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“The National Museum Wales has launched a ‘charter for decolonising’, promising it would ‘identify collections linked to colonial aggression and the transatlantic slave trade’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10621849/Woke-storm-brews-steam-train-exhibit-Swanseas-National-Waterfront-Museum-slave-trade.html
Taffland has gone bonkers on Woke !
Not on Al Beeb ? ………..Yet
Can they inflict their views onto the Island of Sodor ?
I mean Thomas The Tank Engine seems an innocent form of locomotive. He knows his place and being a racist seems beyond that . Gordon and Henry might feel high and mighty but their hauteur seems to be because they are main line express locos not because they’ve joined the Monday Club .
Annabel and Clarice the carriages seem more interested in the way they are shunted about , rather than the veracity of the Bell curve .
The Fat Controller seems a bit too indolent to even take up racism.
All in all I think an interest in steam engines is more for the ‘anorak ‘ enthusiasts rather than neo Nazis and regression to racial politics.
Doesn’t Welsh culture come from the way British tribes were pushed into Wales to escape ENSLAVEMENT by the invading Romans ?
Thus Welsh is an original language from Southeast England
Taffman
It really does make one wonder what at got into the heads of these people . Do they think expunging history means it never happened ?
Looking back from where we are now vast numbers of people – of all colours and origins – had a pretty bad existence – slavery – feudalism – the work house – low life expectancy – but should that all be denied or made into a league table of suffering or wrongs ? No .
As I said, “Bonkers Woke”. Well , they will soon wake up because I think the worm is beginning to turn. It would turn a little faster if Nadine Dorries did her job .
A few tweets.
Now, states snagging folk hostage is well out of order.
That said, buggering off to dubious locations seems odd fir any caring parent.
And for one the media have consistently portrayed as under the cosh, looking pretty sharp all things considered.
Hope all involved feel it was worth it.
Hi Guest, I’m still waiting for a comment of support from MI6
One could say the bbc have already chosen the new fully box ticked James Bond.
Free range, halal veggie smoothie please, shaken not stirred.
With the theme tune payed on a sitar as she foils another evil Tory attempt at organising a cheese and wine party and thows William Rees Mogg out of a train carriage after a scuffle.
Then off to invite Miss Moneypenny to an LGBT nightclub for some seafood delights.
‘Bangladesh jails overburdened by political prisoners’
International Crisis Group says criminal justice system is politicised and dysfunctional, a claim that Dhaka denies.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/4/11/bangladesh-jails-overburdened-by-political-prisoners
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BBC settlement with Diana’s secretary was mentioned earlier
Belfield reckons it’s millions
.. https://youtu.be/nc6G3NTpqFY
He says he will reveal Comic Relief scandal
Watching Chris Mason on Newsnight it is apparent that the BBC are actively pushing an agenda of crap. Why they feel it is necessary for Mason to wear headphones talking to someone else in the same room also wearing headphones is totally bizarre and can only be for some sort of visual effect, it was like watching a student media exercise.
The BBC have now entered the realm of sensationalism previously occupied by the lurid daily papers like the Sun.
Mason comes over like a total twat spouting things his floor manager has briefed him with,
So people in London were wearing headsets
like they do in the Newscast podcasts.
Whereas Kirsty Wark was sent to the US to stand in the street, with no face microphone, so numerous viewers complained they switched off
cos all you could hear was street noise
“Just a shocker. Bring back @maitlis.”
BBC Selling books .. that is all …
Will the BBC ask any awkward question to Comey … NEVER … we must be nice … where did you keep your illegal notes on Trump and Hillary … your Government secrets ….
View image on Twitter
TONIGHT: @maitlis is live from New York. She sits down with @comey and asks whether the president has anyone sensible around him to stop impulsive behaviour? #newsnight at 22:30 on @BBCTwo
For OB shockers, this is hard to beat.
Even with sound off.
QAT’S GOT THE DREAM Man Utd legend Gary Neville says we have to accept Qatar World Cup despite continuing issues in the country
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/10573813/man-utd-legend-gary-neville-qatar/
Alastair Campbell had Iraq dossier changed to fit US claims
This article is more than 12 years old
‘WMD in a year’ allegation halved original timescale after compilers told to compare contents with Bush speech
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/jan/10/alastair-campbell-iraq-dossier-inquiry
A Mason at Newsnight? Happy days.
Maybe he can do a Toenails and have it rotating around his head?
Reeling in the audience.
Mebbe get Paul and the one at the ‘left -leaning’ IFS to bolster the numbers………………….
Main BBC headline ‘Protests and no ferries after mass P&O sackings’.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60779001
Read through it, those poor workers who get sacked by a mega corporation, some worked there years
What’s missing from the detailed story that probably people would like to read about? ( Surely they are not doing the omission tactic and only telling people half a story? ) Yeah they left out the fact that these sacked wore replaced almost immediately by cheap foreign labour, https://www.gbnews.uk/news/nigel-farage-slams-po-ferries-people-who-voted-brexit-voted-for-better-than-this/250479 BBC people want the truth so they can make their own minds up you compete bstards
In 2006, the P&O Group, including P&O Ferries was sold to Dubai-based DP World (wiki).
Blair was PM 1997-2007.
Starmer’s tweet “If the Conservatives had introduced stronger employment rights, as Labour proposed, they would never have been able to get away with it.”
here
This idiot old blonde summarises the Labour/BBC/Remain nexus of weevils.
Not his best.
May get him a Vile slot.
Typical bbc quote.
Zero sensible content.
1400+ raped kids is progress?
Barry Gardiner has £500K to invest donated by China.
To illustrate how insane MSM is, Tim Pool just referenced this 2018 Huffpo tweet.
Then by coincidence Digg above mentioned Newsnight doing crazy stuff.
Newsnight did bring up the idea that Covid is sweeping through the UK.
..that does seem credible from what I am seeing.
I always thought it would be great to have Covid, and then have some degree of natural immunity.
Instead of always being afraid it’s around the corner.
Some say it’s God’s punishment …
Smite the good smite……..
Roger Trousers de Pink reviews The Bible, the collection of short stories by literary enfant terrible God.
One could, if one’s concentration slipped for a second, become lost in the sheer historical scale of what must surely count as a magnum opus, three thousand years in the writing and going from the dawn of time to the Roman occupation of Israel and on to events yet to come.
And what events! This sizzling potboiler runs the gamut of human experience, from deception, jealousy, murder, incest, prostitution, slavery, war, genocide, child murder, adultery, idolatry, and more death and destruction than you’d find in an Arnold Schwarzenegger film, all set to a background and leitmotiv of a history of the Jewish peoples.
It is in the latter that the second volume finds its roots, and far from the derring-do of the first volume, in which we meet titanically-proportioned warriors, a novel and quite radical attitude to nautical travelling, strongmen deceived by beauty, a raft of clairvoyants, massive aerial bombardments in the best tradition of shock-and-awe, a sailor who has a whale of a time, and possibly the most unfortunate farmer to which the world has ever played host, the second deals with the life and aftermath thereof of a man who appears to be an early experiment in genetic engineering as he was conceived asexually.
We learn of his skill with carpentry, and later of his skill in catering and as a physician, too, and in keeping with one of the great scenes of volume one, learn of yet another ingenious way to cross water.
And yet despite the polymathic tendencies of the lead character and focus, he remains humble and surprisingly virtuous, if a little preachy; he may be likened to a kind of Classical Age version of a hippy, but without the pot or a Volkswagen camper van. His dreadful fate is clearly a swipe at man’s inhumanity to his fellow man, and at the same time a telling commentary on the practices of the soi-disant civilised Roman Empire.
The work ends with a disturbing foretelling of whores and beasts to come; one might almost think that God had seen our modern-day celebrity culture; and all ends, except for a lucky few, in a sea of depravity and wailing as a great battle is fought. One might equally quip that God has seen Spankerz nightclub on a Saturday night, too.
All in all, an epic read of swords, sandals, stonings, and salacious sauciness that will have the most avid scandalmonger enthralled for days; no wonder it was on Richard and Judy’s “summer must-reads” for weeks and is currently at the top of the best-seller lists. If you liked Tolkien, you’ll love this.
The Bible, by Jehovah, God of Abraham, ISBN 978-3-16–666777-410-0
Available at WH Smiths.
Some paid reports from the Worldwide Broadcasting Corp, obviously paid for by the UK tele tax
Nduka Orjinmo
BBC News, Abuja
Ameyu Etana
BBC News Afaan Oromoo
Ishaq Khalid
BBC News, Abuja
Felin Gakwaya
BBC Great Lakes
Pumza Fihlani
BBC News, Johannesburg
and so on, its terrible the bbc doesn’t have enough money, and ONLY 23,000 staff, and all those tv/radio channels – live within your means, and definitely downsize
2018 ….
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“…and don’t you worry. It’s coming to a place near you…we cannot have state subsidized preachers (Mayors,UK Security MP, Religious guidance)…give it up
(Islam) or give it to your deadliest enemy and pay for the rope that will choke you.“
Home Office, UK Security … Islamist …. Sajid Javid.
London Mayor, UK Prosperity … Islamist … Sadiq Khan.
CEO of Bernados, UK Children … Islamist .. Javed Khan.
Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief … Islamist … Lord Ahmed.
BBC religion and ethics commissioning … Islamist … Fatima Salaria
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/10/28/start-the-week-open-thread-29-october-2018/comment-page-2/#comment-949904
It’s banker that Javid or Sunak next PM, and Humza Useless in Scotland next FM.
Control the media, control…
ITV News has appointed Khadija Kothia as assistant news editor, covering news across the London, UK and foreign desks. Khadija was previously a UK news reporter at The Associated Press.
Sky News has appointed Mhari Aurora as politics and business correspondent for the early breakfast show, starting in May. Mhari is currently a Red Box reporter at The Times and has previously worked at Yahoo! News (UK) as a digital journalist, at Birmingham TV as a video journalist and also has experience as a freelance journalist.
I fear for the brave lady TV editor in Russia. To be
honest I thought she would just disappear after
her “appearance” on the TV news. After the BBC interview
with her yesterday. I just hope that a car accident or
something extra in her dinner doesn’t await her.
Surely Vlad the bad is not going to let her get away
after opposing him?
Hello Foscari, i’m sure we will hear about her sneezing the bbc will do a report on it
When is someone going to do the same on bbc news ?
Maybe someone with signs saying things the bbc will never, ever tell you, oh I don’t know maybe:
“86% white people in this country”
“Quite a lot are white men”
“It was the UK that stopped slavery”
“Not ALL black people are saints or victims, many are vicious predators, quite a lot are knifing each other in London every week”
“Girls, many underage, are being gang raped in most cities in the UK by Pakistani men, it is being ignored by authorities”
That’s just off the top of my head, I am sure others can supply many other examples of the facts the bbc will hide from you.
Someone’s adapted it against Fox, maybe they could do the same against the BBC.
It has to be said that Fox news reporting of the Ukraine invasion has been disgraceful. Even before the war started I was voicing here concerns about Tucker Carlsons poor reporting and sometimes down right lying about the situation, and this time they have found themselves squarely on the wrong side of the argument.
Opposing the left is one thing, but just opposing them because they are left is another.
Fox was even attacking Republicans for their support of Ukraine. They lost the plot over this and criticism is reasonable.
Can’t agree on this.
Tucker, Dave Rubin, Candace Owens & Mark Dice have all been spot on in my view.
One day, the tvl payer may not be there.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/bbc-redundancy-costs-triple?
If the powers that don’t simply pass this on to the general public, I will not be happy.
Putin said that it would need face-to-face negotiations between him and President Zelensky for the next phase of peace talks.
My advice: Go ahead Mr Zelensky, just don’t touch any door handles and, whatever you do, don’t agree to a nice cup of tea. That’s almost certainly not sugar they’re stirring in.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60785754
Just some info:
https://thesaker.is/the-russian-military-intervention-in-the-ukraine-a-macro-view/
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/ukraine-new-al-qaeda/
I’ve been thinking some more regarding Speaker Lindsay Hoyle a point I missed. By cutting off Dominic Raab he has of course become an instrument of the Cancel Culture. He doesn’t like what he hears so he attempts to suppress it.
We should reflect on the seriousness of his anti- democratic actions. After all he is preventing the Government that we elected from speaking in Parliaments
So he facilitates a showboating inaccurate cretin like Bryant, but suppresses a minister answering key issues.
Labour/bbc hero.
I am tendering my resignation because for some time past I have been conscious that I was wasting my own time and the public money on doing work that produces no result.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/5d9YBP3rFCcPzrJBYDYq8Vr/orwells-resignation-letter-from-the-bbc-24-9-43
When I see a BBC #questionasaheadline moves are afoot.
Morelle the Merrier a M.Eng grad?
It looked quite extensive as a thread, but seems to be her talking to herself.
A chemist, like Mrs. T. So some grasp of method.
But at the bbc for a long time, so a better grasp of what is expected.
Comments were opened on that BBC heat pump article at 10:15am
My comment was not banned but the greenPR mob moved in to downvote it.
Simpo and Brando freelancing?
Ofcom has just revoked RT’s licence to broadcast in the UK with immediate effect. They say after reviewing their output they are not “fit and proper to hold a UK broadcast licence”
order-order.com
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Newsround
CBBC Channel, Tuesday 8 June 2021
In a segment about vaccine approval for 12 to 15 year olds, a contributor claimed that the Pfizer vaccine is “100% safe”. This has been removed from the online article and video: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/57435861
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications/archive_2021/
Bad day for those Scottish politicians and others who took their pay from RT .
I think the decision is wrong . It’s good to know what our enemy is concerned about . And – did anyone watch RT?
BTW – someone here mentioned how tucker Carlson seems to be ‘defending ‘ putin . I tried watching some recent segments on YouTube but can’t get a clear steer – although Carlson seems to think putin is not a threat to the US directly.
Maybe Carlson has forgotten about A 5 of NATO – and seems to think if Russia has not killed Americans in America it is okay .
Frankly he seems irrational on this point …
Poor old BBC, imagine their dilemma: a story lands in their inbox about a famous Tik-Toker in Iraq who’s been brutally murdered.
Some say Iman Sami was killed because she was a feminist activist defending women’s rights on social media platforms.
Nothing the BBC loves more than a feminist victim (except perhaps a black feminist victim) so the news editorial meeting must have been clamouring for a front page story.
BUT, slow down guys: others claim she was killed for the terrible crime of apostasy, ie renouncing the BBC’s favourite religion of peace, to become a Christian – the BBC’s most hated religion.
“Oh, er, let’s not be too hasty, this is a complex issue.”
In the end they didn’t report it at all, as far as I can see.
Good old beeb, the World’s Most Trusted… defender of islamic savagery.
“In a tragic reminder of the threats faced by Christians worldwide, a 20-year-old Iraqi woman was murdered after sharing a TikTok video in which she confirmed she’d converted to Christianity.
According to Perscution.org, a ministry that tracks and works against the oppression of Christians globally, Iman Sami was murdered Monday in Northern Iraq in an act of apparent retaliation after her family discovered she’d posted a video singing Christian songs.”
https://fism.tv/christian-convert-in-iraq-killed-over-tiktok-video/
https://news.middleeast-24.com/world/63977.html
Meanwhile, in the last 30 days, unreported by the BBC, there were 95 Islamic attacks in 21 countries, in which 447 people were killed and 412 injured.
Many for the crime of being Christian.
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=Last30
Did he lose his credit card
Perhaps just pissed again?
Where is the woman?
Is that our boy Welby apologising for some past misdemeanour again?
Here’s a suggestion, Justin: how about, instead of your obscene grovelling, you grow a pair and STAND UP for a change? Maybe stand up against the relentless persecution of Christians in much of the muslim world?
Foreign Office ‘allowed Pakistan mob to dictate Asia Bibi asylum case’
This article is more than 3 years old
Home Office urged not to grant asylum out of fears for the safety of consular staff
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/13/asia-bibi-foreign-office-accused-of-allowing-pakistan-mob-to-dictate-asia-bibi-asylum-case
Forgive me but I haven’t noticed anything about nut nut coming back from the Middle East with anything … did he make any deals ? I suspect not .
Next week Richie does his mini budget . Defence? Living costs? NHS money tree …?
….I notice that Blighty is buying a £500k? 5 million ? 5 billion ? missile defence thing from the yanks ~ this might be good news – so no chance of it being reported on the BBC
Seems a bit of a waste of money when our borders are so uncontrolled that anyone can get a serious weapon in to do really bad things – nerve agents for instance ….
He came back £400 million of our money lighter !
They should cancel his overseas use of a credit card
BBc blonde moment.
Her views are her own. In a paid ad. Just so’s you know.
▼ Jo Whiley – £275,000-£279,999
Radio 2 evening show
2019/2020: £280,000-£284,999
2018/2019: £270,000-£274,999
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57733127
Ask Jo Whiney to enquire about AXA Health policy on vaccine injury?
1. Declaring ‘no-debate’
As important as argument is to democracy, there simply isn’t time for everyone to debate everything.
2. Claiming that the science is settled
This one is a special case of declaring no-debate.
3. Emotional blackmail
The right to free speech does not include the right to harass and harangue those who have no wish to engage with you.
4. Accusations of gaslighting
Gaslight is a 1944 film starring Ingrid Bergman as a woman whose husband tries to convince her she’s going mad.
5. Accusations of ‘mansplaining’
‘Mansplaining’ is another new word for something that does actually happen.
6. Accusations of ‘white fragility’
Further to the above. I should point out that I’m a man who’s just explained what I think about mansplaining. This makes a mansplainer squared, so feel free to disregard.
7. “I’m not here to educate you”
Speaking of rhetorical weapons, here’s another. Its purpose is not to silence your opponents, but to provide you with an excuse not to answer them.
8. Who funds you?
Does it matter who funds a think tank or a publication? Yes, it does.
9. Alt democracy
In a free society, debate can take place just about anywhere — from the pub to the poshest dinner party. In reality, though, some arenas matter more than others — Parliament, for instance, or the opinion pages of a national newspaper.
10. The catastrophisation of disagreement
It’s taken a real catastrophe (Coronavirus) to drive Brexit from the headlines. But for most of the last four years, Leave versus Remain has torn us apart as a nation (supposedly).
https://unherd.com/2020/03/ten-devious-ways-to-shut-down-debate/
Here’s today’s smear article from Desmog blog
which is a PR outfit that POLLUTES debate by smearing people who dare to challenge greendream religion.
“How the Net Zero Backlash is Tied to Climate Denial – and Brexit”
What happens to all the old wind turbines?
By Padraig Belton
Technology of Business reporter
Published7 February 2020
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51325101
These blades, which have reached the end of their 25-year working lives, come from three wind farms in the north-western US state. Each will be cut into three, then the pieces will be stacked and buried.
The Ofcom statement about the banning of RT
… https://www.twitter.com/Ofcom/status/1504729403711971347
except it’s not banned.
The website is still up and still broadcasting live.
https://www.rt.com/russia/552209-ofcom-uk-rt-license/
“OFCOM ‘A TOOL OF THE GOVERNMENT,’ RT SAYS AFTER BEING SUSPENDED BY UK REGULATOR”
OFCOM – a tool of the bbc says Fedup
OFCOM a bunch of tools
Homophobes!
Media watchdog Ofcom quits Stonewall diversity scheme
By John McManus
BBC News
Published25 August 2021
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58336116
Zombified by propaganda edition
There is a legend that the word posh derrives from a time when those more well-to-do passengers on ships travelling between England and India used to have POSH written against their bookings with P&O, standing for ‘Port Out, Starboard Home‘
Nice story, turns out the tale is probably tosh.
‘P&O halts ferry crossings and sacks 800 sailors via Zoom call‘ (FT)
This example of rather buccaneering management has stirred quite some resentment below decks. As the BBC puts it in their inimitable news style of we don’t take any particular stand, we just report feelings: ‘P&O Ferries faces backlash after firing 800 workers‘
The tabloids are more robust: ‘Ferry chiefs slammed. “What a bunch of anchors!”‘ (Sun); ‘Up ship creek. Scumbag P&O bosses sparked a mutiny…‘ (Star)
We have to read on beyond the outrage and the industrial language to hear P&O explain: “We have made a £100m loss year-on-year” – that’s an awful lot of Bounty down the Swanee – due to lockdowns.
Fortunately, for employees in the public sector at least, no such commercial strictures will apply: ‘DVLA staff watched TV in bed as backlog mounted‘ (Times); ‘Opinion. Why people are giving up on the NHS and going private. Isabel Hardman‘ (‘i’)
And one only finds reference to foreign ownership of the ships – that detail is not exactly telegraphed in the headline distress calls – to be boldly signalled in the Telegraph: ‘Sheikh shuts down P&O in battle with union‘
Globalisation, eh?
The FT gloats: ‘Post-Brexit trade outlook under fire. MPs have warned the economic benefits of trade deals have not been made clear by ministers and that it was doubtful the government would hit its targets for more agreements this year‘ – despite the massive disruption to world trade due first to lockdowns and now to trade sanctions the FT there still banging on about why it didn’t want Brexit and still failing to understand the desire for national sovereignty was about more than just economics.
Speaking of which: ‘Economy first. Zelensky pours scorn on Berlin… criticising Germany over its policy towards Ukraine, accusing its leaders of placing economic relations with… Putin, above the security of Europe‘ (FT) – ouch!
‘“Tear down this wall!”‘ – the freebie Metro quotes the Ukrainian leader channelling President Reagan.
‘Zelenskiy urges Germany: tear down wall dividing free and unfree Europe‘ (Reuters) – as a former actor the Ukrainian president will understand the importance of fitting his script to suit his audience. Notice there’s no talk of fighting them on the beaches, in the streets and in the hills, for his German audience. I wonder how talk of turning up two years too late for the war might go down with the Yanks?
Datawatch amuses us oncemore on the frontpage of the FT: ‘Defence budgets. Expenditure as % of GDP‘ – turns out the biggest arms spender of late is Nato member Greece. No doubt concerned to shore up their defences against fellow Nato member Turkey – figures for the Turks are oddly missing from the chart. I shouldn’t take these numbers too seriously. The UK manages to meet the Nato 2% target only by somewhat dubious means, such as including army pensions, and of course our – unusable on the battlefield – nuclear deterant is a big cost item.
‘Bank of England lifts rates by further quarter as inflation hits 8%‘ (FT) – well if the Chancellor can’t ever cut any costs in our massive public sector, can only inflate away some of his enourmous national debt and can only raise our taxes via inflation, then what’s a chap to do?
Returning to the subject of the posh: ‘Bowles dies, 85‘ (Daily Star) – this is the much-admired: ‘Peter Bowles, raffish actor who found fame alongside Penelope Keith in To the Manor Born‘ (Telegraph)
‘Home at last. Reunited and ready to “live in the future not the past”‘ (Guardian) – quite right too. The less we dwell on precisely what Mrs Ratcliffe was doing in Iran and what had to be done to bring her home the better: ‘Pompeo says UK paid Iran “blood money”‘ (Telegraph)
‘Pete Doherty. I’m back and I’m sober. “Regrets? I wouldn’t know where to start”‘ (‘i’)
Speaking of fallen heroes: ‘Southgatewill talks to dropped Rashford‘ (Telegraph)
‘Did Bashir’s lies mean Diana died convinced her most loyal aide had betrayed her?‘ – asks the Daily Mail. The Daily Star is more concise: ‘BBC Di shame‘
COSH
Caught Out, Shame brought Home
‘A Russian journalist who interrupted a live TV news programme to protest against the war in Ukraine says Russians are “zombified” by propaganda. Speaking to the BBC, Marina Ovsyannikova said Russians should stop listening to state media coverage‘ (BBC)
I can only read the header and comments to this from the Telegraph yesterday here.
Hospital told police patient was not raped because alleged attacker was transgender
Assault was confirmed through CCTV and witnesses despite previous denials, Lords told, as debate on single-sex wards policy continues
More in today’s Mail here.
Hospital told police a woman who complained she was raped that only other women were present on the single-sex ward – before admitting after a YEAR that one was trans
This case was raised by Baroness Nicholson in the Lords who believes the incident stemmed directly from the NHS’s Annex B policy, which allows patients to be placed on single-sex wards depending on the gender they identify with. The policy states that trans people should be accommodated ‘according to their presentation: the way they dress, and the name and pronouns they currently use’, rather than their biological sex at birth. …
Lady Nicholson added: ‘The result of Annex B is that hospital trusts inform ward sisters and nurses that if there is a male, as a trans person, in a female ward, and a female patient or anyone complains, they must be told that it is not true – there is no male there. [HR again!]
Labour front bench to explain … https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/keir-starmer-s-gender-identity-muddle
I’ve just realised that I must be a racist. I was watching a report about refugees in Poland. The report came from a new shopping centre which was at a stage where the shops were about to be fitted out, so all the infrastructure is in place. The authorities realised that it could be re-purposed as a reception area for several thousand Ukrainians. Looking inside, some of the shops were working as kitchens, with food on shelves and (Mostly) women busily cooking and preparing meals. There were several large sleeping areas with beds in lines, and people busily milling about, Nurseries, language classes, nobody seemed to be short of a job to do.
What have we got here? Fighting age men who spend most of the time harassing schoolgirls, causing chaos in the local town, and smearing sh1t on the walls if they don’t get three or four halal meals a day.
I know which I’d sooner have coming to live near me. I can make a guess which group I am looking at by the colour of their skin. That makes me a racist. Tough, i can live with it.
What do the bbc report? Some left-wing gonk has said in the guardian that we are all racist because of which group we offer places to.
I have to say that the number of people in complete denial of what is going on around them is truly staggering.
The number booking summer holidays costing tousands and thousands of pounds is staggering, yet these are probably the same people who come the Autumn are going to be moaning about the cost of fuel, utilities and food, and expecting the government to bail them out of their own stupid decisions.
Checking the graph of Wholesale gas prices pence per them shows more than a ten fold uptick in the price. The knock on inevitable effect of this means that someone paying £200 per month for gas & electric is going to be looking at a rise to around £2000 per month.
And of course add into the mix rising interest rates and inflation across the board, and it’s not difficult to see many of the population will soon own nothing and are not going to be very happy at all!
It’s inevitable that this will happen to some regardless of what they do, but there will be many others who are in this simply because of their own poor decision making and we should not be bailing those people out.
From John Gatto, it’s not just children that don’t want to know about the real working world anymore. Swap child for adults in the following article …
The children I teach are indifferent to the adult world. This defies the experience of thousands of years. A close study of what big people were up to was always the most exciting occupation of youth, but nobody wants to grow up these days and who can blame them? Toys are us. … Time for a return to democracy, individuality, and family. I’ve said my piece. Thank you. {naturalchild.org – john gatto – jan1990}
relates to Westerners: Guilty of Reading the News {atestoneinstitute.org 27sep2017}
– this is also why NewsPapers should link to a report if it is mentioned and not make it paywall’d
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/09/27/mid-week-open-thread-126/comment-page-2/#comment-869762
Thoughtful
Me too – i dont understand how people are ignoring what it coming – payday loans – maxed out credit cards – county court orders . …
I noticed that the popular finance chap who has a TV show tweeted that he is ‘out of ideas’ as far as money saving is concerned ..
.. he never mentions dumping the TV licence though … thats one DD not to be missed .
I predicted a recession earlier in the year – before putin – and am now more sure .
This is a very negative read but the truth cant be avoided for very long .
The food and fuel inflation rate has to be 10%…
I am increasingly amazed, any perusal of roads or car parks will inform one that maybe 80% at least seem to be driving around in new or nearly new cars regardless of age, 20 year olds in brand new BMWs etc.
Some, a few, may be company cars, many of the remaining I would strongly suspect are on credit, add that to the eye watering car insurance on that, a mortgage, and the 10 – 20 K wedding and student loans and the latest iphone contract and there is not much left in the case of a job loss or recession.
Zephir
Part of the problem
A lot of kidults will not have experienced high interest rates – eg 8% or the insane levels they got to before …
..
So even the threat of – say 3% by the end of 2022 – will cause great pain . Disposable income will become rarer …
I’m trying to work out whether the labour shortage will disappear as certain jobs go …. But am not an economist and just follow my ‘feeling ‘ – but like the advice I shared here last autumn to fix home energy bills if possible ….
Mortgages, Rents, Electric, Council Tax all are second place in priority to Sky TV, Mobile Phone Contract, Car lease & holiday
Fed,
Even if they recognised what is going on, its dismissed as unreal it is, ‘Not going to happen’ attitude. What can you expect if the elite constantly lie to them? Naturally the Crown of that deceit is our favourite broadcaster, you know, ‘The Worlds Most Trusted’……
G
I think richi has already started to signal that there are limits to what the State can do to mitigate rising costs –
Nut nut won’t allow him to cut fuel taxes ( as done in other countries ) because of Mrs nut nut … so the pain will grow …
On the upside the fuel tax increasing amount to a stealth tax without the need to increase NICs or income tax …
There will be a windfall tax on oil companies but I reckon that won’t be for a while yet – say October with the next OFGEM hike …
France and Germany shamed for selling deadly weapons to Putin despite embargo
FRANCE and other EU states continued to provide arms to Russia despite an embargo against Vladimir Putin’s military in 2014.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1582598/russia-ukraine-war-latest-France-Germany-Italy-eu-arms-embargo-2014-Vladimir-Putin
French guns ? that’s maybe why Russia is stuffed in Ukraine. I believe they come with optional white flag attached.
French tanks, one forward gear and three reverse with a wine cellar and cheese cabinet in the ammo store.
As for their Citroen and Renault fighter planes… the 2CV is a wonder to behold, 0 – 60 in 10 minutes in a strong tail wind.
Even Airfix have boycotted it.
just some more on BBC Media Action courtesy of UK Column News
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/bbc-fake-news-reality-check
UK Column is not without merit
but they do a lot of Conspiracy Theorising
I do wonder if they are not controlled opposition ?
eg people are sent down the rabbit hole of Freeman on the Land woo
instead of criticising government properly
.. https://youtu.be/tuUxzkbDTUI
Regarding fighter planes I thought I would share this:
Three kids are outdoing each other bragging about their fathers….
First kid says: My dad is the fastest. He’s a drag racer and can do a quarter mile in 9.6 seconds
Second kid says: That’s nothing! My dad is a fighter pilot and regularly breaks the speed of sound.
Third kid says: My dad is heaps faster than both your dads. He’s a Council Worker. He finishes work at 4 o’clock but is always home by lunchtime.
Ha ha what kind of council worker doesn’t ‘work from home ‘?
Sitting outside a coffee shop yesterday watch everyone parking and cycling on the pavements and I realised the traffic wardens and police are also working from home.
I watched a transit nearly hit some pedestrians in his desperation to park on a footpath rather than drive 200 yards to the parking bay just to walk into a bank.
Chinese planes allowed over RUssia – saving fuel!
https://www.flightradar24.com/RFF9923/2b2e0f17
Oo can I get a moderator job on Guido? All day just banning people and deleting people – bliss …
Fed, maybe maxi posts there and you could get to nail him after all?
Up2
That troll would be one of many – they think by monitoring and doing their lefty anti British comments they have meaning / value – when in fact they are as hateful as the rest of the Left …
Biden to urge China not to arm Russia
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-60774819
US issues first gender-neutral ‘X’ passport
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59076614
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3:28 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Last night in Kabul, the United States ended 20 years of war in Afghanistan — the longest war in American history.
We completed one of the biggest airlifts in history, with more than 120,000 people evacuated to safety. That number is more than double what most experts thought were possible. No nation — no nation has ever done anything like it in all of history. Only the United States had the capacity and the will and the ability to do it, and we did it today.
The extraordinary success of this mission was due to the incredible skill, bravery, and selfless courage of the United States military and our diplomats and intelligence professionals.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/08/31/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-end-of-the-war-in-afghanistan/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5zMqDJtY1XQmF2dTZPYBwkh/comic-relief
WHAT WE DO WITH OUR GRANTS MONEY
Our grants money isn’t paid out all at once because some of the grants we give last for a long time – up to six years – and we need to make sure the money is being spent as we agreed. That’s why we phase the payments and ask the organisations to report on what they’re doing with the money before the next payment is made.
https://www.comicrelief.com/about-comic-relief/finances
Over £7m of funding went to projects led by and for communities facing racial inequalities
through our Global Majority Fund and government partnerships. The Global Majority Fund and
Supporting & Sustaining Specialism Fund both utilised a Fund Reference Group which included
people with lived experience to design the programmes and take decisions on allocation of
funding. We also launched a Fund designed by young people which aims to tailor programmes
that prevent youth violence.
53% of our international investments went directly to organisations in the Global South.
Click to access Charity_Projects_Annual_Report_202021_Signed.pdf
If only people knew where their money really goes – and it won’t be to Ukraine -( although they’ll make a token gesture )
£101K From BBC Children In Need FUnd
This project will offer a supplementary school with an
educational outreach service focussed on helping parents
improve academic support for their children. The project
aims for children to improve success at school, increase
confidence and aspirations (Midaye Somali Development
Network )
£28K From BBC Children In Need FUnd
This 3 year grant will provide Somali children experiencing
poverty and poor educational attainment with a
supplementary school and confidence-building workshops to
improve attainment, build self-confidence, and develop
better relationships.
£30K From BBC Children In Need FUnd
Supplementary lessons at weekends during term time for 75
local Bangladeshi and Somali young people in the Tower
Hamlets area. Children will feel more included in their
communities, increase their confidence and increase positive
£30K From BBC Children In Need FUnd
Funding for support work for 150 5-18 year olds with special
education needs from minority ethnic (Somali WOmen) backgrounds. The
project aims to increase children’s ability to manage negative
feelings, to further their self-expression and reduce social
isolation.
£54K From BBC Children In Need FUnd
This project will provide supplementary education to young
people from the Somali community, who live in areas of
poverty, unemployment and low levels of literacy and
aspiration. It will improve educational attainment,
communication skills and confidence
£40K From BBC Children In Need FUnd
To fund a mentoring project for young Somalis living in
poverty in Islington, to increase confidence and self
-esteem,
reduce antisocial behaviour and help them access
employment and education opportunities.
£40K From BBC Children In Need FUnd
To fund a mentoring project for young Somalis living in
poverty in Islington, to increase confidence and self
-esteem,
reduce antisocial behaviour and help them access
employment and education opportunities.
£21K From BBC Children In Need FUnd
This project will deliver educational support for disabled
Somali children and those experiencing local deprivation. The
children and young people will gain academic skills,
confidence and improve their physical well-being.
£15K From BBC Children In Need FUnd
The project will provide holiday activities to children, young
people and their families who have been affected by the
Grenfell Tower tragedy. The activities will improve children’s
well-being, support stronger family bonds and broaden
horizons. (Midaye Somali Development
Network )
£10K From BBC Children In Need FUnd
This 1 year grant will provide supplementary education in
English, Maths and Science to Somaili children with low
educational attainment to increase attainment, empower
BBC Children in Need
Grant Funded Projects
London and South East England
As at November 2017
Click to access CN0187_Grants_Listings_London_and_South_East_England.pdf
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2019/07/28/start-the-week-open-thread-29-july-2019/
Thanks marky
And good hearted people give their taxed money for those ‘ causes?’
Surely ‘ hardship ‘ should be the first priority … ?
I was under the impression – as I’m sure most people who give are – that the money raised is purely for kids in THIS country !!!!
I’d pay money not to see any more photos of Lenny Henry’s tonsils. Ever. Why do these people do this when having their photo taken. Its crass.
I thought I was the only one to have noticed that. I struggle to even show that I’ve still got my own teeth, but this “basking shark” craze simply doesn’t make sense. It sure as heck is a way of looking like you are howling at the moon. Come to think of it….
Lenny Henry and the rest of the nauseating Leftie luvvie Wokies…..
A nicely placed grenade would do us all a favour…Parasites
\One of the BBC’s most loyal advertisers…
@Tomo ..it’s probable that advert are customised to you
and that you are judged to be a high roller.
The ads pushed at me say “Big fat women in your area are looking for love”
Philip Hammond accepts £2,000 watch from Saudi sheikh, despite ban on donating expensive gifts
Mr Hammond argues he accepted the gift in his capacity as a constituency MP, meaning the ministerial rule did not apply
Rosalind Newman
Sunday 29 November 2015 19:12
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/philip-hammond-accepts-watch-worth-nearly-ps2-000-from-saudi-sheikh-despite-ban-on-donating-expensive-gifts-a6753661.html
“Zoe Ball pulls out of Comic Relief with Covid and shares her replacement Alesha Dixon”
Twitter is hugely vexed by some chap who won a wimmins ‘ swimming race. The chap was interviewed afterwards …
I could really care less but when the liberals start declaring night is day – cold is hot – coloureds are white – chaps are gals – then that is the insane consequence ….
Quite funny really
Belfield has put up a video “If you come behind the paywall I’ll tell you about the Comic Relief £1m Fraud & £13 Million Staff Costs 🤮 NO WHITE SAVIOURS ALLOWED”
Ukraine: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s anti-war video trends on Russian social media
Published1 hour ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60794809
…………………
As Arnold Schwarzenegger steps down this month, California voters can only marvel that a leader of such apparent strength is leaving the Golden State such a weakling—its institutions eroded and its finances more of a mess than when he took over from Gray Davis after the 2003 recall. Even among Schwarzenegger’s earliest detractors, few would have dared to predict that by his last summer in office, the governor who had entered the statehouse a movie star would bottom out with a 22 percent public approval rating, tying Davis for the lowest recorded approval rating in California history.
https://www.lamag.com/longform/the-rise-and-fall-of-governor-arnold-schwarze/
alifornians have experienced an Arnold Schwarzenegger many of us wish we’d never met: a politician who often seemed in over his head, who prevaricated and bungled, switching sides as it suited him to save his political skin.
MM “As Arnold Schwarzenegger steps down this month, California voters can only marvel” that MM is so far behind the curve! Arnie Schwarzeneggar left the Governer’s office in January.
2011!
Comic Relief…..The only ”Relief” i will get is if its ever taken of air..
BBC run vomit inducing rubbish….
Presented by over paid drama queens who dont know there arse from there elbow..
Presenters who think its chic to be a leftie luvvie because someone else is, but without actually knowing why he or she should be a leftie luvvie.
Another bunch of BBC employed clueless window licking halfwits
What percentage of Comic Relief money goes to charity?
Program Percentage: 90%
The percentage of Comic Relief’s cash budget it spends on programs relative to overhead (fundraising, management, and general expenses).
Marky – I looked at the comic relief annual report and the saddest thing is they assume the public will stump up every year – and fund their overseas give aways – as well as the ethnic guests in Blighty in the same way .
If only people focused their charity where it would do real good real now – or keep the money in their pocket to pay the fuel bills
If only…
It’s on a computer that’s sanitised….
The other big spenders are Accenture and the Maldives Tourism Ministry
A seance with Terry Wogan anybody?
Comic Relief supports projects in the UK and around the world.
https://donation.comicrelief.com/cart/1YsYOwm2pHZgBUhWr8ZL13
Donate £159 and stop paying the TV License?
Comic relief partners – KFC!
https://www.comicrelief.com/working-with-us/our-partners
https://www.comicrelief.com/news/gbp9-1million-awarded-to-20-specialist-projects-to-tackle-homelessness-abuse
• Scottish Refugee Council(opens in new window) – funding awarded to work with artists and activists from refugee and other migrant backgrounds, the arts and cultural sector in Scotland, and refugee organisations to help improve the integration of refugees and other migrants living in Scotland and improve cultural and social opportunities
• Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group(opens in new window) – funding awarded to better understand people’s experiences of immigration removal centres in the UK, and document findings to influence policy makers
• Midaye Somali Development Network(opens in new window) – funding awarded to support migrant women living in West London to access targeted mental health services. Funding will also help challenge the taboos surrounding mental health in the local community via training, counselling, and sharing best practices with similar organisations in the area
£9.1MILLION AWARDED TO 20 SPECIALIST PROJECTS TO TACKLE HOMELESSNESS, ABUSE & MENTAL HEALTH
29th September 2021
This Financial Inclusion Week, with our partner Jersey Overseas Aid, we’re shining a light on the life-changing work we have been doing to provide people living in Zambia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone with better access to financial services.
Together we launched a joint programme, Branching Out(opens in new
): Financial Inclusion at the Margins in 2017, supporting eight organisations through 19 different grants in Zambia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone towards tackling financial exclusion. Hundreds of savings groups have been created helping more than 124,000 people to gain practical tools so that they can better plan for the future, achieve long term goals and prepare for any unexpected emergencies.
https://www.comicrelief.com/news/supporting-financial-inclusion-through-covid-19
José Morell-Ducós is Portfolio Manager for Financial Inclusion and manages Branching Out: Financial Inclusion at the Margins, a four-year £8 million partnership between Jersey Overseas Aid and Comic Relief. The partnership focuses on financial inclusion as a vehicle for development in Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Zambia.
Russia is not considered a poor country and does not need UK aid. FCDO closed its bilateral development Programme in Russia in March 2007 (with a small number of projects being brought to an end in April 2011). Russia is also an emerging donor itself, and should realise its potential to contribute to the reduction of global poverty.
https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/countries/RU/
In March 2011, FCDO closed its bilateral aid programme to China. Our relationship with China now identifies ways in which both countries can work together as partners on shared global development objectives, global public goods and poverty reduction.
https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/countries/CN
North Korea
https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/countries/KP
Helping to ensure a prosperous and stable Pakistan is critical for the future of millions of poor Pakistanis, and the stability and security of both the region and the UK.
https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/countries/PK
2.6 million children do not go to school and half of the population, including two thirds of women, cannot read or write.
Description
To build on the Commonwealth Equality Network’s (TCEN) track record of success supporting LGBT+ civil society organisations in Commonwealth countries. The project seeks to ensure that LGBT+ organisations continue to be supported to sustain and advance their work protecting and upholding the rights of LGBT+ people, and be better prepared to bring LGBT+ people’s concerns to the attention of those in positions of power.
https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/projects/GB-GOV-1-301426/summary
Well that took FullFact long enough
If someone says “that’s supposed to be a line of Ukrainian body bags
but you can’t trust the Ukrainian Government , look one is moving”
that itself breaks the “too wow to be true” rule
.. https://twitter.com/FullFact/status/1504836271998320640
“This clip is not from Ukraine. It has been manipulated, with the original footage being taken at a climate protest in Vienna.”
Both the defence minister and Home Secretary were exposed to a Russian imposter who had a video call with each of them .
One tends to think ‘surely ‘ the staff would ensure the credentials of anyone who speaks to their minister ?
But then again it supports my view that the people in charge are not always the cleverest or switched on – however long they spent networking at oxbridge .
I got the impression those false calls went on for quite a while and have given the game away on nato strategy and detail ….
Clever job by the Russians though …
… the dog of a Russian foreign minister was on RT saying – in English – how the Ukraine situation was the responsibility of America ….
Only the Russians would reverse the truth – he didn’t mention the millions of women and children being displace.d from their country by Russian savagery –
Maybe a war crimes trial for him someday – or better still – an early death – with putin …. …
Just to add on labrov – putin is using the same technique hitler used to expand his country by conquest …. It’s gonna be a long war – or a very short ‘flash ‘ type ….
Boris Johnson’s mobile phone number was left online for 15 years, raising fears hackers could have accessed it
https://www.businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-mobile-number-was-publicly-available-for-15-years-2021-4?r=US&IR=T
Reagan tells Soviet jokes