12 Responses to Midweek 26th February 2025

  1. non-licence payer says:
    February 25, 2025 at 9:18 pm

    Defund the bBC! Always a pleasure to open up and find an empty goal.

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  2. Zephir says:
    February 25, 2025 at 9:36 pm

    Three years of this war, peace within months of Trump taking office:

    “Volodymyr Zelensky ‘says yes to rare minerals deal with Donald Trump’ – after Ukrainian president ‘refused to sign $500bn agreement'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14435643/olodymyr-zelensky-says-yes-minerals-deal-donald-trump.html

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  3. Zephir says:
    February 25, 2025 at 10:11 pm

    “Dozens”…hmmm

    “Dozens of protestors swarm the BBC headquarters after the broadcaster ‘spent more than £400,000 on a Gaza documentary which featured Hamas leader’s son'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14435573/protestors-swarm-BBC-headquarters-Gaza-documentary.html

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  4. Zephir says:
    February 25, 2025 at 10:11 pm

    The Campaign Against Antisemitism also expressed outrage over the broadcaster’s coverage of Hamas handing over the remains of killed hostages, claiming that the BBC had made omissions in its reporting.

    Reports had not shown Hamas’s antisemitic portrayals of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a blood-sucking vampire and had not adequately reported that coffins holding dead hostages were labelled ‘date of arrest: 7th October 2023’, according to the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism.

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  6. Flotsam says:
    February 25, 2025 at 10:26 pm

    Let’s put things straights, Heat Pumps are a con, they do not save energy and reduce CO2, they cost a massive amount more to install in comparison to gas central heating. They don’t heat water to the higher temperatures required in domestic situations. The installation of heat pumps is being subsidised by all energy users and taxpayers.

    The energy con:-

    Overall electricity generation and distribution is about 30% efficient. Heat pumps generate about three times as much heat energy from the electric energy supplied. It’s net Zero, ie there is no energy benefit overall.

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    • Zephir says:
      February 25, 2025 at 10:32 pm

      And the noise…

      The Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland:

      “Heat pumps too loud for home, study says

      UK Ministers have been told, that heat pumps are too loud to be installed in millions of homes under the UK Government’s noise guidelines.

      The UK Government aims to install 600,000 heat pumps a year by 2028 to hit net zero targets, but a report seen by The Daily Telegraph, sound specialists warn uptake could be limited.

      The study reveals that most heat pumps are too loud for many homes in built-up areas, such a terraced houses and flats, because they would break noise limits set for home-owners who want to install one without planning permission and with a government grant.

      Local Authorities are also braced for a rise in noise complaints as more of the green appliances installed in urban areas. ”

      https://rehis.com/news/heat-pumps-too-loud-for-home-study-says/

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      • Zephir says:
        February 25, 2025 at 10:36 pm

        And yet, the starmer mob have overruled this:

        “England: Planning rules on air source heat pumps to be relaxed.

        Following consultation covering the current permitted development rules around air source heat pumps earlier this year, Government have announced the relaxation of permitted development rules in England. In a letter to the the Energy and Net Zero Committee Miatta Fahnbuelleh, Minister for Energy Consumers, set out the changes. She stated that an independent review of noise emissions from air source heat pumps, published in November 2023, found that modern heat pumps are generally perceived as quiet and result in few noise complaints, and that current planning rules can be an unnecessary barrier to the installation of air source heat pumps. The Government has decided to remove the rule that an air source heat pump cannot be installed within 1 metre of a property boundary; to increase the permissible size limit of an air source heat pump to 1.5m3 (to support even quieter heat pump models); to increase the number of air source heat pump units that can be installed on detached dwellinghouses from one to two”

        https://www.ioa.org.uk/news/england-planning-rules-air-source-heat-pumps-be-relaxed

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        • Zephir says:
          February 25, 2025 at 10:40 pm

          Elsewhere on the web:

          “I live above one commercial high street building and also next to a pub. Both of these businesses have obviously taken advantage of the govt scheme to install air flow heat pumps on their external walls (one of which is directly below my bedroom window, the other on top of the pub roof about 3 metres from my bedroom window). The sound they emit is like having a running car engine or an industrial fridge, humming throughout the night in intermittent bursts of around half an hour, before turning off and then coming back on about 20 minutes later. When they switch off, you realise how quiet it can be and thus, rather than becoming background noise when they’re on (like traffic, which I’m used to), they are slowly making me lose my mind and consequently sleep.

          Does anyone else live near one of these horrendous things? Is there anything that can be done about the noise they emit? I’ve had several other noise problems with both of these businesses over the last few years and I feel like it’s nigh on impossible to communicate with them about yet another problem.”

          A reply to the above:

          “I will cover a few issues with Heat Pumps. Firstly, my over-riding thought is that they were politically endorsed, as associates of politicians had made huge financial investments in the supply of heat pumps.
          Secondly, although the theory behind their function is sound, in practice, they are quite an inefficient way of heating, and can have problems raising the temperature of the heating system in particularly cold weather.
          On a practical level, I have recently been dealing with residents who’ve had Heat Pumps installed, and their complaints centred around the fact they were too expensive to run (your electric bills will go up), didn’t work, and made a hell of a racket.
          Neighbourhood noise is a particularly subjective area. There is some Guidance for enforcement, but no legislation. The manipulation of gathered noise measurements can easily be manipulated to gain the desired outcome in any arbitration, which is why Councils don’t really bother with it as an issue and are unlikely to have directly employed specialists.”

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  7. atlas_shrugged says:
    February 25, 2025 at 11:28 pm

    Time to start deporting judges:

    Albanian People Smuggler Deemed “Valuable Member of Society” Can Stay in UK

    https://dailysceptic.org/2025/02/25/albanian-people-smuggler-deemed-valuable-member-of-society-can-stay-in-uk/

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  8. JonathanR says:
    February 25, 2025 at 11:46 pm

    Politicians lie We know they do but is there a more blatant liar than this man?
    https://x.com/JamesMelville/status/1894303245545201701

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  9. Solomon Grundy says:
    February 26, 2025 at 12:15 am

    Sorry, not really BBC related but this tweet is well worth reading …

    I'm concerned that many people do not understand the historical and institutional context in which the DOGE labor reforms are unfolding. They look at this as if these are some random, chaotic, arbitrary, strange, and even cruel measures to impose on a devoted civil service.…— Jeffrey A Tucker (@jeffreyatucker) February 23, 2025

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