414 Responses to Midweek 19 April 2023

  1. Fedup2 says:

    BBC news channel going full on ‘crisis ‘ with the Raab – college green – probably the helicopter – doorstepping him ? Crap unknown ethnic journos interviewing other journos .

    I hoped for some news but just a propaganda hit . Why the blue labour lot never react to this hostile stuff is beyond me. But I guess a conservative government would have dealt with it with force …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Jeremy Corbyn was paid by an Iranian state TV station that was complicit in the forced confession of a tortured journalist
      https://www.businessinsider.com/jeremy-corbyn-paid-iran-press-tv-tortured-journalist-2016-6?r=US&IR=T

      …………….

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    • StewGreen says:

      boss was bossy
      what a crime.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Sunak accused of delay over bullying probe into deputy PM

      A report into alleged bullying by his deputy prime minister landed on Rishi Sunak’s desk yesterday morning. Dominic Raab faces eight formal complaints about his behaviour as a minister in various departments and No 10 had promised the swift publication of a lawyer’s report into the claims. But that failed to materialise, leaving the PM facing accusations of “dither and delay” from opponents. Former staff say it “extends the anxiety” for those who complained. Mr Raab denies bullying, saying he always “behaved professionally”. Mr Sunak must decide whether his deputy has broken ministerial rules and what action to take. For both men, it’s a moment of jeopardy, says our political editor Chris Mason. Read his analysis.

      Raab profile: Karate and controversy

      What counts as workplace bullying?

      ***

      BBC ‘accused of’…. By? Chris and his mates.

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  2. Flotsam says:

    Black British MP’s under represented?
    I am talking about black, not Asian.

    Conservative:

    Adam Afriyie
    Bim Afolami
    Helen Grant
    James Cleverly
    Kemi Badenoch
    Kwasi Kwarteng
    Darren Henry

    Labour:

    Chi Onwurah
    Clive Lewis
    David Lammy
    Dawn Butler
    Diane Abbott
    Kate Osamor
    Marsha de Cordova
    Abena Oppong-Asare
    Bell Ribeiro-Addy
    Claudia Webbe
    Florence Eshalomi
    Kim Johnson
    Taiwo Owatemi

    Percentage of blacks in the UK population…..4%

    20 black MP’s out of 650…….3%

    Proportion of Conservative black MP’s is lower than Labour but that is due to Conservative seats are generally in white suburban and rural areas whereas Labour seats tend to be in cities. So significant under representation is a myth.

    Two of the above, Lammy and Abbot are a very poor advert for Black politicians.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “…and don’t you worry. It’s coming to a place near you…we cannot have state subsidized preachers (Mayors,UK Security MP, Religious guidance)…give it up
      (Islam) or give it to your deadliest enemy and pay for the rope that will choke you.“

      Home Office, UK Security … Islamist …. Sajid Javid.

      London Mayor, UK Prosperity … Islamist … Sadiq Khan.

      CEO of Bernados, UK Children … Islamist .. Javed Khan.

      Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief … Islamist … Lord Ahmed.

      BBC religion and ethics commissioning … Islamist … Fatima Salaria

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/10/28/start-the-week-open-thread-29-october-2018/comment-page-2/#comment-949904

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  3. Flotsam says:

    Talking about myths, there is also the current news story of Russian ships looking for vulnerabilities in offshore energy installations. It’s a myth because these offshore wind farms are fully charted on publically available nautical charts, including cabling. Look at https://webapp.navionics.com/#boating@6&key=sqsxHnd%5E Seems to be anti Russian propaganda.

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  4. Dickie says:

    Klaus Schwab and his WEF sockpuppets favourite song:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Turkey. Mein Kampf (Turkish: Kavgam) was widely available in Turkey selling up to 100,000 copies in just two months in 2005. Analysts and commentators believe the sales of the book to be related to a rise in nationalism and anti-U.S. sentiment.

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  5. Thoughtful says:

    Here is a quite alarming story which perhaps puts the mess the current mafia Democrat party has caused in the USA in a nutshell.

    Things have become so bad between Israel and the USA that Israel has turned to China to broker a peace agreement with the Palestinians.

    Let that sink in for a moment. For how many decades has America backed Israel to the hilt as their one almost extension of the USA mainland, a de facto US State for the Jews.

    Now Bidens appalling mess so loved by the swivel eyed loons in the Media and British politics has abandoned Israel.

    Not heard much about this in the media? Well I don’t suppose the BBC with its well known anti Israeli bias is going to alert anyone in Britain as to how bad the Biden (mal)administration is making US foreign affairs, but they are well aware of the situation because it’s been covered in the Grauniad.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/18/china-ready-to-broker-israel-palestine-peace-talks-says-foreign-minister

    It’s also so well known there are websites about the state of affairs within the USA

    https://www.heyalma.com/israel-guide/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-american-progressive-left-and-israel/

    It’s not just Israel and the Palestinians either, it’s Israel and Iran, and if China can pull off a peace agreement between those two as it did between Iran and Saudi, then it is going to make the USA look like a global irrelevance.

    Yesterday Turkish Interior Minister Suleiman Soylu said America was hated by the whole world.

    He has gained a lot of support for his courage and truthfulness because it pretty much sums up the disastrous mess Biden has caused with his Socialist presidency.

    https://en.mehrnews.com/news/199717/Whole-world-hates-America-Turkish-interior-minister-says

    I could write an entire book on what is currently going wrong in America at the present time, however this is a page about the media in Britain and I can bet that none of these on going world affairs is being reported properly by the BBC.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Things have become so bad between Israel and the USA that Israel has turned to China to broker a peace agreement with the Palestinians.” – China will pay both sides not to shoot each other.

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      BBC slammed for image of Palestinian flags in story about horrific sex offence

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    • MarkyMark says:

      This title is the “New York Times” bestseller – now in paperback. In “America Alone”, Mark Steyn uses his trademark wit, clarity of thought and flair for the apocalyptic, Mark Steyn to argue that America is the only hope against Islamic Terrorism. Steyn addresses the singular position in which America finds itself, surrounded by anti-Americanism on all sides. He gives us the brutal facts on these threats and why there is no choice but for America to fight for the cause of freedom – alone.

      America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It

      ^^ Mark Steyn was hoping USA would fight the cause, but is now the cause of the cause to hate USA.

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      • Thoughtful says:

        Steyn is absolutely catagorically 100% wrong ! America might have had a few bit players in Guantanamo but none of them were US citizens and they more or less tacitly went along with the 9/11 attacks. The Mafia Democrats are now allowing all manner of terrorists and secret intelligence agents from other countries across their open Southern border.

        China on the other hand takes no cr** from the Muslims and builds large camps where they are taught to behave themselves in a civilised society.
        If Muslims had been involved in a paedophile rape gang they would have been made useful as involuntary organ donors.

        In America the victims like here would have told they were fauxbik or waycist or some such nonsense in order to divert the blame away from corrupt political elites.

        Saudi Arabian representatives concern by the Western media lies about the treatment of the Uighurs visited the camps in China, and found that all the internees were jihadis, many of which had been fighting Jihad for ISIS and who had returned to China from Syria after Russia sorted them out.

        The BBC is always careful to mislead over the Uighurs, never mentioning they are only a minority Islamic sect nor that the majority Muslims in China suffer no such internment. They attempt to protray China as inhumane and Islamofauxbik, but that is an outright disgusting lie.

        We have a better chance of defeating Islamic terror with China running the world than we so with the mafia Democrats who would sell every White Westerner out in a heartbeat

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Geo Political is getting interesting – China locks up Uighurs (Sunni Muslims) then goes to Saudi/Iran/Palestine/Yemen to broker peace deals – peace deals as in money pumped in to maintain routes of trade**

          **trade at first, see EU for details.

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  6. Dickie says:

    Ukraine Azov Regiment. Don’t suppose the BBC will mention this during the run up to the Eurovision contest:

    Of course this could also be played as an introduction to the Ukranian contestant:

    Guess I’m just an old cynic.

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  7. MarkyMark says:

    It’s finally happened. Buzzfeed News is shutting down. In an internal memo sent to employees this afternoon, Buzzfeed CEO Jonah Peretti confirmed the flailing news site has run out of road, with 15% of the broader Buzzfeed workforce laid off. Some journalists will be kept on at HuffPost – for now. Peretti adds that he “overinvested” in Buzzfeed News and didn’t “hold the company to higher standards for profitability“. Peretti could have figured this out sooner if he’d just read Guido for the last five years…

    Peretti said:

    “While layoffs are occurring across nearly every division, we’ve determined that the company can no longer continue to fund BuzzFeed News as a standalone organization.”

    order-order.com

    …………..

    Maybe the BBC after using a parody account to report on they should take their own advice … BBC News is covering itself in glory with its coverage of events in Zimbabwe this morning, quoting a Zanu PF parody account as a genuine source. {order-order 15nov2017}.

    . . . BBC on how to spot fake news . . . but fail to spot parody . . . .

    Buzzfeed on avoiding Fake News – Fiona Rutherford, news reporter at BuzzFeed on avoiding Fake News. {bbc newsround feb2017}

    https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/11/13/monday-open-thread-51/comment-page-3/#comment-880952

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/av/39004717

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    Why the Left’s Vision of Equity Is Flawed | Douglas Murray

    “People demand that everyone must be treated equally , even if they are horribly bad at a job, being a person, rubbish at a role .. putting everyone on the same level, means no one will advance, infact, the standards are always lowered to cater for the less able and skilled.”

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    • Thoughtful says:

      Poor old Douglas hasn’t seen the economic thermo nuclear bomb about to detonate in the West which will make all of these crazy ideas simply unworkable as people struggle in a nose diving standard of living to put bread on the table.

      Those people who are still bleating about this rubbish are very likely to find themselves lynched – literally hung by the neck from a tree as being part of the group which led a country to the dire straits is is going to find itself in.

      All of these crazy ideas will die as the Socialist mafia Democrats kill the country they are leading to anhilation.

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  9. Thoughtful says:

    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/apr/19/richard-sharp-future-bbc-chair-doubt-uncomfortable-report-boris-johnson

    Richard Sharp’s future as BBC chair in doubt over ‘very uncomfortable’ report

    Former Conservative party donor reportedly briefed on findings of investigation into his appointment

    I’m sure the Grauniad are loving it, but when you allow Socialists into power corruption inevitably follows them.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      https://www.bbc.com/aboutthebbc/whoweare/richard-sharp/

      Richard has had a forty-year career in finance working with a number of financial institutions. Most notably he worked at JP Morgan and was for 23 years a partner at Goldman Sachs. Subsequently Richard served for two terms on the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee, charged with protecting the UK’s financial stability. Richard has served on the boards of public and private companies in the UK, Germany, Denmark and the United States.

      charged with protecting the UK’s financial stability
      charged with protecting the UK’s financial stability

      Throughout his career Richard has supported and held governance roles in a number of non-profit organisations including, amongst others, the Royal Academy of Arts, The Royal Marsden, The Institute of Cancer Research, International Rescue, and Uprising.

      The fees for non-executive directors of the BBC Board are set by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.

      The Chairman receives fees of £160,000 per annum. The time commitment for the Chair will be at least 3–4 days per week.

      Outside activities/membership of voluntary/statutory organisations

      The Sharp Foundation
      Human Love
      UpRising

      https://uprising.org.uk/

      Amira is a recent UpRising alum and – full disclosure! – will join four other alumni Trustees on the UpRising board in Autumn 2022. As Head of West Midlands with CoachBright (a social mobility charity pairing university students and disadvantaged pupils) in her day job, Amira also consults with the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, helping them to understand why and how they fund the work they do and helping ensure they’re inclusive for young people.

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  10. Terminal Moraine says:

    Compare / contrast BBC reporting on US neighbourhood shootings this week:

    16yr old boy shot —

    “Protests erupted in Kansas City, Missouri, over the weekend after a homeowner shot a black teenager twice who rang their doorbell by mistake […] I do recognise the racial components of this case,” Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves said. “I do recognise and understand the community’s concern and the community’s response to this particular incident.”

    6 yr old girl & father shot —

    “Police in North Carolina are searching for a man accused of shooting a 6-year-old girl and her father after their basketball rolled into the suspect’s yard […] Police have issued warrants for Mr Singletary’s arrest, said Gaston County Police Chief Stephen Zill in a statement on Wednesday. Chief Zill added that ‘this sort of violence will not stand.'”

    Suspect in the 2nd case went into his house to get a gun (and is alleged to have previously assaulted his girlfriend with a sledgehammer). The shooter was black, the girl white and the BBC don’t include her photo. Some “community concerns” are more equal than others.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65299127
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65325867

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  11. StewGreen says:

    ITV local newsPR have the Lincolnshire girl on who has just got back from being a post mistress in Antarctica.
    They were hoping to air some Global Warming scareporn
    Sadly for them she reported that
    “the penguin babies were one month late going into the water. this year, due to too much snow”

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    • StewGreen says:

      BBC local had her on live , but no global warming angles was pushed
      ..if had the presenter would have been mocked.

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  12. StewGreen says:

    Lincolnshire village community association booked Punch and Judy show for their Coronation event.
    They were forced to cancel it cos the parish council said it had complaints the show trivialises domestic violence
    and it said it would cancel the entire evel unless Punch was cancelled.

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  13. Dickie says:

    Seems the ICC should be prosecuted themselves

    https://thegrayzone.com/2023/04/13/nato-states-icc-prosecutor-putin/

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  14. tomo says:

    Yep … if he were going to Shell UK we’d never hear the end of it with the BBC + Guardian leading the mob.

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  15. Messenger says:

    I went to buy a small carton of vanilla ice cream at
    M & S today, Each one had the calorie count on the front in large print, so I refused to buy it.

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  16. Zephir says:

    Another bbc child:

    “BBC is accused of ‘obvious bias’ as it emerges new political fact-checker is a Labour activist and Jeremy Corbyn supporter who said ‘never trust a Tory’ and described Conservative MPs as ‘lower than invertebrates’

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11995987/BBC-accused-obvious-bias-emerges-new-political-fact-checker-Labour-activist.html

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  17. digg says:

    If you like food better give the BBC food section on their website a miss today unless you are a Vegan, Vegetarian or Muslim.

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  18. Sluff says:

    And yet again we have a fine example of our NHS heroes in action.

    Herpes deaths: NHS trust lied about virus links, inquest hears
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-65340919

    But the biased BBC once again fail to join the dots. A nationalised industry more interested in protecting itself than the public.

    These are the same people going on strike for more pay and failing to provide the public with healthcare for which we are all paying through the nose

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  19. Guest Who says:

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    • markh says:

      I don’t suppose that it occurs to these ethnic minority groups that they could actually do something themselves to integrate into our society. FFS.

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  20. Guest Who says:

    Interesting comments.

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  21. JohnC says:

    ‘Musk’s SpaceX big rocket explodes on test flight’
    https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65334810

    Complete with picture of explosion. Not the launch.

    Classic BBC. The explosion is absolutely not the story here. The launch was a magnificent achievement and the rocket was intended to be completely lost. It was just that : a test flight to learn.

    But of course the BBC hate Musk because he is right-wing. So they make sure everyone’s initial impression is that it failed and by using ‘Musk’s’ in the headline, Elon failed as well.

    As usual you have to read the full article to get any idea of the truth.

    I’m so sick of the BBC and their hate-based articles. As usual this one eventually tells the real story but they go out of their way to make you think otherwise.

    And of course they don’t tell the full story out of any sense of journalistic ethics. They do it because if they can be proved to be so utterly biased from the actual information they give, they will get reformed and lose their compulsory funding.

    That’s the only reason. They are Leftist activists playing a long-term political game. I despise their dirty ethics.

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    • Guest Who says:

      The bbc has learned nothing. It knows only juvenile mean gurl targeting.

      The BBC do not hate Musk because he is right wing… which despite immense wealth he is not.

      What they are trying to undermine are his efforts to ease control of their selected edit messages from the likes of Bowen, Lineker, Spring, etc…

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  22. Zephir says:

    Brilliant:

    “Former World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn vows to help hundreds of fans sue Just Stop Oil protestor who disrupted a match at the Crucible by throwing orange powder on the table

    Hearn plans to sue protester who disrupted World Snooker Championship”

    Barry Hearn plans to pay for fans to sue the Just Stop Oil protester who disrupted the World Snooker Championship.

    The first session of Monday’s match at the Crucible between Robert Milkins and Joe Perry was stopped after Edred Whittingham threw orange powder on the table.

    Now former World Snooker chairman Hearn wants the 400 spectators who were ‘robbed’ of action to be compensated by taking the student to the small claims courts. ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-11996497/Former-World-Snooker-chairman-Barry-Hearn-vows-help-hundreds-fans-sue-Crucible-protestor.html

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  23. Zephir says:

    Wokes and their mental elf:

    “My boyfriend’s cancer battle was ruining my mental health so I left him – now I’m running a marathon in his honour”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11994095/My-boyfriends-cancer-ruining-mental-health-left-him.html

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    • JohnC says:

      I wonder how the boyfriend is coping with cancer on his own after this self-centred, virtue-signalling low-life left him.

      Woke = weak.

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  24. Zephir says:

    Natural evolution ?

    so… gays die out and those that are thick and cant speak the language properly ?

    So we can look forward to those being thrown out of the bbc as well ?

    “Exodus of older Radio 2 presenters is ‘natural evolution’ and nothing to do with the station ‘trying to get younger’, BBC boss says”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11997065/BBC-boss-Exodus-older-Radio-2-presenters-natural-evolution-not-trying-younger.html

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  25. JohnC says:

    Alec Baldwin: Manslaughter charges dropped over shooting
    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65343821

    The development comes less than two weeks before a trial was set to begin.

    A statement released by New Mexico special prosecutors Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis said that “over the last few days… new facts were revealed” in the case, requiring further investigation.

    How bad does this story stink ?.

    Welcome to the USA where those who can afford big, nasty lawyers can bully their way out of charges.

    ‘Involuntary manslaughter is the killing of a human being without intent of doing so, either expressed or implied.’

    He held the gun and pulled the trigger. How can he possibly not be guilty of manslaughter ?.

    His lawyers have apparently claimed the gun’s trigger was modified to make a ‘misfire’ more likely. A misfire is when it DOESN’T shoot. And how did the FBI miss that when they confirmed it could not go off by accident ? (thus proving Baldwin to be a liar, but nobody mentions that).

    And why would that cause the charges to be dropped ?. It should just be part of the evidence of the trial.

    There should be an outcry about this – but he’s a darling of the MSM because he’s a Lefty activist who hatres Trump so they will keep quiet.

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    • Flotsam says:

      Involuntary manslaughter is for situations such as a motor accident resulting in death. A driver might have caused a death because of his bad driving. The driver never intended to injure or kill anyone but did cause a death and is to blame, hence involuntary manslaughter.

      Baldwin’s case is totally different. He obviously never intended to kill or injure but are his actions blameworthy? The film set employed someone responsible for the guns, Baldwin had no reason to believe he was handling a gun that contained live ammunition. The Court seems to think so too.

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      • tomo says:

        Baldwin is familiar with firearms on film sets.

        Firing blanks *at* people should be limited to the actual scene. Even blanks have risk.

        Imho involuntary homicide is a slam dunk – the punishment is an entirely separate part of the process.

        I wonder how much his legal team are trousering?

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        • JohnC says:

          Quite right Tomo : even blanks are very dangerous at close range.

          I read earlier that Baldwin has the best legal team that money can buy and their first tactic is to bombard the prosecution with anything they – and the legions of junior researchers billing the hours – can come up with. To the point where it is basically bullying.

          I disagree with you completely Flotsam. Baldwin took a real gun, pointed it at someone and pulled the trigger without knowing if it was loaded or not. There is no conceivable situation I can think of that excuses that from being manslaughter. Except in the lala land the USA has become. Anyone who has ever been involved with real firearms know that if someone hands you a gun, the first thing you ALWAYS do is check it is safe. There are no special rules for actors.

          The court didn’t kick the charge out : the prosecution dropped it.

          ‘Prosecutors said on Thursday they will dismiss the involuntary manslaughter charges against Baldwin, but that the office would investigate further and that the charges could be refiled.’

          What kind of nonsense is that ?. We all know they won’t. It stinks.

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          • tomo says:

            JohnC
            if you are curious…

            keep an eye on Robert Barnes at Viva Frei / David Freiheit and America’s Untold Stories on Rumble – they have been providing detailed, informed coverage and they’ll be all over this this weekend on both channels

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  26. Fedup2 says:

    BBC News

    Do you notice the decline in both quality and increase in bias .

    I picture a woke ‘ sleepy female? Kidult going through press releases and deciding they are worthy of broadcast on the news – today they are running one on ‘research ‘ into the sleeping pattern of bull seals ? Really ? And the relevance to anyone ? Is stuff like that put out for a bet ?

    Al beeb is also going far bigger on some so called religious thing by an alien false religion chiefly imported by pakis . It gets far more references that the Christian Easter . Funny that .

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  27. Guest Who says:

    Might be worth BBC NA checking.

    Or, Springster?

    Or, not?

    Likely not news.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook restricting a story about Joe Biden’s son during the 2020 election was based on FBI misinformation warnings.

      The New York Post alleged leaked emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop showed the then vice-president was helping his son’s business dealings in Ukraine.

      Facebook and Twitter restricted sharing of the article, before reversing course amid allegations of censorship.

      Zuckerberg said that getting the decision wrong “sucks”.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62688532

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    • MarkyMark says:

      YOUR COMPLAINT:

      President Trump’s 100 Days President Biden’s 0 Day 

      Dear Winston Smith in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth,

      You covered President Trump’s 100 Days and then produced a Beyond 100 Days to hold power to account.

      Why have you not done the same for President Biden to hold power to account?

      ‘Omission is the greatest form of lie.’ 

      ———-

      Thank you again for contacting us,

      BBC Complaints Team
      http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints

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    • JohnC says:

      Already under the BBC carpet.

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  28. tomo says:

    Stop accurately gendering people

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  29. Guest Who says:

    BBC News.

    Sorry, that’s a party political. Hard to tell.

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    • gb123 says:

      I used to work for a Logistics company. The MD used a phrase constantly about proposals to clients. Never promise what you cannot deliver. Shame our “elites” cannot follow that mantra.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      No Dom status – Barry Gardiner on £500K from china – would help the NHS?

      ………………

      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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  30. Fedup2 says:

    Bias by absence .

    Do you notice the difference in treatment between a Blue Labour PM – cakegate – and the daily poison that is the SNP . The incompetence and corruption of the SNP barely gets a mention on the UK BBC despite the horror show . …

    .. now I wonder why that might be ? Could it be proffered breakup of the UK – which the BBC dreams of ? Or maybe a paki Muslim leader ? Or both …

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  31. Guest Who says:

    How can the country trust the BBC to hold to account anyone they actively propagandise for?

    https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/broadcast/bbc-and-channel-4-news-both-accept-failure-to-reveal-labour-links-of-nhs-winter-crisis-sources/

    https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/trust-upholds-complaint-against-bbc-news-over-inaccurate-tweet/

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  32. Guest Who says:

    BBC carpark?

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    • StewGreen says:

      Is it really the first ?
      I thought there’d been a few stories in the past.

      Oh that sub was caught in 2019
      Wiki “In 2019, Spanish authorities apprehended a 20 m semi-submersible off Galicia, containing 3,000 kg of cocaine, in the first known incident of a submarine crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
      Operation Black Tide: The Suicidal Journey, a book from author Javier Romero, is a detailed narrative of the enterprise. ”
      “The drug trafficker Laureano Oubiña affirmed the existence of a marine cemetery of narco-submarines near the Canary Islands”

      Today BBC
      \\ “For more than 20 years traffickers have been using submarines to reach Africa and Europe, but these two are the first we’ve seized,” explains Antonio Martinez Duarte, //
      … so they admit 2019 was NOT the first

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    • MarkyMark says:

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  33. StewGreen says:

    7:45am R4 Today: Muslim equalities officer banging on about Ramadan (Thought For The Day)

    7:50am The black editor of Vogue doing PRasNews promoting one of his *woke* initiatives, a new cover focusing on *disabled* people.

    BBC tickboxing

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  34. Fedup2 says:

    Do you notice just how poor the quality of ‘politicians ‘ is ?

    Two big cases – cake gate – where nut nut thought appointing a friend of starmer to ‘investigate ‘……

    Now there is the Raab – where a barrister was appointed to inquire into the conduct of a senior minister …..

    How did the blue labour fools expect either report to pan out – Raab can never be exonerated – it will just be there – and the green card PM adds to the damage by delaying the inevitable firing of Raab and subsequent industrial tribunals against Raab for the coming years – all through the election .

    They are not worth voting for ….apart from the hope they won’t put up taxes more than they have done …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Barry Gardiner laughs as he stuffs his £500K from china under the bed for a rainy day.

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  35. Fedup2 says:

    Today 0810

    Poor Meesh desperate to get someone from NASA to rubbish Elon musk and his rockets . It doesn’t matter that the biggest rocket ever launched cleared the tower – a huge event for something new .
    All meesh wanted to hear was that NASA wouid stop funding the musk rocket company . The BBC want musk dead – one way or another – whether it’s ‘blue ticks ‘ on twitter or something else … they cannot allow a capitalist to make money / be successful ….. eff em

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  36. AsISeeIt says:

    On a morning when we’re teased that the late historical novelist Hilary Mantel had been working on an ‘Austin mash-up‘ – no, that’s not the title for a tale about the demise of British Leyland – this was in fact to have been a book based on the plots of Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice in combination with those of her other novels. A sort of Hilary port-Mantel? Anyone?

    Please yourselves… Pearls before swine… I say that, in the manner of some of those camp comic acts, the likes of Frankie Howerd or Lily Savage, who liked to bait their adoring audiences.

    There’s a sort of convenient confluence of theme that might group these three news items into one portmanteau story:

    Sunak accused of dithering over Raab bullying decision… allegations he bullied staff… Complaints into Raab’s behaviour from several civil servants were investigated… Colleagues of Raab, not involved in the inquiry, have said he could be “pretty belittling” and that he made a member of staff cry (BBC)

    Ofsted promises changes after headteacher… took her own life while waiting for Ofsted to publish a report grading her school Inadequate. (BBC)

    Blair-style NHS targets will return under Labour government Sir Keir Starmer says… “I’d like to begin see a difference straightaway,” he explained during a visit to York, a target seat in next month’s local elections. “But it will take time because reforming public services always does. (‘i’ newspaper)

    To borrow a catchphase from disgraced Australian Rolf Harris… this coincidence of theme… can you see what it is yet?

    Moving on… here’s a fascinating divergence in house-style we’ve noticed between our BBC and fellow travelling favourite newspaper the Guardian.

    There’s some weird and wonderful and out of the (previously) ordinary crime cases that crop up these days – perhaps not all of them the preserve of recent arrivals over here in the UK.

    Our BBC news web site don’t do a Crime tab – you may speculate on their reasoning there – but if they did it might be easier to find some of those here today, gone into the lost wasteland of regional news tomorrow, disappeared completely the next day reports.

    Anyway this oddity looks to be homegrown: Man in court over castration broadcast website… Marius Gustavson, 45, from Tottenham, north London, is alleged to have performed extreme body modifications, including the removal of genitals. (BBC) – in those popular adverts when someone does something daft the tag line is “Should have gone to Specsavers” – how about this chap “Should have got a job at Tavistock clinic

    There’s mainly chaps involved in this bizarre case with what Al Murray the Pub Landlord might term “beautiful British names” – but who knows these days?

    Where were we? Ah, odd crime cases and BBC/Guardian house-style divergence.

    Cardiff: Mum accused of killing toddler through fasting… religious fasting during the Covid lockdown, a court has heard. Olabisi Abubakar, 42, was found “thin, malnourished and dehydrated” on a sofa bed alongside her son, Taiwo, in June 2020. (BBC) – clearly Lockdowns drove the population crazy – some more than others – but that’s a side issue. We note however the BBC declines to tell us anywhere in this report what denomination of religion was involved here.

    ‘That would be an ecumenical matter’ – to quote from Father Ted. In a bid to clean up Father Jack’s foul language ahead of a visit from the much feared Bishop Brennan, Father Ted desperately tries to equip the alcoholic priest with… go-to phrases (thank you Irish Indepenedent)

    In contrast the Guardian seizes this opportunity with relish: ‘Deeply religious’ woman caused son to die through fasting, Cardiff court told… A devout Christian mother caused the death of her three-year-old son by making him join her in a religious fast (Guardian)

    But there’s another layer to this woman’s behaviour which again the BBC has obfuscated: …at a time when she was fearful of Covid and worried about her immigration status, a jury has heard. Olabisi Abubakar, 42, an asylum seeker, is accused of the manslaughter of her son Taiwo (Guardian)

    Am I really going to have to go to the Gruan of all places for those details the BBC is keen to sanitise?

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  37. Guest Who says:

    😂

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Fined – money making scheme.

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      • G.W.F. says:

        Could you avoid a fine if you are carrying a copy of the Guardian which can be used to scoop up the poo?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Guest who – don’t you know april fools was 21 days ago ? Lol

      I think it’s an excellent idea to have a law demanding the production of dog poo / bags on demand – with summary execution of the dog ‘ / owner should they fail to produce them .

      Not too fond of dogs .. used to think the last words I’d hear on earth would be ‘don’t worry he won’t hurt you ‘ …

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      • Guest Who says:

        “But concerns were raised about how the new rules would be funded and enforced.”

        Su, and others, seem to feel more staff needed.

        Of what calibre, who knows?

        If an oik in a C&A hoodie and jeans like a TVL officer demands I turn out my pockets they might be disappointed.

        Do it to a local chevalier walking their pit bull after closing time and they might get more than that.

        Hence they stick to 9-5 to snag the grannies.

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  38. Guest Who says:

    Likes a good resonance, does our Reeta.

    When stretching to the limit almost reaches BBC excess.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Whites are the villians?

      Remember – whites are a minority in world demographics.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I wonder if reeeta is a bit worried about the redundancy letter ? I’d think she’d be safe on the ‘coloured wimmin’ count but she’s getting on a bit and a younger Muslim version would be more ‘bbc ‘ . ….

      … so we can look forward to more of them trying to outwoke each other ….
      And can you imagine the complexion of the audience for that crap ? Soon to be a major motion picture – straight to bust Netflix …

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  39. Zephir says:

    Hypocrite’ Extinction Rebellion co-founder buys plastic-packaged fruit that’s been flown THOUSANDS of miles to her local Waitrose from around the world (before taking it all home in a diesel car)

    Daily Mail today

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    • Guest Who says:

      Going full Hunt The Queen of Spades route?

      Don’t know why; the largest broadcaster in the world gives such things a clean pass.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Crowdfunder has raised huge amount within a week

      A crowdfunding appeal by Extinction Rebellion is expected to hit £1m after £800,000 was raised in the first week.

      The cash is to support its direct action in London with the group saying the cash will be used to fund living expenses of the rebels as they attempt to shut down major infrastructure.

      Organisers say that the monthly living expenses amount to £400 for full-time rebels and £200 for part-time ones.

      However it is thought the group will not apply for charity status or official funding.

      https://tfn.scot/news/extinction-rebellion-on-road-to-becoming-millionaires

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  40. Scroblene says:

    The little chap the Beeb have on their books is one of the new leftie kids to take the place of grown-ups they’re kicking out…

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11995987/BBC-accused-obvious-bias-emerges-new-political-fact-checker-Labour-activist.html

    The account below just about sums up the lazy, vacuous stance the beeboid elite make up at every turn!

    “BBC sources stressed that the vast majority of Bentley’s social media posts pre-dated his employment at the broadcaster and insisted that they employ people of all kinds of backgrounds.

    ‘Once people are BBC employees, they are bound by the BBC’s editorial rules of impartiality, but any opinions they’ve expressed before working for the BBC, in this case when they were at university, are completely irrelevant,’ said a spokesman.”

    If I could be arsed, I’d uncover the mutitude of occasions when beeboids have turned up pre-beeb employment smeers, gaffes, infidelities, crimes etc., but I do in fact have a life…

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  41. MarkyMark says:

    Rishi and wife have shares in India – might need to pay repatriations?

    17e5708a-7a18-409b-8e58-bb6c6c8d81bc-c1244885-2805-478b-812f-4e8df5dc028c

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  42. Dickie says:

    Religion. Not a popular subject in the west nowadays but still relevant in the east:

    https://sonar21.com/the-anti-god-subtext-to-the-war-in-ukraine/

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  43. StewGreen says:

    BBC drought porn vs reality

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  44. JohnC says:

    World Press Photo won by image of wounded pregnant woman in Mariupol
    https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-65340265

    There we have it : what they are all after. The BBC most of all. Awards.

    That’s why all the stories are empathy-laden essays about civilians who have nowhere to live and charge their phones at generators so they can tell loved ones how much they love them.

    You can be sure the BBC will award themselves a whole raft of them at some point.

    These journalist scum don’t care one jot about the soldiers in a living hell at the front. Their easiest day is a hundred times worse then anything the civilians have to put up with.

    Awards.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Her story was initially corroborated by Amnesty International, a British-based global NGO, which published several independent reports about the supposed killings[3] and testimony from evacuees. Following the liberation of Kuwait, reporters were given access to the country. An ABC report found that “patients, including premature babies, did die, when many of Kuwait’s nurses and doctors … fled” but Iraqi troops “almost certainly had not stolen hospital incubators and left hundreds of Kuwaiti babies to die.”[4] Amnesty International USA reacted by issuing a correction, with executive director John Healey subsequently accusing the Bush administration of “opportunistic manipulation of the international human rights movement”.[5]

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

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  45. pugnazious says:

    Mishal Husain told Labour’s Wes Streeting this morning that the NHS clearly needs lots more cash….will he oblige?

    Talk about leading ‘question’….and note…no asking ‘where will the money come from?’

    It’s not for the BBC to decide what the solution is but to ask what Streeting thinks the problem is and his solution to it.

    The BBC is the biggest lobby group out there…with only one solution…more money.

    And of course the BBC, in the shape of Husain, has already decided Raab is guilty…..her interview all directing the listener to assume that guilt.

    And of course we find that the BBC’s newly appointed ‘fact checker’ is a hard-line Corbyn supporter who hates the Tories.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11995987/BBC-accused-obvious-bias-emerges-new-political-fact-checker-Labour-activist.html

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  46. MarkyMark says:

    Yet another Common Purpose/BBC/Snivel Serpents victory.
    Raab’s first big mistake is being a Conservative.

    His second big mistake was expecting Snivel Serpents to do what they are paid for.

    order-order.com

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  47. pugnazious says:

    Apparently under the Democrat administration if you…

    ‘Sow discord, spread pro-Russian propaganda and interfere in elections in the US’.

    ….you will go to jail.

    Hmmm…er…isn’t that exactly what the Democrats themselves did as they spread Russian black propaganda about Trump in that dodgy dossiervas they tried to steal the election back?….and all eagerly aided and abetted by the BBC which happily reported it all as ‘fact’.

    Lock’em up!

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  48. pugnazious says:

    Riots in Birmingham between Blacks and Asians 18 years ago….racism between the Bames? Lol. No.

    Apparently this was all a white supremacist plot…institutional racism forced these communities to live apart and to then rise up against each other….divide and rule as no doubt the inestimable Abbott would claim.

    It wasn’t that Blacks and Asians hate each other and hold each other in contempt…it’s White people that are the problem….forcing Bames to live in separate racial ghettoes, in poverty stricken deprived areas creating tensions and desperation…..the racist hate monger, Kehinde Andrews, was of course a prime witness….he couldn’t afford to live in a white area…thus must live in a black ghetto…..oh…hang on…why didn’t he live with the Asians then who are supposedly just as poor and deprived? And weren’t the areas all white before, er, the Blacks moved in?

    And of course the Asians are lackeys of the colonialists…part of the colonial system imported from Africa when they fled from there….and they were skilled people whilst Blacks had few skills…but it was white racism that selected skilled Asians for jobs instead of unskilled Blacks wasn’t it?

    The most racist and posionous rubbish you will hear…and all pouring out of the BBC as it spreads hate and division all day long.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001l2dw

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