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Chris Williamson schools timid BBC interviewer on the meaning of genocide

Talking straight: Chris Williamson.

Congratulations to former Labour MP Chris Williamson for putting a BBC interviewer straight about what’s going on in Gaza in no uncertain terms.

Speaking after fellow Workers’ Party politician George Galloway won the Rochdale by-election, Chris – who is a personal friend of This Site – expressed his horror that the Labour Party was “facilitating” and “supporting genocide” by Israel against the civilian population of Gaza.

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The interviewer – possibly at the behest of some unseen producer’s voice in his earpiece – moved to silence this shocking revelation of the facts, and… it did not go well for him:

Good for you Chris. You are absolutely right.

Nobody who supports genocide deserves any consideration from right-minded, decent people. And that includes the leaders and MPs of the Labour Party.


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‘Breathtaking’ starts tonight. Here’s a new clip to set you up for it

By now you should be primed for the new ITV drama, Breathtaking, about the Covid-19 crisis, how it affected the NHS, and the nonsense that was coming from Boris Johnson’s Tory government at the same time.

It starts this evening (February 19), and ITV has released this clip to get you prepared for it:

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Joanne Froggatt and Dr Rachel Clarke talk ‘Breathtaking’

With the ITV drama Breathtaking, based on Dr Rachel Clarke’s memoir of the Covid-19 pandemic, screening tomorrow (February 19, 2024), the BBC’s Woman’s Hour interviewed the author and star Joanne Froggatt.

Listen to the interview via the link below (starting one minute and 40 seconds in), and then make an appointment to watch the show that could be the next Mr Bates vs the Post Office.

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Rochdale Parliamentary candidate George Galloway launches legal action over TV slurs

George Galloway: he knows his way around the law, so Rachel Johnson, Trevor Phillips and ITV may have a fight on their hands.

The host and pundits of a Sunday morning TV politics show appear to have taken on the wrong person.

Rachel Johnson, Trevor Phillips and Sky News, the channel broadcasting his show, have all been targeted by George Galloway, after this (allegedly) happened:

In fact, if true, it would be libel – and it seems that Mr Galloway, who has long been attacked under the same banner and has proved himself to be well up to the challenge of dismissing such accusations, intends to prove it.

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Some are delighted:

The case may rattle on for longer than the by-election campaign – which would be perfect for Mr Galloway because it will give him a chance to continue campaigning for Palestine in full view of the public, no matter who wins on February 29.

Did Rachel Johnson have the slightest inkling that this might happen, when she spoke on Trevor Phillips’s show?


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Will ‘Breathtaking’ do for the NHS what ‘Mr Bates’ did for sub-postmasters?

Fresh from the success of Mr Bates vs the Post Office, ITV is about to screen another drama based on real-life political developments.

Breathtaking is based on the diary of Dr Rachel Clarke – @doctor_oxford on ‘X’ – and aims to show the facts about what was happening in the NHS during the Covid-19 pandemic, contrasted with the Tory gaslighting of the public that was taking place at the same time.

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Peter Stefanovic has already seen it:

Here’s the trailer:

The BAFTA advance screening of the series was introduced by Michael Rosen, whose life was saved by NHS care after he contracted the virus – and it gave rise to an extraordinary coincidence:

Clearly, emotions are already running high around this new series.

As for Dr Clarke – her campaigning for an NHS that is able to do its job, free of the political interference that has restricted its abilities for more than a decade, continues. And she continues to inform us as the Tory government’s mismanagement steadily worsens the service we receive.

Here’s what she told us earlier this week:

Perhaps Breathtaking will remind us all of what we had to endure while the Tories were partying in Downing Street and giving away billions of pounds of public money to their friends for so-called “protective equipment” that simply wasn’t up to scratch.

In an election year, I’d say that makes it well worth watching.


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Rishi Sunak: worst prime minister on TV since Alec Douglas-Home?

Rishi Sunak on TV: at least he’s facing in the right direction in this image.

This Writer once saw a TV documentary about the 1964 general election campaign in which Labour’s Harold Wilson, easily the most intelligent person ever to have high office in the UK, walked all over then-Conservative prime minister Alec Douglas Home.

The reason? Home simply wasn’t good in front of a camera and Wilson was. The Tory looked awkward, sounded stiff and presented himself as someone who simply didn’t want to be bothered with people.

It’s possible that my interpretation of his campaign is coloured by the biases of the filmmakers, of course, but given the result of the election I doubt it.

Rishi Sunak looks like he’s going to be worse.

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To start with, he doesn’t seem even to understand that he needs to look into a TV camera – or at least face in the right direction – when he’s speaking to the public through it.

He fell at even that simple hurdle when he addressed the GB News People’s Forum on Monday, making his opening remarks with his back to the camera.

And from there it went downhill. There’s a Guardian review in the article below…

… but let’s go straight for the red meat (of Sunak’s jugular?) and watch Peter Stefanovic’s summary of everything that was wrong about Sunak’s TV time:

I’ve only got one full clip from the show – of when Sunak suggested his parents sent him to a private school because they had great aspirations for their children.

Labour’s Cat McKinnell called him out about it on ‘X’, although her words were clearly electioneering for her own party. Still, if you watch the clip, you can see what she means:

Here’s a more practical-minded response:

The verdicts afterward were damning. This one is kind in comparison with most:

The people invited to form the audience and ask the questions had all been chosen by the polling firm Survation which, it seems, had been asked to fill the room with Conservatives.

At least, they were Conservatives going in.

On the way out it was a different story, as we see here:

Only half of them came out saying they would still vote Tory.

Perhaps this is the most damning: a satirical poke at Sunak by suggesting his performance could become a segment on Would I Lie To You, with his part taken by legendary panellist Bob Mortimer:

We all thought Theresa May was shockingly bad, back in 2017.

Now we know we can look forward to a summer of seeing our prime minister running away, not only from his responsibilities but from TV cameras, the public and – most probably – the reality that he’s going to lose the election and probably his own place in Parliament.


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We’ve long known Boris Johnson stopped Russia-Ukraine peace. Why is it news now?

Boris Johnson and Vladimir Putin: it seems claims that Johnson flew to Kiev in April 2022, to scupper a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia, were true. For how many deaths does that make Johnson responsible?

Why is this news?

Russian President Vladimir Putin has given a television interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, in which he claimed – well, here’s someone who puts it better than I could:

Here’s a report that puts a little more meat on the bones:

But there’s one problem with the reporting here: all this was known, around a year and a half ago!

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This Site published an article about it – that, of course, hardly anybody read. It included this video clip, which provided a source for the information:

Some of you might pooh-pooh Jimmy Dore as a poor source of information, even though he was quoting another journalist – but in any case it seems the story has been confirmed by Putin himself.

Call him a poor source of information if you like, but how many separate sources do you need before this claim becomes credible?

I think Boris Johnson has some serious questions to answer. Again.


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Israeli spokesman demands UK reporter lose her job. Will Sky News cave in?

Heated: the interview was tense, but now Danny Danon (right) thinks he can bully Sky News into sacking Belle Donati (left) – or forcing her to resign.

A prominent member of the Israeli government has demanded the resignation of Sky News anchor Belle Donati after she apparently compared Israel’s genocide in Gaza with the Nazi Holocaust.

Here’s his post on ‘X’, containing his letter to David Rhodes, Executive Chairman of Sky News:

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Here’s the segment of Ms Donati’s interview with him to which Danon objected. In it, he was heard to suggest that Palestinians may “voluntarily” migrate to another country, outside Gaza, and she responded that such migration was voluntary in the same way that any migration of Jews under Nazi rule during the Holocaust may have been:

That’s the anti-Semitism to which Danon was referring – a legitimate comparison between the forced removal of Palestinians from their homes in Gaza after Israel’s invasion and the forced removal of Jews from their homes in Germany and other countries invaded by the Nazis.

The parallel is not inappropriate; it makes sense. In fact, before Nazi Germany started murdering Jews, it encouraged them to leave the country. Many went to what was then known as British Mandate Palestine. The Israeli government simply started murdering Palestinians before suggesting their fellow Gazans should leave.

Fahad Ansari posted on ‘X’:

“If you don’t want Israeli policies to be compared to those of the Nazis, stop replicating them. It’s those who are promoting the current genocide in Gaza that need to be held to account, not the few courageous journalists who try to hold the perpetrators and propagandists to account.”

So Danon’s demand is unfair on a factual basis. It is also unfair on a political basis, as Novara Media‘s Aaron Bastani posted on ‘X’:

“An absolutely extraordinary intervention. It’s not for overseas political figures to determine legitimate politicians and journalists in this country. That’s something quite a lot of our establishment (in both politics & the media) appears to have forgotten (when it suits them).”

And what’s Sky News going to do?

Well, we all know what should happen, right?

To Sky News: please do the decent thing and give these Israeli bully-boys the finger.


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Tory idiot Gullis didn’t watch #PostOfficeScandal drama. Paw Patrol was his level

Jonathan Gullis (the beardie weirdie without a mask, behind Boris Johnson): his original claim to fame was as a PMQs heckler, shouting stupidity at the Labour benches. It seems he cannot restrain himself from uttering silly nonsense. The public should expect better.

What an insult to two of the sub-postmasters who were instrumental in getting the Horizon software scandal into the public eye – and, indeed, the courts – to have the matter discussed by Tory numbskull Jonathan Gullis.

Here’s the situation:

Evidence was heard from Alan Bates (the Mr Bates of Mr Bates vs The Post Office) and Jo Hamilton, who was also depicted in the drama.

He did what?

He joked about watching Paw Patrol?

For context, Mr Bates had just said people were dying while waiting for compensation. It was amid such contributions that Gullis slipped his extremely ill-considered contribution.

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The social media were quick to provide the kind of well-deserved responses that, no doubt, Mr Bates and Ms Hamilton were too polite to make at the hearing:

It says everything about the state of the UK today that upstanding people like Mr Bates and Ms Hamilton can be wrongly accused – and in some cases convicted – of crimes, and then have to listen to the childishness of people like this.

The sooner time-wasting ignoramuses like Gullis are removed from Parliament, the better.


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Watch Ian Hislop SHREDDING Tory Jake Berry over the #PostOfficeScandal

Ian Hislop: look at the disdain on his face as he addresses the claims flowing from Jake Berry.

Here’s something that is a joy to see: Ian Hislop giving Tory Party chairman Jake Berry the verbal kicking of his life on Robert Peston’s politics show.

Hislop was there to talk about the Post Office Scandal and the fact that only now – five years after the court judgment dramatised in Mr Bates vs The Post Office – the Conservative government has been bothered to lift a finger to exonerate and compensate the sub-postmasters who were falsely accused of theft.

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He explained his opinion here:

“The judicial system and the government preferred to listen to corporate bodies than to ordinary people.”

For This Writer – and I’ve been in a court case in which the judge preferred to listen to a so-called pillar of the Establishment rather than the ordinary person – this suggests that justice is deeply compromised.

Judges should not be swayed by the position in society of the people on two different sides of a court case. Their only concern should be the evidence. If they cannot detach themselves from such considerations, then they should not put themselves in a position to judge other people; their judgement would be impaired from the outset.

Also: “Two things tipped this – this drama, and the fact that there is an election.” Yes. Politicians are concerned that they need to be seen to be helping ordinary people because there will be a general election this year.

The implication is that, if there wasn’t an election this year and there was likely to be time for the public to forget about this issue, the politicians wouldn’t give two hoots about the injustice done to hundreds of sub-postmasters. Remember that when you’re deciding to vote Labour or Tory or for someone else!

Hislop then went on to the main event – verbally tearing strips off of Berry before our eyes. Watch:

The first point he makes is a bombshell: for the first time, someone is giving us a reason the Post Office ignored the sub-postmasters and insisted that there was nothing wrong with the faulty Horizon software provided by Fujitsu. “They were incentivised to make money for the Post Office.” Was that really Paula Vennells’s reason for ruining the lives of hundreds – thousands – of people?

“That led to ignoring what was going on in the hope of … better remuneration.” So the sub-postmasters were thrown under a bus so Vennells and her fellows could take home a better paycheque at the end of the month? If this is true, then not only are the government of the day (which goes right up to now) at fault for hiring people who thought that way but the Church of England as well, for taking Vennells on as a vicar (and is it true she was considered for promotion to be a bishop?)

“All of them should have to pay those bonuses back.” Unquestionably. Who are these people? Should we just target everybody at the Post Office who was paid a bonus related to this matter? Can that be tracked? What about Fujitsu staff who worked on it?

Host Robert Peston points out that there is no mechanism for such clawback in UK law, and Berry suggests taking back “their massive taxpayer-funded pensions”. Hislop then wants to know why Berry and the Tories couldn’t do it “so long ago?” Having been told for their entire campaigning life that it’s a difficult, time-consuming and expensive matter, the sub-postmasters were told yesterday (January 10) that suddenly it isn’t.

As Hislop says: “It is absolutely fatuous for this government to claim, ‘Hey, we’re really acting now.’ Did nothing!”

Berry tried to claim that Hislop was talking nonsense (but this is clearly untrue. We know the government did nothing until yesterday).

As the programme’s theme tune started playing, Berry was trying to claim that £130 million had been paid out to the victims of the scandal since 2019 – but was this due to government action or was the government forced to pay because it is the sole shareholder in the post office?

Whatever the facts, it was a joy to watch – and we already know from Alan Bates (the Mr Bates in the title of Mr Bates vs The Post Office) that many victims will not be satisfied with the compensation plans announced yesterday.


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