489 Responses to Midweek 8 March 2023

  1. Fedup2 says:

    I choked on me tea – there was an advert for ‘wimmins hour ‘ . There’s gonna be a piece on ‘The Lesbian Project’ which says lesbianism in Britain in being ‘erased’ it features Greg Dyke as ‘the narrator ‘ laughed out loud . The last bit might need to be examined by Mariana (hugs ) …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Vincent wrote that the only time she has ever been considered excessively feminine was during her stint as a man. Her alter ego, Ned, was assumed to be gay on several occasions. Features which had been perceived as butch when she presented as a woman were perceived as oddly effeminate when she presented as a man. Vincent asserted that, since the experiment, she had more fully realized the benefits of being female and the disadvantages of being male, stating, “I really like being a woman. … I like it more now because I think it’s more of a privilege.”[5]

      Vincent also stated that she had gained more sympathy and understanding for men and the male condition: “Men are suffering. They have different problems than women have but they don’t have it better. They need our sympathy, they need our love, and they need each other more than anything else. They need to be together.”[5]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norah_Vincent

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Toady
      Meeshall is on a royal tour to food production ‘up north ‘ must be frightening for the poor girl . The risk assessment must have been hideous – imagine having to meet ‘northerners ‘ ugh

      Hope the BBC put in a rapid extraction plan….

      Truly – though – those BBC types really do live in a bubble

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    • andyjsnape says:

      Hello Fed

      Maybe Dyke was used for a reason 🙂

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    • micknotmike says:

      Morning Fed,
      Lesbianism “being erased?”. It feels like its almost becoming compulsory. I don’t suppose the Springster “favours the flatter shoe”, does she? I’m asking as I’d sleep a lot safer if she does.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Morning mick – yes that was the bit that got me . Today I’m going to self identify as a lesbian . Yesterday I identified as an ‘international woman’ . Tomorrow I’m going to identify as an ex spurs manager …..

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    • StewGreen says:

      The Lesbian Project thing is about their territory being conquered by trans etc.
      The way some men put on a dress call themselves a trans lesbian woman and say lesbian should sleep with them.

      Last nights Look North had a PRasNews item for a Rainbow festival which used a mass of initial letters after LGB
      Then later they had a lebian comedienne

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  2. Guest Who says:

    BBC News

    Action star Donnie Yen has drawn controversy recently for an interview in which he called the 2019 Hong Kong protests a riot.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-64898077?

    ***
    Don should know what gets called what, and what not, is very much the BBC’s job.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      CNN-Headline-Fiery-2.jpg?ve=1&tl=1

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      • JohnC says:

        Kyle Rittenhouse: Who is US teen cleared of protest killings?
        https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53934109

        The video shows it was far from peaceful. CNN speak through the same hole as the BBC.

        The BBC tell us at the start that ’17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse fired on three men with a military-style semi-automatic rifle, killing two and seriously injuring a third.’

        It’s not until the end of the article they admit he was being chased by a group of black men and shot those who attacked him.

        And even worse, the BBC have added
        ‘Correction 9th October 2020: This article was amended in the hours after publication to give a more detailed account of the sequence of events and make clear that Kyle Rittenhouse was seen on video being pursued by a group of people before the first shooting.’

        Which means they didn’t even mention it in the original article !!!. Absolutely disgraceful journalism.

        It might have been a bit more honest if you added that bit at the start before you told us he shot them BBC. Not tagged on right at the end hoping nobody would bother to read that far.

        And of course they don’t mention the looting. There is ALWAYS looting in these cases. TVs and trainers ease the pain of being victims of institutional racism.

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  3. andyjsnape says:

    Up to 30,000 Russian casualties claimed in Bakhmut
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64880268

    Upto 30,000 Russian, but what about Ukraine?? Is it far worse

    See the bBC isn’t biased, honestly

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    • MarkyMark says:

      1 person died of LGBT misgendering.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Ukraine casualties are only 29,999 so they are winning .

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    • Guest Who says:

      ‘Up to’ covers a fair spread, sources close to the bbc warn…

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      • JohnC says:

        This article attributes the ‘proof’ Ukraine are winning to a new one : anonymous ‘Western Officials’. They are referenced 6 times !.

        Interestingly I checked the Authors twitter and he was mocking Jeremy Corbyn at a ‘Stop The War’ protest. I can find no reports on the BBC about any such protests !!!. They are absolutely in on this bloodbath farce up to their necks. Just imagine what exposure they would have given it if it suited their agenda.

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    • JohnC says:

      The BBC reports on Ukraine are an utter farce.

      Now we get one paragraph describing events which show Russia are winning, then 10 paragraphs telling us Ukraine are winning (and not a single ‘without providing evidence’ for anything the Ukrainian government say).

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  4. AsISeeIt says:

    No need to worry, that’s all OK then edition

    People’s general mental health and anxiety symptoms hardly deteriorated at all during the pandemic, research suggests – our BBC kicks us off this morning with the rather unsciency term ‘hardly at all‘ – it’s good news though.

    ‘Hardly’ must be some form of advanced academic research Canadianism, eh! Bucko!: ...researchers, from institutions including McGill, Ottawa and Toronto universities, say. (BBC)

    You can always rely on scientific research on deliver for us: Lab delivers motherless mice with two fathers… a breakthrough that could pave the way for gay men to have children… (Times)

    My mind goes to the Channel 4 TV comedy Peep Show starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. My favourite character was Super Hans with his classic one-liners such as at the mention of cancer he declared: ‘They ought to find a cure for that’

    Despite modern feminism, male couple gay children could make women redundant. I say, ‘Keep mum, she’s not so dumb’

    Our BBC is also keen to impart this bit of good news: Consumers have developed money-saving shopping habits to help stave off problem debt as the cost of living has soared, according to Barclays.

    So I guess demoralising the population with Lockdown and debasing the currency with inflationary excessive money printing was no real biggie

    Combined with a minor bow to Harry & Meghans’ royal tot, our BBC online press review is loving the FT’s top headline: Newspaper headlines: Foreign workers drive and Lilibet becomes princess (BBC)

    To wit…

    So why did the top royals miss Princess Lilibet’s christening? (Daily Mirror) – er, let me think… a lot of former conspiracy theories appear to be coming true lately… The United States is open to tourists from all countries but a vaccine requirement is required for most international visitors…U.S. Government (TSA) extends the vaccine mandate for international traveling into the USA until at least April 10, 2023 (Traveling Lifestyle.net) – just joshing, of course. We know our elite took the vax – we saw the photos.

    But it’s not a conspiracy theory, if it’s true.

    Ukraine denies involvement in Nord Stream pipeline blasts (BBC) – Ridiculous. The practically land-locked emergent former-Soviet republic would hardly have the naval personel and deep sea special forces capability.

    It’s the international whodunnit that’s stumped investigators across the world. Now, as a Pultizer-prize winning journalist points the finger at the CIA… Who DID blow up the Nord Stream pipeline? (Daily Mail)

    Reactions to the blasts by some Western leaders also added to suspicion of US, including then British Prime Minister Liz Truss’ texting “it’s done” to Blinken and former Polish foreign minister’s tweet “Thank you, USA.” (Global Times) – allegedly

    Who knows what to believe these days? Following the Matt Hancock WhatsApp text leak anything we’re told by government could just be part of a big psyop deception plan to nudge a reluctatnt public into a certain direction of thinking.

    Drive to increase overseas worker numbers to begin with construction… Policies on domestic labour not enough… Ministers are planning to tacle chronic shortages in the labour market by opening the door to more foreign workers, starting with looser rules for the construction sector (FT) – because of course the new-comers and their families won’t need anywhere to live. And if they should on the off chance require a roof over their heads they can always build themselves one.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Asiseeit
      That nord gas thing is clearly one for the Mariana fact checker – she is a trained deep sea diver and has wide experience of explosives -speaks both Russian and Ukrainian and American . She has been nominated for the fact checker prize at the Oscar’s and a shoo – in for the Eurovision ….

      Spoiler alert – the yanks did it …probably using mercenaries to avoid dirty / wet hands

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    • Guest Who says:

      BBC ‘hardlyatallism’… the new ‘mostly peaceful’ (h/t Marky) ?

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      • Scroblene says:

        I rather like AsIseeit’s “rather unsciency term” too!

        The awful beeboids do a lot of ‘unscience’…

        They’re best avoided when facts are required – there’s plenty of proper science available on the interweb thingy!

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  5. Fedup2 says:

    BBC language watch

    “A charity has Warned …..” – get that agenda …. I think we need to keep a list – easy stuff like ‘ sunak ‘defends ‘ xxxxx policy … good game eh ?

    BTW – do you notice how the BBC never questions / challenges the motivation of any Charity ?

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    • Guest Who says:

      Reportedly.

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      • Scroblene says:

        Hondootedly…

        Charities can go whistle as far as this familiy’s income is concerned! I was told that the ‘boss’ of The Dog’s Trust gets around £130,000 nicker a year for dealing with strays!

        Hope it’s not true!

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      • Fedup2 says:

        ‘The BBC has learned ….”

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  6. andyjsnape says:

    Hope the above link works for you, its a comedy sketch from the bbc with Ronnie Barker

    The bbc management didn’t realise this was comedy 🙂 Its something they now preach everyday

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  7. StewGreen says:

    Politicians and media is so often THEATRE
    .. Here Tucker Carlson shouts “Liar, liar, liar”
    for the way establishment politicians spoke and still speak about Jan 6th
    Given the actual newly released videos, which show Jacob the Shaman always accompanied by groups of armed police.
    .. https://youtu.be/2hJ903Kt1SM?t=276

    The video cannot be embedded

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    • tomo says:

      KJP at the podium… Guardian version.

      This morning the UK MSM crap sprayers have been loaded with earth destroying asteroids, rogue planets and snowmageddon

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      • tomo says:

        InfoWars…

        YouTube in particular are busy (from here anyway) tipping piles of turgid crap into the Jan 6th story and hiding Tucker Carlson and other people who are simply letting you see the actual video of events …

        Multiple “5 fast facts you need to know” in my corporate MS Edge browser home page this morning.

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      • andyjsnape says:

        Hello Tom

        She has nice make-up, only need to be blond and all is complete

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        • tomo says:

          Perhaps they can have a search for her brain cell ?

          – I can’t be the only one wondering where it is.

          I wish Julie Kelly had access to WH press questions…

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    • StewGreen says:

      On Titter Democrats are shouting “Oh Tucker cherry picked all the quiet moments and left out the violence”
      .. That does seem like them doubling down

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      • Guest Who says:

        Phew, at least a key feature of BBC TNI is not cherry picking /sarc

        ‘They’ have backed themselves into the same free speech/cancel culture corner as before, only ‘they’ know they are safe.

        Meanwhile… a quote:

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  8. Guest Who says:

    Frosty the snow person.

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/what-the-hella-mariella/

    “ Mariella aligns herself with JK’s bravery while including a little qualification that sometimes her views are ‘unpalatable’.”

    This is how Max keeps the media gig, platform and home help.

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  9. Fedup2 says:

    Correction – in a previous comment I said that meesh was ‘up north ‘ having to look at food growing . I apologise. It seems that she is actually in Bristol which must be equally traumatic – which Alexa says 117.4 miles from London … yikes .

    She interviewed a food nazi who will not eat anything flown into the country . He will only eat ‘ethical organic ‘ food . How he knows food is ethical I don’t know . Maybe he quizzes tomatoes about their views on the daily Channel invasion .

    He also thinks we – you – should only eat seasonal food .

    It really seems we are going backward and downward across the board . I won’t accept that .

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    • Guest Who says:

      Meesh is quite the sport… travelling hither and thither when her marks are too busy or stuck in a rut.

      Flies off to chat to Greta… train (presumably) for the Bristol (it was there or Brighton) foodie.

      As any fule know, mutton is for Ramadan, not just for life. Locally sourced. Often at night.

      Sales of blue tarps seasonal in certain areas?

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  10. Guest Who says:

    “And this, Gary, is the other way you get on the telly… a lot”

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    • Guest Who says:

      Gaz might also be a little bit German too…Von Lineker?

      The BBC surely has never met a Perfesser it didn’t like, so… Shola some mistake…?

      The Prof’s mental processes are of course academically unquestionable. Sources say.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Tax returns?

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      • Guest Who says:

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  11. Guest Who says:

    Not footyballist commentator, after a quick stint footyballing after landing and filling out the doctor, engineer or Disinfo reporter on the bbc HR for diverse yoof application forms to clear a few Home Office hurdles?

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    • AsISeeIt says:

      BBC: Engineering, teaching and being a doctor are the three top jobs teenagers are interested in

      What, no budding young astronauts these days… or rock stars… or would-be traindrivers? That’s where they’ll earn the megabucks.

      There’s an awful lot of obvious establishment projection onto the kids’ ambitions evident there methinks.

      Why didn’t our BBC go the whole hog and include virologists, Ukraine war arms manufacturers and migrant rights lawyers?

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Asiseeit please don’t use this site for disinformation 😎
        A survey found the most sought after jobs are –

        1 bbc fact checker
        2 NHS diversity manager
        3 trans rights advisors
        4 MP / spad
        5 bbc sports host ‘ political agitator

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        • G says:

          Fed,

          Which ever way you look at it, the interviewing process is very simple. If they attend an ‘interview’, secret is to walk in muttering, ‘Sustainable’ or any variation thereof. In fact, that is probably their first word having emerged from the womb.

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  12. Guest Who says:

    BBC cleared the schedules yet?

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  13. Guest Who says:

    SFH seem very selective on the hate they support.

    The BBC is, of course, uniquely funded.

    And equally selective.

    Lie with dogs….

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  14. Guest Who says:

    Dare one enquire?

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    • Guest Who says:

      As have others.

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    • tomo says:

      really…. WGAF?

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    • JohnC says:

      Eurovision 2023 UK entry announced as Mae Muller

      ‘after being selected by the same process as last year, in which the BBC worked with a music management company.’

      Where we came 22nd out of 25.

      What a perfectly balanced arse you and the BBC are Guardian.

      I was listening to Terry Wogan taking with Ken Bruce about Eurovision only yesterday – and Terry was hauled in front of the organisers once and told to explain himself for making fun of it.

      Second only to the time a few years ago where the camera switched to two ‘plants’ cheering. When they saw they were ‘on’, one reached out of shot, grabbed a young black girl and roughly pushed her across in front of the camera. She looked quite shocked.

      All part of what the hypocritical, nasty farce it – and anything to do with EU politics – is.

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      • tomo says:

        JohnC

        as I hear it there are extraordinary amounts of money sloshing around Eurovision – on the electric supply side one year (can’t recall which) an acquaintance worked the gig. He said they had three, failure tiered sets of generators (2x actual expected peak load too!) – all shiny new too.

        Money no object ‘coz it’s other people’s – profligacy pervades…

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  15. StewGreen says:

    New BBC story : Mosque criticised in bombing inquiry faces probe
    The Charity Commission is responding to the final report into the Manchester Arena bombing.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-64894952
    anyone heard any reports ?

    .. “attended by the suicide bomber Salman Abedi and his family.
    the Abedi family had a long relationship with the mosque”

    “The Charity Commission has already prescribed a programme that the Didsbury Mosque must put in place.

    “Last week, a BBC investigation revealed how two young Didsbury attendees died in conflict abroad and were lionised online as martyrs, including by prominent people in the mosque.”
    Seems the head lied and said there was no politics at the mosque

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  16. StewGreen says:

    BBC breaking : TV narrowboater had phone stolen during filming
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-64890124
    They treat BBC resources as if it’s their own personal club
    They ignore the vast majority of crime.

    “The iPhone 13 was stolen on 10 December
    .. believes the phone was taken from his coat pocket when he was on a night out in Nottingham.
    He tracked the phone down to a block of flats in the city using the Find My iPhone app on his other phone.
    However, none of the residents he spoke to said they had the phone.

    It happened 3 months ago, why put up a story now ?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Stew – you made me look at that . Now let me get this right . He claims the stolen iPhone had a lot of valuable stuff on it . And he used another iPhone to find the stolen phone in a tower block .
      Now I’m no techy but don’t those phones back after a while ?particularly his narrow boat collection …

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  17. StewGreen says:

    BBCnews basically has GreenPR folks embedded
    Here’s them working with XR

    I’m in the east of England it;s nowhere near a drought
    and the forecast says every hour today is a wet hour.
    The BBC reporter did a big thread
    .. https://twitter.com/markrwilliamson/status/1630862853719638017

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    • Guest Who says:

      Thanks to the unique way it is funded, and run, and staffed, the BBC pretty much controls every aspect of the narrative.

      Lineker, Maitlis, Naga, CroxOf, Wendy, Springster…

      Hence the good guys of W1A get protected by either being ignored or excused.

      Meanwhile…. in the land of the lawyers’ fees…

      https://www.racket.news/p/my-statement-to-congress?

      Matt looks set to join Elon, Tucker, etc for BBC ‘investigation’…

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    • Guest Who says:

      This caught my eye.

      https://pressreleases.responsesource.com/news/103777/regional-environmental-agreements-are-over-twice-as-likely-to-be/

      Especially given the uncritical support given local citizen’s climate assemblies/XR PR by BBC local radio and its new form of local repor… propaganda.

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      @StewGreen
      One of the reasons the East of England is short of water is because they have unrestrained house building and irresponsible development.

      All that extra water has to come from somewhere and after use sent somewhere else.

      The last thing the area needs is big pharma moving in and buying up £1M houses to put psychopaths in.

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  18. andyjsnape says:

    Gary Lineker says he does not fear BBC suspension over asylum policy tweet
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64899472

    bBC still creating publicity for Link-ears point of view, pretending to be against his outspoken words, but keeps this in the public domain

    No bBC, most of the British public are against the current form of illegal immigration

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Good distraction from Matthew power mad Hancock …

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    • Zelazek says:

      I wonder why Lineker bothers tweeting anything. Most people would keep their heads down, keep their noses clean and carry on raking in the dough.

      I think he must be feeling guilty about receiving such an exorbitant salary for the not-very-hard job that he does. So he salves his conscience by becoming a champion of the ‘vulnerable’. Again though this doesn’t actually involve back-breaking or dangerous work, just a few tweets comparing Tories to Nazis. Pedestrian stuff even by SJW standards.

      He probably sees himself as a hero.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Because he gets paid millions to do it.

        And adoration from his bubble mates and sucks ups who share his champagne selective agenda.

        The entire MSM is feeding off it like Christmas just came back.

        Pathetic. Mostly the ‘government’ that has created this sham.

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      • pugnazious says:

        He is a hero…took in one immigrant….well educated and studying at university…in an annex to his own huge house where he probably met the immigrant, ooh at least once, before off-loading him somewhere else…probably at our expense.

        If he was serious and not just a virtue signalling ****** he’d have ‘open house’ for any and all migrants…number and character no object….same with all those who talk of open borders….bet they all lock their doors…..so selfish…only a true nazi would lock their door and deny the needy a sanctuary….the humane thing to do….leave your house wide open for one and all.

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  19. G says:

    Introduction of CBDC’s – Worldwide, (well, at least those who are under the control of the WEF).

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  20. harry142857 says:

    Whoever was asking about the dogs trust.

    Remuneration 2021.

    £60,001-£70,000 – 14 employees
    £70,001-£80,000 – 5
    £80,001-£90,000 – 5
    £90,001-£100,000 – 3
    £100,001-£110,000 – 5
    £110,001-£120,000 – 3
    £160,001-£170,000 – 1.

    36 staff paid £3million plus pensions.
    All worth every penny.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Less than 1% of our income is spent on senior salaries.
      Our Board decide our Chief Executive’s salary & a sub-group decide senior salaries – they’re compared to roles in other charities & reviewed yearly to make sure they’re delivering what the charity needs & value for money.

      Their annual expenditure is £102m only £74m is actual charity
      They must be only counting the execs who earn over £100K
      Their total assets minus liabilities are £340m ..that’s quite high
      https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/227523/charity-overview

      Half of any charity is the fund raising side , the shops etc.
      Get granny in to run that operation and she could easily lose the charity £5m, 10m etc.
      So it is worth getting super star professional in

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    • tomo says:

      barking?

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  21. Terminal Moraine says:

    Kayleen’s been busy helping trawl social media for the hit piece on Musk. She’s fiercely protective of her colleagues “who endured hours of tediously going through returned accounts & witnessing some horrible stuff along the way.”

    BBC job title: ‘Senior Journalist, Disinfo unit’

    Senior? To whom… a toddler? In what possible universe do BBC directors think employing people like this helps them at a time when their reputation is already sinking?

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  22. Terminal Moraine says:

    Made me laugh:

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  23. Dickie says:

    Comment by Tom Gummidge UK Column News Website:

    So-called journalist Isabel Oakeshott has ‘leaked’ to the Daily Telegraph more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages between Matt Hancock and other ministers and officials. Oakeshott had worked with Midazolam Matt to ghost-write his ‘Pandemic Diaries’ book. Oakeshott is the wife of Richard Tice, leader of the Reform UK party. I guess this ‘leaking’ of the WhatsApp messages is all part of the script.

    More of Hancock’s WhatsApp messages are to be revealed over subsequent days. I see no mention so far of Midazolam, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they steer clear of that subject, as unawake members of the public may find that subject too difficult to digest.

    The contents of the WhatsApp messages serve to show that our government and medical establishment are totally incompetent when it comes to coping with a plandemic, whoops, I mean pandemic, and Hancock is to be the fall-guy. How fortunate, then, that the World Health Organisation is currently formulating a new Pandemic Treaty, which will allow the WHO to call the shots to governments across the world, come the next plandemic. I’m sure Parliament and King Chuck the Turd will be eager to ratify this forthcoming treaty and cede sovereignty to the WHO, to prevent another Hancock from happening.

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  24. StewGreen says:

    Chris Daw is a go to lefty lawyer the media use

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  25. StewGreen says:

    Saying something minor is like what the Nazis did
    Is the slippery slope fallacy
    Just cos Hitler was a vegetarian doesn’t mean everi vegetarian will invade Poland.

    Each argument should be examined on it’s own merit.

    In this case it’s taking people who jump from safe France to the UK, out of the asylum queue, therefore freeing up resources for people are are in more dangerous situations.

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  26. pugnazious says:

    What??!!!?

    Lineker is the top news story in the world at the moment…on the BBC website.

    You cannot be serious man!

    Of course the BBC loves this….Lineker is saying exactly what they all think…and say themselves….not as if the BBC doesn’t constantly suggest some policy or other is ‘taking us back to the 30’s’…..Brexit a case in point…the BBC even digging up an old series called ‘A Warning from History’ to suggest Brexit would herald in the Fourth Reich.

    It gives the BBC the chance to constantly repeat what Lineker said…comparing the Tories to the Nazis…and do so again and again and again with endless programmes talking about the issue of Lineker…and thus immigration….just a chance to smear the Tories….not us guv…just reporting what Lineker said don’t you know!

    Lineker’s defence is that he is a sports presenter not news and thus can say what he likes…however he is using the massive influence and popularity that his job at the BBC gives him as a platform to launch his smears….and clearly has no intention of bowing down to the DG and the rules….therefore he should be given the boot….but of course too important for Match of the Day and too like-minded with the BBC bubble to be sacked.

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    SMALL BOATS (not large)
    small boats (not big)
    Small Boats (not many)
    Small Boats (one person per boat)

    ……………..

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  28. Zephir says:

    Woke morons st it again:

    Sir Michael Caine hits out at ‘bull***t’ suggestion his 1964 movie Zulu incites extremism after it was included on list by government’s Prevent scheme for ‘encouraging far-right sympathies’

    Mail online

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I wonder what the ‘thought process ‘ was which put that film on the PREVENT list? ( if indeed it’s true ) . There might be a whole load of war films which might offend certain Germans seeing their ancestors regularly slotted by various Hollywood stars .
      In fact I think there is a bit on YouTube of the body count created by Clint Eastwood during “where eagles dare “ as well as the bottle count for Dickie burton and his mate Jonnie Walker …
      Lol … madness … to quote the end of ‘bridge in the river Kwai (spelling) …..

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      • TrickCyclist says:

        “Where Doubles Dare”
        Starring Alf Joint, with close-ups by Richard Burton.

        Black Hawk Down has been on the telly this week, is that on the list too? US Army Rangers calling Somalis ‘skinnies’ while gunning them down. (No Somalis were harmed during filming – there are none in the movie.)
        The term ‘skinnies’ was taken from a book on the US Rangers reading list – Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers. Put that on the list too.
        We were told Puffin Books were rewriting bits of Roald Dahl’s stories a few weeks ago. A man who actually shot down Nazis, FFS.

        Can they put Mad Mel’s Braveheart and The Patriot on the list too? For inciting hatred against the English?

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        • MarkyMark says:

          It was announced in February 2009 that Middlesex changed their limited overs name from the Middlesex Crusaders, to the Middlesex Panthers, following complaints made by Muslim and Jewish communities.

          Middlesex County Cricket Club – Wikipedia

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  29. pugnazious says:

    Messages from the men and women at the very heart of government making decisions on one of the most momentous issues, lockdown, are almost entirely ignored by the national broadcaster…this is of course a highly political decision by them…and one of self-protection…because of course they too backed lockdown to the hilt….thus if it was shown to be a bad, mad and dangerous policy badly implemented for mainly political reasons the BBC would be implicated…as it should be…and then hung out to dry.

    Parliament surrendered their powers to scrutinise what the government was doing and the media refused almost entirely to challenge and question what was being imposed upon us….given that this was a massively draconian and dystopian act of oppression you might think the ‘liberal’ BBC, which says it exists to hold Power to account, would have stepped up and rigorously examined and challenged the government…instead it too refused to scrutinise decisions and actually joined forces with the government, becoming not only its mouthpiece but a campaigning lobby group demanding more lockdown, harsher lockdowns, everyone to wear mask and the closure of schools. Hardly the once proud investigative, independent and impartial BBC it claims to still be.

    When both government and media march in lockstep democracy dies a death….the BBC is all too close to the government on lockdown, and climate change, for it to be impartial or an effective news organisation investigating issues with balance and insight.

    Defund it and spread the cash out to other news organisations that will ensure a wider spread of opinion, interpretation and ‘facts’.

    Interesting that Guido rpeortts what we all know….

    ‘Jon Sopel first chimed in that when he was abroad in America covering Trump “I was given huge amounts of latitude to call it as I saw it” – and BBC bosses backed him for it.”

    Sopel lied again and again, mocked and smeared Trump and went so far as to attack and smear a schoolboy who supported Trump…Sopel telling huge lies about the entirely blameless boy and when the truth came out continued to attack the boy.

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  30. NISA says:

    A couple of hours ago Lineker thinks it all over

    “Well, it’s been an interesting couple of days. Happy that this ridiculously out of proportion story seems to be abating and very much looking forward to presenting
    @BBCMOTD
    on Saturday. Thanks again for all your incredible support. It’s been overwhelming.”

    I hope he is as premature as those folk at Wembley in 1966

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  31. s.trubble says:

    Lineker

    The second ( not even the minute) I saw this Licence Tax thief ,s comment I concluded that he was doing it in the full knowledge and endorsement by bBC bosses.

    Mind you this lot are so devious they could be setting him up as a sacrifice to deceive the willing believers that they are the good guys.

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  32. Fedup2 says:

    NISA – which ever way it goes – it’s good for us . If they keep him – they consent to his view and the DG is dead wood . If they dump him it’s a warning to the rest of the group think and challenges the ‘unbiased’ lie the BBC pushes harder and harder as the true shows the contrary …

    A good story which stays every Saturday night …

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  33. StewGreen says:

    Leftists hijack organisations, that trick is rooted in Alinsky trickery
    .. national institutions are hijacked
    This time it’s New Humanist the supposed atheist magazine
    The PR for their new Springbank Holiday festival in Haye on Wye
    I don’t know why they sent me a promo email
    cos when you click through it’s all sold out at £178.00

    – former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams,
    – activist and musician Billy Bragg
    – key adversary to Trump Fiona Hill
    – Owen Jones “The voice of the left”
    – JOHN MCDONNELL RADICAL ECONOMIC REFORMIST ha !
    philosopher Slavoj Žižek, celebrated philosopher Daniel Dennett, , superstar string-theorist Brian Greene, visionary economist Gillian Tett, masterful novelist Esther Freud
    Oh a couple of righties Matt Ridley, Malcolm Rifkind
    https://howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/hay/the-big-ideas/speakers

    Maverick philosopher Slavoj Žižek, former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and revolutionary primatologist Richard Wrangham debate whether it’s time to say goodbye to good and evil.

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  34. MarkyMark says:

    How #OscarsSoWhite changed the Academy Awards
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64883399

    …………….

    It’s 2020 And Bollywood Is Still Racist
    https://www.buzzfeed.com/sumedha_bharpilania/bollywood-is-still-racist

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  35. digg says:

    This Country can’t even find a way to deport an Iranian youth who had arrived by small boat who stabbed an innocent student to try to get deported back.

    WTF are the immigration authorities doing?

    Anything?

    Probably all working from home I guess!

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  36. Fedup2 says:

    BBC News

    Still pushing state funded dump your kid – I even hear 1 and 2 year olds being stuffed in baby banks whilst mummy is at work .

    I have a better idea – if a non man has a child give it straight up to the State and get out to work . Don’t worry – it’s free – the money tree will pay for it – and mummy doesn’t have to deal with the brat anymore . ……. It s okay – it’s all free …..

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Hospital treatment is free of charge for people who are ordinarily resident in the UK. This does not depend on nationality, payment of UK taxes, National Insurance contributions, being registered with a GP, having an NHS number, or owning property in the UK.

      NHS entitlements: migrant health guide – GOV.UK

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The NHS Act, brought before parliament in 1946, was created as part of a social welfare policy under Clement Atlee’s Labour government which aimed to provide universal and free benefits to all those in need. The service was based on recommendations in the 1942 Beveridge report which called for a state welfare system.8 Jan 2008

      …………….

      In April 2020, the Health Secretary announced that over £13bn of NHS debt would be written off and converted to public dividend capital (PDC). This was part of a wide range of financial measures the Government brought in for health and social care during the current pandemic.

      …………… FREE ………….. 13 BILLION …………………………..

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Marky – a long time ago – when I was studying – I was fascinated by charity law – the ability to get charitable status and thus be ‘tax free ‘ … the charities commission is intentionally an underfunded inefficient quango which is best at looking the other way – particularly with Muslim ‘charities ‘….

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Oxfam failed to act on reports children were being sexually abused by its workers in Haiti in 2011, according to a major Charity Commission inquiry which concluded the allegations were “not taken seriously enough”.11 Jun 2019

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  37. theisland says:

    Forget about the traitors at the bBC and elsewhere and tune in to Serenade Radio at 9pm for a repeat of last Sunday’s Steyn’s Song of the Week.
    https://www.serenade-radio.com/thursday/
    We’ll Gather Lilacs by Ivor Novello. Lovely.

    As Mark says at the end “certain things are eternal, like love and Englishness.”

    This is the kind of thing Mark would prefer to be doing rather than having to sue Ofcom.

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  38. Guest Who says:

    By rare coincidence, the bbc has on… YAB.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      2017 … “The future looks bright then, until you notice those who use new technology without due care.Some crazed demons on Twitter believe anything goes. Written words matter and hold meanings beyond that narcissistic urge to send off instant thoughts. The Tory councillor who sent out a vile and scary message about me says it was a joke. After some thought I decided I will not press charges. My objections have been made and there is no need for more. Yet having read many blogs and tweets that followed the incident, I do wonder whether our manners and morals will survive and if English itself, the best thing about us, is now seriously endangered.”
      Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Our most precious possession :: Post-colonials and their children in Britain have reclaimed English and made it their own {independent – Yasmin Alibhai-Brown – nov2010}

      … forward 7 years to 2017 …

      Yasmin alibhai-brown‏@y_alibhai
      Replying to @aidanjmcg @sunny_hundal
      “I speak four languages. I am an immigrant. Both make me smarter than little Englanders. Shame you can’t see that. Open your eyes.”
      3:56 AM – 4 Sep 2017

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/09/06/mid-week-open-thread-123/#comment-864821

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  39. Guest Who says:

    Hope she was ok with the pronunciation.

    Unclear what these efforts achieve, but the bbc seems to like them.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Maybe she do the same for coloured kids killed by other coloured kids ?
      Or maybe Muslim gangs convicted for raping white children …

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    • StewGreen says:

      @GW did you mean to post the same tweet twice ?

      BTW “Of the 696 recorded homicides in England and Wales in 2021/22, 498 of the victims were male
      and 198 of the victims were female.
      ie males 2.5 times more likely to be a victim of homicide than a woman is.

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      • Guest Who says:

        No, I did not. It is what we in the trade call oob oob, and I did not notice until it was too late to delete. Didn’t seem too serious.

        As you and Fed have have picked up upon, it was a daft piece of selective sound bite emotive theatre, bereft of serious context or actual analysis designed to get bbc juveniles copying and pasting.

        Certainly the chamber looks as gripped as it was rammed.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      1400+ raped kid names?

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  40. tomo says:

    All we know is what we see on the tapes

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  41. Guest Who says:

    Might be a spoof.

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  42. Guest Who says:

    Should have been Lineker.

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  43. Guest Who says:

    Looks like a Momentum rally.

    At W1A. Odd given the diversity thing.

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  44. Zephir says:

    Whilst I do not use twitter etc I am not aware of any videos posted showing the Ukranian war as I am sure I would have heard sooner or later.
    But I use Wechat, the Chinese site which hosts videos, and there are loads showing Ukranians getting trashed.

    Funny that….

    Also I am told there are only a few hundred tigers left, I have to disagree with the number in private houses and zoos in China, must be thousands

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  45. G.W.F. says:

    Gary Lineker acknowledged woman’s day yesterday adding when he was a woman things were tough.

    https://twitter.com/elbow112/status/1633772086224117762/photo/1

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  46. digg says:

    The sound of BBC manager fingers drumming on tables must be deafening in Broadcasting House as they try to spin out the response to the Lineker blabbering thingy as long as possible to try to take some of the heat out of it and hope people lose interest.

    A leopard never changes its spots!

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Digg
      I caught the 6pm news . The linaker story was ahead of the latest problem with a Ukrainian nuclear reactor . If it blows up I don’t think we ll be worrying about linaker so much …

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    • Thoughtful says:

      The BBC know that they don’t need to do anything at all save make a few of the right noises, as the Tories are so absolutely gutless they will never take action against the BBC.

      Personally I believe the BBC should not be pressed to sack Lineker (or more correctly end his contract) however the royal charter should be ended and the BBC put on a subscription basis for the people to decide.

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  47. Thoughtful says:

    FqnNFHjWIAA310v?format=jpg&name=small

    Це #НаЧасі.
    Я неодноразово зустрічалася з ЛГБТ військовими. Я чула про їх проблеми й прохання виправити велику несправедливість – відсутність прав, які є в різностатевих пар.

    Inna Sovsun
    @InnaSovsun
    ·
    7 March
    🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦Today I submitted a draft law on same-sex and heterosexual partnerships for registration.

    It’s #OnTime.
    I have met with LGBT military personnel more than once. I heard about their problems and requests to correct a great injustice – the lack of rights that heterosexual couples have.

    I don’t know if this is because she genuinely believes in this, or because pressure is being applied by Left wing Western governments, but if this is what Ukraines political elite is genuinely concerned about they’ve lost the war already.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Steve Brine has been referred to the parliamentary naughty step for receiving a £1600 a month bung ( retainer ) by a health company to get government money during lockdowns .

      The thing that struck me was that he only cost £1600 a month ….looks like the blue labour lot are so corrupt that they are cheap to buy …

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      • Thoughtful says:

        And the Socialist PM of Albania stand accused of bribing MEPs now

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      • StewGreen says:

        I don’t read the BBC story as saying Brine was caught re-handed.
        It doesn’t say ‘I used my NHS contacts and got this contract straight away”
        It reads as ‘The NHS asked for help and I know this corp can help
        bu no one will even take my call’

        In his message to Mr Gove, Mr Brine wrote: “Sorry to raise this but having tried the Dept of Health (seemed logical) and the Chief Exec of [NHS England] (ditto) I am at a loss.”

        “I have been trying for months to help the NHS through a company I am connected with – called ‘Remedium’,” he added.

        “They have 50 anaesthetists right now who can be in the country and on the ground in the NHS if someone only said let’s us help. They just want to assist and asked me how they might.

        In the message, Mr Brine said that he had “had nothing,” adding this was “despite the PM telling the [Commons] Liaison Committee this is his biggest problem”.

        “How might I progress this or does the NHS just not need the help?” he added.

        (seems in the end Hancock had got the help from elsewhere and there was no business)
        “Ultimately, it led nowhere let alone secure any business for Remedium,” Brine added.

        Well what would have done if the company had got a contract .. it would have profited
        but I don’t consider it proper paid lobbying

        I hate whataboutery but a lot of Labour MPs essentially work for unions.

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  48. Flotsam says:

    Lineker.
    I’m a free speech man, let the World see what an idiot he is.

    He’s a good match for the BBC, shallow, poor grasp of historical fact, arrogant, basically ignorant and biased. He complains that the response is out of proportion to his out of proportion anti Tory hyperbole.

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  49. Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

    More from The Archers (“come on, maan, you know you’s gotta know ’bout it!”)

    Well, THAT PICTURE has been removed from the walls of Lower Loxley and put in an attic! Freddie P noted that it had a ship and some navigating equipment shown in it (the horror!) as well as somebody who was NOT an ancestor of the Pargetters, who own the country house. That ship MIGHT have been a slave ship but there’s no clear evidence that it was.

    Of course, there’s no satisfying some people. After the nice but gutless Freddie removed the dreaded portrait, mortified by the possible associations with slavery, trouble-making mixed-race student Noluthando put forward the idea that perhaps it would be better to leave it hanging after all … but with some “explanation” (= self-flagellation by White people, in which Blacks and Muslims are not required to engage, of course).

    There was a telling comment from Nolly at one point to the effect that, “well, you know, with English country houses, …”; in other words, we can PRESUME guilt on the part of Whites without any further investigation. Poor Freddie was trying to do the right thing, bless him, but the real targets are the White racists of the shires, who tune into The Archers for a bit of escape and instead get lectured by the Marxists of the BBC.

    More seriously, for those who follow the series, Lower Loxley might need to fork out some compensation to the fictional equivalents of Marlene Headley / Ngozi Fulani / whatever. This could be bad news for Lizzie (nee Archer, Freddie’s mother) and the finances of her country pile, which can’t be that healthy these days, what with high energy costs and inflation, etc.

    As in real life (reparations promised by the Trevelyan family of the BBC’s Laura Trevelyan) so in fiction (the Pargetters of Lower Loxley)?

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