214 Responses to Start the Week 2nd February 2026

  1. Up2snuff says:

    Goal hanging pays off again!

    The BBC are wasteful. There is a scare story going round that the BBC are to reintroduce a radio licence fee and to use the web-site. On the Sunday Times frontpage front page here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c24gmjmrjj6o. The campaign to defund the BBC will be given a boost by this. I don’t expect the Radio LF will be at the level when it was discontinued. As I posted before the BBC are wasetful. Defund the BBC!

    The BBC are greedy for money, your money!

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  2. digg says:

    Polanski, who claims to have never taken drugs or drunk alcohol says class 1 drugs should be legalised……

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8g7ymq959o

    While he is at it why not do away with driving licenses and tests and lower the age of driving on public roads to say 5? He could also make murder a no -crime while he is at it and maybe make rape legal?

    Where do these zombie nutters come from?

    I’m going to wake up back in the room soon I hope!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Give all sperm the vote to win the election!
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    • davylars says:

      Zac telling porkies? Hope there is someone who went to school or uni can and does counter these claims….

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    • Up2snuff says:

      digg, Zack Polanski is a nutter indeed, loving the power of leading the Green Party. He is going after the yoof vote and to take advantage of the lowering of the voting age by stupid Labour.

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      • Scroblene says:

        When I was a kid, I thought the alternative to the uniparty was to vote ‘Liberal’ – they only had three seats in 1959, (?), and I think they were all somewhere up near the Arctic Circle…

        I can imagine the little leftie nutters with useless ‘degrees’ voting for Paulden, because at that rate, they’ll never have to pay back their student loans, which of course, will mean that pensioners will have to instead! There will hardly be any real hard-working taxpayers by then!

        This is an issue which will boil up in Reform’s face, because by the time of the GE with Rayner on charge, (ha ha), the UK will really be in deep s**t, and probably bankrupt!

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  3. Northern Voter says:

    The bBC have learned from a reliable unnamed source that when Sir Queer Squirmer returned to Blighty he went to see a consultant in Harley Street, the Doctor asked him when he last had a check up. Squirmer like a good Liebor Lawyer replied that he didn’t recall that, but that he’d had a couple of Ukranians and a Pole.

    I’ll get me coat.

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  4. Nibor says:

    The BBC usual ,

    Labour – make a little fun of the politicians
    Conservative- make even more fun of the politicians
    LibDims – make a little fun of the politicians
    Greens – make very little fun of the politicians
    Democrats- make next to no fun of the politicians
    Reform and Trump – make every fun of the politicians even if puerile AND make fun of any supporters and voters of said parties .

    The BBC . As balanced as a certified lunatic. And as moral as their happy crappy whooping audiences at an ecstasy party . The one party they won’t make fun of .

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  5. wwfc says:

    Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey hasn’t sailed yet, but Lupita Nyong’o’s rumored Helen of Troy casting already has the internet going to war.

    https://fandomwire.com/why-fans-hate-christopher-nolan-casting-black-panther-star-in-the-odyssey/

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  6. Deborah says:

    Please nobody put up the photo of Mandelson, but who took the photo and why? It is the sort of photo that, had I been the Lord (thank goodness I’m not), I would have said, ‘please delete it’, or words to that effect.

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  7. pugnazious says:

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    • Scroblene says:

      Nice one, Pug!

      Whatever happened to the police attitude to ‘Zero Tolerance’, somewhere North, or Brum?

      Can’t remember the senior plod’s name, but the lefties all squealed and whined like stuck pigs!

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  8. pugnazious says:

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    • taffman says:

      ….And because of our weak, UK government, they will move across the border to Great Britain . Ready to take up our housing and welfare benefits!

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  9. JohnC says:

    January 11th:

    Epstein kept me ‘separate’ from his sexual side because I’m gay, Mandelson tells BBC
    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c20er9d399et

    Mandelson given a taxpayer funded soapbox on the BBC to profess his innocence and hopefully pave his back to the top table. Aided and abetted by the BBC’s nasty-or-nice (depending if you are Right or Left) Kuenssberg.

    2nd February:

    Lord Mandelson resigns from Labour Party over Epstein links
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8jm2vpve1o

    Gone in disgrace.

    Once again the BBC backed the wrong horse purely because of the politics.

    Of course Kuenssberg will not care or feel any guilt over what she did. It’s all part of the war for her. No trick is too dirty for the BBC.

    Madelson will be dropped completely by the BBC now and they will focus on Trump. Even though there is no evidence at all against him : they will infer and suggest he is guilty. Meanwhile those Lefties who ARE guilty – such as Clinton – will be brushed over and key points not followed up.

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    • Flotsam says:

      Mandelson’s actions re Epstein do indeed say much about his morals and ethics. It also says a lot about Smarmer who appointed him US Ambassador and indeed Bliar. I always thought Mandelson a creep and thought he was a poor choice as Ambassador

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      • Scroblene says:

        Lobbing the awful bloke to Washington is straight (?) out of the leftie rule-book…

        Go against British principles and impose a doubtful and rather unpleasant individual.

        Incredibly nasty are the lefties.

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        • tomo says:

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          • tomo says:

            Spitting Image: The “It’s Not Unusual” song (parodying Tom Jones) from Series 13 (1992) has lines like:

            David Mellor: “It’s not unusual, to have sex with anyone / It’s not unusual, if you are Minister of Fun…”
            Sarah Ferguson (Fergie): “It’s not unusual, to suck toes with anyone.”

            you can bet they didn’t go after Mandy

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  10. digg says:

    British countryside and pubs should be be made more welcoming to Muslims says report…

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2165401/countryside-be-made-less-white

    In return Mecca to be made more welcoming to non-Muslims?

    https://www.islamiclandmarks.com/makkah-other/can-non-muslims-go-to-mecca

    Ha ha ha ha.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Nurseries should be opened up to Imam’s who will preach about what to do with 6 year children?

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      • JohnC says:

        Their holy book describes it in specific detail:

        Keep them safe until they are nice and ripe – and ready to be used by the good Muslim for his pleasure.

        Aged 9.

        One of those facts which stay in my mind as indicators of just what shameless hypocrite scumbags the Left are. They don’t care because they can’t use it against the Right. Their selective fake outrage disgusts me.

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    • tomo says:

      Funnily enough I ‘ve met several chaps who enjoyed beer and bacon sarneys – quite surprising really that Mohammed didn’t conjure up something like Catholic confessionals to cover such things?

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  11. AsISeeIt says:

    Peter Mandelson joins that select band of Labour figures caught with their trousers down in leaked photographs…

    Pictured this morning in his underpants (tighty whities) on the frontpage of the Telegraph: Lord Mandelson with unidentified woman in a photograph released from the Epstein files…

    Mandy apparently compromised by a pic of him in his undercrackers… with a woman… not his old mum… or his nanny? That has to be a fake photoshop job.

    Boys will be boys…

    The i paper home to radical feminism instructs us: Adolescence to Lord of the Flies Jack Thorn on how to understand boys

    Tell you what, Jack – I’ll raise you the ‘documentary’ Mean Girls, Veruca Salt and Just William’s nemesis, Violet Elizabeth Bott (“I’ll scweem and I’ll scweem till I’m sick”)

    In-the-tank for Labour Mirror offers: FREE bottle of coke… Pick up from TG Jones… Worth up to £2.20… Voucher page 20

    But I thought they told us: If overweight Brits drank one less fizzy drink a day, it could reduce the obesity epidemic by enough to save the NHS £5 billion a year… Wes Streeting writes for the Sunday Mirror… That’s the message from Health Secretary Wes Streeting and Environment Secretary Steve Reed as they outline plans to make Britain healthier, boost British farming and slash hospital waiting times. (Mirror, June 2025)

    Cinderella, you shall go to the ball and meet your prince!

    Epstein flew me to Andrew at Royal Lodge… ‘spent night… then had tea and tour of Palace’ Mirror – she stayed for tea and a tour of the palace? How very civilised. Isn’t that every girl’s dream date with a prince?

    It was, up until the point they apparently made sex illegal.

    Pornhub is now restricting access for UK users – will other sites follow suit? (BBC) – Further comment there would seem superfluous. This from the BBC care of their amusingly monikered Technology reporters Laura Cress (Tomb Raider, anyone?) and Liv McMahon

    Countryside to become ‘less white’ in rural diversity drive… Officials in rural areas, including the Chilterns and the Cotswolds, have pledged to attract more minorities under plans drawn up by the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) (Telegraph)

    And so it begins: Motor racing ace Lewis Hamiliton is dating US reality star Kim Kardashian… Pair’s Cotswold rendezvous (The Sun)

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  12. Fedup2 says:

    Poor BBC – having to report on the demise of one of their Heroes … wouldn’t it be nice if his boss is mentioned too ?

    He – and his type -embodies all that is wrong with modern UK politics – self interest and hypocrisy made flesh ….

    As to removing his peerage – add him to the list …

    Poor ‘today ‘had to spend 14 minutes on it before going to a bread and circuses gig – going to the moon –

    BTW 1000 invaders in January – that’s ok to the BBC …

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  13. MarkyMark says:

    Mandelson was given serious political position and trusted in the past – and will go off write a book and earn more money! This is madness.

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  14. tomo says:

    It mightn’t have been on the BBC but I can’t forget Mandelson going full censorious on David Mellor about Antonia de Sancha and Chelsea kit on a TV chat show ….

    It were a classic, Mellor went the full Chameleon – leaned back in his chair “Peter, you really shouldn’t throw stones when you’re living in a greenhouse” – even on the colour telly of that era you could see Mandelson panic – go pale grey-green and loose it – brilliant stuff.

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    • Scroblene says:

      Lobbing the awful bloke to Washington is straight (?) out of the leftie rule-book…

      Go against British principles and impose a doubtful and rather unpleasant individual.

      Incredibly nasty are the lefties.

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  15. tomo says:

    Will the BBC talk about it? – I suspect not

    LA County (pop. ~10M) reportedly has ~2,000 hospice agencies, far exceeding typical densities. London (pop. ~9M) has about 10-15 hospices, so LA has 130-200x more per capita. A smaller UK city like Manchester (pop. ~550K) has 2-3, making LA’s count equivalent to ~1,000x higher relatively. This highlights the anomaly noted in fraud reports.

    (© Grok)

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “The fraud being exposed in California is INSANE

      – 18% of THE WHOLE COUNTRY’S home health care billing is coming out of Los Angeles County
      – One doctor billed the government $120 million in a single year claiming to oversee 1,900 patients
      – With almost 2,000 hospice agencies, Los Angeles County has more than 36 states combined and 30X MORE than the whole state of Florida and New York

      “How is that possible? And take a look at this map, a cluster of 287 hospice providers, in a two-mile radius, some in strip malls, unmarked buildings, even a wrecking yard and vacant lot. All of it is just paperwork. I could fill that out in Kazakhstan if I want and get a hospice license waiting for me.””

      …………………

      ‘Premium’ cars like BMW and Mercedes cut from Motability scheme
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9znkxq47xo

      The UK spent £2.8 billion, or 20% of its aid budget, supporting refugees in the UK in 2024. This drew criticism from aid groups. What is the government response?
      https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9663/

      Migrant sex offender given £500 after threat to disrupt deportation
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly9rxlvp85o

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Tower Hamlets councillor runs for election… 5,000 miles from London. Calls for Sabina Khan to resign over her campaigning for Bangladesh political office
      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/01/31/tower-hamlets-councillor-election-5000-miles-from-london/
      Yet she continues to serve Tower Hamlets in east London as a councillor, earning £20,600 a year.

      This includes £11,898 a year as a councillor plus an extra £8,702 for her role as scrutiny lead for resources, a position that requires her to examine the council’s decision-making.

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  16. MarkyMark says:

    £500K from Chinese spy for Barry
    £75K from a man who “Jeffrey Epstein Charged In Manhattan Federal Court With Sex Trafficking Of Minors” for Mandelson

    Labour hard grafters… “Bangladesh’s exiled former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to 10 years in jail and her niece, the British lawmaker Tulip Siddiq, to four years in connection with two cases involving a government township project”

    ……….

    EPSTEIN’s victims were as young as 14 at the time he abused them, and were, for various reasons, often particularly vulnerable to exploitation. Moreover, EPSTEIN knew that many of his victims were under 18, including because, in some instances, victims expressly told him they were underage.
    https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/jeffrey-epstein-charged-manhattan-federal-court-sex-trafficking-minors
    EPSTEIN paid his victims hundreds of dollars in cash for each encounter.

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  17. MarkyMark says:

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  18. Scroblene says:

    My apologies for being totally off-topic, but I’ve just seen, (and failed to solve), one of the best cryptic crossword clues I’ve ever seen!

    (starts)

    If there’s a man around, he’s from the U.S. (4)

    (ends)

    Of course, afficianados will get this, but reading the clue again, it’s somehow topical (that’s not a hint)…

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Clearly the answer has to be ‘Cash’ as in The Man Comes Around

      Disclaimer: am useless at crosswords but want any excuse to play JC.

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      • Scroblene says:

        Fabulous track – and try, Atlas…

        That guitar is just unique! See below though…

        Was that Fulsom Prison?

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      • Up2snuff says:

        a_s, was Johnny Cash a Christian? I think he grew up in the Bible Belt. Obviously he quotes from the Bible in that song and, principally, the book of Revelation. Johnny was friends with Billy Graham, the evangelist.

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      • Up2snuff says:

        a_s, that is a great song, thanks for putting that up ans solving Scrobie’s cryptic clue.

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    • harry142857 says:

      Could it be a m(an) ERIC a(round)

      Eric, son of Donald, maybe.

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      • Scroblene says:

        Correct, Harry!

        It’s the three letters ‘amn’ (American) around a bloke’s name – Eric…

        I’m even thinking of joining a U3A for the cryptics – might meet a similar – er – lady – bloke – dog – anyone…

        Is Donald’s son Eric? Senora O’Blene’s nephew is an ‘Eric’, but he doesn’t do crosswords as far as I know…

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  19. MarkyMark says:

    WE ARE TRULEY FOOKED AND PAYING FOR THE HONOUR KILLING OF OUR OWN COUNTRY.

    “Tower Hamlets council has previously said that UK law “does not automatically disqualify” a person from being a councillor solely because they are running for elected office in another country.

    Ms Khan attended a recent council meeting on Jan 21, according to Tower Hamlets’ records.

    However, she has failed to show up for several recent committee meetings, sometimes sending a proxy representative in her place or dialling in remotely.”
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/01/31/tower-hamlets-councillor-election-5000-miles-from-london/

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  20. MarkyMark says:

    Helen (Ancient Greek: Ἑλένη, romanized: Helénē[b]), also known as Helen of Troy,[2][3] or Helen of Sparta,[4] and in Latin as Helena,[5] was a figure in Greek mythology said to have been the most beautiful woman in the world.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_of_Troy

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    Comment “Ah, they take down Churchills portrait and this would make a great replacement to remind Starmer and the rest of the cabinet what their level of average competence is.

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  21. MarkyMark says:

    Keir Stamer’s new speech on taking money from doners or Epstein….

    “Maintaining public trust and confidence in the exercise of investigatory powers is vital for national security and public safety, and a top priority for this Government. ” keir Starmer
    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wms/?id=2025-12-16.hcws1188.h

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    • tomo says:

      Starmer…… talking about public trust and public safety …. sheesh – that’s itchy skin territory

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  22. Fedup2 says:

    Im guessing when TTK tells the commons about his triumphant toy shop deal in china he ll get hit with corrupt Mandelson questions – and he ll deflect by dumping on the ex royal one ….
    Apparently Mandy’s boyfriend took bungs too ….

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    Comment “Every day I read more and more shocking things that the Labour government is doing to this country.

    Today it is Rural areas tasked with coming up with strategies to attract more ethnic minorities to reflect our multicultural nation. The countryside must be made less white to reflect our multicultural society.

    Among many proposals are:

    – community outreach schemes to attract more Muslims

    – dogs should be kept under tighter control, as some groups are scared of them

    – marketing material will be produced featuring people visibly from ethnic minorities, and written in “community languages”.

    – develop more inclusive information to reflect a more diverse cultural interpretation of the countryside”.

    And another slap in the face for pubs: “Protected landscapes were closely associated with ‘traditional’ pubs, which have limited food options and cater to people who have a drinking culture. Accordingly, Muslims from the Pakistani and Bangladeshi group said this contributed to a feeling of being unwelcome.”

    A simple question: Has the indigenous population been asked if they want a multicultural society and whether they want the countryside to be more diverse, i.e. less white? Nobody I know has been asked!

    This is part of the long term strategy of the Left to undermine our heritage, culture and traditions that they so despise.

    Can you imagine the uproar if the Pakistani government said that they need to make the countryside more white and make it more welcoming for Christians?”
    https://order-order.com/2026/02/02/richs-monday-morning-view-586/#comments

    ………

    The construction of a new mosque in a small Cumbrian town is causing division, with some supporting the £2.5m scheme and others vehemently opposed. Visiting the town over two days, we heard from a number of people on both sides. Many did not want to speak publicly but voiced wider fears about asylum seekers, immigration and alleged links to crime. Some expressed extreme views.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgv0v3355no

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  24. MarkyMark says:

    Sanction Africa! Send in the troops! Ban all travel!

    “This is something new opposition parties – like uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) led by former President Jacob Zuma, whose main support base is in KwaZulu-Natal – have latched on to with populist policies that support the expulsion of undocumented migrants.”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd6we3009dgo
    Dudula means “to remove something by force” in the Zulu language

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  25. MarkyMark says:

    Don’t worry, just move from your penthouse in London to the penthouse in New York! It’s simple people…

    “Tom Cruise has quietly stepped back from one of London’s most exclusive postcodes, with sources claiming the Hollywood star no longer felt safe living in the heart of Knightsbridge.

    The 63-year-old actor is understood to have left his £35million luxury apartment overlooking Hyde Park after a string of high-profile crimes in the area, culminating in a daylight robbery at a nearby luxury watch store.”
    https://metro.co.uk/2026/02/01/tom-cruise-abandons-35-000-000-london-flat-claiming-city-become-unsafe-26651860
    ‘He loved London,’ a source familiar with his departure told The Daily Mail. ‘It had become both his professional headquarters and a private playground. The decision to go happened fast.’

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  26. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Is anybody at all interested in this Epstein stuff the msm are filling all the news with.
    I don’t particularly care what grown men get up to with grown women who appear to be happy enough to be there and were probably well paid as well.
    If any minors were there why don’t they come forward because they will be able to claim huge sums from these mega rich people (although I expect they would have been very well paid if there were any)

    If they had wanted to keep it quiet maybe they should have instead used little white schoolgirls, drugged them, doused them in petrol and then gang banged them.
    That seems to be the way to keep the media quiet.

    For all the headlines, nobody apart from a woman has been found guilty of anything. All these mega rich men, presidents, royalty, billionaires etc somehow seem to be immune to prosecution, unless there have been no real crimes.
    In that case I think it’s being used to try and deflect attention from all the very real disasters currently going on. Nobody really suffering any consequences (except Ghislaine) and the real crimes are hidden.

    I wonder if Farage will be more honest with the state we are in. I hope so but if not I trust Rupert Lowe to do it.

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    UK is sending migrants to military barracks … why not send to China to fill the cities?

    No country has ever built so much so quickly and it means ghost cities have yet to come to life and lie in every corner of China.

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  28. Doublethinker says:

    In the last couple of years or so several ‘Conservative’ commentators or writers that I had previously set great store by have turned out to be arch globalist suffering from acute TDS.
    Max Hastings, Andrew Neil , Simon Heffer ( the outstanding biographer of Enoch Powell) , Charles Moore , the Holland brothers , Richard Evans, are prominent amongst them.
    They Have all become stridently outspoken in their condemnation of the President and of Reform at home. It must be that they recognise that the establishment is losing the battle against populism and they are ‘doing their bit’ to shore up its position.
    Max Hastings is going around claiming that President Trump is like Kaiser Wilhelm in 1914 and is likely to cause WW3 even if he doesn’t mean to! Well at least his TDS hasn’t advanced to the point when he compares the President to Hitler.
    I suppose that it is one thing to be an objective historian when dealing with the past but much more difficult to maintain that degree of objectivity when dealing with the present and with events which surround you.
    Even so I would have expected better of them.

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    • Richard Pinder says:

      Churchill was a right-wing politician who detested socialism. Hitler and Stalin both called themselves socialists. Hitler was a left-wing nasty socialist, and Stalin was a left-wing satanic socialist, that’s why Churchill said “If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons”. Churchill said that national socialism and soviet socialism were “as alike as two peas”, and compared them to the characters “Tweedledee and Tweedledum”.

      So far-right Churchill, would regard far-wrong Starmer, as more like the Devil, than Hitler.

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      • Deborah says:

        I have been reading two novels recently, Precipice by Robert Harris and Miss Veal and Miss Ham by Vikki Haywood (and never finished the latter). Precipice is about Asquith in the early days of WW1 and the latter book is about a lesbian couple set in 1951. Every time Robert Harris mentions Churchill derogatory adjectives are used (I understand he was a warmonger at the time, but it is every sentence. Vikki Haywood mentions the upcoming election of 1951 but has one of the women refer to Churchill’s drinking and referring to him as a drunken sott or similar. We all know Churchill wasn’t perfect but are these authors (Harris is a member of the Labour Party) keen to discredit Churchill just because they are left leaning luvvies or are the Left keen to destroy anything this country might be proud of?

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        • MarkyMark says:

          “It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true, that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during “God Save the King” than stealing from a poor box”
          ― George Orwell, A Collection Of Essays: (Authorized Orwell Edition): A Mariner Books Classic

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        • digg says:

          Churchill = UK standing together against nazism = Patriotism = Plucky British grit…

          All things considered as wrongthink by lefty sewer dwellers like these people.

          They are trying to rewrite history to prevent the public getting patriotic as this never fits with their diabolical left-wing, Marxist ideology.

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          • Scroblene says:

            That was old-school socialism.

            Today’s is just ‘The administration of the productive elements of society, by the worthless dross of uselessness’.

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  29. MarkyMark says:

    Happening in your UK City of Culture…. Doha Debates in Bradford, UK.

    Konstantin Kisin vs. Entire Audience at Doha Debates

    ……..
    Hundreds of migrants killed by Saudi border guards – report
    Published 21 August 2023
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-66545787

    Comment “If there was no Konstantin Kisin, this would’ve been an hour of people agreeing with each other and no real debate”

    Comment “As soon as Konstantin made the FACTUAL STATEMENT that slavery was the NORM prior to Western/Christian culture, everyone got extremely uncomfortable and tried to shut him up.”

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  30. Flotsam says:

    Yet more infantile and ineffective Laws created by legal mastermind Smarmer and his team. People advertising illegal crossing services could be prosecuted and jailed for up to five years. Any child could tell you the advertiser will probably be abroad somewhere where they can’t be touched. I guess it will serve the purpose of the Government appearing to do something about the problem.

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  31. MarkyMark says:

    “Dr Christian Turner CMG appointed as His Majesty’s Ambassador to the United States of America
    The UK has today confirmed the appointment of Dr Christian Turner CMG to be the next British Ambassador to the United States of America.”

    https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dr-christian-turner-cmg-appointed-as-his-majestys-ambassador-to-the-united-states-of-america

    Christian was British High Commissioner to Pakistan, from December 2019 to January 2023. Before that, he was the Prime Minister’s International Affairs Adviser and Deputy National Security Adviser from 2017 to 2019.

    ……………………………

    Time to check Christian Turner’s tweets and the Epstein files?

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  32. Richard Pinder says:

    ChatGPT: What percentage of BBC News is misinformation?

    ChatGPT says: “45 % of BBC News is misinformation,” but that is incorrect:

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  33. MarkyMark says:

    Allegations reported to the Committee on Standards
    https://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/standards-and-financial-interests/parliamentary-commissioner-for-standards/complaints-and-investigations/allegations-reported-to-the-standards-committee/

    2025
    Andrew Bridgen
    Dr Neil Shastri-Hurst MP
    Charlie Maynard MP
    2024
    Rt. Hon Colonel Bob Stewart

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  34. micknotmike says:

    I’m trying to work out why the bbc are obsessed with destroying peter mandleson. He’s not my cup of tea, but you would think as a socialist gay man, he’d be, if not immune to criticism entirely, an unlikely target for the nuclear option we are seeing. I can only conclude that if there is a link between him being previously in epstein’s company, as was a much younger President Donald Trump, then it’s enough to throw dirt at #47 to see if it sticks.

    They have even shown a picture of some guy who either directed or produced the First Lady’s recent documentary release; cuddling a girl, no less.

    Talk about seven degrees of separation. They could show links between zelensky and piles of money, or starmer and some rent boys, much less tentative.

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  35. Fedup2 says:

    Mick – I’d disagree – listening to ‘today ‘ leading on him i think they gave him the easiest time they could – no reminder of his past corruption ….
    I don’t think there’s any msm willing to use the deserved hatchet – and his boyfriend is now in public play because he took bungs ….renaldo indeed ..

    I’d like to hear evidence of Epstein being a spy for Russia or china or Israel …. Maybe all of them ….

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  36. Richard Pinder says:

    A Freedom of Information request has revealed that in 2021, the MHRA received 48,472 reports of cardiac-related adverse events linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine. The government says that vaccines are “safe and effective” and victims cannot sue the government or vaccine manufacturers, because of legal indemnities provided to politicians, bureaucrats and vaccine manufacturers by amendments to the 2012 Human Medicines Regulation 345, protecting the government from anti-vaxxers. The government is also legalising death up to the day of birth, and rebranding state assisted ‘murder’ with the help of the Assisted Dying Bill. Doctors sacked by the NHS say that Starmers ‘Final Solution’ violates the Nuremberg Code.

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  37. taffman says:

    “Tower block to be replaced by affordable homes”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn42nypjqezo
    Who will the “affordable” homes be reserved for ?

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  38. MarkyMark says:

    Starmer to fly to Bangledesh for trade deals? HA HA HAH AH AH AH !

    “In two additional corruption cases ex-minister Tulip Siddiq has “been sentenced to four years in prison in Bangladesh. In absentia…
    https://order-order.com/2026/02/02/tulip-siddiq-sentenced-again-in-bangladesh-corruption-trial/


    1980s Birmingham | Rotunda Building | West Midlands | 1981

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  39. MarkyMark says:

    “Zack Polanski suggests hard drugs being illegal is RACIST as Green leader insists he wants people to ‘have a good time’ (although he has never even drunk alcohol)”
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15517401/Zack-Polanski-drugs-illegal-racist-Green-leader-drunk-alcohol.html

    …………

    idiocracy-dumb.gif

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  40. taffman says:

    Questions :
    Is the Home Office “not fit for purpose” ?
    Has Great Britain been invaded by the consent of successive governments ?
    What happened to”Stop the boats” & “Crush the gangs”

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Theresa May on immigration … from ‘hard’ line to ‘pink no line’ …

      2012 … “Two and a half years ago, the coalition government was formed, and we made a clear promise to the British public. After thirteen years of uncontrolled mass immigration, this government would reduce and control immigration.” – Theresa May 2012

      2015 … “Because when immigration is too high (no figure given), when the pace of change is too fast, it’s impossible to build a cohesive society.” – Theresa May 2015

      2018 … “Over the years, overall, immigration has been good for the UK. It has brought people with different backgrounds, different outlooks here to the UK,” – Theresa May 2018

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  41. MarkyMark says:

    “Rupert continued:

    ‘This inquiry is about action. We have gathered evidence, we will listen carefully over the coming two weeks, and we will then act. Our ultimate objective is justice – including the pursuit of private prosecutions where appropriate. Justice for the girls who were abused. Justice for the families who were ignored.

    And justice for a country that was repeatedly misled about what was happening in its towns and cities.’”

    https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/2018283394157683139?s=20

    …………..

    The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure. The Home Office has been at the front line of this endeavour since 1782. As such, the Home Office plays a fundamental role in the security and economic prosperity of the United Kingdom.

    https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/about

    “Five local inquiries, which cannot compel the production of evidence, just will not do. Fifty towns were affected, not five. Bradford, where some of the worst abuse occurred, is refusing to co-operate with any inquiry at all. There has never been an inquiry in Bradford, because the council is refusing to participate.”
    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2025-04-28c.33.0&s=bradford+council+rape+gangs#g34.0

    he UK’s home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has been criticised after naming the panopticon as her model for the British criminal justice system.

    In an interview with Tony Blair, Ms Mahmood — who served as the UK’s justice secretary from July 2024 to September 2025 — said her vision in that role was to “achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his panopticon”.

    The panopticon was proposed in the 18th century as a more effective prison, designed in a circular layout allowing guards to observe every prisoner at all times.

    Ms Mahmood has appeared to suggest that the concept could be extended to society writ large. Her vision was “that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times”, she said.
    https://www.irishlegal.com/articles/uk-home-secretary-dreams-of-ai-powered-panopticon

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  42. MarkyMark says:

    A Leak… From The Prime Minister’s Office? | Yes, Minister | BBC Comedy Greats
    BBC Comedy Greats
    911k subscribers

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  43. MarkyMark says:

    Place all the councillors into the camp with their kids … it is that simple.

    “We cannot control where they (illegals) go but we can tell them where to go .. i.e. keep away from the kids)” Crowborough Councillor

    Comment “Why are in interests of Unvetted migrants put before the residents?

    Comment “Not legal to tag them???? it’s not legal them being here.”

    Comment “This seems very much like a declaration of war against the British people.”

    PART 2: Crowborough town hall FURY as locals EXPLODE at council leaders over migrant camp

    Asylum seeker jailed for 29 years for stab murder
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yvwdgjpj3o

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    • Scroblene says:

      Brilliant.

      I know Crowborough – these local politicians are a disgrace, and with a home office twonk there as well, gawping around and totally out of his depth, we’re summing up KowTow’s stupidity and treachery.

      Bit like our utterly useless ‘administration’.

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  44. MarkyMark says:

    Keir Starmer appoints new USA Ambassador…. HA HA AHH AAH

    “In some of the tweets he describes the killing of Zionists as heroic, adding “we need to kill more of them”. He also once described British people as dogs and monkeys.”
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/29/british-egyptian-rights-activist-alaa-abd-el-fattah-apologises-for-hurtful-tweets
    Alaa Abd el-Fattah apologises for ‘hurtful’ tweets

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  45. Richard Pinder says:

    hq720.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEhCK4FEIIDSFryq4qpAxMIARUAAAAAGAElAADIQj0AgKJD&rs=AOn4CLBmOrHT9IYuf9m1aduP_L_ajEIWqA
    US Plans ‘Censorship Shield Law’ to block British Internet Speech Restrictions

    US Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Sarah Rogers, confirmed that a new “censorship shield law” is being drawn up to ensure that Britain’s Online Safety Act cannot be used to censor US citizens or companies. Rogers said she expects “some kind of shield legislation” to be tabled soon, adding that any attempt to apply British statutes in the United States runs counter to the country’s founding legal principles, saying “Clearly, these censorship statutes are so anathema to the First Amendment that judgements under them shouldn’t be enforced here.” Her comments mark one of the strongest rebukes yet from an American official toward the United Kingdom’s online regulation strategy. Rogers accused Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour government of showing “authoritarian intentions” in its digital policies, remarking that “The Labour Party has not distinguished itself with advocacy for free speech or sanity on migration.” The US State Department has clashed repeatedly with British authorities in recent months, particularly over Ofcom’s role in policing online speech under the new Act. Rogers said Washington has no intention of allowing British regulators to dictate what can or cannot be published by US platforms. “It’s our 250th birthday, and we’re going to stand up for our First Amendment rights, and we’re going to stand up for American industry, and we’re going to stand up for American political freedoms,” she said.

    Rogers also issued a warning over Britain’s expanding use of artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology in policing. She cautioned that “when a government has authoritarian intentions, then a powerful tool can be used for powerful authoritarian ends,” suggesting that such systems, when combined with censorship powers, risk becoming tools of political control rather than public safety. To illustrate what she described as a troubling trend, Rogers cited the case of Lucy Connolly and the more than 12,000 “non-crime hate incidents” logged in recent years by British police. The Trump administration has criticised the British government for what it describes as “serious restrictions” on free speech.

    For the first time since independence from Britain 250 years ago, the United States would have a clear statutory barrier ensuring that what Americans can say online remains determined by the US Constitution, not by the British government.

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  46. MarkyMark says:

    “Political discourse has moved so far to the right we need to check what we are talking about… democracy requires fundamental, systematic and structural change which will only be brought about by a radical left movement (chop those penises off the boys ** i added that).” Andrew Feinstein
    ** note they did not move further to the left?!

    Andrew Feinstein | This House Believes The Time Has Come For A Radical British Left

    “We have the best democracy money can buy.” @6:00

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  47. sunny jim says:

    oh dear

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    • MarkyMark says:

      I’ve got even better news – Allah will be watching 24/7 via AI!

      The UK’s home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has been criticised after naming the panopticon as her model for the British criminal justice system."</strong.

      In an interview with Tony Blair, Ms Mahmood — who served as the UK’s justice secretary from July 2024 to September 2025 — said her vision in that role was to "<strong.“achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his panopticon”..

      The panopticon was proposed in the 18th century as a more effective prison, designed in a circular layout allowing guards to observe every prisoner at all times.

      Ms Mahmood has appeared to suggest that the concept could be extended to society writ large. Her vision was “that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times”, she said.;

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  48. Up2snuff says:

    TWaTO Watch #1 – More publicity for the Palestinian cause from the BBC!

    The Montacutie spent a considerable amount of TWaTO air time on interviewing a Palestinian woman about her children in Gaza. This sad woman is working in India iirc, leaving her teenage children behind in Gaza.

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