Sunday sees the German Federal Electiom . The BBC wants the AFD party to lose . No impartiality . If the ADF fails the BBC will be over the moon . If the ADF win – the gloom will be palpable . There are already suspicions that the Far Left is fixing the count .
Weekend 22nd February 2025
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Yippe, first again. Spotted this taster in the Daily Telegraph on-line: “The BBC’s institutional arrogance is going to destroy it.” It was for an article written by George Chesterton. Not that George Chesterton? Must be another one. Actually the great ‘G.K’ was a Gilbert not George. Thanks Wiki! 🙂
Hope the BBC, Licence Fee especially, is destroyed soon. Please put it out of its pro-Palestinian misery.
Good on yer Snuffy !
10.15 and only 3 comments ! Time was when it was a race for pole position and there’d be a dozen postings by now.
Well, I was watching the fabulous flick, ‘Rain Man’, so I’m excused!
By Golly; Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise were magnificent in that film…
So I missed the cut here!
Congrats, Uppers and Brissles!
Scrobie, you do have a good excuse. 🙂
Brissles, thank you. 🙂
Constant references on the awful Radio 4 to the “Far Right” AfD ahead of German elections. At one point they tried to link the party with N@z1s by saying AfD were the most right-wing since the war. Would the BBC ever describe anyone as “Far Left”? Has there ever been a more Leftist globalist government than Herr Sturmer’s?
I wonder who runs the Hamas/Gaza PR department. The sickening fairground/circus style handover of the Israeli bodies was disgusting. Who could support or justify the spectacle of a baby’s body being handed over in that manner? It was a parade of perverted pride in being the most revolting people in the World. One could liken it to Himmler proudly showing the foreign press around the gas chambers and crematoria in Auschwitz.
As a postscript, it turns out that there was worse to come. What next? execute hostages on stage?
The swirl of claims does make one’s head spin.
https://x.com/independent/status/1893201382246629768?s=61
Family confirms body handed over by militants overnight was Israeli mother Shiri Bibas
This accurate? Makes no difference to a mother and two infants being killed and paraded.
Zelensky surrenders to Trump and ‘will sign mineral deal within hours’
The BBC always used to scoff at Boris Johnson’s scathing reports on EU madness…such as the bendiness of bananas…but if you read his columns and check the facts you’d find he was pretty much right every time….and the EU keeps on going as it announces that coffee is dangerous for humans if ingested.
‘The European Union has issued a warning that caffeine is “harmful to humans if swallowed” under a ruling banning the use of the central component of coffee in pesticides.
The decision by the European Commission, the executive arm of the economic bloc, was in response to an application by a French company Progarein to use the stimulant to ward off insects from crops of cabbages and potatoes.
Coffee is a much-loved staple on the continent – the largest consumer market of the drink in the world – and an integral part of the daily routine for people across the planet.
However, in banning its application to agriculture, the commission said scientific evidence from the European Food Safety Authority showed “caffeine has adverse effects on the cardiovascular system, hydration and body temperature in adults, as well as on the central nervous system (sleep, anxiety, behavioural changes) in adults and children, and an adverse birth weight-related outcome in pregnant women.”
“Furthermore, due to the absence of data, the Authority could not conclude its assessment of non-dietary risks for operators, workers, bystanders and residents,” the regulation statement from October said.’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/caffeine-eu-ban-pesticide-toxic-harmful-b2702241.html
BBC curiously not seeming too eager to report this one….probably just a bit too negative about their favourite empire.
As most gardeners know, coffee grounds are a valuable resource for the garden.
This just another boring – and wrong – ‘directive’ by a group of unelected nobodies who exist in a place where gardens are never permitted, because their perception of agriculture is dulled by their own town-inbred elitist mediocrity.
https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/maintain-the-garden/coffee-grounds-for-plants/
You’ll not see much about this in Beeboid La-la land…
Phew Scrobie, don’t hold back! 🙂
Ok, I won’t then Uppers!
You’d have thought that the ‘organic veganoids’ would welcome any progress in non-chemical methods of mollusc control and fertiliser, but oh no, they have to keep dirging their mantras in the face of falling agriculture procedures and customs, (including the disgraceful new steal from Rachel in stapler supplies), to try and change their blinkered ‘world’.
Like most gardeners I gave up GQT years ago when the beeboid wokery got their painted little fingers into their pinko rubber gloves and decided that all fruit and vegetables were The Devil’s Dumplings, (viz – Blackadder’s rich aunt)!
(Is this enough, Uppers)?
A link for Gardeners World – phew! That’s a departure from the usual obscure links from foreign news outlets. Yes coffee grounds – useful for all sorts of stuff – even good as an exfoliate for smoother skin. (bet GW doesn’t know that 😀 )
I broadly agree with much of what NO says. Where I disagree is that he seems to suggest that the Globalist leadership is driven just by avarice and are relatively few in number. I think that the Globalist Leadership cadre is much larger , many thousands strong , and whilst all benefit financially many of them are also motivated by the ideology of Globalism, a new world where equality reigns. ( Sounds familiar) . This was something that could be sold as attractive and altruistic to millions of apparatchiks.
Of course it’s a wrong headed and highly dangerous ideology but then ideologies often are and many have proven far more destructive than avarice has in the last 100 years.
To free us from the pernicious grip of the Globalist ideology the people need to hear the truth. Like other ideologies Globalism cannot stand if the truth is available to those it attempts subjugate.
Some are suggesting the BBC should be prosecuted under terrorism laws for promoting Hamas [they should] but maybe they should also be prosecuted for grooming young children in an attempt to make them available to the trans or gay fraternity…
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/02/21/why-is-cbeebies-celebrating-transvestite-sex-workers/
‘Why is CBeebies celebrating transvestite sex workers?’
‘The BBC is pushing trans propaganda on pre-schoolers.
CBeebies, the BBC’s platform for pre-school children, has run a bizarre puff piece lionising two transvestite prostitutes.
Ahead of this year’s International Women’s Day, CBeebies’ staff saw fit to include the late Ray ‘Sylvia’ Rivera and Marsha P Johnson in a list of ‘Inspirational Mums’.
But Rivera and Johnson were not only childless men, and thus not ‘mothers’ in any sense. They were also the kind of men that no loving parent would leave a child with. They were prostitutes known to be involved with the New York mob.
As Fred Sargeant, gay-rights campaigner and veteran of the Stonewall riots, wrote on spiked:
‘It had no toilet, water, heat or electricity. Liquor and drugs were plentiful. The four rooms were strewn with trash and occupied by as many as 20 people at a time. Food and other supplies were generally stolen or shoplifted by residents. What little cash there was came in from sex work in the 42nd Street area and elsewhere, or from begging. Conveniently, this building was next door to one of [the mob’s] porn-distribution operations.’
When the BBC is directing trans propaganda at children, recasting transvestite prostitutes as loving mothers, it is waving a womanly willy in the face of every licence-fee payer.’
If ANYONE is guilty of ‘inciting racial hatred’ it’s the BBC for their complete misrepresentation of who is responsible for all the Muslim civilians killed in Gaza.
The mafia had a close relationship with stonewall. The reason being because homosexuality was illegal the mafia could run clubs that exploited their customers who would never want to complain.
For example the mafia would water down the drinks but charge full prices. Elf an safety would have been out the window.
The stonewall riots were said to be in response to police invasion of mafia run clubs. So more about rubbing up the mafia the wrong way.
So when I look at the gay books in my local library for alphabet month I wonder who supplied the books – the mafia or the alphabet people?
Ros Atkins on… the fight for Ukraine’s critical minerals
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/czx7d0e70dxo
Oh dear BBC Verify : you never mentioned ‘mineral rights’ when the Biden and the EU were funding this war to stop Russia getting any of it.
This war has always been about who gets the prize of Ukraine, it’s resources and it’s space. But the BBC never mentioned it until Trump was elected on the promise to stop it and is doing so.
Not sure if anyone posted this already. Apologies if they did.
A concise list of everything the BBC are not telling us about Ukraine and which makes their current ‘outrage’ at Trump even more disgusting and dirty.
The BBC are part of that same cancer destroying the West.
Trump fires top US general CQ Brown in shake-up at Pentagon
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyr2xvn4dpo
An unusual bland ‘information only’ report from the BBC as they can’t easily spin this one against Trump. However they do try at the end with the usual lie by omission:
‘Meanwhile, a federal court in Maryland temporarily blocked Trump from implementing bans on diversity, equity and inclusion programmes. District Judge Adam Abelson ruled that the directives by Trump may violate free-speech rights in the US Constitution.’
That would be DEMOCRAT Judge Adam Abelson there BBC. It is relevant to the story so you should have included it.
I’m only surprised they didn’t re-run the entire George Floyd story again.
One thing I am sure is that ‘Rachel Looker’ didn’t decide the content of this article. She was directed and supervised over what to write. I suspect – given the lack of usual spiteful snipes at Trump – she basically copied it from somewhere else.
Daily Mail on Line is really trying to hit Trump through Musk. Another hit piece this morning. It highlights his ‘ever increasing bizarre behaviour’ and ‘possible’ ketamine use. No mention of the waste that his people are discovering at US taxpayers expense.
I know Musk is odd. But increasingly so? The Mail dislikes him, so it must be true.
Yes, it is strange is it not, that all the UK so called “independent” msm bizarrely seem to hold the exactly the same views on Musk, Russia and Ukraine.
Almost as if it is co-ordinated….
Yes – it’s obvious the Mail is on Musk’s case – so much so that I looked up the scribblers involved.
Can you believe the blind arrogance of these far left war mongering morons, in charge of a country they are in the process of bankrupting, putting farmers and many others out of business with pensioners and many others who cannot afford to heat their houses? With cost of living rises becoming impossible for many, whilst claiming we all need to pay more and more taxes ?
“Keir Starmer shrugs off Trump as he prepares to give new aid to Ukraine and sanction Russian oligarchs amid US President’s war of words with Volodymyr Zelensky.
The Prime Minister will use the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, February 24, to reveal a ‘triple whammy’ of measures.
Final details of the measures are being drawn up, but could include extra weapons for Ukrainian forces and sanctions, which would build on the already over 2,000 Russian people and entities that have been sanctioned since the war.
On Monday, John Healey, the Defence Secretary, will give interviews explaining the extra support and David Lammy, the Foreign Secretary, is expected to address the Commons.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14423413/Keir-Starmer-shrugs-Trump-prepares-new-aid-Ukraine-sanction-Russian-oligarchs-amid-Presidents-war-words-Volodymyr-Zelensky.html
Mr Trump has already criticised the Prime Minister ahead of his visit, claiming he ‘didn’t do anything’ to end the Ukraine war.
And Sir Keir’s new support package risks angering Mr Trump further.
To calm tensions, Sir Keir is expected to announce the date when 2.5% of UK GDP will be spent on defence, The Telegraph reported.
This would likely be sold to the US President as proof that Downing Street agrees with his demand for increased defence spending by European nations.
However, Sir Keir will likely be interrogated on how the spending increase would be paid for.
In the same vein:
“Ed Miliband has recruited three Extinction Rebellion cheerleaders to government roles to help him push through his costly green agenda.
The Energy Secretary has quietly appointed the advisers who have all publicly expressed admiration for the radical action group which has repeatedly brought chaos to Britain’s streets.
Mr Miliband’s top team includes former Extinction Rebellion (XR) lawyer Tobias Garnett who led a successful court challenge against the Metropolitan Police five years ago when it tried to ban the group from staging disruptive protests in London.
At the time, Mr Garnett said the world was in the midst of a ‘mass extinction’ event, adding: ‘We are responsible – and there is a limited amount of time to do something about it.’
Mr Garnett, now a special adviser to Mr Miliband, has since removed references to his XR past from his LinkedIn page.
He is joined at the Department of Energy by special adviser Eleanor Salter, a writer and activist who previously praised XR’s ‘hugely successful’ campaign of disruption, saying it had been ‘a great accelerator for activism’.
In the past, Ms Salter has called for a crackdown on aviation, including an end to all domestic flights.
She urged the last government to ban all new road building and suggested many cars should be taken ‘off the road altogether’.”
But former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said: ‘The cost of what [Ed Miliband] is proposing is already astronomic.
The fact he has surrounded himself with some of the most extreme advocates of Net Zero is alarming and it is the public that will pay the price.
‘I also find it extraordinary that the Government should appoint people whose view of the way to get things done is to endorse the tactics of anarchy.’
The green extremist smugness, net zero seems not to apply to the number of extra chins..
Looks like walking and salads are anathema to this anti car extremist.
Ms Kyte previously sported an XR badge at a major international climate summit and praised an eco-activist who had glued herself to the pavement outside Shell’s headquarters in London.
She also appeared to back XR ahead of a week of international civil disobedience, saying people should ‘act now or get out of the way’.
It is notable that while the tarmac troops can be vegan svelte, those deploying them are often blimps.
Looks like her face has been recently buried in strawberry cheescake
This is the estimated bill for nothing more than virtue signalling, that will make NO DIFFERENCE for a small country like the UK in a world that is largely ignoring it, and which will reduce the population to little more than bankrupt medieval peasants, unable to even travel out of their villages:
“The Climate Change Committee estimates that hitting the goal will cost the UK one to two per cent of GDP per year. By 2050, the annual cost could be £50billion.
But it can be revealed that one of Mr Miliband’s junior ministers has previously predicted the bill could be twice as high.
In 2019, Miatta Fahnbulleh, then chief executive at the New Economics Foundation, said meeting the 2050 target would require ‘a huge level of government investment’.
‘We think it needs to be much higher, probably three to four per cent of GDP,’ she said.”
70 Christians found beheaded in church in DRC
https://www.opendoorsuk.org/news/latest-news/drc-attack-church/
Not a word of it in any of our media.
Our ‘journalists’ disgust me. Just imagine the BBC uproar if Christians had done it to Muslims.
All running afraid of the self – styled, “muslim council of Britain” co ordinated complaints and harrassment projects, contained within their now “closed” website.
It did not used to be closed until they tried to hide what they are up to, they actually run courses in how to create mass complaints to media and also OFCOM and OFSTED.
They have, on the BBC, in a tv series?
The Trump counter revolution is gathering pace and force. The Overton window is quickly shifting rightwards and the Globalist / Liberal world view is collapsing with astonishing speed. Surely the Globalists will fight back but so far they have been ineffectual.
The counter revolution is crossing the Atlantic. JD Vance spoke to and for the oppressed people of Europe and the European elites are in turmoil. They know that the people are ready to revolt and speeches like Vance’s might be the catalyst. The elite is losing control of the narrative , the truth is seeping out.
With the USA recommitted to free speech and the tech giants at least going along with it , how can the European Globalist elite keep control? I don’t think that they can. Trump’s counter revolution is going global and the Globalists can’t stop it.
2024:
“Muslim Council of Britain could be among groups identified as extremist.
since 2021, the MCB has found itself cut off from government engagement.
The Conservative government’s official reasoning for this is that “previous MCB leaders have taken positions that contradict our fundamental values and these have not been explicitly retracted”.
The MCB was briefly boycotted by Gordon Brown’s Labour government in 2009 after its then deputy secretary general, Daud Abdullah, signed the so-called Istanbul Declaration in Turkey. According to the government, the declaration called for attacks on Royal Navy vessels if they tried to stop weapons for Hamas entering Gaza.
The declaration said: “The obligation of the Islamic Nation [is] to regard the sending of foreign warships into Muslim waters, claiming to control the borders and prevent the smuggling of arms to Gaza, as a declaration of war, a new occupation, sinful aggression, and a clear violation of the sovereignty of the Nation. This must be rejected and fought by all means and ways.”
‘My nephew killed my brother – but I’ve forgiven him’
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2d315njr7ko
Another pointless virtue-signalling BBC empathy piece without agenda ?.
Of course not. As usual, it’s not their fault. It’s always racist whitey’s fault. It’s NEVER their own fault or their parents fault.
‘Brenton and his brother rallied round to try and support Rudi, who also approached mental health services to try and get support.
“He [Rudi] sat at the hospital waiting to be seen – 13 hours on one occasion, five hours on the next – he was trying himself to get help through the system,” Delvin said.
“He knew something was wrong, but again nothing came from it.
“He didn’t get any help, he was never seen at the hospital, and we just carried on trying to help him.”
‘Delvin said the response from the authorities left the family feeling “totally isolated” and with “nowhere to go” as their fears mounted.’
‘Delvin also pointed to the Nottingham attacks, in which Valdo Calocane – who also has paranoid schizophrenia – killed three people, and said they “might not have happened” had the authorities listened to his family.’
Isn’t it amazing that the BBC always manage to find black people to use for these ‘how unfair the system is’ articles. They are 1 in 30 of the population – yet both examples here are by mentally ill black people.
Perhaps the story here should be ‘Why are such a disproportionate amount of black people mentally ill murderers ?’. Because that is what the BBC are really telling us.
Champion and a clearly hopeful Larry.
https://x.com/thenewsagents/status/1892976325092352464?s=61
How’s that DEI going ?
LA Mayor Bass’ latest bizarre move won’t fix smoldering leadership crisis.
Mayor Karen Bass fired LA City Fire Chief Kristen Crowley on Friday. Have you ever seen such a pathetic attempt at blame-shifting?
First she told us her new, expedited timeline for people who lost their homes in the wildfires to be able to rebuild and return: “three years would probably be the fastest, but, probably, it would be more like five.” Five years! We built the Golden Gate Bridge from scratch in four.
Then, in a truly bizarre development, Bass informed us that she was investigating herself over her response, including that infamous trip to Ghana.
But the absolute low point for Bass was her decision, announced Friday, to fire Los Angeles City Fire Chief Kristen Crowley. Have you ever seen such a pathetic attempt at blame-shifting? Here’s how Bass justified the move:
“As the mayor of the city, the buck stops with me. I am in charge. However, the person in charge of the fire department, as I mentioned before, whenever there was a fire emergency, a weather emergency or a hint of a problem, I am contacted directly…That did not happen this time”
Let’s unpack that, shall we?
First of all, the idea that Bass had no idea about the severity of the fire risk because she didn’t get a phone call from the fire chief is such a brazen, blatant lie that it’s scarcely believable that she said it. But she did, so let’s review the evidence:
On January 2nd, the National Weather Service put out warnings about “extreme fire conditions.” On January 3rd that was upgraded to: “major risk – take action.” On January 4th Bass flew to Ghana. Even from there, on January 6th, she posted on X: “There is an expected destructive and potentially life-threatening windstorm starting Tuesday morning through Wednesday afternoon. Red Flag No Parking Restrictions will go into effect in certain areas tomorrow morning. Stay safe LA!”
“Stay safe, LA!”, she breezily posts, as she sips champagne at the embassy cocktail party in Accra. Somehow, through some extraordinary intervention that did not involve a phone call from Fire Chief Crowley, the genius mayor managed to intuit that there was a “potentially life-threatening windstorm” on the way. Yet did nothing about it.
Then Bass fires the city’s fire chief for not calling her, claiming she didn’t know how serious it was even as she personally posted about a “life-threatening” event? What an insult to everyone’s intelligence for Bass to wheel out this preposterous lie.”
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/steve-hilton-la-mayor-bass-latest-bizarre-move-wont-fix-smoldering-leadership-crisis
Samira Ahmad is pretty good at presenting ” Newswatch”
on BBC. Considering that the BBC is all but the media
partners of Hamas in the UK. BUT when Newswatch is
covering Gaza or anything to do with Israel. Wouldn’t
it be better to use the likes of Owen Jones or Jeremy
Corbyn. To get an even better balanced presentation ?
My popcorn addiction is getting serious . Last night 47 took on the governor of Maine – a sort of woman ? Who is refusing to obey the executive order to have male and female sports .
The footage is a laugh out loud job and reminds me of that one liner about ‘Hilary going to prison ‘
The chair of the joint chiefs has been fired – the head of the navy ( woman DEI with no experience is gone ) and the hits keep coming …
Although yoy can see Elon is exhausted ….
Who wouldn’t be astounded and exhausted by the endless evidence of the depth and scale of the far left corruption, theft and money laundering that has stolen billions of taxpayers dollars whilst repeatedly lying to and misleading the American people.
People are jailed in America for stealing a hundred dollars and far less, these have misappropriated, stolen and wasted thousands of millions of dollars whilst many in the country are homeless and live in poverty or on the minimum wage.
Zep
Yes – it wasn’t a criticism – the amount of effort / activity the whole regime has gone through in month 1 is enormous – the ‘shy ‘ chief of staff must be exhausted too – although the whole operation continues to look really slick the the msm and democrats still having their heads spinning .
The head of ice was fired yesterday for failing to deport enough …and im waiting for AOC to appear in handcuffs for helping illegals evade arrest…
Sure beats the Marxist BBC and a dolt cabinet …
I understand, wasn’t taken as such either, just expanding on what you said.
I sincerely hope criminal trials follow for each and every one of them identified as responsible and aiding and abetting or turning a blind eye.
We even have some paying millions to NGOs set up by siblings and relatives FFS.
They did their best to put political rivals in jail, stalinist practices, they should feel the karma.
The same seems extant here with the green con and green companies who still use fossil fuel getting millions in grants that are funnelled back to the labour party as “donations”.
That labour donor millionaire Vince’s company:
“Is Ecotricity actually green?
Our electricity is 100% green – made from the sun and the wind. We generate about 15% of it ourselves and the rest is certified green energy we buy from other green generators or via the wholesale market.”
Erm:
“Currently, only 1% of their gas comes from biogas.
The remaining 99% of their gas is sourced from fossil fuel natural gas.
Does buying your electricity from a 100% renewable ‘green’ supplier mean the carbon footprint of your electricity is zero?
The short answer, unfortunately, is no. Unless you have your own renewable generation (e.g. solar panels), connecting directly into your building, then your electricity comes from the same national grid as everybody else. “
Another case of situational irony in the Daily Express this morning – where the home of Esther Rantzen’s suicide on the NHS campaign goes with: ‘Our children deserve to live as much as anyone’… seriously ill children are waiting in agony to see if funds for the care that keeps them alive will be cut off… life-limiting Batten disease (Daily Express)
So we wonder what happened to: Let me choose a good pain-free death with dignity, Esther Rantzen says… Appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Dame Esther challenged some of the common arguments made by opponents. But the interview got off to an awkward start when she could not immediately be heard, prompting host Amol Rajan to ask: “Is Dame Esther Rantzen with us?” (Daily Express) ? – please don’t laugh.
Our gaff-prone BBC summarises the Daily Express story as follows: the Daily Express looks at the “agonising battle” of the parents… to “secure funding for vital treatment to fight Batten disease”. The incurable illness affects the nervous system, causing seizures, visual impairment, mobility loss and early death, according to the NHS. – Oh dear, just look at that clunky statement of attribution – ‘according to the NHS’ – giving our very own sainted nationalised health service about as much credibility as our BBC’s go-to source “The Gaza Health Ministry” – Inshallah!
NHS hospitals unable to see trans doctors’ case records… unable to see their disciplinary records (Telegraph) – but don’t worry because: iPhone users will lose new security feature… the Home Office issued Apple with a secret notice ordering it to break the service’s encryption under surveillance laws (Telegraph)
Speaking of surveillance laws… the formerly rights to personal liberties campaigning Guardian frets for a moment on: Tracking our sleep, steps, diet. Is it good for us?
Well, if you’ve got nothing to hide, you’ve got nothing to worry about.
Tell that to: Andrew Gwynne: Ex-Labour minister sacked over WhatsApp messages (Sky News)
Why shouldn’t this socialist Ukraine-supporting bloke have a bit of bantz with his like-minded buddies taking the piss out of a few elderly plebian Brits?
Mr Gwynne, 50, reportedly ‘joked’ about a pensioner constituent, saying he hoped she died before the next election, according to the Mail on Sunday. (Sky News)
Give him his due – he did abstain from the Assisted Dying Bill vote in parliament.
‘Army has blood on its hands’ (Guardian) – Well, that’s their motto, sort of… although our PM Sir Keir sees our armed forces as nothing but peace keepers – hopefully.
But naturally our friends and allies in the Ukrainian army can do all the fighting and (UK taxpayer cash assisted?) dying for us.
Media GI Jane jonesing
This is of course: …the sister of… 19-year-old soldier who took her own life after being sexually assaulted and harrassed by senior officers in the Army (Telegraph)
Which tends to show how if you put a gang of fighting age men who like to sexually assault and harrass young girls actually into a uniform – our media will suddenly prick up its ears and take some notice.
So how does the mildly conservative Telegraph win top spot in the BBC news staff on-line print press line-up? By going with: Starmer to defy Trump with new aid for Ukraine – of course.
And finally, as they say… One recalls the furore over: David Starkey claims ‘the whites have become black’ Historian provokes storm of criticism after remarks during a televised discussion about the riots on BBC2’s Newsnight… Starkey spoke of “a profound cultural change” (Guardian, 2011)
And now today: The ultimate guide to trainers (Guardian)
@ Asi,
“‘Army has blood on its hands’ (Guardian) – Well, that’s their motto, sort of”
Weekend quiz question:
Which army has the motto “Blood and fire” ?
No ?
It’s the Salvation Army.
BBC always keen to prioritise attacking Trump before reporting what he has done…witness how they report that he is saying Zelensky must negotiate but first the BBC gets in a dig that he has ‘changed his mind’ etc…when all along he has involved Zelensky…immediately after phoning Putin he phoned Zelensky and has always said Zelensky could be in there if he wanted to be.
Also notable how Today news forgot to mention in two reports how the two babies taken as hostages by Hamas were killed…not by an Israeli air strike but strangled and then mutilated as reported elsewhere….and despite BBC favourite Lammy slamming the killings…
‘The Foreign Secretary posted on X on Friday night: “The vile killing of the Bibas children by Hamas terrorists is sick and abhorrent.” He added: “The hostages must be released. This nightmare must end.”’
Guarantee if Israelis had done that to two Palestinian babies it would be frontpage for days.
Im surprised the BBC didn’t edit the word ‘terrorist ‘ out … it’s misinformation . Hamas baby killers are not terrorists – right BBC
Make Gaza a theme park
BBC Headline:
‘Family of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas says new returned body is hers’
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjw20d3l4jpo
Times of Israel Headline:
‘Shiri Bibas’s body returned to Israel; officials assess she was ‘brutally’ murdered with sons in Gaza’
Totally different tone from the BBC.
The reality is that Hamas murdered them all in cold blood and the poster saying Israel did it is a complete lie. You have to read the BBC article very carefully to realise that.
Somebody rid us of this extreme-Left cancer.
They reportedly strangled the babies, then mutilated them to make it look like they died of something else.
Here is a cheerful piece from the DT about the demise of the BBC .. we are winning ….
The BBC increasingly appears to be enduring a slow-motion collapse under the weight of market forces and its own hubris. It’s been another rough week for the Corporation, in particular being forced to apologise for broadcasting a documentary from Gaza starring the young son of a senior member of Hamas.
When you add recurring accusations of bias to its irresistible urge to preach – rather than entertain or inform, as it should – plus a succession of avoidable scandals, sometimes it almost feels like the BBC actually wants you to hate it.
The BBC2 documentary Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone was broadcast on February 17, and featured the 14-year-old narrator Abdullah Al-Yazouri, who turned out to be the son of Ayman Alyazouri, a man described as being “Hamas royalty”. None of this was mentioned at the time.
The day after the BBC’s apology on Wednesday, the world witnessed the grotesque carnival of Hamas parading dead hostages in black coffins.
A BBC breaking news bulletin reported this with a headline “Hamas says it did ‘everything in its power’ to keep the hostages alive”. Everything, that is, except kidnapping them in the first place. That was supported by three Hamas statements “as context”.
The BBC is an organisation whose obsession with “balance” has mutated from the admittedly tricky position of trying to pander to no one to barely disguised legitimisation of Iranian-backed terrorists.
The documentary has since been removed from BBC iPlayer. But whatever the reason for the decision to broadcast Hamas propaganda – negligence or something more underhand – it reinforces all the worst suspicions about what is going on behind the scenes.
What defines the BBC is a culture of exceptionalism. The establishment of BBC Verify, for example, continues to confound rational thought. How can the BBC justify the expense of a 60-strong team of apparently investigative journalists whose jobs appear to be either stating the bloody obvious or reporting stories that regular BBC staff should be working on anyway?
This week, BBC Verify analysed Donald Trump’s claim that Volodymyr Zelensky was an unelected dictator. Thanks for all the searing insight. It’s about as useful as last year’s calendar.
All this in the same week it was revealed Doctor Who was in trouble, with the last series’ ratings being the lowest since the data was first published in 2014. Amid accusations from Whovians that storylines have become increasingly gimmicky, it’s reported the incumbent Ncuti Gatwa is rumoured to be on the verge of quitting.
Although Doctor Who has always been for children, it hasn’t always been childish and preachy. BBC outriders were quickly dispatched in its defence, along the lines of: “It’s the viewers on iPlayer that matter”, “It’s the under-35 audience we care about”, “Doctor Who has always been progressive”, reactions that showcase the paranoia of an institution in a permanent state of wagon-circling.
Doctor Who is the flagship of flagships. It promotes – and reflects – the values of the BBC at any given time.
I don’t much care if it does the Wokey Cokey – the show has featured trans rights, “correct” pronouns and non-binary identity, while targeting anti-abortion campaigners and tackling ablest stereotypes by getting Dalek dictator Davros out of his “wheelchair”. But bludgeoning the audience with agendas is profoundly boring.
It insults our intelligence and viewers will vote with their zappers. The BBC could do with appeasing those who actually pay the licence fee, rather than chasing those who never will. Gen Z has little to no emotional or material investment in it.
The lack of a commercial imperative in the BBC – so beneficial in in the days of terrestrial broadcasting – has helped create an unwieldy, semi-religious institution ill-equipped for its current challenges. It is beholden to groupthink and orthodoxy on issues that do not match the evolving heterodoxy of the public, provoking persistent complaints about its portrayal of British history in its programming or colourblind casting of dramas purporting to be historically accurate. In these cases it isn’t the casting itself that offends, but the intention behind it. You feel like you are being bashed over the head.
The BBC allowed Gary Lineker to effectively write his own code of conduct. The Proms are dumbed down every summer. There’s almost no arts coverage on its television channels at all. Radio 2 can’t seem to get anything right.
Last month it was accused of misrepresenting London-based production staff working on The Traitors as Scottish to meet its diversity quotas. (The BBC has since said the number of Scotland-based staff employed on the reality TV show increased between its first and second series and maintains the productions met rules imposed by Ofcom, its regulator.)
Meanwhile, the BBC’s insularity meant it could not police the conduct of its worst employees. The scandals it so cowardly failed to confront in-house are a litany of hubristic oversights: Jimmy Savile, Stuart Hall, Rolf Harris and Huw Edwards being the very worst of a bad bunch that seems to grow by the year. The cumulative effect for audiences is alienation and disloyalty.
In some sense this is a tale as old as time. In 2016, the Commons select committee concluded that BBC internal culture was “bureaucratic, arrogant and introspective”. Both sides believed the BBC was against them over Brexit. I’m an outlier in that I still cling to the fantasy that public service broadcasting is important. To me, that means the BBC in some form.
Sadly, it looks as if the challenge from streaming services and digital media is insurmountable, ever diminishing the public’s trust with young progressives increasingly seeing the BBC as too conservative and conservatives seeing it as too progressive.
The BBC is in a no-win situation, like a team lining up to face New Zealand’s All Blacks: if you mock the Haka, they accuse you of disrespect. If you ignore the Haka, they accuse you of disrespect. If you confront the Haka, they accuse you of disrespect. There seems no way out.
Even so, so many of the BBC’s long-term problems are of its own making. At least it still has The Traitors (for now).ENDS As will the BBC
Dr Who, and Isaac “Ranjit” Newton:
It’s obvious now, a deliberate perversion to upset as many of those that pay the tv license,
So, I am stopping paying this weekend despite enjoying nature and history documetaries on other channels. Youtube will suffice from now on.
The sick, twisted, racist bbc just can’t help themselves and are slowly comitting a very welcome suicide
TOADY Watch #1 – men’s doubles (Simon Jack & Jonny Dymond*) is no excuse BBC
The BBC try to sow division between the Israeli hostages families & campaigners on their behalf and the Israeli Government? Yesterday we heard that DNA tests had shown that Shiri Bibas body had not been returned as Hamas had claimed. It was in fact, a Gazan Woman. Israeli medical science is very good so Hamas has not been shown in a very good light there. But now, Shiri Bibas body has now been returned (a day late) but the biased BBC do not tell us that in the 7 a.m. News straight away. The BBC appear to be stirring the waters so they get muddy! To be fair, the BBC web-site does have the whole story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjw20d3l4jpo. But, but, I think the BBC is not being quite honest in their news presentation. Hopefully people with more time on their hands may formally complain.
* I wish the BBC would organise some regular presenters for TOADY Prog. It seems the BBC’s HR Dept. is quite incapable of organising this. I remember when it was Jack de Manio presenting TODAY with one other. Then, suddenly, there were four and then six! Is four not enough?
Just scrap the licence and stop watching the anti-British channel.
Doing it now, but just found out, they won’t let me cancel online…funny that, have to call a number and only available Mon – Fri..
anyone else want to do it: 0300 790 6098
It also appears they have taken the full 169.50 by January 2025 despite the license being valid until July 2025.
Wanted the cash ASAP it seems…
taffman, I abandoned the Licence Fee in April 2005, almost twenty years ago. I was fed-up with hunting for a programme that I wanted to watch. TV is made for photography but the BBC Arts Programming contained very little photography. I found that most of the programmes I had trouble in finding something to watch on the BBC could then be found on ITV, Channel 4 or Channel 5. Seem to recall BBC current D-G was then responsible for Arts programming at the time.
The BBC have nothing as good as NYPD Blue or Homicide Life on the Streets or The West Wing.
I can buy box sets of all three and finance a charity shop at the same time! 😉 🙂
Up2snuff
Bravo!
How many readers, supporters and posters on this site have the same courage ?
Snuffy, the fabulous West Wing can be found on Channel4 streaming. My love of European and Scandi dramas are there under Walter Presents.
DRUGS ARE A RACKET…..
– pretty much what a now retired pharma exec told me a few years ago …
Full text “To Elon Musk and the DOGE team looking at Medicare:
Pharmacist says
– Cancer Medicine Imatinib costs them $7 to buy. They add $10, so you’re out the door for $17
– When Medicare pays for this drug, IT COSTS THEM $2,400
– This drug was filled 250,000 times in 1 year costing Medicare $600 million
“If every one of those scripts was filled at our pharmacy instead of through Medicare, it would’ve cost $4 million. That means that we are $596 million cheaper than the insurance. That’s crazy.”
“So why are they paying this much for that medication? Well, insurance companies pay a middleman, the pharmacy benefits manager, and that person decides how much that medication’s gonna cost”
– 3 Pharmacy Benefits Managers control over 90% of all prescription pricing in America
– Pharmaceutical companies bought all 3 Pharmacy Benefits Managers
They set their own pricing, Medicare pays ASTRONOMICAL prices and taxpayers pick up the bill. This is a racket.”
” A Message From @SecDef To The American Warfighter, And The American Tax Payer.”
https://x.com/DeptofDefense/status/1892702578418327972
……………. IN UK …………………..
Data shows 214 people were brought ashore at Dover on Saturday, while 534 made the crossing on Sunday. It now means 6,265 migrants have arrived in the UK in small boats since the start of 2024. The government said the “unacceptable number” of channel crossings shows the importance of its proposed Rwanda policy.15 Apr 2024
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c72p5jnvmzko
https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/cancellations-and-refunds-top7
Does this work? You need to enter your 10 digit TV Licence number (I don’t have one, so can’t proceed)
Don’t forget to ask for any refund due.
Thank goodness he’s not required to organise a piss up in a brewery..
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Clive Myrie: What I saw (NO DIVERSITY MANAGERS?) during my 24 hours at a London hospital
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93lzygn3j1o
“There is $4B left and the new @usedgov is setting a simple new rule – all grantees must provide receipts for every purchase BEFORE funding is released.”
https://x.com/DOGE/status/1892374128444772703
HA H AH AHAH AH! “provide receipts for every purchase”
…………………… SEE TONY BLAIR FOR SOLUTIONS…….
MPs’ EXPENSES: Blair’s £43,000 expenses were shredded ‘by incompetence’ By IAN DRURY FOR THE DAILY MAIL
Updated: 01:40, 14 May 2009