News paper reports suggest the BBC licence tax is to be frozen for the next 2 years to help with ‘cost of living pressures . Then there will be a further review in the run up to the end of the Charter in 2027 .
That is years of anti British propaganda .Much much too long .
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BBC Scotland or even UK version might have an issue coming up.
there is more than a suggestion of fraud going on about the funding of a publisher who has just completed a book a bout ,,,,,,wait for it…
Nicola Sturgeon most Famous Speeches….
That one rendered me speechLESS.
it can only be hoped that this leads to a renaissance of the bBC,s ” “in Converation….
How about ” My famous Speeches, Nicola Sturgeon discusses with Jim Davidson!
Footnote now alleged that public money ( UK public money)used to fund the book of speeches?
One for wossername, the BBC fact check lady?
Looking at the MSM – why are they going after an eminent red Tory barrister MP because he got £900 k from the BVI ? On top of his MP salary ?
Absolutely no problem with this – well within the rules ….
As long as they report it and the BBC report it then carry on –
Allegations under Investigation by the Commissioner {18jun2018}
Members who are currently the subject of an inquiry by the Commissioner are listed below, in chronological order according to when the inquiry began, together with a brief description of the nature of the allegation.
Rt Hon Keith Vaz MP – Alleged breach of paragraph 10 and paragraph 16 of the Code of Conduct
10. Members shall base their conduct on a consideration of the public interest, avoid conflict between personal interest and the public interest and resolve any conflict between the two, at once, and in favour of the public interest.
16. Members shall never undertake any action which would cause significant damage to the reputation and integrity of the House of Commons as a whole, or of its Members generally.
https://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/standards-and-financial-interests/parliamentary-commissioner-for-standards/complaints-and-investigations/allegations-under-investigation-by-the-commissioner/
Migrants stuck between EU-poland and non-EU, russia-ally, Belarus, who also does not want them.
This is the type of story on which the BBC is simply unable to report a clearly on, due to its bias and loyalties. Reading the article raises more questions than it answers:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59215769
luring migrants with the false promise of easy entry to the EU as part of an “inhuman, gangster-style approach”. — This quote is either unattributed or is attributed to the European Commission. If the EC did say this, then anything else it said seems to be not included. It also gives no detail on how the migrants were ‘lured’
Upon arrival they are being pushed to the border and forced to make an illegal entry into the European Union. — it remains unclear whether/how Belarus really did ‘lure’ the migrants. It is also unclear what is happening here. Seems as though the migrants were denied entry. Many readers would agree with this action. No-one is “forcing” illegal entry to be made. They could go back to where they came from (presumably the Ukraine or Russia; or their home country)
Activists say the migrants are being used as pawns in a political game between non-EU Belarus and its neighbours — what political game? What does Belarus want and how will this get them want they want?
Germany on Tuesday urged the EU to “take action” to help Poland secure its borders. Lithuania has also moved troops to its border with Belarus to prepare for a possible influx of migrants. — Germany, Poland and Lithuiania are all taking steps to stop migrants entering their countries/the EU. is the BBC reluctant to admit to this, and therefore paints Belarus as the unfavourable actor?
He said Monday’s move to the border post was planned on social media by the migrants themselves, but suggested Belarus was pushing them. — A migrants brother says that the migrants (replete with smartphones!) planned the move but Belarus ‘pushed them’ how did they puch them? How does the brother know this?
UN refugee agency spokesperson Shabia Mantoo said that it was very worried by the latest scenes: “Using refugees, asylum seekers and migrants to achieve political ends is unacceptable and must stop.” — The people in question are ‘migrants’. The inclusion of this quotes seeks to conflate refugees/asylum seekers/migrants as ‘the same thing’ thus confusing the reader.
As long as you understand that Belarus = bad and the EU coutries = less bad/good then you have understood the article as it was intended.
Least we forget how it all works … videos, words, pictures … you don’t get to choose the arrangement …
Chaos as police stop Hungary migrant train – Gavin Hewitt – BBC -Sep 2015 @53s
“… the a really distressing incident happened. A women who was carrying a small baby began crying for help (photo of lady carrying baby). One of her companions tried to help her (photo of man with women on track, riot police reaching towards them) Somehow there became a push and a shove with the police. She ended up on the railway lines (by the male refugee dragging her and the baby to the floor, but this is not said) with the riot police trying to pull her back, and this of course inflamed all the other people…”
-Gavin Hewitt – Sep 2015
Watch the video and the male refugee (companion trying to help?) drags the women and baby to the floor, by force.
Even the Mirror (03Sept2015) says “… this refugee couple cradle their tiny baby, after throwing themselves (NO! Male refugee drags women and baby onto train tracks) on train tracks as police try to take them to migrant camps in Hungary”
Gets better. Two days (05Sept2015) later the Mirror then report it as
“Refugee who dragged pregnant wife and baby son onto train track did it because ‘death would be better’”
1. BBC Version uses words and pictures to hide the video version
2. The Mirror shows the video but uses words to tell a different version
Can I suggest a little story – “Male refugee forces pregnant women refugee holding child down onto a train track, police drag him away for her safety? Riot police then lift women with child off track with tender arms.”
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/07/03/start-the-week-open-thread-131/comment-page-3/#comment-849798
SOMETHING TO CHEER YOU UP
https://order-order.com/2021/11/09/lee-anderson-solves-labour-shortage-problem/
Why can’t there be more MPs like Lee Anderson?
By now every agent or manger knows that if it falls under a few key buzz categories, it’s in, unchecked or questioned.
Have ITN poached that doofus bbc ex rugby playing enviro correspondent yet?
I wonder if she went with Caz’ main man from the old town?
Sport is waste of environmental waste of resources … ha ha ha ha ha
Stop flying to all the athletic meetings then. Doubt any athletes have any idea.
Doc, why cannot track and field athletes run to the meetings, the Olympics, etc? Good exercise and training for them.
Good idea Up2. May shut them up.
Well played, comrade.
Has anyone seen MP David Lammy of BBC Mastermind fame on his bike which was claimed on expenses cycling around Grenfell Towers?
If not … then where is the bike? Time to fire up the £3.5bn BBC News Service ….
Find out if your MP owns a bike : http://www.theipsa.org.uk/mp-costs/interactive-map/
Douglas Murray joins Mark Steyn for Talking Pints
Why does Poland not want these thousands of Doctors, Engineers and Scientists that Belarus is kindly willing to share.
We all know that every one of them more than pays for himself because all our msm and politicians keep telling us they are net contributors.
Very short sighted of Poland not wanting to enrich itself.
The footage of the bearded nut job swinging his spade likely not fronting various ‘in need’ campaigns signed off by Miliband clones.
The family in question is likely very… IKEA.
BBC Get In
Plus we won’t mind if you can’t spell experience correctly as well because we can’t either!
Spelling is racist!
I first came across Ivermectin for use in the treatment of Covid 19 sometime in April/May 2020 and studying the literature and informatio, I was convinced of its efficacy. Its estimated that one Ivermectin tablet can be purchased for about 5 US Cents so any spread of the use of the drug will be resisted by large Pharma. Acting for big Pharma, the WHO et al (no doubt including NICE) has resisted approving Ivermectin for use with Covid. Now, overwhelming evidence proves otherwise and the professional murderers will be proven wrong. Stick with this video until the end:
He has a some PhD and uses it to give himself the Dr title, knowing full well how it’ll be misinterpreted.
So I don’t watch his videos.
I am slow of understanding, but is there something this doctor believes but does not quite dare to say?
BBC Look North this lunchtime
More outrageous bias from ‘The world’s most trusted broadcaster’
The lead story was that Drax is going to stop burning coal completely, and will only burn wood chip. Hurrah! The world is saved! Big smiles from the presenter and the reporter; you’d think it was VE Day – except neither of them would know what that was. They pretended to consider the holes in this greeny narrative, but of course it was a sham. They only found a few tiny holes; ones that could easily be darned apparently – they didn’t discover the massive unfixable voids in the logic of the whole crazy idea.
The report was nothing more than a press release for the Green Party.
They wheeled on a guy in a Drax hard hat (smart suit + hard hat = voice of authority?), who said, deadpan, that the woodchip was all made from waste wood, and if woodchip wasn’t burnt at Drax it would be burnt in America, where it comes from. This would ‘release CO2 into the atmosphere.’ Err, that’s what’s happens when it’s burnt at Drax! In any case, more and more stories are coming from the US suggesting that it isn’t 100% scrap wood at all.
There was no mention of the CO2 produced when the woodchip is transported by truck, ship, and train to Drax.
Drax is, apparently, the UK’s biggest CO2 emitter. The green concept is that these emissions don’t matter, because for every tree burnt another one is planted, and that tree will absorb CO2. Two snags: Trees absorb approximately the same amount of CO2 as the green pasture or crop that they replace, and it takes a tree thirty to fifty years to absorb the amount of CO2 that burning it will release. Since the ‘climate emergency’ is allegedly upon us right now, that’s not much help is it?
The burning of wood pellets causes Drax to emit particulate matter. Drax is one of the top five emitters of PM10 air pollution in Europe. I suppose if the world is going to end in a few years (© Prince Charles, God help us, our next monarch) everyone downwind of Drax might as well die of lung cancer.
Unofficial
Canada
Alberta
1977 – :
In Blackfoot: Mekaisto
In English: Red Crow[11]
Manitoba
1986 – : Leading Star[12]
Nunavut
1976 – :
In Inuktitut: Attaniout Ikeneego
In English: The Son of the Big Boss (loosely translates to heir apparent)[13]
Saskatchewan
2001 – :
In Cree: Pisimwa Kamiwohkitahpamikohk
In English: The Sun Looks at Him in a Good Way[14][15]
Africa
Tanzania
2011 – :
In Maasai: Oloishiru Ingishi
In English: The Helper of the Cows (literally he whom the cows love so much they call for him when they are in times of distress)[16][17]
Oceania
Papua New Guinea
1952 – :
In Tok Pisin: Nambawan pikinini bilong Misis Kwin
In English: The number one child belonging to Mrs Queen[18][19]
Vanuatu
2018 – : High Chief Mal Menaringmanu[20][21][22]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_titles_and_honours_of_Charles,_Prince_of_Wales
I propose the building of a seabed woodchip pipeline. It will pay for itself in weeks.
BUT BUT … BRITISH INSTITUIONS ARE RACIST .. BLAH BLAH BLAH …
Marcus Rashford: Manchester United striker to give MBE to mum
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-59219138
I’d be more impressed if he’d start a campaign to stop black youths knocking up a white girl and running off like his absent father.
Is it April 1st?
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-vienna-brothel-offers-customers-30-minutes-with-lady-of-their-choice-in-exchange-for-coronavirus-jab-12464616
The pictures! Feels like I’m in another universe, or a monty python film. Just how bizarre does this situation have to get…not only are the vaccines pretty useless, and may even make you more prone to catching Covid, cheap meds have probably been avoided because they’re cheap and Trump promoted them.
Clap for/from the brothel workers! Surprised Al Beeb aren’t featuring that story yet, it’s right up their street.
A longer version of the video on this BBC webpage was broadcast yesterday on the evening London News programme. I shied away from posting about it then as I was a bit bewildered by it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-59208984
Clearly the general tenor of the video is that being anti-vaccine is wrong, but the whole presentation seems ‘off’ to me.
Who is anti-vaxxer Michael Chaves? (He seems to hold a bunch of nutjob opinions about other subjects – if you wanted to discredit the anti-vaccine argument, you could hardly pick a better spokesman). Why are his protest group’s placards so professional? Why do the ‘concerned dad’ and the two black schoolgirls seem so well coached?
I suspect many who contribute to this site would find these questions very easy to answer.
In the studio yesterday, they followed up with a Q&A, supposedly from viewers. One said he was recovering from Covid, was it safe to get the booster jab?
Really? I’m double jabbed, if I had still caught the virus nothing would discourage me more from seeking the booster!
I couldn’t help feeling we are being openly trolled, and that the BBC doesn’t even care that we know.
TC, just read your post. It depends on the vaccine but one of the ones authorised for use and available in the UK came with the warning: do not take if you have had Covid.
You need to read up a bit more TC and stop swallowing the fake news.
The ‘vaccine’ (which isn’t a vaccine) will reduce the symptoms should you catch covid, and that’s all it will do – nothing else and even Boris the bottler has confirmed that in a press conference.
In fact new scientific evidence is coming to light which suggests that being jabbed might actually make you even more susceptable to contracting covid than if you weren’t.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/study-covid-recovery-gave-israelis-longer-lasting-delta-defense-than-vaccines/
This Israeli study showed that contracting Covid gave people 27 times greater immunity than the so called ‘vaccine’ and is what herd immunity is all about.
What is the point of depriving someone who might need it of a booster jab when you don’t need it? That’s just plain selfish!
I contracted covid before the medical profession knew what it was. We now know it was released from the Wuhan Lab sometime aroung July or August of 2019 and that the Chinese government took action September 12th 2019.
To make yourself as safe as it is possible to be, contract the virus, recover, and then expose yourself to it as many times as you can. I know I’ve had subsequent infections of something because I can feel the effects for about 6 hours before they wear off. This strengthens the immune system and prevents it forgetting the virus code.
I had a decent dose of Covid for three weeks in March of 2020, paramedics called, the full works. Since August of this year when the restrictions eased I haven’t worn a mask either to commute on the Tube/Overground, at work where I am exposed to the general public throughout the day or in any other public space such as shops or bars. That’s four months completely maskless and unvaccinated.
I haven’t had even a sniff of a problem.
If you do contract something you are immune to you’ll probably just feel a bit run down or drained for a few hours as your immune system kicks into producing the cells which kill the virus, then you should feel A OK again.
As I’m currently carer for my parents (one a heart attack survivor, one with COPD, both in their 80s), I’m afraid going out and deliberately trying to contract the virus isn’t really an option for me.
Trick – my sympathies – I’ve been there – done that . I know how tough it is and there are plenty of posters who have the experience .
The covid adds that extra stress but I reckon good hygiene and ventilation is the key . It’s a pity the world class NHS didn’t do that for the 20000 plus it killed ….
Thanks.
They lie to us. We know that they are lying. They know that they are lying. They know that we know that they are lying. We know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying. – Solzhenitsyn
BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – er, I don’t think so for obvious reasons
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-india-59225086
“Toxic foam covers sacred Yamuna river in India”
It cannot be truly toxic if people are washing in the water and not dying instantly, BBC. As the yoof say: “Duher.”
The Yamuna is one of the most polluted rivers in the world, but don’t look at me, I’m not one of those dumping my sewage in it, and why should I pay for someone else’s mess?
Tory Corruption screams the media and yet they completely ignore the Labour corruption on flagrant display.
Claudia Webb ex Labour MP found guilty in a disgraceful display of race baiting has failed as yet to resign her seat, just as previous criminal Black Labour MP Fiona Onassanye did.
Labour should of course be pushing for a recall notice, but as yet there are not, and there’s a reason. They are scared of what will happen if they do.
In an act of stunning incomepence and cowardice they failed to expel Keith Vaz from the Labour party despite the numerous ‘incidents’ for which he was suspended and the Daily Telegraph published an article “Why is Keith Vaz still in Parliament” And suggesting the fact he was, showed something was deeply broken in British politics.
Vaz returning would be a major embarassment to the Labour party no wonder they don’t want to talk about it.
“Keith Vaz has been appointed to a parliamentary committee preparing a new law to tackle corruption and money laundering. {dailymail nov2016} The Leicester East MP is currently under investigation by the Metropolitan Police … ”
6. Try to avoid performance related pay anywhere north of Wolverhampton.
“So as Gamesa executives see it, they made the right bet by coming to China. And they insist that they have no regrets about having trained more than 500 Chinese machinery companies as a cost of playing by Beijing’s rules — even if those rules have sometimes flouted international trade law. It is simply the table stakes of playing in the biggest game going….
‘If we would not have done it, someone else would have done it,’ said Jorge Calvet, Gamesa’s chairman and chief executive.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/business/global/15chinawind.html?_r=0
Nuts.
At least she remembered the mask.
Pathetic virtue signalling
Given her local team’s airborne effort, and hers….
https://order-order.com/2021/11/09/carol-drops-mask-at-cop26/
…wearing a mask to shake hand with a wood dummy is par for the course.
Meanwhile the groom of the Obama stool writes:
David Shukman
@davidshukmanbbc
I’m the BBC’s Science Editor
UKbbc.co.uk/news/science_a…Joined October 2010
1,588 Following
46.6K Followers
The dummy looks like something out of a horror film, did Stephen King design it?
Made from plastic or recycled bones of the carbon people?
‘Exactly WHY are ‘women and girls disproportionately impacted by Climate Change, compared to men, boys, and all the other genders, Carol’?
Please do tell.
Extinction Rebellion liked this.
Which is interesting, as between them, they have pulled every anti democratic book in the Alinsky manual to avoid any majority opinions based of secret ballots prevailing, with the bbc acting in misinformation, propaganda and censorship every step of the way.
The word ‘democracy’ has its origins in the Greek language. It combines two shorter words: ‘demos’ meaning whole citizen living within a particular city-state and ‘kratos’ meaning power or rule. … A belief in shared power: based on a suspicion of concentrated power (whether by individuals, groups or governments).
Unable to silence Western critics, Lysenko tried to eliminate all dissent within the Soviet Union. Scientists who refused to renounce genetics found themselves at the mercy of the secret police. The lucky ones simply got dismissed from their posts and were left destitute. Hundreds if not thousands of others were rounded up and dumped into prisons or psychiatric hospitals. Several were sentenced to death as enemies of the state or starved in their jail cells (most notably the botanist Nikolai Vavilov).[4] Before the 1930s, the Soviet Union had a strong genetics community. Lysenko gutted it, and by some accounts set Russian biology and agronomy back a half-century.[4] Lysenko’s work was eventually recognized as fraudulent, but not before he had wrecked the lives of many and destroyed the reputation of Russian biology.[18]
Green leader of Brighton council is facing calls to quit after FLYING the 460miles from Gatwick to Glasgow to protest against climate change at COP26 summit
Councillor Phelim Mac Cafferty, Brighton and Hove City Council, took jet
News of the flight to COP26 sparked calls for him to stand down from role
Cllr Mac Cafferty said he made ‘failure of judgement’ and would get train back
Virtue-signalling councils ditch zebra crossings: Camden is latest authority to unveil trans-friendly path despite safety warning after police horse is spooked by LGBT rainbow and guide dog is baffled by missing white lines
Guide dogs and police horses are said to be confused by the ‘dangerous’ designs
The latest crossing was unveiled in Camden, London, yesterday by local council
But they were asked if their desire to ‘flaunt the woke credentials’ trumped safety
The crossing was put up after disabled groups warned mayor they’re ‘dangerous’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10181979/Camden-trans-walkway-New-zebra-crossing-causes-chaos-guide-dog-police-horse.html
Insanity – if it saves just no lives.
Shamima Begum’s jihadi husband refuses to condemn beheadings or the use of sex slaves and says he still hopes to see a ‘caliphate’ as he describes the couple’s ‘beautiful’ former life under ISIS
Yago Riedijk, 29, smiled as he described his married life with Shamima Begum
Refused to condemn brutal ISIS punishments, use of Yazidi women as sex slaves
Said he did not believe ISIS was finished, that he hoped to see another caliphate
Married Begum, then 15, days after she arrived in Syria from the UK in late 2014
Riedijk was speaking from a detention centre in northern Syria, where he is jailed
New Nottingham Councilor?
Councillor who said Isis does not exist is given antiterror role
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/birmingham-councillor-safia-akhtar-noor-who-said-isis-does-not-exist-is-given-antiterror-role-3dgmzz3g6
‘Councillor who said Isis does not exist is given antiterror role’
That should certainly make their new role easier.
“Councillor who denied rats existed given Pest Control role”
“Hospital Supervisor who denied disease existed made NHS Head”
“Police Chief who denied crimes were real made Commissioner”
Workers who want flexible work roles missing out
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59211233
Give me strength. First pic: black woman and young black boy.
Followed by pictures of 4 more women.
It’s beyond ridiculous.
The BBC are painting companies who won’t let these women work from home as the villains.
All that says to me is do not employ women or black people. The Left (with full BBC support) have created a toxic environment where you will be tarred and feathered purely for the agenda if they complain.
Woke watch part 3:
‘Children will not be damaged’: Panto star Linda Lusardi blasts Cambridge luvvies for putting a trigger warning on Rapunzel – as fellow GMB guest claims shows can leave people ‘unable to control their emotions’
Cambridge warned of ‘kidnap’ scenes and ‘homophobia, sexism and drugs’
Entrepreneur Tru Powell appeared on Good Morning Britain with Linda Lusardi
Powell argued that shows can contain ‘themes that can be harmful to others’
Actress Linda said ‘most British adults know what they’re going to see’ at shows
It comes after the Amateur Dramatic Club of Cambridge University warned people going to see a version of Rapunzel by its famous comedy troupe that it contains secenes of ‘kidnapping, homophobia, sexism, drugs and alcohol abuse’.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10181177/Entrepreneur-claims-problematic-say-pantomimes-not-harmful.html
FFS:
‘They can very much be harmful and it can put people in a space where they can’t control their emotions. There’s nothing wrong with your audience making informed decisions as to whether they want to be in that space or not, or even prepare themselves mentally.’
‘unable to control their emotions’
“contains scenes of ‘kidnapping, homophobia, sexism, drugs and alcohol abuse’.”
Isn’t that about par for the course for fairytales and pantomimes? Well, in the long ago days before PC and Woke took over, I guess.
The grotesque brutality in the Fairytales of the Brother Grimm, often told with great relish, was always one of the more entertaining elements from my early childhood recollections.
As I recall, there’s usually a princess who has been kidnapped and is about to be forced to marry an ugly dwarf, or be poisoned, or someone in danger of being ground up, or eaten alive… they’d be rather dull tales without it.
Cheryl Cole and Prince Charles heap praise on young Hartlepool entrepreneur
The 20-year-old set up her own sustainable food delivery service in the town – with help from the Prince’s Trust
https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/cheryl-cole-prince-charles-heap-22116445
Satwick Saran, who runs her own vegan and vegetarian delivery service, met the famous pair during a visit to the Prince’s Trust Cheryl’s Trust centre in Newcastle.
The founder of Mas And Monkeys said: “It was surreal talking to him about Bombay – that is the business model that I want to bring to the North East.”
“It was surreal talking to him about Bombay”
Yes, most Indians still do call it Bombay, but as a whitey don’t you dare, or the woke police will be on you like a ton of bricks!
Bombay = colonial oppression
Mumbai = correctspeak
(Even though it was nothing more than a mud bank before the Portuguese and the British arrived, and is now one of the busiest ports and financial centres in the world, to India’s great profit.)
ITV local news
all the usual woke stuff
The presenter gets a £1000 bonus evey time she says “clean green energy”
So today kept saying it about Minister Kwatungs
visit to the Sheffield mini nuclear reactor reset project.
There was a lot of talks from Rafiqs mates
There was a Hull hooligan story
and video of Asian community cleaning up the area.
Oops the Hooligan problem was in Sheffield
Was there any thing ITV forgot to mention
Page Hall in Sheffield has seen a huge influx of Slovakian Roma.
Rubbish, noise and gangs of young people have put them on collision course with other residents.”
Yesterday I mentioned the Boston multicultural murder
… a few hours later Simon Webb of History Debunked said he had been asked by Lincolnshire Police to remove his YouTube video
… Did anyone see it before he deleted it ?
BBC local news tonight opened with a continuation of the same story
They did call the boy a Polish oriental , they called him “a Lincolnshire boy”
then went into an item about youth knife crime, bringing on a black expert.
Yes that was the topic of the last 30 mins of the R2 J Vine show
Vine sneered “I have no opinion on him”
Really ?? you guys chose the topic and you Vine set the tone.
Maybe these hundreds of sad hacks might twig that they are the only ones propping it up?
WFP is committed to stay and deliver food in Afghanistan
The Afghan people need our support now more than ever. Currently, 1 in 3 people are hungry and 2 million children are malnourished.
https://www.wfp.org/support-us/stories/families-afghanistan-need-help?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=14487155225&utm_content=129407111649&gclid=Cj0KCQiA-K2MBhC-ARIsAMtLKRsXMOi9lYKvIb5hwA0J3Ha0ioud5kHUltPtXq7SbFc0njrJjXO_T08aAiQVEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
10pm on @channel5 The final episode of #1000yearsaslave from UplandsTV
sees #DavidOlusoga, @BerniceKing and @MarvinJRees (black Bristol Mayor) tracking the events that inspired the #BlackLivesMatter movement and what happened next
Edward Colston, contemporary of Samuel Pepys, but unlike Pepys who doesn’t appear to have groomed and raped underage girls?
He was a major shareholder in the Royal African Company (founded by the ‘Party King’ Charles II) for some years, which among other commodities, traded slaves bought in West Africa to the Americas. In the 17th Century, slaves were considered just another commodity like: sugar, tobacco, ivory, opium… trading in them was not considered ‘immoral’ like in the Victorian era, Colston wasn’t some kind of ‘criminal’, or ‘pariah’ because of it.
Did he ever set foot on a ship? Possibly in London’s docks, briefly, but he never seems to have sailed in one, ‘gentlemen’ like him didn’t go on dangerous trading voyages in his era, in fact as an adult he probably never left London.
Did he ever meet a black person? Possibly not, and if he did they would have been one of those well fed, well dressed individuals kept by wealthy people as a kind of ‘novelty’ to show off, he almost certainly never encountered a slave in manacles, saw a slave auction, or visited a plantation to witness them working.
Did he have any idea what life was like for slaves? Almost certainly not, and like many of his era he presumably thought of black Africans as ‘animals’, rather than human beings anyway.
The other side of the story is that he did give much of his vast personal wealth away to poor people later in life. The statue and everything else named after him were supposed to commemorate his donations, particularly to help the poor of Bristol, many tens of thousands of whom have been black over the centuries, and almost certainly a greater number than the slaves he was involved in the transportation of.
How can you apply 21st Century notions of ‘right and wrong’ to a 17th Century person? How many 17th Century West Africans were cruel slavers? Cannibals? Brutal warlords? Witchdoctors who murdered children for ‘medicine’?
Not sure what erasing his name does either, it doesn’t fix anything, and just conceals an important, if unpleasant part of everyone’s (black and white) history, so it will be forgotten. Is that the real aim?
‘Racist’ Gandhi statue removed from University of Ghana
Published13 December 2018
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-46552614
Slaves were owned in all Islamic societies, both sedentary and nomadic, ranging from Arabia in the centre to North Africa in the west and to what is now Pakistan and Indonesia in the east. Some Islamic states, such as the Ottoman Empire, the Crimean Khanate, and the Sokoto caliphate [Nigeria], must be termed slave societies because slaves there were very important numerically as well as a focus of the polities’ energies.
Encyclopaedia Britannica – Slavery
https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/slavery_1.shtml
9pm Sanjeev Bhaskar and mates
9:40pm-10:40pm BBC4 Sanjeev Bhaskar
YOU pay the licence, he gets the prog he wants
Goodness Gracious Me – is a stereotype and he should apologise.
a tweet about the BBC & SNP
8:30pm BBC Panorama is about how pimps exploit women selling sex online.
A pimped prostitutes is live tweeting
.. https://twitter.com/LydiaCaradonna/status/1458165015392002057
BBC grooming gang story on the web
Not seen it mentioned on TV
Nice art work – no white hands …
The Telford child sexual exploitation scandal is an ongoing scandal in the United Kingdom. Originally, a group of men were convicted of grooming local children for sex between 2007 and 2009 in Telford in the English county of Shropshire.[1][2][3] While media reports had suggested 100 or more girls had been affected[4] and around 200 perpetrators were suspected,[5] the Sunday Mirror reported in March 2018 that up to 1,000 girls may have been abused, with some even murdered, in incidents dating back to the 1970s.[6]
According to the Home Office, as of 2015, Telford had the highest rate of sex crimes against children of any city in the United Kingdom.[7] Telford has a population of just under 170,000 people.[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telford_child_sexual_exploitation_scandal
Some stories get the “report once and bury” treatment
Other favoured agendas get “the multiple bits of the cherry” treatment
We know the Tuvalu COP26 stunt was on Friday morning
but 5 days later Reuters just put out a flurry of tweets about it.
.. https://twitter.com/i/events/1458140621005336580
Seems like nut nut is going back to the cop thing – maybe he’s got a few more jokes for the dregs left there . Really pleased nothing happened …. I hope he flies there ….burn that carbon ..
EMERGENCY …. BORIS …
Name of donor: American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Address of donor: 1789 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): For myself, flights £6,666.09, hotel accommodation £1,459.52 and other costs of £1,059.56; for my staff member, flights £6,666.09, hotel £994.82; total £16,846.09
Destination of visit: Washington DC, USA
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=10999
Boris says we have a functioning Government ….
Does the department know Halloween was ten days ago?
The event, taking place during working hours a week on Thursday, will be open to all DWP and Civil Service colleagues. Any colleagues who have ever wanted to ask questions of a witch are encouraged to attend…
Any loons who can’t attend the 18th – do not fret. Two days prior, next Tuesday, the department is hosting a “Bitesize session to being a pagan“ – perfect timing ahead of Christmas. Guido can’t for the life of him spot any events scheduled about getting on with the job they’re paid to do…
order-order.com
‘Duchess of Sussex weighed up calling father ‘daddy”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59236643
‘The Duchess of Sussex questioned whether she should call her father “daddy” in a letter and whether it would “pull at the heartstrings” if leaked, the Court of Appeal has heard.’
Terrifying, and not just the photo.
2021 …. 3 Teachers hide from Islam in free UK.
2021 … Pigs found in trough ….
2008 … A February 2008 Freedom of Information Act request for the release of details of MPs’ expenses claims was allowed by an Information Tribunal but challenged by the House of Commons Authorities on the grounds that it was “unlawfully intrusive”.[2] In May 2008 the High Court (England and Wales) ruled in favour of releasing the information.[3][4] In April 2009 the House of Commons authorities announced that publication of expenses, with certain information deemed “sensitive” removed,[5] would be made in July 2009.[6] But before this could take place the expenses records and documentation were leaked to The Daily Telegraph newspaper, which began publishing details in daily instalments from 8 May 2009.
Douglas Hogg – who repaid £2,200 apparently claimed for clearing a moat at his country estate – says he will not fight the next election.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8057579.stm
In January 2009 Harriet Harman, Leader of the House of Commons, tabled a motion which would exempt MPs’ expenses from being disclosed under a Freedom of Information request, in order to prevent any further disclosure of information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_parliamentary_expenses_scandal
COP26 ….
Isn’t it great – the msm don’t care about the planet when the smell of corruption is in the air ,….
…and as for the planet … Imagine if there was sign of the coming ice age …. And they’d be meeting to try to work out how to warm the planet ….
We found that African fires were responsible for emissions of 1.44 PgC, 31–101% higher than previous estimates and representing 14% of global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning.2 Mar 2021
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/9/e2011160118#:~:text=We%20found%20that%20African%20fires,emissions%20from%20fossil%20fuel%20burning.