265 Responses to Midweek 20th May 2026

  1. MarkyMark says:

    UK – the hill upon which it will die…..

    “Women’s rights group Sex Matters flags one legal error in the guidance which is a claim that information about sex is likely “special category data” under UK GDPR, but Article 9(1) doesn’t list sex as a special category. It covers sex life and sexual orientation, which are distinct. The death of the culture wars continues…”
    https://order-order.com/2026/05/22/business-secretary-finally-published-trans-guidance-is-sensitive/#comments

    ……………….

    Labour conference: Not right to say only women have a cervix, says Starmer
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58698406
    Asked about the row, Sir Keir said claiming only women have cervixes was “something that shouldn’t be said”.

    In August, Ms Duffield liked a tweet by broadcaster Piers Morgan, who criticised a news story from CNN about cancer screening for “individuals with a cervix”, responding: “Do you mean women?”

    When the MP was called transphobic for appearing to endorse the tweet, she replied: “I’m a ‘transphobe’ for knowing that only women have a cervix… ?!”.

    She later acknowledged that some trans men have a cervix.

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  2. digg says:

    Not mentioned by the BBC for some reason as far as I can tell, a green lefty described as a nurse and child welfare officer drops out of Makerfield election and reveals a rather questionable social media interest….

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/22/green-party-candidate-makerfield-byelection-chris-kennedy-quits

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  3. tomo says:

    Dearlove Is Shocked. He Should Be. But He Is Looking At The Wrong People.

    Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6, said yesterday he was shocked to learn that a senior Foreign Office civil servant had discussed Britain’s nuclear deterrent in closed-door meetings with an organisation he describes as a front for China’s main foreign spy agency. He called for parliamentary scrutiny of Stephen Lillie’s meetings with the Grandview Institution during a four-day trip to Beijing last October.
    Dearlove is right to be shocked. He is looking at the wrong level.

    Lillie’s meeting did not happen in isolation. It happened during what the Telegraph describes as a flurry of trips to Beijing by top British officials amid Starmer’s deliberate thawing of relations with China. Sir Olly Robbins, subsequently sacked, lunched with Grandview experts the week before Lillie’s visit. Jonathan Powell, now the Prime Minister’s National Security Adviser, met Grandview before his appointment. Since becoming National Security Adviser in December 2024, Powell has met Wang Yi, the Politburo member directing Chinese foreign affairs, four times. His vetting arrangements have never been publicly confirmed. Every parliamentary question about those arrangements has been blocked.

    A civil servant discussing nuclear deterrent protocols with a Chinese spy agency front is alarming. The Prime Minister’s National Security Adviser maintaining undisclosed relationships with PLA-connected officials through his private consultancy, while his vetting status remains secret, demands scrutiny of an entirely different order.

    The government’s defence of Lillie’s meetings is that no sensitive information was discussed. That formulation covers every difficult question this government has faced on China. The spy trial that collapsed because the government refused to name China as a national security threat in court. The super embassy approved despite a concealed underground chamber positioned within a metre of the cables carrying the City of London’s financial data. The Mandelson appointment despite a due diligence report flagging China and Russia concerns. The same language. The same outcome.

    Dearlove warned yesterday that Chinese intelligence operates on an industrial scale, approaches every engagement with aggressive intentions, and exploits any relationship it can access. He said British officials should have been briefed in detail about the threat before attending these meetings. He said he has serious concerns about the national security adviser’s previous contacts with China.

    Those concerns are warranted. The question Dearlove has raised about Lillie is a question about process and judgment. The question Powell’s undisclosed vetting raises, alongside the spy trial collapse, the super embassy, the Indo-Pacific withdrawal, and Chinese components being embedded throughout Britain’s energy grid against explicit American intelligence warnings, goes considerably further.

    A pattern of decisions this consistent, each retreating from Britain’s interests and advancing Beijing’s, each defended with the language of pragmatism and engagement, does not emerge from poor judgment alone. Poor judgment produces occasional errors. Sequential decisions, each pointing in the same direction, over two years, by a Prime Minister warned repeatedly who proceeded regardless, produces a different and more troubling question.

    Dearlove wants the ISC to scrutinise Lillie’s paperwork. The ISC is already reviewing thousands of pages on Mandelson. Parliament has been blocked from scrutinising Powell.

    Scrutinise the civil servant by all means. Then ask who sent him, who knew, and why the pattern of engagement with an organisation accused of fronting for Chinese intelligence runs from the bottom of the Foreign Office all the way to the office of the Prime Minister’s National Security Adviser.

    Sir Richard “has serious concerns about the national security adviser’s previous contacts with China.”

    https://x.com/JChimirie66677/status/2057537815811105118

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Dearlove warned yesterday that Chinese intelligence operates on an industrial scale, approaches every engagement with aggressive intentions, and exploits any relationship it can access. ”

      Buy UK for one hole dorrah!

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  4. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      BBC report that it was not in the Billions of Minnesota fraud (c) BBC Verified

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  5. MarkyMark says:

    “Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM
    Today we think of everyone affected by the attack in Manchester on the night of the 22nd May 2017, and particularly the families who lost loved-ones, knowing that every single day of the nine years since has been hard for them.

    We are still at their side and always will be. 🐝”
    https://x.com/AndyBurnhamGM/status/2057688465236505000

    …………… ARE THEY STILL LOST? …………………….

    “Today my thoughts are with those in Manchester who were lost on that terrible night and their loved ones who have so bravely battled to rebuild their lives. All of you – and many more in this great city – are the very best of what this country stands for. ” Theresa May

    ….
    22 Lost in Manchester …. why is this a terrible statement?

    Lost … so they will be found?

    Lost …. weasel words rather than killed or murdered so as not to upset anyone or cause HATE.

    Lost ….. a child given a Western education and opportunity decided Islam was better, but we cannot look into this problem because all cultures are EQUAL.

    Lost …… children killed for an ideology, but that ideology cannot be criticised.

    Lost …….. 1400+ kids were “transformed” over 16 years in 1 town, why not use the word groomed rather than raped.

    Lost ……… the UK has lost the ability to state the actual events, so it is the UK that HAS LOST.

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    • Mrs Kitty says:

      Also on this day in 2013 Lee Rigby was run down and decapitated by 2 Islamic terrorists.
      Not lost but murdered .

      Gone but not forgotten.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “Lee Rigby killer Michael Adebolajo launches personal injury claim”
        Published | 8 September 2017
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-41203229

        An MoJ spokesman said the claim would be “robustly” defended, adding: “The public will be rightly outraged at the thought of this offender claiming compensation from the taxpayer.”

        ………..

        Lee Rigby murder: Michael Adebolajo suing over teeth lost in prison
        Published
        10 December 2015
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35058076

        Like his co-defendant, Adebolajo’s family were hard-working Nigerian immigrants.

        Back in 2003, the group, now banned under counter-terrorism laws, was led by Omar Bakri Mohammed. He fled the UK in the wake of the 2005 London bombings and is now living in Lebanon.

        The group had a considerable presence in Greenwich and the preacher claims that Adebolajo converted after coming to one of his prayer stalls in south London.
        ………
        Lee Rigby killers had links to Lewisham mosque that ‘attracts radicals’
        Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale said to have worshipped at Lewisham Islamic Centre

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  6. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Rachel Reeves reducing vat on Bread and Circuses.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Isn’t it rich?
      Are we a pair?
      Me here at last on the ground
      You in mid-air
      Send in the clowns

      Isn’t it bliss?
      Don’t you approve?
      One who keeps tearing around
      One who can’t move
      Where are the clowns?
      Send in the clowns

      Just when I’d stopped opening doors
      Finally knowing the one that I wanted was yours
      Making my entrance again with my usual flair
      Sure of my lines
      No one is there

      Don’t you love farce?
      My fault, I fear
      I thought that you’d want what I want
      Sorry, my dear
      But where are the clowns?
      Quick, send in the clowns
      Don’t bothеr, they’re herе

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  7. MarkyMark says:

    Hi, I’m Andy Burnham….just like yooose
    https://x.com/exRAF_Al/status/2057706531999662131?

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    “You’ve been digging your basement with a shovel, then someone gives you a bulldozer.” Jeff Bezos

    i.e. small controlled changes compared to wrecking ball! HA HA HAH AHAH AHHA ! Might want to change that analogy.

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  9. digg says:

    I have no particular fondness for Andrew but the glee with which the media, including the BBC keep rolling out the damning backseat of cop car photo of a stunned Andrew at every opportunity as if no normal photos of Andrew exist paints them as vindictive and jealous of his position in society. What disgusting, childish specimens of humanity the left really are and especially the lefty Media!

    I have utter contempt for the lot of them.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      I remember watching Russia Today with Theresa May – every picture she had or was drinking a glass of wine! HA HA HAH A HA H! Just like Claude Juncker!


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  10. Eddy Booth says:

    There’s been a public health warning ⚠️
    take the necessary precautions to stay safe,
    Move to an amber area is my advice.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The Swarm (1978) Official Trailer – Michael Caine, Katharine Ross Killer Bee Movie HD

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  11. MarkyMark says:

    Reality TV risks sinking ‘into the gutter’, warns ex-Channel 4 and Ofcom boss Michael Grade
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yrkxge72eo

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  12. MarkyMark says:

    Burnham says he will implement short change – new change – fast change – less change – more change etc….

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  13. Eddy Booth says:

    “Jury discharged in Manchester Airport assault trial”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgzvxrg1z3o

    “Ian Watkins prison murder trial collapses: Inmates accused of killing paedophile Lostprophets singer face retrial after jury ‘raised concerns'”

    https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15840641/Ian-Watkins-murder-trial-collapses-Jury-discharged.html

    Seems to be lots of trials by jury failing these days.
    Maybe purposely, conditioning us to accepting judges making the decision instead

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  14. MarkyMark says:

    “Seven men, who are all Afghan nationals and refugees, have been charged with 40 offences after an investigation into an alleged grooming gang in Norwich.

    Five of the men arrived illegally in Britain by small boat; two by lorry. All of the men have been in the country for several years. One arrived illegally as early as 2020.

    The charges relate to two victims, who were in their early-to-mid teens at the time of the alleged offences.”

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    • MarkyMark says:

      BEAR COP Now cops wear HIGH HEELS and bear costumes as forces are told to stop stunts and solve crime
      Figures have showed all crime is up, with knife offences rising by a quarter and nine out of ten burglaries going unsolved

      Published: 01:05, 21 Oct 2017

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    • MarkyMark says:

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  15. tomo says:

    IRONY ALERT!

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  16. vlad says:

    Courtesy of We Love Donald Trump UK Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2042982459262790

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  17. MarkyMark says:

    Willie Mandela starring Brad Pitt?
    Winnie Mandela as a fire starter?

    The Winnie Mandela Quote: Following the death of South African anti-apartheid leader Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in April 2018, MP Naz Shah paid tribute by sharing a tweet that included the quote: “Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.”

    “Speaking to Elle, external, Nyong’o responded: “I’m very supportive of Chris’s intention with it and with the version of this story that he is telling. Our cast is representative of the world.”

    She added: “I’m not spending my time thinking of a defence. The criticism will exist whether I engage with it or not.””
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c242d9472dqo

    Nyong’o won an Oscar in 2014 for 12 Years a Slave, and has also starred in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Black Panther.

    Black Panther had only black cast so was racist!

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  18. Jeff says:

    Two items on the news this afternoon, that most people don’t seem to be connecting…

    Firstly, we were told about the latest outbreak of Ebola. This ghastly disease is spread by close contact, contaminated surfaces and materials such as bedding and clothing. The WHO have warned us that there’s an increased rick of further spread due to intense population displacement.
    Oh…and it’s often fatal.

    It seems to have been spread by people fleeing the violence in the Congo and is now causing problem across Africa, particularly in Uganda.

    The next news item was about our illegal cross channel ferry service. They showed us the all too familiar footage of boats crammed full of people bobbing slowly towards Blighty. It looked like a dinghy full of chocolate hobnobs. All of these people are unchecked, most of them male and a good 40% of them from sub-Saharan Africa.

    This is an accident waiting to happen…

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    • tomo says:

      The Dover Ebola outbreak then?

      – I suppose that might put paid to RNLI participation.

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    • Kinell says:

      Hello Jeff,

      I think I posted this on here before, a few years ago.

      I remember listening to the Naked scientists podcast With Doctor Chris Smith from Cambridge university, a consultant clinical virologist. He said one of the reasons Ebola spread is because the family washed the body and then drank the water. I doubt you will hear this on the BBC.

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      • atlas_shrugged says:

        Doctor Chris Smith a Cranebridge university ‘expert’ much-loved by the bBC during the covid plandemic.

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    • moggiemoo says:

      I doubt it’ll be an accident.

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      • Scroblene says:

        Don’t forget that Dover has a labour MP, so Nightingale hospitals will be set up in the docks as we speak…

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  19. vlad says:

    “Scumbag” Elon Musk SHAMES Keir Starmer over silence on anti-white murder of Essex teen Henry Nowak

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  21. Fedup2 says:

    Whenever I do it – I regret it ….. switching on channel 4 news – they’ve got a new Pakistani type US correspondent – a dusky Sarah smith

    Any way – she announces to resignation of tulsi gabard – the report was a long sneer – ms gabard claims he husband has a rare and serious form of bone cancer – sneer – which is why she claims is the reason for stepping down sneer – ms gabard has been at odds with the President over Iran – sneer – and she’s the third Woman to leave the Trump cabinet – sneer …

    Yes – it was all there = the acid of the Far left – so channel 4 – so effing off switch … stop me from doing again …

    The heat of central London today really does bring the crazies out … mayhem in the morning …

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  23. Fedup2 says:

    Friday – so outpost on X has published the latest thoughts of Colin brazier – this time @ 20 minutes on Brexit – and thd conspiracy by the Marxists to fully drag us back into the ReichEU …..recommended .. sorry .. I don’t do ‘links ‘… it’s free

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    • Scroblene says:

      Odds ‘drifting’ on Reform in BodyBagBrexit-land…

      Time to pile on a few quid methinks!

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    • Jeff says:

      I really liked Colin Brazier when he was on GB News. He was always erudite, reasonable and clear thinking. God only knows why they got rid of him. Madness…

      Alas, I don’t go on Twitter anymore. I was getting into some pretty unpleasant and ferocious arguments with members of the “bearded brigade” and I’m pretty sure I was close to getting a tap on the door from plod. It’s just too easy to tap out a spontaneous reply to some poisonous little third world turd, which could find me in very deep water.

      It’s now obvious to everyone, we live in a two tier country.

      Muzzies can smash a police woman’s nose and walk free, but whitey can be banged up for hurty words.

      This is no longer a free and fair country…

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Jeff – i monitor X – but have never and will never engage – it’s simple – I know im right – so I wouldn’t waste time engaging with inferior mortals ….
        Today Elon has featured the boy effectively slaughtered by a combination of a sihk with his religious knife – and plod who arrested the white boy as he bled out – complete with complementary handcuffing in case we was a ‘danger ‘ as he died ….
        No doubt plod and the TTK regime will fix ….

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  24. Fedup2 says:

    Hilarious piece in the telegraph about the British army preparing to fight Russia . Maybe they don’t realise that their former country is being invaded every day ….maybe Russia would invade because they haven’t got any oil and want the North Sea supply ….er … no not that one … maybe they envy the bbc … er … no…. Or parliamentary democracy ..er ..no … Lego land discounts ..er … TFL ….er …. VAR ….er …

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  25. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – Amol still presenting TOADY?

    What notice period do the BBC have? Amol Rajan appears to be setting new records for notice periods. Maybe Amol doesn’t want to leave the BBC after all?

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  26. vlad says:

    The Bataclan Attack Planner Has Been Released.
    The judges are a joke – a very dangerous joke.
    Watch the video and weep.
    Weep for the hideous suffering of the victims, and weep for the demise of the West.

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