544 Responses to Midweek 19 January 2022

  1. StewGreen says:

    11:30am prog Black presenter talking to black guest on the topic of a black dancer
    Lots of complaining about Europeans .

    “Oti Mabuse sits down with one of the most recognisable faces of modern ballet – Misty Copeland, the first African American female Principal Dancer at the American Ballet Theatre company.
    She reflects on her inspiration, Raven Wilkinson, who danced fifty years before her during the time of the civil rights movement in America.
    experts : Dr Nya McCarthy Brown
    teacher Reena Bhattacharjee”

    Of Mabuse’s series of 4 heroes ..only 1 Fred Astaire is white.

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  2. StewGreen says:

    The next show also has a lot of complaining about Europeans
    12pm book reading : Muslim Merchants in Tanzania complaining about Europeans trying to enforce justice

    “European dogs” was a phrase used by the main character.

    Novel by UK Zanzibar-born writer Abdulrazak Gurnah
    Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.”
    Yusuf, a boy born in the fictional town of Kawa in Tanzania at the turn of the 20th century. Yusuf’s father is a hotelier and is in debt to a rich and powerful Arab merchant named Aziz.
    Early in the story, Yusuf is pawned in exchange for his father’s debt to Aziz and must work as an unpaid servant for the merchant.
    Yusuf joins Aziz’s caravan as they travel into parts of Central Africa and the Congo Basin

    The story is a poetic and powerful portrait set against the backdrop of an Africa increasingly corrupted by colonialism and violence.

    So Aziz enslaves Yusuf ..and the Europeans are supposed to be the baddies ?
    That what it sounded like from my brief listen.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Nigeria didn’t want the UK’s help when trying to save innocent girls from Islam. Why would Nigeria want to trade and have free money from Theresa May (on her Africa Tour aug 2018) via the UK citizens?

      . . . .

      Nigeria rejected British offer to rescue seized Chibok schoolgirls {theguardian.com – mar2017}

      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/04/nigeria-declined-uk-offer-to-rescue-chibok-girls

      In a mission named Operation Turus, the RAF (UK Airforce) conducted air reconnaissance over northern Nigeria for several months, following the kidnapping of 276 girls from the town of Chibok in April 2014 (by Islamist militant group Boko Haram). “The girls were located in the first few weeks of the RAF mission,” a source involved in Operation Turus told the Observer. “We (UK RAF) offered to rescue them, but the Nigerian government declined.”
      – Guardian UK Online Website / 4 March 2017

      . . .

      #bringbackourgirls – makes you wonder who Michelle Obama was asking to do this? The wife of the most powerful man in the World, with a special relationship with the Country who could have taken action, reduced to holding a piece of card for the World to read a #hashtag that did NOT bring the girls back.

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/08/27/start-the-week-open-thread-27-august-2018/comment-page-2/#comment-939325

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  3. StewGreen says:

    “Cor-blimey”, full on Limey man visits a Texas Synagogue
    (video contains lots of Sargon’s typical unnecessary laughing )

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    • StewGreen says:

      Go through to the 19th minute
      In 1997 in Blackburn a female then Conservative council candidate is getting a hard time on the street cos the whole situation is Muslim and people keep denouncing her.
      ‘Whaddya mean I’m anti-Islam my husband is a Muslim
      ..ah I have a plan’

      She gets in her loudspeaker car and drives down the streets
      “Jack Straw is a Jew, so don’t vote Labour !”

      ‘Ah, I wish I hadn’t done that’

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Lib Dems drop mayoral contender over antisemitic comment about Jack Straw
        This article is more than 1 year old
        Geeta Sidhu-Robb said in 1997 she would ‘tell everyone Jack Straw is a Jew’ in response to Labour’s anti-Islam claim

        https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/14/lib-dems-drop-mayoral-contender-over-antisemitic-comment-about-jack-straw

        “How is a Muslim going to vote for someone who is Jewish?”

        ….

        The former home secretary Jack Straw has admitted that dropping immigration restrictions on eastern European migrants was a “spectacular mistake” on Labour’s part.
        https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/13/jack-straw-labour-mistake-poles

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      • StewGreen says:

        Get to 2020 @GeetaSidhuRobb was then a LIBDEM prospective London mayoral candidate
        when the 1997 video came up, they had to drop her.

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      • digg says:

        As far as Blackburn is concerned I think we have seen nothing yet! I predict that once the Muslim community tops 50% which is inevitable now, they will force in Pakistani style social engineering using the usual Pakistani methods of forcing out “unwanted” citizens using their own “justice system” which is becoming the norm in Pakistan.

        This will be a massive success for them as the craven local councillors will do nothing to fight it to avoid being seen as racists.

        For reference just read the stories of atrocities against the “unwanted” coming out of Pakistan.

        This endearing lady just made the mistake of going off on one too early!

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  4. StewGreen says:

    Covid deaths 2021 pattern
    Peak was Jan 19th at about 1350/day
    by Feb it was 750 same as start of Jan
    .. https://twitter.com/LawrenceGilder/status/1357004415325061120

    2022 Jan 1st around 170
    .. now heading towards a peak of 250 plus by the time data catches up

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  5. StewGreen says:

    @guardian “Wetherspoon’s Tim Martin piles in to No 10 ‘hypocrisy’ as sales crash”
    “A trading update from pub chain shows like-for-like sales to mid-January down 15.6% on previous year.”

    Media headlines are busy distorting what he said
    The Wetherspoon statement : https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJcs_hrWQAANOp4?format=jpg&name=small

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  6. Thoughtful says:

    So the bottler has decided to drop masks WFH and all plans for vaccine passports, probably to fend off the coming scandal about the incredibly low numbers of covid deaths.

    According to the ONS deaths from Covid as opposed to with Covid for the under 65s for a whole year was fewer than 1550 which is a ridiculously low number to have locked an entire country down over.

    Questions are going to have to asked as to the advice which ministers were given over this ‘pandemic’, and whether that advice was in good faith.

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    • digg says:

      I agree that we need and deserve a none-political, none medical National Inquiry into the whole Covid show.

      If it unearths shadowy figures bent on destroying the Government they need to be in the spotlight and suffer the consequences, be they bigwigs in the Health Services, Medical Scientists or Civil Servants or not.

      Too many people have suffered miserable existences for this to just be brushed under the carpet.

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    • tomo says:

      Pretty clear isn’t it that the “nasty sore throat” Omicron has been the “self replicating vaccine” ?

      Now, if we could only find those 4 “Patient Zero” diplomats that delivered Omicron to Botswana we can give them medals or a Knighthood or something…

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  7. theisland says:

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  8. Zephir says:

    I wonder if anyone can tell me why trhe bbc is still obsessing about parties at Downing street whilst completely ignoring hoards of blacks and associated marxist students running riot en mass around the UK ignoring covid rules all summer

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The effect of Black Lives Matter protests on coronavirus cases, explained
      Coronavirus cases are increasing, but Black Lives Matter protests may not be to blame. Here’s why.

      By German Lopez@germanrlopezgerman.lopez@vox.com Jun 26, 2020

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  9. digg says:

    Looks like despite the attempted lynching of Boris by the BBC, it’s all going pear shaped for them.

    It needs 54 Tory MP’s to object to force a vote and got 10, all newly elected during Boris’s victory surge in the North. So I expect they will be toast now! They couldn’t have been Labour plants all along could they?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-60046632

    Also the defecting turncoat has form and is not exactly a reliable barometer being less than forthcoming after he was elected in that he was hanging on to his local authority positions and payouts while being paid as an MP which is not allowed. I don’t think Boris will miss this chap and he will probably be back selling telephone minutes in due course.

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  10. MarkyMark says:

    Sadiq Khan has announced that masks will continue to be mandatory on all Transport for London services, including the tube, despite the government ending their legal mandate across the country from next Thursday. Surprise, surprise.
    order-order.com
    —–
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    • Fedup2 says:

      Has David Davis and the floor crosser started touring TV and radio stations sticking it to nut nut yet?

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Fed, I would have thought David Davis would, as an ardent Brexiteer, have more brains than that. Surely he can see this is an anti-Brexit motivated attack on the PM? They are after Brexiteers. Any Brexiteers. Patel. Green. Cummings. Johnson. The Polish origin MP. A.N. Other whose name I cannot remember.

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        • Guest Who says:

          It’s like it’s a coordinated move…

          What is important is juvenile power crazed ideologies running this country.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Up2
          Maybe thought of creating a parliamentary moment went to his head . Davis has always tended to be cautious in approach but to call such a thing before the report is published is just him reacting to the MSM .

          The Party thing is bad – but in the scheme of things it should not be enough to bring down a PM / Government – the overall blame lies with the Chinese .

          The MSM rollout tragic cases in order to nail nut nut is just disgusting , again – the fault lies with the Chinese .
          I suffered personally from care home rules but that doesn’t make me blame nut nut .

          Also – I have worked in a high stress high importance workplace where there is little separation between home and work – they can become merged for days .

          So I get the number 10 thing – but do not excuse it . I’m surprised that there hasn’t been more leakage of those who attended .as for Cummings – vile …and fatally flawed – comes around goes around .

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          • Up2snuff says:

            I had hoped Cummings was double agent at Bojo’s request to bring down Part-time, the BBC, the D.Mirror, the Guardian and the Labour Party all in one go. But it seems like all he wants is to shift Princess Nut Nuts out of No.10.

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  11. Thoughtful says:

    On the previous thread I posted a piece questioning how long it would be before the Blue Labour party backtracked on the licence fee freeze and ending, and StewGreen told me it was “an unevidenced conspiracy theory”.

    Sadly like so many conspiracy theories, this one has ended up being the truth as the Tories cowardly incompetent and useless have taken just a few days to throw in the towel if and when Boris is forced out.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10418131/Rishi-Sunak-leads-furious-Cabinet-revolt-Operation-Red-Meat-plan-scrap-BBC-licence-fee.html

    And there are quite a few others lining up anxious to show their Marxist liberal leftist credentials.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Rishi Sunak leads furious Cabinet revolt over Operation Red Meat plan to scrap BBC licence fee: Ministers including Therese Coffey blast Nadine Dorries for announcing end of £159 payment in a weekend tweet
      The Chancellor is said to have hit out at the speed of the announcement
      Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey also voiced unhappiness at Cabinet Tuesday
      Ms Dorries tweeted at the weekend that current settlement would be ‘the last’
      But told MPs Monday that the current settlement would be ‘reviewed’ then
      By DAVID WILCOCK, WHITEHALL CORRESPONDENT FOR MAILONLINE

      PUBLISHED: 11:29, 19 January 2022

      Watch the full interview folks … Don’t kiss with people you don’t know..Government working exceptionally hard with NHS and the Jabs Army to get boosters in arms so we can all enjoy a proper Christmas knees up

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  12. MarkyMark says:

    3.5BN News Service ….

    BBC reporter covered by snow flurry while filming
    Close
    BBC correspondent Laura Trevelyan got caught in a snow drift while filming in Washington DC on Monday and had “snow” way out.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-59919101

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  13. Guest Who says:

    https://tradingaswdr.blogspot.com/2022/01/disappointing-isnt-word.html?

    Oh well. At least has a nice pension. as does Bill.

    And cheer up, the Enders is not nigh..

    Freezing the price of the licence fee for two years (which will then rise in line with inflation for the following four years) will leave the BBC with a hole to fill: the broadcaster has said that by fiscal 2027 the annual deficit will be c.£285 million

    Despite an increased borrowing limit of £750 million, commercial returns will be insufficient to plug the gaps
    With 148 regulatory quotas and targets to meet as part of its operating licence, it is likely that the BBC will topslice content and services expenditure, rather than axing content and services wholesale

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  14. Guest Who says:

    Given The BBC fondness for investigating claims…

    https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/01/18/new-video-analysis-ashli-babbitt-chatted-with-capitol-officers-and-attempt-to-calm-protesters-before-being-executed/

    Oh, only some?

    Have to say, this again does not come across as a rioting mob per Sopes’ fond memory.

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  15. Zephir says:

    Another black racist, pushed a Chinese woman into a train on the subway

    there have been many attacks on Chinese in the US, many by blacks

    Michelle Alyssa Go: Accused NYC subway shover held without bail as cops probe for racial bias
    Accused subway attacker Simon Martial, 61, was arraigned from his hospital bed for the murder of the young NYC woman

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/michelle-alyssa-go-nyc-subway-shover-held-without-bail-cops-racial-bias

    Attacks on Asian Americans Spiked by 164% in First Quarter of 2021

    https://www.voanews.com/a/usa_attacks-asian-americans-spiked-164-first-quarter-2021/6205172.html

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  16. Guest Who says:

    Two faced streak of limp lettuce is on manoeuvres along with the rest of his overpaid cabal of juveniles.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Today
      BBC Radio 4, Monday 13 December

      In an item about the rise in infections caused by Omicron and its impact on the NHS we said: ‘NHS England says between 20 and 30 per cent of critical care beds are occupied by Covid patients…. three quarters of those haven’t been vaccinated.’

      We also said that the ‘vast majority’ of those in critical care are unvaccinated.

      In fact, the most recent figures from the Intensive Care and National Audit Research Centre (ICNARC) show that 51% of intensive care patients in England with Covid in November were vaccinated and 48% were not.

      15/12/2021

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications/archive_2021/

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  17. Zephir says:

    They really do have some two faced, hypocritical scum working at the bbc

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  18. Zephir says:

    FFS: twenty percent ???

    How to change a light bulb – 1 thing you must ‘never’ do when replacing your old bulb
    CHANGING a light bulb might be common knowledge for some, but according to studies as many as one in five Britons don’t know the correct way to do so. How can you safely replace your old light bulb?

    https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/property/1552673/How-to-change-a-light-bulb-safely-never-do-evg

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    • micknotmike says:

      The confusion arises with the compact flourescent type shown in the picture. They were so useless that you couldn’t tell if they were faulty or simply so dim that you couldn’t see if they were glowing or not. Still, they’ve all gone to landfill now, taking their nasty mercury with them.

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  19. Zephir says:

    No surprise here:

    ‘Incompetent!’ Kamala Harris proving a poor choice for Joe Biden after car-crash interview

    “showed footage of Ms Harris floundering when asked whether the Biden administration would consider changing its COVID-19 strategy.

    In response to the question in her NBC interview, the Vice President replied: “It is time for us to do what we have been doing and that time is everyday.

    “Everyday it is time for us to agree that there are things and tools that are available to us to slow this thing down.”

    “When you show up and you give an answer and it sounds like you’re reading a hostage note you’re definitely not on point.

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  20. theisland says:

    Still pushing more jabs

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  21. StewGreen says:

    ITV local news “coming up up ex-LGBT in the military”

    Opening item is about Turkish new owner bringing “choc para” (big money) to Hull City FC

    …Now item #2 is the David Davies anti-Boris clip
    Now a vox pop
    ..m funny how they don’t have vox pops on some topics.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Now LGBT veterans
      Ah Caroline has a deep voice and square jaw
      Obviously it’s PRasNews for her charity.

      DanCardenMP tweeted : A special thanks to Craig Jones and Caroline Paige of @fightingwpride
      for your determination to ensure that LGBT+ veterans receive the reparations they are owed.
      The Government must listen to your calls for action.
      You have my full and continued support.

      thread .. https://www.twitter.com/DanCardenMP/status/1483829652271550466

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      • Northern Voter says:

        Didn’t this used to be a 60’s thing, You know gay bashing, or have I got the wrong end of the stick?

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    • StewGreen says:

      Now Tibby Singh is the speaker in the item campaigning to use more recycled furniture.

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  22. Scroblene says:

    Isn’t it a bit odd when the US (and the BBC etc.,) always uses the term, ‘The Biden Administration’, but when Donald Trump was President, it was always his personal fault if anything went awry!

    It seems pretty clear to most normal citizens outside the US, that Biden and Harris are a total disaster, and that the teeming hordes of the equivalent of British civil serpents in The Capitol, are running the whole show!

    I was chatting online with someone in Georgia, and I really could not believe the naivete of some of the statements coming out – it was utterly pathetic to even read the glassy-eyed, puppy-faced adoration of the stupid pair in the WH!

    The BBC do this all the time to Conservatives, making Bozza the ‘goto’ man to blame and especially people like Nigel Farage, but when Surckeer says anything, he appears to have a whole team of ‘skilled/artisan mandarins’ behind him all the time!

    Doesn’t work with ol’ Scrobs! Far too long in the tooth for such fantasy!

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    • Guest Who says:

      Not odd at all. Just downright crooked.

      The BBC ability to use shifting editorial guideline terminology to redirect is terrifyingly predictable.

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  23. markh says:

    Not BBC but- has anyone had the misfortune to see the latest Walkers Crisps advert? Mercifully no Lineker, in fact no ‘non-colour’ people at all as far as I can see. If they’re saying to 97 percent of the population ‘we don’t want you’ then sod them- there are plenty of other brands available.

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  24. Guest Who says:

    Presumably, experts like him to vet?

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    • 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/archive_2021/

      Least we forget how it all works … 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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  25. StewGreen says:

    @Yorkshire Cricket Club are keen to ditch their white image
    just “appointed former West Indies all-rounder Ottis Gibson as their new head coach on a 3 year contract”

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  26. Guest Who says:

    Could have been worse; could have been Nish.

    No doubt the BBC’s finest anal ists will deem this a shattering coup.

    My only thought was the calibre of skid mark all parties vet and ease in.

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  27. StewGreen says:

    BBC local new item #1 is the David Davies anti-Boris clip
    Also straight to a vox pop
    with a completely different take from ITV
    almost all sympathised with Boris
    “Let he who without sin, cast the first stone” etc.

    Then to the Grimsby MP offering almost full support for Boris
    “people in number 10 working extremely hard”
    … BBC tweaked her sound halfway through, it was bad at the start

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  28. Up2snuff says:

    Not BBC, Fed, please excuse. Don’t want to worry people and it is hard to know as foundation building work is going on nearby but the sound of artillery testing on the ranges at Shoeburyness was rolling across Kent during the day today.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Was it the 4 landing assault Russian navy ships which went through the Channel yesterday ? But then again – who’d be bothered with invading Blighty now ….?

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    • Wild Bill says:

      I have been walking up the Lakes twice this month and both times seen three fighter jets low level flying, that is unusual.

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  29. JimS says:

    Jordan Peterson in anti-woke fighting form.

    Towards the end he tells us that Putin has pointed out that Russia has ‘been there, done that’ and it didn’t turn out well.

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    • theisland says:

      Excellent.
      (Get rid of HR ‘upstarts’).

      CEOs: signalling a virtue you don’t possess and shouldn’t want to please a minority who literally live their lives by displeasure. You’re evil capitalists, after all, and should be proud of it. At the moment, I can’t tell if you’re more reprehensibly timid even than the professors. Why the hell don’t you banish the human resource DIE upstarts back to the more-appropriately-named Personnel departments, stop them from interfering with the psyches of you and your employees, and be done with it?

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  30. Up2snuff says:

    Funny thing: since it was hinted that Bojo might release England from Plan B Covid restrictions, the overall infection rate has crept upward. Now, the PM has no control over Wales, Scotland or N.Ireland and it could be that most of the extra cases are occurring in the devolved nations.

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  31. StewGreen says:

    News on the 21yo previously sentenced for having weird “right wing” interest and made to go on a programme of classic novel reading.
    And Simon Webb has mocked the media
    for always saying
    “He possessed a terrorist training manual”
    .. just so they can avoid saying it’s actually the lefty Anarchist Cookbook, which used to be widely available at alternative bookshops

    Today the BBC repeated that style in their quick report, whereas ITV just did this online report.

    The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) referred his sentence to the Court of Appeal under the unduly lenient sentencing scheme
    , three senior judges quashed his original sentence and replaced it with a sentence of two years in prison and a third year on licence.

    The court heard John had been “liking” Nazi-themed content “just five days after promising the judge he had put it behind him”, Solicitor General Alex Chalk QC said.

    Mr Chalk argued that, while the sentence was intended to allow for “potent control” over John’s rehabilitation, this idea in the circumstances was “manifestly false”.

    The sentencing caused a public backlash at the time, with social media users describing the ruling as an example of “white privilege.”

    https://www.itv.com/news/central/2022-01-19/white-supremacist-ben-john-told-to-read-books-by-judge-who-spared-him-jail-imprisoned-upon-appeal

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  32. Fedup2 says:

    Farage has got some figures that says covid has killed 17000- that’s people without pre existing conditions .

    He interviewed an oncologist who reckoned 50000 people have died from untreated cancer in the same time –

    Stick that one on the public inquiry …

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  33. MarkyMark says:

    1. Introduction:
    the BBC is much
    loved and remains
    a central part of
    British society

    Click to access DCMS_A_BBC_for_the_future_linked_rev1.pdf

    Demographic change. The
    demographic makeup of the UK has
    changed in a number of respects
    over the past decade: the overall
    population has grown, the number
    and proportion of older people
    has increased and society has
    become more diverse overall.39 The
    audiences which the BBC is seeking
    to serve will continue to change,
    both at home and abroad over the
    coming Charter period. The BBC is
    already facing particular challenges,
    for example in meeting the needs
    of people from black, Asian and
    minority ethnic backgrounds
    , and of
    younger audiences, who increasingly
    watch and consume content in
    markedly different ways to previous
    generations.40 Increasing variations
    exist among the different nations
    and regions too.4

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  34. MarkyMark says:

    BBC are loving this … “In the name of God go, David Davis tells Boris Johnson”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60056482

    …..

    David Davis, who has been leading UK negotiations to leave the EU, has quit his role as Brexit Secretary

    He told the BBC that he was no longer the best person to deliver the PM’s Brexit plan – agreed by the cabinet on Friday – as he did not “believe” in it.

    He said the “career-ending” decision was a personal one but he felt the UK was “giving away too much and too easily” to the EU in the negotiations.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44761056

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  35. StewGreen says:

    9pm The BBC-owned Alibi channel airs The Toronto based female cop drama, it has bought in from it’s from its Canadian counterpart the CBC

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  36. taffman says:

    “England’s Plan B measures are to end from next Thursday, with mandatory face coverings in public places and Covid passports both dropped, Boris Johnson has announced.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60047438
    Why next Thursday ?
    Is it all about control ?

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  37. G.W.F. says:

    Jozef Puska, 31, has appeared in court charged with the murder of Irish teacher Ashling Murphy.
    GB News

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    • StewGreen says:

      Jozef Puska, 31. A Slovakian national
      with an address at Lynally Grove, Mucklagh, near Tullamore.

      The BBC preview links use photo of the victim rather than the perp.
      He plead “no”
      not an ethnic Slovak.
      He’s Gypsy. Puska is a common Hungarian surname for Gypsies in Slovakia,

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Might make them think about Eire being an even worse doormat than Blighty has become …

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  38. StewGreen says:

    This is good item explaining media spin
    James O’Keefe Gives Update On Why The FBI Raided His Home
    .. https://youtu.be/SQXlb4oMGZQ

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  39. Thoughtful says:

    The BBC at the same time it is pleading poverty is still exanding the number of staff it employs, this time angering other news media over its plans.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10419047/BBC-warned-threatening-future-independent-local-journalism.html

    “Newspaper publishers today urged the BBC to drop plans to extend its local news coverage amid fears it will threaten the future of independent local journalism.

    The News Media Association, which represents national and regional publishers in Britain, accused the corporation of trying to become a ‘monolithic provider of news'”

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  40. StewGreen says:

    Amazon Aexa advert comes on
    black couple dancing
    .. https://youtu.be/uf5cIGDo7jc?t=23

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  41. theisland says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Gender TV License Gap

      The gender disparity report was undertaken by the BBC following a recommendation from the government-commissioned review into Licence Fee enforcement by David Perry Q.C. (published 2015). The review recommended the BBC and the DCMS explore ways to investigate and consider the gender disparity in TV Licence prosecutions. The review found that there was a disparity in the proportion of men and women being prosecuted for licence fee evasion but further found that “There is no evidence of any discriminatory enforcement practices on the part of TV Licensing”

      https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/about/gender-disparity-AB23

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “This maddening is far, far bigger than the BBC. It has gripped the entirety of the creative sector across the Western world. Publishing, for example, is a madhouse of sensitivity readers and ideological purity spirals. Technology has hastened this; it may now no longer be physically possible for a country to share a 20th-century-style mass culture. That has huge implications that we are only now just beginning to grasp.”
      https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/01/19/why-should-we-pay-for-a-bbc-that-hates-us/

      Gareth Roberts is a screenwriter and novelist, best known for his work on Doctor Who.

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  42. tomo says:

    Give that man a prize!

    I might try this with a local council or two

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  43. Bulldog says:

    Priti Patel to scrap daily Home Office reports of migrant Channel crossing numbers, this will now only be done on a quarterly basis – unbelievable – Steve Laws to take this on?

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1552866/priti-patel-news-migrant-crisis-home-secretary-immigration-english-channel-crossings

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  44. taffman says:

    Bulldog
    Didn’t she and Bo Jo promise to send all illegal immigrants back?
    Not reporting the new arrivals is a good way of hiding the publicity the Tory fiasco is fast becoming. Both Priti and Bo Jo Need to go!

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  45. Zephir says:

    Fines to crack down on ‘Mickey Mouse’ university degrees: Colleges could be hit with penalties of up to £500,000 for courses failing to deliver jobs

    Unconventional courses that could fall victim to the new rules could include the University of Sunderland’s BA in Fashion Journalism, where students learn ‘essential’ skills such as catwalk reporting and the history of Chanel.

    At University College Birmingham, BSC Bakery and Patisserie Technology students – who learn how to ‘make artisan bread’

    OfS found that at 25 universities, fewer than half of students find professional work within 15 months.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10420655/Colleges-hit-penalties-500-000-courses-failing-deliver-jobs.html

    Miss Donelan cited eight computing courses with 40 per cent drop-out rates, saying: ‘There simply is no excuse for this’.

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    • Zephir says:

      So much for another Blair “legacy”

      “education, education” etc etc yeh, right

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  46. Zephir says:

    Ireland accused murderer: Funny he looks rather “different” in the bbc photo hidden by the bbc from the front page……….his “tan” has disappeared how strange yet the very same photo in both news stories…..

    some photoshop involved in one or the other, I wonder why, everyone in the bbc picture suddenly look pale white, one picture must have been tampered with, or everyone suddenly has anaemia or is albino,

    insidious

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10419923/Man-30s-charged-connection-murder-Ashling-Murphy.html

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60052695

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    • Zephir says:

      people tend to look “oranger” under certain lighting frequencies when the white balance has not been adjusted for, they can look tanned, or darker which is not allowed for criminals or accused murderers in the bbc world

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  47. popeye says:

    It never ends with the BBC.

    Major article on website:
    “ Covid: Did Pfizer’s boss cast doubt on his own vaccine?
    “I’ve never doubted Covid-19 vaccination… until now.”
    Jerome doesn’t follow news closely on Twitter, using the site mainly to tweet about sports and books he’s enjoying.

    The 41-year-old bus driver, from Quebec has mostly supported local Covid restrictions, although he admits to growing “fed up”, two years into the pandemic.

    His feed reveals him mildly grumbling about his children’s home-schooling, among posts about favourite authors and Canada’s national football team.

    But casually scrolling on the social-media site, one Monday early in the new year, he came across a video clip appearing to show the head of Pfizer suggesting his vaccine provided no protection at all against Omicron.

    Albert Bourla could be seen saying: “We know that the two doses of the vaccine offer very limited protection, if any.”

    Jerome tweeted: “If this video is legit, it has to sound off some alarms somewhere, no?”

    But the clip had been taken out of context from a longer interview, with Yahoo Finance, in which Mr Bourla had been discussing high infection rates with Omicron.

    A Pfizer representative clarified he had been referring to research suggesting while “two doses of [Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid vaccine] may not be sufficient to protect against infection with the Omicron variant”, vaccinated people were thought to still be protected against severe disease.

    Jerome told BBC News he was generally wary of things he saw online, and on looking into the video further had realised the clip was a “small part of the whole interview”.

    “It was clear to me that small clip probably shouldn’t be taken into account to shape my conclusion,” he said.

    But he had “almost slipped into being manipulated”.

    Well, where to start. Firstly the Beeb had to go to Canada to get someone to be made sceptical and then converted back to see the light.

    Then the weasel words from Pfizer: “..suggesting…may not…still thought…against severe…”. Hardly ringing endorsement to justify the world spending billions on their vaccine. But, hey ho, the BBC is on board!

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  48. theisland says:

    https://www.thejc.com/news/world/exclusive-texas-synagogue-terrorist-ranted-about-f-ing-jews-in-last-call-to-family-made-during-siege-2Y5rmNYVAwKPfoV3fMv8i6

    The audio does not work but there is a transcript. Described as a ‘British’ terrorist in the article

    “I’m opening the doors for every youngster in England to enter America and f*** with them”.

    In a semi-coherent ramble about American conflicts overseas, the terrorist said: “Why do these f***ing motherf***ers come to our countries, rape our women and f*** our kids? I’m setting a precedent… maybe they’ll have compassion for f***ing Jews.”

    It is time that the the eligibility rules for British passports were changed.

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  49. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – interesting what the Wrongists (Socialists of all colours) let slip on the BBC

    Much hilarity between Ladies Doubles team on TOADY over a Netflix drama ‘Don’t look up’ where the US President is played by very pale Meryl Streep. The words climate change are used by an American gent (director?) who is a contributor to the item. SPOILER ALERT The plot of ‘Don’t look up’ is that there is an asteroid about to hit the earth. This American man slips in the words “climate change”.

    No. Wrong. ‘Don’t look up’ is about cosmology, very different from so-called ‘climate science’.

    The indoctrination attempts run deep at the BBC.

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  50. Guest Who says:

    Scopes writing his book in style at a nice place, possibly offering reduced rates in return for promo?

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