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“Amazon drought: ‘We’ve never seen anything like this’…….”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-67751685
Fear, fear, fear – more global warming propaganda.
Where has all the rain gone?
Here’s some denying propaganda from taffland……………..
Could be that people are drinking it all ?
Could be freezing up on the melting polar icecaps?
Could be pouring all over taffland ?
Ps
Nice native headdress and neckless . Normal boating headwear ?
The writer in person….
Brave lass seems to have spent several years in Lagos, Nigeria – I can’t help wondering how that worked?
https://www.youtube.com/@ICMPD
I’ve travelled the Amazon : Belem to Santarem to Manaus to Port Veljo to Bolivia then up out of the Amazon region
In may areas their used to be roads, then the Amazon took them back
ie It was dry enough to build roads and then wet enough so they decayed
if the BBC say the whole area is dry .. I’d buy shares in boatbuilding companies
very deliberately in your face….
Arrgh! I’m not religious, but that place is of great significance to my family – grandparents, Coventry blitz, death… you know, OUR history, specifically my family’s anyway.
WHO gave Muslims permission to pray there? WHY? Would Christians have been allowed to do the same in a mosque? No of course not.
Absolutely disgraceful, I’m actually lost for words, my parents would be mortified, they’re in their 80s and feel lost in today’s world. I’m not going to tell them. Last time they went ‘home’ to Coventry they felt terrified and intimidated.
To prove that Allah is all powerful. Christian God cannot strike them down!
I’m starting to see BBC bias where it doesn’t exist.
The BBC London weather forecaster for Boxing Day?
Sophia Herod!
Lock up your 1st born – I earlier ( jokingly ) did some predictions – one was about ‘freezing weather ‘ – at the moment the mail is predicting a ‘15 day snow bomb ‘ around new year …. I hope it doesn’t stop my plane getting out to sunny climes …
Yeah, and last week we were told it would be a white Christmas but I live a little way from Aberdeen. It was 15°C
here yesterday.
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear…the bloody BBC have done it again…
They’ve covered the 1939 Agatha Christie story, Murder is Easy. I’m quite a fan of Agatha and I often listen to this story being read by the brilliant actor, Hugh Fraser…who played Captain Hastings in Poirot. He’s got a beautiful voice. Very relaxing while sitting by the fire on these winter nights.
I suppose I should have expected it…or something like it, but…The story is set just before the outbreak of WW2 and the hero is home from a long spell abroad and travelling by train, when an elderly woman enters his carriage. She relates a strange and murderous tale to him…So far, so Agatha…but this is where the Beeb enter the story and…The hero isn’t the suave, rather debonair Englishman written about by Agatha…he’s now a black bloke. Well, of course he is…what was I expecting? I mean, 1939…middle England…barely a nonwhite face to be seen…
Obviously, I won’t be watching…and I’m guessing many millions who might have enjoyed this quintessential English whodunit, written by the queen of English whodunits, will also be giving this one a wide berth.
Why do it in the first place? These productions must cost a fortune. It’s a criminal waste of licence payers money. The people that it would appeal to…like me…are the very people that will be avoiding it like the bloody plague. ITV messed up with The Larkins, set in a lovely quaint Kentish hamlet in the 1950s and yet half the cast were bloody ethnics. It was absurd. People didn’t watch and it folded. Good!
Just a point of interest; the prolific Agatha’s next book was
Ten Little N*ggers…
Madam O’Blene was furious when the re-run of Darling Buds was shown! We avoided it all like the plague.
Had the H.E.Bates family been a little more acceptable, we’d have had the first series with normal indigenous British citizens in all the parts, up and running well before the wokists took control with their ridiculous demands, and even the second production might just have made it as nearly normal – not that the stories need a second airing at all anyway! The David Jason etc., cast was well worth keeping for posterity.
It’s typical, lazy ‘production’ of any old stuff these days, with a few couloureds chucked in to please Ofcom and the ragheads in W1AA, and rubbish the TV taxpayer in the process.
The best £159 we’ve ever saved is not seeing any of the dross they – and ITV for that matter – churn out with tedious monotony!
Murder is Easy will also star Sinead Matthews (Hullraisers, The Crown) as Miss Waynflete, Nimra Bucha (Polite Society, Ms Marvel) as Mrs Humbleby, Tamzin Outhwaite (The Tower, Ridley Road) as Mrs Pierce, Kathryn Howden (River City, Six Four) as Mrs Carter, Jon Pointing (Big Boys, Plebs) as Rivers, Demmy Ladipo (Dreaming Whilst Black, The Last Tree) as Jimmy Amaike, Gloria Obianyo (Good Omens, Mission Impossible) as Ngozi Ude, and Phoebe Licorish making her screen debut as Rose.
Three Nigerians and one Pakistani in 1930s England?
The casting directors are Karen Lindsay-Stewart and Emily Jacobs. Executive producers are Siân Ejiwunmi-Le Berre, James Prichard for Agatha Christie Limited, James Gandhi and Damien Timmer for Mammoth Screen, Danielle Scott-Haughton for the BBC, and Reemah Sakaan and Stephen Nye for BritBox International.
Yes Jeff, as soon as I saw the trailers for it last week, that was me done. TBH there are few ethnic actors that cut the mustard theatrically. A lot of Asians are quite wooden in their delivery- I don’t even watch comedies as they are about as funny as a septic foot. A handful of good British born black actors like Adrian Lester, will always get parts on their ability and not because the woke casting director tries to brainwash his viewers into being colourblind.
I saw Death on the Nile a few months ago. It was apparently made in 2022 and Kenneth Brannagh as producer. Russel Brand, Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French all appeared. The last two gave the impression of being a lesbian couple, which I don’t think was exactly how Agatha wrote it. But there was an actress called Letitia Wright, who played Rosalie Otterburn who really wasn’t the calibre of the rest of the cast.
The latest rip off of Agatha Christie has been set in 1954, as if that makes the main black character more believable!
He is meant to be a Nigerian attache of some sort, but given that Nigeria was still a colony in 1954 (and also peaceful and well governed) that is hardly believable either.
But then very little which is on the BBC is believable any more. It is all a multicultural dreamworld where Britain has always been a happy, multi ethnic fantasy land. If a woman Dr Who fails, replace her with a black gay Dr Who. That should work!
The BBC don’t realise, or don’t care, that their output is now so pathetic, unreal and anti-British that it has never been easier to stop watching any of it. Let that be our New Year’s resolution for 2024!
Coronation Street drops out of Christmas TV top 10
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67821839
‘Doctor Who fans watched the sci-fi series’ first Christmas special since 2017 in large numbers, while the final ever episode of comedy series Ghosts also proved a hit.’.
Both BBC series.
lol, the phrase ‘in large numbers’ immediately stands out as an odd thing to write and at the BBC, that ALWAYS means they are deliberate weasel words.
And a quick check on google shows that while all the other programs have roughly the same numbers, those watching Dr Who have dropped by a million.
Surprised by ‘Ghosts’ and the reasonable reviews on IMDB, I checked further. And sure enough it is not made by the BBC at all : it’s made by someone else, presumably who sold it to the BBC. In this case ‘monumental studios’. As is everything else on the BBC which people actually like. Anything they do themselves is absolute garbage now. Another consequence of their agenda-based hiring policy I presume.
Got to admire the brazen shamelessness of the BBC. They are as slippery as eels and you cannot trust a single thing they say to be the whole truth.
I can’t say I’ve ever watched Ghosts but there was a slew of similarly themed series back in the 70s. Rentaghost (BBC), Nobody’s House and The Ghosts of Motley Hall (both ITV).
The difference is all those programmes were intended for children or families whereas Ghosts seems to be marketed at adults. Which says something about audiences these days.
One of my heroes of the Plandemic scam is Mark Steyn. Brave, funny, and presenting devastating takedowns of the poison pushers. Only a few months ago he was kicked out of GBNews by an orchestrated putsch by Ofcon et al. Please take a look at the photo in the link below:
https://www.steynonline.com/13931/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed-trial-trial-again
What on earth could possibly have happened to this man who was so vibrant and funny to put him in a wheelchair and turn his hair all white? What could make this sudden transformation?
“and don’t you go thinking it is the ….. no, no, no, no”
Get well Mark – PLEASE
Atlas
I think I long said the state would destroy him one way or another . He also cared too much and carried too much on his on on his shoulders . I hope he survives but I think they’ll kill him .
Maybe Farage will go the same way too – although he performs a court jester function now …
David said that at around the time of the photo Nov 3rd
I haven’t found more recent video of him walking yet
I think reader will like this recent Steyn audio where he talks about Jews and Muslims in the UK
On BBC One at the moment – Charles III: The Coronation Year – featuring the voice of Huw Edwards. . .
TOADY watch #1 – …. a belated post. I don’t normally ‘do’ TOADY between Christmas and New Yaer because I find the Guest Editors too much to take. BBC R4 started early on Xmas Eve with Nicola Fox of NASA. Looking up her bio on Wiki, I was surprised to find she was a Brit. No mention of this was made on TOADY.
I heard a bit of today’s GE – Hanif Kureishi, who ticks a lot of BBC ‘diversity boxes’ !
I wonder what the listening figures have been – downward – downward …
sometimes whataboutery is important …
I noticed from backgrounding that Stephanie Hegarty BBC lady who’d spent years in Nigeria – that the long list of atrocities in northern Nigeria don’t appear on her radar?
Her account shows zero tweets about Lagos or Nigeria
but look at her bio
“Population correspondent @BBCNews
. Looking at demographic shifts ..
Economic migrant/oyinbo”
… That final line is not impartial. It shows a pro migrant agenda.
Oh she did tweet about Nigeria
but after a newspaper did a story about her criticising the president she deleted them all .. there are screenshots and quotes
She appears to tough on government (that’s OK)
but soft on Boko Haram
Her tweet about the girls they kidnapped from Dapchi
ok found some she didn’t delete them all
I must have been looking under the wrong account name
New TfL public customer facing attire for 2024?
wossatabout?
Yanquis?
And then there is the British missile attack on a Russian warship . How will putin reply ? What UK interest will he hit ? An expected cyber attack – or something more imaginative .
From what I see the country is wide open – undefended – so maybe the financial system will be easiest …. Mind you – nothing is at it seems these days is it ? BTW I’m running this thread until Friday as it’s rightly quiet ….
Putin has to be careful, he knows that the greedy corrupt Jews in the US Democrat party are just itching to get their hands on Russian natural resources and land as they have been doing in Ukraine.
This is of course what the war is all about, and it has destroyed Europe as a result. The US can no longer be regarded as an Ally as Biden blew up the nordstream so his greedy mates could profit from LNG.
All Putin needs do with Britain is allow it enough time to collapse. This last week Chinas Renminbi overtook the Japanese Yen as most traded currency, and the next one is likely to be the British Pound.
As Bidens greed ridden corrupt mob attempt more sanctions the BRICS nations look to seperate themselves as much as they can from the West and soon they will have an alternative to the SWIFT bank transfer system. Bidens loons are seeking to sanction banks which trade with Russia, can you imagine the outrage if they sanction a GSIB ?
Russia could easily attack UK gas pipelines or oil, which would cause some real problems for the people here. Cyber attacks are more likely to come from America false flagged as Russian, and we know these evil Demonrats are more than capable of attacking their so called friends.
The corrupt Biden has done the impossible. He and his administration are actually bigger crooks than Warren Hardings 100 years ago.
The Turks have been after the Kurds again. Since October. Western media reports were scarce while they blitzed us (no pun) with constant news of Russia/Ukraine first then the evil Israelis battering those poor terrorists in The Middle East.
Just re-reading the situation regards the bloodthirsty Nettenyahu and his desire to start a war with Iran.
He’s been at this now for well over a year, attempting to provoke Iran or its proxies into a war, but he has a problem that he probably hasn’r reckoned with, America cannot win a war against Iran.
Now there’s another problem, that it has managed to draw the entire Muslim world into unity. Turkey has a forrmidable army, and it doesn’t have far to go to defend Iran.
Worse still is the presence of China, who are building military bases in the country
Whilst I regard Iran as a highly destabalising influence in the Middle East, it is now far too late to do anything about it. The US attempted to end the influence of the Mullahs by starting the Iran Iraq war, then pushing their proxy to invade Kuwait to pay for the weapons they used, and then removing and executing him for his trouble!
Iran now has so much influence it can close the Red Sea entrance, and the straits of Hormuz. It probably wouldn’t bother Biden or the USA, but Europe would be finished.
Nettenyahu is on very thin ice, if he goes too far the US might undertake a few cursory air strikes – from a great distance, but that would be all they would do.
Maybe offer at least some proof of
“Nettenyahu and his desire to start a war with Iran.”
before going into full rant mode🙂
Wow Eddy there’s so much of it to point to that it would fill the entire thread.
Try this for starters there’s now even a Wikipedia page on the subject!
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=israel+start+war+Iran
I’m sure Iran is on the wish list – I have a theory that the US went to war with Iraq thinking it was Iran – they got the q and n mixed up – then thought ‘well they’re all ragheads so who cares ‘…. ? We can try out some new kit and it will be good TV
USA and Iran ayatollah regime – there’s a lot in there … not just the proffered theme…
Truly hair curling.
I’d add that it’s now out of copyright and on Wayback
Packed with context and incidents that never made it out to the MSM and some that did where the story detail was unsurprisingly near wholly misrepresented.
https://archive.org/details/fallfromglorymen0000vist
https://www.thepostil.com/my-story-40-years-ago-on-israeli-apartheid-and-palestinian-resistance/
https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-raids-hospital-shoots-doctors-bulldozes-bodies-lets-dog-maul-wheelchair-bound-man/5844291
Clearly one Toenails (yawn) saw on the Today ticker via BBC Verify?
Unlike this one…
https://therightscoop.com/breaking-hezbollah-first-missile-at-christian-church-then-fires-again-when-first-responders-arrive/
What one needs is impartial expertise via Simpo via the Graun via Paul Rogers noted perfesser of ‘peace studies’ at noted academic centre of excellence Bradford University.
https://x.com/JohnSimpsonNews/status/1738133515676340457?s=20
Excellent article on Israel’s war with Hamas, by one of Britain’s foremost academic experts on war and peace.
Interestingly, when I was at King’s, a module was available called “War and Peace”. It taken by me vs. around 20 lefties inc. the seminar lecturer.
The ‘debate’ on the dropping of the A-bomb was… ‘spirited’.
Saying there’s oodles and then only citing a Wiki page is next level.
Has the BBC got a special too?
I know one of the regular posters here is Ricky Gervais
I think
Given that Susan Rice just rejoined Netflix and from my limited view (no account) their commissioning policy is woke as F.
– this might just be a glitch –
Watched it, enjoyed it but don’t think I laughed out loud as much as the last one. I love him cos he refuses to be cowed by the bullies of social media…for now. I bet they’re digging like mad for some ‘me too’ stories.
I follow Roy Chubby Brown on facebook- I’m from his neck of the woods. What interests me is that there is a campaign to stop his performances, from venues (councils) around the country, because of his style. This doesn’t seem to apply to Gervais who is much more edgy (‘offensive’) IMO. They both do a very good job of explaining that it is comedy, they are making people laugh, and their subject matter doesn’t mean it’s an accurate reflection of their real lives. They also both do a lot of charity work and have a huge fan base.
BBCWebshite
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67822631
Labour considers processing asylum seekers overseas
A spokesman for Momentum, on the left wing of the Labour party, said that an expansion of safe routes for refugees was “a practical alternative to the Tories’ cruel and divisive war on migrants”.
There you have it. The Far Left want open door mass immigration. Proved. Safe routes for ‘refugees’. Not way of preventing economic migrants ‘in search of a better life’ from sponging on the UK taxpayer.
BBC life is a parody
It just popped up on Twitter. I suspect it’s not new
Quite amazing:
A man in a wig defending people who pretend to be offended by the word ‘men’ in ‘women’ and is criticising people in society for being offended that they changed it to ‘womxn’.
BBC reporter: ‘It’s clearly complex.’. No it isn’t.
I wonder he/she/it is spoken for : I read the other day that Suzy Izzard is looking for love and has some free time now. They would turn some heads if they went out together.
Javier Milei speech : He says we are victims of the political-caste
and fundamental change is needed
…. https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1739742516541354027
Much of the text is here
https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2023/12/21/argentina-javier-milei-signs-executive-order-weakening-ending-350-socialist-policies/
I notice that Millei’s going to “take back” The Falklands…
Not having any conversational/colloquial Spanish I can’t easily form any opinion on the guy’s public utterances – I’m certainly not going to have him explained to me by the BBC or Anglo MSM.
Some sectors of the MSM are certainly out to assassinate his character – that’s a cert.
– Stew thanks for the Breitbart link
6am news item #4 “Now we are no longer PART OF EUROPE the government is s
set to reverse a ban on selling wine in a pint sized container”
Doh, EUROPE is a continent, if course the UK is still part of it.
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… that was BBC Radio London news we got, instead of Lincolnshire
I expected patois, but it sounded very white with most news about places like Sutton, suburbs where white people actually live.
Stew – hey come on it’s Christmas – so the kidult interns who know everything are running the show – they are still in mourning for their EU – they grew up with the monster so don’t see it as the evil parasite it is ….
…. I’m going ‘today free ‘ as it will be even more ‘agendered ‘ than the usual crude propaganda …..
Speaking of which … do you notice the progression of what once was – probably – a concealed message – to an all out fearless propaganda exercise – fueled by BBCOFCOM and unstopped by a failed blue labour regime …
Which – according to press leaks – thinks dumping inheritance tax is an election winner …. Imagine the fools who thought that one up ….might get 10 votes
http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2023/12/27/why-do-bbc-journalists-report-untruths/
Because they can.
And whiny posts are unlikely to see them change.
The EU institution is getting something of a public pasting in Sweden from mainstream politicians there… – the BBC as per usual is busy omitting it…
Climate change: Seasonal shifts causing ‘chaos’ for UK nature
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67705812
The usual lopsided, low-IQ report from the BBC – but what amused me as I scanned over it was this important advice on how to deal with it from ‘the National Trust’s water advisor’:
“Let the water do what it wants to do. And what it wants to do is make this amazing habitat with channels all the way through the landscape, pools, ponds, wetlands.”
High-grade advice indeed.
Just to put this article into proper context, this is the ‘National Trust water advisor’:
… and this is the BBC ‘reporter’:
No wonder we are heading for extinction – but not because of climate change. The world is going backwards.
The NT are an utter farce – I know several people who’ve had dealings with them as suppliers and others who’ve had interactions about land deals.
The intensity of dislike surprised me until the folk elaborated their experiences.
It’s rammed with Oxygen thieves or worse …. far, far worse
Sorry, being a bear of very little brain I don’t get this ongoing theme where phoClearly it’s not because these people are not pale-skinned, blue-eyed British people because that is what they appear to be. Is it cos they is women? The long natural hair suggests that they may look younger than they are to people of an older generation. As it happens the mutton-dressed-as-lamb look appears to be all the rage among older politicans and commentators leaning towards the ultra-violet end of the spectrum but I don’t think these two are as old as that. Nor are they exactly wet-behind the ears (pun intended in the case of the National Trust Water Adviser). I see from the same LinkedIn profiles where you no doubt got the images that Jo Neville graduated from the University of Southampton in 2001, the same year as my daughter’s graduation, so she will be 43-44 and in the prime of her working life. Harriet Bradshaw is a wee bit younger, she graduated from Cambridge seven years later than Jo, so at an educated guess I’d say she was 36. Again no spring chicken and with plenty of broadcasting experience.
So, where’s the problem?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/a-beginners-guide-to-the-great-covid-con-part-2-the-fraudulent-excess-deaths-of-2020/
Dickie – having watched too much of the covid inquiry whitewash – I think the collective over reaction to the Chinese virus was the footage early on of an overwhelmed hospital in Italy – the likes of sunak and others referred to it a lot – the political class was petrified by the thought of their previous NHS failing as well
– so that crystallised the over reaction across the west – but that is hindsite – and dodgy quotes about ‘letting it rip’ now obscure the decision making process – based – as I say – on panic ….
As for death demographics … well it would be interesting to see a graph of post Covid ‘unexplained deaths ‘ – I reckon the numbers aged 25 – 55 might be over represented with otherwise healthy types dropping dead …
We’ll have to wait and see how many healthy types start dropping dead in 2024. Strange how politicians in western nations haven’t been effected by the “life saving” “vaccinations”, assuming they actually did have them.
Leaving aside the vile misogyny and concentrating on the angst edition
We live in strange times.
Dozens of under-5s referred to NHS gender service… officials consider introducing a minimum age for referrals (Daily Mail) – Consider…? Officialdom ought to consider referring those parents or doctors – who are making those referrals – onto our much vaunted sex offenders’ register.
So what do we reckon might be an appropriate age to think about giving sex change treatment to youngsters on the NHS… 21, 18, 16…?
Health Service bosses are now considering introducing a minimum age of seven… they’re just considering, mind you.
When was the last time anything genuinely conservative actually happened in this country?
Roll up for the winners & losers in SARAH VINE’S deliciously waspish annual awards – so promises the Daily Mail – I’m almost tempted to award our Sarah a calm down dear – of course the realworld annual awards will go to the likes of a lefty archbishop: Archbishop of Canterbury praises radical Left-wing activist (Telegraph); and our lazy civil servants: Civil servants must be in the office ‘at least three days a week’ (Times); while we must, perforce, celebrate: black soccer referees: Why has it taken 15 years for another black Premier League ref? (BBC); and obscure gay players; Zander Murray: Scotland’s first openly gay footballer to retire (BBC) – in case you were wondering: …he was playing for Lowland league side Gala Fairydean Rovers… In January he signed for Bonnyrigg Rose – which are surely two of the gayest-sounding named clubs north of the border. In England we have our Queens Park Rangers
Which tends to show that all we have left on the right is a sense of humour – and even that is in short supply. Matt is away – regrets the Telegraph
French and Saunders: How they proved that women are funny… helped transform the comedy landscape for women in the UK. (BBC)
Joyce Grenfell (1910-1979) Hylda Baker (1905-1986) ?????
Police to attend burglaries within an hour, under new rules (BBC) – how come they haven’t been doing that anyway?
Hey, looky here! I’ve found a token sop of a victory for the right: Rose’s name cut from report over debanking… Dame Alison Rose’s name is to be removed from a government review into female entrepreneurship over her role in the Nigel Farage debanking (Telegraph)
Uniparty anyone?
Strangely enough the die-hard Labour-supporting Daily Mirror’s frontpage splash is mirrored by the Rishi lackey loyalist Daily Express this morning: NHS parking scandal gets worse… patients and visitors in England paying £146million in fees last year up 50% (Mirror); End scandal of rip-off hospital parking… Data from NHS England shows total taken from patients and visitors soared by 50% (Express)
You may judge for yourselves who’s the Tweedledee and who’s the Tweedledum?
But just a minute… who’s running our bloody NHS? The Tories have been in power since 2010. One has to grant the Mirror has a point when it points the finger: Another broken promise… Unfair charges rake in 50% more this year despite Tory pledge – nice use of a ‘despite‘ although we do wonder how Labour with all that putatively extra cash for just about everything, especially the NHS, will plug the gap? Or perhaps they won’t: Labour has already promised not to raise taxes or increase borrowing, meaning that the shadow Chancellor would be tied to commitments made by the Conservatives (‘i’)
The popular disillusion and sheer disgust with our politicians of all stripes is perhaps alluded to here: Ross Clark Comment It’s time to think about MPs’ security (Telegraph)
Just to show how topsy-turvy our world has become the left-leaning Guardian promotes the opinions of the establishment notable a former British spy-chief to their top headline story: Ex-GCHQ chief warns ministers over ‘government by WhatsApp’ – of course this gifts the Gruan another spiffing opportunity to bang on about Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings
And of course we have to bear in mind that the very managerial-minded Gruaniad is all about the systems and the process: …the platform is inappropriate for key decision-making
What first attracted the Guardian to: Sir David Omand, who ran the UK intelligence agency before becoming permanent secretary of the Home Office and the Cabinet Office – a deep state swamp-dweller par excellence if ever there was one?
Well, he certainly speaks the Guardinista language: He said “…to judge by the evidence now made public by the Covid-19 inquiry such exchanges (leaving aside the vile misogyny)…
And there was me about to do a calm down dear – better not – you never know who might be listening and disapprove, eh GCHQ?
Let’s leave the last word to our BBC – and the buzz word will be ‘angst‘
Analyze That was a 2002 mafia-themed comedy film starring Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal who play the mobster and his psychiatrist, sequel to the 1999 film Analyze This.
Israel Gaza: Angst grows among young voters over Biden’s policy (BBC)
Asiseeit
I do spare a thought every once in a while for the kidult intern tasked with monitoring sites like this one as an ‘assessment ‘ of what the unwashed think – and whether the propaganda is having the required effect – their chance of promotion must be very dim and the fear of the fabled AI taking their job is now fully implanted propaganda aimed at them ….
BBC and the chosen.
https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1739936221734773031?s=61
Christmas: The LGBTQ people celebrating with their chosen families
Not that I’m a fanboy for Musk / Tesla but the knocking stories are multiplying – so much so that it seems likely that Elon Derangement Syndrome is a game plan in some places?
The Left hate him with a passion for buying twitter just as they hate us equally as much for voting for Brexit.
It is so overt. How long before BBC North America drag Springster back over for another crack?
Though TNI Islam appears a bit focussed on the brown eyed boys still.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/12/hitler-wasnt-available-new-york-times-runs-article-by-hamas-official
Yahya R. Sarraj, you see, is no terrorist, he’s a mild-mannered professor. But what the Times doesn’t bother to remind its hapless readers about is the fact that Hamas controls Gaza, and no one can hold the position of being mayor of the largest city in the Gaza Strip without being either an active Hamas member or entirely sympathetic with the terror group’s outlook and goals.
Straight out of BBC Special Stuff EdGuds©️
Firm develops jet fuel made entirely from human poo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-67771640
Not quite BBC. Wiki shows someone started it in 1996:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manure-derived_synthetic_crude_oil
A story which disappeared without trace.
Then it was already well advanced 8 years ago:
Biofuel made from human excrement has become easier to produce
https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/12/in-the-future-humans-could-help-make-gallons-of-sewage-based-biofuel-a-year/
Which has also disappeared without trace.
And now the BBC correspondent is all over it and the story totally leads you think these people invented it.
Then we get to the end and finally a little of of actual information:
“There’s a 10% sustainable aviation fuel requirement, that’s a legal mandate. And we could meet half of that with poo.”
The provisor there is that the sewage from every person in the country is collected and processed to provide 5%. And if they claim 5%, it will be 3%. Just imagine the scale of an operation it would require. You have to imagine because the BBC don’t tell you.
So why all the hype you might ask yourself. Here’s a clue:
‘The UK Department of Transport has awarded the team a £2m research grant.’
I guarantee 100% you will never hear about this company again. When the grants are gone, it will fold.
It’s an excellent example of what the word ‘green’ means to me.
Modern day gong farming?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gong_farmer
The BBC. Experts in recycling garbage and manure.
One might have thought that since some activists are after killing the evil oil + gas fertiliser supply chain and use case – and that our rivers and inshore waters are full of poo – there might just be a marriage made in heaven in there somewhere?
A reality program on 21st Century Gong collectors might make it to air?
– not for the first time – the BBC are missing an opportunity to lead us to the sunny uplands.
Plumber with poo powered van anybody ?
So, bovine flatulence – what do they eat? Grass, straw? Is killing the planet.
But fuel made of human excrement containing piles of junk food waste is going to make a greener fuel? The modern UK obsession with spicy food could possibly launch rockets fuel but imagine the stink!
“Biofuel made from human excrement has become easier to produce
https://arstechnica.com“.they missed the “e” out.
The establishment are still pursuing him. The long drawn out process is injudicial punishment
17th October Louis Grieves, 22, from Bromley, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday charged with threatening the protesters on Blackfriars Bridge in London on July 21.
He denied one count of using threatening, abusive, insulting words or
*behaviour with intent to cause fear of or provoke unlawful violence against the protesters*
He will next appear at City of London Magistrates’ Court for a trial on January 19.
Surely they put themselves illegally blocking traffic so can expect LAWFUL pushing them off and his words would not have caused more fear
He didn’t intend to provoke violence against them
Rod Liddle video
“The BBC had a programme discussing popularism, their guests were both marxists”
“What they call populism is a dagger in the heart of many things, not least institutions such as the BBC which embodies that rapidly evaporating and discredited creed, neoliberalism.”
Yes is the BBC routed in Marxism ?
Is it often stealth labelled as progressism ?
The @spectator article discussed in The Best is Rod Liddle today:
https://spectator.co.uk/article/good-riddance-to-neoliberalism/
“China’s Increased Bullying of Philippines to Test US Resolve”
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20259/china-bullying-philippines
Mmmm. Divide before conquering? US near Taiwan, US back in the Middle East, US pledged to support Guyana………. Learn from history? no.
Whilst the British had a large fleet of post WW1 warships, they were spread thinly around the World.
TOADY Watch #1 – a good choice of Guest Editor at last!
James May probably did not tick any of the BBC diversity boxes that yesterday’s GE, Hanif Kureishi, did but at least he was interesting. James also had an interesting choice of ‘hobby-horse’ that he wished to pursue, that of hobbies! I’m disappointed that I could not listen as I was under a certain amount of time pressure today. Will try ‘catch-up’ radio on BBC Noises.
If anyone else did not hear it and would like to listen it was in the second half-hour of TOADY just after the ‘look at the papers’.
Up2
I quite like James May but did not like the toe-curling discussion seeking to equate pedestrians and cyclists with car users. Why so?
Because they are not remotely equivalent.
Proof?
Yesterday, Boxing Day, we went for a walk in a largish country park. The car park was rammed. The overflow car park was rammed. The cycle rack had…….4 cycles. We saw another 4 cycles actually being used, by 4 males on a non-cycle track, the cyclists had to lift their bikes over a metal pedestrian strike. Rules are clearly not for them.
In the park we saw many prams and pushchairs, families with children, and a lot of dogs being walked. None of those people got there by bike and would never do so. The cyclists numbered 4, as mentioned.
After years of attempts, and two years of covid when there was naff all else to do, and billions of pounds spent on cycle lanes, the disgrace that is low traffic neighbourhoods, and such, the cycle usage dial has barely moved.
There is no equivalence whatever. And yet still we are patronised by the intelligentsia into the need for a ‘modal transport shift’.
If it’s not climate change, it’s safety.
What it really is is pathetic. The unceasing war on the motorist.
Sluff, I tend to agree with you and am surprised that James May did not stand up for drivers. Most peculiar. Had he been ‘leaned on’ by the BBC management and executives? He’s apparently been trying to get his programme suggestions approved so maybe there was a bit of a ‘quid pro quo’ going on.
You really want someone to listen to the bbc ? Yuk
Yes, Fed, I do, in normal times ie. not New Year with GEs on the loose. Will be listening to R4extra this afternoon.
All those flags, banners, train/plane tickets and hotels for organisers cost money…
BBC profile sometime?
Dare I mention B…. Barr ….. Barrrrrrrrry!
or Mikey?
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2023/12/26/when-did-commercials-become-filled-with-ugly-people-n2632835?
Very BBC in skirting terms. Well done lads.
#backendofbusism is a scourge.
Bit late to the party but Merry Christmas everyone, and thanks for keeping this little oasis of sanity going.
Here’s a festive tale… on Christmas eve I was driving in my bit of London and spotted what looked like a major incident off the high street. Three or four fire engines, lots of police, side street taped off. Someone poured too much brandy on the Christmas pud in a trial run? No info emerged until the next day when the Met reported a suspected arson attack on Mike Freer MP’s offices.
Freer is MP for Finchley and Golders Green. He’s also been a Conservative Friend of Israel for years. He talked to Sky about previously receiving threats from Muslims Against Crusades, having mock Molotov cocktails left on his doorstep and his staff now used to wearing stab vests. It also turns out that Ali Harbi Ali — the Somalian who stabbed to death MP David Amess in a church — had scoped out Freer’s office but due to a last minute change that day Freer cancelled his surgery.
None of which you’d know from the BBC report, because these are all inconvenient facts. If the suspect/motive is discovered I expect the BBC to do their best to bury it. All part and parcel of working for a corrupt, incompetent broadcast company.
https://news.sky.com/story/mp-whose-office-was-targeted-in-suspected-arson-reveals-he-wears-a-stab-vest-in-public-13037692
Terminal – I’ve worked with mr freer who has a strong interest in supporting dementia charities – he put on an annual support day in a local church – which is where I came in .
Attacks on the likes of him are the shape of things to come – with attacks on Christian and Jewish people and places by the third world Islamic imports so enthusiastically supported by useful fools ….
So look away now – squirrels …
I see the posh RC school caught fire today …
Fedup it’s really something when the BBC devotes endless airtime to microaggressions and unconscious bias but MPs having to wear stab vests gets ignored.
Remember the mantra ‘we won’t let them change our way of life’ that was trendy in the early 2000s?
We don’t hear that any more.
I recall that being used when the Ugandan Asians were imported – another line was ‘it’s only a few ‘ and ‘ there won’t be any more after this lot ‘. Luckily regimes can rely on botherer the gullibility and amnesia of the electorate ….
Fed,
I remember the Ugandan Asians. They arrived with the same intrinsic motivation they had from Uganda: To take over control. That’s why Idi Amin kicked them out and that’s why the likes of Priti Patel rose and failed to stop other Asian swarming to the UK..
Without which we would not enjoy YAB across O’brien to Vile to QT.
12pm The fire at a #Fulham school is now under control.
Thankfully no injuries are reported.
Part of an atrium was damaged by fire
The cause of the fire is under joint investigation by the Brigade and the Met police.”
London Fire Brigade
”
Boy, 16, arrested after fire at London Oratory school”
The Daily f-ing Mirror
Quiet day – so watched the royal adulterer show – no mention how the windsors – with their commonwealth – presided over the demise of the UK – completely surplus to requirement now – Chas Windsor just reminds me of Tim nice but dim – gosh ..
The coloured folk turned up at minute 24 … the off switch came in at minute 28 – ant and dec ( who?)
Through a somewhat drowsy early morning, I picked out on Toady the Hamas Broadcasting Corporation in full flow.
First we had the sob story. A Gaza man whose family had been hit by shrapnel (and to be fair I do feel sorry for the genuine innocents in all this, whoever they are). Then we had a WHO spokesperson, lamenting the loss of hospital facility in Gaza. He did this paradoxically from his comfy location in….errr……Jerusalem. He was able to rant unchallenged save for precisely one attempt by Useless Hussein to ask a question. Then we had Lise Douset doing her full-on anguish routine. One after the other.
The BBC might as well have fessed up and just run a Hamas official Party Political Broadcast.At least they would have had to declare it as such.
Sluff,
The problem with the Pallies / Gaza and the news media is that their reporting ‘Clock’ currently is set to continually go off post 7th October 2023.
Middle East Eye reports —
“Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told his supporters that he is working on finding countries ready to ‘absorb’ Palestinians from Gaza”.
‘Our problem is countries that are ready to absorb them and we are working on it,’ Netanyahu said. ‘The world is already discussing the possibilities of voluntary immigration,’ he said, adding that a team must be established to ‘ensure that those who want to leave Gaza to a third country can do so.'”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-israel-palestine-netanyahu-countries-absorb-palestinians
The Neom Project in KSA looks like a good fit for Gazans?
They could walk there in a few days… jobs, accommodation, high speed train to Mecca… – what’s not to like?
Ummah, Zakat on a stick
As long as they are contained in the oil-wealthy & spacious Middle East. Their Jordanian brothers should help them. Saudi, Emirates.
Neom
“Located in the temperate northwest of Saudi Arabia, NEOM’s diverse climate offers both sun-soaked beaches and snow-capped mountains. NEOM’s unique location will provide residents with enhanced livability while protecting 95% of the surrounding natural landscape.
41 Islands to discover”
Like I said – Neom…. what’s not to like?
– and quite literally almost on the doorstep, less than half a day’s bus ride if you don’t feel like the hike.
Tomo their smart city The Line is one of the most batsh*t things I’ve ever seen.
Having the Asian Winter Games there is bad enough but I guess delusion and too much $$ is a powerful combo.
TM,
Whey Hey! A big chance for Rich Sunak to step up be the star on the World Stage and follow Boris’ tack.
Medical staff who support this abhorrent nonsense need prosecuted and jailed. This is pure child abuse.
Docmarooned
me? – I’d question if they were mentally fit to stand trial.
Indeed Tomo. God knows how they adhere to this idiocy given they are supposed to be educated and understand basic biology. I complained to the GMC as they are always harassing doctors for malpractice issues etc but I heard nothing. I would have thought it crystal clear that operating on healthy individuals for no good reason is criminal as is administering body altering hormonal therapy with lord knows what long term side effects. It is evil but that seems to be the lefts view of life now.
Weirdly.. the boom in this sort of thing can be traced to… believe it or not – Obamacare – where they made gender treatments a legitimate insurance benefit …
I haven’t bother to look to see if it was an oversight / loophole or a proactively emplaced provision.
Ban gay conversion therapy.
Allow child trans therapy! (rapy!)
WE are led to believe that Ofcom are obsessed with keeping TV impartial
Yesterday I was watching TalkTV at about 10:50am or 11:50am there were 2 lefty media panelist, both London and a presenter
They were discussing Ukraine, Israel, Hamas etc.
One pipes “Of course the worst thing is that Trump could get elected again, he led an insurrection you know”
The other guest and presenter just nodded along
FFS that’s all fantasy universe .. there was no insurrection. The worst it got was some people pushing against barriers like a football crowd,
whereas in current wars there are terrible massacres .. real dead bodies
All their evidence against Trump is that he sent a few hurty word tweets.
I went YouTube to check the names but it seems they had diverted away from the radio version and had played a different old episode.
Ages since I watched broadcast telly but the shallow dimwitted ignorance and skewed wubbish I witnessed on the screen last time I was in somebody’s lounge that had a telly on isn’t making me miss it…
Ofcom really are vampires in charge of the blood transfusion service.
Simon Webb is a small antidote
Tomo,
For me it was in the dentist’s waiting room. The telly on BBC News. It was to me, like film from another planet. And the poor receptionists were stuck in the room with it.
https://www.tvbgone.com/
For a while I wouldn’t go flying without one – worked on check-in desk displays as well as lounge tellys. The local Currys probably wondered what was going on too….
I think they were quite expensive though…
How about a nice, rugged Fletton brick from the local builder’s merchant – around 60p…?
When you’re flying every gram counts 🙂
They can take a few seconds to work as they transmit every known IR “off” code.
I recall the first time I used one at Heathrow and the people sat nearest the giant TV seemed pleased it had turned off since the sound was on and quite loud…
My only kinetic BBC receiver adjustment was one incident where I destroyed a DAB radio with Vine on it with bullseye adjustable spanner at ca. 20ft away.
TWatO Watch #1 – like, approve, admire, follow
Interesting segment on the West Bank and Mahmoud Abbas, leader of Fatah and the PLO. Apparently, he is hated by 90% of his Palestinian constituents but the BBC no doubt just love him. Palestinians can do no wrong in the eyes and broadcasts of the BBC.
Mahmood’s humble abode
tomo, Palace fit for a President, shame it looks a bit like a candy bar.
Israel expanding ground offensive into central Gaza refugee camps
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67825465
‘Israel is expanding its ground offensive into Palestinian refugee camps in central Gaza, as it warns the war with Hamas will last for months.’
Followed by a lengthy article about how bad they are to do that.
And not a single word explaining why they are doing it.
Interstingly I tried to find a poll to see how many people in Israel support the war. To my surprise I found many telling me how support for Hamas was growing and things like that, but not a single one showing me if the country supported it. Which I assume means that they do.
And just look at this I stumbled across:
Only 9% of Labour voters sympathise with Israel over Palestine
https://unherd.com/thepost/only-9-of-labour-voters-sympathise-with-israel-over-palestine/
“HMS Prince of Wales: Royal Navy gives update on what has gone wrong with aircraft carrier – the starboard shaft”
“The French company…….”. Oh, I see……………
https://www.defense-aerospace.com/inquiry-into-faulty-royal-navy-carrier-focuses-on-thales/
Proving that HMS Queen Elizabeth is a different kettle of fish. As always. Difference between Mother & Son the latter being a waste of space and prone to problems/nonsense……….
G
Follow the money.
A good news story unlikely to be seen on the BBC or any mainstream TV channel.
A brave dog has a “miraculous ” recovery
Lynette – nice piece – thanks
The Boy’s Word: Blood On The Asphalt (2023) Russian TV series,
Apparently Ukrainians not happy it’s people are continuing to consume Russian culture :
https://archive.is/PHyaT
“In early November, the terrorist country of Russia released another crime series, “The Word of a Boy. Blood on the Asphalt” about gang warfare in the 90s, romanticizing robbery, clashes with law enforcement, and crime. It was expected to find a response in Russia, but, to the surprise of many, Ukrainians also joined the project’s fans.”
Russia regularly tries to shift the focus of foreigners’ attention from the war to its “rich” culture, so Ukrainians are fighting hard to prevent Russia from being allowed to participate in film festivals, exhibitions, awards, fashion shows, etc. Watching Russian-made movies and TV shows, let alone admiring them, does not help.’
Episode 1 here, if you like that genre.
Warning – might be lacking diversity and transgenders.
https://www.the-boys-word.com/episodes/one
Just watched a bit of it and it looks like the kind of hard-hitting drama the BBC once used to produce.
I watched ‘Boys from the Black Stuff’ recently for the first time and it had similarities. The original ‘Play For Today’ story was excellent – much better than the series which followed it.
They won’t do anything like that now because it will upset the woke audience they have nurtured.
Seasonal fare
tomo
Perhaps it was “Digger”? or perhaps it was ……..
I am afraid to say, in case the thought police knock at my door?
We all know I am sure .
I thought you would know that Winston in room 101 changed that and obliterated the original word in the script some time back tomo!
Apparently he is currently working to modify the original spelling of dark coloured treacle right now as well as a certain perviously well-know chocolate brand which I notice has vanished from shop shelves!
Strange really – a word which in itself is not a term of abuse – is cancelled because of the way some people use it …. It’s from the same school as those increasingly common pre – programme ‘warnings ‘ that there might be ‘expessions of their time ‘ – which also seem to becoming even more recent – the offensive words on 2022 perhaps .
But I’m also vexed by the bbc fixation with ‘firsts ‘. Eg – the first woman to referee a prem game – or the first coloured referee -since the last one .
So what ? If the ref is ok who cares ? Only the BBC it seems . I must remember I’m a racist sexist bigot …
“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present (BBC Tax only £159 per year)controls the past,” repeated Winston obediently.
I’m guessing the digital source was taken from the American print. I’m not sure it would spoil the film for most people who weren’t looking out for it on principle. More remiss is the unearned doctorate assigned to Barnes Wallis. He had a degree in engineering but nothing higher, until Heriot-Watt gave him an honorary doctorate in 1969.
Meanwhile, if you know your Morse code I’m sure you’d be pleased to know the dog retains his original name in the signals.
WildWomanOfThe Woods
Please elaborate , re “Morse code”?
_. .. __. __. . ._,
You’re very welcome.
“Climate change: Seasonal shifts causing ‘chaos’ for UK nature”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67705812
This propaganda is wearing a bit thin now . There is very little that we, in Great Britain, can do to stop the so called “chaos”, other than stop paying the Telly Tax, or go to the ‘off switch’ .
They take us all for fools!
They’ll be attacking non halal fast food outlets next then.
2018 …. Outer Hebrides gets its first-ever mosque for 50 worshippers including Syrian refugees after crowdfunding campaign raised more than £90,000
First mosque on the remote Scottish islands opens just in time for Ramadan
It took just over four weeks to build and means the local Muslim community has its own dedicated place of worship
There is said to have been a Muslim community in the area since 1945 and they now number over 50 members
By MAILONLINE REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 17:25, 11 May 2018
It’s an expression of control of the public space. It’s the same reason they “prayed” in Whitehall and in Coventry Cathedral.
I say “prayed” because muslim “prayer” is just the public recitation of certain phrases, five times a day. It is a ritual. There is no suggestion of any deep religious or spiritual meaning, it is just the same Arabic words, parroted rote fashion five times a day.
It’s a symbol of territorial conquest: occupy the public space to show who the new masters are.
Remember, world conquest is the ultimate aim and duty of every muslim.
tomo,
There are over 5400 churches in NYC.
Over 5400.
Why do they feel the need to pray in the main street time square?
“Hundreds of Christian believers packed Times Square Monday night to worship God”
https://t.ly/mPTFQ
“It’s an expression of control of the public space.”
“It’s a symbol of territorial conquest”
maxincony
been to / lived / worked in a muslim country have you?
thought not
maxincony
Have you paid your TV licence yet ?
Given an extensive repertoire of idiotic counters, that one is joining the top 5.
It’s a Christian Country. That’s how it should be in Christian territory. And Islam shouldn’t be tolerated there.
It’s 70% Christian .
Dear Max
Did you ever read about the 1857 Revival that started from a lunchtime prayer meeting in a New York City church? Now that’s something you would never hear on the BBC.
tomo
What does the RSPCA say about halal food production in the UK?
taffman
An area I have researched. The RSPCA is concerned with the welfare issues in animal slaughter and argues that the animals should first be stunned before throat slitting. See link. I still find welfare concerns, as death by exsanguination involves the animal choking to death in its own blood. Link to the RSPCA
https://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/farm/slaughter/whatarewedoing
If you are going to go after Halal, then you have to go after Kosher as well as it’s pretty much the same thing. Muslims can eat Kosher food, Jews can’t eat Halal though.
Unstunned slaughter from both these religions is an affront to humanity and should be banned, however there are at least three sanctioned unstunned slaughter houses operating in the UK.
The RSPCA says “la la la I can’t hear you.”
Just when you thought the “punish English colonialism” bandwagon was topped out up comes another fruit-loop, Michele Gazzola writing in the Guardian of course!
It appears he supports a hair brained scheme to extract money from the UK and any other English speaking Country, this time simply for speaking English.
Apparently the wide-spread use of English across the globe is unfair to every nation where it is not their first language FFS.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/27/english-world-power-language-linguistic-justice
This explains his “logic”…..
English still rules the world, but that’s not necessarily OK. Is it time to curb its power?
“However, some compensatory measures may help reduce global linguistic injustice. Philippe Van Parijs, of the University of Louvain, has, somewhat provocatively, proposed a linguistic tax on English-speaking countries to compensate for the costs of teaching English in other countries. This would involve establishing a global tax on countries where the majority of the population speaks English as a native language and distributing the revenue to countries where English is taught in schools as a foreign language.”
My answer? There must be dozens if not hundreds of languages that i would have no hope of either speaking or learning as an Englishman plus no-one orders you to speak English anyway!
It just gets crazier and crazier in the Mickey-Mouse World these nutcases inhabit!
Maybe the EU could simply ban English outright and replace it with EUISH, a hybrid language using bits of every other language on Earth except English?
Oh and now we get another of those lefty buzzwords injected into discussion “linguistic injustice”. Only a batshit-crazy, bubble-dwelling Uni professor like Mr Gazzola could come up with that little nugget! It comes straight from the lefty handbook, if you want to demonise something first give it a nasty “handle” you can chant at every opportunity.
Esperanto!
simples
My answer. Close down all BBC radio & TV stations, but retain BBC 1 for Silent movies, Scenic programs with music. A journey in real time through one of the most spectacular and beautiful bus routes in Britain, the Northern Dalesman, as it snakes across the landscape of the Yorkshire Dales. Also Nature Scenery & Relaxing Music programs and Test Card with classical music only.
There are some ideas so stupid only an intellectual could hold them.
In the UK, a feather can amount to an offensive weapon. Sounds nonsensical but true. Indeed, any item will suffice to the Boys in Blue and their masters anxious to halt anyone from protecting themselves against a threatening force. So, I’m proposing a, “Concealed Carry” license for the vulnerable, i.e. women / OAP’s / Jews etc, etc. As in the States, if the attacker suspects their intended victim is, “Carrying”, it is a deterrent in itself.