520 Responses to Midweek 21st February 2024

  1. Sluff says:

    The Hamas Broadcasting Corporation is going to town about all the Palestinians that were killed when Israel managed to free two of their hostages.

    Funnily enough, the idea that the way to prevent this was for Hamas to simply release the hostages didn’t seem to occur to the BBC news team. Neither did they suggest what Israel was supposed to do instead.

    Just dredging the gutter again.

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    • digg says:

      Yes and I heard them say “meanwhile in Israel’s war in Gaza….”

      Which of course should have been “meanwhile in the war in Gaza…..

      Or better still, “ meanwhile in the war against the anti-terrorist group Hamas in Gaza….”

      It’s always in the way they say it isn’t it?

      They just had to paint as a war against the people of Gaza and therefore no mention of the cowardly brutality of the Hamas non-declaration of war against Israel before they started the killing.

      Despicable people at the BBC.

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  2. tomo says:

    A list of the LIES

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  3. Northern Voter says:

    Mrs Voter was watching a piece by BBC 3 about the Bayeaux Tapestry. 70 metres long by 1/2 metre high. All that sewing and the Biased Bastards couldn’t find a black face.

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  4. StewGreen says:

    Dan Wootton freed from media purgatory as police foces say NFA
    (NFA isn’t the same as cleared
    but the Byline Times lefty cult swore that Wootton was 100% guilty)

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    • StewGreen says:

      DW statement
      I was brought up to trust in the English legal system; to believe in freedom, due process, natural justice and the rule of law – the right of every man or woman to a fair trial, and the presumption of innocence until proven guilty in a court of law.

      But since July 2023, I was the victim of a politically-motivated witch hunt through the left-wing and social media led by a hard left activist, a convicted phone hacker, a convicted extortionist, and a deranged an abusive ex who had threatened on the record to slit my throat and previously admitted to being a psychopath with dark urges.

      The accusations made against me were completely spurious – lies designed to destroy my career where complainants were actuated by malice.

      Well six months on, I have now been completely cleared in two investigations by the Metropolitan and Scottish Police, who have confirmed they will be taking no further action.

      While I knew this would always be the outcome,
      the process is now the punishment, with social media acting as the executioner.

      Margaret Thatcher once said that if you ever get trial by media, or guilt by accusation, that day freedom dies.

      She was right. It is high time that all of our ancient rights were once again upheld, chief among them the right to be presumed innocent until found guilty in a court of law.

      If it falls to me to be the champion of those rights, then so be it. It is a fight I am more than willing to take up, not just for me but for all of us.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        I bet the cowardly GB news dumps him – in the style of stein – fox … … glad I don’t go near it any more …

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        • Emmanuel Goldstein says:

          Fed.
          What do you watch.
          I can only think of Talk TV as an alternative to GB News.
          We have a very small choice of media which isn’t left wing and the only ones I know of are the two above.

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          • Fedup2 says:

            EG
            The short answer to your question is ‘what iwatch is less and less ‘. I guess I ‘dip in’ and look at anything ‘free’ from time to time …. It could be France24 or Al jaz or stuff on YouTube …. I don’t do twitter as much as did . I subscribe £2 a month to the DT online but that’s an exception .
            I am an anorak for good and bad propaganda – and there is plenty about .

            Once one comes to the finding that the UK is in terminal decline – is not a democracy – and is on a way to being a failed 3rd world state – things look different and the focus on self interest becomes stronger ….

            …. Meanwhile … the British parliament – about to be turned upside down by a landslide labour win – is already shaking because of a labour – Berkow style – speaker …. Pass the popcorn …

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            • MarkyMark says:

              Indian NDT TV is good to hear India’s issues and what they are shouting about. EuroNews for a Euro centric view “Brussels, Why I am in Love” are the common titles.
              NHK Japan TV and Al Jaz. BBC Parliament for comedy.

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      • StewGreen says:

        Mirror and Guardian did remove articles based on Byline works
        but that was a long time ago

        “in October The Guardian, Mirror, various other Reach sites and Newsquest’s The National all removed stories after a legal warning made by a lawyer acting for Dan Wootton”
        https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/guardian-and-mirror-take-down-dan-wootton-story-after-legal-warning/

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      • Deborah says:

        I’m so pleased for Dan and here’s hoping that GBNews can find a slot for him, although I suspect Patrick would need some levering out of the 9pm slot.

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  5. Thoughtful says:

    House of Commons in turmoil with allegations of bias against the speaker after he chose Labour amendments to an SNP Israel Gaza debate tabled causing SNP and Tory MPs to walk out.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/house-of-commons-lindsay-hoyle-mps-penny-mordaunt-gaza-b2500159.html

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Thoughtful – apart from the swamp – I wonder if anyone gives a damn ? what authority does the British House of Commons really think it has ? Israel will have as much regard to their votes as it does to William woke windsor …. Keep going IDF …

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      • atlas_shrugged says:

        We are governed by 650 completely irrelevant and pointless MPs. Why on earth do they even debate this issue? Whatever they decide it will have no effect and be completely ignored.

        Who will instead stop the illegal invasion of the UK?

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Just the same trash as the vermin in the brexit parliament under berkov… now it’s comrade Hamas Hoyle

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  6. StewGreen says:

    Byline Times said that he used a pseudonym Martin Branning

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  7. vlad says:

    Leftists, Islamofascists and useful idiots continue to occupy London and intimidate Parliament.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-68364670

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  8. Eddy Booth says:

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/YzxiMWEPGfnO/

    Katie Hopkins. ONS Manipulation of Excess Death Data. And retro-fitting it. Dead bodies disappear.

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  9. G.W.F. says:

    On today’s turmoil

    Conversation
    Tom Gallagher NEW book Europe’s Leadership Famine
    @cultfree54
    One of the blackest days for British democracy seen for many years.
    The fig leaf that Speaker Hoyle is clinging to is that it was necessary to break the rules to prevent the risk of not just MPs but their families facing violence.
    The issue is a foreign one where Britain has no security role and about which most British citizens do not have outspoken views.
    But Gaza has been mobilised by the far left and above all by Muslim communal politicians, both lots displaying their complete detachment from British interests and concerns.
    They have been allowed to acquire such influence chiefly I believe down to one factor.
    The decision of London’s Labour mayor Sadiq Khan to encourage the holding of incendiary marches in the capital almost every weekend since October 7. (I use the word ‘encourage’ deliberately).
    This has been like shouting fire in a crowded theatre. It has emboldened alienated, confused, impressionable as well as deeply unpleasant and anti-democratic individuals and groups to push well beyond the limits of permissible behaviour..
    Life has been made a misery of above all for Jews and indeed anyone who dares to recoil from the pro-Hamas message.
    Khan is a Dr Frankenstein who is busy creating a new and terrible London that will soon be unrecognisable if things continue as they are for much longer.
    It is a matter of acute shame that he could, and still can be easily stopped, by:
    his party leader, Starmer or by an alert and strong Prime minister by taking away the powers over the police that he wields
    It is not just trust in Britain’s parliamentary rules which has been a casualty of today’s unseemly actions but the country’s reputation for stability and safety.
    Let’s face it. Britain is no longer the place of safety that it was for hundreds of years.
    It is increasingly lawless and dangerous.
    Hoyle basically admitted that there is now a vacuum where confidently-exercised central authority once existed.
    Ignorant, cowardly, and short-term politicians of very low calibre are pushing this country towards huge levels of unrest.
    My only consolation is that there will likely be a strong counter-reaction to what Nigel Farage calls the new sectarianism increasingly at the heart of British politics. But it must come soon or else there may be a terrible reckoning that makes what happened in Northern Ireland late last century seem like a picnic.

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  10. tomo says:

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  11. Fedup2 says:

    Only 33 MPs have signed a no confidence motion against comrade Hoyle – after a joke Commons – Israel must be pleased – keep going IDF … if it’s not now – it will be a future time …

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  12. Eddy Booth says:

    “Russia ‘struggling with supply of weapons and ammunition’ for Ukraine war – Western officials”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68364924

    The BBC doing their usual trust me bro.

    “…according to Western officials….
    ….an official said.
    …a Western official claimed,
    …They pointed to..
    …they said..
    …But officials believe..
    The comments by officials…
    The official said..
    The official also said…
    …from Western officials …
    But they said… ”

    Finally:
    “Previous predictions that Russia was about to run out of missiles or other weapons have not always proved correct.”

    Can the BBC name one thing they ran out of ?

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    • JohnC says:

      I remember a hospital was going to run out of fuel at midnight because of nasty Israel. Of course we weren’t told that Hamas terrorists were taking the fuel for themselves.

      I wonder if it did : we never heard about it again.

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  13. Fedup2 says:

    BBC 10pm news – Hamas has deployed Fergal undertaker Keane to chuck crude pro Hamas propaganda out at taxpayers over the rescue of Israeli hostages last week … keep going IDF …

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    • JohnC says:

      Just reading that Fed.

      It’s an absolutely disgraceful lop-sided piece and I’m sure Fergal has simply put words in other peoples mouths for it which fit his agenda – which seems to be entirely acceptable at the BBC now because it is so very obvious.

      He starts with:

      ‘Before falling asleep, the couple discussed what to do about two of their children who had been injured. Their son had been burned by scalding food, and their daughter was recovering from facial paralysis caused by trauma in the early stages of the war.’

      The focus of this article SHOULD be how Hamas are holding hostages and how they are using civilians as shields. This disgrace to journalism doesn’t go anywhere near either of them. Instead it plays right into the hands of why Hamas are doing it.

      Perhaps if the BBC shamed Hamas in these stories and pressured them to release the hostages and stop murdering civilians (because that’s what it is) , we might see some progress to stop the deaths of the innocent. It is to the eternal and unrecoverable shame of the BBC and the Left that they are not doing that.

      You should be ashamed of yourself Fergal Keane. Perhaps the BBC should not be using far-Left activist journalists who suffer from PTSD to write about topics like this. Speaking of which, Bowen seems very quiet these days.

      It’s a dark day when the business of running the country is affected by fears of threats and violence against MP’s if they do not bow down to the mob.

      We imported third world, now we’ve got it along with all the dirty baggage which comes with it.

      I agree completely : keep going IDF and cut out this cancer so it will take years to grow back. Otherwise you will be doing it all again as soon as they can reorganise.

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  14. Fedup2 says:

    In other news the Prince of Wales is to be renamed the
    Prince of Gaza ….. before Harry Hewitt claims the job …

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  15. StewGreen says:

    viral “Google Gemini is racist AF against white people.”

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  16. Lucy Pevensey says:

    Even the Chinese are actually black. Didn’t you know? This guy has a 4000 year old photo to prove it.

       7 likes

  17. StewGreen says:

    The House of Clowns is obsessed with saying terrorists hostage keepers in a foreign country are VICTIMS

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  18. Lucy Pevensey says:

    I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now
    From up and down and still somehow
    It’s cloud illusions I recall
    I really don’t know clouds at all

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  19. Zephir says:

    Here we are bbc, a racist story for you, which you absolutely love,…wind your bbc muzzies collective necks in and report this front of page as you like to do with racism stories:

    “Jewish Londoner says he will SUE after his baby daughter’s birth certificate was returned with ‘Israel’ scribbled out – and says he WASN’T told ‘some staff’ had been SUSPENDED by the passport office over the scandal

    Five-month-old baby Ronnie’s birth certificate was returned to her home ripped”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13111137/Jewish-father-wants-SUE-baby-daughters-birth-certificate-returned-defaced.html

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  20. Zephir says:

    And what about this bbc muzzies?

    “Horrifying new report into October 7 rapes reveals how survivors walked through ‘an apocalypse of bodies’ missing body parts, while one victim had a GRENADE inserted into her genitals – and details ‘sadistic’ methods Hamas used to maximise suffering”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13108147/report-sexual-assault-israel-october-7.html

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  21. Zephir says:

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  22. Zephir says:

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  23. Zephir says:

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  24. andyjsnape says:

    bbc reports on:-

    Sir Lindsay Hoyle: House of Commons Speaker under pressure after chaotic Gaza ceasefire vote
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68366512

    Surely the house has better thinks to have a chat about, instead of worrying about a vote that will make no difference

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  25. Fedup2 says:

    Andy
    A segment of the Today programme had the ex leader of the SNP and the labour chief whip discussing the speaker …. But no blue labour – with no reason put forward ……

    …. It seems one of the reasons for their commons nonsense was fear of the safety of MPs …. With homes being visited by Islamic Hamas intimidators …..

    …. So we are getting there… Islam openly challenging the ‘democratic process ‘ … the bbc trying to play this down – but it’s only a matter of time before a Jewish MP is attacked or killed by Hamas supporters – and not far away from more suicide vests ….. nice … keep going IDF – do more while you can

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  26. Fedup2 says:

    Today
    Wonderful bit about Birmingham council reducing funding for theatres and other lefty crap arts projects – including funding queer and Muslim authors .
    Since when was this the job of local councils – no the basics – look after people in real need – dump the rest – cycle lanes – community groups – lefty crap … let’s hope more councils go bust… before labour bail them out …

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  27. Thoughtful says:

    Not the kind of thing you hear on the MSM, but perhaps they should be telling people giving the importance.

    Some might recall the post I made about the amount of bonds the US government need to refinance and to sell. Yesterday was an auction for 20 year bonds and it was a disaster as predicted.

    If the US cannot re-finance its debt as I have suggested, then the only solution is to print which will lead to massive levels of inflation. It might take a couple of years but it is inevitable.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Thoughtful – thanks for more worry ! Wonder what ‘the markets ‘ will do ? Personally I want higher interest rates – but that’s my interest …

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  28. Guest Who says:

    Variety Music News poses a critical question:
    Who Should Play John, Paul, George and Ringo in the Beatles Movies?

    Rather obviously it should be the remaining members of S Club 7.

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    • MarkyMark says:

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      • atlas_shrugged says:

        After the crippled Dr Who series I can’t wait for the politically correct remake of the Iranian Embassy siege.

        A monstrous regiment of feminists?
        A hamas terrorist tunnelling team?
        Civil enforcement officers?
        DEI officers?
        Menopausal section?
        Climate change officers?

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  29. Guest Who says:

    So miss the impartial insights of the BBC Newsnight Anger and Protests Editor

    https://x.com/paulmasonnews/status/1760563321978171700?s=61
    The most important event in British politics yesterday took place in Maryland. At CPAC Liz Truss declared war on Britain’s “deep state” – the Environment Agency, the OBR and the Judicial Appointments Committee… I kid you not… 1/ 🧵

    Uh, huh.

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  30. AsISeeIt says:

    From Tower of Fable to Tower of Babel, London edition

    We all sense how Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is little more than a seat warmer for Starmer.

    Now we learn the Commons Speaker is Sir Keir’s chief fluffer and arse wiper: Telegraph can reveal Sir Keir Starmer lobbied Hoyle to choose amendment

    The rot set in earlier but certainly since Brexit shenanigans the Commons has become a farce.

    The Whitehall farces were a series of five long-running comic stage plays at the Whitehall Theatre in London, presented by the actor-manager Brian Rix, in the 1950s and 1960s. They were in the low comedy tradition of British farce… Reluctant Heroes, Dry Rot, Simple Spymen, One For The Pot and Chase Me, Comrade (Thank you Wiki)

    How very apposite – some of those titles strike one today.

    In 1966, having been unable to secure the lease of the Whitehall Theatre, Rix took his company on tour in Chase Me, Comrade and Bang, Bang Beirut (later retitled Stand By Your Bedouin)

    And so it is we have lots of fun with flags (TM Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory) on the frontpage of the Guardian – where the feature photo is of course a headscarf bedecked woman surrounded by lots of examples of the old red, white, green and black: Protesters outside Parliament yesterday… – Mr AsI tends to distrust nations with black in their flag – it’s a personal prejudice.

    Famine fear as violence hampers aid effort… UN attempt to deliver 10 convoys of food aid… lorries were looted by crowds, a driver beated up and gunfire reported amid chaotic scenes (Guardian) – draw your own conclusions there, folks.

    The FT takes a break from selling England by the pound: Tower of fable… London landmark sold to US luxury hotel operator in £275mn deal – to notice some UK politics: Walkout over Gaza motion brings chaos to Commons – meanwhile the FT’s frontpage feature photo portrays in gloriously stark nostalgic black and white: Children play beneath the Post Office Tower in London in 1965 – all of them white.

    They do say the formerly GPO Tower latterly BT Tower was built in circular form so as to best withstand a cold war era nuclear blast in the capital.

    Speaking of which our mate Matt in the Telegraph is bang on target with his cartoon of a Royal Navy submarine crew: “Our Trident missile is veering off course. I hope it doesn’t hit the UK’s only working aircraft carrier”

    Civil servants demand more pay for less work (Telegraph) – further comment would seem superfluous on this one – except to say that this isn’t a few of our select top mandarins, from the First Division Association trades union – now upgraded and rebranded as The Premier League – I jest of course. This is in fact: …more than 200,000 civil servants across 213 departments and agencies (Telegraph) – that’s right, folks – 213 departments.

    No update on Operation Mincemeat

    During the present hiatus in news of Abdul Shokoor Ezedi the Clapham alkali attacker – while our authorities carefully peruse his dental records – lucky bugger, how did he wangle an NHS dentist? – the sweet toothed among us have news aplenty to interest us…

    Price eggsplosion… Chocolate lovers forced to shell out 28% more for mini eggs (‘i’)

    Juxtaposed with supermarket giant Tesco taking prime frontpage ad space in the Express, The Sun, Star and Mirror with the copy: Discover the power to lower prices… – Cadbury’s Creme Egg package and Mini Egg pack £3, £2 each Clubcard price

    All you need to know about jelly babies (Daily Star) – not to be confused with: Major Alabama hospital pauses IVF after court rules frozen embryos are children (BBC)

    Calm down dear…

    Respect the menopause or be sued, firms told… New rules list symptoms as potential disability (Times)

    I’m asexual but longed for a baby. That’s why at 24 I spent £6,000 on a sperm donor (Daily Mail) – steady on, chaps, form an orderly queue.

    In pure tabloid news

    Euromillions jackpot of joy (Mirror); Lotto winners’ jackpot shock… We thought we’d won £2.60… it was £61,708,231… National Lottery email saying they had exciting news… checked online and saw the tiny sum… (freebie Metro)

    Perhaps the National Lottery were using the same computer modelling to come up with £2.60 as the ONS are using for their unemployment numbers data crunching: ‘Shoddy data’ puts battle with inflation in jeopardy… according to governor Andrew Bailey jobs data from the Office for National Statistics is deeply flawed… Flawed labour market survey has left rate-setters unsure on even basic questions such as the level of unemployment… there was no real alternative to the labour force survey (LFS) to find out how many people were out of work or why… When Covid hit, forcing a switch from in-person to telephone interviews, responses to the old survey plummeted (FT) – quick editorial adjustment required there: When Covid Lockdown hit, forcing a switch from in-person to telephone interviews…

    …the underlying problem was not one of money, but of trying to get people to respond to surveys… senior lawmakers such as Lord Bridges said progress dealing with the UK’s “shoddy data” is urgently needed. (FT)

    Just a reminder (see above): more than 200,000 civil servants across 213 departments and agencies

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    • Peter Grimes says:

      “ Respect the menopause or be sued, firms told… New rules list symptoms as potential disability (Times)”

      So we will soon have no women over about 35, and lots of iffy inbetweenies, claiming sickness benefit and not working.

      Oh woe England of my youth!

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  31. MarkyMark says:

    “There are unfortunately quite a lot of Hamas sympathisers and some operatives in this country,” Sir William said, adding: “Prevent and the police should have been working much harder against those Hamas people in this country.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68363058

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    unfortunately quite a lot of Hamas sympathisers and some operatives in this country

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    unfortunately quite a lot of Hamas sympathisers and some operatives in this country

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  32. G says:

    I am now totally fed up with all the Red (as in commie) noises coming out of the so-called, “Seat of Democracy Worldwide” aka the UK Parliament. To listen to anything that now emerges from this exulted “Seat” and any of its criminal members, is a direct abuse of my common sense.

    Witness all the “noises” far and wide over the Navalny issue. Wrong as his murder is, the noises for condemning Putin and his thuggish “anti-democratic” actions? Well, while, the “Seat of Democracy” is in condemnation mode, they are all actively moving to adopt the Russian/Chinese Communist system of public control.

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    • AsISeeIt says:

      Tucker Carlson reports on death of American reporter in Ukrainian custody… Gonzalo Lira was in prison because of criticism of the governments of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and US President Joe Biden… “Gonzalo Lira, Sr. says his son has died at 55 in a Ukrainian prison…” (TASS)

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    • Peter Grimes says:

      I don’t watch tv much, other than rugby and GBNews, and in the evenings ‘er indoors, my boss, has control of the remote. She records lots of documentaries and a couple of nights ago was playing an Al Beeb programme about the work of a North Korean pastor living in the south who rescues some of those fleeing the dictatorship in the North.

      Regular broadcasting of that and covert footage of the Russian/Chinese/North Korean/Cambodian gulags and re-education regimes and their resulting consequences to school kids might, just might, persuade some of them of the folly of the leftwards slippery slope on which even the UK is now sliding.

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  33. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/colinbraziertv/status/1760592006055604283?s=61
    Reading accounts of last night in Parliament I wonder if the 2015 novel ‘Submission’, by Michel Houellebecq, might increasingly – and sadly – have something to say to Britain.
    His best-seller imagines a France where political Islam has done a deal with the Left to secure power.

    By rubbing the country’s nose in diversity?

    Looks like BBC and ITV need to run more ‘dramas’ on beheading prone radical Christians.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The immigrants make their way north, having no desire to assimilate to French culture, but continuing to demand a First World standard of living, even as they flout laws, do not produce, and murder French citizens, such as factory bosses and shopkeepers, as well as the ordinary people who do not welcome them. They are also joined by the immigrants who already reside in Europe, as well as various left-wing and anarchist groups. Across the West, more and more migrants arrive and have children, rapidly growing to outnumber whites. In a matter of months, the white West has been overrun and pro-immigrant governments have been established, while the white people are ordered to share their houses and flats with the immigrants.

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

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  34. Althepalerp says:

    So UK aid is parachuted into Gaza,
    I remember when half a million Yazidi’s faced starvation when they were fleeing ISIS, the UK said it could not airdrop as it could endanger those on the ground. It was an old fashioned way of doing things.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Earlier this week, the UK signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organisation to procure and deliver £1 million worth of UK aid to Gaza, including the critical medicine and fuel included in this flight.15 hours ago

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  35. MarkyMark says:

    Neil Oliver: ‘World domination & a terrifying ‘what if’!!!

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  37. MarkyMark says:

    He rots the soul of a nation
    ………………

    “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. (Boris Johnson)

    But it cannot survive treason from within.(Theresa May)

    An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. (Anjem Choudary)

    But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.(Jeremy Corbyn)

    For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”

    Marcus Tullius Cicero

    ………….He rots the soul of a nation

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  38. taffman says:

    What’s happening at the “Dirty Duck”?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6pe1l352mmo

    Is that all, or will we get the full story later when the rest of the UK ‘clocks’ the full story ?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      They believe the addition of a HMO in what is a “predominantly family housing area” will not lead to a concentration of similar developments that could adversely impact “community and social cohesion”.

      adversely impact “community and social cohesion” HA H AHA HA

      YOU CAN SEE WHAT IS COMING.

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  39. MarkyMark says:

    UK Borders VS Gaza Border … HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

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  40. Fedup2 says:

    Just before the off switch came – I found out that the book of the week is something like ‘a history of sodomy ‘… by a sodomite red labour MP – bet Hamas like him …..

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  41. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – Oh dear, how sad, never mind #1

    Apparently the senior Civil Servant has weighed in on the row between Kemi Badenoch and Henry Staunton, sacked Chair of the Post Office board, to say that Kemi Badenoch is correct and Henry Staunton is being economical with the truth. The BBC will not like it.

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  42. tvlicensingblog says:

    More new articles from the BBC TV Licensing Blog for the middle of the week:
    BBC Boss Davie Gloats as Commercial Rivals Struggle
    Journalists: Further Probing of TV Licensing Unjust Prosecutions Required

    If you haven’t already done so, please download our totally free ebook TV Licensing Laid Bare.

    The 70 page book is packed full of information about the harassment and intimidation meted out by the BBC in the name of TV licence enforcement.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Annual remuneration (as at July 2023)
      £525,000

      https://www.bbc.com/aboutthebbc/whoweare/tim-davie
      Tim Davie CBE, Director-General
      17th Director-General of the BBC

      Expenses …

      Mr Tim Davie
      External
      hospitality
      Hospitality for
      Business Contacts
      Meetingwithonairbroadcaste
      rsandagent 27/01/2023
      £123.72 0

      Mr Tim Davie
      Internal
      hospitality
      Hospitality for
      Internal Staff
      Meetings
      Drink with internal staff HA HA HA HA COST OF LIVING
      member 04/11/2022
      £23.1

      COST OF LIVING HA HA AHAHAHAH

      Name of recipient Date received Source of gift/hospitality Source’s business Description Comments
      Tim Davie 22/03/2023 PWC Accountants/Business
      Consultants
      2 tickets for performance of Peter Kay at the O2

      Click to access tim-davie-expenses-q4-2022-23.pdf

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  43. MarkyMark says:

    Plaque_4.jpg

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  44. MarkyMark says:

    COST OF LIVING AT THE BBC – 2 TICKETS NOT 12 HA HA HA HA AHAHAHAH CONFLICT OF INTEREST HA HA HA BRIBES HA HA HA HA

    Name of recipient Date received Source of gift/hospitality Source’s business Description Comments
    Tim Davie
    22/03/2023
    PWC Accountants/Business
    2 tickets for performance of Peter Kay at the O2

    Click to access tim-davie-expenses-q4-2022-23.pdf

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  45. MarkyMark says:

    YOU MUST NOT FLY … HAHAHAHA … BBC

    Deborah Turness
    Flights
    Flight 16/01/2023 LHR/MAN
    £97.14

    Click to access deborah-turness-cbs-q4-2022-23.pdf

    https://www.bbc.com/aboutthebbc/whoweare/deborah-turness

    Annual remuneration (as at July 2023)
    £233,000

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  46. StewGreen says:

    11:45 R4 book prog presenter Just now “I thought couldn’t we have one vaguely nice white character in this book
    all the white characters are poisonous .. but maybe I need to think..”

    It’s a book her guest has chosen
    Founder of Stemettes and author of ‘She’s In CTRL’ Anne-Marie Imafidon picks Kelechi Okafor’s science-fiction debut, which looks at the relationship between technology and society in the near-future.

    The show appears to 3 women ..a female white presenter and 2 female guests, 1 black and one Tamil from Singapore

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    • StewGreen says:

      That writer is in the #BeKind club

         5 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Here’s that author talking about ‘white supremacy depends on portraying white women as good’
      So presumably she therefore feels entitled to always portray white women negatively ……. #ThatsRacist

         5 likes

  47. andyjsnape says:

    bbc spin on the Ukraine/Russian war:-

    Rosenberg: How two years of war in Ukraine changed Russia
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68359252

    Lets be honest bbc, its all about wearing down Russia and nothing to do with saving Ukraine

       8 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      Media and spin on any war, especially certain places.

      https://x.com/AlexCrawfordSky/status/1760536659571982365?s=20
      Alex Crawford
      If you can, this was set up by fellow journalists and friends of Marie Colvin (@lindseyhilsum and @bbclysedoucet) and they could use support

      The ‘Take the kids to battle’ day with the head covered in a thin scarf is especially emoting, and useless. At least Mum gets the sexy jacket.

      Then there is Butt Cheek #2 Rusho

      Media Confidential
      Are journalists being targeted in Gaza?
      Does the word “PRESS” on a flak jacket keep a journalist safe or make them a target?

      In modern battles? Probably depends mostly where they are. Standing next to the guys shooting at the other side in civvies… neither, especially when it has become a fashion accessory.

      https://x.com/MagriTiger/status/1760596290944082121?s=20
      Please support their incredible work

      Some now prefer to hang out in the foyer of the office near the bar.

      https://x.com/JohnSimpsonNews/status/1760360634695270803?s=20
      Filming the end sequence (known in the business as ‘the Outro’, as opposed to ‘the Intro’) for tonight’s #UnspunWorld on ⁦@BBCTwo⁩. Dave Murphy is cameraman. The hand is camerawoman Katherina Werner’s. It’s a scary edition tonight: is WW3 on its way? Has Putin won his war?

      Simpo is also using Alan’s what is known in the business as ‘question as a headline’ to sow some seeds with deniability down the line.

      Pompous oaf. Katherine got a flak jacket?

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  48. MarkyMark says:

    “In the lecture, Rand admonishes American businessmen for apologizing for capitalism and for, in some cases, directly funding detractors of the free market. Notably, she says that “It is a moral crime to give money to support your own destroyers.” She also answers audience questions after the lecture.”

    ………………….
    “It is a moral crime to give money to support your own destroyers.”

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  49. MarkyMark says:

    PUFF PIECE ….

    Melinda French Gates: Six things we learned when she spoke to Kirsty Young
    In her BBC Radio 4 podcast Young Again, journalist and broadcaster Kirsty Young takes her guests back to meet their younger selves and asks the question: if you knew then what you know now, what would you have done differently?

    Melinda French Gates is an American philanthropist, former computer developer, and the ex-wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. In 2000, she and Bill Gates co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a charitable organisation with the aim of improving healthcare and reducing extreme poverty across the world.

    Here’s the things we learned when she met Kirsty Young…
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4MLtbntn9tRhlXq1lpwh56D/melinda-french-gates-six-things-we-learned-when-she-spoke-to-kirsty-young
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  50. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #2 – Oh dear, how sad, never mind #2

    Lord Shawcross has issued a report that the Government’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy is not working too well. The BBC like that because it is a Conservative Government’s fault. But Lord Shawcross goes on to say that it is that the Counter-Terrorism Strategy is concentrating on the wrong targets of Far Right and Extreme Right Wing terrorists and not on the ‘Islamists’, especially in the wake of the Hamas attacks in Israel on 7 October last year.

    The BBC will not like that.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Inshallah!

      Peckham teenager Khadijah Mellah will ride out at Glorious Goodwood on Thursday and make a little bit of history in front of 25,000 people.

      The 18-year-old student is believed to be the first person in the UK to appear in a competitive horse race while wearing a hijab.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/49180399

         12 likes

      • Guest Who says:

        Does her helmet have JOCKEY on it having swiped one at the hen night from a returning ‘reporterette’?

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Khadijah first joined Brixton’s Ebony Horse Club, when her mum came across a leaflet in a local mosque.

          Also, there are several traditions called hadith that speak of these beautiful creations of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala. In fact, horse riding is a Sunnah sport, which means that our beloved Prophet Muhammad, ﷺ peace be upon him, highly recommended horse riding as a sport, just like swimming and archery.

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      • moggiemoo says:

        Will the horse be wearing one too?

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    • Guest Who says:

      Referenced earlier.
      https://x.com/BBCr4today/status/1760608636621992407?s=20
      “Did you have your own fears about safety due to the speaker’s decision?”
      @BBCNickRobinson
      asks Conservative MP Maria Caulfield, after it was reported she said Sir Lindsay’s Hoyle’s actions were ‘completely irresponsible about MP’s safety’ in a WhatsApp message.

      3 comments an hour. Irrelevant BBC political toad.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Family members employed and paid from parliamentary expenses
        I employ my partner, Steve Bell, as Office Manager. (Registered 04 January 2016; updated 22 March 2016 and 15 April 2019)

        https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/25397/maria_caulfield/lewes#register

        Name of donor: Betting and Gaming Council
        Address of donor: 1st Floor, 90 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1EU
        Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: One ticket with hospitality to Wimbledon, value £3,258

        Register of Members’ Interests
        Maria Caulfield

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    • Greencoat says:

      I used to attend a Council’s ‘Prevent’ meeting. All the participants were traditional public sector Left/Liberals and many of them were ethnic.
      You could almost hear the wheels grinding in their heads as they tried to avoid facing the truth about terrorism in the UK today.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Terrorism threat levels
        The threat level indicates the likelihood of a terrorist attack in the UK.

        National threat level
        The threat to the UK (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) from terrorism is substantial.

        Northern Ireland-related threat level
        The threat to Northern Ireland from Northern Ireland-related terrorism is severe.

        low – an attack is highly unlikely
        moderate – an attack is possible but not likely
        substantial – an attack is likely
        severe – an attack is highly likely
        critical – an attack is highly likely in the near future

        https://www.gov.uk/terrorism-national-emergency

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