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  1. Up2snuff says:
    August 9, 2026 at 9:04 pm

    Here am I, send me to the top of this Thread. The BBC are wasteful, on salaries and notice periods. Will Amol Rajan be co-presenting TOADY? I expect so. The BBC are biased like the rest of the MSM against REFORM and its leader, Nigel Farage. The BBC like the rest of the MSM would like to get the UK back into the EU. The BBC have a so-called pronunciation unit, said to number over 100 people yet ‘Deck-Aids’ are routinely mentioned on air on the BBC. Defund the BBC. Cancel your TellyTax right now. I did over 25 yrs ago now. The BBC are biased against President Trump – the BBC have bucketfuls of TDS! Defund the BBC.

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    • Fedup2 says:
      August 9, 2026 at 9:44 pm

      Good job up2 .. i notice a bit of a pattern.. it looks like the FIFA fest is being downgraded … but the Cambridge PE teacher has legs for a couple of days yet …

      … interviews with students who though he was great /
      nut job…
      With good journos looking at the CVs of other ‘academics ‘ finding out that they are not that honest… that AI thing is a bit of a 4 edged sword …

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  2. tomo says:
    August 9, 2026 at 10:18 pm

    If true – some loose bowels amongst Irish politicians?

    – could get messy

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    • pugnazious says:
      August 9, 2026 at 10:30 pm

      Yep….The torturers and murderers of the IRA were heroic resisters for the BBC, and Diane Abbott.

      Guess that is all about to change.

      ‘The New IRA is planning a violent campaign aimed at driving migrants out of Ireland, intelligence officials have warned.

      Security bosses fear the republican group, which succeeded the Real IRA, has been exploiting “tensions” on both sides of the Irish border.’

      But of course it is only natural…merely a continuation of the old war….why fight for decades to rid Ireland of English colonisation only to be colonised by Africans and Muslims?

      Should they be successful in driving out migrants, and no doubt a few shootings will have many packing their bags, what would that do to encourage such violence here where there are millions of migrants?
      You can be sure someone will try and unless crushed by the security services will in fact lead to the much talked about civil war that even Badenoch recognised as a growing possibility.

      ‘Conflict over identity politics could lead to civil war in long term, says Badenoch’

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      • tomo says:
        August 9, 2026 at 10:56 pm

        I feel this is something new… The EU enforcers / drones in Dublin have overplayed their hand.

        I doubt that Ireland on its own would’ve spawned a cadre of goons importing furriners…. They’ve been told to do it ( threatened even) – expect things to warm up in Brussels…

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      • tomo says:
        August 9, 2026 at 11:25 pm

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    • Fedup2 says:
      August 9, 2026 at 10:33 pm

      Tomo
      I read – by accident – an account by Peter Taylor on the 30 ? Years that led up to the Good Friday Agreement – which – in the context of the invasion of the north and south is just toilet paper …
      The fight back starts in north / south Ireland / Eire .. because it’s much bigger than King Billy or the papists …

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      • tomo says:
        August 9, 2026 at 11:03 pm

        Yeah, but…. Ireland has been effectively run by Brussels for several decades now. The Irish voted NO in referendums and *they* kept them voting until they voted the correct way( two votes for Nice and two for Lisbon…) I know several Irish folk who might be described as mighty cynical and angry about that.

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    • taffman says:
      August 10, 2026 at 10:22 am

      As the Republic of Ireland and the EU start kicking out all their “asylum seekers”, what country do you think they will head to?

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  3. pugnazious says:
    August 9, 2026 at 10:22 pm

    LOL…

    ‘Zendaya saw me on the red carpet and her jaw dropped – I’m still in shock ‘

    Hmmm…the most fleeting of moments and there’s absolutely no proof Zendaya’s reaction was directed at Jiwa other than Jiwa saying it was….but the BBC make a whole production out of it purely because Jiwa is Muslim.

    The BBC pushing Islam down our throats anyway it can.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq56j53g9yeo

    In this case we have a pretty much relative nobody given a very high profile by the BBC because she’s Muslim….an half second gawp by Zendaya allegedly at Zainab Jiwa.

    Now to be blunt Zainab Jiwa is, er, plain and her dress was redolent of a stash of gold curtains….neither in anyway bare a decent comparison to Zendaya’s looks nor her own dress at the event…..and yet the BBC makes a huge thing out of a fleeting moment in no doubt a whole train of such moments but the BBC chose to Islamise it and give us a lengthy piece on Jiwa along with photos…all of which show a less than brilliant fashion sense.

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    It is a paradox that she is supposedly ‘modest’ by wearing a hijab..

    ‘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.’

    Odd that she should then do everything she can to try and make herself attractive and noticeable….but then again there’s the biggest hypocrisy in Islam…Moohammed is not supposed to be worshipped, he is a mere mortal not a God….thus no pictures of him can be shown…that false modesty again…and yet Muslims call their sons Moohammed all the time in praise of Moohammed.

    Why does the BBC think it appropriate to promote and cheerlead and gaslight us about Islam when we know what a dire, backward and dangerous ideology it is?

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    • MarkyMark says:
      August 10, 2026 at 8:10 am

      BBC Title “Woman with defined boobs dress, looks at woman with Hijab who is not moderate enough. Inshallah.”

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  4. pugnazious says:
    August 9, 2026 at 10:52 pm

    The BBC climate Inquisition at work. One must believe.

    ‘Hundreds arrested over French wildfires, but who is to blame?’

    A somewhat desperate note to this piece from the BBC as they try hard to discredit the idea that ‘wild fires’ are probably not so wild and are more often the result of arson or accident by man….helped by years of ‘green’ policies that resulted in a huge build up of combustible plant material that would burn easily in the event of a fire starting or being started.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgxjn92x9jo

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  5. JonathanR says:
    August 9, 2026 at 11:12 pm

    ‘Hundreds arrested over French wildfires, but who is to blame?’ Only the BBC would ask such a stupid question. How about the people who have been arrested? Or at least suspected.
    God we live in a time of such stupidity. How I wish we could go back to when the world that was sane

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    • tomo says:
      August 9, 2026 at 11:27 pm

      Climate change made them do it obviously.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      August 10, 2026 at 8:09 am

      Ban matches?

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      • pugnazious says:
        August 10, 2026 at 2:29 pm

        Expect the BBC would like to ban people….white ones anyway…..at least the non-whites stay in the cities where they can’t start ‘wildfires’…well….apparently cars do burn nicely….but are they ‘wild’?…but then again it all works out because the BBC would love to ban cars as well.

        Yep, I see the plan….have a rural clearance and eliminate ‘whiteness’ and rewild the countryside as a safari park for the elites…ban all cars except those vital for the elites to do their good work and have a huge pool of blacks and Muslims to do the jobs the white elite don’t want to do but generously allow their new slave labour to do for them.

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  6. JonathanR says:
    August 9, 2026 at 11:23 pm

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  7. tomo says:
    August 9, 2026 at 11:33 pm

    WTF…

    Our subs are knackered and we’ve eejits in the RN

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    • pugnazious says:
      August 10, 2026 at 2:42 pm

      LOl….anyone who has any Chinese product, be it a phone, car, watch, PC, drone, solar panel, fridge etc etc etc knows that data will likely end up in an office in Beijing if it connects in anyway to the internet….and you might say ‘I have nothing to hide and they can’t make use of the data’ but they can and will in some way or other…not least they may be able to control your car and other devices when the time comes.

      That’s bad enough but when our dumb government buys Chinese tech and embeds it in our infrastructure that’s just asking for trouble….when they decide to switch off your water or indeed the trains…just see what happened in the past few days. Was it accident or enemy action?

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  8. JonathanR says:
    August 9, 2026 at 11:35 pm

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  9. StewGreen says:
    August 9, 2026 at 11:51 pm

    FFS a Thetford school named a classroom after ‘Professor’ Arday.

    And in tribute to his bad grammar, made a major spelling error in their newsletter announcement.

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  10. tomo says:
    August 9, 2026 at 11:56 pm

    “Jason Arday was not a ‘lone wolf’, his fraud was enabled by a network of other black infiltrators”

    Testicular cancer replaced by a brain tumor!

    https://flippin-n-vibin.squarespace.com/about

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    • vlad says:
      August 10, 2026 at 7:46 am

      Of course he wasn’t a loan wolf. The whole country is awash with them – overpromoted, underqualified DEI hires who only got the job because of their race and HR quotas. Often far-left, often with a deep grudge against whitie, as well as complete incompetence.
      It’s bad enough when they just corrupt kids or propagandise for the BBC, but much more serious when they fly planes or perform operations.

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  11. vlad says:
    August 10, 2026 at 6:45 am

    Much talk of a coming civil war and plots to evict migrants.
    Whatever the truth, the allegations will be used by our masters to crack down harder on free speech and on websites gulty of wrong-think.

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  12. AsISeeIt says:
    August 10, 2026 at 7:46 am

    Electrickery or the all of London edition

    In which we ponder the essence of football – but don’t look away just yet.

    Here’s a little conundrum for you – can your honeymoon really be said to be over, while you’re still only halfway through the holiday?

    Oddly enough, it’s the corporate advertising sheet the giveaway Metro that would have us believe Andy Burnham is still hard at work fighting for the consumer against the greedy corporates – even whilst he’s still away at the beach:

    PM vows to close subscription traps… Burnham tour to slash Britain’s bills begins… and his first pledge could save you £170-a-year… Laws making it easier to cancel subscriptions and get refunds for unwanted auto-renewals (freebie Metro)

    That’s all very well, but a bit niche. And of course a simple distraction. I’m guessing your streaming service, your software provider, your gym, and your insurance firm, will all find other little tricks to maintain their income and profits.

    Given Our Andy is now CEO of Public Sector Yookay and responsible for their little pricing tricks (ie tax) how about he consider knocking a few quid off some of his own corporation’s myriad tariffs, fines, tolls, excise, duties and levies. He could start with capping the TV Licence Fee. Or have his Coms Team make a big publicity PR splash telling people how easy it is to cancel the BBC.

    …and his first pledge could save you £180-a-year…

    One senses this next one is a bit of projection or wish fulfilment from the Gruan: Labour wants ‘deeper’ ties to EU under Burnham, says minister… Hamish Falconer

    The dream scenario for Guardianistas would be this chap: Sunny disposition… Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, headed to the coast this weekend to campaign for Thursday’s by-election in Clacton (Telegraph) – electorally humiliated by the Burham-endorsed Binface – or failing that locked up on some sort of charge in one of our prison cells recently vacated by the likes of these guys: Jet bomb plotters ‘free in weeks’… Al-Qaeda terrorists up for parole… Waheed Zaman, Arafat Waheed Khan and Ibrahim Savant all of London (The Sun) – clearing the decks for an autumn or spring General Election with Labour standing on a Rejoin the EU manifesto, perhaps.

    All of London – nice touch. I wonder if The Sun headline writers were channelling satire or regulated media rules?

    Or, more likely, the establishment will simply have us Rejoin by the snide incremental route. And there we were thinking Burnham was dead against Auto-Renewal of Subscriptions.

    All this legacy Brexit derangement comes, despite: Surging post-Brexit energy subsidies trigger fears over market distortions… UK taxpayer subsidies more than doubled in the last financial year, new analysis has shown, as the government took advantage of post-Brexit freedoms to hand out support to energy projects – the FT in somewhat of a quandary there. They love their corporate Green subsidies – but they also love their EU. Not for nothing does your Mr AsI tag the FT with the nicknames The Brussels Trumpet or the Mid-Belgian Courier

    I suppose now it’s a case of either pump even more taxpayer cash into Green energy projects and pray the wind blows and the sun shines – or we head right back to the superstitious stone age: Don’t use too much power during eclipse… delay using washing machines, dishwashers and other appliances… The eclipse will send solar generation plunging (Telegraph)

    I’m oddly reminded of that 1970s kids TV show Catweazle. A quirky magician, played by Geoffrey Bayldon in the title role, from medieval times is cast into the present day by magic. You may recall his superstitious alarm at modern innovations such as the lightbulb. Pre-EU ban 100 Watt examples, no doubt. What particularly sticks in the mind is his catchphrase “Electrickery”

    Top story in the pink paper is a large Monday morning overdose of transatlantic Trump Derangement, care of some hyped-up Democrat-leaning bod, who’s obviously been off her meds: Amy Mackinnon Washington… Trump is dismantling US democratic guardrails, warn former CIA officials… Moves out of ‘autocrat’s playbook’… Checks on executive power eroded.. Alarm at personality cult (FT) – calm down, dear.

    We’ve suffered VAR and taking the knee. Become accustomed to compulsory seating in our stadia. Shrugged our shoulders at the corporatisation and the half n half scarves. Cringed a little at rainbow shoelaces and the ladies game. Turned a blind eye to our local cub fielding just two home nations eligible players in their starting eleven. Now we’ve even swallowed hydration breaks.

    However…

    Infantino accused of ‘destroying the very essence of football’ (i paper)

    I think soccer fans regretting the loss of that magical old essence are somewhat late to the ball – as soccer fans are wont to say.

    In-the-tank for Labour tabloid the Daily Mirror is distracting us with Baywatch.

    As a closing puzzle let’s count how many clichés the red top can cram into a few headlines? (All due respect of course)

    Heatwave water warning… Days of danger… Shattered families in safety plea after drowning tragedies

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    • MarkyMark says:
      August 10, 2026 at 8:07 am

      “PM vows to close subscription traps… Burnham tour to slash Britain’s bills begins… and his first pledge could save you £170-a-year… Laws making it easier to cancel subscriptions and get refunds for unwanted auto-renewals (freebie Metro)”

      Increase taxable allowance to 20K from 12K.
      Decrease vat to 10%
      Income tax set to 10% for rich and poor – equality!
      650 MP pay based on performance.
      Remove Gov fuel duty from 52 pence to 10 pence.
      All Prisons to go green – grow own food and generate own electricity.
      Stop all boats.
      Repatriate illegals with their home country – place them in tents outside their embassy.
      All bin collection jobs to be completed by 90% wheelchair employees.

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  13. Doublethinker says:
    August 10, 2026 at 7:55 am

    David Starkey’s podcast latest episode is with Nathan Cofnas the academic who blew the doors off Jason Arday and the Cambridge surrender to DEI . It is well worth a watch.
    Both Starkey and Cofnas have been victims of Cambridge’s obsession with DEI and their bitterness comes through but that doesn’t diminish the power of their argument , viz. that the university has punished both of them for speaking heretical truths about racial issues.
    Cofnas also reveals some details of the appallingly low standards of Arday’s ‘ research’ . Basically this man who became a Professor at Cambridge , a university with more Nobel prize winners than France, can’t do simple sums and can’t write coherent sentences .
    No matter how low you thought the university had fallen it is worse than you could ever imagine. Arday did not con anyone , he is too thick to do that, the board that appointed him to his Professorship did so in the full knowledge that he was extremely stupid , probably mentally retarded and incapable of fulfilling even the simplest of his duties. They did it solely because he was black , met their DEI criterion and gave them kudos amongst their peer group.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      August 10, 2026 at 8:21 am

      “Here’s how I exposed Jason Arday and Cambridge” | David Starkey Talks to Nathan Cofnas
      David Starkey Talks

      “I won’t deny that watching Cambridge University’s management scramble to contain the fallout from their disastrous recruitment of the dodgy academic Jason Arday has been sweetly satisfying. These are, in some instances, the very same people who sprang into action against me back in 2020, casting me out of the institution to which I’d been associated for 56 years.

      Their decision to offer Mr Arday a Chair Professorship – the most coveted position in academia – on the basis of his plagiarised and completely meritless work has struck a hugely damaging blow to the practices of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in higher education. They will regroup of course, and do everything they can to prevent further probes into a system by which white and Asian students and academics are discriminated against in the name of racial representation, but for now let us enjoy the spectacle of their humiliation.”

      “If it hadn’t been for Cofnas’s intellectual bravery, and the open marketplace of ideas that we now have on X, the chances of this scandal ever emerging are close to non-existent.”

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    • vlad says:
      August 10, 2026 at 8:42 am

      @Doublethinker

      Arday “can’t do simple sums and can’t write coherent sentences”

      Mafs and Grammar be racist, innit.

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  14. MarkyMark says:
    August 10, 2026 at 8:12 am

    “Burnham Starts ‘Cost of Living Tour’ by Reheating More Starmer Policies” order-order.com
    https://order-order.com/2026/08/10/burnham-starts-cost-of-living-tour-by-reheating-more-starmer-policies/#comments

    …. Maybe PM Burnham of the North can learn from Boris ….

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    “Control immigration. Net zero by 2050. Keeping taxes low.”
    HA AH HAHA HAH AHAH AHA HAH A!

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  15. MarkyMark says:
    August 10, 2026 at 8:27 am

    “Jason Arday claimed he was paid ‘1.4 million’ by publisher for memoir”
    Simon & Schuster still plans to publish book by Cambridge academic who resigned this week amid plagiarism claims
    https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/aug/06/jason-arday-claim-memoir-publisher-simon-and-schuster-cambridge

    Despite allegations against Arday, Simon & Schuster said earlier this week it was planning to go ahead with the publication of his memoir on 11 August in the US and 27 August in the UK. Simon & Schuster US told the Guardian on Thursday night it was “proceeding with the publication of Great and Unfortunate Things by Jason Arday as planned”.

    “Great and Unfortunate Things” by Jason Arday £1.4 million

    They said a book such as Arday’s would normally be expected to sell about 5,000 copies, so with £2 of royalty per copy, that equates to an advance of £10,000, not 1.4 million dollars or pounds.

    In a statement before Arday’s resignation, Simon & Schuster said: “We have worked closely with Professor Jason Arday on Great and Unfortunate Things since acquiring it and can speak to the professionalism and integrity he has brought to every stage of the publication.

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  16. Flotsam says:
    August 10, 2026 at 8:28 am

    Talk is of a ban of wearing balaclavas in public. The obvious extension to that idea is a ban on the burqa, an interesting problem for the Labour.

    I do think the burqa should be banned. It’s oppressive, creepy and totally inappropriate in a modern Western society.

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  17. Scroblene says:
    August 10, 2026 at 8:32 am

    Some idiot I had the misfortune to listen to some years ago, used to call his building projects, ‘shovel-ready’.

    How can a bus-lane supremo from a city far away from the UK centre of commerce, understand the economics, the patriotic leadership and the total hard work ethic, to bring the UK back into the British way of life, when for the past five or so years, he’s just had to get up in the morning, go down and collect the post, then bank all the money ‘provided’ by various cack-handed governments to fiddle about with and spend as he likes?

    Visiting all the labour places for the next week, will just reinforce whatever ‘ideas’ he has for just asking a few lefties what they think, then go back to whatever Mohammed Street he’s working from, and sit waiting for the post to arrive, so that he can bank the money ‘provided’ by his cack-handed government to fiddle about with and spend as he likes?

    Meanwhile, a city-full of illegals swarms across the channel, to the sound of ‘La La La’ from both Mo-offices…

    He might just as well send the bBC on ahead to do the ‘interviews’ for him, because nobody will take a blind bit of notice about his ridiculous band-standing. At least they’ll gladly tell him what he wants to know…

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  18. Sluff says:
    August 10, 2026 at 8:37 am

    They just can’t help themselves. The bias is trenchant and unrelenting. The message is clear.

    The bBBC are highlighting the change in school uniforms from September, to save parents money.

    Photos of pupils are shown.
    The first shows four pupils. Three BAME, the fourth may be too.
    The second shows three pupils at secondary school. All are BAME. The two girls are Muslim., wearing all the gear.
    Next we have a diagram with eight pupils.
    Three boys. Five girls. Strangely four girls are white. The other four comprise two black, two brown.
    Only down at the very end of the article, if you get that far, do we get five white primary school boys.

    That’s the BBC version of equality and diversity.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crrvq1y442vo

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  19. MarkyMark says:
    August 10, 2026 at 8:51 am

    “International health groups, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, distributed millions of insecticide-treated mosquito nets to prevent malaria in Africa. Due to severe hunger and poverty, some local communities repurposed these fine-mesh nets for fishing. This practice traps tiny juvenile fish and damages local aquatic ecosystems.”

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  20. Eddy Booth says:
    August 10, 2026 at 9:27 am

    “Moment Elizabeth line passenger who dodged £3,700 of fares is caught red handed – before being told to pay just £590”

    Actually fined an eye watering £40… the rest is costs and compensation

    https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16032841/TfL-Elizabeth-line-passenger-fare-evader-uncles-invalid-card.html

    From some sub genre of viewer porn sting TV show:

    “Fare Dodgers: At War With The Law’ which airs on Channel 5 at 9pm tonight.”

    Basically a foreigner who can’t speak English spent a year using an invalid bank card to travel for free.

    “An investigator called Lisa says she has been tracking the man’s card, which is one of more than 10,000 frozen, stolen or blocked cards being followed by the team..”

    Article doesn’t explain it, as it’s woeful modern journalism, but apparently:

    *Why Invalid Cards Work on TfL Gates
    An invalid, blocked, or frozen bank card often works on Transport for London (TfL) gates due to a deliberate system design that prioritizes passenger flow speed and safety over immediate revenue protection.
    The “Offline” Authorization Sytem.
    Ticket gates operate in “offline” mode to prevent bottlenecks. If every tap required a real-time online authorization check with the bank, it would introduce a delay of several seconds per passenger. On a busy network, this would cause dangerous crowd crushes at barriers and escalators. *

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    “The passenger is taken to a side room at the station to be questioned about his fare evasion”

    Actually more like INVITED to a side room, as the article also doesn’t explain that:

    * No Arrest Powers: Unlike the British Transport Police (BTP), TfL staff cannot arrest individuals.
    TfL officers must rely on a “hands-off” policy for their own safety and call the BTP or Metropolitan Police.

    Safety Priority: Recent reports highlight that if a suspect flees or resists, officers are instructed not to pursue or physically restrain them to avoid injury, relying instead on later identification and prosecution. *

    So Mr dodger could just have walked away and took his chances at there not being police nearby..

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  21. tomo says:
    August 10, 2026 at 10:11 am

    I’ve got questions….

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    • MarkyMark says:
      August 10, 2026 at 10:54 am

      “A phoenix company is a new business that rises from the ashes of a failed or insolvent predecessor, often run by the same directors. While legal when handled transparently through formal insolvency procedures, abusive phoenixing is illegal if used deliberately to defraud creditors or evade debts.”

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  22. Fedup2 says:
    August 10, 2026 at 10:18 am

    The number 10 burnham grid of ‘doing stuff ‘ is still pumping out dross – this time it is ‘making it easier to cancel subscriptions ‘… let’s hope the BBC DD is included …..

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  23. tomo says:
    August 10, 2026 at 10:20 am

    I’m confident he’s got the job on merit, not on daddy’s influence

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/aug/09/uk-eu-reset-talks-brexit-burnham-hamish-falconer

    This dynastic aspect of The Labour Party is imho irksome

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  24. taffman says:
    August 10, 2026 at 10:33 am

    “Burnham brings forward ban on ‘subscription traps’ to ease cost of living”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly5x9qlnvjo
    Will this apply to the Telly Tax ?

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  25. taffman says:
    August 10, 2026 at 10:36 am

    A Message to our new PM – Stop the invasion , stop the boats, big or small !

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  26. Up2snuff says:
    August 10, 2026 at 10:57 am

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – the BBC’s obsession with wimmin continues apace …

    I cite as evidence : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly7dqprlnvo At least there is not a Getty Images pic of effnick wimmin included that BBC’s Jemma could have included by being lazy.

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  27. MarkyMark says:
    August 10, 2026 at 11:19 am

    add extra bed to each prison cell = x2 capacity overnight!

    add two extra beds = x3 capacity.

    Remove playstation and gym equipment = +100 new beds.

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  28. tomo says:
    August 10, 2026 at 11:24 am

    Meme of the morning (Dublin edition)

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  29. tomo says:
    August 10, 2026 at 11:34 am

    news … apparently

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    PhD eh?

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  30. JonathanR says:
    August 10, 2026 at 11:44 am

    So Burnham cannot pause the early release scheme. Of course he can’t. And if he had any sense he would have known he couldn’t. It is now the law. If he had been serious he would have recalled parliament and repealed it. It seems he is reluctant to go anywhere where he will have to face any scrutiny. Far happier making bold statements to a fawning BBC

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    • digg says:
      August 10, 2026 at 4:51 pm

      Burnham so far appears to be acting as a modern day Robin Hood. He is chasing pointless ineffective trophy actions, I suspect because he doesn’t have a clue how to tackle the real heavy stuff like National Debt so he’ll be standardising the size of birthday cards etc. to streamline the manufacture of letterboxes and other such nonsense,

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  31. tomo says:
    August 10, 2026 at 11:45 am

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    • Flotsam says:
      August 10, 2026 at 12:08 pm

      Thirteen! I didn’t know it was as many as that, lots of lives ruined as well. It only needed someone to put two and two together from the statistics and work out there was an issue other than the Postmasters. Ed Davey could have been the man but he was happy to take money to sit unquestioningly at the boardroom table now and again and rubber stamp a few things. Ed Davey was paid £833 an hour for his P.O. work – over £220000 in total for what?

      I’ve noticed Davey has a very nasty streak to him.

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  32. MarkyMark says:
    August 10, 2026 at 11:55 am

    “Although, at the time of our visits four out of sixteen prisons were unable to store halal meats separately from other meat, measures had been taken to avoid cross contamination. At 11 prisons equipment for the production of Muslim food, such as knives and cutting boards, and cooking pots and pans, was not separately labelled.(doubles amount of equipment and production time) {HM Prison Service – Serving Time: Prisoner Diet and Exercise – mar2006}”

    https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2006/03/0506939.pdf#page=20

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  33. tomo says:
    August 10, 2026 at 11:56 am

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    • MarkyMark says:
      August 10, 2026 at 12:06 pm

      Trans woman at the back? HA HA HAHA HAH A!

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    • MarkyMark says:
      August 10, 2026 at 12:14 pm

      “The call to prayer (Adhan) at Marble Arch in London is a prominent public feature during major annual Shia Islamic commemorative events, such as the Ashura and Arbaeen processions. Thousands gather at this central London landmark for communal Dhuhr prayers and the soulful public recitation of the Azan before the marches commence”

      “The Azan (Adhan) is the Islamic call to prayer, recited aloud by a muezzin to announce the start of each of the five daily prayers. It proclaims the greatness of God, the testimony of faith, and calls the community to prayer and success”

      Words of the AzanAllahu Akbar (God is the greatest) – Recited four times

      Ash-hadu an la ilaha ill-Allah (I bear witness that there is no god except Allah) – Recited twice

      Ash-hadu anna Muhammad-ar-Rasoolullah (I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah) – Recited twice

      Hayya ‘alas-Salah (Come to prayer) – Recited twiceHayya ‘alal-falah (Come to success) – Recited twice

      Allahu Akbar (God is the greatest) – Recited twiceLa ilaha ill-Allah (There is no god except Allah) – Recited

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      • atlas_shrugged says:
        August 10, 2026 at 1:28 pm

        > The call to prayer (Adhan) at Marble Arch in London is a prominent public feature during major annual Shia Islamic commemorative events, such as the Ashura and Arbaeen processions.

        Whilst there you can nip round to speakers corner and partake in a quick bit of stabbing in broad daylight (e.g. of the Christian Hatun). There will be no repercussions – the scumbag who stabbed Hatun was never identified or arrested and charged. Any comments from the w@nker met police?

        P.S I thought religions practice was banned in the Royal public Parks. Is Marble Arch part of the park?

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    • G says:
      August 11, 2026 at 8:10 am

      Where are these vehicles that, unmanned, mow down gatherings of the population when one is needed……………

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  34. JonathanR says:
    August 10, 2026 at 12:01 pm

    It always amazes me that we are told that non-English people are a minority in this country Yet when the BBC or politicians visit schools there is not an English boy or girl to be seen. Also go to any supermarket or large store and you will not see an advertising poster with a white male. I noticed the other day on a “back to school” poster there was a glaring absence of white boys.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      August 10, 2026 at 12:08 pm

      This mad me laugh … integration … tolerance … diversity ….

      “India and the UK are connected by a shared passion for cricket. At Chequers, PM Keir Starmer and I interacted with players from Buckinghamshire Street Cricket Hubs. Great to see sport fostering people-to-people ties between our nations.
      Also gave my young friends a bat signed by the Indian cricket team which won the T20 World Cup.
      Keir Starmer”

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    • taffman says:
      August 10, 2026 at 12:13 pm

      JonathanR
      Its BBC propaganda at its best .

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  35. MarkyMark says:
    August 10, 2026 at 12:15 pm

    “The investigation into the force comes two months after a criminal investigation was launched into another officer accused of using AI systems to “create evidential material in a number of cases”.

    Derbyshire Police said on Monday it made a voluntary referral to the IOPC on 23 June “regarding an officer’s use of artificial intelligence”.”

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7vgq5mgz2mo

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  36. MarkyMark says:
    August 10, 2026 at 12:36 pm

    Altilium secures £18.5 million to scale EV battery recycling and build UK’s first commercial facility for recovery of critical minerals
    https://altilium.tech/2026/04/10/altilium-secures-18-5-million-to-scale-ev-battery-recycling-and-build-uks-first-commercial-facility-for-recovery-of-critical-minerals/
    ” awarded £18.5 million in grant funding through the UK government’s DRIVE35 Scale-Up Fund”

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  37. Guest Who says:
    August 10, 2026 at 12:46 pm

    https://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2026/08/09/a-peoples-bbc-my-iea-idea/

    The UK media industry is losing out badly to the towering success of the USA.The BBC is a great force against change. It seeks to freeze UK media in a top down take on what they think we need. Meanwhile the audience moves swiftly into an exciting competitive world of downloads, podcasts, on line videos,movies on demand and citizen journalists getting live clips of events as they happen.

    Didn’t read further. Just. Kill. It. Off

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  38. tomo says:
    August 10, 2026 at 1:30 pm

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    • G says:
      August 11, 2026 at 8:14 am

      A plethora of videos on YT warning viewers that you cannot escape the clutches of HMRC. I suggest the video’s are produced by HMRC……….

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  39. Richard Pinder says:
    August 10, 2026 at 1:32 pm

    The Satanic ‘Death Cult’ at the BBC

    BBC Radio 4: Last Word: Doing Death Differently:
    Do Death Your Own Way. The BBC looks at new options for disposing of Dead Bodies.

    However, the BBC did not look at what happens to the 321,500 dead babies killed by abortion every year, or the investigation conducted by Victoria Evans, “Commercial Markets Created by Abortion: Profiting from the Foetal Distribution Chain”, and presented to the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome. Foetal tissue and foetal organs from aborted babies are sold for profit by abortion clinics to the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and cosmetics industry, and were even found in kabab meat. The Human cell lines of aborted babies used in the production of vaccines are (1) WI-38, (2) MRC-5, (3) HEK-293, and (4) PER.C6.

    The BBC did not look at politicians who vote to ‘assist the death’ of those made suicidal by government policies, or Satanists worried about Christians illegally praying for the souls of dead babies.

    The BBC did not mention the films “Died Suddenly” or “Deadly Quiet”. Gory films about embalmers finding lots of big rubbery blood clots killing the mRNA jabbed. The ‘Covid bioweapon jab’ is put directly into the blood stream and contains nanoparticles that deliver an instruction to make spike proteins that burst red blood cells to produce heart damage and rubbery blood clots. The Embalmers describe it as a ‘Reign of Terror’ using ‘mRNA Jabs’ to induce Death from Rubbery Clots found in 80% of Excess Deaths.

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  40. atlas_shrugged says:
    August 10, 2026 at 2:10 pm

    No doubt the RA could succeed in the export of the illegals from the Republic of Ireland. Guess which country will be the lucky recipients?

    https://dailysceptic.org/2026/08/10/new-ira-terrorists-plan-to-drive-migrants-out-of-ireland-with-campaign-of-violence-intelligence-officials-reveal/

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    • tomo says:
      August 10, 2026 at 4:26 pm

      Dublin sent us their worst “travellers”…

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    • MarkyMark says:
      August 10, 2026 at 4:31 pm

      So the IRA never left?

      “Intelligence officials have warned that the New IRA is plotting a campaign of violence to force migrants out of Ireland.”

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  41. Richard Pinder says:
    August 10, 2026 at 2:27 pm

    The Lord Grief, lays a Wreath for the BBC.

    The Lord Grief grieves for the BBC, and says that America rescued Europe from anti-Semitism in World War II. But Europe has now imported millions of anti-Semites from the Middle East and the greater Islamic world to fill the gap. White left-wing Women and Gay people at the BBC welcome people of the Islamic race. Islam is the progressive future the BBC sadly yearns for. The Lord Grief.

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  42. MarkyMark says:
    August 10, 2026 at 2:37 pm

    “King Andy Burnham | @Andy_Your_King

    On my UK Greatest Shits Tour this week I will be clearing up major issues including:

    Yorkshire Pudding: fruit or vegetable?
    Does toast always land face down?
    Loch Ness Monster repatriation
    Should short trousers by criminalised?

    I bet you can’t wait”
    https://x.com/Andy_Your_King/status/2086595352900350349

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  43. pugnazious says:
    August 10, 2026 at 2:56 pm

    Lots of concern about prison places…but surely Reform has spotted the real problem…10,000 places taken up by foreign criminals.
    In Italy 9% of the population is migrant but up to 60% of the crime is by them….with many places being turned into ‘Afghanistan’ and where police have to turn up looking like soldiers.

    It is extraordinary that naive/stupid/dangerous people think open borders are a good idea.

    Water, electricity, roads, the NHS, schools, housing, welfare and a budget broken by illegal immigration as billions are spent to house, feed and police the invaders.

    I was going to say we could spend those billions on defence but what’s the point of ‘defence’ if you allow in hundreds of thousands of ‘enemy’ who hate Britain and White people and seek to destroy your country and society and turn it into the shithole they came from?

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    • MarkyMark says:
      August 10, 2026 at 3:08 pm

      “Jail toilets face away from Mecca

      Last Updated: Thursday, 20 April 2006, 10:10 GMT 11:10 UK

      Facilities in a prison are being built so Muslim inmates do not have to face Mecca while sitting on the toilet.
      The Home Office said two new toilet blocks are being installed as part of a refurbishment at Brixton jail in south London.

      Faith leaders had told prison bosses it was unacceptable for Muslim inmates to face Mecca while using the toilet.

      “The refurbishment has been carried out with due consideration for all faiths”, a Home Office spokeswoman said.
      “Following consultation with faith leaders within the prison, various small adjustments were made to ensure the faith issues of all prisoners are taken into account.”

      She added: “The money spent did not affect the overall cost of the refurbishment programme.””

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4926114.stm

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    • moggiemoo says:
      August 10, 2026 at 7:28 pm

      Police the invaders? You’re joking, right?

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  44. Eddy Booth says:
    August 10, 2026 at 3:07 pm

    Today’s daily reminder to be wary of the British police if you’re white, even being Polish isn’t going to help much anymore .
    Police escalation leading to an arrest as usual.

    Polish women asks plod “Are you stupid?”

    https://xcancel.com/WesleyWinterYT/status/2086537720223199233

    “A Polish mother was arrested after refusing to leave her 13 year old son unattended with a police officer in Liverpool. Her son had been accused by a Nigerian family living in social housing of stealing garden keys, an allegation he denies.

    The officer later threatened to pepper spray the mother, who was then arrested. The boy was taken into a police van barefoot, with the officer refusing to let him retrieve his shoes and socks. The boy also claims that the officer later broke his wrist. “

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  45. MarkyMark says:
    August 10, 2026 at 4:09 pm

    John Cleese “How does such a disgustingly cruel regime get support like this ?”
    https://x.com/JohnCleese/status/2086538802105811359?

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    Student who photographed Jeremy Corbyn standing by Hezbollah flag says he will not allow it to be ‘taken out of context’
    Samuel Hardy said men carrying the group’s banner were walking behind the future Labour leader by coincidence at a pro-Palestinian protest in 2012
    Lizzie Dearden
    Wednesday 16 September 2015 13:45 BST

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  46. MarkyMark says:
    August 10, 2026 at 4:14 pm

    Prime Minister of the North and King of the English Channel!

    “I will implement what the people vote for.” -Cameron
    “I quit” – Cameron, the day after
    “Illegals go back home” – Theresa May Adverts
    “Control our borders” – Boris
    “Stop the boats” – Rishi
    “Smash the Gangs” – Starmer
    “I will review it.” – Burnham
    ……
    Small boats data
    This page shows figures for the last 7 days for migrants attempting to cross the English Channel in small boats without permission to enter the UK.

    Date Migrants arrived Boats arrived Boats involved in uncontrolled landings Notes
    3 August 2026 35 1 0
    4 August 2026 0 0 0
    5 August 2026 0 0 0
    6 August 2026 0 0 0
    7 August 2026 0 0 0
    8 August 2026 258 4 0
    9 August 2026 423 5 0
    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats-last-7-days

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  47. MarkyMark says:
    August 10, 2026 at 4:46 pm

    “The final groups of Australian women and children linked to the Islamic State—widely labeled by media as “ISIS brides”—have returned from Syrian detention camps like Al-Roj.
    Returning cohorts faced immediate police operations upon arrival, with several women arrested and charged with serious terrorism and slavery offenses”

    ^^ why not leave them in Isis Utopia at no cost to Australia?

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  48. MarkyMark says:
    August 10, 2026 at 4:54 pm

    “Brits off to Europe this summer will encounter the hated EU EES or Entry Exit System, which uses biometrics and requires a photograph, significantly slowing down passport checks. All while the EU’s external borders are wide open to illegal migrants…”
    order-order.com
    …..
    Small boats data
    This page shows figures for the last 7 days for migrants attempting to cross the English Channel in small boats without permission to enter the UK.
    Date Migrants arrived Boats arrived Boats involved in uncontrolled landings
    9 August 2026 423 5 0
    ……
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    …..
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    Migrant crisis: How Europe went from Merkel’s ‘We can do it’ to pulling up the drawbridge
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5e5q7w41eo

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  49. Richard Pinder says:
    August 10, 2026 at 5:03 pm

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    • MarkyMark says:
      August 10, 2026 at 5:25 pm

      Sent 2018 …..

      MY BBC COMPLAINT

      YOUR COMPLAINT:

      Complaint Summary: The omission is the most powerful form of lie …

      Full Complaint: “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed (May and Corbyn’s old speeches): everything else is public relations.” – Orwell

      Theresa May … being put forward as Prime Minister and issuing a general election on implementing Brexit which was about immigration and sovereignty. … these speeches were never mentioned on the BBC £3.5bn news or other media outlets …
      1978 … “The moment the minority threatens to become a big one, people get frightened.” – Margaret Thatcher 1978

      2012 … “Two and a half years ago, the coalition government was formed, and we made a clear promise to the British public. After thirteen years of uncontrolled mass immigration, this government would reduce and control immigration.” – Theresa May 2012

      2015 … “Because when immigration is too high (no figure given), when the pace of change is too fast, it’s impossible to build a cohesive society.” – Theresa May 2015

      Jeremy Corbyn … with all the news on BBC £3.5bn Service regarding the Iran Nuclear Deal, Jeremy Corbyn has not been asked why he backs Al Quds protests and has spoken at them or why his is not vocal on Iran’s ‘death to’ position with Israel.

      2012 … Jeremy Corbyn speaks at Al Quds march, Al Quds is the protest for all the oppressed but was initiated by an oppressor Ayatollah Khomeini. Jeremy Corbyn does not chastise the Iranian regime.

      2018 … Iran release a ‘Death to Israel’ and ‘Death to America’ Government approved emoji. But this is not mentioned when talking about Iran by the BBC or other outlets.

      MPs expenses …. it was in 2008 that MPs used expenses to fill their own pockets or shredded. UK MPs on both sides have talked about reducing expenses and recession and austerity. Yet, since 2010 MPs have enjoyed a pay increased of 18%. How come the BBC news has not reported on this when talking to MPs?

      “The omission is the most powerful form of lie, and it is the duty of the historian to ensure that those lies do not creep into the history books.” – George Orwell

      BBC NONE RESPONSE …

      Thank you for getting in touch regarding BBC News.

      I understand you have concerns about the integrity of BBC News reporting over the last few years.

      BBC News aims to show the political reality and provide a forum for discussion on issues, giving full opportunity for all sides of the debate to be heard and explored. Senior editorial staff within BBC News and the BBC’s Executive Board ensure that editorial guidelines are adhered to.

      Our News editors ensure that over a reasonable period of time we reflect the range of significant views, opinions and trends on particular issues, but it’s important to add here that our published Editorial Guidelines explain that not every issue or viewpoint necessarily has to be included in each individual report.

      The key point is that the BBC as an organisation has no view or position itself on anything we may report upon – our aim is to identify all significant views, and to test them rigorously and fairly on behalf of our audiences.

      In dealing with any controversial issue, we are required to give a fair and balanced report, but balance cannot be judged simply on the basis of the amount of time allocated to the representatives of either side of an argument. One spokesperson may make their points concisely, while another needs rather longer to explain a point of view or a complex issue, plus a change to the existing position or status quo may take longer to clarify.

      Account also needs to be taken of the way a subject is covered over a period of time; perfect balance is difficult to achieve on every single individual occasion, while overall it is a more achievable goal taking into account our coverage as a whole over a period of time.

      That said, we do value your feedback about this issue. All complaints are sent to senior management every morning and I included your points in this overnight report.

      These reports are among the most widely read sources of feedback in the BBC and ensures that your complaint has been seen by the right people quickly. This helps inform their decisions about current and future programmes.

      Once again, thank you for contacting us.

      Kind regards

      Gareth Murray

      BBC Complaints Team

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  50. Emmanuel Goldstein says:
    August 10, 2026 at 5:29 pm

    I see what labour are doing when they say there are fewer ‘small’ boats popping over.
    Was it just the one today?

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