Start the Week 16 January 2023

The sinister undemocratic World Economic Forum meets this week to plan our future. The BBC will be in a happy place there ….

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  1. Guest Who says:

    The barnet that launched a 1,000 BBC photo essays.

    https://variety.com/2023/artisans/news/angela-bassett-makeup-hair-award-artisan-black-panther-1235490324/#

    Hopefully a BBc special on how folk are struggling to afford the train fare to get their special topiary snipped just so is in the offing.

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  2. TrickCyclist says:

    The BBC have been reporting the Critics Choice Awards across their platforms. Top billing goes to former action movie star Brendan Fraser, who blubbed in his acceptance speech for his comeback performance in The Whale.
    Beyond that though, from the Beeb website, ‘Other Critics Choice winners included Cate Blanchett, who was named best actress for her role in Tar as fictional conductor and perfectionist Lydia Tar. . .’ Fictional conductor, eh? You don’t say.
    It’s a cliche to say that actors should only speak when they have a script but that didn’t stop Blanchett from delivering this masterpiece – ‘an impassioned speech’ – according to the BBC:

    ‘. . .describing her award as “extremely arbitrary considering how many extraordinary performances there have been by women not only in this room”.
    She added: “It’s like, what is this patriarchal pyramid where someone stands up here?
    “Why don’t we just say there’s a whole raft of female performances that are in concert and in dialogue with one another, and stop the televised horse race of it at all?
    “Because can I tell you, every single woman – whether it’s television, film, advertising, tampon commercials, whatever – you’re all out there doing amazing work that is inspiring me continually.
    “So thank you. I share this with you all.” ‘

    Oh bog off, Galadriel. Next time get a man to write you a proper speech.

    From Singin’ in the Rain:
    Rod (Monumental Pictures publicist):
    “The studio’s gotta keep their stars from looking ridiculous at any cost.”
    Cosmo Brown:
    “Nobody’s got that much money.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64288415

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    • MarkyMark says:

      She can break her award down to pieces and give it to everyone – then it will mean nothing.

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  3. Lucy Pevensey says:

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  4. Guest Who says:

    BBC Politics going near an explanation of the Labour Leader’s position… from Diane Abbott?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      I miss Diane Abbott … so here we go … “Abbott speaks out on school row: Diane Abbott has been critical of colleagues’ school choices. Labour MP Diane Abbott has said sending her son to a £10,000-a-year private school instead of a comprehensive is “indefensible”. {bbc.co.uk oct2003}”
      In her first detailed comments on the controversy, she told BBC One’s This Week programme: “Private schools prop up the class system in society.”
      “It is inconsistent, to put it mildly, for someone who believes in a fairer and more egalitarian society to send their child to a fee-paying school.”
      But, she added: “I (Diane Abbott) had to choose between my reputation as a politician and my son.”

      When Prime Minister Tony Blair sent his eldest son, Euan, to the London Oratory, a selective school, she criticised him, saying people voted Labour because they believed in equality.

      And when Solicitor General Harriet Harman sent her son to a selective grammar school in Orpington, Kent, Ms Abbott said: “She made the Labour Party look as if we do one thing and say another.”

      The Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP, who became Britain’s first black woman member in 1987, told the programme her constituents would understand – “particularly black mothers who know the position I’m in”.

      – reputation or moral high ground when saying what other people should do?
      – how come we could not choose between having her as an MP or doing what she tells other people to do?
      – reference – found this on order-order.com by hohum
      – The People Love Her in 2017 – GE#17 // Labour(Hackney) // Diane Abbott // Votes 42,265 // share 75.1% // change+12.2

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/07/26/mid-week-open-thread-119/comment-page-2/#comment-855574

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  5. tomo says:

    BBC gel working from home?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      BBC fails to follow up on a refugee related News story … BBC £3.5bn Search for ‘Maria Freiburg’

      … sorry if this makes you feel sick or generates hatred, but why aren’t the BBC interested in Maria Ladenburge’s killer being brought to justice and why the killer did it ….

      The Trial of Hussein Khavari (murdered Maria Ladenburge) Becomes Even More Sordid {gatesofvienna.net sep2017}

      The accused entered the courtroom with shackles on hands and feet at 9:05am. First he read out loud a letter of apology, and he asked the family of the murdered Maria Ladenburger for forgiveness, Focus reports.

      “I wish I could undo everything. What I have done, I am deeply sad about that from the bottom of my heart.” (Hussein K.)

      Then he went on to recount the events of the night of the murder:

      He had been drinking with three friends and he had smoked hashish. Because he was extremely drunk, he was thrown out of the bar. At some time after that, he was on his way home. At the [river] Dreisam, the girl on her bicycle approached him.

      He kicked against the bicycle, which caused the girl to fall off. She screamed. He held her mouth shut. Then he strangled her with her shawl until she was unconscious.

      “When I saw how pretty she was, I wanted to have sex with her.” (Hussein K.)

      Apparently he thought that he had already strangled her to death. The judge questioned him concerning “sex with a dead girl,” and the offender said:

      “It didn’t bother me to have sex with a dead girl.” (Hussein K.)

      According to his testimony he was too drunk to achieve an erection, so he inserted his hand. Since he had a previous injury from a bicycle accident, he pulled her into the river to wash his blood from her body. There he left her and fled.

      BBC Last Touched on this story “Afghan murder suspect in Germany was jailed in Greece (convicted of attempted murder in Greece)” {bbc.co.uk dec2016}
      Germans were outraged by the murder of Maria L, a student in Freiburg who volunteered for a refugee charity.
      He was given a 10 year-sentence but was apparently freed after about 18 months.

      – BBC £3.5bn News Service Search for ‘Maria Freiburg’ found wanting, the real world is just to horrible to report
      – Lady Gaga reveals chronic illness, with fibromyalgia featuring in her new documentary (sales pitch!)

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/09/13/mosquesmustfall/#comment-866359

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      • StewGreen says:

        go to Google search
        type site:bbc.co.uk/news .. “Hussein Khavari”
        There are stories dated 2018, 2019
        OK the 2019 page is listed only cos it comtains a link to the March 2018 one

        Germany migrant jailed for life for murdering Freiburg student
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-43498151

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Nice!

          https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-43498151

          An asylum seeker has been jailed for life for the rape and murder of a woman in Germany in a case that fuelled tensions over the influx of migrants.

          Hussein Khavari, who claimed to be Afghan, admitted to attacking student Maria Ladenburger, 19, in October 2016 in the south-western city of Freiburg.

          She was raped and strangled – but alive when she was left on the bank of a river to drown, the judge said.

          Khavari was arrested weeks later and DNA tests linked him to the crime.

          The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party entered the federal parliament for the first time, while Mrs Merkel’s CDU party had its worst electoral performance in almost 70 years.

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  6. tomo says:

    JUST IN CASE YOU WERE THINKING ABOUT HAVING A PUBLIC MOAN ABOUT BEING RIPPED OFF FOR GAS, ELECTRICITY AND ROAD FUEL?

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    • Scroblene says:

      Why is our ‘Prime Minister’ resorting to twatter stuff to say something!

      Hasn’t he got more important things to do, like, run the country, do a bit of work here and there, make UK Inc. a better place?

      Surely this is fake stuff?

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      • StewGreen says:

        It’s 2023 grandad
        Top secret information: when a tweet comes out of the PM’s account that doesn’t mean the PM has just typed it himself.
        The PM’s dept creates a page about the legislation
        then tweets the link

        Or would you prefer to have your news filtered through BBC, Sky, ITV ?

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        • Scroblene says:

          Ha ha ha, Stew!

          A bit earlier, I did say that I get all my news from everywhere else but the awful BBC, ITV, etc, and usually skim the online rags, read Guido, and look at comments here, so I don’t really need Twotter or Bookface…

          Got a great blog though, and you’re always welcome to comment!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Teacher still in hiding a year on after Prophet Muhammed Batley Grammar School controversy
      Kim Leadbeater MP has provided words of support a year on from the Batley Grammar School protests, which saw a teacher embroiled in controversy for showing an image of the Prophet Muhammad

      Bookmark
      NEWS
      ByConnor TealeReporterRia TesiaTrending Writer
      11:25, 25 MAR 2022

      https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/teacher-still-hiding-year-after-23496807

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  7. Richard Pinder says:

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. versus the BBC: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/TNI-Complaint-1.10.22.pdf

    The antitrust lawsuit filed on Tuesday 10th January in a federal court in Texas, targets the British Broadcasting Corp (BBC) lead Trusted News Initiative (TNI), a self-described “industry partnership” formed in 2020 among legacy media giants and big tech companies.

    Prior to being censored, shadow-banned, and ultimately de-platformed, Kennedy’s use of Internet platforms owned and operated by TNI members Facebook, Google, and Twitter allowed him to publish COVID-related news and opinion reaching millions of people, which in turn drove traffic to The Defender and was critical to fundraising and to sales of Kennedy’s books. Kennedy had 800,000 followers on Instagram and millions of viewers on YouTube. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is joined by Creative Destruction Media, Trial Site News, Truth About Vaccines founders Ty and Charlene Bollinger, independent journalist Ben Swann, Health Nut News publisher Erin Elizabeth Finn, Gateway Pundit founder Jim Hoft, Dr. Joseph Mercola, and Ben Tapper, a chiropractor. The plaintiffs, the lawsuit alleges, are among the many victims of the TNI’s “group boycott” tactic, defined as a coordinated effort to facilitate monopoly by cutting off the competitors’ access to supplies and necessities. In this case, the TNI members are accused of engaging in group boycott—in concert with their big tech partners—against small, independent news publishers by denying them access to internet platforms they need to compete and even survive in the online news market. This alleged effort by the BBC to establish a dominant media narrative by shutting off nonestablishment outlets, according to the lawsuit, has violated both American federal antitrust and freedom of speech laws. “Federal antitrust law has its own name for this kind of ‘industry partnership,’” the lawsuit states. “It’s called a group boycott and is a per se violation of the Sherman Act.” The BBC’s criminal censorship and propaganda operation of its U.S. online website, bbc.com, reaches an American audience of over fifty million and transacting substantial business in every American state and district. It started in July 2019, when the BBC director-general Tony Hall announced, “Last month I convened, behind closed doors, a Trusted News Summit at the BBC, which brought together global tech platforms and publishers. The goal was to arrive at a practical set of actions we can take together, right now, to tackle the rise of misinformation.” By March 2020, these “global tech platforms and publishers” had formed the TNI. As described by a high-ranking BBC executive in 2020, the TNI is an “international partnership initiative convened by the BBC, which links media organisations and social-media platforms. The group has developed a shared early-warning system to alert partners. According to the BBC, TNI members agreed in early 2020 that their “ground-breaking collaboration” would target online news relating to COVID-19 and that TNI members would “work together to ensure harmful disinformation myths are stopped in their tracks.”

    The antitrust lawsuit, filed in a US district court in northern Texas, also mentions interference in the US presidential election by the BBC. The BBC’s Director General, Tony Hall, committed the BBC/TNI to a shared early warning system of rapid alerts to combat the spread of disinformation during the US presidential election.

    In late 2020 and 2021, the BBC’s Jessica Cecil, then the head of the TNI, made numerous public statements in print and at TNI conferences describing how the TNI functioned. Cecil stated that the TNI’s members work together “in the fight against disinformation” by “agreeing” to “standards” and to a “system” making possible a suppression of news content that, individually, TNI members “couldn’t do on our own.” She stated that the TNI’s members had agreed to adopt, and did adopt, a “fast alert” system in which members would alert one another to items of supposedly “unreliable” information that had appeared online. She stated that TNI members had “signed up” to a set of “expectations” about the actions they would take on their own to suppress reporting identified by the TNI as “misinformation.” There were “clear . . . expectations,” said Ms. Cecil, that all members had “signed up” for to “choke off” such reporting online. These “clear expectations” included a commitment by the TNI’s Big Tech Members to censor such reporting on their platforms, to shadow-ban such content, to deplatform publishers who persisted in such reporting, and to work in tandem with one another. The goal of this cooperation “between tech and media” and “across platforms,” according to Cecil, was to find “practical ways to choke off” the online publishing of news deemed by TNI members to be misinformation. Cecil took evident pride in the assertion that the TNI’s suppression of others’ online reporting did not “in any way muzzle our own journalism”; it was apparently of no consequence that the BBC through the use of the TNI, muzzles other news publishers, except GB News (see Neil Oliver, Mark Steyn and Laurence Fox).

    Jamie Angus, Former Senior News Controller for BBC News (now working for Saudi Arabia’s state broadcaster) said he was fighting a “tidal wave of unchecked, incorrect, or in fact explicitly-malicious nonsense that’s being piped out mainly through digital platforms.

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    • digg says:

      That explains all we need to know about this pernicious organisation and quite probably directly led to the creation of tactical non-jobs such as that occupied my MS Spring etc.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Richard
      I wonder if this will run ? I remember when I read the US constitution not seeing the word ‘misinformation ‘ …. I suppose if the action was in the UK the BBC / TNI would rely on some ‘public interest ‘defence – but in the US it sounds like a conspiracy to subvert free speech ….

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      I am currently reading “The Real Anthony Fauci” by RFK Jr. An excellent book which reveals the way Fauci operates to stifle research into AIDS and Covid. He’s killed untold numbers of people in his support of Big Pharma. I’d never have heard of this book if I hadn’t seen Mark Steyn talk to RFK on GB News.

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  8. Fedup2 says:

    For some reason I thought this week might be unusually busy –

    So far
    Serial plod rapist
    Teachers to go on strike
    Uk government to strike down Scottish queer law
    And it’s only 6pm …

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  9. tomo says:

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  10. digg says:

    Rishi Sunak’s anti-strike laws aren’t just insulting, they are stupid too says Angela Raynor in her party supporters rag, The Guardian.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/16/rishi-sunak-anti-strike-laws-tories-angela-rayner

    Try telling that to the relatives of people who have died because there was not enough medical staff on duty to treat them in time Ange!

    Sometimes laws may upset some people but generally they are only implemented when vitally required to protect the innocent vast majority in some cases who will suffer the consequences.

    What for instance would have been the result if millions of servicemen decided to withdraw their Labour in 1939?

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  11. Eddy Booth says:

    “Cost of living: The young people saving money by going sober”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-64176409

    Part 156? of BBC’S occasional series encouraging young people not to drink; they must be sponsored by a certain religion or something.
    This episode dressed up as cost of living crisis issue.

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    “For Grace, the £50 to £60 she’d spend in pubs, bars and clubs could buy her two weeks’ worth of groceries:

    How about not going to festivals and using the £250
    For ten weeks groceries?
    How about not buying novelty hats and buying a weeks grub?
    Etc

    “If you’ve been affected by the issues raised in this article, help and support is available via BBC Action Line.…” Biasedbbc..

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    • Scroblene says:

      Spot on Eddy!

      Mummy and daddy pay for the TV tax, so it’s all good for newokers…

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    • moggie63 says:

      I’ve not had a drink since May but I still don’t have any bloody money spare.

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  12. Sluff says:

    To make sure the correct narrative is followed, the BBC now makes its own news!

    It commissions a poll into the famous ‘cost of living crisis’ ( their words) and then runs a news item on the results!!

    Guess what? 97% of all the people surveyed are eating their own children and living in the corner of one room covered in blankets as they can’t afford to put the gas on.

    Completely pathetic.
    In other news, because of the ‘cost of living crisis’ ……errr…..Marks and Spencer are opening 20 new shops and creating 3000 jobs.

    Are the BBC capable of using the words ‘cost of living’ without appending the word ‘crisis’ to it? Clearly not.

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  13. StewGreen says:

    ITV local newsPR show “this shop in Boston is having to close cos of £30K energy bills”

    That sounds fake to me the business price cap is 60p leccy and 18p for 1KWh of gas
    So a shop using £1,000 per day is using 1,700KWh
    or say 170KWh per hour for 10 opening hours

    1KWh electric fire will do good a job of heating a room
    so why use 170 times more ?

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  14. Eddy Booth says:

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64282044

    “A whole section of the nine-storey block collapsed and authorities say at least 40 people died. Rescue efforts are continuing.”

    We’ll never know what happened, Russia’s missile just hit it , shot at Russians missile crashed in it, or Ukrainian air defence missile did a u-turn or something.
    Not nice whatever the cause, but the BBC still manages to be less than truthful?
    Using a photo, making it look like the whole middle section of one large building was demolished, when perhaps it’s two towers with their corners damaged and lots of smoke/ dust in the middle..?

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    • andyjsnape says:

      Hello Eddy

      Thats reminds me, remember when the terrorists attacked the twin towers, the bbc doesn’t – never gets mentioned (maybe offensive to muslims)

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  15. G.W.F. says:

    The Trots welcome migrants

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  16. markh says:

    Wait for it, wait for it- ‘Lingerie expert explains the right way to put on a bra’, proudly trumpets the Lifestyle section of the BBC webshite (one of many sections that I have tried to opt out of but can’t find a way how). FFS is this what the licence fee pays for? Utter, utter drivel.

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  17. markh says:

    Radio 2 now going large on the artists for their upcoming ‘Piano Room’, whatever the hell that is. They have taken another opportunity to promote their favourite talentless racist thug Stormzy. Out of touch? The BBC? Never! Another nail in the coffin of what was a very good radio station.

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  18. tomo says:

    If the politicians, bureaucrats and activist nutters do not pay attention – we are going to see a lot more of this:

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  19. tomo says:

    Meanwhile in Canada…

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  20. tomo says:

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Mistake mouthing off and mistake apologising . Surely he must know it could never be enough – does he need more money – is it ego ?
      It would be a shame if the farming show got cancelled but woke prime is woke prime ….. and we are at ‘peak Amazon ‘….

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      • Guest Who says:

        Vile is stirring.

        A bottom feeder’s bottom feeder.

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        • MarkyMark says:

          “The number of hate crimes has gone up, and that means the police have to do something about it.”

          Gwent police said they have a team of “over 30” specialist Hate Crime Support Officers.

          https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46543874

          “over 30” specialist Hate Crime Support Officers
          “over 30” specialist Hate Crime Support Officers
          “over 30” specialist Hate Crime Support Officers

          00:55
          twelve-year-old girl who had been having
          00:58
          sex with up to five and Asian males
          01:01
          because he said she had been quote 100%
          01:05
          consented consensual in every incident
          01:08
          tory’s of age I think that’s just I
          01:12
          think that’s unbelievable to be honest
          01:14
          have you worked as it have you
          01:16
          identified who that officer was and

          “over 30” specialist Hate Crime Support Officers
          “over 30” specialist Hate Crime Support Officers
          “over 30” specialist Hate Crime Support Officers

          https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/12/21/weekend-open-thread-21-december-2018/#comment-958701

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  21. Terminal Moraine says:

    Not BBC but AP — bizarre, illogical attempt to normalise the Davos gathering of elites as nothing troublesome at all… and anyone who thinks otherwise is a tin-hat wearing weirdo.

    Except the author acknowledges that “the four-day conference is also known for secretive backroom meetings and deal-making by business leaders” and the 2020 Great Reset “envisioned sweeping changes to how societies and economies would work to recover from the pandemic and build a more sustainable future.”

    And yet she concludes that “in increasingly mainstream corners of the internet and on conservative talk shows, ‘The Great Reset’ has become shorthand for what skeptics say is a reorganization of society, using global uncertainty as a guise to take away rights.”

    It wasn’t long ago that the media were completely silent on the WEF/Great Reset; now they’re approaching point 3 on the globalist revision chart:

    https://apnews.com/article/technology-pennsylvania-world-economic-forum-business-0193732c04074e595852c160d7ca1c86?utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

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    • Terminal Moraine says:

      Ah of course. The author’s a ‘News Verification Journalist’ at Associated Press; aka BTEC in Frappuccino Studies from the Marianna College of Bullshit.

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      • Zephir says:

        Yep, Frappuccino studies may be right, her employers saw barrister on her CV but it really read barista

        Coffee artist for Stabucks ?

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  22. andyjsnape says:

    Ukraine yellow kitchen: Shock at image of apartment wrecked by strike
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64290696

    I was shocked and saddened when I saw the colour
    My sympathy’s to the bBC

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  23. vlad says:

    Loathsome though Harry and Meghan are, cynics might find a tiny bit of satisfaction in watching woke Charles be attacked by even woker Ginge and Whinge.

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  24. vlad says:

    ‘Brixton Academy security guards regularly ‘took bribes”

    What – certain communities indulging in Third-World style corruption? Surely not; after all, diversity is our strength.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64263074

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Today watch

      The serial plod rapist story is now going through the next ( final phase ?)

      This involves the ‘experts ‘ defined as people who don’t actually do anything but feel equipped to say what should be done and how – and make a living from it .

      Todays candidate was an American ? Lady called ‘Betsy stanko. Now Betsy has apparently worked with the Met plod . This automatically qualifies her to pronounce on whaf should be done .the idea of an American advising British plod must surely be a joke .

      Can you guess what Betsy suggests ?

      Yes – get more outsiders ( like Betsy ) to be inside the plod watching it and telling it how to change – they’ll have to be paid well of course .

      She was against a public inquiry ( presumably no money in that ) .

      There are noticeable absences from this story – eg – the number of women in the plod now – compared to – say – 20 years ago . Does this make a material change .

      But I think the real story is the sacrifice of expertise and commitment in plod for ‘diversity ‘ . Standards were dropped to ensure certain groups would get in – so vetting must have been relaxed – making it easy for various degenerates of various types – to join .
      The Met – apparently – is investigating 900 of its own – 1 in 50 of the organisation . No wonder – thankfully – we don’t see them. …..

      Interesting that the big plod story of yesterday was some hsirbrained lefty charity calling for plods to be removed from coloured schools …. But at least the schools will be closed soon …

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      • theisland says:

        “Standards were dropped to ensure certain groups would get in”
        This applies to just about every organisation nowadays.

        My Chambers’s (sic) Etymological Dictionary 1907 defines ‘Discriminate’ as to note the difference: to distinguish: to select from others and ‘Discrimination’ as act or quality of distinguishing: acuteness, discernment, judgement.

        The problem with the Equality Act is that it has been misused so that employers are in effect prevented to use discernment (if they have any) to select the right person for any job by virtue of a list of ‘protected characteristics.’

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  25. andyjsnape says:

    Ethnic segregation in England and Wales at all-time low – study
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64263443

    Much of a community spirit? or just loads of foreigners thrown together

    BBC Komla Dumor Award 2023 launched
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-64221369

    Tele tax being spent wisely, again

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  26. Guest Who says:

    As any fule no, it is Yvette Cooper.

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  27. Zephir says:

    The wokes at the bbc should be taught a little Oscar Wilde, maybe:

    ““Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
    An Ideal Husband, 1895

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  28. Zephir says:

    And the religion of peace and it’s adherents would do well to read Aldous Huxley, maybe:

    “Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they do not dare to trust themselves, to walk in liberty.”

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  29. Guest Who says:

    Getty has all covered.

    Border Force?

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    • Foscari says:

      Guest Who- IMAGE WATCH I believe you are referring to Getty’s.
      The more I see of their imaging . The more I consider it to be
      inverted racism. Today’s image from their “partners” the BBC
      on increase of wages. Sums it up for me. But am I becoming
      paranoid ? I think not.

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      • Foscari says:

        Just as an appendage. That’s me the old pale stale male
        lumbering behind the black product manager on the latest main page “educating” Getty’s imaging for the BBC on “Pay rises at fastest pace for over 20 years” The main feature on the BBC internet pages today.
        We are so lucky ,the unwashed to be given this inclusion,
        diversity, positive discrimination “education” by the BBC and
        its partners for only £158 a year.

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  30. Zephir says:

    (Black Panther) “Houston activists call for arrest of armed taqueria diner who shot, killed robbery suspect
    The activists say the shooter went from being a law-abiding citizen to a lawbreaker when he continued to fire despite there being no threat”

    No surprise there, with another black armed robber shot in action, terrorising diners.

    So, it turned out to be a fake gun, did the victims know this ? NO

    The man’s attorney released a statement saying: “In Texas, a shooting is justified in self-defense, defense of others, and defense of property.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/houston-activists-arrest-armed-taqueria-shot-killed-robbery

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  31. MarkyMark says:

    Dear Darren Henry,

    Do you know about the following which will have a big impact on the World’s climate and our future planet?

    China allows three children in major policy shift
    Published 31 May (BBC)
    – Large population growth China currently has 1.4 billion people at present.

    China’s Monster Three Gorges Dam Is About To Slow The Rotation Of The Earth
    Cutler Cleveland , The Energy Watch Jun 18, 2010, 2:23 PM (Business Insider)
    – Rotation of the Earth can change weather patterns and climate.

    China is the largest developing country in the world. China is still considered a developing country based on the criteria of the World Bank and the United Nations. (World Atlas)
    – Thus China can get cheap loans and be exempt from impositions put on developed countries.

    China has banned BBC World News from broadcasting in the country, its television and radio regulator announced on Thursday. 12 February (BBC)
    – I guess you if you cannot report on a Country then it can do no wrong.

    Did you know about the above and if not then what are you opinions on them and their impact on the World?

    Yours sincerely,
    Mr H

    https://www.writetothem.com/write

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Marky
      I was a bit surprised by the tone of the BBC with the news that the Chinese are not breeding like they did . Surely – on all counts – particularly green crap – it’s a good thing . And we can send the surplus third worlders to China to fill in gaps – win win …

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    • tomo says:

      Let’s not forget that part of the “developing country” thing is the colossal benefit from subsidised shipping rates that China gets – stuff delivered to UK addresses from literally the other side of the world – compare shipping from Germany say to shipping from China….

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      • moggie63 says:

        Never mind Germany. A couple of years ago I was looking to buy something for a few pounds on eBay. Found it and it was £5 delivery from up the road in Nottingham. Another seller had it marginally cheaper, with free delivery from China. The UK can’t compete.

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        • tomo says:

          The competition is savaged by the UK delivery end – all the Chinese need to do is get the bulk parcels to a Royal Mail sorting deport and from there onwards there’s no cost d/t reciprocal agreement – coz developing country status.

          The rub come when you want to send something to China!

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    • Up2snuff says:

      MM, actually the rotation of the earth has been speeding up and every few years a ‘leap second’ has to be added to the atomic clock here in the UK and any in other countries.

         0 likes

      • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

        Well, you’d add a leap second if the Earth were marginally slowing in its axial rotation. One instance of this was midnight on 30/6/1992, when an official clock would have shown (by convention) 23:59:59, then 23:59:60 and then 00:00:00 to accommodate the extra second, i.e. the 61st second of the final minute of June. This kept official time in sync with terrestrial dynamic time.

        With the earth very marginally accelerating, as it has been recently, official clocks might need to lose a second, i.e. have only 59 sec’s in the last minute of the time period (usually on 31/12, or 30/6 as in my example above). So in that case, the clocks would show 23:59:58 and then, one second later, 00:00:00.

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  32. andyjsnape says:

    What does Census 2021 data mean for Norwich’s bisexual community?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-64216989

    Luckily the tele tax again is being spent wisely on giving out this information

    #defund
    #closedown

       15 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      London has remained the region with both the largest proportion of people born outside the UK and the largest proportion of people with non-UK passports. In 2021, more than 4 in 10 (40.6%) usual residents in London were non-UK born, and more than 1 in 5 (23.3%) had a non-UK passport.2 Nov 2022

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      • Sluff says:

        ……….many of whom are entitled to vote.
        I just wonder which way ?
        I suspect we all know.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Talking of voting . …

          The head teachers cannot strike because they didn’t get to the required percentage . They blame the Post Office union for striking during their strike ballot .

          So guess what – another vote ….. so teachers are too thick to put a vote together ….

          All that hot air about kids being damaged because of no school – All that hot air about parents taking their kids on holiday during term time ….
          Make it a long strike – cut the pensions they all dream of. Cut the summer holidays to ‘catch up ‘…

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    • Docmarooned says:

      They think of nothing else in Norwich!

         5 likes

  33. Guest Who says:

    A fact meets an opinion.

    Springster to check?

       12 likes

  34. andyjsnape says:

    Ukraine war: Russia’s Wagner Group commander requests Norway asylum
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64296979

    “Andrey Medvedev, 26, crossed the border into Norway last Friday, where he was detained by border guards.

    He is currently being held in the Oslo area where he faces charges of illegal entry to Norway, his lawyer Brynjulf Risnes told the BBC”

    Maybe something we could start in the UK with the illegals arriving in Dover – detain on illegal entry?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Dover MP Natalie Elphicke told the Commons that the BBC’s “shocking report” contained the “breath-taking” disclosure of free French public bus services being used to ferry migrants from camps to Dunkirk beaches.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-63229010

      ….

      Today the BBC journalists Michael Keohan and Colin Campbell released a shocking report on the channel crossings. It showed people smugglers selling their wares brazenly in the migrant camps and many children living in unsafe and dangerous conditions, as well as—this is breathtaking—a free French public bus service that migrants can use to travel directly from the camps to the Dunkirk departure beaches. Will my right hon. Friend allow a statement on the issue of tackling the small boat crossings and the Government’s response in their work with France?

      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2022-10-13a.258.0#g262.1

      SACK THEM ALL!

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  35. Fedup2 says:

    Today watch 2

    They reported that mark rowley – the outgoing commissioner of met plod -was doing the media rounds but had declined the ‘today ‘ gig .

    But 0815 up he pops – apology ( yawn) blah blah ( yawn ) . Then meeshal compares to the Met to the RUC – disbanded because the Irish republicans didn’t like it .

    Wimmin – then – are the equivalent of Irish nationalists …. Nice one meeesh …

    ‘Is it time to end the metropolice ?” Sez meeesh …. Wow – so that’s the BBC agenda …. Are you gonna fix your force ? Sez meeesh …. Mark burbles something about problems and stuff and… ( yawn ) ….

    ‘Can wimmin be confident to report something to a plod who might be on your ‘internal investigation ‘ list ? Sez meeesh

    Wow she really knows how to hurt , …..

    Meanwhile the police commissioner for the met – the emir of londonistan is …quiet … so often up he pops to tell us how it’s gonna be …. Maybe he is busy closing roads and building cycle lanes …..

    There it dribbled to an end …. The commish must be counting down the days to his pay off and peerage … until the next plod rape trial ….

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  36. atlas_shrugged says:

    Apparently a number of BBC employees are ‘Wanted’

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/bbc-virus-least-6-bbc-buildings-across-uk-covered-photos-people-died-covid-vaccine-video/

    The general public appear to be showing their appreciation at 6 BBC Centres oop North.

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  37. tomo says:

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  38. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    In the Daily Express today there’s an article about electric cars and their batteries.
    It says you should stop charging when it’s 80% charged to look after your battery and if you go to 100% charged it damages your battery long term.

    This means the range will drop to 80% of whatever the manufacturer says.
    Then, as you start looking for a charging point when you’re down to a quarter charge that means the range is about half what the manufacturer claims.
    In this cold weather the range drops.
    The car also loses charge overnight.

    Where will all the used batteries be sent?
    Some third world country probably, to be piled up and left to leak into the environment.

    Of course, we will not have the infrastructure to power all the chargers and wind/solar is not the answer.

       20 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Despite the undoubtable benefits of electrifying our transport fleet – from reduced air pollution to enabling us to achieve the essential net-zero targets – among the EV community there is a growing sense of concern about the dangers and apparent spontaneity of EV fires.

      https://www.bedsfire.gov.uk/Community-safety/Road-safety/Fire-in-Electric-Vehicles.aspx

      apparent spontaneity of EV fires
      apparent spontaneity of EV fires
      apparent spontaneity of EV fires

      ‘Then because of this heat, a chemical reaction takes place which generates more heat, which then causes the chemical reaction to go even faster, and as you can see it’s a vicious cycle.

      This is a process called thermal runaway and it can lead to ignition, or in some cases even explosion.’

      Data obtained by Air Quality News through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request revealed that in 2019 the London Fire Brigade dealt with just 54 electric vehicle fires compared to 1,898 petrol and diesel fires.

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Emmanuel

      Great points. The whole electric car thing really saddens me as a missed opportunity to reform these things about cars:

      Shape: To make them more aerodynamic. Only 90W are required to transport a single occupant at 60 mph. Modern electric cars require many kW because they have the aerodynamics of a brick.

      Weight: It is easily possible to reduce the weight from many 1000’s of kg to under 100kg which is very beneficial as the road is destroyed by many powers of the weight. Also stop-start of a heavy object wastes energy even when this gets recovered.

      Size: By reducing the size material costs are reduced and parking problems greatly reduced.

      Speed: Conventional Chelsea tractors are very slow for city to city journeys. I can only manage 30.6 mph average between two cities under the best conditions (i.e. leave at 5:00am on a Sunday). This is because our road network is very disjointed and requires stop-start. Smaller cheaper and direct tracks would allow direct non-stop journeys and tracks to be built at a fraction of the cost and take up less of the countryside. There would also be less accidents.

      IMHO Sinclair was right, but, his C5 was unable to share the same tracks. The design of cars AND roads needs to be changed.

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  39. Sluff says:

    As the great and the good congregate in Davos to self-flagellate over global warming, we in this country will surely be invited to ‘give a lead’ and self-flagellate even more.

    But I notice that China produces 29 times more CO2 than the UK. And if we reduced our CO2 to zero the World production would go down by a magnificent….1%.

    So I look forward to the Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil protests in Tiananmen Square. No doubt a BBC camera crew will be there to film the results. I can’t wait to see how the Chinese Police go out of their way to protect that pink boat.

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  40. tomo says:

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Tomo
      Thank you for the posting .

      We have to ask – will the dam break and the msm discuss / debate the effect of the jabs ?

      If this happens what will they say ?- after so long colluding with the medical mafia / politicians about the total perfection of the jabs ?

      The public inquiry won’t – I suggest – look at rising numbers of sudden unexplained deaths . But for every one – there is another grieving family – more people to start asking ‘why ?’

      Will the UK governments fall back on a disfunctional NHS ? I think that’s more likely than blaming the jabs.

      I still think they knew how many would die or be injured by the jabs – but decided to cover it up as a price worth paying to avoid sobbing angels moaning about doing their job in hospitals ….

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  41. tomo says:

    Hmmmm…..

    I guess it’s moving goalposts ?

    https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-faa-has-very-quietly-tacitly

       9 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      The FAA has very quietly tacitly admitted that the EKGs of pilots are no longer normal. We should be concerned. Very concerned.
      After the vaccine rolled out, the FAA secretly widened the EKG parameter range for pilots so they wouldn’t be grounded. It looks like the vax gave at least 50M Americans heart damage.

      Steve Kirsch
      3 hr ago

         17 likes

  42. digg says:

    Tesla Slash prices, Britishvolt EV battery manufacturer startup goes into insolvency….

    Bubble bursting?

       13 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      UK battery hopeful Britishvolt may sell factory site to Slovak startup
      https://europe.autonews.com/suppliers/uk-battery-hopeful-britishvolt-may-sell-factory-site-slovak-startup

         8 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Future of company hailed by Boris Johnson as key to green industrial revolution hangs in the balance, as the first in our Electric dreams series on Britain’s fledgling battery industry reveals

      by Jasper Jolly
      Thu 29 Sep 2022 07.00 BST
      Champagne flowed freely as Orral Nadjari courted bankers and potential business partners in a private box, against a soundtrack of V12 supercar engines, at the Goodwood festival of Speed.

      Nadjari had hit the big time: his Britishvolt battery startup was gatecrashing the annual petrolheads’ gathering at the historic West Sussex circuit in June with plans to power cars of the future using British-made batteries.

      Britishvolt’s pricey sponsorship of the “Electric Avenue” battery car showcase at the festival was not the only instance of the fledgling company’s extravagant approach, according to insiders.

      https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/29/britishvolt-38bn-battery-factory-green-industry

      …………………

      Britishvolt founder quits in wake of leaked documents that say battery cell company is on ‘life support’
      https://cardealermagazine.co.uk/publish/britishvolt-founder-quits-in-wake-of-leaked-documents-that-say-battery-cell-company-is-on-life-support/270428

      It follows Britishvolt winning money from the government last month via the £850m Automotive Transformation Fund.

      from the government = tax payer
      from the government = tax payer
      from the government = tax payer
      from the government = tax payer

         10 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      More like going flat ( sorry )

         6 likes

      • davylars says:

        Gone flat Fed

        Nothing to do with the Chinese making them much cheaper, …..
        Apparently they just ran out of money…Ha ha.

        9-FB004-B2-1-F9-F-4-F9-C-81-F3-3-A70-CC8166-C1.jpg

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        • JohnC says:

          I used to work with drones until they started to take off (ha ha) and the Chinese got stuck in. They were selling stuff cheaper than it could even be built here – without including all the R&D costs.

          I suspect this company were hoping to tap into the ‘climate change’ budgets and get some free money then sell it before the bubble burst. And I suspect there are a LOT more doing the same.

             14 likes

          • Charlie Farley says:

            JohnC ,
            I expect some bright spark Director has emptied the Bank Account of the Millions of Tax Payer’s and Lottery funds….Green Dream what a result !
            Witnessed 30 seconds of some kids bake off thing today…agenda agenda ….very sad to see youngsters being brainwashed .

               5 likes

    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      Bubble bursting?

      We can but hope.

         3 likes

      • JohnC says:

        Once we have no option but to cough up whatever they want to charge, all the incentives will be replaced by taxes.

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  43. JohnC says:

    Pay rises at fastest pace for over 20 years, but below inflation
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64290162

    … and right at the top, a completely random picture which is yet another complete fake Getty image featuring women in charge and BAME. It has 100% been chosen simply for agenda racist, sexist and pro-ginger-minorities reasons.

    _128316719_warehouse.jpg.webp

    It’s pathetic beyond words. I would expect 6th formers to display more integrity.

       24 likes

    • andyjsnape says:

      Hello JohnC

      Re image:- On your right, these are called pallets

         8 likes

    • digg says:

      I am pretty sure that the underlings in the BBC are doing this on purpose, not to advance the cause of diversity but to spit venom and spite in the faces of the majority of the UK population who they despise.

      No one hates more or spews more venom than a brainwashed lefty hidden activist which sums up the overwhelming makeup of the BBC..

         23 likes

    • Foscari says:

      Hi John- I commented on this image earlier this morning. However
      you are 100 times more IT literate than me. There is some later imaging on the BBC website ” 5 tips asking for a pay rise.” I expect the BBC and Getty’s and their other imaging suppliers continue
      to supply us “unwashed” 85% of the population on how we need
      to be” educated ” on diversity etc. I often “contribute” on what I
      call IMAGE WATCH. Perhaps you and others can download this
      “inclusive” imaging or should I say non inclusive imaging
      so far as 85% of the population is concerned . Day after day after
      day, after day.

         14 likes

      • JohnC says:

        You mean these:
        _128311699_gettyimages-878980342.jpg.webp

        _128309803_rowsonarabegum.jpg.webp

        In an article written by someone called Noor Nanji.

        Working hard to remove the first B in BBC …

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        • Foscari says:

          John- Thanks for downloading. To be honest here the BBC
          is being more “inclusive.” Not all the images are afro-caribbean.
          And we do see a whitie in the background on the rare occasion.
          And even a old pale stale male . Such as the bloke in the earlier
          image you posted.He is there right at the back.

             8 likes

    • Nodding Dog says:

      And where’s her Hi-Viz?
      Had a quick look at the BBC news website last night whilst on break at work and noticed the distinct lack of white males…apart from Andrew Tate and that Met police officer charged with rape.

         10 likes

  44. Fedup2 says:

    It seems the news about a former chancellor Zahowi? Swerving his tax liability – and then paying up – is getting a bit more attention ….
    Why ?
    Surely a chancellor should be able to dodge tax if he can …( technically called legal tax avoidance )

    ….what a great musical it will make ….

    Meanwhile nut nut gets a 7 figure advance for his book – it will be called ‘going spare ‘…

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  45. andyjsnape says:

    How they laughed

    BBC Breakfast: Forty years of early morning bloopers
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertainment-arts-64266108

       4 likes

    • Lunchtime Loather says:

      I always take the view with these of “We are highly-paid professionals, and yet we still cock it up, get paid a fortune for doing so and we actually want you to see how crap we really are.”.

         8 likes

  46. Lunchtime Loather says:

    Ken Bruce leaving Radio 2 comes as no surprise to me. If anything, I’m surprised he has hung on for so long. When it gets to the end of a record and he says “Well, that’s three minutes of my life I won’t get back” I knew he was not enjoying it.

    Moving to Greatest Hits Radio and taking PopMaster with him, apparently. Good for him. Out of the cesspit at last.

       26 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Maybe it’s a job for one of those fired news presenters …or surely the down with the kids myrie ….who cares ?

         11 likes

      • Lunchtime Loather says:

        Myrie is a good call, or the appalling Amol Rajan as he seems to be flavour of the month at the moment.

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    • JohnC says:

      Since wokeness hit the BBC and all the other pale-and-stale whiteys went, I’ve noticed Ken has become ultra politically correct to the point of me feeling embarassed for him.

      Clearly he has been told his contract will not be renewed and he will probably be replaced by a shallow, fawning, witless idiot who wets their panties if anyone famous is within 50 yards (like ‘text in what you had for breakfast’ Zoe Ball).

         9 likes

      • Scroblene says:

        Clearly, there won’t be any recognisable ‘names’ doing stuff at the bbc soon, and they’ll be just a sour bunch of numpties, wandering around and getting nowhere…

        Any real business would have sorted out the problems years ago, but the various woke bandwagons, opinions, diversity issues etc., have made the whole lot of them a laughing stock!

        I ocasionally look at their website for some sort of hope, but the items are always stale, uninteresting, and boring, as their mindset is to keep spitting at the British public with stereotyped leftie drivel and tiresome twaddle.

        There used to be some fabulous programmes which were a joy to look forward to, but all those opportunities have gone now!

        Rats – sinking ship methinks when I read (here) about Ken Bruce…

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  47. tomo says:

    Meanwhile in Davos …

    paaarty on down!

       14 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      PM Davos Speech
      David Cameron’s speech at Davos in Switzerland, January 2012 (draft).

      https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-davos-speech

      Prime Minister David Cameron:
      We meet today at a perilous moment for economies right across Europe.

      Growth has stalled. Unemployment is rising. The prospect of Europe getting left behind is all too apparent.

      While China grows at 8%, India at 7% and Africa at 5.5%, the European Commission forecasts the EU will grow by just 0.6 per cent in the whole of 2012 – and even that is assuming the problems in the Eurozone get better not worse.

      Yesterday in Britain we had the official figures for the final quarter of last year – and they were negative.

      Other large economies of Europe are forecast to have a similar outcome.

      In just four years Government debt per EU citizen has risen by 4,500 euros. Foreign direct investment has fallen by around two-thirds.

      And in more than half of EU Member States, a fifth of all young people are now out of work. So this is not a moment to try and pretend there isn’t a problem.


      We put forward an aggressive set of plans to get to our economy back on an even keel. £5.5 billion saved in the first financial year.

      Welfare bills – cut.

      The cost of government – cut.

      Public sector pay – frozen.

      The state pension age – increased.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Prime Minister’s Office did not have the information requested.

      Dear Prime Minister’s Office,

      I write to you today under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the disclosure of information regarding the UK’s ties to the Davos Agenda.

      Having read all three books written by Klaus Schwab and his co-authors, I have to say Prime Minister I am rather alarmed by what is being proposed. For the last 11 months the UK’s public has been led to believe life will eventually return to normal as we knew it to be before, when in fact if we are to believe the words of Schwab and numerous other world leaders that is not the case. In fact it is quite the opposite, isn’t it Mr. Johnson?

      https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/the_uks_involvement_in_the_world

      So these are the points I would like for you to outline within your response.

      1. To what extent is the United Kingdom involved in “The Great Reset”?

      2. What effects will “The Great Reset” have on our rights, privacy and civil liberties as British citizens?

      3. If it is true that we shall never return to normality as we know it, why has the cabinet consistently dangled the carrot of freedom and normality to the general public if we obey the rules?

      4. Why has the likes of the BBC and ITV refused to cover the Davos Agenda, is there something to hide?

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      Is that why Boris was so keen to go?

         3 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Let me guess – another picture of Chrissy Bryan MP …

         2 likes

    • Scroblene says:

      If you’re anything to do with property, Tomo, you may remember the great days of MIPIM, when thousands descended on Cannes to get p****d as f***s and bonk as many of these types as they could before they fell a**e over head on the way back to Nice Airport…

      Been there many times, seen the problems, (stayed loyal to Senora O’Blene of course), enjoyed the craic, did a load of business, had enough alcohol to last a month and generally behaved myself, as I was usually too addled to do much else, except work…

      I guess WEF is the same, but the old harridans charge more!

      Famous story…

      “A company had a huge demolition contract to place. Demolition company used the obvious choice of female contact and got the exec away upstairs for half an hour! Text arrived soon after, ‘Job’s ours’!

      Anyone never heard of this scenario…;0)

         3 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      After uprooting his life in search of adventure, aristocrat-turned-pirate captain Stede Bonnet must go to new lengths to tame the mutinous motley crew of his ship, the Revenge. But when his efforts to impress the boisterous buccaneers lead to a raid on a vessel with ties to his former life, Stede is left to question whether he’s tough enough for the high seas.

         2 likes

    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      I saw the trailers. I shan’t be watching.

         0 likes

  48. Thoughtful says:

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