Midweek 1 December 2021

For some reason the BBC decided to put out a 2 hour documentary about a ‘royal rift ‘. Unusually the Palace wasn’t granted a pre broadcast showing and there was the smell of injunctions in the air .Now there are suggestions that the piece was ‘toned down ‘to avoid further confrontation with the Royal Family . Perhaps the BBC isn’t so sure of itself after all?

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562 Responses to Midweek 1 December 2021

  1. taffman says:

    What is our feeble government doing about the ongoing coastal invasion ?
    IMHO they are spending most of the time looking for excuses while Al Beeb just takes the side of the invaders.
    We need a government that will defend us and a broadcaster that is pro Britain.
    Where is Nadine Dorries ?

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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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  2. andyjsnape says:

    Survivor: I’m haunted by deadliest Channel crossing, “reports” the bBC

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59480814

    In his wheelchairs, speaking softly, and still traumatised

    How lovley!

    That reminds me I must not renew by RNLI subscription

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    • JohnC says:

      I was just going to post the same thing.

      As predicted, the BBC are keeping this story going for many days.

      These were people perfectly safe in France and who chose to risk the crossing and were attempting to get into the country illegally. The BBC NEVER mention those facts.

      Contrast with the BLM supporter mowing down 40 people and killing 5 in his SUV (which was gone in 2 days), Sasha Johnson whose story was dropped immediately we found out she was shot by blacks and the Sabina Nessa murder whose story was dropped as soon as we found out an Albanian immigrant did it.

      And of course the ongoing Muslim rape gang trial which never even made the front page as far as I am aware.

      The BBC are the most disgusting of double-standard hypocrites.

      An interesting part of this story is how they all had the telephone numbers of the British and French authorities. It seems we have a special number for them to call when they want to be picked up.

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    • taffman says:

      Letting 25,000 illegals in to the UK is not “protecting our NHS”.
      Poland did a better job than that !
      Take note, Peppa Pig and your government of muppets.

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    • Doublethinker says:

      Agree about the RNLI donations , almost all our charities seem to have gone as Woke as Woke can be , Salvation Army, National Trust to name but two. The commercial sector is heavily infected too, eg Yorkshire Tea ( personally painful) , M&S, and of course most of our institutions, the police, civil service, RAF etc.
      We can do nothing about the madness in the government agencies but we could do something about charities and commercial businesses if only we had the same level of organisation that the far left does and organise boycotts by most of the silent majority. Unless we speak up collectively then we leave the field open to the noisey but well organised minority who are driving Wokism so successfully.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure. The Home Office has been at the front line of this endeavour since 1782. As such, the Home Office plays a fundamental role in the security and economic prosperity of the United Kingdom.
      https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/about

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  3. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – another day, another $. Uh uh. Same old, same oh ….

    Waves of Negativity from the Knaves of Wegativity (a.k.a. the BBC) :
    Contradictory advice from the PM
    Tories not wearing masks
    A wimmin unable to get a fourth jab
    PM not wearing a mask
    Tories voting against virus restrictions in the House (big majority in favour – most of the Opposition couldn’t be bothered to turn up to debate or vote!)

    The BBC are a national treasuredisgrace.

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  4. Fedup2 says:

    Today watch 1A
    1 for the BBC Advent starts today – according to a beeboid presenter – who introduced the ‘bbc online choir ‘ which sang a Beatles song – very religious . Anyway about 15 minutes later a correction was issued to give the correct date for the start of advent – with a sneer attached .

    If this has been some Muslim thing I wonder if it had been treated with such flippancy ?

    2. Footy . The BBC loves girl footy . Apparently there is a girly World Cup – last night the England girl team won a game 20-0.
    Such a score indicates just one thing – it was not a serious competition .
    Yet the BBC celebrated this ridiculous score as though it was real – apparently it was a World Cup qualifier – joke .

    3 Today is still enjoying the new brand of Chinese virus and operation fear . In a week or two – when the medics discover it’s no worse than a cold ( maybe ) the BBC / blue labour will be shouting about ‘over reaction ‘ and wasted money and useless booster jabs . You can hear the tune now …

    4 American whitee star author apologises to black man she claimed raped her ( and wrote a book about it ) – you could hear that the BBC just didn’t want to talk about this tragedy at all.
    It has real trouble when one approved type comes up against another one ….

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    • Guest Who says:

      The Jack Shizzle Show.

      https://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2021/12/today-thinks-it-got-it-about-right.html

      They know nothing…. Nothing!

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      • JimS says:

        7.42 Simon Jack: I’ve just got to say about our Advent calendar, which we started today on the first of December, we’re getting quite a bit of pushback from people saying Advent actually started on Sunday, not today, it’s got nothing to do with the first of December. Now that may well be true in terms of the religious holiday or the religious period, although I’ve never seen an Advent calendar, which is what we’re doing, start on the 29th of November. So we’re going to defend ourselves there.

        Is the transcript correct? Advent started on Sunday, which was the 28th.

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        • JimS says:

          Craig at IsTheBBCBiased? has confirmed that the transcript is correct.

          Thanks Craig!

          Clearly not Simon’s day, but 28th, 29th, 1st, the BBC as always got it ‘just about right’.

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  5. Doublethinker says:

    If you felt that Douglas Murray’s ‘The Starage Death of Europe’ was good , then you will find ‘The Dying Citizen’ by Victor Davis Hansen even better. It is about how the ideals of America have been eroded over the past thirty years by an unholy alliance of Globalists and Far left ideologues and how they are resisting the challenge from populist leaders such as Trump. He goes on to map out where he thinks the USA will end up if this continues, basically an unrecognisable medieval shit hole where the majority live as serfs to the elite.
    If you don’t have time to read it VDH gives a good overview of the book in an hour long interview on ‘Uncommon Knowledge’ from the Hoover Institute , which is available on You Tube.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Victor Davis Hanson Diagnoses The Dying Citizen

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      • pugnazious says:

        Identity politics leads inevitaby to ‘blood and soil’ conflict….lol…the BBC are racist nazis….they just don’t understand that yet…..that’s not a joke is it? It’s true…the BBC promotes racial identity politics…that will, is in fact doing, lead to conflict and bloodshed.

        Mass immigration, failure to integrate and to become citizens loyal to one state, one constitution, one nation, leads to tribalism and war between competing tribes…who knew? Just look out the window…two identity wars going on right now being fought against the white British…by identity driven Muslims and Blacks…aided by the BBC and fellow travellers.

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Over 70 languages are spoken in Leicester, with 16% of residents speaking Gujarati, making it the second most common language here after English.

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          • moggie63 says:

            I live in Leicester and it’s possible to go round without hearing any English at all.

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        • Dobyns says:

          pug, I offer you three ‘discredited’ words …

          Rivers of Blood

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  6. AsISeeIt says:

    BBC news online have a one track mind this morning: ‘Covid booster: Hospitals and pharmacies urged to ramp up rollout‘ – so reads the command from on high…

    Covid: Can the NHS boost the booster programme?‘ – is the question posed, presumably laying the ground for tomorrow’s answer in the negative.

    A booster is someone who supports a sports team, organisation, person, product, or place very enthusiastically. It can also be slang for shoplifing.

    Boosterism! Boris promises jabs for all by end of January‘ (Express)

    That aside I’m none too sure whether anything in the news this morning is really anything newsworthy that has actually just happened, rather than being the usual opinion, PR and fluff.

    One senses it is Ladys Day again in the press: ‘Is Guislaine another woman who pays for a man’s crimes?‘ asks Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.

    Seems a monsterous battalion of British women have invaded the Baltics.

    Political assault. Lizz Truss, in Estonia yesterday, took a tank much like Margaret Thatcher did…‘ (Times)

    England women 20 (twenty) Lativa 0 (ni)‘ (‘i’)

    Let me just repeat that score again like the BBC boosted the word booster in their headlines…

    20 – 0 England women thrash Lativa‘ (Metro) – call me a male chauvinist but that’s not competitive sport as I understand it. However, I do sense there are some fellas that would pay to watch a good thrashing.

    Girl’s on top, we wonder?

    Christmas drinks row is latest stand-off between Raynor and Starmer‘ (‘i’) – no love lost there at the Labour out-of-office Xmas Party.

    Ghislaine Maxwell was “no 2” in Epstein’s hierachy…‘ – says the ‘i’ almost regretfully.

    Golden girl takes charge at House of Zara. Why the fashion dynasty’s founder chose his youngest daughter as his sucessor’ (Telegraph) – nepotism?

    Holly’s in the lolly. Star’s deal to stay with ITV‘ (Daily Mirror)

    Breaking the trend of media female power fantasy…

    With no discernible talent on show, other than her status as pin up, our: ‘Leigh-Anne wows at premiere. Little Minx‘ (The Sun)

    The Guardian frets: ‘More than a quarter of UK bird species at risk‘ – I tend to pass by any report that kicks off with a statistic, however, judging by today’s assorted headlines it is the guys who are the endangered species.

    The ladies don’t always go for looks, they often prefer a bit of thinking woman’s hunk: ‘We meet Benedict Cumberbatch‘ – as the giveaway Metro insists we: ‘Get your daily showbiz fix‘ – well at least their frontpage isn’t boosting the booster… oh sorry, I misspoke too soon…

    Armycron. Troops brought in to help drive to get UK boostered

    Just my fevered imagination or has the Number 10 psyops team deduced the word jab sounds a bit too invasive and decided booster to be rather more palatable? The word vaccine seems to have fallen by the wayside. As does immunity.

    The miserablist Mirror breathlessly brings us last year’s news as a half-hearted throwaway secret Santa consolation present for Labour: ‘Exclusive. Boris Johnson and his staff have been accused of breaking Covid rules by enjoying crowded parties last year

    I’m not sure what the new puritans on the left are more disgusted by… Boris or the notion of parties?

    And the jokey little item at the end comes from our pink market-watching Financial Times: ‘Omicron crypto contagion. A little-known cryptocurrency has soared in price solely, it seems, because it shares the name of the new coronavirus strain

    I wonder, can you buy shares in that chocolate bar named Boost?

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  7. Foscari says:

    On a less serious note the big sports story on the BBC
    website yesterday was England’s ladies football team
    thrashing Latvia 20-0. Now please don’t any of you send
    any facetious comments about your local boys under 13 team
    capable of beating Latvia 4-0 or the under 15’s beating
    England. Women’s sport has become the BBC’S cause celebre.
    They don’t cover on TV hardly any more top level men’s sport. So let’s give them a bit of slack about shouting from the roof about
    the 20-0. Now for something different. Well a little different.
    I watched the live game on Amazon Prime between Newcastle-
    Norwich. I have watched games on Sky and BT Sports but even
    on them I don’t think that every single advert featured black
    models or 100% black models. No real problem for me , it’s the
    world we live in now. BUT what do you think about this?
    There was an advert for a car ,with of course a black driver.
    Do you think that if the car was black in colour but had a
    white gloss bonnet like the black footballers have with their
    hair it would make a good selling point for the car? Advertising
    agencies , take note. My wife tells me that the white sheen is
    a fashion, really? The BBC don’t know what they are missing by not having commercial advertising. They could kill two birds with one
    stone. BIG BROTHER at the diversity department would be in a perpetual
    orgasmic state. And we wouldn’t have to pay
    the license tax!

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    • AsISeeIt says:

      Black people in advertising, eh?
      Ever since they took them off the jam pots, they now seem to pop up everywhere.

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      • andyjsnape says:

        Some minorities complain, others for example dont

        Rarely see Asian people represented

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        • MarkyMark says:

          A CRICKET team has scrapped its name after angry complaints from Muslims. Crusaders captain Ed Joyce kisses the Twenty20 Cup after the final in Southampton. In a move which was last night branded as “political correctness gone mad,” The Middlesex Crusaders will now play one-day cricket matches as The Panthers.3 Feb 2009

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          • pugnazious says:

            Wonder what they say about The Saracens.

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            • MarkyMark says:

              Descendants of African slaves have told the BBC they will change their surnames, after a Dutch city decided to make the procedure free of charge.

              Utrecht council has decided to remove the €835 (£715) cost and bureaucracy to help people shake off their “slave names” and have the option to adopt one that recognises their African ancestry.

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          • popeye says:

            So that will be the Crusaders (BOO) from foreign lands who fought to re-take the Holy Land conquered by Arabs (HURRAY) from foreign lands to give back to the original inhabitants? How dare they!

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      • Foscari says:

        AsISeeit-Much better than my long winded comments! But I don’t
        think I would be brave enough to write such a Monty Python
        comment as yours. BRAVO !!

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Did the car have tinted windows and space for a ‘9’ under the seat ? And a hi fi with which to share your ‘ culture ‘ homie ?

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    • Rich says:

      Fos,

      Advertising at the moment, especially on ITV, seems to suggest that minorities in our community need to be “represented” before parting with their hard-earned cash, that they need to see someone of a similar hue or who shares a similar lifestyle before buying a car or sofa, shopping in a supermarket or using a bank.

      This advertising seems to me to be suggesting that many minority groups purchase products for reasons that could be considered discriminating, not necessarily that inclusive at all, for reasons that seems to be predominately based on the colour of their skin, their religion or on their lifestyle.

      Whilst the majority of the population are expected to remain colour-blind and accepting of alternative cultures, it suggests to me that those who believe themselves to be ‘marginalised’ in reality expect not to be treated equally but to actually receive preferential treatment. They must ‘feel’ accepted, their choices must be respected, their demands must be met, even when buying a burger or a beer, chocolate or a car, even when celebrating Christmas. Who knew this Christian festival was so widely celebrated amongst the South-East Asian community?

      Imagine if as a white heterosexual male I demanded the same type of ‘respect’? If I was shallow and bigoted enough to make my buying choices based solely on my ‘identity’? I would rightly be labelled a bigot, xenophobic, homophobic and racist. Although on the plus side, if I did choose to do this, it would save me a fortune this Christmas.

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      • BRISSLES says:

        I see that many of the Christmas drama programmes have shooed in those of a darker hue. One stood out for me – the children’s story Hansel & Gretel. Hansel is not white.

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        • popeye says:

          Not the only “variation on a theme” re Hansel. I went to the Hamburg State Opera House in 1980 to watch Humperdinks’s Hansel and Gretel. Hansel was a twenty stone Hausfrau!

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    “The creatures outside looked from PEPPA pig to BORIS THE man, and from BORIS THE man to PEPPA pig, and from PEPPA pig to BORIS THE man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” – ORWELL

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  9. pugnazious says:

    LOL…..DONALD TRUMP WAS RIGHT….Again!

    So Trump was right about not appeasing China and not thinking China will become a liberal democratic state if we just give it all our business, technology and money….so says the Today programme.

    Right about the Russia hoax, right about the Chinese virus…and of course when he shut his borders before anyone else to stop covid and was denounced as a mad racist for doing so he was right…if you believe in shutting borders for this as the BBC ironically does with covid.

    Maybe he was also right about the fake news media and ‘The Beauty’. Well..yeah…he was…though The Beauty is still lobbing mud as he departs…..

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59395804

    ‘Of course the casus belli for the attempted insurrection on January 6th, the “stolen election” – which of course wasn’t stolen. ‘

    Hmmmm….an ‘attempted insurrection’? Really? Just some rowdy tourists weren’t they? Where were the guns, the bombs, the killings, the civil war around the country?[oh…yeah…that’s the BLM/Antifa mobs whom the BBC ignores] Attempted insurrection my arse.

    And stolen election? Well yeah…it was….4 years of pounding with the Russia Hoax, the Big Lie, to try and drag Trump down, 90% of the media working to smear Trump[including the BBC], social media platforms shutting out Trump supporters and Trump himself, and The Swamp colluding with the Democrats to steal the election.

    Hell yeah….the election was stolen…it was vastly unfair and corrupt…the BBC et al worked hand in hand with the Russians to derail the US election and to destabilise the US political system….it worked.

    Love to see Trump come back…and I suspect many Amercans might like that too. The BBC says he is divisive…but he’s not…it’s the left’s reaction to him that is divisive…instead of accepting the result of the election and deciding to work with him or at least responding in a sane, calm and measured way they reacted in a massively hostile and uncooperative way…from the start proclaiming he wasn’t legitimately President…lol…that he ‘stole the election’ with Russian help…which we know was that Big, Big Lie….and trying to block every piece of legislation, policy or appointment Trump wanted to put in place.

    The Democrats and their allies polarised politics to a massive extent…they made American politics unworkable for 4 years and they distracted government with endless attacks, the biggest being the Russia Hoax, and kept the Administration from concentrating on actual government….and the media, the BBC as well, played their part in that with their baseless, divisive and polarised attacks on Trump.

    There should be an inquiry into how the BBC tried to corrupt a US election….the Russia allegations were a hoax, a lie…but the BBC’s interference was real and had consequences. Head should roll.

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  10. Guest Who says:

    A morning star is born.

    https://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2021/12/guess-where-andrew-marrs-off-to.html

    Hope he finds his true voice.

    Laura off to Pravda, or be Kim Wrong Un’s Jen?

    For balance.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      In this revealing documentary, Andrew Marr shows how Angela Merkel rose from humble roots to become the most powerful woman in the world. He reveals how her astonishing ascent to power has been on her own terms – as a woman, a Lutheran and as she sees it, a defender of Western democracy.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n3csvkbz

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      • pugnazious says:

        LOL…she’s the most successful agent the Soviets ever had….look how she cosied up to Putin and did her best to undermine the West by importing millions of people with values directly opposed to ours.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Comrade Andy always left his bias at the door – right Andy … any one care who gets the gig ? Or just replace it homes under the hammer from 1992

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  11. Right Angle says:

    Great News! Jolly good news! GB News is taking the fight to the BBC:

    https://order-order.com/2021/11/30/gb-news-commence-national-marketing-campaign/

    Don’t know how to put up the pix, but this is what their ad says:
    “We ask the questions you’d ask. BBC News doesn’t. IT’S TIME TO CHANGE CHANNELS.” And: “GB News. Not PC News.”

    Oh, and where have they parked their ad? Outside the BBC’s London HQ, of course!

    All systems go, Great British Network!

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I should think the BBC having to report on the GBN interview of President Trump and Mr Farage at 7pm tonight will bring the pains on ?

      Or will it give the BBC the opportunity to give 2 modern game changers a slap ?

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      • JohnC says:

        The BBC are like petty, spiteful children who got spanked and have decided to cancel both GB news and Nigel. As a public broadcaster, I find that completely unacceptable bias.

        If they report it, you can be sure it will be selective quotes to portray them both as far-Right. They will include some of the other points as well, but the ratio will be far from proportional to what is actually said.

        I can almost see the bottom lip of the BBC reporter stuck out as he/she types up the report.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          JohnC
          I think the BBC is so hurt from Brexit that it will forever ignore Nigel Farage using the same methods it uses with Jimmy ‘ paedo rapist’ Saville – carefully edited out of all those Top of the Pops repeats – guys and gals .

          When u think of it Farage is the most important politician since Mrs Thatcher even without having to sit in that corrupt parliament

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    • pugnazious says:

      The BBC has nothing to do with ‘news’…..it is a lobby group for the Woke.

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    • theisland says:

      Here

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      • MarkyMark says:

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        • tomo says:

          £2000 a day for that van?

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        • Thoughtful says:

          If you need any of Britains emergency services you can call them on well publicised phone numbers, such as coastguard, mountain rescue, life boats etc etc, but who do you call if you suspect illegal immigrants are bsing employed in a business, or living somewhere?

          Borders agency is compley opaque and operate apparantly in a vaccuum which is perhaps why they are so inefficient and useless !

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        • G says:

          Sorry, my eyesight is failing rapidly. Is that the TV Licence detector van?

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      • StewGreen says:

        Bigger pic

        BBC reply that this weeks Question Time will have GBnews questions cos GBnews presenter is on the panel
        Inaya Folarin
        Presenter, The Discussion – every Saturday 6-7pm @GBNews
        Founder @EquianoProject
        Free @speechchampions

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  12. pugnazious says:

    The Today prog pounced on government minister with information from stolen documents…documents stolen from Sage….the BBC of course told us they were ‘leaked’ but they were stolen….they also selectively quoted and dramatised the stolen docs.

    Apparently ‘Omicron may require ‘very stringent response” and ‘officials should prepare now for a “potentially significant” wave of infections’….and our immunity may not cope with the variant.

    All sounded very dramatic and in need of immediate and radical emergency measures to stop us being overwhelmed by a wave of death across the country.

    Hmmm…turns out not so much.

    First, of course, who stole the documents and passed them on to the BBC? Why did they do that? Clearly someone trying to force the government into a course of action that that person wants…and the BBC also wants. Mishal Husain pressing and pressing for masks everywhere and more restrictions on movement and gatherings.

    This is the BBC and friends trying to decide government policy and using stolen documents, carefully selected and selectively quoted, to pressure the government down one course of action…this is the BBC acting as a lobby group rather than a news organisation[so what’s new?]

    But…when you come to look at the BBC web report things get a lot murkier and uncertain. The headline shouts at you with a dramatc, sensationalist line…

    ‘Covid: Omicron may require ‘very stringent response’, say Sage scientists’

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59484322

    But…read on and nothing is quite that clear…and anyway it is for government to decide policy using all informaton and considerations, economic, social, practical as well as health, not just Sage or indeed one Sage member.

    Turns out ‘The impact of the Omicron variant on the UK is “highly uncertain” ‘ …the BBC goes on…‘ it is “highly likely” that Omicron can escape immunity caused by previous infection or vaccination “to some extent”. ‘…..hmmm…there’s that weasily phrase…’to some extent’…which is a highly flexible phrase….could be tiny or a huge extent….we just don’t know….but the BBC opts to imply the worst.

    So…not know how serious the variant is but so far indications are that it is nowhere near as bad as other variants[and Delta turned out to be fairly mild], they don’t know how infectious it is and they don’t know if our immunity from vaccines will stop it.

    But let’s close the country anyway…….and on that principle of just in case precautions….we don’t know if China will invade, we don’t know what they will do when they get here and we don’t know if our army can resist…so let’s just nuke them now!

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  13. Fedup2 says:

    Today 2
    Meeshall interviewing the latest health sec. Who cares whether people are dying of the latest branded chinese virus – lets ask if there was a leaving do in Christmas 2020 in number 10 during lock down …
    A nationally important story ..

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    • JohnC says:

      Reminds me of the uproar because Cummings drove around – quite safely – in his car yet the Labour MP who travelled on public transport knowing she had the virus was hardly reported.

      The result is I do not respect or trust a single thing they put out now. It is just as likely to contain their deceit as it is to be factual.

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  14. StewGreen says:

    Twitter pushes this at me a story from Nov 24
    US Alice Sebold’s memoir, ‘Lucky,’ pulled as she apologizes to man wrongly convicted of her rape
    who spent 16 years behind bars for the crime, eight days after his conviction was overturned

    Her 1999 memoir “Lucky” revisited the 1981 rape she suffered when she was a freshman in college,
    Her memoir may have indirectly helped vindicate Broadwater. ‘Lucky’ was being adapted into a film when discrepancies between the memoir and the first script adaptation prompted executive producer Tim Mucciante to question the story.

    Anthony Broadwater (black guy) was exonerated from this rape conviction,
    Alice Sebold apologized,
    saying: “I will continue to struggle with the role that I unwittingly played within a system that sent an innocent man to jail.”

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  15. StewGreen says:

    #Fail as England Women miss 43 of their 63 shots at goal

    …. Everyone has a pony tail ?
    .. Everyone is a blonde with pony tail ?
    Surely the FA needs to fix, how come the male team is vastly disproportionately black and the female team isn’t ?

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    • harry142857 says:

      It was a bit unfair on the Latvian team. Half their side came straight to the game after a ten hour shift dealing blackjack at a London casino.

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      • StewGreen says:

        Your typo “It was a bit unfair on the Latvian team. Most of their side are straight ……

        … Oh my keyboard has stopped working.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        They were that pretty? Must have been a good game.

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  16. Thoughtful says:

    https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/sajjad-sultan-gay-village-courts-22324068

    Funny how when women and Socialist Neo Nazi groups are talking about the safety of women, they only ever want to focus on attacks made by White males, and when attackers are from an ethnic background – which appear to be the majority, they simply don’t want to know and pretend they either never happened or to use the attack whilst ignoring the ethnicity of the attacker completely and insinulating he was one of the hated White males.

    In this instance a dangerous sexual predator who under any reasonable system should have been deported back to Pakistan was simply let lose to attack again. You can imagine the outcry if this had been a White male, as it is the media is largely silent about it.

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  17. StewGreen says:

    Hey George Monbiot please wake me up in 50 weeks time
    and tell me if anyone in your clickbait headline is still in jail

    “Jailed for 51 weeks for protesting? Britain is becoming a police state by stealth “

    51 weeks is really 12 months
    but weeks sounds bigger.
    I’m almost certain that none of his Insulate Britain mates will be in prison after 4 months .

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Radical preacher Anjem Choudary, jailed for inviting support for the Islamic State group, has been released.

      The cleric was sentenced in 2016 to five and a half years in prison.

      He led an extremist network linked to violent jihadists, including one of the killers of soldier Lee Rigby in 2013.

      Choudary, 51, has served less than half of his sentence and will complete the rest under strict supervision. Up to 25 measures to control him have been prepared, the BBC understands.

      His release from prison comes approximately four months early because of time spent bailed on an electronic tag before his conviction.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45911160

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  18. StewGreen says:

    @KonstantinKisin tweeted

    In the Soviet Union we had:
    – A media which regurgitated the Party line and was widely understood to be lying
    – A culture of fear about speaking your mind in public because wrongthink was punished both socially and criminally
    – Cultural and creative stagnation resulting from…
    …state and self-censorship
    – Mass scale indoctrination of children with radical unscientific ideologies through the education system
    – A fake “consensus” which went largely unchallenged for fear of losing your job and social stigma
    – People pretending to believe things in…
    …public that they vehemently opposed in private
    – The framing of dissenters as undermining the safety of others
    – Underground groups which met to discuss all of this in secret (think WhatsApp groups but with vodka)

    Good thing the Soviet Union is no longer with us, eh? ROFL

       25 likes

  19. Scroblene says:

    You don’t get Vuukled if you’re telling the truth!

    https://order-order.com/2021/12/01/fact-check-rishi-claims-increased-welfare-spending-is-tax-cut/

       4 likes

  20. G says:

    More nonsense.

    “Drivers warned they could face unlimited fines and disqualification for going out in snow or other bad weather”

    https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/driving-penalty-points-fine-snow-22320445

    One can only extrapolate the building on this foundation to include Global Warming and its attendant hazards. Like tarmac melting in the predicted rising of temperatures and causing slippery conditions.

    I know, let’s ban all driving. There, that’ll fix it.

       13 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Electric cars exempt?

         6 likes

      • Up2snuff says:

        Electric cars don’t work in the cold, Mark.

        If the BBC think things are bad because of a shortage of HGV drivers, wait until the artics are all electric!

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  21. StewGreen says:

    Rittenhouse jury bus FOIA video

    NBC claims Kenosha Police were “mistaken as to the individual’s intent”
    when they stopped James Morrison after he ran a red while following the Rittenhouse jury bus.
    If so, why did NBC’s office producer Irene Byon mention “jury members”
    to police when police didn’t?
    Body cam from @steveoatley
    ( full 82 minute prog, starts 5 minutes in )
    https://www.citizenstringer.com/watch-msnbc-producer-is-pulled-over-following-jury-in-rittenhouse-trial/
    (click the bottom line to get around the advert blocker)

    https://youtu.be/E2-eoaAEnfw

       11 likes

  22. BRISSLES says:

    Off piste a bit here.

    Lovers of Talking Pictures might like to know that they are launching a new free on demand catch-up service. TPTV Encore at http://www.tptvencore.co.uk.

    But what IS interesting is the caveat. “In the past, Talking Pictures has censored TV shows for language deemed inappropriate for the ears of 21st Century audiences (I creased up at that). SUCH CENSORSHIP WILL NOT BE APPLIED TO THE ON DEMAND SERVICE “

       26 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      “I want you white people in the audience to do something for me – I want you to go home and kill your racist Brexit-voting parents.”
      It is a a MYSTERY why Nish Kumar is the favourite comedian at the BBC!!!
      @MrNishKumar

      @bbccomedy

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    We are all equal …

    Parliament will stop selling alcohol at 10pm amid backlash over plans to ‘exempt its bars from curfew’

    https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/parliament-bars-10pm-coronavirus-curfew-a4557746.html

       5 likes

  24. StewGreen says:

    Reporting public events inherently means sharing images of people who haven’t given their consent
    Yet Twitter’s new rules ban this
    .. https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1465683094581792771

    Such people don’t need to new protection they are already protected by existing laws.

    If you see a crime happening
    a safe way to help is to film
    but first stop and get the criminals permission
    BEFORE
    you start filming them

    In the past an antifa girl spat in Based Amy’s face
    Amy was able to broadcast this
    Do you think the girl would give express permission ?

       19 likes

  25. Foscari says:

    I am amazed that the BBC gave such a high profile to the England
    ladies winning 20-0. I may be wrong ,as I just watched the
    highlights, and there were some good goals, all be it against
    a team the under 12 boys who that play in the fields at the back of my garden, would have possibly even beaten. No I would of
    thought that BIG BROTHER from the diversity department of
    the BBC would of objected to showing the game because
    of the lack of diversity in the England team. In fact was there
    any diversity? Is that allowed in the UK we now live in?

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  26. pugnazious says:

    From the Telegraph…doubt the BBC will be rushing this into the headlines anytime soon…

    ‘Covid passports are ineffective at reducing infection and may even be sending out false messages that being vaccinated means a person cannot spread the virus, experts advising Spain’s government have found.

    Specialists on Spain’s inter-regional Covid committee concluded that evidence from European countries shows such passports for entry to bars and other leisure facilities is not reducing transmission levels.

    “In European countries where [the system] is being used, cases are rising significantly, although it is true that their level of vaccination is much lower than in Spain,” an internal report seen by the newspaper El País said.

    More than 90 per cent of Spain’s target population has been vaccinated but the report says the impact of Covid passports is negligible. Eight of Spain’s 17 regions are now using the system in some form.’

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  27. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    On GB News right now, they are going on about the shortage of council/affordable housing.
    So far I’ve heard nothing about the housing needed for the legal and illegal immigration numbers each year which must be in the hundreds of thousands.
    All need housing.
    It’s all ‘not enough houses’ and no ‘too many people’

    After the break he (Liam Halligan) says he has some viewers emails. I wonder if any regarding immigrant numbers will be read out.

    5 minutes later edit.

    No.
    No mention of the incoming hundreds of thousands of migrants.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “If you look at the boat load coming into Spain at the moment, they all sub-saharan men. And if we say you can come in this year, then more people will come next year and more the year after. And the public know that, the public are sensible. Only the people who have a voice in the media and the politicians are the ones who are insane.” {youtube @7:42}

      “Douglas Murray: ‘Nicola Sturgeon and Lily Allen are hypocrites over migrants’” {youtube @6:20 sep2017}

      Nick Ferrari on LBC : Have you taken yours (refugees) yet Yvette?
      Yvette Cooper: No that’s what I said, because the government has said…

      At least Sturgeon can take comfort that she is not alone here, with both Sir Bob Geldof and Stan Collymore thought not to have taken refugees despite their own promises. In fact, even the Archbishop of Canterbury is yet to house a refugee family despite pledging to let them stay in a cottage on the grounds of Lambeth palace. However, a Lambeth Palace spokesman says that they ‘hope to have an update soon’ and insist that the offer ‘still stands’.
      It’s been six months, Nicola Sturgeon. Where are your refugees? {spectator mar2016 paywall}

         15 likes

      • G says:

        MM,
        “even the Archbishop of Canterbury is yet to house a refugee family despite pledging to let them stay in a cottage on the grounds of Lambeth palace.”

        He’s probably by now, woken up to the fact that he would be a prime target for a stabbing to death.

           21 likes

    • pugnazious says:

      Pro-immigration narrative is that the problem isn’t too many migrants but that you’re not building enough houses….roads, schools, hospitals.

         17 likes

    • G says:

      EG,

      I blame T Bliar totally. What did we do to him in his formative years to deserve this punishment?

      I have to believe that he took office when he viewed the UK public with utter revulsion and contempt.

      For anyone to maintain a policy of ferrying in millions of third-worlders and savages by the million but not attach equal importance to bolstering the housing stock/hospitals and all the rest of the social services is evidence as far as I am concerned of that revulsion. We now, daily, meet the third-worlders on the spiral down to their level and the levels they came from.

         26 likes

  28. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    On Facebook I saw a post where a reporter was asking one of the migrants in France why he wanted to go to the UK.
    The man, from Senegal, said “because I can speak English”
    The National language of Senegal is…..French.

       34 likes

  29. Guest Who says:

    Springster up for another award, which is why posting on anything relevant takes a back seat again.

    It would be fascinating to discover how her boss, Mike Wendling, is in any kind of position at the bbc as a career lefty incapable of hearing any other vie…. Oh….

       9 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      “But we have learnt somethings in the last 10 years. We have learnt that most of the press in free western countries are cowards. We’ve learnt that most of our artistic establishment are cowards. Most of our politicians are cowards. We’ve learnt that industries that spend much of their year in award ceremonies patting themselves on the back for their bravery, stop when bravery is required.” – Douglas Murray @5:00

      Douglas Murray speaks at “The Danish Muhammad cartoon crisis in retrospect” conference

         15 likes

      • Doublethinker says:

        I’m not sure when this made but probably about 2018, have we made any progress at all in the UK in the intervening years. If anything we have gone backwards. The Danes have moved forward but we definitely have not.

           4 likes

    • Docmarooned says:

      Most of these “award winning” investigations were probably written on the back of a fag packet in some trendy winebar in W1A.

         7 likes

    • JimS says:

      Basically Marianna has promoted herself as someone deserving of ridicule, then reported, (or made up), the ridicule.

      Disinformation, disinformation, disinformation. Eventually she will consume herself.

         7 likes

  30. Guest Who says:

    Ooook. Shithole. No surprise there. Or JezMagnet.

    That said, the drone opening footage suggests as a war centre it lacks something….

       8 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Although slavery is recognized as being illegal around the world by international treaties and conventions, evidence has shown that there is still existing slavery in Yemen, and the number of slaves is in fact growing.

         7 likes

    • Northern Voter says:

      Yes, but look at the gardens they’ve got.

         2 likes

  31. StewGreen says:

    Covid press conferences
    Neil Oliver’s rule
    “it’s not about,what they say it’s about”

    So when Boris and the MSM are saying
    “OMG ! new variant we need tighter measures”
    … what are they REALLY saying ??

    The truth is
    #1 Covid cases have failed to drop
    so Boris is in search of magic measures.
    #2 It’s Winter ..so doing noting means cases with automatically increase anyway.

    Hull hospitals have now closed to visitors
    because “non-Covid patients keep getting infected with Covid”
    and the hospital says it’s the visitors.

    My neighbour who is a lefty told me the hospital’s bio security measures are rubbish.
    “I was able to walk off the street press a button ..say I’m Mr Smith’s son and they let me into the ward”
    FFS you’d think they have something like procedures to restrict likely carriers
    eg Aunty Jean whose got an antibody certificate and lives on her own OK
    Taxi driver John, who has 3 kids at school ..not OK

       11 likes

  32. Guest Who says:

    BBC is very close to CNN.

    In so many ways.

       18 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Tucker last night
      “Cuomo showing loyalty to his brother, is the right thing to do”

         3 likes

  33. StewGreen says:

    Article : Stop using term ‘Islamophobia’
    and come up instead with a strategy to tackle anti-Muslim bigotry.
    This will ensure we can tackle discrimination against Muslims, whilst keeping blasphemy codes at bay and keep everyone safe from extremism.

    https://www.secularism.org.uk/opinion/2021/11/islamophobia-debate-distracts-from-tackling-anti-muslim-bigotry

    “Despite the term being used to describe prejudice and hateful attitudes towards Muslims,
    it has also been used to shield Islam from criticism, even hampering efforts to challenge extremism.”

       16 likes

  34. StewGreen says:

    Russia Today pretending to on our side
    YouTube pushed a PAID advert at me
    unusual cos it promotes a podcast.
    (It had no logo on so I had to dig to find its Russia Today)
    “every Friday, Rhys Lawton @Draull tears into the MSM for your enjoyment.”
    But hang on he’s a lefty actor
    So looks to me the slick anti BBC anti-MSM are about, a bait and switch tactic
    Lure you in with anti BBC stuff, and switch to pro Russia stuff.

    The 45 minute shows are then split up into 5 minute shorts.
    Full show : https://youtu.be/xGNyPedeirw

    A short

       5 likes

  35. StewGreen says:

    Dan Wootton: The broadcast media in this country is broken
    https://youtu.be/c81FcrqtCms

    13 minute video : Is the Mainstream Media a Threat to Freedom and Sanity? : Academy of Ideas
    https://youtu.be/5okSlrbgELA

       7 likes

  36. StewGreen says:

    Simon Webb media is anti-equality is the way it promotes special cases vastly disproportionally
    eg focussing on Stephen Lawrence
    means the big issue of black on black crime is not properly tackled
    Likewise the Sadeem Rafiq case vs grooming gangs

       9 likes

  37. StewGreen says:

    Webb earlier video today
    : The difference between tolerating and celebrating alternatives to heterosexuality
    …. https://youtu.be/MzeYXFQgLmE

       7 likes

  38. MarkyMark says:

    Aren’t you glad we’re out? At a press conference this afternoon EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen issued a threat that mandatory, EU-wide vaccines may well be coming down the road, telling reporters:

    “Potentially think about mandatory vaccination within the European Union, this needs discussion, this needs a common approach, but it is a discussion I think that needs to be had…”

    Funny thing for the head of a trade bloc to say…

       20 likes

    • andyjsnape says:

      Surely a decision for countries to decide, not unelected 3rd reich

         21 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Funny how krauts always revert to type . Wonder if she was a result of the master race breeding programme?

         20 likes

  39. StewGreen says:

    Bolt
    : Faced with a poor family : The righties get STUCK IN
    … the lefty is STUCK looking to the state
    https://youtu.be/6E8oi4Id3UY

       7 likes

  40. StewGreen says:

    Tucker interviewed on SkyNewsAust
    Auto- transcript from minute 26
    https://youtu.be/3U8OcBWI47w?t=1578
    “We’re all descendants
    of i mean by we i mean australia new zealand canada of the united states we are all descendants of primitive war-like island people in great britain

    I mean we’re all former English colonies
    And Britain ruled the world because the britons were tough as hell
    Really tough .. and independent-minded.. ferocious in their spirit You know there was good and bad in that
    but that’s who they were
    and that’s why they dominated and they they bequeath to the world this remarkable culture and justice system and language
    and they really improve the world more than any other group ever
    and to see their descendants which is us you me canada and new zealand display the spirit of obedience and and craveness
    I’m ashamed to watch it
    not just in australia but in the united states i’m ashamed
    I cannot believe this is happening in my country where are the fiercely independent americans
    and i mean this
    I really mean it from my heart
    like where the hell are the people who founded the country ?
    where their great-grandchildren hiding indoors because of a virus ?
    I mean where are the men it’s uh it kills me to watch it”

       16 likes

  41. MarkyMark says:

    Never Kiss …
    4E75A79D00000578-0-image-a-48_1532179351263.jpg

       3 likes

  42. Guest Who says:

    ‘Places like’.

       7 likes

  43. Guest Who says:

    I wonder what Lurch will talk about now?

       10 likes

  44. Guest Who says:

       2 likes

  45. Guest Who says:

    Awards season.

       2 likes

  46. MarkyMark says:

    “Finally got see my GP, he was in the car showroom buying a new Range Rover with his vaccine money.”

       18 likes

  47. Guest Who says:

    Every day is Larry Grayson day at the bbc.

    https://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-taste-of-christmas-day-on-radio-4.html

       7 likes

  48. Guest Who says:

    More interesting is Wendy responded rather than just blocking.

    https://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2021/12/debate-not-thing-we-do.html

    He should probably get an award for that.

    Interesting that ‘debate’ is not a thing they do.

    For instance, in Springster’s other area of expertise this seems true when it comes to Justin Rowlatt; it was more screaming like a toddler.

       6 likes

  49. StewGreen says:

    4:27pm Radio4 switch on bingo
    “People of colour ..white supremacy ..downtrodden women” etc.
    (Zero live tweets about that show
    So few listeners.)

    Now the Nadiya/ Mary Berry “food bundle” trailer

       7 likes