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The problem with ethnic minority presenters on the BBC. The BBC’s white presenters are bad enough as they grovel and… - Lefty Wright Nov 23, 21:44
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Came to the conclusion a long time ago. The Socialist Globalist Tories are either unable to deal with the never ending flood of migrants or they don’t really want to. I no longer waste my time listening to them.
Last chance saloon for me is the REFORM party. Labour will get in anyway so need to make a start as soon as possible in bringing a party forward that may reflect the will of most sensible people who can vote. Labour will add to the mess that The SGT’s have made, and much of the electorate just may feel disenfranchised enough to give it a go.
Good news …
The Times reports that the BBC nuj members are planning to strike on budget day and the woke coronation ….make it a long one comrades
Hillwalker missing with his dog in Glen Coe
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-64743669
“A major search is underway for a hillwalker who failed to return from a planned trip in Glen Coe with his dog.
Kyle Sambrook, from West Yorkshire, arrived in the Highlands on Saturday and had intended to walk and wild camp, accompanied by his beagle called Bane.
Police Scotland said Mr Sambrook had planned to ascend the 3,353ft (1,022m) mountain Buachaille Etive Mòr”
BBC no doubt balancing up their male / female missing persons stories.
There’s clearly levels to thickness and no-one can out dumb a dog walker.
Yes they cannot read, five signs saying keep dogs on leash in local wood footpath due to small deer and other wildlife yet every time we see them running around.
Pretty sure the collective West media will report their own version of this or have already:
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/70565
I posted about the GBnews Livingstone v Starkey debate. Well worth a watch.
Remember when this nonsense was referred to as global warming?
Bah humbug!
Ken Livingstone stands by Hitler comments
Published
30 April 2016
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36177333
The former London mayor was suspended from the Labour party on Thursday after saying Hitler had supported Zionism in the 1930s.
Shamima Begum is said to have been comtemplating suicide prior to the recent court judgement.
She said I’m deeply dissapointed, I’d already made the vest and the detonator and was just looking where I could get enough explosives.
#hopefully
Maybe we could crowd fund it ….
RIP John Motson – from a time when the BBC was the BBC – before footy got girlyfied and woke and embarrassing in its dumb kneeling …..
Paul Mason back on the BBC… ish.
When not….
Meanwhile…
They know who they like.
We seek no competitive edge.
“Follow the Science” (or, at least, those who purport to promote such views).
I can’t bear to watch BBC news anymore, but I’m guessing they didn’t show the old clown Biden tripping up; not once, not twice, but three times.
How revolting to see the Imbecile strutting around like a great military leader. It’s his weakness and stupid policies that emboldened Putin to risk the war in the first place.
Apologies, the above clip is of a previous ‘trip’.
Here he is again projecting strength and vitality, just yesterday.
From the Daily Telegraph – a piece on the welcome demise of ‘drama ‘ on BBC radio – I grew Up listening to it – now I just don’t …
START
It all began in the dark. Having road-tested their new medium with a bit of Shakespeare and Phyllis Twigg’s The Truth About Father Christmas, for which no script survives, the BBC in 1924 commissioned the first landmark radio drama. A Comedy of Danger was specially written for this new medium by the poet Richard Hughes, set in a Welsh coal mine where a small group of visitors were trapped. Listeners were invited to draw their curtains and switch off the lights to get the full effect. It was recorded at Savoy Hill, the BBC’s first home, where visiting writers such as H G Wells and George Bernard Shaw were greeted with whisky and soda on arrival and there were rumours of Turkish baths in the basement.
When I was commissioned by Radio 4 to write a new version of Hughes’s idea for the centenary year, I took elements of his setting plus the first and last lines from his script, and wrote a new play set in a deep desert databank rather than a coal mine. This time, we didn’t tell the listeners what to do with their curtains. When I arrived at the studio to record it, all I was offered was a coffee and a biscuit. Standards have slipped.
A century on from Savoy Hill, BBC audio drama is part of our cultural furniture. As a poet, I always felt audio drama was my second home. Not only has this medium embraced poetry from the start, but poets have made some of their finest work in it – Louis MacNeice’s The Dark Tower, Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood, Sylvia Plath’s Three Women (her only play) and, more recently, Simon Armitage’s Black Roses. The list goes on. It’s not hard to see the connections between these two art forms, each with a particular focus on voice, a rare intimacy and capacity for imaginative jump-cuts. More than in any other dramatic medium, the words do the work.
Audio drama has always given writers the space to take risks, and not just poets. The roll call of playwrights and novelists who have made powerful new work for radio drama is even longer – Tom Stoppard, Caryl Churchill, Harold Pinter, Caryl Phillips, Lee Hall, David Eldridge, Ayeesha Menon, Roy Williams, Tanika Gupta, Rebecca Lenkiewicz and many more.
Samuel Beckett’s experimental approach to this dramatic form led a BBC team to create a new approach to sound effects for his play All That Fall in 1957. In a letter to Nancy Cunard, Beckett wrote that “in the dead of t’other night got a nice gruesome idea full of cartwheels and dragging feet and puffing and panting”. Not only did this “gruesome idea” allow him to conjure Mrs Rooney’s strange encounters on the way to Foxrock Station to meet her husband from the Dublin train, but it kickstarted a process that led to the founding of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Angela Carter described radio as “three-dimensional storytelling” in which “the listener is invited into the narrative to contribute to it his or her own way of ‘seeing’ the voices and the sounds”. For me as a listener, her 1980 drama Company of Wolves, with its chilling, mesmeric encounter between Red Riding Hood and the werewolf, conjured a terrifying intimacy possible only on radio. And that gift of intimacy was what led Lee Hall’s 1997 drama Spoonface Steinberg – the monologue of a young autistic girl who is dying of cancer – to captivate so many listeners that the BBC repeated it within a week of its first broadcast.
I knew that this art form offered a space where writers could grow and flourish, but on a deep dive into the archives for Dramatic Beats, my Radio 4 documentary on 100 years of audio drama, I was struck by the sheer scale and range of plays and the vast creative collective that have passed through these studios week in, week out since 1924. BBC Radio is still the biggest commissioner of new dramatic work in the UK, and with such a range of output – long plays, short plays, soaps, podcasts, crime, sci-fi, monologues, period dramas, fables, political plays, docu-dramas – there is airtime to develop not just young writers but young actors, directors, sound designers and script editors.
I first stepped into a radio drama studio when I was 19, having sent a terrible script to the BBC (very intense but nothing happened) and been invited to sit in on a production. I remember the spaces and props set up to create a world in sound: a staircase with stripes of carpet, stone and wood running up it; a spiral passage called a “snail” which created the sound of a distant outdoor voice; dead rooms and live rooms. Most of all I was struck by the concentration as everyone stared at their scripts and the actors lifted the words off the page. I’ve been hooked on the possibilities of audio drama ever since.
But there’s a birthday warning for this art form too. Increasing financial pressures on the BBC have hit drama slots hard. In recent years, the Friday Play – a 60-minute Radio 4 slot dramatising contemporary issues and stories – has been axed. So has The Wire on Radio 3. So has Woman’s Hour Drama – a series of 15-minute episodes with an evening repeat. The Saturday Drama on Radio 4 is still going but has been cut from a weekly slot to just 10 plays a year. There are worries about the survival of other drama slots. A few new strands – such as Radio 4’s half-hour Limelight series – have been welcome arrivals, but the cuts keep coming. Compared with the budgets for film or TV, audio drama is very cheap to make, but it looks relatively costly if set against radio talk shows, phone-ins or documentaries. This leaves drama particularly vulnerable, despite its abiding popularity.
And popular it is. In the latest BBC Radio listening figures, the number one programme for downloads was The Archers. On an average day in Britain, more than a million of us will give headspace to a BBC radio drama. You would need to sell out London’s Olivier Theatre 870 times over to match that audience.
So where does this art form stand on its 100th birthday? There are new opportunities in a world of audiobooks and podcasts. Some drama productions – often made by small independent production companies – are beginning to attract good audiences. As a dramatic form, audio is extremely versatile and does not require you to sit in a particular building or to watch a screen. You can experience it while walking, running, cooking, and perfectly legally when driving. I’m not the only one who has driven to a meeting and sat in the car outside to catch a denouement.
The boom in audiobooks and podcasts has brought new outlets for audio, though very little in the way of drama. Commercial producers alone don’t have the capacity, versatility or available talent pool to develop the next generation of audio writers, actors, directors and sound designers. Only the BBC does that. Many theatres and music venues are struggling too, of course, but it’s a rare storm that threatens to sweep away an entire art form. And what an art form it is. Prof Tim Crook – one of audio drama’s leading academic experts and makers – quotes Beckett’s producer Donald McWhinnie saying that “radio performance works on the mind in the same way as poetry does; it liberates and evokes”.
The BBC created audio drama and continues to sustain it. Its first hundred years have left us with the most extraordinary archive, but without the critical mass of regular output, it’s impossible to maintain a pipeline of creative and technical expertise. Then those archives might be all we have left.ENDS
The comments are as you might guess . The sort of stuff commissioned by the Far Left BBC just doesn’t attract people any more because the ‘message ‘ is always laid on with a trowel.
Even the repeats from a better time are filtered to remove Anything Which Might Offend Anyone…. the only ‘mass listening ‘ now is `the archers ‘ … but when the Albanian benefits parasites move into Abridge and the school girls are raped I think the off switch will be hit .
Hello vlad
Its a very big zimmerframe
He really is a symbol of his country isn’t he ?…
When the likes of gerald ford did similar – the lefty media laughed and laughed . Now they just ignore the rapid decline ….he’s gonna need a simmer frame in the second stolen term …
Today watch
The off switch came early – the English language tortured by lees doosett going on about putin winning / losing is an Eastern European war ….. which is fully funded by The West …
If I was putin I’d go flat out to bleed enthusiasm for the war and do what I could to off zelenski …. But it’s impossible for simple taxpayers to have a clue about what is really going on .
Interesting precedent. To be hoped none of this goes boom.
Made me spill my coffee.
On the subject of luvvie #prasnews, someone’s agent and manager has seen the way things are going…
In the biopic, Surkeer is to be played by the entire cast of Harry Potter.
Time to ban some songs until wokified:
“The He Her She Him are Back in Town”
But of course the myriad of songs such as “Sisters are doing it for themselves” will remain free from attack from the anti white male Nazis.
And such sexist songs as “It’s raining men”
Salad shortage. I went to my local store to panic buy a year’s supply. I got my lettuce.
Flotsam
IMHO it’s all down to Bo Jo’s “ Net zero “.
Net Zero might soon seem a political chalice…. even hacks are bailing…
Meanwhile, appealing to constituencies and media gets to…
Mishal flying over again to chat, as they are both ‘busy’?
Has that fruit loop been on South Park yet?
Burn that diesel …
She hav ritt a bowk, iss very guod
Klimate Youth
Bahrain: Bahrain’s parliament demanded an apology from the government, as well as from Denmark’s head of state, the Danish king, and was unaware that Denmark’s head of state is Queen Margrethe II.[9]
MPs called for an extraordinary session of parliament to discuss the cartoons, while protestors set Danish dairy products and bacon ablaze. Al-Menbar Islamic Society MP Mohammed Khaled has demanded that Arab leaders take action: “We are stunned by the silence of the Arab leaders. They don’t tolerate any criticism against them, yet allow others to insult the Prophet.”[10]
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.bbc.co.uk
Interesting comments as ever 🙂
Especially the
F..k you BBC
Obviously feel like alot of us do
I like the summary at the top:
BBC : Bad
All you need to know really.
Hello Zephir
Unfortunately the reviews have gone from 1.1 to 1.3 – an improvement 🙂 but still not overall liked
Ukraine 1 year on BBC live feed.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-64750118
If you want to know the truth of Ukraine at what is actually happening in the actual war, look elsewhere. They avoid it almost completely. If you want to read quotes from BBC journalists who avoid talking about the actual war at all and concentrate on people waking up far in the East of Ukraine describing their fear in minute detail about if they will be attacked today or about pensioners refusing to leave their homes then there’s plenty.
But that’s the BBC. They don’t feel they have a responsibility to the truth because in their arrogance they believe they define what the truth is. And it seems it’s pure empathy (the type they fantasise being read out as they collect their ‘humanitarian’ award at the next lavish BBC party).
My real objection to this article is a quote from our own government which is a bare-faced lie:
“Ukrainians are turning the tide on Russia but they cannot do it alone. That is why we must do more to help Ukraine win,” said Foreign Secretary James Cleverly.
They absolutely are not. They are losing. Hence all the demands for tanks and planes. I thought we were above our own government telling such blatant propaganda lies to the public but I now realise we haven’t changed one bit. Which worries me greatly because the first time people are going to find out how far they have been duped is going to be when something big happens.
If the Ukrainians are losing, the Russians must be winning. Yet I don’t see their tanks in Kiev yet. They seem to be using all their might to take one small town, Bakhmut. It’s hardly a blitzkrieg is it?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-climate-scaremongers-we-are-being-fed-propaganda-by-a-leftie-cartel/
Here is some interesting news from the USA, including Elon Musk pointing the finger for the Ukraine war directly at the mafia Democrats Victoria Nuland, who I have posted about before, but personally I still blame her boss Barack Obama.
Seems the BBC TMI US branch dropped a chum in the doo doo.
https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/23/3-things-anti-america-agitator-angela-davis-can-learn-from-her-pilgrim-ancestors/?
Next up, Gary Lineker’s ancestor was a Buffalo Soldier tobacco pouch seamstress.
What a wonderful day for… shopping lists drawn up with military attention to detail edition
One scans today’s newspaper frontpages but finds scant fare in terms of news but instead a surfeit of pro-war propaganda.
Not since Kitchener pointed his accusing finger at us Britons and demanded Your Country Needs You – has so much – at least in terms of energy bills – been asked of so many for so futile a war.
They say Bush and Blairs’ wars were launched to actually secure our oil supplies – rather than disrupt them.
Parse all the sentimentalised tosh about Ukraine and all the demonisation of Putin presented to us this morning and it is the Daily Mail which in its editorialising over-enthusiasm – perhaps inadvertantly – nails our present establishment regime attitude: There’s only one option: To give the Ukrainians all the tools they need to defeat Putin – and give them NOW
Mr AsI scoffed at the globalist FT’s Datawatch featurette recently purporting to promote the UK as being bestest friend of Ukraine as per some opinion polling reputedly done down there in the war zone.
Tavarish, we thank you for honouring our young nation with your money laundering business… so have you now come to bring us ammunition, western tanks, missiles, jet planes? Slava Ukraini!
Sorry, old chum, I’m from YouGov… on a scale of 1 to 10, how do you rate Britain’s support for your war effort… 1 being very poor indeed and 10 being some supermarkets in the UK likely to have cucumbers in slightly short supply?
A salad vegetable to which we will return – although we google cucumber to check its vegetable status so as not to fall foul of a Stephen Fry-like QI fact-check… So, are cucumbers a fruit or a vegetable? The answer is: both! (Eating Well)
As though to counter MrAsI’s recent ridicule for the FT’s approval rating of Britain’s support for the proxy war the stately old Telegraph takes the unusual step this morning of promoting a Datawatch-like bar chart featurette to its frontpage: British support for Kyiv remains resolute as war hits second year… source Survation... How involved should Britain be in the war in Ukraine? Same or more 65% Less 27% Don’t know 9%
No one asked me…
1,029 UK adults polled Feb 22-23
‘Never in the field of human conflict was so much spent by our government… on the say so of so few’
Well, whilst we’re in fact-checking mode, I suppose there was that covid thing.
Shopper turned away from buying 100 cucumbers during fruit and veg crisis… Personal trainer Lisa Fearns, 49 – who filled a Lidl trolley… said that as she paid the manager ‘came running out of the back saying I’m buying too much…’ (Metro)
A MUM claims she has been barred from Lidl after trying to buy cucumbers. (Sun) – never draw attention to a woman buying cucumbers – I won’t say more but it’s just not polite.
Cue the cucumber gags and reminiscences. Ken Dodd had a wonderfully surreal one in his extensive joke repertoire: “What a wonderful day for shoving a cucumber through the vicar’s lettersbox and shouting the Aliens are invading!”
Mr AsI’s dear mother and grandmother would talk on the subject of seemingly nothing for hours over the telephone. At least nothing of apparent consequence to a youth. Plans laid for the Christmas period and in particular the food shopping and Christmas menus would be detailed to the point of obsession. As the two ladies divided their various shopping responsibilities and prepared their respective grocery lists with near military attention to detail they would come to the category of salads and inevitably at last the subcategory of cucumbers. This point in the conversation being eagerly anticipated by expectant junior eavesdroppers. The conversation would go something like this: “Shall I buy the cucumber or will you?” “Let’s both get cucumbers” “But will we need two cucumbers?” “I’ll tell you what, how about you get half a cucumber… and I’ll get half a cucumber… because no one really likes cucumber”
One suspects those two ladies might have negotiated a peace between Russia and Ukraine sooner than our current crop of politicians.
The left-leaning ‘i’ newspaper tackles the Labour leaders’s main personal presentational weakness head on: Opinion Being boring is Keir Starmer’s superpower – a puff piece penned column by the appropriately titular Waugh on Politics.
And finally, the Daily Star would have us talk about turnips – and this being an anti-Tory gag the prim middle class Guardian unashamedly happily echoes that comic tabloid’s low humour. I blame Spitting Image
Uncle Sam’s USA:
https://worldaffairs.blog/
TOADY Watch #1 – in which Aunty BBC’s sad decline into forgetfulness and dementia is evident to all
I know in that in broadcasting as well as politics a week is a long time. The BBC like some anniversaries, others the BBC prefers to forget, but tomorrow is the one month anniversary of Burns Night. That is when the poet’s birth is remembered even outside Scotland. The BBC conveniently chose to forget all that on TOADY despite Martha Kearney* co-presenting with Lyse Doucet, the Professor of English at Dame Celia Vowel-Strangler’s University of Pismronunciation.
The BBC wished to attack a Conservative Government Minister, Therese Coffey, who poorly phrased a statement yesterday about eating seasonal foods and not demanding strawberries all year round. Apparently, there is now ‘a-salad-crisis’ on top of ‘the-cost-of-living-crisis’. It will probably not be long until the BBC bring to their News Programmes ‘the-cost-of-dying-crisis’ from the pre-Pandemic era.
It probably doesn’t help that said Conservative Government Minister is, as P.G. Wodehouse would put it, “on the well rounded side, from whichever direction she is viewed” and should consider consuming rather less of the old root crops in favour of some salads.
[ *Yes, I know Martha Kearney is of Irish descent but she read classics at Oxford and really ought to know about Rabbie Burns and the meal of haggis, neeps (turnips) and tatties (potatoes) eaten in memory of the poet. ]
The blue labour minister should have said ‘let them eat cake instead of their 5 a day ‘. But who cares what she said . Just more dead wood .
Disagree, Fed: TC knows stuff about science and the environment and everything. Bit of a Top Cat with the heft to go with it!
Question : Has the BBC covered the nation’s security crisis of the invasion now happening on our shores?
We now have a ‘Trojan Horse’ within our country thanks to the government’s management of the illegal migrant control .
Hello Taffman
Its okay all in hand, I read yesterday on the bBC that 12,000 immigrants can fill in a form and answer a few questions (easier to just photocopy 12,000 and save time) to gain UK citizenship
Nothing to worry about 🙁
Not on the BBC: Ireland is now beginning to experience the joys of mass immigration, and they don’t like it one bit.
(The video clip is in two parts.)
The Irish will just send them north to Ulster.
Guess the BBC won’t be contracting Patrick Henningsen any time soon
https://21stcenturywire.com/2023/02/23/interview-jeremy-kuzmarov-on-the-cia-backing-nazi-factions-in-ukraine/
Believe there has been a 1 minute silence for Ukraine. Preferred listening to this
I listened to this
I hope all these Tanks being given to Ukraine are electric ones.
The last thing they need is dirty diesel ones which will make it more difficult for Ukraine to get to net zero.
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Rishi Sunak ‘makes mockery’ of climate pledges by taking RAF jet flight from London to Leeds, MPs say
Angela Rayner hit out at Rishi Sunak for wasting taxpayer’s money as he used the jet to travel 200 miles
Isabella Boneham
By Isabella Boneham
11th Jan 2023, 10:52am
Ukraine war: King praises ‘courage’ of Ukraine on anniversary
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64749277
A somber moment at the bBC
The PMs wife, what is she wearing, maybe a tradition dress from Ukraine
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Pasta price doubles to 95p as cost of basics rises
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64732404
bBC pricing… thought i’d google and found 500g at Tescos for 41pence, strange that
“King Charles has condemned Russia’s “full-scale attack” on Ukraine in a message marking the first anniversary of the invasion.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64749277
He should keep his snout out of politics,
maybe stop his benefits …
Wingnuts and the WEF:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-king-charles-wef-just-aligned-great-reset-agenda/5792916
Bit worrying that Windsor could be the King for another 25 years – if compared to how his daddy lasted … then we ll have another woke one .
If we have to have a monarch can’t we have a properly amoral obnoxious one – Andy comes to mind …
UK’s Prince Charles received $3.2m from former Qatar PM: Report. The Sunday Times reports there was no suggestion that payments for the prince’s charity over a four-year period were illegal.26 Jun 2022
Worth repeating.
Oh and, currently Dan Snow and Gavin Esler, also late of the BBc, are skweemin’ and skweemin’ about Brexit still.
And national broadcaster rammed with ideological activists is why we are where we are now.
Bbc bias by omission. Earlier it was crowing over the UN vote to invade and destroy russia( i wish )
But they mentioned that about 7? Countries voted against … but didnt mention that they were india Pakistan and s. Africa , .. all of which get aid from us . … no wonder the bbc left it out
India Now Buying 33 Times More Russian Oil Than a Year Earlier
Nation took 1.2 million barrels a day from Moscow last month
Sanctions from G-7 and EU possibly led to deeper discounts
ByRakesh Sharma
16 January 2023 at 08:35 GMT
It’s time that our Foreign Aid was spent of relieving British taxpayers from the high cost of hotel bills housing illegal migrants .
Neither the blue or the red party will reduce throwing taxpayers ‘ cash at parasites . Only a change of the political system will change that ….
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https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/p/is-the-bbc-liability-laundering-with
Flying about the world getting old WEFfies and UNmen excited, mainly.
What is the IQ requirement for such an arduous task? They recruit the cream of todays youth!
I wonder who picks up Sophie’s airplane tickets, taxi and hotel bills?
Her wiki page skirts around that big style.
I still need convincing ‘she’ is not a spoof.
However, too many links and credible photo ops with dirty old men.
Who, one might posit, are said funders.
Gav gets a mensh, too.
Gavin is so unhinged he rushed out a tweet confusing citrus with salad
got lot of replies calling him out
And then DELETED the tweet to hide the evidence
Ukraine as a British Overseas Territory or Commonwealth Realm.
Ulraincast?
Excellent news – Bruce Kent is leaving R2 on 3 March and will be replaced by someone called Kay Vernon . Vernon is married to someone called Daly . Daly will be taking over from any body else left on R2 who people still listen to .
Such events put just another small stab into the body of the BBC … which can’t be bad …..
Monsignor Bruce Kent (died in 2022) would have been a good fit for the BBC, with his CND activism and one-time candidacy for the Labour Party. “Thought for the Day” on Radio 4 would have been just made made for him. Requiescat in pace.
As for Vernon Kay and Tess Daly, there does seem to be an incestuous circle of people who keep cropping up on “Just a Minute”, “The News Quiz”, their TV equivalents, etc.
Only today there was a trailer on Radio 4 for “The Infinite Monkey Cage” with Lefty Brian Cox and Robin Ince. Among the list of soi disant celeb’s who are due to be in the new series, were Susan Calman and Jo Brand. You know, just to keep things fresh …
Somebody, anybody! Please, put this ghastly organization out of its – and our – misery.
@Mustapha so Jo Brand and Calman were put in a “Monkey cage”
The BBC sounds search page is rubbish
so no wonder managers don’t understand that lefties are on all the time.
The fanatic who updated the wikipedia page stopped at Aug 2022
Jo Brand had been on 6 times before then
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Infinite_Monkey_Cage
Mustapha – maybe I’m confused – maybe it’s actually Clarke Kent taking over …. Honestly – I am finding the world more and more absurd … perhaps it’s a sign of the End Of Days … which I bet isn’t covered by the house insurance ….
How is Kiera knightly related to tess daly ? Discuss ….
Knightly and daly would be a great show eh? Up against – dec and ant … … sure fire Saturday night family entertainment …
Whilst I put up the special end of days weekend thread ….
BBC throws open the rotating doors (I know, but they are unique) to the next gen of smarty pants* to lern fings.
*But, only if BAME, innit.
BTW is the BBC unaware that a bottomless cup of tea/coffee costs £1:35 in Wetherspoons ?
The Like rate for the BBC tweet is 0.1%
BBC London News.
As is common practice for this programme, the news isn’t about London but world events and the people from any particular place who live in the capital.
A couple of weeks ago, Turks in London.
Today: Ukrainians in London (obvs).
A Southeast train is named Spirit of Ukraine. The street in Notting Hill where the Russian Embassy sits is renamed Kyiv Road.
Renaming the road, such stunts are like like Cuba or Chavez .
I don’t seem them paving to a future peace with Russia.
It’s petty bullying not good diplomacy.
BBC TMI partner.
Leaving where now?
‘“May Nigeria not happen to you,” is a common prayer in Africa’s largest economy
It is a heartfelt wish born out of the frustration of living in a country so dysfunctional that even wealth cannot insulate you from the wahala (troubles) of Nigeria and its systemic failures.’
The elephant in the room here is that Nigeria was made by Nigerians and their culture. The ‘victims’ quickly turn to ‘villains’ the first chance they get. It’s how third world countries work.
‘Many talented’ and many, many more with the wrong kind of ‘talent’ who would turn wherever they go into another Nigeria.
I am pleased to report that I found, by accident, a good comedy programme on BBC R4. Now that to most people would be an oxymoron, good comedy and on BBC R4, but I just happened to go on listening after the current Bed at Booktime: Alexander Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, very well read by Rhashan Stone. Listened to 11 p.m. News and then found by accident that I was listening to some excellent comedy in The Absolutely Radio Show.
I was amazed. It was clever, witty, comedy without any digs at former PM Boris Johnson or former President Trump although It did have a bit of a send-up of an HR job interview. Recommended.
David Seddaris 6:30pm last night, alleged comedy
Either it is a bizarre true story
or DS has an evil conniving mind
It began by him saying his father had become senile and voted for Trump
and sat there “watching FOX NEWS getting more and more enraged.”
And the rest of the Biden loving family looked on with horror
… The narrative “only senile idiot would think Trump is anything other than the most evil man ever”
Part 2 now his father has changed and says Biden is great and that he feels conned by that evil man Trump
.. OK the narrative there seems to if a senile man loves Biden and hates Trump ..that is a good thing
I don’t believe it and I think Seddaris is creating a nasty nasty caricature of Trump supporters
who I think are quite diverse as is the campaign against the Deepstate.
Look at it from the BBC’s viewpoint: Sedaris is a gay, Lefty, former drug user and transgressive. I mean, what’s to dislike?!
Swimmers ‘ruined’ by culture of fat-shaming and bullying
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-64256659
Oh the horror:
‘A former Commonwealth youth gold medallist tipped for world success says she suffered with bulimia for years as a result of extreme criticism and humiliating weigh-ins by her swimming coaches.’
Just read this extreme torture which the BBC actually think warrants front-page news:
‘On one occasion, she said a group of athletes were “tested” by coaches who gave them chocolate cake and told them they had “failed” when they ate it.’
The poor, poor victims.
Of course this BBC idiot/clone/wokey fails to appreciate that without the harsh treatment, she would not have been a ‘youth gold medallist’
And the clone also omits that none of them were forced to do it. They/their parents could have stopped at any time.
Here is aformentioned clone:
Who writes on twitter ‘Time for a review of ‘22 … another fabulous year! I love my job! More of the same in 2023? Why the heck not, see you there!’.
I put that through Google Translate and it came back the same as it does for Marianna:
‘I have been a bit of an overconfident useless idiot all my life so I cannot believe the BBC gave me this job’
Obviously not clever enough to realise why.