― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:54 (twenty years ago) link
― run it off (run it off), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:58 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 01:01 (twenty years ago) link
― run it off (run it off), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 01:03 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 01:05 (twenty years ago) link
Blades Business Crew
Serious sheffield united hooligans
.....................strike me down..............
― dddfdanon, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 01:07 (twenty years ago) link
Ipswich Total Violence
(OK, I made that up and in fact when we supposedly had a "firm" they decided to call themselves The Spanners, why they did is anyone's guess)
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 03:51 (twenty years ago) link
BBC blamed for attacks on Poles
― Tom D., Wednesday, 4 June 2008 11:01 (fifteen years ago) link
wtf @ that guy
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 11:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Tories, eh?
― Tom D., Wednesday, 4 June 2008 11:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Sub-Passantino at best
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 11:06 (fifteen years ago) link
At 6 feet 8½ inches (204 cm), Kawczynski is believed to be the tallest MP ever to sit in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 11:19 (fifteen years ago) link
But the average height of doors in Westminster is six feet eight and now he wants ministers to take account of an increasingly tall UK population.
"Being officially a giant myself... you want to raise things which pertain to yourself and people like you," he said.
ISSUES4U
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 11:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Damn those liberal elites...
Britain is the country of choice for many 'feckless' Poles
'Polish Borat' claims groping women is normal in Eastern Europe
IMMIGRANTS TO BLAME FOR SURGE IN CRIME SAYS POLICE CHIEF
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 11:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Also I'm sure he said all this a couple of months ago somewhere else. Why has it come up again now?
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 11:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, yes, in the Independent.
― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 11:58 (fifteen years ago) link
He'll be blaming the BBC for attacks on giants next
― Tom D., Wednesday, 4 June 2008 12:00 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd guess he has a point if he's talking about Tory voters mouthing off on the mid-morning phone-ins on local stations like BBC Radio Shropshire etc.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Conservative Friends of Poland
Like Neville Chamberlain, he means?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 15:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Pretty sure it's mostly Channel 4 running the anti-Polish stuff. But it is tricky spotting the difference between Panorama and the Völkischer Beobachter most weeks.
― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
EXCLUSIVE: Max Mosley confirmed as new Panorama presenter.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 15:57 (fifteen years ago) link
A step too far, this is causing as much kerfuffle as when the moved women's hour.
― Mornington Crescent (Ed), Friday, 12 June 2009 02:58 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2009/06/change_to_international_pages.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/14/ben-bradshaw-bbc-management
the bbc does seem amazingly inept at covering its arse. it is kind of a symptom of a wider elite-class self-aggrandizement that the likes of byford and thompson think they deserve mad money, but it's still going to come back to bite them.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 09:31 (fourteen years ago) link
beeb has kind of an impossible job in dealing with its critics, since they simultaneously claim the licence fee isn't justified because the bbc isn't populist enough and that it isn't justified because it doesn't provide enough specialised content that the commercial sector won't touch. i can't see that sharing the licence fee does anything to help except spreading it thinner.
agree that bbc bosses don't help the cause though.
― joe, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 09:42 (fourteen years ago) link
is it really going to be dismantled? ― D Aziz (esquire1983), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:03 (5 years ago)
Possibly, if - when - the Tories get in.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/19/wed-abolish-bbc-trust-hunt
― DavidM, Monday, 19 October 2009 10:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Has to be a troll:
Pay per view BBC news would allow the lefties to view their own biased news reports while the rest of us could choose ITV news for more impartial reporting.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 19 October 2009 10:13 (fourteen years ago) link
this business about "damaging commercial competitors" really pisses me off. we should be celebrating the fact that the BBC creates quality products and services for "free", not requiring it to dumb down its offerings so that something inferior and expensive can maintain market share.
― tomofthenest, Monday, 19 October 2009 10:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Whenever that comment is made, it is usually voiced by someone with vested interests eg. Murdoch. In America, Murdoch goes after Obama but here he goes after impartial news media. This should be a good compass for anyone wishing to locate the centre of power in any given country. Who does Murdoch go after in, say, China?
― Yo! GOP Raps (suzy), Monday, 19 October 2009 10:29 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, you do wonder whether this is the quid for the quo of The Sun's support.
― tomofthenest, Monday, 19 October 2009 10:34 (fourteen years ago) link
tories don't need any outside encouragement to go after the bbc, tbh.
― joe, Monday, 19 October 2009 10:37 (fourteen years ago) link
So is the Mail anti-Beeb purely because of DMGT's regional newspapers? Or is there something else, aside from Jonathan Ross and the telly tax?
― James Mitchell, Monday, 19 October 2009 10:44 (fourteen years ago) link
it's ideological - the bbc is full of lefties.
― joe, Monday, 19 October 2009 10:47 (fourteen years ago) link
not only that, the whole concept of the BBC is lefty.
― tomofthenest, Monday, 19 October 2009 10:54 (fourteen years ago) link
and yet they've employed Jeremy Clarkson, Carol Thatcher, Michael Burke, Patrick Moore (latter two mentioned just due to sexist comments made in past)...
― modescalator (blueski), Monday, 19 October 2009 10:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Patrick Moore is very right-wing on immigration too, unfortunately.
― tomofthenest, Monday, 19 October 2009 11:05 (fourteen years ago) link
... and Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo and Nick Robinson and Quentin Letts ad nauseum
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Monday, 19 October 2009 11:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Michael Buerk is a Conservative?
― Yo! GOP Raps (suzy), Monday, 19 October 2009 11:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Only when it comes to the BBC employing women, I think... women who get jobs he wants, that is
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Monday, 19 October 2009 11:12 (fourteen years ago) link
sexist, conservative, racist - all the same
― tomofthenest, Monday, 19 October 2009 11:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Regardless of how many sexist conservative racist rightwingers are employed there, the very existence of the BBC as a huge part of the media landscape is a slap in the face to Tory free market ideals, so obviously they want to pare it back. I don't think it's all about Murdoch.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 19 October 2009 11:20 (fourteen years ago) link
In my own experience, sexism is not limited to conservative men!
― Yo! GOP Raps (suzy), Monday, 19 October 2009 11:20 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL, far from it!
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Monday, 19 October 2009 11:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Wondering how many Tories are anti-Beeb (lol anti-Auntie, don't mind me) cz free market ideals, nanny state trying to make us pay for socialised tv, drag out ancient acronym about the commies etc, and how many are in favour of preserving it as a Great British institution from the days when Great Britain etc etc, y'know, a relatively staid old thing that doesn't put quite as many flashing neon colours and topless ladies on as the other channels
I mean, the other group does exist, right? Or is this the sector of small-c conservatives who wouldn't admit to being such and vote Lib Dem? (PS this is not really intended derogatively as it describes much of my family and quite possibly me)
― ein fisch schwimmt im wasser · fisch im wasser durstig (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 19 October 2009 11:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Hardly any of the latter and none who matter <--------- satirical poetry
― The Prince's choice: making a brush. (Tom D.), Monday, 19 October 2009 11:44 (fourteen years ago) link
and even they would be appeased by one radio station playing Test Match Special, the shipping forecast and The Archers
― tomofthenest, Monday, 19 October 2009 11:47 (fourteen years ago) link
the opposition from Murdoch, the Mail etc is predicated purely on the BBC grabbing a fairly hefty slice of online eyeballs and TV ratings that might otherwise be going to their properties - however Murdoch's greatest fear is that the BBC carries advertising.. because then the advertisers would spread their (finite amount of) money over to the BBC innit
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 19 October 2009 12:11 (fourteen years ago) link
however Murdoch's greatest fear is that the BBC carries advertising..
also many BBC supporters greatest fear surely
― modescalator (blueski), Monday, 19 October 2009 12:21 (fourteen years ago) link
i can't believe i said "carries" instead of using the subjunctive. GAH
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 19 October 2009 12:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Fun fact: the BBC was nationalised under a Tory government.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 19 October 2009 12:44 (fourteen years ago) link
that picture's doing him no favours
― koogs, Saturday, 8 July 2023 15:25 (nine months ago) link
I would have certainly thought Westwood or Moyles but it makes it sound like it’s a current presenter
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 8 July 2023 15:49 (nine months ago) link
i forgot about his Radio 2 gig
couldn't happen to a nicer guy
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 8 July 2023 16:06 (nine months ago) link
Huw, sorry, How long do we have to wait to find out who this is?
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Sunday, 9 July 2023 11:39 (nine months ago) link
Hoooooo boy
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 9 July 2023 11:45 (nine months ago) link
are youse dropping cryptic clues here that it is Huw Edwards!
― calzino, Sunday, 9 July 2023 11:46 (nine months ago) link
"Nonce" is trending today - you wouldn't get that on threads!
― calzino, Sunday, 9 July 2023 11:48 (nine months ago) link
dunno if its been doctored but photo of huw in his pants now doing the rounds on twitter
― NickB, Sunday, 9 July 2023 22:56 (nine months ago) link
more out of his pants than in them though
― NickB, Sunday, 9 July 2023 22:59 (nine months ago) link
unfortunately for BBC nonces, Starmer isn't DPP anymore so they are very likely to get prosecuted now
― calzino, Monday, 10 July 2023 04:43 (nine months ago) link
I would have advised Huw Edwards to turn the other cheek but photographic evidence suggests he's already done that.
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Monday, 10 July 2023 08:32 (nine months ago) link
he's really fucked his chance of a knighthood now!
― calzino, Monday, 10 July 2023 08:43 (nine months ago) link
he broke the rules by going full pedo before the knighthood
― calzino, Monday, 10 July 2023 08:45 (nine months ago) link
BBC not helped by their current Director General having one of those generic smug Tory faces which makes him look like he's constantly smirking.
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 12:26 (nine months ago) link
Then there's this...
Tim Davie says gap between initial contact and approaching presenter was reasonable but ‘there may be some learnings’ from case
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 18:06 (nine months ago) link
findings out, learnings, laughings, that's what the BBC is for
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 18:09 (nine months ago) link
Doesn't the 'victim' now say this is all bullshit made up by her mom?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 19:10 (nine months ago) link
there are fresh accusations from another young woman about "menacing texts" and requests for sexually explicit pics. I don't know if this is normal for ppl using dating apps but am calling that this guy is a wrong 'un.
― calzino, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 19:18 (nine months ago) link
has it been confirmed that it's a woman? The bbc report I say was sticking determinedly to the formulation 'young person', no pronouns, almost to the point of unintentional comedy (clarifying that this young person is a separate young person from the first young person etc)
― he thinks it's chinese money (soref), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 19:23 (nine months ago) link
Yeah, I actually don't know the gender of the accusers
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 19:28 (nine months ago) link
I read "youth" being used in earlier reports, and only males are known as youths in newspaper speak.
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 19:32 (nine months ago) link
I was just blithely assuming that that all terrible, royal arselicking, Welsh newsreaders are het!
― calzino, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 20:09 (nine months ago) link
The ever professional and competent Kay Burley talking to a government minister on Sky News this morning:
"What would you like to say to the parents of this boy, er, person?"
― Foot Heads Arms Body (Tom D.), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 06:24 (nine months ago) link
The Scum has a long history of being the most prolifically homophobic tabloid sheet in Britain; it has leveraged sexuality against individuals it seeks to exert control over and as a driver of public discourses for decades. In doing so it has ruined lives and encouraged violence— tom (@tomrade_) July 12, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 20:43 (nine months ago) link
Newsnight this evening hosted Sun columnist and prominent dickhead Rod Liddle to tell its audience that the paper had behaved impeccably. The corporation really doesn't help itself sometimes. https://t.co/PhUNoI1O2k— James B (@piercepenniless) July 12, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 22:23 (nine months ago) link
The BBC News front is a bit "Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich. Malkovich? Malkovich" at the moment.https://i.imgur.com/lKLemo0.jpg
― Alba, Thursday, 13 July 2023 04:33 (nine months ago) link
Why does Huw Edwards take ice baths?
― conrad, Thursday, 13 July 2023 06:24 (nine months ago) link
On BBC's "today's papers", there is one front page missing...
― Mark G, Thursday, 13 July 2023 07:38 (nine months ago) link
They often don't get sent The Sun's. I'm surprised whenever it is there (not that I check it that often).
― nashwan, Thursday, 13 July 2023 09:59 (nine months ago) link
welp stephen nolan allegedly sending nudie pics of someone else to his staff now is it
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 12:24 (eight months ago) link
hah, I would love to see this sanctimonious slug getting sacked .. but sadly....
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 12:39 (eight months ago) link
scumbag transphobic troll caught being a sex pest shocker
― you're a sick man, Buddy Rich (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 13:26 (eight months ago) link
just caught a 5 Live presenter talking to a couple of 5 Live presenters about the interview they did yesterday with a 5 Live presenter to discuss their 5 Live shows
― you're a sick man, Buddy Rich (Noodle Vague), Friday, 18 August 2023 11:30 (eight months ago) link
Xzibit.jpeg
― van der gragt generator (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 18 August 2023 12:18 (eight months ago) link
Stephen Nolan sent *two* sexually explicit images to *several* work colleagues, not only a "long-term friend and peer outside of work" as he claimed on his radio show on Friday. Today’s Irish News. pic.twitter.com/zs1JKvavEJ— Rodney Edwards (@rodneyedwards) August 19, 2023
looks like Nolan's on air confession/apology was somewhat economical with the truth
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 19 August 2023 08:11 (eight months ago) link
I remember this cowardly intellectual minnow repeatedly asking Corbyn to condemn the IRA - what a fucking pumper
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 19 August 2023 08:26 (eight months ago) link
Good to see:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/bbc-world-service-announces-emergency-radio-service-for-gaza
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 November 2023 11:59 (six months ago) link
i wonder if they'll get the endless "those Chinese are it again" programming featured on the regular World Service?
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 November 2023 12:04 (six months ago) link
Lol I am not a radio listener but...I hope not
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 November 2023 12:30 (six months ago) link
They're an industrious ppl tbf
― not anti-Skibidi Toilet per se (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 2 November 2023 17:56 (six months ago) link
one tiny positive about life and death in Gaza: no Malcolm Gladwell NPR programs *analyzing* the causes of political polarisation if you tune into the Arabic wing of BBC WS
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 2 November 2023 18:15 (six months ago) link
So many racists at this organisation like Dan Johnson who like to end their pathetic articles with made-up anecdotes from racists.
So many others refuse to talk about immigration - they fear the possible reaction if they share their view. Time and again I heard "not on camera" and "I can't talk about that".
A local driving instructor who offers lessons in different languages refuses to speak, saying "my tyres would be let down".
Immigration is contentious and, to many in Swindon, the Rwanda plan is controversial. Many local businesses and organisations here were also reluctant to engage. Some people haven't even heard of the plan, let alone formed strong opinions on it.
Vince is one who is happy to talk though.
He points at the bunting he strung across the street for the King's Coronation. He's glad he didn't take it down because he says the council won't put up any Christmas lights this year. He recalls an immigrant who once came in to request he remove the union flags hanging outside the shop.
"He said he found my flags offensive, but I said 'sorry, you'll have to get used to it'."
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― nashwan, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 15:42 (four months ago) link
we must bend over backwards to accommodate the beliefs of those who have been lied to their whole lives, no matter how harmful, rather than question the validity of those beliefs.
― organ doner (ledge), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 16:09 (four months ago) link