435 Responses to Start the Week 30th October 2023

  1. digg says:

    The colour diversity madness is the gift that keeps on giving… to the BBC anyway.

    Racing driver diversity whinge….

    “F1 Mexico Grand Prix: Young drivers say high costs are affecting diversity”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-67102066

    “Dhian Singh Pahal’s competing against “multi-millionaires” despite only being nine”

    Takeaway…. if you are a POC you won’t get the same chances to be top of the motor racing heap.

    It is a certain fact that there must be shitloads of poorer white kids who cannot afford to become Motor Racing Stars and would love the chance but hey! It seems that this phenomenon only affects non-white kids judging by the tone and presentation of this BBC warped non-story.

    Lewis Hamilton anyone?

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  2. Terminal Moraine says:

    Horrific ice hockey game at the weekend where a 29yr old was killed on the ice. (The video is on social media but I don’t recommend watching it.)

    BBC now report: “Adam Johnson’s neck was cut by a skate during a game on Saturday against the Sheffield Steelers.” It’s another of those agency-less incidents, like when cars mow down people at bus stops. Three articles from the BBC — not one of them mentions that the skate was attached to the high kicking leg of Matt Petgrave; preferring to call it a ‘freak accident’ and leaving the reader clueless as to how Johnson died.

    The Sheffield Star a year ago wrote an article ‘Not everyone appears to be a fan of Sheffield Steelers star Matt Petgrave’… “He has been booted out of two out of the last four games, for abuse of officials (against Coventry Blaze) and alleged spearing (Manchester Storm)”. A former coach of Petgrave says “Are there times when he needs to tone it down? Yeah, maybe. But sometimes what makes players great is that edge they play with.”

    You can probably guess the racial makeup of both Petgrave and the dead player, and why the BBC might be keen to hide so much contextual info.

    https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/ice-hockey/not-everyone-appears-to-be-a-fan-of-sheffield-steelers-star-matt-petgrave-3878459

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-67261168

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    • StewGreen says:

      Wow,
      The Canadian guy Pettgrave does look mixed race to me, not black.

      “Congolese, Senegal, my mum is from the States, my Dad is Jamaican.”
      “Also on my Dad’s side I have Scottish, German, French – there is a little bit of Austrian in there!

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  3. tomo says:

    You knew he would eh?

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    • Kaiser says:

      and treat a few injured jews whilst they are at it ??

      no didnt think so

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Wait till he goes to Africa .. ha ha ha ha ha

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      • BigBrotherCorporation says:

        There are too many Scottish people in Scotland, something needs to be done about it.

        But, wait, I see he’s working on that as we speak… sounds like plenty of enrichment on the way, shame they won’t STAY PUT in Scotland though, isn’t it?

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      • atlas_shrugged says:

        So the ‘cunning plan’ is to turn Scotland into Gaza II. Then the country will have achieved independence?

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    • Docmarooned says:

      Piss off you wee racist!

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      • Scroblene says:

        When I worked for a Scottish company, they were just passionate about making money and doing a great engineering job, and I learned so much from them way back then!

        To see a foreigner trying to dictate some sort of unusual, even peculiar, different gibberish to the sort of people I loved, sticks in my craw!

        Bugger off I say!

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  4. Lucy Pevensey says:

    I heard from someone in Israel who said that on the 7th of Oct, 40 Arab-Israelis where killed by Hamas during the attack. More may have been confirmed since then. One of them was a woman wearing a hijab who was shot at close range when she was in her car.

    An old woman (Jewish) was killed and the terrorists used her phone to post a picture of her dead body onto her facebook page. That was how her family learned about her murder.

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  5. MarkyMark says:

    Caleb Mwangi was beaten so severely at his school in Kenya after he took extra food at breakfast that he was put into an induced coma and spent 11 days in an intensive care unit.

    “When I got there, he couldn’t leave his bed. He couldn’t speak,” his father Fred Mwangi told the BBC.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-67229601
    …………………..

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  6. Eddy Booth says:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-67258466

    “What we know about footage showing tank firing on Salah al-Din road
    It shows a car driving towards the tank, before doing a three-point turn to drive away from it.”

    Maybe it shows a car turning, ready to fire a rocket-propelled grenade, maybe sourced in Ukraine, out of the back window, then driving off ..
    While the other car films the hit.
    Verify that BBC.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Je Susi Hamas! (c) BBC

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    • 1 of 8e9 says:

      Perhaps the BBC were there to act as forward observers as they did in the Falklands war? (broadcasting that Argentina’s bombs were falling short).

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      • Scroblene says:

        Oh yes, ! of 8e9!

        The awful Beeboids have blood on their hands for crass, under-researched and unreliable ‘reports’!

        I don’t think that they ever worried about being ‘counted back in’.

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  7. taffman says:

    COBRA meeting called today because of an accelerating terror threat?
    First step should be “stop the boats” and deport illegals pronto. Next get out of the ECHR pronto !
    Or there will be more, “Lessons to be learned” ?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Cabinet Office Briefing Room A – with biscuits and free wifi.

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      • Scroblene says:

        Taff, you’re lucky!

        Down here in Kent, we get the whole shebang of the illegals, and our council tax gets clobbered to pay for the bastards to live in luxury.

        But I seem to remember that Llanelli got a pasting with a local hotel putting them up for peanuts, (that means a squillion in government terms, they just print the money), so my good feelings for everyone Welsh go with you!

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        • taffman says:

          Scroblene
          I hear from that town that the taffs there are very annoyed . Someone is making a bundle of bucks out of the deal and it’s not them?

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  8. tomo says:

    The pride of Vienna!

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  9. tomo says:

    From the river to the sea

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    • tomo says:

      The M&S crowd … “useful idiots” doesn’t really capture the essence of it….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Far right?

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      I will never forget or forgive the most appalling bias on the bBC. A crazed raghead had just stabbed shop workers and customers in an M&S store in a Northern town. He was held at the entrance with his long white beard and wearing his nighty – that was clearly shown on the SUN video. But on the bBC video all they showed was the police vans, not the store name, not the arrested man. The bBC video showed everything that could not identify motive, race, identity, or religion. It was just another stabbing by one of those ‘persons’.

      The SUN has more ability to tell the truth than the bBC. We have come a long way.

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  10. TrickCyclist says:

    Maybe I shouldn’t make light of things but who remembers this joke from the mid 90s?

    A Palestinian travels to Glasgow where his father has just died. He’s directed to a funeral parlour where he finds his late Dad lying in a coffin wearing football boots and a full Rangers kit.
    “Why the #@*! hell have you dressed him like that?” shouts the son.
    “I’m sorry,” says the funeral director, “the hospital told us he said he wanted to be buried in the Gazza Strip.”

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  11. tomo says:

    Hey BBC lurkers

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  12. tomo says:

    enough for today

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  13. taffman says:

    Anyone seen maxincony ?

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      marxi is occupied right now. His team are a bit busy hacking off the heads of women, babies, and old ladies.

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  14. vlad says:

    One of President Trump’s first acts was to ban flights from those muslim countries housing large numbers of islamic terrorists.

    Naturally the BBC squealed in horror at the ‘islamophobia’.

    Now that our domestic muslims are invading our streets to aggressively support terrorism, attack the police and intimidate Jews, Trump’s actions don’t seem quite so outrageous after all.

    In fact, Trump got almost everything right, from domestic polices to international affairs; and if he were still in power, America and the West would be stronger; oil and gas would be cheaper; Russia, China, Iran and Hamas would be weaker, and the world would be a safer place.

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    • G.W.F. says:

      vlad

      Trump’s actions would appear even worse to the Trots in the BBC/SWP who seem to think that victory is within sight.

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    • BigBrotherCorporation says:

      I wonder if half of the issue with Trump was that he was (usually) right, they didn’t like that at all.

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Vlad

      Trump did the right thing but forgot to include two major countries who are major fast-breeders of terrorism: UK and Pakistan.

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  15. TrickCyclist says:

    It was mentioned on the weekend thread that these people had disappeared, well they’re back.
    Now when removed from the street they lie down on the ground, a tactic used by toddlers the world over when they can’t get their way.

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  16. tomo says:

    Uncomfortable but essentially much truth in there

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  17. s.trubble says:

    Anyone know of any sanctions imposed on the bBc following their intentional misreporting ( Donison)

    Surely it is reasonable to expect that the management chain above Donison should be suspended pending their replacement.

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  18. Flotsam says:

    The Estaiblishment facilitate immigration, asylum seekers entering entering the Country.

    The Government say they can’t do anything about it because of Our Courts, ECHR, EU, UN etc? Nonsense. The Government could enact emergency legislation tomorrow and see off all legal and Political challenges. They choose not to.

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Klaus, speaking from a hollowed out volcano near Davos in Switzerland, replies (whilst stroking a white cat):

      ‘Ve haf penetrated ze cabinet, Mr Bond. They vill do vot ve say. Isn’t it so, George, Bill und Henry, ja?”

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    • Lefty Wright says:

      Flotsam
      One has to wonder if our Government’s helplessness would still apply if our invaders were poor, white South Africans. Just saying.

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  19. Ian Rushlow says:

    The BBC continues to agitate report that ordinary folks are raising funds for two police officers who were summarily dismissed for mis-speaking when performing a rare stop and search of an athlete and her partner. Of course, nobody condones such actions by the police, but many suspect that the real reason for the harsh and disproptionate treatment of the officers is that the couple they stopped were members of a preferred group. Although the BBC are giving lots of publicity to the couple, they are failing to include a link to the fundraising initiative for the two officers. It’s clearly just an oversight, as the BBC often include links for certain causes, so here it is:

    https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/Clapham-Franks

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    • popeye says:

      “Bianca Williams: ‘I’m shocked by Met officer fundraiser'”

      And I’m shocked by the rioting and looting by BLM and a policeman going to prison because a black guy died of a fentanyl overdose.

      But the BBC condone the latter.

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  20. Guest Who says:

    Sometimes Twitter provides the perfect storm…

    https://x.com/owenjones84/status/1719019093477507245?s=61
    Paul Mason has been a dark but clichéd journey away from the left for a while now.
    But responding to a pogrom by castigating left-wing Jews is, frankly, a new low point.
    No-one on the left should have anything to do with this man, and the Starmerites can frankly have him.

    https://x.com/paulmasonnews/status/1718715521254719670?s=61
    So is this Dagestan pogrom a good pogrom or a bad one? Looking forward to Barnaby, Rivkah and their mates letting us know 👇🏽

    Starmerite?

    https://x.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1718972895743869160?s=12
    I am disgusted by images of an antisemitic mob in Dagestan.
    The global rise in antisemitism & Islamophobia is terrifying. Hatred does nothing to generate solidarity or bring about peace.
    We cannot lose our common humanity. In times of darkness, it’s all we have left.

    All the left have now is… nothing.

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    • vlad says:

      It would be naive to think the BBC was starting to see the light based on one or two tweets.
      In coming days and weeks, as the IDF intensifies operations in Gaza, images of dead and wounded will come pouring out, eagerly shared by the BBC in a frenzy of war porn. It will pivot public opinion against Israel and in favour of ‘those poor Palestinians’.

      Job done.

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  21. 1 of 8e9 says:

    ‘Party of Islam’ has bid to become new UK political party rejected (https://uk.news.yahoo.com/party-of-islam-application-electoral-commission-rejected-140549589.html)

    Something I doubt we’ll see reported on the BBC ?

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    • tomo says:

      heh, a bit too rich for the Electoral Commission even …. I wonder if some Qatari dosh would change their minds?

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      • Flotsam says:

        Although I have no love for Islam and its followers I think the refusal is the result of a bureaucratic bit of nonsense. My opinion is that anyone that wants to form a Political party and runs with it should be able to do so. Why should some bureaucratic quango decide who can have a Political party or not?

        After all there would have been considerable plus sides to allowing the “Party of Islam” to register. It would have divided the Labour vote, it would also have exposed Moslem ideas and ethics to full views. People would see what Islam in Britain would really mean.

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    • G.W.F. says:

      So this means that the Mohammedans will continue to run the Labour Party

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  22. andyjsnape says:

    Chris Kaba: Officer charged with murder to be named
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67259635

    Another reason why the Mets police officers will put down arms.

    bbc seems to think its a good idea to identify the officer who was only doing his job

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    • tomo says:

      murder did seem a reach … was the charge politically driven or a reaction to actual recorded events that can be used in evidence – we’ll have to wait for the trial…

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    • JohnC says:

      Makes a change from all those REAL murderers in Londonistan who are protected from being named because they are 14.

      An absolutely scandalous state for any society to be in – but the BBC don’t seem to be bothered about that at all. Black lives don’t matter to the Left one unless whitey killed them and they can used for the agenda.

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  23. JohnC says:

    Bianca Williams: ‘I’m shocked by Met officer fundraiser’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67261517

    This is the SECOND, identically themed story about this. The first was when the fundraiser reached £60K and now they have wheeled her back in to be shocked it has reached £130K.

    And of course the BBC retell us the whole story again. As they always do is cases like this. These articles are usually an excuse to ram the same agenda story down our throats again. They’ve run this one about half a dozen times now.

    I’m only surprised they haven’t brought George Floyd up again.

    Bianca says:
    “But they lied and there has to be a punishment – they lost their jobs for that.”

    Why do I get the distinct impression Bianca and her partner hate the police ?.

    Of course the BBC don’t go anywhere near what the people of Britain actually think. Instead she is playing the part of the victim of everything and the BBC are very happy to help her along. Meanwhile – once again – the BBC are on the wrong side of public opinion.

    ‘Ms Williams and her partner Mr dos Santos, a Portuguese Olympic sprinter, said they were racially profiled when they were searched outside their home in July 2020.’

    Considering the vastly disproportionate amount of crime black people commit in Londonistan, why shouldn’t a similar disproportionate number of people be searched because they are black ?.

    That’s not racist : it’s common sense.

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    • moggiemoo says:

      Common sense is racist. Along with maths.

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    • tomo says:

      You don’t need to be black…

      8 years ago iirc an acquaintance (white, Westcountryman with heavy accent) was fitted up by the Met for assaulting two belligerent drunken off duty coppers who actually randomly assaulted him on a sunny summer Sunday afternoon on a street in central London (without identifying themselves).

      It was only after nearly 8 months that a barrister and solicitor combo totally eviscerated the police case as a complete pack of lies (gits couldn’t make conflicting accounts/statements disappear and evidence disappeared) that the case was dropped.

      Nobody was sacked and from the accounts of the fracas related to me – they bloody well should’ve been…

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    • harry142857 says:

      How could the police originally know the occupants were black?

      Difficult to see chips on people’s shoulders when the car had tinted windows.

      Maybe things haven’t changed.

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    • Kaiser says:

      this is the one in the blacked out range rover driving erratically down the wrong side of the road , then the driver (admitted) started getting abusive

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  24. tomo says:

    There’s going to be an exodus isn’t there?

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    • tomo says:

      Trannie Welsh national rugby team would seal the deal.

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    • JohnC says:

      What happened to Wales ? – they are becoming our own ‘Canada’.

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    • Kaiser says:

      presumably drakeford has some way of keeping tranny rapists out of the news , whilst he institutes something he knows westminster will block.

      causing the spirit of Owain Glyndŵr to rise up in defence of penises in pantyhouse

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  25. Eddy Booth says:

    Netanyahu rules out a ceasefire

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-67258466

    “The Bible says ‘there is a time for peace, and a time for war’,” he continues, “this is a time for a war”.

    Like it. Israel isn’t playing around.
    Funny how there isn’t a similar appetite in calling for a NATO / Russia war ceasefire.

    Bibi continues:
    “A war for our common future. Today, we draw a line between the forces of civilisation and the forces of barbarism.”

    let’s draw that line in the English channel too!

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    • JohnC says:

      Israel once again showing the world how there is only one way to deal with terrorists.

      And the thousands of people who support the most horrific terrorist massacre in living memory taking to OUR streets to demand WE take action against Israel and their hate crimes on the victims of that terrorism who live here going up by 1,300% show the world how NOT to do it.

      We are getting what we deserve. And it’s not over yet.

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      • tomo says:

        Judging by what’s purportedly on the other side of Israel’s northern border it hasn’t really started?

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  26. atlas_shrugged says:

    Looks like another attack at Speakers Corner in Londonistan:

    https://gettr.com/post/p2tk28m65ec

    Good job that our Wet Police are arresting Christians for praying.

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    • JohnC says:

      Doesn’t say who did it thought the comments suggest it was a Muslim.

      Speakers corner is a symbol of what free-speech is all about. Any attack on someone speaking there should be flagged as an offence against everything the media should be standing for.

      Yet I can’t find any report of it on the BBC. Which makes it virtually certain it was another Muslim.

      The latest I found is this:
      Speakers’ Corner: Man admits Hyde Park gun attack plot
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-65646464

      From May this year. Obviously it was not on the front page for long. No mention whatsoever about the terrorist.

      Contrast with the headline from the Daily Mail:

      ‘Homegrown terrorist who converted to Islam in prison ‘plotted attack on the Queen’s funeral using an AK-47 and Mac-10 submachine gun to send a strong message’ but ran out of time to act, court hears’

      Another whopping lie by omission from the far-left BBC activist scum.

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  27. Eddy Booth says:

    “What happens after Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza?
    Frank Gardner”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-67258466
    17:08

    “But in the absence of a peace process progressing towards an eventual two-state solution and a future contiguous Palestinian state, it would be delusional to think that Gaza can simply be subdued with high explosive.”

    Spoiler alert Frank: Palestinians DON’T want a two state solution, they want all the land, with zero Israelies, which is the nub of the problem,

    161dec1a-fdb8-4427-80e2-420ed918ed89.jpg

    Why don’t the Palestinians clean that road?
    20 grown men stood around yapping.
    Those poor boys who’ve been out looting, or are moving house or whatever, can even ride the bicycle.

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    • JohnC says:

      What happens is that we will give them money to rebuild it. Tunnels and all.

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      • Sluff says:

        Perhaps the Muslim Council of Britain could put in a bid for all that soon-to-be redundant HS2 tunnelling equipment.

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  28. Sluff says:

    One week late, this afternoon I watched last week’s edition of University Challenge. Bear with me.

    One of the answers to a question was Bertrand Russell.
    Well known for many things.
    But crucially here, an avowed socialist, pacifist, and CND supporter.

    I mention this because Amol ‘Mumbler’ Rajan, the presenter and a BBC favourite, described Russell as ‘ my hero’.

    Not a crime in itself, one is allowed to have heroes.
    But a clear, shining, unambiguous example of the sort of views the BBC’s ‘impartial’ journalists have.

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  29. Up2snuff says:

    TWatO Watch #1 – another bashing of Bibi Netanyahu

    Not sure whether the hatred of Bibi Netanyahu by the Hard Left/Far Left BBC will bear any fruit but I would have thought that the Israeli PM was hardly likely to resign in the midst of a war of survival.

    Jonny Dymond was in charge of TWatO again, so the Montacutie is either off on another holiday or has picked up an illness from her time in Jerusalem. Jonny rolled out a former General in the IDF to bash Bibi with.

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  30. Dickie says:

    An American perspective on war and money:

    https://badlands.substack.com/p/war-pigs?action=restack-comment&r=yjbos

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    • tomo says:

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      • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

        You mean like the “largely peaceful” 2020 BLM protests (picture: raging fires in the background) ?

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  31. tomo says:

    Where’s the sign language picture in picture?

    Is this going to be a thing going forwards as Joe can’t be relied on?

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    • vlad says:

      Biden is a crook and a woke moron.
      He was both even before he got senile.

      Kamala is the exact opposite.
      She’s a woke moron and a crook.

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      • tomo says:

        Can you imagine the rehearsal? Mr President, just stand on the POTUS sticker and don’t say anything until the guy in the clown suit gives you the “thumbs up”

        Biden is a nasty moron who couldn’t give a f about woke, Harris can play nasty too esp when intoxicated with some power – all that smiling + cackling hides something deeply unpleasant – imho.

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      • Dickie says:

        Apparently Kamala likes to dab perfume behind her ears with her ankles – so I read.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      A vision for our future, a bankrupt America, poverty stricken filled with illegal migrants and no White people at all. The stock market closed down and only those in power with the money and security

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Democratic Debate: Kamala Harris Blasts Joe Biden Over Busing Stance | NBC New York

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      • tomo says:

        The best bit in the telly debates for me was Tulsi Gabbard giving the nasty witch a good verbal shoeing.

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  32. Dickie says:

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  33. Zelazek says:

    Nigel Farage talks ingratiatingly with Sheikh Ramzy, a supposedly moderate and peaceful Muslim who apparently doesn’t like what is being preached in British mosques. But for a man of peace, Sheikh Ramzy rants and raves like the best of them. Calm, logical, dispassionate argument is as foreign to him as it is to a Hamas spokesman. I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him. Deceit is a scripturally-sanctioned tactic in Islam and the brainwashed Muslim mind absorbs that injunction.

    Nigel wants to believe there are lots of “good” Muslims out there. But it doesn’t matter if there are because there are too many of the dangerous fanatical kind. And these fanatics are actually in line with and faithfully following the teachings of Islam.

    Muslims should never have been allowed into this country. They should all be expelled while we can still do it. But I fear we don’t have the balls to do what is necessary to prevent our replacement and extinction. Soon it won’t just be Jews who feel too scared to walk the streets of Britain. It will be all the rest of us too.

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      With the Muslims it’s the Good cop/Bad cop routine.
      Both have the exact same aim…

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  34. vlad says:

    I was deeply shocked and horrified by the late great Christopher Hitchens’ vile islamophobic rant.

    I thought I’d share my shock and horror with you.

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  35. tomo says:

    Another one for you BBC lurkers

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  36. tomo says:

    Canada anti Turdeau revolt seems likely given the Liberal bold attempt to bribe the Eastern provinces to vote for them.

    Similar things in UK devolution ?

    revolt-in-canada.jpg

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  37. Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

    Earlier this evening (20:00-20:30) on Radio 4, I listened to one of the most biased programmes I’ve ever heard, even allowing for the BBC’s abysmal standards. It was all about the new US politics and the Presidential elections coming about one year from now, presented by James Naughtie. Did anyone else hear it?

    It featured all the usual techniques of bias: lots of omission, frequent distortion and a few outright lies. I hardly know where to begin, so bad was the lack of balance. For instance, it mentioned nothing of what Biden had done since 2021 (controversial things like opening the southern border) or what Obama did (e,g, politicization of the “alphabet soup” agencies such as FBI and IRS) in two terms from 2009 – so no context for any critique of Trump’s one term or possible second term.

    So much was about Trump and the “Far Right” that you would think Obama/Biden represented, by default, normality and respect for the US constitution. There was no attempt that I heard to explain why the political right might have become so exasperated by the state of politics under the Democrats. The unspoken assumption – all the way through – was that the Democrats are right and that they have done nothing that might justify ideological push-back from a section of the Republicans.

    The conservative-majority Supreme Court was criticized, naturally enough, but not the DoJ, DHS or FBI. January 6th 2021 was, of course, an “insurrection” in which the Capitol was “stormed” but BLM rioting and looting was not mentioned. Nothing either about the dreadful university campus culture of Marxism and anti-Semitism.

    If this is really the best that BBC Radio 4 can offer in terms of political coverage of the US, and if OFCOM do nothing about this disgrace, then its supposed impartiality is no more than a myth.

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  38. Lucy Pevensey says:

    This was streamed live on Oct 27, 2023
    I’m posting it but warning that he goes over some of the gruesome details of the Hamas attack. You may want to skip if you don’t want to hear about some of the horrors again. I think the UN needed to be told though.

    Gilad Erdan, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations at the emergency special session of UNGeneral Assembly said, “This is not a war with Palestinians, but with Hamas terror organisation.” He added,’Hamas is counting on you, they are certain that despite the terror & massacre, the UN will come to the rescue & prevent Israel from defending itself.’

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    • JohnC says:

      The truth of it is that the Left (including the BBC) supported the Muslims over this before they even knew what they had done.

      They don’t care one bit who dies or how. They see it all as part of a greater ideological struggle against those who disagree with them. It’s why black teenagers can murder each other by the dozen in Londonistan and the BBC don’t care. In fact they try to hide it from us. But when a whitey kills a BAME, it’s headline news.

      They have a lot in common with the extremists.

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  39. StewGreen says:

    I see a video there of white guy Robert Whatley run away from a police stop and being pursued for 10 mins
    Only then do the police get heavy on him

    flippen heck that was in 2010,
    officers were cleared 2011
    he got out of court settlement in 2012

    “Mr Whatley, of Usk, Monmouthshire, was found guilty of not wearing a seatbelt, failing to stop for a police officer and having tinted car windows that did not conform to legal requirements.”

    “In respect of the out-of-court settlement, Gwent deputy chief constable Jeff Farrar said: “Gwent Police have not accepted any liability in this matter, however contesting the matter further would have incurred substantial legal costs if the case had gone to court.”

    The police sidelined the officer
    and then in 2014 he won at least £430,000 damages for constructive dismissal by the force.
    (pension stuff mostly)

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  40. harry142857 says:

    Happy All Saints Evening (All Hallows) followed by All Souls Day.
    Doubt The BBC will mention it much.

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  41. Fedup2 says:

    Harry – likewise – I regard it as the beginning of Winter and a time to remember relatives and friends who have left us ….

    I got back to the UK yesterday after 3 weeks away – every time – it seems – I feel the decline ( in londonistan ) … but hey ho…

    … the bbc description of Hamas is proceeded by ‘treated as a terror group be the UK government ‘ should have added to it ( but not by the BBC )

    In a comment above Lucy has put up a 30 minute address to the UN assembly by the Israel ambassador. I’ve wondered here whether Israel wouid pull out of the devalued UN – but I suppose that would be seen as a victory for its’ enemies ….

    BTW – another word the bbc is using for the slaughter by Islamic Hamas is ‘a raid ‘ …. – I’m surprised they just don’t say it was Hamas liberating its ‘ territory …..

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  42. Fedup2 says:

    Covid inquiry

    Like watching a car crash – no one will come out well – obvious – however much whitewash is poured on it .

    But I wonder what the long term practical effect will be ? Will there be less candid written exchanges on big issues which might slow down the need for fast time decision making .

    Certainly by electing a buffoon as PM we paid a big price – but even if a technocrat like sunak had been in the chair – he’d still not been a certain better choice – see the lunatic restaurant non sense ….

    Also – does anyone think that when another bug hits us we’d be any better prepared ? Will the inquiry change that? Number 10 was full of kidult idiots and I bet it still is ….

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  43. Fedup2 says:

    Toady
    Wow – they’ve deployed the Fergal – the undertaker to the Middle East – the reeta chakrajobi parachuted into the room of a hotel in Jerusalem… only a matter of time before the Huw returns ….

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  44. JohnC says:

    Croydon: Murder arrest as woman, 19, stabbed to death
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67259628

    Nothing new here : while the BBC are filling the front pages with multiple stories about how shocked a police-hating black woman is that the public are donating money because two policemen got sacked for stop-and-searching them in their expensive car, articles like this – which are extremely significant about the state of our society – go straight to regions:

    Another extremely brief, basic-facts only report from the BBC. Clearly they don’t care about it and want the story to get as little attention as possible. It’s not that the information is not available : they just don’t want to tell us. They don’t even give her name. Elsewhere I see:

    ‘Police said Mehak Sharma, who arrived in the UK “relatively recently” from India, was found with stab wounds at an address in Ash Tree Way in Croydon on Sunday.’

    ‘Sahil Sharma, 23, is alleged to have murdered Mehak Sharma at an address in Ash Tree Way on Sunday, the Metropolitan Police said.’

    “A couple bought the house but had been letting it out.”

    “There have been loads of people living there of all generations. There was a kid of around five, elderly people and a girl of around 19 and a bloke in his 20s. I think they were all from India.”

    We aren’t told because the BBC consider these stories ‘unhelpful for the agenda’. Whereas multiple articles about how shocked a black woman is that people are giving sacked policemen money to help them live clearly are ‘helpful’.

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  45. StewGreen says:

    7am local radio newsPR
    “Cummings will be at Covid inquiry…blah blah” item was SPECULATION not news
    “Friends cast have issued a statement” what the heck has that got to do will normal local folk ?

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  46. Sluff says:

    Running is racist !!!!!!!!

    An example this morning of the awful BBC’s insidious bias coupled with its anti-male grievance- hunting,

    On Toady around 0650, a feature about women in London who , now that the nights are drawing in, are fearful of going out running as it will be dark. The interview is by Mischal Useless Hussein at her oleaginous smarmy worst.

    The women don’t feel safe you see, presumably not because of treading in dog s*** or pavement pizzas in the dark, or turning an ankle on a kerbstone, or slipping on debris or wet leaves. No it’s because they might be attacked by men. This does of course happen but exactly how often? Where are the statistics? Where is the proof? Answer was there none. But the insinuation is there.

    Mentioned once, fleetingly, and then at the very end, the spokeswoman, or should I say spokesperson, for these women, was not just from any old organisation. Oh, no. She was from……wait for it……’Black Girls Do Run’. FFS.

    PS I’ve been a runner all my life but have only ever done marathons in the very late spring and autumn. Why ? Because I would not train through the winter. Running in the dark when you can’t see where your feet are going was always, to me, a risk not worth talking. My athletic advice to the women is simple. Run in the daylight.

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    • Sluff says:

      I stand to be corrected but there was a further aspect to the Black Girls Do Run story -and if not then on an adjacent story.
      To help the girls, a WhatsApp group is referenced, and hence advertised.

      When was the last time the BBC ran a story about the ‘excess profits’ at Alphabet , a well-known American company?

      I mention this because on the BBC front page webshite, there is a story headlined ‘BP posts profits of £3.3 bn’. This is clearly meant to criticise by inference their profitability.

      So. US company making billions OK.
      British company making billions. Unacceptable.

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    • Docmarooned says:

      Do not live in f****** Londistan then!

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    • StewGreen says:

      R4Today’s own video tweet has 6 Likes, no real replies
      https://twitter.com/BBCr4today/status/1719359440896295246
      Oh the same black guest then appeared on Radio2

      https://twitter.com/MrPaulStott/status/1719249086765736149

      another reply

      “Countryfile” BBC 1 did a similar interview,with three ladies of colour, who had formed a walking group to take advantage of the countryside around them.
      It was presented as a novel concept.

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