The midweek $1 billion thread

So – does the Far Left Anti British Anti Judeo Christian BBC apologise to President Trump for its corrupt ‘journalism ‘? Or does it continue to live in a fully biased world of its’ own ?

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  1. JonathanR says:

    Very good summary by an Indian station ( Although their photo of Jimmy Saville looks like Steve Coogan)

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  2. MarkyMark says:

    “We must only be a few days away from people renaming the BBC to “our” BBC, like they have with the NHS.”
    https://x.com/SartorialThug/status/1987842115217326383

    People who pay the TV License to clap and band pans every Thursday!

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    • Mrs Kitty says:

      I believe an MP said it first Wednesday afternoon. I stopped really paying attention months ago when watching them on tv I got hiccups from laughing at all the lies.

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  3. harry142857 says:

    Question Time today. Starmer calls Farage spineless. Not enough opposition questions to issue a mortal blow.

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  4. MarkyMark says:

    “Prime minister to ensure that the Supreme court ruling on sex is implemented” – Gill German MP (Clwyd North, Labour)

    https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/61b5e8c5-57b6-4518-8bcb-1e451ec3916d?in=12:24:22

    Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says
    22 April 2025
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crldey0z00ro

    Sir Keir Starmer blasts Labour MP who claimed ‘only women have a cervix’

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  5. MarkyMark says:

    You’d think they’d just use a man in a suit like Elon did!
    ………………………….
    Watch: Russia’s AI robot falls seconds after being unveiled
    Close
    Footage shows the moment Russia’s first anthropomorphic robot, AIdol, fell just seconds after its debut at a technology event in Moscow. The robot was being led on stage to the soundtrack from the film ‘Rocky’, before it suddenly lost its balance and fell. Assistants could then be seen scrambling to cover it with a cloth – which ended up tangling in the process.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/crre8g5e45jo

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  6. Foscari says:

    Hi everybody- Just to go off the subject. And maybe just
    a laugh for one or two of you!
    I just received a letter from the Department for Works &
    Pension ” You are entitled to a higher State Pension.
    Age Addition of 25 PENCE per week will be payable from
    your 80th birthday. ”
    Does anybody know if I have to pay TAX on this extra 25 PENCE?
    And can anybody suggest what I could spend the 25 PENCE on?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Spend it on GB Energy – or invest in the EU, every £1 we give to the EU we get £10 back said all those who wanted to stay in the EU!
      ** terms and conditions apply

      No, you cannot directly invest in Great British Energy (GBE) as it is a publicly owned company that uses public funding to invest in and co-develop clean energy projects.

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    • NW Ninepence says:

      Hi Foscari

      Question – Pensioners aged 80 and over receive an addition of 25 pence to their state pension, What should I spend it on?

      Some helpful suggestions on AI Search assist.

      It also states that you can get a 25p discount off a hot drink at Greggs if you bring your own reusable cup………. Heavens Foscari !!! What more do you want ​?

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  7. MarkyMark says:

    Colgate -Palmolive giving away 2 million tooth brushes????

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    “Told be both political parties that everyone matters, except you.” – Mark Steyn
    SteynPost #14: The White Death

    6 November 2025 621
    7 November 2025 648
    8 November 2025 503
    9 November 2025 349
    10 November 2025 0
    11 November 2025 0

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats-last-7-days

    2121 new NHS appointments and bedrooms and credit cards.

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  9. MarkyMark says:

    Here we go …. emails found down the side of a settee…. ha ha ah ahah ah ah h a Maybe BBC can splice the words together in a different order? HA HAH AH HA

    ……….

    “Epstein alleged Trump ‘spent hours’ with one of his victims, in email released by Democrats”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2dr3z9egljt

    Trump said earlier this year that he fell out with Epstein after he “stole” young women who worked at his Mar-a-Lago beach club spa.

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  10. MarkyMark says:

    d) ensure all Members can and do speak and act without fear or favour; and

    (4) That the provisions of this Resolution shall come into effect on 1 July 2009.”

    Lobbying for Reward or Consideration
    Resolution of 2 May 1695: Against offering Bribes to Members
    “The Offer of any Money, or other Advantage, to any Member of Parliament, for the promoting of any Matter whatsoever, depending, or to be transacted, in Parliament, is a high Crime and Misdemeanour, and tends to the Subversion of the Constitution.”

    https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmcode/1083/report-1.html

    ………………………..

    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’.
    Amy Gibbons 2022

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  11. JonathanR says:

    Well good news two giant far left organisations are in trouble The BBC and the Labour Party. Both from self inflicted wounds. The BBC with its total disregard for truth and Labour from infighting. Looks like Mr Farages prediction that there maybe a 2027 election is on the cards.

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    • Guest Who says:

      True friends tell you early if you are straying.

      Sycophants burble you are the most trusted in the world, or get told back whatever they want.

      Psycho ‘allies’ keep schtum in the belief it gives them leverage.

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  12. MarkyMark says:

    The Rt. Hon. Member for Sheffield Heeley (Louise Haigh MP) has been appointed as a full representative of the United Kingdom Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in place of the Hon. Member for High Peak (Jon Pearce MP).
    https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2025-11-11/hcws1035

    https://www.gov.uk/government/people/louise-haigh#announcements

    ………….. wtf …………………………Rt. Hon …….. hONOURABLE………..

    Louise Haigh’s resignation letter and the Prime Minister’s response: 29 November 2024
    29 November 2024 Correspondence
    “Some time later, I discovered that the handset in question was still in my house. I should have immediately informed my employer and not doing so straight away was a mistake. “

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  13. MarkyMark says:

    ha ha hah aha hahaahha

    “It quoted BBC News deputy CEO Jonathan Munro as saying in May that there was “no attempt to mislead the audience about the content or nature of Mr Trump’s speech” and that it was “normal practice to edit speeches into short form clips”.

    On Tuesday, when asked why he tried to defend the episode of Panorama, Mr Munro replied: “I didn’t.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crre8gnzg10o

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    • Guest Who says:

      Always love these Beeb on Beeb FFS incidents.

      They often reveal when #telitoftenenough has not worked and sacrifices need making.

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  14. MarkyMark says:

    2006 Demography is destiny….

    country would have to “turn the light out”

    2006 “Germany was plunged into an anguished debate yesterday about how to encourage reluctant couples to breed after new figures showed Germany with the world’s highest proportion of childless women. Thirty per cent of German women have not had children, according to European Union statistics from 2005, with the figure rising among female graduates to 40%. Germany’s new family minister, Ursula von der Leyen, said that unless the birth rate picked up the country would have to “turn the light out”.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/jan/27/germany.lukeharding

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    2006 country would have to “turn the light out”

    “Ms von der Leyen has attracted media flak for working in Berlin while her husband and seven children remain in Hannover.”

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    • micknotmike says:

      Afternoon MM,

      If ever I am asked to demonstrate an example of quantity over quality, I’ll make sure to have that graph to hand.

      MNM

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Ed Miliband has two kitchens thus needs to fly twice!

      “Ed Miliband is making two identical 12,000-mile round trips to attend the UN climate summit in Brazil.”

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  15. pugnazious says:

    One for the Springer….a little conspiracy theory.

    Someone in No10 doesn’t like Starmer but loves the BBC and so releases a little anti-Starmer bomb into the Mainstream and woosh….we don’t hear about the BBC anymore.

    Two birds with one stone. Nice job well done.

    Hmmm….I somehow doubt there’s anyone that clever in No10 or No11 judging by the last year…so just a huge cockup….although if I can think it so can someone else.

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    • Scroblene says:

      The trouble is, this whole dreadful government is a self-contained conspiracy theory, they are like rats in a sack!

      When Nigel Farage becomes PM, he’ll find a note in TTK’s desk saying, ‘There’s no country left’…

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      • pugnazious says:

        Well there will be a country….just not the old original….more Pakistan-on-Sea with a whole new ethos and population.

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  16. tomo says:

    Yes, bring out the tumbrels

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  17. friend of yogi bear says:

    COMEDY GOLD FROM THE BBC……

    Showing a total lack of self awareness , which I cannot believe is not deliberate the BBC are continuing with output which demonstrates like nothing else could ,that nobody, definitely nobody , realises within the BBC what the problem at the BBC is.

    This afternoon , I tuned in to catch the news headlines ,to hear what they had chosen for their headlines. I couldn’t believe my luck…and , oh how I laughed at what followed. It seems that ” bad actors” are out to get the BBC, especially now that some poor thicko has made a simple “mistake” and somehow a piffling matter of accuracy and that “rotter” trump..boo, what a trouble maker, etc,etc,…you get the idea.

    So , remember the BBC are victims and poor Tim Davie has resigned despite doing nothing wrong and this is all Trumps fault ,for being in politics……oh and Brexit has also played it’s part…hmm.well they haven’t said that yet…but, be patient.

    It gets better by the day , I can’t wait for tomorrow’s instalment of BBC victimhood.

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    • Guest Who says:

      https://capx.co/the-bbc-and-the-death-of-lanyardism

      “ The BBC’s ability to infuriate both Left and Right is often read as testament to its impartiality.”

      On social media that permits exchange, when lefties sound off about the BBC (and supporters use this ‘getting it about left/right’ pleasing no one as a testament) whenever I agree with them and suggest we should see it removed, they suddenly discovered caveats, mostly going further left of Mao.

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  18. Northern Voter says:

    A couple of things I saw and heard today,
    1 Mrs V listens to Classic FM daily, drives me nuts, however the news at the hour, they were talking about child sexual abuse in Bristol, it is child sexual abuse but give it its true name Paki child sexual abuse!
    2 Said Mrs V was scrolling through the channels on the sky box we use for free satellite TV. I happened to notice for the first time that whilst even other channel has a plus1 hour channel, none of the bBC channels have. There must be a reason ,sarc.
    3 If you have half a mind to be a Labour MP you already exceed the requirements
    4 Will Kweer Squirmer hang on till the budget, I hope not

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    • moggiemoo says:

      BBC want you to watch in iPlayer. I have no idea why unless it’s because you have to log in.

         13 likes

      • Scroblene says:

        I get fed up with seeing a girl’s armpits every time they want me to log on!

        This is supposed to be a State-funded Left-wing Propaganda Outlet, not a pole-dancing advert…

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  19. Foscari says:

    In a way I can understand why the 25% anarchist Marxist
    news editors at the BBC have anathema for Donald
    Trump. Also the 25% who are anti-Semites whom support
    Hamas. Even the 25% who have mental dysphoria whom
    are disgusted and have and have terrible anxiety attacks when
    Martine Croxall describes ” pregnant people” as women.
    BUT what really gets my goat are the remaining 25% of
    news editors at the BBC . Having all three symptoms.

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  20. JonathanR says:

    Seems Wes Streeting wants his turn to jet off on trips abroad after Keith has had his 40 trips already

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  21. MarkyMark says:

    “Epstein alleged that Trump ‘spent hours’ with one of his victims, as thousands of documents released” BBC
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2dr3z9egljt

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    “Epstein alleged that Trump ‘spent hours’ with one of his victims, as thousands of documents released” BBC

    “Trump ‘spent hours’ with one of his victims” is how you read this
    It is Epstein’s victim becomes Trumps victim?
    Was it alone naked or finer paints?
    Was Bill Clinton holding the camera?

    Good to see people can release information when they really need to – why wasn’t this released when Epstein was in jail?

    …………..

    https://chatgpt.com/g/g-2XXD76Zk8-the-epstein-list

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  22. harry142857 says:

    Another ‘mistake’.

    Starmer admits he DID sign off on David Kogan’s appointment as new football regulator – dubbing his involvement an ‘unfortunate error’

    ——————————
    The ministerial sleaze watchdog tonight rebuked Sir Keir Starmer for getting involved in the controversial appointment of the new football regulator – after the Prime Minister revealed his role in the saga.

    Sir Laurie Magnus said it was ‘regrettable’ that the Prime Minister had signed off on Labour donor David Kogan getting the key role, having previously agreed to stay out of it because of his freebie tickets to Arsenal matches.

    His comments came after Sir Keir expressed his ‘sincere regret’ for the ‘unfortunate error’, in the latest twist in the scandal that has also seen Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy apologise for three breaches of the public appointments code.

    In his letter to the Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards, the PM explained that they have now discussed ‘my interest in football’ three times.

    He said they had talked about him enjoying ‘hospitality from football clubs and the Football Association’ and that as a result he agreed last autumn to ‘recuse myself from decisions relating to the Football Governance Bill’, which sets up the regulator job.

    Sir Keir said the Culture Secretary told him in April that she wanted to appoint Mr Kogan and he ‘confirmed that I was supportive’.

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  23. Deborah says:

    I posted a day or two ago that I remembered that 30 or 40 years ago, the BBC had been in trouble for doctoring a Panorama programme to give the appearance of a man giving a speech to suggest he was saying something he wasn’t. Trouble was the programme makers were caught out. In those days they couldn’t photshop a tie or alter the colour of a suit to give the appearance it was all the same speech. A friend and I have both come up in our hazy memories with the name of the innocent man who was ‘captured’ by the programme makers and I would certainly not post his name here.

    What I find interesting is, having the name of the programme, the name of the BBC bod who was caught doctoring the film and the name of the man they raised false allegations against, I can find nothing about it on the internet. Google produces nothing. Yet for two or three days it was the big story. It rather makes me think an organisation as big as the BBC can get things wiped off the internet.

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  24. digg says:

    Failing big time to read the room the stunningly unaware rabbit in the headlights Starmer tries to blame Reform racism for reform wanting to control ILLEGAL twats walking right into this country to claim their free hotel room, food, healthcare, education and pocket money courtesy of the UK tax payer who very soon will be ordered to stump up yet a shit more of their income to pay for it.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/11/11/reform-uk-racist-rhetoric-tearing-britain-apart-starmer/?recomm_id=f142b62f-cd4b-4e67-9c33-979dfcdbe848

    I despair of any future for this nation while the putrid left keep on coming up with these brainless twats.

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    • JohnC says:

      I just watched the clip of Farage in Parliament someone linked earlier where once again they try to sabotage his speech with noise (and the speaker does not say anything) and in his reply, Starmer came out with the ultimate in typical Leftists projection. It is so extreme, it is surely worth an award of some kind for it’s sheer absurdity:

      HE called Farage ‘utterly spineless’.

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  25. tomo says:

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    • JohnC says:

      ‘BBC Media Action is the BBC’s giant pool of free money to pay hundreds of other media outlets to produce slop and amplify stories aligned with the BBC.’

      This is what the BBC’s ‘Trusted News Initiative’ is all about.

      It’s a direct channel to all those other outlets to run the same story and swamp the news feeds with the BBC’s version.

      There are some bizarre people funding the BBC. Surely an ‘independent and unbiased/ news group should not accept free money from anyone political ?.

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  26. tomo says:

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    • JohnC says:

      I’m thankful to him for highlighting the true hypocrisy and double-standards of the Left with his racist ‘white white white’ speech.

      They applauded him because he isn’t white. If white people complain about the gross overrepresentation of blacks on TV now, those same people scream ‘racists’.

      More evidence of how they have no actual ethics and no sense of right+wrong at all. Their entire ideology is rooted in hate.

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  27. JohnC says:

    What we know about new Epstein emails that mention Trump
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3rj0d97ynvo

    THE most spiteful and pathetic attempt to smear Trump by both the BBC and the Democrats I’ve seen yet.

    The BBC spend most of the article trying to infer that Trump had sex with Virginia Giuffre as a ridiculous attempt to pair him with Andrew Battenberg (formerly known as Prince).

    Then – right at the end – we get:
    ‘Giuffre said in a 2016 deposition that she never saw Trump participate in any abuse. And in a memoir released this year, she did not accuse the president of any wrongdoing.’

    And considering the accusations she DID make, no chance whatsoever she would cover it up.

    MORE BBC FAKE NEWS. But of course they don’t directly say it. The heavily infer it.

    I hope Trump reads it and it tips the balance on his decision to sue.

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    • andyjsnape says:

      Hello JohnC

      How did the bbc stoop so low. As a kid the family would only watch the bbc, now its like the plaque to most people

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  28. JohnC says:

    I have never authorised attacks on ministers, says PM
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vnyg1q503o

    Here we have the reveal of who the BBC will lend their full support to for any challenge to TTK. They like what TTK is doing and want to keep him.

    The focus on the article is reassuring us that Starmer is the man for the job. If they wanted someone else, the headline would be about the people challenging him and what he just said would be down in the bottom third of the article.

    Just look what they wrote:
    ‘They argued that removing the PM could create chaos, destabilise the international markets and damage the relationship he has built with US President Donald Trump.’

    What a joke !. Trump thinks he’s a far-Left wokie. He has used the UK as as example of how bad it can get with the Left in charge several times.

    They end with:
    ‘One senior Labour figure questioned why Sir Keir’s allies had “legitimised what was a taboo” by publicly entertaining the prospect of a leadership challenge.’

    They need to learn how to be good socialists. You never question the party line. Otherwise the plebs might get ideas.

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  29. AsISeeIt says:

    Doctored edition

    The BBC’s top job has become impossible – frets John Gapper in the FT.

    Panic at BBC over Friday legal ultimatum – worries the i paper in their Media column.

    BBC ready to apologise to Trump over doctored video… with its lawyers working on the wording – speculates the Telegraph. I’ve a feeling the mildly conservative paper hasn’t quite yet brought down our left-leaning national broadcasting behemoth.

    We take from this the Beeb will accept the rap for their caught red-handed dodgy Panarama, doing so with some vaguely weasily mea culpa – say nothing about their anti-Israel, pro-Trans and other excessive lefty biases – and as expected be rewarded in due course by Labour with a nice Royal Charter extention.

    They can’t help themselves Gods Will Be Gods – as Echo & The Bunnymen told us – here’s one for the Teenagers.

    How can you pretend
    When there’s so much at stake
    That it’s a different world
    And your hands don’t shake

    Or as you prefer: Up Where We Belong by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes…

    The Guardian tops the BBC’s online newspaper line-up today (of course it does – they just can’t help themselves)

    How’s them middle class liberal metropolitan arts graduate biases workin’ out?

    Juniper, Riot, Whimsey Lou, Peach? The rise of unusual baby names (Guardian) – forget your Mohammads – they’re for the likes of us unwashed masses.

    Any temporary remission at all with the Trump Derangement Syndrome symptoms?

    ‘He knew about the girls’: Epstein messages pile pressure on Trump (Guardian)

    What we know about new Epstein emails that mention Trump (Nadine Yousif, BBC)

    Climate alarmism still keeping us awake at night?

    World ‘still on track for catastrophic heating’ (Guardian)

    Scare quote galore in the Gruan today we notice.

    Fossil fuel emissions rise again – but renewables boom offers hope for climate (Mark Poynting, Climate reporter and Matt McGrath, Environment correspondent, BBC – riding tandem on this one)

    One can’t help but note the vaguely positive stance. Miliband will be relieved. One also notes – with a certain degree of surprise – the rather positive tone of World Wildlife Fund recent advertising on the London underground: Mountain Gorillas were near the end of the line… Tiger numbers are on the right track

    Perhaps the advertising mood seters realise we’re done with all the doom and gloom catastrophising?

    How is that Net Zero workin’ out fo’ yer?

    Oil and gas demand alert… demand will rise for the next 25 years… reflecting governments’ fading commitments to climate change – the FT frets oncemore.

    How’s that Ukraine proxy war for liberalism, western values and the rule of law workin’ out?

    Zelenskyy graft storm… Ukraine’s president has sought to shield himself from a spiraling corruption scandal (FT) – other spellings of Zelensky are available – although apparantly alternative western foreign policy other than costly endless losing proxy war are not.

    Doctored

    Streeting goes to war with No 10 (Telegraph)

    And the lad is at war – not just with Starmer’s proxies – the No 10 political spin doctors – but with the medical doctors…

    BMA ‘reprehensible’ Wes Streeting, the health secretary, called the British Medical Association “morally reprehensible” as it prepares for a five-day junior doctor strike from tomorrow – the Times there refusing the newly coined nomenclature…

    The new term for “junior doctor” in the UK is resident doctor. This change officially took effect on September 18, 2024, following a vote by the British Medical Association (BMA). The new title was adopted to better reflect the doctors’ skills and responsibilities and to eliminate the misleading and demeaning connotations of the term “junior”. – thank you AI.

    Over to the regular successful female celeb crying, moaning and whingeing feature

    My hormones drove me to brink of despair and nearly derailed my Strictly dream… Exclusive Vikki Pattison interview (Mail)

    Look on the bright side ladies…

    Hitler really did only have one ball… DNA suggests he had sexual disorder (i paper); …and possibly a micropenis (Telegraph)

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Here is an early glimpse of the BBC apology to President Trump

      “Trump – we are sorry that we got caught editing your words. We know you are a nasty piece of work so we wanted to do every thing we could to stop you . But we failed and for that we are very sorry . Please die soon – inshalah “

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  30. andyjsnape says:

    Roll on Friday 🙂

    bbc to get a well deserved kicking 🙂

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  31. pugnazious says:

    BBC, perhaps in the circumstances foolishly, trying to smear Trump with Epstein connections….news bulletins telling us Epstein emails revealing lots about Trump[they don’t]…and imply much more from them than they actually say. The BBC also forgets in the bulletins to mention that the emails came after Trump and Epstein fell out and Epstein was talkng to author Michael Wolff who hates Trump and has written several books trying to destroy him.

    In the BBC’s website report we get more to the truth which shows Epstein was trying to invent a narrative that would benefit himself…

    ‘Epstein responds: “If we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?”

    Wolff writes: “I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency. You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt.”

    He adds, “of course, it is possible that, when asked, he’ll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime.”‘

    Note absolutely no mention of Trump having ‘sexual relations’ with any girl…kind of telling that that is not there…his worst sin? That he was on the plane.

    Of course few people, in comparison, will read that web report but they will hear the constant drum of the BBC clipped bulletins which give the impression that Trump is somehow guilty of something.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3rj0d97ynvo

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  32. tomo says:

    The volume of bleating about the BBC from leftard activists on X doesn’t seem to be abating – full of it this morning….

    Some at the BBC are very obviously orchestrating a raft of spiteful BS to fling at DJT.

    I’m thinking that a collision with reality might actually be on the cards this time, and that pleases me.

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  33. Fedup2 says:

    Excellent News

    Next to no growth in the last quarter -0.1% – which will be corrected to zero … you can rely on the Marxists …

    ..they ll be boasting about interest cuts as an ‘achievement’ when it really is desperation … pound to be dumped – state borrowing costs going up more – Rachel running out of time …

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    • Flotsam says:

      0.1% monthly compounds to approximately 6% annually which is nothing more than inflation. So not real growth at all.

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  34. tomo says:

    She really is quite a piece of work….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “The EU has been and is currently using the withholding of its financial contributions (funds) as a primary method to pressure and sanction Hungary over rule-of-law concerns and policy disagreements. This has been ongoing for several years. ”

      “EU Enlargement Forum
      Taking place on 18 November, the EU Enlargement Forum is the European Commission’s flagship initiative to elevate the conversation on EU enlargement”
      https://enlargement.ec.europa.eu/index_en

      “What the EU does
      Celebration of the 20th anniversary of the 2004 EU enlargement
      EU enlargement is a key driver of long-term security, peace, stability and prosperity in Europe. It promotes common values, including democracy, the rule of law and respect of fundamental rights, while fostering economic growth.

      Enlargement policy applies to countries currently aspiring to join the EU and potential candidates. The prospect of membership is a powerful stimulus for democratic and economic reforms in countries that want to become EU Member States.”
      https://commission.europa.eu/topics/eu-enlargement_en

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  35. tomo says:

    Of course, they won’t be operating in the UK – will they?

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  36. friend of yogi bear says:

    IT JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER……

    BBC output today….let’s look elsewhere for news, anywhere but the BBC…so why not look at the Govt and a non-story about some rumblings about “wild eyes Wes” and plots, oh and plots,

    Who better to tell the Truth about what might possibly be happening in this story…maybe….yes none other than Mr Truth himself , Alistair Campbell…laugh…I laughed so much I passed wind !

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  37. Scroblene says:

    Apparently, the page on the vast, bloated bBC website, where Citizens can cancel their TV tax, has crashed several times due to overload – or maybe just because a few 13amp plugs have been pulled to try and stop further rot…

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  38. G says:

    Anybody noticed the increasing difficulty in accessing a range of websites these days? Obsession with “Fraud” at the root of the issue no doubt. We are witnessing the implosion of the IT world in my opinion. Large organisations wrestling with the vulnerability of their IT systems. Brilliant !! I say. However the morons of this Communist Government will, no doubt, ignore these ‘minor’ issues as they plow on relentlessly with their internet plans for ID and all the rest.

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  39. tomo says:

    The voters of Kingston & Surbiton should really be ashamed of themselves for enabling this poisonous clot into the HoC

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  40. Sluff says:

    Good news.
    The Liberal Party have dumped their nett zero policy and are going to prioritise energy affordability. In this they now align with the government.
    Bad news.
    I’m talking about Australia, not the UK.

    Still. Let’s be optimistic. Little acorns sometimes grow to be oak trees.

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    • Yasser Dasmibehbi says:

      More likely to grow into a coolabah tree, Sluffy.

      It is a big step for the Liberal Party. It is the equivalent of the UK Conservative Party and just as centrist. What is interesting is that it is now under pressure from a resurgent populist party called One Nation led by the infamous Pauline Hanson. This party (the equivalent of Reform) is taking away votes from the timid Liberals who snatched defeat from the jaws of victory last election.

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  41. Sluff says:

    If the BBC was impartial then there must be a large number of examples where their actions and output are politically supported by the Telegraph and the Mail, and maybe the Sun, and forcefully opposed by the Guardian.
    Yes?
    Logical?

    So where are they?

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  42. micknotmike says:

    The bbc seem to feel that if they end up paying president Trump the 1 Billion he is claiming, it will come out of licence tax money, and so it is the viewers who will pay. I would be interested to know who pays for the disgraceful capita bullying exercise to send out threatening letters and shout through letterboxes. I’m willing to bet that the bbc pay for it, ergo the licence payer.

    While I’m on a rant, the bbc keep referring to the whole Capitol editing exercise as a “mistake”. It wasn’t a mistake, it was a calculated move to show the easily-led licence payers exactly what a nasty man #47 is.

    I also notice they have returned to throwing sh1t at the epstein fiasco, in an effort to distract from their own despicable dealings.

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  43. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/lordashcroft/status/1988727397294674194?s=61

    DG Young Mr. Grace?

    “You’re all doing very well”

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    • Guest Who says:

      Shayan was bumped up the Verify greasy roster when Springster became toxic.

      https://x.com/bbcbreaking/status/1988616822241828916?s=61

      Reposting this now will see his career join that of the BBC swirling the pan even quicker.

      To use #ccbgb is not doing them justice.

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      • Guest Who says:

        https://x.com/grok/status/1988906456490602605?s=12

        The BBC’s pattern of sensationalized headlines with omitted context, as in this Epstein-Trump story ignoring Giuffre’s exonerating comments on Trump, exemplifies deeper impartiality issues. Frequent edits or retractions only amplify skepticism, alienating audiences who value transparency over narrative spin. Yes, this institutional habit risks long-term credibility erosion, hastening reliance on independent sources.

        #itcanallbesortedinpost Allegedly.

        TTK and Davey and the rest looking pretty friggin stu… more stupid each day.

        Neil, Liddle, ec, sussed the way things were headed just in time.

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  44. tomo says:

    Just a reminder that this woeful twerp is still a minister in the present administration.

    New nuclear is only getting a tiny fraction of the funding that’s being shovelled at the worse than useless (damaging even), wildly overpriced unreliable BS solar and wind “power”.

    My electricity costs just jumped nearly 60% this month and I’m not happy about it and I’m likely not alone in that….

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Tomo,

      Completely with you on all this Net Zero garbage.

      This North Wales announcement however is a rare bit of good news. It is an SMR Nuclear reactor built by Rolls-Royce costing about £2.4B a pop.

      Much cheaper than conventional nuclear
      Can be mostly built in a factory
      Quicker to build
      Can be sited close to where the demand is
      No need for massive high voltage pylons over all UK

      An experimental Rolls-Royce SMR has been operating in the centre of Derby close to the football stadium for many years. Small reactors are also in our nuclear submarines so the UK does have experience in this area.

      Let us pray that mad Ed does not muck this up.

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      • tomo says:

        On the considerable evidence… – that twat is going to f-up again. It’s his SOP / normal MO.

        Prove me wrong

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  45. tomo says:

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    • Guest Who says:

      Maybe she means the #newformofdemocracy much favoured by the Greens here, and of course the BBC, with such as ‘citizens assemblies’ selected by them to get the results they want.

      Of course, the £5B propaganda arm necessary to make this work has just imploded along with their political puppets supporting them.

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  46. Guest Who says:

    According to reports from sources close to Toenails, TTK is asking Elon to fire up the rocket to send a party delegation and selected lobby chums to Mars tonight.

    https://x.com/samcoatessky/status/1988849306783166918?s=61

    Allegedly.

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  47. andyjsnape says:

    Hi, the post above Re: Ed Davey and the Great British institution under attack.

    As we have sold everything else, British Steel, British Gas, British Airway. I ask is it time to sell off the only institution left to the Chinese

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  48. friend of yogi bear says:

    IN THE SEARCH FOR POPULARITY AND SOME VOTES….

    It occurs to me that what the BBC and indeed the Government need most, just now ,is a bit of popularity.

    How about this for an idea, it would be very popular among some people, some would say- to use a bit of BBC speak.

    A Government led but Bbc backed campaign against “EPSTEINS friends” …yes, now we know how popular it is to remove titles ,etc, etc, from EPSTEINS friends let’s not overlook Peter Mandlestein.

    The latest batch of Epstein e-mails reveal that Mandlestein had forgotten just how recently he was corresponding with his best pal.
    What a coup if ex-DPP and donkey farmer, Keir Starmer ,went after this one……it would take an act of Parliament to remove “A Lordship” from such a Labour grandee but that’s what big majorities are for…and just think of the votes it might bring Labour’s way……go on Keir , you too can be a hero, plus it’s a distraction the BBC need urgently……do it.

    Think of the votes, thats what matters.

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  49. Lucy Pevensey says:

    Long post From X. This was in answer to John Simpson.

    From https://x.com/ColchMum

    “My local domestic violence shelter Next Chapter used its publicly funded charity platform to publish an abusive, malicious and defamatory public statement targeting me. They knew what they were saying was false.

    One of their staff made malicious complaints about me to the Police (pinned), along with his fellow theatre trustee, BBC News editor
    @mattbrindley1
    . The theatre had previously released a separate hostile, malicious and defamatory statement targeting me and other women.

    There is only one group these registered charities target. Like the Trump edit, it’s not an oversight, it’s not a one off and it’s not a mistake. It’s a deliberate and relentless attack, weaponising public money in service of their niche, deluded and nasty beliefs.

    A targeted punishment because, unlike the BBC, I won’t go along with dangerous lies that harm women and children. A targeted punishment because, like the BBC, these charities have got their hands on our money and occupy a position of trust, so who’s going to stop them?

    Even my bail sheet was defamatory. I had had little to no contact with most of these so-called “victims”. In one case I had never even heard of them. The “criminal damage” was wholly (and I do mean wholly) fictitious. This is not splicing two pieces of film together – this is out and out lying. Like the BBC, they’ve been caught with their pants down.

    Unlike my harassers and unlike the BBC, I don’t need to lie to get my point across. But truth is expendable when it serves the cause. The end justifies the means. This is how BBC approaches wrongthink. We can all see it. Why can’t you?

    I know the men who had me arrested continue to smear and defame me to justify what they did, like you are attempting to with Trump. I was asking for it, they will say. Serves her right.

    This is called DARVO John. It’s what domestic abusers and other coercive controllers do. It’s what the bullies who targeted me do, it’s what the BBC is doing and it’s what you’re doing.

    Apparently the theatre had a vote to have me arrested on these fabricated allegations, in retaliation for me sharing my many safeguarding concerns on social media after they refused to act on them. I wonder how your BBC News colleague, with his wonderful BBC values of objectivity and impartiality, voted.

    I presume you think your BBC News colleague and his fellow trustees should get off scot free for terrorising my family because, well, it didn’t end up in court. So no harm done.

    After all I wasn’t charged with criminal damage or harassment – I just had my home raided, my DNA tested, my phone confiscated, my movements and social media restricted. I wasn’t charged because I didn’t do it, just like Trump won the election fair and square despite your interference.

    They threw a grenade into my family’s life for trying to protect women and children. And now I’m going to have to spend years getting justice, because I don’t have Trump’s money. If I did, I would have bankrupted them by now.

    I think your BBC News colleague and his fellow bullies should be taught a lesson. I think you and the BBC bullies need to be taught a lesson too”

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