227 Responses to Weekend 28 January 2023

  1. davylars says:

    Following the Palestinian attacks on a synagogue in Jerusalem on Holocaust day, and the 13 year old boy responsible for today’s shooting.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-64438905

    The following quotes appear in the report.

    “Palestinian militant groups praised the attack, but did not say one of their members was responsible.“

    “ Since the start of January, 30 Palestinians – both militants and civilians – have been killed in the West Bank“

    “Israel has occupied East Jerusalem since the 1967 Middle East war and considers the entire city its capital, though this is not recognised by the vast majority of the international community.
    Palestinians claim East Jerusalem as the future capital of a hoped-for independent state.“

    Obviously just for balance, and not at all biased…

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  2. tomo says:

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  3. Guest Who says:

    Some no name luvvie’s agent has swung #prasnews at a predictable location

    BBC North West

    Suggested for you

    The Liverpool-born actor made the comments as he was handed an honorary degree.
    https://bbc.in/3Hgjz1E

    An honorary degree in Sopes Studies?

    ***
    Quite how an academia/media cook up hundreds of miles from me becomes ‘suggested’ as worth a damn, who knows?

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  4. Guest Who says:

    BBC so needs to get these two on QT.

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  5. Guest Who says:

    When Boris, Rishi, the Limps, Greens all agree… worry.

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/2050-the-never-ending-nightmare-of-net-zero/

    Especially when Surkeer and Rachel are ‘promising’ to outdo the rest to make the bbc happy.

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    • Guest Who says:

      All ‘held to account’ by Toenails via The Critic Magazine.

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    • Guest Who says:

      BBC Wales is doing a story soon on how chlorine affected hair specialists are being retrained as coal miners.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Maybe bbc image searches are based on hair styles?

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        • Foscari says:

          Guest Who- As you probably know this ” IMAGING” is a
          special topic for me. I believe that either BIG BROTHER
          from the Diversity dept of the BBC instructs Getty’s to supply
          the BBC with at least 90% imaging of black models on
          public social interest features such as the one you show us .Or
          Getty’s only have around 10% of white models. I expect it is the
          former of my suggestions. But maybe in the woke world we
          now live in. And it is the only way the BBC can compete with
          the adverts we see on TV. It’s possible the latter. YEAH !!!!
          And maybe it works? There , I am remembering the ” Booking.Com advert with Idris Elba. Maybe we will see him
          looking at his utilities bill ,bank account, shopping basket,
          mortgage, etc. On a Getty’s imaging for the BBC ,YEAH !!!

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  6. Up2snuff says:

    BBC R4 NOISE (a.k.a. News) #1

    BBC News has learned …. no … it was a Civil Service leak of a memo. Could they be terrified by the possibility of a Bojo comebackas PM? Could that be a Bojo + Cummings comeback? Could that mean Tory vengeance on Whitehall?

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  7. Up2snuff says:

    BBC R4 NOISE (a.k.a. News) #2

    The BBC’s obsession with America continues. Tom Verlaine? No, me neither. Influential? No, BBC, not on this side of the Atlantic, merely obscure. The BBC News clip of Verlaine at work was just ridiculous.

    But pure BBC Noise.

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  8. AsISeeIt says:

    Of all the newspapers in the BBC online press line up of our national titles, only the Observer (colloquially the Guardian on Sunday) shares the BBC’s hold-the-frontpage for days deep interest in: Row Vaughn Wells, mother of Tyre Nichols who was beaten by five police officers on 7 January and died days later of his injuries

    Row? Perhaps she was a noisy baby?

    Some rather off-beat naming going on there… there’s more nominative exoticism with the cops charged with his second degree murder…

    Five former officers were indicted and jailed in connection to Nichols’ death. Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills Jr. and Justin Smith (NPR – think American BBC Radio 4 on line)

    We’ve police recruitment problems a plenty here at home – particularly in the Met, so maybe this foreign-flavour of news story could be instructive?

    Let’s not beat about the bush as to why this is the big news story for left-leaning media. Another observation would tend to be that actual white on black racist incidents are such a rare and highly sought after commodity that our leftist-leaning media now has to describe black on black brutality as proof of racism by proxy.

    Our BBC meanwhile puffs their state-corporate collaborative failing diversity-obsessed sister organisation’s desperate rear-guard efforts to stave off the inevitable impending collapse: NHS: More at-home care offered in attempt to shorten waiting times… Plans to open more so-called virtual wards for patients in England are to be announced by the government. The measures will enable some, particularly the frail elderly, to be monitored at home by doctors using video and other technology.

    Envisage setting up a Zoom or Teams meeting with the 83-year-old geriatric case with demetia and just see how that goes.

    There will also be more community teams to visit people in their homes. (BBC) – carefully not promising house calls from your GP

    Note the magic word community. Remember when community policing was the big new thing? That went well, didn’t it? (sarc) In the States in certain Democrat cities they’ve now gone so far as to have the so-called community policing itself.

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  9. Guest Who says:

    Vile using #CCBGB

    But it’s ok…. It’s his ‘personal’ account.

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  10. Guest Who says:

    Dan a bit behind the curve.

    And the CS will have a £5B pr propaganda system in support.

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  11. Scroblene says:

    One of the reasons Steve Wright was so popular when he first joined Radio One, was that he poked fun at all sorts of (now) woke institutions and leftie edicts, and by doing that, became one of the funniest DJs we’d ever heard!

    His classic was giggling at ‘Commuuuuuuuunnidee’ centres and ‘workers’, with the ridiculous term spoken in a faux-woke sneer and dragged out for a couple of seconds!

    Seems so sad that the new woke era of third-rate forgetfuls are now piddling around with their cassettes or whatever they use in the BBC’s £500,000,000 ‘studios’!

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  12. Guest Who says:

    In the spirit of #CCBGB

    XR rather forgetting their founders’ stated aims.

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    • StewGreen says:

      The Green supremacists want everything done all their way
      and ride roughshod over democracy.
      Green measures are never done by public vote,
      rather they are imposed on us.
      The latest being LTNs
      that’s half today in posed banning petrol cars and forcing you to have a smart meter, making you pay for HS2 etc

      Replies
      “All” you want

      You want to force your beliefs on people.
      Not that same thing – you’re much more aligned with the army spies and government in your behaviour

      XR try to intimidate that government to make its Authoritarian Green Policy … even more authoritarian.
      That’s the opposite of democracy.

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    • StewGreen says:

      MP joined the 77th the cyber spies

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      • atlas_shrugged says:

        How come you need camouflage uniform if all you are going to do is sit at a keyboard and spout BS all day?

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  13. Flotsam says:

    The news is that the majority of the nation take more from the State than they pay in tax. A shocking outcome from years of poor and deluded rule from both Labour and Tory. We surely need less Government interference with our lives and give incentives for people to earn. MMGW and net zero policies are responsible for accelerating dependency. What a mess.

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  14. StewGreen says:

    They are all breaking into their programs with the good news
    medialand has another scalp.
    but for a reason they hadn’t brought up before

    Zahawi fired after ethics advisor report, said he had breached the ministerial code
    by not declaring at the time he was being appointed chancellor, that he was under investigation by the HMRC.

    Those guys probably have scalp advent calendars.

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      They couldn’t get Al Capone on his racketeering, so they got him on tax evasion instead.
      They couldn’t get this immigrant on tax so they nailed him for his CV 😃
      A little less slime in the top swamp, at least until his replacement is announced.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Stew- far be it for me to defend the BBC – but – this is a huge story and deserves all the attention possible .

      Sunak spouted crap about integrity and appointed a proper dodgy one as a minister .

      Sunak should consider his position too . Nut nut will be hoping for a churchillian comeback but he is just as corrupt .

      I am of the Right Wing – but i have no time for current lot – and the next lot will cause so much disorder that we might get real change afterward . …

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  15. andyjsnape says:

    Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is on a “collision course” with civil servants over plans to end the right of anyone who enters the UK illegally to claim asylum, the Sunday Express reports. The paper says Sunak wants to “tear up the rule book” to end the current spate of Channel crossings but that “Whitehall insiders have vowed to torpedo the plan”.
    Reports on bBC on newpaper headlines

    What is the point of us electing MPs/Governments!

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  16. Johnda says:

    And the BBC get another scalp
    They are a disgrace

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  17. Tabs says:

    ‘Elon Musk has made me embarrassed to drive my Tesla now’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64376727


    When Anne Marie Squeo received her fiery red Tesla sports utility vehicle in 2020, the 55-year-old marketing and communications professional felt like she had joined a special “club” of people who were doing something to help the environment, while still driving with style.

    But last year, as Tesla boss Elon Musk shared right-wing conspiracy theories on Twitter, posted a picture of guns by his bedside, and proposed terms to resolve the war in Ukraine that were adamantly rejected by many of the country’s top leaders, Anne Marie’s satisfaction gave way to shame.

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  18. Tabs says:

    With the teachers strike coming up this week the BBC decided to get the opinion of Bridget Phillipson, the Shadow Education Security, on the BBC1 Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.

    The very next BBC1 programme, Politics England, also talked about the teachers strike and decided to get the opinion of Bridget Phillipson, the Shadow Education Security,

    How is that for impartiality?!?

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  19. Nodding Dog says:

    Watching Celebrity Catchphrase on ITV yesterday evening and two separate animations that they use to guess the catchphrase had interracial couples….the brainwashing is relentless!

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  20. Fedup2 says:

    I turned on GBNews to hear about the falling blue labour government – instead i got that tired olf queen who used to impersonate Mrs Thatcher … yawn – v poor

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  21. theisland says:

    While we are being diverted …
    Neil Oliver on the Digital ID Consultation that hardly anyone knows about and is difficult to find

    The ‘consultation’ was put out by the government on New Year’s Day and has not been publicised.
    See other videos about it by Richard Vobes Here (already mentioned by someone on this site) and Here.

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    • G says:

      As the British public continue on their nocturnal sleep-walk into serious Communism, I’ve pondered on the ‘Extinction Rebellion’ crowd and their antics. Police do nothing – needless to say, calls for more legislation to give the police the power(? I question that lacuna). Just an elaborate setup.

      A Government running out of legitimate reasons to introduce more legislation to ‘dice & slice’ the public at large? Yes, now on the way. Only thing is, it will almost certainly now eliminate the Right to Protest.

      Yet, apart from a few bold individuals on YT, the national bushes are yet to rustle……….. You can thank collusion between the BBC and their real masters for that.

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  22. G says:

    We can thank the BBC for regularly informing us of the plight of Dutch farmers in their war with their Government over the latter’s intention to Compulsorily Purchase thousands of farms…………….(NOT). All apparently at the WEF &EU’s behest to replace said farms with a planned ‘Mega-City’. Here’s another two plan’s unfolding by the WEF / EU:


    (coming to a town or city near you shortly)

    Whereas, moving on for a British Government / WEF plan:

    Happy days!

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  23. Fedup2 says:

    Meanwhile ..

    Twitter is suggesting GBNews has fired Mark Steyn – although there is confusion about ‘ health reasons’ after his heart attacks .
    The chess player in me sees the ground being cleared for a Murdock take over ….
    Ive tried again the hear more reaction the zahawr being fired but even portillo is too busy talking about crap .

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    • StewGreen says:

      no use wasting time speculating
      just wait and things will play out.

      but Mark Steyn’s account RETWEETED a UNN tweet saying he’d been “dumped”
      without adding any extra comment

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  24. StewGreen says:

    How will the deported lose Djokovic ever come back ?
    Oh..

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  25. tomo says:

    easy remedy….

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  26. tomo says:

    More on the power drunk corporals at Hermitage Barracks (hi guys!)

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      That’s the problem with Twitter, for some reason the members talk in acronyms but expect to be understood. RRU..

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      • Fedup2 says:

        ILA . LOL

        I love acronyms – also those ‘insider ‘ nicknames applied to people – eg toenails …. Nut nut ( which I use ) sirkeer , the emir of londonistan Ginger growler , whatever the American actress is called , meesh , the bee lady , our Justin , …amongst others …

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      • micknotmike says:

        Morning Eddy,

        I’ve looked it up; an RRU is a remote radio unit. Hope that helps…..

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      • StewGreen says:

        “RRU” is “Rapid Response Unit”, the Cabinet Office’s pandemic “counter misinformation”
        (or in this case, “protecting government propaganda”) unit.

        You can use FOI to see if the RRU has any emails about you

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        There is a section from a parliament report

        As Sarah Connolly set out in her letter to you, we work closely with partners across Government.
        This includes the DCMS-led Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU)
        and the Rapid Response Unit (RRU) which is based in the Cabinet Office.
        RRU regularly provides an overview of the online interest and engagement around vaccine related narratives, including mis and disinformation.
        Our main goal is to make sure the public has access to authoritative information about the Covid-19 vaccine so that they can make an informed **choice** to follow the advice of medical professionals and take the vaccine when it is offered to them.
        We closely monitor the main themes of vaccine hesitancy and tailor our messages to address them.

        https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/22165/html/

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        • G says:

          I don’t need disinformation when my own guts has been proven to be the best every time, every issue.

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    • Terminal Moraine says:

      Meanwhile BBC misinfo ‘expert’ no.274 responds to a reasonable question. Note the complete absence of a third possibility: declined vaccine due to good presenting evidence.

      As per BBC training and conditioning, she’s not even aware such a stance exists.

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    • StewGreen says:

      The main BigBrotherWatch thread explains the terminology

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  27. Eddy Booth says:

    It’s not the greatest sporting weekend for the globalists: plucky nationalist countries Belarus and Serbia taking the women’s and men’s Australian open titles, and Russian boxer Artur Beterbiev retaining his light-heavyweight crown at Wembley!

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  28. tomo says:

    Pulling strings….

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  29. tomo says:

    DOCTORS-redundant.jpg

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      Haha
      I sometimes get a feeling a member or two here are Artificial intelligence bots, slightly nudged along by their owners 👀

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      • tomo says:

        I wonder at the number of doctor impersonators that are caught in the NHS every year.

        There’s at least a couple a year?

        – anybody know where the numbers are hidden?

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        • Fedup2 says:

          I think they let them just get on with it until they kill someone ( then it’s a real clam up ) …

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  30. Fedup2 says:

    The report on the conduct of the former chairman of the blue Labour Party is published and is damning – here is an end big –

    “ I consider that Mr Zahawi, in holding the high privilege of being a Minister of the Crown, has shown insufficient regard for the General Principles of the Ministerial Code and the requirements in particular, under the seven Principles of Public Life, to be honest, open and an exemplary leader through his own behaviour.”

    In his letter after being fired by the green card PM there was no apology – just bitching about press interest . I take it from that – that he can forget about a gong – which is surprising .

    Personally I hope the press keep digging and that it’s another nail in the coffin of the current socialist regime .

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    • StewGreen says:

      I thought some people follow a policy of “never apologise” just move forward
      cos apologising is never enough for your enemies
      eg the way Clarkson apologised and Megan on’t accept it.

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      • JohnC says:

        When ‘victims’ lawyers demand apologies, it is never in good faith.

        It’s for one reason : to open the door for compensation.

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    • Scroblene says:

      Shamelessly copied from Guido, Fed and Stew…

      I love this post!

      alwaysironic
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      zahawi has been sacked by sunak
      as an englishman, i rather regret that i’m no longer being ruled (and abused?) by a bunch of english or british politicians, but instead by a bunch of people that are grounded in a set of cultural mores that are often in direct conflict with those of the majority of these isles.

      it’s a pity – and i believe we will find ourselves regretting it more and more as time goes on.

      (Amen to that)!

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      • JohnC says:

        … and now the BBC are going after Sunak.

        Chris Mason: Zahawi sacking raises questions over Sunak’s judgement
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64445201

        Chris Mason is the BBC’s OWN political correspondent FFS. It’s like them giving themselves awards for excellence. They are so arrogant, they don’t think they report the news, they think the news is what THEY decide it should be.

        It’s absolutely pathetic. Where the f*ck are OFCOM to stop the partisan BBC with all of this ?. How many ministers is that they have removed now ?. Certainly every single one who wanted to abolish the license fee.

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  31. tomo says:

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  33. StewGreen says:

    Coming at 8pm Big Brother Watch interview with the 77Th Brigade whistleblower
    .. https://youtu.be/tNIcapT2dfI

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  34. Johnda says:

    Just a thought. Why is lineker still on the bbc surely he is too old and should be retired. Please!

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    • Scroblene says:

      Because they can’t find any ‘translbgtfetyuiop’ loopies around, because none of that bunch ever knew what a fooboll was until their ‘uncles’ told them – in private with no witnesses…!

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  35. tomo says:

    The Guardian…

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  36. StewGreen says:

    Cost of living *Crisis*
    I went for a run this morning and I passed 3 places here you an just open the door and take a book
    (Community libraries in telephone boxes, Village hall etc.)

    Meanwhile you could buy a tablet for £20-30 and download any clssic book that’s out of copyright

    ==================

    Radio4 is going on now about a Preston school “The School Fighting the Cost of Living Crisis”
    ..’oh if we can’t afford bread the neighbours will give us some’

    I find that I never pay full price for bread
    If you have a freezer you can stock up when you see it for 20p

    “Emma says there is no insulation in the loft”
    .. oh what can she do about that ?
    .. Get some ?

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Stew, you are right. Loft insulation? Worst case/cheapest case scenario: fireproof old newspapers, stuff them between rafters when dry, seek old wardrobes on Freecycle and use the back, door and sides to board the loft. You may have to buy screws and saw the back of the wardrobe in half to get it through the loft hatch but you can keep warm doing it and turn the GCH down to save more money! You may even find someone giving away leftover Loft Insulation on Freecycle.

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  37. Guest Who says:

    Or the BBC? Not news?

    That said, some well unhappy Sikhs and Chinese now. Again.

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  38. Guest Who says:

    Soaf hitching a ride on a UN space cadet’s rocket?

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    • Guest Who says:

      They do like like them young.

      And pigeon holed.

      Splash that cash.

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      • JohnC says:

        Because when they are older, they realise how utterly lop-sided the Left are.

        There’s a reason so many people switch from Left to Right as they get older – but not many do it the other way.

        Is there any adult in the real world who thinks an 18 year old is mature enough to give them advice ?.

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  39. JohnC says:

    Man arrested after Met officer ‘assaulted’ and taken to hospital
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64343831

    ‘Once in custody at a north London police station, the Met said the man assaulted two other police officers and made racist comments.’

    Then he is definitely white.

    Because I have NEVER seen the BBC accuse any BAME of making racist comments or being accused of racism in any way.

    Despite so many of them having a huge racist chip on their shoulders.

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  40. Guest Who says:

    Thank heavens the rozzers here are…. Oh.

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    • JohnC says:

      Just as I speculated earlier.

      Imagine that same principle being applied in a thousand other jobs and you realise the world is in a downward spiral.

      The BBC are an excellent example of how this cancer destroys everything it touches.

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  41. Fedup2 says:

    Isn’t it reassuring to hear that the British army 77th Brigade has been monitoring British people discussing the Chinese vaccines …( hello guys and gals ) no doubt you join GCHQ and the plod doing similar useful work –
    When you get bored with that maybe your attention will turn to other subjects – paki rape gang critics – or those criticising the State Broadcaster –

    One for the file ….

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    • JohnC says:

      I wonder how many of us here are on some kind of government ‘monitor’ list.

      History is repeating itself – as it inevitably will once the generation which learned the lessons dies out.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        JohnC
        I’m sure a whole wedge of monitors of ‘community tension ‘ is carried out – particularly in relation to Muslims – joined to the policy to minimise any negative news about Muslims – such as acts of terrorism in the name of Mohammed –

        using frankly dumb clams that the ‘Right’ are the biggest threat – regularly spouted by senior plod looking for the next £ promotion £ ….

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  42. JohnC says:

    Man stabbed at Harrods amid reports of fight
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/29/man-stabbed-harrods-police-seeking-suspect/

    Comments ont he same story at the DT:

    1.Is there not a description of the suspect?
    2.Don’t need one.

    The very fact that they withhold information because it identifies black people is racist. The BBC are among the worst offenders.

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  43. Northern Voter says:

    Mrs Voter was watching Farming for the bame community aka countryfile. Some clowns were on bemoaning the fact that their waga cows would not turn a profit for 4 years until the herd was established. Should have thought of that before watching upmarket cooking shows where they show Japanese beef at £1000 a stone.

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  44. Fedup2 says:

    Is the SNP – Scots prison service breaking their law? Stopping the movement to male prisoners who now self identify as wimmin to lady prisons ?

    Must be a lot of lawyers getting ready to sue …

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  45. Wild Bill says:

    Antiques Roadshow right now, first ‘woman’ on the show, me and my wife both said, “thats a man”, and he was a trans and mentioned transitioning, they have to force it down our throats at every opportunity!

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  46. Fedup2 says:

    Guardian reports that when the last commissioner of the Met was fired – she said she was entitled to 2 years ‘severance ‘ – £500 000 of taxpayers’ cash … in the end he /she got
    £170 000….
    Lucky to get that …

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  47. Fedup2 says:

    Quiet weekend – maybe there’ll be food for comments on the next thread …

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