Start the Week 10th February 2025

BBC in a tricky position now that has been released that Uk taxpayers have been funding part of it through USAID . perhaps that’s a reason why BBC coverage isn’t as comprehensive as it might being mindful of how interested it has been in vilifying Donald Trump ..

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318 Responses to Start the Week 10th February 2025

  1. tomo says:

    The legal “establishment” on both sides of the Atlantic need to be careful…

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      This weedy little punk needs to be reminded of who the president is, the man who has just been elected by the American people. He is a pencil necked no-mark who got appointed to his job by a Democrat. It does not give him the right to thwart the president, who is the head of the federal government.

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  2. tomo says:

    Not propaganda

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  3. StewGreen says:

    The New Culture Forum video
    Britain’s Hidden Epidemic of Sexual Violence,
    Why It’s Covered Up & Who’s Committing it.

    “8 times more stories on George Floyd than grooming gangs”

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Islam can teach us a lot ….

      If the UK lowers the age of consent to 9 like in Islamic Iraq we can end all rapes over night.

      If the UK allows raped girls to marry the rapist like they suggested in Turkey where you can get better teeth (not on the NHS) we can end the rape claims as they were married!

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  4. JohnC says:

    UK must respect Trump’s mandate, new US ambassador tells BBC
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8j5n3z7epo

    Like you did for Brexit eh Mandleson ?.

    Mandelson: ‘Brexit negotiation requires compromise’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-40324792
    Mandelson plans to sleep though Brexit departure
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p081qswy
    Brexit: Mandelson urges Lords not to ‘throw in towel’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39020252
    Brexit: Mandelson urges Lords to show ‘a bit of courage’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-39020258

    .. the google list goes on and on.

    What a pathetic snivelling creature Mandleson is. Absolutely typical Lefty. Luckily the BBC are just the same so they readily give him a soapbox.

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    • Thatcherrevolutionary says:

      I suspect with retaining the Epstein files, the US has Mandelson exactly where they want him.
      This complete 180 from him is unusual, but whatever they hold on him, it obviously works.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        New US ambassador Peter Mandelson’s foul-mouthed rant when pushed about Epstein friendship

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  5. JohnC says:

    Trump’s citizenship order leaves expecting Indian immigrant parents in limbo
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xq70lw8kvo

    This is how desperate the BBC to find anything negative they can against Trump.

    In true BBC form, they zoom in on a carefully selected example and blow it up out of all proportion to reality.

    When it suits them, the plight of two non-white people is more important than global politics. And also when it suits them (eg when black boys murder each other in Londonistan), they don’t report it at all.

    Savita is apparently from a ‘lower cast’ and ‘says she often faces casteist insults from her South Asian colleagues.’.

    Is there no limit to how unfair life is when you are a BAME who spends your life looking for reasons ?. Of course the BBC are only too willing to take any of their stories and put them on the front page. They absolutely love racism against ‘victims’. They don’t need to ‘provide any evidence’.

    The extreme-Left BBC are 100% agenda now.

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  6. Zephir says:

    Another one….

    “Motley Crue member Vince Neil’s private jet veers off runway in Arizona and crashes into plane, leaving at least one dead.

    The crash comes after a Bering Air flight carrying 10 people vanished while flying over Alaska on Thursday.

    On January 31, a medical transportation plane crashed in Philadelphia killing the six people on board and another person on the ground.

    The nation was hit with the deadliest air disaster in the country since 2001 on January 29 when an American Airlines jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, DC.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14382541/plane-crash-runway-scottsdale-arizona-airport-flights-grounded.html

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    • Zephir says:

      BTW top kidult journalists at the Mail claim the Motley Crue singer actually sings with Dr Feelgood ??

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  7. Zephir says:

    That’s the way to deal with terrorists:

    “Trump threatens to cancel ceasefire deal and ‘let all hell break loose’ if all hostages are not released by noon on Saturday”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14382771/Trump-threatens-cancel-ceasefire-hostages-Gaza-Hamas-Israel.html

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    • Guest Who says:

      It’s the lead on the BBC Moaning Emole too.

      Not the Trump bit, but the heroic Gazans’ threats to keep the hostages they took in the first place and are still alive. Because. They ‘say’ the Israelis were mean.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Also on the BME:

        “Huge fatberg halts Bryan Adams concert”

        Seems Lammy, Nuggets, The Welsh Purple Haze and the new Health corpse are fans and flew out?

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        • Thatcherrevolutionary says:

          I think a sewage fatberg would be preferable as Foreign Secretary.
          1. It’s also fat
          2. It’s also full of shite
          3. It will cost a lot to get rid
          4. It behaves in way we don’t want

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  8. Zephir says:

    This is the country where our labour socialist leader is poncing around the world pretending to be important and giving away billions of taxpayers money to other countries as “aid” when we have bankrupt labour socialist local authorities that can’t afford to collect refuse, which is strewn around our streets, with rotten and boarded up buildings and alcoholic homeless on the streets…

    Labour run Birmingham:

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  12. Zephir says:

    And labour run Blackpool:

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  17. Zephir says:

    Starmer jetting around the world pontificating and handing out billions, meanwhile our thriving towns and cities such as …Grimsby …

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Anyone who is rightly shocked by the above pictures of Grimsby should take a trip to visit Scheveningen in NL. This is also a seaside town with a small harbour, a fishing fleet, fish processing factories, a massive number of thriving restaurants etc etc. The place is packed with visitors.

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  22. Zephir says:

    DOGE focuses on millions in migrant hotels billed to US taxpayers as DHS Sec. Noem targets FEMA.

    The government’s leading disaster relief agency reportedly spent millions on hotels for illegal immigrants just last week, according to Elon Musk, who is leading the Trump administration’s efforts to cut government spending.

    FEMA…..the government’s disaster relief branch that recently sparked concern over a reported lack of funds during Hurricane Helene.

    During former President Biden’s term, FEMA faced backlash after it was reported that while they lacked the necessary funds needed to help Hurricane Helene victims, they were dishing out money that ended up being used to aid illegal immigrants.

    Speaker Mike Johnson clarified that emergency relief funding is separate from FEMA funds allocated to immigration, but said that the agency should not have any part in funding the border crisis.

    FEMA partners with Customs and Border Control (CBP) and administers money to the Shelter and Services Program (SSP), a government-funded program that provides assistance and housing for illegal immigrants released into the U.S.

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  23. Zephir says:

    Of the $59.3 million, $19 million was for direct hotel costs, while the balance funded other services such as food and security. According to NY City Hall, the funds were not part of a disaster relief grant.

    The Department of Homeland Security told Fox News Digital that those who made the payment will be “held accountable.”

    “As Secretary Noem said yesterday, we must get rid of FEMA the way it exists today. This is yet another egregious example,” DHS said in a statement. “Individuals who circumvented leadership and unilaterally made this payment will be fired and held accountable.”

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  24. AsISeeIt says:

    Failure to Launch was a 2006 American romantic comedy film directed by Tom Dey, and starring Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker… Thirty-five-year-old… Tripp [McConaughey] has many casual girlfriends. When he is tired of them, he invites them to “his place”—and when they realize he still lives at home, they promptly dump him. (Thank you Wiki)

    Of course, if the McConaughey characted wanted to continue a relationship with a girlfriend he could perhaps borrow an appartment for the assignation from a wealthy close friend who had one spare?

    Keir Starmer’s latest relaunch attempt began yesterday with some performative efforts to convince us he’s tacking right on immigration: Ministers want to show toughness on immigration (Chris Mason, Political editor BBC)

    For once Getty Images doesn’t get the fee from our BBC for the photo used to illustrate a crime report – so there’s no white wrists in cuffs or white hand brandishing unblunted kitchen knives: The Home Office has released images of people being escorted onto deportation flights (Photo credit: Home Office)

    Apparently European – I’m guessing Albanian from our view of the back of his neck – track-suited chap being escorted up the ladder onto a jet liner by five security bods in hi-viz.

    Expensive daily illustrations

    The geeky-looking Chris Mason is far from the worst of the BBC bunch – bias-wise. His conclusion is valid: Immigration is a massive concern to so, so many people – and so it matters in and of itself. But it matters for a wider reason too: the numbers arriving both legally and illegally are, to many, a visible, expensive daily illustration of state failure and broken promises. (BBC)

    That’s right, Chris – So, so many people have arrived recently.

    Of course we hereabouts may think Starmer’s actions are so-so.

    Next up. Stuffed shirt, piggy-eyed, adenoidal Starmer… even his friends think he comes over like an HR manager…

    Pub bore Starmer

    PM backs Mirror campaign… Keir: We must save pubs… Local-loving Labour leader’s support as we demand a boozer lifeline – the labour-supporting Daily Mirror there.

    Frankly, I’m more likely to believe Mirror reporting how NHS nurses are scoffing scraps from kitchen waste bins than Keir’s a pub regular.

    Two Tier Keir a fan of the local four-ale bar? Starmer frequenting a ‘Spoons’? He’s surely more of a wine bar sort of a chap?

    Anyway, I thought: Sir Keir told reporters at a campaign event in Derbyshire: “I do carve out Friday nights, as best I can, for Vic and the kids and her dad as protected time… All I said was that, on a Friday night, I tend to try and protect that time for my family as protected time for my wife and my kids.” (Indepenedent)

    Mind you, ‘sooner, harder, longer’ Lockdown King Starmer was partial to the odd beer bottle (after?) work at the office: What is Beergate and why does it matter? Keir Starmer having a beer and takeaway has potentially become a resigning matter after reopening of investigation… The Sun first published a picture of Keir Starmer drinking a beer with Labour workers in a party office in Durham on 30 April 2021 (Guardian, This article is more than 2 years old) – forgive and forget and all that.

    But it is this incident which for this reviewer will always define Starmer: Starmer thrown out of Bath pub in lockdown row… Sir Keir Starmer says he “profoundly disagreed” with a pub landlord who angrily ordered him to “get out of my pub”… Rod Humphris, who co-runs The Raven pub, said he was unhappy with Labour’s response to government lockdown measures. (BBC, April 2021)

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  25. JohnC says:

    I plan to start one of those ‘just give me some money’ online campaigns which are so popular with Lefties who like to write begging empathy messages to sucker other more gullible Lefties. My ostensible reason will be to buy this in bulk and donate it to the BBC staff.

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    Donations by post please. Cash only and no coppers, washers or foreign muck that turns out to be worth 0.5p.

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  26. MarkyMark says:

    OUTRAGE: A cold front: Denmark’s response to Trump’s desire for Greenland
    Trump’s obsession with buying Greenland has turned the island into a geopolitical flashpoint, leaving Europeans uneasy and Denmark navigating choppy waters over the island’s political future
    https://ecfr.eu/article/a-cold-front-denmarks-response-to-trumps-desire-for-greenland/

    THIS IS OK: The tiny Pacific Island nation’s leader, Mark Brown, is this week making his country’s first ever state visit to Beijing in order to sign the agreement.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g3vew1ejgo

    BIDEN TARIFFS: Necessary
    TRUMP TARIFFS: WTF! “The Debate: Do Trump’s tariffs mean the end of the post-war free trade world?” BBC Headline

    BIDEN: “Buy American!” – yeah!
    TRUMP: “Buy American!” – no! This is nationalistic and ends trade.

    HA HA HAH AHHA HA AHA HAH AHAH !

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  27. andyjsnape says:

    ‘I have to shower at the gym’ – disabled people wait for simple home changes
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2jvpjr7dro

    “The 34-year-old’s rheumatoid arthritis means she risks falling when climbing into the bath in her flat. Simple changes such as grab rails or a walk-in shower would make it safer, but two councils have failed to assess her in her rented homes.”

    Could always buy Grab Rails – they are only £10?? Or continue with the risk of falling??

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The trip to the gym is more dangerous?
      Gym membership – £20?
      .,………………..

      Bathroom Grab Bar with Suction Cups
      4.8 (23 reviews)
      Regular price£30.00 Sale price£19.90 Sale

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  28. MarkyMark says:

    HAHA HAHAHA! It was ONLY 3 billion – NOT 7 billion! HA HHA HAH

    “Fact Check: UK spent 3 billion pounds on asylum seeker hotels in 2023/24, not 7 billion By Reuters Fact Check”
    https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/uk-spent-3-billion-pounds-asylum-seeker-hotels-202324-not-7-billion-2024-11-15/

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  29. MarkyMark says:

    Order Order COmment “Wow! They should rename the bill to “Logan’s Run”. Next thing they’ll be wanting folk to travel by train to the clinics…”

    https://order-order.com/2025/02/11/leadbeater-removes-high-court-from-assisted-dying-bill-at-last-minute/#comments

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  30. MarkyMark says:

    UK to end serving Chicken Nuggets to ensure criminals can be returned home.

    #BANCHICKENBUGGETSTOSAVECHILDREN

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  31. MarkyMark says:

    TRUMP IS THE ONLY PERSON TO APPLY TARIFFS (C) BBC Verified Fact

    Chronological list of disputes cases
    The cases listed below are in reverse chronological order (the newest appear first).
    https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/dispu_status_e.htm

    DS611 China — Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights
    Short title: China — IPRs Enforcement (EU)
    Complainant: European Union
    Consultations requested: 18 February 2022
    Current status: Panel composed

    https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/dispu_status_e.htm

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  32. MarkyMark says:

    TRUMP TARIFFS BAD – ALL OTHER TARIFFS GOOD (c) BBC Verified

    DS569 Armenia — Anti-Dumping Measures on Steel Pipes
    Complainant: Ukraine
    Consultations requested: 17 October 2018
    Current status: In consultations

    https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/dispu_status_e.htm
    https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/dispu_maps_e.htm?country_selected=CHN&sense=e

    ………………………..

    The Debate: Do Trump’s tariffs mean the end of the post-war free trade world?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyzp7j84yro

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  33. MarkyMark says:

    Your new minister ….

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    • Fedup2 says:

      So often we wake up to negative news – but the appointment of this fruit loop to the government just adds to the insanity of the labour regime …. Maybe TTK gave her the gig to shut her up and keep her / it / whatever out of harms ‘ way – has the other social media comrade been suspended yet ?

      Has Andrew Gwynne been charged yet ?

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    • Lucy Pevensey says:

      MM, Is it llama phobia to deny that man is a llama?

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  34. Fedup2 says:

    Assisted murder bill drop judge safety ‘device ‘ but come on – let’s go further – why waste doctors ‘ time ? Why not have the receptionist sign it off ?

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  35. Sluff says:

    Today’s BBC whinge is that disabled people are not getting quick enough taxpayer funded adaptations made to their homes.
    Ramps. Stairlifts. Wet rooms. How many tens of thousands is that lot for one person?

    ‘I have to shower at the local gym’ moans one person.

    When Mrs S senior got dementia, Mr S senior would take her to a day centre where there was a bathroom fitted with a hoist. There he would bathe her.
    He was nearly 80. But he never complained. He just got on with it.

    So you’ll give me if I regard the BBC as the muck spreading s**** that they are.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Neighbour has a new EV every few years. No job. Bit of a limp.

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      • Zephir says:

        Same with my neighbour, motability scam, they get a new car for next to nothing, still can’t be bothered to drive it 2 minutes to the supermarket and gets everything delivered (free on the disability).

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  36. Guest Who says:

    Just gets better.

    https://x.com/BBCPolitics/status/1888948747796664557
    If the UK has more renewable energy, why aren’t bills coming down?

    Well, they did ask. As it seems they have no clue.

    #ccbgb

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  37. andyjsnape says:

    Ministers want to show toughness on immigration
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyz02e64rdo

    But bugger all will change under labour or the conservatives

    #Vote Reform

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “show” – with no action.

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    • Sluff says:

      Mmmm.
      A photo of some actors walking up some steps.
      That’s the government policy on immigration?????!!!!!!!!!!!!
      It somehow doesn’t quite cut it, does it?
      But for the BBC, major headlines.
      It’s almost as if they were dying to print it. Oh, wait…..

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  38. MarkyMark says:

    NO NEW NEWS SINCE OCTOBER – NO TWITTER – NOTHING.

    The Office for Value for Money provides advice to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Chief Secretary to the Treasury to ensure that value for money is at the heart of government’s spending decisions.
    https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/the-office-for-value-for-money

    Announcements
    David Goldstone CBE appointed as independent Chair of the Office for Value for Money
    30 October 2024 News story

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  39. MarkyMark says:

    Keir Starmer’s Voice Coach Reads Wes Streeting’s Old Tweets! #parody #satire #wesstreeting #uk

    “So is Wez gonna get his collar felt by the starmtroopers and scuffed of to chokey for his nasty words?…… Nah, thought not.”

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  40. Althepalerp says:

    UK DEBT CLOCK

    https://www.nationaldebtclock.co.uk/

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    • Fedup2 says:

      The usual ‘line ‘ is ‘don’t worry – we are not the worst ‘- as if that matters …. No prospect of the being controlled / reduced in the next years ….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Health Secretary announces over £13 billion of debt will be written off as part of a major financial reset for NHS providers. From 1 April, over £13 billion of NHS debt will be scrapped as part of a wider package of NHS reforms announced by the Health Secretary today.2 Apr 2020

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  41. Fedup2 says:

    The inept ‘leader ‘ of the dead blue party says no deal with Reform – which is good and shouid finally kill the traitorous red tories .
    And if you listen to her shambolic appearances at PMQs yoy can see why they are losers …. Must be time for a few blue MPs t0 have been found to have naughty text messages ….

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  42. Jeff says:

    I was having a quick gander at GB News last Sunday morning and they had on former ITN news reader, Nicholas Owen. Now, quite clearly our Nick, like most smug journo’s, isn’t a big fan of Donald Trump…

    Anyway, he told us that Trump had behaved “Appallingly”…”It’s one of the worst things I’ve ever heard”…”It’s truly unforgivable”…Blimey, I thought, WTF has The Donald done now? Invaded Russia…dropped a bomb on Hamas, or maybe had Kamala institutionalised…

    Well no, it transpired that Trump, in turning a blind eye to Prince Harry’s numerous drugs indiscretions and allowing the whinging prince to stay i the US, he also referred to moaning Meghan as “Terrible.”

    So bleedin’ what? This is the woman that has ostracised most of her own family, driven a wedge between Harry and William, complained about everything in Britain, screamed abuse at and belittled her servants and spent the last five years going on chat-shows telling the Yanks that the royal family are all racists.

    Get a grip Nick, she is terrible…

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  43. MarkyMark says:

    “That fatwa – a religious ruling concerning Islamic law – caused Rushdie to face countless death threats. He had to go into hiding for nine years and only began travelling again when Iran said it would not enforce the law.”

    …………………………..

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  44. Terminal Moraine says:

    The trial of Hadi Matar in NY — Salman Rushdie is blind in one eye, has a paralysed hand and liver damage after the stabbing.

    Multiple witnesses giving evidence (many who restrained him) together with video footage at the event, but hold on… he’s pleading not guilty to charges of attempted murder and assault: “Matar’s defence team questioned the ‘neutrality’ of police officers due to give evidence later – and the ‘assumptions’ they make about the alleged attacker.”

    I know nothing of the legal world but where’s his defence team going with this?

    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn7gp30x67gt

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  45. vlad says:

    David Wood asks the all-important question:

    CAN BRITAIN BE SAVED FROM ISLAM?

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  46. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    New minister says you can identify as a Llama.

    This needs to be clarified.

    Is the Llama you are going to be a male or female Llama.
    Is it one of the miscellaneous Llama genders (lgbt, blt, bbc, boac, trans and so on)
    We don’t want to get it wrong and be accused of Llamaphobia do we.
    You must name the colour you choose to be (the actual colour is meaningless and you can be any colour)
    What are the Llama pronouns? You, Ewe, good girl, fluffy…?
    If you identify as a Llama can a human eat you.
    Can a Llama use the nhs.
    Can a Llama identify as a man (or woman or ….. etc)
    How old does a Llama have to be to legally buy alcohol.

    It’s a minefield I tell you.

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  47. MarkyMark says:

    “There are so many Albanians in London, it scarcely resembles Pakistan any more.”


    Albanian criminal avoids deportation because his son “doesn’t like foreign chicken nuggets”

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  48. MarkyMark says:

    “Policing has been left in a “hopeless position”, Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said, after the High Court ruled the force could not dismiss officers by removing their vetting clearance.”

    *sigh* give up now
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r5nrzn4z0o

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  49. andyjsnape says:

    India sees huge spike in hate speech in 2024, says report
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwx9942x72o

    “Muslims were targeted the most, with 98.5% of recorded instances of hate speech directed against them.”

    “Over the years, BJP leaders have often been accused of targeting India’s minority communities, especially Muslims.”

    We know bbc you love muslims and were able to inform us of the above facts

    I wonder why muslims are being targeted then??

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  50. MarkyMark says:

    “Bullying Letters” | BBC Sent 41m Warning letters of £1,000 Fine To Households

    “My 90-year-old father-in-law moved house recently. Within 5 days of moving he had one of the very threatening letters. He struggled to get through on the phone to explain the situation, and even after doing so he received a follow up letter in a nastier tone. Shameful behaviour from the BBC.”

    “The 1000 pound fine is the biggest lie of them all, most of the fines are around 130 quid. I don’t think anyone has been fined £1000 its just used as a scare tactic”

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