For those of a royal bent the big distraction this week will be a book by deceased ‘close acquaintance ‘ of prince andrew . Will the BBC default to its ‘respect ‘ for the Royals? Or go hard for him and his family?Meanwhile the ‘king?’ Will be going to the Vatican to ‘pray with the Pope ‘… really .
Start the Week 20th October 2025
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Excellent news
State borrowing out of control
Rachel faces her own ‘black hole’
Rachel might have break tax promises on – say VAT/ Income tax
Just over a month to the budget ….
How do you hide a blackhole? Put it into another black hole! HA HHA AH HA HAH A ! 14 years to plan a return! Failed in 6 months.
“Mr Garcha is continuing his questioning of Mr Majek and we heard Mr Majek went outside the hotel for a while to have a smoke and he spoke to a security guard in Arabic briefly before returning to the dining area. He is then asked why he was seen on CCTV footage leaving the hotel again at about 23:00. Mr Majek accepted the person in the footage was him, but said he said he had no interaction with Ms Whyte or her colleague on the front desk when he left.
He said he had left the hotel to smoke again and did not know Ms Whyte was leaving to get the train home.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c07mk599zznt
An asylum seeker accused of killing a Walsall hotel worker by stabbing her 23 times with a screwdriver on a railway station platform was seen on video dancing after she died, jurors have heard.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnvej88l56eo
https://liveuamap.com/
https://israelpalestine.liveuamap.com/
https://syria.liveuamap.com/en/2025/19-october-18-an-israeli-patrol-penetrates-the-village-of#google_vignette
An Israeli patrol penetrates the village of Rasm al-Halabi in the Quneitra countryside and sets up a checkpoint
https://venezuela.liveuamap.com/
“Trump: I ordered a strike on a terrorist ship off Venezuela.”
“Venezuela is moving troops into position and mobilizing what President Maduro asserts is a ‘millions-strong militia’ amid the biggest US military buildup in the Caribbean since the 1980s, according to the WSJ”
https://yemen.liveuamap.com/
“Iranian-backed Houthi rebels on Saturday raided a U.N. facility in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, a U.N. official said, but all staff were reported to be safe”
Folk can resort to Grok for a variety of reasons… clarity, confirmation or casting doubt.
In any of these functions it can be… erratic and at best a direction to follow.
https://x.com/grok/status/1980601325735096356
Terrorists thrive where unchecked extremism festers, including Israel’s borders and disputed West Bank territories—Hamas operatives embed among civilians, while fringe settler groups like Hilltop Youth have perpetrated attacks labeled terrorism by Israeli courts. Witness claims alone, as in this BBC piece, demand video or multi-source verification to counter narrative bias. OFCOM scrutiny could expose if it’s journalism or advocacy.
Here it raises doubts on BBC standards of journalism but also leaves things open, but not much. It hints at a key aspect… how is a masked assailant to be confirmed as a member of one group or other?
This of course applies to a variety of violent or alleged violent collections, from Jan 6 protestors to Antifa petrol bombers.
Reading the full BBC story linked, that has not become apparent, despite being updated 3 hrs ago.
Tom Bennett, in Jerusalem, and Alaa Daraghme, in Ramallah, occupied West Bank appeared to be relying on a 3rd party (whose google offers pages of this story and several outlets hardly encouraging), whose testimony also does not confirm who the assailant is. They may wish to pointlessly correct the headline on this basis, as OFCOM again does nothing.
They might also wish to not ask about these two sentences:
“The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told the BBC the confrontation was dispersed after its forces arrived, and that it “strongly condemns any form of violence” by settlers.”
“He said Israeli soldiers had been on-site prior to the attack and had “lured” him and others into an “ambush”. He said soldiers “sped off” just before the settlers launched the assault. The BBC has put this specific allegation to the IDF.”
That is a semantic, irrelevant repetition conflating a bunch of accounts.
This is her:
https://x.com/Curios02435570/status/1980342841147855278
Tough old bird. Amazing Nate got access. Seems the perp was wearing IDF boots for clearer ID.
I note also this.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8g9p0ppe0oT
en-year-old Palestinian boy shot dead by Israeli forces in West Bank
Big guns.Yolande Knell, Middle East correspondent, Reporting fromJerusalem and Jacob Evans, BBC World Service, Reporting fromJerusalem
From… Jerusalem.
“A 10-year-old Palestinian boy has been killed by Israeli forces in a village south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli military says its soldiers opened fire on Thursday in response to “confrontations and rock-hurling” directed at them. “Residents of al-Rihiya say that Muhammad al-Hallaq and his friends had been playing football in a local schoolyard when they saw Israeli military vehicles and began to run.”
Uh huh.
Maybe OFCOM might ask the BBC to ask ‘resident’ why kids were either ‘just playing’ or ‘hurling rocks’ before hitting BBC AI Hamas edit on editorial?
World at one
The paki paedo muslim grooming rape gang inquiry – jess phillips has ministerial responsibility for making the inquiry fail ….
My estimated Time scale
Christmas 2025 Chair of inquiry appointed
March 2026 First chair resigns –
Summer 2026 second chair appointed
Autumn 2026 – terms of reference agreed
Winter 2026 – inquiry begins
Evidence destroyed
Witnesses disappear
Summer 2028 – interim report to ministers
Winter 2028 – ministers discuss interim report
Summer 2029 – no inquiry report – … inquiry scrapped pre election …
18 March 2019 – View full entry
9. Family members employed and paid from parliamentary expenses
I employ my husband, Tom Phillips, as Constituency Support Manager. (Registered 07 June 2015)
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=25364&chamber=house-of-commons
Name of donor: Medical Aid for Palestinians
Address of donor: 33a Islington Park Street, London N1 1QB
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): Flights, accommodation, food and transport with a total value of £854
Destination of visit: West Bank and Israel
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Name of donor: All Party Parliamentary China Group (sponsored by Arup, HSBC, Cambridge Assessment, John Swire & Sons and City of London)
Address of donor: House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA
Estimate of the probable value (or amount of any donation): International flights £1,442; accommodation £274.69; food, drink and transport £70.93; total £1,787.62
Destination of visit: Beijing, China
Dates of visit: 6-10 November 2018
Purpose of visit: To strengthen relations between the UK Parliament and the National People’s Congress of China; to support British businesses operating in China; and to deepen the understanding of parliamentarians of China.
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9 September 2015, £200 paid by Ipsos MORI, 79-81 Borough Road, London SE1 1FY, for completing a survey. Payment donated to local organisation. Hours: 1.5 hrs. (Registered 06 October 2015)
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=25364&chamber=house-of-commons
6 December 2015, received £350 from the BBC, New Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London W1A 1AA, for appearing on ‘This Week’. Hours: 2 hrs.
stabbed? stabbed? stabbed 23 times in the head!!!!!!!
“Asylum seeker accused of killing hotel worker denies being at scene”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c07mk599zznt
“Rhiannon Whyte was found stabbed on a platform at Bescot Stadium railway station in Walsall in October 2024
She died three days later in hospital
The 27-year-old worked at a hotel that was used by asylum seekers
Sudanese national Deng Majek, who claims to be 19, denies murder and possession of an offensive weapon
The defence dispute the identity of an individual captured on CCTV following Ms Whyte and dropping her mobile phone into the River Tame
Mr Majek said he never went to the railway station on the night she died, and was at the hotel at the time”
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https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/about
first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe
stabbed 23 times in the head!!!!!!!
first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe
https://www.gov.uk/government/people/shabana-mahmood
“The deal that means Prince Andrew can still afford to live in Royal Lodge”
30-room mansion = 29 migrants
His deal on the 30-room mansion means he has only ever paid a token annual rent – and even that might not be required under the terms of his lease.
30-room mansion = 29 migrants
The rent is described as a “peppercorn”, which means a small sum such as £1, which can be paid every year on a long lease, as part of a legal arrangement between a tenant and the landlord.
means a small sum such as £1
means a small sum such as £1
Stuff in 5 migrants per room.
Small boats hold 300! 300 per room! Small rooms!
Can you imagine a chief constable being charged with fraud over his claim to have fought in the falklands war when he was about 12 ?
And wore the ribbon
Sums up the cortuption of plod completely now ….
Happy Trafalgar Day – maybe it needs to be renamed so as not to offend the cheese eating surrender monkeys …