Start the Week 20th October 2025

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 .

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  1. Fedup2 says:

    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 ….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      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.

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  2. MarkyMark says:

    “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

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  3. MarkyMark says:

    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”

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  4. Guest Who says:

    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?

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  5. Fedup2 says:

    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 …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      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

      ……

      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.

      ………………………..

      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.

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  6. MarkyMark says:

    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”

    ……………………..

    About us
    The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure. The Home Office plays a fundamental role in the security and economic prosperity of the UK.
    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

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    https://www.gov.uk/government/people/shabana-mahmood

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  7. MarkyMark says:

    “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.

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    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

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  8. Fedup2 says:

    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 ….

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  9. Fedup2 says:

    Happy Trafalgar Day – maybe it needs to be renamed so as not to offend the cheese eating surrender monkeys …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The British Navy won the Battle of Trafalgar, led by Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, against the combined French and Spanish fleets on October 21, 1805. Despite being outnumbered, the British fleet achieved a decisive victory, though the win was bittersweet as Nelson was killed during the battle.

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      ** the statue needs to be pulled down as it makes French people cry?

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  10. Fedup2 says:

    Wow – the covid inquiry is running again . Why bother ? When it’s published will anything change ? Next time the same panic – the same incompetence – the same shouting experts so superior and so sure of themselves – calling the shots and addicted to Media appearances- with the BBC cheerleading the repression and fear . Repeat …

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  11. wwfc says:

    Ezra Levant arrives in Dublin ahead of protest following alleged migrant rape of 10-year-old girl

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Yes, the Irish government has bought the Citywest Hotel in Dublin for over €148 million to convert it into a permanent center for international protection applicants. The government plans to make Citywest a permanent accommodation and processing center, part of a broader goal to create state-owned beds for refugees and asylum seekers by 2028 instead of relying on private providers.

      ……………..

      He said it was in line with the commitment in the programme for government to own 14,000 accommodation units for asylum seekers.
      https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/government-buys-citywest-hotel-148m-35408305

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  12. MarkyMark says:

    Prince Andrew should bring down everyone (except people they like) ….

    “In one undated email from the released files included as evidence, Ms Ransome says: “When my friend had sexual intercourse with Clinton, Prince Andrew and Richard Branson, sex tapes were in fact filmed on each separate occasion by Jeffery [sic].”

    Ms Ransome, who said Epstein abused her as an aspiring model and fashion student, also claims in one message that Donald Trump had sex with a friend of hers at Epstein’s New York home.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67918708

    Ask questions about the official Epstein files. ChatGPT
    https://chatgpt.com/g/g-2XXD76Zk8-the-epstein-list

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  13. MarkyMark says:

    Prince Andrew and BBC’s Huw Edwards to stand in and help drive the rape gang enquiry – they have free time and can do Children in Need at the same time!

    “Elizabeth, who is from Rotherham, said she felt the process had been “scripted and predetermined”, “rather than emerging from honest, open dialogue with survivors”.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwykd173l3vo

    …………………

    BBC Children in Need . Grant Funded Projects . London and South East England
    As at November 2017

    Word Search:
    Islington x 38;
    Somali x 21;
    Refugee x 33;
    Young x 532;
    Afghan x 3;
    Arts x 43;
    Football x 9;
    Disabled x 64;
    Autism x 12;
    Literacy x 8;
    Inclusion x 15;
    Mental x 54;

    £305,840 FROM BBC’s CHILDREN IN NEED FUND 2017

    Click to access CN0187_Grants_Listings_London_and_South_East_England.pdf

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  14. pugnazious says:

    Woman’s Hour interview with one of the women who left the rape gang panel….verging on hostile and definitely not the usual love-in Woman’s Hour gives those who come on and say the most extreme things about men and the ‘patriarchy’ etc. Reminded me of the interview with a Christian woman who had to flee Pakistan because of persecution….not at all a friendly interview.

    I’m guessing that just like Jess Phillips[who gave an aggressive and hostile performance today in Parliament trying to defend Labour] the BBC hopes this will all fade away and be forgotten. Phillips clearly isn’t interested in the views of the, now 3, girls who have left the panel and it was an interesting choice of word as she tried to dismiss the criticism…

    ‘ I do not remember huge amounts of criticism or bellyaching about that’

    ‘Bellyaching’? Is that what she considers any justified and serious criticism and questioning of the inquiry process? Not as bad as Labour’s Lucy Powell’s attempt to silence people about the rape gangs with this gem….‘”oh, we want to blow that little trumpet now do we” and “let’s get that dog whistle out shall we”. ‘…but on the same wavelength.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The Rape Gang Inquiry
      London, Greater London, United Kingdom
      The Rape Gang Inquiry
      £623,555
      https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-rape-gang-inquiry-1

      “However, patterns of targeted exploitation by predominantly Pakistani males, combined with gross negligence from public bodies, are identifiable. Further research, following the submission of thousands of Freedom of Information requests by our data investigation team, has enabled the Rape Gang Inquiry to produce one of the most comprehensive exposes of the nationwide scandal to date.”

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      • popeye says:

        So do I get this right? An enquiry into misconduct by police and social workers (amongst others) could be chaired by either a senior police officer or a social worker. Hmm.

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        • MarkyMark says:

          We are only here because Elon Musk is a arm pointing Nazi who should shut up for the sake of Naz Shah diversity!

          “Prof Jay said the first of these reports was “effectively suppressed” because senior officers did not believe the data. The other two were ignored, she said.”

          https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089

          Speaking about her abuser, Isabel said: “I think because the police were aware and social services were aware and he knew that and they still didn’t stop him it I think it encouraged him.

          “It almost became like a game to him. He was untouchable.”

          The inquiry team found examples of “children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone“.

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    • pugnazious says:

      From the Spectator….the Establishment and friends just aren’t interested in white, working class girls being raped by Muslims…

      Feminists themselves have double standards when it comes to believing victims. Some women are to be taken at their word, while others are to be forever doubted. White women in London or California are believed; Jewish women attending music festivals in southern Israel are not. Middle-class women who mix with politicians and journalists are believed; working-class girls from northern towns are not. Women who point the finger at powerful white men are taken seriously; those who accuse Pakistani-heritage Muslim men are not.

      This double standard has allowed Britain’s grooming gangs to act with impunity. Women like Fiona Goddard, exploited and repeatedly raped by a gang of Pakistani-heritage men as a teenager living in children’s homes in Bradford in the late 2000s, or Ellie Reynolds, drugged and gang-raped whilst a schoolgirl in Barrow, Cumbria, not only had to fight for justice, but struggled to be believed. When Reynolds first reported her abuse, the authorities tried to prosecute her, accusing her of blackmailing the men she accused – charges later dropped due to lack of evidence. Goddard recalls being treated like a ‘child prostitute’ and says police officers took the view that she was ‘street-wise’ and could look after herself.’

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  15. MarkyMark says:

    NHS Assisted dying as predicted … https://youtu.be/ZMfq-dNKy0Q?si=mphTbXNtkLVTBl0x&t=535

    2022. The Earth is overpopulated, with over 40 million people living in New York City alone. Environmental pollution has led to a greenhouse effect, resulting in the disappearance of most water resources, animals and vegetation. In order to feed the people, the Soylent Corporation produces some kind of nutritious product in the form of colorful briquettes. Investigation of the unexpected disappearance of a member of the corporation’s board leads police detective Thorne to the factory, where he learns the terrible secret of the “green soylent”.

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  16. tomo says:

    and there, folks… is the reason that “Greens” have been pushed down our throats for the last couple of weeks – somebody thinks they’ll take votes off everyone and a Labour / Green alliance would block Reform

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  17. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Barry Gardiner on Dewbs last night was saying 12% of prisoners being immigrants reflects the national population figures.
    He also said they are net contributors.

    There are two types of immigrants here.
    Brainy and intelligent types like City financiers or doctors and scientists (real ones) from places like the USA, Japan and Europe do contribute positively but loads of sub Saharan Africans, Arab goat herders and generally men of low education are the ones costing £hundreds of thousands.

    If we ever get to control immigration it’s the first type we should welcome. They really do enrich us and are a big plus.
    The second type are the ones making up most of this 12% of prisoners, not the doctors, and they are the ones who are a net drain on the tax payer.
    We can take some but not the 100’s of 1,000’s currently piling in.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      23 stabs to the head – we still cannot learn the lesson.

      The defendant also says that on the evening of the attack he was chilling and dancing with friends in the hotel car park
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c07mk599zznt

      …………….

      Barry Gardiner defends donations worth £500,000 from Chinese agent
      The Labour MP said Christine Lee appeared to be ‘operating as a legitimate person in the UK’.

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  18. wwfc says:

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  19. Richard Pinder says:

    THE BIGGEST SCANDAL IN BRITISH HISTORY

    Following months of domestic and international pressure, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer backtracked from his initial opposition to conducting a national inquiry with statutory authority on the scourge of mass rape by mostly Pakistani Muslims raping mostly young working-class white girls.

    The UN Office on Drugs and Crime and Rape Crisis report that England and Wales has the highest rate of rape on Earth with 7.82 annual rapes per 1,000, with 90% of the victims being white girls raped by immigrants, including those given British citizenship by the Labour & Tory Governments.

    The inquiry is set to examine the failures of government and local officials, police, and care workers, many of whom have been found to have ignored or covered up the scandal out of politically correct concerns. Furthermore, questions have also been raised about Prime Minister Starmer’s own role in the scandal, given that he served as the head of the Crown Prosecution Service when allegations of cover-ups began to emerge. Evidence is thought to include Starmer and the British Deep State intelligence community using hundreds of DSMA-Notices and Secret Courts to issue hundreds of Super-Injunctions and thousands of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to censor and silence social workers, teachers, police officers and victims of rape. The cover-up is so massive that it is difficult to see how the inquiry could uncover all the Super-Injunctions and non-disclosure agreements being used to protect the criminal deep state establishment.

    On Monday, Fiona Goddard, a grooming gang survivor, resigned from the inquiry’s Victims/Survivor Liaison Panel, after discovering that the planned chairs of the inquiry are reportedly set to include a police officer and a social worker, which she asserted were the “very two services that contributed most to the cover up of the national mass rape and trafficking of children.” She said “The lack of trust in services from years of failings and corruption will have a negative impact in survivor engagement with this inquiry.” Goddard said. “Having a police officer or social worker leading the inquiry would once again be letting services mark their own homework, the shortlisting of these potential chairs shows the government’s complete lack of understanding of the level of corruption and failings involved in this scandal.” Fellow survivor Ellie-Ann Reynolds also left the panel on Monday, claiming that the government has kept the victims “in the dark” about the inquiry, saying “When I asked for clarity, I was treated with contempt and ignored. I watched on, as it becomes less about truth and more about a cover up.” Shadow Chancellor Robert Jenrick argued that since the scandal “implicates every arm of the British state”, it is imperative that the inquiry be led by someone with unimpeachable impartiality, suggesting that a judge from abroad be brought in to oversee the investigation.

    The main areas in England identified as hotspots of grooming gang activity were under the control of councils run by the Labour Party. For example, in one month 167 white women reported being raped by Muslim men in Bradford. So Rape Crisis estimate that 1,113 white women are raped by Muslim men in Bradford every month, some ending up in local hospitals: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/10/21/labour-govt-accused-of-sabotaging-child-rape-grooming-gang-inquiry-amid-resignations

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    • moggiemoo says:

      If true, they’re only white women, no victim status, so of no interest to the MSM. Can you imagine the MSM uproar if white men were doing this abroad?

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Richard
      The conspiracy and cover up is so deep – pakis in key roles who are related to the rapists and ensuring inquiries never happen – all within a family strcture including medics and council and plod and MPs and CPS – the whole rotten lot ..

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      • JonathanR says:

        If you look at almost every British institution or ngo you will see some Muslim in an influential position put there by the elite who wanted to show they were not ‘racist’

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  20. Fedup2 says:

    Excellent news

    The met plod has banned a march by Reform in Tower Hsmlets …..
    Next time anyone spouts off about how free britainistan is – add that one to the repression list …. ‘Democracy ‘ indeed …
    Tommy Robinson is coming back from 🇮🇱 with a Maccabee’s strip which I think he intends to wear at the Villa game .

    I’d put money on special branch arresting him at the port of entry and seizing said footy strip as a terrorist Device – any view 77 brigade ?

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  21. Fedup2 says:

    Not BBC or anything – for some reason YouTube sent me to listen to Al bowlly songs ..and i am hooked . What a voice – what a sad end ….. more to him than a Dennis potter play ..

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    • JonathanR says:

      I discovered Al Bowley when watching Pennies from Heaven in the 70s Classic 1930s music and a marvelous singer such mellow tones

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Jonathan
        Im surprised that his life hasn’t been done as a drama because it would tick a lot of boxes . The YouTube clips of his singing add to the online stuff . I know ‘pennies from heaven ‘ raised his ‘profile ‘ but for 2025 I reckon it is due again … the songs hit a time so alien to 2025 as to be painful …

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        • JonathanR says:

          Another idea for a great drama would have been the life of Joseph Schmidt a brilliant tenor who escaped the Nazis only to die in Swiss refugee camp through maltreatment. But not for the BBC as he was Jewish

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  22. Fedup2 says:

    The monster who was to be president of the Oxford union has been dumped … vermin

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    • moggiemoo says:

      He should never have been president, it shows the state of the unis here. Vile, racist, leftist c…

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    • JonathanR says:

      Only a psychotic DEI system would have ever considered such a scruffy uncouth prat like him in the first palce

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  23. tomo says:

    Icymi

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  24. JonathanR says:

    Good News The so-called border force are going on strike

    https://order-order.com/2025/10/21/border-force-channel-patrol-staff-vote-to-strike/

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