Ex arse cheek boss poses one of those questions Sopes said should not be, unless they are the good kind. Or something. Sopes is of course an idiot. As is Little Al.
So what are the lessons for news organisations in this incredibly difficult conflict and how it’s to be reported?
Remploy folk who are skilled professionals and wish to report news objectively rather than push ideological corporate agendas.
And don’t keep employed clearly compromised editorial staff who then infect those under them to a degree that makes your organisation a worryingly powerful laughing stock.
I think for this country all it will take to destroy it is Iran closing the straits of Hormuz to oil tankers and that’s it.
Where would the UK get sufficient oil from? Despite the fact we produce it, it’s sold on the open market and although what passes for a government could force it to be supplied to the UK we all know they don’t possess sufficient gumption to do that.
Deborah Turness
CEO, BBC News and Current Affairs
Published: 25 October 2023
Updated: 26 October 2023
I could not be prouder of the BBC’s journalists and our journalism.
The Bowes museum has changed its Christmas festival name to Wintermarket or Winterfestival, something like that to make it more ‘diverse’
Can we expect all the other religions who these people think are offended by Christmas to change all their religious names such as dewali, Eid or other miscellaneous religious festivals and dates.
I would bet the only people offended by Christmas are white virtue signalling woke brainwashed thickheads and none of the other religions are in any way offended.
Coming back from Bahrain one time in late November I clearly remember being surprised at a generously sized and decorated nativity scene at the airport.
There were no attempts to ‘rebrand’ it as something else.
Perhaps the FarLeft wokerati should get over there double quick before anyone gets offended.
I’m an atheist and I love Christmas, all the traditions, and the carols, Christmas Mass, the whole works, otherwise it doesn’t mean anything.
When the kids were little we used to have a lovely little nativity scene we set up for them on the mantlepiece. Some might consider that odd, considering my wife and I aren’t practicing Christians, but we wanted the kids to know what Christmas was really about, and that it wasn’t just about a fat man in a red suit bringing them lots of presents!
Quite right, Max. There are more attacks on Christmas year by year, principally by people who want to get rid of Christ and Christianity. Being an advocate for the BBC you would know that already.
Click on the link to the Bowes museum Christmas Market:
‘SORRY WE CAN’T FIND THAT PAGE’
Click to museum main page and I can see pictures of:
Mixed race couple with 2 black children
Five people out for an Autmn walk. None are white.
A very pale ginger child : not sure if it’s male or female.
Go to ‘What’s on’ and it’s now ‘The Winter Market’ which is described as the ‘festive event’. And it has a very curious graphic with people who have very small heads. Most of which appear to be very dark colour.
But can you put the link to where he said anyone was trying to ban Christmas ?. Or were you just lying to fit your agenda again ?. Lies, half-truths and out-of-context quotes seem to be specialities of yours. It’s a consequence of when hate+spite override conscience.
No wonder you people support Hamas. You have plenty in common.
During our continuing coverage of the Israel-Gaza conflict we mentioned some of the pro-Palestinian demonstrations that took place on the weekend of October 14/15. We spoke about “several demonstrations across Britain during which people voiced their backing for Hamas”. We accept that this was poorly phrased and was a misleading description of the demonstrations. Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters took to the streets across the UK and although there were some arrests there was little evidence of any significant support for Hamas during these demonstrations. We clarified this on air later in the day and apologise for the error.
“She was previously CEO of ITN, where she has led the organisation’s post-Covid strategy for growth in its three major business areas – newsrooms, long-form production and commercial/branded content.”
‘little evidence of any significant support for Hamas’
‘little evidence of any significant’ – that’s double-weasel words.
I am 100% certain that if they actually did any actual journalism and interviewed some of those people, they would have found plenty of support. Not that they would have reported it of course.
BBC 6 pm news
Child stubs toe on concrete rubble after Israeli bombing in Gaza. Mass demonstrations planned in London.
I just made that up.
But then again………………..
In the interests of impartiality, I do wish the BBC would interview one of the leaders of Just Stop Oil to hear their view on supplying that dreadful greenhouse gas producing fossil fuel to Gaza.
Presumably they would applaud the territory’s commitment to nett zero.
Well, apart from rocket propellants.
It is of course in its way a damning indictment of the eco-zealots. Just look what happens when fossil fuel supplies are switched off prematurely.
Excellent news for those looking forward to The End of The World – Obama ordered an air strike in Syria – operation peace through war ‘
And later the full uselessness / anti Israel attitude of the UN will be laid out ….. meanwhile in Ukraine …..
The Palestinian support for Saddam I suspect has zapped their chances of KSA citizenship – a minor status adjustment to “slave” would work in The Kingdom – gotta replace all those uppity Yemenis?
So yet again today the disgustingly biased report on Israel/Hamas is stating that there is a shortage of fuel.
Now correct me if I’m wrong, and I’m in my 30th year of driving trucks, but surely as Gaza is so small any of the trucks going in could run around Gaza day in and day out for probably a week or so on the full tank it would enter with before requiring any fuel. So the argument about distribution of aid is utter bollocks. The Gazans or whatever will be able to receive the aid sent. As for the rest i.e. power, as with everything else, ITS NOT OUR PROBLEM!!!
PS. Without BiasedBBC I would probably think I was going mad with the constant stream of negativity against the west and us “Whiteys” being paraded on this country’s so called unbiased media. I thank each and every one of my BiasedBBC brethren! I’m not going mad. Our once great nation is!
Ban Mecca to save lives … On 24 September 2015, a crowd crush resulted in the death of more than 2,000 individuals, many of whom were suffocated or crushed, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mina, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, making it the deadliest Hajj disaster in history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Mina_stampede
https://x.com/owenjones84/status/1717594039170519189?s=61
“Is Labour institutionally Islamophobic? I think so.
For too long, many Muslim members and voters have felt they are treated as voting fodder.”
A damning indictment from this brilliant member of Labour’s National Executive Committee.
https://x.com/thenewsagents/status/1717571795128049879?s=61
“If Keir Starmer gets it wrong, will there be resignations?”
“Anything’s possible but I don’t see at the moment…”
Labour MP @khalid4PB assesses his colleagues potentially stepping down if they disagree with their leader on Israel.
Theo Hopkins asks: “What, exactly, is a Muslim MP?”
Well, Theo, the likely future of a U.K. caliphate at this rate.
There’s a shadow something called Queshi who asked a PMQ calling on a cease fire – I understand she should either resign or be fired under some ‘convention ‘ those clowns have – but starmer has not done anything –
I reckon when – hopefully – the IDF really get going quite a few Labour Muslims will have to form their own party if the red labour lot still pretend to support Israel …
Is it possible that every single person in Gaza has a foreign nationality.
Maybe everyone has been on the asylum seeker passport run, and the whole population is just back there on an extended holiday?
“Pictures taken in the immediate aftermath show Hamas-led security forces on the scene,” .
“Former UN war crimes investigator Marc Garlasco tweeted: “In 20 years of investigating war crimes this is the first time I haven’t seen any weapon remnants. And I’ve worked three wars in Gaza.”
BBC conclusion: none.
Anyone else: looks like a clean up operation – so a Palestinian rocket.
Etc etc endless experts quoted, BBC’S 60 man squad still no nearer to cracking the case.
At least they stopped parroting the 500 hundred or hundreds dead lines..
Eddy – Mariana is the go to expert in verify / lie on ordnance and bomb scene examination …. She and meesh are on the plane going there right now ….
I haven’t heard the crap bbc reporter who first told the world the Israelis did it – I wonder if they’ve sent him to the 4am slot on the world service – even though he speak ingleese innit ?
“This is the Qassam steel rocket system used by Hamas / Palestine against Israel, it is effectively just a firework made from steel piping. They are about 50 – 90 kgs in weight, and are approx. 2 meters tall.
The fuel they use is a mixture of sugar, and potassium nitrate (fertiliser), it burns for between 5 – 15 seconds, after that gravity does the work.
These rockets have no navigation, GPS, or any other means of finding a target. They are pointed in the direction of large settler communities, towns, and cities. It is a fire and hope strategy, launched from angled steel frames (pictured).
The warhead consists of 10 kg of explosive with a back chamber (behind warhead) full of ball bearings. They have conical spring detonators in the nose piece, which detonates the explosives on impact.
They are indiscriminate weapons that have very limited capacity for structural damage to buildings, most injuries or (rarely) deaths are caused by shrapnel. Most Qassam rockets never hit a target, and up to 10% of them misfire.
These rockets pose very little risk to Israel or its inhabitants, and most are shot down by Iron Dome.
Israel are using the latest most destructive technology man has ever made, all delivered by unassailable combat aircraft.”
(1) The Board of Deputies lodged a complaint with the communications regulator, Ofcom, over the BBC’s failure to call Hamas a terrorist group
(2) BBC refuses to sack BBC staff who described the Hamas mass murder as a “morning of hope”. The BBC puts them on temporary suspension on full pay while the BBC tries to decide whether calling the mass murder, a “morning of hope” constitutes bias.
(3) OFCOM does not regard anti-Semitism at the BBC as “Harm” but attacks GB News for “Harm” in allowing Jews to complain about “Mass Murder” by Pfizer.
(4) Ofcom’s online safety supervision director has been temporarily suspended on full pay after anti-Semitic comments were posted on her private Instagram account. Ofcom is investigating its online safety supervision director to see if she caused “Harm” or not.
Holocaust and terrorist denial by the BBC and OFCOM is legal but harmful.
It would seem Khalid Masood (Westminster Attack 22.03.2017 5 Innocents Killed) was on benefits which comes out of National Insurance payments by the workers of the UK. Thus, it would seem prior to these findings the workers in the UK were unknowingly funding terrorism.
But now we know terrorists operate using welfare benefits it would seem we are knowingly paying terrorists.
Can I suggest that the Government please make sure NI payments by UK workers don’t go into the hands of terrorists by removing the terrorists in the first place. Can you also calculate how much we have/are funded terrorism via welfare benefits by simply getting all known terrorists (left,right,islamic) arrested to-date and those on the watch list and check welfare payments made to them or their immediate family (under various names possibly).
Another example is where imams preaching intolerance such as Anjem Choudary (preached hate 1999-2016) to his hundreds of worshippers (5 times a day, everyday), can all imams be checked if they are on welfare benefits, paid by UK workers, and these payments be stopped immediately. It is the community that needs to fund the imams if they want religious teachings, similar to how the Church of England was funded with donations in the past.
. . . .
The father-of-four (Anjem Choudary preaching hate 1999-2016) takes home more than £25,000 a year in benefits and lives in a £320,000 house in Leytonstone
. . .
“…and don’t you worry. It’s coming to a place near you…we cannot have state subsidized preachers…give it up or give it to your deadliest enemy and pay for the rope that will choke you.“
Did I hear this correctly, Conservative MP, Crispin Blunt, has been arrested for rape and released on bail? FFS, they’re falling apart…
To make matters worse, this bloke is my MP. We had quite a lengthy and cordial correspondence during lockdown, with me trying to persuade him to oppose our imprisonment. That worked out well…
I’ve never seen him locally and the only time he has put his head above the parapet was when a fellow Conservative (a Muslim) was convicted and imprisoned for molesting a schoolboy. Crispin was incensed and complained of a miscarriage of justice and Islamophobia. Where have I heard that before?
With this present case, due to Quentin’s particular predilections, I’m guessing the complainant must be a bloke.
Name of donor: Avia Plc
Address of donor: St Helenâs, 1 Undershaft, London EC3P 3DQ
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets with food and drink for a Sam Smith Concert at the O2, value £1,512
Date received: 19 April 2023
Date accepted: 19 April 2023
Donor status: company, registration 2468686
(Registered 28 April 2023)
Name of donor: (1) Awan Marketing plc. (2) Lords and Commons Cricket APPG
Address of donor: (1) Khyber Building Heaton Street, Hockley, Birmingham B18 5BB. (2) House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): (1) Partial contribution towards flight and accommodation, value £370.38. (2) Partial contribution towards flight and accommodation, value £365.74
Destination of visit: Corfu, Greece
Dates of visit: 20-25 April 2023
Purpose of visit: Lords and Commons Cricket delegation to participate in tournament alongside the British Army, Lords Taverners charity, Brigade of Gurkhas and the Royal Household to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of cricket in Greece at the invitation of the Hellenic Cricket Association.
(Registered 27 April 2023)
10 March 2022, received £100 for a survey completed on 18 January 2022. Hours: 30 mins. (Registered 29 November 2022)
24 June 2022, received £70 for a survey completed on 12 May 2022. Hours: 10 mins. (Registered 29 November 2022)
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Payment of £150 expected for a survey completed on 17 November 2022. Hours: 45 mins. (Registered 29 November 2022)
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2-25 May 2002, to Israel and the Occupied Territories, to meet Palestinian and Israeli political leaders and policy makers. Travel and accommodation provided by Conservative Middle East Council. (Registered 10 June 2002)
6-24 August 2002, payment received to cover the cost of a holiday in France and Spain for myself and my immediate family from WENA Hotels Limited. (Registered 16 October 2002)
“After a 44-year broadcasting career, Steve Allen, the legendary plain-speaking London early breakfast talk radio host, has suddenly left LBC, his contract cancelled with immediate effect.
Although LBC claims his contract was nearly over, and that he has left the station “following discussions” – and Allen says the same publicly – the fact is that the much-loved broadcaster disappeared from LBC’s schedules after refusing to call singer Sam Smith ‘they’ instead of ‘him’.
Changes to the Register of Members’ Interests Crispin Blunt
20 September-1 October 2004, to India with the Conservative Parliamentary Friends of India, visiting Delhi, Kerala, Bangalore and Hyderabad to be briefed on political and economic developments in India with particular reference to the information technology and life science sectors. Travel and accommodation expenses met by the Government of India. (Registered 21 October 2004)
You missed out the ‘possession of controlled substances ‘…
Maybe he and Peter bone will get together and form a band – innocent or not – the blue Labour Party is gonna end and maybe Reform will do better than I think …
.. decent chap Blunt – MCC – army – decent chap ..-or scoundrel …
I’ll admit I voted for him at the last election, on the advice of Nigel. Crispin is a devout Brexiteer and NF wanted as many of those in parliament to get the darned thing done.
However, there are some (perhaps) rather dubious things about him.
I couldn’t give two hoots about his sexual preferences, but he had been married for over two decades and fathered a couple of children, when he “came out.” That’s a bloody long time to be playing for the wrong team…
I also recall that a few years ago he was promoting the use of “poppers” I think they’re called. For the uninitiated these are used by gay chaps to…um, well…I don’t really want to go into that.
It all seemed a bit sordid.
Still, each to his own and innocent until proven guilty…
“The wrong team” obviously, means that up until well into middle-age he had been living the life, one would imagine, of a heterosexual. Most of us know “which side we’re on” by adolescence…often earlier…Don’t you agree?
And can you really deny that the use of “poppers” suggests anything other than a sordid life choice?
@26:00 “In an address to the nation about the looming ground invasion into Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu evoked images of light and dark, promising to save the nation from Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas, which attacked Israel on October 7. “We are the people of light, they are the people of darkness—and light shall triumph over darkness,” Netanyahu said, according to a translation from i24NEWS in Israel. “Our war against Hamas is a test for all of humanity it is a struggle between the axis of evil of Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas, and the axis of freedom and progress.” The comments evoked a controversial tweet that his office posted and then deleted on X, or Twitter, last week after a deadly blast hit a hospital in Gaza. Netanyahu went on: “It is now a time to come together for one purpose to storm ahead to achieve victory in joint with joint forces and a profound belief in justice, a profound belief in the eternity of the Jewish people. We shall realize the prophecy of Isaiah,” he said.” https://news.yahoo.com/netanyahu-evokes-religious-prophecy-israel-204832151.html?guccounter=1
Rishi to tell his fellow indians to ban the caste system? Why not? Gay marriage and free citizens ….
“Manual scavenging is banned in India but the practice is still commonplace, with people forced into it because of rigid caste rules and the lack of other livelihood options. They are hired by local corporations and even private contractors to clean sewers and drains that are blocked because of mud and plastic.
Successive federal governments, including the current one, have missed several deadlines to declare India free of manual scavenging, most recently in August this year.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-67191131
Ben Wallace – who was defence minister in the outgoing regime writes in the DT about how plod is now a ‘soft touch ‘ for pressure groups …..
But I seem to recall Wallace was a cabinet minister in a regime ( not government ) which used to have 80 majority – but writes as though he has no power at all – too late Wallace …. And you resigned and let a loop replace you ( grant shapps ) God help us …
Y’know what, these two short posts remind me of two items in the news, and singing this second verse from the famous song around the school piano…
“Boney went to Moscow, away-ay-ya.
Across the Alps, across the snow, Jean Francois.
Moscow was a-blazing, away-ay-ya.
Boney was a-raging, Jean Francois.”
https://x.com/nytimes/status/1717793272951701768?s=61
Denmark is using demolition and relocation to remake neighborhoods, effectively mandating integration in certain low-income areas where many “non-Western” immigrants live.
Love him or hate him, Piers Morgan just gave a sympathetic hearing to the son of one of Hamas’ founders, who vehemently berated the psychotic genocidal terrorist organisation.
I wonder if he’ll be invited to one of the plush BBC sofas to share his views.
I love these articles because they lay bare the sheer hypocrisy and double-standards of the Left.
Imagine how racist any kind grouping which is only open to white people would be labelled by the activists at the BBC.
Instead we get this:
‘Powerful Media’s annual list celebrates people of African, African Caribbean and African American heritage.’
Dear BBC : ‘Powerful Media’ IS RACIST. Just like Getty.
An interesting browse is the list of sponsors at the end. It’s 100% the usual suspects – I’m only disappointed the BBC isn’t on the list. I presume they aren’t allowed to because it’s right up their street.
Brought to you by : (drumroll please)
The standard face of the ‘new’ BBC reporter. No words necessary.
“‘Powerful Media’s annual list celebrates people of African, African Caribbean and African American heritage.’” – watched a France 24 news report where a tribes man in Africa cut a goats stomach to determine what the future holds in 2023.
BBC gleeful about the passing of the online censoring act – no doubt the dad of a 14 year old girl who watched too much internet and killed herself will want even more ‘regulation ‘ by the State . Useful to have someone wanting grief fueled revenge…
Once person from the Leftist activist’s selected group of ‘victims’ (where the attacker/abuser is ALWAYS white) and we get protests, vigils, speeches in Parliament and demands from the BBC that the law is changed to ensure it cannot happen again. No matter what the inconvenience or the cost to society or how isolated the original incident is.
Meanwhile BAME teenagers can butcher each other freely on the streets, rape girls and women, murder OAP’s who have just been to the cashpoint outside their free asylum hotel, burn their family members alive and batter women to death in a manner at least as bad as their white counterparts and the whole subject is very quickly dropped with no demands for anything.
This is the racist and sexist discrimination we have to live under today.
It’s got so ridiculous, the extreme Lefties such as maxi are now conditioned to think we are racists for even talking about it.
How do we rid ourselves of this cancer destroying our society from within ?.
Picked one at random to check the details:
2 people stabbed in Prince Regent Lane.
Can’t find any details of the victims. This is a picture of the neighbourhood so I think we can safely imagine what they looked like:
It had a video of a group of males, one of whome was carrying a knife. Amazingly the video has been removed.
The BBC report is – as usual – very brief and basic facts only.
We are living under agenda-based censorship on a massive scale. We genuinely are walking towards a dystopian world and this is how it happens. Gradual and increasing control of what we are allowed to know. This latest protection bill overseen by OFCOM is another step along the way. You can be sure it will be abused by the Left who have tried this kind of things many times throughout history. Always with the eventual same result : mass murder of those who do not conform.
JohnC
At least plod will adopt a full on policy of not stopping coloured folk unless they want to be fired – it coloured folk kill other coloured folk – well – that’s vibrancy ….
From the DT – a piece about the use of language by the BBC – spoof versions are welcome
STARTS
The BBC has pledged to attribute claims more clearly after accusations of bias in its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.
The broadcaster has been criticised for its coverage of the conflict, including its refusal to brand Hamas terrorists and its reporting of the explosion at the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza.
Executives said some changes would be made to “increase clarity and accuracy”.
Deborah Turness, head of BBC News and Current Affairs, told staff in an open message: “We are putting in place some additional safeguards around how we attribute and describe sources and information in our coverage of this war.”
The executive explained that the attribution of claims will be altered, with the person or party making the claims now coming before the claim itself, so “instead of ‘Hundreds killed, X claims’, we will start ‘X claims hundreds killed’.”
Ms Turness restated the BBC’s position that parties are not to be called terrorists without attribution, and said that the BBC had not banned the use of the word “militant”, but would no longer use it as the default when referring to Hamas.
Civilian deaths reporting to change
Another key change will be how the BBC reports on civilian deaths in future, in an effort to avoid being accused of bias from either side in the conflict.
Ms Turness wrote: “We also need to think carefully about how we talk about civilian deaths, and how the language we use may, unintentionally, give the impression we view some deaths as more important than others or treat people on either side differently.
“A tweet which said people ‘died’ in Gaza and ‘were killed’ in Israel has been widely used as an example of this. It’s important that we all think carefully about the language we use to avoid creating a false impression.”
The tweaks to the broadcaster’s style come after criticism of its Editorial Guidelines, which prevent journalists from branding Hamas terrorists.
The BBC and other broadcasters’ use of words like “militant” in place of “terrorist” has drawn criticism from figures including the Chief Rabbi and the Prime Minister.ENDS
ps – try not to say
‘Hamas freedom fights ‘
‘Evil Jews / Israel ‘
‘Only a few Jews died ‘
‘Carpet bombing
‘Israel did it ‘
If you have the misfortune to be one of the dwindling numbers listening to ‘today ‘ – how often the bbc interviews advisors to the former / current president – Obama ….? It’s as though Biden is a glove puppet and the BBC show it ….
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Mail online shows an evil looking Islamic Hamas spokesman walking out on a BBC interview . Perhaps the BBC is realising it is close to the edge of ‘something must be done ‘ to kerb its enthusiasm for Hamas freedom fighters – but from the river to the sea – right BBC ?
It would seem Khalid Masood (Westminster Attack 22.03.2017 5 Innocents Killed) was on benefits which comes out of National Insurance payments by the workers of the UK. Thus, it would seem prior to these findings the workers in the UK were unknowingly funding terrorism.
But now we know terrorists operate using welfare benefits it would seem we are knowingly paying terrorists.
Can I suggest that the Government please make sure NI payments by UK workers don’t go into the hands of terrorists by removing the terrorists in the first place.
The Tory government is presiding over the mass invasion and destruction of Great Britain.
The survival of our nation will depend on a new government run by the Reform party and or UKIP with a new Home Office that will put the people of the UK first.
I think even Obama will realise now Joe won’t be able to manage another 4 years. He now needs drugs to function anything like a human being and as we saw recently, when he comes down he barely even knows where he is.
I went looking for the BBC report where they most definitely said ‘Some scientists consider President Joe Biden to be a superager’. I was so shocked, I made a comment here. Now I cannot find it anywhere. I’m pretty sure it was in this:
https://x.com/newstatesman/status/1717799285427691611?s=61
Some newspapers and politicians have a vested interest in doing down the BBC.
There is nothing new or surprising in any of this, but it’s strange that few people seem to remember how often it has happened in the past, writes @JohnSimpsonNews.
What is strange is the pompous fool’s minders have not been able to stow it.
“but it’s strange that few people seem to remember how often it has happened in the past”
Is Gary Lineker’s New Twitter Profile Picture A Subtle Message To The BBC?
The Match of the Day star has included a quotation that’s inscribed next to a George Orwell statute outside the corporation’s HQ.
Graeme Demianyk
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Graeme Demianyk
15/03/2023 02:20am GMT
From Middle East Brits (Middle Eastenders?) to Eastenders edition
You join us on a morning when the Rishi lackey loyalist Daily Express targets our remnant Tory voter base, that still yet might perhaps be bothered to come out to vote blue – but then again they might forget: Demetia cases to rise.. but new drugs offer hope
The Times goes there too: Demetia cases to double by 2040…
Speaking of nations with serious concerns over senile dementia: The relaunching of Kamala Harris (FT) – Unlike her boss, I’m not saying the Veep is senile – she’s just bonkers
Don’t fret so, Rishi. You’re not the only CEO to have had a dud year (on his CV our Rishi likes to term his area of district managerial responsibilty the UK ‘economic zone’) – according to the FT: Twitter’s chaotic year under Elon Musk
Sunak turns MPs’ focus on crime and energy prices… at the heart of his final legislative King’s Speech, along with ideas for a football regulator, as he passes what may be the halfway point in his premiership (FT)
Let’s parse that little Briefing item from the FT.
Top Tory arrested over rape and drug allegation (Mirror)
Well, certain MPs’ focus will certainly be on crime. And, as for energy prices (can we really legislate for those?) …
MPs claimed £1m in six years to heat their second homes (Open Democracy); Why we fund certain utility bills… IPSA pays utility bills for the accommodation of non-London MPs when they stay away from home, and for their constituency offices. (Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority)
And speaking of plausible deniability, fake independence and unaccountablity to the voters… from the people who brought you Ofcom, Ofgen and the like… ideas for a football regulator… What’s not to love about yet another bloody Quango busy setting policy and acting as a law unto itself – basically doing MPs’ jobs for them without all that bother of voter accountability?
Now a brief interlude I like to call Dog With A Bone…
Thousands of banned dogs living at home with owners (BBC) – no, not that story… this one…
Ex-PM Truss wanted stranded migrants brought to UK (BBC) – take that you xenophobic Thatcherite Ci-devants* – don’t you see, your would-be Joan of Arc was just another bleeding heart lefty: The request was made in an email sent on behalf of Ms Truss to the prime minister’s office when she was serving as foreign secretary in March 2022… The redacted email was released to the BBC by the Supreme Court of British Indian Ocean Territory this week after being opposed by the government. (BBC)
[* In post-Revolutionary France, ci-devant nobility were those nobles who refused to be reconstituted into the new social order or to accept any of the political, cultural, or social changes brought about in France by the French Revolution] (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) – for post-Revolutionary France read post-Blairite Britain
Bid to rescue 200 Britons from Gaza (Daily Mail) – really? I mean, really?
It’s at the stage now that one assumes when Nasa finally send a manned mission to planet Mars and make contact with some strange alien lifeforms up there – I’m guessing we’ll discover a few hundred of them have somehow or other gotten ahold of UK passports – and then demand we pay for the journey to bring them all back home.
200 Britons trapped in Gaza plead for help… Sunak promises to do ‘everything we can’ as Border Force sends officials to Egypt (the formerly patriotic Times) – well, while they’re out there the Egyptian border authorities could certainly teach our lot a thing or two about how to secure a border.
Warning of growing ‘chasm’ between benefits and pensions – frets the left-leaning ‘i’ newspaper
One likes to note the funny little juxtapositions that crop up in our media. On a morning when we are assailed with reports of dementia and the Mail (poppies now in bloom on their masthead) goes with: How fashion finally fell in love with the MUCH older woman – we can’t let this review pass by without noting these frontpage prime ad spots: Standard Life… Spend your retirement getting paid regularly (‘i’); Scottish Widows… It pays to know your pension today (giveaway Metro)
Half of all print and online news subscribers are over 55, survey shows (Press Gazette, future of media)
Who doesn’t enjoy a witty come back? No, I don’t refer to: Smoking: Prof Sir Chris Whitty backs tobacco phase-out plan (BBC)
I mean a pithy rejoinder. For example…
End of the world is A.I. Big problem: PM gives speech on AI risk yesterday… PM’s stark warning for humanity… (freebie Metro); One year to avoid catastrophe ahead of next-gen AI (‘i’) – so what are we supposed to do about it? Flatten the AI curve?
For the witty come back cue the jokey, blokey Daily Star chanelling Bianca from Eastenders and her catchphrase repeated screech of Rickaaay!: Rishaaai! ‘Don’t fret over AI’
The ‘independent ‘ ( it’s not) report on the conduct of Nat West Bank and the closure of the Nigel Farage account –
– our Justin interviews Nigel
No contest – mr farage is such a formidable speaker -Justin just had to let him roll out his case and the political decisions of the vermin in nat west ….
The good news is that mr farage won’t let this go …..
Poll from 2017 …. you have to ask the right question to the right people at the right time with the right words….
So much contradiction between data … who to believe?
….As one survey revealed (no reference given), 83% of Muslims said they were proud to be British, compared to 79% of Britons overall. {by Baroness Warsi – jan2013 }
Proud to be British – but what is British? Is being British having freedom to draw cartoons …
“ Channel 4 poll from last year (2015), found that only 1% of UK Muslims think that publications should have the right to publish the cartoons of Mohammed.” {by Douglas Murray}
Here’s one for the reference library.
Article in the D Mail.
An actor called Noel Clarke is suing the Guardian for articles alleging his sexual misconduct, but put the subject matter aside.
According to the Mail, Clarke’s barrister, one Mr Speker, said in written submission, I quote ‘this trial by media, conducted by the most- read newspaper for people in the film and entertainment industry………’
Of course we all know that the Guardian is the BBC’s house newspaper and that one feeds the other. But it’s always good to record when what we know is validated in a Court of Law.
Allow me to repeat in terms a post which I fear was filed in the wrong place last night.
And to be fair, not BBC.
On ITV news last night.
In Londonistan, Tower Hamlets, 44 Palestinian flags were put up on lampposts along a main road. It was done in a concerted way, using a cherry picker or the like. The council and/or TfL did later remove them. A vox pop of local people, none of English descent nor good English speakers (why are they living here at all ???), felt the flags should have been left there.
The very next item. A ‘British’ ( hahaha) woman has been found guilty of allowing her daughter to be sent to Kenya to undergo female circumcision.
This, dear reader, is to where spineless woke politicians have led us in England 2023.
Sluff
I do wonder what happened to the chap called ‘Russel brand ‘ who occupied the ‘devil incarnate ‘ spot for a couple of weeks?
No arrest ? No charge ..Yet ?
I don’t know who this kidult is but paid attention when a blue labour cabinet minister started going at him on commons notepaper – right Mrs Dinage ? – how’s 77 brigade and Hubbie? ( note file ‘monitors )
Who Knew About Brand?
Newsnight
Following allegations of sexual assault against comedian Russell Brand, spanning several years, what questions are there for the wider industry? With Kirsty Wark.
Another bumper year for Herman Miller office furniture salesmen?
In 2023/24, Wales' Labour goverment will spend almost 60% of their entire budget trying to change the weather in Wales – whilst pleading poverty due to 'savage Westminster cuts' pic.twitter.com/9tzpH98d7D
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Ex arse cheek boss poses one of those questions Sopes said should not be, unless they are the good kind. Or something. Sopes is of course an idiot. As is Little Al.
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/media-confidential/63665/is-there-a-media-bias-against-israel
So what are the lessons for news organisations in this incredibly difficult conflict and how it’s to be reported?
Remploy folk who are skilled professionals and wish to report news objectively rather than push ideological corporate agendas.
And don’t keep employed clearly compromised editorial staff who then infect those under them to a degree that makes your organisation a worryingly powerful laughing stock.
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“We did ask the BBC to come on the show, but they were unable to find a suitable spokesperson. ”
So they found a clearly unsuitable one.
At this point I fell off my chair in a mixture of horror and hysteria.
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Well here’s Col MacGregor 5 hours ago saying basically the same as I’ve been saying:
https://youtu.be/00frv5blaXM
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https://liveuamap.com/
https://israelpalestine.liveuamap.com/
https://syria.liveuamap.com/
……
Nearly 70% of active service members are overweight, report finds
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2023/10/13/nearly-70-of-active-service-members-are-overweight-report-finds/
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Thoughtful, that is WW3. Book now for Armageddon.
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I think for this country all it will take to destroy it is Iran closing the straits of Hormuz to oil tankers and that’s it.
Where would the UK get sufficient oil from? Despite the fact we produce it, it’s sold on the open market and although what passes for a government could force it to be supplied to the UK we all know they don’t possess sufficient gumption to do that.
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“Where would the UK get sufficient oil from?”
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2020 … UK can be ‘Saudi Arabia of wind power’ – PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54285497
Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he wants to make a “big bet” on renewables, turning the UK into the “Saudi Arabia” of wind power.
Talking via video link to a roundtable discussion at the UN in New York, he said the country held “extraordinary potential” for wind energy.
He said the UK should embrace a range of new technologies to achieve its goal of net zero emissions by 2050.
The UK holds the presidency of the UN climate conference, known as the COP.
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Thoughtful
So Bleak …I guess he can’t make president …
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Deborah Turness
CEO, BBC News and Current Affairs
Published: 25 October 2023
Updated: 26 October 2023
I could not be prouder of the BBC’s journalists and our journalism.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/articles/2023/how-bbc-is-covering-israel-gaza
… … … …. ….
At times like this our audiences need us more than ever,……to work without fear or favour and report what we see.
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Is the world forgetting about Ukraine?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0gnwz7n
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The Bowes museum has changed its Christmas festival name to Wintermarket or Winterfestival, something like that to make it more ‘diverse’
Can we expect all the other religions who these people think are offended by Christmas to change all their religious names such as dewali, Eid or other miscellaneous religious festivals and dates.
I would bet the only people offended by Christmas are white virtue signalling woke brainwashed thickheads and none of the other religions are in any way offended.
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Concrete Barrier Festival?
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Coming back from Bahrain one time in late November I clearly remember being surprised at a generously sized and decorated nativity scene at the airport.
There were no attempts to ‘rebrand’ it as something else.
Perhaps the FarLeft wokerati should get over there double quick before anyone gets offended.
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I’m an atheist and I love Christmas, all the traditions, and the carols, Christmas Mass, the whole works, otherwise it doesn’t mean anything.
When the kids were little we used to have a lovely little nativity scene we set up for them on the mantlepiece. Some might consider that odd, considering my wife and I aren’t practicing Christians, but we wanted the kids to know what Christmas was really about, and that it wasn’t just about a fat man in a red suit bringing them lots of presents!
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Emmanuel Goldstein,
“The Bowes museum has changed its Christmas festival name to Wintermarket or Winterfestival, something like that to make it more ‘diverse’”
Blimey, the “They’re Banning Christmas” story seems to come round earlier every year…
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Quite right, Max. There are more attacks on Christmas year by year, principally by people who want to get rid of Christ and Christianity. Being an advocate for the BBC you would know that already.
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maxincony
Do you like and support Christmas ,or does it offend you?
Do you pay your Telly tax or do you get it free?
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https://barnardcastlechristmasfestival.co.uk/christmas-market-2/
Click on the link to the Bowes museum Christmas Market:
‘SORRY WE CAN’T FIND THAT PAGE’
Click to museum main page and I can see pictures of:
Mixed race couple with 2 black children
Five people out for an Autmn walk. None are white.
A very pale ginger child : not sure if it’s male or female.
Go to ‘What’s on’ and it’s now ‘The Winter Market’ which is described as the ‘festive event’. And it has a very curious graphic with people who have very small heads. Most of which appear to be very dark colour.
And here’s the story from the Sun:
THEY’VE SLEIGHED SANTA Woke museum who banned word Christmas from festive market has now cancelled Santa
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/24538928/woke-museum-now-cancelled-santa/
So it appears to be true.
But can you put the link to where he said anyone was trying to ban Christmas ?. Or were you just lying to fit your agenda again ?. Lies, half-truths and out-of-context quotes seem to be specialities of yours. It’s a consequence of when hate+spite override conscience.
No wonder you people support Hamas. You have plenty in common.
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BBC News Channel
Monday 16 October 2023
During our continuing coverage of the Israel-Gaza conflict we mentioned some of the pro-Palestinian demonstrations that took place on the weekend of October 14/15. We spoke about “several demonstrations across Britain during which people voiced their backing for Hamas”. We accept that this was poorly phrased and was a misleading description of the demonstrations. Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters took to the streets across the UK and although there were some arrests there was little evidence of any significant support for Hamas during these demonstrations. We clarified this on air later in the day and apologise for the error.
24/10/2023
https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications
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Annual remuneration (as at July 2023)
£233,000
https://www.bbc.com/aboutthebbc/whoweare/deborah-turness
“She was previously CEO of ITN, where she has led the organisation’s post-Covid strategy for growth in its three major business areas – newsrooms, long-form production and commercial/branded content.”
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Deborah Turness // CEO, BBC News and Current Affairs // Updated: 26 October 2023
I could not be prouder of the BBC’s journalists and our journalism.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/articles/2023/how-bbc-is-covering-israel-gaza
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‘little evidence of any significant support for Hamas’
‘little evidence of any significant’ – that’s double-weasel words.
I am 100% certain that if they actually did any actual journalism and interviewed some of those people, they would have found plenty of support. Not that they would have reported it of course.
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BBC 6 pm news
Child stubs toe on concrete rubble after Israeli bombing in Gaza. Mass demonstrations planned in London.
I just made that up.
But then again………………..
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In the interests of impartiality, I do wish the BBC would interview one of the leaders of Just Stop Oil to hear their view on supplying that dreadful greenhouse gas producing fossil fuel to Gaza.
Presumably they would applaud the territory’s commitment to nett zero.
Well, apart from rocket propellants.
It is of course in its way a damning indictment of the eco-zealots. Just look what happens when fossil fuel supplies are switched off prematurely.
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Was funny when the insulate leader for insulate Britain had no insulation! HA HA HA HA!
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Ah… forgot the fertiliser in the aid convoy there? those water pipes are useless without it.
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Excellent news for those looking forward to The End of The World – Obama ordered an air strike in Syria – operation peace through war ‘
And later the full uselessness / anti Israel attitude of the UN will be laid out ….. meanwhile in Ukraine …..
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Saudi building new city for Palestinians! Yeah!
Comment “I don’t know whether or not it will work as a city, but it would surely make the world’s COOLEST PRISON!”
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The Palestinian support for Saddam I suspect has zapped their chances of KSA citizenship – a minor status adjustment to “slave” would work in The Kingdom – gotta replace all those uppity Yemenis?
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Harry Whiteguilt!
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BBC NOT A MONSTER!
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So yet again today the disgustingly biased report on Israel/Hamas is stating that there is a shortage of fuel.
Now correct me if I’m wrong, and I’m in my 30th year of driving trucks, but surely as Gaza is so small any of the trucks going in could run around Gaza day in and day out for probably a week or so on the full tank it would enter with before requiring any fuel. So the argument about distribution of aid is utter bollocks. The Gazans or whatever will be able to receive the aid sent. As for the rest i.e. power, as with everything else, ITS NOT OUR PROBLEM!!!
PS. Without BiasedBBC I would probably think I was going mad with the constant stream of negativity against the west and us “Whiteys” being paraded on this country’s so called unbiased media. I thank each and every one of my BiasedBBC brethren! I’m not going mad. Our once great nation is!
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“Hamas publishes names of 7,000 people it says have been killed in Gaza”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-67223217
How many Muhammads, allowing for various spellings, I’ll guess 1,500.
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The Mo the merrier.
https://x.com/daveatherton20/status/1717598051630530755?s=61
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Ban Mecca to save lives … On 24 September 2015, a crowd crush resulted in the death of more than 2,000 individuals, many of whom were suffocated or crushed, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mina, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, making it the deadliest Hajj disaster in history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Mina_stampede
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https://x.com/owenjones84/status/1717594039170519189?s=61
“Is Labour institutionally Islamophobic? I think so.
For too long, many Muslim members and voters have felt they are treated as voting fodder.”
A damning indictment from this brilliant member of Labour’s National Executive Committee.
https://x.com/thenewsagents/status/1717571795128049879?s=61
“If Keir Starmer gets it wrong, will there be resignations?”
“Anything’s possible but I don’t see at the moment…”
Labour MP @khalid4PB assesses his colleagues potentially stepping down if they disagree with their leader on Israel.
Theo Hopkins asks: “What, exactly, is a Muslim MP?”
Well, Theo, the likely future of a U.K. caliphate at this rate.
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There’s a shadow something called Queshi who asked a PMQ calling on a cease fire – I understand she should either resign or be fired under some ‘convention ‘ those clowns have – but starmer has not done anything –
I reckon when – hopefully – the IDF really get going quite a few Labour Muslims will have to form their own party if the red labour lot still pretend to support Israel …
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Is it possible that every single person in Gaza has a foreign nationality.
Maybe everyone has been on the asylum seeker passport run, and the whole population is just back there on an extended holiday?
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Bradford is UK City of Culture 2025.
Bradford has been revealed as the winner of the hotly contested UK City of Culture 2025 competition.
https://bradford2025.co.uk/
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Oh no VERIFY is back on the Gaza hospital car park bomb case.
For goodness sake BBC, just take the L, stop digging.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67216929
“Notable lack of weapon fragments so far”
“Pictures taken in the immediate aftermath show Hamas-led security forces on the scene,” .
“Former UN war crimes investigator Marc Garlasco tweeted: “In 20 years of investigating war crimes this is the first time I haven’t seen any weapon remnants. And I’ve worked three wars in Gaza.”
BBC conclusion: none.
Anyone else: looks like a clean up operation – so a Palestinian rocket.
Etc etc endless experts quoted, BBC’S 60 man squad still no nearer to cracking the case.
At least they stopped parroting the 500 hundred or hundreds dead lines..
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Eddy – Mariana is the go to expert in verify / lie on ordnance and bomb scene examination …. She and meesh are on the plane going there right now ….
I haven’t heard the crap bbc reporter who first told the world the Israelis did it – I wonder if they’ve sent him to the 4am slot on the world service – even though he speak ingleese innit ?
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This chap is to the Hamas cause what Maxi is to the BBC’s…
https://x.com/wolsned/status/1717535013715988754?s=61
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“This is the Qassam steel rocket system used by Hamas / Palestine against Israel, it is effectively just a firework made from steel piping. They are about 50 – 90 kgs in weight, and are approx. 2 meters tall.
The fuel they use is a mixture of sugar, and potassium nitrate (fertiliser), it burns for between 5 – 15 seconds, after that gravity does the work.
These rockets have no navigation, GPS, or any other means of finding a target. They are pointed in the direction of large settler communities, towns, and cities. It is a fire and hope strategy, launched from angled steel frames (pictured).
The warhead consists of 10 kg of explosive with a back chamber (behind warhead) full of ball bearings. They have conical spring detonators in the nose piece, which detonates the explosives on impact.
They are indiscriminate weapons that have very limited capacity for structural damage to buildings, most injuries or (rarely) deaths are caused by shrapnel. Most Qassam rockets never hit a target, and up to 10% of them misfire.
These rockets pose very little risk to Israel or its inhabitants, and most are shot down by Iron Dome.
Israel are using the latest most destructive technology man has ever made, all delivered by unassailable combat aircraft.”
The fuel they use is a mixture of sugar, and potassium nitrate (fertiliser), it burns for between 5 – 15 seconds, after that gravity does the work.
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Anti-Semitic “Harm” from the BBC and OFCOM
(1) The Board of Deputies lodged a complaint with the communications regulator, Ofcom, over the BBC’s failure to call Hamas a terrorist group
(2) BBC refuses to sack BBC staff who described the Hamas mass murder as a “morning of hope”. The BBC puts them on temporary suspension on full pay while the BBC tries to decide whether calling the mass murder, a “morning of hope” constitutes bias.
(3) OFCOM does not regard anti-Semitism at the BBC as “Harm” but attacks GB News for “Harm” in allowing Jews to complain about “Mass Murder” by Pfizer.
(4) Ofcom’s online safety supervision director has been temporarily suspended on full pay after anti-Semitic comments were posted on her private Instagram account. Ofcom is investigating its online safety supervision director to see if she caused “Harm” or not.
Holocaust and terrorist denial by the BBC and OFCOM is legal but harmful.
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On 2) BBC or AlJazz hands?
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Shocking really shocking how bad the Biden maladministration is.
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Let us all stop funding UK terrorism!
It would seem Khalid Masood (Westminster Attack 22.03.2017 5 Innocents Killed) was on benefits which comes out of National Insurance payments by the workers of the UK. Thus, it would seem prior to these findings the workers in the UK were unknowingly funding terrorism.
But now we know terrorists operate using welfare benefits it would seem we are knowingly paying terrorists.
Can I suggest that the Government please make sure NI payments by UK workers don’t go into the hands of terrorists by removing the terrorists in the first place. Can you also calculate how much we have/are funded terrorism via welfare benefits by simply getting all known terrorists (left,right,islamic) arrested to-date and those on the watch list and check welfare payments made to them or their immediate family (under various names possibly).
Another example is where imams preaching intolerance such as Anjem Choudary (preached hate 1999-2016) to his hundreds of worshippers (5 times a day, everyday), can all imams be checked if they are on welfare benefits, paid by UK workers, and these payments be stopped immediately. It is the community that needs to fund the imams if they want religious teachings, similar to how the Church of England was funded with donations in the past.
. . . .
The father-of-four (Anjem Choudary preaching hate 1999-2016) takes home more than £25,000 a year in benefits and lives in a £320,000 house in Leytonstone
. . .
“…and don’t you worry. It’s coming to a place near you…we cannot have state subsidized preachers…give it up or give it to your deadliest enemy and pay for the rope that will choke you.“
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/10/19/weekend-open-thread-20-october-2018/#comment-947909
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Sickening … not ready for Life of Mohammed by Monty Python?
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https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/375000-listeners-switch-off-bbc-radio-4-today-programme/
“AS REPORTED in the Telegraph today, ‘BBC Radio 4 has lost hundreds of thousands of listeners amid a slump in the Today programme audience’. ”
I’m sorry if someone has covered this subject earlier. I didn’t see the Telegraph.
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BBC to increase BBC fee.
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Not in my gaff…
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Shit!
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Nor mine.
We’re BBC free for over 5 years.
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A brave new world is needed – Laurence Fox
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The father-of-four (Anjem Choudary preaching hate 1999-2016) takes home more than £25,000 a year in benefits and lives in a £320,000 house in Leytonstone
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279972/Anjem-Choudary-Hate-preacher-pocketing-25-000-year-benefits-calls-fanatics-live-state.html
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Did I hear this correctly, Conservative MP, Crispin Blunt, has been arrested for rape and released on bail? FFS, they’re falling apart…
To make matters worse, this bloke is my MP. We had quite a lengthy and cordial correspondence during lockdown, with me trying to persuade him to oppose our imprisonment. That worked out well…
I’ve never seen him locally and the only time he has put his head above the parapet was when a fellow Conservative (a Muslim) was convicted and imprisoned for molesting a schoolboy. Crispin was incensed and complained of a miscarriage of justice and Islamophobia. Where have I heard that before?
With this present case, due to Quentin’s particular predilections, I’m guessing the complainant must be a bloke.
Blimey…
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Crispin Blunt …
Name of donor: Avia Plc
Address of donor: St Helenâs, 1 Undershaft, London EC3P 3DQ
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Two tickets with food and drink for a Sam Smith Concert at the O2, value £1,512
Date received: 19 April 2023
Date accepted: 19 April 2023
Donor status: company, registration 2468686
(Registered 28 April 2023)
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=10051
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Name of donor: (1) Awan Marketing plc. (2) Lords and Commons Cricket APPG
Address of donor: (1) Khyber Building Heaton Street, Hockley, Birmingham B18 5BB. (2) House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): (1) Partial contribution towards flight and accommodation, value £370.38. (2) Partial contribution towards flight and accommodation, value £365.74
Destination of visit: Corfu, Greece
Dates of visit: 20-25 April 2023
Purpose of visit: Lords and Commons Cricket delegation to participate in tournament alongside the British Army, Lords Taverners charity, Brigade of Gurkhas and the Royal Household to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of cricket in Greece at the invitation of the Hellenic Cricket Association.
(Registered 27 April 2023)
10 March 2022, received £100 for a survey completed on 18 January 2022. Hours: 30 mins. (Registered 29 November 2022)
24 June 2022, received £70 for a survey completed on 12 May 2022. Hours: 10 mins. (Registered 29 November 2022)
30 August 2022, received £90 for a survey completed on 13 June 2022. Hours: 20 mins. (Registered 29 November 2022)
Payment of £150 expected for a survey completed on 17 November 2022. Hours: 45 mins. (Registered 29 November 2022)
Payment of £150 expected for a survey completed on 20 December 2022. Hours: 40 mins. (Registered 21 December 2022)
2-25 May 2002, to Israel and the Occupied Territories, to meet Palestinian and Israeli political leaders and policy makers. Travel and accommodation provided by Conservative Middle East Council. (Registered 10 June 2002)
6-24 August 2002, payment received to cover the cost of a holiday in France and Spain for myself and my immediate family from WENA Hotels Limited. (Registered 16 October 2002)
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Who is Sam Smith?
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Started by Paul Campaigns
“After a 44-year broadcasting career, Steve Allen, the legendary plain-speaking London early breakfast talk radio host, has suddenly left LBC, his contract cancelled with immediate effect.
Although LBC claims his contract was nearly over, and that he has left the station “following discussions” – and Allen says the same publicly – the fact is that the much-loved broadcaster disappeared from LBC’s schedules after refusing to call singer Sam Smith ‘they’ instead of ‘him’.
Tells you everything you need to know, Lucy!
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Changes to the Register of Members’ Interests Crispin Blunt
20 September-1 October 2004, to India with the Conservative Parliamentary Friends of India, visiting Delhi, Kerala, Bangalore and Hyderabad to be briefed on political and economic developments in India with particular reference to the information technology and life science sectors. Travel and accommodation expenses met by the Government of India. (Registered 21 October 2004)
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=10051
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You missed out the ‘possession of controlled substances ‘…
Maybe he and Peter bone will get together and form a band – innocent or not – the blue Labour Party is gonna end and maybe Reform will do better than I think …
.. decent chap Blunt – MCC – army – decent chap ..-or scoundrel …
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I’ll admit I voted for him at the last election, on the advice of Nigel. Crispin is a devout Brexiteer and NF wanted as many of those in parliament to get the darned thing done.
However, there are some (perhaps) rather dubious things about him.
I couldn’t give two hoots about his sexual preferences, but he had been married for over two decades and fathered a couple of children, when he “came out.” That’s a bloody long time to be playing for the wrong team…
I also recall that a few years ago he was promoting the use of “poppers” I think they’re called. For the uninitiated these are used by gay chaps to…um, well…I don’t really want to go into that.
It all seemed a bit sordid.
Still, each to his own and innocent until proven guilty…
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Jeff,
“I couldn’t give two hoots about his sexual preferences”
Meanwhile:
“the wrong team” – “um, well…” – “a bit sordid.”
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“The wrong team” obviously, means that up until well into middle-age he had been living the life, one would imagine, of a heterosexual. Most of us know “which side we’re on” by adolescence…often earlier…Don’t you agree?
And can you really deny that the use of “poppers” suggests anything other than a sordid life choice?
However, let he who is without sin…
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@26:00 “In an address to the nation about the looming ground invasion into Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu evoked images of light and dark, promising to save the nation from Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas, which attacked Israel on October 7. “We are the people of light, they are the people of darkness—and light shall triumph over darkness,” Netanyahu said, according to a translation from i24NEWS in Israel. “Our war against Hamas is a test for all of humanity it is a struggle between the axis of evil of Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas, and the axis of freedom and progress.” The comments evoked a controversial tweet that his office posted and then deleted on X, or Twitter, last week after a deadly blast hit a hospital in Gaza. Netanyahu went on: “It is now a time to come together for one purpose to storm ahead to achieve victory in joint with joint forces and a profound belief in justice, a profound belief in the eternity of the Jewish people. We shall realize the prophecy of Isaiah,” he said.”
https://news.yahoo.com/netanyahu-evokes-religious-prophecy-israel-204832151.html?guccounter=1
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The Hamas-Mossad Partnership
https://tapnewswire.com/2023/10/the-dagan-plan/
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Leader of the Free UK … Boris Johnson praises Peppa Pig in bizarre CBI speech
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Another ADHD nut nut
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Rishi to tell his fellow indians to ban the caste system? Why not? Gay marriage and free citizens ….
“Manual scavenging is banned in India but the practice is still commonplace, with people forced into it because of rigid caste rules and the lack of other livelihood options. They are hired by local corporations and even private contractors to clean sewers and drains that are blocked because of mud and plastic.
Successive federal governments, including the current one, have missed several deadlines to declare India free of manual scavenging, most recently in August this year.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-67191131
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Ben Wallace – who was defence minister in the outgoing regime writes in the DT about how plod is now a ‘soft touch ‘ for pressure groups …..
But I seem to recall Wallace was a cabinet minister in a regime ( not government ) which used to have 80 majority – but writes as though he has no power at all – too late Wallace …. And you resigned and let a loop replace you ( grant shapps ) God help us …
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Ben Wallace said Theresa May would be a great NATO leader – ha ha ha ha ha ha !
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I saw a headline tonight -‘ Hamas goes to Moscow ‘
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Pretty much what Douglas MacGregor has warned would happen…..
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Y’know what, these two short posts remind me of two items in the news, and singing this second verse from the famous song around the school piano…
“Boney went to Moscow, away-ay-ya.
Across the Alps, across the snow, Jean Francois.
Moscow was a-blazing, away-ay-ya.
Boney was a-raging, Jean Francois.”
(Scrobs, time for your Bengers dear…)
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Debbie does Dallas – Hamas edition – it will blow you mind and your ….
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“Hamas goes to Moscow”. Sounds like a CBBC programme
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I’ve just seen a report that Care4Calais has launched a legal challenge against the Government for ‘unlawful segregation’ of asylum seekers.
Lunatics.
I suspect the government won’t put up much of a fight and they will continue working for the benefit of every foriegn national they can gather.
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Care4Calais?
I’m sure there’s some mistake, Carrefour is already in Calais! We used to go there for all their cheap booze some years ago!
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https://x.com/nytimes/status/1717793272951701768?s=61
Denmark is using demolition and relocation to remake neighborhoods, effectively mandating integration in certain low-income areas where many “non-Western” immigrants live.
U.K. is using the RNLI.
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Love him or hate him, Piers Morgan just gave a sympathetic hearing to the son of one of Hamas’ founders, who vehemently berated the psychotic genocidal terrorist organisation.
I wonder if he’ll be invited to one of the plush BBC sofas to share his views.
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Liove him or hate him, he’s back, Maxincomy
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Maxi falls out of his Petrie dish every now and again.
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Vogue editor Edward Enninful named UK’s most powerful black person
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67229513
a) Who ?.
b) Who cares ?.
I love these articles because they lay bare the sheer hypocrisy and double-standards of the Left.
Imagine how racist any kind grouping which is only open to white people would be labelled by the activists at the BBC.
Instead we get this:
‘Powerful Media’s annual list celebrates people of African, African Caribbean and African American heritage.’
Dear BBC : ‘Powerful Media’ IS RACIST. Just like Getty.
An interesting browse is the list of sponsors at the end. It’s 100% the usual suspects – I’m only disappointed the BBC isn’t on the list. I presume they aren’t allowed to because it’s right up their street.
Brought to you by : (drumroll please)
The standard face of the ‘new’ BBC reporter. No words necessary.
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Mum and dad so proud .
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“‘Powerful Media’s annual list celebrates people of African, African Caribbean and African American heritage.’” – watched a France 24 news report where a tribes man in Africa cut a goats stomach to determine what the future holds in 2023.
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BBC gleeful about the passing of the online censoring act – no doubt the dad of a 14 year old girl who watched too much internet and killed herself will want even more ‘regulation ‘ by the State . Useful to have someone wanting grief fueled revenge…
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Once person from the Leftist activist’s selected group of ‘victims’ (where the attacker/abuser is ALWAYS white) and we get protests, vigils, speeches in Parliament and demands from the BBC that the law is changed to ensure it cannot happen again. No matter what the inconvenience or the cost to society or how isolated the original incident is.
Meanwhile BAME teenagers can butcher each other freely on the streets, rape girls and women, murder OAP’s who have just been to the cashpoint outside their free asylum hotel, burn their family members alive and batter women to death in a manner at least as bad as their white counterparts and the whole subject is very quickly dropped with no demands for anything.
This is the racist and sexist discrimination we have to live under today.
It’s got so ridiculous, the extreme Lefties such as maxi are now conditioned to think we are racists for even talking about it.
How do we rid ourselves of this cancer destroying our society from within ?.
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Meanwhile what the BBC DON’T want you to know:
Horror week across London with one dead after TEN stabbings
https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/23876011.horror-week-across-london-one-dead-ten-stabbings/
Picked one at random to check the details:
2 people stabbed in Prince Regent Lane.
Can’t find any details of the victims. This is a picture of the neighbourhood so I think we can safely imagine what they looked like:
It had a video of a group of males, one of whome was carrying a knife. Amazingly the video has been removed.
The BBC report is – as usual – very brief and basic facts only.
We are living under agenda-based censorship on a massive scale. We genuinely are walking towards a dystopian world and this is how it happens. Gradual and increasing control of what we are allowed to know. This latest protection bill overseen by OFCOM is another step along the way. You can be sure it will be abused by the Left who have tried this kind of things many times throughout history. Always with the eventual same result : mass murder of those who do not conform.
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At least plod will adopt a full on policy of not stopping coloured folk unless they want to be fired – it coloured folk kill other coloured folk – well – that’s vibrancy ….
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From the DT – a piece about the use of language by the BBC – spoof versions are welcome
STARTS
The BBC has pledged to attribute claims more clearly after accusations of bias in its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.
The broadcaster has been criticised for its coverage of the conflict, including its refusal to brand Hamas terrorists and its reporting of the explosion at the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza.
Executives said some changes would be made to “increase clarity and accuracy”.
Deborah Turness, head of BBC News and Current Affairs, told staff in an open message: “We are putting in place some additional safeguards around how we attribute and describe sources and information in our coverage of this war.”
The executive explained that the attribution of claims will be altered, with the person or party making the claims now coming before the claim itself, so “instead of ‘Hundreds killed, X claims’, we will start ‘X claims hundreds killed’.”
Ms Turness restated the BBC’s position that parties are not to be called terrorists without attribution, and said that the BBC had not banned the use of the word “militant”, but would no longer use it as the default when referring to Hamas.
Civilian deaths reporting to change
Another key change will be how the BBC reports on civilian deaths in future, in an effort to avoid being accused of bias from either side in the conflict.
Ms Turness wrote: “We also need to think carefully about how we talk about civilian deaths, and how the language we use may, unintentionally, give the impression we view some deaths as more important than others or treat people on either side differently.
“A tweet which said people ‘died’ in Gaza and ‘were killed’ in Israel has been widely used as an example of this. It’s important that we all think carefully about the language we use to avoid creating a false impression.”
The tweaks to the broadcaster’s style come after criticism of its Editorial Guidelines, which prevent journalists from branding Hamas terrorists.
The BBC and other broadcasters’ use of words like “militant” in place of “terrorist” has drawn criticism from figures including the Chief Rabbi and the Prime Minister.ENDS
ps – try not to say
‘Hamas freedom fights ‘
‘Evil Jews / Israel ‘
‘Only a few Jews died ‘
‘Carpet bombing
‘Israel did it ‘
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Monty Python BBC Ident
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Two things
If you have the misfortune to be one of the dwindling numbers listening to ‘today ‘ – how often the bbc interviews advisors to the former / current president – Obama ….? It’s as though Biden is a glove puppet and the BBC show it ….
Next
Mail online shows an evil looking Islamic Hamas spokesman walking out on a BBC interview . Perhaps the BBC is realising it is close to the edge of ‘something must be done ‘ to kerb its enthusiasm for Hamas freedom fighters – but from the river to the sea – right BBC ?
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It would seem Khalid Masood (Westminster Attack 22.03.2017 5 Innocents Killed) was on benefits which comes out of National Insurance payments by the workers of the UK. Thus, it would seem prior to these findings the workers in the UK were unknowingly funding terrorism.
But now we know terrorists operate using welfare benefits it would seem we are knowingly paying terrorists.
Can I suggest that the Government please make sure NI payments by UK workers don’t go into the hands of terrorists by removing the terrorists in the first place.
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2023 … Revealed: the Hamas chief who lives in a London council house
Fugitive who ‘ran the group’s terrorist operations in the West Bank’ was given a British passport and has recently bought a home with £112,000 discount
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hamas-chief-lives-london-council-house-uk-phnpsssx5
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The Tory government is presiding over the mass invasion and destruction of Great Britain.
The survival of our nation will depend on a new government run by the Reform party and or UKIP with a new Home Office that will put the people of the UK first.
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Palestinians practice FGM and pressure young girls into marriage when young.
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NHS can fix FGM Free on the NHS and when you say marriage you mean liberation from pedophiles?
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ALL CULTURES ARE EQUAL! BBC FACT VERIFIED.
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“🇺🇸🚨‼️ Biden wants to build a railroad through the Middle East. ”
Guess he’s competing against Xi Jingping now with the Belt and Roads projects – colonialization.
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Gotta feel sorry for the old boy …. 4 more years
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I think even Obama will realise now Joe won’t be able to manage another 4 years. He now needs drugs to function anything like a human being and as we saw recently, when he comes down he barely even knows where he is.
I went looking for the BBC report where they most definitely said ‘Some scientists consider President Joe Biden to be a superager’. I was so shocked, I made a comment here. Now I cannot find it anywhere. I’m pretty sure it was in this:
Study offers clues to super-agers’ brilliant brains
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-63081924
Another BBC stealth edit to remove their agenda-based lies once a story is spent ?.
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Simpo pontificates. Again. Not in the Graun.
https://x.com/newstatesman/status/1717799285427691611?s=61
Some newspapers and politicians have a vested interest in doing down the BBC.
There is nothing new or surprising in any of this, but it’s strange that few people seem to remember how often it has happened in the past, writes @JohnSimpsonNews.
What is strange is the pompous fool’s minders have not been able to stow it.
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“but it’s strange that few people seem to remember how often it has happened in the past”
Is Gary Lineker’s New Twitter Profile Picture A Subtle Message To The BBC?
The Match of the Day star has included a quotation that’s inscribed next to a George Orwell statute outside the corporation’s HQ.
Graeme Demianyk
By
Graeme Demianyk
15/03/2023 02:20am GMT
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It’s irony in the extreme that the BBC are one of the main Leftist agents trying to make Orwells ‘1984’ come true.
They are the exact opposite of that slogan. They are masters of NOT telling people things they SHOULD hear.
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The irony of it being behind a paywall in an unread organ beyond riding on the coattails of pygmies like Toenails (yawn) and Gaz is also not lost.
The silly old duffer also trots out the pathetic ‘both sides’ attempt.
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Meanwhile, editorially substandard wise…
https://x.com/gbnews/status/1717805810343186734?s=61
BBC admits ‘biased’ Newsnight attack on GB News DID breach editorial standards
Maybe Carl Beech could replace Kirsty?
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From Middle East Brits (Middle Eastenders?) to Eastenders edition
You join us on a morning when the Rishi lackey loyalist Daily Express targets our remnant Tory voter base, that still yet might perhaps be bothered to come out to vote blue – but then again they might forget: Demetia cases to rise.. but new drugs offer hope
The Times goes there too: Demetia cases to double by 2040…
Speaking of nations with serious concerns over senile dementia: The relaunching of Kamala Harris (FT) – Unlike her boss, I’m not saying the Veep is senile – she’s just bonkers
Don’t fret so, Rishi. You’re not the only CEO to have had a dud year (on his CV our Rishi likes to term his area of district managerial responsibilty the UK ‘economic zone’) – according to the FT: Twitter’s chaotic year under Elon Musk
Sunak turns MPs’ focus on crime and energy prices… at the heart of his final legislative King’s Speech, along with ideas for a football regulator, as he passes what may be the halfway point in his premiership (FT)
Let’s parse that little Briefing item from the FT.
Top Tory arrested over rape and drug allegation (Mirror)
Well, certain MPs’ focus will certainly be on crime. And, as for energy prices (can we really legislate for those?) …
MPs claimed £1m in six years to heat their second homes (Open Democracy); Why we fund certain utility bills… IPSA pays utility bills for the accommodation of non-London MPs when they stay away from home, and for their constituency offices. (Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority)
And speaking of plausible deniability, fake independence and unaccountablity to the voters… from the people who brought you Ofcom, Ofgen and the like… ideas for a football regulator… What’s not to love about yet another bloody Quango busy setting policy and acting as a law unto itself – basically doing MPs’ jobs for them without all that bother of voter accountability?
Now a brief interlude I like to call Dog With A Bone…
Thousands of banned dogs living at home with owners (BBC) – no, not that story… this one…
Ex-PM Truss wanted stranded migrants brought to UK (BBC) – take that you xenophobic Thatcherite Ci-devants* – don’t you see, your would-be Joan of Arc was just another bleeding heart lefty: The request was made in an email sent on behalf of Ms Truss to the prime minister’s office when she was serving as foreign secretary in March 2022… The redacted email was released to the BBC by the Supreme Court of British Indian Ocean Territory this week after being opposed by the government. (BBC)
[* In post-Revolutionary France, ci-devant nobility were those nobles who refused to be reconstituted into the new social order or to accept any of the political, cultural, or social changes brought about in France by the French Revolution] (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) – for post-Revolutionary France read post-Blairite Britain
Bid to rescue 200 Britons from Gaza (Daily Mail) – really? I mean, really?
It’s at the stage now that one assumes when Nasa finally send a manned mission to planet Mars and make contact with some strange alien lifeforms up there – I’m guessing we’ll discover a few hundred of them have somehow or other gotten ahold of UK passports – and then demand we pay for the journey to bring them all back home.
200 Britons trapped in Gaza plead for help… Sunak promises to do ‘everything we can’ as Border Force sends officials to Egypt (the formerly patriotic Times) – well, while they’re out there the Egyptian border authorities could certainly teach our lot a thing or two about how to secure a border.
Warning of growing ‘chasm’ between benefits and pensions – frets the left-leaning ‘i’ newspaper
One likes to note the funny little juxtapositions that crop up in our media. On a morning when we are assailed with reports of dementia and the Mail (poppies now in bloom on their masthead) goes with: How fashion finally fell in love with the MUCH older woman – we can’t let this review pass by without noting these frontpage prime ad spots: Standard Life… Spend your retirement getting paid regularly (‘i’); Scottish Widows… It pays to know your pension today (giveaway Metro)
Half of all print and online news subscribers are over 55, survey shows (Press Gazette, future of media)
Who doesn’t enjoy a witty come back? No, I don’t refer to: Smoking: Prof Sir Chris Whitty backs tobacco phase-out plan (BBC)
I mean a pithy rejoinder. For example…
End of the world is A.I. Big problem: PM gives speech on AI risk yesterday… PM’s stark warning for humanity… (freebie Metro); One year to avoid catastrophe ahead of next-gen AI (‘i’) – so what are we supposed to do about it? Flatten the AI curve?
For the witty come back cue the jokey, blokey Daily Star chanelling Bianca from Eastenders and her catchphrase repeated screech of Rickaaay!: Rishaaai! ‘Don’t fret over AI’
Gotta love the use of the term fret.
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The ‘independent ‘ ( it’s not) report on the conduct of Nat West Bank and the closure of the Nigel Farage account –
– our Justin interviews Nigel
No contest – mr farage is such a formidable speaker -Justin just had to let him roll out his case and the political decisions of the vermin in nat west ….
The good news is that mr farage won’t let this go …..
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So when Labour pols and Owen Jones and the BBC cite what the public thinks….
https://x.com/daveatherton20/status/1717452943270531491?s=61
New opinion poll.
“Foreign nationals who glorify Islamist terrorism should be expelled from Britain”
All British adults:
Agree 74%
Disagree 4%
Conservatives 92% “agree”
Labour 70% “agree”
People Polling/GBN
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Does Bradford city of culture agree?
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Poll from 2017 …. you have to ask the right question to the right people at the right time with the right words….
So much contradiction between data … who to believe?
….As one survey revealed (no reference given), 83% of Muslims said they were proud to be British, compared to 79% of Britons overall. {by Baroness Warsi – jan2013 }
Proud to be British – but what is British? Is being British having freedom to draw cartoons …
“ Channel 4 poll from last year (2015), found that only 1% of UK Muslims think that publications should have the right to publish the cartoons of Mohammed.” {by Douglas Murray}
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/09/24/start-the-week-open-thread-143/#comment-868977
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Here’s one for the reference library.
Article in the D Mail.
An actor called Noel Clarke is suing the Guardian for articles alleging his sexual misconduct, but put the subject matter aside.
According to the Mail, Clarke’s barrister, one Mr Speker, said in written submission, I quote ‘this trial by media, conducted by the most- read newspaper for people in the film and entertainment industry………’
Of course we all know that the Guardian is the BBC’s house newspaper and that one feeds the other. But it’s always good to record when what we know is validated in a Court of Law.
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Allow me to repeat in terms a post which I fear was filed in the wrong place last night.
And to be fair, not BBC.
On ITV news last night.
In Londonistan, Tower Hamlets, 44 Palestinian flags were put up on lampposts along a main road. It was done in a concerted way, using a cherry picker or the like. The council and/or TfL did later remove them. A vox pop of local people, none of English descent nor good English speakers (why are they living here at all ???), felt the flags should have been left there.
The very next item. A ‘British’ ( hahaha) woman has been found guilty of allowing her daughter to be sent to Kenya to undergo female circumcision.
This, dear reader, is to where spineless woke politicians have led us in England 2023.
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I do wonder what happened to the chap called ‘Russel brand ‘ who occupied the ‘devil incarnate ‘ spot for a couple of weeks?
No arrest ? No charge ..Yet ?
I don’t know who this kidult is but paid attention when a blue labour cabinet minister started going at him on commons notepaper – right Mrs Dinage ? – how’s 77 brigade and Hubbie? ( note file ‘monitors )
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ah yes, the loyal army wifey
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All Russell Brand content still on BBC site …
https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=russell+brand&seqId=80acb000-74a9-11ee-86cc-e10248b92ff0&d=HOMEPAGE_PS
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qpbs
Who Knew About Brand?
Newsnight
Following allegations of sexual assault against comedian Russell Brand, spanning several years, what questions are there for the wider industry? With Kirsty Wark.
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Islamic Jews?
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Lies Doucet, our man in Israel, with a face for radio and a voice for silent movies.
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Deploy the Huw – deploy that Irish undertaker bloke – Fergal – deploy meesh ( with counsellor ) …
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Another bumper year for Herman Miller office furniture salesmen?
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Surely 95% of budget spent on 20 mph signs. …?
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Turdeau is just the pits….
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UK ….
When Rishi Sunak introduced the scheme last year as Chancellor, it was envisaged that the grants would be quickly taken up, helping to boost the industry and so help to reduce prices. There was enough money in the £450 million pot for 90,000 installations. Yet as of August only 23,000 applications had been received. Hence the government is increasing the size of the grants in order to shovel money out of the door more quickly.
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Electric Porsches being handed back in volumes that have Stuttgart marketeers in panic mode?
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Gary could buy two!
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‘Oh!! FFS’
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Om You Tube The MacMaster is always mocking his own Porsche Electric Taycan
Right now he’s doing a to Lands End challenge vs Goff Buys Cars
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