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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543 Responses to Midweek 1 December 2021

  1. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    This weeks covid variant is doing mps a favour.
    Nothing on tv about the channel crossers or peppa pig speeches.
    All the recent knifings etc well down on any news bulletins.

    Covid, the gift that keeps on giving (for some)

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  2. Guest Who says:

    Get the feeling BS and Wendy should get a room.

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  3. StewGreen says:

    MCB : Muslims are victims

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    • G says:

      Why they can’t fight it out for supremacy in the victimhood stakes with the blacks in the car park round the back, I really don’t know.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Ahmadis suffer vicious persecution around the world. The main source of fuel for that persecution is in Pakistan, but what happens in Pakistan does not stay in Pakistan.

      I know that from my experience in the Yorkshire market town of Batley. In August 1985, when I was 11 years old, my parents organised an inter-faith meeting in the town hall. It was interrupted and disturbed when, according to West Yorkshire police, more than 1,000 extremists, led by Pakistani hate preachers funded by the Pakistani state, were bused in from around the country. The mob brutally attacked my English mother and my father, a dermatologist; my eldest brother and I; and a Welsh Ahmadi schoolteacher who was with us. My first cousin, a GP, was by chance driving through the market town that day. He saw the mob and saw his family and friends being attacked, so he stopped. He was recognised, pulled from his vehicle and savagely beaten up.

      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2020-03-12a.177.0&s=islam+batley#g195.0

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  4. StewGreen says:

    Local news “Downing street had a Christmas Party last year”
    … OMG .. quick put the army on standby.

    #1 Most of those people probably work everyday with each other

    #2 It’s already accepted that all kinds of elites don’t bother to follow rules.

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  5. Scroblene says:

    Woodstock was the scene of a slightly bigger party in 1968, when the H3N2 ‘flu’ was around!

    Most people were too stoned to notice of course!

    Maybe a quick raid on No10 could clear the air, like…

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  6. Guest Who says:

    Interesting level of engagement.

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  7. StewGreen says:

    Jewish Chronicle

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  8. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    That storm Arwen was a bit stronger than I thought.

    https://ibb.co/Sn27hzD

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  9. Guest Who says:

    A bigger question might be who pays attention to Simpo, other than Sopes, JezBo and Marianna.

    https://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2021/12/will-bbcs-john-simpson-be-watching.html

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  10. vlad says:

    A reminder that Farage interviews Trump on GB News at 7pm this evening.

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  11. Sluff says:

    It’s Welsh day on BBC news.

    On the 6 pm bulletin Huw Edwards announces the news is coming from the BBC’s ‘impressive new’ offices in Cardiff.

    Yep, once again the entitled BBC can afford new impressive offices while the licence fee payers that pay for it struggle on.

    Nice if you can get it.

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    • Sluff says:

      6.30 pm update
      Huw refers to the BBC’s ‘Gleaming new headquarters’.

      Maybe Huw should have addressed us plebs differently.
      ‘Let them eat cake’ springs to mind.

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  12. StewGreen says:

    ITV local news
    “How has HIV testing evolved over the last 40 years?
    #WorldAidsDay2021”

    PRasNews featuring mostly black people.

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  13. Lefty Wright says:

    Pug
    If a person insists that they are neither male or female then they can only be referred to as “it.” Nice.

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  14. taffman says:

    “Covid: Swansea’s Cinema & Co reopens, defying court order”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/wales
    Could this be the start of things to come?

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  15. taffman says:

    “Channel migrants: Pushing back boats will increase danger, MPs warn”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59481143
    They have put their own lives in danger. Some of them may put our own lives at risk . How many are ISIS, Taliban, and murderers ?

    We are a nation of Lions led by Peppa the Pig and and a bunch Muppets.

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    • JohnC says:

      Sink the boats, pick the people up and take them back to France.

      The crossing will soon stop after that. Far safer in the long run.

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  16. JohnC says:

    ‘Time to consider mandatory jabs over Omicron, EU chief says’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59497462

    There we have it. Omicron has mild symptoms and in all likelihood the vaccine will work against it. Maybe not 100% but probably good enough until next years booster. And lets face it, it doesn’t work 100% anyway.

    The main point of course is nobody knows anything at this point.

    Yet it’s being used to justify increased lockdowns and now mandatory vaccination even though hardly anyone has got it.

    Welcome to 1984. The end-game of the globalists.

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  17. taffman says:

    “Man arrested after breaching Houses of Parliament fences
    The spokesman said “inquiries into the circumstances continue”, but it was not being treated as a terrorist incident. ”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59494076

    “it was not being treated as a terrorist incident”.
    What does it tell you ?

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  18. Northern Voter says:

    Two things I noticed today.

    1. Richard Osman’s house of bames, the barrel they are scraping is getting emptier every week. Mrs Voter was watching today, I recognised one of the motley crew, a onetime member of a comedy duo who used to be on Swapshop ( remember that?)The rest I had no idea.

    2. A Place in the Sun, is to get a new presenter, after weeks of filming in secrecy, guess what colour he is? If you guessed white, your’e wrong.

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  19. Zephir says:

    I was perusing that new fangled interweb thing yesterday and there was a discussion about the Markle thing, sometimes known as “Nutmeg”.

    Someone posted a screenshot of the online biography she used when she was touting for work as an actress.

    Not only was she lying about her age, she called herself a “supermodel”. Hmmm… super something maybe.

    But the most telling part was her self proclaimed ethnicity, which she stated as “CAUCASIAN”

    which is white skinned of European heritage as far as I know ?

    So if she is a victim of racism, as she seems so desperate to tell everyone, it must be those damned blacks again ?

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  20. Fedup2 says:

    Trump ‘interview’

    As interesting to note what was left out as included –
    Notably
    The false president and his mental capacity
    Failing law and order in democratic states and cities
    How to prevent election theft again

    I was hoping for something a bit longer and more detailed but I guess that is what was agreed .

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    • JimS says:

      John Simpson:

      Before the hype that will no doubt follow Nigel Farage’s interview with Donald Trump on GB News in some sections of the press, a quick reminder of the latest BARB viewing figures: BBC News 149,200. Sky 72,500. GBN 17,500.

      John Simpson followers: Marianna Spring
      Donald Trump followers: 7 billion – 1.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Election theft …he said get rid of mail in ballots

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  21. Zephir says:

    Funny how those who perennially claim to be victims are so often the polar opposite:

    Gang of men are caught on video ‘yelling ‘Free Palestine” as they spit and hurl shoes at bus full of Jewish teenagers celebrating first night of Hanukkah in Oxford Street

    The scenes unfolded on Oxford Street on a bus of Jewish teenagers
    They were attacked from the outside from a gang which banged shoes on bus
    Police understood to be treating it as racially-aggravated public order offence

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10262833/Gang-men-caught-video-spitting-bus-Jewish-teenagers.html

    Coming to a beach near you soon, no doubt, with sob stories ready for the bbc

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    • Foscari says:

      Zephir – Not a “topic” you will ever see on the BBC’S Londonistan
      Programme. Where all the problems in the capital including gang knife
      crime is down to the fault of the Police and the Toreeeeeeeeees.

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  22. taffman says:

    “What’s happened to the 40 new hospitals pledge?”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/59372348
    Are there no Tory supporters or voters on this site willing to defend the muppets ?

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  23. taffman says:

    “19-year-old arrested over death of Amber Gibson”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-59498465
    Any photo or decription of the perp ?

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  24. taffman says:

    “Covid Omicron: Time to consider mandatory jabs, EU chief says”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59497462
    Reminder to Peppa the Pig and his team of Muppets – We have left the EU.
    Do we have any Tories left in Great Britain any more ?

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  25. Sluff says:

    There is furore in certain,ahem, media today. GPs are complaining that they have to roll out the enhanced booster vaccination programme and therefore cannot see other patients.

    Having been to some large vaccination centres as well as my own GP surgery (12 consulting rooms) I have yet to see a single GP give a covid jab. It’s a very simple process and a junior nurse can easily do it.

    So why exactly are the GPs whingeing? Might it be because they might have to see some real patients instead of just talking about it?

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    • StewGreen says:

      Doctors don’t do simple things like injections
      they do the complex things like diagnosis
      .. but make sure you always get a second opinion.

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      • Scroblene says:

        When Senora O’Blene was in hospital for a few weeks recently, she missed her booster which was going to be done at a local surgery, by our lovely nurse.

        I asked the staff in the hospital, if she could have the jab there, as she had enough tubes etc., sticking out in all directions, and another wouldn’t hurt – would it?

        They were very sorry, and of course extremely kind and competent, but gently explained that they actually weren’t allowed to do this!

        I got my wife to the local jabbery last week, and she was seen outside the surgery, in our car, again by another lovely nurse and all was well, although she had a letter a few days later from the NHS, advising her to get the jab…

        Quite a lot of letters to go out, and in two pages of languages as well…

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      • JohnC says:

        I can’t recall having an injection by a doctor. It was always a nurse.

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        • G says:

          My second, “Gamechanger” was handled by my GP in our local multijab village hall.

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          • JohnC says:

            The only GP I’ve heard of doing jabs was a local one who had retired and was helping out.

            And rightly so : regular GP’s should not be doing things a nurse can do. The situation for the rest of their responsibilities to earn their generous salaries is absolutely critical now.

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          • Banania says:

            Nobody should be doing them.

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  26. StewGreen says:

    Blurb for the media show I mentioned earlier
    They keep leaving it off the page until afterwards
    What is the relationship between journalists and their audiences?
    Reporters covering the Omicron variant say they’ve received abuse from people angry about the government’s response
    and blaming the journalists.
    (… what the doom cheering journos ?)

    One newspaper group announced they’ve had to disable reader comments altogether on their coverage of the tragedy in the English Channel. So are the trolls making it impossible to have a healthy debate between reader and reporter?
    (… who are the real trolls ? The deceptive stirring reporters )

    What are the big tasks facing new Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal?
    Guests: John Thornhill FT, Rizwana Hamid, Isobel Asher Hamilton, The Insider;
    Ian Carter : Iliffe Media; Rebecca Whittington, Online Safety Editor at Reach.

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  27. StewGreen says:

    desperate Simpson has cherry picked some weird Barb figures

    Truth is TV is in severe decline
    yet he brags that he thinks BBCnews gets 150K average views ?

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    • Scroblene says:

      GB News – 435,000
      Sky Australia – 400,500
      Fox- 398,000
      Sky- 180,000
      Global – 134,000
      Others – 127,640
      Radio Prune – 107,846
      Nosepoultice Inc – 75,346
      ITV – 45
      BBC – 3

      Figures collected by O’Blene Data Collections Inc.
      (Accredited Collectors of Data from various sources).
      Period of collection 5.00am – 6.00am 2/12/21

      Sorry Mr Simpson, but these are the real figures, you must have been reading the wrong autocue!

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    • JohnC says:

      What a truly childish, spiteful thing to post by Simpson.

      100% typical Lefty.

         20 likes

  28. Eddy Booth says:

    Small flaw in the mandatory vaccine drive.

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  29. Zephir says:

    More black racism:

    Black Lives Matter calls for month-long boycott of ‘white companies’ during the holiday season to support ‘Black Xmas’ and end ‘White-supremacist-capitalism’

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10263757/Black-Lives-Matter-calls-month-long-boycott-white-companies-support-BlackXmas.html#comments

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    • andyjsnape says:

      In the comments section someone has put “What, No McDonalds” 🙂

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    • G says:

      Z,

      I wholeheartedly support Balkanisation of the UK as a prerequisite. The sooner the public start the conflict to end the games that about 12% of foreigners in our midst get up to the better for all of us.

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    • Banania says:

      It is incessant Black Xmas in the TV advertisements. The BBC can’t show them, alas!

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  30. Eddy Booth says:

    Origin got memory holed.

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  31. Zephir says:

    Yet more racism, and funded by the taxpayer:

    The worst play ever would be funny if it didn’t epitomise the hard Left tripe passing for theatre today: ‘Inept’ said The Times, ‘crass’ wrote The Guardian. Yet it’s on at The National which gets £16m of public money
    The National Theatre’s brand new big-budget play, called Manor, has been more savagely panned by the critics than any other in living memory. The reviews have been truly toe-curling.

    ‘Breathtakingly inept,’ said The Times — giving it a rare No Stars.

    ‘A soggy disappointment,’ said the Daily Telegraph.

    ‘Schlocky — basically nonsense,’ said Time Out.

    Even The Guardian, usually a great cheerleader for the theatre — especially Left-wing theatre, of which this is a such a prize example — called it ‘Clumsy, crass and unconvincing,’ awarding it just one star.

    Manor — which is directed by writer Buffini’s sister, Fiona — is a sustained and shrill political diatribe about the terrible threat of both climate change and the Far Right, which according to the play are somehow mysteriously interlinked.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10265247/The-worst-play-funny-didnt-epitomise-tripe-writes-CHRISTOPHER-HART.html

    These puppet-characters are so cliched and condescending that you can only groan: among them are an elderly gay vicar, a heroic black nurse, and a far-Right troublemaker who wears black wellies that look a little bit like jackboots. Geddit?
    climate change and the far Right. Our cultural elite love the far Right as a subject, insisting it is one of the biggest threats to society today. There are, of course, other pressing political issues they could tackle — Islamist terrorism, for instance, or the far Left and its rampant anti-Semitism.
    But the Left-wing theatre is terrified of touching the subject of Islamism, and does so only in the most cautious and kid-gloved way. Indeed, whenever contemporary theatre deals with politics, it almost always gets it wrong.

    The manor house in the play is a clumsy symbol of Britain, whose history is nothing but ‘War’ and ‘Slavery’, we are told.

    The far-Right agitator is the only assertive straight white male on stage, and thus the very personification of evil. He abandoned his wife and children, he beats up his girlfriend, he is, as the saying goes, ‘full of hate’.
    Perhaps he represents all straight white men.
    And if you’re not sure, to make it quite clear, one of the characters explains about climate change: ‘It’s white hormonal men! Their testosterone is going to destroy the world!’

    Another unintentionally hilarious moment was when we learned that the far-Right villain was preparing to launch a ‘Tenth Crusade’ in England to ‘cleanse’ his country, and had the plans for it all ready in his briefcase. (Yes, really, I’m not making this up.)
    But then his deadly plot was foiled when his briefcase was stolen — by two teenage lesbians

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    • Scroblene says:

      ‘Manor’ Ticket prices

      Monday – Thursday evenings and all matinees:
      £86, £66, £56, £46, £36, £20

      Friday & Saturday evenings:
      £89, £69, £59, £49, £39, £20

      Previews 16 & 17 November:
      £67, £47, £38, £30, £25, £20

      Previews 18 – 22 November:
      £69, £49, £40, £30, £25, £20

      Ridiculously expensive for such childish trash!

      I thought theatre-going went out with ‘Boeing Boeing’!

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    • G says:

      Z,

      “who wears black wellies that look a little bit like jackboots. Geddit?”

      Wot, like this: [I was hoping to add here a shot or video of Freddie Starr’s impersonation of a Gestapo Officer C/w wellies but, it seems the Thought Police have got there first. Nothing, nowhere. All gone it seems. Sorry, I can picture Freddie strutting across the stage now! So funny.]

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  32. Zephir says:

    Racism in the USA:

    NYC’s Tenement Museum faces backlash after it REPLACES story of white Irish immigrants with woke tale of black New Jersey family who never even lived in the Lower East Side building

    The Tenement Museum is replacing its story of an Irish family who lived in Manhattan’s Lower East Side building with that of a black man who did not
    The museum was originally focused on telling the stories of the more than 7,000 people who inhabited its 22 cramped apartments in the 19th and 20th centuries
    At the time, the building had been inhabited by Jewish, German, Irish and Italian immigrants – there were no black people living there
    But when researching the life of an Irish man named Joseph Moore they discovered another man named Joseph Moore who lived nearby
    They both worked as waiters and were around the same age, but one was black

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10264157/Tenement-Museum-replaces-stories-white-immigrants-Lower-East-black-man.html

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  33. Zephir says:

    Never their fault is it ?

    Waukesha Christmas parade alleged killer’s mom blames lack of mental health services on tragedy

    “We are not making excuses, but we believe what has happened is because he was not given the help and resources he needed,” Woods wrote in the letter”

    Oh yes you are…

    and no mention of the media, and the false president lying and making inflammatory comments during and after the Rittenhouse trial creating division and resentment ?

    Nothing to do with that at all ? consider the timing

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/waukesha-suspects-mom-blames-lack-of-mental-health-services-on-tragedy

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  34. Zephir says:

    Envi of the wurld, jool in the krown, wurld klass etc etc

    A bloke dressed as an old woman with a gay son making sexual innuendos and toilet humour ad infinitum, a cheap 40 year old game show with nonentities paraded as “slebs, a miserable depressing soap opera and a fat woke wimmin vicar, well done.

    ‘Will they be giving refunds?’ Fury as BBC announces identical Christmas line-up

    On Christmas Day from 5.10 pm the BBC will broadcast Strictly Come Dancing, followed by Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel, then Blankety Blank Christmas Special, Call the Midwife, EastEnders, Mrs Brown’s Boys, and at 10.55 pm The Vicar of Dibley. The running order of programmes is exactly the same lineup as last year, albeit with the shows starting slightly later

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  35. Eddy Booth says:

    Covid: Trigger of rare blood clots with AstraZeneca jab found by scientists
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59418123

    Hang on.. – haven’t blood clot side effects been continually denied by the MSM?
    But now there’s an interesting theory about them.
    How to backtrack so they can run the article 🤔.
    Use ‘rare ‘ 13 times…

    Not the from bbc😀
    “One for the road?”
    56519.jpg

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  36. Zephir says:

    This from LAST year:

    When the BBC announced that Mrs Brown’s Boys would once again feature in their festive programming, it was impossible to ignore the savage response on social media.

    “Forget Covid, there’s my Christmas ruined,” one Twitter user exclaimed.

    “Root canal work is an attractive alternative to Mrs Brown,” wrote another.

    “As if 2020 wasn’t bad enough, Mrs Browns Boys is back. Still not found anyone that admits to watching it… I demand to know who watches it and who likes it?” asked another.

    Critics agree.

    “The worst comedy ever made,” was how Grace Dent positioned it in The Independent. And last year, Guardian columnist Joel Golby posed the question: “How did the worst show on TV become a festive must-watch?”

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    • JohnC says:

      I’ve managed about 15 minutes once.

      The show is a complete ham luvvie fest which I presume is why the BBC love it.

      And the BBC bubble being the BBC bubble, they will be totally unable to comprehend that others don’t.

      As Graham Norton said, we all have different groups of friends in life. One group being our ‘theatre friends’.

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    • Guest Who says:

      The crucial difference is that Time Davie gets paid, a lot, no matter what, under threat.

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      • andyjsnape says:

        Re Vicar of Dibley – hopefully this year French falls in a bigger hole and doesn’t reappear

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        • Guest Who says:

          Slight change, this year ‘First Mullah Of Dibley’.

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          • Scroblene says:

            It’s pathetic, isn’t it!

            All that free money and all they can do is churn out the same dull dross every time!

            A wag somewhere mentioned that you might just as well save the TV times from 1985, and use that instead of buying their huge fat, and boring, Christmas edtion!

            We always buy the nearest Saturday or Sunday rag, and use their TV pages to see what to avoid, but probably won’t watch anything except for our Queen!

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            • BRISSLES says:

              I’ve been recording series like Billions and Succession, so that’s my binge watch Christmas. Anything on the box that has the word ‘Celebrity’ in front of it is anathema to me. Regardless.

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              • Guest Who says:

                Careful… zipped by a Graun opinion earlier with a very pretty redhead in a satin dress looking wan. Something about female Successionistas being out gendered.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        For our purposes it will be interesting to see year on year viewing numbers- although these might be suspect because the BBC contributes toward the numbers company .

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  37. JohnC says:

    Other people in the world are shocked at the looting going on in San Francisco. So I went to check on the internet and videos of it were very hard to find. That had the alarm bells ringing. Then I saw one site which was far more concerned with not calling it ‘looting’ than what actually happened.

    Fox news had it though:

    And – of course – the reason was clear. And exactly as expected. All the looters are black.

    No mention of it on the BBC. Or the interview with Farage and Trump.

    But they did find space for a very sympathetic interview with fellow Trump-hater : ‘Rust: Alec Baldwin says he didn’t fire gun on film set’.

    Interesting defence for which the BBC are fully on-board saying: ‘Ms Hutchins was shot and killed as Mr Baldwin rehearsed with what he believed to be a “cold” – or safe – gun ‘

    So the narrative now seems to be that he didn’t shoot her, the gun did.

    The BBC are simply ridiculous now. They are like some 3rd-world country propaganda outlet. I would LOVE to see a photo of the line-up of their staff these days.

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  38. JohnC says:

    God give me strength – is there a single new film being made which does not contain left-wing agenda ?.

    I noticed a newish film ‘The Power of the Dog’ as I like the escapism of a Western set in the early 1900’s. The fact it was directed by a woman and won multiple awards rang some alarm bells so I checked the trailer.

    Half way through, the cowboys are sat at a table with some flowers made from paper. The main character says ‘I wonder what little lady made these’. A male and very clearly gay waiter who just happened to be stood in earshot steps forward and says ‘I did sir’. The music changes to funeral-style as the main character sets fire to the flower and puts it in the water jug.

    I see why it won awards and I won’t be watching it. The Left have poisoned everything.

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    • Doublethinker says:

      Totally agree. Almost everything produced in the last twenty years in the UK or US is rubbish and unwatchable unless you place adherence to Woke right think above entertainment , or if it a documentary, above truth and facts.
      My recommendation is to watch Walter Presents on , ironically , Ch4 , which has European TV drama on it and, although there is plenty of Woke infected dross , doeshave some decent non Woke programmes eg German, Polish and Danish made series seem mercifully Woke free.

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Thanks for the review John. Initially after reading the comments of film critics and the fact that Benny Cumber was the lead, I wasn’t fussed, but now my mind is made up. Its a no.

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  39. Fedup2 says:

    Mickey Beurke of BBC fame tells it to the telegraph –

    STARTS Freedom of speech is under threat at the BBC, Michael Buerk has said, as he expressed fears that The Moral Maze may fall victim to woke ideology.

    Buerk has presented the Radio 4 programme for 31 years, chairing debate on the ethics behind the news stories of the week.

    Radio 4, Buerk said, had a “hopeless yearning to connect with yoof” and was struggling to square its Middle England listenership with “its voguish, increasingly woke-sounding board”.

    He is concerned about the show’s continuing ability to be provocative in a time when “public discourse, poisoned by social media, is ever more inclined to regard anybody with a different view as not just wrong, but evil”.

    ‘New orthodoxies are beyond challenge’

    Writing in the Radio Times, Buerk said: “We used to pride ourselves it was a programme on which ‘the unsayable gets said’. There were no holds barred, the audience were grown-ups and didn’t need protecting from views they might not like.

    “The arguments weren’t curated or choreographed, and they didn’t need censoring because the whole point of the programme was to test them to destruction.

    “It survives, even prospers in a modest way, despite the temper of the times. In the wider world – and, it has to be said, in some parts of the BBC – more and more is being put off limits, things that cannot possibly be said, new orthodoxies that are beyond challenge. I do think freedom of speech is seriously under threat.”

    He added: “I won’t say we don’t feel it on The Moral Maze … Maybe we’re a bit less abrasive than we used to be. To their credit, Radio 4 bigwigs have largely kept their nerve. I honour them for it, but sometimes worry about how long that will last.”

    Buerk, 75, has spent 52 years at the BBC and said there was “nervousness” among veteran broadcasters after Adam Boulton, the Sky News anchor, announced he was “past his sell-by date” and quitting the station.

    “Time was, he’d have gone on growing into his 80s. But times change, the boxes he ticked so well are now labelled ‘privilege’, and the old guard is being replaced by one that is conspicuously, purposefully, less uniform,” said Buerk.

    He claimed that Radio 4 was more stable because its audience “can’t stand change” – although half the audience “feel like drowning themselves in their cornflakes” after listening to the Today programme.
    ENDS

    I disagree that the big players are being replaced by a ‘less uniform ‘ brand of presenter – the new brand is young female and coloured – with an overtly totalitarian outlook ….

    …a number of comments run ‘the BBC -is that still going ?’ – we are winning …

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    • Guest Who says:

      Toenails crawling past that statue outside now, offering cover to formulaic Emma?

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    • Banania says:

      Perhaps Nick Ferrari will feel like retiring soon. He wants compulsory injections backed up by lockdowns and fines.

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  40. Zephir says:

    F2

    Sorry I misread, it said “middle England listenership”

    when I thought it said “middle eastern listenership”

    Next on radio 4:

    “10 new ways you can attack and racially abuse Jews (and the racist bbc will keep quiet about it, despite headlines around the UK )”

    and following that:

    “Guide to the hottest white schoolgirls in every Paki ghetto: your guilty pleasure is safe with the bbc” (white they are just lower class sluts anyway)

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  41. Guest Who says:

    Meanwhile, BS…

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  42. Guest Who says:

    George and Mike Wendling chat daily. Apparently. Check with Springster.

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    • Guest Who says:

      I did indulge in a small smile.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Mariana – get ready for failure – you are up against ‘dotun’ and and ‘ashni’….

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      • 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

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        • LynetteO says:

          I was a bit late going through BBC bias this week so i hope MarkyMark you get this message. Thank you for posting this brilliant lecture by Douglas Murray.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      George – keep washing your hair – make sure the shampoo has micro plastics in it ….I guess the wokes get used to BBC nodding dogs who don’t challenge …

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      • BRISSLES says:

        A lot of ‘wokes’ have more facial hair than on their heads. Me ? I’m more yer Helena Bonham Carter ! lol !!

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  43. Fedup2 says:

    BBC has an interesting mindset . Our Jeremy interviews a lady who still has no lecky – she is surviving on the AGA and open fire and sounded quite chipper…
    …..followed later by meeshal having a chat with a climate zealot . Meeshal happily suggests banning gas boilers in order to get someone to come up with in alternative . Meanwhile until these domestic fusion reactors are invented we all freeze – hence cutting global warming .

    Burn that diesel .

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  44. Zephir says:

    If there is ANY doubt whatsoever that the bbc is a racist biased organisation it is this:

    A MASS race hate crime committed in Oxford Street, London and caught on video

    Not a single mention on their front page, I repeat, not a single mention and already slipping down other MSM pages

    Just imagine if it was white people doing the same to a black or asian victim ?

    I am so glad I am the age I am so that I will be unlikely to see the inevitable consequences of this bloody sickness infecting the west, the consequences of the divisions and hate created by the bbc and msm

    not just the importing en mass of vicious violent racists and gang rapists but allowing them to act out their race hate upon the streets of London and little or nothing said, and the sanctification of violent black criminals because of their colour whilst ignoring white victims of police brutality or race attacks

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  45. Guest Who says:

    Every bbc platform, simultaneously…

    I didn’t pull the trigger – Alec Baldwin

    “I would never point a gun at anyone and pull a trigger at them. Never,” says actor Alec Baldwin. He reveals this in his first sit-down interview after cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally injured on the set of his film Rust. She was shot during a rehearsal with what Mr Baldwin believed to be a “cold” – or safe – gun in New Mexico. The gun is believed to have fired when he removed it from a holster during rehearsals for a forthcoming scene. Ms Hutchins died in hospital following the shooting that also resulted in director Joel Souza being injured. The 80-minute interview with Mr Baldwin was “raw”, according to George Stephanopoulos from ABC News, who describes the actor as “devastated” yet “very candid” and “forthcoming”. “I’ve done thousands of interviews in the last 20 years at ABC,” says Mr Stephanopoulos. “This was the most intense I’ve ever experienced.”

    BBC News
    “I would never point a gun at anyone and pull a trigger at them. Never.”

    Between dry run Jussie and Smart Alec, bbc revision news going to be busy.

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    • JohnC says:

      The fact he believed the gun to be safe but didn’t KNOW the gun was safe before he pointed it at someone and pulled the trigger is the entire reason he should go down for negligent manslaughter.

      The BBC won’t go anywhere that. He’s on the ‘approved’ list, despite being a nasty character full of hate. Every single person at the BBC falls into that category.

      Minimum 6 months. I’ll bet my house they twist the rules and he doesn’t serve a day.

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    • tomo says:

      The gun is believed to have fired when he removed it from a holster

      – he’s not obviously limping ?

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  46. Zephir says:

    Guest, why no questions about whether he crossed state lines ?

    the left seem very very concerned about this piece of legislation, they have talked about little else over the last few weeks

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  47. Fedup2 says:

    So in America if you are white wealthy democrat you can kill someone – seriously wound another – and your only punishment is to do a TV interview …

    I suppose the next of kin have been bought off

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    • Guest Who says:

      …then get wall to wall bbc back up.

      If Sopes and BS Don not fly back to do an Americast special at Kyle’s Uni’s student Union there is no justice.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      Just to add something here which is that the gun involved is a period ‘antique revolver’ which is entirely manual and cannot be fired just by pulling the trigger, and Baldwin is at best doing what the left like to do, missing out important pertinant facts or outright lying, and turning on the waterworks while doing so.

      Before the gun can be fired the hammer has to be manually cocked by pulling it back to the locked position, only then can the gun be fired.
      Readers will perhaps recall the ‘fanning’ technique in old Western gunfights where the left hand is moved rapidly across the hammer to cock it faster.

      So Baldwin would have had to deliberately move the gun from its safe inert position into a live fire position, regardless of whether the trigger went off accidentally. He then had to point the weapon, again this is something which cannot be done accidentally, and he would have to have been spectacularly unlucky for it to have ‘accidentally’ have gone off.

      But none of this explains what on Earth he was doing playing with a gun on a live set for a scene which did not require him to discharge the weapon.

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      • popeye says:

        Just to clarify, some “Western” pistols were single-action, that is pulling the trigger cocks and fires. Most were double action as you describe above. However, single action pistols required considerable effort to fire unlike double action which could have a hair trigger.

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      • JohnC says:

        Showing off to the women is my bet.

        I am quite certain that his lawyers have found an expert who claims it is possible and I can imagine the courtroom scenes where he tries to prove it can be done.

        Whatever – it’s taken an amazing amount of time for this claim to surface.

        The Left lie as easily as they tell the truth. Baldwin has finally made his own luck and Karma has caught him.

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  48. Guest Who says:

    It’s an OT Daily Failure classic, but that bloke’s face…

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  49. micknotmike says:

    I’ve an idea which I may pitch to the BBC. They are, as has often been commented, as evasive as they can be when disclosing the ethnic makeup of perps and victims in the reporting of crimes. I notice that in the US of A, any politician will be described as “Chuck Z. Wheelbarrow III (D)”, so we know it’s a democrat. I’d suggest that anyone of south asian heritage, for example, could be suffixed with a single, easy to remember letter. “P” would work. Anyone of African descent could be (Thinks of a letter at random), “N”. Any other human being could be simply left blank, or suffixed “H”.
    For example, knife crime, “The victim (N) was assaulted by four teenagers (N),(N),(N),(N) who cannot be named for legal reasons.
    Rape gangs? The victim (H), was repeatedly raped by a gang of “local men” (P),(P),(P),(P),(P),(P). Further simplification could be 37(P).
    On a more serious note, I’ve just been reading about the disgusting events in Oxford Street. As mentioned, nowhere to be seen on the BBC. This site is becoming my primary source of impartial news reporting.

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  50. Fedup2 says:

    MOD has an excellent idea about ‘improving the culture’ of the Army –
    Requirement

    Female
    Pacifist
    Three day week
    Child care provided

    Truly lost the plot – on the blue labour watch …

    Hoefully stew will pop up and declare ‘ false news’ again

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