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Cheer up – it’s not all bad news today:-
“The families of the Bethnal Green schoolgirls who joined Isis fear that all four teenagers, including one who was expecting a baby, may have been killed in Syria.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/families-fear-worst-for-bethnal-green-schoolgirls-r56prlh88
third,
That is good news. On the other hand England are 30-2 !
Oh Grant, now you’ve gone and spoiled my good mood; last I looked they were 16-0.
Still got Root, Stokes and Bairstow to come though ?
third,
I occasionally bang on about cricket here, but I think you are the first person to react. I would have thought with so many intelligent commentators here, there would be more cricket fans !
Stand by for the incoming Grant – it might be the others that are the intelligent ones and us the thickies ?
third,
LOL ! I am taking my guard right now and as an ex- No. 11 , I am sure I can tough it out. 53-2 at lunch .
Nah I played and enjoy the man’s game it is even named after the Public school where it was invented RUGBY
Tragedy.
No doubt the beeboids will lead us into the full mourning process over the next week or so.
By the way where do they go, its not as if mohamed wants them, and their not virgins…………..and what use are 70 virgins to them.
Third
Such awful news – as the London evening standard says . I’m sure that the poor Muslim girls didn’t have travel insurance or private med insurance so let’s have a whip to bring their remains “home”.
Such good news.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4765242/Diane-Abbott-claims-Venezuelan-elections-better-UK-s.html
Another Abbotism, however I think she has a point.
“An extraordinary video has emerged showing Diane Abbott claiming elections in the crisis-hit country of Venezuela are cleaner and fairer than those in Britain. ”
The next UK election is likely to be another close run race, the result could well be dependant upon how closely student and postal votes are scrutinised.
Old,
So why doesn’t that stupid woman piss off , live in Venezuela and stand for election there ?
Grant
They probably haven’t got the sort of private schools which are suitable for the offspring of a Socialist like Abbot .
Fedup,
I just googled it and it seems that they do ! That’s socialism for you !
Abbott junior must be an adult by now, wonder whether is a SPAD or banged up ?
Forecast ; Oxford doing PPE. Bit of constituancy work for mum . SPAD for a shadow minister . Parachute into safe seat he’s never been to in his life . Excellent election victory speech . Great maiden speech in the House . Shadow cabinet year later . Done . Mum so proud.,
Old News from the Mail from 2012 in today’s paper (but, of course, never heard on the BBC): “Diane Abbott says elections in Venezuela are cleaner and fairer than in Britain”. I don’t know whether that is exactly true, but she is surely correct so far as her own constituency and others in E. London (and in Birmingham, Dewsbury, Oldham, Leicester, etc. etc.) is concerned.” Abbott also said ” … [the Venezuelan Chavez election] is actually less liable to fraud and impersonation than the British election process”. Well, well. We shall look forward to her support (not) of fraud-free elections in Britain, something we’ve been clamouring for for years ( I won’t hold my breath).
Just seen your post of 12:20, Oldspeaker. Abbott didn’t want to talk to the Mail about her comment, and my guess is the BBC won’t even ask.
Abbott says election fairer in Venezuela
= Abbott’s inside knowledge of Labour election tricks like double voting and rigged postal voted means she thinks fairer elections in Venezuela are fairer
Abbott says election fairer in Venezuela
For a master class in slipperiness, evasiveness and deviousness, look no further than our beloved Emir Khan avoiding answering embarrassing questions on Mayor’s Question Time, on BBC Parliament.
Nice to see the biased BBC occasionally get one straight on the chops.
A British/Scottish guy called Calum Hawkins came fourth in the Men’s world championship marathon. In historic terms, a tremendous achievement. Well done to him.
In the interview afterwards the bBBC interviewer tries to play the nationalist race card asking in terms ‘ isn’t it great that there is a strong Scottish contingent’ .
Calum seemed distinctly taken aback but after providing a little platitude quickly went on in his best Scottish accent to mention that things are good ‘for the whole BRITISH team’. Good man!
Can you just imagine the furore, the outrage, if someone asked about the English contingent in the team?
The bBBC. World champions in shit-stirring.
Post script.
They replayed the interview at around 1635 and cut the interview before they got to the ‘Scottish’ question.
Someone must have recognised the Egg-on-face moment.
Ha ha ha.
Sluff,
The BBC can’t believe that the majority of Scots voted to stay in the Union or that the majority of Brits voted Brexit. Beeboids are idiots. They do not understand the British at all.
Grant ,
Why is Malborough in Wiltshire twinned with Junjaia in Gambia ?
Nibor,
Junjaia is not a Gambian name. I just did a google and it is Gunjur, a fishing village about 30 minutes drive south of me. I don’t know the reason. Often tourists go on holiday and set up some connections. It is quite common.
Not sure if I would choose Gunjur, unless you like the smell of rotting fish in the tropical heat . If the wind is in the right direction , you can smell it 3 miles away. Still well clear of Chez Grant , of course.
PS. Just checked out the Marlborough website and it is part of an educational programme. Had to laugh when they describe Gunjur as a “muslim fishing village “. There is no such thing as a “muslim ” village in Gambia . Muslims and christians co-exist and often inter-marry. It is normal there. Wonder what the BBC would make of that ? Of course , I know. ” They are not real muslims ” !
According to Wikpedia Gunjur has a population of 17,000 and 1,700 people have made the trip between the communites since 1981.
Does that mean that one in twenty of the Gunjur population have made the trip (assuming shared visits) or that 48 Marlborough councillors have
taken their summer holidaysmade official visits each year?Often ‘twinning’ takes place because someone from one ‘twin’ has visited the other ‘twin’ and personally encouraged the link, in that situation the twinning can be very unbalanced. Some twinning result from councils looking for a twin that has a something in common, like a tradition of textile production.
I cannot help but wish little mo gets un-covered as a doper, like a shit bomb going off in the beebs face.
Manx,
I don’t follow athletics but he certainly looks as if he is on drugs .
I’m sure the fact that he trains under the comforting wing of Alberto Salazar should provide, at the least, a degree of uncertainty – and already has – but some athletes are simply beyond investigation until retirement…..
I had to smile at the wild enthusiasm his Union Jack waving designer wife – a lady who does not take her position lightly – presented for the cameras, re-enforcing the spurious loyalty and ensuring its associated Sports Council grant.
There was alot of smoke awhile back grant, he kept dopey company with form in the book.
Manx,
And I think , if you are clean, you do not miss two dope tests.
I watched “Dunkirk” yesterday at the local cinema, the best British film I’ve seen in years.
How al Beebus must secretly hate it: no racial diversity; women just fulfilling the roles they actually were at the time; no homosexual characters or narrative strand to the story. Yet they can’t criticise it for any of those things because, even today, the memory of it evokes such strong feelings in Britons.
I would recommend it to anyone who hasn’t seen it to go and watch it on the big screen, a simply tremendous film.
It will be interesting to see how well it does come the awards season.
I’m not sure I would call Dunkirk a British production. It certainly has a British cast, director, theme and parts of it were filmed in Britain. But ultimately it was Warner Bros.
Nolan has now made a number of lucrative blockbusters so I think he was let off the leash to do his own thing, and wasn’t pressured to include a big American star in it.
“I didn’t want to try and take on this subject until I had enough trust from a studio that they would let me make it as a British film, but with an American budget. That’s the opportunity that I’ve earned andthe one I’ve taken.”
—Nolan explaining why he waited to make Dunkirk.
You can be sure that if any British NGO like the BFI, BBC or Channel 4 had got anywhere near this production we would have had the story from the French perspective and as a crude allegory on Brexit. No doubt with gay Germans and heroic black French lesbian pilots – uniting against the hateful incompetent Brits.
Don’t know what its like in other parts of the country, but my nearest cinema complex in N. Herts has the audience sitting so close to the screen that they’re almost part of the action as extras. Last film I saw was the ‘latest’ Jason Bourne last year, – there were probably 15 rows of seats, and of course the back rows were full to bursting. I reluctantly sat midships. The audience were slumped in their seats – as sitting upright it was impossible to view the action without looking as though you were at Wimbledon. Not an experienced I enjoyed, so I hesitate to even visit the cinema ever again !! I recently saw the film again on the tele, much better and far more enjoyable.
I agree, Brissles. the prices charged here are absurd, the screens tiny and any grown-up film suffers from the booms and crashes of the teenage epic being shown in the bug hutch next door.
Don’t bother with Dunkirk – other blown – confusing – wait for the DVD. . Badly edited – most money spent on cgi . The aerial stuff it ok but the beach stuff just lacks . I kept waiting for a yank to turn up to save the day.
Always worth remembering how special the relationship can be with them. They sat on their hands collecting money from us through lend lease until the dirty jap got down to it.
‘Best British Film’ is a low bar to step over so perhaps you are right, it could certainly have been a great deal worse, perhaps focusing on military/political incompetence and betraying the French, but then the BBC didn’t produce it!
It certainly isn’t a bad film but it helps to know that there are three stories running concurrently that are intended to show events that have greatly different timescales. The sharp-eyed will catch brief bits of text that say this but it is easy to miss them and even easier not to understand what is meant by them. If you can catch any of the minimal dialogue you will be doing better than me! The three stories are 1) the evacuation of one soldier, 2) the action of one ‘little ship’ and 3) the actions of one flight of RAF fighters.
The 1958 film tells the story better but this film probably does a better job of showing the horrors facing representative individuals, the iMax version no doubt does that even better, (I’m thinking of how well it shows that a bullet hits before the shot is heard and how it goes some way to show what it is like to be in a sinking ship. I say some way because a ship without lighting is darker than dark, which doesn’t film well).
Await the re-make of Dunkirk where two Moslem brothers sail their fishing boat to rescue hundreds of British soldiers and return to overcome Islamophobia here. Parallels drawn with the plight of migrants rescued off the coast of Libya
In a remake of the Longest Day our two brothers will be first on the beaches.
Oscars all around.
My son said “you never see the enemy”, well it might upset Merkel and her Germans.
Al Shubtill
Excellent choice Mr Al Shubtill, excellent choice !
Quick look on bBBC website front page.
What’s not on.
8 die in gun attack on church in Nigeria.
Arrests over uprising attempts in Venezuela.
What is on.
V and A apologises to breastfeeding mother.
Good to know our fine impartial state broadcaster has its priorities right. Errrrr……….
Sluff,
BBC hoping that the Nigerian killing is not Islamic terror. We shall see.
And the Paris attack relegated to Europe news
So if the RMS Titanic was the ship of dreams then it is becoming increasingly clear to anyone outside the BBC/Al-Guardian/leftard bubbleverse that the BBC is the ship of fools, Hopefully the BBC will emulate the RMS Titanic and sink.
http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/august.html?
‘Prepare for a month or so of Camila Batmanghelidjh’
Can’t wait. It will be interesting if the BBC goes there and, if it does, what ‘analysis’ they will be allowed by senior executives lurking at the back of the edit suite.
‘People are not aware of what happened behind the scenes with the government”
Waiting until publishing a book seems an odd way to make a case at a crucial moment, but there you go.
Odder still that a trustee, and senior BBC employee, was also unaware of all this at the time and to now. Or thought it best the UK’s premier holder of power to account (apparently) stood down.
FFS so now she is cashing in on it! I have been wondering for a long time how she has got away with what she did, living the high life on charity donations?
The other one I wonder about is Keith Vaz, what happened to him being investigated?
Just watching the World Championships coverage.
Why oh why would anyone choose to ask the Guardian’s sports correspondent about Justin Gatlin?
Oh , of course. He is on speed dial for an approved comment.
Really enjoying the BBC discomfort over old man Gatlin. The eulogising of Bolt yesterday got so ridiculous I turned to another channel the tenth time they filled with his previous wins.
Really impartial asides from Cram and co in the commentary, well up to usual standards.
I was listening to Talk sport and the commentators were getting stuck into BBCs mealy mouthed coverage of Justin Gatling and how they are reluctant to call him a twice banned drugs cheat. Despite the crowd booing the winner.
Athletics is in a very strange place .The only solution is a life time ban for cheats.No exceptions.
Why no coverage of the Veterans against Terrorism petition handed in to Downing Street on the 5th of August?
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/08/05/video-veterans-against-terrorism-london-march/
Because it doesn’t fit their agenda?
Because it doesn’t fit their agenda?
evad666,
If you are not on Facebook, contact the Group – veterans@bnp.org.uk
Show a marriage certificate, then you can have a divorce. Show an agreement then we can talk settlement. Show me a detailed invoice and we can settle the bill.
We really need to start using clear language to make clear decisions.
It seems astounding that there are no clear and unequivocal contract terms.
Apparently.
Mind you, this is the entity who can’t seem to get its accounts signed off.
Ever.
Has anybody tried to explain just precisely what this £36bn is supposed to be for?
In the absence of any proper explanation, our response should be clear – FO.
It sounds like an arbitrary fine to me, like those exaggerated “charges” for parking on private land that, according to the Supreme Court in its infinite wisdom, no longer have to represent costs or damage incurred by the owner of the land (“genuine pre-estimate of loss”).
Treezer May and her Cabinet are not planning to leave the EU. If we recognize this fact we can start organizing for Brexit and the fulfillment of the referendum vote
The EU settlement bill (no detailed invoice yet) got knocked down from £100 billion to £36 billion by doing nothing. Let’s just keep doing nothing to reduce it even more.
I think the brackets are missing around the £36 billion, which would mean the EU owes the UK £36 billion.
It’s just an accounting error.
BBc North West. “Anti fracking protesters may challenge an injunction”. I’m not sure why they bothered to run this so the we don’t like anything “protesters” may or may not challenge an injunction. Unless it’s to keep their anti-fracking agenda in the news?
Ask anti-frackers for their alternative energy plan, fully costed and free of unicorn economics.
Or do we depend on Middle East and Russian energy? Which is a leverage of control where we have to accept the energy suppliers traditions and religious beliefs.
Anti-frackers should hold a placard in one hand and some alternative ideas in the other.
Or they can just write “No” on their chests and shout.
It has been apparent for some while now that unless the peoples of Europe do something about the lunacy of mass migration, their governments will not. Here’s a heartwarming tale of people standing up against the undemocratic states of Europe and indeed the EU as a whole acting on behalf of the UN and Soros. All done by ‘Crowdfunding’. Is there a Crowdfunding message here for the UK?
I doubt very much if this real “News” is broadcast on any BBC medium as the story is contrary to their position of condoning mass migration paid for by European taxpayers.
http://www.newobserveronline.com/2017/08/anti-invasion-defend-europe-ship.html
G
It is being talked about and blatant lies are emerging from Europe’s fake news left wing news outlets and picked up by government supported Antifa outfits. The Indentiaires are being slandered as Nazis and far right fanatics who have weapons and are physically preventing women and children from being rescued. European Governments and the NGOs involved in the people tracking scam are finding ridiculous excuses to arrest the defend Europe Indentitairs, even arresting them and holding the ship for alleged people smuggling, a charge which was ridiculed and dropped.
Here is the BBC manufacturing/ digging out news about the far right anti refugee ship
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-40846151
G and GWF,
If the people of Europe do rise up, our rulers will unleash the police and military on us. They are the new Nazis and it is ugly.
Defend Europe ship. Governments in Europe are out to destroy them
News not covered by the lying media on migration
As said before – which accountancy practitioner would advocate paying money with respect to agreements to an organisation without any independently audited accounts?
There you go you lazy BBC shites – go ‘investigate’ that !
As said before – which accountancy practitioner would advocate paying money with respect to agreements to an organisation without any independently audited accounts?
There you go you lazy BBC shites – go ‘investigate’ that !
Thatcher,
As a Chartered Accountant, I would agree with you. Everything to do with the EU is surreal and absurd. It is a sick joke but dangerous.
Ps, Is your last post double entry bookeeping ?
Rapid fire.
Nothing to do with the beeb.
I was just scanning the weekend free paper, jobs section had vacancies, kpmg etc aero-space government etc, pokerstars & other online gambling firms….
Then subway looking for ”sandwich artist’s” ……………………. tesco’s will be looking for ”stock jugglers” next, ffs, this sorta ”speak” its only fit for mockery.
Let me know when Weatherspoons are recruiting *p1ss artists*.
yeah thats a good one that, we dont have a weatherspoons, we’ve recently acquired 2 national pizza outlets and a curries, give it another decade we will be fully entering the 21st century scene, and have no local suppliers, competing kabab shops the full monty, jb sports the whole gamut of what we are missing out on now, its a disgrace really, no nando’s.
If i was younger, i would go into hijab hire, no end of potential.
Disposable bhurka’s, in bulk a 1000 one slit binliners………. rain-proo fbhurka’s i mean a box.
Manx Hijab hire,……………….its s callable and exportable.
Manxman – It’s only a matter of time until the Isle Of Man becomes the Isle of Transgender.
IoAG Isle of All Genders
Exactly, trannies are bang into hijabs, and our planning laws allow only 3 stories, you heard it here first, Look out for a franchise near you lobby its a winner, can have dolce and cabana and that jaz, £20 a weekend hire, or funeral.
Here how it goes with me lobby, the above is tongue in cheek ofcourse, but ive always looked at ways of making a guinea.
I saw an advert one somewhere for car insurance in london, staggering amount plus road tax,
i thought sheesh i pay pay 20% of that for any driver company policy.
Then the cogs started to spin, i could 10 people to buy an off the shelf company, and administer it, non-trading, 1 asset the car, and make £200 a year of each one, by the time i went to bed i had built it to 10,000 thinking the government will love all those £100 road taxes, free money from cars using english roads, i ended up talking to minister of the department, because the vehicles had to be present 6 months and 1 day a year on the island to qualify for manx road tax.
He said ”we cant do that, all hell would break loose”.
I’m no fan of Guido but the following needs as wide an audience as possible. He exposes the BBC for promoting the views of a rabid Europhilliac without even alluding to the fool’s prominence among that treacherous clan.
https://order-order.com/2017/08/07/bbc-silent-arch-remainers-background/
It is worth noting that Fraser is a former civil servant. If you were looking for a caste responsible for selling this country down the river since WWII, that would be an excellent place to start.
GC,
Yes that wretched useless man has been a traitor to this country , so he is perfect material for the BBC.
Large SJW bodies trying to drive UK Social Agenda BBc, National Trust and now NTS National Trust Scotland.
It’s decided it’s job is to conserve not only their property but also the NAME of the area.. so they’ve trademarked the area’s name.
So a biz who’ve sold Glencoe jacket for 25 years just got a generic desist letter.
Now NTS have backtracked
A spokesman said: “In retrospect, although the letter sent to Hilltrek was a standard one, it may have been, in the circumstances of this particular company, too harsh in tone.”
He added: “From the outset we
Stew,
Notice it is only the “tone” that they think is wrong. I resigned from NTS many years ago. A despicable organisation and a disgrace to Scotland.
Grant,
Just thinking: we’ve not heard a whisper from the Garden Gnome in Scotland in months. What’s going on? Is she reflecting on the last election before opening her big trap again?
G,
I suspect Krankie is on a long holiday , probably taxpayer funded. Maybe the large loss of seats at the last election has kept her quiet. And, maybe the SNP are planning to ditch her. We shall see .
Well at least its something.
The point is they claim to be moral guardians, yet their management is so bad that they sent out generic threatening letters without checking their facts.
Trademark or not they’d had a hard time in court against someone who’s sold the product from 20 years before it was registered.
Officials in the UK have considerable difficulty in adding 2 + 2 and arriving at 4. So, I hope this contribution helps their arithmetic improve.
“Coastguard suspends hunt for two missing Romanian crewmen after one is found dead…..” –
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4765096/Huge-search-missing-crewman-boat-sinks.html#ixzz4p4OfoURI
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I would like to see a photo of the boat the “Fishermen” had used.
“In 2015 Romanians were the most prolific smugglers, with 350 rounded up. This was closely followed by Egyptians, with 336 in custody, then Syrians with 261 detained. But this year, Romanians have dropped down to third place – with 216 caught – while Turks pole-vaulted into first place with a staggering 423 found to be engaged in people smuggling.” – http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/711690/human-traffickers-smuggle-migrants-EU-borders-police-nationalities-THE-face-of-human-traff
1 was found in the sea
He told the story
So CG went to look and found 1 body
Hence 2 of the 4 are still missing.
BBC making a big issue out of IVF restrictions/limitations by the NHS.
Don’t knock the restrictions BBC: the less white women give birth the more room there’ll be for your preferred lovely muslim fertile women to give birth.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/bulletins/parentscountryofbirthenglandandwales/2015-08-27
For all countries fertility: https://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?v=31
The top four are virtually total muslim.
G,
Muslim women have no choice . It is for the husband to decide . I have seen many cases of husbands divorcing their wife because she has “failed” to conceive. Or they just take more wives. If none of them conceive, it would never occur to the man that he may be infertile. Barbarians ! And they are at our gates .
“There’s danger in COERCIVE LIBERALISM”
Times : Libby Purves lays into NT and then BBC for driving to drive the Moral Agenda and push gay PR at us.
“On NT’s doppelganger Radio 4 trails for Gay Britannia season fill every gap
…. overkill”
Here’s a screenshot of BBC bit.. to end.
Typo ‘trying to drive’
Here Opposite page talks sense on immigration
Same page Beefy says RSPB is covering up its own failure of its £1bn cinservatiin prog by refusing to publish actual study results and st the same time say ‘ look over there at grouse farmers”
Stew,
Where I am now, in bonnie Perthshire, we have lots of grouse moors . I am looking at one now out of the window. Without grouse shooting and hill management there would be no grouse and no jobs. There is no obvious land use alternative. The RSPB gave up caring about birds many years ago and are just another Leftie political lobbying organisation. Both is right and I am not just saying that because he was a great cricketer .
If you look closely at the ‘supposed’ David Cameron’s hands in this photo
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40849086
there appears to be something different when comparing left and right.
‘How appropriate!’ you might think.
On the other hand (ho ho) you may wonder if the BBC has been spoofed or is spreading FakeNews.
Photoshopped:
Something wrong with edge of dress where it meets DC’s shirt.
DC’s hands look wrong, as you say.
Where has his right shoulder gone? He’s a little wider than that.
And this, I think, might be the original that his face was taken from. Subtle differences but a lot of similarities:
Well done BBC!
Clare,
Point is never believe anything which the BBC put out. They are liars and fakers .
They are. Shabby, hypocritical, dishonest, overrated, bigoted cowboy outfit.
Clare,
That is an insult to cowboys ! The BBC are also narrow-minded , parochial , ignorant, supercilious, dictatorial, fascist, racist …. Would anyone like to add to this list ?
Treasonous.
island,
Yes and haters ! No love in their hearts , if they have hearts .
“That is an insult to cowboys !”
Were you in the Village People? 🙂
With respect I doubt that it has been photoshopped and certainly not by the BBC as the same photograph has appeared many times. DC was there.
deegee,
The point is that we cannot trust anything much anymore, especially if the BBC are involved .
deegee, indeed it has and received 577 likes at the time of RE-POSTING BY THE BBC.
While I’m not sure David Cameron’s face has been picked up from that Blockchain PR pic (although it could have been) as Clare suggests, I think she is right that it the overall image has been ‘worked on’. DC’s right hand, clutching the G&T or cocktail looks supiciously feminine and is picking up light rather differently to the fingernails on his left hand.
Flash has been used for what looks like the original DC body photo (see shadow on background) although the definition (image quality) is poor and there is no shadow from the thumb on his left hand on the palm. Lucy is doing really well to take a selfie with both arms where they are and there is no shadow from her on the background. Look especially at the top right (as we see it) of the heart on her jacket and then the background.
There are other little ‘doesn’t add up’ things about it, too.
I think the BBC may have been ‘sold’ a PR photo by the jacket manufacturer and have not asked too many questions because they can use the opportunity to attack the Conservatives via David Cameron.
Biased BBC?
Rather looks like it to me.
What a shit boy band.
ER4 8pm Sex and Free speech
Prof Fara tweeted four promo tweets
.. Only one mentions gays
Speaking of FakeNews or FalseNews, with the European heatwave losing 5 to 10 degrees off its high from last week, the BBC have decided to up the Climate Change deaths from excessive heat at the end of 21st century from 100,000 on Friday/Saturday to 152,000 (such precision in an estimate!) on Sunday/Monday. Unfortunately, although they can re-write web-pages they cannot (yet!) re-write bookmarks.
No doubt that will come one day.
Israel decision to revoke attacker’s citizenship condemned
By whom, we might ask? (Anonymous) “Human rights groups pl have criticised a decision by an Israeli court to remove the citizenship of an Israeli Arab who attacked people with a car and a knife”. Towards the end of the article a representative of one group is mentioned without mentioning that Human Rights Watch has a long record of anti Israel activity.
The headline and explanatory first paragraph follow the typical BBC practise of when someone they support is attacked they report the defence, When it is someone they oppose they report the attack.
Not mentioned: British Nationality Act 1981
(2) The Secretary of State may by order deprive a person of a citizenship status if the Secretary of State is satisfied that deprivation is conducive to the public good.
(4) The Secretary of State may not make an order under subsection (2) if he is satisfied that the order would make a person stateless.
(4A) But that does not prevent the Secretary of State from making an order under subsection (2) to deprive a person of a citizenship status if—
(b) the Secretary of State is satisfied that the deprivation is conducive to the public good because the person, while having that citizenship status, has conducted him or herself in a manner which is seriously prejudicial to the vital interests of the United Kingdom, any of the Islands, or any British overseas territory, and
(c) the Secretary of State has reasonable grounds for believing that the person is able, under the law of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom, to become a national of such a country or territory.
It rather puts the Israeli act into perspective.
What a laugh!
On a day when the BBC have gone back to giving the Russian Foreign Minister a Knighthood, in reporting the result of the England v South Africa Test Match (well done, lads!), they have turned the South African No.5 batsman into a Frenchman for the 6pm radio News.
Up2,
LOL ! Beeboids are so stupid ! Maybe they think it has something to do with Plassey . They really are morons !
Grant, indeed – especially over names. I would not be surprised if its origin, way back when, is Belgian but the South Africans choose to pronounce the double ‘s’ and the final ‘s’ quite firmly.
I guess we can now play TMS Bingo with an extra item: waiting for Fanny’s surname to be pronounced as ‘de Villy-air’ during the next ODIs.