193 Responses to Start the Week / End the Year 29th December 2025

  1. BRISSLES says:

    Oh crikey me AGAIN ??? I suppose all you young things are out on the lash 😆 and it’s us boring old farts sat here with coffee laced with Baileys, and who lead such exciting lives that we amble in onto this site incase we find another old thing to converse with 🤣

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    • Scroblene says:

      Having tried several times to understand ‘The Diplomat’, and rewinding even more times, the next thing I knew was a snoring dog and a freezing room at 11.30pm – so I missed the cut – yet again…

      And it wasn’t anything to do with tinctures or other substances – just a prawn sandwich!

      So there!

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  2. digg says:

    Minutes into the documentary on Titanic which sounded interesting

    …. Screen suddenly flooded with Middle Eastern faces claiming… “Titanic was in immigration ship…..bollox”

    No it F***ing wasn’t…. It was a transatlantic passenger ship from the UK to the USA and back.

    Oh I see it’s on BBC 2 that explains the total fabricated mind control shit…..

    Here’s the full passenger list….

    https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-passenger-list/

    OFF

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Digg
      Yes it didn’t take much time …. Earlier ITV4 showed 2001 …the advertising breaks were brutal and showed the kidults in charge had no idea about that film .

      I was a kid when I first saw it at the pictures and it gave me a headache … I was expecting ‘thunderbirds ‘ and it wasn’t that ..
      Earlier in the day there was a surreal tennis match with a bloke playing a non bloke who had a bigger racket and a smaller court … when the ball crossed the net to thr non bloke side it got bigger and slowed down for a fair match ….

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  3. digg says:

    If anyone believes the left-wing/Labour plot by loads of his faux supposedly junior contemporaries to paint Farage as a fascist has any credibility they are off their trolly. The ability to discover so many willing mouthpieces smacks of press manipulation to a disgusting degree. They are raising false accusers who cannot be proven false due to the age of the accusations,

    It is just bloody disgusting and should prove to any right thinking person how untrustworthy the lefties really are. They just lie and fabricate without compunction.

    I just hope this bites them all in the arse!l

    Farage should challenge them to a face to face open debate to repeat their lies in public so he can sue the arse off them..

    This is quite simply trial by press.

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    • BigBrotherCorporation says:

      I like the black one, who only started school a couple of years after Farage left, but who was still (allegedly) bullied by him in the playground.

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      • Ian Rushlow says:

        Well, it just shows how powerful the bullying must have been if it’s affecting people who weren’t even there at the time. There must be hundreds, thousands, maybe even millions more victims that we don’t even know about. Whether the victims are real or imagined, they are all equally important.

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        • Scroblene says:

          I didn’t go to Dulwich, and can say with all truthfulness that Nigel Farage never bullied me, called me anything other than Scrobs with a pleasant, friendly attitude, and shared all his sweets – and fags – around whenever he wanted to!

          There you go! AI can add that to the list of people who weren’t at all troubled by the next Prime Minister!

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          • Ian Rushlow says:

            You’re in denial. He must have bullied you, but the trauma is causing you to suppress the memory.

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            • Scroblene says:

              Oh my God…

              You’re right Ian…

              He forced me to take a Benson and Hedges when all I had were ten No 6!

              God, how can I ever live it down – I need to crucify myself over boiling coals and drink the acid from the bBC’s and the Guardian’s drains forever and a day…

              Aw fuck it – who cares – he’ll beat TTK and his commies hands down!

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              • atlas_shrugged says:

                Scrobs

                If Nigel gave you the silent treatment then that is in fact ‘domestic abuse’ and therefore you are by legal definition ‘a victim’ and therefore do pass ‘Go’ and collect your 50k compensation.

                Simples!

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    • G says:

      No one would give Farage a platform…………
      Just a policy of stifling him.

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    • non-licence payer says:

      Worthy of the end of the Weimar Republic. The Guardian need to learn to treat Mr Farage (whom I will not be voting for because it requires explanation) as a symptom not a cause. If the establishment, as represented by the Guardian, do not, it will not be long before we are recklessly killing each other. The days of centrist narrative are dead, it cannot work with a liberated media.

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      • Guest Who says:

        The Graun is simply a vehicle by which Labour MPs issue propaganda tripe that the BBC can then cite via #1degreeofseparation

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  4. tomo says:

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  5. digg says:

    Guardian…. We see your lies and deceit…. And we know why… Farage must not win the next election which is all you care about over truth and balance because of your toxic lefty views.

    https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/dec/28/of-course-he-abused-pupils-ex-dulwich-teacher-speaks-out-about-farage-racism-claims

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    • Guest Who says:

      ‘Speaks out’ from the msm is about as red a flag of propaganda as you can get. Unless it’s a minor sleb in the Fail, in which case it’s desperation by the management team.

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  6. tomo says:

    Obviously a fake, Saudi border guys would never do that

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  7. Sluff says:

    It’s mental arithmetic time!

    Appropriate googling reveals 34 million working age people in the UK. Of these about 110,000 are blind or significantly partially sighted. About 0.3%. 1 in 300.

    So how totally amazing is it that BOTH BBC America correspondents, Gary o Donahue AND Sean Lilley are BOTH blind!!!!

    Is it worth even filling in the application form to be a BBC correspondent for the most important nation on Earth if you can actually see?

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    • StewGreen says:

      The BBC’s publicly available diversity reports do not specify the exact number of employees who are blind or partially sighted; instead, they report on the broader category of Deaf, Disabled, and/or Neurodivergent (DDN) staff.
      As of March 2025, the BBC reported that 9.8% of all staff identified as having a disability.
      It has diversity targets in place, and for 2025/26, the goal for DDN staff is 14% of the total workforce.

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    • harry142857 says:

      They get 50% off the TV Licence fee, though (not as good as 100%, ha ha)

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      I feel very sorry for them, but the idea of sending out a blind reporter is just absurd. At the Butler Pa. incident he did not have a clue what was going on.

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  8. Sluff says:

    The price we pay for leftist activism.

    An Egyptian was locked up by them for years. Amnesty International and fellow travellers campaigned for his release. .
    The UK government granted him UK citizenship on the back of
    his ‘London born’ mother in 2021.

    He has now been released from prison and has arrived in the UK. SirKier is delighted. Yuman Rights folk are delighted.

    Just one problem. He has been discovered to have sent out virulently anti-Semitic social media posts. SirKier ‘did not know about them’.

    Another slap in the face to the Jewish community and another Muslim-voter-friendly decision by and for the Far Left.

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/starmer-under-fire-for-welcoming-egyptian-activist-who-called-to-kill-all-zionists/

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5mr0gdnmeo

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Some might say:
      If senior politicians did not know about the social media posts, then they are incompetent. If they did know about them, then they are openly malevolent.
      Neither is good.

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      It is of interest that Amnesty International and all the other liberal bed-wetters will never campaign for Lucy Connolly who was jailed for a tweet.

      They always have to help some rag-head who are waycist and hate western people.

      Der Starmer would be a shining example.

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  9. StewGreen says:

    Le Monde “Brigitte Bardot’s 30 years of sympathy for the far right
    Convicted five times for racist remarks, the actress – whose foundation announced her death on Sunday, December 28 – remained one of the only French celebrities to openly embrace far-right views.”

    Between 1997 and 2008, Brigitte Bardot was fined six times her comments about islam.
    In one case, a Paris court fined her €15,000 for describing Muslims as “this population that is destroying us, destroying our country by imposing its acts”
    .

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      French courts are backward and politically correct, which is the height of stupidity.

      Brigitte Bardot

      My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.

      Brigitte Bardot

      I don’t see how a socialist government can tolerate hunting on horseback. The people who do this are snobs; they’re very well-to-do.

      Brigitte Bardot

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      Not much freedom of speech in France it seems. Not much here either. But God bless BB, she was a true French heroine, and very kind to cats too.

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  10. JonathanR says:

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    • tomo says:

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      • Rob in Cheshire says:

        Remember, it’s the “cab rank rule”. Barristers have to take the next case that comes along. No really. The fact that Sir Keir just happened to represent Britain hating terrorist scum was pure chance, it could have happened to anyone. Honest.

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  11. JonathanR says:

    There is no way Starmer will strip this scum bag of his British Citizenship. It does highlight how Starmer and his co-socialists in the red conservative party hate the real British

    ‘Most dangerously, the willy-nilly granting of a UK passport to a hater of the West debases the whole notion of British (and Western) belonging. It confirms the worst suspicions of those who insist that the legal processes of immigration and naturalisation mean little to nothing when it comes to genuine loyalty to Britain and the West. If the Starmer government retains a scintilla of prudence, or even the most basic instinct for political self-preservation, it must revoke El-Fattah’s dubious passport and send him home. And if that results in further jail time for El-Fattah in Egypt’s brutish prison system, that should be his concern — not Starmer’s, and not the British people’s.”
    https://unherd.com/2025/12/why-should-britain-rescue-an-enemy/

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Der Starmer wants this man in the UK in order to demoralise, gas-light, and destabilise us.

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  12. harry142857 says:

    The US Vice President has claimed that the UK could become a security threat to America if “Islamist-aligned” politicians come to power. JD Vance’s comments come in the wake of the publication of the new US National Security Strategy, which warns of “civilisational erasure” in Europe.

    The American politician has already ruffled feathers across the continent with his incendiary speech at this year’s Munich Security Conference. The Ohio senator lectured Europe’s leaders about the erosion of democracy and free speech in a fiery performance. He claimed to audible gasps from his audience that attacks on free speech were the biggest security threat to Europe and the world.

    The Vice President then criticised specific instances of alleged censorship across Europe, including raids in Germany, arrests in the UK, and EU social media restrictions.

    Daily Express.

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  13. Deborah says:

    Paul Richard’s, the Leftie on GBNews this evening, was dropping large hints that something will happen re the Egyptian in the next couple of days. I am sure this will upset, Judy Dench, Olivia Colman, Emma Thompson, Paul Mason, Brian Cox and around 25 other Labour luvvies plus around 6 million others.
    But it still seems to be a two tier system. I saw someone put up a clip of Sir Kier as leader of the opposition horrified this Egyptian was in jail for a tweet (Lucy Connolly anyone?), and Nigel Nelson’s excuse that it the tweets were 15 years ago doesn’t fit the narrative for schoolboy Farrage.

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    • Deborah says:

      Well either someone was feeding Paul Richards duff info to get him out of a hole on GBNews or No10 have backtracked on removing the Egyptian’s citizenship.

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      Paul Richards knows the square root of jack shit.

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  14. vlad says:

    How to avoid paying the TV Licence fee legally

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  15. vlad says:

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  16. digg says:

    Glaring contrast on how the BBC report on the past behaviour of an Egyptian who urged death to Jews in tweets and a Reform politician who might have said some hurty words to fellow pupils at school decades ago…

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0l93lx1rx3o

    Wonder if they will scurry round trying to find as many people offended by the Egyptian bloke as they have re Farage?

    Tells you all you need to know about the BBC.

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    • vlad says:

      Yes, for the Egyptian ‘activist’ (terrorist?) they were “mostly expressions of a young man’s anger and frustrations”.

      For Farage, his alleged comments are a lifelong millstone around his neck, never to be forgiven or forgotten.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Theory that the Egyptians will revoke the terrorist nationality leaving TTK holding the baby killer … will the likes of the imbicilr Alicia Kearns – dead blue MP who campaigned so strongly for this monster to be imported -say anything -? Apologise ? Resign and go do a quango ?

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  17. AsISeeIt says:

    Unusually, the papers pick a bona fide pin-up subject for their frontpage full-colour feature photos this morning.

    Par example, (as the French would say) the Times is after that lost acolade of paper of record: Brigitte Bardot 1934-2025

    The Star’s jokey blokey thought for the day comes over as a bit grudging: At least she liked animals..

    Meanwhile, ‘man bites dog’ always makes the news: Dog saves owner after heart attack on beach (Telegraph)

    Speaking of grudging…

    No love lost

    What did Sabalenka and Kyrgios’ Battle of the Sexes achieve? …many wondered what it was setting out to achieve… A particular point of discussion was what women’s world number one Sabalenka, 27, stood to gain by facing a man whose fortunes have plunged following a career-threatening wrist injury… 30-year-old Kyrgios, 671st in the men’s rankings… much-hyped match lacked the intensity and entertainment… as many expected – an off-season exhibition played at a pedestrian pace… Following a year where she won four titles including the US Open, Sabalenka finished as the best women’s player in the world for the second season running. (BBC) – Oh how different the write-up might have been – had the woman won. Equal pay, anyone?

    Our BBC (Jonathan Jurejko, BBC Sport tennis news reporter) for some reason condemns the female mercenary instinct – on this particular occasion: …the four-time Grand Slam champion and her team felt a novelty match against a notable men’s player could help her profile soar higher. Boosting her bank balance at the same time – even though she earned £11m last season – was another key attraction, cynics would say. – cynics such as yourself, Jonathan.

    And why would you cast aspersions? Critics also argued the match would encourage unnecessary and unfair comparisons between the women and men’s games. (BBC) – of course, as always at the BBC, the agenda, the narrative, is all important.

    Have some balls, please

    Wherever possible our Beeb prefers to propagandise via a third party: “I think it didn’t quite live up to what I thought it might be,” said former British number one Annabel Croft… said the match – played on a modified court designed to help Sabalenka – didn’t show her best level. “I didn’t feel like it showcased her enough, of what we know she is capable of,” Croft said. “But she certainly didn’t embarrass herself in any way.” (BBC) – so that’s alright then.

    Once again we’re celebrity obsessed: Caitin Moran’s Celebrity Watch Who had a good year and who didn’t (Times)

    Some would say our BBC had a shocker of an annus horribilis…

    But they ain’t throwing in the towel just yet: 2026 will have some of the best TV in years

    And the Guardian, loyal to the Labour line, plays keepy-uppy with this tedious story: Farage abused pupils, claims former teacher

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  18. Deborah says:

    Sir Kier’s tweet about Alaa raises so many questions. Who was the person or organisation that recruited the luvvies to appear in the film calling for Alaa’s release? What are the luvvies views on him now? Do they regret supporting his release and if so shouldn’t they at the very least be tweeting same and giving out press releases to that respect.

    We know that the Conservatives gave Alaa citizenship. Did this go up to the then Minister? What information was he given? But this affair also highlights how Labour takes credit for what the Conservatives did in office (even though in this case Sir Kier might regret it).

    Alaa’s case and the Chagos issue were both started under James Cleverley. It highlights what happens when we have a Foreign Secretary who isn’t up to the job. Confirmed by the mess made by David Lammy. Both showing they were making decisions where they didn’t understand the implications. Highlights why crayons Angie should never again be a minister. I don’t think we know who Nigel has in mind to be Foreign Secretary.

    We know of Alaa’s case because of Sir Kier’s tweet but how many more people have been given citizenship for their tenuous links to the UK? Do I understand that Alaa’s mother and sister are here? Are they working? Paying their own rent or have their own house or are they living off the State?

    I am sure the BBC will be working on this story and will give us all the background to this issue.

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  19. Deborah says:

    On Christmas Eve a man was raped near an open air swimming pool in East Sussex. It is reported in The Telegraph with very little detail except that the police don’t know whether they (I presume they mean the rapist, (the report seemed a bit vague) was local and the police will now keep a presence in the area. The report didn’t say whether the presence will be for a day or two, or until they have a shortage of police on duty or the foreseeable future.

    There was no description of the rapist or whether there have been problems before near the pool. For the Telegraph it must have been a filler article with no opportunity to comment. More detail might have helped catch the rapist.

    There is obviously more to this story than meets the eye but I can only speculate on what that may be.

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  20. AsISeeIt says:

    US And Ukraine ‘A Lot Closer’ On Peace Deal… (Times News) – and there was me thinking it was Russia that was at war with Ukraine?

    In fact, what’s going on here is that our Western proxy has got somewhat out of control and thinks it can soldier on without US support.

    There’s a teenage expression that Zelensky needs telling – “She (as in the Trump administration) is not that into you”

    I blame the UK and Europeans for egging Zelensky on – UK & Europeans who are US proxies only slightly more militarily effective than Ukraine – and that’s only collectively, not individually.

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  21. Sluff says:

    I don’t know if this is just a BBC wind-up to irritate its many critics.
    But on the front page of the webshite at the time of writing the following stories sit side by side in (in)glorious contrast.

    Egyptian dissident apologises for tweets………
    ….. Sir Keir Starmer has been criticised for saying he was “delighted” by Abdel Fattah’s arrival in the UK on Friday, three months after he was freed from prison in Egypt, but it is understood he was unaware of the historical messages.

    Hospitals warned end-of-life care crisis threatening treatment
    …..( the consultant) told the audience that local hospices were struggling and it was difficult to find places for patients who need end-of-life care, while it was sometimes not clear how much support there might be in the local community when people are sent home.

    Clearly Labour can find money when it needs to…….and as we know that need does not extend to the retired and the elderly. But for asylum seekers…..money no object.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I think NHS ‘end of life care ‘ these days probably means that extra shove of morphine . I’ve witnessed the east Londonistan version where the ‘palliative care ‘ doesn’t work over the holiday period … i curse them still …

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  22. Jeff says:

    Just something I’ve noticed regarding this latest Abdul we’ve invited into Britain…

    You know the case; Alaa Abd El-Fattah (nice English name) who made comments about hating whites and Jews and wanting to kill the police. Now, quite obviously, our inept and utterly awful PM must have known about these beliefs, even if all the gormless lefty luvvies who supported this creature didn’t. But this is what intrigues me…

    Certain people, rather more tolerant than me, are excusing this Abdul’s remarks saying, “He was just a young man…in his early twenties…we should give him some leeway…people change…” Yes, they do.

    However, those same types are full of vindictive outrage over things Nigel Farage is supposed to have said when he was just thirteen and barely out of short trousers. “A leopard never changes its spots” they fume.

    Hmm…maybe not quite so tolerant after all…

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  23. Althepalerp says:

    Watched little BBC over the Christmas period.

    I did tune into the start of University Challenge presented by Remol Rajan – he opened the show by saying “Welcome to this festive edition”

    Couldn’t bring himself to say the word “Christmas”

    Off it went.

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    • tomo says:

      Over Xmas period I tried the car radio three times – R4 = maudlin pathos x3 – offski.

      I don’t wonder their ratings are nosediving – maybe I was just unlucky.

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  24. Up2snuff says:

    DESPICABLE AND NASTY BBC!

    I retrospectively listened (legally) to His Majesty the King’s address to the nation yesterday. While on that particular bit of the BBC’s Sounds site I noticed an invitation to click on several iPlayer TV programmes. I clicked and then I noticed that you effectively had to tell the BBC whether you had a TV Licence to enable you to watch the iPlayer programmes. I noticed that two options presented themselves: 1. to admit you had no TV Licence or 2. to claim you did have a TV Licence.

    The obvious conclusion to this BBC ruse was a prosecution. You had to produce in Court a valid TV licence or some evidence that you had a valid TV Licence or you would have effectively provided the magistrate with a reason to levy a fine on a guilty person, convicted for watching TV without a valid Licence.

    Whether you could argue a defence of entrapment by the BBC, to best of my knowledge that is only available to those tried in a Crown Court.

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  25. harry142857 says:

    Up2, found this very interesting

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    • Messenger says:

      If I join some institution such as a golf club and decide to resign, I tell them and they accept it. Why on earth should I have tell them once a year?

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  26. Fedup2 says:

    Lots of YouTube coverage of an independent ‘journalist’ in the US uncovering industrial level fraud corruption by Somalians in miniapolis? .. – I couldn’t be bothered by the detail but big questions over thd msm turning a blind eye …. Im reminded of Tommy Robinson ….

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    • tomo says:

      yes – the punters are voting with their mouse pointers and fingers….

      You can see why the goons an the US Democratic Party and the arseholes in Brussels want to shut down X….

      Meanwhile in rubbish strewn Birmingham :

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      • Fedup2 says:

        You can see why the legacy media hate the likes of Tommy Robinson on so many levels – and why more and more people are seeing why their propaganda is becoming more and more irrelevant .
        After the collusion / conspiracy in the US over Biden and the election theft – they are looking at what’s happening here with the cover up of Pakistani paedo racist rape gangs – and the attitude of the uniparty – having to be dragged to the truth – and even then – soiling themselves in failure to combat it .

        The evil EU will do anything to close down X – whether directly or indirectly – but let’s hope 47 and 48 save it ..

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      • pugnazious says:

        Yeah but….how does that compare to the BBC’s Somali fraud exposure videos? Hard to compare really as the BBC isn’t interested in the slightest in one of the biggest US stories….odd huh?

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  27. JohnC says:

    John Simpson: ‘I’ve reported on 40 wars but I’ve never seen a year like 2025’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4qp17e1lqo

    The far-Left BBC mouthpiece Simpson demonstrating yet again that he is entirely unable to form a balanced opinion of anything because of his own prejudice.

    How about 2024 John ?. When there was no end in sight to either the war in Ukraine or the war in Gaza. When nobody in the MSM (YOU included) ever questioned why nobody tried to stop it. When Hamas were being portrayed as innocent victims by the BBC and thus encouraging them to keep the war going to fuel the anti-semetism of the MSM in general and especially the UN.

    Remember how you dropped the Nord stream pipeline bombing almost overnight – even though it could have caused the deaths of thousands of elderly Germans and was a huge ecological disaster ?.

    This man is a great example of why the BBC’s ‘veterans’ disgust me so much. They so arrogant they think THEY should decide the news. When everyone who has followed events knows this outrageous article is based on one thing : his hatred of Trump and extreme desire to try and stop him getting credit for what he has done.

    He does mention the slaughter in Sudan – but not many BBC viewers will know much about that. Because it’s blacks killing blacks. The BBC only focus on stories when they can use them to attack right-wing people they hate. Whitey-Righty, Hindus and Jews. All others are preserved to be used as victims.

    He’s not the worst at the BBC. Bowen holds that spot.

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    • tomo says:

      The conceit and arrogance is what rubs me up the wrong way…. especially when the clear inference is that anybody challenging or just not wholly endorsing their pov is wrong … It’s instructive which individuals persist and which become non-persons – I wonder if it’s emergent behaviour or if there’s some overall supervision and a plan – Hanlon’s Razor got to be in there.

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  28. tomo says:

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Always an evil soros – ..

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      • JohnC says:

        If you think she looks cute, watch how she speaks in a video of her in an interview and it’s immediately apparent that she is a vile person you could never trust. Then she never looks the same again.

        Now I’ve seen what she is like, it gives me great satisfaction that the Lefties at the BBC love her. It proves to me beyond doubt what shameless hypocrites they are. They love her for how she stands up against Trump. That’s all they care about.

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        • tomo says:

          I find her slimier than average politicians in interviews – very, very slimy. Rarely it seems does she expose herself to an interviewer who’s facts to hand to challenge her – often seems to operate in carefully scripted and tame interviewer territory.

          More Somalian fun in Minne4sota:

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Evil is as evil does.

      https://x.com/AlexanderSoros/status/1840059072336277613

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  29. JohnC says:

    I seem to be having more regular discussions with AI to see what if it informs me correctly about the Left. And to my surprise (not), it is very, very evasive to get the core point I am asking.

    Today we discussed white supremacy. AI happily informed me it means ‘general white culture’ as well as Nazis and the KKK. It also told me the actual dictionary definition which most definitely is not ‘general white culture’.

    So then I asked if it could be considered racist to simply change the meaning of a phrase to cover everyone white. It was like trying to catch a greased pig in a passage. Eventually I asked:

    ‘But taking a racist label like ‘white supremacy’ then labelling all white people with by simply changing the accepted dictionary definition is racist.
    If they want a word to mean a different thing, they should use a new word instead of one with such racist meaning.’

    To which AI simply put up a list of ‘suggested reading’. So I asked : ”Why not answer my question ?’

    And it finally gave me this:

    ‘The question of whether expanding the definition of “white supremacy” is itself an act of prejudice is a central part of modern debate regarding language and social justice.
    Critics of this redefinition argue that it is misleading and racially targeted. Their concerns generally center on three points:
    Redefinition as “Gaslighting”: Critics argue that taking a word with a established, universally reviled meaning—such as the explicit belief in racial superiority—and applying it to broad social structures or everyday interactions is a form of “societal gaslighting”. They contend this overwrites public understanding and turns shared language into an “ideological test”.
    Targeting an Entire Group: Some argue that applying the label “white supremacy” to systems that all white people participate in effectively labels an entire racial group with a term traditionally reserved for extremists like neo-Nazis or the KKK. This is seen by some as a “terrible fad” that fails to convey nuance and unfairly alienates people.
    Cheapening the Term: Observers such as John McWhorter have noted that using “white supremacy” to describe less extreme issues “cheapens” the term, potentially derailing productive discussion by making the word so broad it loses its original power to describe true hate groups.
    Why the definition has expanded:
    Conversely, many sociologists and activists argue that the dictionary definition was historically too narrow because it focused only on individual feelings or explicit hatred. They point out that:
    Systemic Reality: Institutions can produce racially unequal outcomes (e.g., in school funding or criminal sentencing) even if the individuals within them do not harbor personal racial animus.
    Updating Usage: Dictionaries like Merriam-Webster updated their entries because they follow how language is actually used in professional and academic settings today. ‘

    I found the last part very interesting : I have commented several times on how the Left cimply change the meaning of words so they simply go after those they hate. ‘Fascism’ and ‘racism’ being the two extreme examples. By their definition, anyone in a minority cannot be racist.

    I gave up trying to find out what Soros donated to BLM and the like. It’s all carefully hidden behind all the ‘groups’ he funds and controls who then actually give the money. AI wasn’t going to tell me anything which told me everything.

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  30. Sluff says:

    41000 in…
    https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/channel-crossings-tracker

    Just think. All those ‘doctors and engineers’. Some of them even speak English.
    Meanwhile……..

    195000 out…
    Why are young people leaving to work abroad?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1kpv1z372lo
    I’ll give you a clue. They’re not low skill, low pay bods on Universal Credit

    In BBCGuardian FarLeftLand, the two are comparable and there are no economic issues arising.. Anyone who says otherwise is a waycist.

    To anyone with two brain cells or more, the conclusions are rather different.

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  31. tomo says:

    Damien’s on it!

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  32. Fedup2 says:

    I think someone should tell Damian about the legal corruption of ‘free breakfast clubs ‘— if he gets 50 million for empty day care centres – free breakfast clubs shouid be a doozy …

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  33. Richard Pinder says:

    BBC-ENEMY-IMAGE.jpg
    The BBC’s Christmas collapse is nothing short of catastrophic, by David Keighley: https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-bbcs-christmas-collapse-is-nothing-short-of-catastrophic/

    The BBC loses nearly a third of its Christmas audience in a single year. This year, its biggest hit, the woke King’s Christmas speech, managed just 4.6million. However, King Charles thinks that the Climate is more important than his subjects.

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    • JohnC says:

      They actually believe that ratings are less important than getting their Leftist agenda to their target audience. They even said so directly about Dr Who’s plummeting ratings.

      They have completely lost their way. They need reminding what they get paid to do. And it’s not social engineering.

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      • Ian Rushlow says:

        American media companies e.g. Disney have been forced to wind down the propaganda as dwindling audiences were having an impact on the bottom line. Unfortunately, the BBC is financed by extorting money out of the British public and is not subject to commercial constraints. Lenin said ‘The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them’; the BBC’s approach is ‘The public will pay us for the propaganda to demean and destroy them’

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    • non-licence payer says:

      The writing is on the wall. CW follows the DT leader. I do not have a problem with some form of PSB, but the crew who have lined their pockets and short changed democracy need to be held to account (in the same way that they held Connolly to account)

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  34. Richard Pinder says:

    New Year’s Eve with Mike, Noel and Friends: 10:35pm: Talking Pictures TV: Freeview channel 82.

    Mike Read and Noel Cronin present a star-studded evening of good old-fashioned variety, with songs, stories, comedy, magic and many exciting guests! Watch the superior TPTV to avoid the inferior BBC woke anti-British New Year celebrations in Londonistan.

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  35. tomo says:

    Is Musk being unreasonable?

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    • pugnazious says:

      Absolutely impossible that illegal migrants or even new legal ones can vote….I am so assured by the BBC.

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    • tomo says:

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      • Rob in Cheshire says:

        The scale of graft is unbelievable. Before Walz became governor, the state had an $18 billion surplus, now it is in deficit by $6 billion. Good job the people with those fresh driving licenses can vote for him to keep the conveyor belt of fraud going.

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  36. tomo says:

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    • Loobyloo says:

      You’d think Somalia would look like Las Vegas, the amount of dosh that seems to have been funnelled there

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      • tomo says:

        pfff – and then some…..

        It’s hopefully a subject that a few people might usefully dig into?

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    • Sluff says:

      Looking into this story I did appropriate Google searches.
      There is plenty off coverage.
      But not one of the top search results referenced the BBC.
      Funny that.

      Yet weirdly there is a story about Sweden. Three people have been killed in a snowstorm.

      Snow. In Winter. In Sweden. What the BBC regard as newsworthy.
      Massive conspiracy by Muslims to defraud Swedish taxpayers. Tumbleweed.

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  37. tomo says:

    south-Yorkshire.jpg

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Process as punishment – a vindictive far left judiciary grinding good people down …. No wonder the US looks at Britain and wonders ‘ how did it get so corrupted ?”

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Hopefully there will be a crowd fund to help this woman, or maybe a friendly billionaire will be prepared to help the downtrodden.

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  38. Richard Pinder says:

    Tomorrow at 2pm on BBC Radio 5 Live, Marianna Spring of BBC Verify, will verify all ‘information in the World’ as either correct or misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, conspiracy theory or hate speech not authorised by OFCOM. Only hate speech by anti-Trump, anti-Semitic BBC staff and anti-Free Speech activists, is authorised by the British Government and the European Union. Anyone else who tries to avoid arrest by using an anonymous social media account, will be arrested and imprisoned without a jury trial.

    However in response, the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said “For far too long, ideologues in Europe have led organised efforts to coerce American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose. The Trump Administration will no longer tolerate these egregious acts of extraterritorial censorship.”

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  39. Fedup2 says:

    Surely 2026 will see the ‘free speech union ‘ designated as a terrorist group . Members will be interned until they recant – leaders will receive an indeterminate sentence – by a TTK court – no jury and no public announcement of the sentence . High rates of deaths in custody will be a ‘mystery ‘…. 77 brigade to note …

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  40. pugnazious says:

    Gotta love Britain haven’t you? Bans the likes of Lauren Southern, Robert Spencer and Geert Wilders because they dared to ask questions about Islam, locks up and hounds Tommy Robinson and try to get him killed in prison….but an Islamist who hates white people, wants Jews and police killed and wants to blow up Downing Street and destroy Israel, and it’s the red carpet from the stupid and craven buffoons that rule over us…both Tory and Labour.

    The enemy within….there’s so many likely suspects…and so many with impeccable credentials apparently.

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    • Sluff says:

      I liked the headline in the D Mail the other day,, which in terms suggested that here in the UK we used to live in a country but now we just live in a hotel.

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  41. Richard Pinder says:

    On the IMDb website Laurence Williamson is credited as the Film Editor of the BBC Panorama episode “Trump: A Second Chance?”: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1273403/?ref_=ttfc_fcr_7_59

    AlterAI says that Laurence Williamson’s key collaborators were Nick Robinson (presenter) and Mina Patel (producer/director) under the Panorama editorial leadership of Rachel Jupp at the BBC.

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  42. Scroblene says:

    As expected, Beeboids have made the normal British winter a headline – and don’t they need something to keep grasping their tax on the vulnerable…!

    “Dr Agostinho Sousa, head of extreme events and health protection at UKHSA, said it was “vital” to check in on friends, family and neighbours that are vulnerable.

    The predicted temperatures can have a “serious impact” on the health of some people, leading to increased risk of heart attacks, strokes and chest infections, particularly for individuals over the age of 65 and those with pre-existing health conditions, he warned.”

    When I was a kid, there was usually snow during the winter months, but maybe beeboids weren’t ever young, they just became lefties soon after they left the womb!

    Pehaps ‘lefti-ism’ is a congenital problem, and should be prescribed some sort of drug by the NHS? I’m certainly not paying for these idiots.

    (Lefti-ism isn’t all that good as a description – maybe Leftoidness, or just stupidity is nearer the mark).

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  43. tomo says:

    I see that Washington State Democrats have now been found to have been peculating vast amounts of public funds.

    BBC got its head in the sand still…

    More Minnesota:

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  44. non-licence payer says:

    10 years time – will the honours winners be hiding their medals or still displaying them?

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  45. Scroblene says:

    ‘Awards’ for failure, sundry slebs, being a very rich beeboid, also being paid squillions by the taxpayer for doing bugger all…

    Yup, I will identify as my own Medal-winner: –

    SOPES!

    Scrobs’ Order of the Pizza Express Star! I’m cutting it out of the packaging as we speak, and will wear it around Waitrose!

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  46. AsISeeIt says:

    Idris Elba knighted… (BBC) – I hope Charles uses a sword with a blunted point…

    Idris Elba: ‘Not all kitchen knives need a point’… Speaking to Today’s Emma Barnett.. says the UK is in “crisis” when it comes to knife crime (BBC, January 2025)

    I’m oddly reminded of a line from the TV comedy Blackadder, when he tells Queen Elizabeth I that life without her is “like a broken pencil… pointless”

    Zelensky says Putin sabotaging peace talks (today’s Guardian); Trump accuses Zelenskyy of jeopardising imminent peace deal (April’s Guardian); Trump says it may be better to let Ukraine and Russia ‘fight for a while’ (June’s Guardian); Trump says he will meet Putin despite Kremlin’s refusal to talk to Kyiv (August Guardian); Trump turns fire on Putin and lauds UK in press conference with Starmer (September Guardian) – Confused? You will be…

    Our losing proxy war has to end at some point – it’s just a matter of how the narrative is framed so as to explain to us plebs who is to blame.

    Our BBC is in Comical Ali mode (there’s one for the teenagers) – He came to worldwide prominence around the 2003 invasion of Iraq, during which he was the Minister of Information under Iraqi President Saddam Hussein… pronouncements included claims that American soldiers were dying by suicide “by the hundreds” outside the city, and denial that there were any American tanks in Baghdad… American troops could already be heard in the background – thank you Wiki

    Alles in Ordnung

    Russia’s losses in Ukraine rise faster than ever, as US pushes for peace deal (the female James Bond villainous-sounding Olga Ivshina, BBC News Russian)

    We woulda won it, if only it weren’t for that Donald Trump. Just think, if Biden had run again, or if Kamala had won… the rainbow flag might be flying over the Kremlin even as we speak.

    Over the past 10 months, Russian losses in the war with Ukraine have been growing faster than any time since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022, BBC analysis suggests. (Our Olga reporting for our BBC – no doubt drawing little blue arrows on the map heading eastward deep into Russia)

    I’m oddly reminded of that much spoofed Berlin bunker scene set in 1945 from the German movie Downfall (“Untergang”) Hitler: Mit dem Angriff Steiners wird das alles in Ordnung kommen (Everything will be put right with Steiner’s attack.)

    General Hans Krebs: Mein Führer… Steiner…

    Generaloberst Alfred Jodl: Steiner couldn’t mass enough forces for an attack.

    just think of all that European blood and treasure simply wasted in an evil madcap and inevitably failed effort to expand the EU… I mean the Third Reich.

    Still, it’s an ill wind… Win for defence investors… Europe’s biggest arms groups are poised to return close to $5bn to shareholders this year as the sector distributes rewards even as it increases investment after a surge in defence spending (FT)

    Roll over Marvin Gaye

    On a lighter note… The Guardian explores: 20 years of Sexual Healing… Pamela Stephenson Connolly on what she’s learned – what we learn by way of the cheeky above and the beside the masthead cartoons are two naked mustachioed blokes (one clothed in nothing but a bra) streaking to the finish line apparently sharing winners’ honours and with nothing to hide their modesty but the winning line tape – plus two ladies abed with a pet dog (best not to speculate) – decidedly Not the Nine O’Clock watershed for our Pam.

    As if the Gruan didn’t have enough on its plate worrying about Gaza and Ukraine, it still finds the energy to fret about: Exclusive poll reveals rise in ethno-nationalist approach to identity… One in three believe ‘Britishness’ is dependent on being born in UK

    Whisper it, but some of us believe it’s somewhat more involved having with English, Welsh, Scots or Irish heritage.

    The virtual online-only, left-leaning, included in the BBC print press pile by some special dispensation, Independent has also been doing some exclusive polling.

    It’s funny (to me) how these left-leaning media are likewise always excitedly agast whether their polling uncovers scary anti-regime sentiments or docile pro-regime compliance.

    Exclusive UK should seek new EU defence pact to replace Trump – poll… to counter threat from Putin (Indy)

    Trump, lets not forget, will be out of office before Starmer (probably). And Putin will outlast both.

    The take away message is of course, lets get back in the bunker with the EU.

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  47. Fedup2 says:

    Having been passed over – again – by the honours committee i wish to make a statement . …. No not really … but do you find it a sort of sign of the descent of Blighty as the honours committee it around with a copy of a TV listings magazine and throw out gongs to ‘popular ‘ artists from daytime TV .?

    I shall not be dwelling over the list of names / brown nosers …stringer bell deserved his k for ‘the wire ‘ which I might re watch later

    The attention is taken away from TTK and his Egyptian Islamic terrorist mate as well as what evette and the CPS will do about his tweets ( nothing – no full force of the law for him – Lucy Connolly style ….
    BTW have those Hamas supporters starved to death yet or still eating the HMP turkey ….?

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  48. Sluff says:

    In the New Years Honours list, Meera Syal and Idris Elba appear to have been knighted for services to skin colour.

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  49. Sluff says:

    1966. England win World Cup Final 4-2.
    Bobby Moore, captain, awarded OBE.

    2025. England win women’s European championship on penalties.
    Leah Williamson, captain, awarded CBE.

    Readers can make up their own minds as to the relative validity of these awards.
    If only she’d been BAME!

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  50. Ian Rushlow says:

    The BBC’s in-house journal – the billionaire-funded The Guardian (thanks for the money, Bill G) carries the shocking headline that ‘One in three believe Britishness is dependent on being born in UK’. Astonishingly, about 1 in 3 people see being British as ‘a product of ethnicity, birthplace and ancestry’, rather than based on ‘a progressive vision of shared values’. Those ‘shared values’ are not elaborated on the front page, but presumably include being born in Egypt, expressing a desire to kill Zionists, having White people exterminated in a nuclear holocaust, killing and raping the families of policemen, and being welcomed to the country by the Prime Minister. Or perhaps the clue is in another item on The Guardian’s front page. Captioned ’20 years of Sexual Healing’, it is illustrated by a cartoon of two women in bed – naturally they have different skin shades – accompanied by a dog with it’s tongue hanging out. Readers can make their own judgement as to what this might be about,

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