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In football land many people just get the goals on social media
they don’t have to watch Football Focus anymore
but people argue BBC axing Dan Walker and putting in a woman is killing the show
I’m prejudiced against wimmin ex footballers talking about real footy in the prem and championship – they have as much experience of it as I have . But they are paid to talk crap about something they have no direct knowledge of – always ‘off switch ‘ especially when they throw the approved message about …
I noticed a few years ago women interviewers (or are they presenters) for F1 racing. They would leap up to the drivers and ask them, ‘how did you feel (when you won, or went round a corner or whatever’. I think it was Eddie Jordan who was also a presenter, and he would ask much more technical questions.
WHO RULES THE UK NOW?
“Saudi crown prince asked Boris Johnson to intervene in Newcastle United bid
This article is more than 2 years old
Mohammed bin Salman warned of damage to Saudi-UK relations if Premier League refusal not ‘corrected’”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/15/saudis-asked-boris-johnson-to-intervene-in-newcastle-united-bid
Farage banking scandal
It’s weird the July 21st Press Gazette article has so many updates/corrections
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/nigel-farage-bbc-coutts/
Ros Atkins : Another BBC worker making money
by doing a book
It’s extra BBC earnings
cos without the BBC platform there’d be no book.
45 likes and 5 engagements suggest a blockbuster.
Maybe Marianna is going as a special guest star to either explain or throw folk out the halls?
Sam for Jon as Ros?
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Dear Winston Smith,
I noticed that Jon Sopel is talking about impartial and unbiased reporting but his twitter account has three references to his book whilst using the BBC brand. Could the BBC please explain what is happening?
1) Is BBC Jon Sopel supposed to tell us about the news or his new book?
2) BBC Jon Sopel’s twitter feed has the BBC name in it and says “Jon Sopel, BBC North America Editor. My book If Only They Didn’t Speak English is out now.” which references his book and not the fact he is an unbiased and impartial reporter.
3) BBC Jon Sopel’s twitter’s pinned tweet is from 23May2018 and is about .. himself and his book.
4) Is BBC Jon Sopel’s book 100% BBC approved thought and unbiased and partial?
5) Shouldn’t BBC Jon Sopel’s twitter be about the latest news and not himself?
6) When Jon Sopel sells a book does it go to help pay for the BBC TV Tax – to reduce it? As the BBC are promoting it – thus it is promoted by the BBC TV Tax Payer.
“Impartiality lies at the heart of public service and is the core of the BBC’s commitment to its audiences. It applies to all our output and services – television, radio, online, and in our international services and commercial magazines. We must be inclusive, considering the broad perspective and ensuring the existence of a range of views is appropriately reflected”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/guidelines/impartiality
Good luck answering this one without laughing yourself silly.
https://ssl.bbc.co.uk/complaints
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/09/09/start-the-week-open-thread-10-september-2018/comment-page-6/#comment-941986
SAM FOR BBC ROSS AND BBC JON SOPEL?
Why at churches and not mosques?
Bansturbators and fines
The Guardian has the story – but obviously in a dilemma about how to report it.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/ban-on-wood-burners-threatens-british-boat-dwellers-with-winter-freeze/
Video
Facebook Factchecker “We got Facebook to censor your video,
we didn’t even watch it we just saw that it mentions @shellenberger & we don’t like him”
Judge ‘I don’t know why John Stossel brought this to court, factcheckers just give OPINION
so it’s not defamation’
Omission is the greatest lie…..
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/09/15/the-biden-administration-is-providing-billions-of-dollars-of-weapons-to-a-regime-dominated-by-people-with-an-attitude-towards-russia-that-is-similar-to-adolph-hitler/
Apparently 2 RAF typhoons have taken off from a road . If it happened in wales they’d get speeding tickets over 20mph …
now… if the Radar Warning Receiver locked and launched an ALARM missile …
I wonder what percentage of Met firearms officers have ‘downed guns ‘? And the public interest test the CPS applied against an officer who shot a gangster … is it in the public interest not to have armed officers to protect londonistan ?
What ever the outcome – the gangsters’ family will demand
£ justice £ together with the £ legal £ team £ and lefty media like the BBC / guardian / sky / itv / i / c4/ mirror ….et al …
Met firearms officers have ‘downed guns ‘?
Not many I’d wager … there’s likely a queue of Tackberrys waiting for their chance.
They’re doing themselves no favours with the way that they handle incidents in the “PR sphere”.
They should be challenging the tossers in the leftoid MSM where they have the evidence to apply exculpatory context.
That said, a Brazilian footy top might be as good as any bulletproof vest in London these days?
https://memory-holed-news.blogspot.com/2023/05/freedom-soon-comrade-one-more-jab-then.html
Why is the BBC splashing out your licence fee on 22 weather forecasters when the segments last just two minutes long on average
It may be Britain’s favourite topic – but does the BBC really need 22 national forecasters to tell us about the weather?
The astonishing number of presenters are appearing across the corporation’s television and radio output, anchoring forecasts which are, on average, just two minutes long
Twenty-two forecasters are presenting the weather on the BBC’s main TV and radio channels, while a further 23 can be seen on its regional programmes.
Viewers and corporation staff are questioning why – at a time when the licence fee is increasingly unpopular – there seems to be a different weather presenter for each bulletin.
One Twitter user said: ‘Why does the BBC have so many weather presenters? We have the national, regional, and then superfluous ones on in the evening.’
Last night, the BBC was criticised by pressure group TaxPayers’ Alliance, which is fighting to stop taxpayers being forced financially to support the BBC.
Spokesman Joe Ventre told The Mail on Sunday: ‘Taxpayers have had enough of funding bloated broadcasting.
‘Under the licence-fee system, the BBC forces households to cover the costs of an enormous payroll. The Beeb should do Brits a favour by waving goodbye to the TV tax and taking full responsibility for its own finances.’
Among the BBC’s most high- profile forecasters is Tomasz Schafernaker, 44, who was voted the UK’s most popular weather presenter in a public poll.
The Polish host joined the BBC Weather Centre in 2000 as a broadcast assistant and became the youngest man to present the broadcaster’s regional forecasts at the age of just 22.
Mr Schafernaker, who trained at the Met Office college in Exeter, Devon, is best known for raising ‘the finger’ at former BBC news presenter Simon McCoy when he thought he was off screen.
Then there is Carol Kirkwood – one of the main weather presenters on Breakfast, who also appears regularly across the corporation’s other outlets.
She rejoined the BBC in 1998 and has since presented across all of its weather bulletins.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12553213/Why-BBC-splashing-licence-fee-22-weather-forecasters-segments-just-two-minutes-long-average.html?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton
Deepfaked: ‘They put my face on a porn video’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62821117
This is a proper BBC agenda topic because it basically lines all men up for a turkey shoot.
But my attention was grabbed by a real gem of a BBC film called:
‘Deepfake porn : could you be next ?’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001c1mt/deepfake-porn-could-you-be-next#xtor=CS8-1000-%5BEditorialPromo_Box%5D-%5BNewsEditorial_Promo%5D-%5BNewsEditorial_Promo%5D-%5BPS_IPLAYER~N~m001c1mt~P_ThreeDeepFake%5D
So a few womens faces have been used in these videos from a worldwide population of about 4 billion and the BBC are trying to scare you into thinking you could easily be next.
The video is absolute classic low-grade, low-IQ misandrist scaremongering which even puts Panorama to shame. They are using every cheap trick in the book.
But the big cherry on the top of this cake is the BBC presenter who made it. Watch the video and go to 7:40 to see who the BBC have making their content. And she is by no means unusual these days
It is hard to believe just how far the BBC has fallen.
JohnC, it is also a BBC attack on new media which the BBC would like to control but cannot and it also helps to keep the climate of fear going on around Artificial Intelligence. The BBC like a bit of fear do the BBC.
Quite something how eager the BBC is to destroy the competition- however minor in comparison – I’m thinking of the hotline to BBCOFCOM the moment there’s even a sniff of a ‘breach ‘ …
Fed, I’m quite certain there are a fair few bitter Leftists who watch GB News simply looking for a reason to complain.
I’ve seen various viscious comments on the internet which shows they absolutely hate it with a passion. They want to destroy it.
Free speech : Lefty style.
The bbc s—t who sold his soul to get mark steyn cancelled reminds me of what they are . No investigation into him or how much of a bung he took from big pharma on the killer vaccines ..
The “Online Safety Bill” will help OFCOM keep the government ‘safe’ from those who had the ‘freedom’ to express hatred of Big Pharma and the Government for ignoring the vaccine injured and dead. The BBC has verified that Covid vaccines are ‘Safe and Effective’. Please bang ‘pots and pans’ for those NHS doctors who agree with the BBC and the Government.
Signed, Richy (Moderna) Sunwack.
‘Safety’ now appears to be a matter of ‘media management’.
https://petersweden.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-the-swedish-gang?
As our niche politicians tinker with car stuff, maybe Springster could ‘investigate’ areas of greater concern.
Ignored by the media.
Or… not.
“Those who fail to learn from the lessons of state media propaganda shaping policy these days are doomed to… well, that’s it. Doomed.”
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/first-the-united-kingdom-now-sweden?
2018 … It’s not a conspiracy if you can see it in broad daylight …
1765 …. **In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one ’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.** They may use a pen or their voice, and should not be prevented from writing any more than speaking …That is the law in England, a monarchical country, where people are freer than elsewhere because they are more enlightened. – Voltaire, Republican Ideas, 1765
2018 … In addition to reporting hate crime, please report non-crime hate incidents, **which can include things like offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing**. Hate will not be tolerated in South Yorkshire. Report it and put a stop to it #HateHurtsSY – UK South Yorkshire Police, 2018
1765 … **In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.**
2018 … **which can include things like offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing**
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/09/26/midweek-open-thread-26-september-2018/comment-page-2/#comment-944046
IF IT SAVES JUST ONE LIFE …. BBC presenter Lisa Shaw died of Covid vaccine complications, coroner finds
This article is more than 2 years old
Shaw died of a brain haemorrhage caused by a blood clot three weeks after her first AstraZeneca dose
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/aug/26/bbc-presenter-lisa-shaw-died-of-astrazeneca-covid-vaccine-complications-coroner-finds
IF IT SAVES JUST ONE LIFE?
It did not work because it was mRNA not a disarmed virus. It was “Democide”. The murder of people by their government, including genocide, politicide, and mass murder.
Excess Deaths in Britain are accelerating.
American Insurance Assessor, Ed Dowd, Reveals Astonishing Death Rates in Britain are accelerating: https://rumble.com/v3j7byk-ed-dowd-once-this-comes-to-light-there-will-be-no-place-to-hide-on-the-plan.html
How Myocarditis Became the Silent Scandal of Covid Vaccination: https://brownstone.org/articles/how-myocarditis-became-the-silent-scandal-of-covid-vaccination/
Speaking of niche, VD got the Laura gig, watched by maybe six folk.
Probably all Labour.
https://x.com/bbcpolitics/status/1705861879443157119?s=43
https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1705910027356086325?s=43
Speaking of whom…
https://x.com/paulmasonnews/status/1705862322403651919?s=43
If you can’t employ political activists, invite them on as guests.
GW, ???????????????
And then there are the alumni… like mini YAB.
https://x.com/sangitamyska/status/1705919435981173225?s=43
Now Swelter has a habit of shooting herself in the foot for a lawyer, but seems to have dodged a bullet by ex Beeboids hating the fuzz even more. Bizarre women.
On
@LBC
NOW:
Braverman backs armed cops who hand in weapons after officer charged with Chris Kaba murder, as the Mayor of London sets up an independent Board to bring about culture change. Do you have faith in the Met changing? 0345 60 60 973
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Run|Hide|Tell … Always|Stay|Indoors.
“We have refugees now, for example, or people of Arab origin, who bring a different type of antisemitism into the country,” she said during the interview. “But unfortunately, antisemitism existed before this.” {bbc.co.uk 25apr2018}
“Several Jewish students have reported antisemitic bullying in schools in recent months and Israeli flags were burned during a recent protest in the capital city.”
– ‘different type of antisemitism’ – how many types are there?
– not the normal type of antisemitism?
– does anyone question these politicians?
– reminds me of Met Officer Cressida Dick – “I don’t think this was a phenomena (gang r*pe culture) that was invented in the last few years. It really wasn’t. It’s been part of our society probably for centuries and centuries and centuries. It’s hard to really know exactly what is really going up and what is changing. ” – Cressida Dick
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/04/24/midweek-open-thread-50/comment-page-2/#comment-912808
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/angela-merkel-antisemitism-germany-violence-hate-crime-syria-refugee-asylum-seeker-a8320131.html
GW, ?????
Anyhoo, I am still getting posts of optimism from the blue beret and woad brigade.
https://x.com/remain_central/status/1705580616811467178?s=43
https://x.com/remain_central/status/1705720991274471542?s=43
Guessing Springster is a fan?
Follow the science.
https://x.com/KonstantinKisin/status/1705857332733776086?s=20
Neil keeps this up, the BBC might have to wheel out their fave rocket scientist of colour and ovaries.
Or stick to, er, ‘news’…
https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1705881649047593050?s=43
Man Utd’s Marcus Rashford not injured after car crash
Have to love the weekend shift.
#CCBGB
This chap talks a lot of sense about electric cars and climate ?
https://www.youtube.com/@ClimateRealism
2,852 views Premiered on 22 Sept 2023
Whilst making a video on just how bonkers Britain now is with its climate policies, Our Prime Minister decided to backtrack on the timings of a few things which were frankly impossible in the time scale anyway. The video starts with just a few of the ”bonkers’ points and I then I cut it short to dissect Sunak’s speech. A sort of translation of the hype as he proceeds through it.
I refer to this video in this video:-
The heatwave that never was video
• The Heatwave That Never Was
Odds of the BBC getting in anyone qualified and sensible?
https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1705867867638362511?s=20
“[Rishi Sunak] is equating ‘green’ with expensive which is wrong”
Journalist Rachel Johnson says changes to green policy are “short-term decisions for a darker future”
Zero.
Rishi is Green – he has a green card for the USA!
Jack.S hitting the airwaves soon on business realities?
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/09/24/values-of-used-evs-plummet-as-dealers-stuck-with-unsold-cars/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/09/24/ford-admits-their-risky-ev-gamble-hinges-on-government-coercion/
I’m going to post this again for reasons that the media have been painting Vladmir Putin as the bad guy and us as the good guys when it’s the other way around.
Also because with crime spiralling out of control and a Tory party which doesn’t appear to ever have been in control it’s about what the rainbow painters we used to know as the ‘Police’ have been getting up to.
2018 400 people arrested in Russia for things they have posted on Social media. 3300 people arrested in Britain for things they have posted on Social Media and that doesn’t include all the visits by uniformed thugs which didn’t result in arrest – I know I’m one of them.
So watch it and weep, and realise we’re the bad guys.
1765 …. In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right. They may use a pen or their voice, and should not be prevented from writing any more than speaking …That is the law in England, a monarchical country, where people are freer than elsewhere because they are more enlightened. – Voltaire, Republican Ideas, 1765
2018 … “I’ve just heard: a man at the Freedom March last Sun took his children for a day out. One child told his primary school teacher who then reported the father to the police. He was then summoned to meet the police at the school. I am alerting the press of details. Story unfolding.” – Gerard Batten, 12may2018
https://x.com/banthebbc/status/1705985561167581462?s=61
Claim:
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern once said, “We will continue to be your single source of truth,” and that, “Unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth.”
Rating:
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Context
Context was missing from a video of these remarks that was reshared in July 2022. One day after tweeting the video, The Daily Wire issued a second tweet to correct that the remarks were more than two years old. Further, the video that was shared on social media did not include around 27 seconds that preceded the clip, in which Ardern spoke more about not being fooled by potentially misleading information on social media in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jacinda-ardern-truth/
I keep posting that seditious libel is what some goons on the taxpayer funded payroll want to bring back…
Criticise the local council = fine.
Criticise MP = fine.
Criticise a government minister = fine / jail.
Criticise a judge = jail.
Public servants?
pffff….
@Thoughtful We shouldn’t be doing omission
we should criticise the BBC for its deception by omission
Quoting an old story is OK, but it is not OK to omit that it was overturned.
Chelsea Russell did NOT fully serve that sentence
and she was never sentenced to 500 hours community service , rather it was 500 costs
She was convicted in April 2018
It was overturned in Feb 2019
“Last week, the conviction was overturned on appeal. Russell’s defence lawyer slammed the initial verdict as ‘ridiculous’, akin to the actions of a ‘totalitarian state’. ..”
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/02/27/chelsea-russell-and-the-depravity-of-pc/
I note the BBC OMITTED reporting the conviction was overturned
The arresting officer seems black
“PC Walker is the sister of Anthony Walker, the 18-year-old victim of an infamous race hate murder in Merseyside in 2005.”
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/teen-prosecuted-n-word-rap-15874476
What’s your opinion on the video you linked?
Osiris-Rex: Nasa confirms return of asteroid Bennu samples
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66893661
by Jonathan Amos, science correspondent
‘The car-sized container had come screaming into the atmosphere over the western US at more than 12km/s (27,000mph).’
‘Screaming’ Jonathan ? (and capital W). Is that a scientific term ?.
As a technical person myself, it always amuses me how the BBC put any old idiot onto reporting things like this. I’ve come to appreciate that the target audience of the BBC are the slightly thick people of our country who don’t cross check anything using the internet and who the BBC think will fall for their far-left agenda-based propaganda and make the difference when it’s time to vote.
Any LGBT asteroids?
I remember when the BBC had a real berk of an environment correspondent who moved from Religious Affairs to Environment – Alex Kirby was quite an expert on parrot telepathy apparently.
2013 … Uri Geller mystified by letterbox on Thames Sonning Bridge
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-24028902
Entertainer Uri Geller and other villagers say they are mystified by the appearance of a red letterbox in the middle of a bridge.
The box has been placed on a buttress on the downstream side of the bridge, which crosses the River Thames.
Residents of Sonning-on-Thames, Berkshire, said the box could only be reached by river users.
Mr Geller, who has lived in the village for 33 years, said he had “never seen anything like it”.
“This is a very unusual village,” he added.
JohnC, might have gone through the sound barrier.
Such sweet thunder.
2017 ….
WOW!!! Trudeau Sets World Record In Avoiding Questions!!!
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I believe, in my opinion, that we have looked for greatness in the mundane. Trying to make everyone winners, means we all lose. Irony in the most profound sense.
Lets take a quick look at who is empowered in the world … this list is not exhaustive, but gives you a good indication of what the World’s political landscape looks like …
Canada Justin Trudeau sets World Record In avoiding questions – 18 Times – wastes everyone’s time in Parliament
We were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed. By great men.
Mugabe (President of Zimbabwe since 1987) farts at summit (has also been found sleeping in Parliament, he was 89 years at the time, still holding onto power at 93)
Krystyna Pawlowicz, a Polish MP from the ruling Eurosceptic PiS party, has written a letter to Jean-Claude Juncker (President of the European Commission), accusing him of “alcohol dependency” … Juncker apparently took a nap in the Vatican during the celebration of the EU’s 60th anniversary
Diane Abbott (Shadow Home Secretary – UK Security) not read a major report (Harris Report) on London Attacks. Won her seat with 75% in GE2017.
Now go and read or watch some of these people …
Douglas Murray, Thomas Sowell, Andrew Breitbart, Carl Sagan, Thomas Paine, Christopher Hitchens, George Orwell, Mark Steyn, Trey Gowdy.
“We were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed. By great men. (link opens video)“
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/07/05/new-world/#comment-850202
The Ministry of Defence is offering armed soldiers to support London police after dozens of Met officers handed in their weapons.
More than 100 police officers turned in permits allowing them to carry firearms, a source told the BBC.
The Met Police said the action was being taken after an officer was charged with the murder of unarmed Chris Kaba, 24.
He died after being shot in south London last year.
A Met Police officer appeared in court on Thursday.
In a statement, the Met said some officers were “worried” about how the charging decision “impacts on them”.
The MoD said it received a request – known as Military Aid to the Civil Authorities (MACA) – from the Home Office to “provide routine counter-terrorism contingency support to the Metropolitan Police, should it be needed”.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66906201
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recognize Yaroslav Hunka, who was in attendance and fought with the First Ukrainian Division in World War II before later immigrating to Canada, in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. Jewish groups are asking for an apology and an explanation after it emerged that Hunka’s division was a voluntary unit under the command of the Nazis. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Patrick Doyle
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/jewish-group-demands-apology-after-mps-honoured-man-who-fought-for-nazis-1.6575593
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2021 … This progress is now coming under threat from an unlikely source. When President Zelenskyy won election in 2019, he did so as a political outsider and as a self-styled member of the post-independence generation of young Ukrainians. His campaign was notable for its social media innovation, while his professional background in show business and political satire led many to believe he understood the significance of free speech and valued media freedoms.
At the halfway point in Zelenskyy’s presidential term, he now stands accused of repeating the tactics used by many of his authoritarian neighbors elsewhere in the post-Soviet region to muzzle the media and silence the opposition.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/independent-ukraines-free-speech-gains-are-under-threat/
Bribes and hiding at home: the Ukrainian men trying to avoid conscription
This article is more than 1 month old
Some are spending life savings to stay out of the war, but such actions are seen as treasonous by those already fighting
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/15/bribes-and-hiding-at-home-the-ukrainian-men-trying-to-avoid-conscription
At the last military checkpoint before he exited Ukraine in April, a 39-year-old man from Odesa handed over papers showing he had a serious spinal injury, thus exempting him from military service and from the ban on adult men leaving the country.
“One of the soldiers said, ‘That hospital really likes this diagnosis, huh?’” recalled the man. “I could see they knew exactly what was going on, and it wasn’t the first time. But they were powerless to do anything, so waved me through,” he said.
The man, who asked for anonymity to discuss the matter, admitted that he had paid a $5,000 bribe to escape a potential draft into the Ukrainian army and service on the front lines in the war with Russia.
“ban on adult men leaving the country.”
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Marjorie from Pembrokeshire had gone through the whole pandemic without catching the virus – until this month.
“I thought I had natural immunity,” she says.
“But I caught it from my granddaughter who had the same symptoms as mine.”
In her case, that meant a headache, muscle pain and a loss of smell and taste.
“I just didn’t realise I would feel so weak and lethargic,” she adds.
How many people – like Marjorie – are catching Covid this autumn is impossible to know for sure.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-66848549
But perhaps it is starting to become part of the background to our everyday lives.
The UK is facing a dilemma: should it fight the rising imports of Chinese electric cars with big new tariffs, in the same way the EU has threatened to do this week? Or should it allow them to continue? Keeping open to the imports in would make it easier for the UK to hit its goal of no new petrol and diesel cars by 2030, and it would make electric cars cheaper. But the UK car industry could be damaged.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66820791
could be damaged
could be damaged
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Ford’s £80m EU loan to boost Turkey factory – and close Southampton’s Swaythling plant
1st November 2012
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/10020273.fords-80m-eu-loan-to-boost-turkey-factory-and-close-southamptons-swaythling-plant/
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Chinese firm buys pub where David Cameron and Xi Jinping enjoyed a pint
This article is more than 6 years old
The Plough at Cadsden, a 16th-century Buckinghamshire inn, has become a hotspot for Chinese tourists since president’s state visit in 2015
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/dec/06/chinese-firm-pub-david-cameron-xi-jinping-pint-plough-cadsden
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UK SOLD BRICK BY BRICK ….
Ursula von der Leyen said ‘global markets are now flooded with cheaper Chinese electric cars’
cheaper?
China is building six times more new coal plants than other countries, report finds. A new report finds that last year China permitted the equivalent of two coal plants per week. China’s renewable sector is also booming.2 Mar 2023
‘People talk and the truth will out!’ | Neil Oliver on the Online Safety Bill
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‘More than anything else, these years just past have been about keeping us apart… driving division. Everywhere people meet was closed. People were frightened into their homes. Now the online world they chased us into turns out to be something else they feel they need to shut down. They didn’t see that one coming, those stupid, clever people.’
Excellent news – the people of londonistan are to be ‘’protected ‘ by the military whilst armed police stand down because one of their number is to be thrown to the wolves .
I’ve said here before that Britain is a failing state – maybe over dramatic – but we’ll on its ‘ way … just another indication …
Time for the new thread .
Theresa May trying to protect soldiers who murder prisoners and torture civilians, says top human rights lawyer
Geoffrey Robertson QC, a former UN judge, hits back after Prime Minister vows to defend Armed Forces personnel from ‘activist left-wing human rights lawyers’
Ian Johnston
Wednesday 05 October 2016 18:59
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-leftwing-human-rights-lawyers-cover-up-murder-torture-civilians-armed-forces-a7346846.html
WE ARE SO FUCKED ….
The net result of all this, fear some in the car industry, is a system where existing UK manufacturers, including of hybrid cars, will pay thousands of pounds to subsidise electric imports.
Essentially, UK factories, which face competition from Chinese electric imports, could have to subsidise them.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66820791
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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
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Profile: Christine Lee, the woman at centre of MI5 security warning
Anglo-Chinese solicitor, 58, was lauded by No 10 for promoting Chinese-British cooperation
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/13/profile-christine-lee-the-woman-at-centre-of-mi5-security-warning
David Cameron said to have made about $10m from Greensill Capital
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BBC Panorama says it has obtained documents showing ex-PM received sum partly from cashing in shares
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/aug/09/david-cameron-said-made-about-10m-greensill-capital-bbc
I gather from BBC Sport that Lady Golfers have retained the Solheim Cup in a draw with the USA. Well done ladies! That is three in a row. Three cheers!!! It is a shame (and highly unusual?) that you get bumped out of top spot on the BBC Sport Home Page by Mens Rugby.