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Will the BBC be reporting on this:
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/08/29/roger-waters-added-to-ukrainian-hit-list/
Myrotvorets is a database which lists thousands of journalists, activists, and anyone else who is declared an “Enemy of Ukraine.” Their personal information is published, such as the addresses of their homes, phone numbers and bank account numbers; anything that can help them be easily located. When the people on this list are murdered, like Italian journalist Andrea Rocchelli was, the word ЛИКВИДИРОВАН, “LIQUIDATED,” written in Ukrainian, is stamped across their picture in big red letters.
The Avi Yemini NZ interpol email is an extraordinary story
This morning the antifa gleefully tweeted they have a debunk
“ah the Interpol email address on the email doesn’t work”
.. then they snarled gleefully
FFS Avi’s video begins with him explaining that it is a special internal email
Actually there are plenty of Interpol X@X.igcs.int
internal email addresses
Here’s a Reddit correction https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/x0i56s/bfd_cam_slater_and_the_platform_being_lazy_liars/
The guy does the right thing of putting his correction right at the start, instead of hiding it at the bottom of the story like the BBC does.
But see how gloaty his original story was
I spotted dozens of tweets like it this morning, but none of them bothered to correct themselves, rather they were just feeding their bubbleworld.
Here’s the antifa guy’s original sneer ending
which he now admits is wrong
The AntiFa folk are almost entirely unhinged…
Funny how the CCP kidnapping the Head of InterPol just doesn’t get much coverage….
Why do “Antifa” turn out to oppose (violently if they get the chance) demonstrations against fascist control? They wear masks and carry banners saying “Racist Trash”. None of this makes sense.
This exposes a fundamental.
That there is a real world where 2+2= 4
.. but there are also the bubbleworlds where 2+2=5
The activist was 150% certain Yemini’ email was fake
We see the same in a lot of their cultish arguments, they are 150% that there is a Climate Emergency yet their debate is low on proper evidence and high on shouting
TOADY Watch #1 – well, that caught me by surprise, I wasn’t expecting the Shamima ‘shill’
Right from 6 a.m. this morning on TOADY the BBC have been campaigning to have Shamima Begum re-admitted to the UK and for her to be given her citizenship status (more correctly ‘subject status’) back.
Strictly – a baking show – dessert islands discs –
– present ‘feedback ‘ yeah bring her back – she’s only another enemy of the State – who d notice …. Can’t we spare a Ukrainian drone strike …
We need a lot more of this
He adds Arrived in the T2 immigration hall at Mcr around 8.25/8.30am on Tuesday 30th August.
I saw the sign on a pillar and the A4 paper comments stuck below it. I was reading it & so were 2 others next to me when a airport official came & tore it down. “
They don’t get £175/week normally
..could be per month
Listing the amounts of benefits would go some way to allay public apprehension about the migrants – but The Home Office obviously think that any disclosure is “NOT IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST”
Let’s see how Operation “Eject the Albanians” works out maybe?
2021 … Britain spends £500,000 a year to keep Channel migrants’ boats piled up in a car park in case the ‘owner’ comes forward to claim them – and now plans to build a £2MILLION processing facility in Dover
Estimates suggest government spends £500,000 a year story migrants boats
Legislation states boats must be stored for 12 months in case people claim them
Storing and transporting the boats is estimated to cost around half a million
Comes as Priti Patel plans to build new £2m migrant processing facility in Dover
By LYDIA CATLING and DANYAL HUSSAIN FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 10:52, 7 August 2021 | UPDATED: 10:56, 7 August 2021
Does that include the new landing area out of sight of the public?
1pm local newsPR
Big opening item
“Orsted’s new Hornsea2 windfarm
It’s huge it can power 1.5 million homes if the wind is blowing”
The lie by omission there is that 1.3 million homes is a PRtrickery metric cos most energy is NOT used by homes
The metric makes you forget that factories/offices need to be catered for
The article says
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62731923
“The Hornsea 2 project can generate enough electricity to power about 1.3 million homes – that’s enough for a city the size of Manchester.”
No it would not power Manchester
It would only power houses, not power the trams, trains, streetlights, factories, hospitals, offices etc.
Item #2 was smaller “The Rough Gas Storage restart project has got the go ahead”
Then they rushed into ‘Air products have joined the Hull hydrogen project’
The breakfast show tweeted
“🔥: TURBINES HEATING HOMES with
@OrstedUK ” The windfarm corp
The BBC station tweets get no reaction unless they are about football
Shows no one is interested in their propaganda
The Hydrogen game is an utter farce – the twerps at BEIS and Innovate UK are just handing out our money to anybody who fills in the paperwork…
putrid
– there is NO oversight about success or failure and no reviews of lessons learned…
@RadioHumberside skipped this new story
but did tweet it
Asylum seekers: Hull charity says hundreds living ‘under the radar’
A Hull charity believes up to 300 failed asylum seekers may be living “under the radar” in the city.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-62726381
More dire news on the European (including UK) debt markets as record debt sell offs are underway.
https://nydailypaper.com/5e8c3680-bf33-4b6c-a7c0-a1b613560f79/
I doubt any of this will be reported by the BBC who cannot understand such things and are filled with air heads who believe the money tree is a real and actual living thing.
It’s dire news at this time and it is going to cause consternation at central banks who are going to forced to raise interest rates by quite some tune to head this off or suffer major currency devaluation.
Thoughtful
It does seem – frustrating – that the Bank of England thinks it can hold off interest raises …. 0.5% on the 15th Sept ? ( yes I know it should be a lot higher ) …..
TWatO watch #1 – nasty, partial, mean spirited review
James Landale is a very bitter, very spiteful, very nasty Remainer and EU EnthUsiast. The Montacutie had him doing a review of the outgoing PM’s time in office. James was almost spitting at the microphone, you could hear the vehemence behind his words. Radio is a very unforgiving medium, a fact that should never be forgotten by those at the BBC.
Another black mark for the BBC.
Up2
I had the misfortune to listen to this too . I could imagine his thought process as he wrote it . ‘How can I keep my job?” Say the right ‘pro EU ‘ stuff .
It was more ‘anti brexit ‘ – I thought – rather than strictly about nut nut .
But thinking back – if I was being charitable to Johnson – he must have had one of the toughest gigs of a PM in a short time . The corrupt bercow parliament – begging for a General Election – the hate – but then so much self inflicted pain – caused partly by the loss of Cummings – the wife – the staff – SAGE –
as I wrote before here – he was the wrong bloke in the wrong job – but it could have gone so much better ….
Back to lansdale – he will say anything and do anything to keep his job as the coloured girls close in ….
Agree that Bojo had a tough gig but he made it worse for himself in many ways. The key thing is that Bojo was/maybe still is? an election winner. He can beat Labour, even when Labour are playing at home.
Forget BoJo, he’s the guy that got us in to the Green Mess we are now in .
Farage and Tice ore the one’s to rescue us from the totally useless, so called “Tories” .
Just think about the cost, organisation and implementation of the plan to change the demographic perception of the UK. It is a conspiracy of immense magnitude and will not have been implemented without a single driving force providing total confidence in the secrecy, money, training and supervision. ‘History Debunked highlights the efforts the secret ‘entity’ is applying to the written word – in particular with children in focus. This is a war, otherwise known (aka The Balkans) as ‘ethnic cleansing’.
Soros
Stew will know, but what degree of separation faction of bbc propaganda is this from?
@GuestWho you could’ve listed the guy’s bio
It’s the BBC podcast producer promoting his own Shamima show
#BBCswampDweller
Canadian spy my arse
– a creepy swine who was a paid informant.
Uncanny – a black Gary Lineker!
Nord Stream 1: Russia shuts major gas pipeline to Europe
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62732835
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4pm R4, Laurie Taylor Show, a repeat from 1 year ago
“@OrianBrook explores inequality in the cultural industries &
@DrDaveOBrien asks why so many middle class profs-particularly those who work in TV/Film & acting -misidentify themselves as working class”
Albion lives matter – in Africa.
Singer-songwriter Boy George says: “Drag Race is such a phenomena and it has unleashed intense creativity and debate. RuPaul has made the concept of drag into a household name! I’m part of the drag daisy chain. Every nice drag queen is my sister and the rest are second cousins! It was a lot of fun being part of the show!”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/9358dff9-87a2-493d-9827-1abd781f3d40
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Escort tells of ‘kidnapping’ by Boy George
This article is more than 13 years old
Man says he was attacked after erotic photo shoot
‘Did he really have to hurt him?’ asks prosecution
Jo Adetunji
Tue 25 Nov 2008 00.01 GMT
Boy George subjected a male escort to a violent assault that included chaining him to the wall and beating him after accusing him of tampering with his computer, a court heard yesterday.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/nov/25/boy-george-crime-music-culture
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The singer, sentenced to community service after the discovery of cocaine at his Manhattan apartment, had originally hoped to fulfil his obligations with an Aids fundraising concert before resigning himself to what his lawyer last month predicted would be “raking leaves in Central Park”.1 Aug 2006
2021 … China hoards over half the world’s grain, pushing up global prices
Testy ties with U.S. and Australia could be prodding China to boost food reserves
SHIN WATANABE and AIKO MUNAKATA, Nikkei staff writers
DECEMBER 23, 2021 16:47 JST
Yes, yes…she is a monster.
‘When Shamima Begum was first tracked down in 2019, she voiced no regret about her decision to join ISIS . Clad in black robes that the terror group forced women across Iraq and Syria to wear, Begum spoke of her respect for those who stayed in Baghuz with ISIS during its last stand. She told the reporter that she was ‘unfazed’ by seeing a severed head in a bin, saying it belonged to an ‘enemy of Islam’ and that she ‘thought only of what he would have done to a Muslim woman if he had the chance’.
But since this honest, raw and uncoached interview, Begum has shed her niqab in exchange for Western clothes, and swapped her support for the world’s most-hated group for promises of reform and pleas for Britain to take her back.’
Apparently the BBC have got hold of CCTV images from the London bus that took Shamima Begum on the start of her journey to join ISIS. Sadiq Khan denies that London Transport was part of the trafficking ring that fulfilled her wishes and delivered her to the Islamic paradise where chopped off heads and a severe and strict Islamic regime held no fears for her….he says that Begum was self-radicalised having been already mentally prepped by her Muslim upbringing…she searched out material on the internet and was encouraged to go by her friends already out there….it was not the fault of London Transport….just as it’s not the fault of the ‘trafficker’ who brought her to Turkey….she wanted to go, he merely provided the transport.
‘Trafficking’ is a term and technical description that is being weaponised in order to allow criminals and terrorists to slip through loop-holes in the law…criminals can block deportation from Britain by claiming they were trafficked…and Begum is trying to use the same trick to come here.
Surely ‘trafficking’, as most people would think, and certainly in a case like this, is meant only to describe the process of forcing or conning unwilling people to come here often to work as slave labour and is not a catch-all term to describe anyone who facilitates someone entering a country however illegally…but voluntarily? Is the RNLI trafficking slaves? It would seem so by the BBC’s logic.
Was she a slave? Was she dragged there unwillingly? Did she have no understanding of what conditions were like over there? No to all those questions. She was a fully aware volunteer for a terrorist group who understood about the harsh Islamic regime, indeed that was what she wanted, and knew all about heads and hands being chopped off.
If she was trafficked by anything it was by ‘Islam’….fed the ideology from birth, brainwashed into a worldview, she was drawn to the ‘purity’ of the Islamic State and decided that was how she wanted to live her life…..thus….maybe…if what she did was wrong…we should start asking questions about Islam…especially its role and influence in Western countries and cultures….if she hadn’t been a Muslim she never would have ended up over there.
Odd the BBC is claiming the credit for this non-story….it came out in a book not as a result of their investigations…and why is the BBC once again acting as a campaigning lobby group for a terrorist, someone who hated Britain and Western culture so much they scarpered to live in an Islamic hell-hole and who when in the refugee camp showed no remorse and indeed kept up appearances of being an Islamic hard-liner until she decided she wanted to come back to Britain and all those ‘home’ comforts’ casting off her veil to jump into jeans and tee-shirt to make the pretence she was no threat to anyone?
Is the BBC guilty of attempting to traffic her the other way as they try to get her shipped back here?
Canada to take her in?
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Omar Ahmed Said Khadr (Arabic: عمر أحمد سعيد خضر; born September 19, 1986) is a Canadian citizen who at the age of 15 was detained by the United States at Guantanamo Bay for ten years, during which he pleaded guilty to the murder of U.S. Army Sergeant 1st Class Christopher Speer and other charges.[2][3] He later appealed his conviction, claiming that he falsely pleaded guilty so that he could return to Canada where he remained in custody for three additional years.[4][5][6] Khadr sued the Canadian government for infringing his rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms; this lawsuit was settled in 2017 with a CA$10.5 million payment and an apology by the federal government.[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khadr
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/31/ron-desantis-republican-party-fascism
Curious how our Misinformation Messiah at the BBC doesn’t raise an eyebrow when politicians, including the now President of the USA, use deeply malign slanders to discredit opponents….if it was Joe Blogs on Facebook she’d be there claiming this threatens democracy, a dangerous undermining of respect for institutions…but when the President of the USA or his useful idiots stoop to such depths she’s completely silent.
Classic lefty attempt to deflect and discredit criticism by calling you a fascist etc…not only are you guilty of ‘of homophobia, transphobia, racism and misogyny’ and thus are a fascist, you are a fascist because you deny you are a fascist and object to being called one.
‘I’ve been watching the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, for some time. Last Tuesday I tweeted: “Just wondering if ‘DeSantis’ is now officially a synonym for ‘fascist’.”
I was surprised at the outrage my little tweet provoked in rightwing media.
The Washington Examiner, for example, called me an “ultra-leftwing elitist” who wrote an “insulting slur”, which is “what leftwing ideologues do when they discuss Republican politicians who pose any threat to the existence of their political ideology … Anyone the Democrats don’t like or disagree with is a fascist.”
This was among the kindest responses.
After a half-century in and around politics, I’ve got a thick skin. But the size of the blowback on my little tweet makes me think I struck a nerve.‘
LOL…‘I think I struck a nerve…Perhaps my “just wondering” tweet about DeSantis hit the nerve of the fascism now taking root in the Republican party?’….if you object to being called a fascist you are a fascist.
Erm…but…his description of Fascism….
‘Fascism also includes hatred of “them” (people considered different by race or religion, or outside the mainstream, or who were born abroad), control over what people learn and what books they are allowed to read, control over what had been independent government units (school boards, medical boards, universities and so on), control over women and the most intimate and difficult decisions they’ll ever make, and demands that the private sector support the regime.’
Kinda think that pretty much sums up the Democrats and the Left doesn’t it? And the Democrats are sliding inexorably into Fascism using Fascist regimes’ techniques to control and silence dissent….going so far as to use proxy militias like BLM to riot and intimidate not to mention using the FBI to attempt to force opponents out of the Presidential election as well as faking documents to try to unseat an actual President….all things that would seem very familiar and useful tools to the commissars of the Soviet Union.
Nothing indeed that would seem untoward in the bowels of the BBC where such tactics are trusty weapons to be deployed when necessary…and they do….never mind how they denounced Tommy Robinson but they were quite prepared to do the same to established political parties, the PM, and of course UKIP and anyone who supported Brexit….the BBC constantly making reference to the Nazis, dictators and the ‘1930’s’ which apparently Brexit was a harbinger of.
4:30pm R4 switch on Bingo : Alastair Campbell
followed by Jon Sopel
” Nov 2020 , we had to call it, Trump had filed 60 court cases and not won one”
.. Well I still think the election was rigged.
Campbell was banging on about the BBC being Tory biased, cos it works in a framework set by the right wing press , increasingly so since Brexit”
Now it’s Dino from Americast who works with Sopel and Maitlis.
oh the prog is clearly PR for their LBC podcast “The News Agents”
The BBC prog hasn’t had the courage to list the names on its blurb.
(Before the prog Maria Iqbal blurb)
Oh he did tweet the lineup at 4pm ..https://twitter.com/BBCRosAtkins/status/1564992918091403264
“Also with us Adam Bouton. Nosheen Iqbal of The Guardian and Alastair Campbell who is now a writer”
Now topic is Maitlis TV lecture
Boulton, actually spoke against Maitlis line, and said the BBC board can be allowed to give opinions even Tory
Campbell plugs his own podcast @RestIsPolitics
Prog ended with Ros Atkin asking them all to plug their next podcast ..Chummy PR
Alastair Campbell
In an intensely personal and often surprising film for BBC Two, Alastair Campbell candidly talks about his experience living with depression and explores if radical new treatments can make a difference.
Alastair is best known for his role as Tony Blair’s formidable and often contentious spin doctor, but, away from the public eye, he has been dogged by crippling bouts of depression for most of his life. Some days, just getting out of bed is too hard. Therapy and anti-depressant medication is helping him keep his head above water, but is that really the best he can hope for?
Encouraged by his family, Alastair sets out on a journey to explore if cutting edge science can offer him – and the millions of people like him – the hope of one day living depression-free. As he tries to understand his depression better, he also reflects on key events in his life and asks if they could have had a negative effect on his mind.
Show less
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005btv
Tony Blair’s formidable and often contentious spin doctor
Tony Blair’s formidable and often contentious spin doctor
This morning Boris accompanied the police on a home raid. Given we’re now comfortably into the 21st century, it didn’t take long for one of the occupants to realise the PM was in his home and film the experience, asking Boris ‘wagwan‘. Boris politely asked the filming resident “how you doing?”. The Snapchatter could have at least offered Boris a cuppa…
order-order.com
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Teacher who showed his pupils a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed is still in hiding a year after fleeing his home due to death threats
The Batley Grammar School teacher is still in hiding a year after the lesson
The image of the Prophet Mohammed was shown during religious education
The 30-year-old teacher was cleared of misconduct but he still has not returned to his home or work
By MARK HOOKHAM FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
PUBLISHED: 22:12, 26 March 2022
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“…and it shouldn’t have been our high commissioner (UKs) called in by the Pakistani Government to be lectured, we should have pulled in the envoy of Pakistan here and said ‘Stop that right now (protesting by blowing things up), or do without the aid we give you (Pakistan) …'”
– Christopher Hitchens had a point in 2007
Anjem Choudary: Radical preacher’s public speaking ban to be lifted
Published
18 July 2021
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-57878910
Radical preacher Anjem Choudary’s ban on speaking in public is to be lifted as conditions which were imposed after his release from prison come to an end.
Choudary, from Ilford in east London, was jailed for five-and-a-half years in 2016 after being convicted of inviting support for the Islamic State group.
He headed a now-banned group supporting an extreme interpretation of Islam.
He was released on licence from HMP Belmarsh in 2018 and was subject to more than 20 conditions at the time.
His licence conditions, which included a ban on public speaking and talking to the media, will automatically expire at midnight.
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Anger as hate preacher Anjem Choudary blames BRITAIN for ‘radicalising’ David Amess killer Ali Harbi Ali – after terrorist watched his extremist videos
Ali Harbi Ali, 26, was handed a whole life tariff after being convicted of murder
Family and friends claim Ali was watching extremist videos by Choudary online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10725961/Anjem-Choudary-blames-BRITAIN-radicalising-David-Amess-killer-watched-videos.html
It annoys me that the gobshite Choudary lives in a nice London house paid for by my taxes.
I hope he says something that gets him sent down again.
BBC raising support for Pakistan. I saw an amusing comment on Twitter.
A man said he had been asked to contribute to the Pakistan floods. He replied: ‘Unfortunately my hosepipe only reaches the bottom of my garden’.
I’m waiting for the BBC pakithon with a whole host of ethnics doing amusing acts for’ Islamic relief ‘. I’d contribute a bucket I have which has a complementary hole .
Not long ago the pakis did a deal with putin – maybe get some buckets from him …
Is Geldof reaching for his sitar ?
God help us all
I believe the Boomtown Rats did a tune called “Mary of the 4th Form” that would go down well considering .
Problems here, and problems in Strabane…
Tipped to replace Huw Edwards on £650k
This is not about the BBC .
The Queen is frail – 94? And aging rapidly . The appointment of Liz truss at balmoral next Tuesday highlights this . But it does give Liz an opportunity to stick it to the Scot’s nazi party .
But The Queen . The Firm faces derailment through an over hyped west coast actress and her mug semi prince husband .
What when The Queen goes . ? I think one of the emotions floating about will be even more hostility toward the actress and her husband . Will they bother coming back for the funeral ?
Yes I know I’m being premature and for royals – probably disrespectful . No matter .
Better to write this now rather than when the nation is overwhelmed by grief – followed by yet another reassessment of where we are in the world ….
I will be reacting the same way as when Diana spencer died – Disbelief that a nation could have a collective breakdown over someone they’d never met and never knew . 25 years ago I got through so much popcorn . I had to keep my views to myself for fear of being hanged from the nearest lamp post .
And after Elizabeth Windsor – we have the prospect of her son and queen camilla …
Never met Diana but met her brother at the weekend seems like a nice chap.
I highly recommend the film “Spencer”, which I never expected to like, but found to be witty and imaginative.
Anticipating the Coronation with a celebration of Diversity, Islam, Climate change, Islam, Elton John, Islam, and massive hype for Megan’s new book.
I was in the US when Diana died, enjoying a couple of days exploring the area after an incredibly dull conference at Florida State Uni.
Walked into a book shop in a small town and was browsing when the owner came over and asked if she could help, and when I replied I was “ok, thanks, just looking”, she asked if I was Australian, and when I said “no, I’m British, from England”, her permatan turned ghostly and she said “Oh! Oh, I’m so sorry! So sorry! You poor boy!” and started sobbing theatrically.
I thought that odd, but lots of people are weird in the states, so I bought a couple of books and quickly moved on.
My next stop was a motel I was planning to spend the night in, so I parked up, walked into the lobby and enquired about a room. The girl at the counter looked at me strangely and said “Are you from England?”, “Yes” I said, “Oh” she said, looking tearful “It’s terrible, isn’t it?”… No, I thought, it’s not that bad, God I’m meeting some weirdos today!
Got in my room, shower, change, stuck the TV on, and the first item – “Lady Diana, Princess of England (sic) has been killed in an auto accident…”
Yeah yeah great story but what books did you buy …?
That’s how I recall it, anyway Fed… am sure some of these stories are growing (more entertaining) as the years go on…
Americans all seemed to like Diana far more than most Brits (I knew, anyway), I’ve never understood why we don’t sell the entire Windsor clan to them – guess they do have Ginge these days, maybe they could be tempted to purchase a few more?
Books I bought? Good question, it was 25 years ago… it was either there, or elsewhere in the Deep South around that point in my life, I remember walking into this dusty, little old, small town bookshop and there were stacks and stacks of gorgeous old paperbacks dirt cheap – guess someone had died, and they’d ended up with his entire library collected over a lifetime.
Wherever it was, and whoever he might have been, he had good taste, I bought some really nice, US editions of early 20th Century pulp writers. I probably would have been looking for HP Lovecraft at the time, there are some of his short stories which were hard to find in UK publications before recent spates of republishing. All very “Cold Print”, and frankly, rather Lovecraftian.
Forget the “breath of fresh air” that Markle was depicted as being ( I could tell from day one she would be trouble), but Diana came to the Family as no one else had done before. They had looked around to find a ‘tidy’ (virgin) girl for Charles to marry to produce an heir, and Diana fitted the bill – young and virginal. Before their marriage they had only met less than 20 times, so she never stood a chance with that plonker Charles. Though what she saw in him with his plastered down hair I’ll never know (and people take the piss out of Jacob Rees Mogg !!!!!)
She was the not so ugly duckling that turned into an elegant swan, and she may well have been a total basket case, but at the time the only one time glamour puss in the Royal Family was the ageing Princess Margaret, because Anne was never a beauty. So its little wonder the press went gaga for this tall elegant girl who had the perfect body for designers to show off their creations. And the women of this country and around the world (pre social media) loved her style and smile.
Then when it all emerged that Charles had never really stopped his affair with Camilla then Diana’s stock went up 10 fold. History knows the rest.
I remember it well.
At the time I had a small tranny (radio not lifestyle choice) and being on holiday in Turkey I used to tune into BBC (pre woke) to listen to the football results as you did pre Internet.
As I tried to tune to world service all I got was sombre music and then a recorded message “this morning etc etc’ . Looking around it was about 6am and no one about so I made my way back to the room. Along the passage way I noted a door open and heard English voices through the slightly ajar door. So I thought is this real ?? I gently tapped on the door and a lady in her sixties said hello and i explained that I was tuned into the BBC waiting for football results and that they had announced that Diana had been killed, at which point her husband appeared and asked…..”did you get the Barnsley result”?
Makes me lol to this day.
itv local newsPR, huge opening item
about the opening of Hornsea2 windfarm
“A Green Revolution”
the hyperbole about the size
..enough to power 1.3 million homes
Without explaining its not that much power
maybe 1% of UK demand
David Patrick Hewell of Orsted got a huge say
“oh this project is 1.3GW
Hornsea3 will be 2.8GW”
Next item ‘planning permission for new caravan park at Adelthorpe refused’
They never mentioned sea level rise, nor that area probably used to be sea marsh.
BBC local NewsPR same but different
– The Orsted boss Dave Clark
– Melanie Onn the Renewables UK spokesman
then “give us your views”
A bbc alumnus too, I believe.
Got to love the bbc.
The UK gets a new prime minister next week. Meet the only people who get to vote for Boris Johnson’s succersor – Conservative Party members.
[via BBC Politics] https://bbc.in/3RqsHo3
Vis a vis Global LBC’s new programme, The News Agents, aren’t the presenter’s guilty of culture theft? Every newsagents Iv’e been in recently is run by Pakis.
Calvin
via Pat Condell https://twitter.com/patcondell/status/1563420359118196736
Then GBNews LeoKearse on the smearing of TR https://twitter.com/LeoKearse/status/1564967412176506881
What is the RSPCC doing about it ?
They get loads of money from us !
A YouGov poll seen exclusively by the BBC found 57% of those asked said they censor themselves on issues including immigration and trans rights, particularly if their views are deemed at the less politically correct end of the spectrum.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59703257
‘You haven’t a real appreciation of Newspeak, Winston,’ he said almost sadly. ‘Even when you write it you’re still thinking in Oldspeak. I’ve read some of those pieces that you write in the Times occasionally. They’re good enough, but they’re translations. In your heart you’d prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don’t grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?’
https://orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/en_p_1
The repair shop, they’ve found some Indian woman, whose father was a “freedom fighter” during the fight for Indian independence. FFS.
Freedom fighter, euphemism for terrorist, I.e. Mandela et al.
Stey while the police were poncing around organising Pride
they left their car
and found it smashed when they came back
So they made this petulant tweet https://twitter.com/GMPCityCentre/status/1564052962367905798
Well if you’d been using it, instead of poncing.
CCBGB
Further to my above re the Indian freedom fighter, if they all wanted independence from British rule, what the fook are they all doing in Britain?
Still trawling through the BBC ‘Corrections and Clarifications’ – there seems no end to it. Most of the errors are childish and easily avoided by fact checking. I can only presume they BBC ‘journos’ don’t ‘fact check’ this because they actually BELIEVE PRESUME (youth) that its true (even if absurd). Here is an example that stood out for me:
A BBC Correction (Hint: Not an apology as they will do the same tomorrow). And apart from BBC Feedback, there us no ‘real’ feedback, just a complain procedure or FOI – where they deny anything ever has taken place – so this caught my eye..
“BBC News
Online, 26 March 2022
We have amended an article on the BBC News online site in Bristol about endometriosis to make it clearer to the audience how the condition affects women. The article was updated to remove an inaccuracy where we described symptoms as causes. Also, specifically, the word ‘people’ was replaced with the word ‘women’, and we removed the phrase “who are assigned female at birth”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications
Amazing really. The BBC have no mothers, they are born sterile IVF and 50% are all gay or/and lesbian, but amazingly have no breasts. Both have penises if Trans (at the BBC) if you ever ask. And they will do it all again tomorrow. And no ‘on-air’ apology. Ever. Never.
As for the NHS, its time for a complete reform. Like the BBC.
The thing is the amount of time they take to correct basic factual point .. often months
Halifax building society TV commercials are full on Asian customers, so no need to apply if you happen to be one of the 90% indigenous people in this Country, they only want Asians to apply.
If only that could be made mandatory and see their mortgage customer count go through the floor!
There is an obvious disconnect between their publicity departments and their commercial one. Probably because the former is saturated by stupid, vapid, meaningless twats straight out of some plastic university with a degree in stupidity and short sightedness.
I closed my account with them when they went woke.
Me too, when I, as a 60+ year old white bloke, was represented in their “market” TV advert only as a park bench.
Normal establishment journos are a bit thick
Harry Wallop tweeted a “too wow to be true” claim
The astonishing thing in no one in his Twitter bubbleworld told him he was talking crap
I checked the video https://twitter.com/BBCIndia/status/1564855078871535617
The intro says they have two reporters one in the North one in the south
3m36s The map highlights Sukkur and @Pumza_Fihlani starts speaking
4m0s “And it’s not only people that have been hit by the floods the government estimates that 80% of livestock has been killed …”
(Shows a man with most of his animals still living, he sold 4)
80% where ?
For the 80% claim No location context was given
Except intro & map said her segment was about Sukkur, Sindh
and she signed off “@Pumza_Fihlani BBC News Sindh province”
It could be about Sukkur town, it could be bad info
but We don’t have to speculate,
it was upto BBCnews to make the context clear but they didn’t
Her BBCweb reports say nothing about the 80% either
Shes’s on Twitter Harry could just ask her
BBC very poorly researched mumbo jumbo as always….
Cods Wallop ?
BBc talk to people who are “quiet quitting” meaning they do the absolute minimum required by their job…
BBC trumpet it as empowering…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62638908
All the people they interviewed who had quiet quit lost their jobs…
Sounds like a plan!
At very least it leaves more jobs open to people with drive, commitment and ambition.
But thats the way the BBC likes to see life I guess.
BBC are very late there
Their story is just 11 hours old
but GBnews covered that more than a week ago
21 August https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1561227803487571969
Digg,
Where ever you look: I’ve often described the current work ethos as being akin to being an employee of a company where every one else is leaving but being retained to carry on during the notice period. “Zombies”.
There must be a country where they made better preparations for electricity price resilience due to a world gas shortage
but I don’t hear anything on the BBC ?
I haven’t heard anything from our Member of Parliament for Energy, has anyone ?
https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-signs-deal-with-gazprom-over-additional-gas/
Where’s maxincony, has anyone seen him ?
The night soil man still clearing up round Notting Hill?
Why don’t they be honest and call it: “as yet unwimmined and unblacked” ?
“BBC calls Nasa’s Artemis moon rocket ‘uncrewed’ not ‘unmanned’ to avoid causing offence”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11167045/BBC-calls-Nasas-Artemis-moon-rocket-uncrewed-not-unmanned-avoid-causing-offence.html
Apropos of nothing much but this amused me this morning I saw him do his music stuff at Knebworth once:
Today
An unintended funny interview between meeshal and a couple of drones from something called the National Crime Agency .
It seems the NCA is responsible for facilitating thousands of the third world onto the shores of England and into the welfare system .
The interview was like a game where the NCA droids spoke using the minimum of worlds to avoid telling taxpayers anything .
They didn’t know how many ‘operations ‘ were going on – they lived of the ‘success ‘ of arresting a gang a couple of months ago ( grassed up by competitors no doubt )
And would give any listener the impression the wanted their pay and pension and really couldn’t give a damn .
I suppose they want to be like the FBI – so I can expect a visit – Fed style …
Usually a book brings it on more.
Keeps moaning about not enough blacks around, maybe thats why he always has white wimmin wives and girlfriends
Books to sell.
Today
Plenty of victim stuff today –
1 Chinese Muslims having a rough time
2 princess chippy tennis player
3 survey by coloured charity saying coloured folk have a bad
time
Also –
The battle of the energy plans – 10 point plans versus 20 point plans – every one chucking their but into avoiding the real market price of juice ….
Putin has cut the gas off again – this time to France – maybe it’s time to plan to invade Russia …?
Today has the dismal Micky Gove on to speak for the loser sunak . Meeshal didn’t ask whether gove has a green card like his mate …
By the way 2 – seems the bond market is gonna force interest rates up whether the Bank of England wants it or not – .5% September .5% October …
No mention of Christian genocide in muzzie land or white farmer genocide in Africa then ?
Fit and Elfie edition
In the arena of arts and entertainment these days there’s a growing tendency for critics to lecture the audience about how wrong they are. Frankly, it’s a culture war thing.
Here’s a fine example from today’s left-leaning ‘i’ newspaper Television feature: Tolkien purists will moan, but this is epic TV i verdict on The Rings of Power
Personally, I’m no great fan of whole Tolkien oeuvre, and as for Tolkien purists… for all I care they can hobbit…
One recalls one’s youth and the after school wargames club schism between the Dungeons & Dragons crew and the Historical Hex Games crowd – it was a different time…
But of late different battle lines seem to have been drawn. The Guardian comes out sword swinging in defence of the corporate Amazon Studios latest mega bucks production: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power review – so astounding it makes House of the Dragon look amateur… is likely to prove divisive… I love Galadriel the fighter. She is valiant, flawed and haughty, as bloody-minded as she is brilliant, scarred by the horrors of war. If that doesn’t sound like much fun, wait till you see what she does to a snow troll… If the elves bring the intensity, then there is plenty of earthy light and joy in the harfoots, Tolkien’s predecessors to the hobbits, who are preparing for their seasonal migration. The young harfoots forage for berries and frolic in the mud, their elders (including Lenny Henry) on hand to explain how everything fits together (Rebecca Nicholson Guardian) – so what’s the problem? The potential audience perhaps recluctant to take their lefty media-prescribed medicine?
Harfoots? By the way, some cynics suggest there might be a copyright issue with the word Hobbit – hence Harfoot.
You get the message? Female empowerment and black casting are on the menu again – in generous proportions. And if the fans are uneasy about it then the lefty critics must circle the wagons.
Staring down the trolls: What’s really behind the battle over The Rings Of Power? Toxic fans have been trying to sink Amazon’s big-ticket series, but their motives—and their influence—are raising new questions (a rare – perhaps debut – appearance hereabouts for AV Club ‘Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed’)
The ironically named Cindy White of AV Club calls a spade a spade…
Predictably, some have used their criticisms as a smokescreen for their own racist and sexist reactions. From the moment in February when Vanity Fair dropped the first images from The Rings Of Power—a series of lavishly shot and detailed character portraits and posters—there’s been a steady stream of grumbling about the inclusion of actors of color, and the portrayal of the elven Lady Galadriel (one of the few characters carried over from the stories adapted in Peter Jackson’s films) as a warrior in a suit of armor. These critics may not believe labels like racist and sexist apply to them, but their opinions give them away.
We’ll leave this one with the admittedly rather admirable Daily Mirror caption for their frontpage promotion of the feisty-looking plate armour corsetted Lady Galadriel: Fit and Elfie
It’s surely all enough to make J R R Tolkien drop his pipe. I guess he’d have been a pipe smoker, right…?
J.R.R. Tolkien was an avid pipe smoker… People who had met Tolkien noticed that a pipe was almost always in his hand or mouth, often making difficult to understand his speech. (thank you Tolkien Gateway ‘the J.R.R. Tolkien encyclopedia’)
The Hobbits of Bree claimed to be the first to have smoked the Pipe-weed, but the first who cultivated it was Tobold Hornblower of Longbottom of the Shire, around the year S.R. 1070. Smoking had spread from the Hobbits to Dwarves, Rangers, and Wizards – ok, ok, that’s quite enough of that, thank you.
And I’d just like to remind critics who are so taken with those rather too numerous medievalist world setting Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings spin-off, sequel, prequel, whatever, franchise warrior princesses that – fantasy aside – Joan of Arc was the exception – not the rule.
Here comes our real world would-be axe-wielding warrior queen: Truss hints she may axe motorway speed limits (Telegraph)
And here’s an unusual excuse for our much-heralded invincible warrior princess: Raducanu ‘relieved’… admitted she was relieved to have the “target off her back” after US Open defence ended with a first round defeat… (Times)
All this media-driven female empowerment hype – where has it got us?
Decline of traditional UK family revealed. Landmark study finds big rise in lone-parenting (Times)
Stop ‘ducking’ the need for stable families, next PM told (Telegraph)
And, vaguely related, we’ll conclude with a science bit from the paper that so recently urged more social distancing, more Lockdowns and more mask wearing: Small talk leaves big impression, study finds… Britons may be mocked for weather-related small talk but exchanging idle pleasantries can leave a lasting impression… just four minutes of chit-chat could reveal aspects of personality (Guardian) – or not, if we’re strictly masked, locked down, or, sadly, if we’ve masked our kids and shut them out of school. How quickly they forget.
“REVEALED – the scale of family breakdown in modern Britain laid bare: Half of children live across more than one household and a quarter of families are headed by a lone parent (and 90 PER CENT are women), shocking new figures show”
And so many of that 90% in two, three and more bedroom council houses while daddie’s off inseminating the rest of the street so they can all get to the top of the housing list.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11166817/Family-breakdown-modern-Britain-laid-bare-Half-children-live-one-household.html
The benefit family down the road are off on holiday this week in their brand new MG SUV (last one replaced as it was two years old)
On the disability gravy train as one is 20 stone or more, literally has to walk in the front door sideways, used to have a health worker come round to make her walk around the block but they seem to have given up.
Probably got the car on the motability scam.
I had to buy a kettle last week and after looking around, looking at the prices, decided £20 was more than enough to get a decent one, saw a box left on their step yesterday, black and gold top of the range kettle they have ordered, £50.
7 million classified as ‘disabled ‘…
From 2018:
“MPs attack Motability car buying scheme’s £2.4 billion cash ‘shock absorber’
MPs have called for the return Motability scheme funds to the Treasury after it emerged that the charity was holding on to £2.4 billion after “decades” of underspending to the tune of more than £200 million-per-year.”
https://www.am-online.com/news/dealer-news/2018/02/06/mps-attack-motability-car-buying-scheme-s-24-billion-cash-shock-absorber
Despite new car they still get all shopping delivered (get free delivery on disability gravy train) and the fully abled husband who has not done a days work in his life probably on the “carer” scam.
And the fat twat still has the energy to chase our cat when shes out on her fag breaks in the garden, suddenly finds the energy.
Scrounging scum.
“Around £2 billion a year is paid directly from the Department for Work and Pensions to Motability Operations Ltd and John Mann, a Labour member of the Commons Treasury committee, described the stockpiling of Motability scheme cash as scandalous while Nigel Mills, from the Commons public accounts committee called for an inquiry.”
“Hornsea 2: North Sea wind farm claims title of world’s largest”
“The world’s largest offshore wind farm is now fully operational, 55 miles off the coast of Yorkshire.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62731923
Its not helping very much is it?
How much energy was used in the manufacture of these ‘chocolate teapots ‘?
The critical voices are reaching a crescendo and many more will openly join the chorus over the future months.
Have you noticed the gathering intensity of voices rightly and openly condemning the Government’s gross mismanagement of the UK? For example, Mark Steyn, Jeff Taylor, Neil Oliver et al. The “Green”, “Net-Zero” debacle is being laid bare in front of the public (those who choose to see) and, as I think we all know here, it will get worse as the winter/bills bite.
However, there’s one massive issue still very low key: that of the economy and the public/Government borrowing and money printing. Printing money has been taking place with gay abandon, equally domestic borrowing until the country is effectively ‘broke’.
This is gonna surface shortly and the public are not prepared in any way. ‘Double Trouble’ or the perfect storm if you will.
I was brought up to ignore, what we came to know in those days as, “Hire Purchase”. Apart from a mortgage (which I no longer have) I have safely avoided the pitfalls of “HP” over the many decades. Many, cannot/will not avoid the storm about to break. Should I feel sorry for them? Not on your life! We all make choices along the way.
Then there’s local council borrowing …
2014 …. Is ‘too big to fail’ for banks really coming to an end?
Kamal Ahmed
Business editor
@bbckamalon Twitter
10 November 2014
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29982178
…….
Interviewing Alistair Darling in 2011, three years after the financial crisis during which he was chancellor, his most striking answer to me was not about the fear that Britain’s economic system was on the point of collapse.
It wasn’t even his worry that ATMs up and down the country might simply stop functioning.
Those answers were of course chilling. But they were symptoms of a wider disease.
Mr Darling’s most striking answer was the “absolute astonishment” he felt when he asked Britain’s largest banks to account for the risks contained in their businesses – and they were unable to come up with a coherent answer.
MM,
“2014 …. Is ‘too big to fail’ for banks really coming to an end?”
I think I’ve reported here on this subject before. (Forgive if I repeat.) They wont’ fail. They just shift the goalposts. Historically, the Govt. of the day stepped in to bail them out, hence, “the Bailout”. No longer. The expression now is, “the Bailin”. By arrangement with, “our” Government, the banks will now, effectively, take over the customers money held to keep themselves afloat. NatWest, (needless to say in view of their recent history), is the first one to recognise where it is all going shortly: Tits Up. It is now extremely difficult to withdraw £2K or above without the Third Degree. Even then, NW may refuse to allow you to withdraw that sum. Keep watching the banks/building societies “Changes in Terms and Conditions” to see what your bank / BS is doing. They’ll all catch on to this wheeze sooner or later have no doubt
Incidentally, some while ago, I asked the Taxpayers Alliance if it would be possible to stop all tax inflows to the feckless Government until they showed some semblance of responsibility. Never got a reply. My view? Until the money fuel is taken off the fire, the charlatan, dishonest, untrustworthy politicians will carry on spending our money (taxes) without a care in the World. Oh, I hope for hope sake, I will see the gently swaying bodies dangling from many lampposts……
G
A tricky view to have – but one I share . I apply a ‘personal responsibility ‘test . So when someone is used by the BBC to bleat about how tough their life is – I wonder what they are doing about it themselves .
I fear that the next PM is about to throw another money tree at the population – they won’t be grateful – they’ll moan about ‘not enough ‘ and they’ll be addicted to government handouts even more than furlough
When mortgages start to fail as interest rates hit 5% and above next year there will be an expectation of a bale out then too .
Elsewhere
I caught a piece yesterday about a bloke in Scotland refusing to move out of the flat he bought from the council 5 years ago . One of the reasons was he didn’t want to pay rent anymore .
The council offered him £28k and a rented home if he moved out . Naturally he told them to take a running one . Now they are gonna compulsory purchase him …. They offered him £28k…..