The season of Project Fear is with us again .
Midweek 15 December 2021
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Headline:
“I am being punished – and it is not my fault.”
Comment:
I was upset reading the headline, but after reading that the company offered her different routes and buses, I’m not sure why she wouldn’t accept some of these different solutions (unless there’s a valid reason which wasn’t explained in this article).
Now, guess the ‘news’ outlet…
OT, but… bollux.
‘Some people’ maybe, and almost exclusively those with mental issues and/or a vested interest in the offence industry and/or a direct line to folk like Krishnan.
Pakistan: man sentenced to death for blasphemy on Facebook
Taimoor Raza was found guilty of insulting the prophet Muhammad during an argument on social media with a counter-terrorism official
Protest in Pakistan against social media
Blasphemy is a sensitive charge in conservative Muslim Pakistan, where even unproven allegations can trigger mob lynchings and violence. Photograph: Faisal Mahmood/REUTERS
Sune Engel Rasmussen in Kabul and Waqar Gillani in Islamabad
Sun 11 Jun 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/11/pakistan-man-sentenced-to-death-for-blasphemy-on-facebook
“…BBC poll in 2015 found that 27% of British Muslims had quote ‘Some sympathy’ (27% or a third) for the people who went into the offices of Charlie Hebdo and killed the cartoonists, editors and journalists there. Channel 4 poll from last year (2015), found that only 1% of UK Muslims think that publications should have the right to publish the cartoons of Mohammed.”
– Douglas Murray (2016?)
VIDEO REMOVED …. xhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LJF94jYMIw&feature=youtu.be&t=14m30s
And in your opinion, should any publication have the right to publish pictures which make fun of the Prophet? Yes 1% // No 87%
To repeat again … 83% UK Muslims proud to be British (Warsi reports 2013) verses 1% UK Muslims want Freedom of Speech/Press (Murray reports 2015).
https://www.icmunlimited.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Mulims-full-suite-data-plus-topline.pdf#page=612
Lets remind ourselves – because BBC reports on the by-election result don’t – how the 10 Libdem MPs voted against introducing COVID passes.
‘Some 96 Conservative MPs voted against the plans, along with eight Labour MPs, 10 Liberal Democrats, six DUP, Green Party MP Caroline Lucas and independent MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Rob Roberts‘ (Yahoo News, 14th December)
Meanwhile today’s Sun astutely observes: ‘Boris’s “Lockdown by stealth”‘
We were all looking forward to spending a few bob on parties with relatives, meals with friends and work colleagues at restaurants, and possibly some convivial drinks down the pub. But don’t worry, those hospitality sector jobs will, apparently, be protected as the Chancellor spends our hard earned money there, on our behalf as it were, anyway: ‘Sunak in talks on bailout for pubs and restaurants‘
Think of it as Puritan Socialism. It cuts out you the errant the middleman.
Lucy Fry in the ‘i’ presents us with: ‘The joys of a sober Christmas‘
So we can look forward to all the New Year financial hangover without the bother of the headache inducing over-indulgence.
The mysanthropic coronaphobic ‘i’ newspaper is this morning caught in an ecstacy of gloria in excelsis: ‘UK shuts down to save Christmas‘
In what way, shape or form, has Xmas been saved? And saved from what exactly?
‘Millions stay at home with many offices, shops, pubs and restaurants deserted‘
Speaking of excelsis (ex-Chelseas?): ‘You Blue it Tuch! Chelsea 1 Everton 1‘ (The Sun) – proving bad tabloid football related puns are still highly transmissable and can infect anyone who comes into too close a contact with them.
Not since Noah was lad did the royal Court Circular make the frontpages – but for some reason the givaway former-commuter advertising sheet the Metro bucks the modern trend and tracks the monarch’s diary appointments for us: ‘Queen cancels Christmas lunch‘ – nice to get the news so I can reschedule – afterall, my royal invite cancellation note from Her Mage might have been held up in the post: ‘Parcel firm couriers throw gifts at walls and insult customers‘ (Times)
I’m reminded of Viz Comic’s character Postman Plod – He’s a miserable sod: ‘… an incredibly lazy, drunken, miserable and bad tempered man and a chronic malingerer. He obviously hates his job and hates the people he is obliged to deliver letters to. Plod is bone idle and lethargic and frequently takes extended periods off work with questionable excuses that only hold water because they are supported with notes from his doctor who is just lazy as he is‘
There’s something to think about apropos of the apparent ease to which lockdown has returned.
Plus a rare appearance hereabouts for Viz Wiki hosted by Fandom your online popular culture fan resource where like-minded people may share their enthusiasms – and lets face it all of life, pastimes, friendships, social interaction… that’s all online now.
Speaking of doctors – a rarely spotted species in the wild, especially at this time of year – however, they are most commonly encountered on TV these days… so what’s their latest advice: ‘DOC’S ORDERS I’m a doctor and you shouldn’t spend more than 10 minutes on the toilet‘ (The Sun)
‘Posting to TikTok…‘ Not the Lancet, or the journal of the BMA, mind you. ‘Dr Karan Rajan revealed what you should never do – especially if you want to avoid haemorrhoid surgery. He explained: “Number one, straining”‘ – I thought that was termed Number Two straining?
This isn’t just an excuse for toilet humour. I’ve learnt a lesson – here’s what doctors should do – so as to appear busy on our behalf – post handy gobbets of medical advice to social media platforms.
Apropos of something or other… the FT today has a feature on the ethics of mind control.
In overseas news – The Daily Star reports from a British point of view: ‘Le Grinch: Macron’s Brits ban‘ – whilst the FT reports the same story from a rather more Francophile stance: ‘Gate closing France acts to stem Omicrom‘ – suggeting the French can still perhaps secure their borders – when it suits them?
Ahhh Viz, I remember it well, sometimes they gave away games in a few of their issues.
I vividly recall their game:
“Carol Vorderman’s Bukkake Sudoku”
“A combination of two great Japanese disciplines in a fun game for all the family”
For some reason, the wife refused point blank to allow me sufficient training to introduce it with any confidence of a winning position at the extended family Xmas party.
A crying shame really there were some octagenarians who love sudoku.
But if my knowledge of Japanese innovation and history counts for anything, it’ll be in Harrods and Toys R Us sooner rather than later.
And the wife will have egg on her face then
You can still see a sister/brother/’it’/’git’ version here, Z!
http://framleyexaminer.com/archive
Still as funny as ever! Much better than the awful BBC and The Guardian Examiner…
But what are the free games like ?
Any Vorderman related ? (asking for a friend)
AISI, I find it interesting which newspapers are missing from the BBC Blog and when. Guardian is absent today.
On your first question: Rishi may be introducing another ‘eat out (but indoors this time) to help out’ scheme, Treasury officials not withstanding.
On the subject of the Guardian being reported missing from the BBC online press line up – judging by the Gruan’s website the inclusion of their frontpage by the BBC today would be somewhat redundant:
Same pic of the new MP, slightly different perspective – story headline – same anti-Tory perspective.
Guardian: ‘Tory chair: North Shropshire voters have given us a kicking’
BBC: ‘Lib Dems deliver shock by-election win in blow to PM’
Paying for tyranny ….
A licence fee amnesty put in place during the pandemic will come to an end on July 31, and the over-75s yet to arrange payment will be asked to pay up or face prosecution.
BBC will send ‘enforcers’ to homes of 260,000 pensioners in TV licence fee claw back
The warning comes eleven months after three million over-75s lost their entitlement to free TV licences following a funding row between the BBC and the government
The BBC has instructed Capita, the firm that enforces licence fee payment, to make “customer care visits” to pensioners’ homes from the autumn.
The BBC has instructed Capita, the firm that enforces licence fee payment, to make “customer care visits” to pensioners’ homes from the autumn (Image: Getty Images)
ByEmma MunbodhMoney Editor
10:15, 30 Jun 2021
https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/bbc-send-enforcers-260000-pensioners-24426962
The by election loss to the libdems was because of the parties and the wallpaper.
I know this because I heard it on bbbc radio newcastle this morning.
It was nothing to do with the tens of thousands of Emacron boat people and other uncontrolled immigration.
Nothing to do with the poor deals Boris looks like getting from the eu regarding fishing and NI.
Nothing to do with the highly negative handling of the latest covid (sniffles) quasi lockdown and over the top doom mongering.
Nothing to do with the huge lurch to the left by the previously Tory party.
Nothing to do with the unrealistic new Green Party (used to be called Tory party) and the electric cars/heat pump and other unrealistic daft ideas.
If it was anything to do with any of the above they surely would have mentioned it….wouldn’t they?
It looks like the days of being led by Carrie and her plus 1 are nearing the end.
Promote Diversity
We will tackle institutional biases, promote equality and hold power to account through applying values of openness, transparency and accountability.
Protect Civil Liberties
We will build a society where rights and liberties are protected and where nobody has their privacy violated by prying instruments of the state.
A Compassionate and Effective Immigration System
We will welcome migrants coming to the UK for the skills and contribution that they bring, and ensure that everyone has confidence that the immigration system is functioning as it should.
Dignity for Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Too many people are wrongly denied asylum, with 40 per cent of refusals overturned on appeal: we will make the system work fairly for seekers of sanctuary.
https://www.libdems.org.uk/plan
Dignity for Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Applies to:United Kingdom
We must do all we can to protect people forced to flee their homes to escape war and persecution. The UK has a proud history of providing sanctuary to those in need, but Labour and Conservative governments have introduced a harsh system that fails to respect people’s dignity.
Thousands of asylum seekers are forced to wait many months for a decision, unable to work, rent a home or support their families. Too many people are wrongly denied asylum, with 40 per cent of refusals overturned on appeal.
Liberal Democrats are the only party who can make the system work fairly for seekers of sanctuary.
We will:
Give asylum seekers the right to work three months after they have applied, enabling them to work in any role so that they can support themselves, integrate into their communities and contribute through taxation.
Provide safe and legal routes to sanctuary in the UK by resettling 10,000 vulnerable refugees each year and a further 10,000 unaccompanied refugee children from elsewhere in Europe over the next ten years, and expanding family reunion rights.
Fund community-sponsorship projects for refugees, and reward community groups who develop innovative and successful ways of promoting social cohesion.
Offer asylum to people fleeing the risk of violence because of their sexual orientation or gender identification, end the culture of disbelief for LGBT+ asylum seekers and never refuse an LGBT+ applicant on the basis that they could be discreet.
Move asylum policymaking from the Home Office to the Department for International Development and establish a dedicated unit to improve the speed and quality of decision-making.
Provide free basic English lessons to refugees and asylum seekers and scrap the 16 hours-per-week rule with respect to financial support for those unable to work due to insufficient English.
Provide public health services, including maternity services, to people from the moment they arrive in the UK.
Increase the ‘move-on period’ for refugees from 28 days to 60 days.
https://www.libdems.org.uk/plan
Stop Brexit
For over three years, Liberal Democrats have led the fight to stop Brexit. Every vote for the Liberal Democrats is a vote to stop Brexit and stay in the EU.
https://www.libdems.org.uk/plan
So, this is not a political party but a fascist regime dedicated to ignoring the will of the majority of people and destroying what little democracy we have
Hello Marky
I read the limbdems article on “stop brexit” etc, and at the top of the page they use the Union Flag – surely this should be a swazitca
Since it should never have happened in the first place it’s about bloody time. I used to find it incomprehensible how that incompetent steaming pile of crap ever even made it as an MP but, looking at the current crop, it no longer seems so strange.
This should be a reply to Emmanuel Goldstein further up but it refuses to stay there!
The Lib Dems were the only party that unilaterally voted against Vaccine Passports and mandating health workers earlier this week.
Boris is at his Theresa May moment. There was no need to vote on any of these pointless restrictions. I’m afraid this pale imitation of a Conservative party is going to get what it deserves.
Interesting to note that nobody bought what Starmer was selling with his BBC backup.
If only Boris had some acumen driven by political experience rather than testosterone, he might have told Paterson to take his month off on full pay and accept the inferred sleaze as a passing inconvenience, weathered by many in their house – Vaz and Bryant spring to mind.
Then the by-election would not have been necessary, all the other sleaze could have stayed on file at the Guardian, those photos might have gathered dust for another year and we would have been spared the in-depth assessments of Linaker and Neville.
Looks like the fight to replace Boris is on. Come on Nadine.
Seriously. I wonder if Rishi the Chancellor cut short his visit to the US in response to the covid crisis or to prepare for the battle to replace Boris
”Rishi Sunak is cutting short a US trip for talks with businesses concerned about the impact of the Omicron variant.”
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59686356
Rishi Sunak – bottomless pockets (not his pockets)
John Redwood
@johnredwood
BBC up to usual tricks. Invited me on for a live on Today at 7.10. I agreed. After hearing what I might say they cancelled and are talking about a pre record later! No surprise there.
Yes Redwood’s Twitter thread is subject to a pile in byhatey-Labour-bots
What effect does LGBT have on sailing captains in the sea?
Millions of electricity customers are signed up to he LIE that they are getting 100% renewable power.
That was not possible at 7am this morning
Yet ASA and Ofgem play along with the lie.
I can only see either incompetency or corruption in thr failure of the UK government to secure a domestic energy supply .
The need to produce electricity and gas without threats from enemies such as the French or Russians seems a number one strategic importance to me .
That thing about some model steam railway having to import coal from kazakstan ( press today ) sort of somes things up …( unless its a lie of course)
Stew. Have you sent that Post to.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/
Or .Paul Homewood.? https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/
Or. https://climatechangedispatch.com/
Get a lot of people to see this, might filter the delusion Of 100% renewables up to the greenies so they hopefully see the madness and futility of this policy
That “100% renenebabble” marketing bilge looks lame at best – flat out lie morelike.
– and as you say ASA and ofgem just glide onwards leaving a trail of slime after they’ve eaten your lunch.
LBC Friday 8.30am: Its official NAO confirmed the BBC now makes over a third of its programmes as BBC REPEATS (uninspiring quiz show and drama show repeats). LBC claim over 56% on some BBC channels other BBC channels its a lot more! BBC Christmas Bonus are expected at this time of year. TV License fee @ £150/year and prison if you watch anything ‘live’ without paying for the privilege of its news ‘opinion’ that is copied straight from The Guardian. This despite having more ‘* journalists’ (so called) than any newspaper or media empire In the entire UK (combined). * BBC claim 21,000 BBC journalists employed. This just shows how lazy and inefficient the corporation is. Fat Cats with a pot of cream.
BBC – free in prison.
Prisoners don’t have to pay the TV licence whereas most pensioners will soon have to
11 FEBRUARY 2020
https://fullfact.org/online/TV-licences-pensioners-prisoners/
I think the bbbc would call all these repeats ‘recycling’ and therefore it’s part of their green agenda.
Maybe they could improve on this and only show repeats as their newer stuff is wokingly unwatchable anyway.
EG
The Weakest Link returns to the BBC. Oh dear, Oh dear, Oh POXY F—–G dear. No thankyou Auntie – and mind the step as you go out. We wouldn’t want you to break your neck now would we duckie.
On LBC Nick Ferrari show this morning a caller rang in from France with an astonishing claim. HE said that Chris Witty received 40 million Dollars from the Bill Gates Foundation. HE was promptly ‘cut-off’ by Nick Ferrari as a claim that ‘could not be substantiated’. Interesting, that this was ‘terminated’ promptly.
Within five minutes, Ferrari came back from his radio researchers that the money claimed did not GO DIRECTLY to Chris Witty but via his London School of Tropical Diseases (where he worked as a researcher). But the money was not denied.
This confirm some sort of connection with Bill Gates and the length of the WITTY pandemic to scare us into MORE Vaccines. But the fact that GATES is involved introducing and developing BULK Vaccine’s – around the world is called into question. Gates has ‘political’ direct links to SOROS** (whom the BBC describes as a liberal philanthropist, who also helps the BBC find the right staff for the BBC through its Open Democracy foundation job programme. Never denied.
But if you do your own research, you can see the connection is valid and not denied, just where the money went. The only question IS if Witty benefited from his close links with Bill Gates in the UK government as a doom-laden lock down ‘expert is now in question. LBC would have to prove the connection and I am not sure Nick Ferrari can do that on his own against SAGE and its cohorts.
Chris Witty + Bill Gates links.
https://evidencenotfear.com/chris-whitty-uk-chief-medical-officer-received-31million-pounds-of-funding-from-the-bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation/
Bill Gates Vaccines and his donations to ‘vaccine’ the world!
https://aim4truth.org/2020/04/22/bill-gates-global-vaccine-warlord/
**SOROS
‘The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and two organizations within Soros’s Open Society Network — Foundation to Promote Open Society ($2,594,780) and the Open Society Institute ($445,000) — have pumped Aspen Institute with at least $101,854,593 and $3,039,780 respectively between 2003 and 2020, according to Foundation Directory Online data. In addition, Aspen noted that the Commission was “fully funded” by Craig Newmark Philanthropies, the grantmaking organization of liberal billionaire Craigslist founder Craig Newmark. Last year, reporting showed that Newmark had spent $170 million to “save journalism” and “beat President Trump.”’
https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/12/16/ministry-of-truth-the-aspen-institute-commission-on-information-disorder-funded-by-george-soros-and-bill-gates-aims-to-control-all-media-dialogue/
So Its pretty clear to me where this pandemic came from and where its going. The BBC reputation attracts such donations add the TV license to that.
And I can confirm the BBC has received money from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The BBC are always open to political donations! And they still claim to be short of TV license money – never enough!
The amounts are likely to be far larger than the BBC reveal here..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaaction/about/funding
Malaria Consortium
Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Mozambique
https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/projects/GB-GOV-1-300755/summary
https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/search
https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/projects/GB-CHC-1099776-X8/summary
I see on the Bbbc NI webshite that footballer Rachel Furness has been awarded the Sports Personality of the Year award for Northern Ireland. Rachel, who it seems plays her club football for Liverpool, is now ‘Northern Ireland’s all-time top goalscorer’ and ‘has inspired a generation of young girls and boys to take up the game’. Apparently.
The award was made by a panel, one of whom I know personally but didn’t realise he was involved in this, obviously on behalf of and guided by the Bbbc not it seems through any sort of public vote and most certainly not by any of those young players she has apparently so inspired.
Having played the game to a reasonable level, including internationally, I’d like to think I’ve a fair idea what I’m talking about here and having coached kids in various age groups, I can guarantee you that the vast majority of them would have no clue who either Rachel Furness is or who she played for. In fact I’m pretty sure that they are more likely to be inspired by someone like Steven Davis, the Northern Ireland captain who this year played in his 132nd full international for Northern Ireland after becoming the most-capped British footballer ever when he reached 130. He did this in the same year he captained Rangers to their first SPL title in 10 years and, at the age of 36, also picked up the Scottish Footballer of the Year award.
Is there anywhere other than the world inhabited by the dullards of the agenda-driven Bbbc where his sporting achievements this year would not be deemed more worthy of recognition than those of the chosen winner? Are the people given these awards really not aware that they now mean nothing? It’s just embarrassing.
USA striker Alex Morgan (female player) and two players from MLS team Orlando City were escorted out of Disney’s Epcot Centre by police because they were “impaired and verbally aggressive” in a pub.{bbc.co.uk 04oct2017}
– I guess when you play football you get all the traits of a footballer – equality for all.
– “highly impaired” – does this mean drunk or is it a new gender pronoun?
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/10/04/mid-week-open-thread-127/#comment-871250
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41493777
Rich,
The culture of ‘winning ‘ awards for achieving very little is almost universal. I caught an episode of Christmas University Challenge when the teams consisted of people who had ‘achieved’ something, well almost anything in fact, after they left university.
Some of them had been awarded this or that prize for writing a book no one had ever read, or appearing in a film or play that no one had ever seen, or producing some collection junk masquerading as modern art that people rang the council to have put in the skip, some had read the news or presented the weather on the BBC.
The programme lasted 30 minutes and at least 5 minutes was taken up with listing their so called achievements rather then answering the questions. After a while it became obvious why so much time was devoted to introducing them, they knew so little that it was embarrassing to watch.
What they all had in common was a dearth of common sense and of general knowledge. The results of decades of the ‘prizes for everyone ‘ culture so loved by the liberal educational blob and this is only the beginning of our downward spiral!
From John Gatto, it’s not just children that don’t want to know about the real working world anymore. Swap child for adults in the following article …
The children I teach are indifferent to the adult world. This defies the experience of thousands of years. A close study of what big people were up to was always the most exciting occupation of youth, but nobody wants to grow up these days and who can blame them? Toys are us. … Time for a return to democracy, individuality, and family. I’ve said my piece. Thank you. {naturalchild.org – john gatto – jan1990}
relates to Westerners: Guilty of Reading the News {atestoneinstitute.org 27sep2017}
I’m ‘reliably informed’ by the BBC that the Chelsea Women’s team were sick with worry and anxiety about Covid before their 4-0 defeat by Wolfsburg.
Oh dear.
How sad.
Never mind.
I hope they are all healthy back in the UK for Christmas.
Prisoners don’t have to pay the TV licence fee
Prisoners who have been rewarded for good behaviour can get a TV in their cell. This allows access to nine free-to-view channels for a weekly TV rental fee of £1 per cell per week. Not paying this fee or bad behaviour are two reasons why a TV may be taken away.
This fee does not include the TV licence fee as TVs used by prisoners in cells and communal prison areas are exempt from this charge.
Update 21 July 2020
https://fullfact.org/online/TV-licences-pensioners-prisoners/
I would have that bad behaviour would be punished by making them watch the BBC.
Ahha! but if we are imprisoned in our own homes we have to pay the full fat fee. But what when a prisoner is on remand watching BBC news?. The BBC could try and reduce the age of consent for the BBC to 12 (to align its sexual preferences) to the TV license. And then no immigrants are likely to pay the TV license, even under house arrest. The TV license really is a unique form of abuse.
So if they send the pensioners to jail for non payment they will get to see the bBC for free anyway?
ps The bBC are very quiet on the Labour showing in Shropshire.
Must be the ” Brammar Effect” taking a grip!
I knew a guy in the 1990s who lost his pension (20 years in) to some of Maxwellian style plundering – I’ll always remember him saying “If I was 20 years older I’d have got a shotgun and guaranteed myself 3 meals a day, institutional heating and the respect of my peers for the rest of my life”
A brief cameo return for the occasional feature – Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner
One notes our local primary schools appear to be open still. The kids are society’s future afterall. Teachers lead a long crocodile of kids down the street – and could this be a work experience outing? How interesting to see all the little brown kids already learning to wear their hi-viz jackets.
not really about motorcycles , but a flavour of whats coming from the so called torys
An old Matchless I think, or is an old Triumph? I the video he mentions is the ‘anti tampering law’ for all vehicles new and old which would make it illegal to replace any spare part with another of the same type. Think about that for a minute! It would be a total ban on all (cheap) ‘spare parts’ for any vehicle made past and present. Its absurd and so I signed the petition. (its at 82,000 sigs). The grand plan (as outlined) is that all such personal transport will be obsolete by 2050 and cannot be repaired. And illegal to sell spare parts to keep anything working. Absurd EU laws that are creeping in under the carpet!
Recommend you do the same if you like old cars and motorcycles: (sign here)
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/600954
The 4 young children who died in a house fire in londonistan today have been named – and the evening standard is claiming a woman has been arrested when it was found that the 4 dead babies were alone in the house .
How will the BBC cover this one ?
You have to tell me the ethnic background of the woman before I can answer properly.
If she is black, she will have been under so much pressure living under institutional racism, she had no choice but to go out and leave them alone.
Nothing is ever their fault.
27 yo Deveca Rose is a black woman
All we know is that she’s lost her kids
There might be a good explanation for why she left her kids, I don’t know.
If a woman is managing four kids without help from their father or other sources, there would be times when she may have no choice but to risk leaving them alone.
The relevant point here is how the BBC choose to report it.
The deaths are tragic whoever they are.
My point for something like this is that the BBC have no conscience at all about weaving their agenda into the story. Would the BBC report the same for things like this if she was white ?. I don’t think so.
The BBC Correspondents’ Charity Dinner
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaaction/support-us/correspondents-dinner/
help sponsor the bbc, and from ONLY £3500 a ticket
Can think of nothing more nauseating. With a bit of luck Covid will take care of it. Is it a piss take?
If COVID doesn’t, maybe a grenade will?
That’s £437.50 a seat – which works out to be 2.7 TV licences .
I wonder how much the ‘hosts ‘ are being paid ?
With a bit of luck it will be cancelled ….
BBC Media Action is a charidee and front for globalism, financed by the usual suspects including:
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – £1.568 million
European Union – £3.199 million
UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office – £7.645 million
UK Department for Internation Development – £2.767 million
USAID – £1.005 million
United Nations Development Program – £2.402 million
Above figures are for 2019-2020.
They have ‘corporate partnerships’ with the following organisations, amongst others:
Accenture
Facebook
Twitter
Universal Production Music
Walgreens Boots Alliance
Getty Images (bet that comes as a shock, eh?)
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been a generous contributor to Media Action. In August 2019 it committed $2,034,790 for a ‘Gender Equality’ project with the following lofty & lefty objectives (this may correspond to the sterling amount quoted above):
“to help us learn deepen our underpinning of processes and user journeys for different sets of women’s empowerment collectives, develop use cases for where digital can help amplify effects bring efficiencies, and close gender gaps for women “
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaaction/about/funding
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaaction/support-us/current-partnerships/
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2019/08/opp1202266
And they go about TORY sleaze! The amount of slush money posing as ‘charity’ or ‘sponsorship’ in these left wing biases CORPS is corruption in public spaces. They are so confident now they don’t even have to ‘hide it’ anymore from public accounts.
A good example was the HUGE amount of NATIONAL LOTTERY money being used to fund Labour ‘core’ (social) projects when taxation was weak. Now they get directly funded by the ‘Globals of Davos’ as some sort of entitlement. A contract to carve up the spoils of war. They expect nations to simply collapse and agree to socialist ‘globalisation’ by Gates and Soros & Co.
My God, I can’t imagine anything worse than being in the middle of those egos.
Interestingly it doesn’t say anywhere about where the money goes. And after we discovered ‘Children in Need’ does not mean children who need it, it means the BBC charity who skim off 6 million for themselves with outrageous salaries for charity workers, I don’t trust them one bit.
Simon Webb on the ghastly case
“Suspected Armed Robber shot dead by Police in Kensington after botched robbery attempts
At 3.04pmon Saturday, 11 December ”
.. still not named/identified.
I’ll put £5 on Albanian…?
Tonight’s TV
BBC1 Spiderman film
BBC4 Disco tribute
BBC2 Vic Reeves Walks, bit of Gardening, then Netflix type Vienna film
Ch4 Awards for alleged comedians .. 2 hours
StewGreen
Same old shit. Different day. I lost faith a long time ago and I feel better for that. The BBC is on the wrong side of hist- — sorry -Common Sense. The trouble is that they are extremely Woke but they are fast asleep.
TWatO Watch #1 – the PM has dropped a hint and the BBC have noticed ….. . . .
. . . . and dredged up another Conservative with their heads firmly in the sand: some chap who founded the Conservative Home web-site. I assume he’s a Conservative or conservative. BBC R4 3 p.m. News bulletin, no doubt now repeated on R4 through until 10 p.m. and maybe including that main News as well.
I have just watched the interview with John Cleese and the BBC girl. OK, so she was pushing for a gotcha and appealing to the views of ‘some people’.
On the other hand, John Cleese was rambling, repetitive and frankly boring. A trained interviewer might have brought him back to his subject, whatever it was.
Can’t say I’ll be watching it but I guess in a way it has done no harm to either career . If I recall Mr Cleese needs money following some kind of domestic thing . And the BBC droid will claim a whitee male scalp …
Been out all day and just got back to see the BBC gloating over the election and Kuenessberg once again using vague terms like ‘some MP’s’ in a desperate attempt to plant the idea Boris should be toppled. I can tell she does not like him at all – but she should not be abusing her position at the BBC to force it on everybody else.
What I do notice is that they do not mention the turnout of only 46% nor do they mention how the Labour vote collapsed even though it was ripe for protest votes.
Hopefully something good will come out of this – preferably the ejection of Nut-Nut from Boris’ ear.
This Xmas party fiasco is getting ridiculous. Soon it will be clear that they ALL broke the rules at some point and it will disappear quickly once the lefties start to be implicated.
@JohnC
The other day you accused me of something, I was not sure of what exactly, but it concerned racist remarks. The complaint was made to some one else (I forget who) who said I was another one for a “list”, or similar words; again, I did not understand.
Some one a little earlier (possibly you? I did not keep a note) had asked me if I was a friend of Maxincony, at which I thought, Has he got any? I have often responded to Maxincony in a fairly brutal fashion and regard him as a pest.
In short, if I am thought of as an alien presence here, on a site which I have found congenial and stimulating, as well as necessary in keeping watch on our precious National Broadcaster, then I shall tactfully withdraw; I have other interests.
Perhaps you would offer some explanation; I am quite mystified.
I replied to your earlier comment Banania. I just said that sometimes I got the impression you encouraged people to go further on their comments as if you wanted them to say something explicitly racist. And as maxi is logging everything anybody says, the only result of that is evidence to use against the forum should it be used in any attack on the BBC.
I was very suspicious of you at the time – but I now think it was just a misunderstanding of
intent.
Not al beeb but they’ll never look into it
The US CDC is now saying Pfizer & Moderna are better options that J&J.
What if all of the vaccine business is part of Fauci’s experiment?
Play with a disease then play with something to cure it? Very little information about the disease has been released, just enough to say information has been shared.
A scientific researcher postulated this, it put together the random thoughts in my head, and it made my stomach knot up.
BBC News
Katelyn Mensah is one of the tens of thousands of people who have tested positive for Covid in the UK in the past few days.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-59697385?
‘I’ve got Covid so am self-isolating alone at Christmas’
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Well, that is unfortunate.
Though she seems pretty happy about it.
Journalism student. Probs a year below Alice then. And bang on newsworthy criteria.
Journalism student? Self-isolating alone? As opposed to self-isolating in a group, I assume? She’ll fit right into the bbc without a doubt.
Trying to get a spot as La Springster’s sidekick?
Gotta wonder though, there’s no glamour shot accompanying
If people are positive and are over it, is there any point in avoiding your neighbour who tested positive on the same day ?
I just switched to sky news earlier to see what their reaction was to the by election defeat for the Tories and there was an interviewer with Boris happening and the interviewer was being very rude and personal.
Cut back to the studio and some black news reader said they were going to get some reaction from an ex Tory politician.
They dug up….Anna Sourbry who continued the attack on Boris.
Back to GB News for some sanity.
Emmanuel Goldstein
Didn’t she leave the Tory party for another ?
I wonder if Nadine Dorries saw that ?
“Man sentenced for wearing pro-terrorists T-shirt”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-59702242
No doubt many more of these ‘Men’ coming across the English Channel unhindered .
Lets hope the home Office is protecting us by deporting them .
I have noticed that Right-wing terrorists are always arrested for something they planned to do and Muslim terrorists are always arrested for something they did do.
There is a lesson in there somewhere.
JohnC
And they treat than with kid gloves.
https://camera-uk.org/2021/12/17/bbc-ignores-media-revelations-concerning-rome-terror-attack/?
Indeed. For some.
“Booster at least 80% effective against severe Omicron”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59696499
Operative word at “least”.
Brief summary: “could, should, modelling, limited information, uncertainty, trying to figure out…” etc
Followed by
“It remains the case that we still need to get vaccines current and future to the whole world.”
No thanks, I’ll pass, maybe I’ll wait ’till the final vaccine comes out, and then binge the box set.
Effective at what ?
.. stopping you catching it ?
.. stopping you dying ?
“Omicron symptoms: Is a runny nose a cold or Covid?”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54145299
Could it all be……………… just a Cold ?
taffman
Isn’t the common cold a variant of the corona virus?
In October this year both me and Mrs Wright tested positive for Covid but we had no idea that we were infected because we were both completely asymptomatic for the whole duration. However, for the whole of my long life, almost every winter, I seem to have been a magnet for the common cold virus and the symptoms are always extremely unpleasant and can last for anything from six to eight weeks but amazingly Mrs Wright remains cold free. I wish I possessed her immune system.
Anyway, if anybody should ask me which I would rather have of these two curses I would have to reply “give me Covid every time”!
Isn’t the common cold a variant of the corona virus?
“… There are four types of coronaviruses that cause the common cold. They go by the names 2293, NL63, HKU1 and OC43.”
From p35 of VIRAL The Search for for the Origin of COVID-19 by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley.
Solomon Grundy
Thanks for that info. which goes way above my head. I speak only from my personal experience of both Covid and the common cold. Covid, thus far, has caused me zero physical grief but the cold virus is another story.
When is the inquiry about the ‘great fiasco’, going to happen?
Taff.
Which one.
It seems we are in a continuous state of fiascos.
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taffman
How long is a piece of string?
Covid : the narrative is there a great case growth each day.
However when you look at the graph of positives by actual sample day
you see we had a 50K line for weeks then on Tuesday there was a sudden step upto 80K, then fairly gradual rise on Wednesday, Thursday
Obviously 3 days of data isn’t much.
.. https://www.twitter.com/LawrenceGilder/status/1471885755446448132
Zephir
The International Swamp managed, sadly, to remove President Trump from The White House and it may now do it’s best to remove the rather indecisive and dubious Prime Minister Johnson from No10. However, should they succeed, they just might do Great Britain a favour. After all, if the heir to No. 10 should turn out to be say, Desmond Swayne MP or similar then – who knows??
I will try to survive just a little longer to see how this pans out.
Sorry Zephir
I seem to have replied to your post before you had posted it.
It must be later than I think.
doris has turned out to be a swamp fraggle himself , I doubt they are in any rush to remove him
Considering what Boris puts up with from the Kuensberg witch, watch how one of the bbc favoured ones deals with questions….
You okay Nicola? Moment Sturgeon explodes at journalist ‘Yeah that would really help!’
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1537769/nicola-sturgeon-journalist-scotland-hospitality-omicron-press-conference-vn
BBC in its happy place.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-59690154?
Sex and the pandemic: How did young people cope with lockdown celibacy?
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ROTFL.
Must. Not. Comment. On. The. Thread.
I’ve dipped in and out of R4 during the day . One result from N. Shropshire which is a discomfort for the BBC ( and thus no mentioned ) is the result for Labour . Ok – a true blue constituency is going to find it hard to put an x in the box for Labour but the number is poor . It doesn’t scream ‘party ready for government ‘ or say anything about the image of its ‘ leader ( name forgotten – lawyer bloke ) ….
……………. The BBC will be desperate to get the blue labour “civil war “ narrative going but will have trouble getting material in the next 2 Christmas weeks as everyone is at parties …..( inc the hapless cabinet secretary )
Maybe nut nut couldn’t find anyone who didn’t go to a party last Christmas …
I wonder what part the pensioners played in the Shropshire vote.
Removing the triple lock and a below inflation pension rise can’t have motivated many of them to vote Tory.
and neatly just before inflation took a massive hike that every man and his dog knew was coming
Isn’t he gone now? Why still trying to get the dags to pump out BS?
“massive gas lobby”
that sounds like a conspiracy theory to me.
Most skeptics are self funding, there is no magic pool of free money for them
but there is plenty of funding for Greens.
best reply
“I think the study indicates heat pumps can be installed in all homes, and we have to wait for the study investigating how they have performed. Note that hybrid heat pump systems were used in some installations, which also involved a gas boiler”
BBC2 walking prog “normally I would have a whole crew, yet here I am alone with my 360 camera”
… em every now and then it cuts to a drone angle
so that means there is a drone operator not far from him.
StewGreen
Yes but most people only notice and absorb the images on the screen and never bother to ask “who and why are they sending those images to my TV set. Nothing is just 100% entertainment.
You only have to make a home movie to understand how easy it would be to impart to the viewer, with the aid of some crafty editing, a completely false impression of any given event.
Nowadays, if I ever watch a TV program or TV advert I always think of myself as being behind the camera and not in front of it.
I will film the event and edit out the words and images that do not fit the message my employer wishes to impart.
My dream job would be as editor in any MSM newsroom.
Oh boy would I have fun at least, that is, for an extremely short period time.
Toenails and Lewis. Dream team.
With added Groper.
Sounds like the perfect guest.
Robinson really should know better – a protest vote – not an earthquake – I’m not too sure how ( or if ) nut nut can redeem himself . The MSM can’t be blamed for showing his conduct . Someone with morality would have stopped parties last year .
But nut nut has no morality apart from what’s best for nut nut . He won’t need the biased BBC to bring him down – he ll do that himself ..
Here in Reading.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-59706931
Reading flats fire: Hakeem Kigundu, 31, charged with murder and arson.
man has been charged with murder after a fire which engulfed a block of flats left one person dead.
Two others remain missing following the blaze inside the four-storey building in Rowe Court, Reading.
Thames Valley Police has said it does not expect to find any more survivors from Wednesday’s fire.
Hakeem Kigundu, 31, formerly of Rowe Court, is charged with murder and arson with intent to endanger life and will appear before magistrates on Saturday.
Four people were treated in hospital while another seven received medical care from ambulance crews after the fire broke out just before 03:00 GMT.
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Murder was a rarity in my hometown up to the last decade. Now the largest town in the UK is heading towards the 5hithole that London has become. I despair.
Harry – how you doing ? Welcome to the world of vibrancy and enrichment . The lies we are told about the ‘benefits of diversity ‘… but on the upside at least now that we are out of the EU a proper Right Wing government could – one day – control our borders and who is in the country … otherwise we’d continue to be a mass doormat well beyond how many dinghies turn up each day …
Presumably extra special bbc rules and exclusions will apply?
So let me get this right – the Cabinet Secretary – the sharpest knife in the box – has now recused himself from investigating number 10 parties because of his own part(ies) …-and could not see his own position ?
Who made that divot cabinet secretary – get another one – maybe with a brain next time . I say this bearing in mind that the Civil Service is now a barrier to good government – not a support for it .
Sue Gray called in – the way all the twittering journalist spin it “The Cabinet Office” might be a couple of dozen senior clerks in an annex to Downing Street – when it’s got 8,000 staff and a budget of £2.1 billion…
Sue Gray has an interesting résumé – although no hint if she’s also got a trophy wall covered with stuffed heads of department and senior managers + mandarins… more’s the pity.
Thread from a statistician re Covid misinformation or misleading facts being put out by the MSM and MPs here.
See also https://www.statsjamie.co.uk and https://www.statsjamie.co.uk/planb/
Hugo Rifkind the Times TV reviewer
He loved the BBC1 Black court drama You Don’t Know Me
..and reviewing Sex in The City, calls a character he doesn’t like “Donald Trump in a dress”
pfffffff…….
It’s time for the weekend thread – let’s have a Party – or has that area of operation been taken by the blue Labour Party …?
Wokewatch.. the Times will always go for pic of a black person if it can
The other Saturday the frontpage had two
#1 Raheem Sterling
#2 A refugee guy from Congo who is now a chef in England
.. now I checked I see that was to promote the Refugee Charity that is part of the Times Christmas charity appeal.
Dec 4th white on black crime revealed as youth perp was finally named
“Joshua Sparks, who stabbed to death a father-of-four on his twin daughters’ second birthday party, has been sentenced to at least 13 years in custody.
He stabbed James Gibbons four times
after the man challenged Him & a group of youths harassing a homeless man.”
Laidon in Essex