I had been wondering what was happening with the ‘wildfire’ near Bordeaux. Google gave me a Times article which assured me that the fire was under control some days ago. The article told me about a fire on the Cote D’Or. It covers 123 hectares. If you live there I guess it isn’t good news. The area is the size of a small uk farm. Not exactly earth shattering or may I suggest newsworthy for people living in the UK.
Yesterday the BBC news featured the Welsh Eisteddford.
A celebration of Welsh language and culture.
Not my cup of tea but a fine occasion for those that enjoy it.
But there was discontent. Welsh speaking is reducing in rural areas. An influx of English speakers is limiting the language in places. This is regarded as a negative. The BBC reported this as a negative.
But now let us consider another scenario. Where In some communities traditional English speaking British people are being marginalised by a great influx of non-British arrivals and BAME. Say Southall. Or Leicester. Or Bradford. Or Tower Hamlets.
Isn’t it exactly the same situation as in those Welsh villages? But can you for a microsecond believe the BBC would report such concerns in the same way as they did for the Welsh? Why, they’d be reporting about the rise of the Far Right and inherent racism.
So I conclude either that the Welsh are under-reported racists or that the BBC are full of newsroom hypocrites.
You choose.
Where I am in West Wales, your third paragraph applies. My location is a strong Welsh speaking area and whenever I am present, they speak in English. If I am in a minority in that crowd, they speak Welsh. I have no problem whatever with that. Locally I always say I am a refugee having fled England >10 years ago. Why does your 3rd para apply? Well simply the “Refugees” are now becoming apparent over here (excluding English like me, of course).
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As an Englishman – I was wondering what the people of Northern Ireland think of their country being invaded by the third world ..?
All that republican unionist stuff – killing – injuring – destroying – all seems a real waste of blood time effort when the country – north and south is being invaded … even worse than England because the population is so small …
James O’Brien has made a humiliating confession over his support for Jason Arday. The LBC radio presenter and former host for BBC Newsnight had backed Arday after he resigned from the University of Cambridge. Arday was appointed as the youngest black professor at Cambridge in 2023. Last week, he resigned after mounting scepticism of his personal and professional claims led to a university investigation into his conduct.
The academic has been accused of plagiarism in his academic work, including his PhD thesis and other research. Arday’s recent work has been called “flawed”, with reportedly “impossible evidence” and inconsistencies. He also claimed to have published a book, but the publisher confirmed it was never released.
Arday said he was a visiting professor at Ohio State University, the University of Glasgow, and Nelson Mandela University, all of which deny the claim. He also claimed he had a master’s from Birkbeck and was an honorary professor at Durham, but the former had no record of him and the latter said he no longer held any roles at the university.
The academic made several other claims about being non-verbal until 11, only learning to read and write at 18, running marathons, being a semi-professional footballer, charity work abroad, and raising up to £5.5 million for charities over 20 years.
James O’Brien had previously accused The Telegraph and The Times of “studied and deliberate ignominy” after they revealed claims against Arday.
But on his LBC show on Friday, O’Brien said: “What’s your takeaway here? Because mine is very, very personal. I can’t separate the personal from the public. I feel like a mug, actually, is the short answer.
I don’t feel guilt. I don’t feel, ‘Oh, you should have done differently or you should have done better,’ because who would? Who would meet a Cambridge professor and immediately start thinking, ‘God, I wonder whether you actually deserve to be there?’. I certainly wouldn’t do that.
If I was a racist and I met a black Cambridge professor, then I probably would find myself thinking, ‘Yeah, really, a black guy, professor, I don’t think…’ – but I’m not a racist, so it didn’t cross my mind.”
He added: “But it’s more the personal contact that I’ve had with him subsequently that makes me feel like a mug. The fact that he thought I was someone that he might be able to persuade to stick up for him when he knew that he’d done wrong.
I am really enjoying this Arday story because of the complete and utter tw@ts it has made of all the Lefties who were complicit.
What will they learn ?. Nothing. Because I have observed all Lefty activists have very thick skin and absolutely no shame. They would do the same again tomorrow.
Even that o Brian character – who I have never seen /heard – has had to admit he was ‘duped ‘ defending the Cambridge PS teacher – i call him that because someone analysed what qualifications he really has – they are suitable to be a PE teacher – third rate …
I could tell within the first paragraph that this was BBC Kuenssberg-style fawning over someone who is from an approved political party. I did not have the willpower to read further – so I asked AI to summarise it for me:
‘The BBC Newsnight interview has sparked intense public debate regarding its tone and the platform given to Hunter Biden. Many critics and viewers share the perspective that the broadcast leaned heavily on personal emotional narratives rather than aggressively grilling him on his legal controversies
Focus on Emotion Over Investigation:
The broadcast dedicated significant time to Hunter Biden’s vulnerability, showing him getting visibly emotional when discussing his addiction recovery and his family
The Platforming Dilemma:
Critics argue that framing him as a sympathetic figure who was “reaching for oblivion” downplays his federal tax evasion and gun convictions
Soft Self-Criticism:
Allowing him to state his pardon was “not fair” let him frame his own narrative without facing a harsher cross-examination on presidential nepotism.
Deflecting Legal Actions:
The interview allowed him to position his actions strictly through the lens of trauma and survival, rather than the political corruption allegations long pushed by his opponents.
The BBC News website continues to feature the segment, and public reaction remains highly polarized over whether the broadcaster acted as an objective news outlet or a soft platform for a controversial political figure.’
Absolutely classic BBC. When the facts don’t fit, they focus on empathy and emotion instead. Exactly what they did in Gaza.
Someone please rid us of this parasite stuffed with Left-wing activists who we are forced by law to fund.
I fear about all the uni children, who sat at his feet, in awe of the great philosopher expounding his mighty theories on sociology, and now realise that he was spouting b******s!
I guess they’ll all apply for counselling, possibly compensation, and a reduction in their student loans!
I also wonder if other very costly ‘research commissions’ Cambridge gets, might just dry up, and a few mill will perhaps go to other places – presumably with a damn sight more investigation than they did at Jesus College.
Perhaps the children couldn’t tell the difference between b******s and even more b******s, so will probably get A** grades anyway, which will certainly ‘help’ the UK drag itself out of the incredible financial disaster zone we’re all facing…
The Cambridge liar mess echoes the failure to properly vet other agencies – eg plod with its rich number of offenders as well as the NHS where English language skills and medical qualifications are not strictly necessary …
We’re in a dreadful state where we have to put up with public services being subject to ridiculous DEI mantras, and therefore excellence in a work ethic is not being considered.
Somewhere I read there are over 100 black professors in the uk. I am sure that some of them got there on merit. Some of them might not. And that is what Cambridge University has highlighted and by appointing Arday on his DEI credentials alone brought the reputation of all black professors into question.
Agree Fed : this Cambridge nut-job is just the very tip of the iceberg of people being given positions they absolutely should not be in because of DEI.
If it were related to the Right, there would be all kinds of discussions and demands to investigate it. But as it’s the stupendous hypocrite Lefties involved, it is being treated as an isolated incident.
Any further attention would be classified as ‘not helpful’ to the agenda and anyone demanding it would be shouted down as a racist.
“Surgeon struck off after wrongly connecting organs” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20de8z2w2lo
Dr Yasser Adly Abdel Rahman, an NHS locum surgeon from Egypt, carried out the flawed emergency bowel procedure on a young man.
It meant the contents of the patient’s bowel, leaving his stomach, were re-deposited back into his stomach through a circular “closed loop”, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) heard.
This fakery and bullshit is gobbling up our universities. Claudine Gay, former president of @Harvard, had to resign over her repeated instances of plagiarism. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. When people aren't plagiarizing, they're indulging their brains in…
Replying to Scrob at 0750 but other replies put this a little out of context…..
Try going to the doctors and discovering the doctor is a female Muslim GP wearing a full face veil.
She has an Asian accent AND a full face veil resulting in indistinct words which you cannot use sight in the form of quasi lip-reading to figure out.
So patient communication plays second fiddle to religious ( or should that more exactly be cultural) practice.
The Far Left would of course attack me for being racist. But they’d be skating on thin ice.. Because it actually happened to the writer.
And I would hazard a guess that any of her patients might also wonder if she really did have the qualifications to treat you!
I saw my British doctor last week, as a ‘trigger’ on a blood test had started a trail for a consultation of some sorts. I got my appointment for twelve hours hence, and after a lot of friendly chat about how he’d got me through something really nasty a couple of years ago, and so quickly, we finished up with a general discussion on my age – 79 – and how it’d be a good thing to keep doing what I do, enjoy the next five or ten years, and just get on with it!
Diageo boss Dave Lewis stakes revival on canned cocktails and Guinness. New chief unveils plans to restore growth along with suite of cost cuts… the executive, known as “Drastic Dave” from his time restructuring UK supermarket chain Tesco… Lewis’s plan to reverse Diageo’s dire performance involves taking Guinness global… He will also expand capacity for Guinness, promising “a lot of geographical expansion. Guinness growth is great; it’s fantastic.” (FT, 6th August)
‘Drastic Dave’ to pour £750m into growing Guinness brand… in a bet that sales of the popular Irish stout can rise even higher… (Telegraph, 6th August)
I know they’re not supposed to advertise…
Advertorial Galore! ?
Divers find 162-year-old Guinness in shipwreck off the English coast… How far would you travel for a pint of Guinness? If the answer is to the bottom of the sea, you might be in luck. (Adam Mandeville, BBC News NI, 7th August)
Stefan Panis and his friends made the discovery off the Dover coast in 2025 (BBC) – and you’re covering the story now, because…?
A spokesperson for Diageo said: “Discoveries like this provide a fascinating window into our past and help build a deeper understanding of our heritage. (BBC)
After that short ad break, we go over to the news…
Journalists are an unimaginative lot. They seem to get one big story stuck in their heads and then they can’t help plugging it death. If the football World Cup gave you more than your fill of soccer for four years… then look away now…
Norway call for Infantino to resign as Mexico and Conmebol chief back president (Alex Brotherton, BBC Sport journalist and Dale Johnson, Football issues correspondent (no less!))
And the football issue our journos are most desperately anxious to correspondent with us about is the eagerly awaited elevation of Nordic Football Boss Girl, Lise Klaveness, into the role of FIFA chief, hopefully soon to be vacated by Gianni Infantino – think of him as the character Dr. Evil, as played by Mike Myers in the Austin Powers film series.
Only his mother could love him – or apparently not…
Infantino’s ‘lover’ was paid off by Uefa… It can now be revealed – gossips the Telegraph
This little bit of previous is of course just something to be taken into consideration (as our previous generation of cops would say. Our cops now have touchy-feely catchphrase such as we sympathise with the victims and we understand the concerns of our communities – but one digresses).
The major beef against the Italian-Swiss soccer swizzler is apparently: Gianni Infantino plans to sell World Cup stake in ‘nuclear bomb’ for football. Prime Minister says Fifa will have ‘sold out’ if plans go through, while European nations may discuss World Cup boycott in emergency meeting (Telegraph)
Andy Burnham with the jumpers for goalposts there.
Football to be commercialised. Just like any other entertainment product. And there we were thinking football was a human right – like fresh air and clean water – that should be free to all – like free breakfast clubs and £2 bus fares. I guess the only reason football grounds have turnstiles where fans have to produce proof of having bought a ticket is that just like our NHS anything free to all comers at the point of access has necessarily to be rationed.
The Guardian cautions us not to believe our lying eyes.
Despite: Thousands of migrants still in Ceuta after border crisis, local leader says (BBC) – the reality in fact is: Russia-linked accounts spread extreme narrative online during Ceuta migration crisis, analysis finds (Guardian)
Let’s just unpack that headline (as the saying goes). It was the untamed unmitigated spreading of the news of that massive border breach that bugs the Guardian. Now if only approved news sources, such as our BBC and the Gruan itself, had carried the news with their non-extreme narrative spin applied – then everything would presumably have been just fine and dandy. But Putin had to stick his oar in.
To conclude: Two weeks that rocked football (Guardian) – but hyper-migration into Europe is just a Russian psyop.
Today
Thought I’d dip in for a change – a chaotic 1st hour with the C team – clearly very nervous and not good with the engleesh ….
Anyway
Another couple of stories for met plod failure … the most serious is the failure to control an evil multiple rapist and murdered who was left free by an incompetent met plod – one reason being – he has only one eye – he’s another invader of course …
Then there is a failure to properly investigate an attack on the London home of Nigel Farage months ago … no surprise there – presumably DC Mohammed doesn’t like Farage …..
Just add the threat to a journalist not to investigate the Cambridge liar and you’ve got a pretty bad week for met plod …. Even the Far left met plod commissioner couldn’t defend that one … he should plan for his next job – non exec director in a security company is usual …
Oh yeah – forgot one the corruption of the ‘national crime agency ‘ leaking the details of reform politicians – another outfit infiltrated by the DEI …..
STARTS Some of the BBC’s veteran weather presenters could lose their jobs as the broadcaster seeks to boost its digital presence amid a cost-cutting drive.
Tomasz Schafernaker, Louise Lear and Darren Bett, widely regarded as the faces of the corporation’s weather coverage, are said to be considering taking voluntary redundancy as the BBC scales down its presenting team, according to The Times.
The move to reduce the number of national weather presenter roles from 11 to 4.5 forms part of wholesale changes to BBC Weather’s output, to respond to increased use of digital platforms rather than traditional news bulletins.
The corporation plans to cut costs by £500m during the next two years, which is expected to lead to the loss of up to 2,000 jobs.
Remaining forecasters are expected to be split between London and Salford, with an extra four weather reporters housed at a new BBC weather centre at the Met Office headquarters in Exeter, where they will deliver articles, videos and social media updates. ENDS
Maybe the BBC can give the Cambridge liar a job doing the weather … hotb= cold – dry = wet …
Never done this before – but here’s a cut and paste from the BBC site – it’s some detail of the case of the murder / rape monster Levy …
STARTS
A convicted sex offender murdered two women, raped a third, and sexually assaulted others on public transport, after police, prosecutors and courts made a series of disastrous decisions that left him free to roam the streets.
A jury at the Old Bailey has now found Simon Levy guilty of the murders of Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, and Sheryl Wilkins, 39, in London last year – and also the violent rape of another woman in a car park.
Levy had been downgraded by the Metropolitan Police as a risk to women before he carried out the attacks.
The Met told the BBC it accepts the life of Wilkins could have been saved. The force had apologised to her family, it said.
Levy, a jobless loner who lived with his mother, attacked the three women while on bail for sex assaults on trains in London, and went on to carry out further assaults on public transport.
Details of his crimes on public transport, plus the sexual assault of a prison officer while he was in jail for earlier offences, can now be reported. He was convicted of them in February.
We can also say that between late 2024 and summer 2025 he was freed on bail by police, and then the courts, multiple times – even after having been charged with the sex offences and having broken his bail conditions.
He was also being monitored and risk-managed by the Met Police throughout.
We can also now report that:
Levy had already been in prison for two sexual assaults, and Scotland Yard downgraded Levy’s risk to women upon his release in 2024, a decision now under investigation by the police watchdog
The Met closed its investigation into the rape he carried out in January 2025 despite the fact Levy could have been identified
The force did not class Valencia-Trujillo’s death in March 2025 as a murder, or pass the case to specialist homicide detectives, until after Levy had killed again
The Met took three years to investigate and charge Levy with the sexual assault of the prison officer, with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) also acting too slowly
British Transport Police’s (BTP) investigation into Levy’s sexual assaults was beset by delays, meaning he was not charged for more than six months, despite being filmed carrying out an attack
The Met and BTP both gave Levy back a stolen travelcard which let him travel without paying and commit crimes, including the first murder
There has been a “collective system failure” and it is a “tragedy beyond words”, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Kevin Southworth from the Met told the BBC.
Det Ch Supt Pete Fulton, from BTP, said the delay in his force’s enquiries on Levy “absolutely wasn’t good enough” and was down to “incompetence” by two officers who have since been moved to other roles.
The CPS has apologised for “shortcomings” in its attempts to have Levy Remanded in custody ….ENDS
To me – there are echoes of the Nottingham multiple murdered – coloured and useless and their state failed to protect the innocent from him … all the victims were ….white …. But the race card can only be used one way …
Until the individuals who made the decisions are fully held to account – by name – this stuff will go on and on . At the moment there is no punishment …
Sorry about my spelling but my head always works faster than fingers ..
The allegations raise questions about how much of British donors’ money may have been syphoned to the terror group and why the charity was not investigated sooner. MPs have called for more scrutiny of charities and an immediate crackdown on any accused of being linked to terrorist funding.
Mr Hasna, who is based in Turkey, became a regional director at Al-Khair in August 2018 and has been a global director since 2023, using it as a “front organisation,” the charge sheet states.
He is a “longtime supporter of Hamas” and before he was employed by Al-Khair he posted messages on his social media “glorifying terrorists”, it adds.
The US indictment, seen by The Telegraph, refers to Al-Khair as “the Sham Charity” throughout and notes that its gross income “nearly doubled following the October 7 Hamas Massacres”, rising from £31.28m to £74.79m.
The links to Hamas have obviously been carefully cloaked (in English sources…) – the amounts involved to what’s left of my mind hint at a radicalised population in the UK or carefully disguised funding from other entities – probably both…
Not bbc – but footy … today carried a story about the owner of West Ham being so unpopular that he is being told to stay away from home games – the first one being today in the league cup ….
Apparently he has sex allegations against him … bit rich since he made his dosh out of girlie magazines ….
Sullivan, as I understand it had a virtual monopoly of UK newspaper and magazine phone sex operations (the publications being a customer dragnet) – reeling in millions via a network of carefully partitioned associates and farms of freelance dirty talkers on generous revenue splits.
Tomo – so I made him rich then …😎 I liked the father ted version ‘ dial a priest ‘ …
I have a fondness for west Ham – when they got relegated the crowd turned on Sullivan and I recall he left before the second half … could get fruity today … they are in the angry bit of grief …
– the phone operations were (are?) epic in scale – in the noughties I saw a rural cottage with one room converted into a full blown computerised telephone exchange with hundreds of premium rate lines routed in and out to freelance dirty talkers (computers ensured millisecond charge tier escalation) – it looked like the bloke running it couldn’t spend money fast enough…
Now imagine if a group of people stood outside the EDP's offices with a big sign saying, 'SCUM'. Would the EDP journos be happy with that? https://t.co/YxohYAblKr
Eastern Daily Press is owned by Newsquest. Newsquest is owned by USA Today (formerly Gannett). USA Today is owned by Fortress Investment Group. The parent company of Fortress is Mubadala Investment Company, which is owned by the government of Abu Dhabi.
As with nearly all local British newspapers, there is absolutely nothing ‘local’ or ‘British” about them and their agenda.
While the Royal Navy/Marines will do as they are told when eventually used to stop the dinghies there will probably be some amongst them that are against doing it.
The answer is to ask the Navy and Marines for volunteers who agree with protecting our borders to form a boat squadron and these patriots will complete the job without any woke or DIE interference.
Three or four boats with about 20 on each boat would be enough to turn back the dinghy boys.
I really don’t think it’s unreasonable or overly paranoid to see the hand of Brussels in the dinghy invasion – nettle the Brits and pretend to “help”.
Pretty clear to me that the primary reason most migrants have UK as their final destination is our utterly stupid and actually suicidally over-generous, skin colour skewed, miserably administrated benefits policy driven by the same class of utter twerps that put Professor Arday and his ilk in top academic gigs.
Matt Goodwin is a good watch on GB News with his hour long Friday night show.
Last night he must have been on holiday or something and was replaced by Will Kingston.
I think Will made a very good job of it and would like to see him get his own show (at a watchable time) perhaps replacing one (or more) of JR Mogg’s 8pm shows as JRM is quite meek and too polite.
Nobody can replace Michelle Dewberry (Dewb’s and co) and Matt Goodwin is also excellent but Will has shown himself to be a very good panellist and commentator and should, like Matt, be promoted to his own show.
It’s better than having Dawn Neesom standing in for everybody all the time. Give her some time off GBN.
In many other places – very one of those 16,000 undocumented airline travellers would’ve triggered a fat fine. Irish authorities when pressed have had to admit passengers board flights with travel documents (required for international air travel) but then destroy, discard, or otherwise “lose” them before reaching immigration control. It’s completely farcical
The phenomenon is not unique to Ireland but has been a specific focus of Irish border operations due to the volumes involved.
I suspect similar happening quietly in the UK – several small towns worth every year?
He’s completely bald underneath and wears his ex-wife’s merkin after she rinsed him (us) for £43.5m! He wears it at a jaunty angle to remind him of the young man he once was when he lived in an old van with a windmill generator on top and wore his dad’s fedora like Cary Grant! https://t.co/Vh3knGZ2iC
A tiny bit of me might have felt a tiny bit of empathy / compassion for the PE teacher – until the thing about reporting a journo to plod and hiring the worst firm of shysters …after that – let him burn in the light of truth …
BBC Verify can Verify that Jason Arday and Marianna Spring were both selected by the BBC due to impressive misinformation and lies found on their CV’s.
Both have visited Conspiracyland and verified that any evidence that is not officially approved by BBC Verify is therefore completely unauthorised and is to be censored, ignored or denied. All dissent, all evidence and all opinions that the State and its Establishment “partners” need to bury in order to maintain “Trust in the BBC” can be expunged by the governments behavioural scientists, using “psychological nudge weapons” to label all who hold anti-Establishment opinions “conspiracy theorists” and by calling all the evidence that questions power “conspiracy theory”.
BBC Verify is dismantling conspiracy theories spread by racist rape victims and vaccine injured anti-vaxxers. BBC Verify is battling crank climate scientists, mad doctors and free speech extremists like Elon Musk.
BBC Verify can Verify that President Trump did call for violence, as is confirmed by a BBC Documentary, but did not say the BBC was a “leftist propaganda machine” and “100 percent fake news”.
The Nutty Professor story has been good for a laugh and those who appointed him and/ or defended him have copious quantities of egg all over their faces .
But the truth, as someone mentioned above, is that this is the tip of a very large iceberg that covers all manner of fields , medicine , nursing, dentistry, media, civil service , law , police etc etc.
We have been set up by the political elite. In my own experience we have doctors , nurses and dentists that can barely speak English and I struggle to understand . Not a pleasant situation when you are trying to explain why you aren’t feeling too good. Perhaps the NHS will soon be providing translators for those patients who are native British so that they can understand the doctors and nurses!
As to their competence I have left my dental practise and moved to one where the dentists are British because I found that as my previous practise gradually became ‘increasingly diverse ‘ the standard of care dropped alarmingly. I have to travel much further but feel the level of competence is back to previous norms.
Did these ethnic dentists get degrees because they deserved them or because they benefitted from DEI? Imagine if those running nuclear power stations or nuclear submarines have DEI degrees !
I have a US-based friend who needs to fly a lot but will always check the pilots before deciding whether to take the flight. Plenty of people who were serving coffee as cabin crew one week end up in the cockpit the following week, having attended a 30 minute flying course and completed a short questionnaire about their ethnicity and gender. As he puts it: BLM was succeeded by PLM (Passenger Lives are Meaningless).
Ian – at least with the internet there is some chance of holding the medical mafia to account by identifying and researching offenders .
It’s fortunate – for me – that when a surgeon killed my dad during emergency surgery – I couldn’t readily research the offender …. Otherwise he’d have ‘paid a price ‘….
My sympathies, I’ve also lost a family member to gross medical negligence. And, although the culprit was identified, there was almost nothing by way of atonement.
Norman Fenton says “The story emerged just as my new book, The Capture of Academia: How Universities Shape Power, Silence Dissent and Influence Society, was published. Anybody wishing to find out how and why a story like Arday’s could happen will find it all explained in the book.”: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Capture-Academia-Universities-Silence-Influence/dp/B0HBGCDQHG
Many academics pulled up the drawbridge to the ivory towers some decades ago and started gatekeeping – largely (imho) driven by conceit, self-obsession, delusions of grandeur and last, but not least avarice. Arday was on at least £80,000 and recently bragged “1.4 million” for his book advance. Academics who don’t teach… out in the West of England (Bristol + Bath) have been paying themselves ludicrous amounts of money.
There is a BBC angle:
There is much more to come out of the woodwork with the Jason Arday affair, now that there are calls for an independent review of Cambridge University’s hiring processes. But the way the BBC reported the emerging controversy should not be forgotten.
The contrast between how newspapers like the Telegraph or The Times, and journals such as the Spectator meticulously dismantled Arday’s claims and the passivity of the BBC in handling the story points to several systemic failures in the broadcaster’s objectivity.
As the story emerged, the BBC was well-positioned to evaluate the claims of academic malpractice. In Verify, it possesses an elite investigative arm with 61 staff and a wage bill of £3.3 million, yet it fundamentally failed to use this unit or any of its other fact-checking resources independently to audit Arday’s work during the height of the controversy.
While print journalists were calling up charities, mapping out impossible marathon times (such as his claim of running 600 miles in six days), and running software on his academic papers, the BBC largely limited its coverage to reporting on other people’s reporting.
It limited its coverage of the controversy, effectively treating the crisis as a mere “row” or a clash of opinions between opposing camps, rather than a verifiable case of fraud. In so doing, it seems to have been attempting to protect a narrative it had spent years building.
The BBC itself was a primary driver of the Arday phenomenon. They presented him as the definitive symbol of progressive triumph over institutional barriers: a man diagnosed with global development delay who could not speak until the age of eleven but became Cambridge’s youngest Black professor at 37.
In fact, the BBC could not get enough of him. Not only did it film his first meeting with professor Hilary Cremin, head of the faculty of education at the University of Cambridge, it repeatedly used him as a panellist on Question Time.
He was invited to guest-edit the Radio 4 Today programme in 2023, was given his own podcast series and was interviewed as an expert in his field numerous times.
It cannot have hurt his relationship with the BBC to have had Sonita Alleyne as Master of Jesus College, making her the institutional head of his department and his direct superior within the college structure.
Formerly a member of the now-defunct BBC Trust, then the BBC’s governing body, Alleyne had a long association with the media and broadcasting establishment and had been awarded an OBE for services to broadcasting.
As the details of Arday’s plagiarism began to emerge, but before the case was regarded as proven, Alleyne lent her substantial institutional weight to a solidarity letter published by the Good Law Project, a letter that explicitly scolded the media, claiming that asking questions about Arday’s CV and plagiarism amounted to a “baseless, racist campaign”.
Doubtless, for a risk-averse, tax-funded broadcaster like the BBC, seeing the Master of an elite Cambridge college – who also happens to be a former BBC regulator – publicly declare the investigation “racist” would act as an immediate editorial deterrent.
Where prestige and influence trumps mere evidence, it would have given sympathetic or cautious BBC journalists an official cover to treat the plagiarism claims as a toxic, highly politicised dispute rather than an objective fact-checking exercise.
Alleyne’s presence on the BBC Trust belongs to the past, but her career is a textbook example of the elite British network where university bosses, media regulators, and public broadcasters all share the same blind spots – ultimately insulating public figures from the scrutiny an ordinary academic would have faced.
But there must have been another important factor which drove the BBC’s reticence fully to engage in the controversy. Because its senior editors had used the broadcaster’s platforms to champion Arday’s specific biography, critically examining his thesis would have required them to have admitted that their own editorial vetting had failed.
Thus, a pattern emerged where, rather than carrying out its primary task of reporting the news, the handling of the Arday story became a process of preserving institutional face. This is evident in the way that the BBC consistently framed the accusations not as an issue of basic academic integrity, but as a “highly politicised” debate surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
The broadcaster’s limited coverage heavily repeated Arday’s defensive framing. In his statements – broadcast extensively by the BBC – Arday claimed that the identical passages in his thesis were merely “mistakes” caused by his autism and a reliance on “mimicry” to make sense of information. He insisted that he was “not a liar”, asserting that similar scrutiny would find similar errors in work by other academics.
This was despite independent fact-checking and analysis of Arday’s 2015 PhD thesis at Liverpool John Moores University, which exposed 188 sentences that were identical or near-identical to a 2009 Brunel University thesis, a statistical impossibility to achieve by accident.
Any experienced academic (in fact, any academic or serious writer) knows that copying entire blocks of text from a previous student’s dissertation (or from any other source without attribution) is plagiarism, not a symptom of neurodivergence.
By uncritically broadcasting his defence without explicitly pointing out that the scale of text duplication breached standard UK university regulations, the BBC chose to prioritise editorial sympathy over strict factual analysis.
He was allowed to claim that, since he had arrived at Cambridge, there had been a very well-orchestrated and co-ordinated campaign to unseat him from his position. He argued that this campaign had been “racially motivated” and that he had become a “lightning rod” for criticism of the university’s DEI policy.
He was also allowed to defend himself by arguing that he had not received adequate supervision during his PhD given his autism and learning disabilities, and that he could not afford a proofreader to catch mistakes when he started out in academia.
As to his critics, the BBC traced the origin of the “row” to Nathan Cofnas, a US researcher, who had said he had found numerous instances of plagiarism in Arday’s work.
But the BBC prominently described this critic as a “self-defined race realist” who had been sacked from his Cambridge role in after a backlash to his view that under a true meritocracy black people would “disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment”.
Arday’s “defence” was heavily reinforced by the BBC citing Kehinde Andrews, professor of black studies at Birmingham City University. He was quoted as saying that Arday was the victim of a “smear campaign” that was “as predictable as it is baseless”.
Another supporter, Alan Lester, a University of Sussex geography professor who specialises in colonialism, was also quoted, calling it a “non-story”, while Simon Baron-Cohen – a cognitive neuroscientist and fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge – was given space to raise concerns about the impact the media coverage was having on Arday.
“We should of course always investigate plagiarism to protect academic standards”, he wrote, adding: “However, I cannot stand by and watch when an autistic man is on the ground and the kicking continues. This is relentless bullying of a vulnerable autistic man and raises safe-guarding issues. It’s time to stop”.
Even where the broadcaster acknowledged that that some academics accepted that there were “questions to answer over academic propriety”, it confined itself to quoting John Preston, an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Essex.
“Mistakes happen”, Preston said. “If sociology of education is to ever be a field with any credibility, we need to be able to point these out, correct them, and move on”, adding that there was “no personal shame in making mistakes and admitting them”.
But perhaps the most significant indicator of a lack of objectivity was the BBC’s initial silence on how the story was suppressed.
The public now knows that journalists trying to investigate Arday were met with legal threats from elite law firms, and that the Metropolitan Police actually launched a four-month harassment investigation into an independent reporter just for emailing Arday standard journalistic questions.
The BBC’s failure to investigate why a university professor was using the Met Police to silence legitimate journalistic scrutiny reveals what appears to be a deep-seated reluctance to challenge the establishment figures they admire.
Only after Arday had resigned, did the BBC admit the seriousness of the accusations, but subsequently could not resist the temptation to write that “The controversy has attracted a range of opinions, including within academia, about whether he had been scrutinised unfairly because of his race”.
Not a hint is given of the Telegraph report that Cambridge University had been sent fresh evidence of Arday’s plagiarism last year – having first been alerted to it in 2023. However, the “responsible person” allocated to the case had been Prof Hilary Cremin, the head of Mr Arday’s faculty who had told him he was “the best in the world” when he had been hired – in front of BBC cameras.
Yet, as a universally tax-funded broadcaster supported by the UK licence fee, the BBC is bound by a strict Royal Charter that legally requires it to maintain absolute impartiality and objectivity.
When the broadcaster prioritises protecting a celebrated narrative over conducting basic, rigorous fact-checking, it represents a profound systemic failure that directly violates those foundational public duties.
By contrast, the BBC routinely deploys its “Verify” unit to fact-check minor internet rumours or political claims, yet it consciously chose not to apply those same data-journalism tools to a high-profile academic scandal that was emerging.
By framing massive text duplication as “errors” and focusing heavily on Arday’s defence, the broadcaster allowed its own editorial sympathy and deference to “prestige” to obscure the objective reality of what amounted to serious and evidently quite deliberate plagiarism.
This demonstrates that the BBC had created for itself a clear conflict of interest where the public broadcaster was protecting its own historical reporting at the expense of the truth.
In aligning its coverage with a specific progressive worldview – in this case uncritically championing a high-profile appointment to support a diversity narrative – it has succumbed to institutional capture.
It has ceased to be an objective observer (not that it has been for some time) and instead has become an active participant in a cultural conflict, using public money to validate its own institutional preferences.
Prior to the current Charter running out on 31 December 2027, the BBC’s reporting of the Arday controversy should feature prominently in the funding review. It should be taken as additional evidence that the current public service broadcasting model has outlived its usefulness.
If the BBC wants to be the propaganda arm for the progressives, it should be so on its own dime. It is wholly unacceptable that the public should be forced to pay for it.
Dr Anthony Fauci was given a pardon for killing children with a spike protein miocarditis ‘sudden death’ jab.
Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times during congressional questioning about the science. The committee then voted along party lines to hold him in contempt of Congress. The BBC still supports Fauci and his lies, found in Fauci’s diary.
Holocaust survivor Vera Sharav said “What is interesting about the children who are being sacrificed now to the Pfizer/Moderna mass injection regime is that the first murder victims of the Nazi regime were German infants and young children under the age of three.”
One Tony livesey – a former ‘presenter ‘ on bbc 5live has announced he has left the BBC – he having ‘stepped back ‘ because he worked for David Sullivan in his newspaper . The article on this i read suggested he came up with a spot called ‘count down to 16’ which apparently is the earliest age at which young ladies can pose topless …. Quality journo
The BBC did sterling work on behalf of the globalists during the COVID scam-demic – censoring, undermining and ridiculing the scientists and doctors who recommended alternative and complementary approaches to the toxic COVID jabs, remdesivir (AKA when-death-is near) and ventilators.
Ivermectin was particularly targeted for denigration in the British psyche. Only the very brave or those without a Tell-A-Vision could have withstood the massive propaganda initiative launched against this established, low-cost, broad-spectrum medicine that prevented deterioration and death in people diagnosed with COVID.
The BBC says “do not take Ivermectin” for virus infections and cancer.
The BBC says “the Covid vaccine does not cause heart problems and turbo cancer”
The BBC says “Prince Philip did not die from heart problems after his two Covid Jabs”
The BBC says “The Queen did not die from a B-Cell tubo cancer after her five Covid Jabs”
GB News giving it straight between the eyes to some BBC spokesperson creature. (I don’t know who he is, and don’t care. Just look at the smug git sipping his chilled wine with all those books behind him, meant to impress. They just go to prove you can be ‘well-read’ and still a complete moron.)
It is the BBC that is destroying British culture. They jump on every anti-British bandwagon they can. Our culture would thrive much better without them.
BBC reports that president trump has managed to get his attorney general in place …. The bbc – on behalf of the democrats – accuses trump of ‘politicising the legal system ‘… as though that’s a bad thing … now go after the Biden Gang and Biden himself … although it seems his cancer has spread …
When he shuffles off the BBC will be bereft …. Others might open a bottle …
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UK immigration officers overwhelmed by illegal ‘lorry drops’, report finds https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/21/uk-immigration-officers-overwhelmed-by-illegal-lorry-drops-report-finds
David Bolt, the independent inspector of borders and immigration, said the number of people who entered Britain in the back of lorries had risen threefold, from 2,411 in 2014 to 6,429 in 2015, the first official indication of the scale of last summer’s surge in clandestine migration to the UK.
And what, precisely, is a cost of living tour, prey tell…?
Andy Burnham to embark on cost of living tour through the UK (Nick Eardley, Political correspondent, BBC)
Our Andy taking the Madchester band out on the road for their first ever gigs at venues other than in his home town or down there in that London?
The prime minister has been on holiday this week, but Downing Street said he would be in “listening mode” in the coming days as he tours the UK’s nations and regions and works on a “10-year plan to bring back hope”. (BBC)
His exact vacation location is being kept a strict secret by Number 10 and our formerly scurrilously investigative press hacks are now far too respectful to spill the beans about the new Labour PM’s holibobs.
Despite the front page of The Sun splashing with that other disappointing Manc star’s holiday antics: Utd’s Rash is on lash… Three Lions ace Marcus Rashford is partying hard after his World Cup heroics by splashing the cash on treats for pals… hired a boat on the French Riviera and invited ten women on board
Wo-man overboard
Sometimes one has to resist a tempting segueway. So I shan’t link to the Mirror’s top headline: Loose Women Nadia Exclusive… Sawalha… believes she has been dropped from the daytime show for speaking out in support of Palestinian rights
Instead, let’s attempt to imagine what Our Andy is going to explore on his cost of living tour of the UK.
Daily Star Sunday has a suggestion: Parents blast £7 cost of classic 99 ice cream… Cone artists whip-off Britain
Out of the mouths of babes.
I’m inevitably put in mind of that viral video clip of the little girl, Marnie, decrying inflationary Britain: “There’s an ice cream van there, sellin’ jus’ two ice creams, wiv two chewin’ gums innit. Bluddy nine pound for two of ’em! Yeah, nine quid! He’s gonna get nowhere with that…! An’ ‘e only does bluddy card. Stood there wiv me cash!”
Things could be worse, apparently: Food prices are surging in Russia. Is the war hitting Russians in the pocket? (Olga Shamina, Yaroslava Kiryukhina and Sergei Kagermazov, BBC News Russian, February 2026 – three of them riding troika on this bit of propaganda, appropriately enough)
I’m not sure that the nation that fought the Battle of Stalingrad and survived the Siege of Leningrad are going to blink first – but by all means, you dream on, BBC. The Russians will probably throw in the towel shortly after the mullahs in Tehran have surrendered.
In a week when: BBC weather presenters face losing jobs in savings drive. Familiar figures ‘considering voluntary redundancy’ as corporation slims down TV team in favour of digital output (Telegraph): Weather presenters ‘eyeing exit’ (Times) – amid a background of: BBC announces 550 job cuts as first part of £500m savings plan (BBC)
At least one forward thinking BBC gal has found herself a soft landing: TV Paddy out on dates with BBC’s Emma… Paddy McGuinness is dating a BBC Radio 2 publicist following his marriage split (Sun)
Israel accused of weaponising archaeology at ancient West Bank sites (Sebastian Usher, Global affairs correspondent, Reporting from Sebastia, occupied West Bank and Callum Tulley, Reporting from Sebastia, occupied West Bank, BBC) – OK, OK, Sebastian from Sebastia, we get the message… occupied West Bank… no need to keep rubbing it in.
Weaponising archaeology? Like pretending Cheddar Man was black?
An interview with Reform UK leader Nigel Farage leads the Sunday Express, where he said he “will not be driven out of politics by a cancel culture hellbent on wiping out his party”. Farage also spoke to the paper about receiving “hundreds” of death threats over the past few months, describing it as “really, really nasty”. – explains the BBC print press review.
Reform’s been targeted by left-wing violence? – “Don’t think you have, mate”: Ann terror police probe Nigel attack (Express)
But as every good copper is taught in police school: left-wing terrorism is as rare as hen’s teeth or rocking horse faeces.
From the media’s favourite Andy to their least favourite Andy: I hadn’t heard that the former prince had died yet…
The ever-excitable Mail on Sunday puts the hearse before the horses, so to speak: As we reveal ex-duke will be given ceremonial send off… Fury over royal funeral plan for shamed Andrew – chuck him in a landfill, or do him a private barbecue on the back lawn of Buck House.
As Nigel will tell you, when they set their sights on you, things can get “really, really nasty”
Fifa criticises campaign to oust president Infantino (Dale Johnson, Football issues correspondent, BBC)
Football Issues Correspondent…?
I’m oddly put in mind of that woman of indeterminate nationality who stands outside Tesco in the high street calling out: “Big Issu! Big Issu!”
The body bags fan club – sorry – BBC. – continues its ‘ breathless reports of our andy on a royal tour of Britain to tell us about the ‘cost of living ‘ … yeah right andy – clacton on the day before the bi election?
And then theres the biggest story for the third day – FIFA- who cares ? Its bread and circuses .. yet on and on the reports go …
Every August, I always despair about seeing pristine cricket fields, mown like bowling greens, sometimes hearing the crack of leather on willow, and the news is all about the start of the ‘football league season’.
They only finished the last season a few weeks ago, although I think some international games went on somewhere or other…
As Mr Asi mentions another bugbear, the ‘beeg ishoo’ woman outside our Waitrose always seems to be on a mobile phone the size of a tea tray – perhaps I’ll get a passing translator to ask her if it’s a Vodaphone contract.
Saudi Arabia to start spending on £18 trillion for Lenny Henry?
HA HA AH AHAH!
“When the UK abolished slavery in 1833, the government borrowed £20 million (roughly 40% of the national budget) to compensate 46,000 white slave owners for their “loss of property”. Through rolled-over government annuities, British taxpayers—including descendants of the enslaved—finished paying off this national debt in 2015″
Dublin University, “Allah Akbar Allah Akbar” https://www.youtub
e.com/shorts/FcRWUg-ObcA
Why do these videos look fake? Blurred blocky faces
“Zendaya saw me on the red carpet and her jaw dropped – I’m still in shock” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq56j53g9yeo
She was invited there as a guest and says she caught the eye of Hollywood megastar Zendaya, thanks to her custom look: a striking gold gown complete with a hood.
Hood? HA HA HA! Headscarf! HA AH AH HA HA! Hijab!
Late on in the article…. HA HA HAHAH A … hidden news. we love islam. Islam is wonderful. All bow to Islam…
“Zainab, who is Muslim and wears a hijab, is also often one of the only people covering her hair at premieres, but she says finding ways to incorporate modest wear is part of the fun.”
FGM is fun! Marrying at 6is fun! Halal food with throat cut is fun. Waiting for sex at 9 with Mo is fun. Being at the back of Mecca circuit is fun. HA HA HAH AAHAH HAHA HA!
“With 660,000 followers on TikTok and close to 400,000 on Instagram, she’s becoming a key content creator in this field. But she also faces criticism – including from some who claim her outfits are not modest enough.”
Egypt: Refugees, Asylum Seekers Arrested, Deported
Amend New Asylum Law in Line with International Standards https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/07/07/egypt-refugees-asylum-seekers-arrested-deported
Many refugees and asylum seekers in Egypt, most from Sudan and South Sudan, have faced a months-long campaign of arbitrary arrest, unlawful detention, and deportation.
Refugees and asylum seekers are losing their residency status because of bureaucratic delays and are being jailed and deported for lacking documents the government has failed to provide.
Egyptian authorities should stop arresting and deporting asylum seekers and refugees, particularly those based solely on expired residency permits, uphold international obligations, and amend its Asylum Law and bylaws to protect refugees and asylum seekers from further legal limbo.
“How asylum protests brought disorder to another town”
One woman described it as “the community coming together”.
What really rankled, they said, was that there had been no consultation about placing migrants at the base – or in the town.
“We’ve been ignored,” one local resident said.
Story ends on a positive…
“”We have already seen results. The population of asylum seekers in hotels has fallen by 35% in the last year and by 63% from the peak of 56,000 in 2023. Overall asylum costs have already fallen by nearly £1bn since the general election.””
Five military sites are either in use or being explored.
Five military sites are either in use or being explored.
Five military sites are either in use or being explored.
Fighting aged men with their own place to train and store weapons – we are truly F * * K E D – Great Escape becomes the Great Invasion.
Interesting. “Military sites”. Perhaps the inmates are receiving military training during their stay and told to stand by awaiting further instructions from the current government…………
G
You can see this, and I can see this . Lets all hope that the MOD and our new PM can see this .
I have posted this here before . We could have the build up of a “Fifth column” in Great Britain ?
We are being invaded from across Europe.
Men hate women…they are groomed by society to hate women…taught by a patriarchal, misogynist society to hate women.
Oh right…but then…there’s hope..there’s another side to this. Oh really…are women taught to hate men ala ‘all men are rapists?
Er…no…not so fast…actually women hate women too…because…..yep…they are taught to do so by that patriarchal, misogynist society they live in.
The BBC not having a single thought that this programme is dedicated to hating men and promoting the idea that all me are evil.
The BBC does more damage to our society than just about any other institution with its zealous promotion of mad, bad and dangerous ideas…for example…children from the age of 6 should be given the vote…an idea presented as basically absolutely normal and practical whilst those who would oppose it are the odd ones…
‘Votes for Six-Year-Olds: Could Child Suffrage Revive Democracy?’
Please excuse me from sounding like a little Englander’
Or maybe even a North London little Englander.
But this is a question to many of you subscribers
from other parts of the UK.
I can understand the relatively new lady
news presenter on the BBC national news. She is on
this morning. But I just wondered how many of
you from outside the capitol. And to be honest
lets say the North East and Essex suburbs of the capitol
can understand very little of what she is saying at a rapid
speed of knots?
Foscari – I can beat you – on the 5 to 1 weather forecast last week was a Scottish lady who sounded so depressed … dead pan delivery – none of this ‘ Tomaz’ posing stuff twinkling for the ladies .. doom and gloom – now the fifa news …
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I had been wondering what was happening with the ‘wildfire’ near Bordeaux. Google gave me a Times article which assured me that the fire was under control some days ago. The article told me about a fire on the Cote D’Or. It covers 123 hectares. If you live there I guess it isn’t good news. The area is the size of a small uk farm. Not exactly earth shattering or may I suggest newsworthy for people living in the UK.
My relatives have been allowed back to their homes . They say the authorities did a good job and there were no fatalities.
UK still deciding who can use a toilet….
This looks good
Ww
The Marxists will use that film to finally ban X ….
Yesterday the BBC news featured the Welsh Eisteddford.
A celebration of Welsh language and culture.
Not my cup of tea but a fine occasion for those that enjoy it.
But there was discontent. Welsh speaking is reducing in rural areas. An influx of English speakers is limiting the language in places. This is regarded as a negative. The BBC reported this as a negative.
But now let us consider another scenario. Where In some communities traditional English speaking British people are being marginalised by a great influx of non-British arrivals and BAME. Say Southall. Or Leicester. Or Bradford. Or Tower Hamlets.
Isn’t it exactly the same situation as in those Welsh villages? But can you for a microsecond believe the BBC would report such concerns in the same way as they did for the Welsh? Why, they’d be reporting about the rise of the Far Right and inherent racism.
So I conclude either that the Welsh are under-reported racists or that the BBC are full of newsroom hypocrites.
You choose.
Where I am in West Wales, your third paragraph applies. My location is a strong Welsh speaking area and whenever I am present, they speak in English. If I am in a minority in that crowd, they speak Welsh. I have no problem whatever with that. Locally I always say I am a refugee having fled England >10 years ago. Why does your 3rd para apply? Well simply the “Refugees” are now becoming apparent over here (excluding English like me, of course).
G
As an Englishman – I was wondering what the people of Northern Ireland think of their country being invaded by the third world ..?
All that republican unionist stuff – killing – injuring – destroying – all seems a real waste of blood time effort when the country – north and south is being invaded … even worse than England because the population is so small …
I’d say very flammable right now. It’s thought of as the flash point for the UK.
Does he know Spain is cracking down hard on migrants and Muslims?
Typo: I meant Japan is cracking down on Muslims.
Another idiot who was on Mastermind.
James O’Brien has made a humiliating confession over his support for Jason Arday. The LBC radio presenter and former host for BBC Newsnight had backed Arday after he resigned from the University of Cambridge. Arday was appointed as the youngest black professor at Cambridge in 2023. Last week, he resigned after mounting scepticism of his personal and professional claims led to a university investigation into his conduct.
The academic has been accused of plagiarism in his academic work, including his PhD thesis and other research. Arday’s recent work has been called “flawed”, with reportedly “impossible evidence” and inconsistencies. He also claimed to have published a book, but the publisher confirmed it was never released.
Arday said he was a visiting professor at Ohio State University, the University of Glasgow, and Nelson Mandela University, all of which deny the claim. He also claimed he had a master’s from Birkbeck and was an honorary professor at Durham, but the former had no record of him and the latter said he no longer held any roles at the university.
The academic made several other claims about being non-verbal until 11, only learning to read and write at 18, running marathons, being a semi-professional footballer, charity work abroad, and raising up to £5.5 million for charities over 20 years.
James O’Brien had previously accused The Telegraph and The Times of “studied and deliberate ignominy” after they revealed claims against Arday.
But on his LBC show on Friday, O’Brien said: “What’s your takeaway here? Because mine is very, very personal. I can’t separate the personal from the public. I feel like a mug, actually, is the short answer.
I don’t feel guilt. I don’t feel, ‘Oh, you should have done differently or you should have done better,’ because who would? Who would meet a Cambridge professor and immediately start thinking, ‘God, I wonder whether you actually deserve to be there?’. I certainly wouldn’t do that.
If I was a racist and I met a black Cambridge professor, then I probably would find myself thinking, ‘Yeah, really, a black guy, professor, I don’t think…’ – but I’m not a racist, so it didn’t cross my mind.”
He added: “But it’s more the personal contact that I’ve had with him subsequently that makes me feel like a mug. The fact that he thought I was someone that he might be able to persuade to stick up for him when he knew that he’d done wrong.
Daily Express
I am really enjoying this Arday story because of the complete and utter tw@ts it has made of all the Lefties who were complicit.
What will they learn ?. Nothing. Because I have observed all Lefty activists have very thick skin and absolutely no shame. They would do the same again tomorrow.
Even that o Brian character – who I have never seen /heard – has had to admit he was ‘duped ‘ defending the Cambridge PS teacher – i call him that because someone analysed what qualifications he really has – they are suitable to be a PE teacher – third rate …
But it’s not really “a humiliating confession” from O’Brien, is it.
It’s a ‘humblebrag’ which he twists to boast about how non-racist he is and how racist those suspecting the phoney Arday are.
He turns it into virtue signalling.
Hunter Biden tells BBC his pardon was ‘not good’ for America or his father’s legacy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8ey458pv5o
I could tell within the first paragraph that this was BBC Kuenssberg-style fawning over someone who is from an approved political party. I did not have the willpower to read further – so I asked AI to summarise it for me:
‘The BBC Newsnight interview has sparked intense public debate regarding its tone and the platform given to Hunter Biden. Many critics and viewers share the perspective that the broadcast leaned heavily on personal emotional narratives rather than aggressively grilling him on his legal controversies
Focus on Emotion Over Investigation:
The broadcast dedicated significant time to Hunter Biden’s vulnerability, showing him getting visibly emotional when discussing his addiction recovery and his family
The Platforming Dilemma:
Critics argue that framing him as a sympathetic figure who was “reaching for oblivion” downplays his federal tax evasion and gun convictions
Soft Self-Criticism:
Allowing him to state his pardon was “not fair” let him frame his own narrative without facing a harsher cross-examination on presidential nepotism.
Deflecting Legal Actions:
The interview allowed him to position his actions strictly through the lens of trauma and survival, rather than the political corruption allegations long pushed by his opponents.
The BBC News website continues to feature the segment, and public reaction remains highly polarized over whether the broadcaster acted as an objective news outlet or a soft platform for a controversial political figure.’
Absolutely classic BBC. When the facts don’t fit, they focus on empathy and emotion instead. Exactly what they did in Gaza.
Someone please rid us of this parasite stuffed with Left-wing activists who we are forced by law to fund.
I fear about all the uni children, who sat at his feet, in awe of the great philosopher expounding his mighty theories on sociology, and now realise that he was spouting b******s!
I guess they’ll all apply for counselling, possibly compensation, and a reduction in their student loans!
I also wonder if other very costly ‘research commissions’ Cambridge gets, might just dry up, and a few mill will perhaps go to other places – presumably with a damn sight more investigation than they did at Jesus College.
Perhaps the children couldn’t tell the difference between b******s and even more b******s, so will probably get A** grades anyway, which will certainly ‘help’ the UK drag itself out of the incredible financial disaster zone we’re all facing…
The Cambridge liar mess echoes the failure to properly vet other agencies – eg plod with its rich number of offenders as well as the NHS where English language skills and medical qualifications are not strictly necessary …
We’re in a dreadful state where we have to put up with public services being subject to ridiculous DEI mantras, and therefore excellence in a work ethic is not being considered.
Somewhere I read there are over 100 black professors in the uk. I am sure that some of them got there on merit. Some of them might not. And that is what Cambridge University has highlighted and by appointing Arday on his DEI credentials alone brought the reputation of all black professors into question.
Agree Fed : this Cambridge nut-job is just the very tip of the iceberg of people being given positions they absolutely should not be in because of DEI.
If it were related to the Right, there would be all kinds of discussions and demands to investigate it. But as it’s the stupendous hypocrite Lefties involved, it is being treated as an isolated incident.
Any further attention would be classified as ‘not helpful’ to the agenda and anyone demanding it would be shouted down as a racist.
“Surgeon struck off after wrongly connecting organs”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20de8z2w2lo
Dr Yasser Adly Abdel Rahman, an NHS locum surgeon from Egypt, carried out the flawed emergency bowel procedure on a young man.
It meant the contents of the patient’s bowel, leaving his stomach, were re-deposited back into his stomach through a circular “closed loop”, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) heard.
Look at who’s doing the vetting
And how do we know that the BS he was nicking for his own stuff wasn’t b******s as well?
B******s squared eh?
Clearly a candidate for Burnham’s new think-tank…
Prof Hilary Cremin who gave him the job should be renamed Cretin.
Or even Creaming, she’s so orgasmic about her new black “Professor”.
But importantly, a lot of these people are advising Governments.
Replying to Scrob at 0750 but other replies put this a little out of context…..
Try going to the doctors and discovering the doctor is a female Muslim GP wearing a full face veil.
She has an Asian accent AND a full face veil resulting in indistinct words which you cannot use sight in the form of quasi lip-reading to figure out.
So patient communication plays second fiddle to religious ( or should that more exactly be cultural) practice.
The Far Left would of course attack me for being racist. But they’d be skating on thin ice.. Because it actually happened to the writer.
That’s seriously wrong, Sluff.
And I would hazard a guess that any of her patients might also wonder if she really did have the qualifications to treat you!
I saw my British doctor last week, as a ‘trigger’ on a blood test had started a trail for a consultation of some sorts. I got my appointment for twelve hours hence, and after a lot of friendly chat about how he’d got me through something really nasty a couple of years ago, and so quickly, we finished up with a general discussion on my age – 79 – and how it’d be a good thing to keep doing what I do, enjoy the next five or ten years, and just get on with it!
And he was in his shirtsleeves…
To me it’s got to the stage where you take your misfiring BMW car to a plumbing company to see if they can sort out what’s wrong.
Diageo boss Dave Lewis stakes revival on canned cocktails and Guinness. New chief unveils plans to restore growth along with suite of cost cuts… the executive, known as “Drastic Dave” from his time restructuring UK supermarket chain Tesco… Lewis’s plan to reverse Diageo’s dire performance involves taking Guinness global… He will also expand capacity for Guinness, promising “a lot of geographical expansion. Guinness growth is great; it’s fantastic.” (FT, 6th August)
‘Drastic Dave’ to pour £750m into growing Guinness brand… in a bet that sales of the popular Irish stout can rise even higher… (Telegraph, 6th August)
I know they’re not supposed to advertise…
Advertorial Galore! ?
Divers find 162-year-old Guinness in shipwreck off the English coast… How far would you travel for a pint of Guinness? If the answer is to the bottom of the sea, you might be in luck. (Adam Mandeville, BBC News NI, 7th August)
Stefan Panis and his friends made the discovery off the Dover coast in 2025 (BBC) – and you’re covering the story now, because…?
A spokesperson for Diageo said: “Discoveries like this provide a fascinating window into our past and help build a deeper understanding of our heritage. (BBC)
After that short ad break, we go over to the news…
Journalists are an unimaginative lot. They seem to get one big story stuck in their heads and then they can’t help plugging it death. If the football World Cup gave you more than your fill of soccer for four years… then look away now…
Norway call for Infantino to resign as Mexico and Conmebol chief back president (Alex Brotherton, BBC Sport journalist and Dale Johnson, Football issues correspondent (no less!))
And the football issue our journos are most desperately anxious to correspondent with us about is the eagerly awaited elevation of Nordic Football Boss Girl, Lise Klaveness, into the role of FIFA chief, hopefully soon to be vacated by Gianni Infantino – think of him as the character Dr. Evil, as played by Mike Myers in the Austin Powers film series.
Only his mother could love him – or apparently not…
Infantino’s ‘lover’ was paid off by Uefa… It can now be revealed – gossips the Telegraph
This little bit of previous is of course just something to be taken into consideration (as our previous generation of cops would say. Our cops now have touchy-feely catchphrase such as we sympathise with the victims and we understand the concerns of our communities – but one digresses).
The major beef against the Italian-Swiss soccer swizzler is apparently: Gianni Infantino plans to sell World Cup stake in ‘nuclear bomb’ for football. Prime Minister says Fifa will have ‘sold out’ if plans go through, while European nations may discuss World Cup boycott in emergency meeting (Telegraph)
Andy Burnham with the jumpers for goalposts there.
Football to be commercialised. Just like any other entertainment product. And there we were thinking football was a human right – like fresh air and clean water – that should be free to all – like free breakfast clubs and £2 bus fares. I guess the only reason football grounds have turnstiles where fans have to produce proof of having bought a ticket is that just like our NHS anything free to all comers at the point of access has necessarily to be rationed.
The Guardian cautions us not to believe our lying eyes.
Despite: Thousands of migrants still in Ceuta after border crisis, local leader says (BBC) – the reality in fact is: Russia-linked accounts spread extreme narrative online during Ceuta migration crisis, analysis finds (Guardian)
Let’s just unpack that headline (as the saying goes). It was the untamed unmitigated spreading of the news of that massive border breach that bugs the Guardian. Now if only approved news sources, such as our BBC and the Gruan itself, had carried the news with their non-extreme narrative spin applied – then everything would presumably have been just fine and dandy. But Putin had to stick his oar in.
To conclude: Two weeks that rocked football (Guardian) – but hyper-migration into Europe is just a Russian psyop.
Today
Thought I’d dip in for a change – a chaotic 1st hour with the C team – clearly very nervous and not good with the engleesh ….
Anyway
Another couple of stories for met plod failure … the most serious is the failure to control an evil multiple rapist and murdered who was left free by an incompetent met plod – one reason being – he has only one eye – he’s another invader of course …
Then there is a failure to properly investigate an attack on the London home of Nigel Farage months ago … no surprise there – presumably DC Mohammed doesn’t like Farage …..
Just add the threat to a journalist not to investigate the Cambridge liar and you’ve got a pretty bad week for met plod …. Even the Far left met plod commissioner couldn’t defend that one … he should plan for his next job – non exec director in a security company is usual …
Oh yeah – forgot one the corruption of the ‘national crime agency ‘ leaking the details of reform politicians – another outfit infiltrated by the DEI …..
From the DT – Grim weather news –
STARTS Some of the BBC’s veteran weather presenters could lose their jobs as the broadcaster seeks to boost its digital presence amid a cost-cutting drive.
Tomasz Schafernaker, Louise Lear and Darren Bett, widely regarded as the faces of the corporation’s weather coverage, are said to be considering taking voluntary redundancy as the BBC scales down its presenting team, according to The Times.
The move to reduce the number of national weather presenter roles from 11 to 4.5 forms part of wholesale changes to BBC Weather’s output, to respond to increased use of digital platforms rather than traditional news bulletins.
The corporation plans to cut costs by £500m during the next two years, which is expected to lead to the loss of up to 2,000 jobs.
Remaining forecasters are expected to be split between London and Salford, with an extra four weather reporters housed at a new BBC weather centre at the Met Office headquarters in Exeter, where they will deliver articles, videos and social media updates. ENDS
Maybe the BBC can give the Cambridge liar a job doing the weather … hotb= cold – dry = wet …
Never done this before – but here’s a cut and paste from the BBC site – it’s some detail of the case of the murder / rape monster Levy …
STARTS
A convicted sex offender murdered two women, raped a third, and sexually assaulted others on public transport, after police, prosecutors and courts made a series of disastrous decisions that left him free to roam the streets.
A jury at the Old Bailey has now found Simon Levy guilty of the murders of Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, and Sheryl Wilkins, 39, in London last year – and also the violent rape of another woman in a car park.
Levy had been downgraded by the Metropolitan Police as a risk to women before he carried out the attacks.
The Met told the BBC it accepts the life of Wilkins could have been saved. The force had apologised to her family, it said.
Levy, a jobless loner who lived with his mother, attacked the three women while on bail for sex assaults on trains in London, and went on to carry out further assaults on public transport.
Details of his crimes on public transport, plus the sexual assault of a prison officer while he was in jail for earlier offences, can now be reported. He was convicted of them in February.
We can also say that between late 2024 and summer 2025 he was freed on bail by police, and then the courts, multiple times – even after having been charged with the sex offences and having broken his bail conditions.
He was also being monitored and risk-managed by the Met Police throughout.
We can also now report that:
Levy had already been in prison for two sexual assaults, and Scotland Yard downgraded Levy’s risk to women upon his release in 2024, a decision now under investigation by the police watchdog
The Met closed its investigation into the rape he carried out in January 2025 despite the fact Levy could have been identified
The force did not class Valencia-Trujillo’s death in March 2025 as a murder, or pass the case to specialist homicide detectives, until after Levy had killed again
The Met took three years to investigate and charge Levy with the sexual assault of the prison officer, with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) also acting too slowly
British Transport Police’s (BTP) investigation into Levy’s sexual assaults was beset by delays, meaning he was not charged for more than six months, despite being filmed carrying out an attack
The Met and BTP both gave Levy back a stolen travelcard which let him travel without paying and commit crimes, including the first murder
There has been a “collective system failure” and it is a “tragedy beyond words”, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Kevin Southworth from the Met told the BBC.
Det Ch Supt Pete Fulton, from BTP, said the delay in his force’s enquiries on Levy “absolutely wasn’t good enough” and was down to “incompetence” by two officers who have since been moved to other roles.
The CPS has apologised for “shortcomings” in its attempts to have Levy Remanded in custody ….ENDS
To me – there are echoes of the Nottingham multiple murdered – coloured and useless and their state failed to protect the innocent from him … all the victims were ….white …. But the race card can only be used one way …
Until the individuals who made the decisions are fully held to account – by name – this stuff will go on and on . At the moment there is no punishment …
Sorry about my spelling but my head always works faster than fingers ..
Ok … thd Marxists are talking about ‘ dialling. Back ‘ on the green crap mad targets …. They’ve mentioned more petrol engines might be allowed ….
But NO – we must save the planet and destroy the economy and all be paid with other peoples ‘ money ….
There is either an urgent need to ‘cut fossil fuels ‘’’ or maybe it’s all a lie…
Fossil fuels were ‘green’ once, they just got older…
British Moslem Charity funded Hamas
Nothing to see here – move along
The links to Hamas have obviously been carefully cloaked (in English sources…) – the amounts involved to what’s left of my mind hint at a radicalised population in the UK or carefully disguised funding from other entities – probably both…
It’s safe to say that all islamic and Gazan charities syphon money off to terrorist organisations in one form or another.
Not bbc – but footy … today carried a story about the owner of West Ham being so unpopular that he is being told to stay away from home games – the first one being today in the league cup ….
Apparently he has sex allegations against him … bit rich since he made his dosh out of girlie magazines ….
Charity shield next weekend – summers ‘over …
Fedup2
Sullivan, as I understand it had a virtual monopoly of UK newspaper and magazine phone sex operations (the publications being a customer dragnet) – reeling in millions via a network of carefully partitioned associates and farms of freelance dirty talkers on generous revenue splits.
Tomo – so I made him rich then …😎 I liked the father ted version ‘ dial a priest ‘ …
I have a fondness for west Ham – when they got relegated the crowd turned on Sullivan and I recall he left before the second half … could get fruity today … they are in the angry bit of grief …
… and a bunch of other people…
– the phone operations were (are?) epic in scale – in the noughties I saw a rural cottage with one room converted into a full blown computerised telephone exchange with hundreds of premium rate lines routed in and out to freelance dirty talkers (computers ensured millisecond charge tier escalation) – it looked like the bloke running it couldn’t spend money fast enough…
UK cannot talk to other countries about defence and security until it has a defence and security.
https://talk.hyvor.com/media/website/14037/i6AXQUr5N4Ltho5oyobHxN81vl0vI4HgkbllgW55.jpg
King Charles the III to open new toilets and try them out…..
https://talk.hyvor.com/media/website/14037/m0adtRcbx42Tt5xOvM02LPAxj5EQhBgQ88gh7ywJ.jpg
“Some women crossing on the boats are witches so we kill them”
This is what we’re importing. Africa’s finest. I’m sure they’ll integrate just fine.
EDP DEI RIP
Eastern Daily Press is owned by Newsquest. Newsquest is owned by USA Today (formerly Gannett). USA Today is owned by Fortress Investment Group. The parent company of Fortress is Mubadala Investment Company, which is owned by the government of Abu Dhabi.
As with nearly all local British newspapers, there is absolutely nothing ‘local’ or ‘British” about them and their agenda.
“16 pages of properties for sale”
One does so enjoy those awkward little clashes of features that tend to put the lie to some prevailing media narrative – as I do so like to say.
Just heard a BBC Radio advert saying if you get a TV licence you can listen to ‘comedy ‘ on the Radio .
I didn’t know there is comedy on the BBC …..and the advert didn’t mention you don’t need a licence to listen to the wireless … yet …
Please don’t let them know that comedy is dead at the bBC, Fed…
We’ll all have to put up with rubbish re-runs of HIGNFY and Mrs Brown’s boys. ad infinitum…
…just to prove a point.
While the Royal Navy/Marines will do as they are told when eventually used to stop the dinghies there will probably be some amongst them that are against doing it.
The answer is to ask the Navy and Marines for volunteers who agree with protecting our borders to form a boat squadron and these patriots will complete the job without any woke or DIE interference.
Three or four boats with about 20 on each boat would be enough to turn back the dinghy boys.
I really don’t think it’s unreasonable or overly paranoid to see the hand of Brussels in the dinghy invasion – nettle the Brits and pretend to “help”.
Pretty clear to me that the primary reason most migrants have UK as their final destination is our utterly stupid and actually suicidally over-generous, skin colour skewed, miserably administrated benefits policy driven by the same class of utter twerps that put Professor Arday and his ilk in top academic gigs.
Two on each would probably be enough. One to steer and one with an RPG.
Matt Goodwin is a good watch on GB News with his hour long Friday night show.
Last night he must have been on holiday or something and was replaced by Will Kingston.
I think Will made a very good job of it and would like to see him get his own show (at a watchable time) perhaps replacing one (or more) of JR Mogg’s 8pm shows as JRM is quite meek and too polite.
Nobody can replace Michelle Dewberry (Dewb’s and co) and Matt Goodwin is also excellent but Will has shown himself to be a very good panellist and commentator and should, like Matt, be promoted to his own show.
It’s better than having Dawn Neesom standing in for everybody all the time. Give her some time off GBN.
34% increase in GBnews radio listening figures? Wow if true …
In many other places – very one of those 16,000 undocumented airline travellers would’ve triggered a fat fine. Irish authorities when pressed have had to admit passengers board flights with travel documents (required for international air travel) but then destroy, discard, or otherwise “lose” them before reaching immigration control. It’s completely farcical
The phenomenon is not unique to Ireland but has been a specific focus of Irish border operations due to the volumes involved.
I suspect similar happening quietly in the UK – several small towns worth every year?
The nut job ascendency –
Half a brain so only half the hair needed to keep it warm?
I’m reminded of the old joke:
“I’ve half a mind to join the Labour Party…?”.
“That’s okay, it’s all you need”.
Let’s see if the image hosting deletes this again
A tiny bit of me might have felt a tiny bit of empathy / compassion for the PE teacher – until the thing about reporting a journo to plod and hiring the worst firm of shysters …after that – let him burn in the light of truth …
BBC Verify can Verify that Jason Arday and Marianna Spring were both selected by the BBC due to impressive misinformation and lies found on their CV’s.
Both have visited Conspiracyland and verified that any evidence that is not officially approved by BBC Verify is therefore completely unauthorised and is to be censored, ignored or denied. All dissent, all evidence and all opinions that the State and its Establishment “partners” need to bury in order to maintain “Trust in the BBC” can be expunged by the governments behavioural scientists, using “psychological nudge weapons” to label all who hold anti-Establishment opinions “conspiracy theorists” and by calling all the evidence that questions power “conspiracy theory”.
BBC Verify is dismantling conspiracy theories spread by racist rape victims and vaccine injured anti-vaxxers. BBC Verify is battling crank climate scientists, mad doctors and free speech extremists like Elon Musk.
BBC Verify can Verify that President Trump did call for violence, as is confirmed by a BBC Documentary, but did not say the BBC was a “leftist propaganda machine” and “100 percent fake news”.
The Nutty Professor story has been good for a laugh and those who appointed him and/ or defended him have copious quantities of egg all over their faces .
But the truth, as someone mentioned above, is that this is the tip of a very large iceberg that covers all manner of fields , medicine , nursing, dentistry, media, civil service , law , police etc etc.
We have been set up by the political elite. In my own experience we have doctors , nurses and dentists that can barely speak English and I struggle to understand . Not a pleasant situation when you are trying to explain why you aren’t feeling too good. Perhaps the NHS will soon be providing translators for those patients who are native British so that they can understand the doctors and nurses!
As to their competence I have left my dental practise and moved to one where the dentists are British because I found that as my previous practise gradually became ‘increasingly diverse ‘ the standard of care dropped alarmingly. I have to travel much further but feel the level of competence is back to previous norms.
Did these ethnic dentists get degrees because they deserved them or because they benefitted from DEI? Imagine if those running nuclear power stations or nuclear submarines have DEI degrees !
The road to ruin is paved with good intentions.
What, like this you mean?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20de8z2w2lo
I have a US-based friend who needs to fly a lot but will always check the pilots before deciding whether to take the flight. Plenty of people who were serving coffee as cabin crew one week end up in the cockpit the following week, having attended a 30 minute flying course and completed a short questionnaire about their ethnicity and gender. As he puts it: BLM was succeeded by PLM (Passenger Lives are Meaningless).
Ian – at least with the internet there is some chance of holding the medical mafia to account by identifying and researching offenders .
It’s fortunate – for me – that when a surgeon killed my dad during emergency surgery – I couldn’t readily research the offender …. Otherwise he’d have ‘paid a price ‘….
My sympathies, I’ve also lost a family member to gross medical negligence. And, although the culprit was identified, there was almost nothing by way of atonement.
Norman Fenton says “The story emerged just as my new book, The Capture of Academia: How Universities Shape Power, Silence Dissent and Influence Society, was published. Anybody wishing to find out how and why a story like Arday’s could happen will find it all explained in the book.”: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Capture-Academia-Universities-Silence-Influence/dp/B0HBGCDQHG
Norman Fenton says “Why I Had to Write This Book”: https://dailysceptic.org/2026/08/03/the-capture-of-academia-why-i-had-to-write-this-book/
Many academics pulled up the drawbridge to the ivory towers some decades ago and started gatekeeping – largely (imho) driven by conceit, self-obsession, delusions of grandeur and last, but not least avarice. Arday was on at least £80,000 and recently bragged “1.4 million” for his book advance. Academics who don’t teach… out in the West of England (Bristol + Bath) have been paying themselves ludicrous amounts of money.
There is a BBC angle:
BBC Verify confirms that ‘Misinformation’ is not the BBC leftist term for “information that the BBC does not like”
Dr Anthony Fauci was given a pardon for killing children with a spike protein miocarditis ‘sudden death’ jab.
Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times during congressional questioning about the science. The committee then voted along party lines to hold him in contempt of Congress. The BBC still supports Fauci and his lies, found in Fauci’s diary.
Holocaust survivor Vera Sharav said “What is interesting about the children who are being sacrificed now to the Pfizer/Moderna mass injection regime is that the first murder victims of the Nazi regime were German infants and young children under the age of three.”
The Maya tried to stop the climate from changing by sacrificing children on top of pyramids.
King Charles III now rules over the Maya people in Belize, and has called for his people to once again try and stop the climate from changing.
One Tony livesey – a former ‘presenter ‘ on bbc 5live has announced he has left the BBC – he having ‘stepped back ‘ because he worked for David Sullivan in his newspaper . The article on this i read suggested he came up with a spot called ‘count down to 16’ which apparently is the earliest age at which young ladies can pose topless …. Quality journo
Brits Say No To BBC Brainwashing: https://drtesslawrie.substack.com/p/brits-say-no-to-bbc-brainwashing
The BBC did sterling work on behalf of the globalists during the COVID scam-demic – censoring, undermining and ridiculing the scientists and doctors who recommended alternative and complementary approaches to the toxic COVID jabs, remdesivir (AKA when-death-is near) and ventilators.
Ivermectin was particularly targeted for denigration in the British psyche. Only the very brave or those without a Tell-A-Vision could have withstood the massive propaganda initiative launched against this established, low-cost, broad-spectrum medicine that prevented deterioration and death in people diagnosed with COVID.
The BBC says “do not take Ivermectin” for virus infections and cancer.
The BBC says “the Covid vaccine does not cause heart problems and turbo cancer”
The BBC says “Prince Philip did not die from heart problems after his two Covid Jabs”
The BBC says “The Queen did not die from a B-Cell tubo cancer after her five Covid Jabs”
Police Being SUED For Illegal CONSPIRACY Against Reform UK
Excellent summary of ‘New Britain’.
Goferit Nige an’ Rich – you’ll win this one.
GB News giving it straight between the eyes to some BBC spokesperson creature. (I don’t know who he is, and don’t care. Just look at the smug git sipping his chilled wine with all those books behind him, meant to impress. They just go to prove you can be ‘well-read’ and still a complete moron.)
It is the BBC that is destroying British culture. They jump on every anti-British bandwagon they can. Our culture would thrive much better without them.
BBC reports that president trump has managed to get his attorney general in place …. The bbc – on behalf of the democrats – accuses trump of ‘politicising the legal system ‘… as though that’s a bad thing … now go after the Biden Gang and Biden himself … although it seems his cancer has spread …
When he shuffles off the BBC will be bereft …. Others might open a bottle …
“Stop trying to terrify the British public by calling it an invasion. If we were being invaded we’d be blowing the boats out of the water. We haven’t been successfully invaded since 1066 (if you don’t count 1688)”
https://x.com/MatthewStadlen/status/2085857526843666579
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Date Migrants arrived Boats arrived Boats involved in uncontrolled landings Notes
1 August 2026
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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This article is more than 10 years old
UK immigration officers overwhelmed by illegal ‘lorry drops’, report finds
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/21/uk-immigration-officers-overwhelmed-by-illegal-lorry-drops-report-finds
David Bolt, the independent inspector of borders and immigration, said the number of people who entered Britain in the back of lorries had risen threefold, from 2,411 in 2014 to 6,429 in 2015, the first official indication of the scale of last summer’s surge in clandestine migration to the UK.
And what, precisely, is a cost of living tour, prey tell…?
Andy Burnham to embark on cost of living tour through the UK (Nick Eardley, Political correspondent, BBC)
Our Andy taking the Madchester band out on the road for their first ever gigs at venues other than in his home town or down there in that London?
The prime minister has been on holiday this week, but Downing Street said he would be in “listening mode” in the coming days as he tours the UK’s nations and regions and works on a “10-year plan to bring back hope”. (BBC)
His exact vacation location is being kept a strict secret by Number 10 and our formerly scurrilously investigative press hacks are now far too respectful to spill the beans about the new Labour PM’s holibobs.
Despite the front page of The Sun splashing with that other disappointing Manc star’s holiday antics: Utd’s Rash is on lash… Three Lions ace Marcus Rashford is partying hard after his World Cup heroics by splashing the cash on treats for pals… hired a boat on the French Riviera and invited ten women on board
Wo-man overboard
Sometimes one has to resist a tempting segueway. So I shan’t link to the Mirror’s top headline: Loose Women Nadia Exclusive… Sawalha… believes she has been dropped from the daytime show for speaking out in support of Palestinian rights
Instead, let’s attempt to imagine what Our Andy is going to explore on his cost of living tour of the UK.
Daily Star Sunday has a suggestion: Parents blast £7 cost of classic 99 ice cream… Cone artists whip-off Britain
Out of the mouths of babes.
I’m inevitably put in mind of that viral video clip of the little girl, Marnie, decrying inflationary Britain: “There’s an ice cream van there, sellin’ jus’ two ice creams, wiv two chewin’ gums innit. Bluddy nine pound for two of ’em! Yeah, nine quid! He’s gonna get nowhere with that…! An’ ‘e only does bluddy card. Stood there wiv me cash!”
Things could be worse, apparently: Food prices are surging in Russia. Is the war hitting Russians in the pocket? (Olga Shamina, Yaroslava Kiryukhina and Sergei Kagermazov, BBC News Russian, February 2026 – three of them riding troika on this bit of propaganda, appropriately enough)
I’m not sure that the nation that fought the Battle of Stalingrad and survived the Siege of Leningrad are going to blink first – but by all means, you dream on, BBC. The Russians will probably throw in the towel shortly after the mullahs in Tehran have surrendered.
In a week when: BBC weather presenters face losing jobs in savings drive. Familiar figures ‘considering voluntary redundancy’ as corporation slims down TV team in favour of digital output (Telegraph): Weather presenters ‘eyeing exit’ (Times) – amid a background of: BBC announces 550 job cuts as first part of £500m savings plan (BBC)
At least one forward thinking BBC gal has found herself a soft landing: TV Paddy out on dates with BBC’s Emma… Paddy McGuinness is dating a BBC Radio 2 publicist following his marriage split (Sun)
Israel accused of weaponising archaeology at ancient West Bank sites (Sebastian Usher, Global affairs correspondent, Reporting from Sebastia, occupied West Bank and Callum Tulley, Reporting from Sebastia, occupied West Bank, BBC) – OK, OK, Sebastian from Sebastia, we get the message… occupied West Bank… no need to keep rubbing it in.
Weaponising archaeology? Like pretending Cheddar Man was black?
An interview with Reform UK leader Nigel Farage leads the Sunday Express, where he said he “will not be driven out of politics by a cancel culture hellbent on wiping out his party”. Farage also spoke to the paper about receiving “hundreds” of death threats over the past few months, describing it as “really, really nasty”. – explains the BBC print press review.
Reform’s been targeted by left-wing violence? – “Don’t think you have, mate”: Ann terror police probe Nigel attack (Express)
But as every good copper is taught in police school: left-wing terrorism is as rare as hen’s teeth or rocking horse faeces.
From the media’s favourite Andy to their least favourite Andy: I hadn’t heard that the former prince had died yet…
The ever-excitable Mail on Sunday puts the hearse before the horses, so to speak: As we reveal ex-duke will be given ceremonial send off… Fury over royal funeral plan for shamed Andrew – chuck him in a landfill, or do him a private barbecue on the back lawn of Buck House.
As Nigel will tell you, when they set their sights on you, things can get “really, really nasty”
Fifa criticises campaign to oust president Infantino (Dale Johnson, Football issues correspondent, BBC)
Football Issues Correspondent…?
I’m oddly put in mind of that woman of indeterminate nationality who stands outside Tesco in the high street calling out: “Big Issu! Big Issu!”
I thought Marcus Rashford was solving breakfast club crimes?
Are the 10 girls wanting a free breakfast? Girls? Woman?
“Andy Burnham to embark on cost of living tour through the UK (Nick Eardley, Political correspondent, BBC)”
cost of living OASIS tour? HA HA HA HA! No.10 of the EAST,WEST,NORTH (no SOUTH)
The body bags fan club – sorry – BBC. – continues its ‘ breathless reports of our andy on a royal tour of Britain to tell us about the ‘cost of living ‘ … yeah right andy – clacton on the day before the bi election?
And then theres the biggest story for the third day – FIFA- who cares ? Its bread and circuses .. yet on and on the reports go …
Every August, I always despair about seeing pristine cricket fields, mown like bowling greens, sometimes hearing the crack of leather on willow, and the news is all about the start of the ‘football league season’.
They only finished the last season a few weeks ago, although I think some international games went on somewhere or other…
As Mr Asi mentions another bugbear, the ‘beeg ishoo’ woman outside our Waitrose always seems to be on a mobile phone the size of a tea tray – perhaps I’ll get a passing translator to ask her if it’s a Vodaphone contract.
Saudi Arabia to start spending on £18 trillion for Lenny Henry?
HA HA AH AHAH!
“When the UK abolished slavery in 1833, the government borrowed £20 million (roughly 40% of the national budget) to compensate 46,000 white slave owners for their “loss of property”. Through rolled-over government annuities, British taxpayers—including descendants of the enslaved—finished paying off this national debt in 2015″
Dublin University, “Allah Akbar Allah Akbar”
https://www.youtub
e.com/shorts/FcRWUg-ObcA
Why do these videos look fake? Blurred blocky faces
“Zendaya saw me on the red carpet and her jaw dropped – I’m still in shock”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq56j53g9yeo
She was invited there as a guest and says she caught the eye of Hollywood megastar Zendaya, thanks to her custom look: a striking gold gown complete with a hood.
Hood? HA HA HA! Headscarf! HA AH AH HA HA! Hijab!
Late on in the article…. HA HA HAHAH A … hidden news. we love islam. Islam is wonderful. All bow to Islam…
“Zainab, who is Muslim and wears a hijab, is also often one of the only people covering her hair at premieres, but she says finding ways to incorporate modest wear is part of the fun.”
FGM is fun! Marrying at 6is fun! Halal food with throat cut is fun. Waiting for sex at 9 with Mo is fun. Being at the back of Mecca circuit is fun. HA HA HAH AAHAH HAHA HA!
“With 660,000 followers on TikTok and close to 400,000 on Instagram, she’s becoming a key content creator in this field. But she also faces criticism – including from some who claim her outfits are not modest enough.”
SOME? HA H AHA!
Egypt: Refugees, Asylum Seekers Arrested, Deported
Amend New Asylum Law in Line with International Standards
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/07/07/egypt-refugees-asylum-seekers-arrested-deported
Many refugees and asylum seekers in Egypt, most from Sudan and South Sudan, have faced a months-long campaign of arbitrary arrest, unlawful detention, and deportation.
Refugees and asylum seekers are losing their residency status because of bureaucratic delays and are being jailed and deported for lacking documents the government has failed to provide.
Egyptian authorities should stop arresting and deporting asylum seekers and refugees, particularly those based solely on expired residency permits, uphold international obligations, and amend its Asylum Law and bylaws to protect refugees and asylum seekers from further legal limbo.
“How asylum protests brought disorder to another town”

One woman described it as “the community coming together”.
What really rankled, they said, was that there had been no consultation about placing migrants at the base – or in the town.
“We’ve been ignored,” one local resident said.
Story ends on a positive…
“”We have already seen results. The population of asylum seekers in hotels has fallen by 35% in the last year and by 63% from the peak of 56,000 in 2023. Overall asylum costs have already fallen by nearly £1bn since the general election.””
Five military sites are either in use or being explored.
Five military sites are either in use or being explored.
Five military sites are either in use or being explored.
Fighting aged men with their own place to train and store weapons – we are truly F * * K E D – Great Escape becomes the Great Invasion.
Interesting. “Military sites”. Perhaps the inmates are receiving military training during their stay and told to stand by awaiting further instructions from the current government…………
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You can see this, and I can see this . Lets all hope that the MOD and our new PM can see this .
I have posted this here before . We could have the build up of a “Fifth column” in Great Britain ?
We are being invaded from across Europe.
If a large group of armed Islamists marched on parliament, I wonder who plod and the BBC would support?
Woman’s Hour….always a school day….who knew?….
Men hate women…they are groomed by society to hate women…taught by a patriarchal, misogynist society to hate women.
Oh right…but then…there’s hope..there’s another side to this. Oh really…are women taught to hate men ala ‘all men are rapists?
Er…no…not so fast…actually women hate women too…because…..yep…they are taught to do so by that patriarchal, misogynist society they live in.
The BBC not having a single thought that this programme is dedicated to hating men and promoting the idea that all me are evil.
The BBC does more damage to our society than just about any other institution with its zealous promotion of mad, bad and dangerous ideas…for example…children from the age of 6 should be given the vote…an idea presented as basically absolutely normal and practical whilst those who would oppose it are the odd ones…
‘Votes for Six-Year-Olds: Could Child Suffrage Revive Democracy?’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002zrxb
Pug.
If they are old enough to Marry they are old enough to vote.
6 year old can be bribed with a cookie! HA HA HA AH AH AHAH A!
Please excuse me from sounding like a little Englander’
Or maybe even a North London little Englander.
But this is a question to many of you subscribers
from other parts of the UK.
I can understand the relatively new lady
news presenter on the BBC national news. She is on
this morning. But I just wondered how many of
you from outside the capitol. And to be honest
lets say the North East and Essex suburbs of the capitol
can understand very little of what she is saying at a rapid
speed of knots?
Foscari – I can beat you – on the 5 to 1 weather forecast last week was a Scottish lady who sounded so depressed … dead pan delivery – none of this ‘ Tomaz’ posing stuff twinkling for the ladies .. doom and gloom – now the fifa news …