So let’s summarise the week the BBC didn’t complain about –
A corrupt budget
The end of juries
Digital ID cards
Facial recognition in your town or city
Mayoral elections suspended until 2028
A Labour corruption minister convicted of corruption – a fixed question time with two invaders planted by the BBC
Weekend 6th December 2025
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Times Radio telling us this morning that West Midlands Police lied to Parliament reference Tel Aviv Maccabi.
The BBC give the police’s own interpretation…
‘Police did not mean to imply Jewish community supported Tel Aviv fan ban, force says’
Not even police ‘misled’.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cev82g41vpdo
Once again the BBC report itself misleads us given the downplaying and the omissions in an attempt it would seem to defend the police….which is unusual given the BBC’s ingrained editorial stance that the police are institutionally racist and sexist…..just not when it comes to Jews it seems.
‘A West Midlands Police chief did not mean to imply that members of the Jewish community had agreed with the exclusion of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from a football match, the force has said.’
Lol…in fairness you could say they didn’t mean to imply it…because they fully intended, and did, say it.
Curiously the BBC doesn’t state that the Jewish community in Birmingham has denied the police claim, they have…police are apologising…but the BBC doesn’t tell us why they feel the need.
Similarly the BBC misses out the fact that the Dutch police clearly stated that West Midland claims about the Dutch report’s ‘facts’ used as evidence were not at all true.
The BBC massages wording to muddy the waters…
‘However, Dutch police said the force justified the ban using false intelligence about disorder involving Maccabi fans attending a game in Amsterdam last year’<
What was the false intelligence and where did it come from? The BBC's not saying….leaving it to the reader to make it up…maybe social media or newspaper reports or maybe Jews in Amsterdam eh?…or maybe it was the WMP lying about the Dutch police report.
The BBC misses out the fact that it was huge pressure from Islamist MPs and the Muslim community that threatened the peace and harmony if Tel Aviv came to Birmingham that was in all likelihood the real reason the police blocked the visit…they knew Islamists would turn to violence and didn't want to deal with them….and so blamed the Jews instead.
This is the same West Midlands force that tried to prosecute C4 for its 'Undercover Mosque programme that revealed the Islamist messaging being preached inside all too many mosques…such as..
‘“The hero of Islam is the one who separated his head from his shoulders”.
In a Green Lane mosque internet broadcast, another said of women:
“Allah has created the woman—even if she gets a PhD—deficient. Her intellect is incomplete, deficient”.
On gay rights, another recommended the Islamic punishment for homosexuality:
“Take the homosexual and throw him off the mountain”.
Democratic government was not in favour either. A speaker at the Sparkbrook mosque told his flock that Muslims cannot accept the rule of non-Muslims:
“You cannot accept the rule of the kaffir”—
that is, the non-Muslim.
“We have to rule ourselves and we have to rule the others”.’
Why is the BBC playing down the real dangers behind the ban and that the police seem in thrall to Islamist blackmail and threats?
“Polanski” is a student politician and con man cult leader. In my view he has absolutely zero credibility, his supporters are brainwashed idiots, people who are susceptible to hysterical pseudo scientific influence. It goes to show how effective the peddling of Green Marxist propaganda by the BBC has been.
Labour killing the economy, again.
The job situation from the ONS.
Twelve months to November 2025.
180,000 less people in work.
16,000 more in the public and defence administration sector.
74,000 less in wholesale and retail.
Funny how the greens attract self obsessed nut jobs like – what ever the breast engineers’ real name is ( Yaxley ?)…..
..I heard that the greens attract self crap nonsense is responsible for at least 20% of our energy bills – that – in my opinion is a lot of money – …
And then there is budget porn of ‘cutting bills by £150 a year ‘- which if you see the increase in standing charges on 1 january gets lost pretty quick ….
Energy bills are never going to come down – unless Reform delivers on its’ promise to end green and get drilling ….
Surprised the msm hasn’t dug into to the past comments of politicians from their teenage years . Starmer – being a Russian spy – was easy because he went to a communist training camp in his earlier years – at the invitation of a nice mr Philby – or one of the spies running the britistan state ….
Sir Keir’s hard-Left past and the KGB’s toxic propaganda machine
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15359779/Comrade-Starmer-Labour-Nigel-Farages-KGBs-toxic-propaganda-machine.html?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton
Keir Starmer was quick to jump on claims Nigel Farage used anti-Semitic and racist language when he was at school.
After the Guardian reported a dossier of lurid complaints from more than 40 years ago, the Prime Minister insisted the Reform leader needed to urgently ‘explain the comments, or alleged comments’.
The claims made by more than a dozen former classmates of Mr Farage at Dulwich College in South London – which he strongly denies – are deeply unpleasant.
the concerns about Mr Farage’s suspected teenage comments are clearly understandable, the Prime Minister’s decision to get involved in a row about what a rival politician allegedly did at school in the late Seventies and early Eighties inevitably invites scrutiny of his own youth.
And, as a Mail on Sunday investigation reveals, Sir Keir faces a few uncomfortable questions.
Most extraordinarily, we found that a young Starmer was a driving force behind an ultra-Left publication that backed a campaign to free a convicted Marxist terror chief – and may have become a tool, unwitting or otherwise, of the KGB propaganda machine.
Not that you would know any of this from the man himself, despite Starmer putting his upbringing at the heart of his pitch to become Prime Minister.
He launched his General Election campaign with a vivid description of his working-class youth in the Surrey town of Oxted.
He proudly described how, despite the hardships, he became the first member of his family to attend university after he won a place to study law at Leeds.
Sir Keir, however, has been rather quieter about the time that immediately followed his days as an undergraduate.
Those formative years in his mid to late-20s, when he was a postgraduate student at Oxford and a trainee barrister in London, have hardly warranted a mention.
Last year offered a possible clue to that reticence, when the Daily Mail revealed the astonishing story of how, in 1986, just before his 24th birthday, Starmer travelled to Czechoslovakia to join an international work camp to restore a memorial to victims of a Nazi atrocity. It was a visit monitored by Communist spies.
Unbeknown to Starmer and other overseas volunteers, such camps were part of long-term and wide-ranging operation by the nation’s secret police force, StB.
Declassified Cold War security service files in Prague about other camps show the aim was to undermine Nato by identifying young high-fliers for potential future ‘exploration’ and use.
Security experts have suggested that Starmer’s only mistake on this occasion was youthful naivete in signing up to a venture run by a totalitarian Communist regime.
But they did identify TTKs sexual preferences for further exploitation ….. right 77 brigade ?
Anyone notice how all the political violence – up to and including assassination – is coming from the tolerant, bleeding-heart-liberal Left?
Trump (twice), Charlie Kirk, and countless attacks and threats against conservative bloggers and influencers such as David Wood, Apostate Prophet, Hatun Tash, Matt Walsh, Benny Johnson and now Tim Pool? (Not to mention the months of BLM and Antifa violence, and now the Pro-Palestine /pro-Hamas thuggery and intimidation on our streets.)
And yet Biden and Starmer and the BBC keep telling us the REAL danger is not from deranged leftists and Islamists, but from – you guessed it – the mythical ‘Far-Right’.
Mogg warns that the BBC in collusion with the Blob will do all they can to prevent Farage winning the next election, including trying to get him arrested.
No
,they want him dead
Charming fellah
Waste of air – pity the mental issue …
I can’t bear to listen. But based just on the title, couldn’t he be arrested for a) race hate and b) inciting violence?
You’d think – eh?
Voodoo and albino medicine will solve all problems!
HA HA AHAHA HAHAH !
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https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=11545&chamber=house-of-commons
2025 … “Who Really Runs Labour’s Red Wall Towns
People are waking up. They can see what Oldham has become. Not a town suffering from isolated incidents, but a place where political violence, intimidation and institutional silence are now built into the system.
Let us strip this back to the truth. A council candidates car was petrol bombed. His mothers home, with people inside, was set alight. These are not minor fires. These are not youths messing about. These are attempted murders carried out with intent and delivered with a clear message to stay in your place.
And what did the local establishment do. The
@MENnewsdesk
only touched the story once we forced them. Even then, they diluted it to the point of fiction.
@gmpolice
then rolled out their familiar line that there is no threat to the wider public, as if anyone should be comforted by the idea that only political opponents are being firebombed.
We have seen this script before. Over three years on and there is still no update on who blew up Arooj Shahs unlocked car. No progress. No transparency. No accountability. Every politically sensitive crime in this borough receives the same treatment. Minimise it. Bury it. Wait for the public to forget.
Why does this happen. Because the people who benefit from this climate of fear depend on silence. They depend on compliant media. They depend on a police force willing to downplay political violence in order to protect the status quo.
But that grip is slipping.
Oldham is no longer the place where stories disappear. It is the place where the truth is finally being dragged into the light. We will continue exposing the attacks, the cover ups and the networks that still believe they own this town.
And this is only the beginning.”
Raja Miah
@recusant_raja
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1985….. Ahmadis suffer vicious persecution around the world. The main source of fuel for that persecution is in Pakistan, but what happens in Pakistan does not stay in Pakistan.
I know that from my experience in the Yorkshire market town of Batley. In August 1985, when I was 11 years old, my parents organised an inter-faith meeting in the town hall. It was interrupted and disturbed when, according to West Yorkshire police,
more than 1,000 extremists, led by Pakistani hate preachers funded by the Pakistani state, were bused in from around the country.
The mob brutally attacked my English mother and my father, a dermatologist; my eldest brother and I; and a Welsh Ahmadi schoolteacher who was with us. My first cousin, a GP, was by chance driving through the market town that day. He saw the mob and saw his family and friends being attacked, so he stopped. He was recognised, pulled from his vehicle and savagely beaten up.
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2020-03-12a.177.0&s=islam+batley#g195.0
As we know TV adverts these days have 95% black people, it law and wont get past oftwat or whatever they are called
Why are there never any adverts with people in Burkas! Surely its against the law not to be represented. Yes, we know the adverts wouldn’t work and very few would buy the product, but surely the law is the law
And also openly Jewish people never seem to get seen, or aren’t allowed to, because it might offend so many ‘new arrivals’.
I’d also like to hear some more music from synagogues – their seriousness and devotion to solemn music is magical and always very moving!
I heard this years ago His voice was truly magnificent. He ended up in a Swiss internment camp when escaping from Nazi Germany where he died through neglect.
What an incredible voice – thank you Jonathan!
I have a lunch with several old school friends once or twice a year, and at the session we had late last year, I found that one chap – a couple of years older than me, but still a contemporary, was Jewish, and back in those heady days, I’d never even known!
Still fabulous company, a retired QC, and with a huge stash of stories to take over a table-full of like-minded friends!
Cardiff choir boy arrested in Heathrow gas attack – reports …
Nice change from
slaughter at the Christmas market by local man …
SkyNews put up a tweet about it
then someone replied with the Yogi bear “It’s them again” meme
“Is it them again, Yogi?” “It’s always them, Boo Boo.”
and then SkyNews closed the replies
If crime was proportionate across skin colours then 6 out of 7 crimes would be done by white people.
Taxi companies based in UK cities predominantly owned and run by Muslims.
It is they who benefit immensely from local authority – run by Muslims – contracts, be it schools, hospitals and asylum seeker transport.
“Bradford resident Matthew Tanner spoke to the T&A about the rising costs of his car insurance.
He claimed many people in his area buy cheap cars and drive without insurance until the vehicle is seized by police.
“The only reason for drivers having no insurance is that it’s ‘cheaper’ for them to have a car seized than to pay the extortionate prices for insurance,” he told the T&A.”
https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/25658606.scale-vehicles-without-insurance-bradford-revealed/
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Taxi drivers lose licences for refusing guide dog
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9866d5y587o
The Uber drivers appeared at Bradford Magistrates Court on Friday in separate cases brought by Bradford Council.
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“Eat the slop food, then dance around.”
You Cannot Escape the Decline
… Eat the bugs and be happy! HA HAHAHHA HAHA…
Starmer, the liar.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7vmlmm9343o
Keir Starmer has said the “hugely talented” Angela Rayner will make a return to the cabinet, following her resignation over a tax scandal.
The former deputy prime minister quit in September, after it emerged she had failed to pay the correct amount of stamp duty on a £800,000 flat in Hove.
An investigation found she had “acted with integrity,” but her failure to get the correct tax advice on the purchase fell short of ministerial standards.
Sir Keir added that Rayner, who grew up in poverty and left school at 16, was “the best social mobility story this country has ever seen”.
Asked whether he missed her, he was quoted as saying: “Yes, of course I do. I was really sad that we lost her.”
Pressed on whether she would be back in the cabinet, he replied: “Yes. She’s hugely talented.”
The reported comments are more categorical than previous remarks he has made about Rayner, who was also deputy Labour leader and housing secretary.
At a G20 summit last month, Sir Keir told broadcasters he “absolutely” wanted to see her make a return to government “at some stage”.
Rayner has been replaced as deputy Labour leader by Lucy Powell, another former cabinet minister, following an election among party members.
Since her resignation, Rayner has largely kept out of the political limelight. Apart from a statement after her resignation, she has only spoken once in the House of Commons since leaving her government roles.
The Ashton-under-Lyne MP, an architect of the government’s employment rights bill, had been expected to put forward an amendment to the legislation next week after ministers watered down its new provisions against unfair dismissal.
But she agreed to withdraw the proposed change, which would have brought in the new right a year earlier than ministers now plan, following talks with Business Secretary Peter Kyle.
Speaking on Sky News, Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden said Rayner was an “enormous talent” and he would welcome her return, whilst adding that it remained a “decision for the prime minister”.
“But she agreed to withdraw the proposed change, which would have brought in the new right a year earlier than ministers now plan, following talks with Business Secretary Peter Kyle.”
Why have ‘talks’ with this guy? He’s never worked in the private sector, or has any commercial experience!
I doubt very much that any of them are leaving home at 5.00am to go to work for a twelve hour day to pay for skivers, illegals and pensioners.
vorsprung or something….
Vorsprung durch apathy?
“Germany just suffered the kind of humiliation that would have been unthinkable a decade ago:
A 10-gigawatt offshore wind auction – the biggest in Europe – and not a single company showed up.
Zero bids. Zero interest. Zero illusion left about Berlin’s green-industrial grand plan.”
My thoughts entirely, Marky, I know one manic idiot who’d spend zillions of tax-payers’ debt on such a ridiculous vanity project.
Wonder what will happen to the markets when he takes over from Starmer in May?
Is that new news ?
cos the same thing happened in Germany on August 5th
and in Denmark ·
Dec 11, 2024 “Denmark Gets No Bids in Largest-Ever Offshore Wind Tender.”
Nov 10, 2023
UK: After this year’s auction failed to attract any bids from offshore wind developers it’s now being reported that ministers are considering doubling the guaranteed prices on offer for offshore windfarms next year to between £70 and £75/MWh.
On September 8th, 2023, there was an auction for UK offshore wind contracts but even with the subsidies offered by the British government which exceed £200m per year the contracts received no bids.
Isn’t there a Koranic instruction/rules on “how to beat your wife(s) ?
That little fart is a prime example of toxic attitudes.
#LondonIsOpenUnlessYouHaveOrangeFace
#MeccaIsClosedForTolerantNonMuslims
AHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA!
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“Prof Jay described the abuse as “appalling”. She found children had been raped by multiple attackers, trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted and beaten.
Some were doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, while others were threatened with guns, made to watch “brutally violent rapes” and warned they would be next if they told anyone.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4ynzppk80o
Mate!
Back of the Bonnie Blue Queue for Sadiq KHAN! HA HAH AH HAH A HA!
While the official position is ambivalent – as we see regularly, Islamic practice and theory are often miles apart
https://x.com/i/grok/share/4Jqy6t1TiwsVxMLoo9a3dGoUA
If Khan’t wants to stamp out misogyny, he’d better ban the Quran and Islam. Not ‘radical Islam’, just Islam.
Women are repeatedly and systematically deemed inferior to men in the Quran: https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/women-worth-less.aspx
Wife-beating is not just tolerated, it’s positively encouraged: https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/wife-beating.aspx
Divorce, men in charge, polygamy, etc…
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
“Yes, the UK Labour government, specifically Chancellor Rachel Reeves, closed down the Office for Value for Money (OVfM), a task force set up to find government waste, after about a year, citing its failure to deliver savings and concerns it was a waste of taxpayer money itself, costing £1.6 million to run with little to show for it.” Google AI
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“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
– Orwell
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Vote for strong borders – get weak borders and boat people put in hotels on tax payer penny.
Vote so your politicians concentrated on the population – get a PM who flies around the world giving away money.
Vote for democracy – get local council votes stopped and jury duty abandoned.
Vote for safe streets – get the prisoners released early.
Vote for a new Government – get the same civil servants.
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Talk of a ‘bonfire of quangos’ prompted our chart this week to look at how the number of central government public bodies has grown significantly over the past decade.
https://www.icaew.com/insights/viewpoints-on-the-news/2025/mar-2025/chart-of-the-week-quangos
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“Yes, the UK Labour government, specifically Chancellor Rachel Reeves, closed down the Office for Value for Money (OVfM), a task force set up to find government waste, after about a year, citing its failure to deliver savings and concerns it was a waste of taxpayer money itself, costing £1.6 million to run with little to show for it.” Google AI
Christmas on BBC1 1985 specials trailer
WELCOME , WELCOME ALL IS FORGIVEN AND FORGOTTEN……..
Brave,brave Keir Starmer not afraid to do the right thing despite other, maybe even popular opinions ……just what we need , is Angela Rayner back….and not before time ….how we have managed without her talent really beggars belief.
Give us all some Christmas cheer let’s have Angela back ..hmm
While he’s at it lets not forget Mike Amesbury, talented boxer…well if your opponent is drunk…..he is another Labour “big hitter”…. perhaps a seat in the Lords. And there’s Claudia Webbe ..she still has something to offer …and not forgetting Denis Mcshane especially helpful as an expert on all things EU…my goodness the list goes on .
I can just see it, New Year Honours 2026 Labour putting things right.After all we are repeatedly told the House of Lords is brimfull of talent and how lucky we all are..
This is actually funny but also confirms so much.
https://x.com/narindertweets/status/1997617179483635989?s=61
This is nonsense
@lewis_goodall
I’ve been to 4 or 5 awards ceremonies this past few months and EVERY member of staff in hospitality as been Indian. Every single. one. Every coffee shop/restaurant/bar – Indian members of staff At my gym and several others in my area- Every cleaning staff is black or brown The jobs are there. It just seems they dont want “these” jobs.
And the comments, well, she garners numbers Larry could only dream of.
Not necessarily backing up her new ‘journalistic’ insights.
But Strumpet, Cathy, Beff look to have a new name in the awards go round pot.
‘Question Time’ audience member: ‘Who would be serving our coffee in Pret?’ if EU nationals left Britain
It just gets better.
https://x.com/femi_fpolitics/status/1997647312529625466?s=61
Moron on moron.
“.. help change the lives of 70,000 children. We’ve help half a million children across the United Kingdom”
Keir Starmer visits a school in Cardiff to talk about the government’s child poverty strategy
I see Lineker has a fat gig from Netflix – a reward for staying on message no doubt – key talent.
Just a podcast . Daily show based in New York
“We’re delighted to announce that we’ll be hosting a daily show on @Netflix for the 2026 FIFA World Cup! 🏆”
So at least we are not paying
and he’ll be kept out of UK
During a med check-up the other day, there were leaflets all over the place, explaining what to do about recognising adult and child abuse, and how to report it.
Talk Radio, and probably other radio stations are doing the same thing, with lots of adverts.
Does the team think that the liars in public office are actually going to do anything about the Rape Gang Enquiry – ever? Why are we seeing all this bumf, when it it obvious that Starmer hates the idea, and is doing everything to kick the whole issue into the long grass!
I fully expect that Reform, and good guys like Rupert Lowe, are gathering their own facts, and collecting names of those responsible for hiding the truth, and also plod names for never doing anything about the most hideous crimes ever carried out in a civilised country like the UK.
When labour are kicked out, there’ll be a lot of emigrations – perhaps we can fund a refugee camp for them in some Godforsaken country, so they can get a taste of their own medicine!
And take the bBC oiks with them too – see how some places love free-speech, just before they lop your bonce off…
Interview in the telegraph with Dermot Merghanhan ? Who has prostate cancer at level 4 – the final stage . He wished he’d had a PSA test – and appreciates the irony of having interviewed people about the subject . He reckons that maybe too much cycling affects the prostate . I know it’s suggested that men shouldn’t sit down for long periods of time …
Time to stand up
And wasn’t one of them a communist?
Maybe we should paint our faces black and wear a hijab to understand the plight of Islam? HA HA HAH AH AHA H!
Lots of leftie talking heads on tv supporting the removal of jury trials to free up some Court time using the argument of justice delayed is justice denied and saying if a woman is raped today it will be 2028 before the trial.
They seem very concerned that women should have those who rape them speedily tried in Court.
How long have thousands of little girls (grown women now) been waiting for grooming gangs to be brought to trial.
There have been a handful but it must be something like 1 or 2% of the actual rapes.
Then there’s all the enablers such as the police, councils, child protection and all those involved who ignored, covered up, did nothing and generally hid these dreadful crimes against our little girls. They all need to be charged and go to Court.
They don’t seem very keen to get stuck into that lot so why believe them when they say removing trial by jury is all about speeding up justice for crimes such as rape.
I think one of the most frightening things about the sudden decision to end jury trial is how casual it is . It’s not a manifesto promise – it just ‘turned up ‘. I listened to the vile John ‘comrade jack ‘ straw yesterday and he thinks it’s a great idea ….
But why not try this ? Run courts from 0800 to 2200 every day . Push cases through – force thd legal mafia to speed up processes – and if this doesn’t work – create more courts and judges …. And if that doesn’t work run a pilot without juries – but not whole sale removal of it …
Personally im neutral on jury trials because the public is very foreign now and I don’t trust the legal system / government at all … and then there is the TTK judges …
Not BBC – But I think – by the time of the next election – if there ever is one – the Marxists will promise to rejoin the ReichEU – to try to do the legs of the liberal Marxists and green Marxists …..
European caliphate ..
You always pay comrade – BBC pension fund? BBC Awards! HAH AH HAH A HAH AH AH A! No escape!
From the DT ‘how to break up the BBC’
STARTS It is two decades since the BBC first began its flirtation with private equity. As far back as 2005, the corporation explored plans for external backing or a stock market float of its now-defunct commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, which would have bolstered its financial firepower and expanded the British brand around the world.
Ultimately, a tie-up between the public service broadcaster and private equity never came to fruition. Now, though, the option could be back on the table as part of a mooted break-up of the BBC.
With licence fee income in decline and audiences switching off at an alarming rate, TV executives and government ministers are racking their brains for ways to secure the long-term sustainability of the embattled broadcaster.
Unlike two decades ago, it is now a question of survival, not expansion. A combination of fierce competition from streaming rivals and an impartiality crisis in the BBC’s news service means that, for some onlookers, a break-up could now be the only option.
According to the thesis being pushed by some influential figures in the media industry, the best path for the BBC behemoth is not to forge ahead blindly but to divide and conquer.
Under the mooted plans, the broadcaster’s news operations would be ring-fenced and would continue to be funded by a licence fee, ensuring continuity and independence for the biggest news provider in the UK.
The rest of the corporation – including its production arm and all its television and radio channels (barring perhaps the notable exception of Radio 4) – would be hived off as a commercial business funded by subscriptions.
This commercial division, which could reasonably be named BBC TV, would then have the freedom to go out and seek backing from external investors or through an initial public offering.
Proponents note that a London stock market float would be politically preferable to a private equity swoop, not least as ITV’s broadcasting division looks poised to fall into foreign hands through a planned acquisition by Sky’s US owner Comcast.
To make the proposal even more palatable, a so-called “golden share” could be handed to the Government, while smaller stakes could be given to interested industry groups such as Pact, which represents independent production companies across the UK.
BBC News, meanwhile, could seek to expand by winning new contracts, posing a fresh challenge to ITN, which makes news programming for ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5.
The proposal is not without its drawbacks. Among these is the issue of distribution. Any move to place the BBC’s output behind a paywall is reliant on the transition to a fully digital world. While terrestrial TV still exists, the broadcaster would have no way of excluding non-subscribers.
Ministers are currently holding discussions with industry figures about how to manage the transition to digital only, but the switch-off is currently not slated until at least 2034 – more than halfway through the BBC’s next charter period. As such, critics say a move to subscriptions is unfeasible in the short term.
Then there is the issue of fierce opposition to a subscription model from within the BBC. The corporation estimates that the cost of a subscription bundle for all its services, including news, would stand at more than £624 a year – significantly more than the £174.50 licence fee.
And while an initial public offering could deliver a much-needed boost to the London Stock Exchange, the BBC’s mammoth pension scheme remains a potential hurdle.
The broadcaster has spent more than £1bn plugging a shortfall in its pension scheme since 2010. While it is now back in surplus, bosses have acknowledged the broadcaster may need to pay a further £125m by 2027, potentially putting off investors.
Beyond practical considerations, there is plenty of opposition on ideological grounds. By moving to a subscription model – even for just part of the organisation’s output – the BBC would be relinquishing its key principle of universality.
Industry experts also warn that a commercially-minded BBC TV would chase only the most profitable entertainment hits at the expense of loss-making but culturally valuable genres such as the arts, regional programming and kids’ TV.
“BBC TV would no longer be a universal public service and much of the BBC’s Reithian culture, built up over 100 years, would be lost,” says Prof Patrick Barwise, of London Business School and author of The War Against the BBC. “Some people would welcome that, but I’m not one of them.”
Claire Enders, of Enders Analysis, describes the break-up idea as a “non-starter”. In a report last year, analysts at Enders branded a subscription model “antithetical to the BBC’s public service mission, necessarily ending universality of access and undermining its breadth of content”.
The broadcaster’s news output would also face major challenges.
Spending on news is already thought to account for a large proportion of the licence fee, meaning those consumers willing to stump up the licence fee just for this service may end up paying only marginally less than they currently do. They will then also be forced to cough up for yet another streaming subscription if they want the BBC’s entertainment output.
With the BBC in the throes of a crisis over impartiality and viewers already switching off in their droves, many fear a free-standing news service would also suffer a critical collapse in audience numbers.
“I think the problems for a standalone publicly funded BBC News service may be even bigger,” says Barwise.
“Funding it out of the licence fee wouldn’t be sustainable because people who don’t consume BBC News wouldn’t see any value and many of those who do consume it think it’s biased against their political viewpoint.”
Despite its flaws, the break-up plan could provide a solution to a problem many have already identified: in the highly competitive streaming era, the BBC is simply too large a beast. In an era where media services are being unbundled, it can no longer fulfil its aim to be all things to all people.
The Telegraph’s publication of a damning internal dossier exposing allegations of bias, which led to the resignation of both director general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness, has laid bare failings in both the BBC’s editorial processes and its governance.
In an acknowledgement of this fact, under-fire chairman Samir Shah has signalled that the corporation will split the director general role by appointing a new editor-in-chief who is “laser-focused” on journalism. Such a restructuring could lay the groundwork for a more systemic break-up.
Lisa Nandy, the Culture Secretary, continues to back the BBC and has vowed to find a “sustainable” solution to the corporation’s funding woes. A government green paper, which will officially kick off a consultation for the once-in-a-decade charter renewal, is expected imminently.
Sceptics of the break-up plan cast doubt over whether the Labour Government is willing to roll the dice on a radical shake-up, arguing that tearing up the fabric of the BBC is an approach favoured more by Nigel Farage’s Reform.
Yet even those in the industry who are supportive of the corporation acknowledge that something has to change. For some, breaking up the BBC may be the best way to save it.ENDS
Can you imagine the BBC being a share issue ?
I love that somebody thinks the BBC has entertainment output.
100% Comedy Gold…..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002kwhj/bbc-new-comedy-awards-2025-1-west-bristol
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0l1mjqb
A message from 2025’s head judge
Whether you’re sketch, character, or any type of funny, Fatiha El-Ghorri implores you to apply for the BBC New Comedy Awards 2025!
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The name “Ghorri” (or Ghouri/Ghori) means “from Ghor” or “related to Ghor,” originating from the mountainous Ghor region in modern-day Afghanistan and linked to the powerful Ghurid dynasty of the 12th century, signifying historical strength, conquest, and a rich cultural background. It’s a surname denoting ancestral ties to this region, famously carried by Muhammad of Ghor, who established Muslim rule in India.
Sorry if this has been mentioned before ,
But criminal records of people are not made public after time , and if a schoolboy got a criminal record it would be expunged on adulthood and the BBC would never mention it .
So why are tittle tattle allegations against a politician who may or may not have made offensive remarks (unproven in a court of law ) taken so seriously ?
Desperation to destroy / kill Farage ….
“Trump administration says Europe faces ‘civilisational erasure'”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c04vdengk3do
Trump described the document as a “roadmap” to ensure the US remains “the greatest and most successful nation in human history”. European politicians have begun to react, with Germany’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul saying his country did not need “outside advice”.
The strategy also talks of pushing for a stronger industrial base in the US and less reliance on foreign technologies, which matches some of the moves the Trump administration has taken with its sweeping global tariffs.
………………………….. Keir is smashing those gangs ………..
Small boat arrivals: last 7 days
Updated 7 December 2025
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
………………………… Might be too late ………..
Muhammad overtakes Noah as most popular boy’s name
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly4g2v0ej6o
………………………. Demography is destiny ………..
Steyn tells us that historically low birthrates and growing social entitlements already have imperiled Europe’s future. And he holds little hope that the Old World will offer much help to the new in fighting Islamic terrorists in the decades ahead.
https://www.johnlocke.org/demography-is-destiny/
……………………. 40% and increasing ………………..
London is a highly diverse city, with around 40% of its residents born outside the UK, significantly higher than the England and Wales average, making it a global hub with over 300 languages spoken and large populations from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
…………………… 9 years ago, and increaseing…..
This article is more than 9 years old
Bradford’s language bubbles: ‘it’s perfectly possible never to speak English’
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/18/bradford-language-bubbles-never-speak-english
UK to send more aid to developing country China – they need to send food to the Moon to feed their astronauts!
China still marked as a developing country for cheap IMF loans and so they pull the “we are weak” card! HA HAH AH AHHA AHA!
SpaceX Just Got a HUGE Starship Launch Approval Update! 🤯
Marcus House
Yes, China is still officially considered a developing country, particularly in international forums like the WTO and UN, due to its high population and lower per capita income compared to developed nations, despite being the world’s second-largest economy by total GDP and achieving significant poverty reduction. This status grants it certain trade and development benefits, though some countries are pushing for reclassification due to China’s economic might.
Farage accused of election fraud ….the blob really trying hard.
Somehow the Met Police will be most eager to arrest and interview Mr Farage and then bail him for maybe a year or two or three ….
The law fare process is the punishment …. Maybe plod will detain him under the terrorism act when he gets back from the formula one race ….
Presumably the Marxists want Farage convicted to get him disqualified from holding public office – tried in a TTK Lammy court with one TTK Judge and appeals court …