“‘Loser keeps James Corden’: England taunts America ahead of World Cup clash tonight – but US football fans hit back the game should be renamed SOCCER if they win”
7:30pm C4 A report on Gaza’s underground art scene, within which young Gazans are trying to express themselves in the face of an Israeli blockade.
As Jonathan Miller discovers, simple pleasures – such as going to the cinema or putting on a play – can be a risky endeavour.
Nineteen-year-old singer and actress Rahaf, is just one person whose career has been forced underground, running the gauntlet of Gaza’s morality police
It would seem that as Musk prises the extravagantly nail art-ed thumb off the scale – YouTube start dicking about with embedded videos and content listings.
I haven’t dug very far but had several failures over the last week where I’d expect an embedded video player and there ain’t one – subjectively on the sort of topic that a paranoid person might expect. Could be other causes …
I’ve also seen the YT “banal old crap” distract-o-meter has dialed up several notches and subscribed channels dropped off noticeably – in my case Fox News looks to have been “de-boosted”.
Our government attempt to police the internet using the excuse of “childrens’ safety” ? ???
Or the thin end of the wedge, China and North Korea do this also:
“Relief as internet safety bill takes step forward and could start moving through Parliament in ten days
Long-awaited Online Safety Bill set to be reintroduced to Parliament in ten days
Internet safety campaigners welcomed the news as a ‘huge relief’ for parents
Legislation will require social media sites to protect users from harmful content
Ofcom will act as a regulator and have the power to give companies hefty fines ”
1765 …. In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.They may use a pen or their voice, and should not be prevented from writing any more than speaking …That is the law in England, a monarchical country, where people are freer than elsewhere because they are more enlightened. – Voltaire, Republican Ideas, 1765
2018 … In addition to reporting hate crime, please report non-crime hate incidents, which can include things like offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing. Hate will not be tolerated in South Yorkshire. Report it and put a stop to it #HateHurtsSY – UK South Yorkshire Police, 2018
£13bn
In April 2020, the Health Secretary announced that over £13bn of NHS debt would be written off and converted to public dividend capital (PDC). This was part of a wide range of financial measures the Government brought in for health and social care during the current pandemic.
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The annual spend for translation and interpreting at the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) reached GBP 65.96m (USD 82.88m) in 2019/2020. This, according to a new report analyzing data from 244 NHS Trusts and Health Boards in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
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£37 billion
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.
No disrespect Nick, but someone like @Femi_Sorry would've completely dismantled Gove's time wasting waffle there. You actually allowed him to say "… Make our rivers cleaner" 😂
Londoners think rivers are other peoples problems.
Every day, around three million litres of sewage is emptied into the Ganges – and only about half of that has undergone any kind of treatment. The river’s waters are so dirty that it’s considered one of the most polluted waterways in the world.20 Jan 2022
No disrespect Nick, but someone like @Femi_Sorry would've completely dismantled Gove's time wasting waffle there. You actually allowed him to say "… Make our rivers cleaner" 😂
“In biology, evolution is not what we (Islamic Teachings) believe”@0:58 {bbc.co.uk – 09Jun2014 – From the section Education }
Michael Gove on extremism in schools: ‘We have to act’ “It is important that no-one allows concern about these finding to become a pretext for criticism of Islam itself,” he added.
– this was in 2014 – have things changed or been forgotten?
Let me get this right . The USA play against the woke millionaires . Before the start the wokes ‘take the knee’. Yet the nation which start the vacuous thing stand there looking at these fools ….
How does that work/woke?
Not the BBC . The emir of londonistan has announced that the clean air zone will be extended to the whole of londonistan from August 2023. Any unapproved motor vehicle using / moving inside londonistan will have to pay £12.50 to do so .
This directly affected me because my car was declared ‘unapproved ‘ . So I’ve sold it and only have a motor scooter now . The tax on the bike is double of my car ….
The air quality won’t improve . It’s just another source of revenue to fund TFL … I think about leaving England permanently more and more …
Glad I got my £2k diesel fraud pay out though …
Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London): It is part and parcel of our lives as Londoners not to be complacent. It is part and parcel of our lives to be vigilant. It is part and parcel of our lives to co-operate with the MPS. It is part of parcel of our lives to recognise that the bad guys want to cause us damage. It is not being fatalistic. It is a reality. It is not just my words. The security threat is severe. The Commissioner of the MPS has said similar. When I speak to friends in Berlin, New York, Nice, Istanbul, Orlando, Brussels, Paris, Copenhagen, Sydney, Ottawa and Boston, it is not being fatalistic, Peter. It is recognising we have to do our bit as citizens of this great city to keep us safe.
In December 2021, The Telegraph reported that it was understood that Harries was the source of a contested figure that there was an average 17-day delay between infection and hospitalisation for COVID-19, used by Health Secretary Sajid Javid. Former Treasury statistician Simon Briscoe was quoted as saying that the figure seemed like either a “deliberate statistical sleight of hand designed to deceive, or incompetence” and that if deliberate, officials were “in effect trying to buy time, as officials realise that data of rising hospitalisations is needed to justify lockdown”.[26]
In March 2021, the Public Accounts Committee criticised “persistent reliance on consultants”, stating that 2,500 were being used at an average cost of £1,100 per day each.[19]
digg, I’m up in the Canterbury area of the south-east and I have noticed that the Met Office weather forecasters on BBC R4 are exaggerating the temperatures for the south-east by a couple of degrees.
Your exchange with Digg is interesting. Previously I had always assumed that the weather, like the sports results, would be immune to very much manipulation. But weather is part of “climate” so this may no longer apply. Some have noticed weather-people saying things like “chilly” when it’s cold but that may just be a more informal style. I did think the hysteria about those two hot days in July was excessive. The global warming scare stories do seem to abate somewhat when hot weather isn’t on people’s minds any more, e.g. in Autumn and Winter.
Mustapha, the Met Office guys have been very busy in November trying to claim that November 2022 “is the warmest evvah”. Could it just be because COP27 has been on? I think so, while it was on it was noticeable the stress that was put on temperature. Attempts to disguise it in their voices didn’t seem to work because the positioning in the script gave the game away as far as I was concerned. As I have posted before, radio is an unforgiving medium.
The academic science treadmill of research / publish / promote is producing it seems something resembling a Daily Mail web page where diametrically opposed sets of “facts” are presented absurdly side by side with near zero common sense (or even vestigial comprehension) on show.
What on earth was Trump thinking ? – “Ye” hasn’t exactly been stable over the last six months or so… – it might be that the reporting is skewed but you’d easily think anybody involved with the Kardashian clan would be political kryptonite and to be handled extremely carefully ….
BBC4 9pm Word Up! Black American Pop at the BBC
10pm Whitney at the BBC : A celebration of Whitney Houston
10:30pm Queens of Soul : With Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack, Gladys Knight, Randy Crawford, Beyonce
11:30pm Lionel Richie at the BBC
Fedup2Dec 27, 13:09 Christmas 2024 A-ardently some democrats are going to try to ban presidenr trump from office on the 6th January ….whats that thing…
Eddy BoothDec 27, 12:57 Christmas 2024 A not entirely convincing Christmas tale, of how a thugs lifelong miscreant behaviour has been cured by working day release…
moggiemooDec 27, 12:56 Christmas 2024 At least he was having fun with the money and not spending it on frivolities.
moggiemooDec 27, 12:48 Christmas 2024 It just needs 3 of you to lift it up to pour the tea.
GDec 27, 12:26 Christmas 2024 Judging by the face and eyes, isn’t that his current then younger wife?
GDec 27, 12:21 Christmas 2024 I’ve got one which remains handy if I use a teapot which is rarely these days as all visiting friends…
“‘Loser keeps James Corden’: England taunts America ahead of World Cup clash tonight – but US football fans hit back the game should be renamed SOCCER if they win”
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James Corden Net Worth
$70 Million
https://wealthygorilla.com/james-corden-net-worth/
James Corden Makes Impassioned Plea Urging British Voters to Remain in European Union
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/eu-referendum-carpool-karaoke-host-james-corden-makes-impassioned-plea-for-britons-to-vote-remain-a7098256.html
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7:30pm C4 A report on Gaza’s underground art scene, within which young Gazans are trying to express themselves in the face of an Israeli blockade.
As Jonathan Miller discovers, simple pleasures – such as going to the cinema or putting on a play – can be a risky endeavour.
Nineteen-year-old singer and actress Rahaf, is just one person whose career has been forced underground, running the gauntlet of Gaza’s morality police
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The obsession with the Israel – Gaza border routinely swamps any mention of the other border
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Ukraine border – sacred.
UK border – porous.
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Why are they using the word ;actress, when they have recently called female players on the stage and screen ;actors ?
Afraid of something?
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It would seem that as Musk prises the extravagantly nail art-ed thumb off the scale – YouTube start dicking about with embedded videos and content listings.
I haven’t dug very far but had several failures over the last week where I’d expect an embedded video player and there ain’t one – subjectively on the sort of topic that a paranoid person might expect. Could be other causes …
I’ve also seen the YT “banal old crap” distract-o-meter has dialed up several notches and subscribed channels dropped off noticeably – in my case Fox News looks to have been “de-boosted”.
Anybody else seen this?
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Talking of Orwell:
Our government attempt to police the internet using the excuse of “childrens’ safety” ? ???
Or the thin end of the wedge, China and North Korea do this also:
“Relief as internet safety bill takes step forward and could start moving through Parliament in ten days
Long-awaited Online Safety Bill set to be reintroduced to Parliament in ten days
Internet safety campaigners welcomed the news as a ‘huge relief’ for parents
Legislation will require social media sites to protect users from harmful content
Ofcom will act as a regulator and have the power to give companies hefty fines ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11467369/Internet-safety-bill-takes-step-forward-start-moving-Parliament-ten-days.html#comments
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1765 …. In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.They may use a pen or their voice, and should not be prevented from writing any more than speaking …That is the law in England, a monarchical country, where people are freer than elsewhere because they are more enlightened. – Voltaire, Republican Ideas, 1765
2018 … In addition to reporting hate crime, please report non-crime hate incidents, which can include things like offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing. Hate will not be tolerated in South Yorkshire. Report it and put a stop to it #HateHurtsSY – UK South Yorkshire Police, 2018
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/09/09/start-the-week-open-thread-10-september-2018/#comment-941331
report non-crime hate incidents
report non-crime hate incidents
report non-crimes
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Nadine Dorries uses TikTok rap to explain Online Safety Bill
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/nadine-dorries-tiktok-secretary-of-state-bill-conservative-b2089200.html
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Rishi Sunak says nurse pay rise demands ‘obviously unaffordable’
Nurses want an above inflation pay rise to help plug tens of thousands of vacancies
Jon Stone
Policy Correspondent
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-nurse-pay-rise-unaffordable-b2233174.html
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£13bn
In April 2020, the Health Secretary announced that over £13bn of NHS debt would be written off and converted to public dividend capital (PDC). This was part of a wide range of financial measures the Government brought in for health and social care during the current pandemic.
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£100MILLION
‘Wasteful’ NHS spent £100MILLION on prescription paracetamol, aspirin and ibuprofen last year that can be bought for pennies over counter — and £10,000 on COCAINE
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10900889/NHS-spent-nearly-100MILLION-prescribing-paracetamol-aspirin-ibuprofen-year.html
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£77K
Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
https://uk.talent.com/view?id=1e1534029df0&utm_campaign=google_jobs_apply&utm_source=google_jobs_apply&utm_medium=organic
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£46 million
Art curator is just one of a thousand NHS ‘non-jobs’ costing taxpayers £46 million
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/467993/NHS-scandal-of-one-thousand-non-jobs-that-cost-taxpayers-46-million
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£65m
The annual spend for translation and interpreting at the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) reached GBP 65.96m (USD 82.88m) in 2019/2020. This, according to a new report analyzing data from 244 NHS Trusts and Health Boards in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
….
£37 billion
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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Toenails gets compared to Femi.
…and comes second.
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Londoners think rivers are other peoples problems.
Every day, around three million litres of sewage is emptied into the Ganges – and only about half of that has undergone any kind of treatment. The river’s waters are so dirty that it’s considered one of the most polluted waterways in the world.20 Jan 2022
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Bob is out. Long live Bob.
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“In biology, evolution is not what we (Islamic Teachings) believe”@0:58 {bbc.co.uk – 09Jun2014 – From the section Education }
Michael Gove on extremism in schools: ‘We have to act’
“It is important that no-one allows concern about these finding to become a pretext for criticism of Islam itself,” he added.
– this was in 2014 – have things changed or been forgotten?
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/10/09/start-the-week-open-thread-146/#comment-872292
Jacob Rees-Mogg said that anti-Islamic comments have no place in society and people had thoughts
thoughts
thoughts
thoughts
https://www.indy100.com/news/jacob-rees-mogg-anti-islamic-comments-afd-8878966
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Pakistan: man sentenced to death for blasphemy on Facebook
Taimoor Raza was found guilty of insulting the prophet Muhammad during an argument on social media with a counter-terrorism official
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/11/pakistan-man-sentenced-to-death-for-blasphemy-on-facebook
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Iran pushes app with ‘Death to America’ emoji
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-43891478
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Google Search and Douglas Murray book ‘The madness of crowds’
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Let me get this right . The USA play against the woke millionaires . Before the start the wokes ‘take the knee’. Yet the nation which start the vacuous thing stand there looking at these fools ….
How does that work/woke?
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Not the BBC . The emir of londonistan has announced that the clean air zone will be extended to the whole of londonistan from August 2023. Any unapproved motor vehicle using / moving inside londonistan will have to pay £12.50 to do so .
This directly affected me because my car was declared ‘unapproved ‘ . So I’ve sold it and only have a motor scooter now . The tax on the bike is double of my car ….
The air quality won’t improve . It’s just another source of revenue to fund TFL … I think about leaving England permanently more and more …
Glad I got my £2k diesel fraud pay out though …
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Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London): It is part and parcel of our lives as Londoners not to be complacent. It is part and parcel of our lives to be vigilant. It is part and parcel of our lives to co-operate with the MPS. It is part of parcel of our lives to recognise that the bad guys want to cause us damage. It is not being fatalistic. It is a reality. It is not just my words. The security threat is severe. The Commissioner of the MPS has said similar. When I speak to friends in Berlin, New York, Nice, Istanbul, Orlando, Brussels, Paris, Copenhagen, Sydney, Ottawa and Boston, it is not being fatalistic, Peter. It is recognising we have to do our bit as citizens of this great city to keep us safe.
https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/2017/0322
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Three women among dozen publicly flogged in Afghanistan – Taliban official
Published
1 day ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-63736271
….
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When I ran a trucking company I registered the trucks abroad .
No huge vehicle tax , no parking fines , no speeding tickets .
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In December 2021, The Telegraph reported that it was understood that Harries was the source of a contested figure that there was an average 17-day delay between infection and hospitalisation for COVID-19, used by Health Secretary Sajid Javid. Former Treasury statistician Simon Briscoe was quoted as saying that the figure seemed like either a “deliberate statistical sleight of hand designed to deceive, or incompetence” and that if deliberate, officials were “in effect trying to buy time, as officials realise that data of rising hospitalisations is needed to justify lockdown”.[26]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Harries
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In March 2021, the Public Accounts Committee criticised “persistent reliance on consultants”, stating that 2,500 were being used at an average cost of £1,100 per day each.[19]
NHS Test and Trace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_Test_and_Trace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Harries
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Neil Oliver: This country must awaken to the realisation that we are being taken for fools
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Problem is that it is largely 2 party tribalism . There’d need to be a real alternative to break through red / blue Labour …
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The BBC obviously live in a different country also called the UK,
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63754070
“UK sees second spring etc. etc. bollox bollox……”
Lots of pictures of exotic flowering plants and all…
I live on the South Coast and it’s been bloody freezing cold here for the last week! Colder than most Novembers I can remember in fact!
Plus we now face December and January when Jack Frost really takes over!
Wishful thinking by their junior greens I expect!
Or else they are just bloody lying!
Shssss don’t mention the cold!
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Climate change can increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events – such as flooding and extreme heat in the UK.
Climate change .. due to China – nuke CHina to end the war.
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digg, I’m up in the Canterbury area of the south-east and I have noticed that the Met Office weather forecasters on BBC R4 are exaggerating the temperatures for the south-east by a couple of degrees.
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Your exchange with Digg is interesting. Previously I had always assumed that the weather, like the sports results, would be immune to very much manipulation. But weather is part of “climate” so this may no longer apply. Some have noticed weather-people saying things like “chilly” when it’s cold but that may just be a more informal style. I did think the hysteria about those two hot days in July was excessive. The global warming scare stories do seem to abate somewhat when hot weather isn’t on people’s minds any more, e.g. in Autumn and Winter.
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Mustapha, the Met Office guys have been very busy in November trying to claim that November 2022 “is the warmest evvah”. Could it just be because COP27 has been on? I think so, while it was on it was noticeable the stress that was put on temperature. Attempts to disguise it in their voices didn’t seem to work because the positioning in the script gave the game away as far as I was concerned. As I have posted before, radio is an unforgiving medium.
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Scientists say eight glasses of water a day may be too much
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-63755475
Scientists
may
Scientists
may
Scientists
may
New research has found that the recommended eight glasses of water a day may be too much.
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The academic science treadmill of research / publish / promote is producing it seems something resembling a Daily Mail web page where diametrically opposed sets of “facts” are presented absurdly side by side with near zero common sense (or even vestigial comprehension) on show.
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Crikey = just bonkers…..
What on earth was Trump thinking ? – “Ye” hasn’t exactly been stable over the last six months or so… – it might be that the reporting is skewed but you’d easily think anybody involved with the Kardashian clan would be political kryptonite and to be handled extremely carefully ….
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BBC4 9pm Word Up! Black American Pop at the BBC
10pm Whitney at the BBC : A celebration of Whitney Houston
10:30pm Queens of Soul : With Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack, Gladys Knight, Randy Crawford, Beyonce
11:30pm Lionel Richie at the BBC
BTW they are all repeats
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Got a laugh out of me ….
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Good result for woke united – meaning there is still a chance that they might be on the carbon neutral jet back to Blighty next week .
New thread time …
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