364 Responses to Start the Week 27 June 2022

  1. Thatcherrevolutionary says:

    Get in

       13 likes

    • Up2snuff says:

      the box?

      the Cabinet?

      politics?

         6 likes

      • taffman says:

        Up2snuff
        “the box”
        Do you remember Boris threatening “to put Nigel Farage into his box”? Was it because of the Brexit Party and its popularity ?

           16 likes

        • Up2snuff says:

          Yes, taffman, you could be right on that although I thought it was Cameron or May who said that. IF they didn’t say it, they probably or definitely thought it. Boris could well have said it but as things stand, with the Conservatives in Government threatening to significantly self-harm, electorally-wise, I think the entire Parliamentary Conservative Party should be in the ‘box’ that is the Waiting Room for seeing a really good therapist who could sort out their present (rooted in the past) suicidal tendencies.

             5 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Catchup links to most recent posts on previous thread
      page 2 finished 9pm on Sunday
      then 3 comments overspilled onto page 3

         8 likes

  2. G.W.F. says:

    GB NEWS with dire warnings over the Supreme Court’s ruling over Rovy.
    Predictably the blame is directed at Trump, as seems to be the GB News line

    . https://twitter.com/i/status/1541156252612497409

       10 likes

    • BRISSLES says:

      I’m getting very picky at what I watch now on GBN. There are a few brilliant presenters, but I do wonder what numbnut behind the scenes decides to book Lizzy Cundy and Daniella Westbrook as serious panellists on intelligent discussion shows. What the likes of Andrew Pierce must think, when he was paired with Dopy Cundy today on Nana Mouskouri’s show, I’d like to know.

         29 likes

  3. tomo says:

    The BBC has announced it supports over 100 genders….

    Telegraph has the story

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/25/bbc-staff-told-150-genders-diversity-training-sessions/

    Contracted a specialist outfit to train the troops ‘parently

       25 likes

    • Nibor says:

      The BBC also supports over 100 agendas , all liberal/ left globalist.

         28 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      #150+Gate

         5 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      The BBC does not report news … it generates it (Savile/Brand/Pay Gap) … and is busy changing the country via social engineering …

      “By 2020, the BBC wants its employees to comprise 50% women, 8% disabled people, 8% lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people and 15% people from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds.{bbc.co.uk 14sep2017}”

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/03/11/weekend-open-thread-179/comment-page-5/#comment-904614

         13 likes

      • Doublethinker says:

        Presumably you mean 50% of those who identify as women. Knowing the BBC of that 50% they will want half to be men claiming to be women.
        The world , well the Anglo Saxon world has gone mad.

           18 likes

    • Ian Rushlow says:

      There have been developments. Apparently, 9 new genders have been discovered overnight, bringing the total to 159 or one for each £ of the TV license fee. The organisation the BBC turned to for this deranged nonsense is called Global(ist) Butterflies, who are also in cahoots with the government and big commercial organisations.

      https://thecritic.co.uk/the-genderbread-man-is-coming/

         11 likes

      • Up2snuff says:

        Ian, knowing children as I do, I guess that the BBC might not like what children do with a gingerbread ‘man’ when it is on their plate and they have a knife in their hands. 😉

           6 likes

    • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

      A comment on this on ‘Unredacted’ made me smile:

      “The BBC is now a joke. It has become the mouthpiece of the woke, politically correct, liberal fantasists. To have a lecturer tell staff that there were 150 genders is ridiculous and quite frankly incorrect biologically. Our money has been spent on this nonsense and it must stop. We should split the BBC up into saleable lots and sell it on the open market ensuring that the State has no ownership or say in any of it. The proportion of white to Black or Brown presenters is not representative of the population in the country where whites are dominant with 80%. This publicly paid waffle and propaganda must stop.”

         6 likes

    • Banania says:

      Can you have a new gender named after you, as they do with newly discovered stars?

         1 likes

  4. Deborah says:

    Article yesterday in the Daily Mail, where they reported that because of lockdowns children are going to school in shopping trollies because they never learned to walk and whole classes of 5 year olds wearing nappies because of lockdowns. I don’t believe a word. But then the Times today is full of the backbenchers rebelling without mention of which ones and no mention of Brexit. I don’t trust the BBC and I don’t trust the press. I get better knowledge from reading this site.

    I was disappointed the Daily Sceptic was linking to the DM article which seemed to be written to an agenda to rewrite history. Yet the Daily Mail was one of the papers which was screaming loudest for lockdowns at the time.

       35 likes

    • taffman says:

      tomo , Nibor & Deborah
      “The BBC also supports over 100 agendas , all liberal/ left globalist.”

      The Tory Government ………………..
      What’s Nadine Dorries doing about our heritage, culture and The BBC ?
      What’s Pritti Patel doing about the security of our borders ?
      What indeed is Boris Doing about Brexit ?
      Its about time we had a Conservative Government running this country not the ‘Limp Dems’ .
      How say you all ?

         36 likes

    • BRISSLES says:

      Deb, my niece is a Head Teacher in Notts, and pulls no punches when being vocal to parents who send their children to school without having basic functions. Thankfully she finds its a small occurrence, but happens at the start of every school year when tots start proper school with a nappy on, barely know their own name and certainly are unable to use a knife and fork.

      When parents register their child for school she has impressed the need for them to be toilet trained, but sometimes to no avail.

      Parenting isn’t what it was.

         31 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Toenails cited it yet?

         2 likes

    • Doublethinker says:

      Deborah,
      I cancelled my long standing Times subscription years ago because I found their Remainer obsession too much to bear. The Telegraph has been sliding leftward for years and despite readership protests continues to do so. The Mail has a newish editor and is much less pro Leave than it was.
      I suspect that GB News has plenty of lefties on to keep Ofcom happy. As Brissels mentions above there are some GBN shows that are pretty much normal MSM lies and dross but Steyn, Farage, Wootton and Brazier are the ones I watch.

         23 likes

      • Fedup2 says:

        Double – funny – the times is running an offer for £1 a month for 4 months which ends Tuesday – but then jumps to £26 a month thereafter – maybe I should leave that ?

        As for GBNews – they must be paranoid about tick boxing for OFCOM – free speech is the UK ? What a joke ,,,

        The BBC is so pro abortion that its’ unquestioning support for Row v Wade in a foreign country is – embarrassing …

        I wonder how abortion numbers across – say – the last 4 years in UK / US figure . Have ladies been keeping their legs closed because of brexit / covid ? ( you d need to separate of the Fatima s and ‘Mohammed’s ‘ )

           10 likes

  5. taffman says:

    “NI Protocol: MPs to vote on plans to ditch parts of Brexit deal”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-61946333
    Scrap the bloody lot !
    Who the heck put that deal into operation ? We voted to leave . Leave means leave.

       26 likes

    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      Taff:

      I agree. If the EU wants a hard border, let them build it in the Republic of Ireland.

      Since that would cause Ireland problems, I think the EU would find that they didn’t need a hard border after all. The only reason they get away with it is because Boris was stupid enough to put a hard border down the Irish Sea.

         9 likes

  6. taffman says:

    “Birmingham explosion: House destroyed and others damaged”
    “The cause of the explosion is not yet known.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-61946915
    Unknown ?

       15 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Surely likely to be gas

      West Midlands Fire Service believe the incident in Kingstanding, Birmingham, which destroyed a property and left a man with life-threatening injuries was a gas explosion. It “significantly damaged” three other properties. Four people had minor injuries.
      https://bbc.in/3Nrr86G

         8 likes

      • taffman says:

        There’s quick that result was announced?
        It normally takes a few days.
        I have noticed a few of these “flying gas mains” of late ?

           16 likes

        • Up2snuff says:

          taffman and Stew, just wait until we are using hydrogen for cooking food and heating homes!

             7 likes

  7. StewGreen says:

    Sunday local radio presenters
    01:00 Hayley Hassall with BBC Radio 5 live
    05:00 Claira Hermet
    06:00 Lizzie Rose
    10:00 Fiona Mills
    14:00 Liz Green
    15:00 Rugby League
    Richard Stead and Nick Pinkney. ..actual men

       15 likes

  8. StewGreen says:

    10am local BBC radio news

    #1 “Boris has DEFENDED talk of a third term”
    “asked if it was delusional he said”
    clip of Ed Davie Liberal leader attacking Boris

    #2 Hull *Labour MP* Karl The Milkshaker Turner has warmed we could face more strikes in the summer
    … Clip Karl Turner doing his union leader impressions

    #3 “Communities of ALL BACKGROUNDS will bewelcomed at the Great Get Together to remember Jo Cox”
    clip of * Hull :Labour MP* Emma Hardy
    “This year the theme is Welcome .welcoming all into our community ..welcoming DIFFERENT people togther to show we have more in common”

    #5 BBC has apologised for omitting the first hour of the Paul McCartney set at Glasto
    (They love talking about themselves)

       14 likes

  9. JohnC says:

    Ukraine war: Missiles hit targets across country as G7 rallies over Russia
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61943252

    Hooray ! – the G7 rallies over Russia. Does that mean Ukraine will win now ?.

    Somehow I think the G7 is not quite going to be the ‘rally’ the BBC are telling us. I bet a few countries are thinking about their gas supply after the war ends and if Ukraine is really worth the price.

    But back to the missiles:

    ‘A Kyiv apartment block was destroyed, killing at least one and wounding six others including a seven-year-old girl.’

    How can you destroy an apartment block and only one person died ?. And I’m surprised the wounded 7 year old girl wasn’t holding her new puppy on her Birthday.

    Meanwhile on that same day, around 200 Ukranian soldiers were blown to pieces by shells, shot through the head or otherwise killed. But the BBC don’t care about them one bit because they much prefer stories about children as they can be loaded with empathy.

    Ukranian soldiers are almost completely ignored by the BBC now. I wonder how many of those women in uniform the BBC showed us every day just before it started actually ever fired a shot.

    And look at this:

    _125623885_kharkivcraterreut26jan22.jpg

    With the caption: ‘A missile caused this crater in a residential area of Kharkiv on Sunday’

    It looked suspicious to me as it’s full of water already and very little damage around it – particularly the windows of the buildings. And then I saw the filename : kharkivcraterreut26jan22.jpg

    Fake news BBC. Caught red-handed.

       33 likes

    • JohnC says:

      Just been researching a bit as I don’t trust the BBC one bit over this and it seems that the likely truth is that the cruise missile was on it’s way to another target but collided with the apartment building. It would be on the upper floors hence why only one person died. I thought it was odd how we didn’t get any picture of the building.

      The fake picture above is to make us think the missiles are deliberately landing in residential areas while we are not given any details at all of what the other missiles actually hit – which presumably is because it was a legitimate military target.

      This picture from Al Jazeera confirms it. I wouldn’t call that apartment block ‘destroyed’. More BBC lies.

      2022-06-26T064643Z_1195751347_RC2IZU93CUP9_RTRMADP_3_UKRAINE-CRISIS-KYIV-STRIKE.jpg?resize=770%2C513

         24 likes

      • Guest Who says:

        To turn off the water?

           7 likes

        • JohnC says:

          The BBC running 0% news, 100% empathy stories about itself. A bit like the BBC giving awards to itself. Incestuously not quite ethical.

          Not sure how much I believe anyway after they claimed a woman saw her new boiler and curtains on a Russian tank and managed to get a very good, close-up picture.

          They are a bit like Tom Chance in Chance In A Million. The more unlikely it is, the more likely the BBC will say it happened.

          ‘Will these impossible things happen a lot ?’
          ‘Quite probably I’m afraid’.

             9 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      JezBo and cameraperson of faith at the funerals with Toenails?

      Seems the glazing guys are quicker than the water utility.

         5 likes

      • JohnC says:

        The roofers don’t hang about either.

        And I can’t imagine the power lines survived the blast for such a huge creater – so they’ve been fixed as well !.

        And you can clearly see the tide-line at the top of the crater where the water rose up then dropped down again.

        All in 24 hours !!. Those Ukranians sure get cracking.

           8 likes

    • tomo says:

      Picture .jpg still has the same name a minute ago

      – went to archive it but pics get renamed in the archive – live and learn.

      – A BBC complaint might elicit some interesting squirming?

         8 likes

    • Lunchtime Loather says:

      Reuters confirm crater photo was taken 26th June 2022, not 26th January. “Typographical error” is their explanation.

         1 likes

  10. andyjsnape says:

    Russia in historic foreign debt default, reports suggest
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61929926

    The “headline” implies Russia can’t pay?

    But..
    Russia has the money to make a $100m payment and is willing to pay, but sanctions made it impossible to get the sum to international creditors

       14 likes

  11. taffman says:

    What will Tory MPs put in their manifestos as “achievements” when the next elections begin looming? The BBC will be having a field day.

       13 likes

  12. micknotmike says:

    I was amazed to read that the bbc are claiming that the house fire in Birmingham was a “suspected gas explosion”. I thought that it would be a “Deliberately targeted Russian attack on a civilian area”. Everything else seems to be. Considering the amount of ordanance sent to Ukraine, you would think that they would have hit something by now. Not on the bbc, they haven’t; the Ukranians are much too nice for that and the victim status is top trumps at the moment.

       15 likes

  13. AsISeeIt says:

    The not givin’ up, not givin’ in edition

    You join us on our warmongering Monday – by-proxy – orchestrated by our motley liberal corporate media and led this morning by the standard bearers of the auld alliance, our very own state-sponsored aunty BBC and her longtime companion the red-over-green flag-waving Guardian.

    Let me translate… the BBC online newspaper frontpage line up is headed by the Guardian this morning. The Gruan treds a tricky editorial tightrope. Yes, they hate Boris, but yes they also enjoy the continuing Ukraine war – at least insofar as the Guardianistas dare not call for a truce, for a pause in the killing, for peace: Do not give ground on Ukraine, PM tells leaders – of course there has to be a mocking snide coda: Under pressure at home, Johnson uses G7 to warn against deal with Putin

    World leaders poked fun at Russian president Vladimir Putin’s macho image – scoffs the freebie metropolitan advertising sheet Metro – World leaders, really? Last time one checked the G7 was just six Nato members plus Japan with the European Union is a ‘non-enumerated member’

    Elsewhere on the Graun frontpage it is identity leftist politics as usual: NHS ‘failing south asian people with dementia’ – scare quotes there warn us this bold statement is the opinion of some: alarming review… seen by the Guardian… commissioned by Alzheimer`s Society

    And: Roe v Wade – thanks to our lefty press a 1973 legal judgement in America is now more famous over here in Britain than 1977’s Virgina Wade v Betty Stöve match

    Now there was a British champion

    The media’s somewhat unhealthy obsession with the 19-year-old with more corporate endorsements than tournament wins continues apace: The new queen of Wimbledon Emma Raducanu on her centre court debut today (‘i’)

    I suppose as local hero our Emma can be leveraged to top of the bill?

    Supreme court has ‘tourched’ its legitimacy say Democrats, as anger grows in US

    That Guardian sentiment is shared by the FT, where – as a welcome distraction from stockmarket woes – their Datawatch feature impresses opinion on liberal-minded readers by way of hinting what they ought to think: Court of public opinion % having a great deal/quite a lot of confidence in the US Supreme Court… 20 points down on the year of Roe vs Wade ruling

    Because of course James Madison, Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton et al had abortion in mind as a constitutional right. Well, in the recent rapping foul language stage musical Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda they might well have done.

    Quick puzzle: When can supreme not be the foremost?
    Answer: When it is a British court – overuled by a European court.

    From Tony Blair’s apparently not-so Supreme court to: Supreme fun Diana Ross makes Worthy Farm explode with disco joy (Guardian) – the headline segueways write themselves this morning.

    Glasto blast from past – observes the Daily Mirror unabashedly pandering to the baby boomers: Diana & Macca reign supreme

    Golden oldies Ross sparkles after Macca masterclass (‘i’)

    Prince Charles is famously a Three Degrees fanboy but “Upside Down” by Diana Ross was in his top 13… Thirteen? Who has a top 13? Oh, the 13 listed are just inclusions in his favourites.

    Charles discussed some of his favorite songs from throughout his life, including “Givin’ Up, Givin’ In,” which The Three Degrees performed at his 30th birthday, and which “long ago, used to provide me with an irresistible urge to get up and dance.” (CNN)

    He who pays the piper calls the tune, as they say…

    Charles ‘cash in bag’ probe. Sheikh in Euros 3m gift (Sun)

       19 likes

  14. Guest Who says:

    Meanwhile Bri Coxy is actively promoting Labour.

    The BBC has #1degreeofseparation propaganda sewn up.

       7 likes

    • Guest Who says:

         6 likes

      • MarkyMark says:

        “remove the barriers” – At least 1,400 children were subjected to appalling sexual exploitation in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013, a report has found.

        Children as young as 11 were raped by multiple perpetrators, abducted, trafficked to other cities in England, beaten and intimidated, it said.

        The report, commissioned by Rotherham Borough Council, revealed there had been three previous inquiries.

        “remove the barriers” – bbc taxes you £159.

           16 likes

      • Fedup2 says:

        Guest Who
        I was interested in science as a kid – but Patrick Moore helped to put me off – the Brian ‘the kid’ cox came along and I thought he might be a bit more ‘Normal’ – but instead he goes all ‘approved ‘ – and got ‘cancelled ‘ or ‘off switched ‘ as they say …
        Time to relax and listen to the sweet tones of Diana Ross at ‘Glasto’…

           5 likes

      • JohnC says:

        There’s nothing like using Leftists predictions as fact then pretending to be surprised when they all turn out to be false.

        I though these idiots would have learned their lesson after Brexit.

           7 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Write articles for the Guardian to buy expensive Eco fruit?

         4 likes

  15. Guest Who says:

    Probably something for Saz and BBC N. America to go nowhere near.

    Unlike the Ceebeebies core.

    Here’s Sleepy with Sopes back in the day.

    Meanwhile AOC could take an RPG to Clarence’s house and the BBC would see it as ‘mostly sane protest’.

       9 likes

  16. Tabs says:

    Flicking through the channels last night I saw a bit of Kendrick Lamar at Glastonbury pretending to be Jesus with his diverse 100% black dance group.

    He was mostly lecturing rather than singing but at one point he said “I can see so many diverse face in the crowd”.

    You can’t beat the BBC/Glastonbury for comedy!

       30 likes

  17. Guest Who says:

    One for Toenails and Laura in da Set to ‘analyse’.

       18 likes

  18. Guest Who says:

    Sadiq created a special zone yet?

       7 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      According to racial equality activist Richard Lapchick, the NBA in 2020 was composed of 74.2 percent black players, 16.9 percent white players, 2.2 percent Latino players of any race, and 0.4 percent Asian players. There were 6.3 percent of the players classified as “other” races.

      BAN BASKETBALL DUE TO NETS TOO HIGH FOR ALL!

         2 likes

  19. Guest Who says:

    What would the blue on blue descriptor of this effort be?

    A watermelon refining a media plant correcting a moron.

       3 likes

  20. MarkyMark says:

    ‘We have been lied to’: Greta Thunberg Glastonbury address takes aim at ‘greedy’ world leaders
    The Swedish activist made a short speech on the Pyramid Stage this afternoon (June 25), taking aim at world leaders for the ongoing climate crisis

    https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/we-been-lied-to-greta-7256122

    The Climate Book: Greta Thunberg Announces Her New Book
    3 months ago

    https://www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/the-climate-book-greta-thunberg-announces-her-new-book/

       8 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      BBC News

      For weeks, officials have warned of a power crunch as temperatures rise in the country.

      ***
      The solution is… turn off the LED lights. Apparently.

      Seems the A/Cs are powered by the same mystical energy as Greta’s wafting about system.

         7 likes

  21. Tabs says:

    Nasa launches first rocket from Australian commercial spaceport
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-61947195

    Onlookers who travelled to the remote site glimpsed the rocket for only about 10 seconds before it entered the Earth’s atmosphere.

    This “science” article was brought to you by the same people that claim climate change is real.

       12 likes

  22. Fedup2 says:

    Not the BBC

    Twitter reports that Ghiselle Maxwell has been moved to ‘suicide watch ‘… she must hope the CCTV doesn’t give up and the 2 security guards don’t fall asleep again …. BBC will be getting the obituary updated ?

    Her autobiography must be nearly finished …

    Today Watch

    Simon Jack says the US Supreme Court “removed the Legal Right of Abortion . “Perhaps he should read the judgement … and get himself referred to the BBC lie department ( aka fact checker ) …

    …I see also that that amol is in trouble for using the term ‘ pro life ‘ – which is clearly not an appropriate term for not killing babies …

       18 likes

  23. Fedup2 says:

    Also
    Lawrence Fox banned from twitter again – I think it’s because he put up a picture of what you get if you join 4 ‘rainbow queer ‘ flags together – you get a swastika …( you won’t be seeing that as a kidult ‘emoji’…

       24 likes

  24. andyjsnape says:

    Zelensky to address G7 as Russian missiles hit cities “reports” the bBC

    Incredible timing!

       7 likes

  25. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    One of the many rewards from Brexit is the creation of a number of Freeports.
    How many have we got now that we’re out of the EU.
    Apparently they are supposed to be a really good thing so surely they must be some up and running by now.

    Or……..

       9 likes

  26. tomo says:

    Happy days in the margin planning department at Octopus Energy

       7 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Tomo – so have they managed to bring in different tariffs for different time of day – which I reckon is on the cards if technically possible ( smart meters ?) …

         9 likes

      • tomo says:

        Yes – there’s several sites that show the tarrifs …

        Select your area

        https://www.energy-stats.uk/octopus-agile/

        Me – I just want the Smart Meters to charge the “100% renewbabble” folk what it actually costs and then cut them off at night when the wind isn’t blowing – not much to ask?

           5 likes

  27. Guest Who says:

    Classy.

    The reaction when he does the same in JezBo’s ‘hood…

       7 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Blimey – whoever that it – a certain mr Lennon made an unplanned comment about Jesus and look what happened to that poor soul ….

         4 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Will he dress as MOHAMMED and have 6 year olds dancing round his feet?

      236854?crop=16_9&width=660&relax=1&signature=7B03Mqbum90eUSEBhP0XKcfqQ_0=

         3 likes

      • Fedup2 says:

        He might go for the full crucifixion gig next time …. Not the most tasteful theatrical display but reap and sow ,….

           3 likes

  28. andyjsnape says:

    NI Protocol: MPs to vote on plans to ditch parts of Brexit deal
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-61946333

    And the bBC has even opened a Forum, to help people listen to the remainers still going on and on. The likes of the bBC will never help unite, just divide and conquer

       9 likes

  29. Guest Who says:

    I am not rewarding this with a click.

    Maybe a bit more gets revealed.

       3 likes

  30. Guest Who says:

    BBC Getty Legal

    What is Alan Titmarsh doing there though?

       9 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Justice delayed is justice – oh wait …

         5 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      At one time I fancied becoming a barrister but when I mentioned to my prof that I looked toward the Criminal Bar he said ‘ why not go to a branch which makes real money ‘…

      I was white male hetero and from a ‘modest ‘ background without connections – Masonic or otherwise so I kicked that one into touch .
      A lefty class mate of mine switched from being a psychiatric nurse to human rights law so he must be coining it – and maybe a labour MP by now …

         16 likes

    • digg says:

      Not sure about titchmarsh but isn’t that Jay Blades in the middle?

         2 likes

  31. StewGreen says:

    R4 now : “Being a lesbian in the military”

    FFS Katie Holmes led a pretty open lesbian lifestyle in the military for years
    It just was not officially acknowledged.

       14 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      WOMEN AREN’T THE PROBLEM. STANDARDS ARE.
      Micah Ables | 02.05.19
      https://mwi.usma.edu/women-arent-problem-standards/
      It took the US infantry fifty-five years and thousands of deaths to abandon the idea of trench warfare. It took the US cavalry twenty-five years to accept that armored tanks were better than horses against a machine gun. It took the US Supreme Court almost sixty years to decide that “separate but equal” was anything but equal and black Americans should attend school alongside white ones. It took America more than 130 years to declare that men and women should have equal voting rights. Just because policies take time and adjustments to “get it right” does not mean that they should be abandoned altogether. Women serving in combat roles is no exception: implementation and standards should be addressed, but the policy aim is right.

         2 likes

  32. Guest Who says:

    As Stew might say, in acronym, Followers Finding Sources..

    Sky is beyond risible.

       23 likes

  33. Guest Who says:

    Driver of the van will be thrilled.

    Plus… artist?

       7 likes

  34. Thoughtful says:

    Oh how the eco loons in the EU are destroying their own continent, how long will it survive if they fail to back down and show the flexibility needed in the current energy crisis?

    America cannot supply Europe with Liquid Natural Gas because of the explosion at the Texas port which means no ships until the end of 2022, too late to bail Germany out of the mess it created for itself.
    So it turns to Qatar which has a lot of natural gas, but is running at full capacity with nothing to spare.
    If they are to build another terminal and order new ships from South Korea it will take time and cost a lot of money, to the Qatari’s are quite reasonably asking European nations for long term contracts of supply which the EU doesn’t want them to do.

    LNG is of course more expensive to produce than pumping the stuff through a pipeline, and then shipping it halfway across the world, it’s also an awful lot more polluting and less Green so the EU don’t want countries to do it.
    It would appear that the EU would rather Europe ground to a standstill economically and people froze to death rather than abandon the fantasy of ‘climate change’. This is an absurd position to take. They don’t want to use Russian gas nor do they want to use Qatari Gas, and they don’t want coal either.

    There is no other way left open to them other than the lights going out all over Europe because of obstinacy and the fantasy bubble they inhabit. Given the chance they will do what Socialists have always done, kill people on an industrial scale.

       18 likes

  35. Jack in the Green says:

    Apparently Glasto was ‘the most political ever’. A lot of wailing about what’s going on in the U.S., I understand. What don’t these people get about keeping your damn snout out of other people’s business? No, too busy preening themselves with self-righteousness to notice how pathetic they look, along with the rest of the luvvie media. Blimey, what a bunch.

       23 likes

  36. andyjsnape says:

    Thousands take part in Glasgow and Edinburgh Pride marches
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-61936795

    I’m wondering how many different genders will be there, 150 different genders maybe?

       13 likes

  37. MarkyMark says:

    _125616930_glasgowpride2.jpg

    The scene at New York City’s Stonewall Inn on Saturday, as reported by multiple witnesses on social media, showed how long-simmering tensions between transgender women of color and white gay men have boiled over during the celebration of World Pride and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising.
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gay-pride-transgender-idUSKCN1TV0V0

       6 likes

  38. Sluff says:

    Not BBC but suspiciously also in the unreformed public sector bracket.
    A propos of nothing.
    Notwithstanding various things like Grenfell and a gas explosion in Birmingham reported today.
    But instances of fires have been in decline for years.
    The move away from coal fires. The reduction in smoking and bans at places of work. More fire resistant rules ( bedding, furniture etc) means there are fewer fires.

    Now take a look at the Fire Service component of your council tax.
    It’s small so never gets noticed. But mine has gone up by way more than the normal council tax year after year. Has yours? Take a look.

    So if not for fires, just where is the money being spent? Surely not on full pensions for retirement at 50?

       15 likes

  39. Halifax says:

    BBC headlines showing G7 sat around a table. Every head of state visible except one……go on guess which one it is ……

       14 likes

    • andyjsnape says:

      Hello Halifax, no idea why the Von Trapp women is there, just to have a listen and take the ideas away

         11 likes

    • TrickCyclist says:

      4b59b578-4102-4123-b176-961c3479d1e7.jpg

      “Manny sweetheart, can you lean forward a bit so I can get Mario and Justin in – yes that’s it darling, bend over for Justin, ha ha! Thank you sweetie, mwah!
      Now, on the other side, Joe can you move a bit so I can get Boris in – yes that’s Boris next to you. Yes, you’re Joe – no dear, that’s a newspaper – oh, forget it.”
      *Click*

         12 likes

  40. StewGreen says:

    R4 12 pm “Second Homes in holiday areas (Welsh can’t buy new homes),
    Hajj Travel Chaos pilgrims whose once in lifetime trip to Mecca has been plunged into uncertainty

    and Digging for Pleasure

    … (The BBC probably mean Dogging for Pleasure)

    If you were British Muslim about to go on Haj
    The Sauds have made a sudden last minute decision to change the system
    your booking has been cancelled and you go into a lottery procedure
    .. Sounds like Saudis are doing a British Muslim ban.
    They say it’s an anti-fraud measure

    Yasmin Qureshi The Labour MP for Bolton South East is on

       7 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      BTW there is irony
      “Senedd MS’s have second homes fully funded by the taxpayer in order to attend and work at the Senedd”

         3 likes

  41. StewGreen says:

    Next item PRasNews for Octopus Energy promising zero energy bills
    How’s that ?
    Basically you pay masses up front for a super insulated home, solar panels, battery and an air source heatpump ..that is built into the house price ..so far only 2 houses done (£15K+ per house)

       4 likes

  42. Terminal Moraine says:

    Interesting to note the Norway Islamic attack has all but dropped off the MSM radar. You’d think the voices and lived experiences of the gay community would be given ample airtime — even more so during Pride Month — but strangely this particular concern doesn’t feature.

    From the BBC report: “There is reason to think that this may be a hate crime,” police said on Saturday. “We are investigating whether… Pride was a target in itself or whether there are other motives.” People in this country are viewed increasingly as a festering cesspit of unconscious bias and microaggressions — but a whole raft of macroaggressions like, say shooting up a gay bar hours before Pride, needs further investigation. Let’s not jump to conclusions.

    Odd also that the BBC haven’t reported the Irish man who has just been raped on holiday in Valencia… police are hunting “two men ‘of Arabic origin with a French accent’ who spoke only a few words of English”.

    Oh and there’s also two people stabbed in a Swedish shopping mall last week with the arrest of a 16 year old boy (“motive unclear”). Also not on the BBC.

    But Sky dig a predictable Islamophobia backlash report out of the bins and you can count on the BBC to offer their usual type of dishonest, cowardly balance:

    “Islam: Winning photo celebrates Muslims’ Wales connection”

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-61915359

       21 likes

  43. StewGreen says:

    Barristers salaries
    One has to consider full life time income vs training costs
    Yes years of study
    but in the end some become very highly paid judges.

       8 likes

  44. StewGreen says:

    Test Match Special have done 12 photo tweets in the last 2 hurs promoting their coverage of today’ women’s game

       4 likes

    • andyjsnape says:

      Hello Stew, the ground is full to capacity, always pulls in a good crowd womens sports 🙂 and very cheap to sponsor, so the bBC is keen

         4 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Trousers are for males!

         4 likes

  45. tomo says:

    The BBC and their gender advisors “Global Butterflies” – the Telegraph story about 150 genders in full – handily saved in full by the obliging vikings in Iceland

    enjoy:

    https://archive.ph/7hPJN

    “Third party voluntary training material does not instruct BBC staff, but is available to increase awareness and understanding.
    “There is no link to, or influence on, any editorial decision making and to suggest otherwise is wrong. As we have said many times before, the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines are sacrosanct, our staff know this and they understand their responsibilities.”

       5 likes

  46. tomo says:

    The shambolic, blithering Boris teams up with Castro Jnr

    – Churchill ? – my arse

    Klaus the Schwab in the background would’ve been useful – anybody know if he’s been invited?

    What’s not to like?

       5 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      3 teachers hide in UK batley ….. Canada Justin Trudeau sets World Record In avoiding questions – 18 Times – wastes everyone’s time in Parliament

         5 likes

    • theisland says:

         8 likes

  47. tomo says:

    Loads of helicopter traffic out of Glastonbury this morning – 5 in the air at the moment.

    https://globe.adsbexchange.com/

       10 likes

  48. StewGreen says:

    Black people invented everything
    .. including rewriting history
    History Debunked

    He mock the BBC claims
    I’ve nothing against black people I think the rewriting is actually done by patronising white BBC/Guardian types pushing their woke-supremacy

       12 likes

  49. Thoughtful says:

    Some very disturbing news out of the G7 that Red Boris has left his braincell on the bedside cabinet and told Macron Britain is interested in rejoining the EU.

    Of course Red Boris denies this but I think I’d trust Macron over a man who has made a living out of compulsively lying for a living.

    How long has this been going on? Probably ever since the chancer decided to run as the Brexit leader and when the Commieserve yourselves sidelined the Brexit party using state power in order to progress his own personal agenda.

    I’ve pointed out before that the UK is mirroring EU legislation introducing it into UK law to make a rejoin easier and more seamless, but this provides absolute confirmation that the one party state we live in is comitted to rejoining the EU in defiance of the people who voted to leave it.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10956355/Le-bromance-Boris-Macron-FINALLY-bury-hatchet-G7-meeting.html

       9 likes

  50. MarkyMark says:

    Glastonbury top head liner … dressed as Christ and not Mohammed …

    Lyrics
    Alls my life I has to fight, nigga
    Alls my life I
    Hard times like, yah!
    Bad trips like, yah!
    Nazareth, I’m fucked up
    Homie, you fucked up
    But if God got us then we gon’ be alright
    Nigga, we gon’ be alright
    Nigga, we gon’ be alright
    We gon’ be alright
    Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon’ be alright
    Nigga, we gon’ be alright
    Huh? We gon’ be alright
    Nigga, we gon’ be alright
    Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon’ be alright
    Uh, and when I wake up
    I recognize you’re lookin’ at me for the pay cut
    But homicide be looking at you from the face down
    What MAC-11 even boom with the bass down
    Schemin’! And let me tell you bout my life
    Painkillers only put me in the twilight
    Where pretty pussy and Benjamin is the highlight
    Now tell my mama I love her but this what I like
    Lord knows, twenty of ’em in my Chevy
    Tell ’em all to come and get me, reapin’ everything I sow
    So my karma come in heaven, no preliminary hearings on my record
    I’m a motherfucking gangster in silence for the record, uh
    Tell the world I know it’s too late
    Boys and girls, I think I’ve gone cray
    Drown inside my vices all day
    Won’t you please believe when I say
    Wouldn’t you know
    We been hurt, been down before, nigga
    When our pride was low
    Lookin’ at the world like, “Where do we go, nigga?”
    And we hate po-po
    Wanna kill us dead in the street for sure, nigga
    I’m at the preacher’s door
    My knees gettin’ weak and my gun might blow
    But we gon’ be alright
    Nigga, we gon’ be alright
    Nigga, we gon’ be alright
    We gon’ be alright
    Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon’ be alright
    Nigga, we gon’ be alright
    Huh? We gon’ be alright
    Nigga, we gon’ be alright
    Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon’ be alright
    What you want you, a house? You, a car?
    40 acres and a mule? A piano, a guitar?
    Anything, see my name is Lucy, I’m your dog
    Motherfucker, you can live at the mall
    I can see the evil, I can tell it I know when it’s illegal
    I don’t think about it, I deposit every other zero
    Thinkin’ of my partner put the candy, paint it on the regal
    Diggin’ in my pocket ain’t a profit, big enough to feed you
    Everyday my logic, get another dollar just to keep you
    In the presence of your chico ah!
    I don’t talk about it, be about it, everyday I see cool
    If I got it then you know you got it, Heaven, I can reach you
    Pat Dawg, Pat Dawg, Pat Dawg, my dog, that’s all
    Bick back and Chad, I trap the bag for y’all
    I rap, I black on track so rest assured
    My rights, my wrongs, I write ’til I’m right with God
    Wouldn’t you know
    We been hurt, been down before, nigga
    When our pride was low
    Lookin’ at the world like, “Where do we go, nigga?”
    And we hate po-po
    Wanna kill us dead in the street for sure, nigga
    I’m at the preacher’s door
    My knees gettin’ weak and my gun might blow
    But we gon’ be alright
    Nigga, we gon’ be alright
    Nigga, we gon’ be alright
    We gon’ be alright
    Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon’ be alright
    Nigga, we gon’ be alright
    Huh? We gon’ be alright
    Nigga, we gon’ be alright
    Do you hear me, do you feel me? We gon’ be alright
    I keep my head up high
    I cross my heart and hope to die
    Lovin’ me is complicated
    Too afraid of a lot of changes
    I’m alright and you’re a favorite
    Dark nights in my prayers
    I remembered you was conflicted
    Misusing your influence, sometimes I did the same
    Abusing my power full of resentment
    Resentment that turned into a deep depression
    Found myself screamin’ in the hotel room
    I didn’t wanna self destruct, the evils of Lucy was all around me
    So I went runnin’ for answers

       4 likes