497 Responses to Midweek 16 March 2022

  1. vlad says:

    The West needs a strong and decisive leader like never before.

    Instead we have Biden, who’s morphed from simply a bumbling crook to completely doolally in a few short months.

    Listen to his audience laughing and clapping like trained seals.

    While the msm and the Beeb cover for him.

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  2. theisland says:

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  3. Guest Who says:

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  4. Guest Who says:

    Killing people is bad.

    Removing trash is… complicated.

    The BBc does like to blur issues.

    Often for ignoble reasons.

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  5. Guest Who says:

    Guess the questions the bbc downplayed?

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    • richard D says:

      Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s sister-in-law has claimed that it will be nice for her and her family to get back to being an unknown family again…..

      ……gawd – yes, please ! Let’s not be subjected to hours of BBC (and other) TV programming fawning over this family any longer – but somehow, I can’t see obscurity being in their nature.

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      • Peter Grimes says:

        Kay Bully will need a second incontinence pad in her Spanx tomorrow, methinks.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Yeah come on – the motion picture – starring Emma Watson as the Iranian – that bloke who played Sherlock as the tedious husband …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) advise British-Iranian dual nationals against all travel to Iran.

      https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/iran

      Iran does not recognise dual nationality. If you are a dual British-Iranian national and are detained in Iran, the FCDO’s ability to provide consular support is extremely limited. See Safety and security

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Amazing to think that nice picture of a nice lady with a nice smile is worth £400 million ….

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  6. Guest Who says:

    Now, this… is a national treasure.

    Bury it deep.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      Boris Johnson is also a security risk if we should be concerned about Corbyn who isn’t Prime Minister we should be cr*ing ourselves abour the bottler.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      TOo little too late. What idiots!

      Hamas are our friends (c) Corbyn

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    • MarkyMark says:

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  7. Guest Who says:

    Like Justin Trudeau, via the medium of… #prasnews

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  8. Guest Who says:

    BBC goes full invoke.

    Never go full invoke.

    #CCBGB

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  9. Guest Who says:

    BBC Breakfast bidding?

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  10. StewGreen says:

    BBC local news ..some weird mixed edition without the normal reporters
    seems to be based in North Yorkshire not Hull

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    • StewGreen says:

      Local sports news item, female Muslim refugee cricketer.
      “We went back to my country and my mum had a big car accident
      … I get discriminated against cos I am a woman playing sport in my (Muslim) society”

      Note how the BBC report has added her photo as his own profile background

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Sport in ISlamic countries is HARAM! HA HA HA HAH!

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      • StewGreen says:

        OK her family moved to a refugee camp in Bangladesh from Myanmar
        In 2014 she went back to the refugee camp to visit her grandmother.
        That’s when the car accident happened.
        So it is not the case she went back to where they fled from.

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    • StewGreen says:

      It’s due to a fire alarm they say
      .. https://twitter.com/looknorthBBC/status/1504164729538940932

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  11. StewGreen says:

    BBC local enviro reporter
    promoting that the best way to appreciate the countryside is in a large group with your own religion only and mostly your own ethnic group.

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    • Northern Voter says:

      Somebody told them that the dinghy queue starts at Settle sur Seine.

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    • Lefty Wright says:

      Stew
      The next time go walking in the British countryside with a group I will remember Paul Murphy’s advice i.e.only to walk with white Christians. It’s a deal Mr Murphy and when I am apprehended by the thought police I will tell them where I obtained my advice. Not that it will make the slightest difference because they are as woke as you are.
      If only WOKE meant EYES OPEN WIDE but WOKE actually means
      BLI– sorry– visually and mentally impaired.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Even for China, where companies have struggled with race issues in their marketing previously, the latest inflight magazine from the country’s flagship airline will likely come as a shocker.

        Air China’s Wings of China carries a long feature on visiting London, with almost a third of the magazine dedicated to tourist attractions in Britain’s capital and other famous towns such as Oxford. The main article, titled “London the city of ‘hat tricks’,” covers Brits’ apparent fondness for all kinds of hats.

        Then, after a section on transport options and lifestyle and cultural activities in London, Wings of China offers some “Tips from Air China.”

        “London is generally a safe place to travel, however precautions are needed when entering areas mainly populated by Indians,Pakistanis and black people,” China’s flagship carrier advises. “We advise tourists not to go out alone at night, and females always to be accompanied by another person when traveling.”

        https://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/07/air-chinas-safety-tips-for-london-visitors-may-raise-eyebrows.html

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Prayer Mats?
      Only Muslims need appy?
      3 hide in Bately?
      Meh!

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    • Doublethinker says:

      The amount of litter in the countryside increases year on year.

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  12. Thoughtful says:

    More dangers of a nuclear exchange today, as Putin being an ex KGB officer often speaks in a way which has to be ‘interpreted’.

    There are four conditions for a nuclear launch:

    The 2020 doctrine presents four scenarios which might justify the use of Russian nuclear weapons:

    — the use of nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction against Russia or its allies;

    — data showing the launch of ballistic missiles aimed at Russia or its allies;

    — an attack on critical government or military sites that would undermine the country’s nuclear forces response actions;

    — the use of conventional weapons against Russia “when the very existence of the state is in jeopardy”.

    And that last one is the troubling one, because as Putin is intimating together with the sanctions is putting the Russian state in jeapardy.

    So who has authorisation to loose these missiles?

    A 2020 document called “Basic Principles of State Policy of the Russian Federation on Nuclear Deterrence” says the Russian president takes the decision to use nuclear weapons.

    A small briefcase, known as the Cheget, is kept close to the president at all times, linking him to the command and control network of Russia’s strategic nuclear forces. The Cheget does not contain a nuclear launch button but rather transmits launch orders to the central military command – the General Staff.

    One man who appears to be becomming increasingly stressed and desperate at the situation in Ukraine, and given his most recent statements appears to be attempting to fulfil that last condition for nuclear release.

    The UKs early warning system would of course detect an incoming strike, but there are no air attack warning sirens, instead the UK proposes to switch all mobile devices to receive only, and send every single device a text message telling of an attack. All well and good until the first bomb goes off and wipes out every base station and mobile device with an EMP burst, and if the attacker is Iran or North Korea, that’s probably all they would have, any subsequent attacks would not have any early warning given.

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    • Lefty Wright says:

      Thoughtful
      Surely, under normal circumstances a nuclear strike by any nation would mean the destruction of all. BUT if we are to accept that President Biden is not mentally quite up to the job then just maybe President Putin will chance his arm.
      I’m inclined to thnk that common sense will prevail,after all
      who wants to die prematurely?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      But Thoughtful – what if puttypoot fires off a ‘theatre ‘ nuclear weapon and tells NATO ‘this was a one off – no offence ‘ as opposed to the intergalactic mega launch stuff you describing …
      … I’m asking because I don’t know and out of fear …

      In the moment going from brightest light ever to life ending blast I’d just like to know ….

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      • Thoughtful says:

        Well here’s a little history / Russian culture background that the media aren’t telling and the first part makes it all kind of blindingly obvious once you hear it.

        Kyiv Kiev once pronounced Kieve is the ancient city of the Kievan Rus the people who founded Russia itself.
        The city of Kiev holds a kind of sacred place in the minds of Russians as the mother city of Russia itself:

        https://www.rbth.com/history/326434-kiev-as-mother-of-russian-cities

        Highly unlikely therefore the Russians are going to flatten this special city with a tactical Nuclear bomb.

        When you look at the other cities they aren’t great sites to do that either, being too close to the Russian border, or provinces with large Russian speaking populations, the others are just too close to NATO borders to risk such a weapon.

        Fallout is only controlled by the prevailing wind of course, and Putin and his general staffs strategy has been so dismal it’s almost been erratic and abnormal, so what might appear to be a sensible considered approach might end up with the complete opposite.

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  13. MarkyMark says:

    “We have found a way to make the payment in full, in compliance with UK and international sanctions”

    Foreign Secretary Liz Truss says £393.8m of debt to Iran has been paid “which will only be available for humanitarian purposes”

    ………………………………………………………………………………………..

    “…and don’t you worry. It’s coming to a place near you…we cannot have state subsidized preachers…give it up or give it to your deadliest enemy and pay for the rope that will choke you.“

    https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/06/30/that-big-shining-lie/#comment-848918

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  14. MarkyMark says:

    From order-order.com

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  15. MarkyMark says:

    Mark Steyn: Ukrainians still in country ‘willing to fight’
    2,269 views16 Mar 2022

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  16. digg says:

    It looks like Biden is heading towards being the first Democrat President in US history to win the Presidency for the opposition.

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/16/poll-republicans-lead-democrats-on-top-issues-7-months-away-from-midterms/

    Right now the Republicans and in particular Trump only need to sit back and watch him and his ugly hangers on destroy the USA.

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    • G.W.F. says:

      Biden did nothing in the last election but he won. The days of honest elections are over.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        GWF
        Yes I agree – but a lot of people seem to think it’s ‘business as usual ‘ and that elections will be fair and proper … Obama / Biden knows that if he can pull it off once – next time is just as easy … as well as cut out the stuff which might have got then caught in a fair fight ( mobile phone traffic – multiple voters after their cash – hooky computers )

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  17. Thoughtful says:

    Emmanuel Macron is seeking to clarify Frances position on the Russian invasion of Ukraine via Social media, put more simply he is sounding the retweet !

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  18. Thoughtful says:

    The Nobel prize comittee has announced it is considering awarding this years prize for medicine to Vladimir Putin , for his work in single handedly wiping out corona virus in Europe in just three weeks flat !

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    • Lefty Wright says:

      Thoughtful
      That’s fake news. The truth is that Vlad has only wiped out the MSM coverage of THE FLU for a while. Oh well, a change is as good as a rest as THEY say.
      Nobody yet has let me know exactly who THEY are .
      Could they be by any chance the same people that the media reporters used to refer to as “sources”?
      Or is Mr Sources dead?

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  19. MarkyMark says:

    Shhhhh 81 ….. shhhh …..

    The number dwarfed the 67 executions reported in the kingdom in 2021 and the 27 in 2020.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/12/saudi-arabia-executes-81-people-in-a-single-day

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  20. MarkyMark says:

    Saudi Arabia loses vote to stay on UN Human Rights Council; China, Russia and Cuba win seats
    PUBLISHED WED, OCT 14 2020

    https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/14/saudi-arabia-loses-vote-for-un-human-rights-council-seat-china-russia-win.html

    Saudi Arabia lost a bid to keep its seat on the 47-member UN Human Rights Council, the body which describes itself as “promoting and protecting all human rights around the globe.”

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  21. StewGreen says:

    The Ukrainians are making a remarkable claim
    that the Mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov has been freed from Russian kidnappers by Ukrainian special forces.

    The evidence is The President of Ukraine @ZelenskyyUa speaking to the Mayor by video chat.
    .. https://www.twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1504164932488765451

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  22. MarkyMark says:

    KIDS BBC THREE…

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree

    Drag Race UK vs The World winner: ‘Drag Race helped me find my queerness’

    Conversion therapy: ‘You think you’re cursed’

    Giving up alcohol in the LGBT community: ‘I like this version of me better’

    If you kill a partner who has been abusive, is it murder?

    Tia Kofi on Eating With My Ex: ‘LGBTQ+ dating can be a minefield’

    ‘Wild, loud, glamorous’: Drag cultures around the world

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  23. Zephir says:

    We were told by George Orwell and again 50 years ago…lyrics provided at bottom of screen:

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    • Lefty Wright says:

      Zephir
      The Who were an extremely popular band during the 1960’s British Cultural Revolution the results of which we are now suffering.
      However, the fairly recent published comments by Roger Daltrey about Brexit lead me to hope that all is not lost.

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      • Zephir says:

        One of those “beat combos” no doubt ?

        FYI:

        In 1990 Townshend was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Who. he received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award as a member of the band; and in 2008 he received Kennedy Center Honors. He was ranked No. 10 in Gibson.com’s 2011 list of the top 50 guitarists, and No. 10 in Rolling Stone’s updated 2011 list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.

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        • BRISSLES says:

          They were the real hell raisers ! all these rapper idiots ‘pale’ into insignificance in comparison. Moony was as bonkers as they come, and self destructed in the end. They don’t make ’em like that anymore.

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          • Zephir says:

            “The ‘orrible ooh” as they were known in the business, with the added novelty factor in this video of the first time the drummer was the least drugged onstage…

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  24. MarkyMark says:

    MP’s message to Nazanin’s daughter: ‘Mummy really is coming home’

    MP’s message to Nazanin’s daughter: ‘Mummy really is coming home’
    Close
    Labour MP Tulip Siddiq has given a welcome home message to her constituent, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is returning home after being held in Iran since 2016.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-60772311

    ……………..

    19 August 2019, received £500 from the Orwell Foundation, Institute of Advanced Studies, Wilkins Building, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, for chairing the judging panel for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. Hours: 30 hrs between 1 December 2018 and 25 June 2019. (Registered 12 September 2019; updated 27 September 2019)
    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=25344

    …………….

    Name of donor: Teatulia UK
    Address of donor: 1st Floor, 7-10 Chandos Street, London W1G 9DQ

    Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Ticket to watch World Cup cricket match, including lunch, value £358.80

    …..

    19 August 2019, received £300 from the Orwell Foundation, Institute of Advanced Studies, Wilkins Building, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, for chairing the judging panel for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. Hours: 30 hrs between 1 December 2018 and 25 June 2019. (Registered 12 September 2019)

    Name of donor: The PCAA Foundation
    Address of donor: PO Box 4015, London W1A 6NH

    Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): return Eurostar, one night’s accommodation and food; £500

    Destination of visit: Paris

    Date of visit: 7-8 October 2015

    Purpose of visit: delegation of MPs with the APPG Against Anti-Semitism to discuss the rise in anti-semitic incidents across Europe and debate best practice in dealing with these issues.

    (Registered 01 December 2015)
    ….
    Until June 2015, flat in Dhaka, owned jointly with a family member (Updated 18 June 2015): (i) (Registered 05 June 2015
    ….
    Tulip Siddiq’s selective attacks on foreign leaders
    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/tulip-siddiq-s-selective-attacks-on-foreign-leaders

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  25. MarkyMark says:

    Dunstable school suspends teacher over Bin Laden image
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-60556110

    A teacher has been suspended after using a picture of terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden in an attempt to portray the Prophet Muhammad in a Religious Studies lesson.

    All Saints Academy in Dunstable said it recognised the “deep hurt and distress” caused to Muslims by the use of a “totally inappropriate” image.

    The Church of England school issued an “unreserved and sincere apology”.

    It added there would be a “detailed and swift investigation”.

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  26. MarkyMark says:

    1.Main points
    UK general government gross debt was £2,223.0 billion at the end of the financial year ending March 2021, equivalent to 103.6% of gross domestic product (GDP).

    UK general government deficit (or net borrowing) was £323.9 billion in the financial year ending March 2021, equivalent to 15.1% of GDP.

    The general government gross debt and deficit figures published here (for 1997 onwards) are fully consistent with those published in the Public sector finances, UK: August 2021 statistical bulletin on 21 September 2021.

    https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes/publicspending/bulletins/ukgovernmentdebtanddeficitforeurostatmaast/june2021

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  27. StewGreen says:

    9pm BBC2 Tonight’s Amol Rajan interview
    Sharon White
    parachuted from Civil Service to head John Lewis

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    • StewGreen says:

      Amol’s interview from last week

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    • StewGreen says:

      Also at 9pm
      ITV medialand metroliberal Johanna Lumley (In Paris, one item at a women’s right’s March)
      Channel4 medialand metroliberal Sandi Toksvig with her friend Sara Pascoe
      BBC4 Judi Dench film

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      • StewGreen says:

        Oops those programmes were served up on Thursday night
        not Wednesday like I said.
        I’d turned over two pages in the TV guide.

        Wednesday night ITV served up ” the hilarious new comedy, Kate & Koji
        An asylum seeker and a cafe owner form an unlikely friendship”

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    • Thoughtful says:

      A favourite of the Socialist Tories and a complete diversity monster. Appointed to the position by prominent Tory Sir Charlie Mayfield. Ever since the partnership has ben in decline closing stores, but apparantly this is a success for Socialists because it hasn’t yet ended in total disaster.

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    • andyjsnape says:

      I take offence to using “white” as the surname

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  28. StewGreen says:

    Is the BBC antifracking ?

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  29. Northern Voter says:

    They’re right you know, they have no future without fracking. Headline should read “How many numpties does it take to hold up a poster?

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  30. Foscari says:

    It’s really great watching football on Skysport. Every 30
    seconds you see ” SAY NO TO RACISM” flashed up on
    the screen. I suppose we are lucky that the BBC cover
    hardly any men’s league football. Women’s sport is
    their default position. I don’t watch the women’s rugby.
    But do they flash up B LM every 15 seconds? Do the women
    take the knee before a netball match on the BBC?

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  31. StewGreen says:

    ITV local news
    2 anti fracking items after the Ukraine refugee opener
    video expires after 24 hours

    #1 “refugees are not the only way the war is affecting our region
    FEARS that fracking is unsettling residents of Misson near Doncaster”
    The protesters were allowed to make all kinds of barmy claims without challenge “

    …Item featured Starmer’s barmy video statement today ..as mentioned above.

    Item #2 ..Parliament
    Lee Anderson pro fracking question
    Ed Milliband anti-fracking speech

    Reporter ends “There are FEARS that could open the UK up to fracking again”

    Why top and tail the item with the word “fears” ?

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  32. StewGreen says:

    Why did the ITV journo retweet Tulip Sadiq on Nazanin and not the government ?
    https://twitter.com/harry_horton/status/1504086306837696519

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  33. StewGreen says:

    ITVnews on air pollution

    In the past 24 hours cars and windows in the southeast and other parts of the UK have been covered in a dust that’s flown all the way from the Sahara Desert.

    Not here in the morning ..then all afternoon we’ve had rain

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    • MarkyMark says:

      This is a good example where Greenpeace have used a figure ’40K deaths’, but the interviewee says it’s ’40K premature deaths’. But they don’t say that it’s lives cut short – i.e. pollution takes say 30 days off live expectancy.

      Andrew Neil vs Greenpeace – Air Pollution (car crash interview)

      Take a figure which shows shortened life expectancy (which is hard to determine because obesity etc), total these bits up (days) and convert it into a single person’s life (this is the bad maths bit) then use it in a term ’40K premature deaths’ and then remove the ‘premature’.

      So you end up with driving your car to work is killing 40K people a year – think of the children’s lungs @2:18 . Won’t anyone think of the children!

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/10/18/mid-week-open-thread-129/comment-page-2/#comment-874534

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  34. StewGreen says:

    2 months to release an Asian looking photofit ?

    Detectives have released an image of a man they would like to speak to after another man was raped in Manchester city centre while walking home from work.

    The victim is said to have been attacked in a fire exit within an underpass by another man off London Road on Monday, 31 January 2022, between 4am and 5am.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      And no description of him at all, no clothes accent or anything, but GMP are under Burnhams control, yet another thing he and Socialism have wrecked.

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  35. tomo says:

    Hasn’t the slimeball transferred to ECIU yet?

    1.6 magnitude?

    “bomb”

    F’ing bollocks – even for the fwitz at the DM

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  36. BRISSLES says:

    Oh, goodoh ! we’re now being shown the plane that is bringing the hostages back from Iran. I’ve never seen a plane before.

    Egg on face time, ha ! ha ! ooops it it NOT the plane bringing them in at Brize Norton.

    Can’t stand the excitement. Am off to bed.

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  37. taffman says:

    “Migrant crossings: More than 400 people cross Channel in small boats”
    Anyone notice that headline hidden away on Al Beeb ?

    Message to our Tory Government & Home Office : We are full !
    It’s going to cost us a lot of money , and thats before the arrival of the Ukrainians

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    • G says:

      Taffman,

      I’d prefer them to come clean and admit they want the Social Security teat Suckers in the country and then tell us why.

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  38. vlad says:

    The Imbecile is facing catastrophe at home and abroad, but has nothing better to do than pass laws banning the sharing online of compromising nude images of friends and family.

    In other words, he’s protecting his criminal, crack and whore-addicted son.

    “I bet everyone knows someone this has happened to…”

    No Joe, we don’t all hang out with crooks, prostitutes and crackheads.

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  39. Fedup2 says:

    Happy St Patrick’s’ Day

    The I reports that there are those in Washington questioning the sanity / judgement of President Putin . Lord God I love the irony that we have two ‘world leaders ‘ with their mad finger on the button .
    We re doomed doomed !

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  40. Flotsam says:

    It appears that Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the House of Commons, is abandoning the idea of being independant. I’ve noticed.he is allowing longer and longer rambling “questions” (statements) from Smarmer and opposition members. Yesterday, he cut short an answer from Dominic Raab the deputy PM saying it was “ancient history”. It’s the first time I’ve ever heard a Speaker intervene in that way. It’s surely up to the PM or deputy to decide what reply they make.

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  41. andyjsnape says:

    Preston man detained for Army veteran’s one-punch death
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-60755609

    Some foreigner kills old man, very sad
    Import the 3rd world and become the 3rd turd

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  42. Fedup2 says:

    Not that I care – but the BBC is painfully distancing nut nut and the government from anything to do with the freeing of the spy from Iran .
    The dodgy labour mp – named after a flower? Is charging onto every media outlet to crow… and we are faced the an MSM blitz cum the weekend of those ‘my ordeal ‘ £ stories from the re united couple .

    But main lesson ? If you want 6 years locked up overseas try going to spy in Iran …

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  43. Thoughtful says:

    Quite clear this morning that even the Daily Mail is acutely aware that the paying of a £400 million ransom to free a silly BAME woman from captivity with our enemy is highly unpopular. Comments are being moderated across all stories and only the very few positive ones are being allowed to make the boards.

    Quite scandalous that decades of British policy not to pay ransoms, and over 50 years of not returning this money to Iran has simply been trampled over by Red Boris in his desire to free a single woman.

    Not quite the same for the White male captives in countries of the UAE though is it. Boris is showing he is every bit as Left wing as his mucker Jeremy Corbyn, and I seriously doubt that Kier Starmer would have pulled a stunt like this.

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  44. MarkyMark says:

    Ukraine Invasion – Russia to give North to Belarus, East Russia to keep, South Ready for Chinese Belt and Roads!

    China-Belt-and-Road-Initiative-map.jpg

    png-transparent-ukraine-natural-resource-map-field-natural-minerals-world-map-bodenschatz.png

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  45. Flotsam says:

    Isn’t Angela Rayner appalling? Every word she utters comes from the Marx book of quotes from the class War. Does she put the accent on or is it natural?

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    • Thoughtful says:

      Perhaps someone can also comment on why anyone who sends Rayner an Email she doesn’t like is prosecuted, while death threats to politicians perceived to be on the right are left uninvestigated.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Given her obvious handicap it is the only thing keeping her on the front bench.

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    • Northern Voter says:

      I read that as “appealing”, and I thought I’ll have a pint of what you’re having.

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  46. MarkyMark says:

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  47. MarkyMark says:

    Ukraine war ‘will be painful’ for EU food and farming, Commission official warns
    European Commission expects lasting disruption to trade in grains that feed Europe’s massive meat and dairy industry.
    https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-commission-warns-of-major-food-and-farming-impact-of-russia-ukraine-war/

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  48. Up2snuff says:

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – you know you can trust the BBC ….

    … to get things wrong! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-60736370

    Memo to anonymous BBC author: starlings are not rare.

    Marsh harriers are rare

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  49. Flotsam says:

    I think Raab should have sat down and refused to carry on with PMQ’s. He has the absolute right to reply as he sees fit, the Speaker was out of order and does not have the right to “moderate” Raab’s or Boris’s replies.

    Coming to BBC’s coverage, I noticed Laura Keunsberg wasn’t on the panel to promote the BBC’s opinion.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Flotsam – I think comrade Hoyle got fed up with what nut nut did last week by referring to the last Labour government – so long ago
      However Raab had a right to refer to the recent past where Ange supported a traitor – Corbyn – who wanted to end defence and the security services…

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  50. MarkyMark says:

    With two of Ukraine’s biggest neon producers halting production, chipmakers could expect disruptions in the long run.

    The global semiconductor industry is at risk of being adversely impacted by a neon shortage.

    It comes after Reuters reported that two Ukrainian companies, Ingas and Cryoin, have halted production following the invasion of the country by Russia. Ukraine is a significant supplier of neon and Ingas and Cryoin account for anywhere between 45pc and 54pc of the world’s total neon output, according to Reuters calculations.

    https://www.siliconrepublic.com/machines/ukraine-neon-shortage-chip-semiconductor

    Ukraine produces roughly 25% of the world’s neon, which is a byproduct of steel manufacturing, according to Bernstein Research. Large semiconductor manufacturers such as Intel or TSMC typically store two to three months of the gas, and there may be as much as three months worth of neon moving through the supply chain.6 days ago

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