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Hope everyone has been enjoying Christmas – and steering clear of the BBC!
Watching Strike on I-player as family viewing. Trouble is it is so complicated I haven’t a clue what is going on. On a positive note, no trans characters (well it is J K Rowling), no mention of climate change and Strike’s car is a very very old Land Rover so obviously not electric and a proportional number of people of any race (so far).
Debs, I used to use the pub in Cambridge Circus, where Strike often imbibed his regular pints of Doombar…
‘The Cambridge’ is still there, and funnily enough, Google maps shows a Harry Potter show on in the theatre just over the road!
Coincidence…?
This series of Strike was indeed hard to follow, with so many characters. It was hard to work out why the Ink Black Heart game generated so much fuss, as it seemed utter rubbish to me. However I did spot the villain, so I enjoyed it for that at least.
giless, you have prevented JohnC getting his ‘treble top’!
Sincere apologies!!
Having the lurgy this past week. My Christmas bliss happened today. The tv listings on Sky Arts simply said 42nd Street. So I recorded it, believing it to be the black & white 1930s musical film. On viewing it later my joy knew no bounds, as it was a filmed recording of the stage version at Drury Lane from 2018. A show I had seen 5 times – the first in the 1980s. The tap dancing is simply sublime.
However, I doubt whether the production would be the same if choreographed today, as aside from a couple of mixed race chorus girls, the entire casting was white.
Happy days.
Brissles, wishing you better. Enjoy 42nd Street with a hot toddy in hand.
Thanks Debs. I’ve discovered the delights of hot mulled wine – it’s like warm cough linctus – does the job though 😀
I’ve read all the Strike novels up to Ink Black heart, which, sadly, I just had to give up on as JKR had pages of writing in Twitter-speak, and made the story unintelligble for me… (I don’t tweet, as bunches of bananas have nothing on my paws)!
The first five novels were fabulous, and I’ve yet to read the latest one, but Strike is a superb innovation, and I’m wondering if I should watch it or just recall the stories as I understood and thoroughly enjoyed them!
A good friend is a film director involved with the series, (no, I don’t mix in that quarter; he’s just a great neighbour), and we discussed this challenge about the ‘messaging bits’, and he actually agreed that many people were just flummoxed, and I wasn’t alone!
But I then asked him a ‘rather carnal question’ about Strike and Robin, and he speared me with a withering glance, and told me in very, very few words, that if anything like that went on, it would totally ruin the whole series!
Luckily, we’re still good friends…
Brissles, I hope your lurgy goes soon, it’s rotten having a ‘Cold for Christmas’, (old family saying here), and I might just try the mulled wine trick, without the cloves, or any of the other spices for that matter, and probably take it at room temperature, to join you in a ‘virtual tincture’!
You can take your pick, ‘Cotes du Rhone’ or ‘Chateau Scrobs’, which, happily, is a little cheaper and even more unpretentious, but you may prefer Aber Falls and a good tonic…;0)
To be fair with Strike, it might have helped the understanding if I wasn’t trying to read this site at the same time!
I was always very anti J K Rowling with her being a Labour Party donor, but her taking a principled stance to trans changed my view somewhat.
I thought the same Deborah until I read something she said and realised that her ‘trans stance’ is not a principle of right and wrong , it is because she hates the thought of those ‘men b@stards’ being allowed to be women.
Reading between the lines of what she has said, it seems she had bad experiences with men before she got rich.
‘If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. ‘
‘“The idea that women like me, who’ve been empathetic to trans people for decades, feeling kinship because they’re vulnerable in the same way as women — ie, to male violence – ‘hate’ trans people because they think sex is real and has lived consequences — is a nonsense.”’
I need some thing else to read that isn’t loaded with the message ‘women are better than men’ on every page as ALL the recent ones I have read are. Is there much agenda in the Strike stories ?.
At the moment, I’m utterly sick of ‘woke’ after making the mistake of watching some BBC programs.
Debs, echo that. Lurgy at Xmas time = not funny. Get well soon, Brissles.
New big Zerohedge article
“This year’s minimum Arctic sea ice extent was 26% larger than 2012.
@BBCNews 2007 article said the Arctic would be ice-free by 2013.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/doesnt-fit-msm-narrative-latest-arctic-ice-data-shows-26-larger-2012
Alarmists would say that 2012 was a super low ice year ..so it is a cherrypick
Other Zerohedge articles about BBC
https://www.zerohedge.com/search-content?qTitle=bbc
BBC’s Misleading Headline and Mistranslation by Sky News
Leo Kearse last week
I wonder what the Globalist High Command , aka WEF , will do to oppose The Nationalist Rebellion of the People in the coming year?
Of course there will be anti Trump riots in the US and much Orange Man Bad stuff but these will make his administration stronger in the eyes of the voters.
The increasingly discredited legacy media will be pushing the usual Globalist agenda , mass migration, climate change , Wokery right across the West but it’s influence on ordinary people is much reduced from even five years ago.
Attempts to censor the internet will increase but Trump could threaten to break up the big tech companies if they don’t play nicely and Elon Musk’s addiction to free speech does throw a large spanner in that plan.
The overt ditching of democracy is a possibility in some countries but that is playing into the hands of the Nationalists as it shows the Globalists in their true colours.
Could the WEF try to create a global crisis of one form or another? A financial crisis this time perhaps rather than a pandemic or maybe another large scale war.
But as the Nationalist rebellion grows the effectiveness of the Globalist bag of tricks diminishes and their desperation grows. Perhaps 2025 is the year when the People’s rebellion becomes the People’s Revolution!
The anglosphere has somehow evolved a culture whereby political greens are drawn into lying big time and get rewarded for it
Except sometimes a judge will call it out.
Peter Ridd video https://youtu.be/u7cx357B3r4
Another case from the US in March
“Senator Kennedy hilariously exposed Gus Schumacher, a 23-year-old Olympic skier, during a Senate Budget Committee hearing on climate change. Kennedy questioned Schumacher’s expertise in carbon dioxide and climate policy, highlighting the Democrats’ questionable witness selection, particularly Schumacher’s inability to answer basic questions about carbon dioxide, which undermined the credibility of the testimony.”
… https://youtu.be/KkHqx5LHAFs
I love watching Kennedy on YouTube, he just steamrollers over them having the evidence with him. Many are caught like rabbits in the headlights and left gibbering wrecks.
What are the chances of the BBC running that video?
Snowball and hell come to mind!
Dr Gavin Ashenden gives his analysis of that dreadful King’s speech.
It’s savage.
Whilst I know that I am among like minded people on this site, to hear Dr Gavin Ashenden, ex chaplain to the late Queen, articulate so well what I am thinking, shows we are not alone.
Indeed. And his background in the Church, his erudition and his measured tone all make him difficult to refute as just some far-right hothead.
“The long list has begun.”
https://x.com/gavinashenden/status/1869114301157614000
A former chaplain to the Queen who was clearly frightened off by the Church of England and rightly jumped ship. That said I think that the Church of England will be dropping their prferred broadcaster from next year’s Christmas card list (that’ll learn them).
I’m sorry to say that Christians are at the very top of the special list, which is getting longer by the day as we enter the crucial period between 2025 and 2030. The demons will crush any sign of individuality or morality, but I suggest you try and make it as uncomfortable for them as possible. They hate decent people with a passion. They live miserable lives and hate everything good. They will pay a heavy price for their stupidity in the end. I’m not a Christian, but sticking to the 10 commandments as much as possible will get you a long way.
Who’s up for some left versus right, ping pong, back and forth banter in the headlines?
Labour’s £400 tax hit to your family holiday… That’s what typical family will pay in air passenger duty to fly long-haul… popular destinations such as Walt Disney World in Florida… (Daily Mail)
No fly holidays to look forward to in 2025 (i news)
Touché, says the left leaning, youth-oriented junior poundshop Guardian
My old mum used to refer to stay-at-home holidays spent at her imagined seaside resort of Stoppatholm on Windowsill Bay.
Then she would envisage her non-motorised means of transport – Shanks’s pony.
Travel Special… Favourite winter walks (Guardian)
It is (one of) Mr AsI’s contentions, as pertains to our print media, that the formerly patriotic, now liberal Times newspaper increasingly mimmics the features, style, politics and content of the Guardian: New year walks guide 20 beautiful routes (Times)
The former “Thunderer’s” top headline is, by the way, a puff piece to cheer green fanatic Ed Miliband’s faithless Christmas…
Grants and cheap loans to install solar panels… Green offer for households as part of £6.6bn plan (Times)
The liberal globalist, macroeconomics aware, keen market watcher’s guide, weekend edition of the FT – can seemingly admit only supply side market forces to be an issue: Affordable home building in London plummets as costs hammer providers… worst downturn in affordable housing supply for decades… starts dropped 88 per cent in the year to March… inflation, high interest rates and building safety costs… rise in homelessness (FT) – that’ll be a “Big Issue”
Boat migrant toll is 150,000… milestone was passed after 451 people arrived on Christmas Day (Sun)
Enough… to fill a town the size of Ipswitch… Small boat crossings hit 150,000… since the crisis began in 2018… when 858 asylum seekers made the journey on Christmas Day and Boxing Day (Telegraph)
Here we go… all together now…
On the twelfth day of Christmas,
The EU sent to me
Twelve stabbers stabbing,
Eleven rapers raping,
Ten queue jumpers a-leaping,
Nine scroungers scrounging,
Eight benefits a-milking,
Seven RNLI boats a-taxi-ing,
Six crony corporate golden geese a-laying,
Five trafficking rings,
Four cat-calling birds,
Three French laughs,
Two of Merkel’s loves,
And a twelve-year-old with a full-grown beard
To be fair to the globalist liberal Financial Times they do carry this article by way of a generalised economic forecasting mea culpa: Our biggest financial mistakes FT writers reveal their blunders – which is more than you can say for our globalist liberal politicians.
UK’s Reeves to meet China Vice Premier in Beijing on Jan. 11… Countries to discuss re-opening of economic dialog in 2025… Labour’s pro-China stance faces criticism following spying row – that rather brusque clipped and terse headline from Bloomberg informs us how our Rachel from Accounts is off down the Yellow BRICS road in hopes perhaps of discovering some green Net Zero economic Emerald City.
While the sentimentalist old Labour Daily Mirror attempts to convince us that the Tin Man has a heart: PM’s heartache as brother dies of cancer… Devastated Starmer’s tribute to ‘wonderful, courageous’ Nick – full sympathy to friends and family of course.
As for his pal the brainless Scarecrow: MPs’ Christmas Cards: Kemi Keeps it Traditional, Lammy Features Lammy… David Lammy’s card is, predictably, all about…David Lammy. It’s a cartoon version of himself sitting by the fire, basking in the glow of the hearth—and his own image. Warms the heart… (Guido Fawkes)
Credit where credit is due… our Dave Lammy agrees with Mr AsI’s adage, in so much as ‘when in Rome do as the Romans do’…
Foreign secretary says people should ‘follow the rules’ in other countries after 18-year-old constituent jailed in Dubai… Marcus Fakana, from David Lammy’s Tottenham constituency, had a “holiday romance” with a girl who was 17 while with his family in the United Arab Emirates (Sky News) – you guessed it he’s black.
Both teenagers were on holiday with their parents in the UAE from the UK, where the age of consent is 16. Fakana had told his family about the romance but the girl had not told hers. The 18-year-old’s parents have returned to London after the holiday to resume their jobs in a warehouse and as a cleaner (BBC)
There’s one poor oppressed Windrush community family who may in future welcome Reeve’s airflight tax hike cramping their long-haul holiday style somewhat.
Oh noes …
Mad Ed and his merry men have been firing hot air at the media flunkies. This according to Times Radio…
So the country is about to be covered with solar panels and homes stuffed full of batteries as part of the guberment warm-homes scheme. Where to begin with this madness? A few home truths Ed:
* Solar power generates bugger all power during winter when we need to warm our homes. Currently it is 0.6% at 0.18GW
* Has Mad Ed considered storing 100 electric scooters in his home and declaring this on his home insurance.
* Thermal storage is one hell of a lot cheaper and less dangerous than battery storage in a home.
* Why still no news about building SMR small reactors which would generate power 24/7
* Solar farms fit conveniently in liebour plans to exterminate farming.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/12/14/where-ed-miliband-build-billion-solar-panels/
“…..homes stuffed full of batteries…..”
Thinks ?…………: give a battery to every illegal as they arrive. That’ll at least help with the delivery problem all around the country. Maybe I’ll get a recommendation from ‘MM’ – Mad Millipede for the idea…………
I used the think “Not my King” was a far left statement.
Not anymore.
Perhaps the King will succeed in uniting the country after all… against him!
‘Assad’s fall opened part of my husband’s past I knew nothing about’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy53qkd2z1eo
Basically a heart wrenching, coming out emotionally, story of a Syrian whom we somehow ended up with in London.
Abdullah Al Nofal wearing a Syria wristband, to save himself from endlessy telling everyone he meets where he’s from…
“This is where I was arrested, this is the place.”
Contradicting the headline – he speaks like they’ve already discussed it …
“he left Syria and was later granted scholarships in Geneva and the US. He is now settled in London with his wife.”
Naturally no mention of how we ended up settling him here.
Or if he’d be now be polite enough to go back from from whence he came.
I’d recognise him more easily if seen with other protestors with half concealed face under a shemagh and perhaps wrapped in a Palestinian flag…….
Zephir,
I was prepared to be disappointed with a net zero and possibly wokey king’s speech. But using Christmas to bring up events in July without even mentioning the brutally-murdered children was blatantly political. He used his platform to give royal approval to wrongful imprisonment! And the heresy! “All faiths blah blah, peace blah blah”. He isn’t loyal to God, country or people.
What a kingdom!
“The Prince of Wales accepted bags containing millions of euros in cash during meetings with a senior Qatari politician, according to a report. Prince Charles was said to have been given a total of €3m (£2.6m) during meetings with Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani, the former prime minister of Qatar.26 Jun 2022”
Not BBC – but it’s time to ponder 2025……
What wIll happen ?
1 the state of the UK will continue to decline
2 the dead blues will continue to be blamed
3 the TTK regime will become even more unpopular – but not the the BBC /MSM
4 taxes will continue to rise as public services decline
5 interest rates will continue at current or higher level
6 big falling out between lefty Europe and presidenr trump
7 boat numbers will increase
8 plenty of strikes
9 more good People leaving the UK
10 no revival of the dead blue party
11 reform continues to strengthen
12 labour councils punished in votes
13 Mohammed will continue to be the most ‘popular ‘name
What won’t happen
1 power cuts – that’s 2026/7
2 no nuclear
3 no serious widespread disorder – that’s 2026/7
4 no achievement of red manifesto promises – eg housing
5 no reduction in national debt ( there will be more )
6 no change at the BBC … yet
If Keir Starmer is the answer, we were asking the wrong question…..
“In Calcutta, India, Catholic priests promote the adoption of Indian children by those back in Belgium as a form of charity. When the Belgian government realizes that the number of Indian children raised in Belgium has reached 40,000 in just five years, an emergency policy attempts to halt the migration. Desperate for the chance to send their children to what they call a “land of plenty”, a mob of desperate Indians swarms the consulate. As a Belgian aid worker works through the crowd, an Indian gong farmer known only as “the turd eater”, carrying aloft his monstrously deformed child, begs him to take them back to Europe, to which the worker agrees.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Camp_of_the_Saints
Poland will overtake the UK in wealth per capita at the end of 2025 .
They will not reimburse the UK for our wealth we spent via the European Bank for Reconstruction , the EU or benefits sent to Poland .
Who can blame them , running their country for themselves and not cosmic justice !
Deal agreed to secure Harland & Wolff’s future protecting thousands of UK shipbuilding jobs
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/deal-agreed-to-secure-harland-wolffs-future-protecting-thousands-of-uk-shipbuilding-jobs
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“He said Unite would now engage with the deal and work to ensure the delivery of guarantees both for jobs and continuity of employment. Navantia, which is 100% owned by Spain’s government, has been a significant recipient of funding from the European Commission as part of the European Defence Fund.19 Dec 2024”
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Harland & Wolff, the Belfast shipyard best known for the Titanic, has been saved by a deal with Spain’s state-owned shipbuilder.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn9g2r9dn0vo
Joining the fund is a possible objective for the UK-EU security reset, set to be discussed at a summit early in the new year.
BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vr6725dq4o
SUN
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/32513400/jazwell-brown-milton-keynes-murder-stabbing/
Mark I notice in the linked BBC article, they failed to include an image of the suspect.
“Our new Green Industrial Partnership with Norway will harness the UK’s unique potential to become a world-leader in carbon capture.
My government will deliver our Plan for Change, reigniting industrial heartlands and putting more money in working people’s pockets.”
https://x.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1868612720578396531
‘… reigniting industrial heartlands …’ like setting fire to factories so they don’t use cheap gas or coal to manufacture stuff? Or they can use electricity. Not cheap electricity generated by burning coal or gas, of which we have an abundance but electricity, which is not only expensive, but also imported.
Our Leaders Must Listen or All is Lost! By David Starkey
Comment “As a dyed in the wool believer in a constitutional monarchy, I am even more fearful and upset by what is happening to my beloved country after listening to the King’ s speech.
He too has made it clear that he sides with those who wish to destroy everything that has been the bedrock of our society for hundreds of years.
Our freedoms, democratic rights, traditions,beliefs and values are being attacked from all sides.
There has been an almost imperceptible war against the people of this country going on for years now which, in the last few years, has become more and more transparent.
The enemies of our society have been emboldened, aided and abetted by those who are supposed to serve and protect us, starting with the slow rewriting of our constitution under Blair and Brown, enabled during the last government and positively encouraged by Comrade Starmer’s treacherous regime.
We the people need to fight back, hopefully via the ballot box but by anyway we can to preserve our way of life for future generations.”
Surprised Starkey has forgotten that all the elite are operating a different agenda, imposed by the UN in New York and Davos.
Hundreds more migrants arrive in Britain with 1,300 small boat immigrants crossing Channel since Christmas Day
https://www.gbnews.com/news/migrants-crisis-small-boat-immigrants-channel-christmas-day
When the last twitch of dangling legs has stopped whosoever is left holding the baby, moves exceedingly quickly to clear out the UK of unwanted foreigners. Next time round (if there is one) I will not vote for anyone not honestly declaring the policy.
G
Backed up with the threat of cold steel. They don’t it up ’em Sir!
I’m sorry. I’ll read that again.
They don’t like it up ’em Sir!
Bloody cheap vino again.
> “Our new Green Industrial Partnership with Norway will harness the UK’s unique potential to become a world-leader in carbon capture.
> My government will deliver our Plan for Change, reigniting industrial heartlands and putting more money in working people’s pockets.”
I wonder if Depl or Google translate can be persuaded to ‘auto-translate’ from ‘Der Starmer Speak’ into plain English. I have had a go here:
‘The Norwegians are awash with money through their sovereign wealth fund so are perfect targets for our ponzi plans. This is where we are going to spaff money and energy up the wall compressing CO2 for no reason’
‘Liebour will work really hard to eliminate UK industry and farming. We are going to turn the lights out. We will fill peoples pockets with empty promises.’
Rachel Reeves @RachelReevesMP 2 Nov
“Fixing the NHS, rebuilding Britain and protecting working people from higher taxes in their payslips.
We promised change – we are delivering change.”
https://x.com/RachelReevesMP/status/1852642607479902525
Make that go to 3,000,000
Close the borders! Suspend ALL immigration for 5 years! – Petitions
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700824
The key findings of his research are:
There were at least 4,337 quango employees who received total remuneration in excess of £100,000.
There were 973 quango employees who received remuneration in excess of £150,000.
106 quango employees received remuneration in excess of £250,000.
763 Transport for London employees received remuneration in excess of £100,000.
There were 9 quangos with at least 100 employees who received remuneration in excess of £100,000.
The three highest paid quango employees were all employed by Network Rail and received £300,000 “one-off retention payments.” They were:
Patrick Butcher, Group Finance Director – £767,000
Robin Gisby, Managing Director, Network Operations – £742,000
Simon Kirby, Managing Director – Infrastructure Projects Group – £741,000
Of the 100 highest paid quango employees, 21 were employed by the BBC, 21 by TfL, 16 by the Bank of England, 5 by Network Rail and 5 by the Green Investment Bank.
https://www.taxpayersalliance.com/psrl_quangos
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The Government Hospitality Advisory Committee on the Purchase of Wines will also be abolished, but ministers are considering whether another body should continue its work.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11538534
I think Reform, possibly the excellent Rupert Lowe, should create a comparison chart which, on one side, shows the amount of carbon we would use in the UK to make say a ton of steel and on the other side the amount of carbon used when we buy a ton of steel from China (for example) adding all the other costs such as shipping here and them using coal fired power stations etc to produce this steel.
Then, compare an ev with an IC engine car using things like all the rare elements, child labour and battery disposal etc to see the true carbon footprint of these cars.
The windmills and solar panels should also be compared using their manufacture and lifespan plus the need for continuous backup power sources, nuclear or gas maybe, as opposed to only using nuclear or gas power stations.
If they can produce a chart showing the lies and inefficiencies plus the increased carbon output of this net zero foolishness in black and white to the public they can ask milligram and his mates to explain why the mad rush to net zero and why outsource when it creates MORE carbon.
Slavery Footprint (650 MPs are exempt because they are Gods)
https://slaveryfootprint.org/survey/#do_you_have_children
Emmanuel
Great idea. Also the rail system with its CO2/passenger/km should also be made realistic and include all the ICE machines used in the maintenance of the rail network. Plus all the train drivers and other workers who drive to work. Plus all the wasted fuel when ICE vehicles wait at level crossings. etc etc.
NET ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY…..
“Andrew Bruce joined the company in 2015. His job was to buy all the land and property for phase one of the project.
He says that in his first week he was given two sets of figures.
According to Mr Bruce, one set was to be used to show the government in presentations. He says these showed HS2 was on track to purchase the land on time and on budget.
He says he was also given a second set of figures which showed there was no way HS2 could buy all the land and properties needed while keeping to that budget. And he says his own work subsequently found even higher estimates for land and property costs.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98486dzxnzo
Andrew Bruce was told to lie and did lie but nothing happened to him.
HS2 blew billions – here’s how and why
20% of the British Army walk in October?
– that’s not exactly trivial
Cooks and drivers or front line?
https://x.com/juneslater17/status/1872205267125113238
Tomo – do you think that is true ? If there was an enemy which ran a campaign to demoralise it looks like they have won .
I can’t understand why any Briton would fight and die for a country being given away … yet alone for a regime run by a Marxist Corbyn /TTK ….
true? – The Telegraph is amping the annualised numbers – but how many are they recruiting beyond natural attrition?
” largest pay rise in 22 years” but 4500 still on Universal Credit….
12,000 recruited so shrinking…
https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/geopolitics/british-army-struggling-for-recruits-telegraph/
a spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense said that the current government “inherited” a recruitment crunch
The Mandy Rice-Davis ripost….
Source of departures ?
This Is Belonging 2018 – TV – Keeping my Faith – This is Belonging – Army Jobs
Meanwhile I read that the Royal Navy’s submarine service is more or less rotted by sailors behaving badly including sexual molestation etc. etc.
We need some tough people with backbone back at the helm to root out all the deviants that have slithered into the services.
can they even man the subs?
– the submariners have had chronic recruitment woes for over a decade from what I’ve been told.
Serving on submarines is a hard and demanding life, with no privacy and long tours. To have woman serving on submarines is the height of idiocy.
HMS Mohammed – the first Islamic nuclear state ….
Close the borders petition over 100,000 signatures:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700824
No doubt any one signing that will designated ‘enemies of the State ‘ – right 77 brigade …?
There is an article in today’s Guardian about the endless poaching of rhinos for their horns.
Yet not a single word about who is doing the poaching or, even more pertinently, who the customers are.
Incredible.
“That’s could only happen at the end of a civilisation.
It may be too late”
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“This is one of the greatest speeches I’ve ever seen any politician deliver.
And Poilievre’s right. We’re not relying on him because we want to. We’re relying on him because he’s our last hope for this country.”
https://x.com/jasonjamesbnn/status/1869025919773614109
Is it just me or have I noticed a drift at Private Eye. I do not read the magazine that often – in fact rarely these days but the scourge of the establishment 25 years ago now seems very comfortable with the status quo. It got me thinking whether Ian Hislop is conflicted by his bBC earnings, or is it that he has lost the plot after almost 40 years at the Private Eye helm.
The Eye still does some investigation but they really don’t follow through to the wider media (or that media is timorous + rammed with PR ‘d guff). From my direct experience they dilute reporting of official wrongdoing by accepting and publishing misdirection and lies from public bodies.
gutless is one word I’d use
I daresay if Peter Cook were alive the air would be blue….
Gave up with Private Eye in recent years as Hislop is a smug obnoxious piece of shit whom I would never tire of punching his face in.
Doc:
That sounds reasonable. Hisplop is basically a BBC employee who moonlights at a “satirical” magazine which accepts the CO2 propaganda without complaint.
tomo
I wonder what Richard Ingrams thinks of Private Eye these days?
Over 20,000 rocket engineers etc. have crossed the channel since the Labour win.
Just think how bad it would have been if TTK had NOT ‘smashed the gangs’
We’re lucky to have him I say.
Emmanuel Goldstein,
We’re Doomed…….this is Madness 😠
Why hasn’t Starmer Stopped the RNLI TAXI SERVICE AND BORDER FARCE BRINGING ILLEGAL INVADERS HERE ?
This once Great Britain is Finished 😔
I reckon that’s thumbing your nose territory….
wary of the DM… but still….
They get everything for free, why would they want a job?
Somebody has to tend those cannabis plants.
Everybody here know I am easily confused. GBNews and Classic FM are reporting that Sir Kier (the man who couldn’t afford his own spectacles), has written to various regulators demanding than in just over two weeks they give ideas of how the government can boost the economy. I thought Sir Kier should have been on holiday but instead is supposed to be in deep mourning for his brother. I didn’t realise the regulators were responsible for the economy. Two weeks is not long to develop ideas, build cost benefit annalysis and be sure there are no unintended consequences. I thought Labour had their plans already developed and Rachel from accounts had full costed them. I presume it is Sir Kier trying to look decisive but actually just looking totally devoid of ideas.
If I wanted to stimulate economic growth I would certainly ask the advice of public sector placemen in charge of quangos. Who better to ask?
“Will Russia release thousands of Ukrainians for New Year?”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crk01exykx4o
Usual BBC story, nothing explained properly.
It’s not clear why Russia, mid war, would send the enemies soldiers back to bolster their army.
And Ukraine probably don’t have enough Russians for a meaningful exchange.
Then there’s a protest in Ukraine , but no idea given who it’s against.
They could try demanding peace talks…
Azov soldiers were lucky they weren’t charged in civil courts for shelling civilians, in the breakaway provinces before the recent Russian invasion.
A graphic for the top of the 2025 thread?
and….
The chair, Lord Allen, seems to be a typical establishment shit. No great surprises if they were awarded the LU contract. In my days of cynicism I wonder whether it should be rewarded rather than awarded.
fight!
https://x.com/afneil/status/1872807207479460008
Campbell mixing the meds and booze again eh? Just another reliable approved msm mouth …
Fedup2
tbh, I hope they both lose their shit and get stuck in – I need a chuckle.
“How Did Russia Grow Such a MASSIVE Army”
They pay the soldiers properly, so they’re keen to sign up.
Meanwhile all our cash is spent on immigrant hotels etc
Que ?
Russia pay their PROPAGANDISTS properly.
Russia had to pay mercenary contractor corporations cos they can’t get enough regular soldiers.
Russia had to pay North Korea to use send their conscripts to be used as canon fodder in Ukraine.
Oddly enough though, they’re not paying an invading army to be there.
Big green PR account with 138,000 followers tweets
“In 3 days, Norway will stop selling all vehicles with combustion engines for good.”
The vast majority o the public, act thick and just accept the wild claim at face value
Only a few point out it’s rubbish.
Of course Norway will still be selling lots of ICE VEHICLES
practical non ICE solutions don’t exist for bigger vehicle.
The new law in Norway is much lesser than the claim, rather there are large new taxes on smaller petrol cars . If your car can be classed as a van the tax will be much lower.
Stew, as I heard it from a resident – EVs are banned in some mountainous areas in the winter.
Gaslighting shits / lying scum
A well aged, ripe appearance by you know who – what a drittseck (as they say in Norway)
So, let me get this straight.
The suspect in the Southport murders, Axel Rudakubana, appeared in a BBC Children in Need production.
https://news.sky.com/story/bbc-removes-doctor-who-themed-children-in-need-advert-that-starred-southport-stabbing-suspect-13189841
The logo for the Children in Need farce is a one-eyed teddy bear. Really. You should put Baphomet up there. Rudakubana appears dressed up as the doctor, who we know famously possesses multiple personalities and is not a real person.
The suspect in the Magdeburg Christmas market murders, Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen, appeared in a BBC production that promoted the alleged killer’s website.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07g2vrp
This program is still available on the BBC website. Are the BBC happy pushing the content of alleged mass murderers or are we supposed to believe they are unaware of who this man is? I would suggest this forms part of the mockery.
The man who supposedly attempted to assassinate Donald Trump, Thomas Matthew Crooks, appeared in a Blackrock commercial.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-gunman-who-shot-donald-trump-once-appeared-in-a-blackrock-ad/ar-BB1q1joD
And no one thinks this indicates something is seriously suspect with these events. The only strange thing is that Crooks didn’t appear in any BBC production with Elon Musk and the entire cast of ‘Have I got news for you’.
The mathematical chances of this happening randomly are zero. They are laughing their heads off at you.
Some really interesting finds there kingkp, well done!
You know, it’s absolutely clear that the BBC will give airtime to just about anyone that promotes more Muslim immigration into Europe…and therefore Blighty…They take everyone at face value…as long as their faces aren’t white…
I suggest that Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen, in particular, needed to be carefully scrutinised before they plastered his propaganda spiel all over their news coverage.
I think most of the corrupt MSM are still suggesting that this vile, dangerous and deceitful creature might be a member of the “far-right”. oh, yes, of course…I mean, there’s nothing ever so slightly incongruous about someone from the far-right mowing down civilians at a Christmas market, is there?
Perhaps the BBC should find themselves a fact checker.
Oh, hang on…
@Jeff I’m a bit miffed since I did post this on 21st December
❓COINCIDENCE❓ ALL IN PROPAGANDA VIDEOS
✅ Taleb AlAbdulmohsen drove his car into a Christmas Market in Magdeburg Germany ALSO appeared on the BBC in 2019 bbc video clip
✅ Rwandan teen stabbed 13 girls at Southport England killing 3, starred in a BBC ad for Children In Need
✅ Thomas Crooks who tried to take out TRUMP was in this “BlackRock” commercial while in high school
Oh, well done Stew, I’m afraid I missed your post, but you’re certainly ahead of the curve…
Keep it up!
Cheers, my ego has being massaged , but as I say it’s often when a new thread goes up, it’s still worth checking the end of an old thread , for stuff you would otherwise miss.
Not BBC
Steve Bannon had a long TV interview about what president trump faces in the first year . He thinks it wont be easy because the obama gang will fight everything..,
.in my view ., the likes of the BBC will be desperate to show splits in the team and trouble in the White House as the war against trump continues.
Inevitably, there’s something of a year end review theme in our press this morning. The gynaeceum that is BBC news staff revert to form by selecting the Sunday incarnation of their newspaper of choice the Guardian to top their online frontpages line-up.
Mr AsI is not a great fan of the look-who-just-died trend in news reporting. Obituaries are one thing, they have their place in the journalistic oeuvre, but the move to annual round-ups – the recalling of what amount to death lists – he finds to be a miserabilist step too far: Those we lost in 2024 In News Review – savours the Observer for our delectation.
Delectation, you say, Mr AsI? Delectation carries a whiff of beyond-the-usual amusement, indulgence, or deliciousness. If a treat is offered to you for your delectation, it is likely something worth taking time to savour – so prompts Merriam-Webster dictionary.
For whom the old year’s bell tolls
Without the need of retelling all the gory detail of the Observer’s headline obits, one leaves it to the reader hereabout’s imagination to guess at the sort of figures highlighted on the friend side of the political friend/enemy distiction; the ethnic and gender exemplars in the arts field; and the odd sports person.
As Putin reaches 25 years in power, has he ‘taken care of Russia’? – asks Steve Rosenberg, BBC Russia editor, Reporting from Moscow. We need hardly remind ourselves of Betteridge’s law of headlines to understand the answer to we ought to reply to this question is clearly signalled as being NO.
But that’s not really for us to judge. One might ask how Keir Starmer, who has been our PM for roughly 25 weeks, give or take, has ‘taken care of Britain’?
Farage could take 67 seats from Labour: suggests poll (Sunday Times); Families face £8k new year tax raid… school fees and council levies with threat of further rises (Telegraph); Latest aid package to Ukraine comes on top of £3billion a year support (Express) – despite that latter sub-header which Mr AsI takes to be bad news, the rag that is our gungho Express actually appears to be in favour of the English Playing Fields of Eton paying dearly for us losing the battle of the Ukraine.
As does our Education Secretary: Middle classes support VAT on private schools, says Phillipson… claims most families in ‘good professional jobs’ have already been priced out (Sunday Times) – so that’s ok then. I guess our public schools will now be increasingly the exclusive preserve, not so much of the English, as of the super elite foot-loose international globalist class.
Perhaps it will be Donald Trump who will save these warmonger lefties from their folly?
It’s not as though Britain couldn’t do with saving a few bob to spend more locally – as the left are always keen to point out: Patients at risk as NHS urgent repair costs triple in a decade… Backlog bill rises to £2.7bn in 10 years (Observer)
If you were paying attention, that figure compares neatly with the £3billion a year support the Express was so keen to encourage Starmer to flush down the Donbas: …every year ‘for as long as it takes’
But we’re not here just for the naked politics, the rank punditry, if you will.
Thousands protest in Georgia ahead of political showdown (BBC) – that’ll be the emerging republic in the former Soviet bloc – not the US southern state – neither really any of our concern.
Who are today’s frontpage press photo pin-ups and what does that tell us?
The formerly serious, now liberal and female interest Sunday Times, goes with: Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge – she may sound like the title of an Anthony Trollope novel, but do please form an orderly queue for this trollop. chaps: …was made a life peer by Boris Johnson when she was 30… and say what you will about our Boris, but he an eye for the ladies.
However… “Maaaate!” as Sadiq Khan would say…
…campaigning against deepfake porn by introducing a private member’s bill to the Lords (Times)
The old-fashioned mildly conservative Telegraph goes with that winsome-looking, dusty academic’s supper time hot buttered crumpet that it: Lucy Worsley, the historian and TV presenter
So what’s her beef?
Worsley’s axe to grind with TV bosses – but surely, TV has been the very bread and butter, for this slice of crumpet these past years?
I’m oddly reminded of early 80s synth pioneers The Human League and in particular their commercial success with Don’t You Want Me (1981)
You were working as a post-grad in a historical archive reference library
When I met you
I picked you out, I shook you up
And turned you around
Turned you into someone new
Now five years later on you’ve got the world at your feet
Success has been so easy for you
But don’t forget it’s me who put you where you are now
And I can put you back down too
…reveals her anger that the murder of women is being glamorised for entertainment. “I’m fed up with seeing women running naked through the woods with the killer in pursuit” she tells the Telegraph
I don’t think I’ve wathced that one. Sounds good though.
I guess this is where one plays to the crowd hereabouts and points out the dire lack of feminist campaign voices raised in protest at the industrial scale systematic sexual exploitation of young white girls in English towns and cities practised by gangs of immigrant muslim men. Hey-ho.
I was working as a curator in some historic mansion
That much is true
But even then I knew I’d find a much better place
Either with or without you
The five years we have had have been such good at times
I still love you
But now I think it’s time I live my life on my own
I guess it’s just what I must do
So there you have it. While the tabloids are unabashed and decidedly up-front with their cover page party girls: I tried heroin & had wild nights out with Katie (Mirror); Apprentice stars in hotel romp… broke “no touching” rules in Turkey for Lord Sugar’s new BBC series (Sun); Ronaldo wag so proud (Star); Maura fears TV tell-all from her ex (Sun)
So the broadsheet glamour pusses must – needs be – be seen to be fronting up some feminist campaign issue.
And while our BBC gynaeceum, with a veritable hockey team of authors, bemoans: Growth of women in power grinds to near-halt in a mega-election year (BBC, Vibeke Venema, Stephanie Hegarty and Leoni Robertson)
Mr AsI, respectfully, says – calm down dears!
Asiseeit – thanks -i tour de force of a review – but I still don’t get the reference to the BBC gymnasium ….
gynaeceum:
“a part of a building set apart for women in an ancient Greek or Roman house.”
Maybe he’s saying the BBC is skirt heavy.
Eddy – thank you – I did look it up but instantly forgot the meaning …
Anyway – it seems that the undertaker for the dead blue party – someone called ‘Kemi ‘ has run off to ofcom to complain about Nigel Farage appearing on TV .
It’s good to see the dead blue gang has the same attitude to any opposition that the Marxists have. I suppose when voters fail to vote for the dead blue it will be a mixture of racism and sexism .. but after all – they are lefty liberals …
This blog kind of sums up the red\blue globalists game.
But maybe there’s light at the end of the tunnel with more people waking up to it:
”
One of the running themes here has been the slow global restructuring that has been happening with the resurgence of the right/conservative/traditionalist movements and the collapse of neoliberal globalism.
Another running theme has been the revolving-doorism, which I even covered in the very last piece, of the globalist cohort which sees the constant recycling of the same few devout ‘establishment’ figureheads through a mill of unelected bureaucratic positions within the globalist super-state power structures. When you really think about it, it’s incredible how blatantly the puppeteers simply rotate their stale, rotten factotums from one position to another just as the puppet wears out its welcome. Once they build up an irreversible toxic head of public discontent they are simply shipped off to the new post or sinecure, being rotated around the board like chess pieces—pawns in this case.”
https://substack.com/home/post/p-153658162
Our BBC is more of a Jill-nasium, really.
Stephen Fry treated chronic pain ‘as a friend’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3zllv6y15o
Another pointless BBC story about an academic woman ‘guest editing’ something on Radio 4.
The other guest editors will be baroness Floella Benjamin (play school), dame Laura Kenny (a bike rider) and sir Sajid Javid (a totally-self serving politician who was in no small part responsible for stabbing Boris in the back to be PM himself).
What a complete and utter farce the BBC now is. And who decided Javid should be knighted ?. The man is the worst kind of politician.
And as I look at the iPlayer ‘weekend playlist’ the BBC front page is thrusting at me I see:
Woman : BAME woman : woman : two women : black man : Roger Moore : Black man.
So no ‘normal’ white males then BBC. Yet the head of OFCOM just told us misogyny needs more exposure on the BBC. Misandry it seems is perfectly OK.
Alternative headline :
“Stephen Fry treated chronic homosexuality ‘as a friend’ ”
Unsurprisingly, decades later, he remains uncured.
Stephen Fry
That homo boy
Does he still hope
To arrest the Pope?
Curious – BBC news billed ‘the road to the White House ‘ at 1130 Sunday morning . It never happened . Instead it was on and on about an air crash in South Korea ….
I was really looking forward to the anti Trump ‘spin ‘ and was surprised the BBC would go anywhere near the election now … but is mad Harris had stolen it like Biden – we d never hear the end of ‘first female coloured loopy President’…
Is this the BBC trailer for ‘the road to the White House ?
Perhaps you meant this BBC prog
The Path To The Presidency .. vary girly and written with a Kamala win in mind
It was published on Friday night and scheduled for 11:30am on BBCnews Europe Schedule
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0026h8b/path-to-the-presidency-year-in-review
Yes – that’s the one – thx – instead the BBC is in full vicarious grief mode for an air crash 11000 miles away ….
Looks like Alistair Campbell is going to be on the telly more – recouping his losses ?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14232547/Investors-police-collapse-Alastair-Campbell-sons-football-betting-syndicate.html
“Rory, who read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford”
Very clever those Oxbridge types, any fool would know you never win at gambling, Westminster and the Civil Service are stuffed full of them. Alastair Campbell seems to have tapped up his old contact Lord Falconer, Bliar’s former legal spiv to defend the indefensible. Rory seems to be a chip off the Alastair Campbell block.
Let’s see who queues up to bail out mad Al?
It could not happen to a nicer person. The bBC have no idea the anger I felt when Alastair Campbell was paid to talk about ethics, politics and lying in Parliament in response to the Sure Gray report into Boris Johnson’s behaviour. We now know in the UK that it is better to kill 460,000 people than to have a slice of illicit birthday cake. No logical state will ever survive such a judgement and Campbell is at the heart of the blob which deliveres these outcomes.
Campbell is as vile as it gets, so his gradual reinstatement as BBC tier 1 panel gob is explained if not justified.
Other than Lineker, I wonder where his funding originates?
This is from a thread on BBC MO, suggesting those who are not actually Muslim are bought and paid for by Islam.
https://x.com/mishtal/status/1873299819177148563?s=61
They even had a choerographed bit – evidence of pre -arranged questions. The Reverend was asked about an exhibit from last year – and sure enough the BBC screen filled with images.
It gave them the chance to show baby Jesus in a pile of rubble – as if he were a baby in Gaza.
Dimbles… alive, corrupt and thriving in W1A.
The migrants arriving on Kent UK shores are missing Mary and the donkey?
@GW I nearly posted the start of that thread this morning
It ends up as a 3 page article
https://david-collier.com/bbc-news-bias-caught-without-an-excuse/
tomo
Hopefully President Trump will be in possession of a high quality can opener and thereby spill the beans.
You have to wonder if Global bosses are giving instruction to Labour or taking it….
Putrid political posturing and noticeable to a visitor.
https://x.com/CharlotteCGill/status/1873134274632974422
“The depressed should be allowed to end their life, says AC Grayling”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/21/assisted-dying-bill-depressed-and-disabled-ac-grayling/
The depressed
The far-right
Those who disagree
Gill lists 9 POLITICAL agenda adverts that Global and TfL agreed were OK with
Then showed when 1 RIGHTY political advert , the one from farmers was submitted .. TfL refused it
by saying “Oh we don’t allow controversial political ads”
A quote that the UK Labour Party might pay attention to (or likely not)