Midweek 10 November 2021

For a small Fee – obtained and declared in accordance with the rules I helped write – I am willing to declare this the weekend thread – as part of my public service of course .The BBC sure is enjoying throwing the mud ..

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  1. Up2snuff says:

    Will the BBC keep the ‘Sleaze and Corruption’ thing going for the rest of the week at the expense of their COP26/AGW/CC Propaganda? I think they will. Hopefully it will result in the Conservative benches uniting and the PM reconsidering his personal organisation. No doubt, the Labour-biased BBC and the Labour-biased prints will then be blaming the COP26 ‘failure’ entirely on the PM.

    I think allowing ‘Carrie Antoinette’ to dispose of Lee Cain and Dominic Cummings was a major mistake by the PM. Allegra Stratton does not appear to have benefitted his team either. Press Advisor’s work is meant to be a two-way thing. The PM needs a really good Chief of Staff together with an advisor on political strategy and a good Press Officer.

    PS: Fed, did you really mean Weekend Thread or Midweek Thread? Are we going to be setting a record number of posts on one Thread?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      As an MP you can buy any thread you want . Wanna be a peer – just make a donation …. Parliament goes on holiday after Wednesday so they can count their bribes …

      As for nut nut – anything that weakens him is good for the UK – but he retains an affection with the public because of his antics ….

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      • NCBBC says:

        Yesterday, 9th November, I saw Dr John Campbell on Youtube. He shows that much vaunted prophylactic by Pfizer that will be brought out as soon as they think fit, is no where near as effective as Ivermectin.

        I went looking for it today, but cant find it, but iut might turn up after “fact check” . But here it is

        New Pfizer antiviral and ivermectin, a pharmacodynamic analysis

        https://www.alternativenarrative.net/2021/11/new-pfizer-antiviral-and-ivermectin.html

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        • NCBBC says:

          I cant think of any news as important as this. If this is adopted asap, the pandemic crisis is over. We can go back to our lives.

          The only problem is that the Ivermectin course costs around £2.00, and is freely available in massive quantities.

          The alternative is likely to be around £100 at least, and is not available yet. Too the mortality rates for Ivermectin is ZERO. Even the adverse effects are far far lower then any drug of that nature.

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          • kingkp says:

            There is no pandemic. There never was a pandemic. It was engineered. It is Agenda 21 in action aka The Climate Change hoax in action. Why try and lock the world down using Greta when you can do it by putting the fear of God in to people and convince them to lock themselves up and take a gene therapy that will also kill many of them in the long term. Yes it is not a vaccine, but a gene therapy. Is it me claiming this? No it is Stefan Oelrich, a senior executive at Bayer AG, who stated this at the World Health Forum a couple of days ago
            “We are really taking that leap [to drive innovation] – us as a company, Bayer – in cell and gene therapies … ultimately the mRNA vaccines are an example for that cell and gene therapy. I always like to say: if we had surveyed two years ago in the public – ‘would you be willing to take a gene or cell therapy and inject it into your body?’ – we probably would have had a 95% refusal rate.”

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            • NCBBC says:

              kingtp
              There is no pandemic. There never was a pandemic.

              But there is a global pandemic, instigated by governments, enforced by the police, and soon mandated vaccines. For practical purposes, there is.

              Unfortunately, science is not the governing factor. Politics is.

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        • NCBBC says:

          Here it is on Google

          New Pfizer drug and ivermectin

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  2. StewGreen says:

    Russiagate shows MSM live in a fantasyland made by PR tricksters

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    • Doublethinker says:

      There is a long way to go before the full extent of this international conspiracy is exposed to the public. Many powerful people are at risk of legal action. The MSM will take yet another devastating blow to its credibility. The pressure to cover it all up , to bury it will be intense. But if the whole truth does come out and the legal system does what it is supposed to do the Dems will be buried under an avalanche not of sleaze but of conspiring to subvert the democratic process .
      We on this site strongly suspect that this is true , we have felt this way for years, but I believe that most of the general public, who have previously taken the ‘news’ provided by the MSM as being basically true , will be shocked. I certainly hope so.
      But my fear is that even if the credibility of the Democrat Party and of their candidates and of the liberal MSM sinks below the water line , their hold on power , their ability to manipulate election counts , will be undiminished. I’m not sure that the democratic process can remove the liberal left elite from power.
      Democracy hangs by a thread or perhaps its body is already lifeless.

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    • NCBBC says:

      Don’t forget the multiple impeachments on Donald Trump by Pelosi, and her henchmen in Congress. All of them knew that the Russia collusion accusation was false from soup to nuts.

      What is happening to America and the western world, sky rocketing energy prices, uncertainty in NATO after the Afghanistan debacle, are all by-products of the Russia hoax. Too, the so-called Big Tech and MSM, are jointly responsible.

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  3. StewGreen says:

    Alex Epstein just did a good analogy about Climate doomsters

    ‘​They are like antivaxxers who look pour all their focus onto the negatives that affect the one in a million
    and ignore the vast positive to the other million

    These doomsters focus on theoretical negatives in the future
    yet ignore the massive benefits TODAY of fossil fuels and human tech
    They really think we would be better off living like cavemen’
    … I paraphrased

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    • Zephir says:

      I am rearranging my diary thanks to Greta, XR etc:

      Monday: hunt

      Tuesday: gather

      Wednesday: hunt

      Thursday: gather

      etc.

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  4. StewGreen says:

    Simon Evans sounding good on GBnews
    he used to be the occasionaly token righty on BBCradio4

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  5. Nibor says:

    If you had nothing to do with the BBC and settled somewhere in the country , what would be your first connection with them ?
    That`s right – a threatogram .
    A lying by omission letter that tries intimidation , as a bully would do .And showing how bullies are devious cowards not telling how you could deal with the BBC agents .

    Well if that`s the first dealing with them , why would you trust them ?

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  6. taffman says:

    “Geoffrey Cox row: Boris Johnson says MPs must serve their constituents”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59221290

    How long has Bo Jo got to go?
    We are being presided over by a ‘rotten’ parliament.
    Bring back Nigel Farage ! The mock Tories are afraid of him.
    Perhaps he would put Bo Jo “back in his box”? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msKuxuz4hB4

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    • NCBBC says:

      If PM Boris Johnson allows Ivermectin to go ahead, he will save Britain just as Churchill did. He will go down in history in the same way as Churchill, for saving the world from a totalitarian ideology.

      Now to a point of importance that we don’t realise

      Britain is regarded as the leader of the scientific and industrial world. This holds in medicine too, as the greatest advancements took place in Britain.

      Papers published by Nature, Lancet and other Transactions and Journals, are regarded as the very top in the USA, and the rest of the world, as these were the first journals that led the way on how science and engineering should be practised and published.
      It is one reason that the AGW hypothesis was given such great credence as it came out of Britain.

      If Britain adopts the Ivermectin course, America will follow. So will the rest of the Commonwealth and the world. Boris Johnson will achieve the same status as Winston Churchill.

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  7. StewGreen says:

    Arrogant CULT thinking

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    • StewGreen says:

      That’s all PR speak
      It’s wrong to say that humans don’t have tech to cope with natural changes in Climate or even partially mad made ones

      And we simply don’t know what future generations will have
      but expect them to have some tech that would seem magic today.

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    • Zephir says:

      “cult” thinking,

      almost right… from the Kenyan president

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Obama house: tour Barack and Michelle’s new Martha’s Vineyard home

      https://www.homesandgardens.com/news/president-obama-new-house-marthas-vineyard

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      • Guest Who says:

        Does seem a bit close to the EA zone we have here to not be insured unless defences are installed to shove somewhere less pricey.

        Lots of maps around currently.

        On FB I got one from a green excitement outfit that had Pakistan totes submerged. Oh well, I thought.

        But then one of geological time frames that has it heaving to the heavens above all. Oh well, I thought, a second time.

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      • Sick of it all says:

        A basketball net attached to the edge of a swimming pool is the blackest thing you’ll see today.

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      • Wild Bill says:

        Obama should be able to squeeze in a few poor homeless immigrants in there then.

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    • Banania says:

      Aren’t you longing for some one to come up behind him and give him a push.

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    • NCBBC says:

      Poor Obama. Here he sits outside his beachfront mansion, and none of his Climate Change AGW advisors told him that it is not a good investment. They were all very likely racists.

      So he is calling out working Americans to help out with trillions so the waves don’t lap into his mansion.

      Please help out in any way you can.

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  8. JohnC says:

    Todays ‘must see’. So important, viewing is not optional:

    ‘Lace-maker who made Kate’s wedding dress retires’

    The BBC have completely lost the plot.

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  9. JohnC says:

    Harry says he warned Twitter boss ahead of Capitol riot
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59229044

    Just read that article and try not to throw up in your cornflakes.

    He said the internet was “being defined by hate, division and lies”, adding: “That can’t be right.”. No Harry. What do you think has caused all this division ?. Here’s a starter for ten : giving a state funeral and a gold coffin to a drug addict career criminal. Second pointer my thick little prince : the most cynical lie campaign about Russian collusion during a Presidential campaign.

    Yet again the BBC are on the opposite side to the British people who fund them. Our opinion of these two idiots is overwhelmingly negative.

    The BBC are absolutely unfit for purpose. They are now part of the problem, not the solution.

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  10. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – another distinct line is appearing

    On TOADY the lead item is Geoffrey Cox MP. Owen Paterson (former MP) – pro Brexit. Geoffrey Cox MP – pro Brexit. And in between, and really annoying Remainers (still much resented – for his apparent effect on the Brexit vote) … the current Prime Minister, Boris Johnson MP – pro Brexit. There’s a much nastier whiff appearing about this whole affair this morning. Stirring the pot, starting it off in fact, was the Guardian newspaper along with the Militant Broadcast wing of the Labour Party a.k.a. the BBC. We know their positions over the EU and Brexit.

    As the German soldier at the end of Rowan and Martin’s ‘Laugh In’ would say “Vhairry intereztingk”.

    He might add, wrinkling his nose: “Zhiss schtincks!”

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    • theisland says:

      “a nastier whiff”

      The EU does not want the UK government to trigger Article 16.
      Guess who are firmly on the side of the EU.
      Pushing the ‘sleaze’ angle is a diversion and bullying tactic to scare Johnson.

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      • G says:

        theisland
        I Remember times sat on a beach as a child watching the Punch and Judy show. ‘Will he?’, Won’t he? All part of the same act.

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        • Up2snuff says:

          ti, yes, they have made it pretty clear now that ‘they’ Labour/PSC/Guardian/BBC are out to get the PM for what he did over Brexit. I not that this afternoon on TWatO, the Montacutie claimed the recent tax rises via NI had enraged the poorer people in the red wall who voted Conservative in Dec. 2019 because they came on top of the Benefit cut of £20. Those people would be paying hardly anything, possibly nothing, in increased NI charges.

          The recent NI increase was highly progressive … which is why the BBC hate it, all the Beeboids will be paying lots more to shore up the NHS.

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  11. AsISeeIt says:

    Booby prizes & prize boobies

    There’s quite some contrast in what the ladies and what the chaps are up to in the news today.

    Bad girl Katie Price ‘fesses to her: ‘Drink-dive smash “regret”‘ to the Sun her tabloid confident: ‘Katie: I could have killed someone

    Mad girl Lady Gaga is celebrated in the Daily Mail for her latest commercial endorsement gig: ‘Glorious Gaga’s Gucci glamour

    Our Greta may have been hogging the headlines lately but don’t forget Malala who makes a big media comeback on the frontpage of the Telegraph: ‘Malala announces she has tied the knot‘ – we find our Pakistani: ‘girls’ education activist who was shot in the head by the Taliban aged 15, got married in Birmingham yesterday‘ – sadly Pakistan was too hot for her and as for her campaign for female eduction in her home islamic region… that took a big step backward when Joe Biden pulled out of Afghanistan and the Taliban reverted to form.

    The left-leaning ‘i’ paper features Emily Ratajkowski – no, me neither?

    Our verdict on Emily Ratajkowski’s candid, lucid, but self-indulgent take on feminism‘ – no, me neither?

    The habitually pedagogic Guardian will explain, I’m sure. We turn to their: ‘Today in focus Feminism‘ for some bien pensant guidance: ‘The model views her body as a ‘tool’ to make a living‘ – this is no big revelation… our clothes horse Ms Gaga is busy coining it doing something similar.

    Of course young girls want to gain power from how they look. It’s the way of taking control over something that’s going to happen one way or another.

    And form that rather depressing view of the world we turn to the blokes and note how they are portrayed in the media today.

    The Daily Mirror presents us a perfect flush of frontpage modern chaps.

    There’s: ‘Showman Queen frontman Mercury. Freddie’s final days‘ – showman is one way of putting it. A great entertainer, granted.

    High goals Rashford collects MBE‘ – England football fans will recall that at the potentially greatest moment of his career so far, he did a pointless distracting little jig, and then his crucial penalty shot didn’t go high… it went wide.

    But we’re not celebrating his soccer prowess here, rather it’s: ‘A dinner gong for Marcus‘ – I’d term it somewhat of a booby prize.

    He may be at the heart of a sleazy prize fixing scandal but BBC champ: ‘Strictly Dan fights back. Still kicking Dan Walker has fun with Nadia

    There’s yer masculin media role models, boys.

    As we fret over MP’s with multiple sources of income I’m reminded of a joke from British-Asian TV comedy Goodness Gracious Me. In one memorable sketch the dogmatic asian dad would insist everything and everyone mentioned by his son was “Indian!” Even on the subject of comic book hero Superman he argued logically: “Two jobs, bad hairstyle… Indian!”

    And finally, in serious news, the FT’s Datawatch feature reveals: ‘The cost of the pandemic has led the UK to have one of the highest rates of healthcare spending relative to the size its economy in OECD‘ – and yet NHS waiting lists are at record levels. Which would tend to prove – if you think about it – that the NHS is a bottomless chasm of a money pit. And our latest goofball of a Health Secretary Sajid Javid is about to make things even worse: ‘NHS could lose 123,000 staff over vaccine rule‘ (Telegraph)

    But don’t worry, there’s thousands of refugee potential new doctors simply queuing up to get into the country: ‘“Desperate” In limbo between Poland and Belarus‘ (Guardian)

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    • Scroblene says:

      Thanks again, Asi!

      It seems that the awful Grauniad is becoming more and more like a combination of those little rags like ‘Forum’ and ‘Health and Efficiency’, with editorial by ‘The Framley Examiner’!

      (Actually the latter wass one of the funniest online rags I’ve ever read – hilarious)!

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  12. Dover Sentry says:

    I wonder what is the point of Democratic elections? This government has been driven by pressure groups. COP26 is an obvious example. Our BBC is another.

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  13. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #2 – Fear of the Day

    In other news, we have the latest fear scare. The UK is not going to have enough mechanics to maintain electric cars in the 2030s. The BBC is obviously ignorant of the early years of the bicycle, the motor car, ignorant of the early years of any new invention. Do we have a shortage of computer mechanics? No. Or mobile phone technicians? No.

    What is likely to happen with EVs is that the manufacturers will run their own ‘schools’ to train mechanics in servicing just as they did 80, 100 or 120 years ago. Mechanics for ICE powered vehicles will re-train. Apart from the power train, an EV is similar to existing ICE powered cars. Four or five wheels with a nut behind one of them. Simples.

    Sadly, what we don’t have is a railway manufacturing industry of size and quality anymore in the UK. If memory serves me well, someone called Walter Owen Bentley served an engineering apprenticeship with a rail engineering company and went on to greater things.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Making Electric Cars in the UK
      … will push up the UK’s CO2 footprint

      Greenblob already heading to close British Steel production by banning them from using one raw material : coal.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Stew, they really haven’t thought through any of their demands or actions, exemplified by ‘Insulate Britain’ blocking major roads and ……. increasing fuel use and CO2 and nitrous dioxide emissions.

        Are they dim or what?

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  14. Guest Who says:

    The Moaning Emole probes areas of W1A BFFeffery that few other Islington broadcasters can match.

    ****

    Should carbon labels be on all products?

    Lou Palmer-Masterton, the owner of three vegan restaurants, says it was a logical progression to add carbon labelling to the menus. “This is something I’ve thought about for a while, and even though all our products are plant-based, I was still curious about the impact they have on the environment,” says Ms Palmer-Masterton. “This movement [carbon labelling] is exploding right now, and it makes sense.”

    To work out, and display, the carbon scores for each of its dishes, Stem & Glory has gone to a UK start-up tech firm called Foodsteps. Launched in 2020, its website and app allows food firms and restaurants to calculate the carbon dioxide produced by a particular product or dish “from farm to fork”. The software system contains a database of carbon dioxide release figures, including calculations of the method of delivery of raw materials and the cooking process.

    Read full article >

    David Silverberg
    Business reporter

    ****

    ‘Exploding, Dave! EXPLODING,’

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  15. Fedup2 says:

    Up2
    I do love a shortage fear story – shortage of HGV drivers with a shortage of electric lorries – no shortage of corrupt MPs *
    though ( don’t worry they didn’t break the rules they wrote )…..

    * even my own MP trousers some short change – £25k for hand sanitiser consultancy – literally dirty hands – hands in the till ….

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Fed, you still doing the Labour Party’s, Guardian’s and BBC’s work for them?

      There’s a label for that but cannot think what it is right now.

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  16. Guest Who says:

    The Dinosaurs would have lumbered on for ages longer but for that asteroid.

    Still, there’s always Simpo, JezBo. And Beff.

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  17. Guest Who says:

    Policy by proxy by complicit party…

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Pay terrorists for more terror.

      The Iranian authorities don’t recognise dual nationality for Iranian citizens and therefore don’t grant consular access for FCDO officials to visit them in detention.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Good dodge.

        BBC sends staff into lion den.

        Inevitable happens.

        BbC waive all responsibility whilst now pushing to reward kidnappers.

        Are they on a cut?

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    • micknotmike says:

      I may be a little cynical (Moi?) but I’d love to meet Richard Ratcliffe and ask :-
      “Have you ever thought than instead of chasing the woke equivalent of a trophy wife, you could have settled down with a nice English girl?”

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  18. Guest Who says:

    Meanwhile, 2.4 is the new 1.2.

    Greta and Barry should stay. Maybe Napier Barracks?

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    • Mrs Kitty says:

      Napier barracks? Brilliant idea that’ll have all the illegals rushing back to Dover and wanting their dinghies to get back to Calais.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “Be it so. This burning of widows (India/suttee) is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.”
        – Charles James Napier

        (c) CANE Project 2018 – Cultures Are Not Equal Project

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    • JohnC says:

      The end-game for all of these people is that they get more tax-payers money in funding.

      They have absolutely no financial interest in saying anything else. It’s ALL about money now.

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    • StewGreen says:

      quote “Isn’t it strange that halfway through a Conference on Climate Change that scientists decide to change their Global Warming assumptions up to 2.4C from 1.5C.
      This smacks of more scaremongering.”

      Media have hyped a lot a lot of grand Climate predictions in the past
      that never came true.
      … “The Arctic will be ice free in 19XX, 20YY, 20ZZ etc.”

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  19. Foscari says:

    I know I have written about this before . But I still cannot
    understand why the BBC does not have commercial advertising
    instead of the license tax. They could have an extra, at least
    another 3 hours a day of” diversity ” rammed down our throats.
    I was lucky last night I escaped for 75 minutes from the woke
    political correctness of TV. I watched on Sky Arts a film about
    the life of Anton Bruckner whom with Beethoven, in my opinion
    is the greatest of all composers of symphonies. But the pleasure
    was also the adverts . I couldn’t believe it . The adverts were
    those from a bygone age. There were white couples living
    together. And the white males were not portrayed as buffoons .
    Yes there was some diversity. Which represented the ethnic mix
    of our country. I couldn’t believe what I watching. It was so
    refreshing . AND it made me interested in the products that were
    being advertised. Along of course with
    Bruckner’s glorious music. And before anybody
    says . “What’s he talking about?” Nearly every
    great blockbuster film score by John Williams,
    Alfred Newman, Hans Zimmer etc etc . Originates from themes composed by Bruckner.
    Even “My Way” the Frank Sinatra anthem.
    originates from Bruckner’s ninth!!

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    • MarkyMark says:

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    • Jeff says:

      There was one particular advert I saw the other week, that was so crammed with diversity I completely lost track of what they were actually trying to sell…

      It was set in a garden where a marriage was taking place. Needless to say the marriage was between two gay men, one black, the other white. The priest was an ethnic female. So far so woke…

      We were led around the garden looking at all the happy people. Every hue of humanity was on display; black, white, brown, yellow, gay, straight, disabled, able bodied, all of them smiling and happy.

      It was dazzling, but…

      Any idea what they were selling?

      No!

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      • Dover Sentry says:

        Are you sure there was someone straight there? Really??

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      • BRISSLES says:

        Even Richard Littlejohn in yesterday’s Mail did a good piece on the demise of the white male on tv, particularly in ads where more mixed race relationships are depicted than there are in real life outside of London. At last ! I thought, there are at least some in the Press who are prepared to come out and say what the rest of us are thinking.

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      • digg says:

        Coca Cola tried this in the 70’s – 80’s…. just saying.

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      • Sick of it all says:

        ‘Any idea what they were selling?’

        London Zoo.

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    • StewGreen says:

      @Foscari Your TV already has 6 BBC channels with adverts
      Dave, Yesterday, Drama etc
      are all owned by the BBC
      and mostly use repeat material that the licence payer already paid for.
      They then put adverts around it, and then put surplus revenue back into the main BBC
      after paying themselves of course.

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    • G says:

      Fos,

      Apparently the magnificent ‘Appian Way’ by Respighi prompted John Williams with the theme to ‘Superman’.

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  20. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #3 – what a giveaway – it’s all about the coppers, the taxtakeaway from you and me, at COP26

    TOADY interviews Gordon Brown and a representative of the South African Government at COP. The love of money is the root of all evil, Gordon as your clergyman father will have taught you. That is what the whole Global Warming and Climate Change thing is about.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Yeah give a load of our money to bongo bongo land and dress it up as green crap . Or maybe finance non existent armies in bongo bongo land ….. afgee … echoes of Vietnam …

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  21. Guest Who says:

    Almost reassuring the yanks have as many incoherent diverse loons there as we have here.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Chris Horner in #FLOP26 spoke of US legal cases : it came out green activists and states planned to use legal action again Fossil Fuel corps “as a revenue stream”
      ie They wanted to keep the corps alive so they can receive compensation from them year after year.

      So is it really about stopping CO2 ?

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  22. Guest Who says:

    So it set me to wondering.

    Do lace makers have ‘people’?

    What do they do once no longer peopling for lace makers?

    Does the bbc have team on standby for lace related gems of public interest?

    Plus other thoughts.

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    • StewGreen says:

      If they are filling space with one thing
      … they are not reporting another.

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      • BRISSLES says:

        The lady up the road in our village’s Alteration Shop has reduced her hours to 3 days a week. She has made my clothes fit ‘properly’ for years. Any chance the Beeb would be interested ?

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  23. Guest Who says:

    Is there such a thing as scruffy, bearded zombie on scruffy, beard zombie friendly fire?

    This is actually getting hilarious.

    Meanwhile in the next room Megs is issuing statements hand over fist.

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  24. StewGreen says:

    9am Lincolnshire news
    Headline was a big advert for get vaccinated
    #1 Lincs hospitals are full up
    #2 Here’s where you get vaccinated
    #3 If people don’t there’s likely to be severe restrictions on life in the future, new lockdowns etc.

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  25. StewGreen says:

    9am Humberside news
    #1 Concerns about our beloved NHS , and its workers being forced to vaccinate

    #1a brief mention : hospitals could fill up, lockdowns could come back

    #2 Grimsby report into totally insanitary ambulance service

    #3 St John Prescott is to speak at COP26

    #4 Hull college got £4m grant to do something for GREEN jobs
    (granny paid that not magic unicorns)

    #5 Yorkshire cricket club racism. an Asian reporter read out a TUC statement
    #PRasNews

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    • Guest Who says:

      Prezza!

      If that does not kill it, what will?

      XR going full Chumbawumba will be ace.

      Anyway, here is another diverse hire mouthing something.

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  26. Scroblene says:

    Why on earth does this ginger muppet still try and be interesting?

    If it’s a sort of democrat plot to muck around with UK politics, then they’ve already got Barry over here for some sort of magazine deal, so why bother taking any notice of this stupid boy?

    I don’t remember ever meeting or talking to anyone who’s in the least bit of interest in these two clowns, surely the MSM could train some proper journalists to investigate, or are they too scared?

    You expect the BBC to waddle along after all the work has been done, and then use someone else’s stuff. especially looking at the yank rags and cnn etc., but with our Queen still suporting Great Britain at a grand old age – c’mon msm, think of us normal citizens, not some grotesque leprachaun and his toxic bird!

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  27. Guest Who says:

    Marianna ‘liked’ this.

    It gets funnier by the minute.

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  28. Dover Sentry says:

    BBC Online News:

    “Wetherspoons: Cocktail sales up but ales out, says pub chain”

    “….. it has also been hit by supply chain issues such as driver shortages, which have been exacerbated by both the pandemic and Brexit.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59231222

    We know our BBC hates Tim Martin, boss of Wetherspoons, for voicing his support for Brexit. They will never forgive him. This features has nothing positive to say about Wetherspoons. (Rather like our BBC stance on Brexit). And the fake news on Brexit will always be mentioned by our BBC.

    The opening image is from Getty Images (cost?) of three women and a black man having fun at a table. Very rarely have a seen a black man in Wetherspoons. Being a Getty image, it wasn’t taken in Wetherspoons. So why use it at our financial cost??

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    • taffman says:

      We are in need of a leader that puts the people Great Britain first and who will get us out of this mess.
      One who will defend our borders, end this global warming nonsense and close down Al Beeb .

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    • digg says:

      As for the image, I can’t recall any Wetherspoons I have frequented serving up any drink with a salad on top either!

      Obvs. a SW1 idea of what they are ike.

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      • Messenger says:

        Friend of mine went to a local cafe recently and ordered a coffee and a croissant with butter and jam. It (eventually ) arrived on rectangular plate with the croissant etc at one end and at the other a heap of rocket with a drizzle of balsamic vinegar dressing. Why? Vegan nudge?

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    • StewGreen says:

      Image library info
      Mirko Vitali Date taken:3 May 2019
      Location: * Italy *
      Label “Best friends toasting mojito drinks at fashion cocktail bar restaurant
      – Party time concept with young people having drunk fun drinking on happy hour at pub – Focus on lower left glass”

      image tags include :multicultural, multiracial

      Why did BBC do the story, and open comments ?
      One thing is they curate an anti-Brexit audience
      and it gives them an opportunity to bitch in the comments.

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  29. taffman says:

    “Covid pass extended to cinemas and theatres in Wales after Senedd vote”
    “From Monday, it will be extended to cinemas, theatres and concert halls.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-59212167
    All thanks to the ‘great dictator’ – Mr ‘Disgraceford’.

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  30. theisland says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Lingchi (simplified Chinese: 凌迟; traditional Chinese: 凌遲), translated variously as the slow process, the lingering death, or slow slicing, and also known as death by a thousand cuts, was a form of torture and execution used in China from roughly 900 until 1905. It was also used in Vietnam and Korea. In this form of execution, a knife was used to methodically remove portions of the body over an extended period of time, eventually resulting in death.

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  31. Guest Who says:

    The bbc really should stick to running across a pool of custard.

    After the flooding, we invested in battery pump back ups and fossil generators. So yes, your Prius could keep the Bolly chilly for a while, but pretty soon you will need to fire up the Honda, George.

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  32. Dover Sentry says:

    The media see each immigrant as a new Labour voter and therefore support the invasion.

    Labour opened our borders in 1997 when they won the Election. Jack Straw said that it would rub the Rights noses in Diversity. Also, Blair and Kinnock knew that immigrants were far more likely to vote Labour. Look at immigration figures since 1998. They shot up, and London was changed forever.

    Blair has recently said that he perhaps regrets these actions.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      The argument

      There have always been immigrants in britain
      Immigrants add to our way of life
      Immigrants enrich our culture
      Immigrants bring diversity
      Diversity is strength

      The 5 lies

      But unlike poland nobody really wants to do anything about the illegal arrivals or punishing the French enemy for facilitation .

      Like with the corruption personal political careers count for more than the good of the country

      The sadest thing is there is no real choice … so no democracy

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  33. Guest Who says:

    Sky is getting, if anything, even better value.

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  34. tomo says:

    The power drunk bansturbators in the Welsh Assembly are eventually going to come unstuck.

    The deserve some broken windows at a bare minimum.

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  35. Guest Who says:

    The guys all in the basements instead of on the beat are trawling, aren’t they?

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    • StewGreen says:

      The advert just features a WHITE North Yorkshire officer
      who’s NOT wearing a LGBT+ lanyard.

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  36. JohnC says:

    Just been shopping to Asda this morning and noticed the tins of quality street are piled up nearly to the roof.

    It reminded me of the lying remainer BBC scumbags trying to cause panic.

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  37. StewGreen says:

    Twitter quotes Telegraph
    “Sharks are now living in the Thames!”

    I’m guessing that is NOT a new thing
    em Twitter has a date search
    Tweet from 2019

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    • StewGreen says:

      some species of shark are not very big.

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      • BigBrotherCorporation says:

        Dogfish are sharks, we have a number of species of small shark around our coasts, and from my sea fishing days some are pretty common close inshore. Lovely looking little critters, and very easy to catch on hook and line, just don’t tell the Chinese.

        It’s good the Thames is a healthy, thriving ecosystem again, some of our other rivers are suffering from water extraction and sewage pollution (chalk streams down my way especially), all because of the population explosion (e.g. MASS immigration) in recent decades – thanks Blair, Brown, Cameron, May… Boris (the ‘green’?!!!!)

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        • Up2snuff says:

          BigBro, do some people call dog fish ‘rock salmon’ ?

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          • Fedup2 says:

            Or rock eel – boiled and served with mash and vinegar – proper East end cor blimey grub – upon which I was raised .

            Was a bit of a shock when I caught my first one of a pier in the Channel …. Very nasty skin …

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            • BigBrotherCorporation says:

              Up, Fed – have heard it called rock salmon and huss… big favourite of my dad’s, don’t eat fish myself, I’m more a catch and release fisher.

              Shark skin (incl. dogfish) used to be called shagreen/shagrin, and was used for all kinds of things in days gone by: ‘sandpaper’, wrapping around sword hilts for a better grip with sweaty/bloody hands, soles of seaboots so good grip on the wooden deck in stormy weather etc… It feels rough because all the scales have tiny little, enamel ‘teeth’ that point backwards. Brilliant ‘engineering’, actually allows the shark to move faster through the water as it traps a layer of water close to the skin, resulting in less friction (opposite of what you’d expect). Been copied for various aquatic vehicle surfaces and olympic swimmer’s caps.

              Think I’ve probably caught more Lesser Spotted Dogfish AKA Catsharks beach fishing than anything else, other than Mackeral. They’re lovely looking little sharks, with the most incredible, big green eyes that glow in the dark, weird looking skin and fins, and when you hold them they wriggle around and purr like a cat. They’re what produce most of the ‘mermaid’s purses’ you find on the beach. Far too nice an animal to eat.

              Wish I could remember anything which was actually useful.

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  38. Fedup2 says:

    The thought of Sky lies without Adam Boulton leaving a slime trail is just too much .
    I wonder if he ll be moving to the BBC or the Classic FM retirement home ? ….

    Or the replacement for koonsberg

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    • theisland says:

      Top comment “I’d almost forgotten just how long Adam Boulton had been embarrassing himself interviewing people way above his intelligence level.”

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      • MarkyMark says:

        In the course of my life I have developed five little democratic questions. If one meets a powerful person–Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates–ask them five questions: “What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?” If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.
        https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/15/10-of-the-best-tony-benn-quotes-as-picked-by-our-readers

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      • Guest Who says:

        Hence Beff clearly on manoeuvres ‘finding’ the challenge that is the ‘Pede.

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      • Doublethinker says:

        What is remarkable about this interview is that Boulton in 1993 trotted out the liberal establishments’s line about immigrants assimilating . A few years later it became clear that the various ethnic groups did not wish to assimilate and so the establishment changed its story to one in which multiculturalism was a good thing , so enriching, and the way forward.Then Blair decided that the resistance of the British people to mass migration could never be broken democratically so he decided to invite millions into the country without any mandate to do so. And now we are swamped by aliens who reject our values and make it clear that they detest our values, at least what remain of our values.
        Yet the liberals still insist that mass migration is the way forward and have passed laws which make it increasingly difficult to oppose mass migration and implement policies which are steadily favouring immigrants over indigenous people.
        When we talk of the best PM we never had , Enoch Powell is the only choice.

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      • BigBrotherCorporation says:

        Fascinating, honestly I’d never seen Enoch Powell speak before. He has been edited out of our history for ‘wrongthink’, and portrayed as some kind of demonic Antichrist. One of the earliest examples of woke deplatforming in action?

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  39. Guest Who says:

    There is hope.

    This in the comments to a post on a state sanctioned forum blowing smoke up the ass of a scrawny PAP minister who flew to Glasgow to talk to an empty room.

    “But what should they do to tackle lousy ministers. BTW she flew to Rio for a weekend to take photo with joseph schooling. What a hypocritical waste of space. Still don’t understand how they made her a minister”

    Seems Singapore still copying our lead, and despite with more money, to equal effect.

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    • StewGreen says:

      We are copying Singapore’s lead
      Fake democracy, ruled by lefty elites
      they started censoring Wikipedia when I lived there.

      Joseph Schooling is a Singapore swimmer who competed in the 2016 Rio Olympics

      2021 Singapore’s Minister of Sustainability and Environment, Grace Fu, are leading efforts for a deal on carbon markets

      2016 Grace Fu to support Team Singapore in Rio:
      Minister for Culture, Community and Youth

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  40. MarkyMark says:

    “BORIS, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns.

    Who’s gonna do it? You? You, BORIS?

    I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives.

    You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall.

    We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, otherwise, I suggest you BORIS pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to.”
    ― Aaron Sorkin, A Few Good Men

    https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/478318-a-few-good-men

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  41. Guest Who says:

    Beff just claimed she ‘bumped into’ Ed on a train, yet got enough boring quotes to then do a thread that likely still hasn’t finished.

    Anyway, Lidl wins the Xmas troll tvc prize.

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  42. Guest Who says:

    XR logo a nice touch.

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  43. MarkyMark says:

    “I doubt that any action I would take would make that much difference.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59163278

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  44. Guest Who says:

    BBC News back on the ad trail again

    The popularity of the Chinese fast fashion firm, which adds a staggering 6,000 new items to its range daily, has exploded during the pandemic.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59163278

    Shein: The secretive Chinese brand dressing Gen Z

    ***
    I had not realised, but do now thanks to Laura, that ‘Gen Z’ is actually heifers of color who give a monkeys about Greta.

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  45. MarkyMark says:

    For Greta ….

    In the course of my life I have developed five little democratic questions. If one meets a powerful person–GRETA, Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates–ask them five questions: “What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?” If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.

    Tony Benn

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  46. Foscari says:

    The Israeli ambassador is attacked at the LSE last night.
    Something the BBC will not be interested in . And certainly
    not the Londonistan programme.

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  47. Tabs says:

    Nasa’s Moon return pushed back to 2025
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-59231632

    Last line of the article says, “The programme will also see the first person of colour land on the Moon, though it is unclear whether this will happen during Artemis-3 or a later mission.”

    I put a comment saying “we don’t know who they are yet but their skin colour is more important than what they bring to the programme”

    I got banned!!! Surely I’m just stating what the BBC are saying.

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  48. Guest Who says:

    Another of the Wendy Jugend.

    Unless they do get the power grab through, I can’t see these idiots lasting much longer.

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  49. digg says:

    So we learn today that “older” TV presenters are to be sent to the knackers yard to make way for “yoof”…

    R4’s Sarah Montague interviews John Humphries and Jon Snow to ask if they think it’s a good thing to do.

    Both obviously a bit bitter about it and showing their ire in a very restrained BBC way.

    These people have helped create their own premature end by falling in with all the woke bullshit and cheering it on, (Remember Glastonbury hey Snow?). I have no sympathy with them whatsoever even though it means a slide into mediocracy for the industry, they are reaping what they helped to sow.

    Plus obviously space needs to be cleared for the tsunami of coloured faces on every show now, which they have all probably cheered on not for a second thinking that they would be made to pay personally.

    I wonder if this will apply to the 3 old highly remunerated BBC dames who rake a no doubt very comfortable living from “Rip Off Britain” a very apt name for the show in my opinion.

    All most satisfying!

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    • Garry Lavin says:

      Their end is not premature….they had more than a full innings.

      I had a hit series for the BBC ….so they said they had big plans for me. And then changed their minds and said they had enough middle aged blokes. That was 18 years ago.

      I wonder if their viewing figures have improved over that time?!

      They’ll be culling 40 year old blokes next….if they haven’t already done so.

      I note that the youth channels are quite infantile. They can’t want them all to be like that surely?

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  50. MarkyMark says:

    the BBC has finally announced it’s ditching Stonewall’s controversial “Diversity Champions Programme” over impartiality concerns.
    order-order.com

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