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    • tomo says:
      November 25, 2022 at 6:34 pm

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      Some time back I had a Spanish Civil War book binge and read all I could get my hands on – part way through I saw this Orwell quote – it resonated big time and it forced me to re-read some books with a totally changed perspective.

      Once you see what the BBC is up to – you can’t unsee it.

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      • MarkyMark says:
        November 25, 2022 at 6:47 pm

        2015 … 7 years ago before fake news became fake news …

        Least we forget how it all works … videos, words, pictures … you don’t get to choose the arrangement …

        Chaos as police stop Hungary migrant train – Gavin Hewitt – BBC -Sep 2015 @53s
        “… the a really distressing incident happened. A women who was carrying a small baby began crying for help (photo of lady carrying baby). One of her companions tried to help her (photo of man with women on track, riot police reaching towards them) Somehow there became a push and a shove with the police. She ended up on the railway lines (by the male refugee dragging her and the baby to the floor, but this is not said) with the riot police trying to pull her back, and this of course inflamed all the other people…”
        -Gavin Hewitt – Sep 2015

        Watch the video and the male refugee (companion trying to help?) drags the women and baby to the floor, by force.

        Even the Mirror (03Sept2015) says “… this refugee couple cradle their tiny baby, after throwing themselves (NO! Male refugee drags women and baby onto train tracks) on train tracks as police try to take them to migrant camps in Hungary”

        Gets better. Two days (05Sept2015) later the Mirror then report it as
        “Refugee who dragged pregnant wife and baby son onto train track did it because ‘death would be better’”

        1. BBC Version uses words and pictures to hide the video version
        2. The Mirror shows the video but uses words to tell a different version

        Can I suggest a little story – “Male refugee forces pregnant women refugee holding child down onto a train track, police drag him away for her safety? Riot police then lift women with child off track with tender arms.”

        https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/07/03/start-the-week-open-thread-131/comment-page-3/#comment-849798

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  2. Zephir says:
    November 25, 2022 at 6:06 pm

    “‘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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  3. StewGreen says:
    November 25, 2022 at 6:23 pm

    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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  4. tomo says:
    November 25, 2022 at 6:31 pm

    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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  5. Zephir says:
    November 25, 2022 at 6:48 pm

    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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  6. MarkyMark says:
    November 25, 2022 at 6:51 pm

    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
    …………..

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-nurse-pay-rise-unaffordable-b2233174.html

    …………….

    £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.
    ………………………….

    £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
    ………..
    £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

    ……
    £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

    ……
    £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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  7. Guest Who says:
    November 25, 2022 at 6:52 pm

    Toenails gets compared to Femi.

    …and comes second.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      November 25, 2022 at 7:11 pm

      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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  8. Guest Who says:
    November 25, 2022 at 6:59 pm

    Bob is out. Long live Bob.

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  9. Fedup2 says:
    November 25, 2022 at 7:22 pm

    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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  10. Fedup2 says:
    November 25, 2022 at 7:26 pm

    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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    • MarkyMark says:
      November 25, 2022 at 7:36 pm

      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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    • Nibor says:
      November 25, 2022 at 8:27 pm

      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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  11. MarkyMark says:
    November 25, 2022 at 7:54 pm

    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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  12. MarkyMark says:
    November 25, 2022 at 7:57 pm

    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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  13. MarkyMark says:
    November 25, 2022 at 7:58 pm

    Neil Oliver: This country must awaken to the realisation that we are being taken for fools

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    • Fedup2 says:
      November 25, 2022 at 8:49 pm

      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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  14. digg says:
    November 25, 2022 at 8:07 pm

    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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    • MarkyMark says:
      November 25, 2022 at 8:11 pm

      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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    • Up2snuff says:
      November 25, 2022 at 9:14 pm

      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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      • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:
        November 25, 2022 at 9:41 pm

        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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        • Up2snuff says:
          November 25, 2022 at 9:57 pm

          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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  15. MarkyMark says:
    November 25, 2022 at 8:10 pm

    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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    • tomo says:
      November 25, 2022 at 8:38 pm

      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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  16. tomo says:
    November 25, 2022 at 8:34 pm

    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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  17. StewGreen says:
    November 25, 2022 at 8:50 pm

    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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  18. tomo says:
    November 25, 2022 at 8:58 pm

    Got a laugh out of me ….

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  19. Fedup2 says:
    November 25, 2022 at 10:09 pm

    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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