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  1. pugnazious says:
    September 16, 2025 at 4:42 pm

    This is the fourth most read on the BBC site….and yet somehow it has been promoted from a second line story to the top story on the site….

    ”The bombing has been insane’: Gaza City Palestinians scramble to flee Israeli assault’

    This is the most read…which must be painful for the anti-Monarchist BBC….people still interested….

    ‘King at Duchess of Kent’s funeral but ill Queen did not attend’

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  2. vlad says:
    September 16, 2025 at 5:18 pm

    Has there been a rough consensus yet on the numbers at the Unite the Kingdom rally? (I don’t mean from the government liars, the police liars, the BBC liars, the mayor of London liars etc, but it must be very easy for an independent body to estimate, given all the tech now available and the aerial footage etc. Or even a bloke with a calculator.)

    Let’s say 1 million. But for every one of them, how many more would have wanted to be there, and supported the movement at least in spirit? 5… 10… 20?

    You see where this is going: those are big, BIG numbers!

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  3. MarkyMark says:
    September 16, 2025 at 5:41 pm

    The War on Reality … “That’s why they’re now trebling down on it: if biological sex is a mere “social construct”, all things are possible.

    I see Lance/Lula Twiggs calls his/her/their opponents “cisfags”. He/she/zher has a point. Had the opposition to this madness been less cisfagulous, we wouldn’t be in this mess. America’s geopolitical rivals – Tsar Putin, Chairman Xi – have the advantage of presiding not only over more or less conventional ethnostates but also societies where there are only two sexes”

    https://www.steynonline.com/15582/the-war-on-reality
    The War on Reality by Mark Steyn Steyn on America
    September 15, 2025

    ……………………
    David Lammy GETS EXPOSED in the First Parliamentary Session as the Deputy Prime Minister

    ^^ And these are the people looking after our security – look into the weeds and get into the bill. HAH AHHA HA HAH AH AH HA H A HAH

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  4. tomo says:
    September 16, 2025 at 5:52 pm

    The Hillsborough Bill

    Click to access 240306.pdf

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  5. tomo says:
    September 16, 2025 at 5:59 pm

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  6. Richard Pinder says:
    September 16, 2025 at 6:06 pm

    President Donald Trump intends to put Britain’s clampdowns on speech at the very top of the agenda: https://www.infowars.com/posts/trump-to-confront-starmer-over-uk-anti-free-speech-laws-during-state-visit

    After wreath-laying at the tomb of Queen Elizabeth II, he heads to Chequers on Thursday for what now promises to be a fraught meeting. The free speech battle is not new. According to The Independent, Trump previously “berated Keir Starmer over free speech” during private talks at his Turnberry resort in the summer, according to a source close to the president.

    Fueling the row are recent cases that have drawn international attention: Lucy Connolly’s imprisonment over a tweet, the armed police arrest of comedy writer Graham Linehan at Heathrow, and the UK’s Orwellian Online Safety Act. The British state police arrest more than 30 people every day for unapproved comments on the internet or other platforms, totalling around 12,000 arrests per year, 30 times more than Russia, which is no longer a communist dictatorship. The Labour Government uses secret courts, super-injunctions, DSMA-Notices and non-disclosure agreements, to censor Government critics, rape victims and the vaccine injured.

    Trump is also expected to mention the findings of the US Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) team, which visited Britain earlier this year. Evidence of election interference by the British, using censorship and propaganda, and promoted by the BBC lead Trusted News Initiative (TNI), and evidence that GCHQ, on behalf of OFCOM, block U.S. Senate hearings.

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  7. Guest Who says:
    September 16, 2025 at 6:06 pm

    Sometimes information arrives in perfect sequence.

    https://order-order.com/2025/09/16/exc-miliband-allies-blamed-for-no10-implosion-and-trying-to-destabilise-starmer/?

    Frankly one might imagine anything Mad Ed does would struggle to increase the instability of TTK, but there you go.

    Luckily, one of way too many curiously funded outlets has this in complement:

    How to make climate action popular again

    (Again? Ed)

    Welcome to edie Pulse, the newsletter helping reporting and communications leaders navigate the world of sustainability-related claims and disclosures.

    We’ve been out and about in London recently, despite the tube strikes.

    (Of course you have, dear. Ed)

    Our senior reporter, Sidhi Mittal, attended the launch of new research from Climate Outreach tracking what Brits really think about green policies.

    (That’s really think… based on research. Ed)

    There, she spoke to Energy Secretary Ed Miliband. He shared his advice on creating climate-related messaging and campaigns – backed with tangible action – that cut through the noise and disinformation.

    (Because Ed is an expert in misinformation. Like the BBC. Ed)

    “Some people in politics have decided they don’t support this agenda, and we shouldn’t be intimidated by that,” said Miliband. “The stakes are incredibly high.”

    (Be a shame of some people who are his boss think the oily little weasel is an anchor too many, despite the Polaroids)

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  8. pugnazious says:
    September 16, 2025 at 6:24 pm

    Gold is so wet he could get a job at the BBC. Some might think he is posing as right-leaning as he sees which way the wind is blowing. The worst thing he could imagine is being anti-immigrant…bit of a slip letting that out. Not the first time he’s let the mask slip either.

    Watch from 20 minutes to see him get his backside spanked for naive and stupid thoughts….

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  9. Guest Who says:
    September 16, 2025 at 6:39 pm

    Eagle eyed readers may notice a significant absence from the country that gave us the Forth Bridge, Great Western Railway, Drednaughts..

    https://www.visualcapitalist.com/who-makes-the-worlds-steel-top-10-countries-ranked/

    Still, at least Iran is keeping up production, no doubt for cranes.

    Me, I am hoarding food cans and have a solar powered smelter to go with my heat pump.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      September 16, 2025 at 8:23 pm

      Russia buying Iranian drones – whilst India buy Russian oil and sell to EU at double prices! HA HA HAH AH AH

      Largest Steel Producers in the World
      China – 1,032,790 ktǂ
      India – 118,201 ktǂ
      Japan – 96,334.5 ktǂ
      United States – 85,791.4 ktǂ
      Russia – 75,584.8 ktǂ
      South Korea – 70,418 ktǂ
      Turkey – 40,360 ktǂ
      Germany – 40,066.3 ktǂ

      …………….

      The steel industry in the UK is in considerable financial distress. The government has taken over running Chinese-owned plants in Scunthorpe while Liberty Steel plants in Rotherham and Stocksbridge collapsed into government control last month.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4y2gge7p1o

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  10. popeye says:
    September 16, 2025 at 7:19 pm

    Have you noticed that the first reports about the size of the Unite the Kingdom march, from the BBC and other sources, was 110,00?

    An interesting figure. 100,000, 150,000, 200,000 etc all look like “estimates”. But 110,000 is obviously “counted” and therefore accurate.

    I wonder whether this figure came from the Downing Street “nudge unit” psychologists?

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  11. Fedup2 says:
    September 16, 2025 at 7:22 pm

    Pop eye – the way the internet is im surprised someone hasn’t done a ‘whole ‘ March breakdown by grids or something to prove the numbers who actually made it to central London ..

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  12. JonathanR says:
    September 16, 2025 at 8:28 pm

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  13. Philip_2 says:
    September 16, 2025 at 8:47 pm

    Ncuti Gatwa: ‘Playing the Doctor was exhausting – I was ready to move on’

    FASHION: In Telegraph today:

    “After school, Gatwa attended the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland for three years of classical theatre training then moved to London when he was 21 and did more theatre, which is what he thought he’d be doing for the rest of his career. But everything changed in 2018, when he was cast in the Netflix series Sex Education as the flamboyant teenager Eric Effiong. It ran for five series, and was followed by a role as one of the Kens in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie”.

    An image you will not forget….
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/fashion/2025/09/05/TELEMMGLPICT000436890895_17570656727120_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqHlUPu1R6WCwjv5bkInkwhr3aK-r6gpSeLtY6JzLck4A.jpeg?imwidth=960
    …
    “And transform he did – into Doctor Who. Gatwa got a lot of praise for his role as the 15th incarnation of the Doctor. But in the end he was only in it for two series (the shortest run of any Doctor, apart from Christopher Eccleston). He loved being the Doctor, he says, and immersed himself in it entirely. “But I was tired and burnt out at the end of series two. It was exhausting. But it was a magical time, magical.
    “There was never an opportunity to recoup the energy – it’s just go, go, go. I was doing seven-day weeks for eight months, and I found it hard being away from home and family. I’d already been shooting in Cardiff for five years (on and off) prior to that with Sex Education, and we started shooting Doctor Who while I was still doing Season four of Sex Ed.”
    :
    Picture in underpants (caption)
    “:Gatwa wears: Pearl- and crystal-embellished shirt, £795, Simone Rocha; Wool shorts, price on request, Loewe; Cotton hat, £296, Ruslan Baginskiy; Leather shoes, £290, CamperLab; Socks, stylist’s own; White gold, diamond and pearl earrings, £27,000, and white gold, diamond and pearl ring, £29,700, both Boucheron”

    ;‘Television is hard’
    His next job was The Roses, with Olivia Colman (just out), which is a remake of the 1989 divorce black comedy The War of the Roses. And then he went straight into rehearsals for Max Webster’s The Importance of Being Earnest, alongside’ …… etc, etc

    (yawn)

    I am sure you will agree that the above is probably the worst Dr Who ever. Luckily I never knew he was Dr Who, or have ever watched any episode. But he seems very suited to the BBC, not that we care that much or ever watched it. Not many did, he was the worst ever I read, and we all switched off. The BBC are still trying to recover viewers, but it looks terminal. I think its been cancelled since.

    Yes, this is how our BBC TV license is spent. if not the idiot above, anyone who aspires to be a ’ Dandy’ very queer and ‘soft in the head’ are the only qualifications you need to get on the BBC pay cheque.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/people/ncuti-gatwa-interview/

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    • JonathanR says:
      September 16, 2025 at 9:09 pm

      The last time I watched Doctor Who he was played by Tom Baker. Like everything else on the TV it is past its sell by date.
      Look at the TV schedules for the week and it will be the same as the week before and in most cases the year before.

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    • JonathanR says:
      September 16, 2025 at 9:15 pm

      You can just imagine the BBC when they got his application.
      We have an application for the role of Dr Who from Ncuti Gatwa

      “Is he any good?”
      “Who cares he is called Ncuti Gatwa thats all we need to know”

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  14. tomo says:
    September 16, 2025 at 8:59 pm

    11% – it’ll be below zero by November

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  15. tomo says:
    September 16, 2025 at 9:13 pm

    If it comes with a bonus toilet roll, I’m in

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  16. JonathanR says:
    September 16, 2025 at 9:27 pm

    I see the headline is Starmer HIDES from Commons in Mandelson debate. Well if you look at who was there then you could say the majority of Labour MPs hide from Commons debate.

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  17. JonathanR says:
    September 16, 2025 at 9:35 pm

    Putin has a point. (Hope I don’t get arrested for saying that)

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  18. pugnazious says:
    September 16, 2025 at 9:47 pm

    The BBC finally notices that the government’s illegal migrant gaslighting scam has failed…but no….it didn’t fail…the illegal chancer ‘won’…great success….

    ‘Eritrean man wins block on removal to France under ‘one in, one out’ deal’

    All those hours sweating out a narrative line to take in the editorial meeting and the spin is in…..but note….it is the government’s own words that allowed him to stay…

    ‘During the hearing, it emerged that while the home secretary’s own officials had rejected his claim that he was a victim of slavery, they had also said in a letter today that he had a right to make further representations – and they would not expect him to do that from France.

    Mr Justice Sheldon, who rejected the man’s claim that he would be left homeless and destitute in France, said that he would nevertheless have to temporarily block the man’s departure in light of that development.’

    The Home Office sabotaging their own plans….go figure. They never wanted to get rid did they?

    Stop them even landing and it won’t be a problem….and shut down the BBC which is a huge part of the problem.

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    • JonathanR says:
      September 16, 2025 at 10:10 pm

      How does 1 in 1 out decrease illegal immigration? Does that mean if 5,000 come in we send 5,000 back and France give us another 5,000? Well we know in reality that it means all in and none out? If I ran France I wouldn’t stop them coming over either.

      The only way to stop it is to tow them back to France It may upset the French for a week but it would mean there would be no more illegals on French beaches as there would be no point. Eventually even France would benefit What would be the point going all the way through France to find that you could never get over the channel?

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      • taffman says:
        September 17, 2025 at 12:00 am

        JonathanR
        “How does 1 in 1 out decrease illegal immigration? ”

        It doesn’t . They take us all for fools
        It should be, ‘send the lot back’ !
        Our so called worthless government needs to be kicked out!
        I foresee a general election on the way !
        Expect more Tory MPs to “Jump Ship “

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      • JohnC says:
        September 17, 2025 at 5:24 am

        From the Guardian:

        It has been trumpeted by ministers as a “gamechanging” deal but Home Office sources said it will only apply to about 50 asylum seekers at first.

        “All transport costs incurred in connection with readmission pursuant to this agreement shall be borne by the United Kingdom,” the documents state.

        ‘France can reject a requested removal if it “considers that an individual would be a threat to public policy, internal security, public health or the international relations of any of the Schengen states”.’

        ‘Eritrean man wins block on removal to France under ‘one in, one out’ deal’
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1dqe2443l1o

        ‘In the first legal challenge against the deal, in the High Court in London, his lawyers argued he needed more time to present evidence that he might have been the victim of modern day slavery’

        WTF ??? – he’s claiming Asylum from FRANCE ????. And we are accepting it ??.

        And who is paying all these legal bills ?.

        It’s a complete f*cking joke which the BBC are spinning to try and protect our Far-Left government from Farage.

        If the kidults at ‘BBC Verify’ go anywhere near this farce, it will be to defend it.

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      • JohnC says:
        September 17, 2025 at 5:27 am

        Precisely Jonathan.

        BBC Verify tried to explain why we can’t do that. The only actual reason was that we would have to ask the permission of France first – and if we didn’t, they might consider it an act of war.

        Pathetic : we should pick them up, take them back to the beach they came from and dump them there. And f*ck what the French say : we have paid them to stop it anyway. We should bill THEM for doing their job.

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  19. JohnC says:
    September 17, 2025 at 5:57 am

    ‘Completely different, yet genuinely get on’ – BBC correspondents on Starmer and Trump
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c9dxq447dwvo

    I just couldn’t bring myself to watch it – but eventually forced myself.

    And was exactly what I thought it would be : two senior BBC ‘correspondents’ displaying just what odd people they are and clutching at a few very small straws to infer Trump really likes Starmer. One of their points to ‘prove it’ is that they are both under pressure about Epstein !!. WTF ?.

    The vast majority of the rest is pure pro-Starmer propaganda. It’s off the scale. It’s meaningless rhetoric which doesn’t show they get on whatsoever.

    The fact is that Trump says nice things about EVERYBODY when they meet. He even said this about Kim Jong Un:
    ‘“Great personality and very smart. Good combination. He’s a worthy negotiator. He’s negotiating on behalf of his people, a very worthy, very smart negotiator’
    Which is VERY similar to what he said about Starmer.
    He butters them up to get what he wants. All businessmen do it.

    This is an odd article by any standard and shows just how desperate the BBC political masters are at the moment to tell them to do it.

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