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Guardianland tweeters
“Oh look at Worldometer the UK i doing baddy in Covid cases
It’s second to the US day after day”
Em go to the Weekly trends page
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/weekly-trends/
Sure the UK has an increase, but it’s only 60th in rate of increase
Germany has a 26% weekly increase
Then Belgium and the East European countries are piling up 68%-88% increases
Sweden is not terrible …about 7 deaths per day (proportionate to Germany)
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/
UK was 49th in terms of deaths/million population last week.
The, “Fact Checkers” having a go at Farage. I received this email:
“On the show, Mr Farage (GB News) said: “On a good day wind energy can bring us 24%, 25% of our electricity needs”.
Last year wind produced 24% of electricity across the whole of the United Kingdom. So wind producing this much electricity isn’t a “good day” – it’s a regular day.
He then said: “But on a bad day, back in September there was a three week period when renewables produced between 2% and 3%.”
This isn’t true. The first three weeks of September did see relatively low levels of renewable electricity production, but far above the levels Mr Farage claimed.
In that three week period, solar, wind and hydro energy accounted for 10%-19% of Great Britain’s electricity, before production rose substantially – up to 44% by the end of the month.”
‘Wind’ is ‘wind’ surely? See how the ‘Professional’ so-called ‘Fact Checkers’ broaden out the subject to falsely convey that Farage, in referring to, ‘Wind Energy’ was really referring to “…..solar, wind and hydro energy….’.
“Jessica at Full Fact” – utterly dishonest.
@G Yep moving the goal posts from “wind”
…to all renewables
he was talking about ‘wind’ in isolation but uses the word ‘renewables’ in his last comment.
He was out only by a few % points
.. Farage seems to talk about NEEDS (ie. what we consume) whereas FF seems to discuss the PRODUCTION.
Of course when wind was low Drax threw all the AMERICAN TREES it could into its boilers
same with the straw burn plants.
That would push up renewables a bit
The first thing out of the fact checker’s mouth was to compare a daily figure with an average over a year.
She is assuming that cos the average for the YEAR is 24% that most days produce that
It is possible you get some days at 40%
so that actually a typical day produces 20%
FFS look at the “hit piece” photo FullFact use
The replies and retweets are dominated by HATE towards Farage.
Twitter activists again. Reliable rent a mob of which some were found to be ex BBC part time political staff employed part time by the BBC as journalists. The BBc even managed to fund and pay for the iPhones they now use, and the BBC encourages staff use of Twitter accounts (not directly connected to the BBC).
FullFact is a farce
That bloke should either shave or grow a beard.
G,
“…utterly dishonest.”
Yeah, imagine fact checking what he actually said. What a low down and dirty trick!
Viewing stats
normally BBC regional news at 6.30pm is the most watched programme of the day with 4.4million viewers
The exception is some big shows eg Strictly got 8.7m (a 51% audience share at the time)
and one day Corrie got a bit more that the news
another day Bake off just did
I don’t believe a word of it, Stew.
If they had to work for a living and their shareholders, they’d need a damn sight more evidence for their advertising prowess than a few numbers chucked in by their own ‘researchers’.
Do they really believe that pensioners feel good about their silly rubbish?
I certainly don’t!
The TV stats have always given me the impression that they’re marking their own homework.
Channel 5 just started showing Pearl Harbor. Alec Baldwin plays Jimmy Doolittle. Don’t they usually take these films off the schedules at such times?
You make a good point Stew in how the BBC make up its viewing and listening figures is dubious. It counts anyone logging in from Chile or Botswana as listening of or viewing figures. And add in mobile phones, BBC iPlayer, echo’s from its many other channels fulfilling its mission and even its own tummy button to fluff up the numbers. But its in long term decline, and that’s the problem the BBC has no answer but more of the same, cross dressed for a younger and more ‘diverse’ audience that don’t have to pay for it.
The point is in a country with 64 million people they say their normal top show gets 4.4m and certain exceptions 8.5
that still means only 14% are watching and 86% not.
“The point is in a country with 64 million people …”
85 million people more like .
Tru dat!
Phillip
Good point
If anyone has the guide as to how the numbers are counted – on radio and TV that would be useful
For instance – i understood that if you listen to ‘ today ‘ for 5 minutes that counts as one ‘listen ‘
I dont know where i got that from or , indeed , whether it is true .
Likewise the added numbers of online listening might make view figures bigger than they really are.
Overseas viewing numbers should not be included because of the absence of a TV licence …
Yes sometimes they use a metric “weekly reach”
which seems to count every single person who listened for just 5 mins within a week.
Whereas in your mind you have an impression a listener is someone who listens for 30mins 4 days out of 5.
Yesterday much of the press revealed further information on the muslim ‘suspect’ who murdered MP David Amess.
Among other things, we learnt that he had targeted and spied on 2 other MPs (even going to their homes to reconnoiter) and considered attacking Parliament (before deciding the security there was too tight), and that he had links to Islamic State.
All of which would be of great public interest, one might have thought. Yet none of that was mentioned on the Al Beeb bulletins that I saw.
Almost as if the BBC were hoping the story would just go away.
Compare that to their obsessive reporting of the Jo Cox murder.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10103053/Suspect-Ali-Harbi-Ali-25-charged-murdering-Sir-David-Amess.html
Plod PR drawing conclusions about the motivation of this fella, and clearly nothing volunteered by the man himself.
There are hints that the killer is quite composed – that composure would hint (imho) that he feels justified with the attack and is unlikely to just sit stoically through the entire process.
He’s going to say something … as he can’t realistically expect to get much if any leniency via the pleadings of his barrister – in fact I wonder that a barrister has been appointed at the magistrate court level as clearly that’s a perfunctory step where he confirms his name, en route to The Old Bailey ….
The prosecutor is named in much of the coverage – but not the defence barrister.
How much does the defence barrister charge and who is paying his wage?
That will be you and me.
Judging C5 – they probably thinks it’s a musical .
If a Democrat shoots someone a different set of rules apply meaning there is no court case
And the killer can carry on with the campaign against the true president …
FullFact is a farce
It’s not just that they try defending the indefensible – they can’t even get the evidence straight or verifiable and just lob in their opinion…
I wonder what the going day rate is ?
Alec Baldwin viciously mocked Trump on a weekly basis on the Saturday Night Live tv show, including while Trump was in hospital with Covid.
Oh, how the luvvies and lefties tittered and sniggered.
Well, Alec you moron, at least Trump never killed anyone.
Vile did, however, ‘like’ this…
Seems Black Grievance TV is having a day off
..but Sunday 10:45pm ITV Benjamin Zephaniah
Football’s Windrush Story
is on after the black gameshow
🟢 Sunday 9pm Channel 4 Joe Lycett vs The Oil Giant
One hour special against Shell
Made in conjunction with XR
but Ofcom think that is the right kind of bias
… https://www.twitter.com/XRLondon/status/1446398692127301657
edit – this was a response to earlier BBC web login topic.
The BBC web gets a paywall?
I suppose they got an exception for iPlayer ….
Given the last 2 days I see a noticeable increase in mask wearing solo car drivers and mask wearing sometime frantic seeming hand sanitisers in supermarkets – I’m guessing that they’ve wound the scare knob up in broadcast news…?
If I read the entitlement of BBC folk anywhere near correctly – their goal is an internet levy and that flows nicely with pols looking to muzzle the Internet
It rather looks like the container traffic in/out of the USA is about to *really* go pear-shaped…
THREAD:
Channel 4 is often worse than the BBC for balanced editorial. I have no doubt that China has influenced much of this nonsense. An interesting free ebook launched today by GWPF clearly shows the structural errors being introduced (by force) to western democracy is an impossible dream.
“The paper identifies six key fallacies that have led the energy policy debate astray:
Fallacy One: There is a ‘green’ energy transition
Fallacy Two: Energy is like other commodities
Fallacy Three: Energy efficiency will bring nett reductions
Fallacy Four: Renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels
Fallacy Five: You can legislate around the laws of thermodynamics
Fallacy Six: The UK has shown world-leading decarbonisation
It goes on to look at the strategic importance of motive power and the futility of battery electric vehicles, the threat of Chinese dominance, and then spells out thermodynamically and economically competent alternative approaches to a future of clean and abundant energy for all.
Click to access Prins-Net-Zero-National-Security.pdf
For God’s sake, none of us deny that the climate is changing. It always has! What we do deny is the extent as to what we contribute to that change and what we could possibly do to stop it. Stopping it is impossible. Of course, a single erupting volcano can’t be controlled either.
We also don’t deny that resources are finite, that we certainly do need to clean up our act and that improvements could be made. We do deny that we, the UK, are solely responsible for showing the way by effectively vastly reducing our standard of living “to show moral authority and an example to the rest of the world”.
The same people espoused that if the West had given up nuclear weapons in the ‘70s and ‘80s the USSR and other nuclear states would have done the same. No, we would be speaking Russian. I can prove that M.A.D. worked, can CND prove that their “solution” would have?
I urge anyone less cowardly than the BBC to watch the heroic Douglas Murray talk to the heroic Alastair Stewart on the heroic GB News about the despicable murder of David Amess and the cowardly response to it.
As Murray says, IT’S AN OBSCENITY!!!
Vlad
Wake up Britannia !
Plays his cards right, the same wedge as BS in a year…
25,000 followers
1 Like
I doubt that such BBC accounts are shadow banned by Twitter, like a lot of righty accounts are
Trending with 40 engagements in seven hours is impressive.
12 retweets and 28 likes
One of those 12 is a quote tweet which call them out
Oh it’s their second attempt, their first tweet got 18 Likes
and 2 replies against them.
The annoying thing is that the changes to Twitter mean that beneath the tweet ai am forced towards a whole series of other tweets by mad alarmists like Katherine HayHoe
What’s next, gulags, medical units and lobotomies?!
Just went on to the Crafter’s site Etsy (I start my Xmas shopping early) to be faced with this…………..
https://www.etsy.com/featured/blackownedshops-uk?campaign_label=new_at_etsy&utm_source=adhoc&utm_campaign=etsy_newatetsy_102321_BHM21_CelebrateBHM_uk&utm_medium=email&%243p=e_sg&_branch_match_id=740609615129571304
Encouraging us to search out black owned businesses. I give up.
This is not a new thing, Etsy started that a while ago.
On a similar topic one of the black TV voices has this thing about promoting black owned businesses
..I forget the name right now.
Here’s a June 2020 tweet complaining
.. https://www.twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1271504119447068673
one was “Anthony Joshua the British boxer, just addressed a crowd in London telling them to only shop in black owned shops”
Maybe Lewis Hamilton did too
Shame the Ukrainian gave him a lesson in boxing!
\\ Y’all don’t know about Miiriya???
It’s like Amazon/Etsy but for Black owned businesses, it has nothing but Black businesses on it, download it it’s so convenient!! //
Crumbly Cornish Clotted Cream Fudge. Only £5.25 per 100g.
Thats ‘only’ £23.84 for a pound.
You can get 500g (1.105 pounds) in the pound shop.
Same ingredients, different wokeness.
A lot of the time it’s the same product
Chancers were buying £10 factory made stuff from B & M and selling it on Etsy as HAND MADE
for £50
What goes “clippity clop, clippity clop, bang bang? Clippity clop, clippity clop
An Amish drive by shooting!
That gag was sponsored by the NRA – honorary president – mr a Baldwin …
Yet again today the Times book review lays into a book
children’s book The Lion Above The Door
“fun but flawed” and says it won the Blue Peter Prize cos it is about refugees and immigration and is by a Muslim author.
Ah Maxi corrects me
Although the review starts off with the subheading “fun but flawed”
and then goes on about a book about refugees by a Muslim author that won the Blue Peter Prize
That wasn’t the book he is calling flawed
He’d jumped in by first talking about her first book
which I see he said deserved to win the prize.
Then he goes on to why he thinks the new book is flawed.
I’d assumed he was saying this new book was the one that won the prize
StewGreen,
“…and then goes on about a book about refugees by a Muslim author…”
Oh wow, this is truly pathetic.
“[the Times book review] says it won the Blue Peter Prize cos it is about refugees and immigration and is by a Muslim author.”
The review says nothing of the sort about her current book, or her first book. You lied. Just admit it and move on.
Maxi, my first reply to when you brought it up fessed up I had misinterpreted it
I wrote “Yes you are right,
… my error in reading.”
We all misinterpret something complicated sometime or other
I don’t mind someone saying “Hey I think you have misinterpreted it”
If they start shouting “you lied” that is misrepresentation
saying I believed one thing and wrote another
A little more than a week since the shocking murder of an MP and the BBC has airbrushed any mention from their UK ‘news’ website.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk
Plenty of room though for these massive ‘news’ stories tonight in the UK.
Road sign bungle sees Yorkshire sign erected in Lincolnshire.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-59009661
Newport’s ‘road to nowhere’ fly-tipping blackspot near M4 cleared
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-59023721
Its all in the interest of social cohesion .
Community cohesion is just psychobabble for the failure of multi culturalism.
Arsenal are said to be in talks with Alec Baldwin as they need someone who can actually shoot on target
“Migrant crossings: More than 800 migrants cross Channel in three days”
“Dan O’Mahoney, Clandestine Channel Threat Commander, said: ”The government is determined to tackle the unacceptable rise in dangerous Channel crossings using every tool at our disposal, at every stage in the journey.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-58965905
Evidently, the ‘Clandestine’ Channel Threat Commander, Dan O’Mahoney,is more concerned about the criminals lives than they the invaders are.
Border Farce is a mere pantomime and farce. We voted for Brexit to end this absurd situation. Its time the British Government got tough and sent them all back . The Home Secretary’s job is to take care of our lives not of the invaders .
This government has to go before there is a major terrorist disaster!
Good post Taffman.
Except for the last sentence.
Which is….errrr…….a bit late.
As residents of Leigh on Sea might mention.
To name but the latest example of many.
Sluff
And I fear more disasters to come.
If only the Home Office would publish the number of illegal landings on our shores with the same alacrity as the “reported Covid-19 cases” .
Its all in the interest of ‘community cohesion’ but not our cohesion.
Tory MPs must know by now, that their number is up.
maxincony, the maxi troll !
Where are you on this interview ?………………………
So inspiring.
Our socialist government today announced public expenditure of £7 bn on yet more collectivised public transport, mainly to be spent (i.e wasted) in socialist city hubs like Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, and Birmingham.
Did you know that petrol duty raises £28 bn a year under normal non-covid times but we spend only £12 bn a year on roads?
But whereas 85% of journeys are by car, only 13% are by bus and train combined?
So what we have here is redistribution of wealth on a gargantuan scale. And almost no-one notices or comments. And the investigative journalists at the BBC are too busy w*** ing themselves silly every time St Greta opens her mouth to ask any questions.
A true scandal of our age.
Sluff – i think you should spare a thought for comrade corbyn who collectivist agenda is daily being stolen by the red nut nut tories …
Just when you thought the cowardly useless incompetent Tories couldn’t get lower than a snakes belly they allow the suspected murderer of PC Yvonne Fletcher to settle in Britain.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10123147/Prime-suspect-murder-WPC-Yvonne-Fletcher-allowed-settle-UK-British-spy.html
BBC 4 Trailers
Announcer plugged “On Iplayer watch the Earthshot Prize
…. and Radio4’s 39 Ways to Save The Planet”
Then a full trailer
“Coca Cola’s eco problem BBC1 7:30pm Monday”
Is it true you can only be a British Gas fitter if you are of a dusky hue?
…and chubby.
A chunk.
I’ll look after my yoghurt pots if governments will just keep Africans in Africa and Asians in Asia.
A thought on comments further up the trail about viewing figures.
Being a rugby fan, I was searching for the Premiership highlights on channel 5, as per last year.
Except that….they are no longer on channel 5. Nor in fact on any tv channel. The premiership are putting the highlights straight onto youtube. Available free-to-air, so to speak.
With that kind of option, having something like the BBC, with its vanishing viewing figures, is revealed as the outdated anachronism it is.
I predict a race that only one contender will win . Because only one contender will take part .
It will be called at the COP26 binge in a fortnight . Actually its already been called . Boris has said the UK will be the leader in combating global warming . We`ll be the leader alright because no one else will take part in it . The up front stake of taking part in it is twenty times more than the prize money . Not only that the stake money is disbursed to those that dont even attend the race event .
Of course Boris is like every other half wit in the civil service and foreign office who think all foreigners admire them and want to emulate them . And no amount of time and experience will ever persuade them otherwise .
Madness .
BBC headline:
‘Tories are friends so don’t need masks ‘ – Rees Mogg
Blatant attempt to ridicule Mogg and the Tories. Including quotes from Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the SNP.
As usual they completely mis-represent the reality. It’s a completely staged publicity event by Labour who don’t wear masks either. Except when the cameras are on.
This is what we are meant to believe the Labour half of the house looks like:
Clearly completely staged for the cameras.
This is what they looked like at their conference:
Blatant double-standard hypocrisy by Labour with the BBC fully complicit.
Sigh…..
“‘I am a black woman in a white court’: Former Labour MP reportedly fears being discriminated against as she faces jail for threatening to throw acid over a suspected love rival
Leicester East MP Claudia Webbe threatened to throw acid over another woman
She was convicted of harassment against suspected love rival Michelle Merritt
The former Labour MP plans to appeal and will be sentenced on November 4
Ms Webbe, 56, said that she is a black woman facing a white court and system”
best comment so far:
You’re once, twice, three times a female Labour MP…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10124065/Former-Labour-MP-reportedly-fears-discriminated-against-faces-jail.html#comments
Ah Claudia – in a bunker made of her own race hate . She’d feel more comfortable in a coloured African country – go try the yeman criminal justice system darling …. Incredible to think chippy is also still an MP…law maker
Maybe offer her a ‘necklace’ or a bit of ‘honour’ stabbing by her victim’s relatives?
Time our justice system had a bit of ‘enrichment’?
Why has David Beckham turned a blind eye to racism, misogyny and homophobia in Qatar – could it be his secret £10m deal to plug its World Cup?
David Beckham was seen working on a promotional film for the Qatar World Cup
The rich Middle Eastern nation has a record of appalling human rights abuses
Beckham didn’t comment on Qatar’s unjust treatment of gay men and women
It is thought Beckham is being paid in excess of £10 million to create the promo
Meanwhile in the UK:
Met Police making enquiries over any racism allegations after Crystal Palace fan group SLAM Newcastle’s Saudi-led owners with banner during Premier League draw… as Holmesdale Fanatics condemn Premier League for ‘choosing money over morals’
As the purchase from Mike Ashley cost £305m, 10 per cent of that fund has come from RB Sports and another 10 per cent from PCP Capital Partners. The other 80 per cent has been raised by the PIF, Saudi Arabia’s “sovereign wealth fund”.
That is where the lines with the state appear to have become blurred. Bin Salman is the current ruler of the Gulf state and he is also chairman of the PIF.
When the issue of Saudi Arabia’s human rights record was raised, Staveley added: “I’m obviously aware of those comments that have been made and that’s something we take very seriously and keenly. Our partner is not the Saudi state, our partner is PIF.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/10/23/the-lancet-makes-false-climate-change-death-claims-media-swallows-them/
US media credulity with matters ‘reported’ in other countries is the stuff of legend.
The BBC picks up a copy of the Sunday People to head its online press line-up this morning – that paper perhaps best exemplifying our national non sequitur debate over the apparent islamist terrorist murder of an MP: ‘51 MPs call in cops over threats‘ – that’ll be overwhelmingly over the internet.
Is there any evidence our young friend charged with the murder sent Twitter threats or anything of the like? – One doubts it.
But all this fuss over hatey digital communication serves as a handy smokescreen obsuring the really difficult question MPs don’t want to face of who on earth have we invited over here and how come they hate us so much? And given they hate us so much – how come we keep inviting them over?
Right on cue the Observer gives frontpage photo pride of place to: ‘Little Amal, an 11-foot tall puppet, visits St Paul’s Cathedral yesterday as she nears the end of The Walk, a five-month journey from Turkey to the UK to raise awareness of the world’s refugee crisis‘ – well, it wouldn’t be the first time a hulking great over-sized speciment of a migrant pretented to be a child refugee. Frankly, to my eye, the thing resembles a Doctor Who monster, designed to scare the kiddies.
So many questions. Starting from Turkey and crossing the entire European continent… like some reverse Orient Express… why end up in Britain? Why finish with a photo op in a Christian cathedral? Why not at some radical left-wing London gay, lesbian and trans bookshop, for instance?
The implication is obviously that Amal is muslim but is this cathedral aspect supposed to hark back and tap into our former Christian heritage? That would have made sense when Christ cared for unbelievers and they subsequently chose to follow him. Is there any evidence whatsoever that muslim asylum seekers subsequently join the Christian church, having been kindly given their UK passports? Has a swelling of our muslim population seen any deepening and strenghtening of our Judeo-Christian heritage and culture – quite the opposite is true.
Christian clergy and believers indulging in encouraging muslim migration are the turkeys here – voting for no future Christmases.
And at the very same time that the Observer wants us to open wide our borders so as to embrace all and sundry they also want us to Lockdown internally and avoid our neighbours for dire fear of the lurgy: ‘Observer comment: No more delay. Johnson is ignoring the warning signs, Now is the time to impliment the Covid winter plan‘
Our subjugation to the caliphate progresses apace: ‘Police investigate Crystal Palace fans’ banner criticising Saudi Arabian deal‘ (BBC) – meanwhile police presumably also investigate historic claims of canibalism in light of the emergence of photographic evidence of Leeds United football fans half-a-century ago brandishing banners claiming: “Norman Hunter bites yer legs”
‘…criticising Saudi Arabian deal…‘ – eh? Can they do you for that? The Financial Times better tread warily when next they review some business takeover involving middle eastern finance.
‘The banner had a checklist with alleged offences by the Saudi Arabia regime‘ – watch out Amnesty International… the Sharia compliant rozzers will be raiding your offices next…
Amnesty International on Saudi: ‘Virtually all known Saudi Arabian human rights defenders inside the country were detained or imprisoned at the end of the year… Repression of the rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly intensified. Among those harassed, arbitrarily detained, prosecuted and/or jailed were government critics, women’s rights activists, human rights defenders, relatives of activists, journalists, members of the Shi’a minority and online critics of government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.’
No wonder muslim refugees choose not to go to live in the land of Mecca. What a topsy turvy world we do live in.
And what a mess our football authorities have gotten themselves into when they happily invited identity politics into the game.
As if footie wasn’t tribal enough as it is. Now there’s no resolving these two sides: “Officers are assessing the information and carrying out enquiries. Any allegations of racist abuse will be taken very seriously.” (BBC) – gosh we’ve got RACE… in the red corner, versus…
‘Proud and Palace, the club’s official lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender supporters group, also protested on Saturday, posting a video on their Twitter account.‘ (BBC) – wow, LGBTQetc.. in the rainbow coloured corner.
One wonders what banner Proud and Palace might bring along to a match to intimidate rival teams: “Christian Benteke kisses yer lips“? All the modern players do that anyway.
No wonder there’s no coppers to be seen on the beat these days – it’s going to take hundreds of graduate level police brainhours to unravel this kerfuffle.
AsIseeit
Regarding Little Amal.
Does anybody think “Green light. Red light” when they see it.
The Artful Rog is now going full Vile on flounce fact checking…
NOTHING will halt climate change, other than an absence of the climate. WE all know that, so should he.
The BBC has always been very, very pro-lockdown and has campaigned long and hard to have them imposed along with other measures such as masks and closing schools…and it is quite prepared to manipulate and manufacture ‘facts’ to support whatever its current line is.
When Boris isn’t locking down and says he is ‘following the science’ the BBC suddenly turn into anti-science luddites telling us the science doesn’t matter….and again just last week it was doing this as it dismissed Sage’s scientiific advice not to lockdown and said maybe we need to listen to other voices…however Sage’s sage advice in the Autumn suggesting we lockdown is gold-plated, copper-bottomed, cast-iron stuff….and BBC presenters are perfectly happy to state that ‘Boris killed 10’s of thousands’ by his failure to lockdown quick enough and not follow that advice.
The BBC’s favourite scientist, Prof. Brian Cox, is a staunch defender of the BBC and its drive to put ‘The Science’ centre stage…
‘Prof Cox said the BBC had put science centre stage and had been rewarded with high ratings and huge interest. The Wonders of the Universe presenter said public service broadcasting had a “very important” role to play in changing the direction of society.”
Ironically…when it suits…that science becomes debatable….
‘Don’t use ‘The Science’ as cover when making hard COVID-19 choices, say leading UK researchers
Politicians who claim to be following ‘The Science’ on COVID-19 should be more honest about the doubt and uncertainty around the choices to be made in controlling the pandemic, some leading names in UK science have said.
“I have heard instances of ‘we were following the science’ from politicians as a simple defence to a difficult question on COVID-19,” said Brian Cox, professor of particle physics at Manchester University.
“It almost seems sometimes like a defence that some ministers appear to have been coached to deploy,” Cox told a press briefing. This obscures the level of disagreement between scientists about how to best respond to COVID-19, and the fact that the position shifts over time, as understanding of the virus increases.
Politicians should be more transparent about how emerging evidence informs new policy approaches. “Advice will change as new knowledge comes along; it’s not something that has to be apologised for. It’s the lesson of science. If science changes because of new knowledge, that’s a good thing,” said Cox. ‘
Soooo….follow the science but er question the science and don’t follow it…just choose something from the myriad of scientific opinion that suits yeah?
Never mind that Sage is made up of large numbers of scientists all with their own views and those views are weighed and sifted and the best conclusion is reached based on that evidence in the round. The science that the government follows is one that does take into account different views and opinion….so Cox is wrong to say ‘The Science’ they are following is worthless and merely a convenient political shield….it is Cox who is making political points here to suit his own agenda…which ties in neatly with the BBC’s of course.
The BBC is adept and pretty ruthless at pushing disinformation in order to promote the idea that lockdowns or other harsh measures are needed. The ‘necessary lies’ it tells are blatant, large scale and repeated endlessly along the lines that if you repeat something enough times people will believe anything.
It will tell you that the UK didn’t lockdown quickly enough the first time and this caused unnecessary deaths…when it’s pointed out that Germany [the BBC’s then covid blue-eyed boy] locked down at the same time but suffered far fewer deaths [as the BBC keeps reminding us…or used to…gone quiet now Germany has large number of deaths] the BBC at first denied it and then [on its ‘fact-checking’, lol, ‘More or Less’ programme] told us well, yeah same time…but a completely different timeline….not true…the Germans pretty much followed exactly the same timeline with the same responses and reactions as us…they just got lucky…as proven when they suddenly suffered large numbers of deaths in the second wave…when their knowledge of coronavirus, how it is transmitted, who is vulnerable, how to stop it, was much more developed than before the first wave. All that extra knowledge and they couldn’t stop the second wave…proving that the first wave’s low death numbers was just luck not brilliant German science and crisis management.
The Telegraph busts the myths that the BBC so often promotes…just yesterday they were telling us that we had the worst covid rates in Europe….hmmmm….not true apparently…..
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/10/23/lockdown-myths-need-challenged/
‘ The lockdown myths need to be challenged
Calls for more restrictions are all too often based on a flawed understanding of what is really happening
Calls are growing for restrictions to be introduced in response to rising Covid cases and hospital admissions. While these calls are undoubtedly well-intentioned, I believe that they are often based on certain myths or misunderstandings of the evidence that lead to the effectiveness of lockdowns and restrictions being overestimated.
The first myth is that the UK has had the highest Covid death rate in Europe and that this is mainly due to locking down too late in both waves. While it is true that we were highest after the first wave, the situation has changed significantly. Ranked against EU countries, the UK is 11th on Covid deaths and 15th on excess deaths.
Many claim that thousands of lives would have been saved if we had locked down earlier in the first wave, but almost every country with a higher death rate than the UK did lock down early. This gave them very small first waves in spring 2020 but these were followed by very large second waves in the autumn/winter 2021.
Similarly, the claim that the UK made the same mistake in the second wave and that thousands died due to the failure to have a “circuit-breaker” lockdown last October isn’t supported by the evidence. Wales – which did have one – ended up with similar Covid and excess death rates to England.
The current myth is that the UK has the highest Covid rates in Europe now and this is due to our lack of vaccine passports and mask mandates. But these comparisons are flawed. First, because they are based on case rates and ignore the fact that the UK does a lot more testing (test positivity rates also need to be compared – the UK is about average). Secondly, because other countries are at different stages of their third waves and their immunity will wane later than in the UK because their vaccine programmes started later.
The other problem with this interpretation is that Scotland and Wales (which are more valid comparisons) kept their mask mandates and recently brought in vaccine passports, but their rates have been higher than England’s. (This is specifically about mandates – I voluntarily wear a mask in confined spaces and if I’m with anyone at high risk, and encourage everyone to do so.)
The next myth is that only restrictions or lockdowns bring down cases, hospital admissions and deaths. This is clearly not true given what happened in July and September when there were no restrictions and cases fell, most likely due to people voluntarily changing their behaviour in response to risk.
The last myth is that “going early and going hard” with restrictions is always better than waiting. Again, given what happened in July and September when a huge surge was predicted by many, that would have been the wrong advice. Cases actually fell significantly.
Of course, some of those on the other side of the debate have their own misplaced certainties: for example that lockdowns have no impact on Covid (they do – the more important question is whether they cause more overall benefit than harm); that the NHS backlog was caused by lockdown (it was mainly due to hospitals having too many Covid patients) and that the economy would have been fine if we hadn’t locked down (there would have been a significant hit as people stayed at home in a “voluntary lockdown”).
The division and polarisation of the past year was perhaps inevitable, but we need to recognise that we are all trying to achieve the same thing – to minimise the overall harm to health, the economy, education and society as a result of Covid and the response to it. To save lives in future it is legitimate and necessary to examine our Government’s performance and that of other countries. We must do this by working together, and by focusing on facts, not misleading claims or selectively chosen statistics.
Over the past 18 months, I have tried to do that, and there were times when I backed restrictions as it was clear that the NHS would be unable to deliver essential services without them. But we are now in a fundamentally different position due to the very high levels of population immunity and vaccines proving effective in reducing hospital admissions and deaths.
None of this is to downplay Covid’s terrible toll, and I have done what I can by volunteering to serve on the front line and with the vaccine campaign. But provided we get booster jabs into all those at high risk before winter, and we use our freedoms responsibly to protect others, there should be no need to bring back restrictions.
Dr Raghib Ali is a senior clinical research associate at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge. He writes in a personal capacity’
SAGE?
At the outset (Feb 2020) I went looking at SAGE and was, to say the least really irked that it’d been stuffed with tossers from PHE.
– and we’ve been stuffed as a consequence.
SAGE need sending to the taxidermists in an Admiral Byng sort of a way.
Science can be manipulated . The Commie Bloc had “scientific socialism ” and we know how the Nazis used science .
Nibor, as someone who has worked in science and a technical discipline for nearly 30 years, I’d say ‘science’ is (and always has been) extremely political. Those who succeed are usually those who’ve had the sense to tailor their ‘interests’ to support whichever way the current winds of political opinion are blowing… that’s how you get the big funding, the TV appearances, and the comfortable sinecures.
I’m sure that’s no surprise to anyone really, but it’s something to bear in mind every time you read an article that begins with “Scientists say…” or “99% of Scientists agree that…”
Just mulling over Baldwin and Karma while I was cutting the grass and realised the thing which has been niggling me is WTF was a 24 year old girl doing as chief armourer ?. Weapons are not things you can teach and pass a test, they required experience and common sense.
I wonder if she was given the job because of sexist quotas and wokeism instead of the job going to the older white guy who was far more qualified through experience. If she was, it is indeed Karma in action.
One thing for sure though : none of our media will go down that route. The Left don’t care if people die : the agenda is more important.
The next lesson from the same hymn sheet will be learned when Harris takes over from Biden.
She’s just stupid and careless….doesn’t take much to be safe….never mix blank and live ammo, always check weapon when pick it up or handing it to someone [and their job to double check].
Guy Gibson was just 24 when he had to set up a new Lancaster squadron, select the crew, train them, equip it with specialist aircraft, plan and practise the mission and then carry it out….successfully…..all in a very, very short time frame.
And don’t point real guns at people – even when they’re not loaded?
Why would there have been any live ammo anywhere near?
What does any of this matter? Her father was a legendary sharpshooter who she could call on, and we risk the vicious circle of the ‘experience’ stupidity destroying much of our country.
Currently companies won’t take on HGV drivers or haven’t been doing without experience, they can’t get the experience because no one will employ them ! then these companies go crying to the government that they can’t find anyone with experience and they need to seek foreign workers who have the experience they denied to British workers.
You have to start somewhere and someone has to give you that break to gain the experience otherwise no one gets any experience as only the elderly can be employed.
In addition she might not even have been on set that day as the set was plagued with strikes, and we know from the 911 call that it was the assistant director who handed Bladwin the gun and declared it to be a “cold gun”.
Question is though, was it a live round in the chamber, and how did it get there if it was? A single live round in a chamber and all the rest blanks?
But the bigger question is why did Baldwin fire directly to camera ignoring all the safety checks put in place after the death of Brandon Lee, and even a blank can kill someone.
An acquaintance of mine who lives in just outside Johannesburg South Africa goes the other way – 3 blanks and the other 9 real.
My friend who went to SA on business didn’t get a gun. Instead he got a training course on how to be car-jacked without getting shot.
Apparently the only reason they don’t want to shoot you is because of the mess it makes in the car.
tomo,
It sounds to me like your friend in SA is having you on.
Twelve rounds in the gun, so presumably a semi-automatic? AFAIK, you can’t mix blanks and live rounds in those – the blanks won’t cycle the mechanism. When real automatic weapons are used with blanks in movies, they have a bore restrictor in the barrel to increase the back pressure.
Not a gun owner myself but I have friends and family in the US who are.
Indeed…. Working the slide three times with the chance the blank gets stuck – no thanks.
Asking for more trouble really.
What an extraordinary comment.
I wonder what line of work you are in such that you think being in charge of something is the best way to learn ?. In my experience, it is a very, very expensive way to get it. If not a disastrous one.
Apparently she WAS on the list of people scheduled to be on set that day. And even if she wasn’t, if she was worth her salt, she would have someone she could trust to cover for her.
I agree that ultimately it is Baldwin’s fault and he definitely should be facing charges of negligent manslaughter. But her job was to make sure he was never put in that position.
If you aren’t ever allowed to gain the experience then you can you ever get it?
This is the vicious circle I talked about, everyone has to start somewhere, and no it is absolutely not her responsibility to get someone to cover for her if she goes on strike !
What I find extraordinary is the number of people prepared to cast blame without a shred of evidence based purely on her age and apparant lack of experience.
It is possible for someone to be killed or injured with a blank cartridge and we don’t know as yet if that is what happened. She might have done nothing wrong at all, or the gun might have been tampered with between her and Baldwin we do not know and that it why it is grossly unfair to cast blame.
The bit you are missing is that she was in charge. People gain experience by those in charge teaching them what to do. Nobody in their right mind puts someone with no experience in charge.
If someone tampered with it between her and Baldwin, it is her fault. She should make sure that was not possible. We are talking about guns here.
It is possible to be killed by a blank cartridge, but only at very close range. It’s a pure pressure wave : no projectile.
Bottom line is that Baldwin had a loaded gun and didn’t know it. Whatever else happened, that’s her fault. The fact he didn’t check it and pulled the trigger while pointing it at someone is his fault.
My question here is about whether she got the job because of her sex when other people much more experienced didn’t because they were male. I don’t know if that’s the case or not : my point is that nobody will ask the question (at least in public).
Don’t you think it’s a hell of a coincidence that this happened when this 24 year old woman was in charge ?.
Classic nonsense from the Mail which perfectly illustrates the paradox and dishonesty of criticising countries that have Islamic sharia law but looking the other way and promoting Islam in this country…similarly attacking Saudi Arabian ‘human rights’ issues when it buys Newcastle United but looking the other way as it pumps billions into mosques, Islamic centres and British universities in order to promote Islamic values in the UK.
One story from the Mail….
‘Met Police making enquiries over any racism allegations after Crystal Palace fan group SLAM Newcastle’s Saudi-led owners with banner during Premier League draw’
Report right next to it…
‘Why has David Beckham turned a blind eye to racism, misogyny and homophobia in Qatar – could it be his secret £10m deal to plug its World Cup?’
Why is criticising Dubai for racism, misogyny, homophobia and brutality racism but criticisng David Beckham for dealing with Qatar with the same values, beliefs and laws isn’t? Should the police be investigating the Mail’s headline about Beckham…and indeed the BBC’s narrative on Saudi Arabian human rights?
And, of course, it has nothing whatsoever to do with race. It’s about Islam.
No doubt they would switch it to ‘Islamophobia’ which is yet another lie. It’s ‘Anti-Islam predjudice’. But the Left can’t sneer while they say that.
Not even anti-islam prejudice, but entirely rational fear and dislike of islam, founded on evidence.
And at the same time they run pieces about what a wonderful honest example of a politician Sir David Amess was whilst completely overlooking his links to Qatar and his promotion of the regime.
But you have missed the bigger question here which is why the Gestapo are investigating a protest which is about human rights and has nothing to do with race. You correctly point out the Saudi billions being given to Mosques and universities but neglect to point out the millions being given or promised to the UKs poverty paid politicians who are forced to look to these sources in order to make up their incomes.
Thoughtful ,
First you have to tell us which politicians get paid . Is it only those in power , or any self declared politician ?
Second you have to tell us how much they should be paid
Third : how will the well remunerated politicians not swamp out the newer politicians ?
I understand Newcastle are also called “The Magpies” but
I would just like to know what penguins have to say about that banner
Rumours that Andrew Neil might return to the BBC.
Well, you can’t keep a hippo from a nice warm swamp, all that lovely mud and filth.
The old codger couldn’t take the cut and thrust of buccaneering GB News. And when it started going the way of that horrible Fox News, poor Andrew nearly had a heart attack. “I’m a much respected, quality journalist”, he squealed, “not a vulgar populist”. “I’ve won awards”, he spluttered. “Now I’m surrounded by right-wing riff-raff, who can’t even do their jobs properly. I’m off to the South of France”.
Aw diddums.
Enjoy the slime Andrew, and the big fat salary.
I think the BBC might feed his ego more than others . although I thought he’d take the dodgy sky money – at least he knows ‘big’ politicians will avoid him –
Andrew – stay retired in France and snipe from the sidelines ..
Some might say AF Neil can dish it out well enough – but he doesn’t care for any well founded challenges …?
One has to wonder which particular issue got the lower lip working overtime?
It now seems to be better than Fox News. Whoever could have predicted this?
Nish has a relative who is funny.
Love the bag, Jez.
Bless.
Following a legal battle the CCC has been forced to release it’s data (sound familiar ?) relating to the assumptions made about wind-power capabilities in the UK.
It formed the basis for the government’s Net Zero (dash for poverty) decisions.
Seems it’s all bollox.
What else have they lied about ?
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2021/10/24/cccs-net-zero-plans-rely-on-dramatic-rise-in-windy-days/
Full story in the Telegraph with big thanks to GWPF/Net Zero Watch.
be morelike
“What haven’t they lied about?”
there, fixed it for you 🙂
They haven’t ‘lied’ as such, the just told the politicians what the politicians paid them to tell them – what they wanted to hear.
As we all know these are not scientists, they are prognosticators and with a record that punxatawny Phil would be ashamed of.
Yes, all the while the Climate Change Act 2008 exists politicians of all parties will need to have secretive ‘bodies’ to feed them with justifications for decisions they need to make in order to comply with it’s legally binding provisions.
The IPCC’s massive reports are pretty level headed until the shorter politically ‘sexed up’ version is written that most people hear about in the media over and over again.
There is no way out of this downward spiral unless the politics change and the whole act is repealed or watered down.
This may come about due to public protest/riot or even by these same politicians ‘smelling the coffee’ and undermining the CCC’s dark inner workings.
I see Allister Heath in the Telegraph is calling for a referendum on the Net Zero issue.
This may be a way out for a future PM to throw the Jolly Green Giant and his wife under his own bus.
Interesting one from Neil Oliver on GB news. Seems none of the attendees for the upcoming farce that is COP26 do NOT need to confirm they have had the Covid vaccination whereas lesser mortals attending other large scale events do. Double standards as usual. Any comments from the bBBC?
BBC at what Labour… in places… ‘calls for’.
And not other places.
A-level textbook withdrawn over ‘shocking’ Native American question
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-59024961
The ‘shocking’ question asked of A Level History students:
“To what extent do you believe the treatment of Native Americans has been exaggerated?”
1. Are we teaching kids to reason and think for themselves?
2. Who honestly believes, any student daft enough to answer that, in this day and age, with “I think the ill treatment of Native Americans is vastly over exaggerated” would get a good grade?
In 30/40 years time there won’t be any innovative, ‘rebel’ thinkers in any position of authority, just compliant clones, and that’s not a good thing.
“In 30/40 years time there won’t be any innovative, ‘rebel’ thinkers in any position of authority, just compliant clones, and that’s not a good thing”.
But it is the intended thing!
You can either live in the real world
or you can live in a PR BS world.
The Iceland boss has taken his fathers supermarket chain and runs it as a Green campaign
9:15am he was on R4 “blah, blah plastic ..blah blah” etc
Then he says “You know turkey sales are up 400%”
.. The thing is that is a non-story : it’s the old principle of 4 times nothing is nothing
In December when you are selling 1000 turkey’s/day and increase to 5,000 is something
but in October when you are selling 2 per day and increase to 10 is still pretty small fry.
The BBC guy was swept along
But to be fair for once he was trying to interject “we don’t want to cause panic buying”.
Im not surprised turkey sales are up . I bet theyve gone up 4000% since Bernard Mathews started to sell them cheaply and make them an all season meal instead of just for Christmas Day .
Plus we`re told to eat less red meat .
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59027290
Covid: Labour calls for Plan B measures in England
Of course they do – Blair and chums demand it.
The bBC are fully on board.
https://www.citizen.org/article/pfizers-power/