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  • Whitewashing a murderous, rapist, Islamist terrorist group

    “padding-left: 40px”>In fact, the Tory leader has even threatened to pull her party’s support for the Beeb’s licence fee if there isn’t ‘serious action’ taken over the documentary. Will BBC bigwigs now conduct an inquiry? Stay tuned…

     

  • Another day, another BBC correspondent

    ere instead murdered by Hamas terrorists’ “bare hands”.

    It matters not to a BBC correspondent. The Jews are always guilty.

    A BBC newsroom source told the JC: “How a top BBC correspondent can turn huge horrifying posters of Netanyahu as a zombie Dracula peering over the hostages, and rows and rows of Israeli coffins into simply 'imagery of the consequences of Israel's campaign' is deeply worrying. Worse still, nobody batted an eyelid. Serious questions need to be answered."

    Alex Hearn, Director of Labour Against Antisemitism (LAAS), criticised Adams for “whitewashing” Hamas’ antisemitic propaganda. "What was depicted wasn’t a failed military campaign but medieval blood libel," Hearn stated.

    One of the BBC's top correspondents, it's clear, can't tell the difference.

    Meanwhile, Adams’ old posts on social media have resurfaced, prompting questions about his impartiality. In one post from October 7, 2023, he referred to the Hamas attack that day as a “mass breakout,” describing it as “audacious (and yes brutal).” The following day, he called the massacre “the day Gazans broke out of their dismal prison and exacted terrible revenge.”

    On October 17, Adams suggested Israeli forces had bombed the al-Ahli hospital, a claim later contradicted by intelligence reports that linked the explosion to a failed rocket launch from within Gaza.

    He wrote: “Deeply disturbing reports from Gaza City tonight, with suggestion that 100s of Palestinians have been killed at al-Ahli hospital. Full of the wounded and those seeking shelter from Israel's bombardment. IDF can't yet say if this was an air strike.”

    Deeply disturbing reports from inside the BBC.

  • Clearing up Sturgeon’s mess

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  • Stonewall freeze

    style=”font-size: 11pt”>Insiders believed the announcement was linked to decisions made by Trump over the provision of foreign aid. Blake has previously warned of the impact Trump’s move would have on Stonewall’s operations.

    And here's us thinking it was only the nasty enemies of "progressive" politics who relied on US funding.

    Funding from the US came to Stonewall through the Global Equality Fund (GEF), administered by the US state department, which has given the charity more than half a million pounds in the past three years. The GEF focuses on “advancing LGBTI rights around the world” and is a pooled fund with contributions from numerous countries and private businesses, but it has not published accounts since 2015.

    In recent years the GEF has been Stonewall’s largest funder. Charity accounts show the GEF increased its funding for Stonewall year on year, handing over £137,254 in 2021-22, rising to £204,442 in 2022-23 and reaching £233,583 in the most recent set of accounts.

    The slippery slope just got slippier. They jumped on the trans bandwagon after the gay rights battles were won, to keep the money flowing in, and now they're paying the price. The T has no place alongside the LGB.

    Added: see Dennis Noel Kavanagh's thread reader.

  • The Manitou

    Ca. 1905. "Steamer Manitou at dock, Mackinac Island, Michigan."

    image from www.shorpy.com
    [Photo: Shorpy/Detroit Publishing Company]

  • The coke smuggler

    The Jersey Evening Post headline – Woman jailed after trying to bring cocaine into Jersey.

    The article:

    A 39-year-old woman has been jailed for four years and six months after trying to bring £13,000 worth of cocaine into Jersey.

    Emma Louise Llewellyn, from Stoke-on-Trent, arrived on a flight from Liverpool in November last year and initially claimed that she was visiting the Island for the weekend to see a friend.

    But after Customs officers swabbed her baggage, traces of cocaine were found. Llewellyn initially denied drug use but later admitted to having used the Class A drug the previous week.

    The photograph:

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  • Kentish Town 1975

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    London Transport worker getting into his car on his way to work.

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    Friends waiting for their pigeons to return to the loft in their garden

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    Pigeon fanciers bringing their birds to the drop off point to be picked up and delivered to the start.
    [Photos © Mike Abrahams]

    It's fair to say the area's gone through quite some gentrification over the last 50 years.

    Abrahams' latest book, This Was Then:

    This Was Then is the first career-spanning book by one of the UK’s most significant documentary photographers. Shot across Britain over three decades, in the years before and after Margaret Thatcher’s time in government, This Was Then brilliantly captures seemingly small moments of everyday life that tell a far bigger story of Britain during this time. Abrahams’ photographs demonstrate his unerring ability to capture “ordinary people living extraordinary lives”.

  • The street or the women’s restroom

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  • The BBC news correspondent

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    "The propaganda efforts by both Hamas and Israel over the hostage releases are pretty nauseating".

    Donnison has history. From the JC, October 2023:

    A BBC journalist who wrongly suggested Israel was behind last week’s Gaza hospital blast had previously caused outrage by presenting a picture of an injured Syrian girl as a “heartbreaking” image of a Palestinian child hurt in an Israeli attack.

    The BBC is being urged to take further action against Jon Donnison, who has worked for the corporation for 15 years. In November 2012, he shared a picture of a young girl lying on a hospital bed with bloodied clothes, which had been taken in Syria.

    Still at the Beeb. Fits right in.

    Added: here's the original tweet. Worth it for the replies.

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  • Narcissistic men with borderline personality disorder

    t announcing they are female, for the two things can be manifestations of the same set of underlying psychological issues. And this fact has obvious consequences, not just for changing room allocation but also for being able to keep track of professionals who work with vulnerable people, however many changes in identity they profess to have. Let’s all stop pretending we have had a collective brain transplant and forgotten very basic safeguarding rules that, deep down, we really know.

    A "narcissistic man with borderline personality disorder" would be a fair description of Trump. Ironic then that he would be the one to call a halt to the gender rampage through American institutions. But then history has never been straightforward – and he could hardly miss the open goal left by the gender-obsessed Democrats.

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