brexit negging when yr mandate is is trash: or further chronicles of a garbage-fire

^ Really good to hear this. Just going for it for once.

I mean "odd" about the bbc as in hypocritical really, in that privatisation is their own worst nightmare - yet they don't care how ruinous it has been to our NHS + Railway networks etc

The BBC has been part privatized for years - can't remember the exact percentage of programming that it's obliged to commission from external producers but it's significant

So which part of it justifies the license fee? I wouldn't complain about paying a much reduced radio license, political bias and all. But I barely watch anything on the BBC tv these days.

still enjoy the odd BBC4 documentary on the occasional night when it's not wall to wall boomer music shit

this story on a high level nhs meeting in the guardian:

Chief executives present say that they were divided into four regional groups, covering the south and north of England, London, and the Midlands and east of the country, each of which held a separate session with a senior NHS England official.

Paul Watson, NHS England’s regional director for the Midlands and east of England, then encouraged those in the group he was leading to chant “we can do it” as part of a renewed effort to improve their A&E performance. Hunt and Stevens are not thought to have been at that session; nor was Jim Mackie, chief executive of health service regulator NHS Improvement, who jointly convened the meeting with Hunt and Stevens.

One chief executive said: “It was awful – the worst meeting I’ve been at in my entire career. Watson said: ‘Do you want the 40-slide version of our message or the four-word version?’ Everyone wanted the four-word version, obviously.

“He then said ‘I want you to all chant ‘we...can...do...this’. It was awful, patronising and unhelpful, and came straight after the whole group had just been shouted at over A&E target performance and told that we were all failing and putting patient safety at risk.”

According to the Health Service Journal, which revealed what had happened at the meeting, Watson told trust bosses that they were initially chanting too quietly and that they should chant the slogan again but louder, and “take the roof off” with the noise.

Watson’s use of the tactic has prompted complaints from within the NHS that the chanting was “Bob the Builder for NHS leaders”, after the children’s TV character Bob the Builder with his “Can we fix this? Yes we can” catchphrase. Another HSJ reader posted a comment on its website saying: “More akin to North Korea than the NHS”.

The BBC has been part privatized for years - can't remember the exact percentage of programming that it's obliged to commission from external producers but it's significant

there is now a fixed percentage of programming that must be competed between in-house teams and indies but theoretically in-house teams could win all the work. it causes headaches for hiring and management but ultimately i think it's good that this 800-pound gorilla contributes to the livelihood of an independent production sector, which would barely exist otherwise, through no fault of its own.

more of a problem in my eyes is the outsourcing of catering and janitorial work at the BBC. there is no need for the BBC to stimulate the commercial catering sector.

The current roster of TV history show presenters are terrible imo. I think the last decent one I saw was Bartlett's The Plantagenets. But on R4 recently there was the excellent Bridget Kendall fronted Cold War Stories. Ken Burns' Vietnam on BBC4 tonight, more boomer catnip.

yeah there was a thing in the guardian about the unjustness of the BBC replacing the radio Front Row presenters with people who didn't even seem to like the arts in any significant way on the TV version.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/sep/24/tv-front-row-radio-4-bbc-culture-arts-version

even when it comes to history/culture/science/arts tv programming, it's all seems to be about window dressing with BBC tv. I mean I slag the fuck out of Ken Burns, but tbf at least even his shows are heavily content driven, rather than about "personalities".

the front row telly show does seem to be very misjudged

I loathe Giles Coren. He's the Giles I hate the most.

tbf the other one is spelt with a y

but g coren is abysmal yes

thanks Tracer i figured you'd know the actual details and i take your points

Labour preparing communist wargames for financial chaos if Corbyn wins power

that guy is king idiot of the idiot kingdom that is twitter

Lord Mountbatten's jigsaw cadaver, suddenly starts twitching and trying to rebuild itself.

it's encouraging to see push-back on Kinnock's nonsense from other prominent figures on the Labour right (McGovern is chair of Progress)

Evidence, please @SKinnock. https://t.co/UOzCMogUEG

— Alison McGovern (@Alison_McGovern) September 26, 2017

(Kinnock's response was "Basic law of supply and demand")

(she's responding to an assertion by Kinnock that immigration is part of the reason why wages have stagnated)

this corbyn speech just feels like zing after zing - so much material to work with.

An hour, and he's much better at this now.

Conclusive proof that Jeremy Corbyn is a dangerous extremist. pic.twitter.com/Whc9gqSlcj

— Daniel Blake's Vest (@WarmongerHodges) September 24, 2017

pictured Theresa May doing that and it went into some kind of Of Mice and Men scenario

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlxWPd5JO_M
Theresa May interacting with a disabled person.

I thought Trump sucked

btw your mountbatten joke reminded me I've had this open in a tab for like two weeks

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/29/the-great-divide-books-dalrymple

Was just talking about the partition the other day with a social worker whose well-educated granddad fled India to work in the mills of West Yorkshire. With it's 70th anniversary just passed recently, there was quite a grueling series on R4, with witnesses talking about becoming quite inured to the sight of corpses everywhere: in the streets, floating down the river etc..

There was one very troubling Partition account that really stuck in my mind. It was about the "ghost trains", which were passenger trains that were full of corpses, pulling into a station to be loaded onto the platform.

I too have now opened that NY'er piece in a tab, ty Tombot.

I know virtually nothing about Mountbatten. He sure got served in the end.

Is this the thread for discussing the Canary shitting themselves in public again?

Making shit up about Keunsberg? There is definitely something unsavoury + disproportionate about the hate dished out + the way a lot of men (or fucking numpts on Twitter that retweet Canary garbage) seem convinced that she is even more Tory than the highly impartial wanker trio of Humphrys + Robinson + Marr.

every time i read a Canary headline i turn a little more Tory

for real. I'd rather read Peter Hitchens railing against cannabis, tbh I often do!

You wrote an erotic story about Tony Blair’s penis. https://t.co/VqCaQUWgkV

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) September 27, 2017

Comment: The momentum in British politics is with Jeremy Corbyn. He must be stopped

Corbyn is gonna nationalise Harry potter and there is nothing you can do to stop him https://t.co/PVG03tCJx4

— Ayatollah Cumonme (@Phonycian) September 26, 2017

I hope J k is ok ;)

Listening now to this speech and LOL @ this zing at Dacre. Just awesome.

My god @ this standing ovation (and singing HB!) at Diane Abbott - really moving.

So many pricks:

that famous cult behavior of singing someone happy birthday pic.twitter.com/NybirSLAL5

— Brain Mentality (@ByYourLogic) September 27, 2017

The reflection on Grenfell are powerful, and his reading of Ben Okri's poem was good too.

the richard leonard for leadership campaign sending an email to the Telegraph with the subject "coment [sic] on latest jackie bailie pish"

Xxxpost . Yeah, in a way that was the most satisfying part of the speech. For years party leaders, both left and right, have felt obliged to kowtow to Murdoch/Dacre et al, who certainly have no interest in any progressive change. So to hear Corbyn essentially say IDGAF, you don't matter anymore and we don't need you is a victory of sorts.

https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/45364/We+have+to+make+sure+Marxism+never+succeeds++inside+the+Labour+right+rally+in+Brighton

watching cryptoTories cry and fume never gets any less satisfying

Only a couple of months back Yvette Cooper was plotting to replace Corbyn, now she cuts a desolate figure, doggedly struggling across a windswept plain in a Bela Tarr movie sort of sums up Labour Right rn!

Robinson will also urge the broadcaster to promote and celebrate its impartiality, potentially by publishing the BBC’s so-called “producers’ guidelines” that outlines how its news coverage should be impartial, and by revealing the discussions and decisions at editorial meetings.

Lol! Nick Robinson is obviously high on something in The Graun today. Skipped past all the "Alternative news sites waging guerrilla war on BBC" shit.

Laura K is nowhere near as bad at Robinson or Andrew Neil but BBC interviewers really needs to learn the difference between "impartiality" and "belligerently adopting every contrary bias at once".

In the weeks leading up to the general election, Robinson spent most of his time interviewing inarticulate people from the Labour Heartlands, who despised Corbyn and had abandoned Labour because of him. And repeat.

In the weeks leading up to the general election, Robinson the entire British media spent most of his their time interviewing inarticulate people from the Labour Heartlands, who despised Corbyn and had abandoned Labour because of him. And repeat.