357 Responses to Midweek 4th February 2026

  1. MarkyMark says:

    ELON IS STILL BBC’s TOP BILL…..BRANSON (who defrauded HMRC over VAT on records) is MISSING FROM PHOTO.

    “L-R: Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sarah Ferguson and Ehud Barak”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqxynz2l0g2o
    ” a number of household names like Richard Branson, Bill Gates and Elon Musk.”

    Who is in the Epstein files?
    Elon Musk
    Bill Gates
    Donald Trump
    Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
    Richard Branson
    Sarah Ferguson
    Lord Mandelson
    Steve Bannon
    Miroslav Lajčák (who was serving as Slovakia’s foreign minister at the time)
    Howard Lutnick
    Larry Summers
    Steve Tisch
    Brett Ratner (director of the new documentary on First Lady Melania Trump also appeared in a photo embracing a young woman in the files.)
    Peter Attia
    Casey Wasserman
    Sergey Brin
    Ehud Barak
    Noam Chomsky
    Brad Karp
    Bill Clinton
    ………….
    Also see.
    https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/
    A giant leak of more than 11.5 million financial and legal records exposes a system that enables crime, corruption and wrongdoing, hidden by secretive offshore companies.

    https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/
    A major global collaboration reveals secrets from one of the world’s most prestigious offshore law firms, a specialized trust company and 19 company registries in secrecy jurisdictions.

    https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/
    Pandora Papers
    The largest investigation in journalism history exposes a shadow financial system that benefits the world’s most rich and powerful.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33984017
    Customer data stolen from Ashley Madison, a dating website for married people who wish to cheat on their spouse, has reportedly been published.

    Coldplay Concerts LOVE CAM
    https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320×180/p0lr2524.jpg
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx20z3ykd9ro

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  2. friend of yogi bear says:

    NOT ON THE BBC…A MAN CALLED O’BRIEN….

    On the comedy front, my attention has been drawn to a man called James O’BRIEN. He is on LBC and my goodness me ,he is one of the funniest things going.

    Like “Drop the dead donkey” he sends up journalism and the world of journalists..and is very,VERY funny ,sometimes his parody goes a bit far but for the most part his pretence to believe the nonsense he spouts is quite engaging.

    This morning is no exception …the line that Starmers not so bad ..he has said sorry….and don’t forget Boris was dreadful and he told lies, is a masterclass in utter stupidity but is a great laugh out loud “listen”.

    He also brings brexit into everything and Trump , of course, Trump may be involved in Starmers problems , well after all Starmer appointed Mandleson as Ambassador to please Trump ( who had never met him).?.? you get the point.

    The other terrific part of the programme is O’Breins attacks on anybody calling in who disagrees with him…a hyper aggressive Alan Partridge.

    It’s an unusual approach but very,VERY funny in small doses.

    Has he won any of those Perrier comedy awards? He is the best at pointing out how lost journalism is.

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  3. MarkyMark says:

    “5 billion pound programme, with an extra 8 million pounds today. Pride is the social glue that holds a community together (insert barracks full of young aged fighting men here)”


    Keir Starmer on how he will restore pride to communities

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    • Fedup2 says:

      ‘Backed by UK Government’ = poor taxpayers …

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      • MarkyMark says:

        ‘Backed by UK Government and the taxpayer (who had no vote in the matter)’

        I wonder how this would be taken if those words were added.

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    • Scroblene says:

      Why did he have to come all the way down to Hastings to wibble all that nonsense?

      The last thing my old birth-town needs is twaddle about failing marxism and a bunch of idiots in Whitehall trying to sound plausible and wrecking the place by decimating our once-great, fabulous, shore-based fishing fleet!

      (And here, I must also apologise yet again to the Manager of ‘The Queens Hotel’, for getting a bit p****d and knocking a hole in the bar wall about 60 odd years ago. I’ve always regretted doing that…)

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  4. FrankZ says:

    BBC TV licence fee is to rise by £5.50 to £180 in fresh blow to millions of families
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15534821/TV-licence-fee-rise-BBC-stable-footing.html

    What a surprise.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Save £180 by cancelling BBC TV TAX and using it to fund the Rape Gang Enquiry – when Gary Lineker/Tim Davie asks why you are not paying his pension just say you are helping 1400 raped kids get justice, and watch them demand that only racists would do that.

      https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-rape-gang-inquiry-1

      ………..

      “Rupert Lowe MP
      Listening to testimonies it is abundantly clear that countless women in these Pakistani communities knew EXACTLY what their relatives were doing, but said nothing.

      In these towns, thousands and thousands knew. The scale of rape would mean it’s impossible not to. Impossible.

      I spoke to one survivor who stated that the imam knew because his son was raping a 15 year old friend, impregnating her.

      Her words?

      ‘They look after their own community.’

      Please think about what that means, from somebody who understands the consequences of that far better than all of us. In my view, all of these complicit individuals are as guilty as the rapists themselves. This is the ugly truth that almost nobody in parliament wants to confront. But it’s there, it has been for decades. We must now have the courage to call it out.”

      images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSuzY3Ho32EA8hOIkTZuft2jBlu9bHSDY-rWw&s

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  5. Guest Who says:

    https://x.com/pwestoff/status/2019715842318159911?s=61
    BBC caught bang to rights re obvious planned collaboration with studio “public.” Watch from 1:30 to 2:09. Man asks question, Yusuf asks for details, man falters, Fiona Bruce reads details from her script. Does anyone know this man? Looks Trade Union.

    FiFi might think what ‘she is simply trying to say’ solves it.

    FiFi. It just confirms the point.

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  6. harry142857 says:

    For those that pay.

    BBC TV licence fee is to rise by £5.50 to £180 in fresh blow to millions of families
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    The BBC TV licence fee is set to rise by £5.50 to £180 a year in a bid to ‘keep the BBC on stable financial footing’.

    News of the price hike is set to deal a further blow to millions of households already struggling with rising costs and comes despite the BBC and the previous government striking a deal to keep the licence below £175 a year.

    In 2022, it was agreed the licence fee – which must be paid to watch live television or iPlayer – would be linked to inflation until at least 2027.

    When the agreement was reached, the licence fee was £159 and was projected to cost less than £175 by its final year. However, higher inflation than predicted has caused the licence fee to be reviewed.

    Last November, the Labour Government announced it would rise from £169.50 to £174.50 from April.

    The corporation raked in almost £4billion from the levy in 2025.

    But the future of the licence fee has come under scrutiny amid a sharp decline in the number of people watching traditional TV channels as viewers continue to turn to streaming services such as Netflix and Prime Video.

    The number of licences bought decreased from 24.1 million to 23.8 million in 2024/25, with the drop hitting the BBC’s income in real terms.

    In a statement on Friday, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport described the BBC as ‘the UK’s number one media brand, with 94per cent of UK adults using the BBC each month last year.’

    The broadcaster ‘remains the UK’s most widely used and trusted news outlet’, it added.

    Free licences will remain for people aged over 75 on Pension Credit, with reduced fees for care home residents and blind individuals.

    The department added the price hike ‘comes alongside the ongoing Charter Review, which will ensure the BBC is sustainably funded to provide value for licence fee payers, commands the public’s trust with impartial editorial standards and drives growth, opportunity and good jobs across the country.’

    News of the fee change comes as BBC bosses weigh up controversial plans that would extend the licence requirement to radio channels and the broadcaster’s news website.

    Another idea being touted could involve the introduction of a model where wealthier households pay more, in turn subsidising the licence fee for lower income families.

    The Daily Mail reported in November that one in eight households now say they do not need a TV licence, leading to losses estimated at up to £550million.

    BBC bosses are lobbying for a new deal before 2027, when the royal charter that governs the broadcaster is due to renew.

    An insider previously told The Times: ‘Our priority is ensuring the BBC is sustainable as a universal public service beyond just the next few years.

    ‘That shouldn’t mean the price for ordinary households goes up. We’re very sensitive to that pressure.

    ‘Ministers have set out an ambitious agenda of what the BBC should be and we are open to all ideas that, as the consultation says, ensures the organisation ‘not just survives, but thrives’ in this competitive media landscape.’

    Last year, furious Brits spoke to the Daily Mail about why they are no longer paying their licence fees amid a series of scandals at the broadcaster.

    Former Tory MP and ex-BBC staffer Matthew Offord revealed that he stopped paying his licence fee after standing down from his position.

    He said: ‘I stopped paying the licence fee in April, having struggled to do so for many years.

    ‘I concluded that I would pay it while I was an MP, but when it expired, I could not bring myself to do so. I also withdrew all my pension contributions from the scheme at the BBC.

    ‘The atmosphere was toxic when I was employed, but the continuing behaviour of individuals, the groupthink and the rejection of anti-Semitism in their reporting was too much for me.’

    Another former BBC staffer, Robin Whelan, 53, from Surrey, also said he stopped paying the fee when he left the corporation.

    He said: ‘After many years of paying as a BBC staff member, I stopped. I took stock of what I actually used the BBC for. Its website, radio and a little catch-up.’

    The future of the licence fee has come under scrutiny amid a sharp decline in the number of people watching traditional TV channels as viewers.

    A report by the Commons Public Accounts Committee revealed that 2.9million BBC viewers evaded paying the £174.50-a-year fee, costing the broadcaster an estimated £550million in lost income.

    Meanwhile £617million was lost from 3.6million households declaring they don’t need a licence.

    In December, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy set out her vision for the funding of the BBC from 2028 as it enters its once-a-decade charter renewal. Ms Nandy defended the scandal-hit national broadcaster, heralding it as ‘an institution like no other’.

    The charter sets out the BBC’s public purpose and is the constitutional basis for the corporation, which is predominately funded through the licence fee, as paid by UK households who watch TV.

    The Culture Secretary has published a Green Paper, setting out potential reforms of the broadcaster, which ‘consults on a wide range of options being considered for the future of the BBC’, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said.

    Ms Nandy is looking at options for the corporation to raise funds, including allowing the BBC to run adverts across all of its services.

    Another option would see the corporation restrict adverts to iPlayer, the BBC website, and videos posted on YouTube.

    Older shows on iPlayer will become premium content behind a paywall after being free-to-air for a limited period.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15534821/TV-licence-fee-rise-BBC-stable-footing.html

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  7. digg says:

    Labourites quite chipper and upbeat when the Epstein effect was hitting the Royal Family, not quite so chipper when it starts landing on Labour folk themselves!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Narcissism is a personality style characterized by a grandiose sense of self-importance, a deep need for excessive admiration, and a lack of empathy for others. It involves a, often, fragile self-esteem hidden behind a mask of extreme confidence, frequently leading to exploitative or manipulative behavior in relationships and, in severe cases, Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)”

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    “The large Labour Party society LGBT Labour has removed all of its House of Lords ‘patrons’ from its website. Presumably because one of them is Peter Mandelson…” order-order.com

    https://order-order.com/2026/02/06/lgbt-labour-society-removes-patron-mandelson-from-website/

    “removed all of its House of Lords”??????

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  9. Dover Sentry says:

    Not mentioned by our BBC –

    The UK is the epicentre for exploiting men and boys in favour of women’s supremacy.

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  10. tomo says:

    After decades of visiting Nigeria I don’t need the sound on…. maybe it’s AI?

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  11. Dover Sentry says:

    Not mentioned by our BBC –

    Labour have announced that since being in power they have returned 60,000 migrants.
    But, only 30 of these returns travelled by rubber boat across the channel. The vast bulk are returns of Europeans.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/migrants-deportations-shabana-mahmood-labour-home-office-b2914703.html

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Nearly 60,000 migrants and criminals (including Mandelson?) deported since Labour came to power, Home Office says”

      “The Home Office confirmed 43,000 people left voluntarily after being told they were in the UK illegally.”

      Fewer than 200 asylum accommodation hotels remain in use, the Government said, compared with a peak of 400 under the previous government.

      ……………..

      HA HA AHHA HAHA H AH AH AH AH A H! Illegals are nice people!
      Given money to leave?
      “Hadush Kebatu, an Ethiopian national and convicted sex offender who was mistakenly released from prison in October 2025, was given £500 to facilitate his deportation to Ethiopia. ”

      ………………..

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  12. Lunchtime Loather says:

    We had sex in a Chinese hotel, then found we had been broadcast to thousands – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62rexy9y3no

    And it took four of them to write it!

    But what is this? “I monitored one of these websites regularly for seven months”. Seven months? Nothing better to do at the licence payers’ expense than watch porn? Nice work if you can get it.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      HA HA HAAH !

      “Eric no longer uses these Telegram channels to watch porn, he says, but still checks them occasionally – terrified the clip could resurface.”

      no longer uses these Telegram BUT but still checks them occasionally – terrified the clip could resurface

      HA HA HAHA ! HILARIOUS! Wife – I’m checking we are not on the pornhub again! HA HAH A HAH AHHA AH !

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  13. Fedup2 says:

    Looks like Mandelson network includes the higher end of bbc news – it’s as though the revelations of corruption this week never happened … the biggest scandal since … the last one ….

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  14. Fedup2 says:

    In case any more nails are needed for the Labour coffin -it looks like the equally corrupt Rayner is being lined up to take over from TTK …. Just imagine … maybe it’s time the US did some regime change …

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  15. MarkyMark says:

    “Rupert Lowe MP
    I note the BBC is reporting on its main page the third title of the new Gruffalo book, whether olive oil is good for gut health and an actor’s attempt to learn a northern accent in the bath.

    Not a single word on our rape gang inquiry. Nothing.

    They jumped into action to discredit our inquiry last year and failed, being forced to issue an apology.

    Now the hearings have begun, and brave survivors are telling their stories for the first ever time?

    Total silence.

    You can’t hate the BBC enough.”

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  16. MarkyMark says:

    “A Government source has told GB News the migrant being hunted came into the UK on a small boat in January 2024.”

    WE NEED MORE MIGRANTS IN BARRACKS AND HOTELS! MORE DIVERSITY! MORE TOLERANCE! MORE!

    “An illegal migrant who attacked and injured two security guards at an Essex migrant camp has been apprehended by police after a major manhunt.

    Lancashire Police arrested Adnani Mohammad after he was found guilty in his absence of two counts of assault at Colchester Magistrates’ Court.

    Police confirmed Mohammad will now be put before the courts to be sentenced at the earliest possibility.

    Colchester Magistrates Court heard details of his assault by beating at the Weathersfield migrant camp near Braintree.

    The hearing was told that Mohammad had been a resident at the former RAF base when he carried out the drunken attack in April 2024.”
    https://www.gbnews.com/news/migrant-crisis-manhunt-asylum-seeker-attack-guards-essex-raf-wethersfield

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  17. Fedup2 says:

    From the DT

    The cost of the BBC licence fee is to rise by £5.50 from April, ministers have announced.

    An annual fee for a colour television will increase from £174.50 to £180, in line with inflation.

    The BBC is experiencing a growing funding crisis after a series of controversies about biased coverage and thousands of households switching to streaming services.

    The corporation is also undergoing a leadership crisis. In November, Tim Davie, the director-general, and Deborah Turness, the head of news, resigned after The Telegraph revealed a Panorama documentary had misled viewers by editing a speech by Donald Trump.

    The video suggested Mr Trump had encouraged Jan 6 protestors to riot at Capitol Hill by splicing two sections of his speech together that were almost an hour apart. The US president has threatened to sue the broadcaster for $10bn in damages for defamation.

    More than 300,000 households stopped paying the licence fee in 2024.

    Lisa Nandy, the Culture Secretary, has started looking at the BBC’s charter renewal and is considering reforms to put it on a sustainable financial footing, including allowing it to carry advertising for the first time in its history.ENDS

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Fed, I do not like the increase and will not have a TV Licence. My old set, somewhere in the loft, is an old CRT set so I would have to spend money on some upgrades to get it working. As an OAP that is something I am unwilling to do. Where are the TellyTax Inspectors? They promised me a visit on 31 December 2025!

      The TellyTax inspectors seem to be all blow but instead they puff!

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      • Scroblene says:

        I guess that all these intensive investigations are now being directed at all the beeboid emails, tweets etc, where they clearly showed a foreign bias towards unpleasant indiduals invading our country, or now, allegedly betraying us all!

        What an absolute foul stink TTKow has caused just by becoming ‘prime miniscule’ with his motley crew of failed but very expensive, nobodies…

        Third-world politics is in the making here, and luckily for the out-going PM, all this shambles is also keeping the Ridiculous Rachel’s financial ineptitude and disasters out of the press, because there’s not long before her suicidal ‘budget’, (fiddling), becomes ‘law’ around our once lovely country!

        So, we’ll all be paying loads more to keep the illegals, the feckless, the rapists, the lazy, the fat/ugly, the untrustworthy and the political cheats pampered after April 6th, which leaves what elections are left to vote for, about four weeks to crucify every labourite and hopefully kick the whole bloody shebang into touch forever!

        By then the feeble bBC might have managed to shred most of the evidence of their far-left bias too, but there’re sure to be a few texts, emails, letters etc., that they’ll have missed…

        Update from the beeboids – Number of government Mandelson documents could be almost 100,000, BBC understands. That makes ten per lazy sod working from home, so an easy task to check them…

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  18. MarkyMark says:

    “What I can do for the University is take my experience from the rest of the world and in one way or another as a minister, as a politician I have been out there working in the rest of the World. My first cabinet position in Britain was trade secretary. … I literally spent every week in the rest of the World.”
    – Peter Mandelson @10:00


    “Lord Peter Mandelson takes questions from Oxford Union President Ebrahim Osman-Mowafy and the Oxford Union audience as he runs for the Chancellorship of the University. ”

    …………

    In November 2025, following the Epstein revelations, Mandelson resigned as an honorary fellow of his alma mater, St Catherine’s College, Oxford.[193]

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  19. vlad says:

    So 5 Palestine Action protesters (aka violent criminals) broke into a factory and caused huge amounts of damage as well as attacking the guards and fracturing a policewoman’s back with a peaceful sledge hammer.
    And they’ve been released?!
    I can’t be bothered to research the case, but I presume the judge was woke and secretly sympathised with their ’cause’, as did some or all of the jurors  – or perhaps they were threatened into submission, or just couldn’t face the tide of opinion – a bit like the George Floyd jurors who’d have been lynched if they’d found the cop not guilty – which of course he was. 
    If the 5 had broken into a mosque and attacked the imam, they’d be looking at a very long stretch in one of those high security prisons where muslims rule the roost and where they’d probably accidentally trip up a few flights of stairs or suicide themseleves in the back multiple times.

    Of course the 5 are being treated like heroes by all the other Pro-Palestine criminals and will, by example, because of impunity, encourage further criminal acts by the violent left.

    What a world we live in.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Bacon on a mosque door handle – death in prison!

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      • Deborah says:

        A few years ago there was bacon wrapped around the handle of my local synagogue gate. I don’t know how long it had been there and I can’t remember whether it was summer (when it might have been stinking) or winter. Perhaps I am not the profile of people they wanted to upset because had I been the person finding it, I would have been mildly irritated and would have thought it a waste of good bacon.

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  20. Deborah says:

    I am confused (please nobody say that is usually the case). Recently, and I cannot remember how recent but within the last month, I am sure I heard on the radio that Eddy Shah had died.. I can remember thinking it was a name I hadn’t heard for a long time. Today I noticed his obituary featuring on The Telegraph’s obituary page. The oddness is that several sites including Wiki state his death was only announced today. I know I heard of his death very recently. What games are being played?

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  21. harry142857 says:

    From Guido

    Never Crossed My Desk’: Every Scandal Starmer Claimed to Know Nothing About

    ————————————————————————————–

    Starmer has spent the week 1) admitting that he was told about Mandelson’s ongoing friendship with Epstein post-conviction and 2) claiming that Mandelson was dishonest about that very thing. Here is every scandal Starmer has pleaded ignorance over:

    Peter Mandelson & Epstein: Didn’t know about the “depth” of Mandelson’s friendship with Epstein despite being told about it in an official vetting document.
    Football Regulator Appointment: Accidentally approving the appointment of David Kogan despite being recused from football matters.
    Israeli Football Fan Ban: The UK Football Policing Unit told the Home Office about the restrictions on visiting fans from Maccabi Tel Aviv the week before it was announced. Number 10 said no one told Starmer.
    China Espionage Case: Not involved, never saw anything, it was only Matt Collins.
    The first Mandelson & Epstein: “Had I known then what I know now, I’d have never appointed him.”
    Louise Haigh’s Criminal Record: Claimed there was “further information” that was revealed to him that led to her sacking.
    Rayner’s First Housing Scandal: Didn’t need to see the ‘legal advice’ claiming appropriate capital gains tax was paid.
    Grooming Gangs Prosecutions: “Decisions were made by subordinates or that he was not briefed on relevant cases.”
    Andrew Malkinson’s Wrongful Conviction: “Never crossed his desk.”
    Post Office Scandal: “I didn’t see these particular cases. I don’t even know yet what they were about, whether they come within the cohort that is of concern.”
    Al-Fayed Investigation: “These decisions did not cross my desk.”
    More to come…

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  22. Richard Pinder says:

    Tomorrow: BBC 2: Winter Olympics 2026: Day One

    Events coming from one of the most racist parts of the European countryside. A Ski Centre with lots of white snow and white people. However the BBC will mostly concentrate on Jeanette Kwakye and the Jamaican team.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Selfies with Snoop as GB curlers remain unbeaten
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/cg4e4yw0z20o

      ……….

      Snoop Dogg was affiliated with the Rollin’ 20s Crips gang in Long Beach during his youth, a connection evident in his early music and the blue colors often associated with his branding, though he has publicly downplayed his formal membership while acknowledging his past experiences with gang life. He later became heavily involved with Death Row Records, which had ties to various gangs like the Mob Piru, particularly through figures like Suge Knight and Tupac.

      He’s the former pimp married to his childhood sweetheart; the shrewd businessman who smokes 30 joints a day. Can the gun-toting Dogg reinvent himself as a peace-loving Lion?
      https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/apr/06/snoop-dogg-lion-interview

      e emerged in 1993 with the hugely successful album Doggystyle, and set the pattern for 20 years of guns, gangsters and misogyny. His voice was rich and seductive.

      His voice was rich and seductive.

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    • Flotsam says:

      Lyndsey Vonn the downhill skier was girlfriend of Tiger Woods for a time. She wanted a boyfriend she could find in the snow.

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      • Scroblene says:

        Lucky to even find it in this cold…

        (That’s so rude, Scrobs – take a Reformative Course in Re-education about dicks and stuff)…

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    “Scotland Yard Searches Two Mandelson Properties”
    order-order.com
    ……………………….. THEY WON’T WORRY IF THEY FIND MEIN KAMPF ……………..
    ‘They discovered what police officers called ‘Brexity things”
    Freddy Gray discusses the arrest of an ex-police officer over a tweet against antisemitism.

    https://x.com/GBNEWS/status/1921487140678152236

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  24. Fedup2 says:

    Another council ward taken by Reform – Anglesey …. But another – in Somerset ? Was won by the Marxists because the ‘right ‘ vote was split between reform and the dead blues ….

    There needs to be a deal not to compete – or something ….

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    • moggiemoo says:

      Why would Reform agree to that? The Tories clearly aren’t going to step back, they’re way too arrogant and entitled.

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  25. Solomon Grundy says:

    There’s an anti-ICE demonstration going on in advance of the Winter Olympics opening ceremony.

    I can’t help think there’s a joke in this story somewhere.

    https://www.gbnews.com/sport/winter-olympics/winter-olympic-opening-ceremony-anti-ice-protesters

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  26. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Isn’t it funny when those on tv like lefty Chris Chope, when talking about MPs, say things like they can’t stand for PM because they broke the ‘ministerial code’ (Rayner)

    They really think that we think it’s a thing.

    In the real world we think MPs are a corrupt bunch of liars, cheats, selfish narcissists who would sell their own mother if there was anything in it for them.

    You can count the number of good ones on one hand (such as Rupert Lowe)

    When I hear them come out with this ‘ministerial code’ rubbish it reminds me of a Monty Python sketch where a small time wheeler dealer was told the reason his head was nailed to the floor was because he had broken the ‘unwritten code’ (or something similar)

    Ministerial code…phttt!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Keith Vaz, during his time as a minister and subsequently as Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, faced significant scrutiny regarding his adherence to the standards expected of public officials, particularly the “spirit” of the Ministerial Code and the Seven Principles of Public Life. “

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  27. Flotsam says:

    Rayner as PM? Unbelievable, a scrape of the rotten barrel. When it’s suggested to the lefties that Stamp Duty (Tax) evasion should rule out Rayner they come back with the tax affair problems with Reform people. There is of course no comparison, Stamp Duty is very straightforward, Rayner knew of it and was involved with Labour policies concerning it. The mystery for me is why her Solicitor didn’t alert her to the need to pay the higher amount of Stamp Duty. Solicitors are very careful about it.

    Business taxes and especially Capital Gains Tax are extremely complex and very commonly challenged by HMRC. My accountant used to say that he calculated Capital Gains Tax two or three ways and come up with different figures. In the end the amount owed was a matter of opinion and of course HMRC would have a go. Farage has said that every businessman in the land has been through this process.

    Rayner would be a disaster for Britain.

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    • tomo says:

      Fick Ange?

      oh, my sides….

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Tomo – I admit – I want Rayner to be the final Labour PM – the image of her standing in those tedious ‘world leader ‘ gigs will just further my pop corn addiction ….

        … I guess the BBC is now burying the mandygate scandal in the same way they didn’t with cakegate ….

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  28. tomo says:

    SCUM – simples

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  29. Fedup2 says:

    Lucy Connolly is extremely active on X – so much so that I reckon she’ll be arrested for breaching the secret conditions imposed on her – including not being able to visit President Trump ….

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