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  1. Zephir says:
    July 5, 2023 at 10:26 am

    Ahh I get it now Spring, its all about the violent far right objecting to this in Luton

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 5, 2023 at 10:27 am

      I am educated by the UK and taxpayer.

      I use tolerance and freedom to spread hatred of the UK.

      I go on the welfare system whilst I hate the UK, being paid by the taxpayer.

      I tell BBC’s Stacey Dooley I will not follow UK laws.

      I get 2 years and 6 months being looked after by prison guards, paid by the taxpayer.

      I get released 2 and a half years early for hating the UK.

      The UK taxpayer pays £2 million to watch me with 23K other terrorists.

      If you disagree you are Islamophobic and Sajid Javid will arrest you.

      .. Anjem Choudary mocks the tolerance of the West ..

      https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2018/11/05/start-the-week-open-thread-5-november-2018/comment-page-6/#comment-951630

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    • Flotsam says:
      July 5, 2023 at 12:23 pm

      I’m slightly and pleasantly surprised by Stacey Dooley who I would have thought was a woke leftie. Stacey does indeed recognise the reality. The demo was disgusting and could have been described as an anti society hate crime. Never mind, they’re Moslems they are privileged.

      Stacey might have to find another job soon. Perhaps she could go to GB News.

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  2. MarkyMark says:
    July 5, 2023 at 10:33 am

    Reality Check?
    BBC Verify?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/reality_check
    * no migration videos
    * no Starmer Cervix checks?

    No link to the BBC complaints page?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications

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  3. Zephir says:
    July 5, 2023 at 10:37 am

    Still waiting for the far right violence alledged by the bbc, meanwhile

       13 likes

    • MarkyMark says:
      July 5, 2023 at 10:53 am

      “Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest philosophers of the last 100 years, said that: ‘Once something can’t be said, you’re already in a tyranny.’ So, it is indisputable that we are all now living, in 2023, in a tyranny”

         15 likes

    • atlas_shrugged says:
      July 6, 2023 at 8:45 am

      That the Met police still have not brought the stabber of Hatun to justice after all these years is unbelievable incompetence.

      Speakers corner and the surrounding area must have the most CCTV anywhere in the world.

      In the UK there are clearly ‘protected groups’ who are not prosecuted for crimes such as murder or attempted murder. This is against our common law.

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  4. JohnC says:
    July 5, 2023 at 10:37 am

    First funerals take place as Israel ends Jenin assault
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-66104725

    Would you believe it ? – the BBC have actually opened up a ‘live update’ feed for the funerals of these terrorists. And of course the whole objective is to gush as much empathy for the ‘victims’ as possible to try and make people support them.

    What a shame we don’t get any such articles about the victims of these – or any other – terrorists. Perhaps a few close-ups of dead people who have been stabbed in the neck multiple times or children these same people have sent to Israeli checkpoints strapped to suicide bombs would balance it out a little.

    And not a single word to be seen as to WHY the Israelies did what they did.

    People like Bowen – and by extension the BBC for giving him such a soapobox – make me sick.

    And after I remarked what a truly unimpressive idiot Jeremy Bowen looked in the video earlier, he’s back on the case with comments like this:

    ‘If you marry that in with the fact there is a very extreme right-wing government in Israel, then this is the sort of vacuum where the results are pretty dangerous and destabilising.’

    What is ‘very extreme’ Jeremy you clown ?. Even more extreme than extreme ?.

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  5. Zephir says:
    July 5, 2023 at 10:40 am

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  6. Guest Who says:
    July 5, 2023 at 10:47 am

    Earlier I posted our Wez getting the Bray treatment, and then stumbled across this piece, which has an image of one of the nation’s Khan multitude in full gob. Actually hard to find her not like this. The BBc like her, so trouble ahead.

    https://unherd.com/2023/07/who-should-starmer-sack/?

    I laughed at this,, which read like a response to a Toenails or Laura insight piece..

    ***

    Ben Jones

    While I’m sure Mr. McTernan is an expert on Labour Party Kremlinology, but when he uses the phrase ‘strong performer’ in the same sentence as ‘David Lammy,’ I had to chuckle. Ditto Yvette ‘two houses’ Cooper, a Blairite retread we all remember for her house-flipping shenanigans.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 5, 2023 at 10:58 am

      keeping the strong performers where they are

      keeping the strong performers where they are

      keeping the strong performers where they are

      Elsewhere, there are easier decisions for Starmer to make, such as keeping the strong performers where they are: Rachel Reeves, David Lammy and Yvette Cooper.

      https://unherd.com/2023/07/who-should-starmer-sack/

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  7. Beltane says:
    July 5, 2023 at 10:56 am

    Predictably our BBC is promoting that gifted and warm-hearted statesman Aneurin Bevan as instigator and creator of the NHS in 1948, as a member of the then Labour government under Clement Attlee.

    Just for the record, the NHS concept arose as a significant part of the Beveridge Report by Sir William Beveridge on the creation of a welfare state, published in 1942. The report was commissioned in 1940 by Winston Churchill – but don’t expect that fact to get any credit whatsoever from our state news service.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 5, 2023 at 11:03 am

      https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/livinglearning/coll-9-health1/coll-9-health/

      His vision was to battle against what he called the five giants; idleness, ignorance, disease, squalor and want.

      idleness, – Peer blocked from parliamentary debate after ‘falling asleep’ in House of Lords
      https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/peer-asleep-house-of-lords-b2035821.html

      ignorance, – Meet the man Labour thinks can represent Britain abroad: New shadow foreign secretary David Lammy said the 2003 Rose Revolution took place in Yugoslavia, Marie Antoinette won the Nobel Prize and Henry VII succeeded Henry VIII

      disease, – NHS National FGM Support Clinics (NFGMSCs) are community-based clinics that offer a range of support services for women with female genital mutilation (FGM).

      squalor – Islington rated worst place in UK for women to live

      want – The United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal was a major political scandal that emerged in 2009, concerning expenses claims made by members of the British Parliament in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords over the previous years.

         11 likes

  8. Charlie Farley says:
    July 5, 2023 at 11:05 am

    Continuing on from my Nationwide Building Society diversity inclusion statement…..Lloyds Bank who I’m with as well….its far far worse , It looks like one of the reasons closing so many branches is stop customers complaining about about all this b¥locks face to face ! , better not reply to any questionnaires from them otherwise I will be ” Faraged “

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  10. MarkyMark says:
    July 5, 2023 at 11:17 am

    Science is settled?

    order-order.com
    Sixty eight leading computer science academics have signed an open letter raising serious concerns of the government’s proposed Online Safety Bill. The letter argues the bill allows “surveillance technology to be deployed in the spirit of preserving online safety”. They add “this act undermines privacy guarantees and, indeed, safety online”

       10 likes

  11. MarkyMark says:
    July 5, 2023 at 11:20 am

    We are all equal – hold on – when we are not equal we are powerful – oh wait …

    “Women possess a unique power for good, caring deeply for society with empathy and softness. We at the IMF, we make a difference in people’s lives, and this is an incredible privilege but also huge responsibility. #ThePowerCode”

       5 likes

  12. Jeff says:
    July 5, 2023 at 11:20 am

    If this is accurate then it’s going to be tricky for the BBC…

    I’ve just read that the man responsible for the latest US gun massacre is a black, BLM supporting crossdresser. Blimey, he’s ticking most of the boxes.

    I’m just wondering what angle can they possibly take on this one?

    He’s suffered years of racism…transphobia…he was bullied and ridiculed by rednecks.

    Oh, not to worry, they’ll think of something, they always do…

       30 likes

    • JohnC says:
      July 5, 2023 at 11:49 am

      Simple:

      Include all the information in a brief, ‘facts only’ report then post it at 11pm so it disappears from the front page by breakfast. That way they reported it for the ‘fact checkers’.

      Then in subsequent reports (if any) just call him ‘a man’ and link to the original article.

      In contrast, they give a full summary of the original story if it suits the agenda. I reckon they told us how Floyd died and the policeman was white at least 30 times in different articles.

      They are experts at hiding news like that.

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    • tomo says:
      July 5, 2023 at 12:15 pm

      Ha! I saw that unhinged trannie murderous nutter – and it’s ticking all the wrong boxes obviously for the cubicle monkeys and their fat controllers.

      Could trigger a meltdown if properly provoked?

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    • moggie63 says:
      July 5, 2023 at 2:12 pm

      They can just say he identifies as a white supremacist and all will be well.

         7 likes

  14. MarkyMark says:
    July 5, 2023 at 11:29 am

    During the first five-year plan, Joseph Stalin’s all-out campaign to take land ownership and organisation away from the peasantry meant that, according to historian Robert Conquest, “peasants with a couple of cows or five or six acres [~2 ha] more than their neighbors” were labeled kulaks.[8] In 1929, Soviet officials officially classified kulaks according to subjective criteria, such as the use of hired labour. Under dekulakization, government officials seized farms and killed many kulaks,[4][9] deported others to labor camps, and drove many others to migrate to the cities following the loss of their property to the collectives.[10]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulak

    …..

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 5, 2023 at 11:44 am

      Consider small boats. Under the current system, a reforming Government could solve the problem of illegal immigration tomorrow. It could legislate to make the Rwanda scheme legal, or leave the ECHR, or declare a state of emergency. This would require a simple majority in the House of Commons, or, in extremis, the creation of several hundred new peers. With ‘A New Britain’ and judicial review, the issue will be taken entirely out of elected hands; judges will simply enforce the principle that every human is entitled to live in a Western country.
      https://dailysceptic.org/2023/07/04/labours-new-britain-constitution-will-end-parliamentary-democracy/
      …………………..

      This report offers a fresh start – with proposals to create a virtuous circle where
      spreading power and opportunity more equally throughout the country – with the
      right powers in the right places – unlocks the potential for growth and prosperity in
      every part of the country, and in doing so revives people’s faith that we can all benefit
      from a responsive and accountable system of government

      Click to access Commission-on-the-UKs-Future.pdf

         10 likes

  17. MarkyMark says:
    July 5, 2023 at 11:36 am

    Secondly, many western historians point to collectivization as a cause of the large-scale famine in the Soviet Union between 1932 and 1933 in which 3.3 to 7.5 million died.[39] These famines were among the worst in history and created scars which would mark the Soviet Union for many years to come and incense a deep hatred of Russians by Ukrainians, Tatars, and many other ethnic groups.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_five-year_plan

    …………….

    The Soviet famine of 1930–1933 was a famine in the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union, including Ukraine and different parts of Russia, including Northern Caucasus, Volga Region, Kazakhstan,[6][7][8] the South Urals, and West Siberia.[9][10] Estimates conclude that 5.7 to 8.7 million people died of famine across the Soviet Union. Major contributing factors to the famine include: the forced collectivization of agriculture as a part of the First Five-Year Plan, and forced grain procurement, combined with rapid industrialization and a decreasing agricultural workforce. Sources disagree on the possible role of drought. During this period the Soviet government escalated its persecution against the kulaks. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had ordered kulaks “to be liquidated as a class”

    kulaks = farmers.

    In late October, 2021, as part of the Danish government’s climate plan, an area spanning 100,000ha adjacent to the Skjern river, in western Jutland, will need to be taken out of farming production and returned to wetland, to prevent further emission of carbon dioxide.18 Sept 2022

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    • Dickie says:
      July 5, 2023 at 2:52 pm

      Suppose the Danish and Netherlands farmers could be referred to as Danish or Dutch kulaks

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    • atlas_shrugged says:
      July 6, 2023 at 9:21 am

      Never forget the statue that was erected by the mad-marxists in honour of a little boy who dobbed his parents in for grain-hoarding. The parents were sent to the gulags to be worked to death in appalling conditions.

      Pavlik Morozov
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlik_Morozov

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  18. MarkyMark says:
    July 5, 2023 at 11:48 am

    THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED – dated 1940

    ….

    In 1940, Lysenko became director of the Institute of Genetics within the USSR’s Academy of Sciences, and he used his political influence and power to suppress dissenting opinions and discredit, marginalize, and imprison his critics, elevating his anti-Mendelian theories to state-sanctioned doctrine.[4]

    Soviet scientists who refused to renounce genetics were dismissed from their posts and left destitute. Hundreds if not thousands of others were imprisoned. Several were sentenced to death as enemies of the state, including the botanist Nikolai Vavilov.[5] Lysenko’s ideas and practices contributed to the famines that killed millions of Soviet people;[5] the adoption of his methods from 1958 in the People’s Republic of China had similarly calamitous results, culminating in the Great Chinese Famine of 1959 to 1962.[5]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko

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    • BigBrotherCorporation says:
      July 5, 2023 at 1:06 pm

      Lysenko is notorious in scientific circles, he was a favourite of Stalin’s, and he said what Stalin wanted to hear. Therefore, he was promoted to a position where he had total dictatorial power over large swathes of ‘scientific research’, ‘education’, and agricultural policy.

      Anyone who has ever had to read translations of ‘academic’ papers produced in the USSR during that era, as I have in the past, due to research projects, will have some notion of just how much (evil) influence the man, and his cronies had.

      The results were an absolute disaster, and allegedly no one had the balls to tell Stalin what a disaster it was (or ended up liquidated), so any failures were blamed on some poor saps at the receiving end, and things only went further and further downhill.

      The disaster went further than just (!) the starvation and displacement of millions, it also led to the loss of careers (sometimes lives) of thousands of brilliant scientists, the dumbing down of education and research, and an increase in disinformation, propaganda, and the institutions and individuals that provide and profit from them, along with a corresponding loss of trust in society and its leaders, and a growing black market etc… Ultimately, I’m sure it was at least partly to blame for the fall of Communism, and the sorry state of formerly communist states, even today.

      You’re right to point it out Mark, as I’ve mentioned here before, I work in science and engineering, and we’ve been witnessing something similar in, not just UK, but Western science and engineering since maybe the mid 90s? Blair was responsible for some of it in this country, I witnessed him, and his party put certain pressures on institutions I worked for at the time to move in certain directions. I clearly recall many of the older and more senior scientists at the time objecting strongly to such ‘interference’ and that it was going to result in ‘dumbing down’/’disaster’… I’ll try and recall some specific examples to clarify what I’m trying to say (badly), but I honestly think we have, and are, living through something comparable – a frightening thought, frankly.

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      • Terminal Moraine says:
        July 5, 2023 at 4:02 pm

        BigBrotherCorporation, I’d be interested if you posted any of those examples.

        ———
        “The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness. As one participant put it, ‘poor methods get results’.

        […] The apparent endemicity of bad research behaviour is alarming. In their quest for telling a compelling story, scientists too often sculpt data to fit their preferred theory of the world. Or they retrofit hypotheses to fit their data. Journal editors deserve their fair share of criticism too. We aid and abet the worst behaviours. Our acquiescence to the impact factor fuels an unhealthy competition to win a place in a select few journals. Our love of “significance” pollutes the literature with many a statistical fairy-tale. We reject important confirmations. Journals are not the only miscreants. Universities are in a perpetual struggle for money and talent, endpoints that foster reductive metrics, such as high-impact publication. National assessment procedures, such as the Research Excellence Framework, incentivise bad practices. And individual scientists, including their most senior leaders, do little to alter a research culture that occasionally veers close to misconduct.”

        Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief / The Lancet
        ———

        https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)60696-1/fulltext

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  19. StewGreen says:
    July 5, 2023 at 11:56 am

    Actual screenshot of Rowlatt on July 3rd doing
    his story “Hottest June evah, all the fish died !”
    Note the chunky sweater
    … https://twitter.com/No2BS/status/1676408144354746368

    F0PMUgKXwAAXJoy?format=jpg&name=small

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 5, 2023 at 11:59 am

      Weather Channel Responds To Claims Reporter Was Faking Coverage Of Hurricane Florence

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    • tomo says:
      July 5, 2023 at 12:08 pm

      Is that a canal or a river lock? – often huge difference in terms of oxygenation …

         5 likes

    • Beltane says:
      July 5, 2023 at 12:28 pm

      After Justin’s histrionic armwaving, and failure to mention the effects of raw sewage, the item went on to include an interview with a farmer who prophesied major changes to agriculture with ‘mediterranean-based crops’ thanks to climate change.

      Oddly enough, back in 1976 at the height of the drought, similar prophesies were aired by similar experts. And when conditions the following year in 1977 were so cold and wet that thousands of acres of crops rotted in the fields, incapable of being harvested, those same experts were unavailable for comment. Or perhaps they weren’t asked.

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      • Richard Pinder says:
        July 5, 2023 at 4:42 pm

        BBC diversity: Inclusive of both Low IQ & High IQ people.

        Low IQ idiot, Justin Rowlatt, says heat boiling the water, not ice freezing the water, kills the fish. In Britain, Mediterranean-based crops are threatened by something that starts in September, unless you have a massive Market Garden Greenhouse.

        High IQ Genius, Paul Whitehouse, using evidence based science, says its sewage. Paul Whitehouse: Our Troubled Rivers:
        Episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0k4imBTpCE
        Episode 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zm0uliupZ4

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    • BigBrotherCorporation says:
      July 5, 2023 at 1:12 pm

      Looks like Caen Hill at Devizes. Mass die offs of fish there are a regular in the summer months, as I recall from my boyhood, often spent fishing there.

      The problem is the small ponds created between the numerous locks are often cut off from any flow of water overnight. On warm summer nights, if there are a lot of fish trapped in any of the ponds, and they do congregate there in large numbers, especially carp and perch, there just isn’t enough oxygen in the water and many suffocate.

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      • tomo says:
        July 5, 2023 at 3:24 pm

        K&A Canal is often low Oxygen in summer.

        Same experience further west.

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  20. Emmanuel Goldstein says:
    July 5, 2023 at 12:06 pm

    Whilst it’s encouraging that a group of those in the Conservative Party have decided to offer a few of the more conservative policies (the new conservative lot) they all seem to have the same failing which means nothing will happen.

    The likes of Miriam Cates says the right things but her and all the others I’ve heard are also saying that Sunak is doing a great job and are fully behind him.
    The same applies to Rees Mogg and Lee Anderson.

    So long as they appear to be happy with the direction the leaders are taking them then they are meaningless.
    They need to criticise the leaders for all the wrong things they are doing and abandon this loyalty which they are stuck with.

    By the way, I’ve just seen on Twitter someone with my user name. It’s not me.

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  21. tomo says:
    July 5, 2023 at 12:07 pm

    “Banks should be free to choose who they keep or accept as customers…”

    “OK, so should water companies be allowed to choose who they supply?”

    “No! Water is a human right!”

    “OK, so how are people with no banking facilities going to pay their water bill?”

    “Racist! Transphobe!”

    @clim8resistance on Twitter

    The public debate is *deliberately* unhinged.

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  22. MarkyMark says:
    July 5, 2023 at 12:09 pm

    Amazing – ask the right question get the right answer….

    The poll, conducted between April and June 2023, spoke to 1,178 people.

    Labour MP Diane Abbott shared the poll on Twitter, describing it as “remarkable”.

    The Corbyn ally said: “Jeremy Corbyn is now the most popular current or former Labour leader.

    “Remarkable given the unremitting hostility to him of the Labour Party establishment.”

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1787670/Jeremy-Corbyn-approval-rating-Labour-leader-poll

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  23. tomo says:
    July 5, 2023 at 12:33 pm

    Piss-up in brewery, orgy in a brothel etc. – although fruitier novel suggestions are welcome.

    Hames was an accountant in a previous life.

    Duncan-Hames-on-Twitter-UK-Health-Security-Agency-s-financial-cont-twitter-com.png

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    • MarkyMark says:
      July 5, 2023 at 1:05 pm

      Jeremy Hunt: everyone will be paying more tax after autumn statement 2022

      Everyone. Everyone. Everyone.

      1,860,000
      Theresa May, Former UK PM earned £1.86 million in her 2 years since leaving Downing Street, figures show

      500,000
      Barry Gardiner defends donations worth £500,000 from Chinese agent

      400,000
      Matt Hancock, who lost the Tory whip after it was announced he would be appearing on the ITV programme, is still being paid as an independent MP and is rumoured to have been paid £400,000 to appear on the I’m a celebrity.

      315,00
      Boris Johnson earns £315,000 for 30 minute speech and ‘fireside chat’ in United States

      65,040
      Chuka Umunna Advisory Board of The Progressive Centre UK think tank (also known as Global Progress)

      20,000
      Jeremy Corbyn Labour party leader accepted up to £20,000 (about $27,000) for appearances on the Iranian state broadcast network Press TV

      18,450
      Keir Starmer £18,450 from Harper Collins as an advance payment for a book.

      15,000
      Boris Johnson Accommodation for a private holiday for my partner and me, value £15,000 Destination of visit: St Vincent and the Grenadines

      10,000
      Jeremy Hunt £10,000 from Citigroup Centre for speaking at an event on 9 March 2021. Hours: 4 hrs. Fee paid direct to charity. (Charity not mentioned)

      5,822
      Nadhim Zahawi MP promises to repay the part of £5,822.27 expenses claim for second home energy bills that relates to electricity for stables

      2,200
      MPs to get £2,200 pay rise from April for ‘dramatically increased’ duties last year

      1,950
      Philip Hammond accepts £2,000 watch from Saudi sheikh, despite ban on donating expensive gifts

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  24. G.W.F. says:
    July 5, 2023 at 1:18 pm

    Paris Fashion Week: Haute couture shows go ahead after riots

    BAMES model frocks and smocks at Paris shows

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66094979

       4 likes

  25. MarkyMark says:
    July 5, 2023 at 1:23 pm

    Saudi Arabia Fashion Show Replaces Models With Drones | ABP News

       6 likes

  26. andyjsnape says:
    July 5, 2023 at 1:23 pm

    Special Forces at centre of Afghanistan war crimes inquiry, MoD confirms
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66106980

    Can only begin to imagine the future “reporting” from the ex British bbc

    Can no profession do its job without the self righteous bbc sticking its nose in

    panorama special to follow no doubt

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    • Guest Who says:
      July 5, 2023 at 2:03 pm

      This appears to be the one that is part of an ongoing Panorama special. That has got from…

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0019707
      SAS Death Squads Exposed: A British War Crime?

      And..

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62083196
      SAS unit repeatedly killed Afghan detainees, BBC finds

      to

      Special Forces at centre of Afghanistan war crimes inquiry, MoD confirms

      So, having made some hairy, definitive claims using every sub-Ed trick in the book a while ago, they are either now less certain or just ramping up again?

      Either way, those first two headlines, based on allegations, should see the BBC shut down.

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      • MarkyMark says:
        July 5, 2023 at 2:13 pm

        Time and again, you have stood up to aggression and those who flout the rules based international order. You should be incredibly proud of all that you do – just as the whole country is proud of you.

        This year we also marked significant milestones. At memorial sites in the UK and around Europe, we honoured our fallen and paid tribute to their memory as we commemorated a centenary since the end of the First World War.

        We celebrated 100 years of the RAF – including a magnificent flypast over Buckingham Palace. And looking to the future, our F-35 Lightning stealth fighter jets landed on the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth for the first time.

        Now as we approach the New Year, there will be new challenges ahead. But I know you will continue to meet them in the same way that you have always done.

        With courage, determination, resilience, ingenuity.

        Qualities that are as vital now as they have ever been.

        So on behalf of the whole country – let me say thank you to you, and to your families whose love and support is so important.

        https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/prime-ministers-2018-christmas-message-to-the-armed-forces

        PM_portrait_960x640.jpg

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      • Northern Voter says:
        July 5, 2023 at 3:19 pm

        BBC has learned, it should keep quiet, or it will get slotted by Special Forces!

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      • Dickie says:
        July 5, 2023 at 3:20 pm

        “SAS unit repeatedly killed Afghan detainees, BBC finds”

        What, the same ones

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    • Terminal Moraine says:
      July 5, 2023 at 3:49 pm

      Make it last for 3yrs and produce some Imperial College modelling that shows actually a negative number of unlawful killings were predicted.

      That’s how to do an independent inquiry now.

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  27. Fedup2 says:
    July 5, 2023 at 1:43 pm

    Apparently the emir of londonistan has been receiving a lot of nasty racially oriented comments about his effing ULEZ scheme .
    Perhaps if he was a wiser mayor – listening to Londoners – he’d get a fairer crack …..

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  28. MarkyMark says:
    July 5, 2023 at 2:10 pm

    Your taxes and public spending
    https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/annual-tax-summary/treasury-spending?taxYear=2022

    This shows a breakdown of how your taxes have been, or will be spent by government.

    Description
    Amount

    Health aka NHS (22.8%)

    Welfare aka Anjhem Choudary (20.4%)

    State Pensions aka Civil Service Pensions (11%)

    Education aka Striking teachers (10.5%)
    ..
    ..
    Outstanding payments to the EU aka Brexit never happened in 2016 (0.7%)

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  29. Guest Who says:
    July 5, 2023 at 2:18 pm

    https://twitter.com/kayburley/status/1676499547336372225?s=43

    NHS patients should be allowed to pay to speed up access to healthcare, says former Labour PM.

    Here’s what Labour’s shadow Health Sec had to say about Tony Blair’s comments.

    ***

    And then colleague Dave Lammy

    https://twitter.com/RossiMartinis/status/1676537352561348609?s=20

    People, like my godmother Aunt Margot, made the NHS.

    To all the doctors, nurses, clinical support staff and volunteers – thank you for being the heart and soul of our healthcare system.

    A Labour government created the NHS.

    75 years later, it is our mission to rebuild it.

    ***

    Beyond now familiar factual variations that Labour are allowed by media, whilst undeniably many paid staff have and still contribute, it was ‘built’ and sustained at its currently woefully inefficient level using poorly managed public funds.

    And Aunt Mag’s godson likely would be in the Zil lane for the cosmetic treatment under Uncle Tony’s new plan.

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  30. MarkyMark says:
    July 5, 2023 at 2:20 pm

    Special Forces at centre of Afghanistan war crimes inquiry, MoD confirms
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66106980

    ……………

    Bacha bāzī (Persian: بچه بازی, lit. ’boy play’)[1] is a slang term used in Afghanistan[2][3] for a custom in Afghanistan involving child sexual abuse by older men of young adolescent males or boys, called dancing boys, often involving sexual slavery and child prostitution.[4] Though outlawed, bacha bazi is still practiced in certain regions of Afghanistan.[5][6][3] Force and coercion are common, and security officials of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan stated they were unable to end such practices and that many of the men involved in bacha bazi are powerful and well-armed warlords.[7][8][9]

    During times under Taliban currently and previously, bacha bazi carries the death penalty under Taliban law.[10] Under the post-Taliban government, the practice of dancing boys was illegal under Afghan law, but the laws were seldom enforced against powerful offenders, and police had reportedly been complicit in related crimes.[11][12] Despite international concern and its illegality, the practice continued under the post-Taliban government.[13][14]

    A controversy arose after allegations surfaced that U.S. government forces in Afghanistan after the invasion of the country deliberately ignored bacha bazi.[15] The U.S. military responded by claiming the abuse was largely the responsibility of the “local Afghan government”.[16]

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  31. Guest Who says:
    July 5, 2023 at 2:22 pm

    Then of course… pure BBC race baiting and inaccuracy. ‘Erased’, indeed.

    The World War Two battalion of black women erased from history

    Comment:

    “Which other non combat units were given ceremonies, parades or public recognition?”

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  32. Guest Who says:
    July 5, 2023 at 2:24 pm

    Back to Nige’s No-No…

    In which a renowned journalist pitches to become BBC Head of Newsiness.

       18 likes

  33. Guest Who says:
    July 5, 2023 at 2:28 pm

    Which is why TalkTV and the rest get invited along by JSO and are trying to make a thing of it.

       5 likes

  34. Guest Who says:
    July 5, 2023 at 2:30 pm

    Guess Greta will be flying over to chat to Mishal next time.

       18 likes

    • MarkyMark says:
      July 5, 2023 at 2:35 pm

      The Climate Book: Greta Thunberg Hardcover – 27 Oct. 2022
      by Greta Thunberg (Author)

      £20.00

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  35. Guest Who says:
    July 5, 2023 at 2:32 pm

    Still, the trust is hard fought for and earned…

    https://www.tvbeurope.com/business/irish-government-plans-root-and-branch-investigation-of-rte?

    Or bought.

       5 likes

  36. andyjsnape says:
    July 5, 2023 at 2:32 pm

    Netherlands: Phone ban announced to stop school disruptions
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66107027

    Gettyimages for a typical Dutch student

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  37. Guest Who says:
    July 5, 2023 at 2:36 pm

    Interns. Tomorrow’s leaders.

    So I was interested in this…

    https://www.thefp.com/p/meet-the-interns-introducing-our?

    Seem a fair cross-section of the educated top end.

    I simply recall a recent similar share I offered here by an eco publication that was… not so much.

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  38. Guest Who says:
    July 5, 2023 at 2:40 pm

    Now, were I an intern researching a key story, would this bit of OF-wibble in a sea of ECU-babble satisfy me?

    https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/07/05/porthmadog/#more-65429

    If #28Gate approved, probably.

    And you do get to bring Justin an extra jummie.

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    • tomo says:
      July 5, 2023 at 4:47 pm

      Grant Schapp’s interns seem to have been having fun for ages dreaming up profoundly daft things for the vacuous gourd to say to the media.

         5 likes

  39. LynetteO says:
    July 5, 2023 at 2:41 pm

    Israel is happy about killing children !!!

    Unbelievable interview by the BBC

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    • Fedup2 says:
      July 5, 2023 at 2:51 pm

      Its so bad its almost funny. That BBC presenters needs to go to journo school .
      Really embarrassingly bad .

      Is that woman palestinian ? There is no evidence of neutrality there .

      Who is that idiot presenter ? If i was from the IDF id declare her a hostile

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    • Lucy Pevensey says:
      July 5, 2023 at 4:44 pm

      I’ve been told that Tweets don’t show properly here anymore.
      Hopefully posting pictures works.

      Here are 2 of the freedom fighters TERRORISTS which were killed by the IDF in Jenin

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      • Lucy Pevensey says:
        July 5, 2023 at 4:48 pm

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      • Guest Who says:
        July 5, 2023 at 4:55 pm

        One has to understand that culturally they are allowed to run about with ARs offing jews. Apparently.

        And the BBC EdGud ‘child’ goes from babe in arms to 18yo thug, according to narrative required, victim to perp, political football, etc.

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      • G says:
        July 6, 2023 at 9:01 am

        Festooned but only two hands to use the tools…………………

        A spare mag or three/four might speed up the process.

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  40. Dickie says:
    July 5, 2023 at 2:43 pm

    from UK Column

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    nchnick
    10/06/2022 – 09:28
    I might be barking up the wrong tree but….

    British Heart Foundation: Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome
    https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/conditions/sads
    (First published 21/11/21)

    What is SADS?

    Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome is when someone dies suddenly and unexpectedly from a cardiac arrest, but the cause of the cardiac arrest can’t be found.
    …
    Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome affects around 500 people in the UK every year.

    And then there is this:

    Office of National Statistics: Sudden Adult Deaths 2016 to 2021
    https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinfor…

    Sudden Cardiac Deaths for England and Wales only
    Year – Total
    2016 – 58
    2017 – 43
    2018 – 31
    2019 – 43

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    • Richard Pinder says:
      July 5, 2023 at 5:43 pm

      BBC & OFCOM say ‘Don’t mention the Autopsies’

      If you search Google Scholar from 2022, with the words ‘Sudden’ ‘Arrhythmic’ ‘Death’ ‘Syndrome’ ‘Autopsy’ ‘mRNA’ you get 2,280 scientific papers saying that the mRNA jab injected nanoparticles that contained a genetic instruction to human cells to produce spike proteins. The spike proteins killed human cells causing sudden death, mostly from dead blood cells clumping together and forming big long blood clots that can suddenly move into a fatal position in the heart.

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  41. Fedup2 says:
    July 5, 2023 at 3:07 pm

    The eco fools have -as expected – done something at Wimbledon . Since one of the purposes of the criminal justice system is to ‘deter ‘ – perhaps the punishment needs a bit more severity …

    Close their bank accounts – put them through the civil courts ….

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  42. taffman says:
    July 5, 2023 at 3:09 pm

    Let’s Blame Brexit ………..
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-66091813

       10 likes

  43. taffman says:
    July 5, 2023 at 3:17 pm

    “Water bills expected to rise, says regulator”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66106909
    And who is going to pay for the mess ?
    IMHO, Ofwat and Offcom are both rubbish !

       11 likes

  44. s.trubble says:
    July 5, 2023 at 3:25 pm

    Happy Birthday NHS.
    But wait a minute there….can we really say we are happy to have witnessed a recent rise of 50% in the NHS budget for a return of a 50% degradation in service levels.

    Or there again did BLAIR & Brown conveniently award the first of the huge uplifts with nothing in return? Continued thereafter.

    Nevermind its the old adage of the entire British Public Sector.

    Not MY money mate.

       13 likes

  45. Zephir says:
    July 5, 2023 at 3:31 pm

    A fly on the wall at the bbc Marriana Spring job interview

       8 likes

  46. Terminal Moraine says:
    July 5, 2023 at 3:31 pm

    More sympathetic, one-dimensional BBC analysis: “France riots: ‘For the politicians we are nothing'”

    Gangs… drugs… lack of upward mobility… such is life on the social housing projects. A woman on the estate says “‘It’s like living in a bin here […] People defecate in the lifts and stairwells.'”

    For the BBC reporter and Amine Kessaci, whose drug trafficking brother was found murdered in a car, the remedy is clear — égalité. Because this is the answer to everything the BBC now touch, it matters not what the evidence base shows.

    Only when we’re all being burnt to death in car boots and shitting in stairwells will we have achieved true equality. It’s the only way, “we’re all in it together”.

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    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66104632

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  47. Up2snuff says:
    July 5, 2023 at 4:23 pm

    TOADY Watch #2 – can we afford it during the so-called ‘the-cost-of-living-crisis’?

    No, I don’t think we can. No, I don’t think we should. The UK is ready to drop the £11.6 billion (!) pledge for the so-called ‘Climate Fund’ so says today’s Guardian. Good, say I. This is said to be reparations to poor nations affected by so-called Climate Change from the UK for our Industrial Revolution and for having invented much of what those poor nations enjoy, such as air travel (the Wright Brothers should also carry the can for that), cars (although Herr Benz and M’sieu Renault were equally guilty on that one), boats and medicine. We did invent the bicycle. Hey! Wait a minute, half a mo’. No emissions from bicycles except from the riders.

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  48. Dickie says:
    July 5, 2023 at 4:47 pm

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  49. tomo says:
    July 5, 2023 at 4:48 pm

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