Psamathe
Squire
Or raising the positive impacts on the economy (many independent reports), positive effects on care staffing, positive effects on NHS (Consultants, Drs, nurses, etc.), etc.
Let’s talk about BBC
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briantrumpet
Timewaster
They'd not try a headline news item from a proponent of immigration with no counter arguments.
Psamathe
Squire
Fixed that for you.
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Beebo
Legendary Member
Mitchell and Webb have had 11 sketches removed from Iplayer. Hardly Bernard Manning are they.
I have found one on YouTube. Prepare to be culturally offended.
It seems that you can’t make a joke about the absurdity of a tribe living in a garden centre any more. OK there are a few feathered headdresses and a silly accent, but who is getting offended by this?
View: https://youtu.be/6jzo6B34GWI?si=slYOaqAZxbUrEAlv
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6jdvpr30k8jo
I have found one on YouTube. Prepare to be culturally offended.
It seems that you can’t make a joke about the absurdity of a tribe living in a garden centre any more. OK there are a few feathered headdresses and a silly accent, but who is getting offended by this?
View: https://youtu.be/6jzo6B34GWI?si=slYOaqAZxbUrEAlv
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6jdvpr30k8jo
icowden
Pharaoh
Another one is the Gary Rhodes sketch where imaginary Gary seems to be offended that the date he is advising on is a gay date (punchline is that the other guy is being advised by imaginary Andy McNab). Presumably this was pulled as Rhodes has now died and it suggests he may have ben homophobic.
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Beebo
Legendary Member
This one is deliberately targeting exactly what the BBC is trying to avoid.
And if you can’t see the joke you are a fool.
View: https://youtu.be/MdJYFsr4pv4?si=DRue0kda-i0ow8t5
And if you can’t see the joke you are a fool.
View: https://youtu.be/MdJYFsr4pv4?si=DRue0kda-i0ow8t5
icowden
Pharaoh
And I think that's the one that they removed based on the "black face".
secretsqirrel
spiteful class warrior
In that sketch Webb looks like what Charlie Mullins thinks he looks like.
Just an observation….
Blazing Saddles
Well-Known Member
matticus
Legendary Member
Totally irrelevant, but this sentence could have been written a LOT more clearly:
Perhaps Mitchell and Webb's best known sketch, which sees them both dressed as Nazis while begging the question: "are we the baddies?", remains online.
Ian H
Pharaoh
Now you see it, now you don't.
bobzmyunkle
Guru
Sounds like the question might have been almost as stupid as the GB News viewers.
(Maybe uneducated would be a less prejorative term for the viewers - but let's not go all woke)
According to Ofcom’s latest research, 74pc of GB News viewers consider the channel to be trustworthy. That compares with 71pc for Sky News and 66pc for the BBC.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/09/23/ofcom-covering-data-gb-news-trusted-bbc/
(Maybe uneducated would be a less prejorative term for the viewers - but let's not go all woke)
According to Ofcom’s latest research, 74pc of GB News viewers consider the channel to be trustworthy. That compares with 71pc for Sky News and 66pc for the BBC.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/09/23/ofcom-covering-data-gb-news-trusted-bbc/
First Aspect
Squire
That's surely because GB news is so fragrantly partisan that fewer people with balanced views even bother to watch.
How many of About the Light's readership think its then gospel truth?
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briantrumpet
Timewaster
Re Daniel Thomas and yesterday's events at Gosport & in the Channel, here's what the Telegraph reported
and here's what the BBC reported:
and here's what the BBC reported:
briantrumpet
Timewaster
Forgetting his politics for the moment, this is just terrible writing, let alone for the BBC's Political Editor. "Put like that"? You put it like that, Mason! His level is more like Hello!
