Start the week 14th August 2023

VJ Day is commemorated on the 15th of August . Will it be treated with respect by the BBC ? Will it be ignored ? Used as a ‘multicultural campaign weapon ‘? Take your pick . So much sacrifice .

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261 Responses to Start the week 14th August 2023

  1. StewGreen says:

    Fake world : Local ITV newsPR has a PRasNEWS advert
    “Deaf people are oppressed there are not enough Sign language interpreters in hospitals etc.”

    Provided oppotunity for activist to says ‘it’s Evil Tories !”

    Truth world : It’s not 1953 it’s 2023
    And every deaf person has a speech to text device in their pocket

    Cos our phones can now do that

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  2. tomo says:

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    • StewGreen says:

      Trump’s full tweet
      and it is an accurate quote.

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      • tomo says:

        Chutkan is about as DC Swamp as it gets

        She has overseen the trials of more than 30 defendants in cases related to the January 6.

        The abuses there should have the witch in jail herself.

        Appointed here for obvious reasons.

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      • JohnC says:

        What stuns me most about this case is that they haven’t even tried to make it look like a free and fair trial by putting a judge considered to be impartial on the case.

        It’s ‘f*ck you’ to Trump supporters and half the American population. It’s a worrying indicator of what the Democrats really are. The new Nazis.

        And even worse, this type of thing is what the ‘free press’ are supposed to be a check and balance against. And they have utterly failed in their duty. The MSM are now almost completely Partisan – with the BBC right up there near the top of the list.

        CNN left arse cheek, Guardian right arse cheek and the BBC worse than both right in the middle. But gagged by their charter which is why they have to play all their tricks.

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        • tomo says:

          JohnC

          What I notice is that the incessant and obsessive hitting on Trump is actually having an effect in the UK – it’s certainly caused some people I know to suspend their critical faculties and swallow the proffered contrived narratives as a basis to move ahead.

          Going full Godwin’s Law once upon a time was a lightweight trope for lack of inspiration for going OTT. What we see now, I feel – is a situation as least as dangerous as 1930s Germany.

          I don’t know if there’s any puppeteer games going on but in the obvious leadership vacuum some folk are obviously making a play for control

          Having Sopel + Maitless doing the commentary / voiceovers – well there’s a surprise…

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        • Up2snuff says:

          JohnC, a Democrat was President of the USA in 1939. One of the reasons, probably the main reason, America did not enter WW2 straight away was that, as I have been led to understand, there existed considerable sympathy for Germany led by the Nazis in both Houses; Senate and Congress.

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          • tomo says:

            Up2snuff

            yeah … some Hitler sympathizers and the isolationists had an impact.

            It’s very easy to believe though that FDR wanted the Brits to bankrupt themselves before the US stepped in.

            The FDR administration made the UK pay cash for supplies until we ran out of cash and only then did they come up with lend lease. Roosevelt used the “loan your neighbor a fire hose when his house is on fire” example on the radio… – what he omitted was – before you hand over the hose get the neighbor to sign over the house deeds…

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    • MarkyMark says:

      HA HA HA …
      Questions are now sexist … see how we can’t even talk about problems … “When it comes to sexism, some Sky news presenters need to look at themselves to. (I’m a victim) ” {youtube – @2:23 – Emily Thornberry}

      What really upsets (emotion) me, about your attitude to me (asking a question), you do this with me (victim). I don’t remember you doing it with anybody else you know (I’m a victim)” {youtube – @0:19 – Emily Thornberry}

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/11/15/midweek-open-thread-35/comment-page-2/#comment-881442

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  3. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/juliahb1/status/1691074650522918913?s=61

    Sounds like one for Surkeer and gang on QT.

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  4. StewGreen says:

    6:58pm and BBC as always serve up 2 minutes of adverts before the One Show,

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  5. digg says:

    The NHS, amongst the biggest employers in the WORLD are a massively underperforming outfit.

    As it’s total funders I think the time has come for a massive public class action against its management for a total failure to perform and the wasting of millions of pounds of money they are forced to cough up to this gargantuan money dustbin with shite service in return.

    It’s time we stopped treating them as a holy Florence Nightingale operation and start treating them like a creaky quango lining the pockets of their senior management.

    Maybe that might lead to them dispensing with hundreds, possibly thousands of massively overpaid diversity and human resource managers for a kick off!

    I am sure if Sunak and his cronies went after them with vigour he would have the overwhelming support of the public.

    The whole bloody dung heap that the NHS has become needs savage pruning to make it operational again.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Digg
      Writing from ignorance – it seems strange that no effort to make the NHS more effective / efficient seems to work . Maybe it will take a red Labour Party to do something as the current lot can’t do anything .

      Today the outgoing health secretary – who sounds like a bloke about to become a non exec at big pharma – was using weasel words about doing away with some cancer targets .

      Presumably there was a good reason for such targets in the first place but now they are – for some mystical reason – not needed ….
      Don’t get me wrong – I know very well that organisations setting targets – without understanding their own working practices ( in real life ) can suffer unintended consequences .

      I’ve got the badge – but doing away with cancer targets …. Has a smell ….

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      • digg says:

        Fedup, I think the bigger problem is that the NHS has lost any connection with its patients in the hunt to become a behemoth driven by oligarchs on eye watering remuneration for the top honchos.

        It will happily stand back while the next generation of eventually to be overpaid docs protest, silently sure in the knowledge that if they stay the course they too will be on six or seven figure salaries… but why not milk the system by token protesting rather than helping sick folk which does not buy you a brand new state of the art electric car or a house in Kensington?

        To the NHS everything would be AOK if they didn’t have the annoyance of having to treat people!

        I hate them with a vengeance because it is near impossible to replace them with something that is fair and works for the people who depend on it which was the original idea behind the NHS.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        In April 2020, the health and social care secretary announced that over £13bn of debt held by NHS trusts would be written off. All of the debts to be written-off are internal between NHS trusts and the Department of Health and Social Care, so the process does not include borrowing from external sources.30 Sept 2020

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  6. Northern Voter says:

    I see from one of the dead tree press, online version, that the biarsed BBC has sold its (really ours) Maida Vale studios. Valued at £10 million, but they won’t let on the selling price. Just think, Loonie Knackers wages paid for 3 years without a TV tax in sight.

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  7. Sluff says:

    You have to laugh when the BBC agenda is so transparent.
    Webshite. Front page. Get ready……..what could it be?

    ‘Gay couple win damages from Italy’s ruling party over ad’.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66502936

    Of interest to a tiny % of the population but a huge % of BBC employees.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      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}”

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    • StewGreen says:

      He quotes a tweet from @BBC_Future
      May 26, 2021
      Black people living in most US cities are subject to double the level of heat stress as their white counterparts, a new study says.

      #1 Never take tweet claims at face value
      #2 It’s old 2021 news

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  9. Philip_2 says:

    BBC starts to sell of its assets.
    “Hans Zimmer will use the BBC’s Maida Vale Studios as a school for musicians after the venue was sold in a deal reportedly worth £10.5m.

    The BBC confirmed it has sold the historic studio complex to the two-time Oscar winning composer and his business partner Steven Kofsky, as well as Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, the chairmen of film producer Working Title.

    The partners have drawn up a multi-million-pound plan to refurbish the Grade II-listed site in west London. It will remain a studio space and the building’s original Edwardian façade will be preserved.”

    I suspect it won’t be the last. If it cannot raise the BBC TV license fee, and if it maintains the same pensions and payouts and benefits (it will), then its inevitable they start selling off what they have.. and its a lot… I expect loss leading radio stations will be sold long before before the TV stations. They care little for radio now, or even music.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/08/14/bbc-maida-vale-studio-sale-hans-zimmer-school-for-musicians/

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  10. atlas_shrugged says:

    UK police clearly showing whose side they are on:

    Bit like the BBC. An Englishman’s home is no longer his castle – undermining centuries of English common law.

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      It has always been a mystery to me how a listed old barn down the road owned by a property developer caught fire and burnt down. Funny I thought, why would that be? Then I remembered climate change.

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  11. digg says:

    The BBC are playing with fire by constantly siding 100% with the left wing players and minority groups.

    Someone lefty or “alt” they throw their weight behind will eventually do something really stupid and dangerous and they will have to retreat and reform.

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  12. Deborah says:

    Leading story on GBNews was the publishing of police names and addresses in Northern Ireland. I thought Tony Blair had brought peace to the province. If there is peace there, what is the problem. Oh…… so things aren’t quite as the BBC wanted us to believe,

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  13. digg says:

    Enrichment via diversity example…

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-66503514

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Detectives are still looking for three people known to the girl and who have left the country. No arrests have been made.

      The girl was alone when found at the property at about 02:50 BST on 10 August.

      A post-mortem examination will be held on Tuesday afternoon.

      Formal identification has yet to take place, and investigators are still at the property in Hammond Road, Woking.

      The three people detectives wish to speak to are believed to have left the country on 9 August.

      The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure. The Home Office plays a fundamental role in the security and economic prosperity of the UK.

      https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/about

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      • Fedup2 says:

        The first duty is a government is to get re elected . If looking after taxpayers help this then that’s useful – if not who gives a damn about them ?

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  14. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/benobesejecty/status/1691188749827235840?s=61

    Like they (need to) care.

    Imagine the process by which this became ‘news’.

    https://x.com/bbcpolitics/status/1691128574521102347?s=61

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  15. digg says:

    Whatever has happened to the climate super glue, banner waving, slow walking nutters?

    They have gone awfully quiet!

    Couldn’t be the normal wet, cool summer we are having could it?

    If so it marks them out as opportunist squealers and freaks and attention seeking nutters they actually are.

    If I were one I would be keeping my head down too!

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    • harry142857 says:

      All those Just Stop Oil Protestors, probably jetted off with their kids on summer holidays in Spain.
      Just as teachers accepted a pay offer days before their six week paid holiday.

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  16. tomo says:

    “‘What star sign are you?’

    BBC 1Xtra announce first of its kind, astrology based Black queer dating podcast Swipe Your Sign

    The first episode will launch on BBC Sounds on Saturday 19 August.

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  17. Scroblene says:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66505804

    “Walking on the cracks in the pavement” next…

    Beeboids dribbling into their lattes at every turn!

    The AI useful idiots in W1AA who are doing this article try to inject as much scorn and hatred as is possible into this crap!

    As is usual with normal citizens, this sort of bile means thousands more votes for the man who will eventually nail the Biden bunch and their cronies.

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  18. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/thinkingslow1/status/1691319009868673025?s=61

    It would be helpful to know the truth.

    Government weasel vs. BBC propaganda harpie supported by JO’bsworth.

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  19. Fedup2 says:

    Today
    Labour Leader John Smiths ‘ daughter chirps away over the latest political trial of president trump – this one is in Georgia – and it’s number 4 .
    When the BBC makes assumptions – such as the legitimacy of the Biden Obama presidency – or the green crap religion – it goes down the rabbit hole .

    There is no question of the motivation or timing of this process.

    The happiness in Sarah Smiths ‘ voice about this is so there to hear.
    The growing popularity of President Trump – obviously – is omitted ….

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  20. Fedup2 says:

    Today2
    The list of psni staff has apparently being plastered to a wall in Belfast . The bbc had some time serving liberal on and asked whether the chief constable should be gone . She spouted about ‘due process ‘ . I wondered what sort of ‘due process ‘ is needed ? As well as what sort of honour the chief has not to realise he must be gone by now .

    Apparently a very junior staff member pressed the ‘publish ‘ button – they should be named – as well as the chain of command which allowed this …. Publishing a politicians ‘ bank details is one thing – putting out 10 000 identities of police in NI is beyond a nightmare …

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    • BRISSLES says:

      It beggars belief that a junior staff member even had access to that data. Whatever happened to security clearance levels ?

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Brissles darling – when I worked for large organisations – public ones – I’d come across something important which had been ‘missed ‘ and I’d hear my self using the word ‘surely’ .

        But senior plod are just time servers before the next rank so if there is no ‘gain ‘ for them and someone else gets the blame – not their problem … a culture which spreads downward ….

        Accountability is hidden behind ‘due process ‘ as well as the ‘I’ve never been trained ‘ defence …

        I suspect the first police victim of this will be a RC with an unusual surname ….

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  21. Fedup2 says:

    Today 3
    Curious – normally the bbc goes straight to blame . But afgee ? On the second anniversary of the taliban taking over ? No blame . No mention of Biden / Obama . No mention that the UK only got involved in Agfee as a favour to George Bush ,,, we had no direct interest . No reason to go .history showed that a 4th world s hole like afgee should be left alone ( see Russia )
    Yet meesh thinks the fault is with the UK – when it’s with the US . As far as I’m concerned all those afgees who worked for the west should go to the US – they broke it they should pick up the bits .
    Not a view you’ll hear of the BBC

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Today 4

      Fly with Ryanair – but if you screw up the boarding pass – it will cost £55 a person at the airport . The BBC decided that because 2 punters were ‘older ‘ things should be different .

      But Ryanair say quite clearly the cost of screwing up . So use another airline …

      people bleating about Ryanair … so bbc ….

      BTW tomorrow I take my regular flight on a decent airline – as I walk to the gate I usually pass the Ryanair gate – it reminds me not to use Ryanair …I’m too tall anyway …

      On my return to the UK I am determined to be exposed to the BBC even more than now – I’ve not seen the TV for a month – a blessing .

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Today 5

        A crime commissioner talking about the ‘online paracetamol challenge ‘ where children are told to overdose on said medication – get taken to hospital – and the one who stays in hospital longest wins the challenge . I laughed out loud …
        Surely the internet was made for such activities …. Blame covid .. blame brexit …

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        • tomo says:

          Last year in Ireland I had a reminder about Paracetemol – used to the cheap generics in UK supermarkets I went to a supermarket to buy some… nope – too dangerous to sell there – you have to go to a pharmacy… (ditto Ibuprofen)

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          • Fedup2 says:

            Tomo – I’m not a tablet taker but wanted to stock up in preparation for the End Of The World – the supermarkets – England limit the number you can buy at any one time because a few people decide to OD from time to time . So you have to pay cash a few times to get as many as you want . Joke .

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            • tomo says:

              I find Ibuprofen’s anti-inflammatory effect useful for back pain – was surprised after NHS prescribed drugs wouldn’t touch it when a clinician acquaintance suggested it – and it JFW…

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              • Docmarooned says:

                This is not surprising tomo. The NSAID class of drugs which I worked on back in the mists of time are very variable in terms of effect and they need to be rotated around to find the one that works. Curiously ibuprofen which is generally thought weaker is the only one that ever worked on me for foot pain years ago. Sadly can no longer take as a bout of sepsis a few years ago knocked my kidney function a bit.

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                • tomo says:

                  That makes sense – what got me was that the doctor that saw me first put me on Naproxen which didn’t do anything … two weeks of hobbling about and groaning through the prescribed course – no interest in reporting the effect / varying the drug at all.

                  I explained my groaning to a nurse I know socially and she said here – 400mg Ibuprofen – 45 minutes later the discomfort was gone… Get a twinge now and 200mg knocks it back.

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          • Mrs Kitty says:

            @ Tomo it’s the same in France, we pay €3 + for 16 500mg tablets, we do however have friends who visit us year round and bring supplies to last us. Nearly ran out during Covid. Not a paracetamol junkie but 2 at night eases the pain of my arthritis so I can sleep.

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      • Mrs Kitty says:

        Have to say here that in over 15 years of travelling back and forth to France using Ryanair we’ve never had a problem, you have to do something that is incomprehensible to a lot of people. Read the booking information again and again and again, check again what you’ve entered and what you’ve requested. I don’t like the man but he’s always been honest about his intentions…..to make money. Too many people rush and discover at the airport that they’ve made a costly mistake. We follow the rules and pay the minimum to O’Leary that we can , get on the plane and get off at the destination.

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  22. Guest Who says:

    BBC and ‘Think’ Tanks.

    https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1691330650324799488?s=61

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  23. AsISeeIt says:

    Vibrant additions to this Tuesday edition

    Just days ago Mr AsI had cause to remark hereabouts – employing the vehicle of his rare occasional supplement to his daily news review titled Maybe It’s Because I’m A Londoner – on the subject of street furniture and official signage in London’s Vauxall district. At the top of a lampost local authorities can be seen to boast of a “Vibrant Centre” meanwhile lower on that very same perch visitors are cautioned: “Street Robbers Operate In This Area

    As luck would have it: Clapham stabbing: Two men injured in homophobic attack… Florence Eshalomi, Labour MP for Vauxhall, said: “Having spoken to people in the area this afternoon, I know how alarming this shocking attack has been to the LGBTQ+ community in Clapham… No arrests have been made in connection to the incident. (BBC)

    Further comment would seem superfluous.

    Thinking of that old military adage ‘no names, no pack drill’ – no descriptions of the supposed homophobic alleged attackers are as yet reported by the BBC. In fact the only thing we know about them is that they were homophobic (allegedly, eh BBC?)

    The expression no names, no pack drill comes from the army. It conveys the idea that if nobody is named as being responsible for some error or offence, then nobody can be punished. It’s a warning, or a suggestion, that it would be best to keep quiet to avoid repercussions. (World Wide Words)

    Yesterday the BBC let on how the previously reported as unnamed: 10-year-old girl found dead at a house in Surrey… has been named locally as Sara… The three people detectives wish to speak to are believed to have left the country on 9 August.

    As though on a timescale akin to that other old adage blood from a stone this morning we wake up to a surname: Sara Sharif, 10, found dead in Woking house named locally… They “seemed a happy family who cared for all their children”… Meanwhile, another local resident said: “The area is very peaceful. It is busy during term-time with children walking to and from. But it’s a lovely, vibrant place, normally.” (BBC) – Vibrant… now we’re all saying it… and that’ll be the daughter of those much-loved vibrant Surrey Sharifs then.

    Batting for Starmer

    Meanwhile the Times of London – which now supports the election campaign of Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer – wins top spot in the BBC online press line-up with the headline report: EU rejects new deal for return of migrants… which Rishi Sunak hoped would help tackle the small boats crisis… Labour has also said it will seek to negotiate a new returns agreement with the EU if it wins the next election

    The Telegraph celebrates: Ben Stokes makes World Cup about-turn.. England talisman ready to come out of retirement [Disambiguation: that’s the cricket World Cup – not the football – either men’s or women’s – there remains confusion since the BBC specifically ordered its commentators not to differentiate between the later two tournaments]

    We’ve heard of the nightclub, entertainment and music business Ministry of Sound and of course George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth

    How about the new left-wing talismans… talismen (?) (talispeople?) heroes working at our Ministries of Woke?

    Our British civil service eh? That organisation was certainly a former talisman of the nation.

    The left-of-centre progressive Guardian today comes out to bat for the Civil Service: Attacks by ministers ‘damaging civil service’

    The Men from the Ministry is a British radio comedy series broadcast by the BBC between 1962 and 1977, starring Wilfrid Hyde-White, Richard Murdoch and, from 1966, when he replaced Hyde-White, Deryck Guyler. (Thank you Wiki)

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    • Guest Who says:

      The mystery of media crime cooperation is indeed perplexing.

      Here is JO’bsworth doing all he can to help Saddo…

      Meanwhile I noticed an image earlier (forgot to capture) of a chap the media were very excited about.

      Seemed beastly and worthy of locating, and white.

      It’s the double standards, you see. But even then, innocent until proven guilty.

      Which does not apply to MSM betes noir. And the cross platform coordination is awesome. Every major has but one, two word headline… ‘Trump Charged’.

      Yes, and Epstein hanged himself, and Hunter is no more to do with his Dad than that Oval Office dress got taken to the dry cleaners.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        I wonder what ‘ robustly investigated’ really means? Does it infer that other crime allegations are not ‘ robustly investigated’?
        ( we know the answer to that one )

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      • G says:

        GW,

        That, from a muslim? Who’s kidding who.

        When all the nonsense ends and all the population is firmly fixed in one or two straightjackets, do the deviants think they will be left alone in their new found utopia? No, either the chinese and or muslims will round them up and probably kill them as the deviant behaviour is rooted in a deviant brain.

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  24. tomo says:

    The Future of Britain

    – as viewed by a motley crew….

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  25. tomo says:

    Tucker Episode 15 (that went fast!)

    https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1691228480556429312

    This embed or not is getting a bit tiresome.

    Tucker interviews RFK Jnr (no mention of vax)

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  26. andyjsnape says:

    At least 30 die in inferno at petrol station in Dagestan southern Russia
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66505961

    bBC hoping that its something to do with Ukraine and more “reporting” to follow

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  27. tomo says:

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  28. Guest Who says:

    No question mark. Sopes will need answers.

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  29. Guest Who says:

    https://conservativehome.com/2023/08/11/georgia-l-gilholy-too-many-journalists-want-to-pretend-fair-disagreement-and-criticism-as-bullying/

    “To see this in action, we need look no further than the corporation that shot Myska to journalistic stardom: the BBC.”

    Saw this on this:

    https://order-order.com/2023/08/14/bbc-launches-astrology-based-black-queer-dating-podcast/

    Ms. Myska set for Strictly stardom yet?

    With JO’bsworth doing the Tango of Doom?

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  30. taffman says:

    Sounds like the EU want to dump ALL their illegals on Great Britain.
    How many did Merkel invite in to Europe?
    Its time for the UK government to start defending this nation and start getting all our fishing grounds back.
    Northern Ireland, who gave that away ?
    Conservatives – Ha !

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    • Mrs Kitty says:

      It’s amazing how all the fish in the channel are french but all the gimmegrants are the U.K. s .

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      • taffman says:

        “Stop the boats” Rishi , “Stop the boats”.
        If illegals deliberately risk their lives, its their fault if they drown, not the people of Britain.
        Follow the money, Follow the money !

        The Tories are a busted flush .
        https://www.reformparty.uk will stop them .

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  31. digg says:

    The EU blocks the UK returning illegal immigrants to their last country. Meanwhile the EU threaten to fine Poland £20,000 per immigrant they refuse to admit.

    The picture is clear. A few hundred oligarchs are re-imaging Europe so it no longer represents its population and its history but is simply a huge slave camp with everyoneworking for the oligarchs global ambitions. If they succeed in watering down national identity and loyalty they will be able to control everyone with relatively few hired shock troops. Then set about removing rights, property and ownership from the masses to take it all under state (oligarch) control.

    That’s why they hate the UK so much, we were the only country to put a spike in their grand plan with Brexit so they are now determined to grind our faces into the dust and force us back in.

    This is a very Germanic “mighty empire” mindset and simply takes up where they left off in 1945.

    We are seeing how even in this country the police are getting to like pushing people around on any flimsy pretext so the mighty EU will not be short of unthinking but willing strong arms to force the public to submit.

    Of course idiots like Macron want a grandiose seat at the top table so like lapdogs they lap it up. Only when they are no longer needed as their Country ceases to exist will they wake up by which time we will be looking at a thousand years of slavery in Europe.

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    • taffman says:

      Is our government complicit in importing a hostile army into our Great Country ?
      What do you think ?

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      Hopefully we’ve reached peak New World Order.
      That being Ukrainians idiotically dying in huge numbers for one of thier acryomn masters – NATO.
      When the Russian fighters triumph, people should wake up to what’s going on.

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  32. Eddy Booth says:

    “Disney’s Snow White: Has the fairy tale already gone sour?”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66496850

    Article is usual garbage about racism, womens roles, dwarfs, children’s education, internet trolls …

    🤔 Sometimes I like trolls!

    Snow-white.webp

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    • taffman says:

      Eddy Booth
      Scrap the Woke licence .

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    • Sluff says:

      She can poison my apple any time……..

      And anyway, they have the title wrong.
      Surely it should be ‘Snow Person not of Colour and the Seven Differently Height Abled People’.

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  33. Guest Who says:

    Sadly, on every level, I have zero faith in the establishment now… politicians, civil servants, NGOs… and the media supposedly holding them to account, now based on pure ideology.

    https://expose-news.com/2023/08/15/ahpra-made-a-complaint-to-themselves/

    Consider how many BBc ‘reports’, layered in ‘sources claim’ or ‘reportedly’ are pumped out based on rigged seeding by PR agencies working for the blob above sure that if it fits the narrative it will garner credulous or complicit traction.

    Meanwhile ECU and OFCOM only ‘investigate’ and report on trivial stuff about the BBc whilst deep-sixing actual breaches.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Yes – the failing state is best avoided at all levels whenever possible …as for londonistan – we are 2 weeks away from ULEZ – there’s no reports of increased destruction of their cameras – although helpfully today the Daily mail reports that the Blackwall tunnel is to have a toll system imposed in 2025…. Considering how few connections between north and south londonistan -that’s gonna hurt …

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  34. atlas_shrugged says:

    LBC today with JOB whining about the UK slipping down the league table for supporting the Alphabet people …

    UK was first and is now 17th?

    ‘it’s a damn shame’

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  35. Fedup2 says:

    Press frothing about 3 Bulgarians arrested for spying for Russia. Pity they are not alarmed about the real harm being done by importing an invasion …..

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  36. Sluff says:

    It’s time for another game of join the dots, something the BBC consistently refuses to do.
    It reports on todays employment statistics, and whinges about the public sector ‘falling behind’ the private sector on wage increases (though, as usual, no mention of pension entitlement- the public sector got 10% this year but best keep that quiet). I digress.
    Buried at the bottom were the 464000 record number economically inactive on long term sickness, numbers which were fuelled by the covid pandemic.
    Now some of that is no doubt lead-swinging. But let’s suppose a good portion is genuine. Bear with me.

    Because for the last 18 months, the death rate in the UK is way above the long term average. It is not explainable by covid, respiratory deaths are below average.

    Could these be related? Could covid, or indeed the vaccinations be related to the huge rise in, for example, cardiovascular disease among the long-term sick, and death? Deaths are, after all, usually preceded by sickness.

    I ask because no-one in power is asking. There is a deathly silence from government, opposition, the NHS, the Chief Scientific Officer, and nearly all the media, including the BBC, about our consistently high excess death rate.

    You know what they say. A conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Sluff, 464,000 economically inactive? That’s no record. In 2009/10 there were 5,000,000 economically inactive, but that includes the unemployed whereas your figure does not.

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      • Sluff says:

        Thanks Up2
        Oops. I think it is an increase of 464000.
        My overall thesis remains however.

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  37. Terminal Moraine says:

    Re: the 10yr old girl found dead in a Woking house — the BBC devotes quite a lot of the article to report the reaction of the local imam; Hafiz Hashmi of the Shah Jahan Mosque “said he had not been able to sleep in recent days”.

    Thanks BBC, we’re all hoping the ‘community’ can recover from this atrocity in time for the next one.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-66507793

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  38. Terminal Moraine says:

    R5 just now — BBC interviewing a BBC journo who’s behind the BBC podcast “Did big tech know I was gay before I did?”

    “Journalist Ellie House is bisexual. But before she had even realised that, it felt like big tech had already worked it out. Is that possible?”

    Bubble? What bubble?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0g6pspq

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  39. JohnC says:

    Five key moments in the crushing of Afghan women’s rights
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-66461711

    A 100% agenda piece from the BBC using their usual method of using empathy instead of facts and blatantly lying to do it.

    I got this far:

    “For 11 years, despite the risk of violence, I worked hard so I could become a doctor. I’m devastated,” she wept, as she waved goodbye to her brothers heading off to school.

    Of course that isn’t true. Are we supposed to believe the BBC reporter got there early in the morning and was interviewing her on the doorstep as her brothers set off ?.

    I seriously think the author hasn’t even been to Afghanistan and is fabricating articles like this based on heresay over the internet. I’m quite sure The Taliban wouldn’t allow her to go interview people for articles like this.

    Which of course means the whole article cannot be trusted. Just like the BBC in general these days.

    I almost laughed when I saw Number 5 in the list of most important ways women’s rights have been ‘crushed’ is that beauty salons have been closed down. Yogita obviously feels very strongly about that because she mentions it in other reports.

    I suspect there are a LOT of Afghan men who wish that was all that had happened to them. But the BBC don’t care about the torture and murder of Muslims when other Muslims do it. No anti-white racist agenda in it.

    Here is the clone responsible for this one:

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  40. Terminal Moraine says:

    R5 now live at the Edinburgh Festival — Nihal Arthanayake interviewing comedian Paul Chowdhry (real name Tajpaul Singh Chowdhry): “people hate bankers more than they hate Nigel Farage…”

    Chuckles all round; BBC definitely not a bubble.

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