198 Responses to Weekend 3rd January 2026

  1. atlas_shrugged says:

    Deff Deff to the bBC

    It will be this year, I can feel it in my water

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    • non-licence payer says:

      Well done Atlas. What a Christmas present the disasterous viewing figures were. I hope that the shite schedule was a financial function of the fed up and abused withdrawing their telly tax.

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  2. Fedup2 says:

    Dont mention Iran – from the DT

    STARTS The BBC is embroiled in a row with the Israeli embassy after the broadcaster was accused of obsessing over Gaza while “largely ignoring” the ongoing protests in Iran.

    Alex Gandler, the embassy’s official spokesman, said on X that there had been “near-total silence” on BBC news bulletins about the demonstrations against Tehran’s Islamic theocratic leaders.

    He questioned the BBC’s impartiality, claiming it continued to devote huge resources to its coverage of events in Gaza.

    The corporation criticised Mr Gandler’s claims as “factually incorrect”, but the spat amounts to the latest evidence of a worsening relationship between the Israeli government and Britain’s national broadcaster over its coverage of the Middle East since the Oct 7 attacks.

    At least seven people have been killed during clashes between protesters and security forces that have spread across Iran since they first started in the capital on Dec 28.

    Mr Gandler took to X to respond to John Simpson, the BBC’s veteran foreign correspondent, who had said it was difficult to get reporters into Iran.

    The embassy spokesman said: “This is not a good take. The scale of BBC coverage devoted to Gaza, including over the past few days, vastly exceeds that given to wars and humanitarian crises elsewhere in the world.

    “At the same time, the near-total silence on Iran is striking. A broadcaster that claims global impartiality cannot obsess over one theatre of conflict while largely ignoring the regime that destabilises the entire region.”

    Claims were ‘factually incorrect’
    The BBC hit back, saying his criticisms were “factually incorrect” because the corporation had given daily coverage to events in Iran across its TV channels and website.

    The BBC News press team used its X account to post links to TV news bulletins and online articles about the civil unrest in Iran, as well as screenshots of journalists reporting on the story on television.

    Critics of the BBC in Iran have taken to referring to it as “Ayatollah BBC” because they claim the broadcaster is too ready to parrot the party line put out by the office of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader.

    The BBC has pointed out in the past that its correspondents and their families have been persecuted by the regime for daring to report the truth.

    A BBC spokesman said: “These criticisms are factually incorrect. We have been covering the protests in Iran daily across all of our platforms, including our main news bulletins, in English and via BBC News Persian.”

    The spokesman said that on Friday alone the story had been covered on Radio 4’s Today programme, the BBC News channel, on TV and radio bulletins throughout the day and on the home page of the BBC website.

    Ever since the Oct 7 attacks and the start of the subsequent conflict in Gaza, Israel has questioned the BBC’s impartiality in its reporting of events, and in November, The Telegraph revealed that an internal memo had warned of anti-Israel bias.

    The memo, written by Michael Prescott, an independent editorial adviser, told BBC bosses that there was “a desire always to believe the worst about Israel” within the corporation.ENDS

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Fed, the DT is something of an enemy of the BBC and an ally of ours on this site.

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  3. JonathanR says:

    BBC correspondent Jeremy Bowen reported from bombed-out home of October 7 victims without consent after Hamas attack

    “Speaking to Jewish News, a member of the family, Tzeela Horenstein, said: ‘Not only did terrorists break into our home and try to murder us, but then the BBC crew entered again, this time with a camera as a weapon, without permission or consent’. ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15429529/BBC-Jeremy-Bowen-reported-bombed-home-October-7-consent-Hamas-attack.html

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  4. tomo says:

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  5. sunny jim says:

    the fatigue is real

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  6. JohnC says:

    BBC Headline:
    Man shot twice and killed by police named
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1kl724r0kko

    Daily Mail:
    ‘Man with handgun, 61, shot dead by armed police after car crash in Norfolk is named’

    Absolutely typical BBC. Totally misleading headline : it sounds like they just shot him mutliple times.

    The fact they shot him twice is utterly insignificant compared to the fact he was carrying a handgun which he refused to drop.

    This story is definitely worded by the BBC’s agenda team, not the idiot clone who wrote it:
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    This anonymous, unelected team decide what news we are told. And like all the more dedicated Lefties, they hate the police. Hence nasty little digs like this.

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  7. Doublethinker says:

    In recent years we have seen that populist movements , ie democratic ones, are providing ever stronger challenges to the Globalist regimes across the West.
    The Globalist establishment has been in power for over thirty years and is deeply entrenched in government , legacy media , judiciary , education and almost all other institutions. During its time in power it has led us down the road to ruin and increasing numbers of ordinary folks want change but the establishment is not going to roll over and let democracy take it course and go quietly into the night.
    There is going to be a protracted struggle for power and the only weapon that the people have is their democratic rights. These will be firstly ignored , then trampled on and subverted by the Globalists .
    Events are happening such that even the most politically uninterested , naive or just plain thick amongst us must be dimly aware of this struggle . The big question that ordinary people will be asked is , are they worthy of democracy and prepared to fight for it or are they content to live as the Globalist elite dictate?

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  8. Scroblene says:

    I​ have a suspicion that the bBC have another government-ordered ‘job’ on their hands this year.

    There’s continuing dismay at the total incompetence of TTK’s and Thieves’s trashing of the economy, with manic economic stupidity being the mantra they blindly follow, we all know that’s happening, like we know that there’ll never be any attempt to stem the influx of unwanted foreigners, but isn’t the real elephant in the room a frightening and much more sinister probability – the ‘reorganisation’ of local government? There’s no need to go to the bBC or the Guardian and assisted cronies, to find out – the alternative broadcasters will be the better informants.

    The ‘jokes’ about having fourteen years to plan the economy, then being totally incapable of even the simplest budgetary requirements, with attendant excuses and gawps of dismay etc., are making the glaring headlines almost daily, while all the time, the sneaky destruction of all levels of local democracy is systematically being put into action, eventually to accentuate a total central control by the elite, far-left cabinet and the back room ‘advisers’! The real agenda for absolute control of every constituency, county, borough and even the parish councils is the real dirty work this pernicious, malevolent administration is secretly carrying out?

    Once this control of all the various levels of local government is completed, the state control and financial expectations of taxes made up on a whim, will be complete, and through the poll tax, or the business rates, or all the other ominous tax collections of citizens’ money will be cast in stone and very difficult to avoid. The hammerings all ‘the little people’ are getting will just be regulated by the ‘local democracies’, and added to the big stuff like income tax, being grabbed from Downing Street.

    Through increasing public employment, (there won’t be much around for private commercial businesses), we’ll have the eventual Marxist state all in place, and just about impossible to dismantle in a time scale of any ‘Normal’ Government 5 year period! Private commercial business will be decimated, big companies will just have to wait to be nationalised, and the far-left takeover of the UK will be complete! Naturally, the bBC will be complicit in all this – their ‘charter’ however it is restructured, is secure for that period whatever happens, TTK will need his propaganda machine – the bBC – in place while all this is happening.

    The next three and a half years is actually a tight schedule, but the signs of the catastrophe awaiting this country are already apparent, with TTK having started by cancelling local elections with the lame excuse of ‘there’s not enough time’ – delivered in the characteristic nasal whine so beloved by him and his far-left stooges. Of course there’s time, and if there isn’t, just wait until there is time – what’s the rush?

    Three and a half years – that’s the rush…

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  9. AsISeeIt says:

    ‘National treasure’ Brighton pier put up for sale… on the market for an undisclosed price… follows warnings of “difficult” trading for the pier in previous years which have been linked to a decline in tourism in Brighton and poor summer weather. (Peter Whittlesea, Danny Pike, Reporting from in Brighton and Patrick Barlow, South East – our BBC boys going at this one mob-handed)

    But, but… I thought, “hottest year eva…!” Global warming?

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    • Scroblene says:

      Aaaah…

      I blame ‘the fruit-juice drinkers of Wigan Pier’ who must have had a say in this!

      Still, they can rely on the huge commercial experience and business acumen of one of the Brighton MPs, who is somehow a sort of thingy minister in TTK’s admin department!

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  10. AsISeeIt says:

    David Lammy wants teenagers to sign up as magistrates… as young as 18 to help tackle the courts crisis… “every age and background”… (Telegraph)

    Idiocracy is a 2006 American science fiction comedy film co-produced and directed by Mike Judge base on a story written by Judge. The plot follows United States Army librarian Joe Bauers and prostitute Rita, who undergo a government hibernation experiment. Joe and Rita awake five hundred years later in a dystopian anti-intellectual society. – thank you Wiki.

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  11. tomo says:

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  12. tomo says:

    Met Office urges people in 79 UK areas to stock up on three items for five days

    The Met Office has issued snow and ice warnings across 79 areas in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, advising the public to gather torches, batteries and phone chargers due to power cut risk.

    A few days into 2026

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    • moggiemoo says:

      How is a phone charger supposed to help during a power cut?

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      • Scroblene says:

        Buy the new Windmilliband hand-held phone charger, from all good government websites at £3,444 + VAT.

        Guaranteed to charge a phone in seventeen hours, The Windmilliband hand-held charger comes with a free 50 ft vegan cable, which enables you to fix the charger on the roof of your caravan! (brackets not supplied -available at the new Bracket Supplies posts in all good car-parks).

        With luck, and a fair wind, you’ll be charged up by the following day, and can then talk to any relation within whispering distance of your favourite policeman…

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Moggie – it enables your phone to be used as a torch – so that you can look for the matches and candles …. 😎

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    • Lunchtime Loather says:

      Does this imply that I should buy a phone too? I don’t have one, thankfully.

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    • tomo says:

      The CCP has owned the Venezuelan Bolivarian Revolutionaries since at least the last election of Chavez.

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  13. tomo says:

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    • StewGreen says:

      The Duran is a Putin propaganda outfit
      “Online discussions and analysis frequently describe The Duran, run by Alexander Mercouris and Alex Christoforou, as a source for pro-Russian or pro-Kremlin talking points. “

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      • tomo says:

        I would not be there if I trusted what the Anglophone MSM was spouting…. I don’t trust everything they retail …

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  14. JonathanR says:

    Just waiting for the MSM to back another communist in the world. Authoritarian Islamic and socialist countries are Utopias in the minds of the BBCs majority DEI employees.

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  15. Fedup2 says:

    It looks like President Trump is looking at a few good golf courses in Venezuela…. Which will wind up the Far Left a treat …. The likes of TTK will be caught between condemnation and silence – the Marxists will go ballistic ….. great fun …. Meanwhile in Iran …. Hush ….

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    • non-licence payer says:

      Fedup the bBC have reported on Iran, but only the Iranian foreign minister critising Trump.

      The bBC send signal content out with every report, it is just so entrenched they cannot see it.

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  16. non-licence payer says:

    A long lie in today, then switch on and another late Christmas present delivered. The Venezuelan Narco Marxist has been extracted from his cocaine factory.

    How many revolting Sir This, Dame That and CBEs will be writing in to support Marxist lawyers as the UK’s engorged establishment try and provide safe passage for Maduro to Britain.

    (Note this coukd have been avoided, the only sticking point between Maduro and Trump was that Maduro was not prepared to forgo his narco billions. Another great example of the outputs of Marxism)

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  17. AsISeeIt says:

    Water and sanitation – scripts for broadcast media… The 4 UK Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) as independent advisers provide public health advice in emergencies. To help preparations for the very unlikely scenario of a national power outage… If you can’t boil the water and you don’t have purification tablets, you can use regular unscented, household bleach…, I know all the advice I am giving you might sound strange and you may be especially worried about drinking water containing bleach. Remember that this advice has been developed by doctors and scientists to help keep you safe and healthy, as long as you follow these instructions carefully. (Gov.UK) – my emphases

    Wasn’t Donald Trump ridiculed for months on end for shit like this? Ridiculed by Medical Officers, doctors and scientists… to help keep us safe and healthy. ‘Cos, daft people might misunderstand.

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    • tomo says:

      I actually (by accident ) watched that news conference where the “Trump says inject bleach” bollocks came from …

      I saw the folk (Medical Officers, doctors and scientists… ) speaking on technical matters related to introducing oxidising agents into blood to knock down virus load…

      The MSM is not your friend.

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      • Scroblene says:

        I thought every public swimming pool was treated with a measure of chlorine!

        As I’m as good at swimming as a fish is riding a bicycle, I’ve avoided the unpleasant smell of these places since around 1959…

        I did see a dead sheep floating down The Usk one summer while swimming, so maybe chlorine does get everywhere eventually…

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        • Northern Voter says:

          Whilst working for a Port Health Authority in Northern England one of my many tasks as a Technical Oficer was to sample ships water supplies, both on board and shoreside. If said sample was found to be contaminated, the said vessel was informed that its fresh water tanks needed disinfecting. The disinfectant to be used was Sodium Hypochloride, basically bleach. As it says on the bottle Domestos kills 99% of all germs!

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  18. StewGreen says:

    Yesterday big solar PRasNews propaganda on BBC Radio Humberside and Lincolnshire news
    PR guy mega-lying by claiming solar is cheap and that gas causes big bills
    Today I spot
    @BBCScotlandNews
    “Record year for wind and solar electricity in Great Britain in 2025”

    @BBCNews
    “Record year for wind and solar electricity in Great Britain in 2025”

    And on Last night’s main news Justin Rowlatt doesn’t understand the difference between power and energy.
    He means 82TWh of energy, not 82TW
    Both his audio and graphic were wrong
    .. https://x.com/7Kiwi/status/2007218578916028781

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    • StewGreen says:

      @RadioHumberside Jan 2
      Solar farm ‘pace of construction to rise’ – full story ⬇️

      zero Likes

      @BBCRadioLincs Jan 2
      “Solar farm ‘pace of construction to rise’ – full story ⬇️”

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      • Guest Who says:

        Mad Ed or Justin got rellies in Lincs?

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        • Scroblene says:

          I’m meeting a lovely farmer’s wife on Friday, for a drink and a long chat! I’ve known her for ages!

          She’s had to grub out all their apple orchards, and I guess after the third pint of Shepherd Neame Bitter, I may well ask her if she’s considering building one of the manic clown Milliband’s solar monstrosities instead!

          I have to say now, that if for some reason, there is a dearth of Scrobs’ posts over the next week or so, it’ll be down to a very heavy Bishop’s Finger bottle, (5.2%ABV), being bounced off the top of a grey, rather bemused, but still besotted (she’s lovely), head…

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  19. MarkyMark says:

    Jeremy Corbyn has no idea what it’s like for ordinary Venezuelans like me to live under Maduro’s chaotic regime
    The president continues to do as he pleases, dancing in public while citizens from the young to the elderly are dying in droves. And still the Labour leader appears to support him

    https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/venezuela-crisis-maduro-corbyn-trump-us-sanctions-a8755906.html

    …after being trampled by a man that Jeremy Corbyn seems to openly support despite his part in burying an entire nation in the utmost misery.

    ……………………

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  20. tomo says:

    Corruption minister convicted of corruption abroad.
    Housing Minister didnt pay house related tax.
    Homelessness Minister turfed people out of her house.
    Transport Minister fraudster.
    Justice Minister’s husband suing Justice Dept.

    …. and on it goes

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Wonder what their pillow talk is like – talk dirty to me! I’ve just represented a child killer!

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  21. tomo says:

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    • Scroblene says:

      Brilliant Tomo!

      I love the last second – “Yes we can do that”…

      Nigel Farage is well onto the case as we speak!

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  22. Dover Sentry says:

    Our BBC would be ‘thrilled’ at This Firewoman’s ‘tireless’ achievement and ‘outreach’ in the Fire Service –

    Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service:

    Huge congratulations to Group Manager Hannah Caulfield! 🎉👏
    We’re so proud to share that Hannah has been awarded the King’s Fire Service Medal in the New Year’s Honours List!
    Hannah has worked tirelessly to make Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service a more inclusive and supportive place for women. From championing maternity and menopause policies to leading our women’s network Limitless, she’s helped create a culture where women can thrive.
    Thanks to her leadership, mentoring schemes, and community outreach, more women are joining the fire service and seeing it as a career where they can make a real difference.
    This award is a huge recognition of Hannah’s passion and commitment – and we couldn’t be prouder!

    Who in reality wants a fire engine full of wimmin turning up to rescue them?

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  23. StewGreen says:

    TV dolly on GBnews “We are showing pictures of Venezuelans celebrating, just across the border in Chile.”

    FFS the countries are nowhere near each other

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    • Scroblene says:

      All the kids in GBN did Latin, not geography, Stew!

      I haven’t actually watched GBN for ages – is it any good these days?

      BTW, Top of the Year to you, somehow your posts chime here!

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  24. tomo says:

    Comment seen twice now on X “waiting EU to sanction USA”

    Mrs Balls MIA

    Nuffink to do with us….

    Sir Ed Davey urged Starmer to condemn the US actions.

    The Liberal Democrat leader said: “Keir Starmer should condemn Trump’s illegal action in Venezuela. Maduro is a brutal and illegitimate dictator, but unlawful attacks like this make us all less safe.

    “Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.”

    Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said the “unorthodox” military operation by the US could prove a deterrent to future Russian and Chinese aggression.

    Green Party leader Zack Polanski has called on the PM to condemn the US military strike, which he described as “illegal” and a “breach of international human rights law”.

    The European Union’s top diplomat said the situation in Venezuela was being closely monitored.

    Kaja Kallas said the EU had repeatedly stated that Maduro “lacks legitimacy” but defended a peaceful transition.

    She said that “under all circumstances, the principles of international law and the UN Charter must be respected. We call for restraint”, adding that “the safety of EU citizens in the country is our top priority”.

    https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/venezuela_en

    https://www.caracaschronicles.com/

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Really hope the Venezuelan job is a rehearsal for the UK . Park up the US fleet and lift TTK and the regime to a trial in the US ….
      When ever politicians start talking about vacuous illegitimate ‘international law ‘ you know they are just hot air ….

      President Trump is to do a press conference at 1600 UK ? To discuss potential golf courses/ Disneyland ….

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  25. Rob in Cheshire says:

    I was watching “Celebrity” Mastermind the other night. The usual bunch of nonentities, but this time including a drag queen. One of RuPaul’s lot, apparently. The BBC really is obsessed with drag queens. They even had one win “Celebrity” Masterchef, and insisted on calling him “her” throughout. Are they trying to tell us something?

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  26. Fedup2 says:

    Im guessing the blob is done with Switzerland fire porn now that it’s got a South America gig – who gets the flack jacket – 5 star hotel show – im reckoning on Clive … there’s not enough death for Orla and Bowen has to duck his nut again ….

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    • Scroblene says:

      Directly either of those two turn up, it’s time to click on proper news from real broadcasters!

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    Keir says he will hope that Maduro will be released and allowed into Britain so he can chat with Alaa Abd el-Fattah …..

    LUVVIES VID FURY Celeb activists including Olivia Colman and Carey Mulligan face calls to apologise after backing Egyptian ‘extremist’
    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/37772166/olivia-colman-carey-mulligan-activist-apology-calls-extremist/

    …..

    Olivia Colman Makes Poetry Of Alaa Abd El Fattah’s X Posts #parody #satire #oliviacolman #intellady

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    • tomo says:

      For some reason I thought of this, which I saw earlier.

      I’m amazed he isn’t on the BBC North America team.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Australia 2017 … “Halal boss who said ‘Australian women need Muslim men to fertilise them’ defends his vile comments and says he is just a ‘larrikin’ who’s ‘teasing bigots’
        August 4, 2017Emily Pidgeon, Stephen JohnsonDaily Mail”

        Halal certification boss Mohamed Elmouelhy said he was embracing the ‘Australian larrikin way’ when he told his Facebook followers Australian women needed Muslim men to ‘fertilise them’ and ‘keep them surrounded by Muslim babies’.

        ‘I’m an Australian, Australian’s are known for being a larrikin,’ Mr Elmouelhy told 2GB’s Chris Smith on Friday, defending his vile comments as ‘tongue in cheek’.

        ………………………….

        UK 2025 … Muhammad overtakes Noah as most popular boy’s name
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly4g2v0ej6o
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  28. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    There’s lots of European (EU) leaders complaining about Trump taking Maduro and his missus to face justice.

    I’m not surprised because all those whinging on are the ones abusing their own populations.
    I’ve not heard Orban complaining for example.
    It’s only the left going on about international law.
    My first thought was they were nervous because of how they were treating their own populations and thought maybe they themselves could be somehow targeted but I soon realised this could not be the case because the left are incapable of reason and they think they are not doing anything wrong.
    Look at TTK, cancelling elections, jury trials, huge crackdown on the right but nothing happening to the left and all the other barmy biased tricks he’s been getting up to. He doesn’t realise this is dictator behaviour.

    Has he offered asylum to millions of Venezuelans yet?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      UK in 2026…. “Venezuelan president’s plan to beat hunger: breed rabbits – and eat them. This article is more than 8 years old
      Maduro government proposes ‘rabbit plan’ to end chronic food shortages. Agriculture minister: ‘A rabbit is not a pet; it’s two and a half kilos of meat’”

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      • tomo says:

        Venezuela is up to its armpits in debt to China and has tens of thousands of Cubans in government positions….

        When in Venezuela I saw Maduro had his own TV show “Los Domingos con Maduro” (Sundays with Maduro) where he showcased his singing talents – it were weird and a bit menacing – especially with traditional Venezuelan singers and dancers performing songs that promoted government policies, with Maduro occasionally joining in or highlighting music.

        All a bit Bolshevik rather than Bolivarian.

        The dirt poor poverty was awful – routinely saw people dressed in rags away from town / city centres – many of the people I worked with were keen to get out.

        Perhaps the BBC might coax Starmer & Co. to do a weekend prime time variety show?

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  29. MarkyMark says:

    Are these reducing or increasing France’s CO2 Green gases?

    France Sees Over 1,000 Vehicles Burned, 500 Arrests on New Year’s Eve
    In Paris alone, prosecutors said 125 people aged between 17 and 53 were placed in police custody.
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    https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2026/01/273685/france-sees-over-1000-vehicles-burned-500-arrests-on-new-years-eve/

    Despite the increase in arson, authorities maintained that the overall situation showed signs of relative improvement.

    showed signs of relative improvement.
    HA HA HAH HAH AHAHA HA!

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  30. Flotsam says:

    Today, I witnessed the most pathetic display of shiftyness by our supposed leader, Smarmer. His response to the Venezuela/Maduro situation was an excercise in prevarication and obfuscation which did nothing to enhance his or Britain’s standing in the World. He fell back on his specialism, the Law, International Law to avoid defining what he thought of the matter. What I saw amounted to him saying I’ll see what the others say before I say anything. Pathetic scumbag.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Yes, the UK owed Iran a significant, decades-old debt of around £400 million for undelivered tanks from a 1970s arms deal, which was finally paid in 2022 as part of a deal linked to the release of detained British-Iranian nationals, though both governments tried to separate the issues;

      **the funds were paid with conditions for humanitarian use, but Iran stated it had full authority over the funds. **”

      UK is now a terrorist funding caliphate, and imports people called Alaa Abd el-Fattah who call Keir Starmer a dogs or/and a monkey – before getting their freedom! HA HA HAH AH A

      “He is also accused of saying police did not have rights and “we should kill them all”, and referring to British people as “dogs and monkeys”.”
      https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/30/alaa-abd-el-fattah-british-citizenship-home-office

      ……………
      Keir Starmer
      @Keir_Starmer
      “The situation in Venezuela is fast moving, we will establish all the facts and speak to allies.

      Our embassy in Caracas is working to ensure all British nationals in Venezuela are supported.”
      https://x.com/Keir_Starmer/status/2007453178166403479

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  31. JohnC says:

    UK ‘not involved in any way’ in US strike on Venezuela, Starmer says
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4qgvwxp08o

    I’m pig sick of the BBC trying to portray Starmer as some kind of respected international statesman. He’s the most despised PM in history.

    The headline is supposed to make us think he chose not to be involved. What it really means is that nobody told him anything about it.

    As usual the BBC put the ridiculous Ed Davey at centre stage to reinforce what Starmer said.

    He gets 60 words.

    The merchant of hate and division (and projection) Polanski gets 29.

    Nigel gets 23.

    I wonder if the BBC will speculate about how many American lives Trump has just saved from drug addiction and death.

    If what I read is true, it was a brilliantly executed operation.

    Now watch the BBC completely ignore the reasons Trump did this and spin this monster as a victim – with the evil Trump to blame.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Green Party leader Zack Polanski has called on the PM to condemn the US military strike, which he described as “illegal” and a “breach of international human rights law”.”

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    • Fedup2 says:

      JohnC – it was a good Job if only because no US personnel were lost ( apparently ) ….

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  32. MarkyMark says:

    “A. E. Housman
    1859 – 1936

    Into my heart an air that kills
    From yon far country blows:
    What are those blue remembered hills,
    What spires, what farms are those?

    That is the land of lost content,
    I see it shining plain,
    The happy highways where I went
    And cannot come again.”

    “And to pour scorn on it and to say that it is unimportant is to declare one’s self a spiritual desert”

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    • StewGreen says:

      Wow the rest of the panel squirmed
      Remembered in the Daily Mail today, my 2012 poetry recital on BBC QT. The thing that struck me was that *none* of the other panellists knew any verse, and that David Dimbleby tried quite hard to stop me reciting this passage.
      https://x.com/ClarkeMicah/status/1909195826208874902

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      “Have your mind furnished with beauty”

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  33. Richard Pinder says:

    i?id=f6b4788e05ff545aae150a81e3c1098a50537c2f-12384307-images-thumbs&n=13
    Don’t let BBC fake news fool you – use these four tips to check anything you see, hear or read on BBC News:

    (1) The BBC story – what is the BBC trying to say? Is it BBC propaganda? See if the BBC story is true or false on Epoch News
    (2) The BBC edit – is it a BBC News edit? Real news will have a link to unedited material, showing that lefties are violent, not Trump
    (3) The BBC author – is it the BBC’s opinion? Real news will have a link to the facts, but BBC News will be misinformation
    (4) The BBC website – are there spelling or grammar mistakes? – Trusted News websites will employ English speaking people

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zrprrj6

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    • JohnC says:

      .. and if any of the English in a headline or article seems to be just a bit odd or unusual , take a moment and work out why and what they are avoiding to say by doing that.

      It is ALWAYS very careful BBC weasel words crafted to mislead you without actually lying.

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    • Sluff says:

      On the subject of fake BBC.
      The opening shots of the latest series of ‘The Traitors’ features a steam train. It is shown going over a bridge. Then the train arrives at a station and the contestants get on. All OK???

      Errr, no. The bridge was the famous Glenfinnan Viaduct on the West Highland Line between Fort William and Mallsig.
      The contestants were at the Boat of Garten. Which is near Aviemore and on the Strathspey railway.

      The two lines are miles apart as the crow flies and many miles apart using a train line. It would take hours.

      The BBC. Totally fake.

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  34. Fedup2 says:

    Always good to see UK as irrelevant when it comes to international events …. I can’t imagine 47 phoning TTK any time soon to talk about South America or anywhere else – why would be talk to an autocrat of a third world country …..I bet the UK ambo in Venezuela won’t be there much longer ….

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    • Scroblene says:

      TTK’s the sort of bloke left in the kitchen at parties, trying to look ‘hip’, failing, and guzzling a cheap bottle of warm lager…

      Oooops, wasn’t he photographed doing just that during the covids…?

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  35. vlad says:

    Here’s something the BBC won’t report in a million years: accidents in air industry due to DEI among pilots and air-traffic control.

    Matt Walsh gives numerous examples, but here’s just the first one, at random:

    “My son scored 98th percentile on air traffic control testing. Flew and perfectly handled aircraft far above required in the simulators. ATC job? Nope. All that education and training for nothing. Told by one of his instructors Obama wanted them black and low income. Thanks, Obama.”

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  36. tomo says:

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  37. StewGreen says:

    Why is President Trump on the BBC Sounds SPORTS page ?
    When you scroll down to GOLF there are only 2 BBC progs
    and one has a big Trump face
    “Podcast 29th March 2024
    Trumped
    The retelling of the explosive story of Donald Trump’s Scottish golfing dream gone bad.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hmls55

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  38. Scroblene says:

    Just type in ‘Venezuela’ into Google, and all you get is the Graun, the bBC, and cNN..

    Story somewhere – but not here…

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  39. Fedup2 says:

    C4 special on Venezuela…. I thought she ( Cathy ) was wearing black . One of those Lefty programmes where they are floundering to criticise – it was quite funny is a sort of way ….

    I didn’t stick around long enough for one of the comrades to pop and and talk about ‘imperialism ‘ but no doubt Corbyn and co will be there ..
    I watched the press conference which was one of those meandering 47 jobs the BBC droids hate so much – they prefer the TTK type – where all those tired cliches are rolled out – eg ‘I get it ‘ or the hilarious ‘ country before party “ ( but which country?) …

    The so far undiscussed issue must be the reaction of china after their boy was lifted out …. Loss of face and all that stuff ..

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    • StewGreen says:

      Yes I watched Trump live then went round the neighbours
      ..”ye we are going to watch the Channel4 news special”
      Me “but it’s better to hear Trump unfiltered”

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  40. JonathanR says:

    Venezuala today and if Comrade Starmer cancels any more elections it will be him next.

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  41. harry142857 says:

    Venezuela, largest oil reserves in the world, more than Saudi, and they had to eat their own pets, socialism rules OK.

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  42. vlad says:

    Now that Trump has invaded a foreign country and arrested a tinpot dictator who was destroying its economy and its freedoms, can anyone think of a country closer to hand he could turn his attention to next?

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  43. Richard Pinder says:

    The consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary has destroy the errors of Communism spread from Russia to Western Europe after the fall of the Berlin wall. The Blue Army of Our Lady of Fátima will end the persecutions of right-wing Christians in the Ukraine and Britain by Starmer and his left-wing woke army of Evil Atheists, Global Leftists, Upper-class Communists, Cultural Marxists, Islamic invaders and Satanic Socialist. Starmer panics and fears that Russia and Donald Trump will bring peace. Trump describing Jesus as God’s only begotten Son, our Lord and Saviour, saying “He is risen!” and pray for peace in 2026. Trump also invoked Christ’s redeeming sacrifice, love, humility, and obedience, emphasising that Jesus’s death will bringing redemption, forgiveness, and eternal hope to the World in 2026, as the warmongering Starmer devil is destroyed, and peace and Christianity return to the Ukraine, and eventually Britain under a great Christian revival lead by Tommy Robinson. Also, the CIA’s satanic drug cartel and election interference cartel has just been given a fatal blow by the Blue Army of Our Lady of Fátima.

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  44. Fedup2 says:

    When I was a lot younger I used to have violent arguments with a Marxist about the motivation for the US … I was very pro US – and not as jaded as now .

    But the Venezuela gig is classic US – all that oil – better to control access to that than use the US reserve – and it might frighten other regimes ….

    ( dont get me wrong – the US is doing the right thing in South America – all that ‘international law stuff is just crap ) …

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  45. JonathanR says:

    Not on the BBC

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  46. JonathanR says:

    Starmer is “concentrating on British citizens in Venezuala” Are these “British Citizens” supporting the communist regime? Why else would any British citizens be in any danger?

    Starmer is an empty suit.

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  47. Fedup2 says:

    I was amazed that crewkerne has already done a Venezuela gig – did they have inside information ?

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    • StewGreen says:

      Not on YouTube yet

      There’s a slightly earlier video too from 12:30pm

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  48. StewGreen says:

    Elon Musk today
    – retweet “GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES MILITARY.” (his grandparents were US born)
    – Congratulations, President Trump!
    This is a win for the world and a clear message to evil dictators everywhere.
    – I support this 💯 (idea Rubio governs Vzla
    – No matter what happens, I will fight for and die in America.”
    – retweets himself “I am a citizen of the United States and have only that passport.
    – Long overdue prosperity is coming for the people of Venezuela
    🇺🇸🦾🇺🇸

    earlier retweeted

    The image is fake from AI of course

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