BBCOFCOM has asked broadcasters to stick to the broadcasting guidelines in the run up to the General Election. How can the BBC do that ? It gives unopposed airtime to those it ‘approves ‘ – rarely have opposing views with adequate time and generally promotes its’ favoured views – eg human cause warming or how great Islam is .
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There is one bbc channel I will tune into in a long drive:
more 4 some stuff from the 60s and 70s, stories sketches etc
and then they will drift into the recent stuff, it always seems to be recently divorced middle classd ladies with a grumpy teenager called Toby, and their teribblle financial struggles on a 50 k salary.
then even classic fm becomes attractive
Of course grumpy teenagers are a curse to many (lucklily not mine)
You might have noticed my affection for these two. my current favourite is the Irish race trainer because it is absolutelty tue, they really do interact like this
Always ask “what are media OMITTING today ?”
SkyNews were very interested in Tommy Robinson, so they sent reporter Victoria Bird to doorstep him at the court doors
He turned the tables on her.
She went into the press gallery .. the judge dealt with the media’s request to be able to publish his residential address, by saying no.
Then Bird chose to leave the court.
Day 2 of the trial was to be a big one , yet she never turned up
The judge basically said the police were conspiring to pervert the course of justice
and that prosecution could not continue.
but the Skynews website contains zero reports about that court case ..Google result
Their “Tommy Robinson” news index page latest item is from Nov 23
Tommy Robinson charged after arrest at antisemitism march
The 40-year-old, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was arrested in London on Sunday.
A title also used by ITV, MSN and YahooNews
Bizarrely all only made it into 9 tweets and they got ZERO LIkes between them
Skynews also did 2 video report pages of that same event.
Well that’s PR theatrics : they did big PR of his arrest
and then when the case gets thrown out .. they report zero
A lady friend of mine a while ago had a son convicted of “perverting the course of justice” it is considered as a very serious charge .
It happened, after the initial incident, that he decided in his own special way of administering justice, to drag his accuser into a pub toilet and rearrarnge his limbs, but he was of the impulsive kind.
An empty bottle of Budweisrer applied with an almost medical knowledge of anatomy without any kind of academic study was also considered by the judge.
four years in Bedford Jail
The one way system in Bedford, alongside the cameras for even verging into the bus lanes (£80 charge ) should also have the council up on the same charge, cost me a bloody fortune.
TR’s tweet shows the MSM were not interested in reporting his acquittal
Oh ITV news also FORGOT to update their TR news page
https://www.itv.com/news/topic/tommy-robinson
Stew
Sometimes I reckon Russian media must be very similar to the British version …..apart from journos not falling out of second floor windows …..
We can always wish, if the bbc have a second floor
This woman is a Vile regular. She is none too bright. Likely a connection.
https://x.com/narindertweets/status/1784152827641614436
Except there are Jews on the other side of the march week on week who have never experienced any safety concerns.
Reminds me of a Labour dimwit claiming all was hunky dory as she was able to chat with those she agreed with holding their placards afterwards on the tube.
Meanwhile, from banners and shields of old to uniforms of modern conventions, friendly fire can often, but not always, get avoided.
https://x.com/Shayan86/status/1784191382405410997
“I think Right Said Fred are implying these public defibrillators are being installed because of the Covid vaccine. They’ve been around for over a decade.”
Were one dealing in facts, using ‘think… implying…’ is an interesting way to phrase a critique.
Not a fan of horse racing but do love the interviews
Hilarious!
The same sort of gibbering from football managers, but wearing sillier hats…
Bravo!
Seems a deuced effective way of preventing civilian deaths.
Odd no one thought of it before.
Nice media manipulation to make us think the French are actually doing something apart from getting the vermin afloat ….
If either the French or British wanted to stop the invasion it could be done – but neither care ….
Like moi?
I reckon les flics need personal incentivising – I’d send him a virtual beverage of his choice
That screenshot doesn’t load on my PC here
https://ibb.co/8MBrypH
aye, it was just a givesendgo logo – looks like Android bbimg.com upload is broken – tried multiple times….
Thought to set up an account but real name and email required and be public – not likely!
It’d be good imho if a way of directly thanking the guy puncturing the inflatable was available?
@Tomo Actually the link is working now
weird … like they’ve got something against Android….
Chateaubriand, ’79?
I’d have a stab at that if they rolled up here too!
Pile them up on site, no subterfuge required when the MSM are on side?
BBC , Sky etc. are going to show that?
Not BBC
The residual footy type that I am rejoices in the self destruction of Liverpool FC as the chance of winning top place the us year disappears into bad games and bad tempers – with that dreadful kraut manager heading for home as soon as he can … but well done Everton for staying up ….
That’s not a real picture is it ? Or just another sign of the insensitivity /. Collusion of the Met with their Hamas friends – no Jews please ….. on pain of arrest if you look too Jewish …
Telegraph has another photo from a different angle – it’s genuine afaics….
They used to park a Luton body Transit up a side street 1/4 mile away and furtively hand out kit – that’s bold as brass that is…
I need some sticks for my runner beans!
D’you think they’ll mind if I borrow a few – I’ll give them back – er – one day…
As an afficianado of the humble avocado pear, does all this conflict mean that we’ll be paying more for this delicacy in the future?
Perhaps Garry Linker, who type of bloke, can educate us?
You might have an opportunity on Australian Ebay, worth investigating..
What do you call a boomerang that doesn’t come back ?
A stick
Conservative MP defects to Labour ?
MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich Dan Poulter
He gets £5K/month working as a part time NHS psychiatrist
(840 hrs per year.. 70 hours per month
so £70/hr)
BBC right on it …
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-68913287
Keir Starmer tweeted
Poulter is not standing at the election
and taxpayers pay his mother £40K pa to run his office.
Just think – all those voters voted for a Tory – instead they got a socialist ….. democracy eh? It’s a sham
The sinking ships are already full of failed redtories, Fed!
They all seem to have given up on doing anything for UK Inc. these days – the stupid Rwanda farce just makes the whole issue an incomprehensible FUBAR!
So it’s…
“Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone…”
…all over again.
(Happens every week, Scrobs – Ed).
Local elections coming up – I got me a postal – I hope the outfit I voted for x3 get something on the 2nd of May – but somehow I see a red labour slaughter of the blue labour types – I don’t even know who the London tory candidate is – and nor do I care …. Hope there are tears on the night …
Oh btw a blue labour MP has defected to the red Labour Party – at least he’s in the ‘right’ party now – must be desperate for another 4 years with his snout in the trough …
Just seen your comment Stew
A BBC report apparently says that the British army or marines may be involved, on the ground in Gaza…What report? What does it say, who wrote it? Bbc do publish it so we can make our minds up.
Does it make reference to the “secret” and very large land crossing into Egypt. Or indeed the availability of the large Egyptian army , at least 4 or 5 times larger than the tiny British army.
Let’s not get involved in this neo-colonial nonsense, it’s none of our business, when it goes wrong there will be no shortage of idiots saying the British have some moral obligation to house the population of Gaza here.
Yeah – come on – support Hamas in their war against Israel – British soldiers dying for Hamas makes the UK a ‘global power ‘…. Have you heard a more stupid dangerous idea ? Those Muslims really are running the show now ….
Plenty of room for the escapees in Londonistan, the toxic midget khaaaaaaaaaaaaan will make sure they have everything they want – no expense spared!
Sorry Fed, we know you live in London, but there’s always a place in the sticks you know, even some pleasant places where the BBC doesn’t reach…
Scroblene I seem to spend more time in a warmer country than the UK – which really looks like a declining third world tip – well londonistan – at least ..
Norfolk is nice, the only time one might meet potential violence is if you try and overtake a tractor without the required 10 mile travel at 12 mph with your windscreen sprayed with shit every five minutes.
and even then, it is relatively simple to de escalate the road rage as you haven’t a bloody clue what they are saying without a phrase book to hand.
I doubt the British army, or what remains of it is involved. There were reports of US special forces at the begining, and of course Israeli special forces, but the only British involvement would only ever be SAS or maybe some intelligence people, who aren’t ‘army’.
Without some actual evidence it’s conjecture and dangerous at that.
The mysterious Royal Naval ship that is in the area is of interest. Why is it there – especially when Gaza is a 15 minute flight away from the British base in Cyprus. Rumours in the media it is there to support building of the food-aid delivery pier in Gaza. My own worry is a repeat of what happened off the coast of Libya where we imported folks that like to nail-bomb children in Manchester.
All good for stoking up fear in Blighty I guess.
The BBC website has a series of mugshot of ‘Asian men ‘ who have been convicted and sentenced for child rape . Their names are listed ….
But there is an absence – an absence of the nature of their victims …. We know what type of child they targeted – non Muslims – non ‘Asian ‘ …. It’s very BBC … the picture is repeated in the daily mail …. Look squirrels omg …
Please for your own soul Fed the second line of the Lords Prayer. Or the third commandment. It puts a stain on your soul to break these.
24 ‘Men’ have been jailed for raping young English Girls in West Yorkshire
Of course the vast majority are Paki Muslims (nothing changes) and of course it’s not mentioned in the article.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13357079/sexual-predators-jailed-young-girls-raped-West-Yorkshire.html
If you want to envision the depravity of the media and our ruling elite, wonder why not one of these girls has been interviewed by the media about what happened, nor why none of these people have been deported even though every single one of them could have been.
Some of them aren’t even UK nationals.
#me too strangley disturbing the accused only have have jewish surnames.,
I would srtongly recommend no one here has an name endning with” stein”
Jews in London are already terrified with good reason.
the far right muslims and their thick as fuck student supporters friends are already threatening them:
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/jewish-student-protesters-say-antisemitism-is-being-weaponized-against-them-209582661809
if true…
That was April £270
A Twitter search on the term “dine and dash” travellers reveals other incidents
in January £425
and November £260
October £469
I won a £10 bet with myself that these criminals would by pikeys – parasites turning up in nice places – pumping up the crime rate – wrecking the area and moving on … but it’s part of their ‘culture ‘….
Standard wet police action in these cases is not to be involved. The reason they give is because the travellers concerned have made a complaint about the food that therefore this is a civil dispute.
This is even in the cases where there is video evidence of the meal being consumed and registration numbers of the vehicles concerned. No police action.
Cranebridge has a system where at the slightest hint of an invasion by locusts they close down all the restaurants and pubs in their network. It is not just the free food, but the bathrooms are totally trashed with sinks being ripped from the walls and water pipes gushing.
Anyone got a flamethrower?
I wonder if Lammy knew her when she was a Blair bag carrier?
Sod Liverpool I prefer Knebworth, I was there
Led Zephir, 🙂
There are few, if any can manage power with one guitarist without any other mid range support like keykboards , or another guitarisist.
I was 17 years old and saw this at Knebworth, at the time, a band despised I recalll the NME ( yes,. you Julie Birchill and Tony Parsons) refusing to review or even acknowledge they played there.
Well done there you two, an deep knowledge of music.
Oh my goodness they would de opwening their checkbook now…
A US regional bank has failed, this time Republic First, and although the regulator appear to have quickly sorted it out, it’s the kind of warning like an Earth tremour before an Earthquake. These failures always happen at a weekend so no one can rush into the bank demanding answers and money.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-regulators-set-seize-republic-first-bancorp-wsj-reports-2024-04-26/
One day the damn will break and the whole financial system will break again, but who can tell when that will happen?
There are ways however to protect yourself.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-regulators-set-seize-republic-first-bancorp-wsj-reports-2024-04-26/
That git Varadkar resigning knew all this was in the hopper
Kharma’s a bitch.
Rwanda plan: Irish government wants to send asylum seekers back to UK
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-68914399
‘The Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Simon Harris has asked Ireland’s justice minister to bring legislation to cabinet to enable asylum seekers to be sent back to the UK.’
So the enormous elephant in the room here is why can’t we just send them back to France ?.
And the BBC are making a big thing of the Rwanda plan because they know as well as everyone else, it’s going to be a huge vote loser when we finally manage to send a few dozen back and we are told how many millions it cost the taxpayer for each one. It will be front page, big-font headlines at the BBC.
No wonder the BBC worked so hard to get the unelectable Sunak in as PM. It took them 3 goes mind but eventually he was shoehorned in unopposed. I can scarcely believe what they have got away with since Brexit.
Conservative Prime Ministers eh? Accessorising with prominent Communist artifacts?
Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Nancy Pelosi ?
Wow. That is a sickening photo of three repulsive morons.
My understanding of the Rwanda scheme is that it is one-in-one-out. So for every illegal migrant we send to Rwanda we get one unwanted Rwandian back to the UK. Plus we pay a shed load of money.
Have I understood this correctly about one-in-one-out?
In return, the UK is providing £370 million in development funding to Rwanda, plus another £120 million once 300 people have been relocated. The UK will also pay up to £171,000 per person relocated, largely to cover a five-year integration package. To date, £240 million has been paid over.
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9568/
Resettlement of refugees in Rwanda to the UK
As part of the deal, the UK has also committed to resettle in the UK an
unspecified “portion” of Rwanda’s most vulnerable refugees.40 The Home
Office has said this is expected to amount to “tens” of cases, involving people
who have complex needs.41
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9568/CBP-9568.pdf#page=9&zoom=100,228,90
“the UK has also committed to resettle in the UK an
unspecified “portion” of Rwanda’s most vulnerable refugees.”
HA HA HA! unspecified – 1 out 10 in! HA HA HAHA !
Danny – Dan – poulter has been a conservative MP for 14 years . Today he writes in the observer that he has become a labour MP because of his experience as a mental health NHS doctor .
I’ve read his article . It demonstrates why his former party is about to get destroyed – starting on 2 May and then when ever green card has the courage to call the election .
You see our Danny only writes about his stressy hospital job . No mention of huge population increases – sexualised kids not knowing right from wrong – third world imports – a crashed over borrowed economy – a failing unionised public sector and an NHS in need to privatisation .
Danny says he will continue as an MP – instead of doing the Honorable thing and resigning now – presumably labour doesn’t want him on their benches so won’t give him his seat at the next election – so he’s going back to being a full time doctor – with a bit of £ private £ practice … but I bet starmer gives him a gong for services to the Labour Party .
In the scheme of things he and his party are no loss . I wonder what 14 years of MP pension look like ? And how much of our money he gets when he leaves that cursed undemocratic parliament ? Vote Reform .
Elsewhere – Ireland complaining about the third world arriving from the UK … maybe they might build a border in Northern Ireland … lol …
Will we see Eire deporting the third world across the border into Northern Ireland …?
Does he have Private Health care? HA HA HA HA!
Register of Members’ Interests
Daniel Poulter
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=24756
4 October 2015, received £285 from Guardian News and Media, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1P 2AP, for an article in the Guardian. Hours: 3 hrs. Payment donated to charity. (Registered 03 November 2015)
BBC. Toady on Sunday. Very first item.
The Indian election. Why?
Because PM Modi has allegedly said some hurty things about Muslims. That’s why.
The Islamic Broadcasting Corporation just keeping in touch with its favourite religion fan base.
https://twitter.com/EdwinriRivas/status/1784245833531113718
Nation of Shopkeepers ….
https://archive.ph/KFG5L
Dublin mantra:
“Asylum seekers are a massive asset to any country in which they seek asylum; and, in any case, sending them away is racist and immoral, as well as against international law!”
meanwhile, in Wales:
Harbinger of things to come
Barry Gardiner?
. . . . . . . ..
Jeremy Hunt: everyone will be paying more tax after autumn statement 2022
Everyone. Everyone. Everyone.
1,860,000
Theresa May, Former UK PM earned £1.86 million in her 2 years since leaving Downing Street, figures show
500,000
Barry Gardiner defends donations worth £500,000 from Chinese agent
400,000
Matt Hancock, who lost the Tory whip after it was announced he would be appearing on the ITV programme, is still being paid as an independent MP and is rumoured to have been paid £400,000 to appear on the I’m a celebrity.
315,00
Boris Johnson earns £315,000 for 30 minute speech and ‘fireside chat’ in United States
65,040
Chuka Umunna Advisory Board of The Progressive Centre UK think tank (also known as Global Progress)
20,000
Jeremy Corbyn Labour party leader accepted up to £20,000 (about $27,000) for appearances on the Iranian state broadcast network Press TV
18,450
Keir Starmer £18,450 from Harper Collins as an advance payment for a book.
15,000
Boris Johnson Accommodation for a private holiday for my partner and me, value £15,000 Destination of visit: St Vincent and the Grenadines
10,000
Jeremy Hunt £10,000 from Citigroup Centre for speaking at an event on 9 March 2021. Hours: 4 hrs. Fee paid direct to charity. (Charity not mentioned)
5,822
Nadhim Zahawi MP promises to repay the part of £5,822.27 expenses claim for second home energy bills that relates to electricity for stables
2,200
MPs to get £2,200 pay rise from April for ‘dramatically increased’ duties last year
1,950
Philip Hammond accepts £2,000 watch from Saudi sheikh, despite ban on donating expensive gifts
Mystic Lucy predicted this would appear for the hundreth time
(I might have made that up)
I was reading some of the first contributions by
Deborah and others about this years Proms at the
Albert Hall.
A few years ago . My wife and myself who have been married
for 55 years were visiting Naples. I have a great love of opera ,
particularly Italian. My user name may give this away if you
know about Verdi’s operas.
Anyway we visited the San Carlo opera theatre . The oldest
and the most , in my opinion beautiful theatre in the world.
I understand Italian having worked in Italy in the past.
There were around fifty of us being shown around by
the guide , who was speaking in Italian.
By the time we were on the stage. My wife was getting bored
as she doesn’t speak Italian. And my interpretation wasn’t
helping.
We told the guide we had to leave. BUT there was one thing I
had always wanted to do. To SING on the stage of San Carlo.
My singing can only be described as a tad better than
the Portsmouth Sinfonietta “performing” the William Tell
overture. Hear it on YouTube !!
Anyway I sung ” Recondita Harmonia” from Puccini’s Tosca.
And at the end I got some great cheering from the guide
and the fifty others on the stage.
I am more deserving to be performing at the Proms than
SAM SMITH . Talk about the lunatics being in charge of
the asylum. That’s what we have at the BBC. I would really
like to tell you what I think about the narcissist. Just check
it out for yourself. At least If I was performing you wouldn’t
see me all but w***ing on the stage.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the BBC are handing out Hamas
regalia to those going to the Proms this year!
Sam Smith at the Proms be like Portsmouth Sinfonietta performing “Land of Hope & Glory” at the finale?
It should be an insightful experience for people with an appreciation of music performed by those who have dedicated their lives to perfecting their art
Less time in a BDSM sex shop and more time in a recording studio springs to mind as some advice
Poor Sam Smith. They are only doing their best, which is not easy when they don’t know if they are Arthur or Martha.
FFS did you have to?
So much mental illness / self harm around now – must be the virus or something in the water…
Plus ca change
“PEOPLE Explains: All About Chappaquiddick, the Shocking Kennedy Scandal That Left One Woman Dead.
Fifty-three years ago, Ted Kennedy was enmeshed in a fatal car accident that would haunt him until his death.
Every July, the anniversary of the tragic 1969 Chappaquiddick incident reminds the world of late senator Ted Kennedy’s most damaging scandal. Over the years, PEOPLE has investigated the mysterious car accident that killed a promising young political aide — even launching an entire podcast dedicated to sorting out the facts — yet many questions remain unanswered about what exactly happened. Fifty-three years later, we revisit the details of the case.
On July 18, 1969, Ted’s black Oldsmobile crashed off a small bridge on the tiny Massachusetts island of Chappaquiddick and landed in the water. The next morning the body of Mary Jo Kopechne, a young woman who had worked for Ted’s late brother Robert F. Kennedy, was found inside the mostly-submerged car.
Ted and Kopechne had attended a party with friends earlier that night at a rented cottage on the island, a small stretch of land that is part of the better-known island of Martha’s Vineyard, a popular vacation destination for old-money families. Reportedly only 12 people were at the gathering — Ted, five other married men and six so-called “Boiler Room Girls,” the name given to a clutch of young unmarried female campaign strategists, including Kopechne, who had worked on Robert’s presidential campaign before he was assassinated in 1968. ”
Ted claimed he tried to rescue Kopechne, despite waiting 10 hours to notify the police. “
The film ‘Bobby?” Really doesn’t put the Kennedy clan in a very good light – I thought they were a bunch of corrupt sploilt brats financed by the criminal nazi father – thankfully they are cursed …. I suppose Biden was one of their gang ….
The Svalbard Environment Act glamorous executive edition – in which a ‘top’ doctor denies it was physical, Mr AsI’s dark sarcasm about the classroom and we warn: Hey, tourist, leave them walrus alone
After the Guardian spent a day down in the doldrums of the lower reaches of the BBC staff gynaeceum’s online press line-up yesterday – the Gruan went with some cookie cutter pot boiler (just another brick in the wall) about some teachers union moaning how there were not enough teachers, well enough paid, to give proper cover for their colleagues to take all the time off in sick leave they need to take – sod the kids education (afterall, they can spend two years on and off Learning From Home)
Apologies to The Floyd…
They don’t need no education
We just want complete virus control
Never enough PPE in the classroom
Teacher, send them kids back home
If only there were some form of public inquiry…
Happily, the Sunday iteration of the Graun, that is the Observer, is back – to quote the title of that Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes duet for the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman… Up Where We Belong
Not forgetting how, as Jimmy Savile on his self-aggrandising BBC Radio 1 old record club show perch, would be more than keen to point out to his audience: “As it ‘appens, guys ‘n’ gals, the full title of that track was: bracket Love Lifts Us, close bracket, Up Where We Belong. ‘Ows about that then! Twenty million points to me, none to the listening audience of twenty million out there. Next up The Beatles with: She was just 17… then a little something by Jerry Lee Lewis”
But we digress.
What puts the Observer, back up where it belongs, in the BBC’s good books?
Well, some wet Tory (defective conservative) defecting to Labour is the big story of the day, although the enthusiastic broadsheet Observer headline goes a tad tabloid in its excitement: Exclusive: top Tory defects to Labour in fury over NHS crisis
‘Top’ Tory…? ‘ ‘Ex-health minister’ And to think the managerial-minded Guardianistas are usually so keen to be precise about correct job title jargon. Our Dan Poulter (who he?) who only gets named in the second paragraph of the breathless Observer report – was in fact a mere: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department of Health between September 2012 and May 2015 (thank you Wiki)
What has Dr Dan been smoking, you may wonder?
In June 2021, Poulter became a non-executive director for Kanabo Group Plc, a medical cannabis company based in London. (Thank you again Wiki)
You legalise it, Sir Keir, and I’ll advertise it – and profit from it.
In a brief foreshadowing of news of the upcoming eagerly awaited Svalbard Environment Act (not to be confused with up-coming news of the Iraqi parliament’s anti-LGBT people act – of which we don’t approve) we must hearabouts quote The Beatles: Isn’t it good, Norwegian wood?
Physician, heal thyself – they’re not all saints, heroes and angels, you know…
TV doctor struck off over Botox-for-sex deal… A tribunal found Dr Esho’s fitness to practise was impaired because of his misconduct… Dr Tijion Esho, who has featured on ITV’s This Morning, BBC’s Morning Live and E4’s Body Fixers, admitted an improper relationship with a woman in Newcastle, but denied it was physical. (BBC)
No mention of a Dr Dan wife or family from Wiki – however, apparently, he’s not another one of those freewheeling Grindr date gay oddball Tories: Most Tory MPs like to make a virtue of the fact they are happily married. However, Dan Poulter must be the first modern parliamentarian who wants to keep his wife under wraps. She’s the glamorous executive of a campaigning charity, while he is a health minister. But not many people know that Hilary Evans and Dr Poulter are a married couple. Oddly, there is no mention of her in his Who’s Who entry, on the Conservative Party website or on his own parliamentary website…the outward distance between the pair has allowed Ms Evans to mount repeated attacks on Government policy… (Mail Online 2014, thank you)
Speaking of freewheeling Tory MPs keen to get into bed with the opposition, so to speak… sometimes these segueways write themselves
Iraq criminalises same-sex relationships in new law (BBC) – and to think our US-led coalition fought two bloody and costly Gulf Wars just so they could proudly fly the rainbow flag in Baghdad
The US State Department said in a statement that the passing of the law reforms were a threat to human rights and freedoms. (BBC)
Back to that Observer ‘Exclusive’ – not all that exclusive, is it?
Tory rebels on warpath after MP defects to Labour (Sunday Telegraph)
Tory MP defects to Labour on eve of polls (Sunday Times)
Meanwhile, in the Rishi lackey loyalist Sunday Express: Rishi Sunak Exclusive Stick with me, I’ve got a plan – the characterisation of our Rishi with his cunning plans as Baldrick from TV comedy Blackadder is now not only achingly apt but inevitable. By the way, have Rishi Sunak and former embarrassingly ineffectual Labour leader Ed Miliband ever been seen together in one place?
Miliband minor wouldn’t have been tempted to a do a Justin Trudeau brown-face and come back as a Tory PM, would he? I jest of course. Not that Tories and Labour aren’t just one big Uniparty shambles – and I’m not kidding there.
Speaking of brown-face – sometimes these segueways write themselves
West Yorkshire Police operation sees 24 ‘sexual predators’ jailed… Khurum Raziq, 42, from Heckmondwike was sentenced to 22 years for eight offences of rape… Nasar Hussain, 46, from Dewsbury was sentenced to 18 years for three offences of rape… Mohammed Jabbar Qayum, 43, from Dewsbury, was sentenced to 13 years for two offences of rape… Mohammed Imran Zada, 45, from Batley, was sentenced to 15 years for four offences of rape and sexual activity with a 15-year-old child… (BBC) – I could go on for another several pages – but you get the picture. These Yorkshireman, eh? Not the exactly our lovable Foggie, Compo and Clegg from Last of the Summer Wine these days are they?
West Yorkshire Police said juries had heard details of “absolutely shocking offending”, with victims treated as “defenceless commodities to be abused and traded at whim” (BBC) – sounds a lot like old time slavery – reparations now payable by Pakistan, anyone?
From our BBC, somewhat in that old journalistic mode of man bites dog: Tourist fined for approaching walrus in Norway… fined more than $1,100 (£900) for getting too close to a walrus… The Svalbard Environment Act stipulates that all traffic on the archipelago must take place in a way that does not lead to unnecessary disturbance of local wildlife – gosh, that’s going to cramp Sir David Attenborough’s style
I note the BBC when reporting the monetray aspect of this Nordic saga avoids revealing the fact Norway is not only passing its own local laws but still happily outside the Euro
Regarding your reference to Floyd’s oft celebrated album I can only agree with the following reviews:
Critic’s profile
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
This isn’t the most fun to listen to and some viewers don’t find it to much fun to watch,
Full Review
Critic’s profile
Yardena Arar
Associated Press
It’s a pretty grim portrait, but even worse it is often repetitive and boring. There are probably enough powerful segments for half a dozen or so outstanding rock videos but not a full-length feature.
> but still happily outside the Euro
And Norway is outside the EU too. But they are in EFTA which probably means they get beaten up by the EU like Switzerland to implement hated EU legislation. While they have oil money and only 4m population they probably don’t care. If things get really bad there is the old bottle of Rødspirit to down.
Music can reflect bad things but it does not have to be so depressing or just plain wrong
Especially with this one in artistic control:
“Jewish groups protest against former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters’ concert in Frankfurt.
The Pink Floyd co-founder has been accused of antisemitism over Nazi SS-reminiscent costumes he wore on stage and projecting names of deceased Jewish people during his concerts.
Several Jewish groups, politicians and an alliance of civil society groups gathered for a memorial ceremony and a protest rally against a concert by former Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters in Frankfurt on Sunday evening.
They accuse the Pink Floyd co-founder of antisemitism and criticize his support of the BDS movement, which calls for boycotts and sanctions against Israel.
Frankfurt authorities had initially tried to prevent the concert taking place, but Waters successfully challenged the move in a local court.
The concert took place in the city’s Festhalle where, on 9 November 1938 – Kristallnacht – more than 3,000 Jews were rounded up by the Nazis and later deported to concentration camps.
“Against this historical background, the concert should not have taken place under any circumstances,” said Sacha Stawski, a member of the Frankfurt Jewish community and head of the group Honestly Concerned, that helped organize the protests.
Last week, police in Berlin said they had opened an investigation of Waters on suspicion of incitement over a Nazi SS-reminiscent costume he wore when he performed in the German capital earlier this month. Images on social media showed Waters firing an imitation machine gun while dressed in a long black coat with a red armband.
During the Berlin performance, the names of several deceased people also appeared on a large screen, including Anne Frank’s.
Israel’s foreign ministry criticised the musician on social media: “Good morning to everyone but Roger Waters who spent the evening in Berlin (Yes Berlin) desecrating the memory of Anne Frank and the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust.”
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/05/29/jewish-groups-protest-against-former-pink-floyd-member-roger-waters-concert-in-frankfurt
Mirth or irony?
From our “Worlds Most Trusted Broadcaster” news today of the confusion facing the public and business over what’s happing to import/exports when the Government’s new unbelievably tight legislation comes into force next Tuesday: long diatribe about Border Farce and what they will now allow in etc. Yes, I know, a joke isnt it? No one’s sure. But for sure it doesn’t apply to rubber boat arrivals. Or to put it the BBC’s way: “It will prevent African Swine Fever entering the country”………..
I’ll say no more but, ‘out of the mouths of babes’
Keith Siegel and Omri Miran: Video shows US and Israeli hostages alive in Gaza
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68913568
THAT is as clear a case of a war crime as you are ever going to get. There is no ambiguity. Taking hostages then using them in videos is a war crime. Period.
So not only do the racist BBC refuse to call these terrorists in line with what the BRITISH government designate them as, they also refuse to point out their war crimes when they commit them.
But of course Israel are accused of war crimes if they aren’t feeding the country they are at war with.
The BBC are racist, terrorist supporting scum. This proves it.
Brought to you by another ethically-barren clone who is only obeying orders:
Been watching the new Dune movies. Not as extreme on the woke side as the vast majority of films these days, but still has plenty.
Would you believe it, the main population in this fantasy land just happens to have the same sprinkling of black people in a white civilisation as it does at the BBC. And always prominently placed so you see them.
But what made me smile as it showed the true hypocrisy and double standards of these far-left idiots was how the ‘desert people’ consisted of 100% BAME (all types mixed) and not a single white face to be seen.
You mean the way the Fremen tribes, isolated in the deep desert for hundreds of generations, with no interaction with anyone else, all consist of one black, one brown, one yellow, one whitish… one lesbian, one trans…
lol, yes, that’s them. A bizarre mix of obvious Muslims, Indians and blacks. With lots of strong women in charge. Unlike the Muslims in real life of course where they aren’t even allowed to go out shopping without an escort. And they are all truly good people full of honour. Again, totally unlike real life.
Haven’t finished it yet : another 1.5 hours to go. But I’m fully expecting to see more women warriors who beat every man they fight.
doesn’t quite work like in sport does it ?
I find it amusing that the misandrist activists claim women are equal to men period then keep quiet about them having separate categories for just about everything because otherwise they would never win.
The icing on the cake is the banning of trans-women in womens events because they too keep winning. It shows just what a complete farce all of this wokist crap really is.
Men are better at some things, women are better at others. They are not equal : they are different. Evolution made them that way.
At an airport, a man steps up to the counter, notices the woman behind the counter has huge breasts. He say “I’ll have two pickets to titsburg.’
Realising what he said he apologises profusely.
The woman says “it’s OK sir, it happens.”
The man behind him butts in and says
“ Yes this is a very interesting phenomena, I’m a psych professor at the university, and I study this kind of phenomena.
For example, this morning I was sitting at the breakfast table with my wife, and I meant to say “Would you please pass the Cherios dearest one.”
But instead I said “You f@cking bitch, you ruined my life,
Have been a great fan of Dune for years. The TV version is OK and despite critics I still enjoyed Lynch’s version despite Sting being in it.
I was however pleasantly surprised with the new version which is excellent with modest woke involvement. Only seen part 1 as I do not go to the cinema any more as a rebellion against most of the woke garbage on offer. Part 2 is out on DVD in a few weeks which I am looking forward to receiving.. Order was placed last year.
What goes around….. Still ploughing my way through The West Wing, and it’s now 2001, and the storyline ? A cargo of Chinese asylum seekers arrive in a container and claiming to be of the Christian faith. Heard this before somewhere.
Don’t worry, never seen the West Wing, but can guarantee the Chinese in the container willl stop working after six weeks, just like my made in China external memory thing that lost me hundreds of photos.
Brissles – having watched The West Wing too many times – if I allow myself to ‘file ‘ my Right Wing views it is very good TV and refuses to date …. But I find the ‘staff ‘ a bit too smug … ironically the ‘different ‘ final ‘season’ ( ugh – ) is in my view -the bestist …
The Crown is far better than I expected – but paying 50p for each series helped …
“Islam permitted slaves to attain high office; those taken for the Atlantic trade stayed at the bottom of society
In the Atlantic trade there were two males to every female; in the Islamic trade, there were two females to every male
Islam permitted women to be enslaved for sexual purposes, although not for prostitution”
“enslaved for sexual purposes, although not for prostitution” HA H AHA HA HA HA!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/slavery_1.shtml#:~:text=Islam%20permitted%20slaves%20to%20attain,sexual%20purposes%2C%20although%20not%20for
. . . . . Some slavery is better ….
“Slavery in the Atlantic trade was highly racist, something prohibited in Islam where there was much less institutionalised racism.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/slavery_1.shtml#:~:text=Islam%20permitted%20slaves%20to%20attain,sexual%20purposes%2C%20although%20not%20for
“much less institutionalised racism” HA HA HA HA! Belly laugh!
I see that on the front of the printed Daily Mail there is a ‘before and after ‘ picture of the Holocaust Memorial stone in St James Park Londonistan – with it displayed and then covered up so as not to cause offence to Muslim Hamas protesters…..
This really can’t go on …..
It is just a long continuation … 2016 … “Rome covers nude statues for Iranian presidential visit
They should have gone the whole hog and covered the ‘offensive’ statues with burqas.
(For anyone not au fait with Catholic matters, the absurd Pope Francis is roughly comparable to our very own Welby on the woke spectrum.)
The Arabs also had the habit of castrating male black slaves so they could not breed, which is why the population of modern Saudi Arabia looks kind of, er Arabic, rather than like that of Brazil. The act of castration resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of black boys and men, reports state that sometimes up to 90% of a ‘cargo’ would be lost. But hey, there was an endless supply of them.
Another fun fact is that many Saudi’s continue to use the word ‘abeed’ when referring to black people, which also means ‘slave’.
Not BBC
There is a blue labour ‘education secretary ‘ called ‘Gillian keegan ‘( or is that a WAG?) .
Anyway Gill has decided that the existing law requiring ‘faith schools ‘ to have 50% godless children repealed . Apparently it’s because more parents want their kiddies to go to RC schools because RC schools are better than most godless state ones ….
Declaration – my whole pre university edikashon was at RC schools and I reckon they were pretty good for the London standards …
But a number of people in the press commenting on this suggest that what will really happen is that the number of fundamental Muslim schools ( maddrasseas?) will sky rocket because the Muslims are outbreeding every one else on all those benefits .
I reckon Gill doesn’t realise this idiot law won’t get to the election … but labour will pick it up on behalf of the Muslim mafia …. Just another nail in the Judeo Christian coffin of the UK ….
Would that be the Gillian Keegan who attended St Augustine of Canterbury Secondary School (later called St Thomas Becket Catholic High School) in Huyton? Just asking
Ian – ha ha – I didn’t know – maybe she thinks she ll get loyalty points with The Boss Upstairs ( or everywhere – depending on beliefs ) …
Such a dumb idea ….
1 out 10 in!
“the UK has also committed to resettle in the UK an
unspecified “portion” of Rwanda’s most vulnerable refugees.”
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9568/CBP-9568.pdf#page=9&zoom=100,228,90
Thanks Marky
We are all doomed!
“Resettlement of refugees in Rwanda to the UK
As part of the deal, the UK has also committed to resettle in the UK an unspecified “portion” of Rwanda’s most vulnerable refugees. The Home Office has said this is expected to amount to “tens” of cases, involving people who have complex needs.”
‘tens of cases’ sounds like lawyer-speak to me meaning a ‘flood’ or a ‘deluge’.
History repeated … “Jack Straw: Labour made mistake letting Poles in early”
“Other existing EU members, notably France and Germany, decided to stick to the general rule which prevented migrants from these new states from working until 2011. But we thought that it would be good for Britain if these folk could come and work here from 2004.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/13/jack-straw-labour-mistake-poles
Wed 13 Nov 2013 06.14 GMT
1 migrant in 2 UK MPS out
> 1 migrant in 2 UK MPS out
1 migrant in, 2 UK MPS out, 3 judges out, 4 immigration lawyers out, and a partridge in a pear tree
From the DT – a piece about the ‘proms ‘ being turned into the Eurovision Queer Contest
STARTS Here’s your starter for 10: which music festival has a disco night, a Nick Drake tribute evening, a Sarah Vaughan night, and a performance by the pop star Sam Smith in its first few days, and carries on with shows by the likes of Florence and the Machine?
Glastonbury? Latitude? Green Man? Wrong. It’s the self-described “world’s greatest classical music festival” – the BBC Proms, which last week released its programme for this summer.
Let’s be clear: the Proms is indeed a wonderful celebration of classical music, with any number of enticing concerts this year – not least the return of the Berlin Philharmonic (so much for the doom-mongering claims that the era of visiting European orchestras was over thanks to Brexit).
But it’s that very fact that the Proms is avowedly a classical music festival, that its organisers rightly see it as a classical music festival, and that the vast majority of its audiences attend it because it’s a classical music festival that makes the injection of artists and repertoire that are not, on any serious definition, classical music so depressing.
It’s yet another demonstration of the cultural cringe which so many of those in charge of serious art – let’s even call it high art – have succumbed to. It’s a mindset that maintains that the Proms – and classical music generally – is self-evidently an elitist experience, and therefore needs to justify its performance by introducing more democratic elements into the mix.
And not just music. The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra has just decided that it will drop “any perceived ‘rules’ of a traditional concert” and will now actively encourage concertgoers to use their phones to film concerts. Just days before the announcement, tenor Ian Bostridge had had to stop his performance in the orchestra’s own hall after light from phones filming him made it impossible for him to carry on.
As for the music: it’s now being argued that, because so many of the composers are dead, they’ve really got no place being performed at all.
Last month, Arts Council England published Let’s Create: Opera and Music Theatre Analysis, which contains a graph effectively equating the age of a piece with creative sterility and a lack of relevance: “As a result of its limited engagement with the creation of new work, opera and music theatre may find it harder to make an argument for its continued evolution as a cultural practice.”
The report also attacks opera critics for “almost exclusively writing from a classical music perspective”. As opposed to a Critical Race or Queer Theory approach, presumably.
The real sin of much classical music, according to the Arts Council, is not just that so many of the greatest composers are no longer in a position to compose, what with their being six feet under. It’s that they dared to compose masterpieces which audiences have turned to for decades or even centuries: “Terms like ‘excellence’ … are indicative of the way in which opera and music theatre still retains unhelpful hierarchies about what kinds of work are valued.”
Bloody Beethoven and his hierarchical string quartets.
This is the context in which the world’s greatest classical music festival – someone will presumably be sacked for using the g word – believes that it has to include the likes of Sam Smith, who appears to be better known for his outre clothes than his music.
Mind you, Wagner was a snazzy dresser for his time. ENDS
If the BBC can’t get rid of traditions such as `’rule Britannia ‘ – they ll find another way …
Keir Starmer: the music that made me — from Beethoven to Stormzy
The Labour leader was a talented teenage flautist who fell for the Smiths at university. Now he tells Richard Morrison about his musical mission to inspire a new generation
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/keir-starmer-the-music-that-made-me-from-beethoven-to-stormzy-7665s3362
For some reason in the early R4 news today they included a report about Biden making a ‘joke ‘ about his age at the annual,correspondents dinner – saying something like – ‘I might be old but Trump is like a 6 year old ‘ ….
Personally I didnt think it was clever or funny but couldn’t understand why that was in the bbc news … but I suppose the woke interns were running the show out of hours …
Do you need any basic education to work at the bbc :
“The Great American Buffalo
The spirit of a people, a story of resilience. A mythic, majestic species – and a symbol of the struggle between Native Americans and new settlers. From director Ken Burns.”
You may find some buffalo in the US if you visit a zoo
otherwise, in the wild you may also see some bison.
“By the late 1880s, the buffalo teeter on the brink of extinction, but an unlikely collection of Americans have started a few private herds in different locations, and for different reasons. ”
Oh goodness sake I give up
The absurdly out-of-touch Andrew Neil, Adam Boulton, and Nick Robinson all think Ofcom is too ‘tolerant’ of GBNews.
Plains bison
The plains bison (Bison bison bison) is one of two subspecies/ecotypes of the American bison, the other being the wood bison (B. b. athabascae).[2][3][4][5][6][a] A natural population of plains bison survives in Yellowstone National Park (the Yellowstone Park bison herd consisting of an estimated 4,800 bison) and multiple smaller reintroduced herds of bison in many places in the United States as well as southern portions of the Canadian Prairies.
The African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a large sub-Saharan African bovine.[2] There are five subspecies that are recognized as being valid. Syncerus caffer caffer, the Cape buffalo, is the nominotypical subspecies, and the largest one, found in Southern Africa and East Africa. S. c. nanus (the forest buffalo) is the smallest subspecies, common in forest areas of Central Africa and West Africa, while S. c. brachyceros is in West Africa and S. c. aequinoctialis is in the savannas of East Africa. The adult African buffalo’s horns are its characteristic feature: they have fused bases, forming a continuous bone shield across the top of the head, referred to as a “boss”.
The African buffalo is more closely related to other buffalo species than it is to other bovids such as American bison or domestic cattle, with its closest living relative being the Asian water buffalo.