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  1. Guest Who says:
    March 22, 2022 at 7:56 pm

    Radio 4

    Jennifer Saunders on the power of talking about the menopause.

    Woman’s Hour on BBC Sounds.

    ***
    Doing Opera on Classic FM.

    Lord knows what once she hits Sky.

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  2. Up2snuff says:
    March 22, 2022 at 8:15 pm

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – spot the non-deliberate mistake

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52188448

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  3. Woodenfish says:
    March 22, 2022 at 8:23 pm

    Clive Myrie could be quite OK as a news reader. True, he sometimes goes goggle-eyed and can look like a rabbit in the headlights; but his voice quality is good and he’s easy to understand when he reads aloud. But now that woke-think is compulsory, he has had to learn some new skills: speaking with his head tilted to one side, and using silly voice tones to show us what we are supposed to think. Woke-think turns people into posers, conformists and creeps, but don’t blame Clive. He didn’t invent it. He just copies it.

    Recently, a few BBC has-beens headed off to join LBC, so as to be more free to express their “personal opinions”. Sadly, personal opinions can’t hide that Marr, Uselis and Sope are all one-trick ponies whose best days are already over. But LBC will help keep them going a bit longer, maybe by coming up with some new “programme formats”. The one they’ve made for the raised-from-the-grave Marr Show has a photo of Parliament-on-Thames as the studio backdrop (wow! innovative!) and the LBC logo spelled out as a punchy corporate-style slogan: “Leading Britain’s Conversation”. Could anything be more pathetic? Well, let’s remember the bright side: we don’t have to pay for it.

    It’s hard to imagine what kind of shallow mind admires the BBC’s Deadenders and wants to follow them on Twitbook, but it would be wrong to say they have no fans. They do, and the fans make an audience, not huge but big enough, and likely to stay loyal until… well, until the next timeserver crawls out of the BBC rubble and elbows them out of the way. One likely bet might be John Simpson, who recently wrote a piece about how Putin wants out of his war but is “looking for a way to save face.” That had already been worked out by most human beings, and also by seagulls, mice and some of the higher fish species — but huge thanks anyway to the World Affairs Editor for the insight. And then there’s John Humphries, a man who lived glued to the BBC for what seemed aeons longer than any normal human lifetime. Finally he broke away and found freedom as a columnist for the Daily Mail. In no time his stuff was the most boring, self-regarding tripe in the whole paper. Is he still there? Well, not for much longer. Especially with Clive waiting in the wings.

    But hey, Clive’s not so bad, taking things in the round, and nor is his view that the licence fee is good value for money. I disagree with him on that, but many people think he’s right, considering the range of programmes on offer. If it was voluntary, a subscription fee, I could understand that some people might choose to pay it. But it isn’t. People are forced to pay it by law. If they don’t, they can get jailed. Is Clive OK with that? He loves his big salary and thinks he deserves it, I get that. But does he care that the cash has to be extorted by force, even from the poorest people? What’s his “personal opinion”? Maybe one day we’ll find out from LBC — if someone will please turn off those headlights…

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  4. Guest Who says:
    March 22, 2022 at 9:48 pm

    What is not improved by one of the BBC’s top professional editors making a total arse of himself and the media today.

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    • Guest Who says:
      March 22, 2022 at 10:00 pm

      Gets better hour by hour.

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      • Guest Who says:
        March 22, 2022 at 10:06 pm

        But then it takes a dire turn.

        Poor kid.

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        • Guest Who says:
          March 22, 2022 at 10:19 pm

          The analysis from Laura, Toenails and Lewis will be worth it.

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          • Guest Who says:
            March 22, 2022 at 10:42 pm

            Laura sticking with snacks. Wise.

            Sopes probably sharing another marketing tweet he and a few million others got, as ‘news’.

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          • StewGreen says:
            March 23, 2022 at 12:18 am

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            • Fedup2 says:
              March 23, 2022 at 12:36 am

              Maybe all those sports should be unisex – same for footy and rugby and the cricket and boxing – that way all 2/3/4/5…. Variations on sex will be catered for ….

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    • MarkyMark says:
      March 23, 2022 at 8:59 am

      Islam is right about dual nationals?

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  5. Guest Who says:
    March 22, 2022 at 9:50 pm

    The tension is unbearable.

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  6. Guest Who says:
    March 22, 2022 at 10:13 pm

    Shame Shur Shorn Connery not around for the sequel.

    Guessing… Idris?

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    • Fedup2 says:
      March 22, 2022 at 11:49 pm

      Shequel

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    • Thoughtful says:
      March 23, 2022 at 8:48 am

      High time our cowardly useless incompetent excuse for a ‘government’ started sanctioning holidays in Turkey financing a corrupt President little better than Putin and responsible for sending millions of fake asylum seekers into Europe.

      Turkey represents a real threat to Europe and it is high time Socialist leaders did something about it.

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  7. Guest Who says:
    March 22, 2022 at 10:36 pm

    They know it is clickbait.
    I know it is clickbait.

    But part of me is tempted to find certain key questions answered.

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  8. StewGreen says:
    March 22, 2022 at 11:39 pm

    BBC where diversity means having Red, Green, and Black

    9:45am book reading
    “The Red historians, from Karl Marx.. wrote The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, with his friend Engels,
    to Leon Trotsky whose finest books were written in exile.
    The Communist Party Historians Group in London in the late 1940s – Raphael Samuel, Christopher Hill and EP Thompson, all writing about the working classes – to the most famous of them all, Eric Hobsbawm.    ”

    10:45pm book reading : Two fair skinned black women in 1920s Harlem who both can pass for white
    .. “Contains racial language of the time which some may find offensive.”

    “.. now also as an English literature A -level set text.”
    British students are forced to study books about 1920’s black Harlem ?”

    3:30pmIs there a green way out of the energy price crisis? Tom Heap gathers expert opinion.

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    • StewGreen says:
      March 22, 2022 at 11:48 pm

      4pm Law prog “The vast majority of senior judges are former barristers, and most are white men. “
      Oh the shame of employing white men

      Law prog credits
      Producer: Arlene Gregorius
      Researchers: Octavia Woodward and Imogen Serwotka
      Production Coordinators: Maria Ogundele and Jacqui Johnson
      (. the presenter and sound guy are men)

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    • StewGreen says:
      March 22, 2022 at 11:52 pm

      Wednesday’s 9:45 book reading : Herstory
      Female historians from Chinese Ban Zhoa in 45 AD, Mary Wollstonecraft and Madame de Stael, to female winners of the Pulitzer Prize.
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      10am Woman’s Hour
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      11am An exploration of men’s violence against women with Scottish writer Alistair Heather.

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  9. LastChanceSaloon says:
    March 23, 2022 at 7:48 am

    https://order-order.com/2022/03/22/rishi-plans-to-hand-out-pennies-and-take-in-pounds/
    https://order-order.com/2022/03/22/some-suggestions-on-where-to-cut-government-waste/

    Begin by giving it a more accurate title, one which conveys the nature of this anti-British, anti-white, anti-male body.

    One which reflects the inefficiency which Digby Jones highlighted.

    [
    “https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/jan/16/digby-jones-says-sack-civil-servants”

    15 Jan 2009

    “Jones told MPs that Whitehall could be run with “half as many” civil servants and that he had been amazed during his time in government by how many staff “deserved the sack”.
    ]

    Rename this treasonous monstrosity “The Parasitic Sector”.
    Abolish the Commie swamp, in every Western State.

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  10. Fedup2 says:
    March 23, 2022 at 8:19 am

    The BBC approved view of the impact of rapidly increasing inflation is good socialism . 6.2% official as of today . The remedy ? The government to pay – subsidise everything – pay every one .
    The coming cut in fuel tax will not be enough . The green nazis will say it encourages people to drive the hated car .
    And surely expensive electricity and gas is good for the planet? Less carbon footprint … saving the planet … but in the real world people live in darker colder homes .

    And food – more expensive – solve that obesity problem by not being able to afford excess eating …

    There – 2 serious problems ( in the approved view of the BBC ) solved at a stroke .

    10% inflation by year end – and then another interest rate increase coming very soon … big shock if it’s .5% this time …

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    • Thoughtful says:
      March 23, 2022 at 9:35 am

      To be honest society needs a total rethink of the way it has organised itself around the motor car, and how ever increasing fuel prices, and eventual shortages will force that change if we don’t make it ourselves in advance.

      In days before the car people lived in tight knit communities where all strata of society lived together the poor and the rich in close proximity. This bred aspiration, and people could see the rewards of hard work and the results of indolence and alcohol.

      Now we have a middle class which live in suburbs miles from their place of work, and it’s n ot unheard of for people to commute 150 each way every day. Clearly this is unsustainable.

      Public transport needs to be made more attractive, and swinging punishments for those who commit offences on it.

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  11. andyjsnape says:
    March 23, 2022 at 8:22 am

    Racist car insurance
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60837074

    Maybe more of a liability? Guess whitey should pick up the bill, and shouldn’t drive in the manner many do!

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    • MarkyMark says:
      March 23, 2022 at 8:54 am

      Three people have died in a knife attack at a church in Nice, in what French President Emmanuel Macron said was an “Islamist terrorist attack”.

      He said France would not surrender its core values after visiting the Notre-Dame basilica in the southern city. An extra 4,000 troops are being deployed to protect churches and schools.

      In Nice, one elderly victim was “virtually beheaded”, officials said. Another woman and a man also died.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54729957

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  12. Fedup2 says:
    March 23, 2022 at 8:23 am

    Over 800 illegal arrivals across the channel yesterday – it’s almost as though there is an agreement between the French and UK to ferry them across … 1000 today ?

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  13. Messenger says:
    March 23, 2022 at 9:07 am

    Several of the announcers on Classic FM have adopted the peculiar tones and emphases and breaking sentences up with gaps in the wrong places. John Humphreys had a good music programme on Sunday afternoons and when he first started it he spoke in his usual way. The last couple of weeks he too has succumbed to the woke-speak mannerisms and if he goes on, I shall be off.

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    • Thoughtful says:
      March 23, 2022 at 9:27 am

      If you have a streaming radio then I suggest Linn radio which streams at 320 Kbps and has very little spoken word and no news, although that does mean you need to go on line to find what they are playing at any particular time!

      There are three stations, including classical and jazz

      https://www.linn.co.uk/linn-radio

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