248 Responses to Start the Week 10th March 2025

  1. JohnC says:

    Just when you think the BBC can’t get any more ridiculous and desperate in their attempts to discredit the Trump administration, just look at this front-page headline:

    JD Vance’s cousin criticises him for ‘belittling’ Zelensky
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2yl5kevrpo

    It’s beyond pathetic. The Left have no interest whatsoever in right and wrong. Their only objective now is to attack Trump. It’s pure spite. They don’t care what damage they do to the world in the process as they intentionally keep sowing their seeds of hate to promote divide in society.

    When you read what his cousin actually said, you realise he has no clue what went on before the bit the MSM show everybody.

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    Have you no integrity whatsoever Jessica – or did your masters tell you to write it ?.
    ‘As seen in: The Times, The i Paper, The Guardian, Yahoo Entertainment, BBC, BBC News, MSN (US), MSN Ireland, MSN Singapore, MSN UK, The Daily Mirror, The Independent’

    The Left is strong in this one.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      JohnC
      I put a very very long DT piece by an ex bbc news type earlier in this thread. When ‘debating ‘ about the quality / bias of bbc news he noted that the ‘new hires ‘ sometimes had difficulty even realising they are biased because they have been raised on social media where the ‘rules ‘ are different tend toward the extreme .
      An interesting point from an ex head of BBC News . But one might ask – why hire these kidults if they are inferior to real rare objective journalists ? After all – is there ever a shortage of journalists . ?
      The bbc is infamous for ‘insider dealing ‘ in recruitment – the kids of bbc staff getting the job without a fair selection . No one moans because it would be career suicide .

      The whole result being infantile biased out put and institutional omission of facts and incidents going against the approved narrative – such as Islam is great – immigration is great – Green crap is great …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Man shouts at clouds (c) BBC Verified

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    • Lunchtime Loather says:

      What does his dog think? Or his great great grandmother? I’d like to know.

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  2. harry142857 says:

    BBC’s HR department is led by Uzair Qadeer (Chief People Officer) and has 121 employees. Yet can’t out perverts like Savile, Hall, Harris and most recently Hew Edwards.

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    • JohnC says:

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      Are you surprised.

      His previous job:
      ‘Qadeer is chief diversity officer at Alexion Pharmaceuticals.’

      And anyone who comes out with utterly meaningless crap like this should be instantly fired:
      ‘HR is changing everywhere. If we pivot accordingly, the workplace of the future will be ripe with passion, purpose, opportunity, and improved outcomes for customers,’

      Another who can’t believe he got that job. And oblivious to the reason why.

      He sums up the ‘new’ BBC perfectly.
      ‘He will be responsible for shaping the organisation’s people strategy and fostering an inclusive BBC in line with its ten-point Diversity and Inclusion plan.’

      We need our own Trump.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Has the BBC moved from news to social engineering …. YES.

        “By 2020, the BBC wants its employees to comprise 50% women, 8% disabled people, 8% lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people and 15% people from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds.{bbc.co.uk 14sep2017}”

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  3. harry142857 says:

    Thanks John, sort of. I thought homosexual moslems ended up falling out of windows. What a freak.
    Expect old bill will be around in the morning for a non-crime hate incident.

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  4. vlad says:

    The guy on the left is saying: WE OWN YOU, CHARLIE BOY.
    Guy on the right is saying: Allahu Akbar, how much Jizya would you like me to pay?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      DEFENDER OF THE ONE TRUE FAIT …

      “London —Britain has been acquiring an increasingly Islamic face, with hundreds of official Shariah courts operating in the capital and many mosques dotting many cities.

      “London is more Islamic than many Muslim countries put together,” Maulana Syed Raza Rizvi, an Islamic preacher, was quoted as saying in the local media.

      “Terrorists can not stand London’s multiculturalism”, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said after the deadly terror attack at Westminster last year.

      There are 423 new mosques in London and most of these mosques are crowded at prayer times unlike many churches which rarely see visitors.”

      https://www.saudigazette.com.sa/article/545051

      Muslim London: 423 new mosques, 100 Shariah courts
      October 07, 2018

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  5. andyjsnape says:

    bbc, any negative reports to put out about Starmer? Doesn’t seem to be any (even though the bbc isn’t biased, apparently)

    bbc, any negative reports to put out about President Khan with knife crime on his watch. Doesn’t seem to be any (even though the bbc isn’t biased, apparently)

    Any positive news reports on President Trump?????

    Illegal working in UK was unbearable, migrant says
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyez0y6kvlo

    Illegal? So bbc hold them to account, no just make them the victims!

    “Last year the number of Albanians that made the dangerous journey dropped to just 616 people, following a campaign by the UK and Albanian governments.” – Apparently its due to the campaign – any evidence bbc? Also 616 are the known figures, plus the others

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  6. pugnazious says:

    ‘How strange must our system of politicks appear in future ages, when it appears, that while we were carrying on offensive wars in all quarters of the globe with vast fleets and armies, that an enemy rode triumphant in our own harbours.’

    Note the criticism of how Blacks are fed a diet of toxic lies here in the UK…that the police are out to shoot them, that no matter how hard they try they’ll never get on because whitey has their knee on their necks…..this is what the BBC et al teaches Black kids..it’s very dangerous.

    Boris Johnson…

    ‘ To any non-Muslim reader of the Koran, Islamophobia – fear of Islam – seems a natural reaction, and, indeed, exactly what that text is intended to provoke. Judged purely on its scripture – to say nothing of what is preached in the mosques – it is the most viciously sectarian of all religions in its heartlessness towards unbelievers. As the killer of Theo Van Gogh told his victim’s mother this week in a Dutch courtroom, he could not care for her, could not sympathise, because she was not a Muslim.

    The trouble with this disgusting arrogance and condescension is that it is widely supported in Koranic texts, and we look in vain for the enlightened Islamic teachers and preachers who will begin the process of reform. What is going on in these mosques and madrasas? When is someone going to get 18th century on Islam’s medieval ass?’

    And an aside…reference Canada and the ‘mass murder of indigenous children’…a debunked lie that the BBC still pushes…last week they told us that 150,000 children were killed by these schools….absolutely untrue, a dangerous lie.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      1400 raped in the UK Islamic War.
      1 book burnt in Bradford, the UK City of Culture 2025.

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  7. pugnazious says:

    Was George Floyd ‘murdered’? No…he died due to his own ill health in the process of being arrested whilst resisting that arrest.

    You’ll never ever see this narrative on the BBC which has invested heavily in the terrorism of BLM….

    From the Mail…

    ‘It was a moment that convulsed America and reverberated across the world. On the fateful evening of May 25, 2020, in a street in the city of Minneapolis, lay an unarmed black man, gasping for his life. ‘I can’t breathe,’ he said repeatedly as a white police officer seemed to press down on his neck with his knee. Then the man stopped speaking and his body became motionless.

    The life of 46-year-old George Floyd was over. But the explosive fallout from his death was about to begin. The day after Floyd died in police custody, Minneapolis saw huge protests, which by nightfall had descended into violence, complete with vandalism and attacks on the police.

    Worse rioting followed over the next four days, forcing the police to abandon one of their precinct buildings in unprecedented scenes of disorder. Soon, with millions watching the footage of Floyd’s death on their phones and in some cases frustrated after months of Covid lockdown, violent unrest was sweeping through America’s cities, accompanied by angry demands for racial justice led by the Black Lives Matter movement.

    The fury of demonstrators was all the more intense because George Floyd’s final, harrowing moments captured on video served as a metaphor for the darkest fears about police racism and brutality. Just as the image of Floyd’s face became a symbol of the fight for equality, so his agonising last words, ‘I can’t breathe’, were turned into a battle cry against oppression.

    The police remained the prime target for the rioters’ discontent, reflected in calls to slash their budgets or even ‘defund’ them entirely. And the immediate focus was on ensuring that the men seen as directly responsible for Floyd’s death were held to account for their actions, particularly Derek Chauvin, the officer who had played the central role in restraining Floyd with his knee. He and three colleagues – Tou Thao, Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane – were put in the dock in early 2021.

    The trial was presided over by Judge Peter Cahill, who rejected all requests to delay it because of the incendiary prevailing atmosphere, which had the potential to undermine the fairness of proceedings. To cheers from Black Lives Matter activists and other radical groups, Chauvin was found guilty of second-degree murder and was sentenced to 22 years in prison. The other three were jailed on lesser charges of aiding manslaughter.

    George Floyd’s face became a symbol of the fight for equality, while his last words, ‘I can’t breathe’, were turned into a battle cry against oppression

    Around the world, the relief at the outcome was widespread. Soon after the jury had reached its verdict, President Joe Biden declared that the case ‘had ripped the blinders off for the whole world to see systemic racism’. In an even more extravagant vein, Nancy Pelosi, the Democrat Speaker of the House, thanked Floyd ‘for sacrificing your life for justice’.

    Yet the killing of George Floyd also generated a climate of hysteria over race. Suddenly, ‘white privilege’, ‘unconscious bias’, ‘decolonisation’, ‘critical race theory’ and ‘cultural humility’ were phrases we all began to hear.

    As a black woman journalist and commentator, I experienced this myself. At one point, when I dared question some aspects of the BLM movement, I was maligned as the worst kind of racist and even – absurdly – called a ‘black Nazi’.

    Derek Chauvin, whose very name is synonymous with racist evil, is like the hate figure Emmanuel Goldstein in George Orwell’s novel 1984, designated by the state as an enemy of the people. But given the backdrop of turmoil in America in early 2021, it is now legitimate to ask whether he really received a fair trial. The willingness even to pose such a question would provoke outrage among liberals and would be seen by some as an act of racism in itself.

    But that kind of overblown hostility to any scrutiny is in fact precisely why we should revisit this episode. Justice will not be protected by censorship and insults.

    Ever since 2021, there have been voices expressing doubts about the verdict. One is that of Liz Collin, the former CBS reporter whose film, The Fall Of Minneapolis, disputes much of the conventional wisdom about the case. Commentators like Tucker Carlson have been just as sceptical, warning of the danger that ‘facts’ can be twisted to fit an agenda.

    Last week, conservative influencer Ben Shapiro launched a petition calling on President Trump to pardon Chauvin on the grounds that Floyd was not ‘murdered’ at all but died from the impact of a drug overdose on a pre-existing heart condition. Shapiro published a letter addressed to the President on his site The Daily Wire claiming that Chauvin was ‘unjustly convicted,’ writing: ‘Make no mistake – the Derek Chauvin conviction represents the defining achievement of the woke movement in American politics.’ Such a call would have been unthinkable only four years ago. But as the election of Trump proves, there is a growing backlash against the woke world view.

    So is the conviction of Chauvin really open to challenge? To find a possible answer, we have to go back to that tragic evening in 2020. The events that led to Floyd’s death began when a store clerk contacted the police to report that Floyd had just made a purchase with a counterfeit $20 bill.

    George Floyd’s final, harrowing moments were captured on video, with Derek Chauvin holding his knee against the man’s neck

    The day after Floyd died in police custody, there were huge protests, which by nightfall had descended into violence, complete with vandalism and attacks on the police

    Immediately, Chauvin, an experienced officer with almost 20 years in the city force, was dispatched to the scene with his three colleagues, Kueng, Thao and Lane. Ironically in light of the subsequent race furore, the quartet was very diverse, with Thao of Asian heritage and Kueng hailing from a mixed-race background. Chauvin, too, had never been accused of racism. If he had been, the prosecution would have ruthlessly exploited such a fact at his trial.

    When the officers turned up to question Floyd, they found him behind the wheel of his parked car, with two other people in the back – an alleged drug dealer called Morries Hall and a woman named Shawanda Hill, who was also said to be a supplier. The police quickly saw that Floyd was in an agitated state, rocking back and forth, crying and apparently concealing drugs in his mouth. In an attempt to play the victim, he at once told officials two lies. ‘I just lost my mum,’ he said, though she had actually died two years earlier.

    Secondly, he claimed that last time he was questioned by police ‘I got shot’. This again was untrue. In 2019 he was stopped in his car by another officer on suspicion of using drugs but no shot was fired.

    In fact, the incident was remarkably similar to the one in May 2020, as Floyd, having eaten the drugs in his mouth, grew agitated and had to be restrained before he was taken to hospital.

    In May 2020, Floyd begged the officers not to shoot him. They had no intention of doing so. They just wanted to question him and carry out a search for further fake bills or drugs. But they soon ran into trouble, as Floyd would not leave his car. ‘Stop resisting,’ Shawanda Hill wisely said from the back. But he did the opposite, and a ruck began. At one stage the officers managed to push him into the back seat of their vehicle, from where he complained of claustrophobia and anxiety, while he also said he ‘could not breathe’. Tellingly, this was before he was on the ground with Chauvin’s knee against him.

    With his lengthy criminal record, Floyd always made a slightly incongruous international hero. His convictions included theft, drug possession and dealing, criminal trespass and aggravated robbery, for which he received a four-year jail term. So the allegation that day of using a counterfeit bill was just the latest in a catalogue of offences.

    So many jobs, government grants and consultancies are tied to the belief that Chauvin was a racist murderer that there is tremendous pressure to stick to the story, writes Esther Krakue

    Still agitated and struggling, Floyd ended up on the ground beside the police car.

    Precisely what happened next is critical. One of the most vexing questions at Chauvin’s trial was whether the method he adopted against Floyd – leaning on him with his knee on the suspect’s neck – was officially sanctioned or not. Minneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo testified under oath that his department did not train officers to use the technique.

    However, the department’s own training manual appeared to instruct officers in just such a method, known as the ‘Maximal Restraint Technique’. In Liz Collin’s film, several officers express their indignation at their chief’s perceived dishonesty about MRT.

    There were also claims at the trial that the police were indifferent to Floyd’s wellbeing. After Chauvin’s conviction, Tim Walz, the Democratic governor of Minnesota and later Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential running mate, remarked that in the Floyd video ‘the lack of humanity is sickening’.

    I have my own doubts about this. It was Chauvin’s team, after all, who called for emergency medical support. The ambulance arrived late, but that was not the fault of the police.

    Of greater consequence was the autopsy report, which highlighted compelling evidence that Floyd might not have been killed by the police at all. And here, in a disturbing twist, the progressive political establishment stands accused of interfering with the proper judicial process to ensure that Chauvin ended up behind bars – and that the narrative of ‘police oppression’ was maintained.

    Suffering from hypertension and other cardiovascular problems, as well as a tumour in his pelvis, Floyd was not a well man, according to Hennepin County examiner Andrew Baker. The autopsy was conducted by Baker, who wrote in his initial report that he found no signs of asphyxiation or strangulation, and no bruising on Floyd’s neck or back, though Baker had discovered significant quantities of the opioids fentanyl and methamphetamines in his system. These could have exacerbated Floyd’s existing heart condition.

    With the mob on the rampage against the police, the initial autopsy report was not what the authorities or Floyd’s liberal supporters wanted to hear at all. In fact, complaints soon flooded in to Baker’s office. After a meeting with six FBI officers and other state officials, Baker agreed that his report should emphasise that pressure to the neck had been a major factor. This was backed up by a second autopsy report, commissioned by the Floyd family, which came to the conclusions that were seemingly wanted.

    There were other aspects of the trial that ensured the ‘right’ results were achieved. The jury was not sequestered until its final deliberations, so its members were always aware of the anger of the protesters. Indeed it is hard to see how they could have remained impartial, especially when politicians like congresswoman Maxine Waters threatened more unrest if a guilty verdict were not returned. ‘We’ve got to stay on the streets and get confrontational,’ she told the press during the trial.

    There is a sense in liberal circles that this case is untouchable – because to doubt the guilt of Chauvin would be to destroy the underpinnings of the BLM movement and the global ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ industry. So many jobs, government grants and consultancies are tied to the belief that Chauvin was a racist murderer that there is tremendous pressure to stick to the story.

    Given the number of questions and inconsistencies surrounding the case, a judicial review and potential retrial seem to be the least that Derek Chauvin deserves. If he is truly guilty, let justice be served after a cold-hearted look at the facts.

    But nearly four years on, we must ask: was justice truly served, or was Chauvin simply a scapegoat for a nation’s collective guilt?

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14476739/George-Floyd-trial-Derek-Chauvin-questions.html

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    • Non Snowflake says:

      “found no signs of asphyxiation or strangulation, and no bruising on Floyd’s neck or back”

      BLM – one of the biggest scams in history.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Somehow getting to keep the proceeds for property investments for selective individuals free of media scrutiny seems bigger.

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      • vlad says:

        The criminal George Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose while resisting arrest as the policeman carried out normal restraining procedure.
        The trial against him was a show-trial, rigged from the start.

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    • Flotsam says:

      I’m hoping Trump pardons Chauvin. For me, Chauvin is a hero to have taken on the huge and aggressive bulk of Floyd.

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  8. Fedup2 says:

    Flotsam – it’s unfortunate he didn’t do it at the same time as J6 ….
    I get most of my news from Fox on YouTube now … they are highlighting the ‘plight’ of the democrats and their MSM . The current fad for democrat ‘politicians ‘ is profanity . It is clearly coordinated – the theory being that they sound like ‘ordinary Americans using ‘bad words ‘ . Obviously it highlights the desperation of the post Harris democrats ….

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  9. Fedup2 says:

    Resigning labour MP

    So how is Labour going to handle the bi election after one of their own has resigned his seat ? Im guessing they’ll either try to avoid having it or delay it for as long as possible in the hope that public sentiment about thr Marxists improves …. Dream on

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  10. AsISeeIt says:

    Troubled globalist oil poured on British waters and the unreliable boyfriend edition

    Red signals a Royal comeback – gushes the Times splurging forth praise like US jet fuel spilt in the North Sea.

    Kate’s a lady in red – enthuses the Sun in reference of course to: The Princess of Wales arrives for the Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey (Times)

    I’m almost surprised she’s not dressed in a burka in respect to the head of the clan, her father-in-law.

    Who would have guessed that we still celebrate something called Commonwealth Day?

    Is Chagos in the Commonwealth? One asks because the Royals are now so tightly allied with Keir Starmer’s socialist internationalist (Britain second) government policy in so many respects.

    No offence to Kate personally – but our press from across our supposed political divide – from centre-leaning to honestly leftist – are now so gushing over her person that’s it’s no wonder we see: Princess in pearls (Telegraph)

    Talking of maple syrupy sweet and globalist regime-compliant media pin-ups…

    A new leaf… Carney vows to resist Washington after victory in Canadian leadership contest – enthuses the Financial Times

    “The Mountie always gets his man!”

    Gosh, anyone reading that FT endorsement would think this is a big win for democracy against dictatorship.

    Until one notices this cautionary article in the mildly conservative Telegraph: Canada’s PM Carney banned from debates… Mark Carney, Canada’s next PM, will be banned from taking part in parliamentary debates or votes because he has not won a seat in an election

    So he’s what they term in sports “a ringer”

    a person or horse that takes part in a competition, game, or race illegally or unfairly (Cambridge Dictionary)

    One refers once more to TV comic Brian Conley’s catchphrase: “It’s a puppet!”

    From the FT’s frontpage full colour feature photo pin-up of Carney to the formerly serious now mainly female interest Times of London – where the failed former Bank of England boss (just look at the state of our economy following his tenure as chief at the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street) likewise struts his stuff as the newly revived reinvented globalist pin-up: Mr Carney also came under fire for hinting at rate rises but not following through. MP Pat McFadden famously compared the Bank to an “unreliable boyfriend” for sending mixed messages to British households… some said Mr Carney’s pre-Brexit interventions were too political. The Governor warned ahead of the vote that it could tip the economy into recession. (BBC, March 2020)

    And the gynaeceum that is the Times nonetheless pants admiringly: In praise of the (hot) older man (Hilary Rose)

    Hilary Rose joined The Times in 1996 and is a writer and columnist across many sections, including T2, comment and The Times Magazine. She was a leader writer for several years and has a weekly style column, How To Get Dressed.

    Mark Carney’s back! Let’s hear it for the (sexy) older man. Rejoice, for I bring awesome news to lift the spirits… Mark Carney, formerly of this parish as governor of the Bank of England, has surfaced as the new prime minister of Canada. It’s an improbable trajectory for someone who’s never held elected office but the wise voters of the Liberal Party have overwhelmingly chosen him (Times)

    Get a room, luv! In Ottawa!

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  11. MarkyMark says:

    UK/Starmer – will defend democracy and freedom for Ukraine at any cost, even sending boots on ground.

    UK/Starmer – will send the police to knock on your door if you criticise Labour.

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  12. andyjsnape says:

    Facebook was ‘hand in glove’ with China, BBC told
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly820v99ppo

    Yes bbc we know you don’t like facebook

    I dont like the bbc as its biased, i’ve verified this!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Just China?

      “Zuckerberg tells Rogan FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship Published 26 August 2022”

      Facebook and Twitter restricted sharing of the article, before reversing course amid allegations of censorship.

      Zuckerberg said that getting the decision wrong “sucks”.

      ……………………………….

      The Dragonfly project was an Internet search engine prototype created by Google that was designed to be compatible with China’s state censorship provisions.[1][2][3] The public learned of Dragonfly’s existence in August 2018, when The Intercept leaked an internal memo written by a Google employee about the project.[4][5] In December 2018, Dragonfly was reported to have “effectively been shut down” after a clash with members of the privacy team within Google.[6] However, according to employees, work on Dragonfly was still continuing as of March 2019, with some 100 people still allocated to it.[7]

      In July 2019, Google announced that work on Dragonfly had been terminated.[8]
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine)
      …………………………………….
      Secretive Covid-era ‘spy’ agency brought in to monitor social media during riots
      National Security Online Information Team to play central role in response to violence sweeping UK

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  13. Fedup2 says:

    Do you ever enjoy being out of touch – ? I look at the mail online and wonder what an ‘influencer’ is? Or what is Kylee Jenner ? Or – er – Maura ? And every day they put up a picture of an Americans half caste ex actress who has a Netflix series …

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    • JohnC says:

      ‘Influencers’ are the last people on earth anyone should listen to.

      They are motivated 100% by greed. When they have spats with each other because they think they are stealing each others audience, it gets very very ugly. That smiling friend on social media turns out to be a truly nasty b@stard.

      Normally they hide it behind the scenes, but every so often one of them starts publishing what the other said and the dirty truth comes out as the retaliation starts.

      They are an excellent example of just what extreme hypocrites the Leftist virtue-signallers are.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Thanks John – they seem to have a higher than normal mortality rate … perhaps caused by excess self love …

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Vlogger jumps off Tower Bridge – video
        https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2015/jul/24/vlogger-jumps-off-tower-bridge-video

        “Vlogger Shah Faisal Shinwari jumps off London’s Tower Bridge after being challenged by one of his YouTube subscribers. Shinwari jumps from the bridge and is later rescued by members of Royal National Lifeboat Institution. He later announced on the YouTube video that he was dedicating all proceeds from the video to the organisation after being rebuked by police and the RNLI”

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  14. andyjsnape says:

    Air India confirms plane returned after plastic bags and rags clog toilets
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr42drdkwyxo

    “”Only Air India has such frequent mishaps”

    I guess the quality of the passengers from these countries speaks volumes.

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  15. harry142857 says:

    Unsurprising.

    BBC senior managers who tick ‘diversity’ boxes are paid more than their peers, figures show.

    Senior managers from minority backgrounds are more highly paid than their peers, official data reveals.

    Figures from the Corporation’s annual report show that ethnic minority, LGBT, disabled and female senior bosses get paid more than people who are not from these categories.

    This has sparked criticism that, despite the BBC having a commitment to equal pay, it is now overseeing ‘reverse pay gaps’.

    The BBC’s target for ‘diverse leadership’ for 2021-2023 aimed at making sure 50 per cent of senior positions were held by women. At least 20 per cent were to be held by black, Asian or minority ethnic staff and 12 per cent by disabled workers.

    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.

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  16. MarkyMark says:

    Happy EID.

    “A UK-based monitor said 830 civilians were killed in “massacres” targeting Alawites on the west coast on Friday and Saturday.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crknjgrd3geo

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  17. vlad says:

    Here are some stats the Government – and the BBC – don’t want you to see:
    Crime rates by migrants.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Data is evil. Ban all data.

      “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

      “No matter what’s done now… it’s not going to change that it was too late, it should have been stopped and prevented.”

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Vigil held in Glasgow for Amen Teklay, 15, as boy charged over death
      Crowds gather in park where Amen played football to remember ‘remarkable’ teenager, who died on Wednesday
      https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/09/vigil-held-in-glasgow-for-amen-teklay-15-as-boy-charged-over-death

      Amen Teklay, a “remarkable” teenager who loved music and was light on his feet on the football pitch, was remembered by friends and family on Sunday afternoon at a vigil near his family home in Scotstoun, Glasgow.

      A crowd of more than 100 mainly younger people gathered to pay their respects to the 15-year-old Eritrean refugee, who died on Wednesday night in the St George’s Cross area of the city, in the park where he played football.

      Police Scotland has charged a 14-year-old in connection with Amen’s death. He will appear at Glasgow sheriff court on Monday. A 15-year-old has also been arrested.

      Amen lived with his father and sister in the west of Glasgow, which has one of the UK’s largest asylum seeker and refugee communities. He had recently been granted right to remain status by the Home Office.

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    • taffman says:

      It’s about time that the ‘Government’ & The ‘Home Office’ looked after the people of Great Britain.
      Secure our borders and deport foreign criminals !

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  18. MarkyMark says:

    HA HA HA HA! HATE NOT HOPE RELEASE STATE OF HATE REPORT…. Reform is RACIST (C) BBC Verified .. Islam is peaceful … relax.

    “The far right is in resurgence. Reform UK is on the march, Tommy Robinson’s release threatens to reignite his street movement, and last year’s riots exposed the growing influence of far-right actors in our communities. From election victories to violent unrest, the events of the past year mark the most serious far-right threat in Britain for generations.”

    https://hopenothate.org.uk/state-of-hate-2025/

    Click to access state-of-hate-2025.pdf

    Main Topics.

    REFORM UK
    RADICAL RIGHT ECOSYSTEM
    RIOTS
    TERRORISM
    TOMMY ROBINSON
    DEMOCRACY

    OVERVIEW: REFORM RISING
    AND RACISTS RIOTING

    ELON MUSK:
    A DANGER TO DEMOCRACY

    ………………..

    Attitudes towards multiculturalism, 2011-2025

    Having a wide variety of backgrounds and cultures is part of British culture

    Having a wide variety of backgrounds and cultures has undermined British culture

    *** Note: No FAR LEFT

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  19. BRISSLES says:

    I do like the skill based reality shows like Pottery throw down (sorry, not BBC) This year there were 3 finalists in the all white line-up – BUT not one had a standard relationship. One chap (who should have won) was single – the ex-Windmill dancer was in a relationship with her wife – and the winner well …

    He was in a relationship with his husband – then they interviewed his sister who sat on the sofa with her wife !!
    Britain today.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Like Hollywood – TV is not normal life – it is the life that producers want you to see.

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  20. taffman says:

    How many of you posters and readers are still funding the BBC?

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      taffman

      Not funded the bBC for over 25 years – sent my TV back to them.

      But I am in SHOCK. I listened to a program on R4 in the car and it was actually very good. It is a wonder I did not have a crash.

      The program was a walkabout with James Dyson who spoke about his farm and everything he is doing trying for good farming practice. He raised the lot of farmers quite a few times.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0028jvp

      A successful white male being interviewed on bBC radio? What ever next!

      So you see bBC you can make good programs if you want to – it is just you maliciously do not want to!

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  21. JohnC says:

    No sign Russians will compromise ahead of talks
    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c51ypekv9xwt

    I’ve come to the conclusion that Steve Rosenberg, the BBC’s Russia editor is yet another idiot who is not fit for his job.

    He keeps adding his own ‘summary’ of what he thinks Putin is thinking – and I am pretty sure someone like him has no clue whatsoever about someone like Puutin.

    He says:
    ‘The Russians believe they have the initiative on the battlefield and they are buoyed by what they see as political support from the White House.’
    ‘There’s no sign yet of Washington putting pressure on Moscow.’
    ‘Together that is fuelling Russian officials’ confidence that things are going their way right now.’

    I think it’s a stretch to say Trump is giving them actual support and it was only the other day Trump talked about some extreme sanctions he would place on Russia if they didn’t negotiate.

    The truth of it Steve is that Russia are taking ground and Ukraine are losing. They won’t compromise because if they are not given it, they will simply take it. They are winning. Trump ‘supporting them’ has nothing to do with it. He is simply trying to end it.

    These BBC idiots simply will not acknowledge anything positive about Trump. Period. They are like spoilt children who got spanked.

    Steve has shown he is out of his depth a few times now. I suspect he has that job because nobody else wants it. I am sure the Russians hate the BBC and what it stands for.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Live Map of Ukraine/Russia war
      https://liveuamap.com/

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      Rosenberg expects Russian compromises before negotiations start?

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Ukraine must be in a good position to negotiate (c) Starmer
        ** conditions do not apply to others.

        “Conflict escalation has a tactical role in military conflict and is often formalized with explicit rules of engagement. Highly-successful military tactics exploit a particular form of conflict escalation such as by controlling an opponent’s reaction time, which allows the tactician to pursue or trap his opponent.”

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  22. taffman says:

    Are dark forces are at work out to smash Reform ?

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    “UPDATE: I am cancelling over 400 DEI and Environmental Justice grants across 9 grant programs totaling $1.7 BILLION, bringing @EPA’s total savings to over $2 BILLION!

    This fourth round of EPA/@DOGE cuts was our biggest yet.”

    https://doge.gov/

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  24. G.W.F. says:

    Manchester to build a giant mosque…er… football stadium.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cvgprplz94yo

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  25. Terminal Moraine says:

    Verify on the North Sea collision with another video masterclass in how to waste everyone’s time —

    “experts who have spoken to the BBC have said human error could be a factor… so could issues with equipment like radars… at the moment we don’t know enough to be conclusive about why this happened…”

    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cgq1pwjlqq2t?page=2

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  26. Eddy Booth says:

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  27. Althepalerp says:

    Not paying for the BBC is simple.

    Fill out the on-line form.
    https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/telling-us-you-dont-need-a-tv-licence

    And they leave you alone for a year.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      A long time ago i filled out the form and put a huge story as to why I didn’t want a TV licence … they told me ‘ok’ but a year later I got a ‘demand ‘ and that has been followed up ever since – probably 20 years ….

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    • taffman says:

      Warning : Have no contact with them whatsoever.

         1 likes

      • Fedup2 says:

        Yes Taffman – really with you there – their intro question is ‘are you mr / Mrs x – ? To which the reply is … not a word – shut the door …

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  28. Althepalerp says:

    Most of London do not pay the BBC
    So you wont be alone.

       14 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Footage on X of plenty of booing of Emir Charles Windsor and his woman arriving at the commonwealth gig in a Christian abbey yesterday . Looks like they used bagpipes to try to mask the boo s and the protection people looked twitchy …

         17 likes

  29. vlad says:

    “Trump is Arresting & Deporting College Terrorist Sympathizers”

    Trump for PM, please.

       20 likes

  30. andyjsnape says:

    Police launch investigation into MP Rupert Lowe
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gm5dr95jqo

    Nothing to worry about as Labour MPs sentences of 10 weeks – nothing comes of it for beating a member of the public

    TTK will give out “justice” but make an example as this is Reform, aided by the likes of the bbc for its un-biased reporting

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  31. Fedup2 says:

    Excellent – the Muslim injustice Minister and the Marxist TTK will make sure he gets 2 years in an Islamic prison wing …

    They’ll be wanting him suspected from parliament by 3pm … 1 down -3? To go …

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  32. Fedup2 says:

    World at one

    Always suspicious when a minor story goes on and on – 17 minutes on a boat collision …. Off switch ..

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  33. digg says:

    So Ukraine begins discussions over cease fire in Saudi….

    At the same time it flings dozens of exploding drones at Moscow to coincide with the peace talks.

    It makes me think that Ukraine really do not want peace anyway, they just want the Western free World to get dragged into the war against Russia I suspect in the hope that all out war would possibly defeat Russia and hence mean Ukraine gets to keep all its goodies.

    I can’t help but consider all those US and European young men who will be paying for this with their lives so that Ukraines leaders can stay in place….

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Digg – I agree – and there are an unusually large number of war mongers on their high horses – wanting other peoples ‘ kids to die….
      On the upside maybe the Saudis can bung Zelenski some more gold ….

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    • Eddy Booth says:

      ^^^^ Digg
      I’d go more conspiracy, Zelensky is a globalist plant, idea is to have an endless war to bankrupt Russia, Ukrainian territory and lives lost are irrelevant.
      In this sense they’re winning, 3 years already, battle lines virtually a stalemate,…so they absolutely don’t want a peace settlement.

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  34. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1899455136004464883?s=61
    Giving blood linked to lower risk of pre-cancer gene

    Bring the BBC I won’t ask, but this would be from whom to whom as the overall article seeks to suggest?

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  35. andyjsnape says:

    How JD Vance sees the world – and why that matters
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly82yx09zeo

    Impressive that the bbc can get inside someone’s head

    #defund
    #biasedbbc
    #speculation

       11 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Andrew Marr was alright if merkel was leading the UK!!!

      “… and mould all 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) …@1:06 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

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  36. MarkyMark says:

    He asked her “in order that people across Wales can appreciate and understand what the Welsh government was celebrating over the weekend” what her definition of a woman was. A pertinent question…

    Morgan was outraged: “Really? Is that right? Is that right Darren? On the day that we want to celebrate women you want to start a culture war? That is not something that I’m engaging with, it is not something I’m engaging with.”

    order-order.com

    HA HA HA HA “That is not something that I’m engaging with, it is not something I’m engaging with.”

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  37. wwfc says:

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  38. MarkyMark says:

    Top 10 desirable companies for teens

    Rank Careers
    1 NHS
    2 Google
    3 Apple
    4 NASA
    5 Tesla
    6 Football club (new)
    7 Self-employed (new)
    8 Microsoft
    9 Police
    10 Government (new)

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zrfknk7

       4 likes

    • Fedup2 says:

      Wot – no BBC ? – unless mummy and daddy work for it of course…

      ..I wanna be a diversity manager – circa £150k plus package ..

         9 likes

  39. Fedup2 says:

    Farage has made a short response to the Lowe situation . He has burnt the bridge with Lowe – and I think signaled the end of Reform in its’ current form .

    If the allegations against Mr Lowe are proved false – there’s no recovery …. He won’t get off though – it’s fixed …

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  40. Fedup2 says:

    Sir John Knott dies (92) …. I wonder if they ll put ‘here today – gone tomorrow ‘ on his stone ? – if you recall the Falklands Robin Day interview … wouldn’t be a bad epitaph ….

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  41. Fedup2 says:

    Michael Deacon’s short piece on the funding of the Far Left anti British BBC

    STARTS Everyone knows that the BBC is achingly middle-class. Even its own comedy writers make jokes about how middle-class it is. In the very funny 2023 book Big Beacon by Alan Partridge (or rather, Steve Coogan plus Neil and Rob Gibbons), Norfolk’s favourite washed-up TV presenter describes going for a meeting at the BBC, a quarter of a century after it got rid of him.

    While being introduced to a group of BBC producers, writes Partridge, “it dawned on me just how completely the composition of the Beeb’s staff had transformed in the years I’d been away. In my day the cliché of an organisation run by producers called Charles or Henry could not have been more true. Today? These were totally different people. Finlay. Jude. Seb. Saskia. What a breath of fresh air.”

    The BBC’s latest chairman deserves at least some credit, therefore, for publicly acknowledging the problem. To achieve greater “diversity of thought” in its news coverage, said Samir Shah at the weekend, the BBC needs to hire more people from “the northern working class”.

    Unfortunately, however, it isn’t just middle-class journalists who are in Mr Shah’s sights. It’s middle-class viewers, too. Because he seems to think that they should be forced to pay more for the BBC licence fee.

    Of course, he didn’t quite phrase it like that. What he said was: “Why should people who are poor pay the same as people in wealthy households?” The implication, though, is clear enough. If the BBC licence fee is reduced for “people who are poor”, you can be sure that it will simultaneously be increased for people who are deemed “wealthy”. And by “wealthy”, I doubt that Mr Shah is referring merely to Britain’s 50-odd billionaires. In practice, the people forced to stump up more for the BBC would be the middle class.

    This, however, would be patently unfair. For one thing, no other broadcaster does it. Netflix does not charge higher fees for viewers who happen to be middle-class. Nor do Disney+, Apple TV or Amazon Prime Video.

    Perhaps Mr Shah thinks it would be fairer if they did. In which case, does he think the same policy should be adopted by other kinds of business, too? Imagine if, every time you went to Asda, you were required to show the checkout assistant your three most recent bank statements.

    “Ah yes, sir, I see that your recent pay rise has taken you into the higher rate tax bracket. As a result, this tin of baked beans will be £8.99.”

    “Hang on a moment. My son’s unemployed. How about if I get him to pay for the beans, instead?”

    “In that case, sir, they’ll be 13p.”

    A socialist would doubtless say that such a scenario sounds eminently fair. But if I were the chairman of the BBC, and I wished to dispel the notion that the BBC has a Left-wing bias, I would probably try to avoid proposing such nakedly Left-wing ideas.

    Mr Shah might of course defend himself by saying that his suggestion is no different from ordinary taxation. The more money you earn, the more you’re required to pay towards the upkeep of the nation’s hospitals, schools and fire brigades. Well, yes. But hospitals, schools and fire brigades are essential public services. I’m not sure the same can be said of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK and Waterloo Road. Let alone tear-jerking documentaries about Gaza that turn out to be narrated by the son of a Hamas official.

    The real question, therefore, is not: “Should the middle class be forced to pay more for the BBC?” It’s: “Why should anyone be forced to pay for the BBC at all?”ENDS

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  42. Fedup2 says:

    Not BBC – they’d never approve – warren buffet saw the Trump downturn and has been selling shares . He has £258 billion in cash – more than the value of the FTSE 100 … wow…. I went to cash last November …with my tiny tiny pot … 77 brigade to file ..

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  43. Guest Who says:

    As I have little faith in all media, I read around. On occasion I get a laugh.

    https://www.science.org/content/article/stand-science-rally-drew-more-anxious-throng-2017-counterpart?

    ‘Throng’.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “The scholarly literature on emotions and politics tells us that anxiety holds people back from political involvement, while enthusiasm pushes them into it,” says Heaney, who also surveyed participants at the much larger Washington, D.C., rally in April 2017.

         3 likes

  44. Guest Who says:

    https://thankyoutruckers.substack.com/p/mark-carneys-leadership-win-smells?

    Odour test aside, I noted this too:

    60% of Party members didn’t vote, but media pretends that doesn’t matter.

    This struck a chord. Mandates are not what they used to be. Anywhere.

       10 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Mark Carney’s Leadership Win Smells
      60% of Party members didn’t vote, but media pretends that doesn’t matter.

      Mark Carney will soon be sworn in as Canada’s 24th prime minister. This is alarming for several reasons:

      Few journalists have been permitted to interview him.

      He has not fully disclosed his financial conflicts-of-interest.

      He attained leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada in a race in which two candidates were dubiously disqualified, and in which people as young as 14 were permitted to vote.

      Roughly 400,000 people hold Liberal Party memberships – many of whom signed up recently (without paying a cent, as there’s no fee to join that political party).

      Yet the vast majority of those 400,000 people – 60 percent or so – didn’t bother to participate in the leadership vote that wrapped up this past weekend.

         8 likes

      • tomo says:

        I posted earlier but it deserves some repetition

           9 likes

        • MarkyMark says:

          “As a candidate for prime minister, however, he said he intended to renounce his British and Irish citizenships. Carney told reporters this month that he had written to those governments to begin the process.

          Opinion: Don’t call this coffee an Americano!
          Simon Says
          Opinion: Don’t call this coffee an Americano!
          He said that while some Canadian politicians hold multiple passports, he believes the prime minister should not.”

          https://www.npr.org/2025/03/10/nx-s1-5323043/mark-carney-canada-prime-minister-bio

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          • Fedup2 says:

            Bet he keeps a green card though …

               3 likes

            • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

              Like our own Rishi Sunak, who also worked at Goldman Sachs and is another globalist. “Democracy” in the West has an unpleasant smell, to say the least.

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  45. MarkyMark says:

    Why protest in China when you can wait for China to come to you …. HA HA HAH AH

    “Last month over a thousand protestors gathered outside the Royal Mint Court in Tower Hamlets to protest plans for the new Chinese mega-embassy.Blocked by the council and the previous government, Labour called in a fresh application this time round for Xi…

    Last time IDS, Jenrick, and Labour’s Blair McDougall showed up to provide support to Hong Kongers and others. There is a fresh protest upcoming on Saturday at 3:00 p.m. Same place…”
    order-order.com

       1 likes

    • pugnazious says:

      The old joke….in America you can always find a party…in the Soviet Union the Party always finds you. Not much has changed…except it’s here now as well when police coming knocking because you criticise Labour.

         4 likes

  46. tomo says:

    The fall of the Daily Telegraph….

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Isn’t she a refugee from The Guardian …. Personally I find the comments ( when allowed ) a lot more interesting than the columns / articles in thr Telegraph these days – are there are plenty – such as that creature – whose writing isn’t worth the time …. I suspect 1 penny of my subscription might go to paying her – one penny too much …

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  47. tomo says:

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    well, Mike Wendling – a two jobber deep state mouthpiece writes up JD Vance.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly82yx09zeo

    Most of us peons are more concerned with how The BBC sees the world?

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  48. pugnazious says:

    ‘Construction workers started to dismantle the Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House on Monday following threats by Republicans to cut transportation funding if the plaza was not renamed.

    “You can dig up concrete but you cannot erase history,” said DC resident Dianne Bradley. ‘

    But you can rewrite history as BLM and indeed our very own BBC does….

    ‘…the murder of George Floyd by a police officer. ‘

    Not murder…death due to ingestion of dangerous drugs such as fentanyl and various ailments.

    A massive shining great lie was fabricated based on this violent criminal’s death as he resisted arrest.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c62zl8r1jd1o

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “You can dig up concrete but you cannot erase history,” said DC resident Dianne Bradley. ‘”

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