252 Responses to Weekend 3rd February 2024

  1. taffman says:

    We are fast becoming the dustbin of Europe and the world.
    Whatever the criminal charge, you cannot be deported from the UK.
    “Hotel California” ?

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  2. vlad says:

    Earlier, tomo posted a clip from BBC East Midlands showing some future doctors and engineers clearly brandishing huge, vicious looking zombie knives in the streets.
    Predictably, the BBC had blurred their faces. The caption ran: video showing youths apparently wielding machetes…
    The good news is the comments: they unanimously lambast the BBC for blurring their faces and for adding the word ‘unanimously’ (some below). I stopped reading after the first few dozen.

    The point is that on the BBC’s own Twitter page, thousands of readers are scathing about the rotten Corporation. They’re waking up. Now stop paying the extortion tax.

    – You cheered these conquerors on for the last 20 years

    – Why blur their faces and what is the ‘apparently’ for?

    – Import the third world, get the third world.

    – Diversity is our strength

    – How much contempt does the BBC have for average hard working citizen to blur and protect the identity of would be murders in the streets

    – BBC is apparently attempting journalism after failing on an hourly basis!

    – Doctors and engineers. We know their immigration status BBC no need to hide their faces.

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  3. Sluff says:

    Is it just chance or is this an example of the insidious bias of the BBC?

    On a recent edition of Call the Midwife, part of the plot involved standing for Mayor in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. We were told what a marvellous place it was. All those white councillors for instance.

    Are we meant to think that it is still like it was in 1969?

    Because it isn’t. It’s 40% Muslim, 27% non UK born, 15% site Bangla Desh as their country.

    The council is run by the Aspire Party, ( ever heard of them) founded and entirely informed by religious/ racial lines. Non white of course.

    So what we have here is the BBC insidiously seeking to normalise by false association what me might call Bangla Desh on Thames.

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  4. tomo says:

    The goons pulling Biden’s strings are the problem – and they are intent on making a drooling dotard the focus of public enmity to effect their getaway.

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  5. tomo says:

    that John Podesta?

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  6. Fedup2 says:

    From the mail on Sunday –

    STARTS A BBC editor was hired as an expert witness to help at least 15 Somalian criminals fight deportation – including a vile offender who sexually attacked a deaf teenage girl.

    Last year, The Mail on Sunday exposed how Mary Harper, Africa Editor for the World Service, was paid to give expert witness evidence for Somali gang rapist Yaqub Ahmed during his five-year legal battle to stay in the UK.

    Now an investigation by this newspaper can reveal Ms Harper has given expert witness evidence in a string of other controversial deportation appeals by Somali offenders – including for another three sex attackers, three drug dealers and a career criminal who spent a decade in British jails.

    Following a series of questions from the MoS, the BBC last night announced that Ms Harper was leaving the Corporation, but refused to say whether she had been sacked or had quit.

    In one of the most shocking cases, Ms Harper warned that a Somali man who committed a horrific sexual assault on a profoundly deaf 17-year-old girl would be at ‘severely heightened risk’ if he was sent back to Somalia because he had committed a sex crime.

    A judge disagreed and threw out his appeal against deportation. Astonishingly, this newspaper has discovered that, 16 months later, the 29-year-old attacker, who the MoS is banned from naming by a court order, has still not been kicked out of Britain and is living with relatives in a council flat.

    The shocking revelations come just days after it emerged that an Afghan man currently on the run after a horrific chemical attack was granted asylum despite having a conviction for sexual assault.

    Ms Harper’s extensive work as an expert witness last night plunged the BBC into an impartiality row.

    Tory deputy chairman Rachel Maclean MP said she was ‘flabbergasted’ at the number of immigration cases Ms Harper had been involved in and demanded the Corporation review its guidelines.

    ‘What are the families of those affected by these criminals thinking when a BBC employee is giving evidence to say they should stay in the country?,’ she said. ‘To me there is something very wrong with that.’

    Our exclusive investigation also reveals how:

    Ms Harper suggested that a violent criminal convicted of assault and robbery would be at risk from terrorists in Somalia as his tattooed arms would be seen as a ‘sign of homosexuality’;

    She claimed another prolific criminal would face ‘great difficulties’ in Somalia due to a lack of family and financial support – despite the court hearing the offender’s mother had enjoyed three holidays to Dubai;

    Ms Harper warned a third criminal’s long history of offending in the UK – 39 convictions for 80 crimes over 17 years – would result in him being shunned by his clan if he returned to Somalia;

    A Somali who flooded a Hampshire town with drugs was allowed to stay in the UK after Ms Harper gave evidence. Ahmed Ali Jama, 29, claimed he would be in danger in Somalia because his father and sister are popular singers;

    Judges twice questioned Ms Harper’s objectivity and in a third case branded some of her evidence ‘speculative and not supported by any broad range of views’;

    In another tribunal, the Home Office said information she had mistakenly attributed to a terrorist source was ‘in fact obtained from an office cleaner’.

    Educated at £42,000-a-year Bedales School in Hampshire, Ms Harper became a BBC Africa Editor in 2009. The mother of two first visited Somalia in 1994 at the height of its civil war and has written books about the nation and the Al-Shabaab terror group.

    On her website, she describes herself as ‘an expert witness in Somali-related legal cases’ as well as referring to her BBC job.

    Court papers reveal she has been providing expert witness evidence in immigration cases for at least a decade, and has links with Wilson Solicitors, the London law firm that represented Yaqub Ahmed during his relentless cycle of dubious human rights appeals.

    Ahmed, 34, who was jailed in 2008 for raping a 16-year-old girl, was deported last August – five years after his removal was thwarted following a mutiny of virtue-signalling passengers on the same flight.

    The MoS has identified 12 immigration cases in which Wilson Solicitors asked Ms Harper to either write a report or give evidence in court.

    Despite repeated requests, Ms Harper and the BBC have refused to disclose how much she has been paid to give evidence. Legal sources say expert witnesses can be paid up to £2,500 for producing a report in legal-aid-funded cases.

    Seven of the 15 Somali criminals whose cases involved evidence from Ms Harper were successful in their appeals. The Home Office last night refused to say how many of the others have been deported.

    In 2019, Ms Harper provided evidence during a bid to block the deportation of a Somali who had been jailed for seven years for an appalling sex attack.

    Known as AMW after a court order was imposed to protect his anonymity, the man, now 29, repeatedly sexually assaulted his deaf 17-year-old girlfriend at a party in 2013, causing her to scream in pain, after she objected to him having sex with another woman.

    Court papers state he attacked the girl, who had learning difficulties and mental health problems, ‘to humiliate and punish her’. In 2018, the Home Office stripped him of his refugee status and issued a deportation order, prompting a human rights challenge.

    The next year, after considering a report from Ms Harper, an immigration judge allowed AMW’s appeal, but the decision was challenged by the Home Office and referred to the Upper Immigration Tribunal. Ms Harper’s evidence again formed a crucial part of the case.

    She warned that, if deported to Mogadishu, he would be at risk because of his ‘lack of understanding’ of Somalia’s capital. She wrote: ‘I believe the facts that [AMW] has never been to Somalia, does not speak the language well, has no family or other contacts in the country and has committed a sexual offence would… make it impossible for him to survive.’

    But in September 2022, a judge dismissed AMW’s appeal, saying his analysis ‘differs markedly from Mrs Harper’s’.

    Despite the ruling, AMW’s brother last week told an MoS reporter that the offender remains in the UK, living with relatives in a flat. And a cousin added: ‘He has already served his time. He is a free person right now.’

    In another astonishing case, Ms Harper provided expert reports for Somali drug dealer Ahmed Ali Jama, who was jailed for four years and eight months in May 2018 after he admitted his role in a county lines network that had distributed more than a kilogram of Class A drugs to Aldershot in Hampshire.

    He had previously been jailed for 26 weeks for possession of a knife in 2013, and 13 months in July 2015 after he was involved in a fight outside a kebab shop.

    The 29-year-old claimed during an immigration tribunal that he would be in danger from Islamists if sent back to Mogadishu because his father and sister are ‘popular Somali singers’.

    In June 2023, following an appeal, Jama was allowed to stay in the UK after Ms Harper provided two expert reports which focused on the job opportunities for people returning to Somalia and the living conditions in the refugee camps where she said some have been forced to live.

    In 2021, three judges said Ms Harper ‘speaks with a degree of authority’ and that ‘in general’ they found her evidence helpful.

    But her evidence has also been criticised. In a 2014 case involving three Somalis, Ms Harper warned deportees could be attacked by ‘criminals, militias, government troops, African Union soldiers and Al-Shabaab.’ Three judges later ruled this ‘appears to be an overstatement’.

    The following year another judge said he could attach ‘little weight’ to a report prepared by Ms Harper, adding that it ‘lacks the objectivity demanded’, while during the Yaqub Ahmed legal case three judges said they had ‘concerns’ about the objectivity of some of her evidence.

    Former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said, ‘For a judge to question her evidence on the basis of lack of impartiality is astonishing’ and raised questions for the BBC.’

    The MoS understands Ms Harper will leave the BBC this month. A spokesman declined to say whether her departure was linked to the MoS’s revelations.

    BBC staff are expected to seek permission from bosses before undertaking external work. It is unclear whether Ms Harper ever sought or received such approval to act as an expert witness. The BBC said: ‘While there is nothing in the BBC’s rules to prevent staff acting as expert witnesses, they are required to be objective and impartial in their evidence.’

    Ms Harper did not respond to requests to comment. ENDS

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    • tomo says:

      I just had a 5 minute look around Ms Harper’s blog and web site + other stuff from a quick name + BBC search.

      Quite why she’s so obviously gone well out of her way to do what she’s done?

      She seems to be a bonkers blind compulsive do-gooder (Messiah complex) who’s wallowing in the attention. She’ll move on to cats or dogs when humans get tired of her?

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  7. JohnC says:

    Just having a glance at the BBC UK news page to see what they consider to be the important news for us all.

    First thing which stands out is all the faces looking at me:
    I can see:

    8 males of which 2 are white English
    17 females of which 2 are black

    So of 25 people, we get 2 white English males. One is Starmer and the other is called ‘Kai Widdingtrom’.

    This must be that ‘equality’ the BBC and the Left keep banging on about. Doesn’t seem very equal to me. Looks a lot like blatant sexist and racist discrimination from where I’m sat.

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  8. JohnC says:

    Man stabbed to death at petrol station identified
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crg98gmey50o

    …. and tucked away right at the bottom of the page in ‘More from the UK’ we have this story. It’s almost like the BBC don’t really want us to see it.

    ‘They confirmed on Saturday the victim was 26-year-old Mohammed Duraab Khan.’

    ‘Three men, aged 22, 23 and 46, were arrested on suspicion of murder and remain in custody.’

    I’m sure there will be no surprises about these 3 if we are ever allowed to know who they are. Which will not be until they are formally charged and the BBC are forced to tell us.

    Just another commonplace stabbing by our enrichment who make up such a small percentage of the population yet commit such a vastly disproportionate amount of murders. A fact NEVER mentioned by the BBC.

    It seems Nottingham is being turned into another shithole to be avoided. Only the other day we had black youths there waving machetes in broad daylight.

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  9. tomo says:

    Amazed the BBC hasn’t found this … although I can see they might have spotted that it might be applied to them and theirs…

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    • JohnC says:

      The important thing about what these people do is that they are not driven by anger, they are driven by hate.

      Which is one of the few things they DO have in common with the Left.

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      • tomo says:

        You’re absolutely right – any challenge very often triggers and makes both absolutely furious, the hate is the catalyst and unless doused with freezing water violence follows ….

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    • Flotsam says:

      ……………coming to Westminster Abbey soon

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Religion of peace decides if more peaceful than religion of peace?!

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      The religion of peace strikes again.

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  11. tomo says:

    This is going to kick off…

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    • JohnC says:

      I’ll be honest, I trust what Putin says more than I trust what Zelensky says.

      It will be very interesting to watch to add his information to the pot.

      Very low chance the BBC will report it. If they do, it will just be selected parts they can nit-pick and they will ignore the important stuff which is true. Just like maxi does.

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      • Flotsam says:

        Jamming foreign radio broadcasts was common practice by Russia and Communist states during the 1950’s-70’s, the cold war. We in the West used to sneer at their oppressive regimes with propagandised State broadcasting and censorship. Move forward to now, we have the British State propaganda outlet, the BBC, obvious censorship, nonsensical ‘truths’ we have to comply with or we are non people and we have silenced the Russia Today TV broadcast. In case you are thinking we have the freedom of the internet, moves are being made to censor and control that.

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      • Doublethinker says:

        I have given up on believing or trusting any public individual or institution. Perhaps it was always thus but we seem to be fed lies on just about every topic under the sun by just about everyone who appears in the media be it TV, radio, newspapers etc.

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      • tomo says:

        Since Tucker left Fox he’s been accumulating a sort of TDS aura – several people I’ve come across won’t even watch any of his interviews and in a peremptory way too – reflexive, not rational, but not quite the red face spluttering insults and expletives. This interview might get Carlson over the line.

        I’m tempted to blame Derren Brown

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    • Thoughtful says:

      One of my neighbours met Putin a couple of weeks ago.

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  12. JohnC says:

    Did bodybuilding bring on my early perimenopause?
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-68135270

    Front page UK news no less.

    By the BBC’s Angie Brown.

    Nobody cares Angie. They’ve got you doing pointless stuff because you’re obviously not good enough to be given anything important to write about.

    As if to prove that point, here she is ‘sharing stories with strangers on the listening bench for BBC news’:
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    And to think, OAP’s can go to jail if they refuse to fund her.

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    • tomo says:

      Q : Did bodybuilding bring on my early perimenopause?
      A : It was them testosterone pills

      Rab C Nesbitt territory

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  13. Zephir says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Just good fun!
      ** BBC Radio 2 Graham Norton – “there is no good or evil just shades of grey!”

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  16. Zephir says:

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  17. Zephir says:

    MP asking for debate on bbc bias !

    British Member of Parliament Bob Blackman criticises British media for biased reporting of the Ram Mandir consecration in Ayodhya. During a speech in the UK parliament, he criticised the BBC’s coverage of the event. He urged other members to call for a debate on the impartiality of the news outlet.

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  19. Sluff says:

    On Toady on Sunday the BBC sought to denigrate Suella Braverman’s heretical suggestion that some of these Muslims claiming asylum by claiming to have converted to Christianity might not be entirely honest. The Clapham alkali attacker being a case in point. There are others.
    Cue an interview with a woman down in Weymouth where the famous asylum seeker ship is finally getting some work. She claims that 40, yes 40 of its ‘inmates’ have converted. And she has not one shred of doubt.
    Utterly delusional of course, but given the first story on the programme by our very own impartial Islamic Broadcasting Corporation.

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  20. Zephir says:

    Just imagine the bbc’s faux outrage if this was another “institution”, especially GB news, or anything Conservative, behaving in this manner:

    “Princess Diana interview scandal takes new turn as BBC refuses to release the explosive letter Buckingham Palace sent the Beeb just four days before Martin Bashir’s Panorama broadcast”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13042539/princess-diana-interview-bbc-refuse-release-letter-buckingham-palac.html

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    • Scroblene says:

      They’ve tried everything else, Zephir, and the longer they try to hide the truth, the better the story will be when they’re eventually caught out!

      Clearly The Mail is well onto the case, but there’ll be plenty of others digging, lawyering etc.!

      Even the Graun and the Observer will have to admit that soemthing was very, very wrong, which will make it even more fun!

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      • Zephir says:

        Yes, agree,

        BTW dug out my copy of “Lamb Lies Down on Broadway last night” great memories flooding back !

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        • Scroblene says:

          Fabulous album, that one Zephir!

          Was only humming ‘Broadway Melody of 1974’ this morning while walking the dog!

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        • micknotmike says:

          Now you’re talking Z. I think that was the last album before Gabriel left and the rest of the group turned into a bee gees tribute act.

          I remember buying “trick of the tail” which I think was the first one without him; what a load of tosh, sounded like the tweenies had recorded it.

          I only saw Genesis once, around 1973. “I’m not sure lads, but the singer seems to be a fox in a red dress”.
          Sign of the times – they were supporting Lindisfarne.

          Not prog, but of course Gabriel went on to record “Don’t give up” with Kate Bush.
          I’m not saying it’s the best song in the world, but it’s definitely in the top one.

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          • Zephir says:

            MnM absolutely agree about Gabriel Don’t give Up, a beautiful song, and of course Solsbury Hill, Here comes the Flood, Mercy Street.

            I am downloading “Shaking the Tree” album as we speak, a prog weekend, next some early Genesis albums, some Yes, Pink Floyd, Marillion, maybe Gentle Giant, and King Crimson and ELP ….

            New contract next week for a few years with an hour commute either way so that should keep me going !

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              • Zephir says:

                look at Father Son on youtube, some comments below it;

                “This is the last song i ever shared with my dad.
                I spent a week with him, took off the work. He was dying from alcoholism.
                I laid with him and tried my best to get him through the meds.
                He refused. I sat with him in the living room, we listened to music , our catalyst for connection.
                I played sledgehammer, he didnt know i like gabriel, but of course he knew of him having grown up through it all.
                I played “i grieve”. At this point my emotions are uncontrollable and im looking at my dying dad through tear filled eyes.
                He loves the song.

                I played this, 15 times in a row at his request. until he fall asleep.
                THe next day my mom, his ex wife arrived to take over, he passed the next day.

                My last interaction with my father was over this song. A devastating memory , tied eternally to this song.
                Its lyrical content and the context it holds in my memories have turned this song into a sort of still frame of one of the hardest moments of my life.

                What have i learned? Hold onto your dad, Because nothing in life has come close to the loss ive felt in these 2 years without him. Hold your dad close.”

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  21. Jeff says:

    The BBC have been up to their usual sneaky tricks…

    There was a nasty series of stabbings at the Gare de Lyon in Paris the other day. The Beeb, true to their dubious form, told us that the crimes were committed by a foreigner on an Italian passport. Well, yes, that’s true as far as it goes but…the clear suggestion was that this miscreant was an Italian. He isn’t.

    It transpires that this young chap actually hails from the dark continent (surprise-surprise!) and was in France as an asylum seeker, using an Italian passport.

    I’ve checked up on the BBC news page to see if any more information has been made available, but the story has disappeared…not important enough, I suppose. However, they’ve got pieces about Billie Eilish starring at the Grammy awards and someone wants to ban children from using social media apps and apparently there could be a cash offer for childcare workers. But the mass stabbings and carnage, carried out by an African asylum seeker in gay Paris has disappeared into the mists of time. Gone…kaput…

    They have been very cunning with this story; not actually lying, but nor are they giving us the full facts that completely alter the political complexion of this outrage.

    Perhaps they need a fact checker…

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      It’s on the fourth sentence of the BBC report that the attacker is from Mali:

      “Police say he is a Malian national who presented an Italian driving licence to officers.”

      The report was last updated at around 3pm yesterday afternoon as I write this. The report is now in the European section of their ‘news’ website:

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68190875

      In this instance I don’t think the BBC stand guilty as accused, although the general point of them wishing to obfuscate is valid e.g. ‘Christian from Newcastle’ when they mean ‘Invader from Afghanistan’ with regard to last week’s attack in Clapham.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Certainly their back of camera guys are unlikely to be trustworthy.

      https://x.com/edwest/status/1754063465260454111?s=61
      Find this kind of thing really hard to understand dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1… Is this pathological altruism? Empathy? Oikophobia?

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      • Guest Who says:

        https://x.com/kelvmackenzie/status/1754076785472389399?s=61
        Grateful to the MoS for forcing out Mary Harper, Africa Editor at BBC World Service, after revealing she was paid as an expert witness to help at least 15 Somalian criminals fight deportation, including one man who sexually attacked a deaf teenage girl.
        Unusually for a broadcast journalist , Ms Harper refused to comment on any of the cases or the money she was paid ( thought to be £2K a case) and the BBC wouldn’t say if she was fired last night or quit.
        In her “expert” testimony Ms Harper said a Somali man, who committed a horrific sex attack on a profoundly deaf 17-year-old, would be at severe risk if sent back to his native country because he had committed a sex crime.
        To my mind that would be good news.
        In another case, a violent criminal convicted of robbery would be at risk from terrorists in Somalia if deported as his tattooed arms would be seen as a sign of homosexuality.
        And in another, Ms Harper warned one criminal’s offending history – 39 convictions for 80 crimes over 17 years- would result in him being shunned by his clan in Somalia.
        How very sad that nobody would talk to him. Perhaps he could get counselling out there.
        We are such bloody mugs.

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  22. Dickie says:

    US geopolitics

    https://sonar21.com/blue-sky-thinking/

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  23. StewGreen says:

    Yesterday Nick de Bois was explaining how scam bastards almost stole his bank account.
    He got a call from the bank explaining that co of all the problems they would move him to a much better Executive account which pays interest etc,
    After 2 days and the third confirmation call he was sure it was genuine cos they could name his recent transactions. Then some suspicion made him call the bank
    they explained that their was a new phone number on his account and that came from him giving the scammers enough info
    but because he hadn’t validated this new number with his old phone or another way, the scammers could only see his accounts, not actually move his money.

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  24. AsISeeIt says:

    You join us this morning as our liberal media, by and large, suddenly appear to cotton on to the damage that’s been caused to our society of late and to our leftist-inspired cultural and institutional malaise.

    ‘Hollowed out’ forces not ready to fight Russia… Lack of soldiers and arms must be addressed with major shake-up warns landmark report (Sunday Telegraph) – Major Shake-up…? Major Shake-up reporting for duty, Sah! Remind us who’s been in power since 2010? Major Shake-up, you’ll be taking over from our present CO, Major Cock-up.

    Your country needs you

    Britain’s ‘not equipped for all out war’ (Sunday Express)

    But which country? Whose side are you on?

    Jail for activists who climb on war memorials… Yesterday thousands of protesters descended on London for another pro-Palestine march. Some were filmed chanting “Yemen, Yemen make us proud…” (Telegraph) – this report however neglects to explain who precisely it is that Tory home secretary James Cleverly expects to make these arrests or to enforce the sentences… Sir Mark Rowley Met commissioner, perahps? Sadiq Khan London Mayor and our capital’s equivalent of a Police and Crime Commissioner? Our left-leaning courts and justices maybe?: Greta Thunberg found not guilty of public order charge as judge finds ‘no evidence’ against her (Channel 4 News)

    Fugitive may have gang links… (Sunday Times) – Fugitve? You know the one they mean: Last night the National Crime Agency, Britain’s equivalent of the FBI, was drafted in… Officers from the agency are focusing on whether he may be receiving any help from an organised crime group… but we’re constantly told to treat asylum seekers as vulnerable victims…

    Help from an organised crime group…?

    Sometimes these segueways write themselves

    BBC editor paid to help 15 Somalian criminals to stay in UK (Mail on Sunday) – I’m sure friends hereabouts will have relayed the gory details on this one. They do tend say illegal arrivals here are doctors and engineers. Let’s just savour this journalistic ‘despite’ conscerning our alleged ‘chemist’: …allowed to remain here, despite being a convicted sex offender – sex offender seems to be somewhat of a requisit for remaining rather than a bar: 15 Somalian criminals… including a vile offender who sexually attacked a deaf teenage girl… another three sex attackers… (Mail on Sunday)

    Onward Christian Soldiers muslim men of fighting age?

    Church aiding asylum claims on mass scale, say Patel and Braverman… “became aware of churches… facilitating industrial-scale bogus asylum claims”… The clergy’s role in offering conversions… (Telegraph)

    Our left-liberal media loved the Punch and Judy show starring Westminster Tory Boris versus the wee Scots Nat Nicola…

    Well, the curtain has come down… that show has come to an end… the sad clown has packed up and gone home and now the circus camper van has left town (so to speak)

    Roll up! Roll up! Roll up kiddies for opening act in the newest bestest little tent show…

    The Sunday Times frontpage instinctively mimicks the Guardian on Sunday that is the Observer for their weekend photo call – enter our lastest feisty nationalist anti-English star pin-up girl: Sinn Fein marches into the history books (Times); Stepping into history (Observer)

    Here’s a novel notion… how about our political system ministers firstly for once to us poor beleaguered English?

    Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill takes her palce in Stormont yesterday as Northern Ireland’s new first minister, the first nationalist ever to hold the post (Observer, photo credit Charles McQuillan/Getty)

    Michelle O’Neill became Northern Ireland’s first minister yesterday… (Sunday Times, photo credit Peter Morrison/AP)

    On a lighter note… like those news bulletins that tend to close with a funny ‘and finally’ feature – mind you, one can’t help but notice the BBC habitually closes their online print line-up with the jokey blokey Daily Star – and that habit rather puts the lie to any claims that they don’t carefully curate for effect the order in which they display the various titles.

    Killer ghost keeps flushing my bog… Chuckle Brother Paul Elliott says an evil spirit is taking the pee – by flushing the toilet in the dead of night (Daily Star Sunday)

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  25. StewGreen says:

    Simon Webb on the new Essex

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  26. Guest Who says:

    Joe vs. The Farmers.

    https://x.com/joewstanley/status/1753846726291505488?s=61

    No wonder the BBC think they have a new winner.

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  27. StewGreen says:

    From a few months back a takedown of Ash Sarkar
    “We are different, not influenced by billionaires”
    .. yeh except Soros is one of your main funders
    .. https://youtu.be/5euPmtAw_SA

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  28. StewGreen says:

    Count Dankula : ‘The Leeds sticker man will go to jail’ (On March 1st)
    ‘Marxists are allowed to put up stickers that stir up aggression against capitalists and have posts of Mao and Marx’
    … (similarly on large scale pro Palestinians seem to stir up aggression against Jews and probably allowed to have posters of Hamas leaders)

    Count argues that it is of course wrong to start violence, but if the court bans people from expressing political opinions using posters, then that itself will stir some nutters to go the violence route.

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    • StewGreen says:

      If putting up stickers that don’t call for violence, can get you prosecuted for stirring up people to cause criminal damage with a racially aggravated element.
      … then what about years of the advertising industry stirring up people by having vastly disproportionate black faces, and very few straight white men ?

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      • harry142857 says:

        The wrong type of sticker?

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        • Guest Who says:

          In the spirit of ‘claims’, I have seen some suggesting it to be a set up of which he was unaware.

          Trouble is, these are preceded by folk saying this could have via (the most accurate, delicate, unnoticed) slap in the world, and no rozzer could be that dumb as they would fired slightly quicker than a BBC3 editor giving a nasty look to a tranny.

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  29. Dickie says:

    PROTESTING FARMERS SURROUND BRUSSELS HEADQUARTERS OF EUROPEAN COMMISSION

    https://tapnewswire.com/2024/02/farmers-fighting-for-our-survival/#clip=47tqhwbslz0g

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  30. BRISSLES says:

    Excellent interview on GBN now with Eric Zemmour and Michael Portillo. And his take on Muslims taking over France.

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  31. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    On ‘The Talk’ yesterday (GB News) one of the panellists said to Tory MP Alby Aminkone(spelling) that people were not voting for the conservatives directly because of people like him who belong in the libdem party and not in the Conservative Party.

    His (AA) face was a picture. You should have seen it.
    The truth shocked him and he didn’t seem to realise just how accurate this was.

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  32. Thoughtful says:

    There are more and more rumours about the Americans having lied about which base was struck by the drone and that the real target was in Syria which would make their reponse illegal under international law.

    If the base was in Jordan then it is legal, but the bases in Iraq and Syria are illegal because the government of that country does not want them there and has told them to leave, which they have refused to do.

    There are now more rumours surfacing that the drone was in fact launched by Israeli agents in order to drag the US into the conflict which Israel knows it cannot win.

    More reports from Israel IDF suggest they have managed to neutralise just 20% of the HAMAS tunnels and they have no idea how large the network might be (which begs the question how they know they have neutraised 20%).

    Because they have withdrawn their troops to defend the Northern border they have to all intents and purposes lost control of Gaza both North and South.

    Netanyahu is a criminal – a man of absolute corruption who would be in prison along with his wife had he not seized power in something akin to a coup and who will as soon as the war calms down, be arrested and put on trial.

    And that is the critical point. A man who is pretty certain to be convicted is avoiding justice by keeping his country in a state of war to save his own ass and the even more corrupt Demonrat party in America is aiding and abetting him in the process.

    It’s destroying Israel, even without the military threat, the economic destruction being wrought on the country by keeping it on a war footing extracts a greater toll every day.

    Biden could and should pull the rug from under Netanyahu to save Israel and allow justice to take its course, but he won’t.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Taken as read that you are not a fan of the US, its military or the Israeli PM..

      These ‘rumours’ and ‘reports’ being from…?

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      • Thoughtful says:

        There are too many allegations here and rumours to provide links to all of them, Netanyahu’s corruption is however widely known

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Benjamin_Netanyahu

        I would hope given the state of the US and it’s commander in chief who we are told was legitimately elected by a majority of Americans, that there are plenty here robsutly questioning the actions of the US and its military.

        The previous President had a term marked by peace and even managed to calm the little rocket man, so no I’m not a fan one little bit, and I would expect you weren’t a Biden fan either?

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        • Guest Who says:

          Not huge on either, or most predecessors, but as ‘politics of the least bad’ applies here as much as there, if Trump could dial down the bombast enough to get a few onside he might get back to being supported looking after his country. And see what is a military of mostly lions led by rainbow unicorns regain its mojo and national respect.

          As a political leader, adverse allegation is not a surprise but I have not heard much beyond you, political opponents and ideological media.

          Maybe just one credible link from a credible source?

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          • Thoughtful says:

            No, I’m sorry this is after all an internet site and if wikipedia is not credible then there are no credible sources available as nothing on the internet is alas credible enough.

            The US military could not currently be described as lions in any way, sorry that I have no credible sources such as a sworn affidavits by military personnel in front of a judge, however here is one from the US military that 70% of US military are overweight or obese:

            https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-10-17/military-troops-obese-overweight-11738212.html

            https://www.newsweek.com/us-china-taiwan-war-1835408

            US Navy not up to the task.

            Another rumour I am hearing, and remember these are leaks from sources which shouldn’t be leaking them, they are not going to go on the record. The Biden administration with NATO intends to start a major war in October of this year (one month before Presidential elections.)

            There was much more detail to this leak about NATO putting troops into Ukraine and imposing a no fly zone over Western Ukraine. You will know the truth of this if and when you see a no fly zone being imposed.

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      Well if you’ve read it on the internet it must be true.

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  33. Guest Who says:

    Redemption, of sorts.

    https://x.com/joewstanley/status/1754118673034346730?s=61

    Interesting more for the relative positions.

    To think The Economist was once respected.

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  34. tomo says:

    … and vote by email?

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    • Docmarooned says:

      Wish they could change the law to prevent morons like this low IQ specimen ever becoming an MP.

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    • tomo says:

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      • Thoughtful says:

        How sad that this kidult needs to get to Uni in order to be taught critical thinking skills I learned at O level English Lit.

        Also how sad that he simply picks up other people accusations and runs with them without even considering the merit of them.

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  35. vlad says:

    We knew the BBC worshipped blacks, Muslims, sex offenders and illegal immigrants, so it should come as no surprise that a BBC editor helped a whole bunch of Somali criminals fight deportation.
    Thank you Mary Harper, Africa Editor, for making our country just a little bit shittier.
    Full story in today’s Mail on Sunday.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13042143

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  36. tomo says:

    “cookies” Nuland rocks up in Kiev

    Nuland-Kiev-Feb24.jpg

    https://archive.is/yQJFh

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    • Thoughtful says:

      When it come to Ukraine the sheer greed and corruption of Jews within the Democrat party and without is staggering. Nuland is of course also Jewish and part of the Cabal seeking to use Ukraine as a fulcrum point to weaken Russia and to break it into it’s provinces and then to profit from it’s natural mineral wealth.

      It didn’t go as planned, but we already have Blackrocks Larry Fink (Democrat supporting Jewish member of the Cabal) buying up Ukrainian farmland on the cheap.

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  37. tomo says:

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    • Thoughtful says:

      The woman is a complete cretin, a total incompetent with no control of her brief.

      If she had known what she was talking about instead of deflecting about the victims, she would have asked Phillips what he expected the government to do?

      The man is from Afghanistan and as far as I know we can’t even send diplomats there or anyone else let alone return refugees so what is Phillips proposing we do with him?

      Yet again this is the fault partly of Biden but partly of weak Marxist Tory ‘government’ in failing to take action when they could and should have done.

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  38. Zephir says:

    Is it time to move to a more liberal country like China or North Korea maybe ?

    “‘My political views have nothing to do with you’: Newcastle United fan who was banned from matches until 2026 ‘for her trans views’ reveals Premier League compiled ‘Stasi’ dossier about her where she was called ‘the target’

    Linzi Smith, 34, was the subject of a four-month investigation by a special unit. It complied a 11-page dossier on her including where she lived and worked.

    She was banned from the club’s St James’ Park stadium until 2026”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13043619/Newcastle-United-fan-matches-2026-trans-Premier-League-Stasi-dossier.html

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  39. pugnazious says:

    Oh, right, who knew?

    The BBC have the cheek to highlight this when last week they all but ignored a Tory MP standing down because he’ been hounded, threatend and intimidated by Muslims….

    ‘Receiving online abuse and bullying is now “run of the mill” for politicians, according to an MP.

    Fay Jones, who represents Brecon and Radnorshire, said that the intimidation on social media is stopping women from entering politics.

    The Conservative MP said she has had to report a death threat she received to police.

    A new report from the Jo Cox Foundation says the intimidation of politicians is a “significant threat to democracy”. ‘

    Of course the BBC isn’t actually interested in threats to Tory MPs or indeed ‘threats to democracy'[the BBC is itself the biggest threat to democracy]…it’s the ‘onlne’ bit they want to message about…it’s a stick to beat their social media company rivals with….try to burn down the MP’s office…nothing to report here…send an abusive tweet and it’s ‘lock’em up’…the social media companies that is.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Not really sure that it’s a ‘threat to democracy ‘ because there is nt much by way of democracy – they just like to tell there is …
      All those ridiculous ‘traditions ‘ are just used to camouflage the lie ….

      And let’s face it – what use is parliament ? Covid – failure – post office – failure – economy – failure – military – failure – borders – failure – confronting the EU ….i could go on and on …

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  40. tomo says:

    An admission from government that the BBC hasn’t picked up on.

    Iran-in-the-UK.jpg

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  41. taffman says:

    Scrap the shambles !…………….
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-68187286

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    • tomo says:

      60 increased to 96 parasites?

      The plans will also see the number of Members of the Senedd (MSs) increase for the first time, from 60 to 96.

      Japanese Knotweed….

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  42. pugnazious says:

    Another one of those stories the BBC does not want you to see….

    ”My political views have nothing to do with you’: Newcastle United fan who was banned from matches until 2026 ‘for her trans views’ reveals Premier League compiled ‘Stasi’ dossier about her where she was called ‘the target”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13043619/Newcastle-United-fan-matches-2026-trans-Premier-League-Stasi-dossier.html

    This story has been reported elsewhere in the last couple of days but seems not on the BBC, not even on the sports page.

    Now normally this would be a hot story for the BBC…an LGBT person persecuted and secretly tracked, labelled and cancelled by a powerful organisation. But not today….her sin? She expressed ‘gender-critical’ views about trans people…incuding that some may suffer from mental health issues….which is accepted orthodoxy.

    The Guardian 3 days ago….

    ‘Trans people in England more likely to have long-term poor mental health – study’

    Autism is also linked to transitioning…

    ‘Autistic traits are over-represented in transgender populations, and gender variance is high in autistic individuals. Furthermore, some evidence suggests that the autism/transgender overlap is limited to individuals sex assigned female.’

    When Toby Young states the obvious, noting how outrageous this is, you’d think the BBC would be jumping all over this oppression…

    ‘Toby Young, the general secretary of the Free Speech Union, said: ‘This is the most egregious example of corporate interference with free speech I’ve ever come across. In effect, the social media accounts of football fans are being monitored by the ‘Stadium Stasi’. It’s like something out of 1984.’ ‘

    I guess stating uncomfortable truths can get you ostracised from life nowadays.

    But…then again isn’t this the same policy that the BBC uses when it decides who to employ? Might explain why they have zero interest in calling the Premiere League to account…the very same light might be turned on them….

    ‘BBC staff are being told not to hire candidates who are “dismissive” of diversity and inclusion, The Telegraph can disclose.

    A recruitment policy document says applicants should be asked to “explain what diversity and inclusion means to you and, should you be successful, what opportunities do you see for you to promote, celebrate or encourage diversity and inclusion in your role?”

    The guidelines, used in a major non-editorial department of the BBC, tell recruiters: “Don’t hire [candidates who are] unsuited to the organisation” if they are “dismissive or derisory of diversity and inclusion and surrounding topics”.’

    And of course the BBC has it’s own ‘Stasi’ unit that tracks down anyone who doesn’t comply with their values and then reports them to their employer to try and get them sacked!

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  43. digg says:

    With huge knives and machetes being openly brandished on the streets in Nottingham, and young people losing their lives on a regular basis across the land and especially in London surely its long overdue for a significant shift in law enforcement.

    As the law and the police exist primarily to protect innocent citizens from those who wish to flout it. it must be time for two major pieces of legislation to be ordered to be rigorously enforced.

    1. The return of stop and search regardless of the howls from those who oppose it.

    2. The use of automatic jail terms for anyone thinking they can ignore the weapon laws in order to enhance their street gang cred. The carrying of obvious highly dangerous weapons in public should attract automatic lengthy jail sentences with no appeal via dodgy solicitors.

    Come on police do your job instead of chasing thought or hate speech crime even though it means working a bit harder.

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  44. BRISSLES says:

    Wouldn’t you just know it.

    Don’t normally watch a celebrity reality show, but I gave the 2018 pilgrimage to Rome a go. Motley mix, 3 of whom never heard of.

    At one point a trek through some woods was part of the walk. Here’s the thing, a big black and gay guy – a dj, and a young Asian female radio presenter, admitted to NEVER having been in any woods before ! He said he’d never been outside of his city life, and she said that the countryside didn’t fit in with her Muslim culture, and if she suggested to her family to go for a walk in the country they’d think her crazy.

    Having remembered many reports that the countryside is white and unwelcoming to minorities, here was evidence that they don’t want to step out of their accessibility to kebab shops and nightclubs. They wouldn’t even know what a pair of wellies look like.

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  45. tomo says:

    gawd…. another imbecile from Labour

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Oh come on – he’s good for a laugh … maybe identify should be illegalised completely – and names – let’s replace names with numbers – I’m sure I read that in a book …

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  46. Fedup2 says:

    The last place on the bbc I went to was football commentaries . All those great commentators- Coleman – Davies – …motson . And now ? Just dregs – talking about anything apart from the game .
    I’ve just turned the arsenal Liverpool game off because all the commentator wants to talk about is a rugby player who has died . Or advertising some other bbc programme …. Enough for me … I just hope the vile Liverpool lose ….

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  47. digg says:

    Khans goons have so many cameras in London they can identify and prosecute anyone they like just for driving a frigging car but the Met can’t find one utter aresole who everyone has seen pics of, is a convicted Villian and has a massive visible scar on his face to the point they are reduced to offering Joe Public do their job for £20000….

    You just couldn’t make this lunatic shit up!

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    • Fedup2 says:

      In londonistan he wouid nt stick out at all – he must have media team and legal team by now …. Or got a single ticket on paki airways …

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  48. tomo says:

    Show support for Democracy !!!

    in Germany

    democracy.jpg

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  49. Thoughtful says:

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