96 Responses to Weekend 23rd May 2026

  1. Scroblene says:

    Haaaaah…

    Why is one of the most important by-elections of the recent times being studiously avoided by the state broadcaster?

    Surely the TV tax-payers deserve to know the destiny of the current far-left ‘administration’, and who they’re planning to click into place as their ‘leader’?

    Scrabbling around for ‘stories’ of no interest to concerned British Citizens isn’t the sort of value one expects from a tax-funded lot of – quite frankly – unedifying nobodies, when so much is at stake for the UK’s future?

    If the BBC is unable to discover and report on the urgent issues which manage our defence, our financial prospects, and our well-being, amongst an influx of unwanted foreeigners, incredible commercial naivete and downright obfuscation of what’s happeing to our society, then perhaps an alternative organisation can take its place?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Nooooooo!

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    • Foscari says:

      Scroblene- It looks like to me that the BBC aee covering the
      Makerfield by-election, but ONE WAY. The Marxist news a editors believe there mission
      is to give Andy Burnham as much help as they can. And
      basically use the ” Trump Card” when editing any support for
      Reform !!

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      • Guest Who says:

        Maybe Newsnight can get in Karl Turner as an impartial roving reporter?

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    • JohnC says:

      I suspect they don’t want people know just how far Left Burnham is – so they want to keep anything ‘in-depth’ out of the news and just have him seen as a ‘popular chap’.

      It seemed to go quiet the moment he suddenly backtracked on saying he would take us back into the EU. He still will of course, but he will lie about it for now.

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      • Ian Rushlow says:

        There’s a saying in China (I think it is) along the lines of ‘The higher up the monkey climbs the tree, the more of his arse you get to see’. And that describes the scramble by Starmer, Streeting and Burnham to be the WEF’s front man in the UK. They are busy showing their (political!) arses to each other, and to the Labour MPs and trade union leaders whose political opinions were formed and cast in stone whilst they were in the 6th form. They have no need to moderate their positions for the general public – on the contrary, they are doubling down in their pursuit of the scorched earth policy to destroy Britain which motivates them.

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  2. Sluff says:

    As I was watching the BBC covering the Birmingham celebrations for the triumphant of Aston Villa in the Europa League, I was struck by how many white people were in the crowds.

    Struck because under 50% of people in Birmingham are white and there are comparable numbers of Muslims and Christians.
    Yet almost no Asian ancestry people nor people, especially women, of the Muslim faith were in the crowds shown.

    This is clearly a prime facile case of rampant racism in the football industry.
    The BBC must urgently investigate this. The authorities must put in place urgently steps to increase Asian and Muslim participation and must break down barriers by reaching out to non English speaking residents in the languages they prefer.
    It’s time to stamp out this racism and show our commitment to diversity, multiculturalism and inclusion.

    In other news, seven Afghan refugees have been arrested in raids after a probe into grooming gangs
    https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/afghan-refugee-grooming-gang-norwich-5HjdZYr_2/

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  3. JohnC says:

    Just been watching the Starship v3 flight – which is doubtless the most significant story in the world today. It represents the very leading edge of mankind and the future colonisation of space.

    And not a single word about it on the BBC front page.

    No doubt they will add some half-hearted coverage later – including the odd negative remark about Musk – just because they have to.

    It seems to me that the BBC are getting much worse about a) not reporting stories which promote people they hate and b) inserting negative-inferences in stories about people they hate (such as ‘without providing evidence’) when they never do for on-agenda people.

    I suspect it is because as the Right is rising due to people seeing the true face of the Left, the BBC are getting more and more desperate. And when the Left get desperate, they quickly get nasty and spiteful. It’s a defining trait. As Starmer keeps on proving during PMQ.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      BBC report that rockets in the shape of a penis needs to end and they need to be in the shape of vagina. (c) BBC Verified fact

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  4. AsISeeIt says:

    A sunny weekend is in prospect and we’ve a bank holiday to boot… but our BBC, with a word, sets a mood of alarm and trepidation: Hot weather to intensify in UK over bank holiday weekend (BBC)

    Students ‘needn’t open a book to get a degree’… Oxford academic has warned that students using AI can obtain a degree without reading any books… “…allowing a vast counterfeiting of knowledge” (Telegraph)

    Ok, I’ll give it go… without opening a single reference book… Hey, A.I. give me an example of a sentence containing the word “intensify”

    “The cold wind began to intensify as the dark storm clouds rolled in”

    Merriam-Webster…? We could hear the wind howling outside as the storm intensified – similar meteorological theme there.

    Your Dictionary…? The aroma from the goblets invaded Jackson’s senses causing the burning in his throat to intensify, and his jaw to throb with pain. – gosh that’s a bit gothic… someone has been up late at night on the Edgar Allan Poe.

    Collins Dictionary…? Britain is intensifying its efforts to secure the release of the hostages. The conflict is almost bound to intensify. – Blimey, that’s a bit real world current affairs. Free the hostages… or as Sir Keir would say “Release the sausages”

    Sentence Dict…? Guerrillas have pledged to intensify the armed struggle against the new government – Power to the People! – Freedom for Tooting! Come the revolution, you’ll be first against the wall bop-bop-bop! – as Wolfie Smith would have said (There’s one for the teenagers)

    Sentence Dict moderates the radical politics with their second example getting back on the safer theme of the weather: The extreme cold seemed, if anything, to intensify.

    Cambridge Dictionary…? The storm will intensify

    Word Hippo…? The water roils around the combatants, and the sky is filled with clouds and tiny lines that intensify the sense of cataclysm. – Wow, that’s a bit “Bravo Two Zero” – or for a former generation “Broadsword calling Danny Boy”

    Redundant parts of London’s Charing Cross station are used to test Europe’s ability to fight a Putin attack… Nato: We must be ready for Russian attacks by 2030… UK-led forces use London Tube platform for drills to simulate ‘deep strike’ operations against Moscow… (left-leaning virtual online only Independent goes all gung-ho – I’m going to stick my neck out here and predict: a) The next ‘deep strike’ on a London Tube platform will be the drivers union after yet another payrise from mayor Khan, and; b) Prior to the 2030 deadline the London Tube will indeed be subject to hostile attack – not by Putin but another by our own home-grown jihadists – a dark prediction but just see if I’m right.

    Word Hippo again: The protesters said if the decision of the government was not rolled back by August 1, they would be compelled to intensify the agitation. – What is it with these online student dictionaries, do they all want our kids to further the Revolution?

    I don’t know, youngsters these days, is leftist politics the only thing on their minds?

    Naturally, her coolness served only to intensify his ardour, but it was two years before she capitulated. – Oo er missus, moving swiftly on… I think I may have to confirm to the internat that my age as over 18 in a minute. Mind you, I’m somewhat reassured the human race may have a chance to continue beyond the current generation.

    Look, I think we’ve established that the verb ‘intensify’ although not exclusively, has by and large, normally negative connotions weather-wise. And what our BBC strives to put across with their headline is an alarming reaction in its audience to a bit of otherwise welcome warm weather.

    No wonder then that our BBC’s top pick for their internet news page print press line-up is the left-leaning junior poundshop Gruan that is the i paper which goes with: UK heatwave set to break spring record…

    And apparently, that’s a bad thing.

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    • Scroblene says:

      Apparently, the hot air we’re getting isn’t from Africa etc., it’s from Canada, which explains why last weekend’s freezing temperatures were a disaster for so many citizens like me, who supplement our meagre pensions by growing our own veg…

      Still, we might just as well import everything from foreigners, as this stupid ‘administration’ buys everything else from these profiteering people – including our own oil of course!

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  5. vlad says:

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  6. Flotsam says:

    The latest heat wave is giving the MMGW encouragement fanatics to promote their cause. They also keep asserting the sea level is rising. The facts as I see them are:

    The heat wave is caused by hot air blown up from somewhere hotter.

    The temperature records promoted are nothing special. There’s weather records broken somewhere in the World every day. Choose your weather parameter and there will be a record somewhere.

    We have largely destroyed our tree cover and are building everywhere which creates heat island effects.

    Temperatures are being read in areas of high urban density, heat islands.

    Sea levels have been rising continuously for about 20,000 years.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_sea_level#/media/File:Post-Glacial_Sea_Level.png

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  7. Fedup2 says:

    Just the top bit from the DT alleging ginger scum did nothing about the electoral fraud in her constituency – im betting the 6 arrested are invaders and did nothing about comment interviews by a less than competent plod – who might be a relative

    STARTS Angela Rayner was warned about alleged electoral fraud in her constituency more than a month ago and did nothing about it, The Telegraph can disclose.

    Ms Rayner was sent a letter on April 12, detailing a complaint of election misconduct over claims that fake independent candidates had been entered on the ballot for her local borough council.

    On Thursday, four men and a woman, aged between 23 and 47, were arrested by Greater Manchester Police on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud.

    The alleged plot was intended to split the votes of the opposition parties and was reportedly carried out by people associated with Tameside Labour group, where Ms Rayner – who was deputy prime minister until she was forced to resign – is the local MP.

    Atta Ul-Rasool, Labour’s candidate, was elected after beating the second-placed candidate Ahmed Mehmood, an independent, by 177 votes.

    The two alleged fake candidates received 291 votes between them. Mr Rasool works in Ms Rayner’s constituency office as an administrative officer. Neither of the two allegedly bogus candidates turned up at the election night count. One of them is reportedly a vulnerable adult.

    Tories waded into the row on Friday night, alleging that “something deeply fishy” had gone on in Ms Rayner’s constituency and calling on the former deputy prime minister to disclose all she might know. ENDS

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  8. Guest Who says:

    ‘Tis May, and Springster has sprung, working with the Heroes of Panodrama from their bullet perforated cubicles.

    https://x.com/charlottecgill/status/2057752806937723052?s=61
    Our city is on the front line in the fight against a new kind of disinformation.

    Khan: I spoke to #Panorama about how fake AI-generated content has become a profitable industry – created abroad and used to fuel tensions here ⬇️

    Sadly, ‘only some accounts can reply’ as both political ‘leader’ and ‘propaganda bunny’ protect theirs.

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    • tomo says:

      Throttling replies

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      • Philip_2 says:

        Its well worth mentioning that the BBC is not just part of the problem but a major problem in telling lies and scare stories, repeating known lies, knowing in advance they are lies and this they call ‘balanced’ reporting and then cliam the BBC TV License is proof and the BBC Charter is an endorsement. Except that not true either:

        The BBC’s Top 50 Pieces of Climate Misinformation – (Part2)
        https://www.climateskeptic.org/p/the-bbcs-top-50-pieces-of-climate-7c1?publication_id=5120156&post_id=178114666&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=3pj1rb&triedRedirect=true

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Has the BBC ever lied to me …. YES.
          “Gavin Hewitt in 2015 replacing video with still photos to hide a nasty refugee pushing a pregnant female refugee and small child onto a train track, the BBC made it look like the border guards were being tough.”

          Has the BBC ever hidden news from me …. YES.
          “May 2018 the Day of Freedom march was not reported on the main website or the main news channel and is not available on the BBC £3.5bn online search page – other news agencies including the Guardian reported it.”

          Has the BBC kept the public in the dark …. YES.
          “We know that the UK MP expenses continues and should be investigated with the £3.5bn BBC New Service every year to keep the MPs on their toes, David Lammy bought a bike for £650 on expenses (Claim Ref:387540/17oct2014) which is blatant misuse of Tax Payer Money. How come the BBC don’t check up each year?”

          Has the BBC ignored politician’s lies …. YES.
          “UK Politicians are on TV shouting austerity and recession but all have taken an 18% pay increase from 2010 to 2018. How can they talk for the people when the live in their own bubble?”

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

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

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  9. Fedup2 says:

    I posted that colin brazier has done a piece about the marxist approach to brexit on the last post last night …

    And this morning the BBC is reporting TTK wanting to take UK back into the single market – with mr islam reading a carefully constructed labour hand out .. to really finish us off

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  10. Fedup2 says:

    Looks like bodybags Burnham wants to ‘re evaluate ‘ the ‘council tax ‘ – which means if he gets power – we ll all be paying far more tax ….

    Problem is – once he starts the discussion – again – of re assessing the council tax – the next lot will do it too …

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    • tomo says:

      Burnham like others of his ilk will bung any increases on their ( actually your) expenses?

      Somebody should start the Cockroach UK party – I see the Indians have made a start…

      I do wonder if BBC snippets on YouTube get more views than over the airwaves.

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      • micknotmike says:

        I had to laugh when she was interviewing a chap with a completely indecipherable accent; I expected him to pick up the phone and say “Hello Tarquin speaking, your call is important to us, how can I help?”

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  11. tomo says:

    I’m guilty of tech reliance – but, I’d hope it’s tempered with lived experience…..

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  12. StewGreen says:

    Gaslighting or lying is such a key party of lefty Twitter and media.
    Within 2 mins of opening Twitter I see grand gaslighting lefty claims.

    – that the Morrisons leveraged buy out could not have happened in Germany
    Cos leveraged buy outs are illegal there.
    Actually there is no German law against them
    And they happen all the time.

    – and a Stand Up to Racism tweet claims the UTK march was anti-Semitic as it was characterized by an anti-zionist conspiracy banner by a group called White Vanguard
    A ridiculous claim as TR and his matches are very pro Israel
    It does look like someone unfurled a banner for a quick photo opportunity
    Cos no lefty sources show a video.

    The photo has lots of Union Jacks, but could even be old.
    Meanwhile a very similar banner is clearly pictured at pro Palestinian marches.
    The group White Vanguard is probably a largely fake org run by STR activists.

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    • StewGreen says:

      Google AI went weird on me when I asked if such lefty orgs pay pro white activists.

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  13. Flotsam says:

    So we have a mutated Hanta Virus on board a ship, a mutated Ebola virus killing people in the DRC and Uganda. I wonder if there was any Chinese on the ship, Africa has lots of Chinse ‘influence’ in play. One wonders, I might be a conspiracist or not.

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  14. Fedup2 says:

    Wonder when the first Ebola case will turn up at Dover ? I reckon 2 weeks …

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  15. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    It looks like it will be pointless to have a retrial for the Manchester Airport two.

    If it’s a jury trial the Muslims on the jury will always find them not guilty.
    If they have a Judge only trial they will get off because all of our Judges are woke lefties.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      EG
      The wokeness goes extreme sometimes – for instance sentencing 3? Teenage rapists who filmed the ‘work ‘ and shared it – to non custodial sentences …
      Good news for rapists everywhere …. Full force of the law – Hermer must be proud …wonder if they bunged the judge ?

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  16. Fedup2 says:

    Elon musk – on X – continues to campaign for some (uk) state response to the killing of Henry Nowak – such as release of body cam footage of the plod who condemned him to death .

    Where – is – the – story ? Is he of no value because he was white ?

    The local paper names the accused as

    Vickrum Digwa

    The judge is William Mousley KC.

    The murder charge has been dropped to manslaugher .. it’s got the stink of Manchester airport …

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  17. vlad says:

    Salty rages against useless HR departments stuffed with useless lefty chicks with useless degrees in Lesbian Archeology or whatever.
    One CEO fired the whole department and suddenly all the problems disappeared and productivity went up.

    Remind you of the BBC?

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  18. harry142857 says:

    Just 103 in the BBC HR department. Headed up by a medieval death cult member, naturally.

    https://rocketreach.co/bbc-hr-department_b5c61f30f42e0c48

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  19. Fedup2 says:

    Elon musk has said he will finance any action against Plod who helped kill Henry Nowak … the criminal trial continues – wonder if it’s an all sihk jury ?

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  20. atlas_shrugged says:

    Marxists 1 Morrisons -100

    https://dailysceptic.org/2026/05/23/morrisons-blames-labour-as-it-shuts-100-stores/

    Take a bow Mz Thieves and Mad Al

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  21. Fedup2 says:

    The latest wheeze by number 10 is claiming that TTK has asked a TV company to make the champions league final ‘free ‘….
    On the face of it – it’s good isn’t it ? But what about the people who have already paid to see it ?

    Anyway – who wants to see boring arsenal get taken apart by a proper footy team …. ?

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  22. atlas_shrugged says:

    France suspends extra border checks at Dover after 4-hour long queues:

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/39196224/dover-border-chaos-port-queues-force-france-suspend-checks/

    Who knew?

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  23. Scroblene says:

    After a couple of days of ‘investigation’ into BodyBrexit, things have changed dramatically in Makerfield…

    Odds seriously shortening on Reform in a huge turnaround…

    At last, some of the more normal rags are getting to grips with looking in a serious voice at an opportunist’s cynical grab at beating Rodney, and it all seems to be unravelling quite successfully!

    As much as the lefty rags and the bBC are desperately trying to big up the Bagman, it doesn’t seem to be working at the moment, but we haven’t seen the really dirty tricks yet…

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  24. MarkyMark says:

    Political thinking with Nick Robinson
    BBC iPlayer/BBC Sounds, 13 February

    In an episode with Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, he briefly referred to “net migration numbers” coming down because of an “exodus” of people leaving the UK (i.e. emigrating). To be clear, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), long-term international net migration was two thirds lower in the year up to June 2025. While the number of people leaving the UK did go up, 90 per cent of that overall fall was from a decrease in long term immigration (401,000).

    17/04/2026
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications

    World at One
    Radio 4, 16 January

    In a report on the Darlington hospital tribunal our reporter misspoke at one point when describing part of the ruling which talked about a “biological male, trans woman”. Despite the word “male” being inadvertently missed out in this instance, the rest of the item had been clear about the gender identity and sex of those involved.

    24/03/26

    misspoke
    misspoke
    misspoke
    misspoke

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  25. MarkyMark says:

    “Lorraine Cox: Murderer Azam Mangori jailed for at least 20 years”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-56653435
    A video that Mangori made of himself vaping and listening to music just hours after the killing showed he had been “remarkably calm”, said the judge.

    “remarkably calm”

    ……..
    Man accused of Lorraine Cox murder in Exeter ‘thought body was wet tobacco’, trial hears
    By East Devon Reporter 25th March 2021
    https://eastdevonnews.co.uk/2021/03/25/man-accused-of-lorraine-cox-murder-in-exeter-thought-body-was-wet-tobacco-azam-mangori/
    Quizzed by prosecutor Simon Laws QC over the dismembering of Miss Cox and dumping of her remains, Mangori repeatedly told the court on Thursday (March 25): “There was no body. It was tobacco.”
    …….
    The Home Office said after the case that “foreign nationals who abuse our hospitality by committing heinous crimes should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them”.
    deport them?

    ** note you never find out where he is from? Very odd.

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  26. MarkyMark says:

    So confused…..

    …………….
    “Britain’s fleet of naval attack helicopters is ready to hunt and sink Russian warships if they threaten the UK, the Navy has said.

    Officers in charge of the Wildcat fleet say that after receiving new anti-ship and air defence missiles, the aircraft are now the most lethal helicopters ever flown by the Senior Service. The Telegraph has been given rare access to the force before its deployment this summer as part of the UK’s Carrier Strike Group to the High North”

    ………
    Yes, Russian ships regularly transit the English Channel, as it is a vital international shipping route connecting the North Sea to the Atlantic. These transits include both warships of the Russian Navy and commercial vessels belonging to Russia’s “shadow fleet” exporting oil.

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    14 years to prepare….

    “Labour’s much-delayed 10-year Defence Investment Plan remains unpublished primarily due to ongoing negotiations with the Treasury over funding. While a Strategic Defence Review (SDR) was released, hard decisions on exactly how to finance military capabilities—such as new attack submarines, drones, and upgraded jets—have stalled the procurement blueprint.”

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  29. harry142857 says:

    From Daily Mail
    Did look in BBC London news, but to no avail.

    German man, 25, is charged with assault after Jewish men were attacked at religious festival outside north London synagogue.

    ————————-

    A German man has appeared in court charged with assault after two Jewish men were attacked outside a synagogue in north London while attending a religious festival, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

    Dozens of Jews were gathered outside the Beis Gavriel synagogue in Hendon on Thursday night for the holiday of Shavuot when they were forced to apprehend and restrain an attacker who is said to have started assaulting members of the congregation at random.

    No one was seriously injured but one synagogue member told The Mail on Sunday that a man was left with cuts and bruises after he was ‘punched in the face, breaking his glasses’.

    Following the incident, Daniel Nikzamir, 25, from Hendon, was charged with two counts of racially/religiously aggravated assault by beating, one count of assault by beating, racially/religiously aggravated criminal damage and criminal damage.

    He pleaded not guilty at Willesden Magistrates Court this morning and was bailed.

    It comes less than a month after two Orthodox Jewish men were stabbed in nearby Golders Green – and just days after another Jewish man was attacked after he was heard speaking Hebrew, also in Golders Green.

    ——————————

    A quick search reveals the surname is found in just one country, Iran.

    Appears we let anyone into the country. It be Christians, after Jewish people.

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  30. Ian Rushlow says:

    Another would be shooter at the White House. The BBC manages to avoid showing a photograph of the attacker, despite it being readily available and used by other media outlets e.g. Sly News. See if you can guess why.

    Oh, you cynic. Have you played this game before, pretty much on every day of the week?

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  31. atlas_shrugged says:

    A Mental Elf shot dead near the White House.

    A lot of it about these days, is it TDS or something else?

    A Man – Nasire Best

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Atlas – bbc editorial – bad white = show picture . Bad coloured = no pictures….. at least this attempt appears to have ended well …

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    • moggiemoo says:

      They don’t look very secret to me.

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  32. AsISeeIt says:

    Enhanced news edition

    In which we gatehouse-keeper the conspiracy theories

    Let’s start with one of those ironic close juxtapositions of headline stories that tend to put the lie to a prevailing media narrative.

    It’s like the Olympics – except steroids are allowed… Inside the Enhanced Games in Vegas… one of the most controversial events in recent sporting history: the Enhanced Games. Think Olympics on steroids. Literally… feature dozens of elite athletes using performance-enhancing drugs to try and break world records in track, weightlifting and swimming… critics, especially in the Olympic movement, dismiss it as an affront to the spirit and founding principles of competitive sport. – scoffs our BBC, disapprovingly… these won’t be real clean fair genuine unadulterated records being set… and yet…

    Heatwave likely to be confirmed as record-breaking temperatures forecast… officially be declared for parts of the UK on Sunday as a spell of unusual May heat intensifies. – slavers our BBC at the prospect – never mind those dodgy outlier thermometers placed close to the backdraft of jet airliners at Heathrow – and all the made-up notional readings lumped into the stats, that are taken as hypothetically deriving from now long-defunct weather stations up and down the country now computer model generated, helpfully tipping the scales upward.

    Express and Telegraph may have different corporate ownership but it stands as a mark of our narrow and shallow mainstream that BBC happily picks up these two titles to top their print press review this morning so as to promote today’s message they want to put across – with both papers going with the same front page feature photo, same punny caption and same Reform party policy to further complicate our already over voluminious and complex tax code…

    Brolly hot isn’t it! More heat on the way… 30C (Express) – when did ‘sunny’ get replaced with ‘heat’ as the go-to word in our seasonal headlines? We’ll axe tax on overtime!’… Nigel Farage… People who earn less than £75,000 and worked a 40-hour week will not have to pay tax on further hours worked (Express) – with extra admin costs for employers to administer these new complications and extra government staff required at the tax office to supervise and confirm honest compliance with the extra rules twists. I’d rather you tell us about the cut backs you’ll make in state spending to make up for the tax revenue loss, Nige?

    Brolly good show… A visitor shelters from the sun at the Queen’s Joust medieval jousting competition during a heatwave at Leeds Castle near Maidenhead in Kent. UK sweltered under the hottest day of the year so far yesterday (Telegraph)

    Ice maiden

    In case you were wondering, pictured in both titles, under an old timey decorated oriental-style parasol we perceive a rather pale-skinned young maiden, with self-possessed serious visage, in some sort of cosplay outfit, with just a touch of the trad wife meme going on, she’s topped off with a toy tirara, and holding a chocolate flake cornet.

    Forsooth, my lady, thou hast made the news headlines – and scored a 99.

    What’s that I hear at the back? You’d like to get medieval on her ass? Less of that talk please.

    I’ll scrap tax on paid overtime (Telegraph)

    We’ll axe tax on overtime’ and ‘Brolly hot, isn’t it’ – reiterates our BBC. Cueing up Labour mouthpieces anxious to tell us how it won’t work as a policy.

    Speaking of double acts… Mirror and People do have the same ownership. Both are in-the-tank for Labour, as I like to say. And taken together provide the ideal double whammy of diss the opposition and follow up with a puff for the home team…

    Foreign bread and Keir circuses

    Reform cash exclusive… Farage’s haven US on… As we pay our taxes… Reform’s coffers boosted by £15million from rich pals and firms abroad or linked to offshore havens (Sunday Mirror); Free kicks… Arsenal fan PM writes to TNT Sports to demand it drops fee for viewing Champions League final (Sunday People) – how ’bout dropping the BBC Licence Fee, Sir Keir?

    Gordon Bennett! Guardian on a Sunday Observer suddenly goes all tabloid conspiracy theories on us: Did the CIA poison Gordon Banks to sabotage England at the 1970 World Cup? Gabriel Gatehouse thought it must be a conspiracy theory. Three years of investigation later, he thinks it could be true

    Ah, America now joins Russia as the acceptable north London dinner party xenophobias.

    Urban youth

    Formerly serious face of the regime Times forsakes the photograph of the damsel at the jouisting tournament and instead goes with: Fountain of youth… Kairo Moses, 6, cools off among 100 fountains in Bradford City Park, the largest urban water feature in the UK – you guessed it, he’s black.

    But didn’t Sir Keir tell us muslims were the face of modern Britain?

    What will BBC make of Strictly Emma’s racy past – asks the ever-excitable Mail on Sunday: REVEALED: Racy past of ‘squeaky-clean’ Emma Willis – No probs, she’s a woman, not a bloke.

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  33. Fedup2 says:

    But Asiseeit – you’ve avoided the last day of the VAR season with the n17 blues and the E15 purples fighting to avoid ‘the fall ‘ and a tearful pep getting a new job managing a £ national £ team ….
    And there will be umbrella rage …

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    • AsISeeIt says:

      As the Oracle at Delphi would have a prophesied – were it still in the prophesy business these days (one does sometimes miss Boris with his classical references) “In the battle of relegation, a famous London club will go down today”

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      • Fedup2 says:

        To the hades of the championship having to go to hell – sorry Hull – er – or maybe not -( for the non followers of the footy / VAR game Hull ascended into the prem saturday

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  34. Guest Who says:

    Alles Klar.

    https://x.com/buttonflyonly/status/2058259902384976068?s=61
    Nothing is free to air live on UK televisions.
    Abolish the license fee.

    No wonder the BBC is keen on pushing Starmer’s latest idiot ‘urge’.

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    • Guest Who says:

      BBC Verify* didn’t have the details…

      https://x.com/thegothhausen/status/2058246617220677995?s=61
      Free to air tv isn’t actually free to watch because to watch anything as it’s been broadcast still have to pay £180.00 a year for the BBC tv licence

      *Seems with VeryGone’s expensive BB£ demise, Springster has a new gig; renowned impartial investigative programme Panorama has added her to their roster to improve its credibility.

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      • Guest Who says:

        Panorama cubicle doxing the SAS still using ‘sources’ and ‘witness statements’ and CSI:W1A ballistic testimony from thousands of miles?

        https://x.com/cameraorguk/status/2058428417738002658?s=12
        A person described as a journalist by the BBC in December 2024 and again in August 2025 has been claimed by the PIJ terror group.

        To be fair, they are consistent; JezBo is still described as a ‘journalist’.

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  35. JohnC says:

    I survived a missile strike in the Strait of Hormuz, but my friend has not been foundI survived a missile strike in the Strait of Hormuz, but my friend has not been found
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8pn63q771o

    ‘… he shared voice notes with the BBC from three seafarers currently anchored on a small boat off the coast of Oman …’

    If there is ONE thing the BBC lefties love to do , it’s write empathy porn about people who have had bad things happen to them. Most of it has no value whatsoever as news : it’s cheap, gutter-level journalism using other people’s bad luck to suck in other Lefties who enjoy reading about that sort of thing so they too can sense the grief.

    I remember when they were criticised for getting in the way of emergency services in Gaza as the BBC were sent sifting through rubble looking for ‘victims’ who could speak English. The Muslim would feed the story – with a healthy dose of unprovable lies – to a whitey female clone back in HQ who would then edit the quotes to fit in with whatever the BBC anti-Jew stance was today.

    It’s ambulance chasing smeared with the BBC’s unique style of embedding lies which is remarkably similar across all the clones.

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  36. tomo says:

    Well worth a few minutes on this Telegraph article.

    http://archive.today/vezq5

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  37. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Records are being broken with the current temperatures in the UK.

    I can confirm that the temperature on Friday was the warmest for the whole week. It broke the record previously held by the Thursday by over 1 degree.
    I have to wait for today’s highest temperature to confirm that Fridays temperature was indeed a record but it looks like it.

    If that’s not proof of global warming then I don’t know what is.

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    • taffman says:

      Emmanuel Goldstein
      Question : As the earth is estimated to be 4.54 ± 0.05 billion years old, how far back do ‘the records’ go?

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      • Emmanuel Goldstein says:

        Taff.
        It all depends on who you ask and what their agenda is.
        It’s whoever is paying them and the result they are paying for.
        If you don’t like these results I have plenty of others. (Marx I think)

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  38. MarkyMark says:

    SOFT POWER…

    _78694781_clegg_miliband_tshirt_624.jpg.webp

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29907980
    The Mail on Sunday said they were made in “sweatshop” conditions in Mauritius by workers earning 62p an hour.

    CHEAP SOFT POWER BOUGHT FROM CHINA! HA A HAH AHA!

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    • moggiemoo says:

      There’s a much shorter word that replaces feminist and it’s far more appropriate.

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  39. Althepalerp says:

    Government Minister Darren Jones this morning on the BBC, talking about the Convicted Rapists not going to Prison…. .

    “We need a National conversation on the way to behave”

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  40. Eddy Booth says:

    “Girl raped by boys spared jail tells BBC judge’s decision was like ‘rock in my face’ ”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjrp98285yvo

    Glad they didn’t “jail” her, we haven’t totally decended to an islamic country yet.

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  41. MarkyMark says:

    Comment “Voting is the adult version of writing a letter to Santa👍”

    ….

    “They Are Lying to You About Our Identity”

    “You can watch the English Football team wearing a Hijab or not a Hijab.” -Labour MP Jeevun Sandher
    ….
    Property in Cartegena
    Location: Cartegena
    Property Owner Details: Co-owned with family member
    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=26521&chamber=house-of-commons
    ….
    cc2fed47d382b7b940665be3651bd6b3de71c6758f4fd36554837cb23b8f31b9.jpg

    ……….

    “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

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  42. vlad says:

    Moronic buffoon lamey Lammy wants to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14, basically greenlighting even more criminality among the young. Already feral youth are a menace on their e-scooters and bikes, in their hoodies and balaclavas, not to mention wielding knives and machetes. Then there’s shoplifting and graffiti. And of course if they had greater immunity they’d be used by drug gangs in county lines.
    The buffoon should read Lord of the Flies to learn what unrestrained youngsters can be like.
    But of course he’s never read a book in his life, as was demonstrated in his catastrophic appearance on Mastermind.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      David Lammy to reduce marrying age to 6 to help Afghan men get a wife?

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    • Flotsam says:

      Funny really,. Reducing the age at which children can vote is on the table from Labour, increasing the age of criminal responsibility is going up. Perhaps it should be made a criminal act to vote Labour, or more likely to be illegal to vote Reform.

      Labour’s agenda is trying to restrict the use of the internet by under 16’s (or all of us perhaps?). It’s a complete contradiction to say near 16 year olds should be shielded from the internet and yet vote at 16.

      I know the argument has been made before sorry.

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  43. StewGreen says:

    got back from my run at 11am
    It was still not particularly hot
    Weather forecasts tend to be PR for the hottest minute of the day
    And forget to mention background winds
    Met Office have now upped tomorrows 5pm temp to be 32C
    .. We’ll see
    However their chart does say 17mph background gusts
    and hot winds are unusual in UK , it’s not India

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    • StewGreen says:

      I forgot to say No forecasts had mentioned rain, yet on Saturday morning when we woke up the lawn was soaking
      Neighbours said heavy storm had woken them up between 2 and 3 am

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  44. Fedup2 says:

    I caught – by pure accident – the end of the final football show ( football focus ) on BBC1…. It ran for 52 years – and then it went woke – got a DEI got a coloured female presenter with rough English innit who killed it .

    At the end she got tearful as they do – accompanied – for some reason by Garth crookes ….
    It was miserable – but I enjoyed so much …

    … and then – the news – led by the screams of the righteous over a non custodial sentence for a couple of serial boy rapists – plenty of politicians with crocodile tears – all climbing on a bandwagon …
    But guess who did not get a mention ? Yes – the Hermer TTK judge …. no name – no home address – no accountability ….

    Please don’t misread me – if we had an honest legal system – i hang those 2 boy rapists ..

    JUDGE NICOLAS ROWLAND is the man responsible . If you rape some one and get caught – ask for him …

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    • Jeff says:

      To be fair there’s a bit more to this than at first meets the eye…

      The first girl was 15 and had visited the first defendant after meeting him on Snapchat. The prosecutor told the court she had “performed sex acts on the boy, who was then 14, but became scared and anxious when the second defendant appeared.”
      It was then that she was raped and filmed.

      We were told that one of the boys had a very low IQ. The strangest part of the case, other than the sentence, was the judge saying how well the 3 boys had coped with the restrictions placed on them. I mean, WTF?

      The leniency beggars belief, but I’m not really surprised…

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Jeff – the details of the case are one issue – but the judge has to weigh up the effect of the sentence more widely – particularly with offences such as rape – where efforts have been made to encourage victims to report the crime .

        And one of the victims has said ‘why bother reporting it ?’

        Rape must have a custodial sentence whatever the circumstances …. otherwise why bother reporting it … I looked at the judge – who isn’t knew to the job – but his antecedents seem to be not on the web – I hope he is losing some sleep

        Btw – number 10 is trying to use this case to ‘humanise ‘ the Darleks of the Marxist regime with the droid Darren jones blubbing on a Sunday interview – blubbing by order of TTK

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  45. taffman says:

    Has the BBC covered today’s mass invasion of our nation ?
    It looks like it will be getting worse as the weather improves.
    Get rid of the ‘Border Farce’ and give the job to the Royal Navy!

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    • tomo says:

      Anchor one of those aircraft carriers in the middle of the channel and have a 3 month quarantine on board ( although I couldn’t say I’d be surprised if the anchor didn’t work.)

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  46. taffman says:

    Back in 2019 we had this …
    Sajid Javid under fire over Channel migrant comments
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46738126

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  47. tomo says:

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    • Scroblene says:

      Oink oink…

      As to be expected from Bagman! What a shit he’s being shown up as, with a dirty nose in the trough like so many more of his type, and hopefully destined for the council tip were he belongs.

      I just cannot stand these charlatans who spend their whole lives sucking at public money, never, ever creating wealth for the community, then feathering their own sordid little nests. He’s a nasty far-leftie, and will flip-flop at every turn if he’s allowed to get to the disgraceful HoC, but if he does, then the outcome is going to be an absolute bloodbath, because we’ve all had enough of these cheating bastards.

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  48. StewGreen says:

    Saturday 11pm Radio4 “comedy”
    23:00 Hajj & Seek
    Comedian Ali Shahalom takes on Hajj, exploring faith,
    family and total chaos in 50°C heat.”

    but I am sure you’ve already heard it from when it was on TWICE on Friday on Radio4 Extra.

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