719 Responses to Weekend Open Thread

  1. scribblingscribe says:

    Only the BBC. The Toronto van attack on its main news site is centred around a picture of a muslim woman with a hand to her eye, as if crying.

    What on earth can the BBC be suggesting?

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  2. GCooper says:

    With an awful predictability, on with Toady this morning while the tea brewed. Within seconds ‘Windrush’ followed by that imbecile Humphreys alleging that NHS ‘shortages’ are due to ‘an ageing population’ and no mention of a few million immigrants adding to the burden.

    I’m getting quite quick at locating the off switch.

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  3. Up2snuff says:

    Don’t know where to start with the errors, deviousness, propaganda and sheer deceits from the TOADY Programme this morning and I did not listen to it all – only half.

    The GOP (Grand Old Party – the Republicans) is a new Party apparently, just like En Marché. Roland Farrow is brought on. He’s written a book. Oooh, more advertising on the BBC! Actually, that is not the point: “Please will you slur President Trump for us? We promise not to ask you which Party you support and vote for.”. Two weeks is a long time in politics and apparently Iran is no longer active in Syria. At all. It has never, ever, had a leader who stated they wished to destroy Israel. All this just fourteen days after they were active there with Russia. Funny that. And then, suddenly, at the end of the item – hey ho – Iran is back in Syria and those nasty (a BBC inference) Israelis are concerned about (self-defence) attacking Iran. Old people live longer because they are constantly sick and ill and draining all the resources from the NHS so we are all going to have to pay more tax for them. Yeah, right.

    BBC, may I suggest that you listen to your own news coverage. Both immediate and then the recent past. Then take a listen to stuff from Radio 4 in, say, the past three to four years.

    And please pay attention to it.

    Then, please eliminate the errors, deviousness, propaganda and sheer deceits from your future News & Current Affairs coverage. I, together with many thousands of other listeners, will thank you.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Up – I’m rationed on al beeb so didn’t hear that but but the standard al beeb tactic with regard to President Trump is to get a democrat on – friend of Hillary and let him / her go off on one without challenge.
      Media doing its best to undermine him but seems the American public is getting more used and approving of him. Lord god give him a second term when he really can get going on the liberal swamp.,

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Apologies to Mr Farrow, my keyboard was suffering from BBC diction: apparently he is known as Ronan not Roland.

        Yes, Fed, at the time of listening I had a suspicion that Mr Farrow was a Democrat and his Wiki page (usual cautions), just viewed, suggests he may be so as he has worked for Hillary Clinton.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      I say, Sir! Are you suggesting that the F&CO is like our Home Office? Not fit for purpose?

      Well, there’s a thing …

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  4. fakenewswatcher says:

    Thanks for this piccie. ‘Peerage Alliance’. One target drifts into view.
    Prepare the artillery.

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  5. scribblingscribe says:

    Interesting thought in The Times:

    “Lord Cooper of Windrush said the Tories would find it almost impossible to win in an area with a non-white population above 30 per cent, adding that by the time of the next general election there would be more than 120 seats where that was the case.”

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