323 Responses to Start the Week 17th July 2023

  1. Dickie says:

    And the winners of Strictly are:

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Awwww my hero. I pinched a flower from outside his front gate in LA back in 1988. I still have it pressed. The things we do in our youth.

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  2. taffman says:

    “UK terrorism risk is rising – Suella Braverman”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66234656
    I wonder why ?

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    • moggie63 says:

      Clearly the far right mobilising.

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    • Richard Pinder says:

      What is the definition of terrorism? The calculated use of extreme fear by government use of behavioural scientists, to generate extreme fear, intended to coerce, intimidate and manipulate the people in the pursuit of government goals that are generally political or ideological. Example: For instance the governments use of fake pandemics and fake climate change emergencies for the goal of resetting the world into a globalist nightmare, were the poor and terrorised people, own nothing, but the behavioural scientists and the elite are very rich and happy.

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  3. Guest Who says:

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    • Richard Pinder says:

      OrwellSurprise.jpg

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    • MarkyMark says:

      He accepted everything. The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford were guilty of the crimes they were charged with. He had never seen the photograph that disproved their guilt. It had never existed, he had invented it. He remembered remembering contrary things, but those were false memories, products of self-deception. How easy it all was! Only surrender, and everything else followed. It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case. He hardly knew why he had ever rebelled. Everything was easy, except—!

      Anything could be true. The so-called laws of Nature were nonsense. The law of gravity was nonsense. ‘If I wished,’ O’Brien had said, ‘I could float off this floor like a soap bubble.’ Winston worked it out. ‘If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens.’ Suddenly, like a lump of submerged wreckage breaking the surface of water, the thought burst into his mind: ‘It doesn’t really happen. We imagine it. It is hallucination.’ He pushed the thought under instantly. The fallacy was obvious. It presupposed that somewhere or other, outside oneself, there was a ‘real’ world where ‘real’ things happened. But how could there be such a world? What knowledge have we of anything, save through our own minds? All happenings are in the mind. Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens.

      He had no difficulty in disposing of the fallacy, and he was in no danger of succumbing to it. He realized, nevertheless, that it ought never to have occurred to him. The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself. The process should be automatic, instinctive. Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak.”

      https://orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/en_p_3

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  5. Guest Who says:

    Like BBC TNI partners?

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  6. Guest Who says:

    BBC pension funds bank with Coutts?

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  7. Guest Who says:

    Speaking for the nation.

    All round Caz’!

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  8. Guest Who says:

    One for BBC N. America, or Sopes?

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    • Guest Who says:

      Sopes likely busy. Area of expertise.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Edits have been made to descriptions of characters’ physical appearances. The word “fat” has been cut from every new edition of relevant books, while the word “ugly” has also been culled, the Daily Telegraph reported. Augustus Gloop in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is now described as “enormous”.18 Feb 2023

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  9. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Lots of talk about immigration on tv today and the usual lefty lies about the immigrant being a net benefit.

    Consider this.
    A British delivery driver pays tax, NI and lots of other payments from his pay.
    The employer decides to save 20% pay so he sacks the Brit and gets an immigrant to do the job.
    The Brit now stops paying in and gets unemployment benefit and anything else he is entitled to.
    The new driver pays less tax and NI and probably qualifies for a host of payments and credits for those on low pay.
    A home is needed, doctor, dentist and lots of other things for an extra person and perhaps more (like a School) if a family follows.

    How can this pay in more than the Brit originally doing the delivery driving.

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    • moggie63 says:

      You forgot to mention that the immigrant sends a good chunk of their money ‘home’ so that doesn’t benefit this country either.

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    • Scroblene says:

      Have they just taken ‘a stab’ at that figure – I guess so…

      Enrichers-R-Us.

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    • Flotsam says:

      You also forgot to add the cost of the extra policing, translation services and public sector administration. The extra cost of educating non native speakers. Also the social cost to our society of integrating people who don’t want to be integrated into a culture alien to them.

      Anyone noticed that many most vociferous opponents of this mass immigration are in fact of non native descent? The reason is that they understand Britain, the privilege
      of living here and know the value of what they have. They don’t want it given away or destroyed.

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  10. Guest Who says:

    Seconded.

    It’s only being raised as they needed it loaded in on those who can’t opt out.

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  11. Fedup2 says:

    New thread time . Last year 500 000 licences were cancelled / no renewed . And it seems there is a shortage of people willing to get their arses kicked as ‘TV inspectors ‘ … maybe we can kill the BBC with 500 000 plus licence reductions each year,

    So cancel yours . I’ve saved maybe £1500 plus …

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  12. Philip_2 says:

    Huw Edwards is the highest-earning star to receive a pay rise in this year’s BBC salary list, as the total wage bill for top talent rose to a six-year high.

    Gary Lineker remains the corporation’s highest-paid star on £1.35 million, followed by Radio 2’s Zoe Ball on £980,000-£984,999, according to the newly published BBC annual report. Neither received a pay rise last year!

    Since it was first published in 2016, the list has given details of BBC presenters earning £150,000 or more. This year, the threshold has been raised to £178,000, with the corporation explaining that the list of names would simply be too long otherwise.

    However, elsewhere in the report, it was disclosed that the total salary bill for all on-air talent earning more than £150,000 was £24.4 million, up from £20.3 million the year before.

    Leigh Tavaziva, the BBC’s chief operating officer, explained that talent pay was experiencing a post-Covid rise. (!) (Did anyone? ‘ED’)

    The highest new entry in the list was Ros Atkins, whose “explainer” news videos on the BBC’s News channel became so popular during lockdown that they frequently went viral. He was promoted to analysis editor in June 2022 and is now a regular on the BBC One bulletins.
    Atkins did not meet the £150,000 threshold last year, but now earns £260,000-£264,999.

    Not far behind him is Chris Mason, who was appointed political editor last year. In 2017, he disclosed that his salary as political correspondent was £60,000. Now he earns £225,000-£229,999.

    Laura Kuenssberg, his predecessor, was earning £260,000-£264,999 before she left. In her new role as host of Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, a job that requires her to be on air only once a week rather than nightly appearances on the news bulletins, she has seen her pay rise to £305,000-£309,999.

    The salaries of anyone paid via BBC Studios, such as Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly for Strictly Come Dancing, are not published as they are considered to be commercially confidential.

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    (ED) Hint in excess of £500,000 to £2 Million plus (according to past reports not denied by the BBC)
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    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/11/bbc-salary-list-huw-edwards-pay-rise-gary-lineker-zoe-ball/

    So the BBC’ luvvies’ gave old puffing queer bot ‘Huw’ a pay rise for chasing junior staff. He never was reported (by junior staff) was seen as ‘acceptable’ for stars at the BBC to behave. In fact its totally normal, they say.

    Interesting only this morning on TALK radio I heard that BBC staff are heard complaining of ‘harassment’ and ‘bullying’ at the BBC to accept the status quo and KEEP QUIET on ‘Huw’. This was an email to ALL STAFF by Tim Davie, no less. Submit and be part of the mega blob or leave. If you stay and become an abuser, the BBC will deny anything ever happened, you get a private hospital for your ‘anxiety. The best lawyer in the land for the ‘distress’ of being found out as as a sexual abuser, a pay off and a come back fee. To tell your story without interruption on Newsnight BBCTV as a ‘victim’.

    Plus you get a free TV license. A free mobile phone, Expenses and free tickets to Wimbledon or Glastonbury pop concert. Just never admit your guilty to the Police!

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  14. G says:

    Another day, another set of, “iffy” statistics and/or facts from our, ‘iffy’ “Worlds Most Trusted Broadcaster”. My early morning choice of statistics/facts to question from the BBC (0600 so-called “News”). Lets call them ‘iffy’? Well, I have three to start the day:

    1/ The ‘iffy’ and therefore, quote: “alleged” information provided by Coutts via Nigel Farage regarding the closure of the formers bank account. A past whiff of Trump’s “alleged” and therefore, ‘iffy’ there over the last US election. Nigel should be honoured to be treated by the the BBC the same as is his ‘iffy’ friend Donald. A sleight of hand reporting if I’m not mistaken. Our, “Worlds Most Trusted Broadcaster” is expecting the public not to be persuaded by the ‘iffy’ information the, ‘iffy’ Nigel Farage has now disclosed to the World. Well, BBC, the only ‘iffy’ part about your reporting on this topic is itself, the totally ‘iffy’ nature of the BBC’s reporting of the subject matter. There could, of course be another innocent reason why the BBC reporting is scathing over anything “Farage” (as it is, “Trump”). Put simply, if you are a broadcaster who daily has to endure lying, duplicitous UK politicians as the norm, you would automatically believe that of any in that intrinsically dishonest cadre. Wouldn’t you?

    Next, the old chestnut: Increasing scrutiny from across the country?

    2/ Weather. A momentous change took place here, on this blog, yesterday. Reports offered up from regular contributors giving the temperatures from around the country. Shame it has come to this Met Office but, I think a formalising of that voluntary information reporting from contributors at set times all over the country here is required on a daily basis just to, ‘shadow’ the Met Office’s daily temperatures delivered by the vehicle of the BBC. After all, it could be argued, The Met Office temperature figures will be damned by the vicarious liability of its host, the lying BBC. Not only that, how difficult is it to read and report a thermometer reading from locations across the country 2/3 times a day? The Met Office, that bastion of all weather information would have you believe that the difficulties in reading a thermometer is extensive to the average idiot in the street, so why bother? ‘Just take our word for it, rely on us’. Well, no, Met Office, the people of the UK have been instinctively questioning the veracity of your daily temperature offerings. Maybe by association with the evil dishonest BBC. So why would they not question other information given via that same lying medium, the BBC?

    Can you organise that Fed? How difficult will it be to organise 3/4 people around the country to provide their temperatures at set times. Chances are those reported will be more fundamentally accurate than anything delivered by the BBC.

    And,

    3/ Child dentistry: My own battered and abused teeth are evidence of abuse by NHS dentists over my critical formative years as a child in the late forties / early fifties. Its been the dentists, ‘Cash Cow’. Once they get you on the treadmill of more and more and more fillings and extractions of questionable need, the dentists have you in to a system of regularly replacing fillings. They are assured of future business for, “dentistry” as a whole. The NHS dentistry, “overkill” focus with children needs further investigation. That’s since 1948, the advent of the NHS. Personally, it seems to me on recollection, as a child, I was in the dentist’s every other week for some treatment or other.

    Btw, the now prolific term, “A BBC INVESTIGATION has revealed….”. Seems to me to be appearing too often for my liking. Who formally appointed the BBC to carry out, their pseudo, “investigation”? Bit like using a muslim terrorist to carry out the BBC’s “unique” form of (funding) biased, “investigation” into terrorism.

    Suggestion? BBC “Investigation” into dental practices with children. Surely the BBC would not have a bias one way or another, would they?

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