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A piece of Russian music by Rachmaninov, but as if it wasn’t difficult enough a Mr Gryaznov decided it needed to be even more difficult !
Enjoy !
T, I was hoping you would let Debs have a go at three first places in a row.
Oops have I stolen someones hat trick?
When bris returns I’m gonna invoke moderator super natural powers to ensure she is first ….so stand by to be ‘trashed ‘…
Go for it, Fed!
Up2, if you mean me, I haven’t been first for a couple of weeks. I’ve been away and avoided the BBC. But even had I been here, I am not sure what I would have posted as I hardly ever watch the BBC these days although a couple of minutes usually gives me a post..
Two different people told me that Look North was featuring that Hull and East Riding are going to have a mayor. I was told this is marvellous because the area can then access a lot more money. I just see it as another opportunity for the Left to dominate me.
Brian fade, Debs, on my part: Lucy Pevensey was first in Midweek and posted a trophy pic that was not quite an Ashes ‘urn’ but came close.
You are probably correct in your thinking about Hull and East Riding, and where does Government money and Mayor money come from?
The taxpayer. 🙁
Surely too many notes …
Fed, but they are in the right order. 😉 🙂
The really big sports news is that BBC fave Megan Rapinoe is in the US women’s squad for the World Cup. From their website:
‘Rapinoe will have a different role’
Andonovski [the US manager] has selected nine players who were part of the winning squad four years ago, including Rapinoe, who won the Ballon d’Or that year after picking up the Golden Boot and Golden Ball in France.
Rapinoe suffered a calf injury during OL Reign’s victory over KC Current this month but Andonovski said she is “progressing well” and is expected to feature in the USA’s friendly against Wales on 9 July.
“She is probably going to have a different role than in the previous World Cups,” he added. “She will have different types of minutes.
“Her role from a leadership standpoint is important, but also her performances on the field are very valuable for us.”
Maybe she’ll help her injury by not taking the knee.
Please not more bloody wimmin’s football. I thought they did this ad nauseam last year?
Alex Christoforou:
Who he ?
Russia’s agents, he and his mate.
Oh no – not another couple of Putin’s stooges😂😂😂😂
Ash Sarkar the female Guardian journalist scrapes the bottom of the barrel with this twitter:
‘If the super-rich can spend £250,000 on vanity jaunts 2.4 miles beneath the ocean then they’re not being taxed enough.’
Confirms that Socialists are truly horrible people. I hope someone dances on her grave.
Yes – but light on the Human Compassion thing – but gets her noticed – which is all that £ matters £ ….
@ Flotsam . Soon I hope.
https://twitter.com/jonsopel/status/1672351267807477761?s=61
He is regressing daily.
Ah, the good old days.
Join the dots a bit further, Iain.
Wow – some who watches bbc news – let’s see look the current king ( adulterer ) had a cry ….. and – girl cricket . … they’ve even got a constructed nickname…
It’s said the Russian state and their Wagner Mercenary corp have fallen out
As ever with Russian war stuff you have to consider whether news is Deception for Warfare “maskirovka” (masking)
Oh Newsnight is covering it
Michael Crick – ex-Newsnight – replied to Dale, “BBC News At Ten is the great disappointment of broadcast journalism: so pedestrian, predictable & formulaic. And like an oil-tanker, it takes hours to go in a new direction. A good editor would generate freshness & excitement by placing extra emphasis on late-breaking stories.”
Three questions to ask when “revelations” such as these surface:
(1) Why has it surfaced? (i.e. cui bono?)
(2) Why has it surfaced now?
(3) Why has it surfaced only now?
You can imagine that animal saying ‘look the devil is not a bad guy – he’s just misunderstood ‘ ….nice to see her have a dose of journalism – they’ll be put into their democrat box …
Let’s concentrate on the 5 guys in the crap sub now feeding the crabs ….
The BBC are clinging on to and trumpeting Glastonbury as if their life depends on it. It’s spread all over their website like a rash.
Sorry to tell you BBC but festival goers are very very unlikely to be either your audience or license fee payers….
The Mail makes a more salient point…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12228385/PAUL-REVOIR-BBC-afford-send-500-staff-Glastonbury.html
They want all the stuff that goes on down there for their Iplayer output, but as far as I know Iplayer diesn’t make money, it just spends taxes, so it’s all yet another waste of the TV tax for kids, who as you say, don’t pay the money!
I suppose the equivalent could be a Labour Council sending all it’s staff to Jamaica for a ‘fact-finding mission’…
Scroblene – Good point, only other thing that bothers me with the BBC TV tax is they what you to go to the BBC website for more info on every story it seems.
I pay a TV TAX not an internet Tax thanks, so stop pushing your biased web pages.
digg ,
1000 BBC staff af Glasto…..£300 a ticket , obviously not staying in a tent unless it’s a posh one……so pleased I haven’t had a TV LICENCE for years 😀
Having driven around Canada for a month I can state without equivocation that the roads in the UK are totally and utterly sh***.
Why is this? Because
1. Ludicrous amounts of taxpayers money are directed at the useless, nationalised NHS, not to improve healthcare but to prop up the status quo in order to de-toxify it as a party political factor.
2. There is very little money left for all other services. This conclusion is supported ( but will not be advertised) by some of the most senior members of local government – just look at the state of local social services for proof, not to mention draconian car parking charges and ULEZ zones.
3. Years if not decades of eco-zeolot campaigning have penetrated the residual brain cells of the government. As a result, roads are considered evil and car transport is to be prevented. Justification for this has changed over the years but include pollution, safety, particulates, and now global warming.
4. The obsession with a Victorian mode of transport – trains, ensures mass transfer of funding away from roads.
5. Increasing road capacity is to be prevented as it might ‘encourage car use’. This includes road maintenance. The corollary is that to reduce road capacity must be a good thing.
All of this has a direct and negative effect on productivity, economic growth, and quality of life. A clear opportunity therefore for a budding government if it could free itself from ultra-woke Leftoid eco-warrior groupthink.
Don’t hold your breath.
Good evening.
But don’t forget cyclists contribute billions to the upkeep of the lanes they don’t use….( I view them as parasites now – and I had to dump my car because of the emir of londonistan ) ,…
Wales is bringing in a 20mph in every town and village. London has brought in a similar speed limit by not repairing pot holes.Try driving from the North Circular to Barnet and up to the M25. The car springs will never be the same again. And if they don’t slow you down, fear of yellow boxes will. I got caught in a yellow box where I swear I was driving continuously but very slowly and received a penalty. Not sure whether it is that nice Mr Kahn to blame or Barnet Council.
I think most people do not realize that the 20mph limit is being brought in to antagonize people and make then do what the climate alarmists want. Not since the sixteenth century has this country had a dogma, irrational enforced by the law. People do not protest, as they feel ‘guilty’ from using all that oil. FACT: we are not all going to die, the world is not going to catch fire. You are toy playthings for the ‘correct thinking’ elite. If the Alarmists were right, the rise of 0.7DegC/ century would be almost un-noticible, we are not all going to die. Local authorities , National Governments, College faculty leaders are making billions off you on your guilt. If all motor vehicles were banned in this country. the entire economy would collapse. What is strange is EVERBODY I mention this to , did not vote for this dogma, it is being done to us, not chosen by us.
Sluff
Great point about bad UK roads. IMHO:
1) They are patching instead of resurfacing.
2) Increased car weight because of Chelsea tractors and electric batteries. Damage to road goes up with 4th power of axle weight.
3) Increased power of nazi cars and range rovers mean wheels can scrub off the road surfacing when drivers put their foot down.
4) Diverting road funds from maintainace into speed humps and other traffic-enragement gimicks.
5) Effing diesel double deckers blocking the roads and pile-driving their way into the road surface. Have you noticed the nuuuu bus stops designed to block the traffic?
6) More traffic and congestion because of mass-inwards immigration.
7) More junctions installed so journeys are more stop-start.
8) More road trips as having to drive to the flipping garage to repair broken drop links caused by speed humps and pot-holes.
Add roads ar being narrowed to put in cycle ways. since there is a government edict that says any user of a government paid for utility has to pay for it, this would mean that pedal-cycists have to pay the billions being spent on narrowing the roads, plus the cost of delays motorists suffer. Govt. uses this argument against things they do wanat, so here is it back on the Climate Alarmists.
The Gilt market now controls UK Government spending. Ask Truss and her sidekick. If the Gilt market sees any risk in their investing in Government bonds, they won’t. Can’t blame them. They’ve probably had enough of Government recklessness.
The BBC has 3 different Response to Complaints pages
https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/recent-complaints
BBC public responses to complaints
Their motto is “We think we got it about right”
They seem to deal with 2 things each week
https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/recent-ecu?page=1
The ECU June 22 decisions were about progs from 3 months ago
Their motto is “Complaint Not Upheld”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications
Corrections and Clarifications is also dealing with progs from about 3 months ago
and it’s output is about 1 minor correction per week
Gave up on the BBC complaints commissions long ago, full of nasty ‘politically correct lefties’
How is this different to Pfizer?
The taxpayer funds one a whole lot more than the other
Windrush compen shite…. Lots of people came to the uk at the UK’s expense to make a new life now we must see them as victims and give them lots of ££££’s
1939-45 thousands and thousands of white British men became prisoners of the Germans and the Japanese and suffered vicious and inhumane torture and deprivation and death.
Compensation? Nahhhh too fucking white!
Why do the liberal cunts pushing this black are persecuted agenda want to ignore these real human atrocities?
Don’t tell me…. they are far to friggin white to warrant any sympathy and attention.
Let me warn them it will not go away and sooner or later they will be challenged!
The BBC was discussing on their website the language that is permitted while discussing ‘asylum seekers’ that is intruders and criminals breaking into the country. The reform of language prevents ration discussion, when they are ALL ‘victims’, blameless, who ‘have’ to break in to help themselves. The only discussion now is about the quality of the accommodation and amount of free money they are. to be given. Since they broke the law breaking in, they are criminals, why do the elites think they will suddenly become ‘honest citizens’? Do what Australia did: when they sink their boats to get pulled onto Australian ships, instead, sail away. After Australia did this , there were no more boats for years. If it was few thousands a year, well, that would be manageable, but millions a year (the correct figure), that is different.
The BBC pulled the same stunt a while back stating ‘black music was under represented’ I don’t know how they come out with these nonsensical statements with sniggering like Mutly at the end.
Only a few year before the first Windrush people came to this country voluntarily for a new life thousands and thousands of British people in cities across the UK were blown to bits by German bombs so why no shouts for compensation?
Don’t tell me, it was just a white on white crime so not of any consideration whatsoever to the liberal cunts!
My blood boils for the total bloody injustice of this farcical and greedy pay them movement.
Is it my imagination or does the BBC seem more sympathetic than usual towards a policeman who has been murdered by a black guy?
If so, could it be because in this case it is the policeman Matiu Ratana (Maori father, Scottish mother) who is the immigrant and the murderer Louis De Zoysa (black guy born here) who could be regarded as the nasty native Brit? (I’m trying to think like a Beeboid here.)
Perhaps this case will wake up the woke to the fact that black criminals are a breed apart and are as unpredictable as wild animals. Blacks will stupidly resist arrest in situations where a more intelligent white criminal would realise escape is impossible and give himself up. They are dangerous even when in custody and handcuffed, as this case shows.
Just imagine how much hate you must have in your very being for the cops arresting you to do this.
No doubt he will be verified as having some mental condition that means we should put loads of time into his rehabilitation and make sure he is looked after by the medical profession whereas the dead cop is merely a dead cop. Tough!
In my view he should dangle at the end of a rope.
As mentioned:
“As far as BBC bosses are concerned, this year’s Glastonbury festival coverage is all set to be a huge success for the corporation.
With a ‘record number of hours’ on BBC1 and what has been billed as increased ‘scale and accessibility’ of its ‘iPlayer offer’, the Beeb has been hyping up this year’s event for weeks.
But one thing it is less keen to promote, amid the giddy build-up to what one industry insider has branded the ‘Generation X Proms’, is just how many of its staff decamp to the five-day music festival in Somerset.
You will be hard pressed to find any mention of the roughly 500 workers it is estimated the BBC will be sending to the festival in its press announcements about the event.
How CAN the BBC afford to send more than 500 staff to Glastonbury when times are so tight?
As far as BBC bosses are concerned, this year’s Glastonbury festival coverage is all set to be a huge success for the corporation.
With a ‘record number of hours’ on BBC1 and what has been billed as increased ‘scale and accessibility’ of its ‘iPlayer offer’, the Beeb has been hyping up this year’s event for weeks.
But one thing it is less keen to promote, amid the giddy build-up to what one industry insider has branded the ‘Generation X Proms’, is just how many of its staff decamp to the five-day music festival in Somerset.
You will be hard pressed to find any mention of the roughly 500 workers it is estimated the BBC will be sending to the festival in its press announcements about the event.
(Not surprising, perhaps, given that many in the industry reckon the total could be far greater, though the corporation has described speculation that it could be as high as 1,000 as ‘completely inaccurate’.)
Thousands gather around the the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival in Worthy Farm, Somerset, Friday
Thousands gather around the the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival in Worthy Farm, Somerset, Friday
Presenting team Lauren Laverne, Jack Saunders, Jo Whiley and Clara Amfo are among the BBC’s hordes of employees at the festival
Presenting team Lauren Laverne, Jack Saunders, Jo Whiley and Clara Amfo are among the BBC’s hordes of employees at the festival.
Nor are you likely to read about the sky-high cost of putting up these workers in local four and five-star hotels that many of them are believed to be staying in for the entire five days.
Rooms at the Charlton House Hotel – understood to be one of the BBC’s main bases – cost up to £400 per night.
And the expense of airing this year’s festival, which is said to run into ‘several millions’, has not been made public either. It’s all enough to make the increasingly put-upon licence fee-payer wonder whether this budgetary excess represents value for money.
The multi-million-pound figure should come as no surprise, however, given that the BBC’s blanket coverage of the event – which is featuring top acts including Guns N’ Roses, Sir Elton John, Lizzo and Blondie – will be spread across its TV, radio and online services.
The staggering array of outlets producing shows from those famous fields in the West Country includes BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, Radio 1, Radio 1 Dance, Radio 1Xtra, Radio 2, Radio 6 Music, Asian Network and Radio 4. Then there are numerous live streams on iPlayer and further audio content on BBC Sounds.
And it’s not just specialist music shows that are getting in on the act – numerous mainstream shows are too.
Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour was broadcast from Glastonbury for the first time yesterday, bringing listeners ‘the latest from the festival’, while Zoe Ball’s Radio 2 breakfast show was also based there.
The Daily Mail has been told that BBC employees working for services being subjected to swingeing cuts and job losses regard the atmosphere of excess that surrounds the corporation’s ‘Glasto’ operation as deeply offensive.
One BBC insider says: ‘We are all fuming that the money is so free and easy for these network luvvies while they cut millions from local radio, which has caused incredible upset and sickness.’
A source who works in radio adds: ‘It’s ridiculous, despite Tim’s [director-general Tim Davie] supposed cost-savings diktat to all departments, it’s crazy money sloshing around for this. We thought it would be scaled back after all the multi-millions spent on Eurovision, but it’s huge. Everyone is on the Glasto gravy train.’ There is also a sense of bewilderment among senior TV executives outside the corporation at the way the BBC has made great play of ending ‘duplication’ within some parts of its operation, such as news, but appears to be ignoring that policy at Glastonbury.
One TV boss points to the sheer number of radio stations and TV outlets descending on Worthy Farm: ‘Do Radio 1 and Radio 6 need to be there as well as TV?”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12228385/PAUL-REVOIR-BBC-afford-send-500-staff-Glastonbury.html
Is there a reason that I cannot pick RT News ?
Russian forces heading back to Moscow ?
Something going on . Look out for Breaking News !
Looks like the Russian military have had their ‘Night of the Long Knives’ and tried to get rid of the Wagner group because they are too powerful.
Their leader is mightily pissed off and is heading to Moscow to have words with them.
They aren’t after Putin or trying for a coup (he says) and unreported by the BBC he pledges to return to fight in Ukraine once he’s told them off.
So it will be interesting to see what Putin does. I hope he resolves it because there are a lot more extremeists in their government who are as ruthless as their military leaders are. If a hardliner takes over, it will not be good news at all. They will mobilise fully for war.
The BBC are completely wetting their panties over this and there are some whopping ‘lies by omission’ being told. Their office floor must be quite damp by now.
I look forward to the independent youtube updates to learn what is really going on from people who know all the inside information. The only news site which came up on my search which I would even remotely consider was Al Jazeera : the rest were all the usual far-Left outlets like CNN, BBC, Sky, Independent etc.
Putin to……………..
Taffman, it is very important that people are not allowed to access RT News. If they did, they might get the other side of the story, which wouldn’t do at all. In fact, it might even cast some doubts on what we are told by the press and TV here suggesting, perhaps, that matters are not black and white but consist of many shades of grey (possibly 50 shades of grey). The only totally reliable source of information is the BBC, were everything has been verified and in accordance with Ministry of Defence and Foreign Office instructions, in articles illustrated by pictures from Getty.
I hope that clears matters up.
taffman – get a VPN. Opens up a whole new world on the internet. Bet Marijuana Spring has one.
I am a big fan of RT. Mainly because they were the only news outlet that told the story of Norman Scarf. I was at a loss why the BBC and other MSM outlets gave Norman – a Yorkshireman – such a bad press, it seemed a bit waycist to me. Granted that Norman was a unique character but I did not see him as a danger to the public.
RT gave Norman a sympathetic writeup mentioning his service on HMS Matchless and the sinking of the Scharnhorst (24-25 Dec 1943) as well as serving on the artic convoys.
I do not listen to RT after their special military operation. However the fact that RT is banned seems a bit nannyish to me. Especially since we have the BBC here in the UK and that media outlet really is jammed full of barking marxists.
From the BBC website re housing accommodation crisis:
“The competition for properties is due to:
a failing housing market that has, for decades, built too few properties
a broken asylum system, with record numbers of people awaiting an initial decision on their cases”
So the problem isn’t too much immigration. It’s that they aren’t being processed quick enough!
In Beeb world unrestricted immigration magically produces millions of houses for them (and roads, schools, hospitals, GP surgeries, water, power etc.).
I really wish someone would do a cost/benefit analysis on immigration. I actually understand that we do need some immigration as the indigenous peoples (us old whiteys) are not reproducing at a sustainable rate, but we should, like the Australians and other countries, be only allowing in people with skills, not the world’s, mostly uneducated, detritus.
We don’t need immigration. Maybe some temporary guest workers on fixed time contracts, who then return home, with a legal requirement on the employers to train up a suitable British worker in the meantime. With a tax and benefits system that supports such an approach e.g. no benefit scroungers, and tax and NI breaks for employers.
It really isn’t about cost/benefit analysis, although it is easy to fall into that establisment/globalist trap. It’s about the right of the people of this country to live the way we choose, in accordance with our customs, history and wishes. Many of us would rather live the way we were, even if living standards were reduced, than with the current madness.
IR
I totally agree with everything you have said. We don’t actually need immigration at all.
Some people in the hospitality and other sectors argue that British people won’t do certain jobs but foreigners will. That is simply because our benefits are too high. Foreigners from countries with little or no welfare provision will of course jump at these jobs. Brits are not inherently lazy and foreigners hard-working. It is our benefits system that incentivises idleness. Nobody should be getting benefits if there are jobs available locally that they could do.
I think you hit the nail on the head when you say it’s really all about living the way we choose. When you live amongst people who share your DNA, your ethnicity, your race, your language, your religion, your values, your history, your customs and traditions, you live in a high trust society. We didn’t realise that was what we had back in the day; it is only now after mass immigration has happened that it is clear what we have lost. Of course ordinary people always had an instinct that what was happening was wrong and would lead to disaster for our society. They are not cut off from reality the way many intellectuals are. But the big decisions are made by a tiny elite and the truth about politics is that the economy is run in the interests of globalist companies and there is very little democratic control. It doesn’t matter to the elite that our cities have become low trust and dangerous patchwork quilts of mutually unintelligible and hostile foreign communities. They don’t live there and so they don’t listen to us and they don’t care.
And killed the country .
Well said Ian – I couldn’t agree more, and I’m luckier than some, as we don’t live in a stinking city full of foreigners with none of those credits, our village has a tiny proportion of incomers, and whatever the lefties spout, there’s pretty much bugger all they can do about it!
The Labour Party needs immigration.
Because it relies on their votes.
Just making an observation.
Returning to Heathrow recently our luggage was put not on an empty carousel but for some reason assigned to one on which bags from the Islamabad flight were already arriving.
We had to wait over an hour. We watched.
The Islamabad passengers seemed to consist mainly of surprisingly elderly women with huge amounts of luggage they could in no way handle themselves, and apparently could barely speak English. A phalanx of Urdu-speaking airport assistants were drafted in to help and industrial-size trollies made available for the baggage.
Questions. Who are these people? Do they have UK passports and if so why? Are they just visiting? If so, for how long, given the baggage? What is in so many cases? Do they have travel/ health insurance?
There were no offices at all in the customs hall.
Open borders? International health service? I would ask but would be certain to be accused of being waaaycist.
Now that the BBC has decided inflation is important and bad – it is flailing around looking for a cause and solution .
On Friday it interviewed a leading economist ( the one who invented BRICS ) who is now an American . He says the cause is brexit . I laughed . Now it seems the solution is importing even more foreigners – what they are going to do isn’t clarified .
The solution ? A recession / depression – cutting welfare – the NHS – and increasing interest rates by another couple of % – sit back – wait 2 years ….
… no government has the courage to do the above ….
Fedup2 ,
When Labour and the BBC are in power everything will be Wonderful ,
Minimum wage will be at least £500 a week.
All those Union demands will be met so no more strikes ever ever again .
And when the economy crashes with more Millions given to Ukraine they will blame the Tories , Boris and Brexit !
Graphs show inflation rapidly rising just after lockdown
The mind goggles – apparently “NHS staff “ are to take centre stage at Glastonbury – as I say – the mind boggles .
Will they demonstrate the skill of not working weekends ? Ignoring patients ? The outpatients cattle market ? Ambulance car parks ? Sticking medical mafia ? Obese staff ? ….
That ‘not working weekends’ completely surprised me when my mum was in.
She had an X-ray on the Wednesday which confirmed she could go home if the physio people said it was OK. It was a week later before she was discharged – when we rang to find out on the Friday, we were told nobody was there until Monday !!.
That bed could have been freed on Friday afternoon. Instead it took until the next Wednesday.
JohnC
Sorry to hear that – as a kid I had a girl friend who was a ‘physio’ – ( or was it psycho ?)we used to to have great weekends … and I have personal experience sitting through the Sunday night waiting for departments to open 0800 Monday morning … many times .
I have little regard for the medical mafia – with them – money takes – the rest is pseudo emotional crap –
But make sure you effing clap …
18 months ago I was told by NHS direct to visit A&E ASAP for sudden eye floaters.
1st visit 4 hours wait and then told no ophthalmic doctor available (3am leave) Next day (after 2 hour wait from 3pm appointment time) ophthalmic doctor couldn’t operate the slit lamp biomicroscope – asked back to ophthalmic surgeon next morning (Sunday) – went to actual eye clinic was seen within 20 minutes and surgeon gave me her business card and said “don’t use A&E – just call me directly”.
oh – and 75 miles driving and now there’s a £EZ in the way too….
Terms apply edition
Labour won’t raise top tax rate, says Starmer (Telegraph) – welcome news which ought to allay any slight lingering personal qualms the likes of our BBC bosses, civil service First Divisoners and our public sector top brass may have harboured about voting socialist.
NHS weight-loss tool made people fatter (Telegraph) – well thank goodness NHS managers aren’t on performance-related pay.
By the way, we’ve all heard of Black History, now according to the Mirror and the BMA we have NHS History.
Doctors 5-day strike – screams the Labour-supporting Daily Mirror headline: …as the fight for fair pay escalates. The BMA said the longest single strike in NHS history could be averted if the Tories made a “credible” pay offer – no doubt that’s true. We wonder for a moment how Sir Keir would square the circle of public sector pay hopes pinned on his in-coming government without significant tax increases?
One notices that the best that politicians from across the political divide can offer voters these days is to tell us about those extra taxes they say they’re not going to impose on us: Households spared £120 net zero levy, says Shapps (Telegraph)
Talking of re-writing history: Elton John Pop’s original radical (Telegraph) – that’s not quite how Mr AsI remembers the 1960s
US navy says it picked up ‘anomaly’ hours after sub began mission – as it happened (Guardian) – but US authorities kept quiet about it advantageously gifting the media several days-worth of headlines and consequent leeway to relegate certain other news to their lowly ‘other news’ slots.
UK and US detected Titan sub implosion six days ago – but information was ‘classified’ (‘i’)
Meanwhile there’s a strange blip on European radar: A contested technology that involves manipulating the weather to fight climate change has appeared on the radar of EU regulators for the first time… Among the most controversial techniques is a process called stratospheric aerosol injection, which involves flying a plane 20km-25km above the Earth shooting out micron-sized particals which reflect the sun. (FT) – Chemtrails, anyone?
Remember folks, it’s not a conspiracy theory, if it’s true
One does enjoy the utter hubris of Brussels. Apparently they can’t turn back the tide of the third world and his wife arriving on European shores in small boats: Greece did not respond to an offer to send a plane to monitor a migrant boat that later sank with huge loss of life, EU border officials say. (BBC) – but King Cnut-like they can control – make that ‘regulate‘ – the weather: Controlling the weather to tackle global warming demands regulation, says EU (FT)
Poetry corner
Macavity’s a Mystery Cat: he’s called the Hidden Paw—
For he’s the master criminal who can defy the Law.
He’s the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad’s despair:
For when they reach the scene of crime—Macavity’s not there! (T.S. Elliot)
‘Child identifying as cat’ controversy: from TikTok video to media frenzy… Tory calls for urgent investigation raise eyebrows as Rye college says no pupil identifies ‘as a cat or any other animal’ (the Guardian there watching teachers’ backs and insisting this is all just a non-story – Macavity’s not there!)
Who let the cat out of the bag?
The Left only have themselves to blame for this feline self-identification furore. I point readers toward the past antics of the radical George Galloway: George Galloway’s Big Brother cat antics voted cringiest reality TV moment of all time… New research revealed the golden moments that made viewers squirm to most, with the Scots politician topping the list for his unforgettable purring and whisker wagging moment. (Daily Record, July 2021, braveheartedly owning Gorgeous George as a Scot – although for a moment there he self-identified as a tabby)
Mind you, who knows how low any chap of a certain age in the right circumstances might have stooped for the chance: …to lick cream from the hands of actress Rula Lenska (Daily Record)
It happens to be Royal Ascot races week and perhaps that’s why, despite the danger of rapidly soaring interest rates, the Daily Mail feels emboldened to make a rather risky punt on: Win your mortgage paid for a year – Risky. However, as with: Hunt eases pain… Chancellor secures new charter from banks to help households… (Mail) you can bet a pound to a penny there’s: Terms apply
If only the British could learn from the attitude of Greek coastguards – just don’t bother . The invaders will get the message …. How’s that border control going sunak ?
Is he now known as ‘Stop the boats Sunak’?
taffman, according to the front page of the i newspaper this morning, together with our Fed and your goodself, I think the soubriquet for our current PM is ‘Sunk Sunak’.
Sharks
I wonder if Sunak really believes that normal British citizens will vote for him next year?
Lucky for him, he can get away from it all to somewhere rich, but most normal Indigenous British Citizens don’t want him anywhere around here, and if you’re unlucky enough to live in Greater London, there’s a stupid Mare Khan to contend with as well!
Next Year, the champagne will be flowing all over the Beebolic Plague HQ, as their ‘charter’ will have been extended indefinitely by Starmer!
What a bugger to look forward to…
Fedup2 ,
I was on Twatter for a few weeks …..then a permanent ban because I suggested sinking the Dinghys before they leave France and not picking any up that get through by the RNLI and Border Farce Taxi Services…a very simple solution
Charlie – I look at twitter less and less – I have never ‘engaged ‘ – commented because I see it as full of a holes ( those here excluded of course ) …
It’s ok to see stuff the BBC edits out – such as the bidens and election theft – but the rest ? No …
Channeling BBC fave mave Champion for a sound bite, ‘news’ would be if it happened above their feet.
BBC Might Editorial is awesome.
In a related thought, seeing my FB timeline rammed by posts by idiot leftist paid for by someone.
One was supposedly the yacht owned by Ms. Rowling, with the hope that orcas are directed to ram it.
It was a very big yacht. They are idiots.
Guest, I saw that video clip of a whale rubbing its head against a rudder on MSN or somewhere and my first thought was ‘Awww! It’s just having a good scratch.’ My second thought was ‘Those pesky barnacles, they cling onto whaleskin worse than the BBC to an ever-increasing TellyTax from the UK taxpayer!’
Encourage a flock of them round to the English Channel and train them to attack rubber boats
A few decades the USSR trained dolphins to carry explosive charges and swim up to enemy boats . Somehow or other the charge was then detonated. Orcas are certainly trainable and I’m sure that if they were allowed to clean up after the sinking they could be trained to rip the bottom out of rubber boats. No need for explosives.
A pod of a couple of dozen would soon put a stop to the cross channel invasion in an friendly environmentally way.
Did they not try that with dogs who proved to have a fatal attachment to their trainers ?
Assuming the full tweet reveal will amplify.
Or not.
That’s a no then.
Great day for armchair generals – operation Valkyrie has been declared in Moscow / Berlin – a Russian civil war ? Goody versus Baddies .
Cities ‘fallen ‘ – putin talking to the nation – is this our last weekend ? ( again ) ……
So much we don’t know ….
500? All kid’s if that numbers right I suppose. Anxious to make the claim for their life experiences, ‘I’ve been to Glastonbury, (wow!) I heard so much about it from my parents/Grandparents’. Compliments of the licence payer.
Surely, if “500” is the number, they were specially selected for their ‘whiteness’ (just for continuity with those who publish pictorial views entitled: ‘Hideously White’ showing no black faces)……………
9am Putin appeared in TV and gave a defiant speech.
If it’s true and plans to kill many of his forces , hows that fit with succeeding in Ukraine?
R4 is using reporter Rosenberg in Moscow
well he can’t be honest cos he’s dependent on Putin’s good will.
Pug,
The essential question is, if the country (UK and/or Germany) is bulging at the seams with “immigration”, why do these immigrants not fill all the vacancies i.e. so-called, ‘shortages’?
Mostly all on benefits I guess along with worthless skills.
Can’t we go back to holly and phil and Meghan and hunter biden ( oops – notice the bbc never mentioning him)
Funny how the BBC focused on the Trump family but not so much that of the false demented president ?
And is it time for Obama to pick up the red telephone to putin ?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/bread-circuses-and-submarines/
The article concludes:
“It all stinks. We exist in a world of blatant double standards, with kid gloves for establishment’s lackeys and the cat o’ nine tails for dissenters. Stories that should shake the foundations of the government are brushed aside as mere trifles – as long as the government is sympathetic to the correct causes – and sideshows are spun until they drown out everything else.”
https://sonar21.com/u-s-military-shackled-to-china-because-of-rare-earth-minerals-and-prigozhin-has-a-psychotic-break/
https://tapnewswire.com/2023/06/bit-of-a-bombshell-from-gordon-here-dominic-cummins-kind-of-spills-the-beans-on-the-government-antics-during-covid/
Late in the day, I admit, but I was away at the time and having checked back, no-one seems to have commented on two amusing anomalies at Trooping the Colour.
First was Camilla’s tarty-pink Ruritanian usherette costume – which must have caused a few monacles to drop in Guards’ messes – and second our monarch’s customised slim-line bearskin, quite half the volume of those riding behind him, yet with all the required majestic height. No doubt a normal ‘off the shelf’ model being such a monstrous bore, spending a few thou on something more suited to the regal neck is money well spent.
Harry and Andrew are in good company at times.
Beltane, the smudgers of the MSM prints appeared to me to vote with their cameras and long lenses and favour a certain Princess over Queen Con-of-sorts Camilla on HM’s big day. I cannot bring myself to call her Queen Camilla (sorry, your Majesty) so Queen Consort will have to do.
From the Daily Express on-line:
“A senior news producer at the BBC has leaked messages which show that the Corporation is limiting critical coverage of Sadiq Khan’s controversial expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone.
The plans are set to hit around 70,000 hard-pressed motorists living in the capital with a charge of £12.50 per day because their cars are not ULEZ compliant.
Hundreds of thousands more commuters and businesses from outside London as well will be hit too in what has been described as “a tax grab” which could cost people more than £4,500 per vehicle each year.
The leak to Reform UK Mayoral candidate Howard Cox, who has led Fair Fuel UK for decades, reveals that Mr Khan had applied pressure on the BBC over reporting the issue.
It said that journalists wanting to run stories now needed top level clearance over something that is set to be a major electoral issue in the London Mayor election and general election both next year.
The BBC producer was told in an email to news staff from Dan Fineman Senior News Editor BBC South East: “If any platforms are doing a story on ULEZ charges in the South and Southeast we now need to do a mandatory referral to Jason Horton or Robert Thomson (re) outstanding complaint with the Mayor of London which is very live at the moment.”
… … … …”
So, prima facie, it looks like political interference from the biased BBC
Yup, just seen that Mustapha!
What a cess-pit the GLC – ooops – the London night-Mare’s bunch of leftie cronies has become!
It was only to be expected really; Khan’s a nasty little political midget, (in a huge armoured car though), the Beebolic Soap Opera waddles along at his bidding, but real Londoners get hurt pretty badly!
Come and live down here in leafy Kent, away from the drudgery of a failed capital city, full of coloured crime, full of hate for normal citizens and full of bile from the left-wing Beeboids! We’re meeting at the pub on Wednesday Lunchtime, and you’ll be very welcome!
Funnily enough, we’re all white, hetero-sexual, normal, retired male blokes, so the jokes will all be on the nutters, the loopies, the stop-oil prats, the BBC (of course), and we all have wives and sweethearts at home, glad to see the back of us for a few hours while we do what normal blokes in Britain do best – chat and laugh and discuss men’s cricket over a few pints…
(Actually, I must write to Brissles again, because she’d be the star of the show – leave it to me)!
TOADY Watch #1 – phew, we were within seconds of nuking Mos-Cow after Amol signed off TOADY
I am told that Commanders on our nuclear submarines are forced to listen to the TOADY Programme and BBC Radio Flaw all the time. If they do not hear it for 45 seconds then they have standing authority to fire nuclear missiles they have on board at Mos-Cow as the transatlantic cousins pronounce it. I don’t know if those ‘standing orders’ still obtain as they date back to the end of the Cold War and the UK’s first nuclear submarines.
But there was almost 45 seconds of ‘dead air’ at the end of TOADY. The batty Bee Lady will have been in a flap!
The Dutch might revolt?
I’ll bet all Governments around the EU (sorry Farage, including UK) are monitoring where this goes very carefully.
The community notes seem to indicate some input from the likely perps in “de-fusing” the topic.
Some degree of control of who can own property and who it’s sold to has already crept into the UK.
1) 3% extra stamp duty for anyone buying anything other than their primary home
2) agricultural occupancy planning permission control
3) Houses built and made available only to certain groups of people, ie local residents.
4) Shared equity and ownership for first time buyers only.
5) occupancy restrictions for holiday homes
6) Help to buy for first time buyers only
Not comprehensive but you get the idea. Some might feel these ideas are justified but given the history of unintended consequences of Government interference in markets the signs aren’t good. It all relies on upward housing markets only. People can be saddled with unsaleable properties.
Help to buy, my view:
Help developers to make more profit
Help to make house prices even higher
Help to justify planning for inappropriate developments.
Help to increase taxes.
I’ll never forget Mercouris’ body language just after the “Special Operation” started and he, very uncomfortably, followed the propaganda obviously fed to him by the Kremlin.
I’m not agreeing with all their takes – but by’eck there’s an extraordinary amount of smoke and mirrors doing the rounds.
Yevgeny Prigozhin (the ex hot dog seller) has been a bonkers, reckless loose cannon for months – I feel that’s obvious. He’s “disposable” by both sides even if Nuland et al give him $$$$$.
There’s a lot to unpick/unpack about Wagner.
If you believe this, can I interest you in a second hand bridge?
(I feel I’ve paid it several times over already)
R4 FooC : Michelle Jana Chan had a long lead up to saying more bleaching on the Great Barrier reef, then long last bit speculating a bleak future
Many listeners will have missed the bit in the middle where she said the rain had come and the reef was actually alright.
I can’t see from her Twitter when she recorded it
Stew, someone, somewhere wrote – might be on the Paul Homewood site of your acquaintance – that the Great Barrier Reef is in better health than ever. Bleaching is so last year. The science has moved on.
Strangely theTalkTV screen ban said something like
Wagner trying to do a “far-right coup”
The screen ;abl has now gone
but why use that labe
Maybe they were quoting Putin, but they didn’t put it in quotes.
At least Prigozhin knows what’s next:
a/ Falling from a tall building;
or,
b/ Being irradiated by some sort of potent chemical. (or there’s just, plain ol’ poisoning)
Any bridges in Moscow…?
Umbrellas…?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/legal-challenges-that-could-open-the-covid-vaccine-floodgates/
Gobby Obama shit stirring asking why the doomed sub got more sympathy from the press than the sinking migrant boat in the Med….Nasty whitey again!
Answer:
One involved citizens paying a legitimate company for a legal journey at their own risk.
The other involved people breaking the law to enter another country without legal permission and paying a bunch of gangsters to help them who were 100% responsible for their deaths.
He could of course had asked why the career criminal, drug-addict George Floyd got more sympathy than the young black girl who was shot through the head in a drive-by shooting at her house on the same day.
All of these ‘anti-racism’ activists are hypocritical scum in my eyes now. There opinion is worthless : they just say whatever suits their agenda.
Prigozhin goes off the rails. Probably been offered a job as a presidential advisor to Biden:
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/special-report-emergency-situation?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1ODAwODU1NiwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTMwNTU4OTEwLCJpYXQiOjE2ODc1NzMyOTMsImV4cCI6MTY5MDE2NTI5MywiaXNzIjoicHViLTEzNTEyNzQiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.4tqHtSeJLaWV-Amvo7LYsSSUs7nWH0RswWbmtiXNMBQ
Front page news on the BBC webshite.
I’ll just repeat that.
FRONT PAGE NEWS on the BBC webshite.
‘BBC shows Rick Ashley round at his first Glastonbury’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertainment-arts-66007645
In other BBC world news.
Dog bites man.
Pub accused of selling beer.
Rain seen to fall from cloud.
State television channel sanctimoniously navel gazes and continually advertises itself.
Utterly pathetic.
Quite right Sluff – except they prefer to describe it as ‘promotion’.
You and I both know it’s advertising of course.
Just another example of their ability to deceive themselves even more than their audience – so many of whom watch mesmerised and thankful for the lack of adverts..
Global Warming?
A billionaire’s view. A dose of whats lacking in the zealots: Reality.
That old guy with the red handkerchief is talking complete rubbish. The UK will not disappear if there is a 10 foot rise in sea levels. I used to live 300 feet above sea level in London! Most of the United States will not disappear if sea level rises 10 feet. Has he not heard of the Rockies or the Sierra Nevada? Same is true of Latin America.
That man is so ignorant he gets the rest of Global Warming and Climate Change sceptics a bad name.
The ‘mostly peaceful’ kind?
And why the bbc platforms them constantly to boost their profile and #1degreeofseparation impact.
Funny that! both Brian Cox’s are annoying shit stirrers. Hollywood Brian is worse though – he does not live here and also supports the SNP. Both grade A tosspots though.
ps Who the f*** says they are influential celebrities?
Alistair Coleman the BBC Verify guy went a bit rogue and tweeted that it is obvious that Treans Women are women.
..https://twitter.com/kokokopek/status/1672305884012093443
There was of course a pile on
and he deleted saying this
BBC News ?
Russian civil war ? Not so much …. Glastonberry ? Rick Astley ?OMG it’s so greattttt….
Interesting really. Read on the Daily Mail website about what is possibly a civil war in Russia. But where to go to find out what is happening. I wouldn’t even bother with the BBC, as a) they are all at Glastonbury and b) until they bother to work out what is the line to take the BBC won’t probably put up very much and c) even when they have worked out the line to take, it probably will vary from the truth. Suggestions on Going Postal that it is hiding the Durham Report and Hunter Biden’s emails. I haven’t a ruddy clue but would like to.
That’s a poorly-written piece on the BBC website by someone called Amy Phipps: “Nine sentenced for mistaken identity murder.”
I thought at first the victim must be some totally innocent black guy. But not quite. He was a go-between trying to broker a deal between two rival drug gangs. The nine assailants mistook him for the kingpin of the rival gang. Not that you would understand all that from Amy’s writing. I’ve had to look up other articles about it to get a fuller picture.
I still don’t understand the story though. Didn’t the gang realise this wasn’t the guy they were after? Didn’t they know what the kingpin looked like? Seems pretty stupid to stab first and ask questions later. But maybe they didn’t care too much. In which case it’s not really “mistaken identity”.
Perhaps Amy doesn’t want us examining this story too closely. Eight of the nine convicted seem to be black.
Okay. I will carry on celebrating the Empire Windrush’s arrival in Britain and all the great benefits it brought in its wake.
Amy Fibs.
There, fixed it for you.
Amazing : that story is not even on the UK front page.
The BBC clearly think the story ‘Arrested French publisher faces no further action’ is more important.
Enrichment agenda trumps truth once again.
Not easy to find Ms Phipps though. Usually BBC narcissists are all over twitter showing off because they can’t believe they got that job. Google keeps throwing this one at me – so it may well be her:
It certainly looks like what I have grown to expect.
Many …issues ….
The blue hair reminds me of Rapinoe, who I mentioned above.
Z, three cheers for your journalism and research, putting a £3.5 billion (but reducing) resourced supposed news organisation to shame.
TOADY Watch #2 – if you didn’t know the Glastonbury Festival is on you do not listen to BBC Radio or watch TV
But TOADY listeners have to be reminded and Amol gets to do the softnews item after the batty Bee Lady gets in a flap over events in Russia. ‘Ukraine Invades Russia!’ I wonder if the Ukrainian flag will disappear from the Daily Express front page or Rishi Sunak will visit President Putin or send Russia some of our tanks and aircraft?
Give up that Licence Fee. Just say “No.” You know it makes sense.