Midweek 28th January 2026

The BBC will report the triumphant visit of Starmer to the PR China as the dump some wet ‘trade deal ‘ on him . He ll be getting tips on repressing his enemies too ….

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  1. JonathanR says:

    I like Rupert Lowe and Ben Habib I agree with a lot of what they say. But if their aim is to stop Reform winning then they are making a big mistake. By doing so they will not gain a thing except maybe depriving Farage from becoming PM. I wonder if they will be happy to let the communists in again because that is what will happen.

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  2. StewGreen says:

    FFS hyperbolic YouTube advert just reached a new low
    It resembles pornography as it uses a strategically placed mirror to show a completely naked backside of the woman
    as it she is wearing a small cooking apron with no underwear or least a tiny bikini

    The audio is the now common ridiculous hyperbole. but sexualised
    as it appears to be an advert for an erectile drug
    Claims like it is so hard and such a duration it could be harmful to women.
    Strangely the firm is named as AfterTimeRentals dot com

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  3. JonathanR says:

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    • JohnC says:

      This claim by Starmer about getting China to help stopping the engines for all the small boats is just as ludicrous as the ‘one-in, one-out, one-in-again’ farce.

      China make them by the million. You can buy a complete 7HP Honda G200 clone here in Thailand for £50 and it works absolutely perfectly. The equivalent is about £200 in England.

      And it’s not so long ago they make it illegal for English companies to supply engines. I made a comment at the time : it was a nonsense law. None of the smugglers would pay English prices.

      But the real issue here is how Starmer makes these stupid rules to pretend he is trying to stop the boats and the BBC go right along with it giving it full credit and never using their huge ‘verify’ team to expose it is complete lies.

      I blame Farage : the BBC are so desperate to stop him winning the next election, they will sink as low into the gutter as they need to. They have no morales or ethics to prevent them doing it. Only blind Leftist hate.

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      • tomo says:

        Nonsense Law is what Starmer, Hermer et al specialise in.

        That – and pillaging public funds and assets

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      • digg says:

        Additionally do they think the people smugglers are stupid enough to announce this to the Chinese when they buy the engines? They would be sourcing them through a sophisticated supply chain to cover their eventual use and knowing the Chinese attitude towards profit it’s laughable that a word from TTK would convince them to lose sales for the sake of the UK!

        Starmer does nothing but gaslight the public in this country, posing in camo etc. etc.

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  4. JohnC says:

    ‘I can breathe again’ says Israeli hostage held for nearly 500 days in Gaza
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8rm20gm364o

    Everything you need to know about Gaza tucked away at the bottom of a ‘good news’ BBC article. And only reported because someone said it in an interview.

    We learn:

    ‘As the attackers tried to take Troufanov off the kibbutz he managed to momentarily escape but when he gave up running they still shot him twice in each leg.’
    “I just felt the rush of pain going through my brain and I fell to the ground then one of the terrorists hit me with the rifle from the back of my head and split it open.”

    And then the shaft of light. The moment of truth. The simple words which tell you everything:

    ‘When he arrived to Gaza, he says he was then beaten by civilians and thought “this is the moment you’re going to die”‘

    Well done IDF. What a shame the Leftist scum in the West stopped you finishing the job and eradicating Hamas completely.

    Always remember those civilians are the ones the BBC (and the UN) protected and completely misrepresented because of their own ideology and racist hate. They didn’t give a shit what Hamas did.

    I will never trust another word they tell me.

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  5. vlad says:

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  6. JohnC says:

    ‘Why can’t women have experience?’ New Bridgerton series tackles sex taboo
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9g1119q2o

    This utter garbage is what the BBC call ‘culture’.

    I won’t bore you with the typical Leftist misandry and feminist double-standards it is packed with, I will just show you two things the racist and sexist BBC have done to it to make it fit their pathetic ideology:

    First this:
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    ‘Francesca married John Stirling, the Earl of Kilmartin, in season three’

    And second:
    ‘Bridgerton writer Julia Quinn said last year that while she didn’t write Francesca as a neurodivergent character, she was thrilled some autistic fans of the show could relate to the newly-married sister’

    The BBC simply cannot allow any program to be just entertainment any more. They try to use everything as a vehicle for their own ideology.

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    • AsISeeIt says:

      Tickbox diversity must end, BBC is warned… review commissioned by the corporation has warned… so keen to include ethnic minorities… “shoe-horned” into inappropriate settings… diversity being “superimposed” (Telegraph)

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Has the BBC moved from news to social engineering …. YES.
        “By 2020, the BBC wants its employees to comprise 50% women, 8% disabled people, 8% lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people and 15% people from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds.{bbc.co.uk 14sep2017}”

        Has the BBC let journalist break their guidelines …. YES.
        “Gary ‘£1.75m’ Lineker uses his twitter account to say Brexit is bad, EU is good. But not once has he confronted Jacob Rees-Mogg or Nigel Farage to talk about it. It is a one sided echo chamber.”

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  7. AsISeeIt says:

    Humpty Dumpty in Lewis Carroll’s 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass declares: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean”

    And that tends to be the case with the modern journo…

    Transgender women can continue to use Hampstead Heath’s ladies pond after a High Court challenge was thrown out (Telegraph)

    ‘Ladies’ – What an archaic unreconstructed word – I thought we were supposed to use the term ‘women’ these days. I jest of course. My beef would be with the mildly conservative broadsheet’s nod to the woke with their employment of the construction ‘Transgender women’

    To compound the problem Telegraph headline writers tend to ape the Guardian/BBC style book with the contraction ‘Trans’: Trans bathers allowed to to use ladies’ ponds

    I’m inevitably put in mind of the disgraced David Walliams drag character Emily and her chatchphase exclaimation “I’m a lady!” – do I mean Walliams or his drag character – or both – are now disgraced (cancelled?) ? Now I’m confused.

    Oh for the days when ponds were reserved for frogs and frogspawn.

    Our distinguished bewigged legal eagle Judges of the High Court are busy ruling on who can take a dip in Hampstead Heath pond? Must be a shortage of crime these days.

    Well, that’s what the official stats want to tell us: Homicides at record low… manslaughters, murders and infanticides… down 7 per cent (FT)

    Of course if you read on in the Telegraph report we eventually get clarification of their ‘Trangender women’ terminology with a definition worthy of the OED (there’s one for teenagers): trans women, who were born male but now identify as female – and further down the report at last we get some semblance of cultural conservatism: biological men – which really ought to have been the term employed in the headline.

    Next thing you know the High Court will be officially upholding a case brought by the gays that they can legally shag in the bushes on Hampstead Health. A privilege previously exclusive to the foxes and badgers.

    The Guardian we expect to play silly games with words. Note the added, almost poetic ye olde England touch ‘live on a hill’

    Sussex pair ‘handing app data to Iran regime’… live on a hill in a West Sussex seaside town… Shoreham-by-Sea (Guardian)

    Oh! I do like to be beside the seaside
    I do like to be beside the sea
    I do like to stroll along the Prom, Prom, Prom
    Where the… muezzin summons the faithful to prayer, shouted from the mosque’s minaret… “Allahu Akbar”

    Hadi and Mahdi Anjidani are the co-founders of TS Information Technology… registered at the address of a tax accountancy in Shoreham-by-Sea (Guardian)

    American social bookmarking news aggregator (whatever that’s supposed to mean) Digg Daily calls the Gruan’s Sussex pair more reasonably: A UK-based pair – and explains: The app, billed as an Iranian alternative to Telegram, is part of Iran’s domestic internet, a parallel network inside the country. Iranian digital rights experts claim Gap Messenger participates in the Iranian government’s internet control and suppression efforts.

    There’s quite a lot to unpack there – Firstly, I thought the Ayatollahs had ordered the internet closed down. Secondly… “Iranian digital rights experts” ?!

    If only we in Britain had more of those to stand up to our digitally online consorious regime… digital rights experts I mean, and not necessarily just those who are Iranian in nature.

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    Winter Fuel-Farmer’s Inheritance Tax+ Chagos-. Employer NI+1 in, 1 out = 20 in. Davos not Westminister 5 Ukrainian boys 31 months for deleted tweet 0 months for slit far right thugs throats Alaa Abd El Fattah IN with Kill the Police Eva Vlaardingerbroek OUT with Starmer enabled Rape Gangs. Elections cancelled. Leadership contest cancelled.

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  9. atlas_shrugged says:

    bBC Vilify need to clamp-down on the MSM phrase ‘one-in one-out’ due to misinformation.

    Should be called: ‘one-in one-out one-in’.

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  10. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/bbcrosatkins/status/2016852493997605099?s=61
    With my BBC Verify colleagues, we’ve made this video looking at how the shooting of Alex Pretti has led Trump to change course in Minneapolis.

    #ccbgb

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  11. MarkyMark says:

    “Starmer has taken on an obsequious tone and made the bizarre decision to bow to the CCP flag. The PM has also opened the door to a visit back home from Xi Jinping. Which might as well be a deliberate effort to push the US away…”
    order-order.com

    Meanwhile in the UK, we are supporting a terrorist regime …

    “The creators of a messaging app accused of handing user data to the Iranian regime live on a windswept hill in a British coastal town, the Guardian can reveal.

    Hadi and Mahdi Anjidani are the cofounders of TS Information Technology, established in 2010 and now registered at the address of a tax accountancy in Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex. It is the UK branch of an Iranian software corporation, Towse’e Saman Information Technology (TSIT).

    The company makes popular computer games, a payment platform capable of helping Iranians skirt sanctions, and Gap Messenger, a sleek purple messaging app billed as an Iranian alternative to Telegram.

    But while Gap’s public profile says the app is encrypted and does not share its data with third parties, Iranian digital rights experts say their investigations contradict those claims.”
    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/29/iran-app-gap-messenger-tsit-user-data-uk-sussex

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  12. Althepalerp says:

    So TTK goes to China

    A 5% reduction on Scotch import Tariffs, small beer. .

    The biggest announcement is the investment of $20B by AstraZeneca, creating new jobs and safe guarding another 20,000. IN CHINA !

    FFS

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “It followed criticism of the actions of Jingye, British Steel’s Chinese owner since 2020, by the business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds. Reynolds accused Jingye of not acting in good faith after it threatened to shut down British Steel’s furnaces at Scunthorpe within days, with the loss of 2,700 jobs.

      The government stepped in on Saturday to avoid the shutdowns with emergency legislation to take control of British Steel.”

      https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/16/china-embassy-uk-politicians-jingye-british-steel-blast-furnaces

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    • MarkyMark says:

      UK could sell China our HS2 technology to protect bats and 52 genders plus how to share toilets with trans-folk.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Al
      I like a challenge but trying to guess the next TTK disaster is a really hard job . If it ever becomes common knowledge that he acted against British Soldiers – free of charge – it might damage him even more if possible ….

      Sooner or later some one will go for him because he is so hated – even if he survives his approve rate will still tank – 77 brigade is on the case though … his protection teams must be real twitchy …

      He will turn up in the commons on Monday trumping his huge non achievement in china …. And anyone pointing out the failure is ‘doing Britain down …’ and he ‘will take no lessons blah blah ‘….

      I wonder if the real achievement was for Hermer to get a chambers office in china …?

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Free breakfast for all children in China ** paid by UK tax payer.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Not BBCOFCOM- but there’s a great interview with Jimmy Tarbuck in the DT – he has hit 85 and I think he has a book out .
        If you remember him and his act – you realise how far Britain has descended to a bitter – self aware – unpleasant place – complete with a state broadcaster closer to Marxism / Islam than anything else ….

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        • Scroblene says:

          Dear Jimmy…

          I always loved his one-liner about a lighthouse-keeper, who ran so fast up the stairs, he drilled his head in the roof…

          But humour was properly British back then, not foreign, unfunny leftie crap by pathetic squealing, foreign nobodies.

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  13. vlad says:

    Iran is showing the true face of Islam: totalitarian, fascistic, brutal, ruthless. And ordinary people hate it. Which is why the BBC daren’t cover the mass slaughter of tens of thousands of protestors. After all, it’s their favourite religion, and people protesting it are way off script! So instead, it’s “Oh look, Gaza”… “Oh look, Orange Man Bad”…

    The true face of Islam is also showing itself on a much smaller scale in America. David Wood is a Christian apologist who finds himself receiving death threats for daring to criticise the Religion of Peaceful Murder. 
    In retaliation he desecrated the Quran, which escalated the conflict. Vid below. He may not be around much longer. It only takes one nutter… and there are millions of them.

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  14. MarkyMark says:

    Keir Starmer: How my trip to China is delivering for people back home

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  15. digg says:

    Eee by gum , auntie Beeb about to off on another wackey trip as they prepare to inject more older northern males into their schedules…

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9312091kpeo

    As if that would fix the peurile biased shite they spew out!

    Changing a few actors on screen won’t do it, they need to go through the Marxist bunch behind the programs to have any real effect.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “We accept that challenge and we are committed to going further to meaningfully reflect the lives of the audiences we serve. INSHALLAH!” BBC

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  16. Flotsam says:

    Chinese deals, Smarmer shook hands with the Chinese and discovered he no longer had a watch,
    Seriously, the Chinese are probably the smartest and most devious business operators in the World, Smarmer doesn’t stand a chance. A good Western businessman would struggle, Smarmer is hopeless, we can be sure his ‘deals’ will turn out to be bad for Britain.

    I have to wonder at the wisdom of AstraZeneca making a huge investment in China. A British company? We have lost thousands of jobs, it says a lot about investing in Britain.

    Smarmer has negotiated a visa free travel deal for British Citizens to travel to China. The obvious corollary is Chinese citizens will probably be allowed to travel here visa free but that’s not being mentioned.

    In the meantime the whole third world seems to have visa free travel to Britain.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Rwanda want £100 million for losing the deal – no Tory will have their wages effected. Note that the Rwanda deal included an undisclosed number Rwandans to come to the UK – 1 out, 2 in maybe?

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    • harry142857 says:

      Starmer sold the Isle of Wight, but got five magic beans in return.

      Oh no, he didn’t ????

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  17. MarkyMark says:

    Amelia
    @AmeliajakSolana
    “1984 was supposed to be a warning, not a DIY manual for progressives”
    https://x.com/AmeliajakSolana/status/2016918480411324711

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  18. digg says:

    Anyone else notice how all the lefty protest banners have changed over the last few months?

    They used to have a semi-professional “printed” similarity suggesting they were produced at an organisational level whereas now they have morphed into an obvious attempt to make them appear homespun hand painted etc.

    The give away is that all the hand painting is in a common style meaning they are still being spewed out by a organised Marxist regime.

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  19. Deborah says:

    Just once I saw a clip of Starmer coming down the plane’s steps as he arrived in China. He looked like the cat that had eaten the cream. Just what have the Chinese given Starmer personally? Only musing, not knowledge before the thought police come after me.

    The only place I post is here. LinkedIn shows me who has looked at my profile. I only use LinkedIn to add distantly related people to my family tree.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Deborah
      I think his ‘gang ‘ would be more interesting to know – Hermer ? His mate Alli? Others happy to take a bung to support Chinese interests … I hope President Trump gets his revenge – double the tariffs on whisky !

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Even with jet lag – his demeanour was … poor …

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  20. pugnazious says:

    ‘In interviews with key BBC staff, when asked how they would determine who was missing or under-represented in content, they struggled to provide clear answers or offered responses that, in our view, were unconvincing. ‘

    Remarkable…The BBC being very shy about its own brilliance.

    A review, commissioned by the BBC, absolutely independent, gave it a glowing endorsement…apparently…

    ‘On Thursday, the corporation published the findings of an independent review across all BBC content, assessing how accurately and authentically it reflects groups and communities across the UK.’

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9312091kpeo

    The BBC’s main take from the review is that it must represent class and location better…ie more working class people and from areas other than London.

    Hmmm…no, the real problem is diversity of thought…the lack of….the BBC presenting views and opinions than do not match their own as unacceptable…extreme, maybe Far-Right or even Nazi-like….there is marked contempt and disdain for anyone with differing views on race, religion, climate or trans issues.

    And…independent? The two authors have either been long term BBC employees or work with the BBC more often than not….they are critical in fact but it is a carefully wroded balancing act it seems in trying not to be too critical….there maybe too much undeserved praise in places…. how much more critical would they have been if truly ‘independent’?

    Second…why does the BBC hide away such a glowing endorsement…whist other media report the review with prominence the BBC hides it away on the culture page…which few will look at.

    Why when the BBC is doing such a good job?…yes it may not represent the ‘classes’ properly but the real problem, the BBC reports, is there is ‘not enough diversity.

    It is notable that the BBC’s own report on the review concentrates almost solely on ‘class’ and barely mentions ‘race’…whereas other media highlight the fact that the report is critical of the BBC ‘shoehorning’ race into programmes.

    ‘The BBC must stop “tick box” diversity casting in its dramas, a review commissioned by the corporation has warned.

    The broadcaster is so keen to include ethnic minorities in its programmes that representation is being “shoe-horned” into inappropriate settings such as period dramas.’

    Maybe the review should look at how the BBC reports on itself…such as this review which apparently gave the BBC a fantastic write-up…..

    ‘They said the BBC “plays a central role in the UK’s cultural life, shaping our shared experience and reflecting the country to its audiences”, and it has made “significant progress in portraying and representing the UK across its content”.

    Their review highlights “areas for particular focus”, they added, saying they welcomed the BBC’s recent announcements “which align with these priorities”.

    The BBC is “much more inclusive and authentic” in the way it portrays UK communities now than “even a few years ago”, the review found.’

    The BBC is less than honest about the authors…

    ‘The review, commissioned by the BBC Board, was undertaken by former Bafta chair Anne Morrison and independent media consultant Chris Banatvala.’

    Anne Morrison…this Anne Morrison?….

    ‘Until 2014 she was Director of the BBC Academy, the BBC’s centre for training, which she launched in 2009.

    In her television career, having worked as a producer/director, she held senior management positions for 20 years at the BBC, and was responsible for hundreds of hours of factual television including many award-winning programmes. ‘

    And Chris Banatvala…

    ‘In the UK, he works with e.g. the BBC, Warner Bros. Discovery, Global Media & Entertainment. ‘

    Whilst the review is more critical than the BBC would like to admit there is a good serving of almost meaningless waffle which is open to whatever interpretation the reader would like to put on it…..

    ‘We encourage the BBC to elevate the debate above the concept of diversity and the arguments about culture wars, to one about how it represents the whole of the UK. This includes the diversity characteristics but goes way beyond them and directly plays into the BBC’s fourth Public Purpose.’

    It is quite a long review with 79 pages of dense ‘thought’ but it is, if read closely, quite critical of the BBC and far from the glowing review the BBC’s own report on it tries to present.

    Click to access thematic-review-of-portrayal-and-representation.pdf

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    • JohnC says:

      The BBC’s definition of ‘independent’. A review paid for by the BBC themselves.

      Anne Morrison

      ‘Anne has a distinguished career in documentaries and factual television programme making, having led BBC departments for more than 20 years and won BAFTA, RTS and Grierson Awards. She is Chair of Sheffield Documentary Festival and is currently co-authoring a review of the BBC’s portrayal and representation of UK communities at the request of the BBC Board. ‘

      Chris Banatvala
      ‘He is an independent member of the Sky News Board; Channel 4’s independent complaints reviewer; and advises the BBC and BBC Board on a number of issues.’

      Words fail me. The BBC are clearly getting extremely desperate to call in these two who are closely involved with the BBC to churn out such a report commissioned by the BBC themselves.

      ‘Farce’ doesn’t even come close. Imagine what a proper review which consulted a proper cross section of the public by people completely independent from the BBC would have come up with.

      Which of course is why they didn’t fund that one.

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  21. pugnazious says:

    You can guarantee the BBC will try to get Youtube viewers to pay the licence fee and a compliant Labour Party will rubberstamp it for its propaganda mouthpiece…quite an indepth interview on the licence fee from GBNews…

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    • JohnC says:

      I realised last month it was time to subscribe to a VPN.

      The socialist fascist Nazis are trying to rise again.

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  22. MarkyMark says:

    “I hope you never see the outside world, Rhiannon Whyte’s mother tells her killer at sentencing”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn0kpj99kegt
    Majek’s age confirmed
    published at 10:59
    10:59
    Ahead of sentencing, the judge Mr Justice Soole ordered an age assessment report, and it has now been confirmed he is aged over 21.

    It is because during the trial Majek claimed he was aged 19, but prosecutors said they believed him to be in his mid 20s.

    Prosecution barrister Michelle Heeley KC confirmed his age in court.
    …….
    NHS doctor (front of queue) and BBC TV License for free.
    Sentence halved for good behaviour.
    Sentence reduced to free up jails by Labour.
    Give BBC show to explain why his country is better than ours.

    ..

    Majek showed no emotion as the statement was relayed to him by an interpreter.

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  23. non-licence payer says:

    There is a very polite leader in the DT today addressed to the bBC. It makes the point that Starmer’s intervention in the aftermath of the Iraq war is relevant if you are to understand our PM, and draws relevance to his current trip to China.

    The bBC still have not commented. Next Wed I am sure that PMQ’s will focus on the issue. A bBC listener will not have a clue what the questions are about because they have been denied access to the facts by a marxist broadcaster where narrative is more important than facts.

    This is nail in the coffin time for the bBC.

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  24. Fedup2 says:

    Danny cohen on a rhetorical question – it the bbc anti semitic ?

    STARTS Since the October 7 massacre, I have been writing about the BBC’s failures to address anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias.

    The volume and range of these failures has been appalling, from the broadcast of violent and racist rhetoric live from the Glastonbury Festival to the primetime documentary narrated by the child of a Hamas official, and the platform given to Jew-haters on hundreds of occasions by BBC Arabic.

    BBC executives have repeatedly claimed that they take anti-Semitism seriously and are sensitive to the concerns of Britain’s Jewish community – a small minority who are facing an unprecedented crisis of prejudice, intimidation and violence.

    Yet despite their promises over more than two years, the utterly grim failures continue.

    This week, the BBC introduced coverage of Holocaust Memorial Day without reference to Jews. According to a presenter, it was six million “people” who were murdered in the Holocaust.

    As Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, said: “The Holocaust was the murder of six million Jewish men, women and children. Ignoring that the victims were Jews … is an abuse of the memory of the Holocaust and an insult to victims and survivors.”

    How did this happen at the BBC? Was it incompetence, a basic lack of education on the part of journalists? Or was it something more sinister – a deliberate editorial decision to erase the Jewish nature of the Holocaust and minimise Jewish suffering?

    We will never know for sure, but neither anti-Jewish malice nor professional incompetence reflects well on an organisation that claims to be both the gold standard of journalism and sensitively alert to Jewish concerns.

    This deeply offensive failure was not enough for one week at the BBC.

    The following day, the BBC made the specific choice to be the home to an exclusive premiere of a new song by Irish rap group Kneecap. The song included the lyrics “Netanyahu’s b—- in genocide armour”. This is the band, you will recall, that are accused of pro-Hamas and Hezbollah sympathies, and who allegedly called on their fans to “kill your local MP”.

    The song was introduced with great excitement by BBC DJ Jack Saunders. It was edited for this broadcast but on BBC Sounds the corporation promotes the song with a link to Spotify with unedited lyrics.

    Why did this happen just hours after the BBC’s failures on Holocaust Memorial Day? Did BBC executives for a moment consider the impact that premiering and promoting this song would have on Jewish people?

    Jewish community leaders have repeatedly made clear to the BBC that there are real-world consequences for Britain’s Jews when disputed claims about the Israel-Hamas war are given prominence without challenge or context. In promoting this record, the BBC once again failed in its responsibility to help protect Jewish people from harm.

    The BBC has not been averse to excluding songs from its airwaves in the past. Executives have previously decided not to broadcast songs about Boris Johnson and Margaret Thatcher. Yet when it comes to harm to the Jewish community it seems that, once again, different standards apply.

    As the BBC enters Charter Renewal negotiations and the debate has begun about its future funding model, there is one question Jewish people consistently ask me: why should I keep paying my licence fee when the BBC has become a platform for anti-Semites, for misleading coverage of the Holocaust, for rappers who call for the deaths of Israelis, for false claims about the Israel-Hamas war, documentaries narrated by Hamas families and employees who showed support for the October 7 massacre?

    As someone who has worked for the BBC and believes in its public services purposes, I have made the case that the BBC needs radical reform, but it is worth saving.

    I am still clinging on to that view, but as time goes by and the BBC’s consistent failures continue to cause deep pain to the Jewish community, it is becoming harder and harder to make this argument. If the BBC is institutionally anti-Semitic, can it be saved?ENDS

    Quacks like a duck …

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  25. harry142857 says:

    From Guido

    Starmer’s China Trip Secures 0.2% of Value of India Deal
    Here is the ‘substantial’ material agreed during Starmer’s trip to China:

    Visa free travel for UK citizens. Value: £0. Also brings UK in line with more than 50 other countries including France, Germany etc.
    Scotch whisky tariff reduction. Value: £250 million over five years.
    Feasibility study for a possible trade in services agreement. Value: £0
    Co-operation on organised crime. Value: £0
    Strengthening the UK-China Joint Economic and Trade Commission. Value: £0. It’s one of those fake padding announcements…
    Agreements to co-operate on standards. Value: £0. Just promises so far…
    Easing rules for exports to China. Value: N.A.
    So the whisky deal was the only costed announcement. Basically Starmer will return from China holding the world’s smallest goldfish in a Safeways bag…

    The India trade deal by the government’s estimation will boost trade by £25.5 billion per year. So Starmer’s trip has managed to secure 0.2% of the stated value of that deal this time round…

    There could be more last-minute announcements to come – were there anything really big Downing Street would have partially briefed it already in a panic because hacks are dumping on Starmer’s give-everything-and-get-nothing trip. Even Reeves managed to get a pitiful £600 million when she travelled to China in January last year. Maybe the Chancellor should have been put on the trip after all…

    In return the Chinese got a palatial spy hub. What else did Starmer give away…

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Send Barry in for a better deal!

      “Labour MP, Barry Gardiner received £500,000 from ‘Chinese agent’
      Former Labour Shadow Cabinet Minister Barry Gardiner received £500,000 over six years from an alleged Chinese government agent.
      Fri 14 January 2022 10:49”

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  26. MarkyMark says:

    “Growth at home is directly linked to our engagement with the world’s biggest powers.

    Today I met with President Xi in Beijing. We affirmed our shared commitment to building a long-term and strategic partnership that will benefit both our countries, while maintaining frank and open dialogue on areas of disagreement.

    As Prime Minister, I will always deliver in the interest of the British people.”

    “Touched down in China – I’m here to deliver for the British people.”

    “We’re capping ground rent at £250.

    That means if you are a leaseholder, and your ground rent is more than £250, you’ll be paying less.

    This will make a huge difference to homeowners and will ease the cost of living for people across the country.”

    “The Holocaust stands as one of the darkest stains on humanity: the systematic murder of six million Jews, each one an individual life extinguished by a hatred that sought to erase the entire Jewish people.

    As we mark Holocaust Memorial Day, we confront that truth directly, because remembrance is the first defence against denial, distortion and prejudice.

    Together, we look back and challenge antisemitism wherever it appears. And ensure that ‘never again’ is a promise we uphold, not just a phrase we repeat.”

    “We will never forget the sacrifices of those who served in Afghanistan.”

    “What happens on the world stage matters directly to people here at home. It shapes the price of food, job security, and the cost of energy.

    That’s why helping British people with the cost of living is my top priority.

    Millions of homes across the country will be upgraded through our Warm Homes Plan.

    This means proper insulation and modern heating to keep your bills low.
    https://x.com/Keir_Starmer/status/2014368827581124685

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  27. Guest Who says:

    The brown stuff still excavating.

    https://x.com/narindertweets/status/2017144280683348299?s=61
    I have messaged @bbcquestiontime before about being on as a panellist , I shall try once more.
    Not sure why the BBC can platform him but not me or even better- Sangita Myska?

    Ms. Myska has chipped in, but hilariously refuses any form of engagement.

    The level of entitlement of these DEI clowns is bonkers.

    Maybe Vile can put in a good word?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “I don’t believe in anyone losing work or an income due to their opinions (unless they cross the legal threshold), but we need to have a open and frank discussion why Gary Lineker was hounded for having an actual opinion, and used his own personal platform for it, whereas Rylan is making multiple factually incorrect statements, spouting right wing lies, on a national TV programme and he remains intact?? Can we discuss this in an adult and kindly manner please?”
      https://x.com/narindertweets/status/1962076490310246415

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    • Guest Who says:

      Newsnight has on Thugstuff Dubonnet to eye roll.

      https://x.com/fox_claire/status/2017159598935867510?s=61

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      • MarkyMark says:

        If you clapped or banged a pan are you complicit? Maybe they can get free FGM and some ChemSex vouchers from the NHS? Or maybe ask why the NHS let gets take adolescence blockers without telling parents?

        Note: Tavistock trans clinics did not close down – they were divided up into smaller clinics.

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  28. MarkyMark says:

    “An unprovoked attack on an innocent woman, police say
    published at 12:54
    12:54
    Attwell describes it as a “frenzied, sadistic and unprovoked attack” on an innocent woman.

    “He laughed, danced and joked around” afterwards, showing no remorse and giving no explanation, Attwell adds.

    His “callous indifference has played out every day in court for Rhiannon’s poor family”.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn0kpj99kegt

    ……………….

    About us
    The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure. The Home Office plays a fundamental role in the security and economic prosperity of the UK.
    https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/about

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      One can imagine the anguish felt by BBC management at describing the criminal as a ‘Sudanese national’ rather than as a ‘Walsall man’.

      RIP Rhiannon Whyte, an innocent who became one of the many Fallen.

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  29. Guest Who says:

    #ccbgb next level. Such TDS is clearly affecting their minds.

    https://x.com/TheNewsAgents/status/2016948836410020026?s=20
    “This is not normal. This is the overturning of truth”.
    “US elections are so rigorously overseen, and yet somehow shunted away by the big bully sitting at the top of the tree”

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  30. MarkyMark says:

    “Muslim Greens”?

    IN FULL: Green Party announce PLUMBER Hannah Spencer as Gorton and Denton by-election candidate
    Manchester Evening News

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  31. MarkyMark says:

    “Interim Venezuelan president Delcy Rodriguez has passed a new law opening the country’s oil production to privatisation. For the first time in nearly 30 years…

    The US eased sanctions at the same time. American firms can now sell, buy, refine, and transport crude. Sanctions on production persist for now. So ends the PDVSA nightmare…”
    order-order.com

    Greta.jpg

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  32. MarkyMark says:

    UK in 2027…..

    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’

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/14/venezuela-president-maduro-rabbit-plan

    SAVE THE NHS – OPT IN FOR ASSISTED DYING…..

    “A Canadian woman has died by euthanasia despite informing doctors just hours beforehand of her wish to stay alive and receive palliative care, sparking concerns about the dangers of coercion or undue influence under assisted suicide and euthanasia laws.”
    https://righttolife.org.uk/news/canada-woman-euthanised-against-her-will-after-requesting-palliative-care

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  33. MarkyMark says:

    “Rupert Lowe MP
    The most striking thing reading through all of these migrant hotel contracts?

    It’s the care, the dedication, the level of service provided to these men.

    These men from Syria, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Albania, Eritrea, Sudan – who have broken into our country.

    The Home Office goes to painstaking lengths to ensure their comfort. Every angle you could possibly imagine is covered – hundreds and hundreds of pages dedicated to providing for them.

    I just cannot get my head around it.

    Billions and billions of OUR tax spent on accommodating these men.

    Not our own people, but these third world criminals.

    Everything is focused on caring for them. Meticulously so.

    It is remarkable, and I absolutely detest it.

    This is all to line them up to claim refugee status, through which they can rinse the taxpayer for even more.

    It is one giant scam, and we’re all paying for it.

    I absolutely HATE it.

    We must abolish the entire asylum system, and deliver mass deportations on a scale that would make Trump blush.

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    • Pete says:

      I think we all know our country is already lost I’m afraid. We have a government actively promoting the invasion, whilst at the same time driving our economy into the ground, as well as our people.
      Invaders rights more important than the safety of our own.
      It will never stop now, nor will we ever clear out the illegals, there here forever and with families to follow.

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      • Scroblene says:

        Just get on the UK Companies website to see the ‘nationality’ of the hotel owners, sponging us all…

        Really nasty bunch IMHO.

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  34. taffman says:

    Why does the BBC change the colour of actors in its historical broadcasts and dramas – Is it brainwashing propaganda re-writing the history of Great Britain ?

    Scrap the outfit that is full of male bovine excrement!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present YouTube controls the past.”
      ― George Orwell, 1984

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    • taffman says:

      What is more, stop paying the feudal telly tax, if you have the balls ?
      Its easy!
      It will cut the head off the ‘Anti-British Snake’
      Its also very satisfying .

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  35. Up2snuff says:

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – we now, thanks to the Daily Star, now have a new nickname for TTK ….

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gry9de2w0o …. and that is ‘turnip’.

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  36. MarkyMark says:

    The i Paper, external leads with the suggestion that the UK is to deport asylum seekers to Syria in a crackdown on migrants. The paper says the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is seeking to tackle the small boats crisis and the rise of Reform UK.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gry9de2w0o

    “tackle …. the rise of Reform UK.”
    “tackle …. the rise of Reform UK.”

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    • taffman says:

      “tackle …. the rise of Reform UK.”
      No chance . Well, not in Wales.
      Reform UK are doing very well in Wales!

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  37. vlad says:

    Leftists attack peaceful debaters, and guess who the police arrest?

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Classic 2T policing. Same thing happened at Cranebridge University where some scumbag with in-tow cameraman threw a milkshake over someone using their free-speech. Same result students and porters come out on the side of the criminal. End result: The criminal writes a letter saying she is very ‘thorry’ and signs the letter – An Activist.

      No criminal record as this would upset mummy and daddy.

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  38. digg says:

    Some killings in the USA are more equal than others.

    The left screaming and shouting for the heads of the ICE blokes who shot protesters running amok whereas the lady judge (possibly a lefty as usual! ) presiding over the trial of the creep who tracked a healthcare CEO down and shot him in the back in the most blatant case of cold-blooded murder imaginable before running away will not face the death penalty says the lady judge before the trial even gets underway!

    The murderer also appears to have a huge fan base for his actions!

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78egdg3r0po

    Astonishing..The USA is a depraved basket case!

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  39. JonathanR says:

    Nice to see that the term oikophobia applied to the elite is making some traction.

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  40. harry142857 says:

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  41. pugnazious says:

    Nowt truer…one organisation missing…..the BBC…The irony….Alex Pretti killed as he tried to to stop illegal migrants being deported and Rhiannon Whyte is killed by an illegal migrant and we’re told to shut up…her death is not ‘controversial’…but she’d be alive if it were not for the campaigners, like the BBC, for open borders.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/30/rhiannon-whyte-is-dead-because-of-the-british-state/

    ‘Rhiannon Whyte is dead because of the British state. Majek and Majek alone wielded the screwdriver and delivered the fatal blows but he was aided and abetted by some of the most powerful people in this country.

    His un-prosecuted co-defendants should include successive prime ministers, Conservative and Labour, who stood by and allowed their country to be invaded by Majek, a small-boat arrival, and others like him. No less culpable were the MPs and civil servants whose supposed empathy renders them incapable of countenancing the kind of measures needed to secure our borders and keep our people safe.

    Into the dock, too, with the NGOs that toil to bring to this country thousands of young men from cultures alien to our own and unleash them on unsuspecting Britons. While we’re at it, anathema ought to be pronounced upon self-indulgent liberals who venerate broken and dangerous asylum processes because they mistake the faults therein for compassion. There was no compassion in putting Rhiannon Whyte at the mercy of her killer’s barbarism.

    The murdered woman’s sister, Alex, said: “Rhiannon never saw danger. Rhiannon never understood how scary the world really could be.” That world is made scarier still by legislators and policymakers who have all the compassion in the world for foreigners, and especially those who come here illegally, and only cold contempt for the people forced to live with the consequences of their preference.’

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  42. Loobyloo says:

    Reasons to be cheerful, from the DT :

    * the UN says it may only have enough dosh to last till July, boo hoo
    * Mandelson implicated in Epstein files again
    * Bill Gates implicated in Epstein files

    Of course someone has made claims about Trump with underage girls – no credible evidence etc

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  43. Rich says:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15513445/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates-melinda-antibiotics.html

    A ‘dose’ of reality or ‘clap’-trap?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgn8wzjzrvt

    The bbbc have decided. And so have I and everyone else.

    Remind me once again how much a certain foundation donates to our national broadcaster.

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  44. pugnazious says:

    LOl…

    ‘China lifts sanctions on MPs and peers, as Starmer says he hopes Xi will visit UK’

    Shame if you’re Jewish MP you cannot visit a school in your own constituency because of threats from locals….whomever they might be….and all the time Starmer is welcoming in radical Islamists like Alaa Abd El-Fattah with open arms and convicted Muslim terrorists get to take part in council elections…and even when they’re dead they still try to take over….with the help of the collaborating useful idiots…

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  45. pugnazious says:

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  46. JohnC says:

    Takeaways from the millions of newly released Epstein files
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevnmxyy4wjo

    Here we have one of the classic BBC dirty tricks. On the front page . underneath the headline, they write:
    ‘Three million new documents include hundreds of mentions of Trump and emails between Epstein and a person called ‘The Duke’.

    100% intended to make the casual reader assume that Trump and the man formerly known as ‘prince’ are guilty.

    Yet when you go into the article, you discover that there is absolutely no evidence against Trump at all. Despite the BBC trying to ‘infer’ his guilt, there is nothing.

    There IS direct evidence against Andrew MountBattenburg, Bill Gates and Mandelson. But it’s clear from the headline, the BBC are only interested in Trump.

    What is very interesting and very fishy is how the BBC do not mention Clinton at all. Particularly as he is being held in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify on the topic. If it were Trump, THAT would be the big story here.

    Also missing is Kathryn Ruemmler, the former Obama White House counsel.

    Amazing how they have missed out all the Democrats !!!.

    100% typical BBC. They are dirty, lying scum. There is no other way to describe them. The lie of course being the most cynical and devious kind : the lie by omission.

    I wonder

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