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While many commentators are incandescent about the latest episodes of Harry and Meghan, the BBC’s reaction seems somewhat muted, even favourable towards the odious couple.
In the BBC’s ‘analysis’, it gives the last word to the Ginger Whinger: “And as Prince Harry said, Meghan could have been a huge asset for an institution wanting to widen its appeal.”
Yes, you see, it’s the royals’ fault they didn’t make the most of the wonderful ‘diversity’ on offer; what an asset that would have been according to the Beeb, where diversity = good, always.
Finally, here’s a parting thought on the whole fiasco. Meghan blames the Mail for her miscarriage because of all the stress it caused her. By the same token, couldn’t Meghan be blamed for the deaths of Prince Philip and the Queen because of all the stress she caused them?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-63975671
Good points all but great point, vlad, that last one.
Same here, Uppers!
The awful beeboids are only ‘following’ the story by a private enterprise, not leading the conversation as they should, especially as they’re comfortable in their tax-paid, bloated organisation.
It’s never going to be easy, with so much money being splurged on their poor service, trying to emulate a commercial service which actually does what its contributers wants!
BBC = public sector = waste, and just cut and paste the stuff when it suits them.
Tunisians, Algerians and Egyptians were in Cafe Prego. “We are all one nation”, said one fan who believes the tournament in Qatar has been the best World Cup ever and has united London’s Arab diaspora.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-63978932
BBC to the rescue?
https://www.analyzingamerica.org/2022/12/677010/?
AOC’s New Movie Tanks At the Box Office — Less Than $10k at 120 Theaters
Worked for Harry and Me… oh.
This is the trouble with thinking media attention equates to public support.
Those are Newsnight numbers.
Justin on a flight over to do a ‘special’.
His latest effort got almost 20 reactions.
FCA fines HSBC Bank plc £63.9 million for deficient transaction monitoring controls
https://www.fca.org.uk/news/press-releases/fca-fines-hsbc-bank-plc-deficient-transaction-monitoring-controls
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BBC Pushing for ‘DEC charities unite to launch Rohingya crisis appeal’ {bbc.co.uk 04oct2017}.
Part of the DEC group is ‘Islamic Relief‘ who offer charity around the world, but seem to be Muslim focused disasters.
‘Islamic Relief‘ – promoted by BBC £3.5bn News Service, used charity money to promote Islam on London buses, HSBC bank dropped dealings with them, the UK government (taxpayer) funded them and they publicised a hate preacher. {old post – buying the rope to hang you…}
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/10/04/mid-week-open-thread-127/comment-page-2/#comment-871486
TWatO Watch #1 – screaming at getting bad reviews
Yes, the shy couple have been publicising themselves again and wearing their hearts on their sleeves. Jonny Dymond, BBC Royal Editor, is not a fan, apparently. The shy couple ought to be aware that the public can quickly bore of such bleatings. The BBC did them no favours, playing audio excerpts which testify to a certain creative imagination on the part of both halves of the shy couple that are just not credible.
The actress is obviously benefitting from an incredible imagination which the public may not be able to comprehend. She claimed that she considered killing herself because of the ‘bad notices’ she was getting from The Firm. Also she claims she had a miscarriage because of “the play wot they wrote” in the Daily Mail. My advice? Luv, whatever you do, accept no invites to perform on Broadway. And do not do any TV or films in LA or elsewhere. You might appear in ‘a turkey’. If you are that fragile, give up your career, live quietly, raise your children and enjoy your wealth.
Either that or never read any ‘notices’ ever again. Speaking for myself, I would be very, very, happy if you gave up acting and I never heard of you or saw pictures of you again.
Now on to the military man. Your testimony is not credible either; I do not believe you. You claim that in a room with Her late Majesty, the Queen, her heir to the throne, your father, with your brother also present that your brother “screamed at you.” I just don’t buy that. Firstly, while it is just in a family context, it is not an ordinary family and certain behaviours have to be engaged in, respected, while the Monarch is present. Secondly your older brother is also a trained military man, if I’m not mistaken, and would not just respect that authority of the late Queen but also have a measure of self control.
But even if your claim is true, which I seriously doubt, you have served in the military and served in the military in a theatre of war. Screaming is something that military men are subjected to while training. Then again in combat operations I can imagine some orders are not given in the softest of tones, as Sgt. Wilson did in Dad’s Army “I say, would you mind awfully, if I asked you to fall in.”
I do not believe you as a couple. I would be very happy not to write posts about you. I would be very happy if you went for that ‘quiet life’ that you seem determined not to engage in at all.
They can rant all they want, because at the end of the day, what else have they got when all the whingeing has been exhausted ? They won’t be in the company of the Royal Family in the foreeseable future, so any future moaning will only be seen as yesterday’s news, and certainly they have nothing else that Netflix will want, and then where will their big pay days come from ? None of the film studios will want to part with megabucks for ‘their story’ so they had better start saving the pennies for the rainy days ahead.
My prediction is when the money starts to dry up, and King Daddy won’t bail them out to pay the mortgage on Montecito, then she’ll be eyeing up the next potential multi millionaire mug to carry on with her lifestyle.
Brissles, my dear old thing (will England win three Test matches in a row?) you could be right about the Shy Couple. Boredom may set in very quickly with the British public, especially when there are the fragrant Wills and Kate and family to provide an alternative.
BBC webshite advises the rubber cross channel ferry which sank the other night had eight children on board.
Subtext-let everybody in.
Not asked.
1. Why were these children on the boat in the first place? France is a decent country. Just look at its football team. It even outperforms countries with large Arab and Muslim populations. Hardly worth dying for.
2. If they were unaccompanied where did they get the money to pay the traffickers?
3. If accompanied why are the parents or those in loco parentis not facing prosecution for putting children at risk? As I would if I had left my kids out in the garden last night.
All these ‘investigative’ BBC journalists and yet so little investigation.
Now let me get this straight.
Harry Windsor, who did two tours of Afghanistan, was deeply worried because his brother was shouting at him.
Errrrrrr, nope, I don’t get it.
Let me get this straighterer.
A bloke with an elder brother comes out with this as the latest #prasnews bite?
As the father of two boys… 🤣
Meanwhile, the world envies on…
The replies are at least neatly set up.
Someone is a fan.
Thanks but no thanks, BBC. Am not interested in the shy couples whinges.
Pass the sick bucket.
Not up on the latest patois, but is the Graun ahead of the pack, or behind it a long way?
Extremely light on telling us any reasons why she hit that boy. Just matter-of-fact description of what she did. When either arse cheek (Graun or BBC) does that, it means they don’t want you to know.
The paragraph ‘Steve George, defending, successfully applied to the court to ban Johnson’s full address from being published because she has received death threats.’ paints it’s own picture of racism.
Women hits white boy, doesn’t have a ring to it
Black = racist
White = oww it doesn’t matter
La vie en W1A.
Maybe next awards, an under counter for best swerve?
@Guest Who – Re. Riots after France v Morocco.
I hate to say “I told you so”, but I told you so.
At 7.51pm yesterday, while the game was still in play, I posted a threefold prediction:
– That there would be trouble by the enrichers, no matter who won.
– That the BBC would avoid reporting the disturbances, or at least play them down…
– Unless it could pin the blame on the far-right.
Call me Nostradamus, but I was spot-on on all 3 counts.
– There were riots
– The BBC played them down. They even had the ‘couilles’ to use the old George Floyd euphemism (lie) of ‘mostly peaceful’: “Celebrations in cities across France were largely peaceful”.
– And they blamed the far-right: “…although police used tear gas to halt trouble involving far-right youths in the centre of Lyon.”
Below is my verbatim post from yesterday:
Lots of Moroccans live in France, so maybe there’ll be rioting after the game, whoever wins.
Which the BBC won’t cover, of course, unless they can blame it on those racist French.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63983728
We can be sure the Saturday meeting of Croatia and Muslims United will be mostly peaceful – I bet the ITV / BBC woke coverage will go overboard in the ‘first African country ‘to do this or that ……
Any Muslim who becomes a ‘victim’ of mostly after game interacts will get the full treatment . France , of course , will win the World Cup …again …. Watching them shows the woke United boys are years behind them – likely to score on penalties … or not …
Part of an article from the excellent Hugh Fitzgerald in “Jihad Watch” on 14 Dec, before France’s 2-0 semi-final win over Morocco.
“… … …
“Morocco’s World Cup victory sparks fresh riots as fears grow over upcoming France vs. Morocco match,” by John Cody, ReMix News, December 12, 2022:
From Brussels to Paris, people took to the streets after Morocco’s victory over Portugal in the World Cup, but perhaps the largest gathering featured 20,000 people o[n] the Champs-Élysées in Paris, with celebrations eventually devolving into running street battles with police.
In videos seen by hundreds of thousands on social media, crowds of revelers are seen throwing bricks and bottles and shooting firework mortars at police, who were forced to don riot gear and charge the crowd to restore order. In the videos, police strike rioters with batons and deploy tear gas.
Crowds turned quickly into rioters on the Champs-Élysées, attacking the police with bricks, bottles, and firework mortars. The police had to put on riot gear in order to charge these crowds of Arabs running amok, using tear gas and batons to subdue them. This violence got little coverage outside France, with the international media preferring to paint a picture of crowds of Arabs happily, peacefully, celebrating Morocco’s victory. The throwing of bricks and bottles by revelers who had turned into rioters, the tear gas and batons the police needed to subdue them – none of that was mentioned.
Le Parisien reports that more than 1,000 police were mobilized on the streets of the French capital, and by evening, several main roads leading into Paris were closed to avoid traffic jams.
Morocco at Portugal in the World Cup on Saturday [won] 1-0 to reach the semi-finals of the World Cup, and France beat England in the evening’s match, which means France and Morocco will now face off against one another in the upcoming World Cup. The scenes of violence in the capital for a game that did not even involve France playing Morocco are raising fears that the upcoming game could lead to an explosive security situation.
In other French cities such as Lille, police were also attacked by Moroccan fans, who rolled trash bins into police lines and hurled projectiles. Police responded with stun grenades and tear gas.
In Avignon, a video of Moroccan fans looting a truck was uploaded to social media. It is unclear if any arrests were made in connection with the incident.
In Roubaix, Moroccan fans jumped on top of a police vehicle and danced on its roof while officers were attempting to drive through the crowd.
Critics of mass immigration have pointed to the ongoing riots that now occur every time Morocco wins a World Cup match, which have now hit Europe four times and have struck Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Spain, as part of the growing evidence that integration and multiculturalism have failed.
… … …”
One for someone at the BBC to investigate; perhaps a reporter with a foot in both camps, as it were, such as Mishal Husain?
But while it’s fun to mock the vile BBC, there is a tragic twist to this story. Namely that a 14-year-old boy was killed when a car draped in a French tricolour “was surrounded by people who then grabbed the flag. The driver then appeared to panic, accelerating into two teenagers.”
“People”, eh? I wonder who those “people” might be? (Or is it rude to ask where people are from these days, post Ngozy Punani?)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63983728
I’ve been meaning to post something about an item on GBNews a couple of days ago.
There was a ridiculous woman who I think was a motoring Journalist being interviewed. She extolled the virtues of EV cars. “far cheaper than running an IC car” but it’s very cold at the moment so cut down on the use of heated steering wheel and heating to extend the range”. Heated steering wheel? I’m lucky if I can afford to put four legal tyres on my car. She seemed to have zero connection with people living in the real World many of whom are running sub £1000 cars. As it stands there will be no internal combustion cars produced after 2030, at least that’s the plan. That’s seven years from now. I think many of us will find that we will eventually be unable to run a car,
Flotsam, are you perhaps misremembering this Erin Baker piece
where the presenter briefly mentioned heated steering wheels ?
She’s from Auto Trader yet talks like an electric car PR person.
I guess Electric Car advertising dominates Auto Trader’s income
On Monday Steve Fowler the Auto Express guy was on R4 You and Yours
acting like an electric car PR man
“oh no people can’t be losing interest in EVs, they still top our searched items” he said
I guess EV PR people pay his wages too.
She is very blase in the video
“Oh EV batteries can be recycled easily”
..No they can’t !
“Oh they last 8 years”
.. nope only on expensive versions !
I was surprised at her denial that the batteries hold less charge in cold weather as I had heard otherwise, never mind the heater, demister etc must use some of the charge.
I also wonder when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing and it is exceptionally cold, how much of our limited electricity is being used to charge card. Would we have plenty if all vehicles are fossil fuel driven? We nearly ran out this week, are ev’s the cause?
Not many DPD EV delivery vans in my neck of the woods since the weekend ……..
wonder why that might be?
Exclusive – World cup upset.
French score two goals but Morocco wins on burnt cars:
France 2 goals
Morocco 37,621 BBQ’d cars
One of our local BBC news journos has just tweeted to the BBC News App requesting that they don’t inundate her with the Harry and Meghan royal stories.
OK so she is redpilled on one thing
but most of the public don’t use the BBC news app cos it pushes the same 50 agendas all the time whilst suppressing 500 more
The news industry is family with the PR industry
.. often literally , through spouse or child or sibling etc.
Big PR operations push their stuff at the media, who then filter out anything none woke, non-green or non-lefty.
And then cut and paste to amplify the woke, green, lefty stuff.
Harry and Megs are a big PR operation and so is Netflix
It ticks the box ..so it gets amplified by the BBC
Same as Greta is a PR operation
TWatO Watch #2 – notable for having Faisal Islam turn up to work a bit but not much
Faisal Islam took part in TWatO! There’s a thing. We actually heard him on air talking about the MPC’s decision to increase Base Rate by 0.5%. Actually, we heard him ummhing and aahhing a bit and sounding not very sure of himself or the subject of economics and the UK economy. How much are the BBC paying him? And how often does he turn up to work in BH? He doesn’t Blog five days a week like Steffie Flanders did, as well as being available for on-air all the time, it seemed. Pesto made a decent fist of the Economics Editor job as well.
Faisal Islam? Nah. Money wasted on his salary. Sack him and reduce the Licence Fee. Kamal Ahmed did better than Faisal in the job of Economics Editor and the BBC made him redundant.
TWatO Watch #3 – really? London weighting cannot be that much?
The Montacutie went out and about before lunchtime to reinforce the Nurses strike. Sarah did not risk an interview with the speed-talker but after talking to some nurses, the Montacutie was after vox pops in support of the nurses, one of whom had travelled down from Newcastle. No worries about Global Warming and Climate Change and Climate Emergency when you are on strike from the NHS, then.
This lass was asked by Sarah how much she earned. Her reply was £22,000 before tax and NI. That did not sound right to me. A check I made suggests the pay for a qualified staff nurse in Newcastle is almost £25,000 which is getting close to average pay in the UK. In London, pay for nurses is higher, even when training, because living and working in the capital costs more. Maybe this nurse was intending to say she earned £22,000 after tax and National Insurance? Or maybe she was intending to mislead the listeners?
Perhaps Marianna could spring into action and report on this?
Looks like somebody should keep an eye on generator deliveries chez Rees-Mogg.
I saw some silly glossy “County Life” adzine last year where recent arrivals in the well heeled boonies were showing off their solar panelled swimming pools and heat pumps – they all had diesel generators….
I was fond of saying that the UK will turn into a wet, cold version of Nigeria with a thudding diesel generator in every back garden – then I went to Hackney and saw private diesel generators dotted around a surprising number of businesses (bakery, garage, carpenter, restaurant etcetera)
Is it what’s called a conundrum ?
OXO tv commercial risking the pile on of the bloody diversity brigade.. 2 ginger children, two white parents and not a single dark face.
Good for you OXO……
I will endeavour to buy your product!
Yes, noticed that. Also the Mac Donald’s advert, although the kid does look a bit non binary.
I wondered if the adverts are tailored to the adjacent programme, in this case it was bangers and cash which is pretty much white and mostly male. How long will that last!
digg-The litmus test that we could be coming out of the
advertising virtue signalling wokery. Is if Barclays Bank
realizes that it is not the bank of Jamaica.So far
as the BBC is concerned., without the commercial
advertising in the UK. We may see the light at the
end of the tunnel when half of their continuity
presentation isn’t in patois.
Saw one of those very very very nice interviews of a c4. Bloke interviewing a bloke on the sand dunes in France waiting for his turn in the lilo.
Why do you want to go to England rather than stop in the first country you entered?
Reply: ( better sit down)..
The uk has a better education system, better job prospects, and the French do not like us…..
That’s about it!
Well maybe when they realise that isn’t true they will stop coming.
But in reality it’s because we pay them to come..
Does anyone here “take one for the team” and still dare to watch programmes like Question Time? I’m just asking as I caught a bit of it minutes ago. I post relatively seldomly here and I’m poor at political arguments in any case.
Two of the guests were Peter Hitchens and Jacob Rees-Mogg and I saw most of the Q&A about the channel crossers. Hitchens said pay the French more, stop as many as possible crossing. A student-age fat bird in the audience said we should be more welcoming and utilise the skills these people offer.
A little later a third panellist, the Northern Irish woman from the RCN (Pat Cullen?) agreed with these sentiments and called the migrants “wonderful people.”
I’m more au fait with films and pop culture and at this point I heard John Wayne inside my head speaking a line from Rio Bravo: “We’ll remember you said that.”
They moved on with a bloke from the audience asking what benefits has Brexit brought that he should think about while standing in a 40-minute passport queue.
You might think an obvious response would be “Why don’t you stop being so ****ing small-minded,” but instead we got Hitchens puffing up his self-importance. At this point I switched off.
Does anybody here still watch it? I’d welcome a more informed view.
Well, I still watch it occasionally. I watched Question Time religiously every week from 1979 up until a couple of years ago when the wokery finally got to me. But I made a point of watching it tonight since Peter Hitchens was on the panel. I like Hitchens on law and order and on education and a few other things.
Hitchens is right in his common complaint that other panellists don’t listen to what he says. They often seem to be responding to a caricature of Hitchens they have in their heads, not the real man in front of them. The Northern Irish nursing union woman was firmly put in her place tonight after accusing him of saying things he simply hadn’t.
I don’t like the woke panels but I really can’t stand most of the people in the audience either these days. Naive, gullible, bleeding heart liberals who are ashamed of Britain for having no compassion for all these poor vulnerable migrants escaping war and persecution in northern France and for having no appreciation that the migrants are all unrecognised geniuses in the brain surgery and rocket science industries. No compassion? If I were prime minister I’d soon show them what a lack of compassion was. I would blow these illegal blighters and their blasted dinghies out of the water.
Don’t know if that answers your question, TC.
Zelazek,
I find Hitchens a bit curious, I admire him for his uncompromising attitude on things like drugs but he seems soft on Brexit. I could be wrong but I’m sure he wrote in his newspaper column years ago that we could leave the EU with just a morning’s worth of legislation.
I think you’re right though about the QT audience, it’s the main thing that prevents me watching the programme normally. There’s always that seething far-left undercurrent and the mob applause of any “approved” opinion.
That’s classic BBC/Leftist.
The crowd is all ‘on message’, meanwhile you sit at home – ‘that’s not true, myself, my family and my friends don’t think like that’
It’s to make you think you are in the minority, not the majority.
Evil, creeping Marxism.
I offer fraternal greetings to anyone who watches / listens to the BBC out of duty . Personally I have ‘redlines ‘ – which – when I think of it – is an ever longer list of programmes I 100% avoid ,
Generally – Any politics show – comedy doesn’t count as there isn’t any – news – sport ( commentators – right Gary ) documentaries – (eg ‘slavery ‘ with Lenny ) -you get the drift.
I don’t do live TV , ITV , C4, C5 …… hence no TV licence .
Radio is very much the same – although there are tiny bits of quality which don’t get sieved out on R4X but they are fewer and fewer … I listen to ‘today ‘ out of duty but find the likes of Robinson harder and harder to take .
This will become more difficult in the run up to the next red labour government and subsequently when a red labour cabinet shows itself to be as inept as the current one ….
I too have ‘redlines’ for tv watching, and increasingly am unable to watch most of the BBC , ITV, Channel 4 output, in fact it is only on for the bilge my wife watches, then I just read a book, when I can its mostly a few Youtube channels I follow.
Cullen wrongly bullied Hitchens cos he dared say he opposes strikes
She failed to hear he supports their pay rise claims.
Oh I found a direct 2 min clip of part 2
Part 1 was him saying he supports the payrise but, he doesn’t support striking instead of using another way
Pat Cullen’s kneejerk action
was the lefty trick of BULLYING by taking offence
.. but the point is she pigeon holed him like a racist
and had failed to listen to his words that made it clear he supports higher pay for nurse
So he had not said anything offensive against her side
other than to say he doesn’t support striking instead of using another way
.. https://www.twitter.com/SimonLomax73/status/1603743942444519424
@Trickcylist, Try Going Postal, a wonderful gentleman known as Always Worth Saying takes one for the team every week and does a review.
Yet more enrichment: British queues gone now
“Chaos breaks out in Brixton as police THROW woman trying to get into the O2 DOWN STAIRS with 10 injured amid crush to ‘break into Nigerian singer Asake’s gig’
At least four people are in a critical condition following chaos at O2 Academy
A concert descended into chaos last night after fans were filmed clashing with police outside Brixton’s O2 Academy – with one being thrown down stairs and another placed in a headlock after striking an officer in the face.
At least four have been left in a critical condition after suffering ‘crushing injuries’, following what appeared to be a stampede by non-ticket holders to enter Nigerian singer Asake’s show.
In footage shared online, dozens of people could be seen barging their way into the narrow entry doors as one reveller is heard saying: ‘This is so dangerous.’ ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11544409/Chaos-Brixton-police-THROW-fan-trying-O2-DOWNSTAIRS-Nigerian-singer-Asakes-gig.html
Clear BBC racism – if they were Liverpool supporters they’d be after a ‘ full independent £ public inquiry ‘ before you could say ‘londonistan / bongo bongo land ‘..but ‘today ‘ has no coverage of this …
“What IS the truth about NHS nursing crisis? Fascinating graphs show how crippled sector’s pay has stagnated over past decade, record one-in-ten roles are now vacant and UK is reliant on foreign-trained medics
Pay: Nurses want 19 per cent but Government says they are already paid enough, and any more will come out of patient services
The average basic pay for nurses increased to around £37,000 in March after the Government offered a £1,400 rise — around 4.75 per cent.
Newly-qualified nurses were also given a hike, bringing their basic pay to £27,055.
This was on top of a 3 per cent pay rise the previous year, when the Government largely paused pay rises for other public sector workers during the pandemic.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11538563/What-truth-nursing-crisis-Fascinating-graphs-pay-barely-risen.html
Christmas is coming…….
Anyone know where I can buy Greta Thunberg voodoo dolls?
Be kind to the planet and make your own. Find an old teddy or Barbie and cut out a picture of her, stick it on and there you go.
Or, watch out for your rubbish collector, they’ll have one Sellotaped to the bonnet of their lorry…
You can get Cabbage Patch dolls on eBay, I believe.
Where’s all the Christmas Cards gone…………….
Due to the cost of living I will be giving my nephew an empty box for Xmas
“Whats that ?”
“It’s an Action Man deserter”
Barbie and Ken are getting divorced so the neice is out of luck unless she gets the lawyer
Hello Zephir
Has Ken finally come out and told Barbie
Cost of living:
The Barbie factory is cutting costs and just producing dresses so Ken has no choice in the matter.
On the radio this morning, I heard that the bBCs special partner in the US, CNN, that CNN’s twitter account has become restricted
Terrible news 🙂
About time the Left/Woke know how the right feels often
I really hope Killary Clinton goes for another try at the White House just so I can go back to calling it the Clinton News Network
Yes, Billery is like a bad penny where the corrupt US politics are concerned, but wait for a while and we’ll get Renault Megane and the Ginge taking a punt in some dead-beat leftie state, probs California, and then we really can have a huge laugh!
Can we get the bbc restricted for promoting hatred against white males Jews and the police ?
Only using white hands holding knives
Lying about jewish kids attacked by muzzies
Photoshopping out black rioters sttacking police
Andy – I find this ‘tricky ‘ . I don’t really believe in cancelling – however – if people choose to disclose the movements and personal details of their ‘targets ‘ eg Elon Musk – I would approve of a reciprocal measure against them – for instance their home addresses – vehicle details – wives – kids – and see how they like it ……
There needs to be … accountability …..
@AndysJape if the BBC actually said that, they were wrong
Nothing happened to the main CNN account rather
CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan’s Twitter account was suspended after reporting Elon Musk’s suspension of user for doxxing Elons plane’s secret location
and probably giving info on that location.
Didn’t see this on the BBC.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11544409/Chaos-Brixton-police-THROW-fan-trying-O2-DOWNSTAIRS-Nigerian-singer-Asakes-gig.html
Four revellers are fighting for their lives after crush at Brixton’s O2 Academy when ‘more than 1,000 fans tried to force their way into Nigerian singer Asake’s gig without tickets’
Sorry, someone above has already posted this story.
Is that the Brixton that has riots every 5 years?
Answer to the NHS problem is to treat hospitals like the rest of the Heath service. GPs, Dentist, Opticians etc.
AND stop the Gold Plated pensions, let them pay for their own retirement like the rest of us.
Nurses strike
Looks like the way to give nurses more taxpayers ‘ money is to get the ‘independent ‘ pay review body to go away and come up with an approved number – which no doubt will be around 10% … – otherwise the nurses are threatening to deepen the strike – downing tools in the ITU – closing doors at the A&E ..
…..this methodology will then feed through to every other public body dispute and keep inflation chugging along longer and deeper .
There seems to be a theory that interest rises will ‘peak ‘ next year and start to fall around Christmas 2023 – they can dream ……
I never realised saints and angels on an average 37 k a year are happy to put lives at risk for more dosh in their pockets
Dr Aseem Malhotra on Andrew Bridgen MP’s call to halt the Covid vaccines
from 34:19
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2022-12-13/debates/EAB2E8A2-A721-47DD-A79C-4EFD10F10C2D/VaccinesPotentialHarms
I sincerely hope Mark Steyn is not done with GBNews – I find it mainly unwatchable without him stirring the pot . Too many kidults and tickboxes for me …
Steyn must be number 1 on the target list for BBCOFCOM and the GBNews managers ….
As for the vaccines – plenty of stories of sudden unexplained deaths around the world where there were no pre existing conditions . …..
BTW – it seems ‘flu’ is on the up this winter and there is likely to be a ‘run’ on flu jabs in the Christmas period …..
There have been no sideffects ( yet ) to my jab a month ago …
Ofcom report shows growing 5G coverage
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63974085
#GETTYIMAGE = 2 men kissing
Incredible, but why is this relevant
Absolutely hilarious moments on Toady.
At around 0745, on one of their patronising ‘talking to the regions’ routines, the Bee Lady said ‘we’re always looking for a glimmer of positivity’ !!!!!!
This was immediately followed by an extended feature at a food bank in Nottingham. A nurse was a ‘customer’. Cue mass wailing.
The BBC. World class at irony. And lying.
BBC shows? Femi reveals their guest policies.
Femi is not too bright.
5 people = majority = scary people not minority
Sluff ,
Will they still be using Food Banks when retired on the 95% Salary Pension ?
For a couple who like to protect their privacy, the HarryMeghan corporation sure releases a lot of personal photos to the media.
My favourite is one in the Mail purporting to be Harry showing Meghan a text from William after the Oprah show.
Now who took that photo? And why would anyone take a photo of that particular moment at random?
Anyone would think the whole story and narrative had been planned from the start. Oh, wait.
Must remember to take photos of Mrs S ringing up Auntie Mabel, sister Susannah, and cousin David. You never know when they might come in handy.
Look, I don’t have Netflix and even if I did I couldn’t stomach the six hour long lament from Harry and Megs.
However, I don’t live in a bubble so I have heard some of the grievances and gripes about how this poor privileged pair were treated. My heart bleeds…
Most people who have watched this grotesque parody say it goes on far too long. I’m quite a film buff and have a good collection of old classics. One of the longest is the sprawling, Gone with the Wind. It’s rather fallen out of favour these days due to the racial element of the film…
There are also lots of gripes about race in Harry and Meg’s six hour long moanathon… and I’ve just thought of a cracking title…
Gone with the Whinge.
Oh, come on…
The ‘Gone’ part is wishful thinking.
On with the. whinge?
When Harry (Not his Real Name) Met Smegan (Not her real name).
The stretford bi election result was 12800 voted for red labour and 2900 voted for blue labour – which came second !
I find it incredible that blue Labour got so many votes . were they friends and family ? Fixed postal votes ? Apparently the ‘swing’ thing means that if repeated in a real election there would be a hung parliament …..
But there again the turnout was 25% – mainly people with ski s….
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/12/06/remarks-by-president-biden-on-american-manufacturing-and-creating-good-paying-jobs/
THE PRESIDENT: I don’t know if any of you have any seats, but if you have a seat, please take them. (Laughter.) I once said that when I first became President, and they said, “Biden is so slow, he doesn’t realize there’s no seats out here.” (Laughter.)
Oww how we laughed
YOUR COMPLAINT:
President Trump’s 100 Days President Biden’s 0 Day
Dear Winston Smith in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth,
You covered President Trump’s 100 Days and then produced a Beyond 100 Days to hold power to account.
Why have you not done the same for President Biden to hold power to account?
‘Omission is the greatest form of lie.’
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints
I just had a dream , that I was on a bus
and the bus driver refused to stop at my stop
He kept driving on and on past everyone else’s stop.
Continuing on his own crazy route.
Past a field with a heard of elephants and then into it causing them to stampede.
Is that a metaphor for the way libmob drive our society
that they choose the destinations
and don’t pay attention to the majority of the public ?
Last item at the end of the BBC RadioLincolnshire news
“The total god Hussain Bolt is to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award
at the BBC Sport’s Personality of The Year Awards”
Is that news ? .. or is it PR
“We the BBC are GOING to give our mate an award on our forthcoming BBC programme”
#1 Not news cos it hasn’t happened yet
#2 Not relevant to listeners lives
#3 It’s BBC using news space as an ADVERT
for one of their own shows and agendas.
We pay for news, and get ADVERTS and PR pushing libmob agendas.
Graun does not do irony.
“A number of journalists who have reported on Elon Musk, including from the Washington Post, New York Times and CNN, have been suspended or banned from Twitter without explanation”
They were revealing his families locations so they could be followed?
Yes Twitter has a new policy of banning location doxxing
as that facilitates stalking.
Guardian ? No it actually seems to be an AP story,
that is written in a disingenuous way
Musk took to Twitter on Thursday night to accuse journalists of sharing private information about his whereabouts that he described as “basically assassination coordinates.” He provided no evidence for that claim
.. The sudden suspension of news reporters followed Musk’s decision Wednesday to permanently ban an account that automatically tracked the flights of his private jet using publicly available data.
That also led Twitter to change its rules for all users to prohibit the sharing of another person’s current location without their consent.
Several of the reporters suspended Thursday night had been writing about the new policy and Musk’s rationale for imposing it, which involved his allegations about a stalking incident he said affected his family on Tuesday night in Los Angeles.
The official account for Mastodon, a decentralized social network billed as an alternative to Twitter, was also banned. The reason was unclear, though it had tweeted about the jet tracking account.
Another suspended reporter, Steve Herman of Voice of America, said he assumes he was banned “because I was tweeting about other journalists being suspended for tweeting about accounts being booted that had linked to the Elon Jet feed.”
https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2022/12/16/twitter-suspends-journalists-who-wrote-about-elon-musk/
Journos previously said Big Tech are private corps, so they can ban who they like
But now they are arguing that Twitter is a public utility.
Separating the wheat from the chaff, angel nurses from greedy train drivers and the like…
One notices our press move as one to back the striking nurses – each title in their own house style.
The Guardian is all about dull managerial process and of course jumping on perceived divisions within enemy ranks: Tories join calls for Sunak to open pay talks with nurses
The mawkish Mirror’s cloying old Labour sentimentalism is front and centre of their politics: Message to the Tories… This is what compassion looks like… Striking nurses leave picket line to help man after he collapses in the street
One is sorely tempted to swing by the local hospital gates to wish the picket line well and down with that patriarchal bully boy Barclay… and while I’m here, shop steward in the duffle coat with Unison stickers, would you mind taking a quick shufty at my stiff neck?
Could be much quicker than waiting on hold for hours to speak to my GP – particularly if there’s a press photographer nearby. But I digress and lack compassion, obviously. The prescription would be more pay for them and more saccharine for me.
Talking of wearing one’s heart next to one’s union badge on one’s sleave, the Daily Express, flying the flag for Ukraine mind you, pleads in sugary pseudo-patriotic terms: For nurses, for Britain, sit down and sort this out
One senses another Sunak U-turn signalled in the offing. And what better Christmas story outcome for our little hindu chap in Number 10, afterall he’s no stranger to splashing our cash
Speaking of the dismal science of economics, the Financial Times house style is to globalise us pinkly with percentages, figures, charts and the like. They like a photo of a striking nurse, not performing impromptu street CPR on a passing emergency case – that just happened to be passing – but holding a placard. Not one which reads something pithy or bolshy such as Tory Scum or Bully Boy Barclay but instead presents a measured statistical analysis insisting the UK is crap compared to Europe – how very FT: ‘UK Gov spends per head on health: 21% less than France. 39% less than Germany
Considering the return we tend to get in terms of healthcare from our NHS – that discount feels about right.
Apparently, long gone are the days when the NHS was the envy of the world, a system so brilliant it was the ideal template.
The left tell us our socialised health sector is continually in crisis whatever: NHS crisis puts every ambulance trust under ‘extreme pressure’ (‘i’)
NHS on high alert for flu outbreak (Telegraph)
Ambulance strikes set to pose biggest threat of all (Times)
So do please take extreme care with that carving knife as you address the Christmas turkey this year. And as for lighting the flaming Christmas pud… better check the firebrigade aren’t on a work to rule.
Our BBC go with a black interest story (natch): Brixton Academy: Four critical after suspected crush at Asake gig
Gig? Asake gig? As the proverbial superannuated high court judge might ask…
…a concert in south London… by afro-pop singer Asake. M’lud.
Suspected…? Surely it was or it wasn’t a crush.
‘Suspect crush ‘ might be the new ‘mostly peaceful ‘….
… but when I saw the ‘man collapses in front of nurse picket line ‘ …my first jaded thought was – is he related to a nurse ? Then ‘is he a nurse ‘ then ‘ that has to be the fastest way to get medical attention these days ‘… I just hope he didn’t get a bunch of midwives ( what is a group of midwives called I wonder? ) – is it ‘a law suit of midwives ?’
I’d like to think the collective noun would be a forceps of midwives.
Or a BBC One primetime schedule of Call The Midwives.
Legend has it Spotlight the theatrical casting platform actually has a sub category of performer termed Crisis Actors
Might look into that as a possible sideline for Mr AsI as recession bites.
Of course I meant to put the title Gig Economy Edition at the top of the press review this morning.
As that old Bill Oddie voiced advert for Topic bars and their hazelnuts in every bite used conclude “Funny how you always remember right at the end”
AISI, what has happened to the Metro? Has it been bought by Qataris and closed down due to its support for AlphabetSoupers? Or has it suspended publication in support of the train drivers’ strike?
Brixton Academy: Four critical after suspected crush at Asake gig
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63996981
No doubt the inquiry will find the police were at fault. Not the thousands that turned up
On 24 September 2015, a crowd crush resulted in the death of more than 2,000 individuals, many of whom were suffocated or crushed, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mina, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, making it the deadliest Hajj disaster in history.[5][6][7] Estimates of the number of dead vary: the Associated Press reported 2,411 dead,[1][8] while Agence France-Presse reported 2,236 killed.[3] Based on the total of the individual national reports cited in the table below (nationalities of victims), at least 2,431 people died.[note 1] The government of Saudi Arabia officially reported two days after the event that there had been 769 deaths and 934 injured.[1][9][10] These figures remained official at the time of the next year’s Hajj and were never updated.[4] The largest number of victims were from Iran, followed by Mali and Nigeria.[11]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Mina_stampede
They really want the siege of the Grand Mosque at Mecca memory holed don’t they?
Most reports at the time had casualties well north of 3000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Mosque_seizure
ajs, the potential audience for that Asake gig did not look very diverse. Was it legal? Isn’t vibrance and diversity compulsory in the UK now?
Turnout was 25% apparently:
https://news.sky.com/story/labour-holds-seat-in-stretford-and-urmston-by-election-12768825
With apologies to Fedup2 who posted earlier on this – he clearly gets his porridge sooner 😉
Having read the obsessive and inevitable bbc coverage of yesterdays fun in brixton, I noticed one thing worth considering :-
Effectively it kicked off when one bunch of blacks started chucking spears at another bunch of blacks. As soon as the police arrive, they are all mates and turn on the police (Not down on one knee this time, lads?)
Solution? Leave the blacks to it, and let them tidy up the mess too.
Police can then spend their time serving the people.
Savings for the nhs as well.
Where’s Michael Caine and a Welsh male voice choir when you need them ?
After watching a couple of the Harry Megan thing on Netflix, a couple of ‘independent’ commentators are:
Afua Hirsch & David Olusoga.
Hardly impartial.
Surprised they didn’t get that Femi idiot or Jasmin Ali Baba Brown to join in.
They did get Oprah though.
TOADY Watch #1 – I know I keep going on about this but so does the BBC with their climate propaganda
TOADY had Nick Robinson in a nice warm W1A studio and Martha in a freezing cold BBC Nottingham studio. Why? I couldn’t possibly say despite listening to almost all of the TODAY programme from start to finish.
Why had Martha driven or flown to Nottingham, emitting all that Global Warming, Climate Changing CO2? I don’t know. Martha did get to talk to BBC people while there – yes, you couldn’t make it up – the BBC’s own Nottingham correspondent about the Castle. Why could she not do that from the studio in London?
BBC = Global Warming & Climate Change Hyprocrites.
She went there to put photos on Twitter
which 1 in 10 million people in the UK have Liked ie 7
.. Oh some of the Likes may be from people outside the UK.
Or maybe she went on the train to escort the actor
who was to play “nurse in a Nottingham foodbank”
that the prog aired.
Anyone can really go into a foodbank and say they have no other option cos of “evil Tories”,
but I still maintain that basic food is really cheap in Britain.
And that the opening of foodbanks is driven by the new laws that make it illegal for stores to throwaway food.
Marta’s salary is £255k
Today
BBC Radio 4, Thursday 13 December 2018
It was said on the programme that the EU Referendum of 2016 was “the biggest vote in our country’s history”.
In 2016 33.57 million votes were cast, including rejected papers.
More votes were actually cast in the 1992 General Election – a total of 33.61 million.
21/12/2018
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications/corrections_2018/
Gary Lineker : From dribbler to driveler.
What more does that Meghan and Harry Windsor want when they bleat on about racism?
Their wedding was the stuff of fairytales and crowds of people cheered them in the streets. Billions watched it around the world.
So what do they want ?
Placards with Go On The Black Woman That’s What We Want ? Or the usual virtue signalling with placards saying I Abhor Racism ? Or a BBC Question Time audience booing and hissing a lone bystander who never knew she was half black ?
I wasn’t interested in her life at all before does that make me a racist ?
Is it because the, penny hasn’t dropped yet or are the sheeple too dim?
Proposed Zoning in Oxford? Who is paying or it?
Government purchase of estimated 3000 farms in Netherlands. Who is footing the bill?
All the other WEF promoted lunacy? Who is footing the bill?
Daft questions really. Could it be Bill Gates or George Soros or any other Western Oligarch? I somehow doubt that. Neither’s pockets are that deep.
Sooner the taxpayer put his/her foot down and refuses to pay, the WEF etc is f**ked. Totally.
Oxford scenario: Find the cost of Zoning and deduct that off the Council Tax bill…………….. The WEF inspired Council cannot lock all the population up for non payment of all the Council Tax. I simplify but the essence of non-payment is surely the only way forward.
Sorry to keep banging that drum. I’ve been doing it here and elsewhere for years.
order-order.com
Guido has supported Musk’s takeover of Twitter but doesn’t allow free speech on here. Effing hypocrite, like all journalists!
PhD student solves 2,500-year-old Sanskrit problem
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg3gw9v7jnvo
“Sanskrit is only spoken in India by an estimated 25,000 people”
So the bBC again tries to relate to a few, and probably the few already have loyalties elsewhere
Guess its a waste of money for people who pay the tele tax – ie majority White British, who this is unlikely to relate to
bBC becomes less and less relevant by the day
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Berlin’s giant AquaDom aquarium containing 1,500 fish explodes, reports the beeb
this is by Michael Sheils McNamee in London and Jenny Hill and Michael Steininger in Berlin
Talking of wasting money, can’t this report just be done by someone in Berlin – or maybe needs to be vetted before it goes live, to see if its ticks all the boxes, diversity, quotas etc
India: School textbooks say ‘Japan nuked US’
Published
24 February 2014
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-26325994