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Winning upsets us all wwfc and can lead to hate – please take your first position and divide it up amongst us all so we can all win. Thanks!
Five Years On, the UK Refuses to Learn the Lessons of the Covid Catastrophe
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/03/08/five-years-on-the-uk-refuses-to-learn-the-lessons-of-the-covid-catastrophe/
The US has changed direction and put the right people in charge. The UK just has idiot lawyers and judges.
Oh yeah, that’s a good idea…
tomo, if King Charles is a Muslim convert, an Imam should tell him that contemporary (ie. pop) music is considered haram for Muslims, especially recent converts.
Same with alcohol, especially King Charles favourite tipple.
I wonder who his staff are ? I imagine he has been gently groomed to take on his new ‘faith ‘… and that shindig at Windsor was the first public exposure of it .
It was a huge failure of judgement . I suppose his false religion allows him to practice deceit by claiming to be a ‘Christian ‘… particularly with Easter coming ….
Dr John Campbell on YouTube has reviewed some Covid vaccination research which may have indicated that the vaccine has compromised people’s immune system. I know some people who have had really rotten colds this year and other viruses which they have found difficult to shake off. Some suggest it is the Covid itself which has weakened people’s systems. Whichever way it is, whoever funded the research at Wuhan has a lot to answer. I’m sure people reading the comments here have 3 names that come to mind.
I tick those boxes Debs.
He’s not a medical doctor.
Eddy, John Campbell has a PhD in nursing. My mistake if I led people here to think he is a physician. What John Campbell or his guests are able to do is evaluate published research, eg the size of the sample, whether results are significant, etc.
Debs, nurses learn from doctors or should do!
No he is not but if you ever see his videos he interviews specialists in their fields.
The same smears were put out about him during covid “He is not a real doctor” He started off beleiving everything the MSM put out but then started doing his own research and questioning experts.
I’m not sure what your one line response was suppose to be? A rebuttal of everything he says or a red herring?
I had more than a cold the Astra Zenenca vaccine crippled me for months. Every movement was agony. There was no escaping the pain. After many tests I was diagnosed with Polymyalgia Rheumatica. After high doses of steriods I seemed to be back to normal But every time I was weaned off them the illness came back luckily not as bad as the first time. It looks as if I will be taking low doses of steroids for ever. What propaganda did the MSM put out again? Oh yes it was 100% effective and safe. I see this vaccine has now been withdrawn
I just don’t like him.
And I was suspicious of the new vax from the start myself.
I don’t trust people who add the Dr to their name like that, when they have a academic phd.
It’s obviously going to mislead.
I’m also not convinced his conversion to anti vax is genuine, and not driven by monetary gain.
Dr Campbell said: “The Oxford AstraZeneca and this Novavax, they’re both developed by UK academia. These are both triumphs of UK bioscience. This Novavax one has had a lot of UK academic institutes co-operating.”
Although the Novavax jab has a slight difference in efficacy between the two variants, Dr Campbell said: “What I care about is – does it stop you getting sick? As far as I know it does. The main important fact is how many people it keeps out of hospital.”
https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/19049725.health-academic-says-novavax-astrazeneca-vaccines-triumphs-uk-science/
30th January 2021
“As far as I know it does. ” – with data?
I sympathise JR I have a friend with PR and its far from being a picnic.
Debs
My 25 year-old daughter is one of those with I suspect a compromised immune system. Every two weeks she is down with something that puts her in bed and sometimes taking time off work.
Before she was jabba-jabba’d she was never like that.
My strapping 6’2 67 year old brother was the only one in the family who refused all vaccinations (antivaxer) – and the only one who hasn’t got health issues.
Sorry to hear it Atlas. 10 years ago it was the young Lefties who were screaming about ‘Big Pharma’ and I was critical of them. It is me now who is very dubious of the push for us all to be dosed and jabbed to the max.
Graham Greene wrote a brilliant novel, “The Comedians” (does anyone read books any more?). It was about a bunch of Westerners landing in the ultra corrupt Haiti ruled by Papa Doc Duvallier. Duvallier used a secret Police force called the Ton Ton Macoute to rule his citizens by means of terror and Voodoo, basically a gangster Mafia operation. I wonder whether Greene would have found Britain under Smarmer a good subject for one of his novels. I’ll leave other to guess who Papa Doc or Baby Doc might be.
Zelenskey was/is a comedian wasn’t he? I think he’d be struggling for laughs these days.
Flotsam, I think he’s laughing all the way to the bank.
And walking over Ukranian corpses to get there perhaps.
I am beginning to distrust Farage. He is certainly no Trump
Farage will not save Britain It is far too late
A warning from the future! And one which we can all see is not a exaggerated threat. Prof Betz and Peter Whittle have voiced what many of us fear.
One point which wasn’t fully developed though was the case for civil war were the insurgents , in this case the Islamists, are supported by the ruling elite and those two power blocks are fighting against the ordinary people .
This is the case in the present early stages of unrest we are currently experiencing . The ruling elite are on the one hand protecting and boosting the Islamists insurgents whilst suppressing the indigenous people on the other.
It surely must be a situation unique in history.
“A year and a half ago, Hindus and Muslims clashed in the streets of one of Britain’s most diverse cities. What lay behind the violence? On Saturday 17 September 2022, the weekend before the Queen’s funeral, 300 men marched through Leicester.8 Feb 2024”
“Police in Leicester drafted in riot squads and mounted units to quell ongoing disorder and violence between youths from the Hindu and Muslim communities. Fifteen people were arrested on Sunday night after rival gangs, many wearing masks, gathered in the east of the city.19 Sept 2022”
…………….
1985 … “more than 1,000 extremists, led by Pakistani hate preachers funded by the Pakistani state, were bused in from around the country.”
The mob brutally attacked my English mother and my father, a dermatologist; my eldest brother and I; and a Welsh Ahmadi schoolteacher who was with us. My first cousin, a GP, was by chance driving through the market town that day. He saw the mob and saw his family and friends being attacked, so he stopped. He was recognised, pulled from his vehicle and savagely beaten up.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2020-03-12a.177.0&s=islam+batley#g195.0
MM, Hindus & Muslims have always clashed. Do pay attention. They clash in modern India. They also clashed way back at the time of Partition of India in 1947.
I fear that is true. If, by 2025, 25% of the population is a first generation immigrant, then Britain is done. It is no longer Britain. I am literally seeing the death of my nation unfolding before my eyes. No politician seems to care. There is no plan to stop it. Ten years to save the west? If only.
I can see why King Charles is making nice to islam. I expect him to convert if he thinks it will save him. It won’t.
I completely agree with you . But what puzzles me is , if those of us who are of a certain age and see what is happening are depressed how must the younger generations feel… terrified.
But there is very little sign that they do. They seem happy to led like lambs to the slaughter. Of course they may just not realise what fate awaits them but anyone with even a modest imagination must be able to work out that the future is probably very bleak. Surely they have not been brainwashed by the BBC into believing ‘ Diversity is Strength’ .
There is very little time left for younger generations to recognise the threat.
They are brainwashed into believing in diversity and net zero from their first day at school. That’s all I can think.
Mark Carney wins race to succeed Trudeau and vows to stand up to Trump
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cg4k2l204zqt
Good God – I started reading this and thought Canada must have had an election and I didn’t know about it. The support and celebration is gushing !!.
‘Mark Carney wins race to succeed Justin Trudeau as Canada’s prime minister and Liberal Party leader – he will be sworn in as PM in the coming days’
‘In a message to US President Donald Trump, Carney pledges to keep retaliatory tariffs on US goods until “Americans show us respect”‘
Of course they include a bit to attack his opposition. Just as they always included attacks at Trump when they reported about Biden.
‘”Donald Trump thinks he can weaken us with his plan to divide and conquer. Pierre Poilievre will leave us divided and ready to be conquered because a person who worships at the altar of Donald Trump will kneel before him, not stand up to him,” he says.’
‘Carney criticises Conservative rival’
‘Carney continues attacks on conservative rival’
I had to read it twice to realise they just swapped leaders because Trudeau is so unpopular and an election is looming.
And the polls currently show the conservatives leading 40% to 30% – but the BBC don’t tell us that. Carney might be out in a month.
No doubt whatsoever who the BBC support !!.
I thought the decision to appoint a foreigner to be Governor of our central bank to be a shockingly bad one. Carney was previously Governor of the Canadian central bank. Try to think of it in reverse. Would Canada appoint a Briton to be their central bank governor?
I always thought the so called independence of the Bank of England to be a fiction anyway, as it has turned out to be during the Blair-Brown banking crisis and Covid.
Carney went on to interfere in the Brexit vote, using his status to attack Brexit, very welcome to Cameron and the BBC.
Carney is the ultimate globalist.
” Try to think of it in reverse. Would Canada appoint a Briton to be their central bank governor?”
More “on the job training” for a staunch WEF supporter.
Carney worked for Goldman Sachs for 13 years, curiously enough.
I think Trump made a big mistake in taking measures against Canada and joking about it becoming the 51 st state.
Later this year Canada has a GE and until Trump’s errors it looked very likely that the Conservatives under the anti Globalist Poliviere would walk it. He would have been a Trump ally . Now it looks as though the liberals under arch Globalist Carney might hold on.
Who said Trump was joking about Canada becoming the 51st State?
And who they do not ‘support’.
https://x.com/bbcworld/status/1898839867473219940?s=61
Romanian far-right presidential hopeful barred from poll rerun
John C has the full story… by the bbc.
The comments have what they ‘missed’.
And here is the Moaning Emole version of the Carney scoop.
“Canada’s next PM Carney vows to win trade war with Trump”
Romanian far-right presidential hopeful barred from poll rerun
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3d8n140mpjo
An astonishing story of how deep the EU Leftist cancer has set in.
They anulled his victory because of tik-tok accounts !. Of course the troll-farms flooding our own social media whenever something serious is going on is never mentioned – let alone investigated.
Now they have barred him from running again because:
‘The BEC rejected his candidacy on Sunday, saying it “doesn’t meet the conditions of legality”, as he “violated the very obligation to defend democracy”.’
The stuff of third-world shitholes – but the EU are desperate now so they are rigging everything. And the BBC are fine with it. No ‘outrage’ or ‘without providing evidence’ here.
Syria leader vows to hunt down those responsible for bloodshed
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crknjgrd3geo
‘A UK-based monitor said 830 civilians were killed in “massacres” targeting Alawites on the west coast on Friday and Saturday.’
The headline SHOULD have been:
‘Syrian security forces massacre hundreds of civilians’
Terrorists take control of Syria and the BBC treat it like some kind great revolution and the leader is portrayed as a good and just man. Even though he was a terrorist last week.
Now – while he tells us they didn’t mean it – they are massacring other people just like they always did. And they will keep on doing so until they cleanse the whole country and enforce their own strict brand of Islam.
Why do the BBC always report what Muslim terrorists say as if they are to be trusted ?. They never question their lies – whether here or in Gaza.
But don’t worry : the terrorist supporting UN has joined in with this statement. I’m sure it will make them think twice before doing it again:
‘The UN says it’s received “extremely disturbing” reports of whole families being killed, and has called on the interim authorities to take “swift actions to protect Syrians” ‘
No doubt a ‘strongly worded letter’ will be sent if they do it again.
Oops.
“Investor in Alastair Campbell’s son’s football betting syndicate ‘dies before receiving his £160,000 back’ after saying: ‘Are you just hoping I’ll die before you need to pay up?’ ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14479913/investor-alastair-campbell-football-betting-syndicate-dies.html
“The syndicate, beginning in 2017, bet on the Premier League, the German Bundesliga, Italy’s Serie A and Spain’s La Liga using mathematical models intended to give it an edge over the rest of the betting market by assessing the effect of injuries, how well players link up and factors such as the weather.
It put on as many as 80 bets a week of between $10,000 and $30,000 for top-flight games.”
The whole thing stinks of a ponzi scheme with no money actually wagered.
If you’re betting system really has an edge on the bookies, and with thousands of games a year, why do you need investors money?
Wouldn’t your own cash just grow rapidly.
Also if you consistently win with on-line bookies, it’s all tracked, and they either severely limit your bets, or just close your account.
The senior Campbell 300 k invested is just a red herring to make it look like everyone lost money?
Was Campbell’s son just a front man for Campbell senior’s business?
Pro-Palestinian student protester detained by US immigration officials, says lawyer
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q1pl1eldno
Just look at the length of the article the BBC have conjured up for this story. It’s nothing whatsoever to do with us or the BBC. A student activist supporting terrorists has been taken for questioning and it’s world headline news at the BBC.
‘The BBC contacted the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State and Columbia University on Sunday for comment.’
What ??. It has nothing to do with the BBC or the UK. Why are the BBC putting resources onto this trivial story ?.
But what really makes my blood boil is how they are silent about the unhumane and outrageous treatment of Tommy Robinson. Isn;t it amazing how they care so much about the human rights of terrorists but don’t give a shit about those of Tommy – because he is right wing. They think he deserves it.
Another BBC clone who thinks she got her job on merit.
‘As seen in: BBC, G1, Yahoo Life, BBC News, MSN (US), MSN Singapore, Terra, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News’
It seems all these BBC staff write articles which appear on the far left MSN. We can see why.
With all the Democrat funded “news” operations losing USAID money there’s a lot of “talent” looking for a safe harbour.
elsewhere
BBC approved type of enricher.
Welcomed to the UK: Palestinian asylum seeker gunman who called on God to ‘kill all Jews’
his dinghy is picked up in the Channel, Palestinian Abu Wadee makes a victory sign and declares: ‘Thank God, we arrived in Britain.’
However Wadee is no innocent fleeing the horrors of Gaza, but a militant who has called for the slaughter of all Jews and posed menacingly with AK-47s, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
The migrant is a former key member of a group that has terrorised Israel. He has filmed himself chanting about killing Jews and has posted a string of pictures depicting running battles with the Israeli Defence Forces.
In one sickening video, posted on his Facebook page last September, he is filmed calling for Allah to ‘punish [Jews] completely’.
‘Allah, it is upon you to [deal with] the Jews and those loyal to them,’ he said, according to a translation for this newspaper by research organisation Camera.
‘Allah, kill them one by one, and don’t leave a single one. Allah, destroy them completely, disperse them completely and make the earth fall from under their feet.’
The Home Office last night refused to say whether they were aware of Wadee’s militant background or whether he was free to roam the streets. Kent Police said they were unaware of any arrests related to the case.
Senior politicians and security experts have reacted with horror at our revelations and demanded Wadee’s immediate arrest.
Wadee’s case heaps fresh pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to get a grip on the migrant crisis, after more than 1,600 people arrived by small boats last week alone.
Home Office officials have previously admitted they do not know the whereabouts of thousands of those who have illegally crossed the Channel.
Tory justice spokesman Robert Jenrick, the former immigration minister, said: ‘Abu Wadee is clearly a threat to the British people.
‘The police and security services are stretched as it is without dangerous men like this who appear to hold extremist sympathies to deal with. He needs to be deported immediately.’
Colonel Philip Ingram, a former Army intelligence officer, said: ‘He is a significant terror threat to the UK and is someone who should be arrested immediately.
‘I would hope that security services are all over him. If he is here, there are likely to be more. This is one of the most worrying reports I have seen in a long time.’
A spokesman for the Campaign Against Antisemitism said last night: ‘We consider that this man poses a threat to public security and are asking the Home Office for urgent assurances that he is in secure custody pending further investigations.
‘[Someone] whose stated ambition is ‘to die for the sake of Allah’ and prayed for the slaughter of all Jews must not be permitted to be at large in this country.’The Home Office last night said: ‘We are committed to ending small boat crossings which undermine our border security, and restoring order to the asylum system to ensure that the rules are respected and enforced.
They’ll probably put him in charge of Border Force.
Britain is the only country which would have fewer illegal immigrants if we did not have a border force. They literally go out to sea and bring them here.
bbc to go on and on about this…
Lawyer probing Reform UK row contradicts MP Lowe
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7430zw4zqyo
Remember partygate, well who can forget it
Andy, they do go on don’t they?
From the article
“The lawyer, a KC or King’s Counsel, who has not been named by the party but whose credentials have been verified by the BBC”
Verified.
It is possible to stop the flow….you just have to want to…and Labour, the Tories and France just don’t want to…
The Border Patrol recorded 58,038 encounters with migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in August, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the latest available government statistics. That was a 77% decline from 249,741 encounters in December 2023, the most ever recorded in a single month.
The decline in encounters has come amid policy changes on both sides of the border. Authorities in Mexico have stepped up enforcement to prevent migrants from reaching the U.S. border. And U.S. President Joe Biden issued an executive order in June that makes it much more difficult for migrants who enter the U.S. without legal permission to seek asylum and remain in the country.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/10/01/migrant-encounters-at-u-s-mexico-border-have-fallen-sharply-in-2024/
Mark Carney
Wef candidate and green scam artist ,he ticks all the globalist boxes including the BBC but the good news is he should not last long as the conservatives will take power in the upcoming elections.
As I posted earlier Marco, the BBC are celebrating his ‘appointment’ with such a fanfare in a ‘live update’ article that I thought for a moment he had won the election.
Of course it also gave them a chance to repeat his negative comments and attacks on the Conservative candidate for all Canadian voters to see – just before they go to the polls.
This is how the BBC interfer with elections. They did it on a massive scale here : no chance the extreme-Left TTK would have got in if the BBC hadn’t abused their huge footprint to get rid of popular Tories since Brexit.
Now they are going after Reform : only today they made a completly trivial story from the Farage spat into the front-page headline.
It’s strange really how Carney, a supposedly technocrat economist/banker, has found politics. You would have thought central bankers would be political neutral. It became obvious during Brexit he was anything but, it’s no wonder that he was appointed by Bliar/Brown.
I find Carney a disgusting person, someone who pushes liberalism/globalism from his very privileged position. Someone who will be untouched by the consequences.
Let’s not forget – The Liberals relied on Jagmeet Singh / New Democratic Party (NDP)to stay in in Canada.
Not enough is mentioned about that
The NDP is ending its governance agreement with the Liberals
Deal that ensured Liberal minority government’s survival was the first such agreement at the federal level
“Justin Trudeau has proven again and again he will always cave to corporate greed. The Liberals have let people down. They don’t deserve another chance from Canadians,” Singh said in the video.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jagmeet-singh-ndp-ending-agreement-1.7312910
Oh, I think Canadians look like all sorts of people. That’s the beauty of Canada. Jagmeet Singh
Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/jagmeet-singh-quotes
In the Sikh tradition there is no prohibition of showing your hair. It’s not that hair cannot be seen. It’s an identity, as opposed to having to cover your hair. Jagmeet Singh
If someone doesn’t like Saudi Arabia’s human rights record, that doesn’t mean that you are in any way attacking Muslims. You’re attacking a government’s policies and track record.
OH wait….
Sikhs were considered the champions of fairness, uplifting people, protecting and defending human rights. Defending equality. So when someone sees a Sikh, the turban identifies a person who’s going to stand up for rights, even if you disagree with them. The turban is supposed to be a beacon. That someone who is going to help you out.
Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/jagmeet-singh-quotes
the turban identifies a person who’s going to stand up for rights,
It’s an identity, as opposed to having to cover your hair
A journey around the sordid underbelly of Canadian politics – that the BBC will not show you or the Carney context…
I am not so sure that the Conservatives will win. Thanks to Trump and 51 st state joke the Canadians might decide to vote for arch globalist Carney .
I think Trump has put his foot in it. The Conservative leader Poliviere would have been an ally of Trump and Milei , the American continent top and tailed by anti Globalists, glorious. But Carney will be the Globalist poster boy.
2016 Brexit – control our borders – 2025 borders open with increase crossing.
2016 Brexit – control our VAT- 2025 vat at 20%.
2016 Brexit – uk laws, not eu laws – 2025 eu laws still apply.
Posters hereabouts will jostle and jockey for that prized top of the shop number one spot.
Whereas a last comment prior to a new thread goes quietly into the void, falling as though some philosophically unseen tree deep in the forest.
The Daily Mail this Monday morning slinks down into that also ran last place in the gynaeceum that is BBC news staff’s pick of the print press with their headline story: Woke RAF is running out of top gun pilots… Unlawful diversity drive jeopardises PM’s pledge to put jets ‘in sky over Ukraine’… desperate search for pilots after a secret bid to discriminate against white male applicants backfired
Fear not gungho peacemakers… the junior poundshop Guardian that is i news has the solution to bankrupt Britain’s all-fur-coat-and-no-knickers defence conundrum…
And our Rachel from accounts will appreciate this wizard wheeze bookkeeping trick…
Exclusive UK should split nuclear spending from defence budget, former ministers tell The i paper
It’s a brilliant trick. I’ve split my heating bills from my supermarket spend and now I’m absolutely minted – the larder is brimming and I’m toasty warm (sarc.)
What with the fabulous savings I’ve made if I’m not careful I’ll end up like the BBC’s latest cause for concern: ‘Grief made me start hoarding – I slept in bed stacked with boxes’ (BBC)
But seriously folks, let’s remember what it is that we’re fighting (financing?) for…
The dodgy dossier that is the Daily Express revels in the old Blitz Spirit… and I don’t refer to that early 1980s night club frequented by the likes of Boy George, Steve Strange and Rusty Egan.
Vera Lynn, Glen Miller and The Andrews Sisters are the soundtrack to the Daily Express headline: ‘Remember the sacrifice of our family of nations’ The King has paid tribute to service men and women from the Commonwealth… World War Two
One notes the phrase ‘pay tribute’ – a much over-employed media notion – a tribute in fact costs nothing.
The heart-on-sleeve emotional basket case that is the Labour-supporting Daily Mirror need not hark back 80 years for their impromptu act of remembrance – although of course they nonetheless channel Winston’s words: We must never forget
This is of course that part of the victory parade when the army, navy and airforce have marched past – and that won’t take long – now here come our real conquering heroes – the massed ranks of the NHS: Pandemic’s dead mourned… Moving NHS staff at event (Daily Mirror)
Yep, as I recall our nurses had some fine moves… Families of cancer patients pan ‘disrespectful’ videos of dancing NHS staff while patients are dying due to cancelled operations… Groups of nurses from wards in London, Buckinghamshire, Leeds and Wolverhampton have created the videos using the TikTok app. (Daily Mail, April 2020)
Well, on those boring slow days in the office with nothing much to do workwise – we’ve all mucked about a bit. Waste paper basket cricket, swivel chair races, photocopying body parts.
Mr AsI likes to note the highly strung emotional tendencies of the Mirror. Today the Labour rag excels itself running the gamut of emotions: ‘Rage, love, grief, pain & sadness’ are remembered (Daily Mirror)
Have Mirror writers just wandered into some Stanislavski acting class?
But we’ve digressed somewhat from what We, Keir, Europe and Zelensky are really fight for… Democracy, apparently.
We recall Radio Free Europe – how about a post-cold war Far-Right Free Europe?
Rumania bans Georgescu… Supporters of far-right candidate… scuffle with police after Rumania’s electoral bureau banned the frontrunner in the country’s presidential vote from taking part in the election. The move comes despite warnings from the US to respect voters’ wishes (FT) – a nice incidence of that old journalistic ‘despite’ there.
Asiseeit
It’s good of you to point out how previous threads ‘disappear ‘ as the new one goes up . For instance last night I put up a telegraph piece about the funding of the BBC with alternative options of dumping thr licence and paying out of general taxation – or making funding ‘means tested ‘ inferring thr ‘better off ‘ with ‘broadest shoulders ‘ pay ‘a little bit more ‘…
I don’t know how many people will see the article …. But my judgement would be that nandy / TTK would use the carrot of ‘forever funding ‘ to get the BBC to deliver the approved message even harder – if that is possible ….
How would people feel about ‘no TV licence ‘? I guess the instant reaction would be ‘that’s great ‘ – apart from the growing number of dissenters of course . ….
Fed,
The trouble with no tv licences will be that nobody will be able to get out of paying.
At the moment you can stop paying the licence fee.
In the future, if the licence fee is stopped they will find another way of funding the bbbc such as from general taxation where the bbbc will still get their money but we cannot stop paying our taxes.
If the licence fee is stopped I can’t see any Party, even Reform, cutting all payments to the bbbc and making them stand on their own.
Rupert probably would find a way but that’s probably not until the 2030’s as he’s being Enoch’d at the moment.
EG
Yes – that’s why I think TTK will incorporate the cost of the State Broadcaster into State taxes – he ll argue that it is more efficient than the admin of licence tax enforcement … the issue of ‘taxation without representation’ or people being taxed on something they don’t used/ object to will go nowhere ….
I suppose it will be announced next year as part of the Charter Renewal – some of the dosh will go to expanding BBCOFCOM so that unapproved websites ( such as this one ) can be taken down in the name of ‘community cohesion ‘… of some other confection …
I venture to suggest that the lads who fought for Britain in WWI and WWII would be appalled at what it has become. The Britain they fought for is dead. It was murdered.
FOR ISLAM, FOR GENDER STUDIES, FOR TOLERANCE OF THE INTOLERANT, TO JOIN A CLUB AND BE UNABLE TO LEAVE, FOR MEN TO WALK INTO A LADIES TOILET DRESSED AS WOMEN! FOR PEACE! FOR PROGRESS! FOR 86 IRANIANS TO APPEAR ON OUR SHORE ESCAPING EU27!
CHARGE ……
Maureen Lipman tears into the BBC for its anti-Semitism – Gary Lineker & Miriam Margolyes in particular.
Delicious.
Stop the boats or something like that but not really. “Not a protest party.” Tories Mark II.
Nigel Farage’s anti-migrant poster reported to police
This article is more than 8 years old
Unison’s Dave Prentis said poster showing a queue of migrants and refugees incites racial hatred
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/16/nigel-farage-defends-ukip-breaking-point-poster-queue-of-migrants
ohnson, who leads the official Vote Leave campaign, said the poster was “not our campaign” and “not my politics”. Drawing a distinction between his own view and those of Farage, he suggested that leaving the EU would be a way of “spiking the guns” of anti-immigrant feeling. “If you take back control, you do a great deal to neutralise anti-immigrant feeling generally,” he said, after reporters showed him a picture of the poster. “I am passionately pro-immigration and pro-immigrants.”
Farage is terrified that if he seems too “right wing”, then left wing people won’t vote for him. But they never will.
TOADY Watch #1 – not so much TOADY but the News at 6 a.m. …
HMG is planning to create extra cells in our prisons for Two Tier Justice to fill just in case there is Far Right rioting ‘breaking’ out this summer.
HMG appears oblivious to the cause of last summer’s riots!
Just far right?
“A year and a half ago, Hindus and Muslims clashed in the streets of one of Britain’s most diverse cities. What lay behind the violence? On Saturday 17 September 2022, the weekend before the Queen’s funeral, 300 men marched through Leicester.8 Feb 2024″
MM, Hindus & Muslims will always clash, think India now and at also back in Partition days. Yes it is obvious that Far Right rioting was behind the Far Left Guardian front page item that the Far Left BBC picked on in the News at 6 a.m.. The Far Left BBC would say Muslims are Far Right just over their treatment of women.
We are importing problems – the British used to export solutions!
Up2
It’s a bit like the democrats is the US arguing against ‘common sense ‘ policies . People in Britain see the current insanity – want ‘common sense ‘ but are instantly branded ‘far right ‘ or even just ‘right wing ‘ and then criminalised via political courts .
TTK would probably claim having more prison cells is a sign of ‘free speech ‘.. in the deluded world he inhabits ….
Just checking what is going on in Ukraine because the BBC are silent – and it seems the much-vaunted incursion at Kursk which the comedian plans to trade for territory inside Ukraine – is now in imminent danger of collapse – and Russia are using their biggest glide-bombs to destroy bridges etc which Ukraine would need to escape.
The point of it is that it has been done using the Ukrainian units with the best equipment from the West in anticipation of capturing both the Town and the Nuclear power station to be used as bargaining chips. All of which has spectacularly failed. It is a huge loss for them.
But the reason for my comment is that if you search for ‘Kursk’, lots of news channels are reporting it – but the BBC is not one of them. They are hiding this extremely significant development. All their reports are highlighting Ukraine successes : people who only use the BBC will think Ukraine are winning.
No doubt when they do tell us, they will infer – but not directly state – that it’s Trumps fault. And not go anywhere near the fact that it was what happens when you let a comedian think he can run a war. You can be sure no blame for this widely condemned fiasco will be attributed to him by the BBC.
My nephew married a Russian girl – from Kursk, a few years ago. Her parents (just lovely ordinary people like us)
have just returned home after a 3 week visit. They’ve not experienced anything that’s been reported in our media, and despite having to fly to Turkey to get direct flights to the UK they’ve had no problems getting visas either.
BBC getting excited over the new globalist apointee Mark Carney.
“Canada’s next PM Mark Carney vows to win trade war with Trump”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg4k2l204zqt
Wouldn’t a sensible plan be to END the trade war?
Why not address Trumps concerns over synthetic opioids crossing from Canada to USA?
Guess it’s not surprising, same as the globalists refuse to accept Putin’s concerns with Ukraine
I wasn’t even aware Justin Trudeau has resigned, i thought they were just picking the next election candidate.
BBC earlier articles today were confusing.
Carney copying trump?
Defacto DOGE :
“Government: Cap the size of the federal government and use technology to mitigate inefficiencies”
Cut green crap:
Climate: Remove the consumer carbon tax and replacing it with incentives for “greener choices”
TOADY Watch #2 – BBC getting over-excited by the news from Canada?
Mark Carney, former Canadian Governor of the Bank of England has won the vote to become Leader of the Liberal Party (did George Osborne have liberal tendencies when appointing Mark Carney as Governor of the BoE?) in Canada and its next Prime Minister. Even better for the Far Left BBC is the news that PM Carney will resist President Trump’s Trade War tarrifs and the President’s ambition to make Canada the USA’s 51st State.
The Far Left BBC do not like President Trump. I wonder why?
Will Mark Carney as PM sort out the Canadian economy and please Canadian voters?
Romanian far-right presidential hopeful barred from poll rerun
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3d8n140mpjo
Far Right, Far Right
As we know the bbc isn’t biased 🙂 Honestly! But bbc doesn’t like the “far-right presidential” candidate
As they say in Leeds Council meetings now in the UK “Allah Akbar!”
Leeds: Green Party councillor Mothin Ali apologises for Gaza comments
The Green Party said it was fully investigating all of the context around this matter and had nothing further to add at this moment.
“had nothing further to add at this moment”
“Harry Potter and Doctor Who star dies aged 63 as tributes pour in for the beloved actor”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14481009/Harry-Potter-Doctor-star-dies-aged-63-tributes.html
Surprised the BBC aren’t onto this story – some gross 300 pound homosexual lump, from their Dr Who dying.
Five charged with murder over shooting in street
Koketso Ximba, 22; Aaron Osei, 22; Deric Da Silva Ferreria, 19; Fabio Bandarrinha, 20; and Elie Mey, 24, have been remanded in custody. All of the men, apart from Mr Ximba, face additional charges including money laundering and possession of drugs.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg1dj8kny8o
Hello wwfc
Koketso Ximba, 22; Aaron Osei, 22; Deric Da Silva Ferreria, 19; Fabio Bandarrinha, 20 – funny names, I wonder if they know Mr Smith or Mr Jones
This is England now. I could weep.
“41% of London residents were born outside the UK, according to the 2021 Census. This is much higher than the national average of 16%. London is one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the world. ”
Russian blogers take on the current situation in the Kursk region of Russia after last years Ukraine invasion.
Russians using pipelines to sneak soilders behind enemy lines again!
https://substack.com/home/post/p-158718300
“The operation required the utmost secrecy, and saw the intrepid Russian troops hunch and stoop through over 12 kilometers of narrow pipe, which had previously supplied gas to Europe:
By all accounts, the operation succeeded in releasing an assault team of several companies (400+ men according to one account) behind enemy lines, which kicked off the rout; things went downhill from there.”
Even Ukrainians seem to acknowledge the raid:
Is it “lunatic” or strategy? It being a war.
“Building fake vehicles is a time-honored practice dating back to World War II, when the Allies built an entire fake army group to fool the Germans. Operation Quicksilver, as the deception campaign was known, set up vast numbers of inflatable and wooden tanks to confuse German aerial reconnaissance missions.30 Nov 2016”
…….related to the actions of another member of his staff.
I have her permission to post this tweet.
“The plot thickens .One of my former Parliamentary aides went on to work for Rupert Lowe – she is one of the staff involved in these allegations against him. She has told me that her original complaint had nothing to do with Rupert personally and was related to the actions of another member of his staff.
I have her permission to post this tweet.
@RupertLowe10”
Party atmosphere on R5 just now —
Naga, whose real name is Subha Nagalakshmi Munchetty-Chendriah, is away but Leila Nathoo is there to chew over the Reform self-destruction. It’s all fun and games as she mulls over Farage’s character flaws to Michael Crick (author of “One Party After Another: The Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage”).
Plenty of laughs from Nathoo.
“Now Richard Holden MP tells Guido:
“It’s quite clear Labour are embarrassed to say why they won’t back banning first cousin marriage. Starmer’s de facto deputy, Pat McFadden, shouldn’t have to wait while No. 10 work out a line to hide their blushes after they blocked my bill for a third time this week. It’s clear to every sensible person that we should bring an end to first cousin marriage as quickly as possible, just like we’ve led the world in ending other practices that put cultural sensitivity above societal integration, women’s rights, and children’s health.””
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National FGM Support Clinics -Female genital mutilation (FGM)
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/female-genital-mutilation-fgm/national-fgm-support-clinics/
The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in London closed in March 2024. The closure was ordered in July 2022 after a review found the service “unsustainable”.
Prof Jay said the first of these reports was “effectively suppressed” because senior officers did not believe the data. The other two were ignored, she said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089
………….. AH HAHAH HA HA HA HA HAAHAH AH A HHA H! ……………
just like we’ve led the world in ending other practices that put cultural sensitivity above societal integration, women’s rights, and children’s health. – Richard Holden MP
“Prof Jay said the first of these reports was “effectively suppressed” because senior officers did not believe the data. The other two were ignored, she said.” – Jay Report
Dorset, 3 weeks after Southport —
“Man ‘obsessed with Southport killings’ stabbed girl, 9, in the neck as she played on stairwell outside his home […] Fuelled by thoughts of ‘fulfilling a sick fantasy’ he opened his door and stabbed the girl three times in the neck, shoulder and knee with a pen knife without saying a word.”
Nothing on the BBC.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/33750065/man-obsessed-southport-killings-stabbed-girl-nine/
‘obsessed with Southport killings’ – i.e. agrees with them?
Tower Bridge has been shut down after a man has climbed the railings. Emergency services at to the scene.
Ban Bridges!
Tie him up – wait for low traffic – release him.
Two days running the DT has done a long piece on BBC news / funding – the first one is on thr previous thread … here is another one by a senior ex BBC type …Roger Mosey
START
Pretty thunderous” is how one BBC journalist describes the climate within the corporation’s news division as it grapples with its latest crisis – the row over the Gaza documentary which the BBC board has acknowledged had “serious flaws” in its commissioning and production. Samir Shah, the chairman, described it as a “dagger to the heart” of BBC impartiality. The mood was not improved by a disappointing night for BBC News on Wednesday at the Royal Television Society’s journalism awards, when the most coveted trophies went to ITV, Channel 4 and Sky News.
Having served as a senior executive at the BBC for more than two decades, including a five-year stint as head of television news, I know it is never a quiet life in the corporation’s newsroom and staff dissent is nothing new either. But it is a simple truth that the quality of its news and current affairs will determine whether the BBC thrives or withers in a digital age. It is striking how many former executives and media industry observers are fearful about its current direction. A large number of those see, in the recent departure of presenter Mishal Husain, another symbol of corporate carelessness. One former editor, who rates Husain highly, likens her to “a dead canary down the mine”, saying that her decision to leave the BBC after two decades plays into his view that “BBC News has lost its intellectual compass”.
Love it or hate it, BBC News is the most used source of news in the UK, reaching 68 per cent of the population in 2023-24 (though down from 73 per cent the previous year). In audience surveys it retains high levels of trust amid an ocean of froth and nonsense from social media and agents of disinformation. But the corporation’s director-general Tim Davie was right to tell MPs last week that “the case for the BBC is higher than ever, but so is the jeopardy”. The question is whether he and the corporation’s leadership can pull the news division out of what its critics believe could become a nosedive – or, more likely, a descent into being “just another news source” in a world that has a multitude of alternatives.
Out of tune with the public
The stakes around the Gaza documentary are high. It was right to want to make a film about life in Gaza and the effects of conflict on children. But it is extraordinary that the BBC allowed itself to be put into a position where it did not know the family relationships of the boy chosen to narrate the film, and it is indefensible that they only discovered after transmission that the boy’s father was a Hamas official. It was a bad idea to use a child narrator, anyway – and then there is the biggest question of all, about how access to Gaza was achieved when both Hamas and the Israeli government restrict it. There was a failure of transparency, which is particularly painful for a corporation which has made a sizeable investment in BBC Verify – its fact-checking arm.
When she launched BBC Verify two years ago, the chief executive of BBC News Deborah Turness said: “I want the principle of transparently explaining the ‘how’ behind our journalism to be shared by every journalist in the BBC… ‘If you know how it’s made, you can trust what it says’ – that’s what our audiences have told us.” It is therefore no surprise that Turness, according to the gossip in BBC corridors, is no longer a favourite to succeed Davie, following the revelation that she had seen the film before transmission.
What particularly angers rank and file staff members is that they believe they work hard every day to achieve impartiality, and that battle is made far more difficult when colleagues – and worse, senior staff – seem not to do their job properly. Samir Shah spoke at a Commons committee about his own “shock” at the initial findings about what had gone wrong. Since I am a former BBC executive, who covered Middle East issues for decades, I would say this, wouldn’t I; but I do not accept that the corporation is institutionally hostile to one or other party in the Middle East. It aims to be impartial, and makes itself accountable on that basis. So most of the mistakes are just that – a cock-up rather than a conspiracy, and a reflection of an organisation coming to grips with a radically changed environment for journalism. I have also never bought the argument that the BBC is biased in favour of one or other political party, and academic research confirms that. The BBC is the most used source for both Labour and Conservative voters.
But many of its hindrances are self-created. Entrenched in the BBC is a liberal view of the world, now acknowledged by its chairman: a well-meaning metropolitan air which is inescapable in its dramas but lurks within the news division too. Hence the lack of comprehension of Leave voters in the EU referendum, and the continuing tendency to treat Reform supporters as an exotic and dodgy species different in their being to the people who vote for Emily Thornberry in Islington South. That is why Shah is talking about recruiting more working-class northern staff
At times in recent years an internal battle has been going on between staff – many of them young and from a social media generation – and the management, which has included Tim Davie as a former Conservative Party member and board member Robbie Gibb, who worked as a spin doctor for Theresa May. The managers had a victory in weakening the power of some of the employees’ diversity networks, which had started to think they had an editorial role in censoring views on gender, sexuality and ethnicity that they regarded as unacceptable. But the culture of W1A is still not in tune with the astonishing multiplicity of communities across the United Kingdom, and you are not alone if you don’t see yourself represented on the news. BBC bosses admit privately that some of their newer recruits, brought up on a diet of strident opinions on their social networks, struggle to get the meaning of impartiality and are disappointed to be told that their views as individuals shouldn’t matter.
Not clever enough
This increases the risk when wiser editorial heads have been lost, often to redundancy and early retirement. If you are a critic of the BBC, and think of it as an overfunded organisation, this is where you may have to be careful what you wish for. There was unquestionably extravagance and waste in the past, but estimates are that the BBC has lost at least 30 per cent of its core funding since 2010 and therefore some activities – especially in news – are now close to the bone. The reputation of the whole organisation can depend upon an inexperienced producer and presenter taking a decision at 5am, and there are BBC journalists who do not sleep easy because they know how acute that vulnerability is. The hollowing out of managerial levels is a cause for celebration for those who want to see bureaucrats herded out of Broadcasting House, but it has robbed the BBC of wisdom and the capacity to limit errors.
In particular, there has been a demolition of the editorial system which served the BBC well for decades. When I was head of television news, I had an astonishing array of editors in my team. Jay Hunt, now commissioning for Apple TV, was on the news at six; Kevin Bakhurst, now director-general at the Irish broadcaster RTE edited the bulletin at ten; and the seriously smart George Entwistle was in charge of Newsnight, with Jeremy Paxman and Kirsty Wark at their peak. Those kind of roles have mostly either been scrapped or stripped of their power. The pressure for efficiency, which is understandable, has led to centralisation, which has meant a loss of range and creativity. This view is shared by some members of the BBC board. “BBC News just isn’t clever enough,” says one.
A former senior executive tells me: “I think the latest step-change for the worse has not been in the run-of-the-mill news output but the fall-off in quality at the flagship shows.” Some of that is simply explained. The BBC made a conscious decision to make Newsnight cheaper and coarser because it said it could no longer afford to make customised films or give producers time to dig into stories. Similarly, it made the news channels worse by merging the international and domestic versions in a way that weakened them both. Sky News has just won the RTS news channel of the year award for the eighth time in a row. Less forgivable is the flimsiness of some of the alleged remaining flagships: Laura Kuenssberg’s Sunday morning politics show is often a series of “gotcha” questions to the duty minister and opposition speakers, and it gets nowhere near examining the policy responses required by our dangerous globe.
Failure to understand Trump
Because here, surely, is something essential about the role of the BBC. It should be producing programming and operating at a level that can’t be guaranteed by the market alone. Indeed, the BBC charter says precisely that: “It should offer a range and depth of analysis and content not widely available from other United Kingdom news providers, using the highest calibre presenters and journalists.” That is why the departure of Mishal Husain matters, as did the loss of Andrew Marr and the defence expert Mark Urban and so many more. Ask yourself a question: how often do you go to the BBC first for analysis, as opposed to breaking news? My answer would be rarely. If I want to read the inside story on politics, I’d go for traditional newspapers like The Telegraph, The Spectator, New Statesman or Politico, or podcasts. Equally, it’s hard to think of much original insight about Donald Trump on BBC platforms. The BBC, in line with the legacy American media in New York and Los Angeles, has never understood the Make America Great Again movement. In the Americast podcast, two BBC presenters confessed that they had never previously listened to The Joe Rogan Experience until Donald Trump went on it – which is as serious an admission, in terms of getting to grips with contemporary American politics, as proclaiming that you’ve never read The Washington Post.
There are, thankfully, exceptions: Steve Rosenberg on Russia, Katya Adler on Europe, Jeremy Bowen on the Middle East. But the fact is that the competition has become sharper, and the BBC is struggling to be distinctive. It makes its case harder to support by its distractingly daft news alerts which ping a mix of news, trivia and marketing texts. Watch as The Traitors finale begins now! Some of the BBC breaking news classics include: “Bridgerton ball promised glamour and fabulous food for £150 a ticket – instead, guests got cold noodles and chaos.” To prove there’s no such thing as an old story, the corporation once urgently informed us “Neolithic passage grave discovered 100 years ago”. On Friday, the BBC News website published an article under the headline, “Butcher reunites boy, 3, with toy elephant”.
When challenged on this, BBC employees can be defensive. Are we really saying that there can’t be lighter stories, that the disappointingly cold noodles of the Bridgerton ball can’t be consumed alongside the details of the government’s housing plans? And yes: lighter stories have always been part of the journalistic mix. They become less justifiable, though, if the big headlines aren’t supported by a consistent level of excellence. And there is an opportunity cost, too. A recent BBC story “Adventurous cat takes train into London” required the bylines of two journalists, and there was a follow-up a couple of days later in which another reporter revealed that the cat had subsequently been given its own railcard by a publicity-hungry train company. Perhaps those reporters might be better deployed in investigating the inadequacies of rail services for humans.
What seems to be at the heart of the BBC’s dilemma is its difficulty in translating the strength of its analogue brands into a media environment in which digital comes first, when more people overall get their news online (71 per cent) than those who say they watch television news (70 per cent). The gap will continue to grow, and already 82 per cent of young people say they use social media for news. If you think of Panorama in its pomp or the Today programme over the decades, or the authority of the major news presenters on national events – best embodied by David Dimbleby – then it is genuinely hard to translate that into a compelling website, let alone to encapsulate it within a post on TikTok or X. But the BBC has ended up with a website and app that too often feel downmarket of major news organisations around the globe, and which makes the brand seem routine rather than special. The strategy is too naked: cover the main stories, certainly, but get the clicks from human interest and viral videos.
BBC leaders dispute this interpretation. “We are not going to be a market failure organisation,” says one. I sympathise with that, in the sense that the BBC is caught between two imperatives. The first is to live up to its public service tradition, and the other is to get the public to consume its content. Otherwise, politicians are unlikely to want to fund an organisation that their constituents don’t watch. But this may not be as stark a choice as the BBC sometimes implies. Not every part of its output can reach everyone, and drama, comedy and music can do their job in reaching lighter BBC consumers. Christmas Day 2024 was an unalloyed triumph for the corporation, with more than 20 million people watching Wallace & Gromit and 20 million viewing Gavin & Stacey over the 28 days following. Younger audiences abandoned American streaming services to watch the BBC. The iPlayer is reaching record numbers.
It could therefore be better for the corporation to stop fretting so much about infrequent news consumers who don’t care about the news anyway and would prefer something more opinionated than the BBC’s offering. Instead, the corporation could go back to its core duty in news programming: providing the best serious, analytical coverage to the many millions of people who do care about international affairs and want an active understanding of the future of this country. The biggest policy issues can’t be reduced to soundbites, and it should be the BBC which is best able to examine complexity and nuance and to provide a space to think.
Avoiding the fate of America
It used to be a source of humour to my fellow executives that, as we neared charter renewal, the corporation would rediscover what we called “old-fashioned religion” – that we would realise that the values that had seen the BBC thrive through the decades still had plenty of power. Back would come the crafted documentaries in peak time, and landmark drama would be commissioned to thrill BBC loyalists across the kingdom. BBC News is ripe for that kind of reinvention as charter renewal looms again: not as a heritage-only service, but as a news organisation that can combine excellence with digital delivery – modernity with a brain.
To do that, it needs to make sure BBC News has the resources it needs. If that means fewer new episodes of Bargain Hunt, currently at series 70, then so be it. In return for that, BBC News should pledge itself unambiguously to excellence: that it will provide information and commentary to the highest possible standard, including a deeper understanding of the political views of everyone who pays the licence fee.
In the discussion with the Government about future funding, a bargain is to be had. Continue to fund the BBC, but make the level conditional upon the BBC’s distinctiveness and measurable high quality. There should be no reward for replicating services that can be provided by local, national and international markets – but instead an investment in something uniquely British and uniquely good. It is a tough path to take, but it is the best one if we want to maintain a functioning, informed democracy and to avoid the fate of America where everyone has ended up screaming at each other – or worse.ENDS PHEW
The comments mention that this character thinks Bowen is objective – ha ha and that Katya Adler is also ‘good ‘- a rabid remainer
The above is a long read by someone who thinks the BBC has value – but he would wouldn’t he- after being there for 20 years . He thinks bbc news is being ‘hollowed out ‘ as people like meesh or marr leave . Who cares .
He fails to address the globalised nature of the BBC and its ‘soft power ‘ nonsense – as well as its explicit anti white British stance and constant ‘approved message ‘….
“marr ”
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Would BBC’s Andrew Marr say that the EU does not have much control over the UK … wait, what is he saying here …
“… and mould the whole of Europe into a copy of Germany …. a good place to start is to ditch the easy historical comparison (ignore history and you will repeat it) … because Angela Merkel is a figure of our here and now and it’s vital to understand her better because she (Merkel) matters more to our future (UK) than, what, 95% of British Politicians.” – BBC’s Andrew Marr 2013
“The Making of Merkel with Andrew Marr BBC documentary 2013 about Angel Merkel imp politician” {youtube} ** VIDEO REMOVED
Commission is commission.
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Mother convicted of not paying TV Licence after death of unborn son.
mother who did not pay her TV Licence as she was grieving over the death of her baby son has received a criminal conviction in the UK’s controversial fast-track courts.
The 31-year-old single mum only discovered she was pregnant at six months, and was then devastated to learn from doctors that her baby had a heart defect.
Her son was stillborn in June last year, plunging her into devastation as she had to organise a funeral while still caring for her other children.
The woman, from Northamptonshire, penned a heartbreaking letter to the court when she faced a criminal prosecution because her TV Licence had gone unpaid as she was in mourning.
“I’m so sorry for this”, she wrote. “I am a good-hearted person, I have never done this before and would never intentionally not pay my bills, rent and TV Licence.
“I feel so embarrassed and ashamed of myself. This will never happen again.”
She was prosecuted by TV Licensing in the Single Justice Procedure (SJP), a fast-track court system which allows magistrates to sit in private and hand out convictions based on written evidence alone.
Yeah – whatever – give her the TTK 2 year prison penalty – she is obviously not ‘approved ‘…
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I think that is close to the truth. The modern Labour Party looks down its nose at white working class men. They are only fit to be cannon fodder as far as the Islington elite is concerned.
Jeremy Corbyn – Stop the War Speech – 15 February 2003
54,730 views 7 Jul 2016
In 2003, I spoke at hundreds of meetings and protests against the government’s plans to go to war in Iraq.
I was proud to have spoken at this demonstration in Hyde Park on 15 February 2003 – the largest ever in British history.
The British people showed the war was “not in our name”.
Hamas are our friends (c) Corbyn
Households near new pylons to get hundreds off energy bills
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyd49dxyxxo
“…get discounts of up to £2,500 over 10 years, equivalent to £250 a year”
Plus don’t forget the £300 everyone is due because of this governments promise to reduce our bills due to green energy!
Wasn’t there health scares a few years ago with people living near to pylons?? But dont worry you’ll have £2,500 over 10 years, unless you get cancer sooner
Exposure from power lines. Although a study in 1979 pointed to a possible association between living near electric power lines and childhood leukemia (16), more recent studies have had mixed findings (17–25). Most of these studies did not find an association or found one only for those children who lived in homes with very high levels of magnetic fields, which are present in few residences.
Several studies have analyzed the combined data from multiple studies of power line exposure and childhood leukemia:
A pooled analysis of nine studies reported a twofold increase in risk of childhood leukemia among children with exposures of 0.4 μT or higher. Less than 1% of the children in the studies experienced this level of exposure (26).
A meta-analysis of 15 studies observed a 1.7-fold increase in childhood leukemia among children with exposures of 0.3 μT or higher. A little more than 3% of children in the studies experienced this level of exposure (27).
More recently, a pooled analysis of seven studies published after 2000 reported a 1.4-fold increase in childhood leukemia among children with exposures of 0.3 μT or higher. However, less than one half of 1% of the children in the studies experienced this level of exposure (28).
For the two pooled studies and the meta-analysis, the number of highly exposed children was too small to provide stable estimates of the dose–response relationship. This means that the findings could be interpreted to reflect linear increases in risk, a threshold effect at 0.3 or 0.4 μT, or no significant increase.
The interpretation of the finding of increased childhood leukemia risk among children with the highest exposures (at least 0.3 μT) is unclear.
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/radiation/electromagnetic-fields-fact-sheet
H E Mr Yassine El Oued, Ambassador of the Republic of Tunisia to the United Kingdom
“1 bottle of olive oil Below”
Limit Retained by Speaker
https://www.parliament.uk/business/commons/the-speaker/travel-gifts-and-official-entertainment-registers/
H E Mr Ruslan Bolbocean, Ambassador of the
Republic of Moldova to the United Kingdom
“1 bottle of wine ”
Below Limit Retained by Speaker
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4 Conference of Speakers of the UK House of Commons and Overseas
Territories (COTSC). The table outlines the costs covered by the Office of the
Speaker of the House of Commons for the delivery of the 3-day Conference
in Turks and Caicos Islands in 2024 (including travel and accommodation for
participants) which included representation of 9 overseas territories with t30
delegates.
Rt Hon Mr Nigel Evans MP (Deputy Speaker) attended in place of the Speaker
and these costs are not covered by the Office of the Speaker of the House of
Commons.
Costs Amount
Flights and transit accommodation £35,470.46
Organising Grant for the Legislative
Assembly of Turks and Caicos Islands £70,000.00
Food and subsistence £631.69
Total expenditure £106,102.15
Total income from Conference Observer
fees £20,530.00
Total conference cost £85,572.15
It seems that Rachel from Accounts is to make an ‘announcement ‘ about ‘cuts ‘ in welfare on Tuesday . It’s unfortunate because so many people are on the taxpayers dime i was thinking of applying for something myself … maybe some sort of ‘mental condition ‘( stress ) caused by the thought of having to do something called ‘work ‘. But now that open door maybe closed a bit … ….
I wonder how many ‘junior ministers ‘ or PPSs will resign over said cuts ? In view of the number of Marxist MPs available I reckon the answer is ‘none ‘…
House of Lords is for free wifi and coffee = free benefits
Trade war going on between Canada and China
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/08/trade-war-china-to-slap-retaliatory-tariffs-on-some-canadian-products.html
Why don’t the BBC report this?
“In March 2021, China unexpectedly banned imports of Taiwanese pineapples, citing biosecurity concerns, and Taiwanese farmers were forced to find new markets, while China claimed to have found harmful pests in the fruit shipments.
The Taiwanese government rejected China’s claims and urged citizens and diplomatic allies to increase consumption of Taiwanese pineapples, launching a “Freedom Pineapple” campaign. “
https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1899051700603805730
How about sending Palestinian Action off to gaza to help the Palestinians:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/palestine-action-allianz-protest-gracechurch-street-occupation-b1215699.html
No need to get them back. This should be a lifetimes work.
These scumbags seem to think they can crash into buildings, deface places with paint, vandalise things like paintings, generally disrespect our country.
Who do they think they are, tr**ellers?
Someone has noticed the slaughter of non Muslims in Syria – now who could that be – well according to X – it is Russia abd the US – which have asked for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council – to waste some air … meanwhile the cruxifictions of Christian’s and slaughter continue . The images are too much …➕
Anybody else think that the Mike Amesbury election is suddenly going to take place because Labour feel it’s their best chance with Reform currently having a self harming session.
After banning elected President Călin Georgescu and ruling he can never run again, Romanian authorities are now using brute force to silence dissent: https://expose-news.com/2025/03/10/brussels-pressured-romania
Elon Musk said, “How can a judge end democracy in Romania?”
Deputy Prime Minister of Italy, Matteo Salvini, said it was a “Soviet-style coup”, banning nice god-fearing right-wing opponents of Marxism, because they are not evil satanic left-wing Communists.
Călin Georgescu said it was “A direct blow to the heart of democracy worldwide! I have one message left! If democracy in Romania falls, the entire democratic world will fall! This is just the beginning. It’s that simple! Europe is now a dictatorship, Romania is under tyranny!”
Not reported by the BBC.
Donald Trump is revealing the criminal activity of the British Establishment.
I think Trump has read the unredacted version of the Mueller report, and this report showing how MI6 attempted to stop him from becoming President by constructing the fiction of the Trump–Russia dossier.
Liz Truss, said “Everything that made Britain great is being destroyed by an establishment that hates Britain”
MI6 had to dispose of the Skripals’s because they feared that they wanted to return to Russia and talk about the Steele Dossier, also known as the Trump–Russia dossier. MI6 first tried to stop Trump from becoming President when MI6 agent Christopher Steele met with the FBI’s Peter Strzok in July 2016. During the summer of 2016, Robert Hannigan, then head of GCHQ, flew to Washington to brief John Brennan personally. CIA Director John Brennan then briefed Senate Minority leader Harry Reid in August 2016 on the Steele dossier. This briefing then led Reid to send FBI Director James Comey a letter demanding an investigation of the collusion between Donald Trump and the Russians. The British manufactured ‘Steele Dossier’ was also a key foundation for the FISA warrant issued to spy on Trump’s close aide Carter Page, in the hope of finding incriminating information, or getting Page to prejudice himself in police interviews by giving statements conflicting with the tapes. After the Skripal incident someone started publishing purloined documents from the British military’s Integrity Initiative, an international network of politicians, journalists, academics, foundations, and military officers engaged in a very dirty black propaganda campaign. The Steele Dossier and the Integrity Institute involve the same British intelligence networks revolving around Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6. Dr. Victor Madeira, one of the key staffers at the Integrity Institute used to work directly for Dearlove and Sir Christopher Andrew at the Cambridge Intelligence Forum. Documents show that Sir Andrew Wood and Pablo Miller, Sergei Skripal’s MI6 handler, who are both players in Christopher Steele’s Orbis Business Intelligence, also have significant relationships to the Initiative.
The GCHQ Codeword IRIS refers to the British link between the attempt to stop Trump from becoming president and the Sergei Skripal poisoning hoax. The IRIS list of names includes the political handler of Porton Down, the UK’s chemical weapon facility, Skripal’s MI6 handler, the BBC, and representatives of the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign Office, and the U.S. Embassy. Reports imply that the Skripals are probably dead and the British are panicking about Trumps return to power. Both the Tories and Labour Parties have produced dossiers on the potential impact to Britain if Donald Trump returns to power and reveals the criminal activity of MI6 and the Skripal hoax.
J D Vance has told the left-wing Tory-Labour Establishment that support for America’s embattled left-wing deep state must end – or else. Vance reiterated this message directly to UK Prime Minister, Sir Keir Stalin, in the White House, saying: “There have been infringements on free speech that actually affect not just the British but also affect American technology companies and by extension American citizens”
After the left-wing Democrats lost to Donald Trump in 2016, the American security establishment began to turn the tools and tactics of counterterrorism, counterinsurgency warfare and regime change that it had developed abroad back on to its own people. MI6 and the ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence-sharing alliance, followed suit. In the UK, the Army’s 77th Brigade, a military intelligence unit tasked with ‘non-lethal psychological warfare’, set up the 77th Brigade Domestic Psyops Team, which began to surveil and report on British citizens, as well as to work with other British government agencies and cooperating with other Five Eyes intelligence services on defending ‘democracy’ against those who refuse to vote Labour, Conservative, Green or LibDem.
US Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Attorney for Children’s Health Defense, filed an antitrust action against members of the BBC lead “Trusted News Initiative” (TNI) in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana Monroe Division. Case Name: Children’s Health Defense (CHD) et al. v. the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) et al. For colluding with Big Tech to censor publishers of online health and political news. The complaint alleges that as members of the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), Defendants colluded with one another and with social media platforms to target and censor rival online news publishers, violating the Sherman antitrust laws and the First Amendment.
Trump, Musk, Kennedy and Vance point out that if MI6 and the left-wing British Establishment don’t want to be treated as an enemy of the United States, they are going to need to retreat from the war they’ve been waging on behalf of Washington’s old regime. That means reigning in their white upper-class Marxist thugs, cutting off support for their left-wing non-state armies of transnational censorship organisations like CCDH, and backing off of legal frameworks like the DSA and the Orwellian ‘Online Safety Act’ that are designed to control information and political discourse across borders. Vance has been hammering this point ever since he threatened during the campaign to withdraw US support from Nato if Europe continues trying to regulate American politics through the DSA, noting that it would be ‘insane that we would support a military alliance [Nato] if that military alliance isn’t going to be pro-free speech’.
Washington’s message to its putative allies is straightforward: end the information war and get the hell out. If they instead ignore these warnings and continue to meddle in America’s domestic political affairs they may soon find that its new sheriff is willing to impose real diplomatic and economic consequences for their continued aggression: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/vances-real-message-to-europe-halt-this-secret-war-against-america/
America First Legal (AFL) released new evidence that the U.K.-based pro-censorship organization Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and its leadership, including CEO Imran Ahmed, appear to have engaged in coordinated efforts to censor American citizens’ speech and are part of a foreign influence operation to interfere with U.S. elections. The British Labour Party was found to have sent as many as 100 staff to the United States to help campaign for Kamala Harris. Based on this new evidence, AFL has also now formally requested that the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigate whether CCDH’s U.S. operation and leadership are “agents of a foreign principal” that must comply with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA): https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-releases-new-evidence-files-formal-complaint-with-the-doj-to-investigate-uk-based-center-for-countering-digital-hate-for-engaging-in-a-foreign-influence-campaign/
Richard – thanks – nice to see the boys and girls of 77 brigade get an honourable mention . As Europe destroys itself there must be a serious case for DJT reduce or end US contribution to NATO – and leave the EU to have its; own organisation – which will never happen other than a name and a badge …
Freedom in Europe – whether it be voting or ‘free speech ‘ is rapidly diminishing – something the US regime is thankfully recognising …
I’d hope the US would use every means available to end the current UK regime – despite its’ complete incompetence it looks unlikely to destroy itself with such a dangerous majority .
Two ships crash in the North Sea with risky cargos….
TV roll on environmental mouthpieces.. oh the curlews….oh the puffins….. etc. etc. etc ad nuasiam….
It’s always the environmental shite that gets propelled to headline status never the condition of the unfortunate crew and their families…
So bloody predictable because they have so many environmental twats on speed dial….
As a seafarer myself it seems to be an unbelievably bad bit of driving. One ship was at anchor, there are visual signals, day and night, for a vessel at anchor. In any case both ships would be equipped with AIS (Automatic Identification System) which would show other vessels on a chart screen as well as radar. One ship has been said to be carrying Sodium Cyanide, seriously poisonous. The Cyanide would soon disperse if sunk and would result in some dead fish.
Terrorism ?
I’ve studied the tracks of the two ships and it’s clear to me that both were moving when the collision occurred. It seems a bit strange that a false narrative has been spun.
I might be wrong. One ship, the Stena Immaculate might have been moving around at anchor due to wind and/or tide.
I keep hearing from MP’s an excuse for them not doing what they were voted in to do, things such as stopping mass immigration.
They say Reform will be no different and will find that they cannot do the things they promise.
They say, when in opposition it’s easy to say what you’re going to do but once in power they find it’s not as easy as they think and are unable to get anything done.
The obvious reason is that both Parties are doing the same thing and are both failing for the same reasons.
The difference with Reform is that they will do things the uniparty will not do such as leaving the unhcr/human rights mess which the lawyers and judges delight in using to make sure anybody can stay here for any reason they can think up, simply anything will do. The uniparty will not leave these organisations.
Reform will also not be stopped by all the woke rubbish (sorting out the massive civil service) and will start to stop the boats and make it impossible for anyone crossing the channel to be granted permission to stay….ever.
They (Reform) are far from perfect but it’s a start and once it’s shown it can do these things they will go from strength to strength.
So when commentators say other Parties will find it hard when in power they just mean each other and not Reform.
Kelvin Mackenzie on form on GBNews.
“Why should the public be forced to pay, under threat of prosecution, to watch a pedophile read the news?”
From the Daily Mail online:
“… … …
According to the Telegraph, figures from the most recent BBC annual report show that bosses who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender earn 15.6 per cent more in salary than those not from this background.
Those senior bosses who are from a black, Asian and other ethnic minority background got a median average 12.6 per cent more than white peers.
Disabled bosses in top roles got 8.4 per cent more than those who are not disabled, while female bosses in senior roles got 5.7 more than male counterparts.
Elliot Keck, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance told the Telegraph: ‘Licence fee payers will be dismayed by these reverse pay gaps.
… … …”
Buck the FBC!
I’ve been listening to Scott Ritter on you tube and his take on trump is very interesting,he thinks trump is playing starmer ,macron and the rest of Europe he said that now that the king has had zelenski in before him will make trump not want to visit the UK and that trump will pull all his troops out of Europe as well as divert many of them in Hungary.
Next he says that trump does not really want the minerals deal with Ukraine because he has no idea what it’s worth and that all he is doing is to try to get Ukraine to tear up the deal they did behind trump’s back with the UK .
He goes on to say that trump wants to do the minerals deal with Russia because it’s worth 7.5 trillion dollars and trump also wants to work with Russia to reopen the norstream 2 deal again so they can supply russian gas back in to Europe and lastly he says trump only believes that their are four players who hold all the power ie America Russia India and China .Trump wants to see NATO and the un crash and burn and a new world order
Hard to disagree more with much of that.
It’s my opinion that the globalist EU is at the root of all these problems – in colaboration with the USA when Obama was in charge. They want to rule the entire continent and be the dominant world super-power.
It’s what the Left have always done. They are convinced of their own ideological superiority and that they should impose it on everybody else. Those who do not share their mindset are the enemy. They believe that the ends justify whatever means they consider necessary.
The trouble is that it never works in the real world. And when it goes wrong they blame everybody but themselves because they think they are so superior. So they sink into a cycle of blame and hate. Eventually they destroy everything they meddle with.
It’s why Lefties tend to be so young. Life hasn’t taught them the hard way that they know nothing yet.