277 Responses to Weekend Thread 25 September 2021

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  1. Guest Who says:
    September 26, 2021 at 6:26 pm

    Bedfellows. Not strange.

    Champion’s agent should be worried.

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    • StewGreen says:
      September 26, 2021 at 10:27 pm

      She’s gone to the trouble of editing the screenshots
      yet the display is a mess
      She could’ve simply put them in one clear graphic
      £5.5bn pa of resources !

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  2. Guest Who says:
    September 26, 2021 at 6:30 pm

    Hence the perfect BBC graphic*.

    *Just don’t get caught ©️Martin Bashir’s Photoshop guy.

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    • Fedup2 says:
      September 26, 2021 at 6:45 pm

      Let me guess

      More girls in the population
      Change in counting methods
      Victims more likely to report
      Huge influx of 3rd world vermin

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  3. Fedup2 says:
    September 26, 2021 at 6:32 pm

    So lenny henry is to play jimmy saville in the forthcoming 13 part musical / drama series…
    A BBC spokesman said it will be an opportunity to show that no one in the BBC had any idea about the serial paedo rapist that was our Jim ….

    ( sorry i misread the news item – its not lenny len henry – its that bloke who played borax – steven unfunny coogan …

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  4. theisland says:
    September 26, 2021 at 6:38 pm

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58698406

    Appearing on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show, Sir Keir Starmer was asked if it was transphobic to say only women have a cervix.

    The Labour leader replied: “Well, it is something that shouldn’t be said. It is not right.”

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  5. Deborah says:
    September 26, 2021 at 6:39 pm

    I read the article Andrew Neil wrote in the Daily Mail. One of the complaints he had at GB News was that he had to do his own studio make-up. Realistically it is a minor issue but indicates how he was so used to the BBC where money is spent like water. He also complained that GB News has only one studio. Again it indicates someone who doesn’t care what is spent.

    Andrew doesn’t like the ‘shock jocks’ like Dan Wooten. Dan is on 4 days a week and obviously works incredibly hard. Mark Dolan is on every weekend and covered when Dan Wooten was on holiday which shows commitment and hard work. Andrew Neil lasted 4 days. He says like Fox News they lie on GB News but gave no examples.

    Andrew Neil also moaned that a technical issue caused no contact with guests one evening for one whole hour. Where was his professionalism? I remember there once being a problem at a Miss World show. Bob Hope was the compère. I was only a little girl at the time but I can remember how well he covered until the situation was restored.

    Some of the journalists have given up a lot to be on GB News such as Colin Brazier (widowered with 6 children). Andrew Neil has demeaned himself with all his moaning and been disloyal to his colleagues. He is the lesser for it.

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    • Fedup2 says:
      September 26, 2021 at 8:27 pm

      Neill has an interesting mind set – reminded me of the rant he went into over being blanked by nut nut during the election –

      You might recall that was in pre Biden days – a man who doesn’t talk to any unapproved press at all…

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  6. Northern Voter says:
    September 26, 2021 at 7:09 pm

    Mrs V just watched All Creatures Great and Small on Channel 5. Supposed to be based on the book’s of James Herriot. Load of tosh! Last series we had a black farmers wife, that is the wife was black, not the farmer. Tonight’s episode we find an Asian vet in Darrowby, pinching work from the Farnons. Must have come up the Humber and then the Ouse on a dinghy.

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  7. Fedup2 says:
    September 26, 2021 at 7:30 pm

    Time for a new thread – I bet if I said there is a thread shortage someone would start a queue ….

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  8. MarkyMark says:
    September 27, 2021 at 1:18 pm

    Steve Coogan to play Jimmy Savile in BBC One drama
    Published22 hours ago

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58699058

    Pope said: “The purpose of this drama is to explore how Savile’s offending went unchecked for so long, and in shining a light on this, to ensure such crimes never happen again. Steve Coogan has a unique ability to inhabit complex characters and will approach this role with the greatest care and integrity.”

    . . . . .

    How did Savile get away with it?

    In 1971, a 15-year-old girl was found dead. She was known to her friends as Samantha. In the papers she was called Claire McAlpine where she was described as a “dolly dancer” on Top of the Pops.

    The death, from an overdose of sleeping pills, was front page news. Just before, her mother had contacted the BBC to complain that a DJ had seduced her.

    In her diary she is said to have described seeing two DJs. Savile was not suspected of sleeping with her but the inquiry w
    as described by Dame Janet Smith as “wholly inadequate” – more concerned about protecting the reputation of the BBC than getting at the truth.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35659358

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  9. MarkyMark says:
    September 27, 2021 at 1:19 pm

    Savile, Canon Winter said, would in private “go on about girls” and so one day he questioned how this squared with the DJ’s “professed Roman Catholic faith”. Savile said it was simple, he would get in to heaven because of his charity work.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35659358

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