153 Responses to Start the Week 20th July 2026

  1. MarkyMark says:

    “Manchester City Council has faced recent scrutiny over significant governance and integrity issues, including allegations of senior executive sexual misconduct, controversial redaction of historical grooming case files, and concerns over developer negotiations for housing.”

    “Redaction of Grooming Files: An inspection by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) found that Manchester City Council heavily redacted evidence, including providing files with only a few words visible. This was heavily scrutinized for delaying historical child sexual exploitation and police grooming investigations”

    Google AI

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  2. micknotmike says:

    Sometimes ones mind can read ahead and “improve” the narrative. The bbc headline at the moment is “Andy Burnham pledges cost of living help”. At first I read it as “cost of living hell”.

    Strangely appropriate slip, no?

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  3. Althepalerp says:

    So Burnham has a 10 Year plan.

    I remember John Prescott in 1997 saying he had a 10 year transport integration plan. After they won the election it was never heard of again.

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  4. tomo says:

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    • Richard Pinder says:

      Top World Cup Scorers:

      Gold: —- 37 Goals: King Charles III
      Silver: — 20 Goals: President Emmanuel Macron
      Bronze: – 19 Goals: President Javier Milei

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  5. Flotsam says:

    Anyone remember Andy Pandy?

    Seriously. In his first announcement he declares he wants to end rough sleeping. Very laudable but surely that sort of thing is a Mayoral brief, his old job. One might wonder if he knows anything about the Middle East and Russo-Ukrainian wars, the economic disaster he’s been left, rubber boat invasion etc. That invasion is one reason why people are sleeping rough of course.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Nearly 13,000 people are seen sleeping rough across Greater London annually, with numbers at near-record highs. The demographic profile is predominantly male (approx. 80-85%), with a growing proportion from minority ethnic backgrounds and non-UK nationals, largely concentrated in central boroughs like Westminster.”

      “Nationality: Over half of all people seen sleeping rough in London are non-UK nationals. While European nationals previously made up the largest non-UK group, recent surges include people granted refugee status leaving asylum accommodation.”

      https://trustforlondon.org.uk/data/rough-sleeping-london/

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  6. BRISSLES says:

    Endless pontifications in the last few years about the amount of social housing that needs to be built – ranging from a few hundred thousand to 2 million.

    With my ex-estate agent hat on – and in the game back in the 70s when the Right to Buy was in full swing, will there be a covenant attached to the tenancies of these new builds, that there will be no home ownership after the 3 5 10 year tenancy, as happened in the past.

    If there isn’t then there will be an endless cycle of build sale build sale, thus ensuring a perpetual shortage of homes. A big rethink has to happen to get the mindset into renting rather than ownership as in most of Europe, , in order to have a roof for life.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “In the UK, private builders commit to social housing primarily through Section 106 (S106) agreements. This legally binds developers to ensure a specific percentage (typically 10% to 30%) of homes on new major developments are for affordable or social rent. Local authorities also partner directly with housing associations and major developers to build standalone, 100% affordable housing schemes.”

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      “The wife and children of Abdul Qadir Mumin, the leader of the Islamic State in Somalia, live in a UK council flat. His former British-Somali wife, Muna Abdule, and their three children reside in a two-bedroom social housing property in Slough, Berkshire. Mumin, who gained British citizenship while living in the UK in the 2000s, fled to Somalia in 2010 to join extremist groups, and his family states they have had no contact with him in over a decade.”

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  7. MarkyMark says:

    HA HA HA! Just got an email saying I can get email updates when Andy Burnham talks about football – ha ha haha – never had one for Keir Starmer or Rishi Sunak – ha ha hah a hah a ha!

    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/

    p.s. the email did not mention how to get alerts when he talked about corruption, wasting money or migrants.

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  8. BRISSLES says:

    Yayyyy ! Lammy has gone ! 💪

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  9. MarkyMark says:

    “In his first speech as PM, Burnham promises a 10-year plan and says cost of living measures will be outlined from tomorrow – here are some of his options”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cgrkv8e8l9qt

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  10. tomo says:

    Hermer gone tfft

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Hermer, goes back behind the curtain …. like Blair and Brown.

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      • Ian Rushlow says:

        If this was 40 years ago we’d be saying he’d gone back behind the Iron Curtain… Still, we can hope that this trio are one day brought before a court for what have done.

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      • Scroblene says:

        Did Brown stay long ‘advising’ Starmer? Apparently, he had a desk in Lammy’s office, so that worked well, didn’t it!

        Spare desk, spare job, spare p***k at a wedding…

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        • MarkyMark says:

          “Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown was appointed as a special adviser and reviewer on global finance to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, rather than advising David Lammy directly. However, Brown’s high-profile involvement in government created tensions as insiders felt Brown became a “real deputy” to Starmer” Google AI

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  11. MarkyMark says:

    “Andy Burnham’s pledge to be ‘for all of us’ may include hiring a man for his Downing Street staff who called 9/11 a ‘false flag’ that the US ‘knew of… in advance’, made jibes against Jews, defended an advocacy group that called Jihadi John a ‘beautiful young man’, and said that exposés of the child grooming scandals were a ‘racist campaign’.

    Ali Milani, chair of the Labour Muslim Network, has been working closely with Burnham in the run-up to his election as Makerfield MP and Labour leader, helping with his social media, and has been repeatedly spoken of as an expected hire in No. 10’s digital communications team.

    What hasn’t been reported in the coverage of Milani’s potential new job is his views. Writing in 2025 about the grooming scandals – years after multiple official reports had confirmed what happened – Milani claimed that ‘this conversation in Westminster has nothing to do with the actual victims or the crimes… I will call it out for what it is – a racist campaign.’”

    https://spectator.com/article/burnham-cannot-allow-ali-milani-near-power/

    “The Labour Muslim Network, which Ali chairs, appears to be another deeply problematic body. It has said that asking Muslims to ‘disavow Hamas’ is ‘rooted in Islamophobia’ and attacks the way that Muslims are ‘constantly harassed into condemnations‘ of terrorist groups. Goods currently for sale in its online shop include a Labour Muslim Network-branded ‘Scrap Prevent’ T-shirt.”

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  12. Fedup2 says:

    It’s almost as though bodybags is sacking them according to the public hatred for them …. Streeting next …. Mandelson to be chancellor ( he he ) …

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    • tomo says:

      “according to the public hatred for them”

      – got it in one – they surely have a proper list and are watching reaction closely.

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      • Scroblene says:

        They only listen or watch the bBC, or perhaps Sky if the signal’s down!

        Purnell, apparently on seven figures at the bBC will no doubt tell him what he wants to know, and little else!

        I bet they don’t read this site…

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  14. vlad says:

    David Lammy doesn’t want you knowing the ethnicity of criminals.

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  15. Richard Pinder says:

    The Government plans to indoctrinate the British people into trusting the BBC using the Office Research, Information and Communications Unit (RICU), the Military Intelligence, Section 5 (MI5), Defence Intelligence (DI), the Joint Intelligence Organisation (JIO), the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism (OSCT), the National Crime Agency (NCA), the Ministry of Truth (OFCOM), the National Internet Intelligence Investigations Team (NIIIT), the 77th Brigade Domestic Psyops Team, the GCHQ JTRI Group and the BBC lead Trusted News Initiative (TNI), to brainwash the British people into trusting BBC lies and propaganda. State propaganda will be prioritised on Youtube and Google Search. The BBC will produce more misinformation about white men calling for violence, and the Government will ban talk about rape and vaccine injuries. Any politician or journalist who says that the BBC is a “leftist organisation” will be banned from entering the United Kingdom. The head of MI6/Antifa has told the Prime Minister that Vladimir Putin is Stalin and Donald Trump is Hitler. Remember, the Police have machine guns. Thank you for your attention in this matter, Charles the Turd: https://dailysceptic.org/2026/07/19/narrative-control-the-collapsing-authority-of-the-state/

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    • taffman says:

      Richard Pinder
      If the people of Great Britain trusted the BBC, would this website exist ?
      Scrap the Telly Tax or make it voluntary.

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  16. Fedup2 says:

    Comrade airhead – sorry – Elizabeth Kendal was offered another job – making the tea – but turned it down – Rachel was considered the tea making job but was found to be unqualified ….
    Imagine that – Rachel made the importsntb’mansion house speech 5 days ago

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  17. Fedup2 says:

    Bodybags really flushing the toilet – Darren jones – the darlek mouthpiece of TTK also gone … but what of Mad Ed ?

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  18. MarkyMark says:

    I love this .. “India launch successful space rocket after USA’s Space X failure to launch its massive Star Ship rocket.”

    Or … “… Space X are launching rockets every week with reusable rockets”

    “India’s Private Orbital Rocket Successfully Launches|TaiwanPlus”
    News | TaiwanPlus News | 144k subscribers


    …………….

    Around £1 billion in investments were made by BII. The BII uses UK aid funding (through capital injections) and the BII’s existing assets to invest in businesses and programmes in low- and lower- middle income countries. Its investments are intended to generate a return. Around a third of the BII’s portfolio remains in India, where it estimates it supports around 480,000 jobs.

    https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10351/

    ……………

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    • Scroblene says:

      Like the UK, it all goes up in smoke anyway, so we might as well chuck our taxes over there to burn.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “UK wasted £10bn on PPE that left NHS staff poorly protected, Covid inquiry finds. The lives of NHS staff and patients were put at risk in the pandemic because of a lack of adequate personal protective equipment (PPE), with almost £10bn of taxpayers’ money wasted in a scramble to buy more, the Covid inquiry has said.”
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czrxrlydyzzo
        No criminal charges have been brought to date with the NCA saying that its “ongoing investigation remains a priority for the agency”.

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        • Scroblene says:

          I reckon much of the stuff was sold to vets!

          I took Lily to the vet the other day for a brucellus blood test, as she was a Rumanian Rescue, and when I got there, there were two vets, completely PPEd up to the eyeballs including plastic full-length overalls, motor-bike masks, gloves and hats, just for a quick needle in her leg!

          Lils couldn’t give a damn really, and I was just in the standard hot weather gear – Polo shirt, shorts, sandals etc., y’know ‘unprotected’!

          I won’t get whatever it was they charged me eighty quid for – as she’s free of it anyway…

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  19. taffman says:

    Will Andy “Stop the boats and crush the gangs”?
    Illegals will need housing, all provided by the people of Great Britain?
    Stop paying the French and bring back the Rwanda plan.
    Far right, or right by far ?

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    • Scroblene says:

      They’re all being housed in Manchester, Taff! All those developers are rubbing their hands at the 1.5 mill houses going up in the city centre!

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  20. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    How has this years Prime Minister not replaced Phillipson yet for destroying our education system.

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  21. Fedup2 says:

    Wow – healey appointed chancellor …. Wow

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    • Scroblene says:

      Promised the job when he resigned before?

      How long has all this been going on behind Rodney’s back? Three months – six months?

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Scrob – i dont think they are that shrewd / clever to game that through … mad Ed is rumoured to be foreign secretary …. He has to go from the green crap department and someone – anyone – remotely sane – put there … but sanity and green dont go

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        • Scroblene says:

          Mad Ed can piddle about in foreign fields, where nobody will take a blind bit of notice of him.

          I guess the Begum girl’s return is in his sights already, and forget the rapist being lobbed back to Pakistan too.

          Still, small mercies that we’ll never see much of his gurning mug from now on, his brother will be proud of him…

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  22. friend of yogi bear says:

    OH DEAR, HOW SAD……..

    Rachel “chess champion” Reeves has apparently left the Government , though I don’t believe the rumour that she spotted a black hole and fell in it, to be shortly followed by David “mastermind” Lammy , also in a black hole, whatever next.

    Hillary Benn ( looking for work) is thought to be auditioning for a new spot on the BBC Dead ringers show, doing his impression of Kenneth Williams and so it goes on …..so much talent ..how will we manage……quite well I suspect, good riddance.

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  23. pugnazious says:

    Lammy and Reeves gone for good[though you can’t keep a good man down…just look at Miliband…we just can’t get rid of him]. Don’t think any of the pundits saw John Healey as Chancellor but they reckon now he’s a pretty safe pair of hands…being ‘male, pale and stale’ no doubt.

    Who will take Miliband’s place trying to take us back to the Middle Ages with his nut zero lunacy? No irony that as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero he actually did more than anyone to destroy our energy security as we get warnings that we could face blackouts.

    GB News of course not the BBC….

    ‘Britain came perilously close to a nationwide blackout during last month’s extreme heat, according to whistleblowers.

    Sources from within the energy industry have alleged that energy bosses attempted to conceal the severity of the crisis.

    The whistleblowers claimed that on that date, the grid operator “failed to meet the grid security standards put in place to prevent blackouts”.

    Departments across Whitehall were reportedly warned about the possibility of power cuts in the lead-up to the incident, after Neso issued an emergency margin call requesting generators to boost supplies following a forecast shortfall.’

    Oh and yeah…..goodbye Lord Hermer….let’s hope you didn’t give away the Falklands before you went.

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  24. tomo says:

    “It is vital that there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information which could in anyway prejudice these proceedings.”

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  25. Fedup2 says:

    Man , 28 , charged with the murder of Ann Widdecombe – says BBC website …..
    Nice news management – announced in the middle of a cabinet reshuffle – designed to be distracted – nice job 77 brigade ‘ psy ops community ….
    Will he die slipping over on a bar of soap ? Will the trial be in 2028 or 2029 ?

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    • Scroblene says:

      Fed, I think more people care about a national treasure like Ann Widdecombe, than a cardboard cut-out from Thunderbirds acting like a Titanic deckchair attendant with a diminished gene pool of pretty useless individuals sniffing his backside.

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  26. wwfc says:

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  27. pugnazious says:

    Yes…remarkable that the police just can’t find a motive….and you may have noted Times and BBC reports telling us he had targeted ‘other politicians’….forgetting to mention that the ‘others’ were in fact Reform…Times and BBC trying to desperately peddle the story away from Reform and left-wing extremism and suggest it was just a nutter who hated all politicians….much as they spun the lie that Rudakubana was merely obsessed with violence and thus had no actual motive…just senseless violence[as the BBC’s Mark Mardell told us when a Muslim killed US soldiers in America…no motive just a ‘senseless tragedy’]. Rudakubana attacked because he had been fed a diet of anti-White, anti-British poison by schools, media and blacktivists and so he struck out in a way he knew would cause the most horror and shock.

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  28. tomo says:

    Where’s he going to bob to the surface?

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  30. pugnazious says:

    LOL…police still investigating motive…and it is vital no-one discuss this case at all….funny…could swear that when it is a Right-Winger every single detail is splurged for days, if not months, across the media….

    Day after Jo Cox’s murder…BBC….

    ‘Jo Cox death: What we know about the suspect’

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36558386

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  31. Fedup2 says:

    10pm bbc news – Ann Widdecombe murder charge mentioned in the headline – but nothing else – is he charged with terrorism offences ? Is there anyone else involved ? What is the reaction from other politicians ? Nothing .

    The state wants to bury this crime before Ann Widdecombe is buried – and I bet someone will claim they want ‘privacy ‘….

    Will the next political murder get the same ignorance ?

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  32. atlas_shrugged says:

    Kevin Keegan the footballing legend and also football manager has died.

    This year he was being treated for cancer.

    RIP

    https://www.skysports.com/football/live-blog/11095/13565310/kevin-keegan-dies-aged-75-reaction-and-tributes-for-former-england-player-and-manager

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  33. tomo says:

    BBC already getting promotional treatment on YouTube ( in a ” now you see it, now you don’t” sort of a way when an Android opens a fresh YouTube app instance)

    This evening’s proffered cheery offering – nuclear Armageddon.

    The program selection horizontal swipe ribbon disappears altogether if you scroll past it (having seen / read the thumbnail) No agenda at all – got that?

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  34. JonathanR says:

    I wonder if advertising its service by an ethnic “Comedian[sic] Romesh Ranganathan ” is really a clever marketing strategy by the BBC if they want to convince the majority who pay the licence fee (ie white Britons) to stick with the anti-British Biased Corporation?

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  35. JonathanR says:

    Couldn’t do this now As none of the programmes that are mentioned are any good now.

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  36. JonathanR says:

    I liked this comment : “They forgot to mention the BBC gave us Jimmy Saville, Rolf Harris, Stuart Hall, Huw Edwards, Scott Mills and many more!”

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