412 Responses to Midweek 20th August 2025

  1. Doobster78 says:

    Oh look, yet another BBC Headline spinning the negativity on the peace deal ….. pathetic. They REALLY do not want Trump to sort this.

    “Proposed Ukraine land concessions are Putin’s trap, EU’s top diplomat tells BBC”

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    • Lucy Pevensey says:

      They probably reckon they have it all sewn up. If the fighting continues, Trump is a failure, it’s all his fault. If there is an agreement and peace follows. Trump is Putin’s stooge. BBC spin is always a personal attack on those they hate.

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      • taffman says:

        Stop paying the ‘telly tax’ . I have, along time ago and saved myself a bundle of cash .

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        • moggiemoo says:

          It’s about a bottle of nice gin every couple of months. Seems like a decent swap.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “EU’s top diplomat tells BBC” same EU that is as corrupt as hell?

      – Watch: “Russia hasn’t made one single concession”, Kaja Kallas says

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      Kaja Kallas is an Estonian politician and diplomat. She was the first female prime minister of Estonia, a role she held from 2021 until 2024, when she resigned in advance of her appointment as High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Wikipedia

      “She said it was up to member states of the “coalition of the willing” to determine exactly what they could contribute, and that it was not yet clear in what capacity those forces would operate.”

      Losing before starting…. “not yet clear in what capacity those forces would operate”

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  2. Althepalerp says:

    Interesting read.. . . .

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_in_Palestine

    War doing them a bit of good.

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  3. Fedup2 says:

    Oh dear – DEI coloured ‘actor ‘ who was a bbc favourite – loses a libel trial against The Guardian – lovely to see lefties fighting each other ..
    Apparently the actor won a bafta for ‘rising star’ not no more he ain’t ….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Dr Who” – they do not say “BBC’s Dr Who” HA HAH AHH A HA

      “Actor Noel Clarke has lost his libel case against the Guardian, after he sued the newspaper’s publisher for printing allegations of sexual misconduct.

      The Doctor Who and Kidulthood star took Guardian News and Media (GNM) to court after the paper ran a series of stories in 2021 claiming he had used his power in the film and TV industry to prey upon and harass women.”

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy33g0lelno

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  4. tomo says:

    Pat’s correct – literally anything would be an improvement

    Seems there’s agreement in the shires

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    • moggiemoo says:

      Basil Brush would make an epic PM with the Rainbow trio in the cabinet. Bungle as deputy PM!

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Bungle as deputy PM

        “Rayner defends using donor’s New York flat for holiday”
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8vmv1mpggo
        Rayner rejected reports of rifts in Downing Street as a “caricature”.

        And she also peppered the speech with attacks on the Tories, saying the party had left Labour to “clean up the mess”.

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    • taffman says:

      The ‘Rwanda Plan’ is looking more attractive once again . But has TTK got the bottle to reinstate it ?
      A lot of Taffmen I know are going to vote Reform next.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Rwanda Plan -H AH AHAH A H- did you read it? We had to accept UNLIMITED/UNDEFINED number of Rwandan people from Rwanda as part of the deal – who would not be vetted! HA AHA HHAHA HA H A AH !

        ………….

        In return, the UK is providing £370 million in development funding to Rwanda, plus another £120 million once 300 people have been relocated. The UK will also pay up to £171,000 per person relocated, largely to cover a five-year integration package. By the end of 2023, £240 million had already been paid to Rwanda. Another £50 million was due for payment in April 2024.

        https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9568/

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Blue lite – like Bud light.

      “Farage distances himself from justice tsar’s trans prisoner remarks”
      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/08/05/farage-splits-with-prison-tsar-trans-women-female-prisons/
      Reform adviser Vanessa Frake criticised for saying cases should be assessed ‘on an individual basis’

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  5. tomo says:

    Some politicians are dumb as rocks

    We can show the Yanquis a thing or several – I volunteer the MP for Nottingham East as a starter.

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  6. Fedup2 says:

    6pm friday alison pearson and dan wooton to interview Lucy Connolly. Its on the BBC. Oh no it isnt – its on youtube .

    How will the msm respond ? Ignore – ? Slander ?

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    • JohnC says:

      The BBC’s usual trick is to present all the thing they can discredit or cast doubt on at the start of their article then very briefly mention the parts they can’t three quarters of the way down.

      They do it for Gaza by giving what the terrorists say full coverage then giving the free and fair democracy of Israel’s statements in a single paragraph in quotes (to infer it’s just opinion) near the end.

      The BBC are now gutter-level left-wing activist scum. I’ve tried to give them some benefit of the doubt – but recent history of their bias on every important topic has made that impossible.

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  7. Fedup2 says:

    Pixie to appeal the epping decision .

    Fixec TTK appeal court – easy fix – same if it goes to the Blair supreme court . No need to change the legislation…

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Cannot stop one boat with a military navy.
      Can change laws to allow more people have hotels.
      HAHA HA HAHA HH AH AH A!

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      • Scroblene says:

        Surely Lammy knows of a few places where the illegals can be sent?

        He gets around quite a lot doesn’t he, and as he’s supposed to be ‘foreign secretary’ for some peculiar reason, the British Taxpayer is entitled to get him to pay for illegals getting here, not Pixie!

        Maybe not living in the five start joints he has to stay in, but somewhere with a few tents and a canvas loo…?

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  8. Up2snuff says:

    TWATO Watch #1 – more lies about Israel and Gaza thanks to the BBC and the UN

    There is famine in Gaza so says the UN’s IPC report. The BBC actually allowed an Israeli, sorry forgotten her name, and she refuted the IPC and UNICEF reports that there is food in Gaza. Hamas’s thugs often steal the food which they then sell to hungry Palestinians at inflated prices. Who do I believe? Israel and not the BBC or Hamas or the UN and any of its so-called ‘agencies’.

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    • JohnC says:

      Another utterly apalling article from the BBC loaded with lies by omission.

      The BBC use the fact that they have to pay exorbitant prices for baby milk at the markets – but don’t go near the fact that this is 100% the fault of whoever is supposed to be distributing that aid to the people who need it.

      Which is the UN working with Hamas. Nothing whatsoever to do with Israel.

      I felt nothing but disgust at the BBC as I read it. They don’t give a shit about those people actually getting any food : they just want to use the fact they can’t against Israel.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Action 58
      The DfE will actively seek out and signpost to schools suggested high-quality resources to support teaching all-year round on black history in readiness for Black History Month October 2022. This will help support schools to share the multiple, nuanced stories of the contributions made by different groups that have made this country the one it is today.

      https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/inclusive-britain-action-plan-government-response-to-the-commission-on-race-and-ethnic-disparities/inclusive-britain-government-response-to-the-commission-on-race-and-ethnic-disparities

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      Biography
      Dr Tony Sewell CBE is Chair of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities.
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      Dr Sewell was awarded a CBE in 2016 for his work in Education.

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      • JohnC says:

        ‘Dr Sewell was awarded a CBE in 2016 for his work in Education.’

        I’m sure. Just as Obama got the ‘Nobel Peace Prize’ for ‘services to diplomacy’.

        I have to say that all positions which are meant to deal with racist discrimination are themselves whopping examples of racist (and sexist) discrimination.

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  9. Guest Who says:

    Radio 2 rushes on a screeching, racist medjah Asian to ‘debate’ things calmly, so of course…

    https://x.com/y_alibhai/status/1958826351001026928?s=61
    Am on @BBCAnyQuestions tonight. With SIR Jacob Rees Mogg. Lucky me. Can’t wait.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “At least Americans can move bit by bit against Trump. We here are stuck with Brexit loonies forever.”

      ^^ does she realise that those who voted from Trump had voted for Biden as well?

      ……………

      “Basket of deplorables” is a pejorative phrase from a 2016 US presidential election campaign speech delivered by Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton on September 9, 2016, at a campaign fundraising event. She used the phrase to describe “half” of the supporters of her opponent, Republican nominee Donald Trump, saying they’re “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic”.[1]

      ………………

      “#PritiPatel Defend her, they say, she’s one of us, a Ugandan Asian. Go hang your head in shame, say I. For she’s one of them – a right wing fanatic & appalling human being.”
      https://x.com/y_alibhai/status/1235506805691867136

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      • Scroblene says:

        Yasmin…

        Thought she was leaving here?

        We looked after her family when they were chucked out of Uganda!

        Nice to see such friendliness towards most of the people who let her stay.

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  10. Lucy Pevensey says:

    Dan Wootton has reported that Lucy Connolly will meet with The Trump Administration officials tomorrow.

    That’s interesting. Hope it’s true.

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  11. Fedup2 says:

    The lucy connolly interview is on Youtube now . She sounds full of fight – her view ? If the communist state can do that to her it can do it to anyone .

    It seems she will be meeting someone from the president trump administration saturday . I am sure they will be apalled at her story

    We must hope that what has happened to britainistan is acknowledged by the US and we are rescued …

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  12. Fedup2 says:

    X reportd serious disorder in york Thursday night as islamic gangs fought people putting up british flags. This id unverified but suggestions of D notice and state censorship.

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    • Lucy Pevensey says:

      I read that Fed, it was an Amazon driver who caused it. Allegedly.

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  13. digg says:

    A lot of protest around that Starmer is the worst PM in living memory if not ever leading the worst Labour Government ever.

    However there is case for disagreeing with this view, that being that if his shower succeed in getting The Labour Party destroyed and banished to history by being swamped by Reform it will be the single biggest win for freedom for the people of this nation that I can recall.

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  16. JohnC says:

    Famine confirmed in Gaza City is ‘failure of humanity’, UN chief says
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05ed5rgld3o

    I think the UN chief should check his own house before making such statements.

    Employing terrorists who brutally murder hundreds of civilians in the most barbaric ways you can imagine then acting as if you did nothing wrong is a much bigger failure.

    Or knowing full well that those same terrorists have built command centres and ambush access points at your schools, refugee centres and hospitals using the very concrete, materials and contractors you funded, or making rockets and launchers from the pipes you paid for and doing absolutely nothing about it also qualifies.

    The fact that no member of the UN has lost their job as a result of the absolutely disgraceful way they have aided and abetted terrorists is all I need to know abouthow utterly corrupt the entire organisation is.

    They sum up the Left perfectly. Shamless activist scumbags.

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  17. JohnC says:

    JK Rowling attacks BBC over trans coverage
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/22/jk-rowling-attacks-bbc-trans-coverage-germany/

    ‘JK Rowling has attacked the BBC for using female pronouns in its reporting of a German neo-Nazi who began identifying as a woman’

    I suspect the vast majority of the public think JK Rowlings stance on transsexuals is based on real-world common sense. And the media seem to want to portray it that way.

    Nothing could be further from the truth : it’s based on pure misandry. She cannot stand the idea of men b*st*rds being allowed to pretend they are women. She is as guilty of hate as the pro-Trans cretins.

    But ‘the enemy of my enemy’ and all that I suppose.

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  18. Scroblene says:

    I think Yvette Balls had better get back from her hols PDQ, as the press (the normals, not beeboids), are having a field day about the disgrace of Lucy Connolly’s imprisonment.

    And there are so many British Citizens agreeing with her cause, her composure, and also, they’re on call to see Pigster and his ridiculous bunch of hopeless individuals hauled over the coals for quite a long time now!

    This will run and run, and before labour are kicked out of ‘government’, they’ll have lost most of their useless labour councils as well, especially those with hotels full of illegals!

    What a twat Starmer is! He can’t run anything properly!

    Nothing so serious about this on the far-left bBC website, presumably it’s been vanished into the regions, where nobody bothers to go.

    What do we expect? It’s only a TV tax on stupidity!

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  19. Scroblene says:

    PS, I’ve just looked at the clock…

    D’you mind if I post this again after you open up the weekend slot, Fed?

    Just asking…

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  20. Fedup2 says:

    Scroblene – I’ll put the weekend thread up at 2100 uk time – so cheers !

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  21. digg says:

    There is not a shred of doubt in my mind that the BBC appearing to get behind the completely spurious accusations of famine in Gaza is questionable.

    So many red flags such as the focus on little children starving while their parents are heathy and well-fed. Any normal parent would absolutely make sure their children are fed before they themselves do so!

    Nothing in this rings true… it’s a complete lying fabrication that for some reason is supported by shadowy figures in the UN. Let’s face it the major parties in the UN have a very dodgy past re anything to do with those horrid “Jewish” people.

    I am flabbergasted that these agencies tacitly fall behind a group that have carried out the worst mass attrocities against Jews since the 1930’s.

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    • non-licence payer says:

      The whole Connolly/Jones debacle needed active management. The Labour bubble dwellers do not realise that UK Government has become incredible and it will take years to rebuild the trust needed for society to function. It is so sad to see that we have lost every compass required to run a basic civilised society. This boil needed lancing quickly, yet Herr Starmer and his witlesss student union gang members still fail to grasp the problem. The only attempt to control matters which I have detected is a moratorium at the DT on discussion until the Government gave the nod. Frankly the DT editor should resign rather than operate under such duress.

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