Weekend 24th January 2026

How will the BBC handle the failure of their favourite PM getting his Chagos sellout put in the legal rubbish bin . Some might say it’s a resigning matter … meanwhile plod has forbidden Christians from marching in London in case Muslims object / attack them …. Not much from Al BBC about that …or Iran …

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184 Responses to Weekend 24th January 2026

  1. Up2snuff says:

    Here am I, send me to the top of the Thread, re-phrasing Isaiah chapter6. 🙂 The BBC are wasteful. I have said that before and I will say it again! They rolled out a new girl on Business news on TOADY this morning despite the BBC having two very adequate business presenters on TOADY, Will Bain and Felicity Hannah. Cancel your TellyTax, you know it makes sense. Defund the BBC.

    TTK resign now!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Use your BBC TV Tax to fund the rape gang enquiry by Rupert Lowe – when presented with summons to pay just send them the report and say look what it bought instead of Huw Edwards! Genius!

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  2. Fedup2 says:

    Up2 – admire your dedication …. I try to be punctual … and sober … one of these may not apply at the time of writing .. 77 brigade to note …

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    • Scroblene says:

      Sparkling. intelligent rhetoric from a discerning political giant…

      “Speaking to the BBC’s Political Thinking, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy said: “I don’t know if Andy really wants to get back into Westminster politics.
      “He may do, and there’s much merit to him.
      “But I would caution those often around that start to destabilise the ship and say that we can have a new leader.
      “No, we can’t. Because immediately you’d be forced to have an election.”

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77kexz6k5zo

      Such candour, insight and incisive mental agility!

      (Do you sometimes get the feeling that the tiresome clones at the bBC love to wallow in weak conjecture, half-truths, and far-left prattle, and call it ‘news reporting’)?

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Fed, 🙂 x10!

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  3. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Obviously Trump got it wrong about our servicemen in Afghanistan.
    What I think he meant was that many of the Countries in NATO didn’t really pull their weight and sent few or no soldiers. This was said in a clumsy way and should be corrected.

    He surely never meant to insult the 2 or 3 Countries that did give the same (proportional) support and was having a go at the rest of Europe’s half hearted support the same way as he has for these same Countries not fulfilling their NATO commitments.

    He should clarify that the UK and a couple of others did fully contribute.

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  4. Dover Sentry says:

    @EG, I don’t blame Trump for his comments. He has a global view of the political disasters worldwide and he was referring more to the EU.
    Unfortunately, Starmer is a clone EU member and we got caught up in Trump’s comments.
    I blame Starmer, not Trump.

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  5. Dover Sentry says:

    Not mentioned by our BBC (as yet):

    Starmer has U-Turned on Chagos.

    Other news outlets are covering it.

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    • Scroblene says:

      Starmer = Orville…

      Orville  = Duck…
      TTK = useless score, and also ‘ducks’ the question every time…
      Orville = operated by Keith Harris…
      Harris Carpets = great flooring supplier
      Carpet = walked all over at every step – comes in rolls (?)…
      Starmer = Carpet man!

      All hail the Duck – Il Duck – quack remedies – waddler in chief – ‘down’side the UK – ‘con’fit-up…

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  6. Fedup2 says:

    Sometimes the bias is do obvious as to be embarrassing – but BBC News doesn’t have grown ups at the weekend … just the kids of full BBC staff …

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  7. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    It’s looking like Rachel from accounts will be getting a £35billion windfall (Chagos deal collapsing)

    Will she be using it to reduce the national debt, increase pensions, build nuclear power stations or what.

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  8. StewGreen says:

    Who is the bad man ?
    .. Seems these days not the person who does physically bad things
    but rather people who TALK, who say something .

    Thus today both national and local news on BBC and ITV open with “ORANGE MAN BAD ! He said something”
    “Here is local woman Mrs Jones/ Mrs Smith etc.
    Her son got Little Joey his legs blown off in Afghanistan.”

    OK Who is the bad man to Little Joey ?
    The Taliban blokes blew him up ?
    THe UK establishment who sent him there ?

    .. Or Donald Trump who SAID something ?
    who said NATO didn’t pull its weight
    which is generally true the French and Germans did mainly work in safe areas

    The TV news shamelessly directly claimed that Trump directly said “BRITISH soldiers didn’t serve at the front”

    Why would skyNews put up the video of Trump’s exact words and then DELETE IT leaving a blank page ?
    https://news.sky.com/video/trump-weve-never-needed-nato-13497848

    Was Trump speaking to the UK ?
    … See how the talk initially talks about France
    The actual original source is the FoxNews interview

    Transcript of the NATO bit
    https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-interview-maria-bartiromo-fox-business-davos-january-22-2026/
    Maria Bartiromo 00:04:36
    Mr. President, are our relations with Europe, deteriorating or worsening? I mean, French President Macron called the Greenland situation colonialism. European leaders have these emergency talks to try to retaliate or stop your plans.
    You’re threatening France with 200 percent tariffs on wine and champagne.
    There’s been a real reaction from the European group, so.

    Donald Trump 00:04:57
    Well, they put a service charge on us, you know, which is something that they’re going to have to remove.
    I think we get along good. But you know, I’ve always debated, we are always going to be there for them, but will they be there for us ?
    I’ve always said that, you know, if we ever needed them because NATO has very much been a one-way street.
    We actually paid — until I came along, we were paying for — I think we paid 100 percent the cost of NATO. (typical Trump hyperbole)
    They weren’t paying and we were paying.
    We have hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Germany.
    We have 50,000 soldiers in other countries.
    We have a lot of soldiers, not only Europe and other places.
    And you know, we want that to be reciprocal.
    We want to be liked and respected.
    So, I’ve always said, and we get along very well with NATO, I think.
    But I’ve always said, will they be there if we ever needed them ? And that’s really the ultimate test and I’m not sure of that. I
    know that we would have been there or we would be there, but will they be there?
    And let’s hope that that never happens. We’ve never needed them. (Trump hyperbole again)
    We have never really asked anything of them.
    You know, they’ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan or this or that and they did.
    They stayed a little back, a little off the front lines.

    But we’ve been very good to Europe and to many other countries.
    And you know, now under my administration that began — because we had a very successful first term that began then. But it has to be a two-way street, and it’s been a two-way street much more so, and now it’s really been a two-way street.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Wordcounts for the entire 23 min interview
      : Britain 0, England 0, UK 0, Starmer 0

      : NATO 3 (presenter 1, Trump 2) , all in the first 5 minutes
      : Europe/European Trump used the word 2 times

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      • StewGreen says:

        So I also note that Trump is speaking to a US audience cos it is a Fox News interview
        He is not speaking to a British audience about British squaddies

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  9. JohnC says:

    Harry says sacrifices by Nato troops in Afghanistan deserve ‘respect’
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clym2l7d75eo

    These spiteful child-like articles by the BBC to try and say the opposite of anything Trump says are now beyond pathetic – they are downright embarassing for our country.

    Clearly in the BBC’s little bubble, Harry (and Megan of course) are still highly respected.

    I used my new friend – AI – to see what Trump might be talking about because I know for a fact the BBC won’t tell me. The article is stuffed with empathy to sway our opinion which always tells me the BBC don’t want me to know the actual facts behind it.

    And of course I discover what Trump was actually taking about. It seems that while us, Canada and Holland did our bit for the fight, all the other NATO countries were less than helpful:

    ‘Common National Caveats
    Commanders in Afghanistan had to manage between 50 and 80 known national restrictions, including:
    Geographic Restrictions: Some countries refused to allow their troops to be moved outside of specific provinces (e.g., many European nations initially restricted forces to the relatively stable north or west).
    Operational Limitations: Certain nations allowed participation in defensive operations but strictly prohibited offensive combat missions.
    Time and Activity Limits: Some contingents were not permitted to operate at night, while others were restricted to patrolling only on main roads.
    Procedural Vetoes: Several countries required their top national officer to secure direct authorization from their home capital before participating in any new or high-risk operation.
    Impact on the Mission
    Burden-Sharing Inequality: Countries like the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and the Netherlands took on the vast majority of high-intensity combat in the south and east. In contrast, nations like Germany, Italy, Turkey, and Spain primarily focused on peacekeeping and reconstruction in more stable regions.
    Operational Complexity: Commanders often could not use the nearest available forces to respond to a crisis if that nation’s caveats prohibited the specific activity or location required.
    Insurgent Advantages: Restrictions, such as refusing to patrol off-road or at night, provided insurgents with “breathing room” to move and recruit with relative impunity in certain sectors’

    Sure Trump should have given us a bit of credit – but I think his point is the wider nature of NATO which – as we have seen in Ukraine and other places – has become a political weapon, not a defensive deterrent organisation. Their head man has told some outrageous lies about Russia to scare us just as the head of the UN should have been sacked long ago for what he has allowed.

    The West needs jolting back to reality and common sense. All the big taxpayer funded organisations are now infested by the far-Left. Including the BBC. They will destroy our civilisation if they are not stopped.

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  10. Fedup2 says:

    X is on fire over the crass comments of a man who never wore a uniform . He really needs to say something . It’s beyond who paid for NATO . afgee was a dumb idea which cost us – the west – far too much in lives and Money .

    God knows what Putin will do to exploit the schism ..

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    • Deborah says:

      I really think that Trump wasn’t/isn’t very well at the moment. I think he sounded quite breathless at the moment (listened in the car to his Davos speech). I only mean a chest infection or something of the like not the ‘only got two to six months’, I keep reading in comments. He really does have the weight of the world on his shoulders, Iran, China, Russia etc.

      May I recommend this lady, specialist in geopolitics, being interviewed on Triggernometry who explains the American reasons for Greenland etc.

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  11. atlas_shrugged says:

    Eva Vlaardingerbroek has been banned from the UK by Der Starmer and his merry marxists.

    So please could you make sure NOT TO WATCH this tribute to Eva by Mark Steyn:

    https://www.steynonline.com/15899/the-best-of-eva

    Tell your friends not to watch it too!

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  12. StewGreen says:

    Mohammed Hijab bankrupt after accusing someone of libel

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  13. StewGreen says:

    @BenedictSpence tweets
    If you’re upset about Trump’s treatment of British soldiers, wait until you hear how the British government treats them.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Former human rights lawyer Phil Shiner has pleaded guilty to three counts of fraud, linked to claims made against British Iraq War veterans.

      Shiner, 67, appeared at Southwark Crown Court on Monday where he entered the guilty pleas, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.

      The former boss of Public Interest Lawyers was struck off by the Solicitors Regulation Authority in 2017 for pursuing false torture and murder allegations against British troops.”

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    • Guest Who says:

      It seems Booger Brown and Dodderer have decided the Our Boys bandwagon is a safe one, missing that those they join in upset at Trump’s words are in one bubble and outside are all the rest of the country all too aware that what is going on and being doneis flying in the face of their opportunistic, patronising, insincere claims.

      Trump came out with a daft one, especially in an era when all he says will be pounced upon as others, dafter, more venal, get a pass. It does not matter it was re spun out of an interview for a domestic audience about the besuited oafs who send out soldiers, serious damage done. At least in blob world. But given anyone sane knows how messed up it is, the more they act like a Minnesota gay mom on speed in a Tik Tok tirade, they simply self harm.

      The problem is the droids programmed to ignore reason, and ready and deranged enough to get more so.

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  14. vlad says:

    Is the BBC reporting on the industrial-scale Somali fraud in America? Not on their website, anyway.

    That would spoil their narrative that they’re all hard-working, honest doctors and engineers. Instead of the violent gangsters they really are.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked to the UK as a child
      Published 16 July 2022
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62123886
      His father, Abdi, was killed by stray gunfire when Sir Mo was four years old, in civil violence in Somalia. Somaliland declared independence in 1991 but is not internationally recognised.

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  15. AsISeeIt says:

    The Saturday iteration of the junior poundshop (plus inflation) Guardian that is i weekend (£2) reverts to its relentlessly Feminist editorial priors…

    We have too many men on Countdown – complains Susie Dent as we’re presented her exemplary Mary Sue story arc: The Queen of Words on swearing, self-doubt and finally getting her own game show

    Secret Genius Preview (Channel 4)… will see Alan Carr and Susie Dent test Britain’s brainpower like never before as they seek to uncover the country’s most gifted and unsung minds… in hairdressers, factories and supermarkets – who are smarter than the nation’s top boffins but never knew it… immersive and ambitious challenges that will test all aspects of their brain power (TV Zone UK.com)

    I’m guessing Channel 4 will cook up for us some Diversity galore cross between The Crystal Maze, The Krypton Factor and Mastermind – David Lammy to be lined up for an appearance on the Christmas celebrity edition?

    Diversity porno for the Feminist classes?

    …too many men on Countdown – so can we expect lots of girl on girl – mental – mud wrestling as a counter weight on this new show?

    One has to toss in the odd segueway, where appropriate…

    How TV turned into soft porn (Telegraph)

    But we digress… and there’s still more men to mock in the i weekend: Dad DIY disasters… I lost my teeth and destroyed my home

    To borrow from that old Marks & Spencer ad: “This is not just DIY disasters… this is Men DIY disasters”

    DEI disasters, anyone? That’s my pitch for a new comic gameshow.

    You have to smile… I’m still laughing (wryly) at BBC 2’s classic Muslim Driving School – there’s one for the teenagers – that really was a thing, kids! “An insight into the world of British Muslim women learner drivers and their instructors, exploring the women’s lives, family, religion and culture, and the freedom and status that driving can confer.”

    Meanwhile, the nasty misogynist tabloid Sun is still banging on about Victoria Beckham embarrassing the kids with “Mum Dancing”: Nic’s ultimatum after Posh dance

    I suppose one has to confront the BBC-approved top headline story (with emphasis on the word story): Insult to fallen Brit heroes (Mirror)

    Of course it’s another maligne splicing of a longer rather rambling Trump statement – predictable of those who will forever wish to conflate Britain with the EU.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Im guessing ‘Muslim driving school ‘ involves the same person turning up for the test and passing each week with a different name but the same examiner – mr Mohammed ….

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  16. non-licence payer says:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3r1zxgq0j7o

    Had the UK had an effective news gathering organisation either this would not have happened or, had it happened, Guilford would have been sacked.

    The bBC are the biggest threat to what is left of democracy in the UK.

    (As it is there is yet another public fat cat enjoying a well financed early retirement.)

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I’ve referred to plod as the ‘religious police ‘ on this site in the past – but if senior plod management selection boards includes Muslim ‘community ‘ representatives my flippancy has truth in it innit ?

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      • digg says:

        You can bet your boots there won’t be any Christian community representatives onboard.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        Fed, the Ronnie Barker Society for the Pismronunciiation of Wurdz has a complaint about the BBC.

        I am now become used to ‘deckaids’, such as sunloungers and quoits, instead of deecades as BBC presenters routinely say ‘deckaids’ as well as contributors to BBC R4 programmes. I have heard recently heard BBC presenters say on air ‘Maccarbi’ when the word should be pronounced Mackabee with emphasis on the last syllable. The BBC have something like a 100 strong Pronunciation Unit. I propose closing that down or reducing the staffing, funded by BBC waste of the TellyTax, to around 10 individuals who will concentrate on foreign words such as Ukrainian city names or other foreign names.

        There is a saving to be made by the next D-G that may be used to to reduce the amount of the TellyTax. Another example of BBC waste!

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        • Scroblene says:

          And also ad agencies, who seem to think that the chemist ‘Boots’, is ‘Beats’ for some reason…

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “West Midlands Police has admitted it “overstated the evidence” used to make the decision to ban Israeli fans from a match in
      Birmingham.”
      “overstated the evidence”

      1400 raped kids as police “”understated the evidence”????

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  17. Scroblene says:

    It seemed clear that Labour had no ideas on what to do when the red-Tories had trashed the UK, and they still piffle about these accusations, but isn’t there something much nastier than running a country into the ground…

    The recent announcements of denying council elections for the most paltry of excuses (not enough time – waaaaaaaaahhh), when this was one of their biggest plans kept secret until now.

    Invite even more illegals and pay for them to do absolutely nothing except use up our own resources…

    Add the utter incompetence of an economically illiterate ‘Chancer’, poking a finger with the sort of UK citzens who want a democratic sysyem of government, and pay their way, then tax them to the hilt; destroy public places for local entertainment like pubs and cafes, take away all the benefits of car ownership, tax fuels to the limit and the fiscal impediments are in place!

    Then add the manic clown Milliband’s satanic ideals, and you have the three or four basic premises for destroying British culture,, which the far-left scramble for!

    Finally, a whimpering, pathetic civil service ‘broadcasting’ bunch of more lefties in the Langham Gulag are on tap to shriek at the British with their inane far-left bombast and there’s not much that can be done to save us all, except wait for Reform – and hopefully like-minded normal politicians, (not too many Tories thank you), and suck it up…

    So they did have plans…

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  18. atlas_shrugged says:

    Maybe the Rail Network needs to be thought of as Criminal Racketeering:

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-migrant-crime-wave-thats-off-the-rails/

    “foreign nationals accounted for nearly 38 per cent of all arrests on Britain’s railways last year in spite of making up only 10 per cent of the population”.

    “Almost 80 per cent of arrests for theft of passenger property involved foreign nationals.”

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    • Kinell says:

      I work for a TOC and they had an app where conductors could report fare evasion and crime among other things. There were many ic3 reports but they were told to stop saying that as they hadn’t been trained in IC terminology. So they started reporting black male, black female.
      The app was discontinued.

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  19. Althepalerp says:

    As of early 2026, Andy Burnham’s salary as the Mayor of Greater Manchester is approximately £114,000 per annum, a figure in line with reported allowances for the role. Upon taking office in 2017, he originally set his salary at £110,000, pledging a portion to a homelessness fund.
    Key details regarding Andy Burnham’s salary:
    Current Salary: The salary is reported as £114,000, according to City Mayors and Wikipedia.
    Initial Salary: In 2017, the salary was set at £110,000.
    Donation Pledge: Upon election in 2017, Burnham pledged 15% of his salary to a fund tackling homelessness in Greater Manchester.
    Term: Burnham has served as the Mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017, winning re-election in 2021 and 2024.

    Is he still giving 15% of his salary to the homeless? Will he continue if he gets an MPs salary? How will they manage without?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Andy Burnham’s expenses, particularly during his time as an MP (2001–2017), included renovations for a London flat, a rejected £19.99 Ikea bathrobe claim, and various office costs. While facing scrutiny over £16,644 in renovation costs in 2009, he maintained he was within rules and had under-claimed in other areas. “

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  20. Fedup2 says:

    From our own correspondent

    An unintentional funny piece from bongo bongo land – sorry – Uganda – about the election . Apparently the opposition says it’s fixed ….
    See the humour ? Uganda has elections – britistan – not so much ……
    I believe – now – if there is a general election – Marxist civil servants / ‘returning officers ‘ – plod – will fix a lot of seats – with reform votes hitting the bin – Obama / Biden style …

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  21. StewGreen says:

    Dale Vince the green subsidy guy has just liquidated Ecojet his magic green airline.
    There is a pattern : hype up a business .. tout for big “green” subsidies , and if none come, close it down
    … and do it all gain.
    Founded in 2021, Vince came in in 2023 recruited the workers
    Then a year ago fired them all, now he’s just liquidated the corp.
    It intended to operate the aircraft on sustainable aviation fuel before converting them to run on zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell powertrains.
    Article https://www.flightglobal.com/air-transport/liquidation-looms-for-ecojet-as-green-airline-fails-to-get-off-the-ground

    Dale had put in £1m
    The plan was to raise £20m , but they din’t , so closed instead
    Dale of course could have put in the whole £20m from his small change if he wanted.

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  22. Fedup2 says:

    How do you sell a book ?

    Answer – you write one claiming Shakespeare was a black Jewish woman …. It’s a story in the Telegraph – which I didn’t read because I saw the words ‘feminist author’ – enough ….

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    It is not about reflecting and enjoying and building on top of success- it’s about destruction and replacement…… simple…..

    Manchester students deface poem by ‘racist’ Kipling
    Published 19 July 2018 comments 1261 Comments
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-44884913

    ^^ Now throw paint over racist Ghandi statue?


    “But student leaders erased the work, replacing it with a piece by Maya Angelou in a bid to reverse “black and brown voices” being written out of history.”

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  24. MarkyMark says:

    Greenland for Greenlanders
    ** currently owned by Danish, not Greenlanders.

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  25. MarkyMark says:

    The replacement is completed. 100% diversity!

    “Murders and mojitos. Fresh off the plane, a British detective joins the police force on the luscious Caribbean island of Saint Marie.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b01pvmf6/death-in-paradise?seriesId=b01pvmf6-structural-1-b016mw91

    …………

    Nearly a third of kids can’t use books when starting school – and try to swipe them like phones
    Staff also report around 28% of children started school unable to eat and drink independently, and 25% had difficulty with basic life skills.

    Thursday 22 January 2026 03:34, UK
    https://news.sky.com/story/nearly-a-third-of-kids-cant-use-books-when-starting-school-and-try-to-swipe-them-like-phones-13497398

    Almost a third of children who started reception last year were not able to use books correctly, sometimes even trying to swipe or tap them like a smartphone, a survey has found.

    Around one in four were not toilet trained, amid warnings more children are struggling with basic life skills.

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  26. MarkyMark says:

    Comment “Two faced two tier Kier”
    Comment “Return to sender!”
    Comment “When Starmer says greenland belongs to greenlanderz,so that means England
    belings to the Engl7sh”
    Comment “Who does the chagos islands belong to ststmergeddon”
    Comment “Your former deputy Ange is supporting Andy Burnham. So are you going to firmly block Burnham’s passage?”
    Comment “You flooded us with Muslims and declared Islam a religion of peace. Thats far more insulting to our veterans than anything Trump could say. Go away and take your migrants with you.”

    Keir Starmer Unpacked: Delivering for British people

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  27. Richard Pinder says:

    The European Commission (EC) has unveiled a new anti-white strategy, declaring its ambition to build a Europe free from whites. The strategy, announced on Jan. 20, sets out to combat whiteness in all its forms by strengthening enforcement of existing anti-white discrimination laws; addressing merit barriers in education, employment, health care, and housing; and building anti-white partnerships at every level of society. The plan adopts an “intersectional approach” to anti-whiteness, a framework that views discrimination as the product of overlapping ‘political racism’ or ‘identity politics’ categories and structural power relations between the people and the European elite.

    Hadja Lahbib, the Muslim EC Commissioner for imposing anti-white racism, will ban free speech for white people, provide comprehensive brainwashing programs to help civil servants impose anti-white racial bias against themselves, while fostering a greater appreciation of racist identity politics, satanic socialism, islam or any other anti-semitic, anti-white, anti-popular, non-Christian culture. She also wants all European educators to promote anti-white ideology in teacher training and professional development, as well as promoting anti-white ideology within the teaching profession itself. She also wants the EU to comply with Islamic ideology by banning popular political parties that do not support mass immigration, cultural marxism or anti-christian, anti-white liberal-socialist ideology.

    The European Commission (EC) phrase “Europe Free From Whites” is associated with critical race theory, which is linked to Marxist ideology. It defines class struggle as being between the “poor white european taxpayer” and the “marxist rich white elite & their black servants”, much as Marxism reduced human history to a struggle between the “bourgeoisie” and the “proletariat.” Its now between the right-wing taxpayer and the left-wing rich elite: https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/eu-unveils-major-bloc-wide-anti-racism-strategy-5974235

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Responsibilities
      Equality
      Hadja Lahbib is the Commissioner for Equality. In this role, she is responsible for promoting equality and inclusion and upholding the rights of minorities with the aim of creating a fairer society and social model for everyone.

      To this end, she is in charge of:

      developing a Roadmap for Women’s Rights for International Women’s Day 2025, setting out the key gender equality policy principles for the years ahead. This, in turn, will frame the work for a new Gender Equality Strategy.
      leading the work on sexual and reproductive health issues
      proposing a renewed LGBTIQ Equality Strategy for post-2025, which will focus on the continued and persisting hate-motivated harassment and violence, including online, and banning the practice of conversion therapy.
      presenting a new Anti-Racism Strategy
      spearheading the implementation of the EU Strategic Framework for Roma equality, inclusion and participation, as well as the full implementation of the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, respectively

      https://commission.europa.eu/about/organisation/college-commissioners/hadja-lahbib_en

      https://commission.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_full_width_banner_4_1/public/2024-11/Hadja-Lahbib-banner.jpg.webp?h=1b19871c&itok=88P383P2

      ……..

      Hadja Lahbib was born on 21 June 1970 in Boussu, near the city of Mons, to a Francophone family of Algerian Kabyles.[2][1] Her parents are practicing Muslims, but she says she is more attracted to Buddhism.[3]
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadja_Lahbib

      In June 2023, Lahbib won a vote of no confidence in parliament after granting visas to delegations from Iranian and Russian cities, including the mayor of Tehran (known as the “butcher of Tehran”),[disputed (for: Conflict with page for Ebrahim Raisi, the most recent president of Iran, which can be piped to use “butcher of Tehran.”) – discuss][24] to attend a mayors’ convention in Brussels earlier that month. Her MR party had threatened to leave the government if she were forced to resign, which would have led the government to collapse.[25]

      In November 2022, she met with the Qatari labor minister Ali bin Samikh Al Marri, who is accused of corruption, to discuss human rights, women’s rights, and LGBTQ rights in Qatar.[26][27][28][29]

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  28. MarkyMark says:

    NHS 2026

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  29. Dover Sentry says:

    Not mentioned by our BBC –

    Trump has donated to charity his approximately $400,000 annual presidential salary, which with benefits totals around $550,000, continuing his practice from his first term.

    During his first term, Trump donated nearly $1.4 million of his $1.6 million salary to various federal agencies, including the National Park Service, Department of Education, and efforts to combat COVID-19.

    https://republicanpress.org/trump-keeps-promise-donates-full-presidential-earnings-once-more/

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  30. Dover Sentry says:

    Not mentioned by our BBC –

    Greenland for Greenlanders!

    Britain for….

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  31. MarkyMark says:

    Buy more trinkets…. give Barry Gardiner 500K more … build an embassy … let UK pilots train the enemy ….

    “National security trial for HK’s Tiananmen activists begins”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwnn5wx5vgo
    Three activists who organised annual vigils to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown have gone on trial in Hong Kong, facing charges under the city’s controversial national security law.

    ……..

    Pillar of Shame: Hong Kong’s Tiananmen Square statue removed
    Published 23 December 2021
    It was one of the few remaining public memorials in Hong Kong commemorating the incident. Its removal comes as Beijing has increasingly been cracking down on political dissent in Hong Kong.

    Beijing also introduced a strict national security law last year that criminalises secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces. Activists say the law is being used to suppress civil society, jail democracy campaigners and curb basic freedoms.
    ………

    Asked about her case in Parliament, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said sentencing was “a matter for the courts” and that while he was “strongly in favour of free speech”, he was “equally against incitement to violence”. Rupert Lowe, the independent MP for Great Yarmouth, said the situation was “morally repugnant”, external and added: “This is not the Britain I want to live in.” Others said her supporters wanted a “right to be racist”.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3nn60wyr6o

    …………..

    Councillor cleared of encouraging violent behaviour
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjeykklwn7vo
    A Labour councillor who called for far-right activists’ throats to be cut

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  32. Richard Pinder says:

    An 80 Minute Film, soon to be banned in Britain, so watch now:

    “When governments and corporations unite under the banner of ‘public health’, humanity itself becomes the experiment in which people are sacrificed like guinea pigs for the claimed ‘greater good’.” Vera Sharav, Child Holocaust Survivor.

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  33. digg says:

    Labour Councillor calling for right-wing activists to have their throats cut investigated then gets off Scot free…

    Lucy Connolly, banged up for 30 months for? … need I say more?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjeykklwn7vo

    See if you can figure out why that should be!

    Maybe a top notch legal like 2TK can explain?

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  34. StewGreen says:

    “I’m a secondary teacher in England. I’ve messed up and taught CHESS for 3 lessons and everyone seemed to get into it. …I’ve got 6 parents angrily complaining to the Headmaster/Headmistress .. formal disciplinary meeting coming up”

    Ans : “If these children think chess is haram, it’s their responsibility to abstain.
    I think chess in a British school is completely ordinary ..”
    https://www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/1qhlg6s/im_a_secondary_teacher_in_england_ive_messed_up/

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    • MarkyMark says:

      ” I didn’t know was that chess is forbidden for about a 1/3 of my class” …. marrying a 6 year old and waiting to consummate it aged 9 is not forbidden…. maybe practice beheading?

      … find this USA Army Muslim Chaplin,Khallid Shabazz on youtube …
      “The Koran says don’t let the hatred of a people move you to deal with people unjustly. The Prophet Mohammed beheaded people who were extremely unjust to him. {youtube mar2015}”
      – Army Lt. Col. Khallid Shabazz, March 2015

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  35. Richard Pinder says:

    ChatGPT: Are the Clintons trying to claim asylum in China?

    ChatGPT says: No — there is absolutely no credible evidence that Bill and Hillary Clinton are trying to claim asylum in China. However, the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has voted to hold former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with subpoenas and testify in-person in an inquiry into the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

       6 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      “The Clinton Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization led by President Bill Clinton, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton. Since 2001, the Foundation has helped transform philanthropy through programs that develop leaders and accelerate solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. We have received high ratings from leading charity evaluators and are accredited by the Better Business Bureau.”

      https://www.clintonfoundation.org/facts/

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      While the Clinton Foundation has long been the target of coordinated misinformation campaigns aimed at undermining trust in our work, and in the philanthropic sector at large, the facts tell a different story. We invite you to explore them for yourself below.

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  36. vlad says:

    I am shocked and disgusted by David Wood’s depravity.

    First he wrapped pages of the Most Holy Quran in bacon and baked them. After tasting one (very tasty apparently) he then fed them to his dog and 2 days later collected the excrement. I shudder to think what he’s going to do with it.

    Now he’s placed pages of the Quran and a likeness of the Prophet Moohammud, Peace Be Upon Him, in a jar of his own urine.

    Is there no end to this man’s degeneracy?

    Why, you may ask? It’s a long story but the short version is that Wood warned some online Dawah guys (muslim proselytizers) to stop Doxing his friends and family. Doxing means revealing addresses and other personal details online. It’s highly dangerous in this case, as many of Wood’s friends and family have received death threats from the Religionists of Peaceful Murder, so doxing them is an open invitation to murder, to any wannabe Jihadis (and a hell of a lot of them do wannabe).

    Despite his warnings, they continued doxing, insulting and threatening, so this is his promised retaliation. (It also refers back to some obscure islamic writings too long and boring to go into.)

    In our fair land of Albion, Wood would be banged up by now. America still has a modicum of free speech.

    People have been murdered for far less. How long David will survive is anyone’s guess.

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  37. harry142857 says:

    Wasn’t it HG Wells that wrote ‘ Things to Come’.

       3 likes

    • Scroblene says:

      Good one Harry!

      All I remember about ‘The war of the worlds’ was a picture of some robot on spindly legs, shaking and wobbling, and uttering gibberish…

      Orville – it’s you, innit!

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  38. StewGreen says:

    Friday BBC local news : Lincolnshire County Council led by Reform say
    “don’t blame us for Lincolnshire’s green fields being ruined by fake-green biz like solar and wind
    cos the government has changed the law to push through such projects when we object”

    Surprised that the Reform local leader was allowed to put his case live
    the presenter strongly pushedthe government line
    then grimaced at the rebuttals the Rform guy gave.
    ..eg “The wind farm have been there 15 years , yet still subsidised and my bills have tripled
    of course we should get our on oil instead of importing it from Norway and the US”

       13 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Other item was PR for the Environmental Agency”
      ..”Oh look aren’t the EA cool they have installed flood warning systems”

      FFS they should have done that 20 years ago.

      At the end the presenter read the replies from the anti-Trump outrage bus that the MSM created from a few seconds of Trumps interview to Fox News Business.

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  39. Fedup2 says:

    I stand can’t figure out the chagos islands thing . The only thing that would make it logical would be if TTK / Hermer are china / Russia agents . Certainly TTK went to the USSR summer school when he was a ‘youth’ so the KGB will have tapes of his nocturnal activities with comrades – Presumably Hermer is driven by money – always the main angle for lawyers …
    But the 1966 treaty – stopping the UK from selling without consent of the US – suddenly turning up now ? WTF ….

    I only care because anything that can be used to destroy TtK / Hermer is a good thing …

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  40. StewGreen says:

    The Catholic Herald journo Samantha Smith has put up video montage mocking the BBC ..got 7,600 Likes

    “Black people built Britain”
    According to CBBC.
    .. https://x.com/SamanthaTaghoy/status/2015021398452740128

       7 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Her other tweet has 14,000 LIkes
      So, the Met Police have cancelled a Walk With Jesus event in London to “avoid intimidating Muslims”.
      Meanwhile, this is what Muslims are doing everyday on the streets of London:
      (video montage of street taken over by praying Muslims)

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  41. Fedup2 says:

    Now that Andrew – Liverpool pathway – Burnham has announced his candidacy to be PM in waiting – surely TTK will suspend the gorton bi election using the same reasons all the other elections …. Another one won’t matter ….

       8 likes

    • Scroblene says:

      Can’t Orville tell the NEC that MacSara can’t be chosen as the failed labour candidate in Manchesterford, because he’s not a foreigner?

      Not doing very well, is Orville…

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  42. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/mwendling/status/2015129914651934844?s=61
    The US government is in deep trouble, as videos circulating appear to show ICE agents beating and killing a man – after disarming him.
    Will there be an investigation?
    If not there will be more trouble in Minneapolis.

    Wendy no longer the BBC’s US man at Verify?

    Raking in the audience there. Bet Strumpet and Larry are jelly.

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  43. StewGreen says:

    @SadiqKhan tweets
    “It’s time to reset the immigration debate.”

    FFS that’s mega-gaslighting ccos as usual Sadiq hides from debate by keeping replies turned off

       11 likes

    • Guest Who says:

      It went… poorly… as it’s hard to debate when censored gets pointed out.

      Frankly I doubt half the time these bozos know what goes out supposedly from them.

         6 likes

    • vlad says:

      It’s time we kicked out Sadiq and sent him back to whatever hellhole in Pakistan his parents came from.

         3 likes

  44. StewGreen says:

    Have the media reported Trump’s post made this afternoon ?

    @realDonaldTrump – Truth Social Post )
    ( Donald J. Trump – Jan 24 2026, 11:49 AM ET )

    The GREAT and very BRAVE soldiers of the United Kingdom will always be with the United States of America!
    In Afghanistan, 457 died, many were badly injured, and they were among the greatest of all warriors.
    It’s a bond too strong to ever be broken.
    The U.K. Military, with tremendous Heart and Soul, is second to none (except for the U.S.A.!).
    We love you all, and always will! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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       10 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      That post would be 4:49pm UK time

         7 likes

      • StewGreen says:

        Spinwords used to frame the news
        4:51pm “partially walks back” .. @BarakRavid CNN guy
        4:56pm “back track” … Harry Cole (the Sun)

        4:55pm Fox News guy ..no spin .. he just tweeted the full text
        5:06pm Ben Leo of GBnews ..no spin .. he just tweeted the full text

        5:45pm ITV news “after previously drawing criticism for his claims Nato troops stayed away from the front lines”

        Large Independents
        “has paid tribute to ” 5:26pm @TheNorfolkLion
        “tipped his hat to”5:46pm @standunited “Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Keir!”

           8 likes

        • StewGreen says:

          BBCnews took more than 3 hours to tweet
          and used the trick of using an unflattering photo

             7 likes

          • StewGreen says:

            5:07pm “after row over Afghanistan remarks” : SkyNews
            5:08pm @BethRigby “avalanche of criticism” “frankly appalling’ “No apology here”

            5:23pm @RupertLowe10
            “A very honourable statement” 20,000 Likes

               4 likes

  45. vlad says:

    We haven’t heard much about Marion Maréchal (Le Pen) of late, but apparently she’s alive and kicking!
    In this case, kicking the EU !
    I wonder if the BBC will invite her onto one of their plush sofas to have a little chat and share her thoughts? They’re all for diversity of opinions, aren’t they?

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  46. MarkyMark says:

    2019 … FOR ISLAM, FOR GENDER STUDIES, FOR TOLERANCE OF THE INTOLERANT, TO JOIN A CLUB AND BE UNABLE TO LEAVE, FOR MEN TO WALK INTO A LADIES TOILET DRESSED AS WOMEN! FOR PEACE! FOR PROGRESS! FOR 86 IRANIANS TO APPEAR ON OUR SHORE ESCAPING EU27!
    CHARGE ……

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  47. MarkyMark says:

    “BBC Question Time on 9/11”
    Gallowayist

       3 likes

  48. StewGreen says:

    “3621 soldiers died in Afghanistan,
    2461 were US
    457 were British,
    80% of ALL solders killed came from 2 of the 32 NATO countries? ”

    just now GBnews presenters Alex Armstrong parroted the nudge unit false line
    “President Trump ROWS BACK on his comments about British troops”
    ..em Trump had not previously commented about British troops

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Number of foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan
      Country Deaths Population
      (millions)[a] Deaths
      per million
      USA 2461* 309 7.96
      UK 457 63 7.25
      Canada 159* 34 4.68
      France 90 63 1.43
      Germany 62 82 0.76
      Italy 53 60 0.88
      Poland 44[7] 38 1.16
      Denmark 44 5.5 8.00
      Australia 41 22 1.86
      Spain 35* 46 0.76
      Georgia 32 3.8[8] 8.42
      Romania 27 21.3 1.27
      Netherlands 25 16.6 1.51
      Turkey 15 73.7 0.20
      Czech Republic 14 10.5 1.33
      New Zealand 10 4.4 2.27
      Norway 10 4.9 2.04
      Estonia 9 1.3 6.92
      Hungary 7 10 0.70
      Sweden 5 9.4 0.53
      Latvia 4 2.2 1.82
      Slovakia 3 5.4 0.56
      Finland 2 5.4 0.37
      Jordan 2 6.1 0.33
      Portugal 2 10.6 0.19
      South Korea 2 49.5 0.04
      Albania 2 2.8 0.71
      Belgium 1 11 0.09
      Bulgaria 1 7.5 0.13
      Croatia 1 4.4 0.23
      Lithuania 1 3.2 0.31
      Montenegro 1 0.62 1.61
      Total 3621

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_casualties_in_Afghanistan

      ………..
      Taliban and China firm agree Afghanistan oil extraction deal
      Published 6 January 2023
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64183083
      The 25-year deal underscores China’s economic involvement in the region. On Thursday Taliban officials said security forces had targeted Islamic State group militants who attacked a hotel used by Chinese businessmen.
      …………..

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  49. StewGreen says:

    Statement issued on Truth Social by President Donald J. Trump following today’s shooting of a 37-year-old male by agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
    https://x.com/sentdefender/status/2015143195798081650

       1 likes

  50. StewGreen says:

    Very stable wise man @terrychristian tweeted 7:04pm
    Trump backing off over British troops being killed
    because he wants to use UK as a trojan horse for his spread of fascism to Europe
    to make us all serfs to his Billionaire Broligarchy .
    But don’t forget what he really thinks and how he spat on their graves .

    screenshot of Terry Christian saying the British Army are inferior
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