I don’t think the same problems exist with world service tbf?
― gyac, Wednesday, October 23, 2019 9:43 AM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I don't think so either. But on WS you're one click away from BBCUK. Wondering what site you changed to now, Euler!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 07:50 (four years ago) link
xp - the pitch will be "we have the deal sorted out, we need a majority to push it through" - plus let's fund the NHS.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 07:50 (four years ago) link
(xp to comrade zebra)
Also Gyac, late to this but I really appreciated seeing the train tweets :) It was not in vain.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 07:51 (four years ago) link
I switched to a French site finally. But really I just want world news at a glance, not analysis but just headline-type stuff, preferably that says little about the USA (one thing that was annoying me about the BBC, too much about the current usa president who doesn't warrant my attention). if there's some other good world news site I'd be interested!
― L'assie (Euler), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 08:11 (four years ago) link
al-jazeera's pretty good
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 08:12 (four years ago) link
It is. Graun's international landing page is ok too.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 08:44 (four years ago) link
Jesus... 39 bodies found in Essex lorry container
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 08:45 (four years ago) link
Horrible.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 08:53 (four years ago) link
Fucking horrendous. There was a story last week about someone dying after falling from the cargo hold of a plane during landing too.
― gyac, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 08:58 (four years ago) link
RTÉ probably has the best English-language Brexit coverage (and Tony Connelly gets all the Brexit scoops first).
― gyac, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 09:00 (four years ago) link
euronews.com might suit you Euler
― nashwan, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 09:06 (four years ago) link
one thing that was annoying me about the BBC, too much about the current usa president who doesn't warrant my attention
This is a common complaint.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 09:21 (four years ago) link
BBC apologises after Andrew Marr suggested Priti Patel was 'laughing'The corporation received 222 complaints and now accepts Patel was not "smiling" but displaying her "natural expression"
The corporation received 222 complaints and now accepts Patel was not "smiling" but displaying her "natural expression"
ok
― conrad, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 09:59 (four years ago) link
resting giggle face
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 10:01 (four years ago) link
Oh, prithee.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 10:01 (four years ago) link
It is true that a smug smirk is her natural expression.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 10:12 (four years ago) link
Her attempts to look serious and considered after Marr made the comment were pretty funny.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 10:13 (four years ago) link
so i took yesterday afternoon and evening off politics and the internet? did anything happen?
― mark s, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 10:37 (four years ago) link
COME ON PROGRAMME MOTION U CUNT
― be goose, do crimes (||||||||), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 10:44 (four years ago) link
Corobyn and Johnson meeting to discuss new programme motion this morning
― stet, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 10:45 (four years ago) link
The FPBErs are going to love that.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 10:46 (four years ago) link
They are busy designing an app to show voters how not to vote Labour in their area to 'stop Brexit'.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 10:53 (four years ago) link
I'm so proud of my man Cronbyn finally getting to cause Brexit
― calzino, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:03 (four years ago) link
I see Boris is doing, what, his second pmqs since July?
Johnson opens with the horrible news that 39 bodies have been found in a lorry in Essex. He says it is an awful tragedy.Labour MP Rupa Huq asks him why he doesn’t get rid of Dominic Cummings. Johnson says he receives excellent advice from his advisers and he takes full responsibility for everything the government does.
― gyac, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:15 (four years ago) link
BJ really does not ever answer a question, does he? All he does is say Cromryn supported the IRA all his life and that he's a threat to the union. Not a single answer.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:18 (four years ago) link
he can't even acknowledge how many fucking kids he has
― expedited frictionless convergences (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:19 (four years ago) link
Johnson opens with the horrible news that 39 bodies have been found in a lorry in Essex. He says it is an awful tragedy.
Presumably going to blame this on being in the EU and "uncontrolled" borders and will eventually make a joke about them like he did dead Libyans.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:23 (four years ago) link
I'm not watching this, but one quite meltish commentator has remarked that Corbyn is very composed + on his game today and Boris is a mess.
― calzino, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:27 (four years ago) link
A lone woman, standing up to a sea of cowardly, corrupt white men, is an entire mood. pic.twitter.com/4cVMOi3AGi— Lauren Rankin (@laurenarankin) October 16, 2019
Six white men stuck in the past, conspiring to wreck our future.#StopBrexit https://t.co/la9spWosab— Jo Swinson (@joswinson) October 23, 2019
I take my hat off to the women that have successfully transcended race when necessary
― anvil, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:29 (four years ago) link
PMQs has been like that for years, it's a complete waste of everyone's time.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:30 (four years ago) link
You're right, but LJ hasn't started the albums roll-out yet :-/
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:31 (four years ago) link
― gyac, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:35 (four years ago) link
Spencer?
https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/3/2016/03/103539.jpg
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:35 (four years ago) link
I think Lewis Goodall is right btw
Nah— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) October 23, 2019
― gyac, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:40 (four years ago) link
Must be a bad PMQS if LBC are sticking the knife in
Boris Johnson just told PMQs that "there will be no checks between Northern Ireland and GB" after Brexit.Except that under his deal, there will be. And Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay confirmed that yesterday. pic.twitter.com/TMc1zrvaq3— LBC (@LBC) October 23, 2019
― gyac, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:43 (four years ago) link
Obsessed with big John’s stray comma
#PMQs Jeremy Corbyn exposes Johnson’s incapability of mastering detail and his tendency to flounder & resort to shouty bluster & personal abuse when he fails to understand the questions let alone know the answers. He is an incompetent, embarrassment to the office he holds.— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) October 23, 2019
― gyac, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:44 (four years ago) link
Swinson is so white Dulux can't even use her to colour match Whiter than White Mist.
― calzino, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:44 (four years ago) link
Calz, are you thinking of Bonnie Greer? She’s very FPBE, true, but I’d never put her in as a full melt.
― coup de twat (suzy), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:44 (four years ago) link
swinson's actual influence over politics seems in direct inverse correlation to her messiah complex
― expedited frictionless convergences (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:45 (four years ago) link
xxperm .. that probably should be they can use her to...
xpno it's someone from Buzz Feed, but I might be slurring them as a melt just on the strength that they often take the piss out of corbyn!
― calzino, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:47 (four years ago) link
Oh! Bonnie said similar just now and she’s not one to make fun of him.
― coup de twat (suzy), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:49 (four years ago) link
hmm weird that a tory source would claim corbyn has no policy despite labour policy being pretty clear-cut, wonder what that's all about - anyway better just tweet that shit asap i guess
Tory source adds: Corbyn made clear he has no policy except more delays and to spend 2020 having referendums.So talks broke down pretty quickly then.— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) October 23, 2019
― expedited frictionless convergences (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:52 (four years ago) link
Let's not forget that turfing the LDs out of cabinet and replacing them with Tories marked an increase in the gender and ethnic diversity.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 12:07 (four years ago) link
Johnson and Rees-Mogg both have a (Trumplike) petulant streak that's a mile wide - Corbyn is too much of a straight shooter to exploit it, they should unleash Johnny Mac on them.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 12:08 (four years ago) link
paul "fair dos, just reporting what sources say" waugh
― conrad, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 12:09 (four years ago) link
in other news unite have triggered mr potato head MP and noise around salma yaqoob continues to grow
― be goose, do crimes (||||||||), Wednesday, 23 October 2019 12:09 (four years ago) link
hmm weird that a tory source would claim corbyn has no policy despite labour policy being pretty clear-cut, wonder what that's all about - anyway better just tweet that shit asap i guess🐦[Tory source adds: Corbyn made clear he has no policy except more delays and to spend 2020 having referendums.So talks broke down pretty quickly then.— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) October 23, 2019🕸]🐦
― gyac, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 12:10 (four years ago) link
― gyac, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 12:11 (four years ago) link
Ian "spud gun" Murray facing deselection is what they be talking about
― calzino, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 12:34 (four years ago) link