Off Topic Coronavirus and NOTHING to do with football thread

refreshing read

 

The BBC are actively avoiding it - or, in the words of Alastair Campbell, have "filed it in the Michelle Mone drawer".

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bbc-silence-on-nadhim-zahawi-tax-probe-deafening-342060/

 

Lester Piggott went to jail for less. And jail-time, say 3 years, and being barred from ever holding office, is the minimum.
He'd probably get 10 years in Iceland. He'd possibly be executed in Vietnam...

 

Assassinated if he came up here.

 

I'll pay for the taxi...

 

He can afford his own - make him pay. Although he'd probably submit an expenses claim for it before making the journey.

 

I don't know if links to Tik Tok videos work on here, but I guess I'll find out by pressing the 'post reply' button.

Has anyone seen the email mentioned in this - or know anything about what the guy is claiming?

https://www.tiktok.com/@..reece.0/video/7190246978373045510?_r=1&_t=8ZA0vrHLLuQ

 

mmm..... worrying eh

 

Does this have something to do with this?

The BBC has apologized for not properly challenging the views of a vaccine skeptic, who claimed that Covid jabs cause heart damage during an interview on BBC News.

In a statement on Thursday, the UK broadcaster said it should have been better prepared for a live exchange with Dr Aseem Malhotra given his history of promoting vaccine hesitancy.

The interview took place on the BBC News channel last Friday, when Malhotra hijacked a conversation about cholesterol medication to claim that coronavirus vaccines “carry a cardiovascular risk.”

The BBC received 253 complaints from viewers about the BBC News channel interview. The corporation said Malhotra’s claims were rebutted later in on Friday morning by Professor Peter Openshaw, a member of the UK Vaccine Network.

It did not stop Malhotra’s remarks from being celebrated by the anti-vax community, who said their views had been acknowledged by a mainstream media organization.

 

Royal Mail CEO getting a right royal roasting by MPs over his performance since taking over.

https://fb.watch/i9rbBFY710/

 

We can but hope...

 

Considering where we are today this is just damning.... the Govt failed in its duty.. . .and Bojo just a bare faced liar

 

Which is a shock.

 

You really hope people would see sense..

It would really help if our media was not so partisan......as people are taken in by its pigeon holing reporting...

 

Only if I can wipe my arse electronically.

 

The usual misinformation...... and british people think they are well informed.....When will they wake up and realise...............................

 

He has simply followed the tradition of many a politician really, but does seem to have turned it into an art form - a habit which both his successors have continued on. I may be biased, but his utterances on Scottish issues were around 70% lies, 20% gibberish and 10% pidgin Latin. Sadly, this has started to creep into the words of the opposition leader as well, who, as a replacement for Corbyn, has been as useful as used toilet paper.
The only improvement that Sunak has brought is that at least he speaks clearly - even if it is with a forked tongue

I think they are starting to - the readership of each and every newspaper has plummeted alarmingly since 2000. The strategy of moving online has hit a stumbling block too - as income from hard copy sales started to drop, they tried to address that via increased levels advertising. I get the impression that many people are now put off by having to constantly scroll past ads in the middle of articles and/or deal with pop-ups every time they turn a page digitally.
With social media increasingly taking over the role of newspapers, I'd say many people are going to be even less well-informed.

I don't know if this happens in England, but here the UK government provides newspapers with funds to employ journalists - that probably accounts for the pro-union stance of editors who are increasingly worried about falling income levels.

 

Every now and again, a newspaper does come up with something that TV is slow to report on. How long was it before the TV channels reported on Zahawi and his tax affairs after it became public knowledge? The Times has a piece showing that he has been misleading people for a long time now, and really should go.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...v?shareToken=6c4e69a7b492acae2e3756803e333a7a