456 Responses to Weekend 12 March 2022 and Start the Week 14 March 2022

  1. Scroblene says:

    Morning All,

    Just chucking it down in Kent, and the dog wants to go for a walk…

    Ho Hum!

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    • BRISSLES says:

      First again ????? what’s the matter, can’t you sleep LOL !

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      • Fedup2 says:

        God – I think I put up this thread while I was asleep ….

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        • Scroblene says:

          I just clicked on here to see what occurred the night before, Fed!

          Like most good citizens, we get all our news online (or Global during the night, for what it’s worth) now, and here is a natural place to start!

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      • Scroblene says:

        Ha ha ha, Brissles!

        Usuall wake up around 4.00, listen to Steve Allen on LBC, or the weekend guys, and New Dog starts to look at her lead soon after!

        Best part of the day really; the early morning’s your oyster (or ‘lobster’ if Arthur Daly gets a word in)!

        And it’s chucking it down again…

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  2. Doublethinker says:

    I first began to notice politics in the early 70’s and I’ve recently been thinking about the number of gigantic lies , often sustained for decades , that I have been told by the political class and the BBC et al.
    Some of the headlines are given below. From each one of these hundreds , thousands , tens of thousands of other lies are told in support.

    The EEC being just a trading block and never any question that it planned to become a federal state.

    Mass Immigration being a good and noble thing which we would all benefit from.

    Global warming

    The Covid pandemic

    The NHS is working for you

    Education,education,education

    The Good Friday Agreement was fair and equable

    There are many others but I begin to wonder if I , we , have ever been told the truth about anything!

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    • Guest Who says:

      Twitter (as in the actual platform) is reliably informing me that it brings ‘news’ from experts and folk on the ground. The location of this ground unspecified, or degree of expertise. Probably Brando sharing a Kviv Royale with a reenergised Sweeney!

      Still, the bbc appears to be at a clay shoot in the Cotswolds.

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      • Guest Who says:

        I see this is a ‘bbc has learned’.

        So the expertise is likely a tip off to Springster who knows stuff.

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        • Guest Who says:

          Sky meanwhile, has ‘understood’ something…

          MSM Editorial Code cracking hardly requires Bletchley Park.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Good news at last.

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        • NCBBC says:

          There now is war hysteria in the Western press, totally out of proportion to the level of the war. Russia, unlike Western war strategists, I think has a political plan. East Russia, including Kiev and Odessa will be absorbed in a Russian province of Ukraine. Leftover Western Ukraine will be given the option of freedom but only as neutral state, and a written treaty that it will not join NATO.

          If Russia wanted to wage was as America does, it could aerial bombed Ukraine to bits. It hasn’t.

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    • Scroblene says:

      Yes, aided and abetted by the BBC, and ITV of course.

      I’ve never understood why an island race such as Britons, now rely totally on imports of such necessities as oil, grain, gas etc, when we could supply all that from our own farms and mines/fracking!

      I have to guess that as politicians are so keen to be involved on a national stage and display their pomp and arrogance, they need to pay the exporters all over the world, something to get themselves noticed.

      The lies you mention above, DT are perfect for the BBC to fiddle about with and confuse normal citizens even further.

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      • Beltane says:

        Perhaps the most significant reason is that so many have been conned into accepting the opinions and propaganda of comprehensively unqualified non-entities, promoted by the BBC.

        As examples, Harrabin, Mason, Monbiot, Rowlatt and Packham are seen as demi-gods whose words are sacred and must neither be challenged nor disputed. Sad, innit?

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        • Scroblene says:

          That’s very true, Beltane.

          Yet another useless ‘interview’ by such non-entities, with several quid in a brown envelope means a lot to small minds – some of them are not the most articulate when facts are concerned, and some certainly don’t understand maths…

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    • NCBBC says:

      Now we have to believe that Putin is mad or evil. He is neither. He is a nationalist, who once wanted Russia to be part of Europe. But that was not in America’s interest. They wanted Russia as enemy to continue the bonanza of Military Industrial complex.

      Now Russia has turned to China. Its huge resources and nukes will be available to China.

      So here we are. We, America, have already lost to China without firing a shot on China.

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    • NCBBC says:

      Tucker: We are at war with Russia

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  3. Guest Who says:

    Member of public checking media cake news?

    Found wanting.

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  4. G says:

    A wonderful graphic of the NHS Waiting Times since 1949. Dire, but remember, anything goes and, importantly, “Welcome Refugees”.

    https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/chart-of-the-week-how-has-the-waiting-list-changed-over-the-years?

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  5. Guest Who says:

    Accuses. Accuses. Says. Needs.

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  6. AsISeeIt says:

    Plonquers edition

    Our formerly patriotic (toward Britain) now jingoistic (in favour of Ukraine) Times newspaper delivers for us this morning a minor classic of a frontpage combo.

    Kyiv ready to face the onslaught‘ – that’ll be the tongue-twisty good score for four odd letters in Scrabble new name for the capital city of the country they keep telling us Putin and his forces are failing to defeat.

    Ukrainian fighters in Kyiv are digging in…

    We cheer on a return to the catwalk trenches for Miss GI Joe Ukraine 2022, styling her traditionally cut two piece foliage patterned combat fatigues outfit, her millinery is kevlar, her boots… ammunition, one pair of… size seven. Her hobbies include knitting, canoeing and working for world peace.

    One wonders what sort of message we’re sending here? I’d be more confident of Kiev’s chances of fending off the Ruskies at the gates if the Times pictured for us a crack squad of those skin-headed Azov Brigade fanatic chaps, we sometimes hear of, guarding the trenches.

    We in the West seem to have taken at face value all those Holywood movie trailers promoting the super-masculine fighting capabilities of the likes of comic book character Wonder Woman… or Mulan.

    The Times food feature just happens to be titled: ‘The most delicious cheese recipes. Ever‘ – I had to smile at the juxtaposition.

    There’s more… ‘Richard Spencer finds dark humour and optimism among volunteers, including a guard called Roman Polanski, preparing trenches in the Ukrianian capital‘ – Oh, what a lark. A casual reference to the child sex abuser, art movie director and US-exile still on the run unpunished after all these years. Ask around if by any chance they might also have a soldier named Boris Savilensky?

    New fears for Queen’s health‘ – threatens the Daily Mirror. Now right there we have a real life heroic woman who has actually earned our respect. She hasn’t just dressed the part.

    In the Telegraph David Hare muses: ‘I wish Thatcher was in charge‘ – you and me both, mate.

    Spare a thought for poor Ed Balls the former New Labour minister: ‘What’s a woman? In my house, it’s someone who doesn’t cook‘ (Telegraph) – how droll. Making light of the fact Labour went all in for International Women’s Day this week – without being able to define what or who precisely it was they were promoting.

    However, the peculiarly named Olia Hercules in the Guardian suggests we: ‘Cook for Ukraine

    In the same organ Simon Armitage has for us: ‘A poem for Ukraine‘ – how can they lose?

    I imagine I hear the faint but rousing strains of the La Marseillaise about to spur the lefty-liberal EU-loving troops into the breach oncemore, putting fresh a dose of new grit and soy in their stomachs: ‘Macron savages UK for not making refugees welcome‘ (Guardian) – En garde! The little corporal has spoken. Pas de charge! Petit pois – as Del Boy Trotter might exclaim. Plonquers!

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  7. Flotsam says:

    One of the main reasons for Governments importing foreign companies into Britain was to provide jobs for their voters. I don’t know if Labour were more active in this area but wouldn’t be surprised if they were. Large subsidies, cheap land and Rate free periods were donated. Hence the large foreign owned car plants etc. It’s never been a level playing field for our own businesses who have to pay through the nose for everything

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  8. Guest Who says:

    Seems Wendy’s Unit has been given special dispensation by bbc HR to recruit blondes still.

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    • NCBBC says:

      My Jihad – Taqqiya. Taqqiya and Kitman.

      Our corrupt lying media has turned the most cruel war based ideology- Islam, into a Religion of Peace. But that’s a lie. Islam is Islam. Sooner or later the dagger will be at your throat. It already is, as the rapes continue while authorities do nothing.

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  9. Thoughtful says:

    https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/i-didnt-believe-could-pregnant-23363588

    Complete fantasyland the state the liberal Left have taken our country to. But this insanity caused by total decadance of having nothing better to worry about is about to change as the effects of the Ukrainian invasion bite and the sanctions effects as well.

    With a Prime Minister fully engaged in a bubble of fantasy absolutely nothing is being done to combat the coming catastrophe that will hit Britain.

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    • brexiteerkent says:

      Unbelievable .. Back in the day this would have been a ‘Sunday sport’ fictional headline !

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    • NCBBC says:

      The sanctions will hit the West with higher fuel prices. We will be hurt. But Russia will profit as they can sell the oil at a much higher world price to a ready market. China and India for a start.

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  10. G.W.F. says:

    A matter of priorities

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    DMKM
    @2paisay
    You won’t regret watching this short video #Ukraine

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    • StewGreen says:

      GWF that is the same Twitter video twice
      They don’t show up on my screen
      but your repost below does show it once

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      • G.W.F. says:

        StewGreen
        I really tried with this one Complete failure. Sometimes I get it right, mostly not.

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  11. StewGreen says:

    BBCsaturdaylive has Paul Merton on
    bragging about how diverse @BBCRadio4 is

    FFS @BBCRadio4 diversity = same lefty London mates
    all the time
    @RevRichardColes @acatherwoodnews are the presenters
    Are they not London and lefties ?

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    • StewGreen says:

      Then there is a pile of tweet about Saturday Live from different theatres
      “Paul Merton is on Radio4 Saturday Live
      He will be at our theatre on X Day of X month”

      #BBCdoesHaveAdverts

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  12. G.W.F. says:

    A matter of priorities

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    • StewGreen says:

      At the end The war torn refugee asks
      “Is cannabis legalised in Britain ?”

      Reporter: “How many civilians are still stuck there?”
      “Are you OK”
      Ukrainian: “I smoked weed four twenty”
      “Is cannabis legal in Great Britain?”

      (It’s the Sky reporter who sounds like she’s on drugs ..speed.
      the live footage is from March 5th)

      ===============

      He mentions doing a circle
      I think he means when on a journey and you come to a town which is under occupation or attack,
      you end up walking a big semi-circle around the outside of the town and back to the road on the other side.

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  13. Nibor says:

    Is that one of the refugees that Delia Smith and Macron want us to take in ?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Hey let’s import a drug dealer …. Maybe she should have asked “ anyone speak English and don’t take drugs ?” Lol

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  14. BRISSLES says:

    Accidently turned on Beeb, and it was a report by someone with a voice like Tinkerbell, reporting on a village in Yorkshire that is twinned with a village in Poland who are taking refugees into their homes, SO yes, you can guess what’s coming next. ‘we’re not doing enough,- we should be doing more’ da de da di dah! and of course there was the background accompaniment of a twinkly piano .

    (that twinkly piano player must be overwhelmed with work lately)

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  15. Fedup2 says:

    I accidentally turned on The Week in Westminster ….. strangely it didn’t mention the Shaming of Berkow – perhaps he is still celebrated by the swamp ….

    … instead they had that Pete Bottomly -‘father of the house ‘ explaining why MPs should be paid Even More … he compared them to ‘high court judges ‘ and ‘professors ‘ for the skills they need …..
    … I’m sure Jess and Diane … and Lammy and …. And … so many dummies … would appreciate such a comparison ….
    …. Apparently the poor politicians who leave their seat might find life hard afterward – no wonder if they have pay their own bills … I
    … I choked on my coffee —- my point – there was no alternative view – no ‘kelvin mckenzie ‘- to talk about the bribes and freebies these character get – all within the rules ( they wrote ) of course .
    This rant won’t end …

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  16. Jeff says:

    Nothing to do with the BBC, but (hopefully) of some interest to those oldies like me…

    This afternoon on the Horror Channel (69, I believe) they’re showing re-runs of that sixties classic, The Prisoner.

    I absolutely loved this when I was a lad, without, I must confess, ever fully understanding it.

    For those who haven’t seen it (not many on this site, I’d wager) it’s a sort of cross between 1984 meets Brave New World, with more than a smidgen of sixties kitsch thrown into the mix.

    The Village is the name given to the area our hero, the rugged Patrick McGoohan, is taken to. It’s entirely authoritarian, where all rules are obeyed without question and bovine compliance is a way of life. Is it my old memory playing tricks or did the inhabitants stand on their doorsteps clapping every evening at a certain hour? Perhaps not…

    Anyway, if you’re interested, it starts today at 1pm.

    Be seeing you…

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    • moggie63 says:

      Thanks for that. I was too young to see it first time round and, although I’ve seen bits, I’ve never managed to catch it from the beginning. Let’s see how well it’s aged.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Cheers jeff – I’ll drop a tab ( whatever that is ) and see if I can understand it this time – that final episode – no spoiler alert ….

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      • BRISSLES says:

        I remember we all wanted to know where it was filmed !!! and where could we buy a Mini Moke !!!

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        • harry142857 says:

          Filmed at Portmeirion. You can stay in some of the houses used in filming ( at least you could pre-covid).

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          • BRISSLES says:

            Yes, my brother stayed there, and brought me back a car window sticker of the Penny farthing logo !!! At least my car is now easier to spot in a huge car park. lol !

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  17. Deborah says:

    Friday night 10pm BBC1 news had at least three calls for there to be a no-fly zone over Ukraine. One of the people was a Ukraine doctor in Ukraine who was being interviewed, one was Rita Chakrabati and there was a third, although I now forget who.

    I don’t know the rights and wrongs of introducing a no-fly zone over Ukraine and I don’t know whether it increases the chance of the war spreading to other countries or whether it will stop the Ukraine war. It is a difficult enough decision for the politicians and the people advising them. What it doesn’t need is the BBC, through its editors making decisions on which interviews to show, and its newsreaders making constant pleas, affecting the decision. I assume that the BBC’s ‘view to take’ supporting a no-fly zone is based on their constant desire to attack Boris. If Boris doesn’t get involved with the no-fly zone then he personally is blame for all the death and destruction in Ukraine; if Boris does lead on a no-fly zone and the war gets worse, then he is personally to blame too. And if the war extends to the UK, then the BBC types will all flit to their country cottages and consider that as long as they are outside London they will be OK.

    By the way, I am worried about Jeremy. Admittedly I am watching very little BBC at the moment but I haven’t seen anything of Mr Bowen since he was lying breathless under a hedge whilst Ukraine people walked casually at the back of the picture. Have I just been lucky enough to miss his reports? If he has only done the one, was it worth flying him out for?

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    • G says:

      Putin has declared that Western nations supplying sophisticated arms to Ukraine is an act of War. Strangely enough that same principle doesn’t seem to apply to Turkey who is supplying the Bayraktar TB2 drone to the Ukrainians which is proven to be devastating to Russian armoured vehicles. Strange that.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        G
        I don’t want to be an Archair General ©️ But I guess that supplies of weapons from NATO ( us ) to the Ukrainians doesn’t involve NATO assets going directly into Ukraine – thus giving a potential for ‘exchange ‘ between NATO and Russia ….

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        • G says:

          Fed,

          If countries supplying weapons is now seen as enemies of Russia and bearing in mind that Turkey is a member of NATO, I’m afraid I don’t see the point you are making. The Migs that Poland could supply are not NATO surely?

          However the Russians are killed, a weapon causing that is a weapon no matter where it comes from.

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          • Fedup2 says:

            The migs would have been painted Ukrainian – I’m talking about direct human action .

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  18. digg says:

    Reading the western media for the last couple of weeks re Russia has made me start to recall Orwell’s 2 minutes of hate…

    This US guy sums up far better than me…

    https://stephenlendman.org/2022/03/08/orwells-two-minutes-of-hate-goes-24-7/

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    • digg says:

      Tucker at Fox has some quite scary comments re Biden’s performance, what is really going on and how it is going to impact the entire planet in due course….

      https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-damage-president-biden-russia-ukraine-putin

      Some worrying trends. 2022 v 1939…

      A national catastrophe (covid – dust bowl) followed by US financial meltdown (Wall street crash) followed by wars and land grabs in Europe (Poland – Ukraine)….. followed by …..WW2 – WW3?

      Looks like the World is going to pay for his incompetence in due course.

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  19. G.W.F. says:

    Unite Against Fascism
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    Nigel Farage ‘net zero’ rally at Bolton Wanderers’ stadium cancelled following fan backlash. Good on all those Wanderers fans who raised their voices.
    Join us on National demonstration – March Against Racism – UN Anti-Racism Day 2022

    So Nigel – the Waaaycist – was cancelled when he booked Bolton stadium for his rally against Net Zero and campaign against green taxes and expensive energy costs. The SWP Trot fronted (David Cameron supported) Unite Against Facism are delighted that Farage will not be allowed to speak at the Bolton ground. Waaycists oppose Net Zero eh.

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    • StewGreen says:

      UAF Unite Against Fascism seem to act line BULLIES (mini-fascists) spreading HATE
      #Ambushnaming #PRtrickery

      I hope they put all their union-funded preprinted signs in the bin
      instead of leaving them scattered all over the pavement like they usually do.

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      • theisland says:

        There’s a new venue – now under attack by the dimwits (at least on twitter).
        Speaking of dimwits, does Louise Raw still work for the bBC?

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        • StewGreen says:

          Raw’s most recent bbc Radio London slot was Feb 13th, it seems
          .. https://twitter.com/LouiseRawAuthor/status/1492845850703405057

          She wasn’t on today
          – Gregg Kofi Brown from Afro rock band Osibisa on the band’s upcoming London gig and celebrating over 50 years
          – Author John Davis chats about his book ‘Waterloo Sunrise’ documenting London transforming from a ‘swinging city’
          – Carla Mitchell on the new exhibition ‘Photographing Protest: Resistance through a feminist lens’.

          Ha Raw tweets “2024 will see an incredible exhibition on centuries of Black music in Britain at the @britishlibrary”
          .

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  20. StewGreen says:

    2:45pm Radio4 repeat from Jan 2021
    39 Ways to Save the Planet
    More Power from the Sun
    *Solar energy is cheap and clean*,
    but it could be better. Tom Heap discovers how.

    #FakeNews #Greenblob #Propaganda

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  21. StewGreen says:

    3pm R4 David Jason drama set in Covid times
    The grandfather is taking care of the daughter (come back from army duty in Afghanistan, with one leg)
    .. the daughter is in India cos its her husbands homeland
    .. Johnny Vegas appears
    Nurse appears … Black African accent (Jennifer Saayeng)

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  22. StewGreen says:

    GBnews ..Darren Grimes show was on
    but the sound was out of sync with the picture.

    BTW There are hundreds of anti-Tory twitter accounts that support Labour
    that are very hatey.
    eg smear people as “Gammon”
    and smear GBnews as “KGBnews” etc.

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      Stew:

      There are no enemies on the left, so these accounts are safe. Only conservative views are unacceptable to the Big Tech leftists.

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  23. Rob in Cheshire says:

    “The Apprentice, You’re Fired” only had the one token BAME panelist this week, as usual a comedian you’ve never heard of. This week’s was an obese Moroccan woman in a headscarf. However, the two fired candidates were both BAMEs, so that made 3 out of the 6 people taking part. For the BBC, I suppose having 50% BAMEs is about right.

    I also caught a new “sitcom” about a witchfinder in England in 1645. Not very funny, but it’s a BBC sitcom, so not the place to go if you are looking for laughs.

    I was struck that a large percentage of the villagers were played by black, Asian and Chinese actors. Would a village in East Anglia in 1645 have been ethnically diverse? Of course not, they aren’t diverse now!

    I find this shoehorning of BAME actors into historical dramas offensive to truth. It is as if we are being airbrushed out of our own history. Before 1945 Britain was 99.9% white, a fact which seems to offend BBC snowflakes, who never miss a trick in imposing BAME characters into Victorian, Tudor, or even Norman Britain. Clearly, the only people whose history does not matter are the white British.

    Keep digging your own grave, BBC.

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  24. Guest Who says:

    BBC gets them while they are young.

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    • moggie63 says:

      Perhaps also 10-plus kids each?

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    • Guest Who says:

      Some say the BBC is obsessed with race.

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      • Guest Who says:

        There’s a thing.

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        • Nibor says:

          “ Petty misdemeanours like not paying your TV licence “ .
          Oh I thought what I had been doing for fourteen years was serious . At least , that’s what the trees that were chopped down to make paper that they printed on to threaten me implied .

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      • Foscari says:

        Guest Who- This image is just the default position
        on the BBC with public imaging on their website. It is
        the equivalent of the adverts we see now on TV.
        The most ridiculous aspect of it is ,that the BBC
        could scrap the license tax with commercial
        advertising on their channels. BIG BROTHER from the
        diversity department would be in a perpetual
        orgasmic state showing us adverts with black dads
        and white mums . Then the only thing missing from
        the BBC would be what we see every minute on a live
        Sky football match “SAY NO TO RACISM”. Surely we
        could see this flashing , on say the News programmes or even
        “Eastenders” or ” Strictly” or in fact any programme?

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    • G says:

      GW,

      Our World famous State Broadcaster could have, at least, told the population which town/city in Africa these brilliant ‘students’ live……….

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  25. Guest Who says:

    BBC gives Pidgin and Portuguese.

       5 likes

  26. Guest Who says:

    Ex BBC Newsnight, I believe.

    Like so many.

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  27. Richard Pinder says:

    CENSORED BY THE BBC: US FUNDED BIO-WARFARE LABS IN UKRAINE

    Confirmed by Victoria Nuland, the US Embassy in Kiev, and this state department treaty document https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/05-829-Ukraine-Weapons.pdf

    The Russians say there are 30 labs, and the Chinese say there are 26 labs.

    The US Embassy in Ukraine had links to 15 labs. https://thewashingtonstandard.com/1-day-after-reporting-on-us-biolabs-in-ukraine-us-embassy-scrubs-all-ukraine-bioweapon-lab-docs-from-website-video/

    Bobby Kennedy Jnr said Wuhan and elsewhere. Elsewhere: https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2022/03/10/biolabs-in-ukraine-a-smoking-gun-not-fake-news

    One state department document says that a lab near Odessa has the most deadly virus of all, the gain-of-function Q-Fever virus. This coincides with the most advanced penetration into the Ukraine by Russian forces to the outskirts of Odessa. So if the Russians bomb the lab, then we can blame the Russians for being the bad guys in causing a “REAL” pandemic.

    The CIA started up its operations in Ukraine because Obama banned gain-of-function research in America. The CIA agent Michael Callahan laundered money to Ukraine through Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, to perform bioweapons research in China, the Ukraine and 28 other countries under the CIA project called PREDICT. According to the Chinese, the US funds 336 gain-of-function labs throughout the world. For further details. See page 396 of Kennedy’s book: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-real-anthony-fauci/robert-f-kennedy//9781510766808 and this investigation: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/07/investigative-reports/darpas-man-in-wuhan/

    The inventor of the mRNA genetic vaccine, Dr Robert Malone, said he received a phone call from Wuhan, on 4th January 2020, from CIA agent Michael Callahan, saying that the Covid-19 virus had “magnificent infectivity”

    The World Health Organisation advised Ukraine to destroy ‘high-threat pathogens’ in the country’s public health laboratories. China has requested that UN inspectors should be sent to the labs in the Ukraine. The UN Security Council convened on Friday at Russia’s request to discuss the claims.

    The Fakestream Media and the BBC Fake News & Real News Censorship service, say its fake news from Russia, and should be banned in future by an online harms bill. Also the BBC says that Children, Hospitals and Children’s Hospitals are the real targets for the Russian Invaders.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Richard
      I was watching the Fox News coverage .
      They were wondering why the US hadn’t closed the labs before putin invaded …

      … but the lab story is a case study in obfuscation – eg – they were originally Russian labs which were taken over by the US at the end of the USSR …
      … or that the labs were not exercising bio security ….
      Variations on the truth – ideal to avoid blame should the Russians use bio weapons – which they will blame on the Ukrainians / accidents …

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      • Richard Pinder says:

        The best news is that despite being at war with each other, Ukraine and Russia are still negotiating a cease-fire and peace agreement. But the problems with the Ukraine becoming a neutral buffer state are in the US Embassy Biolab documents (https://newsrescue.com/is-usa-really-scrambling-to-delete-evidence-of-ukraine-bioweapons-program-web-archives-expose-million-dollar-project-records-being-deleted/) and on Hunter Biden’s Laptop. (https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/how-one-ukrainian-billionaire-funded?s=r)

        So that’s why the Biden Administration are not very enthusiastic about the negotiations for a cease-fire and withdrawal agreement. As Edward Snowden said about talking to his CIA boss. His boss said that if you wonder why the CIA don’t do intelligent things? Then follow the Money. The Ukraine was made a stinking rotten corrupt hellhole by the CIA, Clinton, Biden, Fauchi money laundering Swamp.

        As with Finland and Austria, a neutral buffer state agreement with Russia would still allow it to be economically linked to the West. The only thing that is unreasonable is that Russia insists that the Ukraine should be demilitarised. This is unreasonable because Austria and Finland are independent sovereign states with the right to have military defence forces.

        I think the mainstream media idea that the Russians are focusing on destroying hospitals and killing children is media manipulation of the public, and in line with the opinion of the Antichrist. But the most remarkable fact is that this Antichrist Big Pharma profiteering by producing and releasing viruses from the same labs that are used for solving the manufactured problem with a Vaccine solution, was predicted in the “Three Secrets of Fátima”

        In Bobby Kennedy’s book, he shows us that Anthony Fauchi has the personality of an Antichrist. The Antichrist owns the BioLabs which produce the problems that the Antichrist solves with Vaccines. The Russians invade to take the BioLabs as God’s punishment.

        THE THIRD SECRET OF FATIMA: Revealed in 2015:

        Our Lady of Fatima told the three children that it will be Russia that will be God’s instrument of chastisement to punish the world so as to help those of good will to repent, to do penance and to change their lives before meeting the Justice of God after death.
        https://web.archive.org/web/20181006121444/http://spir-food.blogspot.com/2016/10/russia-will-punish-world.html

        The Roman Catholic Bishops of Ukraine have asked Pope Francis to “consecrate” Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, “as requested by the Blessed Virgin in Fatima,” to bring an end to the current conflict. https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/catholic-bishops-in-ukraine-urge-pope-francis-to-consecrate-russia-to-our-lady-in-line-with-fatima-request/

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  28. StewGreen says:

    BBC evening news
    Newsreader – a lady
    Sports presenter – a lady
    Local Newsreader – a lady
    Local weatherman – a lady
    National weatherman – a lady
    The BBC will feel deep shame … cos they were all white.

    Into Charity Mastermind presented by Clive Myrie

    4 “celebs” only recogniise the half Chinese comedian Phil Wang
    Two white women ..an actress from Motherland,
    And the actress who placs CBBC’s tracey Beaker ..specialist subject .. Drag queen : Ru Paul .. FFS
    One white man ..a potter

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  29. Guest Who says:

    Tragic.

    Can’t help but notice the one pictured is still a female blonde.

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  30. Edited Highlights says:

    Unfortunately tuned into some of the BBC coverage of the war. The Beeboid confirms without the feintest hint of irony nor an atomic modicum of self awareness that Russians largely get their news from the state run media so are unaware of the truth! They never said whether Russians are forced to pay 150 quid to be told everyday there is a climate emergency or that using the wrong gender pronouns is the biggest issue facing the world today. Meanwhile back to the narrative. Britain just isn’t doing enough to help refugees – with another 200,000 expected on top of those coming from the Afghan and the overnight ferries from France it would be a City the size of Liverpool coming here just this year. No one allowed on the ‘discussion’ to suggest any of this might have an impact on renyachess, schools, transport, the welfare system…..

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  31. Guest Who says:

    Is such a term not a firing offence?

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  32. Guest Who says:

    Sopes gets deep.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      Thought it was called moral relativity ? I.e. Saudi keeps reliably giving politicians multi millions after they leave office.

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  33. StewGreen says:

    Mark Dolan just quoted himself rom a few months back
    ‘we should not be spending huge money on covid cos that imposes a huge bill on the children
    and they might need that money ..say if there was a future war’

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Seems like the chancellor doesn’t favour spending more borrowed taxpayers ‘ money on Defence – I wonder if he is as out of touch as the outgoing Home Secretary is ?

      I actually don’t get it . The thing joe public want to see is Ukrainian women and children getting off the rescue plane at stansted as well as more tanks being ordered to hold back the Russian hordes on the NATO borders …

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  34. theisland says:

    https://news.sky.com/video/ukraine-war-sir-keir-starmer-says-hed-be-willing-to-show-support-to-ukrainian-refugees-12564104
    Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer indicates he’s willing ‘play his part’ in supporting Ukrainian people, such a hosting a refugee, as the government is set to announce a scheme to allow individuals to apply to take in those fleeing the war.

    I suggest he takes this one.

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  35. Nibor says:

    As The Island points out , the wokes , gramscians , senior civil servants and possibly even the Tory party fess up and acknowledge that there are genuine refugees and asylum seekers and bogus refugees and asylum seekers .

    Then do something about it .

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    • Guest Who says:

      BBC QT panel pitches coming thick and thick…

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      • moggie63 says:

        I’d make trip even more worthwhile by filling the boat with illegals for the outbound journey.

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  36. brexiteerkent says:

    ‘£350 a month to house a refugee family but critics say the plan falls short ‘
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60724111

    ‘ No cap on refugee numbers ‘
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-60722616

    Whilst still taking any who arrive on a dinghy ( and then any families they later bring over or ‘women from home’ they ‘marry’) and anyone from anywhere in the world who has a vague family connection with anyone already here.

    This is madness. We are already beyond full.

    I fear for the future … and wonder where the next war in a country caused by racial division and competing for resources might be …

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    • Guest Who says:

      All my rellies North of the Border scattered about are Glasgow based or scattered about from there. Medical field or local authority. Oodles of kids, and visiting each other. Diesels to a man, woman and student.

      The new council rules seem fun.

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  37. pugnazious says:

    When Brexit supporters criticised Soros for using his billions to interfere in and corrupt the referendum and the election in 2019 the BBC launched a campaign to vilify those critics calling them anti-
    semitic…and in fact lumped most global billionaires in with him as ‘Jewish’ as the BBC also tried to defend globalisation…any criticism of this was apparently anti-Semitic as well…never mind most, and very vocal and aggressive criticism, had always come from the Left.

    The BBC playing to the old trope about Jews running the world…but doing it with the best intentions….lol.

    ‘Why is billionaire George Soros a bogeyman for the hard right?’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-49584157
    ‘He’s a Jewish multi-billionaire philanthropist who has given away $32bn. Why does the hard right from America to Australia and from Hungary to Honduras believe George Soros is at the heart of a global conspiracy, asks the BBC’s Mike Rudin……though he’s used his fortune to fund thousands of education, health, human rights and democracy projects.’

    ‘Given away’?…..no, targeted his billions where he thinks he can buy influence and power in order to shape societies to his liking.

    Curiously the BBC is more than happy to savagely attack Abramovich….Jewish and citizen of Israel.

    Whereas Soros was a ‘philanthropist’ giving away his billions to help others Abramovich was a far-right Jewish extremists using his billions to help Jewish occupier settlers [surely ‘undocumented migrants?] steal land from lovely Paletinians…

    ‘An investigation by BBC News Arabic has found that Russian oligarch, Roman Abramovich, controls companies that have donated $100m to an Israeli settler organisation.

    Elad operates in occupied East Jerusalem. By allowing settlement activity in the area Israel is considered to be in breach of international law. Israel disputes this view.’

    LOL…BBC Arabic….not exactly known for its impartiality….even more anti-Israel than the regular BBC.

    Abramovich is a staunch supporter of Israel, Soros isn’t. The BBC ardently defends Soros but savagely attacks Abramovich over several years.

    Odd huh?

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    • Lefty Wright says:

      Pug
      Just maybe Mr Soros and the BBC share a world view and I think we all probably know what THAT is.

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  38. Guest Who says:

    QT panel and audience sorted at least.

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  39. AsISeeIt says:

    Oligarch mansions edition

    £350 a month to house a refugee at home‘ (Sunday Times)

    £350-a-month thank you for giving refuge. Caring Brits urged to house Ukrainians in their darkest hour‘ (Sunday Express) – sounds generous, but where’s the extra couple of hundred quid we’ll need to pay the gas bills?

    Sunak to release more cash… set of further interventions to tackle the cost of living crisis‘ (Sunday Telegraph) – on the basis that he’s running a big deficit what Rishi means to say is that he will be borrowing more money. Which will lead to more money chasing less supply of goods and services, which will create more inflation, which will worsen what the Telegraph dubs the cost of living crisis.

    The small number of lateral thinkers among the small audience who read the Sunday Times may note the frontpage prime advertising spot goes to: ‘Jupiter Asset Management‘ whose copy – rather ominously – reads: ‘Central banks can’t print gold and silver

    The Russians and the Chinese, however, have amassed a healthy pile of those precious metals. While we in the West put our faith in the paper dollar and the witchcraft which is modern monetary theory.

    Having presented myself something of an open goal of a segueway there I could link to: ‘Sheppey witch Charlotte Clark accepts Nicola Sturgeon’s apology but says it’s been ‘a long time coming’… Nicola Sturgeon’s apology for deaths more than 450 years ago”(Kent Online) – but as I find myself reflecting rather too often these days – it’s getting beyond satire.

    Putin wipes out entire city… governer says Volnovakha no longer exists‘ (Sunday Times) – few Brits – as the Express likes to call British people (see above) will have known it ever had existed.

    The Sunday Mirror doesn’t fly the Ukrainian colours at its masthead – as does the Express – but its motto: ‘We are with you‘ is a nice catch-all multi-purpose virtue signal.

    In fact the Sunday Mirror goes with racing colours – or silks as they are known – at the top of the frontpage: ‘Cheltenham. A Brit special. All the top tips and star names‘ – there we go again with that abbreviation Brit. About the only nationality one is allowed to abbreviate these days without being accused of a hate crime. Although one senses the Russians are fair game. Speaking of bad speak: ‘Anne Hatherway on the trolls who nearly broke her‘ (Sunday Mail)

    Anne Hathaway Net Worth: $80 Million… She is one of the highest-paid actresses in the entertainment industry, and her films have grossed over $6.8 billion globally‘ (thank you Celebrity Net Worth) – not quite broke, then.

    Hugh Grant has been in the news: ‘Hugh Grant issues F-bomb response to Nigel Farage after net zero referendum campaign announcement‘ (Independent) – you remember Hugh… he was in that famous British rom-com called… what was it now…? Oh, yeah, “Five Kids and a Prostitute

    I mean: “Four Weddings and a Funeral” – that other thing was his real life.

    Volunteers to sign up online with sponsored Ukrainians vetted “in days” promises Gove‘ (Telegraph) – this one has website crash on launch day written all over it. So when the IT is fixed and once the Government gets a notion of the scale of who has spare bedrooms – do watch out for the new Bed Room Taxes coming down the line.

    Vetting refugees before housing them? That’ll be a first for Border Force.

    Happily, we’re all good guys. In contrast with those characters played by David Mitchell and Robert Webb in their skit where a couple of World War Two German soldiers notice skull badges on their hats and realise “We’re the baddies” – you know, those nasty symbols of the 1930s and 40s bad guys. Like you occasionally notice on the uniforms of the Ukrainians in this present flair up. But remember, us in the West are the good guys because we have the rainbow insignia.

    Because when all said and done, we’re fighting for the rule of law, protection from arbitrary State action and legal due process here in the west: ‘Gove: seize oligarch mansions to house refugees‘ (Mail on Sunday)

    I think I once visted Oligarch Mansions… it was run by the National Trust, or was it English Heritage..? Or am I confused? Was it still in the family and run by the eleventh earl who had put in a gift shop, safari park and paint ball adventure war zone in the grounds?

    The Sunday People leans Left – so they don’t want to big up any blow hard Torys shooting their mouths off over Ukriane. Instead we have: ‘Novichok victim… Charlie Rowley, whose lover died in the Russian poison outrage in Wiltshire‘ – appealing for us to: ‘Take in a refugee‘ – how refreshing that the working class Sunday People term his girlfriend his lover rather than the more PC and often confusing term partner. Know your readership and speak to them in their language is a fine journalistic lesson learnt. But do the working class audience of the paper have that many rooms to spare for refugees in their oligarch mansions?

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    • Guest Who says:

      Family meeting deadlocked.

      Me and the lads keen on a blonde squaddie of babeosity.

      Missus less so.

      All agreed that the vetting process needs checking, and not by the military. Given their efforts in the recent past.

      And Hawaii back in the day.

      Betting the gated communities, Gary’s gatehouse and MP second homes are assigned the au pair grades first.

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  40. Guest Who says:

    Lewis, back in the studio, feeling left out.

    Nothing to contribute, so hits Twitter.

    https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1502930904766898177?s=21

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    • Guest Who says:

      What Lewis knows, vs. what he writes folk have said.

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  41. pugnazious says:

    The ‘Bogeyman’, or fallguy, of the moment…depending on what your narrative is.

    Today it’s Abramovich whose purchase of Chelsea changed the whole of football entirely…for the worst says the BBC.

    Seem to remember that all too often the BBC thought that Sky was the devil-incarnate for buying football and ploughing in billions to steal if from the real fans….of course what really got the BBC was Sky taking football from the BBC.

    Campbell was in full-on attack mode as he launched savage attacks in Abramovich for being linked, in some way, to Putin…the ‘mass murderer’ as Campbell repeatedly called Putin.

    Of course Abramovich made his fortune under Yeltsin, hero of the West, and what’s he supposed to do when Putin takes over?…gotta go with the flow….just as so many businesses here would have continued under Commissar Corbyn had he got in.

    Campbell made a disgraceful attack on some poor woman who worked in the offices at Chelsea….didn’t she feel there was anything wrong working there? Campbell putting the Ukraine invasion at her feet….blood on her hands! Will he be buttonholing Frank Lampard for his part in the invasion?

    Of course the BBC were over the years more than happy to give mass coverage of Chelsea’s games and internal wranglngs….no pious boycott of that for some reason.

    Are BBC sport reporters to blame for the invasion as well…complicit in mass murder?

    I think the Oligarchs are a sideshow and of little importance….the Left and BBC hate them purely because they are rich….and note how they are all groupe din together as uniquely evil supporters of Putin when that’s just not true.

    Putin will not care one jot about what happens to the Oligarchs…going after them is pious grandstanding by people who know an easy target when they see one and one that gets them a lot of brownie points. However, demanding the EU stop the flow of Russian gas and oil seems to be something they are not so keen to make a whole lot of noise about.

    Note the contrast in the BBC’s coverage….when the EU takes in so many refugees in comparison to the UK the BBC can’t stop mentoning the EU…but when a Ukrainian minister criticises Britain for not instantly stopping Russian oil coming here the BBC trumpets his words but forgets to mention the EU’s huge purchases and the fact that they say they won’t be able to reduce such reliance until 2030.

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    • Jeff says:

      There are a host of the usual political pygmies and media whores making a lot of capital out of Abramovich’s fall from grace…

      I was watching Farage the other evening when he asked Theo Paphitis (you can get ointment for that) about the treatment being dealt to the former Chelsea chairman. “It’s not harsh enough” blustered the Greek billionaire, “there are women and children dying.” Yes, it’s absolutely tragic, but how is this Abramovich’s fault?

      Apparently he’s friendly with Putin…I’m guessing you would be if you were Russian and wanted to get ahead, while keeping your own head in place. Until very recently the entire western world was trying to suck up to Putin. Most of our leaders have been out there, metaphorically bending the knee to the diminutive dictator.

      This attack on Abramovich ticks all the boxes for these pathetic little men. Chris Bryant, the ghastly, gay, Labour MP said, “We gave him two weeks warning-plenty of time to scurry like a rat.” Bryant really is a nasty, venomous, spiteful little creature, he makes my teeth itch.

      Some of these media gobshites are unhappy that Abramovich hasn’t unequivocally condemned Putin. Would they? It’s all very well being brave when you’re safe and protected in Blighty, but he still has family in Russia. What might happen to them?

      All we’re seeing now in the media giving us two minutes of hate.

      This is led by nasty, bitter little men like Bryant and vile, old warmongering reptiles like Alistair Campbell. Campbell FFS!

      People must have very short memories if they’re listening to the bloke with the dodgy dossier.

      Pot and kettle comes to mind…

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      • Guest Who says:

        The MSM seems to cycle Bry and Lame constantly.

        Speaking of cycling, be funny if Bry gets issued a Gazan roofer who has a tow hook on his moped, and Dave a wounded Azov Brigadier.

        A female one.

        And Vile gets a tank driver.

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      • AsISeeIt says:

        “… asked Theo Paphitis.. about the treatment being dealt to the former Chelsea chairman. “It’s not harsh enough” blustered the Greek billionaire…” – ask him the one about the Elgin Marbles?

        “Until very recently the entire western world was trying to suck up to Putin. Most of our leaders have been out there, metaphorically bending the knee to the diminutive dictator” – true, I’m afraid:

        In one of his earliest new foreign policy initiatives, President Obama sought to reset relations with Russia and reverse what he called a “dangerous drift” in this important bilateral relationship. President Obama and his administration have sought to engage the Russian government to pursue foreign policy goals of common interest – win-win outcomes

        The White House
        Office of the Press Secretary
        For Immediate Release
        June 24, 2010

        Obama put down to Romney – US Presidential debates when the Republican candidate said that Russia was America’s main geopolitical foe. “You said Russia. And the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back. Because the Cold War has been over for 20 years”

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  42. Guest Who says:

    The Failure, desperate media home of Pip Le Gateau and Karl Maguire, takes a new tack…

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  43. StewGreen says:

    Belfield says John Campbell was forced into 2 apologies.. establishment figures shouting “gotcha” at him on Twitter.

    Yes at the start of his new video https://youtu.be/EASM6EzCVeg
    he says
    #1 You know I discussed that paper that concluded Invermectin works,
    I’m told that it’s been withdrawn, so my mistake we have to disregard it, and all that I said
    but the amazing thing is, that if we go to the paper’s website, it says nothing about it being withdrawn, that’s very peculiar.

    #2 I discussed the Pfizer vaccine document listing the side effects, it’s been pointed out that is actually a list of things to look out for .. so my error there.
    .. He then goes into talking about another guy who does list the actual side effects.

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  44. Guest Who says:

    Death and taxes are life inevitabilities.

    Tears and isms, anywhere, are bbc ratings lifeblood.

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  45. pugnazious says:

    The BBC keeps on telling us that the EU has dropped all visa requirements and asks ‘Why can’t we do the same?’

    Actually the EU has a long standing agreement with Ukraine that they need no visas to come into the EU…..most Ukrainians don’t want to come here and would rather stay closer to home in countries they have links to….and the reason Poland takes in so many refugees is because…er…it’s right next to Ukraine…unlike Portugal which takes how many? Not many so far…and they don’t know how many they will take…so not an open door…

    ‘Asked about the maximum number that Portugal can accommodate, she said she did not yet have a number, stressing that the country is working with the European Union on the distribution of quotas by countries.’

    Interesting to hear some balanced ‘expert’ opinion on the BBC about refugees in comparison to the emotive lobby groups who demand we just throw open the borders….admittedly it was in the safe-zone of the middle of last night when the BBC hopes no-one will be listening.

    It is important, we heard, to register and identify every refugee so that they can get the help they need and the protection they need…especially children….and Portugal seems to have pretty much the same sort of policy as us….

    ‘The minister also pointed to the increase in the SEF’s screening capacity to ensure the security of the entire process, namely the teams sent to the Warsaw and Bucharest consulates to strengthen the means and facilitate the screening of people in order to activate the mechanism of protection.

    Regarding the necessary security check on arrival, she said that, in cases where people do not bring identification documents, this check can be done, for example, by witness evidence, “similar to what happens when you go to vote”.

    She explained that only after SEF has checked security and given the green light is the person allowed to remain in Portugal.’

    The presenter actually wanted to know where these people will be housed….the Afghans are still in hotels at a cost of £1 million per day. A question no-one can answer. And of course, we’re told, it’s a disgrace that the Afghans are in hotels…..they don’t want to be there….hmmm…OK…send them back to the shitholes they lived in before in war-torn Afghanistan…ungrateful ******.

    The BBC is of course once again on the campaign trail for refugees and migrants….they make the case for allowing in ‘refugees’ unchecked and then when they’re here then we can identify them…knowing full well that this is an open door for every migrant to come here and claim to be Ukrainian or a ‘student’. When this is checked and found to be false will they be chucked out of the country? Hell no. The BBC knows this and is basically trying to exploit the Ukrainian crisis for its own ends.

    Absolutely riveting and fascinating, lol, to hear Delia Smith’s opinions on the refugee crisis as she came onto Today to plug her book….it’s the well-used, tired old trick the BBC employs to get its own message out using ‘celebrities’……wheel in a celeb to talk about their book’ play or film and then ask them about the Iraq War or now, Ukraine. The BBC trying to use their fame and popularity to push a certain narrative…one they know that all Celebs will voice…in this case Delia telling us we must let in all Ukrainians now!

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    • G says:

      Pug,

      ““similar to what happens when you go to vote”.

      What vote is that then? Maybe US November 2020 style?……..

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      • pugnazious says:

        Sorry G…gonna have to cancel you for your suggestive approval that ID cards might be a good idea when voting…you’re such a racist.

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  46. Guest Who says:

    As ever, issues are aired by brain donor pols and of color and not of color media with no possibility of nuance.

    Shunting millions around the globe is unsustainable on just about any basis, economic, integration, etc. Though clearly a wheeze grasped by the cynical sending them, or causing them sent. And assured the media will assign pressure as required, with exceptions.

    And the media is excellent at assigning, especially through convenient prisms.

    Dec 7 saw most US fighter defences destroyed because they were lined up against domestic protestors.

    Subsequently, perceived problematic groups were rounded up and put in internment camps.

    Now, of course, this is beyond the pale. Every movie has an aged hero of East Asia who was in such a camp.

    Trouble is, triage is messy, and bad calls can get made, or possibly only calls at the time can be turned into bad ones by cynical types who thrive on creating divisions.

    Types like opposition pols. And their media PR remoras.

    Could we take in a small family? Yes. Would we? Maybe. Are we? Not until this whole thing gets assessed sensibly.

    A genuine refugee mother/child family from a border camp, properly vetted by folk not indoctrinated by or afraid of targets or isms is a distinct possibility. So long as sensible time periods are laid out for their benefit and ours. And we are vetted too.

    Getting sent some teenage explosives expert from Calais or the Med keen on stuffing his puffer jacket with local fertiliser supplies before hitting the music venues, or simply bitching to BBC Shires about their menu or the WiFi… no.

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  47. taffman says:

    “Ukraine war: UK households offered £350 a month for hosting refugees”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60724111
    How about putting them up in 4 Star Hotels ?

    This Government along with its Home Office is not fit for purpose.
    It cares more for foreign people than it does for its own people. MPs are merely well paid, Wet Virtue Signallers.

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    • pugnazious says:

      Full of Afghans.

      The BBC somehow reluctant to mention the 100,000 Chinese that have come here recently when Bors threw open the borders for the Hong Kongers….asking no-one in the UK if that is what they wanted….potentlially 3 million Chinese migrants.

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  48. pugnazious says:

    ‘Cookies help us remember you and show you more things we think you’ll like.’ BBC iPlayer

    Facebook changed the world…for the worst.

    Facebook ‘fuelled anger, conflict and upheaval around the world!’

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000846b

    How did it do this? By looking at what you look at and then suggesting news items on similar subjects that might appeal to you. This creates bubbles, echo chambers, dangerous polarisation and bunkers of ignorance and prejudice where people all think the same and have their convictions and opinions confirmed by other like-minded souls.

    Hmmm…sounds just like religions, or political parties or indeed like newspapers….if you read the Telegraph you’re labelled a right wing potential fascist. So nothing new there….and indeed th BBC gathers data on us as we watch and read….

    ‘Cookies help us remember you and show you more things we think you’ll like.’

    The BBC using that data to, er, send us more of what we like and thus reinforcing our bunker mentality and limited world-view. The BBC is of course the biggest echo-chamber out there with the vast majority of it’s employees having the same lefty, woke mindset all plugging th same narrative.

    But apparently it is Facebook that is the ‘ENEMY OF DEMOCRACY’ as the BBC tells us. It allegedly highlights extreme views as these are the most eye-catching and popular and thus generates hate speech, disinformation and polaristaion. Facebook, apparently ‘whipped up’ hate against Rohynga Muslims in Myanmar…was that facebook or people using Facebook? And was it hate or perhaps a natural reaction to the atrocities carried out by the Rohyngas and their attempts to annex part of Burma and turn it into a Muslim state?

    I suppose we could equally compare the BBC’s actual reportng on Israel….deliberate and considered reports by BBC correspondents damning Israel at every turn whereas facebook is purely a plarform for others to use.

    The BBC has whipped up anti-Israel fervour and thus driven anti-Semitism around the world.

    The BBC also encourages Black extremism and anti-White venom as it floods the airwaves with stories that tell Blacks they are always victims of white racism and that every thing that is wrong in their lives is due to mailicious white people. This is an extremely poisonous and dangerous narrative that the BBC peddles…one that serves only to create hatred, division and conflict…and ironically apartheid with society split along racial lines due to identity politics being exploited for the Left’s own ends. Good old BBC.

    The BBC, which tried to overturn Brexit, to unseat a US President, and is even now trying to evict the British PM from No10, is the real enemy of democracy. It is the most dangerous organisation in Britain.

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  49. theisland says:

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  50. StewGreen says:

    Mar 5 : Trudeau: “we see a bit of a slippage in our democracies.
    Countries turning towards slightly more authoritarian leaders.
    Countries allowing increasing misinformation and disinformation to be shared on social media”
    ..Are there no mirrors in his house ?

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