BBC Facebook now running story on Leeds Riots , headlined
Large crowds gathered on the streets, with footage showing windows being smashed and items thrown at officers.
Erm , a little bit more than that BBC , typically trying to downplay due to it being Muslims , imagine the headline if it was White British lads , bet you’re bottom dollar the words Far and Right would be mentioned .
In June the blue regime borrowed £14.2 billion actual against predicted £11.6 billion … and now the reds are in to borrow even more …
Maybe they should do a balance transfer like I dun today ….
If interest rates are coming down….. then taxes are going up bigly …. I dread it ….
Your @RichardJMurphy of the day. So many are lining up to save with the government by buying gilts that the Bank of England has had to print £800 billion to buy the 30% no one is willing to buy. Would be political economists should at least be aware of QE, no? pic.twitter.com/mPW66LkTde
Just a little observation, following on from yesterday evening’s celebratory outbreak of diversity in Harehills in Leeds.
Remember, this is the constituency where a month or so ago the newly elected Green councillor, Mothin Ali, shouted “Allahu Akbar” and “we’re coming for you,” to mighty cheers from his bearded compatriots. I don’t think he mentioned solar panels, composting or wind farms, but perhaps I missed that…
Apparently, yesterday’s kerfuffle (ahem) started when police were called to an area infested by (sorry, I mean enriched by) Roma peoples. As we all know these gentle folk are always hard-working, diligent and honest members of the community…
Things got a little heated, as is their wont, police were attacked, buses incinerated and police cars torched.
I’m now eagerly awaiting the BBC investigation which will prove that this “disturbance” was caused by police harassment and institutional racism.
Oh…and where’s that chinless Tory gobshite, who called those English lads celebrating St George’s Day in Whitehall, a bunch of thugs…has he said anything?
Name Electorate Member of Parliament
Leeds North West CC 71,592 Katie White‡
Leeds South BC 71,994 Hilary Benn‡
Leeds South West and Morley BC 71,854 Mark Sewards‡
Leeds West and Pudsey BC 70,069 Rachel Reeves‡
List of parliamentary constituencies in West Yorkshire
Remember, folks, it's the false rumours that are the problem, not the people setting fire to buses and throwing bricks.
Please stop speculating as the police will deal with this riot as soon as their officers have finished painting rainbow flags on their riot shields. https://t.co/Ztp4BcMKns
1765 …. **In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one ’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.** They may use a pen or their voice, and should not be prevented from writing any more than speaking …That is the law in England, a monarchical country, where people are freer than elsewhere because they are more enlightened. – Voltaire, Republican Ideas, 1765
2018 … In addition to reporting hate crime, please report non-crime hate incidents, **which can include things like offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing**. Hate will not be tolerated in South Yorkshire. Report it and put a stop to it #HateHurtsSY – UK South Yorkshire Police, 2018
Our home secretary says “disorder of this nature has no place in our society”
On the contrary Yvette, disorder of this nature does have a place now and the well-thumbed book of useless platitudes should be thrown in the bin. It will be order that has no place in our society soon enough.
From Melanie Phillips’ newsletter, on the Trump shooting:
“… … …
The media was doing what the left always does: misrepresenting reality to deny any facts that will destroy its narrative about the world. In that narrative, “right-wing” populists like Trump are responsible for everything bad in the world. They therefore can never do anything good and can never be a victim. They are a force for evil and so deserve all they get.
Local MP slams Nigel Farage for ‘inflaming’ Leeds riots ‘with misinformation’ as Reform leader says ‘politics of the subcontinent are playing out’ in the Yorkshire disorder
Newly elected Clacton MP accused of inflaming tensions from 3,700 miles away
He claimed he had ‘warned’ of scenes like those in Leeds – as local MP fires back
Police urge people not to speculate on the cause of the scenes in Harehills
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In August and September 2022, Leicester, England, saw a period of religious and ethnic tension between predominately British Hindus and British Muslims of South Asian origin. The unrest saw rioting, protest marches, sloganeering and ethnic violence between the two populations.
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On 15 October 2021, Amess was fatally stabbed at his constituency surgery at Belfairs Methodist Church Hall in Leigh-on-Sea.[93][94][95][96] Amess’s murder was later declared a “terrorist incident” by the Metropolitan Police.[97] The investigation, led by Scotland Yard’s Counter Terrorism Command, explored “a potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism”.[98] The killer, Ali Harbi Ali, a British citizen of Somali descent, was arrested at the scene, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order.[99][100][101][102][103][104] A post-mortem examination determined Amess died from multiple stab wounds to the chest.[96]
Man who raped child in swimming pool because it was ‘a sexual emergency’ has jail sentence increased on appeal
Defence lawyers for former Iraqi taxi driver had appealed the initial six-year sentence, saying their client did not know that the 10-year-old victim did not consent
Adam Withnall
Wednesday 14 December 2016 10:30 GMT
BREAKING NEWS: President Joe Biden has reportedly agreed to step down as the Democratic nominee for President of the United States as early as this weekend, sources tell political analyst Mark Halperin.
Germany is a small step ahead of us in the tyranny stakes. I used to occasionally buy stuff from Compact but of course, those days are now gone as even their website is no longer accessible. Faeser, an incredibly stupid politician who would give Lammy a run for his money, simply denoted Compact as a kind of club (it is of course registered as a limited company) and then claimed because it is a club and not a company she could ban them. However, they produce high-quality magazines that cover all kinds of ‘conspiracy’ type stuff the likes of which you will not find in the UK. I was surprised by how long it took the green fascists to do this, to be honest. If you want to see what comes next in Europe always check out Germany and Austria first. They are the canary in the coal mine.
Crowdstrike are about as “deep state” as you can get
Crowdstrike, the pro-Ukrainian "cybersecurity" corporation, which was purporting to provide cybersecurity to DNC while DNC emails were being hacked in May 2016, is responsible for a global tech outage that has grounded flights and businesses. h/t @hyg9384 There was a defect in…
I hope Bill Gates has his money ringfenced for compensation for the latest Microsoft screw ups.
I would also like to see group action against him for all the computers screwed up during endless “windows updates”, hijacking your compter every couple of weeks for hours on end without permission,, often ending in “criticial errors” rendering computers useless (cost me £500).
Instead of using his profits for funding his favourite enterprises he should first ensure his product is fit for purpose. (Linux systems take around a minute to update occasionally).
Imagine buying a car then the manufacturer turns up without any warning and takes it away for up to 3 hours at a time for “repair” every couple of weeks, at any time of the night or day, for years on end, and sometimes repairs it so much it doesn’t work anymore.
“The foundation announced in October a new education initiative funded by $1.1 billion over four years to try to improve math scores through developing new curricula and digital tools. For Alex Molnar, of the National Education Policy Center, the plan demonstrates the power billionaires like Bill Gates have — experimenting with the education of the poorest children, despite past missteps.
“It is so fundamentally misdirected and so obviously wrong, both in the moral sense and in the rational sense, that it is literally breathtaking,” Molnar said. “This very wealthy, very narrow man can continually, continually torment schoolchildren while all the while pretending that somehow he’s making the world better.”
“The Gates foundation was also a founding partner of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, created in 2000 to improve immunisation access in poor countries. It has donated more than $4bn to Gavi, which is currently the key player in distributing Covid vaccines in developing countries. ”
“Although the foundation has done good work with its spending across the world, some have raised concerns about the ethics of a private endeavour wielding such great influence.
The foundation is the largest private donor to the World Health Organization (WHO), second only to the US with its annual donation in 2018. Concerns about this became more pointed after former President Donald Trump threatened to pull US funding”
That said, let’s not forget that Microsoft itself was “penetrated” by a malicious state actor for, at minimum – 2 full months at the end of last year / beginning of this year.
Expect more of this.
One has to wonder if it’s USA election related on some level.
It seems the commons go on holiday on 30th July . Rachel reeve is expected to give an update on the economy before then .
Next week she goes to Brazil for 2 days for a G20 meeting . I’m sure maitiss will ask the ‘Clacton question ‘( ie the one she put to Nigel Farage who went to the US to see his friend Donald trump after the murder attempt ) ….
And it takes a minimum of 10 weeks for a budget to be announced – so likely to be after the party conferences in September …
“Government holds emergency Cobra meeting after Microsoft outage sparks global chaos with planes and trains grounded, GPs in mayhem, shops closed, football tickets cancelled and TV channels offline.
The ‘most serious IT outage the world has ever seen’ sparked global chaos today – with planes and trains halted, the NHS disrupted, shops closed, football teams unable to sell tickets and banks and TV channels knocked offline.
Officials have held an emergency COBRA meeting after a devastating technical fault caused Microsoft’s Windows computers to suddenly shut down, prompting departure boards to immediately turn off at airports including Heathrow, Gatwick and Edinburgh on the busiest day for British airports since Covid.
NHS England said patients should not attend GP appointments unless informed otherwise due to problems with the system used to schedule appointments, while train passengers have been told to expect delays due to ‘widespread IT issues across the entire network’.
With more than a thousand flights cancelled globally, passengers were seen sleeping in passageways at Los Angeles International Airport, huge queues formed at terminals across Spain, and in Delhi staff set up a makeshift whiteboard to record departures.
Shops in Australia shut down or went cashless after digital checkouts stopped working, while in the US emergency services lines went down in Alaska, Arizona, Indiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Ohio.”
And that’s before our esteemed “Forrin Seckratary” has stepped beyong these shores, more fun awaits we can be sure.
“He also showed in recent years he doesn’t only lack knowledge, he lacks wisdom and judgement,” Douglas Murray told Sky News host Danica De Giorgio.
“Because anyone wise and judicious would not, in any circumstances, be sending out stupid, abusive tweets about the president, the leader of Britain’s most important ally, the closest ally the United States.
“Would not send out abusive tweets making completely ridiculous and absurd and insulting claims about him.”
He will no doubt bring to geography and diplomacy what Abbott has done for arithmetic and the left / right shoe market.
I found Trump’s speech at the Republican Convention very moving. His grateful acknowledgement of the protection of his secret service bodyguards was more than generous, much more than they deserved. His tribute to Cory Comperatore, the man who died, brought tears to my eyes. He had met all the families of those who were injured and raised money for them. He thanked everyone for their overwhelming love and support. He admitted that he felt he was alive only by the grace of God. It was very gracious, very emotional, very human. It was the type of thing the BBC would normally focus on, their news in recent years tending to focus on feelings and raw emotions rather than facts and objective truth.
But No. None of this was mentioned by the BBC in the news at one. They rabbited on instead about “divisive” language.
Their lack of impartiality is not just obvious but brazen and shameless. All of us on here know that already of course, but sometimes it still takes me aback. John Reith must be turning in his grave.
If I had spent my whole life without any police trouble then, deciding to run for president and suddenly facing 91 criminal charges, I might use divisive language also.
The architecture / structure of the US political lawfare is slowly emerging.
The BBC obviously believe they can foist their very particular and partisan interpretation of events onto the populace – but the crumbling of their lies and omission rolls onwards.
I don’t see public cynicism about the motives and methods of most all the MSM receding – as we know one main problem with liars is keeping track of what they said and who they said it to.
Mr Trump is currently facing 91 criminal counts in four separate prosecutions. These are:
The Federal Election Interference Case – in Washington DC, he faces four felony counts for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. This is in federal court, which means he’s being tried under national, rather than state-level, laws. The former president has been accused of mounting a campaign to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the election in the two months from Election Day on 3 November 2020 to 6 Jan 2021, when the Capitol riot took place. He’s asking the Supreme Court to extend the delay in this trial, saying he is immune from prosecution because it involved actions he took while president.
The Georgia Election Interference Case – in Georgia state court, Mr Trump faces 13 felony counts for his alleged election interference in that state. A recording obtained by ABC News showed Mr Trump asking Georgia’s Secretary of State to “find” the votes needed to win. Defence lawyers are currently arguing that a romance between Fani Willis (top prosecutor on the case) and the special prosecutor she hired to handle the case should disqualify them both from it. If Ms Willis is disqualified, it could postpone the trial until well after the 2024 election.
The Classified Documents Case – in Florida federal court, Mr Trump faces 40 felony counts for allegedly hoarding classified documents after he left office and impeding the government’s efforts to retrieve them. Last year, Mr Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Florida resort was searched and 11,000 documents were seized, including around 100 marked as classified and some labelled as top secret.
The “Hush Money” Case – in New York state court, he faces 34 felony counts in connection with alleged hush money payments to an adult film star. A payment of $130,000 (£104,000) was reportedly made before the 2016 presidential election to Stormy Daniels, who said she and Mr Trump had an affair. The former president has denied the affair. His former lawyer, Michael Cohen, has said he made the payment at Mr Trump’s direction. While such a payment is not illegal, spending money in order to help a presidential campaign but not disclosing it violates federal campaign finance law. Mr Trump’s attorney, Todd Blanche, has argued in pretrial motions that the payments to Mr Cohen were lawful money transfers from the former president’s own personal bank accounts.
The former president has pleaded not guilty to all charges in all four prosecutions.
Mr Trump was also fined $354.9m (£281.6m) after a civil fraud trial in New York on 16 February found he’d knowingly committed financial fraud. With interest included, this means he will have to hand over at least $453.5m (£359.9m), as well as being banned from running businesses in New York for three years.
In a statement made outside his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, Mr Trump said: “It is a witch hunt against his [President Joe Biden’s] political opponent, the likes of which our country has never seen before.
“You see it in Third World countries, but you don’t see it here.”
He added: “If I weren’t running [for president] none of this stuff would have ever happened, none of these lawsuits would have ever happened, I would have had a nice life. But I enjoy this life for a different reason.”
The former President said he planned to appeal the fine.
In January of this year, a federal jury said Mr Trump must pay the journalist and author E Jean Carroll a total of $83.3 (£66.1) million in damages for defaming the writer in statements he made as president. He was not in court for the reading but said shortly afterwards that he would appeal it.”
Thanks Tomo
Watching the video you can imagine the run up to the shooting of Kennedy with people telling the secret service there’s a man with a gun – with the response – yeah whatever …we need to do a health and safety assessment and get my supervisor to let me do something …
2 minutes 20 seconds … draw your own conclusions – right mr Obama ?
To get impartiality, the BBC countered an anti Trump talking head with someone who was against Trump . Both being as factual as a fairy tale . The conclusion was anti Trump .
( One talking head called the running mate as Trump with brains , lookout for Steve Punt on The Now Show quoting that as irony ) .
Madam chair honorable members of the
European Parliament Miss Ursula it is
high time someone plainly told you with
the vast majority of Europeans think of
you your election as the president of
the European Commission in the previous
term was a huge mistake and some are
still hung over from that decision you
are the face of the European green deal
which is destroying the European economy
and agriculture turning Europe into an
economic Backwater you are the face of
all the eu’s climate craziness
which is making us Europeans poorer and
poorer finally you are the face of the
migration PA and I am speaking to you as
a woman to a woman as a mother to a
mother how can you not be ashamed to
promote something like the migration
paack which leads to millions of women
and children in Europe feeling unsafe on
the streets of their own cities you are
responsible for every rap every assault
every tragedy caused by the influx of
illegal immigrants because you are the
one inviting these people here to Europe
and for what you are doing for what you
are doing you should end up in
prison not in the European
commission your presence as the head of
the European commission marks the
further downfall of the European
Union you know what we think of your
European green deal this do you know
what we think of the migration pack this
you are not even looking my way shame
time is up
we want a Europe of free and Sovereign
Nations not a sick leftist ideology and
keep your hands off Poland and to all
the soldiers currently defending the
eastern border of the European Union you
should bow
deeply thank you
Bbbc radio newcastle news this morning mentioned the Trump speech from last night.
It said he made false claims (lies) about the wall and something financial (interest rates or growth, I can’t recall what)
Well they are becoming so brazen in their prejudice it is now commented upon far and wide, even the Sun today:
“ALLY ROSS:
Biased BBC quickly tried to shift responsibility for Donald Trump’s shooting from gunman to the man himself.
LATE on Saturday, a gunman tried to assassinate Donald Trump, setting off a stopwatch and a question in my own head.
How long before the BBC subtly tries to shift responsibility from the shooter to Trump himself?
You may have been up earlier, but it was 6.09am when BBC Breakfast’s Gary O’Donoghue said: “Let’s be clear here . . . ” — one of those phrases politicians use when they’re about to muddy the waters irretrievably — “ . . . no one deserves to be shot.”
I sensed a “but” coming, in the same way it always comes when someone says: “I believe in a free Press . . . but every tabloid that disagrees with me should be shut down.”
“No one deserves to be shot. But will this be the moment Trump’s kind of rhetoric is put aside in the interest of keeping the country together or will it be something that’s used to prosecute an election campaign to a successful conclusion?”
Like many skewed reports, there is a cold-hearted element of truth to what he’s saying, of course.
But to recognise the extraordinary double standards at play here you have to try to imagine some psychopath taking a pot-shot at Jeremy Corbyn, a long-time terrorist sympathiser, and the BBC immediately ordering him to dial down the pro- Palestinian rhetoric and stop looking for the sympathy vote.
You can’t, because it wouldn’t happen.
The BBC is governed by double standards, though, that don’t just apply to individual politicians, they apply to whole countries, as O’Donoghue, who’s actually the BBC’s North America correspondent, demonstrated on Sunday morning.
“Here we are in the 21st Century,” said Gary, failing to disguise his sneer, “And America is still dealing with political violence at the same time as claiming it is the most exceptional country on Earth.”
With the obvious exception of Israel, if any other foreign correspondent spoke with such lazy, prejudiced contempt for their hosts, the BBC would probably sack them before they could be horse-whipped by angry locals in the main square.
But Gary O’Donoghue is no outlier here.
The BBC speaks with this same anti-American, anti-Trump voice across the board.
No other view is really tolerated, to such an extent that Laura Kuenssberg was almost answering her own questions about political violence during her show.
“Who do you think is responsible for creating the current political climate in America, and what do you think is Donald Trump’s responsibility?”
As well as this “he was asking for it” tone, there was also an undercurrent to the BBC’s coverage throughout the day.
A look of concern that wasn’t driven by basic human compassion for any of the shooting victims but by the dawning realisation there were electoral consequences to the assassination attempt and the pictures that began emerging.
Sometimes it was stifled, but it came bursting on to the screen when BBC News host Maryam Moshiri told one guest: “Apparently, he emerged streaked with blood, pumped his fist in the air and mouthed the words ‘fight, fight, fight’. The question is, what is he fighting for and is he now escalating the rhetoric.”
He’s just been shot, for pity’s sake. What the hell do you expect him to shout? “Oggy Oggy Oggy?”
None of which, I trust, leaves you assuming I’m a Trump supporter.
I’m most certainly not.
I instinctively dislike and distrust all politicians.
As a licence fee payer, though, I am a nostalgic fan of the old BBC neutrality concept.
A brilliant idea that has turned into a sick joke.
’Cos you can tell, just by their demeanour, the BBC hated Brexit, loved Keir Starmer’s victory and now know the shooting means that, the morning after America’s election, on November 5, the whole network will enter another four-year student sulk.
If the BBC and other like- minded networks, who play into his “fake news” agenda, want to find the guilty parties, though, they needn’t point their fingers at Trump and the voters.
They should just plonk a mirror on their newsdesk and the stupid, smug, hypocritical answer will be staring them in the face.”
I am not sure if it is just a coincidence. But many
of the “features” on the Gaza- Israel war slagging
off Israel on the BBC internet pages come from
the plethora of Irish Republican journalists who
work for the BBC. That’s the Ireland which was the only
country which was still nominally a Dominion of the British
Empire and a member of the Commonwealth . Which did not
declare war on Germany in 1939.
No the Republic of Ireland did not join the Axis powers. And
many brave men volunteered to fight against the Axis powers.
These Irish “contributors” writing these features for the BBC.
I am afraid are not from the same ilk. But what do you expect
from a country, which in 1940 Sean Russel the IRA’S Chief
of staff came to spend the summer in a villa in Berlin’s leafy
Grunewald. The IRA leader was “involved” with the German
High Command in preparing for Operation Sealion.
.
Not uncontrolled mass migration
Untold illegal immigration
Muslims rioting in Leeds
Muslim hate marches every weekend
Muslims blowing themselves up at concerts with kids present
African migrants stabbing each other in broad daylight in Wigan
Bangladeshi men rioting in London
Muslims blowing themselves up on the tube / busses
Muslims forcing the Batley teacher into hiding
And so on and so on ….
Nope, just the mythical Far Right .
What a shithole country this has become , how 6 million still voted Tory and not Reform is baffling , absurd.
(DT Today:” The BBC is defending the indefensible
It’s not just the evidence of anti-Israel bias that is so troubling. It’s the refusal to admit there is a problem
“BBC Arabic is consistently failing when it comes to impartiality. Since the October 7 attacks, the BBC has been forced to make more than 100 corrections to its BBC Arabic reporting.
Yet the failures of the BBC’s journalists in the Middle East are only part of the story. More focus must be directed towards those in senior management positions in the BBC who are choosing to consistently cover the tracks of biased journalists and defend their failures. The handling of revelations of bias by BBC executives is as telling as the individual failures of impartiality.”
As we know. The BBC had no problems. None at all the problems are ‘us’, you know the people that are forced to pay for biased reporting. Complaints, pah! Labour have given the OK for another decade of this broadcasting license.
BBC “There are basically two ways in which a country can deal with a falling birth rate – you can keep your population heathier and employed for longer, or you can have large-scale immigration. There isn’t really a third option.”
A) Your article tells people how to think from point one:
“The first thing you need to know about the so-called demographic timebomb facing countries such as the UK and US is to never call it that.”
B) Your article is lacking in thought and I’d like to know who made this statement:
“There are basically two ways in which a country can deal with a falling birth rate – you can keep your population heathier and employed for longer, or you can have large-scale immigration. There isn’t really a third option.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c72p2vgd21no
— third option – give better incentives to have bigger families to ensure there is an increasing population (see Africa for details on how to do this).
— third option – use technology to assist in improved living.
— third option – stop scaring the population into not having kids – see “Anti-natalists: The people who want you to stop having babies” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-49298720
— third option – have so many kids that they go and replace other countries populations who are failing to have kids.
C) Remember that the migrated people get old as well.
D) You could quote some of our politicians:
From a Theresa May speech … “As Martin Wolf, the chief economics commentator of the financial times, says: ‘The desirability of sizeable immigration is a matter more of values than of economics. It is not a choice between wealth and poverty, but of the sort of country one desires to inhabit.’”
Seems that sleepy joe has announced he is to continue campaigning next week . For those sadists or popcorn eaters it affords an opportunity for vintage ‘gaffs’ ….
….if Obama pulls the support operation – resulting in frozen autocues and a bewildered false president – surely it must only strengthen President Trumps’ position in a Real contest – not a fixed one set by Obama
Speaking of which Mrs Obama is now being talked of as a ‘unifying ‘ candidate – but I cannot see a kamela can stand by cackling as her intended job goes to someone else …..
The lying BBC are still describing the Leeds riots as caused by an altercation with social workers, whereas we now know diversity was the root cause – in this case Romani and Muslims.
Uprising in Leeds already banished to the regions on the BBC website….
Unbelievably partisan decision by the BBC. It is now quite obvious that their intention is to bury the story as quickly as possible.
If it had involved non-Muslim rioters it would be banner headlines for days with shitloads of detail and names etc. and no doubt Farage and possibly Robinson would have been included somehow. And of course no mention of the “Akbar” shouting incident green politician just elected there.
0 to 124mph in seven seconds, 0 to 187mph in 15.6 seconds
I had a 1.6 litre Cortina once, 0 to 50mph in 15 minutes if the road had no gradient or corners, it also seemed to be fitted with central knocking and occasional automatic reclining driver’s seat at random moments.
My mate once drove me to Scotland and back in one of those he bought for around £50, I think I still have PTSD from that trip.
He was extremely short sighted and lost his glasses somewhere around Carlisle and suffering from severe hayfever.
I was his spotter on the Motorways telling him which lane he was in and pointing out various hazards like other vehicles, and where the corners and bends were on the A83.
We stopped in Lockerbie for a bag of chips but decided on a lunchtime pub crawl instead.
The afternoon trip then just flew by really, we ended up somehow in a field at one point and my Malaysian driver thought he was hallucinating on his hayfever medication as he had never seen a ginger hairy cow before.
It took a couple of whiskies to calm him down, only later I realised that in many bars in Scotland the minimum measure is a quarter gill not an eighth of a gill like in England.
Don’t remember much of the night drive down the Mull of Kintyre, all a blur really, there was some kind of incident in a bar in Inverary at some point I think, cultural differences probably.
I do remember he wouldn’t stop muttering about hairy cows, probably upset the barmaid.
Police once thought they had stopped a ghost driving a car until they saw me lying flat.
We had a laugh about it when they sobered me up a bit and sent me on my way with a flea in my ear, with the vinyl roof merrily flapping in the wind behind me and the wing mirrors spinning around on the bonnet.
Three ‘Hello’s’ and a ‘Mind how you go, Sir’ seems like a fair response!
I had a chum who once got his mate to steer one-handed from the passenger seat, and keep looking all casual and nonchalent, while he hid under the dashboard…
Just to remember why we’re on this site, I’ve found absolutely nothing on the cubiclist’s site about a potential Tory Leader possibly defectiing, (i.e. leaving the sinking ship), and joining Reform…
Wonder why?
I’d like to know a hard left-wing view on the matter!
Zelensky is on a mission to drag the UK into a total war with Russia, demanding UK long range missiles to be fired at Russia. His attempts seem to have intensified since Starmer took over so obviously sees him as an easy Idiot to concentrate on.
The scarey thing is that Starmer could well fall for this clowns demented demands with horrific consequences for the UK.
Anyone with any common sense can see that this is sheer self-interested desperation by Zelensky.
Danny cohen – a bbc loyalist – not so much now – pity he was nt r aware of other areas of bias …right Danny Dan?
STARTS This week it was revealed that BBC Arabic had asked its viewers the following question about the cold-blooded murder of a 79 year-old Jewish woman by Hamas terrorists: “How do you view this kind of operation, terrorism or resistance?”
Edna Bluestein was among a group of Israeli civilians who were attacked in a car-ramming and stabbing incident in the town of Ra’anana. She was dragged from her car and stabbed to death before terrorists commandeered her vehicle and tried to kill more Jews. Why anyone at the BBC would think it acceptable to pose this question to viewers about a terrorist murder might once have been hard to understand, but these days the reason appears to be very clear.
There is a mountain of evidence to show that BBC Arabic has a severe problem with anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias. From the presenter who suggested a guest should apologise for showing sympathy towards Israel to the use of sources with links to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and from reporters who appeared to celebrate the October 7 massacre to journalists who misrepresented evidence of the terrorist crimes that terrible day, BBC Arabic is consistently failing when it comes to impartiality. Since the October 7 attacks, the BBC has been forced to make more than 100 corrections to its BBC Arabic reporting.
Yet the failures of the BBC’s journalists in the Middle East are only part of the story. More focus must be directed towards those in senior management positions in the BBC who are choosing to consistently cover the tracks of biased journalists and defend their failures. The handling of revelations of bias by BBC executives is as telling as the individual failures of impartiality.
In the case of the BBC Arabic video, which asked whether the terrorist murder of Mrs Bluestein was “terrorism or resistance”, this is how BBC management responded: “BBC News Arabic reflects debates taking place across the Middle East including on polarising and sensitive subject matters around the Israel-Gaza war. As part of this reporting, we invite a wide variety of contributors to provide differing perspectives and routinely question views on air.”
There was no apology, no recognition of the offence caused, and no appreciation of how painful this would be for many in the Jewish community. Why were the BBC’s managers not able simply to acknowledge that its behaviour was unacceptable and be clear with licence-fee payers that they would take the necessary steps to ensure it was not repeated? Defending the BBC’s reputation appears to be much more important than a transparent relationship with licence-fee payers.
More widely, the BBC continues to insist that BBC Arabic is a reliable source of impartial journalism. The BBC has claimed that BBC Arabic “shares exactly the same principles of accuracy and impartiality as BBC News in English and we strongly reject the suggestion that its impartiality is compromised”.
This is nothing short of gaslighting of the Jewish community. It is surely not possible by now to argue with any honesty that BBC Arabic is an impartial news service. Yet it seems that the BBC’s leadership is comfortable to maintain this pretence rather than publicly and transparently acknowledge it has a problem.
Under the tenure of director-general Tim Davie and CEO of news Deborah Turness, the BBC has placed a great emphasis on the importance of transparency and trust. Yet in their continued defence of BBC Arabic, the BBC’s senior leaders are failing in both their commitment to transparency and their duty to maintain an honest relationship with the people who pay for it.
The BBC has become an organisation which gaslights many in the Jewish community, and there are no signs that this will end anytime soon.ENDS
I bet he sung the approved song when on the bbc payroll …
The future is “uncertain”, says Dr Robbins of Arab Barometer. Citizens in the region may be looking to alternative political systems, such as the Chinese model – an authoritarian one-party system – that he says has “brought a huge number of people out of poverty in the last 40 years”.
Diane Abbott is officially ‘Mother of the House’ – and no, that’s not slang. The ‘Mother of the House’ is the title given to the longest continuously serving female MP in the UK parliament.10 Jul 2024
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Video: Diane Abbott gets up and walks away when Jewish teenager grills her on the Tube over her Question Time remark that Orthodox Jews are targeted because of their ‘costumes’
I understand it’s heated up in Blighty so the ferals hit the streets and copy cat last night or just smash and grab the JD sports and Apple shop …. They are deprived you know …
Well, they will get what they want.
It will be a ‘no go zone’ from now on.
The police will not go in because they know whatever they do the locals will riot so best just keep away.
Social services will not go in to get any vulnerable children because they’ve seen what happens.
Another part of England lost to the doctors and rocket scientists busily enriching us.
Early days of the horrors to be inflicted on us by the red blue political class – I have an image of starmer abs pixey with that hopeless look on their faces as they tour yet another riot scene the following morning …. All caused by ‘deprivation ‘ of course …
A long time ago I read a report by a respected – seriously – home office criminologist who saw the future function of plod as being acting like the UN between tribal third world groups fighting for turf ….
I reckon that was 20 years ago – bet she couldn’t dream of the coming reality…
Here’s the unfiltered truth about the riots that erupted in London and Leeds yesterday.
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UK police forces spend £66,000 on LGBT rainbow cars, shoelaces and flags
Police chiefs accused of ‘wasting money on woke nonsense’ by the Taxpayers’ Alliance
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BBC Facebook now running story on Leeds Riots , headlined
Large crowds gathered on the streets, with footage showing windows being smashed and items thrown at officers.
Erm , a little bit more than that BBC , typically trying to downplay due to it being Muslims , imagine the headline if it was White British lads , bet you’re bottom dollar the words Far and Right would be mentioned .
No surpise , comments turned off !!!!
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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell, 1984
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8205321-the-party-told-you-to-reject-the-evidence-of-your
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Comments turned off is always a good sign of ‘free speech ‘…
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Jerk Mike “2 jobs” Wendling providing the US Deep State approved narrative on DJT. I wonder how many changes he makes before clicking on “publish”?
I wonder if the BBC had actual Goebbels minions on the staff prior to WW2 – they certainly had John Reith at the top table…
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Look at the names. Posh cnuts.
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In June the blue regime borrowed £14.2 billion actual against predicted £11.6 billion … and now the reds are in to borrow even more …
Maybe they should do a balance transfer like I dun today ….
If interest rates are coming down….. then taxes are going up bigly …. I dread it ….
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According to ONS above, FYI Public Sector debt is ca. £45666.66 for every man, woman + child in the UK.
I don’t recall being invited to take on that loan…. and certainly no invitation to opine on what the peculated funds should be spent on.
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Starmer – men can have a cervix, until Tony Blair says PENIS only!
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Just a little observation, following on from yesterday evening’s celebratory outbreak of diversity in Harehills in Leeds.
Remember, this is the constituency where a month or so ago the newly elected Green councillor, Mothin Ali, shouted “Allahu Akbar” and “we’re coming for you,” to mighty cheers from his bearded compatriots. I don’t think he mentioned solar panels, composting or wind farms, but perhaps I missed that…
Apparently, yesterday’s kerfuffle (ahem) started when police were called to an area infested by (sorry, I mean enriched by) Roma peoples. As we all know these gentle folk are always hard-working, diligent and honest members of the community…
Things got a little heated, as is their wont, police were attacked, buses incinerated and police cars torched.
I’m now eagerly awaiting the BBC investigation which will prove that this “disturbance” was caused by police harassment and institutional racism.
Oh…and where’s that chinless Tory gobshite, who called those English lads celebrating St George’s Day in Whitehall, a bunch of thugs…has he said anything?
Nah…
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Name Electorate Member of Parliament
Leeds North West CC 71,592 Katie White‡
Leeds South BC 71,994 Hilary Benn‡
Leeds South West and Morley BC 71,854 Mark Sewards‡
Leeds West and Pudsey BC 70,069 Rachel Reeves‡
List of parliamentary constituencies in West Yorkshire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parliamentary_constituencies_in_West_Yorkshire
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1765 …. **In a republic worthy of name, freedom to publish one ’s thoughts is a citizen’s natural right.** They may use a pen or their voice, and should not be prevented from writing any more than speaking …That is the law in England, a monarchical country, where people are freer than elsewhere because they are more enlightened. – Voltaire, Republican Ideas, 1765
2018 … In addition to reporting hate crime, please report non-crime hate incidents, **which can include things like offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing**. Hate will not be tolerated in South Yorkshire. Report it and put a stop to it #HateHurtsSY – UK South Yorkshire Police, 2018
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Why don’t they fill in the gaps then?
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Our home secretary says “disorder of this nature has no place in our society”
On the contrary Yvette, disorder of this nature does have a place now and the well-thumbed book of useless platitudes should be thrown in the bin. It will be order that has no place in our society soon enough.
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“disorder of this nature has no place in our society”
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Moment Green Party councillor shouts ‘Allahu Akbar’ after being elected in Leeds – as he declares his victory ‘a win for the people of Gaza’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13384283/Moment-Green-Party-councillor-shouts-Allahu-Akbar-elected-Leeds-declares-victory-win-people-Gaza.html
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“disorder of this nature has no place in our society”
Unless it’s by the woke left such as Pro Palestine Islamo-fascists, BLM, Antifa, Just Stop Oil, Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain, etc.
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From Melanie Phillips’ newsletter, on the Trump shooting:
“… … …
The media was doing what the left always does: misrepresenting reality to deny any facts that will destroy its narrative about the world. In that narrative, “right-wing” populists like Trump are responsible for everything bad in the world. They therefore can never do anything good and can never be a victim. They are a force for evil and so deserve all they get.
… … …”
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The Leeds Rioting is Farage’s fault
– sobviousinnit
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Local MP slams Nigel Farage for ‘inflaming’ Leeds riots ‘with misinformation’ as Reform leader says ‘politics of the subcontinent are playing out’ in the Yorkshire disorder
Newly elected Clacton MP accused of inflaming tensions from 3,700 miles away
He claimed he had ‘warned’ of scenes like those in Leeds – as local MP fires back
Police urge people not to speculate on the cause of the scenes in Harehills
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In August and September 2022, Leicester, England, saw a period of religious and ethnic tension between predominately British Hindus and British Muslims of South Asian origin. The unrest saw rioting, protest marches, sloganeering and ethnic violence between the two populations.
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On 15 October 2021, Amess was fatally stabbed at his constituency surgery at Belfairs Methodist Church Hall in Leigh-on-Sea.[93][94][95][96] Amess’s murder was later declared a “terrorist incident” by the Metropolitan Police.[97] The investigation, led by Scotland Yard’s Counter Terrorism Command, explored “a potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism”.[98] The killer, Ali Harbi Ali, a British citizen of Somali descent, was arrested at the scene, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order.[99][100][101][102][103][104] A post-mortem examination determined Amess died from multiple stab wounds to the chest.[96]
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Mr Ali seems to think his ‘community’ have been ignored by authorities and are not being treated as human beings.
Only when Net Zero Jihad is fully realised through proper funding will we have peace on our streets.
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Fire of peace!
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ID to enter LTNs?
– eventually?
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Man who raped child in swimming pool because it was ‘a sexual emergency’ has jail sentence increased on appeal
Defence lawyers for former Iraqi taxi driver had appealed the initial six-year sentence, saying their client did not know that the 10-year-old victim did not consent
Adam Withnall
Wednesday 14 December 2016 10:30 GMT
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/austria-swimming-pool-rape-theresienbad-vienna-iraqi-refugee-a7473441.html
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Disorder of this nature has no place in our paddling pools, so the only answer is to monitor everyone and bring in the cyber surveillance state.
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BOOM
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George Clooney to reinvest again! YEAH!
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Germany is a small step ahead of us in the tyranny stakes. I used to occasionally buy stuff from Compact but of course, those days are now gone as even their website is no longer accessible. Faeser, an incredibly stupid politician who would give Lammy a run for his money, simply denoted Compact as a kind of club (it is of course registered as a limited company) and then claimed because it is a club and not a company she could ban them. However, they produce high-quality magazines that cover all kinds of ‘conspiracy’ type stuff the likes of which you will not find in the UK. I was surprised by how long it took the green fascists to do this, to be honest. If you want to see what comes next in Europe always check out Germany and Austria first. They are the canary in the coal mine.
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“Home secretary to use ‘full force of law’ after Leeds trouble.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cgrl8kew20zt
If you import the third world you will get The Third World and pay for it.
How much more trouble are we allowing across the English Channel in boats ?
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Jails are full?
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The legally aided appeal against verdict / sentencing will keep these terrorists in the media spotlight which achieves their aim
Maybe theyd do us a favour and go on hunger strike …
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Under Labour all wars will end …
https://liveuamap.com/
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BBC already encouraging the compensation culture angle with regard to the IT outage today. God I despise them.
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#metoo
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Crowdstrike are about as “deep state” as you can get
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I hope Bill Gates has his money ringfenced for compensation for the latest Microsoft screw ups.
I would also like to see group action against him for all the computers screwed up during endless “windows updates”, hijacking your compter every couple of weeks for hours on end without permission,, often ending in “criticial errors” rendering computers useless (cost me £500).
Instead of using his profits for funding his favourite enterprises he should first ensure his product is fit for purpose. (Linux systems take around a minute to update occasionally).
Imagine buying a car then the manufacturer turns up without any warning and takes it away for up to 3 hours at a time for “repair” every couple of weeks, at any time of the night or day, for years on end, and sometimes repairs it so much it doesn’t work anymore.
“The foundation announced in October a new education initiative funded by $1.1 billion over four years to try to improve math scores through developing new curricula and digital tools. For Alex Molnar, of the National Education Policy Center, the plan demonstrates the power billionaires like Bill Gates have — experimenting with the education of the poorest children, despite past missteps.
“It is so fundamentally misdirected and so obviously wrong, both in the moral sense and in the rational sense, that it is literally breathtaking,” Molnar said. “This very wealthy, very narrow man can continually, continually torment schoolchildren while all the while pretending that somehow he’s making the world better.”
“The Gates foundation was also a founding partner of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, created in 2000 to improve immunisation access in poor countries. It has donated more than $4bn to Gavi, which is currently the key player in distributing Covid vaccines in developing countries. ”
“Although the foundation has done good work with its spending across the world, some have raised concerns about the ethics of a private endeavour wielding such great influence.
The foundation is the largest private donor to the World Health Organization (WHO), second only to the US with its annual donation in 2018. Concerns about this became more pointed after former President Donald Trump threatened to pull US funding”
(anti Trump quote above from bbc of course)
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The IT Crowd….
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/19/crowdstrike_shares_sink_as_global/?td=rt-3b
That said, let’s not forget that Microsoft itself was “penetrated” by a malicious state actor for, at minimum – 2 full months at the end of last year / beginning of this year.
Expect more of this.
One has to wonder if it’s USA election related on some level.
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Red budget
It seems the commons go on holiday on 30th July . Rachel reeve is expected to give an update on the economy before then .
Next week she goes to Brazil for 2 days for a G20 meeting . I’m sure maitiss will ask the ‘Clacton question ‘( ie the one she put to Nigel Farage who went to the US to see his friend Donald trump after the murder attempt ) ….
And it takes a minimum of 10 weeks for a budget to be announced – so likely to be after the party conferences in September …
For info …
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“Government holds emergency Cobra meeting after Microsoft outage sparks global chaos with planes and trains grounded, GPs in mayhem, shops closed, football tickets cancelled and TV channels offline.
The ‘most serious IT outage the world has ever seen’ sparked global chaos today – with planes and trains halted, the NHS disrupted, shops closed, football teams unable to sell tickets and banks and TV channels knocked offline.
Officials have held an emergency COBRA meeting after a devastating technical fault caused Microsoft’s Windows computers to suddenly shut down, prompting departure boards to immediately turn off at airports including Heathrow, Gatwick and Edinburgh on the busiest day for British airports since Covid.
NHS England said patients should not attend GP appointments unless informed otherwise due to problems with the system used to schedule appointments, while train passengers have been told to expect delays due to ‘widespread IT issues across the entire network’.
With more than a thousand flights cancelled globally, passengers were seen sleeping in passageways at Los Angeles International Airport, huge queues formed at terminals across Spain, and in Delhi staff set up a makeshift whiteboard to record departures.
Shops in Australia shut down or went cashless after digital checkouts stopped working, while in the US emergency services lines went down in Alaska, Arizona, Indiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Ohio.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13651137/The-outage-world-seen-Microsoft-breakdown-sparks-chaos-planes-trains-grounded-GPs-NHS-mayhem-shops-closed-Premier-League-tickets-cancelled-banks-TV-channels-knocked-offline-massive-global-crisis.html
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– oh, I’m sure that’ll sort it out /sarc
Was Miliband there with his ukelele?
farce
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Cobra:
“Switch it off and switch it on again”
“Still not working ? it’s the far right to blame”
“Bloody Tory Government, oh….hang on…”
“Porn Hub’s down…”
“Have a look at my growler instead”
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Riots , IT Failures , lost the footy , dead channel migrants – red labour starting well …..
And starmer might being zelenski the go ahead to attack Russia and start the full on nuclear was … not a bad 2 weeks …
Oh yeah – forgot – Uk to starting Hamas / UN funding again after it was found to be a terrorist organisation …well done Lammy
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And that’s before our esteemed “Forrin Seckratary” has stepped beyong these shores, more fun awaits we can be sure.
“He also showed in recent years he doesn’t only lack knowledge, he lacks wisdom and judgement,” Douglas Murray told Sky News host Danica De Giorgio.
“Because anyone wise and judicious would not, in any circumstances, be sending out stupid, abusive tweets about the president, the leader of Britain’s most important ally, the closest ally the United States.
“Would not send out abusive tweets making completely ridiculous and absurd and insulting claims about him.”
He will no doubt bring to geography and diplomacy what Abbott has done for arithmetic and the left / right shoe market.
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Anyone seen Rowlatt and Milipede in the same room?
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/07/19/justin-rowlatt-complaint/
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Digital currency anybody?
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Police running away from Mohammedans in Leeds
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1814213726133727480
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Pick them off one by one when they’re not mob handed and watch them whinge and whine.
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Import third world vermin … surprise …
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New Bacon suits to protect police …
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I found Trump’s speech at the Republican Convention very moving. His grateful acknowledgement of the protection of his secret service bodyguards was more than generous, much more than they deserved. His tribute to Cory Comperatore, the man who died, brought tears to my eyes. He had met all the families of those who were injured and raised money for them. He thanked everyone for their overwhelming love and support. He admitted that he felt he was alive only by the grace of God. It was very gracious, very emotional, very human. It was the type of thing the BBC would normally focus on, their news in recent years tending to focus on feelings and raw emotions rather than facts and objective truth.
But No. None of this was mentioned by the BBC in the news at one. They rabbited on instead about “divisive” language.
Their lack of impartiality is not just obvious but brazen and shameless. All of us on here know that already of course, but sometimes it still takes me aback. John Reith must be turning in his grave.
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“divisive” language ?
– the BBC are actual experts in that department – cnuts
Reith?
It was later revealled that Reith was a great admirer of Adolf Hitler. On 9th March 1933 Reith wrote “I am certain that the Nazis will clean things up and put Germany on the way to being a real power in Europe again…. They are being ruthless and most determined”. Later, when Prague was occupied, Reith wrote: “Hitler continues his magnificent efficiency.”
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If I had spent my whole life without any police trouble then, deciding to run for president and suddenly facing 91 criminal charges, I might use divisive language also.
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The architecture / structure of the US political lawfare is slowly emerging.
The BBC obviously believe they can foist their very particular and partisan interpretation of events onto the populace – but the crumbling of their lies and omission rolls onwards.
I don’t see public cynicism about the motives and methods of most all the MSM receding – as we know one main problem with liars is keeping track of what they said and who they said it to.
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“What are Donald Trump’s ongoing court cases?
Mr Trump is currently facing 91 criminal counts in four separate prosecutions. These are:
The Federal Election Interference Case – in Washington DC, he faces four felony counts for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. This is in federal court, which means he’s being tried under national, rather than state-level, laws. The former president has been accused of mounting a campaign to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the election in the two months from Election Day on 3 November 2020 to 6 Jan 2021, when the Capitol riot took place. He’s asking the Supreme Court to extend the delay in this trial, saying he is immune from prosecution because it involved actions he took while president.
The Georgia Election Interference Case – in Georgia state court, Mr Trump faces 13 felony counts for his alleged election interference in that state. A recording obtained by ABC News showed Mr Trump asking Georgia’s Secretary of State to “find” the votes needed to win. Defence lawyers are currently arguing that a romance between Fani Willis (top prosecutor on the case) and the special prosecutor she hired to handle the case should disqualify them both from it. If Ms Willis is disqualified, it could postpone the trial until well after the 2024 election.
The Classified Documents Case – in Florida federal court, Mr Trump faces 40 felony counts for allegedly hoarding classified documents after he left office and impeding the government’s efforts to retrieve them. Last year, Mr Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Florida resort was searched and 11,000 documents were seized, including around 100 marked as classified and some labelled as top secret.
The “Hush Money” Case – in New York state court, he faces 34 felony counts in connection with alleged hush money payments to an adult film star. A payment of $130,000 (£104,000) was reportedly made before the 2016 presidential election to Stormy Daniels, who said she and Mr Trump had an affair. The former president has denied the affair. His former lawyer, Michael Cohen, has said he made the payment at Mr Trump’s direction. While such a payment is not illegal, spending money in order to help a presidential campaign but not disclosing it violates federal campaign finance law. Mr Trump’s attorney, Todd Blanche, has argued in pretrial motions that the payments to Mr Cohen were lawful money transfers from the former president’s own personal bank accounts.
The former president has pleaded not guilty to all charges in all four prosecutions.
Mr Trump was also fined $354.9m (£281.6m) after a civil fraud trial in New York on 16 February found he’d knowingly committed financial fraud. With interest included, this means he will have to hand over at least $453.5m (£359.9m), as well as being banned from running businesses in New York for three years.
In a statement made outside his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, Mr Trump said: “It is a witch hunt against his [President Joe Biden’s] political opponent, the likes of which our country has never seen before.
“You see it in Third World countries, but you don’t see it here.”
He added: “If I weren’t running [for president] none of this stuff would have ever happened, none of these lawsuits would have ever happened, I would have had a nice life. But I enjoy this life for a different reason.”
The former President said he planned to appeal the fine.
In January of this year, a federal jury said Mr Trump must pay the journalist and author E Jean Carroll a total of $83.3 (£66.1) million in damages for defaming the writer in statements he made as president. He was not in court for the reading but said shortly afterwards that he would appeal it.”
https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-how-many-criminal-charges-is-donald-trump-facing-and-could-he-go-to-jail
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Over time, they slowly disappear.
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Been lurking on this site for quite some time but was compelled to contribute the Leeds latest news headline this morning on BBC website .
“Harthills clean up begins after trouble”
Trouble!!!!…really??? echos of Frank Spencer
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Welcome donut – please spread the word …
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Welcome also…
BBC sugar coating news reports ?
They are running rings around us. 🙂
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They are if you waste time listening to their garbage, Zep!
Luckily I never do, but I see their website to realise how lucky I am by not watching or listening to them!
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Cold Play Concert
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Trump was an inch away from voting Joe Biden.
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Thanks Tomo
Watching the video you can imagine the run up to the shooting of Kennedy with people telling the secret service there’s a man with a gun – with the response – yeah whatever …we need to do a health and safety assessment and get my supervisor to let me do something …
2 minutes 20 seconds … draw your own conclusions – right mr Obama ?
And they let him actually KILL someone …
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The public need to be armed.
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The Today programme this morning .
There was a discussion about Donald Trump .
To get impartiality, the BBC countered an anti Trump talking head with someone who was against Trump . Both being as factual as a fairy tale . The conclusion was anti Trump .
( One talking head called the running mate as Trump with brains , lookout for Steve Punt on The Now Show quoting that as irony ) .
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I dont know if its been posted on here before but this is truly brilliant
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Wow a flamethrower -but the kraut is just smug … one day it will change ..
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Madam chair honorable members of the
European Parliament Miss Ursula it is
high time someone plainly told you with
the vast majority of Europeans think of
you your election as the president of
the European Commission in the previous
term was a huge mistake and some are
still hung over from that decision you
are the face of the European green deal
which is destroying the European economy
and agriculture turning Europe into an
economic Backwater you are the face of
all the eu’s climate craziness
which is making us Europeans poorer and
poorer finally you are the face of the
migration PA and I am speaking to you as
a woman to a woman as a mother to a
mother how can you not be ashamed to
promote something like the migration
paack which leads to millions of women
and children in Europe feeling unsafe on
the streets of their own cities you are
responsible for every rap every assault
every tragedy caused by the influx of
illegal immigrants because you are the
one inviting these people here to Europe
and for what you are doing for what you
are doing you should end up in
prison not in the European
commission your presence as the head of
the European commission marks the
further downfall of the European
Union you know what we think of your
European green deal this do you know
what we think of the migration pack this
you are not even looking my way shame
time is up
we want a Europe of free and Sovereign
Nations not a sick leftist ideology and
keep your hands off Poland and to all
the soldiers currently defending the
eastern border of the European Union you
should bow
deeply thank you
https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=duuEq0ibCzs&t=1
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Bbbc radio newcastle news this morning mentioned the Trump speech from last night.
It said he made false claims (lies) about the wall and something financial (interest rates or growth, I can’t recall what)
That’s their take on his speech.
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Well they are becoming so brazen in their prejudice it is now commented upon far and wide, even the Sun today:
“ALLY ROSS:
Biased BBC quickly tried to shift responsibility for Donald Trump’s shooting from gunman to the man himself.
LATE on Saturday, a gunman tried to assassinate Donald Trump, setting off a stopwatch and a question in my own head.
How long before the BBC subtly tries to shift responsibility from the shooter to Trump himself?
You may have been up earlier, but it was 6.09am when BBC Breakfast’s Gary O’Donoghue said: “Let’s be clear here . . . ” — one of those phrases politicians use when they’re about to muddy the waters irretrievably — “ . . . no one deserves to be shot.”
I sensed a “but” coming, in the same way it always comes when someone says: “I believe in a free Press . . . but every tabloid that disagrees with me should be shut down.”
“No one deserves to be shot. But will this be the moment Trump’s kind of rhetoric is put aside in the interest of keeping the country together or will it be something that’s used to prosecute an election campaign to a successful conclusion?”
Like many skewed reports, there is a cold-hearted element of truth to what he’s saying, of course.
But to recognise the extraordinary double standards at play here you have to try to imagine some psychopath taking a pot-shot at Jeremy Corbyn, a long-time terrorist sympathiser, and the BBC immediately ordering him to dial down the pro- Palestinian rhetoric and stop looking for the sympathy vote.
You can’t, because it wouldn’t happen.
The BBC is governed by double standards, though, that don’t just apply to individual politicians, they apply to whole countries, as O’Donoghue, who’s actually the BBC’s North America correspondent, demonstrated on Sunday morning.
“Here we are in the 21st Century,” said Gary, failing to disguise his sneer, “And America is still dealing with political violence at the same time as claiming it is the most exceptional country on Earth.”
With the obvious exception of Israel, if any other foreign correspondent spoke with such lazy, prejudiced contempt for their hosts, the BBC would probably sack them before they could be horse-whipped by angry locals in the main square.
But Gary O’Donoghue is no outlier here.
The BBC speaks with this same anti-American, anti-Trump voice across the board.
No other view is really tolerated, to such an extent that Laura Kuenssberg was almost answering her own questions about political violence during her show.
“Who do you think is responsible for creating the current political climate in America, and what do you think is Donald Trump’s responsibility?”
As well as this “he was asking for it” tone, there was also an undercurrent to the BBC’s coverage throughout the day.
A look of concern that wasn’t driven by basic human compassion for any of the shooting victims but by the dawning realisation there were electoral consequences to the assassination attempt and the pictures that began emerging.
Sometimes it was stifled, but it came bursting on to the screen when BBC News host Maryam Moshiri told one guest: “Apparently, he emerged streaked with blood, pumped his fist in the air and mouthed the words ‘fight, fight, fight’. The question is, what is he fighting for and is he now escalating the rhetoric.”
He’s just been shot, for pity’s sake. What the hell do you expect him to shout? “Oggy Oggy Oggy?”
None of which, I trust, leaves you assuming I’m a Trump supporter.
I’m most certainly not.
I instinctively dislike and distrust all politicians.
As a licence fee payer, though, I am a nostalgic fan of the old BBC neutrality concept.
A brilliant idea that has turned into a sick joke.
’Cos you can tell, just by their demeanour, the BBC hated Brexit, loved Keir Starmer’s victory and now know the shooting means that, the morning after America’s election, on November 5, the whole network will enter another four-year student sulk.
If the BBC and other like- minded networks, who play into his “fake news” agenda, want to find the guilty parties, though, they needn’t point their fingers at Trump and the voters.
They should just plonk a mirror on their newsdesk and the stupid, smug, hypocritical answer will be staring them in the face.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tv/29305528/bbc-donald-trump-assassination-ally-ross/
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I am not sure if it is just a coincidence. But many
of the “features” on the Gaza- Israel war slagging
off Israel on the BBC internet pages come from
the plethora of Irish Republican journalists who
work for the BBC. That’s the Ireland which was the only
country which was still nominally a Dominion of the British
Empire and a member of the Commonwealth . Which did not
declare war on Germany in 1939.
No the Republic of Ireland did not join the Axis powers. And
many brave men volunteered to fight against the Axis powers.
These Irish “contributors” writing these features for the BBC.
I am afraid are not from the same ilk. But what do you expect
from a country, which in 1940 Sean Russel the IRA’S Chief
of staff came to spend the summer in a villa in Berlin’s leafy
Grunewald. The IRA leader was “involved” with the German
High Command in preparing for Operation Sealion.
.
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Just a friendly reminder, like Sunak told us ….
ITS THE FAR RIGHT WE HAVE TO BE FEARFUL OF
Not uncontrolled mass migration
Untold illegal immigration
Muslims rioting in Leeds
Muslim hate marches every weekend
Muslims blowing themselves up at concerts with kids present
African migrants stabbing each other in broad daylight in Wigan
Bangladeshi men rioting in London
Muslims blowing themselves up on the tube / busses
Muslims forcing the Batley teacher into hiding
And so on and so on ….
Nope, just the mythical Far Right .
What a shithole country this has become , how 6 million still voted Tory and not Reform is baffling , absurd.
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Mayhar Tousi lays out the Leeds situation
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(DT Today:” The BBC is defending the indefensible
It’s not just the evidence of anti-Israel bias that is so troubling. It’s the refusal to admit there is a problem
“BBC Arabic is consistently failing when it comes to impartiality. Since the October 7 attacks, the BBC has been forced to make more than 100 corrections to its BBC Arabic reporting.
Yet the failures of the BBC’s journalists in the Middle East are only part of the story. More focus must be directed towards those in senior management positions in the BBC who are choosing to consistently cover the tracks of biased journalists and defend their failures. The handling of revelations of bias by BBC executives is as telling as the individual failures of impartiality.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/19/the-bbc-is-defending-the-indefensible/
As we know. The BBC had no problems. None at all the problems are ‘us’, you know the people that are forced to pay for biased reporting. Complaints, pah! Labour have given the OK for another decade of this broadcasting license.
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BBC “There are basically two ways in which a country can deal with a falling birth rate – you can keep your population heathier and employed for longer, or you can have large-scale immigration. There isn’t really a third option.”
A) Your article tells people how to think from point one:
“The first thing you need to know about the so-called demographic timebomb facing countries such as the UK and US is to never call it that.”
B) Your article is lacking in thought and I’d like to know who made this statement:
“There are basically two ways in which a country can deal with a falling birth rate – you can keep your population heathier and employed for longer, or you can have large-scale immigration. There isn’t really a third option.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c72p2vgd21no
— third option – give better incentives to have bigger families to ensure there is an increasing population (see Africa for details on how to do this).
— third option – use technology to assist in improved living.
— third option – stop scaring the population into not having kids – see “Anti-natalists: The people who want you to stop having babies” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-49298720
— third option – have so many kids that they go and replace other countries populations who are failing to have kids.
C) Remember that the migrated people get old as well.
D) You could quote some of our politicians:
From a Theresa May speech … “As Martin Wolf, the chief economics commentator of the financial times, says: ‘The desirability of sizeable immigration is a matter more of values than of economics. It is not a choice between wealth and poverty, but of the sort of country one desires to inhabit.’”
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/home-secretary-speech-on-an-immigration-system-that-works-in-the-national-interest
Thanks,
Mark H.
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Another diversity incident
Manslaughter. 36 injuries.
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Seems that sleepy joe has announced he is to continue campaigning next week . For those sadists or popcorn eaters it affords an opportunity for vintage ‘gaffs’ ….
….if Obama pulls the support operation – resulting in frozen autocues and a bewildered false president – surely it must only strengthen President Trumps’ position in a Real contest – not a fixed one set by Obama
Speaking of which Mrs Obama is now being talked of as a ‘unifying ‘ candidate – but I cannot see a kamela can stand by cackling as her intended job goes to someone else …..
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US diversity thriving also…
“Moment Philadelphia baby is shot by cursing gunwoman – before seven month-old infant’s parents make shockingly cruel decision.
The mother let out a bloodcurdling scream, wailing ‘my baby’, to which the shooter callously responded ‘F**k your baby, b***h’ and walked away.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13651639/philadelphia-baby-shot-leg-gunfire-parents.html
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The lying BBC are still describing the Leeds riots as caused by an altercation with social workers, whereas we now know diversity was the root cause – in this case Romani and Muslims.
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Best comment:
“We don’t have a race problem, we have a problem race.”
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Race to the bottom!
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Uprising in Leeds already banished to the regions on the BBC website….
Unbelievably partisan decision by the BBC. It is now quite obvious that their intention is to bury the story as quickly as possible.
If it had involved non-Muslim rioters it would be banner headlines for days with shitloads of detail and names etc. and no doubt Farage and possibly Robinson would have been included somehow. And of course no mention of the “Akbar” shouting incident green politician just elected there.
We all know your tactics BBC!
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1.6 litre Mercedes AMG:
0 to 124mph in seven seconds, 0 to 187mph in 15.6 seconds
I had a 1.6 litre Cortina once, 0 to 50mph in 15 minutes if the road had no gradient or corners, it also seemed to be fitted with central knocking and occasional automatic reclining driver’s seat at random moments.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-13647371/Nico-Rosberg-2-5m-AMG-One-hypercar-F1-engine.html?ico=mol_desktop_home
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Blimey!
Our old Fiat 500 sometimes had to be timed with a calendar!
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My mate once drove me to Scotland and back in one of those he bought for around £50, I think I still have PTSD from that trip.
He was extremely short sighted and lost his glasses somewhere around Carlisle and suffering from severe hayfever.
I was his spotter on the Motorways telling him which lane he was in and pointing out various hazards like other vehicles, and where the corners and bends were on the A83.
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We stopped in Lockerbie for a bag of chips but decided on a lunchtime pub crawl instead.
The afternoon trip then just flew by really, we ended up somehow in a field at one point and my Malaysian driver thought he was hallucinating on his hayfever medication as he had never seen a ginger hairy cow before.
It took a couple of whiskies to calm him down, only later I realised that in many bars in Scotland the minimum measure is a quarter gill not an eighth of a gill like in England.
Don’t remember much of the night drive down the Mull of Kintyre, all a blur really, there was some kind of incident in a bar in Inverary at some point I think, cultural differences probably.
I do remember he wouldn’t stop muttering about hairy cows, probably upset the barmaid.
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Police once thought they had stopped a ghost driving a car until they saw me lying flat.
We had a laugh about it when they sobered me up a bit and sent me on my way with a flea in my ear, with the vinyl roof merrily flapping in the wind behind me and the wing mirrors spinning around on the bonnet.
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Three ‘Hello’s’ and a ‘Mind how you go, Sir’ seems like a fair response!
I had a chum who once got his mate to steer one-handed from the passenger seat, and keep looking all casual and nonchalent, while he hid under the dashboard…
Passers-by were unimpressed…
Some needed smelling salts!
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Just to remember why we’re on this site, I’ve found absolutely nothing on the cubiclist’s site about a potential Tory Leader possibly defectiing, (i.e. leaving the sinking ship), and joining Reform…
Wonder why?
I’d like to know a hard left-wing view on the matter!
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Zelensky is on a mission to drag the UK into a total war with Russia, demanding UK long range missiles to be fired at Russia. His attempts seem to have intensified since Starmer took over so obviously sees him as an easy Idiot to concentrate on.
The scarey thing is that Starmer could well fall for this clowns demented demands with horrific consequences for the UK.
Anyone with any common sense can see that this is sheer self-interested desperation by Zelensky.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/07/19/zelensky-pushes-uk-for-permission-to-strike-russia-with-british-missiles/
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I’m sure Mr Lammy has the intelligence to sort all this out!
Naturally, his answer will be to chuck our taxes, (borrowed), at Ukraine, and get his hard left-wing chancelloress to stump up the money!
So pensioners, what does it feel like to have a share in an atomic rocket?
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Said missiles ending up on the black market in Leeds etc ?
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Kyiv can use British weapons inside Russia – Cameron
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c163kp93l6po
David Cameron buys £25,000 garden shed ‘to write in’
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Danny cohen – a bbc loyalist – not so much now – pity he was nt r aware of other areas of bias …right Danny Dan?
STARTS This week it was revealed that BBC Arabic had asked its viewers the following question about the cold-blooded murder of a 79 year-old Jewish woman by Hamas terrorists: “How do you view this kind of operation, terrorism or resistance?”
Edna Bluestein was among a group of Israeli civilians who were attacked in a car-ramming and stabbing incident in the town of Ra’anana. She was dragged from her car and stabbed to death before terrorists commandeered her vehicle and tried to kill more Jews. Why anyone at the BBC would think it acceptable to pose this question to viewers about a terrorist murder might once have been hard to understand, but these days the reason appears to be very clear.
There is a mountain of evidence to show that BBC Arabic has a severe problem with anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias. From the presenter who suggested a guest should apologise for showing sympathy towards Israel to the use of sources with links to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and from reporters who appeared to celebrate the October 7 massacre to journalists who misrepresented evidence of the terrorist crimes that terrible day, BBC Arabic is consistently failing when it comes to impartiality. Since the October 7 attacks, the BBC has been forced to make more than 100 corrections to its BBC Arabic reporting.
Yet the failures of the BBC’s journalists in the Middle East are only part of the story. More focus must be directed towards those in senior management positions in the BBC who are choosing to consistently cover the tracks of biased journalists and defend their failures. The handling of revelations of bias by BBC executives is as telling as the individual failures of impartiality.
In the case of the BBC Arabic video, which asked whether the terrorist murder of Mrs Bluestein was “terrorism or resistance”, this is how BBC management responded: “BBC News Arabic reflects debates taking place across the Middle East including on polarising and sensitive subject matters around the Israel-Gaza war. As part of this reporting, we invite a wide variety of contributors to provide differing perspectives and routinely question views on air.”
There was no apology, no recognition of the offence caused, and no appreciation of how painful this would be for many in the Jewish community. Why were the BBC’s managers not able simply to acknowledge that its behaviour was unacceptable and be clear with licence-fee payers that they would take the necessary steps to ensure it was not repeated? Defending the BBC’s reputation appears to be much more important than a transparent relationship with licence-fee payers.
More widely, the BBC continues to insist that BBC Arabic is a reliable source of impartial journalism. The BBC has claimed that BBC Arabic “shares exactly the same principles of accuracy and impartiality as BBC News in English and we strongly reject the suggestion that its impartiality is compromised”.
This is nothing short of gaslighting of the Jewish community. It is surely not possible by now to argue with any honesty that BBC Arabic is an impartial news service. Yet it seems that the BBC’s leadership is comfortable to maintain this pretence rather than publicly and transparently acknowledge it has a problem.
Under the tenure of director-general Tim Davie and CEO of news Deborah Turness, the BBC has placed a great emphasis on the importance of transparency and trust. Yet in their continued defence of BBC Arabic, the BBC’s senior leaders are failing in both their commitment to transparency and their duty to maintain an honest relationship with the people who pay for it.
The BBC has become an organisation which gaslights many in the Jewish community, and there are no signs that this will end anytime soon.ENDS
I bet he sung the approved song when on the bbc payroll …
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Arabs believe economy is weak under democracy
Published
6 July 2022
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-62001426
The future is “uncertain”, says Dr Robbins of Arab Barometer. Citizens in the region may be looking to alternative political systems, such as the Chinese model – an authoritarian one-party system – that he says has “brought a huge number of people out of poverty in the last 40 years”.
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Diane Abbott is officially ‘Mother of the House’ – and no, that’s not slang. The ‘Mother of the House’ is the title given to the longest continuously serving female MP in the UK parliament.10 Jul 2024
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Video: Diane Abbott gets up and walks away when Jewish teenager grills her on the Tube over her Question Time remark that Orthodox Jews are targeted because of their ‘costumes’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1762092/Video-Diane-Abbott-says-Jews-wear-costumes-Question-Time-appearance.html
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18:55 this evening. ..kicking off again ? bbc no doubt wearing blindfolds this evening.
“Harehills locals clash with police following night of violence
Local people of Harehills have been clashing with police as the area’s civil unrest continues following a night of violence.”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1925168/Leeds-riots-live-police-car-attack-updates
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I understand it’s heated up in Blighty so the ferals hit the streets and copy cat last night or just smash and grab the JD sports and Apple shop …. They are deprived you know …
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Yes and I fully understand…as some local council twat is pontificating…
If ever I feel persecuted I look for a bus to torch, we’ve all been there…
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Well, they will get what they want.
It will be a ‘no go zone’ from now on.
The police will not go in because they know whatever they do the locals will riot so best just keep away.
Social services will not go in to get any vulnerable children because they’ve seen what happens.
Another part of England lost to the doctors and rocket scientists busily enriching us.
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Early days of the horrors to be inflicted on us by the red blue political class – I have an image of starmer abs pixey with that hopeless look on their faces as they tour yet another riot scene the following morning …. All caused by ‘deprivation ‘ of course …
A long time ago I read a report by a respected – seriously – home office criminologist who saw the future function of plod as being acting like the UN between tribal third world groups fighting for turf ….
I reckon that was 20 years ago – bet she couldn’t dream of the coming reality…
New thread time … peace be with you …
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Worth a look again to see a bbc liar put on the spot:
BBC ‘journalism’ at its finest 🤦🏻♂️
BBC Journo: “There’s been a rise in hatful content on Twitter.”
@elonmusk
: “Give me an example.”
Journo: “I can’t.”
Musk: “You just lied.”
https://x.com/darrengrimes_/status/1646115621032325122
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🚨 YouTube has already censored this video! 🚨
Here’s the unfiltered truth about the riots that erupted in London and Leeds yesterday.
This chaos is just the beginning, and if we don’t act now, it WILL happen again.
Find out what’s REALLY happening and what we must now do.
https://x.com/darrengrimes_/status/1814373568727359670?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
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“”When you visit some parts of the UK these days you have to turn your watch back seven centuries”.”
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This WuduMate Classic fits in perfectly to this ablution area in Birmingham Women’s Hospital.
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“LIVE: Leeds riot latest as arrests made, residents clash and police update
People have been seen attacking a marked police car”
https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/leeds-news/live-leeds-riot-bus-fire-29570791
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“attacking a marked police car”
UK police forces spend £66,000 on LGBT rainbow cars, shoelaces and flags
Police chiefs accused of ‘wasting money on woke nonsense’ by the Taxpayers’ Alliance
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