BBC’s New Face Of Today At Wimbledon
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
The only box that is not ticked is any apparent knowledge of sport!
A YouTube filmmaker with a passion for climate change and sustainability documentaries will be the most prominent new face of the BBC’s Wimbledon coverage next month when Clare Balding takes over from Sue Barker as the main presenter.
Qasa Alom, who was a BBC reporter during last summer’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, has a background in current affairs as well as sport and will replace Balding as host of the Today at Wimbledon highlights show, which she has anchored since 2015.
Alom hosted the ‘Big Debate’ programme on the BBC Asian Network for four years but has also produced investigative documentaries on his own ‘Qasavision’ YouTube channel, which regularly highlight issues of climate change and sustainability.
According to his website, he has a “keen passion” for environmental conservation and was a host at Cop26 and Cop27.
Alom will follow some of the BBC’s most celebrated presenters in his new role on a programme that was launched in 1964 as Wimbledon: Match of the Day before becoming Today at Wimbledon in 1990.
As well as Balding, Jack Kramer, Harry Carpenter, David Vine, Des Lynam, Sue Barker and John Inverdale have hosted a programme that has come under increasing threat over recent years.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
He’s going to be rather upset then when antivaxxer science denier Novak Djokovic wins Wimbledon once again. It’s a pity there don’t seem to be any outspoken climate science deniers among the ranks of the top players. That would really rile him.
The Useful idiots embracing China’s brilliant psyops against the west are everywhere. China is driving ‘climate change’ nonsense and hysteria through the UN and countless other channels. PAUL do you have some accurate info on the ‘hot summer of 1976’, of course Google searches etc are all crooked, saying 2022 was hotter (at airport tarmacs and close to buildings pumping out aircon heat).
Does China own Google now?
nope , but I think they own Mini-Mike Bloomberg though…
Numbers which purport to rewrite and reshape our personal experiences can and should be ignored. To be obsessed with ‘records’ and ‘trends’ and ‘being proved right’ in dreary saloon-bar arguments is the ignoble state to which ‘they’ want us reduced. Say “No!” to being a ‘number-skull.’
Sorry Dave I don’t agree. I have been recording daily details of the weather now for many years. Nothing scientific, just from my weather station and rain gauge. Sad maybe, but I like to look back and compare.
“Numbers” are essential, as it’s the numbers that support our argument, that there’s nothing out of the ordinary happening.
The word ‘numberskull’ was coined by Professor Rudy Rucker in ‘Mind Tools – the Mathematics of Information,’ 1987. I must confess that it is thirty years since I read the book, but I have looked at it again to see if I am remembering his idea reasonably well.
“Numerology deals with small numbers; the obsession I am now thinking of deals with medium numbers. This obsession is very common but there is no word for its victims. I propose that we call them ‘numberskulls.’
“As an example of a numberskull, think of a cousin who, when he comes to see you, talks about the route numbers of the roads he took and about his gas mileage, about the won-lost record of his favorite team, about the fine points of his business’s tax rates,
about his daughter’s grade-point average, about the number of Chinese being born every day, …about the balance remaining on his mortgage, the federal deficit,, and so on – numbers, numbers; medium numbers; numberskull numbers, all evening long!…
“To force someone to vote is to reduce his or her complex opinions to a single numbered choice. Every newspaper article bristles with numbers: dollars, percentages, rates of growth, megatons [of TNT]. It is hard to imagine what the world would be like if it weren’t run by numberskulls….
“…once you start counting it is hard to stop.”
It’s a full scale cultural revolution but this time designed to implant division in Western societies. Unlike the great leap forward, Mao’s ‘cultural revolution’ encouraged criticism. Then the critics started to receive chanting crowds at their door around midnight. Many fled the country, others were driven to suicide, lots were rounded up for work-camps. Sound familiar yet?
My first reaction to Greta when she started going big … was The Red Guard are back… Older readers will remember that China’s “Cultural” “Revolution” was ni reality hell on earth.
Heading our way at a rate of knots. One had hoped that voting Tory would see a battering ram driven through the cultural revolution, instead, they’ve doubled down on it. The West – as many thought would happen, is driving towards a cliff at high speed.
I don’t have any accurate info on the summer of 1976, but I remember it well and I would say that last year was nowhere near as hot, at least here in Cheshire it wasn’t. On the 18th and 19th of July ’22 I recorded 36C – a week later I had the heating on.
As you probably know the Met Office define “heatwaves” as when the temperature exceeds certain predetermined levels for a period of 3 days or more. In 2022 where I live (Kent – typically the warmest part of the country) there never actually was a defined heatwave as it was only above the level for 2 days. I was 20 in 1976
(ah I remember it oh so well) and from memory the heatwave conditions lasted something like 30+ days.
Here’s a thing though, in the early hours one day in the first week of August 1976 I actually spun a car just outside Coventry on ice!
Sub zero must have taken down the “averages” quite a bit.
Last year summer was dry, warm and not particularly sunny where I live
As I recall the 1970s, 1976 was one of several warm summers.
https://jaimejessop.substack.com/p/1976-summer-is-still-the-hottest
Agreed. Happily in that summer of 1976, my ex and our first were living in a small house in Lythe, just outside Whitby on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors. I just recall a truly fabulous summer, with shorts pretty much all I wore for months, and a slowly browned baby wandered the garden naked.
“In the first week of August 1976 I actually spun a car just outside Coventry on ice!”
Hm. The number of times one of my children said they spun on ice, only had one beer, swerved to avoid an alien space ship…!
It is really snowing hard in Greenland:
Ray Sanders – was there a lucky lady you took for a spin in the early hours of that August morning? Am I allowed to ask that these days?
Chris Packam for Test Match Special next then
Hey Ian Botham might have something to say about that – and you don’t mess with Beefy!
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/other-sports/ian-botham-chris-packham-birds-24707515
Vote with the remote…….
Of course sport must be presented by a #GreenSupremacist
Every time I see articles about these so called “Climate” activist types I look for their qualifications. Almost every single time they have no discernible qualifications or education in any form of science, engineering or indeed any remotely related subject. Neither does this guy, I really don’t think a degree in French and German counts towards a knowledge of climate.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/qasalom/?originalSubdomain=uk
I personally find it both arrogant and grossly insulting for charlatans like these to be dictating discussions on subjects they clearly know sweet FA about. Then again I doubt he knows anything about tennis either so nothing new.
My wife and I didn’t contract Covid. Despite being unjabbed…
Yet both of us, during the whole Covid fiasco, contracted sever cases of Tourette’s.
Reports like this make our disease worse. Frankly, they can ****ing well **** right ****ing off with this crap.
I suspect a passionate support for green issues is a must for your CV if applying for any post at the BBC.
Being non-white helps as well, and being gay/trans puts you way out in front.
Yup! You’ve nailed it in one!
You forgot to add the ability to talk out of the back of your arse.
I don’t understand why I was turned down for the job. On the application form I claimed to be a black lesbian in a wheelchair.
As I recall Jeremy Clarkson saying – “you’ve got no chance getting a job with the BBC nowadays if you are white and have a scr**um!”
I am told by somebody who actually reads the Daily Telegraph that there was a recent letter in it from a sometime BBC employee. The BBC man said that it was necessary – to maintain one’s credentials of worthiness – to display that day’s issue of the Guardian at your desk or work station. What else is this but evidence of a conspiracy, a successful conspiracy? The only alternative description is the slightly more nuanced one that BBC recruiters always pick people slightly to the left of themselves and after a few cycles of this the institutional bias is tremendous
It’s not about you.
His creds are ‘passion for climate change and sustainability.’
Which satisfies the elites, for whom the BBC exists. Just cos you are paying for it means nothing. Like your fine government.
More fool anyone paying for this crap. We junked our box a good 20 years back, sick if funding the Propaganda Arm of the Liberal Elite. Not missed it once – anything you might want to watch is out there…
You are not alone Jeremy , about 70,000 cancellations/month
Bloody hell! That’s great. Nearly 3/4 million cancelled in the past year.
Remember there will be cancellations when somebody dies or moves into a care home. It’s not all people giving up their TV sets. Over the year to March 2022 licences in issue declined from 25.244m to 24.906m, which is probably a better measure. Of course there will still be some new households who choose to have a TV licence, so the real answer is somewhere in between. I note they have yet to update the figures for the year to March 2023. Perhaps they are more embarrassing?
Wimbledon has become entirely boring and un-watchable. The constant power smashes, giant Amazonic women grunting all the time. They need fluffy balls, and I think some of the women already have them. Will Djokovic win? Does anybody outside a shrinking set of die hard fans care even slightly?
So they could have Peppa the Pig present it, it wouldn’t matter.
Tennis seems to have been eerily quiet with the “boobs, bulging underwear + 5 o’clock shadow” crew on court.
I wonder how they’ve managed to swerve that?
I suspect because it’s a really high-skill sport that narrows extremely rapidly in terms of top players. The sports with issues sp far seem to be the less skilled, more purely physical ones, such as cycling, swimming, weight-lifting, rowing. But it will happen.
‘giant Amazonic women grunting all the time’
What time is that on?
I think you are watching something else. The women’s number 1, Iga Swiayek, is anything but an Amazon. I’m not sure I’d call any of the top 20 Amazons – most are nothing like. Maybe check what channel and “sport” you are actually viewing?
I think I’d rather have Sir Cliff singing “We’re all going on a summer holiday” when it rains. At least he played the game and knows some of the players – including, of course, Sue Barker. Not that I shall be watching anyway.
This guy talks a lot of sense:
Sorry re above – completely wrong link. This is the one I meant:
I was going to say! Gove hasn’t talked sense since Cameron moved him.from Education (where he had done a good job). He seems to have become yet another Tory LibDem since then.
Met Office says Porthmadog has ended 13th June, only June day never to reach 30C statistical curiousity, at 30.8C (3 other probably junk weather stations also just scraped 30C).
Sorry to be off topic but I occasionally look at Gridwatch to see where your power is coming from.I live in Australia and look to see how much wind contributes to the total.Usually pathetic but have noticed of late a big increase coming from numerous interconnectors.Is this correct or havn’t I noticed itbefore.?
Yes, we are becoming increasingly reliant on imports
Thanks for the reply.I see Biomass seems to be down.Have Drax run out of wood pellets from the USA and Canada.I know you are coming into Summer but the solar figure looks high.I see it is an estimate from Sheffield University so am a little sceptical having being born and living in the U.K.for 24 years.!!!!!!!
No, the reason why Drax has cut back is that the subsidies it was receiving for one of its units has stopped paying out!
BBC can’t help themselves; they’re determined to wreck authentic Britishness everywhere they can.
They put an Asian woman in charge of TMS cricket (Isa Guha) and now a ‘British Bangladeshi’ in charge of fronting Wimbledon. Pathetic and insulting.
Would they present Asian TV with Stephen Fry or an Afro-Caribbean show fronted by Esther Rantzen?
I could live with these people as guests as these are global sports, but not as the main anchor hosts. BBC intentionally insult their ‘captive market’ viewers.
I haven’t paid their wretched fee for years due to their vile policies and can safely say the BBC has long-since had their last penny from me.
“…determined to wreck authentic Britishness…”
‘A people without its myths is already dead.’
Dumezil, French philosopher.
He did not mean ‘myths’ in the sense of ‘ignorant misunderstandings;’ but in the sense of shared narratives, which seem mere ‘Just so!” stories at first glance, but are unifying explanations of themselves for the particular society.
Of course, the wreckers are manufacturing new myths – such as ‘we are all children of Gaia’ – but these will be mystifying for most people.