Midweek 13th December 2023

A freelance Sports presenter – probably the highest paid ‘employee’ of the BBC – continues to publicly express personal political views – usually contrary to the elected government . The man’s views are offensive to many – and breaches the ‘neutrality ‘ the BBC pretends to follow … the BBC fails to stop him – but if it damages the BBC it’s good for those of us who want to change or destroy it .

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398 Responses to Midweek 13th December 2023

  1. Thoughtful says:

    Yay!

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  2. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/afneil/status/1734641637685367205?s=61
    UK government department moves jobs from East Kilbride to Glasgow. SNP claims it’s an insult to Scotland perhaps forgetting Glasgow is in Scotland. Vacated EK offices to be filled by another UK gov dept. Still an insult to Scotland.

    Puts one in mind of…

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  3. MarkyMark says:

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  4. Sluff says:

    UBBC 1 10 pm news.
    An asylum seeker on the Bibi Stockholm accommodation ship has died. It appears he committed suicide.

    This factual information is not good enough for the BBC. They demand a full-on, sentimental, hankie-wielding treatment.

    He came here, a vulnerable person, seeking asylum, the poor unfortunate blah blah blah,

    But was he legal or illegal? No answer.
    Was he genuinely fleeing persecution or an economic chancer off a cross-channel rubber ferry? No answer.
    Where was he from? No answer.

    No answers. No insight. Only the usual BBC biased pro- mass immigration narrative. And of course not a shred of thought for the taxpayers who pay for it all, the homeless living on the streets who don’t have a nice accommodation ship with a bed, meals and heating. No thought for taxpayers who cannot get to see a GP.

    Just one long piece of bias.

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    • Sluff says:

      …….and then, with absolutely no sense of irony or self-awareness, BBC pro-mass immigration also gives you this.

      ‘Hundreds of women and children trafficked to UK to shoplift’

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67687565

      Celebrate the diversity. Embrace the multiculturalism.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        ‘Hundreds of women and children trafficked to UK to shoplift’

        UK GOV – employment goes up!

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    • Deborah says:

      On GB News a human rights lawyer Ivan Samson suggested that IF the death was self inflicted it might be better if asylum seekers are allowed to work because boredom can cause mental health issues. Jewish refugees coming over to Britain before WW2 were not allowed to work. They volunteered for farm work etc. There is so much litter about these days that asylum seekers could pick up litter and make their new country a better place. When Jews were interned on the Isle of Man the young men were the best educated in the country as the teachers and university lecturers who were also interned used the opportunity to teach them.

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      • Eddy Booth says:

        Getting up at 6 in the morning and setting off in the dark, to go work in a factory or something, would have done the trick of cheering him up.

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      • R P McMurphy says:

        My aunt came over on the Kindertransport, on her sixteenth birthday she joined the British army as an interpreter.

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    • StewGreen says:

      If he hadn’t been allowed into Britain, he might still be alive.

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    • Wink1 says:

      A couple of weeks ago the body of a homeless person was found in undergrowth on a major roundabout in my town. Hardly any attention was given to this story or the one of the homeless person found dead in his car previously. Media, politicians etc couldn’t care less when it is one of us but you know,for sure, that this story will run and run !!

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      • Eddy Booth says:

        A couple more and the Bibi Stockholm floating hotel project will, triumphantly for some, be over.
        If I was a resident I’d be worried …

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  5. Richard Pinder says:

    BRAINWASHING, BBC, WOKEISM

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  6. BRISSLES says:

    Deb , this human rights lawyer and his ilk are ignorant of any facts that happened in this country before the arrival of his parents/grandparents – and don’t want to know, they’re not interested. They’re only focus is on protecting the alien and their fee from the Legal Aid that we’re paying. The migrants can find the fare for their small boat passage, but it’s us that’s coughing up to help them stay here.

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  7. StewGreen says:

    Full video shows that Despite the crazy masked anti-piano security folk at Kings Cross
    Brendan Kavanagh the 2.1 million followers station pianist was not arrested or stopped
    The immigrant security were not good at explaining that that the piano was facing inwards when it should be facing outwards.
    When they did explain and it was spun around even the policewoman started playing

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    • G says:

      Can’t forget that music in islam is, Harram. That’s probably why. Player is surrounded by islamists.

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  8. TheRebelUK says:

    BBC have a story about the cowardly so called conservatives who just past another useless bill about Rwanda which legal experts said won’t won’t. They have a comments section so I left a good comment and then they removed it and said the following — Thank you for recently contributing to the BBC website.
    Unfortunately, we’ve removed your comment because it broke the house rules

    This is the text you wrote:
    just let them all in! Why not it’s not as if we are the most high density population in most of Europe. It’s not a problem that we have our own born and bred citizens who are sleeping rough but immigrants get free everything. We don’t have houses and resources for our own but seems like you want the floodgates open? We should put our own people first not the 3rd world who bring us 3rd world probs

    How the hell do they justify removing this comment? I absolutely hate the BBC the brainwashing propaganda that loads believe

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  9. Richard Pinder says:

    Why the BBC and Chris Whitty are responsible for “Mass Murder”.

    From the BBC to the Telegraph, the British Media protects Chris Whitty over his ‘Shut Down’ of the Ethics Committee. Only on Twitter and GB News: https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1729877887275438588?s=20

    At the outset of the pandemic, a pre-existing group of approximately 20 experts selected as leaders in their fields of medicine, ethics, law, social science and religion was asked to advise UK Ministers and senior officials on the complex moral and ethical aspects to decisions that would need to be taken during the pandemic. The UK Health Department was to convene weekly meetings of the group, known as the Moral and Ethical Advisory Group, or MEAG. In violation of the “Nuremberg Code” MEAG was first sidelined, then suppressed, diverted, and ultimately shut down. Crucially this happened after the group had begun to raise what seem to have been increasingly persistent, serious and inconvenient challenges to key UK Government policy plans, most notably in relation to Covid passes, a vaccination requirement for care home workers and – arguably the most ethically controversial decision of the pandemic – the mass Covid vaccination of children, which had involved the UK’s Chief Medical Officer overriding the Government’s own vaccine advisory board which had declined to recommend mass rollout for healthy under-16s. Not to mention “Mass Murder” by suppression of early treatments like Ivermectin.

    In each case the official public records show that members of the group had expressed serious reservations. In addition the official summaries of MEAG meetings record that after having raised concerns in relation to Covid passes, the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty, reportedly “counselled [MEAG] against producing documentation that offered recommendations, given the political aspect of decision making.” In other words, it appears that Professor Whitty directed MEAG to stop putting its recommendations in writing.

    In the Summer of 2021, MEAG flagged that it wished to give advice on any proposal for the mass Covid vaccination of children, and some of its members provided the UK Health Department with a paper expressing serious concerns on the matter. The paper referenced that Covid vaccines were invasive, irreversible, and may have long-term side effects yet to be identified and that it challenged the purpose of vaccination of children by questioning the known benefits and harms for individuals and calling for urgent consideration of the issues. Incredibly, the Health Department then cancelled – on the day – the meeting at which those issues were to be discussed. As a result the vaccination of children was never formally discussed with the UK’s ethics committee. Thereafter MEAG was effectively given a 3-month sabbatical during which time the controversial decision to vaccinate children aged 12 to 15 was pressed through by the CMOs of the four nations via an unorthodox overriding of the JCVI’s decision not to recommend it for mass rollout.

    MEAG was reconvened by the Health Department in September 2021 – after the controversial decision to vaccinate children in the UK had been taken. It met on just three further occasions over the remaining four months of that year and was instructed to discuss topics wholly unrelated to the pandemic, such as virginity testing and the use of AI in medical imaging. MEAG was then never again convened as a group. While the evidence appears to present the impression of a deliberate circumnavigation of inconvenient ethical advice.

    https://brownstone.org/articles/press-silent-on-shut-down-of-uk-governments-ethics-committee/

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    • Richard Pinder says:

      How the Devil funds Chris Whitty and the BBC

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      • TheRebelUK says:

        COMING NEXT!
        Cyber Polygon 2020, WEF Founder Klaus Schwab warned about a coming “cyber pandemic” that would be worse than the current global crisis:

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    • TheRebelUK says:

      Rich, great post and exposes more of the crimes against the people. At least more people are waking up to what’s really been going on with the so called pandemic. The thing we all need to be watching next is the power grab by the WHO next year

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  10. taffman says:

    “Border Force seize big cat body parts and crocodile blood”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67695946
    Its time the Border Farce started seizing the illegal immigrants and turning them back!

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  11. tomo says:

    When the *huge* Army stores depot (largest overall?) in Shropshire burned down just before a stocktake the three most senior officers in the quartermaster part of the Army were summarily dismissed without pension – as gazetted in The Times.

    Paying a fine to the (utter effing useless) Information Commissioner is simply farce.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67660964

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  12. StewGreen says:

    A Turkish lawmaker who declared that Israel “will suffer the wrath of Allah” went into cardiac arrest and collapsed on the floor of Parliament Tuesday — mere moments after delivering his harsh critique of his country’s response to the Israel-Hamas war.

    “You will not escape the wrath of Allah,” Hasan Bitmez said moments before he collapsed and seemingly hit his head on the marble floor

    Bitmez’s heart reportedly stopped in the Parliament but was later restarted, YNet News reported.

    Bitmez, who serves as deputy head of Turkey’s Felicity Party, is also diabetic. He received two stents in arteries in his heart after an angiography at a local hospital, YNet reported, citing BBC in Turkish.

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    • Deborah says:

      I think, but stand to be corrected, that heart stents were developed in Israel. It is one of those things quoted that people who want the destruction of Israel should do without. Another is treatment for diabetes.

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    • JohnC says:

      Zelensky has become an object of ridicule popping up in his military-style khaki tops like a comedy jack-in-the-box anywhere he thinks he can get on TV.

      It’s about time everybody accepted the reality of Ukraine and started negotiating a ceasefire. I have more respect for the lives of the brave Ukranian soldiers than I do those of Hamas and their supporters.

      What a shame the Left and UN don’t care about them at all because they are white and can’t be used as ‘victims’ for their virtue-signalling and hatred of Jews. The imbalance here is ridiculous.

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  13. JohnC says:

    Front page BBC news:
    Rastafarian soldier wins racism case against Army
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67697653

    A lengthy, rambling article from the BBC with basically nothing of any significance to say at all except take one black persons word of how racist everyone else is.

    The man gives comments the BBC class as ‘racist’ which are far, far less offensive or abusive to what I saw in my time in the forces.

    It seems the worst thing of all which happened to him was:

    ‘.. career was brought to an end following a row at a guardroom, in which a white guard didn’t believe he was a soldier.’

    The BBC are then very, very vague about how such an incident resulted in the ‘end of his career’. We have to read between the lines:

    ‘He says the interaction left him “completely flabbergasted”. Mr Pile-Grey admits he then lost his temper and describes being bundled out of the guardroom.’

    Sounds a lot like he got violent to me.

    ‘Eventually he was given a formal charge of insubordination.’

    Oh dear BBC. Sounds like another huge lie by omission.

    Dwight Pile-Grey says he always knew he’d stand out in the Army.
    ‘He was the first Rastafarian soldier to be allowed to wear his hair in locks.’

    I think are supposed to think that’s racist – but I have no idea why he should have been given special rules because he was black. I have a strong suspicion he demanded it and they gave in to avoid being called racist. And that would have made him stand out even more. In fact it’s the reason the ‘racist’ whitey questioned if he was actually in the Army.

    ‘Mr Pile-Grey made a service complaint, which was eventually rejected. It was only then that he took his case to the employment tribunal, which ruled earlier this year.’

    ‘Emma Norton, from the Centre for Military Justice, gave legal support to Mr Pile-Grey.’
    ‘She added: “It’s lost an excellent soldier in the process.”‘

    I wonder what Emma knows about soldiering. I bet she’s never even been on an army base.

    In case you wondering what he was ‘excellent at’ , he was a musician who played the French horn.

    All in all an appallingly written article which is desperately trying to make out how racist the Army is and failing completely. Everyone gets the kind of banter he got. In fact his was mild compared to what whiteys get. They have no ‘race’ protection and get no special rules.

    Meanwhile NOT on the front page:

    Islington: Murder arrest after man dies from stab wounds
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67689459

    Here we have the opposite. The briefest of ‘facts only’ reports and buried immediately into ‘Regions’.

    I think that means we can assume both men involved are black. So the BBC want to hide it because there’s no whitey to call racist. Black Lives don’t matter to them one bit. I suspect the BBC office gets very excited when a white man murders a black man. I am sure they hope it’s the case every time one is stabbed. They will be disappointed every time they discover it was another black man who did it.

    I don’t have the words to describe how much the complete lack of ethics and total hypocrisy of the BBC disgust me.

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  14. Fedup2 says:

    Toady

    Unintended funny . Doctors are pretty clever people right ? So meesh interviews a doctor who has invented a way of doing more operations . It involves using 2 theatres with a team moving from one to the other so there is less ‘down time ‘ …

    … wow so clever – surgery has been going on for -what – 100 years – and some one just thought that up – wow – I laughed .

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    • JohnC says:

      The doctors union will block it unless they get more pay.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Yes they left out that bit – meesh didn’t ask her mate about the medical mafia – this radical idea is only done at the weekend which suggests triple overtime …

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  15. StewGreen says:

    8:53am Random switch on ..R4 Today were promoting a Somali restaurant in London.

    2 tickboxes there.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Stew – this was in regard to carol singing where so many people turned up the devil – sorry – cancelled it on health and safety grounds …
      The restaurant bloke was called Mohammed …..

      The BBC has an ambivalent attitude toward ‘carol services ‘ – it’s a bit Christian . Now the bbc is part of the anti christ – so surely they’d be against carol services – but the bbc likes ‘community ‘ … tricky for it ….

      In fact the whole attitude to Christmas is weird – I see it as part of my religion – not the biggest bit obviously – that’s Easter – but the BBC seems – for a moment – to see Christmas as good …which is not approved thinking …

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  16. andyjsnape says:

    I wonder what rubbish bbc verify will verify today

    Honestly such a waste of money – do you need a 2nd layer of verify, just tell people the bbc’s point of view, we can choose to ignore it either way 🙂

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  17. harry142857 says:

    Fleeing war, my ****.

    Suppose the lefty barristers are doing £20,000 of work each pro bono.

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/migrants-who-crossed-channel-in-boats-claim-damages-for-unlawful-treatment/ar-AA1lovoR?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=9cd993a653fe4cf89237968b83891ce7&ei=14

    Sixteen asylum seekers who crossed the Channel in small boats three years ago have made damages claims against the Home Office after complaining about their treatment on arrival in England, a High Court judge has heard.

    The migrants have complained about “unlawful” searches, mobile phone seizures and “data extraction”, “non-return” of “items”, or possessions being returned “damaged”, Mr Justice Nicklin was told on Tuesday.

    Lawyers representing ministers indicated that claims were being disputed.
    Mr Justice Nicklin, who oversaw a preliminary High Court hearing in Court 13 at the Royal Courts of Justice complex in London, said the case would be reconsidered next year.

    The judge said the migrants could not be named in media reports of the case.

    He said issues relating to the reporting of names would be reconsidered at another hearing.
    A barrister representing the migrants indicated that each was claiming about £20,000.

    “Between 25 April and 6 November 2020, the claimants crossed the English Channel in small boats from Calais,” Eric Metcalfe told the judge in a written case outline.

    “On their arrival in the UK, each of the claimants claimed asylum.

    “They were also searched – in some case strip-searched – by (Home Office) officials.

    “Among other things, the (Home Office) seized their mobile phones and any SIM cards and told them they were required to provide their PIN codes.”

    He added: “In every case, the (Home Office) failed to return the claimants’ phones and SIM cards for a period of several months.”

    Mr Metcalfe indicated that claimants were getting legal aid.

    In March 2022, three asylum seekers won a court fight with then-home secretary Priti Patel after she admitted that their mobile phones were unlawfully seized under a blanket policy aimed at migrants crossing the Channel.

    The trio had challenged the lawfulness of the circumstances and policies under which they were searched.

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  18. Eddy Booth says:

    “People in Rafah visibly exhausted and angry – they tell me why”
    Adnan El-Bursh

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-67687628

    I’ll have a wild guess, they’re angry at Hamas, their government, for idiotically attaching the neighbours ?

    “I see two girls filling empty plastic bottles with sand. Two more girls lie on their stomach in the dirt, their heads resting on an old pillow.
    I cannot describe the desperation people feel.”

    No, but you could at least address your own question about why..

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  19. Fedup2 says:

    Reith lectures

    Dismal – dumbed down – humourless – approved – meaningless – boring – tedious – off switch …

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  20. AsISeeIt says:

    Fanatics, rebels, rightwingers, mutineers and tainted cheese edition

    Predictably, the corporate-crony globalist Tories kick the can down the road, allowing their hyper-immigration splurge policy to continue unabated

    While our BBC very quickly moves on to headline other distracting matters: COP28 deal pledges transition away from fossil fuels for first time

    The morning after print press concensus confirms how that momentary great migration debate was no more than a blip, a hiatus, on the inevitable road to perdition for the people and nation of Britain

    The freebie giveaway advertising sheet, stuffed chock-full of cheap grub supermarket deal copy, is of course delighted: Rishi saves his bacon… Breakfast butties do trick as Rwanda flight rebels fail… for now… Frying start: Mr Sunak at cabinet meeting yesterday (Metro) there’s a recipe for political fudge. And wow… Mr Sunak – such unaccustomed deference from the youth-orientated metro-centric left-liberal Metro. Who’s hungry after reading those mouth-watering headlines? – Bacon, anyone? Don’t panic, Rishi’s not muslim or jewish or vegan – he’s a hindu

    What’s a hindu…? It lays eggs for breakfast

    There’s an awful lot of power of patronage and proferment available to a prime minister.

    From the supermarket manager sharpie in the top pocket name badge lanyard shop floor bog-off bottom end of the – pile ’em high sell ’em cheap – corporate market Metro to the boardroom C-suite executive lavatory key holder Financial Times – the duo holding BBC press line-up top spots, natch

    Sunak brings seasonal glad tidings of comfort and joy

    Sunak heads off rightwing revolt to win vote on Rwanda migration bill (Financial Times)

    Janan Ganesh – who posits: Janan Ganesh: a defence of elites… Political elites are taking a hammering, with Britain’s vote to leave the EU and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign just two examples of a populist backlash against the ruling classes. FT political columnist Janan Ganesh looks at whether the establishment has really failed the people – so we know where he stands

    Today our Ganesh adds his two penn’orth: ‘The most business-minded premier in UK history, like a lot of trepassers into politics, doesn’t understand fanatics. How could he? In his former line of work, everyone is open to a deal’ (FT)

    Kerching! Mazal!

    Ganesh likes the business-minded Rishi, but the business-minded Donald Trump, not so much?

    Sunak sees off the Tory Rwanda rebels… for now (Daily Mail)

    Rwanda revolt to set up new year showdown with Tory rebels (‘i’)

    Sunak avoids major rebellion over Rwanda deportation bill – for now (Guardian) – did I mention the press lefty/soft-right concensus on this one?

    Sunak faces down Rwanda rebels… Prime Minister hugs Chief Whip as not a single Tory votes against the legislation (Telegraph)

    Sunak survives Rwanda vote but it’s not over yet (Times)

    Perhaps we’ll see some divergence from the achingly pro-Labour Mirror, or from the toe-curlingly Rishi lackey loyalist Express?

    A government adrift… the nightmare after Christmas… Tory right warn weak PM of trouble ahead – screams the Mirror

    Labour supporters can’t really go too hard on the actual issue at stake here – it’s a win-win for them. Rishi has gifted Labour another few months before the general election that will bring in, unabated, another couple of hundred thousand low paid migrant Labour voters. And Starmer can continue to reassure big business he won’t go too hard on them and certainly won’t curtail their migrant labour supply.

    Victory for PM: Mutiny over Rwanda plan fades away… for now (Daily Express) – even the obsequious lackey loyalist paper knows the victory laurels they want to award Sunak are sadly temporary.

    With all this talk of rebels and mutineers – and hardly a moment to spare for a calm down dear – I’m reminded of that scene in the 1962 Mutiny on the Bounty movie with Marlon Brando as Fletcher Christian – invited by Trevor Howard, as Captain Bligh, to eat with his fellow officers, Brando refuses a portion of cheese – knowing the conniving Bligh has fiddled the ship’s supplies to starve the men but to amply furnish his own table. Brando remarks “This cheese is… tainted”

    One wonders whether any of those Rishi Sunak breakfast bacon butties tasted at all tainted to any of the potential Tory rebels yesterday?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “OP28 deal pledges transition away from fossil fuels for first time”

      Managers decide to hold meeting regarding last meeting so COP29 is ready to talk about previous talks.

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      • Scroblene says:

        As we’re told that the world fonacial system is going to implode very soon, I wonder if all those clowns at Copout28 realise that China and India are screaming ahead…

        “But Dr Muhammad Ali Nasir, Associate Professor in Economics at Leeds University Business School, said the risk is not so much to the global economy, as it is the economy of the West. From the DE…

        “[The] IMF’s own projections suggest China and India will grow about five and 6.3 percent this year and will continue to grow at a good rate next year.”

        And there’s me wondering whether all their coal fired power stations were making their countries more wealthy!

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      • moggiemoo says:

        “OP28 deal pledges transition away from fossil fuels for first time”…and yet I wonder how they’re getting home.

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  21. StewGreen says:

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  22. Deborah says:

    According to the Daily Fail the gentleman who died by his own hand on the barge was a Somali doctor. Now we are all human and any death in those circumstances is sad (qualifier because I don’t feel the same about Hamas leaders) but I just wonder why he didn’t come to the UK legally?

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  23. Flotsam says:

    [/conspiracy_on] Asylum seeker, illegal immigrant, dies, possibly suicide, on the day of the critical vote on the Rwanda Asylum Bill in Parliament.[/conspiracy_off]

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  24. atlas_shrugged says:

    Italian Health Minister Under Investigation for Murder for Concealing COVID-19 Vaccine Deaths

    https://vigilantnews.com/post/italian-health-minister-under-investigation-for-murder-for-concealing-covid-19-vaccine-deaths/

    No news from the bBC?

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  25. tomo says:

    Why aren’t the BBC interviewing Jehovah’s Witnesses?

    Modern “Reithian” Robinson – JSO are a nasty bunch. I see they (JSO) are promoting T-shirts etc. Will there be an orange bracelet that BBC staff can wear to subtly show their support?

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  26. Fedup2 says:

    At least that cop thing sounds like the only thing they achieved was oil deals and fudge ….keep burning the oil ..

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  27. andyjsnape says:

    Baby names: Most popular boy and girl names of 2023
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/67694955

    1) Boys. Bigger families on the way

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    • Terminal Moraine says:

      BBC too cowardly to address the Mohammed-shaped elephant in the room:

      “Experts at BabyCentre unveiled the lists […] The organisation say [sic] film, television, music and royal families have an impact on popularity, with names like Taylor (Swift) doubling in popularity […] It has also been noted there is a trend for magical or witch-themed names such as Luna, Sage and Lyra…”

      Yes that’ll be it. All those films and TV programmes being made about Islamic prophets. Producers can’t get enough of them.

      Keep trusting the experts.

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  28. MarkyMark says:

    2017 … Baby names: Olivia top for girls as William makes way for Muhammad {bbc.co.uk 20sep2017}

    Let us not forget that ‘Muhammad’ gets a special (privileged) page on the internet, no other name is given one … The popularity of the name Muhammad/Mohammed/Mohammad {ons.gov.uk}
    “But in the Muslim community the name Muhammad or one of its variations is very dominant as it is traditional to name baby boys after the prophet of Islam out of respect and honour for him.”
    http://visual.ons.gov.uk/the-popularity-of-the-name-muhammadmohammedmohammad/
    – Dominant is an interesting choice of word for the name Mohammed?

    I guess the name Mohammed will not be increasing in China … China Bans List of Islamic Names, Including ‘Muhammad’, in Xinjiang Region {bloomberg.com apr2017}

    – I cannot find a story about China banning names on the BBC £3.5bn News Service ‘Xinjiang ban’(does show beards,events and veils banned).

    https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/09/20/mid-week-open-thread-125/#comment-867942

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  29. vlad says:

    Not on the BBC: The police forced protesters to take down a solitary Israeli flag while allowing multiple Hamas and Palestinian flags, not to mention violent, racist, antisemitic chants and slogans.

    Incidentally, Allahu Akbar is nothing less than a war cry and should be banned.

    (Even the French are showing more couilles* than our pusillanimous authorities.)

    * see also coglioni in Italian, and cojones in Spanish. Like the BBC, we aim to educate.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12852595/Met-Police-officer-tells-Israel-protester-flag-Trafalgar-Square.html

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  30. taffman says:

    Can you all hear the cheering coming from the valleys?

    “Wales’ First Minister Mark Drakeford resigns”

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    • tomo says:

      It’s an indicator of the dry reservoir of talent in Welsh Labour that Drakeford was given the job in the first place.

      5 years of carnage

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      • Dickie says:

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        • Lunchtime Loather says:

          Other than Gordon Brown, I have never known a politician to be so out-of-their-depth as Drakeford. A friend owns a local pub, Drakeford is banned for life after his “pubs can open but cannot sell alcohol” ruling during Covid. We’ll be celebrating there this evening.

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    • moggiemoo says:

      Can’t hear any cheering yet but, then again, the speed of sound is so much slower in Wales.

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Clearly the poor chap is in shock. A good hubby might have insisted on a full-autopsy after his wife ‘died suddenly’.

      Maybe the results just came through? I wonder what they could have found?

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  31. andyjsnape says:

    Festive cheer and intellectual prowess unite in the University Challenge Christmas Special Series
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/university-challenge-christmas-special

    Couldn’t think of anything worse, other than watching another bbc programme

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    • JohnC says:

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      As expected from the BBC: completely racist and sexist.

      ONE white male from 9 people.

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      • Terminal Moraine says:

        John did you mean Ansari?

        “Ali Ansari, Expert in modern Iranian history and politics; Professor at St Andrews and founding director of its Institute for Iranian Studies”

        I think it’s 0 for 9.

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        • JohnC says:

          lol, my mistake !. 0 it is.

          I enjoy it when the BBC do this because it shines a spotlight on their most stupendous hypocrisy and double standards.

          They of course are doing it through sheer spite at people like us. Which again shows what they really are.

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  32. tomo says:

    Been like this since the Maidan coup in 2014 ?

    Joe + Hunter on the Xmas card list.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      He’s going to be removed soon as the Ukrainian people hate him, and unless the US takes him and his billions then he might well be assasinated.

      The next puppet ruler is likely to be Valerii Zaluzhnyi Commander in Chief of the armed forced (and likely every bit as corrupt as Zelenski)

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      • JohnC says:

        My experience of Thailand has taught me that once corruption is throughout the system, you cannot progress in it if you are not.

        As well as raking in cash from others, you have to dole it out as well to get anywhere.

        There can be no peace in Ukraine while this small man is in charge. If they are not careful, their military might collapse and all of it was for nothing. One thing is absolutely certain : the massive amount of aid they were given for a totally failed offensive shows they cannot win. Their youth is now gone. Their new recruits now are in their 40’s and 50’s.

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        • Thatcherrevolutionary says:

          Perhaps they could take a new populace from us? One we don’t want or need?

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  33. andyjsnape says:

    Gary Lineker seemed to break rules, next BBC chairman says
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67701186

    “Dr Shah said he would consider a new review of the BBC’s social media guidelines” – what keep changing the media guidelines? Or Lineker could keep his unqualified nose out

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  34. Fedup2 says:

    The IDF lost 9 brave soldiers yesterday – including 2 senior officers on the ground with their troops …. All I seem to hear from Hamas BBC is yapping about Palestinians – no so much the deaths of those fighting for Israel and us . RIP …. Your deaths really were for something worth fighting for …

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  35. StewGreen says:

    Gary Lineker is a lefty
    And rules don’t apply to lefties
    #ItsOKwhenTheyDoIt

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  36. StewGreen says:

    News is PR not truth
    Hence “suicided Bibby Stockholm man was a doctor from Cameroon”
    is contradicted by a statement from their embassy saying “Nope our guy is still alive”

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  37. Terminal Moraine says:

    Home page has been pushing this for several days now:

    “Gaza surgeon: ‘It broke me, not being able to save so many innocent lives'”. By coincidence the surgeon — the first Palestinian woman in Gaza — just happens to already be on the BBC’s 100 Women list:

    “She has been using her Instagram account to document the experience of treating people in the middle of a war […] Al-Saqqa studied medicine in the Islamic University of Gaza and surgery at London’s Queen Mary University.”

    Looks like it has the ingredients for another special exchange programme between UK universities, the media and Islam. A contender for Bake Off 2025?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-02d9060e-15dc-426c-bfe0-86a6437e5234

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    • andyjsnape says:

      Hello Terminal, Gaza surgeon was trained in the UK – I still wonder if she has paid for the education yet

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    • popeye says:

      “studied medicine in the Islamic University of Gaza”

      But I thought Gaza was just a refugee camp because of the evil Jews!

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  38. StewGreen says:

    Skegness migrant rape trial : not guilty
    after they failed to get a unanimous verdict

    “He said it was consensual and the jury believed him”
    “They were all British mate, I can’t get my head round this.”

    Thread : https://twitter.com/ActivePatriotUK/status/1734925721976414415

    AP said CCTV show him following her
    and then her falling down as if drunk
    and he helps her onto a bench
    where incident took place.

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    • digg says:

      His feet would not have touched the ground if he was white English…. we all know that!

      This thus sends a message to all Randy immigrants…. Just do what you like!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      2017 … “When I saw how pretty she was, I wanted to have sex with her.” (Hussein K.)

      Apparently he thought that he had already strangled her to death. The judge questioned him concerning “sex with a dead girl,” and the offender said:

      “It didn’t bother me to have sex with a dead girl.” (Hussein K.)

      According to his testimony he was too drunk to achieve an erection, so he inserted his hand. Since he had a previous injury from a bicycle accident, he pulled her into the river to wash his blood from her body. There he left her and fled.

      BBC Last Touched on this story “Afghan murder suspect in Germany was jailed in Greece (convicted of attempted murder in Greece)” {bbc.co.uk dec2016}
      Germans were outraged by the murder of Maria L, a student in Freiburg who volunteered for a refugee charity.
      He was given a 10 year-sentence but was apparently freed after about 18 months.

      – BBC £3.5bn News Service Search for ‘Maria Freiburg’ found wanting, the real world is just to horrible to report
      – Lady Gaga reveals chronic illness, with fibromyalgia featuring in her new documentary (sales pitch!)

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2017/09/13/mosquesmustfall/#comment-866359

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  39. G says:

    “Bail-in powers were also recommended by the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards (PCBS) in its June 2013 report. The Financial Stability Board’s (FSB), ‘Key Attributes of Effective Resolution Regimes’ – endorsed by the G20 – has recommended that resolution regimes put in place a bail-in tool in order to improve the toolkit for dealing with the failure of large, globally systemic banks.”

    “Endorsed by the G20” Yes, I’ll bet !! Ultimate bail-out for the disastrous mismanagement governments of the G20. The public – the Cash-cows.

    “…large, globally systemic banks.”? ‘Large globally systemic Building Societies’ anybody ?

    “The Building Societies (Bail-in) Order 2014” –

    Click to access Building_societies_bail-in_order_draft_5th_March_2014_consultation_draft.pdf

    What’s left to ‘skim off’ ?………

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  40. digg says:

    Much joy and rejoicing at the BBC while the COP-ers announce possibly, maybe, could be the beginning of the beginning of the end of fossil fuels, the vote pushed over the line by basically bribing third world countries to vote with the prospect of free money to be paid for by the likes of you and I.

    No mention that most of the biggest fossil fuel countries, including Russia, the US and China have not joined in the climate love-in hand-clapping though…..

    Meanwhile the BBC have decided not to point out what this in fact actually means for citizens in developed nations.

    So get ready to do without personal transport, heat for your homes, massively spiralling food prices, manufacturing industry carnage etc. etc.

    However some leaders in third world and island countries will end up swimming in cash in return for their votes.

    OK coppers, you can jump back into your (no doubt to be protected) private jets and skittle off home with a warm self-satisfied glow!

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  41. MarkyMark says:

    1 dead – remove bibi boat.
    22 dead – don’t look back in anger.

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  42. pugnazious says:

    The BBC’s stealthy brainwashing….

    Heather McCartney’s VBites bites the dust and the BBC reports that it is due to the cost of living crisis…’rising costs’….might suggest that it is really because vegan ‘food’ being force-fed to us isn’t palatable and most people don’t want it….which goes against the propaganda drive telling us to eat less meat. [Mishal Husain today tried to suggest the new ‘Chicken Run’ film may be anti-meat industry messaging only to get shot down by the film-maker….it’s just an entertaining film]

    Have to say couple of years ago we saw a huge effort by the media to flog us veganism….not just vegetarianism but veganism and told us that the Brits were all turning vegan at a rapid turn of knots. You had to suspect that this was a campaign invented by the government nudge unit in order to save the planet with the media all somehow persuaded to toe the line and push the messaging as they did with covid. Veganism was an extreme fringe off-shoot of vegetarianism which itself was fairly marginal….so how did veganism supposedly suddenly become so massively popular? It didn’t…it was a complete lie fed to us by the media on behalf of the government….which should give you a bit of indigestion along with the sawdust sausages McCartney sold….or didn’t sell.

    Happy to see it hasn’t worked yet which is why we hear the sinister and corrupt Lord Deben, once of the climate change inquisition, suggesting we must be made to eat and behave in a way he and his old committee wants.

    Another bit of stealthy brainwashing is the BBC’s reporting of the death, possible suicide, of an asylum seeker on the infamous barge. The BBC immediately framed this as a migrant so unhappy with the living conditions on the boat that he killed himself….the boat was designed to be uncomfortable and unpleasant in order to stop migrants coming here….said the BBC. Nevermind the boat was actually fairly comfortable with many facilities and plenty of activities for the residents as well as plenty of trips ashore. Didn’t top himself when living on the streets in France which must have been far more unpleasant. Fairly blatant BBC anti-boat propaganda.

    Oh and yeah…suddenly ‘GDP’ is back in favour as a measure of how successful the economy is…..or not successful as the BBC prefer……GDP drops 0.3% and the BBC delights in telling us that the economy is shrinking rapidly…not only that but maybe we’re actually in recession. Why does the BBC always try to portray the economy as in recession? Oddly when the figures tick up and GDP rises by 0.3% the BBC still reports it as a negative…’well it’s growth but very slow growth’….and then usually suggests that perhaps GDP is not the best measure of the economy and we should use something else…that shows us in a recession.

    Never trust the BBC..

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  43. MarkyMark says:

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  44. pugnazious says:

    Nearly laughed my socks off.

    R4 Woman’s Hour asking why women having illegal abortions are more likely to be prosecuted these days than previously.

    Interviewee suggested that maybe a shift in official attitude since 2018 but then said that a lot more women had heard about a pill that meant they could abort at home…and it was in part due to the Woman’s Hour helping to campaign and highlight this pill that allowed women to take control.

    Lol….suddenly Emma Barnett choked….no, no…not campaigning merely reporting….but of course, as always, it was campaigning.

    And the result of that campaign?…..more women aborting illegally…which is why more are being prosecuted…..which answers Woman’s Hour’s question….they, the BBC, are in part culpable in these crimes……lol.

    Didn’t think that through did they?

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  45. StewGreen says:

    Also Bournemouth case “not guilty”
    https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23941519.man-found-not-guilty-raping-woman-bournemouth-clifftop

    Ahmed Almyram, 31, was cleared of a charge of rape by a jury following a trial at Bournemouth Crown Court.

    The allegations related to an incident on July 7, 2023, where the woman said she climbed over a clifftop fence to escape him.

    The defendant said the pair met at Camel Bar, where they danced and drank together, but when he left the club he found the woman waiting for him.
    He said the woman was drunk and ‘not capable’ of walking by herself, so stayed with her in fear that homeless people would attempt to take her belongings.

    CCTV footage played to the court showed Almyram and the woman walking through Lansdowne searching for food.

    The defendant told police that he could not speak English but was trying to help the woman.
    … He said they slept together consensually and then the woman asked more, but after he said no ‘she got aggressive’ and he left.

    Neither of these cases seem plausible to me
    Immigrant guys hardly speaking any English meet totally drunk English girls and as they try to help them, they end up having sex.
    Of course some rape accusations are false
    and sometimes there is no evidence of non-consent apart from the accusers recollection.
    My older neighbours tend to say that girls who walk out of nightclubs on their own are not the same as entirely innocent.

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    • Lucy Pevensey says:

      Being on your own isn’t always a choice. I don’t know about nightclubs but I’ve been to concerts & films on my own. When you’re single you can miss out on a lot if you aren’t willing to do things by yourself. I travelled all over Europe on my own.

      These days things are different though. I don’t think I would do those things by myself if I was single now. Our world has been changed by the horrors of diversity.

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  46. Thoughtful says:

    When can we have one of these?

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  47. JohnC says:

    Laura Kenny: Women struggle to get pregnant because of athlete lifestyle
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/67690168

    Is there ANYTHING at all in this world which women can’t find something about to claim everything is not fair for them ?.

    Isn’t it great how there are NO disadvantages to being a man at all. Despite doing all the dirty, heavy and dangerous jobs in this world, it seems we don’t suffer any unfairness at all.

    Look who wrote it.
    2Q==

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