444 Responses to Midweek 15 February 2023

  1. tomo says:

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      Because “Grant Shapps” (or whatever his name is this week) lives in the Westminster bubble, he probably has no idea of how widely despised Bill Gates is. The man is utter scum. Ask his ex-wife if you don’t believe me. His “friendship” with Epstein was the last straw for that relationship.

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      • Zephir says:

        And he screwed up my computer, and a few before that.

        The only idiot that sells you a product then has a team dedicated to finding ways of destroying it.

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  2. Zephir says:

    Who do you believe ?

    Civil serpents and the bbc socialists with their “far right is the greatest threat ” obsession ?
    (also known as a 15 year old looking at the internet in his bedroom who once read a book on Hitler)

    Or:

    “Counter-terror police thwarted eight ‘late-stage’ ­horror plots in Britain last year

    The force believes that Islamist extremism and Islamist terrorism is still the biggest threat to the UK. However, he warned there was an “unprecedented threat” from foreign enemy states including Russia, China and Iran who may have links to ­criminal gangs in the UK.

    “We know the interests of some state organisations include kidnap, repatriation and assassination of their opponents.”

    There are 15 live investigations into Iranian plots against Britons, including threats of kidnap, violence and assassination.”

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1735880/counter-terror-police-horror-plots-extremist-threats

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  3. Zephir says:

    Some might agree:

    “Sam Smith branded ‘demonic’ and told ‘you belong in hell’ by cruel heckler on street
    Sam Smith was verbally attacked this week by a stranger in New York City, who branded them “demonic” and “evil” and told them: “You belong in hell.”

    https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1735845/Sam-Smith-cruelly-heckled-street-new-york-video

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  4. Zephir says:

    Sam-Smith-street-attack-video-unholy-brits-news-latest-1735845.avif?r=1676582411908

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  5. JohnC says:

    Ukraine war: Zelensky rules out territory deal with Putin in BBC interview
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64662184

    If any article should worry you, it’s this one.

    It’s a BBC interview with John Simpson looking like he has been stuffed and propped up in a chair.

    However I cannot see a single part of it which looks like an interview. It’s one long tirade of warmongering rhetoric and Zelensky saying anything he likes without any question of what consequences it might imply.

    Here’s the highlight of the whole interview:

    ‘he warned conceding land would mean Russia could “keep coming back”, while Western weapons would bring peace closer.’

    Did Mr Simpson point out they could always keep coming back ?. Unless of course Russia are utterly defeated.

    And did Mr Simpson ask how sending more weapons will bring peace closer ?. I think Hitler made the same mistake.

    It seems Russia are mobilising for full-on war against the massive assistance Ukraine are getting with Western weapons. That sounds like more than a simple land-grab to me. It tells me they genuinely believe they are fighting for their long-term existence. Of course it isn’t as simple as that : they also want the resources they would gain. But when I watch what NATO are doing for a region which is not even a member and hasn’t contributed a penny, I can absolutely understand why Russia did not want them in Eastern Ukraine. It’s not much different from the Cuban Missile crisis in that respect.

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  6. andyjsnape says:

    Ukraine war: Zelensky rules out territory deal with Putin in BBC interview
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64662184

    Or put another way, Putin will not deal with Zel over territory

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    • JohnC says:

      How long it continues has nothing whatsoever to with Zelensky.

      Once the public in the USA tire of funding it, they will tell Zelensky to start negotiating. And he will do it.

      I still stick by my original statement a year ago that Russia intends to take the country to the dnieper river and stop there. There is no other logical dividing point for a hostile border.

      And it’s not Putins war, it’s Russia’s war. They are right behind him, whatever the BBC tell us. As are a very large part of the rest of the world. They don’t trust the USA one bit.

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      • andyjsnape says:

        Hello John

        Well said

        Its terrible we have to rely of mainstream media and its propaganda for “news”. Luckily the internet isn’t completely closed down to other information, and comical when the bBC does its fact checking

        I thought the west had blocked Russia Today rt.com (maybe just the tv channel) a few months back, but i’m able to see the website today

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        • JohnC says:

          Something came up in a search the other day and when I tried to read it, it would not load.

          So out of interest, I tried through a proxy server in Thailand and it worked fine.

          The site was a Russian news site in English. I read a few articles and it was not extremist or had any obvious propaganda articles at all. It was just reporting news like the BBC does – though clearly not in a way acceptable to our government.

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      • tomo says:

        I have heard evidenced discussions where Putin is declared a moderate….

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        • JohnC says:

          Compared to the hard-liners who would want to replace him, I have read the same.

          They want total war and he is holding them back. Though they are getting to the point where it’s their only option. They are not going simply pull out of all Ukraine at this stage and if that’s what it takes to fight the weapons we are sending, they will do it.

          The question is then what do the USA do when Ukraine are still losing. They are deciding what happens there now.

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  7. andyjsnape says:

    Always a great watch, thanks to Tucker Carlson

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Just think – Carlson could never broadcast in the Free and Democratic UK – Matthew sweet would have been on the case years ago ensuring only approved comments can ever be published .
      No discussion – you will accept what you are told . No doubt is allowed …

      Anyone here talking about ‘freedom of speech ‘ in the UK – would be banned …

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  8. andyjsnape says:

    I recently applied for an IT job working for the NHS

    As a result I’ve received an email asking me to enter into a Prize Draw and potentially win £250

    Surely the NHS could spend the money more wisely? Like on healthcare, or some diversity campaign!

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  9. Guest Who says:

    The post, and comments… very bbc.

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    • JohnC says:

      ‘the same as three iPhone Max laid end to end’

      Interesting to see what BBC staff consider benchmarks everyone must know. iPhone max’s are £1,000+.

      I’m only surprised they didn’t have another article shortly after about Starmer pledging to widen narrow footpaths.

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  10. Guest Who says:

    The post, and lack of comments… very bbc.

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  11. Guest Who says:

    Another BBC blonde reeling in the audience.

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  12. Guest Who says:

    Then of course there is 5. Also their audience.

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  13. Guest Who says:

    Ex Beeboids; what are they like?

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  14. Guest Who says:

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  15. Guest Who says:

    He really is an utter tool.

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  16. Guest Who says:

    Setting fire to the duvet can work. But not all night.

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  17. Guest Who says:

    Really getting obvious that those supposedly in charge to not have the respect of the people.

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  18. Guest Who says:

    Quite a lot of ignoring going on here, but interesting who gets quoted where in an effort to drive things.

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  19. Guest Who says:

    BBC flouncing ban weasel.

    Ex BBC editor.

    It really is a pit of vipers.

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  20. AsISeeIt says:

    Doomwatch was a BBC1 TV sci-fi series screened way back in the early 1970s. The series was set in the then present day – think brightly coloured shirts, Edwardian-inspired bouffant hair (and that was just the men) with a young Robert Powell sporting a flamboyantly patterned cravat – those celebs turning out in their best retro Westwood gear for Vivienne’s memorial yesterday: Helena Bonham-Carter; Kate Moss; Victoria Beckham – would have loved it – London Fashion Week: Is the cost-of-living crisis fuelling creativity? (the BBC there, just asking) – but I digress.

    The Doomwatch plot dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist, played by John Paul (top fictional British boffins perforce require a mysterious name beginning with Q – think Quatermass from the 1950s and 007’s ‘Q‘). If I’ve lost the teenagers with talk of Doomwatch think Black Mirror for grandad, all without computers.

    Perhaps I can win back those millennials and younger with the notion that the Doomwatch organisation led by Quist was responsible for investigating and combating various ecological and technological dangers. It was all a bit “How dare they!” as our Greta might say.

    It’s a very modern media concern: Chemicals harm upper reaches of River Cam (‘i’); Alarm raised over scale of hospital sewage leaks (Guardian) – Ooh, Matron… we’re gonna need a bigger bedpan !

    Doomwatch had the very sciency title: “Department for the Observation and Measurement of Scientific Work” DOMSW (?)

    “We were set up to investigate any scientific research, Public or Private, which could possibly be harmful to Man. (thank you Wiki) – what a noble notion – we could perhaps have done with a real life version of that back in early 2020 or earlier – if you catch my drift?

    But let’s cut to the chase and explain what I’m getting at here. This morning the Brexit-sceptic Financial Times frontpage – claiming pride of place in the BBC online press line-up with their top headline: Sunak gamble on Brexit endgame spurs warning from Eurosceptics – further carries their reguar featurette Datawatch

    DoomwatchDatawatch: The Doomsday Clock moves closer to midnight – this speculative shard of pseudo-scientific bunk purports to tell your cityboy broker audience the time to be precisely 11:58:30

    Source: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – BOTAS (?)

    The Doomsday clock which warns the public how close we are to destroying our world, has hit its closest point to midnight.

    Experts believe that humanity is more destructive now than ever before, largely because of nuclear threats over Ukraine.

    Oddly, it doesn’t feel as dangerous as – say – the Cuban missile crisis.

    Our BBC don’t seem too keen to pour any oil on troubled waters, so to speak: Ukraine war: Zelensky rules out territory deal with Putin in BBC interview – despite: What is the energy price cap and what will happen to bills? (BBC)

    Although the US administration is apparently cooling their man ‘Z’ somewhat: Blinken’s warning on retaking Crimea (Telegraph)

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    • Guest Who says:

      Doomwatch was Dr. Who level behind the sofa stuff. Recall one with rats…

      But one that stuck with was a plastics-eating bug that got out, kicking off by bringing down a 707.

      The effect on Vile’s mobile freak show would be fun.

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  21. Guest Who says:

    The BBC

    Not the BBC

    If Shappy and Barcode usher in a combo of Milipede, Limps and Greens… the country is toast.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Dear Darren Henry,

      13
      Parliament’s £13 billion restoration.

      150
      HS2 £150 billion, original budget £36 billion.

      37
      Track and Trace £37 billion – no tracking or tracing where this money went.

      1.1
      £1.1bn of COVID small business loans identified as fraud

      4
      £4 billion of unusable PPE bought in first year of pandemic will be burnt “to generate power”

      13 + 150 + 37 + 1.1+ 4 = £205 billion

      Nuclear reactor = £6 billion

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  22. Guest Who says:

    These stories… likely to end up a high % of easy to see, nose ring and pink/blue hair persons of yoof?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      From John Gatto, it’s not just children that don’t want to know about the real working world anymore. Swap child for adults in the following article …

      The children I teach are indifferent to the adult world. This defies the experience of thousands of years. A close study of what big people were up to was always the most exciting occupation of youth, but nobody wants to grow up these days and who can blame them? Toys are us. … Time for a return to democracy, individuality, and family. I’ve said my piece. Thank you. {naturalchild.org – john gatto – jan1990}

      relates to Westerners: Guilty of Reading the News {atestoneinstitute.org 27sep2017}

      – this is also why NewsPapers should link to a report if it is mentioned and not make it paywall’d

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/09/27/mid-week-open-thread-126/comment-page-2/#comment-869762

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    In her first major speech since leaving Downing Street, Liz Truss led the charge for a stronger Western response to China. Speaking in Tokyo, the former Prime Minister hit out at Cameron’s golden-era of China relations, saying that rolling out the red carpet “sent the wrong message”. Phillip Hammond won’t be happy…

    order-order.com
    ………………

    Dear Darren Henry,

    Can you reconcile these two statements please ….

    Barry Gardiner defends donations worth £500,000 from Chinese agent.
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/barry-gardiner-chinese-lee-sky-news-jeremy-corbyn-b1992752.html

    The code also sets out the general ‘duties of members’ (to be faithful to the Queen, to uphold the law, to act in the interests of the nation and especially constituents…
    https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/article/explainer/mps-code-conduct

    £500K from a Chinese spy.
    Act in the interests of the nation.

    Yours sincerely,
    Mr M,

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  24. Guest Who says:

    What is this self appointed creep a Dr. of?

    And how long before he and Springster get to be the Harry and Meghan of Disinfo juries?

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  25. andyjsnape says:

    Another where there’s a blame there’s a claim, brought to you by the bBC

    Turkey earthquake: The warnings at the luxury apartments that turned to dust
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64662602

    If the majority listen to the likes of the bBC, we would claim for everything, and a whole industry full of solicitors – oww wait, just look at the immigration “system”

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  26. Guest Who says:

    This young lady has promise as a shouty TV panel pundit, MP, or BBC presenter.

    Or all three.

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  27. StewGreen says:

    Recap :I spot a Radio4 promo tweet that seems to be making out that Greta is a teenager
    that’s weird cos Greta is well past 20 now

    Activists turn up and quote the first part of the phrase
    “[Greta Thunberg] ‘I’m *not* an angry teenager’
    Saying see she says she’s not a teenager
    Do they care about the truth , or just trying to get at me ?

    In fact when you follow the tweet link the BBC page is dated 03 February 2023
    And starts
    “The unlikely voice of a generation, teen activist Greta Thunberg talks to Amol Rajan ”

    There you go in black and white the page talks about Greta as a teen activist, when in fact she is 20

    So what’s going on ?
    #1 The audio page is not new material It’s BBC regurgitating old material as if it’s new
    .. the audio actually comes from an Oct 18th TV programme

    #2 The audio page is not to do with any radio prog
    So why did the BBC go to the trouble of making it now, and promoting it NOW ??

    Well it just happened to be released in the same week Greta is promoting her new book ?

    I maintain that the BBC has a close relationship with Green PR

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  28. digg says:

    The Specialist BBC shit-stirring department has been busy, having been handed some inside info by the Lib Dems concerning our hospitals being knee-deep and swimming in the brown stuff apparently due to lack of maintenance and ageing buildings.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-64653482

    They need more resources (money) apparently!

    May I suggest “diverting” some if the huge wads they currently hand over to fat cat diversity chiefs to pay for cleaning the toilets before they get the begging bowl out for the taxpayer again?

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  29. andyjsnape says:

    US cancer patient developed ‘uncontrollable’ Irish accent
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64671894

    Incredible, but wonder if there is any News to report

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  30. StewGreen says:

    In disappearances it’s always possible it’s a genuine sudden suicide or a Jeremy Thorpe.

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  31. Guest Who says:

    Part of the bbc tmi?

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  32. StewGreen says:

    OK you are supposed to ask a Question, not give a lecture
    but many would support his points about the government imposing illegal immigrants on the country.

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    • StewGreen says:

      “The local Conservative MP @AndrewSelous hears some truth to power,
      as Dunstable resident Wesley Russell beautifully articulates feelings to ‘illegal migrants.’ ”

      Patriotic Alternative tweeted he was one of theirs
      “Tonight PA activists attended a meeting near where they live at Old Palace Lodge, Dunstable, Beds. ”
      Then actual camera angle pointing at him
      .. https://twitter.com/PatAlternative/status/1626501097769541634

      Antifa are already trying to deflect by saying he did a Nazi salute
      Of course he didn’t

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  33. StewGreen says:

    GBnews has a white guy on from Windrush Against Sewage
    Turns out it’s about the River Windrush in Oxfordshire
    and claims that too much sewage ends up in it.

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  34. Terminal Moraine says:

    Re: recent news on Google’s ‘prebunking’ initiative…

    The BBC are already doing ‘Beebunking’ to tackle reliable information. It’s where videos and articles by intellectually substandard employees are put out to stupefy and mislead audiences worldwide.

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  35. tomo says:

    Mike Wendling is a BBC journalist and author of the book Alt-Right: From 4chan to the White House. He is editor of BBC Trending and was part of the team which covered the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

    Has squeezed out a fresh one on Alex Jones.

    Bankrupt Alex Jones spends nearly $100,000 a month

    The new derangement for the poisonous berks employed by the BBC.

    if you are familiar with details in the case – Wendling’s skewed wibblings are guaranteed to irritate.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64644080

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    • Guest Who says:

      Wendy is a nakedly partisan activist.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Wendy 2.

        Meanwhile Vile has embraced the Stu Hughes gig.

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      • tomo says:

        Guest Who

        Chicago based yank Wendling is quite a busy boy … seems to like his monogrammed BBC T-Shirt / baseball cap- but he has what I’d regard as many of the signs of what I call “two jobbers” – where his subject matter aligns magically with DNC/Swamp related talking points on a regular basis.

        Oddly he gets some Portuguese language stuff published (Brazil bollocks) – he’s no Glenn Greenwald.

        A transcriber rather than a reporter

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Mike Wendling
      @mwendling
      US National Digital Reporter,
      @BBCNews
      . formerly
      @BBCTrending
      . Author: Alt-Right: From 4chan to the White House – #billsmafia – michael.wendling@bbc.co.uk
      Chicago, ILbbc.com/newsJoined April 2008
      2,584 Following
      6,206 Followers

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  36. StewGreen says:

    TalkTV from 1:08pm is on about a new smug arrogant speech by Yim Davie
    still going on at 1:27pm
    “Do you get your money’s worth from the BBC”
    .. https://youtu.be/-fbMCuf5xy0

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  37. StewGreen says:

    Why did Dorries do nothing ? She’s libmob
    And got ratioed 2:1 mostly by Labour Activists
    cos her own show is a Boris Love in
    ..and they are bashing Richard Sharpe too,

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Dorries was a lightweight airhead like Johnson ….. of no value – like the one after her and the current one . The blue Labour Party will never do anything about the bbc – which knows this and will continually snipe at blue labour until it self destructs ….
      Meanwhile it will censor the internet in the name of freedom and democracy and community safety – another freedom goes and never to return ….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Jo Brand battery acid joke ‘went too far’, BBC rules
      Published
      29 August 2019
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49508231

      ‘went too far’ ….. Following the complaints unit’s ruling, a BBC spokesperson said: “We note the findings and that the BBC’s ECU concluded the comments did not condone violence and that no subject matter should be beyond the scope of comedy.”

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      • Fedup2 says:

        She wasn’t permanently cancelled in the way that carol thatcher – JK Rowling – Mark Steyn David Starkey and others have been …

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  38. StewGreen says:

    Guardian Politics guys 2 weeks ago

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  39. FrankZ says:

    Interesting and scandalous story tucked away in the “News Round-Up” section of today’s Daily Sceptic.

    “European Parliament chiefs block public scrutiny of von der Leyen over Pfizer contract” – Transparency concerns over the Commission President’s role in negotiations will be handled behind closed doors, Politico reports.

    https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-leaders-shield-von-der-leyen-from-scrutiny-over-pfizer-contract/

    A reminder, if one were needed, of why the UK needed to leave that staggeringly corrupt big business club.

    Not that our own big business club shows any sign of being any better….

    Any sign of this scandal on the BBC News website? Not that I can find.

    One wonders whether they’d cover it if it had been revealed that she’d eaten some cake?

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  40. StewGreen says:

    British atheist org was first captured by socialists
    Now they take a swipe at Hungary

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  41. StewGreen says:

    BBC staff seem to behave like Global warming activist PR people

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  42. StewGreen says:

    If you promote doom. you are on
    Even if like Paul Ehrlich you’ve made ridiculous wrong predictions in the past.

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  43. Fedup2 says:

    So EDF loses 18 billion – which should be cause to celebrate – since it’s the French – im sure the BBC will be on the French side – having slagged off all three British based global energy companies for making a profit …..

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Dear Darren Henry,

      13
      Parliament’s £13 billion restoration.

      150
      HS2 £150 billion, original budget £36 billion.

      37
      Track and Trace £37 billion – no tracking or tracing where this money went.

      1.1
      £1.1bn of COVID small business loans identified as fraud

      4
      £4 billion of unusable PPE bought in first year of pandemic will be burnt “to generate power”

      13 + 150 + 37 + 1.1+ 4 = £205 billion

      Nuclear reactor = £6 billion

      Yours sincerely,
      Mr H

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  44. Fedup2 says:

    Shock news – at least one of the Chinese spy balloons was disguised as a high school science club balloon when it was shot down by the USAF ….

    President Trump will get the blame – for not shooting down any school science club balloons …

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  45. Fedup2 says:

    If you can’t find an excellent bbc programme to entertain and inform you – why not go off to YouTube and catch HMS Katie Hopkins .
    Todays ‘ rant it about the plod ‘handling ‘ of the missing dog walking lady … why did they only talk about her boozing ? Her menopause? – why not mention that she was spying for Russia ?
    Actually – I was trying to reason why plod should issue personal details about a missing person – who – if alive – is likely to stay missing – unless of course it is part of a strategy to catch a baddie ….

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    • vlad says:

      Yes Fedup. Anything interesting is now on YouTube.
      News, views, entertainment…
      Despite YouTube censorship, that’s where the cutting edge is to be found, while the ‘heritage’ media atrophies and dies.

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  46. Wild Bill says:

    Just heard the bBBC are cancelling Autumnwatch, unbelievable, the Watches are rare BBC programs that I watch, yet they continue to plug trans shite such as Drag Race.
    Glad I dont pay the licence.

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  47. Flotsam says:

    Sturgeon:

    Someone said all political lives end in failure. In Sturgeon’s case it began in failure, continued in failure and ended in failure

    Don’t forget it was he life’s work that Scotland should break away from the UK. In her primary motivation, she failed

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  48. Guest Who says:

    “Justin…. Oooh, Justin!”

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  49. Fedup2 says:

    Not bbc

    Very sad about Bruce Willis being diagnosed with dementia at the age of 67 .
    But on the upside I’m sure he will be able to buy the very best of care – and that announcements that even celebrities can develop this horrible disease will help charities – such as mine – dementia UK – with funding for their good work .

    If you ever know of someone who is exhibiting dementia / formally diagnosed with it – remember Dementia UK is there to help with specialist nursing advice … it’s only a small charity and does nt have a lot of advertising or ‘admin charges ‘ …. And is one of the good ones …

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