Start the Week 14th April 2025

For some – it’s Holy Week – an excuse for the swamp to go on holiday or bury bad news … and there’s plenty of it .

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121 Responses to Start the Week 14th April 2025

  1. Northern Voter says:

    Bloody Claire Baulding gets everywhere, if she wasn’t getting it from a female BBC producer, where would she be? First by the way.

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  2. Northern Voter says:

    Come on, somebody else post something, it’s lonely here.

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  3. harry142857 says:

    Happy Palm Sunday, very belatedly.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      A very strange piece in the Telegraph about the increasing numbers of young types going / joining the Roman Catholic Church . I bet the BBC won’t mention that -particularly at Easter – when numbers are baptised .My local church has numbers being baptised this week .

      The comments on the article ‘blame ‘ the numbers on the situation in the C of E . …

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  4. Jeff says:

    Just having a quick squint at Match of the Day and enjoying a nice cold “Crafty Hen”. Lovely beer. I can watch MotD on Sunday because there’s no bloody Gary Lineker…

    However, what’s deeply depressing and embarrassing is that our massively overpaid and over praised Premiership stars are still kneeling for Black Lives Matter. God, it’s excruciating, particularly when you get the pompous dickhead commentator intoning that “We must kick racism out of football.” Really? Is that the best you can do?

    We’ve still got thousands of little white girls regularly groomed and abused by migrants imported from a third world misogynistic hell hole, where child abuse is a way of life.

    How about we “Kick rapists out of Britain”? That’s a really good slogan.

    I’d kneel for that…

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    • Scroblene says:

      Those illegals arriving here for a life of laziness have left all their various kids behind, for others to have a go.

      This useless government will never do anything to protect our children in these awful towns where they’re targeted daily.

      Don’t ask the BBC to comment as they just whistle at the tumbleweed on TTK’s and now the dreadful Phillips woman’s instructions…

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  5. Sluff says:

    British Steel at Scunthorpe appears to be short of coal.
    Strangely the BBC don’t seem to be asking Ed Milliband about this.
    Perhaps he could arrange a few wind turbines and solar panels on site. I’m sure that would help.

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  6. BRISSLES says:

    As there’s an eclectic mix of topics so far, here’s another one. I’ve discovered from a very reliable source that David Beckham (who?) now more famous for his tattoos and posing suggestively, receives a daily delivery of free Boss knickers every day (!). Not a lotta people know that – (or would want to).

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    • Scroblene says:

      Brings a whole new meaning to Handel’s music – “As pants the hart for cooling streams…”

      Didn’t he miss a vital penalty in some game once, and also get sent off for being a impulsive and childish twat?

      (Marky will have a link to both events somewhere – won’t you Marky..;0)

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  7. Deborah says:

    The Mayor of London did put out a Passover message which started, ‘ The Passover story is a powerful tribute to the enduring faith and resilience of the Jewish community.’.

    I wonder why the Jewish community of London need resilience in London in 2025? It couldn’t be that the two tier policing (and no policing) has made it necessary for Jews in London to be resilient. I am thinking of the boys who went to see the Oxford Street lights, or the Jewish people on Finchley Road hearing young Muslim men in fast cars shouting what they wanted to do to Jewish women. Resilient, Sir Sadiq? They bloody well have to be to live in the city under your jurisdiction.

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    • Foscari says:

      Be Fair Deborah-Our mayor has not changed London’s
      name to Islamalon. Or the train route from
      Thamesmead to Battersea and Chelsea ” From the river
      to the see ” line.

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      • Deborah says:

        Foscari, drove through Finchley Central last night. The majority of shops now appear to have black fascias with a gold writing in a language I cannot read….and this seems to have happened since my visit in December.

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  8. AsISeeIt says:

    British bees at risk from Asian hornets – frets an article under the Environment banner in the left-leaning i paper in a strangly, I’m sure unintentional, anthropomorphic echo of their main headline: Chinese firms may be blocked from critical UK sites in future after steel ‘sabotage’ warnings

    How’s that Net Zero workin’ out fo’ yer?

    Britain in last blast saloon… Hunt for fuel to avoid catastrophic shutdown… racing against time to find stocks of coal… (the giveaway Metro) – further comment would seem superfluous.

    The formerly serious Times newspaper, in an increasingly obvious manifestation of its feminisation and of its style and content indentification with the Guardian, this morning bookends the Gruan’s frontpage feature photo sideways take on the Boat Race: Water winners… Cambridge’s women’s team enjoy their victory… – and an impressive crew of broad shouldered lasses they look too.

    Coxless pair

    Meanwhile, the Times take on the girls jolly hockey squad team photo has their uniform frontpage feature: Stars in their eyes… The first all-female crew to fly into space for 60 years will lift off today

    Well, they do say what’s good for goose is good for the gander…

    Netanyahu defies international arrest warrant on visit to Hungary (NBC news)

    Bangladesh issues arrest warrant for British MP Tulip Siddiq… Lawyers acting for Siddiq denied the charges, which they said were “politically motivated”. (BBC)

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  9. atlas_shrugged says:

    Asking someone to speak English is now a hate crime:

    https://gettr.com/post/p3jvp43fb80

    This might be the keystone cops of cranebridgeshire.

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    • moggiemoo says:

      So little crime that plod has to make them up? Or is it a way to keep the solved crime figures up without mentioning, or risking getting a kicking from, their preferred demographic?

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    • Charlie Farley says:

      atlas_shrugged ,
      I have that problem when visiting family in Wales…….I thought Welsh was a problem but now there seems to be other strange languages……wonder where they came from ? .
      Apparently Coal Mining was popular in the past……my Grandfather worked in one there from 14 years old….tough times and something that kept him away from the Slaughter of WW1 !

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      • Mrs Kitty says:

        It does make the Welsh give you a second look when you start speaking a foreign language ( not English ) and then laugh at them, it gets them a bit paranoid.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      iNSHALLAH!

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  10. Flotsam says:

    The Government (not just this one) seems to have been incredibly slow to realise the dangers of handing our economy over to China. For many years our Governments have applied policies that encouraged growth of financial services, other services, house building etc at the expense of manufacturing. Manufacturing has been seen as a dirty second class activity to be forgotten about. The decline of manufacture has been accelerated by the the pursuit of low carbon, net zero looney green policies which have increased our energy prices to insane levels. China doesn’t bother with such niceties and gets on with making cheap manufactured goods which the rest of the World buys.
    We now have a Government which is even more wedded to disastrous Green crap policies and think theme parks and house building are the answer to growth.

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  11. MarkyMark says:

    China invented gunpowder – every person whose ancestor was hurt by gunpowder can now claim compensation (like slavery reparations) against China…. China have the money – let’s do this!

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  12. MarkyMark says:

    Can nationalise a steel works on a saturday!
    Cannot STOP ONE SMALL BOAT?

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  13. AsISeeIt says:

    Army to tackle bin strikes… from the office. Angela Raynor, the communities secretary, has asked the military to offer logistical support… The soldiers are believed to be office based. (Times)

    You mean Birmingham City Council can’t rustle up a few extra office staff to work a bit of overtime?

    War with Putin to fought WFH?

    “Atten-shun! Stand by your stationery cupboards… wait for it… paper clips, two, three, four…!”

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    • Deborah says:

      Having recently met both a naval officer and someone in the army who spend at least some (most? I forget the details), I presume senior officials seriously believe wars can be won from home.

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  14. MarkyMark says:

    ‘Chinese Sabotage’: British Steel Still at Risk of Closure Despite Saturday Sitting of Parliament
    “It is an explicit strategy of the Chinese Communist Party to undermine the industrial base of foreign countries.”

    Channel Crossings Up by 46% on This Time Last Year

    Labour Minister on Siddiq Arrest Warrant: We Won’t Comment on Extradition Proceedings

    https://order-order.com/

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  15. JohnC says:

    Aimee Lou Wood calls SNL parody ‘mean and unfunny’
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yr7yy40j3o

    ‘The SNL sketch, which aired this week, imagined US President Donald Trump and his top team spending time at the fictional hotel.’
    ‘Wood’s character Chelsea was portrayed by cast member Sarah Sherman using a pronounced accent and fake teeth.’
    ‘At one point, in a reference to the actress’s teeth, she asks: “Fluoride? What’s that?”‘

    No humour or wit involved at all. Just people being unpleasant and spiteful at other people then applauding if they say something particularly nasty about someone they don’t like.

    A perfect example of their ‘groupthink’. They are pathetic, shallow, humourless people who you come to realise are driven by hate when you scrape through their veneer of hypocrisy and virtue signalling.

    Of course anything they do about Trump is fine because of their gross double-standards.

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  16. MarkyMark says:

    So it’s an interesting pivot that Basu has now backed a full inquiry into the rape gangs scandal. He told the Telegraph:

    “I’m conflicted because so many public inquiries become elongated, very messy, incredibly expensive, and by the time they deliver any kind of conclusion, it’s gone out of people’s minds. But Rotherham, for me, is a bit like Hillsborough. I don’t think it will ever go out of people’s minds. So until you uncover the actual truth and you lay it bare, it will always be there. So this is one of those occasions where I think, yes, this really should happen.”

    Rupert Lowe’s crowdfunder for his Rape Gang Inquiry stands at an impressive half a million pounds with 25 days left to raise. Reform’s counter-inquiry is yet to materialise; the Government sparked fury after it scrapped pilot local grooming gang inquiries, sneaking out the news just before recess. Not to worry though – Basu still found time to back moral panic BBC drama Adolescence. Cooper will be wishing she just called a proper public inquiry back in January…

    …………………

    The request came as a result of the Jay Report, which found abuse in Rotherham had been ignored by agencies including the local police force.

    The request came as a result of the Jay Report, which found abuse in Rotherham had been ignored by agencies including the local police force.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4ynzppk80o

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    • JohnC says:

      The people who gave the orders to cover up the rape gangs are directly responsible for the rape of all girls who would have been protected from it if the police had done their job.

      The enquiry should be about the prosecution of people in government and high-ranking police who gave the orders. There should be dozens of people going to prison for being complicit in the rape of all these girls once that first cover up took place.

      Just imagine how huge that would be. It would make all the BBC nonces and child molesters look like chicken feed.

      Of course it won’t happen. The key point for me is how the Left and people such as the BBC were quite prepared to let thousands of rapes of young white girls continue because it didn’t fit their multicultural agenda. That’s what kind of people they are.

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      • Lucy Pevensey says:

        Sickening isn’t. That’s why we need outside adjudication.
        I don’t want to see them throw a couple of police officers, a councilor & a low-level civil servant under the bus while MPs and complicit senior officials walk free. This mega-crime goes right to the top.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        JohnC – and then I saw a headline that the Marxists are bringing in more laws ‘to protect females ‘.. must be the approved type of female ….

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  17. pugnazious says:

    BBC news being very dishonest as it reports police were unprepared for level of violence in riots at Southport….misses out key point that they also failed to hand out enough information….something that actually led to the riots.

    Why would the BBC miss that out of the news bulletins?

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  18. Lucy Pevensey says:

    Did someone say Palm Sunday? The Offender of The Faith has other ideas.

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  19. MarkyMark says:

    Comment “This looks like a city in a video game. There’s a bunch of repetitive corridors and you can’t enter most of the buildings.”

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  20. MarkyMark says:

    Medals for all 650 MPS

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  21. MarkyMark says:

    Army to drop bombs on Birmingham to remove the rubbish.

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  22. digg says:

    The usual media are right behind TTK and Cops re Southport… “Nothing to see here mate, it was all about dealing with yobs and the need to teach them a lesson”. Nothing to do with Islam….

    Downloaded terrorist manual, ricin production, butchering children….

    “Huh!”

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  23. Fedup2 says:

    Haven’t heard BBC propaganda for a which so turned on R4 for the 1pm propaganda show – but there was a total Trump Derangement Piece on the preceding show involving mentally old people trying to avoid buying American ‘to get back at Trump ‘ .

    No discussion about the rights or wrong of tariffs – just a long hate piece – to which as we know – the BBC is fully signed up…

    So Hate Trump ? Dump your apple products – anything from Hollywood – throw out the US airbases giving UK cover …. Full on Corbyn Marxism -that’s why you can’t trust the BBC …

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  24. taffman says:

    The ‘mad hatter” is back in the news ……..
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr4ner79y5lo

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  25. Fedup2 says:

    So – yesterday a Marxist Muslim MP was put up for an arrest warrant in India ? For alleged corruption . Today there is a PPS to Rishi sunnak being charged with corruption via gambling offences along with a string of allegedly corrupt dead blue party types ..
    And people still vote for this allegedly corrupt rubbish ….
    Next please ….
    Sunnak to be a defence witness ? Or suspect ?

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  26. MarkyMark says:

    Woman only presenters and crew and everything!
    Equality!

    Watch Live! Blue Origin’s star-studded launch with Katy Perry and Gayle King

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    UK citizens – ban knives!

    Then….

    “Kitchens Banned After Terrorists Allowed Their Own Cooking Facilities in UK Jails Despite Getting Three Meals A Day”
    https://order-order.com/

    o how was Abedi – who is being held in the most secure location inside the entire UK prison estate, a segregation unit at HMP Frankland in County Durham – able to access his weapons? Bizarrely, Britain’s most dangerous prisoners are allowed to cook for themselves or as a hobby to pass the time.

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  28. taffman says:

    “High-security unit inmates barred from kitchens after attack”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0m9l1gvp3zo
    Is this adequate punishment for the perp?

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  29. MarkyMark says:

    Katy Perry in space!
    UK cannot empty bins!

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    Council bins are empty!
    Screenshot-2025-04-14-at-14.13.46.png?w=800&ssl=1

    see order-order.com

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  30. pugnazious says:

    ‘The UK government’s Crime and Policing Bill poses a formidable threat to free speech in the UK. ‘

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/04/13/the-uks-free-speech-crisis-is-about-to-get-so-much-worse/

    Remarkable that the BBC is not only very quiet about a massive attack on free speech and freedom of thought and expression but, you can believe, is actively campaigning hand in hand with the government to persuade the Public of the necessity for such drastic and draconian laws…much as it did of course with lockdown which it supported full-heartedly.

    The BBC of course sees it all as part of its drive to control social media but also to shut down discussions about race, religion, trans and immigration….and no doubt would love to see a law banning anything critical said about nut zero etc.

    Today on the evermore toxic Woman’s Hour the BBC continues to double-down on its anti-male rhetoric and of course labels them ‘far-right’…

    ‘Hundreds of children were caught up in riots with well over 100 arrested and a number charged last summer after the murder of three children in Southport. Since then far right extremism and racism in schools has intensified – an everyday experience in primary and secondary schools’

    No concept that the actions of the rioters may have been wrong but the anger was justified…or that the motivation of the killer was in all likelihood due to anti-White, anti-British feelings learnt from school and the likes of the BBC….not Islam but Black racial politics.

    There is absolutely no proof that far-right extremism or racism has increased…just a very dodgy BBC, self-serving, poll of lefty teachers’ opinions….and certainly no proof that any such ideas are the major threat in schools….perhaps they should be asking about what goes on in mosques and in the Koran rather than blaming ‘social media’….especially at a time when one these teachers colleagues is in hiding due to Islamic threats.

    This is a massive attempt to shift the narrative away from migrants and Islam…the real threats to western society and civilisations….and of course to shift the blame from the far-left that has opened the borders and forced a dangerous multiculturalism upon us…the ‘far-right’ is their monster, created by them and their ideologies and actions….a response to the terrorism, the division, misogyny, the hate imported to the West.

    The BBC is the leading propagandist for this far-left extreme ideology.

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  31. MarkyMark says:

    COVID LOAN FRAUD paid off….

    “Now, he has announced he will be taking up a visiting fellowship at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution in California, as well as joining Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government as a member of its World Leaders Circle.”

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-california-oxford-mp-hoover-b2684032.html

    73936821-13603407-Rishi_Sunak_was_spotted_taking_his_wife_and_two_daughters_to_San-a-2_1720174929388.jpg

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  32. pugnazious says:

    GB News….

    ‘Despite the government pointing the finger at rising gas prices on the global market, the exclusive analysis for GB News by Professor Gordon Hughes, an economist at Edinburgh University, shows the biggest culprit is the explosion in subsidies for renewable energy and Net Zero policies which account for forty per cent of the increase in our electricity bills since 2015. These costs now represent £223 of our annual charges. ‘

    Wato decided it would investigate energy prices…just why are they so high?

    It’s, we are told, the cost of gas…absolutely nothing to do with nut zero the useful idiot wheeled in by the BBC told us…Sarah Montague quick to ask…’So not net zero at all?…’

    No…no…absolutely not nut zero…..as they carefully dodge having to explain why British costs are so so much higher than the rest of the world which also has to pay for gas.

    A moment of pure climate change propaganda from the BBC as it mouths Miliband’s own narrative that gas prices are to blame….er…

    https://unherd.com/2025/03/the-true-cost-of-net-zero/

    ‘Miliband, according to Hughes, is starting from a false premise. He is “unambiguously wrong” to claim that the principal cause of rising bills to date has been the price of natural gas. In fact, the wholesale price of electricity, which is where changes in fossil fuel prices are most clearly seen, has generally been constant for the past 20 years. And yet in that same period, electricity bills paid by businesses have almost quadrupled, while those of domestic households have more or less trebled.
    In fact, it’s the ever-growing thicket of taxes, levies and subsidies, stemming from the switch to renewables, which has caused the price increase, for these added extras now comprise more than three-quarters of the cost of electricity on household bills. According to Hughes, “the steady increase in inflation-adjusted electricity prices over the last two decades is largely a matter of self-inflicted harm”.’

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  33. MarkyMark says:

    “The UK spends approximately £6.85 billion annually on its prison system. This translates to roughly £44,640 per prisoner per year, or about £122 per day. This cost covers direct resource expenditure, which varies depending on prison type, location, and the specific needs of the inmates. ”

    ……………………………..

    The annual cost of the Winter Fuel Payment scheme to the taxpayer is around £2 billion.

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  34. Richard Pinder says:

    Blue Origin Enterprises, L.P. is a space technology company owned by a MAN called Jeff Bezos. Today’s Blue Origin flight lasted only 11 minutes and reach a height of about 65 miles above Earth. The Kármán line, considered the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space, is 62 miles, so the girls including Jeff Bezos’s fiancee Lauren Sánchez were only in space and experience weightlessness for about three minutes.

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  35. pugnazious says:

    Woman’s Hour wheels in a lesbian campaigner to tell us how awful her life is due to the hate etc…

    ‘Julie Bindel’s new book, Lesbians: Where are we now? is described as part-memoir, part frontline reportage and part cultural commentary. In it she examines what defines lesbian culture, love, friendship and happiness today and asks why – in her view – lesbians so often seem to face particular hostility? The journalist, feminist campaigner and author is in the Woman’s Hour studio.’

    Curiously not one question asked about Trans….especially considering there was a huge dust-up about Trans wanting to sleep with lesbians and any lesbian who didn’t was thus a transphobe. No questions about how she felt about men dressing as women and calling themselves women and coming into women only places [even when she mentioned that women must have such protected places].

    It was purely down to Bindel herself to say anything about Trans…and even she missed that problem…she instead concentrated on the ‘forcing’ of lesbians to be Trans-men…taking drugs and having surgery rather than be accepted as lesbians.
    Bindel said the belief that someone has that they are Trans is probably fleeting and an indulgence by middle-class progressive parents [ala so many at the BBC] who love to think and virtue signal that their kid is Trans but don’t like the thought they may be gay or lesbian.

    Montague jumped in…..’Some might find that offensive, denying their right to their identity as trans…’…but we know that gays are being pressured, by the likes of the BBC and schools in fact, to believe they’re not gay but are Trans…it is the BBC and schools that are denying the real identity and often forcing kids down very damaging, psychologically and physically, pathways that they will regret when old enough to think for themselves.

    So much for a sensible discussion…say the ‘wrong’ thing and you’re censured.

    Odd how ‘Trans’ didn’t feature in the presenter’s mind as an issue….a problem.

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  36. pugnazious says:

    Today on the BBC we hear that …

    ‘The onslaught on Gaza continues’

    Nothing biased or provocatively incendiary about that is there?

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  37. tomo says:

    Be prepared to grind your gears…

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  38. vlad says:

    The incomparable, indomitable Douglas Murray on Death Cults and the West – the BBC gets a mention too.
    (And thank Allah for Julia Hartley-Brewer and TalkTV, cos he sure as hell wouldn’t be given a hearing on the BBC.)

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  39. tomo says:

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  40. Sluff says:

    BBC 6 pm news.
    Main headline and first story.
    Some Tories used inside info to place bets on the date of the last election.
    Now I do not defend this. Quite the opposite.
    But what silly people these folk were.

    If only they had raped young white girls in some of our northern towns the BBC would not have covered the story at all and they could have got away with it for years.

    Oh. And on the subject of TTK. A commons select committee decided the other day there was no two tier policing after the Southport child murders last year precipitated widespread disorder.
    But conveniently they forgot to mention the fast track trials and sentencing of those involved. Jail within days. Whereas many other miscreants and perpetrators of serious crimes from way back are even now awaiting trial.
    TTK is alive and well.

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  41. taffman says:

    Question:
    How long have we got to put up with this idiotic government for ?

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  42. Eddy Booth says:

    Manchester Arena families in ‘disbelief’ bomber was able to attack officers
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1jxngl8207o

    I’m finding it hard to accept the families haven’t fully woken to the harsh truths about our society.

    “Since the letter was sent to Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood on Monday, inmates of separation centres have been barred from using kitchens.”

    The prisoners probably run the prisons, guards moving around where they “shouldn’t” have been.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Prisons exist to keep the public safe. Their purpose is to incarcerate offenders in a safe and secure environment and – through education and rehabilitation – guide them towards lives free from crime. Islamist extremism is a direct threat to the important work carried out in prisons. It endangers prisoners and staff, encourages criminal behaviour and terrorism, and undermines the proper functioning of the justice system. Countering the growing threat of Islamist extremism in prisons is
      therefore an urgent priority.

      Click to access moj-gov-response-aug-2016.pdf

      2. In September 2015, the then Secretary of State for Justice commissioned a review to:
      * assess the growing threat which Islamist extremism – and the radicalisation which sustains it – poses to prisons and probation services; and
      * assess the capability of the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) to meet that threat

      We do not, however, believe it is the right course of action at present to
      alter the provision of worship more generally or, for example, to pursue in-cell
      alternatives.

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  43. Eddy Booth says:

    “Birmingham bin strike to continue as deal rejected”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9ljx8qdqdo

    Another long article, again omitting to tell the basics ie how much the the bin men typically earn and what they’re been offered in cash terms.
    Even the Have Your Say contributors are on to it.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “In Birmingham, a Bin Man’s average base pay is around £21,311 per year. The “Most Likely Range” for salary is between £18,000 and £25,000 annually. Some bin man drivers can earn up to £37,440 per year. “

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  44. MarkyMark says:

    BBC forgot the first woman astronaut was Russian?

    Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova
    On 16 June 1963, Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel into space.

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  45. pugnazious says:

    From the Telegraph on the unaccountable power of NGO’s…just one name missing from the list…the enormously powerful and influential BBC….

    ‘The damage to economic growth from the likes of Greenpeace, War on Want, Oxfam, WWF, and many other household names – as well as less well-known groups such as Sustrans, Tax Justice UK and The Poverty Alliance – together with the direct action of extremists like Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil, should give Rachel Reeves sleepless nights.

    And yet ministers regularly meet such bodies, treat their lobbying with wide-eyed innocence when the groups have no responsibility for ensuring our economy grows, jobs are preserved and new businesses are created. ‘

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  46. MarkyMark says:

    order-order.com 1c8164e1-172d-41ed-86b9-da619c9601a7-d88e61a3-38ad-4673-807d-a8185d4d7753

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  47. Flotsam says:

    Katy Perry went where no man had gone before…………more than you could say for her.

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  48. Northern Voter says:

    Mrs V likes to watch Universally Challenged, they just asked a question to which the answer was Sancho, apparently the first person of African origin to vote in a General Election. Who the feck cares?

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  49. vlad says:

    The liars at the BBC are still referring to the Salvadorean as a “mistakenly deported man”.

    America’s top lawyers say otherwise, describing him as a member of a terorist gang and illegal immigrant..

    (And savour the utter contempt with which Trump treats CNN, a sort of American BBC.)

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  50. Fedup2 says:

    Excellent news – the comrades in unite threaten to spread the bin strike – the great leader will have asked them to do so in order that he can claim victory when they ‘back down ‘in the desperate run up to the local elections ….

    … will Tuesday bring another MP prosecution …

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