398 Responses to Start the Week 2nd October 2023

  1. Sluff says:

    BBC webshite front page news.

    A man who detonated a bomb outside a hospital in Liverpool had a grievance against the British state because his asylum claim was rejected, police have revealed.
    Emad Al Swealmeen detonated the device in a taxi outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital on 14 November 2021.

    But guess what? As usual in these cases it’s the old ‘mental health issues again’ and of course no hint of extremism.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-66986590

    Do I detect a subtext here? Such as ‘evil racist Tories ought to let in anybody and everybody’

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      Obviously it is normal for anyone with a grievance against government to make a suicide bomb and try and murder as many women and children as possible. It could happen to anyone.

      Nothing to see here, please move along.

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    • moggiemoo says:

      It also begs the question why was he still here? It appears you can stay regardless of your asylum status.

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  2. Sluff says:

    Is there a Nobel Prize for initiating the biggest number of adverse reactions to a vaccine in the whole of human history?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-66983060#

    I ask because no-one in power, or the opposition, wants to discuss the excess deaths above the 5year average for nearly every week of the period in the UK and many other countries since the end of the second covid lockdown.
    Correlation is not causation of course but you’d think a bit of investigation would be in order.
    Apparently not. Maybe it would embarrass the drug companies and their under-tested vaccines. And we can’t have that.

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      > wants to discuss the excess deaths above the 5year average

      ‘cept for the hero Andrew Bridgen who has now managed to secure a parliamentary debate on XS deaths.

      Q a load of MPs who will have to stay in on Friday to ‘wash their hair’ or ‘feed the cat’.

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      After what happened to Mark Steyn, no journalist will touch this story. Which is exactly what they wanted.

      GB News was gutless over supporting Mark Steyn, and the trouble they are in now stems from this.

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  3. Kaiser says:

    I will take this with a large helping of salt

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/features/66957427

    second warmest september on record

    “Breaking that down into average maximum recorded temperature, the month was 19.4C, the warmest in 127 years and joint top with 1895”

    but surely it was colder in 1895 than today isnt that how a warming trend happens

    “The Met Office conducted a rapid attribution study on the September warmth which gives some idea about how climate change may have had an impact.”

    “It concluded that the UK September mean temperature of 15.2C would have been virtually impossible without human-induced climate change.”

    apart from 1895 that is of course

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    • StewGreen says:

      In a naturally warming world a repeat of 1985 record is slightly more likely that 1895

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  4. StewGreen says:

    TalkTV is going on about how one doctor earned £7.9K for one shift in June
    You can’t judge by the outliers and that is probably what the NHS paid the agency rather than what he got,
    but if the NHS is often paying agencies £3K per shift, that has to be factored into doctors earnings statement
    Earning = NHS salary + NHS pension +privat eearnings +agency payments

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  5. Fedup2 says:

    ULEZ wardens having to wear face covering because of being ‘targeted ‘…. Every undemocratic tax must have a price …. Good to see people still taking action – Britain has been too docile too long ( 77 Brigade mark up community tension file )

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  6. digg says:

    Some fashion mogul guys have been accused of questionable conduct with young men they recruited and paid…

    While the story may or may not have legs, its somewhat disturbing that the BBC are now indulging so heavily in sensationalism journalism, running their own investigations into salacious stories more befitting the splash and trash mags to spice up their news pages and possibly garner a new type of trash-level viewer?

    This is currently the numero uno banner story on their website….

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-66889779

    Of course practically the whole World already knows that show-biz and fashion along with any career involving potential fame and fortune in the public eye have been a magnet for seekers of public status and a hotbed of this sort of behaviour for years, particularly in the US so its hardly breathtaking, hold the front page news! It really is not is it BBC?

    I think it used to be called “The casting couch”.

    Of course the accused may turn out to be Conservative voters or backers!

    Meanwhile thousands of young men are blowing each other to bits in Ukraine.

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  7. Flotsam says:

    Anyone noticed the latest Trump accusations are the same as those levelled at the darling of the Establishment, Mohammed Al Fayed?
    It was claimed when Fayed competed to buy Harrods he overstated his wealth and means. I don,’t hold a torch for Trump or Fayed but embellishing one’s means is the standard stuff in Business, it’s called selling yourself or your business. Trump is being tried by a viciously political American judicial system

    Fayed and Trump are A-holes but no different to most wealthy people. I do believe Fayed was treated unfairly and Trump was robbed of his Presidency.

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  8. atlas_shrugged says:

    Bed bugs rife in France according to the Mail – so it must be true:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12575277/Bed-bugs-videos-Paris-trains-buses-France-invasion.html

    Get ready to set your steam-irons onto ‘stun’.

    How many illegals come over from France every day straight into 4-star hotels?

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    • Flotsam says:

      “Bedbugs, which had largely disappeared from daily life by the 1950s, have made a resurgence in recent decades, mostly due to high population densities and more mass transit.”

      More likely to be due to the ban and tight control of pesticides.

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      • Banania says:

        Perhaps there is a bedbug myth corresponding to the reassuring one about nits, that they are only found in clean hair.

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  9. Fedup2 says:

    Enfieldistan 16 year old stabbing murder – emir – thoughts and prayers ? Just another one …

    Targeted – balaclava wearing killers using machetes ….

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  10. StewGreen says:

    BBC news at 6 PRasNews
    seems to be claiming oysters both suck up pollutants from the sea and are great food.

    In the lab they probably turn brown water into clear. as they suck out the nutrients.

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    • tomo says:

      several years old

      oysters.jpg

      Let’s have them at BBC executive dining areas

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      • MarkyMark says:

        200? 140 in one evening ….

        Khyber Pass kebab shop fined over human faeces contamination
        Published
        23 September 2015

        The owners of a kebab shop which sold food contaminated with human faeces have been ordered to pay compensation to customers who became ill.

        A rare strain of E. coli – only the second outbreak of its kind in Europe – was found at The Khyber Pass in Nottingham in June 2014.

        In August, owners Mohammad Abdul Basit and Amjad Bhatti pleaded guilty to breaching food hygiene regulations.

        More than 140 people were affected by the outbreak.

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  11. tomo says:

    Over 1000 likes – I wonder how many real ones?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Workers – masked?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Looks familiar … 636349917882901641..jpg

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    • Kaiser says:

      is that the working class who dont work mondays?

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    • Nibor says:

      Workers ?!

      When Home Secretary , Jack Straw went to Dover .

      He welcomed a migrant who stowed away in a lorry .
      ( He welcomed a criminal breaking into the UK )

      He said It Is Well Known That Lorry Drivers Take Folded Money To Take Illegal Immigrants Into The UK .
      ( Although no lorry drivers were ever done under the proper criminal law of facilitating illegal entry into the UK ) .

      A leading Labour politician sidled up to the criminal gangs and insulted honest workers .

      Labour ; change your name .

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  12. tomo says:

    advertising at work…

    I’m with Bill Hicks

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    • StewGreen says:

      Tweet deleted now , probably “too wow to be true”

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      • tomo says:

        Indeed !

        That said my local Tesco Express has just erected a prominent hand sanitiser station at the entrance and two checkout operators a the large Extra store were wearing daft wrap around plastic visors last week.

        I’ve noticed a big surge in mask wearing too in the last week – subjectively / rough estimate = none about a week ago to say 30/40 evening or early morning shoppers and about 6 wearing masks – quite odd to what’s left of my mind – is there a campaign on the telly? (no TV here)

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        • atlas_shrugged says:

          I visited my local hospital branch which specialised in cardio operations. This was to visit a relative having a stent fitted. In the lobby was a huge notice for workers in the hospital to come and get their free vaccines.

          I found it troubling that patients upstairs were being fitted with stents and downstairs the workers were being encouraged to have a harmful gene therapy that would cause clots and heart attacks.

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  13. Dickie says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Rand also said that Russia could never have another war because it’s citizens would stop it – just like stopping covid and the mass immigration …

      In the lecture, Rand admonishes American businessmen for apologizing for capitalism and for, in some cases, directly funding detractors of the free market. Notably, she says that “It is a moral crime to give money to support your own destroyers.” She also answers audience questions after the lecture.

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  14. tomo says:

    America’s Roland Freisler for the 21stC

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      In the UK the judges love of cruelty has historically been well documented. One man who used to assist a hanging judge with his robes documented that the judge had seminal emissions when handing out his sentence.

      Tomo you rightly mentioned the Freisler worm. He learnt his trade in the USSR whilst their prisoner. Evidently his ‘talents’ impressed them as he was ‘promoted’. So he did not care who was his political master – left or right – as long as he could be cruel. During lockup #1 I visited the grave of three young people in Munich who were guillotined as a result of that bar-steward.

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  15. JohnC says:

    Freeview is pushing some complete tripes called ‘Mrs Sidhu Investigates’ at me every 10 minutes at the moment which is a very blatant BAME ripoff of once-popular white-male detective series. And the script is so atrociously bad, I thought it deserved a bit of a check on IMDB.

    And much to my delight, it has two absolutely classic 10/10 IMDB fake reviews. How stupid are these people who write them to think it’s not totally obvious to everybody with more than half a brain ?.

    I enjoyed them because they show me yet again that the Lefty activists have no conscience or ethics about what they do.

    I’ll take the latest one to be a real one. 1/10:
    ‘COMPLETE SILLY TRIPE MADE FOR YOUR NAN’

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21259542/reviews?ref_=tt_urv

    Why don’t these wokies make their own mark with decent, original TV programs instead of trying to leech off the popularity of others by copying them ?.

    ‘Based on the hit BBC radio series’.
    Why am I not surprised ?.

    Since the Left completely took over about 10 years ago, we have been living in a ‘decent-TV void’.

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  18. Up2snuff says:

    Proper TOADY Watch #2 – great to hear this interview

    JustRemainIn Webb interviewed the author, Michael Lewis, of a book about the Fried Bankman of the Bahamas. This came after Nick Robinson’s interview with the Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, more on that later in TOADY Watch#3.

    Apparently the trial of Sam Bankman Fried starts next week.

    The extra good news is that BBC Radio 4 are having a proper ‘Book of the Week’ next week and this book ‘Going Infinite’ by Michael Lewis will be on it at 9.45 a.m.. So many recent Book of the Weeks haven’t been books at all, just opinion pieces by the BBC’s favoured.

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  19. Dickie says:

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  20. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #3 – is my memory defective on this or did the BBC protest long and loud?

    Nick Robinson interviewed the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, in the big BBC interview at 8.10 a.m. and at one point Nick claimed that the Chancellor had not fixed the Social Care crisis. I seem to recall that when Boris Johnson was PM he did just that with a massive increase of National Insurance for those earning over £50,000 p.a. and the BBC protested long and loud about it, as did the left-leaning prints.

    The NI increase for those on average and median earnings (at the time £26,000 for the former, £32,000 for the latter) was quite modest, something like £250. But the Beeboids squealed because most if not all of them are earning £150,000 or more. Have I remembered this correctly? Please help me out fellow BiasedBBC posters.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Up2
      Obviously I didn’t / don’t listen to R4 much anymore – but social care is far from cured – the blue labour regime have bottled it maybe 2 or 3 times . This failure – one of so many goes toward reasons to never waste a vote on blue labour – any of them – even the ones suddenly pretending to be Conservative – damn them – roll on the election …

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Fed, this was way back in February 2020. Were you listening back then?

        It is said that the tax burden is the highest since the Second World War*. I would have thought that the NI increase for Social Care would have contributed to that. Good night, Fed.

        * I think Marianna and the BBC Verify Team ought to check that claim.

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  21. MarkyMark says:

    In a short but sweet speech, Jeremy Hunt admitted that tax in the UK is “too high“, calling for a more “productive state rather than a bigger state“. You don’t say…

    He revealed that the Treasury will restart the process of public reform, vowing to cut down the number of civil servants back to pre-pandemic levels, claiming this will result in £1 billion being saved in the next year. Perhaps now civil servants will return to the office…

    order-order.com

    ……………………………………………………………..

    Comment “I really like this. The Tories are going to cut our taxes, stop the boats, end the quangos, slash the civil service, get tough on crime, beef up our civil service, protect our pensions, reduce the NHS waiting lists, terminate the Stonewall-isation of our society, boost free speech, push back Net Zero, stand up to the EU and make a success of Brexit and many, many other brilliant things. The only thing preventing them doing this is that they are in Government with a huge majority and those dreadful Tories are against all of these things. But once we’ve voted in the Tories everything will change. I’m so excited about this.” 80 Seat Majority/ 13 years in power / 0 Action

    ………………..
    Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt denies claims he backed draconian China-style ‘Zero Covid’ curbs in Britain
    Jeremy Hunt has denied claims that he supported Chinese policy of ‘zero Covid’
    A source close to former Health Secretary has said his words had been ‘twisted’
    Tory MP claimed to MoS that Mr Hunt backed extreme Chinese-style lockdown
    By GLEN OWEN FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY

    PUBLISHED: 00:28, 15 May 2022 | UPDATED: 00:51, 15 May 2022

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  22. Dickie says:

    Aren’t the US taxpayers generous:

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    BBC on main page … Live and Kicking was a staple of Saturday morning television during the 1990s.

    The show launched on 2 October 1993 as the successor to Going Live! It featured music, games, phone-ins and comedic antics with a live studio audience who were very much part of the show.

    At its peak in 1996, under new presenters Zoe Ball and Jamie Theakston, the show regularly had 2.5 million viewers. Here are some clips that will remind you why Live and Kicking was worth getting up for.

    …………. NO MENTION OF PHILIP SCHOFIELD YET ….

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/five-reasons-we-loved-live-and-kicking/z4nsrmn

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  24. tomo says:

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  25. MarkyMark says:

    c4318e5c-ff26-463e-83e3-1b1398dfdcc3-96f57429-c1d5-4afa-8dd0-99d31f01cb41

    from order-order.com

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Nobel made a lot of money from dynamite which led to the slaughter of many men during WW1.

      Now his committee engage in the practice of honouring slaughter.

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  26. digg says:

    Sandylands on BBC 2 an opportunity to debase and humiliate anyone white and indigenous to this Country mainly by using a heavily unbalanced northern line-up and portrayed as a racist horrible cast with a mindset of a slug.

    Just try re-running it with an all Asian or African cast and see how that works BBC you bastards!

    Nasty, vindictive inverted racism at its worst.

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  27. Sluff says:

    Just googling randomly and came across this-

    Rail passenger numbers and crowding on weekdays in major cities in England and Wales: 2012

    Click to access rail-passengers-crowding-2012-revised.pdf

    It doesn’t cover all issues. It’s old. But that’s good. Think HS2 and decision making.
    I cannot find any problem here for which HS2 into Euston is the answer.

    There does seem to be a case for upgrading Leeds and Sheffield.

    For something more up to date, try this.

    Click to access infographic-rail-passengers-crowding-2022.pdf

    I should just add that individual stretches of the M6 take 120, 000-180,000 vehicles per day, against a design capacity of around 70,000.
    Perhaps HS2 money should have been spent on a new parallel M6. But of course the eco-loons would have had apoplexy.
    What would a cycle lane from London to Manchester cost? You know it makes sense.

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  28. digg says:

    And now newsnight which is now nothing more than a Labour Party political party broadcast.

    Time to end the BBC methinks if this country is to survive as an independent country.

    The BBC is a 100% Marxist political organisation.

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  29. tomo says:

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  30. andyjsnape says:

    why in the bbc world is everyone a victim, and never that some people just plain stupid for their actions

    Take for instance the illegal immigrants arriving, its all about how much of a victim they are, not the fact the invaders just want money and free housing, free schooling, free, free etc – Nothing is free we the tax payer fork out for it, but the left just treat them as victims and not for what they are

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  31. andyjsnape says:

    The bbc had a web page yesterday regarding price increases by the water companies, about the consumer paying for the improvements to the piping etc

    I made a comment on the page/hys/forum:-
    Instead of the end user paying for this and the shareholders/directors still getting millions, why doesn’t the bbc do any investigation into this

    Comment was censored and removed, guess it doesn’t agree

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    • JohnC says:

      lol, anything criticising the BBC gets removed very quickly these days andy.

      I presume you got the ‘off topic’ excuse ?.

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      • andyjsnape says:

        Hello JohnC

        Please see below:-

        Thank you for recently contributing to the BBC website.
        Unfortunately, we’ve removed your comment because it broke the house rules

        This is the text you wrote:
        Maybe the bbc could do an investigation into why shareholders/directors still get millions. Instead of just promoting price increases

        Perhaps they didn’t like the “promoting of prices increases” 🙂

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        • JohnC says:

          They usually have the specific rule you broke under that andy.

          Mine usually got deleted because it might offend somebody (almost always Remainers – they still have a very strong anti-Brexit agenda). Remainer however can say what they want and they won’t remove their comments.

          The latest ‘rule’ they use is: ‘are derailing the discussion onto a different topic.’ which is the ultimate catch-all which they can use if you mention anything at all not 100% in line with their article.

          They use it if you accuse them of omitting important information.

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          • tomo says:

            I recall commenting freely for several years at the Guardian and then suddenly getting pounced on and banned.

            I wonder if any of the gits from there have moved to the BBC?

            I haven’t bothered with either for years now except to marvel at the sterile monoculture.

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            • Fedup2 says:

              I wonder how the Russell brand inquiry is going at the BBC ? Is the BBC waiting for the ‘arrest ‘ – which appears inevitable – judging by disclosures that at least x2 crimininal investigations are going on ….

              I really don’t care – but I am interested in anything which harms the BBC – in this case – what happened to complsints made by the public against what brand apparently said on stage / screen …
              I understanding that he was very very shocking – I don’t know because I don’t bother with weirdo kidults like him – nor his resurrection as a free speech type ….

              …as the women involved – make yer bed – lay in it …

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              • MarkyMark says:

                Russell Brand’s Stand Off
                Comic Relief2017
                Russell Brand comperes more live comedy as he welcomes the hottest stand-up acts in the UK to the Comic Relief stage. Seven very special performers ensure the laughs – and donations – keep on rolling in.

                https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08k62j3

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      • MarkyMark says:

        2018 ….
        Has the BBC ever lied to me …. YES.
        “Gavin Hewitt in 2015 replacing video with still photos to hide a nasty refugee pushing a pregnant female refugee and small child onto a train track, the BBC made it look like the border guards were being tough.”

        Has the BBC ever hidden news from me …. YES.
        “May 2018 the Day of Freedom march was not reported on the main website or the main news channel and is not available on the BBC £3.5bn online search page – other news agencies including the Guardian reported it.”

        Has the BBC kept the public in the dark …. YES.
        “We know that the UK MP expenses continues and should be investigated with the £3.5bn BBC New Service every year to keep the MPs on their toes, David Lammy bought a bike for £650 on expenses (Claim Ref:387540/17oct2014) which is blatant misuse of Tax Payer Money. How come the BBC don’t check up each year?”

        Has the BBC ignored politician’s lies …. YES.
        “UK Politicians are on TV shouting austerity and recession but all have taken an 18% pay increase from 2010 to 2018. How can they talk for the people when the live in their own bubble?”

        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}”

        Has the BBC let journalist break their guidelines …. YES.
        “Gary ‘£1.75m’ Lineker uses his twitter account to say Brexit is bad, EU is good. But not once has he confronted Jacob Rees-Mogg or Nigel Farage to talk about it. It is a one sided echo chamber.”

        https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/05/20/start-the-week-open-thread-21-may-2018/comment-page-6/#comment-918185

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  32. JohnC says:

    Bradley Lowery: Man pleads guilty to taunting fans
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-66985501

    ‘A Sheffield Wednesday fan who used a photo of Bradley Lowery to taunt opposition supporters has admitted a public order offence.

    Dale Houghton, 31, was pictured laughing as he brandished the image of the six-year-old during a match against Sunderland – the team Bradley supported before he died of cancer in 2017.’

    Now what he did was unpleasant. No question. Dale is no doubt one of the millions of scumbags our society is now full of. But he’s exactly that : one of millions.

    But he’s the Lefts stereotype far-right ‘Nazi’ type so he gets his picture at the top of the article. Something which never happens for enrichment who murder other enrichment up close and personal with a blade. We only get pictures of the victims on the BBC for those.

    And what do you think our society would deem fit for someone holding up such a picture on their phone and laughing ?.

    I kid you not:

    ‘The judge said all sentencing options were open, including a prison term.’

    The thing is, that boy died 5 years ago. He’s not even the victim here.

    We then get another extremely lengthy empathy-fest which the BBC absolutely love to do because it’s the cheapest form of virtue-signalling using others misfortune.

    I have no problem with this scumbag getting some kind of proportional punishment. My problem with this is the absolutely lopsided society we live in today which is edging nearer and nearer to Nazi Germany where punishment depends on who did the crime.

    Notice how the story about the stupid, fat black woman who tried to steal from the Muslim owner has been absolutely dropped ?. That’s because it became clear that the black woman was not the victim after all. Meanwhile not reported by the BBC:

    ‘Peckham shopkeeper goes into hiding amid protests outside his store’

    ‘Sohail Sindho said he was not with his wife and had taken his three sons out of school because of the furious reaction at the video.’

    ‘Now, Sindho says he has received threats from as far away as the US.’

    Why hasn’t SHE been charged for assault and attempted theft ?.

    100% pure racist hate. This would have been headline news on the BBC if the colours of the people were right for the agenda.

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    • tomo says:

      extremely lengthy empathy-fest which the BBC absolutely love to do because it’s the cheapest form of virtue-signalling using others misfortune.

      it’s predictable enough to be amenable to Ai?

      It might be amusing to see what ChatGPT comes up with – given a rule set?

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      • JohnC says:

        I reckon AI could write these BBC articles and we couldn’t tell the difference.

        I was reading the other day about how it is biased to the Left (because everything it sees on the internet is) and also that it can lie without conscience if it thinks the situation requires it.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      GAMMONS!

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      • JohnC says:

        I’ve reported comments using the word ‘gammon’ to the BBC in the past saying it offends me and it’s racist because it’s being derogatory towards someone using their skin colour.

        They refused to remove them.

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  33. andyjsnape says:

    Bianca Williams: Met PC thought he smelled cannabis in car
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66983987

    A police officer thought he could smell cannabis coming from the car of two top athletes when he and his colleagues stopped and searched them, a misconduct hearing was told

    Not just athletes, but TOP atheletes – if white this wouldn’t even be promoted or a report on the bbc webshte

    Why do the police bother arresting a black person, just let them do whatever they want!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Nothing untoward was found in the car”

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    • Doublethinker says:

      Agree. I think that we are well down the road of having two different justice systems one for non protected groups and one for protected groups. Rioting, vandalism, shop lifting , lewd behaviour , obstruction of the highway are already non offences for the protected group.
      It cannot be long before the defence of ‘they said something offensive , I lost my temper and hit and kicked them’ is accepted as complete mitigation for an assault by a protected group member on a non protected group member. It’s a very slippery slope that we are on.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Double – it’s been there in various forms for a long time – punters on legal aid versus taxpayers having to fund their own defence ….. the firms living of taxpayers ‘ cash and doing very nicely ….
        Must be time to start using ‘underclass ‘ again – although in these woke times it’s probably ‘offensive ‘- which becomes a crime …

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      • MarkyMark says:

        The Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr Rowan Williams) says the adoption of certain aspects of Sharia law in the UK “seems unavoidable”. {bbc.co.uk feb2008}

        Dr Williams argues that adopting parts of Islamic Sharia law would help maintain social cohesion (2008).

        Last month (jan2008), the Bishop of Rochester, the Right Reverend Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, said some places in the UK were no-go areas for non-Muslims (2008).

        Dr Williams said it was “not at all the case that we have absolute social exclusion”.

        – And Christopher Hitchens’ thoughts on this …

        To Hell With the Archbishop of Canterbury {slate.com feb2008}

        In the midst of this dismal verbiage and euphemism, the plain statement—”There’s one law for everybody and that’s all there is to be said”—still stands out like a diamond in a dunghill. It stands out precisely because it is said simply, and because its essential grandeur is intelligible to everybody. Its principles ought to be just as intelligible and accessible to those who don’t yet speak English, in just the same way as the great Lord Mansfield once ruled that, wherever someone might have been born, and whatever he had been through, he could not be subject to slavery once he had set foot on English soil.

        http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2008/02/to_hell_with_the_archbishop_of_canterbury.html

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  34. JohnC says:

    Sham security courses prompt gig safety concerns
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66923084

    lol – just watch the video. How dreadfully inconvenient.

    I strongly suspect the BBC didn’t realise their under-cover videos would be catching dirty ‘enrichment’ when they started that project.

    No doubt that’s why it didn’t get to be the main headline like all their other recent agenda-linked ‘investigations’ targetting whitey.

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  35. JohnC says:

    Marriage equality eludes Japan’s same-sex couples
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-66173433

    Proof how the BBC want to be the arbiters of Leftist agenda on a global scale.

    Since when was the fact two lesbians had trouble finding an apartment in Japan headline UK news ?. It shows just how lopsided the BBC Nazis have become when sometimes they don’t even report people being stabbed to death in Londonistan if it is inconvenient for the agenda.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      There was a bit of a buildup to an exclusive ‘panorama ‘ … will it be the passenger lists to ‘Lolita island ‘? Will it be the usual bribing of MPs ? A take down of the blue Labour Party ?

      None of the above . Some crap about a queer fashion bloke ‘engaging’ with young men …. As I understand it – because I have no time to watch the BBC getting on its moral high horse ….
      How is Huw ? How is Mr Brand ? ….

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      • Guest Who says:

        BBC Moaning Emole is all over the sex thing. In fashion. The headline is, as ever, special.

        Sex claims against fashion boss

        Claims? Very BBC. No doubt epic probes being called for. Maybe a check down the tidy whities?

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  36. AsISeeIt says:

    Every boy’s dream – a super big expensive train set plus the shortest-serving chair edition

    The voice of globalist corporatism has spoken…

    If you tell global investors you will do something, you ‘have to stick to your word’ Andy Street, West Midlands Mayor (FT)

    “You have caused confusion and delay” The Fat Controller, Sir Topham Hatt, the fictional character in The Railway Series books written by Reverend W. Awdry and his son, Christopher Awdry.

    And on the same pink frontpage: IMF chief backs reforms that pave way for greater Chinese voting power (FT)

    Well that’s just great, isn’t it? So when Keir Starmer becomes PM and gives the go-ahead to some white elephant boondoggles even larger and more expensive than HS2 (probably extending HS3 to Glasgow for Scots votes) and a few years down the line, so to speak, this sort of thing happens again: In 1976 Britain faced financial crisis. The Labour government was forced to apply to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a loan of nearly $4 billion. (The National Archives, Cabinet Papers) – then we can look forward to Xi Jinping literally setting the rules for running the UK.

    Britain is the best country to be black in, says Kemi (Daily Mail) – she has a point there. There must be certain attractions associated with residence over here. Just look at this guy’s story: Bomber came to UK ‘to see Britain’s Got Talent’… A terrorist legally entered the UK claiming he wanted to watch the filming of Britain’s Got Talent (Telegraph) – I’m not sure why that part of the report is highlighted there rather sarcastically in tone and as being in doubt. I’m sure BGT is a big hit Abu Dhabi or was it Syria, or Jordan, or was it Iraq… or wherever it was he really came from?

    Seems he was a bit of a western cultural fanboy at heart: Al-Swealmeen had changed his name by deed poll to Enzo Almeni, in honour of Italian race car legend Enzo Ferrari, to sound more western on his asylum application, which subsequently failed in 2014 (Guardian) – so he’d have been a Scalextric rather than a Hornby chap. Funnily enough, my old Scalextric cars always seemed to burn out when I drove them too fast. Our Al-Swealmeen had a similar real-life problem.

    It’s Manc Robbery! Mayor Burnham’s fury as ‘HS2 to end at Birmingham’ (freebie Metro) – oh dear, a Scouser is upset about something – so something must be done…

    Var faces overhaul after disallowed goal… Liverpool offside fiasco (Telegraph); VARce! Scrap the hated video ref system (The Sun)

    And as we ponder the notion that this nation is the best place in the world to be black – we trace the brilliant career of a black quango queen par excellence – if at first you don’t succeed – have another promotion with another failing entity…

    John Lewis in crisis. Is Britain’s best-loved store beyond repair? (Telegraph); White to quit John Lewis as reform strategy falters… Dame Sharon White will have been the shortest-serving chair in John Lewis and Waitrose history when she steps down… Previously a top Treasury official, White joined from the helm of media regulator Ofcom (FT)

    Time for a quick Calm Down Dear…

    I’m tempted to go with Helen Mirren, whose PR team have put in a strong bid this week: Parky had a point on sexism. says Mirren (Telegraph)

    But, following VAR refs now afraid to walk the streets of Liverpool – we instead note Strictly judge Shirley Ballas feels the heat…

    Trauma behind the smile… Shirley: I’m afraid to leave the house… says death threats from trolls have left her scared… (The Sun)

    What to do? The simple answer would be for our Shirley to ignore social media. But I’m inevitably minded of those legendary words of Leslie Nielsen in the 1980 movie Airplane!

    “Surely you can’t be serious?”

    “I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.”

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Asiseeit it – I disagree that VAR should be dumped . Instead I think that VAR should have a VAR to watch it . As I understand it the ref at a prem match trousers £5000 a game and presumably the Lino and the VAR crew get a good ‘taste ‘…

      The pleasure of seeing the misery of Liverpool is a gift ..particularly inflicted by my local team …maybe the Liverpool victims might stop booing the British national anthem when it is played before their games … moaning whining losers / welfare parasites …

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  37. JohnC says:

    Remember the multiple, daily articles on the BBC about the stabbing of the pretty black girl from a respectable family last week – which appeared on dozens of outlets having obviously been sent down the BBC’s ‘TNI’ agenda-news hotline ?.

    Of course you do.

    She was the 16th teenager to be murdered.

    Here’s the 17th:
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    https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/edmonton-stabbing-police-kendal-gardens-north-london-b1110711.html

    ‘According to an eyewitness he was ambushed by two balaclava-clad men who jumped out from two cars – a blue SUV and a black Volvo – shortly before 11.30pm last night.’

    According to my google search, not even reported by the BBC.

    Such shameless and blatant agenda-based double-standards.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      An unusually thoughtful column in the free daily Mail about the ‘protection of children ‘ charged with crimes . Such a child murdered a girl on the way to school last week – and will never be named because of an archaic lefty law ….

      The added point is that if you go onto the internet you can find the name of the alleged killer pretty quickly – it is xxxxxx Xxxxxxx…
      I believe the public is entitled to know the details of those charged and convicted – but that presumption may be subject to specific exceptions but not used as a way of circumventing naming ..

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  38. Guest Who says:

    One for Springster!

    https://x.com/ikeijeh/status/1708990136850039068?s=61
    Fair enough Emily. Notwithstanding the report’s admission that it didn’t investigate the Farage case, I’d be turning off my replies to this too if I’d just signed a huge sponsorship deal with a major banking corporation. Investigative journalism I’m sure Murdoch would approve of!

    Bronzed Strumpet goes full attack cow on the hated Tories, as any self respecting ex Beeboid does, and things take a turn.

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  39. Fedup2 says:

    Got to admit I was surprised to see Farage turn up to the Blue Labour conference … is he under instructions ? Is he moving to the sick liberal left with the rest of these 13 years in government ‘tories ‘?
    Although I don’t watch GBNews after stein I do recall that much of the Farage shows was taken up slagging off ( rightly ) the lefties in the ‘Tory’ party – yet here he is supping with the devils ….
    Burnt bridges Farage – or is it the GBN defence ….?

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  40. Fedup2 says:

    A real BBC exclusive – apparently they have found out that ‘security staff’ get training . This was a very top secret . As anyone who has been on the receiving end of ‘security guards ‘ or even worse ‘ footy stewards ‘ it’s hard to believe they can speak engleeesh yet alone be trained .
    Maybe when Russia ends the war – it will export Ukrainians as I understand they are quite talented when it comes to being ‘guards ‘….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      ‘IT’S why they got rid of him – he cuts through the bullshit.’

      That’s what Laura Perrins’s remarked to me yesterday on Mark Steyn’s masterly ‘Shagged out’ takedown of the GB News/Laurence Fox/Dan Wootton/Calvin Robinson ‘comment upon comment upon comment’ affair. She is right. As ever.

      The only layer of comment I am adding to Mark’s analysis of the affair and of the tawdry ‘ecology’ of British Broadcasting it represents, is to say that it is brilliant.

      There is no other word for it.

      Here are some of his choicest observations. (The bold is mine):

      ‘The acceptance in our societies of deaths from despair as a leading cause of mortality among young and middle-aged men is a subject worth exploring. But, as always on Cheapo TV, that’s not what was going on. Instead, Laurence had been called in to attack what Miss Evans had said about it on some other station. Commentary is a low enough profession, but commentary upon other commentary is lower still, and (in this case) commentary upon commentary upon commentary (Lozza had been invited to comment on Ava’s comments on the bloke who’d been commenting on male suicide) is almost entirely removed from anything that matters.

      https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/a-hole-in-one-for-the-masterly-mark-steyn/

      ……………………….

      “To cite the other person you just said that would *trigger you Sam Harris*, Mark Steyn said this the other day, *this is the conversation we will be having when the Mullahs nuke us*.Everyone will be discussing if someone is transgender despite the fact they’ve had no operation (ref Jack Monroe in UK)” – Douglas Murray when he’s angry, but he still makes sense. YouTube removed.

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      • Banania says:

        The Steyn article is compulsory reading and brilliant as ever.
        In all the recent discussions of GBM and its presenters, it is noticeable that Steyn is often not even given a mention.
        He continually brought attention to the moslem rape gangs, the catastrophic effects of the pseudo-vacs, and the excess deaths that no one wants to talk about. When does his High Court case come up? That should be exciting.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Thanks Dickie – just read it . It seems a bit rich for anyone now acknowledging that firing mark steyn was wrong and should have been fought . It’s the reason I dumped GBNews and won’t return – I care less what happens to it . If it is too busy to please BBCOFCOM then it’s worth nothing – with or without Fox being stupid …. But the loss of neal thingy bob would be a shame …. I just watch his bit from time to time on the YouTube …until he too is ‘taken down ‘…

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      • JohnC says:

        The BBC are steadily going after them one by one. What happens is they get someone else to report it (often The Guardian) who are clearly not bound by any impartiality rules then push the story through the roof under the pretext they are just reporting what is already in the news.

        It shows how clean Farage must be by the fact they haven’t managed to destroy him. You can be sure the Guardian/BBC arse cheeks have looked under every rock they can find.

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  41. MarkyMark says:

    FORMER EDITOR OF THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY AND NEW STATESMAN, PETER WILBY, SENTENCED FOR CHILD SEX ABUSE PICTURES

    https://order-order.com/2023/08/18/ex-independent-on-sunday-and-new-statesman-editor-peter-wilby-sentenced-for-child-sex-abuse-pictures/

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  42. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/carboncriminal/status/1709117015816810670?s=61

    A video that needs sharing.

    🤩

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  43. MarkyMark says:

    Dover MP Natalie Elphicke told the Commons that the BBC’s “shocking report” contained the “breath-taking” disclosure of free French public bus services being used to ferry migrants from camps to Dunkirk beaches.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-63229010

    ….

    Today the BBC journalists Michael Keohan and Colin Campbell released a shocking report on the channel crossings. It showed people smugglers selling their wares brazenly in the migrant camps and many children living in unsafe and dangerous conditions, as well as—this is breathtaking—a free French public bus service that migrants can use to travel directly from the camps to the Dunkirk departure beaches. Will my right hon. Friend allow a statement on the issue of tackling the small boat crossings and the Government’s response in their work with France?

    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2022-10-13a.258.0#g262.1

    SACK THEM ALL!

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  44. MarkyMark says:

    Saudi Arabia: Mass Killings of Migrants at Yemen Border
    Systematic Abuses of Ethiopians May Amount to Crimes Against Humanity

    https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/21/saudi-arabia-mass-killings-migrants-yemen-border

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  45. StewGreen says:

    Bullies bully by driving an outrage bus
    ..but you should always ask “is their outrage proportionate ?”

    Lawrence Fox talked about a crazy woman, in the same words and tone she uses to talk about others
    He’s now apologised, no law was broken.

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  46. Thoughtful says:

    I have spent many hours trying to understand the Wests current political policies and outlooks and have reached the conclusion that the elites now running the West are entirely corrupt.

    I believe it started with the Presidency of Bill Clinton and his controlling wife, who now don’t even bother to hide the corruption. I believe it manifested itself in Britain under the BLiar government, and he is now worth somewhere in the region of £200 Million should be enough evidence of corruption.

    We are seeing policies which are clearly of no benefit to the people of the West being pursued with vigour by the political class for no apparant good reason, and we are also seeing a growing authoritarianism which silences those who expose it.

    This has given rise to any number of scams, and look at the time lines of when they originate to see how coincidental it is with the corruption.

    All of this is enabled by a media which is controlled and which prevents any deviation from the government policies because they control the purse strings, and the control over regulation.

    The people are stupified, returning home hungry and tired after working all day, and flop down in from of the TV relaxed and undefended to have their opinions formed for them by a box on the wall beaming propaganda into their minds without any questions on their part, and so sure of their ‘truth’ because they heard it on the telly.

    And the elites go about gathering their ill gotten gains uncaring about the rest of us, whilst no questions are asked, such as how BLiar became so stinking rich, or how a broke philanderer like Boris Johnson became so wealthy he could afford to demi retire to a £4 million manor house in the Cotswolds and remodel it to his crazy wifes expensive standards.

    Those who do deviate from the narrative or expose what it going on to any significant number of the people are quickly silenced, be they journalists or you tubers.

    The corruption is being ‘hidden’ in plain sight, and the people appear to be completely unaware of it because the telly hasn’t told them about it.

    Even here although people see the bias and the rotteness of the BBC, I don’t think readers fully appreciate the power it has to shape the thoughts and opinions of the viewers nor its ability to hide from people that which is plainly there to see.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Thoughtful – I disagree ( thanks for correcting Wolf / maverick Yesterday) – I think readers here fully – mainly – realise the power the BBC has to shape the views of viewers ….( what time is strictly on ?)

      … the corruption goes very deep – with unwritten ‘understandings ‘ – the promises of lucrative jobs and gongs and status – the conveyor belt of ‘rewards ‘ all understood within the swamp ….
      Occasionally you get one of those flow charts of who is connected to who but seldom does it register . When it does – such as the media committee Dinage MP – psy war husband nexus it does get noticed – or mad abbot getting her mad criminal son a job in the FCO ….

      But some ( ha ha ) might argue that these examples are small beer compared to the infection of Soros Gates Windsor WEF and those too clever to be publicly named ….

      Don’t worry though reader – our institutions and Democracy will protect us from these forces … right ?

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