159 Responses to Start the Week 1st December 2025

  1. Up2snuff says:

    Goal hanging pays off again. The BBC is terminally biased. I have just watched Zia Yusuf on GB News stating that the BBC were biased against Reform councillors. The BBC is overmanned or overwimmined and is over priced at £174-50. Too expensive by far, for the TellyTax. It should be about £35. The BBC needs reform of the Licence Fee. Defund the BBC. Cancel your TellyTax!

    BBC, put back the Christ in Christmas!

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  2. harry142857 says:

    Well done Up2.
    ——————-
    Who’s the victim, BBC? Just another mistake.

    The former president-elect of the Oxford Union has said he “received threats of violence” after making comments appearing to celebrate Charlie Kirk’s death.

    George Abaraonye lost a no-confidence vote following criticism for the comments he made on social media after the shooting of the US conservative activist.

    Mr Abaraonye, who became president-elect of the historic debating society after a vote earlier this year, has told LBC he accepted “fair criticism”, external.

    However, he said it had been a “very difficult time” as he, his family and his friends had “received threats of violence”.

    Mr Kirk, 31, was an ally of US President Donald Trump and co-founder and chief executive of the right-wing youth organisation Turning Point USA.

    He was shot dead at a Utah Valley University event in September, in what US authorities called a political assassination.

    After the shooting, Mr Abaraonye reportedly posted on social media to seemingly welcome the attack.

    On Saturday, Mr Abaraonye told The Times, external he wished to apologise directly to Mr Kirk’s family and was “very sorry” for his comments.

    Later, speaking to LBC, Mr Abaraonye said: “We can also be fair in calling out what has also been a lot of just racist and classist vitriol based on the fact that I am a black person, the fact that I’m a student at Oxford – we can be deliberate in splitting apart the two things.

    “I received threats of violence. My family did, my friends did and it was a very difficult time, not just for me, but also realising that my mistake has not only impacted my life but could impact other people’s lives and impact even just broader communities around me.”

    After losing the no-confidence vote at Oxford Union in October, Mr Abaraonye said the poll was “compromised” by “untested” regulations.

    He also claimed people campaigning to oust him had “unsupervised access” to the email account collecting proxy votes.

    Oxford Union has denied claims the poll was compromised.

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

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    • Scroblene says:

      At least there’s some natural justice, not the TTK sort!

      Oh dear, how sad, never mind…!

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  3. wwfc says:

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  4. Nibor says:

    The old Productivity mantra has been spouted again and I don’t know what you think , but I think it’s a shibboleth .
    If the BBC is backing the Labour government on this , it definitely is .

    Productivity is of course linked to Producing – making things .
    Britain is no longer a major manufacturing country, only 8% of our wealth is produced by manufacturing- making things .
    So how can the poor performance of our country be down to 8% of its trade ?
    Well I suppose we can go to the economists on this one who like all “ experts “ have phrases and terminology semi unique to their calling .
    According to Wikipedia there are 35 different ways of defining Productivity, which makes the science of it a little sketchy but the main one is a worker taking a basic item , working on it and adding value to it . The more added value , the greater the productivity .
    At the same time the more items produced, the greater the productivity .
    Which begs the question
    If Rolls Royce produced as many cars as Ford or Hyundai would they really be more Productive? As in anybody could buy a Rolls , nothing special about an ubiquitous make seen everywhere?
    If Ford and Hyundai jacked their prices up to Rolls Royce levels , would they sell ?
    Ah , say the BBC economists the manufacturers should cut down on the labour costs by cutting the labour – employ fewer workers .
    Well great for the manufacturers, but what’s in it for the country ? What do we do with the shed workers in an economy already with an unemployment problem ?
    To the economists the problem is simple – cut down the workforce but pay those in employment even more .
    But here we’ve hit an even bigger stumbling block- we’ve imported an even bigger workforce who accept lower wages.

    While the BBC , Labour Party , other political parties, OBR , CBI , Uncle Tom Cobbley lament the nation’s low Productivity, can they explain why that is so when we have had unprecedented mass immigration that they say is so good for our economy?

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    • G says:

      Productivity ? A complete nonsense measure.

      Anybody who has a problem these days with anything purchased / needing repair/service will know the hours needed to be spent in trying to contact someone. Whether it is the bank, or any supplier (who’s normally taken a leaf out of the MI5 / MI6’s playbook in depriving you of a telephone number) you cannot, readily, speak to a human being even if they give a telephone number. Very few of these elevated majestic companies/individuals welcome being spoken to.

      Its all broken systems which need an inordinate length of time to penetrate/unravel. Like running with lead boots on. I’m well retired have the time to play the game with them despite not being issued with Rule Book. So I feel sorry for any employed individual who has to cope with the nonsense when things go wrong.

      In Wales, we have the 20mph speed limits so things have a tendency to be even slower when things need to be done.

      Then await the questionnaire: how did our driver do? Is the product to your satisfaction etc etc etc. It goes on and on and on. Time unnecessarily expended……….

      Recommended additions/deletions to the English dictionary?

      Remove “urgency” immediately.

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  5. BRISSLES says:

    How can anyone be taken seriously with a name like Zarah Sultana ? It’s only fit for a character in one of my childhood comics, along with Polly Prune, Cathy Currant and Mary Mixedpeel !

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    • StewGreen says:

      Zarah Sultana changes her name often
      so Zarah Sultana is not her real name.

      It’s her current name.

      H/T Lee Hurst

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    • harry142857 says:

      Another exotically named Labourite.

      Tulip Siddiq has been sentenced to two years in prison on Monday by a court in Dhaka for her role in a corruption case linked to a government land project. The court found that Labour MP Siddiq had improperly influenced her aunt, ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, to secure a plot of land for her mother, Sheikh Rehana, who received a seven-year prison term as the main figure in the case.

      Despite the two-year prison sentence, Siddiq is extremely unlikely to serve any time in Bangladesh. She has been based in London throughout the trial, which has been conducted entirely in her absence.

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    • G says:

      The Queen whose real name is, Camilla Parker-Bowles

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  6. JohnC says:

    World Trade Center worker who left shortly before 9/11 beaten to death by two teens and a 12-year-old boy, cops say
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/roger-borkum-9-11-world-trade-worker-attacked-killed-b2873904.html

    Normally the BBC would be all over a story like this : someone who narrowly avoided death in the 9-11 tragedy ending up being brutally beaten to death on the street. Just imagine the empathy/racist porn the BBC would churn out if this black man was beaten by a bunch of racist whites.

    But he wasn’t black. He was white. So the BBC don’t give a shit. There is no racist pro-black agenda in it for them so they don’t want us to know about it. Here are the ones who murdered him.

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  7. AsISeeIt says:

    News from the Patriarchy edition

    I’m oddly reminded of the comic Les Dawson’s creations Cissie and Ada gossiping over the brick wall that divided their respective back yards…

    TV confrontation… Chancellor and Kemi in Budget face-off… Reeves: I didn’t lie (the giveaway freebie Metro on the benefits freebie giveaway Budget)

    Back when a drag act was still an amusing light entertainment on our TVs and not a tenet of the leftist manifesto, Dawson and his straightman Roy Barraclough (if you’ll excuse that anachronism) played Lancashire housewives Cissie and Ada’s neighbourly one upmanship (sic) punctuated with familiar comic mannerisms including the gurning stoical pursing of lips and intermittant heaving readjustment of a bosom.

    Kemi Badenoch savages Rachel Reeves ‘woman to woman’ in speech for the ages… Mrs B demanded that Keir Starmer sack his neighbour for being “spineless, shameless and aimless” and branded the pair “Laurel and Foolhardy”. She then blasted the first ever female Chancellor for “wallowing in self pity and whining about misogyny” after Reeves had complained about being “mainsplained” over how to do her job. (Evening Standard)

    You have to hand it to the left-leaning i paper, they have just now published a feature that reaches the very pinnacle of the liberal globalist feminist GI Jane agenda: Interview Her name is Bond… Actress turned soldier fights Russia – and sexism – on Ukraine’s frontline

    I’ll save our mate Marky Mark the trouble of the rehash of this classic headline from the hen-pecked Boris (BBC News, June 2022): Ukraine war: Johnson says if Putin were a woman he would not have invaded – or perhaps he/she would have… if she’d been on our side?

    As for our mildly conservative Telegraph, although it frets: Peppa Pig’s father dragged through the mud… the children’s series unfairly pushes the “narrative” of a weak and incompetent male. Daddy Pig is often shown as incapable compared with his wife and is frequently called “silly Daddy”

    The limp-wristed centre right may have identified the problem – but what’s to be done?

    The Telegraph nevertheless goes with the large format frontpage full colour feature photo of: Home and dry… Chloe Pinkerton is reunted with her young cousin Ava after spending eight months on HMS Prince of Wales as part of Operation Highmast. The aircraft carrier… was deployed to the Indo-Pacific earlier this year for an exercsise involving all three UK armed forces and supported by a dozen nations

    Meanwhile: As of late November 2025, there have been over 39,292 channel migrants, which is higher than the number for the full year of 2024 – thank you A.I. you mean to say invaders

    Further comment would seem superfluous.

    But have the Chinese at least thrown in the towel and come over to our wetsern way of thinking?

    Chinese drone supplier in tie-up with Russian producer – highlighting a new level of co-operation between Moscow and Beijing’s military industrial complexes (FT) – thought not.

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    • AsISeeIt says:

      Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner, PS

      As advertised on our big red double decker buses: Christy… “A must see… one of the best films of the year” Based on a true story

      Christy Martin never imagined life beyond her small-town roots in West Virginia, until she discovered a knack for punching people. Fueled by grit, raw determination, and an unshakable desire to win, she charges into the world of boxing under the guidance of her trainer and manager-turned-husband, Jim. Flaunting a fiery persona in the ring, her toughest battles start to unfold outside of it as she confronts family, identity, and a relationship that just might become life-or-death.

      I’m put in mind of some relatively recent TV drama (might have been a movie) set in ancient Rome portraying all its now familiar to viewers excesses and decadence. The height of degeneracy was presented to us by some Roman aristocrat character employing a pair of paid protitutes to act as gladiators fighting each other as an entertainment for his amusement.

      Kemi v Rachel – bread and circuses, anyone? The circuses bit anyway.

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  8. Guest Who says:

    But now, with all going on, the real news…

    “Special Forces leadership suppressed war crime evidence, inquiry hears”

    From a source, who says.

    The BBC Moaning Emole knows what goes to the top.

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  9. Guest Who says:

    Toenails poses scenarios.

    https://x.com/bbcr4today/status/1995405746612412789?s=61
    “In what way did the chancellor gain from what you say were misleading briefings?”

    Henry channels his inner Hirohito

    https://x.com/bbcr4today/status/1995406056445325594?s=61
    “The direction of travel has been very different on welfare in the Prime Minister’s year and a half or so in office compared to what he wanted.”

    Between them the rake in the audience of tens.

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    • Guest Who says:

      The SAS one they are pushing is a pure rehash, using lovely old warlords and holes in walls in a firefight.

      Meanwhile, CSI:W1A also has…

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czrk7g50e1po
      WW1 toxic compound sprayed on Georgian protesters, BBC evidence suggests

      Well, that of others, as told to the BBC…. according to a health ministry?

      Might be true; might not. The last casualty of the bbc is war credibility.

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  10. Guest Who says:

    Panorama on a roll.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8z8pv1e0ko
    I have high levels of forever chemicals in my blood – what can I do about it?

    “ it is also another thing to worry about “

    Like COVID?

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  11. Flotsam says:

    Tulip Siddiq the Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate (in true ethnic London style) has been convicted for corruption in Bangladesh and sentenced to two years in prison.

    She’s complaining that she didn’t even have a Jury trial.

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  12. andyjsnape says:

    bbc “report”

    David Dimbleby: Can William’s ‘ordinary Joe’ approach win back more support for the monarchy?

    Win back? Didn’t realise it had lost support, sounds like a bit of bbc stirring

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    • MarkyMark says:

      ‘ordinary Joe’ – A 150-acre “no-go” exclusion zone protected by new fencing, CCTV cameras, and landscaping has been established around Prince William and Kate Middleton’s new home, Forest Lodge in Windsor Great Park. Trespassers face immediate arrest under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005.

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      • AsISeeIt says:

        ‘David Dimbleby: Can William’s ‘ordinary Joe’ approach win back more support for the monarchy?’

        Willy-nilly sloganeering like a good ‘un

        William pays visit to severely ill children from Gaza… Fifty patients and their immediate family members are now receiving care in surroundings that are safe and welcoming.”… “change is on my agenda, change for good”. (Guy Lambert, Culture reporter, BBC)

        Barrack Obama says: can I have my classic election slogan back please?

        I’ll bet he wished he’d copyrighted the change thing.

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  13. andyjsnape says:

    WW1 toxic compound sprayed on Georgian protesters, BBC evidence suggests, reports the bbc

    Suggests? no Verify this time then

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    • Guest Who says:

      Without semantics, allusions, omissions, #quotes from ‘sources who say’ they would have to check and report based on facts.

      Which would never do.

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    • digg says:

      Where and why the hell would anyone
      have stored a WW1 toxic compound for over a hundred years in case they might
      need it one day?

      Total B*ll*cks!

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  14. MarkyMark says:

    Lucy Connolly’s daughter BANNED from local school – ‘Politics has entered schools!’

    ………….
    What a teacher in hiding can tell us about our failure to tackle intolerance
    This article is more than 1 year oldKenan Malik
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/31/batley-school-what-teacher-in-hiding-can-tell-us-about-our-failure-to-tackle-intolerance

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  15. MarkyMark says:

    We can all use the word Queer again! yeah! Your party your choice of words!

    ‘A CIRCUS!’ Alex Armstrong RIPS into the first Your Party conference GBNews 2.04m subscribers

    Comment “They’re so socialist they managed to steal other people’s money from each other.”

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  16. Thatcherrevolutionary says:

    Interesting to see the hard push by the BBC on something racist Nigel Farage said in 1975.

    Looking back at broadcasting schedules for that year on BBC1, The Black & White Minstrel Show was the leading Saturday light entertainment show at 8pm.

    Would our state broadcaster care to comment on the double standard?

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  17. tomo says:

    pffff…..

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “rip these life support systems out of the walls for so many people. Bill gates says a million children will die.” Bono

      ……….

      Open defecation contributes significantly to hundreds of thousands of premature deaths annually, primarily among young children. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that inadequate sanitation causes around 432,000 diarrheal deaths each year.

      …………

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      • StewGreen says:

        That is NOT Bono’s actual home
        “Based on the latest reports (up to October 2025), Bono is one of multiple investors in the spec mansion project in Hollywood Hills, developed by Plus Development Group. Sources describe it as a group investment, but no exact number is publicly disclosed—phrases like “one of many” or “several” are used consistently across outlets. This aligns with typical high-end real estate spec projects, where developers often pool 3–10+ backers for privacy and risk-sharing.

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    • Northern Voter says:

      Bono, a shadow of the former prick.

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  18. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Lucy Connolly’s daughter banned from school.

    Just imagine if the daughter was not a white girl. The left would have a fit.

    Maybe the teacher in hiding for fear of his life from the religion of peace could give her private lessons.

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  19. harry142857 says:

    It’s only taxpayers money.

    Gatwick taxi drove to Reading for asylum seeker appointment

    A taxi driver has said he drove from Gatwick to take an asylum seeker 1.5 miles to a GP appointment in Reading as the government announces a policy change on taxi use.

    Drivers told the BBC the system was open to “abuse”, accusing sub-contractors of inflating mileage, for instance by dispatching drivers over long distances to perform much shorter journeys.

    One told Radio 4’s Today programme he had been dispatched from Gatwick to take an asylum seeker in Reading to an appointment 1.5 miles from his hotel, with a second driver sent from Heathrow to bring the same man back from the appointment.

    https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/25661071.gatwick-taxi-drove-reading-asylum-seeker-appointment/

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  20. MarkyMark says:

    “We have build a mass democratic working class s movement.” – Zarah
    ** terms to be defined later on as well as the party name

    Comment “Wow! What an inspiring rousing speech. Unashamedly socialist, for the working class and all the oppressed.”

    Zarah Sultana Calls For Capitalism To Be Replaced | Your Party Speech Turn Left
    35.5k subscribers

    and the shocking site of a muslim woman being manhandled (sexist word) and being dragged out of the conference should shame any party that claims to stand for equaility and justice. ” – Zarah

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  21. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    When you think about it, the House of Lords must be a right motley crew.

    Nowadays, to get a knighthood or whatever you get to be a Lord you either buy one by giving loads of money (or ‘stuff’) to the government top jobs or you have something on them and get put in the H of L to keep you quiet.

    Not the reasons to have a crowd of the great and good, knowledgeable, intelligent and articulate.
    You need animal cunning or to be ‘one of them’ to get in.

    I wouldn’t mind if it was full of the likes of Dyson, Mullins or other successful businessmen, or, maybe the likes of David Starkey or even Ricky Gervais.

    It’s just a one of the boys clubs (plus the wimmin of course) and I would guess the vast majority are all left leaning.

    The occasional ‘good one’ gets in but I wouldn’t mind say that’s the exception.

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    • Scroblene says:

      If you use your Tesco Clubcard in the HoC more than three times, you get a seat in the HoL!

      Fact!

      Also, collecting points on a Nectar card gets you a Cabinet position and free Channel Crossings for liilegals are paid for by Townshend Torhorssten Bell Ferries…

      ”Black Holes Matter’ – Starmer and Reeves…

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  22. Foscari says:

    We firstly had Clive Myrie telling us how we can trust
    the BBC. Well ” you can tell that to the marines”
    Now we have Fiona Bruce expressing that on her Question Time
    the BBC , let the people tell us their opinions.
    The problem is Fiona . Who do your Marxist editors
    pick to select the audiences?
    The cop out for the BBC will be the huge majority Labour
    had at the General Election. However we all know that
    with 33.7%. Two thirds of voters did not vote Labour.
    It was Reform and of course the inept Tories who gave
    Labour this huge majority. And now Labour would get not
    much more than 50% of the vote they got in 2024.
    BUT really the analogy is from George Orwell’s Animal
    Farm , so far as the Question Time audience is concerned.
    ” All animals are equal. BUT some animals are more equal
    than others.” And this typifies the Question Time audience.
    Week after week.
    A perfect example being when the right wing professor
    Matt Goodwin was on the panel. I would say that at least
    50% of voters would agree with Goodwin’s views on most
    of the topics on discussion. But not the Question Time audience
    who 90% booed and hissed at everything he said..
    But this what you expect from a BBC “selected” audiences.

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    Breaking – “Your Party is the name of Your Party” – Corbyn who also said Hamas are our friends and was kicked out of the Labour party for being anti-semitic. HA HA HAH AH A AHA

    Jeremy Corbyn Announces Party Name In Closing Speech

    Turn Left

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  24. MarkyMark says:

    Barry Gardiners 500K investment is paying off… HA HA AHHA AH

    “Keir Starmer’s National Security Adviser met China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi during a ‘secret visit’ to Beijing on Friday, Guido can reveal. The reason Guido can reveal this meeting is because the UK Government seemingly did not brief or press release it taking place despite its high-level nature…

    During the confidential meet-up Powell was lectured by Yi about China’s “contribution to world peace” – the member of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee also took a heavily anti-Japan line. The Chinese government said in a press note:

    “Wang Yi elaborated on China’s principled position on Japan-related issues, and expressed the hope that the UK will continue to uphold the one-China principle and work with China to jointly safeguard the outcomes of the victory of World War II. Jonathan Powell emphasized that China plays a pivotal role in today’s world, and that the UK Labour government is willing to develop a coherent, lasting and strategic relationship with China, further enhance regular dialogues across all levels with the Chinese side, and promote fruitful cooperation. The two sides also exchanged views on the Ukraine crisis and other issues.”

    UK policy on Japan is rather different. Note also the Chinese government specifically praising the “UK Labour government” for its position on China. Golden Keir-a continues…”
    https://order-order.com/2025/12/01/exc-jonathan-powell-meets-foreign-minister-wang-yi-in-china-trip-not-revealed-by-uk-government/

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  25. digg says:

    “Man refuses to appear in court over train attacks”…

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c997ng7zx3xo

    WTF?

    He should be dragged into the court in a straight jacket!

    What is wrong with the enforcement people in this Country these days?

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    • moggiemoo says:

      Anything anybody does will be racist. Murdering people for no reason is cultural.

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      • Richard Pinder says:

        I asked ChatGPT: Is the Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, a racist?

        ChatGPT said: Yes. Under the Equality Act 2010, Russians are protected because “race” is a protected characteristic, and discrimination against someone because they are Russian is unlawful in Britain.

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    • G says:

      Digg,

      The “Man” is named “Anthony Williams”. A fine Welsh surname I might add. Be interested in seeing a photo of him……………

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  26. Richard Pinder says:

    ChatGPT: What is the BBC doing to increase trust in the BBC?

    ChatGPT says that to increase public trust in its output, the BBC launched “BBC Verify” a specialist fact-checking team to verify information, videos and images, especially around controversial speeches or contested stories. The BBC team responsible for complaints handling now reports directly to the trusted Director-General, rather than the less trusted editorial heads, separating ‘editorial creation’ from complaints resolution, to deal with the lack of public confidence in the BBC’s impartiality and complaints handling. The BBC’s moves toward transparency, fact-checking and accountability aim to address that broader “trust crisis.” The BBC is to review its trusted seminars of environmental activists calling themselves “the best scientific experts”, who then banned Professors of Atmospheric Physics, and other members of the Academic Advisory Council of the GWPF, from appearing on the BBC, for saying that man-made climate is a ‘hoax’ with ‘zero’ evidence.

    The BBC will also use the BBC lead ‘Trusted News Initiative’ to build ‘audience trust’ by using censorship, propaganda and psychological behaviour modification techniques. US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that the BBC lead ‘Trusted News Initiative’ was initiated by the BBC and sought to prevent the publication of stories or events that deviated from government orthodoxy. But the role of the media is to speak truth to power and safeguard the freedom of expression guaranteed by the First Amendment. All dissent, all evidence and all opinions that the State and its Establishment “partners” need to bury in order to maintain “Trust in the BBC” can be expunged by the governments behavioural scientists, using “psychological nudge weapons” to label all who hold anti-Establishment opinions “conspiracy theorists” and by calling all the evidence that questions power “conspiracy theory”.

    The British Government will also try to increase trust in the authority of the BBC, by using DSMA-Notices, Super-Injunctions and non-disclosure agreements to hide the crimes of the BBC lead establishment.

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    • StewGreen says:

      This is Grok’s reply to the same question
      https://x.com/i/grok/share/8k7l1k7sT0YksK8GYpySG6M8l

      It summarises
      Initiative /Focus Area / Key Partners/Outcomes
      Trusted News Initiative
      Disinformation Response
      Tech giants; real-time alerts, global elections coverage

      BBC Verify & Trust Indicators
      Fact-Checking & Transparency
      Internal units; machine-readable labels for online trust
      .
      Media Literacy Campaigns
      Education & Engagement
      Schools/communities; tools for 320M+ weekly global audience

      Despite these efforts, the BBC faces ongoing criticism, including 2025 lawsuits against TNI for alleged viewpoint suppression and bias claims leading to leadership changes.
      It remains the UK’s most trusted news source in surveys*, but continues refining strategies for broader appeal.

      *Something strange about these surveys
      Like ones commissioned by BBC don’t publish the actual numbers
      In 2023 one survey gave ITV a higher rating for TRUST :
      23% net for ITV vs 14% net for BBC news

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      • Scroblene says:

        I put into ScrobsGPT, ‘Is Starmer an absolute prat’?

        The answer came back…

        ‘Yes’…

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  27. StewGreen says:

    Just turned off the GBnews sound cos the headlines started to say
    “Oxford Dictionaries say the word of the year is..”
    FFS that is not news
    You don’t have to give airtime to a press release coming out of Oxford Dictionaries … or any other org

    It’s really like like BBC, ITV, C4 and even GBnews newsdesks are run by state apparatchiks, who regurgitate the APPROVED establishment stories the government puts out each day.

    Sound back on now cos Nigel Nelson is on
    Why does their economic editor feel that it is his role to defend the Labour government’s stances ?

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  28. Eddy Booth says:

    Immigrant fatigue, didn’t bag the spot then ..

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  29. StewGreen says:

    Flipping Channel I see Together TV are playing this
    “Our Land is the story of two black food growers who refuse to be held back by barriers
    … A film supported and funded by Together TV

    very moral
    Most evenings the channel often appears to air soft porn

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  30. Fedup2 says:

    The local school which Lucy Connolly s’ daughter was due to attend has now withdrawn her place because of her mother .

    Recently I was a school governor for a short time – but after induction I realised I was in a Far Left enclave and would have got into trouble very quickly – so I resigned . Schools – with a few exceptions are just Far left indoctrination centres …

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    • digg says:

      This should go to court against all those denying this little girl her rights. Its plain and simple politically driven spiteful and unlawful victimisation!

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  31. JonathanR says:

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    • Guest Who says:

      “An impression not at one with the facts”

      About sums the politico media estate inflicting the country now.

      That is carefully using words to steer around awkward realities.

      How can they govern when everyone knows they are liars?

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  32. tomo says:

    It is a curious phenomenon that, although violent crime over the past 10 years has, the Office for National Statistics assures us, slowly decreased, we are remanding, prosecuting and locking people up in ever greater numbers.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/01/secret-prisoner-jail-jury/

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    If we really want to reduce the backlog of cases, my honest view is not that we should scrap juries, but that judges should be given greater powers to throw out cases they consider not in the public interest to prosecute.
    Most of all, in a fast-changing world intent on replacing human beings in most realms and substituting them with something we are assured will be better, jurors are valuable for the very reason that they are human beings. I know I owe mine everything.

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      How about ending bullshit prosecutions of ordinary citizens for starters. For example:

      Lucy Connolly
      Tommy Robinson
      The man who said the police wimmins horse was gay
      Christians who say silent prayers
      etc etc

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      • tomo says:

        The CPS would call you vexatious if you did what they do – in my short dealings with them found them more arrogant and entitled than any judge.

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  33. Philip_2 says:

    Letter in DT today conforms The Whitehouse is investigating the BBC!
    “The White House has opened a “public database that catalogs the avalanche of lies, deliberate distortions, and manufactured hoaxes churned out by activist “journalists” and their failing outlets.”

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/media-bias-publication/the-bbc/

    So not just he BBC but the usual guilty culprits: But at least we are not alone in condemning the BBC for what it hides conceals and invents. No point in asking BBC VERIFY if its true or not. We know.

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  34. tomo says:

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  35. JonathanR says:

    Germany’s decision to cancel some of its famed Christmas markets is not due to a lack of resources but a lack of will — a refusal to name the threat, exclude the attackers, or defend the Christian culture that made the celebrations possible.
    https://www.standingforfreedom.com/2025/11/18/germany-cancels-christmas-markets-over-terror-threats/

    I am getting very sick of the appeasers who are scared stiff of calling out the islamists and radical leftists who have made one of our most celebrated Christian traditions into a time of danger

    Even now the CofE is condemning people who are turning to Christ because they are “of the right” But this is exactly what Christianity needs people who are not afraid of being Christian and not kowtow to secular or others sensitivities . Everything about our country is based on Judeo-Christian teachings and the established church is supposed to defend them not water them down for atheists and islamists to try and fend off the inevitable

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  36. Philip_2 says:

    Alison Pearson ponders on why the BBC is as bad as it is.
    ….The British Brainwashing Corporation has become a highly effective propaganda tool for what Rod Liddle, celebrated columnist and former editor of the Today programme, says are far-Left views, much more extreme than people realise. At the very most, BBC journalists represent (less than) 20 per cent of the population telling 80 per cent of the population how they should think and behave, while we pay their salaries.”
    ….
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/11/bbc-crisis-not-right-wing-coup-brainwashing/

    She also mentions Rod Liddle who writes in the Spectator magazine how bloody awful the BBC still is…. Worth a read although it was last week… I bought a copy…. Still not sure if it can be FIXED.
    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-obvious-truth-about-bbc-bias/

    Why it EXISTS as post War propaganda unit:
    We should abolish the BBC, but if we did Labour would simply rebuild it and call it something else such as the state Ministry of (British) Culture News and Media. Which it still is a governemnt department (beholden to the war office). Even the Foreign Office gets its global voice on BBC WorldWide; in Arabic. Even though its never said anything about promoting GAZA, they (FO) still end up paying BBC for it and then the BBC deny they ever said such a ‘nasty’ thing! (they did). Until an BBC insider revealed that not only did they know, it was BBC policy to cover it up! Then the BBC revealed they never had a complaint! (revealed in the Telegraph). You could not make it up. It even gets to mark it own homework (BBC VERIFY) and OFCOM are happy to check the BBC news output and never voiced any concerns about Bias. None at all, apparently. Ever. Not even when it gets reported by its own executive staff. Nothing. Not even when questioned by parliament. They deny it all. Its the same pantomime every 10 years towards the BBC TV Charter.

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  37. tomo says:

    What I’d like to see happen to BoneEd Millibrain

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  38. JonathanR says:

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  39. StewGreen says:

    New Whitehouse media bias offender of the week websire
    .. https://www.whitehouse.gov/media-bias-publication/the-bbc/

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  40. JonathanR says:

    What does bias mean?

    Bias is when a story is only presented from one viewpoint without considering the other side of the story. A balanced story would include various viewpoints and angles, offering the complete picture so you can make your own judgements.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/znt7p9q

    They know what it is but its a shame the BBC don’t practice it

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  41. JohnC says:

    BBC Headline:
    ‘OBR head resigns over Budget day publishing error’

    ‘The chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has resigned following the Budget day error which saw a key document published early.
    Richard Hughes said in his resignation letter he took “full responsibility” for the issues identified in the OBR’s investigation into the mistake, which it called the worst failure in the organisation’s 15-year history.’

    Daily Telegraph Headline:
    ‘Reeves clings on as OBR chief silenced’

    ‘Head of watchdog forced out hours before he was due to give evidence on Budget ‘lies’ to Commons’

    I know which one sounds more plausible. Starmer is a nasty and ruthless coward. The absolute worst kind of person to have as PM.

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  42. Fedup2 says:

    JohnC
    Re the resignation of the head of the OBR the day before Rachel from accounts has to appear before the public accounts committee ……. The timing ? The reason? The consequences ?

    My read goes like this . She had to get rid of him or she is toast . He has been bribed not to appear before the committee by a knighthood in the New Year honours plus a ‘package ‘ and job with a Marxist ‘think tank ‘( non job but £200k a year )

    Then Rachel can lie in front of the committee and know she is saved . …..

    From what I heard on Monday -income tax rates will increase next year as things get more desperate – no growth- higher borrowing costs and inflation …..

    ..but by then the markets will have decided there is no honesty in the regime and its’ number and just turn against it ….. but that’s me being hopeful …..

    It’s a lot of suffering to get rid of Labour …

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    • Scroblene says:

      Good sum-up, Fed!

      I guess the whole shebang of her whipping out her mobile in front of the world, and a very 3rd-rate acting performance by Hughes immediately afterwards was a set-up job from start to finish.

      The evial Machiavellians in the Nos 10 and 11, Mohammed Street told the fat-fingered Mr Blobbys in Whitehall to keep schtum, and of course, their index-linked peerages depended on their acquiesence too.

      The diversion of the new Sodyouall Bi-Corbynite party as a kid’s sea-side-show, and the others in the ‘cabinet’, like Mahod and Millibrain, David Lumpy (Juries-ain’t-us) etc., all kicked in with their usual borrocks to complete the charade!

      Also, why wasn’t there any comment from the bloke who’s supposed to be ‘business secretary’ anywhere to be seen if the Private Sector’s interests were to be so important?

      Like you say, there’s a whole lotta sufferin’ to go yet., but like any bBC prog these days, it was full of absolute lies, cheating statements, and now, also, some alleged nods to investors who noticed the gaps in the announcements and made a fortune in just a few seconds…

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    • Guest Who says:

      The BBC sees it from the poor mite’s POV… the Moaning Emole:

      “OBR chair resignation creates headache for Reeves”

      Yes, that is the main problem she has.

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      • Scroblene says:

        “TTK to Beeboid, TTK to Beeboid, mission accomplished, mission accomplished, we can all move on now, nothing else to see…”

        “Beeboid to TTK, Beeboid to TTK, roger willco, repeat, roger willco, repeat, Mrs Brown’s boys, Newsnight, Savile, Huw-baby, Rick Nobson, ‘Raisin in my heart’, Crayons’ new bloke, bloke’s new Crayons………”

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  43. Fedup2 says:

    Hello scroblene – I heard that the ‘no name ‘ party played the tedious ‘imagine ‘ tune by a millionaire called John Lennon …. The Muslims walked out to the line of ‘imagine there’s no religion ‘ …

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    • Scroblene says:

      Ha ha ha, and I expect the Jewish delegates, (?), walked out to the tune of Hava Nagila Munchetti…

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  44. Fedup2 says:

    Today
    Wanted to hear the 0600 headline – then heard comrade Robinson and went back to streaming me tunes …. but I did hear a BBC advert for a series called ‘building Britain ‘ … why is the housing situation like it is – I could tell them in 30 seconds – import 10 million people and suffer supply /demand for decades … job done …

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  45. AsISeeIt says:

    How we feeling about that merry band of civil servants and quangocrats taking care of all our personal data they will garner from Digital ID…?

    OBR chief resigns after review balmes Budget leak on regulator’s leadership… Same error found for Spring statement… the high number of attempts to access the document from one address raised concerns that the person or people may have been aware that an early upload was possible (Financial Times); Early publication was watchdog’s ‘worst failure’ (Times)

    Oh, and by the way: Post Office Horizon Scandal… Cops consider corporate manslaughter charges… faulty IT system led to thousands of postmasters being accused of theft (Daily Mirror)

    That of course is not the only but the most celebrated of many IT cockups and that one had some rather nasty outcomes: Post Office staff took their own lives (Mirror)

    But let’s not forget the more recent case of the Tax Man going after innocent people that has quite some resonances to the Post Office Horizon Scandal – a recent case that – in these times of straitened finances – also hints at the way government agencies will be using the extra data they get on us: HMRC made a mistake by incorrectly targeting individuals for child benefit fraud based on travel data, leading to wrongly suspended payments for many families who were simply on holiday – thank you A.I. (ironically)

    Home Office data in HMRC benefit fraud trial wrong in 46% of cases… Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK (Guardian)

    How’s that Net Zero workin’ out fo’ yer…?

    Computer says No…

    BP abandons green energy plant in UK… shelved plans to build a big hydrogen project in Teeside in a blow to Ed Miliband’s net zero plans… it clashed with separate plans backed by Sir Keir Starmer to construct the largest data centre in Europe…. second AI Growth Zone, with Labour banking on the technology to turbocharge the economy (Telegraph)

    Of course, despite the embarrassing OBR data leaks, there’s a distinct suspicion abroad that some previously anonymous chinless wonder functionary is taking the can for a minister’s pre-Budget mistakes…

    OBR chief forced out after contradicting Chancellor over Budget black hole… Treasury furious that UK Budget watchdog had appeared to challenge Rachel Reeves’s version of events (left-leaning i paper)

    However, the regime friendly Times ain’t having it: OBR boss quits after PM’s budget leak rebuke

    Nor the Labour-friendly Guardian: Damning report calls leak the worst failure in the watchdog’s history

    The Graun resorting to that tiresome cliché ‘damning report’ – the phrase that when uttered on the broadcast 6 o’clock news would have my old mum respond “Here’s another ’cause for concern’

    Meanwhile, the regime are still playing a desperate game of keepy-uppy with this one: Attorney general calls for Farage to apologise… The UK’s top lawyer… Richard Hermer… Speaking to the Guardian… antisemitism

    OK, they started it, let’s reach for Godwin’s Law proving the probability of a comparison involving the Nazis or Hitler…

    Hey, A.I., did Nazi German courts use the jury system?

    I only ask because: Lammy reveals court reforms that could spell the end of jury trials for most crimes (i paper)

    No, Nazi Germany did not use a jury system; it was abolished in 1924 during the Weimar Republic. The Nazi regime further undermined any lay participation in the justice system, replacing it with politically appointed judges and courts like the Volksgerichtshof (People’s Court), which was designed to be an instrument of Nazi terror – thank you A.I.

    1924, so pre-Nazi. Hmmmm. Good old continental Europe, eh? The very epicentre and cradle of democracy?

    Now PM admits seeking ‘closer’ links to EU… we have to keep reducing frictions… “We have to keep moving toward a closer relationship…” (Daily Express)

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    • Guest Who says:

      “That of course is the most celebrated of IT cockups that had some nasty ourcomes: Post Office staff took their own lives (Mirror)”

      More frenetic tweeting soon on X about Trump and Farage from a paddling pool by the country’s fave cheeky chubster?

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      • Scroblene says:

        “Nor the Labour-friendly Guardian: Damning report calls leak the worst failure in the watchdog’s history”

        All the dog said was, ‘Mark, Mark’, because he had a hare-lip…

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      > I only ask because: Lammy reveals court reforms that could spell the end of jury trials for most crimes (i paper)

      Our Lord Chief Justice Lammy is getting in touch with his inner Roland Freisler.

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  46. G says:

    The Marxists really have this country screwed. Everywhere you look, it really is all f**ked up. But, I might add, it is will the total acquiescence of all living here.

    Similarities with Germany preceding WW2?

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  47. andyjsnape says:

    OBR head’s resignation leaves potential landmines for Reeves
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyvnnz5842o

    “The shock resignation came for a very specific reason”

    So bbc still not holding Reeves accountable.

    Remember Partygate, well who can forget it

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  48. MarkyMark says:

    5 years to determine who can use a toilet by a Supreme court.
    10 years since UK voted to close the borders, borders are porous as we defend Taiwan and Ukraine borders with boats and billions.
    Tweeting your feelings gets 31 months and your kid cannot go to the local school for a FREE Labour breakfast.
    Batley teachers still in hiding due to Islamophobia.
    Theresa May has not found the 22 lost in Manchester.
    Boris’s Afghanistan retreat was a success, as Afghan has moved to the UK with a news blockade.
    King Charles welcomes Eid (DIE backwards) into Windsor but cannot visit Mecca.
    Rachel rewards those with more kids and on benefits and in the public sector and those who travel by dinghy, those who pay tax have the shoulders to burden her demands ** free tickets for concerts for her, not you.
    Rishi and Cameron want to stick his finger up men’s bums to check they are OK, personally.
    BBC report on the above using omission and news about BBC being the best place to get news and saving the kids with walks by Sarah Cox whilst employing people like Huw Edwards to save the children.
    Starmer – Davos good, Westminster bad. Men can have a cervix free on the NHS.
    If an African steps into the UK and eats fish and chips they are English (minus the slavery attachement), if an Englishman steps into Africa and eats some berries he’s a racist who should remove his penis and think about the planet whilst giving Lenny Henry 18 trillion of his wealth.

    Enough to make you smile or go insane.

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