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  1. Charlie Farley says:
    December 22, 2023 at 8:00 am

    Exterminate Exterminate the writers and those two freaks…….a sad end to what was once entertainment for kids in the 1960s….Sums up the BBC groupthink completely !

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    • JohnC says:
      December 22, 2023 at 8:10 am

      They have changed a sci-fi program for young boys like me which sparked interests which eventually led to a career in technology into a vehicle for the far-left political agenda. They changed the main character from experienced white males with attractive female assistants (to get the dads watching) into a young gay, black doctor who commands zero respect with a black transvestite as his companion.

      And this on the back of the complete failure of hijacking the program to push the feminist agenda. Instead of learning from that, the BBC have said ‘f*ck you’ AGAIN and forced it even more.

      THAT sums up the Left and the BBC to me. And is a compelling reason why we should not be forced to fund their activism.

      What I don’t understand is how they allowed to get away with it again and again. OFCOM should be sacked as well as the BBC – but where are the politicians who should be protecting our youth from this brainwashing ?.

      I look forward to reading what a complete failure this latest abomination is.

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    • RTW says:
      December 22, 2023 at 9:42 am

      It’s gone from Exterminate Exterminate to Indoctrinate Indoctrinate.

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  2. AsISeeIt says:
    December 22, 2023 at 8:12 am

    Today’s newspaper round-up – announced unexpectedly and without fanfare edition

    Forget everything you were ever told about an obesity crisis – the Guardian has a new crisis for us: Revealed: huge rise in hospital admissions with malnutricion… according to NHS figures that have prompted warnings about the devastating impact of food insecurity

    Seems it’s that time of year when the left goes Dickensian on our ass

    Watch how quickly the Guardian moves us on from the medical symptoms: iron deficiencies… vitamin deficiencies – to the leftist political diagnosis: heath problems are rooted in poverty

    What’s up, doc?

    Prof Kamila Hawthorne, chair of the Royal College of GPs said doctors were facing “moral distress… it’s not like you can prescribe money or food”, she said – but just a moment doc, isn’t that exactly what you just did?

    The RCGP is calling for an expansion of free school meals – see, they just prescribed more free stuff

    English actor Hugh Laurie had a big international hit with the medical tv series House. Set in an American hospital the show was a subtle invocation of the classic character Sherlock Holmes, recast as a present day investigative clinician. Dr Gregory House, the unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, led a team of diagnosticians and many of his hypotheses about patients’ illnesses (that were ultimately proved correct at the conclusion of the episode) were based on subtle or controversial insights. His recurring catchphrase warned how patients always lie – couched in varying terms: “I don’t ask why patients lie, I just assume they all do.” “It’s a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.”

    Our Prof Kamila Hawthorne has no such Dr Gregory Housian qualms about her patients’ claims: “There are definately cases we hear about of parents going without meals so their children can eat…” (Guardian)

    The residually coronaphobic, left-leaning ‘i’ newspaper keeps crying out for some more official attention on its pet phobia: Covid cases double to 2.5 million people, with flu up 62% – but no one in authority is listening this time around. That’s SO 2020. Now they’ve got Ukraine and Gaza to think about.

    But don’t imagine the ‘i’ is living in the past – au contraire, the youthful pound shop Guardian is already imagining life as it will be sure to be in 2025: Now is Labour’s moment – the party is ready to govern by Ayesha Hazarika

    Mr AsI is considering initiating a new regular feature to include hereabouts in these reviews alongside some old favourites – such as the popular calm down dear: Which celeb still rocks a bikini at 51? See page 9 (Daily Mail)

    That was the inevitable thing – that just might happen…

    U-turn on minimum salary for family visa… Home Office… Instead of imposing a £38,700 requirement now, it says the threshold will be raised to £29,000… The revised proposal, announced unexpectedly and without fanfare in a parliamentary answer… (Guardian) – unexpectedly – like heck it was!

    Ministers drop visa salary threshold rise… backtracked on their plan… (Telegraph)

    You have manifestly and repeatedly failed to deliver on every single one of these key policies. Either your distinctive style of government means you are incapable of doing so. Or, as I must surely conclude now, you never had any intention of keeping your promises. (Suella Braverman’s resignation letter to Rishi Sunak)

    Well, at least Rishi will get a (grudgingly) good write-up from the usual suspects: Ministers row back on salary threshold for family visa… Ministers had been facing pressure over the issue in recent weeks, amid warnings the new visa rules would keep families apart… The Home Office has also confirmed that the [sic] anyone who wants to renew a family visa would be able to, without having to meet the new earnings threshold. (BBC); Backlash spurs cut to family salary visa threshold… James Cleverly has cut the salary threshold needed to sponsor a loved one – ah bless… the Financial Times there going all sentimental and dewy-eyed over ‘loved ones’ – ah, who says big international corporate capitalism has no heart?

    Seems we can now get our top surgeons, architects and computer engineers for the princely sum of £29k – whisper that to their trades unions

    Our presently near-to-out-going, most un-conservative of administrations of all time (to date) may well have a rather fitting parting gift for the population of our formerly-British economic zone – euthenasia

    Assisted dying: Is the tide turning? (Daily Mail) – seriously, assuming our Esther (ironically, famously late of the TV show That’s Life) armed inevitably with her private medical wherewithall, couldn’t she have a had a quiet word with her docs? Anyone with the experience of an elderly lingering loved one (the latter term ‘loved one’ borrowed from today’s FT – I’m still choaking back the tears over that one) even within the plebian auspices of the bog standard NHS, will know from experience that they hardly deploy the brilliance of a Gregory House MD – to as it were Rage, rage against the dying of the light (Dylan Thomas)

    After Esther Rantzen calls for a national debate, some in Church soften opposition and Starmer says there’s case for reform (Daily Mail)

    Thought for the day

    How does this call to officially recognise euthensia equate with our recent Lockdown policy – where supposedly no cost whatsoever was too much to pay for the prolonging of one elderly life?

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    • Fedup2 says:
      December 22, 2023 at 8:48 am

      Asiseeit
      Although the malnutrition story is a bit thin …. I’d be interested to know the age range – circumstances – of those being admitted ….is it fresh out of the dinghy third world ? Old people dumped by the ‘care ‘ system ? The offspring of druggie ‘mums’ or other new stereotypes / classes –

      And how does it measure up to the obesity crisis – which is about to be made worse by the annual binge about to hit us ?

      Perhaps the Department of health should illegalise Christmas for health reasons and to save the NHS … thinking of which – day 2 of the doctors’ strike ( Christmas holiday ) – thoughts and prayers with the punters you were meant to be caring for – but not you of course – …..

      As for the crap regime changing the invasion visa thing again – surprise ? Just another outgoing crap blue labour Home Secretary – Ho Ho Ho …

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      • Scroblene says:
        December 22, 2023 at 9:12 am

        Excellent summing up Fed!

        Just another outgoing crap blue labour Home Secretary – Ho Ho Ho …

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

        I suddenly had this vision of Mr Claus in a blue suit!

        It’s Friday 22nd December, so in this feeble government, it’s time for a new ‘u’ turn, another change in ‘policy’, a few mangled interviews on terrible ‘current affairs’ progs, and a general indication that the Conservatives have just given up on ever being in government again.

        Toenailians, Cubiclians, and Ofcomists must be rubbing their cloven little paws together with glee!

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        • Fedup2 says:
          December 22, 2023 at 11:17 am

          Scroblene – happy Christmas to you and yours – my local church as dumped midnight mass this year – there has been too much trouble in past years – which I know to be true… last year I volunteered to ‘do the door’ and got close to having to ‘engage ‘ with a third world pole so out of his head that he tried to ram the door to the mass until I persuaded him otherwise – not a good Christmas memory …

          Anyway – the days from now get a little bit lighter ( unless stew puts me right ) so it’s all good ….

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          • Scroblene says:
            December 22, 2023 at 12:00 pm

            And a Happy Christmas to you and yours too, Fed! Thank you!

            I remember midnight mass back in the sixties, when the church was packed solid, and my dad – the Rector’s Warden, telling us that several lads arrived after the pubs closed, and although, ‘they smelled of beer’, they behaved incredibly well, and obviously enjoyed the celebration!

            I’m sorry your local church has stopped such a great occasion for you all, and yes, the new evenings will be just a few seconds longer from now on, thank goodness! In two weeks time, some keen gardeners get ready to start their tomatoes off…

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  3. tomo says:
    December 22, 2023 at 8:34 am

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  4. Foscari says:
    December 22, 2023 at 9:19 am

    You only have to look up the “celebrities” for this seasons
    Christmas edition of Celebrity Mastermind to see
    why the biggest UK sporting success of 2023 Josh Kerr
    winning the World 1500 metres in which the commentator
    said was “the finest UK athletics achievement in 50 years”
    was left out of the final six candidates for Sports
    Personality of the year.
    The BBC is a disgrace . And in particular Barbara Slater
    the head of Sport. Yes of course it’s a women. Every day
    particularly on the news programmes its like one is watching
    Women’s hour . Between 6PM and 7PM on BBC last night
    For 30 minutes of National news and 30 minutes of the
    Londonistan programme. we saw 8 women presenters and
    reporters and two men.
    Its touch and go who enjoys putting men in their place
    Slater or Amanda Blanc of Aviva. Or maybe I am not being
    correct when I just say men.
    As for MASTERMIND Wow some of those general knowledge
    questions are like the ones on University Challenge!.
    ” Can you name a major organ of the body which has the
    same name as as one of the four suites of a pack of playing
    cards?” My wife and I were stumped. I thought it was spades.
    And she thought it was clubs. I think the answer was diamonds.
    I expect tonight one of the contestants specialist subjects
    will be the two times table. Or spelling their names.

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    • Sluff says:
      December 22, 2023 at 10:39 am

      True also of Christmas University Challenge.
      The BBC presenters on there frequently know nothing, and high scoring seems to be limited to questions about English Literature.
      Heck, they don’t even know the answers to the obviously-placed questions on anti-colonialism, slavery, BAME ‘heroes’, and women no-one has ever heard of.

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    • micknotmike says:
      December 22, 2023 at 10:41 am

      Morning Fos,
      If the question was “Can you name an ethnic group who bring nothing but problems wherever they go?”, your answer may have been correct.

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      • Foscari says:
        December 22, 2023 at 10:55 am

        Mick- I filled out the application to be a contestant to be
        on next years ” Mastermind” You aint seen anything
        like it. I have to admit I took the piss. BUT for that I
        may get to qualify ! In the what sex are you? I wrote
        non binary. For ethnicity i wrote Afro-Caribbean. And
        so it went on. They ask do you know anybody that works
        at the BBC? I said only the lady who sets the questions
        for Mastermind.
        They then asked what four of my specialists subjects are.
        Well actually two of them are Giuseppe Verdi and the Second
        World War. BUT to give myself even more chance of getting on..
        I gave them 1 The leaders of Hamas, 2 Hitler. 3 Muslim grooming
        gangs i n the UK.4 Perverts who have worked for the BBC past
        and present!!

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        • vlad says:
          December 22, 2023 at 2:06 pm

          Foscari you’d probably have been chosen but for ‘knowing the lady who sets the questions for Mastermind’, and Hitler.

          Next time, say Stalin.

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          • Foscari says:
            December 22, 2023 at 5:23 pm

            Thanks Vlad for your advice. I was going to put as my
            second choice ” Mein Kampf instead of Hitler. Or even
            Jewish friends of the Fuehrer. To be honest I because
            disillusioned with Adolf when I learnt from one of the
            YouTube video clips . That he was an Arsenal supporter.

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  5. Fedup2 says:
    December 22, 2023 at 11:31 am

    Christmas killings

    This one is one Keziah Macharia, 41- charged with killing her 4 year old son – Kobe in Hackneyistan …..

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  6. Guest Who says:
    December 22, 2023 at 12:49 pm

    And a Merry BBC TNI to all!

    https://x.com/RollingStone/status/1737982283536060834?s=20
    A Washington Post investigation has found no proof of a Hamas command center under al-Shifa Hospital following Israel’s attack on the medical complex

    Rolling Stone channeling WaPo; what could be more bent? Toenails (yawn) reading it over Shyster’s shoulder and passing on as a scoop on Today?

    This however is via an ‘investigation’, doubtless by a crack team of Mata Spring and a team from the Panodrama cubicles headed by “Fritz” Joubert Duquesne Wendling sifting verified Tik Tok posts from JezBo and JonDon’s mates in Qatar.

    Sources say.

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  7. Sluff says:
    December 22, 2023 at 12:56 pm

    Christmas. A busy time.
    So, ideal to inflict maximum pain on the public.
    Especially those poor unfortunate car users whose interests are totally ignored.
    I quote from a BBC report one hour ago. Let us say 12 noon.
    The M62, which connects Lancashire to Yorkshire, has been closed in both directions between junctions 21, near Rochdale, and 22, near Sower Bridge since 23:00 on Thursday after a 19-year-old man died in a collision.

    Yes it’s taken the clipboard users 13 hours to re-open the most important transpennine route on the national road network.
    That’s 13 hours.
    The war on the motorist covers many forms.

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    • BigBrotherCorporation says:
      December 22, 2023 at 5:45 pm

      Some might have been trapped on the motorway for much of that time too, without access to: water, toilet facilities, warmth etc…

      When these draconian road closures occur, it always feels to me like the police are collectively punishing road users.

      Similar logic to Khan and Drakeford, it would seem.

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    • Northern Voter says:
      December 22, 2023 at 7:13 pm

      Travelling from Hull to St Annes, I always used the A59. I found the M62 was stop go from Ferrybridge to The Manchester ring road.

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  8. G.W.F. says:
    December 22, 2023 at 2:14 pm

    A bit of BBC verifying wanted here

    BBC AVOIDS THE ISSUE OF HAMAS THEFT OF HUMANITARIAN AID

    https://camera-uk.org/2023/12/22/bbc-avoids-the-issue-of-hamas-theft-of-humanitarian-aid/

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  9. MarkyMark says:
    December 22, 2023 at 2:16 pm

    Merry Xmas and happy new year for 2024 ***

    *** I promise not to repeat this message 200 times in the next hour!

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  10. Fedup2 says:
    December 22, 2023 at 2:40 pm

    Marky

    Merry Xmas and happy new year for 2024 ***

    *** I promise not to repeat this message 200 times in the next hour!

    Have a happy one and many more …how’s Chinese barry ?

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  11. Guest Who says:
    December 22, 2023 at 4:22 pm

    How many staff there, at what cost?

    https://x.com/bbcnorthamerica/status/1737717216571711698?s=58
    American couple fund new juggling octopus Christmas light in Mousehole

    1 day; 1 comment.

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  12. G.W.F. says:
    December 22, 2023 at 5:43 pm

    From the UN resolution regarding humanitarian efforts to combat the humanitarian crisis with a humanitarian ceasefire to enable humanitarian aid for the Palestinian people.

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    • BigBrotherCorporation says:
      December 22, 2023 at 5:47 pm

      Ah, but the Palestinian people don’t seem very humanitarian minded to me, especially those Hamas friends of the BBC.

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  13. tomo says:
    December 22, 2023 at 5:48 pm

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  14. Guest Who says:
    December 22, 2023 at 5:48 pm

    The deal the bbc has with Banksy’s folk is pretty sweet. Commissions all round. He sells more ‘art’, both get the ideological promotion needed with the cover of the other outfit for the investment of one emailed image.
    However….

    https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1738205323029016771?s=61
    Banksy stop sign aeroplanes art removed in London

    Banksy’s people perhaps not reckoning on the cretinous incompetence of the bbc weekend before Xmas cover.

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  15. Kaiser says:
    December 22, 2023 at 5:51 pm

    minimum wage for immigrants goes up to £38,700 next year

    and then pfffffff its gone

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    • taffman says:
      December 22, 2023 at 6:25 pm

      Kaiser
      Why is our “Tory” government so obsessed with increasing the population of our country to the detriment of us, the people of Britain when we are already full up ? How many of you will vote Tory now ?
      Vote Reform or UKIP to defend our country !

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  16. taffman says:
    December 22, 2023 at 6:16 pm

    “Mohamed Al Bared: Student jailed for life for building IS drone”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-66599194

    How did he get in ?

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  18. Up2snuff says:
    December 22, 2023 at 7:03 pm

    TWatO Watch #1 – the ‘R’ word ….

    Jonny ‘Dalek’ Dymond invites Gerard Lyons to comment on the dismal ‘Q3’ figures for the UK’s Gross Domestic Product. “You are a capitalist then?” Dymond pejoratively asks Lyons. Am surprised that Dymond did not go the whole hog (as it is Christmas) and nail Gerard Lyons for being a Brexiteer as well.

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  19. Northern Voter says:
    December 22, 2023 at 7:15 pm

    Celebrity Mastermind, Footballer first round zilch, TV presenter 6, Radio Presenter 7, Dana zilch, where do they drag this dross up from?

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  20. Lucy Pevensey says:
    December 22, 2023 at 8:13 pm

    I found an advert with all white people in it. From The Refugee Council.

    https://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/latest/news/majority-of-people-on-small-boats-crossing-channel-last-year-are-refugees-new-analysis-shows/

    The image down near the bottom of the page comes up too large to post here. It depicts a dinghy full of all blond men, women & children.

    “Show refugees you believe in them this winter.
    This winter thousands of refugee men, women and children are rebuilding their lives in the UK,
    will you show you believe in them?”

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  21. Up2snuff says:
    December 22, 2023 at 8:21 pm

    TWatO Watch #2 – the ‘S’ word ….

    The Lefty BBC are still campaigning against the salary cap for spouses to immigrate to the UK. The BBC looked for exceptions so went back to see if they could tempt a British PhD student to bring her Italian, I think Jonny’s Pronunciation was not too good on the name of the male, husband to the UK. They could get research posts at a British University but because they think the UK Government might change its mind again on the £29.000 limit they will stay put in Italy.

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  22. Fedup2 says:
    December 22, 2023 at 10:13 pm

    I mean – why do they have to have visas anyway – anyway it’s Christmas innit so dump the visas – just turn up at Heathrow we ll have a pardeee….

    How could anyone describe Blue Labour as Governmenf … it’s one long car crash

    On that seasonal note it’s time for the weekendish thread ….

    Happy Christmas Eve Eve …

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