319 Responses to Midweek 24th June 2026

  1. MarkyMark says:

    ‘Conditions are awful’: NHS not ready for extreme weather, physicians warn

    Rutte blows gaffe on Iran war

    Trade union movement must be ‘visible and vocal ally’ to LGBT+ communities

    A masterclass in self-delusion
    Keir Starmer’s resignation speech seemed to be coming from a different universe, or maybe it was just a fanfaronade of falsehoods, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

    Juneteenth joy in glorious San Francisco

    Union and climate activists unfurl heat strike banner from Brighton pier

    Conversion therapy ban will criminalise abuse ‘wherever we find it,’ minister pledges as draft Bill is finally published
    CONVERSION therapy ban will criminalise abuse “wherever we find it, in whatever context,” a minister pledged today, as a draft Bill was published eight years after it was first promised.

    Left challenges Burnham for real change
    real change as opposed to that other change? Short change?
    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/left-challenges-burnham-real-change

    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/

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  2. JohnC says:

    And another one:

    Comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli to stand trial for rape and sex offences
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgm7mdnme1o

    From AI:
    ‘Hardeep Singh Kohli is widely identified as a left-wing political figure’

    ‘Kohli, 57, from Kelvinside in Glasgow, is a former reporter on BBC’s The One Show and panellist on The Wright Stuff on Channel 5.’

    So no surprises there at all. 100% normal for the BBC and a Lefty. All dirty hypocrites.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli to stand trial for rape and sex offences”
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgm7mdnme1o
      repeatedly raping a woman
      repeatedly raping a woman

      Kohli – who appeared on celebrity versions of Big Brother and Masterchef – denied a total of 20 charges via his legal team during a hearing at the High Court in Glasgow.

      **No photo

      …………

      https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/judges/hardeep-singh-kohli
      Hardeep Singh Kohli is a Scottish writer, presenter, broadcaster and reporter.

      Of Punjabi Sikh descent, Hardeep Singh Kohli’s parents came to the UK from India in the 1960s. While still a law student at the University of Glasgow, Kohli worked as an Usher at the Citizens Theatre – where he developed a love of playwright Arthur Miller. After graduating, he joined the BBC Scotland graduate production trainee scheme, which involved two years of training before moving to BBC in London to direct television series. In the years since, he has produced, directed and presented many award-winning shows for the BBC and Channel 4. Kohli writes a column, Hardeep Is Your Love, for Scotland on Sunday and also occasionally writes for The Guardian and The Independent.

      Kohli wrote a book about food and travel in India called Indian Takeaway: One Man’s Attempt to Cook His Way Home, published in 2009.

      award-winning shows for the BBC and Channel 4
      award-winning shows for the BBC and Channel 4

      Hardeep_Singh_Kohli.jpg?h=735e3714&itok=UpRQH2Vl

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      A comedian? Now that’s fake news.

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  3. vlad says:

    One of the BBC’s tricks when they – reluctantly – are forced to report on one of their favourite ethnics, and in this case one of their own, is to avoid posting a photo.

    So what image do they use in the above article on Hardeep Singh Kohli? Why, a COURTROOM, of course: one of the least interesting aspects of the story.

    But it’s even more risible than that: it’s the courtroom where he DIDN’T APPEAR, as he was excused from attending the hearing for some reason.

    And of course the whole story is safely tucked away where no-one will see it. I literally could not have found it without the link provided above.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgm7mdnme1o

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  4. MarkyMark says:

    HA HA HA HA! Soviet Union Gulags are real comrades – be careful to sing a song in all its glory!
    ….
    “Alannah Keyser was removed after a video showed her apparently lip synching to the n-word in a song”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyezep8dz4o
    ….
    Radio 1’s short-lived decision to ban the word “faggot” from the classic Fairytale of New York by the Pogues has triggered the most one-sided audience reaction of any story since I’ve been editor of Newsbeat. Many hundreds of texts, e-mails and online comments have come in – berating the network for “political correctness”. Radio 1 originally defended its decision by pointing out that it is a word “members of our audience find offensive”… and then by late afternoon on Tuesday, controller Andy Parfitt overturned the ban – admitting the edit had been wrong, while praising his music team for being “vigilant” about possible offence from lyrics.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/12/close_to_home.html

    ……… back in 28 April 2011 …..

    “A musician has been released without charge by police after his performance of the song Kung Fu Fighting at a bar caused an alleged racism row.

    Simon Ledger, of the Isle of Wight said he was singing the 1970s hit at the Driftwood bar, Sandown, on Sunday when a man of Chinese origin took offence.

    Police said the passer-by claimed he was then “subjected to racial abuse”.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-13218522

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  5. digg says:

    I’m at a bit of a loss to understand why authorities in known earthquake zones around the world erect so many what appear to be very flimsy very high multi-story tower blocks putting lots of lives at risk.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c75y1kd16qdo

    I would have thought that bungalows were the way ahead!

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    • tomo says:

      I’ve been accommodated in Caracas high rise hotels and I wasn’t happy – they felt like absolute ramshackle death traps – shoddy workmanship and being on the 26th or 27th floor (out of 36) made me feel extremely uncomfortable – I was glad to only be there for a couple of days….

      Unlike Japan…

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      Every penny shaved off the construction budget ends up in a politician’s pocket.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “Parliament revamp could cost £40bn and take 61 years
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgp2pzqr84o
        5 February 2026
        The refurbishment of the Houses of Parliament could cost almost £40bn and take 61 years, under proposals presented to MPs and peers.

        It’s one option presented by the team working on the long-delayed restoration of the historic building, which is falling apart and costs £1.5m a week to maintain.

        The team has also suggested moving MPs and peers out of the Palace of Westminster for up to 24 years from 2032, under a refurbishment plan that could cost as much as £15.6bn.

        MPs and peers will debate and vote on the plan to develop these two options and the completion of initial works.

        Either way, taxpayers will have to pay for the works and pick up a bill that is expected to run into many billions.

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      • tomo says:

        I regret not buying a Hugo Chavez effigy mug when I had the opportunity.

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    • Guest Who says:

      I like San Francisco.

      Luckily the Dems have ensured I feel no real need to return.

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  6. tomo says:

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  7. tomo says:

    Lying Khant

    Elsewhere – oh, dear, how sad

    idiot-academics.webp

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    • Rob in Cheshire says:

      Mayor Khan is a liar? Say it ain’t so.

      What was it Noel Gallagher called him?

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      • Scroblene says:

        Why doesn’t the little chap go to work on the tube, like everyone else? He can always take a couple of heavies with him for ‘protection’…

        We all know the tube is a filthy, disgusting hotbed of foul disease, pollution, excruciating heat, and of course, a great way for thieves to steal items from the public at their will.

        If the little guy ever did meet with a tube-payer, he’d probably not look him or her in the eye, unless he stood on a crate that is…

        Naah – three Range Rovers, air conditioned, delivered to your door, is the way forward for little chaps…

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  8. Althepalerp says:

    How much has the BBC wasted so far on travel, and expensive US Lawyers defending its case against Trump?

    Will we ever get to know?

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    • Scroblene says:

      There’s an oft-unused calculation here, Al -…

      Take the sum paid for flights, accommodation, expensive food etc, and total that up in one column. (keep the champagne element for now). Then take the amount paid to the bBC’s second-assistant librarian’s work-experience child, for relabelling the discs entitled ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’, and put that in another column.

      Lump all the first column – forgetting the champagne – together as Foreign Desk, and then do the same with the dire film of Mrs Brown’s boys, but add administration, parking, subsistence, flights, Ubers, ‘incidental’ expanses, caravans, DEI regulations, outside broadcaster fees, parking tickets, breathing exercises, trans lavatories, and add VAT, SET, MOT and a few others, and compare the two columns.

      The Anti – Trump issues are diminished by over half and therefore justified by the taxes paid to the bBC, and verified as well, possibly audited – who knows!

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  9. MarkyMark says:

    “Linton-on-Ouse is one of three Ministry of Defence (MoD) sites the Home Office has proposed using to house almost 4,000 asylum seekers, as the government seeks to move people out of hotels, with other proposed sites in Oxfordshire and Suffolk.

    Sir Alec Shelbrooke, Wetherby and Easingwold MP, said: “Linton-on-Ouse has been shown to be the wrong place in the past.

    “Effectively putting 1,200 people into a small village like Linton, which just simply doesn’t have the facilities or the infrastructure to deal with them, is clearly the wrong answer.””

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05y12z3g79o

    Goddard said: “This is a village of around 700 people, and 1,200 men, whether they were Scottish men, Welsh men or Chinese men, it’s not doable, it doesn’t work.

    …………….

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats-last-7-days

    Small boats data
    This page shows figures for the last 7 days for migrants attempting to cross the English Channel in small boats without permission to enter the UK.

    Date Migrants arrived Boats arrived Boats involved in uncontrolled landings Notes
    19 June 2026 406 5 0

    406 new citizens in a day!

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      The US is able to detect a heartbeat from 40 miles away using some new wizz-bang technology that was used to locate and rescue one of the downed F15 airmen from Iran.

      We can’t detect and pushback a sodding rubber dingy with outboard motor from 20 miles away!

      How much are we paying the French w@nker cops? Give the money to the French fishermen to have a go instead. £1M/dingy – cheap at the price.

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      • taffman says:

        atlas_shrugged
        Have you considered that our ‘Governments’ do not want the boats to be stopped?
        All PM’s have been dragging their feet so far.
        Nothing from the BBC .

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  10. JohnC says:

    Grooming gang jailed for raping girls
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62nn05wxj8o
    From the end of 2025 : basic police mugshots of the men. Short article. All of them imports.

    Men guilty of grooming girls for sexual abuse
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0ey1lz01ngo
    From 3 weeks ago. One from Iran. One from Iraq. Another short article.

    And ‘sexual abuse’ BBC ?. One was guilty of six counts of child rape !!!. You have deliberately hid it from the headline.

    Then Whoooa !! look at this epic piece of journalism from the BBC today:
    ‘Men who allegedly helped rapist drug and abuse wife named’
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnv9er181lno

    A row of the 5 mugshots then a big individual picture of each one as they arrived at court !. And none of them have actually been found guilty yet !!!. And an article much longer than the other 2 where they WERE guilty.

    Totally different scale and attitude. All of a sudden, the BBC seem to have found their ‘#metoo’ outrage again. Funny how they lose it when the rapists are Muslims.

    By this time I am now pig sick of the BBC’s extreme racist double standards which AI informs me (after it defends them at first) are usually down to ‘editorial decisions’. Someone please rid us of this vile Leftist cancer. They will NEVER get a penny from me to support their activism.

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  11. Fedup2 says:

    On you tube Colin brazier delivers a critique of the BBC from a broadcasters’ point of view – it is well worth a watch – it runs for about 20 minutes – it’s on ‘outpost ‘….

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  12. Jeff says:

    So, the Pakistani nose breaker, Mohammed Fahir Amaaz has finally been sentenced…and been given three and a half year. FFS, you couldn’t make this up…

    This violent piece of filth has only got a few months more than Lucy Connolly who, as we all remember, made an indiscreet Tweet…which she quicky deleted.

    This creature attacked numerous people, including several police officers, breaking the WPCs nose. The man is an absolute thug.

    One of most telling snippets to emerge from court wasn’t the risible sentence, I think we’re all too familiar with our creepily biased judiciary, however…I was amazed that the female office was only 5ft2 and weighed 8 and a half stone. I mean, really?

    There’s a violent ruckus at an airport with a bunch of nasty ethnics and you need a bit of muscle…but who turns up, Teeny bloody Weeny.

    She shouldn’t be there. It’s insane.

    If this wasn’t so pathetic I’d be laughing…

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    • JohnC says:

      Don’t forget the ‘far-right rioter’ who got 2 years, 10 months for throwing a traffic cone down the street.

      Or the one jailed for 20 months for:
      ‘aggressively shouting and screaming in a police dog’s face, goading officers, and using racist slurs during an anti-immigration rally in Bristol’

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  13. taffman says:

    Will Andy Burnham “stop the boats ” and end the illegal invasion?
    Will he drill for gas/oil and rescue our economy ?

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  14. tomo says:

    Downing Street staff have been told that Andy Burnham won’t fire them all summarily on coming into government. Sighs of relief you can hear there from SpAds working out how to stay inside – it’s every man for himself…

    A No10 source tells Guido: “We’re hearing Team Andy want at least some continuity, not least seeing as they don’t have 40 new SpAds at the ready for Number Ten.” During the by-election, Team Burnham discussed striking a balance and not wanting to make too many enemies with the fall of a SpAd guillotine…

    That said, the consensus inside is that “none of the senior staff will stay.” Guido hears Starmer’s temporary Chief of Staff Vidhya Alakeson is making the case for herself, though…

    Bonus / Plus (is it?)
    David Miliband doesn’t (apparently) rule out returning to government

    – we’re f’d aren’t we?

    h/t Guido

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  15. tomo says:

    I’d wager Oxford might be among the innovators pushing this abomination?

    BBC puff pieces by moronic Climate Correspondent in the pipeline.

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    • JohnC says:

      They want everybody to be dependent on the state.
      Then they have full control over their entire lives.
      That is what Burnham will be working towards.

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      • tomo says:

        That’s assuming the state has enough money to support a population of total bludgers – on present evidence the money tree is about to drop the last of its pine needles – the baubles having tarnished noticably since the twerps took office.

        The Labour Party and their public sector parasites + sponsors don’t , I feel, have a clue what they’re fooling about with.

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        • Scroblene says:

          It’s money Tomo.

          Follow the money with idiots who have never had to learn about a balance sheet…

          Like the first ever winner of a million quid on Premium Bonds, she spent, spent, spent, then realised she was just as stupid as the rest of the brain-dead when it had all gone.

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  16. taffman says:

    Fear, fear fear, one week of warm weather and we are doomed , doomed , doomed, I tell you !
    Questions :
    When were temperatures first ever recorded?
    Are far more temperatures taken than before?
    Do we have less industry, coal fires, coal fired power stations?
    Do we have less steam trains, steam ships?
    Are electric cars replacing diesel and petrol?.
    How ever did we survive the summer of 1976 ?
    Is the BBC helping to fuel this propaganda?
    Why is Great Britain taking the brunt of this Climate Propaganda ?

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    • Scroblene says:

      Perfect description of the socialist demise of a once-great country Taff.

      Have a gallon of Brains SA Gold on all of us here, unfortunately stuck near London, with the grooming gangs, the knives, the filthy underground, the smelly ‘diversity’, a useless plod, a diminutive ‘mare’, filthy streets, (except in Islington), and a fanatical wish to stay away from the sordid place forever…

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      • taffman says:

        Scroblene
        Thank you.
        The beer in taffland is still pretty good , not ice cold , but a nice room temperature.
        London ? We are in need of a new PM, a new mayor and a new government.
        “Iechyd da”!

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  17. wwfc says:

    France vs Norway France have 10 Africans players on out of 11 COME ON NORWAY

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  18. tomo says:

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