Lord Michael Grade of Yarmouth is being nominated as the new Chair of BBCOFCOM . Does that mean it will be less of a ‘friend ‘ to the BBC and adopt a more challenging approach to its’ bias ?
Or will it be same old same old ?
Weekend 26 March 2022
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The BBC ‘analysis’ of this will be a hoot.
I saw Amy Cony Barrett being questioned prior to her appointment. She was on top of her brief and impressive. She was a Trump nomination.
Ketanji Brown Jackson is a Biden nomination. I have been watching the questioning. I will just say she isn’t as impressive.
Strewth… Thornbury seen this?
The media.
I like Putin he took the heat off the unvaxed, if it wasn’t for him we’d still be the target for the 2 minutes of hate.
YOUR COMPLAINT:
President Trump’s 100 Days President Biden’s 0 Day
Dear Winston Smith in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth,
You covered President Trump’s 100 Days and then produced a Beyond 100 Days to hold power to account.
Why have you not done the same for President Biden to hold power to account?
‘Omission is the greatest form of lie.’
———-
Thank you again for contacting us,
BBC Complaints Team
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints
No sense of irony whatsoever, the left:
‘For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power’
Biden calls for Putin’s removal
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10655343/This-man-remain-power-Biden-says-Putin.html
Farage is extremely un-impressed by Biden on absolutely EVERYTHING!
“Joe Biden is an embarrassment to America”
I read that it is getting popular within a section of our vibrant young males of adopting the tactic of violently mugging older men, particularly if they see them using cash points.
Maybe this calls for a revival of the training given to older chaps in the home guard during the war who might need to deal with paratroopers.
Evening classes in aggressive self defence, carrying extendible legal night sticks and knuckle dusters and learning the art of disabling and nullifying an opponent. All of course only ever used for self protection under attack.
Not of course 303’s with bayonets but enough persuasion to put them off their stride and possibly into ICU.
Perhaps the possibility of facing such determined response might dissuade these “brave” young chaps from trying it on in the first place.
My Dad taught me that in the absence of a handy tool in this situation, a fistful of coins allows you to deliver a pretty persuasive response to the chin.
I for one am determined that if confronted by one of these animals I would endeavour to inflict as much damage as possible in self defence regardless of the physical injury caused to them,
Even that Clinton woman said they were “predators”
The chattering classes in the media or their parents should get a taste of the above to shut them up on this crap about every one them being the perennial victims.
My wife asked me what would happen if we were burgled. I told her that the burglar would suffer numerous injuries, consistent with falling down the stairs, despite them being caused by several smacks with a bat. She feels secure.
99p can of spray Deep Heat. After all, as an OAP, I certainly need to keep one ready to deal with all my aches and pains……………..
The home of Pippa Crerar and Kev Maguire.
What is telling is how often no one in the media reads their own stuff.
Is this Croydon?
‘Fake Ukrainians’ pretending to be refugees in bid to pocket cash from charitable pedestrians
People on the streets of Brussels are pretending to be Ukrainian refugees, reports Politico.
These ‘fake Ukrainians’ ask for €200 from sympathetic pedestrians.
It came as a furious war of words has erupted between the Government and Labour over the UK’s treatment of people fleeing Ukraine.
https://www.gbnews.uk/news/fake-ukrainians-pretending-to-be-refugees-in-bid-to-pocket-cash-from-charitable-pedestrians/239812
The mention of fake Ukrainian refugees has me thinking of our intake of boat people and Putin’s failure to take Ukraine.
Suppose Putin sent around 500 Russians of military age posing as refugees into Ukraine every day. Let it run for a while as the numbers increase, and then assist them into key places in Ukrainian politics, institutions etc. Soon he will have Ukraine without losing his soldiers.
It could even happen here
Has………….
Meanwhile the false president has declared that putin cannot stay in power . Does that amount to a declaration of war against him in another unscripted moment ?
I fear we are as close to the edge as we have ever been – including cuba … would nt it be something if the world is ended because of a demented fraud president and a russian who wants to be stalin ?
So it looks like Creepy Joe is calling for regime change in Russia. That surely is a step too far. I’m not sure the people of the West want to sign up for that. It might be a desirable outcome but I think it’s a suicidal tactic when dealing with a nuclear power. Basically that was a stupid remark by a sick old man.
The trouble is Boris is relishing in his role of being the most outspoken western leader. Will he go along with this or will he want to go one step further? He is after all a prize idiot a lot of the time.
Yasser
He will stay silent on that one and if asked if he agrees he will deflect . It reminds me a bit of the yalta ? Conference in WW2 when Roosevelt declared that there would be a need for unconditional surrender by the Germans and Churchill hadn’t been consulted or agreed …
The consequence of which was more desperate killing because it wasn’t thought through . If putin thinks his only exit is via total regime change it could edge him closer to using nuclear weapons …. Although I still reckon there’d be a sane mind in the Russian military ready to stop it ….it’s happened before …
PLAYING ON THE HEART STRINGS
A few days ago Look North had an item about food banks. It was clearly a part of the BBC’s barrage of criticism of Rishi Sunak’s budget. As it happens I have some sympathy with them about the budget, but what Look North did was disingenuous to say the least. The food bank item had sad music in the background, all the way through, as we watched poor people selecting food. Now this is a news programme remember, not a fictional drama. The only reason for using music is to elicit an emotional response in the viewer. It is not acceptable for a news programme to attempt to sway the emotions (and thus the political views) of the audience by the use of music. News programmes are supposed to present an unbiased account of events, and then leave us to decide what we think about them, not to attempt to alter our opinion.
Fred
Fred – I’m trying to thing what music would be used by the BBC for food banks …. ….
I was thinking more along the line of an adagio by albinoni that gets used in films and adverts from time to time ..,,
It used to be ‘Shine on you crazy diamond’, but nowadays more likely to be some trash by the spice girls, slowed down to 33 rpm…
“Food Glorious Food” ?
“American Pie”
“Brown Sugar”
On the nose Fred, they are manipulative a-holes
Hooray, new show on tv. People making very small models…. Chance to showcase people who are good at making very small models… maybe we need a specialist host who knows about making small models…
Hard luck, you get Sandi Toksvig. Knows sweet FA about making small models but is….
A. … a BBC protected luvvie with the right contacts who needs cash.
And
B …. More importantly, a lesbian
That’s the way to do it!
So suck it up. BBC style!
Another chance to do something meaningful missed due to serious inbreeding at the BBC.
You forgot:
C… a Leftie and political activist.
D… a Feminist (yawn).
BBC vision of the future – White female with Black male.
See end of page link that asks the question “Is this why you’re not getting that job”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=best+of+bbc&page=1
Image of white female along side a black male. Leading to page:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0015gvw/computer-says-no#xtor=CS8-1000-%5BDiscovery_Cards%5D-%5BMulti_Site%5D-%5BGR01%5D-%5BPS_IPLAYER~N~~P_ComputerSaysNo%5D
“Technology is transforming recruitment. But when it comes to deciding careers, are algorithms really fit for the job? This film unpacks concerns around bias and inaccuracy in algorithm-based hiring.”
Relentless BBC racist propaganda against majority white male in Britain.
Just finished a contract with a Government funded Org. They suggested I sent a speculative CV in for any future positions. As part of the usual guff, including parroting my CV so the bots could scan for keywords because HR no longer have time to read anything, I was asked the stock questions that are so important – Am I gay/black/muslim/disabled? etc. These need to know traits have now been added to in the form of ‘What professional level did your parents work at’ and ‘Were you supported with free school meals’? I left school in 1980 and my ‘Industrial/Operational’ parents paid for my school dinners – so what??? .It’s a shame this Industry has gone down this road including ‘Networks’ for LGBT, Women, Mental Health and I kid ye not, a Menopause Network where men are invited to become an ally? How have people got the time? Well most are Pension Jockeys and have no real interest in the business.
I’d like to know why HR depatments are full of women and few, if any, men?
They also have given up recruiting, arguably their prime objective, the applicant has to do all that work for them now, via multi page application forms.
You even have to explain stuff in your CV even if it relevant to the operations of their company, that they cannot take the time to understand, arguably what should be one of their specialisms.
But pretty good at disciplinary stuff and writing crap policies
Am a great fan of seeing more of the equality driven, ever demanding sector of women, especially prevalent at the bbc, laying tarmac at 2am on a freezing night.
Menopause Network ?
Pension Jockeys ?
English language is something innit – like – omg ?
Food Banks. My son is a teacher and was a Trustee of the local food Bank. He resigned after realising that the staff were taking the best stuff for themselves.
I’m sure that Food Banks do help many deserving cases but equally sure there is widespread freeloafing (I meant to say freeloading)
Food banks. Manna from heaven for the Far Left.
Why the stupid Tories make people who genuinely qualify wait weeks and weeks for benefits continues to amaze me. A spectacular own goal. Like such people would have 6-8 weeks savings to tie them over while the Department for Paper Clip administration works from home. Like such people are masters of budgeting and planning.
I don’t think so. Ergo food banks, a necessity because of the ‘evil Tories’ but in reality the stupid Tories for not paying benefits weekly and housing benefit straight to the relevant landlords.
It is very hard to find charities where as much of your donation as possible gets to the people needing it.
Many U.K. charities will be feeling the pinch because Ukraine will have sucked in what people are able to give. I want to give to help Ukraine refugees but may well give to my favoured charities here instead.
I am wary of those who make a career out of charity operations who seem to see opportunity in disaster.
I don’t trust any charities. I give in cash and kind to people I know who need it.
Fred
When one of the largest in the ” food bank industry ” advertises for a diversity officer at a starting salary of 0ver 80 grand I’m out.
I have said it before but worth repeating:
The frailer the Queeen gets, the more the libtard left and their motley crew are gathering like vultures to attack the institution, once she is gone the gloves will be off.
Demands for apologies on anything and everything will never cease.
It is beyond me why the media listens to these minorities who shout on social media and are feted by activists such as the bbc as they ARE proven minorities.
It is the empty vessel that makes the most sound
Zephir
I am no fan of monarchy – I really care less – but I am trying to work out how the wokes – far left – will try to exploit the national grief which will come with the passing the The Queen .
Since the BBC knows that the next king is an old half wit with no connection to the ordinary townie types I reckon they’ll feel on save ground with increased criticism .
The current ‘royal correspondent ‘ – Jon dymond ? Was at pains to rubbish the latest visit by another future king with plenty of jibes about the past and the historic position of coloured folk in the colonies .
I’d say ordinary British people have been more that punished by having them imported to Blighty by various governments without any consent at all … personally I don’t feel the need to be ‘enriched ‘.
Anyway – as the commonwealth finally falls apart with various tin pot ‘countries ‘ running to the door of independence – wanting our hand outs – I hope maybe Blighty can stop trying to be a ‘global power’ and becomes a more self contained country ….
……the pressure on cuts to overseas give aways must come too …
MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: “Stop this cultural cringe and be proud of abolishing slavery”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10656005/MAIL-SUNDAY-COMMENT-Stop-cultural-cringe-proud-abolishing-slavery.html
And then start asking the muslims questions, and the Indians:
According to the 2018 Global Slavery Index, 40.3 million people were enslaved worldwide in 2016. India accounts for almost 8 million or 20%, making it the largest absolute contributor to modern slavery. This typically involves bonded labour, child labour, forced marriage, human trafficking, forced begging, among others.
The existence of slavery, especially child slavery, in South Asia and the world has been alleged by various non-governmental organizations (NGO) and media outlets. With the Bonded Labour (Prohibition) Act 1976 and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (concerning slavery and servitude), a spotlight has been placed on these problems in the country. One of the areas identified as problematic is granite quarries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_India
Global Slavery Index:
Instead of harping on about the past, (and blaming a country that abolished slavery) have a look at Africa, the Middle East and India where black people are still enslaving others:
Unravel the numbers of modern slavery yourself
Navigate the Global Slavery Index maps and data sets covering prevalence, vulnerability, and government response in full detail.
Also, in addition to examining where modern slavery is perpetrated, this edition exposes where the products of crime are sold and consumed. The importing risk maps show the top five at-risk products imported by G20 countries.
Africa, India and the Middle East rating highest for current slavery
https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/
“…In fact, a large part of the Sharia is dedicated to the practice (of slavery).
Muslims are encouraged to live in the way of Muhammad, who was a slave owner and trader. He captured slaves in battle; he had sex with his slaves; and he instructed his men to do the same. The Quran actually devotes more verses to making sure that Muslim men know they can keep women as sex slaves (4) than it does to telling them to pray five times a day (zero).”
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/slavery.aspx
It’s about time our Tory government and Nadine Dorries started to ‘push back’ against all this slavery nonsense and restored pride in all the great work this nation has done throughout the ages . We need leadership now more than ever, not apologists .
Taffman.
‘Our Tory government’.
Do we have one ?
How does Blair + Brown = Boris sound?
Forget Brexit. Look at everything else.
Yeah Taffman – you slipped up there bigly – has there ever been a government actually represented the people who voted for it ? Maggie ? Maybe … but the rest ? No . As for conservatism – so rare that when a Real one came along it was a God Almighty Shock – just wish she d carried on and killed socialism – inc the BBC …..
Maybe the coming real hard times will bring one along again …
Yep ! The people voted for Brexit, for the reduction in crime, the growth of economy and most importantly, control of our borders!
We have not had anything we voted for .
The Tories are not listening to their voters and supporters. They are pushing the “green agenda” and stuffing us full with illegal immigrants. The Consocialists have got to go along with the Telly Tax.
FB have shoved this paid article at me…
https://www.newstatesman.com/the-culture-interview/2022/03/the-bbc-wont-survive-another-tory-government-nish-kumar-on-the-british-comedy-culture-wars?
The New Statesman… on FB… defending the BBC… using…. Nish.
#CCBGB
BBC News
The Foo Fighters drummer died at a hotel in Colombian, with the band due to play at a music festival this weekend.
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EdGuds spacial?
10 different drugs in his system, including opiods and canabis and cocaine.
Was his life really that terrible he needed to block out reality, not the first time he had overdosed either, as an incident in 2001 which left him in a coma for two weeks.
It’s OK for people to say that he has a wife and two kids, but surely they should have intervened to stop what was a career junkie with the money to afford to support his addiction.
It’s the Oscars tonight.
Imagine the agonised voters.
Which minority to support this year?
BAME? ( is that allowed these days or are we on to ‘People of Colour’) ?
Women in film?
Gay?
Transgender?
But there is no problem.
In the film ‘ Coda’ guess what? The main actors are DEAF!!!!
It’s a slam dunk. Pass the Champagne.
Not on the BBC:
Biden’s not going to let a small thing like a war stop him groping young girls.
Au contraire, plenty of available victims in a war zone.
Here he is abusing – correction: “comforting” – a young Ukrainian refugee, who must be wishing she’d stayed back in the war zone, safe from creepy old Presidents.
Clearly he’s taken a leaf out of Jimmy Saville’s book: do it in plain sight, where no-one will suspect, especially the compliant media.
(And suddenly he’s not too bothered about masks.)
Sluff – I don’t go to see a film that often any more – I suspect the days of Hollywood are just going further into the sewer with a whole stream of tick box woke rubbish competing with the occasional semi woke production by the internet providers ….
… those who try to make a living out of that industry must really struggle to come up with something worth paying to see then they have to cater for tick box and various ‘ under represented minorities ‘ – such as straight white people …
Belfast, directed by Kenneth Branagh, couldn’t get funding for his film unless he cast ethnics into 1960s Northern Ireland, despite there being next to none in real life.
Maybe to preserve the integrity of the film, he could have put some of his estimated wealth of £20m, but rather predictably sold out.
He also stated he had to change his accent when he moved to the UK.
This is absolute rubbish. He took elocution lessons voluntarily to fit in with the local theatre groups and drama societies. He went to school a mile from where I live. There was a massive Irish population here in Reading and I have never met any major prejudice (not saying there wasn’t any). My mother was from Londonderry and moved here in the 60’s
I switched the TV on for a few minutes while having breakfast, big mistake.
It is getting worse and worse by the day, FIVE BLOODY MINUTES before I saw a white male face. This small minority of our population, and for those wondering, not a single Chinese, not a single Japanese, or Hindu or or anything else but blacks, adverts and progrmmes, blacks washing their cars, blacks mowing the lawn and some soap opera with the occasional white woman.
I drove around Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire for half a day yesterday, visiting a few villages and woodlands. saw many people but guess what colour / race they were ?
God only knows what these people, part of the 86% WHITE people, whos fathers and grandfathers fought for this country and worked their whole lives, built the roads, the schools and all else we see, think of this propoganda.
Where is their represetation in the media, this 86% ?
The worse thing about this government is their appeasement to this howling mob, The same howling mob who, in London, spat on and abused white drivers caught up in their rioting and looting, in plain view of police.
I despair this weak, ever apologising country in the face of a mob who would not think twice of making you unemployed or worse for your colour and race.
ANY doubt about that look at ANY country they “govern” from Haiti to Jamaica to Somalia, Liberia etc. etc.
Violence of the most horrendous variety, murder, rape and corruption on a grand scale.
Biden’s comments have been “clarified “ about regime change in Russia says the BBC .
If it had been President Trump there would have been sneering aplenty about his comments needing correction, in both the news and so called comedy shows .
But the Daily Mirror will always have Croydon.
Call this the administration alteration or following the rules edition
‘Reverse ferret is a phrase used predominantly within the British media to describe a sudden reversal in an organisation’s editorial or political line on a certain issue. Generally, this will involve no acknowledgement of the previous position. The term originates from Kelvin MacKenzie’s time at The Sun‘ – thank you Wiki. We note the snarky side swipe at our Kelvin and the Sun courtesy of the increasingly right-on formerly crowd-sourced and free from corporate control internet resource.
‘As it happened: Vladimir Putin ‘cannot stay in power’, Biden says‘ (BBC)
‘Biden not seeking Russia regime change – White House‘ (BBC)
Let’s rephrase regime change. Too many negative associations… how about administration alteration?
Enough from the he said / she said… to the news, hopefully…
Compulsory, enforced migration? They used to call that slavery.
‘International nurses in UK forced to pay if they quit‘ – frets the Observer: ‘…trapped in their jobs by clauses in their contracts that require them to pay thousands of pounds if they try to leave‘
Sounds like a cause for concern
‘In extreme cases…‘ – which – quite naturally of course – the Observer highlights for effect: ‘…nurses are tied to their roles for up to five years and face fees as steep as £14,000 if they want to change job or return home early‘
We do often hear that health care is sadly understaffed and often overwhelmed. And we do live by the rule of law, by which our society tends to enjoy protections we easily take for granted – such as the enforcibility of legal and commercial contracts, voluntarily entered into. But I guess we also enjoy the freedom to moan: it’s not fair – when we change our minds or our circumstances alter.
The Observer notes: ‘The Royal College of Nursing and human rights lawyers‘ – are on the case.
Why would both the private health sector and our NHS act so cruelly toward – admittedly foreign mercenary – health workers?
Seems – as even the Observer has to concede – these contracts are: ‘Designed to retain staff and recoup recruitment costs, they often cover hiring expenses, such as flights to the UK, visas and the fees for taking language and competency exams. In many cases thay also include the costs of mandatory training, which workers hired in the UK are not routinely required to pay‘ – oh, the humanity!
‘Nurses affected by the repayment terms, many of whom served on the frontline of the pandemic…‘ – I think, this is where I will have to leave it. I’m about to weep real tears – and my porridge doesn’t want the excess salting – what with: ‘Clocks went forward by an hour last night‘ (the Observer there, piling on our woes with a trowel, this Sunday)
‘Joe Lycett. The comic campaigner’s serious side‘ (Observer) – here we go… I note the likes of Ken Dodd, Ronnie Barker or Dave Allen (to pick three at random, each of whom may have had their serious moments) never felt the need to add the term “campaigner” to their preforming résumé
The weekday sidekick to the Observer and shadow inspiration to our very own national broadcaster’s cultural outlook and political temperament, the Guardian, tells us of Joe Lycett: ‘I’d never have made it in the corporate world’: Joe Lycett on comedy, consumer activism and queer communities‘
He did some gag on Twitter (of course he did – he dare not stand in front of a live audience on a stage… not during Lockdown anyway) which stirred things up over “Partygate“:
‘“I write comedy sometimes as a way of anger,” he began. He was angry, he said, because his friend had died in lockdown, “and I wasn’t there because I was following the rules, and we had a tiny insufficient funeral, because we were following the rules, and I drove his kids away from that funeral back to Birmingham without any sort of wake, because we were following the rules, and it felt unnatural and cruel and almost silly, but we did it because we followed the rules.” He ended quietly: “You might wonder how it feels to have been described in the papers as having caused these people ‘chaos’ and ‘mayhem’ and ‘mass panic’ because of a few jokes. Let me be clear: it feels absolutely fucking fantastic.”‘
To me, his shtick is best described not as “comedy” as such, but as political satire at best and at worst as snarky political activism that our actual politicians likely wish they could get away with – if House of Commons rules, election campaign conventions and common public decency didn’t still still prohibit – just about.
Can happen.
I see Putin has solved the middle east problem along with many African conflicts.
They all seem to be Ukranians now when they arrive in Europe.
One nation uder the sun, he should get a Nobel prize.
BBC repeats
Yes lansdale has a special seat in journo hell waiting for him – hopefully soon …
There is a propaganda collectors ‘ piece in the mail on line of a Russian soldier call ‘misha ‘ ( always ) surrendering to Ukrainians together with his tank for a £7500? Surrender fee …
…it might be true – but it’s good stuff …..
Even the BBC couldn’t cover up the false presidents ‘ attempt to unify all of Russia behind putin by calling for Regime change –
The nearest they got to criticising Biden was to refer to his as ‘79 years old ‘….
I wonder it they could ever contemplate publishing the truth about his dementia ._what would it take ? Er – war ?
Some horrifying news from Ukraine:
“How the sex trade preys on Ukraine’s refugees”
“For predators… the war in Ukraine is not a tragedy,” UN Secretary General António Guterres warned on Twitter. “It’s an opportunity – and women and children are the targets.”
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“Girls might love attention lavished on them by older men… That’s how it starts.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60891801
For those with an interest – C4 is running a new documentary to mark the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War ( the BBC would refer to it as Malvinas ) -I hope C4 plays with a straight bat .
I’d be interested in ‘reviews ‘ as I am unable to see it as I am overseas where the TV doesn’t work …
Don’t just don’t get Dianne Abbott to count the planes out and back
When Biden said “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power” he was referring to himself. Ha ha! Just kidding. Actually, he meant Trump. A few days ago he went off on some irrelevant and protocol-shredding ramble about US domestic politics, repeating that Trump supported Nazis and reminding us how that made him decide to go up against Trump in the presidential election. In yesterday’s senior moment, his fragmented mind was reprising the same story but got Trump confused with Putin. Or someone. Anyway, a member of the Republican Party…
The art of articulate interviewing…….
Normally if ‘the next item’ was an interview with Chesney Hawkes (who? – pop star circa 90’s and Dad was part of the Tremeloes), I would have switched over, but I continued to watch as the interviewer was Alastair Stewart on GBN.
The professional interviewer at work. No “yeah, yeah” glottal stops, but good grown up questions which made for a good watch. And our Ali turns out to be a huge Stones fan ! – who knew ?
I saw the Stones at Olympic Stadium a couple of years ago, Jagger in his seventies singing and entertaining and never stopped running around.
Unfortunately, they had that foul mouthed Beatles karaoke thug from Oasis supporting who croaked his out of tune way through an embarrassing set interspersed with fooking this and fookin that. Dreadful.
Yes, Bob Geldorf has a lot to answer for when back in the 80’s he said on air “give us the f…. money ! ” Classy.
Have tickets for the Manfreds in April. Paul Jones is 80 EIGHTY !!!, still has the figure of his youth, his voice has changed little, still has a boyish head of hair, and with the group gives a fab evening of entertainment. Few chaps can be 80 and still fanciable 🙂
Nice chap, met him outside Dingwalls in London having a fag before playing onstage in the Blues Band back in the 70s or maybe early 80s, had a nice chat.
I did curse them later though, they came onstage at 11 pm and I missed the last train home, spent the evening at Kings Cross, not for the feint of heart in those days…
All those adverts for ‘Bensons for Beds’.
If only they could get Joe Biden to front the commercials.
‘Hi, I wanna tell you about …..these ….great ………….new…………(shuffling sound)…………beds……( muffled sound of someone keeling over)…………zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz’
Sluff – he’d be better doing ‘funeral plans ‘ ( by the way some of those sharks are going ‘belly up’… )
Bensons for beds, how irresponsible, don’t they know its dangerous to smoke in bed in case you fall asleep ?
The zelenski fella in Ukraine is getting more outspoken – he seems to want to save his country at the expenses of a world war – but I suppose the Russians will kill him sooner or later ….
…
Ukraine is not worth a single British life yet alone a world war ….
By the way – someone kill putin real soon – use his poison on him ….
Fed.
For Easter, a novichocolate egg.
Zelensky was an actor/comedian so he has just continued playing a character he thinks will make him more popular.
Zelensky needs to come out of this smelling sweet at whatever cost as his career is omnipotent to him.
If that means consigning the planet to armaggedon I think he is comfortable with that as long as his career follows an upward trajectory.
So we have a mouthy actor trying his best to get Russia into a nuclear war with The West whatever the cost to humanity and we now have Biden and Boris almost cheering from the audience.
I note that Germany and France seem to be keeping out of it. perhaps they have the sense realise that they will be recipients of the first wave of nukes?
The way I look at it, the only way for the West to deal with this impasse is to first accept that the Russians may have some kind of point however much they disagree and get round as table to discuss it?
I guess they feel that the Wokerati have already decided that Russia is now cancelled so they have to play along to avoid the tome deaf lefty nutters taking umbrage.
I hear that Ed Sheeran is the latest one wanting to do his bit for Ukraine.
He’s offered to go to Kiev and play a free concert to them.
However, the Mayor of Kiev has stopped it and said the people of Kiev have suffered enough.
The BBC getting very haughty and indignant about the police strip-searching a black pupil in school.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-60888317
The whole article is loaded on the damage it caused to the person searched.
However there is no question raised about WHY these searches take place as the police attempt to stem the tide of drugs and violence caused by gangs trying to infiltrate schools to get new “customers”.
This surely must be one of those “balanced” things?
On the one hand there will be understandable distress caused to any innocent child but on the other hand if overall it makes life more difficult for the evil gangmasters who deliberately target schools and possibly save numerous children from being sucked into drug-taking that must play a part in the decision making?
I am pretty sure that the police haven’t been doing this sort of thing just for something to do.
All I would ask is for the BBC to do their job and investigate how many children are actually found to be carrying drugs to add some sort of balance but that is NOT the BBC way, they need another race victim to bang their incessant race drum.
Finally this legal speak defines the situation which appears to have applied in this case.
“Headteachers and staff authorised by them have a statutory power under the Education and Inspections Act 2006 to search pupils or their possessions, without consent, where they have reasonable grounds for suspecting the pupil may have a ‘prohibited item’, which includes illegal drugs. School staff can seize any prohibited item found as a result of a search. They can also seize any item, however found, which they consider harmful or detrimental to school discipline (eg, so called legal highs)”.
This appears to suggest that the search was entirely proportionate and proper.
So a pertinent question NOT asked by the BBC is did this school have any such “reasonable grounds” and what were they?
This inclusion alone would have given the article a sense of balance at least but it just doesn’t happen in BBC land.
Race is the most protected characteristic that exists to BBC types.
Notice how details are developing on this nonsense – such as that the plod who were stupid enough to do the search were female … do we find out that there are coloured – does that change the ‘complexion ‘ or narrative if so ?
Cue the mumma asking why their little Leroy died because of drugs he took ? Why wasn’t he stopped ? – this being from 2 years ago of course – the ‘legal team ‘ must be dreaming of £ …
On the other hand….from our harrassers of colour
Fury as police drop sex harassment and bullying probe against Bafta star Noel Clarke: Campaigners condemn Met Police who say allegations from up to 20 women ‘don’t meet threshold for criminal investigation’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10656713/Fury-police-drop-sex-harassment-bullying-probe-against-Bafta-star-Noel-Clarke.html
In an earlier post I satirised the Hollywood wokerati by imagining the politically correct winner of an award who would be deaf.
If only.
We could also get a gay black best supporting actress not to mention Will Smith, surely a shoe-in for best black actor.
Then of course we have Jane Campion, a rare female director.
As for straight white males winning anything in proportion to their percentage of the population – you know, we might call it equality……..look! A flying pig!
As I dipped into Radio4 over the weekend, there seemed to be vastly disproportionate amount of black grievance injected into the schedule.
All injustice is bad and should be reported proportionally.
#FakeNews on morning Local radio on both local BBC stations
#1 The PO Ferry service to Rotterdam
“In Hull, RMT protesters attempted to block access to the Pride of Rotterdam, but it did leave on time
earlier the TUC tweeted a video showing P&O dockers in Rotterdam refusing to load a ferry leaving to Hull”
That makes it sound like there are protests in 2 places against 2 different ferries on the same day.
In fact the TUC tweet sent on Saturday breakfast was filmed on Friday and involved the same ferry the Pride of Rotterdam
which did actually leave Rotterdam on Friday night to Hull carrying some freight.
(original Dutch/Indonesian crew)
Saturday morning TUC tweet https://twitter.com/The_TUC/status/1507651186803064834
is the same video as tweeted by the Labour MP on Friday https://twitter.com/KarlTurnerMP/status/1507445027500441603
They then played a segment where mad anti-Zionist Labour MP Richard Burgon talked over the Grimsby Tory MP .
“I’m absolutely flbabbergasted that this Conservative MP thinks there could be Russian agents coming in with these Ukrainian refugees”
.. that was PRasNews for their own BBC2 prog which radio listeners weren’t watching cos it was going on at the same time.
BBC local news
#2 PRasNews for Virtual Wards at East Midlands hospitals
where you stay at home with the blood monitoring stuff strapped to you.
The featured patient from Newark, was of course black.
… Switch on ITV news … and they are talking about RACISM in the film industry/Oscars
In the interests of equality here is a women’s football result from today.
Leicester City 0, Chelsea 9.
With competitive games like that and literally tens of spectators, surely the women deserve pay parity.
ITV local news
– Quick ferries item : Labour MP Karl Turner was mentioned but only silent video not audio.
– Bit about Sheffield charity runners
– Sport
Wait until she finds her voice.
Can see this going viral.
BBC R4 7 a.m. NEWS Watch #1 – the gratuitous violence of a gratuitous insult to millions of American voters
The R4 News at 7 a.m. led with China Joe’s ‘off-script’ gaffe and said it signified US involvement on the world stage after four years of isolationism under President Trump. Apart from the total inaccuracy of that statement by the BBC which the BBC did not realise insulted millions of US voters – both Republican and Democrat voters – they then had to follow their faux pas with ….
TWotWeee Watch #1 – what an embarrassment!
BBC News at 1 p.m. on R4 led with someone in the Biden Administration (sorry forgotten who it was – may have been Antony Blinken) having to explain that the President was not encouraging regime change ie. interfering in another sovereign nation’s electoral affairs but merely expressing the wish that Russia would leave Ukraine and leave Ukraine alone.
(Note for Auntie suffering from forgetfulness: Back in the winter of 2016/2017 you were worried about North Korea starting to test missiles (ICBMs) that they ‘claimed’ could hit America. You were worried that there might be a military incident either with the US or with South Korea or Japan. What did the isolationist US then President Trump do? He went on a Far East tour, charmed the socks off the N.Korean dictator, brought N.Korea and S.Korea together to talk and then former President Trump went off to Japan to continue his highly successful Far East tour. Isolationist USA? Not a bit of that is true.)