463 Responses to Christmas 2021

  1. tarien says:

    Should read Postal Operatives.

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    • Yasser Dasmibehbi says:

      Actually Tarien, the antipodean term ‘postie’ covers both genders and could be used without need to descend to jargon speak like postal operative.
      Sadly though, even in Oz and NZ the Yank term mailman is replacing it. Mailman of course is sexist but for some reason the woke brigade, or should I say legions, have not got onto it yet.

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      • BRISSLES says:

        I’m surprised that no wokey wants a return to the original name of Robins – which posties were called due to their red uniforms. But then, they are not intelligent enough to even know this.

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  2. Zephir says:

    An 18-year-old suicide bomber blew himself up and appeared before Allah.

    He said, “Oh, Allah, I did your bidding, but I have a request. Since I’m only 18 and spent all my time in terrorist training school, I never was with a woman. So, instead of 72 virgins, who also won’t know what to do sexually, can I have 72 prostitutes?”

    Allah regarded him for a moment, then replied,
    “Actually, 72 virgins are here in heaven because bastards like you murdered them before they could experience the pleasure of sex. So you’re here to service them. Since they’re virgins, they’re quite sexually ravenous; and, frankly, you’ll be on constant, exhausting duty.”

    The bomber responded, “Well, I guess I can live with that. How hard can it be to keep 72 women satisfied for all eternity?”

    And Allah replied, “Who said they were women?”

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  3. Guest Who says:

    A ‘promoted’ tweet from a desperate B list medium without access to Getty.

       9 likes

    • Eddy Booth says:

      Can’t read for a giant cookies banner 😕
      Is it vaccine comp-lications? Filthy mask muckiness?

         6 likes

  4. Guest Who says:

    Marianna liked this.

    Calling the faithful to…?

       7 likes

  5. Fedup2 says:

    At least the parents of the would be assassin of The Queen have talked to the Mail about their son
    : Jaswant Singh Chail……

    ‘Community ‘ reassured …?

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  6. Guest Who says:

    https://www.acsh.org/news/2021/12/15/4-awful-science-journalism-trends-should-die-2022-15994

    First line:

    “ Any time I see the phrase “according to fact-checkers” in a headline, I can’t help but roll my eyes. That’s because what follows the headline probably isn’t a “fact-check” but an opinion piece authored by someone pretending to be a journalist. ”

       27 likes

  7. Guest Who says:

    Then there is Netflix.

    Seems in the remake of ‘Lost in The WH’, Zachary Smith is played by Tony Fauci.

       7 likes

    • G.W.F. says:

      Asteroid collision. I have been predicting this as plan B for when people widely reject the climate scam.
      Unite the world under one authority to provide a universal protection scheme, costing billions and requiring unlimited sacrifice and obedience.

         12 likes

  8. Guest Who says:

    BBC Taliban Network

    “What should I do if either I or my child is sick and my husband is not available?”

    ***

    Tell him to vote for a different outfit next election?

       10 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      …like he will listen.

      So….. hit the trail to Calais so Lily Allen can weep you and the nipper over.

      Then wait and bring hubs too, to share the wonders of diversity.

         14 likes

  9. Fedup2 says:

    World At One

    Fuel Bills are going to double . Let’s ‘target ‘ those who need help – not cut VAT on fuel – that’s one song the BBC is singing to the tune of ‘welfare state ‘ ….

    … on comes a spokeswoman for some energy consortium who starts every sentence with ‘so ‘ . ‘So’ she says – it’s all about world markets and imports she says .

    The BBC droid comes on and says ;green green green ‘ build more nuc power stations ….he says …. ‘Target support ‘ he says ….
    ….and no one says ‘ why not use our own gas – a bit of fracking ? Some North Sea stuff ? Use a bit of coal ?

    I think I know how the tune ends . Up go gas and electricity bills ….. people start to notice …. And demand they be cut – don’t care how – but just cut – screw the ‘green ‘ crap – we are freezing cold – heat or eat …..
    Which will leave both nut nut and the MSM as the opposition to people with big dd holes in their bank accounts ….

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    • Johnda says:

      I do wonder how those working from home will react when there heating bills soar. Will they all suddenly want to go back to work and also ask big questions about the green con.

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      • Scroblene says:

        Rishi will p**s all over the ‘use of a room as an office’ tax fiddle come Spring!

        The IR will stamp on so much of this, the hobnail boots market will flourish so get your shares in Clarks now!

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  10. Zephir says:

    The Diversity Delusion

    https://newdiscourses.com/2020/06/diversity-delusion/

    “We’re being lied to, and it’s been costing us a fortune, both economically and socially. For most of the last decade, the industry selling these lies has operated within the ten billion dollars a year range (with a B), selling a product they know doesn’t work, and it’s now growing exponentially. This industry produces no tangible product, makes workplaces less effective and efficient, and reliably leads to toxic and hostile working cultures that can tear companies—and our society—apart, and yet we can’t get enough of it. It’s a particular kind of madness that’s almost impossible to understand, explain, or stop.

    What does this industry sell? “Diversity,” “Inclusion,” and “Equity” (DIE) consulting, training, and administration.

    Among these manipulations at the very core of these consultancy projects are three seemingly anodyne and now sacrosanct words: “Diversity,” “Inclusion,” and “Equity.” These are what they’re selling to us to a tune of untold billions of dollars a year in return for a society that gets increasingly dysfunctional as a result, and we have a right to know why. We have a right to see how we’re being lied to and manipulated by these three words. We actually do have to understand the terms “Diversity,” “Inclusion,” and “Equity” in their proper “Critical” meanings—because that’s what they’re really selling—to understand what’s going on. All of these represent political agendas, not something helpful, useful, moral, or anything remotely close to what people should think is warm, fuzzy, and worth getting behind. Speaking corporately, it would be better to set our money on fire than to spend it on these programs because they don’t just waste money but will cause increased costs more or less perpetually afterward.”

    “That political agenda comes from a long-standing line of radical thought called “Critical Theory,” though it has been supercharged into something new in the last decade or so. That new way of doing Critical Theory is called “Critical Social Justice,” or sometimes “Wokeness” in slang, and it represents the maturation of what the Critical Theorists have called “the long march through the institutions,” following the communist philosopher Antonio Gramsci in the 1920s. Installing DIE in your workplace is facilitating the late—and, if they are successful, final—stage of the “long march,” essentially creating a new form of fascism “

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  11. Jeff says:

    So, do we have any idea how old wobbly chops Boris is going to jump today.

    Copying Kim yong Krankie in Scotland and closing nightclubs?

    Perhaps he’ll emulate the Emir of Wales and close pretty much anything that ordinary folk might like to go to…other than mosques, the regular Diwali knees up and possibly the LGBTQXYZ centres?

    Or, of course, there’s the third option.

    He could grow a pair…

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Got an interesting biological experiment starting – English infections versus the rest of the UK – the numbers in 2 or 3 weeks might tell us something ….( no difference ?)

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      • Up2snuff says:

        The numbers already tell us something, Fed: the NHS under the devolved Governments in Scotland and Wales is not as good as England.
        ” During the Christmas holiday period the publication of Covid data by UK nations will be intermittent. It is likely that a full national picture will only be available again in the first week of January. ”

        ” 27 December update: New data only available for England, since 24 December to present ”

        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Up2
          Thanks – very worrying when the numbers get really really political . Neither Drakeford nor Krankie will want to be shown to be wrong – so surely there is a possibility that the numbers will be fiddled ?
          I say this in the belief that the SNP would do anything to maintain or improve their standing amongst the Scots- as well as sticking it to the English …
          I think nut nut has got it right this time . The NHS drones have been given air to moan about the usual shortage – mainly their own people chucking the Christmas sickie – they must be hacked that it’s only 7 days now ….
          Elsewhere – nut nut has been given another few months not to set up the public inquiry – those calling for it would look pretty bad trying to speed things up in current circumstances .also it will be interesting if the Labour Party supports what nut nut has decided or be ambiguous / silent i their response…

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  12. Zephir says:

    The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture

    Heather Mac Donald Author

    “Until the current obsession with politically correct attitudes, universities stood for knowledge, learning, debate and a deep respect for freedom of speech and civilised debate. Academic courses were disciplines, requiring rigorous thought and open-mindedness. Not all students lived up to these lofty ideals, but all but a small minority respected them. Intellectual curiosity and humility were the great virtues. Our heritage from the 18th century enlightenment in particular was cherished. As Heather Mac Donald demonstrates in this persuasive study, for decades now these treasures of civilisation are in the process of increasing subversion.

    In her incisive introduction the author reveals the enemies of all that has sustained us for hundreds of years. Essentially, they are identity and diversity politics, victimology and above all violent attempts to shut down free speech. In the pages that follow, she expands on these crucial issues via extensive research and trenchant argument. Instead of an openness before life, we have increasingly insularity, self-pity and intolerance. If we are not already alive to the key issues, we learn in the body of this fine argument the ways in which universities have kowtowed to the bullies.

    New courses have mushroomed, almost all around the themes of race, ethnicity and gender. Students, who were once expected to be resilient are now such sensitive beings that they require warnings that the content of books prescribed for study might touch upon their tender vulnerability to offence. The great works of literature from Chaucer, through Shakespeare to Milton, Pope, Wordsworth and onwards are no longer considered to be suitable, since they incorporate the values of white, male-dominated society. As the author potently says: ‘universities should be where students encounter the greatest works of mankind – what makes them touchstones of human experience’. Now, owing to pressures upon universities to admit wholly unqualified students simply on the grounds of their member ship of numerous minorities, some turn up at freshers’ time barely able to read.
    What is perhaps most alarming is the pressures upon teaching staff to conform to the accepted political attitudes. Not a few have lost their jobs through giving voice to ideas that fall foul of student prejudices. No longer are speakers invited to campuses to express unconventional and minority views. They are shunned, and when they do pass the initial obstacles they are mobbed with ignorant screaming and threats of violence, shouted down with no chance to articulate their views.

    The author writes of the United States, but the evils of what she describes have permeated UK universities too, and perhaps even more here freedom of speech is under constant threat. As she says, the academic world does not exist in a bell jar; rather infects society in very many ways. It seems to me that this important book is a warning and a lament. I hope that it is not too late for sanity to prevail. “

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  13. Zephir says:

    Jesus H Christ it never stops, I promised myself no more after Black and the Beanstalk, but saw a new Hansel and Gretel was on

    Hansel and Blackel now FFS

    (all those blacks in Late Middle Ages Germany)

    Only black minorities you notice, no Chinese, no Japanese, Philipino, Sikh, Hindu, Tibetan, Taiwanese, Australian aboriginal, French, German, Dutch, Boer South African, Inuit, Maori, Norwegian, Icelandic, even Welsh or Scot NOPE

    Only black

    One reason I got some extra channels was for UK Gold for vintage comedy but they have gone to 24 7 Only Fools and bleeding Horses which I think the whole country could quote the scripts verbatim now, sick of the sight of it (how many bloody episodes before they get to the end of it ? months probably

    And the so called History channels are little more than either second world war or bloody car restoration for some strange reason so a bit stuck now

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  14. Guest Who says:

    Woah!

    A very bbc attempt to create differences.

       16 likes

  15. Guest Who says:

    I like Old Bill, but he is very loyal. Often to a fault.

    https://tradingaswdr.blogspot.com/2021/12/traditional-recipe.html

    I need to sell Charlie some land in Florida.

    Also noticed this.

    https://tradingaswdr.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-price-of-victory.html?

    First, the lawyers.

       2 likes

  16. Guest Who says:

    Another ex Beeboid ‘finding his voice’.

       6 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Newsround
      CBBC Channel, Tuesday 8 June 2021

      In a segment about vaccine approval for 12 to 15 year olds, a contributor claimed that the Pfizer vaccine is “100% safe”. This has been removed from the online article and video: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/57435861

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications

         11 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      She reported stories of MEDICAL EMERGENCIES that she’d heard at her salon.
      They may well be hyperbole .. stories often are.

      But RCJ just dismisses what may be genuine medical emergencies
      as “anti-vax nonsense.”

      Instead of showing any concern he’s trying to INTIMIDATE her from repeating such stories giving it a power label “anti-vax nonsense.”

      People keep quote tweeting it to Ofcom
      Trying to cause a pile-on
      But it’s her own private Twitter account, she is under no rule to validate every story she tweets.

         5 likes

      • StewGreen says:

        Furthermore his reply come 3 days after her original tweets
        first one was timestamped 10:59 AM · Dec 24

        Her next tweet 11:44 AM · Dec 24
        I am not remotely anti-vax nor a conspiracy theorist, but this is not the first time I am hearing such anecdotes.
        All unverified and salon gossip, but it goes to show what people are talking about out there

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  17. MarkyMark says:

    Revenge?
    justin-welby-amritsar-0.jpg?width=1200&auto=webp&quality=75

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  18. Doublethinker says:

    Pug,
    I agree 100% with your last sentence. In my opinion the BBC has done more damage to this country than any other institution. Many would disagree with that view and cite the Blair nexus of evil as the most damaging but it was the BBC which paved the way for Blair . Without their eighteen year long campaign against the Tories , 1979 to 1997 , Blair would never have become PM.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      The BBC are doing it all again, or at least trying to, Double. They are in cahoots with the Daily Mirror (and probably the Guardian, too) because Sarah Montague gave the game away on TWatO stating that Part-time had been working with the Daily Mirror to reveal a story about HMG, the PM and No.10. Cannot now remember what or when it was. I should have written it down.

         10 likes

  19. tomo says:

    Exj-M8BXIAQemvC?format=jpg&name=small

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  20. Eddy Booth says:

    Is Reichsmarschall Johnson making an announcement about restrictions today?

       5 likes

  21. Eddy Booth says:

    Oh i see
    “No new Covid rules in England before new year – Javid”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59804686

    But the health secretary said people should “remain cautious” and celebrate outside on New Year’s Eve if possible.
    “When we get into the new year, of course we will see then whether we do need to take any further measures, but nothing more until then at least,” he said.
    He said 90% of cases across England were now the Omicron variant.

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    • StewGreen says:

      My neighbour who sits watching MSM news assured me yesterday,
      that it was guaranteed Boris would announce an immediate New Years lockdown today Monday.
      I tried to convince him, that it was impractical ..but he wouldn’t have it.

         5 likes

  22. Zephir says:

    Not a great fan of the hunting fraternity but great to see some woke protestors getting a few well deserved smacks

    So many hiding behind masks and mobiles at the ready didn’t quite bank on their latest victims fighting back and fighting a lot better than the wokes thought they might

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10347103/Tally-ho-Hunts-set-traditional-festive-outings-numbers-hit-Covid.html

       17 likes

  23. G.W.F. says:

    A week dedicated to Tutu has started. An opportunity for the BBC to bash Israel, which Tutu saw as the bad guys of the ME.

       15 likes

  24. Guest Who says:

    This should be fun.

    I am going with a gentle mix that encompasses ‘affordable’, buyer power and images that are lovely a blue sky.

       8 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Anyone who has solar PV panels, should go outside and look at their panels
      and consider if that solar panel was in a sunny place like Africa it would be working 3 times as hard.
      .. It’s not about saving CO2 ..is it ?

         12 likes

      • Scroblene says:

        Depends on what leftie councils let through for planning permissions.

        Solar panels make a marginal difference, but the lefties won’t be allowed to use these ugly bits of roofing on listed buildings, and in conservation areas, without a huge bitch-fight.

        Most of the lefties have to/will roll over of course, but the graun, ‘i’ observer puppets will whinge…

        …while living in their leafty, listed mansions in conservation areas!…

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    • Sluff says:

      Or alternatively, why do new school builds have no solar panels?
      It’s because the Department of Education cannot afford the cost.

      A more telling example of the rank hypocrisy of government policy would be hard to envisage.

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  25. Zephir says:

    Just been watching Traffic Cops in Bradford, an Audi RS3 doing a hundred in a built up area “asian” driver arrested on an empty residential street.

    Within twenty minutes they all run out of the houses like rats, at least 50 of them attacking the police and blocking the exit with their cars shouting abuse at the police who have to send for emergency assistance

    This is what I think about when I hear about refugees, so called racism and islamophobia

       34 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Chaos in Bradford: UK Police Outnumbered And Surrounded Naked Stories
      Published on Jun 7, 2019

         14 likes

      • Zephir says:

        Thanks SG

        for showing the scum in their ghettos and what this country can expect when this lot feel they are in the majority

        apart from running away from soldiers in their own country

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        • digg says:

          Utter cowards on their own and belligerent twats en-masse. Protected by the anti-racist brigade. This has already taken hold in Asia and the twats are bringing it here.

             18 likes

  26. StewGreen says:

    ITV local news : mainly a #PRasNews item for a men’s suicide charity recorded 2 weeks ago
    The segment with @AndysManClubUK did explain that 75% of UK suicides are men

    The item didn’t mention that white men are easily the highest risk group

    The prog ended up with a segment about a Sheffield man still walking on Christmas day to raise money for MacMillan .

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  27. Fedup2 says:

    As a guest of someone who uses the BBC – I’ve just seen a load of dire tosh ‘British scandal ‘ or similar – I noted that the director and author were girls – I guess it was a girl show as I had no idea what the eff was going on or what it was for ….

    BBC have a definite ‘posh’ thing buried in the institutional memory below the layers of virtue coloured / gay thing

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    • Zephir says:

      It may have been a thing about the Duchess of Argyll scandal, her with the “playing the bagpipes with the headless man” photo etc

      It has been touted in the press for a while

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  28. StewGreen says:

    Covid patterns : Looking at test by actual date.
    There is a clear lull at a weekend
    Then on a Monday people go out and get tested, and there is a clear step up.
    Tuesday, Wednesday get a gradual rise, but then on a Thursday/Friday it falls again
    Peak day in this stage was 21/22 at 135K
    Next peak expected to be 29th

    Hospital admissions had a step up by 40% starting 6 days ago. to 1,300/day

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  29. Fedup2 says:

    Cheers Stew – I got a bit ‘number weary ‘ when they were going on about those who had died ‘with ‘ or ‘from ‘ the Chinese virus – as well as questionable practices by the medical mafia …

       10 likes

  30. StewGreen says:

    Cinch advert
    “Auntie Kate” ..usual demographic

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  31. StewGreen says:

    Tonight’s TV
    8pm Channel4 Joe Lycett and Bill Bailey tour Iceland

    The diverse TV land are so big on sending celebs to Iceland
    ITV just had Bradley Walsh, and son.
    .. and it’s repeated 0:20pm tonight too
    Channel5 In October had a 3 part Alexander Armstrong series
    Jane MCDonald has done some episodes from there
    BBC4 Joanna Lumley in Iceland was repeated the other day
    Rick Stein in Iceland was on in the summer

    Oh Dec 24 tweet
    ” BBC and Channel4 with programmes on Iceland this week (amazing hotels and George Clarke’s amazing spaces).”

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    • digg says:

      The BBC are rolling out celebs ad nauseum on every frigging program they can. Either they can’t trust ordinary folk to behave or the agents are giving them a back-hander.

      Either way it stinks to high heaven.

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  32. StewGreen says:

    BBC4 Sondheim night 4.5 hours

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    • Third Duke says:

      Off topic I know, however I’ve just been subjected to what will inevitably be deemed a 3rd (or possibly 4th) party hate crime!
      It seems Lucozade are suggesting a hula-hoop twirling coloured geezer represents everything they feel ‘Cool’ about their Brand.
      The last time I heard the word Lucozade and gentlemen of colour in the same sentence, the ‘L’ word was Cockney rhyming slang for a well known garden digging implement . . .
      I nearly died I tell you!

         10 likes

      • digg says:

        Referring to an earlier post re the nasty infiltration of companies by the diversity thought police. This is all driven by their warped lefty university bred Marxist ideology. We have one magnificent weapon to fight back with…. just totally stop buying from them. We need a database of worst offenders so we can all double down and drive the twats bankrupt.

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  33. StewGreen says:

    BBC at 3pm “Shoppers shun Christmas sales as footfall drops”
    The shops I went to were pretty busy.

    2Kg of Salmon £2.61
    24 cans of Guinness £9.20
    spuds 17p 1.5Kg, caulis/sprouts 11p
    ready meals 20p
    #FoodbankBritain

    I did see a couple of cougher tossers : One guy coughing into his mask
    One maskless guy coughing all over Iceland’s freezer and handle.

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    • StewGreen says:

      BTW in 2021 many big shops didn’t open on Boxing day
      .. It is quite possible more were on on that Saturday : Boxing Day 2020

         1 likes

  34. StewGreen says:

    The Sun frontpage on Monday

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  35. StewGreen says:

    John Redwood listening to R4Today on Monday morning

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  36. Eddy Booth says:

    Relentless booster propaganda:

    “Leitch: Booster is the best present you can give”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-59801850

    “That honestly is the best present you could give to any of your relatives, to get yourself protected so that you then protect others.”

    My take: He who jabs last lives longest!

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  37. StewGreen says:

    “Two people were stabbed prior to a mass brawl in the Belgian city of Genk on Christmas day that saw a mob of around 40 young migrants from Afghanistan and Turkey clash.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/12/27/two-stabbed-as-christmas-brawl-erupts-between-afghans-and-turks-in-belgium

       11 likes

  38. Sluff says:

    Just to report that 72,000 at Twickenham today seemed to think government covid policy is set about right.
    As it appears did 50,000 at Newcastle.
    Other examples are available,

    Those who oppose such measures were presumably cooped up at home. As is their right. Which should not extend to imposing on the rest of us their medical socialism.

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  39. StewGreen says:

    Bjorn Lomborg’s long anti BBC thread
    our local news ran the Christian Aid PRasNews on the morning bulletin
    .. https://twitter.com/BjornLomborg/status/1475418649796165640
    Once again, BBC blithely repeat campaigners’ press release of ever-costlier climate disasters

    Yet,
    @MattMcGrathBBC
    knows disaster costs increase with more and more valuable houses

    When adjusted for growing GDP, as even UN insists, weather-related damages are 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴

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    • Guest Who says:

      I honour you in repetition.

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      • StewGreen says:

        @GuestWho Yes , I did the thing of quoting the words rather embedding the full tweet
        cos people complain about Tweets and YouTube filling up the page
        Yet no one noticed my post
        it’s obvious when we do do the embeds many more people do notice them.

        On the issue of double posting, when you Like a tweet or post a video here, the algorithms cause it to be pushed to the top of my feeds, so I think I have “discovered” something brand new.

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  40. tomo says:

    Must be some BBC similar …. ?

       6 likes

  41. Zephir says:

    Hold the front page !!!! wurld klass baghdad broadcasting corporation has found crocodiles are attacking people !!!!

    (only muslims though) by the thoroughly British Sarbas Nazari

    Wot yu need to no (if you are thick as shit maybe)

    “Crocodiles turn on humans amid Iran water crisis”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-59571711

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  42. Zephir says:

    And the obligatory wimmin story:

    UK’s best bus driver: Derbyshire woman’s inspiring journey to help others

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-derbyshire-59641000

       6 likes

  43. Zephir says:

    And of course, England do not lose, they get “thrashed”

    Ashes: Australia thrash feeble England to retain Ashes at Melbourne

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/59806173

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  44. Zephir says:

    We may suspect the media is outright lying to us, the following is important, ten examples from the liberal US press and how fact checkers lied to the country:

    This is something for the bbc fact checker Spring thing to look at maybe ? fat bleeding chance

    Critics say fact checks have become “fetishized” in the mainstream press as more declarative of the truth than a traditional news report,
    Journalist Mark Hemingway predicted as much in a 2011 column, writing at the time that “the media seem oblivious to the distinction between verifying facts and passing judgment on opinions they personally find disagreeable.”

    The 10 worst fact checks of 2021, and why they matter
    When the arbiters of truth fell short

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/the-worst-fact-checks-of-2021

    Fact-checkers ‘suddenly’ flip on the Wuhan lab-leak theory

    Biden’s time check

    USA Today issued a public correction in September on a “fact check” examining whether President Biden actually kept checking the time on his wrist during a dignified transfer ceremony, in honor of the 13 U.S. service members killed in a terrorist attack outside the Kabul airport.

    Kamala Harris and the not-so-empty stockpile

    Axios drew criticism in February after it deleted a tweet fact-checking Vice President Kamala Harris, who repeated the debunked claim that the Biden administration was “starting from scratch” with its coronavirus vaccine rollout.

    NN blames conservatives for questioning false ivermectin story

    CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale was slammed as “very obviously a rank partisan” for taking the “conservatives pounded” approach after multiple mainstream outlets were fooled by a false story that some Oklahoma hospitals were overwhelmed with patients having overdosed on the drug ivermectin.

    The collapse of the Lafayette Square narrative

    The left-leaning media narrative with CNN fact-checker approval went belly-up again in June when an Inspector General report found former President Donald Trump did not have Lafayette Square forcefully cleared of protesters, so he could pose in front of a church last year.

    HuffPost called ‘stupid liars’ after accusing Cruz of lying about court-packing

    The Huffington Post was savaged in April as “stupid liars” for claiming Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, had lied about Republicans never engaging in so-called “court-packing” when they controlled the White House and Congress.

    Joe and Kamala’s change of heart

    PolitiFact was accused of shielding President Biden and Vice President Harris from criticism over their past rhetoric expressing distrust in the coronavirus vaccine during the Trump administration.

    Jacob Blake’s pocket knife

    Last August, police shot a Black man named Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis., while trying to arrest him after a domestic incident, leading to violent uprisings and protests in the city. The media widely reported he was unarmed, including in a USA Today fact-check declaring the notion he brandished a knife before the shooting “false.”

    A ‘hit job’ on Sen. Tim Scott

    The Washington Post shocked readers in May for publishing a “hit job” on Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., questioning his family history of going from a childhood picking cotton to the halls of Congress after Scott delivered the Republican Party’s response to Biden’s speech to a joint session of Congress.

    Kyle Rittenhouse’s gun charge

    PolitiFact was roasted in November for a poorly aged “fact-check” claiming Kyle Rittenhouse’s firearm possession was illegal.

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  45. Zephir says:

    Insidious, considering what they allowed, and encouraged against Trump

    Media working overtime to protect Biden from ‘Let’s Go Brandon’:

    No matter how silly or serious you think the phrase is, it has now hit embarrassing new heights for Joe Biden thanks to a man named Jared Schmeck. Even on Christmas Eve while he was taking calls from the public and tracking Santa Claus, Joe Biden couldn’t escape “Let’s Go Brandon.”

    That clip is now a viral sensation. So naturally, Biden’s allies in the media have swooped into his defense. It doesn’t matter that Jared Schmeck claims he said “Let’s Go Brandon” in jest. Blue checked journalists were outraged. NBC News was traumatized by the call and ran a headline calling the phrase a quote “right-wing slur.” ABC News called it a quote “verbal insult.” Congressman Eric Swalwell of all people–who has repeatedly slept with a Chinese spy–had the audacity to accuse Schmeck of humiliating his family and of being quote, “indecent.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-cant-escape-lets-go-brandon-sean-duffy

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  46. taffman says:

    Does anyone have Al Beeb’s Christmas viewing figures ?
    I would be interested to learn how the corporation asses (‘estimate’) them?

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    • Guest Who says:

      I believe you were right the first term.

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    • moggie63 says:

      I think you’ll find that 130% of the population watched the BBC for 27 hours a day or more.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Charlotte Miller – BBC chief ‘content ‘officer ? Said all the family watch the bbc Christmas at Christmas – another lie .

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  47. Guest Who says:

    Some BBC mates in Beijing have kicked off.

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  48. Guest Who says:

    BBC knows what not to ask.

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  49. Guest Who says:

    One day Jeremy, one day…

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  50. Guest Who says:

    This spoof account is good value.

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