58 Responses to Start the Week 5th January 2026

  1. Up2snuff says:

    Maybe I will go first. The BBC are dreadful. President Trump hating, Israel hating, believing everything Hamas tell them, hating Reform and Nigel Farage. Defund the BBC! The BBC are greedy for money, incapable of selecting a new Director-General. As an example of BBC greed they cannot stick to an iPlayer arrangement and think that cancelling the existing iPlayer arrangement in 2016 will mean that people will go out and buy TV Licences. The opposite has been true. The BBC’s viewing figures for last Christmas were disastrous! People are noting the bias and turning away from the BBC in ever growing numbers! Defund the BBC!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Winning is losing comrade up2snuff! We are all equal! Please delete your 2026 hate post and go to the back of the Obama Brexit Queue!
      Enjoy the moment whilst it lasts.

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    • Scroblene says:

      And don’t you deserve it Snuffy!

      A belated Happy New Year to you!

      When Very-Iffy get back from their very long Christmas holidays, (generously included in the TV tax), and as they monitor this site regularly, can they fnd out which supermarkets are kow-towing to the latest ‘green’ issues, like packaging, suppliers, Halal nonsense for foreigners, size of cabbages (too big for the shelves of one big name…), and all the other tosh that we’re being charged for?

      My latest spreadsheet, (you really are an insufferable nerd Scrobs – Ed), shows that for just a few quid a month more, I can shop at my local farm shop, and get locally produced meat, bacon, eggs, milk, bread etc, and it’s only had to travel a few miles! Local farmers getting a just income? Not what TTK wants, but it’s what I want…

      Surely this must be a paradise for lefties everywhere – less petrol and diesel on deliveries, local employment, fewer shopping visits – the list is endless!

      C’mon you lefties in La-la Beeboid land, show us what we’re doing wrong?

      (As a Harvey’s /Shepherd Neame consumer, their beer is commonplace here, as it’s local to the South East. I can easily cut out a couple of bottles a month to save the small businesses in my adopted Counties, so Cubiclists can ‘exist’ in their ghastly metropolitan squalour…)

      But if I have to go to the supermarkets, I’d like to know if my diminishing pension is being p****d up the wall just to suit lefties in Mohammed  Street…

      Can I trust the bBC to look into this? It’s dark outside, so maybe the pigs are’nt flying tonight…

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  2. tomo says:

    It’d be fun if Starmer did an LBC phone in

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  3. tomo says:

    By quite a few estimates 1/3 of the Venezuelan population left the country under Maduro’s regime.

    – just saying …

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  5. andyjsnape says:

    bbc promotion for starmer and the eu

    What’s behind PM’s notable shift on closer ties to Europe?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62vzmle530o

    What does labour and the bbc not get, we greater voted out!

    Traitors

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  6. AsISeeIt says:

    Intelligence shared edition – in which “moribund” is your word of the day

    BBC Economics editor, Faisal Islam, seems to forget that Keir Starmer is a dyed-in-the-wool invetorate Remainer: What’s behind PM’s notable shift on closer ties to Europe? – perhaps our Faisal thinks we’ve forgotten?

    There’s an old gag about a politician and his principles – “You don’t like my unshakable heartfelt political principles that I hold dear? Well, look here I’ve got some other different ones for you!”

    That’s our Keir – up to a point. But on issues like the EU he’s an absolute ideologue.

    You didn’t like the Referendum result, here have another one.

    Sir Keir told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme… A new referendum on a final Brexit deal should be “on the table”, shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer has said… When asked whether he thought there should be a public vote on the final Brexit deal, Sir Keir said: “I do think there needs to be a democratic check, I don’t think the prime minister can simply decide for herself what the future of this country looks like.” (BBC, 2018)

    Run that one by me again Keir… I don’t think the prime minister can simply decide for herself what the future of this country looks like?

    The phrase “very interesting but stupid” is a well-known catchphrase from the classic late 1960s American sketch comedy show Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-I (there’s one for the teenagers – with an interest in vintage Americana)

    Our Faisal cares nothing for English culture, English exceptionalism or for our local democratic rights – and nor does our Sir Keir, they’re all about: … a message to business, to Brussels and to other European capitals, as well as his backbenchers. (BBC)

    It’s the stupid insipid economy, stupid

    Although you really wouldn’t really think the ecomony mattered at all from the frontpage of this morning’s globalist Financial Times – they’ve gone completely Caracas over Trump’s policy on Venezuela.

    Meanwhile, in our own backyard: Unemployment alert… 11-year high as a “moribund” economy will need interest rate cuts to stimulate growth and offset tax rises, economists have told The Times

    Try not to think about the sort of concessions Brussels would demand from the Yookay in return for easing those trade and travel restrictions they put on us as retaliation punishment for daring to leave their club. New cash contributions to Brussels paid for by British taxpayers – to make the big corporations happy: The British Chambers of Commerce last month published a list of further requests in other sectors to help exporters deal with post-Brexit red tape that has hit the trade of goods. (BBC)

    For example: A plan for UK manufacturers to be part of the €150bn (£131bn) Security Action For Europe defence loan fund has stalled over the size of the membership fee, after some objections from France. (BBC)

    Of course our Faisal can’t bring himself to admit Brussels bureaucrats are grifters and our so-called friends in Europe always act in their own best interests – not ours. Our own globalist fabian oikophobes, such as Sir Keir, tend not to concern themselves over such details.

    Sometimes I wonder whether newspaper editors read their own frontpages as a finished product? They do tend to miss those awkward little juxtapositions of features that belie the narratives.

    The Independent editor may still be on leave or alternatively take the excuse that his left-leaning rag is virtual online-only. There’s no proudly brandishing a hot-off-the-press copy for final revision there. Just a quick squint at the computer screen version. It’s only in the BBC’s otherwise print press line-up under some special dispensation.

    Starmer says leadership challenge would be gift for Farage – frets the TV news chyron-like text banner at the top of the page – and directly beneath we read in the female-friendly feature teaser: Lydia Spencer-Elliott Why rebranding yourself is the most toxic way to start the new year (Independent)

    Have you noticed this childlike belief in official circles that computers can solve our every problem? Since the PM suggested Britain will become an A.I. superpower (didn’t we think we were going to be a Green Energy superpower?) the regime aparatchiks are excited like 1950s teenaged sci-fi comic adicts – thinking we’ll all soon have flying cars, robot butlers, personal jet packs and vacationing on Venus…

    RoboCop was a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven… Set in a crime-ridden Detroit in the near future, RoboCop centers on police officer… who is murdered by a gang of criminals and revived by the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products as the cyborg law enforcer – thank you Wiki

    AI ‘may aid rape trials’… a police chief believes… Using artificial intelligence in recorded interviews with victims could strengthen rape investigations (Times) – blimey, interview under caution by computer? Next thing you know they’ll be doing away with trial by jury.

    Coming to a council house near you? Ayatollah ‘could flee’… has a plan to flee the country should his security forces fail to suppress protests, according to intelligence shared with The Times – I jest of course, he won’t seek asylum in the UK – ayatollahs tend to prefer Paris.

    In further deep state ‘intelligence shared’: Neo-Nazis’ recruitment drive before ‘race war’ (Telegraph) – what precisely is a ‘neo-nazi’?

    Do they want to overturn some new Treaty of Versailles we haven’t heard about? Do they want another go at capturing Lebensraum in Russia? (careful now)

    A violent neo-Nazi group has launched a recruitment campaign…The Telegraph can reveal… – Scary! Violent! It’s just like that Netflix documentary Adolescence has come to life! Bring back National Service – oh, wait a minute… won’t that mean sending young chaps to some camp and teaching them how to do violence against the government’s political enemies? More of that later.

    Vanguard Britannica… – I’ve heard of Encyclopaedia Britannica (there’s one for the teenagers) – don’t laugh, this is supposed to be serious stuff.

    Vanguard Britannica has been holding fighting camps and carrying out combat training to ready its members for political violence – Encyclopaedia Britannica only used to go door-to-door selling their books. I jest of course. Are we sure this isn’t just some young blokes LARPing at the odd paintball weekend?

    The group, was founded in 2022 as a small band of far-Right extremists… – yep, I’m guessing three bored teenaged blokes into their heavy metal rock, one reluctant girlfriend and about half-a-dozen undercover cops egging them on and reporting back to base.

    …but has since grown through alliances with white supremacist movements in the UK and across the US – all boxes ticked there then.

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  9. Doublethinker says:

    The reaction of the legacy media to the abduction of Maduro is much more amusing than any of their offerings over the festive period. It’s marvellous to watch the Globalist stooges realising that Trump has struck another great blow at their oppressive world order . You can see the dawning realisation on their faces thatthe game is up and that Trump is leading the revival of Nation states across the world and has the support of ordinary people.

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  10. harry142857 says:

    One of my friends has said that they maybe be sneaking Kier into Reading today, to drone on about how things will be better in 2026. Shame, if I knew, I could have rounded up some irate taxpayers to boo the %^$%&^%$.

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  11. MarkyMark says:

    It is British to be unBritish! HA HAH AHA HAH AHAH A!
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  12. MarkyMark says:

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    from order-order.com

    Barry Gardiner defends donations worth £500,000 from Chinese agent
    The Labour MP said Christine Lee appeared to be ‘operating as a legitimate person in the UK’.
    Amy Gibbons
    Thursday 13 January 2022 20:23 GMT

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  13. MarkyMark says:

    All countries are fighting for resources – it is that simple.
    China is buying using debt.
    Russia is invading.
    USA is snatching and switch.
    UK is giving it to anyone willing to buy – Saudi/China/Russia/EU/USA.

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    • JohnC says:

      IMHO the ‘resources’ are now a very large carrot on the stick, but if Biden and the EU had not been intent on calling Russia’s bluff to bring Ukraine into NATO via the puppet Zelensky, the war would not have started.

      They knew it was a Russian red-line before they did it. Same as Cuba.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Good point – resources are a way to pay for the invasion, but the invasion is normally geo political to keep a border or have a new friend.

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  14. Yasser Dasmibehbi says:

    Agreed re Venezuela Double. it is really a nice strike at the enemies of Western civilisation. It is great to hear the outrage from the Left.

    They weren’t so concerned in 2023 when Venezuela started making moves to annex the Essequibo region of Guyana. (Formerly British Guiana). This was a claim to two thirds of Guyana’s land! The Venezuelans were laying the groundwork for a military takeover in order to exploit the newly found oil wealth that has been found!
    Where were the weeping Leftards over this? A blatant case of stealing oil from another country by a loud mouthed dictator.
    But no outrage forthcoming.

    What does worry me, Double, is Trumps obsession with annexing
    Greenland from Denmark. He will lose my support for that (not that that will worry him) My concern is he might well turn many in the European populist right against him and strengthen the Globalists. I hope wiser heads in the Republican party will prevail.
    My fear is Trump has forgotten the meaning of the word ‘hubris’.

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  15. JohnC says:

    See if you can guess which of these headlines from various news sources is the one from the UNBIASED BBC:

    1. Berlin suspects ‘leftwing extremists’ of causing huge power outage
    2. Leftwing militants claim responsibility for arson attack on Berlin power grid
    3. 45,000 homes in Berlin without power after politically motivated attack by ‘left-wing extremists’
    4. Activist group says it was behind Berlin fire that cut power to thousands

    Unbiased my arse.

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  16. MarkyMark says:

    “Ten people have been found guilty of cyber-bullying Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, by a Paris court.

    The defendants were accused of spreading false claims about her gender and sexuality, as well as making “malicious remarks” about the 24-year age gap between the couple.

    The defendants were handed suspended prison sentences of up to eight months.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78v6z7597yo

    BBC produce a clip of Trump writing the tweets! HA HA AHA HAH AHHA A A HAH AH !

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  17. MarkyMark says:

    “Officers will be able to demand that migrants remove their coats to search for phones and also check their mouths for SIM cards.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm240jvnen0o

    “bums will be exempt for SIM cards.”

    demand
    demand
    demand
    HA HA HAH AHAH !
    Human rights! HA HAH AHAH AH AAH H A!
    demand in Arabic!
    ……………..

    UK to implement “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” on beaches!
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Draw_Mohammed_Day

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  18. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “In 2014, it was reported that Labour MP David Lammy had moved out of his Tottenham constituency to a more affluent London suburb, Crouch End, so his children could attend a high-performing state school. ”

      UK Members of Parliament (MPs) represent their local constituents in the House of Commons, working in Parliament to debate, scrutinize, and vote on laws, while also helping locals with government-related issues, attending local events, and acting as representatives for their political party. Their duties involve balancing national interests with local concerns, dividing time between Westminster and their constituency.

      their constituency.
      their constituency.
      their constituency.

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  19. tomo says:

    The Guardian front page headline screech this morning:

    “Detainees being held under controversial scheme say Home Office has caused them ‘severe psychological harm’”

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/05/one-in-one-out-asylum-seekers-accuse-uk-degrading-treatment

    “Diane Taylor writes on human rights, racism and civil liberties”

    – except that – she omits any source of the complaint and not even the lawyers (or activists) likely putting out the tale are mentioned ….

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  20. digg says:

    One in one out asylum seekers accuse UK of degrading treatment as they await deportation….

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/05/one-in-one-out-asylum-seekers-accuse-uk-degrading-treatment

    Why the hell have these criminals who broke into the UK illegally have any say in what is to become of them.

    They knew they were breaking UK law but took the chance and went ahead regardless. They should have no voice just get kicked out forthwith.

    I guess some human right legal team will now get on their case earning £££££££… and these criminals know that will be the case before they even enter the UK……

    The government response to the entire question of illegals breaking into this country is flaccid dithering…. We need a UK Trump on the case….

    No ifs, no buts, just out!

    Once potential future criminal breakers in realise that this 100% will happen, the whole shit-show will screech to a halt.

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  21. MarkyMark says:

    Venezuela – screeech – whilst … 74295999-12405109-Even_more_migrants_have_arrived_in_Dover_after_making_the_journe-m-21_1692018643260.jpg

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    • tomo says:

      I know of several Venezuelan refugees from the Maduro regime in the UK

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Venezuela is in the midst of a political, economic and humanitarian crisis. Presidential elections in 2024 resulted in widespread violence and heightened political polarisation, with international sanctions furthering economic decline. More than 7.9 million people have left the country amidst violence and crippling food shortages – making it the biggest exodus in South America’s recent history.

        UNHCR and partners are helping to protect Venezuelans forced to flee, respond to their humanitarian needs and promote their socioeconomic inclusion within host countries.

        https://unrefugees.org.uk/where-help-is-needed/venezuela-crisis/

        7.9 million people have left the country and settled in Bradford, UK City of culture?

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  22. JohnC says:

    Only Greenland and Denmark should decide its future, Starmer says
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9yq8znq37o

    Here the BBC go again : trying to portray Starmer as some kind of global statesman and international arbiter of right and wrong.

    It’s got f*ck all to do with him. Nobody gives a sh1t what he thinks BBC. He is the most despised PM in history.

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  23. Fedup2 says:

    President Trump – in his press conference – noted how successful the Venezuela job was – no intelligence leaks – targeted capture – no US losses ( apparently ) … and compared it to past failures ….

    The usual suspects are now coming out of the swamp to condemn the US. But who cares ? In the real world a mighty country will protect its’ interests – whilst third world states like britainistan will just carry on with the self harm ….

    And the lie that US UK have good relations should shake out this month … can we have a coup please ?

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