Start the Week 6th October 2025

This thread covers the second anniversary of the Islamic Hamas terrorist attack on the border of Israel.What can we expect from the BBC ? more endless Hamas propaganda press hand outs treated like they are true ? BBC reporters sneering at the Israeli PM ? The constant portrayal of Muslims as victims ? You can guess . Keep going 🇮🇱

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246 Responses to Start the Week 6th October 2025

  1. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    I see some people in London are spraying pickpockets with dye so that others will be able to see them.
    A good idea except that it will not be long before a load of youths and other pickpocketers get a paint spray and mark all the innocent shoppers and pedestrians so nobody will know who’s a pickpocket and who isn’t.

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  2. tomo says:

    I thought Zack might’ve been a bit more vocal about his gayness?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Worth asking though?

      “Islam cannot be either ‘moderate’ or ‘not moderate.’ Islam can only be one thing,” Erdoğan said in a speech at a program hosted in Ankara by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on women’s entrepreneurship on Nov. 9.

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  3. MarkyMark says:

    “With Kipling, it was you put down the tea and become a full blown hater. Toby I guess is asking when will that happen, when will people be pushed too far? … The character of a people can be changed. And it can be change quicker than you think. The Chinese for example one child policy … they killed all the girls, and had a boy. If you have surplus young men who can’t get any action – become the first gay super power since Sparta. … They now change it and end one child policy, in the intervening of 4 decades the Chinese lost habit of large families. The government can change the dispassion of the people. A guy questioned by police for half an hour for liking a post on a transphobic post. ” Mark Steyn 6 Years ago

    ……… HOW IT STARTED

    Merseyside Police apologise over incorrect ‘offensive’ claim
    Published 22 February 2021

    ………….. HOW IT’S GOING …
    An ex-police officer has won a legal challenge against a national policy for forces to record gender-critical views as non-crime “hate incidents”.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-59727118

    “Being offensive is not, cannot and should not be an offence,” he said. 20 December 2021

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  4. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      China? Russia? South Africa where only black people get contracts? India where they have a caste system?

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      • Scroblene says:

        Londonistan under the other goblin mare, where you get robbed/stabbed/gassed in the filthy underground…

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  5. MarkyMark says:

    “The Khmer Rouge’s takeover was rapidly followed by a series of drastic revolutionary de-industrialization policies which resulted in a death toll that vastly exceeded that of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror by the Jacobin leader Maximilien Robespierre.”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Zero_(political_notion)

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  6. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Iryna, the girl murdered on the train, Charlie Kirk and the Synagogue killings.
    All more or less forgotten now (as usual) only to be mentioned when it suits some politician.

    We’re now waiting for the next murders/killings to get outraged about for a couple of days.

    Each time for a day or so we’re told enough is enough and this time it’s different and something will happen…..but it never does, does it.

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  7. tomo says:

    Dear Bill Maher

    On the September 12, 2025 episode of Real Time, whilst discussing my arrest at Heathrow Airport, you said: “Last week, the Irish sitcom writer Graham Linehan, who’s won an Emmy and five BAFTA awards, got off a plane at Heathrow and got arrested by five British police officers, not because he was selling drones to the Houthis, just because he’s a crank who spends way too much time online ranting about gender ideology.”
    You also stated: “Some have expressed that opinion with literary sophistication, like J. K. Rowling. Some by getting big laughs, like Dave Chappelle. And some are downright ugly about it, like Linehan.”
    I had to wait several days before I could write this. Your words hurt – they always do when they come from establishment figures with the platforms and protections I’ve never had. But I didn’t wait because of that. I waited because the sheer audacity of what you did demanded a measured response: calling a fellow journalist a ‘crank’ for investigating a story you’ve ignored for a decade.
    Let me explain why your characterisation of me is both unfair and callous.
    I have been covering the harms of gender ideology since 2017 – eight years ago. In 2018, I joined thousands of others in asking for a more civilised debate on an issue that affects the safeguarding of children and the rights of women. For this, I was cancelled across the board. I lost my career, my marriage, my financial stability. I was made notorious by flippant. unserious commentators like yourself, and then punished for my notoriety.
    For nearly a decade, I have been subjected to relentless litigation by dangerous men, including one paedophile fraudster. I lost a musical that would have been my pension. My arrest at Heathrow was the latest in a pattern of police harassment orchestrated by trans activists – the same people whose targeting of women and children I’ve spent years exposing.
    During these eight years, I have given a platform to numerous experts, journalists, and advocates who have been doing the difficult work of documenting the harms being done to children and women in the name of gender ideology. Like Kara Dansky – a feminist attorney who has testified before Congress, authored two books on the subject, and been a leading voice for women’s rights in this debate. You have never invited her on Real Time. I interviewed and published her years before you addressed this issue with any substance. The list of women I have spoken to includes Mia Hughes, Stella O’Malley, Kelly-Jay Keen, Helen Joyce, Maya Forstater, Megan Murphy, and Genevieve Gluck, among many others. I imagine this letter is the first you’re aware of their existence.
    You didn’t substantively address this issue on Real Time until May 2022 – five years after I began, and three years after you briefly mocked Democratic candidates’ positions on it in 2019. Your May 2022 segment asked: “If this spike in trans children is all natural, why is it regional? Either Ohio is shaming them or California is creating them.” These are important questions. They’re questions people like me had been asking for years while you remained silent.
    Let’s talk about Jazz Jennings – a name that I’m fairly sure has never come up on Real Time. He (yes, he) has been in the public eye since the age of six – 18 years of documented exposure. Since July 2015, he has been the subject of a TLC reality programme: ten years, eight seasons of televised child abuse, the systematic destruction of a child’s health, broadcast as entertainment.
    This is a boy who was gender non-conforming as a toddler. His terrible error, for which he will be punished for the remainder of his life, was being himself in view of an opportunist, fame-hungry mother. He has been medically transitioned, including castration, all with parental consent and broadcast for public consumption. This is what you dismiss as crank obsession: a televised crime against humanity that you should have been investigating but instead left to people like me with a fraction of your audience and resources.
    You call my approach ugly. If I am ugly, it is because I am covering an ugly topic whilst receiving ugly threats, and whilst journalists and humorists like yourself have left their posts. I apologize for daring to enter this debate years before either Chappelle or Rowling mentioned it – and for doing so without the protection of their millions or billions, unable to defend myself from either trans activists or establishment figures like yourself.
    Throughout all this, I have remained at my post. You never even turned up for duty.
    I understand why you and others have been reluctant to cover this issue. I understand the fear. The consequences for speaking up are real, as I can attest. But that fear does not give you the right to defame someone who has sacrificed his career and safety to do the work you have not done.
    This was an episode defending free speech. In the same segment where you condemned my arrest for speaking, you called me a crank for what I said. You’re defending the principle whilst attacking the person who actually used it, proving you’re no friend to those who risk everything by speaking up.
    I am asking you now to do the right thing. Issue a public apology on Real Time – the same platform where you defamed me. Acknowledge that calling me a “crank” was wrong, and that my work on this issue has been substantive and necessary.
    I believe you’re capable of recognising when you’ve been unfair to someone, particularly a fellow comedian and journalist who has been doing difficult work under difficult circumstances.
    Graham Linehan

    from: https://x.com/Glinner/status/1974955706043507036

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  8. Deborah says:

    You all know I do try to link my comments to the BBC. I’m sorry but I fail with this one but please celebrate with me. In the north I am a Waitrose girl and have given up buying mangoes there because they are hard with white flesh. Today I am in London and went to M&S. I bought an extremely large mango. Its flesh is deep orange and sweet. To add to the pleasure, after reading the label, the pleasure was greater. ‘Produce of Israel’. Avoid the co-op and BDS. Please buy Israeli produce.

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  9. Scroblene says:

    I never studied politics, because I went out and got myself a real job when I left school, but one thing I never understand, is how Marxists manage to accumulate so much wealth?

    The Millibands seem to attach themselves to a country’s money like leeches in some shape or other, and there seems to be a trend in the same thing happening with all socialists, fiddling the tax system, the expenses debacle, and the rest…

    Had the money I – and the majority of decent British Citizens, paid in tax and NI over the whole of our working lives, been used wisely, Great Britain would have a marvellous future, but instead, the fruit-juice drinkers, the glazed-eyed, limp-wristed wishful-thinkers and their associated failures have all descended into ‘politics’, and are now in charge of a failed ‘democracy’, which they have no intention of understanding, and care less, as long as they get loads of our dosh.

    The uniparties are the best example of such idiots, and since Margaret Thatcher’s great days, the old country has just gone from bad to worse…

    With a plump, obnoxious tax-paid voice in the bBC, what more do they need to do to maintain their bloated lifestyle?

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  10. Flotsam says:

    I heard Chris Akabusi on GBNews agree with Gary Neville regretting the use of the Union and St George flags by patriots. His reasoning was that he had served the Queen as a soldier under the Union flag and the use of it on the streets is divisive. Please bear with me when I say that I understand him and Neville but only to a degree.

    The problem is that the division was in fact created by Governments, the imports, featherbedding of illegal immigrants, two tier justice, Palestinian flags everywhere, the lies and gaslighting all came first. It’s not the patriots that created the need for our flags to make a statement like “we’re still here”, “we matter as well”. It’s regrettable that this has become to be seen as divisive. Akabusi and Neville need to understand why this is happening.

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  11. Up2snuff says:

    Addenda to my post at 8.57 a.m. on the old comments (ie. first page of the S.t.W. Thread).

    Why would the pro-Left/pro-Labour BBC suddenly include the Independent news paper in their newspaper line-up on the BBC web-site? It could not be that the Indy front page has a very bad headline for the Conservative Party, could it?

    Now there’s a thing!

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  12. taffman says:

    “Stop the boats” and “Crush the gangs”.
    When ?
    When our supine government gets our armed forces involved !
    Give all the money we pay the French to the Royal Navy.

    We are being invaded !!!
    Next time vote , Reform UK

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    • Scroblene says:

      You’re bloody lucky that they don’t turn up in Cardiff Bay or the gorgeous Mumbles…

      Here, in Kent – and even Sussex, we get the whole lot of these illegals, and somehow get to have to pay the bill for their upkeep, hotels, phones, food etc.

      Don’t believe a word of what KCC, TTK’s ‘border farce’ and the rest tell us.

      We’re s*****g well paying.

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      • taffman says:

        Scroblene, we are being INVADED !
        We need a new government.
        None in, all out.

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  13. MarkyMark says:

    Not looking from his penthouse….”TAX WEALTH. NOT WORK!”

    He currently lives within the London Borough of Hackney with his partner, Richie Bryan, who works in palliative care.

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    Forget snake oil – mind oil – baby oil with P.Diddy! Go Zack.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      The frightening thing about the green crap party is that a lot of people who should know better will vote for them next time instead of Reform …. The blues and reds being dead by then of course …

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  14. MarkyMark says:

    British parts found in Russian drones, Zelensky says
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5e9zlpz6eo

    Chinese parts found in Ukraine and Russian Drones.

    Russian Oil found in India’s industry.

    Ukraine aid money found in Zelensky’s bank account.

    Iran parts found in Russian drones.

    Turkish parts found in everyone’s drones.

    Drones to be given pronouns so they cannot be used in hate crimes.

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  15. Flotsam says:

    There was a Green Party Political Broadcast earlier. A bigger load of Marxist twaddle would be difficult to find. It’s frightening to think that there are people who will vote for their insane nihilistic Communist policies.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Give trees a vote!
      Trees vote to eradicate people so they can have more trees.

      ……..

      The Green Party in government will:

      Implement a fair and humane system of managed immigration
      Treat all migrants as if they are citizens vote winner
      Give all residents the right to vote
      Help families to be together
      Dismantle the Home Office
      Abolish the No Recourse to Public Funds condition
      Abolish the ten year route to settlement
      Stop the profiteering from application fees
      Stop putting people in prison because of their immigration status
      Accept our responsibility for the climate emergency and support the people forced to move
      https://migration.greenparty.org.uk/migration-policy/

      Give all residents the right to vote
      Give all residents the right to vote
      Give all residents the right to vote
      Give all residents the right to vote
      Give all residents the right to vote
      More migrants = more votes.

      MG306. Language requirements will be removed from all applications. Free language classes will be made available to promote and encourage integration.

      FREE FREE FREE

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  16. MarkyMark says:

    Labour cannot define Working Person.
    Labour cannot define a woman.
    Can the Green Party define super rich?
    Gary Lineker, Chris Packham, Huw Edwards, Stormzy, Diane Abbott?
    Super rich is own more than a million pounds in savings?

    ^^ Media to ask the rich questions about these slogans.

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  17. Fedup2 says:

    40 years to the day – according to the esteemed Colin Brazier – writing on X – a man called Keith Blakelock – was stabbed to death in N17 – on the Broadwater Farm .- during a riot by the coloured folk – vermin . PC blakelock was a copper – a proper one – not like the muppets of today . RIP …. just think ..40 years …

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    • Deborah says:

      I was sorry when Colin Brazier and GBNews parted ways. His monologues at 8pm were well crafted and echoed my views. Then he was moved to 4pm which wasn’t a time we watched tv.

      Has the BBC marked the death of PC Blakelock? Has the BBC even remembered him? May he rest in peace.

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  18. Sluff says:

    It’s yet another triumph for multiculturalism and open door immigration……………

    A gang responsible for exporting almost half of the mobile phones stolen on Britain’s streets has been dismantled in an extraordinary sting operation.

    Scotland Yard’s commissioner hailed the series of raids as the ‘biggest counter-phone theft operation in the world.’

    Roughly 300 officers smashed into 28 homes across London simultaneously in the dead of night to arrest groups of pickpockets and robbers behind an epidemic of snatch thefts.

    Two days previously, two Afghan gang leaders thought to be responsible for shipping 40,000 stolen devices to China and Hong Kong were dragged from their car and arrested in north London.

    The two men, codenamed Heron and Seagull, are at the head of a gang responsible for fuelling Britain’s £70million-a-year phone theft epidemic and were caught with a bundle of devices wrapped in foil to block their tracking signal, police chiefs said.

    The car driven by the pair, aged 34 and 32, was a people carrier that had been converted into a mobile ‘chop shop’ used to disable and transport the stolen devices.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15166993/Britains-phone-theft-kingpins-Gang-export-HALF-UKs-snatched-handsets-fortune-shipping-40-000-China-smashed-dramatic-raids.html

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Let’s hope they got their phone call whilst in custody

      Elsewhere – the producers of paddington bear ©️a third world invader – are sueing spitting image ©️over their parody of said invader and his less the cuddly performance – it’s on the YouTube and it’s pretty good … …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Their son likes Chicken Nuggets cooked in UK so cannot be deported?

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  19. wwfc says:

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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  20. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Founds fun…. “What followed were disturbing revelations about how these children had been raped, trafficked and intimidated, predominantly by men of Pakistani heritage.”
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4ynzppk80o

      Some were doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, while others were threatened with guns, made to watch “brutally violent rapes” and warned they would be next if they told anyone.

      In just over a third of cases, the victims were previously known to social services because of child protection and neglect issues.

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  21. tomo says:

    Interesting….

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  22. andyjsnape says:

    Jenrick defends calling Handsworth ‘worst-integrated’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy85zlpwne6o

    Jenrick is right, I know the area well

    Maybe the bbc could actually go there and see the truth

    Also visit Leicester, Bradford, Ilford etc

    White flight happens, because they dont want to live in the 3rd world

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  23. AsISeeIt says:

    There’s a familiar old English phrase that tells us talk is cheap.

    Starmer urges students not to protest on 7 October (BBC)
    I’ll sack activist judges to tackle pro-migrant bias, says Jenrick (Telegraph)

    Not so cheap is the poundshop (plus 10% price hike to £1.10) junior novice Guardian that is the i paper which snaffles top spot in the BBC news online print press line-up this morning.

    ‘UK Gaza protests going ahead’ – is the gobbet of headline which catches the eye of our BBC staffers. Although the reading age of the i paper may aim a tad lower than big sister and ultimate leftist doyen Guardian (think BBC Introducing Artist of the Year award winner 2023 Olivia Dean – as compared with market leader Taylor Swift) yet i paper headlines do nonetheless tend typically to be rather verbose: UK Gaza protests going ahead… – one feels a journalistic ‘despite’ coming on… ‘despite Starmer…’ ?

    However, this is a leftist rag when all said and done and criticism of their man will come only from the left and our Sir Keith (or his advisor – whoever that is this week) is straffing right on this issue – at the moment at least: UK Gaza protests going ahead today on anniversary of October 7 massacre… Keir Starmer denounces plans for pro-Palestinian protests at campuses across Britain as ‘unpatriotic’ (i paper) – talk is cheap.

    PM’s anger at student protests on October 7 – echoes the regime mouthpiece Times: Starmer lambasts Gaza rallies as un-British

    This from our globalist, adonoidal, personality by-pass, hollow man with a dearth of hinterland, Sir Keith… blest as he is with the character of a man who couldn’t baste a chicken let alone seriously lambast any protest unless he sensed it was vaguely ‘far-right’

    It’s an iron rule of the British left that the answer to anything even slightly right-leaning is NHS.

    Reform’s threat to NHS as Nigel Farage plans new model – but Brits say no (Mirror, three weeks ago)

    And so today we have: Labour’s new visa rules put NHS at risk, warn nurses (Guardian)

    I’m inevitably put in mind of Tony Hancock’s The Blood Donor: Hancock to June Whitfield: “I didn’t come here for a lecture on communism, young lady!”

    Will green aviation ever get off the ground? – frets the FT’s ‘Big Read’ – tempting Betteridge’s law of headlines. Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

    In further editorial anguish at the pink paper: Trump’s assault on Soros chills US charitable sector (FT)

    Biggest phone gang smashed – yells the ever-excitable Daily Mail

    Time to call your lawyer! ‘Kingpins’ held in raids ‘smuggled up to 40% of all handsets snatched in London to China’ – echoes the freebie giveaway Metro – where in the tiniest of frontpage small print we learn: Two Afghan men, in their 30s have been charged in connection…

    Last week, officers made a further 15 arrests on suspicion of theft, handling stolen goods and conspiracy to steal. All but one of the suspects are women, including a Bulgarian national. – admits the BBC through gritted teeth.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      One iPhone led police to gang suspected of sending up to 40,000 stolen UK phones to China
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20vlpwrzwdo

      ……….. Maybe it was Labour’s stolen phone that cracked the case? …..

      Louise Haigh pleaded guilty to lying that her work mobile phone had been stolen in 2013, according to a court document seen by the Guardian which sheds new light on the controversy that triggered her departure from the cabinet.

      The former transport secretary accepted the charge in a London magistrates court that she had dishonestly reported to her employer that her BlackBerry had been stolen, prompting her conviction for fraud and a £100 fine.
      https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/10/louise-haigh-pleaded-guilty-to-lying-that-phone-was-stolen-paper-shows
      Fri 10 Jan 2025 16.46 GMT

      ^^ LABOUR DOES NOT GET MENTIONED AT ALL IN THE ARTICLE – HA HA AH AH AHAHA HA H A

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    • Deborah says:

      I wonder how many potential demonstrators for today, read Starmer’s article in the Times and now think, at his request, they won’t go.

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  26. MarkyMark says:

    William and Kate Build 150-Acre Security Zone Around New Windsor Home

    The Royal Family Channel
    @royalchannel

    ……………………………

    HA HA HA HAH AAH A
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  27. vlad says:

    The town of Dearborn, Michigan, now has the Muslim Call to War blasted out over loudspeakers 5 times a day.
    David Wood warned America about the Islamic threat 17 years ago.
    He went to Dearborn then to hand out Christian literature and was promptly arrested, while muslims were free to hand out their propaganda.
    Two-tier policing alive and well in America too.

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  28. JohnC says:

    BBC correspondents share their memories of 7 October
    https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c931ek1e09ko

    Here we have the two of the most anti-semetic BBC reporters telling us their memories of the Oct 7th attack. The vile Yolanda Knell and the Muslim reporter Rushdi Abualouf who has no trouble spreading fake news blaming Israel for deaths caused by Hamas.

    I watched it to see what these two are like – and as expected, they are both a bit weird. But the main thing that struck me was that neither said they felt any horror at what Hamas had done. They absolutely ignore it. Yet both DO express their concern for what might happen to their friends in Gaza as a consequence.

    Rushdi even told us he found out about it when someone in Hamas texted him a picture. Clearly he knows plenty of terrorists personally.

    As usual for the BBC, what they don’t say gives them away for what they are : far-Left anti-Jew racists.

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  29. Scroblene says:

    As both red and blue labour are copying Reform’s policies, and calling them their own, the Sith Floor at Taxpaid Towers must be in a quandary about what to order the cubiclists to write next!

    As the hatred of anything commercial is abundant in anyone who ‘works’ for the far-left state broadcaster, one wonders how they’ll fare after Thieves has pinched a few more million from pensioners next month!

    ‘Freeze, starve and die’ is certainly a mantra much beloved by TTK, Lummox and Thieves, so they can justify their extreme-left supporters and muslims – however rich the latter are.

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    • Guest Who says:

      ‘‘Twas ever thus; pols will say anything to get elected, then once in do whatever they want for as long as they can before being thrown out.

      But this has no accelerated to a democracy terminal and nationally suicidal degree.

      Before one could at least rely on a degree of media account holding to arrive at some kind of ‘politics of the least bad’ judgement, but with propagandists such as a £5B state broadcaster no utterly compromised it is not easy.

      Last election I was going to vote Reform as the incumbent epitomised the lazy Tory wet malaise. But the candidate put up at the hustings was so awful he could not be inflicted on us locally despite the necessary message at national level. This is a separate if clear issue epitomised by Labour faith blocs.

      If Reform stops importing failed blues and vets properly I may reconsider, and at least they have the time in which to do it sensibly assuming TtK and his hordes have not created a civil war first.

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      • atlas_shrugged says:

        Guest

        You have hit the nail on the head.

        There is no use throwing out one useless bunch only to have another useless bunch take its place.

        I want access to the candidate well before an election. This is something Reform are failing to provide in my local area. Unsurprisingly Reform then come 2nd or 3rd in the resulting elections which is no use in a first past the post.

        Personally I prefer to be out leafleting with the candidate to get some idea of what they think. Posh expensive diners I can do without.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Maybe we can shut down the government like in the USA – and not open it again!

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  30. vlad says:

    It’s only a 15 second clip but it speaks volumes: German police deal robustly with a Hamas-supporting bully who tries to intimidate a lone woman.
    Our own cops would probably have arrested HER for resisting being bullied.
    https://www.facebook.com/reel/1555215322313683

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  31. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/fatemperor/status/1889386697235873833?s=61

    One might suspect bbc verify steers clear of this.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Make a great terrorist weapon – see Samsung

      Samsung suspended sales of the Galaxy Note 7 and announced an informal recall on 2 September 2016, following the discovery of a manufacturing defect in the phones’ batteries, which caused some units to generate excessive heat and combust, causing the phone to catch on fire or even explode.

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Guest Who, 🙂 x 10!

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  32. Fedup2 says:

    The footage of a woman cutting yellow ribbons in Muswell Hill is pretty painful on such a day . How can there be that much hate ?
    But does she commit a crime ? I guess it’s that public order act one of insulting behaviour . She certainly didn’t cover up what she was doing – no face mask – done in broad day light .
    But will plod make the effort to find her ? Not too sure ….

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  33. Fedup2 says:

    The Kemi one was interviewed on today – she got a fair crack of the whip – no drug fuelled interruptions by comrade Robinson .
    Listening to this loser I think she was hoping to be interrupted – coming up with lame policies which should have in place 10 years ago,- just hopeless .

    How can anyone seriously think about voting dead blue again ?

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  34. MarkyMark says:

    Renewables overtake coal as world’s biggest source of electricity
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2rz08en2po
    ** balanced report

    Solar panels typically last for 25 to 30 years, after which their efficiency begins to decline but they still produce electricity, often around 80% of their original output

    The expected service life of wind turbines is approximately 30 years. This does not mean that every individual turbine component is designed to last for 30 years.

    China’s control over the global rare earth supply comes from decades of strategic investment in mines and processing, utilizing state subsidies and less stringent environmental standards to create a near-monopoly, particularly in the processing of these crucial metals for advanced technologies. This dominance gives China significant geopolitical leverage, which it has used in trade disputes, for example, by imposing export controls on key rare earth elements, leaving Western countries, particularly the U.S., vulnerable to supply chain disruptions.

    From landfill to a new life: dealing with wind turbine graveyards

    Recycling Matters / Shining a Light on a Growing Battery Waste Problem

    £3.8 million in contracts awarded to mitigate the radar risk of windfarms
    https://www.gov.uk/government/news/38-million-in-contracts-awarded-to-mitigate-the-radar-risk-of-windfarms

    A review paper concluded that North Atlantic right whales may respond to wind turbine operational noise at distances up to a few kilometers away, in a quiet habitat

    “Yes, in the event of a war, large offshore wind farms could pose a strategic vulnerability, potentially blinding military radar and other sensors with “clutter” from turbine blades, which can obscure threats like incoming missiles or submarines. They could also be vulnerable targets themselves, as damaging their massive blades is relatively easy and would render the turbines inoperable, according to an Energy Central article. ” Google AI

    How ‘modern-day slavery’ in the Congo powers the rechargeable battery economy
    February 1, 202312:38 PM ET

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    • tomo says:

      Anything the BBC “report” about climate / renewable energy is almost without exception – complete , stinking piles of lies and insinuation. They can’t even stop themselves from mad exaggerations – it’s all in a noble (Marxist) cause apparently.

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  35. MarkyMark says:

    “Pakistan, for example, imported solar panels capable of generating 17 gigawatts (GW) of solar power in 2024, double the previous year and the equivalent of roughly a third of the country’s current electricity generation capacity.”

    imported solar panels – China buying power!
    Do this our we cut the electricity.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2rz08en2po

    Note – China also built a nuclear power station for Pakistan.

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  36. MarkyMark says:

    The prime minister did not attend an Eid party at Downing Street that several invitees shunned over the government’s support of Israel.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68818484

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  37. MarkyMark says:

    Robert Jenrick has had a furious row with Sky News this morning after he was accused of enabling the ‘far-right’ by raising his concerns over integration in communities like Birmingham. Concerns attacked by the Guardian last night…

    Presenter Kamali Melbourne accused Jenrick of singling people out for the colour of their skin to which he snapped back, insisting “we want people to be living in mixed communtities, don’t we.” Melbourne eventually went further:

    “That kind of language does give support for people on the far-right who don’t want to see brown and black people.”

    https://order-order.com/2025/10/07/watch-on-air-spat-after-sky-news-accuses-jenrick-of-supporting-the-far-right/

    ………………..

    IRO analysis shows the primacy of London- and Birmingham-based individuals among offenders as well as higher than average relative deprivation and Muslim population at neighbourhood level.

    Click to access Islamist-Terrorism-preview-1.pdf

    After London, the second most common region in the UK was the West Midlands, with 18% of IROs. Of these,
    80% (14% overall) were living in Birmingham.

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  38. MarkyMark says:

    Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9r5m74de8o

    Photo two women with nice little cases to reinforce who is entering the country.

    The select committee also pressed Clearsprings on why £17m had been paid to an offshore company, Bespoke Strategy Solutions Ltd (BSS) – based in the United Arab Emirates since 2019.

    ………………………………………………………………………………

    David Cameron admits he profited from father’s Panama offshore trust
    This article is more than 9 years old
    PM sold stake in Blairmore investment fund, which featured in Panama Papers, for £31,500 four months before entering No 10
    https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/07/david-cameron-admits-he-profited-fathers-offshore-fund-panama-papers

    Revealed: ‘anti-oligarch’ Ukrainian president’s offshore connections
    This article is more than 4 years old
    Volodymyr Zelenskiy has railed against politicians hiding wealth offshore but failed to disclose links to BVI firm

       9 likes

  39. MarkyMark says:

    Omission is the greatest lie …
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  40. JohnC says:

    I read a comment earlier about Owen Jones saying that a Muslim thinking about throwing a gay man off a building was the ultimate example of a racist comment.

    Setting aside it has nothing to do with race – which Owen knows full well but likes to use the nasty word – I thought I’d see what the Koran says about it. And to my immense amusement, I see the ‘modern’ Left have done their usual trick of twisitng reality to mean something entirely different which suits their own agenda. Just like they done with Hitler – the first far-Right socialist in history.

    The lesson about days comes from the book of Lot:

    ‘Traditional view: The majority of Islamic scholars interpret the story as God condemning the male inhabitants for attempting same-sex acts. They cite verses where Lot condemns his people for “approaching men with desire instead of women”.’

    And what have the monumental Lefties tried to change it to ?

    ‘Alternative view: Some modern activists and scholars argue the narrative is not about consensual same-sex relations but about the people of Sodom’s transgression of hospitality by attempting to rape Lot’s guests. ‘

    The glaring error in the second being that it is then not done ‘approaching with desire’.

    AI then gives me a list of examples where opur friend the academics (who tell us Hitler was far-Right) clutch at the most ridiculous straws trying to interpret certain wording in ways it was clearly never meant to infer that Allah does indeed fully support homosexual relations.

    I’ve got to hand it to the Left : they do not have any ethics whatsoever about lying through their teeth if the truth doesn’t fit their own agenda. Owen Jones is a truly vile hypocrite full of hate.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      For Mr. Qasim Rashid Islam is the cure, not the problem … “How the teachings of Islam could help us prevent more sexual abuse scandals” {independent 15oct2017}
      http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/harvey-weinstein-islam-sexual-assault-rape-womens-rights-a8001521.html

      “This is where Islamic teachings and Prophet Muhammad’s example provide a solution that no state truly can. And while there are people who don’t believe that sexual abuse is even a problem, some on the left will disagree that accountability to a higher power is a solution. ”

      “Yes, Islam implores accountability to the creator, but rather than preach empty dogmatic theories, Islam instead prescribes a proven secular model.”

      “The Quran further obliges men to provide for a woman’s every financial need, while holding that anything a woman earns is hers alone – preempting financial abuse. And when it comes to the Islamic concept of Hijab, it is men who are first commanded to never gawk at women, and instead guard their private parts and chastity, regardless of how women choose to dress – pre-empting sexual abuse.

      “Together, we can employ a proven Islamic model that will stop this madness, and
      re-invoke gender equity today in America, and the world.

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  41. MarkyMark says:

    This is worth listening to….pandemic period failures….

    From Lockdowns to Long-Term Thinking: A Call for Change | Molly Kingsley Social Democratic Party (SDP)

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  42. MarkyMark says:

    Chinese EV giant BYD sees UK sales soar by 880%
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3w5jl2jgqwo

    Chinese firm ‘trying to shut down British steel industry’
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/04/12/politics-latest-news-keir-starmer-british-steel-parliament/

    Charges dropped against two men accused of spying for China
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpd94le39e7o

    Approving China embassy would be unlawful, UK government told
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c864w2942vdo

    He called on Rayner’s replacement, the new Housing Secretary Steve Reed, to be provided with unredacted plans, as planning permission “cannot lawfully be granted on the basis of the redacted plans”.

    redacted plans
    redacted plans
    redacted plans

    …………….

    Despite being the world’s second-largest economy and top manufacturing power, China continues to assert its developing country status through arguments about per capita income, rural-urban inequality, and historical responsibility. This allows it to maintain beneficial treatment in international organizations while critics argue this stance is increasingly untenable.
    https://defense.info/highlight-of-the-week/chinas-developing-country-status-how-beijing-defends-its-global-south-identity/

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  43. MarkyMark says:

    Only reach people can have an opinion and not lose their jobs … HA HA HAH AHA HA

    “Gary Neville is not set to face any action from Sky over his outburst against ‘angry middle-aged white men’ following last week’s Manchester ”

    ……………Qatar flag good. English flag bad. …………………..

    Gary Neville is humiliated hosting BBC’s Have I Got News For You as panelists turn on him over World Cup commentary role, declaring ‘You don’t have to go and take the Qataris’ money to highlight abuses’
    Neville sparked blacklash over pundit role for state broadcaster beIN SPORTS
    Qatar has been heavily criticised over human rights and homosexuality stance

    Neville explained that the prevalent issues could be raised during commentary, but he was mocked as Hislop imitated how such comments would be made, saying: ‘And it’s the kick-off here in this appalling country with its human rights record and honestly I think… ‘Oh someone is kicking a ball’.

    Manchester United legend David Beckham has a £10million ambassador deal with Qatar

    Neville said human rights records in the UAE and Saudi Arabia – who are both heavily involved in football through their ownership of Manchester City and Newcastle, respectively – were ‘worse’, but the two countries seem to avoid the level of scrutiny and criticism aimed at Qatar.

    I guess money can cause amnesia

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  44. MarkyMark says:

    rat people
    rat people
    rat people

    Start of the end … “The millennial era of “work hard, play harder” and “girl bossing” has given way to a new trend. In China, at least, Gen Zers are proudly calling themselves “rat people”—they’re spending entire days procrastinating in bed, scrolling on their phones, snoozing and ordering take out. ”
    https://fortune.com/2025/05/11/unemployed-gen-z-rat-people-china-spending-entire-days-in-bed-doom-scrolling-global-issue/

    She satirically likens her reclusive “low-energy” routine to that of a rat—and her videos are racking up hundreds of thousands of likes and inspiring others to follow suit.

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  45. MarkyMark says:

    “Hamas fires rockets into town attacked on Oct 7
    Memorial events being held across Israel to mark anniversary of deadliest attack in its history”

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/10/07/hamas-rockets-israel-october-7-anniversary-gaza-war/

    Hamas are our friends (c) Jeremy Corbyn

    BBC say rocket was full of aid to support Israel. (c) BBC verified.

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  46. vlad says:

    BBC still headlining some angle of the Stephen Lawrence killing.

    And much outrage over the mosque arson.

    One thing the BBC isn’t talking about are the thousands of churches that have been attacked, vandalised or burned in recent years, not just in UK but across Europe.

    Funny that.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Relax – just replace them with a Mosque to stop Islamophobia.
      Flames-smoke-Notre-Dame-de-Paris-April-15-2019.jpg

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      • vlad says:

        Ah, the famous Notre Dame cathedral that was ‘accidentally’ set alight by a stray Gauloise, and which the authorities assured us had absolutely nothing to do with islam, WHILE IT WAS STILL BURNING and before either the police or the firefighters had had a chance to get anywhere near, let alone investigate the cause.

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  47. MarkyMark says:

    This is all bullshit. “There to represent Prime Minister but cannot answer questions. ha ah haha ha h”


    Penny Wong gets caught out by ‘clever’ question on ISIS brides
    Senator James Paterson

    “Theres reports (on taking in Isis Brides) are not accurate.”

    “Which bits are not accurate?”

    “I’ll get back to you.”

    What is this madness.

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    • Guest Who says:

      It would be wise for Penny, if being snotty, not to come across as thick as well as rude.

         5 likes

    • moggiemoo says:

      “… but cannot answer questions …” Surely that represents the PM perfectly?

         4 likes

  48. Lunchtime Loather says:

    Do I have Islamophobia?

    A “phobia” is by definition “an irrational, unrealistic, persistent and excessive fear of an object or situation”.

    What replaces “phobia” when the fear is genuine and realistic?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Just a miss understanding…
      This-suspect-in-the-killi-010.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none

      Lee Rigby killer Michael Adebolajo launches personal injury claim
      Published 8 September 2017
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-41203229

      Adebolajo has begun a High Court action against the Ministry of Justice relating to a personal injury claim.

      An MoJ spokesman said the claim would be “robustly” defended, adding: “The public will be rightly outraged at the thought of this offender claiming compensation from the taxpayer.

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