You know – I haven’t pleaded for readers to dump their TV licence now for some time So I do surely plead again . A lot of visitors to the site have already dumped their licence . So why don’t you … ?
Weekend 19th October 2024
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Khan and his mates backstage after getting free Taylor Swift tickets, allegedly……
Snow White not quite so white anymore, I see.
Apparently Disney is struggling financially.
Good.
Get woke, go broke.
Equality, BBC sports version.
Men’s premier league scores get the same amount of total time as the Women’s super league, and the Scottish division 2.
Except….
Men’s premier league-7 matches in 18 seconds.
Women’s super league – errrr 1 match in 18 seconds.
As for the Scottish scores, I’m sure as many are interested in Man U v Brentford or Tottenham v West Ham as……..errrrr……Spartans v Elgin.
Agenda? Moi?
PS Great fun. The guy who reads out the scores had a mic that didn’t work and you could hear him remonstrate to get the spare. Professional eh?
Many suspecting Harris was drunk during some speeches, I would say, if she was sober, then she has a bigger problem…
For once, I like KIm.
The airline?
@ moggie
I think he means this guy, and I think there really should be a North Korea sitcom :
Ha ha….what a laugh. Any swivel-eyed, tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy loon worth his salt could have told you that from the get-go. They’ve never been beyond the Van Allen Belts and do not have the technology to go anywhere. Musk is still launching rockets for God’s sake. The Germans were doing the same a hundred years ago. If there had ever been any intention to go to Mars they wouldn’t be using rockets simply because they are the wrong tool for the job. If you think about it you need exceptional technology to get there and support human life for the period required. We are thousands of years away from achieving that, at least with the technology they show us. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to understand this. Musk is simply playing his role in the game. Under maritime laws, which is what you are under, there are no laws only mandates which they make up on the fly. If the US Constitution existed do you believe you could simply fine someone for no reason whatsoever?
There are no rights just mandates and it is the admirals of the fleet beyond the shores of this country that set those.
For Zeph.
https://x.com/mwendling/status/1847672760559886499?s=61
I hate to state something so obvious but if Donald Trump loses the election he and many of his supporters will simply not believe it.
Sadly, almost an hour later… no comments. Well worth the cost of keeping him there.
This is what I get if I try to open up a post to look any further at comments etc.
I don’t really want to sign up.
https://x.com/shayan86/status/1847683924224332200?s=61
Interesting to hear Elon Musk say this, given he uncritically shares misinformatiom with his 200 million X followers on a regular basis, earning him a place on the list of the most community noted users on his own platform.
I wonder what Shaznay, Armando Iannuci and Mehdi Hasan have in common?
who the f is Shaznay … oh, I see, another arrogant twerp from BBC Verify.
@Zephir GuestWho made a post saying that Wendling’s tweet had ZERO impact
You then moan you want him to quote all the comments
FFS there weren’t any
BTW wending now has 7 Likes , … from the planet’s 7 billion people
.. (and there just one reply , that’s from GuestWho’s friend)
I was not “moaning”
It was a request as outlined earlier and a question if there was an alternative way for me to see any comments made on frequent twitter links
So, yet again we saw a ‘protest’ (aka hate march) brazenly in support of the killed Hamas terrorist leader.
Khan’s Keystone Kops did sweet FA, of course; didn’t even bother to protect Mahyar Tousi when they turned on him.
The BBC didn’t bother reporting – wouldn’t want to show their favourite community supporting terrorists.
“They will come for you” clear threat there from the hostage rapist supporters.
The mail is thankfully still covering the plight of the lady sent to prison for 31 month for a tweet . I really hope Elon funds the appeal against sentence – I’d almost be tempted to make a contribution my self and im as tight as a very tight person …the comments are as might be expected – thousands in support …
As for the judge one might hope he get what he deserves – which I should does not imply a malevolence from me … such as not being fit to conduct trials …
My friend did jury service. He told us that the judge asked the barrister to explain something to him. He replied sarcastically “well I’m still none the wiser”. The barrister said “true, but at least you’re better-informed”.
Another one…..hmmm
“Bedford house explosion leaves one dead and a house in flames as locals report hearing ‘loud bang'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13978613/bedford-house-explosion-locals-loud-bang.html
17 October, Newcastle:
“Second body found after house explosion. The blast, which happened at about 00:45 BST on Wednesday, destroyed six flats along the street.”
19 September, Kent
Woman hospitalised after home explosion.
14 September, Burnley
Burnley: Investigation after ‘explosion’ at house.
14 September, Manchester
An investigation has been launched into the cause of an explosion at a terraced house. The blast happened in Coatbridge Street in Manchester at 18:30 BST on Friday.
1 September, Longbridge
Homes evacuated after house destroyed in explosion in Longridge
18 June, Middlesborough
A man has appeared in court following a house explosion in June.
Andrew McCubin has been charged with arson reckless to endanger life in connection with a blast at a semi-detached property in Kirkland Walk, Middlesbrough, on 18 June.
Oh, but the irony goes even deeper: why is ‘me at the airport’ facing interminable queues?
Because of all the other Muhammads who planted bombs on planes, or threatened to!
@BBC complaints) has decided that Miriam Margoyles comment on Radio4 wasn’t antisemitic
She is vile.
What to say? Chris Hoy with terminal cancer and his wife MS .
And still the media bang on about a druggie who flew off a balcony.
Well, the problem was…he didn’t fly too well.
He was good at the vertical bit.
Can anyone explain to me what a small singing group called something like, ‘Wonder Erection’ has to do with music please?
“I Can’t Explain”
Meanwhile, on this day, 47 years ago:
On this day in history, October 20, 1977, Lynyrd Skynyrd bandmates killed in horrific plane crash. Lead singer Ronnie Van Zant among victims, crash killed a ‘great American musician,’ says survivor Gene Odom.
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/this-day-history-oct-20-1977-lynyrd-skynyrd-bandmates-killed-plane-crash
Todays music at chez micknotmike will be “One more from the road”. I’m also a big fan of the rolling stones but lynyrd skynyrd showed them how it’s done at Knebworth.
I have the concert poster signed by the promoter framed on my wall
This is mumsnet on the subject of Chris Hoy and his cancer:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5009428-my-husband-still-thinks-everything-is-because-of-covid
Seem like a lovely bBC audience.
Yep,
Just try posting an opinion that children in France and many other countries do not routinely shout and scream at the top of their voices in the streets, shops and restaurants and on trains upon the slightest provocation, and 30 years ago not every child had ADHD etc, it used to be called bad behaviour, and the last thing you should do with a child who actually has ADHD is drag them round a budy supermarket for 30 minutes, and see how long you last on the site, and the vicious comments you get in the 5 minutes before you are cancelled.
“overheard in Waitrose” posted yesterday, in spades.
Americans want to be ‘freed’ from Kamala Harris, says Trump
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cx2lq7vqwp4t
The BBC are obliged by their rules to cover some Trump rallies so they are running a live feed on this one. As you would expect, it’s chock full of sneering with none of the ‘upbeat’ reporting Kamala gets.
‘Trump hits regular campaign talking points at Pennsylvania rally’
About as flat as you can get. Clearly attempting to make the reader not bother to read it.
‘The Republican candidate goes on to call Harris “a threat to democracy” echoing the exact phrase that Harris and Joe Biden have frequently made to criticise Trump.’
Sorry ?. Since when was this article about criticising Trump BBC?. You never do that to Biden or Harris for their rallies.
‘Trump is speaking from behind bullet-proof glass, which he has been doing since being shot in the ear this summer.’
WHAT ??. It is FAR more significant than that BBC. He is doing it after TWO assasination attempts. Amazing : the BBC have trivialised an assasination attempt down to an ear injury.
And of course the poisonous Madeline Halpert (who was on anti-depressants at 17) fails again to mention the Democrat bias of Judge Chutkan.
The tone of every report here is plain and flat. It’s totally different to the style and enthusiasm they use for a Democrat rally.
BBC gang GASLIGHT by shouting they care about diversity
when in facts it’s clear they are anti_diverse points of view
Instead they platform their same LEFTYMATES again and again
Today switched on at random moments
10am show .. provided an extensive platform for BBC mate Jon Sopel to promote his book
FootBall Focus set up a montage where people said calling for A British born national coach is xenophobic
The prog is done by a female presenter and she then went straight into “It’s Black History month now lets look back at the life of the England women’s top scorer”
9pm Radio4 show looking back at Christine Keeler opened with a trigger warning”
“This episode of Panorama contained language normal at that time”
They played the clip
Guesss what the offending word was ?
“coloured”
I think the Keeler tapes are fake or super edited
cos the narrative was a super lefty worldview , and posotve to Keelers case,
At the same time as she was getting huge money and presents from much older men she granted sexual favours too, she was very young and therefore a victim of grooming and rape
The tapes said she started at the dance club when she had just turned 16
and topless show girls stood behind her on the stage,
Bloody right too..
“Tory councillor’s wife ‘to appeal jail sentence’ for horrific racial hatred post.
Connolly’s husband said she plans to appeal against the sentence, which he believes was political, according to MailOnline.
Mr Connolly told the publication: “She will be appealing and I will support the judicial process of whatever they decide to do. The trouble is, I was always told it wasn’t political but today it seems to be.”
Where is the petition ?
“You see us burning, you stay silent”, screams the BBC headline on its Home Page.
Of course, that’s highly emotive clickbait; but is it more? Is it in fact the BBC using other people’s voices to urge its viewers to stop being silent; to be vocal in their support for Gaza (= Hamas, = terrorism)?
In other words: get out there and join the march (= antisemitic hate parade).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr54y0qplgvo
‘The Israeli military said it was targeting a Hamas “command and control” centre in the al-Aqsa hospital compound in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip.’
‘Hamas denies operating in hospitals.’
There is no doubt whatsoever that Hamas base themselves in hospitals. None. Israel have shown plenty of evidence that it is the case.
It is utterly shameful of the BBC to leave it in doubt with this deliberate weasel wording. Somebody should force them to make assertions where something is proven.
I’ve noticed several times how the author Fergal Keane has no ethics or principles bothering him to report the whole truth. He is another full-on BBC anti-semetic activist.
BBC news these days amounts to a report from Gaza using a press release from the Islamic Hamas terrorist gang – framed in such a way as to be the ‘truth’ . It doesn’t get the ‘unverified ‘ treatment and of course never ‘false’ . It’s just the usual demonisation of Israel by saying ‘a school was bombed’ with no mention of the terrorists’ use of public buildings to launch attacks …..
No wonder they need an advert with Myrie – the new huw – telling us it’s the ‘truth’ …
Talking of “Black Holes”
“A surge in civil servant staff numbers has triggered calls for entire Whitehall departments to be axed and for a major reduction in Government staffing.
The Civil Service headcount has rocketed from 416,000 in 2016 to 546,000 this year.
During this time the estimated salary costs for all civil service departments and organisations has gone up from £11.6billion to £19.7billion.
Numbers on the books at the Home Office leapt from 28,060 to 52,075, and staffing increased from 82,230 to 91,160 at the Department for Work and Pensions. The headcount at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs went up from 1,700 to 7,140.
At the Department for Education it shot up from 2,260 to 7,235.
There was also a big increase at the Ministry of Justice, from 2,930 to 7,825, and the Cabinet Office, from 2,290 to 6,660. At the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the number of civil servants nearly doubled, going up from 530 to 1,010.”
And yet…
“Professor Len Shackleton of the Institute of Economic Affairs, claimed that “productivity and performance has clearly fallen in many areas” despite the escalation in staff numbers.”
7235 at the DFE.
That’s nearly two per secondary school.
Which is therefore twice as many as the number of Headteachers in those schools.
What the f*** do they all actually do?
zackly
Lord, imagine if we have to listen to that hideous voice spouting meaningless garbage for 4 years, while her puppet-masters destroy democracy…
Unthinkable! It must not happen!
Here’s a radical idea, Ed: If you’ve got a dick, you’re a man and you use the gents. Anything else, you’re a woman and you use the ladies.
The astute observer will notice how the BBC have stopped reporting anything about the ‘Invasion of Russia’ at the Kursk salient despite it being such a big story a while back.
And the same astute observer will deduce that the BBC aren’t reporting it because they don’t want us to know about it. Which means it is going badly and doesn’t match the propaganda they fed us.
The reality is that the pocket is collapsing and the Ukranian troops are being slaughtered. And their requests to withdraw are being denied by Zelensky for his own pride after all the rhetoric he came out with.
It has been a huge waste of some of Ukraines best troops for no reason at all. It failed every single objective the moment their advance was stopped. It’s now turned into borderline murder of those troops by Zelenky himself for his own vanity.
We will get a small article about it just before the whole ‘invasion’ ends. And all those men died for nothing – but the BBC don’t give a shit about that.
yup, 100%
No FOOC Saturday morning reportage opining on that … No embedded BBC staff obviously.
Wasn’t there some suggestion a while back that the Kursk offensive wasn’t even a Kyiv plan?
You want more money? – here’s what you have to do….
A timely reminder:
“Andrew Neil.
Laying into Labour’s tax plans, Neil claimed Labour has told “barefaced lies” which the British people “will find out to our cost come its first Budget”.
Keir Starmer is a “stranger to the truth” who duped the public into thinking his administration wasn’t just a “traditional borrow, tax and spend Labour government”, Andrew Neil has claimed.
“We were assured Labour’s plans for extra spending were modest and fully costed – that there was no need to increase taxes overall, bar a few small, specific rises, such as VAT on school fees,” Neil, the chairman of The Spectator said.
“Yet, in under two weeks, we will be landed, in cash terms, with the biggest tax raid in history – to be piled mercilessly on top of what is already the highest tax burden for 70 years.
“We were promised there would be no rise in taxes for ‘working people’. Now we learn Chancellor Rachel Reeves is likely to whack up fuel duty by £5billion, which looks suspiciously like a tax on working people (just ask white van man),” he added.
Last month Sir Keir offered his latest hint that employers’ National Insurance will be increasing in the budget, prompting accusations Labour are on the verge of breaking a manifesto promise.
The public declaration of Labour’s aims government stated: “Labour will not increase taxes on working people, which is why we will not increase National Insurance, the basic, higher, or additional rates of Income Tax, or VAT.”
Reeves and Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds have suggested that there is a distinction between the NI employees have to pay and the NI employers are subject to, stressing that the pledge in the manifesto was a “reference to employees”, BBC News reports.
But Neil insists the document “made no distinction between employers’ and employees’ NICs. It simply ruled out a rise in NICs, period.
“To say employers will now have to pay more is at the least a sleight of hand, if not another downright lie. It’s also another tax on workers.
“The consensus of economic research is that a rise in employer payroll taxes reduces job creation and pay rises. It is, after all, a tax on jobs, leaving companies with less money to hire more or pay more. So working people will pay,” he added.”
Neil also accused Sir Keir of rowing back on assurances that “his would not be a traditional borrow, tax and spend Labour government,” arguing “it is, with knobs on”.
“Nobody should be surprised by any of this. Starmer is often a stranger to the truth,” Neil seethed. He accused Sir Keir of rising within the Labour party “on a Corbynista prospectus” of things like widespread nationalisation ending university tuition fees, before ditching them “when he was safely party boss”.
The influential conservative commentator went on to claim that, “The hallmark of Starmer’s political career has been to say whatever he thinks it will take to get elected. Then renege on it in a heartbeat.”
The government has been preparing the public for a “painful” budget for months, with tax rises expected to address the £22bn financial black hole Reeves she had been left by the previous Tory government.”
“Sir Keir was asked whether Labour’s budget plans were in line with manifesto promises during a Q&A following his remarks at the Quad meeting, saying: “In relation to our manifesto, we are going to keep our manifesto pledges as we go into that election, I’ve made that very clear.
“I’m not going to preempt the individual measures that will be outlined by the Chancellor in due course, but I make fully clear this is going to be a Budget that will fix the foundations and rebuild our country.”
I visited a new butchers yesterday, so will be sampling some Hitchin hostages this morning.
Not wishing to cause further discord, Twitter is an influential medium, and carries things, good and bad, that are worth sharing. If one opts out from viewing, fair enough.
This is a video.
https://x.com/ozraeliavi/status/1847737821152628802?s=61
🚨 Leftist gets DESTROYED with her own words in under a minute
I share as it summarises the bbc well too. In addition, you get to see the full,debate, whereas the bbc does love its edit suite.
No discord from me, (and there never was, don’t know why SG got on his high horse again)
I just don’t want to continually have to register, remember passwords then have to sign in and out of things like twitter and facebook and wondered if there was another way to view comments below the article posted.
Facebook sometimes allows you to see other content related to the page in question. I was thinking, maybe there was a way to do this with twitter.
For example, the remove paywall link provided by someone on here is great…
Thats all, 🙂 I do enjoy many of the comments below things posted here, like youtube, they often reassure that, “It’s not just me, thank goodness”
On the subject of YouTube urls, it would be helpful to include their titles as well as the link.
I get the email advice of posts and this would help assess if they are worth clicking.
Many Tx.
@Zephir you posted a screenshot of what you see on Twitter
but all you need to do it click the cross at the top left of the LOGIN popup – you can then see the tweet without logging in
Of course you can,t see the replies
I don’t continually need to login to Twitter , Facebook nor Youtube cos when I did login I clicked the “remember me” box thus whenever I open their pages I’m automatically logged in
The one site I do need to loginto is this one cos it logs you out about every 10 hours
I never install new Apps on my phone
cos most of them are just interfaces to websites anyway
I can listen to plenty of Radio stations as you said with AccuRadio etc.
without a need for an app
There seems to be one exception .. The Lidl members app cos there is no web interface to see your customised offers
And the Olio free food app , also rescinded its web interface and insists on the app.
So I just stopped using it.
Well, it warms the cockles of my aged heart. King Charles is to make a “significant donation” to those Commonwealth countries that are threatened by climate change. Of course he is…
I wonder if Charlie is going to make a similar contribution and dig deep for those British OAPs that will be unable to heat their homes in Blighty this winter? Somehow, I doubt it.
This Christmas, while his majesty and his entourage are at Balmoral, feasting on venison and game pie, many working-class pensioners will be huddled indoors, nibbling at leftovers, too frightened to turn the heating on. Of course, there’s no kudos in giving alms to the British poor, so as we sit freezing, we’ll hear more endless guff about “The planet is on fire.”
I still consider myself a royalist, but…
Jeff – rich men have hobbies – the royals have the commonwealth as a hobby comfort blanket for a now extinct empire – which they helped to destroy – starting with America – so no wonder he and she will be jigging with the coloured folk and doing all that media friendly stuff .
He has no real interest in people – it’s just ‘the firm ‘ ….
… the bbc knows they have to be very careful how they treat / report the Royals – it’s the only are where I reckon the bbc group think is fearful …. The British themselves are fair game – including the freezing old ….
Give me strength.
Just browsing iPlayer ‘Radio 1’,Radio 1 ‘Dance’ and ‘Radio 1 extra’ to see what might be available to listen to while I fix my escooter.
These are the faces I saw:
22 women, 11 of them BAME
18 males, 10 of them BAME.
So that’s 8 out of 40 – or 20% – of them are white males.
And some of the white ones don’t sound like they are English. And I’ll bet my hat a few of them are gay.
When we say the BBC are both racist and sexist against white males, this is our evidence. I’ve done this many times and the result is always like this.
Why do the Left think this is perfectly OK when it’s totally racist and sexist if it’s the other way round ?.
Have you tried “Global Player” ? you can “get the app” as they say, on Google Play and others and for PC via “webcatalogue”:
A selection of radio and podcast channels.
There are three Classic FM channels on there I occasionally use, the “Calm” one and “Movie Music” sometimes.
I have Classic FM Calm on now on a gentle Sunday morning.
I normally use Greatest Hits radio Zephir.
It has some of my old BBC favourites who got the BBC-boot for being pale-and-stale like Richard Allinson, Ken Bruce and Alex Lester.
I’ll give Global Player a try and see what I can find …
I sometimes browse the BBC schedules as occasionally there is something a bit different such as Radcliffe and Maconie – thought the far-left Maconie is hard work sometimes as he vents his politics (usually against Trump or Musk) while Mark tries to bring him back on track.
OK I use it on PC with no problems but some issues reported on data useage on phones on Trust Pilot with one saying lots of video ads, which I don’t get with my ad blockers.
My phone is useless for anything other than getting the jist of the main headlines. Try to do anything and you disappear into a world of scrolling advertisements, boxes which don’t actually close when you click close and a kaleidoscope of pop-ups which totally swamp whatever I tried to look at.
PC all the way for me too.
I’d recommend Boom radio for us lot on here.
Boom is for the baby boomers.
It’s on DAB
They also have Boom rock and Boom light (50’s stuff)
This is my go to, any genre and decade you like plus any style of music and you can skip tracks, also minimal ads.
Accuradio: https://www.accuradio.com/
Even if you like Balkan brass bands, Portugese cafe music, Japanese folk, there’s a channel for you, even a 1950s and 60s comedy channel.
John C
I’m on your side but just look at the demographics of the under 20s.
Immigrants eventually have kids. There are primary schools in various parts of the Socialist Islamic Republic of Londonistan with almost no white kids at all.
This may be more representative than you think.
Which I find rather worrying in itself.
Part of a thread on ‘lived experience’ journalism.
https://x.com/journalismseen/status/1847894972235649259?s=61
With regard to the BBC and gender identity affirmation, this is mainly now a Nations and Regions problem.
It contributes to – not just an appearance of – but real and serious imbalance that the London editorial leadership appears to have little control over.
https://archive.is/FUlD9
Michael Buerk: Huw Edwards could be amusingly nasty about colleagues – I’d always wonder what he was saying about me
As his pivotal TV report on Ethiopia’s famine turns 40, the journalist and broadcaster reflects on the tumultuous culture at the BBC
From the above (regarding the original Ethiopian famine news report):
“At the time, Buerk was the BBC’s Southern Africa correspondent, responsible for covering a large chunk of the continent, and based in Johannesburg. He’d visited Ethiopia earlier in the year because he’d received “one of those idiotic journalistic requests: we need pictures of starving Africans in five days’ time”. Did they specifically want it to be from Ethiopia? “No, absolutely not,” Buerk says. “They couldn’t care less. Just as long as it was Africa and they were black.”
40 years ago, nothing changes at the bbc.
“As long as they are black”
Udpdate: Hitchin hostages should be free !!
I have also found, to my surprise, that Aldi hostages are also rather fine…
Joking aside, I see the BBC are not telling us that Hamas have flatly refused to release any sausages until Israel totally withdraw from Gaza.
Which of course is a deliberately impossible condition.
Video: Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar taking his family into the tunnels for safety on 6/10/23 (the night before the massacre) and leaving the people of Gaza to suffer the consequences of his actions.
Looks like the wife has a £30 k plus Birkin handbag while Gazans starve.
https://9gag.com/gag/apR5En9
Probably ‘a donation’ from a friend of the Labour Party …
Ali Hammy, Labour pally
“Hello my dear friends, you’re in the Military Summary Channel, in this video we’re going to discuss the most important events that took place during the previous twelve hours, we have a lot of very interesting updates, so let’s start… – that’s the familiar intro to those who follow the Russia-leaning detailed daily news source on You Tube – about our proxy war – where you’ll be brought up-to-date with the minutiae of ground taken, unpronounceable villages occupied and Russian flags raised over obscure mining towns and rural settlements in the Donbas and latterly in Zalensky’s pointless and now fast shrinking salient into the Kursk region of old Russia.
Alternatively, we can make do with… Hello western plebs, you’re plugged into the mainstream media, in this propagandised obfuscation of events, you’re going to be subjected to self-righteous lawyeristic posturing, personalised emotional dramas, wishful thinking and electionering, plus self-inflicted economic hardships via pointless sanctions, putting a fog of war gloss over our taxpayer-funded murderous and disasterous inept diplomatic bungling and on the ground feminised military impotence – so let’s start…
My husband Alexi, the man Putin murdered. Yulia Navalnaya (Sunday Times Magazine)
I’m inevitably reminded of the line about Russia from some relatively recent movie – “The land of beautiful women… and men who look like frogs” (Hey Putin, I think they’re talking about you) – it may have been in Red Sparrow… it wasn’t the series Killing Eve – gosh have you noticed how we do like to cast sexy Russian females as the antagonists in our new cold war espionage dramas…
Despite… Smiley reborn… Le Carré’s best brought back to life by son (Sunday Telegraph) – watch that space – odds-on the old school KGB villain Karla turns out to have had a daughter, she’s a looker and can fell a grown man with a flick of her hand.
But we digress
Ukrainian journalist, 27, who chronicled Russian occupation dies in prison…Viktoriia Roshchyna was detained last year while reporting in Russian-occupied Ukraine (Sarah Rainsford, BBC Eastern Europe correspondent Reporting from Kyiv)
‘It’s scary – but so’s giving birth’: The female unit gunning down Russian drones…The Witches of Bucha are part of a volunteer defence unit made up almost entirely of women (Sarah Rainsford, BBC Eastern Europe Correspondent, near Bucha)
Our Sarah Rainsford there, who can’t seem to make her mind up about whether in order to win the war Ukraine needs more western F16 jets or more Suffragettes?
Novichok inquiry: Who was Dawn Sturgess and how was she poisoned? (BBC, Dan O’Brien and Polly March BBC News Published 11 October 2024)
Vial had ‘enough poison to kill thousands’ (Beth Cruse & PA Media BBC News, West of England Published 14 October 2024)
‘Paramedics raised Novichok alarm but were overruled’ (the darkly appropriopriately named in this case of alledged poisoning by toxic substance – Bea Swallow & PA Media, BBC News, West of England Published 17 October 2024)
And then at last we roll out our big guns… Laura K
Challenged on death of Dawn Sturgess, Russia’s ambassador appears to laugh and dismisses inquiry (Laura Kuenssberg Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, BBC)
One speculates for a moment whether the apparently amused ambassador may have jokingly offered our Laura a Ferrero Rocher – “Topped with extra special Russian flavouring – excuse my, how do call it.. PPE gloves, Comrade Tavarish Kuenssberg – you can’t be too careful. If only you British had a well-funded judge-led currently sitting public inquiry that might look into all those apparent millions of deaths caused by people coming into contact with our ally and your’s… China’s mysterious toxic substances?”
https://x.com/colinbraziertv/status/1847925391408701823?s=61
When headline-writers at the BBC either don’t know or care enough about a subject (in this case the workings of an institution), they fall back on the laziest of tropes.
The BBC has nothing but lazy trope editors.
HariKari. 2020s style UK.
On Toady on Sunday the Islamic Broadcasting Corporation featured a closed church in Sheffield about to be transformed into a mosque for Somali asylum seeking Muslims.
A C of E spokesperson was in favour.
Maybe instead he should go to Somalia and open an Anglican Church. It should go down well. Not.
Pedantic, but harakiri.
Sou desu
Kemi Badenoch: ‘Parenting is a two-person job. Where are the dads?’
https://anglicanmainstream.org/kemi-badenoch-parenting-is-a-two-person-job-where-are-the-dads/
She believes that “not having a good family” is the “biggest barrier” to success in life. That’s why she believes that family is one of the Conservative principles that has been most neglected.
So what was it 14 years of blue socialism now followed by 5 years of red socialism – and how will Britain be after 19 years ?
Answer – not Britain any more
I don’t watch the BBC, spending more of my time either reading posts here or watching things on YouTube.
I wanted to know what was happening to Mahyar Tousi and clicked on the video. It starts with the adverts – and the first one was advertising an event on November 7th, a play by the National Theatre being streamed for free. It pricked my interest…. for all of about 10 seconds. It is a play starring Martin Sheene as Nye Bevan and it is all about the start of the NHS. At least Nye isn’t being played by a black man.
Obviously the whole event is propoganda. I don’t know who is paying for it, or the YouTube adverts. Is it just the National Theatre being woke – or does it go deeper? Is it supposed to play with our subconscious as we cannot escape the adverts if we mant to watch people like Mahyar. I find it all deeply disturbing.
There was a video posted here yesterday by Tousi at another gaza terrorist demo in London.
The telegraph is running almost daily pieces about British taxpayers leaving the country . I wonder how many people are leaving ?
I suppose it’s difficult to quantify … personally I spend more time outside what used to be Britain than in it .
I go back to it for a couple of weeks in a few days but I’m not looking forward to it .. and will count down the days to I leave again …
I suppose im coloured by living in londonistan – a truly foreign place now ..
Funny how Boris is portrayed as a liar and roundly condemned, mocked and scorned by the media but Starmer & Co get away almost scot-free as they rapidly dump their manifesto pledges and their principles that they stood for election on….you can already hear the BBC nuancing the tax rises and extra borrowing [the usual ‘it’s investment’] and telling us how it’s vital for the good of the country….and it’s along term plan…feel the pain now but it’ll be great for you in 10 years.
These aren’t little porkies like Boris’s ‘I didn’t sleep with the office girl’ type but huge, morality free lies with big consequences…as Andrew Neil points out…
‘Only three brief months since the 2024 General Election and already we can safely consign pretty much everything Labour had to say about tax during the campaign to the dustbin of history.
It’s not just that what Labour told us, po-faced, with faux honesty and performative serious demeanour, has turned out to be untrue. In many cases it was the opposite of the truth – in other words, barefaced lies – as we will find out to our cost come its first Budget on October 30.
We were assured Labour’s plans for extra spending were modest and fully costed – that there was no need to increase taxes overall, bar a few small, specific rises, such as VAT on school fees.
Yet, in under two weeks, we will be landed, in cash terms, with the biggest tax raid in history – to be piled mercilessly on top of what is already the highest tax burden for 70 years.’
Have to say it is extraordinary that at a time when we have one of the highest tax regimes almost in history we have no money….just what do they spend it on? Perhaps our finest at the BBC might ask…would be nice to know where all that money goes.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13975713/ANDREW-NEIL-Starmer-elected-reneging-prepare-biggest-tax-raid-history.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=social-twitter_mailonline
Where all that money goes.
The Government offered doctors a rise of 22pc over two years but GPs have voted for industrial action.
Rail: average salary of a train driver, without overtime, would rise from £60,000 to £69,000 if Aslef members vote to accept new offer. The agreement, which Aslef members will now vote on, is for three increases:
5 per cent for 2022-2023
4.75 per cent for 2023 to 2024
4.5 per cent for 2024 to 2025.
As the deal is backdated, the average member can expect in their next pay packet additional wages of around £6,000 covering the increase for recent years.
And then, to add insult to injury for those earning private sector wages and pensions:
Train strikes return less than 48 hours after government offers pay deal.
And then we have :
Unions to vote for public sector ‘pay restoration’ as new wave of strikes looms.
According to economists, each one percent increase in the public sector pay bill could cost taxpayers around £2.5 billion. To fully restore public sector pay back to 2011 figures in real terms, wages would need to rise by 21 per cent.
Junior doctors, who staged 11 strikes over 18 months, sought pay increases of up to 35 per cent to address years of below-inflation raises. The government recently offered a 22 per cent pay rise over two years, which the BMA has now recommended its members accept.
The rail sector is also at flashpoint, with train drivers planning a series of weekend strikes on the East Coast Main Line despite a recent 14 per cent pay offer. The Aslef union has warned the new strike action represents a “breakdown in industrial relations”.
Union calls to increase local government pay offer
Council heads reiterate position that proposed pay rise of £1,290 or 2.5% is their “full and final” offer.
Leader of the Fire Brigades Union Matt Wrack has suggested that next month’s TUC conference is likely to see delegates pushing for significant pay increases.
A motion from the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union argues that public sector wages have decreased by an average of 1.5 per cent annually since 2011, and it calls for a pay restoration to be at the centre of the TUC’s negotiations with the new government.
If Wes took massive dose, would he wink out of existence?
Please
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/20/wes-streeting-denies-dystopian-future-over-weight-loss-jabs-for-jobless
Lavish public sector pay rises have exposed Labour’s biggest weakness.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/08/25/lavish-public-sector-pay-expose-labour-biggest-weakness/
“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it’s almost everything.”
These wise words of the Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman have special relevance for the current state of the British economy. The recent squeeze on real wages has been due to the appalling performance of productivity, aided and abetted by the deterioration in our terms of trade, brought about by the surge in international energy prices.
Public sector productivity:
Our current Cabinet minister ….
No, David Lammy: plumbers can’t just hop on the Tube
25 January 2023, 3:39pm
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/does-david-lammy-want-plumbers-to-take-the-tube/
“If Sadiq Khan has his way, drivers of old cars will soon be stumping up £12.50 every time they get behind the wheel in London. Much to the outrage of Londoners, the Labour mayor has grand plans to expand the Ultra Low Emission Zone across the whole city in several months’ time. But for plumbers and window cleaners worried about how the daily charge will affect them, David Lammy has some advice: they should hop on the train.”
Right bbc we know the rules now, watch out blacks and muslims, or is it the jews are not black enough ?
“BBC rules that Miriam Margolyes interview when she made ‘Jewish and vile’ remark to describe Oliver Twist villain Fagin was not racist.
‘Oh, Fagin without question. Jewish and vile.’ She then said: ‘I didn’t know Jews like that then. Sadly, I do now.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13980173/bbc-miriam-margolyes-interview-remark-oliver-twist-fagin-racist.html
Jonathan Sacerdoti, a broadcaster and campaigner against anti-Jewish racism who submitted the complaint, this weekend accused the BBC of ‘selective accountability’.
He said Kirsty Wark ‘stood by in silence’ allowing Miriam’s ‘deeply offensive remarks’ to slip under the radar.
Mr Sacerdoti added that he believes the BBC’s decision to remove the segment from iPlayer was an acknowledgement of the mistake and it is for ‘reasons entirely inconsistent’ they refuse to uphold the complaint.
Mr Steel’s response means Mr Sacerdoti cannot take his complaint any further within the BBC and his only option now would be to try to involve the regulator Ofcom.
He argues that Margolyes is a person known to make offensive comments about Jews and the BBC should have been prepared to challenge her.
A spokesman for Campaign Against Antisemitism said: ‘It’s a sad reflection of this era when both the host and audience of a BBC programme simply laugh along with a guest’s comments about ‘vile’ Jews.
‘Yes, the guest happens to be Jewish, but that does not give her free reign to spew her repugnant sentiments in the guise of ‘comedy’.
They added that it is ‘right’ the BBC removed the clip but said the unwillingness to admit the mistake is a ‘sad indication of where the Corporation is at right now’.”