255 Responses to Start the Week 19 December 2022

  1. theisland says:

    Interesting …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Bob Geldof says he’ll take in four migrant families as he lambasts politicians’ response to crisis as a ‘sickening disgrace’
      Musician, 63, has offered to immediately take in four migrant families
      Said he would open doors to his family home in Kent and London flat
      Aid campaigner described the migrant crisis as a ‘sickening disgrace’
      By THOMAS BURROWS FOR MAILONLINE

      PUBLISHED: 11:12, 4 September 2015 | UPDATED: 16:44, 4 September 2015

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  2. StewGreen says:

    ITV local NewsPR
    “Oh Jason Manford has a new album out
    it’s a charity one for the foodbank Trussel Trust”

    …the prog has a very close relationship with foodbank PR

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  3. BRISSLES says:

    Mark Steyn suffered two heart attacks in recent days.

    https://www.thefocus.news/culture/mark-steyn-says-heart-attack-in-france-was-his-second-in-short-spell/

    Get well soon boyo !

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    • Fedup2 says:

      He really is someone we cannot lose ….

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      Was he vaccinated?
      Many who were against it, still had it so they could travel abroad.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Eddy – that crossed my mind too – being Canadian – and travelling a lot – I reckon he had no choice …. On the upside for him – he is in France so will not be a victim of the NHS …and would need to do research on the ‘quality ‘ of some quacks who masquerade as ‘private ‘…

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  4. StewGreen says:

    BBC local newsPR
    ‘Cruel nasty whities force asylum seekers to cook in the park
    Sure they also put up in hotels and give free meals
    but this food is not good enough’
    ‘When one woman did cooking in the bathroom the evil hotel confiscated her cooking equipment ‘

    Seems PR for the lobby group Hull Sisters

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  5. Deborah says:

    Look North leading with asylum seekers housed in a hotel dissatisfied with the free food they are given. How dare they? And Look North critical of the hotel taking away cooking equipment used in a bathroom.

    My father was a real asylum seeker 80 years ago. He was always grateful he was given a place of safety and would never criticise this country.

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Deborah, those were the days when asylum seekers were the real deal, and the population was 25 million LESS than it is today.

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  6. StewGreen says:

    Andrew Lawrence on celebs cancelling Clarkson but not Jo Brand

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  7. Eddy Booth says:

    Breaking fake news:
    Musk announces the results of his poll will be declared after all of the mail in votes have been counted in 4 – 6 weeks.
    .

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  8. Jeff says:

    This is nothing to do with our beloved BBC, but an observation on our equally revered NHS…

    I bought a puppy at the weekend. A lovely young chap of rather “mixed heritage”. What my old gran would have called, ” A bitsa. A bit of this and a bit of that…”
    We believe there’s some labrador and a fair smidgen of cocker spaniel. He’s got a lovely temperament.

    Anyway, on the way home I called in at a local pet mega-store to pick up necessary sundries for the young fellow.
    At the rear of the shop is a vet’s. I thought I’d ask them to give him the once over. I was banking on having to wait a couple of weeks for an appointment, but no…”Is Tuesday fine for you?” the lady asked. Blimey!

    You see, I’m now officially an OAP, but if want to see my local GP I have to go through a ridiculously long rigmarole of phone calls, lengthy delays and video links, before being told, “We’ll book you in for the second Thursday in March.” FFS, I might be dead by then!

    You know, I think I’ll see I can kill two birds with the one stone.

    I’ll ask the vet if he can take a look at me…

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      When our ‘Ginger’ had his Gentleman status removed the Mrs asked the vet if he would do two for the price of one!

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  9. Docmarooned says:

    Nice to see some normal individuals on only connect tonight compared to last weeks pantomime farce.

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    • SilverFox says:

      There still seem to be screens separating the contestants which seems a bit odd as they must mix closely together before the show is recorded. Must make it difficult to communicate too

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  10. StewGreen says:

    @MrJohnNicolson the MP blocks me on Twitter
    Since I’ve never interacted with him, I guess he’s using a blocking.

    Such shunning is hiding from debate

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  11. Eddy Booth says:

    “Capitol riot committee seeks four criminal charges for Trump”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64034559

    “A US congressional inquiry into last year’s Capitol riot says ex-President Donald Trump should face criminal charges, including insurrection.

    The Democratic-led committee voted unanimously for the justice department to prosecute Mr Trump.

    Inciting, assisting, aiding or comforting an insurrection
    Obstruction of an official proceeding
    Conspiracy to defraud the United States
    Conspiracy to make a false statement”

    It’s never ending…
    Trumps response :

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  12. pugnazious says:

    Some people are ‘expected to be deliberately provocative’….so that’s OK then says the BBC.

    ‘Deliberately provocative’ as in saying throw acid in Nigel Farage’s face or ‘Kill Whitey’…just a joke says the BBC….or have fantasies about killing Mrs Thatcher as Hilary Mantel did….which the BBC loved it so much that they serialised her book. The Hilary Mantel who also was extremely nasty about Kate Middleton….but she’s white so that’s OK.

    However…if you’re brown then saying rude things about you is off limits….racist and misogynist indeed….as Jeremy Clarkson finds out…the BBC deciding that the licence fee payers can fund their obsession with Markle and her defence as they fill the airwaves with faux outrage about Clarkson and write long articles decrying him….

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64029690

    The Guardian joins in….

    ‘Violent misogynistic fantasies like Jeremy Clarkson’s are not new – but the Sun gleefully publishing them is’

    Hmmmm…the very same Guardian that rushed, gleefully, to publish Mantel’s Thatcher fantasy…

    ‘ There was vociferous criticism from Thatcher’s friends and supporters when the Guardian first published The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher – August 6th 1983, in September. The story imagines the killing of the prime minister in London by an IRA sniper, who uses the narrator’s window as a vantage point. It is set four years after Thatcher assumed office in 1979 – a few months before the real-life Brighton bombing that came close to ending her life.’

    The BBC was quite happy with someone suggesting all Jewish settlers [undocumented migrants perhaps?] should be shot….another that all BNP members should be shot in the back of the neck…again…it’s OK because such people were known to be ‘deliberately provocative’.

    What do you think the reaction would be if someone ‘provocative’ suggested shooting all illegal migrants who invaded us or joked about ‘killing Darkey’?

    Once again it’s a case of one rule for the lefties and one rule for the Clarkson’s of this world.

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  13. pugnazious says:

    Nicky Campbell….’not Islamophobic’ to challenge Qatar’s, Islam based, laws.

    Of course if you were right-leaning and you criticised Qatar’s Islamic laws you’d definitely be islamophobic.

    I’m guessing Muslims might suggest that Campbell might be just a bit islamophobic, an honorary member of the EDL even, for calling Islamic laws ‘disgusting’ as he did today….or callng them ‘unsavoury laws, backward, ridiculous laws’ as he did earlier.

    Mishal Husain openly called Christians ‘backward and unpleasant’ on Today but for some reason BBCers cringe when it comes to genuinely and openly critcising ‘Islam’.

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  14. Zephir says:

    FFS x10

    “Racism row over all-white Aladdin: West End stars, Equity and the Pantomime Association all slam ‘shameful’ production over cast

    A pantomime featuring ‘come down to our oriental town’ has been condemned
    The actor’s union Equity was ‘shocked by a very white-looking’ Liverpool cast ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11555765/Racism-row-white-Aladdin-Stars-slam-shameful-panto-references-oriental-town.html

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  15. vlad says:

    “Brixton Academy: What happened in the crush?”

    Beneath the headline, the BBC post a video image similar to the one below, clearly implying police brutality.

    The ensuing article is highly tendentious. It refers to “a large but apparently peaceful crowd” (reminiscent of “the mostly peaceful riots” by the BLM); It quotes a tweet: “The police have locked off Asake and have left a bunch of people in an alley in the freezing cold”; and describes police throwing a woman down steps, and men in high-vis jackets kicking and punching a man on the ground.

    The whole tone of the report insinuates the blame is with the brutal (and racist?) police and bad management. The concert goers, of course, were totally blameless.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64003455

    O2-Academy-Brixton-1710379.webp?r=1671204867570

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    • andyjsnape says:

      Hello vlad

      Said this the other day, there’ll be an enquiry and police should have done things differently (apparently)

      That will give some blacks more of a chip on their shoulders, its the police again!

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  16. Zephir says:

    It has gone far enough now, this bbc racism, I will be firing in some complaints today and will NOT accept any bbc responses that fail to acknowledge the bbc are anti semitic, racist and sexist and will demand my complaints are escalated .

    I encourage all on here to do the same.

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    • harry142857 says:

      You will get the stock answer I am afraid Zephir, saying all reports are balanced. They have an army of truth deniers and those who sympathise with islam, not a religion, but a medieval, retarded death cult that has no place in a civilised country.

      I have worked at music events, no-one wants to work at hip hop or dj events, because knives, drugs and violence are the norm, rather than the exception. You have to employ twice as many security personnel and bring in knife arches and the atmosphere is one of foreboding tension.

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      • Scroblene says:

        No doubt those events are ‘enriched’ by this awful and unsavoury practice, Harry!

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daggering

        …and the pathetic (c)rap that infests some areas with relentless monotony!

        Mind you, I did go to a concert by ‘The Move’ in the sixties, so I suppose Hastings Pier was supposed to be a den of iniquity back then…

        The other place was The Witch Doctor’, further along the prom, and a visit to that place was forbidden by my Dad!

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  17. andyjsnape says:

    Capitol riot committee seeks four criminal charges for Trump
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64034559

    Frontpage bBC “news”

    I’ve lost count on how many times as the likes of the bBC reported that Trump is in trouble – then never to be reported again,

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Today
      The French are not happy . So it’s a good day . Apparently some of their footy players have been getting ‘racist abuse’ online ….
      This follows on ‘observations ‘ I’ve seen on the twitter that only one ? Player in their World Cup team was actually really French – the rest being really Africans .

      The argie team are seen as ‘non global ‘ being all Argentine and mostly Roman Catholic …. Lucky the final wasn’t between Islam and RC …..
      It’s a shame that footy is now mired in division but I suppose it’s a side effect of wokeness – right Gary ?

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      • Ian Rushlow says:

        The Washington Post, a so-called newspaper, ran an article on December 8th with the provocative title “Why doesn’t Argentina have more black players in the World Cup?”. The ‘journalist’ ranted that: the “idea of Argentina as a white nation” was “inaccurate” and that attempts to portray it as such were part of a “longer history of black erasure at the heart of the country’s self-definition.” The article was corrected a few days later, with the Washington Post acknowledging that the black population of Argentina is well under 1% (it’s actually 0.5%, mainly mulattoes and more recently immigrants from Cape Verde). Or as tweet I saw put it more accurately: “Why doesn’t Argentina have more black players in the World Cup? Because it is nation, not a Disney movie”

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    • Guest Who says:

      If it is not Musk, it has to be TDS.
      Two Moaning Emole posts.

      ***
      Charge Trump with insurrection, Capitol panel says

      Former US President Donald Trump should face four criminal charges, including insurrection, over the Capitol riot. That’s the verdict of a congressional inquiry into the events of 6 January last year, when Trump supporters stormed Congress to interrupt Joe Biden’s certification as president. Mr Trump, who denies wrongdoing, has dismissed the panel as a “kangaroo court”. It was made up of seven Democrats and two of Mr Trump’s fellow Republicans who have been critical of the former president. While its recommendations carry little legal weight, US Justice Department prosecutors are already considering whether to bring a case against Mr Trump. Read the full story – and see Mr Trump’s response.

      The criminal charges recommended for Trump explained

      **

      What’s next for Trump – legally and politically?

      If Mr Trump were convicted of the crimes the committee has accused him of committing, he could face hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, up to 20 years in prison and be prohibited from running for future political office. The committee’s vote, however, is largely symbolic. Congress does not have the ability to charge Mr Trump with any of the listed federal crimes. That power lies solely in the hands of the US Justice Department.

      With its vote, the congressional committee members have, in effect, recommended the Justice Department act. They have laid out the case – the means, the motive and the opportunity – as they see it. And, perhaps most importantly, they have provided a trove of the supporting evidence gathered over nearly two years of interviews, subpoenas, document reviews and legal battles.

      Read full analysis >

      Anthony Zurcher
      North America correspondent

      ***

      Methinks Mr. Lurch is a tad obsessed and reliant on ‘if’.

      Luckily any BBC ‘analysis’ now carries little if any credible journalistic weight.

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  18. Fedup2 says:

    NHS strikes . Nurses today – Ambulance tomorrow . I wonder if the nurse strikes includes ‘agency ‘? Will striking nurses actually be doing a shift at triple pay in the same hospitals ?

    I’d be interested to know the answer to this one because I don’t know the answer …. But if it were the case it wouldn’t surprise me one bit.

    Plenty of clapping by the unquestioning public …..

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  19. andyjsnape says:

    Ethiopia civil war: The boy named ‘Wealthy’ who weighs half what he should
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-63994851

    Todays campaign brought to you by the bBC

    I sat through a few begging adverts the other day and got me thinking about others constantly creating this mess worldwide, but expecting the UK public to continue to fund these

    From sponsor a donkey for example, because someone has loaded the poor thing with 100 house bricks – so we rescue the donkey and the owner gets a new donkey, the problem doesn’t go away – and expect us to continue to fund it

    Charity, more and more begins at home

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Guardian
      They have a fool called Simon Jenkins as a columnist- one of those wealthy Islington types loved by the likes of the BBC . Today he gleefully reports that plod is to effectively decriminalise drugs such as cocaine and treat them as a ‘health issue ‘.
      Jenkins’ view of plod is interesting . He seems to respect them far more than the public do . Maybe he sees them as ‘like him ‘ and therefore will approve of such dumb policies .
      Meanwhile drugs cause serious mental issues with all that goes with that – yet alone the addiction . Far Left soften headed crap ….

      BBC News – lefty popster dies – so what ? As some say ….

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    • JohnC says:

      Isn’t it amazing that they are still begging for the same things they told us that we would solve if we gave them money 20 years ago.

      I always think of Wogan telling me ‘Every penny goes to Children In Need’.

      That’s actually the CHARITY ‘Children in Need’ which the BBC set up and paid an AVERAGE salary of more than £42,000 back in 2016.

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  20. Fedup2 says:

    Not BBC
    But have you seen the images of the new Charles Windsor bank notes? To me he looks ‘worried ‘ – maybe it’s a reflection of his descending country … ElizaBeth II looked ‘reassured and regal ‘ methinks ….

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    • Scroblene says:

      I wonder if we’ll be able to do what could be done with Her Mag’s face on the notes, i.e. fold it in half, and add the other half of the picture of the Duke of Wellington, and you got John McEnroe!

      Answers on a nine-bob note – bent if possible…

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    • Beltane says:

      You might have thought, after the longest apprenticeship in regal history, that Charles will have grasped that he must now rule. Not arbitrate, not conciliate, not offer invitations and olive branches, just rule.

      His authority and that of his son and heir has been criticised, traduced, vilified and challenged in public. No proper King can afford to ignore this or put family ties before duty to the nation – not if he wants the monarchy to retain respect, because that above all else is what its authority and acceptance depends on.

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  21. Fedup2 says:

    Today
    Robinson ‘interviews’ an American describing how the FBI were involved in inciting the Capitol demo – the theft of the election – the refusal to publish all the details of the demo .

    Robinson said he hadn’t heard the allegation about the FBI pushing the demo …. Well that came as a ‘revelation ‘ but I suppose he just follows BBC policy of never allowing any doubt about the Obama / Biden theft …..

    The BBC make a big thing about ‘even a Republican ‘ supports the inquiry finding — not saying that Mrs Cheney has been voted out and is a RINO …. But that’s the BBC ….

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    • Guest Who says:

      Maybe Toenails had not yet been briefed by The Critic magazine?

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    • JohnC says:

      .. and they also fail to mention how the panel is rushing to do as much damage as they can before they are disbanded.

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  22. Guest Who says:

    VD and Justin on soon to point out Ceebeebies mentioned it last night?

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  23. Guest Who says:

    That last sentence, Jez.

    #sawwhatyoudidthere

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    • pugnazious says:

      Classic BBC catch-all fail-safe….it might be legal but is it moral?….of course they’ll define what that morality is as it’s purely subjective.

      You may be paying all the taxes you are legally obliged to pay but……

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      • Guest Who says:

        Lest Maxi pad stirs, Jez is of course BBC to the soulless tread of his cycling shoes, but this is via his side show on 5.

        Meanwhile…

        Impressive spread of comments.

        The ones highlighting semantic tweaks that only a bbc tvl payer applying to QT might try on… more so.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Asylum seekers found returning home to war zones on HOLIDAY
      REFUGEES seeking asylum from war and persecution are returning to danger zones on HOLIDAY, German employment agencies has confirmed.
      By JOEY MILLAR
      13:46, Tue, Sep 13, 2016 | UPDATED: 13:51, Tue, Sep 13, 2016

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  24. andyjsnape says:

    Trying to open a few links of the bBC website, its running very slow as of the moment… hopefully this is being hacked by a foreign government

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  25. Fedup2 says:

    Today
    How many times have I heard comrade Robinson ‘playing ‘ a blue labour politician – minister – sent by the Party to become a victim of the BBC ?
    When will the day come when a politician is as aggressive as him ? When will one of these wimp politicians put this bully in his place ?

    Is it that it’s all really a swamp game where the players just play their part …. Today it was will ‘willy’ quince ?( no idea ) … soon to be one of many ex MPs looking for a £ job £ ….. maybe Michelle £ moan can dosh a few out …?

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  26. JohnC says:

    Ethiopia civil war: The boy named ‘Wealthy’ who weighs half what he should
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-63994851

    I am reaching the conclusion that the BBC love a good war because their ‘new generation’ of employees – who were recruited for quotas, not ability – have plenty of victims to use in their extensive empathy pieces which are 10% actual news, 90% cheap journalism using emotion and every cheap trick they can come up with to pull your heartstrings and bring the reader onside. They live in a shallow world of ‘romcoms’ and all the other Hollywood tripe we get these days where everyone should be nice to each other and the good guys always win.

    Which is ironic because life has shown me that these types of people are the first to get nasty when the situation suits them.

    This is the first article I can remember about the Ethiopean war on the front page. What about the REAL news ? – the war itself. Where men are fighting, being blown to pieces and savagely killing as many on the other side as they can. The new-gen BBC seem to be unable to compute what that actually means and avoid it completely – both here and in Ukraine. It’s impossible to have any clue what is actually going on in the world these days if you just get your ‘news’ from the BBC.

    Perhaps a picture will paint a thousand words and demonstrate to us once again why the BBC is no longer fit for purpose. Here is the author:
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  27. AsISeeIt says:

    Pot of gold at the end of the NHS rainbow edition

    One can’t help but note the uniform serious alarm raised in our media over the nurses’ and ambulance strikes.

    Taken as a set…

    As strikes hit, sick told… A&E ? Call a taxi (The Sun)
    No guarantee of ambulance for stroke or heart attack (‘i’)
    Plea to end strikes as NHS faces meltdown (Telegraph)
    Ambulance strike threatens lives of 999 patients, warn NHS bosses (Guardian)
    Heart attack patients to be denied ambulances (Times)
    Condition critical (freebie Metro)

    Tabloid to broadsheet, hard left to soft right in leaning, there’s an across the board rush to panic stations over a day or two’s worth of potentially worse than normal NHS poor healthcare service – oddly in contrast to the rather recent, now appranently all but forgotten, so-called Pandemic months and years after Lockdown months and years of virtual NHS all but complete closed door shut down – for all but jabs – when they came available.

    We note the BBC’s online news page headline photo of picket line nurses and we attempt to read the runes – so to speak. In fact the picture chosen by our BBC clearly invites us to read the placards.

    Homemade brown box cardboard efforts in kids’ coloured crayons – remarkably reminiscent of those endless suburban front windows where pot banging became routine before that all died away to be replaced in the news and the windows with the Ukrainian yellow and blue – these new placards read (among the rainbows): “NHS we care so pay us fair”

    In stark contrast in bold standard type, pre-printed and handed out by the organisers and happily reproduced care of our BBC photo journo and editorial suite: “NHS fell apart under the Tories”

    Clearly there is more politically going on here than the nurses simply looking for their little pot of payrise gold at the end of their naively drawn NHS rainbows.

    The Mirror would have us believe: You are working nurses to the bone – too many that I see are looking pretty well-fed.

    Reflecting that already referenced regime approved media change of theme: Ice soldiers mark Russia’s very patriotic Christmas (BBC)

    Patriotism… we can’t be having that!

    Local authorities in the Siberian city of Chita have put up giant ice sculptures of Russian soldiers as Christmas decorations – well, there is a war on.

    As Jona Lewie sang, about this time of year in 1980:

    But it’s very cold out here in the snow
    Marching to and from the enemy
    Oh I say it’s tough, I have had enough
    Can you stop the cavalry?

    Sorry about that. Even as a callow youth the cloying right-on calculated sentimentality of that little ditty always made my skin crawl. One might say more of that sort of thing later – but we’ve already heard from the Daily Mirror.

    And just like the pacifist Mr Lewie our BBC having shown us the pretty ice soldiers immediatley draws our attention to: But not all locals back the war

    Oh really? One wracks one’s memory for the last time a BBC report on the Ukraine war highlighted any anti-war sentiment on our side. This is how you know you’re reading propaganda not news.

    The globalist FT is already keen to categorise the past 12 months as a big win for supranational elite managerial liberalism: Gideon Rachman A bad year for the world’s strongmen – the photo imagery tells us he has Putin and Trump in mind.

    Presumably, Mr Rachman (what a name!) you would think there’s some crumb of comfort there for we plebs increasingly cold, under-educated, over-taxed, sick and uncared for, depressed, atomised, surveiled, swamped by hyper-immigration and separated from our traditional native history, culture and communities….

    Is your boss spying on you as you work from home? (‘i’) – because of course the ‘i’ newspaper still assumes that you are indeed working from home.

    First Rwanda deportation flight could still be years away (‘i’)

    Early retirement blamed for slump in economic activity (Telegraph)

    So if the strongmen had a bad year, then presumably the weak men are having a good one?

    Gareth Southgate staying as England manager… Coach needed to think about future after defeat to France in World Cup quarter-final (Telegraph)

    Nurses: Talk to us, Rishi… (Daily Express)

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Surely we are set for a feast of blubbing english speaking nurses telling us how tough it is with all the discounts and unquestioning adoration they get from a dumb public ?
      When ever the ‘ cave in ‘ comes the blue labour lot will be blamed – so they might as well push on with their pay offer to 2024 ….
      Maybe a recruitment freeze on’ non front line ‘ staff -… or a bit of downsizing..

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  28. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – 6 a.m. and rejoice at the good news but beware; the bogeyman might get stronger

    The Congressional Court investigating the 6 Jaunuary 2021 ‘attack’ * on the Capitol building or ‘riot’ * at the Capitol building has recommended that former President Donald Trump should face charges. It is over to the Department of Justice ( incorrectly described as the Justice Department in the BBC article here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64034559 ) to decide whether they will prosecute these charges.

    The BBC voiced report contains a note of concern: “It may make Trump stronger, it might strengthen his support among Republicans.” Oooh, fear the Bogeyman. Former President (the BBC always omit that courtesy in their voiced reports) Trump may yet get to run again in 2024. Beware, beware. Sshhh! Don’t mention the bogeyman!

    * Both words interchangeable by the BBC, please note, but it was not a demonstration and it was not mostly peaceful according to the BBC. The BBC also persist in the lie that four or five people died as a result of the ‘attack’ or ‘riot’. In truth, it was just one and that was one of the demonstrators as well.

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  29. Jeff says:

    I think that unless some sensible people get hold of the narrative, the Brixton Academy stampede/tragedy, could go the same way as the New Cross Fire that occurred over 40 years ago, in 1981.

    This happened at a house party for two girls and led to the deaths of 13 young black people. No one has ever been charged.

    Fingers were pointed at right-wing MPs, accusing them of “stirring the pot”. Rumours abounded about mysterious far right groups. There were demonstrations, accusations, books written, documentaries and TV programmes made and the usual bunch of race baiting chancers jumped on the bandwagon.

    TV wrestler, Johnny Kwango, said, “They’re killing our babies and over three decades later Darcus Howe was still banging on about this “mass murder”.

    However, the fire investigation proved beyond all reasonable doubt that the blaze was started in the living room…and the telling part of that finding is that only black people were attending this get-together…therefore…

    This Brixton Academy situation has to be nipped in the bud…

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  30. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #2 – oh dear! further evidence that ‘the-cost-of-living-crisis’ is not after all

    Apparently ‘some people’ (quite a lot really) are affluent enough to take early retirement during the Pandemic and stop working. Estimates vary but it is suggested that the 5 million ‘economically inactive’ during the Blair/Brown era, especially at the time of the financial crash has grown by over 50% to 8 million people. Probably another reason for the BBC to overlook the unemployed. Why is that that the LibbyLeftySocialists always neglect the unemployed unless they can ‘weaponise’ them?

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    • Guest Who says:

      On that note…

      Twitter still appears to be functioning.

      Half the planet is flying to visit the other half. Mainly those in media.

      Our family still eats pretty well on a budget with an Aldi, Morrisons, Waitrose combo.

      A pint is affordable every so often.

      Fuel is pricey but back down a bit.

      However, energy is silly money and if OFGEM don’t sort out the extortion racket by the companies they are funded by, I will write to my MP, who is paid a lot of money to open post offices and attend footballing matches, and do F all else.

      And Jo Brand is still employed by the BBC.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        None of this will stop the yearly fights in Argos on Christmas Eve when the less bright realise its Christmas Day tomorrow….

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      • JohnC says:

        Sprouts, turnips, parsnips and cabbage all 19p in Sainsburies today.

        Though I doubt McDonalds will have any special offers so the BBC will surely find plenty of people to claim they can’t afford to eat.

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  31. Thoughtful says:

    Here’s another futurology video from someone not at all happy with the state of politics in the USA and with some pretty dire predictions for the comming year:

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  32. tomo says:

    The migrant issue in the USA

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  33. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #3 – no mention of the ‘R’ word by the BBC, very strange

    The BBC appear to delight in races and race and racism so it was a little strange to hear that Terry Hall, frontman of The Specials had died and no mention was made of him singing in a fakeJamaican voice and the majority-white band playing a ‘culturally appropriated’ music style or, I should probably write, music-stylee. We didn’t think too much about that at the time, we just enjoyed the music.

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  34. BRISSLES says:

    Terry Hall ? when I heard he had died, I thought “I’m sure he died years ago”. Sorry, but the only Terry Hall I know was the one who had his hand up Lenny the Lion’s backside. The 70’s went through a bit of a sea change in music tastes, so The Specials passed me by. I was still bopping to Bony M and Abba.

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  35. Fedup2 says:

    In view of an ambulance strike on Wednesday the Government is advising people not to do ‘risky things’ during that day in order to ‘protect the NHS’, ‘flatten the curve ‘ and ‘stuff’ …

    If we lived in a free country we’d be able to find out the pattern of 999 calls versus those of strike days ….

    … there will be an army of Serco ‘call handlers ‘ shifting those calling 999 from one manager to another in order to prevent an ambulance actually being sent out .

    Some ambulances – it seems – won’t be getting to their ‘calls’ until Friday …..
    ( I’m not sure whether the nut above is true or not but nothing would surprise ) …..

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  36. G says:

    Is it me or is there a distinct lack of Christmas Cards in the stores?

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  37. JohnC says:

    UK forests lock away twice as much planet-warming carbon as previously thought, a new study reveals.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64028694

    So after all this time, all the scientists and people who study these things had it completely wrong ?.

    What a complete load of rubbish. As expected it’s another university making another extreme claim in the name of ‘global warming’ – also known as ‘seeking funding’ – and the BBC idiots falling for it hook line and sinker.

    If this is true and our academics have only just realised it, I would suggest they are not competent to be trusted for whatever they say now.

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    • tomo says:

      they are not competent to be trusted for whatever they say

      Look at this … I wonder who decided to promote the twerp to “professor”?

      I wonder if he lives in a dirt floored tepee ?

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      • Guest Who says:

        Other ‘Perfessers’.

        The honorific was first diluted and now has been made laughable.

        Doc Shola is set to overtake Newton soon, in certain gatherings of great minds.

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        • JohnC says:

          In my career as a software engineer for people like BAE SYSTEMS, I came across 3 PhD qualifed people in the teams.

          They were without question the worst engineers I have ever come across. They simply could not relate to the real world. They chose whatever part they could identify with and tried to just focus on that.

          Without giving maxi too much for his doxxing, one was indirectly responsible for a rocket exploding. His job was identifying the main risks and instead of focussing on real-world failures, he was personally interested in ‘cosmic rays’ so spent most of his time pontificating that and just paid lip service to everything else. It failed because not enough emphasis was focussed on testing for real equipment failures.

          If everyone except professors suddenly disappeared, I suspect the human race would simply die of starvation once the supermarkets shelves ran out.

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    • tomo says:

      Exhibit B

      Chris Folland from UKMO Hadley Centre

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    • Up2snuff says:

      JohnC, although the BBC’s Climate Editor, Justin Rowlatt, did admit a year or two back that trees also breathe out CO2 as part of their natural processes. I wish I had a bookmark of that article in this PC.

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  38. tomo says:

    GIVE US MORE MONEY

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Employee trans gender man?!

      Islam – Weston Area Health NHS Trusthttps://www.waht.nhs.uk › Chapel › Faith-and-Culture
      Generally a Muslim woman is not allowed to be examined or surrounded by male members of medical staff. It is always preferable that a female member of the …

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  39. Guest Who says:

    Wonder if JezBo was outside, holding the perimeter.

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  40. Guest Who says:

    Another food bank refugee who just mustered the strength to call the bbc.

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    • Guest Who says:

      “cleared her diary”.

      🤣

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  41. Guest Who says:

    I knew Vile was thicker than Fledermaus guano, but…

    Maybe his directors are gunning for a bonus?

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  42. The Mouse says:

    There are 321,624 Registered nurses in UK.

    UK government are paying 20 times this amount (£) per day to hotel migrants (I have not included doctors fees, border control, other support networks for ‘migrants’ in this calc).

    This means the UK government could give every nurse earning £34,000 per year a pay rise of nearly 17% = £5,400 if they weren’t wasting it on housing unproductive ‘migrants’ many who have no legal basis to be in the UK. Those who are real (non-economic migrants) could be helped. I’m sure the nurses unions would drop their demand to say 12% so they could help the non-economic, non-criminal migrants.

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  43. tomo says:

    If only for a week….

    but he might have to timeshare with gig as Twitter CEO

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  44. Guest Who says:

    Envy of the wo…. ‘Oi… look… phobes!’.

    Saz and Lurch should relocate to CA.

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  45. tomo says:

    The BBC emoting away about people fleeing from Venezuela.

    The fact the Venezuela has the largest oil reserves of any country on the planet and is being presently run by a bunch of people lionised by the UK Labour party should be something of a wake-up call to UK voters …

    Not that the creepy swines at Broadcasting House would present it as a socialist catastrophe – eh?

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  46. digg says:

    I’m at a loss to comprehend what the Germans think they are doing with the trial of the 97 year old lady Irmgard Furchner who worked as a typist in a concentration camp as a teenager.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64036465

    For God’s sake she was little more than a child and almost certainly had no choice in the matter and was therefore almost as much a victim of the real villains as the poor souls who perished there.

    You could in fact make the same argument against every serving soldier, sailor and airman who fought for Germany!

    It feels like “Germany” is trying to atone for it’s history in order to bury it at any cost!

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    • Kaiser says:

      maybe the BBC can run a sympathetic podcast for her

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    • LynetteO says:

      She typed out the orders for the chemicals to kill Jews and then watched as the Nazi’s gassed them.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Yep – age doesn’t disqualify justice – but I suppose they won’t go so far as hanging her …..

        Digg – as for the comment you make re taking revenge on the nazi military – I thought the idea Stalin had of executing – was it – 50 000 officers at the end of the war wasn’t the worst idea – but I suppose the Russians did it anyway – one way or another .

        I still think we ( Britain ) didn’t get enough out of Germany across the decades – we should still be getting compensation …..and maybe for another couple of generations …

        Actually – how did that woman evade justice for so long ?…..

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      • digg says:

        Possibly with an armed officer standing right behind her? We can never know the details but that doesn’t mean we should happily assume or make them up!

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    • Thoughtful says:

      The greedy weasels triumphed again, being the only succesful ones in all of this.
      97 years old is too old, too much water under the bridge and it appears to be just revenge seeking and money grubbing. If a trial was necessary then all those taking part should have given their services for free that way we would have known the law needed this and not the lawyers for their fat fees.

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    • JohnC says:

      Germany was in the grip of groupthink not to different to what we are experiencing today. The people had been conditioned to think in a certain way by relentless ideological propaganda. Most people will believe anything if you tell them it often enough.

      Many of our modern day Nazi socialists would be more than happy to send people on the Right to concentration camps. The BBC HYS whenever they open it for stories of people such as Trump, Boris, Nigel and JRM are absolutely chock full of hate. And over in the USA, the Democrats don’t even try to hide their hatred of the Right at all these days.

      If they had the power to get rid of us, they would.

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  47. Guest Who says:

    Dis so going to atone megabits.

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  48. Sluff says:

    BBC SPOTY finalists are announced.

    Interestingly, only 24 hours before the vote. I wonder why?
    It’s a pretty thin year.
    But after the de rigour three women who almost nobody has ever hear of, we do at least get to Ronnie o’ Sullivan.

    He’s got his flaws and demons but as a supreme talent for two decades and more, in a class by himself.

    So obviously he has no chance.
    My money is on Miss/Ms/Mrs Nobody.
    Other pronouns are available.

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    • harry142857 says:

      Well done to Beth Mead, sorry I don’t know who you are.

      £40 wins you £1.

      BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2022 odds
      Beth Mead 1/40

      Ben Stokes 16/1

      Jake Wightman 100/1

      Ronnie O’Sullivan 100/1

      Jessica Gadirova 100/1

      Eve Muirhead 100/1

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      • harry142857 says:

        Google is my friend. They have her down as better than Jimmy Greaves, so a deserved winner, just two box ticks.

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  49. Sluff says:

    Since it’s Christmas……..not BBC.

    Let’s see how our wonderful public services work in Brighton.
    Admire the professionalism. Admire the effective use of public money.
    You know Brighton. The place where the Greens run the show and tell us all about the effects of global warming.
    Oh the irony.

    Or Google ‘Brighton bus in the snow’.
    Enjoy.

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    • Scroblene says:

      Ha ha ha! Wasted several days trying to get the Council to see sense on a real and proper leisure development, but they were just thick, woke and hopeless, so we said, ‘Sod them’ and walked away.

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  50. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    I expect you know but in case you didn’t, for every ‘immigrant/asylum seeker’ sent to Rwanda (haha) we have to accept one of their (Rwanda) people who are so badly in need of care that they cannot look after them in Rwanda.

    In other words, we will be getting somebody that will probably need a high level of care for the rest of their life.
    And we are paying Rwanda hundreds of millions to do this.

    Whoever is doing the negotiations for our government is doing a terrible job.
    Same as giving the French what amounts to money for nothing.
    Or shovelling mountains of cash to hotels and the likes of their mates in serco for channel crossers.

    At the same time they are taking a very hard line with all our striking nurses etc.

    It seems there’s plenty of money for everyone else but not our own.

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