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  2. Mik the sceptic says:
    July 25, 2023 at 10:24 am

    Not BBc but…..

    Following Labour’s defeat at the Uxbridge & Ruislip by-election, with ULEZ being cited as the main reason, flippy floppy Starmer had a word with Khan to say “Look, tone down the ULEZ or we’re toast”.

    Khan’s support team must have had a collective panic attack and came up with a classic diversionary tactic.
    Not “Look over there, it’s an elephant”, but “MAAATE”.

    The timing for this is just too obvious.
    As obvious as the image in my head of a film poster showing Citizen Khan up a ladder in overalls, with the inevitable film title being ‘ Khanfessions of a window cleaner’.

    I’ll get my coat.

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  3. andyjsnape says:
    July 25, 2023 at 10:28 am

    Police Scotland postpones clean-shaven policy for officers
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-66295257

    The Scottish Police Federation (SPF), the LGBTI Police Association and others criticised the plans and four officers took legal action

    LGBTI ???? surely having a beard has nothing to do with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex.

    Surely the bbc should have insisted that 2SLGBTQ+ also commented

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  4. Fedup2 says:
    July 25, 2023 at 10:50 am

    BBC sport in trouble because one of their sex obsessed sports reporters asked a Moroccan footy girl about queer stuff . The question was ‘stopped ‘…
    I wonder if they ask such questions because they or their boss is queer – or because they think they’ll get points for raising the issue ? Maybe it’s just the usual bbc mental issues .. right Huw ?

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  5. Jeff says:
    July 25, 2023 at 11:10 am

    Laura Dodsworth penned the book, A State of Fear. She explained how various government units and the media kept us in a state of panic for over two years. It’s a brilliant book and it’s absolutely spot on. But this “state of fear” wasn’t just for Covid, it’s for everything…

    I’ll never forget, nor forgive, those dark and dismal days of lockdowns, when on a nightly basis the BBC and Sky vied with each other to produce the most terrifying headlines. It was a competition.

    I remember seeing Clive Myrie, donned in all the correct medical clobber, walking through an intensive care ward for Covid sufferers and shoving a mic into some poor old sod’s face and asking if he blamed the government. It was so intrusive and so wrong. Fear porn. And talk about a leading question!

    Then, just when we thought things might be easing up a little, Russia invade Ukraine and we’re all threatened with potential nuclear Armageddon.

    No sooner is that placed on the back-burner (pun intended) when we get a bit of sunshine and global warming rears its ugly head. For weeks we’ve been inundated with pictures of forest fires and dire warnings that we’re all going to fry. Bloody Nora, give it a rest…

    Look, there’s always something to worry about. Life is dangerous and it always ends badly, but this constant state of panic isn’t doing us any good.

    It looks like a lovely morning. It’s about 68 Fahrenheit, there are wispy clouds and a gentle breeze. I’m going to pack a flask of coffee, a good book, put my little pooch on his lead and take a slow stroll to the allotment. I’ve got new potatoes to dig and cabbages to plant.

    I won’t be wearing a facemask, we don’t have a nuclear bunker and I’m not even smearing myself in Factor 50.

    Reckless…

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  6. BRISSLES says:
    July 25, 2023 at 11:34 am

    Spot on Jeff.

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  7. Thoughtful says:
    July 25, 2023 at 11:42 am

    Take a look at this list of deliberate tax defaulters with the amounts the owe and marvel at the fine tradition English surnames (not) owing eye watering amounts to the exchequuer.

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/publishing-details-of-deliberate-tax-defaulters-pddd/current-list-of-deliberate-tax-defaulters

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 25, 2023 at 12:23 pm

      Jeremy Hunt: everyone will be paying more tax after autumn statement 2022

      Everyone. Everyone. Everyone.

      1,860,000
      Theresa May, Former UK PM earned £1.86 million in her 2 years since leaving Downing Street, figures show

      500,000
      Barry Gardiner defends donations worth £500,000 from Chinese agent

      400,000
      Matt Hancock, who lost the Tory whip after it was announced he would be appearing on the ITV programme, is still being paid as an independent MP and is rumoured to have been paid £400,000 to appear on the I’m a celebrity.

      315,00
      Boris Johnson earns £315,000 for 30 minute speech and ‘fireside chat’ in United States

      65,040
      Chuka Umunna Advisory Board of The Progressive Centre UK think tank (also known as Global Progress)

      20,000
      Jeremy Corbyn Labour party leader accepted up to £20,000 (about $27,000) for appearances on the Iranian state broadcast network Press TV

      18,450
      Keir Starmer £18,450 from Harper Collins as an advance payment for a book.

      15,000
      Boris Johnson Accommodation for a private holiday for my partner and me, value £15,000 Destination of visit: St Vincent and the Grenadines

      10,000
      Jeremy Hunt £10,000 from Citigroup Centre for speaking at an event on 9 March 2021. Hours: 4 hrs. Fee paid direct to charity. (Charity not mentioned)

      5,822
      Nadhim Zahawi MP promises to repay the part of £5,822.27 expenses claim for second home energy bills that relates to electricity for stables

      2,200
      MPs to get £2,200 pay rise from April for ‘dramatically increased’ duties last year

      1,950
      Philip Hammond accepts £2,000 watch from Saudi sheikh, despite ban on donating expensive gifts

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    • Up2snuff says:
      July 25, 2023 at 8:45 pm

      T, the thought occurs to me that HMRC need someone who can speak Romanian fluently in the Collector of Taxes HQ.

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  8. andyjsnape says:
    July 25, 2023 at 11:44 am

    bbc ‘approved’ celebrities

    Meet the first five celebrities cooking in the Celebrity MasterChef Heats
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/celebrity-materchef-week-one-heats-2023

    Another reason not to buy a tele tax licence

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    • Johnda says:
      July 25, 2023 at 11:49 am

      Where are the celebrities. Surely we can sue on the grounds of misrepresentation!

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      • andyjsnape says:
        July 25, 2023 at 11:52 am

        Hello Johnda

        You can’t sue the left they are always right. or something like that 🙂

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 25, 2023 at 12:14 pm

      The ever-popular

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      • Rob in Cheshire says:
        July 25, 2023 at 2:42 pm

        The same tired old faces crop up.

        Eco loon Brigstocke, the daft looking DJ from Birmingham, it is all so repetitive.

        My solution? Don’t watch.

        Defund the BBC.

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  9. JohnC says:
    July 25, 2023 at 11:51 am

    Yemen: The children of a forgotten war
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-66258171

    The reason it’s ‘forgotten’ by the BBC is because it’s Muslims killing Muslim’s and there’s no agenda in that for the the Leftist MSM and the BBC.

    And even now, the BBC avoid telling us too much about who is killing who and concentrate to cram in as much empathy as possible about poor children. Because Islam is a nasty, barabric business full of hate and intolerance when the veneer is scraped away.

    No mention of ‘war crimes’ or anything like that for these snipers shooting and maiming children of course. Because the BBC don’t care. No agenda in it.

    Meanwhile cluster bombs are good because they can’t criticise Joe or his administration. It might let Trump back in. But on the bright side (for the BBC), they will have a ready supply of stories of children being maimed (after the war in Ukraine ends) to virtue signal to us all just how full of empathy they are.

    These hypocrites make me sick.

    The BBC journalist behind it:
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    A snippet about another article she wrote:
    ‘The BBC is facing accusations of anti-Semitism over a primetime report on the 75th anniversary of the Holocaust that referred to Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians.’

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 25, 2023 at 12:25 pm

      Comment “John Humphrys told him that year that it was ‘inconceivable’ that the UK would ever leave the EU.
      Well on this occasion Humphreys was correct. We are still attached to the EU.”

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  11. MarkyMark says:
    July 25, 2023 at 12:29 pm

    What is the Nudge Unit doing on coronavirus?

    The Nudge Unit is working closely with the Department of Health and Social Care in crafting the government response. The most visible manifestation of its influence to date is in the communication around hand-washing and face touching – in particular the use of “disgust” as an incentive to wash hands and the suggestion of singing Happy Birthday to ensure hands are washed for the requisite 20 seconds.

    https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/article/explainer/nudge-unit

    in particular the use of “disgust” as an incentive to wash hands

    in particular the use of “disgust” as an incentive to FORCE PARENTS…

    in particular the use of “disgust” as an incentive to FORCE KIDS…

    in particular the use of “disgust” as an incentive to MAKE YOU DO EVIL …

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  12. tomo says:
    July 25, 2023 at 12:32 pm

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    • tomo says:
      July 25, 2023 at 12:53 pm

      The precautionary principle is silly, Harrabin always uses it. It is a demand for action in the form of a reasoned argument.

      In other words, the precautionary principle is form of rhetoric that is intended to be persuasive, not true.

      The precautionary principle states that, where we do not know the risks, we should act as though the risks are infintely bad and thus avoid them.

      It sounds plausible. But it isn’t. Because If we don’t know the risks we can claim anything is a risk and thus urge any action.

      Do we know whether this bag is a bomb? No. We should do a controlled explosion, just in case. But think about it. Why don’t we blow up every bag at the airport? Why not have bazookas aimed at the baggage claim trolley, just in case?
      Because we do know the risks. Most bags are not bombs. And we identify possible bombs on the ground that people who know that they are bombs won’t stand beside them.

      Pulling stuff out of his behind as usual on the basis of lies and misrepresentation.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 25, 2023 at 1:05 pm

      Invade China – stop the crisis.

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  13. Dickie says:
    July 25, 2023 at 12:39 pm

    Think this is one of Katie Hopkins older videos so the goodies that can be claimed may have been updated by now:

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 25, 2023 at 1:04 pm

      https://www.gov.uk/asylum-helplines

      Who can use the helplines
      You can use the helplines if:

      you’re an asylum seeker and you’ve just arrived in the UK
      you’ve just received the decision on your asylum application
      you’ve been successful in your asylum application and are building a new life in the UK
      What the helplines are for
      The asylum helplines can help with:

      housing problems
      questions about financial support
      dealing with agencies, eg social services
      finding English language classes
      questions about asylum support
      getting legal representation
      finding schools
      building a life in the UK if you’re given permission to stay here
      returning home
      They may also be able to help if you’re:

      threatened or harmed by someone because of your race
      threatened or harmed by a member of your family
      the victim of a crime
      a witness to a crime

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  14. Sluff says:
    July 25, 2023 at 12:44 pm

    The BBC just hates companies making a profit.
    We’ve had ‘excess profits’ at BP and Shell (conveniently forgetting the ‘excess losses’ during covid).
    Then the gas and electricity companies were accused.
    Now today, they are highlighting turnover growth at Unilever. The clear narrative is that they should not have put their prices up to combat rising costs.

    Since BP, Shell, and Unilever will be owned by almost everyone on this website with any kind of investment or pension fund, the clear message is ‘we’re alright Jack, ‘cos we have salary related taxpayer subsidised schemes’.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 25, 2023 at 1:04 pm

      Greece Rhodes fires: Firefighters say there are ‘indications of arson’ in shocking update
      Panicked tourists in wildfire-ravaged Rhodes were forced to flee their burning hotel “like a warzone” after being left to “fend for themselves” as high winds hamper firefighters

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      • G says:
        July 25, 2023 at 1:20 pm

        OOh, OOh, could the cause be exploding lithium car batteries? They have a common habit of that.

        Just saying. That would be fun wouldn’t it.

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        • MarkyMark says:
          July 25, 2023 at 1:31 pm

          China recorded 640 electric vehicle fire accidents in just the first quarter. Beijing Institute of Technology said that with the popularity of low-cost electric vehicles, fires will be a dangerous factor that cannot be underestimated for electric vehicles.

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        • JohnC says:
          July 25, 2023 at 2:47 pm

          G : they don’t explode, they ‘vent with flames’

          And once they are venting, you can’t stop it until the entire battery has eaten itself in a violent chemical reaction. All the fire-brigade do is squirt water on it to try and stop the intense heat generated from destroying everything nearby. It can take up to 24 hours until it stops burning.

          And even then, they can spontaneously re-ignite days later.

          But of course that fact isn’t mentioned very often ..

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          • MarkyMark says:
            July 25, 2023 at 4:01 pm

            What happens if my electric car catches fire?
            Although these fires remain rare, when they do occur, they can be extremely dangerous. During an electric vehicle fire, over 100 organic chemicals are generated, including some incredibly toxic gases such as carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide – both of which are fatal to humans.

            ……………………..

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          • Charlie Farley says:
            July 25, 2023 at 5:43 pm

            JohnC,
            Last weekend there was a fire at Lydden Hill Circuit…..electric race car on fire while on charge …..two cars and transporter destroyed huge amount of Toxic Chemicals released into Atmosphere…..take that Greta ! !

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      • Fedup2 says:
        July 25, 2023 at 2:24 pm

        I’m sure the Ukrainians compare their country to the war zone that is a bit of Rhodes …

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  16. Dickie says:
    July 25, 2023 at 12:49 pm

    Child sex trafficking:

    https://healthimpactnews.com/

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 25, 2023 at 1:34 pm

      “The REAL horrors of child sex trafficking are so terrible and evil, that there is no reason to dramatize it, as Sound of Freedom does. I continue to be attacked and ridiculed for publishing the truth about this fictional movie, with one person suggesting that I must actually support child sex trafficking if I am publishing negative reviews of Sound of Freedom. This movie is very clearly a psyop and distraction from the REAL child sex trafficking that is occurring with young children who are also often murdered for their organs and body parts.”

      ………………

      Grooming … a word to use when raping of children and dousing them in petrol is too hard to say.

      Global Terror … a word to use when you want to bag all terrorism, mostly Islamic, in the same bag.

      Asian … a word to use when you want to include Russians and North Koreans as suspects.

      Racist … a word to use when you want someone to stop talking about 1400 raped children over 16 years with no consequence for those in authority or no consequence for the media ignoring it.

      Cultural Practice … a word to use when chopping a child’s clitirous off is too difficult to mutter.

      Xenophobe … a word to use when you disagree with 52% who said they did not like the EU unelected expansive bureaucratic Government.

      Europe … a word to use when you don’t want to use European Union because if you use EU then people can see that it is only an office in Brussels with a flag, an anthem but no citizens.

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/09/26/midweek-open-thread-26-september-2018/comment-page-3/#comment-944350

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  17. Eddy Booth says:
    July 25, 2023 at 1:05 pm

    “Lost Raphael masterpiece goes on show in Bradford in UK first”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-66291225

    “A mystery work which was recently found to “undoubtedly” be by Renaissance painter Raphael has gone on show in Bradford, the first time it has ever been seen on public display.

    Teams from the University of Nottingham and University of Bradford used facial recognition technology to examine the painting, known as the de Brécy Tondo.

    They found the faces were identical to those in a Raphael altarpiece.”

    Ridiculous article.
    “Lost” suggests there’s historical records of the work and it disappeared. This doesn’t appear to be the case.
    Of course the faces are nearly identical: it’s a copy!, you don’t need ai technology to tell you that.
    Was it by the man himself?
    Well it seems to lack the subtle touch of the original…
    Guess the BBC like the story as it losely ties in with their state of the art wizardly Verify project .

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 25, 2023 at 1:32 pm

      Bradford is UK City of Culture 2025.

      Bradford has been revealed as the winner of the hotly contested UK City of Culture 2025 competition.

      The year is set to deliver more than 1000 new performances and events including 365 artist commissions, a series of major arts festivals as well as exciting national and international collaborations.

      Its themes will be rooted in the unique heritage and character of Bradford and will reveal the magic of the district that is held in its people, its ambition, and above all, its potential.

      So much hard work has gone on across the district and we’d like to thank all the people who have helped shape the process, from community organisations, the creative sector, businesses, and a whole host of groups who have put on a fantastic show of support.

      This is Our Time, Our Place.

      https://bradford2025.co.uk/

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      • JohnC says:
        July 25, 2023 at 2:22 pm

        ‘City of Culture’ = the most run down sh1thole which badly needs some publicity and government investment in arty things to try and kick-start people with money going there to spend it.

        It was Hull one year. One half got all the money and benefitted with nice areas with free museums, expensive metal sculptures in a park area etc etc.

        The other half remained a totally run-down hell-hole with boarded up shops and druggies scaring people brave enough to go out shopping. I had to go in to the optician a while back and was stunned by what really, really strange people it had wandering around.

        Don’t think it will work very well in Bradford. Anyone interested in it’s ‘culture’ already lives there.

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        • MarkyMark says:
          July 25, 2023 at 5:29 pm

          In Bradford, cousin marriage is common within the South Asian community, especially with people of Pakistan origin. 1 Of the UK communities that have cousin couples, the Pakistani origin community is the largest with the highest level of cousin marriage.

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          • Flotsam says:
            July 25, 2023 at 5:36 pm

            Cousin marriage. One of the reasons there’s a higher proportion of disabled and brain damaged children in Bradford and other high ethnic areas.

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  18. MarkyMark says:
    July 25, 2023 at 1:05 pm

    UKRAINE BORDER – defend.
    UK border – Meh.

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  19. digg says:
    July 25, 2023 at 1:36 pm

    Something smells about the Rhodes fires…

    All concentrated in one swath….

    All bearing down on mainly UK holiday hotels….

    Sporadic reoccurrence in different places….

    All this reminds me of the malarkey the Climate nutters got up to in North London last summer with multiple random fires breaking out around the North M25….

    If it does involve these same psychopaths, this time it’s different… they are killing people this time.

    I would have MI5 and the Greek Security services trawl through arrival records from other countries with small parties of mainly young people with a track record of activism arriving on the Island thoroughly investigated.

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    • Dickie says:
      July 25, 2023 at 5:06 pm

      I’d be inclined to blame MI5 and the Greek security services for starting the fires in the first place.

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  20. JohnC says:
    July 25, 2023 at 2:00 pm

    BBC forced to apologise for ‘inappropriate’ question at Women’s World Cup to Morocco’s captain after reporter asks what life was like for her ‘gay players’ in strict anti-LGBT country
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12333483/Sorry-political-question-BBC-forced-apologise-inappropriate-question-Moroccos-womens-football-captain-reporter-asks-life-like-gay-players-strict-anti-LGBT-country.html

    So once again the BBC are forced to apologise for pushing their agenda too far. What I like the most about this one is the arrogance of the reporter who did it. A bit like Ross Atkins was in the video trying to apologise without apologising for what they did to Farage.

    When I search for it, everyone tells me the BBC have apologised except the BBC !.

    What does stand out though is how none of them give the identity of the BBC activist. How come they are ALL hiding it ?.

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:
      July 25, 2023 at 2:47 pm

      Everything in the life of a BBC person is surrounded by LGBTQIAA+ (I might have missed a few) ideology. They cannot comprehend that some cultures want nothing to do with it and are offended by the mention of it.

      It is essentially a colonial mindset, but don’t expect the the Beeboids to realise they are the new imperialists.

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      • MarkyMark says:
        July 25, 2023 at 3:31 pm

        “By 2020, the BBC wants its employees to comprise 50% women, 8% disabled people, 8% lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people and 15% people from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds.{bbc.co.uk 14sep2017}”

        2018 …

        Has the BBC ever lied to me …. YES.
        “Gavin Hewitt in 2015 replacing video with still photos to hide a nasty refugee pushing a pregnant female refugee and small child onto a train track, the BBC made it look like the border guards were being tough.”

        Has the BBC ever hidden news from me …. YES.
        “May 2018 the Day of Freedom march was not reported on the main website or the main news channel and is not available on the BBC £3.5bn online search page – other news agencies including the Guardian reported it.”

        Has the BBC kept the public in the dark …. YES.
        “We know that the UK MP expenses continues and should be investigated with the £3.5bn BBC New Service every year to keep the MPs on their toes, David Lammy bought a bike for £650 on expenses (Claim Ref:387540/17oct2014) which is blatant misuse of Tax Payer Money. How come the BBC don’t check up each year?”

        Has the BBC ignored politician’s lies …. YES.
        “UK Politicians are on TV shouting austerity and recession but all have taken an 18% pay increase from 2010 to 2018. How can they talk for the people when the live in their own bubble?”

        Has the BBC moved from news to social engineering …. YES.
        “By 2020, the BBC wants its employees to comprise 50% women, 8% disabled people, 8% lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people and 15% people from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds.{bbc.co.uk 14sep2017}”

        Has the BBC let journalist break their guidelines …. YES.
        “Gary ‘£1.75m’ Lineker uses his twitter account to say Brexit is bad, EU is good. But not once has he confronted Jacob Rees-Mogg or Nigel Farage to talk about it. It is a one sided echo chamber.”

        https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/05/20/start-the-week-open-thread-21-may-2018/comment-page-6/#comment-918185

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  21. MarkyMark says:
    July 25, 2023 at 2:16 pm

    BBC Radio :: BBC do not do adverts – nearly every 2 minutes advertising all BBC programmes – watch this – see this – this must be seen – bbc is great.

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  22. MarkyMark says:
    July 25, 2023 at 3:34 pm

    Just Stop Oil’s protests have cost the taxpayer more than £7.7 million in Met Police funding over the last 13 weeks, with 150 officers a day having to respond to their pointless stunts. Met Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist revealed the equivalent of a whopping 23,500 officer shifts had been wasted on attending to the eco-loons – even though the officers have often just stood around idly as the unwashed tribe glue themselves to the road…
    order-order.com

    Boat%20(1).jpg

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:
      July 25, 2023 at 5:15 pm

      They arrive at this figure by totting up the wages of all the cops who stand around doing nothing whilst the JSO loons bring London to a halt.

      I would rather that the police do not bother, as they are worse than useless. The people would soon sort the eco loons out, with vigorous direct action.

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  23. MarkyMark says:
    July 25, 2023 at 3:36 pm

    Matty Healy: Malaysia LGBT community angry at 1975 .’white saviour stunt’
    Published
    3 hours ago
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-66286800

    ……………..

    ‘White saviour’ row: David Lammy denies snubbing Comic Relief
    This article is more than 4 years old
    Labour MP in social media spat with Stacey Dooley over trip to Uganda for Red Nose Day

    https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/feb/28/david-lammy-stacey-dooley-comic-relief-white-saviour-row-uganda-red-nose-day-film

    ………………….

    Zimbabwe has offered to return land to foreign nationals whose farms were seized under a controversial government programme two decades ago.

    Thousands of white farmers were forced from their land, often violently, between 2000 and 2001.

    The seizures were meant to redress colonial-era land grabs but contributed to the country’s economic decline and ruined relations with the West.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-53988788

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  24. MarkyMark says:
    July 25, 2023 at 3:38 pm

    Jana Ally struggled to fit in with the British Asian community around her when she was younger.

    Her parents took her to an Indian dance class because they wanted her “to have something where I can relate back to my culture”.

    But 25-year-old Jana says she couldn’t relate because she isn’t Indian.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-66267574

    ………………

    India census: Half of homes have phones but no toilets
    Published
    14 March 2012
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-17362837
    …………………..

    Sati or suttee[note 1] was a historical practice in which a widow sacrifices herself by sitting atop her deceased husband’s funeral pyre.[2][3][4][5][6] Although it is debated whether it received scriptural mention in early Hinduism, it has been linked to related Hindu practices in the Indo-Aryan-speaking regions of India which diminished the rights of women, especially those to the inheritance of property.[note 2][note 3]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(practice)

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  25. Terminal Moraine says:
    July 25, 2023 at 3:39 pm

    I’ve spotted a new sub-heading for BBC live feed: “Global Extreme Weather Continues”

    Dr Thomas Smith from the LSE says “‘fire conducive weather’ in the region has been rated ‘extreme’ or ‘very extreme’ on the fire weather index […] parts of south-western Turkey, Crete, Sicily, and Sardinia all have similar extreme fire weather outlooks for the coming days, according to Prof Smith.

    The first [summer heatwave] was found to have been made 100 times more likely and at least 2C hotter due to the human impact on climate change. Dr Smith says he expects a similar finding for the current one, which he says, “is ultimately responsible for the wildfires we’ve been seeing over the past week”.

    Met Office says Sicily is 30° today; Sardinia a balmy 24°. Global Extreme Misuse of Stats Continues…

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 25, 2023 at 5:20 pm

      “So is it official that the fires in the Greek Islands were started deliberately since a volunteer firefighter living on Rhodes said they had actually found accelerants”

      “Pic in DT of 2 dopey wimmin with little jugs bending over a pool with the headline: holiday makers fill jugs from swimming pools in attempt to extinguish Rhodes wildfires.. Masterminds!

      If I hadn’t spent past few days contemplating to put the heating on for an hour in July I’d be laughing.”

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  27. Dickie says:
    July 25, 2023 at 5:07 pm

    Redacted with Clayton Morris and Col Douglas Macgregor:

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  28. MarkyMark says:
    July 25, 2023 at 5:27 pm

    “When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton

    https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/44015-when-men-choose-not-to-believe-in-god-they-do

    ……………………
    they then become capable of believing in anything
    ………………….
    Facebook’s gender identities are a good start – but why stop at 56?
    This article is more than 9 years oldParis Lees
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/14/facebook-gender-identity-56-transgender-cis

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  30. Scroblene says:
    July 25, 2023 at 5:57 pm

    Note for Yasser, Fed and Tomo…

    Thank you for your responses to my PR post on the w/e thread, you explained the issues far further than I could ever contemplate, and I guess I know a damn sight more about it all now!

    I’m still reeling from that Katie Hopkins piece at the moment though – all that free money going to illegals for just turning up here and there’s me feeling thankful that there are five Mondays in this month, which means a little more dosh from the State Pension which Senora O’Blene and I worked for all our lives…

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  32. digg says:
    July 25, 2023 at 6:05 pm

    Multiple official sources are saying now that the Rhodes fires were the result of deliberate arson. I understand they even have at least one person in custody found with accelerant in the area.

    Of course there is one source that have failed to report this so far.

    Don’t need to say who that is!

    My guess is that the next step for the BBC is to demonise the Greek government officials for even trying to spread this “disinformation” because everybody at the BBC knows for certain it was caused by climate change because the science is settled and therefor the case is closed!

    In my view anyone with half a brain cell would at the very least suspect arson due to the very localised flash points of the fires origin. It had firesetting written all over it!

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  34. Fedup2 says:
    July 25, 2023 at 6:36 pm

    Two weeks running there has been a secret everyone has known – the first was Huw Sexbomb Edwards – the latest is the Dame CEO of Coutts who has now admitted giving data on The Farage account to Simon Jack – maybe it was pillow talk maybe not .
    Anyway – the chairman of Nat West has expressed full confidence in this lady – who maybe guilty of a criminal offence ? Certainly a whole bunch of civil actions for breach of confidence or whatever .

    Sacked in the morning ? ……?

    Or maybe running the course of things – she will get a job in the court of king starmer ….

    Update – the agree comments on the DT site are appearing so fast as to be unreadable !

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    • Emmanuel Goldstein says:
      July 25, 2023 at 6:56 pm

      Now that it’s accepted that Nat West employees can gossip about its customers and their accounts without fear of losing their jobs should we all be worried.

      How can the Board say they have full confidence in her.

      And they keep telling us you have to pay huge amounts to get the best people.

      On Dewbs just now (talking immigration) the far leftie has just said Germany is slightly bigger than the UK.
      Germany is twice the size of the UK.

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      • Foscari says:
        July 25, 2023 at 7:23 pm

        Manny- What more do you expect from a Dame
        receiving £5million a year? I reckon in time she
        will be offered the job of Chairman of the BBC.
        With by that time Simon Jack could well be the
        vice-chairman or director general of the BBC.
        They could have happy meetings sipping Screaming
        Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon . Paid for by the TV license TAX.
        And telling each other what a scumbag Nigel Farage. And
        his unwashed 70% supporters in the UK are.
        As the lyrics go in the song from South Pacific. ” There ain’t
        nothing like a dame” Certainly not like Alison Rose.

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        • Fedup2 says:
          July 25, 2023 at 7:47 pm

          It certainly lets Simon Jack off the hook as far as having to disclose his source . What the information commissioner will do is another matter – although in this case it may well adopt the BBCOFCOM approach of only attacking the ‘unapproved ‘ ….

          No doubt Mr Jack will have a quiet time and then get quietly promoted – the BBC will continue with its corporate grief over their dead newsreader …

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  35. MarkyMark says:
    July 25, 2023 at 7:37 pm

    This story will fade and die ….Labour drops pledge to introduce self-ID for trans people
    Published
    2 hours ago

    Labour has ruled out introducing a self-ID system to allow people to change their legal sex without a medical diagnosis.

    Leader Sir Keir Starmer has previously said his party would introduce such a system if it wins power.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-trans-rights-duffield-b1927169.html

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  36. Foscari says:
    July 25, 2023 at 7:53 pm

    Listen up everybody. As BIG BROTHER from the diversity dept
    of the BBC I have a directive. We have to cover Dame Alison
    Rose admitting that she was the culprit in the Farage false
    leak to our Simon. BUT tell Getty’s imaging to send us the
    most sullen image of Farage they have. That’s if they have any
    images of any white males.

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    • Fedup2 says:
      July 25, 2023 at 7:59 pm

      It would be interesting to know the circumstances in which the dame and mr jack exchanged the bodily fluids of personal bank data … who invited the fornication – was it the dame – who was damed not damned – for services to breaking the glass ceiling – and how close is she to Howard Stud Davies ? The chairman of Nat West? Do they copulate and exchange the account details of private clients in the aftermath ..?

      I wonder where nut nut banks – has he had the Coutts treatment ?

      Surely now that we know personal banking data is readily available to BBC employees – funded at both sides by the taxpayer – we are also entitled to Full Disclosure …..

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 25, 2023 at 8:09 pm

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 25, 2023 at 8:11 pm

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  37. MarkyMark says:
    July 25, 2023 at 8:11 pm

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  38. MarkyMark says:
    July 25, 2023 at 8:11 pm

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  39. MarkyMark says:
    July 25, 2023 at 8:14 pm

    Jeremy Hunt The Chancellor of the Exchequer

    We have appointed Dame Alison Rose, chief executive of NatWest, to co-chair our national energy efficiency taskforce and help deliver our national ambition to reduce energy use by 15%. To support her efforts, I will extend the climate change agreement scheme for two years to allow eligible businesses £600 million of tax relief on energy efficiency measures. But the long-term solution is not subsidy, but security.

    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2023-03-15c.833.0#g834.1

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  40. MarkyMark says:
    July 25, 2023 at 8:16 pm

    BBC Article on the BBC website … “The BBC declined to comment.”

    HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66307353

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  41. Dickie says:
    July 25, 2023 at 8:18 pm

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  42. StewGreen says:
    July 25, 2023 at 8:39 pm

    Right Now on BBC1 8-9pm
    A prog that appears to be an hour long ADVERT for electric cars
    background music , smooth lines etc.
    Justin Rowlatt propaganda
    Part 1 of 2

    Oh no it’s not an advert look at the title
    “Electric Cars: What They Really Mean For You”

    Rowlatt impartially tweeted
    Whether you like it or not electric cars are the future so….

    The producer tweets
    “My latest TV show – ‘Electric Cars: What They Really Mean For You’ is on BBC1 tonight at 8pm.
    Its a deep dive into whether the ambitious Net Zero climate change targets the government has set for the UK are realistically going to happen, and how electric cars might help.”
    .. https://twitter.com/TimUsborne/status/1683849392325816322

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    • StewGreen says:
      July 25, 2023 at 8:44 pm

      Viewer “You didnt even include the batteries when comparing power unit weights ! ”

      “Justin NET-ZEalot”

      “Rowlatt seemingly doesn’t need a seatbelt. “

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  43. Thoughtful says:
    July 25, 2023 at 8:58 pm

    An interesting quote from someone on a different forum claiming to curently by in Rhodes,and that the max temperatures were 35C and that several people have been arrested for arson in recent days.

    Quite a different picture than the hysterical one the media is painting.

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  44. StewGreen says:
    July 25, 2023 at 9:01 pm

    How can he claim to be impartial when he retweets Harrabin propaganda ?
    It’s the same as quoteAsaHeadline trickery

    Uptil now all tweets mentioning Rowlatt have been against
    Now I’ve dug deeper I’ve found 2 supporting him

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    • StewGreen says:
      July 25, 2023 at 9:44 pm

      Harra includes his 2 BBC mates in an alarmist tweet

      What frightens me about the climate crisis is we don’t know how bad things will get.
      We’re taking such a gamble. @bbcjustinr H/t ⁦@DavidShukman

      The phrase refer to the title of a Guardian article he links in his tweet

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 26, 2023 at 2:19 pm

      Dear Darren Henry,

      Do you know about the following which will have a big impact on the World’s climate and our future planet?

      China allows three children in major policy shift
      Published 31 May (BBC)
      – Large population growth China currently has 1.4 billion people at present.

      China’s Monster Three Gorges Dam Is About To Slow The Rotation Of The Earth
      Cutler Cleveland , The Energy Watch Jun 18, 2010, 2:23 PM (Business Insider)
      – Rotation of the Earth can change weather patterns and climate.

      China is the largest developing country in the world. China is still considered a developing country based on the criteria of the World Bank and the United Nations. (World Atlas)
      – Thus China can get cheap loans and be exempt from impositions put on developed countries.

      China has banned BBC World News from broadcasting in the country, its television and radio regulator announced on Thursday. 12 February (BBC)
      – I guess you if you cannot report on a Country then it can do no wrong.

      Did you know about the above and if not then what are you opinions on them and their impact on the World?

      Yours sincerely,
      Mr H

      https://www.writetothem.com/write

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  45. Fedup2 says:
    July 25, 2023 at 9:11 pm

    New thread up . The coverage of the Coutts / BBC woke saga is fully reported in the Daily Telegraph complete with a huge number of comments and an editorial saying the failed ( corrupt?) dame should go .

    …but the guardian – the story is relegated … and no comments allowed . The lead is ‘world to end in 2025 ‘ as Gulf Stream stops ( look squirrels ) you must be afraid …

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  46. Dickie says:
    July 26, 2023 at 2:12 pm

    https://southfront.org/russian-army-strikes-drone-sites-in-odessa-crushes-leopard-tanks-in-zaporozhye-videos/

    BUT, according to The Sun, it’s the Russians who are losing tanks. Watch the two same videos. Hadn’t realised the Russians were using Leapards

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  47. andyjsnape says:
    July 26, 2023 at 2:16 pm

    Ameland rescue: Ship with 3,000 cars in deadly fire off Dutch coast
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66310280

    “A Dutch coastguard spokesman said the fire was probably caused by one of 25 electric vehicles on board the ship”

    Electric vehicles hey and safety with the batteries 🙁

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  48. MarkyMark says:
    July 26, 2023 at 2:18 pm

    HA HA HA HA!
    Wonka: Hugh Grant casting criticised by actor with dwarfism
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-66302072

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