316 Responses to Start the Week 21 March 2022

  1. StewGreen says:

    The team Labour photo with Nazanin
    https://twitter.com/RachelReevesMP/status/1505954377273651207

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    • harry142857 says:

      We give people sanctuary, then they are eternally ungrateful.
      It was her own fault she was locked up.

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    • theisland says:

      Reeves says she is “in awe” of “my brilliant colleague
      @TulipSiddiq’s incredibly hard work to get Nazanin home.”
      Did Tulip actually do anything apart from normal MP ‘stuff’?
      (Genuine question).

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    • tomo says:

      She was advised at the time of arrest not to travel. Debt goes back to 1979 when Labour failed to deliver an order of tanks. International sanctions placed on Iran meant it was illegal to repay the debt. In 2008, international arbitration ruled the UK owed the debt. Labour gov did nothing.

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    • digg says:

      Starmer is such an incompetent and gullible stuffed dummy isn’t he?

      How the hell he ever managed to handle a top legal position baffles me!

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  2. tomo says:

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Any American must be truly ashamed that that is a heart beat from the Oval Office – or is it a parody …?….

      …it’s ‘Being There ‘

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      • tomo says:

        and *in * The Oval Office:

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        • vlad says:

          The top 3 posts in the US government are occupied by three of the most corrupt, crooked, inept, and just plain stupid people on the planet.

          God help America – and the world.

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  3. tomo says:

    That Belgian car incident seems to has sunk without trace on the BBC – 6 dead and 40 injured …

    The front page hunt is on however for Nigerians who can transform themselves into actual cats. A few years ago I remember police arresting a goat that robbed a bank before transforming in an effort to evade justice.

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  4. Fedup2 says:

    The Belgian non terrorist attack which didn’t happen didn’t have 2 suspects ‘born in 1988 and 1990’ who didn’t come from a nightclub before the non attack and remain un named ……the non detail Is not from France 24 … not lone wolf non Norwegians …

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  5. Fedup2 says:

    The BBC is in a tricky position with regard to the trial of the alleged killer of a RC Tory MP in a church … the detail is really headline stuff – all done in the name of IS and the false god Allah .
    So what to do – look over there – squirrels ( Iranian spy ? ) or the tory budget ( never enough of whatever ) ….

    This morning we got a reminder of that green crap thing Cop? In Glasgow a few weeks ago which thankfully has been flushed down to toilet by real life …

    But on the upside for the green totalitarians – all those people getting killed must be good for rewilding and the planet – in fact – nuclear war would also be good – right ?

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  6. Ian Rushlow says:

    Forget the thousands of Ukrainian citizens who have been killed. Forget the thousands of Russian families who will never see their sons again. And don’t talk about the Ukrainian refugees being imported into the UK to pick fruit or vegetables, or being forced into prostitution if they are young and pretty enough. No, the BBC knows who the real victims are:

    Trans women blocked from fleeing Ukraine – charities
    Josh Parry
    LGBT+ Reporter, BBC News

    Hundreds of transgender women have been turned away at the Ukrainian border while attempting to flee the country, due to their passports still carrying their birth name and gender, charities say.

    Changing the gender and name listed on their passport requires a lengthy process, involving several psychiatric assessments – meaning many of the country’s transgender population don’t go through with it.

    But current rules ban Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 from leaving the country – meaning anyone whose passport says “male” is likely to be turned back at the border.

    One of Ukraine’s main transgender charities estimates there are hundreds of trans women attempting to flee, but that 90% of those it is in touch with have so far failed.

    BBC News (sic) website, time-stamped 06:04 22 March 2022.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Ian
      That one bought an involuntary smile / wtf … just imagine the specialist refugee camp of thousands of tranies trying to escape their duty to fight for the country … or not ….

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      • Ian Rushlow says:

        A bit of a conundrum for the ‘Trans men’, those described as biological females who wish to live as men. Presumably they will ‘grow a pair’ and head straight to the recruitment office so they can sign-up to fight for their country in its hour of need. After all, being a man sometimes involves taking traditional masculine responsibilities as well…

        Presumably the Russians will be setting up special camps for trans-POWs. They know the eyes of the world are on them and they will want to make sure their guests will be treated with dignity and respect, and fully in accordance with Russian (and for that matter also Ukrainian) attitudes to those who live non-traditional lifestyles.

        #BraveAndStunning

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Today watch
          Not about bias – but about living – interview with a non exec director of M and S. he said that the current inflation rate is over 5% . He reckoned it will increase to above 10% by 2023 and stay that way for a while .
          The impact on those people with fixed mortgages coming to an end and .having to pay the full interest rate ( maybe 3 – 4% ) will also be a shock …. ..

          I don’t think a lot of snowflake kidults will have any idea what that means – especially if accompanied by rising interest rates – with huge amounts of tax money used to pay the interest .

          Truly hard times are coming – assuming we avoid a wider war of course ….

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      • tomo says:

        re: Gender and Ukraine…

        Why am I thinking “Klinger” in MASH?

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        • Ian Rushlow says:

          Monkey see, monkey do…

          I wonder how many of those watching MASH at an influential age grew up thinking of Klinger as a role model? One rather suspects they were more likely to end up in the BBC than the military, though.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      Let us not forget the Russian families who will never see their sons again, especially as the vast majority were conscripts who didn’t even know they were being sent to war.

      Lets us especially remember the wives mothers and sweethearts who will never see their loved ones again, and will probably not even get to bury the bodies because Putin has cremated them simply to hide his losses.

      Let us also remember that it was the wives sweethearts and mothers who forced the old Communist government to withdraw from Afghanistan, and this way lies the hope to stop Putin in his tracks.

      Even the most thuggish cop is going to think twice before brutalising grieving women who might be his own mother wife or girlfriend, and once that river of tears begins to flow it is very difficult for any society to resist it.

      Vietnam was a similar end with mothers stopping their offspring going and calling out remote insensitive politicians who see a death count merely as numbers on a page.

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  7. Guest Who says:

    The BBC alumnus and CEO, Editor, Producer and Kir Royale barista at Hobo TV speaks for them all….

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    • StewGreen says:

      Isn’t Remain
      Remaining in the EUSSR European Super Socialist Republic
      and Remaining in the USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ?

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  8. Guest Who says:

    They sent bS back to do Americast with a new ‘do’? Looking fly.

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/03/21/bbc-amends-article-to-admit-suspected-female-killer-is-a-biological-male/?

    In beebworld, others need holding to account, they just quietly ‘enhance the facts’.

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  9. AsISeeIt says:

    Just in case you were getting a bit war-weary, Ukraine wasn’t holding your attention, interest slightly waning… the girls with guns are back on top at the BBC online news site, presented to us as their initial photo.

    Of course, this being the BBC, it’s all a bit tame. The ladies familiarising themselves with the AKs are fully dressed in their woolly beanies and puffer jackets – well, it is still a bit nippy in the Donbas at this time of year.

    The BBC takes great interest in what we are supposed to see. They approve the oh-so PC: ‘Bridgerton: South Asian faces on TV ‘makes me happy’‘ (BBC)

    But could the dead hand of PC Wokeness cancel the naughty USP of the show: ‘More longing looks, less sex in Bridgerton… The series became Netflix’s most watched show last year, and the sex scenes became its biggest talking point’‘ (Telegraph)

    You may recall the Chicks Who Love Guns video featured in a scene from the Quentin Tarantino movie Jackie Brown. Some say this was a commentary on the gun mentality prevalent in the US. On the other hand Americans aren’t presently shooting one another on quite the scale of us Europeans. Alternatively, one might observe that the inclusion of footage of some bikini babes filmed on the firing range certainly helped sell the movie.

    But what’s the message from the BBC here? On one hand the Beeb decries civilian casualties: ‘Ukraine war: Russian soldiers fire on Kherson protesters‘; ‘Holocaust survivor killed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv… Boris Romantschenko, 96, died during Russian shelling… At least 500 civilians have now been killed there, Ukrainian officials say.‘ – and yet our BBC still admiringly promotes civilian women who take up arms.

    Europe can be a violent place.

    Two women in their 50s have died after a violent attack at a secondary school in the southern Swedish city of Malmö, police say. An 18-year-old student at the school has been arrested on suspicion of murder‘ (BBC) – you can’t blame that on the Russians.

    Or this one: ‘Corsican nationalist dies after jihadist jail attack… serving a life sentence for murdering a local official, was beaten by another inmate, a Cameroonian jihadist‘ (BBC)

    We’re waiting for an update – any update – on the Belgian carvival car collision with crowds that cost six lives.

    Yet they do still tend to want to be here: ‘Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: I should have been freed six years ago‘ (BBC)

    How many foreign secretaries does it take for someone to come home?” – she asks left-leaning ‘i’ newspaper readers. I feel a joke coming on… how many foreign secretaries does it take to change a light bulb…? Answer: A £400m energy bill.

    Refugees. Desperate families battle red tape to get to UK‘ (‘i’)

    Things could be worse elsewhere: ‘Sudan: BBC investigation shows abuse of female demonstrators. More than 80 people have been killed as security forces crack down on protests. Many of those taking to the streets are young women. But there are increasing reports security forces have been targeting them with beatings, sexual assault, and rape to silence them

    Best plump for Europe, given the choice – despite all the drawbacks: ‘Will the US learn to love Eurovision?‘ (‘i’)

    You would think the corporate world had their eyes firmly fixed on the bottom line. Captains of industry might be eager to read the vital statistics concerning supply and demand. Obsessed with market trends. Interest rates. Debt levels. Bond values… Not so much, if the FT frontpage feature Datawatch is anything to go by: ‘Women in power. % of female government ministers‘ – now how does that help us sell our widgets?

    A possible clue appears here: ‘Influencers ignored. How big tech lost the lobbying battle with Brussels‘ (FT) – this could be interpreted as the corporate world needing to be even more Woke, espouse yet more Political Correctness – so as to please the EU.

    Alternatively, one might see this as Europeans being a bit miffed that all the tech giants are American. Then again, of course it was inevitable that our brief free-wheeling, free speech, internet days would be numbered as State control over this new media is asserted.

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  10. Guest Who says:

    Lame Brane chips in, gunning for the Vile slot.

    Like Femi, only thicker.

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  11. digg says:

    Sometimes I am staggered by the ineptitude of the scientific/medical fraternity.

    Today they have announced that they have found a 50% drop in instances of vomiting and the runs being reported by people.

    Maybe less mixing? Maybe face masks?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-60819716

    Have they never heard of hangovers? Loads of people I know have used them as sickness and runs excuse for a sickie from work time and time again.

    Now they have a much better excuse “I tested positive”…..

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    • MarkyMark says:

      100% drop in people mixing and eating Indian food?
      Eat out to Vomit out.

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  12. theisland says:

    Must be ‘in the public interest’.

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  13. tomo says:

    Ever heard an ex British MP say similar?

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  14. Thatcherrevolutionary says:

    All I’ve heard yesterday and today is ingratitude and downright arrogance from an Iranian woman and a demand from a Ukrainian minister we involve the UK in their war and engage Russian aircraft.

    When did we lose the ability to tell these clowns to simply ‘F*ck Off’?

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  15. BRISSLES says:

    I find it breath taking that someone can be so energised and vocal after being incarcerated in ‘horrendous’ conditions for 6 years. Its almost as though she had a BBC scriptwriter as a fellow cell mate !

    I also ask the question, that thousands of people must be travelling to and from Teheran airport on a daily basis, so we need to know the real story as to why this lady was prevented from leaving at the airport.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Waite was the Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, in the 1980s. As an envoy for the Church of England, he travelled to Lebanon to try to secure the release of four hostages, including the journalist John McCarthy. He was himself kidnapped and held captive from 1987 to 1991.[2]

      ……………….

      Human Right Violation in Iran
      Restrictions and punishments in the Islamic Republic of Iran which violate international human rights norms include harsh penalties for crimes, punishment of victimless crimes such as fornication and homosexuality, execution of offenders under 18 years of age, restrictions on freedom of speech and the press

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  16. vlad says:

    Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” is a huge story by any measure, implicating as it does Joe Biden in shady dealings in – of all places – Russia and Ukraine. How explosive is that?

    At the time of the election, the media and Big Tech ruthlessly suppressed the story not to damage Joe Biden’s election chances.

    The New York Times, one of the most virulent ‘suppressers’ at the time, has finally admitted that, erm, now that we’ve had a proper look… it’s all true.

    Yet the suppression among American broadcasters continues. The Spectator: “Even now, after the Times story, the most prominent mainstream outlets still won’t mention Hunter’s laptop, its damning information, or their role in covering it up. NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, and CNN have all maintained radio silence since the Times story broke.”

    Of course our very own, dearly be-hated BBC is in on the cover up.

    Not a word from them on what should be one of the biggest American political scandals of all time: the scandal of the laptop contents compounded by the scandal of the media silence.

    Try Googling “Hunter Biden laptop” (using quotation marks to get an exact match) and you get 12.8 million results.

    Not one is from the BBC.

    Spectator article: “The shameful silence about the Hunter Biden laptop story”

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-shameful-silence-about-the-hunter-biden-laptop-story

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Democracy Dies in Darkness” is the official slogan of American newspaper The Washington Post, adopted in 2017. The slogan was introduced on the newspaper’s website on February 22, 2017, and was added to print copies a week later.

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      • vlad says:

        Plenty of darkness there.

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        • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

          “The most powerful country in the world is falling so fast, that it makes you rethink what are the real reasons.

          Something so big and powerful can’t be destroyed so quickly, unless the enemy comes from within.”

          Nayib Bukele [President of El Salvador, on Twitter]

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  17. MarkyMark says:

    Egypt has fixed the price of unsubsidised bread amid a global surge in wheat prices since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

    The move comes after war shut off access to cheaper wheat from the Black Sea region, particularly affecting exports to the Middle East and north African region. Egypt is the world’s biggest wheat importer, bringing in about 60% of its grain from overseas. Russia and Ukraine accounted for 80% of the country’s imports last year.
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/21/egypt-fixes-price-of-unsubsidised-bread-as-ukraine-war-hits-wheat-supply

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  18. andyjsnape says:

    Huzaifa Habibu has died, reports the bbc

    Who?

    For those interested..
    Nigerian student dies weeks after fleeing Ukraine

    Ishaq Khalid

    BBC News, Abuja

    One of the Nigerian students who fled the war in Ukraine has died in his hometown of Sokoto in northern Nigeria.

    It’s not yet clear what exactly caused the death of Huzaifa Habibu.

    His father, Habibu Halilu Modaci, told the BBC that he was taken to hospital after complaining of discomfort and loss of appetite.

    Sounds like a claim, maybe the UK government should pay up

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  19. StewGreen says:

    BBC about to call them “racist” for not offering a hotel to dinghy divers last year.

    Oh hang on, they are Polish… so celebrated on last night’s prog and into today’s Twitter.

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  20. MarkyMark says:

    Parliament > Tencent > WeChat > Free Speech denied.

    Tencent is the world’s largest video game publisher. It is among the largest social media, venture capital, and investment corporations. Its services include social network, music, web portals, e-commerce, mobile games, internet services, payment systems, smartphones, and multiplayer online games. Offerings in China include the instant messengers Tencent QQ and WeChat, and one of the largest web portals, QQ.com.
    https://ukie.org.uk/members/tencent
    ….
    In China, it is no secret that chatroom conversations on social media platforms like WeChat or QQ are monitored and sometimes censored. But the consequences of posting “sensitive” content or opinions online are not as well known. Even for savvy internet users, it is hard to believe that such posts can sometimes land a person in prison.

    In 2017, at least three Chinese netizens were arrested and jailed for making politically sensitive jokes in a chat room.
    https://advox.globalvoices.org/2017/12/27/dont-call-xi-the-bun-chinese-netizens-are-being-jailed-for-chatroom-jokes/

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  21. StewGreen says:

    Police have released photo-fit of man seen mugging pensioners on the tube.

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    • StewGreen says:

      “You can’t come on here son
      .. you are not tall enough for this ride”

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  22. MarkyMark says:

    The chancellor has “wiggle room” to help tackle the rising cost of living, an influential economist has said.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60831706

    ……………

    NHS’s ‘world beating’ £37BILLION Test and Trace program was an ‘eyewatering’ waste of taxpayer cash and at its BEST only 49% of £1,000-a-day tracers were working, report reveals

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  23. digg says:

    State of the Nation…. State of the new Citizens

    Who would have guessed even 10 years ago that a story like this would feature on the front page of a respectable national news service as just another interesting story?

    https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/mar/22/my-husband-is-so-well-endowed-that-i-am-injured-if-we-try-intercourse

    Give it another 5 years and stories like this will come with graphic photos I guess…

    Understandable if it was a feature in one of those iffy “checkout” mags with lurid headlines like “I gave birth in my tights”

    Makes you wonder about the state of mind of the new generation of “reporters” in my opinion and what they deem of interest to the Nation.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      How do we start to decolonize science? @0:10

      “Through the black magic, witchcraft you are able to send a lightning bolt to strike someone, Can you explain that scientifically … ” @0:50 – one of the speakers
      “It’s not true” – audience member
      “I need to address you directly (audience member who says witchcraft does not work). When we started this we agreed on certain house rules. By you doing that (arguing) you are disrespecting that sacredness of this space. I would like you please first to apologise …” – another speaker

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/10/18/mid-week-open-thread-129/comment-page-4/#comment-874895

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  24. StewGreen says:

    Radio 4= Radio-liberal-Londoner Indulge in personal political preaching

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  25. andyjsnape says:

    Brandon Lee: The model school pupil who was a 30-year-old imposter
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-60081503

    When I first read the above, I thought it was referring to an illegal immigrant, who had thrown away his passport and declared he was only 14yrs old

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  26. StewGreen says:

    Some notes from the Times Arts section the other week
    Film of the week : Danish Film Flee
    “profoundly affecting animation about true life trials of gay Afghan refugee”

    ====================
    Justin Webb’s biography gets a full page
    Yet this is a reproromo for their mate, cos they’ve reviewed it a few weeks ago too
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    Black American author John McWhorter brings it up in his book Woke Racism
    Says .. white publishers only publish black books about struggle
    Woke crusaders won’t listen to reason.
    as if caught up in spiritual revival

    says : Woke is performance
    Blacks encouraged to use racism as an emotional prop
    They get RESPECT, by being disrespected as victims
    (do you get that complicated line ?)

    the reviewer recommends his earlier book: The Self Sabotage of Black America
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    Penguin classic book
    talks about Danish destroying Inuit culture by indulging them in 1965
    That made them lazy alcoholics

    .. Are there modern parallels with the way society INDULGES other groups today ?

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  27. StewGreen says:

    Recent court report articles
    from 25 Feb 2022 : Taxi driver, 42, plied girls with alcohol and drugs then raped
    — Mohammed Saleem, 42, groomed the two girls who were aged 14 and 15 when he targeted them in the 1990s.
    Both victims were extremely vulnerable he groomed and abused two teenage girls after plying them with alcohol has been jailed for 33 years
    =======================

    7h March report : Bradford : Mohammed Eithan Khan said he would take the teenager’s virginity during online chats and asked her to send him photos of herself in her school uniform or naked.
    He admitted a charge of engaging in sexual communication with a child and he also pleaded guilty to separate charges of possessing indecent images of children.
    .. Jailed for 23 months

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

    Kent on March 1 : “prosecutors offered no evidence during a trial at Southwark
    Ten men have been acquitted after being accused of participating in a two-year campaign of sexual abuse and rape of a teenage girl.

    The crimes were said to have been committed against the child between 2016 and 2018 in the Folkestone and Canterbury areas.
    … all of the defendants walked free.

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

    March 1 : Mohammed Sharif Sex offender told girl, 13, ‘you’ve got a sexy bum’ as he tried to lure her into car
    .. a two year community order with 20 rehabilitation days and five years notification.
    https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/sex-offender-told-girl-13-23240555
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    16 MAR 2022 Rochdale : Eight men have been charged for the abuse of two teenage girls in Rochdale between 2002 and 2006.

    The men have all been charged with a total of 82 offences
    One was called Martin Rhodes. The other were mostly Mo or Ali
    ============

    21 March : Hemel Hempstead , Guilty verdict
    Rapist Mohammed Atif Khan, 37, who kidnapped a 17-year-old girl as she waited for her parents before driving ten miles to assault her is facing jail
    He grabbed the 17-year-old who was waiting for her parents
    He kidnapped her and raped her last august
    ===============

    March 16 : Mohammed Diakite, also known as Nigel
    Man strangled girlfriend in brutal attack and left her body next to their baby
    using a skipping rope in bed after she planned to leave him,…
    =============================

    4 March), Mohammed Schwitters, from Birmingham jailed for 18 years for child sex offences after police tracked him down to a mechanic’s workshop in Canada.

    He sexually abused a child over a period of seven years starting when the girl was just 10-years-old.
    It happened between 2010 and 2017
    and police arrested Schwitters when the offences were reported to them in 2017
    He then skipped the country during the investigation.

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    • StewGreen says:

      There were less under “Ali”

      Swindon : Serial offender behind bars for 10 years after raping sex worker
      Mustafa Naro Ali “exploited” the sex worker after seeing her in his street, approaching her and arranging to have sex with her for £20.

      Newcastle : Rapist said he had sex with 12-year-old girl he met in McDonald’s to make ex jealous
      Nathan Ali took his victim from the fast food outlet to a student house, where his ex girlfriend lived.

      Walsall : ‘Dangerous’ sex beast Wajid Ali, 43, pushed woman down stairs before launching attack in Walsall
      ‘Dangerous’ sex beast Wajid Ali, 43, pushed woman down stairs before launching attack

      Ali Harbi Ali ‘staked out Michael Gove’s home five times while planning MP’s murder’, jury hears
      Instead, “fanatical Islamist terrorist” Ali killed Conservative MP Sir David Amess by stabbing him 21 times with a 12-inch blade at a constituency surgery .

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  28. StewGreen says:

    Stephen McGovern in 2020 says BBC is very class biased
    …Tells story of on R4Today she asked about red zone on a map of Middlesbrough
    “Oh that’s a no-no zone for the BBC crew”
    “But my parents live in the middle of that”

    Of 9 BBC women in the £150K PAYE category
    7 went to public school

    https://www.juicingthelemon.com/class-and-diversity/
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8855057/Steph-McGovern-38-assumed-hard-life-Northern-accent.html

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  29. theisland says:

    Some more (failed) asylum seekers
    https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/news/2021/04/12/victims-of-the-uks-failure-to-enforce-its-borders

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  30. StewGreen says:

    BBCnews title : North Lincolnshire Council loses £49k to ‘sophisticated’ email scam

    BBCnews text “About £44,000 of the stolen money had been recovered”

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  31. StewGreen says:

    BBC headline : Hull rapist told woman he would help her find lost friends

    Local paper headline : “*Turkish man* denies raping woman in Hull’s Drypool Bridge area”

    found guilty at Hull Crown Court and will be sentenced on 3 May.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-60837467

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  32. MarkyMark says:

    Bridgerton: South Asian faces on TV ‘makes me happy’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60819829
    ………….

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  33. MarkyMark says:

    You have been played … “A Russian billionaire sanctioned by the UK says he no longer owns many former properties, potentially putting them beyond the reach of the law.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60825983

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  34. MarkyMark says:

    His wealth has been estimated at $18.4bn (£14bn), including “Beechwood House in Highgate… and the 16th Century Sutton Place estate in Surrey”, the UK government said.

    BBC research estimates that Beechwood House could now be worth about £82m.

    But a spokesman for Mr Usmanov said that most of the billionaire’s UK property, as well as his yacht, had already been “transferred into irrevocable trusts”.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60825983

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  35. StewGreen says:

    9pm ITV “British Grandma”
    “Linda Carty has never been to Britain!
    She was born in St Kitts which was a British colony”

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    • StewGreen says:

      “She had lived in Houston for nearly 20 years.”
      “Carty lied to the court; she told them she was born in the American Virgin Islands.
      It wasn’t until 2004 two years after she had been sentenced to death, that she suddenly remembered her British nationality and right to consular assistance”

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  36. StewGreen says:

    ITV local news “last night we talked about 71% of BAME have opted out of organ donation now Part 2″

    The government have spent an extra £2.2m on BAME targeted advertising .. but the figure only went down 2%”

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  37. Guest Who says:

    “And they looked from Labour to BBC, and back from BBC to…”

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    • StewGreen says:

      That’s quite nasty to say the gov should have broken EU rules and paid hostage takers.

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  38. StewGreen says:

    Bradford news

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    • tomo says:

      In involuntary shudder here in memory of try to cross a construction site in socks….

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  39. Guest Who says:

    Not back at the bbc yet?

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  40. tomo says:

    A Kamala Kompilation

       5 likes

  41. Guest Who says:

    BBC News

    Maharashtra: Rubber penis in family planning kit sparks row

    Envy of the world.

       1 likes

  42. Fedup2 says:

    Tomo
    In that last clip I think even she realised she had just spoke nonsense . I got the impression that she has an earpiece to correct her – ‘I stand here on the northern flank – er eastern flank ‘….
    She will make an even better president that the false one … the ballots are already in the boxes …

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  43. taffman says:

    “Covid in Wales: Mask and isolation rules may be extended”
    Health Minister Eluned Morgan suggested that some, rather than all, rules could be left on the statute book and the Welsh government may “pick and choose” from the remaining Covid legislation.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-60834936
    Here we go again !

    P.S. Nice photo.

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  44. Guest Who says:

    The joys of obeying the legal requirements of not having a tvl.

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  45. taffman says:

    “David Amess killing: Jury played 999 call from witness to stabbing”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-60833548
    Shouldn’t that be headline news ?
    How many more are coming across the Channel in dinghies?

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  46. Guest Who says:

    The bbc will be all over this, surely?

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    • StewGreen says:

      She revealed her husband of 35 years, Dennis, owns a second property in the city other than the family home.

      It is being leased to a property firm who in turn rent it out to people needing somewhere to live. The deal generates £700 income a month for the Hamiltons and is a common, perfectly legal practice.

      The reason this issue matters is that concerns about an explosion in the number of properties designated as ‘exempt’ supported housing across Erdington and citywide was a key battleground in the by-election.
      Some parts of the constituency have become overrun with properties housing those entitled to accommodation and support.
      .. when badly run, it causes safeguarding issues for the tenants and trouble for the neighbourhood.

      When asked where the property was, she said she was not prepared to share that information, and said she did not know the name of the lease company.
      Council rules seem to say you can only withhold the address of properties you ARE living at.

      The exempt houses are basically run by housing org as hostels for migrants and homeless.
      (Seems to me that politicians are encouraging those problems then profiting from them )

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  47. Northern Voter says:

    So, I had the misfortune to switch on the TV this afternoon, Doctors the BBC/NHS lovein was on. It was so much like real life. GP’s surgery, not a patient in sight. I thought it was a reality programme.

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  48. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Isn’t it strange that Putin’s opponent, Navalny, has been put in prison for fraud when ex taxi driver Putin has managed to get himself 200 billion. Pounds or dollars, I’m not sure which.
    Does fraud not include backhanders, stolen money, bribes, corrupt deals and all the other ways to amass a fabulous fortune as the ex taxi driver has done.

    As well as that, the UK has spent a huge amount on the Chinese flu. Has Russia not spent anything. A war is very expensive so how can Putin afford one when covid and the likes of himself are funnelling money out of the Russian system.
    Has nobody living in Russia noticed. (Rhetorical)

    And, how can one man be the cause of tens of thousands of deaths (maybe it will be tens of millions if it gets out of control) in these times. They keep popping up like Hitler and Stalin to name but two. With all the social media about nowadays you would think the Russian people would see the truth and get rid of him.

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  49. Guest Who says:

    It does seem putting things in the hands of politicised fixers has backfired impressively.

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    • Guest Who says:

      He is a total tool, isn’t he?

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  50. Guest Who says:

    BBC opens next front.

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