12 Responses to Weekend 2nd November 2024

  1. Deborah says:
    November 1, 2024 at 9:01 pm

    Jews in Germany in 1939 were taxed extremely heavily to get permission to leave Germany.

    After Wednesday’s budget, i feel in a similar situation, only it is to get permission to meet my maker.

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  2. Philip_2 says:
    November 1, 2024 at 9:23 pm

    BBC to buy The Guardian? which is facing an escalating backlash over the proposed deal, which would see the Observer pass from the £1.3bn Scott Trust endowment into the hands of Tortoise Media, a digital venture founded by former BBC News boss James Harding.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/11/01/guardian-bosses-concessions-save-observer-sale-rebellion/

    Yes the BBC ‘luvvies’ like a hard up. That is if they can ‘wang’ an advantage, and they do have a problem as the whole Guardian ‘Newspaper group’ has long term falling sales, if not the worst sales of ALL the UK newspapers in this country bar one, (FT has fewer sales). Basically its about to fold.
    https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/abc-analysis-june-2021-circulation-subscription-newsstand/

    Unlike the BBC, thanks to ‘the unique way in which the BBC is funded’, can afford to pay its main recruitment portal. Almost all BBC ‘ads’ end up in the back pages of the Guardian. BBC hates to feature Recruitment Ads on its own channels! And The Guardian journalists ONLY hope of ‘making BIG money’ is working for the BBC someday (A dream they all share). Its a ‘symbiotic relationship’ for the BBC, but the Guardian is losing money big time,- so they need someone with BIG, deep pockets. Can the cash-strapped BBC afford it? They have not had a TV license increase for at least, three months.! They may have to ask SOROS or GATES for some ‘extra’ cash. OK James Harding can call it ‘Tortoise Media’, but its the same cloak of the left controlling the news feed, they want ‘control’, even if it means they have to raise the TV license again. Cash strapped, as they are…, not that they are short of a few bob themselves, you understand… its just to make a profit on the side, you know from the recruitment Ads.

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  3. Sluff says:
    November 1, 2024 at 10:59 pm

    Meanwhile in the People’s Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire…..
    For 50 years, Sandford Road in Doncaster has been a dual carriageway and rather nice too. A wide grass verge with trees separates the road from the pavement.

    But this is not good enough for the modern day eco-fanatics.

    One lane on each carriageway has been made into a wide cycle lane. A new raised kerb in what was the middle of the road separates the cycle lane from the remaining road lane. Another kerb separates the road lane from the central reservation. The bus stops are part of the road lane. If a bus stops, so does all the traffic behind for as long as it takes. No overtaking is possible. Any broken down vehicles now block the road entirely, making it impassable.

    I drove, incredulously, up and down this road last week. I never saw a single cyclist.
    Does this achieve anything other than provide jobs for virtue-signalling, unelected, job secure, council traffic officials?

    It does nothing for anybody else. Except perhaps Justin Rowlatt.

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