539 Responses to Midweek 8th November 2023

  1. chancygardner says:

    Just popped in to see what’s going on and find I timed my arrival to perfection. Anyway, I visited the bbc first to check the footie results and was as annoyed as ever after landing on the home page.

    ‘More than 10,300 people have been killed in Gaza according to the Hamas-run health ministry, including more than 4,100 children’.

    According to the Hamas-run health ministry…..So now we know. Moreover, I’ve been itching to know what age is deemed to be a ‘child’. A 16 year old knifed two police officers in the West Bank two days ago. Was that a ‘child’?

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Chancy

      All is not well in the garden. First of all it is sodding winter. In four more seasons they will change the gardeners for an even worse lot.

      Ahhhh tell you they’ve got nothing between their ears. It’s not a white mans world.

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  2. Lucy Pevensey says:

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    I just felt like waving a flag

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    • Thoughtful says:

      You can get arrested for that !

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    • kingkp says:

      You let your country fall. You did nothing when they locked down. You betrayed your country by remaining silent. When they introduced the death stabs you remained silent. When they demonised those who refused to take the death stab you remained silent. As the excess deaths in this country rise you remain silent. You have no right to wave that flag.

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      • Lucy Pevensey says:

        I have never had a covid or flu vaccine. And how do you know I’ve never spoken up?

        The fact is you don’t TROLL.

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    • JohnC says:

      Flying it upside down like that Lucy is a sign of distress.

      And probably quite apt considering the circumstances which caused you to post it.

      This weekend we have a hate march by the Muslims + Far Left deliberately timed to clash with the Armistice day rememberance activities of the TRUE patriots who fought for the freedom these ungrateful low-life have to protest.

      It’s got real potential to turn violent : a lot of English veterans see this is the final insult. I have a feeling there will be thousands of police and they will keep whitey contained while Muslim groups will roam free and cause trouble.

      But of course the BBC will show us the angry white-English and call them far-Right thugs. Just like Gaza, they will focus on the effects, not the cause because they are the most disgusting of agenda-based hypocrites.

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    • Kikuchiyo says:

      These days, you get arrested and thrown in jail just for saying you’re English.

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  3. Eddy Booth says:

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  4. tomo says:

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    • tomo says:

      and if you do talk about it …

      – look at Julian Assange

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    • StewGreen says:

      The PJW video refers to Big Tech censoring Steven Crowder cos he revealed the truth about a trans- mass-shooter having an anti-white agenda

      If you go to his twitter account you can see info about all kinds of crazy censorship

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “Steven Crowder has done Americans a service. Not just because he has published the Nashville killer’s manifesto of anti-white racist hate, but more importantly has exposed the stranglehold that Google (surprise, surprise) has on the truth. YouTube’s censorship of conservative voices has now rendered it as worthless as FaceBook. Oh, and of course, one does wonder why our own government hides information from us as well, all based on politics naturally. 🤮”

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  5. Fedup2 says:

    10pm news

    Clive – innit – wearing a blue crash helmet with matching flack jacket – whilst on top of a hotel roof in war torn Jerusalem —newsreaders at this time wear poppies – not our Clive …. Not the greatest fan of British culture our Clive – but likes the Money …..
    ……..I wonder if the Met commissioner will have to resign when the cenotaph becomes the centre of fighting between Islamic Hamas supporters and the British defending their country ?
    I’m guessing the Emir will support his boy …

    As for the ‘news ‘ full on Hamas broadcasting corporation empathy porn – aimed at undermining Israel and the need to destroy Hamas …

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  6. Sluff says:

    Earlier today, on the day of the Kings Speech, a King famously interested in green/ climate/ organic farming issues, we visited a coffee shop on a certain Crown Estate property in a rural setting. There is an adjacent farm shop.

    At 11.45am the cafe was packed. I wondered why. There were some folk in the shop but not that many. The site did not have walks from it. It was not a starting point for anything.

    Then it occurred. The place has a free car park. It is used as a meeting place for a coffee, the car park was full. There were no, repeat no, cyclists.

    Here is how people really live and want to live. They are not fooled by the green guff, nor by BBC climate crisis propaganda from PPE graduate Justin Rowlatt. They hate all the anti-car war on the motorist, and the utter nonsense about cycling has no penetration whatsoever among these ordinary decent folk.

    How ironic thiese observations should be on the King’s property on the day of his speech.

    If only they had a government and public broadcaster that thinks like them.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I listened to the kings speech on the wireless – the outgoing king sounded bored and tired and as though he wished he wasn’t there …. I wished he wasn’t there as well …. the ceremony is so disconnected from Real Life as to be insulting now ….

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  7. Eddy Booth says:

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  8. Flotsam says:

    ##The Kings Speech.
    King Charles read it with all the enthusiasm of a
    patient reading a menu of cancer treatments.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Charles III and Rishi I to make new laws rather than use current ones! HA HA HA HA!

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  9. Jeff says:

    Oh dear, some shocking news…

    Apparently, according to the ever-reliable Mail on-line, there are fears that “far right hooligans” may clash with “pro Palestinian protesters” on Armistice Day. WTF?

    Don’t they ever change the bleedin’ record?

    If there’s any clashing it will be between patriotic British lads defending the Cenotaph and old age pensioners from being insulted, bullied and assaulted by third world thugs intent on abusing the memory of the fallen. No good waiting for the police to intervene, they’re too busy kneeling, pansying about and arresting people for mean Tweets. Useless turds…

    The runt Pakistani mayor ain’t going to do anything. Neither will the ludicrous Indian PM or the tough (talking) Indian Home Secretary.

    It’s too late for hand wringing. This is a sacred commemorative occasion and only barbarians would consider disrupting it.

    So, if it kicks off, don’t blame the patriots…

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    • Deborah says:

      They changed the article. Originally it blamed Tommy Robinson because now he can send messages to his followers they would disrupt the peaceful demonstration (not the commemoration). They know it is probably going to kick off and they are already putting out the story that it is the far right to blame. Well it couldn’t be the religion of peace, could it?

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      • Doublethinker says:

        I’ve just read that the Met Commissioner says that there is no law under which he has the power to ban the Gaza Demos . Liar. The police ban many marches and demos under the pretext of public order so as to prevent trouble on the streets.
        There is no doubt , none at all, if there was a planned March in support of Israel it would be banned on public order grounds .
        The only reason that these pro Palestine marches are not banned is because the authorities are scared to death of what the Muslim would do if they were.
        Clearly violence and the threat of violence gets you whatever you want in 21 st century Britain.

        We have passed the tipping point. The police and authorities cannot protect us from the medieval fanatics they have imported over the past decades. Things are going to get worse very quickly now that the Muslims know they are in effect in charge.

        Once anarchy starts we have no means of stopping it a 100,000 useless police and a tiny army won’t be able to contain it . We would need a force similar to that used in Middle Eastern countries ! Import them and they bring their culture with them.

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        • atlas_shrugged says:

          During lockup the Wet police used batons on the heads of peaceful protesters against the covid scam.

          They even brought out attack dogs at the end of a protest when people were peacefully dispersing. That video clip was never shown on the bBC.

          In a way the Wet police are like the cowards of hamas who only use violence against peaceful civilians who have no way of defending themselves. This could explain why they call a terrorist bomber ‘Buddy’.

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    • BigBrotherCorporation says:

      If they really didn’t want it to ‘kick off’, you’d think they would have banned the ‘pro Palestinian’ hate marches, wouldn’t you?

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  10. Sluff says:

    The United Arab Emirates will shortly host COP 28 , the annual climate change conference.

    Let’s have a look at the table of CO2 emissions not by country but per capita by country.

    https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-per-capita/

    Oooohh look. The UAE is FOURTH in the world table at over 24 tonnes per person per year.

    What about the UK? After all, think of all the climate crisis talk here. We must be terrible.
    Errr, no. We are running at 5.6 tonnes . That’s one QUARTER of the UAE. And fractionally ahead of err…. Barbados and Serbia.

    Meanwhile Just Stop Oil disrupt our lives and the police do nothing.
    Pathetic, nauseating parallel universe stuff.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      A Reporter at Large
      The Fugitive Princesses of Dubai
      As the emirate’s ruler espoused gender equality, four royal women staked their lives on escaping his control.
      By Heidi Blake

      May 1, 2023

      https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/08/the-fugitive-princesses-of-dubai

      Far out on the Arabian Sea one night in February, 2018, Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum, the fugitive daughter of Dubai’s ruling emir, marvelled at the stars. The voyage had been rough. Since setting out by dinghy and Jet Ski a few days before, she had been swamped by powerful waves, soaking the belongings she’d stowed in her backpack; after clambering aboard the yacht she’d secured for her escape, she’d spent days racked with nausea as it pitched on the swell. But tonight the sea was calmer, and she felt the stirring of an unfamiliar sensation. She was free.

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      > The United Arab Emirates will shortly host COP 28

      Will the bBC be mentioning the antics of the climate change girlies who will be flying out there?

      Remember the Spanish climate change girlie who flew out in a private aircraft, then a limo motorcade, then the final 100 meters on a bicycle.

      Not to be outdone the German climate change girlie flew out in a German gov aircraft and TWICE had to dump 100,000 litres of fuel over the Middle East because of an aircraft fault.

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  11. tomo says:

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  12. tomo says:

    Bullshit on strong drugs ratioed 10:1 last time I looked

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    • gb123 says:

      The way things are at the moment, the East Grinstead ladies knitting society would be considered far right yobs.

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      • BigBrotherCorporation says:

        From what I hear about their cosy little ‘knit and natter’ chats, most of my 80 year old mum’s knitting circle are somewhat to the right of Attila the Hun in their views.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Looks like the government nudge unit has instructed all MSM to carry this strange narrative

      commenter : How come one group of protestors are called “yobs”
      and the other is called a “pro Palestine march” ?
      Do better GB news.

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    • tomo says:

      Daily Mail took this down….

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  13. tomo says:

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    • popeye says:

      This demonstrates the problem with Islam. In the 16th and 17th centuries we had “The Enlightenment” where science took precedence over religion and led to the Industrial Revolution and society as we know it today. Islam has never had an Enlightenment (though they are happy to take all the benefits from ours!)

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      • tomo says:

        Some religious “authorities” in Islam are flat out bonkers.

        -and it results in BIG trouble.

        It was resolved by *French* GIGN troops using nerve gas on Saudi (and other) citizens in underground tunnels under the Mecca Grand Mosque after converting to Islam on the loading ramp of a transporrt plane at Jeddah.

        Military HQ under Gaza hospital eh?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Lily Allen says Rochdale victims ‘would have been raped or abused by somebody else at some point’.

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      • Lucy Pevensey says:

        Blame the victims eh?

        Jihad-rape gangs operating unchecked on English soil is alright?
        No need to stop them urgently?

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      She’s in no danger then.

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  14. Nibor says:

    We can never have a recession/depression in the economy because the Powers That Be have expanded the population with enrichers , doctors , scientists , the best of whatever country these people have left that they all must pay a huge amount of tax to the Exchequer .

    All our problems must have been solved by the extra 20 million migrants making their “contribution” to the nations pot .

    In fact I dont think its fair taking them in when there are such third world countries that need a leg up more than what we do .
    We should send all these enrichers straight there now to bolster the economies of any nation not as rich as ours . It`s our Christian duty .
    As it says in the bible Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day , teach a man to fish and you feed him for Life .
    No more aid to hellholes which is temporary – send the brightest and best which have smuggled themselves here down there and solve their problems .
    You know it makes sense .

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  15. vlad says:

    Murdered Israeli festival-goer Shani Louk was a pacifist, apparently, who refused military service.

    A little more military might have save her life.

    All you need is love, but a strong army helps too.

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  16. StewGreen says:

    video : full descri[tion of the killing pof the Jewish guy at the demo, by his friend who was there with him
    .. https://youtu.be/jCCjV4-ld0Y

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  17. StewGreen says:

    Express : BBC admits showing ‘bias’ against Reclaim MP and issues humiliating apology
    A spokesman said: “We accept there was a lack of consistency in the use of our captions and that the number posted during the speech was not proportionate, nor always relevant which created the incorrect impression that there was an editorial approach in relation to the views expressed.

    “We apologise for this and are reviewing the way we use such captions during proceedings.”

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    • StewGreen says:

      The apology was so rubbish
      Someone has rewritten it for them

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      • Richard Pinder says:

        The BBC is silent on the issue of excess deaths, and is at war with the half million vaccine injured. The BBC collaborated with Facebook to take down the online pages of Covid-19 vaccine injury groups: https://brownstone.org/articles/veil-of-silence-over-excess-deaths/

        The BBC captions included the “Safe & Effective” propaganda, which is contradicted by thousands of scientific papers from around the world. BBC managers, journalists and viewers are assumed to be far to thick to read a scientific paper. Evidence for this was revealed from the BBC inserting the caption below.

        ‘NHS guidance states vaccines do not cause autism, there is no evidence of a link between MMR vaccine and autism.’

        On Google Scholar there are over 214 papers in the peer-review medical literature showing the vaccine link to autism and 164 papers funded by Big Pharma showing no link: https://kirschsubstack.com/p/if-vaccines-dont-cause-autism-then

        I knew this split 20 years ago during the Andrew Wakefield incident. Robert De Niro has revealed that his son Elliot has autism and supported the documentary “Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe”. Also read the book “Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak” by Robert F Kennedy Jr: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/microbiome-gut-brain-axis-autism-spectrum-disorder/

        Many scientists say that they were fooled into thinking Andrew Wakefield was corrupt, by the BBC. But woke up due to the mRNA scam. The BBC also attacks scientists who do not agree with Greta.

        BBC Radio 4 has lost lots of listeners due to its attack on science.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        ChatGPT?!

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  18. StewGreen says:

    Stealth edits

    A blue tick account tweeted antifa promo posts that warned them to be careful “lots of crusty old racist white men” will be videoing
    WestLake Village
    .. https://twitter.com/buttonslives/status/1721737470423732307
    Some tweets say it’s an out of the way Jewish area, so the Palestinian demo was a deliberate provocation

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    • Guest Who says:

      BBC TNI partners.

      https://x.com/bowenbbc/status/1722140395927183542?s=61
      JezBo running what CNN says someone says.

      Pure emotive propaganda. It likely is a bad situation. But it is entirely down to old men in Qatar.

      Meanwhile here is Simpo showing just what an a** cheek the BBC has in the Graun, and how the civil service is as poisonous an ideologically corrupt entity as the BBC.

      https://x.com/johnsimpsonnews/status/1721995621123436815?s=58
      From The Guardian – something I’ve never read in a newspaper in my entire life:‘The two most senior civil servants in the UK exchanged messages describing those inside Boris Johnson’s Downing Street as “poisonous”, “mad” and unfit to run the country, the Covid inquiry has heard.’

      All that’s needed is Maitlis and Sopes gunning for Trump or O’Brien forgetting Carl Beech in his book.

      Oh, there they are.

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      • Guest Who says:

        BBC Moaning Emole

        ‘We have the order to bomb’

        We’ve an extraordinary story for you this morning about a Palestinian dentist who took a phone call that sparked the evacuation of a Gazan neighbourhood before it was destroyed before his eyes. The level of detail is immense and the BBC has pieced his story together with maps, video and social media posts.

        [New PCs all round at verify -Ed]

        Mahmoud Shaheen
        Image: Shaheen/Getty
        ‘We have the order to bomb. You have two hours’

        The call from Israeli intelligence came at dawn. It was Thursday 19 October and Israel had been bombing Gaza for 12 days straight. However Mahmoud Shaheen’s middle-class suburb in the north of the territory had been largely untouched, until that day. The dentist became aware of a commotion outside, and as he left his building, his phone lit up. The voice addressed Mahmoud by his full name and spoke in flawless Arabic. “He told me he wanted to bomb three towers… and ordered me to evacuate the surrounding area.” Mahmoud says he has no idea why he was chosen. But that day and night, directed by the voices of strangers, he did everything he could to keep his community safe. This type of warning is not unheard of but Mahmoud’s account gives an insight into one such phone call in an unprecedented level of detail.

        Shadow minister quits Labour over Gaza

        Live: Follow Israel-Gaza developments

        Analysis: The new realities after four weeks of war

        Read Mahmoud’s story

        ***

        Think about it BBC; think about it. Line by line. Think about it. But I doubt 99% of those screaming in London, activist, pol or media, will.

        Meanwhile JezBo is running what a gay anchor milks from a young lady in a war zone created by the leadership of those she was amongst.

        In other news, one thick, opportunistic pol has quit. Further showing the Labour government in waiting.

        One reality almost forgotten. Before the ceasefire was broken back on the 6th, no calls were made. No military targets identified.

        And the old men in Qatar still issue orders to old men in the UN and council houses in London and parliaments in Edinburgh.

        While the hostages stay almost forgotten as the Met tears down reminders as such things might upset those in our midst.

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  19. kingkp says:

    “Dr. Moshe Yatom’s tragic end serves as a sobering reminder of the immense burden that mental health professionals can bear when treating high-profile individuals. His tireless efforts to guide Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu towards a rational understanding of reality ultimately cost him his own mental and physical well-being. Yatom’s diary entries and unfinished manuscript, “Psychotic On Steroids,” reveal the perplexing and challenging journey that unfolded within the walls of his office.”
    Make sure you get the booster.

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  20. Zephir says:

    I saw this comment elsewhere, it is well worth repeating:

    “If the EDL said they were going to have a protest on Armistice day. The police would have the power to stop that quite quickly. They always have the power to stop protests they don’t like. (They have banned multiple EDL protests previously, even given a general ban saying no protests allowed at all by the EDL for 30 days in London around important dates).

    Remember the protest by the group of women towards the police after Sarah Everard was raped and murdered by one of them. The police came in riot gear and broke that protest up pretty quickly. Assaulting and attacking these women who were peacefully demonstrating. But Black Lives Matter protests again it’s “We cannot stop these protests” Even when they were toppling statues and wrecking the place. It is statements put out of ‘people have the right to demonstrate and protest’. But all the BLM counter-protests at the same time. Again those ones the police could quickly stop.

    The police and government have all sold this country out to Islam and far-left communist Marxists.

    GBNews, SkyNews Australia, TalkTV have all had respected guests on discussing this planned protest and all of them say if this is allowed. It will end up in mass riots erupting because the Muslims just won’t be able to stop themselves from either attacking the old war heroes or desecrating war memorials. And this will (justifiably) cause a reaction from the British people and a mass riot will ensue.

    If the UK government allows these Muslims to ruin and desecrate Remembrance Day all due to a conflict they caused in the middle east by them all going into Israel and mass raping and murdering Jewish children on one of the Jewish Holiest days of the year, then these Muslims all going into the streets all laughing and cheering about it straight after, thus enraging the Israelis. This is all on them when the outpouring of extreme Islamophobia erupts afterwards throughout Britain.

    If these arrogant selfish Muslims cannot see their actions are going to cause a mass riot and as a result extreme universal islamophobia. Then they really are as thick as people think they all truly are for following their Pagan Moon God.

    Really, I suspect this is just a deliberate way by Muslims to cause violent conflict in the UK just like they caused in Gaza.”

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  21. Zephir says:

    “Fury as pro-Palestinian supporters deface Rochdale war memorial before Armistice day with police now standing guard at monument”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12722319/Fury-pro-Palestinian-supporters-deface-Rochdale-war-memorial-Armistice-day-police-standing-guard-monument.html#comments

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  22. Zephir says:

    Well, well, well,

    “BBC removes plaque to mark earliest black Briton because she ‘was from Cyprus’
    The plaque, located in East Sussex, was erected as part of a BBC Two ‘Black and British’ series in 2016

    A plaque that honoured a woman thought to be the earliest black Briton has been removed after DNA analysis proves she was ‘most likely to be from Cyprus’.

    The plaque was erected in 2016, as part of a BBC Two ‘Black and British’ series, where they hailed the remains of ‘Beachy Head Lady’ the ‘first black Briton’.

    However, the sign celebrating the 1,800 has been removed, after DNA analysis suggests that she was not actually of African origin, but rather from the mediterranean island of Cyprus.

    The sign, located in East Dean, East Sussex, read: “The remains of ‘BEACHY HEAD WOMAN’ were found near this site. Of African origin, she lived in East Sussex 2nd-3rd Century AD. A BBC History Project’.”

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1828184/BBC-removes-plaque-black-Briton-from-Cyprus

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  23. andyjsnape says:

    ‘I’m calling from Israeli intelligence. We have the order to bomb. You have two hours’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67327079

    Firstly the top picture is pathetic, and the detail in the report is also amateurish, he said, they said – who knows, only got your word for it

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    • JohnC says:

      That picture looks like yet another fake in support of the Muslim side.

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      An outrageous article which doesn’t go near WHY the building was bombed. You can be 100% certain it was identified as being used by Hamas.

      But as usual something caught my eye:

      ‘”He started telling me: ‘Did you see how they [Hamas] slaughtered those children with knives?’…’

      ‘”I told him that according to our Islamic religion, this is forbidden,” Mahmoud recalls.’

      ‘He urged the voice against “mass punishment”, but Mahmoud knew it was hopeless.’

      Isn’t it amazing : just after the BBC gave the Hamas terrorist leader a soap box to deny the murder of civilians saying it was not allowed by Islam then look how this man had exactly the same topic of conversation on the telephone. And then he repeats the ‘mass punishment’ theme the BBC have been running from the start. I call it a complete lie and the BBC idiots have written the specific wording of this themselves.

      And I don’t believe for one second the voice said ‘slaughtered those children with knives’. Why would it be so specific ?. They were slaughtered in much worse ways. Could it be that the knives are not allowed by Islam but tying them together and burning them or shooting them is ?. Just more careful weasel words to disguise a lie.

      In my opinion this is another absolutely disgusting fake news article made up by the BBC. The entire thing is presented as fact when it is the ‘testimony’ of one single person who could be anybody. And the BBC would run it even if they knew he was Hamas.

      The BBC are the enemy within. They are a cancer trying to destroy our society and replace it the one they want.

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  24. AsISeeIt says:

    How’s that for bad optics edition

    BBC: Prince William says climate crisis too visible to be ignored

    Well that depends on where you go and who it is you speak to. They do joke how our late Queen used to think the entire world smelt of new paint.

    One tends to keep the childrens’ Christmas presents under wraps until the big day, in the certain knowledge our little ones lack self restraint: ‘Virtually certain’ that 2023 will be warmest year after October record (BBC)

    The last five months have “obliterated” temperature records, linked to carbon emissions and El Niño… It is now “virtually certain” that 2023 – a year of deadly heatwaves, floods and fires – will be the warmest on record, new data suggests. (BBC) – note how the term ‘deadly‘ is now casually thrown into the mix alongside the superlative flourishes worthy of Roy Castle/Norris McWhirter-style records claims.

    July was so warm that it may have been the hottest month in 120,000 years, while average September temperatures smashed the previous record by a “gobsmacking” 0.5C. (BBC)

    And we’ve just verified that with a Neanderthal caveman – who monitered his temperature readings on his seaweed and then scratched his monthly records on the wall of his cave – alongside finger paintings of antelope, bison and an attack by the spear wielding men of the neighbouring tribe.

    Quick, call a lawyer… make that a politician… the weather’s turned hot!

    The number of days breaking through the politically significant 1.5C warming threshold has already reached a new high, well before the end of the year. (BBC)

    Dear package holiday company, I am writing to complain that my family fortnight’s break in the Med this July was too bloody hot. I am copying in my local MP and Greta Thunberg to this claim for compensation (care of the BBC, because I think she lives in London now but I don’t have her address). By the way I am writing this on recycled cardboard – as I was advised to make it a stiff letter

    World War Z

    Ministers reject Labour claims of ‘zombie’ Parliament… Labour said it proved it was a “zombie” body but Commons leader Andrew Lansley said 20 bills would be passed. (BBC, May 2014); ‘Zombie parliament’ makes it impossible to govern, says Sajid Javid… The Chancellor accused opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn of “dither and delay” as he argued a general election was the only way to break the deadlock. (Evening Standard, October 2019)

    And here we go again… same old tropes…

    Chris Mason: Will the measures in the King’s Speech be enough? (BBC, 4 hours ago); The KingZzz Speech… Charles’s state debut (giveaway Metro) – our BBC likes that headline for their top pick in their online newspaper round up which they headline today as : Newspaper headlines: ‘Kingzzz speech’ and police resist march ban calls (BBC)

    Second favourite for our BBC this morning is the pound shop junior Guardian – ie the left-leaning ‘i’ newspaper – as it goes with a headline attack on that Tory minister we like to imagine Rishi Sunak refers to with the Rudyard Kipling line: “You’re a Braverman than I am, Gunga Din!”

    We like tents – we camp out in them for a week at Glastonbury

    With reference to native American indian tribes, avant-garde musician and songwriter Captain Beefheart once said “Some people used to live in tents, they’re now in past tense”

    Some alien people invaded their nations and stole their lands

    Braverman split with No 10 on tents – as Tories accuse her of leadership bid (‘i’) – how funny (I mean predictable) it is that any Tory minister who comes out with any statement that’s even vaguely conservative is automatically accused of running for the leadership.

    It’s almost as though the Tory party well knows the membership and indeed the electorate stand well to their right.

    You’ll have noticed that just to please the natives, so to speak (that’s us) the Tories will always keep just the one pet outspoken maverick who stands a little to their right at any one time.

    I sense the regime’s unofficial (but secretely official) nod goes to the ‘i’ report: Exclusive Police fear far-right threat to UK’s Armistice Day protest (‘i’)

    “Make it so” was the catchphrase of Jean-Luc Picard, Captain Kirk’s updated far more PC replacement as commander of the starship Enterprise

    Mr AsI suspects (it’s not a conspiracy theory, if it’s true, folks) that as explained by Dan Tubb of the right-leaning Lotus Eaters (You Tube & Podcast) the authorities are in fact on the contrary to supposed fear actually really eagerly hope for some manefestation of their supposed far-right – so that compilant media can draw equivalence with the inevitable pro-Palestinian bad optics nearby the Cenotaph on the 11th.

    If there’s no footage available for broadcast of some small group of shaven-headed knuckle-draggers with swastika tattoos on their foreheads – then the regime will be confronted by just the Hamas crowd – the pure unadulterated result of their open border hyper-immigration policy. How’s that for bad optics.

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  25. Zephir says:

    This is no coincidence methinks, from 2011 :

    “Muslim extremist fined £50 for burning poppies on Remembrance Day
    Emdadur Choudhury found guilty of a ‘calculated and deliberate’ insult to Britain’s war dead and those who mourn them.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/mar/07/muslim-extremist-fined-for-poppy-burning

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    • JohnC says:

      That’s a sign of the times. They won’t use the word ‘Muslim’ these days.

      It is going to be interesting spotting all the ways the cheeky BBC and Guardian cover up Muslim behaviour this weekend.

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      • moggiemoo says:

        They won’t cover it up, they’ll simply label any violence at all as right wing. But there won’t be any pictures or video, just their assertion.

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  26. Fedup2 says:

    Toady

    A vintage anti Jew anti Israel edition

    I think one of the many reasons why the BBC hates Israel is that Israel defends itself . Comrade Robinson – a BBC Hamas apologist first class – tried to make an IDF spokesman the ‘baddie ‘ in this war of goodies ( Islam freedom fighters ) versus baddies ( Israeli Jews ) – as the days of this pass the BBC delivery of Islamic Hamas propaganda increases – it pushes out Hamas generated ‘casualty ‘ figures with next to no caution …..

    … and then there is the Hamas March at armistice . The gutless outgoing commissioner of the Met has decided the March is okay and there seems nothing to stop it . I wonder what ‘test ‘ is applied to this March as opposed to Right Wing marches …?

    Those incensed will be attacked by plod – kettled – beaten – whilst Hamas supporters call for war – jihad – ..

    At the end he – hopefully – will be fired – to be replaced by another woke scheming Islam approved clone ….

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  27. tomo says:

    BBC “Woman’s” Hour got ratioed ca. 10:1

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  28. tomo says:

    Don’t forget

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  29. Guest Who says:

    Woah, Neddy… keep those headlines as vague as they herald studio semantics guys…

    https://x.com/bbcr4today/status/1722162967913857400?s=61
    What’s the difference between a temporary humanitarian ‘ceasefire’ and a ‘pause’?
    @bbcnickrobinson asks Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey, who says ‘people using the pause are not being honest’.

    Toenails (yawn) and Ed? They might as well have had Springster searching Wiki Jihad on her new lappy, advised by JonDon.

    #CCBGB

    No wonder Today have an audience in the tens to match the Limp voter base.

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    • Greencoat says:

      The Guardian today refers to Remembrance Sunday as
      ‘the annual British poppy paroxysm’.

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  30. vlad says:

    It’s a long listen, but some might enjoy the ever-excellent Douglas Murray on current events.

    At 28:24 Murray describes the raw footage he’s seen of the October 7th terror attack.

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    • tomo says:

      … and how many BBC peeps have volunteered that they’ve seen the same footage of the Oct 7th attacks?

      I’ve not seen a single one – anybody know different?

      That, in and of itself should be used as a stick to beat the state broadcaster with.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Tomo – at the time I did ask the question of how many bbc employees were invited to the viewing by the IDF and how many went . I assumed bowen went – but he hasn’t been boasting of it .
        In reality I don’t think any bbc staff – journo – rep – Hamas propaganda merchant went .

        There has been no comment …. But the bbc is ‘unbiased ‘ and presents ‘facts’ … or maybe not ..

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      • vlad says:

        This YouTuber claims the footage from their go-pro helmet cams shows the terrorists putting a baby in an oven while raping the mother and murdering the father. I forget the exact sequence.

        Time stamped: https://youtu.be/To2h-ZwN46w?t=4178

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      • Thatcherrevolutionary says:

        Surely Spring would have been at the head of the queue so she could BBC ‘verify’?

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  31. Jeff says:

    So, the Met Police Commissioner, that dynamic action man, Mark Rowley, has told us he doesn’t have the authority to stop the pro Hamas marches on Armistice Day. No, of course he doesn’t, poor love. We’re expecting far too much…

    And yet…As we all remember, a few short years ago the government banned us from doing all sorts of things. Visiting dying relatives…going to the gym… meeting friends… and indeed the police even arrested people for sitting on park benches or walking their dogs. Blimey, they seemed to have plenty of authority then.

    That man of principle, the right honourable Matt Hancock, told us to stay at home. “This isn’t a request, it’s an instruction.,” he intoned…naturally, one that he had no intention of complying with himself, but…

    And we all know that there is in Blighty a group that always receive special treatment…Muzzies…

    If they blow up our kids at a pop concert we sing “Don’t Look Back in Anger” and if they rape our daughters, we look the other way and there are endless cowardly platitudes about “The religion of peace.”

    So, to stop these third-world barbarians stomping through the metropolis on this sacred Armistice Day would be too much to ask. Of course it is.

    BTW, when I described Mark Rowley as “Action Man”

    I meant that he doesn’t have any genitals…

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    • vlad says:

      As dynamic as a limp lettuce.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      As the fleet approaches the Suez Canal, Egyptian military forces fire a warning shot, causing the fleet to steer south, around the Cape of Good Hope. To the surprise of observers, the apartheid regime of South Africa floats out barges of food and supplies, which the migrants throw overboard. The international press is thrilled, believing the rejection of these supplies to be a political statement against the apartheid South African regime. Western leaders, confident the migrants will accept supplies from their “more virtuous” nations, organize a supply mission, funded by governments, charities, rock stars and major churches, to meet the migrants off São Tomé. However, the fleet does not stop for these barges either, and when a worker from the Pope’s barge attempts to board one of the ships, he is strangled and thrown overboard. The press attempts to contain coverage of the murder.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Jeff…..Would these be the same Muzzies that are needed to do the work here that British people won’t do ?? and why there is a reluctance to turn the boats back??
      Would these be the same Muzzies who are taxi drivers (a job the British won’t do), who are instrumental in the grooming of white girls for their mates ?? Who have extreme views yet are given jobs in our NHS.

      There is a job that is very lucrative for them however …… as immigration and human rights lawyers !!

      A tiny bit of me hopes there will be clashes and rioting on the streets – away from the Cenotaph, because we need an uprising to stop our way of life being trampled upon by another religion and culture.

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  32. Guest Who says:

    Today ‘interviews’ (well, sticks a camera in front of him, his new book and a special Civil War ‘peace’ image) war junkie in the JezBo mould, if less partisan who spouts utter bollocks on realities and some touchy freely wibble on ideals.

    https://x.com/bbcr4today/status/1721490531056836963?s=61
    “I’m slightly depressed in a way because everything I’ve done concerning international conflict… I think it’s been a waste of time really.”
    War photographer Sir Don McCullin discusses the war in the Middle East and how his work fits into the wider conversation.

    I’m slightly depressed a posh media type could be so naive.

    War is the usual condition.

    It has not changed since the plate cameras captured the cannon balls in the valley of death in the Crimea, or the immediate aftermath of Gettysburg.

    Or the flicking reels of the Somme, or German citizens tidying up the neighbourhood on Eisenhower’s orders.

    Or a young lady fleeing her village after it was Napalmed by the side the Democrats were on.

    And I am pretty sure the current pols do not read the Thunderer any more, except for Remain reassurance.

    To get to the ones he’s talking about he needs… what now?

    And having got off on the gore, they will simply dial up more.

    No wonder Today has near zero paying attention to it.

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  33. Doublethinker says:

    The King opened a new session of Parliament yesterday. Even as late as four years ago I would have been interested in both institutions , monarchy and parliament. Now I despise the King and Parliament and consider both to be working against the best interests of the British people.

    Now I buy my poppy to honour past generations who fought for our country and for those still serving who might have to fight in the future on our behalf. but now I care nought for the fools who now lead our inclusive woke services but pity those in the front line.

    Once I respected the police , now I think that they are a sick joke , scared of their own shadow if a Muslim is around.

    Once I thought that our justice system was by and large fair now I think it’s been taken over by the wokes and runs a two tier system.

    Once I thought the CofE was a benign institution which supported English traditions now I regard it as an enemy working to undermine those traditions.

    The same is true of so many other institutions which I once supported ,eg RNLI , National Trust to name but two.

    I’m done with this country . If the native Brits don’t want to cherish and saved why should I?

    PS I have loathed the BBC since the early 80’s and I blame the BBC for much of the above with its 40 year long insidious drip drip drip of anti Britishness which has corroded and rotted our country from within.

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  34. Zephir says:

    NHS spending….

    “Crisis-hit mental health trust named worst in the country blew more than £800,000 on spin doctors in just a single year after being rated ‘inadequate’ four times.

    Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust had been rated ‘inadequate’ four times in six years by the Care Quality Commission when it sought advice from a public relations firm.

    It was paid at least £814,752, during a period when an independent review by Grant Thornton auditors found the trust had lost track of patient deaths.

    A report into the deaths was criticised by the mother of a man who died in the trust’s care for allegedly being ‘watered down to spare bosses’.

    A leaked draft version showed the trust’s governance was described as ‘weak and inadequate’.

    But ‘governance’ was replaced by ‘controls’ and another section on a ‘culture of fear’ among staff was cut out altogether.

    NSFT and the auditors said changes were made as a result of fact-checking.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12722613/mental-health-trust-worst-country-spin-doctors.html

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  35. micknotmike says:

    Here’s a serious question folks :-

    Do other european nations hold similar remembrance day ceremonies to ours?

    If so, it will be interesting to see what occurs and the police / military responses.
    Not on the bbc of course. In fact I imagine the london events will be heavily doctored.

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    • BRISSLES says:

      I’ve only heard of the nightly Remembrance of the Last Post at the Menin Gate at Ypres.
      Norway, Switzerland and Spain weren’t involved in heavy conflict, and the rest of Europe were either conquerors or the occupied, so not much cause for chests out and nedal wearing.

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      • micknotmike says:

        Thanks Bris!
        I wasn’t sure if occupied, or even “conquering” countries would consider themselves “liberated ” when the allies finished the fighting.

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      • Doublethinker says:

        In France there is always a military parade in major cities on the 11 Nov . Remember that France suffered more than twice as many dead and wounded in WW1 than the British Empire. There is no doubt in my mind that the sacrifice of the French in WW1 to defend their country was heroic . Every little village has a war memorial full of names which will bear testament to that .
        Before we move on to WW2 just remember that without the channel Britain would very probably have been overrun too.

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  36. MarkyMark says:

    SEXIST. “Women of the Year Awards”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67352512

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  37. tomo says:

    Post Office manager in denial….

    – in fact, boldly lying imho.

    I’d allocate her pension to a cat rescue charity.

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  38. tomo says:

    Diplomacy eh?

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  39. Zephir says:

    Another racist black, what a surprise:

    “Vile moment former LA female soccer player, Stefany Ferrer Van Ginkel flashes HITLER salute at pro-Israel rally while being driven by United City FC player boyfriend, Samim Haydari

    The former LA soccer player, Stefany Ferrer Van Ginkel and her boyfriend United City FC player Samim Haydari were identified as the couple in the video, KTLA reported
    Ferrer Van Ginkel flashed the Hitler salute and shouted ‘Heil Hitler’ near the pro-Israeli rally that was held in Beverly Hills on Sunday
    The video was shared on Monday by the watchdog group StopAntisemitism”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12722455/Former-LA-female-soccer-player-Stefany-Ferrer-Van-Ginkel-flashes-HITLER-salute-pro-Israel-rally-driven-United-City-FC-player-boyfriend-Samim-Haydari.html

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  40. Zephir says:

    Stuff your ceasefire where the sun doesn’t shine, muzzies:

    “Executed without mercy: Unseen footage shows wounded Israelis who crashed while trying to escape Nova festival shot dead in their vehicle one-by-one by Hamas terrorists

    GRAPHIC CONTENT: Hamas shot at civilians escaping the Nova Festival
    New video shows them targeting crashed cars used by Israeli citizens ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12721699/Executed-without-mercy-Unseen-footage-shows-wounded-Israelis-crashed-trying-escape-Nova-festival-shot-dead-vehicle-one-one-Hamas-terrorists.html

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  41. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – was that a Trojan Horse that you smuggled in, BBC?

    Having broken the first rule of radio-presenting with Col. Peter Lerner, spokesman for the IDF, Nick Robinson then talks to a gentleman whose name I cannot remember (apologies) who is ostensibly a Palestinian politician who opposes Hamas. Nick, in his cosy little chat – I don’t recall any talking over! – lets this gentleman reveal that he appears to be an apologist, almost a spokesman for Hamas.

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  42. Yasser Dasmibehbi says:

    I see the group who were guarding the cenotaph have decided to run away! Someone told them that Tommy Robinson and the Far right football supporters were coming and they wet their knickers.

    I remember just a few years ago the football supporters had several very large marches through London and they were very well behaved so the media, especially the BBC, refused to cover them.
    I have met quite a few people who were real far right when I was younger and they would have been only too ready to march with the Muslims on the coming weekend. Their hated for the Jews was horrendous.
    Anyway, all I can say about that group of would be cenotaph heroes is that I am willing to nominate them for the ‘Brave Sir Robin’ award.

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    • tomo says:

      the media, especially the BBC, refused to cover them

      as instructed by?

      I doubt they self censor en-mass

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      • Yasser Dasmibehbi says:

        I remember Tommy approaching the BBC camera team and asking them about fair coverage. The smug Beeboid in charge responded by saying that they would if there was some violence. The whole of the msm ignored it if I remember correctly.

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  43. Ian Rushlow says:

    The BBC – a former news outlet – reports on it’s website home page and so-called Science & Environment page that “2023 may be the warmest in 125,000 years”. Obviously fantastic news that our Neanderthal ancestors had such precise thermometers and instruments that they were able to measure temperatures back then to within 1/100 degree centigrade, and do so on a global scale. And that all the civilisations since then have been doing so right up to the modern age (those clever Stone Age men! Those brilliant ancient Babylonians! Those wonderful imaginary civilisations of sub-Saharan Africa!).

    But why do they choose 125,000 years? Why not, say, 130,000 years? Ah, because that extra 5,000 years would take us back to a time in the Pleistocene when it was warmer than today (damn those Neanderthals and their vast industries causing global warming!). After that event, the World was cooler for about 100,000 years – Ice Age anyone? – then started warming up again.

    As with all climate propaganda, it depends on the starting point. For instance, for nearly all of the past 60 million years the Earth has been much, much warmer than today. But headlines such as ‘One of the coolest years in past 60 million years’ doesn’t fit the agenda of the BBC and their bosses.

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    • jazznick1 says:

      Ian,
      They showed a graph on the Breakfast Show this morning that had a stretched Y axis to emphasise the tiny increase and a short X axis with a start point of 1940 !

      When people cannot see though this garbage for what it is and think for themselves, there is no hope.

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  44. Sluff says:

    On Toady an ‘interview’ between Knobson and a director of the Stop the War Coalition.

    It’s been an eye opener recently to look up details on the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Socialist Worker, key proponents of the pro-Palestinian marches.

    So let’s check out Stop the War.
    https://www.stopwar.org.uk/about/

    Quote
    ‘Stop the War was founded in September 2001 in the weeks following 9/11, when George W. Bush announced the “war on terror”. Stop the War has since been dedicated to preventing and ending the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and elsewhere.

    Stop the War opposes the British establishment’s disastrous addiction to war and its squandering of public resources on militarism. We have initiated many campaigns around these issues.

    We are committed to supporting Palestinian rights, opposing racism and Islamophobia……….
    We have been one of the main organisers of the massive protests against Donald Trump when he has visited Britain……’

    And just in case readers may think they are a bunch of well-meaning if misguided pacifists, let’s see who typically supports them.

    https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-does/questions-mayor/find-an-answer/stop-war-coalition

    Yep. Ken Livingstone was a big fan. And among their patrons are names that also occur on the Palestine Solidarity Campaign list of patrons. Jezza of course, Tony Benn, Ken Loach. All the old favourites. Amazing, isn’t it?
    https://www.stopwar.org.uk/stop-the-war-patrons-officers-and-steering-committee/

    In other words we have just another front organisation for the Marxist left.
    Something the BBC continually magically manage to fail to notice or mention.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Sluff – noticed the stop the war useful idiot using the ‘football manager defence ‘ – when asked – did your player deserve a red card ‘I don’t know I didn’t see anyone ‘( calling the the extermination of Israel – jihad ) ….

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    • Thatcherrevolutionary says:

      Stop The War? Ukraine?

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  45. tomo says:

    Not on the BBC…

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  46. tomo says:

    I see Zelensky has cancelled the Ukrainian presidential election.

    I wonder if he was instructed to do so by Democrats + neocons in Washington?

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  47. Sluff says:

    Laughable unchallenged comment (again) on Toady from the ex Labour leader of Burnley council, now resigned over SirKeers Gaza policy.

    He said, with no irony, that a Gaza ceasefire is not a Muslim issue, it’s a humanitarian issue.

    In that case you would expect no material difference in ward or constituency demographics between various proponents of the ceasefire. But guess what. All the main proponents have very large Muslim populations. Ergo Muslims are supporting a ceasefire that will benefit Muslims.
    In any other context, that kind of discrimination would be called racist. But apparently it’s OK. Unlike asking someone to ‘go back to Bahrain’. Now THAT is a criminal offence.

    Lewis Carroll is still alive.

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  48. digg says:

    This BBC article is just beyond belief.

    Either they have been taken in hook line and sinker by Hamas or they actually helped craft this ridiculously unbelievable rubbish.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67327079

    And they brag that this is only episode one with more to follow.

    Who the hell have they got working for them?

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