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  1. MarkyMark says:
    April 24, 2022 at 5:06 pm

    Cooma jail: Prison that was once ‘world’s only jail for gay men’
    By Gary Nunn
    Sydney
    Published16 hours ago
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-61006503
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    ‘UK’s first’ LGBT retirement community to open in London
    Published2 March 2021
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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-56252018

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  2. Zephir says:
    April 24, 2022 at 5:37 pm

    Stabbing in France by anti Macron nutter

    How very convenient for him, just as they are having a general election……………..

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  3. micknotmike says:
    April 24, 2022 at 5:42 pm

    Let’s see how the bbc are reporting the election. All day, the main article is accompanied by a picture showing posters of Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen (Full name Far Right Marine Le Pen Yaxley-Lennon), with a typical French voter passing by. Before you look, have a little guess……

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  4. Fedup2 says:
    April 24, 2022 at 6:02 pm

    Seems the first projected result is 2000 Uk time ? Seems a bit early but if they are using Biden software macron will be popping the champagne ….

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  5. theisland says:
    April 24, 2022 at 6:38 pm

    This is interesting.
    Not here yet afaik but the Irish government talk Of FORCING People To Open Their Homes / Hugo Talks to Ukrainian refugees.

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  6. Guest Who says:
    April 24, 2022 at 6:45 pm

    Toenails appears confident; no obvious far right appendages.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      April 24, 2022 at 7:04 pm

      A year on, the gilets jaunes have lost 24 eyes and five hands – and made a deep mark on French society
      By Pauline Bockhttps://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2019/11/year-gilets-jaunes-have-lost-24-eyes-and-five-hands-and-made-deep-mark-french

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  7. Guest Who says:
    April 24, 2022 at 6:46 pm

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  8. theisland says:
    April 24, 2022 at 7:09 pm

    Macron wins – projections show 🙁

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  9. digg says:
    April 24, 2022 at 7:54 pm

    I can’t recall the the BBC ever getting so feverishly manic about an election in another Country as they have for the French one.

    Why could that possibly be?

    Macron hates the UK for doing Brexit as does the BBC and that might be a clue as to why they have done everything in their power to paint Le Pen as a threat to our whole way of life. Far-right, far-right, far-right, far-right, far-right ad nauseum.

    I know nothing about Le Pen but I really hope she will pull it off as anything that winds up the BBC is a source of deep satisfaction to me.

    She does appear to have a very limited chance but if it creates a few white knuckles in the BBC head honcho office that’s a bonus.

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  10. Fedup2 says:
    April 24, 2022 at 7:54 pm

    POLLS SUGGEST MACRON WIN. BBC CELEBRATES

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    • G.W.F. says:
      April 24, 2022 at 8:04 pm

      Fedup2

      Celebrations in GB News who have constantly daubed Le Penn as Far Right.

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    • taffman says:
      April 24, 2022 at 8:07 pm

      Fedup2
      It won’t be long before Boris sends his ‘congratulations’ .

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      • Fedup2 says:
        April 24, 2022 at 8:26 pm

        Taffman
        Ha ha – Mail says he has already done it ….business as usual …

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  11. Fedup2 says:
    April 24, 2022 at 8:21 pm

    From the DT – BBC acting like a private enterprise ?

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    The BBC is poised to become a tech investor by taking bets on risky start-ups as part of a wider push to wean itself off licence fee funding.

    The corporation has started hiring for a new subdivision that will pinpoint fledgling businesses with new and emerging technologies, and back them financially.

    This new operation, called BBC Venture, will sit under the corporation’s research and development arm, but will explore working with its commercial unit to help secure new income streams.

    The plans were revealed in a job advert for a “venture associate”. The BBC said that it is “exploring how working more closely with the entrepreneurial and venture communities, in areas of strategic importance, can bring new value and income to the BBC.”

    Whoever is successful will be responsible for “evaluating start-ups and making investment cases, as well as defining a model for a BBC Venture operation”.

    Under director general Tim Davie, Auntie has been trying to embolden its commercial ambitions to plug the gap left by falling income from the £159.50 annual licence fee.

    That includes plans to increase the returns of BBC Studios, the broadcaster’s commercial arm, by nearly a third to £1.5bn over the next five years.

    Insiders said BBC Venture could also work in conjunction with the BBC’s commercial businesses, but this is at an “exploratory stage” and no decisions have been made.

    The need to bolster the BBC’s income has become more pressing since Nadine Dorries, the Culture Secretary, said that the licence fee would be frozen for two years – a move that raises the prospect of even deeper cuts by creating a £1.5bn budget gap.

    Ms Dorries had also warned that the fee could be abolished from 2028 onwards, before softening her stance during a commons speech in January.

    The licence fee threat comes as the BBC confronts a 10pc jump in the cost of making high-end dramas sparked by huge spending on original shows by the American streamers.

    Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor, is attempting to help the BBC cope with the Netflix threat by handing it a £400m borrowing boost in October’s Budget.

    Mr Sunak more than doubled the debt limit on BBC Studios from £350m to £750m after the broadcaster requested a bigger pot to help drive growth.

    The BBC leaned on the facility in 2019 when it struck a £180m deal to buy the majority of UKTV, the commercial broadcaster behind channels such as Dave, Gold and Yesterday.ENDS

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  12. Zephir says:
    April 24, 2022 at 8:37 pm

    £12,485-a-year boarding school cut ties with Christian charity after single ‘rambling’ complaint from parent about its orthodox views on marriage.

    Bosses at St Lawrence College in Ramsgate cut ties with Samaritan’s Purse
    The school, that says it is run on Christian values, began helping the charity’s ‘Operation Christmas Child’ project to get supplies to needy children last year
    The charity, founded by Franklin Graham – son of the late US evangelist Billy Graham – recently teamed up with churches to deliver gift shoeboxes to Ukraine
    But a web page created by an anonymous parent, attacked the views of Graham
    They said he was ‘homophobic’ and suggested anyone sharing the charity’s beliefs is a ‘danger to children’ – and made a formal complaint to the school

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10748277/12-485-year-boarding-school-cut-ties-Christian-charity-single-rambling-complaint.html

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  13. digg says:
    April 24, 2022 at 8:46 pm

    When it comes down to brass tacks it was always going to be Le Pen versus the EU, the BBC, the UN, the WHO, in fact all the despicable organisations who would be shook up if she were to win.

    Business as usual now in a strangle-hold on the population of France.

    I hate to say this but the French have a long history of only backing the favourite as it is less risky. Of course willing to change their mind in the vote if another favourite emerges.

    I guess always going with the favourite is to be expected but they will now live with the consequences.

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  14. Fedup2 says:
    April 24, 2022 at 9:19 pm

    And with Digg’s sad comment – I open the new thread …..
    the evil putin seems to be celebrating the Eastern Easter with cruise missiles …

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