[Bones McCoy]

36 hours in the life of the BBC

Yesterday morning, the successful launch of the Peregrine lander moonshot was being trumpeted as BA-WITTISH!!11!

Today, as it nears its destiny with certain oblivion, it has become exclusively American. Funny that ...

Like a spacefaring Andy Murray.

[satnav]

On BBC Breakfast this morning a reporter was trying to create something of a false narrative prior to Nicola Sturgeon's appearance at the COVID inquiry. The reporter showed a graph which suggested that excess deaths in England were only slightly higher than in Scotland despite the fact that lockdowns in Scotland were tougher. The problem with such a crude comparison is that the population in Scotland is older than the population of England and rates of poverty in Scotland are higher than in England so you would expect excess death rates in Scotland to be higher than in England.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Are you sure the measure wasn't excess deaths? According to this, England and Scotland very similar, Wales and NI were lower.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67981188

[Oboogie]

On BBC Breakfast this morning a reporter was trying to create something of a false narrative prior to Nicola Sturgeon's appearance at the COVID inquiry. The reporter showed a graph which suggested that excess deaths in England were only slightly higher than in Scotland despite the fact that lockdowns in Scotland were tougher. The problem with such a crude comparison is that the population in Scotland is older than the population of England and rates of poverty in Scotland are higher than in England so you would expect excess death rates in Scotland to be higher than in England.

It was age-adjusted (see Tubby's post).

[The Weeping Angel]

This person worked at the BBC.

https://deadline.com/2024/02/bbc-antise ... 235810858/

EXCLUSIVE: A senior BBC schedule co-ordinator has been called out for a string of antisemitic Facebook posts in which she referred to the “holohoax” and peddled extreme conspiracy theories.

Deadline understands that the BBC has been notified of the posts made by Dawn Queva, a Senior Scheduling Co-ordinator & Playout Planner at BBC Three, and her line manager has been informed. While not commenting on individual staff members, the BBC said it “does not tolerate anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, or any form of abuse, and we take any such allegations seriously and take appropriate disciplinary action wherever necessary.”

Queva’s posts, which have still not been taken down, are of a rambling and vitriolic nature, and she refers to the “holohoax” and “AshkeNazis,” the latter of which is a play on the word ‘ashkenazi,’ meaning Jews who descend from those who lived in Central or Eastern Europe.

One refers to “a bunch of subcontinental European melanin recessive CaucAsian japhetic AshkeNazi who have no None zero zilch blood connection to the land of Palestine or Israel historically.”

Another brands Jewish people a “subcontinental Caucasian invader coloniser species with zero indigenous/blood.” A third brings up the conspiracy of the Rothschilds and refers to the Holocaust as the “holohoax,” accusing the Jews of “buying and selling those who kidnap from Africa,” amongst other wide-ranging accusations.

“The Zionist genocidal land squatting so called Jew’ irrespective of the fact that The UKKK and Amerikkka gave away land they had no god given right to a people who have no god given right to,” adds another post. Read screenshots below.

[Bones McCoy]

Because, sometimes you can just try too hard.

[Yug]

We need the "Declining Standards" thread back for the BBC. Look at this bloody headline.

Unexploded WW2 found and detonated on Jersey's east coast

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe ... 703591.amp

That's right, ladies and germs. A whole world war was found on a beach in Jersey.