There are plenty of signs that the Far Left biased BBC is rattled by lack of public support for the propaganda it regularly throws out to those who have to pay for it. Some might say it is too late to try to reform it and more radical change is needed . It’s not ‘Aunty’ any more …
Weekend Thread 15 February 2020
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The Army have been called in to help with storm Dennis. The Beeb have found a suitable pic.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-51514056
How dare Russia and China spread lies. That’s the BBC’s job!
My son is taking part in a social experiment, he’s wearing a Jeremy Corbyn hat. So far he’s been punched, kicked, and spat on….
…..should be interesting to see how he gets on once he leaves the house.
Dover Sentry
I say old chap that seems a bit harsh. Couldn’t you just force him to wear a MAGA hat and walk through the streets?
Just heard the 1700 news on the radio. I heard someone, presumably a senior WHO man who stated that individual countries were not doing enough in relation to the Corona virus. Hang on there WHO! Developed countries are taking their share. Like the UK, they’re not exercising as much caution in restricting movements into the country so as to increase the risk of infection. But why? Well, you don’t need an ‘O’ level in maths to understand if the virus is hitting the old and infirm i.e. not wage earners disproportionately, therefore, more virus = more elderly deaths. A good clear out I’d say. Saving on pensions paid, hospital / nursing home beds, more houses on the market to help our continuing flow of immigrants have a roof over their heads. Indeed, more immigrants, particular muslim, to, ‘stock up’. I could go on with the benefits but you all get the point. Earlier in the week a statistician put the likelihood of well in excess of a 100,000 deaths, mainly elderly folk.
In the first World War, it was known as, “Cannon Fodder”.
The virus could be a problem for those who like to congregate in large numbers within confined and enclosed spaces four times a day.
Dover Sentry
But I thought it was transmitted from mouth to mouth, not backside to the mouths in the next row.
That’s most lifts then !
G
Oh dear. I shall be 80 years of age in a few weeks so I’d better say my goodbye’s now. Don’t tell my sister Dolly though because she’s an awful worrier. Anyway, just in case, I’ll say” toodlepip” and if I don’t come out alive keep up the good fight.
Lefty – hopefully an unnecessary fair well . I , too , have a weakness to my resistance to such infections so I should say fair well too . Having flown into Heathrow yesterday and then spent an hour on the tube I may self quarantine ….
Be like the man in the Matt cartoon and avoid all human contact by hanging around in the diesel showroom.
Or turning up at a lady Nugee campaign rally …
I wonder why it is not widely known that people over 65 are entitled to the pneumococcal vaccine? Also over 65s only get flu jabs that protect against 2 kinds of flu virus while under 65s get the one that covers three?
As long as I’m not asked to be Canon Fodder, I’ll be OK.
The BBC do love to do dodgy geography:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/p7q8J67pGfsqy1VzRTk1sx/in-pictures-five-of-the-irish-sea-s-most-picturesque-coastal-spots
At a push, I’d say two of the five are not really coastal and judging by the photos for nos. 4 & 5 they are not really visually gripping. Three of the five are not really Irish Sea, either.
Girvan is well worth a visit along with nearby Ayr and Troon but Ailsa Craig? Really? The Electric Brae is about the most exciting thing in the area, along with Nardini’s Cafe. (Yes, that Nardini, as in Daniela) The coastline is pretty spectacular – closest we have to Highway 1 in California – but is more Scotland than Irish Sea.
The gap between mainland Wales and Anglesey? Really? Is that the best you can do, BBC, for £3.5bn? On the evidence provided there, I think the Licence Fee should be cut to £20. No.
Make that £10.
It seems that another soul ill-equipped for the spotlight and amplification of the business that is show has erred, failed to cope and foundered under its malign glare.
And so the vultures feed.
Interesting times, and in a Chinese way.
Hope this works out well.
@naomi_pallas
Bio Journalist & filmmaker @bbcstories / @bbcnews
I seem to recall that in the US there was a similar case where a young girl got a kick of contacting couples and offering them false hope.
Lewis is delivering nicely still. Craig has noticed.
http://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.com/2020/02/who-to-ask-lewis.html
One is sure if any senior bbc bod was tempted out to explain, they would say this is all about right.
Toady this morning (Saturday) and after 8am news interview with David Miliband. He said that temperatures in Syria at night are falling to -11 degrees Celsius. They don’t tell us that when they are talking climate emergency. I think they could do with some 4x4s driving around.
The link goes to firewall but Wrong Daily wants the BBC to be self selecting in its leadership making it even more inbred than it already is . The Labour idiots must be competing to show how disconnected from both reality and the public they are .
The BBC and RLB… potent combo.
With a proven record thus far.
Apparently.
A face that sank a thousand ships.
When she was a teenager, her friends called her seaweed. Not even the tide would take her out…
Daily Express:
“Why was Germany’s £3.6 TRILLION war debt to Britain secretly written off in 1990? Asks MP”
“They are very keen to tell us about the £40billion we supposedly owe them for Brexit, not to mention the countless billions we’ve already paid in, but they refuse to pay for the terrible destruction they caused to this country.”
Only in 2006, did Britain finish paying off US loans taken out in WW2 – 61 years after the end of the war.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/964141/germany-germans-reparations-brexit-war-cash-marshall-plan-daniel-kawczynski
I don’t anticipate the BBC fighting for Britain’s money. Nor protests in the street from the usual Left wing agitators.
Radio4 now “now drama a series of 5 episodes about an immigrant take aways in Leeds”
Each week seems to be with different owners
This week it’s Polish owners
… Ah the series is from 2007
The hypocrisy of the wokerati or wokemob that rule over us
That’s not the only celeb caught out preaching LOVE now when 5 minutes ago they were preaching HATE a none woke
David Baddiel was one of them
I sometimes take myself back to the BBC coverage of the General Election in December last year, just a minute or two before the Exit Polls were released.
Naga of BBC Breakfast Slothness, was gleefully telling us that the results were going to be close between Labour and the Conservatives. And could not be predicted.
Moments later…tumbleweed contorted slowly across the studio floor. A distant sad bell chime could be heard. The Exit Polls had arrived on the noon train. (Homage to High Noon).
Let’s run that memory again and again shall we 🙂
Some useful information.
theisland…lol…looking at her biog you’d think she was classic BBC supporter or employee…..wonder if the BBC will be giving any prominence to the petitition…390,000 and rising demanding the end of the licence tax….the BBC always promoting petitions that were anti-Brexit or pro-climate change…don’t hold your breath….
Melanie Phillips is of course the wife of the BBC’s chief legal correspondent
https://www.melaniephillips.com/need-check-thinking-english-police-officer/
Stew
Thank you for the article – I wonder who ordered the the offending officer – PC Gul – to visit Mr Miller at his workplace or , indeed , to contact him at all . PC Gul’s comment –
‘I need to check your thinking ‘
should be a phrase tattooed on that statue of George Orwell the BBC laughingly have installed in the HQ.
The police apparently police by consent – but bit by bit I think the likes of PC Gul and his thinking – is removing that consent and turning that organisation into a Stasi – and very quickly .
As this case is going to Tony Blairs political court – the Supreme Court where the ‘president ‘ can get away with wearing a ‘spider and web ‘ piece of jewellery and get a way with it – we might see the supreme judges overturning this finding casting us – yes us – into targets of PC Gul and his type . How’s your thinking ?
I wonder who ‘us’ is?
Alan Reed …BBC journalist…and no, we won’t miss him and his media mafia that corrupt our democracy, demonise white people and aim to destroy Britain.
As the BBC turns into the Bame Broadcastng Corporation I’d be interested to know how many of those 450 journalists beng sacked are white and male. Will the airwaves be filled with even more female, Asian and Black presenters, journalists and commentators than we are subjected to now in the name of equality?
You almost literally cannot turn on the BBC these days without being lectured on Race and of course the incriminating whiteness of British people…the term ‘white privilege’ is deliberately provocative and is no different to the use of the word ‘Nigger’…it’s designed to demonise, demean, other and oppress a racial group….you can see its use in action when the Bame person tried to shut down Lawrence Fox on Question Time by denouncing his ‘white privilege’. The BBC is more than happy to take part in that anti-white witch-hunt, the stigmatisation of white people…more than happy to use the term ‘male, pale and stale’ which is highly offensive and intended to fuel hate against white males. The BBC is happy to encourage and give voice to those blacktivists who want to destroy Britain, its society, culture and history…and they are succeeding….just look at the universities where anyone white has become a problem on the curriculum….Shakespeare is now ‘too white’ and should be removed as part of the de-colonisation process…whatever that means.
‘De-colonisation’ is in fact wholesale vandalism, corruption and suppression of white, British history, it is little different to the book burnings by the nazis where books that carried ideas and culture that those in charge didn’t like were destroyed…and it’s happening right now in our universities. schools and compliant media as history is rewritten….the new ‘nazis’ being the Afua Hirsches, David Lammys and fellow travellers who are essentially cultural and social terrorists, aided and abetted by the BBC, intent on destroying Britain and turning it into Africa or some Muslim caliphate.
So, ( there’s that word again) 1% of 1% of the population ( though the percentage was said to be 10% in my youth) are exerting their disproportionate and completely undeserved influence to prevent Franklin Graham preaching in our country. And the Anglican church is standing shoulder to shoulder with these meatheads.
Is the racist far-left bbc covering this abomination, perhaps in one of their many religious programmes?
I wonder how much more intolerance we, as a nation, will tolerate before these freaks are put back in their closet?
I believe that Billy Graham was a 33rd degree mason so it’s not clear to me if he really was a Christian. Maybe his son is also a mason but notwithstanding it shouldn’t be down to a few troublemakers, and their supporters in the established churches to decide who is allowed to preach and who isn’t.
Here’s another news item that caught my eye. Google shows that both the loss making, low circulation guardian rag and the racist far-left bbc have covered it. For me, it shows that justice does happen every now and then. Mr Avenatti was Stormy Daniel’s lawyer when they were trying to trash judge Kavenaugh last year.
Well Mr Avenatti will be sentenced in June, I think, and could face up to 40 years in prison after he tried to extort $25 million from Nike ( another beauty, to use President Trump’s famous phrase about our own favourite propaganda machine).
https://nypost.com/2020/02/14/michael-avenatti-convicted-of-trying-to-extort-up-to-25m-from-nike/
Someone called Caroline Flack has committed suicide.
She appears to be famous for a. Being famous b. Winning Strictly Come Dancing c. Being a presenter on ‘love island’, a show whose barely concealed objective is to pair off scantily clad 20 something totty, hopefully with lots of racy sex along the way.
It says a lot for our society and the BBC that this event warrants headline news. That is, the first headline. That is, more important than anything else.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-51518593
Cue mass outrage, mass wailing, cue each worthy person trying to outdo the previous one in sanctimonious, self-righteous virtue about how utterly totally devastated they are and how sorry they are and how immensely wonderful she was.
Anyone heard of words such as proportionate and perspective?
Clearly not at the world’s finest impartial broadcaster.
Sluff
I think it is the desperate BBC group think which has decided to appeal to the ‘under 35s’ more than any other age ‘group’ . I don’t know who this lady was either – but it gives twitter types something to chatter about instead of stormy Denise / Dennis if it’s a tranny …. which I always thought was a wireless set …
As The Green Goddess is given her own BBC series to promote the hoax that is the great climate change swindle the BBC is still pumping out propaganda in its own right as it tries to terrify us into obedient belief with alarmist and apocalyptic narratives about the melting ‘Doomsday Glacier’ that will drown us all and terrifying and devastating bushfires in Australia which are absolutely caused by climate change on a planet that is burning….the real devastation will be economic and then to our civilisation as fake, bogus and extremely costly ‘solutions’ as demanded by The Green Goddess [never mind she would also like climate criminals ‘put up against a wall’..and her Extinction rebellion terrorist friends would like to lock up and shoot those it sees as climate criminals] are imposed by politicians too stupid and too cowardly to fight the narratives fabricated by the likes of Roger Harrabin who has essentially hijacked the BBC and turned it into a partisan and intolerant peddler of climate change propaganda.
The real devastation will be when the billions of unemployed, starving, freezing people, #duetoBBCgreenpropaganda, across the world start their fight for survival as they become unemployed, food is scarce, transport unobtainable, fuel for heating and manufacture impossible to get hold of and the whole structure of their lives, society, culture and civilisation collapse…on the order of The Greens…Somalia will look like paradise as the BBC’s brave new world implodes into savage wars run by warlords and criminals to whom people turn to for ‘protection’ and we revert to primeval tribalism and survival of the fittest.
Just as the wet weather we’re having is no way unprecedented or unusual [wettest year in England and Wales was in 1872 wth 1284.9in ] the fires in Australia are in fact less devastating than many in previous years.
As mentioned previously in 1973 117 million hectares burnt…today around 10 million hectares….and most of the fires are started one way or another by humans and the extent of them magnified not by climate change but by Green fanatics who prevented the controlled burning of undergrowth which was allowed to build up relentlessly and provided a massive fuel supply for the fires.
Now we have this…not from the BBC obviously…
‘Dr Bjørn Lomborg says despite the “absolutely overwhelming” devastation, Australia’s recent bushfires are by no means ‘unprecedented’.
According to Dr Lomborg’s analysis of satellite data, the area burned between 1997 and 2018 has reduced by a third.
Dr Lomborg, founder and president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, tells Alan Jones alarmism is not an effective solution to future bushfire events, and neither is a zero-emissions policy.
He argues Australia should focus on improving forest management. By going carbon neutral, he says, the country would burn just 0.003 per cent less by 2100.
“This does not mean we don’t actually expect that global warming will slightly increase the amount of burnt area, in Australia and elsewhere.
“There is an issue, but it’s just perhaps the most ineffective way to try to help.”
The difference this year is that the fires have mostly been in New South Wales (where Sydney is located) and Victoria (Melbourne). These states are important and house just over half of the country’s population – and many of its TV stations. But indications that the fires are due to global warming are due to the selection of these two regions with larger fires and ignoring the remaining 87 per cent. of Australia’s land area where the burned areas are reduced.
‘
You can read and listen to his views here…
https://www.2gb.com/environmentalist-rejects-unprecedented-bushfire-claims/
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6130329551001
Below is a Google translation of this…
https://www.berlingske.dk/kommentatorer/naar-medierne-hentyder-til-at-australiens-brande-har-et-hidtil-uset
‘Bjørn Lomborg, Director, Copenhagen Consensus Center and Visiting Professor, Copenhagen Business School
Pictures of areas in Australia ravaged by forest fires have been heartbreaking. How do we stop this disorder? For many advocates and politicians, the answer is clear: drastic climate policies. But when we look more closely at the facts, this simple solution is inadequate.
Australia is the continent in the world most exposed to fire. In 1900, 11 percent of the land burned annually. Nowadays, about five percent of the country burns every year.
If we do not stop climate change, higher temperatures and increased drought are likely to mean a 0.7 percent increase in burned areas by the end of the century, which is an increase from 5.3 per cent. of Australia to 6 per cent.
This increase is not insignificant and is an argument for effective action against climate change. By far the most effective and practical policy is significantly increased investment in energy innovation with low or no CO2 emissions.
This is because several decades will pass when solar and wind energy are neither cheap enough nor efficient enough to replace fossil fuels. Today, these amount to just 1.1 per cent. of global energy consumption, and the International Energy Agency estimates that even after spending $ 3 billion more on state grants, they won’t even reach 5 per cent. by 2040.
Innovation is needed to bring down the price of green energy. We must find cutting-edge solutions for batteries, nuclear power, CO2 storage and countless other promising technologies. Innovation can solve our climate challenge.
Unfortunately, there are many reports of Australia’s fires that have taken advantage of the disaster to promote a specific agenda based on three main ideas: that forest fires are worse than ever, that this is due to global warming, and that the only solution is that the political managers must make even greater promises of cutting CO2 emissions.
Worldwide, forest fires burn less land than before. Since 1900, burnt areas worldwide have been reduced by more than a third due to agriculture, firefighting and forest management. In the satellite era, both NASA and other groups can document significant reductions.
Surprisingly, this reduction also applies to Australia. Satellites show that burnt areas were reduced by one third from 1997-2018. In Australia’s ongoing fire season, the area burned is smaller than in previous years. Up to 26 January 2020, forest fires burned 19.4 million hectares in Australia – about half as much on average as the 37 million hectares burned area over a similar period documented by satellite. (In fact, the satellites show 46 million hectares burned, but 9 million hectares are probably due to planned fires.)
When the media hint that Australia’s fires have “an unprecedented scope”, they are wrong. Australia’s burnt areas have been reduced by over a third from 1900 to 2000, and have also been reduced during the satellite period. At the time of writing, 2.5 per cent. of Australia’s acreage burned during this fire season, which is comparable to the last ten years average of 4.8 per cent. at this stage.
The difference this year is that the fires have mostly been in New South Wales (where Sydney is located) and Victoria (Melbourne). These states are important and house just over half of the country’s population – and many of its TV stations. But indications that the fires are due to global warming are due to the selection of these two regions with larger fires and ignoring the remaining 87 per cent. of Australia’s land area where the burned areas are reduced.
Commonly assessed estimates of future forest fires in Australia show a long-term increase in burned areas due to global warming. But these estimates show that the impact of climate change will not increase Australia’s burnt area before the 2030s or 2040s. A recent review of the available data suggests that it is actually not possible to find a link between global warming and fires in Australia today. An increase will only become noticeable in the 2040s. The images coming from Australia are shocking, but pictures should not say save 2 for science.
Like many other advocates, the Australian Green Party argues that fire prevention is about a “fast transition to a renewable energy economy.” Politicians’ promises to cut CO2 emissions are of no use.
On the other side of the Tasmanian Sea, New Zealand aims to achieve CO2 neutrality by 2050. The government’s own commissioned report shows that this will cost 16 per cent. of the country’s annual economy, or $ 5,000 billion over the century. It will only reduce the temperature by four thousandths of a degree in 2100.
These costs can be repeated across the states of Australia and around the world. Taxpayers will not simply bite that kind of pain, whatever the intention. The world’s poor countries will never be able to afford this. The costs alone make this ‘solution’ to climate change a mere wishful thinking.
And if Australia actually changed its climate policy drastically from one day to the next, the impact on the fires would be as good as nonexistent. If Australia had completely stopped using fossil fuels back in 2012, the United Nations standard climate model shows that the impact on the fires this year would be literally immeasurable. Even if Australia could somehow be completely free of fossil fuels throughout the century, the burnt areas by 2100 would be 5,997 per cent. instead of 6 per cent.
This wretched and defective solution is hopeless. We need to spend many more resources on research and development of green energy,’
I’m surprised this is still on Youtube….not censored yet….
Pug
If the BBC was neutral organisation – examining both sides of a view – this documentary would be on BBC4 . But as we know there is no other view than ‘the man made climate change religion ‘.
BBC now linking directly to the Guardian –
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51519687
“The Foreign Office told the Observer it was “working around the clock” to ensure the welfare of Britons onboard.”
“working around the clock” is the link
Also, it leaves out the bit (rightly or wrongly) where the UK passenger was told by the UK ambassador that the World Health Organisation advises against repatriation.
The latter was in the lastest video interview this morning
The video clip –
https://www.amazon.co.uk/clouddrive/share/BOLAZJrjSZV1wCgvnBEuwQgH32wYbahka61nmdN53p2
The Guardian:
“‘Fighting like ferrets in a bag’ as EU tries to plug Brexit cash hole.”
“UK’s withdrawal has left £62bn hole in bloc’s purse for the next seven years ”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/16/stressed-heads-to-start-brussels-budget-talks-post-brexit?fbclid=IwAR08gILWgaxNVPjY8wfa6n7QRMl-zS74hD9MrYtTu2T2M-PJuOGtJG1nWac
What a pity. How sad. Never mind. ????
New from the BBC TV Licensing Blog this week:
– Downing Street Plans to Abolish TV Licence
– TV Licence Publicity Sparks Fresh Wave of BBC Social Media Misinformation
Read about the heinous, overzealous way the BBC enforces the TV licence fee: TV Licensing Blog Quick Guide
BBC Online News:
“Brexit: France warns UK of bitter trade negotiations”
“The EU has repeatedly warned that the UK cannot expect to enjoy continued “high quality” market access if it insists on diverging from EU social and environmental standards.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51526784
More Project Fear from our BBC. Refusing as ever to stand up for our interests.
BBC Online News:
“French ski resort uses helicopters to deliver snow for bare slopes”
“Milder weather and a lack of snow during winter are trends that meteorologists have linked to climate change.”
“France experienced its mildest January since 1900, according to Meteo-France, the country’s national forecaster.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51524278
The subject of Climate Change is ‘settled science’ for the BBC and no debate is allowed. However, the last line in their feature about the year 1900 having a milder January, does call everything they support into question.