The magic of the FA cup cliche . With Gary Linaker due to present the BBC coverage – will he make some snide comment about his anti semitism ? Or read a statement from the autocue ? Or be judged to be not fit to be on the State Broadcaster at all ?
Weekend 17th May 2025
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Yaaaaaaaaaah!
Oh heck I’ve had a great day! I’ve tried to understand and eventually ignored everything Beeboid, read everything from serious watchers here, decided I have nothing to add, watched some Talk TV for decent stuff, (avec tinctures and lunch), planted two rows of kohl rabi, and five courgettes, placed another 12 tomato plants in their final positions, ready for a gallon of passata come the Autumn, so what more can a man ask for?
Life is so rich away from the tiresome despond of the tax-paid BBC!
Sounds sublime Scrobs !
Top spot for top man 😆
Echo that, my dear old thing. They were rabbiting on TOADY yesterday about the start of the Test Match season with a warm up short series against, iirc, Zimbabwe. 🙂 Only 1 Test 🙁 Bit mean to make Zimbabwe come all that way and only play one Test Match against them.
BBC to send reporters to Scroblene’s garden and demand all garden produce goes to Gaza to end the famine. Inshallah. Islamophbia. Slavery is our fault.
Scroblene to return his being first prize so not to upset all the other biasedbbc commentators. Leve playing field (c) Boris Johnson.
Enjoy the sunny days!
Thank you Brissles and MM!
Why not pop down here for a garden party then? I’m just making five gallons of hooch, so all will be ready by the time you get here!
Remarkable that when the ex-head of the FBI, with a long time hatred of Trump, posts a photo of a well known ‘code’ that suggests assassinating Trump the BBC tucks it away on the US page…..well probably because it’s such an everyday thought for those at the BBC that it is in fact unremarkable….lol.
‘Former FBI director James Comey is being investigated by the Secret Service after he shared then deleted a social media post, which Republicans alleged was an incitement to violence against US President Donald Trump.
Comey posted on Instagram a photo of seashells that spelled the numbers “8647”, which he captioned: “Cool shell formation on my beach walk.”
The number 86 is a slang term whose definitions include “to reject” or “to get rid of”, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, which also notes that it has more recently been used as a term meaning “to kill”. And Trump is the 47th US president.’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70nqk9rlxpo
Just imagine what a huge story the BBC could make about the FBI and the Democrat political persecution of Trump if it suited them.
The children at ‘BBC Verify’ would be so busy, they would have to come in on a Saturday morning.
In britainistan – unless you are ‘approved ‘ tweeting 8647 would get you over 2 and a half years and a failed appeal against sentence …
If you’ve ever watched Gordon Ramsey Kitchen Nightmares, he’s forever going on about “68ing things off the menu”.
And this is why the BBC believe they are unbiased. They cannot see the truth because they are useful idiots who cannot change thier minds even when the truth is staring them in the face.
This exKGB agent explains the process. (It was filmed in the 1984)
Killer jailed for life for stabbing mum at Carnival
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cre98lpd7n3o
The story is about a man who was jailed for life for stabbing a woman to death.
But the BBC put a picture of the victim on the front page, not the man.
Here’s the victim:
And here’s the savage who did it. Shakeil Thibou.
Surely you put the picture of the victim up when you report the murder and the picture of the murderer up when sentence is passed ?.
Not at the BBC you don’t of course. Because they are racist and try to prevent us things they don’t want us to know.
No vigils for her. No series of articles telling us how savage these black gangs are and demands for them to be eradicated from our streets. Just a murder, a funeral and a sentencing is all this one gets at the BBC.
These kind of stories remind me of what disgusting hypocrites the Left are. Just imagine their fake outrage if she was stabbed by someone white.
Do the ‘math ‘ life = 10 years . 1 year in custody pre trial =2 years – dropping the time to 8 years . But the Marxists are dropping prison time to one third . So he ll do – maybe – 3 years . …
I thought the same Fed so I checked it carefully and the term is:
‘… was sentenced at the Old Bailey where he was ordered to serve a minimum term of 29 years.’
Though I have no idea if that actually means what it says in these days of where we openly have two different tiers of the law : one for poor persecuted minorities and one for the colonial racist whites.
Fedup2 – remember to apply the “review the sentencing based on colour and race.”
……………
2016 …The Prime Minister has asked David Lammy MP to investigate evidence of possible bias against black defendants and other ethnic minorities.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/review-of-racial-bias-and-bame-representation-in-criminal-justice-system-announced
Prime Minister David Cameron said:
If you’re black, you’re more likely to be in a prison cell than studying at a top university. And if you’re black, it seems you’re more likely to be sentenced to custody for a crime than if you’re white. We should investigate why this is and how we can end this possible discrimination.
That’s why I have asked David Lammy MP to lead a review of the over-representation of defendants from black and ethnic minority backgrounds in the criminal justice system. And this will include examining possible sentencing and prosecutorial disparity.
At present, BAME individuals currently make up over a quarter of prisoners – compared to 14% of the wider population of England and Wales.
……………………..
Note -every early released prisoner is a new labour voter! Easy Maths!
Good point – the defence can prove that coloured folk are more violent by the number of convictions . It’s part of their ‘culture ‘ so there should be a further discount – 10%
So if he got 29 – he only does a third – 10 years – minus the 2 on remand – 8 – minus sentencing guidelines -10% – so out in 7 – 1 year on cat A then out for ‘day release ‘…. The judge minimum 29 is not relevant to the need to empty prisons …
Minus 29 years when needing to fill prisons with nasty people who tweet! HA HA HA! We are living in an asylum!
‘My children go to sleep hungry,’ Gazans tell the BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly3nyqx7xwo
Another complete crock of shit from the BBC.
Gaza received enough aid to last until September. It’s official. It would prove beyond that what Israel says is true. But to their absolute shame the BBC do not report it.
‘The Israeli government insists there is “no shortage” of food in Gaza and that the “real crisis is Hamas looting and selling aid”.’
Any famine is the direct result of deliberate Hamas actions. But the extreme-Left BBC are strongly inferring it’s Israels fault then saturating the story with children and empathy with stories from the Muslim Jew-hater Gazans themselves.
The deliberate misrepresentation by the BBC here is absolutely outrageous. Who is supposed to stop them doing this sort of thing when they are allowed to be their own judge and jury ?.
Shame on you Alice Cuddy of The BBC and The Guardian. You are the worst of liars : the BBC kind.
That headline makes little sense.
As to the copy…
“His bowl was filled with lentils, but as he made his way back, it was knocked out of his hands.”
Might explain the wastage.
Alice doesn’t live in the real world any more.
The level of integrity and general standard of journalism at the BBC these days is absolutely shocking.
“Gaza received enough aid to last until September. ” was this all from Allah?
‘To date, over 66,000 trucks on the ground have delivered over 1.3 million tons of aid – including 25,000 trucks during the temporary ceasefire.’
‘Images have been captured of Hamas violently overtaking trucks carrying aid, taking goods to the group’s own storage facilities and selling them overpriced to certain vendors with whom they choose to do business. This practice has made Hamas millions of dollars. ‘
https://www.ajc.org/news/what-you-need-to-know-about-israels-humanitarian-aid-to-gaza#:~:text=To%20date%2C%20over%2066%2C000%20trucks,104%2C792%20tons%20of%20shelter%20equipment.
This is the extent to how much the BBC are lying to us by omission. They are almost (but not quite because it’s a lie) blaming it all on Israel. The ethics of the Left here are truly disgusting.
Add trackers to all the food and then blow it up like the pagers?
I think the biggest problem with these aid trucks is the UN staff allowing people to put weapons etc in with the food for the terrorists. It means the IDF have to search them all.
Something the BBC NEVER mention.
JohnC, anyone who has had children knows that as they grow they are always hungry.
Ukraine and Russia far apart in direct talks, but prisoner swap agreed
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wg599e79xo
What a surprise. No progress whatsoever and everything continues as normal on the battlefield.
And as expected, all the blame is placed on Russia – via another quotation from a Ukranian official so the BBC can write anything at all:
‘The talks lasted less than two hours and sharp divisions soon emerged. The Kremlin made “new and unacceptable demands”, according to a Ukrainian official. That included insisting Kyiv withdraw its troops from large parts of its own territory’
Which territory ?. As he didn’t want to say, I’ll presume he means the areas where they are fighting now. It’s always been clear that Russia want a buffer zone in Eastern Ukraine and I expect they mean that. But we aren’t told.
And I wonder what demands Ukraine made (as directed by the EU of course). Their official line is still that Russia pull out of ALL Ukraine, including the Crimea. Something everybody knows will never happen.
And just to get the backs of the Russians up before they started, half the Ukrainians attended the talks in combat fatigues. Instant disrespect. All the Russians wore suits. I wonder how many on that team ever wore those clothes for real. I know the comedian Zelensky never has.
So exactly as I predicted yesterday, there are no talks, no deal and the war continues. Ukraine would not have done such a thing without instruction from the ‘Coalition of the willing’ (ie the states who run the EU) who will now be funding this war.
This whole pantomime by Ukraine is just ridiculous. This was a real chance to end the war with the boundaries it is going to end with anyway but with a few hundred thousand of their soldiers still alive.
I will be surprised if Russia agree to anything after this. From what I have read elsewhere, Ukraine will rush to rearm and reinforce their positions if there is any ceasefire and the real danger of the war starting again after any peace deal is not Russia, it’s Ukraine rearming then trying to take the land back again. With the troops of the ‘coalition of the willing’ right in the middle of it gambling that Russia will back down. That’s when WW3 starts.
Yeah yeah yeah – ok about ww3 – whatever – but what about TVs ‘Gary linaker – is he doing the FA cup final or not ….?
The BBC will let you know later Fed.
Right now they are too busy wetting their panties about someone called ‘Sean Diddy Combs’ or something who is of course black, but I know nothing else whatsoever about him. Nor do I care.
Fed, WW3? There was a wonderful moment at the end of the Goon Show titled ‘The Fear of Wages’ where at the end, Wallace Greenslade, in his best BBC voice, announces: “That is the end of WW2. Book now for WW3.”
Up2
I think that Mediterranean power cut was a ‘taster ‘ of what even a ‘limited ‘ nuclear exchange wouid be like for those not directly affected by it at the outset – total loss of power and information – from there going downhill … note to self – remember where the tin opener and clock work radio is …
Fed, exactly that! And have lots of battery powered lights around, too.
Our print press do love a red carpet celeb photo shot for their frontpage colour features. However, the regime mouthpiece Times goes all boring and serious on us this morning with a ‘blue’ carpet celeb feature pic: …European leaders in Tirana for talks…
I’m not sure another of those Euro leaders family group photos would intice me to fork out the cover price: £4 £2.30 to subscribers (based on a 7 Day Print and Digital subscription) – but hey-ho, each to their own.
Front row, left to right (as we look at them) we have failed German ex-defence minister Ursula von der Leyen, failed British PM Keir Starmer, failed Ukraine war leader Volodymyr Zelensky, failed French president Emmanuel Macron and successful and popular Albanian PM Edi Rama.
incumbent prime minister of Albania since 2013 and chairman of the Socialist Party of Albania since 2005. He was Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports from 1998 to 2000. First elected mayor of Tirana in 2000, he was reelected in 2003 and 2007… Rama is the only Albanian prime minister in history to have won four terms in a row. His party has won all seven elections since 2013 – usual credit due to Wiki.
And as any enterprising football scout might ask when looking at a promising schoolboy team photo: “Who’s the big lad on the right?”
Higher power Edi Rama, the 6ft 7in Albanian prime minister, hosted… – explains the Times.
Wot no, 2 meters tall in Euro speak? Tut, tut Times editorial, old imperial measurements – that’s a bit Brexity of you [TM HM Kent Constabulary]
Times main headline: Starmer hails Brexit reset
“hails” – there’s another of those peculiar journo-speak terms that no living human being in their right mind ever reached for in their common conversation.
Hail a taxi cab. A ship hailing another vessel, yes. Mind you, French fishermen might soon be hailing the Brexit reset deal with a “”Sacré bleu! Quoi! Il a fait ça!”
Starmer ambushed over fishing rights… France is leading an EU attempt to squeeze eleventh hour concessions out of Sir Keir Starmer ahead of a Brext summit on Monday (Telegraph)
But back to that Euro premiers line-up photo – snapped just before the umbrellas went up since you can see precipitation in the shot – was that really rain or – since the weather in Albania can be a on the chilly side at this time of year – were the Euro big nobs caught out photographed in the snow (for a second time this week)?
Just as: Attacker who stabbed author Salman Rushdie sentenced to 25 years in prison… Lawyers for New Jersey man Hadi Matar said they planned to appeal the sentence, which was the maximum possible. (Al Jazeera)
If I were off to Albania, I’d take care to pack a new jersey. And then when I went through immigration at the airport you could call me a ‘new jersey man’.
But I digress.
Just as: Rushdie attacker sentenced to 25 years in prison… stabbed and partially blinded novelist (BBC)
So our top CV fiction writer eagerly knocks up some fluffy blurb for the Starmer Brexit reset: UK on path to deeper EU relationship, says Reeves (Guardian) – seven paragraphs of frontpage headline story – with not a word of substantive content… concluding with: Her remarks go further than Keir Starmer’s in the Guardian last week. The prime minister said he would not “start speculating” beyond a deal that had been yet to be agreed
Read beyond the awkward Starmer robot speak construction ‘had been yet to be agreed’ and there’s the hint of a deal (in the words of vintage tv magician Paul Daniels) “You’ll like this… not a lot, but you’ll like it”
Speaking of Euro nonsense news: What time is the Eurovision 2025 final and who is in it? – hints our BBC.
Second of two Eurovision 2025 semi-finals takes place in Switzerland (BBC)
But don’t fret Team GB fans: The UK’s Remember Monday took the stage, but the trio didn’t have to worry about viewers’ votes, as the country gets free passage to the final as part of the Big Five nations (BBC) – in other words we pay for this shit show.
How to win Eurovision, according to the experts (BBC)
Containing much talk of: high-energy, 120+ BPM songs with kick drums and synth-heavy production… a cliché that Eurovision songs are only about love and peace… six broad lyrical themes: “love, unity, self-assertion, partying, history and songs about making music” – but no mention of the politics of Eurovision voting.
One distinctly recalls my old dad watching the show back in the 1970s and pointing out “Cyprus votes for Greece, Greece votes for Cyprus”
BBC in-house favourite the Guardian alone of all our big name print titles thinks to feature the show on the front cover: Your ultimate guide to Eurovision 2025
I gave up watching years ago – my old dad’s words ringing in my ears – anyway, these days it’s just not gay enough for me (sarc).
Containing much talk of high-energy, 120+ BPM songs with kick drums and synth-heavy production… a cliché that Eurovision songs are only about love and peace… six broad lyrical themes: “love, unity, self-assertion, partying, history and songs about making music” plus a chance to boo the Jews and hate the British for Brexit which laughs at the EU.
They should skip the songs and go straight to the voting.
All cultures are equal, cuddly and loving …
“ISIS priest calls Valentine’s Day a ‘sin day’, beheads red teddy bear
Albeit not so brutal like ISIS, yet there are countries or groups in various countries, which are against celebrating Valentine’s Day.
Written By Zee Media Bureau|Last Updated: Feb 14, 2017”
“If the respectable politicians won’t discuss the issues people want to discuss, then people will turn to the unrespectable politicians.”
Man jailed for his part in Hull riot
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/man-jailed-part-hull-riot-10171238
Another one got 20 months just for being there. Can’t wait to find out what the Labour councillor who incited the Muslim mob to murder will get. 50p says it will be a suspended sentence : they are delaying it as long as possible so we all forget.
Didn’t actually do anything criminal from what I can gather reading between the lines of the thoroughly disgusting Leftist ‘Hull Daily Disgrace’ as we call it.
‘Drinkall was seen in that area looking towards the hotel and advancing towards police.’. Jeez.
The best they can do is drag up a different story about him which has nothing whatsoever to do with this story. I suspect they are trying to infer ‘he deserved it’.
One more example of the disgusting double standards of the Left – which our Fuhrer demonstrates so well and doesn’t give a shit who knows it.
JohnC – interesting point – kneel for a drug killer and ignore all other sins, unless you want to make a point.
Dizziness from hunger has become a constant, Gazans tell the BBC… “Give me some,” 6-year-old Ismail said while waiting for food in Gaza (Alice Cuddy, BBC News)
“Dizzy” was a song originally recorded by Tommy Roe that became an international hit single in 1969. Instrumental backing was provided by the Los Angeles session musicians known as the Wrecking Crew. Then a hit with The Wonder Stuff and Vic Reeves in 1991
Dizzy,
I’m so Dizzy, my head is spinning
Like a whirlpool, it never ends
And it’s you girl, making it spin
You’re making me dizzy
Good old BBC, riling up the ummah, since 9/11
Maybe Beyoncé can sing to them to remove the pain? The Uk ended the food poverty with all the concerts…. where the money went to the corrupt governments.
“Beyoncé and the $2m gig for Colonel Gaddafi’s son
This article is more than 15 years old Did Beyoncé not have any idea about who was paying for her services? None other than Hannibal Gaddafi, the out-of-control son of the Libyan leader”
The audience included Beyoncé’s husband, Jay-Z, and despite the best efforts of the pair’s publicist to hush up the provenance of the fee …. DID NOT KNOW
Tricky for the BBC and MSM in particular
A number of accounts of the Biden ‘administration ‘ are starting to be published – ironically written by ‘journos ‘ who were complicit in the cover up of Joe’s’ dementia .
Im guessing the BBC – another big player in the cover up – will ignore those accounts . And when 47 demands an inquiry to establish who was the real president during the Biden years they’ll just accuse 47 of vindictiveness .
The msn will only be held accountable indirectly – as people turn off -and get their news for healthier sources …. Same applies to Covid – of course – and Islamic terrorism being covered up – including the rape gangs …
According to the bbbc’s mates in Gaza all Israeli missiles and bombs hit Hospitals, Schools and Ambulance convoys.
They only manage to kill women and children.
We on here can see it’s all a load of crap. It’s for the gullible virtue signallers.
Do the bbbc ever think ‘why would the Israelis target these hospitals etc’?
They would only get terrible publicity. It would not help the ‘war’ progress in any way. It makes absolutely no sense at all to aim rockets at schools.
I wish some commentators would challenge the bbbc on air although the left are completely blind to everything they don’t agree with.
If you saw Dewbs last night, take that fahima woman, all shouty and closed to any reason.
Imagine being stuck in a lift with her and Matthew lasa.
I don’t think the BBC do “thinking” when it comes to Palestine, they simply run with the story as handed to them by their Palestinian “feeders” in the region who are going to be 100% Hamas supporters.
These “feeders” are using the same drip-drip of accusatory tales against Israel to try to steer the Global view of Israel much as the BBC and the lefty media constantly use exactly the same cheap unprovable smear tactics to try to chip away at Trump.
Are we being ‘nudged’ back into the EU ?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c706e6nxwr4o
Hello and welcome to another edition of Ask Google – a fun family quiz where Google, a search engine and large technology company, aged 26, competes with our BBC, a national broadcaster providing of a wide range of radio and tv services featuring balanced unbiased news and current affairs, aged 103, in answering some tricky almost forgotten questions about news stories from the archives.
What happened to Ken Livingstone’s once famous London bendy buses?
Quora on behalf of team Google: “The decision to remove them was driven by a combination of factors, including: Safety Concerns: There were issues related to the safety of these buses, especially regarding their long length and the difficulty in navigating narrow streets and tight corners.”
BBC: “Ken declares no more bendy buses… The mayor of London has revealed that he will not be ordering any further fleets of bendy buses. Ken Livingstone said they were only introduced for a small number of routes and there were no plans to put more on the roads.
It follows a pledge from his Tory rival Boris Johnson who said he would scrap them in favour of Routemasters if he were elected as mayor. But Livingstone insisted bendy buses were popular with commuters. “They’re very good buses,” he said. “And although papers like the Daily Telegraph which ran a campaign against them may think they are deeply unpopular buses, when we ask bus users which buses they are satisfied with the bendy buses get slightly higher scores.” We’ve got a few bus routes in London where there are just massive numbers of people using them and it overwhelms the older traditional double decker.” Critics argue the buses are not suited to London’s roads and have led to increased revenue losses for Transport for London (TfL) because they have no conductors. Introduced in 2001, they were temporarily taken out of service in 2005 when three buses caught fire.” (BBC, March 2008)
Asiseeit
Seems to be a disease the political class gets – or is a ‘characteristic ‘ whether it be stupid buses which obviously are not safe or dolt energy ministers without a clue ….
32,000 Likes for Rupert Lowe
May 16
Emily Maitlis can call me racist for highlighting the Pakistani rape gangs.
Let me be clear – I do not care.
That vile attitude enabled the decades-long mass rape of working class white girls by Pakistani men.
Justice must finally be delivered.
Maitlis has a cult following and sometimes gets 10,000 Likes but not 32,000 recently
Some apologists supporting Maitlis are getting 2,000 Likes.. but dozens of tweets against her are getting 5K to 10K Likes
Rupert tweeted
Emily Maitlis accused me of ‘making money’ out of our Rape Gang Inquiry.
This is a disgusting lie,
and I call on Emily to publicly retract and apologise for these false remarks.
Would Maitlis dare to use the “Racist” line to VICTIMS ?
TelfordSurvivor(Correne)
I was raped by over 100 PAKISTANI MEN. Not white!!
All PAKISTANI!!!
Am I racist too for stating the facts?
My friends and girls I knew were also raped by 100’s of PAKISTANI MEN! Are they racist aswell??
Just because other men are doing nasty things to children doesn’t mean what these Pakistani men are (not were) doing to children is ok.
It takes a particularly nasty warped mind like Emily’s to say that these rapes shouldn’t be investigated. They should and if an enquiry can put a plan to keep the next 100,000 young girls safe, surely it is worthwhile. Emily didn’t identify in her interview with Rupert Lowe if there are any other clearly defined groups raping young girls where things could be set in place to protect them too.
On March 6, 2024, during an interview at Mar-a-Lago, Marjorie Taylor Greene told journalist Emily Maitlis to “fuck off”
– I’m with Madge on that
– I suspect that a lot of people would like to tell the snooty arrogant bint to reproduce and travel.
Wonder what the Iranians were spying on?
How to pretend to have a democracy ?
How to have over 1400 politicians and achieve not much ?
How to destroy a military from within?
How not to build an airport ? Reservoir ? Railway line ? Nuclear power station ?
How to destroy a police force ? Town centres ? Various industries – steel? – coal ?- oil ? Car ?
Quite a challenge ///
Vintage BBC TV day – the FA cup final – hosted by an anti semite – called ‘Gary ‘ – followed by ‘the boo the Jew song contest ‘ – where everyone involved wears a Hamas badge and boos the Israeli singer ….
Maybe Jeremy Bowen or orla or any of so many anti Jew – anti Israel BBC rubbish have a walk on part …
Pope Leo XIV condemns evil left-wing BBC ideology, by supporting the sanctity of life.
The Pope made it clear that his priorities include defending the unborn and upholding the Church’s definition of marriage. Pope Leo described the family as the bedrock of a healthy society and reiterated the Church’s stance that marriage is a union exclusively “between a man and a woman”, stressing that strong nations are built on strong families. He also addressed the dignity of life, from conception to death, arguing that all people “from the unborn to the elderly” deserve protection from abortion and government assisted death, condemning the abortion and assisted death cult, as morally wrong.
Death cult Marxists, Communists and Socialists in the Labour party and Satanists, Islamists and Atheists at the BBC are angry about the Pope supporting people who pray for dead babies outside of abortion clinics, as well as people who oppose government support for big pharma using medical procedures to assist the death of the public, using an “assisted death act” to make it legal for physicians to assist patients to end their lives, through the prescription of medication, like an ‘end of life’ mRNA vaccine or an overdose of midazolam and morphine.
Yes Richard – I think Pope Leo held that stance from the outset – there’s no ‘ifs’ no ‘buts ‘ and i think the firm stand attracts people rather than other godless outfit with constantly changing ‘beliefs ‘….
I bet the abortion industry is looking forward to ‘enabling ‘/ killing for convenience …
Vote Labour. Vote for far right policies! HA HA AHA HAH AHAH A!
Nasty Party hold Labours beer.
Gary wearing a Hamas flag badge ?or a rat ? Shameful that the BBC still employ him . Surely those TV licences must not be renewed
Fed, has not the D-G just announced the big BBC switch off. They are going on-line in 2030 or something. As I get old I think about how the best things occurred in my early years. Sunday afternoons, Armand & Michaela Dennis, Tales of the Riverbank (voiced over by Johnny Morris) and a TV Licence that cost my parents only a fiver. OK, we watched in B&W on a small screen but that was the limitation of my grandmother’s TV after she came to live with us. Saturday nights were even better: Dixon of Dock Green 🙂 followed by Dr Kildare.
And Wells Fargo was on at 7.00pm before Dixon, Uppers!
I was told I couldn’t stay up to watch Tommy Steele in ‘Golden Year’, which started at 8.00pm! Bed times were sacrosanct back then…
‘Six-Five Special’ was aways OK though. and Pete Murray and Jo Douglas were great presenters! They did a ‘Twelve-five Special’ one New Years Eve, and it was awful, if I remember correctly!
However, I’m so pleased to see that Pete Murray is still with us – he was eventually too normal, (i.e.Conservative) for the soon-to-become-far-left BBC oiks! I remember him castigating union leaders on a live programme once, and cheered mightily through the roof window of my Vauxhall Cavalier 2 litre, while escaping from a rather nasty area south of Brixton, to get home to normality…
Scrobie, I had forgotten Wells Fargo before Dixon. I used to like The Rifleman, especially for his fringed jacket and skill with a Winchester. 🙂 Then there was ‘Z Cars’ with its catchy theme tune. Happy days!
What was the ITV equivalent of Top of the Pops with Cathy McGowen presenting?
Was it ‘Ready, steady go’, Uppers?
An old schoolfriend was ‘invited’ onto the show as he’d applied for a ticket, and someone ‘knew’ that he was a ‘good dancer’!
‘The Shake’ was little more than standing still and wobbling, but there again, I never was much good at the two-step either…
Ahhhh Dr Kildare – my teenage pin-up. Then all my dreams of marrying him were dashed when he came out as gay. 😢 can’t win’em all.
Here’s how to crush the gangs and stop the boats…..
For every ‘illegal’ boat crossing the Channel – remove a fishing licence from a French trawler.
Now watch the French trawlermen stop the boats for us .
Unfortunately, we have a very weak government.
Remind me , how much are we already paying the French to DO Nothing?
taffman, £billions or £millions, iirc.
Instead of giving our money to the French Feds for doing nothing pay each French fishing boat that toes back a dingy to a French port £10M.
Simples.
atlas_shrugged
Excellent !
French bounty hunters.
I never trust the BBC on anything. Today I bought Proms tickets. I will just say that my position in the queue did something very odd with the time I had to wait,but suffice to say, I didn’t appear to have many ahead of me. I wanted tickets for a Sunday morning concert. Although I was able to get my party seats, they were not all on the same row. My only explanation is that virtually everyone ahead of me in the queue also wanted tickets for the same Sunday morning concert OR the BBC was giving away most of the Hall’s seats to their mates.
What is planned for the Sunday Debs?
I can only remember the silence during a fantastic Thomas Tallis piece back in the sixties, and the place was just electric!
Lucky you anyway, and I hope all goes well, despite the expensive freebie seats going to beeboids and their mates!
Scrobs, it is Andras Schiff playing Bach. During lockdown his recitals at the Wigmore Hall on YouTube kept us sane.
Fabulous Debs – you’ll have a real treat!
I’ve just remembered that ‘The Planets’ was on one bill back then, and the surprise during ‘Neptune’ at the ladies singing the simple ‘chord’ from way up in the gods, amazed everyone including the lovely lady I was with at the time!
Many years ago I was in the arena for a prom and the opening chords to Also Spracht Zarathustra were played from the gods and sent the spine tingling. Also last year something I went to (but terribly I can’t remember what), but I could see many prommers were so fixed on the front, they didn’t seem to appreciate where the heavenly music came from.
According to the telegraph Det Supt Ricky Dhanda – head of professional standards for Dorset plod ? Has been suspended for ‘sexual misconduct ‘ allegations . His predecessor went for drink driving ….
A cursed Job? Plod and MPs … one thing in common …
Well the only notable thing about the 17th May is the day when Norwegians celebrate independence from Sweden and the whole nation gets drunk.
It’s also my dear sister’s birthday, and I managed a few tinctures on my own, just for old times’ sake!
Not the bbc – but londonistan . I’ve mentioned here before that the most dangerous time to be a londonistaner is 4pm week days when the ferals come out of school .
On Thursday afternoon – close to where I live – a there was an after school violent disorder leading to a 14 year old seriously stabbed . The road was closed for 2 days – suggesting the kid is either dead or going to be dead . It’s not in the national press – it’s only another dead kid .
The threshold for reporting serious assaults seems to be going up rapidly – yesterday 5 men arrested for violent disorder – all stabbed – and I think we can prejudicially guess the heritage …
The state tells us that violent crime is ‘down ‘ and we are expected to believe this lie . I now see my presence in londonistan as visits – I realise as I get older I become more of a potential target – however street wise I think I am -whilst in real life I live in a far safer country where I am more likely to hear English than in feral londonistan .
The Marxists wanted londonistan to be a third world tip – easier to fix votes and keep the imports on state dependency by easily obtained ( fraud ) benefits claims …
I find it hard to believe I grew up in a safe – monoculture – London – which was tough – but a lot safer . That’s long gone .
Good to see palace beat the Arabs in the FA thing … their support is outstanding – as anyone who visits Selhurst park will find . The only support I’d compare them to is Leeds . Nice to see Pep looking so … pee d off …
Awful to read the turmoil you have to relive in Khaaan’s disgraceful Londonistan, Fed.
I just remember having several pints in pubs around Chelsea in the sixties, and at two bob a pop, what could be better for a young idiot like me…
I remember having six pints in ‘The Scarsdale Tavern’ with an Aussie mate and we paid a quid each for that!
That’s 2 pounds for twelve pints…
Metro did cover it
https://x.com/MetroUK/status/1923339372742504481
“Police were called to Wood Street, Walthamstow, in East London at 5pm yesterday”
@stellacreasy Labour & Co-op MP for Walthamstow
tweeted it
London Evening Standard
Walthamstow stabbing: Boy, 14, rushed to hospital with ‘multiple injuries’ following attack in east London
A 14-year-old boy from Waltham Forest has been arrested for affray and possession of a bladed article.
It’s in the Mirror too
Popular tweet from Martin Durkin
In the clip Nick Robinson comes across as a loony
some of the replies to him get more Likes than him
.. https://x.com/bbcnickrobinson/status/1923302960496275955
Nick “He’s *denying the scientific consensus that climate change is partly man made* & can be slowed or halted.”
.. In the clip he does NOT deny the bit in asterisks ..so Robinson is mistaken
Well… quite……
ooops
> was a Male Prostitute.
Not another Labour MP who did not pay up!
Now there’s a candidate for’ suicide ‘ with the CCTV turned off and the ‘guards ‘ somewhere else….
I don’t think the msm has the courage to investigate …. They’d rather have a Marxist government…
Tried a brief look-in to the Eurovision “song” contest…..
What a pile of total dog poo that is….
Right up the BBC’s alley though…
So many weirdos….
Eurovision to be held in Gaza next year?
All high rise buildings flattened to protect the gays from islamic flight lessons.
Teaching union heads for even high levels of public contempt than many might have though possible … BBC goons no doubt wholly supportive.
Bring Palestine to schools say union
The persecution of Dr Reiner Fuellmich by the German state:
https://www.malone.news/p/the-persecution-of-dr-reiner-fuellmich-a9d
Does anybody know if the BBC pick the UK Jury
for the Eurovision contest? The number one criteria
being that no jury member can vote for Israel? This
is the second year in succession that whilst the the UK
gave TOP points to Israel for the popular vote. The
“picked” jury gave Israel NO points !!!
Eurovision results are in.
I saw the UK entry has 88 points!. So I dug a little deeper:
They are all from the ‘jury’. We got zero points from the public vote. None. Because once again the BBC picked a complete pile a dog poo.
They are completely out of touch with the real world now.
What is interesting is how the BBC will not tell anyone how much of OUR money they give to fund this extreme-Left political extravaganza.
Scrap the Telly Tax .
Simples.
Here is the UK ‘Eurovision 2025’ jury – as selected by the BBC:
One of the first comments against the pic is:
‘Love you and scruff this is bad form mark FREE PALESTINE’
And they picked this one as the ‘UK spokesperson’:
But he pulled out at the last minute and they aren’t telling us why.
Nice one BBC. Just as racist and politically biased as ever.
Hamas proposes releasing some hostages in fresh talks after new Israel offensive
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7geg3lvz1o
In an absolutely standard BBC article full of bias and lies, they spend a couple of lines talking about the headline then drop it completely and revert to the same full-on empathy from their Hamas reporters in Gaza to keep up the suggestion of just how bad Israel are.
Perhaps a few pictures of the hostages still being held – or the accounts of some of those released would have been more appropriate to remind us all what hell those poor people are enduring at the hands of terrorists.
Anyway, the BBC weasel words which caught my eye for this one are another classic BBC lie by inference:
‘US President Donald Trump said on Friday that “a lot of people were starving” in Gaza. The Israeli government has repeatedly rejected claims there is a food shortage in Gaza.’
Amazing how they only give Trump any publicity when it suits their own agenda. But look at those words : they just don’t quite belong together.
And the reason is that they are entirely different things we are supposed to lump together. Trump is right that people have no food. But Israel are correct as well. There is plenty of food – but Hamas have it and are selling it to those who can afford it.
The BBC clearly know it’s true because of how this paragraph is presented. They know Hamas are starving the people for their own profit. And they are fine with that. They do not care : they only want to present things against Israel.
This is from the Fergal Keane:
‘She said her family had only been having one meal a day, due to the scarcity and spiralling cost, and accused Israel of “using food as a weapon” – an allegation UN officials have also made in recent weeks.’
Why are the cost ‘spiralling’ Fergal ?. It’s donated aid. It’s free. Who is charging them ?. This vile BBC piece of excrement does not go near that one because he knows the truth. As do the equally vile UN.
This is another excellent example of why the ethics of the BBC and the Left disgust me so much. They don’t care one bit about those people. They only care about promoting their own political agenda. They have no conscience at all.
John- What do you expect from the likes of Fergal
Keane and Orla Guerin? Who come from a country
who’s leader Eamon de Valera sent his condolences to
the Nazi Mission in Dublin in 1945 on hearing of the
death of Hitler
At least the Irish jury for the Eurovision song contest was
not picked by the BBC. The criteria being to get chosen by
the BBC in the UK . Is to promise not to vote for Israel ,
However good the song is. Which has happened for the last two
years.
The European song contest seems to have lived up to its usual low standards. The UK entry was booed by the juvenile, Euro centric audience before they even began to perform. So glad we broke away from that jaundiced nest of EURO morons, The EU……
I understand the UK performers did not let this childish, vindictive rubbish affect their performance.
Good for them!
I remember a few years ago when it was on live and they had cameras in the crowd watching people dance.
It switched to two men dancing and as soon as they realised they were ‘on’ (I expect it had a red light on the camera), one of them reached off-shot, grabbed a young, clueless looking black girl and pulled her quickly and quite violently across so she was in front of the camera.
So quite clearly those 2 were planted in the audience to ‘control the shot’ and that poor girl looked quite shocked.
I remember it because it was like a shaft of light illuminating the true core-ethics of the Left. They didn’t give a shit about that black girl. It was for pure EU virtue signalling and a show of fake ‘diversity’.
It sums up the Left perfectly and kind of put a cherry on top of the cake. Since then I don’t bother giving the Left the benefit of the doubt any more. I consider them to be complete hypocrites with no ethics or conscience about what they do.
Eurovision: ‘What the Hell Just Happened’ to the UK entry? Remember Monday went into the contest with high hopes, but it was not to be (BBC)
The government is set to host EU leaders in London on Monday as part of its efforts to “reset” relations post-Brexit. (Sky News)
Meanwhile, for actual music enthusiasts: New Order’s Blue Monday, anyone?
Irony is of course a much over-used term. Call it instead a case of serendipity for those sadly jaded seen-it-all-before satirists among us.
Oh no, not again. For the third year in a row, the UK has crashed out at Eurovision, taking 19th place out of a possible 26. It feels particularly cruel this time because our contestants, Remember Monday, got a lot of things right with their song, What the Hell Just Happened. (BBC)
Announcement of the Eurovision voting (somewhat stilted, European-accented, English language female voice): “The United Kingdom…”
Graham Norton (resignedly): “Oh come on”
(In that overly-long painful pregnant pause style, familiar to TV talent show winning annoucements: “From the public… You get… Zero Points”
Graham Norton: “Oh no. Second year in a row for the United Kingdom with zero points from the public… But a great reaction here in the hall… lots of love, lots of love”
Think about this: Pre-Brexit, what did the Europeans really like about us being in the EU? Why so upset when we left?
I can think of five reasons: Our huge cash contributions to the Brussel budget; Freedom of movement for Club Med and then those new Eastern European nations so as to export their youth unemployment to Britain; Permission to steel fish from our waters; Imposition of a bewildering panoply of EU rules and regulations on us so as to stifle our initiative and entrepreneurship; The ego trip of seeing their unaccountable achingly liberal judges lord it over our local laws.
All confirmed by: Brexit? What Brexit? (Daily Mail)
To wit: Britain could be forced to hand over hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money to Brussels every year as part of a new EU deal being negotiated at a ‘Surrender Summit’ in London tomorrow [Tick One]
It is expected to include a youth mobility scheme – dubbed free movement ‘by the back door’ [Tick Two]
…and agreement to allow EU trawlers to fish in British waters [Tick Three]
The UK would also be forced to swallow many Brussels rules… [Tick Four]
…and accept a role for the European Court of Justice… [Tick Five]
Royaume-Uni… cinq points!
Oh, I was almost forgetting another reason the Europeans wanted Britain in the EU – free use of our defence and security assets – you’ll remember how Theresa May deliberately thew away our best trump card at the very start of the original Brexit negotiations: PM: Britain is unconditionally committed to the defence and security of Europe. Prime Minister Theresa May reiterates Britain’s continued commitment to maintaining European security. (Gov.UK, 2017)
Back to today’s Daily Mail…
…as the two sides deepen trade and security links [Tick Six]
Mark Savage, BBC, Music Correspondent, in that classic BBC style of asking a question and then presuming to answer it for us himself, asks: So what went wrong?
And just like that previous BBC article that presumed to tell us: How to win Eurovision, according to the experts (Samuel Spencer, BBC News, 11 May 2025) – which referenced everything but the politics (stupid?) – so this morning after the night before our Mark Savage consols our trio of hung-over-looking slightly superannuated and bedraggled eternal bridesmaids recovering from their wine-soaked bachelorette party – “Broke a heel, lost my keys, scraped my knee / When I fell from the chandelier.” – with a resounding you were fabulous!: After toe-curling performances from Olly Alexander in 2024 and Mae Muller in 2023, their vocals were as strong as a lion’s roar. So strong, in fact, that they caught the attention of former Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst…
The chief culprit, if I’m honest, was the song.
Our BBC there, conforming to that age old adage: Avoiding controversial subjects like politics and religion is often recommended when your goal is not to offend someone or risk conflict.
The last word goes to our Graham:
“Here in the hall… lots of love, lots of love”
The first line of our Eurovision song was:
‘Someone’s lost a shoe’
And it just got worse from there.
I imagine all the ‘love’ in the hall would be down to the cheerleaders and prompters egging on the audience. They really don’t want the UK to leave the song contest as well as the EU : we are a major donor of British taxpayers cash. Though the BBC refuse to say how much which means it is an embarrassing amount.
Youtube – for some reason – wanted me to view some hero worship of one Steve Rosenberg The Only Western Journalist Left is Russia by CBS . So Brave . The whole piece was like that .
The comments were obviously brutal with the word ‘ defund ‘ in there a lot . Msybe russian trolls dispise the BBC as much as us .
Where are bbbc Verify when you need them, a cry never ever heard.
A Trans-rights rally, ‘ a few thousand’ strong apparently, organised by the Rosa Socialist Feminist Movement, marched through Belfast on Saturday. The usual rabble of manipulative Marxists, confused kids and angry wimmin.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1ldpqgq2p1o
United Against Racism Belfast decided to follow the same route an hour later. Again, the usual rabble of of manipulative Marxists, confused kids and angry wimmin.
The bbbc tells us that ‘a separate anti-LGBT rally took place outside Belfast City Hall at the same time.’
Only it didn’t. This was an Anti-Immigration rally of a few hundred, although they are increasing in size and are an almost weekly event across the island of Ireland, as rightly reported in other media and shown in the picture in the bbbc report. Note the combined Ulster Banner/ Tricolour flag flying, Unionist and Nationalist together on this one. Not anti-gay or anti-trans, but anti-illegal and unchecked immigration/ invasion. But that doesn’t suit the narrative does it?
bbbc bullshit yet again, never ever the real story. Trusted my arse.
The BBC hyping a non-story in the hope of smearing Reform by association with the BBC making it into a far-bigger story than it merits.
‘Far-right leaders attempting to hijack success of Reform’
No-one else, even the Guardian as of yet, haven’t made anything of this….oh..wait…just the SNP’s mouthpieces in Scotland report it…maybe because Reform is apparently making inroads even there….so a political plant of a story that the BBC is happy to propagate.
This is the BBC that far from exposing the Far-Left actually became cheerleaders fo them when Corbyn mounted his coup and took over the party and nearly became PM…a man who has a close affinity for Russia and wants to dismantle Nato, our police and security services.
How many of you readers and posters are still paying the ‘Telly Tax’ ?
Don’t be silly.
Judging by the absence of comments – the anti semitic BBC ex footballer presenter has not announced that his FA Cup show on Saturday was his last for the BBC
The that the BBC repeat – that there is no room for anti semitic BBC employees – free lance or not – is there for us to witness .
But I suppose – keeping him on the payroll makes a few more people – licence payers – aware of what rubbish they are paying for …
The DT reports that a dead blue party MP called suella whatever – has met the old boy who was arrested by six Kent plod for a no crime tweet .
A lot of people reacting in comments on newspaper pieces fail to realise this happened which the dead blue party was in government – the suella whatever one might even have been Home Secretary .
Yet suella whoever has met the victim and adopted the ‘nothing to do with me ‘ approach – very much like the rest of dead blue party failures .
I won’t call them tories or conservatives or even right ring – they were none of those things – hence described as ‘dead blue ‘…
Makes one wonder how many other brutal stazi type police raids have been carried out and covered up ….?
According to the media, the political prisoner from Kent was arrested on November 2nd 2023. According to Wikipedia, Ms Braverman was Home Secretary from October 25th 2022 to November 13th 2023, in her second stint in the job. Some might say that was a long enough period in office to effect the necessary changes to bring the police back under control, e.g. by scrapping the so-called College of Policing.
Ian
They are just full of empty words – all of them – not worthy of a single vote . And it’s beyond me that people still vote for them ….
With or without Covid – they had years to shape the country – but none had the drive – self interest was all …. Never again …
There’s ever so many remainers appearing on GB News, all saying the same thing.
They keep telling us what type of Brexit we voted for.
They say we didn’t want a no deal Brexit and now keep saying we’ve changed our minds and want back in.
I’ve not noticed any strong fightback from any pro Brexit guests.
They sometimes mention we haven’t really had Brexit yet but are usually talked over or shouted down by the lefties.
Nobody I know who voted Brexit has changed their mind and if anything have become more anti eu.
TTK is in the process of betraying the vote to leave yet there’s little opposition to this huge damaging, bit by bit return to being controlled by the eu and paying for the privilege. A bit like the Chagos catastrophic deal.
This free movement for those who say they are under 35.
Does anyone have any numbers of those who came to the UK compared to the UK citizens who went to work in the eu when we were in it?
I don’t know the numbers but I bet we got far more coming here than the number of our lot moving to the eu.
Nobody giving any numbers examples on GB News.
Maybe it’s like Blair when he said 15,000 is all that would come from Poland and all that they say now is they got it wrong. They got their way and got away with it.
Does it really matter anymore? Anybody with even a spark of pride in this country is labelled a far right thug and the Marxists, the rich, the illegals are doing anything they want. With the protection, and even encouragement, of the MSM, the political class, the police and the judiciary. As a country we’re finished.
Countries can be vaporised and come back …. hold tight.
“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern…Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“Labour relied on research suggesting 13,000 migrants a year would arrive.
But the influx was much larger than expected and contributed to net migration rising above 200,000 a year.”
Jack Straw regrets opening door to Eastern Europe migrants
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24924219
13K vs 200k –
“Other existing EU members, notably France and Germany, decided to stick to the general rule which prevented migrants from these new states from working until 2011.
I’ve just seen on GBN a commentator putting numbers on this youth free migration thing.
The last time we had this arrangement with the eu (he says) 10,000 of ours went to the eu and 140,000 of the eu came to the UK.
Sounds about right.
Is the EU a trading block or a political entity – which is it?
I think we all know the answer to that. If you’re talking about words then the Common Market was the trading block we joined which then morphed via various treaties into the EU which is now a political union. The common Euro currency basically means the countries using it have ceased to exist as nation states and their Governments are little more than local Councils. I think our politicians knew exactly where this was going right from the beginning and lied to us.
Smarmer has virtually no real political or cultural beliefs, the only one that he really has is that Britain should be in the EU. Some of the stuff he’s coming out with now is preposterous and dangerous. The idea that some sort of defence pact with the EU would be conditional on giving up more fishing rights to France or the EU is utterly ridiculous. I think the current immigration crisis has been engineered to entrap us into the EU.
I predict Smarmer will have us back in the EU is certain I believe whether actually in name or not
I don’t believe we ever left, not even in name.
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Mogs, I think Bojo bodged Brexit. In his impatience to do a deal he took back control of negotiations from Lord Frost, David Frost, the man he had appointed to negotiate the UK’s freedom from Brussels.
ChatGPT … YES AND NO! HA HA AH HAHA! IT CANNOT DECIDE!
“3. Does Joining the EU Mean Losing National Sovereignty?
Yes and no. EU membership involves sharing (not giving up) certain aspects of sovereignty for mutual benefit:
You do give up some national control:
EU laws take precedence over national laws in many areas (e.g., trade, competition, environment).
Members must comply with EU regulations and court rulings.
Policies like agriculture, fisheries, and regional development are coordinated at the EU level.
But you retain core sovereignty:
Member states remain independent countries with their own constitutions, armies, and foreign policies.
Countries have veto powers in key areas (e.g., taxation, foreign policy).
You elect your own government, and that government helps shape EU policies through representation in EU institutions.”
Except in the UK where our politicians drop their trousers and bend over to receive their ‘orders’.
It misses the point where the political class are now working to please the EU and not the people they represent.
“There’s little consultation to me, in having a great CD collection was western civilisation falls apart.” – Mark Steyn
“The classes, taught by Muslims and intended for Muslim students, were first launched in the early 2000s and now are offered as electives in nine of Germany’s 16 states, by more than 800 public primary and secondary schools, according to the research network Mediendienst Integration. They include lessons on the Quran, the history of Islam, comparative religion and ethics. Often, discussions shift to the students’ identity struggles or feelings of alienation.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germany-islam-muslims-rightwing-extremism-afd-merkel-a8616886.html
2018 … German schools teach Islam to students to give them a sense of belonging
“We need more religious education” – not all religions, just one religion, a special religion.