Start the Week 7th August 2023

1370 TV licences are , on average , cancelled or not renewed each day . Why not be number 1371? Youll be in great company .

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320 Responses to Start the Week 7th August 2023

  1. Sluff says:

    It’s another of those ‘men’ again!

    This one with ‘a knife like a machete’.
    Amazing. All those potential witnesses and no descriptions of the perpetrator. And at the time of writing, the report has not been updated for 5 hours.
    Will it make the news? Will the BBC have to cut short Sinead oConnor’s funeral by a few seconds? Or could the story possibly be in conflict with the BBC’s favourite narratives?

    British Museum: Man arrested after man stabbed nearby
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66439504

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “angry man”
      “young man”
      “angry man”
      “young man”

      An eyewitness told the BBC he had seen an “angry man” taking out a knife “like a machete” and “hitting a young man”.

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  2. StewGreen says:

    ITV news PR more foodbank PRasNews actually school uniform poverty PR from the Children’s Society
    “The average school uniform spend is £420 per year”
    … No it isn’t
    I can’t believe it cos you can buy a hell of a lot of clothes for that
    Although some crazy families do buy £100 trainers

    Next item electric bike club for pacemaker patients

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  3. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Can eleven men say they are wimmin and then play in the wimmin’s World Cup against the wimmin?

    If not does that mean that all the wimmin’s World Cup management and all those connected believe that there is only men or wimmin.

    They would then be the same as JK Rowling.

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  4. StewGreen says:

    Monday local news loads of PRas news
    – Motor Neurone fundraiser has passed away

    – PRasNew for police long item just cos Lincolnshire Police have taken to being funny on Twitter

    – Comedian in Skegness fell over his prop but is OK

    – A triple arrest for taxi rape was quickly reported ..no names
    They were charged today
    Radio news didn’t mention names.

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  5. JohnC says:

    Jealous man guilty of murdering partner
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66443583

    Seemed strange to me that this story is buried in ‘regions’ when the victim was this white woman as I assumed the murderer was white as well and that’s always worth a front-page sub-pane:

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    But his picture is not shown. Most unlike the BBC I thought so I went looking for him with google. Because whenever something just doesn’t seem quite right in a BBC article, it is always deliberate. I realised I am meant to assume he is white.

    And sure enough, here he is. The BBC might protect him for their agenda but his picture is freely available:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      London street split in two by ULEZ as some motorists can claim up to £7,000 for old car – while their neighbours hit out at ‘unfair’ Sadiq Khan as they are forced to pay £12.50 a day to drive or told to buy a new car
      Only some residents of Maiden Lane, Bexley, can claim scrappage cash
      Are YOU living on a ULEZ divide? Get in touch at jon.brady@mailonline.co.uk
      ULEZ checker: Every car affected and facing charges – is YOURS compatible?
      By JON BRADY

      UPDATED: 15:55, 8 August 2023

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      • Sluff says:

        It’s worth mentioning for the benefit of those not acquainted with the capital, that those aged 60 or over get free travel on TFL. So an easy way for Sad Dick to get way more money than he will get out of ULEZ would be to increase the free travel age to, say, the state pension age. It won’t happen of course. But it takes away the only justification for ULEZ that holds any water – as a cash-raising exercise.

        One of the perversities of the free travel is that a 60 year old Londoner going from Maidenhead to Reading (which, note, is way outside London) can travel for free whereas a Maidenhead or Reading resident has to pay full whack.

        Such ‘free’ largesse is of course not free but comes from the TFL tax-funded subsidy. Which the rest of us pay.

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Sluff
          It’s the only thing I get from the State – and that costs £10 a year admin fee …. But travelling on the public transport requires animal skills and the ability to remain silent even in the most provocative circumstances – such as being dumb enough to be on a bus after 3pm when the animals are released from their zoo / school …i will have a drink the day khan leaves …

          By the way – I’d strongly recommend avoiding London at all costs …

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  6. Dickie says:

    Great analysis😅😅

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  7. Guest Who says:

    Kev deffo has a chance for QT.

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    • moggie63 says:

      I wonder how much I’d get if I illegally entered, say, Saudi Arabia, and told them I’m fleeing from war torn, er, France?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      So that’s 500 x licences at @£159? A shot ,,,,…

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  8. StewGreen says:

    East Finchley people someone is advertising a talk on spotting deception, a Wednesday evening in September
    https://twitter.com/CathLoveday/status/1688968017269428225

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    • Guest Who says:

      Looks like the good Prof will be able to offer 1/2 hr sessions one to one.

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  9. StewGreen says:

    9pm GBNews show the panel is 2 black people* and Calvin Robinson who of course looks black cos he has one black parent
    The presenter Dan Wootton is of course an Anglo New Zealander
    I suspect they are all London based.

    II have no objection to them as individuals, but there is an issue whereby national media do not reflect the British population.

    * Kwasi Kwarteng and @joannajarjue (from bbcapprenticeTV & Radio commentator … and fervent eco-Labour supporter child
    Ah not London
    Born in Gambia lived in Manchester. She was runner-up Miss Leeds in 2012.)

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  10. tomo says:

    The Twitter algorithms keep shoving this twerp in my face

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  12. andyjsnape says:

    Warning UK set for five years of lost economic growth
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66436792

    bbc don’t forget to mention Brexit – and guess what

    Yes 5 years, not 4 or 6. Any other organisation to quote or just this think tank who probably will get it wrong

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  13. andyjsnape says:

    Facebook’s spread not linked to psychological harm, study finds
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66424770

    More crap from the bbc
    How about a study on the bbc causing psychological harm?

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  14. tomo says:

    Amazed they haven’t suggested a Mars ULEZ to stop Musk

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  15. tomo says:

    They’re going to mandate vax for kangaroos (and koalas) next?

    New production or from the freezers?

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