Disgraced presenter Huw Edwards has been asked by the BBC to pay back the salary he earned after his arrest in November – the princely sum of over £200,000. The letter from the BBC Chair states Edwards had “behaved in bad faith”. To say the least…
A reminder: BBC boss Tim Davie did know of Huw’s arrest in November over having Category A images of children, though continued to pay him till his resignation in April. Still, the question remains: Will the BBC cut his taxpayer-funded £300,000 pension?
The liberal elite have swiftly sought to shut down any discourse on ‘two-tier’ policing in the wake of the recent riots. Elon Musk has been doing a good job riling up the left with his #TwoTierKeir campaign, which The Guardian dismissed as a “myth.” The paper has gone to great lengths to say that any argument of police behaving inconsistently towards different individuals is a “far-right” fabrication. Though a quick look through the archives show they’ve not always held that view…
The Guardian has a noble history of pointing out two-tier policing. Just last year, they blasted the “institutional misogyny, racism, and homophobia [that] persists within the Met, Britain’s biggest police force.” In another article, they claimed that UK police officers were inherently biased, stating, “Police are far more likely to use a Taser electrical weapon against black people due to structural and institutional racism.” Two-tier reporting?
The armageddon of mass far right protests supposedly due to take place across Britain last night came to… absolutely nothing whatsoever. As Sky News’s long-serving crime reporter Martin Brunt put it:
“There’s no evidence yet that our teams on the ground have seen any far right activity – the counter protests have got no protests to counter.”
As the night wore on, special coverage arranged by the main broadcasters – which sent cameras across the country, dispatching correspondents and TV helicopters far and wide – became increasingly embarrassing. An example from ITV’s Paul Brand summed up the position:
In all honesty there seems to be very little purpose to the gathering here. You hear the odd word about immigration but most people seem to have come out for a look and to see if anything kicks off. A fair bit of drinking and low level aggro but no major unrest.
— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) August 7, 2024
As news hounds desperately tried to spot the slightest hint of far-right activity, there was less attention on the developments of the past few days, including:
As it turned out, the threat turned out not to be in evidence. Were rioters just taking the night off, or is this much-hyped episode of disorder now over?
Raging lefty James O’Brien has apologised to Nigel Farage after labelling the recent riots “the Farage Riots” yesterday. The virtue-signalling presenter now says it was “a slip of the tongue” following his usual tirade against Farage…
Farage fact-checked the coinage of the phrase, pointing out he has “never encouraged non-democratic means.” Now James, who isn’t even a real radio disc-jockey, has issued a characteristically whiny response: “Did I call them the Farage Riots? I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry, I should have called them the Farige Riots. I apologise.” An insincere apology as expected from the morally righteous O’Brien…
Elon Musk is doing a great job winding up Britain’s hard left by maintaining freedom of speech on X, formerly Twitter. It hasn’t escaped the notice of some of the platform’s pub bores…
Here’s tin-foil hat merchant and Byline Media supremo Peter Jukes comparing the platform to Nazi occupied Paris. Twitter is as bad as Nazi occupied Paris, of course it is Peter…
I think of Musk’s horrific version of Twitter a bit like Paris under Nazi occupation. Are you going to give up the city and community you were part of? Some of course suck up and collaborate. Others understandably flee. But some stay, and wait and work for liberation
— Peter Jukes (@peterjukes) August 6, 2024
Times Radio‘s Calum Macdonald lamented that the un-policed “town square is burning“. He may be community noted for this one…
“The town square is burning. There is no policing of Elon Musk’s town square.”@CalumAM reflects on the current state of social media and the UK riots.
📻https://t.co/lf4mH306Vw | #TimesRadio pic.twitter.com/V0VrOj8Ivb
— Times Radio (@TimesRadio) August 7, 2024
Trust the metropolitan elitist Lewis Goodall to have a stab at the platform. Not like he’s got it wrong before…
“If Musk created X now, the way it is, would we in the media use it? No! we wouldn’t touch it a barge pole.”
Are unmediated platforms like X beyond redemption – and should we stop using it?@lewis_goodall | @jonsopel pic.twitter.com/LJZQa97TPl
— The News Agents (@TheNewsAgents) August 6, 2024
Meanwhile leftie lawyer Jessica Simor, supposedly a human rights advocate, is urging Keir Starmer to literally ban Twitter in the UK with a ‘one line bill’ in Parliament:
Pass a short Bill closing Twitter down in the U.K. @Keir_Starmer? There is more than enough reason to do so. One of the richest men in the world is using his platform to cause serious harm – putting lives & communities at risk. @YvetteCooperMP @lisanandy
— Jessica Simor KC (@JMPSimor) August 6, 2024
She has repeatedly advocated for the site to be closed down, which would bring the UK into line with authoritarian states which block the site like China, Iran and North Korea. Would the one line bill be 140 characters or less?
Another day, another episode of BBC Verify failing to mark its own homework. This morning they published an article covering a shocking video of men charging towards a silver BMW, forcing open its doors, and attacking those inside. BBC Verify were quick to identify those involved: an “angry crowd of white men” attacking people of “Asian heritage”. Only problem is they appear to have ‘mis-spoke’ when labelling the attacked…
Humberside Police had to tell the BBC that the people targeted by the “white angry men” were actually Eastern European, not Asian, prompting the fact-checker site to swiftly update its headline. Considering the division has 63 people with combined salary costs of £3.2 million, one would assume they were more thorough when covering contentious issues like this…
Speaking to Sky News off the back of Rachel Reeves’ Air Passenger Duty hike, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said:
“Labour is dependent on those Red Wall seats, and yet every move she makes poisons economic growth and damages the UK’s recovery… it’s the Chancellor who stumbles from policy misstep to policy misstep… I think her policy decisions are incredibly stupid.”