308 Responses to Start the Week 9th December 2024

  1. vlad says:

    All islamic states are rubbish, there’s no reason Syria will be any different.
    Violence is in their DNA. And in their scriptures.

    “Is Islam compatible with democracy?”

    “Islamic law is absolutely incompatible with true democracy. It is a theocratic system with Allah alone at its head. Allah’s law is interpreted by a ruling body of clerics. There is no room for a secular political system in which all people are treated as equals.”

    https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/democracy.aspx

       20 likes

  2. tomo says:

    Make Arla the new Bud Light
    Ge-TY-th-WEAAtz-QA.jpg

       12 likes

  3. Jeff says:

    Look, I’m the first to admit that I know next to nothing about the middle east…other than it’s extremely volatile shithole and that we must be stark staring mad allowing so many of them into our country, but…

    I can’t quite see why “The west is celebrating” the demise of President Assad. Yes, undoubtedly, he was a tyrant, but what the Hell is going to replace him?

    Have we learned nothing from the fall of Saddam Hussein, another unspeakable brute…or Gaddafi? I seem to recall similar celebrations, in certain quarters, following the fall of the Shah of Iran. That turned out well…

    These areas are unstable at the best of times and unlikely to become western friendly democracies. They’re infested with backward Islamist lunatics…and we’re letting the blighters in faster than a mad Muslim can say “Allahu Akbar”.

    And Keir Starmer is “Delighted.” I’m not so sure.

    Sometimes it’s better the devil you know…

       40 likes

  4. harry142857 says:

    Another wrong’un

    Sick

    Married former BBC news anchor who paid for young children to strip for him in online video streams is jailed for eight years.

    A former BBC news anchor spent more than five years paying Filipino children as young as nine to strip for him online.

    Married ex-Tokyo correspondent Duncan Bartlett would ask the children and their parents about their schoolwork as he directed them to carry out sexual acts, a court heard.

    58-year-old university research associate and expert on Asia paid an average of £25 for a live screening involving children aged between nine and 16.

    Among his requests to the people running the sick shows – often parents of the children – were to engage in live breastfeeding and ‘go slowly and gently’ so he would have more time to enjoy the show, prosecutors said.

    Bartlett, the editor of a magazine named Asian Affairs and a former research associate at SOAS China Institute, admitted 35 child sex offences and was today jailed for eight years.

    The former BBC World Business Report host pleaded guilty to 20 counts of causing a child to engage in sexual activity, ten of paying for the sexual services of a child under 13, three of making indecent images of children and two of encouraging the commission of offences.
    The charges related to offending from between 2017 and 2022, but financial records and Bartlett’s own admissions indicate that he could have been accessing indecent material from as far back as 2012, prosecutors said.

    Wood Green Crown Court heard that when officers from Scotland Yard’s online child abuse team came to arrest Bartlett, he told them: ‘I know what’s happening now
    Detectives found almost 6,000 indecent images and numerous chats with individuals in the Philippines who Bartlett had been communicating with using different pseudonyms, one of which – JapanStory – is the name of a news portal he founded.

    ‘What the chats show was that Mr Bartlett was engaging with women in the Philippines to arrange live strip shows for him to watch,’ Madeleine Wolfe, prosecuting, said.
    He was able to direct the participants to perform acts for him, which he watched for his own sexual gratification.

    ‘The activity is streamed live so police were not able to retrieve it but from the chats it becomes very clear what he was requesting and watching.’

    Ms Wolfe said there were repeated references to how young the children were, and it was clear that the individuals with whom Barlett was communicating were often related to the participants.

    ‘[In one conversation] he asked the woman to identify one of the participants who had been wearing red underwear,’ she said

    The woman replied that it was her daughter.’

    Bartlett told the individuals organising the show that he ‘sometimes likes them young,’ the court heard.

    ‘In one conversation he asked for a show at 9pm but was told that wouldn’t be possible because the child was at school,’ Ms Wolfe said.

       12 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Wow that came out of nowhere
      A lot of people are pilloried for months before being convicted
      But I see no lead up on Twitter to this
      then this afternoon a flurry of tweets about his conviction.
      Prior to today the latest I spot is in 2023 when he was making podcasts with BBC mates
      He did appear as a guest on BBC Scotland before that

      AFAIK He last worked for BBC proper around 2013
      There are BBC articles in his name from then

         8 likes

    • Up2snuff says:

      harry, that is a sad and sorry tale. I think the BBC people are paid far too much and it corrupts them. The BBC’s reason for closing the Market Data page on the BBC web-site was to save money, The web-site is much worse without it, and the latest iteration of the Market Data was not as good as the first which had many more commodities to view.

      The Bible is correct: 1 Timothy 6:10
      For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
      St Paul’ epistle to Timothy.

      The time is long overdue to substantially reduce the BBC Licence Fee.

         3 likes

  5. Flotsam says:

    BBC Local Radio recently broadcast an interview with Toyah Wilcox (guest). For some reason best known to the BBC I heard it twice on different days, possibly on different stations.

    Anyway, it was a long rambling interview which drifted onto new technology and very oddly into what was basically a promotion of Smart Energy Meters by Toyah. She was saying how great and useful they are and even quoted an exact website address to see just how great they are. This was all interspersed with Climate Change guff.

    I could only conclude she was either put up to it by the BBC or she is a shareholder in a company manufacturing, installing or selling smart meters.

    The propaganda runs deep.

       22 likes

    • Zephir says:

      @ Flotsam

      She is pretty desperate making some income from partially exposing her breasts and singing badly every Sunday on Youtube as below in Toyah and Robert’s Sunday Lunch.

      The only redeeming factor is her husbands previous output as guitarist with King Crimson, a long time ago…

         6 likes

      • Docmarooned says:

        What do you mean Zephir. Fripp is still playing with King Crimson now. Saw them live recently.

           1 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      @toyahofficial tweets

      Dec 4 #AD Technology is advancing so quickly I sometimes find it tricky to know which gadgets to get + how to use them.
      But it can bring so many benefits, which is why I’ve *partnered* with @SmartEnergyGB to highlight some simple tech that is secure & easy to use.

      Smart meters are a great example.
      They send automatic meter readings to your supplier so you don’t have to,
      + you know your bill will be accurate.
      And they come with this handy display, which shows how much energy you’re using in £ & pence.
      More info: link

      with a photo where she looks like a Stepford wife robot
      CCBGB

      She was on BBC #Strictly Come Dancing this year ..
      eliminated fairly early on
      There’s a black female BBC presenter Toni McDonald
      Afternoon Show presenter for BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC Radio Shropshire, and BBC Radio Stoke
      Toyah was on her show the 6th Dec

         4 likes

      • moggiemoo says:

        ‘… + you know your bill will be accurate.’ Because nobody with a smart meter has ever been told they’ve used £12k worth of electricity overnight in their 1 bedroom flat. Nope, that never happens.

           9 likes

        • atlas_shrugged says:

          What do you do if your accuser is a load of 1’s and 0’s?

          You have all be sentenced for a 110100010111 crime!

          … and now 00011011101110111 will be automatically deducted from your bank accounts.

             3 likes

        • MarkyMark says:

          Almost four million smart meters not working properly
          https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz9zqn77ezno

          According to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (Desnez), 2.7 million were not operating in smart mode as of June 2023. It has since revised this figure to 4.31 million, citing reporting errors from a minority of suppliers.

          At the end of last year, 3.98 million were faulty.

          Energy UK, the trade association for the energy industry, says suppliers must replace broken meters.

             2 likes

  6. tomo says:

    A former human rights lawyer due to be sentenced for fraud charges linked to claims made against Iraq War veterans has been branded a liar who “duped the legal establishment glitterati into thinking he was on some kind of crusade” by a former soldier.

    Phil Shiner, who was the principal solicitor of the law firm Public Interest Lawyers, was struck off as a solicitor in 2017 at a tribunal after being found guilty of misconduct and dishonesty relating to false abuse claims against British troops.

       12 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      “The 67-year-old will be sentenced for fraud at Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday, after admitting that an agent acting on his behalf had been cold-calling potential clients in Iraq.”

      https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/british-national-crime-agency-southwark-crown-court-basra-royal-engineers-b2661516.html

      (Shiner) duped the Ministry of Defence, he duped human rights groups, he duped the legal aid authority, he duped the BBC and he duped the legal establishment glitterati into thinking he was on some kind of crusade and he wasn’t

      Robert Campbell

      Robert Campbell, who was a major in the Royal Engineers, was accused of drowning Iraqi teenager Saeed Shabram in a river in Basra in May 2003, and was scrutinised in eight investigations into the 19-year-old’s death, including one for possible manslaughter, before he was ultimately cleared.

      According to the National Crime Agency (NCA), he received around £3 million in the value of the contract, and the ensuing Al-Sweady inquiry into allegations of mistreatment and unlawful killing of Iraqi nationals by British troops in 2004 cost the taxpayer £24 million.

      £24 million! HOW MANY ARE DOING THIS NOW????????
      £24 million! HOW MANY ARE DOING THIS NOW????????
      £24 million! HOW MANY ARE DOING THIS NOW????????

         4 likes

  7. StewGreen says:

    @JohnSimpsonNews has a gotcha against evil Boris
    How the countries of Europe performed during Covid.
    Not good for Boris Johnson’s Britain.

    The proposed Community Note
    “This isn’t a fair comparison, the UK recorded any death that occurred within 28 days of a positive test as a COVID death.
    This is different the countries listed, which only attributes death that are directly linked to the virus after medical investigation.”
    So it seems not be be a gotcha after all

       19 likes

    • non-licence payer says:

      You have to look at the excess deaths to understand what went on. It is a while since I have looked at the data but Germany’s excess deaths were higher than the UK despite the poor performance of Scotland and Wales. Ironically of course Scotland and Wales had a ‘lower’ official death rate than England. All the death rate data tells you is that in Scotland and Wales there was alignment between the ‘civil service’ and the Government and in England there was no such alignment.

         11 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      John Simpleton is getting crucified in the comments
      His graph is PR BS for another reason too
      he’s cherrypicked only the first 4 months of Covid

         1 likes

  8. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Time for some happy news.

    It must be so nice for thousands of Syrian asylum immigrants to know that they can now return to Syria and meet up with their wives and children again.

       27 likes

    • Zephir says:

      They have more than likely been going back there regularly on holiday since seeking asylum, in between getting the council house decorated.

         22 likes

  9. Zephir says:

    Oh what a pity for those pinning that to the masthead of their asylum application….

    No doubt they will all suddenly turn gay overnight

    “Labour ministers are urged to ‘immediately’ begin deporting Syrian asylum seekers after Bashar al-Assad ‘s downfall – as Home Office leaves thousands in limbo as decisions on claims are paused”

       15 likes

  10. Zephir says:

    Talking of which, is Begum doing a U turn and suddenly developing a keen interest again in severed heads in bins ?

       12 likes

  11. Zephir says:

    “Shamima Begum was cruel enforcer in Isil’s Morality Police, say Syrian Witnesses.

    Shamima Begum, the Bethnal Green schoolgirl, served in the Islamic State’s “morality police” and also tried to recruit other young women to join the jihadist group, well-placed sources have told The Telegraph.

    She was allowed to carry a Kalashnikov rifle and earned a reputation as a strict “enforcer” of Isil’s laws, such as dress codes for women, sources claimed.

    The claims are at odds with Miss Begum’s own account of her four years with the group, which she joined at the age of just 15.

    Details of Miss Begum’s alleged role in Isil have come from two separate sources, including anti-Isil activist group Sound and Picture, whose members lived under the jihadists’ rule and closely followed its members. Some of the information has been confirmed by Western intelligence, which is understood to be looking into the allegations as part of a criminal investigation.

    According to the activists she then enrolled in al-Tala’ia camp just south of the Euphrates River in Raqqa province, where she stayed for three months receiving “military and religious training.”

    After that, she, Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana, are said to have graduated to the Khansaa Battalion, a notorious all-female “police squad” which had other British members in its ranks, including Muslim convert Sally Jones.

    Miss Begum is then alleged to have worked for several months in al-Hisba, Isil’s religious enforcement unit. Most of the women in the Hisba took up roles on a voluntary basis and the position gave them an elevated status within the “caliphate”.

    “There were lots of young European women in the Hisba,” Aghiad al-Kheder, an activist from Deir Ezzor who founded Sound and Picture, told The Telegraph. “Some of them were very harsh and the local population became very scared.”

    He said Miss Begum carried a Kalashnikov rifle and had a reputation for being strict on women she thought were behaving in a “non-Islamic” way, according to Isil’s punitive rules.

    “Members of our group from Raqqa knew her well,” said Mr Kheder. “If you get the chance to interview her again you can ask her about an incident that happened in al-Amassi Street in Raqqa in 2016, when she was with the Hisba.

    “She shouted at a civilian woman wearing brightly coloured shoes and told her that was ‘haram’, or not permissible, as this would attract the attention of men. The woman said to her, ‘so why is it ok for you to wear coloured shoes?’ Shamima was herself wearing white and pink trainers.

    He believes that in her role, which paid somewhere between £500-£1,500 a month, she likely ordered the imprisonment and lashing of local women in Raqqa who were deemed not to be observing its dress code or were caught travelling without a male guardian.

    During her time in Isil, she is also thought to have been actively trying to recruit other young women across Europe.”

       13 likes

  12. Zephir says:

    Now what was it the lying Starmer and his green fanboys at the bbc et al keep saying about green “energy security” ?

    “Storm Darragh leaves UK’s Biggest solar farm in pieces in blow to green energy”

    92973933-14175033-image-a-5_1733778631981.jpg

       23 likes

    • Zephir says:

      92973937-14175033-image-a-4_1733778624507.jpg

         16 likes

      • Zephir says:

        92973947-14175033-image-a-7_1733778654998.jpg

           14 likes

        • MarkyMark says:

          Horizontal wind farms ensure UK will meet it’s targets (c) BBC Verified FACT.

             4 likes

        • atlas_shrugged says:

          Zeph, Marky

          These horizontal turbines are a brand new experiment designed to capture the power from farting earthworms.

          The methane emissions are steered by the resulting vortex into the top of a tower where the concentrated methane is hoovered up by a giant cyclone hoover integrated into the tower.

          These methane farms will have capacity to power 2.4 million homes. The PM itself will be at the opening ceremony.

          bBC verified Fact (c) 2024

             6 likes

          • Zephir says:

            When I was studying, we visited a landfill site which had an old ships engine converted to run off the methane generated from the site, they sold the power generated to the national grid.

               9 likes

          • MarkyMark says:

            Fart to save the planet!

               4 likes

    • tomo says:

      so easy to miss

      … as they have done

         7 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      China rub hands – very rubbery!

         4 likes

      • Lefty Wright says:

        Yerrow and lubberly.

           5 likes

        • MarkyMark says:

          “China now accounts for over 80% of global solar panel market share, at all stages of production according to the IEA. This is expected to rise to 95% in the coming years. By contrast, Europe only accounts for just 3%, while North America (the USA and Canada), account for a little over 2%.2 Mar 2024″

             7 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Also
      Oct 16 A VERY predictable hail storm in Texas destroys 1,000’s of acres of solar panels.
      October Hurricane Milton destroys Duke Energy solar farm in Florida.

         3 likes

  13. JohnC says:

    Assad’s police threatened to bury me and my reporting. Now I’m back, and free
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c791dye1z2lo

    … and another BBC total narcissist making it all about her. That’s three in the last couple of weeks. And she’s relishing the chance to get all the attention and clearly writing her article hoping she gets quoted in all the history books. She gets her own face into her reports an awful lot.

    As usual, the bias and hypocrisy are off the scale. She is a 100% activist and there’s no wonder she got the treatment like she did. The days of the BBC actually just reporting the news are long gone. She’s another like Jezza and Fergal Keane who use their stories as vehicles to cram in as much empathy as they can. Hoping for some award at the next awards ceremony were the BBC gives them to itself.

    The whole article is full of it, but here’s one example:
    ‘Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) fighters have protected public institutions from looting after mobs stormed the presidential palace, and prisoners have been freed.’

    Who are these hero ‘fighters’ who are ‘protecting public institutions’ ?.
    ‘ Jabhat al-Nusra, HTS’s precursor organization, was formed in Syria in 2011 as al-Qaeda’s affiliate’
    ‘Jabhat al-Nusra maintained its ties to al-Qaeda even after al-Qaeda’s highly publicized split with the Islamic State, whose leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, had been instrumental in Jabhat al-Nusra’s initial establishment.’
    ‘the U.S. government believes that a link between the two groups remains, even calling HTS a “vehicle to advance [al-Qaeda’s] position in the Syrian uprising and to further its own goals”’

    Not ‘protecting’ you stupid woman : keeping them for themselves.

    ‘In May 2018, the group was added to the State Department’s existing designation of its predecessor, the al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).’

    How are the BBC allowed to make reports like this ?. It is blatant support for terrorist organisations. They should be forced to mention if any group in any report is a designated terrorist organisation so people are not misled.

    Watch how they go quiet and start their usual lies as the truth comes out in the coming days and their claims of ‘freedom’ are shown for what they are. One thing is for sure : there will be no elections now.

    Give it a few months and the Americans will be launching air strikes at the terrorist training camps within Syria and the BBC won’t report it.

       17 likes

  14. pugnazious says:

    Another ‘unarmed blackman’ is murdered by a white man…except not this time….though the BBC does its best to portray the deadman as an innocent victim downplaying or omitting the worst of his behaviour….

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crrw0881gzvo

    Contrast with more honest reporting….

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/12/09/the-daniel-penny-trial-has-exposed-the-moral-rot-of-the-left/

    https://nypost.com/2023/10/10/witnesses-in-nyc-subway-chokehold-case-described-praying-hiding-during-jordan-neely-rant/

       13 likes

    • tomo says:

      Screenshot-from-2024-12-10-03-56-03.png

         4 likes

      • JohnC says:

        lol, I’ve read many a stage-3 TDS article on the BBC written by her and commented on it here.

        She is the one who needed anti-depressants from the age of 17. I see in her self-promotion she has written ‘passionate storyteller’ instead of ‘poisonous’.

        And of course what this BBC idiot – along with many others – fails to understand is that journalism should not be ‘passionate storytelling’ at all. It should present the facts to give people an informed opinion. Not stories.

        From everything I have seen about her, I bet she is a nasty little b**ch when she wants to be. Like ALL Lefties.

           20 likes

        • tomo says:

          Prime case of don’t judge a book by the cover.

          Not saying you have to be Clarissa Dickson Wright to tell the truth 🙂

             3 likes

    • JohnC says:

      pug:
      The BBC appear to spend the majority of that article quoting people saying he is guilty.
      How utterly unprofesisonal of them. He was found not guilty by a Jury therefore he didn’t murder him. The BBC should not follow that news with lots of quotes of other people saying he did.

         15 likes

  15. Zephir says:

    Another bbc Grimm fairytale with the sole purpose of creating conflict and stoking resentment and division in society.

    And yet they vilify others who post allegedly “hateful” comments on Twitter, with a much smaller audience reading them.

    “They can’t be allowed to do things like that ! Thats OUR job”

       15 likes

  16. andyjsnape says:

    Stop non-priority spending, Treasury warns ministers
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8ewdzgnx1yo

    “As part of a spending review covering up to 2029, Reeves will ask departments to identify efficiency savings worth 5% of their current budgets”

    Reminds me of the yes minister comedy sketch

    The Economy Drive

       9 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      “we (Civil Service) measure success by the size of our budget and department” @5:00

         7 likes

      • jazznick1 says:

        I remember Sir John Harvey-Jones series ‘Troubleshooter”
        on BBC looking at how to improve commercial businesses AND the NHS.

        He said the NHS was a basket case. Each branch of medicine had it’s own ’empire’ with it’s vast number of staff and budgets to match.
        No rationalisation would take place as each branch wanted to protect it’s own empire and would not amalgamate, as this would reduce their individual power and status.

        Therefore complimentary medical treatments, where appointments would be required routinely with 2 or 3 ’empires’ would not amalgamate facilities/receptions to save the patient time and the NHS money as it was regarded as a
        weakness and would reduce duplicated staff and, in consequence, budgets.

        Nothing has changed.

           1 likes

    • non-licence payer says:

      While only indirect evidence I keep on seeing symptoms of panic in state circles.
      The civil service have probably worked out that Truss’s initial analysis was correct. They are probably now trying to work out how to avoid the inevitable conclusions and protect their pensions.
      That is the problem with a civil service that allowed Sue Gray, head of ethics, to write a report on Boris Johnson and then join the Labour Party.
      Keep a good stock of popcorn.

         14 likes

      • MarkyMark says:

        “As part of a spending review covering up to 2029, Reeves will ask departments to identify efficiency savings worth 5% of their current budgets”

        Depts will increase budgets by 20% to look into reducing it by 5%.
        HA HA HAHA HAH AH A

        Quangos – the first thing to axe Quangos was to create a quango to axe the quangos. The act of reduction was to increase the number of depts! HA HA HAHAH !

           10 likes

        • vlad says:

          Scrap the lot of them, and most of the useless, leftist Civil Service.
          We need a REAL efficiency tsar like Musk.

             9 likes

          • Fedup2 says:

            I think we deserve to know the number of civil servants in particular posts – eg I think I heard there are 7 000 communication officers ..

            How many in HR?
            How many diversity officers ?
            How many working from home ?

               7 likes

  17. MarkyMark says:

    Greg Wallace – front page every day for a week.
    Duncan Bartlett – moved from front page after one evening.

    HA HA HA HAHA HA

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cje9xjywjdwo

    “The Metropolitan Police said detectives seized electronic devices from Bartlett and recovered nearly 6,000 indecent images of children.

    They also found evidence he made payments to people in the Philippines who would arrange live films of children being sexually exploited for Bartlett to watch.”

       15 likes

  18. harry142857 says:

    BBC, The Independent and The Guardian hiding Islamic extremism, violence and hatred ?

    https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/09/gb-news-broadcasts-uk-stories-muslims

    B News accounted for half of all news broadcast coverage of Muslims over a two-year period, much of it negative, according to new analysis.

    The findings demonstrate an “excessive” focus on Muslims bordering on an “obsession”, according to a new report by the Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM).

    Researchers alleged the stories about Islam are “overwhelmingly negative” and fail to understand the diverse nature of Muslim communities in the UK.

    They said the coverage could fuel community tensions and contribute to civil unrest.

    Sayeeda Warsi described the research as “shocking”, while former ITN executive and Ofcom regulator, Stewart Purvis, said the findings raised vital questions for the broadcasting regulator

    The two-year analysis found that GB News mentioned Muslims or Islam more than 17,000 times in its output, which they say accounted for almost 50% of total mentions on UK news channels. BBC News and Sky News accounted for 32% and 21% respectively.

    The report found that GB News was particularly focused on domestic stories on these topics in comparison with its rival channels, where foreign news contributed a greater amount to their output.

    It also alleged that Muslims and their beliefs are often presented on GB News as part of a conspiracy to undermine Britain or the British way of life. This takes the form of depicting Muslims as a Trojan horse in the UK.

    According to the findings, Islamophobia was referenced on GB news on 1,180 occasions, accounting for 60% of all mentions when compared with BBC News and Sky News. The researchers said the stories were overwhelmingly critical of the concept of Islamophobia.

    During last summer’s riots, GB News accounted for 62% of all clips on UK news channels that associated Muslims with the riots. Researchers allege that GB News repeatedly framed Muslims as “perpetrators rather than victims of violence”, pushed disinformation, and that the channel “downplayed attacks on mosques and Muslim communities”.

    The report also notes that GB News were particularly animated by the idea of ‘two-tier’ policing, airing debates which questioned whether police responses were harsher towards certain groups, such as white working-class Britons, while allegedly being more lenient towards Muslim communities.

    Lady Warsi said: The consistent stereotyping and stigmatisation of British Muslim communities as the “enemy” or the “problem” by a platform with millions of viewers is deliberate, dangerous and has real life consequences. Seeing the impact of far-right radicalisation with the alarming year-on-year rise in anti-Muslim hatred, culminating in this summer’s riots where mosques and Muslim communities were openly targeted, should have been a wakeup call for all.

       15 likes

    • Zephir says:

      No mention of the shocking rise in anti Jewish racism which directly correlates with Palestinian pro muslim protests ?

         18 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      “…BBC poll in 2015 found that 27% of British Muslims had quote ‘Some sympathy’ (27% or a third) for the people who went into the offices of Charlie Hebdo and killed the cartoonists, editors and journalists there. Channel 4 poll from last year (2015), found that only 1% of UK Muslims think that publications should have the right to publish the cartoons of Mohammed.”
      – Douglas Murray (2016?)

         11 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      How can there ever be any ‘positive ‘ news about Islam ?

         15 likes

  19. AsISeeIt says:

    If you happen to still hold our media commentariat in high regard and if you want to put a positive spin on their pronouncements, you might call this ‘balance’…

    West’s anxiety should not obscure the truth that Assad’s downfall is good for the world (Financial Times, Gideon Rachman)

    Syria rebels rush to consolidate power as fears of regional instability mount… Israel makes border land grab… US strikes at Isis targets (Financial Times, main headline report)

    The gynaeceum that is our BBC’s news staff liked that mixed messaging for their top pick in their online print press line-up this morning. Afterall, as You Tuber Paul Joseph Watson noticed yesterday, our BBC admires: This shift reflects HTS’s “moderate jihad” strategy since 2017, emphasising pragmatism over rigid ideology. (Mina Al-Lami, Jihadist Media Specialist, BBC Monitoring, 9 December 2024)

    Moderate jihad, eh? “Allahu… semi Akbar!” ?

    “From the River… meet you half-way… to the Sea” ?

    Don’t cry over borrowed milk

    This morning the ‘i’ newspaper does a fairly good impression of the bleeding heart-on-sleeve hungry NHS nurses eating out of waste bins Daily Mirror: Happy childhoods ‘When you have to borrow money to buy milk you know Christmas will be tough’ (‘i’)

    Suddenly milk is spilt all over our papers: Cattle feed additive found to be safe yet alarmist rumours are circulating online (Telegraph); Culture war over your pint of milk (Times)

    Dear Times letters to the editor, – That’s not a culture war – a culture war is when the left do something nutty and conservatives have the gall to complain about it.

    So, Times, if there’s nothing to worry about, how come milk is suddenly off pussy’s menu? We put our cat on a diet now he eat’s our kids’ food (the formerly serious Times newspaper)

    True to form our leading coronaphobic ‘i’ newspaper features: Time bomb warning as winter Covid jab take-up rate falls

    I’ve never understood how it is that the youth-oriented ‘i’ was so afraid of the old man’s disease that was covid? Perhaps someone there has shares in Pfizer? Hmmm… I wonder whether our public health officials had any financial self-interests?

    If only we had a presently constituted, well-funded, judge-led, public inquiry that could look into that sort of thing.

    Still, look on the bright side, if covid don’t get you – something else will: Environment – fears for animal and plant life as earth dries out (‘i’)

    Doomwatch was a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist (played by John Paul), responsible for investigating and combating various environmental and technological dangers. (Thank you Wiki)

    Ukraine – children left with ‘grey hair and speech defects’ amid horror of war (‘i’) – perhaps we should have a ceasefire, eh?

    UK will give Ukraine £3bn a year ‘for as long as it takes’, says Starmer (Guardian, 10 July 2024)

    Children with grey hair and speech defects? Don’t worry, the British army is on this: MoD to welcome soldiers with ADHD and autism amid recruitment crisis (‘i’)

    Now the Telegraph does a passable impression of a Daily Star-style shock headline: Poor sultana harvest is raisin mince pie prices (Telegraph) – seasonal pun of the day award there goes to the mildly conservative Telegraph

    And one should probably leave it there.

    The couple who run PinkNews, the world’s largest LGBT news website, have been accused by staff of multiple incidents of sexual misconduct. (Josh Parry LGBT & identity reporter, BBC) – any further comment would seem superfluous.

    Meanwhile in bear news…

    The TV streaming and film production company behind Paddington films is to list in London (Times); Court told of schoolgirl Elianne’s killing… Stabbed to death for a teddy bear (giveaway Metro)

       14 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Ban teddy bears!

      “Sudanese teddy bear blasphemy case”
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_teddy_bear_blasphemy_case

         5 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Asiseeit – thank you for the review – I do like the great Christmas shortage story – so traditional . I liked the one Guinness marketing got out saying there will be a shortage because ‘gen z”? ( or is it gen yoy ?) has a taste for it ( I prefer Murphy’s) ….
      But now it is said mince pie shortage … im sure they’ve been in the shops since `Easter …. Usually it’s a sinister turkey virus but turkey is a bit busy with Syria I think …

      Anyway – being without a TV I wonder it Clive or huw or Jeremy have popped up on the roof of the Damascus Hilton yet complete with helmet and bullet proof ‘false news ‘ flak jacket yet …?

         13 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Why no give it to old humans and babies? Babies trump a lot!

      “Cattle feed additive found to be safe” – report produce by company that created the drug?

      https://food.blog.gov.uk/2024/12/05/bovaer-cow-feed-additive-explained/

      “Milk from cows given Bovaer, a feed additive used to reduce methane emissions, is safe to drink. The additive is metabolised by the cows so does not pass into the milk”

         9 likes

  20. MarkyMark says:

    “Stop non-priority spending, Treasury warns ministers”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8ewdzgnx1yo

    David Sainsbury – £35,000.00

    Donation Source: (a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation
    Payment Type: Cash
    Payment Description: to the central Labour Party to pay the salary of a member of staff in my office
    Value: 35000.00

       5 likes

  21. andyjsnape says:

    Germany to tighten people-smuggling law in UK deal
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rnqdnn0jpo

    “Facilitating people-smuggling is not technically illegal in Germany currently, if it is to a third country outside the EU – which, following Brexit, includes the UK.” the eu sponsored beeb had to get that in “includes the UK”

    So the British public has to wait a few more years, dread to think how many more illegals will be here before then

    Its like taking out the drug dealer for another one to take their place – this policy will not work

    Its the illegals you need to go after and not use border farce or RNLI ferries to ferry them here!

       18 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Worth repeating – we are at war with France … “this is breathtaking—a free French public bus service that migrants can use to travel directly from the camps to the Dunkirk departure beaches. Will my right hon. Friend allow a statement on the issue of tackling the small boat crossings and the Government’s response in their work with France?”

      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2022-10-13a.258.0#g262.1

         7 likes

  22. Zephir says:

    Don’t bother with those memory foam insoles, I got some and still can’t remember why I walked into a room.

       21 likes

  23. MarkyMark says:

    “The site at Llanbadrig, in the north of the island which is owned by French power firm EDF Energy and powers up to 9,500 households, now needs significant repairs.”
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14175033/Storm-Darragh-UKs-Biggest-solar-farm-pieces.html

    now needs significant repairs – who pays for this?

       12 likes

  24. Zephir says:

    Capture1qw.jpg

       20 likes

  25. MarkyMark says:

    “Budgets will also be scrutinised by panels, including former senior bankers, to advise what spending is necessary.”

    More committees – 14 years to plan – more committees with free biscuits and overtime.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8ewdzgnx1yo

    Guidelines will set out … HA HA HA HAHA AHAH !

       4 likes

  26. vlad says:

    Andrew Lawrence on the situation in Syria and how it’s going to affect the UK.

    “A lot of people think the situation in the Middle East is a deeply complex one. It isn’t. It’s just a bunch of mentally defective angry inbred backwards people killing each other and blowing thing up…”

    The Jihadists Are Coming

       21 likes

  27. vlad says:

    The BBC is full of stories about Assad’s prisons where he locked up political prisoners.
    But they were strangely silent about Starmer’s political prisoners.

       26 likes

  28. Eddy Booth says:

    Our rebels are still locked up.

    What about the murderers, rapists and other traditional prisoners in Syria , are they now free too ?

       11 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      hide documents and say you are a political prisoner! Inshallah!

      ” murderers, rapists and other traditional prisoners in Syria”

         5 likes

  29. Eddy Booth says:

    “Assad’s police threatened to bury me and my reporting. Now I’m back, and free”
    Lina Sinjab
    Reporting from Damascus

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c791dye1z2lo

    A refugee back for a holiday.

    Nothing much changes :

    8e55f300-b649-11ef-b290-5582545eece3.jpg.webp

    2012 surrounded by men.

    a8f0bd10-b646-11ef-a65b-6fa0b7e90ec1.jpg.webp

    2024 surrounded by men.

       9 likes

  30. MarkyMark says:

    “The agreement between Birmingham City Council, Unison and the GMB union will see 6,000 staff with the authority receive settlement payouts.

    The equal pay issue was one of the key factors in the authority declaring effective bankruptcy last year when it said it was facing a bill of £760m to settle the claims.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd6y6dpnjro

    Birmingham City Council has paid out almost £1.1bn in equal pay claims since a landmark case was brought against the authority in 2012.

    …………………………………….

       5 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      You took a job , you knew what you were getting paid and you stayed in the job.
      Twenty years later lawyers say you can collect £30K and they will keep £10K of that for expenses
      I usually refuse to take the money , cos it’s not a zero sum game
      eg I would be taking money from a company that I am a shareholder of. So would be getting compensation from myself

         2 likes

  31. Fedup2 says:

    Hopefully Israel is taking on Islamic enemies in Syria – good opportunity to destroy it …..

    Keep going IDF …

       14 likes

  32. StewGreen says:

    ITV local news last night : Artist who killed dog walker threatened to create ‘bloodbath
    Emma Borowy, 32, a schizophrenic artist obsessed with witchcraft, was repeatedly allowed to leave her mental hospital despite having threatened “a bloodbath,” an inquest heard

    Borowy was charged with murdering Roger Leadbeater, 74, in a #Sheffield park in August last year.
    Police records show she had spoken about creating a “bloodbath” and wanting to “murder hundreds of people”
    psychiatrist testified there was “a history of aggression and carrying weapons, but not of serious violence”

    So that is a complex case
    The media used the terms Bolton artist etc.
    The woman apparently died of suicide whilst in jail awaiting trial

    So to basics : Borowy is an usual name : Simon Webb has a strong theory that almost all unprovoked street stabbing are schizophrenic foreigners and there is a much higher incidence of the affliction in certain ethnicities
    Borowy is the polish word for Forester
    But eventually I see that newspapers interviewed her 64 yo father at his home in Bolton, that suggests to me that she didn’t come directly from Poland , but probably her father did and then fathered children with a woman of unknown ethnicity

    “Her father said she had previously been admitted to mental health facilities in Salford, Bolton and Warrington, but was ‘seemingly allowed to escape at will’ and ‘run away’ while on escorted walks. He also claimed ‘she could be a hazard to herself and others’, but said that wasn’t taken ‘seriously’ by mental health professionals involved in her care.

    Mr Borowy said his daughter’s mental health began to decline around five years ago – and said she disclosed to friends that she had been the victim of a serious crime, but did not take the matter any further”
    What’s that ? can a sexual assault make you go schizophrenic ?

       12 likes

  33. Zephir says:

    Far left council:

    10% tax hike and service cuts so the marxist council officers can get paid more:

    “Labour’s bankrupt Birmingham City Council FINALLY settles equal pay claims for ‘hundreds of millions of pounds less than feared’… but residents still face another 10% tax hike and services cuts”

       10 likes

    • digg says:

      This has been on the council table in Brum for a long time, interesting that it finally gets the thumbs up and go-ahead now TTK & Co. are at the helm isn’t it?

         10 likes

  34. andyjsnape says:

    bbc news frontpage headline:-

    Syrian rebels to name Assad officials wanted for torture as fighters say 40 bodies found

    When, as its been the same headline for about 7 hours

       8 likes

  35. Terminal Moraine says:

    BBC live feed — “Singing, chanting and climbing a tank in celebration”

    Barbara Plett Usher reports from Damascus where the mood is good. The BBC do love a vibrant and joyous regime change. “We’ve just been approached by an Islamic sheikh. He says that Syrians will not look backwards, that there shouldn’t be any revenge, and that Syria should be a country for all its people – regardless of religion or ethnicity.”

    Great news Babs. In the last ten minutes I’ve watched footage of a man being hanged from a crane, and two people with their hands tied murdered by the side of the road. There’s evidence of other executions (unverified), but the BBC and the good sheikh are so full of hope and wide-eyed progessivism I’m sure we can ignore such unpleasantries.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cj90138ejrdt

       21 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      In Iran people learn to fly – without wings!

         8 likes

    • Terminal Moraine says:

      Another vox pop —

      Israa, a 30yr old mum and civil engineering student shares the optimism: “‘A lot people dismiss (HTS) as Islamist,’ she says, referring to the conservative religious political movement. ‘But we think they are pragmatic. I don’t like them 100 percent, but in the end they achieved great things for us…'”.

      I foresee a blossoming new career for Israa at the Dept for Religious Conservatism in W1A soon.

         8 likes

      • MarkyMark says:

        “referring to the conservative religious political movement

        2024.12.06 Syria Shaddadi-Merkeydaye 1 2 One person is shot dead by Islamic State loyalists.

        2024.12.03 Syria Aleppo 2 1 A father and son are killed when a family of fleeing Kurds are targeted by Sunni gunmen.

        2024.11.30 Syria Aleppo 44 0 An Islamist group kills dozens of civilians in a sustained attack.

        2024.11.28 Syria Aleppo 4 2 Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham send rockets into a university dorm, killing four students.

        2024.11.23 Syria Deir Ezzor 0 1 A civilian is shot for refusing to pay zakat.

        https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=Last30

           5 likes

        • Terminal Moraine says:

          Well sure but I bet they didn’t eat birthday cake during lockdown.

             5 likes

          • MarkyMark says:

            Halal Cake Only Comrades!

            “Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham send rockets into a university dorm, killing four students.”

               2 likes

  36. MarkyMark says:

    “MP Iqbal Mohamed, part of Corbyn’s “Independent Alliance,” argues against Holden in the Commons that the state should not ban the practice and it should be approached as a “health awareness issue” because it is a “highly sensitive issue.” Mohamed claims that many people believe it is a good thing to do which “builds family bonds.”
    https://order-order.com/

    HA HA HAHA HAH AHAH HAHAHA!

    Cousin marriages cited as significant factor in Bradford child deaths
    This article is more than 5 years old
    Fatal genetic conditions more common in children of south Asian heritage in West Yorkshire city, study says
    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/15/cousin-marriages-cited-as-significant-factor-bradford-child-deaths

       9 likes

  37. MarkyMark says:

    “Chris Weston said the supplier needed to offer “competitive packages” to attract talent, but the water regulator has previously said that customers must not foot the bill for “undeserved bonuses” ( £770,000 in bonuses.).”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4zklxgwwwo

    attract talent – billions in debt! HA HA HAHAH AH !
    “Britain’s Got NO Talent!” New gameshow.

    Thames water product falls from the sky – like their money!

       4 likes

  38. MarkyMark says:

    LONDON BBC
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/england/london

    “Council opposes Chinese embassy by Tower of London”

    “Police officers cut by 2,300 in 2025 – Met chief”

    “Parenting help for dads aims to cut youth violence”

       1 likes

  39. atlas_shrugged says:

    > “Parenting help for dads aims to cut youth violence”

    They don’t have any dads. Don’t you morons in the BBC ever listen to anything Lammy tells you?

    The dads were long ago outbid by the state. Now you have nationalised fatherhood you should be made to lie in the bed you have helped to create. Welcome to matriarchy. Visit Haiti to see the final touchdown point.

       14 likes

  40. G says:

    I remember back in the 80’s when it was said that the advent of the computer would result in mass unemployment. It now goes without saying that that didn’t transpire and all we have is broken technology that doesn’t in any way match up to any expectations. Its all broken along with the country. Bout the only item of technology that works well is the TV.

       12 likes

    • Zephir says:

      After 4 hours today trying to get a new printer “recognised” by Canon software on my Pc…via both wifi and USB without any success…I’m inclined to agree Mr G

      The only printing I got done today was with my boot sole.

         11 likes

      • StewGreen says:

        Actually someone asked me about that today
        i have seen it twice before
        It’s far more difficult that using a machine that never leanred to connect to a router
        cos the printer keeps looking for the old router.
        The trick is to go to the companies help page and follow the instructions exactly without taking shortcuts.

           1 likes

  41. andyjsnape says:

    UK ‘keeping close eye’ on British jihadists in Syria
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8xj4jzqlvgo

    “Asked about the prospect of them seeking to return to the UK, along with an influx of asylum claims from pro-Assad fighters, Dame Angela told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “Of course it’s a concern and it’s a concern that we constantly act on”

    So are you allowing the illegals back or not!!

    We constantly act on????

       15 likes

  42. Eddy Booth says:

    ‘I tried everything to get my daughter to go to school’

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpq9dgv138wo

    “Hannah’s mum Ashly says her daughter, who is autistic, struggled with the noise and busyness of the school environment.”

    It’d be a suprise if a kid wasn’t diagnosed with it these days.

       14 likes

    • Zephir says:

      Yep

      I had a screaming kid continually runnning into my legs while at a checkout trying to hear myself and the assistant above the noise, and getting hit in the legs over and over, , this after wandering around the store screaming for 30 minutes non stop, when I mentioned to the checkout clerk:

      ” I don’t know how you manage to work in here”

      The bloody entitled mother (hijabbed) suddenly springs into action after doing NOTHING before to control or calm or moderate the kid:

      She remarked rather loudly: “He’s autistic you know”

      My response, I turned to her and said “I wasn’t talking to you” and turned back, whilst thinking :

      “So, autistic, yet YOU decide to drag him screaming around a busy supermarket for 30 minutes non stop, at lunchtime, with your mate with you who could have looked after him in a quieter place while you shopped for 20 or 30 minutes”

      She carried on desperately trying to pick an argument with me while I repeated my first sentence, except for the comment:

      “Yeh, aren’t they all” as I walked off,

      She deserved it. My ears were ringing from the noise, legs sore from his attack, and I have misphonia from high pitched noises. But sod my needs eh ?

      The checkout lady was very nice and smiling to me.

         21 likes

    • tomo says:

      Remember the BBC gushing about Shiner?

      Screenshot-2024-12-10-at-16-33-29-Keir-Starmer-part-of-human-rights-glitterati-alongside-disgraced-l.png

         11 likes

    • taffman says:

      Zephir
      Question: Why is there so much autism about now?
      Is it contagious?

         6 likes

  43. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – BBC still bashing Bashar

    Ladies Doubles this morning with Emma & Mishal. Hasn’t Mishal left the BBC yet? The BBC do love Muslims unless the Muslim is of the Alawite sect and is a President and has a difficult job to do in keeping Syria a peaceful place for the majority of the population despite some willingness of some others to start a revolution/Civil War.

    Bashar-al-Assad must be a bad man because he has sought sanctuary in Russia whose President is another bad man who has sent his troops to invade Ukraine. The BBC world is simple. Good v bad. Except when the bad is BBC when see no evil, hear no evil applies.

       10 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      EU enlargement
      https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-history/eu-enlargement_en

      enlargement = NOT AN EMPIRE
      enlargement = NOT DISOLVING BORDERS

      “The enlargement of the EU has contributed significantly to the spread of stability, peace and prosperity across the continent.”

      more cultural diversity
      more cultural diversity

      “Angela Merkel: German multiculturalism has ‘utterly failed'”

         4 likes

    • non-licence payer says:

      U2S good v bad is ‘Binary Britain’ brought to you by the bBC.

      As soon as you read an article on the webshite, you know exactly who is good and who is bad. Life is so simple.

         2 likes

  44. Zephir says:

    No surprises here:

    “An independent MP today spoke out against a proposed ban on first cousins being able to marry in Britain. Iqbal Mohamed, MP for Dewsbury and Batley, told the House of Commons that many people view family intermarriage as ‘very positive’. He said it was seen as something that could help ‘build family bonds’ and put families on a more secure financial foothold’. Mr Mohamed admitted there were ‘health risks’ for the children of such marriages.”

       14 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Mr Mohamed said his wife aged 6 was content to be married to her uncle!

         6 likes

    • BRISSLES says:

      Er shouldn’t he have said “many ISLAMIC” communities view family intermarriage as positive…”. “Secure financial foothold” means keeping assets and property within the family.

      Certainly no white and Christian families would countenance incestuous relationships.

      3rd world bigamies and incestuous practices have now infected this country. And the NHS are picking up the bill to treat the disabled kids who are the product of these couplings.

         12 likes

  45. MarkyMark says:

    “An Islamic school teacher, Masud Abdulrasheed, is struggling to come to terms with the killing of his seven-year-old daughter in drone strikes by Nigeria’s military during a religious festival in their large but sparsely populated village exactly a year ago.

    The military said the bombing was caused by “a failure of intelligence”, leading the army to mistake the open-air festival in Tudunbiri for a gathering of jihadist fighters.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czj7r3dvlrno

    About 85 people were killed, including Mr Abdulrasheed’s little daughter Habeebah, when unmanned drones dropped two bombs on the village in northern Kaduna state.

    According to consulting firm SBM Intelligence, the Nigerian Air Force carried out 17 accidental air strikes between January 2017 and September 2024, killing more than 500 people.

       1 likes

    • Zephir says:

      Habeebah was attending a “Bombmaking for preschoolers” and a “Toddlers’ introduction to the AK47” when a small ignition from a drone set off her suicide vest.

         3 likes

  46. Philip_2 says:

    (Today) A former BBC journalist has been jailed for eight years for child sexual abuse offences.

    Bartlett worked as a BBC journalist for 14 years before leaving in 2015. He was arrested in September 2021. He was a correspondent in Tokyo and presented the World Business Report on the BBC World Service

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/10/ex-bbc-journalist-duncan-bartlett-jailed-child-sex-abuse/

    Comment:
    I suspect thats the way the BBC operates encourages ‘wierdos’ to join its cause. As long as they have an allegiance to left wing political causes and only read The Guardian – and fit on with what is still the most perverse organ in the UK.. The World Service was at one time funded by the Foreign Office and Mi5 used to have an office within the BBC to stop leftish influences and propaganda. It was abolished under Tony Blair and since that time, the BBC has got worse and totally infiltrated by not Marxists (they think that’s common), they are Trotskyists, playing the climate game, Wokism, sexual deviance as normal practice in the BBC as the think they have influence to pervert. They do indeed.

       10 likes

    • Lunchtime Loather says:

      “You like doing that, do you? Welcome to the BBC, you will be with friends here and will fit right in”

         2 likes

  47. StewGreen says:

    TV licensing letter
    Barrister says it has errors
    And that you withdrawing their right of access to land is legal in E & W and probably Scotland too

       2 likes

  48. taffman says:

    Things could be looking up for Reform UK?
    “Farage recruits tycoon Nick Candy as Reform UK treasurer”…
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr3n6g4lyjo

    Meanwhile in Wales…
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpw52qz1ygvo

       5 likes

  49. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY WATCH #2 – BBC back to Bashing Bibi

    The Syria collapse of law and order brings challenges for every country in the region, not least Israel. The Toady person (cannot remember whether it is Mishal or Emma) just had to mention that Israeli troops had entered Syria but that Bibi Netanyahu was engaged in a legal trial where he is accused of various things. He has of course entered a plea of not guilty to them all but that is only mentioned by TOADY presenters as an afterthought.

       5 likes

  50. StewGreen says:

    I’ll park this Musk tweet here
    It compares Islam to wolves and got half a million Likes

       4 likes