253 Responses to Start the week 21st August 2023

  1. MarkyMark says:

    “Stockton man told to find ‘exact’ pothole that damaged car”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-66567660

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  2. taffman says:

    Rishi “Stop the boats” Sunak aint stopping them!
    These boys will ………… https://www.reformparty.uk
    Who is still voting Tory now?

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  3. Guest Who says:

    Along with ‘Trust’, ‘Impartiality’ and ‘Jimmy who?’ the BBC still trot out a certain word on a regular tell it often enough basis presuming they still have control of all platforms….

    https://www.racket.news/p/tracking-orwellian-change-the-aristocratic?

    So the title invoking an ex employee seems apt.

    As does the undeniable FACT that the BBc, of all public bodies, uses and abuses the FOI act here more than anyone.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “The chief way you know the new version of transparency is a fraud is that it’s limited to “qualified” researchers. We’re even seeing lately news stories sourced to some of these same “researchers” complaining about having to comply with FOIA requests (a few of which are being made by Racket and partner publications). Ideologically, these self-appointed intellectual vanguards do not believe information is for everyone, nor do they believe they should have to answer to the people funding their “research,” while simultaneously believing that private companies and individuals should get used to the principle of endless inquiry.

      When the meanings of noble words are turned inside out, we have to pay attention, and this example is about as infamous as this sort of thing gets. Don’t let anyone tell you transparency means surrendering your privacy to the state. It’s supposed to be the other way around.

      https://www.racket.news/p/tracking-orwellian-change-the-aristocratic

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  4. MarkyMark says:

    Biden Awards Hawaii Official Medal Of Honor For Saving Water During Fire
    POLITICS
    ·
    Aug 20, 2023 · BabylonBee.com

    https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-awards-hawaii-official-medal-of-freedom-for-saving-water-during-fire

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  5. MarkyMark says:

    Hundreds of migrants killed by Saudi border guards – report
    Published
    1 minute ago
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-66545787
    ………………………………

    HUMAN RIGHTS …
    Gary Lineker insists the Saudi Pro League WON’T rival English football until a player ‘like Kylian Mbappe’ agrees to go
    Gary Lineker is unconcerned by any imminent threat from the Saudi Pro League
    Saudi Arabia’s top-flight is attempting to lure top European stars to the nation
    But Lineker admitted the threat to the Premier League is currently minimal

    …..
    HUMAN RIGHTS …
    Why Saudi Arabia Bought the Entire Sport of Professional Golf
    Mark Leon Goldberg June 12, 2023

    …..
    HUMAN RIGHTS …
    Saudi Wealth Fund Weighs Buying Another Top Football Club in Europe
    Newcastle United owners keen to pursue a multiclub strategy
    Recent UEFA ruling opens door to more big football club deals
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-13/saudi-wealth-fund-weighs-buying-another-top-football-club-in-europe

    ……………..

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  6. tomo says:

    I had to check ….

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  7. tomo says:

    I don’t recall the same urgency about getting out of Kabul….

    I thought it was February of 2022?

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    Lucy Letby: How could the NHS stop a future killer within?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-66243542
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    The Dame Janet Smith report into Jimmy Savile and the BBC has been published. It contains the following key points:

    At least 72 people were sexually abused by Savile in connection with his work at the BBC, including eight victims who were raped. There was also one attempted rape. The youngest rape victim was 10 years old
    The offending took place from 1959 to 2006, mostly in the 1970s
    The largest number of victims was in connection with Savile’s work on the BBC’s Top of the Pops programme
    Like Savile, former BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall was a serial sexual predator, targeting and grooming young girls
    Hall abused at least 21 victims, eight of whom were girls under the age of 16. The youngest was 10
    Both men used their fame and positions of celebrity to engage in “monstrous behaviour”
    The culture of the BBC enabled Savile and Hall’s offending to go undetected for decades
    The BBC missed at least five opportunities to stop the abuse
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35657868

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Interesting mindset that there are / have been plenty of letby s in the NHS busily covered up by the medical mafia / HR.

      From what I’ve heard – the circumstances of this case deserves a formal judicial inquiry -if only to examine the conduct of the Trust Management and suggest a structure of accountability – yes I know the secrecy of the mafia canno be breached – after all – it’s only punters – babies – the old ….

      … the role of the royal colleges also needs to be examined – but that ain’t gonna happen as they’ll strike again …

      Don’t forget to clap … I wonder how long the letby suicide watch will go on …? Do the world a favour luv …

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  9. Dickie says:

    Col Douglas Macgregor speaking:

    https://youtu.be/lPjGFtFLH7U

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    • Philip_2 says:

      Thanks Dickie, interesting and worrying the extent of the US looking for conflicts and those of the left (US Democrats) ‘Blinken’ was mentioned (Obhma chief of staff or advisor, Clinton and now Biden (both Biden’s were involved in the Ukraine before the war started). Very worrying. A coincidence? I think not.

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  10. MarkyMark says:

    ‘We’ve all been watching the longest-running show of modern times. But it might soon be all over’

    …..

    Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook restricting a story about Joe Biden’s son during the 2020 election was based on FBI misinformation warnings.

    The New York Post alleged leaked emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop showed the then vice-president was helping his son’s business dealings in Ukraine.

    Facebook and Twitter restricted sharing of the article, before reversing course amid allegations of censorship.

    Zuckerberg said that getting the decision wrong “sucks”.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62688532

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  11. Guest Who says:

    JO’bsworth clearly unaware what a £5,000,000,000pa PR budget can do.

    All a bit blonde though, eh, Jim?

    Still, Dr. Shola, Femi and that farmer of poor judgement doing gangbusters for TV producer choices.

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  12. Dickie says:

    But..but…but the Ukranians are winning on the battlefield. Surely the western media aren’t misinforming the public. Wherever is Marijuana Spring.

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  13. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    I wonder how many Londoners will buy a clapped out old car for £50 or so and then use it to get khan’s £2000 towards a new car.

    There must be loads of right old bangers which have no way of passing the next mot, lots of cars now worthless with some fatal engine or chassis fault ready to be scrapped which are now worth £2000
    Perhaps some electric cars which need a new

    Stupid scheme.

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    • Emmanuel Goldstein says:

      And the missing word following new is…….. battery.

      You all probably guessed it anyway.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Maybe if you are a man you get a free radio from Sir Boaty?

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  14. Eddy Booth says:

    Allegedly a comic handed out to school kids in Russian part of what was Ukraine.
    A gay/trans cockerel finds he’s not welcome…

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  15. TrickCyclist says:

    Football.
    BBC News at Six tells me that the women’s team are the most successful senior England team in a World Cup on foreign soil.
    A few qualifications there.
    Also, Mason Greenwood has parted company with Man U because the club says “he has made mistakes.”
    Mistakes.
    As the saying goes, that’s why they put erasers on the ends of pencils.

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  16. Philip_2 says:

    BBC on the skids.. no new audience and now the older TV license payers want out (those over 65 refuse to pay for all the BBC crap on TV). And the ‘yoof’ (racially black or white) not that interested in paying for it either. Even the BBC iPlayer only gets just 18% despite heavy BBC ‘on air’ advertising and is effectively ‘free’ in UK. It can only get worse…. and that is the next TV license Charter review, the BBC is clearly unsustainable in its present form, and it refuses to go via subscription… it wants to have a (Labour) national UK income tax ‘levy’ for all its ‘unbiased opinions’, sexual perversions and its wobbly climate predictions.

    Computer active magazine this week, (issue 664 26th August 2023)”
    Magazine cutting:

    https://postimg.cc/wtgbnCzS

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Financial Times, citing sources:

      “Ukraine is hastily moving its pilots and aircraft because of an increase in Russian strikes on targets in western Ukraine. Russian missiles have recently targeted air bases, runways, a pilot training centre and a fleet of bombers carrying Western Storm Shadow and Scalp missiles.

      “Because of this, Ukrainian pilots are forced to constantly shuttle between dozens of airbases and commercial airports”.

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  17. StewGreen says:

    9:05pm GBnews topic “Anti-white racism in the MSM”
    cites media pundits, team Sadiq Khan
    and Dr Shola
    that last one is an exception She’s so raving I’m sure most black people think she’s a crank.

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    • tomo says:

      Dr Shola is a common enough type in Nigeria.

      Most sane locals give the shysters a wide berth.

      There’s been other black race hustlers spewing similar to her today about the Letby case.

      I wonder how much the prosecution cost – I noticed BBC radio didn’t touch NHS incompetence with a f-ing bargepole – that I heard on TWATO or pm anyrate.

      I know somebody who was investigating this outrageous incident – and he said it was the tip of an iceberg… If electronic records / official work email are used then there must be an offsite archive copy that is not accessible to trust IT staff… Imposing a gag order on staff when it’s found to be for nefarious purpose should be criminal offence and attract a custodial sentence.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Doc SpagBola is shoo in for BBC QT too.

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  18. tomo says:

    grrr… the computers at DVLA will be working a 9-5 4 day week soon ?

    What a farce – went to register my daughter’s ULEZ non compliant diesel van with Sadiq (not really) and WTAF – computers that work office hours…. are they solar powered?

    A new low at DVLA.

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  19. StewGreen says:

    9pm ITV drama starts : set in 1826 Britain
    Rowdy authoritarian white males barge into a room, where a young black woman is in bed with a white woman, both dressed in petticoats.
    .. brainwashing background music is used
    ..Then it’s revealed that the white woman is dead and the black woman is covered in it
    Then the white officer says ‘and here’s your dead master too. you maid have killed your masters’

    The black woman is lead away into a street where evil whities abuse her.

    MSM = constant gaslighters

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    • StewGreen says:

      #TheConfessionsOfFrannieLangton on ITV1
      a black novel by a black author

      A servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this astonishing historical thriller that moves from a Jamaican sugar plantation to the fetid streets of Georgian London
      The testimonies against Frannie are damning. She is a seductress, a witch, a master manipulator, a whore.

      But Frannie claims she cannot recall what happened that fateful evening

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    • StewGreen says:

      ” It’s an LGBTQ period piece drama featuring a love story between two women – and a murder mystery”
      Author”My motivation for writing the novel was deliberately to put, as I’ve said before, a Jamaican woman in Jane Austen’s territory”

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  20. Up2snuff says:

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – Ooops! Mind Your Captions.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-66518303
    Passenger jet flying in front of the full moon; over is for cows, if I remember the nursery rhyme correctly.

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  21. StewGreen says:

    9:22pm BBC4 ‘Here are the paintings of Thomas Bock who painted dignified pictures of black Australians
    .. the screen spends many minutes dwelling on the paintings.

    The show is about the history of Aborigines.

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  22. Kaiser says:

    irish truth bombs

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    • StewGreen says:

      Peter Tatchell has never advocated sex with children
      but you can see why people think he has
      He wrote in praise of intergenerational relationships, when he was in one with an older map.
      He wrote a chapter in a dodgy book
      ” I had no idea PIE involved”
      “I was tricked into writing for that book.
      My chapter did not advocate reducing the age of consent or in any way mention or condone paedophilia, which I condemn”

      He has tweeted hundreds of times that he condemns it.
      He then argues that when he wrote a review praising the book one year later, he had been tricked again and the review had been drafted by a friend .
      I believe Tatchell was quite young at the time.

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  23. tomo says:

    Rather spare reporting on the MH excuse front in this piece. Court procedure / rules?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-66571302

    There was a similar killing not far from me about a decade ago – nut job released from secure unit killed a random housewife hanging out her washing in a quiet neighborhood less than 24 hours after release (iirc)

    If that’s the case here it might just be yet another NHS f-up? (no consolation for the victim’s family)

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  24. tomo says:

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    • taffman says:

      IMHO Whatever the people of Great Britain does to its ‘Carbon Footprint’ , makes no difference to so called “Global Warming”.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      tomo, that photo round-up does not include Blair and Clinton who together gave us Climate Change in addition to Global Warming. Of course, both those politicians are known to be men of veracity and probity and …. etc.

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  25. Zephir says:

    I make no apologies for a repeat post:

    “How the Nazis Embraced Environmentalism”

    https://www.encounterbooks.com/features/nazis-embraced-environmentalism/

    “Far-Right Environmentalism and Its Dangers”

    https://harvardpolitics.com/add-author-danny-laughary-far-right-environmentalism/

    “What is the relationship between the far right and environmentalism?”

    https://www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/english/groups/compendium/what-is-the-relationship-between-the-far-right-and-environmentalism.html

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  26. Zephir says:

    “Green Nazis? Reassessing the Environmental History of Nazi Germany”

    https://www.jstor.org/stable/27668287

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  27. Zephir says:

    An Unexpected Pair: The Nazis and the Environment
    Kelsey EggertArcadia University

    https://scholarworks.arcadia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=senior_theses

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  28. Doublethinker says:

    In a couple of weeks we have a village meeting to update us on a proposal to install a large wind turbine on common land within a mile of the village. The proposal is largely the work of a few local activists who are working with an eco electricity company.
    Most folk here have swallowed the climate catastrophe narrative and could perhaps be persuaded to see this turbine as part of doing their bit for the climate.
    I am going to oppose it on the , to me, very reasonable grounds that the climate catastrophe is nothing more than a prediction which comes from very complex models that can give any answer you want. . If they can’t predict the weather next month how can they predict the climate thirty years hence?

    In thinking about how best to try and influence my fellow villagers I have realised that I have , to use a fashionable phrase, been on a journey since I retired twelve years ago.A journey which I think many other site users have shared with me and to which this site has been an important contributor.

    I used to believe that politicians had the best interests of the country at heart , even Labour ones who may have been misguided but weren’t anti British. But now I know that almost all politicians , regardless of party , put hyperglobalism first and our country a long way last. The LibLabCon coalition doesn’t want to stop the invasion but it does want to impose Net Zero on us. They say AI will do away with millions of low skilled jobs but they continue to import a million low skilled invaders each year, crazy.

    Once you see our politics from this perspective it easy to realise that we are very likely being conned about the climate and NZ as we were about Covid . But how do you convince those who haven’t even started the journey that we on this site have taken? Many of these folks probably still believe the BBC tells the truth! I can’t think of an answer.

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    • Flotsam says:

      It’s illegal to build anything on common land unless it benefits the land.

      It is a criminal offence to undertake any act which interrupts the use or enjoyment of a green as a place for exercise and recreation or to cause any damage to the green.
      It is an offence to drive over a registered town or village green without lawful authority and in certain other circumstances.
      It is deemed to be a public nuisance and therefore, an offence, to enclose or encroach on a green, or interfere with, disturb or build on a green, unless this is done “with a view to the better enjoyment of such town or village green.”

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      • Doublethinker says:

        Indeed but I suspect that the activists and the company will have a much stronger case when they apply for planning permission if they can demonstrate that they have public support from the village. I’m sure that eventually there will be a vote as to whether the village supports the turbine or not. Some sweeteners will be offered , perhaps cheaper electricity, or cut of the profits etc and of course as NZ gets closer the county planners will look with increasing approval at such proposals.

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  29. AsISeeIt says:

    Boats admission on the lips in this ambitious but amorphous edition

    Boat admission. Plans to stop the boats may not succeed before the next election, Rishi Sunak has said (Times) – note how we need no further prompt than the word boats to know what it is we’re talking about here in the Times frontpage news snippets in brief section.

    Having taught us to say small boats we see the abbreviated version boats will now suffice. Whatever various terms that may be applied – indeed the very issue of illegal entry clouded as it is in liberal minds with notions of asylum – is in fact no more than a handy cypher and/or distraction for mass immigration – a phenomenon our authorities have no intention of acting to curb. And after that election it won’t matter, will it, Rishi?

    From his seat-warmer to the man himself, Sir Keir… he’s getting down with the kids: Starmer: if I was 18 now I could not afford to go to university (Telegraph) – we note the podium for this latest holiday season Labour PR puff: …raising the prospect Labour will announce plans to help students with the cost of living – shifts up market a notch from Sir Keir’s usual platform in the Times to the traditional Tory-central perch in the Telegraph

    Just look how far Labour has shifted up market since: Neil Kinnock’s speech to the Welsh Labour Party conference in Llandudno… 15 May 1987: “Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university?” (Almeida Theatre, ‘At a time of political turmoil, unprecedented world events and an increasingly divided society, what does inspiring leadership sound like?‘ Neil Kinnock, apparently)

    Starmer: if I was 18…

    Back in 1981 the significantly titled band Altered Images fronted by the adorable Clare Grogan came out with the catchy ditty Happy Birthday

    If they were me, if they were me
    And I was you, and I was you
    If they were me, if they were me
    And I was you, and I was you
    If they were me and I was you
    Would you have liked a present too?

    So the present incumbent either can’t or won’t stop the boats or even address the wider issue of legal hyper-immigration (Mr AsI likes the term hyper as his preferred prefix since it conveys the sense of excessive quantity as something over and above the normal as well as hinting at the sheer speed of demographic alteration we are undergoing – perforce)

    Then what can the government do for us?

    Well, we’re guessing a little tweak of the law to provide a bit of theatre here should satisfy the media mob: Demands for Government to compel convicts to attend court – and listen to devastation of victims (‘i’)

    And there’s the prospect of a tossing out of a few baubles here and there to please the crowd: Lionesses in line for New Year Honours (‘i’); Heroes return Parade call as Lionesses fly home (Mirror)

    Speaking of tossing out a few baubles…

    1,500 historic objects have gone missing from British Museum (Telegraph)

    Whereas: Spanish FA president apologises for kissing Jenni Hermoso after Spain’s World Cup win… on the lips after Spain won the Women’s World Cup…”I didn’t like it,” Hermoso said on Instagram… [He said] “It was without bad intention at a time with a lot of excitement. In the moment, we saw it as natural, but outside a commotion has formed…” Spain’s equalities minster Irene Montero said: “It’s a form of sexual violence women suffer on a daily basis.” (BBC)

    Speaking of what can you do for me?

    Back in 1986 the soulful dusky Gwen Guthrie came out with the disarmingly frank funk dance track: Ain’t Nothin’ Goin’ on but the Rent

    No romance without finance
    I said no romance without finance
    Boy, your silky ways are sweet
    But we’re only wastin’ time if your pockets are empty
    I’ve got lots of love to give
    But I will have to avoid you if you’re unemployed
    ‘Cause nothin’ from nothin’ leads nothin’
    You got to have somethin’ if you wanna be with me
    Oh, life is too serious, love’s too mysterious
    A fly girl like me needs security
    ‘Cause ain’t nothin’ goin’ on but the rent
    You got to have a J-O-B if you wanna be with me

    Anne McElvoy The end of homeownership dream (‘i’)

    Big firm bosses’ pay rose 16% as workers squeezed (BBC)

    The Daily Express spikes the blue and yellow flag again today for a masthead tribute to one of their own: Legendary columnist Freddie Forsyth bids a fond farewell to Express readers

    Novelist and journalist, he is best known for thrillers such as The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Fourth Protocol, The Dogs of War, etc

    From fly girl Gwen Guthrie (she’d have suited RAF recruitment policy to a tee) to fly boys

    Real-life daring do: Real-life top guns… The RAF aces on a mission to defend UK (Telegraph)

    PR puff for the Brylcream boys

    Or real life useless white men: White men – derided as “useless white male pilots” – who failed in a bid to join the Royal Air Force are furious no one has been sanctioned over a botched diversity drive that broke equality legislation, and say they want their rejected applications reviewed. (Sky News)

    Flight path… Zelenskyy cheers jet deal (FT) – other spellings are available although apparently other western policies apart from costly escalating proxy war are not: plans were confirmed to provide Kyiv with its first US-made F-16 fighter jets by the end of the year (FT)

    How’s that policy of portraying Putin as the number one evil in the world going down in the rest of the world we wonder?

    Brics summit: How China’s and Russia’s clout is growing in Africa… an ambitious but amorphous bloc of countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), united by a desire to challenge perceived Western dominance in global affairs. Dozens of other nations are queuing up to join. (BBC)

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    • Up2snuff says:

      AISI, was Clare Grogan in ‘Gregory’s Girl’ ?

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      • AsISeeIt says:

        Yes, that’s the girl

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        • Zephir says:

          A Ukranian stand up comedian becomes president.

          Mr Trump is missing a trick there.

          Some apposite comments about the mother in law or queues in the post office could lead to a landslide in votes.

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  30. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – er, I think you have forgotten something …

    … the 7.20/7.45 a.m. Newspaper Review. There is a worrying lack of competence right now among BBC Editors, Managers, Executives right the way up to, and including, the Director-General’s Office and the person sitting there in the big chair. Perhaps the TOADY Programme could let HarshmistressMishal loose on the Editors to start with, give them some of the interrupty, tongue lashings that she has in reserve for Conservative Government Ministers.

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  31. Zephir says:

    Dear congress and / or senate, following on from the remarkable example in Ukraine:

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  32. Guest Who says:

    BBC QT this week will be awesome….

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    • Guest Who says:

      Maybe time to go more ‘Asian’… YAB or…

      Seems a BBc regular too.

      Where are these hatchet faces harpies spawned?

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Hundreds of migrants killed by Saudi border guards – report
        Published
        18 hours ago

        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-66545787

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      • Lunchtime Loather says:

        I have been #BlockedByVine for years, so I’m looking forward to this … if it happens: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66550959

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Musk has been clear that he wants his “digital town square” to be a platform where all voices are heard, but he’s running the risk of bumping up against both app store terms and conditions and social media regulations around protecting users from online harms.

          …………………

          The Dragonfly project was an Internet search engine prototype created by Google that was designed to be compatible with China’s state censorship provisions.[1][2][3] The public learned of Dragonfly’s existence in August 2018, when The Intercept leaked an internal memo written by a Google employee about the project.[4][5] In December 2018, Dragonfly was reported to have “effectively been shut down” after a clash with members of the privacy team within Google.[6] However, according to employees, work on Dragonfly was still continuing as of March 2019, with some 100 people still allocated to it.[7]

          In July 2019, Google announced that work on Dragonfly had been terminated.[8]

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine)

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    • MarkyMark says:

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  33. Guest Who says:

    Big Bosses Corp Moaning Emole

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    Big firms’ bosses pay up by 16% as most workers are squeezed

    Some of the UK’s biggest companies gave their bosses pay rises averaging almost 16% last year, at a time when wages for most workers were being squeezed by the rising cost of living. Analysis by the think tank the High Pay Centre shows that the median pay for a FTSE 100 chief executive was £3.91m. On average those bosses earned 118 times more than a typical worker on £33,000 a year. Critics say that’s extreme but some of the firms argue it’s in line with competitors.

    ____

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/26/fury-bbc-director-general-gets-75000-pay-rise-one-year-charge/

    Critics who say, saying anything else?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Thames Water has certainly delivered for some of its shareholders. Since privatization the company has paid out almost $9 billion in dividends. “We’ve seen huge payouts. But at the same time we’ve seen inadequate investment in the infrastructure,” said Luke Murphy of the Institute for Public Policy Research.6 Jul 2023

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  34. tomo says:

    A Khan appointed + unelected deputy mayor’s previous job was working for a billionaire’s “charity” (- that billionaire is one of the main funders of XR)
    https://twitter.com/clim8resistance/status/1693609899517751745/photo/1

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  35. BRISSLES says:

    Bad PR move. Fans with flowers, flags and placards waited in Arrivals at Heathrow to welcome home the Lionesses, but they didn’t show. They were whisked away through a private exit. Nice.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Yes 40000 disappointed ‘fans ‘ – sorry – typo 4000 – sorry typo -400 -sorry typo – 40 ‘fans ‘ at Heathrow at 6am just to get the collective ‘finger ‘ …..
      Surely they could have nominated one to meet the fans – but as I write – I realise it’s about a BBC contrived propaganda operation designed to fill a hole because the real footy went to Sky ….

      Pity – those ‘fans’ sound like the type that I could sell a full set of team ‘autographs ‘ to – just £200 plus the exclusive picture …

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  36. Guest Who says:

    https://dailysceptic.org/2023/08/21/mps-pressure-sunak-over-cancel-culture-campaign/

    Appealing to anyone in the HoC is pointless.

    In any case, if govt. supported #propagandabackedbycensorship systems are to be concerned about, start with The BBC.

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  37. MarkyMark says:

    “there’s no such thing as a British person” – then there are no Muslims or Africans! touché!

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  38. MarkyMark says:

    ‘According to studies, the London Underground is higher in particulate matter due to wheel, track and brake abrasion, producing predominantly iron-rich particles so small that they are often not picked up in regular air quality tests.11 Jun 2023

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    • G says:

      MM,

      Do they suggest any means by which I can reduce the ‘abrasion’ between my footwear and the ground I walk on………………

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  39. Terminal Moraine says:

    pug; “you’ll get an outsider’s view on the news affecting you”

    Most of the people in this country already get this each time they watch the BBC.

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  40. Dickie says:

    Just in case my earlier post re Tucker Carlsons tweet didn’t work for you:

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/everything-they-told-you-about-ukraine-is-lie/

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      Carlson begins with a bold statement: “pretty much everything that NBC and The NYTimes have told you about the war in Ukraine is a lie.”

      “‘The Russian army is incompetent’ – they claim. ‘Ukraine is a Democracy!’ ‘Vladimir Putin is Hitler and he’s trying to take over the world!’ ‘Thankfully, the Ukrainians are winning.’

      “Every claim is false, the last one especially,” said Carlson, adding “the Ukrainian army is not winning – in fact, it’s losing badly. Ukraine is being destroyed. Its population is being slaughtered.”

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      • Dickie says:

        Thanks Eddy. Hadn’t realised the Carlson interview with Douglas Macgregor was on Youtube

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  41. Terminal Moraine says:

    Verify’s Shayan in action here dispelling fake news on the Maui fires.

    Remember “BBC Verify is a highly specialised team with a range of forensic and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) capabilities that enable them to go beyond conventional newsroom techniques.”

    And not a bunch of teenagers mucking around with Google images delighted not to have to work at dad’s barbershop any more.

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    • JohnC says:

      ‘Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)’

      That would be google.

      They are going out of their way to try and portray ‘BBC verify’ as some kind of higher-level ‘oracle’ of the truth.

      The trouble is – like Marianna – they are only directed to ‘research’ topics where the end result is in favour of the agenda. And if what they find is not convenient, you can be sure they won’t tell us about it.

      As you say, a bunch of kids having a lark browsing the internet all day. Along with their ‘trusted news’ service, it’s all part of their culture war against the Right. Which is why it really irks me that the public have to pay for it – even though most do not agree with them.

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      • tomo says:

        If they haven’t already, the Verify team are going to get dihydrogen monoxided aren’t they?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Last year, the College of Psychologists of Ontario conducted an investigation of Dr. Jordan Peterson, a Canadian clinical psychiatrist and one of Canada’s leading intellectuals over some of his public statements and Tweets. The College ordered him to complete a Specified Continuing Education or Remedial Program (SCERP) which is designed to address issues regarding professionalism in public statements.
      In January 2020, the long-time columnist of Denver Post, Jon Caldera was sacked over the piece he wrote that month and in which he said that there were only two sexes (male and female).
      In April 2023 in Norway, one Rianne Vogels, employee of a non-profit company Papillon which helps migrant young women was fired for tweeting that there are “only two genders.”
      On Friday, 22 January 2022, German Vice-Admiral Kay-Achim Schoenbach, speaking at an event organized by an Indian think tank in New Delhi suggested that the easiest, low-cost solution to the Ukraine crisis was to deal with Vladimir Putin with respect: “… it is easy to give him the respect he really demands – and probably also deserves.” He also blundered to state that Crimea was “gone” and “will never come back – this is a fact.” German Defence Ministry immediately distanced itself from the Admiral who was pressured into resigning.

      https://tapnewswire.com/2023/08/the-rising-rule-of-idiocracy-in-the-west/

      Downie declared that, “What we found has convinced us that truth-seeking news media must move beyond whatever ‘objectivity’ once meant to produce more trustworthy news.” The mood was corroborated by San Francisco Chronicle’s editor-in-chief, Emilio Garcia-Ruiz who said, “Objectivity has got to go.” Stanford University’s journalism professor Ted Glasser stated that journalism needed to “free itself from this notion of objectivity to develop a sense of social justice.”

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