369 Responses to Start the Week 26 September 2022

  1. Guest Who says:

    On matters ‘suggested for you’ on FB, I have been served one by the BBC.

    Seems an ‘India man’ who has one some lottery dosh is fed up with requests for help.

    No word if it is from Gary Lineker who has had to take several jobs to cope.

    Or their space program. One of the two. Similar budgets.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      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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      • Will Jones says:

        Interesting. I didn’t see this report. Based on the numbers it would appear that men are at a greater disadvantage on the toilet availability front. Perhaps a new charity is needed to fund toilets for Indian men in order for them to reach equality.

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  2. tomo says:

    I’d say this is as appropriate to the UK at present as it is to the USA under the dumbcluck poisonous, corrupt Biden regime.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      In the lecture, Rand admonishes American businessmen for apologizing for capitalism and for, in some cases, directly funding detractors of the free market. Notably, she says that “It is a moral crime to give money to support your own destroyers.” She also answers audience questions after the lecture.

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  3. Beltane says:

    Lucky that Gary Neville was available to talk about the game last night, and to be given the chance to share the BBC Breakfast stance on impartiality with only one brief shot of the popular hero’s party conference appearance.
    But what’s this? A bit of joshing about political aims Gary? A bit of prompting from those impartial pros on the sofa and now Gary’s off on one in full ‘working man support mode’. How disgraceful it is that we suffer under such appalling government, and Rishi Sunak (bit personal here Gary. Hope you’re sure of your facts?) anyway Rishi’s milking the system with absurdly favourable interest rates, shock horror.
    And what about your aspirations Gary? Surely the front benches beckon for such a powerful political intellect?
    No, no, sorry. The hotel chain and TV work takes too much time. Sadly.
    Those sofa pros might have asked how GN squares his venomous opinions on bankers’ bonuses with average Premier League incomes of £100k a week, but lets not go there. Fairy tales always have happy endings.

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  4. theisland says:

    It will be interesting to see how much of Starmer’s conference speech is taken from Blair et al’s Future of Britain ‘Six Pillars’ essays on:
    Net Zero
    Prosperity
    Public Services
    Transformative Technology
    Community and
    Britain in the World

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  5. Philip_2 says:

    Why Labour cannot change a thing. They made this chaos.

    WHY we cannot return illegal immigrants to the host country and why faux (gender) biology is being taught in schools as fact, why TRANS trumps families who are ridiculed for protecting children and why GREEN lobby holds favour in UK institutions. Its all down to Court rulings by the ECHR. Labour core doctrine.

    They call it DIVERSITY and INCLUSION. But its a Communal goal of Marxism by another avenue. Key words like ‘Sustainablity’ are all political keys objectives.

    We may be out of the EU but the BBC and its allies are still funded by The Open Society, which is a left wing institution funded by George Soros and wealthy globalists with the ‘one world vision’ of open abuse for all and the final solution (based on global socialist values). The BBC is linked to this perverted group of global socialists, which (sadly) is also backed by the UN in its ‘greening’ agenda. They fund the COPT Climate Change apocalypse the BBC claim is reality. We should all repent and die. They mean (small c) conservatives. The vast majority, the public, the UK voters. WE pay for all the NGO’s, Quangos’ and the BBC. But we get no vote on it.

    And. Since Tony Blair, we are all 100% signed up to ECHR.

    All UK Court judgements can be over ruled by the ECHR. So our government (those we elect) are bound by the ECHR. This is why we have to leave the ECHR, it is corrupt. This video explains why (its in French but has sub titles) and proves without doubt the dirty money of the THOUSANDS of UK NGOs (they are all QUANGO charities) that Tony Blair and Gordon Brown started and are funded partly funded by Gorge Soros and his Open Society movement. This is directly linked back to the EU and ECHR court judgements against us BRITS.

    Video Proof is here (below). (with sub-titles mention The Open Society, an organisation linked to the BBC recruitment process). So BBC staff are all on the indoctrination ‘program’. They all follow the same EU socialist path based on ECHR rulings.

    We have to fight Soros and global gang of corruption. They pervert justice. They pervert children in destroying the concept of family, the proof of biology, the insistence of ‘Wokism’, racial and religious censorship, Islamisation (inclusive as equal to * whatever * they choose to attack) is all based on the ECHR rulings that we (the public) are asked to accept. As the video shows. Its the same group of NGO”s and QUANGO’s started by Blair and his european socialists in charge.

    I have signed the petition (below)to remove SOROS funded EU judges, Sign here (lawyers fighting the corruption in the EU and ECHR). Remember we may of left the EU but our politicians still have to comply with ECHR rulings. Soros and his friends are still in control, that includes the BBC and its links to the Marxists movement.

    https://eclj.org/geopolitics/echr/mettre-fin-aux-conflits-dinterets-a-la-cedh?lng=en

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  6. Guest Who says:

    One for the BBC’s finest platform assemblers to ponder.

    Then a blonde got involved. Not Laura, but still…

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Matt Hancock tells all on new podcast: ‘I haven’t had casual sex with anybody. I fell in love with somebody’
      Speaking on The Diary of a CEO podcast, former health secretary also asked about his weepy TV appearance over Covid vaccine

      By
      Danielle Sheridan,
      POLITICAL AND DEFENCE CORRESPONDENT
      28 February 2022 • 6:00am
      ……………

      Exclusive: Government scientist Neil Ferguson resigns after breaking lockdown rules to meet his married lover
      Prof Ferguson allowed the woman to visit him at home during the lockdown while lecturing the public on the need for strict social distancing

      By
      Anna Mikhailova,
      DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR ;
      Christopher Hope,
      CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT ;
      Michael Gillard
      and
      Louisa Wells
      5 May 2020 • 7:17pm
      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/05/exclusive-government-scientist-neil-ferguson-resigns-breaking/
      ………….

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    • Thoughtful says:

      “Darren Paul Jones is a British Labour politician serving as Chair of the House of Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee since 2020. He also sits on the National Security Strategy Joint Committee and the Liaison Committee, which scrutinises the work of the Prime Minister”

      I was wondering how he came by the knowledge that Truss and Kwarteng were given specific advice but then he is part of government himself, one of the uniparty so I suppose it makes sense.

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  7. Guest Who says:

    One day the bbc slavish #willsay ‘News’ will haunt them.

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    BBC is delighted with Starmer’s ‘Forensic’ questions e.g “Do you regret the number of Care Home Deaths. That’s not Forensic it’s dirty political word play to score points out of tragedy. Disgusting, but what else do we expect from Labour & BBC.

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  9. MarkyMark says:

    Tolerance … tory-party-conference-banner.jpg?quality=75&width=982&height=726&auto=webp

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  10. MarkyMark says:

    Tolerance .. TELEMMGLPICT000273416555_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bquhm-8k55P1cg4FdiiMqgFsNXlHzFQX0q9rbqpSNZfi0.jpeg

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  11. Johnda says:

    Headline you won’t see on the BBC
    The euro falls below parity with the dollar

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  12. andyjsnape says:

    bBC feels the Labour party is ready for government, quote…

    At Labour’s party conference last year, Keir Starmer was heckled during his keynote speech.

    This year the atmosphere is very different.

    More promotions to follow…

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  13. Fedup2 says:

    Call you and yours

    ‘Your experience of the NHS ‘

    Why is it crap ?

    Strangely the huge increase in population size over a very short period with third world arrivals – didn’t get a mention –
    They do like ‘the aging population ‘ though – which the BBC would happily kill off to make way for ‘new arrivals ‘…..

    My favourite is the medical mafia limiting the number of medical students to keep the pay up …. Fill their mouths with gold …or valueless pound notes …

    ( oh yeah – don’t forget to clap – privatise it )

    Ps – a hilariously awful story of a lady in godmanchester ( Cambridge ) going into labour on Sunday who had to go to Leicester to find a maternity unit that was open – I think this story will be picked and be in the msm tomorrow – or maybe not .

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    • MarkyMark says:

      nfected blood interim compensation payment update
      On 17 August 2022, the Government announced interim payments of £100,000 for infected beneficiaries and bereaved partner beneficiaries currently registered with the Infected Blood Support Schemes.

      We’re continuing to work closely with the Department of Health & Social Care to ensure that payments of £100,000 can be made as quickly as possible. Work is ongoing across Government departments to enable the interim compensation payments to be disregarded for benefit and taxation purposes. Appropriate legislation and guidance are to be implemented, as compensation payments are made independently of any Infected Blood Support Scheme payment.

      It is intended to make these payments by the end of October 2022, subject to funding, taxation and benefit disregard legislation and guidance being in place.

      We’ll be contacting all eligible beneficiaries in October to confirm their payment date and also provide more detail around taxation and benefits disregards. We’ll also update our website with further information as soon as this is available.

      If you have not received a letter or email from us by 31 October 2022, contact us.

      https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/england-infected-blood-support-scheme

      ……………

      NHS to benefit from £13.4 billion debt write-off
      Health Secretary announces over £13 billion of debt will be written off as part of a major financial reset for NHS providers.

      From:
      Department of Health and Social Care
      Published
      2 April 2020
      https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nhs-to-benefit-from-13-4-billion-debt-write-off

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      • Philip_2 says:

        Its not reported anywhere that the batch of blood, I remember well from newspapers of the time. The political establishment (Ken Clarke) denied that any blood was infected and it was just bad luck’ and the NHS should not be held liable.

        Years later we found that the Blood was imported wholesale from the US without ANY NHS blood checks and was found to be highly contaminated with HIV. The NHS refused any claim of negligence, even though they were liable and through neglect at the time. No checks what-so-ever.

        It was heart breaking along as this was the largest UK break out of HIV in children at the time, with many dying in later life before ANY compensation was offered or made. It has taken this long to get anything at all.

        There was also the question of a cover up. Nobody is to be charged in the NHS. The BBC will not report how the blood was obtained and how it became infected. The fact it was HIV
        was just never mentioned. Just ‘infected blood’ given to children who later died before compensation.

        Remember this when we are asked to clap for the NHS.
        The NHS does check for HIV now, as its possible to give blood in the UK with HIV with intent to kill another person.
        It happens. It will happen again.

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  14. andyjsnape says:

    UK interest rates: How high could they go?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57764601

    Getty and Frizzy know, shes back

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Scanned the piece but can’t see an answer to the headline question – I reckon 10% by this time next year – unless someone deals with Russia …

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  15. Fedup2 says:

    Steyn returned to GBNews and has challenged the BBC Matthew Sweet to appear on the channel over his attempts to get BBCOFCOM to remove him or the channel or both over covid vaccine deaths ….
    More will follow I think …

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  16. Fedup2 says:

    World at one

    Not about bias – but about the coming fear of mortgage interests rapidly going up and potentially leading to repossessions .
    If I recall 75% of mortgages are fixed by 2,2 million fixes end next year meaning a huge jump in repayments .

    Capital repayment interest is already being debated as ‘holidays ‘ to prevent repossessions … but I can’t see that as inflation pressures push ahead because rates were not put up bigly months ago .

    We are in a real mess ….

    Might be an election far sooner than thought …

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  17. MarkyMark says:

    Rupa Huq used a Labour fringe event to launch an astonishing racial tirade against Britain’s first black Chancellor of the Exchequer, accusing Kwasi Kwarteng of being “superficially” black:

    “Superficially he is a black man… if you hear him on the Today Programme, you wouldn’t know he is black.”

    order-order.com

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  18. andyjsnape says:

    Eurovision 2023: Update expected on host shortlist
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63037204

    So hope Birmingham doesn’t get it (I live there)

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  19. Tabs says:

    Are the BBC bitter?

    Italian elections: Meloni gets to work on picking right-wing government
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63044973

    Including the headline the word ‘right’ as in ‘centre right’, ‘right wing’, ‘far right’ etc. appears 11 times in one article.

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  20. Fedup2 says:

    Much enthusiasm by BbC comrades about the vacuous speech to his party .

    As an anorak – i like to spot the absences –

    The biggest one – border control not mentioned – only a ‘ points based immigration system ‘ .

    Northern ireland not mentioned – brexit was – but the EU wasnt –

    America- biden – not mentioned

    Subsidised fuel bills – no –

    Reducing basic income tax – not …

    UK military – no

    Freedom of speech – no

    Paki rape gangs ? You guess …

    I dont think this stuff matters much because the narrative is now drafted …

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  21. BRISSLES says:

    I listened to the first 5 minutes, and got fed up with the incessant clapping after every 6 words.

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Sorry, I’m utterly confused at this point. Has there been a General Election in Britain today and a combined Labour Party/BBC coalition has assumed power?

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      • JohnC says:

        Their ‘Live Feed’ is nothing but gushing praise of the most ridiculous kind. Headlines such as:

        ‘I wanted substance and I got that’

        ‘I’m hearing a man I understand’ followed by:
        ‘I gave him a standing ovation, which I don’t do for anyone.’

        ‘Rayner says Starmer’s speech was ‘inspiring”

        Since Trump, the BBC have given up any pretence at all of being impartial. They have gradually pushed the red line out one notch at a time to the point where they are now just left-wing activists – and OFCOM are happy with that.

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    • andyjsnape says:

      Brissles, I noticed that too, that Labour has the clap 🙁

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      • Fedup2 says:

        American ‘whooping ‘ is infecting the clapping types – even heard it at the funeral….

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  22. Foscari says:

    Why do the BBC nearly now always use images of 3%
    of the population for public interest issues. such as
    ” How much is your mortgage going to cost.” Please
    would somebody explain it to me?

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  23. Thoughtful says:

    It would appear the Russians have now destroyed the Nordstream one & two pipelines, as it would be impossible coincidence for both to have sprung a leak at the same time.

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/27/nord-stream-1-2-pipelines-leak-baltic-sabotage-fears

    It will now be impossible for Germany to get any gas this Winter even if peace is achieved in Ukraine.

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      A senior member of the White House, who wishes to remain anonymous, chuckles: “Excellent. Our plan to make Europe dependent on high-priced American LPG, whilst destroying them as an economic competitor, is making good progress. Just need to keep up the pressure to stop them doing their own fracking. George, Bill… a bit more money for those bogus environmental groups that you help finance, please.”

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    • Fedup2 says:

      At least the food supply is secure – give or take French food stores …

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      • Terminal Moraine says:

        Yes no shortages there, just as long as you’ve stocked up on your 3D printer meat cartridges from Amazon…

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        • tomo says:

          I knew that 3D printer would have a use one day

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        • JohnC says:

          lol, possibly the most ridiculous article I’ve seen this year.

          Quorn with food colouring.

          Check out the ‘steak’ at the end : it looks like pedigree chum. And wilol taste like nothing. Powerful sauce essential.

          In the video, they try to make it look like it’s hard to cut just like steak. When it lifts, you can see it has no texture and is obviously actually the same as cutting quorn.

          Why not just make big slabs in the same way they make those huge sticks of rock.

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          • Scroblene says:

            Why these ridiculous people cannot make their own ‘food’ names up seems strange to normal citizens!

            A group of friends around here guffaw every time these odddities make up new names for their ‘sausages’ and other planty crap – it’s a running joke!

            (Running as in getting to the loo on time, farting in church, spending lots of rhino on waterproof knickers and also arriving at the chemist for the inevitable supplements)!

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    • tomo says:

      Yeah it was the Russians…

      ‘doze wikkid,wikkid wushinz…

      – and I’m a banana

      Some goons will doubtless be blaming the HMS Prince of Wales broken starboard propeller system on Putin too… – such is the absolute state of our media.

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    • JohnC says:

      What is very suspicious about this is how low-key the story is on the BBC website. It’s only in the side-panes and I bet it drops off altogether in a few hours.

      I don’t see what Russia has to gain by doing this : they can just turn them off and use them as bargaining chips if/when the war stops.

      This has taken that option away and isolates Russia further. I think everyone realises this and that’s why the story is not being pushed. Absolutely everything about this war stinks to high heaven.

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    • tomo says:

      @Thoughtful

      If it was the Russians – one must ask why? – exactly …

      I’m interested where you got the idea from?

      @JohnC – absolutely.

      Explosive charges could’ve been there for months

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      • JohnC says:

        The headline for the BBC article has now changed to:

        ‘Nord Stream: Ukraine accuses Russia of pipeline terror attack’

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    • Broadcasting-on-Behalf-of-the-Caliphate says:

      Victoria Nuland on January 27th, 2022 said the US would stop NordStream 2 if Russia invaded Ukraine. On Feb 7 Joe Biden said the US will stop Nordstream 2 if Russia invaded Ukraine. This is all on record.

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  24. digg says:

    The usual suspect commies in Western media have really got their knickers in a twist over the looming victory by Georgia Meloni. Desperately trying to label her and her party as Fascists.

    They don’t want to accept that her victory is the result of years of left-wing manipulation of the population. Basically, they have had enough of EU domination and the worm is turning.

    I hope this signals a trend in other countries and the bullying Marxist EU gets its come uppance.

    Even better if it coincides with the resurgence of the Republican Party in the USA leading to the annihilation of the Democrats.

    Sanity and true democracy has a way of resurfacing when meddling power-mongers go too far.

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    • vlad says:

      The BBC, as well as lefties like Biden and Turdeau (sic) have so over-used the terms Fascist and Far-right that they’ve lost all meaning, and are now just epithets used to insult people and policies they don’t like, such as the mildly conservative and sensible Meloni.

      PS. Note to snowflake readers and feminists: the image below is pure clickbait, punning on the word meloni. If it offends anyone, good. You’re on the wrong site. Try the Guardian next time.

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    • theisland says:

      https://facts4eu.org/news/2022_sep_far_left_bbc

      “Far right”? “Neo-fascist”? This woman is head of the mainstream and EU-wide European Conservatives and Reformists Party

      The BBC might wish to consider this:
      Giorgia Meloni was elected by Italian voters on Sunday. Her party secured far more votes than any other party. The outgoing Prime Minister is Mario Draghi, former Goldman Sachs banker, former President of the European Central Bank, and loved by EU bureaucrats. He was never once elected, only appointed.

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  25. Terminal Moraine says:

    Community overload again: “Leicester disorder ‘not exclusively’ Hindus and Muslims – police”

    It quotes Chief Constable Rob Nixon: “Actually what we know is that this isn’t representative of all the Hindus, it isn’t representative of all the Muslims. In fact, it’s a small collection of individuals who are connected with [those faiths], but not exclusively… because [some] people that have come to our attention have been linked with the Christian faith.”

    (A piece by Ashitha Nagesh, Community affairs correspondent.)

    I’d like a fact check on that please.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-63038691

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  26. vlad says:

    The lying, biased BBC manage to report on the uprising in the Islamic Republic of Iran (there’s a clue in the name) without once mentioning the words Islam or Islamic.

    (Handy tip for fellow-bloggers: if you do a word search of their article in Word and type in Islam and Islamic, the result comes up: “No matches”.)

    Which is baffling given that the revolt is largely a rejection of the forced imposition of… ISLAM, by the ISLAMO-fascist regime!

    Message to the BBC: instead of looking for non-existent fascism in Italy, Poland, Hungary etc, try muslim countries.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-63047363

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    • MarkyMark says:

      2018 … Woah! BBC are adding Iran into the Yemen reports …. this is new, might be worth Owen Jones taking note.

      “Yemen war: Saudi-backed forces begin assault on Hudaydah port” {bbc.co.uk 13jun2018}

      Article Word Search: Iran x 7; Saudi x 8; Islam x 0 ; Religion x 0; Muslim x 0; Allah x 0; “religion of peace” x 0;

      Yemen …. A Utopia where Sunni Islam mets Shiite Islam.

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/06/13/midweek-open-thread-13th-june-2018/#comment-922777

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    • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

      Another amusing example of the airbrushing out of Islam was on Radio 4’s Start the Week (after 9 a.m. on Monday).

      Hosted by BBC fave Adam Rutherford (I’m told he’s mixed race) from Bradford (vibrant and diverse) it had a section from a lady, one Professor Lawlor, on a project called “Born in Bradford” which tracks the health of people there over the long term. I recall a mention of diabetes, for instance.

      I kept waiting for an oblique reference, if no more, to first- and second-cousin marriage, which is practised by many Mirpuri Pakistani British there and is associated with weakened immune systems, increased infant mortality, organ failure and lower IQs.

      … … … … …

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    The lights over Europe are going out.

    The operator of Nord Stream 1 said the undersea lines had simultaneously sustained “unprecedented” damage in one day.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63044747

    Energy prices have soared since Moscow invaded Ukraine and scarce supplies could push up costs even further.

    There are growing fears that families in the EU will be unable to afford the cost of heating this winter.

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  28. MarkyMark says:

    For the previous four years the gang had relentlessly trafficked her across England, driving her to towns and cities where she was raped hundreds of times in takeaways, warehouses and in empty flats, by men who paid her abusers. The gang of men, of Pakistani heritage, subjected her to extreme violence and regularly poured petrol over her, threatening to kill her if she disclosed the abuse.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63010474

    …..

    Labour – free wifi and green jobs!

    ….

    “It is growing (gang r*pe culture), there’s no doubt about that. A large amount of the growth in my view is about raised awareness.” – Cressida Dick @1:40 {youtube}

    “I don’t think this was a phenomena (gang r*pe culture) that was invented in the last few years. It really wasn’t. It’s been part of our society probably for centuries and centuries and centuries. It’s hard to really know exactly what is really going up and what is changing. ” – Cressida Dick @2:38

    https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/03/18/very-late-weekend-open-thread/comment-page-6/#comment-905958

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    • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

      Dick’s time at Oxford High School and then Oxford University (at the same college, Balliol, where her father taught) clearly didn’t teach her that “phenomenon” is the correct singular form whilst “phenomena” is the plural. On top of the clumsy repetition of “really”, her phrase “centuries and centuries and centuries” is both dishonest hyperbole and absurd at the same time, as she tried to hide the well known identity of the great majority of those convicted.

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    • digg says:

      This section shows the pathetic state of our Police, Courts and Social Services. Just frightened dummies without a shred of backbone.

      “The gang discovered Isobel was talking to the police and began sending her threatening messages. Isobel told the police, but when no safeguarding measures were put in place, she withdrew from the investigation and the case was dropped. She was forced back into a life of exploitation by the gang and she became pregnant. 
      Isobel told her abusers she was expecting a baby, but says as one of them was the likely father, they were fearful that DNA evidence would identify them. She says the gang punched her in the stomach telling her: “I’m gonna beat it out of you – it’ll be the devil child.”
      Isobel suffered a miscarriage and went to a Sexual Assault Centre, where she was finally referred to the NRM. She was also introduced to Jess Phillips, Labour’s shadow minister for domestic violence and safeguarding, who thought Isobel’s case was “so horrifying” that she went to meet her.
      After talking to the MP, Isobel decided to go back to the police and try and get support from the NRM to rebuild her life. But it wasn’t easy. ”I asked my National Referral Mechanism worker about legal aid,” says Isobel. “She started to be angry and was like ‘you don’t need that legal advice, because you’re not an immigrant’.””

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  29. G says:

    Soros backed judges at the ECHR –

    https://eclj.org/ngos-and-the-judges-of-the-echr?lng=en

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    • Philip_2 says:

      Report in Daily Telegraph today.

      The European Union spent almost €1 million funding drag queen shows and other diversity projects aimed at “blurring” traditional gender roles, The Telegraph can disclose.

      The bloc’s taxpayers’ stumped up some €892,050 to help finance the schemes, which promised to tackle issues such as “toxic masculinity” and to establish LGBT-friendly schools across the Continent.

      The battle over woke ideology has become a key political divide between the EU’s founding members and the nationalist governments in central and eastern Europe.

      The cultural split has left Hungary and Poland at loggerheads with the European Commission and Western member states, prompting fears in Budapest and Warsaw their EU funding could be cut in the row over conservative policies on LGBT rights and abortion.

      The revelation over the spending prompted accusations that Brussels is “hell-bent on pursuing a woke agenda”.

      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/09/27/woke-eu-spends-1m-drag-shows-lgbt-projects-tackle-toxic-masculinity/

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Yeah the money was good but I resented having to dress up to get it – and I couldn’t even trouser it

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  30. tomo says:

    The Daily Mirror has a throbbing halfwit writing the Nordstream sabotage up.

    Methane partially dissolved in water is not toxic but will have catastrophic consequences on climate change.

    – as if F-wit Rachael knew anything about breathing methane or atmospheric chemistry.

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    • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

      Indeed. Why “catastrophic”? On the basis of what evidence?

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      • Scroblene says:

        Did the Mirror have lots of brightly coloured pictures, Musters?

        They may have got to several of their ‘readers’ if they did, otherwise, I guess we don’t really have to worry too much!

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    • Thoughtful says:

      https://justenergy.com/blog/what-is-natural-gas-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

      Natiural gas is made up of a number of different gasses, Methane, ethane, butane, and propane.

      Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas compared to CO2 which is a very weak greenhouse gas. It’s 80 times more powerful than CO2 which should by rights give you an insight into the scam of CO2 driven climate change.

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      • Philip_2 says:

        And CO2 is a harmless gas. WE cannot survive without it, and there is no man made global climate change either! Locally yes, as some parts are polluted (but it not Methane or CO2).

        And all gases are natural. Hydrogen is expensive as it keeps drifting off into outer space as its so light. But if you get enough of it and combine it with Oxygen we get water.

        And we all know how dangerous that is.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Any news that omits important context is fake news
      Yes methane is a stronger greenhouse gas
      however *it persists in the atmospheric for far less time than CO2*

      So in a year a bucket of CO2 warms the planet more that a bucket of methane

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  31. Scroblene says:

    Considering the awful BBC’s adoration of some leftie ‘conference’ going on somewhere bleak, it’s a sobering thought that if the labour bunch do eventually get into gummint, they’ll stay there forever as all they’ll do is fill up the civil service, the nhs, the local authorities, the rail network and probably plod, with loads and loads of non-jobs, and never have to go to the vote again, because all their weak-kneed supporters will have these non-jobs for life and will just kow-tow to their leaders!

    Luckily I’ll be long gone by then, hopefully to a place where a decent non-smoky Single Malt is available, and I can start on the Capstan Full Strength again with impunity!

    OK, perhaps 20 Players Gold Leaf as a compromise…

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    • Thoughtful says:

      Makes little difference who is in power. All Labour are saying is they will do exactly what the Tories are doing only more of it in an effort to wreck the country even faster!

      More spending, more debt, more immigration, more illegal immigration, more Green lunacy, more oppression and the Tories if they ever do get back in will just carry on with the program.

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      • Scroblene says:

        Let’s be frank, Thoughtful, forgetting the politicians’ failures, do you prefer Capstan or Players?

        You’re absolutely right of course and by the way, we’ve already bought our funerals and the burning bits afterwards too, so we won’t really care if they’re tipped or untipped, but Senora O’Blene actually preferred Piccadilly tipped, so we may have our first post-sepulchral interlude argument at the nice brightly-cloured kiosk just in from the Pearly Gates!

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  32. Thoughtful says:

    Tomo

    “If it was the Russians – one must ask why? – exactly …

    I’m interested where you got the idea from?”

    Because it’s the Russian way of doing things. Never when they have cut the gas supply have they said we just decided to cut the gas because of your hostile actions, they just don’t behave that way.

    They always blame it on some other issue – every time Oh there’s a storm which damaged the pipeline, we can’t get a compressor back, we have maintenance issues etc etc.

    “German politicians accuse the Kremlin of feigning repairs to retaliate against the EU’s support for Ukraine.”

    https://www.politico.eu/article/gas-leak-detected-near-nord-stream-2/

    It is of course possible someone else did sabotage the pipeline but who would have that technology and why would they do that?

    If Russia is planning a scorched Earth policy that would be a very troubling move on their part especially at this time.

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    • tomo says:

      The pipeline routes are subject to intense surveillance.

      A map of the damage locations has yet it seems to get onto Anglophone media.

      Any Russian assets have dozens of people following them. Yes, there could’ve been charges placed some time ago …

      – beyond coincidence / weird that as the Poles cut the ribbon on BaltPipe on the exact same day the wushin pipe is badly damaged.

      As to who might’ve done it and not in any order NATO, Estonia, some random Ukranians, some ‘merikans – or a combination of those…

      The Russians were happy to turn the tap off and I can imagine a whole slew of technical excuses they could’ve used to further torment the western Europeans.

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      • Thoughtful says:

        Proof the Russians did it (not tobe taken seriously!)

        Putin-takes-dive-in-underwater-submersible.jpg

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        • tomo says:

          There’s a variety of ways the task could’ve been achieved – but why apparently in Swedish / Danish waters at the western end?

          – every kilometer west any Russian goes the more eyes and ears are on them – the Swedes must have hydrophone arrays out (esp after “Whiskey on the rocks” ) as I’d expect he Danes to have done also – esp. as Bornholm has been the subject of some historical argy bargy with the Ivans… – and a recent “incident”.

          The Russians didn’t need to damage the pipe, plenty of other excuses available – Biden’s string pullers on the other hand have quite unconcealed contempt for the German government’s resolve playing hard-ball with Moscow and imho they’ve removed an option from the table for Mutti’s lame successors – who’re already bleating about riots if they have to ration power and massively ransom what little is left…

          Cui bono?

          Some people wanted the bargaining chip of gas supply off the table.

          Pressures Germany and removes Russian ability to manoever.

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    • Broadcasting-on-Behalf-of-the-Caliphate says:

      Victoria Nuland on January 27th, 2022 said the US would stop NordStream 2 if Russia invaded Ukraine. On Feb 7 Joe Biden said the US will stop Nordstream 2 if Russia invaded Ukraine. This is all on record.

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  33. Sluff says:

    The total giveaway about the left wing bias of the BBC is not its coverage of the Labour Party conference per se but the cheery, positive, gleeful, upbeat tone of its coverage.

    Watch the tone change when they cover government activity.

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    • Scroblene says:

      They do the same with the Greens, Sluffy, despite the fact that they’re all eco-loons without a clue what to do if they ever got more than the one seat in awful Brighton!

      Best ignore them really! Pop round and I’ll open another bottle of Fleurie!

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    • StewGreen says:

      The headlines are always
      – Tory (Kwasi Kwarteng etc.) has DEFENDED

      – Labour LEADER Keir Starmer has said
      … here’s a clip with lots of clapping”

      Anyone claiming the BBC is anything other than anti-Tory is gaslighting you.

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  34. Sluff says:

    BBC creaming themselves carefully selecting coffee bar workers who cannot afford a mortgage because of increases in interest rates.

    But…..no mention whatsoever of the other side. Savers, whose returns have been near zero for a decade, eroding year on year. Decent returns for them might be useful, not least private sector pensioners whose inflation protection is capped. Another group the BBC fail to mention.,

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    • harry142857 says:

      How many times can you be sorry.

      From Wiki.

      Racial issues
      Edit
      In April 2016, Huq defended suspended Labour MP Naz Shah during an interview on BBC’s Today programme by comparing “alleged anti-Semitic” posts about Israel shared by Shah on social media to a photo Huq shared of Boris Johnson on a zip-wire next to Barack Obama. She also stressed the fact that Shah’s comments were made before she became an MP and that some online comments should not be taken seriously. Subsequently, Huq was accused of “trivialising racism”.[57][58] Huq later apologised, saying she was not “fully aware” of Shah’s comments before defending her.[59]

      In April 2016, Huq claimed that some areas of television had yet to move forward from the racially insensitive sitcoms of the 1970s. She specifically criticised the BBC comedy Citizen Khan’s “Islamophobic” depiction of a “quite backward” family of Muslims.[60][61][62][63]

      In March 2018, Huq received a suspicious package containing an anti-Islamic letter and sticky liquid. The substance was later found to be harmless. Similar packages were received by fellow Labour MPs Mohammad Yasin, Rushanara Ali and Afzal Khan.[64][65]

      In May 2018, Huq told colleagues in Westminster Hall[66] that BAME MPs regularly have their access to the House of Commons estate questioned.[67] She said: “I have been stopped more times in this place since my election in 2015, than in 43 years outside.” Furthermore, Huq and fellow Labour MP Tulip Siddiq are mistaken for one another, though they do not look alike. Huq added: “I imagine most BME MPs have encountered it in some form or other.”[66]

      In June 2019, Huq was the subject of formal complaints to the Labour Party by two former employees for alleged anti-Semitic behaviour. The Jewish Labour Movement called for her to have the party whip suspended in consequence.[68] The allegations were dismissed due to insufficient evidence. Huq had resigned from Labour Friends of Israel shortly before the allegations were made.[69]

      In September 2022, Huq was accused of making racist comments during a speech at a Labour Party fringe event running parallel to the 2022 Labour Party Conference. Huq said of the Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng, who is Black and a member of the Conservative Party, “Superficially he is a black man… if you hear him on the Today Programme, you wouldn’t know he is black.” In response, figures within the Conservative Party including its Chairman demanded the whip be removed from Huq and her expulsion from the Labour Party.[70][71] Huq was subsequently suspended from the Labour Party for her comments on September 27th 2022.[72]

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  35. StewGreen says:

    ITV local newsPR prog
    FFS 6-6:30 is supposed to be LOCAL news
    cos 6:30-7:30pm is national news

    Yet they keep dropping these nation syndicated items into the local prog

    #1 “Oh here we are in Pakistan isn’t the flood aftermath terrible ?”
    What’s that got to do with local Yorkshire.

    #2 Students are anxious about money
    ITV here are a week behind BBC in cutNPasting PR material put out by some strange lobby group
    Save The Student

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  36. StewGreen says:

    BBC local news “More onshore wind turbines are coming”

    The biased environment reporter starts with an anti wind protester from Nocton Fen
    but having ticked that box, quickly moves on to wind PR person ex-Labour MP Melanie Onn delivering slick PR lines

    Now the studio reporter is talking Mr Hill to the head of Lincolnshire Council who has always opposed onshore wind.
    He is speaking logically
    He said if a local community wants one, the council will concede
    Studio has made a massive lie that wind farms are 10 times cheaper.

    Studio just said “according to this poll from a day or two ago”
    As I mentioned this morning the poll is NOT new

    The item will be picked up on the local politics show on Sunday afternoon

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  37. digg says:

    I listened to an article on extracting the metals needed to make all those lovely electric batteries for cars.

    Apparently the extraction of the four key metals essential to making the batteries are located largely in third World countries where the extraction, particularly by the Chinese is causing catastrophic environmental issues. They have to shift millions of tons of soil and rocks to get the small amount of metals they are after, leaving wastelands, polluted water courses etc. In some areas the locals dig it out themselves with shovels etc. then get it weighed in by the Chinese for a pittance who then ship it to China where making the batteries is where the real money is!

    Not so lovely and green compared to sinking a shaft to take out the coal, ready to use or drilling a bore hole and taking oil straight out of the ground into barrels.

    The public are being duped and sold a pup which will eventually bite back big time.

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  38. Guest Who says:

    Be in no doubt, beyond ideology, money in media drives politics.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/26/2022-midterms-candidates-spend-over-6point4-billion-on-ads-making-race-one-of-the-most-expensive-ever.html

    Those ‘suggested for you’ posts on social media from obscure folk in distant counties about heroic lefties and awful righties do not come cheap.

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  39. Thoughtful says:

    Norwegians are reporting drones buzzing their North sea oiland gas rigs, one within 50metres.

    There are different sizes of drones the small one you see in the shops to the us predator size, what these are is not reported, but there are also submersible drones too.

    If the North Sea rigs are attacked we could be in real trouble this Winter.

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  40. Broadcasting-on-Behalf-of-the-Caliphate says:

    Question: How do I access the comments on the BBC website? I recall there was a special website where BBC articles with comments sections were accessible in a nice format that included deleted comments. I wonder if that site still exists and if so I would be grateful for it.

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  41. Fedup2 says:

    From the DT – let’s have more coloured BBC accents innit –

    STARTS
    Amol Rajan has challenged the director-general of the BBC over “accent bias” among its news presenters, saying it was striking that so many of them talk “posh”.

    Mr Rajan is the first presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme to have a strong south London accent.

    For a forthcoming documentary, he commissioned research which found that 70 per cent of newsreaders across the four main UK broadcasters – BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky – speak with received pronunciation, an accent he said was used by only 10 per cent of the general population.

    The BBC’s well-spoken news anchors include Fiona Bruce and Sophie Raworth on television, and Mr Rajan’s Today programme colleagues on radio, while ITV’s News at Ten is presented by the public school-educated Tom Bradby.

    Huw Edwards, the BBC’s highest-paid news anchor, speaks with a Welsh accent but comes from a middle-class background.

    Mr Rajan confronted Tim Davie with the findings during an interview on stage at a Royal Television Society conference and asked what he planned to do about it.

    We found that 70 per cent of newsreaders spoke in the poshest accent after the King’s English, which is RP (Received Pronunciation). Does that surprise you?” Mr Rajan asked.

    “Not particularly,” replied Mr Davie.

    “Would you like to do something about it?” asked Mr Rajan. “Would you consider giving a main network presenting job to someone with a strong, regional, working-class accent?”

    “Of course,” said Mr Davie.

    “It’s quite striking that it hasn’t happened, isn’t it?” Mr Rajan added.

    “Yeah,” said Mr Davie.

    The director-general said he hoped the situation would change because the BBC was focused on improving the socio-economic diversity of its workforce.

    He said: “There are a couple of things happening. I’ve pushed £700 million of spending outside the M25. It’s changing the BBC.

    “There is a new Radio 1 strand out of Salford. [BBC One daytime show] Morning Live is coming out of Salford. It’s going to happen.

    “I’m absolutely revving on it. The critical thing is that you don’t get a sniff of that slightly patronising ‘London is where the best output comes from’ [attitude]. It’s nonsense.”

    ‘People should have opportunities’

    The BBC has set a target for a quarter of its staff to come from lower socio-economic backgrounds by 2027.

    Mr Davie said that was “because there is a worry in any organisation that groupthink is an issue. I also think it’s just unfair; people should have opportunities.”

    Mr Rajan, who has become one of the BBC’s most high-profile presenters since joining as media editor in 2016, previously made a documentary about social mobility.

    In a past edition of Radio 4’s Start the Week, he argued against modifying a working-class accent. “Isn’t the danger that if you change your accent in different circumstances, there is a sense in which you are compromising your essential self?” he asked.

    “More dangerously, is it loaded with the assumption that accent connotes morality?”

    Elsewhere in their interview, Mr Rajan asked Mr Davie about the BBC’s response to the death of Queen Elizabeth II, and whether the decision to cancel the Last Night of the Proms was the correct one.

    Mr Davie disclosed that the decision was taken partly for practical reasons. The corporation feared it would not have enough outside broadcast trucks for the event, as they were required for royal coverage.

    “We had enormous decisions to make. Do you put on Strictly? Do you do satire? Where do you stop?

    “I think Last Night of the Proms was the most finely balanced one. That was a 50:50 call, but we probably made the right decision,” he said.

    Mr Davie said the corporation had learnt lessons from the 109,741 complaints received about its coverage of the death of the Duke of Edinburgh. Many of those were from Gardeners’ World viewers angry that the show was postponed.

    “Never take off Gardeners’ World, ever,” said Mr Davie. “One of my claims to fame is that I did generate the most TV complaints in history in 24 hours.”ENDS innit

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  42. Broadcasting-on-Behalf-of-the-Caliphate says:

    Victoria Nuland [27th January]: One Way or the Other Nordstream 2 will be stopped.

    Biden pledges end to Nord Stream 2 if Russia invades Ukraine [7th February]:

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    • Thoughtful says:

      That was after Biden broke the CATSA and agreed to Nordstream 2 being completed, then found out what a stupid thing he had done, and rolled back on it.

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  43. Fedup2 says:

    Time for the thread

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