Twelfth Night 2022

GBNews has started its digital radio output . For the first time in a long time the BBC has competition against its poisonous talk radio . Let’s hope it gets the support it deserves .

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433 Responses to Twelfth Night 2022

  1. Deborah says:

    I have just watched the 6pm BBC1 news with Hugh Edwards reporting about Novak Djokovic. This has obviously caused a dilemma within the BBC. They showed his mother (twice) saying how dreadful it is that he is imprisoned (until Monday?) and he must stay strong. The BBC are desperate to side with the elite who are entitled to do what they want (especially if they work for the BBC or are friends of the BBC. The BBC also want to support the human rights because that is how they support immigration. But on the other hand the BBC are strong supporters of vaccinations. I can see they don’t know which way to turn. It is so long since the BBC reported anything without first agreeing the line to take, they cannot do it. Dear BBC, if anyone from your organisation reads this post, just suggest to the higher ups that for once just report the facts and move on.

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  2. digg says:

    No more proof is required of the collaboration between the Democrats and the BBC than the endless coverage the BBC are giving to the anniversary of what they call the riot at the Capitol.

    The BBC constantly refer to the “rioters” when there was in fact very little rioting.

    The only person killed at the event was an unarmed women, shot in cold-blood by a police officer, I would call that murder myself.

    Constant reference to the “lie” that the election was rigged with no back-up whatsoever and lots of evidence uncovered to support the claim.

    Now why would they do this?

    The answer is mid-terms…. both the BBC and the Democrats are quaking in their boots that things might swing in a direction they don’t like so they are carrying out a coordinated campaign of mis-information and hysteria along with the corrupt US judicial system and the FBI in hopes that people will be shooed away from a Republican resurgence and wipeout victory.

    I think the Republicans will win back, Trump will be back and I can only imagine the penalties he might extract for the vile and lying treatment he has been given.

    I also think the FBI would be in for a tough time too.

    Bring it on!

    I hope the night of the mid-term results is a re-run of the night of the Brexit vote, I would love to see those crestfallen, frightened BBC faces on screen.

    I hope he buries the whole lot of the sneaky pile of smug crappers!

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    • tomo says:

      The Harris-Biden stuff I caught earlier on SlyNews was predictable puke… I wonder how much of it was scripted and if there’s one of those multiscreen mashups of them all saying the same thing?

      I see that Joe Rogan’s doctor said he has prescribed ivermectin to hundreds of Congress Members and the media completely hid that.

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  3. Guest Who says:

    Not with all in Wendy’s Unit, sucking up like a car vacuum plugged into the mains.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Her last two r/tweets..

      Any utterly unsurprised by this?

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      • JimS says:

        Jon Snow: Shouldn’t that be “I have never worked in a place where there are more rewarded people to be among, (mostly white)”.

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  4. Guest Who says:

    Might be a spoof.

    Who can check?

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    • Guest Who says:

      😇

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    • Docmarooned says:

      Correct. Guest. If true though another pure invented lie. These groups seem to be about the blggest skivers currently going.

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    • tomo says:

      re: Long Covid spoof?

      The Venn diagram for those with high rates of random sickies is … indistinguishable from a circle?

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  5. Guest Who says:

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    • BRISSLES says:

      She should have been there in 1986 when I made a visit, she would have been taking pictures of empty shelves, and lengthy queues when a consignment of shoes had arrived, instead of selfies !

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  6. JimS says:

    BBC on the 1921 census:

    There were 1,712 Jamaican-born people living in England and Wales in 1921 – according to the census.

    I think the census must be wrong!

    Web page currently has a missing graphic (tsk! tsk!) from the story but it used in the headline page.

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    Cressida Dick when she was a girl.

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    • AWOL says:

      I don’t think it’s incorrect, there was a large contingent of British Colonials there, their off-spring would be “Jamaican born”.
      My wife for instance was born in Uganda of British (white) parents.

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      • JimS says:

        You miss the point!

        In 2022 the BBC would have us believe that Britain had always been ‘black’ and their latest dramas push that falsehood. It is through films and the like that most of us get our ideas about history.

        I was being sarcastic.

        You are quite right that re-patriated colonials no doubt made up the majority of ‘Jamaican born’.

        ‘History Debunked’ goes into this matter further – why is the BBC obsessed with black people, why not Chinese, Indians or even the French? Why aren’t these ‘minorities’ promoted?

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  7. StewGreen says:

    ITV news

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  8. StewGreen says:

    Lefty twitter

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    • StewGreen says:

      Maybe someone can give details about how Labour first appointed him
      and how many years he worked for Labout governments
      2004 article
      “John Toker, the former ITN producer and Tonight with Trevor McDonald executive, who acted as Mr Blunkett’s personal press secretary and the department’s head of news, remains in his post.”

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  9. JohnC says:

    US Capitol attack: Rioters held dagger to the throat of America – Biden
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59898559

    This video of Biden is extraordinary.

    Firstly he’s slurring and faltering like someone who’s not even quite sure where he is.

    Second the speech they have written for him is as full of hate as I’ve ever heard. It’s one long personal and very spiteful attack against Trump.

    This is the kind of rhetoric I only expect from 3rd world dictatorships. They are clearly desperate now. And the BBC are pushing every word of it in our faces.

    Even Lurch says:

    ‘Biden’s rhetorical shift could represent a strategic shift, as well – a decision that the Democratic base can most effectively be rallied with anger, not hope.’

    Everything about Biden and the Democrats is lies. Right down to pretending he is in any way in charge. They are really showing us the true colours of the ‘tolerant’ Left now. So much for bringing the nation together : it’s more divided than ever. Could this be the trigger for unrest ?.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Yes – I was surprised at the level of vitriol – they must truly be worried that the coming elections won’t be fixed as well as the last fraudulent presidential election was – and that President Trump will stand and fight it out with the half wit VP .

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      • G.W.F. says:

        The level of vitriol, repeated without criticism by the BBC, leads me to think that something very nasty is being planned. Possibly Trump’s arrest, or some way of excluding him from political life.
        They are up to something.

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  10. tomo says:

    VPOTUS Harris

    Jan 6th was Pearl Harbour

    Psaki should dress up in a wide brimmed conical black hat and arrive at the podium on a broomstick?

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  11. tomo says:

    and then Pelosi cranks it up even more.

    I hope that she makes it to the mid terms and runs and that DJT also runs for Congress and is installed as Speaker of the House.

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    • digg says:

      I think she missed off the name of the only person who was murdered in the Capitol that day the lowlife!

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  12. Lefty Wright says:

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    • BRISSLES says:

      She’s spot on in her observations. Scared me a bit though when she said her Dad had died after his gall bladder op – that’s what I had done !!!

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  13. Up2snuff says:

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – there’s some things wrong with this photo

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59886270
    How many can you spot?

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    • StewGreen says:

      Getty label
      “Mid adult woman refueling the car at the gas station while her son sitting at the back seat and both wearing a protective face mask and gloves during COVID-19 pandemic”

      Hence it’s a US car with the driver on the Left handside
      and the fuel cap on the right handside
      Second photo : https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/photo/mid-adult-woman-making-sure-everything-in-car-is-royalty-free-image/1256669317?adppopup=true

      It appears the woman’s left arm is a prosthetic
      Their masks are on the right way up, but hers is not over her nose properly.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Stew, yes, I wondered about L/H drive and also illegal to have child in front seat. Then I looked a bit more closely.

        It appears to be a Renault Clio 3dr hatch but I think it is a larger car. But it was the background that did it: it is summer! And there was no need for masks, outdoors, in summer in the UK. If it’s after 19 July, no need for masks at all. And no need to wear one in a car although you see people doing that in the UK. Well done on researching the US origin. But UK cars have tanks on the right as well. All my previous r/h drive cars did but they were 5-door hatchbacks.

        The woman is wearing gloves. But the pumps seem all the wrong colour after the introduction of E10 fuel and the return to facemasks. Could of course be a family terrified witless by the endless Covid propaganda.

        Well done Stew, though. You are the only entrant so you win the Grand Prize of Eccles’ piece of paper. Don’t spend that stamp cash all at once. And memo to Scrobie: am waiting for you to take the top of the Thread on another notch.

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        • StewGreen says:

          The mask thing
          i imagined a situation where the woman felt she might have Covid
          Say, if she was driving to the test centre
          Then she might wear a mask even outside to ensure she doesn’t cough over other people refilling her car
          Anyway she has to put on a mask to pay anyway and it could be she paid first and is now filling.

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        • Scroblene says:

          (Bluebottle voice) “I’m on the case, my Captain…!

          Eugggghhhh, it hurts my bottim…”

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  14. Fedup2 says:

    Being an armchair strategist there doesn’t seem to be too much coverage of the Azerbaijan ‘coup’ …

    This seems strange to me because of the concern about energy supplies to Europe from Russia. To me Putin now has control of another big energy source and will strengthen his economic war against the West .

    The timing doesn’t seem to be noted either – both New Year in the East as well as America looking inward – one of those stunts the Russians love to carry out ….

    Am I missing something ?

    Tonight on GBNews there was discussion of whether the 12 billion pounds borrowed to be exported to ‘overseas aid ‘ should be diverted to reduce the domestic fuel bills . The current crop of politicians of all colours wouldn’t dream of it .

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  15. StewGreen says:

    Just noticed Matt Price the ITV regional reporter who makes feature items that are PRasNews had blocked me on Twitter.
    I wonder what for, have I insulted him ?

    He couldn’t work out how to set RadioTimes to his region
    I showed him how to.
    He complained that is shouldn’t default to London, but should somehow magically detect your TV region
    I replied
    RadioTimes DEFAULTS to London location
    .. Just like British media reporting DEFAULTS to Guardianlalaland view
    .. People then have go to great effort to find something more in proportion & perspective to actual reality

    He shouted back “Blocked!”
    … OK so he chose to build a bubbleworld , rather than listen to challenging.

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    • StewGreen says:

      OH look his next job is PRasNews promoting electric cars

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      • tomo says:

        You’d think a single call to each UK EV supplier would elicit a tidal wave?

        elsewhere

        The de-Twittered Tucker Carlson monologue from yesterday that YouTube resolutely “couldn’t find” – found fugitive Brit “comedian” John Oliver from 9 months ago though and some Jimmy Kimmel…. (Right click to save vid)

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  16. Sluff says:

    More impartiality at the BBC.

    On The Apprentice out of 8 males only 3 are white Anglo Saxon.

    Gotta keep the agenda going at all times.
    .

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Does anyone still watch that ? I gave up after series 3, as they’re all idiots who would have trouble finding their way to the end of the road, let alone run a business.

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  17. digg says:

    BBC in a nutshell.

    A bunch of people tear down a civic statue in Bristol and throw it in the river and get let off…. Hooray a win for democracy!

    A bunch of people enter the White House to protest the election and over 700 face criminal charges…. Hooray a win for democracy!

    And they still don’t get why so many people feel bloody angry!

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  18. StewGreen says:

    BTW I just noticed ITV local news is now available online through the webpage of my local ITV news prog
    with a 24 hour time limit.

    Previously ITV LOCAL news wasn’t available online
    The actual ITV Hub livestream gives everyone in the whole country the London version

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  19. tomo says:

    Right wing conspiracies….

    The Secret Life of Bill Clinton
    by
    Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (interview write-up)

    The star scribe at the Daily Telegraph is hiding his light under a bushel – or something. One might expect somebody with Evans Pritchards’s credentials to be consulted more often about the Clinton crew and his intimate knowledge of Democrat politics…. ?

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  20. JohnC says:

    Russian submarine hit Royal Navy warship in North Atlantic
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59898569

    No it didn’t. It ran into a sonar array being towed for hundreds of meter behind.

    The BBC are starting to twist headlines into lies without even realising now. I suspect it has become such standard journalistic practice, they are doing it without thought.

    It’s about the level of ‘The Sun’. Another indicator of the calibre of staff they now employ. It’s what happens when ability is not the main reason people are given jobs.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Indeed. The Moaning Emole confirms.

      ***
      Russian AA shoots down RAF plane

      When Royal Navy frigate HMS Northumberland was tracking a Russian submarine in late 2020, it got a bit closer than expected. The AA hit the British plane’s towed target – a long tube fitted with sensitive hydrophones to listen under the water. And a TV crew, filming Warship: Life at Sea for Channel 5, caught the incident on camera, including the crew shouting: “What the hell was that?” The Ministry of Defence has confirmed the circumstances. It’s unclear whether the Russian vessel was damaged but HMS Northumberland returned to port in Scotland for repairs. There has been increased Russian submarine activity in recent years, and Royal Navy frigates regularly patrol the North Atlantic. A UK defence source tells us it’s unlikely the collision was deliberate.

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    • AWOL says:

      The only reason for reporting this is: “The incident, in late 2020, was captured by a television crew filming a documentary.”

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  21. JohnC says:

    The petition against Blairs knighthood is at 960,000 now. I wonder if the BBC will report it when it passes 1,000,000.

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  22. Guest Who says:

    Gaz goes full hignfy with Nish as chair and team leaders. And guests.

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    • JohnC says:

      They play the anthem in Thailand every evening at 6pm. People in parks stand still when it plays. Not because they have to, but because they respect it and they really do love their country. It’s quite strange to see at first because it would never happen in the UK.

      BBC far-lefties like Lineker despise patriotism. It makes people stand up for things on principle instead of just doing what they are told. The jug eared idiot is unable to realise it is people like him who are making us more like North Korea. They would LOVE a totalitarian state – as long as they were in charge of course.

      Then they could solve the problem of their politicial enemies once and for all. The ultimate ‘cancel culture’. Like they have tried to do throughout history.

      Biden gave us a great insight to their true nature in his speech yesterday. Full of hate.

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      • Guest Who says:

        BBC Shires.. with ‘quotes’.

        🇬🇧 Do you want to hear our national anthem more? 🇬🇧

        Some MP’s think the BBC should restart playing it on TV to foster ‘unity and pride in our nation’!

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      • Fedup2 says:

        I wonder why linaker didn’t complain about the national tune being played at the start of national footy games ?
        And I suppose he supports the ‘honours ‘ system – which does he have – OBE /MBE ?

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  23. Guest Who says:

    Just to highlight what despicable scum the bbc are, supported by almost all in politics and media, ITBB is valiantly keeping on an actual newsworthy story.

    https://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-bbc-digs-its-heels-in.html

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  24. Guest Who says:

    Claudia and Mike Wendling should get a room.

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    • Guest Who says:

      And then only let in those they agree with.

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    • Guest Who says:

      BBC Sunday programming sorted.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Interesting mask slipping on bbc images.

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        • Guest Who says:

          In fact, Nalili and Fatima look to have folded that headgear very carefully before ‘telling the bbc’ what angle to shoot.

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        • Jeff says:

          “Pounce”, one of our old regulars on Biased BBC.

          Glad to see he’s still around.

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  25. andyjsnape says:

    msn reports, c/o the guardian
    GB News accused of prejudicing Colston Four trial
    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/gb-news-accused-of-prejudicing-colston-four-trial/ar-AASwt9l?ocid=mailsignout&li=BBoPWjQ

    Funny its never mentioned that the bbc often “published opinion”

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    • Guest Who says:

      Certain media deploy #accusedof a lot.

      More often than not it turns out the accusation is other media who use it a lot too.

      Like the BBC.

      Just went to BBC World and they are reporting what Paul said they don’t.

      But mostly US anniversary stuff from a very particular corner and something about Australian tennis. Like, a lot.

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    • JohnC says:

      I wonder if they reported what a collapse of law and order to the intimidation of mob rule the trial ended up being.

      Somehow I doubt it.

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  26. Guest Who says:

    Clive Myrie liked; no explanation as yet.

    Maybe Springster doing a special using her foreign affairs expertise?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I wrote of this yesterday – maybe the BBC is not concerned about putin invading a huge oil producer …..it’s all about a Serbian tenniser

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Covid: Armed Forces send 200 personnel to support the NHS in London
      By Dulcie Lee
      BBC News
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-59902220

      ….

      Join us and become a leader of diversity and inclusion for a one-of-a-kind organisation.

      NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is dedicated to saving and improving lives. We’re an essential part of the NHS, providing a wide range of services including blood transfusion, organ transplantation and diagnostics.
      https://www.nhsbt.nhs.uk/careers/career-spotlight/chief-diversity-and-inclusion-officer/

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      • Fedup2 says:

        When i see stuff like that I wonder if it is at all possible to change the NHS and make it more able to deal what it is paid huge amounts to do?

        I guess the medical mafia will play its ‘ usual emotional blackmail game to keep itself pampered and overpaid – ensuring the closed shop is always short of medics and always building a well remunerated hierarchy and management .

        Any coming inquiry into the Chinese virus will make sure it doesn’t get into a position to criticise either the NHS or the medical mafia living off it …..

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Clap on Thursday. Bury yourself on Friday. Save the NHS.

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          • Fedup2 says:

            I think that mental clapping thing will provide an indication to ( sane ) future generations of the madness of this time ….
            ( I find myself using that ‘wtf’ terminology more and more- it used to be ‘surely not ‘ but that doesn’t make it anymore ) .

            I suppose one of the reasons for all this is the transition of hippy -bred kidults into positions of influence / authority bringing the woke nonsense with them .
            Hence the expression of approved emotions and offence in accordance with their conditioning …..

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        • JimS says:

          I was in a hospital waiting room the other day, they were running 50 minutes late.

          Two ambulance men came in with a patient in a wheelchair. Apparently the usual procedure was that they wheeled him to the nurse who gave him an injection, then they took him home.

          Rather than being released from that job and leaving the patient to a relief crew they stayed with him thereby keeping an ambulance out of service for 50 minutes and delaying all the other trips on their rosta.

          No wonder there are ambulance ‘shortages’ and NHS ‘backlogs’.

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    • Docmarooned says:

      Is Bliar not linked to Kazakhstan’s regime? Maybe thats the reason.

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  27. Guest Who says:

    Paul Angry and Protesting Mason now waging war with every bbc ex colleague going.

    Quite funny how predictably partisan all these cretins are.

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  28. Guest Who says:

    Huw in full cry, showing opinion on polls can vary.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Islamic accent? Somalia accent?

      What is the racial makeup of London?
      40% of Londoners are Black and Minority Ethnic and 37% are not born in the UK. West London has the highest proportion (48%) of its population that are Black and Minority Ethnic and 43% who are not UK-born.

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    • micknotmike says:

      I think you will find them on page two of the list.

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    • taffman says:

      He’s right .
      “There are many “.

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  29. AsISeeIt says:

    Love a duck edition

    This has to be the first time a modern sports star has got themselves banned for NOT taking drugs:

    Djokovic’s father says player is being “crucified”‘ (Times)

    As something of a connoisseur of tabloid headlines, one has to give props to the giveaway Metro this morning: ‘Prisoner Cell Djok H

    The Aussies have certainly displayed a surprisingly quasi-religious adherence to covid lockdown rules – but let’s not forget that as well as being the descendents of convicts as us Poms like to joke, they are also the descendents of their jailers. His father claiming Christ-like religious persecution of Djokovic however, seems a bit strong:

    Tennis ace Novak in a guarded room with no change of clothes, says dad‘ (Metro) – I don’t recall the lack of fresh undies as being one of the Stations of The Cross.

    The BBC has one of those – “Look wot a crisis! Something must be done” – headlines, to which this reader has now become so accustomed that he simply shrugs and mutters – so wot?

    Covid: Armed Forces send 200 personnel to support the NHS in London

    I’d half expect to phone my GP and get some squaddie on reception insistently barking Richard Burton’s famous call sign from the movie Where Eagles Dare: “Broadsword calling Danny Boy” “Hello… is this Dr Moghal’s surgery?” “Broadsword calling Danny Boy” “Hello. Hello? I just need a repeat prescription, please?” “Roger that. Man down. Bravo Two Zero. Medivac is a no

    The Sun sounds the alarm: ‘FFS! Now Brit gets Bird Flu. A duck owner has become the first person in Britain to catch a deadly strain of bird flu‘ – what with the social distancing we’re still supposed to be doing and all that one can’t help but speculate how close one needs to get to one’s duck to catch something?

    Scientists have for the first time reliably identified nearby animals by sucking tiny quantities of DNA from the air‘ (Financial Times) – my daughter had all her farmyard animals and most of her wild animals down to a tee by three-years-old, just by eyesight rather than sniffing their scent – by all means call us a rather modern urbanised family.

    And what practical application might this – no doubt expensively-funded – expert scientific research have, we wonder? : ‘…they hope will lead to a non-invasive method to monitor biodiversity‘ – did you spot the vital buzz word there? – very handy to know your buzz words when applying for your scientific funding. But I suppose it would be better than getting invasive with wildlife. I do hope that duck owner didn’t get invasive. Talk about Love a Duck:

    Does the Pope have a point about putting pets before children? The rise of the British “dogbaby”‘ (Telegraph)

    The globalist corporate FT’s clientel are still apparently rolling in a bathtub of cash, like Disney character Scrooge McDuck. Prime frontpage advertising spot going to CHF 285,000 (Swiss Franc) approx £228,000 Bovet Battista Tourbillon wrist watches: ‘worn on a vegan rubber strap‘ no less. Of course it is.

    The FT is not above a good pun for a headline – afterall, posh newspaper crossword competitions are often cryptic pun-based: ‘Steppe change. Understanding the upheaval in Kazakhstan

    One is wary of the pedagogic editorial tone here. It smacks of the Guardian house style of telling the faithful exactly what they ought to think on any given subject.

    Whenever there’s trouble in a far off land of which we know little, our thoughts tend to turn to: ‘Munich: The edge of war. It’s a must-see thriller‘ – as promoted in the formerly patriotic Times.

    Having already reminded ourselves of the subject of both old war films and the strain on our public services due to millions of staff sick notes clogging the office in-trays, it seems the Daily Star fears there’s a potential understaffing crisis in the Berlin bunker:

    Adolf Hitler forced to work from home after Covid outbreak at his office

    Let me explain: ‘Namibian district administrator Adolf Hitler Uunona is named after the murderous Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, and has claimed in the past that it’s too late to change it‘ – apparently there’s little fear of cancel culture, snowflake offence taking or cringeing apologies being extracted with menaces over there in Africa.

    Unusually there’s no Guardian in the BBC online press frontpage line up this morning. But their website goes with: ‘England Covid testing changes could hit low-paid workers, leaked memo warns. Exclusive: Health Security Agency chief set out risks of PCR test requirement for £500 isolation payment in December

    The Telegraph meanwhile champions tax payers: ‘One million to be pulled into higher rate of tax

    And the Express sticks up for pensioners: ‘Cost of living squeeze will hit over 65s hardest

    You pays your money and you takes your pick.

    Or perhaps you takes your peck – if you’re a duck owner?

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    • JimS says:

      “Let me explain: ‘Namibian district administrator Adolf Hitler Uunona is named after the murderous Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, and has claimed in the past that it’s too late to change it‘ – apparently there’s little fear of cancel culture, snowflake offence taking or cringeing apologies being extracted with menaces over there in Africa.”

      Expect to see a re-make of Downfall with a ‘diverse’ mono-ethnic cast, followed by half of YouTube filled with ‘repurposed’ copies. That should finally eliminate the White Web.

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    • AsISeeIt says:

      Afterthought

      “Now Brit gets Bird Flu. A duck owner has become the first person in Britain to catch a deadly strain of bird flu”

      Inevitably the tax payer will end up picking up the bill.

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  30. Guest Who says:

    Nice Crocs.

    In other news, Twitter cropping had initially stopped with the kid in front’s head. Which inspired a double take.

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  31. Fedup2 says:

    Whilst trying to concentrate any attention to the ‘news’ to the more important stuff ( eg the likelihood of war) I got distracted by a story about GBNews .

    Apparently during to colston trial a half wit at GBNews did an opinion piece about the actions of the defendants . The judge summonsed someone from GBNews with the prospect of ‘contempt ‘ charges …
    …….anyway the excuse was that the duty GBNews lawyer missed the opinion piece and it went out . OFCOM will love this one – as does the rest of the enemy Left Wing which will build up any reason to kill unapproved thought . …

    Apparently the defence in that case – the Far Left Doughty Chambers got into trouble with the judge about trying to link case to the wrongs of slavery as opposed to straight forward criminal damage ….
    But they obviously succeeded ….

    Elsewhere – earlier in the week there was a big fuss about the failure of the barking plod in ‘the met’ from detecting the serial queer murderer chapped who dumped the bodies near his home …
    ….. I found it interesting that the individual plods responsible for the negligence were not clearly named . I wondered why – so after 2 minutes of digging I found the list of names on the coroners report …. It was truly … diverse .

    Apparently some of these inept / lazy plod have been promoted …..

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  32. MarkyMark says:

    Britain fired up over khat popularity
    British government looking to ban the stimulant, but many migrants say khat is part of their culture.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2013/12/16/britain-fired-up-over-khat-popularity

    “If I was Prime Minister David Cameron, I would stop it immediately, not next month, not next year – immediately,” Mohamed said. “Everywhere on the street you see Somalis chewing khat and they lose control, they don’t even know their own families. It’s like cocaine. I’m sorry but the people who chew khat … they are not human.”

    …..

    “United in diversity”, the motto of the European Union, first came into use in 2000.
    https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-history/symbols/eu-motto_en

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Khat is hardly likely to be criminaled if the emir of londonistan is to formally legalise the spliff … where I live that was done about 5 years ago… man ….

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  33. MarkyMark says:

    You will kneel to China … and George Floyd …

    The Baltic state remained defiant while China downgraded its diplomatic relations and restricted its trade with Lithuania.

    But then, this week, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda expressed doubts about the wisdom of his country’s principled stand, in comments welcomed by China.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59879762

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  34. MarkyMark says:

    China has won the war …

    “”Unless Lithuania bends to China’s will, an amicable resolution looks unlikely.”

    The Baltic state remained defiant while China downgraded its diplomatic relations and restricted its trade with Lithuania.
    But then, this week, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda expressed doubts about the wisdom of his country’s principled stand, in comments welcomed by China.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59879762

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  35. Kaiser says:

    I see the BBC ran a hit piece on Novak Djokavic wonder why?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/59881229

       9 likes

  36. andyjsnape says:

    Mrs World: Beauty queen’s US visa ‘refused due to Syria link’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-59896728
    “reports” the bbc

    What a shame, guess best be on the cautious side, as we are talking Syria!

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  37. AsISeeIt says:

    Just spotted a banner displayed locally advertising NHS recruitment

    Can’t help but notice the appeal: “Are you committed? Are you caring?” – in that order of preference – suggesting perhaps a required commitment and loyalty to the institution placed somewhat over and above care of the patients?

    I further notice that “NHS Pension” is advertised as a saleable perk

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  38. StewGreen says:

    Marble Arch Mound, dubbed ‘London’s worst tourist attraction’, closes this weekend after five months of controversy and ridicule.

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  39. StewGreen says:

    Local radio “coming up an interview with the producer of David Attenborough’s green planet
    .. but now over to our reporter at Princes Quay shopping centre in Hull where another Green film is being shown”

    “Hull City council have commissioned this new film about them doing their bit to make the city green .. save the planet”
    …#PRasNews

    Guardianlalaland agendas are always pushed by the BBC

    Councillors interviewed re throwing out wacky stats
    “Most of the Carbon in the UK comes from transport
    … 35% of the Carbon comes from heating our homes ”
    … Hmm as far as I know home use is not the bulk of UK carbon
    It’s all the factories/offices/government that are responsible for CO2 output.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Reporter : “Climate change as it says in the film is a real emergency”

      item features Martin Budge, Climate Change manager for the council man …. “simple steps we can all do ..taking the bus, cycling, reducing our heating by 1C can have a BIG IMPACT ” (rubbish)
      Reporter “but taking the bus costs most than taking a car load of people , what about that ?
      council man …. “blah blah “..not answering the question.

      Adam Fowler Hull Labour : “All our small differences will make a MASSIVE difference”
      rubbish this is the Look after the pennies fallacies. Actually you need to save the pounds.
      “small steps will make a big difference”
      “We can at least try to stop the acceleration of Climate Change”
      Is it accelerating .. you can only say that by cherrypicking special time slots.

      “now councillor Darren Hale, doesn’t taking the bus cost more than parking the car”
      Darren Hale “…blah blah .. Houses ! 35% of emissions comes from people’s homes ! ..”
      “If people insulate their houses JUST SLIGHTLY ..it will save them some money and reduce carbon.. blah blah ..all do small things”
      Reporter “you didn’t answer the question”
      Darren Hale “…the buses ARE NOT expensive ..people think they are ! …blah blah”

      “The new flood barriers are there cos the tides are rising”
      hmm I doubt that they are .. Hull is a new place built on the marshland of the river Hull ..and councils kept giving planiing permission for houses to be buil on low land.

      Hale “we can STOP climate change” …ha ha ha

      https://www.hullccnews.co.uk/05/01/2022/new-video-launched-to-tell-hulls-story-on-tackling-climate-change/
      (none of the tweets of that story have any Likes or Replies)

      Summary “YOU making LITTLE changes ..will cause the environmental agency to dredge drains properly, and cause the council to stop giving planning permission for houses on floodplains”

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  40. Up2snuff says:

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – got to keep their names in front of the public in case the Sucker resigns

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-59901298

    ’nuff said.

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  41. G.W.F. says:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0bfw9yq

    The beauties podcast, Americast, from the BBC advances the case for the arrest and trial of Trump for the violent insurrection of Jan 6th.

    I think this is on the cards.
    The attack on Trump will come from several quarters.
    For example, a speaker interviewed by George Galloway on Twitter predicted that Maxwell will provide evidence of Trump’s sexual indiscretions, bringing him down, and will be rewarded with a pardon from Biden.
    Who knows?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Released On: 07 Jan 2022Available for over a year
      A year after the Capitol riot, the people who were there tell us it’s still dividing America today.

      US Democratic Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett calls it “an attempted coup” and says the country is “in an ideological civil war”.

      Fiona Hill – a former advisor to Donald Trump – says the way many Republicans have responded reminds her of Soviet disinformation campaigns.

      And Gabriel Montalvo, from the New York Young Republican Club, explains most people who went to the rally in Washington that day were peaceful.

      Americast is made by Estelle Doyle and Phil Marzouk. The studio director is Emma Crowe. The assistant editor is Alison Gee ad the editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.

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  42. StewGreen says:

    LBC WAS slightly diverse
    It had one presenter who challenged the ideas of ever stricter lockdowns etc.
    .. and now he’s gone immediately

       4 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Laurence Fox tweeted
      You bunch of absolute cowards.
      Whatever @MaajidNawaz does next will eclipse your terrible dying station by millions of listeners.
      #BoycottLBC

      Not that I ever listened to anyone but @MaajidNawaz anyway.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Tom Harwood ex Guido, now GBnews politics reporter tweets
      While he’s some brilliant work in the past that I hugely respect,
      in the last year he seems to have fallen into a bit of a troublingly conspiratorial place, over nonsense surrounding the United States election and over vaccines.
      Hope the old Maajid can return soon.

      Who changed Maajid or Harwood ?

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    • StewGreen says:

      Maajid was really bashing the establishment
      at 10:30am 3 hours before he was fired
      tick tock @Pfizer… 🕰
      We Are Coming.

      1 hour before that he tweeted
      BREAKING: within a day Twitter’s CENSORS REMOVED the account of researcher @AlexDeFig from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @LSHTM
      merely for posting why he chose to ‘come out’ as UNVACCINATED & how his research led him to vehemently oppose discriminatory MANDATES

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Germany is to make Covid jabs mandatory.

        Tory MP David Davis: “Nuremberg guidelines say you can’t force someone to have a medical treatment. You certainly can’t force them to have it for someone else’s benefit. It’s wrong on every level.”

        @JuliaHB1
        |
        @DavidDavisMP

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      • BRISSLES says:

        Sorry, but if he (Nawaz) pitches up on GBNews I won’t be watching. Never liked the guy since watching him on The Pledge.

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  43. harry142857 says:

    We have Nigel in town today.
    I wonder if he will be instructed not to mention antisemitism. (note that our local newspaper won’t mention GBNews)

    https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/19827873.questions-bbc-show-filmed-reading-minster-church/

    Reading Minster church will play host to BBC’s Any Questions.

    A political debate will be filmed in the church on Friday, January 8, with questions posed by the audience.

    The panel includes Joanna Cherry, the SNP MP for Edinburgh South West, Seema Malhotra, Labour MP for Feltham and Heston, and Nigel Farage, who presents a programme on a digital news station.

    The debate is hosted by BBC Radio 4’s Chris Mason, where the discussions about politics are filmed at different locations each week.

    https://t.co/VrQO91rjDa

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Mosques?

      “Reading Minster church will play host to BBC’s Any Questions.”

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  44. StewGreen says:

    Labour MP Chris Bryant
    ‘See Maajid is a DANGEROUS man spreading conspiracy theories’
    In response to this Nawaz conspiracy tweet https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1479083070993141762

    Maajid had shouted conspiracy
    and given evidence Socail Media platforms were censoring him
    Screenshots : https://twitter.com/hoppo2009/status/1479211367978655750

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  45. MarkyMark says:

    Germany is to make Covid jabs mandatory.

    Tory MP David Davis: “Nuremberg guidelines say you can’t force someone to have a medical treatment. You certainly can’t force them to have it for someone else’s benefit. It’s wrong on every level.

    @JuliaHB1
    |
    @DavidDavisMP

       2 likes

  46. theisland says:

    Bliar petition passes one million.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59906644

    Over 1,003,000 and rising.

       5 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      “However, the spokesman added that such appointments were a matter for the Queen and the government had no involvement.

      Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer also defended his predecessor saying he had earned the title.”

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Having honours taken away (forfeiture)
      Honours can be taken away from people who have done something to damage the honours system’s reputation. Taking an honour away is called ‘forfeiture’.
      https://www.gov.uk/guidance/having-honours-taken-away-forfeiture

      What could cause an honour to be removed?
      Your honour can be withdrawn (or ‘forfeited’) for a variety of reasons. This might include being found guilty of a criminal offence, behaviour which results in censure by a regulatory or a professional body, or any other behaviour that is deemed to bring the honours system into disrepute.

      A decision to forfeit your honour can be based on events that pre-date the award (for example, a past criminal conviction, even if spent), or conduct that occurs after the award is made.

      DJ and broadcaster Jimmy Savile was awarded an OBE in 1972, and was knighted in 1990 for his services to charity, giving him the title Sir. Savile is suspected to have raped 34 women and girls and sexually assaulted up to 450 people, including some as young as eight, according to an official report.18 Sept 2020

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  47. StewGreen says:

    Now a convicted child sex offender. former Labour peer Lord Ahmed resigned from the Lords over a case of sexual misconduct in 2017
    and having caused a fatal motorway crash had served a prison sentence he blamed on a ‘Jewish conspiracy’.
    https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/isi-favourite-shames-uk-house-lords

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Diversity is our …

      Ahmadis suffer vicious persecution around the world. The main source of fuel for that persecution is in Pakistan, but what happens in Pakistan does not stay in Pakistan.

      I know that from my experience in the Yorkshire market town of Batley. In August 1985, when I was 11 years old, my parents organised an inter-faith meeting in the town hall. It was interrupted and disturbed when, according to West Yorkshire police, more than 1,000 extremists, led by Pakistani hate preachers funded by the Pakistani state, were bused in from around the country. The mob brutally attacked my English mother and my father, a dermatologist; my eldest brother and I; and a Welsh Ahmadi schoolteacher who was with us. My first cousin, a GP, was by chance driving through the market town that day. He saw the mob and saw his family and friends being attacked, so he stopped. He was recognised, pulled from his vehicle and savagely beaten up.

      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2020-03-12a.177.0&s=islam+batley#g195.0

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  48. MarkyMark says:

    7 high-profile people who have been stripped of their royal honours

    Harvey Weinstein
    Rolf Harris
    Robert Mugabe
    Fred Goodwin
    Jimmy Savile
    “Prince” Naseem Hamed
    Stuart Hall

    Jimmy Savile cannot be stripped of knighthood, say officials
    This article is more than 9 years old
    David Cameron raises prospect of presenter losing honour, but Cabinet Office says people cease to hold title after they die
    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/oct/09/jimmy-savile-knighthood

    Jimmy-Savile-008.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=53be46cddea22d605a57def6b54091bb

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  49. MarkyMark says:

    Probity and propriety checks
    We protect the integrity of the honours system by carrying out probity checks with a number of government departments, before names are submitted to the Prime Minister and HM Queen for approval.

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-the-honours-system-works#merit

    7 high-profile people who have been stripped of their royal honours

    Harvey Weinstein
    Rolf Harris
    Robert Mugabe
    Fred Goodwin
    Jimmy Savile
    “Prince” Naseem Hamed
    Stuart Hall

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  50. StewGreen says:

    Covid trends
    Death is slowly rising
    but given all the factors like Christmas/New Year and low temperatures, that is a better scenario than might have occurred

    FIg1cmDXwAAqGwf?format=png&name=small

    Positives peaked a week ago last Wednesday , so far by official figures
    Data is a bit fuzzy now
    Maybe hospital admissions is a better metric .. https://twitter.com/LawrenceGilder/status/1479493134463684611

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I wonder if the bio experiment between England and the other bits of the UK has shown up,substantial differences yet ?

      They’ll all be lower than England right ?

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