Midweek 24th April 2024

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 …..

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  1. AsISeeIt says:

    We awake this morning to news of: Broadcaster’s bias alert (FT)

    Don’t imagine for a moment that this warning is aimed at our national broadcaster: Watchdog Ofcom warned channels about the importance of impartiality ahead of the general election after it reinforced rules for television broadcasters using politicians as presenters (FT) – clearly this a shot at the somewhat conservative voices aired on GB News, recently accused of having politicians acting as presenters of their news headline bulletins. Our BBC is more in the business of having their news presenters act as politicians.

    One need only detail a couple of the more egregious examples

    We recall George Galloway versus the BBC’s latterly litigious rogue female Martine Croxall: ‘Any need for me in this interview!?’ Galloway erupts at BBC ‘party political broadcast’ GEORGE GALLOWAY has erupted at a BBC reporter for pushing a “party political broadcast” during a heated interview ahead of the Batley and Spen by-election. (Daily Express 2021)

    And how could we forget Emily Maitlis’ highly partizan soliloquies delivered from her BBC Newsnight stump? The highly bronzed one on this occasion made even BBC old stagers blanch: David Dimbleby criticises Emily Maitlis’ Newsnight monologue (Evening Standard, 2022)

    From containment to entertainment

    BBC Proms to feature disco night and Florence + The Machine (BBC) – something tells me our BBC won’t be content until the Proms is indistinguishable from Glastonbury – ending in a rousing chorus of not Land of Hope and Glory – more Land of Hip Hop and Bhangra, and certainly not Jerusalem. One envisages the BBC’s ideal finale being a stirring rendition of F*** The Tories with guest conductor Channel 4’s Jon Snow, sung to the accompanyment of a hundred waving EU flags.

    Mr AsI tends to note those emblematic state of the nation incidencies

    Most popular press titles feature some version of the same startling photographic image frontpage: Five horses from the Household Cavalry, one covered in blood, rampaged through London yesterday morning leaving a trail of destruction in their wake (Telegraph)

    And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. (Revelation, 6 KJV)

    Sometimes these segueways write themselves

    Ukraine war: US secretly gives Kyiv long-range missiles (BBC) – not all that secret, is it?

    Jeremy Hunt defends civil service job cuts to increase defence spending (BBC) – this is a bizarre line of argument from a supposedly conservative chancellor: Mr Hunt confirmed the increase will cost an extra £20bn, which unions claim will be funded by cutting 70,000 jobs. (BBC) – a true fiscal conservative should argue that cutting back on the proliferation of civil service pen pushers is a good thing in itself – less regulation and some reduction of the heavy hand of the state on the economy would encourage entrepreneurship. Not to mention defence spending ought to prioritise the protection of our own borders and our own true interests ought to be the goal – rather than to toady to the US State Department’s misguided costly vendetta against Vladimir Putin and by the way defence of the Biden family money laundering operation

    Civil servants shun their new offices… Taxpayers have been handed a multi million pound bill for new government offices despite large numbers of civil servants still working from home (Telegraph)

    Girl arrested as three injured in Ammanford school stabbing… deputy head teacher Fiona Elias was among the injured. (BBC)

    Armed with a flick-knife, the Year 9 pupil… Footage captured on a pupil’s phone showed heroic rugby teacher Darrel Campbell overpowering the assailant, restraining her in an armlock and pulling her back from one of the victims (Daily Mail) – Oh, so there is still some benefit in having one or two male teachers on hand in our schools – just in case.

    Speaking outside the school, Supt Ross Evans said: “I would also ask that people do not speculate whilst there is a police investigation ongoing and to refer to official channels for updates.”… Dyfed-Powys Police are urging people not to share footage of the incident on social media or speculate about what happened (BBC)

    Meanwhile: Nottingham attacks: Victim’s mum condemns ‘abhorrent’ police message… after one of its officers wrote a graphic post about the killings… shared on a force WhatsApp group was “abhorrent”… “When you say ‘a couple of students have been proper butchered’, did you stop to think (BBC)

    There seems to be quite a pattern emerging here

    Australian PM calls Elon Musk an ‘arrogant billionaire’ in row over attack footage… feud over X’s reluctance to remove footage of a church stabbing (BBC)

    Anarcho-tyranny describes a situation where the state tyrannically or oppressively regulates citizens’ lives yet is unable or unwilling to enforce fundamental protective law.

    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity.
    And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

    William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming, published in November 1920

    On a lighter note: All you need to know about marshmallows (Daily Star)

    On a far lighter note, as Mr AsI has forewarned, the left now eagerly look forward to a Tony Blair, Brit Pop and Cool Britannia redux

    Emily Watkins writing opinion for the left-leaning i news is explicit: Labour majorities and the Spice Girls – it’s all a bit Cool Britannia in here. I’m cripplingly embarrassed for us, but I understand. Things are so bleak that when something even remotely cool happens, there’s nothing for it but to lean in… what with the ongoing cost of living crisis, 14 years of Tory government, and little chance of escaping to the continent post Brexit, it’s tempting to sigh wistfully and recall better times… “Cool Britannia”. Basically, it consisted of the Young British Artists (YBA) in visual art and Britpop in music, and then in 1997, after 17 years of Tory rule, we elected a Labour government.

    And we all lived happily everafter.

    Labour: We’ll nationalise rail in 5 years (Daily Mirror)

    ‘I’ll stay an MP for as long as I can’ Diane Abbott (Guardian)

    Child drinkers rise in ‘generation lockdown’ – kudos to the Daily Telegraph there for refusing that old saw formulation: since the pandemic

    And finally, our BBC is asking

    Do women-only co-working spaces have a future?

    I don’t know. Are men-only clubs still allowed?

    Top civil servant and MI6 boss quit all-male club… after a backlash for being part of a club that excludes women (BBC)

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    • Fedup2 says:

      A rather acidic brillo appeared before the culture committee yesterday trying to assassinate GBNews . In response Farage fired a 8 minute broadside at the MSM last night ….

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      • vlad says:

        Brillo will never forgive GBNews for failing to treat him with the reverance he believes he is due.

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  2. Thoughtful says:

    More moves are afoot to steal the sovereign wealth of Russia by the corrupt elites of the West.

    Christine Lagarde has warned against the EU doing this for legal reasons, obviously not moral ones as she has no concept of morality.

    The sanctions Russia could apply on Europe could be horrific, for its people, not for the elites of course, they will make sure they are unaffected up to the point they are dangled from the lamp posts.

    The West is claiming it wants this money to rebuild Ukraine, and this is the evidence of the corruption laid bare. No one tries to rebuild a country whilst a war is still raging, it’s utter madness to try.

    We need only look back to the corruption of Clinton and associates and the rebuilding of Haiti to see what lies behind all this. This is not a plan to rebuild Ukraine, it’s a plan for corrupt political elites to steal another countries sovereign wealth to enrich themselves and their friends.

    Here is some of the corruption laid bare:

    https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/09/hillary-clinton-email-213110/

    However the danger runs far deeper. The whole of the Wests legal structure is built on the notion of secure property ownership, breaking it in this way gives the elites the key to greater and more widespread property seizure.

    If they can seize Russias assets then what’s to stop them seizing yours, and of course they will have invented a very good reason for needing to do so!

    If you are a couple living in a four bed house, they might well decide that it would be more appropriate to move you into a one bed flat so your home can be used to house, homeless, ‘vulnerable’ refugees, illegal migrants etc.

    State seizure of private assets without compensation is the first step towards Marxism, and it should be resisted at all costs. Please write to your MP before it’s too late!

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    • AsISeeIt says:

      ‘moves are afoot to steal the sovereign wealth of Russia… The whole of the Wests legal structure is built on the notion of secure property ownership’

      Mr Thoughful, we may not agree on every issue hereabouts, but you’ve got this one right.

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      • Thoughtful says:

        Having disagreements, airing views, testing them is the way of freedom.
        We must fight to preserve our freedoms and educate those who seek to cancel that freedom to air views they do not agree with, alas some of them post here.

        This is something Jordan Peterson continually uses to emphasise why the Left with their cancel culture are so damn dangerous.
        The lie the left always told about disagreeing with someones views but fighting to the death to defend their right to say it, when in reality they rolled over like a frightened kitten at the first threat.

        There will be people who disagree with me on this issue, but the one thing we do have to fight against more than anything else is the “tellyscreen” on the wall which beams thoughts into peoples minds when they are tired and vulnerable, and which they then believe without question and don’t even realise where the notion came from !

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  3. Guest Who says:

    Reeling them in.

    https://x.com/mwendling/status/1783152743441371606
    This is a fascinating excerpt of a new book by
    @sabrinabsholts Today’s anti-vaccine “free thinkers” are repeating 19th century narratives

    2

    https://x.com/BBCSounds/status/1782755061493379268
    That’s an odd question. American jurors are always identified

    4

    https://x.com/BBCRosAtkins/status/1783222716247781442

    If you’ve seen Ofcom’s statement today on broadcast news and impartiality,
    @katierazz
    and I spoke at length with
    @CNS0201
    from Ofcom on The Media Show on
    @BBCRadio4
    . You can hear the whole interview – and much more besides – here.

    7

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  4. popeye says:

    Just a reminder that it’s what the BBC don’t report as much as their spin on what they do, that demonstrates clearly their bias

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/lest-we-forget-its-three-years-since-this-anti-lockdown-march/

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  5. Foscari says:

    I don’t know what I will prefer to see at the BBC Proms
    at the Albert Hall. Simon Rattle conducting Bruckner’s 4th.
    Or Sam Smith. By the way this is the first Getty’s Imaging I
    have seen without any ethnic components. Which of
    course lacks diversity, inclusion etc. Although the feature
    on the BBC website does get Sam Smith’s “preferred ”
    pronoun right. Anyway preferred at the moment.

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    • Flotsam says:

      As far as I’m concerned Simon Rattle is a traitor. He hated Brexit and decided to apply for German citizenship, he became a German citizen.

      Artists have always been able to travel and work anywhere in the world for centuries, he had no need to become a German citizen. I think he was making a point. I am making a point of calling him out.

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  6. andyjsnape says:

    2800 jobs gone in the name of green

    Tata Steel ending union talks over 2,800 jobs
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp9g0n0m7z1o

    How many Chinese coal power stations are opened each year?
    Maybe Verify could verify that!

    “Tata Steel spokesman said its £1.25bn electric arc furnace “would be the largest investment in this country’s steel industry in decades and secure the future of UK steelmaking” – great, we have an electric arc furnace, but 2800 will not be replaced

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  7. Fedup2 says:

    Seems pop corn time with the SNP comrade Hamas and the green crapsters are divorcing .
    Does that mean an election in scotland ? A red labour landslide as a dry run for the rest of UKistan?

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  8. atlas_shrugged says:

    Supt Ross Evans said: “I would also ask that people do not speculate whilst there is a police investigation ongoing and to refer to official channels for updates.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce43yxpyll0o

    Notice in the bBC article there is no mention of the male teacher who disarmed the knife wielding girl.

    One wonders what is the purpose is of the absent wet police. They prevent no crime, shut down a school for their after-the-event investigation so ruining the education of hundreds of children, they cover up any details of what happened, like the Australian police they will want to suppress any videos that clearly showed what happened. Now we will have a pantomime of investigators in space suits going through the motions for days, millions of pounds wasted.

    The public can be sure that they will never be shown a photo of the offender, or the name, or any details such as medication or family background.

    This is all about maximising hysteria.

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    • Thatcherrevolutionary says:

      Experienced as we all are with the MSM, certain assumptions will have been made after the ambiguity and lack of detail.

      ‘I would also ask people do not speculate’ – this is another giveaway.

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  9. G.W.F. says:

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  10. andyjsnape says:

    How fraudsters are getting fake articles onto Facebook
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68843985

    Dont forget to only get your fake news from the bbc

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  11. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    In the Express there’s an article saying woke generation Z’ers are throwing away their Adidas trainers because they’ve seen a picture with Nigel Farage wearing a pair.

    Nigel could use this to huge effect.

    He could say he loves Ben and Jerry ice cream and eats lots of it.
    He could say he’s become a vegetarian.
    He could say he’s a big fan of gogglebox (or some other totally woke tv show)

    All the little gen Z wokies will then have to give up these things.

    I also heard on the radio that our youth are leading the world in alcohol and fags.
    Lots of little Nigel’s then so maybe they only pick and choose what suits them to give up so that they can virtue signal to their mates (if they have any)

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    • Lunchtime Loather says:

      I threw my trainers away because I did not want to look like that slob Tim Davie.

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  12. Jeff says:

    So, yet again, the pitifully useless Mark Rowley, leader of the once respected Met’ police, feels the need to make an obsequious and grovelling apology to Baroness Lawrence about how the police mishandled her son’s murder…of over thirty years ago…

    What can he possibly find to say that is of any relevance? It’s just more toe-curling abasement. This creep makes my flesh crawl. He reminds me so much of Archbishop Welby (blimey, they even look alike) who constantly feels the need to apologise for the church’s links to historic slavery. Why? FFS, it’s hundreds of years ago. Move on.

    On the other hand, the Met’ police chief defends the copper who confronted a London citizen because he looked “openly Jewish”.

    And is there a month goes by when Tommy Robinson isn’t arrested, pepper sprayed and assaulted on some pathetic and spurious charge of being…(oh, let’s see) white and working class and in possession of opinions that are deeply unfashionable in certain circles?

    That same corrupt organisation also breaks up St George’s Day celebrations and stops English folk displaying our national flag on our national saint’s day. And those patriotic English people are then smeared by Conservative MPs (yes!) as being thugs.

    Meanwhile, militant Muzzies can rampage through the capital, desecrate war memorials, intimidate Jews and openly display swastikas and nothing happens.

    Apparently the St George’s flag on St George’s Day is deeply troublesome, but someone openly displaying the Swastika and it’s all “a matter of context”.

    Go figure…

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  13. Fedup2 says:

    Do you notice the method the BBC uses to tell taxpayers and others what is going on in Gaza ?

    Its either the ‘gaza authorities’ ( which means the islamic hamas terrorist group ) or some UN agency subverted by islamic hamas . What coverage does the BBC give the israel government / IDF?

    It tends – if mentioned – to be used as a rebuttal to the usual ‘ starving ‘ and ‘war crime ‘ propaganda happily voiced by the BBC and fueling anti jewish sentiment by the day – as well as further emboldening evil islam to undermine us …

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  14. Fedup2 says:

    Not bbc
    But with the democrat legal mafia in the US – what will happen when president trump is required to be in a court on the west coast when thd democrats are already stopping him from campaigning by keeping him in New York ?

    And we might wonder about the stability of the US after the next election … whatever the outcome …

    If anyone had seen any informed impartial view on this id be obliged ….

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  15. Up2snuff says:

    pug, re early election: the wisdom of John Curtice, psephologist extraordinaire, is that the Conservatives tend to do better with winter elections but the Labour lot need warmth and preferably sunshine to get them to vote. If Rishi is wise, he will heed John Curtice’s views.

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    • Scroblene says:

      I wish he’d b****y well listen to the views of Normal Citizens!

      Conservatives usually do better, because they’re duty-bound to uphold the law for King and country, whereas lefties just turn up if there’s a freebie on the menu.

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  16. harry142857 says:

    Also from Guido.

    Kia the car company have invented a car that can do a U turn on a voice command.
    They are calling it the Kia Starma!

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  17. Rob in Cheshire says:

    If Packham’s claim is untrue, Toby should sue the moron.

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  18. Eddy Booth says:

    Looks like NATO+ on the run in Ukraine.🙂

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  19. andyjsnape says:

    One more arrest over Channel small boat deaths
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68897059

    Upon seeing the boat in distress, French regional prefect Jacques Billant said the Abeille Normandie patrol boat was immediately deployed to rescue those who had set off on the boat. When they arrived, several people were unconscious and in great difficulty

    Funny they noticed when in distress, maybe could of stopped them before!

    They were among a large group of migrants who arrived in Dover late on Tuesday – a large group of migrants… 5, 10, 1000, 5000 ? A bit vague

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  20. Terminal Moraine says:

    More on the woman in Oz fighting Musk over censoring the internet — she’s American born, spent 14 years at Microsoft, is a member of the WEF and their Global Coalition for Digital Safety, and the CIA tried to recruit her. And she wants us to have a “recalibration of a whole range of human rights…”

    There is a pattern.

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  21. Eddy Booth says:

    “London horses: ‘Too early to know’ if Cavalry horses will return to duty”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68895233

    Poor horses.

    Celine in WW1:
    “They gave us a short rest, and a few weeks later we climbed back up on our horses and started north. The cold came with us. The gunfire was never far away. But we never came across any Germans except by accident, a hussar or a squad of riflemen here and there, in yellow and green, pretty colors. We seemed to be looking for them, but we beat it the moment we laid eyes on them. At every encounter two or three horsemen bit the dust, sometimes theirs, sometimes ours. And from far in the distance their riderless horses, with loose clanking stirrups, would come galloping toward us, we’d see their saddles with the peculiar cantles and all their leather as fresh and shiny as pocketbooks on New Year’s Day. They were coming to see our horses, they made friends in no time. They were lucky. We couldn’t have done that.”

    Journey to the End of the Night 1932
    Louis-Ferdinand Celine.
    Pdf download link –

    Click to access louis-ferdinand-celine-journey-to-the-end-of-the-night.pdf

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  22. Zephir says:

    Apropos of nothing much..except perhaps regarding animals on the loose..

    The best comment I have seen today on that new fangled interweb:

    “Kangaroos are the T Rex version of deer”

    Any look on youtube or elsewhere on kangaroo attacks would tend to confirm this.

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  23. Thoughtful says:

    Quite a shocking judgement in regard to Tommy Robinson and posted because the media does not want to tell people, and instead wish to deceive by lying it was all about a simpleton PC who couldn’t get the date right.

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      It wouldn’t surprise me if they’d dated it wrong by design, that way they don’t risk “losing” the case, but still cause months of stress/aggravating.

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  24. Zephir says:

    And another one…funny that the #metoo movement never applies to the many, many gang rapes of children in Rotherham and so many other “diverse” British cites…

    “Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction overturned over ‘crucial mistake’ by New York judge… and he could now walk free.

    New York Court of Appeals has overturned Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction. The movie mogul, 72, was serving 23 years in prison for felony sex crimes.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13349859/Harvey-Weinsteis-New-York-sex-crime-conviction-overturned.html

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  25. Zephir says:

    I wonder why ?

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  26. Zephir says:

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  27. Zephir says:

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  28. taffman says:

    Is the Tory government looking after us? What on earth is the home office doing ?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-68899601

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  29. Zephir says:

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  31. micknotmike says:

    The bbc have an article running “Shoplifting hits record high in England”. I wasn’t sure what a shoplifter looks like, but fortunately there’s a helpful picture. A typical shoplifter is a young white female, shoving a nice bottle of wine into her designer handbag.
    Without the guidance, I would have thought that shoplifters were gangs of n199ers, average IQ 60 or so, with machetes (Or worse), taking what they want while the fuzz rehearse their tiktok moves outside. How wrong can you be?
    I despair at the bbc; who do they think they are fooling?

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  32. G.W.F. says:

    Any news of recent developments in the Ammanford school stabbing? All news sources are identical.

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    • Zephir says:

      Only a comment from a fellow pupil that the stabber has been in plenty of trouble previously.

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    • Non Snowflake says:

      The police this morning said that they were aware of videos on social media, but they requested that they be deleted, so as not to cause undue stress. Or something.

      You’d think the police would have learnt that deleting relevant videos isn’t actually a good idea……

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  33. Eddy Booth says:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/darts/live/c51mpgyy511t

    Darts tonight!
    7:15 start I think.

    Luke Littler v Gerwyn Price,
    Luke Humphries v Nathan Aspinall,
    Peter Wright v Michael van Gerwen &
    Michael Smith v Rob Cross

    I’ve got a £3 double, Littler win + Aspinall win – returns £13 !
    Or nothing😕

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    • Non Snowflake says:

      I had a bet on Everton to win 2-0 last night at 50/1

      So I’ve been very smug today :>)

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Non – congratulations – I hope the bet was substantial – seeing Liverpool fail to win the prem was beyond Money – I despise Liverpool – my experience of Everton ( as an away supporter ) was far more civilised than the scum that is Liverpool ….

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    • harry142857 says:

      Nice win, you can get one month’s worth of unbiased, neutral, impartial news with that kind of money.

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      Cashed!
      Almost as good as winning on the 2p coin waterfall slot machine at the seaside arcade.

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      • harry142857 says:

        This is the second time, at least, this week

        John Higgins versus Jamie Jones, final session. Getting exciting.

        So what do the BBC do. Switch to the first session of three Trump vs Ford with up to 21 further frames left to play.

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  34. Siempre Recht says:

    Did anyone happen to listen to Newshour on Radio 4 tonight, and a ridiculous piece of propaganda on Venice having a tourist tax of 5 euros day, for day-trippers.

    They just HAD to end it by their “reporter” saying that the new tax didn’t address the most important issue facing Venice, “CLIMATE CHANGE!”

    Simply ridiculous lies. Venice themselves had said it’s the 80,000+ who visit each day.

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    • moggiemoo says:

      Of course it’s climate change, think of all the farts from those 80,000 visitors and the amount of methane they generate each day, it must be local warming on a colossal scale. That, or it’s utter crap.

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    • Lefty Wright says:

      In Old Speak climate change used to be referred to as Global Warming. Or a little later Global Boiling. The climate has always changed. Could that be a reason why we are no longer part of the main European land mass which “experts” have assured us was once the case?
      At 84 years of age I have seen no change in the rather checkered pattern in our British seasonal changes.
      Strange thing is that the requests from the climate armholes to cut our emissions seems only to apply to the affluent West so I must be forgiven for thinking that there is some sort of conspiracy afoot.

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  35. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/justinonweb/status/1783459814846197917?s=61
    So @BowenBBC and I had a small gathering to celebrate our 40 years in The BBC and here’s an historic moment as the wonderful @mariannaspring explains the internet to a sceptic😳

    What about ‘the Internet’ is he sceptical about? The bit where a ditzy bimbo with no relevant qualifications presumes to lecture folk?

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  36. Thoughtful says:

    Some economic news from across the pond, none of it good.

    Why is it relevant to this site? Because the chances are this isn’t going to be reported at all, but if it is it probably won’t be reported correctly.

    Two important stats released today, US GDP which was lower the expectations, and PCE Personal Core Expenditure which was higher than expected.

    On top of that the trade defecit increased to the highest in 11 months.

    Falling GDP and rising inflations are the path to stagflation, the most destructive economic force known.

    On top of that bond yields are being driven ever higher which means the cost of borrowing for the government rises. By the end of the year the cost of servicing the debt will higher than both defence, and medicare.

    It gets worse, because government borrowing and spending should at least equal GDP. Put simply if you put ‘3’ in, you should get ‘3’ out, ideally according to Keynes you should get more out as the cash stimulates the economy, but in America instead of getting ‘3’ out they are getting ‘2’ which again points to stagflation.

    It also makes it much more difficult to lower the base rate.

    Although the figures are not hugely adrift from expectations, they all, together indicate an economy in serious trouble, only being propped up by enormous government borrowing and spending.

    I haven’t given any links because I doubt people are going to be interested enough to use them.

    Now you know todays horror show, and will be aware of the reality should you hear it reported on the media.

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      Keynsianism just doesn’t work any more. It is meant to stimulate the economy, but since we produce very little these days, the money just goes to China. Thus, for every pound spent on “stimulus”, we get back less than a pound in economic growth. There is no multiplier effect.

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      • Eddy Booth says:

        Seems to be always the same people who get the majority of the stimulus cash, and they’ve already got everything they want.
        Even now they’re itching to cut interest rates again.

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      • Thoughtful says:

        Ah, well two problems there, firstly Keynsianism has been completely distorted by Socialists to mean run a defecit constantly. It was supposed to be that money was pumped into the economy in recessions and then paid back again in the boom times thus smoothing the economic cycle.

        Secondly Biden is not following Keynsian economics but something else called modern monetary theory which states a government can simply create currency without any consequence to the economy.

        It’s a ridiculous theory but you can see how attractive it would be to a Socialist to be told they can print and spend as freely as they please.

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        • Rob in Cheshire says:

          Keynes hated the gold standard because he wanted governments to be able to create money. But giving that power to governments is like giving whisky to a child. It can never end well. That is why £1 today is worth 1/20th of a £1 in 1960. In effect, a pound is worth a shilling. That did not happen by accident.

          Furthermore, Keynes claimed that government spending should be counter cyclical, running deficits in recessions, and surpluses in recoveries, but that never happens. Governments become hooked on spending money, and spending programmes are very easy to start and very hard to stop.

          In short, Keynsianism is an illusion. It does work.

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  37. tomo says:

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    • Thoughtful says:

      With a husband who has a conviction for insider trading, and Pelosi fighting to stop legislation to make insider trading illegal for Senators and representatives.
      So some lobbyist tips her the nod and she acts on it and profits accordingly.

      So how does that fit with the ekwalitee she squawks about?

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      The key word there is “equitable”. It sounds like “equality”, but it isn’t. It is the code word for a form of apartheid, favouring the sort of people Khan and Pelosi approve of. And it’s not us.

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  38. StewGreen says:

    New : Voice Of Wales with Tommy Robinson & Mayhar Tousi
    Oh it’s not allowed to be embedded
    So watch on YouTube https://youtu.be/ap_piEMlcwQ

    references the points made in teh post above here at 5:15 PM by @Thoughtful

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    • StewGreen says:

      CHARLIE SANSOM tweets
      “I’ll be on @TalkTV (Radio) at 11pm talking about St. George’s Day in London.
      Were the Met heavy-handed?
      Why didn’t the media cover Tommy Robinson’s court case fairly? “

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  39. tomo says:

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  40. StewGreen says:

    MDL = Muslim Defence League
    “RACIST MDL MEMBERS JAILED FOR AN ATTACK DURING A POLITICAL CAMPAIGN: 25 men have been jailed for the attack on Tommy Robinson & his supporters during his political campaign 5yrs ago in Oldham.
    Those involved carried crowbars & paving slabs,one victim was hit by scissors.”
    says a tweet

    It’s a bold claim cos I can’t find proper MSM coverage that says this

    Ah hang on I find this article
    Manchester Evening News
    The day Tommy Robinson headed to Oldham – and the utter madness that erupted
    Almost five years to the day since violence flared on Oldham’s Limeside estate, 24 men have been brought to justice

    That title implies that TR and supporters are the violent baddies
    the article carries on in that tone
    Then it finally gets to names
    a few Anglo names who mostly say they aren’t TR supporters
    and a load of Muslim names

    BTW the first title is wrong too
    cos although the 24 convictions speak of jail terms
    they are almost all suspended

    https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/the-day-tommy-robinson-came-29017786

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  41. digg says:

    Trump, Fox…. Seems like more anti-lefty people are coming under massive court driven ridiculous financial penalties…. This must be a global left wing political agreement with the judiciary and stinks to high heaven.

    This smacks of South American Marxist juntas….

    There is going to be a revolution if they keep this shit up!

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    • JohnC says:

      Their latest ‘method’ is to ruin people they disagree with. If they can’t do it with ‘cancel culture’, they are now doing it with the full complicity of the courts.

      They truly are the new Nazis. They absolutely believe they are doing it for the right reasons.

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  42. StewGreen says:

    St Georges Day vid
    Short video clips are rubbish cos they hide context
    but the the vid does appear to show one member of the BlueLine Gang losing it and beating up a member of the public
    and then cos BlueLine gang always side with their mates , they all put the boot in
    .. https://twitter.com/VoWalesOfficial/status/1783515890899697681

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    • Zephir says:

      Some short videos need little or no context

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      • Zephir says:

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        • Fedup2 says:

          The saddest thing is that Biden ‘gaffes ‘ don’t matter -he won’t get the Reagan treatment …. But I notice the msm are running out ‘polling ‘ suggesting people prefer Biden over trump … another weapon against trump on top of those political show trials ..
          Biden will win – it’s fixed .

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  43. JohnC says:

    Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction overturned in New York
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68899382

    It was obvious from the start that Weinsteins ‘casting couch’ was where beautiful women traded sex for parts in films. Hollywood is the nastiest, most ethically barren place on Earth. The women were just as guilty as Weinstein. The whole thing was about hasbeens getting money. I wonder if they will have to pay it back.

    One thing which was 100% certain for Weinstein is that there was no way he could get a fair trial. The #metoo, far-Left mob made sure of that (with the MSM being the way they did it, BBC most definitely in the front of the pack).

    Nobody DARE even suggest he was not guilty. Just imagine you were on the jury with the possibility the mob would find out if you voted ‘innocent’. Your life would become hell with hate mail an death threats from these nasty hypocrites.

    It was EXACTLY that same for the George Floyd trial and it’s the same again for the Trump trials. The fascists on the Left have made a mockery of justice because the MSM have become infested with left-wing activists.

    We are gradually re-running the 1930’s with the script being re-written on the fly for the modern age where the vehicle has moved from the gun to the pen and control of information. But make no mistake, the Nazis are back.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Maybe they were ‘obviously beautiful’ and he was clearly in a bathrobe?

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  44. JohnC says:

    Hamas figures are their own ficticious ‘total’. They do not differentiate between civilians and terrorists. Which I suppose is because the dividing line is so thin. A fact the BBC never mention.

    Isn’t it amazing how these things arew ALWAYS in favour of the BBC agenda.

    Which is evidence enough that they are blatant, deliberate lies.

    Yet nothing more is ever said about it and we get an apology on a page nobody reads. Any apology should be given the same weight as the original article. So if it was front-page headline for a week, so should the apology.

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    • Zephir says:

      As I said before, they are also completely linear when logged against time.

      make of that what you will, as statisticians have….. and also have with the Biden election.

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  45. JohnC says:

    Extremist Ahmed Alid guilty of Hartlepool knife murder
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tees-68899601

    Just in case you are wondering, he murdered innocent people because of Israel. It’s Israel’s fault.

    I know that because the BBC repeat it FOUR times in the article.

    Interestingly he is called a ‘terror suspect’ in the article but even though he has been found guilty, the BBC still don’t call him a terrorist.

    We have scum everywhere now. Terrorist scum murdering innocent people on the streets and BBC scum doing their best to portray them as ‘freedom fighters’ because it was somebody elses fault.

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    • Zephir says:

      We might see a measurable imrovement in the bbc output if news was written and broadcast during muslim prayer times.

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      • moggiemoo says:

        Why? It seems clear to me that it’s not just Muslims that are Muslim nowadays.

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  46. Flotsam says:

    GBNews viewers have been polled and the results are truly strange. The poll puts Labour 11% ahead of the Conservatives, among GBNews viewers. The thing that makes me doubt the poll is that regarding the ECHR, 49 per cent of viewers think the UK should remain a member but 36 per cent disagree and 15 per cent are unsure. That seems very contrary to what I believe to be the average profile of GBNews viewers.
    I’m not sure but I think the poll might be drawn from the GBNews membership, those motivated enough to support GBNews. Has the membership been stacked by Labour in a Trojan horse operation?

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    • Flotsam says:

      In a follow up mini poll on GBNews this morning on the breakfast program, Sunak comes ahead of Starmer thereby casting further doubt on the earlier opinion poll. The poll is from actual viewers rather than the membership.

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  47. Fedup2 says:

    I mentioned yesterday – about how the BBC using ‘data ‘ supplied by the ‘Palestinian authorities ‘( aka Islamic Hamas ) .

    I have never heard the bbc explain how Hamas collect the data – verify its’ correctness and broadcast it to the British ….

    Yet when it’s a claim by someone they don’t like – eg trump – they include words like ‘false’ as in ‘false claim that the 2020 election was stolen ‘…
    Good evidence of bbc bias methinks – especially when bbc types are caught out parroting ludicrous Islamic Hamas claims like ‘24000’ killed by Israel – which they’ve retracted ….
    Keep going IDF …

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    • Fedup2 says:

      …and obviously – the use of dodgy hamas originated numbers fuels those anti Israel demonstrations and attempts to obstruct the supply of weapons to our ally – Israel – against an enemy terrorist Gang … so the bbc must pay for this one day ….

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  48. Scroblene says:

    I’m off for a cold shower now…

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  49. Guest Who says:

    When Mehdi Met Saddo

    https://x.com/joshxhowie/status/1783641946952503590?s=61

    Remember Mr. Hasan? A frequent bbc guest. Also a radical Islamist in a suit. Plus cattle officiando.

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  50. AsISeeIt says:

    Fighting age dipso females vulnerable to the blandishments of the Labour spin doctors edition

    Forced repatriation of migrants fleeing wartorn nations is a very bad thing, right? Well, that’s what we’ve been told.

    The Rwanda bill, under which asylum seekers will be flown to live in the central African nation, was passed in Westminster on Tuesday after months of difficult negotiation and accusations that it violated human rights… Ireland’s foreign secretary, said that asylum seekers were seeking “to get sactuary here and within the European Union as opposed to the potential of being deported…” (Telegraph)

    Meanwhile – or to borrow that popular internet meme (I’m told it originates from kids’ cartoon show SpongeBob SquarePants) that says, in a Peter Sellers’ Inspector Clouseau-style comedy French accent (there’s one for the teenagers) “Two Seconds Later…”: Draft dodgers pledge… defence ministers of Poland and Lithuania have vowed to help Ukraine repatriate men of fighting age who fled to their territories in an effort to avoid being called up (FT)

    Bad news from the eastern front? Maybe someone has come rushing into the bunker with an update to the BBC map of the Ukraine war? – not updated since 21 February.

    Rule number 4 in Saul Alinsky’s famous Rules for Radicals published in 1972, which serves as a primer for how to successfully run a left-wing campaign, states: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”

    Which is why Mr AsI so enjoys sharing those little instances he spots of juxtaposed clashing headlines which tend to bust prevailing narratives we are fed in the mainstream.

    Alinky’s rule number 5, by the way, tells us: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.”

    That’s as maybe. On a more serious note, we return to a classic juxtaposition; there’s a matter of life and death on the frontpage of the Rishi lackey loyalist Daily Express: Revolutionary jab offers hope of cancer cure… turn to page 4 – ah, the wonders of modern medicine gifting us hope for future health and happiness – but on the other hand and on the other side of same frontpage – Nah, might as well give up the ghost: Esther’s daughter delivers her petition to Number 10 “Daily Express Crusade Give Us Our Last Rights”… see pages 6 & 7

    World’s first jab to stop skin cancer brings hope for patients (‘i’) – tell us some more… afterall, the last time we were sold a wonder jab it was a bit of disappointment: Jabs do not reduce risk of passing Covid within household, study suggests…Research reveals fully vaccinated people are just as likely to pass virus on… (Guardian, Nicola Davis Science correspondent, this article is more than 2 years old)

    If only there were some form of official public inquiry that could look into that.

    Information: There is a chance you might still get or spread COVID-19 even if you have a vaccine, so it’s important to follow advice about how to avoid catching and spreading COVID-19. (NHS, About COVID-19 vaccination, safety and side effects)

    If only there were some form of official public inquiry that could look into that.

    So that Covid jab “safe and effective” – to borrow a formulation popularised by Star Trek’s Vulcan Science Officer Mr Spock: “It’s a vaccine, Jim, but not as we know it”

    OK so what about this new wonder jab – is it a vaccine as we know vaccines?: Personalised cancer jab that uses genetic code of tumours to tackle disease is being tested on UK patients in what researchers believe is a “game changer” (‘i’) – oooh, not too sure I like the sound of that genetic code malarkey… mRNA by any chance?

    Using the technology that helped overcome the Covid pandemic, the mRNA jab is custom-built… (Daily Express) – though so. A signature Mr AsI edit is also required there: Using the technology that helped overcome the Covid pandemic Lockdowns, the mRNA jab is custom-built…

    Handbags and Gladrags

    Shoplifting hits record high in England and Wales – says Eleanor Lawrie, Social affairs reporter, BBC, as the white hands of a female slip a bottle of white wine into her handbag – of course care of Getty Images

    Single White Female was a 1992 American psychological erotic thriller film based on John Lutz’s 1990 novel SWF Seeks Same. [It was a different time]

    The image of what psephologists might term the “Wine Aunt” if they were being less polite with reference to: Nuneaton Woman: The voters Labour need to woo… A Labour think tank says the so-called Stevenage Woman, a young, suburban female voter… will be the key to Sir Keir Starmer’s hopes… (BBC) – once set this same image echoes down from our national broadcaster to the popular print press frontpages…

    Shoplifing record high… Swiped… shops targeted – says The Sun – and once again another white female snuffles a similiar bottle of white into a different handbag. We recognise it’s a different white hand actress since we can’t help but notice The Sun’s iteration of the dipso woman has – amusingly – a more ample bosom than the BBC’s [Some things never change]

    Petronella Wyatt Feminism has left women like me single and childless (Telegraph) – and apparently vulnerable to the blandishments of the Labour spin doctors – no wonder the girls have turned to drink

    We’ve been told that our kids are now inveterate boozers: A third of 11-year-olds and more than half of 13-year-olds in England have drunk alcohol – putting it top out of 44 countries examined in a report by global health experts. England child alcohol use tops global chart, finds WHO report (BBC) – we’ve overtaken the Scots? I guess that’s one thing the devolved SNP got right?

    Girls were found to be more likely than boys to be drinking and getting drunk aged 15 in England, Wales and Scotland. (BBC) – the SNP are not getting off Scot free then.

    This calls for a calm down dear

    What happened when I tracked down the old school friend who stole the boy I fancied (Daily Mail)

    Cat fight?

    Pandas go rogue (Daily Star)

    How’s that Net Zero workin’ out fo’ yer?

    Britain’s electric vehicle policy is “terrible” and threatens to bankrupt carmakers, the head of Vauxall owner Stellantis warned yesterday (FT)

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    • Guest Who says:

      Not a good day for Sofa Sloth TV gobs.

      As Shola the Money drags the gilded spires of academe further into the gutter, the fragrant Ms. Khan of Vile gets a bit confused on country vs. faith.

      Narinder Kaur
      https://x.com/narindertweets/status/1783758093576225127Probably because the British government have been bombing the sh*t out of Muslim countries and killing innocent Muslim women and children for decades.
      (And if its 4x as many..it was probably 4 British Muslim men in total that joined isis)

      This reply suffices, but assuming the BBC goes all historic outrage again one hopes a few new German imports don’t get a Horton Ameribomber with a Japanese crew:

      Finchley Twinge
      @ThePleasureSkin
      Muslim countries have been bombing the shit out if each other for decades, so what is your point here? It sounds as though you support ISIS and british muslims joining it to commit the rape and atrocities they openly brag about.

      TV producers getting in folk who either say what the tv bosses want and/or drive divisive ratings is getting mighty tired.

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