228 Responses to Start the week 29th June 2026

  1. tomo says:

    Scottish Parliament… I wonder if the BBC has done a similar survey?

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    • MarkyMark says:


      John Cleese
      @JohnCleese

      There’s been some debate over my gender recently, but I’m afraid I am not yet prepared to disclose it

      I regard it as a private matter, not something I want discussed in the media

      My wife is supporting me at this difficult time, and would prefer to keep hers secret too

      But I am now prepared to reveal that I am a cis Bristol City supporter”
      ….
      Comment “Is this scene still allowed in Britain because it could be offensive to transgenders (is the word gender still allowed)?”
      life of brian – colosseum

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      • tomo says:

        Imagine the kerfuffle if they did the same with Mohammad?

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Imagine no more …. “Theodoor “Theo” van Gogh[a] (Dutch: [ˈteːjoː vɑŋ ˈɣɔx];[b] 23 July 1957 – 2 November 2004) was a Dutch film director. He directed Submission: Part 1, a short film written by Somali writer and politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali, which criticised the treatment of women in Islam in strong terms.

          On 2 November 2004, he was murdered by Mohammed Bouyeri, a Dutch-Moroccan Islamist who objected to the film’s message.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_van_Gogh_(film_director)

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    • Docmarooned says:

      Do they disclose if they have a functioning brain?

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  2. MarkyMark says:

    But everyone in the NHS votes for Labour so must be nice tolerant Palestine Queue Jumping humans?

    “Government promises to act on maternity care failings which ‘shame our society'”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cddlgqpg7mzo
    ** note no mention of who did this or the NHS in the title of the story. Must be Putin!

    “Concentrating all of the power and responsibility for turning around maternity services in the hands of one person is, in my view, just insane,” she told the Today programme.

    ………………….

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  3. Althepalerp says:

    “Biggest increase in Defence spending since the 1980s”

    Fact is every year spending has been going down.

    So a PENNY increase is still the biggest increase since the 1980s

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  4. MarkyMark says:

    “Journalist Theodor Holman, who was one of van Gogh’s closest friends, has strongly criticized the silence around the murder and the fears of causing offense in the country: “Tolerance has been transformed into cowardice.”

    https://allthatsinteresting.com/theo-van-gogh

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  5. MarkyMark says:

    Boris to give all his money to secure the UK border with a new military….because he loves England, my England…..

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    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=10999&chamber=house-of-commons

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  6. Lucy Pevensey says:

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  7. Lucy Pevensey says:

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  8. tomo says:

    Brian?

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  9. tomo says:

    Another wheeze to keep the voters coming?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Refugees to pay back £10K – UK Gov to give Refugees £10K (tax payer money). HA HA AHAH AH AHH AHAHA!

      Net Zero economics.

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  10. AsISeeIt says:

    Our BBC shuns the football-loving blokey tabloid print titles today, presenting them with wooden spoon last places in the morning press front page parade – scant reward for prioritising unabashed patriotic World Cup hopes.

    Mind you, the England squad have yet to get the result of their examination by Doctor Congo – let’s hope our German-coached team haven’t just washed for a stiff neck – as that old saying goes.

    Meanwhile, our BBC likes the feminised junior poundshop Guardian that is the i paper for its top press pick – proving a week may be a long time in football (just ask the Scots) but politics rarely takes a day off. There’s some fuss over defence spending, apparently.

    ‘Defence black hole’ and ‘Starmer’s gift to Burnham’ – quoth the Beeb, dramatically, quoting i paper and Times top headlines.

    Black hole of cost cutter…?

    Extra military investment will be funded in part by shelving road and energy projects – regrets the i paper – note how every pound of our money spent by government is invariably categorised as “investment”

    How fitting that our robotic adenoidal droning – soon departing – PM Starmer now wants to spend all our money on… drones.

    UK families hit by biggest global drop in wealth… since the pandemic – complains the Telegraph

    One hesitates to correct the mildly conservative Torygraph but one can’t let that one go: UK families hit by biggest global drop in wealth… since the pandemic LOCKDOWN – WHICH WAS A POLICY CHOICE

    Mr AsI contends that Lockdowns not only broke the economy and doomed government to fiscal oblivion but seriously demoralised the British workforce and the damage done to morale continues to be felt: Summer holiday heaven or hell? Working parents deserve more time off to survive six-week break – protests the i paper

    Fully Automated Luxury Communism?

    China’s urban castaways seek peace in ‘ghost’ cities… turning history’s biggest building spree into an experiment in ’empty city living’ – impresses the FT: …demographic decline and overbuilding… rent is dirt cheap. Online teacher Ruby Chen, who wanted warm weather and low stress, pays $190 a month for her flat, a fraction of big city prices… cheap and cheerful, page 5 (FT)

    Here comes an absolute doozy of a juxtaposition of clashing headlines of the type that one so admires for their tendency to put the lie some prevailing media narrative…

    Anchor baby news

    Birthright citizenship upheld by US justices – celebrates the Guardian

    Meanwhile: Migrants can’t avoid deportation by having families after arrival… Mahmood has pledged – promises the Times

    Across the broad Atlantic a pattern emerges in the left’s tactics for their attacks on the so-called populists…

    Trump made more than $1bn from crypto in first year back in office – complains the BBC’s Kali Hays, Technology reporter and Peter Hoskins, Business reporter

    Man with no shame… Same gold Farage… He rakes in £22k an hour, on top of MP pay… and that infamous £5m… Reform UK chief pockets £270,000 for 12 hours as a bullion ambassador (in-the-tank for Labour Mirror) – were I editor I’d probably have blue pencil excised the word ambassador – it has resonances of that Labourite transatlantic wrong ‘un Peter Mandelson.

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  11. MarkyMark says:

    Prime Minister’s Introduction
    My first duty as Prime Minister is to keep the British people safe.

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-strategic-defence-review-2025-making-britain-safer-secure-at-home-strong-abroad/the-strategic-defence-review-2025-making-britain-safer-secure-at-home-strong-abroad

    ….
    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
    23 June 2026 186 3 0
    24 June 2026 221 3 0
    25 June 2026 150 2 0
    26 June 2026 0 0 0
    27 June 2026 105 1 0
    28 June 2026 78 1 0
    29 June 2026 0 0 0
    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

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  12. MarkyMark says:

    “The UK Treasury quietly scrapped its numeracy test because basic math was a “hurdle” for minority candidates.
    Let that sink in.
    The people in charge of the nation’s money, debt, taxes, and economic policy decided that competence in numbers was problematic.
    This isn’t diversity.
    This is institutional self-sabotage.”
    https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2072085322301849902

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  13. Althepalerp says:

    Isn’t that Racist to assume the BAME community are all Thick?

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  14. friend of yogi bear says:

    BAME ASSUMPTIONS…AND ALL THAT….

    Interfering or changing basic maths standards to deal with diversity is obviously a highly prejudiced thing to do , or think.

    This sort of outrage is perpetrated in the field of entertainment.

    It seems to me …really… that there are an inordinate number of BAME actors and artistes in adverts ( invariably in a non speaking capacity) because such talent is not trusted by the directors , producers ,to learn their lines for a real part..in a film.
    What an outrage , blatant liberal class racism.

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  15. MarkyMark says:

    “Labour Party leader Keir Starmer got a bit tearful in his resignation remarks, quite a departure from the emotionless, bot-like face he normally presents to the world. But then, he was alluding to his family, people he apparently cares about. He’s sad now, but in the days to come, he may realize that he has dodged a bullet – or perhaps a lynching – as the soul-sickening findings published by the Restore Britain Party’s leader’s Rupert Lowe 219-page Rape Gang Inquiry Report, released June 16, are bruited in international news.”

    https://www.steynonline.com/16276/a-top-down-willed-failure

    The government’s official Inquiry into Grooming Gangs report is just getting underway, with a deadline for publication of March 31, 2029, and a budget of 65 million pounds. It’s not something Starmer wanted to do. The government had in fact dismissed calls for a national inquiry, arguing the scandal had already been examined in a seven-year inquiry led by Professor Alexis Jay. Professor Jay handed in her report to the then-Conservative government in 2022 but so far only two of her 20 recommendations have been implemented.

    Failure to enforce the laws with regard to child sexual exploitation (CSE) was not a matter of laxity or incompetence. It was a top-down willed failure. One chief inspector, in the South Yorkshire Police, speaking of long-running organised child abuse in Rotherham, told the distraught father of a victimised daughter, “With it being Asians, we can’t afford for this to be coming out as Rotherham would erupt.”

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    “Nor has Burnham exercised his powers as Police and Crime Commissioner – a position he automatically holds as an extension of his Mayoralty – to prosecute any of the officers found to have failed the victims of predatory gangs.”

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  16. MarkyMark says:

    “In January 2025, Labour MPs voted en masse against a Conservative amendment calling for a national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs. The amendment was defeated by 364 votes to 111. Sir Keir Starmer and his frontbench abstained or opposed the measure, dismissing public concern as ‘far-right’ agitation. ”
    https://www.steynonline.com/16276/a-top-down-willed-failure

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  17. MarkyMark says:

    “Our First Transdural Procedure | Neuralink”
    Neuralink

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  18. MarkyMark says:

    “Keir Starmer: what the Defence Investment Plan actually means”

    “60,000 jobs will be created through this(ALL IN CHINA).” – Keir Starmer

    CANNOT STOP ONE SMALL BOAT! HA AH AHAH HAA H!

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  19. pugnazious says:

    Nah….not happening…The Great Replacement…just White Supremacist ravings….

    ‘The BBC defines the “Great Replacement” as a discredited, far-right conspiracy theory alleging a deliberate plot to replace Western populations with non-white immigrants.’

    And of course the drive to replace Whites in every sphere from education to the Civil Service…

    ‘White working-class students excluded from Oxbridge diversity schemes’

    And the Treasury lowers standards in order to ship in a more ‘diverse’, but less able, number of employees…

    ‘‘The Numerical Reasoning Test (NRT) was removed due to evidence of the test having adverse impact on candidate diversity. Subsequently, the levels of adverse impact decreased in the 2020 campaign.’’

    And of course it’s right across the board…every employer and organisation filters out the Whites..

    ‘…the “discrimination continues” with BAME-targeted training schemes, internships and placements run by GCHQ, MI5 and MI6, the Big Four accounting firms – Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and PwC – the Bar Council, the Greater London Authority and the Royal Society.’

    and then there’s history…rapidly being erased and replaced by one that our new citizens prefer…not to mention our national flag being deemed too offensive for these new citizens. Andrew Marr basically determined that the British Empire was worse than the Nazis…and tonight we have the Moral Maze which is just putting it out there that America is a racist, mass murdering evil empire and not the great shining light that it sees itself as.

    And then there’s defence…what’s that for then…who and what are we defending against? Hmmm…foriegners who wish to invade and impose their alien ideologies upon us?

    ‘‘How strange must our system of politicks appear in future ages, when it appears, that while we were carrying on offensive wars in all quarters of the globe with vast fleets and armies, that an enemy rode triumphant in our own harbours.’’

    And yet the Government allows in, warmly welcomes in so many cases, vast hordes of such people who have no intention of integrating and who bring their ‘shitholes’ with them and who fully intend to turn this country into the shithole they escaped from.

    ‘‘When I married V.S. Naipaul and moved to England in 1996, I thought I had left the horror behind.

    Pakistan had drained my resolve, and I was tired of fighting a losing battle. To me, England, for all its ills, was the promised land.

    Instead, I have found the horror I fled has followed me here. It is all around, eroding the very core of everything Britain believes in.’

    What’s the point of defence forces if you allow that invasion and takeover?

    ‘Civilisational Suicide’ is pure madness…the whole of Europe is being rapidly destroyed…a civilisation, a culture, a way of life and way of thinking being erased. The likes of the BBC applaud and look on with glee as they see the ‘demographics’ change and the Whites being replaced…that evil ‘Whiteness’ being erased.

    The politicians/media/institutions have made a choice….just as they did ala Rochdale and Rotherham where they looked on and decided it was better to sacrifice thousands of young white girls rather than disrupt so-called community cohesion by stepping in and prosecuting. How is there community cohesion when Muslim men are targeting white girls because they’re not Muslim and they think they are ‘trash’ and worthless because of that?
    The Establishment has decided it is better to allow Islam to takeover than to confront it..no-one wants to be the one to stand up and call a stop to it and cause a war…they’d rather surrender without that fight. That’s the truth…and that’s why the BBC is constantly hiding stories about migrants committing some of the most heinous crimes…they’ve learnt nothing from Rochdale/Rotherham….they’re quite prepared to see women and girls raped and people murdered and say nothing in order to keep up the massive lie that immigration is good for this country.

    It is remarkable that we spent 20 years in Afghanistan trying to destroy the Islamic regime of the Taliban and yet allow it to flourish here on our own streets.

    ‘In Muslim states, violence against women is validated. A dark age is upon us.

    ‘I look out of my study (in the UK) at the common and see a wife fully burkaed on a sunny day. She sits still. Her children and husband run around, laughing, playing cricket. She sits still, dead, buried, a ghost. She is complicit in her own degradation, as are countless others. Their acquiescence in a free democracy is a crime against their sisters who have no such choices in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan and elsewhere.‘

    I could never have imagined, nine years on, that the Taliban would be claiming to have ‘won the war’ in Afghanistan.

    Or, much worse, that our politicians and Muslim ‘leaders’ here would allow their twisted ideology to spread across Britain.

    Make no mistake, Taliban devotees are in our schools, playgrounds, homes, mosques, political parties, public service, private firms and universities.

    And if we are to have any hope of combating them, we need to stop this attitude of appeasement and understand why so many Muslims are attracted to the most punishing forms of belief, suppressing women and children.’

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “…and don’t you worry. It’s coming to a place near you…we cannot have state subsidized preachers…give it up or give it to your deadliest enemy and pay for the rope that will choke you.“

      …..

      “We all agree that there is no place in our society for hatred or discrimination against anybody, anywhere. Islamophobic incidents in the UK are at record levels; there are thousands of incidents each year, with many more likely to be unreported. Abuse is increasingly normalised and politicised through media, TV and online, at institutional as well as street level. Police data shows serious undercounting, making specialist monitoring essential. Islamophobia in the UK is not limited to fringe behaviour, and data shows a pattern of escalating hostility and normalisation in public discourse, including in this place and the other place. How will this definition be integrated into the Nolan principles, and what sanctions will apply to Members of this House and Members of the other place?” – Iqbal Mohamed Independent, Dewsbury and Batley
      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2026-03-09c.80.0#g92.0

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  20. MarkyMark says:

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  21. MarkyMark says:

    “Roads are crumbling, infrastructure failing. People say this country was built by immigrants, I think we should ask for reparations.”



    Around two-and-a-half million coins celebrating the contributions ethnic minority communities have made to the UK will enter circulation on Monday.

    They feature the words “Diversity built Britain” and have a geodome shape to represent connection and strength.

    “Dominique Evans came up with the new coin’s design”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/54529873

    Designer Dominique Evans designed the coins, using her mixed-heritage background as inspiration for the design.

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  22. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Just imagine.

    If Reform win the GE in 2029.
    They decide to replace whoever is PM (Farage)
    They put Tommy Robinson (real name etc.) up for election as an MP in a solid Reform seat where the elected Reform MP has stood down for him.
    Robinson wins and is then made PM.

    Is this the same thing that Labour are doing.

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  23. Althepalerp says:

    I have Leftie friends. Unfortunately if I ever mentioned I voted for Brexit, or I oppose the small boats they would disown me.

    So I’ve taken the position of being more Leftie to them. I say fly a million more Somalia men over and give them opportunity, after all diversity is our strength.

    They go silent – Unable to oppose me, I wait for their arguments against but they do not come. They may twig I am taking the piss but they say nothing.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “But err, errr. The first thing I was going to say was err once one starts talking about white, as a term that defines someone who is British. Look at the England football team.” – Micheal Gove

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  24. pugnazious says:

    Smoke and mirrors as always. Starmer announces he is increasing spending on defence and yet ….where does much of it come from…cannibalism it seems…

    ‘Alongside the DIP, military chiefs will be forced to find £10.7bn in “efficiency savings” over the next four years in several areas including infrastructure, “workforce and resourcing” and Civil Service reform. ‘

    So it’s a self-funding project…with a nearly £6bn hole in the wishlist yet to be filled.

    Hmmmm…

    ‘The official financial cost to the UK taxpayer for supporting asylum seekers and irregular arrivals reached £4 billion annually’

    and on top of that there’s the cost of legal migration…

    ‘The financial cost of all immigrants taken together amount to between £4 and £17 billion a year. That is the conclusion of a survey of academic work on the subject published by Migration Watch UK today.’

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  25. MarkyMark says:

    Wonder how long before UK attacks overtake other countries….

    Jihad Report
    Jun 20, 2026 –
    Jun 26, 2026
    Attacks 22
    Killed 79
    Injured 24
    Suicide Blasts 0
    Countries 7

    https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

    Jihad Report
    May, 2026
    Attacks 116
    Killed 780
    Injured 296
    Suicide Blasts 5
    Countries 20
    #

    …..

    China Uighurs: Xinjiang ban on long beards and veils
    Published
    1 April 2017
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-39460538

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