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  4. Guest Who says:
    March 16, 2023 at 4:52 pm

    BBC story picked up and used by… another group less keen on voting.

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    • Zephir says:
      March 16, 2023 at 5:04 pm

      Let nature take it’s course.

      Any close look at ecology will reveal what nature does when a population gets too high

      If the author is such a fan of nature, let the overbreeding populations in Africa and the middle east, and Hackney, and the elderly and weak everywhere else just die.

      That’s nature

      Go green eco warriors, how many pills are your parents and grandparents taking to keep them alive ?

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      • MarkyMark says:
        March 16, 2023 at 5:22 pm

        The world’s longest burning fires: China’s unseen story
        Coal extraction remains a higher priority than putting out China’s huge underground coal fires
        https://chinadialogue.net/en/energy/6296-the-world-s-longest-burning-fires-china-s-unseen-story/
        ………………..
        FOUR HUNDRED private jets arrived in Egypt during COP27 as climate delegates are accused of ‘hypocrisy’ Climate delegates were accused of hypocrisy after 400 private jets arrived in Egypt for COP27. Numerous posts on social media criticised delegates for travelling by private jet to the UN climate summit.11 Nov 2022

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    • MarkyMark says:
      March 16, 2023 at 5:19 pm

      “measures to save natural world”

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    • MarkyMark says:
      March 16, 2023 at 5:20 pm

      “No one can override nature” – then it does not matter?

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    • digg says:
      March 16, 2023 at 7:22 pm

      First they came for your cars,
      Then they came for your meat,
      Then they came for your speech,
      Then they came for your thoughts,
      Then they came for your history,
      Then they came for your children,
      Then they came for your farmers,

      Soon they will come for you.

      The last bunch of people like this were either Nazis or Marxists.

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      • MarkyMark says:
        March 17, 2023 at 12:16 pm

        Then they came for the BBC TV License and we demanded we paid more to help Gary Lineker.

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  5. Guest Who says:
    March 16, 2023 at 4:59 pm

    Another Labour person of boob reading the room on the assumption no one knows their recent history.

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  6. Guest Who says:
    March 16, 2023 at 5:03 pm

    Scoring Newsnight numbers here.

    Almost as many as in the room.

       9 likes

    • MarkyMark says:
      March 16, 2023 at 5:17 pm

      HATE CRIMES ….. Manchester students deface poem by ‘racist’ Kipling
      Published
      19 July 2018
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-44884913

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      • Zephir says:
        March 16, 2023 at 5:27 pm

        Ecology:

        Rabbits are not native to Britain; the Normans brought them here in the 12th century for their, then much-prized, fur and meat.

        Rabbit (Viral) Haemorrhagic Disease is widespread in Britain’s wild rabbits. It’s a serious disease, causing high fever, internal bleeding and liver disease. The disease doesn’t affect rabbits under six weeks but causes severe disease in older rabbits.

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        • StewGreen says:
          March 16, 2023 at 7:00 pm

          Is that point a test ? It’s now accepted that Romans had rabbits in Britain.
          And that later Normans re-imported them.

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        • Zelazek says:
          March 17, 2023 at 10:26 am

          It’s a wonder the left don’t talk about rabbits more. They’re not native to Britain and the population has always included a few black rabbits. Seems the perfect species to symbolise the idea that we are all immigrants to Britain and there have always been blacks among us.

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  7. MarkyMark says:
    March 16, 2023 at 5:25 pm

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=lineker&d=news_ps

    Gary Lineker row: BBC impartiality dominates Prime Minister’s Questions

    Lineker thought he had special BBC Twitter agreement – agent

    Ros Atkins on… Gary Lineker and the BBC’s impartiality crisis

    BBC boss Tim Davie denies climbdown over Lineker impartiality row

    ‘Not affected by one party or other’ – BBC boss denies Tory pressure in Gary Lineker row

    Gary Lineker will abide by BBC guidelines until review completed – Tim Davie

    HA HA HA HA

    Gary Lineker will abide by BBC guidelines until review completed – Tim Davie

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  9. Thoughtful says:
    March 16, 2023 at 5:48 pm

    The attempted murder of a US agent on secondment to GCHQ has some very obvious missing information which we the observers of a very bent media have to read between the lines in order to understand, in much the same way as the old Russian state media used to have to operate in order to get to the truth.

    “‘We believe he selected the victim because she is a worker for GCHQ and he holds views on the work he believes they conduct there.

    ‘He attacked her because in his mind she represents the state.’”

    What kind of person would attack someone because they “represent the state”?

    I would suggest that had this been a Muslim or a ‘far right’ attacker we would have been told. Excuses would have certainly been made for the former.
    I surmise this is some far Left loon or anarchist and the reason nothing is stated is because the media don’t want it to be.

    It’s a very strange report when counter terrorism is involved, we are given a basic semi reason as to why, but none of the real reason is given.

    Answers on the back of a postcard please.

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  10. Guest Who says:
    March 16, 2023 at 5:55 pm

    BBC doing what it does best.

    Selective hit pieces.

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    • Fedup2 says:
      March 16, 2023 at 10:07 pm

      That’s weird – I’ve been watching the second series . It’s fantastic . ….I was musing about what a loss to the BBC Clarkson was – he is so naturally gifted at describing the difficulties he faces ….
      … as I watched I wonder how many bbc producers silently said ‘if only we had produced these documentaries ‘ but maybe they are so fixated on coloureds and queers they could never dream of producing such stuff any more ..

      And I wondered whether it’s a tale of 2 jeremys- Clarkson and his farming efforts – basically a man against the world – and another Jeremy – the vine one – whose only function in life is to moan and be angry about car drivers .

      I don’t partake of vine – an awful broadcaster – but I see the responses he gets on twitter and note how deserving he is of an online kicking – but he is ‘bbc approved ‘ and only attacks ‘approved subjects ‘….

      I don’t know if prime is commissioning a 3rd series of Clarkson farm but they should – or someone should – I understand that the bbc is ripping off the format – I’m guessing it will be a family of freshly arrived ( straight off the dinghy ) Muslims fighting opposition from the locals against the plan for a giant mosque in the Cotswolds ……

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  11. digg says:
    March 16, 2023 at 6:17 pm

    Interesting reflection on how the courts view crimes or rather the proportionate punishment.

    Yesterday a young probably lowly educated girl of 22 got 8 and a half years for false rape allegations.

    Today a University bigwig got 6 years for embezzling £2.4 million quid from Brighton University. Hardly a victimless crime!

    Conclusion: large scale embezzlement and stealing is now seen as a rather lesser crime than telling porkies especially for the “educated” classes.

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    • StewGreen says:
      March 16, 2023 at 6:54 pm

      Ellie’s one not one crime it was multiple occurances.
      Surely you judge her as a bit insane
      bashing herself with a hammer etc.

      It’s strange that guys who do multiple rapes over time , seem to guess less time.

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      • digg says:
        March 16, 2023 at 9:10 pm

        The problem is not so much her sentence on balance it’s his in comparison that is that raises questions of impartiality amongst the upper levels.

        Compare how words from Tommy Robinson are dealt with against outbursts from Saint Lineker the Great for instance.

        I’m pretty sure if TR described the BBC as fascist he would be in a cell before you could blink.

        Linaker probably has a much bigger band of rabble rousers backing him than Tommy ever had.

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  12. StewGreen says:
    March 16, 2023 at 6:50 pm

    BBC local newsPR is back after yesterday’s strike.
    They just played a clip of an MP in action.
    Hull Labour MP Diana Johnson
    … It’s like her husband runs the local BBC.

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  13. theisland says:
    March 16, 2023 at 8:01 pm

    Mark Steyn replays in full his show of 21 April 2022 which Ofcom decided had broken the rules and which subsequently had been ‘vaporised’ online – under Ofcom’s Ministry of Truth, the past has to be scrubbed and memory-holed.

    He confirms at the end that he is taking Ofcom to court.

    Go Mark.
    https://www.steynonline.com/13331/the-show-ofcom-wont-let-you-see

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    • Fedup2 says:
      March 16, 2023 at 10:19 pm

      Island – thanks for the link – it’s nice to know it’s there – I just hope all of it is not taking a toll on mr Steyn …

      … this episode needs to be remembered when fools spout about ‘free speech ‘ which is as much of a lie as the claim that the UK is a democracy – when it’s just a rigged one party state which gives itself enormous power when it feels like it -right mr Hancock ?

      Thursday night – I was gonna chuck out some bait for the tedious cut and paste troll but can’t be asked … maybe I’ll cut and paste into the trash in the morning .. or not …

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  14. taffman says:
    March 16, 2023 at 11:37 pm

    “Vote Labour or vote Conservative and you’ll get mass migration.”
    The BBC gets a brief mention – please read and watch ………..

    There is a way out – The reform Party . You know it makes sense!

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  15. Terminal Moraine says:
    March 16, 2023 at 11:42 pm

    Have Hancock’s Whatsapp messages died? No interest or squashed by Ofcom? Move along… bit of Gary Lineker and then Red Nose Day and everyone will have forgotten.

    A reminder of this day 3yrs ago at the White House; Fauci and Birx looking pretty chipper given the solemn news they were delivering.

    Birx was the White House Covid Response Coordinator and — like Hancock — she has a book about what went on. It exposes — like Hancock — that politically motivated blundering took centre stage and “we’re following the science” just a cheap slogan put out to appease the masses:

    “No sooner had we convinced the Trump administration to implement our version of a two-week shutdown than I was trying to figure out how to extend it. Fifteen Days to Slow the Spread was a start, but I knew it would be just that. I didn’t have the numbers in front of me yet to make the case for extending it longer, but I had two weeks to get them. However hard it had been to get the fifteen-day shutdown approved, getting another one would be more difficult by many orders of magnitude.”

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  16. Zephir says:
    March 16, 2023 at 11:47 pm

    I have noticed a gap in the market: cat psychology

    the local Pets at Home is OK for flea powder, but can’t answer my questions

    frightened by Tesco plastic bags, to the point when she soils herself,. but quite happy to rip shreds out of Jasper, the nice ginger cat down the road and various squirrels in the garden,

    Pets at Home customer services need to get their act together.

    I might start letting her out at night. that’ll teach her,

    we back onto some woods and I have no idea what animals are out there, but sometimes it sounds like a werewolf getting gang raped by a bunch of hyenas

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  17. Zephir says:
    March 17, 2023 at 3:50 am

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  18. tomo says:
    March 17, 2023 at 5:58 am

    Tucker Carlson does AGW etcetera…

    Is there something else going on here?

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    • Fedup2 says:
      March 17, 2023 at 7:51 am

      Tomo I think the msm depend on us having short memories – particularly with regard to the views / findings of experts and their ‘reports ‘.

      Maybe there should be a gold star thing where whenever an ‘expert ‘ turns up claiming this and thar they should be ‘starred’ -based on the accuracy of previous predictions –

      This would help assessing the value of ‘experts ‘ and also the motivation of media producers putting them before the public .

      The above – of course – will never happen …

      … just to add – a prediction which turns out to be correct – should be acknowledged …..

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      • tomo says:
        March 17, 2023 at 3:52 pm

        If there’s one thing I find exasperating it’s “researchers + reports” in the MSM 🙂

        Part of the reason is that the researchers title stuff with clickbait and the dumbclucks in the MSM simply riff on that – particularly if said clickbait aligns with the house prejudices – especially at BBC-Guardian.

        The scribblers love hyperbole too.

        That said – I’m noticing extraordinary levels of stupid stories being pushed at me by appendages of Alphabet (Google / YouTube) – in particular they are trying to turn Android into a walled garden with BBC/Guardian stories disproportionally jamming the “news” feed that they are increasingly forcing on folk as their “home” page.

        It’s like bundles of chaff being dropped into the moment / news space

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  19. andyjsnape says:
    March 17, 2023 at 7:26 am

    ChatGPT-style tech brought to Microsoft 365
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64970062

    “The technology behind the world’s most talked about artificial intelligence (AI) system”

    I’m sure most people on here talk about ChatGPT all the time, maybe in the bBC bubble they do

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  20. taffman says:
    March 17, 2023 at 7:32 am

    TV tax going up ? Why does the Tory government defend the outfit? If it is “good value for money”, privatise it , not jail people for not paying “the tax that robs from the poor to pay the rich”.

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    • andyjsnape says:
      March 17, 2023 at 7:38 am

      Hello Taffman, I think its ultimately down to the being the government of the days mouthpiece and trying to keep the public in toe with aunties ideas passed on from government. This is generally why it will be its downfall – its more and more alienates the British public and the majority who pay its tax, and lets face it for example can you really imagine muslims paying any attention to what the bBC has to say

      As much as we have a go and hate what the bbc has become, its generally only a tool to get over the governments point of view

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  21. Fedup2 says:
    March 17, 2023 at 7:37 am

    Taffman
    I think it might be one of those ‘hero’ government things where the nasty BBCOFCOM announce something and then the lovely minister stops it …..

    ….. meanwhile . There is a comedy about ‘saving liberal democracy ‘ on their bbc today . This country is not liberal and Definately not a democracy ….. a lot of people can’t see through the narrative the msm throws out around the clock …

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    • taffman says:
      March 17, 2023 at 7:53 am

      Meanwhile, Lineker pockets your cash and says what he wants as the Tories fill the country with a million ‘Telly tax payers’ arriving from France .
      We are in dire need of a government that cares for the people of Britain.

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  22. Fedup2 says:
    March 17, 2023 at 7:58 am

    Got to hand it to the bbc / guardian – they are kicking the met plod over a report by St Louise Casey which isn’t published until Tuesday .
    They keep saying the the new commissioner is ‘new ‘ when I recall he was in the Met at senior level for many years ….
    Also – silence about the police commissioner of the met – who is a labour politician – the emir – who has also been ‘in charge ‘ for many years …. Funny that

    You might notice the names of convicted met plod in the press – plenty of ‘diversity ‘ there – somehow I think they destroyed policing by giving badges to rubbish and being surprised by the outcome …..

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  23. Guest Who says:
    March 17, 2023 at 8:08 am

    The Independent – Former Guantanamo prisoner claims frontrunner DeSantis watched him being tortured

    ***
    Amol used to be Editor; likely enough for a BBC Panorama Investigation story.

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  24. andyjsnape says:
    March 17, 2023 at 8:21 am

    China’s Xi to meet Putin in Moscow next week
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64986486

    “Western countries have warned Beijing against supplying Moscow with weapons”

    But its fine for the west to supply weapons to Ukraine, apparently

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  25. Guest Who says:
    March 17, 2023 at 8:28 am

    Noticing Tourette’s highly prevalent in BBC groupie circles.

    Likely why they like having on Mad Al, Femi, Champion, etc…

    A lot.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      March 17, 2023 at 8:56 am

      Armando Iannucci
      @Aiannucci
      A large boy trapped in the body of a small man.
      Joined March 2009
      1,178 Following
      703.5K Followers

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  26. AsISeeIt says:
    March 17, 2023 at 8:37 am

    Vic-Tory for our public sector workers – in this sleep all night and work all day edition

    This morning comes the news there may at last be a slight pause in sight for Britain’s relentless annual inward hyper-immigration numbers…

    Passport office workers to strike for five weeks over pay dispute (BBC)

    Union boss Mark Serwotka reckons: “…40,000 civil servants are using foodbanks and 45,000 of them are claiming the benefits they administer themselves…” – that latter claim ought to be carefully examined to make sure everything is above board. But on the face of it – that’s some real socialism in action.

    Some wag – it may have been Woody Allen – or was it John Hegley – once joked that he dreamed of a world where everyone was wearing everyone elses’ glasses. But a nation where everyone is employed adminstering their own benefits – that’s really something for us to look forward to. Gordon Brown (there’s one for the teenagers) would have been in his element. The Client State made real. The ultimate untying of the leftist Gordian economic knot. A sort of public sector worker financed self-funding benefits pass the parcel.

    Unions hail pay victory as health secretary raises offer (Guardian)

    Apparently it’s the press that can’t quite agree on a number: Nurses and NHS staff to vote on 5% pay rise to end dispute (freebie Metro); …five per cent rise next month and a one-off bonus of at least £1,655 (Express); …”backlog bonus” worth at least £1,250 (Sun); NHS staff offered 18pc pay rise to end strikes (Telegraph); …one off bonus worth up to 8.2% (Guardian)

    One supposes that a pay deal representing all things to all men is the ideal solution to the dispute. Let’s go to the FT for some presumably reliable numbers: The offer would give nurses, ambulance staff and other NHS workers in England a new non-consolidated payment worth 2 per cent of their wages in 2022-23, with an additional bonus of at least £1,250. In 2023-2024, there will then be a consolidated pay rise of 5%, with a bigger increase for the lowest paid – all clear? Everyone happy now?

    It sparked calls for other striking key workers to get proper pay rises (Daily Mirror) – we do admire the Mirror’s formulation: Hero nurses, paramedics and other staff

    Mr AsI can recall a time when nurses only became bona fide heroines in actual wartime, before ambulance staff became paramedics and when a key worker was a locksmith – and he would re-heel your shoes for you

    Good old public sector, how could we have doubted you? Three million drivers’ licence delays since 2020, report finds (BBC)

    BBC licence fee to jump by £13 next year (Telegraph)

    At least they’re not asking for our charity: Oxfam’s new 92-page inclusivity guide calls English ‘the language of a colonialising nation’ and tells staff to avoid the words ‘mother’ ‘headquarters’ – and even ‘youth’ (Daily Mail)

    They’ll always be an England?

    From broadsheet to red top almost every title celebrates the very British (and Irish) Cheltenham races this week. Meanwhile, our Mayor Khan-run familiar London red buses carry adverts calling for the banning of the cruel sport of jump racing.

    Our most warmongering media outlets are coming out in force this morning: Ukraine will remember who backed us – foreign minister… In a BBC interview… Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has warned… Countries that “mistreated Ukraine” will be held to account after the war ends (BBC)

    Flying start… Poland to send jets to Ukraine… stepping up the level of military support for Kyiv (FT)

    Poles first Nato nation to send jets to Ukraine… Kyiv has long sought combat aircraft from its Western allies but governments have feared it might escalate the conflict with Russia (Telegraph) – really, this might be dangerous? You don’t say!

    Has April Fools Day come early at the FT, or does the corporate world play a bit fast and loose with their use of the word ethical?

    MindGeek, one of the largest porn groups and parent of Pornhub, has been acquired by Ethical Capital, a new Canadian private equity firm (FT) – it’s a long, cold, lonely winter up there in Canada for a Mounty. How does that Monty Python song go? I’m a lumberjack and I’m OK, I sleep all night and I work all day

    Something is sapping the energy of our youngsters

    Generation ZZZZZZZ… Old farts being out-napped by exhausted youngsters aged 18-24… Half of Generation Z have at least one nap a day (Daily Star)

    And finally, the Times carrys (probably) the most Baby Boomerish headline of all time: Dash to retire before Labour reverses tax-free allowance plan – this being the Tory plan supposed to encourage older workers to stay on in employment. Another fine example of the law of unintended consequences. Perhaps our politicians should leave well alone?

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  27. JohnC says:
    March 17, 2023 at 8:45 am

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

    So I watch this video with interest because a fighter jet managing to clip a propellor to bring a UAV down just doesn’t quite ring true. And I’ve been fed so many lies by the BBC over this war, I thought I’d look closely.

    And sure enough some things the BBC are telling me just don’t seem right.

    First is 18 seconds in where they circle some marks with the caption ‘camera affected’. But you can see one of the marks clearly before the fuel is released and even more important than that, the two marks stay in the same position when the camera moves. If they were on the camera, they would move with it.

    Second is where the video feed is affected. It would NOT gradually fill in a movie-style ‘test card’ in the background gradually like that. If the display pixelates like that, it means the data stream is incorrect but the receiving end doesn’t know that so it shows a corrupt display. A test-card might be displayed if the data stream is interrupted completely for a second or two but I have never in my life seen it get filled in pixel by pixel (and I worked a lot on small UAV’s).

    Third is after the propellor is bent. That would put HUGE vibration on the airframe but the camera video remains perfect. I think we’re suppose to think that pass of the Russian aircraft did it – but it appears the UAV propellors have been feathered so that bit must be from quite some time later : not during the incident as we are led to believe. Definitely NOT as the BBC say:

    ‘When the picture returns, a blade of the drone’s propeller at the back of the aircraft can be seen bent out of shape.’

    Fourth is the fact the BBC are being unusually careful to avoid claiming it is true. We get:

    ‘The BBC has not seen the events before or after the collision.’

    ‘Mr Austin previously described Russia’s actions as dangerous and reckless – and the edited video released appears to back that up.’

    When they bend over backwards like that, it is usually because they know full well they are lying about something.

    So my own ‘fact check’ is that all is not quite as we are being told. Like the Jan 06 riots, that is a very carefully prepared video.

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  28. Zephir says:
    March 17, 2023 at 8:51 am

    Mayor of London meeting

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  29. MarkyMark says:
    March 17, 2023 at 9:09 am

    order-order

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  30. MarkyMark says:
    March 17, 2023 at 9:12 am

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  31. Guest Who says:
    March 17, 2023 at 9:19 am

    This is hilarious; like the Vile Show with fewer thick female racists.

    https://www.analyzingamerica.org/2023/03/683328/?

    I really love the pregnant pause when one of them drops the other right in it, she then gabbles… then reaches for… Trump! Racism! Fox! Black women saved the country, apparently. By being in the Senate.

    The Whoopie closes with the money shot. Watched the whole ‘debate’, edit free. Go girls.

    Just like BBC North America… every single day who went after….

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  32. andyjsnape says:
    March 17, 2023 at 9:33 am

    ‘A village’s goodwill saved me from life on the streets’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64940840

    bBC likes this and in favour

    —

    Government signs £2.9m Moon base nuclear power deal with Rolls-Royce
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-64982477

    If only 23,000 bBC staff would go to report the news from there

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  34. StewGreen says:
    March 17, 2023 at 9:51 am

    Political advertising spend in the UK is carefully controlled
    but Gary Lineker’s tweets are like anti-Tory political advertising
    .. They could even be written by someone from Alastair Campbell’s team.

    Linener’s tweet was NOT innocent, it used rhetorical tricks
    It misrepresented a woman (who the deleted her tweet)
    and aimed to shut down opinions by dogwhistling that they are Nazi

    FrTAIcsWYAIL29U?format=png&name=small

    PS Is the transcript of Suella’s video Nazi ?
    … no it isn’t.. https://mobile.twitter.com/peaklogic/status/1636147440737763329

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    • MarkyMark says:
      March 17, 2023 at 10:24 am

      On 22 March 2020, 7-year-old Emily Grace Jones[1] was stabbed at Queen’s Park in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, while riding her scooter and died shortly afterwards.[2][3] Eltiona Skana, a 30-year-old Albanian woman unknown to the Jones family, was arrested on the scene and later charged with murder.[4][5]

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

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  35. andyjsnape says:
    March 17, 2023 at 9:54 am

    The joined at the hips, bBC and C4, are really pleased

    The Great British Bake Off: Alison Hammond replaces Matt Lucas as co-host
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64986451

    Tick
    Tick
    Tick

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    • Sluff says:
      March 17, 2023 at 10:09 am

      Are one of those ticks for obesity support?
      Or because she has already eaten the output of the contest?

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  36. Emmanuel Goldstein says:
    March 17, 2023 at 10:02 am

    From Viz.

    London businessmen, save the Government billions of pounds on hs2 by arranging your meetings in Birmingham 20 minutes later.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      March 17, 2023 at 10:26 am

      Dear Darren Henry,

      13
      Parliament’s £13 billion restoration.

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

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

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

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

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

      Nuclear reactor = £6 billion

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  37. andyjsnape says:
    March 17, 2023 at 10:35 am

    Ukraine will remember who backed us – foreign minister
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64976079

    Remember the 2nd world war, the British – i’m sure most countries do forget and have short memories

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      • MarkyMark says:
        March 17, 2023 at 10:50 am

        What a juxtaposition of absurdity versus reality. On the same day that the Kyiv Independent publishes a horrific report detailing the catastrophic losses of Ukrainian troops in Bakhmut, Lloyd Austin and Mark Milley compete for the “Who is the most stupid” award. I think it is a tie. Judge for yourselves.

        Let us start with the article from the Ukraine publication, the Kyiv Independent. We will use this as the benchmark to evaluate what Austin and Milley said at their press conference on Wednesday.

        https://sonar21.com/tweedledee-and-tweedle-dumber-dissemble-on-ukraine/

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    • micknotmike says:
      March 17, 2023 at 11:19 am

      I’m sure the german people will recall the help they received from Ukraine during the second world war too. By all accounts most of the eastern concentration camps were almost exclusively staffed by Ukranian volunteers.

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      • Fedup2 says:
        March 17, 2023 at 12:04 pm

        Now now mick ….. let’s not bring truth into it ….

        ( and I heard somewhere that even the SS were ‘impressed’ at the enthusiasm some of their allies were at slaughtering the ‘unauthorised ‘…

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        • Zephir says:
          March 17, 2023 at 12:15 pm

          A little look at Wechat social media could inform how unlucky Ukranians seen to be, even with a gun, they all get shot, or bombed, somehow

          Primark green teeshirts are selling well in Steveange after the last Zelensky video

          According to the CEC, preliminary results with about 99.27% of the votes counted indicates that Zelenskyy received about 73.19% of the votes to the incumbent president’s 24.48%. The final results for both second round candidates were 73.23% and 24.46%.

          Ukraine election: Comedian Zelensky wins presidency by landslide

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  38. MarkyMark says:
    March 17, 2023 at 10:57 am

    Killers with history of coercive behaviour face tougher sentences
    Published
    3 hours ago

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64983762

    …………………

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  39. Zephir says:
    March 17, 2023 at 11:24 am

    “Nazi scum, off our streets”

    Agreed, we sorted that out in 1945

    but I was at work when you were shouting and screaming about it, “your” streets ? who pays for that ?

    “Afghan migrant, 28, who tried to board a small boat to the UK this week was deported from Britain just four years ago after being jailed for raping a 12-year-old schoolgirl

    He said: ‘I will never give up trying to get to the UK. I have been in France for three months and we don’t get anything

    ‘In the UK I can get education, a job and a house. My brother was killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan and it is not safe for me there.’ ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11833125/Afghan-migrant-28-deported-raping-12-year-old-girl-tried-UK.html

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    • MarkyMark says:
      March 17, 2023 at 11:39 am

      “My brother was killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan and it is not safe for me there.”

      …..

      Prince Harry ‘boasting’ about Afghan kills ‘lets down’ fellow soldiers, says Ben Wallace

      ……

      Anjem Choudary tells jihadis to target Brit troops after Prince Harry’s Taliban killing boast

      …..
      23 March 2018
      A teenager has been described as “dangerous and devious” by a judge as he was jailed for life for planting a bomb on a Tube train at Parsons Green.

      Ahmed Hassan’s device partially exploded in September, injuring 51.

      The 18-year-old, found guilty of attempted murder, was ordered to serve a minimum of 34 years.

      Police said Hassan, from Surrey, appeared to be co-operating with government deradicalisation programme Prevent at the time of the attack.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43519540

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    • MarkyMark says:
      March 17, 2023 at 11:44 am

      Jamaican killer we can’t deport because he is GAY: Illegal migrant suddenly remembers he is homosexual to avoid being kicked out
      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2606128/Illegal-immigrant-murdered-British-teenager-deport-GAY-kept-quiet-packed-off.html

         10 likes

      • Thoughtful says:
        March 17, 2023 at 1:29 pm

        Just ask him to kiss another man and you’ll soon find out how gay he really is.

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  40. MarkyMark says:
    March 17, 2023 at 11:42 am

    Homelessness charities warn of funding and job cuts crisis

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-64902735

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  41. Zephir says:
    March 17, 2023 at 11:57 am

    Now there’s a need for a food bank

       3 likes

  42. Zephir says:
    March 17, 2023 at 11:58 am

    Eyebrow Threading

    Eyebrows, Lips or Chin

    Lip or Chin Threading

    Lip & Chin

    Eyebrows, Lip & Chin

    Face Threading

    High Definition B+B Brows

    Threading

    £8.00

    £10.00

    £4.00

    £10.00

    £15.00

    £24.00

    £20.0

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  44. Fedup2 says:
    March 17, 2023 at 12:03 pm

    I’ve been remiss – travelling Back from somewhere nice to londonistan – I forgot to wish all of those of an Irish persuasion – a very happy St Patrick’s Day – that includes those in the Republic who get to watch their favourite BBC programmes without paying the British Licence Tax ……

    And good luck at soft Cheltenham …

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  45. MarkyMark says:
    March 17, 2023 at 12:22 pm

    https://donation.comicrelief.com/

    Comic Relief supports projects in the UK and around the world.
    Would you like to donate monthly, make a one off donation or pay in your fundraising money?

    Single donation
    Monthly donation
    Your donation could pay for:

    £30
    could pay for a support session for a young person in mental health crisis in the UK

    £50
    could help provide 200 meals for families at a local community centre in the UK

    £100
    could train a mentor in Kenya to support and help keep young girls safe and in school


    76 pence helped thousands of vital projects supporting vulnerable people in the UK and internationally
    7.2 pence ensured we allocated our funding as effectively as possible and monitored how it was spent
    1.8 pence helped raise awareness of the work we support to tackle poverty and injustice
    15 pence helped raise even more money!

    https://www.comicrelief.com/what-your-money-does

    For many years, Chantal’s life was very difficult. Employed as a houseworker in Rwanda, Chantal was the sole earner in her family, whilst also being expected to cook, clean and look after three children. When Shooting Touch arrived in Chantal’s village it helped her change her situation.

    ……………………………

    Comic Relief is doing something funny with your money. Or should I say our money, since I, too, invariably pick up the phone after one of the heart-tugging films in which Red Nose Day specialises and which this year raised £100m for good causes. So the revelation by Panorama on BBC1 last week – the same channel which screens those fund-raising films – that the charity has some cash invested in companies which manufacture cigarettes, alcohol and armaments was a bit of a shocker.

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  46. Zephir says:
    March 17, 2023 at 12:26 pm

    A little look at Wechat social media could inform how unlucky Ukranians seen to be, even with a gun, they all get shot, or bombed, somehow

    Primark green teeshirts are selling well in Steveange after the last Zelensky video

    According to the CEC, preliminary results with about 99.27% of the votes counted indicates that Zelensky received about 73.19% of the votes to the incumbent president’s 24.48%. The final results for both second round candidates were 73.23% and 24.46%.

    Ukraine election: Comedian Zelensky wins presidency by landslide

    and thats the bbc

       4 likes

  47. Eddy Booth says:
    March 17, 2023 at 12:45 pm

    China’s Xi to meet Putin in Moscow next week
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64986486

    I hope China formally joins the crusade against the globalists, and Supplies Russia weapons

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  48. Zephir says:
    March 17, 2023 at 12:55 pm

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  49. Zephir says:
    March 17, 2023 at 1:18 pm

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  50. Zephir says:
    March 17, 2023 at 1:25 pm

    is a patterrn emerging (Megan) a complere lack of grace.

    ‘Sore loser is never a good look!’ Angela Bassett’s crestfallen reaction to losing Best Supporting Actress Oscar to Jamie Lee Curtis goes viral – as fans claims star was ROBBED of gong

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11852477/Oscars-2023-Angela-Bassetts-reaction-losing-Supporting-Actress-gong-goes-viral.html

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