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  1. tomo says:
    December 3, 2023 at 1:37 pm

    ComcastEU “at it”

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  2. Doughboy says:
    December 3, 2023 at 2:39 pm

    Not the BBC, but an interesting article some of our politicians would do well to read, but I doubt this would be published by the BBC

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/301018811/the-new-government-has-a-once-in-a-generation-opportunity-to-lower-taxes

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    • MarkyMark says:
      December 3, 2023 at 3:51 pm

      “Keir Starmer of course still at #Cop28 talking about future of the planet with John Kerry and Hillary Clinton and Antonio Guterres this morning”

      ……………………

      David Lammy mastermind

      ……………………

      Labour conference: Wrong to say that only women have a cervix, says Keir Starmer
      MP Rosie Duffield staying away from Brighton gathering over online threats

      Andrew Woodcock
      Political Editor
      Sunday 26 September 2021 13:54
      https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-trans-rights-duffield-b1927169.html

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    • MarkyMark says:
      December 3, 2023 at 3:52 pm

      The food looks nice – posh nibbles!

      …………………

      Excellent to be at #COP28 with
      @Keir_Starmer
      and
      @Ed_Miliband
      .

      The
      @Conservatives
      have damaged Britain’s reputation on the world stage as a climate leader.

      @UKLabour
      will restore it and turn our response to the climate crisis into an engine for growth.

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  4. Kaiser says:
    December 3, 2023 at 2:53 pm

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    • Fedup2 says:
      December 3, 2023 at 4:27 pm

      If true – sounds like Eire is turning into Canada …. The killer ? Still has not been named . And if the State is bullying the victim family – what can you say?

      And do you notice how these ‘leaders ‘ – Eire – Scotland – londonistan practice a kind of fascism – beyond challenge ?

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    • tomo says:
      December 3, 2023 at 9:40 pm

      Again – if true as Jeff Gallagher says – this should *definitely* end the careers of the PM, the Justice Minister and a couple of Garda big-wigs.

      I wonder if the medics were threatened / pressured to ghoulishly maintain the kid for propaganda purposes?

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  5. JohnC says:
    December 3, 2023 at 3:31 pm

    Headline by BBC:
    Shane MacGowan: A unifying Irish-English voice, in time of bombs and bullets
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67581647

    What google tells me:

    ‘Shane MacGowan ‘felt guilty’ that he never joined the Irish Republican Army (IRA).’

    ‘According to the Irish Sun, MacGowan says: ‘I compromised. I should never have wavered from the path. There has been an Irish revolution in every century.’

    ‘I had participated in the ­revolution as a musician. It’s a revolution of the mind. I always felt guilty that I didn’t lay down my life for Ireland.’

    Now wonder they are being so nice to him. They both supported the IRA.

    Unlike Kissenger of course who is being vilified and attacked by the BBC despite the fact he just died. They didn’t like him at all – but then the BBC hate everybody on the Right these days.

    If OFCOM actually did it’s job, the staff at the BBC should be 50% conservatives and 50% lefties. I would be very surprised if they are not 99% lefties. But I’m sure OFCOM are the same. So they ignore it.

    All it would take would be an anonymous survey to ask staff who they will vote for and how they voted for Brexit. And of course it’s the last thing they will ever do because it would be proof.

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    • Fedup2 says:
      December 3, 2023 at 3:34 pm

      JohnC
      99% ? Are your really suggesting 1% of bbc staff are of the right?😎shurely shome mishtake ….

      Sure macgowan will be missed by someone ,..

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      • TrickCyclist says:
        December 3, 2023 at 4:41 pm

        I don’t suppose he ever met Clare Balding?
        She could’ve taken the mick out of his teeth like she did with that Irish jockey.

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  6. Fedup2 says:
    December 3, 2023 at 3:34 pm

    Always tricky for the BBC not to look too obvious in ‘news management ‘…

    .. unfortunately for the BBC some French official has told the truth about the murderer ( local man – French national – nice chap ) –
    Called out Alan’s snack bar before the killing
    Previous Islamic terrorist conviction
    Mental issues ( always )

    I don’t know if they started the ‘one off ‘ and ‘all in it together ‘ routine yet ….. it’s inevitable in the UK now ….

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  7. MarkyMark says:
    December 3, 2023 at 3:45 pm

    Man who reads book about man who went to cave to find religion that makes blow themselves up says … cddac588-81a1-47f0-b73b-50031727926d-3ef90bdc-ae54-473b-ad9f-370a362ea2a7

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  8. MarkyMark says:
    December 3, 2023 at 3:56 pm

    Mr Darmanin said the alleged attacker was heard shouting “Allahu Akbar”, Arabic for “God is greatest”, and told police he was upset because “so many Muslims are dying in Afghanistan and in Palestine”.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67604591

    <strVisit COP28 for the nice side of "Allahu Akbar"

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  9. king crimson says:
    December 3, 2023 at 4:10 pm

    According to the bbbc named as Armand R – sounds French but take away the ‘d’ and the ‘R’ and you’ve got Arman Rajabpour.
    Fixed it for you!

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  10. Dickie says:
    December 3, 2023 at 4:46 pm

    Climate change/global boiling in Germany🤔😂😂😂

    https://www.eugyppius.com/p/bavaria-in-the-snow?action=restack-comment&r=yjbos

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  11. tomo says:
    December 3, 2023 at 5:04 pm

    GMP fail the wuss test – there was a time when they absolutely relished a good ruck.

    “minor” ? – sheesh

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  12. atlas_shrugged says:
    December 3, 2023 at 5:07 pm

    An interesting list of Bilderbergers and WEFers involved in the convid conspiracy:

    https://wikispooks.com/wiki/COVID-19/Perpetrators/Bilderberg

    https://wikispooks.com/wiki/COVID-19/Perpetrators/WEF

    I think I might add Ryan Air to the bBC as organizations to avoid.

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  13. StewGreen says:
    December 3, 2023 at 5:12 pm

    “First videos from the scene in Marawi City in the Philippines where a terrorist bomb attack against a Catholic mass in a university this morning killed 4 people and wounded 50.

    A 5 month battle was fought against ISIS in the city in 2017”

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  14. MarkyMark says:
    December 3, 2023 at 5:24 pm

    HA HA HA HA HA!

    “Israel-Gaza: UK launches surveillance flights to find Hamas hostages
    Published
    18 hours ago”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67604423

    ………………..

    UK to send planes to spot migrants entering UK? HA HA HA HA!

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  15. Fedup2 says:
    December 3, 2023 at 5:36 pm

    Good propaganda piece on bbc radio news at the moment – the stabbing killing in Paris was done by ‘a French man ‘- I wonder if bbc verify will check this – and what is left out – such as another religion based crime by An evil Muslim …

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    • G.W.F. says:
      December 3, 2023 at 6:00 pm

      It seems that the French man, with mental problems and moslem sympathies, is connected to Iran via family. BBC News 1722 Frenchman ‘with Iranian parents’.

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  16. Fedup2 says:
    December 3, 2023 at 5:40 pm

    Just for the record – the Sunday observer editorial on what it thinks about the Far Left BBC

    STARTS
    Throughout the 100-year history of the BBC, a fierce debate has raged about how, in the words of its founder, John Reith, it should uphold its public service mission to “inform, educate and entertain”. To what extent should it focus on competing with commercial rivals for viewers – the viewers who, after all, pay for it through their licence fee? Or should it, instead, prioritise programming in the public interest that would not otherwise happen?

    If there were ever an area where doggedly pursuing what’s not in the commercial interest of others should be front and centre of the BBC’s remit, it is news. At its best, public service news broadcasting is a vital part of the fourth estate, of a democracy where the powerful are held to account without fear or favour. But the BBC’s announcements last week about cuts to its news programming reveal its most senior executives do not attach enough value to its public service remit.

    The BBC has been placed in an impossible position by the government. There has been a 30% decline in its public funding since 2010. Two years ago, ministers froze the licence fee in cash terms despite inflation spiking at more than 10%. It has to cut costs. But how it does so is up to its board and executives. Last week, the BBC announced that £7.5m would be cut from its news operation as part of a £500m package of savings. The worst-affected programme is Newsnight, BBC Two’s nightly news and current affairs programme, which will be turned into a shorter show featuring only interviews and debates, with no original reporting and investigations. Some of the capital from this move will be channelled into longer BBC One bulletins, digital journalism and a new central investigations unit.

    This represents a watering down of BBC public service journalism. Executives presumably hope that further centralisation of its journalism will lead to greater efficiencies and investigations that can be released simultaneously across multiple platforms. But the impact on the Today programme of losing its own specialist reporting and investigations a few years ago, leaving it with a limited capacity to break its own stories, should be instructive.

    Hard-hitting journalism requires editors who have personal relationships with their reporters and are willing to back important stories against institutional interests that might look to shut them down. Newsnight has run numerous high-impact investigations in recent years that insiders say the BBC’s central news operation would have been unlikely to touch, such as the mismanagement of the charity Kids Company, bullying by former Commons speaker John Bercow, and terrible standards at the Tavistock gender identity clinic for children: stories that have been picked up widely by other outlets and the rest of the BBC.

    The BBC’s chief executive of news claimed on Thursday that placing investigations at Newsnight limited their reach within the BBC – offering as an example its NHS whistleblowing investigation that she said had not featured on the Today programme that morning. But she was wrong: it had – an embarrassing gaffe that shows the people who run BBC news do not understand the reach of its own output.

    Ultimately, centralised news commissioning risks a descent into lowest common denominator journalism, where difficult investigations fail to get the backing of risk-averse and distant editors. It makes the BBC more prone to groupthink and institutional capture by unrepresentative worldviews, compromising its impartiality, which is reinforced through multiple and competing centres of commissioning informed by people with diverse perspectives. The relatively marginal nature of the savings – with investment directed elsewhere – suggests this is not just about cost cutting, but a broader centralisation agenda. However, in watering down the BBC’s capacity to investigate in the public interest, its executives will only make the corporation more vulnerable to attacks from its detractors.ENDS

    The best examples of ‘bbc investigations ‘ is ‘kids company ‘ and whether bercow was a bully ?
    Seriously – wouid anyone miss the BBC ‘investigations “? – Muslim rape gangs ignored – invasion of the south coast ignored – coloured folk stabbing each other – ignored …. Corruption of politicians – ignored ….

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  17. Thoughtful says:
    December 3, 2023 at 5:52 pm

    Well I do hope some of you managed to listen to the first Sunday in Advent service?
    I now feel in a suitable spirit for the seasons festivities and spriritually refreshed !

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  18. Guest Who says:
    December 3, 2023 at 6:05 pm

    https://x.com/CraigOliver100/status/1731037646347272330?s=20
    Newsnight was dying — but the BBC does need radical surgery. My piece for the ⁦Sunday ⁦@thetimes⁩ on the future of ⁦@BBCNews

    Given his CV, where the piece run and the topic, impressive engagement.

    Newsnight was however dead in the water as is the notion of ‘news’ at the BBC, and has been a long time.
    ⁩.

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    • Guest Who says:
      December 3, 2023 at 6:13 pm

      There is a lot of LOL material, but this stands out…

      Her way of achieving her vision has been to centralise. Individual programme editors are being given less power to commission — and will be served content from a new investigation unit and a beefed-up BBC Verify, designed to help work out what’s real in an age of deepfakes, misinformation and alternative facts. This direction is a show of support for Ros Atkins, the presenter who has made an art out of explainer videos and commands a salary of £260,000.

      Gav… mate… Verify is a standing joke, and Atkins overpaid by a factor of five, as are most in the decaying wreck of W1A.

      It survives merely as a useful propaganda tool for pols too stupid to twig the public is well aware, and because the pension debt and redundancy costs make it too big to kill off.

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  19. MarkyMark says:
    December 3, 2023 at 6:19 pm

    Glenys Kinnock: The political spouse who became a force in her own right
    Published
    2 hours ago

    “As Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead, she sat in the Lords between 2009 and April 2021.”

    – PICTUE IN A PUB …

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    • Fedup2 says:
      December 3, 2023 at 7:05 pm

      I’m sure Mrs kinnock received the best possible care – bearing in mind the considerable wealth / pension she and comrade Neil receive as ex EU staff and peers . I don’t know if her children will be a ‘political dynasty ‘ but son comrade Stephen ( graduate of Cambridge and the EU college)is well on the gravy train ……and he is the ‘shadow immigration minister ‘.. lol ..

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      • MarkyMark says:
        December 3, 2023 at 7:24 pm

        Name of donor: Refugee, Asylum and Migration Policy (RAMP)
        Address of donor: c/o Kirk Rice, The Courtyard, 69 High Street, Ascot SL5 7HP
        Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Bus hire, Eurotunnel crossing and food, value £317
        Destination of visit: Calais, France
        Dates of visit: 9 June 2022
        Purpose of visit: Delegation from the Migration APPG to Calais to meet with volunteers, NGOs, refugees and local politicians to discuss the migrant crisis in the English Channel.
        (Registered 17 June 2022)

        https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=25297

        Members’ Interests
        Stephen Kinnock

        Name of donor: European Leadership Network (ELN)
        Address of donor: China Works, 100 Black Prince Road, London SE1 7SJ

        Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Flights, accommodation and visa, total value £1,030.96

        Destination of visit: St. Petersburg, Russia

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    • Flotsam says:
      December 3, 2023 at 8:34 pm

      Remember Neil and Glenys getting swamped by a wave on Brighton’s beach?
      Some years later Neil Kinnock was Interviewed on TV and asked about the Incident. He actually claimed he never even got his feet wet, yes really. The main is a total lying b****** and treats us a fools. A nasty piece of work
      Judge for yourselves:

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  20. MarkyMark says:
    December 3, 2023 at 6:22 pm

    How about a year without ANT & DEC?

    “I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! hosts Ant and Dec have suggested the ITV show takes a break from putting politicians in the jungle.

    Asked on Instagram whether Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was a potential future campmate, Dec said: “I think we do a year without any politicians.”

    “Agreed, agreed, agreed,” Ant responded, according to the Daily Mail.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67606402

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  21. Richard Pinder says:
    December 3, 2023 at 6:49 pm

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    • MarkyMark says:
      December 3, 2023 at 7:25 pm

      BBC Parliament
      20 October 2023

      We have reviewed our use of on-screen captions during an Adjournment Debate at the House of Commons called ‘Trends in Excess Deaths’. There were concerns that the captions, which outlined the NHS guidance on vaccines for Covid-19 and other diseases, showed bias against Andrew Bridgen MP who was making a speech that challenged the Government’s position on the safety and efficacy of the Covid-19 vaccines. It is normal practice to provide accurate information and context to these debates on screen and in this case it was an important aspect of our coverage due to the nature of the assertions being made in relation to public health. However, we accept that there was a lack of consistency in our use of these 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 captions during such proceedings.

      In addition, one of the captions stated “Official vaccines do not cause allergies or any other conditions and do not contain mercury (thiomersal)”. This caption should have been attributed to the NHS and read: “NHS guidance says serious allergic reactions to vaccines are rare and that vaccines can sometimes cause mild side effects. They do not contain mercury (thiomersal)”.

      03/11/2023

      24/11/2023 updated with information about one caption

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications

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  22. MarkyMark says:
    December 3, 2023 at 7:29 pm

    American Fiction director says white audiences are too comfortable with black clichés
    Published
    19 hours ago

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67591392

    “Those kind of stories continue to put white characters at the centre of the film,” says Jefferson. “You can’t have most slavery movies without the white slave owners, and the slavers themselves.

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  23. G.W.F. says:
    December 3, 2023 at 8:49 pm

    Four killed in a stabbing in New York.. There is a lot of it about. No connection.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67605632

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