This week a BBC autocue reader called sally nugent , 51, referred to the dambusters ‘ raid as ‘infamous ‘. Someone in the BBC looked up World War 2 and discovered that something called the RAF helped save Britain – therefore they issued a limited apology – with miss nugent keeping her job . 53 RAF lost their lives on that infamous attack on Nazi Germany – with 8 infamous aircraft lost – not something the infamous BBC cares too much about these days – right Sally ? Dear reader Are you still paying her infamous wages ?
Weekend 5th August 2023
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Forgive me for asking – but I wonder how the girl footy tournament is going down ? I ask this because of the number of adverts for it I hear every time ( seldom ) tune in to the BBC R4?
Are the stadiums full ? Is there a worldwide audience of billions ? I only ask this because the BBC decided long ago to ‘ramp up ‘ girl football for its own divisive purposes – until sky ( please ) buy it …
Normally if the viewing figures are ‘huge ‘ we’d never hear the end of it but at the moment there seems to be ..silence …
Sorry Fed, the more the BBC push it the more I avoid it. Viewing figures might be in the tens- not of hundreds or thousands, just tens.
Up to now, out of 100 teams in 50 matches, 43 scored zero goals within 90 minutes.
#Merkel wins Finland gender equality prize. Germany’s chancellor has been named the inaugural winner of an international gender equality award created by the Finnish government. The jury chose her because of her “commitment to women and girls globally”
. . . in other news . . .
BBC fails to follow up on a refugee related News story … BBC £3.5bn Search for ‘Maria Freiburg’
Apparently he thought that he had already strangled her to death. The judge questioned him concerning “sex with a dead girl,” and the offender said:
“It didn’t bother me to have sex with a dead girl.” (Hussein K.)
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/12/14/midweek-open-thread-38/comment-page-2/#comment-886849
Not really enough information about the provenance of the stats – but if it is what I think it might be…. it certainly looks right….
I wonder, on the basis of “America sneezes” >>> if this applies equally to the sainted Holy Cow NHS?
Is it time to buy an electric car pushes the BBC?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001mwr2/panorama-electric-cars-is-it-time-to-buy?at_mid=GdBBIgG0o9&at_campaign=Panorama_Electric_Cars&at_medium=display_ad&at_campaign_type=owned&at_link_origin=promo_box&at_audience_id=TV&at_product=iplayer&at_brand=nc8fyznx&at_ptr_name=bbc&at_ptr_type=media&at_format=image&at_objective=consumption&at_bbc_team=BBC
Yes if you are a homeowner living in a house with a drive and not on a terraced house street or a high rise flat and have over £35,000 to spaff out for your new status symbol. However if you don’t then you are screwed and must submit to the new mantra of the richest people can do and you can fu**ing walk or take a bus so they can continue to feel justified and entitled….
Biden
Speccie
‘Destruction of a brand takes determination, and time. You have to really put in the hours.’
✍️ Gareth Roberts
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-bbc-deserves-its-declining-audience-figures/?
The BBC deserves its declining audience figures
And all staff have played a real part. Some more than others.
7am Radio4 The Religion Show
“Coming up we’ll be having our anti-Trump bit, why do white evangelicals still support him ?”
– Here’s an American nun who has her Edinburgh Fringe show to promote
– “Last Sunday, the Moroccan defender Nouhaila Benzina became the first player to wear a hijab at the World Cup. We’ll consider some of the challenges facing Muslim women in football.”
– “Taliban in Afghanistan issued photographs of a giant bonfire of musical instruments. Is their crack-down on music and singing just strictly-applied Islamic principle? Or is it – as some have called it – ‘cultural genocide’? Hear from a British Imam and Afghan musician Elaha Suroor.”
(strange English, They’re missing the word “we” at the start of that sentence)
“the Pope for World Youth Day in Lisbon. Find out why it matters to UK Catholics who have travelled there.”
Their decline in audience is an utter mystery.
Have they polled Bradford?
The anti-Trump bit was really about the guy plugging his book
“White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity
By : Jones, Robert P.
.. “The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future”.
US$14.99
In the seg ment he didn’t mention White Supremacy
He did make a serious point
White evangelicals feel they are under attack
and Trump is the one who defends them
There was a feeling that White Christians were the centre of American culture
and now they get diluted my more different groups.
Of course each week the R4 show leaves out a hell of a lot of British religious news
#LyingByOmission
BBC #PRas News
The artist behind the installation joked it was causing the council to ask questions about the urinal’s usefulness.
Urinal appears on the side of Sonning bridge over River Thames
“The installation has been added to Sonning Bridge, in Berkshire, by the anonymous artist Impro”
Whose PR team jokingly sent a release to the BBC’s weekend skeleton unit.
The irony is that of many awful rivers, the Thames has been improved a lot.
A further irony is the highest rated comment.
“ It’s more useful than sadiq khan 😂”
If that does not get the girls in the cubicle gardens, plus the wimmin, in a flap….
Local news had an item “Joe Pasquale fell over his moosehead prop in Skegness”
Portion distortion edition
Confirmation of our present silly season news status comes this morning via the BBC: Do people really swallow spiders in their sleep?
Getty Images, these days evidently onto a proper nice little earner with the BBC, supplies an accompanying pic of a suprisingly white female in the guise of Little Miss Moffat.
Spider man
Blokes do the silliest things
Our featured victim of a supposed impromptu eight-legged midnight snack was, however, a chap: Chris Cowsley, a Hertfordshire postal worker… Unable to breathe – and after calling 999 – he said an ambulance paramedic told him it seemed likely his uvula… had been bitten by a spider.
To avoid any possible miss-gendering confusion – uvula – that’s a doctor’s word for that: fleshy hanging ball at the back of the throat
Pressed for a second opinion: The hospital said it was not sure what had caused Mr Cowsley’s breathing problems – though a specialist, Mr Cowsley says, did suggest the paramedic’s spider bite theory might have merit.
Further research by Helen Burchell, BBC News, Hertfordshire – presumably performed on the world wide web, so to speak… (pun intended) quotes: The British Arachnological Society says as natural pest controllers, spiders are “second to none” – and utilising that infamous aphorism attributed to Profumo scandal hooker Mandy Rice-Davies: They would, wouldn’t they?
Of course the British Arachnological Society are going to give their favourite bug a PR leg-up… or two… or eight
Would-be intrepid reporter Ms Burchell goes on to confirm Mr AsI’s suspicion that she didn’t bother to pick up the phone to contact The British Arachnological Society – perhaps they were working from home?: “They are predators and their main prey are insects, many of which eat our crops and pester our livestock,” its website suggests.
Despite that perhaps tongue-in-cheek diagnosis of Mr Cowsley’s swollen uvula, from what we used to term the ambulance drivers: Further expert testimony contends: Spider experts, however, are less convinced that a spider was the culprit for Mr Cowsley’s breathing problem… Dr Matt Wilkinson, from Cambridge University’s department of zoology, says: “There’s a myth that you swallow about eight spiders a year in your sleep “It is a myth – though one that many people accept as reality.”
To me that’s a brand new urban legend – come to think of it, are there specifically rural legends and myths? How do they differ from urban legends or myths? Swallowing spiders ought perhaps to be more naturally placed in the rural legend category – or is it perhaps the case that city dwellers have become separated from that good old-fashioned countryside knowledge and wisdom and consequently have come to more easily believe daft unfeasible stuff?
It looks as though our Helen Burchell had indeed finally got through on the blower to: Dr Geoff Oxford, honorary secretary of the British Arachnological Society, agreed that the story of swallowing eight spiders a year while sleeping was “a myth”
So much for the ‘paramedic’ opinion.
The doctor won’t see you now
One in six GPs will not see patients in person… despite repeated NHS and government committments. (Sunday Telegraph)
If the themes and contents of this report have affected you in anyway, do please keep it to yourself.
In the news: Vlad attacks the bloodbank – according to eastern European story-teller
Ukraine war: Russia hits blood transfusion centre, says Zelensky (BBC)
Is Ukraine’s counteroffensive failing? Kyiv and its supporters worry about losing control of the narrative… Some U.S. officials are frustrated at the pace of Ukraine’s counteroffensive, which has gained less than 100 square miles of territory (NBC News) – how interesting, and how very post-modern, is the notion that control of the narrative is given such emphasis.
While the Sunday Mirror bangs the free school dinner gong, despite the long summer holidays: Shock child hunger exposed… Jamie: Act now on free school meals… PM urged to give kids vital support in holidays
Jamie Oliver coming on as sub as Marcus Rashford is presumably busy with his pre-season
Meanwhile, the Sunday Telegraph cautions: Portion distortion is making you fat. Why it’s time to turn back the clock on the madness of the modern diet
Seems in Britain these days, in terms of espionage, we’re under attack from all sides: Iranian state ‘now biggest threat to UK’ Home secretary’s fears over spies’ links to gangs (Sunday Times); China ‘will use electric cars to spy on Britain’… warn ministers (Sunday Telegraph)
Some institution such as the old Guiness Book of Records ought to keep a regular track of what is the latest thing we’re being told by our media is our biggest threat
The Royals are out in force this weekend
The Princess Royal weathered the storm to watch her daughter Zara Tindall compete in the Festival of British Eventing… Riders in the storm – the Telegraph there referencing Jim Morrison of The Doors and that 1971 hit Riders on the Storm: appropriately it begins: ‘Riders on the storm, Into this house, we’re born…’
Charles at the Mey Highland Games (Sunday Express) – and as the kids tend to say: Meh!
Royal Exclusive: Is Camilla’s gran the key to her crusade against domestic abuse? (Mail on Sunday) – Camilla’s gran, she must have been born back in about 1602?
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye (Matthew 7:5)
Monarchy mania… US fetishisation of Royal family has gone too far (Telegraph)
To be fair to our media, it is silly season afterall.
Seems Meghan is back soon.
One of my fave movie sequel poster lines was ‘He’s back; with a few days to kill’.
Well, she seems to be back if only with a whinge repackage.
Instead of thrown to the lions of the media recipients of her team’s pr, now fed to them.
Sources say.
A Tweeter complains the 8am R4 Worship prog, contains no worship.
Blurb : “Writer and broadcaster Anna Magnusson anticipates the Edinburgh Festival on its opening weekend, looking forward to its creativity, inspiration and hope.
hears from Nicola Benedetti, the International Festival’s director, Bosnian film-maker, Samir Mehanovic, and Ukrainian refugee, Hanna Tekliuk.”
Yes was expecting to hear choirs and priests sermon but there is none of that.
Oh hang on 8:31am suddenly a choir bit.
BBC News
“A big mink coat encapsulates the glamour of the 1970s in Las Vegas.”
The weekend unit really did not think this through.
All fur coat and no knickers then. 😉
Meanwhile, look where Ultimate Karen Reevsie hauls up, again.
Forcing folk to pay for the feckless is a very bbc thing.
LOANS FROM CHINA?
Barry Gardiner defends donations worth £500,000 from Chinese agent
The Labour MP said Christine Lee appeared to be ‘operating as a legitimate person in the UK’.
Amy Gibbons
Thursday 13 January 2022 20:23
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/barry-gardiner-chinese-lee-sky-news-jeremy-corbyn-b1992752.html
It’s bigger than Biden – (and Barry Gardiner)
China’s Belt And Road Initiative Opens Up Unprecedented Opportunities (FREE LOANS FOR MPS)
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MM,
Is this the same ‘Belt & Road’ initiative? Progress?
Once default on debt they can buy the countries for one whole dorrrah!
Guardian : 57 triathlon swimmers reported they felt ill the day after Roker beach swim in Sunderland
British Triathlon said its own testing results passed the required standards for the event
Then said the Environment Agency sampling results were not published until after the weekend’s events
That sample from Wednesday 26 July, three days before the event, showed E Coli colonies 39 times higher than typical readings the previous month.
(The Guardian writes E Coli, but the actual count was probably a count of dangerous E Coli types
cos many types of EColi are not dangerous )
The local water authority said their system had not discharged anything for 2 years.
Tweeters all shout “The Tories, The Tories”
Ukraine war: Russia hits blood transfusion centre, says Zelensky
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66419331
‘A Russian “guided bomb” has hit a blood transfusion centre in north-eastern Ukraine, killing and injuring people, Ukraine’s president has said.’
‘This war crime alone says everything about Russian aggression,” he said.’
“Defeating terrorists is a matter of honour for everyone who values life,” he added.
No mention of course of all the drones Ukraine are sending to civilian areas in a blatant terrorist attempt to turn Russian public opinion against the war.
If anyone from the BBC reads these comments, you should know that these reports repeating anything the comedian Zelensky or his government say as virtual fact and without question or context are making you look more and more ridiculous. Your coverage of this conflict is worse than useless : you are actively giving people reasons not to trust anything you say as representing the actual truth.
The BBC’s target audience these days seems to be 15-20 year olds who know nothing of the real world and have a leftist bent. I suspect they have decided that ‘socially engineering’ adults doesn’t work so they are trying to condition the younger generation instead.
NHS … death by stupidity … Almost 2,000 people in the UK died after being given contaminated blood transfusions between 1970 and 1991, a report has found. The new study, published by experts from a number of UK universities, lays bare the damage that the contaminated blood scandal has inflicted on the lives of thousands.17 Sept 2022
………..
HA HA wiki – LARGE NUMBER ….
…..
In the 1970s and 1980s, a large number of people – most of whom had haemophilia – were infected with hepatitis C and HIV, the virus that leads to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), as a result of receiving contaminated clotting factor products. In the United Kingdom, these were supplied by the National Health Service (NHS) with many of the products being imported from the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_blood_scandal_in_the_United_Kingdom
Donetsk city hit by Ukranian cluster munitions provided by the good ole US of A.
Cluster bombs are GOOD now Dickie.
The BBC told me so. They will shorten the war by making the Russian people demand that Putin end it and hence SAVE civilian lives.
Then in future years as they report on children being maimed, they will blame Putin.
There is too much complaining about the BBC on
this website. I wont be making any comments for
awhile. Unlike you Fedup I am very happy to pay my license
tax With my springer spaniel bitch Mimi on my lap I
am about to watch the top sports event of the day on the BBC.
The netball match between Malawi-Tonga !! License tax well
spent.
Foscari – perhaps you should join that Far Left Biased BBC which daily evidence the anti EU – pro britan – anti queer – anti islam – anti foreigner stance of the BBC .
Good luck finding it 😜
Fedup- Instead of watching the classic of a netball match
between MALAWI -TONGA on BBC TV. May I suggest an
alternative. You can watch my bitch MIMI playing her version
of crickets 100 on Google. ” Oh Mimi when I said fetch”
And you wont have to pay the license tax !!
Foscari
I did try a wiki thing to get the ‘viewing figures ‘ but for some reason they are not easy to find . So I gave up – as I think anyone who appreciates real footy would do .
It has pleasing that the team taken over by Netflix actors got a thrashing yesterday – by Milton Keynes something or other …
But the charidee shield is up today to herald the coming winter ..
Huge cos 300K Likes and 12K Quote tweets in just 5 hours
“unfairly treated” is a bit subjective
eg some folk would say “tweeting climate denial, should get you punished”
I wouldn’t take Musk’s huge promise at face value.
Literally infowars
Watch the interview with Marco Polo’s Garrett Ziegler – it’s such a sprawling topic that Ziegler acknowledges that it’s not a topic amenable to sound bites or short glib slogans…
Ziegler has lots and lots of receipts – the interview is 2 hours long and is imho riveting to the point where I didn’t notice the time – some insights into the Trump White House and much more…
Musk’s offer has to be seen as a skirmish in a wider fight – the antics of Biden associates (particularly Biden’s lawyers) detailed by Ziegler are something that really needs wider exposure.
On the BBC webshite
‘Armed man at Bradford A&E stopped by brave hospital worker’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-66408163
And…if you read through the article, that is the sum total of the information about the assailant. Oh, except that he was 27, so not a youngster bound by anonymity rules.
I wonder why the BBC don’t want to tell us anything about him.
Could the location of the incident possibly be a clue?
https://bradford2025.co.uk/
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.
MM,
“Bradford has been revealed as the winner of the hotly contested UK City of Culture 2025 competition.”
Does it have a, “Halal Compliant” label?
What you fail to realise is that ‘City of Culture’ is not awared to a city with culture, it is awarded to the worst shithole which need some investment.
Hull got it a few years ago. The money did wonders for a small part of it – at the expense of the rest.
The problem with Bradford is that the only people it will attract are those who already live there. Or maybe some from Birmingham .
That’s a fake headline
The actual one should be
Man wins award after tackling armed man in Bradford 3 years ago.
The big story is the same man repeated the crime after released from prison ..see news from April 2023
on October 17, 2020.
Adil Akksar, 27, of Cleveland Road, Manningham, Bradford walked through Bradford Royal Infirmary’s (BRI) A&E department into the X-ray area but was escorted out by staff as he did not have an appointment.
He returned to the X-ray waiting area, demanded “give me a f***ing X-ray now” and then drew out a gas-powered BB-gun before pointing it in the face of a hospital porter and then at his own head.
The porter thought he was going to be shot dead, Bradford Crown Court heard on April 1, 2021.
He was imprisoned for 14 months by Recorder Peter Hampton who said hospital staff should feel safe and protected at work
The big story is the same man repeated the crime after released from prison
.. https://twitter.com/Wayne57072607/status/1642482901592711173
His motive doesn’t appear to be very transparent …can’t see through it at all …
“Dean Priestley said he had sympathy for the man, who was in distress” … A hospital worker who disarmed a man who walked into an A&E brandishing an imitation gun and demanding to be seen
….
Adil Akksar, 27, of Cleveland Road, Manningham, Bradford walked through Bradford Royal Infirmary’s (BRI) A&E department into the X-ray area but was escorted out by staff as he did not have an appointment.
https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/23703191.royal-award-hospital-worker-bri-replica-gun-scare/
There’s a “major new series” on Radio 4 at 1.30pm today, The Battle for Liberal Democracy, presented by former British diplomat Tom Fletcher. His Twitter X thread about it shows where it’s heading. His first post about how “democracy is beleaguered” shows not Xi Zinping but Donald Trump. “Since 2016 we’ve seen Trump switch off the lights in the shining city on a hill” he writes later. Definitely the right man to present a “major new series” for the BBC then. He also founded The Foundation for Opportunity, “which supports good people doing good things in public life”, but good luck trying to find out who funds it. Mr Soros? Mr Gates?
Helping Good People Do Good Things in Public Life
We bring great people together to share ideas, skills, and experience, and support future leaders to deliver positive change in their communities.
https://tomfletcher.global/foundation-for-opportunity
British – Country of residence
United Arab Emirates
Company status
Dissolved
Dissolved on
1 December 2020
Company type
Private limited Company
Community Interest Company (CIC)
Incorporated on
25 January 2018
Launching Aston Martin in Middle East, 2013. (Bond cars again)
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11168864/officers
CHIVERS, Jeremy St John
Role
Director
Date of birth
June 1971
Appointed on
25 January 2018
Nationality
British
Country of residence
Lebanon
Occupation
Management Consultant
COX, Rebecca Louise
Role
Director
Date of birth
August 1985
Appointed on
25 January 2018
Nationality
British
Country of residence
United Arab Emirates
Occupation
Executive Assistant
FLETCHER, Thomas Stuart Francis
Role
Director
Date of birth
March 1975
Appointed on
25 January 2018
Nationality
British
Country of residence
United Arab Emirates
Occupation
Diplomat
They look the ideal chaps to sell you non existent electric money and they’ve got Rishi’s personal phone number ..
I note he’s adopted that ‘clenched fist and thumb on top’ hand mannerism. Probably got it from Bliar, who regularly used the signal.
I’ll see if I can find what it means. First observation from your post is that, he’s a definite ‘Con-Man’.
The ‘thumb atop clenched fist’ mannerism is a Leftist trope. It replaces the upright forefinger which is so awfully authoritarian and patriarchical.
Tony Blair clone … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQQioHR3Wz8&t=1s
Bad people doing bad things….
Looks to be a bit part player likely known to The Bidens
again… I say watch the Ziegler interview
Checking out the opposition
The Labour Youth wing watch Ash Sarkar’s Novara Media
I just looked at their video about the GBnews reaction video to Greenpeace’s invasion of Sunak’s Yorkshire house
.. https://youtu.be/kw4r9pfz69M
The comments are all sneering like Rik from The Young Ones
This is a typical one
“@JNSGROUPLTD 19 hours ago
If GB News are so agaisnt this form of trespass why is it okay for them to do it themselves?”
BBC reports that the ‘injustice secretary ‘ is to stop money being taken from those receiving imprisonment wrongfully for ‘bed and board ‘. But surely the cost of guarding and heating and TV should have been included in the bill?
And another thing – what about the 99.9 % lawfully imprisoned ? Shouldn’t they have to pay for their ‘housing ‘ perhaps by doing something called ‘work’?
More seriously – the idea that judges approved taking money from those wrongfully sent to prison show just how far from real life they are ..
Fed, “And another thing – what about the 99.9 % lawfully imprisoned ? Shouldn’t they have to pay for their ‘housing ‘ perhaps by doing something called ‘work’?”
They do. Back in the old days, it was sewing Mailbags. Don’t know what they do for ‘Porridge’ now.
More silly season stuff – apparently the Chinese are going to be able to spy on people via their electric cars .. this – of course – is a threat to National Security –
But I have an idea – if the Chinese will sell me a car I will be happy for them to spy on me if I get -say -a 25% discount …
..they’ll be able to see my nectar points and clubcard point and use this data via AI to plot the best time to invade … disguised as other invaders already invading .. the swines …
GET A CHEAP LOAN FROM CHINA?
Barry Gardiner defends donations worth £500,000 from Chinese agent
The Labour MP said Christine Lee appeared to be ‘operating as a legitimate person in the UK’.
Amy Gibbons
Thursday 13 January 2022 20:23
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/barry-gardiner-chinese-lee-sky-news-jeremy-corbyn-b1992752.html
Does Bradford have a Gay Pride parade?
https://www.equitypartnership.org.uk/bradford-pride/
Thanks MM.
Just reminded me to get in a couple of 45 gallon drums before winter.
I can just picture a Pride march there 40 odd years ago – with all those miners lining the streets.
from order-order.com
Looks like the surface of the Sun ! Maybe we should be also shown flares erupting from Londonistan, Bradford et al.
NO MEN TO BE SEEN? WHY NOT? BBC MAIN STORY ….
“Netball World Cup final 2023”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/netball/66416324
Is there netball for men?
Men’s netball – Wikipedia
On the club, national and international level, men’s netball teams exist, but attract less attention than women’s netball.
Males can join Netball Clubs as Personal Members (although some clubs may be single sex)
From the start, netball was developed as a women’s sport: existing outside the sphere of male-dominated sports, netball did not encounter the initial social opposition that faced women in other sports in the early 20th century.
MM, basketball?
Yes – we need more women in basketball.
According to racial equality activist Richard Lapchick, the NBA in 2021 was composed of 73.2 percent black players, 16.8 percent white players, 3.1 percent Latino players of any race, and 0.4 percent Asian players. Additionally, 6.6 percent of the players were classified as either multiracial or “other” races.
CCS has a wide range of commercial agreements you can access in several ways: agreements, catalogues, portals and aggregation. Learn about the buying routes and what you can buy from each.
Infosys Limited
Agreements and lots supplied to:
https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/suppliers/1219/infosys-limited
Rishi Sunak has always been reluctant to talk publicly about Infosys – the Indian IT giant co-founded by his father-in-law – or declare his household income from it, arguing that it was a matter for his wife Akshata Murty alone and of no legitimate public interest.
Whether this argument will be sustainable now that Contracts Finder, the government’s own database of public sector tenders and contracts, has shown the company has been involved in £172m worth of public sector contracts remains to be seen.
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/mandrake-rishi-sunak-stays-tight-lipped-over-infosys/
British – colonialism – bad.
Chinese – colonialism by debt – good.
FUNNY HOW CHINA IS NOT COLOURED IN – HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Marky – Seeing as the Chinese are so keen on road building can we ask our incompetent politicians to invite them to repair the UK’s shockingly poor transport infrastructure.
Manchester man draws penises around potholes so the city will fix them
Date updated: 18/05/2022
China and the UK are working in close partnership to further the international collaboration needed to achieve the ambitious endeavour of greening the Belt and Road initiative (BRI). In 2018, the UK and China jointly published the Green Investment Principles for the Belt and Road. These voluntary principles aim to harmonise green infrastructure standards along the BRI, to increase the use of green financial products, and ultimately to vastly reduce the emissions footprint of the BRI.
Globally 70% of greenhouse gas emissions come from the construction and operation of infrastructure. As BRI countries will host significant new infrastructure in coming decades, greening the BRI is critical to building the low carbon development paths of many emerging countries for decades to come.
China, a key trade partner and investor in many BRI countries, is in a natural position to shape the green growth of BRI trade corridors. Between 2013 and 2018, trade between China and other BRI countries amounted to $6.47tn, which is phenomenal considering that total global merchandise exports in 2018 reached $19.5tn.
https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/supporting-businesses/economic-research/research-publications/greening-the-belt-and-road-a-uk-china-collaboration#:~:text=China%20and%20the%20UK%20are,and%20Road%20initiative%20(BRI).
……………..
At the same time, the belt and road initiative means that China is now the largest lender to developing countries and is effectively encouraging debt dependency, which we have talked about in the past. President Xi, at the seventh session of the Chinese Communist party’s finance and economy committee, said that China must develop “killer technologies” to strengthen the
“global supply chain’s dependence on China”.
So this is not a case of, “Gosh, is this happening?” It is stated policy. We do not need to debate whether it is happening; we are being told by the leader of the Chinese state and the Chinese Communist party that it is.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2023-06-13b.177.2&s=%22belt+and+road%22#g202.0
Top news story on the bbc a few hours ago was that the Russians had deliberately targeted a blood transfusion centre. zalensky said it so it must be true. Presumably it was one on those instantly recognisable blood transfusion centres; easily spotted as they have a roof, doors and windows. Very distinctive. I don’t imagine it had a red cross on the roof or it would have surely been mentioned.
Do these people really expect us to believe this shite? Tonights headlines will feature targeted attacks on a cats home, an orphanage and a donkey sanctuary.
I honestly hope that it ends soon with a sensible agreement. No they aren’t going to pull back to the pre-2022 borders z, so get used to it. If the Russians were to agree to this, do you expect it to stop there, or would the ukranians and the idiot presedent march on Moscow? Your answer will depend on whether you trust zalensky, biden and nato.
Volunteers from the Syrian Civil Defence, known as the White Helmets, are seen telling Nour to “look over to her dad” as they carefully lift her out of the rubble. Her father watches on as her dust-covered face emerges from the pile in the opposition-held town of Jinderis, north of Aleppo.7 Feb 2023
WE ARE STILL IN THE EU – CAN NEVER LEAVE….
Rees-Mogg accuses Sunak of breaking his word over ‘bonfire’ of EU laws
This article is more than 2 months old
Former business secretary says ‘politicians need to stick to what they said they will do’ in attack on Rishi Sunak
UK politics live – latest updates
Tobi Thomas
@tobithomas_
Thu 11 May 2023 11.49 BST
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The EU concept of the ‘supremacy of EU law’ – which forces all other UK legislation to be interpreted so as to give way to EU law where there is a conflict (even if EU law was overridden by subsequent non-EU sourced UK law) – has been preserved by the 2018 Act so far as relevant to the interpretation, disapplication or quashing of domestic law passed or made before the end of the transitional period. This interpretative concept is alien to the UK legislative principles, whereby later parliaments (and their laws) can override earlier parliaments.
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmeuleg/122/report.html#heading-1
Simpo cites a BBC TNI fact check. Goes poorly.
https://twitter.com/johnsimpsonnews/status/1688147271601225728?s=46
He is close to rivalling JezBo for being utterly bent. Yet still employed.
“Just in case it’s slipped your memory, the fact-checkers of The Washington Post worked out that during his four years in office Donald Trump made over 30,000 false or misleading claims. That’s an average of 21 a day.”
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24/07/2023 – amended with apology
BBC News
TV, radio and online, 4 July 2023
We reported that the former UKIP leader Nigel Farage’s bank account had been closed by Coutts because he fell below the financial threshold needed for an account. This information came from a senior source familiar with the matter after Mr Farage had put the story about his banking arrangements into the public domain, saying that the bank had political motives in closing his account.
Mr Farage’s view was reflected in all our reporting and he has been widely interviewed across the BBC throughout. Since this original coverage, Nigel Farage submitted a subject access request to Coutts bank and obtained a report from the bank’s reputational risk committee. While it mentioned commercial considerations, the document also said the committee did not think continuing to have Mr Farage as a client was “compatible with Coutts given his publicly-stated views that were at odds with our position as an inclusive organisation”.
Because of this evidence, we have since changed the headline and the copy on the original online article about his bank account being shut for falling below the wealth limit to reflect that the claim came from a source and added an update to recognise the story had changed. We acknowledge that the information we reported – that Coutts’ decision on Mr Farage’s account did not involve considerations about his political views – turned out not to be accurate and have apologised to Mr Farage.
24/07/2023 – amended with apology
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications
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30,000 false or misleading claims
Have I Got News for You
BBC One, 28 April 2023
Chris Whapples was referred to as ‘Lead Scientist’ in this episode. He is actually a Parking Consultant and Structural Engineer.
17/05/2023
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30,000 false or misleading claims
Dear Winston Smith of the BBC Historical Corrections Department,
As I’ve had to look at your BBC news and use other sources to determine that your news is not news but selective editorial opinion I’d like to request that I have a refund for the last 4 years plus get the BBC free from now on.
Please let me know how I can go about this as I am willing to create a full list of articles that I’ve had to investigate plus time taken for me to check your fact checker whilst realising that the BBC intentionally removes news rather than incorrectly report on it, uses images to sway opinion or misleads with the main titles hoping no one reads the full article.
‘Omission is the greatest form of lie.’
CAS-4987700-SY1FTF : BBC NewsWatch says boredom with pro-Brexit march.
CAS-4963895-3HKGDN: Tommy Robinson: Are you reporting on him?.
CAS-4844672-N8FDYY: Update on the MP Expenses 2009 scandal in 2018.
CAS-4939547-J71Z1V: Here’s hoping Ireland do the right thing G.Lineker.
CAS-4937378-YKMWBJ: BBC not reporting ‘Day of Freedom’ March 06may2018.
CAS-4906141-BFJQL0: I take offence that presenters promote their books.
CAS-4892811-C820SC: I am offended that I have to pay the BBC TV Tax.
CAS-4824332-633N1P: What happened in Italy was not covered …
CAS-4933135-ZV3V7F: The omission is the most powerful form of lie …
CAS-6005141-S1V9D1: Not seen a report on the UK Governments Covid19
Let me know how to go about resolving the issue of paying for something that wastes my time as I have to check each story rather than rely on its accuracy.
Cheers,
https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/make-a-complaint
Izzard is clever person.
But is this whole ‘Look at me in a dress” done for for comedic value, to see how much he/she/they can continually outrage and embarrass the establishment, perhaps trying to pounce on the slightest out of place word?
Fed – Your “the older I get, the more right wing I become” comment rings so true.
If it’s just an act by Eddie Izzard, then he’s a brilliant parody for what the truly hideous tranny blokes look like these days!
Either way, his ‘Deathstar Canteen’ sketch was a piece of comedy gold.
Shock tactics.
I have been wondering for some time now, why does the BBC appear to be immune from any sort of criticism from the government regarding the blatant anti-government news items they broadcast?
For example, the actions of the BBC has led to several democratically elected, high profile government ministers and politicians being hounded out of office – why is this unchallenged by the same people that could face the same media victimisation in the near future?
One possible answer could be that the MSM broadcasters were given some sort of open ended ‘immunity contract’ by the government in exchange for broadcasting the non-stop Covid propaganda during the ‘pandemic’. I read sometime ago that these same broadcasters were paid very handsomely for their ‘propaganda services’.
I no longer watch any TV news channels, for obvious reasons, but get a sense of their pathetic output from websites such as this. Does anyone know if Sky News are as biased, or is it just the disgusting BBC that are now the sole mouthpiece for the liberal left wing?
I appreciate that Ofcom is supposed to regulate media output, but they too are now such a failed organisation that they should also be thoroughly investigated.
Seems I won’t be buying a Porsche anytime soon . Porsche has airbrushed a statue of our Lord Jesus Christ out of an advert for a new 911 – I bet the marketing kids will know Coutts and Bud and Ben and Jerrys
like him or not, I fear he is right:
I wonder if he has a hang up about being bald – I notice this with other chaps who wear hats indoors – he sure rants don’t he ?
George describes the UK economy has being destroyed – I’d say it’s already gone . But the point about British abroad wondering about what to go back to ? A very good point – and in my bunker in the Med I wonder that too …
Let’s hope gets bogged down with Niger – and we stay away from it ..
I sit with baited breath every day waiting to hear Biden pronounce ‘Niger’
I expected that my comments on the Sweden-USA ladies
football match might be removed by the BBC “moderators”
I dared suggest that the visceral wokeness of the once
great player Meghan Rapinoe had an affect on the cohesion
of the USA team, which was a shadow of its former self.
I sometimes forget that certain “celebrities” who tick
the right boxes so far as the BBC is concerned , are untouchable.
I didn’t mention it on my comments , But
one of Rapinoe’s edicts is that transgender
women should be allowed to play for the
USA national ladies soccer team. You know
somebody like “Lia” Thomas. The fantastic
ladies swimmer with a luncbox.
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/08/06/a-round-up-of-the-bbcs-climate-howlers-of-the-past-12-months/
There was an interesting contrast on the Sunday programme with William Crawley. He was running through the checklist of items that would be on the programme and refered to Afghanistan where the Taliban have decreed there shall be no music and, iirc, the Taliban have started destroying musical instruments. “We look at the Koran and see what it says about music.”
Another item looked at Donald Trumps supporters. Apparently he, despite the DoJ’s efforts to indict the former President again, enjoys great support among Christian Evangelical Pastors. I cannot remember exactly what words William Crawley used but, in effect, the Taliban’s interpretation of the Koran could be correct and the Pastors supporting former President Trump must be wrong.
That is how it came across to me.
Biased BBC.
Much as I still watch GBN as opposed to other news channels, the endless ad breaks every 7 minutes, the 2 headline slots and the weather updates, means the amount of content is about 30 minutes per hour.
The contributors must be on a good fee per word. I say this because Danny Kelly on the Nana Akua 3 hour show
admitted to driving 96 miles from the Midlands today to appear. Well, along with Christine Hamilton, their input across the 3 hours must amount to barely 20 minutes, as they wait while the various breaks occur and outside comments from other contributors sat in their front rooms.
Nice work if you can get it.
Was tinkering outside most of a day alternating between cloudy/sun and rain. Not hot; not cold.
Had on Classic FM and managed to kill every news break and most ad intrusions.
Then along came Humpty. His efforts between music grate.
But one made me laugh.
Seems he until recently had a 30yo Rover. Good for him, I thought.
But it seems it was no more. Awwww. But fear not, he had shared and as is the way with millionaire media folk, someone offered to fix it up. Hooray!
However, he lamented, living as he does in central London (and who in media does not) he no longer needs it as he cycles everywhere.
OOooook.
I get having a banger if it works, even if richer than Croesus.
But this story made me ponder if the end was nigh more thanks to a certain charge? £12.50 a day adds up, even if on par with said monarch.
And I very much doubt Humpty cycles at Vile* levels, especially when the weather is inclement.
Might a shiny e-Car be in the offing, powered by angel dust and the tears of Congolese child miners? Be funny, if tragic, if so. Or maybe a Bugatti? He can afford it on his BBC pension chekky alone.
And quite what the generous if naive punter makes of his response to the restoration who knows, especially if he just flogs it. Even sitting in the driveway that meter ticks.
*Yes, here he is.
https://twitter.com/riversorare/status/1688091261910073344?s=20
Guest, is that The Humph, late of TOADY presenting?
He was on the front page of a newspaper t’other day and apparently he is planning to live to 120 years of age. God may have other plans for him though.
That is he.
Who next The BBC sends to Classic FM will be interesting.
No doubt Simpo.
Time for some BBC Politics, or as it is known, Labour.
They tell The BBC a lot, and The BBC just sticks it up.
She’s half right. As the comments go on to clarify. Which is more than any BBC staffer does.
Oh, and, ditto.
The Tories are indeed dire. Labour is however even worse.
And here is the genius that is Dr. Rosena not connecting the dots before posting.
Again, many in the comments do. As the media are unable to.
The obvious question is how many MH sick days taken were magically aligned with the extant rules about self certification?
A career nurse of some 40 years experience I know said she supervised a team where she said she couldn’t recall a full roster of workers.
Not forgetting those that take off the allotted sick time allowed, return to work for a fortnight then have another few months off. Most know how to play the system. I never saw anyone get the sack for taking extended sick leave, but I soon realised they would never get away with it in the private sector.
Further to Simpo out and out trashing the BBC’s claims on impartiality, pompous oaf effort refers…
…a small glimmer to prick that balloon.
https://expose-news.com/2023/08/06/u-k-mainstream-media-shares-guest-views-ordinarily-dismissed-as-qanon-nonsense/
prats given prominence
Not exactly earth shattering – but still, he chose to appear with the rather obvious dot in place…
Through and through, followed by a trowel and some polyfilla.
Sorted.
Didn’t raise an eyebrow?
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/06/11/g7-trudeau-twitter-memes-eyebrows-erin-moos-pkg.cnn
Picking up a coin on the prison floor?
‘Sadiq Khan’s free school meals’
🤩
A third world interpretation of the word ‘free ‘.
School dinners?
FREE SCHOOL MEALS .. funded By City Hall.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1799184/Wagner-putin-Ukraine-Africa-gold
Now, how about some info about Alicia Kearns
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/07/27/british-intelligence-war-kosovo/
The world turns, the calendar pages flip and after quite a run…
Star Trek is done.
Dylan Mulvaney to be the new Captain?
The world we currently inhabit is strange enough.
I hope Dr. Who turns into a musical , Daleks on ice etcetera
Spike Milligan – Pakistani Daleks
A flash of genius from Milligan
WTAF?
Meaningless virtue-signalling.
Even the word ‘pride’ is complete hypocrisy. I don’t believe any of them are actually proud to be gay. Just as I’m not ‘proud’ to be heterosexual. I just am.
In fact it actually indicates how unpleasant and nasty these people are when you scratch through the veneer : it really means ‘f*ck you’ at everyone else.
hmmm….
Twitter hides the absolutely idiotic Brighton Pride HM Coastguard pickup …
Do the RAF have a rainbow sparkly unicorn Tornado yet?
This is the new BBC:
Burnley: Baby falls from second-storey window
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-66423388
Baby injured but alive. Lots of empathy. Front page news.
No question about how a one year old fell out of a window.
New Cross: Murder arrest as victim Julian Ebanks-Ford is named
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66420915
Victim stabbed multiple times and is dead.
Buried straight into regions.
Why ?. You know why. Here he is:
Black Lives Matter do they ?. Only when the BBC can use them against whites. It’s a whole world of double standards and hypocrisy when this can happen and nobody says anything about it.
I’m sure the official reason is : ‘Not helpful to the agenda’.
The Left don’t care one bit about who gets killed or how they die if they can’t use it for their own reasons.
But the BBC are not the worst. They come in second. The other arse-cheek (The Guardian) are not encumbered by any ‘rules’ so they can say what the BBC want to say.
“Just tuned in… within three seconds heard “transition to net zero…” just turned off.. #Countryfile #DefundTheBBC”
item #1 was PRasNews for The King’s business
and some kind of therapy woo
#2 PRasNews for the Scottish windfarm industry
“oh aren’t they cool they are trying to throw away less components”
Things prog failed to mention is a long list
Forests cut down for windfarms
– Windfarms lubricating oil etc.
– Most carbon fibre blades don’t get recycled
etc.
#4 Adam “Modern farming methods evil, CHEMICALS, must go regenerative”
The Countryfile windfarm item was PRasNews for Argyll’s Renewable Parts Ltd
https://ashden.org/awards/winners/renewable-parts/
Im sure the idea of sabotaging some bike race in scotland was well thought through .
Will one of these protestors become a dead symbol of ‘ the struggle ‘ by the end of the year .
Will members of the public just beat a few to death some day .. ? Martydom beckons for that false green crap religion
On a lighter note……..
Has Elon been at the blue gatorade, lucozade, irn-bru or Khan’s kachi sharab ?
If he can pay for people’s legal fees for losing their jobs for tweeting what their employers don’t like on the platform, wouldn’t it be a kick in Sad Dick’s nether regions to do this for those poor drivers like Joe & Josephine Public here?
He will convert his green credits in unicorn farts.
The Welsh leader spitefully Drakeford has spent the last two years telling English people how much they are not welcome in Wales and hey presto!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-66417213
Crash and burn I say!
Welsh vote at 16.
Join ISIS aged 15.
Trans surgery on NHS at 10.
Marry Mohammed at 6.
The BBC spend in Wales has likely gone up though – I’ve seen the Cardiff boyos in action –
Send in the dinghy people!
And this is going to help biggly….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-65121438
A perfect example of hate filled bias biting your own arse!
BTW English people, there are some really lovely places in England to go away including cornwall, devon, yorkshire and many others etc. etc. and at least you know the locals are not sneering at you while they take your money!
It is pretty obvious that the government imposed tourist tax is designed to have a poke at their biggest group of visitors that being the English. You can only compare it to retailers charging people to enter their shops to buy stuff.
Ideological Welsh nationalist vindictive childish garbage!