288 Responses to Weekend 29 January 2022

  1. MarkyMark says:

    No mention of trucks across Canada … yet ….
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/us_and_canada

    But the story still holds onto the top page at the BBC….

    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

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    • Guest Who says:

      It’s the bbc, so likely carefully phrased.

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      • StewGreen says:

        The BBCnews USA/Canada page link text says
        “The truckers shutting down Canada’s capital
        The ‘Freedom Convoy’ is protesting vaccine mandates but police are worried about fringe elements”

        bit leading that .. and why air quote Freedom Convoy ?

        “But police say they are concerned about how the convoy has attracted extremist rhetoric, and some far-right groups have suggested they might also head to Ottawa.”
        FFS everyone has the right to attend
        especially if they are expected to pay tax.

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  2. Zephir says:

    Be afraid if this one gets into power:

    Starmer buckles to Sturgeon! Labour leader says MORE powers for Holyrood urgent ‘priority’

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1557865/keir-starmer-nicola-sturgeon-holyrood-powers-scotland-news

    Corbyn expresses ‘outrage’ that no-one convicted for Bloody Sunday murders
    He made the comments as he delivered the 2022 Bloody Sunday Memorial Lecture at Derry’s Guildhall on Saturday

    https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/jeremy-corbyn-british-government-british-derry-northern-ireland-b979532.html

    Laura Pidcock quits Labour ruling body over treatment of the left: a “hostile territory for socialists”
    Ms Pidcock has been a vocal critic of Sir Keir – especially over his decision not to restore the party whip to Mr Corbyn in Parliament, after the former leader was suspended for his response to a human rights watchdog report on anti-Semitism in Labour ranks.

    “I can’t and won’t negotiate with these people anymore.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60148001

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  3. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – delayed for various reasons, bit like a well-known report

    The BBC and TOADY presenters were keen to keep unredacted/redacted naming names/not naming names Sue Gray report and the Metropolitan Police’s investigation in the forefront of everyones’ minds. The Toady contributor, Caroline Russell of the Green Party, was hyperventilating on the matter in front of a BBC microphone.

    She had nothing of real consequence to say except this.

    Caroline Russell of the Green Party knew that there will be new future mutations of Covid-19 possibly or probably causing lockdowns.

    Hhmmmnnn.

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  4. Zephir says:

    Green party manifesto:

    MG400 We will replace existing British Immigration law with an Immigration law which does not discriminate directly on the grounds listed above (see MG205). This law will be based on the principle of fair and prompt treatment of applicants rather than on excluding dishonest applicants whatever the cost to the honest ones.

    MG205: Preference should not be given to those with resources or desirable skills.

    MG401 We will allow the partners, prospective partners, immediate families and prospective families of British residents to join them without excessive delays or unreasonable requirements for proof of relationship. This will be independent of the financial status of the resident and will not be dependent on her/him providing accommodation

    MG404 Migrants illegally in the UK for over five years will be allowed to remain unless they pose a serious danger to public safety.

    MG414 Transport providers must not be penalised for bringing people without the required visas, etc. to the UK.

    MG415 We will provide advice and assistance in appropriate languages at ports of entry and provide legal aid for immigration cases.

    We will encourage greater ethnic minority participation in the Immigration Service.

    MG420 We will resist all attempts to introduce a ‘barrier round Europe’ shutting out non-Europeans or giving them more restricted rights of movement within Europe than European Nationals.

    MG442 The Green Party will recognise the contribution of migrants and people of colour to the UK by making the 1st Monday on or after 22nd June, Windrush Day, a public holiday.

    https://policy.greenparty.org.uk/mg.html

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  5. StewGreen says:

    ITV news black newsreader Gamal Fahnbulleh
    followed by an advert from Tena featuring a fat black lady

    Gamal has just left Sky News to return to ITV News Granada Reports

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    • Bulldog says:

      Stew,

      Ah yes, Gamal “I’m asking the questions” Fahnbulleh.

      Think he went from SKY to Granada about a year ago.

      This is his interview with Iain Duncan Smith in April 2020 re covid, I switched it off after the first 90 seconds. Perhaps his interviewing techniques have mellowed somewhat since then. If memory serves he did not feature much on Sky news after the IDS interview. Appears he also had another spat with Dominique Samuels.

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      • BRISSLES says:

        Funny, I hadn’t realised until I read the above, that he’d gone ! He wore his trousers a tad tighter than was seemly ! I notice these things. I see another Sky employee has hopped to GBN – Stephen Dixon.

        Simon McCoy appears to have disappeared up his own backside, probably kicking his heels til he get a call from yet another Channel.

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  6. Northern Voter says:

    Hands up if you are from Cameroon.
    Hands up if you are from Gambia.
    Hands up if you can point to either place on a map.

    No takers!

    Then why did the Blackward Leaning Broadcasting Corporation put the African Cup football on the box for 2 and a half hours across tea time this arvo 1530 to 1800?

    The woke Premiership postponed all premiership matches this weekend so that all the African players could go back and cheer their home nations, what about all the white season ticket holders who couldn’t care less about African football?

    Take em down Boris.

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    • Halifax says:

      Is that the The African Cup of Nations whose populations are 99% black ??? The same ones that don’t take “The Knee” whilst the woke Premiership do ???

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  7. JohnC says:

    Downing Street parties: Senior Tories demand full Sue Gray report
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60183030

    Gosh ! – all the senior Tories demand it.

    No. Just Christopher Chope, who nobody ever heard of.

    The rather weak support evidence the BBC manage to scrape together to support the plural in the headline is just 2 others who only recommend it. They don’t demand it.

    You are desperate, blatant liars BBC. I detest everything you stand for now.

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  8. Guest Who says:

    #somuchbbc it is hilarious.

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    • Emmanuel Goldstein says:

      Three or four Anne Boleyns there by the look of it.

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    • JohnC says:

      I’m still mystified at how this is not called out as the blatant racism and sexism it actually is.

      Only the Left can such complete hypocrites.

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  9. tomo says:

    Imagine this on nearly all legacy broadcast media…

    I used the Internet to sample a few Canadian broadcasters – it’s wall to wall …

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    • StewGreen says:

      CBC claiming Russia could be driving the Freedom Convoy

      … evidenceless CONSPIRACY THEORY

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  10. tomo says:

    The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation went from claiming the Ottawa protest group was a “fringe minority”, to now claiming a massive invading force has encircled Canada’s capital city with the help of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Prime Minister Trudeau has been evacuated.

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    • taffman says:

      tomo
      Will Al Beeb be ‘fact checking’ that story ?

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    • vlad says:

      They’re trying to make it sound like another January 6th so-called “insurrection”.

      Expect some false flag operations.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Funny how lawful protest – to quote the current `truedoe- is ‘unacceptable ‘.

        Shows how democracy has only one approved form these days .

        I’m expecting the US democrats to bring in a law making it illegal to be a republican …

        …the mindset – as show by troodo is in place ….

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  11. tomo says:

    ‘strailyah…

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    • digg says:

      Watching the drip-drip-drip of stupid woke nonsense being inflicted on the populations of Canada, Australia and New Zealand by the mindless jumped up puppets put in control, I predicted a massive backlash would happen many months ago.

      I hope this is just the beginning of sanity with normal citizens telling the maniacs that thought they were the countries new messiahs that enough is enough, step aside or get removed.

      Come on Canadians, Australians, Kiwis….You were once some if the most independent and strongest willed on the planet, time to end the fake ruling club of nutters and take the reins again.

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  12. theisland says:

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  13. dafydd says:

    I notice the BBC are going big on the anniversary of Bloody Sunday.

    What about the anniversary of Warrenpoint when 18 soldiers were killed. What about the hundreds of soldiers that died in various massacre’s.

    Of course the BBC won’t mention the lads and lasses that died, it doesn’t suit there woke,pathetic leftie agenda.

    The only time us veterans get a mention is when they are in court for something that happened 40+ years ago on jumped up politically motivated charge. And of course even before the trial begins the cretins at the BBC will have us already guilty..

    I notice the BBC have started playing vomit inducing sombre music in the background to maximize what the deem as an already sad story…Bloody Sunday was awful but so was the whole bloody war…Time to move on and as a veteran who served 3 years in total in Northern Ireland, I have.

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    • JohnC says:

      WIll they be showing pictures like this as well to provide some balance ?.

      Hyde_Park_Bombing.jpg

      And maybe a few true-to-life descriptions of those the IRA ordered to be on some wasteground at a specific time then put a bullet through each kneecap. And how those people usually got drunk first because they knew what was coming – so the hospital could not give them anesthetic.

      I remember when the BBC was a mark of quality. Now they are hard-left activists and they disgust me.

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      • dafydd says:

        …and the poor women who were tied to a lamp post and tared and feathered

        …and not just bullets through the kneecap, they would use drills…through the kneecaps and elbow joints…..

        The place was hell on earth…

        The BBC will conviniently forget the appalling atrocities of the IRA…..

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        • JohnC says:

          Absolutely.

          I concede that some killing of the IRA by our soldiers may well have been as the result of extreme predjudice. If I was SAS with a KNOWN IRA murderer at the end of my barrel, I would not have read him his rights. And in hindsight (after Blair gave them all letters preventing any prosecutions), it would have been the right thing to do.

          When they tortured and murdered people, was done through sheer evil. What do you say maxicony ?. Want to try and defend them and the BBC ?.

          No. Thought not.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Dafydd – I reckon there are plenty of IRA supporters in the BBC who want their favourite terrorist group( non Islam branch ) to go at it again …..
      Just part of the ‘dividing ‘ process of Marxist ideology to undermine former great countries like the UK ….

      One of those days which should be forgotten – whereas so many terrorist atrocities should be remembered with their victims – dead and living …

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  14. brexiteerkent says:

    More BBC lies .. YouTube commentator on the outbreak of the virus which must not be mentioned Dr John Campbell has been ‘ fact checked ‘ by the BBC .. Some gems of comments scattered in his video ..starting with his comment just over 20 seconds in ! BBC caught lying again ! Saying for example in article they have contacted him when he says they have not ! https://youtu.be/bza1gAc8sOA

    Interestingly the BBC article he refers to was written by a … And this is the actual way the BBC describes her at the top of the article … ‘BBC Disinformation Reporter ‘ .. As if to say information not provided by them is ‘ disinformation ‘ you can’t make it up ! They are all surely ‘ disinformation reporters’ at the BBC ?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/60145237.amp

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    • tomo says:

      Standard MO there for BBC smearing …

      elsewhere the BBC graphic for The Trudeau Siege has leaked:

      trudeau-residence.jpg

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  15. StewGreen says:

    GBnews are reading out the HATE tweets that top lefties send them

    #1 Radio4 food prog guy is hatey too

    #2 Eleanor Penny from @novaramedia

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    • StewGreen says:

      MitchBenn retweeted HATE as well

      .. a photo of the comedians on GBNews comedy newspaper review show
      “Oh look, thirteen Only Conservative Comedian On The Circuits”
      People questioned him .. You know that half of the 13 are lefties ?

      Benn GB News is an entirely toxic enterprise;
      a symptom and an exacerbation of the almost vertical decline in our national discourse since 2016.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Jay Rayner
      #1 swithced off replies ..seems he wants a bubbleworld
      #2 Got 26,000 Likes ..so bubbleworld works for him OR perhaps a PR agency fixes the Like count for him
      #3 The Rest of tweets are typically Lefty and Hatey

      Mitch Benn reacted by blocking GBnews presenter Mark Dolan (who voted Remain BTW)

      Someone replied to Rayner

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      • StewGreen says:

        Jay has now deleted that popular but hatey tweet

        — Jay Rayner (@jayrayner1) January 28, 2022 gweeted
        Email arrives: would I go on @GBNEWS
        to talk about Barry Cryer?
        I’m terribly sorry.
        I’ve just checked my diary
        and it appears I have to stay in and stick pins in my eyes.

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  16. dafydd says:

    Not BBC related but a great article from Sky.

    Just sums up what most of the UK are feeling.

    It’s only the media driving Partygate, the rest of us couldn’t give a monkies.

    https://news.sky.com/story/boris-johnson-the-former-red-wall-towns-where-people-want-to-move-on-from-partygate-12528086

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  17. Althepalerp says:

    These Russkies may be massed on Ukraine border, be very well equipped and trained, but have they received any diversity training?

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  18. digg says:

    The BBC one show held a poll on the most popular BBC shows….

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2022/the-one-show-viewers-most-loved-bbc-tv-programme

    Seems their flagship strictly come stupid and woke dr who came second and third just beaten to first place by only fools and horses,

    However, strangely missing from the top 20 are in my view the real number one and two…. Alho! Alho! and til death us do part with Alf Garnet

    Now I wonder why the BBC didn’t count any votes at all from these two shows and instead sent them straight to room 101?

    As meat loaf would have said, they are the real dead ringers for the Ministry of Truth from 1984…..

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  19. digg says:

    Sky trumpeting a new series “on the front line” with clips of their intrepid reporters riding tanks and armoured cars etc. in the face of imminent attack and danger in the most dangerous areas of the World….

    What made me howl is that all the reporters were wearing COVID masks even when riding in armoured cars ffs!

    You could not make this childish shit up!

    Who the hell do they think they are fooling?

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  20. Nibor says:

    Not totally BBC related but a different perspective.

    100 000 are “ massed” at the Ukrainian border by Russian troops .
    That’s one tenth of the Russian military. Less if you include reserves of three million .
    That’s over a border of 1,500 miles .

    Countries are the culture and history of their past . Russia is a paranoid country, led by Putin , a product of his time .
    ( unless the country commits cultural and demographic suicide )
    Russia is paranoid because it’s been invaded time and time again and saw the relief from invasion by expansion. After it expanded it saw the best defence against invasion was space . That space saw it survive against the two biggest world adventurers; Napoleon and Hitler . It saw it could lose whole armies bigger than the invaders armies , but space meant the invaders would “ lose steam” , run out of their supply lines and be exhausted from the space to be occupied. The more space the invaders had to conquer, the more the Russians would survive . Space also meant time .

    Crimea was Russian until Krushkev gave it to the Ukraine in 1955 . Now imagine that we were subsumed into a EU superstate and the EU commission gave the Channel Isles to the French for control .

    A little final thought , we joke that we watch The Great Escape on bank holidays , and Colditz is a BBC treasure in its good days . Russian prisoners of war were starved to death .

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  21. Fedup2 says:

    Not the BBC
    But the weekly monologues by Neil Oliver is something which the BBC could not countenance now . The nearest I can think of was the ‘letter from America’ by Alistair Cooke .

    You can tell that the effort he puts into his monologues delivers a value the BBC can no longer achieve . It replaced ‘letter from America ‘ – which I listened to from the 1970s through to the end – by ‘a point of view ‘,

    What a travesty of a title – 15 minutes of approve tick box approved views . …

    … ok – I gave up on it a while ago – because it was only an approved ‘point of view’.

    But think about that – friends – all thatR4 output and they spend 15 minutes a week with what is meant to be an independent ‘view ‘ but which can only be ‘ approved ‘… the shame ….

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  22. vlad says:

    Savour Jordan Peterson demolish a feminist BBC journo.

    (Without even trying: he’s doodling throughout the interview.)

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  23. Zephir says:

    So ironic her behaviour towards him is exactly what he is talking about !

    Her desperation to smear his reputation and twist his words is palpable

    Truly sickening attempt at bullying which is what the interviewee was referring to all along was what women bullies did

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  24. Zephir says:

    And these anti government plotters are coming out of the woodwork at last:
    here is one of them accidently exposed by the bbc, and from the civil service:

    BBC journalist ‘exposes Foreign Office Afghanistan whistleblower’ by publishing image of diplomat’s email on Twitter

    Sima Kotecha published Twitter photograph of email from Nigel Casey
    Toolbar at bottom of screen showed computer may have been linked to email account of senior mandarin at Foreign Office
    Tweet was swiftly deleted but keen-eyed Twitter followers spotted staff member’s name
    Leak is now subject of formal process by the Civil Service

    The civil servant, who is said to be passionate about civil rights and poverty alleviation, is believed to have worked in aid programmes in northern Africa before joining the Civil Service around six years ago.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10455869/BBC-exposes-Foreign-Office-whistleblower-Afghan-dogs-storm.html

    A Foreign Office spokesman said it took ‘all allegations of security breaches extremely seriously’, adding: ‘We are currently conducting an internal investigation into allegations of improper disclosure of sensitive communications. It would be inappropriate to comment further while that inquiry is ongoing.’

    A BBC spokesman declined to comment last night.

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    • Zephir says:

      Holding power to account, remember that ?

      and the bbc will not comment on a matter that concerns their power to smear and attack a democratically elected government

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  25. Zephir says:

    Multi millionaire BLM marxists in action:

    BLM transferred millions to Canadian charity to buy mansion formerly owned by Communist Party:

    Black Lives Matter (BLM) moved millions of dollars to a charity in Canada run by the wife of co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors to purchase a mansion that used to be the headquarters of the Communist Party of Canada, according to public records reviewed by the New York Post.

    M4BJ, which is a non-profit based in Toronto that was set up in part by Janaya Khan, bought the 10,000-square foot mansion for $6.3 million in July 2021. Khan is the wife of Khan-Cullors, a self-professed Marxist

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blm-transferred-millions-canadian-charity-buy-mansion-formerly-owned-communist-party

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  26. Zephir says:

    “Last year, Khan-Cullors resigned from the organization after an investigation revealed that she spent $3.2 million on homes in Georgia and Los Angeles. She reportedly denied that the homes were purchased with donations to BLM.

    Cullors stepped down from her role as executive director of the activist group’s central foundation last year amid questions about her finances. Cullors was questioned intensely on a series of real estate investments and property purchases, leading to criticism for her perceived opulence while claiming to be a Marxist.”

    You can take the African corruption out of Africa but…

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  27. Zephir says:

    I suspect his may be, at leasdt partly, the root of all the upset in the west today

    World Economic Forum: the “Great Reset”

    All citing Covd 9 as the opportunity, how convenient a conspiracist might say….Sounds more like the Masons or Illuminati:

    “To achieve a better outcome, the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a “Great Reset” of capitalism.”

    CommonPass – Travelling The World In The Covid Era

    This new initiative could let people travel around the world safely while keeping their health data private. CommonPass is a framework to link health data and COVID-19 tests with travel

    3 reasons why private equity will enable the post-pandemic economy

    And much more..

    https://www.weforum.org/great-reset

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    • Philip_2 says:

      WEF again!

      The Davos Agenda: will be exclusively available to Reuters News Agency customers via Reuters Connect. The Davos Agenda, being held 25-29 January, is a virtual event hosted by the World Economic Forum, gathering the world’s foremost leaders to…

      The BBC are already signed up for ‘climate-change’, ‘global reset’ and ‘pandemic lock down’. Now all they have to do is make it the pattern for the future of the world. Following China’s example to lock up anybody who disagrees and make it a hate crime.

      Its official (or soon will be) confirmed by the BBC), that its all fact checked by DAVOS. Reuters newsfeed! used to be impartial, now no more. The BBC will be all over it (as they were in Glasgow COPT21, predicting the end of the world for non believers.

      https://www.reuters.com/article/rpb-wef-davos-agenda-connect-idUSKBN29U0Y3

      Celebrating the integration of the PANDEMIC with GLOBAL RESET and (of course) the change of climate as repeated by the BBC, who deny its political globalists on the make. The BBC have not been able to deny that both SOROS and GATES have funded the BBC for all the obvious reasons. Balance by funds from Saudi or QATAR (for balance).

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  28. Zephir says:

    Regarding “pivate equity”….

    The vet giants who are preying on our pets: Calls for inquiry as equity vultures snap up animal treatment practices amid rising bills and welfare fears

    More than half of veterinary practices in the UK are now owned by six companies. It has sparked concerns that profit-hungry firms are creating monopolies

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9642305/Calls-inquiry-equity-vultures-snap-vets-amid-rising-bills-welfare-fears.html

    Buyout firms accused of conspiracy

    SOME of the biggest private equity firms in the world are being sued by a group of angry shareholders amid claims that the firms conspired to fix the price of deals.

    the firms formed “clubs” to bid collectively in buyout actions. It is claimed that they exchanged information and submitted bids at agreed-upon prices.

    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/buyout-firms-accused-of-conspiracy-szbl88sh9d3

    Private Equity Fund May Be Liable for Fraud, Aiding and Abetting Fraud and Conspiracy in $295 Million Sale of Portfolio Company Due to Alleged Inflated Financial Forecasts

    https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/private-equity-fund-may-be-liable-for-9855117/

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  29. Zephir says:

    I suspect his may be, at least partly, the root of all the upset in the west today

    World Economic Forum: the “Great Reset”

    All citing Covd 9 as the opportunity, how convenient a conspiracist might say….Sounds more like the Masons or Illuminati:

    “To achieve a better outcome, the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a “Great Reset” of capitalism.”

    CommonPass – Travelling The World In The Covid Era

    This new initiative could let people travel around the world safely while keeping their health data private. CommonPass is a framework to link health data and COVID-19 tests with travel

    3 reasons why private equity will enable the post-pandemic economy

    And much more..

    https://www.weforum.org/great-reset

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  30. vlad says:

    The useless BBC attempts to ‘fact check’ the admirable Dr John Campbell on his scrupulously fact-based Covid reports, and screws up miserably.

    (He should sue their asses off, imo.)

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    • Guest Who says:

      Has Springster been approached on the factual claims?

      Or would this be a blocking move?

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      • Guest Who says:

        Variety is of course a rich source of BBC rich sources in Hollywood.

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        • StewGreen says:

          Libmob “The problem is Joe Rogan pushes misinformation”
          Libmob “so here’s some misinformation about Joe Rogan”

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        • AWOL says:

          Not to mention that Twitter has lost 50% in the past six months since the new CEO took over with his PC attitudes.

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    • StewGreen says:

      BBC health disinformation journo Racehel Schraer answered back

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  31. Guest Who says:

    Veteran.

    Gay Gordons?

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  32. Guest Who says:

    S’tragic ‘cos they think they are the good guys.

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  33. StewGreen says:

    R4 Liz Bonin “I have been campaigning about Global Warming for years , Africa is at biggest risk”

    …em This year’s Argentinian wheat harvest is a record biggest

    ——–

    Next week : Adventurer Amar Latif presents the BBC Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Rafiki Thabo Foundation

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    • StewGreen says:

      Her item went on about lack of rain
      Typical, that since she recorded the item Kenya has had good rainfall in most places and some northern areas had floods.

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  34. Guest Who says:

    Subtle, gabby, subtle…

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  35. AsISeeIt says:

    The world turned upside down edition in which the Telegraph calls an Englishman out of bounds for watching cricket

    Don’t it always seem to go. That you don’t know what you’ve got, ’till it’s gone…

    Joni Mitchell has joined Neil Young in having her music removed from Spotify…‘ (Observer)

    Musician has condemned misinformation on platform’s top podcast, saying ‘they can have Rogan or Young’‘ (Guardian)

    Spotify Is Removing Neil Young Songs After He Complains of ‘Misinformation’‘ (New York Times)

    So the old grey lady (I mean the New York Times, not Joni Mitchell, 78, pictured frontpage of the Observer looking like Methuselah’s mum) admits defeat in this attempted cancel culture move; since Spotify obviously prefers Rogan to Young and moreover the left-leaning NY Times at least has the modesty to put scare quotes around the supposed ‘Misinformation’.

    Closer to home, our Guardian comes over as a rather more determined culture warrior: ‘Neil Young’s battle with Spotify is principled – and comfortable‘ – so says Alexis Petrides – who he? Public health expert? Epidemiologist? Virologist? Nope: Alexis Petridis (50) is the Guardian’s head rock and pop critic. All the (Neil) young dudes… carry the news…

    Our supposedly conservative-leaning Sunday Times and Telegraph appear to call for a Big Yellow Taxi for Mr Johnson: ‘“Frat house culture” led to ban on PM taking secret papers home‘ (Sunday Times) – couple of points to make here. One: what’s with this American cultural take over in reference to Frat house culture? Dave Cameron was always branded as a Bullingdon Club chap and that seemed to suffice. Two: What’s this about taking red boxes home… isn’t the expensively redecorated Boris flat famously upstairs in No10?

    PM’s aide watched cricket as Kabul fell‘ (Sunday Telegraph) – I’m sorry but I’m immediately reminded of that famous scene in the classic British comedy Carry On Up the Khyber where there is a rebel native attack on the official colonial residence whilst they are eating their meal stiff upper-lippedly as though nothing out of the ordinary were happening.

    As the cannon fire on the residency, Bernard Bresslaw (blacked up as Bungdit Din) jokes “that’ll teach them to ban turbans on the buses

    The gunfire causes part of the ceiling to fall into the soup. Lady Ruff Diamond (Joan Sims) ad libbed the line, “Oh dear! I seem to have got a little plastered

    All cancelled now, I’m sure.

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  36. StewGreen says:

    @R4Sunday tweeted
    “we ask what might faith, religion and spirituality look like in the metaverse with Rev Dr Pete Phillips @pmphillips, Dr Yaqub Chaudhary and Professor David Reid “

    Phillips kept pushing Global Warming dogma
    as if that is his main religion.

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  37. Zephir says:

    Another work of fiction:

    Far-right extremism is on the rise with an attack in London likely this year, shows Met intelligence

    Far-right now more likely to launch an attack in London than Islamist terrorists
    Met and MI5 data suggests surge caused by anger over Afghan refugee influx
    The east London area of Havering flagged as hotbed for far-right extremism

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10456119/Far-right-extremism-rise-attack-London-likely-year-shows-Met-intelligence.html

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  38. Guest Who says:

    BBC News

    The passenger tried to board the train when her hand got trapped in the door.

    ***
    Social media incandescent.

    Seems a safety override failure.

    However…. not mentioned is how a hand, alone, from outside, comes to be trapped inside.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Sources said the incident highlighted the problem of some passengers wrongly believing that train doors will automatically reopen if an attempt is made to stop them closing.

      The woman had tried to jam her hand in the dior as it was closing.
      She then had to move at a “fast walking pace” as the train pulled out, before being able to free her hand prior to the driver spotting the problem and bringing the train to a halt.
      Despite the RAIB stating that she was “dragged”, this is felt by other sources to be a slight exaggeration

      Evening Standard

      BTW this happens occasionally there’s another newspaper story from 2017

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  39. Zephir says:

    Leopards do not suddenly change their spots

    2010s

    2010, 14 May: MP Stephen Timms was stabbed during his constituency surgery by Roshonara Choudhry, a British Islamic extremist, in an attempt to kill him. She was found guilty of attempted murder and jailed for life with a minimum term of 15 years. Choudhry was the first Al-Qaeda sympathiser to attempt an assassination in Britain.
    2013, 29 April to 12 July: Pavlo Lapshyn, a Ukrainian student and right-wing extremist, fatally stabbed Birmingham resident Mohammed Saleem on 29 April. Lapshyn later detonated a home-made bomb outside a mosque in Walsall on 21 June.[38] On 28 June, Lapshyn detonated a second home-made bomb near a mosque in Wolverhampton, and attacked a mosque in Tipton with an improvised explosive device containing nails on 12 July. He later admitted to police that he wished to start a “race war”[39] and was sentenced to serve at least 40 years.[40][41][42]
    2013, 22 May: A British soldier, Lee Rigby, was murdered in an attack in Woolwich by Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, two Islamist extremists armed with a handgun, knives and a cleaver. Both men were sentenced to life imprisonment, with Adebolajo given a whole life order and Adebowale ordered to serve at least 45 years.[43]
    2014, 10–14 February: The New Irish Republican Army (NIRA) claims responsibility for a series of parcel bombs sent to army recruitment offices in Oxford, Brighton, Canterbury, Slough, Aldershot, Reading and Chatham.[44][45]
    2016, 16 June: Murder of Jo Cox – Thomas Mair, a 52-year-old white nationalist, shot and stabbed the MP Jo Cox outside a surgery in Birstall, West Yorkshire, and severely wounded a passerby who came to her aid. The attack was treated as an act of terrorism,[46] and in sentencing Mair to life imprisonment the judge said “There is no doubt that this murder was done for the purpose of advancing a political, racial and ideological cause namely that of violent white supremacism and exclusive nationalism most associated with Nazism and its modern forms”.[47]
    2017, 22 March: 2017 Westminster attack – Khalid Masood, a 52-year-old Islamist, drove a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, killing four and injuring almost fifty. He ran into the grounds of the Palace of Westminster and fatally stabbed Keith Palmer (police officer), before being shot dead by police. The attack was treated as an act of terrorism motivated by Islamic extremism.[48][49][50][51]
    2017, 22 May: Manchester Arena bombing – An Islamist suicide bomber, 22-year-old Salman Abedi, blew himself up at Manchester Arena as people were leaving a concert, killing 22 and injuring 139. It became the deadliest terrorist attack in Britain since the 7/7 London bombings in 2005. Many of the victims were children or teenagers, the youngest being an eight-year-old girl.[52][53]
    2017, 3 June: 2017 London Bridge attack – Three Islamists drove a van into pedestrians on London bridge before stabbing people in and around pubs in nearby Borough Market. Eight people were killed and at least 48 wounded.[54][55][56] The attackers were shot dead by police eight minutes after the incident was reported. All three were wearing fake suicide bomb vests.
    2017, 19 June: Finsbury Park attack – Darren Osborne, a 47 year old British man, drove a van into Muslim worshippers near Finsbury Park Mosque, London. A man who had earlier collapsed and was receiving first aid died at the scene. The incident was investigated by counter-terrorism police as a terrorist attack.[57][58][59] On 23 June, Osborne was charged with terrorism-related murder and attempted murder.[60][61] In February 2018 at Woolwich Crown Court, he was found guilty on both counts[62] and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
    2017, 15 September: Parsons Green bombing – The London tube train was targeted and witnesses reported a flash and bang.[63] Thirty people were injured, mostly with flash burns and crush injuries, but there were no fatalities. The threat level was raised to its highest point of critical soon after.[64]
    2018, 14 August: 2018 Westminster car attack – A Ford Fiesta ran down pedestrians outside the palace of Westminster. The car then went on to crash into the security barrier, after aiming at two police officers.[65]
    2018, 31 December: Mahdi Mohamud, a Dutch national from a Somali family, stabbed three in a knife attack at Manchester Victoria station. Mohamud shouted “Allahu Akbar!” and “Long live the Caliphate!” during the attack. Despite suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, Mahomud was convicted of a terror offence and attempted murder of three people due to his possession of significant amounts of extremist material and the attack’s extensive planning.
    2019, 29 November: 2019 London Bridge stabbing – On 29 November 2019, police were called to a stabbing near London Bridge, in Central London, England, at 1:58 pm. A statement said that one man was detained, and “a number of people” were injured. Two people were killed in the attack and three were left injured. The attacker, 28 year old Usman Khan, was shot dead by police and confirmed dead on the scene.[66][67]

    2020s

    2020, 9 January: Two inmates at Whitemoor prison in Cambridgeshire wearing realistic fake suicide vests, and carrying improvised bladed weapons, stabbed one prison officer several times causing serious injuries and harming several others.
    2020, 2 February: 2020 Streatham stabbing – Sudesh Amman, wearing a fake suicide vest similar to the one used in the 2019 London Bridge stabbing, was shot dead by armed police after stabbing and injuring two people in Streatham, London Borough of Lambeth. One of the victims sustained life-threatening injuries.
    2020, 20 June: 2020 Reading stabbings – On 20 June 2020, Khairi Saadallah, shouting “Allahu Akbar”, attacked two groups of people socialising in Forbury Gardens, a public park in the centre of Reading, killing 3 and injuring 3 others. On 11 January 2021, he was given a whole-life jail term. The sentencing judge said that it was a terrorist attack and that the purpose was to advance an extremist Islamic cause[68]
    2021, 14 November: Liverpool Women’s Hospital bombing – Emad Al-Swealmeen, carrying a homemade bomb, arrived at the Liverpool Women’s Hospital by taxi. The bomb exploded, killing him and injuring the driver. The incident was quickly described as terrorist.[69]

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  40. Guest Who says:

    New candidate for Laura’s vacant brain pan slot?

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  41. StewGreen says:

    Bubbleworld

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  42. Thoughtful says:

    Plenty of criticism this morning across the media of Met Commissioner Cressida Dick to sticking her oar into the Partying at Downing Street, but all of them studiously avoiding the obvious question.

    Why? What has she been offered to induce her to take this course of action?

    Pretty plain when there is a cabal of influential powerful people surrounding a wounded PM attempting to make the problem go away that they would use any means at their disposal to make it happen.

    The obvious question should be exactly what has been promised to Cressida Dick and what is it that she might want in order to have taken this action?

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    • G.W.F. says:

      Thoughtful

      I would suggest that what she might want is a promise not to be sacked for her general incompetence.

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  43. StewGreen says:

    Checking tweets about R4
    It’s choc full of angry Corbinistas
    @RachelFairburn was wrong on #bbcnewsquiz Evidence is that #JohnsonOut6 WAS at lockdown parties but Jeremy Corbyn was NEVER antisemitic.

    Apart from the fact Corbyn celebrated the painting that portrayed Jewish bankers as controlling the world
    RachelFairburn didn’t make a joke about Corbyn.

    The other half point out the joke was made by Isabel Hardman.

    “Yeah, I mean Corbyn was just a really unfortunate guy in that he just kept accidentally befriending antisemites in the way Boris Johnson just kept accidentally walking into parties where there was cake…”

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  44. Zephir says:

    ‘Does he hold us for fools!?’ Anjem Choudary lodges new appeal with European Court

    Hate preacher Anjem Choudary has lodged an appeal against his conviction for encouraging support for Isis with the European Court of Human Rights.

    “I merely gave an Islamic opinion in 2014, that in my opinion at that time they fulfil the criteria (to be considered an Islamic State).

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1558011/anjem-choudary-appeal-european-court-human-rights

    Muslims lawyers (who should also be on a watch list IMO)

    It is understood the appeal will be funded pro-bono by lawyers. Last week we revealed the cleric was feared to have influenced British hostage-taker Malik Faisal Akram – shot dead by cops at a Texas synagogue.

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    • vlad says:

      Meanwhile, the BBC’s favourite Religion of Peace continues its worldwide campaign of murder, mutilation and mayhem.

      In December there were 148 Islamic attacks in 26 countries, in which 588 people were killed and 380 injured.

      https://thereligionofpeace.com/

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  45. StewGreen says:

    Guardian re Bloody Sunday

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  46. digg says:

    Chief Police Peter Sloly’s response over the Ottawa convoys comes straight from the Chinese Communist playbook. If you don’t like what people are saying, first demonise it, then you can ban it and then vanish it as many people in China have found out the hard way.

    What we have in Canada is “soft” Communism but it will get brutal at the first opportunity.

    Much the same approach is marching through our Schools, Universities and News Media. It also has a stranglehold in global empires such as Google, Netflix, et. al.

    As always there will probably come a time when the only option left is to push back. The Ottawa phenomenon suggests this might have already started.

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  47. vlad says:

    Alex Belfield informs his 368,000 subscribers of the BBC’s perfidy towards Dr John Campbell.

    Keep it up, BBC, keep losing the trust and goodwill of the nation.

    “Evil Liars 🤥 BBC Want To Destroy YouTube’s TRUTH TELLER ❤️ AMAZING Dr John Campbell”

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  48. Zephir says:

    How are they allowed to get away with this, their lies by omission, protecting rape gangs by hiding them and their anti semitic racism over and over again ?

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  49. Fedup2 says:

    Seems like one of those ‘saints ‘ who play for Engerland and regularly take the knee for ‘ no discrimination and for social justice ‘ …. Doesn’t apply that rule when it comes to his girl friend ( see daily mail ) … comes around …goes around ….

    Dom violence BBC ?

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  50. Guest Who says:

    Sky Slapper gets frustrated.

    Try being a broadcast news audience, love.

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    • StewGreen says:

      The photo shows Burley’s a strangler , rather than a slapper.

      Her fingers are around that woman’s neck.

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