The BBC Loves the Oscars … even as cinemas close and people don’t go to the pictures any more – unless they like senseless DEI nonsense of course . But at least it’s a distraction from a coming World War ( or maybe just a bigger European war ) …
Start the Week 3rd March 2025
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Hi Eddy
I simply can’t stop going back to watch this – It’s wonderful!
Twice I heard a BBC halfwit say Trump is “greedy” for the minerals in Ukraine .
Do you think he eats them himself you idiots at the BBC ?
What about China and it`s acquisition of everything it gets its hands on especially in Africa ? Perhaps the Beeboids would prefer the Chinese to get the rare earths in Ukraine . They`re traitorous enough to do so .
My lingering take on the Trump/Vance ‘muggings’ that shockingly took place in the White House last week, was the utter disrespect that the muggers had for their victim. Here’s that take articulated by Rtd. Jack Keane on Fox. I’ve always appreciated the level-headedness of Keane. The likes of Trump/Vance will never know what hands-on leadership is like as a President of a war-torn country.
As regards Ukraines minerals, why is the EU backward in coming forward to form a collective union to themselves exploit the reserves? Why cannot the EU purchase the weapons Ukraine needs from the US. No holds barred. All very puzzling.
‘The Art of the Deal’? Well, the US cannot get its hands on Antimony. Never mind about Lithium & all the rest. Beijing stopped exporting to the US and the latter will be in serious trouble shortly. So, Zalensky will have a serious bargaining chip. Me?, I would flaunt that point by providing the estimates of reserves.
Critical minerals are needed for the production of hi-tech products, such as for the electrification of transport, manufacture of mobile phones, AI datacentres and military assets. There is one big reason Trump is so keen to get his hands on Ukraine’s critical minerals: China. If the US does not get its hands on them, someone else will.
I don’t think China is extorting African countries for their natural resources in return for assistance in resisting invasion and occupation by a belligerent neighbour.
I’d prefer Ukrainians to get the rare earths in Ukraine.
Just watching the on the hour news and Starmer with his chest puffed out sending the message that he is so important. It is obvious that all the politicians at the meeting were grandstanding – they haven’t a clue what to do. It is easy to say, ‘I stand with Ukraine’, but what does it really mean. Does this mean I will fight alongside Ukraine, put our soldiers at risk – or does it just mean it sounds good.
And what was Trudeau doing at the meeting – hadn’t he resigned?
I was hoping someone would shout over to Turdeau asking him how he felt to be living in the fifty first State.
Yes Deborah, there was more faux swank and glitter on show than at the Oscars and a similar atmosphere.
TTK has created a coalition of the trilling. The Fleet Template Tweet Squad.
But he has the unwavering support of the market rate talent.
https://x.com/maitlis/status/1896329813453136383?s=12
You have to hand it to these two:
While Trump gets the letter , Zelensky gets the King , ‘ at home ‘ in his own sitting room just 24 hours later. Call it a power move. Call it true friendship. It rocks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧.
https://x.com/bbcpolitics/status/1896465554212360574?s=12
Keir Starmer is helping to shape talks on Ukraine but the path to peace could be long, @chrismasonbbc writes
Politics defined by media TDS is beyond dumb.
#ccbgb
Mrs NV was watching the football on the box this afternoon, at halftime Gary the stallholders son, made a remark that up until Fulham scoring in the 46th minute, he wished that the Channel he was on had adverts on to make it more interesting. I hope he knows more than we do. Although I doubt it.
It was when I had to explain the extra break so that those observing ramadan could break their fast that our house exploded and the air went blue.
Mrs kitty – that’s when you know your country is gone . I was listening on the wireless and I picked up plenty of booing …
This Ukraine money that TTK is taking from Russian assets.
Isn’t that stealing.
How would you feel if your Bank just took your money.
Will people decide against investing in the UK in case the Banks seize their money.
I don’t know the details but surely this must be damaging to UK Banks.
I doubt that TTK and co. have worked out how to liquidate any of the frozen assets. The money will no doubt come out of UK government funds (most likely borrowed funds) but, hey, why bother with the truth when you can play Billy Big Pants instead.
I think that what they have done is take out a huge loan, given it to Zelensky then are using the interest from the ‘frozen’ Russian assets to pay back the loan.
Of course you can be sure it’s not Zelensky who will have to pay it back when this is all over in 5 or 10 years and Russia want their money. It will be the British taxpayer again.
I’ve noticed how they keep saying it’s a loan for Ukraine. But they don’t actually say he will pay it back. They are misleading us again.
I think that’s the plan but there will undoubtedly be legal hurdles to be overcome before they can access even the interest from frozen funds.
This is TTK Emmanuel, by electing him everyone gave him all their cash. i.e. under Labour, The State owns EVERYTHING!
We all knew that stupidity was a necessary requirement to be a liberal and that TDS was endemic amongst them but in their reaction to the ‘Oval Office Incident’ they have plumbed new depths of both .
I have marvelled at the ignorance , naivety and unreasoning hatred of Trump that has been displayed by the commentariat this weekend. They seem incapable of rational thought and keep squealing that Putin cannot be ‘rewarded’ for breaking ‘international law’. It doesn’t cross their minds that laws only work if they can be enforced and that there is nobody strong enough to ‘punish ‘ Putin when he has nukes galore.
They side with Zelensky against Trump when Zelensky wants to continue fighting a war he cannot possibly win and will kill lots more Ukrainians by doing so but Trump keeps showing him the path to peace but Zelensky refuses to follow it. Yet to them Trump is the bad guy whilst warmonger Zelensky is the good guy. Very strange juxtapositioning for liberals , it must be caused by TDS.
Of course our friends in the EU will seize the opportunity offered by this crisis to push for an integrated EU army . Every crisis presents an opportunity to the Globalist elite in Brussels.
The best take down of the liberal elite thinking is by Niall Ferguson on the Sam Harris podcast ‘Making Sense’ . Harris comes across as a whining liberal who suffers from acute TDS and has the mental age of a child. Ferguson gives him a lesson in how the world actually works. Harris seems close to tears at times. It good to see a grown up in the room.
I read this elsewhere but it gets repeated in my brain.
‘Why do those who wanted a ceasefire in Gaza want to continue the war in Ukraine?’
The answer is Trump Derangement Syndrome.
I am still somewhat astounded by the fact that these two wars have made it clear that the Left don’t give a shit about the deaths or the suffering of the people involved.
Their own ideological agenda is all that matters. They will let hundreds of thousands die or support the most evil terrorists on the planet just to spite Trump and the Right.
They haven’t changed a bit. They have been like this throughout history.
Could it be that everyone wants peace (except Putin), but that some might disagree with how Trump is going about it, or what he is willing to give up for it?
We could’ve had peace in the Middle east years ago if we’d just slaughtered thousands of Palestinians and then ethnically cleansed them from Gaza.
You can be all for peace (its not unique to Trump) and not call Zelensky a dictator, not say Ukrainian territory should be given to Russia because Russian soldiers have died for that land, not extort Ukraine for its natural resources in return for US support, not bully the President of Ukraine in the oval office etc etc
Trump wants a ceasefire that he can announce as a personal victory while selling the Ukrainians down the river in a ceasefire not worth the paper its written on.
I disagree with how Zelensky and the West has been going about this war for the last three years.
Ukraine cannot win the war by itself. No other country is willing to send troops to fight alongside the Ukrainians . Therefore Ukraine will inevitably be defeated at some point.
Each week 5 to 10 thousand people on both sides die .
The Ukrainian position on the battlefield weakens with time and consequently the peace terms on offer now are the best the Ukrainians will be offered.
So supporting the continuation of the war is pointless , killing a lot more people and detrimental to Ukraine.
We understand that giving up 10% of your land is highly unpalatable for Ukrainians , particularly after such heroism and so many deaths. But the reality is there is no way to get the land back or to join NATO and things will only get worse.
What is happening is so far beyond anything which makes sense to me that I’m in the old ‘Sherlock Holmes’ theory that when you have discounted all the credible options, whatever remains must be the truth.
They have sabotaged 2 ‘serious’ peace plans now and countless smaller initiatives by escalating things at the critical time. Nordstream was sabotage and just last month Starmer said:
‘Sir Keir Starmer has reaffirmed the UK will continue to back Ukraine’s “irreversible path” to joining Nato despite leading figures in President Donald Trump’s administration appearing to rule out membership.’.
They know this is the Russian red-line which started it all so such a statement can only be made with the intent to try and make Russia refuse to make peace.
After everything I’ve seen, my final conclusion is that the EU has the long term plan to take over the entire European continent and this is the best chance they have to destroy Russia as we know it. And Obama was happy with that because it removes a major piece from the board when the inevitable conflict with China starts.
They might be right – but in my opinion, the greatest threat to the West is the takeover by Islam. When they have the numbers and the power, they will start making their demands. Like they do everywhere.
The trouble is that they have no way out of the current mess so they are stalling. And they don’t care how many are dying while they wait for some solution to make itself known.
It really is about globalist world domination!.
Find Jeffery Sachs on YouTube and he explains why the Ukraine / Russia war started . Basically it was the culmination of twenty years of US foreign policy to undermine Russia by expanding NATO. Zelensky is a US puppet who did what he was told by the previous US administrations and still seems to taking orders from the Globalists. Trump has changed US foreign policy from confrontation with Russia to seeking peaceful coexistence.
One clapped out chopper
A Puma HC1 ! – I used to fix the avionics on those when I served in the RAF. There’s a very high chance I meddled with that one at some point.
We always had one for VIP flights where all the parts on it had to be less than half their rated lifespan.
The Met deploying female diversity bollards is apt.
In all the years of the Russia Ukraine war, I never heard anything about minerals.
Then suddenly a minerals deal is the talk of the town. Everyone is talking about it.
Shock. Horror. Trump wants something for something.
Why are we not doing a minerals deal? Is Trump the only one with a mind to cut a deal? No wonder so many other countries are wetting their pants every time The Donald speaks.
Minerals and lebensraum.
The reasons the EU are so desperate to get Ukraine. Just think how many migrants can be settled there as labour for the greater good – especially given the EU’s desire to be the greatest world superpower.
Another one of the massive lies by omission from the BBC about this conflict.
“At a closer glance, BRI’s model of infrastructure-driven economic growth is based on grabbing large areas of land and territory to convert into economic corridors.30 May 2019”
https://grain.org/en/article/6239-greening-the-belt-and-road-initiative-what-about-people-s-rights
So what happened to it being the bread basket of Europe ?
The draft Ukraine
Time to get glass bases for our Stella tankards again.
Chas 3 will of course waive sending the new loyal subject base.
Blackbelt Barrister points out that the media scurrilously portray a false narrative that TRump ruined hte Zelinsky meeting
yet the video shows that the meeting went fine for 40 mins in front of the camera then Zelinsky broke protochol by saying TRump was a baddie for letting Putin invade Crimea
something that actually happened under Obama
then JD pushed back, while TRump was non confrontational for the next 4 mins
Yup – everyone who actually watched it says the same thing. Zelensky suddenly changed the narrative.
But if you read the threads on facebook, they are chock full of hate from people who have no clue what they are talking about. This is what all this Leftist hate does.
Meanwhile all the BBC care about is disinformation by the Right. That is not what is destroying our society. They are.
JohnC – yes me too – I watched in live – im biased pro JD and DJT – and just thought either Zelenski was ‘ over tired ‘ or the drugs had kicked in .
I also thought the way the west had worshipped him made him feel an equal in the Oval – which in real life – no is – even with that dolt Biden sitting there …
Another day and we are still here …
Sniffin quite a bit too….
Labour minister says ‘Let’s not focus on what we’d like to do’ edition
Your Mr AsI commends to his readers those subtle little ironies of clashing juxtaposed daily headlines, which tend to put the lie to the prevailing narratives we are being fed.
Emblematic of this morning’s frontpage, top of the news, buzzword laden, platitudinous yet heroically gungho screamers is the Daily Express…
Starmer vows to put ‘boots on the ground and planes in the air’ as he warns: TIME FOR TALK IS OVER… EUROPE MUST ‘STEP UP’… Royal welcome for Zelensky after his run-in with Trump
I’m reminded of phrases such ‘you and whose army?’ ‘all mouth and trousers’ and perhaps ‘all fur coat and no knickers’
One notes perhaps Starmer’s pep talk is vaguely reminiscent of a desperate football manager’s half-time peration to his players – who are languishing at three-nil down in the cup final: We are at crossroads of history, Starmer says after London summit (Guardian); Zelensky bruised but upbeat after diplomatic whirlwind (Laura Kuenssberg, BBC); Send him victorious… King meets Zelensky… ‘once in a generation moment’ (giveaway Metro)
Football analogy? Maybe that’s apropriate because Zelensky turned up in his tracksuit?
FIFTEEN top-flight stars fail drug tests but not ONE is banned, as 88 footballers in Britain return positive samples – but details of cases are withheld (Daily Mail, April 2022) – just saying, that’s all.
Europe urged to provide peacekeeping troops… Talks on month-long ceasefire in air and sea (Times)
But as Starmer beats the war drum and postures on the world stage… well, maybe not the world stage – more like the European off-Broadway theatre… strutting about metaphorically clad in his mate Charles’ borrowed ermine stole… but severe lack of undercrackers…
Why does the British Army have more horses than tanks? Horses and troopers, the men and women who take charge of the animals, are… trotted out for… Royal events… The chairman of the British Armed Forces Federation said: “The figures don’t necessarily mean we have got too many horses, it’s more likely the figures mean we don’t have enough tanks. (BBC)
Why does the Navy have more admirals than ships? (Spectator)
Revealed: RAF has more Group Captains than combat jets (The Herald)
Let’s juxtapose – as we like to do – Starmer’s bold but bankrupt-Britain ‘Great Game’ Russophobian militarism with an ironic little second string parallel real world story from today’s FT…
Labour works up remedy for ‘unaffordable’ benefits… Employment minister… might tear up the process that determines financial help for the sick and disabled people ‘focusing on what they can’t do on a worst day, not on what they like to do or what support they think they would need’ Britain ‘can’t afford the level of resources’ (Financial Times) – Did we all get the salutary message there?
Now that comrade TTK has decided to take the UK to open war with Russia – it’s lucky they have parliament to hold him to account …. Or maybe he will find a complete muppet show including the dolt opposition leader ( really ) trying to do a Churchill impression along with Farage and that liberal fool .
Twice last century Britain paid a huge price for getting involved on the European wars of others – now we are shaping up for number 3 – and again – with no real benefit to the ordinary British people …
On the upside maybe it will bring the Marxists down …
I agree with you but it’s alarming that nearly all the media seem to think Starmer is on the money on this. I note that readers comments in the DT and Spectator are about 50/50 on the issue.
I’d be alarmed if all msm were not as one.
They are a hive.
Last night I watched the film Conclave . I had heard it was good and I had no idea of what the plot was. Don’t read on if you want to watch it or read the novel .
Up until the film was 90% of the way through I thought it was pretty good too. I was sure that with Jihadi car bombings in Rome during the Conclave the mysterious Cardinal of Kabul would turn out to be a Muslim assassin sent to murder the newly elected Pope.
I strongly supported a speech given by one the front running Cardinals that the new papacy must reassert Christian values and push back against Islam. This added fuel to my Muslim assassin theory.
How disappointed I was when the Cardinal of Kabul gave a speech straight out of liberal casting about toleration etc etc . He was duly elected Pope and in another outlandish bit of liberal virtue signalling it turned out that he had female body parts but was a man.
A weak end to what was otherwise not a bad film. My ending would have been far better.
DELETED – NO SPOILER ALERT . THE book was very good …. Not seen the film . My priest liked to too …
Apologies Tomo – I just had to do it – fed up …
Deleted spoiler .
Doublethinker- I was wondering whether to watch the film but thank you for the warning. Two hours of my life rescued and I shall buy a couple of pints instead.
FFS
From the DT – the BBC Should be in big trouble over the Hamas Propaganda show – but BBCOFCOM will let it go . And commander Mohammed at the Met plod will say it was good …
STARTS The most senior news executive at the BBC watched its controversial Gaza documentary before it was broadcast but failed to question it, The Telegraph can disclose.
Deborah Turness, the chief executive of BBC news and current affairs, was a guest at a special BBC screening held almost three weeks before the airing of Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone.
The documentary has now been removed from iPlayer after it emerged the boy narrating the programme was the son of a senior Hamas official.
The BBC has since identified “serious flaws in the making of the programme”, including its failure to uncover the connection as well as payments made to the Hamas official’s family.
A BBC source said Ms Turness, who earns more than £410,000 a year, assumed the programme was fully compliant with BBC guidelines when she watched it at a preview screening.
The source said she did not question any elements of the programme because it was being shown as the finished product.
The admission will inevitably prompt concern about the role Ms Turness – who launched the BBC Verify fact-checking service two years ago – played in the fiasco.
A spokesman for UK Lawyers for Israel, which made a complaint to police about possible payments to Hamas, said: “This must raise questions about her ability to do the job. She should have raised questions about compliance.”
Sir Michael Ellis, the former attorney general who has been highly critical of BBC reporting in the Middle East, said: “This has been a shocking and disgraceful failure of compliance. BBC management must take full responsibility.”
Writing for The Telegraph, David Collier, an investigative journalist, said it took him just a few hours to work out that Abdullah, the child narrator, is the son of Hamas’s deputy minister for agriculture.
In an article that will further heap pressure on Ms Turness, Mr Collier wrote: “If I can find out that Abdullah’s father is a Hamas official while sitting in a room in London – then so can the BBC fact-checkers. They did not find it because they never bothered to look.”
Mr Collier tracked down Abdullah by doing a reverse image search that led him to a Channel 4 news item and publicly available social media posts. In the course of just two hours “the mask finally slipped completely”.
The BBC has admitted asking the independent makers of the documentary “a number of times” in writing if the boy and his family had connections to Hamas, which appear to have gone unanswered.
A source inside the BBC insisted Ms Turness’s attendance at the screening on Jan 30, to which journalists were also invited, was “common practice”. The documentary was not broadcast until Feb 19, almost three weeks later.
The source said: “We didn’t give this documentary any special treatment. This was a compiled programme by the time she [Ms Turness] saw it. It was a finished programme.
“She saw it in her capacity as CEO of BBC News, knowing it is a finished product, rather than with a compliance eye on it. She would have assumed the due diligence checks had already taken place.”
The source said responsibility for compliance lay with the documentary’s commissioning editors and Jo Carr, the BBC’s head of current affairs, who praised it as a “story of immense consequence” in a press release issued on Jan 20.
Tim Davie, the BBC’s director-general, and Dr Samir Shah, the BBC chairman, will be questioned on how the programme was aired without disclaimers and full transparency at a parliamentary select committee on Tuesday.
One insider on the Culture, Media and Sport Committee said: “This is clearly very bad for the BBC and the committee is going to give them a very hard time over it.”
Dorothy Byrne, Channel 4’s head of news and current affairs until 2020, has told the BBC she should have done her own checks.
“They could easily have found out about him, it shows that due diligence was not done,” she said, adding: “I didn’t wait for people to inform me of things. I asked them the right questions.”
After an initial investigation that uncovered the serious flaws, the BBC has drafted in Peter Johnston, its director of Editorial Complaints and Reviews, to conduct his own review.
The BBC accepted in a statement last week that the incident had “damaged” public trust.
BBC never found the documentary’s Hamas link… because it never bothered to look
By David Collier
It was about 1am on Feb 18 and the now infamous BBC documentary Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone had just aired four hours before. I was still trying to properly identify the star of the show, the narrator, who we only knew as “Abdullah”.
A reverse image search finally gave me a hit from a Channel 4 news piece – and for a while I thought I knew who he was. I soon found out Channel 4 had misnamed him and even attached him to the wrong father.
By following publicly available social media posts, the mask finally slipped completely. I knew that the BBC documentary had been secretly fronted by the son of a senior Hamas government official.
What followed, from the BBC’s initial hesitation and backtracking all the way to Thursday’s apology, is public knowledge. But we must not be distracted into believing that this ends the story, nor that this is all about a single documentary.
Just take the contradictions in the BBC’s argument.
The BBC suggests on the one hand that there is a problem with fact-checking the news from Gaza because it does not have anyone physically there to verify what is being reported. If this is true, then why on earth did it commission a documentary and then spend £400,000 of the licence-fee money on making one?
Its own argument ridicules its decision-making.
And let’s face it, if I can find out that Abdullah’s father is a Hamas official while sitting in a room in London – then so can the BBC fact-checkers. They did not find it – because they never bothered to look.
It is not the only problem with the BBC’s messaging. We are told this documentary had to be made “to give voice to unheard voices”. However, each of the documentary’s key subjects had already appeared on major networks before. So which unheard story exactly needed to be told?
And it is these contradictions that reveal the far greater problem underneath.
The BBC has an institutional and obsessive problem with Israel that is so bad, when it comes to reporting on the Jewish state, the BBC’s collective brain falls out.
It starts with an engine room full of activists dressed as journalists, who are desperately seeking new ways to demonise the only functioning democracy in the Middle East.
I hear that for every Israel-sympathetic article suggestion the BBC editorial teams receive, there are more than a dozen skewing the other way.
Not all get accepted of course, but motivation is key here, and the trend is towards ever more outrageous claims, with less and less editorial oversight as the BBC becomes institutionally desensitised to its own obsessions and failings.
As time goes on, you can imagine those involved becoming increasingly confident that nobody is even looking.
We have plenty of receipts from when the BBC was caught using terror group-affiliated witnesses or journalists, which it should have gone nowhere near.
Which is how it ends with the BBC’s reputation in tatters, as the UK’s state broadcaster is now known to have aired a documentary full of Hamas propaganda and handed money to the family of a Hamas official to be able to do it.
The only reason we can say this out loud today is because it was caught red-handed in a failing so catastrophic, none of its usual excuses or denials would suffice.
But what about all the times we did not? It has been arrogantly churning out skewed material not for years but for decades and getting away with it.
Consider this: had everything else been equal – and this documentary is full of serious problems – and only the Hamas family connection been removed – that documentary would still exist on iPlayer. It may even have gone on to gain recognition and awards.
This is how bad the situation on reporting on Israel has become. On this occasion, perhaps we should be thankful that the production team was so sloppy.ENDS
Turness will doubtless ‘step back’ from her role whilst remaining on full pay for the next ten years.
Market rate talent see.
The talent bring to toe the line until unsustainable and then get paid to carry the latest can.
Double – in a fair country with far rules I think Turness would -as you say – step back – and then have her career in the BBC ended . But it’s a DeI Britain – dominated by Islam – so on two counts – anti Israel – and pro wimmin – she ll keep her job .
The muppet Dei chairman and the Marxist DG will be fine too …
BBC Moaning Emole:
Starmer’s ‘coalition of the willing’ to guarantee Ukraine peace
Money back if not completely an ash shadow on the stairs.
“Starmer’s ‘coalition of the willing’ to guarantee Ukraine peace” – if you disagree on facebook he will send the police around like he did for the 70 year old!
………..
“We Can’t Even Defend Kent Let Alone Kyiv ” David Starkey
Meanwhile LBC, home of that oily little weasel Larry Goodhall, has…
https://x.com/lbc/status/1896470677739167817?s=61
Britain and France ‘propose one-month truce in Ukraine’
Which is real out of the box stuff. Leadership, see.
Vlad is so going to let TTK have time to borrow more money to make another boot. For on the ground.
Our media are deranged toddlers from the mean girl gang.
“Britain and France ‘propose one-month truce in Ukraine’” – it’s for air/sea and energy protection – not actually killing of soldiers by either side on the front line.
https://liveuamap.com/
So, a true to enable resupply?
Hamas wanted that too.
Can’t see Russian commanders being keen.
David Starkey, spot on as usual.
He touched upon an issue I voiced during the Brexit campaign with our European “partners”, the lack of democracy both in the EU and with the individual European countries. My view, which always got sniped at by the Remoaners, was that European countries were either Authoritarian states or had been in recent history. Indeed I would describe some, such as Spain, as Fascist states.
Britain is absolutely different to most of Europe.
Jug ears dragged himself away from trying to read teh Koran then…
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Whatever its usage, this text contains the first coronation oath or promissio regis in three parts, the tria praecepta or three pledges given by the monarch to God:[3]
The Church of God and all the people would hold true peace under his rule.
He would forbid acts of robbery and iniquity.
He would uphold justice and mercy in all judgements.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_oath_of_the_British_monarch
Ugh – maybe Zelenski took along another suitcase with £3 million of Biden cash
Afghans hiding in Pakistan live in fear of forced deportation
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgl00ler0rno
Good old BBC. Always reporting the stories which matter to the people who fund them.
And of course the 10 year old Afghan girl talks with the maturity and wisdom of a fluent English-speaking adult.
From the BBC’s finest:
Azadeh who lists CNN as her experience:
and Usman Zahid ‘As seen in: Illumination, Medium, BBC, MSN (US), MSN Singapore, Yahoo Canada’
Every single one I’ve checked has worked previously for the more extreme Leftist news sites. Unbiased BBC my arse.
100 year contract with Ukraine – did it go through Parliament?
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67b87173ff9676313f3533c2/EM_CS_Ukraine_1.2025_One_Hundred_Year_Partnership.odt
Treaty Title: One Hundred Year Partnership Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Ukraine
Command Paper No 1277
2.1 The One Hundred Year Partnership Agreement between the UK and Ukraine was signed in Kyiv by leaders of both countries on 16th January 2025. The Agreement outlines the key principles that will govern the partnership and refers to relevant, existing agreements that are in place.
– Article 1: pursuing stronger defence collaboration and joint development of defence industrial bases with Ukraine;
– Article 2: working with Ukraine to support their capability in areas of mutual security benefit including in support of future NATO membership;
– Article 3: activity to strengthen joint maritime capabilities in specific geographies;
– Article 4: co-operation in specific sectors of economic and commercial activity in support of mutual prosperity;
– Article 5: further cooperation in support of both countries’ clean energy ambitions which includes steps to attract the necessary investment;
– Article 6: deepening of justice co-operation that will include contact between our legal sectors and mutual support for the primacy of international law;
– Article 7: collaborating at institutional level to improve our national capabilities in combatting foreign information manipulation and interference;
– Article 8: building partnerships across the science, technology and innovation spheres;
– Article 9: forging deeper organisational links spanning social, cultural and sports activities including in areas of reform; and
– Article 10: developing closer institutional links to address policy matters linked to migration including areas of criminal activity.
7. Financial
There will be no direct financial implications beyond those needed to cover the process of ratifying this Agreement.
With a ‘mandate’ of 20% TTK can do what he likes.
Apparently.
Will save us a lot of trouble if Russia does get the job done now – there a napoleon line about ‘do do anything when your enemy is making a mistake ‘ which comes to mind .
“The UK will provide Ukraine with annual military assistance of no less than £3 billion a year until 2030/31 and for as long as needed to support Ukraine. ”
£3 billion a year until 2030/31
3 * 100 years = 300 billion!
UK-Ukraine 100 Year Partnership Declaration
Published 17 January 2025
(iv) supporting development of a Ukrainian critical minerals strategy and necessary regulatory structures required to support the maximisation of benefits from Ukraine’s natural resources, through the possible establishment of a Joint Working Group;
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-ukraine-100-year-partnership-declaration/uk-ukraine-100-year-partnership-declaration
HA HA HA HA HA HAHA!
“Develop our Social Recovery and Inclusion Partnership. The UK will continue to support an inclusive and sustainable recovery for all Ukrainians in all their diversity. “
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-ukraine-100-year-partnership-declaration/uk-ukraine-100-year-partnership-declaration
” Ukrainians in all their diversity.”
” Ukrainians in all their diversity.”
The provisions of this Declaration will continue in effect for 100 years from the date of signature.
BBC really taking the p now with their trailer for the new Dr Who season. The Doctor himself, Rylan Clarke, Alan Cumming and an Intergalactic Song Contest. I can’t see a straight white male. I despise Russell Davies and the BBC for what this show has become.
Doctor Who Season 2 Official Trailer 🛸 – BBC
I struggled through season 1 with him and Mr Kitty asked me if I wanted him to record season 2, an incredibly swift NO was the answer. As far as I’m concerned Doctor Who finished with Peter Capaldi.
TOADY Watch #1 – President Trump did himself no favours in that row with Zelensky
Why? Because the BBC who love to rubbish President Trump will do so over and over again. Zelensky should have been grateful in the Oval Office for the help that America has given Ukraine (that it can ill afford), not waiting until Zelensky reached London to express his gratitude to the US.
Up2Snuff …. “BBC who love to rubbish President Trump will do so over and over again” does not matter what he does…..
2018 …. “Is that news? Are you serious? Somebody’s tooth brushing habits … I’m not going to waste the viewers time with this rubbish. Let’s talk about toothbrushing .. Emily do you floss?” Gorka @4:16
https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/01/06/weekend-open-thread-172/comment-page-4/#comment-891452
Seb Gorka is always good value when the BBC invites him on . Although I suspect the BBC just asks For a ‘White House spokesman ‘ but get depressed when he steps up …
Zelenskyy has repeatedly expressed his gratitude to the US for their assistance and opened his remarks in the Oval office by saying, “Thank you so much, Mr. President,” and throughout the meeting, he reiterated his thanks to the U.S.
The full list of Oscar winners
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1mngz9zreno
“But we have learnt somethings in the last 10 years. We have learnt that most of the press in free western countries are cowards. We’ve learnt that most of our artistic establishment are cowards. Most of our politicians are cowards. We’ve learnt that industries that spend much of their year in award ceremonies patting themselves on the back for their bravery, stop when bravery is required.” – Douglas Murray @5:00
Douglas Murray speaks at “The Danish Muhammad cartoon crisis in retrospect” conference
The DT has a very very long piece on some Netflix film which has a trannie drug dealer in the story – it was bought by Netflix to get the DEI vote and win awards .
The DT account is so long I don’t think anyone read the whole thing . I can condense it down to 4 words – go woke go broke …
I only have prime – and the offering on that are pretty dire – I wouldn’t bother but want the free delivery – the film channel i can go without because I am grown up / over 40 .
You can see that it is made for kidults ….
The Oscars? Who cares ?
“In the movie Conclave, Cardinal Benitez is an intersex person who was assigned male at birth. He is not transgender. “
I was deleting comments because I didn’t want to spoil that film / book for others – now i give up . I mean Why bother ? Sometimes I cannot understand people . F
Friend enjoyed film – until the last bit – I guess they have to slip it in a bit later so you don’t leave early!
bbc has a problem with Spring now..
Spring is “fastest-warming” season in the UK
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/clyzn3qn61no
Luckily we have the bbc to inform us that apparently Spring is a problem.
“New analysis shows that spring is the fastest-warming season in the United Kingdom largely down to climate change.
A report by Climate Central, external, an independent organisation on climate research, has found that all four seasons are warming but at different rates.”
Here on the South Coast in this first week of March which qualifies for early spring, cars were iced over this morning as the temp fell to minus digits overnight…..
Just saying……
I’ve just received a letter letting me know of the state pension increase for this year.
I get the full old pension having paid in for 50 years.
The increase is the same as my energy standing order payment increase.
However.
As I have a work pension which I also paid in to for 40 years the state pension increase will be 20% lower because the total pension is over the tax starting amount.
In other words, I am worse off when you take all the other living cost rises into consideration.
I’m one of the 75% of pensioners who is not a millionaire.
This much trumpeted pension rise in reality means I am a fair bit poorer this year. Not what we hear in the msm though. According to the msm we’re all filthy rich.
WE ARE ALL EQUAL COMRADES.
“Sir Keir Starmer criticised over tax free pension scheme
Published 22 March 2023”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65037136Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of hypocrisy by Conservatives over a tax exempt pension deal he has from a previous job.
Sir Keir criticised measures in the Budget which scrapped the £1m cap on lifetime pensions savings.
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EG – im not there yet but am fully paid up but I know it will take me to the upper tax threshold under current circumstances … I wonder if Rachel might put the Income Tax up because of a self induced ‘national defence emergency ‘ so that the Marxists can throw more money at the public sector and its ‘ NHS ….
If starmer is trying the ‘foreign policy ‘ scheme to take attention off his unpopularity in the UK he must be even more deluded than I thought .
I don’t think there is much affection for him – his regime or Ukraine – and the voters are envious of what the US has got and what they are doing …
“For the first time ever, wind generated more power than gas last year.
The UK is leading the way in wind power, and this is a huge milestone for our clean power mission.
Read more 👇”
https://x.com/energygovuk/status/1895157166975111312
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/energy-trends-and-prices-statistical-release-27-february-2025
Rather disappointed (I really ought to have known better) by Netflix’s Black Doves starring Keira Knightley, Ben Whishaw & Sarah Lancashire.
Suckered in to this multi-part spy thriller by viewer cautions for grown ups such as “sex, violence, threat”
Keira Knightley – who would likely get herself blown over in a stiff breeze – overpowering the ex-SAS hand gun toting hit man in a John Wick-style straight up fist fight in her kitchen. Didn’t even wake hubby or the kids – fast a kip upstairs. Then marches the would-be assassin to the garden shed where she executes him among the flower pots and compost sacks. There’s a modern twist on the Lady Chatterley & Oliver Mellors story.
Note to Idris Elba re excessively sharpened kitchen knives – you may a have a point there, mate.
And Ben Whishaw in a no holds-barred spur of the moment hook-up grunting and grappling man-love scenario.
The phrase ‘spoiler alert’ comes to mind.
Had the casting been reversed they might almost have had an enjoyable show.
By the way, just because Judi Dench broke the glass home made jelly mould, so to speak, as James Bond’s ‘M’ – must every dramatic top boss spymaster now have to be some middle aged lady with more than a whiff of the WI about her?
Our Keira ought to be cast as Kate Middleton in The Crown – although she’d need to put on a bit of weight.
THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS…….
A man called Luke Pollard was on the BBC this morning. He was asked questions about where we(Britain) would find troops to go to Ukraine to be involved in some peacekeeping fantasy. After numerous , obvious attempts to avoid answering the question….um.um…we would do this with others…um..um. blah, etc. He finally committed to..”We already have troops in Estonia” we have thousands already nearby..
A quick “google” reveals about 850 British troops in Estonia, but what is alarming is that Luke Pollard had no real idea of how many and his thousands, plural, was his best guess.
Oh , l forgot to mention what Luke Pollard does for a living…
Minister of State for the Armed forces. Perhaps like his Government colleague “junior Chess Champ”Rachel Reeves , counting and numbers is just not his thing.
The British Army is actively engaged in operational duties across the globe. The work we do ranges from peacekeeping and providing humanitarian aid, to enforcing anti-terrorism measures and helping to combat the international drugs trade.
https://www.army.mod.uk/learn-and-explore/global-operations/
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Some 10,000 sailors, marines, soldiers, and aviators will spend Christmas Day deployed overseas, sacrificing celebrations with their families and friends to keep the UK safe.
The work of the UK Armed Forces continues over Christmas on 60 operations in 44 countries this, while hundreds more personnel are working to protect the UK’s skies, shores, and seas at home.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/10000-uk-armed-forces-personnel-deployed-overseas-to-keep-us-safe-this-christmas
Pity they couldn’t stop over 500 third worlders invading Britain on Sunday – a record for the year so far ….
Starmer = “Gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse that involves manipulating someone into doubting their own reality. It can happen in personal and professional relationships. “
Isn’t it a pity that Trump and Vance didn’t confront TTK the same way that they did with Zelenskyy.
Asking TTK about free speech and locking up those who disagree with TTK’s view of the UK.
Asking why our borders are wide open.
Asking why they grovel before one religion and have no time for all the other religions.
They could ask TTK to explain Lammy and others comments slagging off Trump.
There was so much he could have destroyed TTK with but he held back.
Trump must really really like the actual UK to put up with TTK and his far left, woke mates.
The Friday Whitehouse meeting with a ‘washed up’ Zalenski was certainly an eye-opener.
As 1066 poem goes… they all started to run like a warren of rabbits upset by a gun. He’s now got them scurrying round – meetings – phone calls etc. – all trying to outplay each other. Trump’s little escapade has forced the hand of NATO and it’s members including UK to desperately start digging deep into their pockets to show a willingness to pay more for their fair share in NATO as he has constantly demanded and also a push for more support of Ukraine which till now has been mainly left up to US and a few other.
Perhaps all this was Trumps intention! The EU can’t defend itself without Trump…NATO will not survive without the US – they can despise and protest him all they want!
The weak TTK PM whilst determined to destroy Britain and all it stands for, who cares more about human rights of illegal immigrants and terrorists than about its own citizens (suddenly, miraculously, appears to have gained a pair) bending over backwards to support Ukraine and anyone else but UK, to uncover an urge to impress the EU. He says without consultation that UK is willing to put boots on the ground and planes in the air …….How about putting boots on the ground to defend Britain.
I think we know what TTK is ultimately pursuing at the end of his disastrous 4 year term.
Ramming attack in Germany.
It has absolutely nothing to do with Islam, and anyone calling it a Ramadan Ramathon will be visited by Starmer / Khan’s goons.
Ban Rams! Easy! Blunt those knives! Lock up protestors!
Let’s put this in context:
Number of Germans killed in attacks by migrants during past 12 months = 15 (at least, excludes ordinary murders).
Number of Germans killed by Russians soldiers during past 30 years = 0.
Perhaps the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz*, who attended the jamboree in London yesterday might want to ponder where his priorities should best be focused.
* Yes, the same Olaf Scholz who was once Vice President of the International Union of Socialist Youth, supported the Marxist Freudenberger Kreis, was in favour of disarmament, visited members of the Central Committee in the old East Germany and criticised “aggressive-imperialist NATO”,
https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/kann-er-kanzler-olaf-scholz-ein-kritisches-portraet-ueber-den-kanzlerkandidaten-der-spd/26106816.html
BBC – “A German Man”. A German man can be a naturalised German ex Arab……..
Just saying.
The national broadcaster of the U.K.
https://x.com/BBCNews/status/1896519146499682547
‘We can finally return to Syria, but this island is our home’
https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1896537147286429790?s=61
ChessCafe: The venue bringing young people together
Nice articles. Thanks
You are welcome.
Really should be on BBC world… inbetween the ads.
https://x.com/bbcpolitics/status/1896832235975684565?s=61
UK ads target Iraq to deter small boat crossings
Meanwhile.. . 592 came yesterday.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats-last-7-days
Date Migrants arrived Boats arrived Boats involved in uncontrolled landings Notes
24 February 2025 0 0 0
25 February 2025 163 3 0
26 February 2025 0 0 0
27 February 2025 0 0 0
28 February 2025 0 0 0
1 March 2025 68 1 0
2 March 2025 592 11 0
Ukraine Border 3billion
UK Border Net Zero Billion
White slaves?
“Many societies in Africa with kings and hierarchical forms of government traditionally kept slaves. But these were mostly used for domestic purposes.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/9chapter2.shtml
King Gezo said in the 1840’s he would do anything the British wanted him to do apart from giving up slave trade:
“The slave trade is the ruling principle of my people. It is the source and the glory of their wealth…the mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery…”
Lucy.
Does that mean we can all now get acting jobs on tv adverts.
Human DNA is apparently ca. 25% banana – some people seem to have more than that.
They nicknamed him “brains” apparently
– can’t imagine why
I’m pretty sure that ministerial SPADs have a thing where they dare each other to goad their charges into saying / doing something utterly stupid – things really haven’t been the same without regular updates from team Shapps
The top photo made me think of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg who gathered the Battle Creek Sanitarium staff for a photograph a century ago on October 26, 1920.
The Kellogg sanitarium had quite the best documented recovery rates from Spanish Flu … (via US Army records)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Wellville_(film)
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
Killer – thanks
Uh-oh, just when you thought it might be safe to walk the pavements, another car has gone on the rampage in Germany…
Believe it or believe it not, the Reuters headline reads, “Car drives into crowd in German city of Mannheim…” You see, is it just me or does that headline imply some automotive murderous intent on the part of the vehicle? Cars don’t actually drive…they’re driven…
So, here we are again. More flowers, more teddy-bears more puerile platitudes and no doubt more gormless left-wing halfwits on the streets demonstrating against “Islamophobia”.
Never mind.
Happy Ramadan…
Have they blamed Trump / JD / Elon yet …
The suspect is described as XXXXXX
originally from XXXXXX
Definitely not terrorist – no one mention Islam …
Maybe the Germans will get the courage to vote for their own country next time – although I suspect the propaganda they get is worth of Goebells …
2017 …. “President Trump caused confusion during a Saturday rally in Florida when he said: “You look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this?” Trump then mentioned the French cities of Nice and Paris and the Belgian capital, Brussels. The three European cities were attacked by terrorists over the past two years.”
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“Germany will become totally dependent on Russian energy.”
** Germany are all laughing.
Germany Reacts to Trump’s UNGA Speech
Danke Merkel
Charlie Peters who did all the stories for Pakistani raping gangs for GB News and the newsreader on Classic FM also spoke about the ‘car’ driving into the crowd. Even if they had both said that the car ‘was driven’ into the crowd it wouldn’t have sounded as though the car was capable of its own decision making. I presume all are scared of the wrath of OFCOM.
“…You see, is it just me or does that headline imply some automotive murderous intent on the part of the vehicle? Cars don’t actually drive…they’re driven…” You really should see the film Maximum Overdrive.
I know believe – thankyou!
“MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE Trailer (1986) Stephen King Horror”
Blind fighter pilots! DO IT!
“An Army that is justifiably recognised as a demonstrably inclusive employer that respects difference, attracts talent from all areas of society, overtly embraces equality of opportunity and always challenges unacceptable behaviour”.
Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith
https://www.army.mod.uk/army-careers/careers/diversity-and-inclusion/
“Diversity, inclusion and respect sit at the heart of the Army’s values and ethos, and rightly so. ”
Employee support networks
The Army have four employee support networks to support serving soldiers and offer advice to the leadership and policy teams, they are:
Army Servicewomen’s Network
Army BAME Network
Army LGBT+ Forum
Army Parent’s Network
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Former lawyer pleads guilty to fraud over Iraq war claims
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyvyndm8y4no
The former boss of Public Interest Lawyers was struck off by the Solicitors Regulation Authority in 2017 for pursuing false torture and murder allegations against British troops.
Some in the RN of the early noughties were seriously talking about wheelchair access on warships… One career officer I knew resigned and took the gold plated gig he was offered by the KIwis who, at the time hadn’t been infected by the mind virus.
Wheel chair access to fighter jets shouid also be considered …
That’d be a training step
Hello Fedup2
Douglas Bader?
good call!
Confusing … but X reports that the US is no longer interested in signing a mineral deal with Ukraine … and it seems that the UK has already signed one in secret a week ago ….
Starmer and Zelenski very high on the naughty step if so …..
If true does make one wonder just how much suffering Comrade Starmer wants to impose on us – his sausages – until we are freed in 2029 ….
FREE GLASSES and a FREE WEEKEND with Lord ALLI!
Enjoy Comrades.
I thought Corbyn was unelectable – but this git got less votes than Jez…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-40209282
I got round to watching the latest series of “Unforgotten” from the woke ITV.
I have enjoyed this in the past, but it has now jumped the shark.
The victim was a white man, an anti-vaxxer and Brexit supporter, so was basically asking for it.
One suspect was a woman working for a TV station clearly based on GB News. She spouted right wing views she did not believe in, purely for the money.
Another suspect was a Afghan translator. Not only was he a good, kind man, he was, like so many Afghans, gay. His husband was even a British soldier. Clearly, he could not have done it.
In the end, although the police identified the killer, the death was ruled an accident and no-one was charged. Because clearly he deserved it for being right wing.
The entire show was basically a left wing wank fest. Don’t think I’ll bother again.
Over on the BBC, I see that there is a new Agatha Christie. It is set in the 1930s, but predictably there is “colour blind” casting, so a number of black actors play parts they could never really have done back then. I can save my time with this one, and not watch it at all.
From the nation that famously has a 32-letter word for speed limit trap – could be high time for a new appendix to the German Highway Code?
They never showed this question on any MSM
Remember the film ‘Zero Dark Thirty’…a lunatic out to terrorise the world is hunted down as he tries to turn out the lights in Britain by 2030 as he imposes the dystopian nut zero policies he loves so much….
‘A fresh Net Zero Watch report makes more grim reading for Britons, predicting that Red Ed’s green policies will add at least £25 billion per year to the cost of the electricity system by 2030. Increasing the cost of living for each household by over £900…’
https://order-order.com/2025/03/03/net-zero-to-add-900-to-cost-of-living-by-2030/
Just now on GB News : Mannheim Attack: One Killed In High Speed Car Ramming Attack As Several Injured
Germany have more problems on their home soil without worrying about Ukraine. The same goes for the UK
Ban roads! Blunt the knives! Inshallah!
All steering wheels to be wrapped in bacon.
Send in Lady Gaga!
Release the hounds.
Release the lone wolfs?
“Ramadan: how to fuel exercise while fasting”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/ramadan_exercise_fasting
“How to drive and keep on the roads during …. “
650 MPS and 800 Lords grab guns and march off to Ukraine to defend the UK against the Russians.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/sudan-must-not-be-forgotten-david-lammy-announces-political-and-humanitarian-action-to-address-catastrophe-in-sudan
“Sudan must not be forgotten”: David Lammy announces political and humanitarian action to address ‘catastrophe’ in Sudan
Englishالعربيَّة
Foreign Secretary announces £20 million in additional funding while visiting the Adré on the Chad-Sudan border.
£20 million in additional funding … taxpayer money with no receipt.
£20 million in additional funding … not David Lammy’s wages?
£20 million in additional funding … with not one vote!
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In 2014, EU and African countries started the Khartoum Process. Its goal: to stop people from fleeing to safety by strengthening border controls.
Numerous externalization projects are funded and implemented by the EU and member states within this framework, reinforcing the power of oppressive regimes through funding.
The EU funded for example Sudanese border control by building detention centers and providing border surveillance tools.
https://sea-watch.org/en/europes-complicity-in-the-war-in-sudan/
…….. EU imposed sanctions on organizations connected to the RSF.
Foreign Secretary announces £20 million in additional funding while visiting the Adré on the Chad-Sudan border.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/sudan-must-not-be-forgotten-david-lammy-announces-political-and-humanitarian-action-to-address-catastrophe-in-sudan