200 Responses to Start the Christmas Week 23rd December 2024

  1. tomo says:

    Sadly there is no Steve Pineless MP

    but it does ring true….

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  2. tomo says:

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  3. tomo says:

    gosh, will you look at that!

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  4. Zephir says:

    And, far left tossers, including Lammy, Khan and ALL at the bbc, would you look at that :

    “Illegal migrant who set woman on fire on subway was deported under Trump but snuck back in.

    A 33-year-old man who set a stranger on fire at a New York City subway station was in the US illegally from Guatemala, according to the New York Post.

    Sebastian Zapeta-Calil has been charged with murder and arson in the first degree after a woman burned to death on the F train in Brooklyn just before 7.30am on Sunday, police told DailyMail.com.

    Chilling footage showed the moment a man in a hoodie sat on the platform at Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island and watched as the woman became engulfed by flames.

    Police said Zapeta-Calil lit the unnamed passenger on fire as she slept on board the train before sitting back to watch her burn as she leaned dying on the carriage door.

    Zapeta-Calil can even be seen fanning the flames in one clip while other New Yorkers filmed the horror on their phones and cops walked on by.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14222527/Illegal-migrant-burned-woman-NYC-subway.html

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  5. Zephir says:

    “Biden’s demented Christmas wish: Comfort for child rapists and killers but pain for you! MAUREEN CALLAHAN reveals the hidden torment driving Joe’s raging temper tantrum.

    It’s been sold by Democrats as a mercy to allow disgraced President Joe Biden to ride out his term. How much harm can he do?, they ask.

    A lot, it turns out. An ungodly amount.

    Devastating, unjust, dangerous harms — all exacted by a president we now know, thanks to blockbuster exposés last week, has been cognitively impaired since before Day One.

    If the Democratic Party has a shred of self-preservation left, if its leaders hold any hope for rebounding in 2028 as the self-appointed guardians of decency, moral uprightness, and democracy itself, they must remove this dishonorable president immediately.

    Early Monday morning, Biden commuted the death sentences of nearly all forty men on federal death row, including child rapists and murderers.

    Biden is literally selling off parts of Trump’s border wall at fire-sale prices —auctioning fence building materials rather than retaining them for Trump’s administration — doubtless because Americans ousted the Dems over the migrant crisis.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14222601/biden-pardon-commutation-maureen-callahan.html

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  6. Zephir says:

    “Thames Water spent millions of ‘clean-up’ money on other costs including bonuses and dividends, it is claimed.

    It was also reported managers held talks to assess the risk of a backlash if it emerged cash for work such as cutting river pollution was spent elsewhere.

    The allegations suggest there were fears the spending could be a breach of licence and leave the firm open to accusations of law breaking.

    But Thames continued to pay bonuses worth hundreds of thousands, as well as millions in dividends as recently as March, while cutting back on spending promises.

    Internal deliberations about axing the schemes occurred as early as 2021, according to claims.

    But it continued to charge customers for the works, and regulator Ofwat was only formally told about their plans not to deliver these major projects in August 2023.

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  7. Doublethinker says:

    I’m enjoying the fuss the Globalist Uniparty members are making over Musk’s possible donation to Reform. These range from foam flecked outrage and calls for changes to the law to ban such donations on the one hand , to the belief that voters will turn their back on Reform if they accept the money, on the other hand.

    The latter view is expressed today in the Telegraph today by Globalist Tory Charles Moore , who seems to be increasingly out of touch with the real world. He simply doesn’t understand the depth of feeling amongst the electorate and their loathing of the 14 year long Tory betrayal and of the cynical liars of the extreme Woke Labour Party. We have had enough of their Uniparty Globalist duopoly .
    We want a government that puts ordinary Brits first , that protects us , our culture and our way of life, that will stop mass immigration, that will dare to contemplate mass deportations, that pushes back against Islamification , that will stop Net Zero , that will drastically cull the public sector and of course will abolish the BBC.

    We hope that Reform might at least try to do some of the above, We know for certain that none of the other parties will.

    Merry Christmas

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    • Lucy Pevensey says:

      Reform doesn’t have the will to deal with Islam. Nigel appears to believe it can be absorbed into normal life.
      We need a leadership that prioritises non-Muslims.

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      • Doublethinker says:

        Lucy,
        I hope that Nigel is just mouthing a platitudes that he doesn’t believe and has no intention of delivering on, purely for electoral purposes.
        There are still many non Muslims in this country who can’t bring themselves to face up to the threat Islamification poses or are too frightened to vote for a party which proposes to clamp down on it. Nigel doesn’t want to scare these voters off. I hope it’s just a tactical ploy not a real belief. But the religion of the chairman of Reform might indicate that I’m mistaken.

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      • moggiemoo says:

        Islam will be absorbed into normal life by the country becoming Muslim. And it definitely will.

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  8. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – I listened to 15m despite a resolution to avoid a Guest edited TOADY

    Frank Cottrell-Boyce, a BBC favourite Lefty no doubt, was guest editing TOADY on the subject of reading to children. Both my parents taught me to read before I ever encountered school which is a double edged sword in the computer age. I find I spend a lot of time reading stuff here on this web-site, on TCW and on Paul Homewood’s excellent site ‘Not A Lot of People Know That’.

    I am grateful to my late parents for that gift of learning to read and I remember the gift of books at past Christmases including a book about Dr Conan Doyle & junior Reader’s Digest, which as a monthly magazine is no longer published. I still have some copies of the magazines as my late father was a subscriber until his death.

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    • Zephir says:

      Same here Up2

      I love books, the smell of a new book, the feel, the ability to pick it up or put it down when you like, and turn back a few pages to check something, and forward to the appendices etc.

      To dwell for a while on illustrations, Arthur Rackham springs to mind, and from childhood the Thomas Henry illustrated William books.

      The difficulty on the interweb is trying to find text you can JUST read rather than videos on anything.

      Even worse, videos with text then some idiot reading it, usually way too slowly….

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      • Zephir says:

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Zephir, I remember Just William and I miss William Jarvis reading William stories on BBC R4. He did the ‘voices’ so well. The previous Controller and the present one have messed up BBC Radio 4 for everyone.

        When my parents moved house in north London, they very quickly took me and a younger sister to the local Library and enrolled us as ‘junior readers’ with tickets with which to take out books. Then I discovered W.E. Johns and Biggles. 🙂

        I borrowed most of the library’s stock of Biggles books as well as receiving a few as gifts at Christmas and birthday time. I still have them. Using a well known internet auction site I recently obtained a rare copy of Spitfire Parade, which in the local Library and at Secondary School in their library was completely unavailable.

        At Secondary School it was a delight to discover Molesworth books in the school library with wonderful illustrations by, iirc, Geoffrey Searle. Happy days as any fule kno. 🙂

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        • Zephir says:

          Yes, still have Some William and W E Johns, early ones are very collectible now and I loved Moleworth…

          Also the Asterix and Tintin books

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  9. Zephir says:

    Something..seasonal for today

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    • Zephir says:

      Taladh Chriosta : The Christ Child Lullaby.

      Best wishes to all on here, change is in the air.

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  10. AsISeeIt says:

    ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ asked Band Aid back in 1984

    As the evidently un-Christian left-leaning i news comments irreverently: Happy Saturnalia! How the Romans celebrated a feast of warmth and light – but, multiculturally speaking, don’t tell our immigrant communities ‘when in Rome do as the Romans do’

    The Guardian is scarcely more respectful, nor particularly cheerful: The Christmas that went wrong… Family rows, run-ins with the exes, trips to A&E and more in our G2 special

    The Gruan likes this however: Girls form part of the choir at the Christmas Day service this year at St Paul’s Cathedral for the first time in its 900 year history

    Likewise the globalist liberal FT: Girls aloud… St Paul’s choir hits next level… But while many thousands of City workers have flocked to carol services in the run-up to Christmas, far fewer regularly attend the churches that still survive in the City

    Well, you know what they say, our modern liberal achingly right-on churches must be doing something wrong.

    Oh, and by the way: Christian Iranian refugees are living in fear in Britain (i news) – gosh, must be the result of all the racialism we have over here?

    Opinion Churches deserve a second coming… as party venues (i news)

    Speaking of paganism, agnosticism and indeed that latter persuasion’s more determined first cousin – atheism… (sometimes these sequeways write themselves)

    Yet recent news of murderous, nutty, immigrants we find have been rapidly expunged from both our print frontpages and the BBC online news top story list.

    We make do with: A man has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a woman who was set on fire on a subway train in New York. Sebastian Zapeta, 33, was charged with first and second degree murder as well as arson on Monday over the attack… An immigration official said that Mr Zapeta entered the US illegally in 2018 and was detained and deported. (BBC) – and like a bad penny… :The official said he subsequently unlawfully re-entered the US.

    BBC Europe news online tab brings us not so much news as opinion-based commentary and the difficult thought experiment of how come our atheist muslim apostate picked a Christmas market for the venue of his act of off-road terrorism?

    Magdeburg attack offers far right fertile ground despite suspect’s backing for AfD (Bethany Bell, BBC) – go figure, eh? Well, it’s a complete mystery to me, BBC. But an admirable deployment of that old journalistic ‘despite’ there from our Bethany.

    Does Assad’s wife want to divorce him and return to Britain? – asks the ever-excitable Daily Mail

    Ah, Britain – our wonderful global bolt hole, shelter, hotel accommodation, refuge, sanctuary, sanctum, anchorage, first resort, first port in a storm… last resort, dormitory, rest stop, hostel, trailer park, doss house, dustbin, flop house, slum motel, bunkhouse, fleabag…

    Plenty of room on top – as the old double decker bus conductors used to say – if we all just budge up a bit more.

    The upcoming soon to be broadcast King’s Speech seems to excite the headline writers and our ever-excitable Mail presumes to suggest: King’s message of national healing… Charles chooses ex-hospital chapel for speech praising health workers and how nation came together after summer riots

    And there was me recalling the nation being cowed into submission due to arbitary arrests for speech, intimidatory swift convictions and extraordinarily hefty sentences.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      AISI, whilst I haven’t been to St Helens Bishopsgate for a while – non-working, non-street legal car – I used to go regularly in the 1970s and 1980s when I worked in the City and at London Bridge. St Helens, if you did not get there early in the days of Rev RC Lucas you would have to sit on a cushion on the steps, in pre-IRA bomb damage days. After St Helens was damaged by the IRA bomb blast they took the opportunity to ‘modernise’ the building and create a level floor despite the contrary wishes of the Victorian Society! No steps now.

      The present Vicar is William Taylor and while he doesn’t pack the place out quite like Dick Lucas, his ministry is sound to this non-Conformist’s ears and he preaches excellently. The success of St Helens is that they have a ministry to different groups of City workers and have a Chinese congregation and St Helen’s has planted different congregations eg. in Docklands. St Peters Cornhill can only look on in envy along with the other City churches, such as St Katherines and the one in Cheapside, sorry name forgotten. https://www.st-helens.org.uk/

      PS: Dick Lucas is still alive and will reach his century if he survives to 10th September 2025! 🙂

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  11. Jeff says:

    With all that’s going on the world I realise that this is just a small gripe, but it’s something I noticed…

    This evening the BBC are continuing their longstanding tradition of “A Ghost Story for Christmas”. They usually have some great old classics by the likes of MR James (the master) which they do their level best to wokify by making leading members of the production Asian or black. It’s both irritating and also painfully predictable, but…

    Anyway, this evening they’re showing Woman of Stone, based on an Edith Nesbitt (Railway Children) short story. Now, I’m a huge fan of ghost stories and very familiar with this particular tale, which is why I’m a tad peeved. Let me explain.

    The original story is called Man Sized In Marble and is set on Romney Marsh and the ” marbled men” are monuments in Brenzett Church. This is a beautifully peaceful spot and after a long cycle ride I once sat in the churchyard, on a little mossy obelisk and read the entire short story from start to finish. It was perfect summer’s afternoon without an unnatural sound to disturb me.

    I just wonder (do I need to ask?) why the bloody BBC have messed about with the original idea and seemingly changed the gender of the marbled creatures.

    I’m more than half expecting “people of colour” to be incongruously wedged into the story somewhere…the local vicar…the charlady…the publican… I’ll be on tenterhooks.

    Perhaps I’m just becoming a grumpy old man.

    Okay, there’s no need to agree with me…

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    • Greencoat says:

      Changing the gender of characters (from male to female, natch) and inserting (with quite fantastic incongruence) African and Asian people into the story is routine for Mark Gatiss.
      He has done the same with his production of ‘A Christmas Carol’ currently showing at Birmingham Rep.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Jeff & Greencoat, like my father before me I enjoy Dickens both in books and on DVD. Unfortunately the BBC R4 plays of both Little Dorrit and Our Mutual Friend were a jumble to my ears. Our Mutual Friend was especially bad as the BBC appeared to have ‘craned in’ or ‘crowbarred in’ an FNicks Fitzgerald into one of the female parts. Quite unsuitable for 19th Century London. I obtained a DVD version of Our Mutual Friend which I may find explains the plot better than the BBC radio play.

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    • Zephir says:

      I loved a story called “The Monkey’s Paw” I think, about three wishes ? can’t remember who wrote it

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  12. StewGreen says:

    YouTube pushes this advert at he this morning
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    He appears to be the Islamic equivalent of Billy Graham
    stadium gigs in London, Birningham , Manchester
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    441K views .. just 5 Likes

    YouTube this past few weeks has been relentlessly pushing Pure dogfod at me .. although I hav never owned a dog
    And the “You make $1000s of dollars from almost no work by promoting audible” advert, obviously a scam

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  13. G says:

    You know what it is. There are times when, if you listen to any BBC R4 items, that you squirm listening to them. News at 2200 Hrs yesterday evening, I had the displeasure to hear the BBC interviewer challenge a top leader in the AfD in Germany. He was rude and pursued a clear attack line: that of their direct affiliation (if at all – we never got to know) with the “Saudi” doctor. It was painful to listen to and I wished it were me as interviewee. Then I would have responded ……….’Well, every organisation can have a Jimmy Saville moment’.

    Murderers are not all the same. According to the BBC. Reporting from Germany, you are told on every reference that the perp. was from “Saudi”. Whereas, in the UK the BBC report a murderer as, for example, “a Cardiff person”. Never disclosing the perp’s original nationality. Why BBC?

    The BBC, pure evil

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      The BBC seem not to have heard of taqqiya, nor of false conversions. The man who attacked a woman and children with corrosive substances in London had just such a false conversion to Christianity, and then was buried as a muslim.

      I have little doubt this Saudi’s “conversion” to atheism was done for a similar reason, to enable him to avoid deportation to Saudi Arabia.

      The BBC cannot answer why a man who is nominally an atheist should choose to attack a Christmas market, a classic jihadi target. It is too difficult for them to get their heads round.

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  14. MarkyMark says:

    Happy Christmas and everyone have a great New Year
    ** copied from 2023 message, sorry! HA HAH!

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  15. Eddy Booth says:

    You can’t beat a good hard luck story at Christmas!

    ‘I won £18k in online prize draw – but haven’t seen a penny’

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c745ql143xvo

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    “Dafydd Bayliss”

    Basically this genius above, has been giving this immigrant below, his money for 3 years to enter competitions…
    What could go wrong😀

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    “Anton Hall, pictured, used promotional videos on social media to spread the word”

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  16. Eddy Booth says:

    “Protests erupt in Syria over Christmas tree burning”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx27yx1y0deo

    2 weeks in, and they’ve already come for a Christmas tree.

    “The main Islamist faction said the men responsible for the arson were foreign fighters and had been detained..”

    That kind of F word language would get you jail time in Britain.

    “Some in the Kassa neighbourhood of Damascus chanted against foreign fighters in Syria.”

    Far right thugs.

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  17. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Fiery but peaceful far right who you kneel to?

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      … meanwhile the scum Far-left thugs are:

      Harming our pensioners by increasing fuel bills
      Trashing the economy with extra taxes affecting small businesses
      Locking up citizens for social media tweets
      Members of dodgy globalist organisations e.g. Trilateral Commisiion
      Being mysteriously parachuted into high office
      Accepting lavish hospitality gifts
      etc etc

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      • Oldspeaker says:

        When you put it like that it’s fitting that they’re cheer leaded by an organisation that demands money with menaces ( cough up or we’ll send the boys round), regardless of whether you want there service or not, assuming you wish to watch or record live TV. Models not to dissimilar to a protection racket really. Merry Christmas to all.

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    • digg says:

      Ah but what he probably means is that the far right are a very real threat to TTK Peter!

      Wonder if all the jailed protestors were a threat, a real threat or a very real threat in his little legal world?

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  18. Square-Eyed says:

    Freezing This Christmas

    In reflective mood I was pondering how precisely did the BBC decide to ban all broadcasts of the song. Certainly the choice was made very quickly. Was it left to one specific, gifted individual? Or did they call an emergency meeting of creative directors from both Hampstead Weekend Television and Radio Islington? Was it decided on the casting vote of the chairman, sorry, that should be chair, or a unanimous decision? Hm, let me guess …

    All the same, it would be an education for once to sit in on such a discussion and hear the uncensored thoughts of our enlightened friends.

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  19. digg says:

    In a majority Christian town in Syria some chaps set fire to the public Christmas tree in the town…

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx27yx1y0deo

    No doubt this was done by members of the designated terrorist ISIS invaders who kicked out Assad and signifies what the Country is soon likely to become,

    The BBC however deign to refer to them using the Weasley word “fighters”. Now where have we heard the BBC use that description before?

    I’m just surprised they stopped at “fighters” when they might have used “liberators”!

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  20. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    You have to feel for that man in the protest who was hit on the head with bricks and also got one in the meat and two veg.

    He was then arrested and got two and a half years in prison. I think his crime was pushing a wheelie bin towards the police. I don’t know if it even reached them.

    If that’s the going rate for this crime I wonder what the going rate for actually causing gbh to a few police such as breaking a policewoman’s nose. Anything less than 10 years will give another example of two tier policing/Law Courts.

    What did that person who was done for prayer thoughts about 80 metres from an abortion place get. It’s not as if there was a crowd of them blocking the road by mass public prayers.
    I really believe that if Jesus suddenly appeared, somewhere say in London, and started speaking, he would be arrested.

    Anyway.
    Happy Christmas etc everybody.

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  21. chancygardner says:

    A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all the far right thugs on here. My daily ration of your mostly peaceful riotous posts have kept me sane for another year. Do carry on!

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  22. Zephir says:

    I am keeping my fingers crossed that Santa does not catch covid tonight.

    Just imagine tomorrow.

    Locked in a room, given a pencil and notebook and forced to write down the name, address and postcode of everywhere he recently visited.

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  23. Lucy Pevensey says:

    Merry Christmas BBC style

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  24. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    When I was living in Germany it was normal for large blocks of flats to have the car garage parking in the basement below the living accommodation.
    A block with say 40 flats would have around 40-50 parking places below.
    I don’t know if it’s the same in England but just imagine, once ev charging points are installed for every parking place and you have about 40 cars all charging up overnight, what would happen if one caught fire.

    Cars, e bikes, e scooters are commonly reported as catching fire. I know of 2 e busses which have caught fire less than a half mile from where I live so it’s not uncommon.

    I think the fire brigade cannot put these fires out so the fire could easily spread to the next ev and so on.

    How safe would you feel sleeping directly above a few dozen charging ev’s every night, even if you don’t own one.
    Sprinkler systems would be useless.
    As these cars age would they be more liable to catch fire.
    Would somebody trying to fiddle or bypass some of the charging circuit cause a fire (think people fiddling with gas meters causing gas explosions)

    I have a single garage and wouldn’t feel safe with just one car charging overnight.
    It’s recommended not to leave domestic items on charge unattended or while you’re not at home so a car in a closed garage could be a potential danger…higher insurance premiums maybe after increasing car/home fires.

    And that’s just one of the reasons ev’s are a bad deal, there’s many many more.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “The report confirmed the vehicle was “diesel-powered” and not “a mild hybrid, plug-in hybrid or electric vehicle”.”

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-68627759

      “Ion batteries are difficult to put out because they house all three elements of the fire triangle. The electrolyte is the flammable fuel, it does not need any surrounding combustible material to start a fire. The batteries can generate oxygen as the atoms are liberated from the metal oxide due to high temperature.5 May 2023”

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    • digg says:

      IAnyone who seriously believes that Electric vehicles will become the norm and internal combustion vehicles will fade out or be forced out has a big disappointment coming. I just wonder whether all those experts pushing the government to legislate petrol and diesel vehicles out of existence will apologise when the whole shit-show grinds to a halt.

      I remember coop milk floats being electric in the 1950’s but they were eventually trashed. They were powered by electric because they were less noisy delivering milk in the early hours and I recall the coop in our town had a special tow truck to go out and collect all the floats that had either gone dead or gone up in smoke which was a common sight at the time.

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  25. Flotsam says:

    Viewers of GBNews are messaging the channel not to show Smarmer’s Christmas message any more times.

    Described as “insincere”, “inappropriate”, “boring”

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  26. BRISSLES says:

    I take it Border Force are on their Christmas break, as its reported over 2000 benefit claimants are sat on the French coast waiting to cast off tomorrow. (Er exactly HOW many Border force boats do we have ? Certainly not enough to pick up 2000 that’s for sure.

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  27. atlas_shrugged says:

    I would like to wish all of you wonderful people on here

    A Very Happy Christmas.

    Thanks for all your wonderful posts and thanks for keeping me sane.

    It is my best wish that we can do to the bBC what Der Starmer has been doing to our country.

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  28. JohnC says:

    Happy Christmas to all !.

    Thank you to everyone here who reassures me that I’m not the only one who thinks our society has gone seriously wrong and the BBC are a large part of the reason.

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  29. JohnC says:

    Predatory man jailed for 25 minute sexual attack on lone woman walking home
    https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/city-london-sexual-assault-lone-woman-b1201590.html
    ‘The woman, who had been on a night out in Shepherd’s Bush, said the 25-minute ordeal at Aweys’ hands has left her isolated and wary of men.’
    ‘Aweys pleaded guilty at Inner London crown court to two counts of sexual assault and one charge of sexual assault by penetration.’

    Here’s another one which the feminists and misandrists at the BBC should be all over – but once again they have ignored it.

    And in an amazing coincidence, the man who did it looks just like the others:
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    But they HAVE reported:
    ‘Dog rehomed after three years due to BBC coverage’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4x15nwqk3o

    Well done Harriet!:
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    Mum will be proud.

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  30. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Help.

    I’ve had it before on here but can’t remember how I stopped it.

    Every time somebody posts a comment I get an email saying a new comment has been posted and as you can imagine the emails build up quite quickly.

    The options (in blue) on the ‘Leave a reply’ box below are not resolving this.

    I’ve tried the box marked notify me of follow up comments which is not ticked, I’ve opened the subscribe but when I try to change anything I get a message coming up saying it’s the wrong email and nothing happens. The ‘click here’ box (in blue below) says 1 + 2 and when I put 3 I get wrong email as well.
    How do I stop getting email notifications every time somebody posts on here.
    As I said, it’s happened before but I don’t know how it stopped.
    I’ve switched the iPad off then on but that didn’t make any difference.

    This is what I see but it’s set out a bit differently.

    Subscription Date Title Subscription Status
    24 Dec 2024 Start the Christmas Week 23rd December 2024 All Comments
    Select all Invert selection

    Action:

    Return to Post

    I then get this message no matter what I do.

    Manage subscriptions
    You have request to manage another email address and this is forbidden.

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      At the bottom of the page:

      Click here to manage existing subscriptions.

      Click on the ‘here’ and then untick anything you are subscribed to.

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    • moggiemoo says:

      I have had this a few times including a couple of weeks ago. I clicked on one of the emails and then unsubscribe and it worked. I’m pretty sure there was more to it on previous occasions.

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  31. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Thanks for the replies.

    It appears to have stopped but I don’t know how.
    I think your way moggie will have been the way.
    Atlas, I tried ticking and unticking but kept getting the forbidden email message.
    I post again if it happens.

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  32. Deborah says:

    Happy Christmas everyone. This is my little area of sanity in this dark world. Thank you to you all.

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  33. brexiteerkent says:

    Not the BBC but Channel 4. very rare that I watch mainstream TV but just watching “Alpine train at Christmas” about swiss railways. how could they possibly make a train documentary woke . Five minutes in, a woman says ” Trains are special, We met on a train my wife and I ” . sigh, is nothing these days free of woke. .. Edit …Nooo, now they are going on about global warming … aaaaarrrgggh

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    • brexiteerkent says:

      Noooo .. Still watching .. Now they have found an African, a ” Swiss Nigerian cheese maker” .. That’s all the boxes ticked in a bloody Swiss railway documentary 🙁

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      • moggiemoo says:

        I saw it yesterday but focused on the views and the rather attractive train manager. Tautology perhaps as, arguably, she was one of the views.

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      • JohnC says:

        I remember Clarkson saying that all TV producers these are given a directive to include as much diversity as possible.

        Which counts as illegal positive discrimination in my book – but as we’ve seen with the Southport protestors, the law is not as absolute as we once thought it was.

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  34. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Instead of going to the middle of the Channel to collect and bring here as many as possible of the doctors and rocket scientists, women and children, why don’t the rnli (uber?) stay at home.
    At the very least they will cost any gang not yet smashed by the dinghy boys nemesis TTK, twice as much in fuel.

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  35. Doublethinker says:

    On Spectator TV there is a long interview of Jordan Peterson by the new editor Michael Gove. The first two thirds is about religion and philosophy , which I didn’t fully understand but the final third focuses on present day politics .
    Peterson sticks to his line of damning Wokism and socialism and delivers some well aimed broadsides at the Tories as well as Labour.for their leftism .
    Gove didn’t interrupt or protest, perhaps he daren’t or he knew it was fully justified. Peterson was particular vitriolic about how any Conservative government could implement mass migration and NetZero. Gove kept quiet.
    Then right at the endGove pipes up with the suggestion that Peterson should meet Kemi because she shared many of his views!
    She might have views on Net Zero and mass migration but I doubt that they will be acceptable to Peterson. They certainly aren’t acceptable to British voters and will become less and less so in the coming months as she sits on her hands and daren’t repudiate key WEF policies.

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    • Zephir says:

      This “government” are an open target and sitting duck for being held to account at primeministers question time and elsewhere but…nothing

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  36. Zephir says:

    Nothing regarding the bbc; or maybe something, spending some time in a time machine with some tinctures, when the world seemed a lot nicer and saner..when people liked music for it’s beauty and when it enhanced the soul.

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  39. JohnC says:

    What a treat !.

    Browsing my extensive collection of ‘older TV shows’ and to my astonishment found a Morcambe & Wise Christmas special (from 1977) I have never seen before !!.

    Either that or I’ve forgotten it which is not out of the question these days.

    Cheers !.

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  40. moggiemoo says:

    I was never a big fan of of M & W at the time but, with the utter crap available nowadays, I’m beginning to warm to them as top class entertainment.

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    • JohnC says:

      Exactly moggie.

      I now appreciate any film which is just entertainment without any left-wing politics. They were all like that 20 years ago and almost none are now.

      One rare and recent exception being Deadpool and Wolverine which I enjoyed immensley.

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  41. Zephir says:

    Perusing the interweb on most any subject via a certain supplier…

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  42. Zephir says:

    RE above, simple image search “scientist” Africa, and women eh ? how well they do, underachieving white boys, the 95% majority in this country, and their future hopes ?

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  43. Zephir says:

    As above, engineers, bloody amazing never seen so many women and black men, have a look next time you see a civil engineering site or a bunch of people tarmaccing the road at 4am….

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  44. Zephir says:

    But, try another search term and all of a sudden, those poor white boys are back….

    Knife crime

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  45. Zephir says:

    Where’s gobshite Starmer demanding “full force of the law” ?

    15 months for the black one, racially aggravated crime, 24 months for pushing a wheelie bin if you’re white.

    “Pictured: Samurai Sword show-off, 24, who posed with his parents’ weapon on Snapchat and said ‘Where’s Tommy Robinson?’ before adding ‘need to smash up this white lot’ – as he’s jailed”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14224987/samurai-sword-Snapchat-Tommy-Robinson-Birmingham.html

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  46. StewGreen says:

    Renewables in context 14%
    and 6% of that is hydro ..not Mickey Mouse lazy workers like wind and solar power.

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  47. Fedup2 says:

    Time for the Christmas Thread . My best tip – turn it all off on Christmas Day …

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