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Smarmer has been spouting forth about the evils of antisemitism.
One could easily forget he was in a shadow cabinet headed by Jeremy Corbyn, an openly anti Semitic Marxist
‘Antisemitic Marxist’.
Tautology surely.
‘Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said “every part of society” has a responsibility to tackle antisemitism in the UK at a summit in Downing Street.
Sir Keir told senior figures from the police, the arts, higher education and businesses they will be expected to confront “the forces that drive this hatred”, describing a recent spate of attacks against British Jews as “a crisis”.’
Not naming the real culprits….those in the Muslim community and, indeed, our very own BBC whose reporting has whipped up and inflamed anger and emotions against Israel and Jews.
BBC News kills Jews. Must be a reason they still refuse to release the Balen Report….far from being ‘for reasons of journalism’ you might suspect more likely that it might be that they are afraid of being taken to court for provoking ‘hatred’.
“Drag’ our country towards division and fear”…
Small a******e doesn’t see his religious mob have been doing that for ages, and are getting worse with greens, far-lefties and his satanical mob of utter charlatans in County Hall, or whatever he calls his caliphate HQ.
Little shit.
Things aren’t what they seem
A march of solidarity has commenced in Golders Green this evening in support of the Jewish community following yesterday’s antisemitic attack.
Around 100 women of different faiths have gathered to “walk in solidarity” after two Jewish men were stabbed in a terror attack in the area.
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The British government has prepared for terrorist incidents by pre-planning social media campaigns which are designed to appear to be a spontaneous public response to attacks, Middle East Eye has learned.
Hashtags are carefully tested before attacks happen, Instagram images selected, and “impromptu” street posters are printed.
In operations that contingency planners term “controlled spontaneity”, politicians’ statements, vigils and inter-faith events are also negotiated and planned in readiness for any terrorist attack.
These campaigns have been deployed during every UK terrorist incident in recent years, including the London Bridge attack in June 2017 and the Finsbury Park mosque attack that took place two weeks later.
Within hours of an incident, campaigns are swiftly organised, with I “heart” posters designed and distributed according to the location of the attack. Plans are also drawn up for people to hand out flowers at the scene of the crime, in apparently unprompted gestures of love and support.
The purpose of the operations, according to a number of people involved in their creation who spoke to MEE, is to shape public responses, encouraging individuals to focus on empathy for the victims and a sense of unity with strangers, rather than reacting with violence and anger.
Many of the operations are said to be modelled on extensive plans that were drawn up to channel public anger in the event of any attack at the 2012 London Olympics.
Some strategies had been devised in 2011, when social media platforms were aiding communication between protesters during the Arab Spring – and when a series of riots were erupting across English towns and cities that summer.
One senior figure involved in that contingency planning told MEE that the riots “absolutely terrified” the British government, and that Theresa May, who was then home secretary and is now prime minister, had been particularly shaken.
The measures drawn up in advance of the Olympics were intended to “corral the Princess Dianaesque grief” that was expected to emerge after any mass-casualty attack – a reference to the public mourning that followed the death of the royal in a car crash in 1997. This person describes those measures candidly as an attempt at “mind control”.
Although there was no terrorist incident at the 2012 Olympics, variants of the plan are said to have been deployed in the wake of every attack in the UK since then.
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Home Office organised, been going on for many years.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/mind-control-secret-british-government-blueprints-shaping-post-terror-planning
Harry – maybe it’s project ‘thoughts and prayers ‘ or ‘lessons will be learnt ‘…?
No, not that project.
How much? How much? How much?
“Government funding to tackle antisemitism and support Jewish communities”. When you add it all up, the muslim “community” are simply piling on the taxpayer cost of their presence here.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/funding-boost-to-help-councils-tackle-antisemitism
A, “boost” of half a million (taxpayers) £. Knee-jerk.
All part of the continuing nonsensical administration of this country.
Why no money to enhance the protection of young girls up and down the country from muslim men?
How strange that when Hatun was stabbed in the neck in broad daylight promoting Christianity at Speakers Corner, Hyde Park that there was no spontaneous protests about this.
How strange that in an area with the most CCTV cameras on the planet that there was no publication of an image or identification of the offender.
Almost as though the stabbing of Christians in Londonistan is a UK government approved activity.
“Theresa May has defended herself after being asked whether she had intervened to stop the UK government offering asylum to a Pakistani Christian woman.
The prime minister was asked to “put the record straight” by Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith after reports she had blocked an asylum bid for Asia Bibi.
The Pakistani mother was acquitted of blasphemy last month and has been held in a secure location since her release.
Her husband has previously pleaded for asylum from the UK, US or Canada.
He says the family are in danger.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46369981
The BBC just cannot work out a real stance on the US Iran conflict – so when 47 halts the Hormuz operation it sort of declares it ‘a failure ‘ for the US and therefore a victory for its Iranian comrades ….
It then puts up a cheer leader for Iran to support this .
But really – who knows what’s going on ? I read yesterday on X that Iran has used a new missile – freshly imported during the ceasefire – and most just didn’t work or were intercepted – is it the ‘temo’? Missile ….?
Anyway – 47 is due to go to chinah next week – I bet they don’t leave him wandering alone around some tourist trap like they did Starmer – an embarrassment for UK Power not to be forgotten …
USA is saying it has weapons and can use them and has soldiers that will go to battle. Note that China buys 90% of oil from Iran, so could stop Iran with sanctions and from killing their own people in a single day – but choose to hurt the USA, just like China buys North Korean goods.
Disappeared news stories
1 Nottingham inquiry
2 Manchester airport trial
3 TTK rent boys
I wish the Nottingham enquiry story had disappeared. On East Midlands Today they can’t stfu about it.
Sorry moggie – but nationally it seems to have disappeared – I know it’s harsh but it’s a waste of time – nothing will change – the families of the slaughtered will achieve nothing – but I know it is something they must push in the grief ….
I was quizzing Ai about the rent boys earlier today.
It seems it is following the principle of the BBC’ ‘Lie by constraining headline’. Meaning they set the title specifically so they will not talk about anything else.
The rent-boy trial is very specifically about whether they set fire to things or not. Which I take to mean they will not mention anything at all about why Starmer and these rent-boys are aquainted.
AI is a very slippery eel to pin down. I asked it if the BBC were reporting it. It said yes – they are reporting it daily. So I challenged that by telling it they only reported the start and haven’t written another word a a week. To which it replied it meant they reported it daily last year when it happened, not now.
So I asked it why they have stopped now. It said it may be because the trial is in recess. I asked if the trial was in recess. It said no. Then it said it might be because of the bank holiday. It was being very evasive. Eventually it admitted there might be some kind of injunction preventing reporting. It was unable to grasp the concept that maybe the BBC were not reporting it to protect Starmer due to the upcoming election.
One of the ‘unofficial ‘ journos sitting in the court says at least one mobile has been recovered from the ‘boys ‘ but the contents – for some reason – is being drip fed to the court – how long did the plod / cps have to prepare the case ? 18 ? Months …
Don’t know if the BBC have reported this same ‘story’ but if they didn’t, you can sure they wanted to but the lawyers advised against it.
Just look what the ‘Muslim Council of Britain’ has to say about Starmers disingenuous statements about anti-Jew racist attacks:
‘The Muslim Council of Britain stands in solidarity with the Jewish community facing an abhorrent rise in antisemitism and those affected by the attack in Golders Green.
At the same time, it is notable that far less attention was given to the fact that the attacker, recently discharged from a psychiatric unit, also targeted a Muslim man, Ishmail Hussein, that very morning. It speaks to a disparity that raises serious questions.
Attempts to frame British Muslims, or all who advocate for Palestinian rights, as collectively responsible for rising antisemitism are inaccurate and counterproductive.’
They (and other Muslim sites on the net) complain that the attempt to stab another Muslim is not being reported enough compared to the attacks on Jews and as such ‘raises serious questions’ directly implying people care more about Jews than Muslims.
I’ve never read such utter nonsense in my life. The terrorist attacked the Muslim because of a personal dispute. Of course we are not told what it was because then it might not be so innocent after all. Then after that he went into the street, looked for any innocent Jews and tried to murder them with a knife.
What a vile outfit the MCB are. The two are not even remotely comparable. One is a violent Muslim scumbag attacking another Muslim because of some disagreement. The other is an extremist Muslim terrorist trying to stab innocent Jews on the streets.
F*ck you ‘Muslim Council of Britain’. You implicitly give yourself away because you are too arrogant and too full of hate to even pretend you acknowledge this terrorism as being wrong. As usual, you blame others for what you absolutely bring on yourselves through your hatred and intolerance.
Through the real special place in Hell is reserved for those who know exactly what these barbaric liars are and choose to ignore it because they want to use them as victims for their own agenda. People like the BBC. We are now at the stage where they share the blood of these attacks with the terrorists.
Message
Boris Johnson
Mayor of London
It is an honour to welcome all delegates to London for the 9th World
Islamic Economic Forum in what is an historic first for a city outside
the Islamic world. I am proud that London is a fantastically diverse
city, boasting not just a great cultural and ethnic mix but also a great
mix of ages too. Londoners from all backgrounds contribute a huge
amount to the capital’s culture and economy.
The presence of WIEF in London recognises the UK’s position as a
major centre of Islamic finance. Islamic finance is already playing
a major role in shaping the economic and physical landscape
of our capital city.
The newly opened Shard, the extraordinary
redevelopment of Battersea Power Station and the Olympic Village
were paid for at least in part by Sharia- compliant finance.,
I also welcome the effort of the British Muslim community in bringing
the World Islamic Economic Forum to London. My team have worked
with the Muslim Council of Britain to bring this Forum to London,
who has been a key delegation at WIEF since its inception.
I want this to continue to work together to continue to strengthen
London’s ties with the Islamic world, and develop a clear legacy
of jobs and growth for Londoners from what promises to be a
successful World Islamic Economic Forum.
Click to access The-Muslim-Pound-FINAL.pdf
TR tweeted
Twice in 3 days, the BBC, not happy that a hate march has been banned after their rhetoric led to numerous attacks on the Jewish community.
.. Have tormented Kemi for not caving to their pressure of “muh what about Tommy Robinson”.
We will Unite The Kingdom! 🇬🇧
Defund the BBC.
I spotted an additional pattern from 3 top lefty activists accounts
They each made two tweets supporting that BBC line
And gathered very high Likes eg 6K
..yet almost all the replies called out the tweet
Indicates that the lefties are using bots to get their Like tallies up
They’ve been doing on HYS a lot. It comes in bursts meaning they are all geared up for something Labour do – then they swamp the HYS almost instantly.
The upticks are just ludicrous compared to normal spread so it is very obviously some kind of troll farm doing it. Yet the BBC are very happy to allow it.
Panorama would be on it to expose the cheats and frauds if it were the far-Right instead of the far-Left doing it.
They know the far-right would get genuine upticks.
“Political Friendships – Harry & Paul Series 2 Episode 2 Preview – BBC”
BBC | 15.4m subscribers
Fury caught on film as MEPs ‘sign in and slope off’
Video footage of MEPs slapping and pushing a journalist filming them while they claim a £258 daily allowance after arriving arrived at work in the evening has sparked new calls for reform to the EU assembly.
Bruno Waterfield
25 June 2013 • 5:08pm
The payment is known as the “sign in and slope off” allowance and is notorious for allowing MEPs to pocket the allowance without staying in the EU assembly, or even Brussels, to do any work.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10141790/Fury-caught-on-film-as-MEPs-sign-in-and-slope-off.html
Based on the House of Lords model . I saw a ‘Labour ‘ heredity peer saying fair well in the chamber being shut down by the Labour front bench – an awful thing – whether you agree with heredity peerages or not – it’s easy for me as I would end the House of Lords – unless I got a title of course – then I’d think it’s a valuable ‘reforming ‘ chamber … see kinnock – dubs – Doyle – Mandelson – falkener – and soon – Starmer
Don’t forget the great John Prescott. Bullyboy brawler extreme.
Swore blind he would never accept it.
Which he didn’t – until it was offered. Then he did.
When his wife was in the local supermarket once, she walked down the tills which were all busy. So she went to the staff and said ‘Do you know who I am ?’ to get her own checkout.
Just part of the character makeup of all the Leftists. Gross, shameless hypocrites.
I was looking at UK average temperatures over time the other day.
Until 1990 they were in a broad band for over a century.
Since then they have undoubtedly risen.
Which is interesting.because UK CO2 production peaked in about 1970 and for the previous 100 years it was higher than it is now, which is under half of the 1970 figure.
So either CO2 production between 1870 and 1970 mysteriously for an unknown and unreported reason had no effect at all on UK climate until 1990 or the two are not linked !!!!!
Which reveals Ed Millibrain’s anti business, anti car, anti people pro collectivist Marxism for the total guff we all know it to be.
Norway Approves Reopening of Three North Sea Gas Fields for Europe
Norway’s government approved restarting production at Albuskjell, Vest Ekofisk, and Tommeliten Gamma fields, led by ConocoPhillips, with 90 to 120 million barrels of oil equivalent still available. The fields will use existing infrastructure, starting late 2028 for about 20 years, sending gas mainly to Germany and condensate to the UK.
The decision bolsters Europe’s energy security as the top exporter, replacing Russian supplies cut off since the Ukraine war, though environmental groups protest amid Norway’s green push.
In the UK, it contrasts with Labour’s no-new-licenses stance, sparking worries over low gas storage and import reliance.
More news
Welsh Nurseries Urged to Log Toddler ‘Racist Incidents’ as Potential Hate Crimes
Activist Young Bob Hit with Curry During Bristol University Debate
Time to vet every sperm for racist thoughts.
Just locally I see bonkers lefty-green primary school teachers parading their charges around a small provincial town with anti global warming placards during school hours…. Not a voluntary Saturday morning thing – the entire school on a weekday – call me a curmudgeon if you like, but I reckon that’s just not right.
I’d go down and take my sprog home.
I see Google are stuffing gigabytes of AI model onto Chrome users machines – without asking – as in *implicit* consent …
I’m confident that it’s entirely benign – after all, the company motto is “do no evil” .
“The Dragonfly project was an Internet search engine prototype created by Google that was designed to be compatible with China’s state censorship provisions.[1][2][3] The public learned of Dragonfly’s existence in August 2018, when The Intercept leaked an internal memo written by a Google employee about the project.[4][5] In December 2018, Dragonfly was reported to have “effectively been shut down” after a clash with members of the privacy team within Google.[6] However, according to employees, work on Dragonfly was still continuing as of March 2019, with some 100 people still allocated to it.[7]
In July 2019, Google announced that work on Dragonfly had been terminated.[8]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine)
The Dragonfly search engine was reportedly designed to link users’ phone numbers to their search queries[9][1] and censor websites such as Wikipedia and those that publish information about freedom of speech,[10] human rights, democracy, religion, and other issues considered sensitive by the Chinese government.
What weights.bin is and does
weights.bin is the actual neural network — the trained parameters of Gemini Nano, Google’s small (3.25 B parameter) on-device language model that ships with Chrome. It’s roughly 1.7–4 GB depending on quantization, and is bundled with two companion files (config.json, tokenizer.spr or similar) under optimization_guide_model_store\\.
What it actually powers in Chrome today:
– Writing assistance / Help me write in form fields and Compose flows
– Translator API, Summarizer API, Rewriter API (the window.ai.* Built-in AI APIs that web apps can call)
– Prompt API — generic on-device chat completions for developers
– Tab grouping suggestions and a few minor UX helpers
It runs locally on your CPU/GPU, so zero round-trip to Google for the inference itself — that’s the privacy/latency selling point.
Presently Google are stuffing onto machines – I wonder if it’s got “dial Cheltenham” baked in…
How many students in the crowd are foreign that cheered the Shia Muslim woman as she screamed at Young Bob
“Pack up and go home”
#irony
https://x.com/ProjectAlbion/status/2051698072934023391
“Students threw a tub of curry during a debate on why I believe DEI is racist at the University of Bristol.
I’ll be looking to press charges against those who attacked me,
and at the same time I’m now facing allegations of physical assault after defending myself.”
Honour killing next time to show how tolerant diversity is?
Whatever you think of Starmer / reform – he / they are certainly living rent free in the heads of Islamic lefties – judging by the number of reform posters being stolen /damaged – showing up on X … it’s both a pleasure and pity to see – the perpetrators would be ideal for the coming internment camps for dissenters…
“Ong was awarded £264,442.09 by the university in compensation.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3d25p3kpeno
A part-time cleaner has won more than £260,000 after an employment tribunal found she was unfairly dismissed by a university following a dispute over a rice cooker.
Must have been a big rice cooker … lucky it wasn’t an air fryer
Alison Pearson – vote Thursday
STARTS We can’t go on like this. That’s what everyone I speak to says. But why bother voting when things are so bad and there are another three years of this grotesque incompetence and barefaced lying to go? If you think you may have better things to do than popping to the polling station – refilling the bird feeder, say, or power-washing the patio – I beg you to make the effort.
On Thursday, we have the chance to register our dismay at this appalling Labour Government and our complete and utter rejection of the sanctimonious, anti-British lawyer who leads it (or tries and fails to). The Prime Minister’s presence was not wanted on the campaign trail by Labour councillors who have twigged that Sir Keir is to voters what hantavirus is to cruises. Both are poisonous.
Instead, the PM was in Armenia doing his favourite thing, pledging to give away money we don’t have to the EU. My, how he lights up in the presence of Ursula von der Leyen, squirmy as a contented cat on its back in the sun. And how generous of Ursula to say that Britain can make annual payments of £1bn into European budgets as part of the PM’s Brexit “reset”.
“Starmer negotiated with the EU and got it up to £2bn”, as one wag on X put it. Sums it up nicely, doesn’t it? The UK imports far more goods than it exports, running a stonking £89bn trade deficit with the EU last year, but somehow it is we who must go cap in hand to a bloc rejected by the largest vote in our history. Apparently, no price is too high to salvage Starmer’s premiership or to distract from Labour being on the point of a historic wipeout in Wales, Scotland and other former Leftist strongholds. If they get away with losing only 1,800 seats, they’ll be lucky.
It is a mark of how low Starmer and his party have sunk in the 22 months since their loveless landslide that making Peter Mandelson our ambassador to Washington scarcely scrapes into the top 10 of unforced errors. This may just be me, but increasingly it feels as if we are under enemy occupation. Our basic freedoms and values are under threat: sinister moves to restrict trial by jury, a blasphemy law by the back door, aborting babies up till birth.
Our borders are a joke, unworthy of a serious country. Our energy security is non-existent thanks to Ed Miliband’s deranged and indefensible pursuit of net zero. Thetford Grammar, a school dating back 1,400 years, says it will soon close due to socialist spite, which hasn’t done a thing to improve the chances of children in state schools but has blighted the happiness of thousands of youngsters whose parents can no longer afford private education.
In Shirkers Not Workers Britain, over 600,000 people get more in benefits than hard-working men and women earning the national average wage – both obscene and demoralising. A Telegraph investigation found our veterans have been pursued by the Attorney General, Lord Hermer, for split-second actions taken 40 years ago, although Hermer conceded there had to be “wiggle room” if, by any misfortune, things didn’t go his way and the accused men turned out to be innocent after all. Human rights lawyers have done more good than soldiers, the bounder added. Off to the Tower with him, I say!
What else? Oh yes, don’t forget the Government tried to stop 30 local elections going ahead because democracy is such a nuisance when voters think you’re useless. Only the threat of legal action by Reform UK saw them reinstated.
Meanwhile, Angela Rayner, scheming to become the single most ignorant person ever to hold the office of prime minister, posts a video of herself with a group of schoolboys. When one lad dares to suggest that “Nigel Farage would be better than Keir Starmer”, Ange unleashes a volley of misinformation, saying that Reform wants a more insurance-based health system, one that is “not free at the point of use”. Furthermore, she berates the blushing boy, who can’t be much more than 15, saying her (premature) son “would probably not have survived” in such a health system. (She seems to have forgotten she sued the NHS for a large amount of money over mistakes made at his birth.)
To all of the above, you can add Labour’s jaw-dropping hypocrisy over anti-Semitism. Sir Keir was booed when he visited Golders Green, the blameless heart of British Jewish life, after two men were stabbed by a Somali with the obligatory “mental health issues”. (Please can the media stop referring to Islamists who should never have been given leave to remain as “a British national”? We know exactly what they are and, in no meaningful sense, are they British.)
It has been perfectly clear to many of us that, since pro-Palestinian groups applied on October 7, 2023, the very day of the Hamas massacres in Israel, for permission to march through London, an epidemic of Jew-hatred was likely to be the result.
Labour, though, found itself in a tricky position. Dependent on votes from the Muslim community, some of whose members are steeped in anti-Semitism by hate-preaching imams in mosques no one is brave enough to shut down, it was reluctant to rock the multicultural boat. Instead, Starmer mouthed platitudes like “to be British is to be diverse”, while that same diversity was leading to Jewish people becoming increasingly scared and even making plans to leave their home, this country.
Starmer can no longer ignore the problem, as was his instinct, because the situation is raging out of control. The UK National Terrorism Threat Level has been raised to “Severe”. A putrid Green Party is contesting Thursday’s council elections not on bins and potholes but Gaza and “genocide”. One Green candidate suggested, outrageously, that Israel was behind the Hamas atrocities. Until a hasty U-turn, the party’s leader, Zack Polanski, a Jew himself, was wondering whether the threat Jewish people were feeling was real or just a “perception”.
A report released on Monday, May 4 by think tank Policy Exchange, Understanding Islamopopulism: Views of Concern, says British Muslims are on course to further distance themselves from the Labour Party in key election battlegrounds, as well as having “widely differing views from the general population on Gaza, blasphemy and cultural issues such as gender segregation and the presence of dogs in public spaces”. In other words, unlike our Jewish community, too many are poorly integrated and hold un-British values.
On Monday, at a hastily convened meeting of police, university and health leaders and unions in Number 10, the Prime Minister said Britain must have a “whole-of-society response to eradicating anti-Semitism. Everyone has a responsibility to stand with Jewish communities”.
Many of us have been doing exactly that, Prime Minister, for two years and seven months since the worst slaughter of Jews in a single day since the Holocaust. And no, you do not get to deflect the blame for anti-Semitism onto the British people in general. We know who the culprits are.
Criticising the Arts Council for funding organisations that promote the work of artists accused of anti-Semitism, and calling on the council to withdraw or claw back money from organisations that “provide a platform for anti-Jewish hate”, is welcome. It’s a start. But what is urgently needed is the abolition of a two-tier system that sees police and other groups protecting Islamists at the expense of Jewish safety.
Absolutely no to an “anti-Muslim hostility” definition, which will only serve to silence the fears that need to be heard. Yes to a ban on incendiary marches, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, whose vile members, quite unbelievably, are allowed to move freely in this country when they are banned in Arab countries.
And let us see no more purity tests for British Jews, like the one posed by Sir Tony Brenton, former British ambassador to Russia. In The Times, Sir Tony suggested that if Jews here were more critical of Israel’s conduct in Gaza, they might improve their chances of not being stabbed. Shocking victim-shaming. What other ethnic group is held to that standard?
It was great to see Kemi Badenoch giving a fiery riposte to a pro-Palestine sympathiser who asked, “What about the rise in attacks on Muslim people?”
“Let’s stop pretending something else is happening,” the Tory leader shot back, declaring that she would always stand with British Jews.
That is one of the stark choices on the ballot paper on Thursday. Vote for the Right, either Reform or Conservative, who will take a stand against anti-Semitism, or vote for the lunatics who indulge the Jew-haters and will end up destroying our way of life.
Please vote. Your country needs you, now more than ever.ENDS
Perhaps Dave / Zack pouden – is a bit like one of those concentration camp Jewish guards who guided fellow Jews into the shower rooms ….
Fashion is Art edition
In which your Mr AsI has a right old Moaner Lisa
And in which he may want to borrow as motto for his references the line “The more bonkers and unrelatable the better”
As predicted by the more cynical among us, that “government of service” chap: Keir Starmer promises ‘stability and moderation’ in first speech as PM. First Labour prime minister since 2010 promises to serve whole country as he speaks outside No 10 (Guardian, ‘This article is more than 1 year old’ – have we really suffered for less than two years of this schmuck as PM? It feels like a decade)
Of course he now predictably threatens his Labour drones that he’ll bring the house down if they try to replace him with something that looks vaguely more acceptable to the British public.
Back me or you’ll need another general election… Starmer’s message for Labour mutineers – this in the junior poundshop (plus 10% pre-Iran war inflation) cadet edition of the Gruan that is the lower reading age left-leaning option i paper
Speaking of dire predictablity, our liberal mainstream go weak at the knee over the self-reguarding, $100,000 a ticket (plus one for nepo baby) celeb jamboree red carpet shat walk that is the Met Gala.
One was amused by a conservative-leaning commentator, confronted by news of the annual Met Gala, told how he couldn’t quite understand how grown adults still felt the need to attend Halloween parties – translated into a good old Britishism: Fancy Dress.
Another old school US journalist regretted the decomposition of the event from parade of beauty to one of a festival of grotesquerie.
The singer Beyoncé wears a skeleton dress to the Met Gala in New York – front page feature photo from the Harlem Voice wannabe that is the Guardian – that front page of theirs is taking on the characteristics of a DFS sofa – and I don’t refer to the scatter cushions.
And with everything going on in the world… how come no front page feature photo of a homeless Lebanese family bombed out by the Israelis? Kid’s teddy bear with a slightly scorched ear.
‘Nothing will bring back my son’: How 10 minutes of bombing by Israel shattered lives in Lebanon (Nawal Al-Maghafi, Senior international investigations correspondent, Reporting from Lebanon, BBC)
The Gruan excuses their indulgence of the photo opportunity desperate exposure-hungry celebs: …one of the biggest nights in the fashion calandar – which raised $42m (£31m) for the city’s metropolitan Museaum of Art – so that’s all good then.
Getting somewhat long in the tooth but still pin-up worthy for the pleasure dome that is The Sun: Bey’s a diamond pleaser… Met Gala special: See pages 2&3 – I don’t need to remind readers hereabouts Sun page 3 – and 2 for that matter – are beyond one’s present remit.
The mildly conservative Telegraph tends to scoff – but covers it anyway: Plastic parade How tweakments took centre stage at Met Gala
The regime mouthpiece, formerly serious now mainly female interest Times is unashamed in their coverage: The best looks at the Met Gala
The official voice of the left is onboard with the all the nonsense – the Guardian tops the BBC’s print press pile yet again today
Watch. How did Heidi Klum become a living Met Gala sculpture? Celebrities arrived at the 2026 Met Gala with their take on this year’s theme – costume art – where organisers asked attendees to experiment with the lavish and whimsical dress code. Prosthetic make-up designer Mike Marino reveals to the BBC how he created the show-stopping costume for Heidi Klum at what’s often described as the biggest night in fashion. (BBC)
This year’s dress code was “Fashion is Art,” inviting guests to interpret fashion as an embodied art form. The event raised about $31 million in 2025, the biggest gross in its 77-year history, according to museum officials. (BBC)
How does that old phrase of the elite go… Let them eat cake…?
So it’s left to the also rans of the left field to strike the sour notes.
Katie Rosseinsky Met Gala’s Lauren Sanchez Bezos is the poster girl for a souless world – the left-leaning Indy getting a tad existential.
The i paper’s notion of “Culture” includes a sort of a backhanded celebration of the event: Met Gala bingo The more bonkers and unrelatable the better
Is it all about the art, or do regime politics have to override artist expression?
Biennale spat Sour note over Russian entry… Artists perform at the Russian pavilion of the Venice Biennale… Brussels has warned Rome… risks breaching EU sanctions – the FT, or as I do so like to term it the Brussels Trumpet tending to reveal the notion of free artistic expression is reduced to a load of balalaikas.
As you know, Mr AsI still thinks the Wilmslow Boy did it – so you may have guessed his reaction to the Met Police flying some media kite about putting the latest prize patsy on trial at the Old Bailey in the Madeleine McCann case. Wot with our courts backlog, he scoffed. Fortunately, for all concerned, we can rely on the Germans to scotch this daft notion – and blame Brexit to boot: Brexit blocks McCann suspect’s extradition (Telegraph)
In case your were wondering, the Labour party daily election leaflet that is the front page of the Mirror goes with the screamer: We’re still only ones on your side
And just to prove our strict task masters, who desire simply to be cruel to be kind to us, and all in our own best interests, decide to relent somewhat: Junk food crackdown may be put on ice… which would lead to higher costs for grocers and higher prices on shelves (Telegraph) – with this Labour government one increasingly feels one is residing in a rather strict nursery school.
But be in no doubt, the project still goes on: Report ‘racist toddlers’ to police nurseries told (Telegraph) – Wot, with our courts backlog?
1 in, 1 attached to a member of Parliament or Lord from the house of lords. Watch the laws change over night as they sit with then and their kids in the same room.
“Nurseries urged to report ‘racist toddlers’ to police
Taxpayer-funded guidance backed by Labour advises childcare workers to call authorities if incidents could be deemed hate crimes”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/05/nurseries-urged-report-racist-toddlers-hate-crimes-police/
Urine larceny cont’d
Sony Music UK – £328.00
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The Ivors Academy – £1,920.00
Two tickets to the Ivor Novello Awards ceremony,
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Premier League – £3,000.00
Two tickets to the Brit Awards 3000.00
Sky Arts – £360.00
Dinner and hospitality for two at the Sky Arts Salon
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Comment “You could simply suspend taxes and duty on fuel and prices would be half what they are this morning. . — This would take the supply inflation bit out of price rises. Milliband demolishing industries and Reeves demolishing the economy while increasing the size of the unproductive ‘state’ will do enough to kill all future inflation, economic growth, jobs and services anyway.”
https://order-order.com/2026/05/06/fuel-price-hike-pushes-service-price-inflation-to-highest-level-since-2022/#comments
Fuel Price Hike Pushes Service Price Inflation to Highest Level Since 2022
More from Guido.
https://order-order.com/2026/05/06/starmer-set-for-30th-reset-as-no10-considers-binning-manifesto-tax-pledges/
Starmer Set for 30th Reset as No10 Considers Binning Manifesto Tax Pledges
he ‘Save Starmer’ operation is flying kites over what it might do in the wake of the local election bloodbath. Rumours persist of yet another reset speech, coupled with a ludicrous plan to publicly shred the manifesto so Number 10 can “go big” on its fantasy economics. That promise not to raise income tax is really, really inconvenient…
If the speech goes ahead, it would be Starmer’s 30th attempt to reset his leadership:
September 2020: Starmer used a ‘new leadership’ slogan to try and relaunch his leadership.
January 2021: Starmer used another speech to launch the slogan ‘Secure, Protect, Rebuild’
February 2021: Starmer launched his ‘New Chapter for Britain’ with a ‘policy blitz’.
June 2021: Labour changed slogan to ‘Stronger Together’.
September 2021: Starmer wrote a 14,000 word ‘mission statement’ with no new policies in an attempt to ‘reset’ his leadership.
December 2021: Starmer claimed that after a year and a half of leadership, he would be setting out his ‘ideas’ to ‘build a new Britain’ throughout 2022.
January 2022: A year after ‘secure, protect, rebuild’, Starmer reset his leadership with a ‘security, prosperity, respect’ slogan.
April 2022: Starmer relaunched his leadership with a new slogan, ‘On your side’.
June 2022: Labour confirmed another ‘policy blitz’ after their failed ‘blitz’ in 2021.
January 2023: Starmer used a speech to reset his leadership and pitch himself as the ‘candidate of optimism.’
February 2023: Starmer set out his own Five Missions for Britain.
March 2023: Starmer launched his local elections campaign with his twelfth slogan: ‘Build a better Britain’.
May 2023: Starmer set out his plan to reform the Labour Party, going ‘further and deeper than New Labour’s rewriting of clause iv’.
October 2023: Starmer changed his Five Missions for Britain – ditching his commitment to the highest growth in the G7 to ‘get Britain building again’.
January 2024: Starmer used his new year speech to pitch the general election as a chance to ‘turn the page, lift the weight off our shoulders, unite as a country, and get out future back’.
May 2024: Starmer relaunched Tony Blair’s 1997-style pledge card.
July 2024: Starmer changed Labour’s primary mission again to ‘securing economic growth’.
October 2024: Starmer was forced into relaunching his Number 10 operation following the resignation of Sue Gray.
December 2024: Starmer delivers his “Plan for Change”.
March 2025: Big pitch on reforming Whitehall with programme to scrap quangos and reform way civil servants work.
May 2025: “Securing Our Borders” reset and new slogan on immigration policy.
July 2025: Cabinet away day seeks to reset the tone of government, fails.
September 2025: Downing Street reset. Darren Jones appointed to a new role as Chief Secretary to the PM. Tim Allan installed as Starmer’s fourth communications director in five years.
September 2025: Rayner resigns over the stamp duty scandal. Full cabinet reshuffle follows. Half the cabinet (12 of 27) move jobs; Jones promoted again to Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
September 2025: Labour Party Conference speech in Liverpool declares political war on Reform and pitches “A Britain Built for All”.
December 2025: “Britain Built for All” relaunched at Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre.
January 2026: New Year political broadcast launches “renewal not grievance” slogan. Days later, Starmer pivots Labour towards EU single market alignment on Kuenssberg, slapping down Lammy and Streeting on the customs union.
February 2026: Mandelson-Epstein scandal forces the resignations of chief of staff Morgan McSweeney and comms director Tim Allan in 24 hours. Cabinet Secretary Chris Wormald goes shortly after. No.10 is left looking for a fifth communications chief in 12 months.
February 2026: Dame Antonia Romeo appointed Cabinet Secretary, the first woman in the role. Charged with “driving change” and reforming the civil service.
May 2026: Post-local elections reset speech. The 30th.
The man has been in Downing Street for less than two years, even if it feels like a century…
I really think the Labour Party politics sink to a new low. I’m sure banning marches is rather more to do with a Tommy Robinson march than the antisemitism on other marches. Just like banning protesters from wearing masks only seems to apply to certain demonstrations.
Yesterday The Times did a large hit piece on the charming David Poulton (do the press mention his real name in the same way they do Tommy Robinson?). Believe me, I have no love for the leader of the Greens. However, the stories of his background not being entirely correct come out days before the election. I can only presume the Labour Party are hoping at the very least less people voting Green now not voting Green and voting Labour instead, particularly in London where it is expected that several boroughs will go Green. The trouble for Labour is, if people are like me, I would see that the press is trying to undermine the party I am wanting to vote for, and be more determined than ever to vote.
Excellent news – 30 year gilt interest rate now up to 5.75% – 20 year 5.08?% … looks like the end is getting closer …… sooner the better …. Imagine when the msm realises it – and President Trump will get the ‘blame ‘ not Rachel ….
2023 “Sir Rod Stewart has called on the Conservative government to “stand down” and make way for Labour, in an impromptu call-in to Sky News. The British pop star, 78, phoned in to the broadcaster’s “your say” programme while building his model railway at home to discuss problems in the NHS. Sir Rod described the state of the NHS as “heart-breaking” and said he had never seen the country “so bad”. The Maggie May singer said it was time to “change the bloody government”. Labour welcomed his spontaneous call for political change, which was splashed across the front pages of newspapers on Friday.”
1974 “In 1974, a Labour government hiked the top rate on ‘earned’ income to 83% for a top rate of 98%, the highest permanent rate since the war. Rod Stewart fumed:
The Government thinks it’ll tax us bastards right up to the hilt because we won’t leave, but that’s wrong because I will if I want to…with a 90 percent tax ceiling, it’s just not worth living in England any more.”””
It’s alright for the rich, they can afford to be massive hypocrites.
When you have a home in each country you can ignore the rules of normal life!
Curious – the bbc radio news reports the conviction of an ex snp councillor with a fondness for young boys – nothing new there … yet why report that ? When every other days – it seems _X reports Labour councillors committing similar sins – but not mentioned ….
[This was accidentally mis-posted on the previous thread.]
Fedup2 referred to the Green representative’s shameful performance at Question Time. She was asked where all the ‘racial hatred’ was coming from. In the context of antisemitism, the answer was obvious: ISLAM. Pure and simple. I-S-L-A-M.
Of course a Green couldn’t afford to alienate her voter base so she repeatedly plays dumb and dances around the question. Aided and abetted by the idiotic Fiona Bruce who does her best to deflect the question. At one point she even gets quite tetchy towards the impertinent questioner: “What are you getting at exactly?”(She knows, she knows. Savour the contorted look of horror on her face.)
This is, of course, a trap: if he replies ‘Muslims’ then the entire panel and most of the audience can throw their hands up in horror with cries of “Racist” and no doubt get the audience member frogmarched out of the studio.
It’s reminiscent of when mayor Khunt was repeatedly asked by Susan Hall about grooming gangs in London. He too played dumb and tried to manouevre her into saying the taboo word Islam.
Here’s an excellent humorous commentary on the segment in question from the brilliant Sky News Aus.
Comment “Did she do more, or less time than Lucy Connolly? I know Lucy did not say anything as bad as that ?”
Polanski Retweets Post by Former Labour Councillor Who Called to ‘Blow Up’ Jewish Conference
https://order-order.com/2026/05/06/polanski-retweets-post-by-former-labour-councillor-who-called-to-blow-up-jewish-conference/#comments
Polanski retweeted a supportive message from Harriet Bradley, a former Labour councillor and Bristol University lecturer who in 2023 was the subject of a police investigation after calling on someone to “blow up” a Jewish Labour Movement meeting.
“Put Your WEAPONS Back In The MOSQUE” | More Unrest Across UK Streets | Alex Phillips| 587k views 1 year ago LONDON
They are so great they need to expand their greatness!
Has voodoo been misjudged?
Published | 1 September 2017
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-41048840
Inside the temple, where more than 50 snakes are slithering around a custom-made pit, local devotees make amends for sins of the past year.
They’re not immigrants in their own country.
“Greg James’s Comic Relief bike sells for £11,000”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8pkek3kyvo
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The BBC’s director general has said “discussions are under way” about the possibility of clawing back £200,000 from disgraced news presenter Huw Edwards, but that he has not yet returned the money.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm23lmn2n9yo
Is ‘Tit Whisperer’ Zack Polanski related to Roman Polanski?
He had strange tastes in sex, too.
I heard a Green responding to the admission by Davey poulsen that we was only a bit player in the Red Cross ( really ) and not some high power ‘National coordination’ type –
The green said we are ‘new’ and will get better at vetting …. But this was the boss ! – can you imagine someone having to do a DV on him – Mandelson style ? ( remember him ?)
Is this AI using AI to talk about AI?
“The algorithm in social media deciding what you see, what is in your news feed, if you’re on youtube what is the next video you watch. Those algorithms are designed to maximise engagement. Want to keep you on the platform as long as possible. They want you to click on as many things as possible. And those objectives are not really aligned with what is in the best interests of users and society. And so what has happened is the algorithms learn to not just send you what is interesting but sequentially, over time change who you are. The algorithms want to change you to be more predictable in your consumption of social media. They have worked out how to do that by sending content that is more polarising. That is more extreme and makes them consumers and reliable on that type of content. ” Sam Altman head of OpenAI
Livestream Musk vs. Altman
Dark Triad True Crime
“Rafe Heydel-Mankoo | @RafHM
The grotesque hypocrisy of Keir Starmer & our political class
They celebrated mass immigration of peoples who hold views & beliefs that are abhorrent to our culture
Now, they are SHOCKED at the state of Britain
Yet still they will not name radical Islam as the cause of rampant anti-Semitism…not to mention anti-white racism, misogyny, homophobia, cousin marriage, child marriage, a loathing of Britain and the West etc. etc.
What self-serving cowards.
They have no problem denouncing “the far right” or “online hate”, but they cannot bring themselves to call out Islamic extremism by name.
Instead, the best they can do is to deflect attention on to the pro-Palestine marches.
I loathe the marches. But what is banning going to achieve?
Banning marches is no more a solution to the problem than banning the sale of pointy kitchen knives is a solution to knife crime.
The problem Britain faces is not the marches.
It is the PEOPLE in those marches:
In other words, Muslim extremists and their far-left enablers – a poisonous alliance that despises the West, despises Jews, and despises everything Britain once stood for.
You will not change their hearts by banning their parades. They will simply find new ways to express the hatred they were taught, many from the cradle.
This is not political incompetence. This is the deliberate, sustained betrayal of the British people by their own political class.
Our political elite imported sectarianism, bigotry, and hatred into a peaceful, tolerant country – and now, when the consequences are plain for all to see, they offer us meaningless platitudes and milquetoast bans.
This is beyond shameful.
We will not forgive them. We cannot afford to. Remember this when you cast your vote.”
https://x.com/RafHM/status/2051929116681683139?
UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood once enthusiastically supported a boycott that forced a Sainsbury’s store to close because it sold Israeli goods.
She praised the “positive atmosphere” of the anti-Israel protest.
https://x.com/LizaRosen0000/status/2049983028298994009
I agree with much of the above, however I think the problem is amplified by a generation of DEI infused younger citizens who have been indoctrinated by the education system to believe that it is evil to think badly of any other national group, including the primitive ones from the Middle East that would part their heads from their bodies without blinking an eye!
“Be it so. This burning of widows (India/suttee) is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.”
– Charles James Napier
MORE GREAT NEWS…FROM A GREAT GOVERNMENT….
Strange that the BBC and indeed others have not dug a little deeper or, dare I say it “verified ” this snippet…but, one of the reasons that NHS waiting lists are going down is due to something called “data validation”, which is NHS staff checking up on and removing patients from waiting lists for reasons such as
1) they have already been treated? ( don’t ask me…)
2)they moved away? ( to where)
3)They have gone private.
I could add, given up and,or died.
But on any view this surely shows a terrific achievement for our future prime minister and all round great guy Wes STREETING, that chum of “Petie” Mandlstein. Who is curiously no longer news worthy?
I had several texts last year asking why I hadn’t attended hospital appointments that I didn’t make and knew nothing about. Tellingly, one of the options in the survey is “didn’t know about it”. That suggests to me that it’s a pretty common occurrence.
I am registered with a GP practice in my small town which is basically formed of almost every previous stand-alone practice.
My experience? I can only describe as bloody atrocious.
1. To contact a GP I have to go to the practice website and join a digital queue that is often forty or fifty strong by 9am. So a wait of 45minutes to an hour before speaking to someone (receptionist) is the norm rather than the exceptional.
2. Alternatively, I can choose to login to the NHS app to try to send a message to the practice but my experience is that it is an average of. 5-7 days before a GP responds to that message to inform you that someone will be calling you back on average in 3-5 days hence and that they cannot tell you what time the call will be made and that if you don’t pickup, they will abandon your request and you will need to repeat the whole process.
No private business would survive providing such an atrocious service.
The whole thing is compounded by the fact that many of the practice GPs are of foreign heritage and difficult to be understood clearly especially on a phone call which leads to miscommunication or simply giving up in despair!
I can say that without a shadow of doubt GP Practices today are far inferior to the same thing 20-30 years ago.
Although I had been registered with the same GP since 1981 I rang up for something around 2010 and was told I’d been ‘de listed ‘ because I hadn’t been in touch …. I thought that weird because I thought they got paid on the numbers signed up ….
yeah, I love the reminders to attend appointments two days ago that I actually attended…
Probably a (misconfigured) tactic to bloat stats – not Hanlon’s razor.
The BBC could easily do a (dark) sitcom about it
Friend – im guessing because the medical mafia practice far left omertà – there is no way of finding out how much list fiddling is going on …. But if nhs trust s have a cash incentive for cutting lists the corruption will be widespread…
Labour told us these local elections couldn’t be done.
Not enough time to organize
Cost is too much
Impossible to do
Al – yes – and if you notice – the BBC does not report attempts to prevent these local elections by Starmer – and has any council said it is not ready for the election on Thursday ?
I haven’t heard of one – and if I recall the corrupt ‘Steven Steve Reed ‘ the housing minister was all over the place telling us why there could nt be elections – like so many of those politicians – souls were sold long ago ….
Being a bit of an anorak i used to stay up for counts – but it seems only a few counts will be announced during Friday early hours with some coming during Friday and the rest on Saturday …. And im sure – even for council elections there will be ward recounts ….
And – guilty secret – i love seeing politicians losing – except those of the Right of course – and the tories are not ‘right ‘ ..
The list of those banned from entering the UK to speak at the rally organised via Tommy Robinson is getting longer by the day – X is keeping us informed ….
The claim that the UK has ‘free speech ‘ is a sham put out by the far left / Islam ….
https://joannenova.com.au/2026/05/what-stranded-asset-norway-opens-up-3-old-gas-and-oil-fields-and-70-new-exploration-sites/
Really… we need Millibrain + troupe of assholes gone ASAP
Par for the course
If it was a real voter he’d have to have the earpiece at least a foot away.
Too right!
Rodney: -“snarf snarf, whining sneer) Vote for me, I tell it as it is”
Fake caller –
“What about foreign aid?
The despots get enough of our money!
They presumably get less now, as the illegals are all crowbarring unto the UK, where the budget, intended to make their ex-country self-sufficient, is being spent on five-star treatment and a life on the UK taxpayer.
…Unless perhaps, just maybe, the overseas gifts to other nations is still going on, and the money being wasted here is actually coming from yet another load of taxes we don’t know about…?
As your ‘administration’ has told far too many lies, and torn up it’s manifesto to confetti, the assumption is that these illegals are being paid for from some ‘secret’ fund that nobody can pin down! Perhaps a civil servant or three might be able to enlighten us, as you and your foul lot certainly will never say the truth”.
Rodney: – “(snarf snarf – whine) “Thanks for your support, the government is winning the argument”.
Just think – on Thursday he ll be in his bunker with Hermer counting the results and complaining about the enemy artillery getting nearer …
There will be downfall videos, insh’Allah
Brilliant Tomo!
Hopefully, Crewkerne will get the picture, as long as they’re not banned!
surprised they lasted that long – WH-Smiths pivoted to rooking at motorway services and airports. BBC call them a bookshop … newsagents maybe but that’s no longer a category and the dead tree press is on its last legs… especially the local rag chains. I see the newstands are even dying in the supermarkets…
Our left-leaning liberal corporate regime broadcasters put themselves into a form of purdah this morning – fearful that a brief glimpse of a national daily newspaper front page might influence our voting – please don’t laugh.
I’m minded to quote Cole Porter:
In olden days, a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking
But now, God knows
Anything goes
While the BBC online news page leaves the reason for the sudden blackout of such dangerous imagery to our imaginations, Sky News online explains: We have not included some of Thursday’s papers as strict Ofcom election rules limit what we are able to publish on polling day.
Turns out only the red top tabloids Sun, Star and giveaway freebie adsheet Metro are suitable viewing for the children… I mean to say their covers stories are deemed sufficiently aparty-political.
For a media echosphere that thrives on Punch & Judy party politics this is a strange last minute abstinence – like feeding the kids sticky toffees on a regular daily basis for a year and then, in the hope of an all clear cavity-wise, advising them to clean their teeth once, just before visiting the dentist.
They would constrain your Mr AsI to serve readers hereabouts some pretty thin gruel for breakfast this morning, considering our remit.
The BBC deliver a handful of short summary paragraphs telling us what we’re allowed to know about what’s in the papers. One has a sense that our BBC might enjoy curating the news under such strict prohibition every day if it were allowed.
BBC has been banging on about it for days now but at last the papers are getting onboard with the Hantavirus (BBC); Rat Bug (Daily Star) scare.
“Were twitchers to blame for cruise ship rat virus?” asks the Daily Mail. Officials reportedly believe hantavirus may have been brought aboard the MV Hondius by a Dutch couple who visited a landfill site in Argentina to take photographs of birds. (BBC) – there’s a joke or two in there somewhere.
Are we blaming rats or birds… bats or pangolins… for this one?
Bizarrely, as the Daily Mirror, that veritable election leaflet for Labour, where today’s top editorial reads: Voice of the Mirror: “When you vote today remember: Reform do not have answers to UK’s problems – here’s why politics of Nigel Farage are insult to you and your family – so says the Mirror with an odd lack of definite articles (grammar-wise) – instead our BBC quote: The Daily Mirror reports on a seagull that has been caught stealing crisps from a shop in Filey in north Yorkshire. The feathery felon, who has been nicknamed Stephen Seagull by locals, reportedly comes in every day for snacks. The Daily Star’s editorial suggests “it surely won’t be long until he’s up before the beak”. (BBC)
Apparently, since the value of goods shoplifted was under £200, the police were reluctant to attend and the liberal-minded judge, on noticing the seagull was an undocumented migrant, let him off with a caution. I jest of course.
But getting back to the health scare… these exotic viruses ain’t nothing – ’til they come to our shores: Rat Bug Victims in UK… Brit passengers self-isolating (Star); Cruise Brits Rat Bug Hell (Sun) – as you know, they lose me at the word “Brits”
The front of the Daily Telegraph features 56-year-old Martin Anstee who has been airlifted from the ship. He is understood to have been taken to the Netherlands for specialist treatment. Mr Anstee’s wife is quoted as saying that it has been “a very traumatic few days” for his family. – relishes the BBC as at last the print press take cover story interest in their hobby horse.
And what a nostalgia-laden for Lockdowns image – paramedics dressed akin to Apollo astronauts.
Sticking with the viral theme, our BBC revisits our most unsuccessful tangentially British tennis starlet: Raducanu withdraws from Rome with post-viral symptoms
The mystery surrounding Raducanu’s strange virus – teases Puntodebreak.com ‘premier Spanish-language tennis news website’ getting a debue hereabouts but sadly not further enlightening us.
I’m oddly put in mind of: Novak Djokovic has said he would rather miss out on future tennis trophies than be forced to get a Covid vaccine. (BBC, 2022)
And then there’s that old staple of the shock headline: threats to your summer holidays. My old mum used to talk of visits to Stopathome and the wonderful views from Windowsill Bay.
S.O.S Save our summer… Flighting talk: Trump’s war in Iran has seen jet fuel price surge with flights axed (giveaway Metro)
‘Officials reportedly believe hantavirus may have been brought aboard the MV Hondius by a Dutch couple who visited a landfill site in Argentina to take photographs of birds’
Not my idea of a holiday – best leave that sort of thing to David Attenborough – I’d prefer not to wade knee-deep in guano for relaxation.
Musk-Altman /Brockman court
He’s actually a CNN employee – that aside, somewhat less hoopla than the rest of the braying herd.
https://x.com/bbcnews/status/2052122919686361104?s=12
Worth reading the comments to get the BBC MDS context.
‘We had people come just to see it’: Amazon delivers its first UK parcels by drone
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx21k21vnmgo
And now – after years of reading from the sales-sheet by BBC ‘science correspondents’ telling us it was virtually here already – the very first drone delivery service has just started. On a very limited basis and only in a selected area. In fact despite the headline, it appears Rob is the only ‘customer’ who has a whole farm for them to hit without anyone shooting it down.
This is yet another 100% sales piece by the BBC and is based entirely on what the person selling it tells them. There is no input from the BBC clone because she doesn’t understand a word of it.
Here she is, bless her:
Emma qualified in ‘politics’ and boasts: ‘Joined the BBC’s Business & Economics shortly before the financial crash and never left. ‘
Like all of them, she’s just writing what she’s told to write.
There must be a morbid feel in the bunker today – with herr Starmer surrounded by the usual -sycophants- Hermer = Hitler = ange = Frau goebells – goebells = Mandelson ( maybe not that one ) .
TTK will be looking on the election map and disbelieving he is surrounded … he ll ‘marry ‘ Wes streeting before the end…. Jess Phillips anointed new leader ….
The government mouthpiece is doing another report.. “Shell profits rise as Iran war pushes oil prices higher” and last week on BP
Anyone sense a “windfall fax” coming soon by the labour lot
Not only does this government rip us of with expensive petrol/diesel prices, they will tax the companies also on the higher revenue – win win for them!
I am now in a position to complain that I am being ‘offended’ by this failed labour government!
As lefties love to react to just one complaint in thousands, and take the whole issue to extremes of cancellation, compensation etc., I feel I have every right to be ‘offended’ by their actions!
Wonder who I speak to first?
“I can’t even imagine how demoralised the Patriots who put all their hopes in Reform must be feeling seeing this”
https://x.com/JaydaBF/status/2051990312512344309