Start the week 20 December 2021

As the party season is in full swing will the BBC declare a Christmas Truce over the hounding of the Prime Minister or Project Fear with everything and everyone being overwhelmed ?

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  1. MarkyMark says:

    Some of the findings of the report, produced by the Civitas think tank, are jaw-dropping. To take one example, China’s main nuclear inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) conglomerate was given a centre at Manchester University where some research was subsidised by the UK taxpayer.

    https://thecritic.co.uk/are-uk-dons-hopelessly-naive-on-china/

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  2. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #2 – blackmail is an ugly word, so let us call it fishpaste instead

    Very interesting prime slot interview with Sir Jeremy Farrar (ex-SAGE) at 8.10 a.m. in which he appeared, to me, to stray from the purely medical and scientific into the geo-political so beloved of Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and, I guess, John Major. He seemed to me to be saying: “Unless we in the UK pay to have Africa and the rest of the world vaccinated, we risk going through exactly the same situation with different virus mutations arising in the rest of the world to inflict us in the UK every year.”

    It was also interesting that Jeremy Farrar stated that the so-called ‘vaccines’ (actually human immune system boosters) wear off after between four to six months. In other words, they have very limited usefulness and are a means to make money for Big Pharma. Unfortunately Martha did not think to ask why a true vaccine for Covid has not yet been developed.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Vaccines in Phase 3 Clinical Trials
      Large-scale (Phase 3) clinical trials are in progress or being planned for COVID-19 vaccines in the United States. To learn more about U.S. COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials, including vaccines in earlier stages of development, by visiting clinicaltrials.gov.external icon

      https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines.html

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      • Up2snuff says:

        True vaccines, MM, or mRNA immune system boosters?

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        • Old Goat says:

          Bastardised hybrids. They’ll be just as ineffectual as the first ones, thus leading to others, ad infinitum.

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          • Up2snuff says:

            OG, I’ll look at the link hopefully when I have more time. Joyeux Noel to you in France. May it be happy and healthy for you.

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      • Philip_2 says:

        I am not sure where I read this but NZ ‘volunteered’ to be an extreme test case in the pandemic, long before the pandemic ‘was released’ and let us not forget that it was ‘mad made’ was hidden and blamed on Chinese ‘bats’.

        NZ is about as bad as it gets, but Austria was also a ‘volunteer’ in the pandemic experiment. They are starting to fine teenagers who refuse the fix. The side affects are not well known but can be terminal for some kids.

        We can expect the same in the UK, even though it is illegal to perform medical experiments on children, since the last war atrocities, they are being coerced’ by peer pressure in schools to ‘comply’ in a procedure that will harm them later in life.

        There is no protection, they are already immune from viruses, and colds are usually short lasting. The EU will go the same way, its the pilot project for the EU.

        https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10297391/Austrians-aged-14-refuse-Covid-vaccines-fined-1-000-month.html

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  3. MarkyMark says:

    It is fair to say that Boris didn’t plan to replace EU membership with a medical police state. But then, when Edward III defeated a larger French fleet to secure control of the English Channel in 1340, he cannot have known that the Black Death was already surging out of Asia along the Silk Road.

    https://thecritic.co.uk/covid-is-a-symptom-of-the-age-of-china/

    Research since 2010 suggests that the bacterium that caused the Black Death also evolved in China: contemporary Chinese records include Hubei as the origin of that outbreak, much of whose population had been uprooted by the Mongol Conquest.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Rats were common in the ships and harbours (and probably city and rural homes as well) of the period, MM. International trade has been happening since humans were kicked out of Eden. For example, Genesis 37 verse 28 gives an example of ‘a deal’ going down. Then there’s the post-Christmas story [ but all part of Christmas 😉 ] that shows travel from the East is not new thing.

      You also need to remember that bacteria are somewhat different to viruses, esp. in behaviour and treatment.

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  4. Jeff says:

    I saw something that I thought was quite extraordinary on Saturday evening…

    I’d attended the anti lockdown demo in central London and on my slow homeward meander crossed Westminster Bridge.

    Do you remember the three card trick? Or its near cousin, that trick they did with three metal cups? I think it was called Find the Lady, or something similar…

    Westminster Bridge was full of swarthy and dangerous looking shysters performing this con and rooking the gullible of their dosh. Every few yards there was another of them. I was astonished.

    My camera accompanies me everywhere and I attempted to photograph these criminals, but was warned off by a couple of their burly henchmen. “No photographs” the brutes snarled at me.

    I remember when I was a teenager seeing similar con tricks when my mates and I used to wander through the lanes of Soho. In those days it was an area notorious for vice and criminality, so obviously we were fascinated by it. These old conmen would usually have a pitch on a corner with a well placed lookout and at the first sign of a policeman they’d be off. They weren’t keen on their pictures being taken either…

    However, back to the present day…This lot are ripping people off a hundred yards from Westminster Palace, where there are more law makers than you can throw a stick at and more coppers per capita than anywhere else in Blighty. WTF is going on?

    It’s absolutely flagrant.

    I’m betting most of them are just off the “Dover Ferry”…

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Jeff, they used to be in Oxford Street back when the Metropolitan Police did some actual policing and they didn’t half scarper fast when a solo Officer on foot patrol came by. All added to the general entertainment.

      Just out of interest, were you part of the crowd who went into Whitehall and up to the end of Downing Streeet? Was the demo generally peaceful until then? Was it peaceful throughout? I have questions about the ‘narrative’ pushed by the Daily Telegraph of all papers on Monday.

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      • Jeff says:

        Yes, it was peaceful, but noisy if you follow me…

        And yes again, I was outside Downing Street where quite a number congregated, but absolutely nothing “kicked off”. I thought it was actually a very amenable group considering how many different types of people were there. Every demographic was covered. Jon Snow would have felt at home…

        Some bloke had red and blue coloured smoke bombs and very effective they were too, but these were just distractions and not thrown at the police. I photographed everything. No violence (that I witnessed) whatsoever, but plenty of chanting.

        And the proof of the pudding being…

        No arrests.

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        • Up2snuff says:

          Jeff, thanks. I thought that the DT photo was just a little suspicious, well, actually more than just a little, it was very suspicious. I wonder if Kathy Gyngell from TCW Defending Freedom was there and wrote about it? Just had a look. Nothing today.

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    • harry142857 says:

      This has been like this for a decade or so. I am surprised you left London with your camera intact. Loads of Romanian pickpockets and beggars everywhere, often in cheap leather jackets.

      My pals and I always travel up on the Saturday before remembrance every year to the service at the Abbey and have a pub crawl. We leave all mobile devices and ATM cards at home and try not to look like gullible tourists who think London is like all those depictions in 1950s Hollywood. They often wheel out those mobile hot dog/burger/roast chestnut units after dark whilst the police are nowhere to be seen. Around 4.00 you have to start to sidestep hundreds sleeping outside the shops.

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      • Jeff says:

        I usually head back over Waterloo, via a couple of hostelries in Covent Garden, so this was a bit of a shock. I’ve not walked across Westminster Bridge for a while. It’s just so blatant.

        We’re living in an age where parliament and the police will tell the native population where we can go, who we can meet and what we must wear, but these foreign criminals are committing crimes under the very nose of the establishment and they’re not blinking an eye.

        WTF is going on?

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  5. tomo says:

    I wonder if there’s a Tucker Carlson dartboard in the CNN executive suite? Do they have an “anger room” and – if so – what’s in it? 🙂

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Across the news bulletins and weekend front pages, Savile was being given a sendoff fitting for someone who had achieved national treasure status. As BBC Radio 1 DJ, and co-presenter of the BBC’s flagship music programme Top of the Pops, Savile became a personality in the pop music scene in the 60s and 70s; his oddness and mannerisms enhanced his celebrity. As the host of the long-running Saturday evening TV show Jim’ll Fix It, he played godfather, granting the wishes to children who wrote in. On the Monday after his death, during the news editors’ 9.15 morning meeting at BBC headquarters in west London, those present were asked to take coverage of Savile’s funeral seriously. The concern was that the news editors might sneer at Savile; they were reminded that, to much of the audience, Savile was a northern hero. He had started out working in the mines, going on to earn a knighthood and befriend royalty through his television shows and charity work.

      https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/02/jimmy-savile-bbc-journalists-risked-jobs-reveal-truth

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  6. Thatcherrevolutionary says:

    Another Question:

    If we didn’t overwhelm the hospitals last year when 100% of the populace were unvaccinated, why will that happen when according to govt figures, 90% of the country is vaccinated?

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    • StewGreen says:

      In a hospital with 100 nurses, some of them got pinged last year when Covid was about, so had to isolate.
      If there were higher but weaker cases this year, even more nurses would get pinged
      and if the rule still is that they have to isolate even if they’ve already had covid
      the NHS could end up short of staff.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        One in four nurses are obese, warn experts: Stress and long hours associated with the job are blamed. One in four of the nation’s nurses is obese, a new study suggests. With almost half of English nurses over the age of 45, this ‘poses a likely future burden of ill health for the healthcare workforce’, researchers said …4 Dec 2017

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    • digg says:

      Two suggestions, either…

      1. The vaccine is pointless and merely a propaganda tool.

      or

      2. We are being lied to by WHO, SAGE and The NHS.

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  7. JimS says:

    Another ‘ratchet’:

    Many years ago I replaced the roof of my shed. The council waste people wouldn’t touch it as it was ‘asbestos’, it cost me £30 to take it to a specialist tip.

    A neighbour’s ‘boy friend’ a few years later climbed on her identical looking shed roof and it broke. Despite my many calls to her landlord and the council nothing was done about it because now it was ‘cement board’ and although all over the garden wasn’t a hazard.

    Ten years ago the neighbouring house gets refurbished before getting a new tennant. The shed roof get replaced, boards being cut, no special precautions, must be ‘cement board’.

    Today, for some reason, a suited up team turn up and remove and wrap the undamaged boards. A specialist waste service arrives to collect the boards, presumably now elevated to ‘asbestos’ even though that material was probably not being supplied when they were first fitted.

    No doubt a council building control officer will turn up shortly to take soil samples?

    Meanwhile in Africa, Asia and South America young children are playing and living with this stuff.

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    • StewGreen says:

      asbestosis is not that common.
      I was talking to a rigger who spent years working with it, he’s 86 and is OK
      His wife who worked in the school canteen, and wasn’t a smoker has COPD … that lung thing.

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      • popeye says:

        My golf chum’s mother died of Mesothelioma in her 60’s. Her husband worked as a lagger in the shipyard. He lived to 89. She washed his overalls…

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  8. StewGreen says:

    The BBC metroliberal bubbleworld largely ignores both
    thousands of Africans dying every week in Africa
    .. thousands of historic UK rape gang victims
    but cherrypicks its pet issues like Calais migrants & Afghan female footballers migrants etc.

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  9. Beltane says:

    Odd, isn’t it, that the statistics, data and opinions of those we are regularly assured are eminent scientists, can be mulled over, discussed and queried when the economy in general and ‘hospitality’ in particular are concerned.
    And yet the opinions and infinitely variable data of similarly well-publicised and eminent scientists is regarded as sacrosanct where ‘climate change’ is concerned. Perhaps Roger could explain?

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  10. StewGreen says:

    The 9am R4 show debunking conspiracy theories
    did that thing where they finished by PUSHING a giant baseless Conspiracy Theory about Trump

    Jon Rosen was fine in saying many people believed the crazy PizzaGate CT
    .. Fine to say that Lin Wood & Powell went crazy
    Fine to say 1 journo reckons he heard Trump say ‘Powell is crazy, but you sometimes need craziness’

    But the the prog by turning that into a Big Conspiracy Theory that Trump initiated Jan 6 to be a coup
    .. that’s a CT without proper evidence

    They didn’t mention all the things Trump said about being peaceful
    nor about his plea to have the National Guard there, being turned down.

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  11. Fedup2 says:

    Well there’s a thing – English Channel rescue outfits being prosecuted for failing to save drowned criminals attempting to invade England ….
    ……I’ve only read the headline on this but it would be a ‘thing’ if the likes of the RNLI had to pay out ‘compensation ‘…the new PPI ?

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  12. StewGreen says:

    Not so many people take BBC radio progs seriously these days
    so the Twitter discussions have really dropped off.
    However that leaves many fetid tweets from anti-Tories
    saying ‘how dare the BBC air a Tory like IFS or Fraser Nelson! ‘ etc.

    Here BBC Radio Scotland’s Gary Robertson invited Fraser Nelson on
    and quoted clearly ridiculous worst case modelling he was arguing against
    yet most replies were from angry anti-Tories calling Fraser so crazy he needs to be banned.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Or listen to them?

      Frankly after industry colleagues, sycophants and critics mocking are removed, I doubt anyone does.

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  13. Guest Who says:

    BBC Radio 4

    58m ·
    It’s 2017. Late one night after a party a Hollywood actor plays a prank on a friend. But the prank backfires terribly and the ripples are seismic – taking us inside Donald Trump’s White House and the Capitol insurrection of January 2021.
    Jon Ronson’s Things Fell Apart on BBC Sounds 🎧 bbc.in/3Fjldxd

    2 comments. So £500m a listener? (DiMaffs).

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  14. Eddy Booth says:

    Covid Omicron: Biden buys 500m test kits to tackle surge
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59738678

    “Mr Biden will address the nation later, telling people to protect themselves as the holiday season gets under way.”

    False positive bonanza! Scare the population into compliance.

    It’s increasingly becoming the norm to announce beforehand the contents of every speech.
    The queen’s speech will be published soon.
    What’s the psychology behind that?

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    • Guest Who says:

      https://countrysquire.co.uk/2021/12/21/the-reign-of-experts/

      “Some bloke who is beyond medical help reading out what some guys who know nothing about numbers except rigging poll stats have popped on the teleprompter on the advice of bought and paid for ‘scientists'” hardly going to inspire the general population, now is it?

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      • MarkyMark says:

        At the end of 1952, the situation started to change, and newspapers published articles criticizing Lysenkoism. However, the process of return to regular genetics slowed down in Nikita Khrushchev’s time, when Lysenko showed him the supposed successes of an experimental agricultural complex. It was once again forbidden to criticize Lysenkoism, though it was now possible to express different views, and the geneticists imprisoned under Stalin were released or rehabilitated posthumously. The ban was finally waived in the mid-1960s.[27][28] In the West, meanwhile, Lysenkoism increasingly became seen as pseudoscience.[29]

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

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  15. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #3 – the BBC mindset says Jews cannot be Christians

    It was rather revealing that the BBC belatedly took up the cry of Archbishop Welby this morning and in so doing revealed a little bit more of their twisted minds and ideology. According to the BBC it is only Palestinian Christians who are under attack in Israel. Not so. There are Jews who are Christians as well. They may not necessarily refer to themselves as such, there are various sensitivities around the label ‘Christian’ since the 1930s and especially since WW2.

    They may worship in churches that are called Messianic churches. They may well have mixed race congregations; Israeli Christians, Palestinian Christians, African Christians and Russian Christians of a Jewish origin together with Christians of other races, all worshipping God together. As they tend to be evangelical these fellowships also find they are attacked by some extreme Orthodox groups, especially if they rescue men and families from Yeshivas.

    The real truth is that Christians are under attack not just in Israel but throughout the Middle East and elsewhere, in some States in India, in Pakistan, and especially so in China and Hong Kong. The BBC wouldn’t want to mention that.

    I wonder why?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      There are currently no official churches in Saudi Arabia and the thousands of Maronite families who work there have to live “either as a neutral person or as a Muslim”, one Lebanese Catholic, Danny Nasrallah, told the New York Times. “You have to pray in your heart when you want to pray,” he said.16 Nov 2017
      …..

      The tiny mosque on the Outer Hebrides serving 60 Muslims
      Community hails UK’s northernmost mosque, which was completed with crowd-funding project led by charitable Yorkshireman.

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  16. Eddy Booth says:

    Johnson wanted the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse but he’s got My Little Pony
    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/johnson-wanted-the-four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse-but-hes-got-my-little-pony/

    “Unfortunately for Johnson the latest variant, Omicron, has so far turned out to be rather disappointing. The streets remain resolutely un-strewn with the bodies of Omicron victims”

    Run for the hills mild Omicron is coming😀

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  17. Sluff says:

    BBC 1 pm news.
    Covid news from Wales.
    There are new restrictions and omicron cases currently 600 could rise to 1000 by Boxing Day.

    Now I’m no Mathematician but that does not sound like ‘doubling every 2 days’ . It appears to be a quarter of that.

    Needless to say, the totally useless biased BBC did not, or chose not to notice this glaring discrepancy.

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  18. JohnC says:

    I see they have managed to identify a woman and her children from the migrant boat sinking tragedy – so the BBC are going full out with their story. The majority – who will be men – have no PR value so the BBC will not care about those.

    What bothers me about these totally lopsided far-left propaganda pieces is that they never address the realities of what happened. It’s always laying it on thick to pull your heartstrings and think nothing was their fault. They were just innocent victims. The fact that everything they were doing was illegal and they knew it seems to be irrelevant.

    The point is that France was perfectly safe and nobody forced them onto those boats. They did it because when they get here, they know the English taxpayers will pay for them to live.

    The big problem is that they are bringing with them the same culture which has kept their own country living in the stone age for all the centuries while our ancestors were building our way of life as it is today.

    Just how many would the Left allow in if they could ?. All of them ?. Or just the ones they see in the news and feel sorry for ?. They are too stupid to appreciate these small events are just part of a bigger picture.

    The point I realised we were f*cked was when that picture of the small Syrian boy who drowned in the mediterranian went viral and was the justification for everything we see now. All of a sudden the Left made it OUR fault.

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  19. Philip_2 says:

    Some of us may know that Lord Frost resigned on principle (or knowledge) of future lock-down plans. His replacement means not much although she may replace Boris Johnson if and when he decides to go next March. Next ‘March’, I hear is some sort of point where either we collapse into Europe or fight our own way out. Europe is not a good place to be just now, only a bunch of idiots would think that remaining ‘is the best option’ – although it may upset those with two homes, the fact is that travel cost and quarantine and ID passports are the new ‘norm’ of EU for a long time to come.

    That and the ‘EIGHT-FOLD’ cost of heating sweeping Europe and the fact that we (UK) are and can be independent on Gas supplies, Coal and (via Qatar) oil on demand. At least if and when the crunch comes. It will flatten the green lobby.

    None of this EU dilemma is on BBC news (any channel), so half the (wet liberal) population THINK its somehow better across the Channel.

    Its all a lot worse think 1920’s pre-war situation developing….

    Worth reading…

    DT Energy update worth reading on dire EU energy policy!

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  20. Sluff says:

    BBC London reporting a court hearing about the attempted murder of ‘black activist’ Sacha Johnson. This BLM advocate is still languishing in hospital apparently, months after being shot in the head. Diabolical.
    Those accused were described on the tv news as ‘four men’. Only by drilling down into the London region online report do we see drawings from the court appearance. They seem to have ‘darker skin tones’. Mmmm.
    Perish the thought that the BBC would have to fess up and announce their ethnicity. Just imagine if a BLM activist was attacked not by evil whities, but by her own kind. What would that do to the narrative?

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    • harry142857 says:

      John, Michael, Steve and Terry all deny murder.
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      Sorry.

      Cameron Deriggs, 18, of Bromley, Devonte Brown, 19, of Peckham, Troy Reid, 20, of Southwark, and Prince Dixon, 25, of Gravesend, Kent, all denied conspiracy to murder.

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  21. Guest Who says:

    Looked like friendly fire at first, but turns out more smokescreen.

    https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/media/could-you-be-as-objective-and-unbiased-as-laura-kuenssberg-20211221215575?

    Given few read beyond the headlines (h/t: BBC subs) a risky play.

    The Express had a post penned by or for her as to why she is worth the money.

    I’d share but fried the keyboard laughing so much I spilled my Scotch.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Mostly Bs: You have just the right skillset of parroting facts, skirting big issues and keeping quiet about what the public does not need to know. The £250k salary is yours.

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  22. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #4 – if you do not want a pre-Christmas fright, look away now

    Dharshini David is the BBC’s hard-working Business Correspondent who covers for Simon Jack a lot. She usually has on a ‘Markets Guest’ each weekday during the first half our of TOADY. Something has happened that the BBC does not appear to have noticed at all, despite the expertise of that Markets Guest.

    The gas price per therm has gone over 300 pence, over 350 pence over 400 pence and is now trading at 435 pence per therm. £4.35 per therm! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek! The normal price is around 70 pence per therm.

    Not a peep from the pips at the BBC. You would think they would be squeaking right now! Demanding that the Government does something. Has some new ‘rules’. Subsidises everyone’s fuel bill.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      please insert a h hHancock ‘h’ into the appropriate place in line 3 above: internet drop-out sabotaged a feeble finger or krank keyboard correction.

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  23. Philip_2 says:

    Ofcom Complaint About Collaboration Between Sky and Government-Owned Company to Promote ‘Net Zero’.

    Laura (I think) I have seen on GB News before and talks sense. At least she has a dig at Sky which has gone Woke Left and is just about as trustworthy as the BBC.

    ‘Laura Dodsworth and I have filed a complaint with Ofcom about a report issued by the Behavioural Insights Team and Sky urging broadcasters to use sophisticated psychological techniques derived from behavioural science to persuade people to support the Government’s ‘Net Zero’ agenda…’

    You can read about it here:

    Of course THERE IS NO POINT complaining to OfCom (about the BBC) because you see all complaints are simply ignored and denied. Ofcom complaints are simply put on a spike until it hits the PRESS, where they make a ‘one-line’ statement outlining BBC ‘impartiality’ and BBC ‘world class’ loved by the British people etc. etc. And that’s it, not denial that the BBC does the same as Sky.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Was Sky News softer on Qatari affairs due to Qatar Airways’ sponsorship of Sky weather reports? An empirical analysis

      https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15295036.2017.1377841

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    • MarkyMark says:

      What are nudges?
      Nudges mean thinking harder about the way people approach decisions and using those insights to design policy. In 2010, the Institute for Government set out some of those approaches in its MINDSPACE report, which suggests that both the messenger and the message were important and that defaults mattered. It remains the Institute’s most downloaded report.

      The approach depends a lot on experimentation, and the Nudge Unit has championed wider use of experiments in government.

      What has the Nudge Unit worked on before coronavirus?
      The Nudge Unit has worked on a wide range of policy areas (detailed on its website) – but early examples included work on prompting people to pay their tax on time, turn up in court, work with Jobcentres to improve outcomes and increasing organ donation.

      But the biggest application of ‘nudge’ in UK policy predates the creation of the unit: the introduction of the default in automatic enrolment for pensions – 10 million people are now enrolled in pensions as a result.

      What is the Nudge Unit doing on coronavirus?
      The Nudge Unit is working closely with the Department of Health and Social Care in crafting the government response. The most visible manifestation of its influence to date is in the communication around hand-washing and face touching – in particular the use of “disgust” as an incentive to wash hands and the suggestion of singing Happy Birthday to ensure hands are washed for the requisite 20 seconds.

      https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/nudge-unit

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    • G says:

      I understand that GB News is underwritten by a Gulf State.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Announced in September 2020 and launched in June 2021, the channel was founded with £60 million in funding, the majority of which was provided by American television conglomerate Discovery, Inc., Dubai based investment firm Legatum, and British investor Sir Paul Marshall.

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  24. Thoughtful says:

    It seems the government has upset the feminazis over some crazed report allowing people to declare their gender for a gender recognition certificate.

    Of course the media are completely misrepresenting what this means to the point of blatantly lying about it. What it does mean is that instead of a panel of faceless idiots checking the corresct boxes have been ticked (yes that is what happens now) someone wanting to change gender will have to appear before a judge make a declaration along with several other requirements and may face questioning about what they are doing.

    The lying media are giving the impression that someone on Monday can be Arthur, and the following day be Martha, and then on Wednesday revert back to being Arthur again.

    However as might be expect some feminazi professor of extreme leftist idiocy has moaned – how predicatable, but it puts me in mind of how many years these grotesque women fought to destroy same sex spaces when they weren’t allowed in, such as golf clubs, working mens clubs sports clubs etc etc, now when their policies are visited on them they howling about ‘safety’ despite there being no evidence of any threat to their safety.

    Just more effects of the lying media whipping up paranoia among people who welcome that kind of thing.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Just read the miller v college of policing judgement on ‘non crime hate incidents ‘ plod has been so eagerly recording ….

      This case is the ‘I’ve got to check your thinking ‘ a PC Gul of humberside plod used when ringing to warn mr miller to mind what he writes on twitter.

      I reckon the House of Lords will look at it – but it says a lot about the state of our country – depending on the ECHR to challenge plod recording unfounded and sometime irrational ‘non crime incidents ‘ for ‘public safefty ‘ in some sinister database where they can be used if the police want to target you .
      You will have no notification of the existence of the report or who made it or why ….. indeed the COA refers to a tweet made and recorded by plod which was ‘non hate ‘ and ‘non crime ‘…. So what the hell is plod doing collecting such information on its ‘ potential law abiding victims ?

      The wokes in plod will redraft the guidance on ‘non crime hate incidents to get round any judgement – or else get the home office to put legislation through the nodding dog parliament to suppress free speech in furtherance of ‘public safety ‘….

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      • Thoughtful says:

        Some of the incidents they have recorded defy belief. An elderly woman in a queue for a petrol pump sounded her horn at the car in front which was taking too long (must have been an amazing long time for a pensioner to act!) which was clearlyy a race hate incident because the ‘victim’ happened to be Black and the horn was claerly ‘racist’.

        High time Boris the Bottlers Communist party made false allegations of the meaningless word ‘racism’ a criminal offence.

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  25. s.trubble says:

    The co-ordinated admiration of Laura makes you suspicious.

    Compare it to Sopel , a true , fair and free journalist of impeccable credentials ( so he said)

    Most likely a circling of wagons as the state organ may be realising it has been well and truly sussed.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      s.t, think Part-time had the potential to cost the BBC some great embarrassment and maybe a D-G and Chair. Look like I’m not the only one muttering darkly that Part-time has been dabbling where truly impartial BBC journalists should not go.

      Could it just be possible that bumbling Boris has been actually very clever with the help of a non-comic DC and got one or two individuals and organisations right where wants them for squeezing?

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    • JohnC says:

      These coordinated responses are becoming common these days. It started with the ‘without evidence’ clause they all suddenly started adding to Trumps election fraud claims and when they got away with it, it became a standard tactic.

      I will say that Sopel’s books get excellent reviews.

      Upon investigation (due to my surprise), I discovered it’s because only people as far Left as him actually read them. They even complained that he only said something which was not anti-Trump because of his BBC anti-bias training.

      These people have no idea what clowns they are. Hard to spot with your head up your own backside I suppose.

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  26. MarkyMark says:

    2015 .. before FAKE NEWS became a thing ….. videos, words, pictures … you don’t get to choose the arrangement …

    Chaos as police stop Hungary migrant train – Gavin Hewitt – BBC -Sep 2015 @53s
    “… the a really distressing incident happened. A women who was carrying a small baby began crying for help (photo of lady carrying baby). One of her companions tried to help her (photo of man with women on track, riot police reaching towards them) Somehow there became a push and a shove with the police. She ended up on the railway lines (by the male refugee dragging her and the baby to the floor, but this is not said) with the riot police trying to pull her back, and this of course inflamed all the other people…”
    -Gavin Hewitt – Sep 2015

    Watch the video and the male refugee (companion trying to help?) drags the women and baby to the floor, by force.

    Even the Mirror (03Sept2015) says “… this refugee couple cradle their tiny baby, after throwing themselves (NO! Male refugee drags women and baby onto train tracks) on train tracks as police try to take them to migrant camps in Hungary”

    Gets better. Two days (05Sept2015) later the Mirror then report it as
    “Refugee who dragged pregnant wife and baby son onto train track did it because ‘death would be better’”

    1. BBC Version uses words and pictures to hide the video version
    2. The Mirror shows the video but uses words to tell a different version

    Can I suggest a little story – “Male refugee forces pregnant women refugee holding child down onto a train track, police drag him away for her safety? Riot police then lift women with child off track with tender arms.”

    https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/07/03/start-the-week-open-thread-131/comment-page-3/#comment-849798

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  27. StewGreen says:

    4:30pm Jeanne Baret
    “The first woman who sailed round the globe did so dressed as a man.”
    ” ingenious French woman who joined Louis Antoine de Bougainville’s circumnavigation in 1763. She was dressed as a man because women were not allowed on board”
    ..as ever the narrative is very attractive to the beeboids
    I don’t know if someone like Simon Webb has a different take.
    https://womenyoushouldknow.net/jeanne-baret-first-woman-circumnavigate-globe/

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Superstition among sailors was that having a woman on board brought bad luck on a ship. That French woman may have completed the voyage but what happened to the ship afterward?

      Just askin’.

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  28. Guest Who says:

    The current establishment media Circle Jerk explained.

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    • LynetteO says:

      Israel was critised in the headline news from the BBC this morning referring to a letter the Archbishop of Canterbury wrote accusing Israel of mistreating Christians. He had been misled by some Christian Arabs who are being paid by the Palestinian Authority to slander Israel..
      Sadly , at this time of year, it is expected that the Jerusalem correspondant will report something negative about the Jewish State .

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  29. Sluff says:

    BBC going all out about a mother who is not eating in order that her children have enough to eat. Doesn’t it just get you right here?
    She opens a kitchen cupboard. It seems to be very full.
    Among the items appears to be a Heinz tomato ketchup bottle.
    Now if I was short of cash i’d be buying own label in Aldi or Lidl for under half the price. Other low cost options are available.
    Which makes me suspect something fishy is going on, such as a BBC narrative.

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  30. G.W.F. says:

    Hooray, we are going to be allowed to have Christmas this year.
    Yoo Pim Has all the facts on BBC News.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      G.W.F, is Yoo Pim Has the overmanned BBC’s new Chinese Virus Editor? Or is he or she merely yet another a new BBC Correspondent?

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  31. Deborah says:

    I think I am amazed at Look North tonight. There is an area of Hull called Newland, it is only about 50% vaccinated. It is full of students in parts and full of people from the Middle East in others. Lianne Brown reported from there. She was asking people why they had not responded to the pleas of the chief medical officer for the area and taken up the vacc. She said people responded it was because they didn’t speak English. My amazement was that she said it.

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  32. Guest Who says:

    BBC Politics might not release him.

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  33. Guest Who says:

    Next job… find out who he might be.

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  34. Northern Voter says:

    I see that the wonderful actress Miriam Margoyles is appearing in Call the Midwife. That should cut the running time in half, with her face she’ll probably induce an awful lot of births.

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  35. JohnC says:

    Don’t forget how they failed to mention how the online racist comments originated in Muslim countries, not the UK.

    They are the worst kind of liars. They are full of hate for their political opposites and don’t care one bit what they do for their ideological agenda. Like all the socialist tyrants through history.

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  36. Guest Who says:

    One the bbc couldn’t manage in Rotherham?

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  37. Up2snuff says:

    The BBC have been trailing scientists over the their R4 airwaves for the last few days who have stated “Covid-19 ‘variant’ Omicron appears to be doubling every two days.” Except it doesn’t. The latest figures show a slight fall in infections from yesterday 91,473 to 90,629 but ‘deaths with’ have more than quadrupled to 172 and hospitalisations have increased from 133 discharges to 232 admissions.

    I wonder what the scientists on BBC R4 will be saying tomorrow?

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  38. Philip_2 says:

    Journalists claim alternative Covid-19 news has been ‘censored’ to create ‘one official narrative’… (June 2021- old but still important stuff)

    “There’s only been one ‘scientific truth’ allowed to be discussed: the one endorsed by worldwide governmental regulatory bodies, even that has been very selective. This has given the public a distorted view of the truth which has been highly damaging.”

    A link was given as ‘The Trusted News Initiative’ that was being used to push the ‘official’ UK line. I looked at the link and surprise, surprise.. its run by the BBC with the usual ‘suspects’ in the loop… who would have thought it!

    Project Origin pioneered by the BBC, Microsoft, CBC/Radio-Canada and the New York Times, is one of the first attempts to create a future world in which platforms and news providers will work side by side to tackle a common problem together – a practical answer to the issue of deep fakes amongst others. here.

    The BBC sponsors ‘Project Origin’ calling itself ‘The Trusted News Network’. Well it would wouldn’t it? After all the The World most distrusted world broadcaster’ has an odd ring to it…
    ….
    But not all journalists agree… with ‘censorship’

    Elijah said her biggest concern was about “censorship” of information online that goes against this narrative and referred to the Trusted News Initiative, through which the BBC, other publishers and tech giants flag up the most dangerous disinformation to each other.
    ….
    Ex-BBC radio journalist Gosling told Press Gazette he had interviewed two doctors who shared counter-narratives – Dr Tess Lawrie of the Evidence-based Medicine Consultancy in Bath who called for early treatment to take place post-Covid diagnosis, and Florida-based immunologist Dr Stanley Laham who called for the use of ivermectin and warned against the use of the approved but “experimental” vaccines – but that both were removed from Youtube on grounds of misinformation.
    ….
    He pointed as one example to a BBC Newsround segment last month in which a contributor claimed the Pfizer vaccine was “100% safe” for 12 to 15-year-olds. Gosling submitted a complaint about the “shocking” and “disgusting” claim and the BBC has since removed the claim from the online article and video and published a correction.

    Well I guess we all know, that the ‘truth’ as they used to say on TV (X-files) ‘the TRUTH is out there’, just not on the BBC. Not that many (politicians) seem to notice, or bother to look beyond the press release of BBC predictions of doom campaign. We are living the DREAM. That is a success by world standards.

    And Bill Gates gets all the credit, (and all the Money in the world) to vaccinate-the-world three times a year for life (or death) which ever is sooner… And don’t forget your mask and take your pills.

    https://pressgazette.co.uk/journalists-claim-alternative-covid-19-news-censorship-create-one-official-narrative/

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  39. JimS says:

    The BBC says of the Harry Miller case:

    ‘Today’s ruling backs Harry Miller’s legal right to speak his mind and potentially cause offence – a freedom that he says is fundamental in the battle of ideas in a democratic society.

    Mr Justice Julian Knowles says:

    ‘..the police’s treatment of the Claimant thereafter disproportionately interfered
    with his right of freedom of expression, which is an essential component of democracy for all of the reasons I explained at the beginning of this judgment

    BBC take, Harry Miller is wrong, here is his bigoted viewpoint.
    Mr Justice Julian Knowles’ take, Harry Miller is right and right in law.

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  40. Guest Who says:

    I actually laughed.

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  41. Guest Who says:

    Name one lost to followers of a certain faith from Nigeria to Manchester.

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    • Sluff says:

      Isn’t it weird.
      People risk their lives to escape from the hellhole that it….errrr…France.
      And yet thousands of Brits were queuing up to get over there just the other day before the French travel ban came into force.
      I don’t suppose the BBC could investigate this apparent contradiction?
      No. Thought not.

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  42. Guest Who says:

    Springster reeling in the audience.

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  43. Guest Who says:

    The spiral down from Jez’ tweet is awesome.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      What will happen if there is no surge in hospital cases and deaths caused by the new Chinese virus brand ? Will experts be criticised or held to account or not listened too again ? Will they acknowledge their failure and the knock on effect to mental health and businesses ?

      I reckon there will be a ‘surge’ whether there really is one or not . The MSM /left is addicted to Project Fear and restrictions on our lives .

      Time for the midweek thread . Happy Shortest Day ….

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    • StewGreen says:

      Who actually runs BBC Twitter accounts ?
      Are they run by a PR team like Rashford’s
      #1 JV tweets “@bbclaurak is one of the best political editors the BBC has ever had.
      #2 Tavish quips, that’s humour

      #3 Vine’s account doesn’t reply, rather an account marked “BBC’s Security producer #tomorrowspaperstoday”
      says Tavish is blocked

      That is like when someone running 2 different accounts, send the reply from the wrong account.

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  44. StewGreen says:

    What did it say on the door, after I cycled for 40 minutes to get to the concert tonight ?

    ……………………… * Concert cancelled, due to covid conditions *

    I had checked the website before I set off

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  45. StewGreen says:

    Looks like the anti-Tories have made a nasty Xmas song and video
    sneering at Boris

    Boris Johnson is STILL a F****ng C**t
    .. Let’s get the Boris song to be the Nation’s Xmas Number One (currently number five).

    .. They don’t use asterisks

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