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?
Midweek 1 December 2021
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We’re taken from the subliminal to the ridiculous in this morning’s edition.
Trigger Warning – as the millennials would say…
BBC: ‘Covid: Trigger of rare blood clots with AstraZeneca jab found by scientists’
BBC: ‘Alec Baldwin says he “didn’t pull the trigger” of the gun that fatally wounded cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his film, Rust’
And the Chinese still say they didn’t have a lab leak.
The Daily Mirror, once the tabloid of the working man is now apparently the rag aimed at your disapproving maiden aunt: ‘Booze, nibbles & party games until early hours. Johnson: No apology, no shame’ – this was the PM’s last year’s Christmas bash – that doesn’t exactly sound like the last days of Rome. BoJo must be losing his flair for a putting on good wild orgy.
Matt in the Telegraph is on form today. A slightly dishevelled chap returning home late is greeted on his doorstep by the missus: “The Sage Christmas party was wild! After the fifth lateral flow test I lost count”
Our fav cartoonist might have penned the freebie Metro’s daftest of daft headline: ‘Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow. Sajid: Party at Christmas but do a lateral test first’
One envisages the future world end of calendar year office party where Roger 2030 inquires of Doreen 2040 from accounts (people in the future will all tend to have numbers in their names) prior to a quick fumble in the stationery cupboard, whether she can supply a lateral flow test, an HIV test, signed written consent and a birth certificate – just to be on the safe side.
More later from the: ‘Prince Andrew on Lolita flight’ (Mirror)
Ah, the future…
‘Fourth jab to fight varients. Deal buys Britain 100m extra doses’ (Times)
‘Two more rounds of booster jabs ordered’ (Telegraph)
‘Booster jabs until 2023: Britain buys 114 million vaccine doses’ (‘i’)
So we’ll all be really really healthy, right?
Perhaps not: ‘GPs may stop monitoring millions of patients due to Covid jab drive’ (Guardian)
There was once a popular notion that should someone somewhere eventually discover a cure for the common cold they would overnight make themselves into a billionaire.
‘WTA halts all tennis events in China’ (Guardian) – frankly, I’m amazed they were still playing tennis over there. These are the people that brought us: ‘No kissing under the mistletoe’ (Daily Mail)
Let’s attempt to take our minds off it.
‘Why nothing’s as subtley sexy as going backless’ (Femail Magazine)
‘The dress of the season – it’s barely there!’ (Inside Times)
Seems girls just want to have fun – as Cyndi Lauper once explained.
BBC: ‘Ministry of Defence aims to double women recruits in military by 2030’ -Putin must be quaking in his boots.
As the Chinese would tell us – a centrally planned economy is all about the quotas: ‘BT sets non-white worker target of 25pc’ (Telegraph)
As the late lamented Graham Chapman, of Monty Python fame, dressed as British army general, would interupt about now to say: “This is getting silly”
‘Macron calls Johnson “un clown”‘ (Telegraph)
‘Macron dismisses PM as “clown” and “knucklehead”‘ (Times)
‘Macron backs the Star’ – fair point. The Daily Star has been lampooning the de Pfeffel chap as a red-nosed clown for yonks.
Round about this point in the press review one begins to look for an and finally.
Often one gets into the (lateral) flow of things but simply can’t seem to find a way out: ‘Bureaucrats win when freedom dies’ – explains ‘Allister Heath on the people who never want Covid rules to end’ (Telegraph)
‘How to socialise safely now. Expert guide’ offers the Times. Having previously promoted the see-through party dress, mind you.
Monty Python had Graham Chapman pop up to order an end since things were getting silly or John Cleese as TV announcer announce it was now time for something completely different. The anarchic (covid?) Spike Milligan would round off a punchlineless sketch with the simple mantra: “What are we gonna do next?”
If it is any consolation at all, bear in mind the press can simultaneously present very different takes on the same thing – depending on what they happen to want to push: ‘Richard Bacon on surviving a coma, ADHD, and a surprise second act’ (Guardian); ‘Richard Bacon I would have been cancelled today’ (‘i’)
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10264733/BBC-News-presenter-Tina-Daheley-pens-open-letter-restaurant-hearing-racist-slur.html
Biggotted BBC presenter realises she cannot control peoples thoughts and speech whilst sat in a restauarant, and demands the Gestapo intervene for her.
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She emphasises it was a ‘white middle aged man’ repeatedly using ‘an extremely offensive racist word starting with the letter P.’
It is difficult to ascertain whether Tina Daheley (Sikh) was offended or being oversensitive because of her background, or because she is a just another bleeding heart lefty. Also it is not clear whether the man was being deliberately ‘hateful’ (she makes excuses for not challenging him).
The fact that she works for the bBC does not make this a national story.
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I can understand her anger.
I was called a ‘Brit’ the other day – and shortening the name of the country I come from to 4 letters is ‘extremely offensive racism’.
Actually I might pretend that if I was so ashamed of Britain that I consider it to be an insult to remind me I originate there.
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I think I prefer being referred to as “RosBif”, or “LAnglais” here, rather than “Brit”…
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I think the BBC victimhood virus spreads far and wide…
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Since the offensive word was not actually printed, I can only guess what it was. When did this word become so offensive, and who decided?
I am a Pom, a Brit, a Limey, a Rosbif – what is so terrible?
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We’re taken from subliminal to the ridiculous in this morning’s edition.
Trigger Warning! – as the millennials would say…
BBC: ‘Covid: Trigger of rare blood clots with AstraZeneca jab found by scientists‘
BBC: ‘Alec Baldwin says he “didn’t pull the trigger” of the gun that fatally wounded cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his film, Rust‘
And the Chinese still say they didn’t have a lab leak.
The Daily Mirror, once the tabloid rag of the working man is now apparently the dainty missive aimed at your disapproving maiden aunt: ‘Booze, nibbles & party games until early hours. Johnson: No apology, no shame‘ – this was the PM’s last year’s Christmas bash – that doesn’t exactly sound like the last days of Rome. Are the Labour blushing wallflowers really pushing this one with their Eyes Wide Shut? Clearly BoJo must be losing his flair for putting on a good wild orgy.
Matt in the Telegraph is on form today. A slightly dishevelled chap returning home late is greeted on his doorstep by the impatient missus: “The Sage Christmas party was wild! After the fifth lateral flow test I lost count”
Our fav cartoonist might as well have penned the freebie Metro’s daftest of daft headlines: ‘Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow. Sajid: Party at Christmas but do a lateral test first‘
One envisages the future world end of calendar year office party where Roger 2030 inquires of Doreen 2040 from accounts (I can assure you having read a lot of Sci-Fi people in the future will all tend to have numbers in their names) prior to their quick fumble in the stationery cupboard, whether she can supply a lateral flow test, an HIV test, signed written consent and a birth certificate – just to be on the safe side.
And you can rely on more later from the: ‘Prince Andrew on Lolita flight‘ (Mirror) – but I somehow doubt you’ll hear much more from the contemporaneous Jussie Smolette fake race hate incident trial.
Ah, the future…
‘Fourth jab to fight varients. Deal buys Britain 100m extra doses‘ (Times)
‘Two more rounds of booster jabs ordered‘ (Telegraph)
‘Booster jabs until 2023: Britain buys 114 million vaccine doses‘ (‘i’)
Did the press hear those very big numbers right? What’s 14 million between friends?
So at least we’ll all be really really healthy, right?
Perhaps not: ‘GPs may stop monitoring millions of patients due to Covid jab drive‘ (Guardian)
There was once a popular notion that should someone somewhere eventually discover a cure for the common cold they would overnight make themselves into a billionaire. We may still not have the actual cure but Big Phama certainly won themselves the bucks.
‘WTA halts all tennis events in China‘ (Guardian) – frankly, I’m amazed they were still playing tennis over there. These are the people whose export gifted us: ‘No kissing under the mistletoe‘ (Daily Mail)
Let’s attempt to take our minds off it.
‘Why nothing’s as subtley sexy as going backless‘ (Femail Magazine)
‘The dress of the season – it’s barely there!‘ (Inside Times)
Seems girls just want to have fun – as Cyndi Lauper once insisted.
BBC: ‘Ministry of Defence aims to double women recruits in military by 2030‘ – Putin must be quaking in his boots.
As the Chinese would tell us – a centrally planned economy is all about the quotas: ‘BT sets non-white worker target of 25pc‘ (Telegraph)
As the late lamented Graham Chapman, of Monty Python fame, dressed as a British army general, would interupt about now to say: “This is getting silly”
And the view from a short distance away…
‘Macron calls Johnson “un clown”‘ (Telegraph)
‘Macron dismisses PM as “clown” and “knucklehead”‘ (Times)
‘Macron backs the Star‘ – fair point. Credit where credit is due. The Daily Star has been lampooning the de Pfeffel chap as a red-nosed clown for yonks. Election campaign season is looming in France – that’s all I’ll say.
At around about this point in the press review one begins to look for an and finally.
Often one gets into the (lateral) flow of things but simply can’t seem to find a way out: ‘Bureaucrats win when freedom dies‘ – so explains: ‘Allister Heath on the people who never want Covid rules to end‘ (Telegraph)
‘How to socialise safely now. Expert guide‘ offers the Times. Having previously promoted the see-through party dress, mind you.
Monty Python had Graham Chapman pop up to order an end to a sketch since things were getting silly or alternatively John Cleese as TV announcer announce it was now “Time for something completely different”. The anarchic (covid cases spike?) Spike Milligan would round off his punch-lineless sketches with the simple repeated mantra: “What are we gonna do next?“
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rare x 11 … extremely rare …
He added: “Many questions still remain unanswered, including whether some people may be more susceptible than others and why the thrombosis (clotting) is most commonly in the veins of the brain and liver, but this may come with time and further research.”
The Cardiff team hope their findings can be used to improve adenovirus-based vaccines in the future to reduce the risk of these rare events.
with time and further research = deaths
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59418123
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https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-vaccine-gold-rush-and-the-damning-ivermectin-tape/
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Apologies – something odd happened to my daily press postings there and readers hereabouts got one and a half for the price of one.
My fault.
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Three years to flatten the population.
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Tamiflu
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The British Government faced criticism last year for being forced to throw away about 6.5 million courses of Tamiflu, worth $150 million, after an audit found problems with its storage. Its efficacy was also queried.27 Feb 2014
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RE Prince Andrew and Trump (again and again) regarding the “Lolita ” flights
I was given to understand the Clinton sex criminal president had a season ticket
silence on that one from the msm, no wonder his wife had enough dosh to run against Trump with all the air miles acquired
“BILL Clinton spent time on Jeffrey Epstein’s Paedo Island relentlessly flirting with two women before vanishing with them both, it’s claimed.
she claims he teased the women with “playful pokes” and “brassy comments” before leaving with them at the end of the night.
Virginia wrote: “Strolling into the darkness with two beautiful girls around either arm, Bill seemed content to retire for the evening.”
Mr Clinton has denied any close relationship with Epstein, instead linking their contact to aid work in the developing world.
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/5951826/bill-clinton-epstein-island-flirting-women/
He said he knew nothing about Epstein’s crimes.
His office admitted Clinton had taken a total of four trips on Epstein’s private plane: one to Europe, one to Asia, and two to Africa.
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Classic FM this morning reported that the man who owned the factory in Coronation Street (sorry wrong Baldwin), I’ll start again; they reported some actor that I’d never heard of until recently had given his first tv interview since killing someone, meanwhile the first interview an ex President of the United States gave to a U.K. tv channel wasn’t mentioned.
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Not the BBC until the last line .. Wait for it …
Kent online have for the last 48 hours been, unusually for them, allowing comments on an article on the dinghy divers ..
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/27-people-drowned-and-i-laughed-258352/
It saddens and baffles me that by far and away the most highly rated of the 504 ( currently ) comments is ” I would rather have a nation of immigrants than a thick gormless chav Gammon community like we have right now ”
What other country would want, choose and celebrate having it’s own population wiped out and replaced by another ?
The BBC has it seems done a very good job !
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“Because when immigration is too high (no figure given), when the pace of change is too fast, it’s impossible to build a cohesive society. It’s difficult for schools and hospitals and core infrastructure like housing and transport to cope. And we know that for people in low-paid jobs, wages are forced down even further while some people are forced out of work altogether. … So there is no case, in the national interest (UK), for immigration of the scale we have experienced over the last decade.”
Theresa May as Home Secretary // Speech to the Conservative Party Conference / 06.10.2015
“Enough is Enough” – what is enough and if it happens again will it be “More than Enough”?
Has there been enough freedom of expression on the internet?
Has there been enough immigration?
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It says something about the readership.
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Update .. It seems kent online have now removed the above quoted comment ! The most upvoted of the remaining comments however are on similar lines .
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Car runs into people. Gun fires itself. 2021 – year of the automated robots.
Rust: Alec Baldwin says he didn’t fire gun on film set
Published12 hours ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59499237
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“I was cleaning it and it went off.”
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One has to wonder if there’s any actual film or video of events in that church?
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Good point.
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Left-Wing tactic, deny and the media will bury the story so it never happened.
The media are predominantly lefties…
…The left look after their own…
…” A lie told often enough!”
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TOADY Watch #1 – stop that wicked, sinful, knee-lifting Minnie Bannister
This morning’s TOADY was silly enough to almost be an episode of the Goon Show. Therese Coffey MP, Work & Pensions Secretary, has advised “Don’t snog strangers under the mistletoe this Christmas.” but added “having a knees-up is OK.” At the risk of being both size-ist and fat-ist, I’m thinking I would not want to be standing anywhere near Therese Coffey after she is ending her knee-lift and putting her foot to the ground. The threat of disappearing into a new sink hole would be worse than catching the so-called ‘novel’ coronavirus.
Meanwhile the Labour Party a.k.a. the BBC is obsessed with the parties of Christmas Past. I’m wondering who will play the ghost of Christmas Past. JustRemainIn Webb makes a good audition obsessing over the matter but I think it needs a weightier idiot:
Eccles: “Whullloah.”
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“Pfizer boss: Annual Covid jabs for years to come”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59488848
Things to come?
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Christmas future there, taffman. But I think people will be getting bored with it and the whole circus may face some resistance in keeping the thing going.
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Listen to Viral
There is a lot of detail – not the least being early positioning by the Chinese Communist Party + cronies wrt vaccines and PPE….
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Not from Viral but other sources: some people are pointing towards Anthony Fauci and the funding he made available for research in China in the ‘noughties’. Separately, some scientists & clinicians are talking increasingly of the ‘novel’ (new) virus being SARS-CoV-2 which those of us with long memories remember both as ‘ bird influenza ‘ and following on from SARS-CoV-1 ‘ chicken influenza ‘ both originating in China in the first decade of this century.
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Up2snuff
What Chan and Ridley provide here is some considerable context – beyond the panic lurches and deliberate scaremongering that are bouncing around on a day to day basis.
I routinely question my own recollections….
Some technical knowledge is useful – but the authors do a good job imho of explaining the situation and the inescapable conclusion simply isn’t if this particular coronavirus escaped from a lab – it is that lab leaks are inevitable and that synthetic biology has progressed much further than the MSM are prepared to explain to their audiences.
The metaphor of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice can be effectively deployed all over the place.
The huge funding for virus research, the pell-mell quest for novelty, the hugely dangerous gain of function work, the ignorance, hubris and arrogance of the nabobs feeding on that huge funding…
I didn’t think I could find more contempt for Fauci (and chums) – I was wrong, very wrong.
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tomo: “it is that lab leaks are inevitable”
Exactly! Humans are involved. And in China with an oppressive regime that will bring its own set of enforced errors, just like the Soviet Union, 1917-1999, especially during the Cold War and the Space Race. Even with so-called ‘vaccines’ for the Pandemic viruses where a lot of production is automated there is still a risk of all sorts of errors because humans are involved.
Yet another inoculation photo on the BBC’s own web-site made me wince: nurse, no gloves handling skin, no swab, in danger of spiking herself with the hypodermic! – here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/ (News Headlines) + https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-59501192
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I knew about some lab leaks – but the unvarnished, simple numbers for biohazard lab incidents in America alone should make any sane person push the brake pedal to the floor… – and these are the ones that are reported – the contrast to nuclear hazards couldn’t be starker.
The dilution of bio hazard precautions wrt to containment of pathogens and downrating of required ratings (cheapskating and allowing sub-par institutions to participate in dodgy work) is a very nasty train crash waiting to happen….
The passaging of viruses that are not naturally occuring chimeras – or even worse – lab contrived hybrids chosen to be dangerous to humans is akin to playing Russian roulette. Some know the risks and are diligent in emplacing tiered protections – others are simply criminally irresponsible.
I wonder what Kary Mullis would have to say about the way Fauci’s funding has been overseen….
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The ‘interview’ with the Greek vet at the head of Pfizer comes across as an extended advertisement, carefully timed by the state broadcaster to coincide with the announcement that the government has just spunked out another £2 billion on so-called vaccines (they are really prophylactic treatments for the symptoms of Covid rather than true vaccines, according to some medical researchers I know).
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The BBC’s reporting in this matter is shallow, dimwitted, partisan scumbucketry.
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“Co-op latest supermarket to not enforce mask wearing”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59481287
Do the Tories exist ?
Are the worms beginning to turn?
I am pretty sure sure that there are a lot of unhappy businessman about.
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China Dominates Medical Supplies, in This Outbreak and the Next
Government support and protectionism have built a low-cost industry making masks, testing kits and other health gear. Other countries will find it tough to compete.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/business/china-medical-supplies.html
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Special breaking newsflash headline on the BBC:
‘Meghan wins ruling in Mail on Sunday privacy fight’
My God – how utterly pathetic. Totally spite driven. How dare the English peasants disapprove of a black feminist activist.
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There was a time when phrases like ‘…the full majesty of the Law’ had real significance, providing a sense of security and protection. Under the current revised English system, our judiciary have relegated themselves to the status and intellect of BBC2 comedians.
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The significant thing about that picture is that they were all laid out to make sure the press got a good shot.
Which of course everybody knows that is what it was all about. She would not be interested in any of those kids (or anything else) if there wasn’t a camera around.
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Guido has a bit of snp crop pr from the HoP.
Once the bbc get hold it will look like a charge from World War Z.
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Guest, WWZ? Have I been asleep that long? I have missed World Wars A to Y? Guess I make Rip Van Winkle look like a beginner. : -)
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More apt than I first imagined.
I think I saw that poor wee crofter in the lead.
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On a more product and tax-specific basis, China has signed Double Tax Treaties with Barbados, Cuba, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago. These are important as despite the name, they prevent the taxation of profits twice in both China and the home nations, reduce the amount of taxes and duties payable on specific products and services, and can allow profits tax to be mitigated against by use of withholding taxes rates which are typically lower. As such, these locations in particular are of interest when reaching out to trade between the Caribbean and West Indies and China as their DTA with China provide for lower transactional taxes.
https://www.silkroadbriefing.com/news/2019/05/24/chinas-belt-road-caribbean-west-indies/
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Bidens fault? Every death?
‘It’s like hell in here’: The struggle to save Afghanistan’s starving babies
By Elaine Jung & Tom Donkin
BBC World Service
Published11 hours ago
Share
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-59419962
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Rashford to offer free £80 football tops to the kids ….
Rising energy bills: ‘My teenager covers himself in coats to keep warm’
By Kevin Peachey
Personal finance correspondent, BBC News
BBC
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59496285
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Every BBC reporter…
“Call me..”
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BBC in discrimination row after opening trainee role only to ethnic minorities
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/bbc-discrimination-row-advertising-job-ethnic-monorities-b941600.html
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Perhaps BT should instead concentrate on fulfilling their orders correctly!
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Donald Trump Press Conference Cold Open – SNL
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Throw out your KORAN … oh wait … no no no …
“Throw the rulebook out the window, I’m here to hold your hand”
Nadiya Hussain is dedicated to getting you cooking fresh and flavoursome food that is fast to make, proving you don’t need a special occasion to try bold, exciting tastes.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/nadiya_rulebook
SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: BBC humiliates former Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain by axing her Mecca pilgrimage series
By SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 01:07, 22 August 2018 | UPDATED: 07:45, 22 August 2018
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See, he has apologised.
And has all the qualifications such that this no longer can be mentioned. Unlike…
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New Year Knighthood
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“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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Springster is sooooo screwed once it goes outside W1A’s blonde room.
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The inquiry team found examples of “children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone”.
The inquiry team noted fears among council staff of being labelled “racist” if they focused on victims’ descriptions of the majority of abusers as “Asian” men.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089
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MM,
There’s a big bill building up.
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The bBC have reported it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0d3z572xzyo
“possible Middle Eastern origin”
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2021 …. An Afghan father said he sold his 9-year-old daughter, Parwana Malik, to a man for $2,200 to be able to afford food for his wife and other kids, CNN reported. The family has lived in a northwest province of Afghanistan for years, struggling to pay for basic needs like food.6 Nov 2021
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Taken from order-order ….
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Does the bbc have a dedicated bereaved, sickened family hotline, or is just shared with the LabourSez editorial Dept?
Meanwhile Groper is honing his pipes…
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Omission is the greatest lie … (c) Orwell
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Dick on QT with Femi, Champion, Groper and YAB tonight?
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DIANE ABBOTT biggest fail “MAO DID MORE GOOD THAN HARM”😂😂
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Be funny if Jack #2 blocked Wendy to make and example.
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“lawfully sacked for writing tweets which criticised government policies.” {bbc.co.uk aug2019} – the death of freedom of speech.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-49259942
1765 …. **In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one ’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.** They may use a pen or their voice, and should not be prevented from writing any more than speaking …That is the law in England, a monarchical country, where people are freer than elsewhere because they are more enlightened. – Voltaire, Republican Ideas, 1765
2019 …Australia’s highest court has made a landmark ruling that a public servant was lawfully sacked for writing tweets which criticised government policies. The court rejected her claim that she had been denied a right to free speech. – Australia, 2019
1765 … **In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.**
2019 … ** a public servant was lawfully sacked for writing tweets which criticised government policies.**
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2019/08/06/midweek-open-thread-7-august-2019/comment-page-4/#comment-1005808
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“Consequently there was a long period during which nearly every thinking man was in some sense a rebel, and usually a quite irresponsible rebel. Literature was largely the literature of revolt or of disintegration. Gibbon, Voltaire, Rousseau, Shelley, Byron, Dickens, Stendhal, Samuel Butler, Ibsen, Zola, Flaubert, Shaw, Joyce — in one way or another they are all of them destroyers, wreckers, saboteurs. For two hundred years we had sawed and sawed and sawed at the branch we were sitting on. And in the end, much more suddenly than anyone had foreseen, our efforts were rewarded, and down we came. But unfortunately there had been a little mistake. The thing at the bottom was not a bed of roses after all, it was a cesspool full of barbed wire.“
http://orwell.ru/library/articles/notes/english/e_notew
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“The implication is that for any employee-employer relationship, if the employee is critical of the employer’s position on some politically relevant social issue, they can be sacked,” he said, reported the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
“This is a really naive decision in terms of the political realities of what exist in the community.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-49259942
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BBC Story #1 “Meghan wins ruling in Mail on Sunday privacy fight”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news
BBC Missing Story “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”
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Statistical and historical analysis suggests that when the interlopers reach 20% of the population, then the real conflicts start up. That’s why Billy Bunter must, clandestinely or otherwise, keep the flow coming in, in accordance with his masters wishes.
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I expect the result of the Old Bexley and Sidcup by-election today will either be very depressing or very, very depressing.
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One born every minute …
John Yan has decided to start giving away at least 15% of his annual salary, despite it meaning that he’ll have to work longer into his old age.
The 27-year-old software engineer began donating part of his wages in 2019, pledging 1% that year, before raising it to 3% in 2020, and then a big jump to 15% in 2021.
“In practical terms this commitment means I’m not going to retire early,” says Mr Yan, who lives and works in New York City. “And maybe looking ahead, I won’t be able to send my kids to private [fee-paying] school.”
He is donating the money via a global scheme called Giving What We Can (GWWC). This encourages people to sign up as a member and pledge to give 10% of their earnings to charity.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59466051
MP Salary ..
https://howrichami.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i?income=89000&countryCode=GBR&household%5Badults%5D=2&household%5Bchildren%5D=1
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 30 June 2020
Total income:
£15,521,709
Donations and legacies £15.02m
Charitable activities £137.58k
Other trading activities £0
Investments £35.63k
Other £325.67k
Total expenditure:
£8,585,677
https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/5026843
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Good for him if he is that stupid!!
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‘I woke up in ICU… and didn’t know what was real’
5:47
2.2K VIEWS
Animation graduate Oliver Pratt was just 20 when he fell severely ill with complications following Covid-19. This is his story.
Animation Oliver Pratt, Sound Dan Watts, 30 November 2021
https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/i-woke-up-in-icu-and-didnt-know-what-was-real/p0b71653
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Well you wouldn’t if they had the bbc on the bedside table would you ?
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Give it a rest! I could not possibly care less.
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http://www.biotechexpressmag.com/team-of-1000-lawyers-and-10000-medical-experts-start-nuremberg-2-trial-against-world-leaders-for-crimes-against-humanity/?fbclid=IwAR1giNkLZL9oXa7z249xJKCBkFeRMFbAUpBp_d3KnRNeOgBwIja4a6n7C44
Team of 1,000 lawyers and 10,000 Medical Experts Start Nuremberg 2 Trial against World Leaders for Crimes Against Humanity
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1400+ raped kids won’t believe anything will happy … Tony Blair smiles …
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The “vaccine” fails to meet the following five requirements to be considered a vaccine and is by definition a medical “experiment” and trial:
Provides immunity to the virus
This is a “leaky” gene therapy that does not provide immunity to Covid and claims to reduce symptoms yet double-vaccinated are now 60% of the patients requiring ER or ICU with covid infections.
Protects recipients from getting the virus
This gene-therapy does not provide immunity and double-vaccinated can still catch and spread the virus.
Reduces deaths from the virus infection
This gene-therapy does not reduce deaths from the infection. Double-Vaccinated infected with Covid have also died.
Reduces circulation of the virus
This gene-therapy still permits the spread of the virus as it offers zero immunity to the virus.
Reduces transmission of the virus
This gene-therapy still permits the transmission of the virus as it offers zero immunity to the virus.
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Miqdaad Versi of the muslim Council of Britain given a platform in the bBC house journal the Guardian to demand that the press must stop publishing negative stories about Islam.
Islamophobia in the press must be tackled head-on. Silence is not an option
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/02/islamophobia-press-muslims-negative
I don’t think the British public are overly affected by stories in the press Miqdaad, I think it’s got more to do with the repetative killings, bombing, knifings and rape carried our regularly by adherents to the Muslim faith in this Country that are actually the reasons people are pissed off. So talk to the Muslims Miqdaad before you start victimising the British press!
I know that you people the left think that silencing bad news is good for the cause but you are going after the wrong targets.
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The Muslim Council of Britain welcomes the Conservative Party decision to launch an inquiry into Boris Johnson and his incendiary remarks against Muslim women in a newspaper column in the Telegraph.
Harun Khan, Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain said: “We welcome the steps the Conservative Party has taken, but the road ahead is long. While the choice of panellists are for the Party to decide, to avoid accusations of a whitewash, the group should include people who are aware of the seriousness of the issue and its effect on society.
https://mcb.org.uk/press-releases/boris-johnson-islamophobia-muslim-council-of-britain-welcomes-conservative-party-inquiry/
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Another endearing move by our own, ‘Muslim Council’?
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There are few organisations more racist than the MCB.
Their silence when one of their number murders someone else or rapes another white girl is deafening.
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You missed out fraud drug dealing employment of visa overstayers, tax evasion, illegal immigration and much much more.
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You missed out car dealers selling death traps and refusing to refund, even when sherriffs arrive
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I’M BEREFT !
A bloody woke warning has been issued on the film of my ultimate hero Fred Astaire. Jesus Christ ! Holiday Inn has this “This film has outdated language, attitudes and cultural depictions which may cause offence today”.
Well here’s something that may cause offence…… Fuck off !
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As UK communications regulator Ofcom’s ranking of every bollocking swear word in the English language in order of offensiveness goes viral again, we’re bloody buggering thrilled about it.
So, let’s remember that back in 2016, after interviewing over 200 people in the UK on how offensive they find words like ‘bellend’ and ‘beef curtains’ (yeah, we didn’t realise they were swear words either), Ofcom ranked the words as either mild, medium, strong or strongest.
https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a809925/ofcom-swear-words-ranking-in-order-of-offensiveness/
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Radio 1 to air censored version of Pogues’ Fairytale of New York
This article is more than 1 year old
Offensive words in the Christmas song to be removed or altered for Radio 1, but remain unchanged on Radio 2
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/19/fairytale-of-new-york-pogues-censored-radio-1-radio-2
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bBC reports that “NOBODY wants to go back as an HGV driver in England”
Yes, Nobody!
Even a podcast if you remotely bothered, available for the next 12 months, just to press a point
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0b76jhx
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Make it pay well. Kids can do it for a job for 5 years and retrain again.
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Covid: South Africa new cases double in 24 hours as Omicron spreads
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-59503517
A whole article of scaremongering and whatifery until you get to the end and the only concrete piece of information from somebody with direct experience:
“But the feedback we’re getting from the ground is that there’s really no red flags – we’re not seeing anything dramatically different, what we’re seeing is what we are used to,”
And if it is now the dominant strain in the whole country, it must have been around for weeks or months without anyone noticing. Or they are lying.
Meanwhile on the back of it we are facing calls for compulsary vaccination and stricter legal measures. They are not going let the grip they have on us go easily.
And of course it’s an excellent opportunity for the BBC to use their black female nurse+patient pictures.
‘Why you can trust the BBC’.
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TWatO Watch #1 – the obsession with snogging at/by/to/for/with the BBC continues
The Montacutie is obviously hoping for a very good BBC Christmas Party with lots of mistletoe everywhere. But she is also worried that the Government has not given her enough guidance so Kirsty Allsopp (Homes guru of ‘Locationx3’ and other property programmes of BBC associate Channel 4) – yes honestly – and Zoe Williams of the Guardian – who else? – for their advice. Zoe Williams resisted being a Guardianista quite bravely and Kirsty wasn’t at all ‘reactionary’ or ‘Right Wing’ or even Conservative.
Bit of a non-event.
Hopefully unlike the Montacutie’s BBC Christmas bash.
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The BBC have been running this for a couple of days now and seem to want to keep plugging it:
Bereaved families ‘sickened’ by No 10 Christmas party.
I wonder to myself ‘Why ?’. Surely the fact that parties were banned was good for them : less chance to catch it. They were just unlucky. Why are they ‘sickened’ ?. Because those who attended were risking their own lives and they feel so much compassion for them and their safety ?.
It all seems to stem from Safiah Ngah who appears to be another young BAME activist who was also complaining in The Guardian back in May. And the BBC are more than happy to put her agenda on the front page.
The BBC attribute the sentiment to ‘bereaved families’. It seems that actually means Safiah from ‘The Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice’. Not families themselves. Artistic license in the BBC’s favour akin to ‘Children in Need’ being the charity, not actual children in need.
More examples for us NOT to trust the BBC.
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One could argue he is not engaging in debate.
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Mr Vine appears to have been using his ten-year-old daughter Martha to avoid tax payments. … In 2012, it emerged that more than 140 BBC stars were funnelling cash through private firms to avoid paying millions in tax.7 Mar 2015
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The Bonkers Streak of P*ss is not wearing a mask at his place of work.
How close does he get to that barrel of blubber Femi?
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BBC TAX HIT FURY BBC stars Jeremy Vine and Chris Evans furious at being made to pay more tax after ‘cushy personal company deals’
Other stars affected include Claudia Winkleman and John Inverdale
John Lucas
2:57, 15 Jun 2018
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Did he hound Kay Burley and co?
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Femi Oluwole – Political Activist and Broadcaster, the later only because some broadcasting organisation is stupid enough to have him on.
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What a complete tw@t Vine is. Again.
It’s not about fair. It’s about safe. If all MP’s are tested every morning (which I assume they are) and double-jabbed, it’s a bit different to walking round Asda near some of the specimens I see at ours.
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Heating up here in Brigadoon and watching closely to see when the bBC deflector shields will be on FULL to protect the Dear Leader.
The rape and murder of an elderly church going lady ( late 60s) by an animal released early as part of the SNP soft on justice programme….and who was in charge of justice…no less that the person known locally as Humza Useless….now in charge of Health.
And over to Health , Labour have requested the sacking of the Board of a new hospital following cover ups of contamination which has killed a number of people,,,,a current court case is underway.
Its about an inch away from the SNP being accused of Murder.
It really is time Westminster put this lot into special measures…
And Wales and the English regions should be well warned…
Devolution does not work. A high cost failed experiment…time for it to be rolled back and bBC Scotland with it.
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CNN should hire Richard Burgon as BBC U.K. correspondent.
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When, and How and Why… and Where…the bbc gets obsessed by a single crime is fascinating.
My feed is headlined “what his murder says about America”.
…about a week after three men were found guilty of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, find out what his killing, and the outcry it sparked throughout his community, reveals about racism in America.
Some scum buckets elsewhere killed another.
In America. 350,000,000 people.
A lot not in full control of moral or ethical restrictions.
Like London, here, almost every week.
What is said, if anything, is if there is a Cherry the bbc feels serves the narrative by picking, the bbc will pick it. To death.
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Newsround
CBBC Channel, Tuesday 8 June 2021
In a segment about vaccine approval for 12 to 15 year olds, a contributor claimed that the Pfizer vaccine is “100% safe”. This has been removed from the online article and video: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/57435861
The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has said:
“We have carefully reviewed clinical trial data in children aged 12 to 15 years and have concluded that the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective in this age group and that the benefits of this vaccine outweigh any risk.
“We have in place a comprehensive safety surveillance strategy for monitoring the safety of all UK-approved COVID-19 vaccines and this surveillance will include the 12- to 15-year age group.
“No extension to an authorisation would be approved unless the expected standards of safety, quality and effectiveness have been met.
“It will now be for the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to advise on whether this age group will be vaccinated as part of the deployment programme.”
22/06/2021
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59502180
Germany: Lockdown for the unvaccinated. Vaccinations could be made mandatory by February.
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Luckily, here, Sky has a panel. Of experts. Apparently.
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That’s odd because reading the BBC report, we know absolutely nothing about it. There seems to be a very good chance we will all die a terrible death.
That’s why we are all in grave danger and vaccine jabs, lockdowns + wearing masks everywhere should be compulsory.
I admit the jump from one to the others is a little tenuous to my eye.
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I just had a two day stay at a small private hotel in Derby on business.
I was having a pint in the bar on the first evening which was fairly busy with no-one masked up at all…
Then a late-ish middle-aged couple entered, both wearing those awful designer masks that look like storm trooper garb, they stood about 2 meters back from the bar and ordered drinks still wearing their masks. The man placed cash on the bar instead of handing it to the barmaid and stepped back while she worked out the change. She put the change on the counter at which point the man donned a glove stepped forward and hastily picked it up.
Then, still masked the couple scurried to an empty table and sat down, lifting their masks to sip their drinks then pulling them back down.
After a few minutes of watching them, a bit bemused, a group of six more entered the bar and greeted them. All were wearing similar masks.
A crazy scene ensued while all six got their drinks in much the same fashions the first two then joined the first two at the table, all still masked.
Then like a miracle they all pulled their masks off and resumed normal human behaviour sitting side-by-side.
It was the most bizarre thing I can recall. I was actually struggling to stop myself from laughing out loud.
I had to ask myself that if they were so much in dread why the hell did they arrange to meet six other people in a crowded pub?
Something very strange has happened to the human race in the last few months. It’s almost ritualistic!
Perhaps the display was an appeasement to the Gods of Covid or something?
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Merkel, face like a bulldog licking P$ss of a nettle, what a lovely gift the outgoing Hitler is giving her people.
I added a comment to the BBC HYS which I thought was fine but they removed it and I got this email.
Thank you for contributing to the BBC web site. Unfortunately we’ve had to remove the content below because it contravened one of our House Rules.
‘How an earth can someone with any type of brain argue against watching fellow human beings being forcibly vaccinated. People like you? This kind of thing is happening in the world right now, how easy it is for you, to be so scared of something so little, that your willing to change the whole of society. History will not be kind’
Tell me how is that offensive and whys it been removed?
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I had to laugh, boy did I laugh!
“Inside the American Redoubt: Trump voters building a new state | Times Documentaries
In the Times’ first feature-length documentary Alastair Good travelled to north Idaho to investigate whether a movement to build a home for conservative christians (sic) and unhappy Trump voters is being exploited by extremists planning for secession.”
Interesting documentary from the Sunday Times who attempt to work their way progressively and incrementally toward contempt.
At the very end, the reporter discusses the position with the Sheriff from Spokane. He offers, as evidence to condemn, the rules of a previous attempt at isolating the ‘far right conservatives’. Best part about it is, he cites the strict Christian criteria upon which they historically operated. ST reporter failed to mention that the same stuff virtually verbatim, is preached daily (and particularly on a Friday) in every City and most large Towns in the UK. Take the video from the last seven minutes. Hint, when the two talk ‘Bible’ read Quaran.
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His final sentence needs modification for todays world:
With unity we stand with diversity we fall.
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I am indebted to a friend who unexpectedly and without invitation offered the following example of BBC bias earlier today.
At PMQs, Starmer attacked Boris over last year’s Christmas Party.
The BBC featured Starmer’s key questions.
My friend was watching it live and said that Boris had a very funny reply. But when shown on BBC news, the best part of the reply was drowned out by Laura Doomsberg speaking over it and thus rendering it unintelligible and making Boris’s reply seem weaker.
A good example of the insidious deliberate perpetual bias of the BBC.
PS 6 pm news update. Laura Doomsberg is STILL droning on about the no 10 party last year. Pathetic.
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On GB News there was a bloke on from black history or something complaining about everything he was calling cultural appropriation.
It got me thinking.
If a white person stabs and kills somebody, would they be charged with murder or cultural appropriation.
Which is the more serious of the two?
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