447 Responses to Midweek 15 March 2023

  1. Zephir says:

    Had a chat with my son last week, a first class degree in computer forensics,

    He told me his company has decided they need more wimmin.

    No wimmin are available so, what do they do ?

    They recruit unqualified wimmin and train them,

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  2. JohnC says:

    Khayri Mclean: Boy killed near school by ‘youths lying in wait’
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-64969594

    And another one. A boy of 15 stabbed to death by another boy of 15.

    ‘the 15-year-old had shouted “Oi Khayri” or “Yo Khayri” before jumping in the air, swinging a knife with a 30cm blade and stabbing Khayri.’

    ‘Khayri fell to the floor and was “defenceless on his back” when the 16-year-old went after him, knife in hand, and stabbed him again.’

    That is barbaric murder at it’s most extreme. From schoolboys.

    What disgust me most of all about this is how the BBC just write it as a ‘matter of fact’ report. We have regular murders by boys too young to be identified ‘for legal reasons’ and the BBC do not seem to think that is a problem with society at all. They never go near it.

    ‘the older defendant’s mother had texted him in the aftermath of the incident saying: “Your enemy has been stabbed and it doesn’t look good.”‘.

    So the parents are in on it too.

    All of this shows anyone who wants to see just what the Leftists at the BBC are like. This dead boy is no use to the agenda so they don’t care. They want to ignore it because it shows those who did it for what they are. But we will never know who did it because our law protects them.

    When we say import third world, you get third world, this is what we mean. Someone should drag the arrogant jug-eared activist to the lifeless corpse and make him look at the reality of life outside his multi-million pound housing estate.

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  3. Zephir says:

    Here is another one (forget about public safety) :

    “Fitness tests Firefighters come in all ages, shapes and sizes. While you do have to be physically fit, good technique can really help. ”

    https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/careers/become-a-firefighter/fitness-tests/

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    • JohnC says:

      Firefighter strength tests made easier in bid to recruit more women into rescue service
      https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/firefighter-strength-tests-made-easier-in-bid-to-recruit-more-women-into-rescue/

      I do enjoy watching the ridiculous statements of the feminists about women and men being equal getting ripped apart by headlines like this.

      Men are better at some things. Women are better at others. They are different. Anyone who says otherwise is a dishonest hypocrite. Which by coincidence also features in my definition of a Leftist.

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      There are no ifs or buts. Affirmative action kills:

      When a ‘german’ doctor from nigeria came to the UK he managed to kill two patients with the wrong medication. He has never been brought to justice as germany will not deport him.

      Yet our beloved BMA can go after doctors acting on their conscience, and common sense, because they do not want to give their patients a kill-shot.

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  4. Zephir says:

    Recruitment based on possession of a vagina

    Burning building, hang on shes on family leave / pregnant . on the school run, dont dare fat shame her if she cant handle the ladder

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Zephir

      She also has to spend several weeks raising money for big red nose day and other causes which deliberately enrage her male ‘colleagues’.

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  5. Zephir says:

    A near to perfect CV for a position a whle ago, with achievments and awards etc, (eleven O levels, HND in chemistry, Honours degree in Envrionmetal Managerment, four national awards in civil engineering and working on £300 million projects, yet not selected, I was confused, so took a closer look at the company:

    https://ibb.co/Cmxqp70

    https://ibb.co/qLHFq80

    https://ibb.co/B2gLfTg

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  6. Zephir says:

    I will be willing to bet my life that not a single one of those wimmin have even half of the qualifications or relevant experience that I have.

    Woss an O level ?

    Well, a grade C O level is equivalent to a GCSE grade one

    That tells you all you need to know

    Four As 5 five Bs and the rest were Cs I failed Latin but got a C an the Autumn retake

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    • Zephir says:

      Funny thing I did learn, there is no soft C in lLatin
      Thus the Kaiser in Germany as it should be referring to Caesar

      Doctors look strange if I talk about placebos with a hard C

      Good old Blair, education, education, education

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      • Zephir says:

        late 18th century: from Latin, literally ‘I shall be acceptable or pleasing’, from placere ‘to please’.

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      • FrankZ says:

        Zephir – some years ago I had a client in the ceramics business in Stoke-on-Trent, and he insisted that the word should really be pronounced with a hard “C”, i.e. keramics.

        I still don’t really know one way or the other, and have never heard anyone else pronounce it this way, but I bowed to his superior knowledge.

        I suppose it could have been one of those “Have you bought your Poetic Licence?” jokes….

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  7. JohnC says:

    Bakhmut: Russian casualties mount but tactics evolve
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64955537

    Got to love the complete world of make-believe the BBC live in now.

    First : do we assume that Ukrainians are not taking casualties as they are never even mentioned ?.

    ‘Ukraine has drawn a line in the dirt, and that line is Bakhmut. It is a city that few say matters strategically, but that tens of thousands have died fighting over.’

    The truth of the matter which the BBC totally omit is that they cannot withdraw : they are surrounded on 3 sides with only 2 roads in and out – both of which would be a turkey-shoot for Russian artillery. They are safer to stay in the Town.

    Then they show us a picture of the secret weapon which ‘really works’ to repel the larger attacks:

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    That article completely gives the idea that Uraine are winning. It’s scandalous mis-representation and is borderline fiction.

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  8. JohnC says:

    Evacuated Afghan women’s team included ‘false’ footballers
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-64967941

    Scandal because the ‘football team’ who got evacuated were not all footballers. They lied to get what they could from the suckers like the BBC.

    ‘Afghan footballer Sabriah Nawrouzi says that not all the evacuees to the UK could play the game’. Oh the injustice of it. A very bitter person.

    Though we never did get told why the footballers (or women cabin crew) deserved special attention.

    All I can say to the likes of the BBC and their staff is:

    You. F*cking. Idiots.

    The first rule about people in 3rd world countries like that is that they lie as easily as they tell the truth. Only the most gullible narcissists searching for empathy and sorrow in order to virtue signal and get an award are taken in. Which these days seems to be every single BBC ‘journalist’.

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  9. JohnC says:

    CCTV of Amir Khan being robbed at gunpoint shown in court
    https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-london-64971148

    Good old Londonistan. Where else (apart from Birmingham and Manchester) can you stand on the street and watch a man called Amir Khan got robbed at gunpoint by three men called Ismail Mohamed, Ahmed Ban and Nurul Amin ?.

    Are you paying attention jug-ears ?.

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  10. Guest Who says:

    Just the non Asian ones, presumably?

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    • JohnC says:

      The Left have made the phrase ‘hate-crime’ utterly meaningless now.

      From the CPS:

      ‘Any criminal offence which is perceived by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice, based on a person’s disability or perceived disability; race or perceived race; or religion or perceived religion; or sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation or transgender identity or perceived transgender identity.”

      There is no legal definition of hostility so we use the everyday understanding of the word which includes ill-will, spite, contempt, prejudice, unfriendliness, antagonism, resentment and dislike.’

      So you can be prosecuted for a hate-crime if you demonstrate ‘unfriendliness’. How is that ‘hate’ ?. How utterly absurd.

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  11. Guest Who says:

    Common troops. Like Spanner Bag Meaden or Femi?

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  13. Guest Who says:

    BBC

    Not the BBC, of course.

    Or ITV.

    Desperate.

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    • andyjsnape says:

      Not a fan of V.D.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Does Newsnight actually have an audience beyond activist lefties?

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        • Guest Who says:

          Or Radio 4.

          Mad Al and Paul Mason…. The future of the country is in safe hands.

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          • MarkyMark says:

            Dear Winston Smith,

            I noticed that Jon Sopel is talking about impartial and unbiased reporting but his twitter account has three references to his book whilst using the BBC brand. Could the BBC please explain what is happening?

            1) Is BBC Jon Sopel supposed to tell us about the news or his new book?

            2) BBC Jon Sopel’s twitter feed has the BBC name in it and says “Jon Sopel, BBC North America Editor. My book If Only They Didn’t Speak English is out now.” which references his book and not the fact he is an unbiased and impartial reporter.

            3) BBC Jon Sopel’s twitter’s pinned tweet is from 23May2018 and is about .. himself and his book.

            4) Is BBC Jon Sopel’s book 100% BBC approved thought and unbiased and partial?

            5) Shouldn’t BBC Jon Sopel’s twitter be about the latest news and not himself?

            6) When Jon Sopel sells a book does it go to help pay for the BBC TV Tax – to reduce it? As the BBC are promoting it – thus it is promoted by the BBC TV Tax Payer.

            “Impartiality lies at the heart of public service and is the core of the BBC’s commitment to its audiences. It applies to all our output and services – television, radio, online, and in our international services and commercial magazines. We must be inclusive, considering the broad perspective and ensuring the existence of a range of views is appropriately reflected”
            https://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/guidelines/impartiality

            Good luck answering this one without laughing yourself silly.

            https://ssl.bbc.co.uk/complaints

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            • JohnC says:

              I checked Sopels book and was amazed at what good reviews it got.

              Then I checked the comments and realised it’s because only far-left tw@ts like him actually bought it.

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          • MarkyMark says:

            Now Chilcot says it too: we did not ‘sex up’ intelligence in the WMD dossier
            This article is more than 6 years oldAlastair Campbell
            Alastair Campbell
            As Tony Blair’s director of communications before and during the Iraq war I know there are things he has to apologise for – but deceit is not one of them

            https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/06/chilcot-we-did-not-sex-up-wmd-dossier

            ……………………………

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  14. Guest Who says:

    Charlie.

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  15. AsISeeIt says:

    The football evacuation edition

    The Tories come up with one single tax cut… and hey presto, our government in waiting promise to reverse it: Labour has already vowed to reverse the abolition of the £1m tax-free cap on pension savings announced in the Budget, saying it only helps the richest (BBC)

    As though by some inexorable ratchet, the State grows and grows.

    The avowed opposition press reveal their allegiance and preference – albeit not exactly for Keir Starmer and the Labour party as such – moreso the simple notion of the State as be all and end all: Public services ‘basically ignored’ and face ‘implausibly tight spending’ (Guardian) – on the contrary, the implausibilty here is surely how anyone could characterise the present massive level of State spending as ‘tight’

    Britain’s tax burden climbs to a new record high since the Second World War – cautions the left-leaning ‘i’ newspaper picking up the theme of the Times’s headline: Hunt waves through biggest tax burden since the war – and they don’t mean Ukraine

    I enjoyed that old gag of Ken Dodd’s after he was done for tax evasion: ‘Britain introduced Income Tax at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. It was at a rate of 1% – I thought it still was’

    But come on, lefty papers… no protest in favour of our glorious public sector?

    Right on cue: ... nothing for public sector workers – complains the Daily Mirror

    The vitriol is strong with this one: Grinning Mr Hunt and Rishi Sunak yesterday (Mirror)

    The loyalist Daily Express – with their somewhat divided loyalites, mind you (United with the people of Ukraine) puts on a brave face: We’ll make this work for Britain – and Ukraine?

    Amusingly the Telegraph today tells us President Macron is holding up ammunition shipments to Ukraine on the basis the shells ought to be manufactured inside the EU. That would be a marvellous coincidence of the fight for freedom, democracy and right, brought back into line with European Union corporate economic interests.

    The vaguely right-leaning Daily Mail has doubts about the Tory budget: Is it enough to turn the tide? As they warned another chap with a name often mistaken for a term for lady parts – King Canut

    Speaking of which…

    The frontpages may be chock full of the budget and what this means for you features but there’s always some room for the relentless march of anti-male feminism – under a feature laughable titled Family the ‘i’ promotes: Taking my wife’s surname was a privilege. All men should do it – that sounds a bit… performative: When I tweeted recently that I was proudly taking my wife’s surname to become Mr Tansley, I thought of it as merely a courtesy to my small online following. Social media was the first place I’d “officially” changed my name was a brief explanation for anyone who happened to notice I was no longer Mr Livesley – and another excuse to post a wedding photo – well, well, well, performative indeed, you could have knocked me down with a feather

    And we should perhaps parse this popular phrase from the At a glace budget summary care of the Times: Extra Childcare – for newcomers to the planet this word – contray to the caring and child-loving sound of it – means mothers leaving their child with others while they go out to work – so it is not so much childcare as fostering out the awkward encumbrance the kid represents on a daily basis

    30 hours of free childcare for working parents in England expanded to cover one and two-year-olds (BBC) – the rationale of course being to encourage more women into the workforce – which is regarded as a good thing. Mr AsI wonders who is supposed to be doing all this childcare while mothers rush off to work? Are there really untapped huge idle battalions of otherwise unemployed women ready and willing to take up the slack?

    £600 “incentive payments” for those becoming childminders, and relaxed rules in England to let childminders look after more children (BBC)

    We do like to conclude on a lighter note… and we love to spot a new phrase when it is coined by our media – hard on the heels of the Gary Lineker story and arguments over economic migrants falsely claiming asylum, comes ‘false’ footballers

    Evacuated Afghan women’s team included Evacuated Afghan women’s team included ‘false’ footballers… A high-profile evacuation to the UK of Afghan female footballers fleeing the Taliban included a number of women who were not the top-tier players that it was claimed, a BBC investigation has been told… Thirty-five women and their families – 130 people in total – were flown to the UK from Pakistan in November 2021… They were granted visas by the Home Office… The football evacuation took place in the months following the fall of Kabul and was personally championed by Priti Patel, the home secretary at that time (BBC)

    Some people are on our pitch. They think Britian is all over… it is now.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      That swapping surnames thing has some legs I think . Why not have the happy couple swap their names as a sign of ‘fidelity ‘ or similar woke nonsense .

      Personally I like the ‘spot the coloured footy player ‘who has 2 or 3 last names – making up for the Brazilians with only one …sed Fred …

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  16. MarkyMark says:

    1400 raped kids
    22 lost in Manchester
    Small boats x 1000
    Cost of living crisis
    BBC demanding £159 from nurses so Gary linker can ponticate

    … budget was all about doctors.

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  17. Zephir says:

    The human race and evoluton

    What did we have with Blair. (and Mr gobshite Alistair Campbell) ..war

    Boris war

    Biden war

    Clinton war

    Trump.. erm he touched a wimmins arse once, apparently, allegedly

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    • Guest Who says:

      Friends in low places.

      Going downnnnnn…

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Calling Mr. Campbell.

        How the Iraq war altered US politics and led to the emergence of Trump
        The drive to war was fueled by partisanship and served as an accelerant to the extremism that led to Trump and the Capitol riot

        Long shadow of US invasion of Iraq still looms over international order
        Julian Borger in Washington
        Thu 16 Mar 2023 08.45 GMT

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      • Guest Who says:

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        • Guest Who says:

          Clearly, Jeremy Vine and Directors, His Accountant, and BBC Dedicated HR person of Tandem.

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Burn them all and let Allah decide?

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        • Nibor says:

          I like the Racist Armed Police Officer thing .

          As this is about survival , I need to know the racist police officers race . Is he black , white , Hispanic , Latino etc ? And what races does he fear/hate ?
          Again this is about survival , so if he`s the same race as me it might be better to take him , unpleasant as his racist thoughts are , as he wouldn`t be a threat .

          But do I get the feeling that the term Racist here implies – white ?

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Britain’s Hidden Alcoholics
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01cmqdc

        Alastair Campbell meets some of the increasing number of Britain’s middle-class professionals for whom one glass of wine after work is never enough, and asks if we all need to reassess our relationship with drink.

        Alastair, Tony Blair’s former closest adviser, knows from bitter experience the true cost of excessive boozing: his alcoholism contributed to his nervous breakdown.

        With nearly 9,000 people dying from alcohol-related diseases every year and leading medical experts describing it as a health crisis, Campbell ventures into the world of Britain’s hidden alcoholics and asks how much is too much.

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        • Zephir says:

          Erm, maybe when you declare war it might be a sign to put down the glass.

          God, I’d not like to be his neighbour if the cat shits in his garden and fails to bury it deep enough.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Grab them by the pussy!
      …………………..

      Jo Cox’s husband Brendan confesses to inappropriate behaviour amid new allegation that he drunkenly ‘grabbed a woman by the throat’ as he is forced to quit the murdered MP’s charities
      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5404241/Jo-Coxs-husband-admits-sex-pest-resigns.html

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      • Guest Who says:

        Just an allegation, if allowed, editorially.

        Now, the Burley move… hard to argue.

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    • JohnC says:

      The Left all said Trump would start WW3 if he was elected.

      Now look what has happened. And those shameless liars have all gone quiet.

      I despise the ethics of the Left. They think the ‘ends’ justify whatever means and lies they decide are necessary. As do terrorists.

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  18. Zephir says:

    Raped schoolgirls, please take note:

    “Paul Dacre admits Daily Mail ran ‘Murderers’ Stephen Lawrence splash because father Neville did his plastering

    The Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre has admitted that he ran the newspaper’s famous front page, calling five suspects in the racist killing of Stephen Lawrence “murderers”, because the teenager’s father had performed excellent work plastering his house.”

    https://inews.co.uk/news/media/paul-dacre-admits-daily-mail-ran-murderers-stephen-lawrence-splash-because-neville-lawrence-did-his-his-plastering-142595

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  19. Guest Who says:

    Can you see what it is yet?

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  20. Zephir says:

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  21. Thoughtful says:

    Here’s something you are unlikely to see in the UK media concerning the corruption of the mafia Democrats in the USA.

    It would appear the governor of California and Democrat front runner for the Presidency after Joe Biden failed to disclose that he was an investor in several companies including tech and vinyards in California which were affected by the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank as he lobbied Joe Biden to come up with a bail out for the bank.

    Most people believe the government should not be bailing out banks or other companies using taxpayer money as it incentivises recklessness and risk taking, they keep the profits when it works and pass it on to the taxpayer when it doesn’t.

    This is corruption of course, Newsome now doesn’t lose out on his private investments and the taxpayers get to fund the losses he would otherwise have had to sustain himself.

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  22. Guest Who says:

    How the media assess market rate talent.

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  23. Guest Who says:

    Toenails on mute looking more and more like Mad Al.

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  24. theisland says:

    I’ve just noticed traitor Treezer is writing a book.
    https://www.headline.co.uk/uncategorized/2023/03/13/headline-publishing-group-acquires-the-abuse-of-power-by-rt-hon-theresa-may-mp/
    Perhaps Marky can find out her ‘advance’.

    According to the Guardian
    The book’s synopsis mentions little about May’s time in No 10 and nothing about the battles of the Brexit years. It says May will discuss how “the powerful repeatedly chose to use their power not in the interests of the powerless but to serve themselves or to protect the organisation to which they belonged”.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/13/theresa-may-to-release-book-on-famous-political-scandals-abuse-of-power

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Only mention of book is 2002.

      5 September 2000, my husband and I were entertained to dinner at the Waterside Inn at Bray by Lyondell PLC, and I was given a gift of a Roux Brothers cookery book. (Registered 12 October 2000
      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=10426

      ….

      There are these … 22 April 2020, received approx. £160,370 as advance payment from JP Morgan Chase, 60 Victoria Embankment, London EC4Y 0JP, for two speaking engagements which were cancelled.

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    • MarkyMark says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Theresa May said: ‘When I stood on the steps of No 10 as Prime Minister for the first time I set out my determination to fight burning injustices and govern not for the powerful but for the people. Time and time again, during my period in government, I saw public institutions abusing their power by seeking to defend themselves in the face of challenge rather than seek the truth. These were the very bodies whose job was to protect the public, but they sought to protect themselves. From Hillsborough to Primodos to child sexual exploitation this increased the suffering of victims and delayed justice. Our democracy depends on people having trust in their public institutions and politicians. I am delighted to be working with Headline as the accounts I give in this book show how that trust has been eroded over time and why we need to act.’

      https://www.headline.co.uk/uncategorized/2023/03/13/headline-publishing-group-acquires-the-abuse-of-power-by-rt-hon-theresa-may-mp/

      ……………………

      From a Theresa May speech …

      As Martin Wolf, the chief economics commentator of the financial times, says: ‘The desirability of sizeable immigration is a matter more of values than of economics. It is not a choice between wealth and poverty, but of the sort of country one desires to inhabit.’

      https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/home-secretary-speech-on-an-immigration-system-that-works-in-the-national-interest

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      • G says:

        You can only reconcile the musings of Treason May by association to the mindset of the Marxist/Lefties: “….govern not for the powerful but for the people.” That was the “people” in Davos and the UN if I’m not mistaken. And as for those “people?

        Before their next cult ‘get-together’ in Davos, crowdfund the acquisition of one or two Hyper-sonic, tactical nuclear tipped missiles……………….

        I’m sure the purchase can be made on either the Russian/Chinese Black Market.

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  25. Zephir says:

    MarkyMark

    Please.. don’t buy the book

    Six months of 1984, your local hospice shop should be able to recommend something else

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    • MarkyMark says:

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      “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed (May and Corbyn’s old speeches): everything else is public relations.” – Orwell

      Theresa May … being put forward as Prime Minister and issuing a general election on implementing Brexit which was about immigration and sovereignty. … these speeches were never mentioned on the BBC £3.5bn news or other media outlets …

      1978 … “Every country can take some small minorities and in many ways they add to the richness and variety of this country. The moment the minority threatens to become a big one, people get frightened.” – Margaret Thatcher 1978

      2012 … “Two and a half years ago, the coalition government was formed, and we made a clear promise to the British public. After thirteen years of uncontrolled mass immigration, this government would reduce and control immigration.” – Theresa May 2012

      2015 … “Because when immigration is too high (no figure given), when the pace of change is too fast, it’s impossible to build a cohesive society.” – Theresa May 2015

      Jeremy Corbyn … with all the news on BBC £3.5bn Service regarding the Iran Nuclear Deal, Jeremy Corbyn has not been asked why he backs Al Quds protests and has spoken at them or why his is not vocal on Iran’s ‘death to’ position with Israel.

      2012 … Jeremy Corbyn speaks at Al Quds march, Al Quds is the protest for all the oppressed but was initiated by an oppressor Ayatollah Khomeini. Jeremy Corbyn does not chastise the Iranian regime.

      2018 … Iran release a ‘Death to Israel’ and ‘Death to America’ Government approved emoji. But this is not mentioned when talking about Iran by the BBC or other outlets.

      MPs expenses …. it was in 2008 that MPs used expenses to fill their own pockets or shredded. UK MPs on both sides have talked about reducing expenses and recession and austerity.
      Yet, since 2010 MPs have enjoyed a pay increased of 18%.
      How come the BBC news has not reported on this when talking to MPs?

      “The omission is the most powerful form of lie,
      and it is the duty of the historian to ensure that those lies
      do not creep into the history books.” – George Orwell

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/05/20/start-the-week-open-thread-21-may-2018/#comment-917448

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      • Guest Who says:

        Re: “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed (May and Corbyn’s old speeches): everything else is public relations.” – Orwell

        I’d be hard pressed to think of anything now that is actual journalism.

        As to what someone does not want printing, BBC Panorama taking the press release from a dodgy fee law mob about what a person told a person and calling it an ‘investigation’.

        Journalism is discovering the truth, verifying it, proving it and sharing it warts and all.

        Choosing what suits the narrative is not journalism just as running Sopes’ ‘book’ in an official platform header is anything other than bent.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      I burn books now – it’s the only way to ensure future generations don’t repeat the past – oh wait …..

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      • JohnC says:

        I like to read classic masterpieces of their day then re-write any bits which I think should be changed to suit my own opinion of how the world should be. For example, I think there should be more black people in my country – so I put them in the story even though it never, ever happened like that. I know I’m 100% lying – but if it changes the world to how I think it should be, it’s OK right ?. I know a lot of people don’t agree – but I’m a lot more intelligent and morally superior to that scum.

        Then I present it as actual history to an unwitting audience who I want to condition to think like I do.

        One day I hope to write stories for the BBC.

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Can I burn it once you’ve finished please – getting cold due to climate changes.

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  26. Zephir says:

    I found a great hardback, Readers Digest do it yourself for only a quid

    It should be relabelled, get a divorce for a quid, no mention of mains electric cables in walls or local authority environmental services opinions on hammer drills.

    Or, how to get full value from your local A and E department

    I do agree with the current opinion of microchipping cats, its taken permanent residence somwhere in the woods at the back of the garden since I bought the book.

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    • Zephir says:

      There should at least be an appendix on how to stop artery bleeds, maybe just after the “101 things you can do with a Stanley knife” chapter

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  27. Lunchtime Loather says:

    I watched a superb BBC programme last night, enjoyed every minute. It was House of Cards, from 1990, and starring Ian Richardson as Francis Urquhart. No inappropriate casting, no climate change, no Brexit, no Trump – it was great and goes to show that the BBC, back then, could make superb television when it wanted to. Happy to have paid the TVL back then too to fund its making, don’t need to pay for it again.

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  28. Fedup2 says:

    Lunchtime. – I remember it the first time and was of higher standard than anything produced now – the absence of the tick boxes and ‘message ‘ is noticeable .

    The US version is a different beast altogether and very – American . I can’t think either could be made now …..

    The BBC put out ‘edge of darkness ‘ recently – from around the same period – another high level drama which just couldn’t be done now ….

       14 likes

  29. MarkyMark says:

    On the 16th of March, BBC Morning Live’s Gethin Jones will be kicking off an epic and gruelling dancing challenge. For 24 hours Gethin will be joined by famous faces from Morning Live, Strictly Come Dancing, and all across the BBC, to keep him going throughout the dance of his life. With all money raised going to Comic Relief, he’ll need all the support you can give him! You can get involved too, visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/morninglive to find out more.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0f7p3nz/comic-relief-2023-gethin-keeps-dancing

    ………………………..

    BBC Children in Need . Grant Funded Projects . London and South East England
    As at November 2017

    Word Search:
    Islington x 38;
    Somali x 21;
    Refugee x 33;
    Young x 532;
    Afghan x 3;
    Arts x 43;
    Football x 9;
    Disabled x 64;
    Autism x 12;
    Literacy x 8;
    Inclusion x 15;
    Mental x 54;

    £305,840 FROM BBC’s CHILDREN IN NEED FUND 2017

    Click to access CN0187_Grants_Listings_London_and_South_East_England.pdf

    The Mayor’s Fund for London
    The project will deliver healthy food and activities to children
    in 132 local projects across 33 London Boroughs during
    Easter, Summer and half term school holidays.

    https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2019/07/28/start-the-week-open-thread-29-july-2019/#comment-1003841

       8 likes

  30. Guest Who says:

    Given the comments, which could be going better, I wonder why Labour ShadCab front bench brain donors post these.

    Likely a combination of broadcasting to the core, secure in the knowledge the media will politely not comment.

       13 likes

  31. MarkyMark says:

    The charity have split this into eight core categories: a safe place to be, children survive and thrive, gender justice, global mental health, malaria, financial and material poverty in the UK, HIV and sport for change. What is Red Nose Day?15 Mar 2019

    …………….

    ‘White saviour’ row: David Lammy denies snubbing Comic Relief
    This article is more than 4 years old
    Labour MP in social media spat with Stacey Dooley over trip to Uganda for Red Nose Day

    https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/feb/28/david-lammy-stacey-dooley-comic-relief-white-saviour-row-uganda-red-nose-day-film

       3 likes

  32. Guest Who says:

    Mad Al BBC tag teamer Kev opines…

    Just one year ago… with the BBC TNI in full flow…

    “It’s hard to believe it, but it’s exactly one year to the day since we generously named Admiral Rachel Levine the recipient of the prestigious Babylon Bee Man of the Year Award. And what a year it’s been!

    That tweet got us suspended from Twitter, with a notice that we would regain access to our account if we deleted the tweet.”

       7 likes

  33. Guest Who says:

    Vile gunning for a crack at Springster on the BBC in house version?

       9 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      21 December 2018
      “The number of hate crimes has gone up, and that means the police have to do something about it.”

      Gwent police said they have a team of “over 30” specialist Hate Crime Support Officers.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46543874

      How LGBTQ+ hate crime is committed by young people against young people

         6 likes

  34. MarkyMark says:

    The Chancellor didn’t give much airtime to efficiency savings in his Budget statement yesterday, instead focusing on a steady-as-she-goes package that was, frankly, boring. That appears to have been by design.

    …………….

    Dear Darren Henry,

    13
    Parliament’s £13 billion restoration.

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

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

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

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

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

    Nuclear reactor = £6 billion

    Yours sincerely,

    ………………………………..

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  35. Guest Who says:

    ‘Being told’ is not an ‘investigation’.

    Except with kindly old village elders.

       9 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Keep paying ….

      A woman has appeared in court accused of falsely claiming she lost her home in the Grenfell Tower fire, in a series of alleged frauds totalling £389,500.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64787340
      27 February 2023

         9 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Deploy… the Springster!

      For…. clarity.

         6 likes

  36. andyjsnape says:

    Video shows moment Russian fighter jet hits US drone over Black Sea
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64975766

    Who’s guilty, of course the Russians are, as the bBC told us

    From the video the Russian jet is trying to climb, the drone takes no action to get out the way

       4 likes

    • Eddy Booth says:

      Video doesn’t show a “collision” .
      It shows the Russians probably saying ” Yo nigga this is Putin country!” and dumping aviation fuel all over the drone, which did the damage?
      If the pilot was able to just clip one blade of the propeller and fly off …
      then the Red Arrows need to give him a call

         8 likes

  37. andyjsnape says:

    Evacuated Afghan women’s team included ‘false’ footballers
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-64967941

    No way, who would of thought it.
    The bBC was very keen at the time to promote the lot coming out of Afghanistan

    bBC does more harm than good

       7 likes

    • Zephir says:

      Woss a false footballer ?

      Even more interesting, an Afghan wimmin false footballer ?

      Just asking on behalf of Luton Town, please tell them we don’t have stoning to death for offside over here, but you will have to have Betfair and the local hardware shop plastered all over your burkha.

      Honour killings and genital mutilation are acceptable at half time and we have a two floor stand for homosexuals to be chucked off.

      A sharia court will be available for two yellow cards if you have some daughters or camels to donate in advance.

         11 likes

  38. andyjsnape says:

    Lineker thought he had special BBC Twitter agreement – agent
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64976007

    Lineker thought he was special

       11 likes

    • Zephir says:

      “Lineker thought ”

      I stopped right there, wheres a bloody fact checker when you need one?

      “Nazi Propaganda and Censorship

      The Nazis wanted Germans to support the Nazi dictatorship and believe in Nazi ideas. To accomplish this goal, they tried to control forms of communication through censorship and propaganda. This included control of newspapers, magazines, books, art, theater, music, movies, and radio.
      How did the Nazis use censorship?

      When the Nazis came to power in 1933, the German constitution guaranteed freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Through decrees and laws, the Nazis abolished these civil rights and destroyed German democracy. Starting in 1934, it was illegal to criticize the Nazi government. Even telling a joke about Hitler was considered treachery. People in Nazi Germany could not say or write whatever they wanted.

      Examples of censorship under the Nazis included:

      Closing down or taking over anti-Nazi newspapers;
      Controlling what news appeared in newspapers, on the radio, and in newsreels;
      Banning and burning books that the Nazis categorized as un-German;
      Controlling what soldiers wrote home during World War II.

      How did the Nazis use propaganda?

      The Nazis used propaganda to promote their ideas and beliefs. Beginning in March 1933, the regime tried to centralize its propaganda efforts in a new ministry led by Joseph Goebbels. This ministry was called the Reich Ministry of Enlightenment and Propaganda.

      The Nazis used a variety of propaganda tools to spread Nazi ideas. Examples of propaganda under the Nazis included:

      Glorifying Adolf Hitler by using his image on postcards, posters, and in the press;
      Spreading negative images and ideas about Jews in magazines, films, cartoons, and other media;
      Making radios more affordable so that more Germans could listen to Nazi ideas and news;
      Broadcasting Nazi speeches on the radio and public loudspeakers;
      Organizing large and celebratory Nazi Party rallies;
      Creating groups, like the Hitler Youth and League of German Girls, that fostered Nazi ideals.”

      https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-propaganda-and-censorship

         9 likes

  39. Terminal Moraine says:

    Good news in the Netherlands elections: a big win for BBB (farmer’s movement), which hopefully puts a spanner in the Food Innovation Hub that Rutte and the WEF have assigned to Holland “to transform the food ecosystem”.

    It”s a fairly unbiased article for once, notwithstanding a comment from go-to pundit Ben Coates: “most people would characterise [BBB] as a right-wing, populist party that was quite anti-EU, anti-immigration and in favour of banning burkas for Muslims.”

    Ben’s Twitter bio says he’s a ‘recovering Tory’ and it looks like he’s missed the recent BBC memo on impartiality. But he’s not staff, so go for it, Ben.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64967513

       12 likes

  40. MarkyMark says:

    “The security of sensitive government information must come first, so today we are banning this app on government devices. The use of other data-extracting apps will be kept under review… Restricting the use of TikTok on Government devices is a prudent and proportionate step following advice from our cyber security experts.
    order-order.omc
    ……………..

    Barry Gardiner defends donations worth £500,000 from Chinese agent
    The Labour MP said Christine Lee appeared to be ‘operating as a legitimate person in the UK’.
    Amy Gibbons
    Thursday 13 January 2022 20:23
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/barry-gardiner-chinese-lee-sky-news-jeremy-corbyn-b1992752.html

       5 likes

  41. Zephir says:

    How did propaganda and censorship work together?

    Textbooks are a good example of how propaganda and censorship worked together in the Nazi regime. The Nazis used both propaganda and censorship to control what students read in school. Nazi censors removed some textbooks from classrooms. New textbooks taught students to obey the Nazi Party, love Hitler, and hate Jews.
    Key Dates

    May 10, 1933
    Nazi Book Burnings

    During the spring of 1933, Nazi university student organizations, professors, and librarians put together long lists of books they think are un-German. These lists include books written by Jewish authors. They also include books by non-Jewish authors whose ideas conflict with Nazi ideals. On the night of May 10, 1933, Nazis hold book burnings. They march by torchlight in nighttime parades, sing chants, and throw books into huge bonfires. On that night more than 25,000 books are burned.

    March 28, 1935
    Premiere of the Propaganda Film Triumph of the Will

    Leni Riefenstahl’s propaganda film Triumph of the Will premieres in Berlin. The film shows footage taken at the 1934 Nazi Party Rally at Nuremberg. The footage from the rally shows smiling children, cheering crowds, and uniformed Nazis. It features military parades and a speech by Adolf Hitler. Triumph of the Will will become one of the most infamous Nazi propaganda films.

    September 1939
    Banning Germans from Listening to Foreign Radio

    World War II begins on September 1, 1939. Shortly afterwards, the Nazi regime makes listening to foreign radio broadcasts illegal. This is an attempt to control what information Germans hear about the war. The Nazi regime sees news and information from outside Germany as a security threat. They are worried about foreign radio broadcasts, which some Germans can access on their home radios. Later in the war, the regime even sentences people to death for listening to foreign radio stations.

       7 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      India: School textbooks say ‘Japan nuked US’
      Published
      24 February 2014

      https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-26325994

      …………….

      How Japan dropped a nuclear bomb on America in WWII and Gandhi was assassinated nine months after he died: Indian government publishes school text book filled with 150 errors
      Indian textbook for Year 8 riddled with factual and spelling errors
      Book given to more than 50,000 children claims Japan bombed the U.S.
      Wrong date of Gandhi’s death and puts Pakistani capital in the mountains
      By SARA MALM

      PUBLISHED: 14:50, 25 February 2014 | UPDATED: 15:03, 25 February 2014

         2 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Later in the war, the regime even sentences people to death for listening to foreign radio stations.

      BBC laugh as nurses starve and pay £159 per year to hear how they are starving.

         5 likes

  42. MarkyMark says:

    Vietnam – evil, useless.
    Hong Kong – shit hole.
    California – utopia.

    In his emotional acceptance speech after winning the best supporting actor award at the Oscars, Ke Huy Quan spoke of his journey as a young boy on a boat from Vietnam, via a refugee camp in Hong Kong, to California.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-64963161

    ……………………..

    The daily battle to keep people alive as fentanyl ravages San Francisco’s Tenderloin
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/23/san-francisco-homelessness-street-team-fentanyl

       4 likes

  43. Zephir says:

    “Internet censorship in the United States is the suppression of information published or viewed on the Internet in the United States. The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects freedom of speech and expression against federal, state, and local government censorship.

    In 2014, the United States was added to Reporters Without Borders (RWB)’s list of “Enemies of the Internet”, a group of countries with the highest level of Internet censorship and surveillance. RWB stated that the U.S. has “undermined confidence in the Internet and its own standards of security” and that “U.S. surveillance practices and decryption activities are a direct threat to investigative journalists, especially those who work with sensitive sources for whom confidentiality is paramount and who are already under pressure.”[1]

    In U.S. government-funded Freedom House’s Freedom On the Net 2021 Report, the United States was rated the thirteenth most free of the 70 countries rated.[2] ”

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

       3 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Retailers quietly remove hate material from sites
      Nick Lowles – 21 03 18
      https://hopenothate.org.uk/2018/03/21/retailers-quietly-stop-profiting-hate/

      Last week, we launched a campaign calling on Waterstones, Foyles, WHSmith, and Amazon to remove from their websites some of the most extreme and dangerous nazi, racist and Holocaust denial literature ever published in the English language. This included books such as the infamous bomb making manual The Anarchist Cookbook and the race war fiction The Turner Diaries, which has inspired numerous terrorist attacks including the Oklahoma City bombing and the Copeland Nail Bomb attacks in London.

         2 likes

      • Zephir says:

        “Anarchist Cookbook ”

        how to annoy your neighbours with superglue and telephone tricks
        Bombs ?

        Nope

        knocking on peoples doors and running way, yes

        written by teenagers, for teenagers

           3 likes

  44. MarkyMark says:

    MPs ban TikTok – ha ha ha ha..

    …………..

    ‘Tractor porn’ scandal ex-MP Neil Parish says he wants to make a political comeback at the next election and threatens to run against the Tories if his former party does not select him as an official candidate
    Parish resigned as Tiverton and Honiton MP after admitting watching porn
    The Tories subsequently lost his previously safe seat to the Liberal Democrats
    Farmer told Times Radio today he had ‘unfinished business’ in politics
    Threatened to run as an independent if his former party failed to select him
    By DAVID WILCOCK, DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE

    PUBLISHED: 15:10, 15 January 2023 | UPDATED: 15:51, 15 January 2023

       4 likes

  45. Zephir says:

    You can’t beat a good, slutty tractor

    We had a tractor swapping party last week, diesel all over the place

       4 likes

  46. Zephir says:

    There was this Massey Ferguson 6480 just asking for it

    after some WD40 and work on the magneto….even the farmer was shocked

    “I’ve never seen it do that before”

       2 likes

  47. Zephir says:

    Reminds me of that Nuffield Universal 4/60, no shame at all.

    Now that was a party, the photos are still being swapped on the dark web

       2 likes

  48. MarkyMark says:

    2.5 billion
    The government has put an extra £2.5 billion offer on the table to NHS staff, with strike action suspended while union members vote on the package
    order-order.com
    ……..
    13 billion
    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.
    ………
    13.6 billion
    How much do medical negligence claims cost the NHS? According to NHS Resolution, the estimated ‘cost of harm’ to the NHS in 2021/22 is £13.6 billion, which includes legal costs.
    ………
    45
    AT LEAST 45 babies died needlessly in one of the NHS’ worst ever maternity scandals, an inquiry revealed today.19 Oct 2022

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