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Bristol mayor flies nine hours for TED climate conference
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-61596817
Plebs, don’t forget to get rid of your petrol and diesels cars ASAP!
Marvin is the epitome of a virtue signaling twerp and he’s surrounded by a ghastly coterie of the same…
Bristol council is a farce – I’m wondering why it hasn’t imploded yet like Slough….
The city is a poster child for the near wholly dysfunctional public sector.
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Sometimes imperial units are shorter
“quarter pounder” vs “the hundred and thirteen gramme-er”
“five foot six” vs ” “one hundred and sixty eight”
Radio 4 8pm
Tanzania is thought to have the largest population of albinos in Africa. Albinos are especially persecuted in Shinyanga and Mwanza, where witch doctors have promoted a belief in the potential magical and superstitious properties of albinos’ body parts.
Radio4 have spent LICENCE PAYER’s money in constructing this
including getting a graphic designer to make some graphic and video for Twitter almost no one will ever watch … just 12 Likes
I don’t detect a joke ..the music just loops back to the start
The BBC retains an army of (well paid) freelance (redundant) content providers – I know several of them who fund rather comfortable peripatetic lifestyles as a result.
I’m a Bectu member …. (about to ditch it though – the whining and Labour Party bilge they pump out is simply insufferable)
Broadcast folk journal – explains a lot
Elsewhere
Sh1t railways
2:15 Robert Glenister and Anamaria Marinca in a drama about *migrant workers* ..Romanian’s in Spalding
*true story* of the rock festival .. “the first ever rock festival”
29th May 1967 thousands descended on a giant agricultural shed, the Tulip Bulb Auction Hall.
It’s true that it was a rock fest and pre-dates the Isle of Wight, but it’s hyperbole to say it was the FIRST
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_festival#1950s%E2%80%931960s
This bit is drama not truth
“Doug measures the person he has become against the person that Hendrix invited him to be,
events in the town lead to an escalation of hostility to its Romanian workers”
#WhiteManBad
Ahmadis suffer vicious persecution around the world. The main source of fuel for that persecution is in Pakistan, but what happens in Pakistan does not stay in Pakistan.
I know that from my experience in the Yorkshire market town of Batley. In August 1985, when I was 11 years old, my parents organised an inter-faith meeting in the town hall. It was interrupted and disturbed when, according to West Yorkshire police, more than 1,000 extremists, led by Pakistani hate preachers funded by the Pakistani state, were bused in from around the country. The mob brutally attacked my English mother and my father, a dermatologist; my eldest brother and I; and a Welsh Ahmadi schoolteacher who was with us. My first cousin, a GP, was by chance driving through the market town that day. He saw the mob and saw his family and friends being attacked, so he stopped. He was recognised, pulled from his vehicle and savagely beaten up.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2020-03-12a.177.0&s=islam+batley#g195.0
Stew, it probably was the first if it really happened. Woodstock was 1969 and the Hyde Park free festivals were 1968-71. Altamont was 1970 or 1971. Some of my classmates at school went to the Hyde Park festivals.
Up2Snuff, I gave the Wikpedia list of early festivals
many predate it.
The BBC reporting of the Welsh Assembly moves on Gender education for children fails to include the context.
See https://www.writeho.com/files/gaybbc.pdf
This is a violation of the BBC Charter.
Anyone who reads much of what I write will say “oh god – not more gloom “ – and be correct … I’m still on my theme of making ends meeting – irrespective of massive defaults of the BBC licence DD – the first thing to dump .
Anyway – I’m trying to work out how much strain the likes of local authorities – building societies – landlords – energy companies – are going to face when people can’t afford to meet their bills …
If anyone has an authoritative guide on this I’d be grateful – but I’ve been doing my own research – for instance over 70`% of mortgages are fixed interest – but a million ( or was it 2 million ?) are on variable rate …..
And then the community charge – what happens when people default ? I don’t know – other stuff like ‘no car insurance ‘ and more stealing will come along as ‘disposable ‘ income dries up …
Price of oil is up again ….
What will people do with the windfall Money ? Which I understand will be paid into energy company accounts in tranches from around October ,…
…I mean …. Will they be able to withdraw it ? Or will the companies insist on keeping a big positive balance ? Or clear off accrued debt on electricity and gas bills ?
I don’t know ….. happy days ….
As a kid in the 50s we lived on almost nothing. There were inquests in our family if someone ate an extra apple. But I remember it as great times, hardly anyone on the estate had a TV so we used to play outside all the time. We never learnt to think about food, everyone was slim and agile.
I can remember the 1970s. High inflation and ever rising unemployment into the 80s. If you are young the important thing is to go out most nights with your friends, listen to live music and get blasted.
When interest rates got to 16% in the early 80s a neighbour put his keys through the building society letter box and just left, he and his family were never to be seen again.
As an individual you can always “hack it” even if that means running like hell.
Maybe people will relearn that you work to live. Employers are not on your side, you are not a solicitor or sales manager, you are a person. Maybe we will relearn that posh people are the enemy, they hate the uppity, aggressive lower classes and would gladly replace them with slaves from abroad.
On reflection the greatest treachery of the past 50 years is the way the Labour Party became a party of academics and public sector workers, abandoning the people for the interests of rich intellectuals. Yet still taking the votes of ordinary people.
Fed, it’s a puzzle why the petrol and diesel prices are so high. When oil hit its record high of $150pb – currently $32+ off that figure – petrol & diesel prices were not as high as they are now. It cannot just be a shortage of refining capacity, can it?
Ha ha…see my last posting. This is a deliberately engineered problem to impoverish you. Don’t you people follow the Davos meetings? They just told you last week what they have planned for the next few years. You will lose everything. Your house, your mortgage, everything. If you survive the poisoning.
Up2
There was something about refining capacity – making diesel particularly expensive – sounds like a sack of do do to me
I fear that all the ‘rising prices ‘ stuff just gives players in some sectors the opportunity to go for big bucks …
When putin declares victory will there be an unseemly rush to go and make nice and pump the oil again ? Views ? ….
As I understand it the oil is flowing anyway – and tanker owners are rinsing the provenance of oil by re-documenting after a couple of pit-stops in obliging jurisdictions…
Elsewhere the absurdities continue
Tomo – the rinsing would make sense and the Russians must enjoy the ‘fun’ of bi passing sanctions – particularly with various freedom loving countries shouting loudly about ‘unity ‘ ‘justice ‘ but still taking the oil and not really supplying weapons ( right krauts ?)
Fed, sanctions busting? It’s a back to the future moment ‘end those norty sed effrikens’.
Up2snuff
the way I hear it – very much the same antics as norty sed effrikens!
– I was reading about some dodgy Greek tankers a couple of weeks back – but can’t find the article…
Unable to sustain their own livestock in the desert, Saudi Arabia is scooping up more and more American farmland, with the onus now on drought-stricken U.S. states to raise the crops to feed Saudi dairy cows.
Saudi dairy company Almarai, which in 2014 bought 9,600 acres of farmland in Arizona, has expanded its U.S. farmland holdings to 14,000 acres, causing growing worries about the state of local water reserves in drought-stricken Palo Verde Valley in southern California.
https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-buying-us-land-to-feed-cows-2016-4?r=US&IR=T
EV driver has been fined for waiting too long to charge his EV at a motorway services – I bet he’s chuffed. It was only a matter of time… literally. Charger anxiety to add to range anxiety!
I’ve seen sad queues at motorway chargers on Sunday afternoons 🙂 – where simple sums says if they’re all going to top up from the sole functional charger – tail end charlie is going to go over the parking time allowance…
Lol – charger rage – where I live a company has a number of eco vans ( yawn) and someone from the outfit has a charger covered 25/ 7 – and a domestic charger is …. £1200 ? If you have a drive ….
I’d have to get my butler trained to do it … or maybe my driver ….or someone on the staff .. so many …
You should take a look at just how much power those chargers take. A friend retired electrician whose son runs a wholesaler where the chargers are sold didn’t believe me when I told him it was a 32 Amp connection needed just for the charger, I was fortunate to have some confirmation to prove the point.
To put it into context the fuse in your home is probably 30 – 40A so it’s doubling the amount of power your home might at maximum consume.
It gets worse though, because while your home might use that much while cooking kettles electric showers are on – usualy for a short time, the EV charger is going to be pulling that much until the car is charged.
The loading on the grid is going to be collossal, much more than it was ever designed to cope with and the air head fantasy land politicians have done nothing to prepare for any change, just more of the magical fairy will make it all right for us and sort it all out.
32A is ca. 7.5kW and would require a separate feed from the fuseboard.
The real problem kicks in when you factor in what the electricians call diversity – as in – when everybody gets home and wants to charge their EV for the next day’s use – that’s when thing warm up! There are already proposals for “virtual queues” on housing developments where the wires aren’t big enough to charge everybody simultaneously 🙂
Politicians and public servants in particular seem to think you just have to install chargers and the planet will be saved.
– I’ve got news for them
The grid is creaking as things stand and London was having mini-volcano feeder burnouts in the streets about twice a month up till the pandemic when reporting of those seemed to vanish.
I’ve seen chargers with £0.65/ kWh in supermarket car parks when domestic tariffs were averaging £0.17 / kWh. Things are going to go downhill – I can guarantee it!
I have an EV. I mostly charge at 10 amps from an ordinary socket. I have installed a 7.5kW charger (30amp), this needed a new connection to the consumer unit and a 40 foot trench across the garden to the garage. My back still twinges 🙂
I have 100A company fuses so still have 70A to play with when the 7.5kW charger is active. Some people only have 60A supplies so can expect the company fuses to pop at some time.
Maybe I will charge it up using my ( fictitious ) exercise bike – I reckon for every 10 miles on the bike I can go 1000 yards in a car …. …
… more seriously – the emir of londonistan contacted me ( a consultation ) about the forthcoming £12.50 A day for using an unapproved car in londonistan ….
If anyone has a good spiel to send him I’d be grateful – I’m drafting my own one for his office to bin before reading …
One major problem that isn’t on many people’s radar wrt to EV charging is that the infrastructure is appallingly documented – in one recent site survey I discovered that the distribution company’s records did not reflect the situation on he ground – and not in a good way – the feeder was smaller (50%) than detailed in their provisioning plan and there was already two splices to meters that weren’t shown and only discovered on a site visit.
While it’s possible that things might go the other way on other sites – the relentless appetite for power makes this look unlikely.
It would be interesting to see some statistics for cable jointing failures in areas with EV charging increases…
Tomo – I recall a couple of years ago that there is to be a ‘gap ‘ in demand v production as a number of power stations were coming to the end of their operating life – whether green crap or not – and that capacity is just not there …
… I do foresee the tarif thing that works in other countries such as peak – middle – and ‘low ‘ but I would hate that ….
… this government / civil service seems unable to see emergencies coming yet alone plan for cold winters with high demand …. Crap really …
gap?
abyss morelike
I’ve seen executives from National Grid interviewed where the interviewee self evidently had no grasp of the arithmetic of electricity on *any* level.
The morons only see their present employment packages and kowtow the high priests of Green Blobbery and corporate word salad fashion …
Tomo – by coincidence a chap was on GBNews institute of something or other reporting in 2012 of coming trouble – and that we are now more dependent on juice than the last time it was switched off( heath v NUM )….but power charge futures ….
There have been 20 energy ministers in 18 years apparently …
I’m going to stick my sparky nose in here with no offence intended. The thinking “I have 100 amp fuses” only holds good if the supply can push it through. You haven’t necessarily got 70 amps left to play with. If your feeder can supply 100 amps then fine; as I say I’m not looking for more than polite conversation here. There’s nothing to stop the whole street putting 5000 amp fuses in their houses, the thinking being that they could all charge 20 cars at once. The problem arises when you try to run that lot through an infrastructure put down in the 1930, and power it all from a windmill. I like to come up with ideas to see if I can sell them to people. My latest is to advise people to fit an alternator to their electric car to charge the battery while they are driving. I’ve had a couple of souls with a look that says “You know, that might just work”
“Self charging hybrid” sort of a thing?
I see that some people are getting quite imaginative
You are right. I have been there when the fuses were pulled to put in the smart meter and it looked like 40 to 50mm2 cable. I don’t mind heating the front garden and street…
There is much debate about the efficacy of the Covid vaccine amongst anti-vaxxers and the vaccinated. Yet people are blindly buying EVs based on all the marketing and certainly not years of data ! I wonder how many of these are anti vaxxers.
Its been proven that the components from 3rd world countries to make a battery is controversial, the recharging infrastructure is rubbish, and if electricity is going to be rationed as has been indicated in the media, then these EVs are going to be very expensive garden ornaments.
I won’t be buying one this side of my coffin.
micknotmike
Perpetual motion Eh ? That should be a big money earner.
Something many have been seeking for years . Ha Ha !
EV charging on the go – how about regenerative braking borrowed from the old F1 cars?
most EVs already do regen brakes – but the OCD hyper-miler crowd can only get at best ca. 15% range improvement over non regen operation.
The weather (temperature) and hills soon eat into that 🙂
EVs are niche…. you’ve got a niche – fine and dandy… otherwise welcome to a world of inconvenience and wasted time and money.
I regularly do 300 mile round trips and some longer errands so a diesel chuggy trailer or EP-Tender looks just the ticket? (willing to wager that you can’t actually charge a moving EV without some expensive and warranty busting mods)
Checked Tesco pasta prices
– Hearty Food Co. Spaghetti Pasta 500G Aldi Price Match £0.20
– Hearty Food Co. Penne Pasta 500G Aldi Price Match £0.29
– Hearty Food Co. Tomato & Herb Pasta Sauce 440G Aldi Price Match £0.39
Check BBCnews page
“Budget pasta prices jump 50% as food staples rise
By Beth Timmins”
Open Comments .. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61630281#comments
Breaking : Aldi prices rose by 3p, that’s hardly 50% ..more like 10%
Look – I’m sorry but shouldn’t that spaghetti be in a Tin?
Yet on Twitter hundreds of libmob accounts are still saying
‘but cheap pasta is not on the shelves, cos Jack Munroe says that”
Then when I post a photo of shelves like that new one, they still refuse to believe me.
A Games Exec BAFTA member just blocked me for daring to argue with his Munroe-world
The figures are from the office for national statistics and are based on prices charged a year ago.
Here’s a report that has echoes of the Pakistani muslim grooming gangs, and that the BBC won’t cover for the same reasons:
“GPs failing Asian victims of ‘honour abuse’ over racism fears”
(I think we know what “Asian” is code for.)
“GPs are failing victims of “honour abuse” within the Asian community because of fears of being seen as racist, research by a leading think tank has found.
The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) said the use of the term “honour abuse” had legitimised domestic violence within families with victims feeling they could not report it because of the stigma of being labelled a traitor to their communities.
Health practitioners such as GPs – to whom most victims were likely to report their abuse – found it difficult to intervene for fear of being accused of racism, bias and prejudice if they probed into it, said the CSJ…” (cont’d.)
– The Telegraph
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/29/gps-failing-asian-victims-honour-abuse-racism-fears/
The BBC missed opportunities to stop “monstrous” abuse by DJ Jimmy Savile and broadcaster Stuart Hall because of a “culture of fear”, a report says. The Dame Janet Smith review identified 72 victims of Savile – including eight who were raped – and 21 victims of Hall, over five decades from 1959.25 Feb 2016
Hello Marky
Maybe we could go on about bbcgate, like the bbc never stops going on about partygate
BBC gets money out of its mistakes…. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-61168857
Steve Coogan says Jimmy Savile drama The Reckoning ‘will vindicate itself’
Published20 April
Manchester Arena Inquiry: Security ‘did not approach bomber over racism fears’
Published27 October 2020
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-54695580
When is the BBC going to point out that foreign trade and foreign policy are EU responsibilities?
Why is the EU getting away with supporting the Russians? It is not the Hungarians at fault, it is the EU.
The EU deals with the terms of International Trade through the Customs Union. It can slap a 50% tariff on Russian fuels or even set a quota of zero.
See https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/division-of-competences-within-the-european-union.html
BERLIN, Feb 28 (Reuters) – E.ON (EONGn.DE), Europe’s largest operator of energy networks, rejected demands to shut down the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline as part of sanctions against Russia for invading Ukraine, the company told Rheinische Post newspaper on Monday.
After the German government put the Nord Stream 2 pipeline on hold last week, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Saturday called for shutting down Nord Stream 1, which has transferred Russian gas to Germany since 2011.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/germanys-eon-rejects-halting-nord-stream-1-pipeline-paper-2022-02-28/
I’d wager that the Kriegsmarine have a solid watch out for Ukranians in sailing boats in the Baltic.
Two lumps of Semtex the size of a shoebox and Nord Stream 1 would be toast
Bizarrely the Ukrainians are allowing Russian gas to pass through the Ukraine..
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russias-gazprom-continues-shipping-gas-europe-via-ukraine-2022-05-29/
The Ukraine is probably having its arm twisted by the EU.
https://eegas.com/
Has some hints as to the context for gas pipes across Ukraine
Unmissable performances from Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2022
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Remove all statues?
Mooning Mona Lisa bronze statue on display in Bristol
Published14 September 2021
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-58552412
A bronze version of a piece of street art based on the Mona Lisa has gone on public display.
The sculpture sees Nick Walker’s painting of the Moona Lisa reimagined as a life-size figure.
Horror story raking in the audience as he finds his voice.
From the home of 28gate, bless.
Is June Sarpong’s BBC salary too much for a three-day week?
https://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/content/news/is-june-sarpong-s-bbc-salary-too-much-for-a-three-day-week
June Sarpong’s salary as diversity champion for the BBC has been brought into question.
The public broadcaster has been criticised after disclosing in its annual report that Sarpong earns £267,000 a year for working a three-day week as the corporation’s director of creative diversity.
Sarpong was appointed as the BBC’s first creative diversity director in 2019 as the organisation said it wanted to achieve real change in increasing the number of ethnic minorities and disabled people on screen.
No – June deserves every penny – if her existence weakens the existence of the BBC then give her £2670000 … for one day a week … money well spent if it takes the existence of the BBC down ..
YES, I agree Fed ! if she gets the push she’ll be popping up on GB News – her and her extensions gets where castor oil cant !
Harrabin quotes DeSmog huh?
I suppose the Green blob has so many assholes that the extra cheek goes unnoticed.
Desmog Blog who are themselves a division of a PR firm
“The DeSmogBlog team is led by Jim Hoggan, founder of James Hoggan & Associates, one of Canada’s leading public relations firms.”
where apparently the initial prime funder of the website was pleaded guilty to financial fraud
.. are shouting that an NGO have hired another PR firm
* “The firm’s involvement in transactions serving the online gambling industry led to U.S. charges of money laundering, racketeering, running an unlicensed money transmitting business and promoting illegal gambling. He was arrested in January 2007 [1][2] and pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to promote illegal Internet gambling transactions.
He agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, and the court ordered his company to forfeit $140 million.[3]”
DeSmog are really quite shadowy – but they have links to the “climate educator” and “climate journalist” networks – so that their spewings are regularly recycled and amplified. cf Harrabin – but not as sly – more in yer face like say student Trots.
Sidhu Moose Wala: The murdered Indian rapper who ‘made sense of chaos’
By Zoya Mateen
BBC News, Delhi
Published3 hours ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-61629133
On Sunday, in an ominous turn of events, Moose Wala met the same fate. The 28-year-old singer was driving near his village in Punjab state on Sunday when he was shot dead by unidentified attackers.
If the doomsters are proven to be right we’re in for a rough winter. And it’s our own fault…
Our insane obsession with virtue signalling climate cobblers means we have been paying farmers to convert good farmland into wind turbine factories. Most of the time these darned things aren’t producing anything like enough energy. Added to this our reluctance to use the gas, coal and oil that’s under our feet or invest in nuclear means we’re importing gas from abroad. What could possibly go wrong?
The government have also urged farmers to “rewild the landscape”. Utter bloody nonsense of course, but loved by Guardianista prats like George Monbiot.
So, we’re reducing the number of sheep and cows and we’ve been reintroducing bloody beavers. Wonderful! The only drawback is that you won’t get much meat or milk from a beaver, but it makes you look good to Greta and David Attenborough, which is what’s really important.
At the best of times this is just self indulgent stupidity, but with a burgeoning population, that the government clearly has no intention of controlling, it’s suicidal. The 2011 census told us we had over 67 million mouths to feed. Our present population must now be well in excess of 70 million, easy.
Watching a bit of GB news earlier they were warning of both food shortages and power cuts this winter.
It’s going to be like the dark, cold days of the 1970s, minus Joe Gormley and Ted Heath.
I’d advise you to have paraffin heaters and candles at the ready. Do you remember them?
I’m feeling quite nostalgic…
Jeff
I don’t see people like me as doomsters – it’s just wise to be prepared as far as possible – power banks to charge iPhones and the like – decent batteries – wind up radio – candles / lanterns are just basic precautions and – depending on circumstances – either a mini store of juice or just a little more in the tank – whatever the cost ….
And all done before the BBC / msm reports panic buying in order to cause panic buying ….
Well you are about to experience something you would have thought impossible 3 years ago. The UK is bankrupt. The natural energy resources it has are deliberately not being exploited. It’s farmable land is deliberately being reduced. Farmers are being paid off with fake money to not farm. Chickens and domestic animals are deliberately being slaughtered under the pretext of a fake avian flu to induce a food shortage. Supply chains are being broken to artificially create shortages. The small and medium sized companies of the UK have been deliberately obliterated under the pretext of a non-existent virus. The children have been deliberately abused and poisoned, as well as 75 percent of the gullible public. To put it more poetically….’You ain’t seen nothing yet’. Please don’t complain. You did nothing to stop it.
I don’t think you’re “a doomster”, I don’t think I am either. I’m certain we’re in for a rough time. It should never have come to this, but I think I’m pretty well prepared.
I grow most of my own food and chop wood for my log burner.
I’m already loading my freezers…but then I do this every year…not just for a potential food shortage problem.
Doomsday scenarios don’t usually worry me, but this one is different…
This is real.
Fancy that.
I usually record things like Farage and Steyn and ff through the ads but I’ve just watched an ad break on GB News and guess what … all the people in them were white.
No mixed race or the usual pc boxes ticked.
I don’t know if this is a one of or just maybe firms are realising we don’t like being woked at.
Not possible .. There must be a fault with the colour control on your TV set !
But if not then yes, maybe finally some reality has dawned !
I have eaten “oats so simple” porridge for years but not bought any more since the ad told me it was only for tough looking black guys.
Were the advts all for places in Wales?
So Putin is in his terminal death throes is he BBC?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61628473
“But speculation in the western media that he has serious health problems veer – so far – more towards wishful thinking than anything backed up by hard medical evidence.”
Of course to the BBC wishful thinking is fact especially if fed to them by the cabal in the Ukraine!
The truth will out!
Putin will not stop until he has in his own mind liberated the Donbas region and expelled what he views as the left-wing Nazi contingent in the Ukraine and really if you were Russian would you blame him?
Whatever you think of Putin, the BBC are now being revealed as the prime dis-information spreaders they actually are and out of their own mouths.
Dangerous for the Ukraine and dangerous for the Western World.
Trump’s mental health and why people are discussing it
Published6 January 2018
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42580762
It is a question that has dogged Donald Trump – fairly or otherwise – since he was elected president: is he mentally fit for office?
…..
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
POTUS ?
Mental Health ?
As I’ve said here before over the last 5 years I’ve seen two people fall apart in front of me with Alzheimer’s / degenerative senility – this is about as clear-cut as can be.
-and the trash sitting in Broadcasting House swerve *any* mention of it …
“Putin will not stop until he has in his own mind liberated the Donbas region”
How do you know this? I for one don’t believe this, I think he has much broader objectives, and as an ex KGB officer Putin is a master of deception.
Anyone who knows anything about the CIA knows they are quite possibly the most incompetent useless ‘intelligence’ agency in the world, and they won’t have a clue what is going on.
The Russian aircraft carrier which officially wasn’t an aircraft carrier only had 6 aircraft loaded on board, so they waited until the dim witted American intelligence could see them and then took them below deck and painted different numbers on them.
The CIA concluded the Admiral Kuzetsov had loaded 60 aircraft on board and was a powerful threat!
The point here is that most rational commentators unlike the CIA say Putins real intentions are unknown, however there is evidence to suggest that this is an attack on Europe – the EU not using conventional warfare using food and energy, which is going to take 4 or 5 months to bite, and there is also evidence Putin is in alliance with China.
All will be revealed by Christmas.
One Danish acquaintance told me that in his navy helicopter days – he was instructed to check the numbers on both sides of Russian warships as the crafty Ivans had fooled others by putting different numbers on the bows 🙂
I think the Irish navy does the same ‘1’ on one side and ‘2’’ on the other …
Jimmy Cricket does their strategy?
We did it in WWII using all kinds of subterfuge to mislead enemies, and there appears to be a very blinkered media view based on WYSISWYG that everything is as it appears to be and there is no ulterior motive.
Farage “408 Greene King pub are giving punter 1 FREE pint today
code word 1952”
Bit quiet here
I suppose everyone is watching Susan Calman’s new series
The Big Antiques Adventure
Surely that is badly photoshopped. Looks like a pinhead on a fat body.
Susan who????
Please don’t post stuff whilst we are watch suzzi and his wife /husbands …
Not another program with the fat obnoxious scottish dyke.
TVland is very *diverse* the other day BBC1’s prime time show was about the ancestors of
Who Do You Think You Are? with Sue Perkins
She’s not a “fat obnoxious scottish dyke.”
She’s slim and not Scottish
The BBC has announced its line up to cover the Queen thing at the end of the week – growler – lady nugee – Jess Phillips – comrade Corbyn all held together with Jez vine and Jonnie snow … or is this channel 4 ?
Excellent news – there is to be an inquiry into the events in Paris around the footy match at the weekend . The findings of the inquiry will be rubbished if any of the ‘Liverpool saints ‘are found to have sinned …
It’s obvious that the Liverpool saints played their traditional role as ‘victims ‘ and will demand compensation
I wonder if Liverpool is ‘celebrating ‘ the queen thing at the weekend…. Or just doing the traditional booing ?
Fedup- What you had in Paris was nearly the “perfect storm.”
You had a great deal of local scum mixing in with the
Liverpool supporters pick pocketing and mugging and
also trying to break into the stadium to see one or more of
their hero’s. If you look at some of the coverage from
outside the stadium you can see quite a lot of these
gentlemen of Middle Eastern appearance.
Of course mixed into this you had thousands
Liverpool supporters with their genuine tickets. But also a few
with fake ones , plus the “usual suspects” from previous
Liverpool misdemeanours .With an under strength police
force who are not inclined to go down on one knee when
confronted with a problem. a perfect storm was very
nearly formed. Thank God it was not Heysel or Hillsborough
again. Of course the other ingredient was that the French
will NEVER forgive us and the Americans for our “help” in driving the Nazis from their country.
Thatcher Statue
BBC local news did exactly the wring thing
The reason for the libmob vandalism is they want the publicity
then the BBC did the wrong thing they just did a long item on it
In the first point they did a short bit
“See what happened the vandalism has attracted the FAR RIGHT Turning Point ”
then it was to the studio to a long interview with a bloke Angus Maguire who claimed to be from “Tories against Thatcher”
that sound very much like he is a Labour guy ACTING & PRETENDING to be a Tory
He went on to say that he supports the pain throwing as it’s “just freedom of expression”
Talk about gaslighting ..of course you can’t vandalise property and call it freedom of speech
Can you imagine what would happened if the same vandalism happened to a statue of one of the modern black saints ?
Maybe Grantham Council should put a couple of tiny George Floyd or Marcus Rashford pics behind the Thatcher statue
.. all Hell would break loose if the paint specks touched them.
“that sound very much like he is a Labour guy ACTING & PRETENDING to be a Tory”
You sure it wasn’t Boris Johnson using a pseudonym?
Angus appears in a stunt video by Joe.co.uk
“Hi, my name is Angus Maguire.
I set up and I’m now leader of a small political campaigning group called Tories Against Thatcher to try and prevent the erection of the Margaret Thatcher’s statue which is now taking place in her native town of Granthem.”
Qn “What is Margaret Thatcher’s symbol in your eyes. “Privatization of national companies such as British steel, British Leyland, British gas.
Result was the greatest shift of wealth in this country we’ve seen since the Second World War, neoliberal free market economics.”
That spiel only makes sense if he a Labour supporter
His campain is not new
He started his petition on 29 JAN 2022
https://www.change.org/p/tories-against-thatcher-stop-maggie-memorial-in-grantham/u/30134827
In 4 months he has got just EIGHTY signers from across the world
The first person to tweet that petition was Cllr Lee Steptoe Labour Co/op District Cllr for Grantham
He did that one week before the Tories Against Thatcher twitter account did
That account has tweeted twice against Boris
and has never tweeted anything in favour of Tories
So Angus and imaginary friends are not real Tories/
Such AMBUSH NAMING is a libmob Alinsky trick
I do find the left to be full of irony and contradictions. They use the word ‘hate’ against the Right all the time – but they hate more than anyone.
And their hate is the particularly sinister ideological hate where they hate people withou teven knowing them. Same as the Muslims : the hate which makes them think those people don’t deserve to live.
CSE 1990s events involved a victim under the age of 16
Four men, aged 40, 50, 54 and 63, and a woman aged 47, were arrested on suspicion of sexual offences following raids in Sheffield, Rotherham, Scunthorpe and West Yorkshire.
Det Ch Insp Aneela Khalil-Khan, from South Yorkshire Police, said: “We are committed to investigating reports of child abuse, regardless of how many years have passed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-61634400
Relation ?
When it says one person, they are often white.
When it says a group of people, they are usually Pakistani.
This is very significant because it indicates a general culture issue, not one bad apple.
Don’t expect any episodes of Panorama about it though. They are for pushing the agenda only.
“$53 billion PROFITS for Anheuser-Busch InBev ”
.. He means turnover revenue, not profit .. they’d be lucky to make $10bn in profit
Recent profits are not clear to me ..maybe cos of Covid
some unintended consequences?
I wonder if any will show up in UK cities?
Happens every time.
Next phase : the USA offers $100,000 for each Javelin to buy it back.
Local AlQaeda groups which get the weapons become rich and the most powerful warlords in the local area and do whatever they want to whoever they want.
Simply history repeating itself. Well done Joe you senile old cretin.
“EU clinches compromise deal on banning Russian oil”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61636151
Something tells me that Brexiting was a good move by Great Britain.
We are way ahead of them .
We need to get a full Brexit to get the benefits of leaving . To achieve this we need a true Brit Tory Prime Minister who is a man of his word, not a ‘man of straw’ . Stand up Steve Baker or Mark Francois !
Otherwise the Tories will be finished at the next general election.
The sheer selfishness and greed of what I saw when the BBC were complicit in engineering the recent petrol shortage crisis tells me that once anybody cannot get fuel, all of the rules will change and we will see what the EU and it’s countries are really like.
It will be very, very ugly.
“Monkeypox infections rise as guidance advises cases to abstain from sex”
More masks again, more lockdowns and SAGE again ?
Something not ringing true with me ?
I was listening to an old radio programe and it was when aids was starting up. The BBC described it as ‘mainly affecting a small group of people’.
Just like monkeypox.
Shows their ‘equality’ up for what it is when they don’t mention who these ‘small groups of people’ are.
“Mona Lisa: Man dressed as old woman throws cake at da Vinci painting”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-61635822
A Trannie ? Could this be classed as a ‘hate crime’?
Get the Gender police and the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media on the case or ‘Cancel’ the both of them
How India’s first all-women newsroom is creating a media revolution
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-61587884
No they are not. ‘Amateur’ doesn’t even come close to how they come across.
And why is the ‘first all female feminist media organisation’ something to be celebrated ?. It’s the most outrageous, sexist hypocrisy I’ve seen on the BBC since about 10 minutes earlier when I lasted looked.
It seems when it comes to producing sexist, agenda-based utter trash such as this, the BBC have no rules against it.
No timeline for when this ‘media revolution’ is going to happen of course.
By BBC female BAME reporter Suniti Singh of course.
Employ sexist/racist/feminist/misandrist staff, get sexist/racist/feminist/misandrist articles.
Qualifier: I absolutely could not watch much of this complete guff – so if anyone does and my asessment is wrong, I will stand corrected.
“HOW WETHERSPOON BECAME A JAMES BOND VILLAIN
..based on false information
Many untrue statements were made about Wetherspoon during the pandemic Wetherspoon News sets the record straight
We publish apologies and/or corrections from:
Daily Express
Daily Mail
Daily Mirror
Daily Star
Sky News
The Daily Telegraph
The Guardian
The Independent
The Times
Forbes
And others
Never, in the history of business, we surmise, has a single organisation sought, and obtained, so many apologies and corrections
from so many iconic media organisations. Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Daily Star, Sky News, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, The Times
and even America’s prestigious Forbes magazine have all, sometimes grudgingly,had to admit that they got it wrong.
in the case of media misrepresentations of the last 18 months, we’ll settle for publishing the extensive list of corrections and apologies which you can read on the
following pages.
Tim Martin
Chairman
https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/
One example, posted by the London Stock Exchange:
Wetherspoon’s press release:
7 May 2020 JD Wetherspoon plc (“the company”)
Correction – Forbes:
Articles published online by the business magazine Forbes, on 27 March and 3 May 2020, made a number of factually incorrect statements
regarding the company.
It was alleged that the company told the “workforce that not only would
they not be paid, but they can trot off to get a job in a supermarket”.
As regards pay, a company video, recorded on Sunday 22 March
(transcript below, appendix 1), actually said, “all our endeavours are
going to be on trying to make sure that you get your money and that the
pubs reopen”.
An email, sent out with the video, said: “All hourly paid employees will
be paid as normal on Friday 27 March for all hours worked up to, and
including, Sunday 22 March 2020.”
Staff were paid on that Friday and have been paid on every Friday since.
The statement in Forbes that staff were told they could “trot off to get
a job in a supermarket” is misleading. The video actually said: “If you’re
offered a job in a supermarket, many of you will want to do that.
”If you think it’s a good idea, do it…I promise you, we’ll give you first
preference if you want to come back.”
Furloughed pub and restaurant staff are legally allowed to receive extra
income if they work for supermarkets as well.
Forbes also said that the company “announced that… pubs WILL
(Wetherspoon capitals) open sometime in June.” That is also incorrect.
In a stock exchange announcement on 29 April, Wetherspoon said: “The
company’s current assumptions are that its pubs will remain closed until
late June 2020”.
The assumptions related to the modelling of two financial “scenarios”, for
the benefit of investors, which necessitated an estimated opening date.
The date was only an estimate and the company made clear that it would
only open when permitted by the government.
As a result of the press release, Forbes
changed the headline of its article and also
printed the following at the end of the article:
Correction: In response to this article,
JD Wetherspoon issued the following statement:
Mr Martin did not say his employees should
get a job at a supermarket but accepted that if
they were offered a job in a supermarket, he
would understand if they wanted to take it.
He also did not threaten or indeed withhold any
employee pay. Neither Mr Martin or Wetherspoon
have refused to pay suppliers.
Wetherspoon has paid all supplier invoices due
up to the end of March and the majority (83%)
of suppliers have been paid in full.
At no point has Wetherspoon or Mr Martin said that
it intends to or will open its pubs in June, in breach
of lockdown restrictions.
No reopening date has been decided – and its pubs
and hotels will only reopen when allowed to do so
by the Government.
7 May 2020
A letter from The Times’ legal advisers (8 April 2020)
confirms that The Times withdraws its accusation that
Wetherspoon would not pay staff for work done.
Correction: By way of goodwill, we are instructed that
The Times will amend the online version of the Article
as follows:
…employees, telling them that they wouldn’t get paid
until the end of April for work they had done
FAKE NEWS: MP URGED TO WITHDRAW FICTITIOUS CLAIM
Jo Stevens, MP for Cardiff Central, said on Twitter (25 March): “After a session in front of @RachelReevesMP @CommonsBEIS Wetherspoons have u-turned on decision not to pay 43,000 staff while pubs are shut. “Staff to be paid on April 3 and weekly after that. Good news, but people won’t forget political pressure forced your hand Tim Martin”
Wetherspoon’s chairman, Tim Martin, said: “These comments by
Jo Stevens MP refer to a meeting which never happened.
“I was never asked to appear in front of Rachel Reeves’ committee, as both Ms Stevens and Ms Reeves know.
“It’s also completely untrue to say that Wetherspoon had decided
not to pay 43,000 staff while pubs are shut.
During the Leveson Inquiry, MPs made it abundantly clear that
journalists have a duty to correct misleading statements.
“Ms Stevens and Ms Reeves also have a duty to uphold these
principles themselves.”
https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/
Tim says: “I wrote to Rachel Reeves MP,
chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Committee (BEIS) on 2 April 2020 and copied all committee members, to complain about Jo Stevens MP’s invention of a fictitious appearance in front of the committee.
“I also complained that a letter sent by Ms Reeves,
which was critical of Wetherspoon, had appeared on
the BEIS website, but my reply had not.
“I did not receive a reply from Ms Reeves, but received one from another MP.
The MP said: “the reference (by Rachel Reeves) to the ‘committee’s deep concerns’ does not include me. To my knowledge, the letter was sent without consultation with the committee. Committee meetings had previously been cancelled in line with guidance for entry to the parliamentary estate…”
In conclusion, Rachel Reeves MP had written to Wetherspoon, expressing her ‘committee’s concerns’,
but without the knowledge of committee members.
JAMES DORNAN MSP MSP STIRS STRIFE WITH
WETHERSPOON SLUR
Scottish Member of Parliament (MSP) James Dornan (pictured)
used his Twitter account to incorrectly accuse Wetherspoon of
opening one of its pubs, when all pubs were closed.
And when it was pointed out to him by The Scottish Sun that this
was completely untrue, he immediately deleted the tweet.
However, he has refused to apologise for his incendiary tweet.
The Scottish National Party MSP wrote on Twitter: “Apparently a
Weatherspoon (sic) pub near me is still open.
“I really hope that at the end of this the owner is sued if it can be
proven anyone got the virus there.”
After being contacted by journalists, he added on Twitter:
“I’ve since been told that staff were on site for a short period,
but it wasn’t open to the public.”
Wetherspoon’s chief executive, John Hutson, added:
“We categorically deny that the pub opened.
“It was shut, like all other pubs across the UK, in line with the
government’s directive.
“It would have been helpful, and the right thing to do,
for Mr Dornan to tweet a message apologising to staff at the
pub and to Wetherspoon itself.”
https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/
Like many SNP types mr dornan sounds full of hate – particularly for queers and catholics – see wiki and the web …
I wonder how his boss is getting on with the Chinese virus ….?
There is one common factor in all of the above :
Attacks on a prominent business leader who supported Brexit.
Russian oil: EU agrees compromise deal on banning imports
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61638860
So 1 minute the bbc reports the eu is banning it, now its not, but compromising, and also Hungary is right in looking after it own economy and people, despite what the bbc and eu would want
Today watch 1 and 2
1 the glee with which Robinson discusses a potential ‘no confidence ‘ vote against nut nut can be easily measured . He chatted with another BBC droid to fire up the plot . I think he wants to personally bring down a British PM .
2 the BBC doesn’t like alleged rape victims having to disclose lots of stuff to the defence . Yet a few years ago the bbc campaigned for more prosecution material to be disclosed to achieve fairness – I’d Lol if it wasn’t so sick
3 the BBC / teachers’ unions ( same ) want the State to feed school kids – no criticism of ‘parents ‘ who don’t feed their own children – apparently if you are welfare your kid will get taxpayers ‘ funded food . ….
More might follow …
Re your points, Fedup2…..
1. I think the whole BBC is determined to bring down the current PM.
2. You used the one word in your point that the BBC never mentioned at all in all the reporting I heard this morning on the ‘Today’ programme…… i.e. ‘alleged’. The BBC clearly believes that anyone crying ‘rape’ or ‘sexual assault’ must be a victim no matter whether the claims are true or not….. and therefore anyone accused must be ‘guilty until proved innocent’.
3. Like you, Fedup2, I must have completely misunderstood what I thought was one of the prime purposes of the benefits system – the well-being of the kids….. as I understand it, allowances are made in the benefits system for precisely the purpose of feeding your progeny. The taxpayer should not have to pay twice for the same thing.
Richard – thank you – I’m glad you noticed my use of ‘alleged ‘ – being an armchair lawyer – when not being a General or economist – I too notice the absence of ‘alleged ‘…
These characters – BBC journos – tend not to be exact with their language any more – and when they come up against lawyer – politicians like Dominic Raab for instance – it grates because he is exact in his words whereas bombastic types like Robinson are too busy to listen because they are planning their next gotcha – see the dead cleaner who neither died of / from covid or worked in number 10 during party season ….from last week’s threads ….
What a long long sentence ….
June 2021:
Nothing could prepare me for the online war: Christina Lamb on being attacked by the trolls.
One sentence was all it took. After social media took objection to her dispatch from the royal funeral, the foreign correspondent and her family have suffered a campaign of abuse, bullying and death threats.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nothing-could-prepare-me-for-the-online-war-christina-lamb-on-being-attacked-by-the-trolls-bstm7fz32
Paywalled, so some choice exerpts:
Also highlighted in:
https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/
Wanting to contrast the duke as her
great love to the old man who had become a
figure of fun to many of us, I wrote the line
that would cause all the problems: “To her
subjects, Prince Philip was the longest-serving
royal consort in British history — an often
crotchety figure, offending people with gaffes
about slitty eyes, even if secretly we rather
enjoyed them.”
I realise how many had read
the sentence in a different way to what I
intended. I had meant to say that we laughed
at the duke’s lack of diplomacy, not his racist
comments. Indeed I had described his
remarks as “offending”. However I could see
their point. I was mortified.
My most recent tweet had been a photo of
two glasses on a balcony overlooking the
Thames. We were celebrating the pubs
reopening on my husband’s birthday. That
was seized on over and over by people
accusing me of getting drunk by the river in
Windsor while the funeral was on and “raising
a glass to Phil the Greek at the Racist Arms”.
That the post was from London three days
earlier was apparently irrelevant. To them, as
they told me, I was a “f***ing big-nosed racist
wine-drinking c***”.
Then there were the death threats: “Don’t
walk around if I see you or your family I’ll
knock you out and so ur family,” said
dubstepbystep on my Instagram. Telling me I
should be killed was the least of it.
“I feel sorry for your children. You f***ing racist
old hag, washed up trowel-faced old bitch,”
wrote Maddie Rainer.
Howard Wong, who runs an ice-cream
company called Little Moons, thought it
perfectly acceptable to track down my
husband’s account and post abuse about his
“racist wife”.
My Wikipedia page was repeatedly hacked,
changing my description from bestselling
author to “racist bigot”. One man on social
media offered tips on how to start a
concerted campaign against me.
Many of my abusers had only a handful of
followers or were clearly bots. Disturbingly
many were women. Instagram was even
worse than Twitter.
now my nemesis was
a fashion blogger called Susie Bubble, who
runs a bubble-tea café in Stoke Newington,
north London.
She launched a petition demanding an
apology from me and The Sunday Times —
even though the paper published an apology
as soon as it could and I had apologised to
anyone who wrote to me directly. There was
no excuse for what I had written, I told
people over and over again. At a speaking
event the Tuesday after the funeral, I
apologised at length. I posted the apology on
my public Facebook page.
Bubbles’ organisation, the ESEA (East and
Southeast Asia) Sisters, published all my
social media handles. They contacted every
organisation I have ever worked with —
charities I am on the board of, publishers of
my books, awards I am up for or have won,
American think tanks I am affiliated with,
places where I was due to speak. They posted
malicious reviews on Amazon. They even
contacted my college at Oxford demanding I
be stripped of my honorary fellowship.
The actress Gemma Chan, whose film Crazy
Rich Asians I had enjoyed, demanded that
people sign the petition. This took it across
the Atlantic where many of her followers
seemed to think that it was me who coined
the term “slitty eyes”.
The New York Public Library, where I was
shortlisted for the Bernstein award for
excellence in journalism, decided not to
award the prize. Their letter to my publisher
ended: “The award honours the noble
profession of journalism, and is a reflection
on The New York Public Library and its
values. As such, we need to hold the
candidates to the highest possible standards.”
Maybe invoking JK Rules sees exemptions?
Fruit loop who has been given a microphone by social media and now thinks they are in some way significant.
In the real world, everyone thinks (she/her) are just weird and keeps away.
Double speak – either everyone can say it or not. Freedom for all or none.
Adam Habib, 56, director of London’s School
of Oriental and African Studies, was attacked
and suspended for using the N word in
response to a question after years of work
promoting racial equality in his home country,
South Africa. He has now been reinstated.
Neil Thin, 60, an anthropology lecturer
at Edinburgh University, was attacked online
for racism, misogyny and transphobia after
he criticised a move last year to change the
philosophy building’s name from
David Hume Tower, named after the 18thcentury
philosopher who is now accused of
links to slavery.
Thin had also raised concerns about a 2019
campus event called Resisting Whiteness,
featuring an area exclusively for people of
colour, which he branded “segregation”. Not
only was he accused of being a “rape
apologist”, but students circulated a letter
saying they did not feel safe in his classes.
“They have destroyed my reputation,
damaged my health and put a huge toll on
my family,” he says. “I should be able to
brush it off but the power of social media is
to make you doubt what matters … I’ve been
beaten up badly three times in my life but
this hurt an awful lot more.”
Thin faced a two-month investigation that
exonerated him. His accusers faced nothing.
Thin says he cannot go back into teaching
until those who tried to destroy his reputation
are investigated.
“The message the university is sending out is
that the students can do exactly what they
like and we are too scared to challenge
them,” he said. “That’s a terrible way of
educating students.”
The husband of one of two women
who
accused the former Scottish first minister Alex
Salmond of sex abuse spoke to the Daily Record
of the trolling she faced. “It felt like watching my
wife self-harm when she was glued to a screen
reading abusive comments,” he said.
When Newsnight reporter Nick Watt was
chased and abused by lockdown protesters
last week, there was widespread
condemnation, even from the prime minister.
When you are getting online death threats,
there is silence. By the fifth day, I was on the
verge of resigning. I was getting abuse from all
over the world. “It feels like everything I
worked for counts for nothing,” I told my
husband.
It was some of the women I have written
about who changed my mind. “Be strong,”
said one woman in Afghanistan (yes, it had
even reached there). “Don’t abandon us and
cave in to a mob.”
She was right. If you are going to go after me
for racism, fine: I am sorry and will say that
loud and clear as often as you want. But
then please go after the people who think it’s
OK to spill vitriol online.
My detractors will say I am trying to present
myself as a victim. But I have spent my
career highlighting abuse and just because I
am a target, it would be pathetic to stop now.
I have a platform and believe it’s right to
speak out.
I am a woman in her mid-fifties with lots of
support from family, friends and employers,
and a well-established career. But what about
teenage girls, perhaps just starting out in a new
job, insecure about themselves? No wonder
some are driven to self-harm or suicide.
Yes, I am sorry for what I wrote, I have learnt
from this and will read my copy more closely
in future. But if I get something wrong, does
it mean I am a racist?
As Adichie said in a conversation last week
with Mary Beard, another woman who has
also experienced online abuse: “Am I not
allowed to just have a bad day?”
By Christina Lamb
The Sunday Times / 19 June 2021
Zephir
It’s like that medieval’witch ‘ thing where once someone was called a ‘witch ‘ that was it . There is a presumption that everyone is a racist and all that is needed is a throw away comment to prove it – the same applies to the gay thing .
I’m a Far Right racist homophobe so I need not worry ….( cut and paste that in the file State monitors / troll )
Straight to the media….
Straight to the BBC.
It’s like they are given a contact list.
I can imagine the Ukrtanian menfolk on the front line reading that article as they step over their friends bodies and have no idea if death is just a split second away with a tear in their eye at the plight of this poor woman.
This is why the BBC and the Left disgust me so much. They think having empathy shows them to be morally superior. That’s why they never met a victim they didn’t like. But if there’s nothing in it for them, they don’t care one bit.
It seems there is nothing the BBC cannot add more BBC to, and screw up.
Jez, Orla and assorted blue jackets headed to Turkey Baths? Don’t forget Avian Flu Helmut protection guys… and gals.
This could now be serious… seriouser, and deadly to like… eleven.
https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/18620366.man-pleads-guilty-sex-chickens/
Bradford media need to label their stories as composites to avoid distressing vegans. Sources have reported.
Hopefully Oksana (see above) nowhere near a bbc hog roast or a blue tarp come Ramadan.
And avoid bbc car parks, guys… and gals.
Tell it to the Marines edition
Never let it be said that our media ever under-sells a headline story or holds back on their language: ‘Tears and fury as travel “carnage” worsens‘ (Daily Express); ‘As half-term holidays ruined… Summer of chaos‘ (Daily Mirror); the Daily Star is concise: ‘Holiday Hell‘
Meanwhile in the war zone – suddenly we have more measured reporting: ‘Russian troops advance into key city in Donbas‘ (Guardian)
Whereas: ‘Russia’s army could COLLAPSE amid huge losses… confidential UK report says‘ (Daily Mail) – not so confidential then, was it? But as they say in military circles – tell it to the Marines…
In health news – public health authorities take Mr AsISeeIt’s previous advice hereabouts in response to the new big infection threat – which was to curb the monkey business: ‘Monkeypox infections rise as guidance advises cases to abstain from sex‘ (BBC)
Cases having sex? That may explain why so much luggage goes missing when its out of sight at the airport.
If only we’d locked down our bedroom doors sooner, harder and for longer… Monkey World, Dorset was unavailable for comment.
Stay home, cross your legs and save the NHS
Which may not be the worst advice out there: ‘Sperm donor father of 15 hid incurable hereditary condition. Social media: James MacDougall advertised his services‘ (Daily Mail)
There’s a man who ought to have flattened his curve.
Meanwhile the Sun pours some cold water over their weekend three-in-a-bed footballer Dubai romp story: ‘Stag do girl tells all. Andy Carroll didn’t score (as usual)‘
Here’s a girl who won’t say yes to the first chap to whisper sweet nothings in her ear: ‘Love Island’s first deaf contestant‘ (freebie advertising sheet Metro); ‘Tasha will challenge myths‘ (‘i’) – if they want to properly confound prejudices, then put on a properly bad-looking contestant.
Instead – in this genre laughingly termed reality TV – we get more celebrity contestants: ‘Michael Owen’s daughter Gemma confirmed as Love Island contestant in 2022 line up‘ (Liverpool Echo): ‘Gemma is successful in her own right as a model and a businesswoman‘ – a Scouse nod to the feminist lobby there.
The Metro goes with frontpage pictures of our over-stretched infrastructure as their main headline story: ‘Wish we weren’t here. Grounded: Woman at Stanstead airport while queues form at Bristol (opposite) yesterday‘ – never fear frustrated Bristolian holidaymakers, you may be stuck in a queue but your city Mayor has been busy clocking up the airmiles on behalf of the planet: ‘Bristol Mayor who declared ‘climate emergency’ flies 9,000 miles to Canada to lecture on the importance of cutting carbon emissions‘ (Daily Mail)
Surprisingly the giveaway Metro manages to get through their entire frontpage column on the airport congestion without a side reference to Brexit – which is only fair: ‘Dublin Airport queues: How have we got to this point?‘ (Raidió Teilifís Éireann) – so, on the basis of Ireland still being a fully paid up EU member and that excuse being off the table, then what’s the reasons: ‘the [Dublin Airport Authority] has blamed a number of factors for the airport chaos – a shortage of security personnel after voluntary redundancy during the pandemic, ongoing recruitment and training of new staff, unexpected absences yesterday and passengers turning up early.‘
In other words – post-lockdown disruption. We’re still counting the cost of that ill-considered, ill-conceived failed policy. The truth only very slowly, in dribs and drabs, grudgingly, getting out there…
‘3,000 diabetics “died becasue of lockdown”‘ (Telegraph)
In consequence of further localised media hysteric reaction to events – how about Brexit which caused our media class to go bananas?
Our Brexit-sore press corps and liberal-leaning broadcast institutions probably caught this damaging infection from the US where there was a serious leak of gain-of-hostility fuction to Donald Trump – who became the unique threat to all that was held sacred.
In the formerly patriotic Times our Robert Crampton claims: ‘I want to be a Top Gun macho man‘ – yet his newspaper cringes like an airsick soyboy with outrage over bonking blusterous buffet boozing (Brexit) Boris: ‘Four more Tories challenge PM amid growing revolt over parties‘
The Times further muses over: ‘How to reduce your risk of dementia‘ – here’s a tip – calm down over Brexit Boris.
The ‘i’ newspaper was always left-leaning but when it comes to Boris-obsession, boy have they got it bad: ‘Tory threat to Johnson growing by the day‘
Apart from Brexit-Boris, about the worst thing imaginable these days is the Jimmy Savile crime. The Guardian flies rather close to the wind with this feature: ‘Is a new era dawning for LGBTQ+ kids? Generation heartstopper‘
As far as the Guardian is concerned – despite the Jubilee and despite all their banging on about climate change – the Royals have never put a foot right: ‘Queen’s trees scheme “linked to deforestation”‘
And finally…
‘Supermarkets attack pounds and ounces… a return to imperial measures would stoke inflation and worsen the cost of living crisis… said the British Retail Consortium‘ (Telegraph) – one would hereabouts like to enjoy a bit of media archaeology to show how the supermarkets back in the 1970s denied decimalisation would contribute to inflation. We didn’t have an internet back then. Suffice to say our larger grocers didn’t like Brexit – for example: ‘BREXIT has been blamed for the “crazy” increase in chicken prices as the poultry industry blasts Boris Johnson in a lengthy Twitter thread‘ (Express)
Tash meets all necessary criteria, and #backendofbusism is exempted from soft porn for the Ceebeebies market.
Gemma more a Kardashian or Lee Iacocca?
Nothing to do with the fact that white diesel is put into the fridge trailers fuel tanks rather than rebated red diesel now ?
This post would all read better without the bold highlighting, just a thought 🙂
Typographical personal input: nope.
I like bold content and CAPITALS . Trouble is life it too short to be bothered to find out how to do them …but I value Asiseeit s daily input greatly ….
Point being – the bold print represents the media headlines.
INDEED
Clive Myrie and Mad Al, both in flak jackets and Helmuts, joshing about Boris in Brussels for @BBCPolitics…
BBC Moaning Emole circles awks reality with Our EU in similar fashion.
Now… ‘calls for’…
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Give more pupils free school meals – teachers
About one in every five schoolchildren in England – 1.7 million in total – already gets free school meals. But teaching unions say that should be extended to all children from families in receipt of universal credit. In a letter to the chancellor and education secretary, they argue: “We see the devastating reality of children coming to school unable to afford to buy lunch, because their family circumstances means they fall outside the restrictive free school meal eligibility criteria.”
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Having moved ours private because of shite state teaching, the larks’ tongues in aspic of the knob school restaurant atop the school chauffeur was a bit of a struggle, so they took the bus and had sarnies and fruit in their lunch boxes.
Seem pretty buff still. And not whinging cretins either.
Also in the ‘mole..
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Primark ‘regrets’ raising prices – executive
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Tim Davie, Botney and Lord Hall, when contacted, said ‘suck it up, peons’. Reportedly.
Me, I still am proud to wear a shirt of my father’s. Quality lasts.
Sounds like the words of mr M Rashford …
‘restrictive free school meal eligibility criteria.’
Love it – lets make ‘unrestrictive ‘
Meanwhile – obesity crisis bites …
Someone I know was asked at an interview what three words he would use to describe himself.
His reply : Rather nice, actually.
Just noticed the BME has a new tag on:
Explainer: Why prices are rising so quickly
Heading for BBC Special Stuff Editorial Guidelines, ‘Explainer’ is when the Disinformation Unit is allowed to fully disconnect from balanced facts and head into Toenails Territory, preferably citing Pippa Crerar and Fick Ange on Economics.
MSM going big on airport chaos – including emotional pictures of a young girl crying – and not from the effects of CRS complementary tear gas ….
…. Being a frequent flyer I assume each time I fly the worst will happen – not those last couple of minutes helplessly screaming on the way down from 30000 ft / kg – but that there will be delays … cancellations …. A fat lump sitting next to me – lost bags – wrong arrival airport – long queues every where .
That is the pleasure of air travel – and if people can’t handle that – avoid …. After all – it didn’t happen during lock downs ….
I dread flying this year ….
Notice on BBC Today that Simon Calder blamed the appalling practices of RyanAir and Tui on BREXIT.
Both companies had sold tickets for flights that did not exist.
That the BBC allowed their travel reporter to make such an incorrect, nakedly political statement is bias.
Seems more likely that any bbc guest is well aware what gets them invited on.
Other experts are available…
Is that Rog Harrabin, Greta and Dame Emma with Al Gore behind?
So Sky gets it right but the BBC is biased.
Once Ryanair stories get going they don’t stop – the DT advice from a customer about ‘accepting changes to booked flights ‘ …. In summary the advice is not to do it because it opens the door to Ryanair being able to screw you over even further.
It’s not an airline I use because I’m too tall for the seats …
My advice to anyone thinking of travelling by RyanAir is: DON’T!
It is likely rolling dice, with a 30% chance of serious problems.