A gleefully – biased -overtly anti Conservative BBC news presenter – found guilty of bias by the BBC – wasn’t fired – she was suspended for 12 days. She was returned to broadcasting without apology or correction ….
Midweek 9 November 2022
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Couple return to Ukraine due to UK housing costs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-63585701
Good news, bye
Holiday?
RNLI Ferries
Go beyond the headline
It’s not a Ukrainian refugee couple
He’s a British man who had moved to Ukraine
They are both content managers, so that can be done from anywhere
The BBC claim is that they can’t afford the £1,500 accommodation cost in the UK, and will pay £500 in West Ukraine.
Doh accommodation in the UK is expensive but that’s £50 per day.. that’s a hotel price range !
Things don’t cost that much around here
I saw a 2 bed bungalow for £550 just now in a village
That is pretty cheap but my mate pays £375 for his flat
TOADY Watch #1 – it is propaganda time again on the BBC’s TOADY Programme
Let us have Open Borders in the UK, notwithstanding the objection of Torbay’s Local Authority to having another of their hotels requisitioned (a good World War word, that) for use by the Government to house illegal immigrants in. That was in the 7.40 a.m. Newspaper Review. Following TfD in which Richard Harries praised the British people for ‘doing their duty’ to house Ukrainian refugees, there was a discussion about Simon Wolfson’s comments yesterday about letting in more people to the overcrowded UK where we do not have enough houses, schools, doctors surgeries and hospitals to look after them.
Simon Wolfson’s comments betrays a lack of understanding of economics that is very surprising for a retailer. I suspect Next may well be headed for administrative receivership soon. We have 1.3 million unemployed in the UK, and rising, currently being supported by the taxpayer. Why not employ some of them in your stores, Lord Wolfson, and give those unemployed the dignity and prosperity of work? “You know it makes sense.” (WW2)
From 2013
Plus ca change…
“The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent events in Syria and have therefore raised their security level from “Miffed” to “Peeved.” Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to “Irritated” or even “A Bit Cross.” The English have not been “A Bit Cross” since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies nearly ran out. Terrorists have been re-categorized from “Tiresome” to “A Bloody Nuisance.” The last time the British issued a “Bloody Nuisance” warning level was in 1588, when threatened by the Spanish Armada.
The Scots have raised their threat level from “Pissed Off” to “Let’s get the Bastards.” They don’t have any other levels. This is the reason they have been used on the front line of the British army for the last 300 years.
The French government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from “Run” to “Hide.” The only two higher levels in France are “Collaborate” and “Surrender.” The rise was precipitated by a recent fire that destroyed France ‘s white flag factory, effectively paralyzing the country’s military capability.
Italy has increased the alert level from “Shout Loudly and Excitedly” to “Elaborate Military Posturing.” Two more levels remain: “Ineffective Combat Operations” and “Change Sides.”
The Germans have increased their alert state from “Disdainful Arrogance” to “Dress in Uniform and Sing Marching Songs.” They also have two higher levels: “Invade a Neighbour” and “Lose.”
Belgians, on the other hand, are all on holiday as usual; the only threat they are worried about is NATO pulling out of Brussels .
The Spanish are all excited to see their new submarines ready to deploy. These beautifully designed subs have glass bottoms so the new Spanish navy can get a really good look at the old Spanish navy.
Australia, meanwhile, has raised its security level from “No worries” to “She’ll be alright, Mate.” Two more escalation levels remain: “Crikey! I think we’ll need to cancel the barbie this weekend!” and “The barbie is cancelled.” So far no situation has ever warranted use of the last final escalation level.
A final thought – ” Greece is collapsing, the Iranians are getting aggressive, and Rome is in disarray. Welcome back to 430 BC”.
Love it.
INVASION? BUS TRIP?
Today the BBC journalists Michael Keohan and Colin Campbell released a shocking report on the channel crossings. It showed people smugglers selling their wares brazenly in the migrant camps and many children living in unsafe and dangerous conditions, as well as—this is breathtaking—a free French public bus service that migrants can use to travel directly from the camps to the Dunkirk departure beaches. Will my right hon. Friend allow a statement on the issue of tackling the small boat crossings and the Government’s response in their work with France?
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2022-10-13a.258.0#g262.1
SACK THEM ALL!
There’s a judge in the pillory this morning. A judge of sorts. Well, a celebrity judge from a TV talent show…
BGT judge’s vile insults. Belittle Britain (Advertising freesheet Metro)
The Daily Mail climbs up on tiptoe to mount its highhorse and goes for a hoity-toity trot around the tabloid press paddock: After his vile abuse of a BGT contestant, is this end for David Walliams?
You’ll know Walliams for his double act with cheerful baldy Matt Lucas and his catchphrases such as “Computer says no” and “I’m a lay-dee!”
In these days of digital ID, track and trace and trans rights…
Pretty edgy and prescient social commentary material, I think you’ll agree.
The Guardian is rather more measured in its frontpage headline denouncement – although amusingly it purports to categorise the story as news: Walliams’ derogatory remarks about talent show contestants. News page 7
The giveaway Metro provides background and supposed justification for the pile on. This tale dates back to 2020 and relates to a hot mic incident: His slurs were picked up by a mic used to record chats between him and fellow judges… a transcript [was] leaked to a newspaper.
…crude sexual insults… called one elderly performer the C-word three times after he walked off stage… And said of a woman hopeful: ‘She’s like the slightly boring girl you meet in the pub that thinks you want to f*** them but you don’t.’
Leaving aside the evident delight in reprinting those thinly bowdlerised expletives, one asks is this crude comic commentary on talent show contestents not the larger part of the audience entertainment? One recalls the Channel 4 show Gogglebox: What do Britain’s sharpest armchair critics think of our biggest and best TV programmes? A camera records the laugh, cry and comments of the people sitting in front of a television set. (Thank you Channel 4 & IMDb) – very heavily edited, I’m sure.
Star sensitive stories, eh? That’s the term Smita Smitten the celeb-chaser character from Asian skit show Goodness Gracious Me used to use.
The star-sensitive story is of course greater than the sum of its parts if you can name two familiar names: Proud of my Boy George. Mum after star’s Hancock fury (Mirror) – who would have guessed Boy George the cross-dressing Culture Club singer was a mother’s boy?
The Mirror goes back into the archives for a big campaign against The Man: Heroes denied truth. Exclusive: Nuke test scandal. Veterans still fighting to get full medical records 70 years on.
Doesn’t give us much confidence that the Covid inquiry will come clean, does it?
We await the Mirror fearlessly taking up the cudgels on that issue. Except, given the press to a man and the Mirror’s bestest favourite Labour Party were Lockdown-a-philes, it may take another 70 years.
On what planet are they heroes? They were squaddies watching nuclear bomb tests. Hardly hand to hand combat with the japs.
In May last year NHS Test and Trace (NHST&T) was set up with a budget of £22 billion. Since then it has been allocated £15 billion more: totalling £37 billion over two years.
https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/127/public-accounts-committee/news/150988/unimaginable-cost-of-test-trace-failed-to-deliver-central-promise-of-averting-another-lockdown/
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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.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nhs-to-benefit-from-13-4-billion-debt-write-off
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At the time of the 2010 election, estimates of the cost of HS2 ranged upwards of £20bn.
By January 2012, when the broad route of the proposed scheme was in place, this had risen to £32.6bn.
In June 2013, the coalition government increased the overall cost to £42.6bn and in November 2015, when the figures were updated, in line with inflation, to £55.7bn.
The DfT’s latest estimate of the cost of HS2 has spiralled even higher, to between £72bn and £98bn.
But Lord Berkeley, former deputy chairman of the government’s independent review into the project, says it could climb to £107bn.
https://news.sky.com/story/hs2-explained-what-is-it-and-how-much-will-it-cost-11930722
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Five ways to better care for your clothes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3qNJQsn67ZnS5fHLQzX3jKb/five-ways-to-better-care-for-your-clothes
Give it a sniff, and always wash your underwear, apparently
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TOADY Watch #2 – it is propaganda time again on the BBC’s TOADY Programme today as it was yesterday
Tomasz Shafernaker did a hilarious weather forecast yesterday after the 6 a.m. News. He sounded if he did not really believe it was true but he had to say it. He was trying to claim that our nights were incredibly hot at this time of year (no doubt because of global warming and the COP-out to a sunny resort thing) and that night-time temperatures would be in the range of 15/16° to 20°C across the UK. Tomasz’s forecast was a bit wide of the mark yesterday and probably today.
He will have to explain why a central heating thermostat left on 12.5°C fired the central heating into action at 5.40 a.m. yesterday and today. Tomasz will also have to explain why his forecast of extreme night-time temperatures is not in accord with the BBC web-site, which in my estimation, has a 90% record of ‘getting it right’ unlike Tomasz’s forecasts. The BBC’s web-site forecasts are no longer provided by the Met Office which is why they may be more accurate: https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather
I’m white and English. My culture is simply that. I have nothing to defend. I don’t have to justify my beliefs or apologise for my history. If people from a different background, race, culture etc. can’t cope with that then, basically, tough luck. Ethnic minorities have done very well in Western European democracies; they are denied nothing, even though their continuous bleating about racism would have you think otherwise. I do not see them retreating across our continent, in huge numbers, to establish new lives in their ancestral homelands. They are the privileged recipients of all that the west has achieved.
Why do I think the BBC wouldn’t dare interview Kari Lake
or even… Tulsi Gabbard
TOADY Watch #3 – “Crisis?” “What cost-of-living-crisis?”
Aaah, memories of Sunny Jim Callaghan as PM! The BBC News toady: (Warning: if you cannot stand Global Warming and COP Propaganda, look away now.) Global CO2 Emissions are likely to hit a new record and it has been largely due to air travel to Sharm el Shaikh and elsewhere in the world. That news rather gives the lie to ‘the-cost-of-living-crisis’, doesn’t it.
I would remind sceptics that at the start of the UK Lockdown in late-March 2020 due to the WHO Pandemic, something like 400,000 British people were outside the country including many nurses and student nurses. The fact that some nurses are paid £2,500 per locum shift, less of course the Agency fee, revealed in today’s newspapers makes you wonder whether ‘the-cost-of-living-crisis’ truly exists.
…..” makes you wonder whether ‘the-cost-of-living-crisis’ truly exists.”
I tend to agree. Nurses going to food banks ?- do they not have a partner that contributes ? surely if they live alone its cheaper, and I could certainly manage on 30 grand a year. Unless they are BAMEs who send most of their wages “back home” and then queue up to get free food.
Glastonbury tickets at over 350 a pop sold out in 30 minutes. – no crisis there then.
Fans can afford to have a jolly in Qata for the footy – no crisis there either.
I expect I’ll get killed in the rush to get on board ship – so clearly there is still plenty of money swimming about.
I believe that retailers – particularly supermarkets have all contributed to this ‘cost of living’ crisis, because before this term came into being, these huge companies would have had warehouses full of stock that they purchased months beforehand. So as soon as the new phrase was coined, it was a perfect excuse for them to up the prices for more profit – despite paying much less themselves.
People can afford £159 to see dancing dwarfs on BBC!
The campaigning bBC, wait for it, not the cost of living crisis, but now the energy crisis
Energy crisis: ‘My energy efficient home didn’t keep my family warm’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-63568687
Why not go for the full hog, and show your support for Insulate Britain!
I had my occasional 5 minute fix of Toady this morning and was amazed to hear a voice of reason. A doctor with another one agreeing with him, stating that hospitals appear to start to close down around 12 noon on a Friday and remain with minimal staff throughout the weekend. He quoted a hospital having over 70 consultants during the week and only 12 at a weekend.
Now before my next comment, please remember, how huge my pleasure and relief, when Halifax posted on here again after covid. It is still not something I take lightly.
However having been impressed with Toady, the Radio was still turned to 4 when I went out in the car again. Womens’ Hour had a females spokesman (not spokesperson) on encouraging pregnant women (not pregnant people with cervixes) to be covid vaccinated. It is a great shame that the woman (not person) struggled with her English making her (not their) message difficult to understand. It was also a pity that she (not they) were allowed to make claims without question. I have read that there are many more miscarriages and still births at the moment and nobody knows why. It might have been interesting if Emma Barnett had asked the lady about this. But the woman (not person) being interviewed then started talking about the benefit to new born babies if their mother (not sure that isn’t a non-u word these days) had been vaccinated during pregnancy. The lady being interviewed then stated that ‘many fewer babies have needed to be admitted to hospital for covid if the mothers had been vaccinated during pregnancy’. Had I been Emma Barnett, I would have like to have asked what the admission rate for babies with covid was, and the difference between the children of vaccinated and non-vaccinated mums. The lady being interviewed may have been perfectly correct in her claims, but had she been asked the questions, she could have substantiated them.
Deborah, there is no challenging with interviewing presenters now, they just have a tick list of questions to get through before its “and now over to the weather”.
Andrew Pierce – himself a long standing proper journalist was taken to task this morning by Edwina Currie on GBN, – he was ‘interviewing’ an historian cum political commentator (who is a regular on GBN), and she was giving it large about the striking nurses without being challenged on her answers – well not too much anyway. Currie was almost apoplectic when she appeared and yelled at Pierce as to why he didn’t come back at her !
The days of Robin Day and Bernard Levin as political inquisitors are long gone sadly.
Debs, I heard that too and can believe it. The old joke goes: Who, by profession, are the most single figure handicap golfers at the golf club? Answer: NHS Consultants and dentists.
Yesterday some overpaid chief plod constable said plod can’t arrest their way to solving the eco terrorism – well today the eco loons announced they are stopping m25 protests because too many are in prison ( I don’t believe them ) I’d like to hear what the idiot lefty plod has to say now .
Plod really has gone soft on approved types under 12 years of blue labour rule ….
Good picture in the DMail of SEVENTEEN plod standing around on a closed motorway while ONE JSO anarchist stands ‘dangerously’ on a gantry – in …errr….full climbing gear.
Out of shot, maybe twenty thousand members of the public having their lives wrecked.
And if safety is the issue ( it clearly is not) then how are the police accounting for blue light ambulances stuck in the traffic, both on the motorway and in the surrounding gridlock?
Just as I thought. They aren’t.
Totally cretinous from yet another useless public so-called service.
I rang yesterday for an appointment. Nothing urgent but the 1st one available (telephone) was 1st December.
Buy a dinghy – get to Dover – you’ll see an agency (£) doctor tomorrow ….
Today the BBC journalists Michael Keohan and Colin Campbell released a shocking report on the channel crossings. It showed people smugglers selling their wares brazenly in the migrant camps and many children living in unsafe and dangerous conditions, as well as—this is breathtaking—a free French public bus service that migrants can use to travel directly from the camps to the Dunkirk departure beaches. Will my right hon. Friend allow a statement on the issue of tackling the small boat crossings and the Government’s response in their work with France?
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2022-10-13a.258.0#g262.1
And the unceasing investigative journalism of the BBC continues…….
On the BBC webshite, an article about nurses pay.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/63587909
OK, informative up to a point.
Disregarding the query over the choice of starting point ( was it carefully selected just after a big pay rise I ask myself) it appears nurses pay has gone up 20% while inflation has gone up 30%.
Which begs the question – given that taxpayers money has been ploughed into the NHS for the last decade like a sailor on shore leave, and given it has not gone to nurses, then where the f*** has OUR money been spent.
How about it BBC? Too difficult? Or just too embarrassing.
XCLUSIVE NHS is STILL hiring ‘diversity and inclusion managers’ paid up to £76,000 a year despite No10 pledge to scrap roles as part of war on ‘waste and wokery’
There are currently five jobs available in the NHS recruiting diversity managers
They offer salaries of up £76,000 a year with flexible hours and WFH available
It comes despite a No10 drive to crackdown on NHS ‘waste and wokery’ in June
Thinktanks said it was a slap in the face to taxpayers during cost of living crisis
By JOHN ELY SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 11:25, 11 August 2022 | UPDATED: 14:43, 11 August 2022
The overall cost of clinical negligence in England rose from £582 million in 2006 to 2007 to £2.2 billion in 2020 to 2021, representing a significant burden on the NHS. For all claims, legal costs have increased more than fourfold to £433 million since 2006 to 2007.31 Jan 2022
Mark
– the cost should be born by doctors via professional indemnity insurance – just like the rest of us – medics are NOT a special case.
– end of
A Meeting of Minds…………..
After the first embrace from you
My senses knew the look of love was in your eyes. . .
When do blokes ever greet each other like that in the real world?
On @BBCradio2 now
Caller : New survey says 88% of the public are opposed to XR Just Stop Oil
JeremyVine “ooh sounds strange number
probably due to the question
Anyway whatabout Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970”
… FFS of course #FakeNews, not #Based in the real world
Vine is a jerk
I would suggest a Berk, as in Berkeley hunt.
He can’t keep up with the pack on his bike.
BBC Radio 4 World At One WATO .
I could only listen so far but the article about Britain going into recession ended with the conclusion that Britain should be in the EU .
Next item on WATO is are the eco loon protests a Good Thing .They talk to a permanent protester who was at Greenham Common in the early eighties , who lets the cat out of the bag that she is involved with the Just Stop Oil loons . Yes it’s a Good Thing ends the BBC article .
Bias
Next item on WATO is an interview with an ex senior civil servant who has written his memoirs . Something that should be forbidden .
It’s only right that Britain should interfere around the world because of our history and we’ve done so much good .
Why are we supposed to pay the world for what we’ve done I ask myself ?
‘US election: Trump tears into rising Republican rival DeSantis’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-63593457
‘”Ron had low approval, bad polls, and no money, but he said that if I would Endorse [sic] him, he could win,” Mr Trump said. ‘
BBC’S insatiable hate of Donald episode 23,435?
Throw in the use of [sic], generally reserved for those they hate, like the ungrammatical working classes; probably never added for Biden.
With tens of thousands coming over the channel we are running out of hotels to put them in.
As they’re almost all fit young men why not get them working…building hotels.
4000 NHS DOCTORS!
Or prison camps.😀
Problem is they’re all totally untrained and you can’t build things with just labourers, of whom there’s no shortage of anyway.
I thought they were all budding architects?
UK Media work very closely with #GreenBlob PR
Onshore wind is NOT banned
If a person or corp has a big patch of land they could put them up
They don’t cos they are angling for bigger SUBSIDIES
“Unban onshore wind, Labour will do that”
BBC carry the same story
There’s an ITV video
https://m.facebook.com/groups/ScotlandAgainstSpin/permalink/6266537443375265/
Ah John selwyn gummer – the famous feeding a beef burger to his child during mad cow madness – re invented himself as a mad woke green …
Fed:
Get it right, a rich mad woke green.
Follow the money.
Rob – I think he was a model for subsquent lefties wearing the ‘blue labour badge ‘ – like the willets creature – I wonder if the comrades have naughty pictures of them – they certainly got ‘turned ‘… Mrs Thatcher would be spinning …
I believe BBC RadioHumberside has terrible listener numbers
These days if you tweet them, they read it out, cos so few people tweet to them these days.
It’s a bit different when a local sports story comes in
cos suddenly they’ll be a flurry of 20 tweets
They don’t get 100 tweets for anything.
At the same time I know there is something fishy with leftwing Labour tweets. They use bot farms and human Twitterbots.
So yesterday when Starmer was in the area, the presenter tweeted,
‘please tweet in Starmer will answer your questions for 20 mins at 3:30pm’
.. https://www.twitter.com/andycomfort/status/1590635123593998336
He got 754 replies
– about 10 sound like normal listeners who dont like starmer
– about are pro Starmer
– about 700 are anti-Starmer from lefty Labour people saying he’s not lefty enough, not anti Jewish enough, not enough pro Corbyn.. However something strange, those Questions for Starmer mostly came after he was on air.. and are still coming in
So they are not REAL questions at all
They’re either from bots or from people who don’t understand that the Q&A finished 24 hours ago.
TWatO Watch #1 – more propaganda from the BBC
Jonny ‘Disjointed’ Dymond was presenting as the Montacutie is only taking a four day weekend. He was actually quite fluent today. I wonder if the Dalek Impressions are a thing of the past? It was very much a ‘re-join the EU’ dose of propaganda from the BBC with a contribution from and industrialist and another from Lord (Gus) O’Donnell, the highest Civil Servant in the land when Labour were in power. Say no more.
Up2
Guseppe is one of that select ‘ go to’ when they need the familiar rejoin song played ….
….but I heard some one called ‘lord wolf£son ‘ calling for more foreign labour to be imported – presumably the dinghy crew isn’t enough for him …
… and that noise about ‘rejoining the single market ‘ as a back door to full EU membership and the end of the UK is getting louder and more persistent ….
‘Watch: Ukrainians celebrate with soldiers in Kherson’s Freedom Square
The BBC has verified footage of Ukrainians celebrating with soldiers in Kherson’s Freedom Square.
People can be seen cheering and chanting “Glory to Ukraine! Glory to Heroes!”, “Glory to the Armed Forces of Ukraine!”, while another man waves a Ukrainian flag. ‘
Population probably just cheering whichever army is controlling the place, not a bad tactic..
From Telegramm Intel Slava Z :
“🇷🇺⚡For three days, 20 thousand personnel of the RF Armed Forces and 3.5 thousand units of military equipment were withdrawn to the left bank of the Dnieper – military commander of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Sladkov”
Some commentators are wondering how so many troops could leave safely without coming under attack and suffering heavy losses to Ukrainians, with their accurate Himars etc, and why the energy strikes on Ukraine have also suddely stopped.
Proposing there’s some behind the scenes peace agreement going on between Russia and the Globalists, and troops etc are moving to respect these new borders, conditions.
And now it’s just a matter of breaking the news and selling the peace deal to the warmonger public, media etc in the West…
Who knows!
Vlad gonna drop the big one when he gets fed up ?
He’s pulled back from the west bank of Kherson for a good reason, and I don’t think it’s because somebody has told him he’s a naughty boy.
The Ukranians, of course, are pouring civilians into the city, much as they did with the steelworks at Mariupol. If a bad person was doing it, it would be referred to as a “human shield”. I don’t expect to see that viewpoint on the bbc.
Well well, you can take the African out of Africa…
Same as those in the the USA buying mansions with contributions..
is there a common thread here ?
“Black Lives Matter organiser who helped run demo that toppled Edward Colston’s statue is charged with fraud involving fundraiser linked to the protest movement
Xahra Saleem, 22, will appear before magistrates in Bristol in January
The campaigner is charged with two counts of fraud by abuse of position
Avon and Somerset Police investigated a GoFundMe page called ‘BristBLM’
Additional charges relate to Crowdfunder page, ‘Bristol Protestors Legal Fees”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11417065/BLM-organiser-helped-run-demo-toppled-Edward-Colstons-statue-charged-fraud.html
https://www.gbnews.uk/news/gb-news-sees-evidence-of-up-to-6000-migrants-waiting-to-cross-channel-on-small-boats-from-france/386861
Not just allowing but assisting.
The friend of a friend works on the front line of the border patrol – i.e. helping the migrants navigate the sandy beach as they get off the boats. He has laughingly said that the most common ‘professions’ that the migrants claim to be are …….. yep, engineers, doctors and dentists !!! in for a nasty shock then aren’t they.
Responses a mixed back, but on the whole it seems the bbc is a POS.
GW,
Why? Gross ineptitude and mismanagement over decades just catching up. Much, much more to come.
ITV local NewsPR : The first 6 minutes were an Azeem Rafiq special
https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2022-11-11/cricketer-rafiq-and-family-flee-uk-after-threats-over-racism-claims
Three promo tweets
#1 “Azeem Rafiq will leave the UK with his family this weekend because of fears for their safety”
#2 “Azeem Rafiq says he and his family are moving abroad this weekend following a backlash over the Yorkshire Cricket racism scandal.”
#3 “Former cricketer Azeem Rafiq says Yorkshire Cricket club are ahead of the curve when it comes to tackling racism.
In an exclusive interview with Calendar he praised the work done by Lord Kamlesh Patel in his time as chair”
In the interview Rafiq says “While I was away my family home was encircled , looked like they had a weapon”
.. sounds like he’s saying 1 person encircled his home.
His tweets often use “there” instead of “their”
Seems to me it’s not that there is currently a big backlash
But with the Yorkshire Cricket Inquiry about to start a public evidence part.
he’s afraid of what might happen.
There was news earlier this week
“Azeem Rafiq has said he fears being the central witness in a public racism hearing convened by English cricket authorities will make life “worse” for him an… ”
Today the reporter asked about new allegations about new anti-Semitic and fat shaming .. He says that that’s rubbish.
The reporter chose not to restate his offences from 2011 etc.
Springster is toast if this is for real.
Is that a Greta upgrade ?
Significantly higher maintenance at first glance.
There’s a gantry over the M25 waiting for her ….
She does not do gantries.
Best value evva.
But Sophie – that’s aluvlee suit – what shampoo do you use ? Have you got a boy girl it friend ? Are you going in the jungle with the slug. ?
Elswhere – looks like the fix is going in on the Arizona vote using the Biden 2020 method – journalists being excluded – normal stuffing of ballots – count not to be ‘finalised’ until next week – democrat to win by the usual 700 ‘postal ‘ votes …
Best value on Twitter.
Jason knows.
Lol – without price …
Is she by any chance related to the Kardashians?
FTX: Crypto giant collapses into bankruptcy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63601213
“Prior to the meltdown, Mr Bankman-Fried had been one of the stars of the crypto scene, drawing comparisons to investment magnate Warren Buffett, with a net worth estimated at more than $15bn (£12.8bn) as recently as Monday.
But rumours earlier this week that FTX and other firms owned by Mr Bankman-Fried were on shaky financial ground prompted a mass of customers to try to withdraw funds from FTX, an exchange used to buy and sell digital tokens.”
As often with the BBC, either they don’t explain what’s happening – ie the business set up here, or simply don’t understand it themselves.
if an exchange goes bust surely only the money in transaction at the time is lost. Why do people have funds sitting around in there?
Or were people buying shares in this exchange or something.
Fried bankman seems an ideal name for that gambling game …
Assistant commissioner Matt dukes – the met plod apparently in charge of anti terrorism says he wears a vest to simulate the menopause …… it’s in the daily mail online so must be true … elsewhere – Tory ex minister eats kangaroo dick – putin announced as representing Russia in Eurovision …. KFC does a kristalnight chicken special …..
..I always wondered how civilisation was to end …
Then, there is news.
Then, back to da plannit.
Wind farms innit, dragging those lovely warm sea breezes landward.
To be really authentic, you might drop that pesky final ‘t’ in planet, to get “dohwn with da yoot”. So maybe something like ” planni’ “?
The weather eh ?
Like I keep saying – they’re peeing on you and telling you it’s raining.
I see that hottest November night gel Ms Lindrea also typed up an entire piece on Victoria Derbyshire’s shoes
Particle physics next week eh?
You might think that after the 2020 US election mess that CCTV might be a priority ….
– not a bit of it….