Midweek 1 December 2021

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

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562 Responses to Midweek 1 December 2021

  1. 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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  2. 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

       26 likes

    • 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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  3. Guest Who says:

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

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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. AsISeeIt says:

    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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  7. Thoughtful says:

    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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    • theisland says:

      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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      • JohnC says:

        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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        • Old Goat says:

          I think I prefer being referred to as “RosBif”, or “LAnglais” here, rather than “Brit”…

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      • MarkyMark says:

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      • Fedup2 says:

        I think the BBC victimhood virus spreads far and wide…

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    • Banania says:

      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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  8. AsISeeIt says:

    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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  9. Zephir says:

    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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  10. Deborah says:

    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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  11. brexiteerkent says:

    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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    • MarkyMark says:

      “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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    • Banania says:

      It says something about the readership.

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    • brexiteerkent says:

      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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  12. MarkyMark says:

    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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  13. Up2snuff says:

    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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  14. taffman says:

    “Pfizer boss: Annual Covid jabs for years to come”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59488848
    Things to come?

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    • Up2snuff says:

      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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        • Up2snuff says:

          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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          • tomo says:

            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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            • Up2snuff says:

              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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              • tomo says:

                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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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      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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  15. taffman says:

    “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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  16. JohnC says:

    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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    • Beltane says:

      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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    • MarkyMark says:

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      • JohnC says:

        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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        • Guest Who says:

          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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          • Up2snuff says:

            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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            • Guest Who says:

              More apt than I first imagined.

              I think I saw that poor wee crofter in the lead.

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  17. MarkyMark says:

    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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  18. tomo says:

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  20. MarkyMark says:

    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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  21. MarkyMark says:

    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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  22. Guest Who says:

    Every BBC reporter…

    “Call me..”

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    Donald Trump Press Conference Cold Open – SNL

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  24. MarkyMark says:

    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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  25. Guest Who says:

    See, he has apologised.

    And has all the qualifications such that this no longer can be mentioned. Unlike…

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    • Fedup2 says:

      New Year Knighthood

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    • MarkyMark says:

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

      @bbccomedy

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  26. Guest Who says:

    Springster is sooooo screwed once it goes outside W1A’s blonde room.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      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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  27. theisland says:

    The bBC have reported it.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0d3z572xzyo
    “possible Middle Eastern origin”

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    • MarkyMark says:

      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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  28. MarkyMark says:

    Taken from order-order ….
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  29. Guest Who says:

    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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  30. Guest Who says:

    Dick on QT with Femi, Champion, Groper and YAB tonight?

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  31. Guest Who says:

    Be funny if Jack #2 blocked Wendy to make and example.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “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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  32. MarkyMark says:

    “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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  33. MarkyMark says:

    “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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  34. MarkyMark says:

    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”

       14 likes

    • G says:

      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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  35. theisland says:

    I expect the result of the Old Bexley and Sidcup by-election today will either be very depressing or very, very depressing.

       13 likes

  36. MarkyMark says:

    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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  37. MarkyMark says:

    ‘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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    • MarkyMark says:

      1400+ raped kids won’t believe anything will happy … Tony Blair smiles …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      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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  38. digg says:

    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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    • MarkyMark says:

      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/

         10 likes

      • G says:

        Another endearing move by our own, ‘Muslim Council’?

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      • JohnC says:

        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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    • Thoughtful says:

      You missed out fraud drug dealing employment of visa overstayers, tax evasion, illegal immigration and much much more.

         15 likes

  39. Zephir says:

    You missed out car dealers selling death traps and refusing to refund, even when sherriffs arrive

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  40. BRISSLES says:

    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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  41. andyjsnape says:

    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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  42. JohnC says:

    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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  43. Up2snuff says:

    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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  44. JohnC says:

    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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  45. Guest Who says:

    One could argue he is not engaging in debate.

       3 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      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

         9 likes

      • Guest Who says:

        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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    • MarkyMark says:

      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

         3 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Did he hound Kay Burley and co?

         3 likes

    • JimS says:

      Femi Oluwole – Political Activist and Broadcaster, the later only because some broadcasting organisation is stupid enough to have him on.

         11 likes

    • JohnC says:

      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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  46. s.trubble says:

    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.

       16 likes

  47. Guest Who says:

    CNN should hire Richard Burgon as BBC U.K. correspondent.

       8 likes

  48. Guest Who says:

    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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