Well- the increase in TV Licence Tax will be stopped at the current level for the next 2 years . At the same time there will be a ‘ discussion ‘ about the funding model for the BBC in the run up to the next charter review in 2027 . Wouldnt it be great if the publicly funded BBC ends then ?
Weekend 22 January 2022
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Licence fee on its death bed?
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The BBC is facing a ‘demographic time bomb’ as research revealed only one in 20 young adults watch it’s programmes live daily.
More than a third of under-30s never watched any BBC programming live, compared to just eight per cent of the oldest age group asked, research, obtained by the Sunday Times found.
Only a quarter of the under-30s use the service once a week or more and 35 per cent felt the service could be funded through advertising.
Vox is a joke, of course.
“Oh dear. Top story on the BBC Politics website today is one I mentioned in a piece I wrote last night. Seems Vox Political is now a better news source than the BBC! 😀”
Also a poor grasp of the importance of relative rankings.
bbc jewel in the crown etc etc blah blah meanwhile in Russia they are aware of this:
Anti-lockdown protesters smash EU diplomatic service HQ
https://www.rt.com/news/546887-brussels-eu-covid-clashes-video/
and the bbc marxist news reports:
Covid in Scotland: Restrictions impact ‘worth it’, says Sturgeon
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-60102560
Springster’s offsider gunning for the Pulitzer… for some reason.
He must have known she’d been arrested 4 hours earlier
by 1pm her friends were speculating that
given the high police presence,
Her boyfriend has said “kill all the Satanists”
.. https://twitter.com/views_s/status/1470357932474871812
Oh yes!!!
https://tradingaswdr.blogspot.com/2022/01/political-thinking.html?
there’s a rumour, no more, that former US editor Jon Sopel would like to help new BBC CEO Deborah Turness solve two problems at one, by offering himself, humbly, as the replacement for both Laura and Andrew Marr.
https://t.me/rtnews/18903?single
Tear gas and water cannon are fired into crowds of 50,000 in Brussels as march demanding end to tough Covid rules turns violent
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10432529/Thousands-march-Brussels-demanding-end-tough-Covid-rules.html
meanwhile in bbc la la land:
Up the muzzies OK ?
Nusrat Ghani: Muslimness a reason for my sacking, says ex-minister
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60100525
Countryfile is Sunderland to Hartlepool
“coming up Clean Green energy from the old coal mines”
BBC tweeted “January marks the 50-year anniversary of *the* miners’ strike”
The mean the 1972 strike .. Not the 1984 Strike
(January marks the 50-year anniversary of the miners’ strike, join Anita and Matt as they travel to County Durham an area which has rebuilt itself since the decline of the coal industry. )
Matt “More walk outs , demand for coal fell, leading to pit closures”
Twitter : “These pits didn’t close because of a decline in the demand for coal, as the programme stated.
Coal was imported in vast quantities for decades afterwards.
The pits were closed by Thatcher to destroy the NUM.”
– Coal miner about mine closed in 1993
– Extreme Weather
Only took Tom Heap a few mins to suggest climate warming causing all the mine issues
Skewer near Swansea.. Floods caused a high river to flow down a street
Claimed collapsed tunnels caused it
(Actually at the end of the report they clarified a mine drainage tunnel got blocked. so the water got directed to the street)
“A quarter of old buildings in the UK are above abandoned coal mines” sounds like BS.
– Equated all spoil heaps collapses with Aberfan ..No that was a special big one.
Yet Tom mentioned two recent slippages near schools
“Prof @DavePetley believes these tips are much more dangerous cos of CCchange”
Prof “The heaviest rainfall events are becoming heavier and duration is inc as well”
.. He specifically said there wouldn’t be an Aberfan
https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2022/01/climate-change-and-landslides-the-slippery-slope-towards-disaster/
Next Julie James, Wales Climate Minister “accelerating CC”
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National Trust PR about their land renovation clearing coal waste
Scientist looking at the offshore kelp forests
“not as good as unmined areas”
Poultry farm
1.8m birds so far ..more than last year
second year in the row.
Holding back on vax.. cos could make worse !
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Dawdon project
They first started treating mine water cos it was rising up and affecting drinking water etc.
Now thy hope to heat 1,500 homes with this warmed water (that’s not much)
Council PPR guy ..we could use the water to heat greenhouses and cut food imports.
(Wonder what they do with the heat in summer ?)
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Vegan farm orchards
Hunny .. bee free honey
Banging their hippy drums around the orchard.
Having been provided with a perfectly good path, why are Matt and Anita walking on either side of it?
@BBCCountryfile
Watching the same clap trap, well not me but Mrs V, she’s weird, I saw Tom Heaposhit banging on about it, the rainfall problem filling pits with water. Pits always filled with water, that’s why they pumped them out, the sting in the tail was the Countryfile weather report, meteorologist puts up chart showing that January has been really dry in the UK, 50% down on average. Why doesn’t the left hand know what the left hands going to say ?
Covid in Scotland – restrictions impact worth it, says Sturgeon.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-60102560
Made easier no doubt in the knowledge the tab will be picked up by the English.
And by not giving a flying f*** about the private sector businesses which have lost their shirts.
As long as the public sector is protected, everything is OK.
And the BBC of course are on side.
Polls, eh?
The BBC does not report news … it generates it (Savile/Brand/Pay Gap) … and is busy changing the country via social engineering …
“By 2020, the BBC wants its employees to comprise 50% women, 8% disabled people, 8% lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people and 15% people from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds.{bbc.co.uk 14sep2017}”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3gQHPCLx9xppcNFVB2P7S3f/attenborough-filming-in-the-arctic-circle
“The whole team at the top of the mountain after a great day’s filming!”
What a surprise… all ten of them are as white as the snow.
Following Not about the Country file, we have Around the world in 80 days. Jules Verne must be rotating in his grave at a rate of knots. This week they managed to find a Black Marshall in the middle of America.I don’t recall this from the original. The Black Broadcasting Corporation should put a warning to us non wokes at the start of every programme “This programme bears no resemblance to real life nor any written work.”
NV
“The Sheriff’s a ……”
Blazing Saddles.
And they are off. Again.
BBC is stuck at £159 ! Hooray!
Mad Al… ‘helps’.
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
The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has said:
“We have carefully reviewed clinical trial data in children aged 12 to 15 years and have concluded that the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective in this age group and that the benefits of this vaccine outweigh any risk.
“We have in place a comprehensive safety surveillance strategy for monitoring the safety of all UK-approved COVID-19 vaccines and this surveillance will include the 12- to 15-year age group.
“No extension to an authorisation would be approved unless the expected standards of safety, quality and effectiveness have been met.
“It will now be for the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to advise on whether this age group will be vaccinated as part of the deployment programme.”
22/06/2021
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications/archive_2021/
Beeboids seem oddly unprepared for winter weather.
Then he’d be the tw@t in the hat.
Hat on expenses?
Should be capped, marky.
9pm BBC2 have sent Andi Oliver and her daughter Caribbean to learn about their roots.
Who ?
“awarding-winning British-Antiguan celebrity chef and judge on the BBC’s ‘Great British Menu’ ”
Savid Javid and Sadiq Khan go to Mecca to learn about tolerance ** no non muslims allowed.
7pm BBC4 BalletBlack, choreography by Mtutuzeli November
7:30pm Carlos Acosta the black Cuban dancer
There should be a BBC version
About time there was some merch on this site
see https://bob-moran.co.uk/products/copy-of-saves-lives-t-shirt
GBnews just mention Thomas Pellow snatched from Cornwall and enslaved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Thomas_Pellow
Oldham Police failure in 2006
A woman has revealed her battle for justice following being repeatedly raped as a 12-year-old after being picked up by two men from a police station where she had gone to report a sex attack.
https://news.sky.com/story/an-apology-means-nothing-now-woman-was-raped-as-a-child-after-going-to-police-station-to-report-sex-attack-12522529
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-real-problem-with-the-bbc-s-partygate-coverage
The writer argues that the BBC has a cheek fueling anger at Boris
as people are angry with hard lockdowns, but Boris never wanted them
It was the BBC that played the game demanding harder lockdowns
when it should have been questioning lockdowns all along.
“many of the usual suspects took the bait and leapt to the defence of the BBC.
eg Lineker & Dan Walker
(Covid anger is about freedom and ) Much of the fury directed against the BBC is because people are compelled by law to pay for it, whether they like it or not.
(The BBC) has been actively pressuring its audiences to relinquish personal agency and comply with state diktats throughout most of the pandemic.
Novak Djokovic : reporters displayed a marked reluctance to question the ethics of Canberra’s Covid zealotry …
Covid groupthink endemic in BBC offices.
(The only concession was the) interview with the former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies
It’s pretty clear the PM didn’t want to go down the route of lockdown rules and restrictions
.. he bowed to pressure from panic-stricken advisers who had convinced themselves that the repressive example of Communist China must be followed.
BBC correspondents pressured the government to go further and further, ..
..
Downing Street staffers were much safer drinking booze in the garden of No. 10 at the height of lockdown than they were at their desks inside stuffy offices – and about as likely to catch coronavirus outdoors, under the disinfectant of blistering sunshine as … “
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has cancelled her wedding after announcing new Covid restrictions.
The entire country is set to be placed under the highest level of Covid restrictions after an outbreak of the Omicron variant.
The restrictions include a cap of 100 vaccinated people at events and mask wearing in shops and on public transport.
New Zealand has recorded 15,104 Covid cases and 52 deaths.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-60100369
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Trans woman Daniella McDonald says dating straight men was a “horror show”, until she met Josh, with whom she has been in a relationship for two-and-a-half years. But she says straight men may slowly be becoming more receptive to the idea of dating trans women. Daniella told her story to BBC Gender and Identity correspondent Megha Mohan.
This report contains language that some might find offensive
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60086567
Isn’t it amazing how Nusrat Ghani was sacked 18 months ago but miraculously only now have her claims of Islamophobia surfaced?
Suddenly it’s headline news.
Anyone would think there was an overall conspiracy.
Oh, wait…….
Hi All
I’m about to put up the Start The Week Thread . I just arrived back in Blighty – got a nice letter from the TVL Stazi saying I am getting a visit on the 27th and the people in the bungalow opposite me are having a proper in- out – domestic ….. innit ?
Glad to be back in what used to be ‘home ‘…..
Oh come on girl – cross that floor – except that she has a huge ( 25k? ) majority in her constituency – unlike the rubbish who did it last week ( 450? ) majority and without the honour to resign …