The newspaper version of the BBC The Guardian – has published ‘100 cultural figures on 100 years of the BBC ‘ . Many commenting earn their living from collecting licence tax fees . Clearly they live in an alternative world from real people suffering from constant BBC propaganda . We can expect more during this centenary year …
Start the Week 21 February 2022
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I know it’s not the Blatantly Biased Corporation but, I was watching Countdown today.The lass from Scotland looked positively male. Anyway, what I want to say is that in dictionary corner with the delectable Susie Dent was some black clown called Lemn Sissay. Apparently his mother came from Ethiopia 54 years ago to study. She was carrying him at the time. He was taken away and fostered out. He has written his autobiography and it seems more like his Wikipedia page(he probably wrote that as well). He had not one good word to say.
My question to you poster’s is this, has anyone here ever heard a person of colour, be it light brown, dark brown or black, say anything positive about this country of ours?
Lemn Sissay OBE is a British author and broadcaster. Sissay was the official poet of the 2012 London Olympics, has been chancellor of the University of Manchester since 2015, and joined the Foundling Museum’s board of trustees two years later, having previously been appointed one of the museum’s fellows. Wikipedia
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Invisible Kisses by Lemn Sissay
If there was ever one
Whom when you were sleeping
Would wipe your tears
When in dreams you were weeping;
Who would offer you time
When others demand;
Whose love lay more infinite
Than grains of sand.
If there was ever one
To whom you could cry;
Who would gather each tear
And blow it dry;
Who would offer help
On the mountains of time;
Who would stop to let each sunset
Soothe the jaded mind.
If there was ever one
To whom when you run
Will push back the clouds
So you are bathed in sun;
Who would open arms
If you would fall;
Who would show you everything
If you lost it all.
If there was ever one
Who when you achieve
Was there before the dream
And even then believed;
Who would clear the air
When it’s full of loss;
Who would count love
Before the cost.
If there was ever one
Who when you are cold
Will summon warm air
For your hands to hold;
Who would make peace
In pouring pain,
Make laughter fall
In falling rain.
If there was ever one
Who can offer you this and more;
Who in keyless rooms
Can open doors;
Who in open doors
Can see open fields
And in open fields
See harvests yield.
Then see only my face
In reflection of these tides
Through the clear water
Beyond the river side.
All I can send is love
In all that this is
A poem and a necklace
Of invisible kisses.
Do you really have to ?
Always interesting to see what they produce.
HA HA HA … BBC reporter – thought Biden would take some questions but he walked off … HA HA HA HA
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-60454795
Boris to pick up a rifle and head to the Ukraine border – via Kent and dinghies.
Russia already sends gas to China via its Power of Siberia pipeline, which began pumping supplies in 2019, and by shipping liquefied natural gas (LNG). It exported 16.5 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas to China in 2021.4 Feb 2022
Countries by DEBT… oh dear …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_debt
United Kingdom 104.5%
United States 133.9%
Russia 19.3%
China 66.3%
Hong Kong SAR 1.0%
“In the deadliest engagement so far this year, four Ukrainian soldiers were killed and another seriously wounded in a battle against Russian-backed separatists in the Donetsk Region of eastern Ukraine, the country’s military said.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/world/europe/ukraine-russia-fighting.html
American estimates of how many additional Russian troops had been sent to the border have varied. One official said there were roughly 4,000.
March 2021
“After the Russian annexation of Crimea, Ukrainian authorities greatly cut the volume of water flowing into Crimea via the canal, citing a huge outstanding debt on water supplies owed by the peninsula. This caused the peninsula’s agricultural harvest which is heavily dependent on irrigation to fail in 2014.”
Crimea’s Water Crisis Is an Impossible Problem for Putin
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-19/russia-vs-ukraine-crimea-s-water-crisis-is-an-impossible-problem-for-putin
PUTIN JUST SOLVED A PROBLEM?
Ukraine cut the flow of water to Crimea last month to the lowest technically feasible volume, citing outstanding debt on water supplies owed by the peninsula, which Russia annexed this spring.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2014/05/06/crimea-rice-crop-fails-over-water-war-with-ukraine-a35082
2019
Government ends support for fracking in England on the basis of new scientific analysis, published today.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-ends-support-for-fracking
Oil and Gas Authority report published today concludes that it is not possible with current technology to accurately predict the probability of tremors associated with fracking
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2016
In explaining its shock decision to delay the deal on Hinkley Point, the government said it needed time to consider all components of the deal, but speculation is growing that China questions may be at the heart of the reassessment.
Under the existing terms of the £18bn project, a Chinese company is to finance a third of the new Hinkley Point C reactors and may later build a Chinese-designed nuclear power station in Essex.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36935342
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turgeon urged to commit to end oil and gas production in Scotland
This article is more than 3 months old
First minister says country could join Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance at lowest ‘friend’ tier of support
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/18/sturgeon-urged-to-commit-to-end-oil-and-gas-production-in-scotland
19:35
No intention of fighting with Russia, says Biden
Biden says he has no intention of fighting with Russia – but vows to defend every inch of Nato territory.
He adds that you do not need blood unless you intend starting a war – referring to reports that Russia had been stocking up on blood supplies near the border with Ukraine.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-60454795
“It can no longer raise money from the West,” Biden says.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-60454795
BRICS is an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill coined the term BRIC (without South Africa) in 2001, claiming that by 2050 the four BRIC economies would come to dominate the global economy by 2050.
Channel 4 news “reporter” tonight to Matt Frei: “We know that Trump cosied up to Putin. Just think how much worse things would be if Trump was still President, ”
Frei: “Yes, a sobering thought.”
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I saw this and thought if trump was in charge we wouldn’t be here in the first place or is that just me?
Might not be, might be worse. We will never know.
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After the Russian annexation of Crimea, Ukrainian authorities greatly cut the volume of water flowing into Crimea via the canal, citing a huge outstanding debt on water supplies owed by the peninsula. This caused the peninsula’s agricultural harvest which is heavily dependent on irrigation to fail in 2014.
Feb. 1, 2022, at 10:18 a.m. MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s largest lender Sberbank on Tuesday said it had launched money transfers to Alipay wallets in China using phone numbers.1 Feb 2022
Nihal, Campbell, Robinson, Husain, Munchetty, Barnett….and so many, many more…just do it…jump ship and go where your special brand of ‘journalism’ has so many fellow travellers already ensconced….you’ll be sadly missed…but…
Would be an interesting experiment to get in new people to replace these old, over paid lefties and woke warriors and see how they do…on a far reduced salary.
Maitlis & Co are vastly overpaid for their limited talents….I’m 100% certain the BBC would have no problem finding eager, and effective,recruits to replace them at much more representative wages.
The salaries paid now are, you suspect, not about keeping ‘talent'[fairly obviously not that lol] but more about saying to the world Look at the huge pay they get…they must be brilliant…and they work for the BBC!.
I look forward to new recruiting policy that doesn’t go for ‘names’ but for actual talent and skill and which doesn’t allow the presenters to become fixtures embedded at the BBC and almost impossible to remove….ala Campbell it seems….boy has he outlived his talent.
More shifting around and more perspectives on real life outside the studio….Place them in a factory or in the army or anywhere that challenges the bubble mentality for six months every now and again…not just looking in and watching but taking part, engaging and discovering why people think the way they do…not just watching and judging using the echo chamber mindset learnt from their chums at the BBC…real training and experience that would be invaluable for any journalist.
If the licence fee is there for something then surely that might be it…completely uncommercial but genuine and real journalism coming from real experience and knowledge….which would inform all their journalism.
I reckon that fact check girl would do it for free for fame …. They’ll just ship someone in from Sky or another ex labour politician ….
Sadly think you’re right…it’s like football managers….same old faces, and success has little to do with them…just in right place at right time….in the main.
Get new, outside talent, don’t let them get stale, move ’em around and don’t let them think they’re too big to sack…ala Maitlis.
I used to like Fame, when my daughter watched it. Only token coloureds, not in every scene.
TV advertising is like watching the Black and White Minstrels without the singing and dancing.
Dear Marianna Spring (BBC wages paid under threat of prosecution),
As I’ve had to look at your BBC news and use other sources to determine that your news is not news but selective editorial opinion I’d like to request that I have a refund for the last 4 years plus get the BBC free from now on.
Please let me know how I can go about this as I am willing to create a full list of articles that I’ve had to investigate plus time taken for me to check your fact checker whilst realising that the BBC intentionally removes news rather than incorrectly report on it, uses images to sway opinion or misleads with the main titles hoping no one reads the full article.
‘Omission is the greatest form of lie.’
CAS-4987700-SY1FTF : BBC NewsWatch says boredom with pro-Brexit march.
CAS-4844672-N8FDYY: Update on the MP Expenses 2009 scandal in 2018.
CAS-4939547-J71Z1V: Here’s hoping Ireland do the right thing G.Lineker.
Ant and Dec in drag: ‘This will change LGBTQ+ children’s lives’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-60464528
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China promotes education drive to make boys more ‘manly’
By Kerry Allen
BBC Monitoring
Published4 February 2021
It must be with eternal shame that these two ‘likely lads’ are the best thing that commercial television has produced in light entertainment this century. The BBC and their billions of pounds, even longer.
Ant McPartlin fined £86,000 for drink-driving
This article is more than 3 years old
Saturday Night Takeaway host loses licence for 20 months after entering guilty plea
“They’re showing it’s fun. Anyone and everyone should try drag once in their lives, it’s such a liberating, freeing feeling.
@Marky re “China promotes education drive to make boys more ‘manly’ ..”
That image doesn’t show up on my screen
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/15E8C/production/_116804798_gettyimages-501527826-594×594.jpg
cos the “×” is some special character
If I change it to a normal “x” it works
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/15E8C/production/_116804798_gettyimages-501527826-594×594.jpg
Mid week wartime thread gets going ..
Operation Unthinkable was the name given to two related possible future war plans by the British Chiefs of Staff against the Soviet Union in 1945. The plans were never approved nor implemented. The creation of the plans was ordered by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in May 1945 and developed by the British Armed Forces’ Joint Planning Staff in May 1945 at the end of World War II in Europe.[1]
One plan assumed a surprise attack on the Soviet forces stationed in Germany to “impose the will of the Western Allies” on the Soviets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable