271 Responses to Start the Week 6 February 2023

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  1. taffman says:
    February 7, 2023 at 7:32 pm

    “Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has appointed Grant Shapps as the new energy and net zero secretary in a shake-up of government departments.”

    Its like putting a fox in charge of the chicken coop?

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  2. Guest Who says:
    February 7, 2023 at 7:59 pm

    BS Swooning?

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  3. G.W.F. says:
    February 7, 2023 at 8:37 pm

    God goes woke

    God to be non gendered – proposals from the Bishops

    ‘Our non-gendered parent who art in heaven: Priests could stop using male pronouns ‘He’ and ‘Him’ when referring to God in prayers and drop phrase ‘our Father’ from the Lord’s Prayer

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11722729/God-non-gendered-Church-England-services.html

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    • Fedup2 says:
      February 7, 2023 at 9:35 pm

      I suppose if they go back to the original Gospels re translate to English and ‘discover ‘ that it wasn’t ‘our father ‘ but ‘our something ‘ then fine – otherwise they will be offending the God – Jesus – in whom the Cof `E is meant to believe… the devil at work ….
      There is even a line in a gospel not to alter the content …

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  4. TrickCyclist says:
    February 7, 2023 at 9:00 pm

    TV advert in the half time break of the Sheffield United v Wrexham match.
    Black kid is lining up for a school sports day race. His fat beyotch mum barges her way to the front of the spectators and starts filming with her phone. The race starts and the great wobble-bottom charges along the side of the track, still barging people out of the way and somehow keeping up with the action. They’re advertising a steady picture from a shaky phone, see?
    Apple iPhone 14 on Virgin network, I’m sure you think this is comedy. Thanks for legitimising this behaviour!

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  5. tomo says:
    February 7, 2023 at 9:24 pm

    Shysters, bed-wetters and fake polls …

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    • Docmarooned says:
      February 7, 2023 at 9:29 pm

      No mate net fucking zero will do the exact opposite of your ridiculous claims. What university made you a professor? Professor of propaganda maybe. The sheer idiocy that now comes our so called centres of academic excellence is a wonder to behold.

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      • tomo says:
        February 7, 2023 at 10:57 pm

        Maslin is a stand out prat in a very crowded any noisy field of runners

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      • MarkyMark says:
        February 8, 2023 at 3:55 pm

        A DEGREE OF INFLUENCE: The funding of strategically important subjects in UK universities: Sources of Arabic and Islamic funding available on public record {pdf page21}
        “What is noticeable from the research undertaken in this report is the disparity in the levels of funding from the countries studied. There are huge amounts of cash currently being donated by Arab and Islamic sources (University of Cambridge / £1.2m / UAE / Appointment of a full-time lecturer specialising in Islam / 1996), and this has undoubtedly led to a degree of influence in the oversight of UK universities. China, however, while donating only a relatively small amount of cash, has managed to gain a disproportionate amount of influence in UK higher education via its Confucius Institutes. What is also clear is that, in terms of money donated, the likes of Japan and Russia do not appear to have the desire to influence higher education in the same way as China or certain countries in the Muslim world.” {page163}

        – BBC can investigate further the monies and influence from foreign investors in our Universities, with BBCs £3.5bn news machine and top presenters like Chris ‘£2.3million + CarFest’ Evans might have some time to complete a proper news investigation.

        https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/09/04/start-the-week-open-thread-140/comment-page-2/#comment-864690

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    • StewGreen says:
      February 7, 2023 at 11:15 pm

      “the British public” nope
      It’s like doing a survey INSIDE McDonald’s and then saying almost all the British public like hamburgers.

      You follow his link, the first page doesn’t tell you how the survey was done
      You download the documents and it tells you

      The people were NOT the public in the street
      The people were folk who came across an advert on mobile gaming ads
      and CHOSE to answer the climate survey
      .. ie self selecting

      At the dame time the researchers were promoting a mobile game app designed to tell them there is a climate crisis agree that there is a climate crisis.

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      • StewGreen says:
        February 7, 2023 at 11:37 pm

        typo
        #3 At the same time the researchers were promoting a mobile game app designed to tell them there is a climate crisis

        so no surprise that gamers who played that game agree that there is a climate crisis.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      February 8, 2023 at 3:51 pm

      With 1.2 million respondents, the Peoples’ Climate Vote is the largest survey of public opinion on climate change ever conducted. Using a new and unconventional approach to polling, results span 50 countries covering 56% of the world’s population.

      https://www.undp.org/publications/peoples-climate-vote

      With 1.2 million respondents, the Peoples’ Climate Vote is the largest survey of public opinion on
      climate change ever conducted. Using a new and unconventional approach to polling, results
      span 50 countries1
      covering 56% of the world’s population2. Poll questions were distributed
      through advertisements in mobile game apps in 17 languages, which resulted in a huge, unique,
      and random sample of people of all genders, ages, and educational backgrounds

      Using a new and unconventional approach to polling, results

      Using a new and unconventional approach to polling, results

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  6. Fedup2 says:
    February 7, 2023 at 9:36 pm

    And with wise words from the Doc -it’s new thread time … angry times too

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  7. MarkyMark says:
    February 8, 2023 at 3:50 pm

    Anjhem Choudary on TV – OK.
    Shami Begum with BBC podcast – OK.
    Mark Steyn – OFF.

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  8. vlad says:
    February 8, 2023 at 3:54 pm

    The current Google ‘Doodle’ is of black, one-legged model Mama Cax with a halo around her head.
    Yes, Google have canonized her.
    Well of course they have: black, prosthetic leg and cancer. Fast-track her to sainthood.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      February 8, 2023 at 3:55 pm

      The Dragonfly project was an Internet search engine prototype created by Google that was designed to be compatible with China’s state censorship provisions.[1][2][3] The public learned of Dragonfly’s existence in August 2018, when The Intercept leaked an internal memo written by a Google employee about the project.[4][5] In December 2018, Dragonfly was reported to have “effectively been shut down” after a clash with members of the privacy team within Google.[6] However, according to employees, work on Dragonfly was still continuing as of March 2019, with some 100 people still allocated to it.[7]

      In July 2019, Google announced that work on Dragonfly had been terminated.[8]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine)

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  9. vlad says:
    February 8, 2023 at 4:09 pm

    The BBC are proud to announce the return of Fawlty Towers, giving the story some prominence in the Entertainment section of their webshite.

    But they might not be so pleased when they see the remake. John Cleese leans conservative and is known to despise Wokeness in all its forms, including Auntie.

    In a recent interview, he had this to say:

    ‘Cleese, 82, said he had not been offered a BBC show but would definitely turn it down if he was.
    “The BBC have not come to me and said, ‘would you like to have some one-hour shows?’ And if they did, I would say, ‘Not on your nelly.’ Because I wouldn’t get five minutes into the first show before I’d been cancelled or censored.”
    Cleese said he had instead accepted an offer to host a show on GB News.’

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/10/john-cleese-says-would-reject-bbc-announces-gb-news-show/

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64563839

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  10. MarkyMark says:
    February 8, 2023 at 4:13 pm

    “Hollywood studios have previously been accused of removing potentially objectionable content to Chinese censors in order to retain access to the large Chinese market.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-64550177

    ………………

    In the lecture, Rand admonishes American businessmen for apologizing for capitalism and for, in some cases, directly funding detractors of the free market. Notably, she says that “It is a moral crime to give money to support your own destroyers.” She also answers audience questions after the lecture.

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  11. Fedup2 says:
    February 8, 2023 at 4:25 pm

    In BBC news Amy / Andy George – the alleged abductor of an 11 year old girl ( non boy ?) – is being described as a ‘man ‘ ’ . . Surely BBC protocol is to describe “Amy” as a non man ? Or some other ‘non man’ nomenclature ?
    They make their bed – go die in it .

    Lots of tunes need to be de sexed – we could play a long game of ‘de gendering ‘ pop tunes …..

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  12. MarkyMark says:
    February 8, 2023 at 4:37 pm

    The Real Housewives of ISIS – Funny or Offensive?

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  13. MarkyMark says:
    February 8, 2023 at 4:46 pm

    While Boris may have taken home the big cash in the latest register of interests, Guido spotted a few other Tory MPs who haven’t done too badly recently: Bob Seely, Karl McCartney, Tim Loughton, Henry Smith and Crispin Blunt all hit the Alpine slopes of Davos, free of charge, courtesy of Skigruppe der Bundesversammlung for the annual Parliamentary ski trip with the APPG for Switzerland. The group all received ski passes and lessons for the week, which took place at the start of the year.

    order-order.com

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    15 minute cities?
    …..

    Name of donor: Yalta European Strategy Ltd
    Address of donor: Third Floor, 95 The Promenade, Cheltenham GL50 1HH

    Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Flights and travel £1,262.66; accommodation £314.12; dinners/hospitality £450.06; total value £2,026.84

    Destination of visit: Kyiv, Ukraine

    Dates of visit: 8-12 September 2022

    Purpose of visit: Attending the Yalta European Strategy Conference, meetings with Ukrainian officials and members of civil society.

    (Registered 22 September 2022)

    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=25645

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