like “Hanks Steakhouse, best ribeye in the state VETERAN OWNED”. Obviously the station didn’t add this subtext, but they aired the advertisment without comment, proudly probably.

    See media, you can do it. What would james O’Brien say?

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      Hopefully his head would explode.

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    • JimS says:

      “I bought an internet radio a while back..”

      When I bought my first one you could dial up those old comedy programmes that the BBC now puts up language and attitude warnings about.

      Then they ‘improved’ the service, so now I can only listen ‘live’.

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    • taffman says:

      micknotmike
      I stopped listening to LBC some time ago and tuned in to Talk Radio. Although there are one or two wokies there also.

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  38. vlad says:

    Two more years of useless box-ticker Caress-a Dick.

    Here’s what GB News think of her.

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    • JimS says:

      I remember them telling us that Jean Charles de Menezes had been shot whilst vaulting a ticket barrier.

      Later it was revealed that he was shot inside a tube train.

      How can anyone believe anything that Dick says?

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  39. StewGreen says:

    R4 Trailer “Electric ride UK with me Peter Curran as I drive from John o’ Groats to Land’s End”
    … it sounded 100% electric Car PR

    In 2010 he did a similar show
    “Peter Curran Electric Car Odyssey Around Europe” .. that was repeated every year until 2016

    (BTW his las tweet praises a Remainer for getting his Irish passport
    BBC/Guardian bubbleworld)

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    • StewGreen says:

      Aug 10 tweet
      did U see GUY MARTIN last night on C4 – he drove an electric car from lands end to J O groats & back
      – the journey was a nightmare – took twice as long & cost 40% more than a diesel car !

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  40. MarkyMark says:

    Police …

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  41. StewGreen says:

    Checking that BBC story about Ivermectin cases blocking a hospital already blocked with gunshot wound cases.
    The cheeky BBC didn’t put a correction note at the top.
    No they buried it at the bottom
    and the main claim at the bottom of paragraph 1, was completely substituted and then extra paragraphs added to make the original conclusion seem sound.
    Screenshots etc https://twitter.com/No2BS/status/1436326914789105680

    BTW NewsSniffer seems to have let their https security certificate expire, so their pages are blocked by Chrome
    but I can get through on the Microsoft browser.

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  42. MarkyMark says:

    MI5: 31 late-stage terror plots foiled in four years in UK
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58512901

    Terrorism in the UK: number of suspects tops 40,000 after MI5 rechecks its list
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/terrorism-in-the-uk-number-of-suspects-tops-40-000-after-mi5-rechecks-its-list-pqm6k62ph

    Home Office loses track of more than 600,000 people who should have left country, finds immigration watchdog
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/home-office-immigration-visa-out-stay-lose-track-uk-people-customs-control-a8278966.html

    The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. As of 2021, the British Army comprises 82,230 regular full-time personnel and 30,030 reserve personnel.[4]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Army

    Army imam says British Muslims can be good soldiers
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25680656

    Manchester Arena bomber was rescued from Libya by Royal Navy
    This article is more than 3 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

    China promotes education drive to make boys more ‘manly’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55926248

    Army chiefs are setting up a £500,000 ‘woke force’ to develop politically correct policies as ex-officers brand MoD’s move as ‘liberal madness’
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8701809/Army-chiefs-setting-500-000-woke-force.html

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  43. MarkyMark says:

    A notice from China’s education ministry has caused a stir after it suggested young Chinese men had become too “feminine”. The message has been criticised as sexist by many online users – but some say China’s male celebrities are partly to blame.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55926248

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  44. MarkyMark says:

    More than 14,000 migrants have made it across the English Channel this year, crossing from France to the UK.

    Home Secretary Priti Patel wants to allow the UK Border Force to be able to turn back boats carrying migrants across the English Channel in certain circumstances.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46758600

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    Home Office loses track of more than 600,000 people who should have left country, finds immigration watchdog
    UK border checks branded ‘shambolic’
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/home-office-immigration-visa-out-stay-lose-track-uk-people-customs-control-a8278966.html

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  45. Guest Who says:

    That ‘independent’ (c) BBc EdGuds lady The BBC pays to come on and say ‘independent’ things to Amol that serves BBc interests has issued this:

    *****
    Enders Analysis released this research on 10 September 2021.

    The rumoured BBC licence fee settlement (with rises below inflation) may result in a real term annual shortfall of c. £481 million by 2027

    The worst* mooted scenarios of decriminalisation or absolute cuts to the licence fee have been avoided (for now)

    A smaller BBC will have knock-on effects in the wider TV ecology, with fewer economic benefits flowing to the creative economy and a dilution of local content**

    ____

    *Careful dear, your slip is showing.

    **Given it is a sorry joke, no loss.

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  46. Up2snuff says:

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 from yesterday – the page is about to be updated

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274

    The three giveaways to something being wrong about the ‘reflection’ in the photograph are:
    1. The mask under the chin of the girl is slightly different to reality
    2. Her companion has her hand to her forehead in the virtual image, the reflection
    3. The man in the blue shirt and dark trousers reflected in the shop window is in a completely different position to the real image.

    How many did you spot? No doubt the BBC paid Getty their usual fee out of the bounteous pot that the Licence Fee payer gives the BBC and that includes poor young people on minimum wage and those on average wage. Licence Fee-payers paid for a ‘doctored’ fake photo!

    Dishonest BBC.

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  47. MarkyMark says:

    Jeremy Corbyn
    Independent MP for Islington North

    Loyalty to the Party failed … Hamas are still his friends!
    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10133/jeremy_corbyn/islington_north

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  48. StewGreen says:

    ITV local news goes into more details on the Azeem Rafiq report
    #1Today it’s only the conclusions released, not the full report.

    #2 The investigation was not a full win for him
    It upheld 7 of his 40 complaints
    @AzeemRafiq30 was the victim of “racial harassment” and “bullying” during his time with the club. Although majority of allegations are not upheld due to “insufficient evidence.”

    #3 The conclusion was that the club could have done more to accommodate Muslims, but
    “The panels unanimous view was that is was
    unable to draw definitive wider conclusions on institutional racism at YCCC..based predominantly on the experiences of Azeem Rafiq.” “one individual”

    That they had touched on incidents with other individuals, but that there was still not enough evidence to draw conclusions to say there was institutional racism or not.

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    • digg says:

      Institutional racism is a readily accepted catchphrase that can be employed by anyone with a grudge whether well-founded or not because it’s bloody illegal now to object to the accusation.

      Muslims are taught that lying to achieve their objectives against the kaffir is not only allowed but encouraged means their is no real foundation for any perceived grievance whatsoever and the sooner we all realise that and take protective measures the better our future security depends on it.

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      • digg says:

        Christian doctrine and commandment “You should NEVER bear false witness against any man.

        Muslims Koran doctrine “ Its fine to lie to and about a non-Muslims”

        Which society would you rather be in?

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  49. StewGreen says:

    BBC Local news “Here we have 24 yo ..who says he will refuse a vaccine”
    … they get into it .. and say he has already had Covid

    FFS that is completely different from someone who’s never had it .

    Now an expert is arguing that “the lighter you had Covid, the lower your resistance ”
    hmmm not heard of people who had a light case and then got a second heavy case.

    The lad says antibody tests would be much better than just assuming someone is safe cos they have been double vaccinated.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Oh the pet MP is quick off the mark

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      • Up2snuff says:

        The MP ought to know that one of the ways you get medical experience is by getting sick. There’s nothing quite like ‘learning the hard way’.

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      • StewGreen says:

        The MP basically retorted: Do you have “any medical qualifications?”

        That’s a character ATTACK to shut him up

        The small boy is expected to PAY for Emperor’s new suit
        So he’s entitled to have a SAY

        Argument depends on WHAT evidence he presents
        not WHO he is
        And in that tale the small boy had the truth, despite not being a qualified royal-tailor.

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    • digg says:

      The lefty powers that be are totally mesmerised by the COVID thing are they not? We see the president of the USA acting like a mafia godfather threatening citizens who don’t agree. Could it be that they see it as a way of hanging onto power?

      I think that is absolutely the case.

      Bring on the second revolution I will be there with my pitchfork and tundrel to take them to Madame guillotine

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