On Saturday night the BBC will not be paying a sports presenter for a Football show after the Director General has had a chat about his public pronouncements -there maybe cheaper presenters and pundits .To add to this David Attenborough nature show has been withdrawn because of apparent propaganda / bias .
So it’s been a good week for those of us wanting to end the BBC .
If you still pay your TV Licence just stop .
Well, this is #plotwist city. I am still working though it all…
https://fb.watch/jdhdLUHRTl/
State media, ingenues, trolling….
BBC presenters fight for their right to (political) party
One always has to say it – here comes the football news, so if you don’t want to know, then do please look away now.
There are those pundits, they tend to support the northern clubs, or Arsenal, who will inform you how Tottenham are a one-man team. That’ll be Harry Kane.
Seems that BBC Sport has become similarly dependent on the performance of one individual star player.
As the management of the BBC eats a slice of half-time pie… of the distinctly humble variety: BBC begs Gary to come back… Boss wants MOTD return for ‘superb’ Lineker (Sunday People) – we’re informed meanwhile: MOTD host’s message to Beeb… Lineker: I’ll never be silenced… Ultimatum as BBC begs him to return to show… He’ll eat cottage pie instead of watch Match of the Day (Sunday Mirror)
Seems our Gary has scored a winner against the BBC’s very poor defence of its political impartiality – frankly it was an open goal and he always was a bit of a goal hanger: I won’t quit, says BBC boss as he hints at climbdown… Corporation’s football coverage in meltdown as sports presenters and pundits walk out in support of Lineker (Telegraph)
What next, we wonder? Jeremy Corbyn clutching his prize marrow whilst slagging off the Tories live from his allotment presenting Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time?
Nicola Sturgeon’s new gig to be taking over from Jools Holland at the piano for a BBC2 SNP special Hogmanay Hootenanny?
It was the Beastie Boys who once insisted: (You gotta) fight for your right (to party) – and now we see: An astonishing staff mutiny rips up TV and radio schedules on a day of unprecedented drama at the BBC… (The Mail on Sunday)
Why should we be surprised? The entertainment sector is awash with lefty issue-spouting champagne socialists. Why should a job at the BBC on the Licence Payer’s dollar be allowed to cramp their style?
There’s a lingering residual veneer of non-bias – but for goodness sake – we few hereabouts of all people surely know that to be prize tosh of the first water.
You’ll perhaps have noticed how above Mr AsI referenced the full title of those white boy would-be rappers The Beastie Boys track, parentheses and all. No quick abbreviation to ‘fight for your right’ for me. I learnt this trick from listening (because my parents had the tranny* on) to BBC Radio 1 of a Sunday afternoon in days of yore.
Mr AsI was first irritated by and took an instant dislike to the voice and manner of Jimmy Savile and his ‘Old Record’ Club radio show. The nonce would play a form of quiz with listeners. He liked to spin an old record and then presume to award his audience a point or two if they could guess the title. But with the label of the disc in front of him he would say with a chuckle and that annoying half-yodel of his: “Ah but as it ‘appens, guys and gals, Bill Haley and the Comets’ song Rock Around The Clock has a full title of Rock Around the Clock (Alternate Take) and that’s in brackets. You didn’t know that. So that’s the two points prize, times five million of you, added to my score. So I’m winning by ten million points to nil” Annoying or what?
[*tranny = archaic, transister radio – there’s one for the teenagers]
Our Gary, not being the brightest of bears – as Winnie-the-Poo was won’t to admit of himself – reflexively reverts to Godwin’s Law – short for Godwin’s law (or rule) of Nazi analogies which asserts that (regardless of topic or scope), the probability in an argument resulting in a comparison to Nazis or Adolf Hitler is inevitable.
Our Gary wouldn’t be the first BBC star over-indulged, over-paid, too big to reprimand or question.
And so, for the sake of balance, it is with discussion of BBC presenters and staffers that one proposes… Jimmy’s Law. The invitablilty that such arguments must always come back to Savile. And with that in mind the BBC, for its own sake, ought now to can Lineker.
BBC co-cheek Graun really don’t help as millionaires argue relative virtues.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid036VF2mhgkXhBoqn9sbUAGETyC6DjKfqpj1BXMYrqJi6vvQvYz6Z2YVtKMkocF8AQtl&id=197813956972109
According to the Guardian. The BBC has withdrawn broadcast of the last episode of David Attenborough’s new series, the “Wild Isles”. This is due to the threat of a “right wing backlash”.
Apparently, in this episode, Attenborough expounds his Malthusian views regarding his belief that there are too many people ruining his planet. These beliefs are generally regarded to be right wing and fascistic……
I don’t care what the crisp salesman does so long as it damages the BBC, exposes their bias and the obscene salaries paid to football commentators. Keep it up, Gary, you moron.
A little bit of historical info for all the Ukranian flag wavers:
http://freenations.net/%ef%bb%bffour-images-show-nato-aggression-and-russian-self-defence/
Not the BBC news:
https://21stcenturywire.com/2023/03/11/ukc-news-lab-leak-hysteria-grows-dod-vaccine-bioweapon-kiev-regime-scared-of-peace-talks/
lib mob used to shout “dog whistle !” all the time
.. but not with Lineker
evoking 1930s Germany is a dog whistle to mean Nazi.
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/03/11/the-absurd-celebrity-meltdown-over-gary-lineker/
There is something brilliantly stupid about this argument. “Look at all this rubbish I’m tweeting about Nazis! I ask you, Your Honour, would a normal BBC employee do that? I must be free(lance)!”
And every market rate pol and gob and media bubblehead will buy it.
“……..who runs the BBC? One highly paid ‘star’ or management? ”
and Pug, this is the crux of the entire argument.
I bet there are many in the BBC building that are muttering under their breath “f…….g Lineker” – especially in the boardroom.
I still say, regardless of the impartiality breech, that, in my opinion, equating a government minister,
(doing their job of securing our borders against many who have been PROVED to be gangsters and criminals who are NOT in any way, shape or form, asylum seekers),
equating them for simply doing their job with a Nazi is hate speech which is another issue that has NOT been addressed
From the replies
“The Winterhilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes (English: Winter Relief of the German People),
commonly known by its abbreviated form Winterhilfswerk (WHW),
was an annual donation drive by the National Socialist People’s Welfare (German: Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt) to help finance charitable work.”
Nazi analogies
Was Sir Lenworth Henry the front man for that too?
Red nose day:
Extorting money out of UK pensioners through guilt and chucking it to the most corrupt African countries topping the international corruption indices
More Bentleys and overseas slush funds for the thieving government cronies and their families
It’s not the African countries per se that are corrupt but mostly their
leaders and coterie aided and abetted by Western governments and NGOs.
The BBC are doing a huge disservice to their tax-paying public, by gobbing on again and again about their failure to kick Lineker out and how some of his mates don’t want to work either!
They’re making their own cock-ups and management failures their main story which is just not acceptable, especially as these football individuals take home eye-watering money and think they’re important. They’re also forgetting that the many citizens haven’t the slightest interest in football, but have to put up with all this yapping!
Had any of the senior management in W1AA had any balls, they’d have nipped all this in the bud, told Lineker to bugger off, and made some more interesting people do his simple little job!
They’ve got rid of real favourites like Steve Wright and Ken Bruce, but are scared s***less of upsetting one of their most annoying autocue-readers, and all this time the TV tax is being paid for them to report proper news, not describe with wringing hands where they’re woefully inadquate in the management department!
Even lefty local authorities get rid of tiresome individuals eventually!
BBC put up a new story
“Gary Lineker tweet a technical breach, ex-BBC head says! l Mark Thompson
Then they seek to spin it down
But the ex-director genera told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that Lineker’s status as a sports presenter meant the row was a “grey area”.
FFS if Lineker was speeding, that’s a breach.. there’s no grey area.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64930957
They add
Match of the Day was reduced to 20 minutes without presenters, pundits, or commentary.
Viewing figures were up by almost half a million to 2.58m.
BBC2’s planned coverage of the Women’s Super League clash between Chelsea and Manchester United will go ahead without pre-match presentation.
Match of the Day 2 will follow the main programme’s much-reduced format.
Stew
I watched the 20 minute version Sunday morning – and afterward they announced the third rate girl footy was going on ‘live ‘ Sunday afternoon .
Now I know girl footy isn’t really ‘footy ‘ but how can the BBC ditch everything ftrom yesterday – but carry on today ?
I’m not really asking as I only care that the BBC gets deeper into the mess – the ‘culture secretary ‘ this week ( girl job ) and BBCOFCOM also land in the mire .
The likes of censored and sacked Mark Steyn must find it hilarious .
Those whose relatives suffered at the hands of the real nazis – less so .
Such a childish comment with such consequences …
BBC 2 MOTD Live Women’s Super League on now.
This from the BBC website:
‘The Women’s Super League match between Chelsea and Manchester United is now on air on BBC Two, with world feed commentator Nigel Adderley.
The world feed is not run by the BBC, it is full match commentary provided by the Premier League, and designed for a global audience.’
The Women’s Super League has a ‘global audience?’
Who knew?
I thought it was watched by one Non-binary gender neutral and they/their vegan Cockapoo!
Pug
In the days long ago when I paid for Sky – for all his faults – comrade Gary Neville did add value ..to footy . … but Miika?
Wrighty? That geordie bloke ? No … they’d not be missed ….
The 20 minute footy show could have a bit added to it but it wouldn’t need much – and most punditry is the routine ritual of VAR ….
Long May this nonsense subject go on- chiefly to undermine the reputation of the bbc . I notice the yanks have noticed it ….
All the highlights in 20 minutes.
Record it on the hard drive and you can watch any incidents of your choice in slo-mo as often as you like.
Doesn’t say much about a normal MOTD full of inane scripted talking heads.
Ready and waiting to fill the void:
Thanks 😂Paul Whitehouse footy changing room please ….always make me laugh – can’t believe YouTube left it up …
Radio 5 live is putting on the Fulham v arsenal game without commentary – 90 minutes of silence -bliss
Let’s start a petition for the BBC to appoint Matt Le Tissier to the role, just to show how impartial they are after years of lefty’s tweets.
I believe Lineker hasn’t breached his contract, technically/legally speaking.
Lineker has a contract with the BBC, just as the BBC is contracted to Lineker.
Lineker’s is contracted to the BBC until 2025 but I don’t see that the BBC have any grounds to terminate his contract without legal recourse from Lineker.
The situation is/will be that Lineker will continue to be paid by the BBC for the duration of the contract whether he presents MOTD or not. A lump sum might be offered of course.
I think his contract expires in 2024. I not sure I agree with you, he is seen as a high profile face of the BBC with over 8 million twitter idiots, and accountable to the Director General. I believe he has breached the principled BBC banner of ‘impartiality’.
I am persuaded by the following.
BBC guidance states: “Everyone who works for the BBC should ensure their activity on social media platforms does not compromise the perception of or undermine the impartiality and reputation of the BBC.”
In addition to those working in current affairs and news, the guidance covers “others who are not journalists or involved in factual programming who nevertheless have an additional responsibility to the BBC because of their profile on the BBC”.
It states: “We expect these individuals to avoid taking sides on party political issues or political controversies and to take care when addressing public policy matters.
Unless it says in black and white on his contract that his company and people working for it will abide by BBC guidelines he won’t be in breach of contract. The legal system won’t recognise implied or unwritten terms. I don’t think the BBC will risk contesting a claim from Lineker, the legal costs could be huge and the embarrassment factor massive.
Flotsam, given the cowardly nature of the BBC I’m sure a financial compromise will be reached or they will make Lineker a special case whilst introducing a new contract for everyone else to sign up to. I’d be surprised if they renewed his contract though. They would not be happy taking on one of their own in lefty Lineker.
If a judge views Lineker as an employee of the BBC, Lineker would lose as he has breached the BBC impartiality rule, see Reith. If however, he can prove that he works as a self empolyed contractor and not for the BBC he will win. He will also not have to pay the Inland Revenue 5 million pounds. I think its in Linekers interest to do a deal with the Inland Revenue on the condition that a cosy compromise with the BBC will be reached. This has very little to do with freedom of speech, its a smokescreen.
I noticed that Alistair Campbell is on Lineker’s companies payroll. He is often on ITV promoting the Lineker cause. His association is never revealed pre interview.
The BBC will change the rules to accommodate…………….
Flotsam ..as I mentioned yesterday Lineker has already had an official complaint UPHELD against him previously for bashing the Tories.
So it’s no use arguing the rules don’t apply to him
I know there’s been some previous between BBC and Lineker. I don’t know the exact details, what the terms and conditions of any disciplinary action were but it’s possible he was only asked to keep his political opinions to himself …….or else. “Else” being that he would cease to be host of MOTD, that being possibly the only sanction available. If his contract doesn’t specifically tie Lineker and his company to BBC conventions then there’s nothing the BBC can do except to retire him and pay him for the privilege.
Breaking News
Alistair Bruce Ball commentates on Radio 5 the fulham v Arsenal game . He said a bit about being a ‘ bbc staff member ‘ so maybe he was press ganged into doing his job ……
He ll probably be called a scab by the linaker disciples … great
Why am I defending the BBC against Lineker? I can’t stand either of them.
By the way I’d like to nominate Alistair Bruce Ball for a knighthood.
Arise Sir Scabbeous
Update
The footy is being delivered without the ‘happy helper ‘ the way it used to be – and the set up of the microphones produces an ‘authentic’ atmosphere of a ground like Craven Cottage – complete with ‘ industrial language ‘ for which the commentator repeatedly apologises .
Must be one for BBCOFCOM eh?
Scott Benton, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Blackpool South, tweeted in praise of the coverage, writing: “Had all the goals in. No ‘expert’ analysis. And finished quicker than usual so I could make the pub for last orders. What’s not to like.”
Antiques Roadshow new episode
It names 5 experts, only 2 are white : Mark Hill and Rupert Maas
Ronnie Archer Morgan the main black guy
“Runjeet Singh takes a closer look at a sword that once belonged to a member of the Dervish religious order”
“Raj Bisram sits down with former Kent and West Indies cricketer John Shepherd”
from Belmont House in Kent.
Fiona also meets comedian Michael McIntyre and finds out why he’s about to don a disguise for an elaborate Roadshow prank.
When I switch on Radio4 , it seems vastly disproportionately black
When I wrote that at 3:30pm there was a black play going on Radio4
Now 4:30pm I come back in the Poetry show is about the Jamaican poet laureate
She actually lives in Canada
and they were going on about another Jamaican poet who moved to Canada
2:45pm There was a discussion about the black play
Porgy “set within the poor black community of Charleston, South Carolina”
3pm The black play
4pm The Book show presented by a black presenter, talking with lefty Canadian Margaret Attwood,
Then a discussion about Sam Selvon, Trinidad and Tobago writer
with Anthony Joseph British/Trinidadian poet
and Susheila Nasta a British born of Asian parent who was partially brough up in India
“She was appointed an MBE in the New Year Honours for her services to Black and Asian Literature”
next 5pm File on 4 Missing Migrant Children
Yesterday whilst travelling I heard Loose ends at 6:15pm
The speaker was a lesbian woman was talking about her Palestinian wife.
The show ended with a trailer for the daily book next week
” James Meredith’s battle to smash the system of white supremacy
By becoming the first black person to apply to the all-white university of Mississippi
Across 10 episodes and with US public radio journalist Jenn White as our guide
Later there was a trailer for another black programme
The Sunday black drama
Saturday line up was similar to Sunday
2:45pm There was a discussion about the black play
Porgy “set within the poor black community of Charleston, South Carolina”
3pm The black play
17:30 Political Thinking with Nick Robinson
“The home secretary on how her parents came to Britain & her plans for policing UK borders.”
6:15pm Clive Anderson and Athena Kugblenu are joined by Gordon Buchanan BBC wildlife cameraman
Soweto Kinch (London black musician, tweeted endorsing Lineker)
, Juliet Cowan (actress who is all over the BBC schedule from kids to night time)
and Shamim Sarif (born in London to Indian Muslim parents, a lesbian married to a Palestinian)
ENNY, British-Nigerian female rapper
The African thing is fairly new ..my original complaint still exists, that almost everyone is London
BBC talking about BBC is quite a dominant thing
They also had
8pm Shirin Wheeler reflects on the legacy of her father, BBC journalist Charles Wheeler.
Then other shows have the same lefty mates as guests
19:15 The Infinite Monkey Cage
with Brian Cox and Robin Ince , Cox was then on BBC2 at 8pm
Susan Calman, Prof Sue Black and Dr Julia Shaw
Calman the fat lesbian was making jokes
“if I was sexually assaulted .. the sound mans DNA is all over my body”
Brian Clough telling it as it is.
https://order-order.com/2023/03/12/23-audience-surge-for-lineker-free-match-of-the-day/?
Wrong kind of wingers?
Yeah
Newcastle v Wolves
Pat Nevin making a political speech saying everyone on the BBC should be able to express their political view …. The BBC commentator agreed ….
……………………. Let’s keep the war going please ….
Not BBC but CH4 yesterday afternoon watching Crufts.I was surprised (or maybe I wasn’t) that all of the people showing dogs and from what I could see of the audience they were all white.I always thought that owning pets was very popular in the ethnic community atleast that’s the impression I’ve got from watching adverts on TV which was confirmed during the ad breaks yesterday.
As I’ve mentioned before the TV companies can’t control who attends these type of events but they can control who presents it.Main presenter was Clare Balding..lesbian,there was some woman in a wheelchair,another woman and some young black guy with big afro hair.One of the experts they went to on what to feed your dog was an Indian another expert on dog behavior was atleast a white male but the needle on the gaydar meter was definitely twitching every time he spoke flashing his brilliant white teeth!
Edit just googled the vet found his instagram bio says he/him and is engaged to another man! In the style of Mrs Merton ‘So CH4 what first attracted you to this vet over all of the others?’
Nodding Dog ,
I’m expecting the winning dog to have the correct type of owner possibly…..Trans / Lgbgtqxyz / Bame / Wheel Chair / One leg Black Lesbian……yes I know it’s a big ask but it is Channel 4 after all !
Thanks to the Crisp Salesman hopefully the BBBC will continue it’s downward spiral….so pleased I don’t pay for any of them .
My bitch did not earn a place in the Postgraduate Bitch class. Probably because she is black
GWF
If I’d drunk more red wine today I’d have awarded you and your bitch a yellow card 😜
Charlie
Unfortunately a bulldog didn’t make it to the final. However, there is an Irish Wolfhound owned by Chris Amoo, better known as the lead singer of U.K. soul group The Real Thing who had some chart success back in the 1970’s so it has a one in seven chance of winning the top dog title. He was born in the UK. of Ghanaian heritage and has already had a best in show win in 1987 with an Afghan Hound so history could repeat itself.
I’m rooting for the Wire Fox Terrier as best in show as we were owned by one about 15 years ago.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/who-won-day-3-crufts-26451466?int_source=nba
Crufts winner “Orca” the Lagotto Romagnolo poses with handler Javier Gonzalez Mendikote
owned by Sabina Zdunić Šinković and Ante Lučin from Croatia.
Who won the trans dog/ bitch category ?
2 wheelchair Presenters : Sophie Morgan paralyzed from the ribs down when she was driving like crazy
She was then picked to be in a BBC disability reality show.
She’s Channel 4’s Paralympics presenter
Chloe Fuller, 24, wheelchair girl ..who was interviwed by Clare Balding 5 years ago who told her to get into presenting.
– Radzi Chinyanganya @iamradzi the afro man ..
Ashleigh Butler who won the talent show with her dog Pudsey
Dog behaviourist Chirag Patel
Vet Dr Paul Manktelow was one expert (He tweeted about his dog going to a gay bar)
Viewers keep mixing up Channel4 and BBC
Sopes back on this?
They are not paying him enough.
Perhaps he can be ‘persuaded’ to remain there (see what I did there?)
He’s done that one before
So I wonder if he’s trolling
I don’t trust him enough to be sure that video from today
https://tapnewswire.com/2023/03/some-facts-you-might-not-know-about-council-tax/
zut alors!
Oppose waycism. Ocuppy the streets in support of Gary.
”Whose streets? Gary’s streets’ is the chant
https://scontent.flhr10-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/331560417_216844644205569_5887049066640537769_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=a26aad&_nc_ohc=CqGjgU41tDsAX9FvcIh&_nc_ht=scontent.flhr10-2.fna&oh=00_AfAXfB5luiNe-8O4FMj7foNWzq4KRsq279Tzn_ndVARUew&oe=6412F442
Assuming that is for real, kudos to the art director.
The support Gary Lineker demo – link above – is backed by the TUC and Unite against fascism, whose founder member is David Cameron . .
A few home truths for our American “friends and allies” and the collective West:
https://sonar21.com/rending-americas-fabric-of-lies-is-it-possible/
Was this stabbing also reported on the BBC ?
https://news.sky.com/story/dramatic-cctv-captures-moment-iraqi-man-stabs-uk-student-in-bid-to-be-deported-12829729?dicbo=v2-nsfsuk7
This has to be a spoof, but its a good spoof
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FrA41JMXoAcJeWO?format=jpg&name=900×900
Breaking news, Gary Looneyker is really pi55ed off. Chas hasn’t invited him to his coronation.
A veteran British Airways pilot collapsed and died of a heart attack shortly before he was due to captain a packed passenger jet.
“It has rocked BA. It doesn’t bear imagining if he had suffered a heart attack at 30,000ft.”
BUT (points waggy finger a la Steyn) don’t you go thinking this is to do with the jabba-jabba no, no, no …
I am from Ofcom and insist you take down this post at once!
This is also banned by Ofcom:
The mRNA vaccine is an experimental emergency authorised vaccine with no long term safety data. Short term safety data is secret with the exception of the Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had attempted to delay the release of the vaccine’s safety data for an astonishing 75 years. The move was widely condemned by critics, who argued that it was a blatant attempt to cover up the risks associated with the vaccine. But in early January 2022, Federal Judge Mark Pittman ordered the FDA to release the safety data, and they were forced to release around 12,000 documents immediately and then 55,000 pages per month until all documents were released. In total there should be more than 300,000 pages with important information. The author and activist Naomi Wolf, then launched an initiative to evaluate the documents. Steve Bannon joined the initiative. They publicly called for volunteers to help them deal with the sheer volume of information. In the end, more than 3,500 doctors and scientists from various sub-disciplines came together to evaluate the documents.
The results are shocking. They document a scenario that must be described as a crime against humanity. Accordingly, Pfizer knew quite early on that the mRNA vaccines did not work as intended. The ingredients of the mRNA injections, including the lipid nanoparticles (LNP), are distributed throughout the body within a few days and accumulate in the liver, adrenal glands, spleen and ovaries.
The number of adverse reactions was so great that Pfizer had to hire more than a thousand new employees to process the adverse reaction reports. bleeding in the brain, as well as blood, lung and leg clots. Side effects with headaches, joint and muscle pain are said to have been even more widespread. Over 80 percent of pregnancies are said to have ended in spontaneous abortion, termination or miscarriage. As for effectiveness. There was little protection against infections. Instead, it is to be feared that numerous long-term side effects will burden many people.
The Pfizer Reports are available in Kindle book format: https://www.amazon.com/DailyClout-Documents-Analysis-Volunteers-Reports-ebook/dp/B0BSK6LV5D
The Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency has posted all of the documents on its website: https://phmpt.org/
Media Inquiries should be sent to press@phmpt.org
In the DT there is a somewhat mischievous piece suggesting that white historical figures need to be ‘removed’ presumably because they are not inclusive .
So we can expect bye Bevin et al to be air brushed out of Welsh / British history …. Other white welshmen will have to go too of course .
Actually – as I write this – I realise the story must be – surely be ? Crap …
Mandela – terrorist.
Ghandi – racist.
………………
Manchester students deface poem by ‘racist’ Kipling
Published
19 July 2018
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-44884913
Students have defaced a mural featuring Rudyard Kipling’s If in a stand against his “racist” work.
…………………………..
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if—
………………
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46446/still-i-rise
Telegraph – Statues of “old white men” such as the Duke of Wellington and Admiral Lord Nelson could be hidden or destroyed to create the “right historical narrative”, according to Welsh government guidance.
Mail has copied the story now
I vowed to not express an opinion on the tv soccer debate, which is more important than Ukraine, according to the bbc. I’m driven to comment by the revelation that audience numbers increased with the absence of the commentators and pundits. A long time ago, around 2000 I’d guess, the radio 4 news program at 5pm was called “PM” (Probably still is), and they changed the theme music. The old one went “Dumpy dumpy dumpy dumpy crash dumpy dump, diddly dump crash crash”; the new one, which caused lots of complaints went “DUMPY DUMPYDUMP DIDDLEY DUMP_DE_DUMP CRASH CRASH”.
Well the listeners weren’t going to have that, so a vote was held, and as I recall it was pretty well subscribed.
The result was more or less as follows:-
Original theme – 17%
New theme – 8%
No music at all as it’s supposed to be a news program – 75%
It probably has music again now, but it certainly ran for a number of years without. Hold a similar poll on match of the day (And whether it needs inane drivel) now and you may well get similar results.
There you are bbc, a solution, no charge. You can go back to reporting news now.
GBnews are laughing at Andrew Bridgen for tweeting WITHOUT EVIDENCE a wacky conspiracy theory that the US Dept of Defense created the Covid virus in it’s overseas Gain Of Function research.
Then when you look for evidence there is a congress hearing where a guy says that
Former Centers for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield
see last sentence In the video
.. https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1633538413545787392
News media do report that story
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-cdc-director-slams-gain-function-research-probably-caused-greatest-pandemic-history
Stew, did not Fauci receive a large defence budget allocation for GoF research into viruses, something that is illegal for the US to undertake directly?
Any BAME telly tonight ?
9pm BBC4 Molière’s classic Tartuffe set in the Pakistani-Muslim community of Sparkhill, Birmingham
Written by the Bafta-winning duo behind Citizen Khan and Goodness Gracious Me, Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto, and directed by Iqbal Khan
9pm BBC2 documentary about Bill Cosby’s descent from `America’s Dad” to alleged sexual predator
5pm ITV Celebrity Lingo presented by RuPaul
6:30pm ITV Dancing on Ice put Ashley Banjo and Oti Mabuse on the judging panel