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In the BBC report on the trial of Ali Harbi Ali for the murder of MP David Amess, the following words do not appear even once: muslim, islam, islamic or islamist.
Nor the fact that the Quran, the Hadith and the Sira all contain frequent injunctions for muslims to kill unbelievers.
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/violence.aspx
P.S. In the last 30 days, there were at least 99 Islamic attacks in 24 countries, in which 577 people were killed and 501 injured.
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=Last30
https://robertspencer.org/
BBC mentioned Allah on the news report – get ready to wear Russian hats to end Russianophobia.
On the BBC website report, no mention of Islam.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-60848592
Woah! BBC are adding Iran into the Yemen reports …. this is new, might be worth Owen Jones taking note.
“Yemen war: Saudi-backed forces begin assault on Hudaydah port” {bbc.co.uk 13jun2018}
Article Word Search: Iran x 7; Saudi x 8; Islam x 0 ; Religion x 0; Muslim x 0; Allah x 0; “religion of peace” x 0;
Yemen …. A Utopia where Sunni Islam mets Shiite Islam.
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/06/13/midweek-open-thread-13th-june-2018/#comment-922777
https://thecountersignal.com/trudeau-gets-called-a-dictator-in-front-of-eu/
Poland’s sovereignity is under threat from the EU’s conditionality mechanism – linking the disbursement of EU funds with the rule of law, and the bloc’s climate policies Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro of the Solidarity Poland party said on Saturday, proposing to block it.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/justice-minister-announces-anti-eu-offensive-in-defence-of-polish-sovereignty/
@theisland – How delicious!
Apparently the speaker was a certain Mislav Kolakusic from Croatia, who knows a thing or two about authoritarian regimes having lived under Communism.
BBC Breakfast
BBC One, 25 February 2022
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine we reported on the journey a Scottish man was making from Kyiv to Poland. The report started with a shot of military planes in formation overhead. This was old footage filmed in 2020 of preparations for a military parade in Moscow and should not have been used. We apologise for the mistake.
15/03/2022
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications
Sunak’s wife, Akshata Murthy, owns a £500 million stake in the Indian IT consultancy firm Infosys, which operates an office and has one of its delivery centres in Moscow. The company has remained eerily quiet during the conflict. In fact, Infosys – founded by Akshata’s father, the Narendra Modi-supporting billionaire Narayana Murthy – told Private Eye it “does not see any impact on delivery or services” from its Russian operations as a result of sanctions imposed by the British government.
Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine has prompted Rishi Sunak to call on business leaders to “think very carefully” about investments that would “aid the Putin regime”.
https://reaction.life/sunaks-family-investments-fall-foul-of-his-own-advice-on-russia/
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Nato leaders gather as Ukraine
warMINOR INCURSION enters second monthhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-60856533
David Cameron is a man on a mission. The former prime minister is currently driving a lorry on a 1,000-mile trip to Poland with two colleagues from Chippy Larder, a food bank he volunteers for in his home town of Chipping Norton.
https://reaction.life/white-van-man-cameron-heads-to-poland/
Cameron hasn’t exactly covered himself in glory since leaving Number 10. Last year, he was exposed by BBC Panorama for bagging £7 million from shares in the collapsed finance company he lobbied for, Greensill Capital.
He didn’t exactly cover himself in glory while he was in Number 10 either. Despite inheriting the disastrous mess of Blair and Brown and with the chance to make a real difference, he pronounced his major achievement as being ‘gay marriage’.
Ah yes, Chipping Norton, well known for its grinding poverty and starving urchins, what do they put in the food parcels, caviar and foie gras? Maybe a bottle, or two of dom perignon?
War in Ukraine: UK unveils new Russia sanctions as PM aims at gold reserves
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60858511
It was called one of the worst investment decisions of all time. Twenty years ago on Tuesday, then Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown said he was selling tonnes of Britain’s gold reserves. Trouble was, his timing could barely have been worse.7 May 2019
Rishi says he agrees with everyword the Prime Minister said – but cannot remember what he said – but agrees with every word – yet does not know what those words were.
HA HA HA
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What is going on that highly educated, high status individuals can no longer explain what differentiates their mothers from their fathers? This is madness…
At my age, I agree with everything everyone says, then carry on as if nothing had happened!
I really don’t care what any politicians spout these days, they’re only in it for self-glory and of course, eye-watering expenses which they can fiddle at their hearts’ content. Most of the labour ‘front bench’ would be worthless in any private company if they had to actually work, so I ignore them, and the Tories just say one thing and do another, so all in all, I’m a happy soul, sipping a glass of red and wondering if I’ll sow the ‘Pentland Javelin’ potatoes this afternoon…
Diane Abbott stumbled through an explanation of her party’s plan for an additional 10,000 police officers.
During an interview with LBC, the Shadow Home Secretary gave several estimates for how much the new officers would cost, ranging from £300,000 to £80m.
Ms Abbott was later forced to listen back to the excruciating interview when she appeared on the BBC.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/diane-abbot-lbc-interview-in-full-police-officer-pay-manifesto-radio-nick-ferrari-a7713556.html
She did that well before her son started biting and spitting at everyone!
Nice ‘family’…
Scrob – hello – there is something to be said for that -sadly views become entrenched . Sometimes – whether on the internet or face to face – it is best to remain silent or ‘nod ‘ –
– I monitor twitter but have never commented . The same goes for other media type sites . In previous lives one of the most distressing feelings I had was giving good advice to people who then ignored it and then endured failure – hardship – avoidable .
A very few told me ‘I was right ‘…
I don’t give advice much to anyone anymore because I’ve tried to apply the ‘what’s in it for me test ‘..
The last piece of advice I gave here was last autumn when I said ‘fix energy costs if possible ‘… I hope some one listened …September 2023 might be a shock when my contract ends …
Hi Fed!
I did take your advice, and although it was a bit of a gulp at the new cost, I’m glad I did, so thank you!
Comment of the year Scroblene.
You’re very kid, RPM, and thank you!
I still didn’t get the spuds in though…
(Suspect the glass of red increased as the lunch went on a bit)!
A star descending …
Zelenskiy in Ukraine seems to be revealing his true nature and motives, In a Trudeau-like manner he has banned all opposition parties in the Country and pulled all news transmission into one body which he can control.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/20/ukraine-suspends-11-political-parties-with-links-to-russia
This is an outright attack on any Russian speaking Ukrainians and It does explain why he has come under Russian pressure.
Like all “progressive liberal” governments, scratch the surface and it reveals a glib-tongued dictator.
Ukraine was invaded, one can hardly expect things to carry on as normal.
If he a dictator, all that would have been done YEARS before the war.
Ukraine suspends 11 political parties with links to Russia
Zelenskiy says parties such as Viktor Medvedchuk’s Opposition Platform for Life are ‘aimed at division or collusion’
Russia-Ukraine war: latest developments
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/20/ukraine-suspends-11-political-parties-with-links-to-russia
“links with Russia” – shaking hands? Visiting?
Stew, Zelensky has not been in power that long. Memory suggests that he was elected in 2019 or 2020 but could be faulty – extremely faulty.
Like 2021?
In risky move, Ukraine’s president bans pro-Russian media
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has unplugged three television networks he accuses of spreading Kremlin-funded ‘propaganda’, a development the EU has reprimanded.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/5/ukraines-president-bans-pro-russian-networks-risking-support
Ukraine has shut down three domestic television channels linked to a politician close to Vladimir Putin, alleging that they pose a national security risk by spreading Kremlin disinformation at a time when the country is in its eighth year of an undeclared war with Russia.
https://www.ft.com/content/176c0332-b927-465d-9eac-3b2d7eb9706a
Or 2011
Yulia Tymoshenko jailed after ‘political trial’ that risks making Ukraine a pariah
European Union and Russia condemn seven-year sentence for former prime minister accused of abuse of office over gas deal
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/11/yulia-tymoshenko-jailed-ukraine-pariah
Hello Marky
Scotland giving aid? So the UK government give money to miss piggy and she gives it away
Interesting that most of the Countries shown in grey, i.e. non-donating are the same ones that scream loudest about human rights etc. etc. etc
News bits
This morning the P&O ferry sailed out of Hull empty
with a view to coming back loaded from Rotterdam.
BBC news clip said that a barrister was claiming that old workers contracts even though registered abroad counted as British as British bases were used.
My guess is that workers were enjoying tax benefits, so that counts against that line.
#2 News claimed that Russians had suffered significant loss , as at Mariupol a large landing craft was sunk and others on fire.
When it’s despun I expect it’ll turn out that Russian tanks had already been offloaded.
FooC continued this theme, making out Putin’s violence had alienated Russian speakers.
Hence the counter offensives.
The DT reports ‘Eddie Mier?” Is to retire later this year … another gap on LBC for an ex BBC droid – ? Koonsberg ? Move those deckchairs as woke ships sink …
11am Fooc ticked boxes
Climate. OrangeManBad, BLM, slavery reparations
” Putin’s calculation that his troops would be greeted as liberators by Russian-speaking Ukrainians has proved to be wrong. Nick Sturdee has found that the invasion appears to have unified disparate parts of the Ukrainian population.”
Romania : Jen Stout described the border area as multicultural..
Tara McKelvey spent time watching the trial of Guy Reffitt, for Jan 6th
whose own son took to the stand to testify against him.
“He was convicted of all counts”
She said he was the first Jan 6th conviction and significant one
Yet she never mentioned anything like him killing, shooting etc.
but rather he had loaded his car with guns, and later bragged he had started a fire. No more detail than that.
So the worst Jan 6th person was a bit of a conspiracy nut who’d driven to Washington with guns. but apparently didn’t shoot anyone, she didn’t even mention if he’d been a the Capitol.
Ecuador’s Galapagos Marine Reserve : talk about Chinese boat being jailed for taking lots of sharks.
Mark Stratton claimed the 4 year El Nino warm year cycles were getting even warmer, cos of Climate Change.
I’m sceptical cos activists have often mislead about el Nino.
The Caribbean island of Martinique, part of the French EU
Now semi-autonomous status, but relations have deteriorated. Lindsay Johns remembers a soldier from Martinique, who fought proudly for the French while still having to endure racism.
I think the soldier they talked about was of Vietnamese decent.
Do you think it strange that rishi hasn’t done an oil company windfall tax yet ?
Could it be that he is using the threat of it to encourage investment ?
Or maybe holding off until the next rise in energy costs in October ?
I haven’t heard either of these being floated by the msm – just the normal ‘tories bad ‘ stuff …
Trying to figure out what the outcome of the next election 2023? Will be is a very tough call due to the coming cost increases on everyone for everything … assuming the world war is limited to Ukraine of course …
Fed, not sure it is the oil companies, the ones that pull the stuff out of the ground, that are to blame. I saw a photo somewhere recently, somewhere in the UK, that shows a spread of 15p between petrol and diesel prices on a pump. May have been on the BBC web-site.
Now, that is profiteering.
But they are not the only villains.
The utility companies often base executive pay on turnover. Increased input cost gas/electricity = increased bills = increased turnover = “Look how much we have grown in the past year!” = Bonuses and pay increases all round.
Similarly the traders that work for businesses trading oil/gas/electricity.
Fed said “Do you think it strange that rishi hasn’t done an oil company windfall tax yet ?”
That like saying “Don’t you think it strange that rishi hasn’t done a Magic Solution yet ?”
FFS it’s magical thinking
Real life isn’t that simple
Sure Shell and BP play a long game, investing huge sums for years. having some loss years, having some profit years.
It is entirely possible that last year they sold on an oil field, and this year someone else is making the profit
How on Earth would you make a fair windfall tax ?
Windfall taxes are pure Chavez
and corps would be right to avoid investing in the UK for fear of later governments seizing their money
One reason we don’t have enough gas is cos Green Boris’s party has sent signals to oil corps saying that it intends to punish them
12:30pm R4 promoting Heat Pumps again
“We look at what’s involved in switching to a heat pump.
Rishi Sunak also reduced VAT on air source heat pumps to 0%, down from five per cent.
It comes as the Government’s new plan to persuade us to give up our gas boilers launches next week.
It’s a grant scheme that offers £5,000 off the upfront cost of an air source heat pump.
#1 Magic unicorns will pay for that £5,000 grant
#2 Heat Pump suppliers will not take advantage by putting up prices
… sarc
Heat pumps, as they stand at the moment (they could/should improve over time) are not a viable alternative to gas boilers for most of us, for a number of reasons, including:
1. The price of them
2. The price and upheaval of retro-fitting one in anything other than a new build
3. The price of the electricity they consume
4. The price of them
So, it’s all just peeing in the wind AKA Tory ‘greenwashing’.
10 to 15 years
As a general rule, the average lifespan of a heat pump is 10 to 15 years. Ultimately, how long your heat pump lasts will depend on how often you use the system and whether it receives regular maintenance. Maintenance is critical to keeping your system working properly for as long as possible.23 Aug 2021
BBC, Tory ‘greenwashing’ which John Major proved did not work for him in 1997 after he introduced the Fuel Duty Escalator in 1992/93.
Why go elsewhere ? taffland has some of the world’s best coal. That’s 300 years of it, enough to buy time until GB gets renewables.
You can take the man out of the BBC but you cannot take the BBC out of the man. Andrew Neil does not do his fact checking. He put this on twitter this morning. The video is 5 years old on You Tube and the sound from the gunfire is edited in.
https://twitter.com/i/status/15067612044626698
Sod it, I cannot copy it. But here is the original 5 year old video.
Ukraine war: Dnipro orphans find sanctuary in Scotland
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-60850379
bBC keep mentioning “temporary” accomodation. How longs a piece of string……….
ABOUT TIME TOO !!!
Watchdog called in to look at police response to child sexual exploitation
A scathing report published in February found there are ‘extensive failures’ in the way child sexual exploitation by criminal gangs is tackled.
with police and authorities potentially downplaying the scale of abuse over concerns about negative publicity.
Victims and survivors of child sexual abuse and exploitation have told me how they have been failed by the state in the name of political correctness
Child victims – some of whom reported being raped, abused, and in one case forced to perform sex acts on a group of 23 men while held at gunpoint – were often blamed by authorities for the ordeals they suffered while some were even slapped with criminal records for offences closely linked to their sexual exploitation.
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) said there was “a flawed assumption” that child sexual exploitation was “on the wane”, with councils and police forces denying the scale of the problem, despite evidence to the contrary.
A number of other reviews of problems in areas such as Bradford, “highlighted inadequacies in past responses to this horrific crime”, the Home Office said, adding: “This national inspection will ensure learning from past mistakes is being applied by police forces across the country, so that they can respond effectively to all victims and bring more offenders to justice.”
Ms Patel said: “Victims and survivors of child sexual abuse and exploitation have told me how they have been failed by the state in the name of political correctness.
“Although I believe the policing response to these issues has evolved, I want to ensure current practice is relentless in protecting children, supporting victims and bringing perpetrators to justice, which is why I am requesting this inspection.”
The investigation will assess whether police forces in England and Wales are using the “most effective approaches in protecting victims from CSE (child sexual exploitation) and relentlessly pursuing offenders”.
It will look at the attitudes of police towards victims, the effectiveness of assessments, the scale of offending and the “nature, adequacy and timeliness of responses”.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/home-secretary-watchdog-priti-patel-iicsa-home-office-b990284.html
It will look at the attitudes of police towards victims – another year report – another nothing done.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/03/23/grooming-gang-whistleblower-claims-police-said-she-was-rocking-the-multicultural-boat/
NATO MEMBERS … Turkey to Go Ahead with Russian Weapons Purchases Despite US Objections
https://www.voanews.com/a/europe_turkey-go-ahead-russian-weapons-purchases-despite-us-objections/6205910.html
Turkey is threatening to go ahead with Russian military purchases despite warnings from Washington. The threat comes as the impasse between the NATO members deepens over Ankara’s purchase of a Russian missile system.
With Washington stepping up its pressure on Ankara to reverse its purchase of the Russian S 400 missile defense systems, Turkish defense minister Hulusi Akar this month defended its intentions, dismissing American concerns.
Boris Johnson snubbed as Macron and other EU leaders completely ignore him at Nato meeting
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-eu-leaders-ignore-nato-b2043056.html
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‘Tampon tax’ to be scrapped after David Cameron wins EU support for VAT change
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14352531.tampon-tax-scrapped-david-cameron-wins-eu-support-vat-change/
Being the EU they would do that wouldn’t they?
If the EU had made their commitments to NATO instead of forming a separate “EU Defence Force”, we would not be in the mess we are in now.
Didn’t President Trump warn them about this ?
So the Independent made a claim that Boris was generally snubbed and some reader immediately took it as true.
What happened to critical thinking ?
This is the same Independent that flagrantly ran a headline saying Karl Rittenhouse had shot 3 *black* men
.. of course he didn’t
bBC recently reported on
RT: Russian-backed TV news channel disappears from UK screens
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60584092
if anyone would still like Russia Today, just go on line
https://www.rt.com/
Censorship hasn’t totally worked
That “snubbing” of Boris as the Frog has a wee huddle behind him
only serves to further endorse Brexit.
No doubt it will be seized upon by the flaccid state organ.
For moments like that I would a simply pull out a Union flag handkerchief.
Or pass him an envelope telling him that a boatload of brown goods returns was heading to Calais.
They aren’t snubbing Boris; they are surrendering to each other just in case.
Nothing new under the sun. Cameron was pointedly snubbed by Sarkozy – another diminutive French impressionist – and then relegated to the end of the back row for the groupie shot.
And that was when we were still second largest contributor to the pyramid scheme.
Not sure of the timing but the shot of Treesa, above, might be before she sat eating pizza in a corridor at 2am while the lads in the club enjoyed their brandy and cigars after their 7-course dinner.
Well I never, I’ve just had a scam email trying to scam me about another scam .
I’m referring to the email saying my direct debit to TV Licensing has not been paid due to a problem and they may cancel my licence .
Apart from the fact I haven’t had a TV licence for eighteen years, I know the email is a scam because:
It’s more polite and not as intimidating as the BBC’s threatograms .
The windmills up the A1 today were static.
Does this mean powercuts tonight ?
Some say the windmills have to be powered up (using electricity) when there is no wind to prevent ‘flats’ on their bearings ? Can any engineers confirm this ?
Certainly a possibility. It is known as brinelling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinelling
Berlusconi, despite his ejection from the senate, remains President of his party, Forza Italia, a party that he started in 2013, on the model of the previous incarnation of Forza Italia, which was dissolved in 2009.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/former-italian-prime-minister-silvio-berlusconi-given-three-years-in-prison-for-bribing-a-senator-but-he-won-t-serve-any-of-it-10376563.html
BBC2 afternoon feature “The sweet makers…A Georgian Treat”
Period costumes. etc. etc. Could be interesting historically but…
Minutes in….
Georgian Sweetmakers used sugar, lots of it….
Sugar came from the Caribbean…..
USING SLAVERY!!!
No mention that without the sugar traders the locals would probably have starved….
OFF!!!!!
Many societies throughout history have practised slavery, and Muslim societies were no exception.
It’s thought that as many people were enslaved in the Eastern slave trade as in the Atlantic slave trade.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/slavery_1.shtml
Slavery and sex-slavery (aka rape, including of young girls) is condoned in islam:
“In fact, a fatwa (Islam Q&A 33597 originally at http://www.islam-qa.com/en/ref/33597) was recently issued by a mainstream Islamic source reminding Muslim males of their divine right to rape female slaves and “discipline” resisters in “whatever manner he thinks is appropriate”. Not one peep of protest from Islamic apologists was recorded.
In 2013, the same site prominently proclaimed (Islam Q&A 10382 originally at http://www.islam-qa.com/en/ref/10382) that “there is no dispute (among the scholars) that it is permissible to take concubines and to have intercourse with one’s slave woman, because Allah says so.”
In 2003, a cleric in Saudi Arabia’s highest religious body declared, “Slavery is part of Islam. Slavery is part of jihad and jihad will remain as long as there is Islam. Those who argue that slavery has been abolished are ignorant, not scholars. They are merely writers. Whoever say such thing is an infidel.”
In 2011, Salwa Al-Mutairi, who is considered a women’s rights activist in Kuwait, suggested that Russian women be taken captive in battle and turned into sex slaves in order to keep Muslim husbands from committing adultery.
In 2014, al-Azhar (the Islamic world’s most prestigious university) proclaimed that Muslims can capture women in battle for sex slavery. The woman making the announcement was Suad Saleh, a so-called ‘moderate,’ who said this at the very same time that thousands of Yazidi women were being horrifically raped by the Islamic State.
In 2016, a British imam who claims to be anti-extremist, affirmed the legitimacy of sex slavery to his followers. The next year, a Kuwaiti Sheikh called enslaving unbelievers “one of the virtues of Islam.” There have also been several modern-day fatwas endorsing the sexual abuse of non-Muslim women following capture.
After the Islamic State kidnapped and pressed into slavery thousands of Yazidi women and children in 2014, the caliphate issued an FAQ of sorts on slavery, which included rules on sexually molesting children: “It is permissible to have intercourse with the female slave who hasn’t reached puberty if she is fit for intercourse; however, if she is not fit for intercourse, then it is enough to enjoy her without intercourse.” The best that “mainstream” apologists could muster in response was a letter appealing to “the reality of contemporary times”, meaning that Islam has no fixed moral position on the rape of woman and children.
In 2016, a scholar at Egypt’s al-Azhar, the most prestigious Islamic school in the Sunni world, stated that non-Muslim women could be captured in a time of war become “property” and can be raped “in order to humiliate them.”
A 12-year-old girl taken captive by the Islamic State explained that her ‘master’ would pray before he raped her: “He told me that according to Islam he is allowed to rape an unbeliever. He said that by raping me, he is drawing closer to Allah.” Other sex slaves have been forced to pray before the rape or recite passages from the Quran during. When a Yazidi woman begged a caliphate member not to rape a little girl, he responded, “She’s a slave… and having sex with her pleases God.”
In 2017, African slaves were freed from captivity in Libya, where their Arab masters not only raped and starved them, but forced them to drink from toilets. Groups like CAIR, which pretend to be concerned with “human rights,” never lifted a finger to help them.
A Quran memorization competition in 2015 offered slave girls as the top three prizes. Again, there were no voices of Muslim protest from elsewhere. As Uzy Bulut keenly observed, “A religion that encourages destructive rioting and killing over cartoons, but shows no sign of sorrow as little girls are sold and raped, does not have much to contribute to advancing civilization.”
An American apologist for Islam defended slavery in a 2020 interview, saying that “renting” labor is “better than owning.”
Since Muhammad was a slave owner and slavery is permitted by the Quran, the Muslim world has never apologized for this dehumanizing practice. Even Muslims in the West will often try to justify slavery under Islam, since it is a part of the Quran.”
Lots more where the above came from:
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/slavery.aspx
Watched The Colour Room film last last night. Bio (well an attempted one) of Clarice Cliff pottery designer in the early 1920s. Good story that could have been done so much better in the hands of another Director – miscasting of Phoebe Dynovore as Cliff for starters. By the bye, anyway, remember this was the 1920s, and women had a hard time getting any job in the workplace, but there we were, the secretary of the owner of the Pottery was a lady of a very deep colour. Then it was a 50/50 mix of the girl painters at the workbench – not so unreasonable as there could have been one or two people of colour, but I doubt the ratio was as high as 50/50. It becoming laughable now.
Actually I think it’s been laughable for a while…
The most noticeably inappropriate use of an actor that I saw was when a black chap was used to portray William the Conqueror’s main lieutenant during the Battle of Hastings. This bloke was giving the orders as the Saxons chased the Normans, thus falling into his cunning trap and were thus defeated.
He was depicted as some sort of military genius, up there with Rommel, Cromwell and Wellington. They take us for muppets.
This historical nonsense was cobbled together by Dan Snow, an ultra lefty, but also, supposedly, an historian.
Honestly, if you didn’t laugh you’d cry…
Praise for Prince Charles after ‘historic’ slavery condemnation
This article is more than 3 months old
Equality campaigners say remarks made as Barbados became a republic are ‘start of a grown-up conversation’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/30/praise-for-prince-charles-after-historic-slavery-condemnation-barbados
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The most notable of Muhammad’s slaves were: Safiyya bint Huyayy, whom he freed and married; Maria al-Qibtiyya, given to Muhammad by a Sassanid official, who gave birth to his son Ibrahim and was freed.
Switch on bingo again
4:35pm I switched on the R4 Science show and they were banging on about black women scientists not getting enough grants
I went off to do some errands
… and when I came back they were banging on about polar Heatwaves,
probably a new paper that WUWT has already debunked.
Oh the show does even give a blurb
I detest the way they sometimes withhold the details until well after the show has aired.
I checked the audio
– “Heatwaves at the Poles
– Can we plant our way to stronger resilient cities
but first First Racial UInequality in UK science
A SHOCKING NEW report from Royal Society Of Chemistry
… just a SINGLE black chemistry prof in UK !”
first 15 mins of the prog !
FFS top jobs are not a reflection of current average UK races
they will be a representation of the demographic from 35 years ago when current professors chose their A-levels
Black people represent 3% now
So they certainly were less 35 years ago
If then there were 100 chemistry students and 1 was black, then 1% black professors today would be the result.
SINGLE black chemistry prof in UK …. Indian Modi Goverment is Indian only.
There are LOADS of black professors in the sciences, and just as many in engineering – I could name half a dozen myself, this is utter bullshit.
Stewgreen said:
“top jobs are not a reflection of current average UK races
they will be a representation of the demographic from 35 years ago when current professors chose their A-levels
Black people represent 3% now
So they certainly were less 35 years ago
If then there were 100 chemistry students and 1 was black, then 1% black professors today would be the result.”
‘Professor’ is no long a ‘top job’ Stew, it’s not even particularly well paid, 30 years ago (when I was at Uni) it was still a top job (although not that well paid then either). Honestly, I’d rank secondary teachers higher than most university ‘professors’ these days, the entry requirements and training are probably stricter, and I’m pretty sure they’re paid more on average.
The change came in the mid 90s, when I was still in academe and just completing my PhD. It came about thanks to us adopting the US system of calling ALL university lecturers ‘professors’, instead of just the longest serving AND most prestigious (who were normally granted what we call a ‘chair’ and Americans ‘tenure’), nearing the end of their careers, as was the academic tradition in this country for hundreds of years. Oxford University were the leaders in calling for the change and it started out because British academics (junior lecturers, senior lecturers etc…) felt they were getting snubbed at international conferences because ‘everyone else’ was called ‘professor’ and most of them weren’t. It really was that petty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_ranks_in_the_United_Kingdom
Read the section under ‘Professors’ where it discusses the Oxford Uni ‘titles of distinction’ movement, which I recall well – think overgrown and entitled ‘school council’ members stamping their feet and demanding to be treated with more ‘respect’, and you’ll not be far wrong.
Overnight it seemed to go from one, or two professors (usually in their mid to late 60s) in each department, to 30 or 40 ‘professors’ (some as young as 24 and newly ‘doctored’) in each department. As it happened at the same time as Bliar dumbed down higher education, opened the doors to the ‘50%’ – remember “education, education, education”, there was a sudden rush to build new lecture theatres and accomodation, and vast intake of new staff, in fact for a couple of years it was hard for a lot of universities to get enough lecturering staff. I was offered a couple of posts myself, and could have been a ‘professor’ in my mid 20s. Not saying that to brag, the pay was about 2/3rds of what I got as a starting salary in the private sector and everyone involved could see their was no real status to it… or, it seemed to me at the time, any future.
Maybe I was wrong, they still seem to have people thinking it’s some kind of ‘top job’ and all ‘geniuses’ simply because they’re a ‘prof’. My old PhD supervisor, who was an old school Prof, and a genuinely decent, modest, gentleman, who’d worked his way up through decades of hard work, and hated Bliar, must be writhing in his grave. It makes me really cross too, but what can I do about it?
Anyway, I’ll try to avoid another rant on the subject.
On my degree course, 32-29 years ago, there were around 60 students, half from the UK, half from abroad, and perhaps half (both from the UK and abroad) were what we’d now call BAME, mostly Chinese, South Asian, or South East Asian, but I can remember half a dozen, or so blacks – am still friends with one of them. That was not at all unusual for engineering and science degrees in the late 80s/early 90s, and about half of our lecturers were also BAME, mostly Pakistani or Indian, I’d guess. The one thing that did disappoint me was out of around 60 of use, there can’t have been more than 8 or 9 girls – fo an 18 year old, hetero male, that was a big blow.
From what I know, at least one of the black guys went into academe, and was presumably a black ‘professor’ of Chemical Engineering, or some similar subject, something like twenty five years ago. In case you’re wondering (I did to start with), he was not this guy, this guy looks younger anyway.
He must be really, really bad at his job, or really, really bad at making grant applications, or they’d be throwing grant money at him, for the photoshoots alone, science and engineering (fields I work in), are as subject to tokenism and BLM crap, and ‘equal opportunties’ as any other field, only they find it hard to scrape up enough women engineers to keep the screeching feminists happy, not through lack of trying, a number of unis offer to pay full fees for female engineering students (and still they struggle to get enough female students!)
SOMETHING is not right about this story of the black ‘prof’ not getting research funding, I’m sure we’re only getting one side of a VERY biased story – trust me on this, it is the field I work in every week, and I’m very sure what we’re being told is complete horseshit.
I am reliably informed that Professorships are often awarded to the people who bring in the most external research funding.
And I definitely know ( but don’t ask how) that Professors are not any more clever than you or I. They just get a special designation with a promotion. Imagine calling a Sales Director ‘Professor’ because he/ she has won two or three promotions and brought in a lot of new business. It’s roughly the same situation.
I also support the Professorial inflation. In my day we had three Profs. the department has doubled in size since then. But there are now not 6 Profs, but 14 !!
According to racial equality activist Richard Lapchick, the NBA in 2020 was composed of 74.2 percent black players, 16.9 percent white players, 2.2 percent Latino players of any race, and 0.4 percent Asian players. There were 6.3 percent of the players classified as “other” races.
16:50pm “What kind of hedges should you be planting ?
There is new experiment
..scientist interviewed is a woman with a clear accent ..
Tijana Blanusa : Principal scientist at The RHS ” I moved from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where I was born.”
She thinks she can plant hedges to give flood protection, air quality protection, noise protection.
PRasNews for her of course.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – so she hates Rio? Rio is not free enough?
Can we get the money from hedge funds?
John J. Mearsheimer, “The False Promise of Liberal Hegemony”
“Nato has never been more united – Biden”
Unfortunately, the war in Ukraine is allowing the BBC to present Biden as the ‘leader of the free world’, the unifier of NATO, and the man who stood up to Putin. (Ignoring completely the fact that it was Biden’s weakness, say, in Afghanistan, and his disastrous energy policies that emboldened Putin in the first place, by making the West dependant on Russian oil and gas.
Add to that that Covid is declining and the US economy might start to bounce back by autumn, and the Dems might begin to recover by the midterms, and even more so by 2024.
So the greatest Imbecile in history might not do too badly, through absolutely no merit of his own.
And the Biden Broadcasting Corporation will be cheering him and covering for him every step of the way.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-60856533
Hello Vlad
Its NATO, so why does the bBC incorrectly keep referring to them as Nato
https://www.tvbeurope.com/business/people/michael-grade-appointed-ofcom-chair?
Chris Bryant is not happy, so there is that.
Ha ha! Sure his uncles Lew and Bernard would chuckle at this.
Meanwhile, in the EU Parliament, Turd-eau gets yet ANOTHER hammering. Delicious.
No mention on the BBC, natch.
Smitty is in the clear; she is on Doofus 1 en route to Brissels.
While the BBC fawns over Biden at NATO, GB News and Seb Gorka are less impressed.
The Ukrainians have managed to sink a large ship docked in harbour, and the clueless media trumpets that they were able to do so because the Russian media identified the location to them.
It appears to have gone completely over their heads that they have a responsibility to not spill military secrets, however, in identifying how Ukraine got its information, you can bet the Russian media won’t be doing that again !
The Americans are giving intel to the Ukraine military. (Source: BBC R4 TWatO)
Excellent – tell the Russians – I heard the Orish undertaker bloke the BBC always send to ‘emote ‘ – sob – describing how useful the rails are for Ukraine – top of the target list mate – thx .
BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – again?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274
What’s behind this? I do not trust the
Labour PartyBBC.Been away so apologies if covered already. But two classic biased BBC moments on Toady came screaming out of the iPhone.
Mischal uselessHussein was in Birmingham and the predictable victimhood hard luck stories ensued. And also as usual glaringly obvious questions were not allowed to obstruct the narrative.
The first sob story was a singer songwriter who has gone £5500 in debt with her energy supplier. The subtext was of course massive gas and electric price hikes.
What Hussein failed to link was the said singer songwriter’s abode (an apartment for one person) with the debt.
My energy bill is about £100 per month and it will not rise markedly until next month. It was around £100 per month last year too. And the year before. I have a house, not an apartment.
In other words the said singer songwriter must have been building up her energy debt for over 5 years !!!!!! Long before any energy crisis. So how come she has paid no bills for 5 years? Question the Toady editors obviously just did not want to ask. I wonder why not?
Next up, a question asked by Toady….should the government back track and allow for more domestic investment into oil and gas? Fracking maybe, or Shell developing the Cambo oil fields.
To answer this question Toady interviewed……that famously impartial ‘expert’….Caroline Lucas of the Green Party. Her unsurprising answer was No, let’s have more wind turbines and better insulation. That’ll sort Putin out!
And just to ensure balance, they also interviewed………an eco fanatic, who completely agreed with her!!!!!!!
Another triumph for the impartial eco-fantasist, Far Left BBC.
I think your answer lies here BBC
Surely not? OFCOM would be very annoyed if they did.
I see Deborah Meaden tweeted the now deleted Janey Godley doctored video
.. https://twitter.com/DeborahMeaden/status/1506967574998835205
.. She got slaughtered in the Quote tweets
Debs may not have run this one.
https://rumble.com/vye0a6-justin-trudeau-publicly-humiliated-at-meeting-of-the-eu.html?
Maybe it was not on the bbc?
So called comedy on Radio 4 six thirty pm had a dig at Brexit .
Apparently it’s wrong to have referendums in a democracy.
But then the BBC and fellow travellers think it’s wrong to have democracy in a democracy. Which is why they hate Donald Trump and think he’s the son of Margaret Thatcher who was the devil incarnate. If Putin was toppled tomorrow, the BBC , if it still exists, would forget him after two years but still refer to Trump as a hate figure ten years from now .
The BBC , a Gramscian hollowed out institution .
So Sopel complains about Trump’s fundraising letters
Does he mention the “10% for the big guy” in the Biden emails.
A lot of top Remainiac cult members seemed to have tweeted the fake Isolated-Boris video
.. INCLUDING this Oxford expert on disinformation.
.. I wonder if PJW will do a video ?
Disinformation ‘specialists’ seem particularly sensitive to their facts being checked.
Alastair Stewart OBE
The power of the edit – power without responsibility.
I grew up with, and in, a media, where we tried to show it like it is.
This kind of trick is juvenile and irresponsible partisanship.
A reply I first saw it tweeted by
@UKintheEU
rejoin propagandists.
the Independent journo I believe apologised to Alastair Stewart
The BBC News at Six used the footage AFTER Stewart’s warning
Repeated in their 10pm news bulletin apparently.
@AlStewartOBE Replied
The @BBCNews ‘bong’ showed @POTUS warmly embracing the ‘isolated’ @BorisJohnson
… then came the “Boris was isolated” package.
Does anyone think that such trivia is news worthy . The idea of politicians standing together in a phot shoot like this is frankly laughable .
What does it achieve – apart from an ego boost for those involved providing a kind of re enforcement for how important they think they are …
Hey – what about that – mickey grade has been put forward as the preferred chair of BBCOFCOM….. mickey is on record for privatising Channel 4 as well as saying some pretty challenging comments about the lack of diversity of thought in the BBC .
He is also a member of the Conservative Party ( but that can just mean he prefers the colour blue to red or yellow ).
I guess the test will be how much resistance will there be from the luvvie / swamp ….. after all they kept Dacre out …..
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/24/can-we-trust-the-science/?
One for Sopes and Rowlatt?
In their Propagandacast series?
Shhh! Don’t mention the war….
http://stonetoss.com/
Not bbc – what do you think of this? There is a nice detached house near me . Outside it there is a ‘display ‘ of yellow and blue balloons – Ukraine stylee ….
…I don’t think the occupants are Ukrainian so I wonder if they are showing that they are taking in Ukrainian war refugees…
… I mused on how I would feel about such a welcome ….
Just wondering ..
Ian – ha ha it’s okay they are nice nazis …