234 Responses to START THE WEEK OPEN THREAD

  1. Steve Jones says:

    More pro-environmentalist nonsense here:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31091821
    Read what Shukman has the nerve to call ‘analysis’.
    Still, shouldn’t be too hard on the Greens. Their leader did such a good job on Sunday Politics when interviewed by Andrew Neil. Brimming with good ideas that lot…I don’t think.

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    • JohnM says:

      The GMOs MAY be OK in themselves, but it is the Round-up that is sprayed on them that is the problem. (Most have been engineered to be immune to that herbicide).

      There are many scientific papers that have found correlations between Round up and certain problems – especially in children.

      Me – I have chosen not to eat them. Avoid Sweetcorn and sugars made from sweetcorn.

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    • boiling over says:

      Well done steve , I knew as soon as saw programme advitised they would either edit it ,so not one foreign casualty would be shown , which would be quite hard to do in most hospitals and make a half hour show . Instead as the statistics show they have gone for an area pradomently white english, so they can blame crisis on some dear old grannies.

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  2. Jack Savage says:

    ….catching up on the BBC’s “Three Musketeers” (wonderful…truly wonderful…. settings and costumes (ooh, I do like a good bodice!) wasted) and I appear to getting a lesson in “diversity” with the Spanish Moors situation obviously identical to that of those required to sit at the rear of the bus in Selma, Alabama. Moors are suspiciously similar to black people of Caribbean origin rather than the Semites that I thought they were. Funny that. I know it is only costume drama and that but still.
    Next week our be-cloaked heroes will be tasked with rescuing a proposed pact between the sovereign states of Europe uniting them in a commercial and monetary union.

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  3. mikef says:

    Notice how the BBC is pushing the Inequality agenda, Peston etc., which by an extraordinary coincidence is Labour’s sole idea (it seems). Does it really matter if someone owns or earns much more than you, if you’re OK yourself. It just promotes envy and discontent.

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    • JohnM says:

      If I hear another ‘Trail’ for this programme then I swear that my radio will be propelled through the window.

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  4. Steve Jones says:

    Panorama is getting to the bottom of the NHS A&E crisis:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31092654
    It is all the fault of the elderly.
    Read this and see if you can find any clues as to why they chose that specific location:
    http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=6275262&c=TS18+1LD&d=13&e=13&g=6377185&i=1x1003x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1422907052000&enc=1&dsFamilyId=2575

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    • flexdream says:

      Who could have expected people to get old eh?

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    • Richard Pinder says:

      The NHS management would have taken the elderly into consideration in any future plans, but political correctness would mean that the NHS management would not have dared plan for mass immigration, so the elderly could not be to blame. But because of political correctness at the BBC, only the elderly can be blamed. So obviously, if the morons at the BBC could understand the “spiral of self censorship of thought within the small left-wing Brain” over Immigration, then they would be able to understand that only mass immigration could be to blame.
      Only UKIP have solutions, due to the fact that supporters do not have a PC mental block on the causes. The manifesto 100 has: No 2. Get control of immigration with an Australian-style, points-based immigration system: No 3. £3bn more, annually, into our NHS which desperately needs it: No 5. Pay greater attention to elderly care across the country: and No 65. Ensuring migrants have NHS-approved health insurance until they have paid into the system for 5 years.

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      • flexdream says:

        Precisely Richard. The ageing population and falling birthrate was entirely and uttterly predictable. The current rising birthrate and population was not predicted even if it was planned and deliberate.

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    • Old Goat says:

      Interesting to compare the Panorama programme, with that of Channel 4’s “24 hours in A & E” series, where everyone is so cuddly and sweet, and so focused, and everything is hunky-dory, and all appears to run like clockwork. The differences are staggering. Who to believe?

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    • Simon says:

      Why I don’t like the idea of “assisted suicide” as it is just an excuse for the nhs to kill off even more people

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    • johnnythefish says:

      ‘It is all the fault of the elderly.’

      Coincidence or magic, that the BBC should take this view whilst on another thread their supporters can’t wait for the ‘old and bigoted’ generation to die off. Ways and means, eh? Still, never let the truth get in the way of a good agenda:

      ‘Equally interestingly, among the heaviest users are people in their twenties. This age group is among the healthiest in society – but they visit A&E more often than people in their sixties and seventies. Is a new consumer generation using the emergency room as convenience medicine?’

      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/nhs/11337430/Why-this-AandE-crisis-isnt-a-simple-emergency-about-cash.html

      Not to mention:

      ‘ As the MPs concluded, rather despairingly, neither they nor the NHS could quite work out why pressures on A&E were increasing. “The system cannot accurately analyse the cause of the problem, still less resolve it, if it continues to ‘fly blind’,” they said. “Rising demand for hospital admissions may be as much a symptom of system failure as it is an underlying rise in demand.”

      The problem, in short, wasn’t caused entirely by a lack of “resources”. It was the quality of medical staff and how they were used, rather than their quantity, which seemed to matter most. ‘

      Still, too late – already weaponised, innit?

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  5. Pounce says:

    I see the bBC are keeping this story very low key
    Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman accused of ‘illegal practices’
    So a story which isn’t reported in either the UK or England websites can only be found in the London one. And then just what illegal practices is he accused of?
    Well according to the bBC it was this:
    People had registered themselves or others to vote at addresses at which they did not live and there had been tampering with ballot papers.
    Mr Hoar also alleged Mr Rahman had used “undue influence through intimidation at polling stations” and “interference with voters” – including in polling booths.
    The court heard one presiding officer reported there was a “constant battle” to stop men entering polling booths with women and telling them how to vote.

    And here is what the bBC isn’t telling you (Maybe there likes the reason why this story isn’t getting the coverage it should be from the pro Islamist bBC:
    Public ‘told not voting for him was sinful and un-Islamic’: Tower Hamlets mayor accused of ‘electoral fraud, intimidation and bribery’ during last year’s poll when he won second term
    Britain’s first elected Muslim mayor is ‘a liar and perjurer’ who used corruption, intimidation and fraud to win a second term, a court heard today. Lutfur Rahman, who runs Tower Hamlets Council, ‘subverted democracy’ during a campaign last May characterised by bribery, ‘ghost voting’, smears and ‘foul libel’, the High Court heard. One in three residents in the east London borough he represents are Muslim and ahead of last year’s election they were told they would not be ‘good Muslims’ unless they voted for him, it is alleged. One young voter was found crying outside a polling station having been told he would betray his religion if he did not back Rahman, the court heard. Meanwhile a letter signed by 101 Islamic figures which was published in a Bengali newspaper said not voting for Rahman was an ‘un-Islamic and a sinful act’,
    Now we see why so many parties are courting the Islamic vote in the UK. They vote on Mass. This people is how the so called elected cunts who pass themselves off as Liberal, Labour and Green MPs try their hardest to continue shopping at John Lewis’s at the taxpayers expense. By allowing Islam to have a huge say in the running of this NON Islamic country. With the likes of the bBC oiling up their arsdeholes so as to ensure their Islamic masters have an easier ride as possible in which to enforce their allah given right to rule over all non Muslims.
    The bBC,(And MPs) the traitors within our midst.

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    • John Player says:

      Well, those are certainly some serious allegations. Where did those come from? Oh yes, it was the BBC:

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-26716862

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      • 20 number 6 says:

        Sorry to burst your bubble, but actually it was Andrew Gilligan in the Daily Telegraph nearly 2 years earlier. Don’t know why the BBC didn’t bother to look into it in the interim – but I’m sure you’ll have an idea or two.

        http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewgilligan/100154973/tower-hamlets-police-move-in-as-lutfur-rahman-denies-everything/

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        • I Can See Clearly Now says:

          Sorry to burst your bubble, but actually it was Andrew Gilligan in the Daily Telegraph nearly 2 years earlier

          Oh, it was far earlier that that. Here’s Medhi Hasan whining about Gilligan in 2010:

          … these days, the former BBC reporter is obsessed with “Islamists” and, in particular, Rahman. By my count, he has published about 15 blog posts on Rahman on the Telegraph website over the past month: that’s a ratio of one post every two days.

          The truth about Andrew Gilligan

          Gilligan’s a good man; one of the best. Still; the Beeb got there eventually. I suppose after fours years they felt they couldn’t ignore the story any longer.

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          • 20 number 6 says:

            I stand corrected.

            I’m sure I’d read some of the early accusations in the Evening Standard – again by Gilligan and earlier than 2012, but the first reference I could find in print and referable was the Telegraph article so rather that quote unreferenced I went with what I could prove.

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            • I Can See Clearly Now says:

              Gilligan has had that story by the throat like a terrier dog for years; I’m genuinely surprised that John Player wasn’t aware of the shameful lack of interest by the BBC for so long.

              Furthermore, there is still a rich seam of corruption news to be mined around postal voting, but they are reluctant to get into that either. Perhaps if UKIP were the main suspects….

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            • Sir Arthur Strebe-Grebling says:

              Private Eye have been on to Lutfur Rahman’s racism since at least 2008.
              http://www.conservativehome.com/localgovernment/2008/09/something-rotte.html

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      • Pounce says:

        John player ,
        I was referring to the current court case which isn’t been reported by the bBC

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        • johnnythefish says:

          Ignorance is bliss when you rely on the BBC for your news – as 70% of the population do, apparently.

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  6. Fred Stubber says:

    On Sunday I was just settling down for a snooze when the phone rang. A friend was in trouble. The car had broken down on the top of the M62, miles from anywhere, and he and his heavily pregnant wife and their three children were stranded. It was freezing cold and very windy. He’d rung the AA, but could I get there as well to take the wife and kids straight home? He would go with the car and the AA to the garage.
    So off I went, by myself. A rare chance to listen to the radio without being wittered at! At 1.30 on Radio Four there was ‘Putting your money where your mouth is’. This turned out to be a left wing diatribe about how the rich should give the poor all their money, the evils of capitalism, etc etc. You know the sort of thing. Near the end the presenter said, “You’ve only heard left wing voices in this programme, so let’s hear from the other side.” There then followed a few brief words from a Tory politician. Then the programme ended.
    I carried out my mission of mercy, the kids screaming in my ears and the bulging woman loudly bemoaning her lot. I then set off for home wondering how I would get the wee wee out of my rear seat. I turned the radio on, hoping that there would not be more left wing claptrap. How I was disappointed! The programme was something called Cloud Howe, and it was all about how the evil capitalists ground the good honest workers into the ground. There was a bloke dying, coughing his guts up, his wife and children weeping at his imminent demise, and it was all the fault of the capitalists, just like on the other programme. Everything, it seems, is the fault of the capitalists.
    So I switched to Classic FM.

    Fred

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    • johnnythefish says:

      I heard a bit of the programme too, Fred. The BBC host even opined that ‘Empire’ had something to do with all this inequality. And George Monbiot, already having been given the glutton’s share of the cake, was returned to for ‘the final word’.

      Then some programme this morning fronted by Robert Peston: how all this inequality began with Thatcher and Regan cutting taxes. Well yes, Robert – how very dare they take money from the deserving state and put it back in people’s own pockets to spend as they choose?!

      The BBC is out of control, their agenda relentless and shameless.

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  7. AsISeeIt says:

    “I sometimes wonder…”

    H/T to Guido for this link

    http://www.capx.co/bbc-thought-for-the-day-backs-talks-with-is-and-boko-haram/

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    • dave s says:

      The writer asks why these people are invited time and again to speak on the BBC.
      Perhaps it is because Thought for Today is the morning keynote bit of uplift for the hive beeboids. To motivate them to go forth and undermine our culture and our nation.
      No beeboid day is complete without it’s five minute denigration of English culture and western civilisation.

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    • flexdream says:

      IS and BH are not bad, we just need to have a sympathetic chat over tea and biscuits (but no alcohol).
      I’m sure there is scope for agreement between a Shia compliant theocratic Islamic state which kills gays, pagans, heretics, apostates and adulterers and a Western democratic secular state with gay marriage, freedom or religion and equality for women.

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    • johnnythefish says:

      ‘Iain Martin launches Thought for the Day Watch’

      Brilliant, but from what I could make out it’s only on Twitter.

      Thanks for the link anyway, AISeeIt, the Giles Fraser quote ‘all debt is slavery’ (re Greece) is pure 70s student agitprop. He obviously missed all those Greek slaves driving round in shiny new Merc and BMW 4 x 4s, financed by cheap money from the German banks.

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  8. 60022Mallard says:

    I often regard the BBC as the broadcast version of the Guardian so it was with great surprise that I was listening to Sketcherama on Radio 4 Extra on Sunday morning when one of the turns, called “The three Englishmen”, was allowed to do a send up of Guardian readers.

    Well worth a listen, indeed the whole programme was.

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  9. flexdream says:

    Some BBC Radio 4 programme – Analysis – about an in/out EU referendum for the UK. Apparently the pro-EU camp message has been aimed at the educated, and the problem is that they haven’t aimed their message at the uneducated and losers.
    Yeah, that’ll be right. Just ask James Dyson.

    btw – shouldn’t it be the ‘so called’ European Union?

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    • I Can See Clearly Now says:

      New variation on the ‘so-called’ sop to Islam on Start The Week this morning; they used ‘self-styled’ instead. Call Me Dave just uses ‘ISIL’; so he doesn’t have to utter the ‘I’-word in connection with the terrorists – sorry, militants, at all. Dave’s no fool.

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      • Laska says:

        But what about Mark Fields, one of Dave’s MPs, who opined last month to Martha Kearney that returning ISIS Jihadists were better understood as like “football hooligans” who were not interested in religion? He thought they could be valuable to the government to help stop “radicalisation”!

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    • Laurence d'Artagnan says:

      Sounds familiar.
      I recall that at the time of the first referendum in Ireland on the Lisbon Treaty the pundits were saying that the ‘No’ voters had not read the treaty. It seemed that it never entered their heads that the ‘Yes’ voters may not have read it either.

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      • JimS says:

        Yes, only the ‘uneducated’ didn’t bother to read the treaty, like ‘Euro-minister’ Caroline Flint.

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        • pah says:

          Well that’s what the Civil Service is for isn’t it? Reading the guff and translating it into easy to understand sound bites or pictures for politicians.

          Where would our democracy be if we expected politicians to actual READ the treaties they sign?

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          • johnnythefish says:

            Remember ‘Back Door’ Gordon?

            Promised us a referendum then slipped in to scrawl his monicker when he thought no-one was looking.

            Slimeball.

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    • Richard Pinder says:

      (1) “Educated” is a left-wing code word for those people brainwashed by the BBC, people ignorant of the history of the EU project, as revealed in books such as ‘The Great Deception’
      (2) “Uneducated” is a left-wing code word for people who have not been successfully brainwashed by the BBC, due to knowledge gained from such books as the ‘The Great Deception’
      (3) “Losers” Are people who are not on the EU gravy train, and those who pay taxes, to pay for those on the EU gravy train.

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  10. Dominique du Slap says:

    I had to endure that perpetual liar, Andy ‘bullshit your way through every interview’, Burnham today on BBC 24. How can the BBC use this scheming opportunist as a valid source on the subject of health economics and out sourcing when Liebour out sourced primary and secondary health provisions at practically the same levels as the ConDems… you’re talking about 1% variance between the two but you wouldn’t know this based on the BBC’s dealings with Labour. I don’t like the Tories but Labour just lie their way through from week to week just making up pathetic policies on the back of fag packets, and yet the BBC bust their load with every announcement. If this vile motley rabble of Marxist geeks and yuppie rainbow warriors worm their way in to Westminster, then we’re f**ked for sure.

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    • johnnythefish says:

      I think the gap was bigger than that, Miss du Slap – Labour did something like 4.8% and this has risen to about 6.5% under the coalition, so far more under Andy ‘Div 2 Football Manager Soundalike’ Burnham and his Labour predecessors.

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  11. chrisH says:

    And shit as the BBC are-they can come across as pretty balanced in comparison with the odious Channel 4 News.
    Rabid, unreconstituted, empty-headed lefties.
    Witness tonights pile of doodie.
    The anti Three Parent Baby campaigner was introduced as “the Catholic”…as if THAT trumps her actually being a doctor, at pains to say that it`s not only catholics that care.
    She was interrupted and shouted over by the usual gothic harpy who emoted over any effort to talk ethics and facts…Guru-Murthy clearly backed the rabid bag of sensuality and agitporp.
    Finally, both were silenced-and the Chief Meds Officer pigpiled in and parroted what gothic harpie said….so no-one is left in any doubt what the “good position” was to be.
    And all this followed that Tristram moron getting allowed to spout a chocolate fountain of truffled gloop where an education policy might have been expected. Snow of course howled at the Tory, and allowed Tristram to doodle on like Tim Nice But Dim.
    Channel 4 are scuzzy lazy liars and reflex retards…if you`re THAT brain-retardant and vacuous-but unable to be employed at the BBC or a broadsheet of similar drossage-then you truly HAVE got to be a privileged shade of stupid.
    Nannywankers!

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    • Dominique du Slap says:

      Cathy Newman goes a-looking for inclusion and diversity but the snooty and arrogant faux-lefty gets a surprise rude awakening …

      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2935227/Sexism-row-Channel-4-News-presenter-Cathy-Newman-turned-away-mosque-despite-respectfully-dressed-Visit-Mosque-day.html?ito=social-facebook

      These lefty scum wouldn’t be seen dead in a church but because they think it’s trendy to flirt with violent Islam they grovel and bumlick in the name of right-on metro-multiculturalism. Dont these stupid f**king women realise that they would be treated like second class citizens and worse if this religion ever reached a majority? What the hell is wrong with these lefty idiots? Weak, craven, lost, confused… the Left really are vile scum!

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    • Steve Jones says:

      Of course the stupid woman still won’t get the hint.

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    • Will Jones says:

      I think your going to easy on them.

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    • Old Goat says:

      Yes, Channel 4 “news” – it really the pits, isn’t it? And to think that some time ago, I watched that each evening in preference to the BBC leftie-fest. Now there’s little to choose between them, though Channel 4 clearly now has the edge. They all LOOK so evil, too – especially Murthy and Snow who have that glint of deceit in their eyes the whole time, and the feminist lefty bint who, I think, would benefit from a good spanking.

      Last night’s effort where they collectively steamrollered the poor “catholic” woman, was particularly disgraceful.

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      • Mr Glodstone says:

        Wasn’t it Jon Snow of whom someone said, during the second Gulf War: ” he announced the fall of Baghdad to Allied Forces, with the air of someone telling you his dog had just been run over.”

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    • Laska says:

      That’s what you get from State Media. Mrs Thatcher baby, C4, was her gift to the left.

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  12. George R says:

    We British taxpayers will have to pay this fine, of course.

    The ‘moral hazard’ which is the BBC:

    ‘Wikipedia’-

    “In economics, moral hazard occurs when one person takes more risks because someone else bears the burden of those risks. ”

    ‘Daily Mail’-

    “Three BBC workers quizzed by police after flying a drone into Davos no-fly zone – and now the Beeb could be fined.
    “BBC could be fined after three workers flew a drone in Davos no-fly zone.
    “Corporation’s employees were quizzed by Swiss authorities over breach.
    “Restrictions were in place during last week’s World Economic Forum.
    “Security had been tightened in response to the Charlie Hebdo attacks.”
    By OLLIE GILLMAN
    FOR MAILONLINE.

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2936901/Three-BBC-workers-quizzed-police-flying-drone-Davos-no-fly-zone-Beeb-fined.html#ixzz3Qcu9OCyt

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  13. Steve Jones says:

    Only the BBC could make London’s out of control population growth sound like a success story:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-31056626
    Tower Hamlets gets a few mentions. Didn’t I read about that place earlier in this thread?

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    • George R says:

      “Immigration is Driving Londoners Out of Their Capital”

      ‘MigrationWatch’
      Oct, 2014-

      http://www.migrationwatchuk.com/press-release/393

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    • dave s says:

      Over 80% of primary age children are from ethnic minorities which means that less than 20 % are indigenous. Which means the future of London is now set. It will be someplace else. No longer the capital of a nation called England and the capital city of the English.
      Please understand what this means. It is unprecedented in English history and probably in the history of any European country.
      Have the old English turned their backs on London for ever? Probably and do the new Londoners care? Probably not. Do the old English care ? No probably not.
      This country is heading for balkanisation and London leads the way. Best to turn it into a city state all on it’s own and start to think where the new frontiers are going to be.
      This is what happens to a nation that forgets it is a people. For the sake of everyone we need to stop and think where we are going.
      Not that the liberal or the liberal media can do this. Impossible to deal with an uncomfortable reality.

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      • Richard Pinder says:

        Hopefully, as the story about inland fish is an example of what is being censored. Hormones in Thames Water could be turning people in London into homosexuals. This would provide the answer to the reason for the increased strength of Gay politics in the capital. But could also cause reproductive Armageddon in London for those who stay there, unless immigration keeps up the input of children. I suppose the BBC is now seeing three parent children as the solution to this problem.

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        • Prichard Rinder says:

          This makes no sense at all. Seriously Richard. Just reading stuff doesn’t mean you’ve understood it.

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      • pah says:

        I wish you UKIP Nut jobs ( © Tory Central) would get with the programme. It’s not Balkanisation it is Regional Government.

        Now stand in the corner and write out 50 times: ‘ I must not question my betters … ‘

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      • ROBERT BROWN says:

        Best thing really, is to disperse the money making elements of the Capital, Banking, Insurance, top retailers and so on, to other places, and let the third world horde moulder and fester in the ruins, then put a barrier around London, preventing the horde from infesting the rest of the UK…….same goes for Brum, Bradford, Leicester etc….It will happen, over time, believe me.

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  14. George R says:

    An Islam Not BBC (INBBC) political celeb?:-

    “UK Muslim leader: London Mayor’s calling jihadis ‘losers’ was ‘terrorism’.”

    [Opening excerpt, by Robert Spencer, ‘Jihadwatch’]-

    “Note the sleight of hand. We’re constantly told that jihad terrorists aren’t true Muslims, but are twisting and hijacking the Religion of Peace. But when Boris Johnson says something about jihad terrorists, a Muslim leader takes offense and claims he is tarring all Muslims. This is a common trope that Islamic supremacists use: I myself am constantly accused of saying all Muslims are terrorists, or sympathize with terrorism, when I have never said anything remotely like that — this is a claim used to shut down any real debate about how jihadis use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism.”

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/02/uk-muslim-leader-london-mayors-calling-jihadis-losers-was-terrorism

    Note the political deference afforded to lobby groups for Muslims with names such as ‘Muslim Womens Network UK’.

    Is there a Christian Womens Network UK, for Christian interests, to receive greater attention?

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  15. The Old Bloke says:

    BBC Radio Devon, stardate 02/02/15 09.05 “It has been the warmest year on record and all of the warmest years have come in the last 10 years. This proves that man is causing Global Warming Climate Change.” And that was that!
    I could have sworn I could “hear” the female newsreader smiling when she read this bunkum out. She omitted to state that most of the temperatures cited to indicate the “warmest evah” had been so heavily homogenised. Why is it always *man made* climate change? What are the women doing?

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    • Richard Pinder says:

      Man-made climate change is a religion called Environmentalism. Environmentalism is a cancer that has eaten up 97 percent of Climate science, and has spread into many other scientific disciplines. But the cancer has recently retreated from Planetary Climate science and Astronomy due to facts, proof, evidence, observations, correlations and the results from experiments using the old fashioned scientific method not used in Environmentalism, but still used by many scientists censored by the BBC. The most up-to-date scientists in Britain for the Atmospheric physics that proves that CO2 is not the cause, would be Weatheraction‘s Piers Corbyn, and for the expert who has the proof of cause, GWPF’s Henrik Svensmark.

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    • deegee says:

      And now the weather. Devon is looking at a cloudy day with an expected high of 11° C and a low of -3° C TOASTY!

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    • Essex Man says:

      I read that Simon Bates is on Radio Devon at that time doing the “Golden Hour” ,or maybe the Golden Seventies Summers , as I remember them , they were hot , hot hot . Just the time of year , no global warming then.

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  16. Teddy Bear says:

    The BBC have an article today concerning the upcoming trial in April of a 93 year old former Auschwitz ‘bookkeeper’, charged with being an accessory to murder. What’s not mentioned in the article in relation to this story, is the discovery of an email by Fox News that show:
    A leading Nazi-era expert working on a landmark BBC documentary about Auschwitz located “hundreds” of still-living former guards and other workers of the death camp – but refused to turn their names over to prosecutors, citing the British broadcasting giant’s “policy” of confidentiality,

    I’ll leave it to the reader to consider the moral and ethical points, or lack of, involved in their stance.
    (hat-tip thehighlandrebel)

    Filmmaker’s email claimed BBC ‘policy’ barred him from revealing hundreds of living Nazis

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    • Albaman says:

      I’ll leave it to readers to consider the reasons as to why Teddy Bear did not consider the following as being worthy of inclusion in his post:
      “It is simply wrong to assert that the BBC could possibly be withholding information of use to German prosecutors on “hundreds” of former members of the SS who worked at Auschwitz,” an unnamed spokesperson for the broadcaster said in its emailed statement. “Not least because virtually all of the names of former members of the SS at Auschwitz that the BBC learnt about in the course of making the 2005 series were gained from studying the files of the German authorities. So the German authorities knew of these people before the BBC did.”

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      • I Can See Clearly Now says:

        Perhaps he thought the BBC mail was less than candid?

        Researchers who worked on the 2005 documentary later boasted of finding hundreds of former Nazis still alive and mostly living in Germany

        ‘Finding’ them involves information not available just by knowing names. If the BBC had no information additional to that held by the German authorities, then they would divulge nothing by handing over their data. Surely?

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        • Albaman says:

          But they did not find the individuals they found the names – as it clearly states in the article cited :

          “Not least because virtually all of the names of former members of the SS at Auschwitz that the BBC learnt about in the course of making the 2005 series were gained from studying the files of the German authorities. So the German authorities knew of these people before the BBC did.”

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          • Pounce says:

            Albaman where in the article does it say that, I did however find this:
            ““I do not have a list of “hundreds” of names of SS who were in Auschwitz that are not known to German prosecutors.” He also denied that the BBC had “in someway (sic) prevented me” from passing on such a list to German prosecutors. “That is just not true.”

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            • Albaman says:

              I suggest you go back and read the article.

              It does however prove that Teddy Bear is wrong to “assume ALL can read for themselves.”

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      • Teddy Bear says:

        Struggling to be intelligent Albaman?

        Unlike the BBC, I linked to the article where you got that passage from. There are also other passages in it that show it’s not as cut and dried as you want to present. I wonder why you didn’t include those in yours?

        I’ll leave it to the reader to consider and assume ALL can read for themselves 😎

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        • Albaman says:

          You may ASSUME that ” ALL can read for themselves” but as is proved here with monotonous regularity your assumption is wrong.

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          • Teddy Bear says:

            I’m really not concerned about the likes of you, that while having the ability to read, either lacks or is unconcerned by the capacity of comprehension.
            Those with an open mind and interested in truth and reason will see those elements that one more interested in promoting the BBC regardless of their lack of ethics and morals will not.

            ‘There are none so blind as those who WILL NOT see’.
            That’s you and your ilk!

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            • Albaman says:

              “‘There are none so blind as those who WILL NOT see’.”

              Could almost be this sites motto!!

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      • Just Sayin' says:

        well albabum, i’ll leave it to readers to decide why dont the bbc hand over the information if the german authorities already have it, all the BBc are doing is delaying justice by forcing the germans to trawl through tens of thousands of files looking for this information that the BBC says is confidential.

        The Germans should charge the BBC with perverting the course of justice

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        • Albaman says:

          How can the information be confidential if it was gleaned from the files held by the German authorities. Kind of difficult to hand over information to the people who already hold it. As the article says quite clearly (no doubt you did read it or is that assumption wrong) :

          “Thomas Will, deputy head of the German Central Office for the investigation of Nazi crimes, said he had been told the BBC had accessed the office’s enormous bank of names of war-crimes suspects who, for one reason or another, had not been prosecuted over the years. But he added that additional information is continually sought.”

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      • pah says:

        How does the BBC know what the German Authorities know, considering most these ‘men’ are still at large and have not had even a brush with Justice? Surely the honourable and moral duty would have been to inform the Germans of what they knew even if they suspected the Germans already knew about them.

        To do otherwise is suspicious even if there was no evil intent.

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        • Albaman says:

          “How does the BBC know what the German Authorities know………………………..”

          Because the information was gleaned from files that the German authorities allowed the BBC access to.

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          • Rufus McDufus says:

            How do you know the German authorities were even aware of this information? Being the custodian of the information and actually knowing what’s contained within it are two different things.

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            • Albaman says:

              How could they be unaware of what their own files contained?
              Did the file fairy put the information into the files when the German’s were not looking?

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              • I Can See Clearly Now says:

                Did the file fairy put the information into the files when the German’s were not looking?

                Maybe the file fairy has a small moustache, clicks his heels and regularly shouts Heil Hitler in front of his portrait of the Fuhrer? Maybe the files got lost?

                Anyway; names in a file are just that – names. The BBC found the people.

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          • pah says:

            So you are saying that every German official knows every piece of information held by the government there?

            There are plenty of instances where information is held on file but, for one reason or another, it is not collated with other relevant information in order to give a fuller picture. It often takes active investigation to pull all the strands together to get to full facts. That’s why claims that ‘ministers knew’ or ‘the government had been informed’ are often true but wide of the mark. What gets passed the Civil Servants is often not what the ‘authorities see.’

            Sure the Germans may have been fully aware of the ‘men’ in their midst; but then that tells a completely different and more worrying story doesn’t it?

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  17. I Can See Clearly Now says:

    Analysis on Radio 4: Maskirovka: Deception Russian-Style

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b050674y

    Anti-Putin programme, condemning the Russians for using deception. From 0:19:03, Lucy Ash says that claims of Ukrainian Fascism are built on a triviality:

    During World War Two, Ukraine did have a proto-Fascist movement and some say its successors are the Russophobic extremists in the Pravy sector party which grew out of the Maidan protests. They’re a tiny minority, but they help to give credibility to accusations of Facism.

    It only requires a cursory search on Google to see that Pravy is an exceedingly nasty piece of work, but the BBC airbrush that away to suit their anti-Putin agenda. Compare that to how they blacken the PEGIDA protests with accusations of links to the ‘far’ right.

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    • Alan Larocka says:

      Excellent example of ‘so-called’ BBC double standards.

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    • pah says:

      I used to work with a lefty 2nd gen. Ukrainian woman who was ugly in both mind and body. I’ve never met anyone so vile. Despite being a fervent anti-fascist, who believed that all Tories should be shot, she was inordinately proud of her father who had fought for the Germans in WW2 in order to liberate Ukraine. He was not alone and many Ukrainians fought for Hitler and paid the price. Those, like her father, who high tailed it out of there when the Soviets arrived did not pay the real price for their actions, death in the Gulags, like those who were caught alive.

      So it is unlikely there are many former Nazi playmates in Ukraine, even if new ones have slithered from under the rocks. Nationalists certainly, Nazis no.

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  18. George R says:

    Ex-Beeboid and socialist Paul Mason on Channel 4, does his best to politically assist Greece’s new (talented) Finance Minister, Mr Varoufakis-

    ( 5 minute video clip)

    http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid601325122001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAAAEabvr4~,Wtd2HT-p_Vh4qBcIZDrvZlvNCU8nxccG&bctid=4027691181001

    Is Mason thinking:
    ‘pity my Labour Party can’t swap Balls for Greece’s Varoufakis’?

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  19. Sir Arthur Strebe-Grebling says:

    Dominic Casciani: Is free speech at university under threat? Aha, I thought, he’s reporting on the fact that 80% of British universities ban or censor free-speech: no prizes for guessing which types of speaker are banned.
    But no, Casciani is concerned that new legislation means that Muslim terrorists might find it harder to brainwash students. I suppose they’ll just have to keep on using the bBBC to spread messages from their evil cult instead.

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  20. stuart says:

    i mean,the bbc have been dragging out these old leftie apologists for radical islam for the last month on newsnight and hardtalk saying bombing these nazis with headscarves of isis just wont work,in fact it will make then stronger they said.well you was wrong bbc .isis has just conceded a massive defeat in kobani with 1000 of there fighters dead because of the carpet bombing of there positions by the usa and the allies in the last month,600 airstrikes done it and there is more to come in other battle to drive these isis invaders out of other peoples lands,it would be nice bbc if you got back the same guests on who said the airstrikes would not work to say you was wrong and that the usa and the allies strategy of bombing these isis savages does work,simple as that

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  21. Angrymanupnorth says:

    Newsnight 2.2.15 Comrade Evan’s Commie/Socialist slot continues, unabated and unashamed, about 18 minutes in.

    I was gonna have a week off posting, but this bias needs recording.

    Evan asks “…..is it time for fresh thinking in politics. We are asking people from outside the political establishment to tell us how they would rewire democracy… ”

    Oh! (I think to myself). Maybe Evan’s gonna talk to a few business people? Or Transportation professionals, engineering professionals, medics, roughnecks, haulage contractors or any of those industrious people who are just too busy, well, producing and doing, to give time to politics. Folk who could really give insight into life outside of the public sector in the world where all the money that pays for the public sector is generated? People who know, well, how the world functions and how to get stuff done.

    No. Its communists from Argentina. The kind of communists who seem to have rather a cunning plan to make their ‘App’ the next big thing. An ‘evolution in democracy’, by having laws made by the masses. FFS, capitalists selling Marxist dogma and the ability to vote for stuff irrespective of whether it is rational, affordable, ethical. Yes, everybody can vote on how to spend other people’s money (that doesn’t exist), in no doubt bigger and bigger sums. Yep. Top idea. (face palm!)

    Firstly, comrade Evan, the Argentine individuals contributing to the piece, were most certainly from within politics (the clue is they are self-confessed ‘activists’). Lobbyists, whether they are labelled ‘activists’, ‘lobbyists’, ‘union leaders’, ‘Trade Representatives’ are well ensconced in the ‘political establishment’, and this group of Argentines are ‘communist activists. Secondly, they didn’t wish to disguise their political leanings, as they had produced ‘App Characters’ to assist in the democratic decision making process in the form of:

    1. Supermario. Socialist, communist, caring, nice guy and hero. [Nice Evan – see what you got there- easy boner.]
    2. Wario. (Supermario’s evil alter-ego). Capitalist [Very nice Evan. Dem Capitalists sure are evil].

    For those over 50yrs old – do your research. Everybody under 40 will know the goodie / baddie, Supermario/Wario, Luke Skywalker / Darth Veda metaphor.

    We are treated to ramblings of a nice young Argentine girl, who’s clearly on the ball when it comes to the internet age and how it’s made life easier for every aspect of life, except politics. (if you’re a young urbanite who’s never thought of where her crap goes when she flushes, or where her food comes from, or where the electricity comes from when she’s booting up her ‘tech’, or who makes the buses that we can vote for, or…….) Yep. We’ve got an App for better politics! Our problems are solved! People power! [If Wolfie Smith had popped up shouting ‘power to the people’ it would have added a cool comic decoration don’t ya think Evan? Just to pull in an older demographic?]

    A really peculiar form of a moral low, from Argentina? Possibly not. Possibly enthusiastic young fed up Argentine folk. A reactionary symptom of corrupt corporate democracy and the youthful fantasy that the next App will lead us ever closer to the social nirvana that we can all imagine (or used to be able to imagine).

    A really peculiar moral low from the BBC? No. Standard BBC bias, moral relativism and dumb-assery. Unfortunately, the BBC continues to push the immorality of enforced collectivism, socialism and communism, whilst ignoring the inevitable consequences of these dangerous doctrines as documented throughout 20th Century history.

    Will Evan investigate whether it is the ever increasing size of the state (workers removed from productive activities, who need paying) and the numbers who are directly reliant upon the state which is the core of our current financial and political crisis? Perhaps interview those who argue that a fundamental dismantling, constricting and restraining of the state is what would put the prosperity of British citizens back on an upward curve? Fat chance. The ideas of Idiots, commies, ‘youf’, foreigners or establishment troughers only for the new Newsnight crew.

    Scrap the telly tax. Vote UKIP.

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  22. John Paul Jones says:

    The Kurds . One of the worlds most astonishing people. look and see,.

    -http://hurryupharry.org/2015/02/03/kurdish-victory-dance/

    The Kurds- continue to astoenish- me. As Christopher Hitch repeatedly said they are one of the most amortising people in the world.

    http://hurryupharry.org/2015/02/03/kurdish-victory-dance/

    look and s

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    • I Can See Clearly Now says:

      Brilliant! The Kurds are great people, the best. But that has been obvious for years – after all, our government has treated them like sh1t, to keep the Turks and Iraqis happy. The UK government reserves that special treatment for our natural allies, including the Israelis and the Serbs.

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  23. Guest Who says:

    http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/feb/03/rona-fairhead-licence-fee-payers-debate-bbc-future

    Seems the efforts of a small elite are not panning out as well as hoped. Plan B will be interesting, if only how the BBC rigs it.

       10 likes

    • johnnythefish says:

      It said: “In this role, we can help the BBC remain the gold standard in journalism, produce the highest-quality, boldest programmes and remain the beating heart of the UK’s creative and digital world.

      “We need to defend vigorously the BBC’s independence while holding it accountable to its audience and to its public service mission and ensuring it continues to meet the changing needs of its audiences.”

      Translation: So how would you like us to run ‘your’ BBC, which you are forced to pay for under threat of a draconian fine or imprisonment, bearing in mind everything about it is so effing wonderful?

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  24. Ian Rushlow says:

    Another one the BBC seems to have missed…
    Four slaughtermen at an abattoir have been suspended after the alleged mistreatment of animals, according to this report on The Huffington Post (see http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/02/02/halal-slaughtermen-suspended-after-hidden-camera-catches-them-taunting-and-abusing-terrified-animals_n_6599472.html). See if you can guess why the BBC doesn’t think it newsworthy, not even on their local website. The report, the way in which Animal Aid have approached it and the comments of the Muslim Council of Britain have all been responsible. But for the BBC, censorship is the preferred course of action.

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    • AsISeeIt says:

      ‘Strange the sofa sloths gave this a mention this morning’

      Funnily enough I saw that – blink and you would have missed it. Poor little sheeps – where’s Chris Packham, this morning?
      One of those awkward little reports you just know Bill and Dolly feel uncomfortable about.

         22 likes

      • Angels 30 says:

        Bearing in mind the religion of the perpetrators (RoP), can we assume that any prosecutions will take place with the same rigour as the prosecutions of the Rotherham child sex abusers?

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        • Lobster says:

          No doubt we can expect to see a Countryfile special about it on Sunday . Or not, as the case may be.

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          • Dysgwr_Cymraeg says:

            Oh they’ve actually done a countryfile item from inside a Halal slaughterhouse. Utterly, totally sanitised and misleading of course.
            Perhaps when the cameras werent running Ellie Harrison took a turn with that big knife and slit some throats in still-concious animals?

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        • Dave666 says:

          What I found even more strange is how the video got out as I wasn’t aware jobs in a hal al abattoir were available to anyone who wasn’t a member of the cult.

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          • Pounce says:

            The news at hand was discussed at hand on the bBC news at hand. However the main apologist who tried to excuse this as a one off turned out to be the lawyer for the company. He also attacked the people who aired the video as vegans with an anti-meat agenda.
            I’m sorry but can animal cruelty at the hands of the faithful by such a polarised statement. The girl presenter did ask a question regards was the meat still classed as halal, the lawyer stated it had all been destroyed.

            But for me, its demands questions be asked regards the legality of halal meat. This they say was a one off, yet every leftwing protest group when they expose any incident of abuse claim it is simply the tip of the iceberg. Yet here nothing is being said. Also, the bBC which is so quick in which to bring out a Muslim who is offended by whatever, didn’t do so.

            The bBC, the apologists for intolerant Islam.

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  25. AsISeeIt says:

    “We’ve ignored Green Taxes…”

    For a moment there I thought I was watching a dramatic reconstruction of Ed Miliband’s finest moment – but no, it was BBC Breakfast giving several minutes to a spokesman for Which Magazine/ or as we describe them now …. ‘Consumer Group’.

    After banging on and on about ‘the market just not working for consumers’ and the gap between wholesale prices and energy bills – increasing (otherwise if it wasn’t getting worse it wouldn’t be a ‘crisis’ – right?) all backed up with a carefully crafted glossy BBC report with film of bright blue gas cooker hobs and sunsets behind pylons……

    Finally, thrown in at the end as an after thought, we get a question about the veracity of the Which figures… and the admission….

    “We’ve ignored Green Taxes…”

    Did Bill Turnbull say ‘come back when you’ve factored those in?’ Did he heck.

       24 likes

    • johnnythefish says:

      And a few years down the line, when the same programme is coming from a candlelit studio and the topic under discussion is swingeing power cuts:

      ‘We’ve ignored wind turbines’.

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  26. Thoughtful says:

    BBC favourite country South Africa is suffering from increasing blackouts in electricity.
    At the present time the BBC is reporting this as problems in the Zuma government, but the ruling South African Communist Party is blaming – yes you guessed it, white people! and not todays whites, but from the time they were in power back in the days of apartheid !
    This is plainly ridiculous, but when has utter unbelivability ever deterred the Fascist left, especially when there’s an issue which gives them a chance to blame whitey again?

    I expect the BBC matter of fact reporting to change as soon as Fascist control can manage to twist reality logic and truth into something they can present as Whites oppressing Blacks again.

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    • TigerOC says:

      This is victory for affirmative action which shows that it really works.

      State legislation to ensure that Black workers who suffered as a result of racial discrimination during the apartheid era must be employed preferentially. The legislation states that all employment has to reflect the racial diversity of the area. So if an area is 90% black then 90% of employees must be be black. Irrespective of qualification or ability. The preferred order is black female, black male, coloured female, coloured male, asian female, asian male, white female and white male.

      Eskom (national electrical power company) offered all senior white engineers and technicians voluntary pension/redundancy after 1994. Many left and went to Australia and New Zealand. Head of Eskom was made on the basis of a political appointment from the ANC (no previous experience required).

      The bulk of the power stations are situated on shale coal fields. The contracts for coal face to power station transport were made via the political route as well. Consequently insufficient coal is being delivered.

      The main backup was the nuclear power station at Kouberg. This developed a reactor fault in number 1 reactor and has been shut down. Kouberg 2 construction has been suspended because international backers cannot be found.

      In many of the residential areas built since ’94 the electricity supply has not been paid for and they are unable to collect the outstanding amounts.

      When the electricity supply in Zimbabwe collapsed in 2006 South Africa stepped in and supplied them. They stopped the supply in 2011 when Zimbabwe was unable to pay the US$100m bill.

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  27. Deborah says:

    Tuesday and the Daily Mail is reporting that a gay man was flung from the top of a large building, amazingly survived and then was stoned to death by ISIS, ie the Islamic State. Never mentioned whilst I was listening to the Today programme.

    Switched on Woman’s Hour only to find their guest was a pleasant sounding young woman from Canada, born in Liverpool who wrote some years ago a funny programme called ‘Little Mosque on the Prairie’. Jane Garvey made some flippant remark about comedies about Buddhists. But that is the point. So many of the bad things happening in the world are connected with Islam but the BBC can only find the positive. Other religions don’t exist as far as the BBC is concerned; Christianity has almost been wiped out of the BBC schedule and Judaism is to be shown in a poor light or mocked (should the Holocaust be put to rest? Not while the BBC can get value of taking George Galloway to Finchley).

    Until both Muslims and their apologists at the likes of the BBC accept the reality of Islam, the general population will increasingly see the falseness of only feeding us positive stories, and the bang which will inevitably happen, will be so much bigger.

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  28. regag says:

    Jack Savage (see post above), with regard to ‘The Musketeers’, the BBC are feeding some very worrying messages through to those watching this series. The BBC describe the episodes as romantic and adventurous and, as such, they are watched at face value by many adults and children in the UK and around the world. Story lines, however, have involved white slavers thrashing a black man, an unarmed black man being shot in the back by a white man while attempting to run away, a black female reading ‘Islamic’ poetry to a black/mixed race character and telling him white people can’t be trusted and that he would be better off living with his own kind, and, now, the latest episode involves a young black man stoning (and killing?) an ageing white woman and walking away (being allowed to walk away) as if nothing has happened.

    I am not trying to fault the leading actors, the production, or even the main story lines but there is a pernicious element to some of the narrative threads that have been deliberately inserted into the narrative even though unnecessary and irrelevant.

    Try ‘reversing’ a few of the roles and ask yourself whether you would ever see the following story lines in a BBC serialisation: black slavers beat an unarmed white man and shoot him in the back while he is running away; a white Christian male in an African country reads Christian poetry to a white/mixed race female and tells her that black Islamic people can’t be trusted and that she would be better off with her own kind; a young white woman throws a stone at an old black man (kills him) and is allowed to walk away, by a large crowd of black people, as if nothing has happened.

    Apparently the Musketeers will return to BBC One for a third series:

    http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s235/the-musketeers/news/a626038/the-musketeers-to-return-for-third-series-on-bbc-one.html#~p3dTemijoJNrC8

    ‘The show’s recommissioning was made possible by financial backing from BBC Worldwide and BBC America, who also contributed to the first two series.’ ‘A BBC Worldwide spokesman said: “The Musketeers has delighted audiences at home and around the world and we’re thrilled that we’ve been able to financially support bringing a third series to the BBC, with improved value for the licence fee payer.”

    Or, to paraphrase: BBC racism and propaganda is being spread around the world at British licence payer’s expense. Delighted? Not me, scrap the license fee.

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    • Guest Who says:

      The commitment to diversity in casting and associated dual standard plot lines aside, this anonymous droidspeek was interesting:

      ‘The Musketeers has delighted audiences at home and around the world’

      http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/bathos.html?
      ‘Last Friday’s episode only attracted 3.13m viewers, according to overnight figures. One wonders if the greenlighting system is weighted, with Worldwide getting more votes than the myriad heads of BBC Drama and the BBC1 Commissioners.’

      http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/only-dead-do-not-return.html?
      ‘The Musketeers dipped to an audience of 3.39m on BBC1 last night, down from 3.64m for each of the first two episodes of this series. It was the network’s lowest performing show in peak-time.’

      http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/musk.html?
      ‘The BBC’s investment in The Musketeers may produce returns around the world, but the second series kicked off with an audience of just 3.64m in the UK, down from 3.98m for the last episode of Series 1.’

      So the ‘delight’ appears to be deteriorating steadily at… ‘home’?

      ‘The new, after-the-watershed-no-Capaldi show is captioned “Contains some upsetting scenes”‘

      Hard to see much in the boudoir or battlefield as child-friendly, certainly.

      Rather typically BBC, it seems to be trying to compete with the nookie and nastiness coining it in from Game of Thrones to Black Flag on the international online platforms, but pulling back enough on the overt graphic exposures to keep Aunty’s reputation intact.

      This is less true of the plot lines and direction, which are also following these other shows’ addiction to rough sex and often outright misogyny. There may be ‘feisty’ female characters (frankly to a degree unlikely in the era) aplenty, but those behind the monitors do like to see ’em roughed up.

      I see a smitten DS fanboi ‘loving’ the Warren Rochefort.

      If he was any more wooden they could cast an Ent in the role.

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      • Dave666 says:

        Never watched it. It looked like another BBc “twist” on a classic story used as a vehicle to deliver their poisonous little agenda. Never bothered to watch atlantis, merlin or anything else of this ilk I learned my lesson with the abysmal bonekickers. Bottom line is you know it will be crap.

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    • dave s says:

      I tried to watch it. Rubbish I thought and a waste of my time. Maybe it is me but television on all channels is getting really poor. It is either overhyped like Broadchurch or raucous soap opera .
      It has a deadening effect on people and if I had young children still I would ban it from their lives.
      Sport is still OK but as the BBC is losing most of it what has that organisation got left?
      In time most of us grow out of television.

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  29. Aerfen says:

    Radio 5 gives airtime to a foreign nation wrecker, one Omar Khan (Muslim, with American accent), from the vile Runnymede Trust,
    http://www.runnymedetrust.org/about/the … ustees.htm

    This morning he is complaining that there are too few Black Women professors.
    The reason apparetnly has to be because depsite being ‘liberal’ and fervently ‘anti-racist’ academics are practicing ‘unconscious racism’.
    This even extends to the fact that a far lower percentage of blacks get firsts compared to non blacks (whites, browns and yellows).
    Its all the fault of ‘unconscious bias’.

    How could this be possible when so many senior academics are already foreign ethnics?

    The solution? Target quotas, tellingly for BMEs, in other words, discrimination against the native British, but which would NOT discriminate against Khans OWN children!

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    • noggin says:

      yep! … caught some of it, absolute drivel, pontificating politically
      correct, “poor me” hogwash ….
      and the BBC is all ears.

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  30. Aerfen says:

    There are some obvious reasons why a lot of blacks don’t get firsts. Many are foreign origin, so English isnt their mother tongue, many are not especially academically ambitious and nor do they have a burning interest in their subject, and are not prepared to put in the intense effort to gain a first. Many black women in particular are often a little older, already mothers, and attending their local university just to gain a qualification to get a job as a social worker, nurse, teacher etc. their goals are limited. They have neither the interest nor time to put in to get a first, even if they happen to have the ability.

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  31. I Can See Clearly Now says:

    It’s just been announced that the BBC has lost the rights to televise The Open golf championship to Sky. Last week, it was announced that they were likely to lose the Rugby Union Six Nations Championship. There will not be much left after that.

    We’ve been bombarded recently with propaganda from the BBC about women’s sport, especially women’s football. If I was a cynical man, I would assume that the BBC is planning some further diversity engineering by replacing classic male sporting events with token women’s events.

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  32. DYKEVISIONS says:

    A great shame as another of the so called ‘crown jewels’ of sport is left with highlights and live golf disappears from our screens and over to ‘pay for view’ Sky.
    Peter Aliss will be turning in his grave.. oh sorry, he is still doing a great job at Al beeb at the moment!
    No wonder we will not produce home grown champions besides Rory because our youngsters will have virtually nothing other than ‘the beautiful game?’ to watch, to inspire them to take up a sport.
    There is one plus to all of this, less air time for that awful Hazel Irvine.

       15 likes

    • D1004 says:

      Sky alleged to have paid £15million a year for five years. Bbc paid £7million so was around £8million short…………anyone think the bbc is hard up enough not to be able to afford £8million ? Probably taxi bills for the senior beeboids in London on the way to the opera.. This shows their complete disregard for the sports supported by the British male. As you said, they will probably dredge up some wimmins golf and tell the British public to go and “eat cake” . Removing male sport from their airwaves is going to be popular with the loons on the top floor, wimmin rule, down with men, all (white) men are rapists etc. force them to watch the wimmin …………utter bullshit.

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      • Essex Man says:

        Who cares , sport is now a highly commercial business , & it should to be sold to the highest bidder , be that it pay tv, or free to air commercial tv . I thought all you anti bbc people would be glad, anyhow, it makes them less relevant, & another nail in the coffin of the Marxist set up . If you want to watch it on Sky ,go to the pub, & help a small business, ( the pub)& drink English Real Ale , which will support English brewers .

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        • I Can See Clearly Now says:

          If it means we get to see more of the delightful Paula Creamer …

          … then that would be some compensation, but generally… No ….. I don’t want to make ever higher mandatory payments for ever lower quality entertainment.

          Scrap the licence fee.

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  33. Thoughtful says:

    BBC Radio 4 Start the week ‘The Rise of Islamic State’.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b050zkrq

    It was a very matter of fact program avoiding the issues of Islam studiously, talking in terms of piety and how that affects others in their community and the motivation to join ISIL

    They had on a ‘terrorism & radicalisation expert’ on the program, some woman from London university, who when talking about young Muslim women said there was only about 6 from the UK who had gone, and that they were tempted by what they saw as an ideal domestic life keeping a home for their husband (and after all there were men there just waiting to marry them).

    They were not allowed to fight by ISILs beliefs, unlike Boko Haram which apparently does encourage women to fight. In fact these girls wouldn’t even be allowed out let alone to touch a gun, let alone fire it.

    Well either ISIL are listening to Radio 4 or our so called terrorism experts haven’t got the first clue what they’re talking about (I suspect the latter).

    http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/manchester-terror-twins-who-ran-8569789

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  34. Teddy Bear says:

    The BBC believes that a fitting panellist on this week’s edition of Question Time from Finchley, home to the largest concentration of Jews in the UK, is George Galloway.

    This is a man that said ‘In November 2012, during an anti-Israeli demonstration in his Bradford constituency, he told those present: ‘We do not hate Jews. We hate Zionism, we hate Israel, we hate murder and injustice.’

    Considering that Israel was created following the ‘murder and injustice’ of the Holocaust, to give Jews their own country so they would not have to fear a future event of that magnitude, shows the hypocrisy of his statement. He clearly hates Jews, and the decision by the BBC to invite him on the QT panel, especially a short time after the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, and in the most dense Jewish area in the country, shows their disregard for any offence his presence causes.

    The BBC also claim
    ‘A BBC spokesperson said: ‘Question Time invites panellists who reflect a significant range of opinions on a number of different topics.’

    I don’t recall them ever even inviting a knowledgeable expert on radical Islam to appear in a predominate Muslim area on QT, let alone a known agitator, which shows how hollow is the disingenuous excuse in this case , as well as exposing their true mindset in this sphere.

    They also state: ‘Whilst Mr Galloway’s views are entirely his own, as an MP he has a right to appear on the programme and has done so previously. >b>Subjects for discussion are chosen by our audience ahead of each show and this edition of Question Time will be no different.’

    This is a complete lie. Questions are submitted by the audience ahead of the programme, but the ones selected to be used are done so by the producer, clearly with an agenda in mind.

    Jewish anger as George Galloway gets BBC invitation to appear on this week’s Question Time

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    • Guest Who says:

      ‘BBC spokesperson…’

      ‘This is a complete lie’

      Getting to be almost interchangeable.

      Odd how many around Westminster and Fleet St either fall for, or tolerate it.

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    • Angrymanupnorth says:

      I will stick my head above the parapet.

      Firstly, my views on Israel, an island of democracy and civilisation in an uncomfortable geographical juxtaposition to less civilised states/areas, in no way reflect those of George Galloway.

      Galloway is an MP. An elected representative and as such a perfectly appropriate individual to appear on QT – irrespective of the views he holds on any subject.

      George Galloway has a record of voting in the HoC on foreign interventions consistent with a jaw-jaw not war-war stance on problem solving. GG also has accrued a detailed understanding of the politics of the middle east. GG has been the subject of personal smear and propaganda, the like of which no other back bench politician in the UK (in my memory – I can’t remember Enoch Powell’s time) has had to endure, including the proven fraudulent claims made against him by the US governmt amongst others, in relation to oil & Iraq.

      I am less inclined to condemn a man who, by virtue of engaging in the social problems of the middle east, necessarily has to walk a particularly torturous path and flack will come his way from many directions. I have the luxury of observing from the sidelines where it is easier to take a rigid and judgmental view.

      That he was forced out of the Labour Party, was a loss to them, but that he has ended up ‘prostituting’ himself to a particular demographic in a constituency where I once resided, I find sad.

      GG is a man of logic, consistency and reason and I would rather listen to his take on any political subject than any member of the Liebor Party that I can think of.

      There you go. Shoot me down. But vote UKIP. 🙂

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      • Ian Rushlow says:

        Galloway is a good parliamentarian. He’s a man of principle, although most of those principles are badly misguided. He admitted he cried when the Soviet Union fell – I bet many other Labour MPs did likewise but were not honest enough to say so. One can respect him (no pun intended) without liking him. But Israel would not remain a civilised oasis if he had his way.

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      • Pounce says:

        I have to disagree with everything regards GG. Why?
        AN MP is elected to represent his constituency for the good of the country as a whole.

        So tell me does bitching about Israel have anything to with the Uk? no

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        • deegee says:

          I also disagree. George Galloway is employed by the Iranian state run television PressTV and also with the Al Mayadeen television station which reportedly has connections with Iran and the Assad government in Syria. He also regularly contributes to Russian government television RT TV. In the register of members’ interests published in October 2014, Galloway disclosed that he had earned £265,350 from his second jobs in television broadcasting.

          While that may be legal there is something very dicey about a member of parliament effectively being a paid agent of foreign governments. Unsavoury ones at that.

          Then there is the matter of alleged illicit payments from the United Nations’ Oil for Food Programme.

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      • Teddy Bear says:

        George Galloway has a record of voting in the HoC on foreign interventions consistent with a jaw-jaw not war-war stance on problem solving.

        I think you’ll find it’s called taqiyya

        What he tries to do is prevent action against those he seeks to promote. He has no problem with how many will suffer or die because of inaction or reaction, so long as it’s not other Islamists like himself.

        Lyse Doucet’s ‘Humanity of the Taliban’ would have been music to his ears.

        GG is a man of logic, consistency and reason and I would rather listen to his take on any political subject than any member of the Liebor Party that I can think of.

        I can understand anybody wishing for politicians here to really straight talk instead of the usual PC garbage that’s uttered, which is part of the attraction for Farage to the extent that he does. But just because those like Anjem Choudary or Omar Bakri Muhammed would do so even more doesn’t mean we have to give them air to breathe.

        Galloway definitely can only appeal to those of the mindset that would destroy any remaining positive values left in this country.

        A truly sickening individual.

        Galloway’s victory is the last thing Britain needs

        A runaway victory for George Galloway – and all praise to Allah

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      • George Galloway's pussy cat says:

        George Galloway is a Muslim convert, so he is o
        bviously a man of logic, consistency and reason. He is also one of the sharpest minds and best debaters in politics. Miaow.

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        • ROBERT BROWN says:

          What pathetic nonsense here by apologists of the wretched creature Galloway…the creature is an out and out self-publicist, opportunist,and rabid, racist rat of the first order, who, along with most muslims, would rejoice if the state of Israel were to be destroyed by the arab states, and thousands of men, women and children slaughtered by the islamic horde. I have watched him owned by the late, great Christopher Hitchens on many occasions, and i have no doubt the likes of Douglas Murray and others would make mincemeat of him in debate, showing his ignorance of middle east history for what it is. I expect the BBC will pack the audience with the usual dumb lefties, who hail from anywhere but Finchley. Anyone on here who thinks this creature has any credibility needs to see a shrink….and quick.

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  35. I Can See Clearly Now says:

    BIG fuss on the News Channel – Jane Hill – about how waiting times have increased in Scotland. Long interview, soft-ball deliveries, with the well-known medical expert Jim Murphy*, leader of the Scottish Labour Party. This follows the witch-hunt against the Tories in England. WHAT ABOUT WALES, GUYS? Oh yes, I forgot, that’s Labour’s fault so we’ll keep it quiet.

    I think the BBC is getting worse as the crunch election draws closer.

    [* According to Wikipedia, Murphy returned to Scotland aged 18 to avoid having to serve in the South African Defence Force. He studied Politics and European Law at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He was a student at Strathclyde for 9 years, but did not graduate from the university. During his time at university he was elected President of the Scottish National Union of Students.]

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    • Albaman says:

      Recently the view here was that the BBC are biased in favour of the SNP. This is also the view of David Vance.
      Perhaps one of the bBBC regulars can explain why the SNP loving BBC are in this case perceived as giving the SNP’s opponents an easy ride.

      Then again perhaps the only consistency on bBBC is the inconsistency of the arguments.

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      • I Can See Clearly Now says:

        I’d guess the London/Manchester beeboids are more Labour inclined than their Scottish brethren… who knows? …. I vote for UKIP – I just know where that party ranks on the BBC luv scale.

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      • johnnythefish says:

        All to do with Lefty Top Trumps, Albaman.

        Keep up.

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      • Alan Larocka says:

        ‘Easy ride’ ??????????

        Not one media outlet has held Salmond or Sturgeon to account if they had won the Referendum how the $48 barrel of oil current price fitted in with their fantasy economics. Scotland would already be running a massive deficit.

        Sit down shut up.

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  36. I Can See Clearly Now says:

    BREAKING: The heroes of the Religion of Peace have ‘burned alive’ the captured Jordanian pilot, according to the BBC.

       21 likes

    • Old Goat says:

      Picture here, if it’s genuine, and you have the stomach for it:

      https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2015/02/03/more-workplace-violence-from-the-religion-of-peace/

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      • I Can See Clearly Now says:

        What level of brutality has to be crossed before a ‘militant’ becomes a terrorist?

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        • Pounce says:

          “What level of brutality has to be crossed before a ‘militant’ becomes a terrorist?”

          When its a white granny, who asks her grandson to pop down to the Paki shop for a loaf of bread.

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          • I Can See Clearly Now says:

            Jon Snow opens C4 News: ‘Burned to death, Islamic State extremists claim to….’ and then starts the story with: ‘The self-styled Islamic State…’

            Earlier Huw Edwards talked to Michael Weiss on the BBC News Channel. Weiss is writing a book:

            Isis: Inside the Army of Terror

            Note the use of the ‘T’-word. That guy talks more sense than all the Western leaders put together. How long can Call Me Dave hold the current gutless line?

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      • Llareggub says:

        I understand the EDL are marching in Dudley this weekend – protesting against Islam. Whatever one’s views about them they seem to be the only voice in opposition to the spread of this cult. However, they will be vastly outnumbered by leftists and the Trades Unions who are busy organizing transport by buses to disrupt the event. That is after they, assisted by the NHS and teaching unions, have demonstrated against Islamophobic Le Pen at the Oxford Union on Thursday. Sadly, our multiculty country is not likely to lift a finger and the PM will tell us once again that ISIS are not Moslems.

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    • Guest Who says:

      RIP the poor young man.

      It’s almost like they are spoiling to ramp things up.

      Didn’t the Jordanians promise a Middle Eastern version of prisoner MAD that did not involve the Geneva Convention?

      How that BBC ‘top executive’ chappie juggles this latest with the rest of the maket rates will be interesting.

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    • chrisH says:

      But of course will be fined by Brighton District Council for breaking local bye-laws on unnecessary carbon emissions…100 dinar, I believe.
      So-they`ll suffer enough as well.

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  37. Old Goat says:

    Apparently, the convicted criminal ‘perverting the course of justice’ hooligan, Huhne, has been allowed back into Parliament. It was only a matter of time…

       13 likes

  38. Leha says:

    Does that make him a convicted pervert?

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  39. Thoughtful says:

    http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/salford-yob-banned-english-stadiums-8568865

    More proof if any were needed that there is no such thing as ‘racism’.
    It’s yet another example of reality being totally warped to fit an agenda. How can an Englishman calling someone Scottish a Jock be ‘racist’ when they’re both the same race?

    Having said all this the little sh** deserved to be sent to prison !

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  40. Guest Who says:

    Saw this earlier via Facebook:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-31086391

    At least the runaway success of that country’s economic model is getting coverage, but the headline intrigued:

    Venezuelan shop owners arrested over long queues

    Gosh… who are these retail ragamuffins?

    ‘Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says the owners of an unnamed chain of shops have been arrested for artificially creating long queues.’

    Unnamed? So… no one is saying who?

    How does that work? Especially as a ‘news’ story?

    Is it really beyond the abilities of the world’s most trusted and resourced reporting entity to find out?

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  41. Thoughtful says:

    Quite funny listening to the hopelessly out of her depth interviewer on Radio 4 PM program talking about the NHS using agency worker.
    She didn’t seem to have even considered the extra costs of an employee, and seemed quite shocked that the costs of employing someone would probably double their wage.
    The knowledgeable interviewee told her about employers NI pension contribution, sick pay, holiday pay, and a whole host of other costs.
    All she could utter was “but, but” He then went on to say that contracting someone for the two or three days they were needed as opposed to employing them full time could cost less also.
    She was completely flummoxed!
    The Labour narrative, that the headline costs are all that needs to be reported obviously fools most people, and certainly simple minded media types, they should have realised that there would be another side to the story, and done the research, but they didn’t !

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    • johnnythefish says:

      Not the fist time the BBC has witlessly shown its ignorance of how businesses work.

      There was an interview a few weeks back in which Jeremy Hunt was pointing out that for years NHS workers have been getting two annual rises, one incremental the other cost of living.

      Sarah Montague challenged him with ‘But surely the incremental rise is just to get them to the salary they should be getting for the job anyway’.

      There’s no other word for it – morons.

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  42. George R says:

    INBBC’s designated “militants”-

    “Jordan pilot hostage Moaz al-Kasasbeh ‘burned alive.'”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-31121160

       9 likes

    • Arthur Penney says:

      Yes – nothing to do with Islam – nothing to see here, move along please.

         17 likes

      • Llareggub says:

        Already the BBC are spreading the blame. The pilot’s father quoted as saying this is not Jordan’s war. BBC view, expressed by Yollande the other day – critic’s of the Jordan government do not want to get involved in America’s war. So, its not Isis, but the US to blame.

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        • Llareggub says:

          Here is Yolande shifting the blame for the killing of the Jordanian pilot.
          When we interviewed him, (the pilot’s father) he said his son should never have been part of the United States-led coalition fighting IS in the first place.

          “When Moaz joined the air force we never knew he would be joining other countries to fight outside our borders,” he commented.

          http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-31082487

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          • Pounce says:

            Currently watching the bBC news on 24. Yup its all the fault of the Jordanians , for the reason why this man has been murdered in the most gruesome way. Then the chair asked the Ant western Islamic expert why they do as such and she left out the main reason.
            Its to terrorise people, which makes these people…..Terrorists. but apparently not at the bBC. I quote from the Islamic codex the Koran:
            “Quran (3:151) – “Soon shall We cast terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers, for that they joined companions with Allah, for which He had sent no authority”

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            • Johnathan Kirby says:

              Ask any Muslim, “What is the Koran,” and they will tell you the Koran is the unalterable unchanging word of Allah himself and it is the duty of every true Muslim to live by these words.
              The foolishness of the Western liberal, enlightened, secular mind is to fail to understand that Isis, BookHaram and many other groups have scriptural warrant for their violent actions, their attitudes to women and children, and to unbelievers.
              They really do believe they are carrying out Allah’s revealed will.

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              • thoughtful says:

                Never the less there are those Muslims who do ‘interpret’ their religion in a less violent and unyielding way.
                There are Wahabis and Salafis and the two are different in their outlook.

                The main problem we in the West have is that the Wahabis have the most money and are using it to buy influence. Our greedy politicians are only too ready to betray their countries for personal gain.

                What makes a woman like Angela Merkel say that Islam is incompatible with Western civilisation, and then a few months later that those protesting against it are nothing but right wing thugs, and that the Charlie Hebdo killers had no Islamic motivation ?

                There can be only one reason and that is personal gain.

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                • Jonathan Kirby says:

                  Exactly my point thoughtful. Islam has no further revelation to explain Allah’s very severe strictures. It is not a unified religion, has no equivalent of a Pope. So there are many different interpretations of Islam.
                  But, if Allah’s word is immutable and unchanging and it is the duty of every Muslim to obey and live by Allah’s words, then nothing less than a literal interpretation of Allah’s words is permissible. Which is precisely why the Jihadis quote Koranic Scripture because they are doing what Allah has commanded, and those who don’t are not true Muslims and should be treated accordingly.
                  let me give you just one example. Islam is a one way street, you cannot change your mind and leave it. Now ask any Muslim friend or colleague you have, do you live by the Koran?
                  Of course. Then ask them if they are willing to kill anyone who was once a Muslim but has rejected the one true faith. If they are not willing, they are disobeying Allah because that is what the Koran plainly says.
                  This is the dilemma facing so called “moderate” Muslims through the centuries.
                  If you haven’t already got an English translation of the Koran, can I recommend that everyone should read it. It really is an eye opener.

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            • flexdream says:

              I can understand in the heat of battle killing a bailed out pilot who has just been bombing you. But to make a twitter competition on how to kill a defenceless prisoner, to make a spectacle of it, and to make a mockery of his family be pretending he was still alive, only one religion has followers that barbaric and depraved. Welcome to one face of 21st century Islam.
              The pilot was also a Muslim but he faced his death witih courage and dignity. His captors are disgraced.

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              • I Can See Clearly Now says:

                It was noticeable that the Ten News dispensed with the normal ass-kissing ‘so-called‘ or ‘self-styled‘; it was the basic ‘Islamic State’ every time. Why would that be? If they need to constantly emphasise that True Islam is a Religion Of Peace by qualifying the name, surely there was double the need tonight, in light of the awful brutality? I’d guess they’re well aware that the whole routine is just a contrived, leftie, ‘progressive’ charade and they judged that it would seem ‘inappropriate’ in the circumstances. If they did think that, they were right.

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          • hadda says:

            ‘Death (Cult)’ Knell is slipping: everyone knows it’s all down to ‘Isray-hell’ and da Jooooooz. Maybe she’ll be back on message once her Hamas handlers (ew!) have got on the blower.

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  43. George R says:

    Too late to pretend, Beeboids: -it’s been deliberately enacted for years-

    “EastEnders: ‘No diversity quota’ says boss”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31108409

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  44. Dover Sentry says:

    The BBC always explains that muslim terrorists are caused by deprived backgrounds.

    However:

    1. Muslims in UK and France are not deprived compared to muslims in their homelands.

    2. Muslims from wealthy backgrounds have become terrorists.

    Deprivation and poverty are NOT the cause.

    The cause is ISLAM.

    Until politicians openly accept this, we will never get to the root of the problem.

    ..

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  45. Geoff says:

    Happened to catch both the ITV and bBC editions of my local news tonight, ITV led with some eco warriors trying to prevent the felling of trees to prevent a new bus lane in Bristol, but the bBC led with a lengthy report on missing ‘local’ schoolgirl Yusra Hussien. A Somalian who had run away to Syria…

    Cue concerned faces, we now learn she is married and is followed by a report on extreamism in schools, continually through the report every time radicalisation is mentioned we also hear the term ‘far right’ . Never is the reason for the ‘rise’ in the ‘far right’ questioned.

    I only watched the ITV edition for 15 minutes, but the above was not mentioned at all within that time.

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  46. thoughtful says:

    BBC’s first transgender sitcom starts filming in Manchester starring Denise Welch

    http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/film-news/bbcs-first-transgender-sitcom-starts-8570612

       7 likes

    • Dominique du Slap says:

      What a f**king joke and a monumental waste of money. The problem in this country is that there are too many minority pressure groups who are imposing their crap on the majority, with the aid of the likes of the BBC. I mean come on, who the f**k cares about a bunch of transgenders in Manchester? really?

      Why can’t the BBC produce a Right-wing sitcom for the many millions who are of this persuasion?

         22 likes

      • Steve Jones says:

        Well said. The BBC daren’t make a right wing comedy as it would remind people what comedy actually is. They are much happier churning out the feeble efforts of people like the terminally unfunny Marcus Brigstock.

           21 likes

      • JoShaw says:

        Not sure they need pressure groups; they seem happy to do it voluntarily.

        Suspect it will go the same way as Vicious (yes, I know that was ITV).

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  47. deegee says:

    Nominations for Television Journalism Awards 2015 from the Royal Television Society.

    News Coverage – International Gaza BBC News for BBC. Beyond parody.

       13 likes

  48. George R says:

    “Le Pen says French govt afraid to use word ‘Islamist'”

    -For that, will INBBC increase its negative political reporting on Marine LE PEN,

    when she is due to appear at Oxford University Union this Friday?

    http://www.france24.com/en/20150119-france-government-afraid-using-word-islamist-marine-le-pen-oped-charlie-hebdo/

       14 likes

    • dave s says:

      Why on earth has she agreed to visit Oxford? The place is a byword for the worst kind of appeasing liberalism.
      She has been badly advised.

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