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Scroblene The Private Eye ain’t the man he was some years ago. To me he kind of morphed into a… - Fedup2 Nov 22, 20:39
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That’s why they always shout “On your Marx. Get set. Go.” - taffman Nov 22, 19:47
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Starmer is insulting our intelligence! Even mayors in France have made a statement about the asylum seekers. Anything on Al… - Zephir Nov 22, 19:45
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Can anyone attend COP29? Conferences are not open to the general public. The United States, as a Party to the… - MarkyMark Nov 22, 19:37
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Even Gang members agree with him …. “2012 … David Lammy MP says absent fathers ‘key cause of knife crime’… - vlad Nov 22, 19:31
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Ironic that Lammy complained about not enough police on the streets, when usually his community aren’t too keen on police…
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Labour’s Rachael Reeves makes an electioneering speech today attacking high taxes under Tories. I agree, taxes are indeed far too high under this Government but do I believe it would be less under Labour?
Taxes can’t be less under Labour unless they really do sort out the mess the Marxist Tories made of the economy. I’m sure everyone remembers what happened when Liz Truss tried to lower taxes without cutting spending.
The insane net zero lunacy will bankrupt the country and will have to be abandoned. Until it is though taxes will have to be sky high.
I can’t see Labour not turning on the money printer, and that will cause inflation we haven’t seen since the 1970s Your only real protection against this is precious metals, unless you are a commodities trader. Unfortunately others have seen this comming and prices have risen sharply, Silver however is looking attractive, but for the VAT levied on it.
> The insane net zero lunacy will bankrupt the country and will have to be abandoned.
I have just finished reading this book about Net Zero and can recommend it:
NOT ZERO – How an Irrational Target Will Impoverish You, Help China (and Won’t Even Save the Planet).
By: Ross Clark
ISBN: 978-1-80075-244-3
Thames waters parent company has just announced it has defaulted on £400 million of debt.
The first stage of the planned re-nationalisation on the cheap by this Marxist government.
I would be interested to know how much the privatised water companies have made in laund and property sales since flotation. I bet the companies were sold for less than they held in their property portfolios.
I have never bought any privatization shares. Not because it wasn’t the Right thing to do in certain cases but because they were run unfairly. Banks financial institutions and managements did very well out of it. Consumers and the public didn’t.
It’s the eye-watering borrowing that Thames and others have wallowed in – no chance the execs will have to carry any can.
The can will be leaking …
China own us now!
“Thames is ultimately owned by a group of shareholders led by Canadian pension fund Omers and including the UK university pension scheme USS, the investor Hermes, the China Investment Corporation and a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/04/thames-water-owner-kemble-debts-banks-loan-extension#:~:text=Thames%20is%20ultimately%20owned%20by,Abu%20Dhabi%20sovereign%20wealth%20fund.
We can ask China for more money whilst sending billions to Africa?
“David Cameron ‘wants to unlock billions of dollars for foreign aid’
This article is more than 4 months old
Exclusive: New foreign secretary to say UK has ‘moral mission’ to help world’s poor in white paper”
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/nov/18/david-cameron-wants-to-unlock-billions-of-dollars-for-foreign-aid
elsewhere …. I heard a tale earlier about British Gas EV service vans. Gas peeps are refusing to charge them at their dwellings….
The was a story I heard, I think it might even have been here that insurance companies required them to be charged at 5(?) m from the house. I checked with mine but they had nothing in the policy.
Other issue is as a friend found when he bought one, and had just had a new driveway, the standard electrical tails to the house are in most cases inadequate for the load and larger ones have to be installed.
I suspect that many BG engineers don’t have off-street access to a charge lead and iirc claiming expenses (for electrons) from BG is a real PITA
OMG NYC -earthquake – global warning strikes – ban something …
It was Pootin !
Blinken is self evidently a dangerous moron…. “our” BBC hang on his every word
Oh don’t worry it’s going to affect you too. Those few ill chosen words crash the NYSE yesterday and caused oil and gas prices to rise, so you will pay more to fill the car and more to heat the home too.
Can Russia join Nato?
They did apply to, but were refused entry.
During the Islamic Month of Ramadan you will notice the BBC actively promoting the conversion of the British into Islam. So for example we have the following news story today from the BBC:
Title: “New Muslim reflects on support during first Ramadan”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c51wwr332l7o
About two days ago the BBC produced the following story:
Title:”Ramadan: Asian Network’s Nadia Ali opens up about wearing a hijab”
Which is all about how wearing the hijab empowers her as a woman …
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-68713726
2002 ….. The Mecca city governor visited the fire-damaged school
Saudi Arabia’s religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress, according to Saudi newspapers.
In a rare criticism of the kingdom’s powerful “mutaween” police, the Saudi media has accused them of hindering attempts to save 15 girls who died in the fire on Monday.
About 800 pupils were inside the school in the holy city of Mecca when the tragedy occurred.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1874471.stm
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2019 … Lincolnshire non-Muslim girls asked to wear hijab for a day
Published
4 August 2019
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-49204762
I think I’d prefer a lawyer who wasn’t mentally ill.
A walking law suit
The BBC can top this I’m confident
The BBC didn’t report it. It is not visible on their website. The Twitter comment was posted yesterday.
“Careless 4 year-old girl gets in way of genuine Dutchman”
The BBC ran an article a few days ago along the lines of “Beheadings of teachers reveals rise of Islamophobia in France “
Child runs onto knife as knife sharpener man tries to earn a living .
“Emily was on her scooter playing. As she rode past a wooden bench, a female sat on the bench suddenly attacked Emily, stabbing her in the neck, causing catastrophic injury. Emily was taken to Salford Royal Hospital, but despite best efforts to save Emily she was pronounced dead at 15:56 that day.”[3] Coroner Alan Walsh stated, “In my 20 years as a coroner this is one of the most tragic deaths that I have dealt with.”[12]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Emily_Jones
Is there any chance that this weekend, we can have a Gaza-free/Israel-free set of posts, so that real Beeboid-bashing can continue unabated?
I’m not following the conflicts in the Middle East, as I did Latin, not Geography or Modern History at ‘O’ Level, and while I could be a judge one day, I’ll never get involved in discussions about ragheads and their foibles, rather like I never got involved with rear-gunners in bakers’ vans in Northern Ireland in the seventies…
There’s enough crap being spewed by the awful BBC these days to fill these columns five times over, and as they really are uninformed and inadequate in explaining any dire/murderous situation with these dreadful foreigners, there’s so much more to be had for giving the Beeboid Cubiclists a f*****g good kicking on stuff which we really do understand and get p****d off about!
Fed, if I’m awake around 9.30pm, I’ll pop by, but it depends on the Glenfiddich…
Scroblene – I agree – I have already entreated those who want to fight the Gaza war to go somewhere else to do it – unless it is directly about BBC / Hamas presentation – but the fight is still going on here
With. – by the look of it – less contributors and less contributions – I’m only scanning this stuff but might get fed up and start deleting if it carries on – this site is about the biased BBC –
Spot on Fed – and more strength to your elbow!
Moderating is a thankless task, and it’s certainly not your fault that there are fewer contributions here, concentrating on the ridiculous left-wing stance of the awful BBC where serious matters really do need some editorial leadership and command.
W1AA cubiclists are really beyond their remit to advise and educate, and they just fiddle around at the edges of the main stories, with a very mediocre bias which expands their left-wing ideals. Their ‘journalism’ is of an appallingly silly standard, and not worth the huge sums they charge people, so on our collective advice, lets hope that many more British Citizens just cancel their TV Tax Direct Debits.
Now.
Scrobie, you have invented a wonderful word: cubiclists!
The BBC, on Radio 4 at least, appear to believe every word a Hamas or Palestinian spokesperson says.
Thank you Uppers!
It is in fact, a diversion from a similar word I use when describing Edwina Baggage, who is the Bicycling Correspondent on The Sodden Prickney Bugle – a newspaper of some renown, and often mentioned in my manic fantasies elsewhere!
‘Bicyclism’ doesn’t always refer to the sport of cycling, as anyone with knowledge of the real term, ‘Village Bicycle’ will be aware of…
I thank you again for the opportunity to explain my new word for Beboid third-form interviewers!
That’s fair enough if both sides are affected, but can I suggest a dedicated thread where those views can be expressed explored and tested away from this one?
I am trying hard only to respond to posts never to begin them, and you yourself have been guilty in that regard.
A thread dedicated would I would suggest would allieviate many of the vexatious issues perhaps?
Yes I’ll put a Gaza one up on Saturday …. I hope no one uses it
Thank you Fed!
Sorry I missed your deadline last evening, I conked out to the strains of a crackling fire and an empty glass…
Scroblene – im in a different time zone again so the posts go up when remember … on the wagon too
@ Scrobs, the crackling fire
You didn’t set your trousers alight again with your pipe did you ?
I have noticed that during the on-going Ukraine – Russia conflict the BBC regularly opens up a “Have Your Say” comments section to confirm that their Russophobic message is getting across, with comments such as “Putin is a C@nt” allowed but other comments not allowed.
I contrast that with the Hamas-Israel conflict where the BBC has never opened up a “Have Your Say” comments section. The reason is obvious: the BBC have whipped up such a torrent of anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish sentiment (hate) that the HYS section would bare all.
I see the growth of the Pro-Palestinian marches, the massive rise in anti-Semitism, and the bullying of politicians to do something against Israel as arising from direct incitement by the BBC to a very significant degree. The BBC has what can be called “reach”.
Just very ancedotal, but the Have Your Say seems to appear after an apparent Ukraine success.
And now about the BBC – below is a piece about the demise of R2 pop pickers …. I personally have no interest in R2 – but some might still listen
STARTS Good old Gary Davies, yet again malleable putty in the cracks of the BBC Radio 2 schedules. What a good sort he is showing up for work like a rookie police officer unsure as to whether the day’s task will entail filing, monitoring CCTV footage or nipping out to a homicide. Except, of course, he’s a veteran. Sixty-six years old, a Radio 1 DJ from the 1980s and presenter of the long-defunct Top of the Pops, he’s been Radio 2 glue since 2018, with a berth in Sounds of the 80s on a Saturday evening. He also pops up to cover everyone else’s holiday and, more crucially, the constant gaps in the schedule caused by the station bosses’ brutal approach to human resources.
Thus, as they ponder who should present Saturday’s Pick of the Pops, Davies’s patience is tested once more as he’s lent the gig for an indeterminate period. And those bosses doubtless feel he’s grateful for the work and will, as ever, step in with his usual vim, vigour and old-school DJ enthusiasm. While we listeners were irritated that Paul Gambaccini needed shunting from it in the first place.
Gambaccini was pushed to another slot so that the late Steve Wright could have something else to do in addition to his Sunday Love Songs programme, which was all that was left for him after his daily Steve Wright in the Afternoon was axed – despite still having several years of fuel in the tank.
And the ricochets of Wright’s axing and demise are still traumatising the schedules this week. Hot on the heels of the announcement that comedian Romesh Ranganathan will take over Claudia Winkleman’s Saturday morning slot after she stepped down to spend more time with her children, the latest target is Michael Ball, who has been moved to hosting Sunday Love Songs and is putting a brave face on it. He said he would continue Wright’s “extraordinary legacy” and was “excited and more than a little nervous”. Since joining the station in 2008 and starting The Michael Ball Show in 2013, Ball has proved himself an engaging and natural host, a brilliant interviewer, a self-deprecating individual who manages to mock the worst contestants in his weekly On the Ball quiz in such a way that you love them even more.
His voice was a soothing sound first for a Sunday evening and then a perfect filler for prepping Sunday lunch. But now his talents will be shredded as he dwindles to doing links between slushy love songs, while his gig is handed to Paddy McGuinness, the former host of Top Gear, who presents radio like he’s running a karaoke night at the pub. It’s a useful talent, but it doesn’t say “Sunday morning vibes” to me. But then, that’s the point.
Radio 2’s attempts to sack me as a listener are relentless, but I continue to cling on, mixing it up with a bit of Radio 4 – including lots of the Today programme (I’m a glutton for punishment) – some Zeb Soanes on Classic FM, with the rest of my audio consumption being on Spotify. The replacement of the likes of Wright and Ken Bruce is central to the station’s policy of chavving up the schedule – the dream, it seems, being to create the accompaniment to a sort of wall-to-wall drunken ladies’ night.
Which is fine as a purpose, if they feel this somehow adheres to the BBC values of audience, creativity, trust, respect and accountability. It’s just that they seem consistently merciless in their execution. Their inability to let people down gently is so constant it feels deliberate.
It was looking like Bruce was making a graceful exit in 2023 when he announced his departure – his decision – after 31 years. But then they forced him out earlier than mooted with Davies, obviously, holding the fort before Vernon Kay took the reins. There was Simon Mayo’s ghastly exit in 2018, which followed the brutally awkward pairing of him with Jo Whiley. Agonising to listen to, it was a form of torture for the presenters as innovative as bastinado or scaphism. Mayo later described it as verschlimmbesserung, the German expression for an improvement that only makes things worse. And, of course, shedding Wright robbed us of the miracle of a daily show: meticulously produced, filled year in, year out with a host of classic comedic characters, with well-crafted links, an extraordinary set of jingles and musical stings, and a voice that became the reassuring sound of an afternoon in Britain.
Helen Thomas, the head of Radio 2, says she’s, “looking forward to Michael’s [Ball] earlier show, where he’ll entertain his ‘lovelies’ as he’s always done.” And yup, we’ll be there, willing him on and, as with so many shunted presenters, maintaining our loyalty like the Monty Python Black Knight fought on as each of his limbs was cut off: “’tis but a scratch.”
I’m writing this on a train en route to Edinburgh and a young woman next to me asked what the subject matter is. After telling her, she replied: “I used to work at the BBC.” She recalled showing round a visiting student who wanted to work in radio. How might they realise their dream of one day becoming a presenter? “I had to give them the worse piece of advice I’ve ever given anyone in my life,” she sighed. “I told them they needed first to become a celebrity.”ENDS …
And in the BBC News someone called ‘Gary Richardson ‘ is stepping back from the BBC after something like 150 years – on R4 Today doing the sport – …
https://x.com/haveigotnews/status/1776283923074503135?s=61
Brand New Series Starts Tonight at 9pm on BBC one and iPlayer!
Guess the pointless BBC staff number maker-upper.
Brand New Series Starts Tonight at 9pm on BBC one and iPlayer!
Brand New – recycled jokes!
** exceptions apply to Jews
London is open to anyone who get here by dinghy or back of a lorry or any other illegal means
Shia Muharram celebration Moss Side – Curry Mile
The BBC is to launch a video game starring Gary Lineker as it scrambles to win over young audiences…
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/04/05/bbc-launch-gary-lineker-video-game/#:~:
From order-order.com
BBC Version:
A fugitive who fled after being charged with raping a child has been arrested at Manchester Airport.
Tahir Rashid is one of 29 men facing charges as part of a wide ranging investigation into child sexual exploitation in Rochdale.
Greater Manchester Police said he was detained at the arrivals gate and was brought to court on Thursday.
Mr Rashid has been remanded in custody ahead of his next court appearance in May.
Independent version:
A wanted man from Rochdale will be brought before the courts after he was stopped at Manchester Airport over several charges of sexual offences against children.
Tahir Rashid was detained by officers when he arrived at Manchester Airport in the early hours of Wednesday (April 4) morning.
In April last year, the force’s dedicated Child Sexual Exploitation Major Investigation Team charged the 53-year-old with 13 offences.
These included sexual activity with a child and rape, but he did not appear to formally receive the charges.
Note nowhere in the BBC article does it mention child rape neither article discloses where the flight he arrived on departed from. – I think we can all guess.