A good week for the Labour Regime and its’ state broadcaster – hotels can be used to house invaders – the deputy PM avoids a £40k tax bill on a third home – Israel banished from an Arms exhibition – Union Flags torn down by ‘council officials ‘ – a 12 year old girl prosecuted for trying to repel an invader ….
Weekend 30th August 2025
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Hah!
I promise you Fed, I really was getting a top-up, and wandered through to see where the dog was!
Just half-way through ‘House of cards’ and you have to watch it soon, as so much is going on today with this dreadful shower we have in ‘government’…
And it chimes…
Well done Scrobie!
Former BBC CountryFile *Star* claims he is flat broke with his green dream in tatters due to ‘high hopes’. Autism (he now claims sympathy), who would have thought it pays so much to be so GREEN and stupid within the packed BBC – which shelters a number of other ‘isms’.
Chris Packham’s dream of rewilding 40 acres has been put on hold as he has been unable to sell his £2.4m “autism-friendly” home.
The television presenter, 64, has only had a handful of viewings since putting the New Forest property on the market in June, delaying his plan to “make my impact a little bit bigger” on the environment.
He originally paid £2m for the property in August 2020, which is based on the edge of three acres of gardens where he would play as a child.
It now has a £2,395,000 price tag but the star said there had been very few people looking at the property.
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Packham, who has autism, has decorated his home in bright colours and furniture in a bid to “manage any of the anxieties that tend to be generated by other people”.
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He said: “I am trying to make my own little bit of it, but it’s so little I feel it needs to be bigger to make my impact a little bit bigger.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/29/chris-packham-rewilding-dream-autism-home-fail-sel/?__vfz=medium%3Dtray_notification#vf-d9fc1b33-c461-4828-8efb-d80f907849e8
(Quite). Lucky he had such a fluffy BBC job then!… he’s done very well for and idiot on TV with so much BBC competition on claiming the planet is ‘doomed’ and Farmers should all ‘grow solar panels’ instead of Animals and food, ‘stuff’. A Vegan who found himself on TV and grew very rich, now likes to plant trees in a forest, I read and and fell asleep…. Someone told me he is not on Countryfile anymore. Jobless!
Oh! Its official there is no ‘climate emergency’ even if Chris Packahm, thinks there is one.
But I guess working at the BBC every day is an urgent ‘emergency’ situation. They cannot help it. They are all Autistic, some more than others, I suspect at the BBC.
read on; There is no climate emergency.
https://www.juststopnetzero.com/
Packham quits RSPCA over abattoir cruelty claims
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyv381edvg9o
Chris Packham: Presenter picks up a penguin art show in Deal
Chris Packham settles net zero legal action against government
Chris Packham urges Dorset Council to ban weedkiller
Cleethorpes: Chris Packham praises girl, 3, for saving starfish
Chris Packham: Glen Coe is broken and needs fixing
Chris Packham to challenge Rishi Sunak over net zero policy delays
Packham ‘furious’ over Southern Water New Forest sewage leak
Chris Packham and Hamza Yassin urge young people to engage with climate crisis
Chris Packham calls on Royal Family to rewild estates
Chris Packham recalls undiagnosed Asperger’s syndrome on TV walk
St Marks tree felling: Chris Packham calls for rethink over row
Peterborough climbing centre opposed by Chris Packham is approved
Chris Packham objects to Peterborough park climbing wall
Packham ‘outraged’ by Cambridge University bird netting
Protesters claim presenter Packham’s campaign work ‘threatens jobs’
Chris Packham hits out at nature TV and I’m A Celeb
Chris Packham receives CBE medal at Buckingham Palace
Chris Packham says ‘we can’t be Nimbyist’ over Kent housebuilding plans – but new homes must not be in ‘wrong place’
Now Mr Packham admits residents need to be “realistic” and accept the county needs more homes – but not “in the wrong place with the wrong types of mitigation”.
Packham may have just found out that this Labour government has absolutely crashed the housing market. I am sure he is a leftist who thinks that the “rich” must be taxed until the pips squeak. The trouble is, that means that no-one has a spare couple of million for his infantile Noddy house.
I think I shall now reach for a tiny violin and play a sad tune.
I haven’t heard asked by the BBC or anybody two questions that should be put to these young men who leave their country ( and womenfolk ) and come en masse with only men to our shores .
1; What do you think the male to female ratio is for 18 to 35 year olds in the UK ?
2 ; What are your plans / aspirations/ desires for meeting women , love , marriage and family in the UK ?
3 ; Can you colour in this picture of Mohammed for your 6 year old wife please.
4: Can you name all 12 wife’s of
Mohammed.
Nibor:
Their main plan for question 2 seems to involve propositioning school girls.
Nibor,
3; Have you completed the compulsory military training your home country demands (conscription) of “military/fighting age males”?
Met fails to warn of upskirting abuse before death
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyv03jr1pyo
Front page news at the BBC – they love to blame the Met. Apparently it was an error with some software instead of those white men b@stards, but the BBC don’t care about that.
Meanwhile the BBC don’t think this is worth reporting at all:
‘Two men jailed for senseless murder of father on the Underground – London’
https://www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/news/in-the-courts/two-men-jailed-for-senseless-murder-of-father-on-the-underground—london/
This seems to be FAR more significant as news to me – it could happen to absolutely anybody at any time.
Maybe a picture of the 2 who did it will cast light on why the BBC chose to ignore it:
Another example about how the BBC don’t give a shit about who dies or why. They only care if they can use it for their ‘progressive’ agenda.
Another word the Left have chosen which does not fit the facts at all, but it sounds good in the same way as ‘islamophobia’ sounds bad. I see nothing ‘progressive’ about the Left at all. I see distinct similarities with the Nazis. Only their methods are different now.
The usual.
Not much on the BBC about this…but Israel has topped the Hooti Tooti Prime Minister
https://worldisraelnews.com/yemen-sources-indicate-israeli-airstrikes-also-killed-houthi-prime-minister/
‘Yemen sources reveal Israeli airstrikes also killed Houthi Prime Minister’
Evening all.
The CEO of P and O ferries has resigned.
In 2022 he sacked virtually the whole staff and replaced them with foreign flag employees. It just so happens I was on a P and O ferry this evening and I did not find a single British crew member- they all seemed to be East European.
And that’s not all. On arrival at Calais we were informed of lengthy delays to get on the ship. But the P and O kiosks were working pretty well, and to be fair,,so were the French passport booths. No. The reason for the huge queues was the UK border control. When we finally arrived at the UK border control booth we had a fairly seamless passport check. No questions asked.
It’s almost as if someone somewhere wants to give the impression that UK borders are being effectively controlled. Long queues must equal good checks, yes?
When we know of course from the rubberised ferries that the reverse is true. To add insult to the injury of British taxpayers, the leftist pro-immigration judges have sided with the government to keep illegal asylum seekers in nice hotels, with free healthcare, dentistry, smartphones, pocket money, days out, games. The government wants to close the hotels. By 2029 FFS.
It’s another version of TTK isn’t it?
UK border are a joke. They have started interrogating returning UK citizens. So coming off a ferry from NL pushing a bike:
“Where have you been”? – Holland
“What were you doing”? – (looking a bike) Cycling
Seeing as we have open borders what the hell is the point?
“Indiscriminateness is a moral imperative … I’ll give you an example. At the airport, in order not discriminate we have to intentionally make ourselves stupid. We have to intentionally pretend we don’t know some of the things we do know. And we have to pretend that the next person likely to blow up an airplane is as much the 87 year old Swedish great great grandmother as those that 4four 27 year old Imams, newly arrived from Syria screaming Allah Akbar just before they board the plane.”
Evan Sayet – Regurgitating the Apple How Modern Liberals “Think”
I seem to think we managed to win World War One in four years. And this shower of shit government claims it will take that long just to stop housing illegal immigrants in hotels? How far have we fallen?
Funny how I have never heard about this by the BBC
Jon, thanks for putting that video up. Why have you not heard about it by the BBC? Becaise the BBC is pro-Palestinian and may be pro-Hamas for all I know but is very definitely anti-Israel.
Thank you for posting this . I wonder if Ed Davey has seen it ? Such a hypocrite!
Socialist judges have allowed illegal immigrants to remain at the hotel in Epping. You know, I’m not actually surprised, but it is a shockingly bad decision. It clearly shows the utter contempt our elite have for us.
Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu is the illegal immigrant staying at the Epping hotel who’s on trial for sex attacks on two children and a woman. Tonight Starmer’s stormtroopers have been violently arresting young English children who have been with their families protesting the court’s decision. Things are getting ugly. It’s a tinderbox and needs very delicate handling.
I feel this country could be on the verge of a quite unpleasant and major political eruption.
And I don’t mean through the ballot box…
Essex council : have their civil servants been traumatised by seeing English and British flags adorning the street furniture? If so contact Human Resources for consolation .
Well we must console them surely BBC .
Why not give them free tickets to your Last Night Of The Proms , September 13 .? ( ask them if they want a free flag to join in )
Somewhere inside this ageing frame, I have a sort of dire premonition that then inevitable backlash, and outpouring of fury at the scandalous dereliction of the citizens of Great Britain by Starmer, Hermer and Yvette, is going to happen during or after one of the big football matches.
Some years ago, I happened to be waiting in Charing Cross station when the Millwall fans arrived back from somewhere or other. The police were wall-to-wall, and the noise was utterly frightening, but there was no evidence of violence, just an air of menace when such a large crowd of very large men, (they were all men), are assembled and want some sort of answer to issues as to ‘why they lost’, or ‘how the opposition cheated’, or maybe, ‘why are they paying for illegal foreigners to stay in four star hotels when they have to exist on very little, under the dreadful Starmer regime’.
The scene was electric for me, and I’d never experienced the fear that was engendered, just by seeing and hearing a huge collection of rabidly British fans, showing their teeth – barking, not biting…
If this behaviour is released when the issues of Britain’s inevitable downfall is signalled, I want to make damn sure that I’m well away from large crowds of people, hell-bent on reacting in their own inimitable way, to such a disgraceful invasion of our country!
The bBC will have to be extremely careful about their joy at the Epping debacle, as their contact and complicity in TTKs’s disastrous handling of ‘government’ will be even higher under the spotlights, and getting too close to those items causes quite severe burns!
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” – George Orwell
Innjustice – puns the Sun: Fury as Govt wins ruling to keep asylum hotel open
Even the Guardian appears to concede this was a pyrrhic victory – won at too great a cost to have been worthwhile for the victor.
While the decision represented a technical victory for the Home Office… it has been seized on by Labour’s opponents (Guardian)
I feel a big juicy journalistic ‘despite’ coming on…
13 councils seeking to shut asylum hotels down… Revolt spreads despite Home Office court victory (Telegraph)
Pesky local councillors, trying to get on the right side of local voters!
Police make three arrests during Epping protest (Simon Dedman, BBC East political reporter & Helen Burchell, BBC News, Essex)
Oi, you’re nicked, ‘ave you got a licence for that St George’s flag?
Naturally, as night follows day, and as the regime rear guard action follows fall out from the court ruling, so the BBC seeks out and finds a stooge to sing from the kumbaya, don’t look back in anger hymn sheet…
Gilroy woz ‘ere.. trying to ‘change the narrative’
Kerry Gilroy, who has lived in the town for 20 years and runs a Facebook group called Epping for Everyone, said: “My group has been really saddened and upset by the protests and the vitriolic statements – and untruths that are being spread about asylum seekers. We really wanted to try and change the narrative and show that those people protesting don’t represent Epping. So far it’s been really positively received.” (BBC)
Keep going, luv. you’re on a roll…
She said she was pleased about the latest court decision as “for the people in the hotel it gives them consistency, but it’s made me very nervous because I think there will be trouble… but I’m really pleased mob rule hasn’t been allowed to take over”. She felt the council was “wasting money” by pursuing its claims, which have seen it clash with the Labour government. (BBC)
While the BBC report includes quotes from the other side of the argument, it’s all bit inarticulate and vox poppy – unlike our Kerry’s rent-a-gob manifesto that hits all the regime talking points. Funny that. Just our BBC doing its public service duty, I guess.
Meanwhile, there’s a clutch of superannuated celebs rolled out for our entertainment today in the popular press.
Effin’ Hell! Gordon [Ramsay] brings back Kitchen show after two decades (Sun)
Giorgio Armani at 91… Five decades at the helm… (FT)
Joanna Lumley… At 79 I’m still trying to prove myself (i paper)
Sir Rod the Mod Stewart slammed Lib Dem leader Ed Davey’s snub of a royal banquet for Donald Trump (Daily Star)
There are those who postulate the theory that our popular culture got stuck several decades ago and that our cultural reference points are becoming hopelessly dated – I couldn’t possibly comment – As the character Francis Urquart from TV’s House of Cards (2013-18) would tend to say.
How does Heidi Klum look so young at 52? (Express)
As much as your Mr AsI can still yet admire the allure of the older woman; the somewhat obvious charms of our Ms Klum and the more sophisticated appeal of Dame Joanna – there must come a point where one has to draw the line…
Mary Beard… Even Taylor Swift loves ancient history (i paper) – our Mary getting down wiv the kidz in the junior poundshop Graun
And yet even posthumously they can still make the news: …the daughter who Freddie Mercury hid from the world (Daily Mail) – the singer from Queen didn’t want to ‘come out’ as straight then?
In further Queen news…
And finally, the formerly patriotic now rather liberal-minded Times consoles itself: The Queen was a Remainer
Oh, Naff Orf!
“and untruths that are being spread about asylum seekers. ”
……….. MACRON DOES NOT CARE ……… JUST WANTS THEM TO GO ………….
2017 Women and children ‘endure rape, beatings and abuse’ inside Dunkirk’s refugee camp
This article is more than 8 years old
The fate of those stranded by the UK’s decision to limit taking child refugees from France
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/12/dunkirk-child-refugees-risk-sexual-violence
Corroborating accounts from volunteers, medics, refugees and other officials reveal that sexual abuse is common within the large camp at Dunkirk and that children and women are forced to have sex by traffickers in return for blankets or food or the offer of passage to the UK.
Scroblene – hope you are well . Sadly a lot of the ‘frenzy ‘ of football crowds has now been destroyed by the ‘family friendly ‘ atmosphere ( ugh ) as well as the feminisation of footy – stewards who really are stazi just looking to throw people out …
Millwall is pretty exceptional and – I submit – an out post of the proper game . I’ve been there as both a neutral and away fan . There’s no where like it – it reminded me on Northern Ireland in the 1980s .
I don’t know if Britain will kick off – it’s a complicated picture now … but the likelihood of attacks by invaders is about to go up as they realise the State is on their side – the kids are at school so easy targets – and that plod will try to do nothing – same with the courts .
I reckon terrorism is as likely next step as hotels start burning . If plod /the state – won’t protect people – then people will DIY. Initially the stazi will pick up people planning because of mistakes is discussing planning online – but they ll refine the craft …..
The likes of David Starkey sees a ‘ Northern Ireland ‘ situation developing with no go areas of invaders from certain places controlling localities as is already starting – with the connivance of plod looking for an easy life and promotion .
As the numbers continue to grow- it’s inevitable …
Thanks Fed, you’ve made my ramblings into a more sensible view of what I really do understand as a huge riot, just walking around, waiting to happen…
It won’t be just in Epping, which is one of the nicest places where I used to work occasionally, and enjoy the ‘Britishness’ about the big wide streets and decent shops, but if there is also some ‘commotion’ in places like Southport, then I think it’ll take more than the fuzz to get going with their night-sticks against the likes of the chaps I mentioned earlier.
Starmer’s disgraceful ‘legal’ teams have got themselves right up there in the firing line, and no doubt, the problems they are causing will have a profound effect on future displays of defiance against the semi-criminal disregard for British Citizens, who want to see illegal foreigners out of the way for good.
And the football season has only just begun…
Fed:
The Home Office has now put it on record that the state’s obligations to illegal immigrants outweigh any considerations towards the people who actually pay their taxes. The social contract has been broken. The outcome will not be nice.
The Court of Appeal overturning of the Epping Hotel injunction merely confirms my cynicism of the workings of the legal system. Once again we have Judges making their own Law shaped by their own beliefs rather than applying the Law as made by our elected representatives.
In the Epping case, Planning Law was in consideration, it appears that the Council failed to use the Planning system to stop the use of the Hotel as a Hostel for some time. This meant that the Judge was able to determine that a precedent had been set. I’m sure if I tried to use my home for some use not allowed under planning law I would be subject to enforcement. In planning law the Government can create developments or changes of use where there is an essential need, the Government failed to make applications. My guess is that they didn’t make applications because they would have been refused which was indeed what happened in the Epping case. It would have been bad politics for Government, they have instead used a biased legal system to override the interests of local populations.
There was an interesting interview on GBNews of Stephen Barrett, a Barrister. He had a very low opinion of the Judgement but was careful not to criticise the Judges too heavily.
Flotsam – I might force myself to look at the judgement – unless TTK classifies it as ‘secret ‘ of course … but I heard bean criticise the council for not dealing with the planning breach long before . This – thought – was a bit rich . Also be raised the issue of disorder . This shouid be outside the judgement because the court cannot decide which disorder will be worse – the one where the hotel is banned from being an invader HQ or where it continues and attracts disorder from residents …
Many people – I think – realise the judicial system is now really corrupted – it was planned – with far left type Bean prepared and selected to be judges via an infiltrated civil service legal branch … resulting in the ability to put 3 muppets in place with a certainty of outcome .
The same will happen in the next judgement . But one way or another there will be a reckoning .
The judges are dancing a dangerous path – together with other lawyers – who like to hide under their wigs – but once they are researched – better known – they might become more personally accountable ….
Indeed. I have zero confidence that if this turns up at the Supreme Court that they will find for Epping Council. It’s also interesting that the continued use of the Hotel as a Hostel was justified by the Court by the fact that the Government has a problem, ie the ECHR , legal duties etc. Since when has anyone who has a problem been allowed to operate illegally?
I’m sure you’re both right, Flots and Fed, and although my legal knowledge hasn’t progressed beyond the Carbolic Smoke Ball case – ahem – it doesn’t take much nous to see a stitch-up in progress, and some ‘spectators’ might just start waving a bit more than a few banners!
Mr Bean (Lab) criticized the lower judge, Mr Eyre (Con) because he did not consider the difficulties of the Home Office in housing the illegal liggers if they were moved from the “hotel”. Since when is that a planning concern?? Bean and his leftist allies were never, ever going to find in favour of Epping Council (Con). This was political from start to finish, with the merest veneer of legality.
Scroblene /flotsam .
Im rusty – but I did get to a good quality Masters Degree in Law at a leading Univ londonistan college – so I have readed a lot of cases . I am not a lawyer – i have morals .
I’ve just done the 14 pages of Epping – the full judgement hasn’t been published yet .
Anyway -the speech is hostile to the council at the outset over failing to get involved in planning changes going back years . I’d say LJ bean is wrong there – it’s not their place to tell the hotel owners to apply for planning changes .
They Bean really lays into the initial judge by failing to allow the stazi from the home office to get involved when they asked at the very last minute . No criticism of his mates at the Islamic home office ….
Bean also refers to the duty imposed by the 1999 immigration act ( awful) which required the state to care for asylum applicants . A red herring because it doesn’t say they should be kept in the luxury such as Epping .
The judgement – as I predicted – is short – the argument about ‘disorder ‘ is also a red herring .
But bean and his conspirators could have wriiten anything – the Islamic home office would have won – the system is corrupted …
Decades of good judgements are now rubbished by what the Marxists have done . The shame – it won’t end well ..
Btw – looking back on my comments on this I realise I repeat myself – it’s so serious that I don’t apologise for it .
Asiseeit – thanks for putting that up – he does a far better analysis than me – the court of appeal went well outside the law and rambled around subjective stuff like ‘disorder ‘ …
They have taken a straightforward planning case and turned it political. The bias oozed from Mr Bean yesterday. The very concept of the rule of law has been dragged through the gutter. The politicization of the judiciary has never been more apparent.
Forget the courts and the judgements. Has there been even one Minister or Prime Minister gone down to Epping and talked to the demonstrators? I know it can’t be Angie because she has been too busy enjoying her pedalo and vapes, or drinking wine on the beach whilst living in her £800,000 flat. They might have sent Angela Eagle, she would have been very safe if she ad come across any of the hotel residents.
Electricity:
Daily standing charge 1 Oct: 53.68p/day
(UP 4.5%)
Currently: 51.37p/day 1
Gas: Oct: 34.03p/day
(UP 14.1%)
Currently: 29.82p/day
I see they’ve re-jigged the gas Standing Charge excessively to help the appearance of the excessive electricity SC look more fair & balanced.
The gas SC from 1st October? £124.21 per year.
I can buy 47kg Propane for £75 a bottle. That’s equal to 1.66 bottles of Propane which would probably last well into a year on my usage……………..
Food for thought. I welcome OFGEM coming closer to me……………
I wonder what’d happen if these loons had access to firearms? – instead they’ve Jolyon the fox killer and chums on the team.
We know what happens when they have guns, look at what took place in Minneapolis this week. The BBC is doing everything it can to avoid admitting the murderer was a deranged tranny.
According to Peter Hitchens, the murderer in Minneapolis worked in a cannabis store. He was sure the BBC wouldn’t mention it. He is convinced that cannabis smoking can cause violent behaviour and is frequently smoked by those men going to Ariana Grande concerts, attacking people on October 7th or similar events.
Thing is , they don’t call it dope for no reason, when I was young there was variety in the marketplace – it all seems monocultured antisocial superstrong whackout weed now with extra paranoia – in most of the long term users I know, there’s a lot of paranoia…
People with a fragile mental constitution shouldn’t touch it.
Funny how there was a ‘consultation ‘ on the standing charge – which hits low users and the ‘poor’ most – and nothing changed – guess the power companies paid the right bribe ..
As with all things it has been a process, albeit one accelerated by one Blair. T and his BBC restored fixer Mad. A, and then supercharged by successive blob heirs and now exploding like a Roman Candle under the TTK/Rayner/Reeves/Nandy/Phillipson etc ideological starburst of blatantly corrupt incompetence.
Law, Enforcement, Planning, Aid… all despised symbols of a new form of despotcracy milking the once golden goose enough to bail in luxury and leave the carcass to the poor working saps milked to fund their grasping ambitions.
Fed,
That cohort are the main targets of Millibrain & Co. Pick off the weakest first.
City of UK Culture 2025.
“Bradford has the highest proportion of uninsured and banned drivers in the UK, with one in every 191 drivers being disqualified. Police use Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) to identify and take action against unlicensed and uninsured drivers. ”
“Five local inquiries, which cannot compel the production of evidence, just will not do. Fifty towns were affected, not five. Bradford, where some of the worst abuse occurred, is refusing to co-operate with any inquiry at all. There has never been an inquiry in Bradford, because the council is refusing to participate.”
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2025-04-28c.33.0&s=bradford+council+rape+gangs#g34.0
Bradford’s language bubbles: ‘it’s perfectly possible never to speak English’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/18/bradford-language-bubbles-never-speak-english
Cousin marriage: What new evidence tells us about children’s ill health
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c241pn09qqjo
City of UK Culture 2025.
A reader in Bradford recalled asking a West Yorkshire officer on the street that day why the various “Muslim community leaders” weren’t being arrested for incitement to murder. The officer said they’d been told to “play it cool”. The calls for blood got more raucous. My correspondent asked his question again. The policeman told him to “F— off, or I’ll arrest you.”
http://www.steynonline.com/6296/the-churchill-bust
City of UK Culture 2025.
ABOUT TIME
After decades of playing along with innumerate bureaucrats and stupid, innumerate politicians it looks like some in a position to really challenge the dysfunctional state apparatus are choosing to demonstrate what happens when you choose to ignore reality….
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/eu-auto-industry-rebels-against-co2-targets/
“Reuters are reporting that Europe’s carmakers are sounding the alarm, warning that the European Union’s planned ban on combustion engines is no longer realistic and that climate rules could undermine the auto industry and the region’s supply chain.”
If they can offer civil servants a £75 bonus to wave through ‘asylum seekers’ why can’t they offer something to anyone who can stop a dinghy.
With some filmed proof of puncturing a rubber dinghy which forces the men in the dinghy to get out and go back and then taking this dinghy back to the UK could they be given something like £40,000 for each dinghy stopped. This is the cost of keeping one of these men for a year and these dinghies carry on average about 70 – 80 men (and maybe a wimmin or child for the msm)
Each dinghy stopped would save £millions.
HA HA AH AHAH A! HUMAN RIGHTS!
“New concerns about the safety and viability of the flagship UK-French policy to intercept migrant dinghies at sea have emerged after a coastguard log leaked to the Guardian revealed a recent boat-slashing incident that failed to stop people reaching the UK.”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/20/leaked-document-shows-boat-slashing-failed-to-stop-migrants-reaching-uk
The prime minister, Keir Starmer, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, announced a “one in, one out”
Details of the Bonus Scheme
How It Works: Asylum decision-makers typically have a monthly target of around 12 cases (though this varies by individual). For decisions made above this target:The first extra decision earns £50.
Each subsequent extra decision earns £75.
The maximum bonus is capped at £350 per month.
Purpose: The Home Office introduced this to accelerate processing and clear a backlog of tens of thousands of cases, partly driven by “massive political pressure” to cut costs like the £9 million daily spend on asylum hotels at its peak in 2023. In the first quarter of 2025, initial decisions reached the second-highest level since records began in 2002, more than double the pre-election rate.
Official Justification: A Home Office spokesperson stated that “rewards or bonuses for our staff are based on the consistent delivery of high-quality work and professional behaviour,” and all asylum decisions undergo “stringent quality checks.” The scheme applies to both approvals and rejections, not just granting asylum.
This is not a flat £75 bonus per case but part of a tiered structure for exceeding quotas. The initiative was revealed by i News based on sources familiar with the program.
Comment 6 years ago “8 years on and it’s the same. Nothing done about it.”
Comment “2011 and it’s only gotten worse. It all accelerated from 1997 with new labour.”
Comment 11 Years ago “I dont understand one thing, if these guys (DAVID CAMERON) say that its a failure……THEN WHY THE FUCK ARENT THEY TRYING TO END IT???!”
Cameron: State multiculturalism has failed
2,181 views 7 Feb 2011
“Echoing Angela Merkel’s recent comment that ‘state mulitculturalism has failed’ David Cameron presented his veiws on Islam, radicalisation, and the problems Europe is facing in terms of integration. The UK Prime Minister was speaking in Germany, at the Munich Security Conference this weekend.”
Let’s study how Idi Amin kicked out the Ugandan Asians to see any techniques. As I understand it, the Asian contingent was working to take over the country and put the indigenous population under their control.
Nothing really changes for the Asians does it?
Absolutely not BbC – but shouid have been on blue Peter when I was a kid – can I commend to you – especially chaps – on YouTube ‘ ‘a man’s guide to women ‘ on ‘Hot crazy matrix – tactical response crew …’… enjoy … I cried …
Im gonna watch it again even if it’s far too late for me …😳
Comment “This is the kind of ancient knowledge they burn in the library of Alexandria.”
“Hot is 0 to 10. Crazy is 4 to 10 as you never have a woman who is not crazy.”
Thanks – Marky – so many quotes …apparently there is a female response …
The simple man graph at the end is great CUTE vs MONEY
You will note that Kemi says it’s all wrong (14 years to fix it) and says everyone else is wrong – then says join us to build a better policy without saying what the policy is – this is literally click bait!!! HAH AHA HAH AHH AA
Comment “Only the Conservatives can clear up Labour’s mess.”
Comment “Junior Margaret Thatcher”
“The Uncomfortable Truth about Net Zero”
…………….Conservatives say Net Zero Bad – they added it to LAW! Idiots!………………………………..
Not enough coverage
What is the subject of your complaint? No mention of Rishi “UK exporter of energy” News
Hello,
This is big news, we will soon have cheaper bills and even export energy to other countries but none of your BBC news picked this up. “UK to become a net exporter of electricity.” (c) Rishi Sunak 11.06.2024 https://youtu.be/3CNThBxJjm4?t=2368#Conservative Party launch manifesto
It does beg the question why isn’t the UK doing this already or why aren’t we after 14 years of Tory power we in a position to sell energy or why haven’t Labour go the same policy?
Plus how is this going to be achieved? This is big news missed by the BBC.
From the DT Michael Deacon on ‘verify ‘
STARTS The other day I had a brilliant idea. The BBC had just been insisting that it was right to use the word “woman” to describe a biologically male killer who stabbed his husband to death with a samurai sword – and lots of people were angry. Poor old BBC, I thought. It desperately needs to find a way to avoid these rows.
Then, in a flash, the solution hit me. It should ask BBC Verify.
BBC Verify, after all, is a dedicated fact-checking service, launched by the BBC two years ago to “address the growing threat of disinformation and build trust with audiences”. So, if BBC bosses are unsure what a woman is, they should commission BBC Verify to find out for them. Its crack team of unbiased, scrupulously objective fact-checkers could consult leading experts – such as gynaecologists, midwives and GCSE biology teachers – and then establish, once and for all, whether or not women are the ones that have penises.
Think how wonderfully helpful that would be for the BBC. After years of confusion and controversy, everyone would finally know whether it’s factually accurate to say that a male convicted criminal who’s put on a blonde wig and a frock has become a woman – or whether such claims are simply disinformation spread by propagandists.
Sadly, however, I’ve since realised that my brilliant idea is a non-starter. Because, on Thursday, BBC Verify wrote about Robin Westman, the biologically male transgender murderer who carried out a school shooting in Minneapolis this week, killing two children and wounding more than a dozen others. And it referred to him using the words “she” and “her”.
“As soon as the name Robin Westman emerged online as the suspect,” wrote a BBC Verify staffer, “[we] found a YouTube channel which appeared to be associated with her.” In a notebook, the staffer added, Westman wrote about “how she [was] planning to shoot without aiming”.
As far as I can see, there are two possibilities here. Either the BBC’s rigorously impartial fact-checking service has conducted a landmark study of human biology, and confirmed that male child-killers can indeed turn into women. Or its staff are as ardently committed to promoting deeply contentious ideological beliefs as just about everyone else who works for our national broadcaster these days.
Which of the two possibilities is correct? I’d love to know. If only there were a publicly funded fact-checking service I could trust to tell me the answer.
Who’s triggered by British flags?
Essex County Council, we learnt this week, has offered “support” to staff who feel “unsettled” by the sight of British flags. The council’s “Children & Families Senior Leadership Team” said it was “aware of the increasing visibility of St George’s and Union Jack flags displayed on road signs, bridges and trees in parts of Essex”, and urged staff to “reach out” if it causes them “feelings of discomfort”.
I for one find this baffling. But not just because no sane person should feel traumatised by the sight of their own country’s flag. It’s also because the council itself flies the St George’s and Union flags from its HQ. So do the staff feel “unsettled” every time they arrive at work? Do they stagger to their desks each morning and then burst into tears, horrified that their own employer would subject them to this shocking emotional cruelty?
Surely not. Mind you, it might help to explain something. At the end of the pandemic, in 2021, Essex County Council said it expected three quarters of its 7,700 staff to continue working from home. Maybe this was nothing to do with a desire for greater “work-life balance”. The staff just couldn’t bear to return to the office, for fear of seeing those horrible British flags again.
While we’re on the subject, there’s something else I’d be fascinated to know. Do staff who get upset by the sight of our country’s flags get equally upset by the sight of other countries’ flags? I’m going to guess not. Because last year it was revealed that many councils now permit staff to do their work from exotic locations overseas. From 2021-23, for example, Enfield Council allowed 24 staff to “work in a hybrid form from abroad” in countries including Spain, Greece and Jamaica.
The moment the staff arrived in these countries, they will inevitably have been confronted by the sight of their national flags. I’m surprised they didn’t gasp in horror, snatch up their luggage and fly straight back home.
A new low in state-funded stupidity
Visitors to the Government’s “Find a Job” website this week will have seen adverts for some highly unusual roles. Bizarrely, candidates were sought to teach flower-arranging, cake decoration and something called “balloon-craft” to migrants facing deportation.
After this was reported in the press, a Home Office minister hastily ordered such roles to be scrapped. What a pity. We already knew how generous our superiors can be to those who enter this country. But I didn’t know they were equally generous to those few they decide to kick out, too.
“Awfully sorry to have to deport you, old chap – but, to make up for it, here’s a free lesson in how to make a dog out of balloons. I trust these skills will prove useful. As the old saying goes: ‘Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to make balloon animals, and he can almost certainly find a completely pointless non-job funded by the UK tax-payer.’”ENDS
Anybody who feels triggered by the sight of a Union flag or the St George’s flag should be removed from this country forthwith and flown, at their own expense, to a country whose flag they will be happy to look at. This includes citizens of this country, not just the illegals. My first nominee would be Starmer.
Should have happened to certain hefty ladies of nepo enoblement a long while ago.
Bizarrely now the same an embarrassing B team gob warmly welcomed to tv studios.
Davos or Parliament? DAVOS all the way, where you are not constrained by …. the people’s decisions.
“Surely They’re Trolling” – After The NES-Cart-In-A-SNES Debacle, The BBC Marks Windows 95’s 30th With An Apple Mac
https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/08/random-surely-theyre-trolling-after-the-nes-cart-in-a-snes-debacle-the-bbc-marks-windows-95s-30th-with-an-apple-mac
The author is clearly unaware about how utterly clueless the BBC Lefty activists are when it comes to anything in the real world.
The Apple Mac was brought in by the studio guest. He explained it was there because Apple were first to popularise a GUI.
4K Restoration: 1984 Super Bowl APPLE MACINTOSH Ad by Ridley Scott
During Superbowl XVIII Apple ran their “1984” Super Bowl Commercial directed by Ridley Scott,
“1984” Apple did not save us, it enslaved us!
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The term “China apple jumping from nets” most likely refers to reports of suicides by Foxconn workers, a major supplier for Apple. These incidents, which gained significant media attention, highlighted extremely poor working and living conditions at the electronics manufacturing plants in China, where workers jumped from nets designed to prevent self-harm but were also considered a symbol of the exploitative labor practices in the supply chain.
The BBC are massive Apple fanboys… They bought loads of Apple’s pisspoor and eyewateringly pricey Lisa machines back in the day.
I wonder why our immigration system does not work. Maybe this is why
https://www.gov.uk/government/people/seema-malhotra
It’s a mystery eh?
Why does every scumbag on the planet, even homegrown ones, have ‘rights’ but law abiding citizens get jailed for even thinking the ‘wrong’ thing?
I get the distinct impression that fees / billing drives UK justice and the swines that oversee the allocation of funding are politicised to an unacceptable degree.
It simply has to stop – somebody has to rein in the leftoid (commie, even ) gits who are pulling the strings and using the public purse (your money) to further their political agenda without the inconvenience of facing the electorate.
“I can’t help but think about we’ve got so many refugees that we kind of deny access to the country, so many asylum seekers that get deported, And it’s this Government’s policies that make my stories and and stories like mine very unlikely. It’s a bit of a shame and we really need to tackle it.” – Majid Majid
Mayor of Sheffield wants Sheffield to take in more refugees and asylum seekers … just like they do in Somalia. … oh,wait …
BBC news – inquiry into the corruption of the deputy PM . Mentions she has moved to Hove – but doesn’t mention she now lives 270 miles from her constituency …. Then they play a bit by A labour mouthpiece Charles Faulkner – who says she is ‘interesting ‘ and only getting attention because she is a fick northern bint … he knew it didn’t work – but he’s a lawyer used to selling himself as a prostitute…
migrants………..
Heading towards Russia? Is Zelensky in the queue on his way to his money tree?
I’ve heard that swerving being cannon fodder is a popular life choice – in fact I know several who are here, now….
I cannot blame them.
“The Government of Denmark has requested to buy thirty-six (36) PATRIOT MIM-104E guidance enhanced missile-tactical (GEM-T) ballistic missiles; twenty (20) PATRIOT Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) missiles;”
Remind me how many has the UK Government ordered for this country? Whatever the answer, it will not effect me. If the UK had ordered the Patriots it will be positioning them around Londonistan, Bradfordistan, Birminghamistan and other overwhelmingly important locations………
The BBC. Past masters at the art of reporting news which starts at the wrong point just to deceive any listening members of the public.
“Where can we house migrants?” The question they will explore in a dedicated discussion later. Simples BBC:
If the “migrants” weren’t here, there would be no problem in housing them.
House the migrants next door to Parliament… easy…..jpg)
https://memory-holed-news.blogspot.com/2023/07/boats-on-doorstep-see-problem-under.html
Edward Brown KC was the barrister for Starmer is the Epping case – he is a personal friend of TTK ….
His claim to fame is a quote in a rape case is that rape is ‘ a degree of perceived nuisance ‘… presumably he is a queer with no daughters …
“Fairness Pact” ?
…eesh
BUrn the Koran to end hate!
Seems the IDF has killed e head of the Islamic Houthi terrorist gang – with the possibility that they killed the whole Houthi ‘cabinet ‘ in an air strike last week ….
Keep going IDF …
I saw something about a Teams or Zoom meeting… next you know the Houthis be using AI!
I don’t know if look at X much – but I look a couple of times a day . Im not sure if it is me – but a war is already taking place there – 77 brigade – perhaps you can help – but the anger about the invaders and the Marxists is overwhelming ….
Some are saying TTK will restrict X – but perhaps it provides a bit of a pressure release – a bit like this site …
Restricting people’s access to information will only force them to acknowledge the fact that we now live in a dictatorship. The more restrictive they are, the higher the acknowledgement. And they will still get the information. This will not end well for Labour.
The Starmerist Dictatorship uses secret courts, super-injunctions, DSMA-Notices and thousands of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to restrict people’s access to information using censorship. Information censored by the state includes the censorship of the thousands of people who pasted pictures of the vaccine injured & dead on BBC buildings, like the one in Hull. Now, sacked, retired and independent Journalists, reporting on the ‘censorship of free speech’ in Britain to the US Government Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) team, say that the British government continues to uses ofcom, secret courts, super-injunctions, DSMA-Notices and thousands of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to censor and silence mainstream journalism. They say that the BBC lead Trusted News Initiative (TNI) is also used to assist the enforcement of censorship in compliance with the British State, especially regarding the censorship of critics, court witnesses, immigration, victims of rape and the vaccine injured. Dr Neale Hanvey MP reported that the most serious incidence of mainstream media censorship is the fact that up to the 28th February 2024 the MHRA reported 489,004 adverse Covid vaccine reaction reports including the MHRA estimate that only 10% of serious adverse events and 3% of non-serious events are formally reported. So the British mainstream media continues to censor a report showing that the MHRA estimates 15,416,140 deaths and injuries in the UK from mRNA vaccines up to the 28th February 2024. The only newspaper in Britain to report this was ‘The Light’ newspaper: https://thelightpaper.co.uk/subscribe/monthly
You can tell when a story has been released over the ‘TNI’ because it appears simultaneously across dozens of small news sites. My android phone news feed is flooded by it.
And the stories are always left-wing agenda based.
This is the modern Nazi (National Socialist) method invented by the third floor of the BBC to spread propaganda. They have to have plausible deniability now so their methods are more sophisticated but the root ethics and intent of the people doing it are exactly the same as they were back then.
The BBC lead Trusted News Initiative (TNI) says that Tommy Robinson is a member of the Nasty Socialist Workers Party, and that Starmer is politically far to the left of the Nasty Socialist Workers Party, unlike Churchill who was a far-right advocate for a strong belief in the defence of national democracy, freedom and free speech, and a deep scepticism of totalitarianism, marxism, communism and all forms of socialism, both nasty socialism and soviet socialism. Far Right ideology also includes support for Individualism, Christianity, Happiness, Family, Truth, Love, Peace, Patriotism, Medical Freedom and the Nuremberg Code.
Moggie – i agree – i cant see TTK restricting X – even when mass civil disorder kicks off because JD will tell 47 and 47 will register his displeasure about ‘the UK having a long history of free speach ‘ the concoction number 10 mohammed street came up with when TTK was challenged .
I think if 47 doesnt save us 48 will
I have Eastern European ancestry and learnt the history throughout my youth. The last year or so is communist revolution in action. The difference is that Russia in the 1910s wasn’t in the process of being invaded by an alien population with an agenda far removed from their orthodoxy. They also wouldn’t have been stupid enough to imagine that the invaders would support them with no agenda of their own. I defy Starmer to wipe his own arse in the dark. He’s an idiot, and a dangerous one at that. The type that invaders favour. Go figure. This sounds disjointed but I’m struggling to clarify. Several gin and rhubarb tonics will do that.
I can easily imagine that a Starlink terminal might become a must have….
No love lost between Starmer and Musk
The last time mass protests brought down a Prime minister and change of policy was the Poll Tax demonstrations.
A mass movement of withholding council tax payments worked.
I think it could work again.
Operation Raise the Colours
Vice President JD Vance has told the British people to “push back against the crazies” and keep putting up the flags. Patriotic British citizens are putting up flags across the nation, but facing significant resistance from the socialist government, local councils, the police, the RNLI leadership, leftists and illegal immigrants. Vance said “We should all love our country, be proud of our country.” Vance continued: “It is in fact a good thing to be proud of your country and we should push back against the crazies who say we should be so ashamed of our culture and our heritage that we shouldn’t be willing to fly a flag. It’s craziness, we’ve got to call that craziness out, and encourage our European friends to follow suit” “The problems of Europe reflect the problems of America” “What happens is you get higher crime, you get less cultural cohesion, you get more problems that come from importing millions and millions of low-wage foreigners into your country.”
In response to the ongoing protests, the UK government has created a new taskforce to monitor anti-migration sentiment online, and Home Office lawyers say that the rights of illegal immigrants to be housed in hotels, are more important than the rights of local residents and homeless veterans. The superior rights of illegal immigrants are upheld by secret courts, super-injunctions, DSMA-Notices and non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), paid for by taxing local residents, who unlike the illegal immigrants, are not given taxpayer money to afford the legal fees, needed to pay the left-wing lawyers, needed to fight the left-wing government in the left-wing courts.
In response to this, Elon Musk said “A nation with a government against its people shall perish from the earth!” and that “The government is committing treason against the people.”
Elon Musk said that “The nightmare happening to Epping and hundreds of other towns in Britain and Ireland will come to your town too, unless it is stopped by the people”
Sounds like he wont be sharing time with the gimp Lammy anymore . The respect for the flag will really resonate with the americans as – in my view – the flag and the constitution are the things which unite so many different people .
Only the flag united the British – apart from an unformed identity and folk pride going back beyond 1066 .
The marxists are keeping their heads down hoping this 🇬🇧is just a summer storm which will blow itself out. But i think people are .., Fedup …
Epping is about 5 miles from where i live . If i was in the UK i think id pop down there – i know it very well .., ok 77 brigade .. ?
I always admire entrepreneurs who can make enough in their businesses to employ many citizens, (those that want to work that is), even Richard Branson, who also doesn’t take any prisoners if it suits him and quite right too, so when another name – J.D.Vance, appears to chop down the socialist mayhem, (a manufactured method of letting uneducated, nasty, even psychotic nobodies ‘run the world’ just because they’re hopeless at doing anything themselves, and which is designed to cripple whole countries), it’s refreshing, and uplifting to see and hear.
I’ve worked for small, and large companies, and also for myself, and it is bloody difficult. Socialism squeals at me to work my socks off to give the results of my personal effort to those who are lazy, unemployable because of their rotten lifestyle, and also these undeserving foreigners, who come here to get handouts.
It’s bad enough trying to make a fist out of self-employment, but when marxists like Starmer, and his nasty, even evil, legal spaniels start waving objections to my efforts in my face with threats and promises of criminality,, then something is going to break pretty damned soon.
So I see the people of Epping, who are working hard for their families, are quite rightly pissed off with TTK’s blatant disrespect of their efforts by letting illegal foreigners take precedent over the people who actually pay for these luxuries, and it stinks to high heaven.
The bBC have responsibility to support their tax-providers, just like this failed ;government is supposed to do, and are totally woeful in their cover-ups which they continually spout and dribble to avoid saying that TTK is becoming a socialist tyrant, and there really is going to be a resolution soon, and that isn’t a mis-spelling…
But scrob the BBC is part of the regime – and really up against it because of the mood of the British public .
The BBC will exceed the expectations of TTK in the run up to the charter . Theyll label those challenging invaders with the usual race / far right labels .
That comment strikes a chord, Fed…
Naturally, I mistrust everything the bBC says or shows now, as their far-left insistence of misinformation is ingrained in all their output.
The ‘charter’ is an absolute laugh, and with the leftie poodles farting around at the ridiculous Ofcom, some of the mental lightweights who actually think the bBC is ‘right’, may well sit back and enjoy the Horlicks, but I’ll wager that after the appalling mis-reporting of recent days from the dreadful left-wing bias in the ‘comment’ from Epping, the bBC have lost yet another few hundred taxpayers!
The BBC are a big, fat turd that people are struggling to flush. But it appears, from the figures, that people are pushing it down the pan, by hand if necessary. And it is necessary.
Just as a post script to my previous post, I have some personal interest in who works here but maybe hails from elsewhere, and who doesn’t.
Over the last couple of weeks, the old Scrobs’ noggin has been subject to a certain amount of ‘rearranging’, for a minor physical procedure, and the result is just short of fabulous.
On both occasions, the entire staff in the theatres were clearly not the ‘old style’ Caucasian physog, and the scene was one of sincerity, kindness, certain professionalism, and a totally acceptable, (how can chopping off a BCC lump be ‘pleasurable’), result from skilled staff who really know their stuff! I have nothing but admiration for their hard work and benevolence, so when I hear of the undeserving, unqualified, uneducated and unwanted nobodies just rocking up on these shores, my heart goes out to these fabulous hospital people, who have made my later years a better place for me!
Seems the ABC in Australia is just as bad as the BBC here
I had occasion today to drive through Cox Green near Maidenhead and the number of England flags festooning lampposts and mini roundabouts gladdened my soul. Later I travelled along the M6 near Coventry and practically every bridge had a Union Flag hung on it. It made me smile, up yours BBC! Something is brewing…..
I was in Crook in County Durham this week and every single lampost and telegraph pole had an England flag on it
Are the racist pigs that put them up prepared to be arrested for making illegal immigrants feel ‘scared’? We can’t allow invaders to feel uncomfortable, can we.
BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – an unfortunate choice of words, BBC
The Great British Sewing Bee. To publicise it the BBC article had “What great Bristish sewer will be chosen” or somesuch. The Great British sewer could be our present Government or Angela Rayner or even the PM?
I was looking at Barb figures yesterday for the first week of August and the programme with the highest viewing figures was the Great British Sewing Bee. If I remember correctly it was nearly 3 million viewers. No, I have never watched it.
Government electric car “grant” or in other words “bribe”.
If the electric route was so bloody superior you would have no need to mandate stopping selling fossil fuelled cars as everyone would be flocking to buy the electric versions. The truth is that people either do not trust EV’s or simply do not have the infrastructure in their lives to make buying one a logical option.
Trying desperately to convince you to ditch your fossil fuel reliable transport with fuel support all over the country for an unreliable alternative that will simply make you anxious every day as to whether you will grind to a halt in an unexpected traffic holdup.
It’s a frigging farce not to mention hog tying the West into beholding to Chinese EV battery components.
You simply could not make this shit up, the government is stuffed with total bloody virtue signalling myopic idiots!
If EV’s are stupid in this country how much more stupid are they in countries with huge routes like The US or Russia or China come to that.
The Chinese battery makers must be rubbing their hands watching our government run around squeaking like headless chickens over the climate nutters running the show
Looks like the system is after the deputy PM . But if she has moved her principle private residence to Hove and saved herself £40k – that’s a fair avoidance of tax .
Which is one version of reality – but the other one is an enormous lack of judgement which number 10 Mohammed street has to see as ‘normsl] .
‘The system’ moves in predictable ways.
If one of their own exposes the hive flank too much….
Grifty (or tomo) beat me to it. I think it was the Labour luvvie last night on GBNews Paul somethingorother who said he thought she was worth £4.5 . Just where has the money been coming from? And if she is worth that why did Lord Ali pay for some of her clothes and her trip at New Year to New York.
> achieved a net worth of around £4.7 million and have 3 homes??
On her back?
The Sunday edition of our national broadcaster’s favourite paper, the Guardian, piques BBC staff interest yet again with one of their concept frontpages.
The Observer shuns the hackneyed old journalistic screamer headlines, red carpet starlets, celebrity revelations, awkward puns, serialised memoir teasers and all the usual panoply of both tabloid and broadsheet Sundays – instead seemingly handing the news editor’s job to a graphic design graduate – with a powerpoint and a hankering for advertising posters… or book covers, or something, anything, other than a throwaway or line the budgie cage tomorrow news sheet.
So it is that we are delivered of a full front cover map of the British Isles coloured in nostalgic TV weather forcast pale green set in a baby blue sea. Not for today are we being schooled in the climate crisis – so no parched sand buff, danger alert amber orange or brimstone flaming crimsons.
The Observer map is somewhat pinched at the middle with an old school tailor’s measuring tape curled around the Pennines. still using dressmaker’s tape…? Surely there’s a phone app for BMI or summit these days?
The Waist Land – is the pithy legend printed across the belly of the nation. Big up T. S. Eliot.
I’ll log this cover art as a State of the Nation moment – the Observer’s map of the British Isles looking all warped and out of shape. The boast “Established 1791” reminding us of our long island history and of centuries when we looked rather different.
As the clue to the artist’s inspiration for this gallery installation of frontpage are the article teasers: Britain’s new black market in weight loss drugs… Eli Lilly ramps up Mounjaro prices… Susie Orbach: fat is still a feminist issue (Observer) – I’d be flabbergasted if it wasn’t.
They didn’t quite have the courage of their convictions and go all in 100% on the map concept since above the title masthead the Observer couldn’t resist a nod to the regime-approved proxy war boycott, divest and sanction the Ruskies with a theatrical notice: Phantom at the Opera As drones and missiles kill civilians in Ukraine, Russia creeps back onto the London stage – boo, hiss!
Drones, you say? Here in the west we’ve plenty of ‘drones’: A large percentage of young American men are ineligible for military service due to health and behavioral issues, with obesity, mental health conditions, and substance use being the primary reasons. A significant portion of the military-eligible population (estimated at under half) fails to meet both BMI and physical activity requirements for service – thank you A.I.
That’ll be ‘drones’ in the sense of a male bee which does no work but can fertilize a queen. Or the ‘drone’ in slang: an idle person who lives by the work of others; parasite; loafer.
Most Britons would refuse to fight for country… As conflicts rage across the globe, a shock new poll reveals… – so frets the Sunday Express – and this far into the news review we at last get a proper doozy of a journalistic cliché: ‘a shock new poll reveals…’
Now we’re on firmer ground – mainstream media-wise. Illegal immigration is firmly off the frontpages and fatness is thrust in our faces. But fret not dear readers – there’s a cure all.
Jabberwocky, poem by Lewis Carroll, 1871
Gift of the jab… NHS stabs the flab 200 times an hour – the Daily Star Sunday – making it’s chops shooting up to number two spot in the BBC online print press line-up.
Powerful new blood pressure drug could help millions… Game changer heart pill ‘on NHS in a year’ – oh, Sunday People, how you do spoil us – two crashing clichés rolled into one: ‘On the NHS’ and the Keir Starmer government-style platitude ‘In a Year’ cf. ‘By The End of This Parliament’
Baby dies of whooping cough as child vaccination rates fall – frets the Sunday Times – gosh, I wonder what might have shaken our trust in vaccines? If only there were an officially constituted, judge-led, well-funded, currently sitting (assuming not on their long hols?) public inquiry that could look into all that.
If ifs and ands were pots and pans
When it comes to fretting over crises we hadn’t previously heard of – our BBC takes the biscuit: What if the world runs out of sand – and in more bad news for the arabs: Houthis confirm their prime minister killed in Israeli strike (BBC)
Those segueways, eh? They sometimes insist on writing themselves.
Our mate Matt in the Telegraph sketches a sandcastle on Brighton beach as mother warns junior: “Don’t touch it… Angela Raynor might have registered it as her main residence” – a preposterous notion – as if she would! It had a little St George’s flag on it.
When he leans left Newman in the Times tends toward the unfunny but today he likes our cartoonish Deputy PM as a source of comic material. Ange is pictured at a late night sitting – on a bar stool at the Hove Coctail Bar. The barman looks at his watch and asks “Haven’t you homes to go to?”
Keir’s worst enemies are close to home
Our most unpopular PM since records began may in fact welcome these trash talk attacks on his main soft-left rival for No10.
Deputy PM shock… Boyfriend works for firm linked to Government cash (Sun on Sunday)
Rayner ‘plots chicken run to safe seat’ after buying flat (Sunday Telegraph)
The learner drivers using dashcam footage to fight road rage
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2kz7kjpnkxo
The BBC are ALWAYS looking for poor female victims and nasty white males.
This is one of the biggest non-stories I’ve seen for a while. Basically someone behind her had stopped to let a car turn right from across the road. The car pulled out but ‘Teddy’ was totally ignorant of it and it appears the traffic was moving forward but Teddy was one of those who takes 3 times as long to get going as everybody else so the car pipped her to get going and he could get onto the right side of the road before the transit van got to him.
Poor Teddy apologised to herself but her very unpleasant passanger snapped ‘don’t apologise, you did nothing wrong’.
Then we are told how the car tailgated them with his lights on full beam. But why don’t they show that ? – they have the dashcam video ??. Sounds a lot like me that the BBC have worked with ‘Teddy’ and her extremely unpleasant friend to make the story as juicy as possible.
The lesson Teddy should have learned was ‘be aware of what is going on around you when you are driving and remember it’s not just you on the road’.
For some bizarre reason the BBC narcissist shows the whole child-like ‘interview’ as him talking to her on his laptop – and making sure he gets plenty of video of himself in the report.
I wonder how some utterly insignificant thing like this ends up in the BBC ‘in tray’ ?. Did Teddy’s ‘friend’ actually contact the BBC ?. I have a feeling that this whole story is another BBC fake where they decided the conclusion they want then manufactured ‘evidence’ to prove it. Just like Panorama do.