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The BBC used to be a really good public service broadcaster, but over time it's become heavily influenced by market forces and the persistent threat of funding cuts. It still does some excellent natural history documentaries and stuff like that but its current affairs output is gunshy and risk averse and increasingly out of touch.
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TomViolence posted:The BBC used to be a really good public service broadcaster, but over time it's become heavily influenced by market forces and the persistent threat of funding cuts. It still does some excellent natural history documentaries and stuff like that but its current affairs output is gunshy and risk averse and increasingly out of touch. But it still produces the most well known and probably watched political programs apart from maybe Channel 4 (also publicly funded).
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Jun 29, 2017 22:24
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Weekly Wipe is still good yeah?
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namesake posted:But it still produces the most well known and probably watched political programs apart from maybe Channel 4 (also publicly funded). it has adverts though it's not the same
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Jun 29, 2017 22:31
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Yossarian-22 posted:Weekly Wipe is still good yeah? There hasn't been a weekly wipe since last year tho
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Jun 29, 2017 22:37
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Headline: Corbin fires labour frontbenchers for refusing to back hard brexit Corbyn twitter: Yaaas absolute boy wins the egg
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Jun 29, 2017 23:12
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Fallen Hamprince posted:Headline: Corbin fires labour frontbenchers for refusing to back hard brexit Yeah, corbyn ruling with an iron fist IS cool
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Jun 29, 2017 23:29
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Fallen Hamprince posted:Headline: Corbin fires labour frontbenchers for refusing to back hard brexit I will concede that pledging to end EU freedom of movement and hire 20,000 police are easily the worst things about Corbyn
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Jun 29, 2017 23:38
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Could he credibly oppose brexit at this point?
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Jun 29, 2017 23:45
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i think corbyn and labour might have a mutual thing going on, like corbyn softening on brexit to make it focus on protecting labor and making concessions to do so, labour adopting and enacting corbyn's platform because it won them many seats
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Vox Nihili posted:Could he credibly oppose brexit at this point? Not really. Labour's voter base is divided over the issue far more than the other parties' voters are. He has to do a tightrope act here: on the one hand he wants to respect the outcome of a legitimate (if really stupid) referendum and needs to retain his appeal to a working-class population that has been harmed by globalization, and on the other hand Brexit is going to be a shitshow and everyone knows it. So his strategy is basically to talk up good left-wing policy that would be hampered by remaining in the EU (like nationalization of several industries) while also demanding that the Tory government retain all the good things about EU membership (which they definitely can't do). Also, as leader of the opposition, he doesn't want party to look fractured and uncertain; hence all the three-line Brexit whips.
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Jun 30, 2017 01:38
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Dreylad posted:There hasn't been a weekly wipe since last year tho Yeah it's been a Yearly Wipe for a few years now.
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Jun 30, 2017 01:43
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is toilet paper that scarce in the UK?
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Jun 30, 2017 01:49
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what on earth is happening on that island
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Jun 30, 2017 02:21
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Der Meister posted:what on earth is happening on that island
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Jun 30, 2017 06:41
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rudatron posted:how can one man have so many wrong opinions simultaneously What could anyone have against The New Yorker?
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Jun 30, 2017 08:48
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Der Meister posted:what on earth is happening on that island The saboteurs are getting crushed.
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Jun 30, 2017 10:59
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Because the brits pay a tax on TV, most of their channels don't have commercials.
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Jun 30, 2017 11:13
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Fallen Hamprince posted:Headline: Corbin fires labour frontbenchers for refusing to back hard brexit Good, the EU is exploitative and undemocratic.
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Jun 30, 2017 11:14
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Jeb! Repetition posted:Because the brits pay a tax on TV, most of their channels don't have commercials. Actually only the BBC channels don't have adverts sadly Make ads illegal imo - I already pay to watch TV
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Jun 30, 2017 11:18
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Jeb! Repetition posted:Because the brits pay a tax on TV, most of their channels don't have commercials. untrue but we don't get anywhere near as many ad breaks compared to the US
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Jeb! Repetition posted:Because the brits pay a tax on TV, most of their channels don't have commercials. only bbc ones don't we have like 100 freeview channels and probably like 10 are bbc (a lot of those 100 are like +1 channels or weird garbage that no-one watches though) basically all of the rest have adverts. but less than americans iirc, an average of 7 minutes an hour
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Jose posted:untrue but we don't get anywhere near as many ad breaks compared to the US i always found it weird watching the simpsons where they'd fade out for like 3 sets of ads gently caress that poo poo
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Jun 30, 2017 12:00
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The head of Kensington Council has resigned, and looked like a twat whilst doing it.
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Jun 30, 2017 18:55
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Samovar posted:The head of Kensington Council has resigned, and looked like a twat whilst doing it. The same guy who was saying "we're canceling this meeting because the public is going to get to hear about it"?
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Jun 30, 2017 19:03
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silvergoose posted:The same guy who was saying "we're canceling this meeting because the public is going to get to hear about it"? Yep. May turned on him, not that I suspect he could have survived had she not. quote:Downing Street has condemned Kensington and Chelsea council for closing down its first cabinet meeting since the Grenfell Tower fire after failing to have the media barred from it.
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Jun 30, 2017 19:09
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jBrereton posted:he'll be back just like the gordon ramsay sex dwarf you dont come back from an otter mauling, im afraid.
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Jun 30, 2017 19:14
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boris pig
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Jun 30, 2017 19:30
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BBC alba is the best as far as I can tell it's only sheep herding.
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Jun 30, 2017 19:36
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hakimashou posted:What could anyone have against The New Yorker? Andy Borowitz is horribly unfunny/bad
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Jul 1, 2017 00:28
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Yossarian-22 posted:Andy Borowitz is horribly unfunny/bad
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Jul 1, 2017 03:34
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more like Andy No Wits About Him!!!
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Jul 1, 2017 03:38
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consumed by normies posted:man i feel extremely jealous of uk politics atm. the lefts rise has been amazing
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get that OUT of my face posted:you should feel jealous cuz it's never going to happen in america, where our system is completely broken and unaccountable The UK system is just the American one except without any proper ideals like freedom of speech or transparency since our citizens are subjects of the crown and only a hundred years ago killing poor people was literally government policy. America needs to sack up, you're basically where we were in 2005 except your Gordon Brown lost to a deranged Nazi chimpanzee rather than a Teflon pigfucker. They're gonna bring in American Ed Miliband who will be a corporate shill while unconvincingly talking Bernie stuff and lose again in 2020. But then in 2025 when the bluedogs have been shattered you can primary an actual leftist. The primary system actually sorta benefits leftists since if there's a shock upset and a lefty gets it there isn't enough time for the democratic party to character assassinate him since they've gotta run an election at this point (lol jk they will try anyway)
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America doesn't actually have much in common wit hBritain when it comes to this stuff imo we're socially closest to the Victorian UK with fewer proles, a heavily militarized racial-colonial empire whose elites are deluded into thinking they have embarked on a civilizing mission
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Jul 1, 2017 15:15
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hey hey yall jeremy corbown heh heh heh
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Imagine being a terrorist in Britain today. Life's just one huge :facepalm: that you never thought to hold a lighter up against the outside of a residential highrise.
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Jul 1, 2017 16:39
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Vehicular homicide isn't nearly as terrifying as bloodsucking landlords.
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