Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "Channel 4 News" channel.

  1. The explanation is that many ordinary European people have had enough of uncontrolled mass immigration.
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  2. Finland: “We want to join NATO.” Russia: “There will be consequences.” Finland: “We want to join NATO even more.”
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  3. Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that, before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East. (John Sheehan)
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  4. Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that, before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East. (John Sheehan)
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  5. Imagine going to fight for someone you don’t like (Putin) against something you don’t hate (Ukraine). Then imagine going to fight for something you love (Ukraine) against someone you hate (Putin). That’s why Russia, ultimately, has no chance of victory.
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  6. Finland & Sweden: “We want to join NATO.” Russia: “There will be consequences.” Finland & Sweden: “We want to join NATO even more !”
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  7. These accusations by Canada could very well be “absurd” as the Indians say, but on the other hand they could be Trudeau.
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  8. “I wasn’t trying to pull the wool over anyone’s eyes.” Er, that’s exactly what you were trying to do given you lied about it for 3 years. 👍
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  9. I’m pro legal immigration strictly controlled by the host country and obviously pro accepting genuine asylum seekers/refugees. However, the chaos we have seen these past 5 years (at least) whereby millions of (mainly economic) migrants try to essentially ‘break into’ Europe is unacceptable to the vast majority of Europeans. If the powers that be don’t get a proper grip of this issue, it’s no exaggeration to say that a substantial proportion of Europeans will be not just voting for vaguely right of centre parties, but fully right of centre parties.
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  10. What’s so often lost in this conflict is that you can support the Palestinians without supporting Hamas, just as you can support the Israelis without supporting Netanyahu. These are too often confused. The Palestinians aren’t Hamas just as the Israelis aren’t Netanyahu. The ordinary human gets lost in it all.
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  11. What’s been bizarre throughout this whole war is how Russia complains every time Ukraine counter-attacks. It’s a war; your opponent isn’t just going to sit there and take it. In a boxing match, last time I checked, both parties are allowed to throw punches.
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  12. This whole thing has put me off parties for life. The Tory Party, mainly.
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  13. Welcome to Rishi’s Brave New World of “integrity, professionalism, and accountability at every level.” 🤦‍♂️
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  14. Well, tbf, you can’t really cut taxes and raise services, but you can cut services and still raise taxes. It’s called ‘corruption’.
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  15. There was a point passed weeks ago when ‘Israeli self-defence’ began to look like all-out offence on the Palestinian people. No one is fooled by this. There are people who agree with it and there are people who disagree with it, but no one is fooled by it.
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  16. ‘Life sentences’ is always a misnomer. If something’s called a ‘life sentence’, you should be in prison until you die.
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  17. Expand military operations? To where? The sea? The sky? Last time I checked Israel had hit just about everything on the ground in Gaza.
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  18. What’s so often lost in this conflict is that you can support the Palestinians without supporting Hamas, just as you can support the Israelis without supporting Netanyahu. These are too often confused. The Palestinians aren’t Hamas just as the Israelis aren’t Netanyahu. The ordinary human gets lost in it all.
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  19. If my next-door neighbour repressed and oppressed me for 75 years (after evicting me from my home), just because they could (ie. massive military support from elsewhere), then did you honestly think that at some point I wouldn’t punch back? Last time I checked, in a fist-fight, both fighters are allowed to throw punches. That doesn’t mean that what Hamas did on October 7th was justified, but it was hardly unpredictable. As Isaac Asimov said: I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic. I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. Until a 2-state solution that is just for both parties is implemented, this nightmare will never end.
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  20. ‘Total victory’? Netanyahu is severely deluded if he thinks this. All this is ultimately futile. Yes, you can physically get rid of those who currently loathe you, but you can’t get rid of the metaphysical ideas that motivated these individuals in the first place and these will just be passed like a baton to the next generation. The amount of bad karmic seeds Israel has sown these past 3 months will torment it for decades to come. As Asimov said: I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled.
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  21. Jesus, can you imagine the stuff that must have gone on before body-cams?! 🙄
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  22. Investigating whether Johnson misled Parliament is like investigating whether Jimmy Savile had ‘childcare issues’.
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  23. Interesting thing is that Labour have literally had to do nothing in all this. The Tory turmoil is totally self-inflicted.
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  24. Given that the average number of commercial flights per day is 97,439, it’s quite remarkable these types of incident are vanishingly rare.
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  25. What I’ve always found odd about humans is that, essentially, all we want is a bit of food, a bit of love and a bit of ‘how’s yer father?’ Given these rather basic needs, why are we still here killing each other over nothing? 🤦‍♂️
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  26. When they get round to burying him, never will the epitaph ring so true: Here LIES Boris Johnson 🪦
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  27. Euston, we have a problem. 🚂
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  28. Miles Routledge? Just amazed that in this day and age he hasn’t gone metric.
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  29. What often gets lost in this debate over anti-Semitism is the important distinction between not digging the State of Israel and certain of its policies, and not having any particular issue whatsoever with Jews and Judaism itself. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve been called an anti-Semite for simply voicing an opinion against Israel’s behaviour in certain regards. However, what Abbott wrote was, at best, insensitive and at worst deeply offensive.
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  30. No fan of Anderson. But he’s undoubtedly onto something vis-a-vis Islam. As an agnostic, I mistrust all organised religion but the one I most mistrust at this point is Islam, quite simply because it seems to be the one demanding most respect for its values whilst simultaneously showing least respect for others’ values.
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  31. It’s bizarre the Democrats have let this dude go for another term. Almost like they want to lose. Almost like it’s planned… 🤔
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  32. So the Bushes, Clintons and Tony Blair knock on Putin’s door. “Hey, Vlad, we’re here to perform a citizen’s arrest for war crimes.” Putin: “Ha ha ha ha ha!”
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  33. Genuinely feel like I’m on the wrong planet when fellow human beings hate/abuse on someone in a wheelchair, or someone with a white stick, or someone with only one arm and a leg. Why? What’s the problem? Why do you feel the need to be nasty? Are you so weak yourself that you need to pick on someone with a perceived visible weakness? Really? Just don’t get it. It’s just the school bullying thing carried on into the adult world.
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  34. Imagine going to fight for someone you don’t like against someone you don’t hate.
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  35. Until the UK and Ireland say to people arriving on their shores, “you will be deported, unless you can categorically prove you are a genuine asylum seeker”, then this stuff will just continue. It’s not rocket science: if I can walk into your house, and you’re not gonna do anything about it, then what do you expect?
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  36. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox: the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. (Oscar Wilde)
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  37. The English country gentleman galloping after the fox – the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. (Oscar Wilde)
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  38. What’s so often lost in this conflict is that you can support the Palestinians without supporting Hamas, just as you can support the Israelis without supporting Netanyahu. These are too often confused. The Palestinians aren’t Hamas just as the Israelis aren’t Netanyahu. The ordinary human gets lost in it all.
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  39. “Will Boris Johnson be next PM?” Well, if he is, the Tories will be even more hammered in the next GE. Not sure they realise just how much anger and resentment they have created in the electorate. I say that as a non-Labour supporter.
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  40. Frankly, Israel should be surprised by none of this. I don’t particularly support any side here, but what can be observed is a 75-year-long ongoing fight whereby one side has been throwing its weight around considerably more than the other side (if the year on year casualty figures are anything to go by), yet when the other side finds the capability to strike back, the opponent is somehow surprised, as if that were just not cricket, old boy! Last time I checked, in a boxing match both sides were allowed to throw punches. In these kinds of seemingly intractable situations, I always flip it: how would the Israelis feel if the boot were on the other foot and it was they who were living in the conditions the average Palestinian is (and has been for decades) living in? They’d be fighting back. Fighting for dignity and freedom. A 2-state solution is the only way here. Of course, with this, the nitty-gritty will be who gets custody of the car and who gets custody of the cat.
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  41. Until the UK and Ireland say to people arriving on their shores, “you will be deported, unless you can categorically prove you are a genuine asylum seeker”, then this stuff will just continue. It’s not rocket science: if I can walk into your house, and you’re not gonna do anything about it, then what do you expect?
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  42. Perhaps Russia’s biggest mistake in this whole sorry conflict, was to totally underestimate the power of home advantage. The Russians may have the big guns, but the Ukrainians seem to have the bigger, braver hearts.
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  43. Dude was apparently from Cologne. He spoke with a distinctive axescent.
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  44. Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times. (Mark Twain)
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  45. Newman: ‘So you’re saying that …’ Peterson: ‘No. You’re saying that I’m saying that.’
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  46. Hate to say this, but with dairy/nut allergies, if you consume anything that is made on the premises and not labelled you’re essentially playing Russian roulette with your life. If I had this condition I would never consume any product in such a manner. If I had a dairy allergy, every time I bought a coffee I would either have it black or make damn sure I actually see the barista adding soy/oat milk, not actual milk, before I drank it, and even then there’s a risk with dairy traces on cups.
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  47. What’s confusing about this whole situation is that it’s possible to both condemn the Hamas attacks and think Israel has been more than heavy-handed in its response to October 7th. It’s possible to support Palestinian freedom from Israeli state oppression without being antisemitic just as it’s possible to support Israel against Islamist aggression without being anti-Muslim. These 2 things are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Too many folk are either one thing or t’other in this conflict when it’s possible to be both/and.
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  48. Kelin looks like he’s been killin’ the Smirnoff, and let’s face it, if you were Putin’s spokesperson, you’d be necking the vodka, too!
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  49. “You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.” (Robert M Pirsig)
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  50. Only about 5 months too late.
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