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Earlier someone noted the return of Whooping Cough.
https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1788616721311412275?s=61
Seems it is down to the Gettys.
‘‘Twas I – it comes from the same ‘playbook ‘ as the measles one which I think was kicking about recently … I did googling and apparently the x3 thing kids have protects them for their childhood … but it seems many ‘parents ‘ are not bothering getting their brats zapped ….
” ‘Eunuch-maker’ mutilator jailed for 22 years ”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68977469
“Warning: Contains graphic descriptions
The court heard how the defendant’s “Eunuchmaker” pay-per-view website advertised services including castration, penis removal and the freezing of limbs.
The Old Bailey was also told how Gustavson got others to perform procedures on him, including having a nipple and his penis removed and a leg frozen.”
A whole leg ?
How the saying go ?
There’s nowt as queer as homosexuals..
“Originally from a small town to the south-west of Oslo, Gustavson was a postal worker and the chair of an LGBT charity,….
Gustavson moved to the UK in 2012 ”
As you do…
BBC believe in open borders, so they won’t question how a convicted fraud criminal ended up here.
Time to start banging these weirdos up! They have always existed but have never had the twisted level of legal support as they have now.
I cannot understand how supposedly intelligent people give these freaks any rope whatsoever but they do now!
@Eddy
After waiting 8 days for a 2nd class delivery of a CD (Trespass, by Genesis, ordered via Ebay)
I have strong suspicions that we may also have a one legged postman.
Nothing to do with anything … but next week I’m planning to fly out of Blighty via Gatwick … the barriers are … 1 rail strike at Victoria …. 2 Fire alarms at Gatwick – 3 – eborders failing – 4 flying on a woke Boeing just ( 3 crashes in 3 days ) … apart from that all well …
@Fed
I was thinking you could invest in a bicycle and some lycra, you will never have to worry about maiming or killing pedestrians, zebra crossings, red lights or much else….
and with a silly plastic hat with a camera on it you could also start your own youtube channel with a hotline to the Jeremy Vine show.
https://news.sky.com/video/surrey-four-cyclists-fined-after-riding-through-red-light-in-esher-13050703
bit long for here…
Thanks Tomo – the insanity of relying on ‘renewables ‘ … how many days now has there been no meaningful wind . We are governed by loons on all sides …
China laugh and say buy more panels you idiots!
The storm was April 6
The company statement said it would be repaired
Yet there has been no further statement
The wind industry, all the same as the water industry. The only service providers that get their base product for the square root of f all, yet we pay through the noteworthy it. Go figure!
Free like the NHS!
Why exactly are the BBC focusing on US sporting fixtures in their regular UK news home page reports as it must be of interest to practically no UK viewers. I have seen a repetitive number of these appear in the past few days.
Such as….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/baseball/videos/cnked3z7p10o
I have not found the probably suspicious political reason but I rather suspect there is one!
My guess is a sort of weird Biden support shite or maybe they are just bloody lazy and being spoon fed these meaningless stories from their Dem American compatriots.
I notice renewable wind energy is contributing a magnificent……errr……2% of our electricity need at the time of writing. And this at a time of year when demand is low (mild with lots of daylight).
Luckily gas is able to pick up 50%, Nuclear (which the green left have always wanted closed- a version of CND) 17% and imports 18%.
Not even Greta Thunberg can create the amount of hot air we need.
As for the other green fanatics- what a total joke.
Greta’s moved on, she can now be seen in a keffiyeh leading the pro-Hamas marches in Stockholm. At least she didn’t need her carbon fibre yacht to get there.
If I was somehow to be put into one of the middle eastern Countries the only one I would feel safe in is Israel.
The Israeli’s are a civilised and decent population.
Any of the other places and I would be in fear of being killed because the populations there are lawless and seem to hate everybody.
How long would any of these pink haired, lgbt, woke, immature, virtue signalling lefties currently waving their little flags last if they were suddenly deposited in any of these Countries they appear to revere.
Precisely Emmanuel : isn’t it amazing how all the non-Muslims report from OUTSIDE gaza. Especially that monstrous hypocrite idiot Bowen. Because they know they could well end up being tortured in a tunnel by those very people they are defending.
They make me sick. The reason Israel is safe is because they know they have to do things like this.
‘You want the truth ?. You can’t handle the truth’ has never been so relevant as it is to all these Leftie cretins.
Judge refuses to alter Trump’s gag order over potential ‘vitriol’
https://biasedbbc.tv/
I was just reading yesterday about how lawyers in general in the USA know full well that a complete farce these charges are against Trump.
‘Trump’s trial is a stupendous legal catastrophe’
‘Every American should be appalled at this selective prosecution.
Today the target is Trump. Tomorrow it may be a Democrat’
As you can tell, it was actually written by a Democrat.
‘If the defendant were not Donald Trump and the venue were not Manhattan, this ought to be a slam dunk win for the defendant. Indeed, this extraordinarily weak case would never have been bought.’
But never any hint whatsoever about that at the BBC. Quite the opposite, they are doing their usual trick for these agenda-based farces by simnply reporting the facts and not adding any ‘journalism’ observations whatsoever.
It’s an absolute disgrace. Let’s see the THREE reporters the BBC have in the countroom:
No doubt the local designer coffee shop is doing excellent business. All on BBC expenses of course.
And one writing for this ‘live feed’:
It really is beyond a joke. It’s ridiculous that the British public are being forced to fund all this extreme activism-by-stealth.
Not one of these airheads could tell you a single fiscal policy of his campaign.
I have read that the Israeli entry has got through to the next round of Eurovision. Needless to say I haven’t watched since Sandie Shaw took her shoes off. (O.k., not exactly the truth as I am sure I saw Cliff Richard sing Congratulations. Anyway, I digress.
I have just watched the Israeli entry on YouTube. She is a beautiful young woman, almost fully clothed (high split in her dress), singing a real song. To be fair I haven’t heard the U.K. entry but I really don’t think I want to hear a man in a bra singing, apparently, whilst having sex in the men’s toilet. (At least that is what I read).
I get the feeling the young Israeli woman loves her country and the British man loathes his. The contrast between what the BBC found to represent us and the much much smaller Israel found to represent them is startling.
I might add that the Israeli contestant had to face a large demonstration against Israel in Malmo which threatened her safety. However at 11pm at night the comments on the YouTube channel were amazing and supportive of Israel and claimed to come from all over the world including the Middle East.
Just for contrast. Patrick Chrystis went to Oxford today to try and interview the masked pro Hamas people claiming to be students. They appear to be from a brain washed cult. I couldn’t imagine them leaving the camp and writing an essay. Imagine a vegan and these protesters would be the very essence of a vegan stereotype.
A youtube news channel I watch to get real information about the war in Ukraine also touches on the Gaza war.
They said that the anti-Israel protests across the West are being funded by large amounts of money coming from Qatar. And it’s plain to see that they ARE being funded by someone.
I’m sure ‘Panorama’ will be right on it. Because investigating far-Left groups taking money from Muslims to attack Jews ticks all their boxes right ?.
Steyn made a bold claim , that Ofcom have backtracked on Covid
Ofcom reply ‘No we haven’t backtracked on Covid”.
Programme Service Transmission date Issue Outcome Full decision
Mark Steyn GB News 21 April 2022 Misleading material Breach Decision – Mark Steyn
Full Disclosure Loveworld Television Network 11-12 February 2021 Harm and misleading material Breach and sanction
Global Day of Prayer Loveworld Television Network 1 December 2020 Harm and due accuracy Breach and sanction Decision – Loveworld Limited
Further Sanction Decision
The Family Programme New Style Radio 98.7FM 1 November 2020 Harm Breach and sanction Decision – New Style Radio (PDF, 444.7 KB)
Further Sanction Decision
London Real: Covid-19 London Live 8 April 2020 Harm Breach and sanction Decision – ESTV Limited
Your Loveworld Loveworld Television Network 7 April 2020 Harm Breach and sanction Decision – Loveworld Limited
Loveworld News Loveworld Television Network 7 April 2020 Harm and due accuracy Breach and sanction Decision – Loveworld Limited
Tony Williams Uckfield FM Community Radio 28 February 2020 Harm Breach and sanction Decision – Uckfield Community Radio Limited
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/information-for-industry/guidance/broadcast-standards-and-coronavirus
It’s that time of year again when “In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. ” etc
My garden backs onto some woods, and some nights it sounds like a bunch of werewolves gang raping a hyena or two.
God only knows what is going on out there, I’m certainly not getting a torch and investigating.
I was considering asking Chris Packham, but he would probably just say it was some disenfranchised polar bears looking for the local Iceland store.
As for the owls, whilst I had some childhood affection for Enid Blyton, at this time of year they certainly don’t hoot, the screaming and other sounds have tempted me on occasions to consider calling the police with concerns about serious sexual crimes taking place.
Even the cat refuses to enter the garden after dark.
It will be the foxes. They do make a racket when they are… mating.
“Israel heads to Eurovision final, despite protests”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg67w7gdqvqo
48 minutes ago Mark Savage
Music correspondent
“Israeli singer Eden Golan has qualified for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest after a public vote.”
“According to bookmakers, Golan’s song is fifth favourite to win the contest on Saturday night.
Topping the odds is Croatian act Baby Lasagna, whose riotous dance anthem Rim Tim Tagi Dim qualified from the first semi-final on Tuesday.
Switzerland’s Nemo, whose operatic pop song The Code is the second favourite, was one of the 10 acts who were voted through after Thursday’s show.”
They can’t get anything right…
I have to admit I’m enjoying this display from the ‘tolerant Left’.
It’s showing what nasty, racist scum they actually are when they can’t control the narrative.
They are only a small step up from Hamas terrorists IMHO. And I most definitely include the likes of Bowen at the BBC in that.
I suggest they introduce VAR calibrated to indicate to the judges for a red card for genitalia exposed. sodomy and “women” with stubble.
Eurovision’s Israeli entry Eden Golan ordered to ‘stay in hotel’ as pro-Palestine protesters flood Malmo
https://www.gbnews.com/celebrity/eurovision-israeli-eden-golan-ordered-hotel-palestine-protesters-malmo
And the nasty bastards are at it again. Of course the war has NOTHING to do with Eden but they don’t care who they hate and intimidate.
‘Among those protesting on the streets of Malmo was climate activist Greta Thunberg’
I think the media should change that to ‘far-Left activist’ now as this is all she has been from the very start. Pushed forward by other far-Left activists such as the BBC.
The BBC should do a documentary where Greta goes out to live with the people she cares about so much in Gaza. I guarantee there would be at least half a dozen bodyguards with her.
She would not have a clue why they were there until she saw what Hamas do to people they don’t like. Then she would be back home pronto.
“In Malmö, the grenades are frequently old weapons from the wars in the Balkans. The police assume that someone imported a large cache of grenades, which has then been distributed to criminal gangs.”
Just so long as we get nul points I’ll be happy.
Gaza war: Netanyahu says Israel can ‘stand alone’ if US halts arms shipments
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68980826
BBC report:
‘.. the US warned it could halt arms shipments if the Israeli prime minister ordered a full-scale invasion of Rafah in Gaza.’
What the USA actually said:
‘Joe Biden said he would withhold some arms including artillery shells if Rafah was invaded.’
NOT the same thing at all BBC. Your headline is a cynical and misleading lie.
Israel use a LOT more weapons that just artillery and the biggest bombs.
This is the only way to deal with terrorists. They will never stop. Their hatred is rooted in relious fanaticism.
Our government appeases them then suppresses news of what they do so the indigenous majority don’t know about it. Great if you’re a terrorist. Not so good if it’s YOUR country they are doing it to.
‘Joe Biden said he would withhold some arms including artillery shells if Rafah was invaded.’
No more hats will be sent to Israel.
WTAF…. parody MIA
What a loss to the musical community. (as well as the Eurovision tripe)
aye , the yids are doomed now.
Sums Eurovision up perfectly.
Far-Left freaks playing politics.
Eagerly paid for by the BBC with the publics money.
Most people remember Eurovision as a set of complete weirdos singing the occasional catchy tune. It was about laughing at just how ridiculous they and the contest are – almost like watching a zoo.
It’s not so funny now they have the confidence to show their true, nasty, far-Left nature.
A camp-fest that disguises an annual piss-take by the assembled profligate public broadcasters and their cronies from broadcasting support businesses – I’ve seen a bit of the infrastructure deployed = simply ludicrous levels of provisioning.
After this, did Kirsty pour a stiff scotch, load her Webley and retire behind a closed door to dispatch the production team?
Woman screams as Donald Trump is sworn in as President
Does anyone remember when Newsnight was a serious programme? It seems like it was a very long time ago.
I know I keep harping on about mail-in ballots but….
Khant election?
If the Tory’s had anything about them they’d suspend postal voting and tighten up the Electoral Register.
Flotsam – wisdom is recognising the mistakes of others – and the blue labour are not wise …. Just dumb …
War weary cross-dressing casual Friday edition
One does so enjoy those awkward little agenda-busting juxtapositions sometimes to be discovered between nearby printed headlines.
Think somewhat laterally about the tendencies of our mainstream media and you too may appreciate this pairing from the ever-excitable Daily Mail:
If I’d made up my story… I’d have written it a lot better…
Worst whooping cough oubreak in forty years… experts blame fall in vaccination rates… amid fears of the worst outbreak for 40 years… Experts blame… a fall in vaccination uptake, a less effective jab and reduced community immunity caused by lockdowns.
A forty year assertion is rapidly downgraded to just a fear, community immunity twists the tongue and a dodgy agenda-busting reference to some less effective jab – wow, talk about badly written editorial story telling copy
So there is still such a thing as ‘community immunity’? Experts tend to recommend vaccination as a panacea but admit some vaccines can turn out to be sadly ‘less effective’? Expert fears get exaggerated into headline statements of apparent fact? Lockdowns have had the effect of exacerbating infection rates for a serious potentially child killing respiratory illness? If only there were some form of officially sanctioned public inquiry that could look into all that.
That first headline from the Mail on the subject of made up story telling, by the way, was a Stormy Daniels – Donald Trump report.
Our BBC this morning does the full public service annoucement bit by promoting the three top front and centre whooping cough headline promoting newspaper titles to top three places in their pick of the press. And they say the ordering is random?
The Guardian goes banging on with Gaza but aren’t we all getting just a bit war weary over that one as a supposed prime concern?
Congo’s hidden war puts civilians in line of fire (FT)
Some of us may recall bird flu as H5N1, whilst we all know the M25 circles London, but now there’s: …ingored outside Africa. Backed by Rwanda, M23 is sowing panic in a city swollen by hordes of displaced people… the region’s minerals… (FT)
The M23 rebellion was an armed conflict in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, that occurred between the March 23 Movement and government forces (Thank you Wiki)
Katanga Katanga, my friends! As our Lenny Henry was once wont to declare.
Truancy up by a fifth on Fridays (Times) – could this be our work shy civil servants taking the concept of the casual Friday to the max and not having to change out of their PJs for the day?
Not exactly: Ministers blame ‘unacceptable’ parenting after working from home fuels 50,000 extra absences… rise in pupils skipping school (Times) – Rishi’s ciggie ban on kids ought at least to remove one good reason for bunking off school – but as for the parents – you all hereabouts well know by now Mr AsI blames government ministers for their misguided lockdown policy which he believes demoralised the British workforce.
School absences jump by 20 per cent on Fridays, and unauthorised hoildays are up 25 per cent of pre-Covid levels… (Times)
Here we go again. Where’s that blue pencil of mine? Due for a sharpen: …unauthorised holidays are up 25 per cent of
pre-Covidpre-Lockdown (which was a ministerial policy choice) levels…D’you think we need a couple of funny ‘and finally’ items to round off the working (or not) week?
The mildly conservative Telegraph dabbles with the prevailing peculiar obsession with drag queens: Clothes swap… what happened when I let my husband pick my outfits
I mean, we could all admire the adult cabaret themed comic routines of the likes of Lily Savage or Danny La Rue (there’s one for the teenagers) but Palestine protesting drag queens debating with Kirsty as a supposedly serious item on BBC Newsnight? (see above post hereabouts) that’s a case of our BBC taking the subversive from the ridiculous.
One still smiles at that much-admired comic the late Sean Lock who observed how he would often return home to find his wife wearing something from his wardrobe – one of his shirts or even on occasion his boxer shorts. But when the boot was on the other foot, so to speak, it was a case of “We need to talk”
Starmer will use terror laws to tackle migrant crossings (Telegraph); Starmer reveals new ‘Border Security Command’ to tackle people smugglers (‘i’); Sir Keir Starmer will promise to make Britain’s shores “hostile territory for people-smuggling gangs” (BBC) – the only people-smuggling gangs Mr AsI sees are the present iteration of our Border Force, the RNLI, assorted largely state-funded NGOs and a cabal of campaigning human rights lawyers. I don’t envisage Starmer banging that lot up.
I had whooping cough when I was a babe in arms…
All we ‘ad were a boiling kettle for t’steam to help me breathe, but we were ‘appy back then…
I blame ‘nut zero’ – there aren’t enough electric kettles on the go, oh, and ‘brexit’ and ‘copper bracelets’.
Meghan and Wotsisname are asked for an in-depth explanation by every hack in the Daily Express.
As if the curremt Government aren’t already using the security services to combat organised illegal immigration.
Smarmer’s big idea isn’t, errr, big.
Asiseeit – I think the need for kids to go to school is hugely over rated . The clever kids will do well if kept away from the trailer trash and internet – the rest will just wait for their benefits ..
Capitalism depends on a lot of people being thick to that they don’t know they are being ripped off – and it’s even better if it’s a life of other people ( taxpayers) paying for them ..
Mind you – it must distract from watching ‘this morning ‘ if the brat isn’t at school ….
sheesh…
Geen punten?
Looks like fun – who will clean it up?
I’m sure a couple of grenades would sort that mess out. Along with the arse wipes that caused it.
Tory to Labour defectors.
In an earlier post the idea that many MP’s were just in it for money and status etc. This could be true for some, for instance the dreadful Elphicke who also confirmed, for me, the total lack of morals in the legal profession.
There seems to be something more in play in many of these defections IMO. How is it possible for people who supposedly embraced conservative values to even consider aligning with a leader, Smarmer and Party with the exact opposite views? I could understand a Tory going cross bench but surely not Labour. It can only be the case that they were never conservatives (small c intentional) in the first place. This leads me to think that there might have been some sort of long term black-ops conspiracy in play. Has the Tory Party been infiltrated by Labour or some foreign power in order to destroy it from within?
No flotsam – it’s just political self interest – such as the promise of a peerage or chair of a quango after they are thrown out by the electorate .
The ‘black ops ‘ is planting people in CCHQ who don’t select conservatives to fight seats ….
Uniparty.
Can anyone name a policy where Tories & Labour differ?
The only one I can think of is the benefits cap on more than 2 kids but I’m sure the breeders get around that on the multiple ‘daddy ‘ trick …
Wendy and Musk is like Sopes and TDS.
https://x.com/mwendling/status/1788574885653979304
I subscribe to X and have the blue tick of death in order to look at unpublished Community Notes. The program is an interesting concept, particularly because it has the potential to take some of the heat out of various arguments – some in good faith some in bad – over content moderation. However it is slow; usually much slower than the “mainstream media”. And if
@elonmusk really thinks it is effective in ferreting out the truth clearly he should open it up to all users. To not do so is actually antithetical to lofty altruistic principles; it establishes an elite who get to fact check *because they pay for the ability to do so*
Of course, what the msm checks can go from glacial to non existent if the narrative requires it not to be checked.
We are all equal, some pay more to be more equal than others.
Was there a problem with Wendling the BBC fact checker’s narratibe there ?
YEP today he issued a correction
“I stand corrected here and bonus, am going to save $8 a month”
and then deleted yesterday’s tweet that we are talking about
You see his whole rant was based in falseness
cos you don’t have to be paid Twitter member to see unpublished community notes.
I told you “Trusted sources” is a fallacy
In the last 4 hours no tweet has included Wending .. the last one was Mariana and him doing a mutual backrub
He didn’t even know this “And apparently notes can be published then later unpublished”
“It’s hard to know what else Wendling said about Antifa as he has recently deleted all Tweets up to the start of May from his account that was active since 2008.”
You can TRUST accounts that delete their tweets en masse
or mass block people ..like Guardianland folk like Marianna do
The modern World runs on energy, coal and oil. China knows that, the West seems to have forgotten.
China want UK to kneel before the new over lords – destroy the economy and spirit then buy uk for “one dorrah”
Maybe if we used the hot air from Boris Johnson’s mouth we can heat our homes? Only £350K per speech.
”
This article is more than 1 year old
Boris Johnson receives £2.5m sum as advance for speeches”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/08/boris-johnson-advance-payment-speeches
We are ” apparently” splashing out, Dearbail tells us
on the feature on the BBC’S main internet page.
We have the usual suspect Getty;s imaging model
showing us this.
Faisal and Dharshini explain more about how on earth
it is possible that the UK has come out of recession
By the way I have sent my commiserations to Maryam
Ahmad, Kayleen Devlin, Danielle Palumbo and everybody
else at the verifying unit at the BBC That Israel have
qualified for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest.
BBC fails to correct student / Hamas supporter –
STARTS The BBC has been accused of fuelling anti-Israel sentiment after a pro-Palestinian student claimed the country had been found guilty of a “plausible genocide” in an interview.
The incorrect comments, made in an interview with Amol Rajan by a student at the University of Leeds were not challenged on-air, and the corporation has told The Telegraph it does not plan to issue a correction.
Speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme on Wednesday morning the student said “the ICJ [International Court of Justice] ruled that Israel is committing a plausible genocide” in Gaza.
Mr Rajan did not correct the claim despite the International Court of Justice judge – who presided over the January case – saying in a BBC interview two weeks ago that it “isn’t what the court decided”.
As presiding judge Joan Donoghue made the ruling, which found Palestinians had a plausible right to be protected from genocide in Gaza, she said: “The court is not required to ascertain whether any violations of Israel’s obligations under the Genocide Convention have occurred.
That will happen at a later stage of the process.”
Ms Donoghue later said in an interview on the BBC’s HardTalk programme on April 26 that the court “didn’t decide that the claim of genocide was plausible”.
“It did emphasise in the order that there was a risk of irreparable harm to the Palestinian right to be protected from genocide,” she said.
“But the shorthand that often appears which is that there is a plausible case of genocide isn’t what the court decided.”
The name of the student, who is participating in a campus encampment, was given as Issy.
A BBC spokesman declined to offer a correction.
The BBC spokesman said: “The student who was interviewed offered what has been a widespread interpretation of the ICJ ruling. This wasn’t the focal point of the interview, and we made appropriate challenges in other areas.”
The Campaign Against Antisemitism condemned the decision, saying the false claim was not a “one-off” and would pour “even more fuel on the fire”.
“People are entitled to their own opinions but not to their own facts,” the spokesman said.
“Given how claims about genocide have been so central to the discourse about Israel and Hamas that is firing up anti-Semitism in Britain, one would have hoped that journalists and presenters at our national broadcaster would take the time to understand the basics so that they are not pouring even more fuel on that fire.
“If this were a one-off, it would be one thing, but it isn’t.”
‘False interpretation’
Jonathan Turner, chief executive of UK Lawyers for Israel, said the “false interpretation” has had a “terrible impact on social cohesion and the safety of Jews in Britain”.
“Having played a major role in propagating the false interpretation of the ICJ’s ruling in the first place, the BBC has a particular obligation to correct it whenever the issue is addressed,” he said.
“The BBC’s Charter requires it to promote public purposes that include contributing to social cohesion. If the BBC continues to do the opposite, it should be dissolved.”
The ICJ’s January ruling is frequently cited by pro-Palestinian activists as evidence for claims that Israel is guilty of genocide.
But it did not actually consider the question of whether genocide had occurred or if it was “plausible”.
The Today programme devoted its prime 8.10am interview slot to the Leeds student ahead of a meeting of university vice-chancellors, the Education Secretary and the Prime Minister at No 10 on Thursday.
The meeting came after US-style pro-Palestinian encampments sprung up on university campuses across Britain in recent weeks.
Activists have demanded that universities cut ties with Israeli companies and universities and make a public call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Pressed by Mr Rajan on whether she was opposed to anti-Semitism, she said: “Of course we’re opposed to anti-Semitism, we’re opposed to all forms of oppression.”
Gillian Keegan, the Education Secretary, was interviewed on Today after the student and described her demands as “unreasonable”.
“I respect Issy’s right to free speech but I think her demands were unrealistic, unreasonable and obviously people go to university to share views and to get educated and understand others’ views and I suggest Issy has probably got a bit of a way to go,” she said.ENDs
Does make one wonder who is ‘Issy ?’
“plausible genocide” = small boats replacing current population every day = “actual genocide”
It’s smear by proxy
occasionally a righty guest on GBnews falsely smears, but I don’t see that too often
false smears by lefty guests against TR are common
How we found Europe’s most wanted migrant-smuggler
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3g92zkd7n4o
So the BBC spent who knows how much money tracking down a smuggler known as ‘The Scorpion’.
‘Our interest in Scorpion had begun with a little girl we met in one of the migrant camps near Calais, in northern France.
She had almost died trying to cross the English Channel in an inflatable dinghy.
The dinghy was not seaworthy – it was cheap, bought second-hand in Belgium – and the 19 people on board had no lifejackets.
Who would send people out to sea like this?’
So straight away I can tell this is some stupid BBC ‘reporter’ who loves RomComs and always cries buckets.
This story is clearly 75% fiction, 25% fact as the BBC try to make a huge mountain of the story. We get things like:
‘Our initial enquiries did not go well. We asked the manager if he could tell us about the trade – the cafe went quiet.’
Of course it did. All for dramatic effect. Did you really stand where everyone could hear to ask such a sensitive question ?.
‘About this time, we had the chance to put this question to Scorpion directly. Out of the blue, he called us again.’
Really BBC ?. Why on Earth would he do that ?.
‘It was a small office – there was some writing in Arabic on the window and a couple of mobile phone numbers. People came here to pay for passage. Rob said that while he was there he saw a man carrying a box full of cash.’
Really Rob ?. Did it not have ‘swag’ written on it ?. Clearly there trying to spice it up a bit.
Then we get:
‘Scorpion did not realise it, but as he scrolled through his mobile phone, Rob caught a reflection of the screen in a polished picture frame on the wall behind.’
What Rob could see was lists of passport numbers. We later learned that smugglers would send these to Iraqi officials. They would then be bribed to issue false visas so migrants could travel to Turkey.’
What rubbish. Why did ‘Scorpion’ have passport numbers up on his phone and how did Rob know that’s what they were ?. It doesn’t add up at all.
And finally:
‘That was the last we saw of Scorpion.’
And that’s the story. To cut 2000 words down to 7: ‘They met Scorpion in a coffee shop.’. That’s it. No police raid, nothing. He’s gone.
What an absolute croc of lies. Thanks Sue and ‘Ben’. How much money did it cost ? :
Never mind how much it cost the BBC, why not ask why the UK government and the Gestapo we used to know as Police have done nothing about it.
The tart on top needs to see a dog groomer.
Moderator comment –
The mail today says the planet might be hit by a solar storm today which could upset mobile phones and the internet …. So if the site fails you will know why .
Solar storms are caused by global warming and should in included in net zero . Where an aluminium hat – stay in doors ….( much of this needs BBC VERIFY )
“The Carrington Event was the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history, peaking from 1–2 September 1859 during solar cycle 10. It created strong auroral displays that were reported globally[1] and caused sparking and even fires in multiple telegraph stations. The geomagnetic storm was most likely the result of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun colliding with Earth’s magnetosphere.[2]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
Because of the geomagnetically induced current from the electromagnetic field, telegraph systems all over Europe and North America failed, in some cases giving their operators electric shocks.[22] Telegraph pylons threw sparks.[23] Some operators were able to continue to send and receive messages despite having disconnected their power supplies.[24][25] The following conversation occurred between two operators of the American telegraph line between Boston, Massachusetts, and Portland, Maine, on the night of 2 September 1859 and reported in the Boston Evening Traveler:
Boston operator (to Portland operator): “Please cut off your battery [power source] entirely for fifteen minutes.”
Portland operator: “Will do so. It is now disconnected.”
Boston: “Mine is disconnected, and we are working with the auroral current. How do you receive my writing?”
Portland: “Better than with our batteries on. – Current comes and goes gradually.”
Boston: “My current is very strong at times, and we can work better without the batteries, as the aurora seems to neutralize and augment our batteries alternately, making current too strong at times for our relay magnets. Suppose we work without batteries while we are affected by this trouble.”
Portland: “Very well. Shall I go ahead with business?”
Boston: “Yes. Go ahead.”
lol, bet you 50p nothing happens.
99% of these scares are pretend academics looking for internet traffic.
Apple must be praying for a big zap . The sun is out so we are being bombared with radiation right now … I’m moving about a lot to dodge it … my foil hat keeps coming off…
If you’re feeling too hot wear thermal clothes that keep the heat in but wear them inside out to keep the sun’s heat out .
As one might expect the BBC fails to report on the Israeli Ambassador’s speech denouncing UN support for Hamas.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/unreported-israeli-ambassador-tears-into-the-pro-hamas-un/
Israeli operation leaves Rafah’s hospitals overwhelmed
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68983445
‘Medics say more than a million people sheltering in the southern Gaza city are at risk of being deprived of healthcare after the Israeli military began a “limited” operation against Hamas on its eastern outskirts on Monday.’
A million without health care. That’s terrible.
Oh, it’s just ‘at risk’ so it didn’t happen. Just like they are at risk of being shot by Hamas if they try to run away.
But the stand-out part of a classic BBC lie by omission is this:
‘Abu Youssef al-Najjar, had to be hastily abandoned the following day after staff received an evacuation order and there was fighting nearby.’
So the hospital was evacuated because Israel told them to. Shouldn’t that be ‘an evacuation order BECAUSE there was fighting nearby.’ ??.
And if it’s because of the fighting near the hospital, who could be causing it ?. We will never know because the BBC do not want to tell us the most important fact of all. The actual reason all those civilians might be without healthcare.
” Gaza city are at risk of being deprived of healthcare” – twinned with UK NHS Healthcare
Part one of many ?
10 Times the BBC Was Corrupt
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/webcontent/10-times-the-bbc-was-corrupt/vi-3fKeR78siGQVxA?vid=qi2VSsydOHE&provider=yt&ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=392f93afc21d4e108dd2c8fbd61d378b&ei=34
@harry142857 decieves us by omission there
Mojo is a lefty site
so its video is gaslighting
It’s 10 points claim the BBC is pro Tory and doesn’t do enough Climate propaganda etc.
The Economist – How Labour is courting British business
https://www.greaterbirminghamchambers.com/resource/uk-economy-exits-recession-with-fastest-growth-in-two-years.html?
BBC Moaning Emole – UK economy out of recession
https://x.com/rachelreevesmp/status/1788813667259027507?s=61
From no growth to low growth – is that really the scale of the Conservatives’ ambitions?
Food prices are still high, families are paying more on their monthly mortgage bills and working people are worse off.
It is time for change.
#ccbgb
BADENOCH PROMPTS CAMERON TO DEFUND FAKE DISINFORMATION OPERATION
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HA HA HA HAH!
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“I am sitting in a shopping mall in Iraq, face-to-face with one of Europe’s most notorious people-smugglers.
His name is Barzan Majeed, and he is wanted by police forces in several countries, including the UK.
Over the course of our conversation – both here and the next day at his office – he says he does not know how many migrants he has transported across the English Channel.
“Maybe a thousand, maybe 10,000. I don’t know, I didn’t count.””
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3g92zkd7n4o
Happy endings …
“Majeed in 2012, working as a car mechanic in Nottingham”
….
“It’s important to us to have sent the signal that you can’t do what you want,” she says. “We will eventually take him down.”
…
Harry played games with the children
I’m surprised he could get up to their level.
Nice that the chippy half caste met him at Heathrow for the pilgrimage to the home of the ancestors …
A Professor at Sheffield University Management School has produced a report on Taxing Wealth. It proposes a number of (relatively) straight forward tax changes targeted at ‘the wealthy’.
As I understand it, his proposals include:
– Re-introducing the 15% investment income surcharge (so that the highest rate of income tax is 60%).
– Removing the upper limit on earnings above which national Insurance contributions are not currently payable.
– Raising the tax on capital gains to the rates on income (but without any allowance for the effect of inflation on asset values).
– Taxing the gains on the sale private residences (the tax being deferred until the last surviving spouses passes away).
– Imposing VAT on financial services. (It is not clear what this includes but it would be a small step to imposing a tax or levy on the financial assets themselves).
– Changing the rules on ISA’s (probably limiting which investments qualify).
He argues these changes would raise c. £90 billion p.a. while making the tax system more equitable. He does not mention the two fundamental flaws in his proposals: that most people’s wealth is accumulated from income that has already been taxed; and that capital is mobile and will move to where (net of tax) returns are most attractive.
Few people would argue that the current tax regime is fit for purpose but these proposals will be music to Rachel Reeves’ ears.
An unbiased BBC would be pushing her to state whether she has studied the report and agrees with or rules out the proposals – but don’t hold your breath.
Everyone to pay 10% tax – just that – simple – easy to calculate – for everyone.
** Nice for MPs and Diane Abbott to calculate their own tax!
“The Saudi Arabian tax system is very unique compared to many other countries, namely because there is no personal income tax. This means that if you are an employee in Saudi Arabia with no other forms of income, you will likely pay no tax on your earnings.”
Another Socialist dreamer from one of the more Left wing Universtities ( and that’s saying something!)
Britain has to increase its tax take because it’s simply spending far more than it takes in, that’s simple maths.
Once an individual accumulates around £10 Million they no longer need to pay any tax, but that is not addressed here.
Many will remember the disgusting Leona Helmsley “only the little people pay tax” It’s true, the rich don’t pay tax at all.
All this loon is proposing is further taxes on higher earners which will be destructive to the economy, not constructive.
What is needed is an end to tax free earning on those abroad as the US does. Why should fabulously over rewarded leftie actors be able to buy a home in a foreign country and then pay no tax on their earnings because it was earned abroad?
Indeed because the ‘creative’ ‘industries’ receive so much government subsidy they should pay an extra 10% on higher rate earnings.
Others who pay no tax but are resident in Britain should be taxed at least 1% of their wealth per anum so they at least contribute something in tax and don’t live off the backs of the rest of us.
Remember Sunaks wife, worth an estimated £750 million was paying zero tax on her income, and if she only made 3% that’s £21 million a year! She could easily afford to pay £7 million in tax and not miss it.
Taxing the productive is not the way forward, taxing those who pay no tax at all is a much better way.
The one about taxing gains on the primary residence is usually the signal for a political party wanting to lose the next election ….the SDP had it for one election – didn’t get too many votes ….
Presumably the comrade ‘professor ‘ at Sheffield poly has a tattoo of Corbyn on his face …
Tolerance …. SONGS WILL UNITE US (c) EuroVision …. “Israeli Eurovision singer Eden Golan was ordered to stay in her hotel room by her country’s national security agency as thousands of pro-Palestine protesters including Greta Thunberg demonstrated in Malmo, calling for her to be excluded from the competition.”
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/05/09/israeli-eurovision-singer-ordered-to-stay-in-hotel-room-as-thousands-of-pro-palestine-protesters-including-greta-thunberg-call-for-her-to-be-excluded/
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Being an ex bookmaker I think have only given one tip on
this website , and it lost. Many of us sussed out that Ukraine
would win in 2022 with the “sympathy” vote. They could
of sung ” My old man’s a dustman” and won.
I have written before that I have written to the BBC
commiserating with them that Israel were allowed to
compete . And got through to the final.
I have heard through “channels” that Israel won the popular
vote by a hefty margin last night. Yes you see thousands of
protestors on the streets in Sweden. But believe me the huge
majority of the indigenous population of Sweden are
devasted what mass immigration from the middle east
has done to their country.
Any one of a dozen songs could win tonight. And this includes
the Israel entry. However it could well be the popular vote
that wins the day. And the BBC could be in for a terrible shock
being the all but media partners of Hamas.
But after saying all of this Israel are second favourites behind
Croatia to win.
Foscari,
I have to confess that I actually like the Eurovision Song Contest. The fantastic voting system they have these days keeps it incredibly tense and exciting right up to final vote.
I normally disapprove of political voting and think that people should only vote for what they feel is the best song. But this year I am abandoning my high moral principles. I am going to vote for Israel, even if their song is crap.
Just to stick it to all these protestors and of course the BBC.
Zelazek– The bookmakers nearly always know whom
the favourites to win are. ” Hurricane” from Israel is
second favourite . And it is a very beautiful ballad..
And I have heard through the grapevine. That there
will be a lot of sympathy vote from the public over the
personal abuse the Israeli singer has had.
Zelatek – red card 🌞
We used to let our children watch the Eurovision Contest, as there were always going to be some zany acts, and they would be totally acceptable for tiny minds!
Nothing much has changed, except that the acts are now more ‘tranny’, ridiculous, stupid, ugly, mindless, musically inept, ‘boom-bah’ inarticulate and a complete waste of public licence money.
Hey-ho, that’s the beeboid recognition of its saddo pizza-gobbling watchers these days.
Not BBC – but my Lord Frost is on the ink again – this time he is telling us that Britain isnt ‘ free’any more – but a healthy bank balance helps ? Eh frosty ?
STARTS Helicopter parenting is, just perhaps, falling out of vogue. We can now see that protecting children from failure and stopping them from taking any decisions for themselves leaves them more prone to fearfulness, less able to deal with adversity, and fundamentally less capable of getting on with life.
Unfortunately, its adult counterpart, helicopter politics, is as popular as ever. In this style of politics, no harm, no societal difficulty, no injustice is, in principle, beyond the reach of the state. Political debate is about how, not whether, the government can solve your problems. It’s therapeutic politics – politics as medicine or as parenting. What it’s not is politics for grown-ups.
If you doubt me, just look at some recent ideas from the Government. Wages too low? Simple – boost the minimum wage by fiat. Not enough houses? Simple – make tenant eviction largely illegal. Don’t like smoking? Ban it. Childcare too expensive? Subsidise it. No problem is too small. On Friday, Parliament will debate pet theft and make it illegal “to induce a cat to accompany you”.
It’s easy, fun, and necessary, to knock this nanny statism. But it isn’t enough in itself. We have a nanny state, not just because most voters want it, but because most politicians do, too. State action gives power and influence to government MPs and a sense of purpose to the opposition.
That’s true whichever way round the parties are. After all, every wing of the Tory party seems to have some problem it wants the government to solve – “hate” on social media, taxing “unhealthy” food, regulating cyclists, the list is endless. All politicians nowadays see it as their job to get government to do things. For if that is not their job, what is?
Well, one element of that job always was, and still should be, to police the government: to stop it expanding its power and encroaching on the people’s rights – rights that they owned, not rights given them by the state.
The whole handling of the pandemic shows how feeble this conception now is. I have to laugh when I hear people argue that being a member of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is a barrier to domestic tyranny: did they not notice that, when raison d’état demanded it in 2020, the ECHR and the Human Rights Act, just when they might have been useful, turned out to be no more than worthless bits of paper?
At the root of all this, I fear, is a fundamental downgrading of freedom as a value. Freedom used to be fundamental to Britain’s view of itself. Now even the Conservative Party barely uses the word.
Yet you can’t long remain a free society if you don’t believe in freedom. And it’s no good just saying you believe in it: you have to live it. Sometimes that means politicians deciding “we would rather live with this injustice or this social problem than expand the state to deal with it”. When was the last time you heard anyone say that? And that’s the problem.
I am not arguing for a libertarian nightwatchman state. There is never going to be a majority for anything like that in modern British politics. But we have to change the direction of travel.
At some point since the war – and I think I am aware of it happening in my lifetime – we moved from seeing ourselves as a society in which free individuals accepted government rules in certain areas for the common good, to one in which the state and society are almost the same thing, in which the state can in principle do anything, but allows citizens autonomy in certain areas, always provisionally, and always subject to overriding state purpose.
We moved from one to the other because we valued stability over dynamism. For a free society is dynamic. Free people won’t do what the great and good think they should do. They don’t necessarily want to live in allocated social housing, have their education from state-approved curricula, or travel only where and when the trains go. They won’t be told what to say and think. They want to experiment and try different things. They are eccentric in the best sense of the word.
People like this are inconvenient not just for government but very often for fellow citizens. Yet it is from the eccentric and the entrepreneur that progress happens. Squeeze them through tax, regulation, and disapproval, and the ideas and effort that spark growth go away. And that is what is happening.
Politicians of both parties say they want “stability”. That is certainly the mood of the times. Yet the people who most want and need stability are children. When they grow up they want, or should want, something else. And so should this country.
We need not stability but dynamism, we need creative destruction, we need an end to unprofitable businesses and the creation of profitable new ones, we need new homes, new roads, new airports, new more productive agriculture, and above all new ideas.
If we are to get them we need to end helicopter politics. And politicians, at least those on the Right, need to start saying to voters “Now it’s over to you. You fix it.”ENDS
I only put this up because he is one of the few on the ‘right’ who is saying anything – however scrambled it is …
https://x.com/thejeremyvine/status/1788845184853135631?s=61
Back to normal.
Back to another driver who doesn’t care about my life.
Are these things a city invention? Seems a recipe for disaster, and hence what Vile feeds of as ‘normal’.
Vine does like being a victim doesn’t he ? As a 2 wheel rider I assume every other road user is going to try to kill me – so defensive riding is a way of life .
For some reason Vines self love conquers all …
People who pay to use the road should have primacy anyway … cyclists are just free loaders …
“every other road user is going to try to kill me” … nothing to do with riding a bike, I reckon.
Jeremy Vine to drive a car for a year and get annoyed at cyclists for a change of opinion.
Common sesnse dictates (to most,anyway) that riding a 5 kg bike dressed in utterly unsuitable and disturbinging revealing tight clothing, that would even embarass a Eurovision contestant,( regardless of age or physical attraction), alongside two or more ton motor vehicles along small road is just inviting trouble.
Unless or course you are just looking for an argumernt with someone. And there seem to be more and more of them about.
Stop the Boats Rishi , what about it ?
Where are BBC’s reporters on this ?
Summer is upon us which will mean more invaders crossing the English Channel.
“Stop the Boats” means Stop Them !
Stop the boats! **
** terms and conditions apply, boats may be called small boats to reduce the problem size, all boats will be allowed in and then checked to see if they are male or female boats. All men looking under 30 will be classed as young people.
I don’t know if this is true or not but it seems a wonderful idea:
“Pro-Hamas student activists could be sent to Gaza for 6 months under new Republican bill.
A new House bill would send any person charged and convicted with unlawful pro-Hamas activity on college campuses to Gaza, sentencing them to at least 6 months of community service work.
Rep. Andy Ogles, who introduced the bill said:
“Students have abandoned their classes to harass other students and disrupt campus-wide activities, including university commencement ceremonies nationwide. Enough is enough.
That’s why I introduced legislation to send any person convicted of unlawful activity on the campus of an American university since October 7th, 2023, to Gaza to complete a minimum of six months of community service.” –
Want immigration – take a Jihadi John to babysit your kids! FREE!
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-jihadis-next-door
“This programme from 2016 films with, and challenges the behaviour and motivations of, a new wave of extremists in the UK, including Abu Rumaysah who’s suspected of appearing in an Isis execution video”
One can only imagine the “work” the white females will be required to perform……
BBC’s sketch “The Real Housewives of ISIS” goes viral
Promises….. “Keir Starmer unveils plan to use anti-terror powers to tackle small boats Published 15 minutes ago”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68984778
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Keir Starmer: It’s wrong to say ‘only women have a cervix’
Marianna’s got another award. She seems to be winning so much maybe she’ll take Eurovision and all the medals at the Olympics too. Nothing is beyond her.
“But we have learnt somethings in the last 10 years. We have learnt that most of the press in free western countries are cowards. We’ve learnt that most of our artistic establishment are cowards. Most of our politicians are cowards. We’ve learnt that industries that spend much of their year in award ceremonies patting themselves on the back for their bravery, stop when bravery is required.” – Douglas Murray @5:00
I’m looking forward to the 2025 Marianna calendar …. Musical …. Statue …
Trending : Steve Inman for his “bad guys get payback” videos
where people send him videos and he puts MMA commentary over the top
#1 It’s American so some videos are gruesome as the bad guys get shot dead
..so some are just on his Rumble channel
#2 Don’t assume the scenes are new
The video of the Poundland shoplifter who got pounded by the security guard who only has one arm, is quite old
His other UK videos
BBC Future — “Pioneered by digital literacy experts, the ‘Sift’ strategy is a technique for spotting fake news and misleading social media posts, says Amanda Ruggeri.”
“In this column, Amanda Ruggeri explores smart, thoughtful ways to navigate the noise. Drawing on insights from psychology, social science and media literacy, it offers practical advice, new ideas and evidence-based solutions for how to be a wiser, more discerning critical thinker.”
I can’t even be bothered to post anything. This should explain all you need to know:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240509-the-sift-strategy-a-four-step-method-for-spotting-misinformation
You don’t need 4 steps, 3 will suffice:
1) B
2) B
3) C
https://memory-holed-news.blogspot.com/2023/05/bbc-fake-news.html
The BBC are getting more like Goebbels every passing day!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels
Don’t report news just replace it!
“*Amanda Ruggeri is an award-winning science and features journalist. She posts about expertise, media literacy and more on Instagram at @mandyruggeri.”
Over the years tweet sthat mention “SIFT strateg” get very few Lkes
“Trusted sources” is a logical fallacy
cos argument depends on evidence presented NOT on who the messenger is
.. Just cos the messenger is BBC that doesn’t automatically prove the argument is wrong/right
The reliabilty of a source does make on think about how much time/attention one should give it.
‘Trusted sources ‘ – interesting concept ….
Is Amanda Ruggeri a trusted source ?
It the last 10 months there have been almost zero replies to her tweets and very few Likes
Her Tik Tok does slighly better
Like a video might get 40 Likes
Most of her videos are “look me I’m a mother”
Popular is not the same as trusted
but compare her to KTHopkins, PJW and TR whose accounts get tens of thousands of Likes per day
Taffman made a comment about too much music shared on this site contributing to it “dying”, I would posit the opposite, it is difficult enough these days to find those sharing one’s values or opinions when you have to keep your mouth shut in public and at work.
I have never really been a fan of later Genesis but here is a little present for you Taffman, with lyrics below to explain why music can be a most powerful medium to express the above frustration.
Plus ca change etc, yet from over 40 years ago…. make of that what you will….
“Land of Confusion” by Genesis is a song that addresses the political and social issues of its time, particularly during the 1980s. The lyrics express frustration with the state of the world, addressing topics such as war, political unrest, and inequality. The song’s music video also features caricature puppets of political figures, adding to its commentary on the state of global affairs. Overall, “Land of Confusion” can be interpreted as a critique of the complexities and challenges present in the world at the time of its release.
Lyrics
“I must’ve dreamed a thousand dreams
Been haunted by a million screams
But I can hear the marching feet
They’re moving into the street.
Now did you read the news today?
They say the danger’s gone away
But I can see the fires still alight
They’re burning into the night.
There’s too many men, too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go ’round
Can’t you see this is a land of confusion?
This is the world we live in (oh, oh, oh)
And these are the hands we’re given (oh, oh, oh)
Use them and let’s start trying (oh, oh, oh)
To make it a place worth living in.
Oh, Superman, where are you now
When everything’s gone wrong somehow?
The men of steel, the men of power
Are losing control by the hour.
This is the time, this is the place
So we look for the future
But there’s not much love to go ’round
Tell me why this is a land of confusion.
This is the world we live in (oh, oh, oh)
And these are the hands we’re given (oh, oh, oh)
Use them and let’s start trying (oh, oh, oh)
To make it a place worth living in.
I remember long ago
Oh, when the sun was shining
Yes, and the stars were bright all through the night
And the sound of your laughter as I held you tight
So long ago
I won’t be coming home tonight
My generation will put it right
We’re not just making promises
That we know we’ll never keep.
Too many men, there’s too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go ’round
Can’t you see this is a land of confusion?
Now this is the world we live in (oh, oh, oh)
And these are the hands we’re given (oh, oh, oh)
Use them and let’s start trying (oh, oh, oh)
To make it a place worth fighting for.
This is the world we live in (oh, oh, oh)
And these are the names we’re given (oh, oh, oh)
Stand up and let’s start showing (oh, oh, oh)
Just where our lives are going to ?”
Zephir – I think it was me who floated the view that this site is ‘ dying ‘ – but I didn’t link it to the music stuff turning up .
I think I was over dramatic on the ‘dying ‘ – I think ‘changing ‘ is more accurate …
I intend being less puritanical on the subjects covered – mainly because so many posters who detest the BBC have limited their access to it …
I think I was fed up because the Islamic Hamas war on Israel was – in my view – becoming too much and too bitter here – and I was getting Fedup reading it – and stopped engaging in it .
@Fed Up, I don’t blame you, (it must be a challenging job for you) or “Stop the boats” Taffman, bless him 🙂
But, just another little present for Taffman, maybe more up his street…. 🙂
Kier is gonna have a ‘border command ‘ – its function will be to facilitate people arriving in dinghies – they will be provided with a Labour Party membership card and a place on the voters’ register as well as the usual welfare and taxpayers ‘ money –
The election in 2028 will be about how the boats have all been stopped – or not – no one will know because of the censorship / News blackout in accordance with the ‘community safety act 2026 – which limits any comment not authorised by changed labour ….
Enouh to make Marti Bormann or Oswald Mosely blush with shame
Here’s a tip for those 2 people who cut down the tree at Sycamore Gap.
Say you were doing it as a protest for ‘Just stop oil’ (or any of the other popular lefty protests like free Palestine) and nothing will happen to you.
Wear a hijab for added points and kneel for Floyd!
Just Stop Trees
I suspect the BBC are going into somewhat panic mode over the new Dr Who series.
Predictably they are to turn it into Ru Pauls Drag Race meets police box in what looks like a desperate attempt to garner a section viewers who’s predilections hopefully might replace the hordes of legacy viewers leaving it in droves as it nosedives into banality.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-68983502
“The Daleks, Weeping Angels and The Family of Blood. Just some of the fierce enemies Doctor Who has encountered over the years.
But now Ncuti Gatwa’s incarnation of the Time Lord is facing a new adversary and perhaps the most powerful villain yet.
Maestro.
American drag queen Jinkx Monsoon, who plays the new nemesis, tells BBC Newsbeat her “dreams have been granted in a wonderful way”.
Jinkx is known as the “Queen of Queens” after winning a regular and All Star season of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
And she says moving to the world’s longest-running science fiction show felt like a natural progression for a self-described trans queer actor.
“Sci-fi has always been queer. Anyone who tells you otherwise is delusional,” she says.”
What?
Spike Milligan – Pakistani Daleks
I can’t help but wonder how much better Asimov’s Foundation and Robots series would have been if they had been rammed full of gay anal sex. If you’ll pardon the expression.
This video goes into some of the horrific detail of the state of the UK economy facing the next government. The guy is clearly a neo liberal left wing Keynsian, but the facts are the facts.
It’s going to be rather amusing watching Labour trying to pick up the piece of a wrecked economy which is normally the preserve of a Tory incomming government.
Either way it’s not going to be pretty and standards of living are going to have to fall.
We can self identify as RICH! Easy!
They’ll tax you at 40% even if you’re skint.
“It’s OK to have a bad day, Harry tells students”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp4g9zzeql1o
“Sharon Beshenivsky was shot dead as she arrived at the scene of a robbery at Universal Express in Bradford”
“Piran Ditta Khan fled to Pakistan after PC Beshenivsky’s murder in 2005, but was extradited in 2023”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-68986221
Is he now mayor of Luton?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor_of_Tower_Hamlets
Rahman’s five-year ban from standing for election, having been found guilty by an election court of “corrupt and illegal practices”, had elapsed
Name of donor: Akhil Tripathi
Address of donor: private
Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: Provision of air travel to multiple Conservative Party events on 28 April 2023 for me and eight members of staff, value £38,500
Donor status: individual
Changes to the Register of Members’ Interests
Rishi Sunak
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=25428
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Tory donor who funded Sunak private jet has £14.3m assets frozen in fraud case
https://inews.co.uk/news/sunak-tory-donor-private-jet-assets-frozen-3012063
The Prime Minister is facing questions over the donation from Akhil Tripathi, pictured inset, who has also donated more than £150,000 to the Conservative Party since 2021