346 Responses to Start the week 28 March 2022

  1. micknotmike says:

    Even as we speak the bbc are referring to biden’s gaffes as “going off the narrative”. The idiot doesn’t know what planet he’s on. I’m more scared of what he could start while he’s busily sniffing little girls, than what Putin could do if the mood takes him.
    p.s. first I hope!

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    • Lucy Pevensey says:

      An American opinion of Joe Biden-

      “Joe Biden reminds me of many of the great presidents”

      Lincoln — closest we have been to a civil war since the time of Lincoln

      Eisenhower — Eisenhower organized the greatest invasion up to that time with the D Day invasion. Biden has organized an even greater invasion by order of magnitude of our Southern border.

      Obama — His 69 million votes were a record until Biden’s 81 million votes (Democrats count all votes, not just the legitimate ones)

      Clinton — Bill Clinton’s election victory was considered genius, but Biden put together the best fraud department in US history.

      Trump — Biden has reminded us of Donald Trump almost daily, tries to tell us all his failures are Trump’s fault.

      Truman — Remember when Truman said “the buck stops here”? Everytime Biden blames others I am reminded of that.

      Nixon — Oversaw our most humiliating defeat in Vietnam until Biden came along with his humiliating exit from Afghanistan.

      Reagan — Ronald Reagan was called the great communicator, Joe Biden does not remind me of that. However, at the end of his 8 years Reagan had alzheimer’s, that is what Biden reminds me of.

      Carter — He was president during the last oil embargo. It was embarrassing then, but I suspect Biden will eliminate that from our memory.

      JFK — Kennedy had a beautiful wife, Jill does not remind me of her. But everyday I am reminded of the Cuban Missile crisis, the closest we have come to a nuclear war with Russia until today.

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    • NCBBC says:

      Ex VP Mike Pence wants to organise a Berlin type Airlift to Ukraine, with weapons.

      And what if Russia sees it as a belligerant act by NATO and uses tactical nukes.

      I thought Mike Pence had sense.

      It seems the USA are acting like Gadarene swine, stampeding to the lake, and they will take us along with them.

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  2. tomo says:

    Shame it took so long to get out…

    Not a view that the BBC would show – at all

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  3. Lucy Pevensey says:

    There is a crisis in Ukraine.
    Naturally that requires Britain to take in “refugees” from Eritrea, Algeria, Libya, Sudan, Hong Kong, Iran & The Philppines.

    The Syrian-war excuse for housing half the world is running out of puff. The international community (see below) must pull together to help the refugees.

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  4. Fedup2 says:

    The Guardian is worried thar OFCOM might have a new unapproved head-

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    Concerns are growing over the government’s plan to install Conservative peer Michael Grade as the next chair of media regulator Ofcom, amid questions over his impartiality and past business record.

    Grade faces a pre-appointment hearing in front of the Commons digital, culture, media and sport committee of MPs this week before finally being approved for the role. MPs on the committee are understood to have concerns about the 79-year-old’s suitability to oversee the regulator.

    The selection of Grade, who has led the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, came after a protracted battle to install the former Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre in the job. Dacre was initially rejected as “unappointable” by a selection panel. Ministers then reran the process, before Dacre pulled out.

    While Grade’s appointment has been cleared by a selection panel, industry figures and MPs are now raising concerns. Just last month, Grade defended Boris Johnson over the “partygate” row and said there should not be a leadership election. He criticised the BBC’s approach to reporting the story as “gleeful and disrespectful”, as well as “too aggressive”. He also said that the BBC’s request for funds to avoid cuts was “an appalling decision”.

    Grade has criticised “the woke brigade” and spoken favourably about the potential privatisation of Channel 4. One senior Tory MP privately expressed concerns about Grade’s impartiality. “He has very public views on a number of issues that Ofcom should be neutral on,” they said. When chairing the Fundraising Regulator, he was criticised after he referred to some fundraisers as “cowboys” operating in the “wild west”.

    Meanwhile, others pointed to issues that have arisen in his career since he left Channel 4, and effectively left broadcasting, in 1997. Grade has been attached to a series of failed businesses since then. In 2020, Gate Ventures, an entertainment investment company that he chaired, entered administration after a legal battle with an investor who claimed the company was being mismanaged. The company also made “unexplained” business and personal loans to the Duchess of York of more than £500,000. The high court was told this included a loan to her personally of about £288,000. Grade was forced to appear in court in person after lawyers for Gate Ventures quit at short notice over payment concerns.

    In the 2000s, he chaired financial information company Hemscott, which was fined by the Financial Services Authority over misleading advertising.

    One industry insider with knowledge of Ofcom’s day-to-day workings said that the chair’s role was one that required a great deal of time on legal issues, to which Grade was not suited. Another senior figure said: “To be chair of Ofcom, you really also need a legal brain. That takes up so much of the time. That’s not Michael’s thing.”

    Grade faces an intense grilling on Thursday. Julian Knight, the DCMS committee’s Tory chair, has already described the process of finding an appropriate Ofcom chief as a “shambles”.

    Grade will be overseeing Ofcom at a crucial time, with the regulator due to be given significant power over online platforms such as Facebook. It also comes with ministers accused of making a series of politically partisan appointments to major institutions. The Ofcom chairmanship is a three-day-a-week role.

    Rupa Huq, a Labour member of the culture committee, said something had “seriously gone wrong” with the public appointments process. She said that Grade’s appointment was part of a “war on woke” by the culture secretary, Nadine Dorries, and the Tory co-chairman, Oliver Dowden.

    “The parachuting of yet another top Tory crony to a leading position in public life where government loyalty appears to have been paramount in selection criteria is deeply troubling and part of a disturbing pattern,” she said.

    Jamie Stone, the Liberal Democrat culture spokesperson, said: “Appointing this well-known critic of the BBC and Channel 4 shows that the Conservatives are trying to muzzle our treasured national broadcasters. At a time when Ofcom is being given huge new powers to police online platforms, Michael Grade would be an analogue chair in a digital age. MPs should fiercely oppose this political stitch-up and insist on a candidate who will protect our independent and impartial broadcasters, not do the government’s dirty work for them.”

    Grade was contacted for comment, but did not respond. It is understood he will relinquish any non-executive directorships that could create a conflict of interest. He will also sit as a crossbench peer once installed in the job.ENDS

    I have left out the picture of a labour coloured MP called “huq” .

    The polarisation of public life runs deep now – and resistance from the Far Left is too strong

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    • G says:

      Fed,

      “Grade faces a pre-appointment hearing in front of the Commons digital, culture, media and sport committee of MPs this week before finally being approved for the role.”

      In keeping with that level of scrutiny elsewhere, maybe they’ll ask him to say whether wimmin’ have a cervix………………

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      • Fedup2 says:

        G
        Fortunately mr grade has been round the block and probably has enough gongs and money not to be ‘turned ‘…. Which makes him dangerous to Labour/BBC .

        The culture committee will throw his recent comments at him – but they forget that there is a ‘Tory ‘ majority – which is something the red tories have forgotten .

        Being Jewish means being unapproved in the current culture – maybe he needs to convert to a false religion such as Islam to get the nod …. Following the ‘tradition ‘ that key BBC posts are occupied by coloureds and Muslims and over paid tick box wimmin …

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    • Doublethinker says:

      If the Blob is very upset about the appointment it must be the right thing to have done.

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  5. Thoughtful says:

    I sat down next to a homeless person on a park bench today. Wondering about how he got into that state I asked him, was it down to drugs? No he replied, never taken drugs. Alcohol then I offered? No he said never been a big drinker. Gambling perhaps, no he replied.
    Perplexed I had to ask, well what was it then?
    I forgot to turn out the lights was his answer.

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  6. Fedup2 says:

    Another one from twitter

    ‘ I was at the petrol station and I got mugged . Plod turned up and asked if I knew who did it ? I replied ‘yes pump number 8”.

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  7. Thoughtful says:

    Just as well we haven’t been invaded by the Russians:

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    • Zephir says:

      A sign of the times, the second, smaller sign, we have to be warned of the dangers of feral children.

      I’d take the second sign down in times of war and let them run the gauntlet of the little darlings, any fight back and they will have the parents (or parent) attacking them as well.

      And any contravention of the Geneva convention and they’ll have their mobiles out in an instant and it’ll be on Tik bloody Tok in seconds.

      It’s us that needs the secret bunker from those hanging outside of Tesco at night.

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  8. vlad says:

    The insufferable Victoria Coren Mitchell sneers at GB News and calls one of its panellists a racist (yawn) for having made a joke about the ungrateful Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

    Only Connect was the very last programme on BBC that I found mildly watchable, partly because it managed to steer clear of leftie politics and wokeism.

    No more. Bye bye, BBC, finally and forever.

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  9. Deborah says:

    We have heard a lot this last week about ‘the cost of living crisis’ and how living standards have fallen. The cost of energy has gone up an eye-watering amount. This hurts if you are on a fixed income.

    However many civil servants are still not at their desks five days a week in spite of ministers’ instructions. The same applies to many in the City and of course was it 16,000 people employed by the BBC? During covid lockdowns etc they have had much reduced travel to work costs raising their income. They may have even raised their living standards. The BBC never mentions these lucky people.

    I can remember the pressure the BBC and the Daily Mail in print put on the government to lock down or to introduce work from home (including just before Xmas 2021) and not a word about how this was a financial advantage for some.

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  10. StewGreen says:

    The BBCnews : Period article before the flood of protests caused a rewording.

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    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/27/bbc-changes-description-endometriosis-sufferers-women-backlash/

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    • popeye says:

      “assigned female….”? What, is there a committee of “wokist” doctors and midwifes deciding what a baby will think they are in 18 years time?

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  11. Nibor says:

    BBC Radio 4 six o’clock programme about bad things in the Met Police .
    I didn’t listen but it’s right that a broadcaster investigates wrong doing in public bodies and shows it to the world .
    GB News should do the same . Investigate , analyse, get experts to propose solutions and see how the public feels .
    GB News should start such a program by investigating the Gramscian and Globalist infestation of the BBC .

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  12. vlad says:

    Some real black-on-black violence at the Oscars.

    “Will Smith hits Chris Rock on Oscars stage”

    Naturally the BBC can’t criticise either party, as both are protected minorities who can do no wrong.

    Most entertaining thing to happen at the Oscars for many years – but imagine if the aggressor had been white!

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60897004

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    • Zephir says:

      Ain’t diversity wonderful ?

      My comment a while ago that those parading as victims are often far from it still holds. Violence is often not far away, and lack of grace or humour or self depreciation etc etc.

      All the qualities that make for higher civilisation ?

      What a charmless nasty individual, will he be cancelled as a whitee would most certainly be ?

      Well, look at the racist Whoopi

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    • Guest Who says:

      Hence, ‘mostly peaceful’.

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    • Foscari says:

      BIG BROTHER at the BBC diversity department must of
      had an orgasm when it happened. Talk about diversity
      and positive discrimination. He, She, or It at the
      Diversity couldn’t of asked for anything better!!
      Anyway BIG BROTHER we have all seen too many pale ,
      stale males in Ukraine. The Oscars balances up the diversity.
      Who could ask for anything more?

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    • Thatcherrevolutionary says:

      A staged event to keep a garbage ratings show afloat.

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    • theleftwilleatitself says:

      Oh how the left will eat itself over this one 😁
      I’m with Chris Rock 🥊
      You can take the kid out of the streets….. 👍🏻
      Ghetto boy 🎶

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  13. Scroblene says:

    Oscars Schmoskars…

    …what does it matter if you’re non-white, LBGFT%^^YYHJU, and don’t mind a clop in the chops when someone gets sniffy about a bloke bonking the wife!

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  14. Zephir says:

    Plenty of slappers at the Oscars in so many ways

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    • Guest Who says:

      BBC Moaning Emole redirects…

      “And the ceremony itself was not without drama… Will Smith hit Chris Rock in the face on stage. He’d reacted to comedian Rock’s joke about his wife’s shaved hairdo. Jada Pinkett Smith has spoken about having the hair loss condition alopecia.”

      Telly Savalas and Yul Brynner did not reply to BBC calls for comment. Apparently.

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  15. Zephir says:

    Even the taliban are sick of the wokes at the bbc

    “The Taliban remove BBC news bulletins from Afghanistan television in latest crackdown on international broadcasters reporting on desperate hardship under their rule”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10657427/The-Taliban-remove-BBC-news-bulletins-Afghanistan-television.html

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  16. Guest Who says:

    The BBC are starting to struggle on topics to inspire worry.

    I find their staff having ‘views my own’ on bbc branded twitter profiles odd, especially when writing stuff they need to protect or block to avoid being called out.

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  17. Fedup2 says:

    The 94th Oscars – will it make 100? The films – well whatever . If you go back through the years there are a lot of so so films and a few which truly deserved it .

    Now ? Probably like pop music – tick box dross – and TV output .

    Perhaps the people who make this stuff feel good about being ‘woke’ – but the products of show business ? Do people buy or watch it ?

    As for one coloured male actor hitting another one ? I wish it had been a ‘woman as victim ‘ – double the nonsense online traffic ….has the coloured actor been arrested yet ?

    BTW – the Oscar’s is one of those places where the BBC goes strangely nationalistic – with the efforts of rich individuals celebrated because of the colour of their passport … weird compared to the 24/7 rubbishing of the UK – particularly England …

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  18. vlad says:

    Even the Biden Broadcasting Corporation is voicing criticism of the Imbecile-in-Chief, whose stupid impromptu comments are making the situation in Ukraine worse.

    “Mr Biden’s comment prompted strong criticism from veteran US diplomat Richard Haass.

    The comments “made a difficult situation more difficult and a dangerous situation more dangerous”, tweeted Mr Haass, who is president of the US Council on Foreign Relations.

    Mr Haass returned to the subject after the White House qualified President Biden’s remarks, saying: “The White House walk back of @POTUS regime change call is unlikely to wash.

    “Putin will see it as confirmation of what he’s believed all along. Bad lapse in discipline that runs risk of extending the scope and duration of the war.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-60891803

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Vlad – we won’t be hearing from the false president for a long time …

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      • Scroblene says:

        Probably so, Fed!

        What an awful cock-up the US is making of everything these days!

        With the unpleasant tribe of Billary, Belosi, Barry and Biden ‘running’ the show, it’s not surprising that there’s so much skulduggery over there, which jeopardises the world with such crass behaviour.

        I sometimes wonder whether normal US citizens ever consider what really went wrong at their crooked election, but there again, I sometimes wonder about a lot of borrocks, usually when I hear a snippet from the BBC’s bunch of saddoes…

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Scrob
          I think a lot of Americans are not that sharp – all you have to do is wave the flag and they’ll accept anything – such as a stolen election – only the ‘price of gas’ ( Petrol ) means anything to them … it’s over $4 dollars a gallon now …

          …. Putin knows there are no red lines when it comes to NATO – those eastern countries would be sacrificed by Biden to ‘keep Americans safe ‘…
          When I write of Biden I mean Obama …

          Back home – 4 days to the energy price hikes and a month til the next interest rate rise . Public finances will tighten whether rishi wants it or not – the money tree forest is all but cut down .

          Last week a French bank claimed Blighty is the likeliest country to have civil disorder because of the coming recession . Not sure that’s right but the sheer pressure on household budgets is gonna hurt – the BBC will love it and assign the blame to the blue labour government ….

          Key phrases coming –
          1 ‘Tory recession ‘
          2 ‘ broadest shoulders to pay a bit more tax ‘
          3 ‘painful decisions ‘
          4 ‘4th jab ‘

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          • Up2snuff says:

            Fed, the Americans are paying $4 for a gallon (US size) but we are paying nearly £1.60 for a litre = 1/4.54 worth of a UK gallon.

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  19. Guest Who says:

    Surely they would have checked, at least?

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  20. Fedup2 says:

    Today watch

    Does Nicholas Robinson fuel up with drugs ?
    I have just listened to an ‘interview’ by Robinson on a Russian spokesman for putin .

    It wasn’t an interview – it was just a long attack by Robinson acting as judge and executioner . I didn’t want to feel sorry for the Russian but by the end I did . I learnt next to nothing because Robinson didn’t let him have a word in edgeways .

    Someone at the BBC – tell Robinson to let people speak and attempt to explain themselves ….

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  21. andyjsnape says:

    In Chernihiv, civilians are trapped as hospitals and schools attacked
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60860197

    The strikes are so frequent that Anna and her husband take turns in watching the sky. He does the nights, she does the mornings.

    So glad we know that Anna and her husband takes turns, not sure why we need to know though

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  22. Fedup2 says:

    Today watch again

    Wow – in the paper review – our Justin refers to an article in the times which refers to the ‘mental acuity ‘ of the false president – he is still better than President Biden – of course – and his age isn’t a problem ….
    Finally the term ‘Gaff ‘ is being assigned to Biden …. Will others follow on ? Will this be followed by the implications of his replacement by a frankly thick cackling coloured tick box president ? We we ll see …..

    I guess that only metro Americans are getting the view from overseas thar their president if a dementing dud …

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  23. Doublethinker says:

    In the past it wasn’t unusual for regimes to cancel the avant garde in literature , art , political ideas in attempts to resist change. Orwell introduced us to the contrary idea that a totalitarian regime such as the USSR would attempt to cancel the past and rewrite history , ie lie about it, in order to secure its future.
    Wokism , with its cancel culture of those who support the status quo, it’s widespread attempts to rewrite history by the idea that we should apply 21 st century values to the events of three or four hundred years ago , are just following the USSR play book.

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  24. Sluff says:

    Oscars round up.
    Black host. Check.
    Deaf actor won. Check.
    Gay black actress won. Check.
    Female director won. Check.
    Black actor won. Check.

    Black actor punches black host in the face and effs and blinds live.
    Ooops.
    Woke Multiculturalism live. Hahahahaha.

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    • Guest Who says:

      And…. They’re off!

      Spingster will need to pull a rabbit out of the hat.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Yes – long live alopecia – has putin invaded it yet …

        A whole BBC series coming on the alopecians – pressure on the government to fund alopecians overseas – pledges of tax money – make it a crime to offend alopecians … hate crime – take down anti alopecian comments – ban hair cuts ….

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Time for whoopi / Cheryl ?

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    • NCBBC says:

      Also black person who is not sure if person is woman, is nominated for supreme court.

      America is a thoroughly racist country. Blacks are running around beating up people and they get away with it. Particularly elderly Chinese women. Totally harmless peaceful women. And black men beat them up. This is an evil society.

      How sick is this society. And it has nukes.

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  25. digg says:

    Oh well, it looks like we are now about to have a new oppressed minority group on the block, i.e. people with alopecia.

    Maybe even a revival of the hit 60’s musical “Hair” but obviously renamed “Hairless”?

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  26. Guest Who says:

    Young reporter’s dont need no commas.

    Lynne Truss will approve.

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  27. andyjsnape says:

    P&O Ferries sackings: Ferry operators face minimum wage law change
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60895833

    Ministers plan to force all ferry companies operating from UK ports to pay at least the National Minimum Wage, in a bid to persuade P&O Ferries to reinstate 800 workers it has sacked.

    In a bid to persuade etc etc… So 500-600 workers who have worked for P&O for years, on £30k plus, will return for National Minimum Wage

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    • StewGreen says:

      If people live on board their ship for free they don’t need UK wages.

      Are we saying that the workers bringing a ship of bananas from Honduras have to have be paid the UK minimum wage ?

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  28. StewGreen says:

    R4 now an American speaker is condemning Trump
    “Trump’s first instinct is to break every rule that control democracy,
    and that Orban claims to be illiberal”

    but he then adds “The Left want to impose orthodoxy control opinions, so have moved away from liberalism .. in universities/education”

    That guy Francis Fukuyama is plugging his book about Liberalism
    Someone is coming on to plug her book “Europe’s dependence on Russian oil is central to Helen Thompson’s book, Disorder: Hard Times”

    Guy lists all the righties
    All of these popularists have said NICE things about Putin
    That is false, they all knew he was a demon, but they said they he has been successful at playing his kind of game.

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    • StewGreen says:

      #BBCdoesHaveAdverts

      Amol “Thatcher and Jimmy Carter tried to get the world to be serious about CLIMATE CHANGE”

      Woman “Carter put solar panels on the Whitehouse”
      .. That’s FakeNews he put solar HOT WATER panels up

      “Their installation was seen largely as symbolic, though they did heat some water for the White House laundry and cafeteria.”

      The other male panelist
      “Maximilliam went to Mexico to say ‘lets make Mexico Greta Again'” panel guffawed.

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      • StewGreen says:

        On Twitter people mock Francis Fukuyama for his 1991 book “End of History”
        “After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he claimed that this was the “End of History” . 30 years later …. ”

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

        Next week “Resistance ” ..another lefty topic ?

        “Halik Kochanski, Arkady Ostrovsky and Nathan Law discuss the dangers of resistance with Tom Sutcliffe”

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Some might think that is they’d written such a mistaken ridiculous book they’d keep their head down and live off the royalties …. I thought his definition of non liberals as populists – ie democrats – was more than irrational .

          I don’t think he approves of people having a vote – far better for globalists to run the show ( see troodo )

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  29. AsISeeIt says:

    Squid game or some Korean-style end to the battle is now in sight

    Today’s big news, tomorrow’s fish and chip paper – so it is with our media and so it is with our politicians.

    The FT’s Datawatch feature tracks how: ‘Public opinon of Rishi Sunak drops to new low

    Of course the Labour-supporting Mirror knew from the get go that he was bound to be a: ‘Failure. No help from Sunak for those struggling. 3m Brits fear fall into debt as costs rocketing

    We know he can’t really empathise: ‘Rishi Sunak is believed to be the richest man in the House of Commons‘ (i News)

    However, he does seem to understand debt – albeit not personal indebtedness but our shared National Debt: ‘Sunak hits back. [he] has warned critics that the national debt is “ballooning” amid attacks on spring statement‘ (Times)

    Another golden political career boy has fallen from grace and now struggles to find his niche. Well, we all do make mistakes along the way and he now, oddly enough, believes we shouldn’t be punished for the odd slip: ‘Throwing a CV in the bin because of a typo is “out of date”, Matt Hancock has said, as he campaigns for greater awareness of dyslexia among employers‘ (Telegraph)

    This issue is personal, I guess. Afterall, recently the UN threw Matt Hancock’s CV in the bin: ‘United Nations withdraws Matt Hancock job offer. Former health secretary will no longer become special envoy for UN’s economic commission for Africa‘ (Guardian)

    And then there was President Biden. Apparently he was a safe pair of hands who wouldn’t shoot his mouth off like his predecesor did and endanger the outbreak of World War Three with his gaffs: ‘Blinken softens Biden remarks by saying US has no aim to oust Putin‘ – the FT there doing their level best to “soften” the news that Biden is a geriatric old dodderer prone to shooting his mouth off: ‘Biden denies calling for regime change in Russia‘ (BBC)

    We were told Russia was losing the war. And yet Putin seems to be closing in on completing his war aims – which were obvious from the outset – partition of Ukraine, gobbling up the pro-Russia enclaves, and the exclusion of the rump from EU or NATO membership: ‘Ukraine ready to discuss neutral status – Zelensky‘ (BBC); ‘Russia’s aim is slow and methodical capture of towns – military expert‘ (BBC); ‘Putin wants to divide Ukraine, West warned. Kyiv intelligence chief says Kremlin planning Korean-style partition of the country‘ (Times)

    The Daily Star informs us: ‘Ronnie Wood’s ex Jo Wood says she dated aliens because she has extraterrestrial blood‘ – I’m wondering if a lot of recreational drugs might have been invloved?

    And in further news fit for a tabloid, just in from Loch Ness: ‘Nessie “is racist”

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Yeah – I think rishi is ‘toast ‘ – with caviar – rich politicians don’t make for PMs in a recession – so it’s the defence tonto or the foreign office Maggie model – not that it makes any real difference unless they dump the green crap and the railway crap and the human rights / equality crap …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Eat out to Help Out.

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  30. andyjsnape says:

    M&S sorry after shopper got 100 wrong parcel texts
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60758351

    1st world problems hey

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  31. Guest Who says:

    BBC News

    Watch the moment when actor Will Smith went on stage at the Oscars and hit comedian Chris Rock after he made a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith.

    https://bbc.in/3wNUS9r

    ***

    Just popped that through BBC bbc to BBC translate for mostly peaceful audiences of color… or JezBo’s audience….

    Watch the moment a possible Norwegian went on stage at the Oscars and another possible Norwegian’s face was said to be impacted, sources close to tiptoeing around say…

    In other news, Israel has totally again upset Mishal….

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  32. Zephir says:

    BBC speak:

    Violence is acceptable, even on live TV if you are black, or a racist muslim in Oxford Street.

    If someone offends you or your wife a smack in the face is pefectly acceptable, or if you are a jew.

    Applying that logic, just waiting for the plethora of smacks in the faces of bbc reporters and Jo Brande.

    Remember when one got chased down the street by anti vaxers and the howls of outrage from the bbc and the rest ?

    It would have been fine if they had just smacked him in the face…

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  33. Zephir says:

    “BBC journalist chased by anti-lockdown mob as police ‘do nothing’

    Anti-lockdown protesters have been blasted after footage emerged of them aggressively harassing a senior BBC journalist.

    Newsnight’s political editor Nicholas Watt was sworn at, chased and physically intimidated during a demonstration near Downing Street on Monday.

    Wearing a BBC lanyard, Mr Watt was forced to run through the mob beyond a line of police officers as people shouted ‘traitor’ and other foul-mouthed slurs at him.”

    https://metro.co.uk/2021/06/15/bbc-journalist-harassed-by-anti-lockdown-mob-as-police-do-nothing-14774765/

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  34. Sluff says:

    Do any white able-bodied heterosexual males make films these days?
    Or indeed appear on BBC news programmes outside London? I only ask because in London the answer is definitely no.

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  35. DYKEVISIONS says:

    The Oscars..it’s gone to the dogs..and I am not talking about that put me to sleep, film about ‘toxic masculinity’ which won best DIrector.

    No, with the ratings at an all time low, ‘The Wokes’ comes up with a fabricated event of a ‘comedian’ commenting on a actor’s wife unfortunate ‘Croydon Facelift’ and getting bitch slapped and receiving a few hurty words.

    If this is going to happen to comedic hosts every year, I nominate James Corden; however thinking about it a ‘comedian’ is a bit of a strech..

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “But we have learnt somethings in the last 10 years. We have learnt that most of the press in free western countries are cowards. We’ve learnt that most of our artistic establishment are cowards. Most of our politicians are cowards. We’ve learnt that industries that spend much of their year in award ceremonies patting themselves on the back for their bravery, stop when bravery is required.” – Douglas Murray @5:00

      ‘”If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”. I’m proud those words now adorn BBC HQ’

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/06/04/start-the-week-open-thread-4-june-2018/comment-page-2/#comment-920735

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  36. MarkyMark says:

    One of us?

    Sunak borrows Sainsbury’s worker’s hatchback for mini-Budget photo shoot
    Picture marked a 5p cut in taxes on petrol and diesel in spring statement

    Andrew Woodcock
    Political Editor
    3 days ago

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-spring-statement-fuel-b2043138.html

       2 likes

  37. Sluff says:

    Given that black on black violence is OK, as shown at the Oscars, we could save a lot of taxpayers money if the Police and authorities stopped investigating knife crime in London.

       17 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      MURDERED Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah posted a heartfelt Easter message on Facebook just hours before he brutally stabbed to death last night. Mr Shah, 40, died in hospital after being knifed in a savage street attack in a Shawlands street shortly after 9pm.25 Mar 2016

      Murder of a man of peace: Muslim shopkeeper who wished his ‘beloved Christian nation’ a Happy Easter is stabbed 30 times by a FELLOW MUSLIM …

         16 likes

  38. Zephir says:

    Well, we are waiting…….

    “There are calls for the Academy to strip Will Smith of his Best Actor Oscar after he walked on stage and slapped comedian Chris Rock who was presenting an award on stage, after making a joke about Jada Pinkett-Smith’s hair.

    The Academy, in its code of conduct, is known to take a very a dim view of violence of any kind.

    After the award ceremony was over it tweeted: ‘The Academy does not condone violence of any form.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10658739/Academy-faces-call-address-comedians-assault-not-seen-condone-violence.html

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  39. MarkyMark says:

    Alzheimer’s: Neil Kinnock supporting wife through disease

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-60835796

    ……………….

    GLENYS KINNOCK, the new minister for Europe, has amassed six publicly funded pensions worth £185,000 per year with her husband Neil, the former leader of the Labour party.

    They have already received up to £8m of taxpayers’ money in pay and allowances, he as a European commissioner and she as a member of the European parliament.
    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/glenys-and-neil-kinnock-have-six-state-pensions-v5vfl0j53qq

       11 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Im guess Neil can afford £1000 a week specialist dementia care home for his wife . Other ordinary mortal can’t do that .

      Goes around – come around

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  40. StewGreen says:

    I accidentally clicked a button on an NHS page
    and a researcher recruitment page comes up
    The page consists of a huge background headshot pic of a black woman holding a test tube.

       11 likes

  41. MarkyMark says:

    CHINA GOOD.
    UK BAD AND EVIL AND HAVE TO KEEP PAYING AID TO CHINA.

    After crawling into her cell, Lee Young-joo was ordered to sit cross-legged with her hands on her knees.

    She was not allowed to move for up to 12 hours a day.

    A slight shuffle or a hushed whisper to her cell mates would be harshly punished.

    She had limited access to water and was given only a few ground corn husks to eat.

    “I felt like an animal, not a human,” she said.

    She told the BBC she spent hours being interrogated for doing something many of us take for granted – leaving her country. She was trying to escape North Korea in 2007 and was caught in China and sent back.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-60870739

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  42. Guest Who says:

    ITBB has a few new ones.

    This one shows the BBC in all its perverse glory.

    https://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2022/03/very-radio-4.html

       6 likes

  43. BRISSLES says:

    Hmmm funny how Will Smith got all high, mighty and slappy about his wife, yet only a few months ago his wife spoke at length about his and HER extra marital affairs !! cue more crocodile tears from him.

    Yep his Oscar is well deserved for Best Actor – for his performance of contrition.

    Sadly, diversity has ensured that we get 2nd class services of everything – from politicians, to medical treatment, to journalistic reporting, to public services, to the movies. Of course it shouldn’t be, but, there is a difference.

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  44. StewGreen says:

    New Coop Food magazine
    – Easter treats 5 pages of photo recipes
    – Ramadan Mubarak 6 pages : Four families and food blogger Afia Begom share their Ramadan traditions and recipes

    A few pages further on – Portrait of a volunteer .. fully hijabbed

    https://main-coopfoodmagazine-rivergroup.content.pugpig.com/2022/03/01/ramadan-mubarak/content.htm

       14 likes

    • R P McMurphy says:

      So nothing about Passover then a couple of week away. Forgot, the Coop do go in for a bit of BDS of Israeli produce.

         11 likes

    • digg says:

      I saw this rubbish coming at us in the (Non)-Christmas BBC food magazine edition and unsubscribed immediately!

      I also left the Coop Bank this year as they push the Company into the woke new age. I am now with a global Singapore based bank who don’t keep tharshing me about, green, diversity, blah, blah, blah.

      I used to want to support any UK business where I could but not if they have ditched their heritage and joined the wokerati.

         22 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Let’s be careful for what we wish for … LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE WELCOMES ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK SUKUK BOND – LARGEST ISSUANCE BY A SUPRANATIONAL IN 2017 {lseg.com apr2017} … Listed by Saudi Arabia based, triple-A rated, Islamic Development Bank.

      Islamic Development Bank’s 5-year dated Sukuk raises $1.25 bn, with 2.393 per cent annual yield

      Offer receives strong international investor demand

      Confirms London Stock Exchange’s position as leading international listing venue for Islamic finance

      London Stock Exchange also has a vibrant market in Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) including three Shariah-compliant ETFs based on Islamic indexes. Our Group’s FTSE Shariah Global Equity Index Series has been designed to be used as the basis for Shariah-compliant investment products that meet the requirements of Islamic investors globally while our Russell-Ideal Ratings Islamic Index offers investors an accurate and complete global-equity market index that reflects established Shariahinvestment guidelines.

      Over 20 banks offer Islamic financial services in the UK.

      Sharia-compliant mortgages are here – and they’re not just for Muslims {theguardian jun2008}

      – Sharia isn’t just for Muslims, it’s for everyone – whether you like it or not!

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/09/11/start-the-week-open-thread-141/#comment-866000

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  45. MarkyMark says:

    “NF: So a woman can have a penis?
    KS: Nick I’m not… I don’t think we can conduct this debate with…
    NF: Sorry have I offended you?
    KS: No no no I just… it’s just…
    NF: A woman can have a penis?
    KS: I just don’t think that discussing this issue in this way helps anyone in the long run. What I want to see is a reform of the law as it is but I’m also an advocate of safe spaces for women and I want to have a discussion that is… anybody who genuinely wants to find a way through this I want to discuss that with. I do find that too many people in my view retreat or hold a position which is intolerant of others – and that’s not picking on any individual at all – but I don’t like intolerance, I like open discussion.”

    order-order.com

    ………………….

    “To cite the other person you just said that would *trigger you Sam Harris*, Mark Steyn said this the other day, *this is the conversation we will be having when the Mullahs nuke us*.Everyone will be discussing if someone is transgender despite the fact they’ve had no operation (ref Jack Monroe in UK)” – Douglas Murray when he’s angry, but he still makes sense.

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  46. digg says:

    Malmo stabbing prompts soul-searching in Sweden

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60867754

    A long article about two female teachers stabbed to death by a pupil.

    Look very very hard and you might spot this statement from a lecturer which gives the only small clue to the possible identity and motive of the killer…

    “He says it’s too speculative to draw any conclusions about potential links between the latest school violence and any recent societal shifts in Sweden.”

    That’s the Swedes, import murderers then go shtum and look the other way when they run amok.

    It will now be flooded by silence for a few months and then it will slip out in the small print that the killer was possibly a recent arrival in Sweden.

    Bear in mind that the the school is described as “A Christian School”.

       22 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Jacques Hamel (30 November 1930 – 26 July 2016) was a French Catholic priest who served in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray. On 26 July 2016, Hamel was murdered during the 2016 Normandy church attack by two Muslim men pledging allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant while Hamel celebrated Mass in his church.
      ………….

         9 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Businessman who led the construction of his dream home despite having no building experience allowed workers to go BAREFOOT and wear no safety gear on site, breaching health and safety rules
      Mustapha Matib, who is not a builder, decided to act as principal contractor when constructing his new home
      Residents in Denton, Greater Manchester, were shocked at the state of the site after ‘years’ of work took place
      Construction workers were seen walking around barefoot in a rubble-filled area with no protective equipment
      The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), says as a result of work on the site a nearby house became ‘unstable’
      Matib has now been prosecuted and pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety workplace requirements
      By MATTHEW LODGE FOR MAILONLINE

      PUBLISHED: 10:22, 23 March 2022 | UPDATED: 12:32, 23 March 2022

         8 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Hey Digg – give them a break – they are not as advanced as us – we have ‘people ‘ who plan out how they will go to a church and kill a devout RC MP knowing they’ll be out of prison in around 8 years …. And the Islamic wing of belmarsh is home from home

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    • StewGreen says:

      Twitter says the attacker was a white guy, no sign of Islamic angle
      Fabian Cederholm .. https://www.facebook.com/fabian.cederholm

      BTW That surname seems pretty common

         5 likes

      • StewGreen says:

        I don’t get how you can say the BBC article is talking about Islam
        The whole article is about picking events with no Muslim connection, and then shouting “Far Right”

        “A string of violent attacks at schools in Sweden has a nation not used to such tragedies now looking for answers.”

        – Last Monday, two teachers were killed. An 18-year-old pupil who confessed
        – In 2015, a 21-year-old wearing a Darth Vader-like mask marched into a school in Trollhättan in west Sweden and killed a pupil and a teacher with a sword in a racially motivated attack that made global headlines.
        – over the past 15 months there have been three school attacks, in addition to Monday’s stabbings.
        – Last August, a 15-year-old student with Nazi sympathies seriously injured a teacher
        – In January, a friend he had met online was arrested following a similar attack in which a pupil and a teacher were injured.
        – A year earlier a 25-year-old walked into his former school carrying an axe and a knife, injuring a pupil.

        “Most of them are suffering from a rather long period of social psychological disorder!”
        says .. who’s also researching right-wing radicalisation.
        .. they share fantasies of violence, racism or anti feminism.
        it’s clear that right-wing extremists have “made use of” the Nordic nation accepting record numbers of immigrants in recent years in their propaganda.

        That’s 5 events
        A Tweeter says
        One stabber is ‘racially motivated’, one is a Nazi sympathiser, others are anti-feminist, anti-refugee.

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        • StewGreen says:

          BBC’s Maddy Savage often tweets theories about “far right”
          eg “Good though that Sweden’s current #metoo debates quash far-right argument that only immigrants are to blame for rise in reported sexual assaults.”

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  47. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – in the unreal world of Leftist employment

    Men’s doubles on TOADY with JustRemainIn and Nick running the show. Early item is the P&O boss being told by a Minister from HMG to re-imploy the sacked 800 workers. Apparently HMG plans to arrange for all ferry companies operating in the UK to pay minimum wage to their employees.

    As I can’t see executives and management taking massive pay cuts down to UK minimum wage level, I expect the 800 sacked workers to be re-employed tomorrow and P&O to file for administrative receivership the day after.

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  48. Fedup2 says:

    Thought I’d can’t the world at one to see if the race industry had surfaced yet of one coloured boy bitch slapping another one …
    No …
    But it was high in the news agenda – ahead of government plans to improve education – me – I’d cut spending on state education and force schools to concentrate on the 5 R/s and sums …

       4 likes

    • Up2snuff says:

      Fed, bring back the Eleven+ and Grammar, Secondary and Technical Schools. Then you can have your Readin’, Writin’ and Rithmatic and stuff.

         7 likes

      • Fedup2 says:

        Up2
        There seems to be a desperate effort to get kids who missed education to ‘catch up ‘ – but maybe the answer is to focus on the important stuff –
        Kids / parents who want to learn will have studied during that this – the rest will have seen it as a PlayStation 2 year jolly –

        If a load ‘miss out ‘ on university and go straight to apprenticeships which lead to real paying jobs then that’s good –
        Otherwise just learn to ask if you and fries with your
        macee D?

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  49. Zephir says:

    That’s the bloody twisted bbc for you

    An assault on live TV in front of the world and what does Jeremy Vile have for his phone in ?

    Do you suffer from alopecia FFS

    I am no lawyer, can anyone on here tell me whether the US police can prosecute even if the other one does not press charges as has said ?

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