Midweek 6th August 2025

The latest BBC scandal – top presenter charged with Rape x2…… “

we’ve long had free speech in this country – but this is where it ends … “

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  1. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      72 Trans women? HA HA HAAH! With a mother in Law as well!

      …………………………..

      “~Aside from anything else, I wonder if the western world is not simply too bonkers to survive. The picture above turned up in my inbox yesterday and I assumed it was just Mark Carney welcoming Keir Starmer to the G7 summit. But apparently it was the PM marching a couple of days ago in the Vancouver Pride Parade, and greeting the Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia in this season’s court dress. If you thought “Didn’t Pride Month end a couple of weeks ago?”, well, Canada doesn’t observe Pride Month – that’s just some mealy-mouthed, totally homophobic Yank thing: Canada has Pride Season, which runs from June to September, which contemptibly grudging concession will have to do until Pride Year comes along.” Mark Steyn
      https://www.steynonline.com/15505/cheek-by-jowl
      CLick Image for Carnage…https://www.steynonline.com/pics/large/9638.jpg

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “The devil will place his index finger into the anus of a newborn boy making him a homesexual and into the vagina of a newborn female making her a whore.”
      https://x.com/ArasUniverse/status/1950401210743476522
      source: https://www.steynonline.com/15505/cheek-by-jowl

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    • vlad says:

      The entire religion is obsessed with sex. Ask Rotherham.
      It was founded by a sex maniac, for sex maniacs.

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  2. tomo says:

    Meteorite required

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  3. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      DIE by EDI or celebrate EID.

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      • Scroblene says:

        Sounds like a need for a few more IUDs where unsuitable persons are getting jobs where they’re not that good, but didn’t Ian Smith declare UDI to try and Keep Rhodesia prosperous, IE, not what it is nowadays?

        My ID is written all over my driving licence, the ‘E’ bit escapes me at the moment, but it certainly ain’t ‘equitable’ with the cost of car insurance rocketing, to cover the illiterate idiocy of the yobs who tear through my village in their little red CDi’s…

        I think I need an OBE – has TTK got any to spare…?

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        • moggiemoo says:

          Last year my car insurance was over £600, this year I’m being quoted under £300. Have I missed something?

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      • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

        Beware the IDEs of (the Long) March.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Maybe obama / biden can have the SEN DEI section of the secret service ..

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  4. MarkyMark says:

    “In my day, Warwickshire Constabulary were certainly Brit Wanker Coppers, but they did not regard their priority as lying to the public in support of the Official Narrative. So:

    1) The Government imports sex predators every night of the week, and then settles them at public expense deep in the interior – overwhelmingly in England, but with enough in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales to underline that there’s nowhere to hide;

    2) If you’re the parents of a twelve-year-old girl seeking to assess the likelihood of your daughter being able to walk to the shop to buy a Mars Bar and return home in one piece, the corrupt and evil police will deny you the knowledge to make that assessment.

    I mean, it’s not as if this isn’t happening every single day now:

    Migrant ‘tried to kidnap a little girl, 10,’ while living in 3-star taxpayer-funded asylum hotel in leafy suburb

    This would be one Edris Abdelrazig, formerly of Sudan, now of “leafy Manchester suburb Wilmslow”. Aside from his eye for a comely ten-year-old, does Mr Abdelrazig have any other skill-set that would make his presence vital to a developed nation?

    We all know the answer to that. So apply the Neil Oliver rule:

    This is happening because the people in charge want it to happen.

    https://www.steynonline.com/15503/keeping-it-simple

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Not exactly BBC – but I am vexed by the sounds coming out of the Marxists versus the inconvenient truth .

      For instance – estimates of a 40 to 50 billion black hole come the next budget .

      But TTK says his priority to improve the lives of ‘working people ‘ – surely – whatever your political beliefs this just doesn’t add up .

      I heard a phrase was something like the economy being in a death spiral – with employers – companies – putting of plans to expand – invest – employ because of the coming October budget – on top of reductions in jobs because of the NI increases …

      Add to this the choir demanding that the two kid benefit limit be removed – which I heard will add an extra £3.5 billion to thr treasury bill .. as they say WTF ..

      It’s likely – also that central taxes will be transferred to thr ‘community tax’ . How is that going to improve the lives of working people ..? How will reducing further any disposable income to pay for the 2026/7 community charge make people better off ?
      Will they do some sort of means testing so that the usual feckless get a free ride courtesy of ‘hard working families’? I don’t know ….

      Im not writing this from a party political standpoint although I am far right – probably a republican in belief if in the US . And I recognise the instant stigma attached to the term . But no British political party is anywhere near me .. it’s going to take a major upheaval – perhaps an unforseeable ‘black swan ‘ event to change things … at least the clock is ticking …

      Views greatly received …

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      • Scroblene says:

        If, as you say, it’s likely that the tax will be shifted to the regions, the counties and the town councils, it’ll be so much easier for the lefties in these places to use the sort of people who ‘work’ there, to kow tow to central government, and keep the socialist/communist bunkum alive and kicking, with very little stigma attached to Mohammed Street.

        TTK is very likely to do what he did this year, and keep re-arranging the boundaries, thereby fiddling the membership and voters who want Reform, so in the next four years, we’ll see more and more being piled on the budgets of the leftier councils and also the others, like the LDs.

        Chuck the TV tax in the mix for good measure, and TTK, Crayons, Thievery etc will all just sit back and let the feeble councils take all the flak.

        Nigel really does have to plan how to start unwinding this scenario, but I reckon he’s already started…

        …I hope…

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  5. vlad says:

    The Religion of Peace, Misogyny and Murder threatens one of their own with death for pointing out that it’s not the Relgion of Peace.
    She refuses to be cowed, having more balls than the entire Government, the BBC and the Police put together.

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  6. Sluff says:

    Gordon Brown, a useful idiot of the Far Left, pleads child poverty and wants Rachel from Accounts to abandon the 2 child limit on child benefit.
    Now according to the AI summary on Google, Muslim families have more children than indigenous white families. They will therefore benefit disproportionately from such a policy.
    Does not the Equality Act 2010 oblige the government to ensure policies are not unequal in practice.
    Since abandoning the 2 child policy will therefore unequally benefit families by ethnicity and religion, may I presume the government will prosecute itself ?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Sluff – funny how socialism breeds the likes of brown and
      Kinnock whose insane ideology leaves financial reality behind .

      Maybe the coming budget will be the IMF moment – with the greedy public sector grinding the UK to an even bigger mess than it already is – with border force going on strike and the traitorous RNLI running out of donations ….

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  7. tomo says:

    I suppose she could’ve gone to Serco?

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    • tomo says:

      The hypocrisy is strong with this lady.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        What happened here?
        “‘Ants are everywhere’: Labour MP’s tenants reveal condition of flats”
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyg1j0lv1go

        On top of the black mould, the BBC saw evidence of ant infestations in a number of the seven properties.

        In 2018, Mr Athwal – who led Redbridge Council from 2014 until he became an MP last month – shared an article about a local landlord being fined by the council, writing, external: “Rogue landlords, we are coming for you.”

        HA HA HA”Rogue landlords, we are coming for you.”
        HA HAH AH “Rogue landlords, we are coming for you.”

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      • Sluff says:

        Can you imagine the wall-to-wall apocalyptic outcry from the BBC if this had been a Tory, or Reform?
        They would have been up and down the story like a ferret stuck in a bicycle pump for days on end.
        Instead this classic leftwing hypocrisy appears as the last story on the BBC webshite.
        Better keep it quiet.
        Move on, nothing to see here.

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  8. tomo says:

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  9. Fedup2 says:

    BBC news has a porn addiction – one minute it is Gaza – next it is Ukraine – today it’s Ukraine – back to silence on the invasion ….as usual …. But unusually no mention of any more scandals –
    Wonder what the viewing figures were for that cooking programme with two ‘monsters ‘( yawn ) presenting ….- actually – could care less …

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    • digg says:

      When things didn’t go quite as the expected, primitive tribes would toss a few sacrificial people off a cliff or onto a bonfire to appease the gods which is rather like what’s happens right now! The gods being the professional perpetually aggrieved.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Digg – if you are referring to ‘MasterChef ‘ I understand the bbc cooked the viewing figures down to 2.7nmillion from the normal 4 million ?

        Im sure at the beginning of the programme there’d be one of those long warnings they do about characterising thr culture of the time (2024) and if anyone is affected by the issues covered there’d be a hotline –
        I understand that any humour was edited out along with any banter of words used by Greg and the n word one …

        I suppose masterchef is another top gear – a ‘successful ‘ bbc show thrown to the dogs of woke ….

        Never seen masterchef and could barely watch the original top gear …

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  10. AsISeeIt says:

    Usual cascade of overshares edition

    Our friend StewGreen may be allergic to a daily press review but hypochondria is alive and well at the Guardian this morning…

    Cat Cohen From health crisis to comic triumph at Edinburgh… In a beautifully constructed hour, we’re led from Cohen’s experience of suffering her stroke, via flashbacks to her “migraines with a visual aura” in childhood, to her stint in hospital (“honey, we’re gonna need a gayer nurse!”). With Frazer Hadfield on piano, an array of songs (about her need for “complete control”; about the many foibles for which a stroke might be divine punishment) suggest how Cohen is processing this event emotionally… Cohen conceals precisely nothing of her attention-seeking inner life… in her usual cascade of overshares (Brian Logan, Guardian)

    Study finds genes that could raise risk of ME… a mysterious and debilitating illness that has been negleted and dismissed for decades by many in the medical community – more from our “medical community” later – but this Guardian article in the form of a sick note comes care of the wonderfully apropriately named Ian Sample.

    Why I’m injecting my 13-year-old daughter with fat jabs (Daily Mail female magazine)

    Medical Community?

    Cosmetic cowboys crackdown… Tough laws to stamp out dodgy surgery in UK (Mirror)

    Medicant migrants seek a better life

    I’m a doctor, get me out of here! One in eight (12%) considering moving abroad to work… Rush to leave. Many see a brighter future abroad where they will be treated better (giveaway Metro)

    Seems we really will soon have an International Health Service. Any of our docs taking up a job with the Gaza Health Ministry, about which we hear so much?

    Our press are keen proponents of the female celebrity angst interview – one of the chaps steps up this morning: Richard Osman ‘My dad left and my food addiction began’ (i paper)

    That same organ one likes to term the poundshop junior Guardian (‘Still only £1’) goes all jokey blokey Daily Star with this one: How giant rats conquered Britain (i paper)

    Has the quid-pro-Starmer paper suddenly turned against Labour, we wonder?

    Labour’s minister for homelessness ejects her tenants – and hikes rent… Rushanara Ali (i paper) – will our Sir Keir have to evict our Ms Ali from her ministerial post? – will it be sayonara for Rushanara?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Talking of big rats – the mail is still looking at the ‘Pakistani millionaire ‘ who lost it in first class on a virgin long hall … the unanswered question is ‘where did his millions come from ‘? Some might say running a ‘commodity import business ‘ from Pakistan … he got 15 months for disgraceful words and conduct but deserved much more … perhaps a £1 million fine and deportation ….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24958/rushanara_ali/bethnal_green_and_stepney/register

      Land and property (within or outside the UK)
      Residential in London
      Start Date: 2020-09-07
      Location: London
      Property Owner Details: Co-owned with a family member
      Number Of Properties: 1
      Country: United Kingdom
      Property Type: Residential
      Registration Date: 2021-04-29
      Published Date: 2023-12-24
      Residential in London
      Is Sole Owner: 1
      Location: London
      Registrable Rental Income: 1
      Number Of Properties: 2
      Country: United Kingdom
      Property Type: Residential
      Registration Date: 2014-09-16
      Published Date: 2023-12-24

      Chair of Trustees of UpRising Leadership, a registered charity providing UK-wide youth leadership development, mentoring and employability opportunities to young people from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds. This is an unpaid role.

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  11. Guest Who says:

    The bbc has solved the countryside.

    https://x.com/bbcsurrey/status/1953322785620517299?s=61
    Figures show a record number of farms are closing, but can diversification help save British farmers?

    As ever, attracting record audiences

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    • Scroblene says:

      Crop rotation is as follows: –

      Spring – Barley
      Summer – Oats,
      Autumn – pop concerts, holiday caravans, ploughing matches, tractor fests, cider binges, fetes, animal rides etc.
      Winter – working for other companies paying more than the meagre income they’re allowed under Labour, to make ends meet…

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Migrants to stay in farm barns? Diversify?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Figures show a record number of farms are closing, but can diversification help save British farmers?”

      SEND ALL THE KIDS TO UNI TO PLAY MINE CRAFT FOR LIFE SKILLS!

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    • digg says:

      Are you a farmer working dawn till dusk fighting weather, crippling government taxation and legislation on what you are allowed to do with your property, don’t worry the government have a plan to help save you, just open your fields up for car boot sales etc.

      You really could not make this clownish Labour shit up, they are acting like a bunch of third form secondary school pupils.

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  12. Guest Who says:

    Can’t seem to capture the text… it says ‘nothing to see here, yet’. Oh well.

    https://x.com/eurollout/status/1953347994218050038?s=61

    Let’s just say it captures the actual value of media market rate anything.

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  13. MarkyMark says:

    China bought the old Royal Mint Court for £255m in 2018
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce932995ny2o

    ………………..

    https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/programme/GB-LAE-LND-ChinaGreenFinanceProgramme/summary
    Spend to date £349,621 (87.51%)

    Forest Governance Markets and Climate Programme Support to the UK-China Cooperation on International forest Investment and Trade (InFIT)
    https://devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/programme/GB-COH-SC100833-L19-15/summary
    Spend to date £6,743,994 (100.00%)

    …………………
    Chinese spies are ‘bugging London’s pubs and park benches,’ security sources say

    https://metro.co.uk/2025/04/20/chinese-spies-bugging-londons-pubs-park-benches-security-sources-say-22940560/
    ……………
    Chinese university students told to spy on classmates, report says
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyvn308789go
    ………………………..

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    In a 2022 incident in Manchester, a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester, Bob Chan, was dragged into the Chinese consulate grounds and beaten by consulate staff. The incident occurred during a protest against China’s human rights record in Hong Kong and other regions. Chan was eventually pulled to safety by UK police. The Chinese Consul General in Manchester later admitted to being involved in the incident, claiming it was his “duty” to protect his country and leader from the protester’s actions.

    The Chinese Consul General in Manchester later admitted to being involved in the incident, claiming it was his “duty” to protect his country and leader from the protester’s actions
    ** Barry Gardiner says his £500K by Chinese spy was worth it!

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  14. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/bbcnews/status/1953347090521686363?s=61
    More teens to get their choice of uni even if they miss their grades, says Ucas

    George P –
    Headlines next month “Under our watch Labour have got more young people into university” although they missed their grades that’s only a technical matter

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  15. MarkyMark says:

    “However, around 70% of rare earths mining, and 90% of refining, happens in China, as a result of years of support from the Chinese government.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2zp6m4gy7o

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    UK Closing down it’s steel operations owned by China!
    HA HA HAH AH HA !

    “In April 2025, the UK government took emergency control of British Steel, specifically its Scunthorpe plant, to prevent its Chinese owners, Jingye, from shutting down the blast furnaces. This action was prompted by Jingye’s announcement that the furnaces were “no longer financially sustainable” and their subsequent refusal to accept government support to transition to more energy-efficient electric arc furnaces. The government accused Jingye of acting in bad faith, potentially even attempting to sabotage operations by selling off raw materials needed to keep the plant running”

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  16. MarkyMark says:

    Rachel Reeves has a new black hole in the black hole….

    Liam-Byrne-there-is-no-money-left-note.png

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22897412

    A former Labour cabinet minister has revealed he will “probably” regret forever leaving a note for his successor to say there was “no money” left when his party lost power in 2010.

    Ex-Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liam Byrne said it had been “very foolish” to pen the memo to Lib Dem David Laws.

    …………….

    “Should have gone to Specsavers. You don’t need £2,435-worth of designer glasses to see how corrosive it is to the government when the media, traditional and social, is filled with snickering stories and scornful commentaries about who paid for the prime minister’s “luxury” eyewear and his wife’s frocks.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/22/give-us-your-vision-for-the-country-sir-keir-costly-glasses-shouldnt-be-required

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  17. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “So they’ve had an anti-corruption minister on a corruption charge and now a homelessness minister making people homeless (allegedly).”

      …………………

      The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.

      — Part II, Chapter IX

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I still prefer Jessie Gobshite the womens minister WTF? Who cares not a bit for girls raped by her precious electorate …
      But the housing one is proper sleeze – an ethnic cultural thing i reckon .

      Also – do you notice how none of these characters give a toss what it looks like ?

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  18. MarkyMark says:

    Best line “Y’know, I once had principles.
    Then I met the YouGov tracker.
    Now I just float… like a dinghy in the channel.”

    Major Flip Flop – Keir Starmer Does Rap

    Yeah… it’s me… Sir Keir.
    Just a regular bloke from North London…
    with a knighthood, a spreadsheet, and crippling indecision.
    Let’s get into it.

    I flip, I flop, I twist, I turn,
    Say one thing, then crash and burn,
    I back the strikes — wait, never mind,
    Those unions just ain’t poll-aligned.

    I nod at boats that cross the sea,
    Then stick ‘em all in a B&B,
    If you protest, I’ll raise my chin:
    “Sounds like racism, thicko — bin!”

    Hotels full up, towns say “No,”
    I say, “Pipe down, you far-right show!”
    Can’t have nuance, that’s passé,
    Just label dissent “BNP-adjacent,” eh?

    Flip-flop, hip-hop, Keir’s on top,
    Say nothin’ clear, let the outrage drop.
    Virtue points from a Twitter thread,
    Then quote Blair while I play dead.

    Now Angela’s in the back, all rage and gin,
    Shoutin’ “What’s the f***in’ policy?” (with a toothy grin)
    She’s Wetherspoons with a mace and flair,
    While I nervously Google, “Should I still care?”

    The North wants jobs and lower bills,
    I offer “talks” and Net Zero drills.
    They want answers, grit, and steel —
    I offer graphs and “Let’s be real.”

    Benidorm’s packed with red-wall Brits,
    Sunburnt, pissed, and throwin’ fits.
    They chant “Oi Keir, you ain’t our mate!”
    I write a blogpost… three months late.

    Flip-flop, TikTok, Keir’s the boss,
    Makin’ vague laws while I act like Hoss.
    You got a problem with migrant pay?
    “That’s far-right talk!” I smugly say.

    Y’know, I once had principles.
    Then I met the YouGov tracker.
    Now I just float… like a dinghy in the channel.

    Policy? Nah — too complex!
    Better stick to Tory-esque.
    Say “change,” mean “keep it safe,”
    Ban protests and rebrand faith!

    From Palestine to pub debates,
    I calculate, triangulate.
    And if you’re working class and loud—
    I’ll nod politely… then shame the crowd.

    Flip-flop, full stop, Keir’s your man,
    Smiles like Blair with a five-point plan.
    No real stance, just legal flair,
    Vote for me — if you even care.

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  19. MarkyMark says:

    North Korea laughing at the liberal west.

    “Newly promoted Tory frontbencher Neil O’Brien has had a video on families blocked under the Online Safety Act. This will keep happening…

    O’Brien – Shadow Minister for Policy Renewal and Development – filmed a piece with Phoebe Arslanagić-Little who works with the Boom campaign to encourage people to have more kids. A baby featured in the video which is a common reason for blockage under the Online Safety Act. Blocking family values…

    The video features such heretical observations as:

    “Parents are more likely than those not raising children to be struggling financially and behind on their bills and mortgage payments. We are a country where increasingly it’s wealthy people who are having children and poorer people who just can’t afford to do so. And as I discovered when I was trying to access it, getting IVF on the NHS is a total postcode lottery.”

    Opposition politicians are now frequently having their content blocked. There’s a name for that…”
    ORDER-ORDER.COM

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  20. Guest Who says:

    This disgraceful AI of our glorious PM and ex BBC award winning ‘journalism’ person Desperate Dan (who got the ‘exclusive’ like the Mirror got Gordo) is why our kids need protecting….

    https://x.com/proper_memes/status/1953372893066244320?s=61

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  21. MarkyMark says:

    In the old days we would seize the property and kick China out plus fine them for COVID …. “In a letter seen by the PA news agency, Rayner, who as housing secretary is responsible for overseeing planning matters, asks planning consultants representing the Chinese embassy to explain why drawings of the planned site are blacked out.
    ** Just give Angela a free penthouse in New York and you get a free pass to No.10. HAHAHAHAHAH

    NOW WE HAVE TO ASK, AND KEEP BARRY GARDINERS 500K CHINESE SPY UP TO DATE. HA HA AHH AHA HA HAHA

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce932995ny2o
    Rayner asks China to explain blanked-out embassy plans

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  22. tomo says:

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    Wrapped Quran that no one else can touch! HAHAHA! Cannot touch Koran – can rape 1400 kids under Islam! HAH AHA AH HA

    “If you’d like to pick it up please because Christians are filthy pigs”

    A notable display of the U.K’s multi religious society as loyalist Muslim representatives sweared faithfulness, using the holiest scripture in the Islamic faith.

    Comment “This is how it should be done. No fuss about representatives taking their oath on the Quran”

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  24. vlad says:

    DM: HMRC staff hold class on ‘Guilt of being British’.
    Unbelievable.

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  25. pugnazious says:

    R4 discussion on cousin marriage, or as the presenter, Anne McElroy, called it ‘the institution of cousin marriage’. Hadn’t realised it had the official seal of approval as an ‘institution’ in this country.

    This ‘debate’ was way too loaded in favour.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002gqyc

    As always the Muslim defender of the, er, institution, was aggressive and playing the victim card for Muslims…also claiming Islam bridges divides between races and religions…no-one contested that huge lie about this supremacist, racist ideology…the person criticising cousin marriage was Matthew Syed…of Muslim heritage but no idea if he is practising….a BBC favourite and lefty for sure. He unfortunately displays the mindset inherent in all those who might be critical of Islam but are nervous of actually doing so. He’d make a point, his opponent would then strike back and cry ‘victim’ and tell us how this is a witchhunt and demonisation of Muslims and Syed would cringe and recoil saying he agreed with her completely apart from maybe one small point. His criticism wasn’t about Islam but tribalism…tight-knit clan-based societies.

    Syed was the wrong person to send into battle here…classic BBC lefty type that, whilst happy to denounce anyone criticising immigration as far-right, refuses to condemn Blacks and Muslims in any serious manner….or only does in a guilty manner before withdrawing their comment and agreeing with their opponent because they just don’t want to offend them…whilst they bash the hell out of them.

    A typical BBC ‘debate’ where the parameters are set by who is invited to ‘debate’, the BBC knowing they will parrot certain things but only go so far and not actually rock the boat and say anything meaningfully controversial or consensus smashing.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Q.1) Are all cultures equal? YES|NO

      Q.2) Should Charles James Napier have let India’s Suttee to continue – widows jump onto fires when their husbands die to kill themselves? YES|NO

      Q.3) Do you still believe all cultures equal? YES|NO

      Q.4) If Charles James Napier had NOT stopped India’s Suttee and it continued in 2025, would you allow Indians moving to Britain to still practice Suttee as part of their culture in 2018?

      Q.3) Do you still believe all cultures equal? YES|NO

      “Be it so. This burning of widows (India/suttee) 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.”
      – Charles James Napier

      (c) CANE Project 2018 – Cultures Are Not Equal Project

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      Cousin marriage: What new evidence tells us about children’s ill health
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c241pn09qqjo

      But amid concern about child health and strains on the NHS, some academics are asking whether a beefed-up approach to counselling is needed, with more funding and laser-focused intervention.
      ** so no stopping it?

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      • Ian Rushlow says:

        The first archbishop of Canterbury, St Augustine, asked Pope Gregory for advice on his new flock in what was to become England. Pope Gregory told him to forbid marriage between first, second and third cousins. Of course, the Holy Father knew nothing about genetics and inherited birth defects. Rather, his reasoning was the tribal nature of pre-England was a hindrance both to Christianity and social development. People only married within their own tribes, thereby reinforcing differences, mistrust and backward attitudes. Stopping cousin marriage would force people to search further afield for partners, leading to integration, what we would call social cohesion, plus eventually give rise to a high trust society.

        There were wise people in the Europe continent, 14 centuries ago…

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    • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

      I listened to this one and was frankly surprised that the topic was even being discussed on R4! I agree with most of what you say, Pug. Still, the Overton Window (or perhaps “Overton trickle-filter” would be more accurate) was at least slightly ajar if never fully open. Always grateful for small mercies with the biased BBC – that’s how bad it is now.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        They should go past the window licker school down the road from me at 3pm and see the traffic jam of window licker buses picking all the inbred defective pakis up – the cost must be obscene – but at least it’s good for the benefits claims ….

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  26. pugnazious says:

    Lol….the gaslighting begins…

    ‘The first migrants have been detained under the UK’s new “one in, one out” deportation deal with France after crossing the English Channel.’

    Many questions of course….how do they choose which ones to send back given it will be a ‘select few’? Being kept in detention centres…why aren’t they all kept in such places instead of luxury hotels or, as now, handed all-paid-for homes next to unsuspecting families? And wouldn’t it be simpler to simply stop them on the beaches or turn the boats around instead of waving them off as the French police do now?

    And of course if we can send them back now…what stopped us before? The BBC et al claimed it was not legally possible…and yet here we are…apparently it is….the real problem was the French didn’t want them back and the Establishment didn’t want to send them anyway. The government knows there will be endless and lengthy legal challenges and that barely anyone will go back…and the government will claim there’s nothing they can do…the law’s the law.

    It is pure theatre meant to fool us into thinking they are really doing something when in fact they are carrying on as usual and flooding the country with both legal and illegal migrants.

    Shame there’s few that will hold ‘power to account’.

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    • moggiemoo says:

      The first deportations should be the lawyers. Let them practice from a french beach and without legal aid payments.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Sir Keir Starmer criticised over tax free pension scheme
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65037136
        Sir Keir criticised measures in the Budget which scrapped the £1m cap on lifetime pensions savings.

        Labour says it was standard practice for retiring DPPs to get such a deal.
        Director of Public Prosecutions

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        • Fedup2 says:

          Love the term ‘ standard practice ‘ – embraces all sorts of britainistan state corruption. I prefer the use of PM bribes to give gongs – mainly the peerage .

          Its only a matter of time before imported third world – corruption – becomes routine .

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          • MarkyMark says:

            ‘standard practice‘ – following the spirit of the laws! HA HA A H

            “Mr Vaz’s claims have always been in accordance with the spirit and rules of the Green Book,” – Reported 9 May 2009.

            …………

            That this House, while welcoming the success of England’s football team in the European 1996 Championships, deplores the jingoism and nationalism in the pages of sections of the tabloid press which does nothing to maintain the true spirit of sport, but is reminiscent of Hitler’s use of sport to enhance his evil regime in the 1930s.
            https://www.parliament.uk/edm/1995-96/1048

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    • MarkyMark says:

      USA did not need any new laws to end illegal immigration, it just needed a new President.

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      The BBC is still making the claim – which is unverified – of ‘First migrants detained under ‘one in, one out’ deal with France’.. Migrants? How does it know they are migrants? Surely all they know is that a group of foreign men have tried to illegally enter Britain? They could be spies, enemy combatants, saboteurs, drug smugglers, criminals? If a Russian amphibious landing craft carrying Spetsnaz landed on the coast, would we call them ‘migrants’?

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    • digg says:

      The solution is so simple. If the migrants know that if they enter the UK illegally they will be sent back immediately they will immediately stop trying as it wil be a total waste of their passage money to the smugglers. This will eventually stop the problem all the way back to their departure points thus taking the pressure off every intermediate country they have been passing through. They are only coming because the UK is a soft touch and just helps, almost welcomes them in and gives them everything they need to stay.

      It’s not F-ing rocket science!

      If you forgive a thief he will go on to steal again.

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    • digg says:

      How do we even know that this is actually happening it could all be lying Labour PR put out as morphine for the masses!

      I think it’s a classic case of “look, squirrels”.

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    All cultures treat each other with respect. Sadiq Khan to justify diversity.

    “This week’s video of the man stooping to light his cigarette at the Unknown Soldier War Memorial in Paris sparked outrage and was widely shared on the internet.”
    https://www.politico.eu/article/france-cigarette-memorial-war-france-politics/

    The man filmed lighting a cigarette at the memorial was arrested on Tuesday and admitted to the offense, several news outlets reported. According to the French daily Le Figaro, he was known to police and had committed past offenses.

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  28. MarkyMark says:

    Why Britain Arrests 30 People EVERY DAY For Speech

    00:00 Introduction
    07:34 The Free Speech Guardrails Of The Bill
    11:39 Removing Anonymity On The Internet
    19:27 Are You Concerned This Is Just A Way Of Censoring People?
    29:29 The Left’s Instinct Is To Keep People Safe
    37:06 Peter Kyle Saying Nigel Farage Is On The Side Of Jimmy Saville
    42:06 You Won’t Be Able To Suppress People’s Concerns About Illegal Migration
    43:44 The Government Is Demanding Access To Messaging Apps Like WhatsApp And Signal
    49:30 The Difference Between Tolerance And Respect
    54:47 Blasphemy Laws
    59:42 The Free Speech Union’s Case Load
    01:03:43 What’s The One Thing We’re Not Talking About That We Really Should Be

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQGgUtn-NbIpbaaOLWv-3KuhP-LOxBIXuJhbQ&s[img

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  29. MarkyMark says:

    Comment “I’m 63 years old, and with every passing day, I’m more convinced that I’m living in a parallel universe.”

    “It just gets worse… “Andrew Lawrence

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  30. tomo says:

    Makes a change from hard hat, safety specs and a yellow tabbard or ill fitting workwear.

    Pathetic isn’t the correct word but pathos is in there?

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  31. wwfc says:

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  32. Guest Who says:

    FAFO bites deep with a BBC fave gob.

    https://x.com/osint613/status/1953201082030494040?
    Francesca Albanese say the U.S. sanctions against her are unacceptable.
    “It changes my life… They must be removed”

    #ccbgb (including some correctives it will be interesting to see if the BBC goes near)

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese
      https://www.un.org/unispal/document/genocide-as-colonial-erasure-report-francesca-albanese-01oct24/
      III. The unfolding genocide as a “means to an end”
      On 14 October 2023, after Israel ordered 1.1 million Palestinians to move south from northern Gaza in 24 hours – “one of the fastest mass displacements in history”[23] – the Special Rapporteur warned of the risk of deliberate mass ethnic cleansing.[24] This proved prescient. At least 90 per cent of Palestinians in Gaza have now been forcibly displaced – many more than 10 times[25] – amid calls from Israeli officials and others for Palestinians to leave and Israelis to “return to Gaza” and rebuild the colonies dismantled in 2005.[26]
      Meanwhile, violence has spread beyond Gaza, with Israeli forces and violent settlers having escalated patterns of ethnic cleansing and apartheid in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.[27]
      High-ranking Israeli officials, ministers and religious leaders continue to encourage erasure and dispossession of Palestinians, setting new thresholds for acceptable violence against civilians. The Nakba, which has been ongoing since 1948, has been deliberately accelerated.[28]
      In the following sections, the Special Rapporteur examines critical developments on the ground, highlighting patterns of conduct that evidence an intent to employ genocidal acts as a means to ethnically cleanse all or parts of the occupied Palestinian territory.

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  33. Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

    From Meredith Brent’s short piece in The Con Wom today:

    “… … …

    There are BBC services for which I would pay a subscription, including, despite the many current flaws, a classical music radio station devoted to both entertainment and education, and a 24-hour news radio station.

    The BBC will find it harder to sell its TV news, with its long history of failures over immigration, Brexit, climate change and now the Middle East. It has some good correspondents who will find a home elsewhere if BBC TV news fails when it has to impress viewers rather than preach to them. It does some good work, but its rivals can and will do that when the de-privileging of the BBC gives them more breathing space.

    … … …”

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    • moggiemoo says:

      I don’t listen to BBC propaganda, aka news, for free. Not a chance I’d pay for it.

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  34. Fedup2 says:

    Excellent news – Bank of England money committee – 9 of them – had to have a second vote on the interest cut because at least one of them can see how desperate the economy is – they wanted a 0.5% cut which I guess would have ‘spooked the market ‘… which I think is spooked anyway ..

    Meanwhile Rachel is telling us it’s all good news – despite inflation staying up above 4% ….

    By the October budget i m thinking the sums won’t add up even after trying to fiddle them …

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  35. The Mouse says:

    Labour’s Homelessness minister, Rushanara Ali, who has spoken out against ‘unreasonable rent increases’, threw out her tenants and then increased rent by £700 a month.

    As the house in question already belongs to one in the government, then surely it would be quite easy for Ali to house 4 unknown newly arrived boat people in the property.

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  36. Fedup2 says:

    Won’t be hearing – on the BBC -about Spanish towns banishing Muslims wanting to celebrate some evil ceremony – they have a history of booting out the moors ..

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  37. G.W.F. says:

    Something for the BBC to verify. Pally actors rehearse the starving routine so frequently posted by the BBC

    https://x.com/i/status/1953195084280672537

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    • digg says:

      I always suspected a lot of this shit going on.

      It seems that people of that lineage come with deceit built in and view it as an admirable trait amongst themselves!

      I guess it’s covered by Taqqia I think it’s called!

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  38. MarkyMark says:

    2019 …. “The former home secretary Jacqui Smith says tomorrow she knew her husband had been watching pornographic films and that they had argued about it before it emerged she made expenses claims for two adult movies seen by him.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/jul/10/jacqui-smith-porn-films-expenses

    Richard Timney, Smith’s husband, whom she employed as her parliamentary aide, issued an apology in March after it was revealed she claimed parliamentary expenses from a Virgin media package for two porn films watched by him, which cost £5 each. Included in the claim were two showings of the film Ocean’s 13 at £3.75 each, and £3.50 to watch Surf’s Up.

    Smith says their mistake was in claiming for any kind of movie, not simply that two were pornographic. “It didn’t happen a lot, but I was much more angry with him about the fact that we had not, between us, properly checked the expense claim than I was about the film.,

    ………….. HA HA HAH HAH AH AH AH………………..

    but I was much more angry with him about the fact that we had not, between us, properly checked the expense claim than I was about the film.,

    She admitted the government, and she herself, had been out of touch with the public and under-estimated their anger.

    She admitted the government, and she herself, had been out of touch with the public and under-estimated their anger.
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/jul/10/jacqui-smith-porn-films-expenses

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  39. pugnazious says:

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    • digg says:

      Tommy, the answer is staring us in the face, the middle class have adopted left wing ideas and are stomping on the faces of ordinary Joe Public because they despise them and they can now anything goes with this token “Labour” (Marxist) government.

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  40. Fedup2 says:

    Rushanara Ali MP -has a heavy heart . She said so in the ministerial resignation letter she presented to TTK on Thursday night .

    I have feelings for Rushanara- okay so she exploited the law to get rid of tenants and then boosted the rent a couple of months later by £700 a month – but that’s capitalism right ? Supply and demand ? The beauty of freedom of contract .No emotion – no mercy – just money .

    Trouble is Rushanara Ali MP is / was – the socialist housing minister … which makes her quite legal shananagans quite tricky …

    Maybe the ex corruption minister now up for corruption might get the gig – or Lisa Nando s – who was rumoured to be out of the door at the ministry of no culture and looking for a new job .
    How will the BBC handle another Marxist minister having to resign – especially as it’s a ‘she ‘ and also dusky and also of the Religion of Peace ?

    Tricky – i reckon they’ll just slag off President Trump for trying to end a war or JD for stupidly coming to Britainistan for his hols – and staying with Lammy ? really ?

    Btw – the comments section has 2500 entries on this tonight …
    Amazingly some fools think she has ‘integrity ‘ for resigning – when in real life the decision was made in number 10 Mohammed street

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    • Scroblene says:

      How many times did Yvette and Ed Balls ‘flip’ their properties, to exploit the generous taxpayers’ money for various ‘constituency’ homes?

      Can’t remember, but I may run out of fingers on counting…

      There again, Home Secretaries can do almost anything for a quick buck – even bad ones…

      Rules are apparently for the ‘little people’!

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  41. pugnazious says:

    Matthew Syed pops up for a second time today having recovered from his grovelling cringe and apologia as a Muslim insurgent claiming victimhood knelt firmly upon his neck earlier today.

    This time its about ‘distraction’

    ‘In this final episode, he considers where our media consumption might be headed. Many are concerned about smartphone addiction and a disintegration of public discourse, but others see a brighter future and our current times as a turning point to a world where the capacities of technology are used to benefit of society.’

    Literally caught the last minute as he wrapped up[the wrap is always the bit where you get the real intended message]….but the usual thing from the BBC…social media bad…apparently the tech giants have mastered the art of distracting us….democracy is thus imperilled as we watch doggy tiktoks instead of BBC news.

    One…don’t think this is an evil plan by ‘tech giants’ to distract us from reality…it’s just business and providing a service they think we’ll like. This is like the BBC complaining that food companies produce food that is designed to be addictive….no…just to taste good…we like the taste so we buy and eat more….no Machiavellian plan. Food really does need to taste good…it’s not evil to make it taste good.

    Two….think I can watch doggy tiktoks and still be on top of current affairs. BBC seems to think we’re all thick and ignorant.

    The real danger to democracy is media companies that deliberately omit news stories and facts as they massage the truth and try to twist our perceptions and thus our behaviour and thoughts.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00254gr

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  42. tomo says:

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Going to X to see the original – there is ‘incredulity ‘ as to whether that is a real advert or not … but no references to the Harry Enfield sketch – which can never – never – ever be shown on the BBC again … sexy eyes though – don’t you think ? But the making of a mono eye brow …

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Welsh choir girl?

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  43. Fedup2 says:

    I understand the emir of Windsor is to do a broadcast to the nation about the 80th anniversary of VJDay – which sort of marked the end of the Second World War … I prefer it to be regarded as the intermission before the coming big one which really will be the war to end all wars …the speech will be done from a mosque where he thanks all of his Muslims for fighting for the downfall of the dirty japs …and welcomes them to taking over britainistan …

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  44. tomo says:

    You’d think the BBC might cover anti-Trump Republicans?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “For actors with experience in migration mainstreaming, this guide offers a new approach that is based on the 2030 Agenda. For those with no experience in migration mainstreaming, it offers an introduction on how migration and development are linked in the context of the SDGs, and how to take action around these connections.

      It is accompanied by two complementary tools that helps illustrate linkages between migration and the SDGs: (i) a comprehensive booklet which outlines the linkages between migration and each SDG and (ii) a poster which summarizes these linkages.”

      BOOKLET AND POSTER LINKS FAIL – which is a shame

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  45. Fedup2 says:

    BBC Friday morning – let’s not talk about the ex housing minister and her fully lawful ‘business dealings ‘ ie throwing out 4 renters from a place she owns in londistan ( how many?) and importing more at £700 more a couple of months later

    Instead – as we know is the bbc script – look – squirrels – in this case a standard attack on Israel taking Gaza ….

    Keep going IDF – be safe – flatten it …

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    • Scroblene says:

      Easy wasn’t it, Rushernaria, hike the selling price to become unsellable, then squirm back to screwing new tenants!

      Caught with knickers round ankles for blatant cheating, but what does one expect from Labour, they always cheat the sheep…

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  46. AsISeeIt says:

    Bunny ears edition

    Press style guide to ‘scare quotes’

    Google’s English dictionary is provided by Oxford Languages, apparently. This appears to be the internet version of the hallowed old Oxford English Dictionary. Wherein ‘scare quotes’ are defined as: quotation marks placed round a word or phrase to draw attention to an unusual or arguably inaccurate use

    The Narrative is strong with this one (to misquote Darth Vader) as the example of usage we’re presented reads: “putting the term “global warming” in scare quotes serves to subtly cast doubt on the reality of such a phenomenon” – heaven forfend!

    So let’s explore what our press may wish to ‘subtly cast doubt upon’ this morning.

    And we kick off with a doozy from the Gruan since whereas the Mail goes with: Minister for hypocrisy is forced to quit; the Times makes the news their third place story Homelessness minister who evicted her own tenants quits; and the i paper that did the actual journalism work on this one (credit where credit is due) celebrates their scalp: UK’s minister for homelessness quits after she’s caught ejecting tenants and hiking rent… Labour’s Rushanara Ali resigns after The i paper report on her conduct as a landlord

    The Guardian meanwhile moderately remarks: Housing minister quits after ‘evicting tenants’ – apparently still to be convinced of that supposed eviction.

    Staying with this case of a Labour MP evidently resigning her ministerial responsibilities – so as to spend more time with her rental portfolio. The Telegraph perhaps reasonably headlines their report: Minister resigns over rental ‘hypocrisy’ – the case for the charge of hypocrisy (not as yet legally defined and placed on the statute book) remains still very much in the eye of the beholder.

    In case you were wondering – our BBC, this case of a top Labourite caught red-handed, hints at just a smidgen of doubt – forsaking scare quotes in this instance and instead deploying the qualifier ‘claims’: Homelessness Minister Rushanara Ali quits over rent hike claims (BBC)

    There are of course occasions when those little punctuation marks in a headline – rather than casting shade on a notion – instead denote actual quotes twith which the news reporter may or may not want to stand by…

    Often these days Mr AsI will tend to wonder “How do we feel about the state garnering together all out personal information, our every interaction with public sector agencies, all combined together into one Digital ID database?”

    Police raid passport data in ‘historic breach’… hundreds of facial recognition searches… in a “historic breach of the right to privacy”… The number of requests by police… has “skyrocketed” according to campaigners

    The public sector – as per usual – fumbles IT data protection – while the BBC weighs in with another set of scare quotes that appear to plead ‘case not proven, M’lud’: Courts service ‘covered up’ IT bug that caused evidence to go missing

    They do say ‘if you’ve nothing to hide, you’ve nothing to worry about’ – and boy, you’d better not have anything to hide.

    We’re beginning to get the picture I think. Scare quotes have no one explantion or definition but rather all depends on the house style and or political bent of the news purveyor.

    The Times top story equivocates in the extreme: Single-sex spaces ‘off-limits to trans women’ – well, are they, or are they not?

    The answer is that we don’t know: New guidance from equalities watchdog to be submitted to cabinet (Times) – one comes away bemused as to how come this made top news story in the formerly serious Times

    Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel – as we are all too aware – and the Express confirms the notion: King’s tribute to ‘duty and sacrifice’ of VJ heroes

    Furthermore: Experts hope ‘exciting’ appetite-reducing drug could be available from next year (Express)

    Try that another way: Experts ‘hope’ exciting appetite-reducing drug could be available from next year

    Or: ‘Experts’ hope exciting appetite-reducing drug ‘could’ be available from next year

    The permutations are ‘almost’ endless

    The Mirror: Weight loss pill ‘on NHS’

    We’re at the point now where every word of our entire mainstream news headlines might as well be scare quote indictated.

    And finally, the Daily Mail delivers a fine example of that dubious rhetorical tactic of Whataboutery…

    How dare people call my friend Meghan ‘Duchess Difficult’ when Andrew’s been so vile

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Weight loss pill ‘FREE on NHS’ ** unless you pay taxes and NI!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Single-sex spaces ‘off-limits to trans women’ – why aren’t Trans Men upset?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      There must be an editorial guide on the use of ‘claimed ‘ or ‘some say ‘ and the like …. Also the use of ‘spokesman ‘- as in ‘the Israelis are ethnically cleansing Gaza ‘ – a Hamas spokesman ‘says’ . ‘Says ‘ is always used with Hamas whilst ‘claimed ‘ is used when it’s about the Israeli government /IDF just to signal disagreement with it ..

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      • Guest Who says:

        ‘Says’ is when they have no way of checking.

        ‘Claims’ is when they have no intention of doing so.

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  47. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/bbcpolitics/status/1953691646131888215?s=61
    Homelessness Minister Rushanari Ali quits over rent increase claims

    ‘Quits’…. Over ‘claims’.

    #ccbgb

    Meanwhile, over at ITV…

    https://x.com/itvnews/status/1953699104262922726?s=12
    Israeli’s security cabinet has approved a plan to take over Gaza City and provide humanitarian aid, in another escalation of its war with Hamas.

    The utta, utta cad.

    All the more savvy propaganda team off early for the weekend!

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  48. MarkyMark says:

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  49. pugnazious says:

    The BBC is still pumping out the ‘famine’ anti-Israel propaganda despite everyone in videos and pictures looking pretty well fed….and as the UN claimed no food available in Gaza there were huge stockpiles in UN depots. The UN refused to deliver it saying they were afraid of being attacked….but they refused Israeli army escorts…and so left the food in the depots.

    This was the UN deliberately weaponising food and, ala Hamas, using the population of Gaza for political ends…ie demonising Israel…and of course the BBC et al were happy to oblige and pump out this lie.

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