300 Responses to Midweek 7th May 2025

  1. vlad says:

    They’ve had enough, Part 2.

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  2. Lucy Pevensey says:

    (scratching head) So BBC has taken the Side of Pakistan. Colour me surprised. Not.

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  3. wwfc says:

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    • vlad says:

      That reporter O’Keefe had better not go into any road tunnels, or prison cells with faulty cctv surveillabce cameras, or swimming on Obama’s beach, or – how was Virginia Giuffre suicided again; were we ever told?
      Basically, he’d better not leave his secret safe house for the next few years.

         15 likes

  4. JohnC says:

    It’s no surprise at all that the man stabbed in the bank in Derby was called ‘Gurvinder Singh Johal’.

    A family friend told the BBC that Mr Johal was “a smiler” and “a good friend”.

    That tells me is that the BBC actually went out looking for people to say something good about him so they could use it to try and infer he was a good man and just another innocent victim.

    However being targetted by two others in a bank tells me Mr Johal was less than white. In every sense.

    No details of those arrested which of course means their names will be similar. For these cases, they often conveniently ‘forget’ right up until it comes out when they are named in publicly in court.

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  5. Eddy Booth says:

    Maybe he was just paying his business earnings in and got robbed.
    Kind of crazy to do it was actually “in in the bank” sure to have decent CCTV
    Daily mail has photo of house the suspects lived at and were arrested there

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14687161/Restaurant-owner-named-victim-fatal-stabbing-Lloyds-bank-Derby-man-held-suspicion-murder.html

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    “The property is owned by a married couple in their 60s who live nearby. Their son, Fez Iqbal, 31, said the property had been leased to Government contractor Serco for the last eight years or so.”

    I wonder who Serco provide houses for?

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    • JohnC says:

      ‘They provide services related to the justice system and manage immigration processes.’

      Sounds a lot like another free house for immigrants.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      8 years guaranteed income – even when empty – free on the tax payer!

         15 likes

  6. JohnC says:

    Five takeaways from Biden’s BBC interview
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39j91ljmyeo

    And once again the BBC print the most outrageous, irresponsible agenda-based rhetoric:

    A stark accusation of ‘modern-day appeasement’

    ‘Though Biden’s repeated assertion that Russian tanks would be rolling through central Europe if America and its allies didn’t support Ukraine is impossible to prove, he views the threat posed by Putin as serious and worthy of the comparison.’

    The key here is that the BBC KNOW it is complete nonsense because they have deliberately inserted one of their ‘lying through their teeth’ qualifiers. In this case it’s ‘impossible to prove’.

    ‘worthy of the comparison’ to justify a complete lie ?. What kind of reporting is this ?. Are they really his words BBC or did you put them in yourself ?.

    I’ve read many accounts of this war from people who clearly know what they are talking about and not a single one thinks Russia will just continue and attack NATO in Europe. It’s absolutely ridiculous.

    The real danger is that the EU build up their army and rhewtoric like the BBC are spouting against Russia to such a degree that Russia think the EU (with us tagging along) are going to attack them. They will not hesitate to strike first if they are sure war is coming.

    So once again the BBC are scaremongering that Putin will invade Europe if the war in Ukraine is allowed to end. It’s absolute nonsense. There is only one possible outcome if the it carries on like this : a grinding war of attrition where Russia keep taking land until the Ukranian army collapses. Which is when the EU use the same argument as the BBC use here to send in troops. Then we are at WW3. And how many people think Ukraine is worth that ?.

    It’s clear the real objective is to destroy Russias capability to wage war using Ukrainian lives to do it and remove them as any kind of threat for the next decade. They are making exactly the same mistake as Hitler did.

    I look forward to the BBC interview ‘for balance’ with Trump where they allow him to spew whatever hate and rhetoric he wants to tell us about Biden without interruption. Then run multiple front page headlines promoting what he said.

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    • pugnazious says:

      It’s extremely one-sided propaganda and fails to mention so many relevant facts that disprove and counter just about everything Biden said…also note that the BBC reports kept telling us Biden refused to mention Trump’s name…oh but hang on…apparently he didn’t mention Harris’ name at all even when talking about his stepping down….as the Telegraph noted…

      ‘Does Joe Biden blame his vice-president for losing the 2024 election to Donald Trump? He certainly doesn’t take any responsibility himself. And when it comes to Kamala Harris, he can’t even bring himself to say her name.’

      BBC not so keen to point that out for some reason.

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  7. pugnazious says:

    After PMQs the BBC’s finest told us in no uncertain terms that gas prices were the cause of the huge UK energy costs as compared to other countries, pushing the government lie…and that this was merely a ‘culture war’ rather than an important and honest critique of the Mad Monk’s nut zero diktats….and you might note the less than open reporting about job losses due to massive green costs in this report…you’d never know from the title what it was really about….

    ‘The choppy waters between North Sea oil and green energy revolution’

    And note the first line…

    ‘The Great Energy Transition is under way’

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg414w9xx91o

    What of that claim that gas is driving costs up? Andrew Neil notes some interesting facts that don’t seem to get in the way of a good lie at the BBC…

    https://x.com/7Kiwi/status/1916156557823189446

    https://x.com/ajcdeane/status/1916045482230419719

    You have to wonder how many emails there are flying between the BBC and the Mad Monk’s office discussing the best way to spin these lies to the public….we know it happens as they try to nudge us into believing their guff.

    As Andrew Neil says….

    ‘Those interviewing E Miliband need to better briefed so they can call him out when he spouts nonsense.
    He says fossil fuels are up 60% on the year. In fact oil and gas prices have been trending down and shown marked falls these past 12 months.
    He says we are in the grip of petro-state dictators. We get most of our gas from Norway and the USA.
    On the other hand he’s been in China pleading with them to take stakes in our solar and wind power + other green infrastructure. Not a petro-sate dictatorship. Just a dictatorship.’

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    • tomo says:

      Pug, the last paragraph in that Viking piece by Mister Fraser

      It is also reviewing its commitment to the Viking carbon capture and storage scheme being planned for Humberside, blaming “repeated delays” by the UK government.

      Participation was a price of doing business – when you’ve no business = no participation.

      Miliband is a complete moron and his department is packed with hand picked morons.

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      • JohnC says:

        A weak manager always picks people who are even worse than himself otherwise they will show him up and might even take his job away from him.

        I’ve seen it a hundred times when I worked for BAE SYSTEMS. If it starts at the top, it’s almost impossible to rectify.

        I am absolutely certain it is much, much worse in the BBC where they don’t actually have to ‘deliver’ anything at all.

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  8. tomo says:

    The Daily Mail is heading resolutely into DAGAF territory across the editorial output.

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    • Scroblene says:

      Had to look that one up, Tomo!

      Blimey, I must be getting old – I think I gave up after learning SNAFU and FUBAR…

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  9. tomo says:

    Wing Commander Vorderman is renting out her identity?

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  10. tomo says:

    BBC so rooting for Pakistan….

    I recall 1991 (I was in country involuntarily for 3 months) when they declared war on us …. albeit for 12 hours until General Aslam Beg was ejected by the Yanquis (and $audis… )

    Some farcical crashing of gears involved.

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  11. andyjsnape says:

    Israeli embassy in London was target of suspected terror plot
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8g8jlx33xo

    “The Israeli embassy in London WAS the ALLEGED target”

    “Police have not yet confirmed that the embassy in Kensington was the suspected target, as first reported by the Times, external, citing operational reasons. But the BBC understands the report is accurate” ??

    bbc understands? Police haven’t confirmed

    So is it the Israeli embassy or not??? or just speculation

       15 likes

    • moggiemoo says:

      I’d be surprised if the BBC do actually understand something.

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  12. tomo says:

    Rehabilitation sessions that near nobody watches

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    • andyjsnape says:

      I’d forgot about her resigning, the bbc doesn’t go on and on about it

      Anyway remember partygate, well who could forget it!

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  13. AsISeeIt says:

    Souvenir edition – trashing the multilateral system

    This morning’s title is borrowed from the Daily Star (the souvenir edition bit), one of three flag-waving popular tabloids that go big on VE Day and catch the attention of the sorority that is BBC news staff for their top three picks in their online print press line-up.

    It would be rude to quote Samuel Johnson “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel” and – to be precise – only two of the three tabloids, Daily Express and Daily Star, actually brandish a Union Flag on their nostalgia provoking covers. The Daily Mirror instead commemorates VE Day with a self-referential nod to vintage Mirror cartoonist: Philip Zec’s celebrated plea for May 8, 1945 – a wounded allied soldier amid the ruins of Europe handing us the peace laurel wreath: “Here you are! Don’t lose it again!”

    Beneath the thin veneer of these souvenirs there’s no such sentimental plea for peace redolent of WW2 in the editorial tone of the Guardian top headline – rather a statement of injury and righteous indignation on behalf of an islamic nation: Pakistan vows to strike back after Indian missile attacks kill dozens

    This is of course a classic formulation of that ‘putting the cart before the horse’ genre – of the type: Israeli retaliation kills dozens, in response to deadly terror attack

    Yesterday Reuters did a classic three-parter reading of the news from back to front: Pakistan vows retaliation after Indian strike over tourist deaths (By Asif Shahzad and Shivam Patel)

    Meanwhile BBC coverage – as is the case with their Middle East reporting – appears almost designed to inflame the islamic ummah…

    Pakistan says 31 people have been killed and 57 injured by air strikes in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir… Masood Azhar, chief of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), said his older sister and her husband, his nephew and his nephew’s wife, his niece and five children from his family were killed in a strike on a mosque in Bahawalpur, Pakistan… Islamabad called the strikes a “heinous act of aggression”. (BBC)

    Mind you: JeM said it carried out a bomb attack in February 2019 that killed 40 paramilitary police in Indian-administered Kashmir. (BBC)

    The liberal media message would seem to be that in the face of islamic terrorism, wherever in the world it is encountered, we ought always to turn the other cheek, bear no malice, make allowance, bury the hatchet, not look back in anger, kiss and make up, laugh it off, let bygones be bygones…

    Next you’ll read how Britain is ultimately responsible for having partitioned India.

    Meanwhile the globalist Financial Times finds a way to blame Donald Trump: After Trump’s trashing of the multilateral system, the India-Pakistan stand-off is an early test of whether the big powers can still manage to head off a calaminity (FT View)

    Iranian ‘terror plot’ targeted Israeli embassy in London (Times) – This is a rather unusual development. State-sponsored terror rarely goes for a rival’s embassy given the number of far softer targets available. I can only think of one instance that was the Sadam Hussein-backed arab terror group’s attack on the London Iran embassy, way back in 1979. I hope this isn’t some form of false flag op on the path to goading Britain into joining an all out attack on Tehran. Just saying, that’s all.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      AISI, I was surprised at that error on the Daily Mirror today. Perhaps they were so enthused about the ‘indoctrination message’ that they forgot VE Day was in 1944. The Daily Mirror may receive a big postbag from veterans who know that date is incorrect.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Kev and Mikey hit the bubbly early in the back of the Mirror 3 tonner?

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      • Up2snuff says:

        No, I got confused AISI with VJ day later in 2025. Zephir/Thoughtful would be having a good laugh if he/she was still around.

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  14. MarkyMark says:

    “The same India that buys weapons from Russia and is in BRICS 😂”

    “So the NHS will now provide healthcare for the entire Indian Continent?”


    Starmer- India trade deal.
    – Andrew Lawrence

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  15. brexiteerkent says:

    The BBC and India Vs Pakistan. I don’t care a monkey’s about this war ( apart from the fact even more of them might come here and “claim asylum” ) but it was interesting to laugh at the BBC radio 4 news at one yesterday in the car. BBC supporting thier favorite religion as usual.
    Question to Pakistani interviewee ( paraphrased ) ” please tell us how terrible it was when the Indians attacked you” ( repeated several times ). Question to Indian interviewee ” how can you justify attacking Pakistan when they are innocent” ( repeated several times ) .

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    • MarkyMark says:

      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?

      By Yohann Koshy

      https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/08/unrest-leicester-muslim-hindu-revealed-britain-modi-india-2022

      By the time night fell, fights were breaking out. A young Hindu man driving a car was attacked, his head slashed, after a false rumour spread that he had tried to run people over. The chaos spilled over into local businesses. I spoke to someone who was having dinner at about 9pm in a dosa restaurant on Belgrave Road when a young man ran inside, barefoot, looking for shelter after he’d been attacked; a couple of other men who were bleeding tried to get in, too. Terrified, the restaurant owners brought down the shutters and turned off the lights.

      The EU’s motto, “United in Diversity,” reflects the belief that the diverse cultures, traditions, and languages of Europe are a source of strength and unity. This phrase signifies the EU’s commitment to both peace and prosperity while celebrating the richness of the continent’s diversity. The EU actively promotes diversity and inclusion through initiatives like the EU Platform of Diversity Charters and by combating discrimination in all its forms.

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  16. vlad says:

    Watch this video while you can.

    Lubna, a Muslim YouTuber, had the temerity to produce videos commenting on the Pakistani community and Islam in general, in the UK and elsewhere. Her attitude was quite moderate, her intention more to heal differences while exposing what she called “a few bad apples” among her own people.

    Well, guess what? The Religionists of Peace threatened her life and she’s been forced to take down most of her content and cease her current mode of output – though it sounds like she intends to continue in a different format.

    It might be worth remembeing that the Prophet of Peace hmself theatened his critics with violence and death. Apart from slaughtering whole communities (in one instance Jews), he also had poets murdered for the crime of making fun of him and his religion of hate in their poems.
    And it’s been blood and slaughter down the centuries ever since, at all times and in all places.
    But hey, at least Starmer and the BBC love them.

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    • Foscari says:

      Lubna your very brave trying to be a moderate Muslim in the
      UK. The UK is a very dangerous place for moderate Muslims.
      Jews as a last resort can go to Israel. You could go to the Emirates.
      But whilst high profile institutions in the UK such as the BBC
      and even our government cower to fundamentalist Islam
      or even support it. I am afraid the days of moderate Muslims
      in the UK are numbered,

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    • vlad says:

      PS. If anyone would like to show support for brave Lubna, one way is to view the vid on YouTube (just click the YouTube logo) and “Like” her vid there, or leave a comment. Encouragingly, she’s receiving huge numbers of likes and supportive comments.
      People are waking up to what’s going on in our country.
      Except at the BBC, of course.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      … find this USA Army Muslim Chaplin,Khallid Shabazz on youtube …
      “The Koran says don’t let the hatred of a people move you to deal with people unjustly. The Prophet Mohammed beheaded people who were extremely unjust to him. {youtube mar2015}”
      – Army Lt. Col. Khallid Shabazz, March 2015

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      • vlad says:

        Two comments on the above vid.
        1) Muslim apologists routinely lie about the ‘nice’ side of their religion and their false prophet, so one would have to check all his assertions. (It used to be much worse but in recent times anyone can fact-check their lies on the internet. See David Wood on that subject.)
        2) It must always be remembered that there were, broadly speaking, 2 phases in Islam in the time of Mo.
        First, the relatively peaceful phase in Mecca, when followers were few and Islam was weak.
        Then, the Medina phase when Mo grew in power, in intransigence and in violence.
        Furthermore, his later, violent, exhortations to subjugate the world by the sword override his earlier peaceful pronouncements by the principle of abrogation.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      vlad, Lubna should go back to accountancy as well as move house. She is a very brave woman but no point in putting your life at risk as a Moderate muslim.

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  17. andyjsnape says:

    More offenders could be tagged, as minister insists he’s ‘not soft on crime’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7050ex1zjjo

    “not soft on crime” – but it is

    and think of all the money the government is saving, here’s a tag on your way

    “We need to keep building prison places because the population is going up.” – Immigration a consideration??? No, dont mention this

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  18. andyjsnape says:

    Trump deal is a significant achievement for Starmer
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7g3x7yej8o

    bbc promotion for this government, Significant, apparently

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    • richard D says:

      I am sure I read somewhere earlier today that this deal was the culmination of some 9 years of work by negotiators from both the UK and the US.

      Who could have predicted that TTK and his cronies would try to grab all the credit ?

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  19. BRISSLES says:

    Our country has paid a high price these past 60 years, just so we can taste a plate of Chicken Tikka and a couple of onion bhajis.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Comment “Rishi, 2 days ago 700 people arrived on boats, 700 in one day, your plan is just not working!”

      Securing our Borders | Our Plan to Stop the Boats
      – Rishi Sunak

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  20. MarkyMark says:

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  21. Flotsam says:

    Muslim parents will kill their own children if their opinion the honour of their family is at risk. Please don’t think us non Muslims have any chance.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The Prophet Muhammad kept female captives, also referred to as slave girls or concubines, in his household during the time of the Prophet’s life, and it was not considered marriage in the same way as marriage to a free woman. These captive women were typically acquired through war or offered as gifts. While some interpretations consider this a form of concubinage, others argue that it was a way of integrating captives into the Muslim community and providing them with a level of care and protection.

      …………………………………

      Rotherham child abuse scandal: 1,400 children exploited, report finds Published 26 August 2014
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089

      The inquiry team found examples of “children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone”.

      providing them with a level of care and protection.

      “children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight,

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      • vlad says:

        Call a spade a spade. They were sex slaves, ‘enjoyed’ by Mo and his army of perverts. Then as now.

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        • MarkyMark says:

          “providing them with a level of care and protection”

          War is peace
          Rape is liberty
          Islam is a religion of Peace

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  22. MarkyMark says:

    PAYING FOR THE ROPE TO HANG YOURSELF….

    “Yvette Cooper has made a lot of clearing the asylum backlog as pressure ramps up on Labour. The National Audit Office said yesterday that the cost to the taxpayer of providing asylum hotels has risen from £4.5 billion to £15.3 billion over ten years. Costs tripled to house 110,000 asylum seekers…”
    order-order.com

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    Lucy Powell – She’s the reason why instant noodles have instructions.

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  24. vlad says:

    Wars and civil wars in Pakistan, India, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, Gaza, Iraq, Iran, Congo, Turkey, Lebanon, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Sudan and Sudan…

    In our own countries: warring rival communities, invasion by dinghies, rape gangs, drug gangs, prison takeovers, endless violent demonstrations, intimidation on the streets, terror attacks, political and voting corruption, overwhelmed social services and abused benefits system…

    If only there were some common thread that would help us understand the situation, and perhaps do something about it.

    WHAT IS GOING ON?

    Help us, BBC: unleash your army of fearless investigative reporters and fact-checkers. PLEASE!

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    • Scroblene says:

      I guess we have to give them a chance, Vlad. (Fat chance).

      Let’s face it, nearly all of the Beeboid articles written, (dictated by the Sith Floor), are by kids sitting there dreaming about boys, or if they’re boys, dreaming about – er – boys), and haven’t a clue what they’re supposed to be saying!

      As JohnC always notes, their pics as ‘bylines’ or just a flim-flam on Linked-In or Bookface, show just how feeble the article presenters are, and it shows!

      The old farts mumble on as usual, and I suppose a few deaf people think they’re telling the truth, but in my case, why bother, the output is just dismal, badly written, and not believable!

      I get more protection/information from my dog – at least she shouts at every unwanted visitor!

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      • MarkyMark says:

        ‘Na my only pikin, make notin happun to am’ – how sea pirates kidnap students wey dey go write Waec exams

        https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/cvg9378krj8o

        Sea pirates don kidnap13 passengers along di Isaka waterways for Okrika local goment area of Rivers State, south-south Nigeria.

        Di incident wey happun on Tuesday 6 May, 2025 involve students wey bin dey travel to write dia West African Examinations Council (Waec) exams.

        Mama of one of di kidnap victims, Baktah Benjamin, say her son dey among di 13 passengers wey di sea pirates kidnap, wey also include seven teenage girls.

        “Dis morning my son tell me say e dey go Bille and im and odas travel. Now dem call me say my son dey among di pipo di pirates kidnap. All of dem go write Waec.

        Make goment come help us for Bille Kingdom. We no fit go our own village again? Dem kidnap dem along dis Isaka river. Dem never reach Bille or di open river bifor dem kidnap dem. Please, I dey beg goment to help rescue my son make notin happun to am. Na my only pikin,” she tok.

        Tok-tok pesin for Rivers State Police Command, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, say di Commissioner of Police don direct im tactical team and di officer in charge of Marine Police to intensify efforts to ensure di safe release of all di kidnap victims.

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      • vlad says:

        I was being sarcastic, of course. Naturally, the BBC won’t tell us what’s behind all those troubles at home and abroad; it’s their favourite religion.

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        • Scroblene says:

          Totally with you, Vlad – have no fear!

          I’m interested in how Beeboids will look at President Trump’s ‘deal’, as the Labour ‘front bench’ aren’t really ever up to speed on matters commercial, so perhaps they’re waiting for real businesses to say something.

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  25. JohnC says:

    Look how the BBC children feel the need to explain how we get black smoke or white smoke for the Pope election.

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    Note : it is not to scale. Implying everything else is 100% accurate. I wonder what the red button does.

    I’ll presume the first black smoke is on purpose to generate suspense. After all, it’s taken them five days to install the chimney. For some inexplicable reason, they got the fire-service to do it. Surely a builder would have been better.

    And no mention from the BBC of the fat idiot Lammy saying it’s racist to use black smoke.

    As I keep saying, the BBC is now shit for idiots by other idiots.

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    • vlad says:

      Glad the woke pope is dead. Now let’s see what cretin they replace him with.

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    • Scroblene says:

      You’ll have to watch ‘Conclave’ now, John!

      It is, actually, a very good film, and worth paying bugger all as it’s free at the moment, – as told by Fed2!

      (Off topic, didn’t Private Eye used to have adverts for contraceptives called Conclave, or Conguard or similar…? Aaaah those were the days, er – if you had an opportunity that is…)!

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      • BRISSLES says:

        Tom Hanks in Angels and Demons – the film gives a good background on conclave procedures too.

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        • JohnC says:

          Thanks guys : I’ll check them both.

          Scrobs: I tend to not even entertain the idea of any film after about 2010 as they are always woke. I realised it all went wrong when they changed all the academy rules so a film could not even win any awards if it didn’t check all the right boxes. Which is actually another form of Left-wing fascism.

          ‘Angles and Demons’ gets a lower score but all the latest IMDB comments are consistent and it’s 2009 so I might try that one first.

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      • Thatcherrevolutionary says:

        I turned off after 20 minutes. Good cast, but the storyline was painfully slow, and it just didn’t keep my attention.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Scrobie, good cartoon by Matt in the Daily Telegraph for tomorrow.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Seems Dave is pressuring the BBC to run this in Hebrew

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  26. MarkyMark says:

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  27. JohnC says:

    Men found guilty of violent murder of Aboriginal schoolboy
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9vzzxpdm7o

    What a shame the BBC are not nearly as concerned when black schoolboys are murdered regularly over here. It’s right on our own streets and happens much more often.

    I wonder if it’s because the people who murder them are black as well – so their deaths don’t count for anything as they can’t be used by the racist Left against whitey.

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  28. MarkyMark says:

    Bargain Hunt expert charged with terror offences
    ** note BBC missing from title.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg4180np8do
    An art dealer who appeared as an expert on the BBC’s Bargain Hunt has been charged with terror offences, the Metropolitan Police has said.

    Oghenochuko Ojiri, 53, of West London, has been charged with eight counts of “failing to make a disclosure during the course of business within the regulated sector”, following an investigation into “terrorist financing”.

    the first charge of its kind under section 21A of the Terrorism Act of 2000.</strong
    ** LEADING THE WAY. BREAKING THOSE GLASS CEILINGS.
    ……………………….

    Pay the TV license … pay for terrorism!

    https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/11/section/21A

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  29. MarkyMark says:

    “Venezuelan gangs smuggling guns into shelters using food packages.”

    …………..

    Thousands of illegal immigrants banned from Uber Eats after company starts crackdown
    By TOM COTTERILL and ELIZABETH HAIGH
    Published: 13:36, 24 February 2025

    It comes after MailOnline exposed how female Uber Eats delivery drivers were renting out their accounts for thousands of pounds to illegal immigrant men, seeking to dodge criminal record checks to work in the UK.
    …………….

    Kings of cocaine: how the Albanian mafia seized control of the UK drugs trade
    This article is more than 6 years old
    ‘They’re sophisticated, clever – and they always deliver’: from the ports of Europe to the streets of London, one criminal network is now at the top of the UK’s £5bn trade

    ………………

    In October, police stormed a caravan site near Bristol where dozens of undocumented workers had been living while working for delivery firms.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14429913/thousands-illegal-immigrants-banned-uber.html

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  30. andyjsnape says:

    Bargain Hunt expert charged with terror offences
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg4180np8do

    A bbc expert 🙂
    Horrible when the bbc gets egg on its face, not!

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  31. andyjsnape says:

    Waiting for a new pope and releasing all this black smoke into the air doesn’t seem very green.

    Surely polluting the environment is something the likes of the bbc normally frown upon

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  32. MarkyMark says:

    It’s not cricket … “The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has said in a statement that a cricket match set to be held tonight at the Rawalpindi cricket stadium has been rescheduled.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cwyneele13qt

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Sarah Champion quits Labour front bench over rape article
      Published 17 August 2017
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40952224

      Labour shadow minister Sarah Champion has quit the party’s front bench after criticism over a newspaper article she wrote about grooming gangs.

      The Rotherham MP wrote in the Sun on Friday that “Britain has a problem with British Pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls”.

      She has now apologised for her “extremely poor choice of words” and quit as shadow equalities minister.

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  33. MarkyMark says:

    “I hate the soft language of “grooming gangs” as if a group of barbers were wandering around town and giving short back and sides.”

    Grooming gangs: GB News exposé REVEALS the true scale of rape gang networks in ‘WIDESPREAD crisis’

    Grooming – take your dog to the groomer.
    Rape – take you kid to a tolerant society.

    ……………………

    The Rape Gang Inquiry
    by Rupert Lowe in London, Greater London, United Kingdom
    https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-rape-gang-inquiry-1

    …………………..

    Sammy Woodhouse: Rotherham ‘rapist offered role in child’s life’
    Published
    28 November 2018

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-46368991

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    • vlad says:

      Well done GB News. If Starmer won’t tell us, someone’s gotta!

      But you could have saved yourselves trouble with a bucket of red paint, a big fat roller, and painted the whole f’ing country red.

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  34. Eddy Booth says:

    David Attenborough
    “Since 1954 the legendary documentary maker has been working with the BBC on some of the biggest and best-known natural history series on television.
    To mark more than 70 years in broadcasting, BBC History and BBC Archives have teamed up to celebrate his life in filmmaking.”

    https://canvas-story.bbcrewind.co.uk/attenborough70/

    Instead of hogging a job for seven decades, how about the rich old fart retiring and letting a youngster earn some cash?

    BBC apparatchik cog for decades..
    What did they know about Saville?
    Is my initial thought.

    https://archive.ph/HTfDy
    23 January 2016
    ‘Since his period as an administrator overlapped with Jimmy Savile’s BBC presenting career, it is natural to wonder whether any of what happened was on his radar. In recent days, a leaked draft of a report into sexual abuse by the disgraced broadcaster condemned the BBC for its “deferential culture” and “untouchable stars”.
    Sir David says of himself at the time: “Inevitably on the Savile question you are talking about pop culture, which you know nothing about. You’re a middle-aged, middle-class man and you know nothing about [it]. Should I have thought about molesting and one thing and another? It wasn’t a question that even occurred to me.” ‘

    But we’re meant to believe he’s suddenly clued up enough to lecture us on global warming..

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  35. Sluff says:

    I am appalled, appaled I tell you, at the BBC fixation with black smoke coming out of the chimney of the Sistine Chapel.
    All that CO2. All that pollution. All those particulates.
    Surely this activity should be banned. Don’t they know there is a climate crisis? How many children will die from asthma attacks? How many coastal villages will disappear under the waves as the sea rises?

    Surely the Vatican should be taking a lead. The BBC urgently need to hear from Justin Rowlatt and Ed Milliband.

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  36. Sluff says:

    Did you love the story today that Scottish wind farms are switching off and literally throwing energy down the drain because they cannot get it to the people that need it!!!!!!
    The cost of new cabling for this ‘ low cost’ electricity is ….errr…. £600 million. Of taxpayers money, of course.

       18 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      “Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said the project would take the UK closer to meeting its offshore wind targets.”
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8v5z5rpvlo
      …………
      ….grid operators may pay wind farms to switch off their turbines when there’s excess generation but not enough network capacity to transport the power.

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  37. Eddy Booth says:

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  38. Ian Rushlow says:

    US and Indian trade deals: Infinity Indians and Hormonal American Beef, what a great victory for the British people thanks to Our Keir!

       6 likes

  39. MarkyMark says:

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  40. tomo says:

    Oh yeah…

       11 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Police chief ‘told not to reveal Rudakubana’s faith’
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8d491mqqq5o

      In reality, he was born in Cardiff in 2006 to Rwandan parents who were Christian before the family eventually moved to Banks in Lancashire, where Rudakubana lived when he carried out the attacks.

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  41. Fedup2 says:

    VE Day – WHITE SMOKE

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  42. BRISSLES says:

    Another of the BBC diversity signings has disgraced himself.

    Ochuko Ojirii – yes you’ve all heard of him – for many years an “expert” on Bargain Hunt has been charged with terror offences .of terrorist financing.

    You couldn’t make it up .

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  43. Sluff says:

    Culture is ‘the way we do things round here’.

    It doesn’t mean those ways are fair, or optimum, or scientific, or logical. It’s the agglomeration of years and years of rituals, rules, mores, values etc.

    In the Vatican City at the time of writing, white smoke has been coming out of a chimney. Tens of thousands cheer. It’s the way they do things round there. Habemus papam.

    What a shame our recent useless UK governments have no understanding of this. They think that unfettered mass immigration is inherently good. Multiculturalism they call it. And what are the advantages? Expense. Crime. Chaos. The disintegration of the British culture developed over centuries.

    Many voters understand this. They might not understand the theory or have studied it. But they just know. Their adaptive unconscious tells them. They voted Reform.

    Meanwhile the BBC, stuck in their own woke-world denial, have no understanding. Clive Myrie seemed surprised and disapproving that the new Pope will be a man!!! ‘The new man. And it is a man’ he exclaimed.

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    • G.W.F. says:

      BBC hoping for a ‘progressive’ Pope – climate change, migrants, and dealing with nationalism

         9 likes

  44. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    We’ve had a Pope John Paul.
    This new one should choose his new name as Pope George Ringo.

       14 likes

  45. G.W.F. says:

    Pope Leo the Lion.

       4 likes

    • Northern Voter says:

      And still the biased bastards bring up Donald Trump when they mention the fact he’s a yank, and would the new pope bring America back into the global fold. Absolute prats!

         17 likes

  46. Thatcherrevolutionary says:

    Myrie live at the Vatican, just after US pope announced – ‘I have to ask, is this anything to do with Donald Trump?’

       11 likes

  47. Northern Voter says:

    He’s an Italian from Chicago, has he anything to do with Al Capone? Why not ask that Mirie?

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  48. vlad says:

    The previous one was woke and ‘progressive’, let’s see what the new bloke’s like.
    Probably more of the same, with a radical liberal agenda.
    Definitely not a conservative or traditionalist.
    Possibly chosen to oppose Trump more effectively.
    And all the rainbow stuff too.
    Chicago’s the same cesspit that produced O’Bama.
    Oh Bummer.

       16 likes

  49. Scroblene says:

    What colour smoke do we get when they eventually decide who the next Arch Bish of Canterbastard is?

    They’re taking their time, but there’s plenty of CofE cash to splash out in the meantime, so I won’t wait up…

    Useless asking the Beeboids, because Christianity doesn’t really figure with that lot any more, they prefer foreigners in charge…

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