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“Muslim man, 29, ‘travelled 180 miles from Yorkshire to attack three Orthodox Jews on their way to a north London synagogue in race-hate spree’, court hears
Abdullah Qureshi, 29, has been accused of attacking Jewish men in Stamford Hill
Qureshi deliberately travelled from Yorkshire to London to carry out the attacks
Thames Magistrates Court heard he had ‘deliberately’ targeted Jewish people”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11146633/Muslim-man-travelled-Yorkshire-north-London-attack-three-Jews-way-synagogue.html
Deport him.
Hello Zephir
Sorry this can’t be true, i’ve used the search on the bBC websh*te and it only finds…
Paediatrician Dr Zeshan Qureshi and dance instructor and performer David Bennie.
Nothing on the bbc, funny that
I found this one. No sign of any follow up from the trial or anything.
Stamford Hill: Man in court over unprovoked attacks
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58447120
It’s the briefest of ‘facts only’ reports which the BBC do when it’s against the agenda. The only reference they make to the 100% racist motivation is listing the crimes he is accused of which are ‘racially or religiously aggravated’. The religion of Abdullah is never even mentioned !!.
Just imagine how it would have been written if it were by the ‘far-right’. It would have been plastered across the main headline for a start.
Bradford city of culture …
The murder of Asad Shah was the religiously motivated murder of an Ahmadiyya Muslim shopkeeper, in the Scottish city of Glasgow on 24 March 2016. The murderer, a Sunni Muslim, Tanveer Ahmed, had driven from the English city of Bradford with the intent of confronting Shah about his claim to be a prophet.
“Fury as civil servants ‘ignore Suella Braverman’s demands to ‘cut the wokeness’ and attend £500-a-head ‘Queer Leadership’ conference… on taxpayers’ money'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11147557/Fury-civil-servants-attend-500-head-Queer-Leadership-conference-taxpayers-money.html
FURY … NO ACTION … ANGER … NO ACTION … 80 SEAT MAJORITY … 0 CHANGES
The list of absurd events in woke Whitehall just gets longer. The Cabinet Office earlier this month was inviting civil servants to a “Beginners Guide to Crystal Healing and Deep Relaxation”. Yes, you read that right…
Guido has got hold of the Wednesday, November 3rd list of activities and events for civil servants to do if they don’t fancy doing any actual work, as distributed by the Cabinet Office:
0900 Counselling Session for Ethnic Minority Colleagues – an hour long counselling session with a therapist
Midday gives skiving civil servants 2 choices:
1200 “It’s all about me” is a “2-day wellbeing event open to all Civil Servants. Sessions will focus on being kind to yourself.”
If 2 days is a bit too long to go missing from your desk you could opt for:
1200 “Reshaping negative thoughts and language into positive affirmations” which was an interactive session around affirmations and being kind to ourselves.
Afterwards a stressed civil servant could find time to attend:
1400 “Time to Unmind” participants will be given “Tools, training and exercises to support your mental wellbeing.”
“Mark Zuckerberg tells Joe Rogan that Facebook used its algorithm to suppress Hunter Biden laptop articles for SEVEN DAYS in 2020 – and that FBI warned his team of an impending ‘Russian disinformation’ dump before the story broke
Mark Zuckerberg has admitted Facebook made a mistake when it decided to ban the sharing of The New York Post report on Hunter Biden’s laptop
New broke just ahead of the 2020 election but Facebook made sure the story would appear towards the bottom of people’s news feeds for up to a week”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11147391/Mark-Zuckerberg-tells-Joe-Rogan-Facebook-suppressed-Hunter-Biden-laptop-story-FBI-warning.html
Mistake … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rncz85tVt5I
For the last ten years we have been living under a reactive government, hence the present mess we are in. Scrap the green levy, frack for gas, build storage facilities and open up the North Sea fields.
We are at war and once again we stand alone. This time we do not have a “Churchill”, just a plastic one. We need to start defending our borders and stop paying the hotel bills for the illegal scroungers and immediately deport them. We have been far to soft!
This needs to begin now as we face gas bills of £3549 or more.
Here, here, taffman.
EXCLUSIVE NHS is STILL hiring ‘diversity and inclusion managers’ paid up to £76,000 a year despite No10 pledge to scrap roles as part of war on ‘waste and wokery’
There are currently five jobs available in the NHS recruiting diversity managers
They offer salaries of up £76,000 a year with flexible hours and WFH available
It comes despite a No10 drive to crackdown on NHS ‘waste and wokery’ in June
Thinktanks said it was a slap in the face to taxpayers during cost of living crisis
By JOHN ELY SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 11:25, 11 August 2022
TOADY Watch #1 – here is a bit of a mystery
It is Ladies Day again on TOADY with Mishal Husain (first name pronounced correctly by Sarah Keith-Lucas doing the weather, well done, Sarah) and Katya Adler. I am left wondering is Katya in Germany? Is Katya presenting via her telephone or computer. Her voice is muffled. It is not quite ‘the mouth full of cotton wool balls of Katie Razzall’ but is well on the way to it. It is most peculiar and a little unpleasant to listen to.
Mishal has the correct, perfect diction and sibilants need to make her voice crisp and pleasant to listen to. Katya is definitely woolly. Studio Manager to investigate please. It is time to get BBC Engineering on the job. Let’s hear it for the Engineers, please! Have to declare an interest, have friends who worked in BBC Engineering. Without them the BBC would not exist.
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Poor Mishal – talking to the OFGEM bloke about the non shock energy price rise . She sounds on the edge of despair trying to find some one in the UK to blame for rising prices .
But no mention of producing more gas from fracking or the North Sea – and no mention about the possibility of shortages …
Mishal – the blame is with Russia – maybe Patton was right in 1945 to have taken Russia on whilst the opportunity was there – it has always been a threat ….
Fed, and no mention of that wretched NetZero and so-called ‘Green’ policies. Scrap them and watch the energy price fall! It’s China who are making money out of this: there was a telling Datawatch on the front of the FT this week.
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Today has the prospect of being full Project Fear today with fuel hardship stories . One remedy is to switch the TV off and cancel the BBC DD ….
They had that Martin Lewis on – and it looks like the energy furlough is coming – as well as the cancellation of VAT on fuel at last ….
… but on a lighter note at least liz truss has said she is not sure macron is a friend or enemy … well – he – and France are our enemies …
Fed, I gave up telly watching a long time ago, before the LF was paid by DD! I am now over £2,500 less poor (at current rates) than if I had kept watching the box. Actually, it is even better than that: I would either have to buy a digi TV or a decoder to use with my old analogue device. On the one hand I’m £3,000 less poor and on the other about £2,650 less poor: take your pick.
By the way, did you know you are now famous: you are getting a mention on the front page of the FT today, right at the top. We BiasedBBCers can bask in your reflected glory! 🙂
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Holy moly- I’d like to thank my agent – mr Weinstein – my investment advisor Jeff Epstein ( cheers for the flights mate )and his lady friend Ms Maxwell – that nice Mr Murdock – Emily – katty – naga ( real name ) all the Jeremy’s and Sophie – Amal , Gary L, the dimbleby s , the snows , the Attenborough s , sleepy joe , AOC , Nancy ,all at GB news – and most of all you dear readers without whom it would be impossible to moderate …
bBC banging on about energy prices increases again, and how little support the government is giving us
But how about not interviewing the boss of EDF who said the government should be doing more. How about EDF for example not making BILLIONS and reduce our bills!
Suppose the plebs have to pay back all the money it cost the nation for covid, higher revenue for the exchequer 🙁
I remember telling people on furlough ‘Don’t worry : they will get it back off you when this ends’.
I didn’t imagine it would happen so quickly with such big price rises. And I think we are only at the beginning of it. I can’t imagine how this might end before it starts getting better. Anything is possible inthe world now.
Nationalise our energy and scrap the Telly tax . Start now!
Taffman – what was missing was a vision for energy independence for the UK . I think the big damage was done by the Russia funded anti nuclear movement with UK politicians / bbc – campaigning against nuclear power ….
Then add the green crap – closing sources of gas – refusing fracking and we are where we are .it would be better not to have an ‘energy minister ‘ at all ….
-.. the current blue labour ‘government ‘ are rightly hiding today instead of getting a kicking from the MSM for putin ‘ war …
Oh dear, we have a Marxist amongst us !
When the blessed Margaret Thatcher (peace be upon her) privatised the energy comapnies the prices they charged for gas and electricity fell by 50%
In response to this the feckless squandering Socialists who rule over us saw a chance to tax us death again imposing VAT, Green levies Social levies etc etc in order to bring the price back to what it was pre privatisation.
So please do tell me why it is you want to re-nationalise the energy comapnies and have an energy price cap somewhere around £7000 a year and set to rise to £12000 in the Spring?
Today 2
John swiney – an SNP totalitarian – interviewed about rubbish strikes in Scotland – but the interview turns to criticism of crankie for going on a 3 day Jolly to Scandinavia.
The BBC – wanting to control everything – wants to control where politicians go …. However I got the feeling the BBC needs to show some ‘criticism ‘ of their national socialist friends because of the obvious bias …
Does anyone know if we have a Minister for Energy and what does he do?
In January 2018, prime minister Theresa May accepted the final report’s recommendations, creating a ministerial lead for loneliness, with the intention that the new role will ensure loneliness reduction remains an enduring parliamentary priority.
I know what form his ‘chat’ takes.
As I have been warning for some time now, energy bills have increased by 80% from October and although there are plenty of people waking up to the reality that the root cause of this is the governments insane ‘Green’ policies the media is still full of distraction and pointing the finger elsewhere.
The piece I wrote here a while ago appears to be gaining traction and people know the media and the green government are seeking to place the blame anywhere but them. Meanwhile the elderly sick and the middle classes all suffer as a result of these dreams.
And don’t believe the misdirection that Vladimir Putin is responsible either, energy prices were not only on the rise way before he invaded Ukraine, they spiked in March 21 and a huge spike 21st December 21.
They spiked to a record level in March when the invasion happened, but then quickly fell back down again afterwards to more normal levels.
Here is the graph again so you can see for yourself.
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/uk-natural-gas
Previous to this was a forecast, and even now the prices haven’t yet been levied, nor has the cold weather set in. It isn’t real for people yet, but it soon will be and they will become increasingly angry and looking for people to blame.
Thoughtful
“nor has the cold weather set in”.
But, but we have been told that the winters are getting warmer , Global warming ?
Look !………………………..
“Melting glaciers: Germany’s ‘could disappear’ in 50 years”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-62628246
There’s the operative word “Could” again.
Fear, fear, fear!
New research shows Maldives, Pacific and other small islands may not disappear under rising seas. New research shows that low-lying islands like those found in the Maldives may not be at risk.11 Jun 2020
I believe that in the 1980s those islands were supposed to be long gone by now !
Zaporizhzhia: World narrowly avoided radiation accident – Zelensky
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62679066
This is possibly the most deliberately misleading report I have yet seen on the BBC. And that takes some doing.
‘Europe faced the prospect of a radiation disaster on Thursday when a Russian-occupied nuclear plant was disconnected from Ukraine’s power grid’
OMG !!. Is it true ?. The we get ‘President Volodomyr Zelensky has said’.
I’ve worked on safety-critical systems and the fact is that in no way whatsoever will the loss of the power grid be a safety critical event. It will have at least 2 backups.
Then we get:
“If the diesel generators hadn’t turned on, if the automation and our staff of the plant had not reacted after the blackout, then we would already be forced to overcome the consequences of the radiation accident,” President Zelensky warned on Thursday night.
So everything worked as designed then. No problems whatsoever.
Then we have ‘…. cutting Zaporizhzhia off from the national grid for the first time in its history.’
By this they mean the lines were actually damaged. Not that it’s the first time it has lost power through those lines. Very deliberately written to make you think otherwise.
‘President Zelensky blamed the damage on Russian shelling’.
Yet again the BBC do not go anywhere near the question of why the Russians would shell the area they occupy.
Then right at the bottom:
‘The BBC was not able to independently verify who was responsible.’
They didn’t even try.
The story from the independent commentators and what the BBC writes is becoming so different, you would not think they are talking about the same war.
Is it right for the BBC to lie on such a scale ?. Do the ends justify the means for this ?.
I personally think Zelensky is a corrupt liar with absolutely no morals or conscience about what he does to get what he wants. But he is the enemy of our enemy so we treat him as a friend as we slow-march into WW3 which is slowly and quietly escalating as the USA (and us) get more and more involved.
Anyone know what the link is between BBC and Cornwall Insight? The BBC seem to promote them at every opportunity when talking about energy bills.
Cornwall Insight is a limited company enjoying the free advertising on the BBC News channel. A quick look at their long list of consultants and the majority are ‘2 years industry experience’ or ‘MsC in Climate Change graduate’.
Cornwall Insight’s website doesn’t really explain what they do apart from phrases like “We help you succeed in the net zero transition”. Companies House record show they made a £3m profit for the last accounting period so the phrase ‘a fool and their money…’ appears to be true.
The BBC are working hard to portray the rise in the energy price cap as what Joe public will be in fact be paying in future which is a blatant lie.
The price cap is in fact a level set by the OFGEN rabble as a theoretical maximum that any energy company can charge, so why are the BBC trying to spin this as a huge, inevitable price rise for everyone coming down the line?
A rise of over 80% in one go which is in fact a guess can only be seen as fear-mongering, Tory damaging PR.
It doesn’t take much to figure this out does it?
I wouldn’t even rule out the possibility that this is in fact a hand in glove operation between the lefty press and their lefty moles in OFGEN.
Caps that continually rise sound like licence fees.
At least the latter I had and have the option of declining.
Luckily even the brain donors in local politics have grasped what loading that too into the council taxes might result in.
I’m currently with Octopus on a 12 month fixed tariff, just for electricity, that ends in October. Looking at Octopus tracker tariffs show they are already higher than the new energy price cap therefore I will be paying the maximum allowed under the cap (52p kWh). The standing charge will be 43p whereas the new cap is 46p a day.
Checking the best option for me on the USwitch website suggests there is nothing cheaper to switch to.
My energy costs in Thailand for a fairly big house with air-con etc and gas for cooking is about £600 a year.
Now I know they can’t be compared directly but I really do wonder what on Earth is so drastically different here to justify 6 times the price.
The world price of fuel?
I notice that the BBC comparative page on road fuel prices (that included Serbia, Turkey and ex-Soviets states etc.) It started in Teletext / CeeFax days and persisted until it became inconvenient……
– is long gone….
– all the news that’s fit to report – huh?
Belarus diesel USD $0.975 / litre
https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/Belarus/
Because that is what it’s going to be until April when it will double again.
Take a look at those UK gas price graphs I posted and you will see the incredible rise ‘Green’ policies have caused.
Prices of energy have already exceeded the price cap the companies will all charge this maximum from October.
Giorgia Meloni: Far-right leader who’s favourite to run Italy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62659183
I almost burst out laughing while reading this. The BBC are very obviously not happy at all about it.
‘far-right’ appears 7 times and ‘fascist’ appears 6 times. They even managed to interview somebody pushing a pram who said:
“If she gets in, it will be a very ugly period.”
Not half as ugly as what we have seen in the USA I bet.
The reader who does not know the BBC must be wondering how on Earth someone so bad could possibly be in the running to win a democratic election.
If you’re not with us we’ll monster you
CITY OF CULTURE …
The murder of Asad Shah was the religiously motivated murder of an Ahmadiyya Muslim shopkeeper, in the Scottish city of Glasgow on 24 March 2016. The murderer, a Sunni Muslim, Tanveer Ahmed, had driven from the English city of Bradford with the intent of confronting Shah about his claim to be a prophet.
Outraged Woman, our disappointing sequel to the original Bigoted Woman
BBC: Liverpool shootings: Are UK gun crimes on the rise again?
Unusually for a media organisation presenting the news our BBC do like to roll out the interrogative statement.
They seem to answer their own question here: Ashley Dale: Two arrests after woman shot in garden… A man and a woman have been arrested following the fatal shooting of a woman at her home, who police said was not the intended target of the attack… Ms Dale was the half-sister of 16-year-old Lewis Dunne, who was shot dead in a case of mistaken identity in Liverpool in 2015 (BBC)
Come on now, two siblings shot by mistake…? What was that Oscar Wilde line? “To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness” – from the The Importance of Being Earnest – of course – and appropriately enough, considering the seriousness of gun crime apparently proliferating on our streets.
I have a question…
Do Liverpudlian drug gang shooters ever hit their intended target?
I’m reminded of that old gag about the supposed difference between a constipated owl and a poor shot. Suffice to say the latter could shoot but couldn’t hit. Work it out for yourself – we do have moderators hereabouts, you know.
A few figures in the headlines for us here…
Only 21 foreign nationals removed from UK under post-Brexit asylum rules (BBC)
Record 1.2 million migrants gain UK visas (Telegraph)
Cost of broken asylum system surges to £2bn (Express)
The classic line made famous by astronaut Jack Swigert of Apollo 13 would seem apropos at this juncture: “Okay, Houston, we have a problem, here” – but one feels one would be shouting into the vacuum of space. And as the tag line to the 1979 movie Alien asserts: “In space no-one can hear you scream”
Sort it out! screams the giveaway Metro. Of course the left-leaning corporate advertising freesheet and promoter of mass market grocers and their ilk has little interest in stemming our runaway population expansion. Although it does appear to note the sorry state of the lagging support infrastructure for our new millions: Passerby heckles health secretary – the subject matter here is different but our media do love a sequel and we notice the attempted recreation of that infamous Gordon Brown-Gillian Duffy bigoted woman encounter. Of course a modern Labour leader – albeit a forensic genius – would choke on the word woman these days… but I digress.
The safe subject matter for criticism is, naturally enough, the sorry state of our NHS: ‘People are dying waiting for ambulances. You’ve had 12 years and done nothing’ Outraged woman interrupts Steve Barclay during street interview yesterday
Be fair madam, it’s not as though the Tories have done nothing with our nationalised health system – there was the whole Lockdown thing – in case you’ve forgotten?
Our entire media, corporate, arts and political chattering class were well up for that – particularly those who lean left.
Fraser Nelson in Telegraph breaks ranks and notes something of a climate change – if you’ll excuse the phrase…
The lockdown myth is about to unravel… Sunak is just the start as Cabinet ministers begin speaking out about Sage – the gaff becoming glaringly obvious we now embark on the blame game.
AsISeeIt
Some of us knew this all along but we were labelled Covid Deniers “.
How can an owl joke ever need moderating ?
Ok, challenge accepted… I believe the credit goes to comedian Richard Herring who joked that he enjoyed beastiality with owls – because they were the only animal that could keep eye contact as he buggered them.
Tricky one to moderate … I ll just take it out on someone else…
Now I’m the first to concede that I am not an expert on this by any means – but it seems to me that buggery of a bird is much less rotation-dependent than that of a human or other animal such as pig, goat, camel etc etc.
Correct me if I’m wrong anybody with relevant experience.
maxi ?.
AISI, you missed our Fed’s moment of fame on the front of the FT!
Someone cut and paste it for me I want to show it to the TVLicence stanzi when they show up …
Stew will have to do that. I don’t have a w-s. Or you could get a screen grab, Fed. – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-62682498
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So kind – not been in the press since number 4 in the ‘mets most wanted ‘( now discontinued as they don’t do crime any more )…
So, who will get him in first, Vile or Newsnight?
Or Dateline London, if not too busy hosting Gazan Rocketeers.
Thoughts from Simpo based on facts would be… novel.
LONDON IS OPEN … TO SAUDI EXECUTION PRINCE.
LONDON IS NOT OPEN … TO USA LEADER OF FREE DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY.
2012 David Lammy MP says absent fathers ‘key cause of knife crime’
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-19815831
Labour’s had all summer to come up with one policy while the Tory Party tears itself apart, and it has around £17.2 billion of questionable sums behind it. Labour’s response has been to attack the fact-checking website, telling Politico “Full Fact don’t understand how energy bills work”…
order-order.com
Olivia family ask ‘who took our baby away from us?’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-62680839
Now we are getting daily articles on the murder including pure empathy pieces like this.
And why are they putting up the picture of the guy who got shot in every article ?. I can only assume it’s to make people subconsciously link the murder to a white man.
The pushing of this topic by the BBC makes me 100% certain they think the killer is white.
Hmm…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-53125627
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/shocking-pictures-scene-notorious-pub-11674119
There was a period in the 1990s when shootings barely made it into the local free papers….
Climate change: Russia burns off gas as Europe’s energy bills rocket
By Matt McGrath
Environment correspondent
Published
5 hours ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62652133
Yet Matt and his mates ignored Nigerian flaring of gas for decades….
In the noughties Nigeria was burning more gas in a month (28 days) – than the *entire* UK consumption for all purposes for a year….
The astronauts flying overhead on the ISS used to comment on it regularly.
UGHELLI, Delta State, Nigeria (Reuters) – Jonah Gbemre often has no electricity, but he says his home is permanently lit at night by the flames of waste gas being “flared” near his home town in Nigeria’s Delta State.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nigeria-oil-gasflaring-insight-idUSKBN26L195
“In his letter, he insisted the goal of having 40% women recruits and 20% from the ethnic minorities will strengthen the service and will have no impact on standards or operations.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62682688
We need an Air Force not a woke force!
This is best achieved by a running our armed forces as a meritocracy . The Battle of Britain was not won by “diversity targets” . The targets then were the Luftwaffe.
This nation’s security is at risk.
Does make one wonder where does this mindset come from – the current sec state for defence doesn’t strike me as a woke sister – yet the loon in charge to the fly boys thinks it’s the thing to do ….
Fedup2
IMHO its all rooted in the ‘unconscious bias’ courses being promulgated by our Civil Service .
Then we have our Chiefs of Staff leading by example.
Nelson will be spinning in his grave !
Periods can intensify or become erratic during deployment. Some women report that they lose their period completely for months without apparent explanation. This can make it challenging to plan ahead and increases the risk of accidents, leaks and hassle.1 Sept 2016
Military duty doesn’t come easy for women.
https://menstrualcupreviews.net/military-women-and-periods/
Might as well have donned a wig and lipstick? I see Kier stuck with the Ed Miliband leadership practice of inappropriate footwear.
Wiltshire Times has the story
Will he man up and head out to eastern Ukraine for a fact finding mission?
The Red Arrows debacle shows what happens as a result of these diversity targets:
‘But the Times reports that it has already highlighted allegations of bullying, misogyny, sexual harassment and drunkenness – and included complaints from young female recruits.’
And they are nothing compared to what life will be like when a Muslim starts to complain and the BBC get hold of him. The forces will be paralysed by fear of being accused of racism – just like the luvvies and the twitter mob have done to the entertainment industry.
Life in the forces is sometimes hard and unfair. The whole purpose is to fight a war and you need people who don’t collapse and become crying babies when the pressure is on. The people need to be tough because war is very, very different from peacetime. As we would know if the BBC actually reported what is really going on in the fight for Ukraine : dozens of Ukrainian soldiers being blown into pieces by shrapnel every day. Instead they tell us about 6 year old girls who want to skate in the olympics.
If it continues unchecked, this cancer will destroy society as we know it.
Religious infiltration almost complete …
USA 2009
On November 5, 2009, a mass shooting took place at Fort Hood, near Killeen, Texas, (USA). Nidal Hasan, a U.S. Army major and psychiatrist, fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others. The shooting was the worst mass shooting on an American military base.
Berlin, Germany 2016
Arrested German spy was a onetime gay porn actor — and a secret Islamist {washingtonpost nov2016}
“BERLIN — Two weeks ago, German intelligence agents noticed an unusual user in a chat room known as a digital hideout for Islamic militants. The man claimed to be one of them — and said he was a German spy. He was offering to help Islamists infiltrate his agency’s (In April 2016, the man began working for the BfV, assigned to monitoring potentially violent Islamists in Germany.) defenses to stage a strike.
Agents lured him into a private chat, and he gave away so many details about the spy agency — and his own directives within it to thwart Islamists — that they quickly identified him, arresting the 51-year-old the next day. Only then would the extent of his double life become clear.
…
It’s not only a rather bizarre, but also a quite scary, story that an agency, whose central role it is to engage in counterespionage, hired an Islamist who potentially had access to classified information, who might have even tried to spread Islamist propaganda and to recruit others to let themselves be hired by and possibly launch an attack”
USA 2017 (no lessons learnt)
US Army names Muslim chaplain spiritual leader of 14,000 mostly Christian soldiers {jihadwatch feb2017}
“Army Lt. Col. Khallid Shabazz, a Muslim chaplain, has accepted the job of handling the spiritual affairs of 14,000 mostly Christian soldiers.”
… find this Muslim Chaplin,Khallid Shabazz, on youtube …
“The Koran says don’t let the hatred of a people move you to deal with people unjustly. The Prophet Mohammed beheaded people who were extremely unjust to him. {youtube mar2015}”
– Army Lt. Col. Khallid Shabazz, March 2015
– Current US Chaplin (feb 2017), who is Muslim, in charge of spiritual guidance of 14,000 Christian soldiers says beheading is OK under Islam!
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/07/31/start-the-week-open-thread-135/comment-page-2/#comment-856436
A story for The Age.
“The ABC’s Melbourne radio audience in the breakfast and mornings slots is around half of what it was a year ago, according to the latest ratings results.”
A reply that got the most likes.
“That’s because the ABC has gone from being our trusted national broadcaster to a pathetic left wing trumpet blasting the woke narrative at every opportunity.”
Nick Bryant still in Oz?
Labour’s front bench are touring the tv studios saying stuff, which broadcasters then pass on as ‘news’.
Meanwhile…
https://order-order.com/2022/08/26/full-fact-labours-energy-policy-is-8-billion-short-of-being-fully-funded/
Sick game time –
Energy crisis =
More house fires
Unusual ways to stay warm
Certain ‘communities ‘ suffer more
Warm prisons
Mad heat maps
Why is Britain worse than everywhere
Celebrity fuelathon
Low energy cooking
Burning money trees
Councils turn off street lamps
Ten best thermals
Gas theft skyrockets
Don’t pay bills campaign takes off
NHS fuel bills jump
It’s better in Europe
Brexit gas hike
Martin Lewis statue unveiled
Food Banks on the rise.
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MPs get bumper £2.2k pay rise NEXT MONTH as Britons crippled with eye-watering tax hikes
MPs are to be given a £2,200 pay rise from next month, as Britons suffer from tax hikes and the continued cost of living crisis.
By DAN FALVEY – POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
15:47, Tue, Mar 1, 2022 | UPDATED: 19:31, Tue, Mar 1, 2022
It’s still a pittance, not much more than the average wage in central London, for a job which should be attracting talent, and it’s the lowest pay in the whole of the Western World. Nothing to be proud about there.
You get what you pay for and if you want to pay for a second hand clapped out Mini you can’t then complain you haven’t got a brand new Rolls Royce.
Working for the country with no consequences – might as well be on minimum wages.
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NOT SURE USA DOES BETTER …
X
“Olivia family ask ‘who took our baby away from us?”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-62680839
Breaking ……………Someone has been ‘pulled in’ for it ?
DO NOT FORGET
Can we get odds on when the first fire due to a barbeque grill used in a house is?
This is pretty fun.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/25/emily-maitlis-meghan-markle-journalism/?
Emily Maitlis is the Meghan Markle of journalism
She aspires to be an American-style anchor with a dedicated trailer for her ego, a wannabe star who turns interviews into a story about her …
Search instead for Emily Maitli bbc salary
£325,000
Several of those on the highest-paid list for 2021 have since departed the BBC to join commercial rivals, freeing up Dan Walker’s £220,000 salary, the £325,000 paid to Emily Maitlis, and the £225,000 a year salary of the former North America editor Jon Sopel.12 Jul 2022
Globally, 142 bcm of natural gas was flared in 2020 – roughly equivalent to the natural gas demand of Central and South America. This resulted in around 265 Mt CO2, nearly 8 Mt of methane (240 Mt CO2-eq) and black soot and other GHGs being directly emitted into the atmosphere.
https://www.google.com/search?q=gas+flaring+around+world&rlz=1C1GCEU_enGB929GB929&oq=gas+flaring+around+world&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30l2j0i390l2.3439j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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hina cobalt mine deal was ‘injustice’: my country did not get anything, ex-DRC leader says
Congolese feel short-changed by mega infrastructure-for-minerals deals involving cobalt – a key component of EV batteries
Under the scanner are the US$6 billion Sicomines deal with Chinese firms, and China Moly’s alleged under-reporting of reserves at the giant Tenke mine
Finbarr Bermingham
Jevans Nyabiage
and Finbarr Bermingham
Published: 7:00pm, 6 Mar, 2022
Dear Winston Smith,
I noticed that Jon Sopel is talking about impartial and unbiased reporting but his twitter account has three references to his book whilst using the BBC brand. Could the BBC please explain what is happening?
1) Is BBC Jon Sopel supposed to tell us about the news or his new book?
2) BBC Jon Sopel’s twitter feed has the BBC name in it and says “Jon Sopel, BBC North America Editor. My book If Only They Didn’t Speak English is out now.” which references his book and not the fact he is an unbiased and impartial reporter.
3) BBC Jon Sopel’s twitter’s pinned tweet is from 23May2018 and is about .. himself and his book.
4) Is BBC Jon Sopel’s book 100% BBC approved thought and unbiased and partial?
5) Shouldn’t BBC Jon Sopel’s twitter be about the latest news and not himself?
6) When Jon Sopel sells a book does it go to help pay for the BBC TV Tax – to reduce it? As the BBC are promoting it – thus it is promoted by the BBC TV Tax Payer.
“Impartiality lies at the heart of public service and is the core of the BBC’s commitment to its audiences. It applies to all our output and services – television, radio, online, and in our international services and commercial magazines. We must be inclusive, considering the broad perspective and ensuring the existence of a range of views is appropriately reflected”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/guidelines/impartiality
Good luck answering this one without laughing yourself silly.
https://ssl.bbc.co.uk/complaints
Like many on here I find the likes of Benjamin Butterworth, Permana Assad and so many of the other lefties on GB News a right pain and am tempted to switch over to Talk TV because they spend the whole time interrupting, talking over and shouting at everyone else.
Dewbs and Wooton often lose control and it’s ALWAYS because of the shouty lefty.
I then thought, ‘could this be happening on purpose’
These lefties must be alienating so many people with their childish entitled arrogance that they are harming any reasonable lefty such as Paul Embery (on the Political correction)
Such spoilt behaviour can only put people off the left and maybe it’s doing normal people a lot of good by showing them how stupid these virtue signalling tunnel visioned wokies really are and the damage they would do if the gained any control or power.
I drop in but drop out real quick – dewbs = hopeless
“… there are two things. One you recognise what is happening. Two, are you prepared to do anything about it. “ – Margaret Thatcher
Barrister’s low pay means he moves back in with parents
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-62661297
I have to cut all non-essential subscriptions like TV streaming.. important that TV streaming is non-essential
TV licence is non-essential?
Mr Myrie said junior barristers earned about £12,500 a year, making it “very hard to make ends meet”.
“The escalation of strike action is wholly unjustified considering we are increasing criminal barristers’ fees by 15%, which will see the typical barrister earn around £7,000 more a year,” she said.
I’m pretty confident I saw some of their predecessors driving what looked like pirate taxis in Swindon last night.
I saw several very furtive looking Africans in 3 year old (naff model) cars dropping people off at the central bus station… – they weren’t Ubers and didn’t look to know their passengers.
About us (UK Home Office)
The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure. The Home Office has been at the front line of this endeavour since 1782. As such, the Home Office plays a fundamental role in the security and economic prosperity of the United Kingdom.
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/about
Newspeak definition : a language “designed to diminish the range of thought,” in the novel 1984 (1949) by George Orwell
“Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate that is the setting of the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell. In the novel, the Party created Newspeak to meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc”
“propagandistic language marked by euphemism, circumlocution, and the inversion of customary meanings”
YouTube imposes some kind of correct-think over videos
eg comedian Jim Davidson’s video
cos he mentioned Global Warming in the title
over #WeGotaProblem WGAP’s video cos although his video is not about Covid in some frames there is a government Covid advert at a bus stop
Watching YOUTUBE causes global warming?
I’m willing to wager that YouTube offices at Kings Cross hosts a few cubicle dwellers who are tasked with ensuring political rectitude….
Alison Pearson in the DT wastes a few words on the princess maitliss
STARTS Brace yourselves. Emily Maitlis is not a Conservative. Who could possibly have deduced during 16 years of impeccable impartiality in the Newsnight presenter’s chair that, all along, she was an aggrieved Remainer, seething with contempt for the Brexit vote and living with her investment manager husband in the socialist republic of Notting Hill? Honestly, you could have knocked me down with a hand-plucked, ethically sourced Siberian goose feather!
Now that she has left the BBC, Maitlis is free to say all the things she couldn’t convey merely by perpetual eye-rolling, glowering interjections and exasperated sighs whenever someone Right-of-centre was foolish enough to enter the studio. Delivering the MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh TV festival this week, she lashed out at her former employer for issuing an apology after she opened a show with a furious monologue against Dominic Cummings’s “eye-testing” lockdown trip to Barnard Castle. This, she claimed, was evidence of “Tory cronyism” at the heart of the BBC.
As it happens, plenty of us who deplored Cummings’s breach of his own inhumane rules also felt that Maitlis’s fire-breathing rant violated the corporation’s impartiality guidelines. She went far too far. A still-smarting Emily prefers to blame the BBC board “where an active agent of the Conservative Party … now sits, acting as the arbiter of BBC impartiality”.
Well, if there is a diabolical Tory mastermind chomping on a cigar and stroking a Churchillian bulldog amid the anaemic ranks of vegan Corbynists, he’s not doing a terribly good job, is he? No evidence, so far, of any BBC bias towards the Government. Round-the-clock punishment beatings for Boris (and, soon, Liz Truss) are more its style. (I must have missed the outcry among BBC journalists in 2013 when former Labour minister, James Purnell, became the BBC’s director of strategy.)
It is pretty dismaying to hear a senior journalist in a democracy complain that, during the 2016 referendum, the BBC would create a “false equivalence” by putting one pro-Brexit economist on air to debate with one anti-Brexit economist. Hearing both sides of the argument? We can’t have that. Licence-payers should simply be told what virtuous people like Maitlis think.
I’m afraid Maitlis is the Meghan Markle of broadcast journalism. While self-effacing presenters like Sophie Raworth quietly get on with the job (I have no idea what Raworth’s opinions are), Maitlis aspires to be an American-style anchor with a dedicated trailer for her ego. She is the wannabe star who turns interviews into a story about her. The BBC, which she now so absurdly condemns for Right-wing kowtowing, gave Maitlis a prestigious platform and an audience of millions.
In her new, smaller booth at LBC, the presenter can be as partial and political as she likes because, at long last, she will be talking to a select audience that agrees with Emily Maitlis. Herself. ENDS
The BBC also gave/gives a platform to this waste of oxygen.
Often on Newsnight.
#CCBGB
Other survey-based studies covering different time-spans find 461,000 total deaths (over 60% of them violent) as of June 2011 (per PLOS Medicine 2013), and 655,000 total deaths (over 90% of them violent) as of June 2006 (per the 2006 Lancet study). Body counts counted at least 110,600 violent deaths as of April 2009 (Associated Press). The Iraq Body Count project documents 185,000–208,000 violent civilian deaths through February 2020 in their table. All estimates of Iraq War casualties are disputed.[4][5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
The casualty of Blair, Campbell, and Bush’s Iraq war who bothers me most is this fella:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert)
@Fed “No evidence, so far, of any BBC bias towards the Government.”
That’s false , with draconian Covid policies and doom.
The BBC likes lockdown, hates vaccine skeptics, loves furlough, won’t examine vaccine caused injuries even though one prominent presenter Lisa Shaw was killed at 44, so that is a lot of life years lost.
AFAIK no prominent working BBC staff died from Covid
I could well be that Covid kill many more life year than the vaccines do.
But if a prominent on air person has been killed I suspect there could be other normal worker deaths in the BBC’s 26,000 staff
Iirc Sophie Rayworth, mentioned above, was a BBC essential staffer sharing her GoPro daily jog through the deserted streets of the capital from expensive home bubble to overpaid work bubble to read out what she was handed.
The assessment by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is that the health benefits from vaccination are marginally greater than the potential known harms. However, the margin of benefit is considered too small to support universal vaccination of healthy 12 to 15 year olds at this time.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/jcvi-issues-updated-advice-on-covid-19-vaccination-of-children-aged-12-to-15
From:
Public Health England
Published
3 September 2021
@Fed False equivalence and double-think
eg the way the libmob say BBC gets complaints from both sides
Righties are able to point to ACTIONS
: on air staff and news stories that actually push libmob agendas, eg are anti-Tory, anti-Brexit, hide BAME crimes etc.
Whereas the talk from the Lefties is mere LABELLING
“Nick Robinson is a Tory”
Yes he was on his university’s Conservative committee
but I’ve never heard him be pro conservative at work
Rather he goes out of his way to demonstrate the opposite, by tearing into Conservative guests and then soft pedalling with lefties
“The Director Tim Davie is a Tory” ..yes he was a Conservative party councillor and is probably not a Labour supporter
but I haven’t seen any examples of him at work favouring the Tories, rather the opposite he fails to crack the whip against his lefty staff’s bias.
“Newsnight was biased against Corbyn by building a backdrop that made him look like a Russian communist” that is true, but it is the one true example
Whereas the spin against Trump and Boris was relentless
eg almost every news story using an unfavourable photo
When we ask for specific examples of anti-liberal bias by the BBC the false equivalence falls apart.
They do shout that Nigel Lawson was allowed once or twice to talk about Global Warming and Prof Mick Carter once
A ridiculous complaint when 99.99% of the guests and talk is PRO climate doom.
They shout that Farage was always on Question Time.
That is entirely false again, the majority of voices by far were anti-UKIP anti-Brexit.
It’s just that the twice a year that they allowed pro, they chose Farage
So there’d be 2 Farages in a year vs 100 Labour voices in a year
Its all ‘pretend’ impartiality. Ie, Propaganda .
I and many others saw through it years ago, that’s why we stopped paying the TV tax.
Very shortly, many more will be unable to afford it.
Diane Abbott HAS got a head for figures… as long as they are her own! Blundering Shadow Home Secretary made £110,000 in licence fee payers’ cash for appearing on BBC TV
Diane Abbott got figures wrong on police numbers on Nick Ferrari’s LBC show
Said it would cost £300k to hire 10,000 new officers, paying police £7.50 a year
She then corrected it to £80 million meaning officers were on £2,000 salaries
She has been paid more than £110,000 in licence payers’ cash to appear on BBC
Hackney and Stoke Newington MP also paid thousands speaking on expert panels
By JAKE WALLIS SIMONS, ASSOCIATE GLOBAL EDITOR, AND MATTHEW ACTON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 10:57, 4 May 2017 | UPDATED: 17:22, 4 May 2017
Just to balance ? Things up a bit – here’s a piece from the Guardian –
STARTS When Emily Maitlis was growing up, everything stopped for the news. Her father would tune in religiously to the evening bulletins and nobody was allowed to interrupt the pips. The news mattered. For his daughter, it still does. She slid into journalism virtually by accident, but takes it very seriously indeed. As a Newsnight presenter she didn’t just live from headline to headline, but would stand back and reflect on the craft. In her memoir Airhead, in which she analyses old interviews and teases out the often uncomfortable ethical dilemmas raised by questioning a Donald Trump or a Steve Bannon, you occasionally catch a sense of frustration between the lines; something she seemingly wants to say but can’t. This week, having left the BBC to start a new podcast with fellow former BBC stalwart Jon Sopel, she finally let rip.
Populism, she argued in a clearly cathartic appearance before the Edinburgh TV festival, was tying the media up in knots. Politicians were acting in ways that are “deeply and clearly deleterious to basic democratic government”, trampling over constitutional norms, making “things that would once have shocked us now seem commonplace”. But journalists still clung to an old idea of impartiality and balance – that both sides must get an equal say, and let the viewer decide – which is effectively now being weaponised against them. To have a pro-Brexit economist debate a pro-remain one on air was not “balance”, she said, if economists generally were so overwhelmingly against leaving that it took hours of ringing round to find one lone maverick in favour. Broadcasters now reject such false equivalence on topics where scientific consensus is overwhelming, from climate change to vaccination, so why not in economics?
Yet the heart of her lecture was something unmistakably more raw and personal. Two years ago, after a call from Downing Street, her bosses publicly rebuked Maitlis over a Newsnight monologue accusing Dominic Cummings of having broken Covid rules with his lockdown jaunt to Barnard Castle. There was, she claimed, no “due process” to consider whether a script that had been cleared by the programme’s editors was actually defensible. It was almost as if someone wanted to send a “message of reassurance” to No 10.
There’s nothing new about spin doctors ringing up broadcasters or newspaper editors to rail against unflattering coverage. It happened regularly under Blair and Brown, just as it did under Cameron, May and Johnson. But when that furious late night call comes in, what matters to reporters is knowing that – at least so long as your story is right – someone has your back. Once those in power learn that your boss will surrender at the first hint of displeasure, they’ll keep pushing. Reporting “without fear or favour” becomes virtually impossible if someone senior in your organisation seems open to both. In its handling of that complaint, the BBC effectively hung one of its most senior female journalists out to dry. One wonders if they’d have done the same to Jeremy Paxman. The Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker, meanwhile, seemingly continues to enjoy great licence to offer his views on Twitter.
The BBC is hardly alone in being accused of having an incestuous relationship with power. Maitlis will now host a show for LBC, which recently offered up presenter Rachel Johnson interviewing her father, Stanley Johnson, about her brother Boris Johnson. James Slack, the former director of communications to the latter, is now deputy editor of the Sun – which must have made for some awkward morning press conferences when the big running story was a raucously drunken Downing Street lockdown leaving party held for one James Slack. There has long been a pretty greasy revolving door between Fleet Street and Downing Street, but viewers expect a publicly funded institution such as the BBC to rise above all that; to remain unimpeachable and unflappable, whether under fire from left or right. Instead it looks increasingly cowed, still spooked by a referendum result it didn’t foresee six years ago, and worryingly inconsistent.
Why has our national broadcaster lost its nerve? The government’s threat to remove the licence fee, a sword of Damocles now constantly hanging over its head, is the most obvious answer. Another might be the installation of Richard Sharp, a pro-Brexit Tory donor, as chair. Maitlis, however, took aim at what she called an “active Conservative party agent” on the BBC board – a reference to Robbie Gibb, the smoothest of smooth operators, who has moved seamlessly between politics and journalism all his life. (Having initially worked for the then Conservative shadow minister Francis Maude, Gibb moved to the BBC, then became Theresa May’s head of communications, before returning controversially to the BBC, where he wields significant influence over journalistic output.)
Yet the BBC’s troubles go well beyond any one individual. The corporation is buffeted by forces it cannot seem to grip; a chilly commercial climate, a post-truth political culture where even categorical denials from No 10 can no longer be believed, but also rising tensions with some staff who see neutrality as uncomfortably close to complicity in the current climate. The basic journalistic principle of divorcing your own feelings from the story sits increasingly uneasily with a younger generation of reporters, and perhaps also viewers, raised to “call out” what they believe to be wrong and to prize authenticity. It will take more than a revised set of corporate guidelines to reconcile all this with the still timeless need for trusted news free of bias. But if the BBC can’t square the circle then its stars will keep leaving, each time declaring that they want the freedom to say what they think. Only Maitlis, however, has so far used it to say what actually needed saying.
ENDS
many of the comments say the BBC is right wing – but I suppose a lot of lost druggie souls read `the guardian …
The left defence to keep the BBC far left is to accuse it of being ‘of the right ‘ coupled to the lie defence the BBC uses about ‘upsetting both sides means we are okay “….
‘What needs saying’ seems the journalistic equivalent of ‘a new form of democracy’ in the hands of XR, Sortition, Councils, Civil Service and Sir Boaty.
Public excluded. Accountability exempted.
Not keen, guys.
“Broadcasters now reject such false equivalence on topics where scientific consensus is overwhelming, from climate change to vaccination, so why not in economics?”
“false equivalence” is actually the mainstay of Maitlis’s speech
Such wordplay is Orwellian newspeak
She EQUATES : BALANCE with having 2 EQUIVALENT guests
No balance and impartiality is about not letting one side go scot-free.
eg when you interview the Emperor’s tailor, you bring the small boy on too
Not cos he is of the same authority, but
#1 because he can contest the fanciful talk from the tailor
and #2 cos he PAYS for the Emperor’s suit.
This is why Global Warming and greendreamers should not be on unopposed
Furthermore if there is a wacky viewpoint, say 5G conspiracy theorists anti MMR vaccinists, or religious cultists you should NOT deplatform them,
but rather give them a platform with someone who thinks he can expose their wackiness.
“Once those in power, learn that your boss will surrender at the first hint of displeasure
.. the BBC effectively hung one of its most senior female journalists out to dry. “
Her monologue against Cumming was not merely a “hint” ,
it was a mile across the line
#GuardianIsGaslighting
£1 dinners
Cheap dinners that will cost you £1 a portion, or less.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/collections/1_dinners#xtor=CS8-1000-%5BPromo_Box%5D-%5BNews_Promo%5D-%5BNews_Promo%5D-%5BPS_FOOD~N~~A_OnePoundMeals_SEG_PNC%5D
Remember the fuss when Lee Anderson suggested people COULD feed themselves for as little as 30p* a head?
*To be fair to the guy, he didn’t say EVERY meal could be that cheap, but that it was possible to create SOME meals that (ridiculously) cheaply. He’s not wrong either.
MAY 2022 Parliament bar subsidised by taxpayer boasts prices from yesteryear
A pint of lager sets you back at £3.56 a pint, while a glass of wine comes in at below three pounds
Compare + contrast to the commercial outlets within half a mile….
Meanwhile MPs get to claim the energy price gouging on expenses.
MPs’ Expenses: Keith Vaz claimed £75,500 for a Westminster flat while family home is 12 miles from Commons
By MAIL ON SUNDAY REPORTER
UPDATED: 10:05, 10 May 2009
Mr Vaz made claims of about £16,000, including more than £480 for 22 cushions – most of them silk – from John Lewis, £2,614 for a pair of John Lewis leather armchairs and a footstool, £1,000 for a dining table and leather chairs, £750 for carpets and £150 for a lamp and shade.
Trying to start an outragebus by framing those prices as “SUBSIDISED” is ridiculous
They are nowhere near cheap.
Our local pubs sell drinks cheaper than that menu
Sure bars next door to parliament are more expensive but they are paying London property prices and rates
The bar inside parliament probably escapes those costs
Close the parliament bars . All of them . It’s a place of work. In fact move the whole thing .
Would be nice to see a comparison – depend on quality as well when discussing food.
That BBC Food page defaulted to
“Smoky vegetable jambalaya
by Dr Rupy Aujla”
2016 they ran a narrative “BBC Food’s archive of over 11,000 recipes scrapped in plan to cut £15m from BBC’s online budget.”
It was a bluff to say “we try to save money but it’s impossible”
BBC social workers think they are the NHS of recipes
The toxic gas flares fuelling Nigeria’s climate change – BBC News
53,664 views14 Sept 2021
Climate change has had a devastating impact on Nigeria. Fertile lands are turning into deserts in the north, while flash floods have become more common in the south.
Nigeria’s oil industry is making the situation worse, as the practice of flaring – the burning of natural gas that is released when oil is extracted – is common, despite being illegal.
It is a major source of greenhouse gases and a contributor to climate change.
BBC Life at 50C investigates how extreme heat is affecting lives across the world.
Gas flares reflecting from the underside of clouds substitute for street lights in Port Harcourt – after all the cables were stolen.
In domestic situations a yard generator is quite normal
Fed, I was trying to reply below your post about the Alison Pearson article
but it’s one of those days where people’s points about other topics end up as a REPLY
rather than a new post on its own
The world’s longest burning fires: China’s unseen story
Coal extraction remains a higher priority than putting out China’s huge underground coal fires
https://chinadialogue.net/en/energy/6296-the-world-s-longest-burning-fires-china-s-unseen-story/
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Every day, around three million litres of sewage is emptied into the Ganges – and only about half of that has undergone any kind of treatment. The river’s waters are so dirty that it’s considered one of the most polluted waterways in the world.20 Jan 2022
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Sweden, with barely 10 million people, ranks between 14th and 15th among arms exporting countries; in 2017 its arms industry had a turnover of €3.5bn, 65% from exports.
https://mondediplo.com/2019/09/07arms-sweden
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India, the world’s second-largest country by population, has the highest number of people (732 million) without access to toilets, according to a new report. The report by WaterAid, titled Out Of Order:The State of the World’s Toilets 2017, further stated that 355 million women and girls lack access to a toilet.16 Nov 2017
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India spent $30 billion to fix its broken sanitation. It ended up with more problems
The Swachh Bharat mission, launched in 2014, was an ambitious effort to stop open defecation. It’s far from reaching that goal.
https://www.cnet.com/culture/india-spent-30-billion-to-fix-its-broken-sanitation-it-ended-up-with-more-problems/
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‘My first thought as I came round was Oh God! What have I done?’: Man suing the NHS over trans surgery he bitterly regrets has bravely waived anonymity to share his ordeal
Ritchie Herron, 35, says life has been unbearable since surgery four years ago
His case first emerged after he shared experience on Twitter under pseudonym
He claims NHS failed to take mental health crisis into account before procedure
More good news for BBC haters: the Corporation’s plans to replace its current news channel with a single global news service is likely to backfire and lose them viewers at home.
Good.
“Simon McCoy, the former BBC presenter, has warned that plans to close the BBC News channel and replace it with a single global news service will leave the broadcaster unable to cover UK stories and send viewers to rivals.”
https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/simon-mccoy-warns-snobby-closure-of-bbc-news-will-lead-to-viewers-switching-off-1799856
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
We agree that it would have been helpful to the audience to have included these specific points to aid their understanding of Dr Schlosberg’s reasons for posting in the way that he did. We are sorry that we did not.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications
Allison Pearson started to trend co of her article
“Emily Maitlis is the Meghan Markle of journalism”
The libmob botfarm didn’t like that , so have taken action to start a PILE ON against
..very school bully type stuff
Emily has stated something all right.
Starting to look like it is backfiring big time.
They have arrested a man for the shooting of the young girl in Liverpool. Very interesting to see how this story develops when the BBC determines the colour of the man’s skin.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-62645810
1pm local news Ofgem cap
.. the bias is the long clip from Starmer
Reminder : the price cap level is NOT the price you will automatically pay
your provider might well set your price BELOW
Modern Labour …
“knew that she could not have another child.”
Anna*, 23, knew that she could not have another child.
She also knew that she wouldn’t get an abortion in Texas, where she lives, as the state has one of the strictest abortion laws in the United States.
So the mother of a four-month-old turned to social media to search for solutions. She found a number online, and sent a desperate text on WhatsApp: “I need an abortion”.
Across the border in Monterrey, Mexico, Sandra Cardona received the message.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61874921
Not the BBC – but we are in a situation where the MSM have ousted a PM with an 80 majority – leaving a vacuum for 6? Weeks – during the time when government adopts the French habit of shutting down ….
… and a war … and uncontrolled inflation …. Rapidly increasing interest rates ( too late ) and now the fuel price hike ….
Are the blue Labour people so out of touch that they have no idea that their government is unacceptable to voters rapidly getting frightened as income and expenditure don’t add up ?
Maybe things need to seem / be very bad to that ms truss can come in and save the day with more borrowed taxpayers ‘ cash to pay fuel bills ….
Just thinking about the hot dry summer.
We have spent no money whatever on heating for the last 3 months, and it has been light until late evening, getting darker now. So minimal spend on electricity.
Yet every day on the BBC they find someone who is struggling to pay the energy bills !!!!!!! Though many seem able to afford tattoos and lots of food, judging by obesity levels. Energy costs are thus at annual lows for most people and way way lower than winter levels, even at current price levels, which do not go up until October 1st anyway.
So what energy are these people using?
My conclusion? Many ‘poor’ people featured on the unending BBC whingeathon have……….a large number of air conditioning units !!!!!!
Either that or the BBC are just inventing narrative and news. Now what a surprise that would be.
Mixed here. Gas hob. Electric oven. Gas boiler, hot water only.
In theory gas is currently manageable but we do like our wok.
Electric, well, we do, like our roasts.
But, four people, four PCs running.
One might suspect in certain households the Xbox and Sky on 16/24.
Or charging the Tesla.
Going back a bit, I appreciate, but history continues to teach lessons which also continue to be ignored.
Perhaps if more people knew that in WW1 the French charged the BEF rent for every metre of trench cut in French soil and full-carriage rate for every kilometre of use on their railways – healthy troops to the front, broken ones back to the coast – opinions might be more polarised.
Photo shows “Jon Sopel, Emily Maitlis and Lewis Goodall in a conference hall shouting at the stage” joyfully
as they witness the live executions of Farage, Trump , Aaron Banks etc.