365 Responses to Start the week 15 August 2022

  1. AsISeeIt says:

    Cognitive labour edition

    Top of the BBC Pops – topping the charts, so to speak – in their online press line up is the habitually coronaphobic ‘i’ newspaper: New Omicron jab to fight autumn Covid wave – because of course, just like day follows night and floods follow droughts – our experts can predict these things…

    The Telegraph comes over vaguely proud and patriotic: UK is first to approve omicron-specific jab

    As does the Daily Express (United with the people of Ukraine – on the masthead and: 50% off your favourite newspapers… new subscribers only – is the offer. One couldn’t find a recent figure but as of 1st June Russia had apparently taken 20% off Nato’s favourite new ally) I digress: Britain first with covid varient booster

    And in flag-waving mood almost as fervent as when a local ladies football team won a trophy, our BBC says: Covid: UK first country to approve dual-strain vaccine – note the similarity of wording in the next one…

    Naturally there’s no UK or Britain-specific reflected glory in the Guardian headline – and, as per usual, the left is obsessed with managerial process: Dual-strain Covid jab approved for booster

    Whilst the formerly patriotic Times makes it sound as though it’s compulsory: Over-50s to be called for new Covid jab in weeks – I promise that’s the last word, your last headline on the subject this morning – although, a profitable big new industry with many stakeholders, managers and employees having been created, one very much doubts that’s the last annual booster of some form or another you’ll be called for.

    Riddle me a riddle – sounds like the sort of thing Batman’s enemy The Riddler would say. One learns that comic book character’s real name was Edward Nygma (careful now) – so riddle me this: Afghanistan shows why we have to be woke Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (‘i’)

    George Orwell imagined the Junior Anti-Sex League. In something of a perversion (so to speak) of his dystopia, it is in fact the grown up women in our broadsheets busily campaigning against marriage: Will this TV drama put you off marriage? (Times); Why I’ve taken a marriage sabatical Celia Walden explains why all married couples should try six weeks apart (Telegraph) – I know, two features, even on the same day, even from supposedly conservative right-leaning titles, is just an unhappy coincidence…

    ‘The woman’s to-do list is relentless’ – complains a Guardian feature: …the burden of cognitive labour – remembering birthdays, organising play dates – which disproportionately falls to women in heterosexual relationships, and it is exhausting – Nag, nag, nag – I jest of course. I may not be up there with the likes of Jerry Sadowitz but remember there’s something of a performative character when Mr AsISeeIt takes to the stage hereabouts.

    Jerry Sadowitz hits back after show cancelled: ‘My act is being cheapened’ Comedian says his show ‘is what it is, for those who enjoy it,’ after complaints at Edinburgh fringe (Guardian)

    But why worry, as the left are always keen to reassure us, there’s no such thing as cancel culture.

    The Graun loves a bit of Edinburgh Festival: The G2 Edinburgh special The stars, the shows – and the best jokes – however, there’s something of an equivocal note from our Nish: Nish Kumar I love the fringe, but now it’s time for change

    Oh the irony: The Kenya-born British comedian Njambi McGrath, performing at the Pleasance, argues that deep political turmoil will still fuel good comedy. Rishi Sunak’s suggestion that unpatriotic rhetoric should be policed can only throw another log on the fire, she believes.

    “The more severe a government, the more hilarious satire becomes. It can only thrive inside rooms away from the interfering hands of government,” she said. “After all, banning comedy simply rubber stamps the ridicule. Banning satire is the last door from democracy and first into autocracy.” (Guardian, 7th August)

    If you want a bit of a laugh – without anyone having to wave his male member about – take a look at the knots in which these Guardianistas are oblidged to tie themselves – just to keep on the right side of the latest wokist trends: In same-sex relationships, domestic labour is more equal, “but can still fall back into those roles”, says Mangino (she talks about male and female roles, drawn from traditional gendered divides, rather than men and women). – eh? Riddle me a riddle indeed.

    Speaking of Labour… cognitive or otherwise…

    Starmer says government ‘just not good enough’ on cost of living crisis as he defends plan to freeze energy bills (Guardian) – Oh dear, as we know the journalese weasel word editorialisation ‘defends‘ is a passive aggressive damnation.

    What about the workers?

    Starmer fails to back bar strike… – don’t worry, we’ll still be able to turn to drink whatever the next crisis – work is still the bane of the drinking classes: Climate could uncork great British reds (Times)

    Sir Keir Starmer QC today declined to express unqualified support for striking barristers (a rare forensic appearance hereabouts in this kangaroo court of public opinion for The Law Society Gazette)

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    • BigBrotherCorporation says:

      I’m not sure I could take anyone called Mangina talking about ‘gender roles’ entirely seriously.

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  2. Thoughtful says:

    The CEO of JP Morgan Jamie Dimon has been speaking to his wealthy clients. Personally I don’t believe the man is to be trusted I don’t believe in his public utterances he is honest and truthful, however he is the head of an important invesment bank and his words do count, regardless of how reliable they might be, and also perhaps unsurprisingly the UK media have largely failed to report the speech at all!

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jamie-dimon-sounds-off-morning-brief-110044236.html

    What is out there? There are storm clouds. Rates, QT, oil, Ukraine, war, China. If I had to put odds: soft landing 10%. Harder landing, mild recession, 20%, 30%. Harder recession, 20%, 30%. And maybe something worse at 20% to 30%. It is a bad mistake to say ‘here is my single point forecast.’

    Reading between the lines is important here Dimon is hedging his bets for all evntualities however he is strongly suggesting a hard recession or something even worse is on the way.

    Meanwhile to add to the food shortage woes the Idaho potato crop is going to be nowhere near as large as it usually is:

    https://www.potatopro.com/news/2022/later-start-smaller-crop-idaho-potatoes-summer

    It’s going to be a rough ride next year folks, make sure you’re prpared for what’s coming.

    And lets stop lying about a cost of living crisis and do what the left does by challenging those who use the maguage of distraction, tell them to call it what it really is, a cost of Green energy crisis.

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    • Guest Who says:

      https://order-order.com/2022/08/15/today-programmes-starmer-questioning-asked-why-he-wasnt-being-left-wing-enough/

      It has been mentioned already the bbc is incapable of grasping what is required to tax those who pay their massive salaries.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Thoughtful
      Thank you – im as persistently doom and gloom and not worth reading if looking for ‘ happy happy’

      I see 2023 / 2024 as a nightmare . Talk of inflation peaking this year is deluded .

      I make the assumption that putin continues his campaign keeping costs high .

      Even if ‘ normality ‘ returned the pent up demand post covid is still sitting there and will take a while to recover – 2 or 3 years – give or take a recovery from recession ..,

      As you say – Thoughtful – prepare as best you can . Make sure your can opener works .,.

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  3. pugnazious says:

    I imagine if somebody were to celebrate a ‘plethora of whiteness’ and stated that people across the nation needed to understand what it means to be White and had a specific radio station dedicated to ‘Whiteness’, White culture and acting as a voice purely for Whites do you think the BBC would be a cheerleader for that station?

    Who knew that the BBC’s 1Xtra was not only just a music station but a cultural, social and racial propaganda exercise…trying to unite us as it divides us…..a station not based upon a music genre as Classic FM might be but upon race alone….’black music’…what is that?

    ‘Radio 1Xtra’s 20th anniversary: ‘It shows a plethora of blackness”

    ‘”It’s so special because it shows the plethora of blackness. I grew up as a black kid in Kent and went through my own way of figuring out my blackness and owning that.

    “That’s why it’s so important to have people from different areas of the UK, representing to them what it means to be black.”‘

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-62550649

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  4. tomo says:

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Tomo – thank you – I went on YouTube to catch the whole 26 minutes.
      Carlson speculates on the next step in this corrupt third world political show –

      He thinks the Obama White House it mulling over whether to indict president trump – and from me – deciding whether to do that privately or with the full FBI treatment …..

      The Rule of `law in America is know what Obama says it is . A twitter comment can get you arrested – imprisoned -mand maybe up to 10 years in a Fed prison ….

      Don’t tell Hampshire plod they’ll be getting tips from the FBI

      So as the stazi FBI are now a fully democrat run outfit with democrat judges to sign of warrants to attack republicans and their lawyers – I wonder what the next steps will be ?

      Killed escaping
      Killed resisting arrest
      Disappeared
      Tortured

      The Feds are now so part of the Obama regime that they’d do anything to anyone ….

      The timing of the indictment of president trump will be the biggy- complete with a rigged trial process and certainty of conviction with a rigged jury and eager CNN BBC ….starting . in the next 2 months ….

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      • tomo says:

        The Democrat goons do not know when to stop.

        Obama absolutely was (is?) a spook , his mother was a spook …

        What’s really noticeable (to me at anyrate) – is the cast of utterly toxic characters that the Democrats have assembled (e.g. Schiff, Swalwell) and their immunity from the consequences of their antics.

        I can’t remember her name but there was a gormless Democrat in the twilight of the Obamah White House who absolutely spilled the beans on how even low tiered, sour, self aggrandising apparatchiks (Nadler) in the administration had trivial access to snooping on emails, phone conversations and personal documents of those they chose to snoop on.

        The rise of a corrupt thug bureaucracy, insulated from the consequences of their unequivocal lawless thuggery is going to have consequences (I hope….)

        The US MSM is about 90% of the problem – and they are pretty much spook run …

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Words, punctuation and pauses (Obama pauses a lot) have a price … Barack Obama’s $400,000 speaking fees reveal what few want to admit {theguardian may2017}

          “The reason many of us have been critical of Barack Obama’s outrageous $400,000 speaking fee is that it robs us of a fantasy: that sooner or later, the first black president was going to use his considerable powers, in or out of office, to help the economic ravages of the poor, who are disproportionately black.

          That Obama’s project was or ever would be racial and economic justice was always a dream – and the sooner we let go of this and recognize Obama for who he is and what he does, the better we’ll all be.

          Some people who disagree with me believe I am racist … I fantasized that he’d join us on the front lines of marches, battle for the salvation of Obamacare in ingenious ways, and maybe turn up at a Black Lives Matter event. But this was all a fantasy. …”

          Also of interest .. Ten most inane things in Obama’s awful speech “Otherwise, virtually everything was confused or misleading. More than that, he revealed he has no idea what he’s doing.” {washingtonpost – Jennifer Rubin – Conservative – may2013}

          https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/08/30/mid-week-open-thread-122/comment-page-2/#comment-863668

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  5. BRISSLES says:

    GBN
    Alex Phillips voice makes my ears bleed
    Mercy Merkouri’ voice is like scraping nails down a blackboard – her stuttering delivery is dreadful.
    Bev Turner believes her audience are all deaf.

    Any of the girls reading the news headlines would make a better fist of it.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Brissles – I don’t bother with anything other than brazier / Farage / Steyn – and Farage can be a bit much …

      The rest seems dross ..

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    • Fred Stubber says:

      Oh, I really don’t agree with any of that. I think all the ladies of GB News are lovely. Especially Mercy. She’s the tops.

      Fred

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  6. pugnazious says:

    Today should really be renamed ‘Tomorrow’ as its always trying to change us and turn us into a better future, a better tomorrow….as it sees the world.

    There’s barely a story that isn’t shaped and coming at us that isn’t from a lefty-woke viewpoint….we just hear one side of every story nearly all the time.

    An exception on at least one story this morning when the BBC’s narrative that Brexit is the cause of the Labour shortage was once again shot down as we hear the ONS’s figures show no evidence for that…the main cause is, as we know, many hundreds of thousands of people deciding to opt out of work.

    And no irony that a ‘BBC investigation’ expressed concern that there were, wait for it, wait for it……too many foreign doctors and nurses being recruited to the NHS….non EU recruits increasing dramatically….so any supposed EU shortfall [In fact the figures after Brexit showed EU doctor numbers went up] is made up for by Indians etc….

    ‘ The NHS in England is increasingly reliant on doctors and nurses recruited from outside the UK and EU, analysis has found.

    Some 34% of doctors joining the health service last year came from overseas, a rise from 18% in 2014.

    The share of UK doctors joining the health service had fallen from 69% in 2015 to 58% last year. Over the same period, the share of new UK nurses fell from 74% to 61%
    The share of doctors recruited from outside of the UK and the EU rose from 18% to 34% while the share of nurses rose from 7% to 34%’

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61230287

    Might suggest we are not short of foreign recruits overall across all sectors….but you know…Brexit…boo hiss!

    Then there’s the Native American at the Oscars whom the BBC tells us was ‘booed off the stage’….

    ‘a Native American woman booed off stage nearly 50 years ago. ‘

    ….well….no…they played the clip and there was booing but she remained on stage and finished her bit….but hang on….there was a lot more applause and at the end almost deafening applause for her.

    The BBC grudgingly admits there might have been a few cheers and applause….

    ‘She was met with boos – and some cheers – from the audience.’

    Watch the video…she is applauded off the stage not booed off.

    A complete BBC fabrication and lie.

    The BBC couldn’t help slipping in a bit about a claim that John Wayne wanted to physically attack the woman….I somehow doubt that…for a start in his films the Indians are treated with respect….oh..and the Today claim was just a bit exaggerated….not assault her but to take her off stage….slightly different to what Today suggested…

    ‘…it “was a very good thing” as actor John Wayne was backstage (secured by six security men); she said he was “furious with Marlon and furious with me” and wanted to pull her off stage himself.’

    Then there’s some Syrian ‘refugees’ who were to be deported from Turkey back to Syria but who fled to Greece….a completely one-sided tale of woe that places the blame entirely on Greece and Europe for their situation…regardless they should be back in Syria and clearly the Turks thought they were not genuine refugees. Turkey came away with no criticism, the ‘refugees’ naturally got absolutely no criticism but Greece was the pariah badboy.

    And then there’s Trump….do I need to go on? Not really but I will.

    Liz Cheney is fighting for her political life as she looks to be ousted from her cosy collusion with the Democrats by a Trumpian candidate and the BBC hates it…..their narrative is that Trump is claiming his ‘revenge’ rather than the voters hating a treacherous, backstabbing ‘Republican’.

    It is no irony that as the BBC tells us that Trump makes ‘unfounded claims of electoral fraud’ and that ‘many people believe [stupidly] his false claim that the election was stolen’ it also tells us that Cheney has been urging Democrat voters to register as Republican and vote against the Trump candidate….election rigging? The BBC made no comment.

    It is a fact that the 2020 vote was ‘rigged’, firstly by the Democrat Party which, instead of concerning itself with domestic and foreign affairs of government, spent 4 years trying to undermine the government and to unseat the President using lies, disinformation and procedural abuse to do so…secondly by a highly partisan media, 90% of which was viscerally anti-Trump and which spread the Democrat lies far and wide for all those years…..this undoubtedly had a massive impact…just as the media barrage against Boris ramping up a minor events in major scandals felled him.

    Oddly the BBC makes no critical comment that Clinton continues to this day to say her Presidency was stolen…apparently this wild claim is not a ‘threat to democracy’ and does not ‘undermine State authority or trust in the institutions’….the BBC also makes no comment that Clinton had called for, and voted for, a ‘security barrier’ on the border and the control of illegal immigration.

    The BBC’s finest asked another journalist in Wyoming ‘Does it make you worried….’ that a Trump candidate might win? LOL…naturally the answer was yes.

    Talk about bias.

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    • tomo says:

      I listened to a bit of R4 “I’m Sorry I haven’t a clue” while taking a driving break yesterday evening.

      The slathered-on audience reaction / laughter was a lame as the script.

      The off switch was used before the credits.

      grim

      Music and audience snippets to be added to news reporting next?

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Yes well past the glory days – but it’s the only ‘comedy’ they have so on the dead horse is flogged – a bit like that ‘have I got news … thing – which I understand still runs – I gave up on that probably – 20 years or more ago …

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    • TrickCyclist says:

      pugnazious,
      I don’t think it’s true to say that Indians were always treated with respect in John Wayne’s movies, but their portrayal certainly became increasingly complex. Maybe the BBC conflates the “Far Right” Wayne with his racist Ethan Edwards character from The Searchers.
      Of course, Wayne’s three marriages were respectively to a Spanish-American, a Mexican and a Peruvian – so not the racist-misogynist the BBC might like you to believe.

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      • BRISSLES says:

        One of my favourite all time quotes……….

        “Dalton Trumbo (blacklisted screenwriter) : [challenging John Wayne] ……….If you’re gonna talk about World War II as if you personally won it, let’s be clear where you were stationed – on a film set, shooting blanks, wearing makeup, and if you’re going to hit me, I’d like to take off my glasses.”

        PRICELESS !

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      • Guest Who says:

        iirc that was, or is now ‘Native americans’.

        Those you alluded were used across cannons daily by the British to signal dawn.

        Or that might have been Henry Cooper in Shanghai.

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  7. pugnazious says:

    The BBC ramps up the febrile anti-Semitism around the world with headlines like this……

    ‘‘Gaza’s children are used to the death and bombing’’

    The long report briefly mentions criticism of the Palestinians’ own actions but weaved throughout is the idea that Israel is the real culprit…and the final paragraph caps this off…

    ‘”Why can’t we do as people do outside Gaza? We watch YouTubers and they are happy and do nice things. We hope for the blockade to be lifted, so we can live like them.”‘

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-62553628

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    • Guest Who says:

      That BBC hero profile the other day… maybe it should be into which Taliban snipers tried to take out Malala once the BBC spotted her?

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Malala Yousafzai’s family can stay in UK after dad is given consulate role in Birmingham. The family of a girl shot in the head by the Taliban for promoting women’s rights will be able to stay in the UK, after her father was appointed education attache at the Pakistan consulate in Birmingham.3 Jan 2013

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Corbyn the antisemite will solve it ….
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  8. s.trubble says:

    This bBc “plan” that the Govt. requested as to how it would migrate to a subscription model in view of the decision to end the L/Fee.

    Anyone seen even a brief flash of this plan? Seems eerily quiet.

    Lets hope Liz Truss gets on the case both with the bBC and throw in the SNP as 2 examples of complete wastes of public money.

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  9. Thoughtful says:

    Here is a guy who is regarded as something as a financial expert in the car industry giving an overview of the financial exposure of banks in the US to loan defaults.
    It does translate to the UK where we have seen the same issues here so it’s worth a watch because it might give you some good advice, but also it’s a heads up as to what’s coming and what is going on behind the scenes.

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  10. MarkyMark says:

    Today
    BBC Radio 4, 14 June 2022

    We said the “The leaders of the Church of England have written to the Times to describe the plan to send failed asylum seekers to Rwanda as an immoral policy that shames Britain…”

    The phrase ‘failed asylum seekers’ was not used by the Church and is in any case inaccurate.

    We should have said ‘asylum applicants’ as cases are only considered after people are sent to Rwanda.

    A programme tweet using the same phrase has been deleted.

    15/08/2022

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications

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  11. TrickCyclist says:

    From the Mail Online:

    “Patrick Goulbourne, the London Fire Brigade’s Assistant Commissioner, added: ‘It is really important that Londoners – particularly those living in basement properties – are prepared and know what to do should a flood occur.

    ‘Pay attention to weather alerts and prepare a flood kit or grab bag.”

    A grab bag, isn’t this what “preppers” in the States call a “BOB” or Bug Out Bag? Except rising water is probably the least of the things they are preparing for. Am I reading between the lines too much? I get a bit nervous when officialdom starts using language like this – flooding will bring disruption. . .

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    • Terminal Moraine says:

      TC a month ago New York decided to publish this Nuclear Preparedness public film which raised a few eyebrows.

      And a new emergency warning system will launch here in October. A few more recitations of “Building Back Better” needed from our great leaders, to reassure us this is all par for the course in the New Normal?

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  12. Guest Who says:

    Well, not a mature lady of bag anyway.

    If close. And well connected to BBC cubicle garden #prasnews clearly.

    I once happened across a local chavalier and early hours wine taster whilst walking our respected dogs, though his did seem more like demagogon on the Ian Blackford diet.

    I asked him how he afforded to feed it, and it seems a local family called the Bennys funded for him.

    Which seemed generous.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      £159 bbc license? Save the cats – can the license.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Wait for the BBC to put up money saving suggestions by eating the family pet – stewed cat – barbi dog …

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  13. Fedup2 says:

    Marky
    I’m waiting for one of those numerous BBC consumer programs to suggest reviewing DDs to save on those which are not needed …..
    I can think of one ( it’s the BBC licence DD)

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  14. digg says:

    I see that the BBC is going full blast to stir up public anger directed at the Government. They are pushing and pushing the austerity that the public are going to feel full blast.

    The are for instance prepared to describe a pay rise of 7.5% as a virtual pay cut.

    I believe their game is to try as hard as possible foment strikes, public anger and anything they can to throw mud at the Tories.

    They are not of course including or mentioning the effects of a major European war, a 2 Year home staying jolly for millions of people dodging work because of “covid”. And billions handed out in furlough, buying drugs, etc. etc.

    No it’s all to do with the inept Tories and Boris going on holiday.

    They are so blatantly rabble-rousing they should be indicted for treason the lot of them.

    And all because they are desperate to install a red Labour government who will be happy to protect and use them for propaganda purposes, thus ensuring their future.

    The BBC is an openly political machine and needs to be gone ASAP.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      And we have a weak left wing Socialist government who backs them to the hilt to their own detriment unfortunately

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    • MarkyMark says:

      he BBC will have to make deep cuts to its programme budgets after the government said the broadcaster’s funding would be frozen for the next two years, with the licence fee abolished completely in 2027.

      The culture secretary, Nadine Dorries, is expected to confirm that the cost of an annual licence, required to watch live television and access iPlayer services, will remain at £159 until 2024 before rising slightly for the following three years.

      She said this would be the end of the current licence fee funding model for the BBC, raising doubts about the long-term financial future and editorial independence of the public service broadcaster under a Conservative government.

      https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jan/16/bbc-licence-fee-to-be-abolished-in-2027-and-funding-frozen

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    • Terminal Moraine says:

      The Guardian has a whole new section called “The heat or eat diaries” for the upcoming winter of discontent.

      Their subtitle “Dispatches from the frontline of Britain’s cost of living emergency” made me laugh — conjuring up the image of flak jackets and satellite phones on rooftops which the Guardianistas are well known for. Strong Drop the Dead Donkey vibes.

      Ukraine and covid slipped out of the top ten?

      (P.S. You’ve read 27 miserable articles this year, please give us some money).
      ———
      https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/series/the-heat-or-eat-diaries

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      • MarkyMark says:

        ‘The woman’s to-do list is relentless’: how to achieve an equal split of household chores
        Emine Saner
        Gender expert Kate Mangino tracked down 40 men who did their fair share in the home to find out if they had anything in common – or whether there is a formula for getting the balance right

        https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/aug/15/how-to-achieve-an-equal-split-of-household-chores-kate-mangino

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        • BigBrotherCorporation says:

          The Guardian have a ‘gender expert’ called Kate Mangina? Really?!

          What about men who do MORE than their fair share in the home?

          Who defines ‘fair’?

          Is it fair if I spend all day on Sunday fixing the back door, mowing the lawn, and repairing the garden path, whilst the missus cooks dinner and washes up?

          Is it fair if the missus does the cleaning because she only works 12 hours a week with a 20 minute commute, while my commute is 45 mins each way, and I work 39 hours? What about if I also do the shopping on the way home? What about if I wash her car too?

          Isn’t ‘fair’ down to each couple to work out for themselves?

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          • Fedup2 says:

            I dip into the londonistan evening standard every so often . I’m glad I swerve it . I find that killings by gun in my borough is running at one a week . My guess for the number of killings over all is one a day for londonistan .
            On experience of londonistan – I am surprised it’s only one a day . 300 is the going rate each year but with inflation I reckon the undertakers will have 400 to deal with this year …

            Non fatal shootings and stabbings don’t really make the press threshold unless they are a bit special such as the triple shooting last night …

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Eat or dress up?

        https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a9352e335a0b81abc765e97f6a17fbedcbda77a8/0_0_2560_1536/master/2560.jpg?width=1010&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=23ebbe4530edd1938bf6c90c1184e523

        Jade Cropper
        Part of the new vanguard of Scandi style, Cropper’s skin flashing cut out designs are a firm favourite with Gen Z. Her body con aesthetic taps into the Y2K trend that shows no sign of abating. Her sustainable credentials read well too with pieces created using Circulose, a fibre made from 100% discarded textile waste. “The clothes that I make express another version of myself…I want to enhance and explore what fashion can make you feel in terms of identity,” she said (jadecropper.com).

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        • BigBrotherCorporation says:

          My children are Generation Z… they aren’t interested in this kind of crap, nor are any of their mates, nor do they (or any of their mates) listen to rap, or have any interest in Greta Thunberg or the BBC, or support Extinction Rebellion, or BLM, or… as far as I can discern give a crap about alphabet trans people.

          My kids like to draw and talk about boys and chat online with their mates (daughter), and eat stuff and ride a bike and play computer games with their mates online (son), and other than having mobile phones (which they don’t use THAT much, perhaps 30 mins to 1 hour a day – I can trace their usage) and having the internet, don’t really seem any different to my generation at their age.

          I’m not sure who these ‘Gen Z’ kids supporting all these virtuous ’causes’ we keep hearing about in the media are, because they’re not my kids, or their mates, or my mates kids, or my siblings and cousins’ kids, or any teenage kids I’ve met… so I’m inclined to think they’re largely make believe.

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          • digg says:

            You are right, they don’t really exist. They are simply the aspirational fictitious kids of the looney off-centre unbalanced nutters who would love all kids to be like this.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I think if Red Labour gets power they’ll use the Biden cheat book to make sure there’s never another ‘fair ‘ ‘un corrupt ‘ election here…

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      • tomo says:

        The MSM is in general ignoring the Blair era positioning of the entire public sector as facilitators of importing diversity – fer gawds sake – Labour Party goons have even repeatedly bragged about it.

        I hope that twice expelled 4* hotel dwelling golf enthusiast gets some more play in the media – but I doubt it…

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  15. tomo says:

    GREENS

    -THATS THE WAY TO DO IT!

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  16. Guest Who says:

    People are starting to understand what drives a bbc ‘story’.

    No, I have not read it either.

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  17. Fedup2 says:

    World at one

    BBC suffering from premature grief at the prospect of an anti trump RINO? – Liz traitor Cheney losing a primary thing in the US .
    God the BBC hate President Trump – it’s an obsession- I think the prospect of him standing in a ( fixed ) US presidential election would send them deep into the equivalent brexit syndrome – without even winning ….

    Has Biden formally announced having another coronation using the Obama election theft method v2?

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    • tomo says:

      Having looked at some length (out of curiosity at why many righties dislike her) at how Liz Cheney goes about her business and what she’s done (esp. wrt to Jan 6th) – losing the Republican nomination is way, way too small a reward.

      The BBC default position on things DJT is undiluted, chronic TDS.

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  18. andyjsnape says:

    Rose Ayling-Ellis: Strictly star unveils first Barbie with hearing aids
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/62552410

    Meanwhile back on earth, the bbc really has had its day

    The comments section… one of the poor little snowflakes has commented
    “Brilliant that the barbie dolls are becoming more diverse! Everyone should be represented!!” – Maybe the bbc now do their own commenting, you couldn’t make it up

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    • MarkyMark says:

      But some in the Muslim world also consider her a decadent symbol of the West – hence Saudi Arabia’s recent decision to ban Barbie along with her “revealing clothes and shameful postures.” Like Barbie, she is about 11½ inches tall, but unlike Mattel’s product, she is noticeably less bosomy.

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    • MarkyMark says:

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  19. Up2snuff says:

    TWatO Watch #1 – in which socialist talks to presumed socialist but possibly a capitalist as well

    Jonny ‘Disjointed’ Dymond brings his staccato delivery to TWatO again as the Montacutie still appears to be on holiday for a third week. Jonny is exercised over the ONS’s ability to subtract 4%+ from 9.something% and come up with 3% so he heads out into the real world in the company of presumed/assumed capitalist Dharshini David, the BBC’s first ever Global Trade Correspondent to find out what is what.

    We find that there is no ‘cost-of-living-crisis’ for overseas tourists, UK tourists and those that work in central London. The shops, cafes and restaurants are enjoying a booming trade. Well why wouldn’t they, when they can enjoy the spending power of highly paid Beeboids? That is, when they are not on their extensive holidays. Jonny bemoans the lack of low-paid Health Service staff and Care Home workers to interview to find some low pay victims who would provide a suitable ‘vox pop’.

    If our Jonny had bothered to walk on a bit instead of standing on the pavement outside Broadcasting House with the traffic noise spoiling his cosy chat with Dharshini, they might have reached the Middlesex Hospital or the more private offerings of Harley Street. I’m sure they could have found a nurse or doctor or consultant, even, who was distressed over the supposed ‘cost-of-living-crisis’.

    We were left none the wiser why the ONS can deduct 4.7% from 9.4% and come up with the figure of 3%. ‘Tis a mystery that will last until mid-September 2022. It is also something of a mystery why the ONS only provide a % figure for unemployment to a foremost News Organisation like the BBC, when they used to be able provide much greater clarity. Is it because we still have 1.3 million people in the UK who are seeking work? I suspect it is.

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  20. Up2snuff says:

    TWatO Watch #2 – now if only Jonny ‘Disjointed’ Dymond had talked less and allowed Dharshini David to talk more …

    … he might have discovered one explanation for the ONS being able to subtract 4.7 from 9.4 and equal 3. Darshini David has a degree in economics from Cambridge no less. That said, economists are known to agree on nothing but on the other hand, they are also known to agree on everything. However, Jonny wanted to play the Alpha male and keep the little woman in her place. How sexist of him! (See AISI’s excellent newspaper review for today further back on this thread for more reading on that subject.)

    Fact is, inflation wasn’t always at 9.4%. That is the annualised rate for the 12 months to mid-July 2022 based on a basket of goods that the ONS price check each month. The fact that you do not have to buy each of the goods on the ONS checklist and, in fact may never buy from one year’s end to another – or even never, ever buy – some of the goods on the ONS checklist, demonstrates the weakness of the current RPI and CPI inflation figures.

    It would be much better, to my mind, to have an Essential Prices Index of inflation but as it would include things like taxes the politicians would probably hate it and prevent anything useful like that ever coming into being. After all, it would act as a useful measure of performance, of the benefits of having a particular political Party in Government and that would never do.

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  21. pugnazious says:

    Curious.

    Heard this mentioned on Today….though not ‘reported’ just ‘what the papers say’…in this case the FT…

    ‘Experts urge revamp of the Good Friday Agreement ahead of its 25th anniversary next year.

    With local politics again on the rocks — Northern Ireland has not had a fully functioning devolved executive for six months because of a row over implementing Brexit trade arrangements — calls for a revamp of the landmark deal are growing as the 25th anniversary of its signing approaches.

    “Some of the mechanisms of the Good Friday Agreement are as destructive to Northern Ireland’s success as they are helpful, because one party can pull down the house of cards,” said Niamh Gallagher, a lecturer in British and Irish history at Cambridge university. “That absolutely needs to be abolished.”’

    Oddly no mention on the BBC website….now should we speculate why there’s no mention? The BBC is after all pretty loudly critical about any attempt to change the NI Protocol claiming that any change to an international treaty demonstrates that the British government cannot be trusted…..but we can change the GFA?

    Could it be because the hated prods of the Brexit-loving DUP are the problem as the BBC sees it…definitely not the EU’s Protocol signed by Boris under duress with the threat of terrorism dangling over him….so change the GFA to sideline the DUP and Brexit?

    ‘The Democratic Unionist party, which champions Northern Ireland’s continued place in the UK and was the region’s largest political force until it was dethroned by the nationalist Sinn Féin party in elections in May, has paralysed the executive since February. It is seeking to force an end to Brexit checks on goods entering from Britain.’

    The BBC can’t really report this as achievable and legitimate without also then acknowledging that the Protocol could also be changed if it is not working…..but that would be pro-Brexit whilst the change proposed in the FT might be more helpful to the IRA…erm…the EU and the BBC.

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  22. Fedup2 says:

    Reported-DoJ trying to get the affidavit used by the FBI to raid President Trumps ‘ home kept ‘ secet ‘

    … which of course – with a corrupted system – they will..

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    • tomo says:

      Almost the least of the problems with the raid…

      If you’ve not seen / heard Robert Barnes on the topic – this is a fair starter – much else in there.

      Barnes at least gives a lot of informed context which is near entirely missing in the MSM – 2 hours of Barnes + Freiheit from Sunday evening / Monday morning depending on your time zone

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    Will BBC do Islamic Marriage?

    Marriage
    Series 1: Episode 1
    Contains strong language.
    Ian and Emma get back from their holiday in Spain and return to their normal lives. Ian has recently been made redundant and is beginning to adapt to his new existence. Emma is doing well at work and trying to balance that with Ian’s feelings. Then their daughter Jessica gets in touch and wants to bring her boyfriend round to meet them.
    Less
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0cpndzj/marriage-series-1-episode-1#xtor=CS8-1000-%5BDiscovery_Cards%5D-%5BMulti_Site%5D-%5BGR01%5D-%5BPS_IPLAYER~N~~P_MarriageE1%5D

    ………………….

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  24. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Get his friends to post parts of it and see what happens?

      1765 …. In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.They may use a pen or their voice, and should not be prevented from writing any more than speaking …That is the law in England, a monarchical country, where people are freer than elsewhere because they are more enlightened. – Voltaire, Republican Ideas, 1765

      2018 … Jack Fincham from ITV’s Love Island hounded by fans for supporting Tommy Robinson 04jul2018

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/07/02/start-the-week-open-thread-2-july-2018/comment-page-4/#comment-927425

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  25. Jeff says:

    There have been numerous grim things in the news lately, all covered excellently on Biased BBC, so this post is a little bit of light relief…

    Are any of you watching the new Van Der Valk series on ITV? Actually it’s been well made, with not too much jiggery-wokery creeping into the story…other than Van Der Valk’s attractive, ball busting lesbian assistant, who chases down fit young men and wrestles them to the ground, while making an arrest. Yes, of course she does..

    The real problem I have is with the main character, Van Der Valk …or at least the bloke they have chosen to play him…

    Don’t get me wrong, it’s not the actor’s fault, but… he’s supposed to be some sort of irresistible sex symbol. The first scene in episode one shows him stopping off for a cold beer, after a long day catching ne’er-do-wells. Immediately he’s approached by two young lovelies who attempt to chat him up. He’s having none of it and says, “Sorry ladies, I’m going home.” The two floozies invite themselves along. Fortunately our hero is immediately rescued by another gorgeous bit of skirt, who both the girls and I thought was his wife. She’s not. This blonde is just another random woman who happens to be passing and on first sight has become totally enthralled with this bloke. It’s ludicrous…

    With a Steve McQueen or Paul Newman I might (just) swallow it, but… our man is short, thin and scruffy, must be in his fifties and is a long way from being any woman’s dream date. He’s more Wilfred Bramble than Daniel Craig.

    I’m half expecting him to shout “‘Arold” at any minute…

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  26. Guest Who says:

    And lo, that weird Uncle Fester thing ceases to be the least funny dick joke of the day.

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  27. taffman says:

    Not on Al Beeb yet .
    “RAF ‘pauses job offers for white men’ to meet ‘impossible’ diversity targets”
    https://news.sky.com/story/raf-pauses-job-offers-for-white-men-to-meet-impossible-diversity-targets-12674409

    What happened to meritocracy?
    This is our defence force !

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    • StewGreen says:

      That is quite a direct headline from the WokeSupremacist SkyNews
      They must be going for the GBnews market now.

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  28. G.W.F. says:

    News not covered by the BBC

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    • Fedup2 says:

      One for the fact checker – right spring ? Or is it only approved facts . British main stream media bias by omission …

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  29. StewGreen says:

    itvCalendar Drought porn item
    “Yorkshire officially declared a drought today.. over to our reporter in Mansfield”
    The reporter fessed up straight away “As you can see, it’s throwing it down at this pond at Berry Hill Park
    and the water is coming up the bank
    .. but when we arrived you could almost see the bottom”

    She got in the official flood porn narrative “Ah the ground is so hard the water is just sitting there”
    We could see that was fake cos it was clearly flowing into the lake”

    They then aired all the vox pop footage they recorded earlier “oh I’ve never seen it so low blah blah”

    The online article is about the level being too low and the dead fish being removed
    https://www.itv.com/news/central/2022-08-16/dead-fish-to-be-removed-from-pond-after-heatwave-limits-water-oxygen-levels
    It was written before the pond filled up again.

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    • StewGreen says:

      The earlier rain bypassed our villages
      but the rain started an hour ago

      Of course it’s just going into the soil.

      The TV made out we all have super parched soil, but our grass is 2 inches long so isn’t parched.

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  30. Guest Who says:

    Magical.

    It is possible that BBC numpties is also related to Ian Blackford.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Beautiful

      1 minute 30 seconds – what happens when an unapproved interviewee challenges a BBC totalitarian …
      And now the weather – 90 seconds encapsulating smug ‘right thought ‘ versus the ‘non approved ‘……

      The comments on twitter about this are so so supportive …

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    • StewGreen says:

      presenter “I sensed that a lot of people were there so they could laugh at a bit of racism ”

      Konstantin “If I were a mind reader like you..”

      boom !

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  31. JohnC says:

    Just accidentally caught about 10 seconds of the BBC news tonight. It had an Afghan in shadows talking about how the UK have left him high and dry.

    In that time, I realised that there is no way an Afghan would string sentences together with such meaningful English (through an interpreter). It takes a native speaker to say things like he did. I expect they think the majority of people watching won’t realise how an Afghan would speak English – they will use English words, but sentences tend to be constructed in the same way they would do in their own language.

    Which immediately told me that the BBC had written his speech for him. Which in turn told me that once again they are not reporting the news – they are manufacturing it to suit their agenda. In true Panorama style they have decided on an end conclusion they want to make into a headline (like the SAS story) then set about creating the news to prove it.

    ‘Why you can trust the BBC’.
    I don’t. They are as slippery as eels and lower than snakes.

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  32. Northern Voter says:

    The bBBC hadn’t written his speech for him, they supplied the interpreter with a script!

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  33. StewGreen says:

    R4 now
    have we really become less religious?
    Or has our hunger for truth and meaning simply transferred itself to social justice politics?
    In this programme, Helen Lewis considers the religious overtones of the “culture wars”.
    On both left and right, she finds unquestionable doctrines, charismatic preachers, blasphemy and heresy – and the promise of salvation”

    “only 1% of 18-24 yo say they are CoE”

    Well Marxism is a religion.

    “one phrase you hear a lot online is ‘wokeness is a religion ‘ ”
    … Funny I NEVER saw that

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    • StewGreen says:

      On Twitter the phrase ” wokeness is a religion” is used 2 times per day.
      Once per week by a blue tick

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Shhhh – don’t mention the false religion of ‘Islam ‘….but that’s a ‘life style choice – ask the paki Paedo racist Rape gangs ..

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  34. StewGreen says:

    Countries who buy gas from Russia have high inflation
    France has nuclear
    I wonder why Ireland’s food price inflation is so low
    Full inflation seems to mirror this list
    but Estonia’s full inflation is quoted at 22.7%

    here’s a table of the official CPI #inflation rates for #food and non-alcoholic beverages in June
    (the latest available month for all

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Stew thanks for that – maybe copy it and the latter stuff onto the new thread I’m about to put up …

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    • Thoughtful says:

      France has not been a part of the Green delusion which has caused the Green energy crisis and its people tend to heat their homes using logs rather than gas hence it being less affected, but their nuclear plants are in urgent need of maintenance due to pipes cracking, so they might also be having rolling blackouts this year.

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  35. pugnazious says:

    The BBC’s very own Witch-finder General….H/t Is the BBC biased?

    erm…why does that remind me so much of this?….

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  36. Eddy Booth says:

    “Radio 1Xtra’s 20th anniversary: ‘It shows a plethora of blackness’
    By Manish Pandey”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-62550649

    Hilarious, these clowns don’t even know the meaning of the words they use..

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