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I don't think he's actually gone as far as claiming the King is controlled by the Rothschilds, but it is implied by him ranting on about the 'Rothschild conspiracy', without actually mentioning the family or Jews in general.

I am not surprised he has 'resigned' from the RSE, pressure has been mounting, here's just one example -

www.heraldscotland.com

David Leask: Why Scotland’s national academy should ‘cancel’ Neil Oliver

Neil Oliver has lost it, totally lost it. Over the last two years or so the former TV historian has buried himself deeper and deeper in to a rabbit…
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Neil Oliver has lost it, totally lost it. Over the last two years or so the former TV historian has buried himself deeper and deeper in to a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories.

Worse, he is trying to pull the rest of us down after him. Every week Mr Oliver delivers a trademark monologue on GB News, by far Britain’s most irresponsible TV station.

Early this year, his eyes fixed on the camera, the self-styled “Coast Guy” claimed a “silent war” was being waged by generation after generation of politicians to take “total control of the people” and impose a “one-world government”.
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This was bonkers. It also bone-chillingly echoed some of the most poisonous anti-semitic mythologies of modern times.

Searchlight, the anti-fascist magazine, compared Mr Oliver’s language to that of a particular 1980s conspiracy theory featuring – in a classic trope – the Jewish Rothschild family.

Cue real concern from serious people. After Mr Oliver’s broadcast both the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the all-party group on anti-semitism at Westminster urged GB News not to indulge conspiracy theories.
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The TV company – it should be added – responded to criticism by saying it abhored “racism and hate in all its forms and would never allow it on the channel”. M’okay.

Mr Oliver - who, let us be clear, did not mention Jews in his tirade - responded with another rant, this time about those who use labels like ‘anti-semite’ to shut down debate. He bemoaned “the slow creep of ugliness in to public discourse”. See, like I said: he has lost it.

His February GB News segment on “world government” – I think – remains a remarkable episode, a stunning low, in the history of British television. But it was not an isolated incident.
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Raheem said:
I watch a bit of GB News yesterday. Two of the presenters got into an argument about whether scientists had created a baby or an embryo from stem cells.
It turned out one of them just didn't know what the word "embryo" meant, which is why they had said "baby".
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You must have been watching "Headliners" - whose aim is to introduce Bernard Manning style humour into the paper review format.
BBC have stopped their version of the paper review - presumably to save money. BBC papers has been replaced by a simulcast of Newsnight at 10.30 and by HardTalk at 11.30.
Sky still carry the old format - and it can be very variable on Sky. Carol Malone, as befits one with such a luxurious kitchen, can do a good impression of Alf Garnet with tits, as Headliners would no doubt say, when she's in the mood.

This is the description of Headliners on GB News YouTube channel:
"The paper review that won’t put you to sleep (like the others).
Join the all-star comedy cast for an intelligent and insightful look at tomorrow’s headlines tonight."

I would think they said baby to touch raw nerves eg March forLife UK:
 
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PS on the Dan Wooton front - I see the last issue of Private Eye and the current issue simply relay updates as per the Guardian and Byline Times.
I was surprised to see Wooton currently gets 2 hours a night. I wondered if he had been rewarded by management for attracting attention.
Stand by your man- as Tammy Wynette used to sing.
 
CH1 said:
PS on the Dan Wooton front - I see the last issue of Private Eye and the current issue simply relay updates as per the Guardian and Byline Times.
I was surprised to see Wooton currently gets 2 hours a night. I wondered if he had been rewarded by management for attracting attention.
Stand by your man- as Tammy Wynette used to sing.
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At the start of GBN, Wooton had a 3 hour show, and that was cut to 2 hours a few months later, and has been like that since.
 
Raheem said:
It was either all brilliantly acted (which it definitely wasn't) or it was just confusion caused by one of the presenters having a limited vocab.

The guy was a young Londoner called Declan something.
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Apologies - they have an earlier paper review in the Mark Dolan show which seems to often have Nigel Nelson of the Mirror/Sunday People plus all sorts of odd bods.
So I'm sure you're right in retrospect.

Headliners at 11 pm is more like a daily version of Have I got News for You.
 
Another entertaining x-twitter thread by Matthew Sweet about Neil Oliver and the delightful people he 'hangs out' with online.

Threadreader app link to thread archived as web page.

It starts with this but then takes a darker turn.

Matthew Sweet posts screenshot of Neil Oliver x-tweet saying he fancies a revolution and comments ''You have nothing to lose but your marbles''

Original x-twitter link

Matthew Sweet @DrMatthewSweet
5:38 PM - Sep 8,2023

[Attached is a screenshot of an x-tweet from Neil Oliver and a reply from Right Said Fred]

Neil Oliver © @thecoastguy
Anyone fancy a Revolution? I could just go a Revolution right about now.

Right Said Fred @TheFreds
Yeah, we're good to go.

Matthew Sweet "You have nothing to lose but your marbles"

The replies to the thread included this

Meme: Picture of actor Willem Defoe as a bearded lighthouse keeper but now given Neil Oliver's eyes with the caption ''I Am Revolting''


x-twitter link

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What's this revolution of theirs supposed to do, exactly? Like mine would be aiming to overthrow the state and replace it with a network of federated communes etc etc, which fine you don't have to agree with but there's intent behind it. What would they be doing though, just setting up another government without the "deep" bit? Are they planning to expel the scientists from Downing St like some crank Jesuses (Jesui?)? Is this leading to the founding of a Khmer Douche?
 
Rob Ray said:
What's this revolution of theirs supposed to do, exactly? Like mine would be aiming to overthrow the state and replace it with a network of federated communes etc etc, which fine you don't have to agree with but there's intent behind it. What would they be doing though, just setting up another government without the "deep" bit? Are they planning to expel the scientists from Downing St like some crank Jesuses (Jesui?)? Is this leading to the founding of a Khmer Douche?
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Wait, you have a plan for after?

No-one ever has a plan for after. Well other than, as you put it, setting up another government without the <insert the part you think needs fixing> bit.

You do also need a plan to stop horrible cunts taking charge though. Which is what always happens, eventually. If you've figured that part out, do tell.
 
Rob Ray said:
What's this revolution of theirs supposed to do, exactly? Like mine would be aiming to overthrow the state and replace it with a network of federated communes etc etc, which fine you don't have to agree with but there's intent behind it. What would they be doing though, just setting up another government without the "deep" bit? Are they planning to expel the scientists from Downing St like some crank Jesuses (Jesui?)? Is this leading to the founding of a Khmer Douche?
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No jabs, plenty of yoga, and some deeply repressed fash idea like killing all single mothers or something.
 
If things should kick off then, like their equivalent's on 'the left', the overwhelming majority of the right-wing 'influencers' and 'leadership candidates' would place themselves as far behind the lines as they could manage, while loudly shouting "follow me".

For one perspective on a right wing "revolution" we could look away from the ultra-fringe nutters that Neil Oliver engages with on x-twitter, and consider the writings of Sunday Telegraph editor Allister Heath, who is a bit like a right-wing Paul Mason, saying the stupid bits out loud.

Here he is in May this year

Screencap of the headline on a Allister Heath article ''The woke blob is about to achieve its greatest triumph: its final takeover of Britain. The only hope is a Ron DeSantis inspired fightback against Left-wing institutional capture.''


Obviously the notion of a 'Ron DeSantis inspired fightback' hasn't aged very well. And after Liz Truss's '49 Days That Shook The World', the vision that he is offering is undoubtedly a "more challenging wank". But it is a vision of the future in line with the hopes of the people bankrolling things like GB News.

So how can a future Tory Britain be more like Florida? It is madness that ministers have to act as guerrilla fighters parachuted behind enemy lines – and when a prime minister must do that, as Truss did, it cannot end well. The next Tory government will need to legislate to end the Northcote-Trevelyan Civil Service on its first day in office, and appoint new management teams on short-term, performance-related contracts to run every single government department and quango. These new teams would report directly to ministers, and take instructions from them. All would be contractually bound to deliver the Government’s agenda.

A change of this magnitude would require detailed long-term planning; the Tories should use their time in opposition to work on a blueprint to take over the state, draft omnibus legislation, and draw up a list of several thousand personnel to appoint, including private sector chief executives, entrepreneurs, economists, lawyers, bankers, turnaround specialists, management consultants and tech experts.
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The next Tory government will also need to ensure that we end up with a drastically more ideologically diverse university, cultural and charitable sector. As DeSantis realised, simply preventing the cancellation of the last remaining non-Left wing holdouts isn’t enough: defeating wokery must become official policy across Government. The job of private firms should be to make money legally, not to engage in political campaigning. In a world where followers of Gramsci have seized control of virtually all institutions, winning elections or referenda isn’t enough. The blob must be defeated.
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The woke blob is about to achieve its greatest triumph: its final takeover of Britain - Telegraph (archived)
 
Lurdan said:
If things should kick off then, like their equivalent's on 'the left', the overwhelming majority of the right-wing 'influencers' and 'leadership candidates' would place themselves as far behind the lines as they could manage, while loudly shouting "follow me".

For one perspective on a right wing "revolution" we could look away from the ultra-fringe nutters that Neil Oliver engages with on x-twitter, and consider the writings of Sunday Telegraph editor Allister Heath, who is a bit like a right-wing Paul Mason, saying the stupid bits out loud.

Here he is in May this year

Screencap of the headline on a Allister Heath article ''The woke blob is about to achieve its greatest triumph: its final takeover of Britain. The only hope is a Ron DeSantis inspired fightback against Left-wing institutional capture.''''The woke blob is about to achieve its greatest triumph: its final takeover of Britain. The only hope is a Ron DeSantis inspired fightback against Left-wing institutional capture.''


Obviously the notion of a 'Ron DeSantis inspired fightback' hasn't aged very well. And after Liz Truss's '49 Days That Shook The World', the vision that he is offering is undoubtedly a "more challenging wank". But it is a vision of the future in line with the hopes of the people bankrolling things like GB News.





The woke blob is about to achieve its greatest triumph: its final takeover of Britain - Telegraph (archived)
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Given his record of predictions, can I be the first to say that the survivors of whatever is about to happen in Florida are in my thoughts and prayers.
 
Lurdan said:
Another entertaining x-twitter thread by Matthew Sweet about Neil Oliver and the delightful people he 'hangs out' with online.

Threadreader app link to thread archived as web page.

It starts with this but then takes a darker turn.

Matthew Sweet posts screenshot of Neil Oliver x-tweet saying he fancies a revolution and comments ''You have nothing to lose but your marbles''''You have nothing to lose but your marbles''

Original x-twitter link

Matthew Sweet @DrMatthewSweet
5:38 PM - Sep 8,2023

[Attached is a screenshot of an x-tweet from Neil Oliver and a reply from Right Said Fred]

Neil Oliver © @thecoastguy
Anyone fancy a Revolution? I could just go a Revolution right about now.

Right Said Fred @TheFreds
Yeah, we're good to go.

Matthew Sweet "You have nothing to lose but your marbles"

The replies to the thread included this

Meme: Picture of actor Willem Defoe as a bearded lighthouse keeper but now given Neil Oliver's eyes with the caption ''I Am Revolting'''s eyes with the caption ''I Am Revolting''


x-twitter link

🤣
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Tbh this

“Apparently there’ll be an invasion of holographic flying saucers in 2024 that will inaugurate the One World Government.”

Sounds like a lot of fun and I’m looking forward to next year now.

I’ve never quite understood where the antipathy to one world government from these types comes from. Personally I’ve always been and continue to be in favour of one world government - a single organisation working for the whole world, sounds great. And if there’s going to be a free holographic alien invasion live immersion show then so much the better.
 
teqniq said:
Allister Heath is completely fucking barking as well.
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Indeed he is. But I recall people scoffing at this when it was published in 2012. "Singapore-on-Thames" ho ho ho.

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The idea that these people would all become Government Ministers, including, albeit briefly, Prime Minister and Chancellor. What a joke eh.

'Singapore-on-Thames' hasn't come to pass, but in the name of their "revolution" these fuckers have already contrived to make things significantly worse, particularly for those in low wage jobs living in insecure accommodation.

So at the very least I'd suggest it's worth paying attention to what the likes of Heath are saying.

What relation does this have to the 'anti-globalist' conspiraloons Neil Oliver is engaging with? None at all in terms of 'vision'. The multiple conspiraloon and anti-woke countercultures are just potential seedbeds of discontent to be weaponized. And like the multiple factions of people voting for brexit, on the basis of many different 'visions', their 'use' ends at the point that they have helped create and formed part of a successful electoral coalition.
 
You've got to hand it to the Dispatches people for digging this clip out
www.independent.co.uk

Russell Brand offers ‘naked assistant’ to meet Jimmy Savile in resurfaced audio

In resurfaced audio from a BBC Radio 2 interview, Russell Brand appeared to offered his personal assistant to massage Jimmy Savile. The disgraced TV presenter says the comedian can meet him if he brings his sister with him, to which Brand replies: “I have got a personal assistant... part of her...
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Another OFCOM breach.


Following an investigation by the media watchdog, it found the broadcaster had breached Ofcom Rules’ 5.11 and 5.12 that “requires an appropriately wide range of significant views” in such programmes and “must be included and given due weight or in clearly linked and timely programmes.”

The episode was deemed to be “overwhelmingly reflective of the viewpoints of different strands of opinion within the Conservative Party.”
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