Weekend 15th July 2023

The investigation of the conduct of the 4th highest paid BBC presenter continues . Maybe the ‘victims ‘will come forward to give their account . In any event the BBC – in its 100th year – remains subject to criticism- from which it will continue to try to deflect.

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    • JohnC says:

      ‘powerful US figures including Joe Biden have used Ukraine for personal corruption and the geopolitical aim of bleeding Russia — all to the detriment of Ukrainians.’

      I’ve been saying that from the very start and I absolutely believe it’s true.

      This is all about future world power and China is the elephant in the room. The USA know they will not be able to defeat China if they are allied with Russia.

      And the Ukranians are being slaughtered because of it. Biden doesn’t care one bit. As a self-proclaimed ‘good judge of character’ (:-) – I can tell his is a nasty b@st@rd when you scrape through the veneer.

      Is it right for the long-term global picture ?. I don’t know – but the USA are behaving like Nazi Germany. They deliberately gave Russia no choice.

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  1. TrickCyclist says:

    The first three headline items on the ITV Evening News:
    – Hot weather in southern Europe
    – Windy weather here
    – Disposable vapes can’t be recycled
    As Joe Brown once sang, What a Crazy World We’re Living In.

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  2. Guest Who says:

    Thing is, guys and gals… don’t make the campaign too obvious.

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    • Guest Who says:

      The Indy gave us Amol.

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      • Sluff says:

        Don’t tell anyone but for years many Madrinellos have gone to Galicia for their hols. That’s the yellow bit top left.And work ‘Summer Hours’, around 6am – 1 pm.
        Shock. Horror. Your average Spaniard knows it gets hot in Summer.

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        • G says:

          If I hear all this stuff about ‘excess’ temperatures in Europe and associated ‘health warnings’, again, I’ll scream !!

          No body warned me about excessive temperatures when I moved to Saudi Arabia…………and I coped, learning some essential lessons. High on the essential list:

          keep a spare key for the car readily available so you can fire the thing up and engage the aircon and then lock the car (running) before you return to the vehicle 10/15 minutes later after the aircon has done its job. [And before anyone comments, yes, very little is nicked in Saudi – I just put that eccentricity down to Western ways of thinking]

          Always keep a cotton handkerchief handy – Used to insulate the pinkies from the searing hot door handle when opening. [Despite the handle being chrome plated!!]

          When parking the vehicle, judge where the Sun will be shining from during the period you are away from the car and get that protection from buildings etc.

          Home? Always keep curtains closed and behind, windows fractionally open.

          Et al.

          Did I survive without warning for this and that?

          All change afterwards, moving to Singapore and thereabouts. But that’s another story……….

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    • Guest Who says:

      Femi chips in.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      There is plenty of mental instability on the BBC TV so having Huw back should be good for viewing figures ….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Children in Need …of £35K?

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  3. tomo says:

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  4. digg says:

    The BBC are striving hard to link the hot weather spat in Italy to the Armeggedon of Climate Change….

    At any time in any summer period some bloody country in history will get warm temperatures, we will now be subjected to these being linked the the totally bullshit climate screechers bollox.

    It’s a cult pushed by idiots who have no idea what they are talking about.

    Oh for an unseasonably bloody freezing period to shut these twats up!

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  5. Fedup2 says:

    Yes it really is a kind of medieval cult where every event is a sign of the End of The World – but is sell’s News which is all that matters – except to the BBC where they think the kidults will consume their corrupted product …

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    • BigBrotherCorporation says:

      I always thought Sicily was famous for its ‘unbearably’ hot summers?

      Some 30 years ago, I had a holiday in Malta with a couple of mates in July – it was tarmac melting, blisters if you touch a car, el scorchio++++ hot! Hot… like you never get in the UK, like actually, really… hot.

      Being young, English, male, and pasty we all got drunk and burnt to a crisp on the first day, and then ended up lying in the shade by the hotel pool, slathered in aftersun, with sunstroke/hangovers for most of the week.

      As I recall, through the summer months the locals retreat to their homes with solid stone walls, fans, aircon, and thick blackout curtains drawn all day, then come out in the evening, once the sun starts to go down, and only go to bed in the early hours. Don’t think any work gets done from June-Sept at all, it’s just like one long summer holiday for the entire population, siesta every day and fiesta every night.

      The Maltese are used to it, and know how to handle the heat, I’m sure they’re not suffering at the moment at all – it’s not like this country, where the mercury hits 30oC and people start to panic!

      As I recall, we did meet some German girls at the hotel, and the drinks were cheap … so turned out a pretty good holiday, after all.

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      • Scroblene says:

        “Don’t think any work gets done from June-Sept at all, it’s just like one long summer holiday for the entire population, siesta every day and fiesta every night.”

        Bit like ‘enriching majority’ of Londonistan then…

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  6. Fedup2 says:

    It seems the defence minister is to stand down at the blue labour election slaughter – even though he had a huge majority last time .
    Perhaps the idea of 10 plus years in opposition doesn’t attract him – if indeed the opposition is to be the blue Labour Party ….
    It is being said by the bbc that the reason Wallace didn’t become the nato sec general was because of brexit . I prefer the idea that Obama wants a completely useless nato lead – the van der lyden – to ensure the US stays in charge …

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  7. StewGreen says:

    8pm GBnews show Conservative @AlbieAmankona just revealed he is an LBGT activist
    other guest lefty Benjamin Butterworth is talking about himself being gay
    Presenter Darren Grimes is gay
    So out of a 5 person panel 3 are gay
    just Patrick Christys and Emily Carver are not

    That seems so disproportionate to me
    3% of the population yet 60% of the panel

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  8. StewGreen says:

    BBC local newsPR East Yorkshire
    Despirte there being a double murder in one village in our region the main item was about Stand Up to Racism doing a counter protest cos anti-open borders people were doing a protest in Scarborough.
    #1 That’s of obvious PRasNews for the org that is really a Labour front group

    #2 Scarborough is not normally covered in that prog. cos its not in the prog’s area . It’s in North Yorkshire

    #3 The prog’s tone is not normally the gung ho lefty agenda pushing like most BBC depts are
    so it didn’t call the group “Far Right” on air

    #4 Stand Up woman was given a long time to speak and then a second person too.
    The item didn’t feature any voice from the actual original protest the anti open borders group.

    The BBC tweet has 4 Likes
    .. https://twitter.com/MarkAnsell/status/1680225733832998913

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    • StewGreen says:

      The Stop The Boats group put up an hour long livestream (2000 views)
      #1 Despite the title “huge crowd” it seems to be about 60 people in the square
      #2 As usual the police seem not to expect much trouble from the protesters, and police seem fair and calm on camera.
      #3 It;s the Labour protesters who do seem to badly behaved. And the police came in large numbers to control them
      So it’s a total waste of public resources,. If the Labour front group stayed at home and didn’t come to harass and spoil the demo
      the police could have been away doing real work.

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      • G says:

        “……doing real work.” That’s surely, tracking down the hideously criminal practising, ‘Hate Speech’

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  9. Fedup2 says:

    BBC 10 pm new – the bbc has learned that summers can be hot – 8 minutes of 15 spend on that …

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  10. StewGreen says:

    BTW TalkTV have put up a new video about Wethersfield Refugee CAMP opening
    “Britain’s first asylum camp based in Essex is set to open and will have a “bespoke” on-site health service.
    Wethersfield offers a GP surgery, a dining hall with meals three times a day an indoor basketball court and a gym.
    Kevin O’Sullivan was joined by Russell Quirk to discuss whether Rishi Sunak’s pledge to stop the boats is working

    .. https://youtu.be/EjV-JPvimLg

    Oh they put up another vid
    “There Is An Epidemic Of Anti-White Racism” | Peter Cardwell CUTS Interview On Author
    .. https://youtu.be/rPES8IW5ebU
    Spoiler it ends like this ..
    .. And they’ve banned comments
    Author “blacks (here in the US) commit 8 times more murders than whites… ”
    Cardwell “Do you honestly believe that black people have a higher propensity to commit crime ?”
    Author “Yeh, sure, read my book”
    Cardwell “Right that’s it I’m ending the interview . I just can’t continue the conversation”

    OK the guy is being controversial , but why ban him ?
    Let him explain.
    eg Simon Webb believes there is an issue with high testosterone

    Like surely you can say that men have a greater propensity women to commit sex crime
    You wouldn’t be banned for saying that

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The birth of the “HitchSlap”? This interview is full of them! Christopher Hitchens VS John And Tom Metzger

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  11. StewGreen says:

    6pm GBnews good intro by Neil Oliver about lefty double standards

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Week#1: Men can wear dresses and go into ladies’ toilets.

      Week#2: Girls cannot wear skirts and must wear gender neutral trousers as worn by boys.

      Because black is blue. Please keep up ….

      O’Brien silenced him by a movement of his hand. ‘We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. You will learn by degrees, Winston. There is nothing that we could not do. Invisibility, levitation — anything. I could float off this floor like a soap bubble if I wish to. I do not wish to, because the Party does not wish it. You must get rid of those nineteenth-century ideas about the laws of Nature. We make the laws of Nature.‘

      http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/19.html

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2019/09/11/midweek-thread-11-september-2019/#comment-1011637

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    • StewGreen says:

      Starts
      “We’re a long way through the Looking Glass now
      well inside the alternative reality where Up Is Down and wrong is right
      Where anything goes for a self-selecting in-crowd
      and if you’re not in that In-crowd, then your sense of right and wrong makes you a reactionary fascist conspiracy theorist, fit only for ridicule and cancellation”

      “And then Alistair Campbells and John Simpsons and the rest waded into inform us
      that the activities of one of their own one of the In-crowd were none of our concern !

      What’s worth noticing more than anything else is how quickly and overwhelmingly we’ve been encouraged to disregard as utterly irrelevant the revelations themselves
      and to condemn instead those who’ve asked questions about what exactly was going on, when it came to someone who nightly trots out the state of the nation as the establishment wants us to see it
      One authority figure after another has come forward in recent days with words to the effect that if there’s a problem then it rests not with them in the In-crowd
      but with us out here in the general population
      It comes from the same in-crowd
      that says ‘when we do it, whatever we do, it’s because we’re Superior and sophisticated in ways irregular tax paying law abiding types cannot begin to appreciate’

      The overwhelming condescension of the self-appointed In-crowd has always been there
      The difference now is that they’re rubbing our noses in it as part of the effort to bully us into thinking everything we think is just plain wrong, over and over again. ”

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you”

        ― Tony Benn

        “Where did you get it from?”

        Tory MPs chose Rishi Sunak – but don’t assume they’ll vote for his policies

        “Where did you get it from?”

        Theresa May won the contest on 11 July 2016, after the withdrawal of Andrea Leadsom left her as the sole candidate

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    • taffman says:

      StewGreen
      God bless the man , he talks a lot of sense .
      Why do you still pay the television licence ?

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  12. taffman says:

    “Ben Wallace to quit as defence secretary at next Cabinet reshuffle
    Published”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66213245
    What’s he not telling us?

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  13. vlad says:

    Quick, hide your daughters: paedo Joe is in town and he’s a-comin’ for them.

    “NOT NORMAL’: Biden creeps out little girl with awkward nibble kisses”

    https://torontosun.com/news/world/not-normal-biden-creeps-out-little-girl-with-awkward-nibble-kisses

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  14. Fedup2 says:

    Before I go to Mass on Sunday – just for a joke – I listen to the first bit of the BBC ‘religion ‘ programme – which I think must be broadcast as part of the Charter .

    The first bit lead with a question about the acceptability of the term ‘our father ‘ in The Lords’ Prayer . The off switch was his accompanying an ‘eye roll’ .

    The words of the Lords Prayer are in `the New Testament . Yet Satans ‘ friends question it – challenge it .

    If others were to trawl other books considered ‘holy ‘ – would they be suggesting bits be changed ? I think we would never hear of that .
    The presenter – Edward Stuaeton ? Is – I believe – a ‘big ‘ Roman Catholic – or maybe the BBC pension is more important to him than his ‘faith ‘ .

    Maybe he ll take over the Huw Edwards gig … ugh .

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  15. AsISeeIt says:

    Former soldiers will be called on to join a “surge” force in future crises as part of a major overhaul of the military that will shrink the Army to to its smallest size since the Napoleonic wars (Sunday Telegraph)

    And our military just lost another potential young recruit: George can skip stint in the forces… Breaking with centuries of tradition, Prince can choose his own path to the throne, William and Kate tell friends (Mail on Sunday)

    Well, if our elites can’t be bothered to defend the nation…

    What new adventure is our Ben full Tonto Wallace riding off into the sunset towards – now that the Yanks have thrown out his application for the top Nato job?

    We likely won’t have to look far for the answer

    Said he was happy to “go and work in a bar” or take a job in Formula One or horse racing when he leaves Westminster (Times) – my money’s on him picking up a contract with an arms manufacturer, eh?

    MoD staff and thousands of military officers join arms firms. Guardian research in the aftermath of the ‘jobs for generals’ scandal shows extent of links between MoD and private sector (Guardian, This article is more than 10 years old)

    His announcement brings to 47 the number of Tory MPs who have said they will be standing down at the next election – an exodus that has come to resemble rats leaving a sinking ship (Times) – and any further comment from Mr AsI hereabouts would be superfluous.

    The end of our often torrid love affair with our NHS?

    Might it be – in Winston Churchill’s famous phraseology: Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

    Dr Vishal Sharma ‘I’m not sure how long NHS can go on’ (Telegraph)

    Fiction was purporting to imitate reality but now the micro reality imitates the macro reality… if you see what I mean…?

    Call the Midwife love split… pair who met on set… Heartbreak for TV couple (Sunday Mirror)

    Given the grandparent’s love and knowledge of the gee-gees, it ought to be a surprise to see our royals back a loser: Royal comfort as Jabeur endures more final pain (Telegraph); Caring Kate’s comfort for tearful tenis star (Sunday Express); Kate’s Centre Court hugs for tearful loser Ons (Mail)

    Wimbledon 2023 results: Marketa Vondrousova beats Ons Jabeur in women’s final… “The most painful loss of my career,” said Jabeur, who had been aiming to be the first African or Arab woman to win a Grand Slam singles title. (BBC) – now do we see how come our elite’s money was riding on the outsider, so to speak?

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  16. Guest Who says:

    Allegedly. The tool of choice.

    A disabled neighbour got anonymously accused of benefit fraud by someone. The authorities informed them they were under investigation and would be visited days later. A worrying time. Only at this point was the accusation explained and immediately dismissed due to being freaking obviously malicious.

    Easy, effective. No consequence.

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  17. JohnC says:

    Former X Factor star reveals sexual assault during filming
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66210009

    So for no reason I can fathom, this story from 2012 has been randomly resurrected by the ultra-misandrist Guardian and faithfully copied by the BBC. I think the article at The Guardian is longer than her ‘memoir’ – it’s epic !. And they’ve done 2.

    I presume there’s no current issue they can use to hate men, so they just dragged this one back up because she has written a ‘memoir’ and needs some cash.

    Meanwhile this story from NW Londonistan:

    Brent stabbing: Teenager killed after birthday party
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66211375

    Is nowhere to be seen. And is another brief, facts only article which doesn’t mention anyone involved.

    More enrichment served up with a side of BBC racist double standards then. Black lives don’t matter one bit to the Left if they can’t be used for the agenda.

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    • Scroblene says:

      Best not to read the ‘account’ here…

      https://www.kilburntimes.co.uk/news/23657826.murder-investigation-launched-brent-teen-stabbed/

      On the RH sidebar, there are eight ‘stories’ of stabbings and disgusting behaviour, so it seems that going North, once you get off the Edgeware Rd., your best bet is to lock your car doors, turn on your lights, sound the klaxon and belt through as quickly as possible to avoid the area…

      Better still, ignore Londonistan in the first place; that Mare Khaan has ruined the place even more than Ken Livingstone ever did!

      My uncle used to run a shop in Cricklewood. The only problem he ever faced was having to cough up a few pennies when the ’emerald’ collection boxes went round the pubs and shops…

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    • StewGreen says:

      @JohnC seems Twitter knew on 3 Nov 2012, since she suddenly disappeared from the show
      and there’d been an allegation of rape
      Probably an arrest cos one tweet names the guy
      Yet her name seems to have been suppressed from reporting
      A 2013 Mirror court report names the same guy who suddenly pleaded guilty and was convicted
      Turns out it was an Indian man, ‘Soby John’ who illegally outstayed his student visa, and was employed as a hotel porter.
      https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/hotel-porter-did-it-tv-stars-1678957

      Do you reckon X-factor paid her off .. with a time limited NDA ?

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      • StewGreen says:

        So 10 years after the rapist was convicted
        there is a Guardian article promoting her book that goes on sale on 20 July

        and BTW her tour tickets went on sale on Friday

        She’s not making much money as a singer
        though she’s not a zero.

        She is very close to Simon Cowell

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  18. SpinningReith says:

    “StewGreenJULY 15, 2023 AT 9:33 PM
    8pm GBnews show Conservative @AlbieAmankona just revealed he is an LBGT activist
    other guest lefty Benjamin Butterworth is talking about himself being gay
    Presenter Darren Grimes is gay
    So out of a 5 person panel 3 are gay
    just Patrick Christys and Emily Carver are not

    That seems so disproportionate to me
    3% of the population yet 60% of the panel”

    –oOo–

    And of course (perhaps?) …
    Dan Wootten, Stephen Dixon, Andrew Pierce, Tom Harwood, Andrew Doyle, Cameron Walker? – and Michael Portillo might help out if there’s a rush on.

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  19. Sluff says:

    Just one last post on the women’s tennis final.
    If you fancy cheering yourself up, check out the comments on the BBC’s HYS about the match. Someone is sure to be on the naughty step for allowing that one.
    It appears the whole country is on to their bias on this one……

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/66212165

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    • harry142857 says:

      An apt comment about BBC commentators and the crowd.

      Dave Mitchell


      It’s only my opinion but I felt the BBC’s commentators and pundits(both on tv and radio) were overwhelmingly biased towards Ons Jabeur throughout the build up to the final and during the match itself. I like Ons Jabeur but I’m glad Vondrousova prevailed.

      phatman5000 replied:
      The Wimbledon team aren’t sports commentators. They’re middle class opinionated Guardian types who have no clue about competitive sport – which is perfect for the average Wimbledon viewer. I mean look at the crowd there, for the love of god – the number of flowery frocks and stupid hats, they aren’t sports fans. Wimbledon is a day out for people with house names instead of numbers.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Genuinely surprised the ‘ moderator’ for thr BBC sport section hasnt turned up to Verify’ those negative comments .

        The hierachy of bias the BBC operates can be very complex . But at least we know tunisians and more approved than Czechs ..,

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    • Guest Who says:

      “Nevertheless, there is still plenty of space on her body to get another one – which will mark her being etched into tennis history”

      Dan Snow being brought back as Unprecedented Editor?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “It’s only my opinion but I felt the BBC’s commentators and pundits(both on tv and radio) were overwhelmingly biased towards Ons Jabeur throughout the build up to the final and during the match itself.

      I like Ons Jabeur but I’m glad Vondrousova prevailed.”

      “I question the value of the BBC commentators, particularly as they are paid an enormous fee for saying little and little of any value”

      “I’ve been a fan of Jabeur for a quite a while, but the ridiculous BBC and crowd bias made me want Vondrousova to win”

      Great performance. Well done Vondrousova. Unlucky BBC in your campaIgn for Jabeur to be champion.

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  20. Dickie says:

    Climate change/geoengineering

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  21. harry142857 says:

    Laura K politics show.

    No mention of the pervert newsreader, a debate on Keirs fuel policy included a video by Just Stop Oil self promoting their protest within a John Lewis store in Oxford Street.

    Vile.

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  22. MarkyMark says:

    Italian uproar over judge’s 10-second groping rule
    Published
    3 days ago
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66174352

    She described walking up a staircase to class with a friend, when she felt her trousers fall down, a hand touching her buttocks and grabbing her underwear.

    “Love, you know I was joking,” the man told her when she turned around.

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    John Kerry in Beijing: Can US and China set aside rivalry for climate action?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-66185535

    While their meeting is not widely expected to yield any concrete decisions, it will be seen as a conversation starter. They are likely to discuss their common challenges of accelerating their switch to clean energy and reducing carbon emissions.

    switch to clean energy and reducing carbon emissions
    China to dominate 95% of solar panel supply chain

    switch to clean energy and reducing carbon emissions
    China ranks #1 on our list of 15 Countries That Produce the Most Wind Energy given its 2021 installed wind turbine capacity of almost 329 GW. China is the leader in wind given the country has enormous energy needs considering its large population and its second largest economy.14 Jan 2023

    switch to clean energy and reducing carbon emissions
    Beijing has recently ramped up its buying streak. Chinese mining and battery companies have invested $4.5 billion in lithium mines in the past two years and are behind much of Africa’s lithium projects in countries like Namibia, Zimbabwe and Mali.7 Jun 2023

    USA is dead! Long live China!

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  24. StewGreen says:

    Neither British nor Germans can claim Ancient Greek geniuses like Plato or Pythagoras as one of their own just cos modern Greece is in Europe too
    That would be racist to Ancient Greeks.
    Yet the BBC gang to false falsely equate North Africans with black Sub-Sahararian Africans.
    That too is racist to Ancient North Africans.
    Simon Web is moaning about distortion of old British fiction and mentions a new drama where Guinevere is portrayed as a black lesbian
    and then mention BBC Historian distorting actual history in a magazine.
    https://www.historyextra.com/period/anglo-saxon/hadrian-clerk-libya-african-who-anglo-saxon-england/

    It begins
    When a Libyan cleric called Hadrian arrived in Canterbury in AD 670, Anglo-Saxon England was a wild and semi-pagan land. Within a matter of years, it was the driving force behind a remarkable renaissance in learning. Michael Wood reveals how this little-known “man of Africa” helped lay the foundations of English culture
    (OK that’s a guy who was descended either Berber or from Mediterranean colonists)

    Then it switches rapidly to Black Afrpica
    In recent years our eyes have been opened to black histories in Britain before the Windrush generation, stretching back through the world wars, on to the Victorian era and beyond. The numbers were small, but the presence was significant, as the black characters in Elizabethan and Jacobean plays show.

    (then he switched to non-black Africa)
    Much further back, there were Africans in Roman Britain, from Mauretania, today’s Morocco and Algeria. Among them

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    • StewGreen says:

      From Twitter I see half a dozen people got taken in
      However there are actually very few tweets about the article so the overall impact was pretty close to zero

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    • MarkyMark says:

      eu-news-guy-verhofstadt-1472848.jpg?r=1628177430738

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  25. tomo says:

    It’s OK when we do it

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  26. SillyGrandad says:

    Long live BiasedBBC.

    Even the poison that is the BBC can’t change growing opinions in other EU countries. They’re too busy defending Pervy Huw to report growing resentment towards immigration in the EU in Holland, Greece, Poland and Hungary not to mention how close Le Pen got to victory in France.

    These FACTS as ever seem far from the truth that their news is reporting. Not the welcoming diverse utopia they are peddling.

    As for Huw, a man who’s 60 or so pays a lot of money for pictures of a teenager who is 18 or 19 (legally allowed). On a moral level that is so wrong. Yet again the “mental health” excuse is rolled out as if to justify the immoral behaviour.

    Or am I in the wrong for thinking that it is SO wrong?

    An opinion on EU immigration from across the pond if you have 5 minutes to spare……..

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/08/world/europe/netherlands-refugees-government-collapse.html?smid=url-share

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    • MarkyMark says:

      BBC to refer to the LAW or to themselves?
      What is the timeline for these actions?
      Was Huw presenting Children in Need at the time?

      If a young person under the age of 18 takes a sexually explicit image or video of themselves then they’ve unwittingly created child pornography. By sending this content on to another person, they’ve distributed an indecent image of a child.24 Jun 2022

      What does the law say?
      In the UK the age of consent for sexual intercourse is 16. However, it is an offence to make, distribute, possess or show any indecent images of anyone aged under 18, even if the content was created with the consent of that young person. The law is contained in Section 1 Protection of Children Act 1978. ‘Indecent’ is not defined in legislation. When cases are prosecuted, the question of whether any photograph of a child is indecent is for a jury, magistrate or district judge to decide.

      https://childlawadvice.org.uk/information-pages/sexting/

      ………………….

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    • Guest Who says:

      https://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2023/05/new-open-thread.html#disqus_thread

      I see over at ITBB (do go) that Simpo has joined the chorus of senile reporters advocating a new form of journalism.

      In other news…

      https://unherd.com/2023/07/should-huw-edwards-have-been-named/?

      #CCBGB so expect more odd ‘the people have spoken’ ‘polls’.

      https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/spot-the-huw-edwards-dinner-party-guests/

      “They may of course raise their glasses to double standards, the power of connections or to the right sort of people, but probably not. And definitely not to Onlyfans.”

      Simpo likely already reliving how he relieved Huw single handedly.

      Again, #CCBGB.

      https://expose-news.com/2023/07/16/the-state-capture-of-uk-corporate-media/

      “But, even as they worked with Julian, organisations such as The New York Times and The Guardian were determined to destroy him. He threatened their journalistic model and exposed their accommodation with the centres of power.”

      At least the BBc was tinkering with fuse settings.

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  27. Scroblene says:

    I know that the Beeb are despaerate, but £35,000 for ‘viewing figures’ seems a little drastic to me…

    Or am I reading this wrong?

    And do their ‘viewing figures’ include citizens who won’t/don’t pay the TV tax? I guess they must do, so the value of the RAJAR figures is irrelevant! Capita really don’t have a clue who or who isn’t watching the garbage, they just harass and collect money in this order: –

    1) Capita’s income.
    2) Beebonic’s gross income.
    3) Useful idiot’s extra income for clowns like Mad Ali, Vicki Price, Linker and the autocue-readers’ sister’s dog’s pension fund.

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  28. MarkyMark says:

    3 teachers hide in Batley and have yet to get the £35K for sending pictures of a buring KOran to Huw!

       8 likes

  29. Flotsam says:

    Leo Kearse who is often on GBNews says he can’t watch BBC as he hasn’t got a licence.

       4 likes

    • BRISSLES says:

      Leo Kearse doesnt need a studio to impart his comments he only needs to stand on its roof and shout for the country to hear him. I don’t watch him too much (and turn the volume down when i do) as I don’t find him or the other so called comedians on Headliners the slightest bit humorous.

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  30. taffman says:

    “Migrant barge: Portland is a dumping ground, residents say”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-66108599
    “Stop the Boats”, the whole of Great Britain is a dumping ground and the population numbers are increasing our carbon footprint .

       11 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      barge … barge ….

      As the barge fleet approaches the Suez Canal, Egyptian military forces fire a warning shot, causing the fleet to steer south, around the Cape of Good Hope. To the surprise of observers, the apartheid regime of South Africa floats out bargesof food and supplies, which the migrants throw overboard. The international press is thrilled, believing the rejection of these supplies to be a political statement against the apartheid South African regime. Western leaders, confident the migrants will accept supplies from their “more virtuous” nations, organize a supply mission, funded by governments, charities, rock stars and major churches, to meet the migrants off São Tomé. However, the fleet does not stop for these barges either, and when a worker from the Pope’s barge attempts to board one of the ships, he is strangled and thrown overboard. The press attempts to contain coverage of the murder.

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

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  31. Guest Who says:

    The Oaf that is Sopes just can’t help himself.

    #CCBGB

    In honor of the place he got paid so much to misreport…. via Robert Malone

    https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4e09cb15-b64f-4ba3-87d8-2cf19e5facdf_722x536.png?

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  32. Guest Who says:

    Not a question. A statement for a blatant BBC.

       10 likes

    • Thoughtful says:

      But the reality is that the Sun reported falsehood as fact. How much of what the mother alleged is true (probably not much) remains to be seen, and I am still of the opinion that it was an attempt at blackmail.

         4 likes

      • Up2snuff says:

        Thoughtful, it could be the BBC 😉 runs on blackmail. 😉 if what my contacts told me about a certain lacklustre journalist/presenter (not Edwards) is true.

           4 likes

        • MarkyMark says:

          Young person – no mention of age at times of contact etc….

          Like small boats with 200 people on board!

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      • MarkyMark says:

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      • Guest Who says:

        You clearly know more than I. Opinion and probability noted.

        However if this is but one that is accurate, an awful lot more remains ‘unanswered’, with the BBC applying the ‘serious questions’ technique pretty unidirectionally via all its platforms and mates now, given the rozzers have backed off all sides.

        Suggesting there’s a bunch of stuff outside the legal domain but in the wonderful world of gutter journalism the BBc inhabits as much as anyone, there’s still lots of juice but they want it shut down.

        Maybe once they get to flippant questions things will stabilise?

           6 likes

        • MarkyMark says:

          Can they say where the law is drawn and where their presenters sit?

          I remember Graham Norton saying “THere is no right or wrong, just shades of gray.”

             2 likes

  33. Guest Who says:

    You might not have been working for the BBC or Getty.

       5 likes

    • G says:

      GW,

      I would be very interested in knowing, of the 4% black people living in the UK, the proportion of which, had a mortgage. Could it be that the generosity of the taxpayer in benefits is far greater than normally perceived and the yardstick is different for blacks?

      Perhaps that is accounted for, for black people when our own, “Worlds Most Trusted Broadcaster’ hints that: “…..there are reasons why the pain may not be as bad as it could be.”

         6 likes

      • Rob in Cheshire says:

        The UK is not 100% black, it’s just that the self-hating white leftists of the BBC wish it was.

           8 likes

        • moggie63 says:

          Well, can’t we start increasing the relative black percentage by culling those self same lefties?

             3 likes

  34. Guest Who says:

    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/marktapscott/2023/07/15/the-amazing-accomplishments-of-adam-andrzeweski-and-open-the-books-n1710885?

    It remains a mystery how the state media of the UK can exempt itself from FOI enquiries with impunity, whilst demanding answers from actual lief-sensitive covers ops personnel.

       7 likes

    • tomo says:

      State media?

      USA?

      The subjects of FoI in the UK can simply chose not to respond to legitimate questions asked via FoI

      Trying to get The Office of The Information Commissioner to act is like trying to get a same day GP appointment – only you don’t have the 999 option.

         8 likes

      • Guest Who says:

        Ah. Tx. Explains BBC ECU too.

        Does not explain quangos like ICO or OFCOM.

        all with hundred k directors in place to do f-all.

           4 likes

        • tomo says:

          The ICO needs to get their act in gear – the Sir Humphreys moved them ‘oop north several years ago now and the crew changed – their mission changed from evaluate + act to prevaricate and sit on your hands if there’s an actionable incident.

          Dealing with them is a PITA as the procedures in place for FoI have been set up to deliberately make it – at present – near impossible to deal with public bodies refusing to answer – they simply don’t expose any real FoI complaint procedure.

          We made a compliant some 6 years ago which was effectively dealt with in terms of investigation – there was however no punishment for Environment Agency lies and misdirection beyond “censure” – when the lies blocked evidence that was core to a High Court action.

          Not fit for purpose

             8 likes

        • Thoughtful says:

          I knew someone who worked for one of these Quangos, the chairman was some public school tie old boy who had so many appointments he couldn’t actually spend more than a couple of hours a week at each one, yet collected a handsome salary from each for doing what could only amount to very little.

             10 likes

          • tomo says:

            Well, The Environment Agency had a boss who bragged about having an STD as if it was some kind of qualification for his elevation to high office.

            and yes – he had a raft of jobs/titles – few of which he was intellectually equipped or experienced for and yes, they all paid rather well.

            I remain to be dissuaded that his poetry efforts were the source of Douglas Adams’s Vogon poetry

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  35. MarkyMark says:

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  36. StewGreen says:

    All I am trying to see from Twitter is what Starmer said about Scunthorpe today

    But Twitter on that search is full of hatey hatey spite from crazy libmob who are calling Scunthorpe people “gammon” “thick” “sC%NThorpians” etc.
    .. https://twitter.com/plyons45/status/1680486403115819009

    Why’s that ?
    Well cos some crazy big antifa account tweeted a video from StandUpToracism and aid it was “FASCISTS” an anti-open borders march in Scunthorpe
    Among the hate two or three people pointed out he was wrong cos the march was in Scarborough
    He deleted his tweet with a small apology.

       11 likes

  37. Fedup2 says:

    Ok – ok – I confess – I still look at the listings of the Freeview channels – and next Sunday BBC4 is rerunning ‘the ascent of man’ .
    I saw it the first time round and was hooked – although I was a bit young and it challenged me . Can you imagine an updated version – ‘the world with Lenny ‘ or ‘the universe with Mohammed ‘ …..
    Maybe they’d call it eh ‘descent of he / she / it ‘

       12 likes

    • Sluff says:

      This has the best ever explanations of Pythagorus’s Theorem using wooden blocks and no Maths!!!!!

         1 likes

  38. Sluff says:

    Wimbledon equality update.

    In the men’s final, they have been playing well over twice as long as the women and still have a minimum set and a half to go.

    In order to earn the same money as the women yesterday.

       14 likes

    • Up2snuff says:

      Sluff, aint eqwaliteee wunnerful?

         6 likes

    • Sluff says:

      Update.
      Match over after 5 nail biting sets and 5 hours of play.
      Four times more work for the same pay as the women

         6 likes

  39. SpinningReith says:

    Mis Universe Netherlands…

    https://static.tnn.in/thumb/msid-101617036,width-600,height-340,resizemode-75/101617036.jpg

    Go woke, Go BLOKE

       13 likes

  40. StewGreen says:

    I found the tweets about Starmer
    They are almost all subtle copies of each other .. copied off a Labour Press release
    I check and most are lefty journos
    eg “Starmer explains that he praises green steel production in Scunthorpe, as the change he wants to see.
    Contrasts with Tree Huggers or protestors gluing people to the road.
    Doesn’t approve of Just Stop Oil. calls them Disruptive Arrogant “interfering with people’s everyday lives.”

       10 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Starmer and his babes from the ShadCab front bench appear to tweet wibble every hour on the hour, that is universally panned by anyone not a journo.

         2 likes

  41. Rob in Cheshire says:

    It’s on ITV, not the BBC, but they are two cheeks of the same metropolitan left wing bonus hole.

    I refer to “A Spy Among Friends”. I have just seen the first episode.

    It concerns the Kim Philby affair, and is set in 1963, at a time when the senior officers in MI5, MI6 and even the KGB were all middle aged white men.

    So naturally a fictitious woman has to be introduced into the cast. She has to have a Durham accent. And she has to have a black husband, an African doctor no less.

    In 1963.

    They are trolling us. I have been quite looking forward to this series, as I have an interest in this spy story, but I just cannot be bothered to watch it now. They are just misrepresenting our history too much.

       19 likes

    • Grim Upnorth says:

      Hi Rob, we watched it all, back to back episodes, last week and I have to say that I enjoyed it. Not quite ‘John le Carre’, but a pretty good 1960s spy drama non the less. I couldn’t really see the point of the BAME role, especially as he mumbled all his lines, and never explained his story – I’m guessing that he had some Windrush connection though?
      Anyway, stick with it for another episode or two as it was a different angle on the Philby scandal.

         3 likes

      • Rob in Cheshire says:

        Sorry Grim,

        I made the decision not to watch any more on principle. I can’t stand the left’s distortion of our history.

        I understand they are making a series about King Arthur with a black Merlin and a black Guinevere. It’s actually getting quite sinister, as if white people don’t really belong here any more.

           5 likes

  42. davylars says:

    Whilst the bird an appears to beating Djokovic at the tennis.
    And watched by a sea of hideously white faces in the audience ,
    The BBC cameramen seem to be able to find every non white face in the crowd to focus on during breaks.

       13 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

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      • BigBrotherCorporation says:

        As interesting as the lack of non-white faces in that crowd is the age of many of them.

        Nothing wrong with older festival goers, but we should recognise that Glastonbury has not been a young person’s event for a good couple of decades now, and that the crowd it actually attracts are largely well heeled, 50+, Metroliberals from London – always worth remembering that when the Beeb talks about Glastonbury.

           4 likes

        • Rob in Cheshire says:

          Who else can afford £300 a ticket?

          I knew people back in the 90s who used to sneak in, but that was before the 12 foot fences were erected, protected by goon squads.

          But as they were chanting this year, “Say it loud, say it clear, refugees are welcome here”.

          Not at Glasto they aren’t, unless they can afford the tickets.

          Brain dead hypocrites.

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