173 Responses to Midweek 16th July 2025

  1. MarkyMark says:

    “The war in Ukraine has cost the continent of Africa 7 billion.” What the f**k? Cost them or the tax payer?

    “Government spend is like an accordion. Development at one end and soft power. Between diplomacy. And hard power. Cold war spending was at 7%.”

    International Development Committee
    Wednesday 16 July 2025 Meeting started at 10.00am, ended 12.08pm
    https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/837797e1-e7e7-4629-a6c3-c929a69ab0f4?in=10:03:47


    Witness(es): Rt Hon David Lammy MP, Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office; Nick Dyer, Second Permanent Under-Secretary, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office”

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  2. MarkyMark says:

    Palestine government say they will take in all the London Pro Palestine protesters as UK gov release list of those protesting for Palestine in London. Hamas say “After seeing uk treatment of Lucy Connelly, they worry about reprisals.”

    https://www.newarab.com/news/who-uks-new-pro-palestine-justice-minister

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  3. Fedup2 says:

    The lovely Emma chippy Watson( 35?) has been banned from driving because she was dumb enough to ‘speed ‘ in constabularies where they raise revenue doing people for doing 38 in a 30 …..not sure I’ve ever driven that slow

    – anyway ms Watson ‘legal team ‘ blamed the JKR ( or maybe JFK) – for causation because if JKR hadn’t written those books ms chippy wouldn’t be a millionaire aging actress now ….

    Declaration – never read a JKR book nor seen the films …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The Arresto Momentum spell in the Harry Potter universe is a charm used to slow down the velocity of a moving object or person.

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  4. StewGreen says:

    Great interview by the @CorbettReport of Talkshop contributor Ray Sanders about his work reviewing the quality of the UK MET-Office temperature measurement station network.

    podcast : “Who is Ray Sanders, and why is the UK Met Office scared of him?
    Today, Ray Sanders demonstrates how to raise awareness about anti-scientific shenanigans in government agencies and shows what ordinary people can do to bring about real change.”
    https://corbettreport.com/the-met-office-is-scared-of-ray-sanders/

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  5. MarkyMark says:

    In some German supermarkets they have implemented this system to open the refrigerators. #memes

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  6. Fedup2 says:

    Stew was it the ‘best interview since records began ‘?

    The state of the weather reminds me of the fixation they had in the Middle Ages where some ‘event ‘ could be blamed of sinning or similar ….
    It’s frightening that they profess certainty about the causes of ‘weather ‘ when it is a far too complex creature for all those crap models they used…

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  7. MarkyMark says:

    Another Inquiry ! More !More! Free biscuits and wifi!

    Reform Calls for Statutory Inquiry Into Secret Afghanistan Scheme
    https://order-order.com/2025/07/16/reform-calls-for-statutory-inquiry-into-secret-afghanistan-scheme/

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    Comment “They went from ‘Release the Files’ to ‘Protect the Philes'”
    Comment “FFS, Trump himself kept talking about it FOR YEARS !!!!!
    His hypocrisy is so insulting.”

    It’s never coming out..

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  9. MarkyMark says:

    Comment “Literally imported a foreign army….”

    Afghan super-injunction sh*tshow…

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  10. Up2snuff says:

    TWatOW Watch #1 – the Labour Party trying to blame the Tories for the Afghan Scandal …..

    … assisted by the BBC. The Chair of some House Committee was allowed to rabbit away by the Montacutie; unusually he was a male. Needless to say this is going to cost the taxpayer. Rachel from Accounts is facing an ever deeper black hole. Already the ambulance chasing lawyers are trying to make claims for damages in Court. 🙁 Needless to say the Labour Party have been in Government for a year and should have dealt with this much sooner. Hopefully, some Civil Service heads will roll for this and have their pensions taken away!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Civil Service heads will roll for this and have their pensions taken away” pension and join an NGO!

      …………..
      Amber Rudd
      Non-Executive Director
      Amber joined the Board on 10 January 2022 and is a member of the Remuneration Committee and the Safety, Environment and Sustainability Committee.
      https://www.centrica.com/who-we-are/leadership/amber-rudd/

      External Appointments:
      Non-Executive Director of Ryanair Holdings plc and Pinwheel, advisor to businesses including Equinor, FGS and Centerview Partners, and is a Trustee of RUSI.

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  11. pugnazious says:

    If you didn’t think the government getting the superinjunction lifted and the information released was political then you’re missing something…Labour’s defence secretary this morning demanding that the media ‘hold the last government to account…both Ben Wallace and in particular Grant Shapps’ and then we have the PM…

    ‘Serious questions for Tories over Afghan data breach – PM’

    The BBC has a timeline of ‘key events’….but what’s missing is this….

    ‘While immigration is one of the most potent political topics, MPs have been deliberately kept in the dark about the Mail’s discovery of the Afghan data blunder – and the decision to devote billions of public money to fixing it by bringing in thousands of Afghans.
    The overall projected cost of £7billion was signed off by Chancellor Rachel Reeves and other senior Cabinet ministers at a Whitehall meeting on October 7 last year, according to official papers shown to the High Court. ‘

    Way way down the page we get this…a judge lifted the superinjunction in may 2024….appealed successfully by Sunak but also kept in place by Labour….

    ‘Labour ministers are also facing questions over why the super-injunction was kept in place.’

    Why is that buried way way down the page where few will read it and instead just note the BBC’s loaded headline? The BBC’s second biggest headline.

    The BBC doing its best to downplay Labour’s part in this and the true cost of importing thousands of Afghans…many, many of them who are not entitled to claim any sort of asylum…..and that of course is just the monetary cost…the social and cultural cost is possibly more damaging long term.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98w2e9leywo

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  12. MarkyMark says:

    Navy are showing cool videos of protecting other countries borders, as our kings says borders do not exist….

    Carrier Strike Group – heading Down Under

    heading Down Under – not to the channel
    heading Down Under – not to the channel

    HMS Prince of Wales operations while in transit from Singapore to Australia ahead of multi-national exercise Talisman Sabre 2025.

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  13. vlad says:

    The Muslim Council of Britain and other islamic groups are censoring, silencing and intimidating honest reporting by the media. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to even report terror attacks.
    The BBC, Starmer and mayor Khunt are all too willing to acquiesce.

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  14. wwfc says:

    three stories on the front page of my local paper and its like this ever day

    Two jailed for 15 years after shots fired in a Birmingham supermarket

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    https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2025/07/16/two-jailed-for-15-years-after-shots-fired-in-a-birmingham-supermarket/

    Fake medical practitioner jailed for causing harm during illegal circumcisions in the West Midlands
    Mohammed Alazawi, aged 54, from Essex, carried out a number of illegal male circumcisions between October 2016 and January 2022 on baby boys and older male children.
    https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2025/07/16/fake-medical-practitioner-jailed-for-causing-harm-during-illegal-circumcisions-in-the-west-midlands/

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    Birmingham driver who killed mother and daughter on Boxing Day was ‘racing’ at up to 84mph

    Mohammed Ibrahim, 25, fled the scene after his BMW 420 – travelling “in convoy” with a BMW X3 – crashed into a quad bike and then hit an MG car containing four generations of the same family
    https://www.expressandstar.com/uk-news/2025/07/16/birmingham-driver-who-killed-mother-and-daughter-on-boxing-day-was-racing-at-up-to-84mph/

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    The mother and daughter

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  15. BRISSLES says:

    Queuing in a very large Tesco today – only 2 manned tills were open and the inevitable long queues ensued – (no one wanted to use self service with piled high trollies)….I fell into conversation with the chap in front, and we tut tutted about the state of the shop, which soon turned into the state of the country. I said there’ll be rioting on the streets before long to which he replied “I can’t wait”. Feeling by now he knew me well enough (!) he enthused on his hatred for Starmer and all things migrant until we reached the conveor belt.

    This shows how we all feel as “one” – complete strangers depressed, frustrated and sick to the teeth of the state of this country and only civil unrest will show those in government the depth of feeling.

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    • digg says:

      You are 100% on target Brissles. The depth of disdain that this Labour Government has for its own indigenous people is both a disgrace and dangerous. They are acting as if they are a mini version of the UN.

      I think having someone from a legal background in charge has been a total disaster.

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    • Scroblene says:

      Had you looked across at a small village in Kent, Brissles, you may have seen a column of steam like an Australian geyser, coming from a lovely neighbour, who was just boiling with disgust at this dreadful government and all its failings with illegals, taxation etc!

      And all I asked her right at the beginning was, ‘Emma, do you like David Gilmour’s music’…?

      (‘Live in Gdansk’ gets played most days – sorry, but, for the higher-brows, the finale from Andre Chenier just sends me off into the clouds, somewhere Emma’s steam has finished up…).

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Why queue when you can just grab what you want and walk out?
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  16. BRISSLES says:

    I see many articles are proclaiming how we should be assisting the “helping” Afghans resettle here. Well, we were helped by the French Resistance during WW2, so how many French and their families did we help to assimilate here back then ??

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Ive decided to take up shop lifting . Sainsburys treats me like one so i might as well go for the high value option ….

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      • Scroblene says:

        Fed, be my guest, we may end up in the same Cat! Nick, with Lucy ConnollyI

        I have to confess that I didn’t scan two carrots I bought at Tesco the other day – completely forgot!

        I believe that a Mr Cohen has left a message on the electric telephone recording contraption…

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        • BRISSLES says:

          Cohen ? Cohen? He died back in the mists of time when Betamax, floppy discs and Sony Walkmans were the entertainment’s of choice – are you walking around with Mr Sheen in hand keeping them polished Scrobs ?

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          • Scroblene says:

            There’s absolutely no truth in the rumours about Mr Sheen and me., Brissles…

            I bet Marky Mark will be able to tell us what eventually happened to Jack Cohen’s daughter!

            Wish she was around here now, London would be a much better place!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Owen jones says all the Afghan tea boys are welcome!

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  17. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    About this Afghanistan cover up.

    Why doesn’t somebody come on the tv and say “Lessons will be learned” so that we can immediately forget about it all (and move on to the next disaster)

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  18. digg says:

    Well.. another lynch mob celebrity sacking….

    We have apparently now reached the point where a “claim” by an unnamed individual of a racial slur is enough to have a public broadcaster go into stage 10 panic and throw someone overboard, allegedly without even bothering to tell them to their face.

    This is not the right thing to do in any World in my opinion it’s plain cowardice!

    Everyone deserves a hearing but it seems like certain allegations are too hot to handle with open discussion and must be handled with instantaneous knee-jerk panic-stricken virtue signalling.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Unless it is a new ‘tier’, excusing just those who have the god of woke on their side, it does not sound legal.

      Or a great precedent.

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      • Scroblene says:

        It’s the Beeboid’s instructions to deflect the lumpen TV tax-payers from TTK’s utter failures as a leader, a ‘minister – of sorts’, and his inability to exhibit any personality of attraction, except utter uselessness.

        Useless Eustace used to be a cartoon character in the red top rags years ago – not a bad moniker for someone so awful at his ‘job’.

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  19. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    I see inflation is admitted to be up at 3.6
    Of course, as it’s gone up it’s nothing to do with Two Tear Rachel.
    Its always other reasons when it goes up, it’s only her when it goes down.

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    • Scroblene says:

      I’ve certainly noticed the hike in shopping prices recently – everything seems to be rounded up to the nearest five pence nowadays!

      Remember when a shilling (5p) increase meant that sod all was bought back then…

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    • non-licence payer says:

      I think that you are referring to Paula in accounts. Paula in honour of another halfwit who ran the Post Office.

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    • Pete says:

      Inflation going up is inevitably and all down to our out of their depth TTK and hopeless Reeves.
      If you put NI up for employers which is costing businesses in the UK millions, they gotta get that money back somewhere and stop employing people or go bust of course,
      But don’t worry, this Government is all about growth! Ha, Never going to happen. Only thing thats going up in the Uk is the size of the invading army.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Goes down due to Rishi Sunak!
      Goes up due to world economics!

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  20. StewGreen says:

    Court news on local ITV newsPR
    The Sheffield school stabber says he was suffering from racially motivated bullying
    Since his dead victim is white, that sounds like he is not British
    The theory is that he is Albanian

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  21. StewGreen says:

    When I switched on ITV+! on my neighbours TV
    a message came up
    saying “THis channelis being monitored for BARB statistics, click to opt out”
    My neighbour says he has never had this n=message before
    It’s just a normal internet connected JVC TV

    Spot some people tweeting about this
    One confirms it was the exact same channel

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  22. Richard Pinder says:

    (1) Question for ChatGPT: How many DSMA-Notices are being used by the British Government to hide their crimes?
    *
    Edited answer from ChatGPT: As of recent reports, five standing DSMA-Notices are known, but exact numbers are rarely published. There is no publicly available evidence proving that DSMA-Notices are used systematically to cover up criminal activity by the British state. However critics argue that the system can be used to suppress embarrassing or politically sensitive information. (like the death of Prince Philip by vaccine induced heart disease, and the Queen by vaccine induced cancer)

    (2) Question for ChatGPT: How many superinjunctions are being used by the British government to hide their crimes?
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    Edited answer from ChatGPT: The exact number of superinjunctions currently in place in the UK is not publicly available, and by their nature, superinjunctions are designed to prevent both the publication of certain information and the existence of the injunction itself.

    (3) Question for ChatGPT: How many secret courts are being used by the British government to hide their crimes?
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    Edited answer from ChatGPT: Five. 1. Closed Material Proceedings (CMPs) – under the Justice and Security Act 2013. To hide torture allegations involving MI6/MI5 or GCHQ activities, allowing the government to avoid accountability in cases involving potential torture, rendition, or complicity in human rights abuses. 2. Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC). To hide national security risks from immigrants accused of links to terrorism. 3. Family Courts. To hide court proceedings from the public after a child has been put into the ‘care’ of the state. 4. Military Courts and Courts Martial. To hide treason by senior military officers and the court. 5. Intelligence and Surveillance Tribunal (Investigatory Powers Tribunal, or IPT). To hide the crimes and complaints against UK intelligence services MI5, MI6 & GCHQ, by using ‘national security’ as an excuse to hide the crimes.

    (4) Question for ChatGPT: How often is ‘national security’ being used as an excuse by the British government to hide their crimes?
    *
    Edited answer from ChatGPT: The use of “national security” as a justification for secrecy by the British government is a real and complex issue, and while it’s legally codified, it has also been criticised as a cover for misconduct or political embarrassment in some high-profile cases. Several well-documented examples suggest the government has used or tried to use national security as a shield against accountability. MI5 was implicated in knowing about torture by the CIA. The UK tried to suppress key evidence, citing national security, the courts rejected this, and the evidence was released. The UK government used ‘national security’ to justify mass interception programs. After exposure, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal found some activities unlawful. National security has been used to delay or prevent accountability in cases of torture, rendition, surveillance, and complicity with foreign powers. Courts and media have sometimes forced transparency, but only after years of litigation. Liberty, Reprieve and Privacy International have long argued that “national security” is overused to protect the government from embarrassment, rather than actual threats.

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  23. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Looking on the bright side.

    There’s so many immigrants that don’t speak English.
    We are getting tens of thousands of interpreters in so there’s one problem seemingly being sorted.

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  24. harry142857 says:

    I haven’t seen much in the national press, but the five year ban on Pakistan International Airways being barred from landing in the UK has been lifted today, after their pilots were flying on forged licences and crashed a plane killing 97.
    Any application would heed to be vetted and approved.
    Apparently they have improved safety procedures, so that’s all right then.

    What could possibly go wrong???

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  25. popeye says:

    The BBC reports that major failings by Prevent allowed the Southport murders and the killing of David Amess.

    Maybe if Prevent concentrated on the real danger, Muslim extremism, rather than the mythical “far-right” they may actually achieve something.

    It would not surprise me if that schoolgirl who wore the Union Flag dress has been referred by lefty teachers

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    • MarkyMark says:

      What is Prevent?

      “They wanted to put up posters saying the law teachers us right from wrong. I had to say that it wasn’t that long ago that the law said it was illegal to be gay. The law is not about morality, but is thew outcome of debates. ” (c) Woman in Hijab who believes in a man who slept with 6 year old and killed the jews in Medina.

      ………………………….

      Comment “Can you f***ing IMAGINE if those teachers had said the same thing to an immigrant child… Every one of them would be sacked on the spot.”

      You Don’t HAVE a Culture…”Daniel Boland”

      Comment “It’s teaching young British kids that their culture is a bad culture, in their own country.🤦‍♂️”

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  26. Up2snuff says:

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1- The Guardian takes the extremism seriously?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ygzxge630o Seventh down from the top is the Guardian. Top left is British Guyanese businesswoman who tried and succeeded in disrupting Brexit. I wonder if Gina Miller is refering to the PM’s and his Party’s desire to take us back into the EU. “Our country is is at a particular traumatic time in history”. You would know, Gina, as you caused some trauma in the past!

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    Culture…..

    “Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.[To Hindu priests complaining to him about the prohibition of Sati religious funeral practice of burning widows alive on her husband’s funeral pyre.]”
    ― Charles James Napier
    https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/809652-be-it-so-this-burning-of-widows-is-your-custom

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  28. Pete says:

    Yet another route opens up into the Uk then, they can just ask whoever sorted those forged pilots licences to transfer over to the forged passport desk.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Amir Ali Majid’s 20 years of cases and immigration cases need ”

      “20 years of cases”

      Why do we think this is new?

      2017 … Disability TRUMPS Ability. Now all Amir Ali Majid’s 20 years of cases and immigration cases need to be reviewed … Blind immigration judge ‘had no idea of the law or his own powers’ says panel after 12 out of 13 appeals against his rulings succeed

      “Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association chairman Adrien Berry said: ‘It is hard to see how he first passed the judicial exams and then why it has taken so long for his lack of knowledge to be exposed.”

      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4939586/Britain-s-second-blind-judge-no-idea-law.html#ixzz4uLDYRfTQ

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