>The BBC has announced that it plans to stop airing CBBC and BBC Four as traditional broadcast channels.

>Director-general Tim Davie announced the content of these networks will continue to be produced and made available for online platforms. This means they would only be available on BBC iPlayer, with Radio 4 Extra moving to BBC Sounds, rather than via their traditional broadcast outlets.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-61591674

>>38511
Don't worry, they'll probably be back in a few years.

I've probably said here before that if they had completely free rein, the BBC's broadcast channels would only contain live and topical content. The way people consume media has changed massively this century, and the BBC would rather not have linear channels when they could just put all their content online and let people have at it. As >>36671 points out, they had to fight just to get the four-week catch-up they started out with, let alone being able to retain an entire series as it aired.

>>38511
I can't believe one of my favourite TV channels is being taken off air, despite being home to some of the cleverest and most intellectually stimulating content in all of broadcast media. And they're also getting rid of BBC Four.

If BBC Four isn't a proper channel anymore, staying hotels will be much more dull. You'll have to watch the typical shite like Gogglebox, instead of a documentary about the history of vaginas in classical art you'd otherwise never have bothered with.

I wanted BBC 3 back for years so I'm very sorry. If I knew Meet the Khans, a show in which a barely literate man hurtles towards dementia like a spacecraft on reentry as his wife accepts self-respect really does have a price tag, would cost us the entirety of BBC 4, I would have reconsidered my position.

>The Chicken King

>>38485
>>38486
I don't see how a windfall tax would address the deep cutting supply chain issues across the whole economy. Or that supply has recovered sufficiently from lockdown lows to make sense that there is a conspiracy at work and not instead a logistical delay exacerbated by geopolitical issues and the nature of selling to the highest bidder in a global marketplace.

It also doesn't quite explain the fertiliser and import challenges snarling the food sector. Nor does it explain how the UK government will artificially control price on a globally traded commodity. Or the inflationary pressures driven by QE and labour will decrease. In fact it doesn't say all that much at all about it, does it, greenie-beanie.

>>38491

On one level I could echo your sentiments; but on another level, even though I'm doing "just fine" in relative terms to the people who are really struggling, it's hard not to be pissed off with all of this.

In absolute terms I'm earning double what I made when I was a youth starting out my first job. I've got my own home and I have a decent amount of disposable income to save up and buy expensive fancy toys, or go on holiday if I wanted to, or whatever. But if things keep up the way they are going, that won't be the case any more, and eventually I'll end up back to square one, indeed, quite possibly worse off because as least when I was 18, I was living at home and didn't have the bills to pay.

That's the part that's anxiety inducing and scary about it. I've worked my arse off the last ten years to better myself and get into a decent job with a job somewhere remotely near the median income, and it's only over the last couple of years I've actually seen my income enter the realms of "comfortable". But I'm staring at a future where all that hard work just gets wiped away by forces outside of my control.

And of course the thing is that for the people who have been stuck on the bottom rung all along, for whom things were already shite in 2008, it's only got continually worse year on year; and before long it'll be positively Dickensian. There's only so long you can handwave it away and say that it's fine, even if people are poor in Britain they're still okay in global terms, but that's just increasingly less true. There's going to be families out there subject to frankly third world conditions, the only difference is we have giant financial institutions who are happy to keep fancy gadgets in their hands for £30 a month through it all and then the upper class can just go "Well look, they have smart phones, obviously they're not that poor!"

>>38491

People don't think in absolute terms, they think in relative terms. The average household is going to be at least £2,000 a year worse off, probably more. That's a total disaster if you're genuinely living hand-to-mouth, but it's still pretty unpleasant if you're basically doing OK. Think about how delighted most people would be if they won two grand on a scratchcard - it's not a life-changing sum of money, but it might pay off your credit card debt or buy a couple of holidays or a bumper Christmas for the kids. We've all won an anti-scratchcard for minus £2,000 and it's a kick in the bollocks.

I can't say I've noticed the impact and I'm sure there are others in the same boat, but at an earlier point in my life I would have been absolutely doing my nut about it; not because I would have been made destitute, but because I'd have been forced to give up a lot of ordinary comforts. £40 a week would have been the difference between feeling financially comfortable and constantly worrying about making it to payday. There's a vast psychological difference between having a little bit of spare cash and not quite having enough.

The government are going to have to reckon with the fact that most people's lives are getting noticeably worse because of the cost of living. Most people are going to experience the stress of having to cut back, having to pinch pennies, having to choose what to give up.

>>38496

What the fuck are you on about mate? Of course a windfall tax on oil and gas companies won't fix a bunch of unrelated issues, but it could fund a sufficient subsidy to ensure that people don't freeze to death this winter.

>The end of fish and chips? Rising prices threaten a British tradition

>Fish and chips in hand, Prime Minister Boris Johnson once promised to "build back batter" from the pandemic. Now though, rising prices are veering Britain's economy further off course. A third of fish and chip shops are at risk of going bust this year due to a "perfect storm" of price pressures, according to insolvency firm Company Debt. In just a year, prices for Britain's favourite fish - cod and haddock - are up 75%, sunflower oil is up 60%, and flour is up 40%, Company Debt said. Inflation reached a 40-year peak of 9% in April, the highest in the G7, and is projected to rise further. British consumers are more pessimistic than peers in Europe, leading to criticism of both government and Bank of England efforts to keep a lid on the cost of living. Cod and chips in Singh's shop now costs 9.50 pounds, compared to 7.95 pounds a year ago. And Singh said if he passed on all the higher costs, the price would be closer to 11 pounds.

>Battered fish and fried chips, have fuelled Britons since the combination was invented 160 years ago. The meal is such a staple that unlike other food in Britain, it was not rationed during the world wars. Chippies, with their distinctive smell of oil and vinegar, remain a presence in most towns. Some of the recent difficulties for fish and chip shops began after Brexit, distant-waters trawler company UK Fisheries said, estimating that the amount of Arctic cod Britain is allowed to catch in 2022 reduced to around 40% of what it was before leaving the European Union. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has driven up fuel and electricity prices, further increasing the cost of catching, and frying, fish. The war has sent cooking oil, fertiliser and flour prices higher too.

>Cod and haddock are sourced in the Barents Sea, north of Norway and Russia, and the war has heightened uncertainty over those supplies. In March, the British government listed Russian white fish as among goods to be hit with a 35% tariff as part of sanctions in response to the invasion of Ukraine. It has paused the move, for now, while the impact is investigated. Sunflower oil is the principle agricultural commodity the UK imports from Ukraine and the government says it is working to substitute it with other vegetable oils: for instance, receiving extra rapeseed shipments from Australia after a strong harvest there.

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/end-fish-chips-rising-prices-threaten-british-tradition-2022-05-26/

It's strange that for an island nation I don't think we really eat fish anymore. All you'd really need to do is take tuna away and we'd be living off sushi and squid rings.

>>38504

Quite frankly I think you're seeing a bit of what you want to see. I'm fairly sure most people are angry about both of those things, but the hypocrisy just adds insult to injury.

Besides that there's the fact that what he did with the parties is bang to rights breaking the law; whereas while it's absolutely criminal that our government cocked up the response how they did, I don't think there's much realistic prospect we'll see them held to account for it.

>>38504

I know what you mean and I think you're right, but I reckon a lot of people (still, somehow) find it more difficult to parse how Covid works and why a lacklustre, or complete lack of response in the early months did so much damage. Even people who understand this still would have difficulty quantifying how many lives a competent response would have saved. And on top of that, every country suffered pretty badly in this crisis, there's only a few standouts that did everything mostly right, and they weren't particularly highlighted in the press because a load of local dead people sell a lot more papers than New Zealand having quite an alright time all the way across the other side of the planet.

But it's very, very easy to get your head around "this person did something while I wasn't allowed to" because it's something we experience daily. I can't picture or even really fathom a hundred thousand dead bodies, despite intellectually knowing the weight of that, but I can absolutely feel a personal injustice done to me by an individual, because that's the sort of thing that protects us daily.

I don't know if I've particularly articulated my point here very well, I think it's more than personal entitlement, it's a lack of seeing the bigger picture.

>>38507

Plus, even though yes, it's almost certainly the governments poor response that lead to Sharon's mum dying alone in hospital, there's no way to be completely sure the virus wouldn't have got her anyway. There's no way to prove or disprove it on an individual level. What is very much provable though, is that Sharon's mum died alone in hospital because of a rule made by a man who refused to follow it himself. I get it. I don't particularly blame anyone for feeling this way.

Plus, as >>38506 says, I'm not sure I believe that people are only angry about the latter issue. It's just easier to get angry about.

>>38504

Anyone attacking Johnson needs to tailor their attacks to the beliefs of people who still support Johnson. These people are complete fuckwits. Everyone has already made up their minds about how he handled the pandemic, but some people might be open to persuasion that the arrogant Etonian who doesn't care about anyone is in fact an arrogant Etonian who doesn't care about anyone.

I was very pro-lockdowns and very anti-hypocrisy. Also, coronavirus didn't kill any of my family, although it did almost entirely wipe out the family of one of my dearest friends. So the argument of watching your relatives die doesn't really apply to me, and nor does the argument that this bastard in Downing Street cruelly inflicted public safety measures on us like a vicious psychopath while he himself ignored the rules. He shouldn't have ignored the rules because nobody should have. But already it feel like anger about the hypocrisy is the only thing everyone agrees with me on.

>>38467

>>38468

I'm not surprised that being a fingerman you deserve being pointed at, scorned, and deservedly a comeuppance with clenched fingers.

>>38466
Does he have incredibly pointy fingernails, or is that her hand? It looks horrifying either way. If I was the original wife, I would leave just to avoid getting my eyes sliced open like Un Chien Andalou.

>>38467>>38470
I'm not sure what relevance the ugly Hitchens brother has to do with this. Given his opinions on the western interventions that took place before his death, I doubt he'd oppose the current stance NATO and pals have taken.

>>38472
>the ugly Hitchens brother

Hahahahahahaaaaa.

>>38456
Those poor innocent lads,it must have been awful to be fitted up for a murder that they totally didn't do and definitely weren't recorded boasting about.

>>38457

Your ignorance of the justice system is not an excuse for the press to create narratives based around unresolved cases.

>>38458

It couldn't be done without people willing to pay money to read all about it.

>>38459

I'd pay money to watch you get buggered by an elephant against your will, that doesn't particularly mean it should be allowed.

>>38458
You'll notice he was neither a rich person nor an MP, so the press ran with his name with glee, unlike the mysterious bribe facilitator ZXC or the Tory rapists Mark Francois and Andrew Rosindell.

>>38416
I don't think anyone defends stealing, or misleading people into thinking they are donating, charitable funds. I think you'd be lucky to start a fight over this, daftlad.

>>38416
I think it's been well established by now that BLM (and BLM UK) as an organisation is a joke and BLM as a movement tries to distance itself from it.

Captain Tom's daughter might get a few ideas.

>>38418

BLM tries to distance itself from BLM?

>>38419

BLM is just another Seppo problem dumped onto our nation without understanding the structure of our society. Just like trying to impose Taco Bell on us all when we already have Kebab shops. And our nation in this analogy is a pair of shitted Y-fronts.

>>38417

Yeah, it's just I remember arguing with some lad here a few years ago saying these lot are clearly grifters and he was all "hurr you're just a crypto-racist" and what have you.

Just like when I said Lindsay Ellis was going to get cancelled over something stupid, my prophecy came true. I might be cynical, but I'm usually right.

Boris Johnson says he gets distracted by cheese and coffee while working from home

The prime minister revealed his worktime weaknesses in an opinion article for the Daily Mail to claim that WFH – a necessity for millions of workers during the Covid pandemic – “doesn’t work” in his “experience”. He also claimed that people who work from the communal office are more professionally and economically productive than those who WFH.

Mr Johnson said: “My experience of working from home is you spend an awful lot of time making another cup of coffee and then, you know, getting up, walking very slowly to the fridge, hacking off a small piece of cheese, then walking very slowly back to your laptop and then forgetting what it was you’re doing. So, I believe in the workplace environment. And I think that will help to drive up productivity, it will get our city centres moving, in the weekdays. And it will be good for mass transit. And a lot of businesses that have been having a tough time will benefit from that.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-cheese-coffee-wfh-working-home-b2078796.html

If we sacked working-from-home civil servants, would anyone notice?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/12/sacked-working-from-home-civil-servants-would-anyone-notice/

They couldn't be much less transparent if they tried.

>>38403
>If we sacked working-from-home civil servants, would anyone notice?

My partner works for the Civil Service, started during WFH time, and in a year of working there she has been in the office three times. During that time, they moved into a fancy new office block purpose built for the department, but its layout and size means that on any given day, only 20% of the people working in the department will have desk space. If the government want to go back to WFH being a niche thing, they probably shouldn't have spent tens of millions on offices that can't hold 80% of the active staff.

>>38408

That's probably why they want to sack 80% of active staff.

>>38408
That's the 8:10 rule, mate. For every 10 people, assume 8 won't need a desk.

Why do I have to be on the frontline of some new battle for employment rights. Would someone mind putting an FOI in on the screen time for departments and the backlog on flexi and unused leave? It's well known they actually are keeping statistics on just about everything you do but for some mysterious reason you never hear anyone talk about it.

>>38408
Having offices dangerously over capacity was the norm even before the pandemic. Pushing meetings with foreign officials to their own country because we don't have the space, fire-alarms that took a good 20 minutes to get out the building, the absolute shambles of booking meeting rooms privately for industry where it was cheaper to hold the meeting in Europe and 2-days a week WFH starting to be enforced to try and deal with overcrowding.

I don't doubt for a minute that the Government would push us all back into the office anyway and have us working in the corridors. And then we'd get a lovely email about handling whatever crisis comes next. Then they'd sack half the office on efficiency grounds so we have to bring in more consultants on four-times the pay.

>>38369

Private loans are never a good idea. And not just because you may be paying extortionate interest on them. They also tend to ruin friendships if you're in any way close to the would-be lender.

But not being able to repay £1.2m when your net worth at one point used to be 100 million euros is just human tragedy. Not saying it can't happen to the best of us, but to get to a point where you just blew through 100 million and can't repay a loan of 1.5 percent that, interest or no, you're either a cocaine addict with a heavy habit or you simply never should have been allowed to handle your own finances.

They're saying he lost £10m by investing in Nigerian oil wells.

Did he not know that all those e-mails from imprisoned Nigerian princes are fake?

But cheap laughs aside, that deal was apparently shilled by one of Becker's aides who was Nigerian. The fact that he invested such a large chunk of his already dwindling fortune in a country with rampant corruption and political instability at all levels shows that he was really out of his depth handling his money.

>>38371

That does bring up an angle I hadn't considered before actually. If I were to just inherit 50 million quid out of the blue one day off of my long lost great uncle Laurence Cholmondley-Cribbingsworth's vast rural estate, would I know who to turn to and actually be able to trust with investing that money safely?

It's easy for me to talk out of my arse here about hiring a financial adviser and going to an investment broker and what have you, but I think the reality is more likely I'd suddenly become extremely paranoid everyone was out to scam me out of my newfound wealth, because let's face it, a great deal of people would be out to scam me out of my newfound wealth.

I'm sure Hargreaves Landsdown are a very reputable business, but is phoning them up and saying "Hello, yes, I just inherited fifty million quid, what do I do with it?" painting a target on your forehead, the same way taking your car to the garage and saying "I don't know anything about cars, but it's making a funny noise, fix it please?" is?

>>38372
>painting a target on your forehead

Once you have over a certain amount of money, many of the investment, banking, loan protections that us paupers have fly out the window - in the UK, different banks have different limits, but the one I used to work for was you earn over £300k per year and/or have £3m in liquid assets, you're treated as a professional investor and not so much as a private individual.

So when you're at that level, you go to a thing called a Private Bank, and they look after you. Obviously because you're now a professional investor, they can sell you almost any financial product or investment they like, they don't have to read you all the terms and conditions, you don't have to sign all the papers, or get any of the protections that you or I would get. Target acquired.

>>38373

I guess there's somewhat of a fine line between recommending a slightly dodgy investment to a large account holder, and investment fraud.


>Obviously because you're now a professional investor

They're sitting ducks because from having rubbed shoulders with their likes both professionally (not a banker) and leisurely, my perception is that there's often plenty of hubris involved there. They think that because they for some reason have (single-digit) millions to their name, investment mistakes don't happen to them. It's normally just daytraders on Wallstreetbets who succumb to the delusion that they're the next Warren Buffet just because a heavily leveraged trade improbably goes their way, but small-time millionaires like that can almost as easily gamble much of it away.

>>37588
>Sammie-Jo Halliford, from Grimsby,

>On Friday, March 11, I decided to see how long it would take me to travel from Northallerton to Sheffield

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/rode-train-north-south-yorkshire-23365681

He's at it again.

>A Yorkshire burger van owner has promoted his business on Mother’s Day by featuring missing tot Madeleine McCann and her mum.

>The Otley Burger Company in Boroughgate, Leeds, wrote: “With burgers this good, you’ll leave your kids at home. What’s the worst that could happen [sic] Happy Mother’s Day to all the mums out there.”

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/whats-on/yorkshire-burger-van-promotes-mothers-23515941

>>38037
LOL

(A good day to you Sir!)

Mum furious as son's Toby Carvery foot-long hot dog looks like 'ET's finger'

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mum-furious-sons-toby-carvery-26773452

>>38259
>>38261
If you look at what she's actually complaining about, she's getting annoyed that Owen Jones dared to call her out for trannie-bashing.

>>38263
From what I vaguely remember at the time, it was something fairly innocuous by Hadley Freeman that caused Owen Jones to start calling her a bigot because he disagreed with her. It might have been about whether trans-women should stand on Labour's all-women shortlists.

IIRC, it has been noted in the past that Owen Jones is a lot more civil with male journalists than female journalists when they each share the same view (which he disagrees with).

Anyway, it's given Suzanne Moore the opportunity to stick her oar in.

https://unherd.com/2022/04/how-the-guardian-enables-owen-jones/

https://unherd.com/2022/02/why-i-stopped-being-a-good-girl/

>>38264
>it was something fairly innocuous
>whether trans-women should stand on Labour's all-women shortlists.

Something something long-standing issues.

>>38265

Think about it though m8. All of this stems from the fact we still waste so much of our time pretending to care about women's issues, whatever those are in the 21st century first world west.

Think about it logically. If we would all stop pretending, and just go back to much more honestly rolling our eyes and thinking "I'm probably more adept at climbing a tree than somebody like you not this bollocks again, how many fucking times" every time a woman moans about something, these bitter old TERFs would instantly lose all of their leverage. Give them an inch and they'll take off your arm.

It's time men just re-grew a backbone and pulled the world back into reality. Stop bending over for moaning old bints and their trivial nonsense. We've got bigger issues to deal with.

>>38266
So deal with them then.

Wouldn't such consorship encourage underground networks to develop? Amazon would then require an intelligence branch of its own to monitor out of work activity (or is that covered by Human Resources?)

>>38184

>Amazon would then require an intelligence branch of its own to monitor out of work activity

Companies like Wal-Mart have pretty much already implemented something like that, where they have a phone number where employees can snitch on each other about any behaviour that is against company statutes. Which also include a ban on romantic relationships between employees, both off and on the job.

Fucking puritans.

>>38172
Ah right well I'm not interested in her politics I just want a blowie.

>>38173

Just too much of everything.

She was very pretty and natural when she was about 18-22, in a way that put many real women to shame, but nowadays, she's really more a glorified drag queen.

>>38175

I'm not calling you a carpet-bagger, but I'm not not calling you a carpet-bagger.

>>38176

Save it for the lad who's frolicking over Greta.

If women can have penises then why do evangelist christian korean youtubers go through all the bother to have their johnsons inverted? Do the ones who want to have the surgery suffer from ingrained heteronormative oppression and gender stereotyping? If not, does it become an aesthetic choice like a woman getting surgically enhanced boobs or a man getting jaw surgery?

My best guess is that they think they'll be able to snag someone 100% straight instead of one of those weirdo evangelist christian korean youtuber chasers, but the neo-vagina technology isn't there yet so they often end up alienating both groups.

I don't think there is a gay thread, but...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60947028
>Plans to ban so-called conversion therapy in England and Wales have been abandoned by the government.
>According to NHS England, conversion therapy tries to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity.
>The ban was announced in the Queen's Speech in May 2021.
>But a government spokesperson said it had instead "decided to proceed by reviewing how existing law can be deployed more effectively".

You know, if I was a secretly TG MP from a party that was in government, and I was planning to come out, I would ask the party leadership when the most convenient time to do so would be, so if they wanted to implement some anti-LGBTQIA+ legislation, we could work together to bury that news story under my own inspirational tale of when I got bummed so hard I turned into a woman. Not that I'm implying such a thing could possibly have happened here, of course.

>>38116
I don't get it. Why would you ban something if it's consenting adults?

>>38118

Because liberalism means having the right to do as you're told.

The legislation was abandoned because nobody could figure out how to ban gay conversion therapy without also banning sissy hypno.

>>38114

You are using a lot of fancy words to talk a lot of bollocks, mate.

>>38116
>The government insists it will ban so-called conversion therapy for gay or bisexual people in England and Wales - but not for evangelist christian korean youtuber people. It comes hours after it had said it would drop the ban entirely.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60947028

It's GS Wot Won It!

>>37936

Yellowy-red.

>>37935

Brown doesn't exist.

>>37930
I don't know what you mean. It's got a solar powered jukebox and everything.

>>37939
and an angel standing on someone's head.

>>37940
Demanding cash for "Roofwork".