The BBC has demonstrated its ‘anti English bias clearly today . St George’s’ day ? Really ? Compare with the other nations of the UK ….. clearly the BBC hates England – much prefers minority groups and religions – to the Traditions of the English . And you are still paying your licence fee ? Surely not …..
Midweek 24th April 2024
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Finding it difficult to get to sleep at night?
Don’t want to take strong sleeping pills or haven’t been prescribed any?
Well I have just the thing for you!
The International Monetary Fund “Fiscal Policy in the Great Election Year”
https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/FM/Issues/2024/04/17/fiscal-monitor-april-2024
Apparantly over 80 countries will hold elections this year, and there is the inevitable temptation to ‘bribe’ their electorate with government borrowing.
Bidens enormous and unsustainable US Debt comes in for particular criticism and warnings to stop defecit spending altogether !
By the end of this year debt servicing is going to be more than Defence and Medicare, and if it isn’t reined in, it will be the number one expense and approaching 6% of GDP,
Daily Mail
A supposedly right wing newspaper.
‘England till I die!’ Far-right crowd clash Police on St George’s Day
Police clash with St George’s Day protesters chanting ‘England till I die’ near the Cenotaph, joined by far-right groups and football hooligans from across the UK.’
What a kick in the face to every Englishman and woman. They were not football hooligans nor far right.
So, England till I die is a bad song but From the river too the sea is ok.
I will no longer read the Daily Mail.
As it stands today, if ever there is a war which seems increasingly likely, I’ll tell my sons ‘not to fight as your country doesn’t like the English, and you are English.’
They won’t like my comment as they have been brought up to feel a sense of pride in their country but that is what i will tell them.
It really is a shameful Marxist Tory style article and the comments bear that out.
So much is behind the paywall now in the Daily Mail, scarcely worth going to the web site.
Their irritating, repeptitive obsession with two ex royals who ran away from they British patriotic duty is also enough to give their online rag a serious miss.
The first clicks of the morning to get basic headlines are usually on the Sky website, as, although they’re not a lot different from the BBC, the layout is much simpler and factual, and easier on the eye than the Pravda-like set up of Beeboid kidult-written stuff, which everyone knows, will not be doing Normal Citizens of Great Britain any favours!
Deborah, the way around the paywall in many cases including the Daily Mirror is to allow the page to load and then stop it using the cross top left on the browser.
It’s sometimes a fine art depending on internet speed, but it can be as ‘entertaining’ as the Golden Shot used to be!
Bring back Bernie the Bolt
The gorgeous Anne Aston.
“Print Screen” and pasting it in to Paint also works.
I’ve given up trying all these hacks…
Windows 3.1 has a lot to answer for in my view!
Thoughts, did you mean the top right-hand cross?
I suppose I should get a colour screen, but Boots charge another hundred quid over the normal green screen, and I need that for diesel!
Assuming you are using firefox, the top left top right closes the browser. Normally it would be a circle with an arrow, which changes to an X when the page is loading. You have to time it right to click on it which gets easier with a little practice.
Most of the media are experiencing a slide to the Left, partly as a result of the Overton Window of permissible opinion, itself partly defined by the huge influence of the BBC. There are other factors too, of course.
Blindly obvious from the BBC footage that the French Police are now fully aiding and abetting the migrants getting to the UK, a planned pitiful handful of French police on the beach pretending to try to stop the departure by waving their arms about while being shit scared by men waving sticks when it is blindingly obvious that letting them go is a problem solved for France. We should demand British troops in large numbers take over the job and effectively prevent the departure of these chancers by destroying the boats every time. The problem would be solved in two weeks. All it would take is the immediate total destruction of the boats every time they turned up before it gets on the water.
This is being masterminded by the EU as a kick back for Brexit.
Read this and all becomes clear…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/17/birthrate-in-england-and-wales-drops-to-lowest-level-in-two-decades
Try rolling up in any of the countries of origin of these people without paperwork and see how far you get!
You would certainly not get a hotel room, free food, a free a mobile phone, a debit card, the support of the media and a cash handout every week…..
And we are supposed to hand them everything they need whilst accepting substantial numbers of British people sleeping in shop doorways every night are we?
It makes me sick!
Hey BBC/Guardian would you rather
#1 help 1,000 refugees by letting them in from France
or #2 use the same amount of UK money to house 3,000 refugees in Africa ?
They’d pick #1 , cos they are about POLITICS not about genuinely helping refugees
The total fertility rate (TFR) decreased to 1.49 children per woman in 2022 from 1.55 in 2021; the TFR has been decreasing since 2010.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/bulletins/birthsummarytablesenglandandwales/2022refreshedpopulations#:~:text=Replacement%20level&text=In%20the%20UK%2C%20women%20would,natural%22%20replacement%20of%20the%20population.
As in Britain, the police operate a two-tier system. Put on a yellow vest to complain about the treatment of farmers or the policies of granny-loving micro-Macron? Expect the full force of the CRS with baton charges, tear gas and water cannons. Third worlder fancying a trip to Britain or rioting outside the Stade de France? No problem, c’est bon!
Follow the alternative media for the otherwise censored reports of ‘enrichment’ at the Olympic games this Summer…
Ian:
Agreed. For ordinary people, you cannot live in France without papers. For the asylum seekers, however, it’s suddenly not a problem. I doubt any gendarme asks to see their carte de sejour.
Five died in the channel attempting to cross from a safe country to the UK.
Oh dear
How sad
Never mind.
But boy the BBC do. Trying to link the deaths with the government Rwanda policy.
Just in case you were in any doubt. The subversive left wing BBC is in favour of unfettered mass immigration.
Sluff: “Five died in the channel attempting to cross from a safe country to the UK.”
I never even thought of that after reading the BBC article. The BBC are so filled with their own agenda that they couldn’t even see or state that simple fact.
UK state it now like the Stasi
it practices DECOMPOSITION against dissidents
@desmoulins1760 tweeted
Whatever happened to that Elton John?
I would still like to see one of these youtube “auditors” go to BBC premises and BBC subcontractors who send the threatograms .
People like DJ Audits , DJE Media , AB or Charlie Veitch or equivalent .
The BBC cant complain because they instigate the connection – no threatograms , no audits . Leave us alone and we leave you alone .
One of those auditors feels that if he`s paying for a public body he`s entitled to go inside the premises .
What training do you think is needed to become an auditor , and to fly a drone ?
Minimal coverage of the TR case on TalkTV and GBnews
Michelle Dewberry had an item about the police using a horse needlessly against St George’s Day suppporters
and Quentin Letts leapt in to smear TR
and Dewberry called Letts out
I must give kudos to Dewbs. Letts just gave the impression of being a complacent tubby little squish.
The level of two tier policing is now unbelievable. I am sure the Met sent in the horses against the English men celebrating St George’s Day because they were smarting about their defeat in the court earlier that day. But if they employ dyslexics who don’t know what day it is…
The Blue Line street gang take lost in the court so set out to tale revenge
Sopel had two community notes yesterday
After being disgusted by the BBC’s St George day article which is 100% negative and includes the words ‘far-right’, I had a look at their attitude to it in general. I found this for children:
They start by telling us the whole story is fake (as if anyone actually believes dragons existed). Then they tell us George was in fact Turkish and a Roman soldier. At that point, the cartoon character’s skin changes to be darker.
What’s clear is that the underlying intent is to discredit the whole legend as a kind of ‘fact check’.
I tried to find the equivalent assasination attempt on the paedophile prophet whose words are used as jsutification for the most barbaric of murders which children REALLY should know about to understand Islam – but it seems the BBC aren’t interested in that. Presumably because as soon as he appears in the cartoon, they will be murdered.
There is no doubt whatsoever that the BBC socialists are trying to destroy any sense of national identity. And they are targetting children to do it.
This is the real English born Saints English flag of England.
Saint Edward the Confessor was the English born Patron Saint of England until 1350.
At the time of St George, the Turks were busy looting and pillaging in Central Asia. They did not invade Asia Minor until hundreds of years later.
Graham Stringer MP, and the debate on Excess Deaths: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/another-brave-head-above-the-covid-parapet-what-graham-stringer-told-the-house/
“The media, led by the BBC, were quite uncritical of what was happening. People say that BBC reporters were told not to criticise and not to ask difficult questions, and political journalists – not specialist health journalists who might have asked more pertinent questions – were sent to the press conferences. It was a political question, but it was also a science and health question. We were really let down by the BBC primarily, and by other parts of the media”
Graham Stringer MP, co-chair of the 25 member APPG on pandemic response and recovery, said “The MHRA oversees a failing system that is slow to act, causing harm to patients and beset with conflicts of interest. We cannot allow it to continue. That’s why we have written to the health select committee calling for an urgent investigation into the MHRA.”
Further FOI requests indicate that, in the intervening two-and-a-half years since knowing of post-vaccination myocarditis and pericarditis, the MHRA “has not undertaken any such formal epidemiological studies or instructed Pfizer and Moderna to carry any out.” The letter said that the examples seem to “characterise the regulator’s safety monitoring activity, casting a further dark shadow over the MHRA’s approach to patient safety.”
The MPs said that it seems the MHRA “is more concerned with putting itself, and perhaps the pharmaceutical industry, first. Protecting itself, one might say, rather than protecting and ensuring patient safety.”
The Tory Prime Minister profits from the Moderna mRNA vaccines, and therefore insists they are “Safe & Effective” and refuses to withdraw mRNA vaccines, due to the damage this would do to Moderna profits.
The Labour Party supports the continued use of legal indemnity protection for Big Pharma. This is to protect Big Pharma profits by using taxpayer money to pay people compensation for vaccine injuries. Labour also supports the Prime Minister profiteering from Moderna, as well as supporting the Office for National Statistics support for Big Pharma profits, by giving it the statistics on excess deaths, not given to Members of Parliament as requested by Labour rebel, Graham Stringer MP, because the information could threaten Big Pharma profits.
Not entirely with the “rioting far right” tale here…..
Tousi TV had a YouTube post up titled “police attack demonstrators” up last night – don’t see that this morning….
I watched some video that showed exactly what was in the title….
I don’t see that this morning.
Society is collapsing very quickly now when measured daily. The Marxists like the BBC must be quietly jubilant.
Police are brave when they outnumber or in a big group aren’t they
Zephyr
– especially when they have full editorial control….
Somebody is directing / orchestrating this.
The miners at Orgreave come straight to mind as does the police antics during the 2000 fuel strikes….
They felt safe because they thought they were dealing with footy supporters – Hamas are … different – same again Saturday …
Meanwhile the surveillance on Robinson will be stepped up – right 77 brigade – how you doing … ? Very long to your pension ? Plan ?
Not the BBC
I repeatedly slag off the vast majority of politicians here . But there are exceptions . Frank Field . He has died aged 81 . If you are unfamiliar look at his obituaries . One of those rare politicians with principles – common sense – and independence of mind . He was a labour MP – but left at the time of Corbyn and the ingrained anti semitism currently concealed by red labour .
Thanks for your work Frank – but you were swimming against a self destructive tide … in which we are now drowning .
Glad to have met you if only the once .RIP
seconded
Tomo – I recall now that Tony Blair told Mr Field to ‘think the unthinkable on ( welfare reform ?) so Frank did – and got banished ….
I agree, Fed. Frank Field was a devout Anglican and a politician of integrity. We could do with a few more like him in the House as well as the ‘other place’.
https://x.com/bbcsounds/status/1782755061493379268?s=61
The jury has been selected for Donald Trump’s hush-money trial Does social media increase the risk of them being identified? Listen to the BBC’s Marianna Spring on the latest #Americast
18hrs.
1 comment.
Toenails TV
https://x.com/bbcnickrobinson/status/1783030027996561500?s=61
So, @Nigel_Farage – one of the founders & owners of @reformparty_uk – can present an “impartial” programme on a TV “news” channel during the general election according to the broadcasting regulator @ofcom. The leader of the party @TiceRichard & its only MP @LeeAndersonMP_ can present programmes in the run up to the campaign alongside @Jacob_Rees_Mogg. Is that your idea of impartiality ?
Bet he’ll be glued to Ch4 on the night.
Comrade Robinson fears Mr Farage on many levels . As a journalist – is it really his place to criticise the output of rival ? That rival is not funded by the taxpayer – unlike the BBC – and allows views not approved by the BBc to be aired.
The comments on the X are as deluded as Robinson ….
https://x.com/omnologos/status/1783033946466361402?s=61
Could the Australian Online Safety Regulator please ask the International Criminal Court for an arrest warrant against the First Minister of Scotland for spreading too much misinformation. Thanks.
Ps yes it’s sarcasm
The country is saved . Rishi will borrow 8 zillion zillion pounds to fund new defence projects such as the Race Accountability regiment and HMS DEI? As well as the aircraft carrier with no planes HMS Mohammed . …. All with no carbon footprint …
A billion will be given to the French to ensure all dinghies are sea worthy …
Rainbow coloured camouflage uniforms,
we’re doomed
Night raids with solar powers jeeps
Fed:
Change the record. We now have 617 Squadron and 809 NAS. It has taken too long, I agree, but we do not have aircraft carriers without planes. That’s just a lazy trope.
We do not have aircraft carriers (plural) because one of them is so badly built it’s unseaworthy !
The worst issue is however that Boris Johnson sold the early warning aircraft to the Chillean government without any replacement leaving the UK blind and reliant on other NATO countries informing us of any inbound attack !
Thoughtful:
That is nonsense, and you must know it. HMS Queen Elizabeth was not badly built and is not unseaworthy. She is in refit at the moment, having given good service for about 7 years. Why do you feel the need to denigrate something British which does not deserve it?
Rob – good to see the broken carrier is in rosyth having the same fix that the other one had last year .
Im sure theyll be value for money one day …
Fed:
Actually not the same refit at all. All ships need maintenance, QE has done a lot of sea miles.
The two carriers are due to serve for 50 years, I call that good value for money. The government spaffs the money it cost to build two carriers on housing illegal immigrants every year. I don’t call that value for money.
Let’s start the day with one of those little juxtapositions of two contradictory headline reports that tend to give the lie to an agreed mainstream narrative.
‘England is hope’: risking everything to reach UK – Daniel Boffey, frontpage of the Guardian, reporting from France, refers of course to would-be illegal immigrants hoping to cross the Channel by dinghy
Meanwhile, waiting in the departure lounge
British Jews have their bags packed – Allison Pearson, frontpage of the Telegraph, reports: Britain’s Jews fear for their lives because Sir Mark Rowley is a weak coward. While other nations show strength and resolve in the face of the Islamist menace, our police have shamed themselves
But don’t run away with the notion that there’s too broad a range of opinions for us to choose between available in our news media.
Your present news reviewer: pronouns Mr and Sir; gender orientation: just the usual, thanks – has previously highlighted the creeping coalescence of style, tone and content, between the formerly serious Times newspaper and the Guardian
From the masthead price tag: £2.80 £2.00 to subscribers (Times); Subscribe today for up to 40% off (Guardian) – you do the maths
To the posting of the left-liberal state-sponsored proxy war project for their top headline story:
PM to raise defence spending and put arms industry on ‘war footing’… Sunak makes 2.5% GDP pledge;
UK to spend more on defence… Rishi Sunak says he will boost funding to 2.5% as he puts forces budget on ‘war footing’
I leave readers to guess which of those headlines was the Gruan and which the Times – no difference, huh?
A small grammatical point – the word defence ought perhaps to spelt defense – afterall this is a US State Department-led initiative we’re falling into line with. Remind me, wasn’t it a President Donald Trump warning that advised europeans to up their defense spending? I’m sure it was. Perhaps, if we’d listened, instead of scoffing, we wouldn’t be in this Ukraine mess.
German delegation at U.N. appears to laugh at Trump… Germany’s delegation at the U.N. General Assembly appeared to laugh during President Trump’s speech when he suggested that Germany is becoming “totally dependent” upon Russian energy. (Washington Post 2018)
Wise after the fact
Trump Was Right About Europe’s Defense Budgets, Rutte Says… Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte says former President Donald Trump was right to push for NATO countries to contribute more to defense spending. (Bloomberg, 2024)
More left-liberalism from the Times this morning – a basic tenet of the left is how nurture not nature defines the man. And, since Karl Marx put pen to paper there’s nothing the left enjoy more than some theoretical supposedly scientific construct to support their arguments: Like father, like son? Don’t count on it, suggest scientists… Researchers… Edinburgh University… (Times)
A report worthy of a headline in any edition of the Guardian, I think you’ll agree.
Our Rishi is en route to eastern europe, Warsaw, not in this instance – Bohemia
I see a little silhouetto of a man…
It’s our little: Rishi Sunak, pictured with journalists en route to Warsaw yesterday (Guardian) – that’s right, it’s our parachuted into the job PM pictured on the plane in assumed casual mode (Tony Blair-like shirt sleeve order and clutching a tea mug – the logo on the mug at first glance looked like I O – perhaps code for the burgeoning budget deficit under his Chancellorship ie I Owe – or perhaps a reference to I Owe my premiership to a financial markets/ Bank of England/Treasury/Office for Budget Responsibility coup against Liz Truss? In fact the logo on his tea mug is a number 10 in reference to Number 10 Downing Street)
Mr AsI isn’t a number, he’s a free man – there’s one for the teenagers – look up Patrick McGoohan in The Prisoner (I mean Google it: Was The Village The First 15 Minute City? (You Tube)
I count more than a dozen denizens of the Downing Street press lobby, smart phones (on an airplane?) and old school note books in hand, clustered around, posed eating out of the PM’s hand, as it were.
And just as in the Times frontpage picture feature: Another overloaded dinghy was spotted in French waters yesterday… – we can’t help but note the predominent demographic – fighting age bearded middle eastern-looking men…
So back to Rishi’s press pack pictured in the Gruan who are predominently child-bearing age, pale faced, dirty blonde-haired young females.
No, don’t panic, it’s not Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ en route to his somewhat appropriately named Virgin Island. It’s just the profile of our contemporary Fourth Estate that’s gone all girlie.
Sometimes these segueways write themselves
Calm down dear: Man vs bear… Women, would you rather be stuck in a forest with a man or a bear? I want to say the man, I really do, but I can’t shake the idea that I would be safer with the bear (‘i’ columnist Kate Lister) – let me rephrase that little conumdrum for you luv: Be honest. You would feel safer in bear-infested woods, if there were also a man with you, right?
Depends. Is the bear a Catholic?
And does he sh@t in the woods ?
Funny isn’t it ? Once upon a time the announcement that Blighty is to spend a shed load of borrowed money on defence would be widely welcomed – but in reality –
1 it will never happen because the blues are toast
2 it won’t secure the border
3 labour will kill it
4 it cannot be afforded
5 much / most will be wasted
6 other countries will benefit – not us
7 can Blighty be less ‘international ‘ please
BTW – sunak said the money will come from ‘savings in the civil service ‘ …. Does that mean the end of the ‘foreign aid giveaway ?’
https://x.com/haveigotnews/status/1782787103262138498?s=61
Channel 4 announces its General Election team, including Crufts presenter Clare Balding – though neither Sunak nor Starmer could really be described as ‘Best in Show’
BBC counters with Clive Myrie flanked by Femi, YAB, Dr. Shola, Dawn Butler and Lammy.
BBC Asian Network have Nihal, Mishal and family.
https://x.com/bobmca1/status/1783038110508474791?s=61
Surely not? : “Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger ‘kept quiet about Labour’s 1997 raid on pensions’” : The Telegraph
As KGM has snagged podcasts to the dozens legends BS, Mad Al and Roar, maybe BBC Election night could bring in Sopes, Graun Al and Newsnight Brexit Rapporteur Lord Clegg?
So, we are to be subect to which candidate has the most glossy coat and good at herding sheep or running through tunnels ?
Are they summoned to the podium with a whistle ?
GBNews has Fox Steyn the rev – Farage ( if not an MP) Yaxley Lennon – and a rubber dinghy …
So many ex blue labour MPs looking for a job …. Or bungs ..
What next ? Bagpuss doing the swingometer and Zippy from Rainbow doing the in depth political analysis ?
Valerie Singleton showing you how to make a model polling station out of bog rolls and sticky tape while slipping around in labrador crap and elephant piss ?
I’d watch that!
Labour sets ‘em up.
https://x.com/keir_starmer/status/1782812976547811360?s=61
Rising crime is impacting people in rural communities like Cawood.
Our rural crime strategy will get a grip of it by bringing agencies together.
With Labour, everyone will feel safe where they live.
This is what my mission-driven government will deliver.
BBC blows them in support.
https://x.com/bbcr4today/status/1783031731441881590?s=61
“Local neighbourhood policing, dealing with local problems, that affect your safety.”
Neil Basu, former Assistant Commissioner for the Met Police, says policing needs to build ‘trust and confidence’.
The Today Debate: Are we failing victims of anti-social behaviour?
#R4Today
Vile knows best.
https://x.com/humantravl/status/1782836760063467619?s=61
Wouldn’t you be better reporting this to @MetCC and not posting this on social media pending a police investigation?
Quite the thread.
Basu – the go to retired Muslim tick box plod …
BBC…and the coverage of the sad death of Frank Field.
I notice others have already paid tribute to the always excellent Frank Field and have touched on the point I am about to make.
The increasingly ludicrous BBC have just allowed that man Blunket (a man of dubious judgement) to pay a sort of tribute to a parliamentary giant like Lord Field.
Blunket did say many things but the interview failed to touch on the fact that “Social security Tsar” Field , after being told to overhaul the system and doing a thorough and significant job ,was sacked by Blair in a cabinet reshuffle . A move that left him thinking that other Labour titan( and man of dubious judgement) Gordon “son of the Manse” Brown was involved in his departure. Of course this was a long time ago so the BBC need not mention such details, Blunket said “We needed someone in cabinet to speak out and be the awkward one” l wonder what he said back in 1998 when it was all happening?
It’s not your money. It’s his money. Via you.
https://x.com/ramonagusta/status/1783035550812835858?s=61
“Sadiq Khan has said he would pay for shoplifted goods if he saw somebody stealing nappies from a supermarket.”
No wonder shoplifting is out of control in London.
#GetKhanOut
What his view on Special Brew ?
(asking for a friend)
It is haram.
I thought it was Carlsberg ?
Definitely haram, anything with a ‘berg’ alone can trigger a few riots.
None other than Lady Nugee, aka Emily Thornberry, was on the BBC sounding very concerned about her own branch of the Co-op.
The shoplifting crisis may cause it’s closure, where ,oh, where would a woman of the people like her go to shop if that happened?
I suggest she leads a campaign encouraging all retail outlets to send their CCTVcoverage of shoplifting and nappies to Mayor Khan so that he can “”see them” he can then re emburse all those effected , using his personal paypal account. Well a promise is a promise Saddiq. That would surely put an end to this lawlessness.
2-3 years ago the security guard at Aldi in my part of London (not diverse — more duoculture) had started wearing a stab vest. Then last year they put gates and a dedicated security station at the entrance. I wonder what shops will look like in 10 years.
So cloud seeding resulted in flooding in Dubai.
So why not do this in Central Africa and end world hunger?
I just wanted to add my few words to what has been said about Lord Frank Field.
Frank Field
“In the EU referendum, Birkenhead voted Leave. I strongly considered opposing the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal, but will now be voting for it as a means of implementing that result. I will not aid & abet those in Parliament whose real aim is to stop Brexit”.
Thank you Frank, a true democratic and a gentleman. You put to shame the dross (Campbell and Blair immediately spring to mind) that remains. RIP
“The Ladybird Book of WMDs”
“Dr” Shula Moss-ShagmyEmu [Sorry! I overindulged yesterday!] should know that the St George flag is that of England, not Britain nor the UK or Scotland or Wales for that matter.
Was the doctorate in self pity and anti-White racism studies?
I think we should be told! [/Satire]
Maybe it might find a more suitable country rather than being a parasite on a culture – country – for which she has no regard ..
I hear that Rwanda is nice this time of the year…………
Must be something to do with all the coal power stations?
Obviously English people are no longer allowed to walk on the pavements in their own capital city any more. The Met must have mistaken them for Jews.
Bluidy good question
The Japanese population are very much more widely educated in Science and Engineering, technology literate. They know unscientific Green nonsense when they see it.
Alistair Campbell aka “Riviera Gigalo” l am told ,the pen name he used when writing pornography for Forum magazine. Has announced that he has written some children’s books about politics. He has said part of his motivation was something or other to do with faux morality. I wonder whose morality he could be referring to? ………Well obviously not his own.
Keep taking the tablets…….or should l say tabloids.
The BBC did in fact celebrate St George’s Day yesterday on the home page yesterday, did anyone spot it? “Classic English recipes to mark St George’s Day”. We may be such a mess of a country that we had to nick our patron saint from Turkey but by gum we can cobble together a good apple cake. So in summary:
St George’s day = nice recipes
Easter = traffic jams and chocolate
Ramadan = a holy month, observed by the faithful and pious who enrich their communities. It is both a deeply personal time for reflection and also a shared celebration that brings communities together for the month, which is holy. It strengthens communities. Ramadan is a holy month.
There is a pattern.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/collections/english_regional_classics
Lets hear it for
Gabriel Marinoaica
Gabby raped a 15 year old girl who he dragged off a beach in brighton in daylight
He was found guily after a long trial
He has been sentenced to death by hanging .- sorry that should read 6 year in prison – which means –
6 months cat A
2 and a bit years Cat c open prison – then a uk passport and life on free welfare money ..,
Right Gabby ?
BBC reporting arrests following the deaths on a recent rubberised cross channel ferry.
One who died was a 7 year old girl.
Are any of her parents, relatives, or guardians being prosecuted? Presumably they provided the money for her trip? Someone did. Shall we start with neglect? Failure to protect a minor? You know the sort of thing.
Too difficult a question for the BBC and it’s far left pro mass immigration fellow travellers.
From The Evening Standard – real life –
STARTS ITV boss Kevin Lygo has revealed the hit drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office made a loss of around a million pounds as he discussed the pressure broadcasters are facing due to increased competition from more media outlets.
The ITV show, detailing how hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to a defective IT system, prompted public outrage and helped put the Horizon scandal under the spotlight.
Alongside airing on ITV, the corporation announced last month that 12 foreign broadcasters had bought the right to show it, but this was not enough for them to break even.
Mr Lygo, the managing director of media and entertainment of ITV, told the Voice of the Listener & Viewer (VLV) spring conference on Wednesday: “Mr Bates has made a loss of something like a million pounds and we can’t continually do this.
Addressing the Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference, Mr Lygo, ITV’s managing director of media and entertainment, said he was frustrated by the BBC bidding for US shows.
Discussing cost pressures on public service broadcasters, he said: “You hear the BBC bleating about it and yet they have all the money in the world.
“Why do they buy all that American stuff? I’ve had a go at so many different BBC people about this.
“They just bought Suits, the thing with Meghan Markle. You think: why? They outbid us, by the way. What’s that got to do with licence fee payers’ money?”
In its complaint to Ofcom last year, ITV complained about acquisitions including the US series Superman & Lois, and films such as Marvel’s Avengers Assemble.
“The BBC competes in the market against other broadcasters, such as ITV, inflating the price at which the content is purchased,” it said in a submission.
BBC should be ‘buyer of last resort’
ITV previously told the Culture, Media and Sport select committee that the BBC “should not be permitted to acquire content that is already made (or a format that already exists in another territory) where another commercial rival is prepared to purchase that content or format.
“In other words, the BBC should be the buyer of last resort for pre-existing content or formats in the UK market.”
The BBC, which is in the middle of a cost-cutting programme, has not disclosed how much it paid for Suits, which it acquired from NBCUniversal in a package with two lesser-known US shows, St Denis Medical and The Best Man: The Final Chapters.
Announcing the acquisition, the BBC called Suits “smart and stylish” and “star-studded”. The corporation intends to broadcast it on iPlayer and one of its terrestrial channels.
ITV had extraordinary success this year with Mr Bates vs the Post Office. The series about the wrongful conviction and jailing of sub-postmasters has been viewed by 13.5 million people in the UK and prompted Paula Vennells, former chief executive of the Post Office, to hand back her CBE.
Oh Dear
Tomo – you really really shouldn’t have … I wonder if anyone really taught them to March ….? But A for effort E for er … E
They look like cadets to me, we should cut them some slack. I am pleased to see young people choose to put some of their spare time to good use.
Meanwhile….
pfffffffff………
BBC recruiter… “When can you start?”
That bull ring thing is nice isn’t it ?
From the DT – quite an entertaining piece
STARTS The head of ITV has said the BBC cannot keep “bleating” about cost-cutting when it is splashing out on American programmes such as the Meghan Markle drama Suits at the same time.
Kevin Lygo claimed that the corporation outbid ITV for the series, saying it is the wrong use of licence fee money. ITV complained to Ofcom last year that the BBC had dramatically increased its spending on US-made acquisitions, despite talking up cost pressures.
The BBC announced the acquisition of Suits last month and plans to show it later this year. The series, which is several years old, is currently available on Netflix.
Suits made a household name of the Duchess of Sussex, who played paralegal Rachel Zane for seven series. She joined in 2011 but quit after meeting the Duke.
But Mr Lygo said that ITV had lost money on the drama, because the story was so British that international buyers were few and far between. “It cost more to make than we have been able to sell it around the world,” he said.
“We made a loss of something like £1 million. If you’re in Lithuania, four hours on the British Post Office? Not really.”
ITV will next tackle the infected blood scandal using a Peter Moffat script which Netflix turned down, Mr Lygo said.
He added: “[After Mr Bates] we were inundated, my inbox was full of people saying, ‘Oh, I’ve got a miscarriage of justice.’ And, I’m not joking, half of them are about potholes. If somebody can come up with a good story about potholes, we’ll take that.”
A BBC spokesman said: “Our spend on acquisitions remains very small when compared to our overall budget, where we are the largest producer of originated programmes in the UK.
“We spend less than 5 per cent of our annual content budget on acquired programmes, far less compared with other broadcasters.”ENDs
Interesting – ‘suits ‘was originally tucked away on Channel5 – I quite liked the first couple of series but then it got whipped into yuk …. The Meghan girl was meant to be the ‘eye kandy’ I think …
..mr lygo wants a drama about potholes – what about Bobby de Nero being a disgruntled ex council employee going around at night filling in potholes … riveting TV …
and then there’s Mitch McConnell…
Ms Maher is going to show up on the BBC, isn’t she?
https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1783224397635133537
Reading this from 2012. I was wondering what had changed since.(dated;3 April 2012)
The secret report at heart of BBC’s Gaza paranoia
Somewhere deep in the bowels of the BBC is a top secret document that could explain a great deal about the corporation’s decision to boycott the aid appeal for Gaza. It is called the Balen Report and has been seen only by a small number of individuals at the very top of the BBC. They commissioned Malcolm Balen, a senior editorial adviser, to investigate allegations that the BBC’s coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was biased.
Balen examined hundreds of hours of broadcast material, television and radio, and analysed the content in minute detail, often scrutinising journalists’ individual phrases and choice of words. He then put his conclusions in a 20,000-word report. If BBC executives had hoped for a clean bill of health they were to be disappointed. Balen’s findings, given highly restricted circulation at the end of 2004, were frightening.
Although they were kept secret, elements leaked out, including Balen’s conclusion that the BBC’s Middle East coverage had been biased against Israel..’
https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/the-secret-report-at-heart-of-bbc-s-gaza-paranoia-6870301.html
Not much change then.
‘Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose’
Local Green + Labour councillors go after Israeli Elbit company in Bristol…. A soft write up by a fellow traveller at the local rag.
I’d wager BBC Zummerzet will give it a boost too – not that I’m masochistic enough to listen for it!
https://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/24275495.somerset-council-explore-ways-evicting-elbit-uk/
Bylines Times is a crank conspiracy website for Guardianland people
It’s biased as hell
I looked up their latest YouTube video
Oh it’s Will Hutton plugging his book saying Thatcher and Brexit are evil
presenter Adrian Goldberg nods along
Goldberg that kids us he is an IMPARTIAL BBC presenter.
Do they share a kitchen + toilet with the Hope Not Hate gang?
I am sure the oaf Hutton supports the Net Zero scam, which has just closed down our steel industry.
And I will guarantee you that none of those will be accusing BAME of racism against whites. They’ve even changed the definition so it cannot happen.
It’s that extreme double standard which makes me detest the Left so much.
It would be great to have text output from the bBC and then to do a frequency log like this for key words such as ‘climate change’. I swear to God that such a plot from the bBC World Service would now days be off the chart:
‘Blah blah blah climate change blah climate change blah weather blah climate change …’
The BBC would call that high-spirited and vibrant multiculturalism.
We have to wait until their own middle-class neighbourhoods get infested so they are afraid to go out at night before they will suddenly change their tune.
No St George flags to be seen, so the Met won’t be interested.
Seven teens with alleged ‘extremist ideology’ arrested in Sydney raids
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-68887448
WTF is going on in Australia ?.
It seems the Muslim immigrant problem has got so bad that the authorities are actually withholding the fact that they are behind terrorist attacks to prevent the indigenous people getting angry about it.
Deliberately withholding the key information that these terrorists arrested are Muslims when everybody knows they are is so unbelievable, it tells me things are far, far worse in Australia than we are being told.
And I expect it is exactly the same in all the other countries which have taken so many of them in. Including ours.
If it suited the BBC, they would use other sources to inform us the terrorist are Muslims. But they are an integral part of the same problem. So they don’t.
They are lying through their teeth to protect their agenda. I just wonder what these Left-wing cretins think the end-game is here. That Muslims eventually realise the benefits of our ‘free countries’ and decide to be just like us ?. Do they think they will EVER stop mudering people for drawing a cartoon of the prophet ?.
While they play their ideoligical, social-engineering mind games, it is the countless millions of ordinary folk who are paying the price. Just like every single time in history where the Leftists tried it before. The end result is usually the same : as things get desperate, they start to ‘get rid’ of those who do not share their ideas.
Not if we stop them first. Hard to believe the best chance we have at the moment is Donald Trump. They have got rid of everyone here who stood against them – with the BBC being the primary weapon to do it.
Well done to the new Slovakian Government which the BBC absolutely hates for abolishing the national broadcaster RTVS for political activism. Here is a precedent for the BBC to be abolished, the head staff arrested, and all salaries, pensions frozen and all equipment and property to be taken over by a new public body.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68887663
Arizona indicts Trump allies over 2020 fake elector scheme
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68893365
Arizona is the 4th state to do this. It’s all Democrat – but at least the BBC mention it in passing this time.
This is all beyond ridiculous – but what is worse is how the BBC are going right along with it as if it’s all perfectly acceptable.
Did you know that they tried to get Trump removed from the ballot paper in 36 states right up until it was declared unconstitional by the Supreme Court and they were all disqualified.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/02/us/politics/trump-ballot-removal-map.html
Where was the uproar of this clear, blatant attempt to pervert the course of democracy ?. There was none. They were all suddenly dropped and went straight under the carpet. Those behind the charges should have been prosecuted themselves for treason.
So now we have a new set of indictments trying to stop Trump along with all of those ongoing and all designed to at least drain him of funds and time to campaign.
And all of this after Biden said publicly that they would do everything they could to prevent him running again.
It’s dirty politics more suited to a 3rd world banana republic. And the BBC are 100% complicit. Amazing how they just report bare facts when it suits them and run pathetic Panorama ‘investigations’ which should make a schoolboy blush with embarassment when it doesn’t.
Searching for missing loved ones in Gaza’s mass graves
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68891216
‘For four days Kareema Elras has moved through the noise, dust and overpowering stench of the mass graves at Nasser hospital.’
‘She is the mother of 21-year-old Ahmed, who was killed on 25 January in the city of Khan Younis, in south central Gaza. His body has been missing since then.’
This is 100% classic BBC and the whole, empathy-riddled farce does it’s level best to divert your attention away from why Ahmed is dead.
It’s extremely likely that Ahmed was a Hamas supporter and just as likely that he was fighting the IDF. There is no doubt whatsoever that Hamas used UN hospitals,UN schools and UN refugee camps as human shields. None.
Do the BBC inform us of this ?. Nope. They repeat their usual lie that it’s just what Israel claim and hence quite possibly not true. You have to read to the second half of the article to get:
‘… buried in the grounds of hospitals where Israeli forces said they fought Hamas.’
‘Israel said’, not ‘where Hamas terrorists fought the IDF’ which is the real truth which nobody (except terrorists) denies.
It’s this blatant and deliberately misleading reporting which ALWAYS represents Hamas in a much better light than they deserve which is why I detest the BBC so much. They are shameless liars who have evolved subtle tricks to get away with it.
This is another one from ‘Fergal Keane’ who works in the farcical ‘Panorama’ team and has been criticised for his Hamas support elsewhere.
https://www.thearticle.com/deborah-turness-hamas-and-the-bbc
When I read this kind of thing from the BBC, I support the IDF even more.
We all know of the danger posed by violent Islamism (except for the BBC of course, but I mean intelligent people).
However, an equal or greater threat to our way of life is that posed by the insidious infiltration and subversion by sinister groups such as the Islamic Brotherhood.
(This is from the conference that an alliance of euro-globalists, leftists and Islamofascists tried to shut down)