BBC in a tricky position now that has been released that Uk taxpayers have been funding part of it through USAID . perhaps that’s a reason why BBC coverage isn’t as comprehensive as it might being mindful of how interested it has been in vilifying Donald Trump ..
Start the Week 10th February 2025
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To end the climate crisis Ed Milliband to reduce kitchens from two to one!
#OneKitchenEd
Are there ‘grooming gangs’ in London? Sadiq Khan accused of stonewalling Tory questions
“Use the words groomed. Your words not mine.” (c) Sadiq Khan
“Susan Ann Gray, Baroness Gray of Tottenham, has been introduced to the Lords today. Failing upwards…”
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She is in goo… well, she has plenty of company.
I rarely watch terrestrial TV, but just looked at the listings to see what “gems” I’ll be missing tonight – on BBC.
Hmm…
7pm The One Show – for Sun readers who can’t read and need pictures.
7.30 Eastenders – “Sonia seeks answers !” I could give her a few….
8.00 Sort Your Life Out – by some talentless reality woman with Turkish teeth who boasts 5 kids and a husband with a hair transplant.
9.00 Waterloo Road – about a school. (oh f..k off)
10.40 Boarders ???? no idea
And that is the cultural output tonight from our national broadcaster.
I’ll stick to Netflix and Channel 4 streaming.
If you’re in need of some peaceful viewing I thoroughly recommend Sky channel 507 NHK World. English speaking Japanese channel covering some beautiful documentaries and the news from a Japanese perspective.
From a Theresa May speech …
As Martin Wolf, the chief economics commentator of the financial times, says: ‘The desirability of sizeable immigration is a matter more of values than of economics. It is not a choice between wealth and poverty, but of the sort of country one desires to inhabit.’
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/home-secretary-speech-on-an-immigration-system-that-works-in-the-national-interest
Loathsome Lammy
“Labour reparations row lays bare before Britain the real issue with Keir Starmer’s party”
“Britain doesn’t owe a penny in reparations – but David Lammy seems determined to hand over the keys to the Treasury.
If the reports are to be believed, then David Lammy, the Foreign Secretary, is once again proving that Sir Keir Starmer and the Labour Party’s priority isn’t the British people – it’s appeasing foreign interests, virtue-signalling to the liberal elite, and chipping away at Britain’s sovereignty.”
– Express
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/labour-reparations-row-lays-bare-before-britain-the-real-issue-with-keir-starmer-s-party/ar-AA1yOfBq
Spot the difference.
BBC headline…
‘Ineos blames cost-cutting for legal battle with NZ rugby’
Telegraph headline…
‘Sir Jim Ratcliffe blames EU as Ineos hits back at All Blacks in sponsorship row’
Who is reporting correctly?
The Telegraph. The BBC barely mentions the reality.
Telegraph…
‘Ineos has now responded and, in a statement that raises fresh questions over its vast sports investment, warned of the “deindustrialisation of Europe” and said that its European business was being severely hit by carbon taxes and high energy costs.
Ratcliffe personally wrote to the European Commission last February to say that the continent’s chemicals sector was struggling to compete with markets in Asia, the United States and the Middle East and that investment was being driven away. He also blamed energy prices and carbon taxes last month for forcing the closure of Ineos’s synthetic ethanol plant at Grangemouth in Scotland, resulting in the loss of 80 direct roles and an estimated 500 indirect jobs.
‘Trading conditions for our European businesses have been severely impacted by high energy costs and extreme carbon taxes, along with much of the chemicals industry in Europe, which is struggling or shutting down. We are witnessing the deindustrialisation of Europe.’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/articles/cn57nvklnypo
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2025/02/11/jim-ratcliffe-blames-eu-ineos-all-black-sponsorship-row/
The Woodland Trust is the latest charity to dramatically stomp off X in it’s woke high-heel shoes.
“We have taken the decision to leave X. If you’d like to keep up with our work, we can be found on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and LinkedIn.”
Not a decision to leave X but a decision to avoid all those Deplorables and common oiks that are allowed to express their opinions and facts freely on X now that the Twitterati fascists aren’t silencing them….us.
I recommend any members of the Trust leave and make their opinions known…and take their money with them.
Not BBC
Not very interesting . The met plod went soft on vetting of applicants years ago in order to get more coloured / foreign faces in ….
Then one of their own abducts rapes murdered a nice lady walking him . His vetting was inadequate
So plod panicked and reverted everyone and found something like 300 plod with records – and fired them .
The high court has just decided there shouid have been proper legal reviews rather than just ‘your fired ‘
This may mean the met has to take a lot of fired plod back or pay them with Londoners ‘ money –
All because a stupid woke policy about skin colour …. Avoid plod as much as possible …
A failed Scottish unelected Ex PM called ‘Gordon ‘ has gone to X to say that by closing down USAID President Trump has failed to understand ‘soft power ‘.
As you might imagine the response to this dolt ae very – unkind ….
But then coming from a far left failure – spouting his opinion about the acts of a democratically elected president -it’s no surprise . Go write a book Gordon .
The BBC very exercised about Trump’s tariffs…but show little concern about Labour’s own tariffs that they impose on our own businesses….as long as they last…who will do more damage…Labour or Trump?
From the Telegraph…
‘At least 300,000 high street jobs to go, M&S and Tesco warn’
‘Retailers sound the alarm over the Chancellor’s business rates system shake-up.
The Retail Jobs Alliance (RJA), a campaign group whose members also include Asda, Primark, B&Q owner Kingfisher and Morrisons, said the number of people leaving the sector could be even higher than its 300,000 forecast.
It said this was because the group’s estimates did not take into account changes announced in the Budget, which pushed up costs for retailers.’