Midweek 12th August 2026

Ah – the Glorious 12th … then .. VJ Day Friday -Solar eclipse Wednesday – Clacton bi election Thursday . BBC gearing up to run the current narrative that Reform is ‘over’ – whatever the outcome . Every political / propaganda programme will parrot the ‘disaster for Nigel Farage ‘…

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  1. AsISeeIt says:

    Inferno, hot stuff and that classic curry gag edition

    Headlines, eh?

    The giveaway adsheet Metro appears to have borrowed one from the Mirror: Nurses collapsing as stifling heat takes toll

    What you need to understand is that yesterday was the hottest eva! And that’s a very, very bad thing.

    ‘Houses burn and train derails on hottest day’ and ‘Britain on fire’ – is our BBC’s appreciative headline summary of the print news headlines.

    Britain in meltdown… Homes in flames as wildfires spread… Did record 38.1c heat cause train to derail? – asks the Express

    These accident investigations tend to take months and years to examine all the evidence before reaching a conclusion.

    The Times however, speculates boldly: The heat may have buckled track that caused three carriages to derail

    I’m not saying six house fires in Stourbridge, West Midlands, are a small thing – but it’s also not quite the end of the world as we know it…

    INFERNO – shrieks the ever-excitable Daily Mail: On hottest day of the year, rampant wildfires engulf streets of family homes

    Heatwave devastation… Britain on fire – frets the Mirror: Homes destroyed… Meanwhile, train crash terror and rail chaos on hottest day of the year

    Now this morning I don’t know whether it’s more dangerous to stay home or to attempt to travel?

    ‘Apocalyptic’ wildfire… Horror on the 2.24pm – the normally jovial Daily Star on the one hand trumps rival superlative house fire reporting and on the other seems to channel some lost Agatha Christie mystery.

    The Telegraph is refreshingly complacent: Train derails in the heat

    Now we get a hint as to what all these new Andy Burnham-style regional mayors are going to do: Homes blaze in west Midlands on hottest day of the year… Mayor declares ‘extremely worrying’ situation (i paper)

    The Mayor of the West Midlands is Richard Parker, a Labour and Co-operative Party politician who took office in May 2024. His current term runs until May 2028 – thank you A.I.

    So just as the police prime function these days appears to be to ‘sympathise with victims’ and to ‘understand the concerns of our communities’ – so we can now look forward to a brand new batch of politicians making trite platitudinous observations on events in their regions.

    Before we move on to other hot topics – although given all those ‘Britain Ablaze’ and ‘Apocalypse Now’ -style headlines you’d wonder there was any other news worthy of mention – even so, the Mail commentary: Devastation… after blaze at a golf course… – had your naughty Mr AsI recalling an old Not The Nine O’clock News skit of a Conservative Party conference speech delivered by Rowan Atkinson. To a packed expectant auditorium Rowan’s Tory declares “I am a golfer!” to rapturous applause.

    He goes on of course to crack that gag about curry. “I like curry, but now that we’ve got the recipe…” – given the Boris Wave I fear an irony overload coming on – so let’s move on… but oh how our 1980s alternative comics misjudged the Tories and their attitude toward mass immigration. Or perhaps that attitude was in fact altered by such alternative comics, among other influences.

    Staying close by the subcontinent…

    The FT tends to disparage India (Populist, Hindu nationalist Modi and all that) but then there’s that admirable islamic near-neighbour: Pakistan’s bold ambitions on the world stage (Alec Russell, FT)

    Hot stuff

    The Mail is in no mood to cool things down: The nightmare of living with a SEXSOMNIAC – In case you were wondering… I’d google that for you but I have my search history to worry about.

    By the way, how we feelin’ ’bout government garnering ever more of our personal details into their dodgy databases?

    NHS service admits data breach due to pager use… NHS Blood and Transplant had been sending sensitive medical data across the unencrypted pager network (BBC)

    In 2019, then-Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced the NHS in England should stop using pagers by 2021, but some parts of the organisation have continued doing so. (BBC) – NHS still using pagers? How very retro. Didn’t they notice what Mossad did to Hezbollah in Lebanon? Let’s hope for their sake our Palestine-leaning NHS staff didn’t procure their pagers cheap off some shady bloke named Hymie.

    Kate Lister is an historian of sex and a regular columnist for the arch feminist i paper: Men in their 20s keep hitting on me. I want to call their mothers – It’s a shot in the dark but just possibly these young chaps aren’t getting anywhere with girls their own age because ultra feminists of your sort have warned young women off men?

    Why heatwaves hit women harder… Overwhelmed, irritable, dizzy, bloated, exhausted. – hanging around the BBC online news headlines since 9th July.

    Afghan women speak to BBC after five years of Taliban rule… The country’s ultra-conservative Taliban rulers have significantly restricted women’s lives since re-taking power in 2021 (BBC)

    I’m inevitably put in mind of James Brown’s 1966 hit It’s A Man’s World (co-written with Betty Jean Newsome)

    Which tends to lead us to one of those classic successful female celebrity millionaire oh-woe-is-me angst articles: Imelda Staunton ‘I’m still trying to cope with being made a dame’ (Guardian) – you could always give it back, luv.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Afghan women speak to BBC after five years of Taliban rule… The country’s ultra-conservative Taliban rulers have significantly restricted women’s lives since re-taking power in 2021 (BBC)”

      Alternative title “Afghan women speak to BBC about trans rights effected by Taliban rule and the increase of Bacha boys on national TV!”

      ….

      “Bacha bazi[1] (Persian[a]: بچه بازی, lit. ’boy play’) is a pederastic practice in Afghanistan and in historical Turkestan, in which men exploit and enslave adolescent boys, sometimes for sexual abuse, and/or coerce them to cross-dress in attire traditionally only worn by women and girls and dance for entertainment.”

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Imelda doing panto again eh?

      … not to many imeldas about …

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  2. friend of yogi bear says:

    BBC CELEBRATE THEIR MAN’S DEFEAT……

    Count Bin face aka ..BBC script writer, John Harvey, got a healthy 9,500 votes in Claxton. The BBC are so, very pleased. Bin face is the real winner…..apparently.

    The fact that the electorate have returned Farage with a greater majority is not really a headline ,especially when the turnout is considered.
    Smug today presenter on the BBC radio 4 this morning doing a half cocked job pretending that Harvey has no connection to the BBC.
    The lack of self awareness at the BBC continues to be their only contribution to the national comic output.

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  3. atlas_shrugged says:

    The Department for Eliminating Food and Rural Agriculture (DEFRA) has been identified as responsible for turning the UK into a tinderbox:

    https://dailysceptic.org/2026/08/13/defra-not-climate-change-is-turning-england-into-a-tinderbox/

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Satellite data reveals six times more land was burnt across the UK in the last decade than the previous one – and Defra’s own policies are largely to blame, says Ian Botham in the Telegraph.

      By restricting preventative winter burns and reducing upland grazing, the Department has created vast expanses of combustible vegetation, ignoring warnings from fire chiefs, wildfire scientists and its own officials. ”

      “Other countries have learnt the hard way. Australia and California tried suppressing the prescribed burns that indigenous people had used for tens of thousands of years. By some calculations, dozens died before their governments saw sense. What will it take for ours to wake up?”

      …………
      Sowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Sowell sees what has happened during that time not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical consequence of a tainted vision whose defects have led to crises in education, crime, and family dynamics, and to other social pathologies. In this book, he describes how elites,the anointed,have replaced facts and rational thinking with rhetorical assertions, thereby altering the course of our social policy.
      – The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

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  4. MarkyMark says:

    Islam is coming – join Islam to join the new defence initiative – Bradford are already signed up! HA HAH AHA

    “A new defence pact between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey has raised questions in New Delhi over whether Islamabad could use the agreement to build wider security ties with Muslim-majority countries in India’s neighbourhood, analysts have said.
    The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, signed on Friday, states that an armed attack on any one of the three countries would be treated as an attack on all of them.”
    https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3363675/islamic-nato-why-pakistans-new-defence-pact-has-india-edge

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  5. MarkyMark says:

    “Rhiannon Whyte did her part in looking after Asylum Seekers, Keir Starmer did not kneel for her and Jess Philips did not mention her – are you read to do you bit” (c) Andy Burnham

    “Deng Majek stabbed Rhiannon Whyte 23 times with a screwdriver in a frenzied 90-second attack in 2024 after following the 27-year-old to Bescot Stadium railway station in Walsall.
    He was later caught on CCTV dancing and laughing.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yvwdgjpj3o

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  6. MarkyMark says:

    “Lee Anderson’s BRUTAL swipe at the BBC this morning!

    Reform UK chair Lee Anderson was on BBC Breakfast being grilled about Nigel Farage’s claim that Essex Police advised him not to attend the Clacton by-election declaration over an “organised campaign to disrupt and degrade the result”.

    BBC: “The Essex Police, the BBC understands, didn’t advise anyone not to attend?”

    Lee Anderson, taking no prisoners:

    “Well, you know, sometimes some of these police forces that we’ve been dealing with recently are about as honest as you lot at the BBC.”

    😂 Absolutely ruthless! The presenter looked properly stunned.

    Typically blunt from Anderson. He’s never shy about telling you exactly how he feels! 👊”

    https://x.com/triffic_stuff_/status/2088155051806109799

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Marky – he did similar to our Justin on today – must be tricky for the BBC – they are duty bound to take someone from Reform after such a bi election – so they know they are going to get a mouthful which viewers will love ….

      .. a collective ‘about time someone gave it to the BBC ‘ …. Reform should really keep going at the BBC …. reforn woukd be even more popular …

      Thinking about it – the turn out on Thursday – in hot conditions was pretty impressive …. I suppose the bbc will put the nut job bin on the any questions panel …

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    • tomo says:

      The BBC understands?

      maybe they do – but – the don’t see that as any impediment to sticking with their own narrative and misdirecting…

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  7. MarkyMark says:

    DO NOT TRAVEL! SAVE THE PLANET! STOP USING PRIVATE JETS! HA HA HAHA HAH AH !

    https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/288×288/p0p0cxbs.jpg.webp

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct8t13

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  8. Jeff says:

    An old pal of mine is a local historian and still lives in south London, just a few roads from where I was brought up. The other day he was showing me some photos he had taken on Christmas Eve 1986. They show a rather attractive boulevard of shops and cafes of a place I was once so familiar. Blimey, it’s almost unrecognisable these days…

    It was a tidy little area in 1986. Not rich, but respectable. There was a butchers and a bakers, alas, no candlestick maker, but we did have an iron monger, a lady’s hairdressers, where my old gran always got her barnet seen to, a sweet shop and a working man’s cafe and across the road a nice little boozer. Really traditional, British stuff.

    Today, this same area is known locally as Somali land. They’ve got their own shops and cafes, there’s litter all over and gangs of these men (none of them seem to work) stand about all day chewing khat and gobbing the residue onto the pavements. An attractive and enriching addition to British life, I’m sure you’ll agree…

    The cafe, hairdressers, butchers and bakers have all gone. It’s as though they had never existed, nor the people who frequented these establishments. In a way this little area is a cultural microcosm of what’s happening across Blighty.
    The demise began in earnest in May 1997, but it’s been accelerating ever since.

    For me, the really baffling part is why our own establishment should deliberately seek to destroy the very country they are supposed to protect. I’m flummoxed.

    If you’ve got any answers…

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    • MarkyMark says:

      You have to burn the old World to the ground to build the new Utopia!

      …..

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gpl62dn26o
      A decade ago, a stimulative drug that sold for just a few pounds, was banned in the UK. Known as khat, it’s a plant that’s chewed, giving similar effects to amphetamine.

      Ten years on from the drugs reclassification, experts say it is still being sold in the UK, in places for ten times more than it cost in 2014.

      But there is little data to help understand the true impact of the ban.

      ……………

      Prince Charles praises jihadi pirates (in Somalia) for scaring off fishermen (real jobs and economic opportunity): “fantastic explosion for bigger and better fish” (environment wins, but people die) {jihadwatch.org 08oct2017}

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  9. Sluff says:

    “Nigel Farage given free copy of Daily Mail and failed to put it on his parliamentary list of donations’

    I just made that up.
    But can you see how it might have been a BBC headline.

    The ‘stop Reform’ imperative of the Uniparty and the MSM is already back in full swing. The ink for the Clacton result has barely dried yet already the BBC feature story is ‘Parliamentary investigation resumes into Farage hours after he wins Clacton by-election’.

    QED

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  10. MarkyMark says:

    It’s only a problem now …
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  11. pugnazious says:

    Nicky Campbell trolling Tommy Robinson back in 2013…note the main Islamic ‘authority’ is Nicky Campbell’s old mate Mo Ansar…the man who taught Campbell everything he knows about Islam…unfortunately he was an Islamist and a self-appointed spokesman, not a ‘community leader’ or ‘authority’ and was subsequently erased from the BBC’s phonebook…and Campbell had to admit he’d been fooled…after having spent so much time on the radio attacking criticism of Islam based on Ansar’s ‘teachings’.

    ‘Broadcasters made him the voice of British Islam, even though no electorate had voted for him, and no organisation had appointed him its spokesperson. Ansar was not an Islamic scholar. He had not published a book or led a movement. He was a planning manager at Lloyds-TSB in Winchester until 2006, and has had no visible means of support except appearance fees and state benefits for years.’

    Here Campbell declares Robinson is ‘trying to unfairly blame the religion of Islam for sex crimes’….hmmmm…not unfair at all…it’s in the Quran….Muslims can take non-Muslim sex slaves.

    Next year Campbell and the BBC had to drop Ansar from their call-list…along with just about every other media outlet….just a bit too Islamic it seemed…bu then that’s the reality of Islam…it’s ‘Islamic’ and it has rules….and oh yeah…it cannot be abrogated, it cannot be changed or ‘re-interpreted’…there can be no nice moderate ‘British Islam’…Islam is Islam….7th century Islam is Islam today.

    To keep gaslighting us about the meaning of Islam, that, lol, ‘religion of peace’, makes it impossible to deal with the problem…if you don’t admit the problem you won’t solve it.

    At present the Establishment answer is to suppress the reality in the knowledge that Islam will one day force itself upon the whole country and that to oppose this is to begin a civil war though some may rightly ask is it a civil war when it is a migrant population imposing a very alien ideology upon the natives?…the Establishment would rather slowly surrender the country than be the ones to take a hard decision and oppose that conquest.

    Maybe Britain needs a new ‘Nelson’…ala Nelson Mandela who took back his country….lol…the irony of that though as the BBC’s finest Mark Easton declared that Muslim extremists should be compared to Mandela…and indeed Ghandi and Churchill.

    ‘The BBC has been attacked for the “disgusting “ views of one of its most senior journalists after he compared hate preacher Anjem Choudary to Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi and Winston Churchill.

    Mark Easton, the corporation’s Home Editor, criticised Government plans to clamp down on fanatics and said extreme views were needed “to challenge very established values”.

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  12. MarkyMark says:

    Andy Burnham turns everyone in the UK far right overnight, as everyone suddenly believes in borders and national interest! HA HAH AH AHAH A

    “Andy Burnham is clueless. The main issue with illegal migration is not the uneven distribution of illegal migrants. This isn’t about affluent areas ‘doing their bit’. It’s about controlling the borders, says Tom Slater ”

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/08/12/andy-burnham-still-isnt-listening-on-illegal-migration/
    “Bussing migrants to more affluent areas is not going to quell the public’s anger.”

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  13. StewGreen says:

    8am BBC Radio Humberside news suppressed news of Farages election victory by making it a 10 second headline right in the middle of the bulletin
    “blah, now moving on”

    Radio Lincolnshire 9am news opened with a longer report which quickly took the narrative
    “Farage said the police told him not to attend the account, but the police say that’s not true”

    AFAIK he kept his own percentage and got the Tory percentage too
    Meanwhile the lefty alliance establishment Stop Farage candidate got 31%, meaning 69% of voters didn’t vote for Binface

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Do not trust people who cover their faces….3564106-1704038484.jpg?itok=Qf8bFNSx

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    • pugnazious says:

      Everyone, including the Telegraph which is as anti-Reform as the BBC, is focussing solely on the claim that the investigation into the moneys given to Farage will continue…though you might suspect the legitimacy of that investigation given that it was for Farage 1….he resigned his position…would that investigation have continued if he had not been re-elected? Now he is re-elected he is prima facie a ‘new’ MP, Farage 2, and thus can declare, should he need to, his past gifts or donations and that should be that no?

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  14. pugnazious says:

    Hmmmm…‘The grass fire in Stourbridge has “several points of origin, West Midlands Fire Service says. ‘

    So is that a wildfire or enemy action?

    The BBC did report that yesterday but made no comment upon what it could mean….except of course ‘climate change’ is to blame….basically for everything including the not so small boat invasion.

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  15. MarkyMark says:

    “Attention! Monsieur!” HA HA AH HAH AHAH AHAHA

    “Allah made me do it!” – “The motive is unclear”

    …..

    Siddique “Sadique” Masih, a 40-year-old Christian brick kiln worker, was brutally murdered in Pakistan on June 22, 2026, after a Muslim coworker objected to him drinking from a shared water cooler.

    ……………..

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  16. taffman says:

    The BBC and the rest of the ‘meeja’ are afraid of, and just don’t like Farage and Reform, as evinced by today’s reports .
    “They don’t like it up ’em!”.

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  17. friend of yogi bear says:

    NORMAN BAKER….A BLAST FROM THE PAST…..

    Ex Lib Dem, ex MP, ex Politician Norman Baker has declared Farages victory in Clacton ( with an increased majority) as a vote of no confidence in guess who…….Nigel Farage.

    A great headline….and let’s wish Norman well and that somebody can help him and soon.

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    • taffman says:

      When did the Lib Dems last win a GE and run the country ?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Public bill committees (Sittings attended)
      Serious Crime Bill Committee (5 out of 7)
      Immigration Bill Committee (9 out of 11)
      Local Transport Bill Committee (7 out of 10)
      Greater London Authority Bill Committee (5 out of 9)
      Crown Employment (Nationality) Bill Committee (2 out of 2)
      Animal Welfare Bill Committee (8 out of 8)
      Highways (Obstruction by Body Corporate) Bill Committee (1 out of 1)
      Energy Bill Committee (9 out of 14)
      Water Bill Committee (10 out of 11)
      Waste and Emissions Trading Bill Committee (7 out of 8)
      Proceeds of Crime Bill Committee (23 out of 39)
      Police Reform Bill Committee (11 out of 12)
      Hunting Bill Committee (4 out of 16)
      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10022/norman_baker/lewes

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  18. digg says:

    There is little doubt that the vile hordes trying to get Farage kicked out at best and terminated at worst are displaying the sickest kind of childish pack behaviour. They have scant regard for democracy and just want to wrest control at any price by their vicious tantrum behaviour.

    I include swathes of the usual National news media in this!

    Their “reporters” display a moronic degree of bias and intolerance to anyone who is not on their approved lefty list.

    Absolute vermin in my opinion!

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    • taffman says:

      Before the next GE, I think a lot of Tory MPs will ‘jump ship’ and join Reform UK ?
      But remember, just how many boats did the Tories stop when in power ?
      Remember “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”

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    • digg says:

      Perfect example, I bet they have had this written in readiness for days….

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5y40d11zewt

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      • taffman says:

        digg
        Perhaps its time for our ‘government’ to rid us of our archaic Television Tax?

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Note; Farage NOT in the photo! THE POWER OF OMISSION!

        UK democracy dies when no one turns up – or there are more candidates than voters with the major parties ignoring the contest.

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        • taffman says:

          They all look like a bunch of circus clowns and have ‘egg on their faces’
          A very childish attempt.
          0 out of 10 for effort !

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      • tomo says:

        Farage on the front page though….

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        The more they push……..

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        It’s got NO MOT and is SORNed !

        The slimy Press Association at it – as per usual… likely inserted into 100+ local rags

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  19. MarkyMark says:

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  20. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Denby Pottery, the 217-year-old Derbyshire ceramics manufacturer founded in 1809, officially ceased production and closed its manufacturing operations in June 2006 after entering administration. The closure was driven by soaring energy bills, escalating labor and employment expenses, and reduced demand, rather than high retail prices alone”

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2vljzw5ego

      ONCE LOST, SKILLS CANNOT BE RECREATED!

      “Centuries of making pottery at Denby may be coming to a close, but the love and soul poured into each piece will live on,” it said.

      HA HA HA HA!

      “International subsidiaries of Denby in Korea, the US and China are not in administration and will continue to operate as normal.”

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    • Flotsam says:

      Energy prices for industry in Britain are an incredibly serious problem. One which could lead to the destruction of our country but the problem is so far unaddressed.

      The interesting fact about a lot of chemical industries such as fertiliser is that they are actually converting input energy into chemical energy.

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      • tomo says:

        For decades (OK, let’s say 100 years) a primary measure of “modern civilisation” has been the reliability, reach and relatively low price of mains electricity. The fractional witted hair shirt eco nutcases have been groomed to cheer the blowing up of power stations and the roll out of eye wateringly expensive idiotically unreliable “renewables” – Ardays installed in utility companies … It surely has to be dragged back to sanity – doesn’t it?

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    • tomo says:

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      • taffman says:

        tomo
        Despite North Sea oil , gas and 300 years of coal .
        We also have unexplored parts of the Irish Sea and off the Falkland Islands.
        Amazing !
        IMHO, I don’t think we are being told the truth .

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  21. MarkyMark says:

    Adham Alkhatip

    Description
    Clacton Candidate
    Forward Leader
    Anti-corruption, Pro-worker
    Promoted by Adham Alkhatip, Suite G1D, Kingswood House, Richardshaw Lane, Leeds, LS28 6BN


    https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/person/139399/derrick-norbert-morris
    About Derrick Norbert Morris
    Favourite Biscuit
    Racial Harmony
    ……



    https://www.youtube.com/@adhamalkhatip/shorts

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  22. pugnazious says:

    Farage landslide surely given he didn’t just maintain his vote but added to it…I mean Starmer had a ‘landslide’ and yet he actually won fewer votes than Corbyn did in 2019.

    BBC et al bigging up Binface when we all know it is literally a joke…those voting for him will not do so in the election proper….in 2024 the Tories took 13,000 votes and Labour 7,500….the Binface vote was clearly a ‘never Farage’ vote by the usual suspects and so is entirely meaningless.

    Amused that pre-Farage’s resignation the great and the good were all chomping at the bit for a by-election when he was, obviously, found guilty by the inquiry….however when he resigned and declared he’d stand in such a by-election suddenly it was all a great farce and waste of time….and now? Oh yeah….can’t wait for the by-election when Farage is found guilty….that’ll be a great by-election. Suspect he’d still win it though so farce and waste of time anyone?…not to mention a political witch hunt and rigging the system to take down an opponent the System hates.

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    • Guest Who says:

      Precisely.

      Can we join #bbcverify now? Oh, hold on…

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    • harry142857 says:

      Didn’t take long Pug

      Probably rocked up to the office at 7.00 a.m.

      If it’s like mine its 10% full. All the parents work from home for seven weeks at present, yet aren’t online when you try and contract them.
      —————————————————————–

      Standards Commissioner Reopens Investigation Into Farage

      The Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Daniel Greenberg has reopened the probe into Nigel Farage’s donations after his victory in the Clacton by-election. The investigation was paused during the campaign, but the web page has been updated following Farage’s victory. Farage told GB News:

      “This is an overwhelming endorsement of me. I have had enough of being judged by mainstream media, being called a criminal. Do you know if I’ve made one sin? I haven’t filled in a piece of paper.

      “I’ve broken no law. I’ve broken no tax law. I’ve taken no public money. I don’t even own a motorhome. All right. And, you know, maybe I haven’t filled in a piece of paper. I’m confident I’m right. We’ll see where we go.”

      Party Chairman Lee Anderson said this morning there is not “much point” in a second by-election. MPs will be desperate to force it anyway…

      https://order-order.com/2026/08/14/standards-commissioner-reopens-investigation-into-farage/

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  23. Fedup2 says:

    World at one

    Thought I’d listen to the bbc propaganda after the bi election .

    The bbc put up Tim Montgomery – who sounds ‘tired and emotional ‘ or drunk at 1 pm in the afternoon ….. Montgomery seems to have forgotten that a couple of weeks ago a senior reform politician was murdered in what I think is a political assassination …..naturally druggie jonnie diamond didn’t refer to her killing …..
    Being unapproved- the evil bbc is glad she is dead – and they pray for Farage and trump to go the same way …..
    after listening to the bbc propaganda- I feel i need to wash my hands … it’s revolting …

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    • Fedup2 says:

      ‘ Netanyahu refers to UK as the Islamic republic of Britain – ‘good to see someone will be brave enough to say it …
      I don’t think the British state will allow that comment to get much coverage ….

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      • MarkyMark says:

        UK response from Andy Burnham is – “Allah Akbar” – as they say in Leeds Green Party Council meetings!

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    • Deborah says:

      Tim Montgomery sadly suffers from serious mental health issues (not just a bit of anxiety). Perhaps he has needed high doses of medication at the moment (who wouldn’t to appear on the BBC?). But I am sure that the BBC would like to have someone on World at One who doesn’t support BBC views who isn’t at the top of his game.

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  24. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      230 illegals on one SMALL (how small) boat will have new voters with new ideas on democracy – it’s just a laugh – enjoy the diversity and culture.

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    • Lucy Pevensey says:

      He’s just a has bin.

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  25. Richard Pinder says:

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    British Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, sells rubber boats, to French officials.

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  26. Flotsam says:

    Every now and again tidal barrage energy is brought up as an energy solution for net zero. Please everyone, forget it, it won’t work, the only two remotely viable schemes are the Bristol Channel and the River Mersey. Either scheme if implemented will result in large scale silting and reduction in energy output. The only result from the Bristol Channel scheme will be large scale land reclamation. In the meantime the Green fantasists keep harping on about these barrage pipe dreams but like most Green ideas they are nonsense.

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    • tomo says:

      The Dutch and Belgian dredging companies would *love* either a Severn or a Mersey project – decades of ££££££££…..

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  27. Richard Pinder says:

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    King Charles III, angry with Jews calling Britain a “Republic”, after Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, calls the UK the “Islamic Republic of Britain”. King Charles III, is dressed as a member of the Islamic Orders of Sheikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, King Abdulaziz Al Saud and Mubarak the Great, and declares that there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is His messenger.

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  28. MarkyMark says:

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  29. Fedup2 says:

    One train crash comes along .. then another .., time for another cobra bodybags ?

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  30. Lucy Pevensey says:

    Farage wins again but all I can find in the mainstream press is negative spin.

    BBC-
    Farage faces renewed watchdog probe after Clacton by-election victory.

    BBC-
    Parliamentary investigation resumes into Farage hours after he wins Clacton by-election

    oooo parlimentary investigation AND a watchdog probe. That’s the real news from The Swamp Broadcaster.

    Sky News-
    Clacton by-election: Nigel Farage wins as Count Binface makes gains.

    I would have said.
    Farage reestablishes his democratic validity by winning the same election twice. Established parties left with rubbish.

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  31. MarkyMark says:

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  32. MarkyMark says:

    Ban dinghies to save women’s lives?
    Ban Mosques to stop extremists views?
    Ban hijabs to end Islamic persecution of women?
    Ban uber eats bikes running through cities?
    Ban bribes from Lord Alli?
    Nope…. ban ….

    “Temporary ban on sale of disposable BBQs over wildfire risk”https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0jlyqdj6geo

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  33. MarkyMark says:

    The Last Queen of Ireland.
    Daniel Boland
    167k subscribers

    ……….
    Dr. Ebun Joseph
    Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

    About
    Race relations consultant, Antiracism Specialist, Career Consultant & Life Coach.

    Biography
    Dr Ebun Joseph is a leading Inclusion and race relations consultant, and the founder and CEO of the Institute of Antiracism and Black Studies (IABS). She serves as Ireland’s Special Rapporteur on Racial Equality and Racism and is the module coordinator and lecturer for Black Studies at University College Dublin (UCD)—a pioneering course she established in 2018 as Ireland’s first.
    https://www.ria.ie/committee-members/dr-ebun-joseph/
    ………………

    How do we start to decolonize science? @0:10

    “Through the black magic, witchcraft you are able to send a lightning bolt to strike someone, Can you explain that scientifically … ” @0:50 – one of the speakers
    “It’s not true” – audience member
    “I need to address you directly (audience member who says witchcraft does not work). When we started this we agreed on certain house rules. By you doing that (arguing) you are disrespecting that sacredness of this space. I would like you please first to apologise …” – another speaker

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  34. MarkyMark says:

    “U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar won Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District Democratic primary by a commanding margin Tuesday, securing the party’s nomination for a fifth term in the Minneapolis-based seat. With more than 95% of ballots counted, Omar had over 80% of the vote, according to CBS News.

    Fund honest, independent Muslim journalism: http://support.islamchannel.tv

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    Comments “Great 👍 Peaceful world 🌎”

    Comment “Absolute domination, the fascists and capitalists hate to see it.”

    ** Note that no whites allowed to hold positions of power in Islamic countries? This needs to be fixed ASAP.

    “In Iran, printing, owning, importing, or distributing Bibles in the official language of Farsi is strictly prohibited by the government. Despite these severe legal restrictions and the absence of official channels, underground Christian networks and international groups actively work to supply Persian-language scriptures to one of the world’s fastest-growing Christian communities”

    “Owning a single personal-use Bible in Saudi Arabia is generally tolerated for private reading or foreign visitors, but importing multiple copies, public proselytizing, or conducting public non-Muslim worship is strictly illegal. ”

    ………..

    Immigration
    In Congress, I am committed to doing all I can to help the over 11 million undocumented immigrations living in the United States come out of the shadows and get access to rights and privileges they deserve. Just as importantly, we cannot continue to ignore the plight of migrants and refugees, which is why I’m pushing for a return to our historical role as a leader in refugee resettlement and reform of our existing policies abroad that are causing people to flee their homes for a safer future. Learn about news and information related to Immigration.
    https://omar.house.gov/issues

    Buy an American flag from her website… https://omar.house.gov/services/flags

    Know your rights in Somalian…
    https://omar.house.gov/know-your-rights/soomaali

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  35. JohnC says:

    Farage faces renewed watchdog probe after Clacton by-election victory
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62x1gr62m1o

    Just look at the main BBC headline. It’s all a disgraceful left-wing/liberal establishment attempt to destroy reform just like they destroyed the Tories. Why would they announce the reopening within hours unless it was just so the BBC could write headlines like this ?.

    But the meat of the BBC bias is the fascist Left-wing protest they planned to shut down his victory speech.

    This is what the BBC tell us:
    ‘Farage did not show up at the count, telling supporters Essex Police had warned him of an “organised campaign to disrupt and degrade the result”.
    ‘The BBC has been told Essex Police did not advise any candidate that they should not attend the count.’

    That’s it. The clear inference Farage is lying.

    This is the truth from AI which reads everything. You just have to work at it so it does bother to go check it.

    ‘Over 50 people in black clothes and Union Jack face masks gathered outside Clacton Town Hall. It happened just minutes before Nigel Farage was declared the by-election winner.’

    ‘Reports from GB News reveal the stunt was an art demonstration orchestrated by an anonymous artist known as “Mr Phantom”‘

    ‘The distance between Clacton Town Hall and the Clacton Leisure Centre count is 0.7 miles.’

    ‘The count was originally scheduled for the Town Hall, but officials moved it to the Leisure Centre weeks before the election to handle the massive media presence.’

    This is ‘Mr Phantom’:
    ‘Yes, Mr Phantom functions as a political activist, though he defines himself as a “conceptual street artist”‘

    ‘ His official profiles on platforms like Artsy describe his work as a “politically charged practice” that prioritises “activism over ego”. His past street installations, like Blind Nationalism and Follow The Leader, directly mock political tribalism and national identity.’

    ‘While he claims he isn’t aligned with any specific political party, his methods—using large, masked groups to hijack a major political event—are exactly how modern activist groups operate.’

    ‘Mr Phantom deployed over 50 people dressed in identical tactical gear to target the by-election. They wore all-black clothing, sunglasses, and Union Jack face masks, gathering in a silent, military-style formation directly outside Clacton Town Hall’

    ‘The theory is heavily backed by the fact that Essex Police formally contacted Nigel Farage the day before the count to warn him about an “organised campaign” to “disrupt the result”. While the police later stated the flash mob itself caused no physical incidents, the timing of their warning perfectly aligned with the arrival of Mr Phantom’s masked group.’

    Of course the BBC don’t tell us that bit. They only tell us they didn’t order him to stay away.

    ‘Exactly. When you are handed a police warning about an organised group, you treat it as a security threat. No political leader or their security team looks at a warning about a coordinated group and thinks, “Let’s assume it’s just harmless street art.” Deciding to stay away in that scenario is a standard security protocol’

    ‘Farage’s View: A group of 50 to 60 masked, black-clad people arriving at a political venue is an intimidation tactic. Since the police warned him about an organized disruption campaign, staying away was the only logical choice to ensure safety’

    ‘Even though the police technically said “we aren’t ordering you to stay away”, they still handed his team the intelligence that a masked flash mob was active in the area. Under those conditions, any security detail would advise their client to bypass the stage.’

    And if I can work all that out, I’m sure the BBC could if they wanted to. But they don’t want to. The ignore these left-wing fascists trying to subvert democracy and use 2 sentences to infer Farage is a liar.

    I don’t have the words to describe my disgust at the gross BBC double standard.

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  36. Richard Pinder says:

    Tucker Carlson interviews Elizabeth Lane about the British lead NATO-linked propaganda operation against America.

    The ‘Integrity Initiative’ is a left-wing propaganda project run by the Institute of Statecraft, 2 Temple Place, London. Funded by the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office.

    The ‘Integrity Initiative’ team members include Stephen Dalziel, who worked from 1988 to 2004 as the BBC’s Russian Affairs analyst. Chris Hernon, formerly a team manager at BBC monitoring, is responsible for social media propaganda, and Carrie Gracie, a BBC journalist, is named as a collaborator.

    Foreign & Commonwealth Office staff listed as members of the ‘Integrity Initiative’ include Joanna Szostek, a specialist in post-Soviet media and politics, with a past job as a BBC monitoring journalist. Joanna Szostek is a British Ukrainian, as is the head of MI6, Blaise Metreweli.

    The ‘Integrity Initiative’ Cluster member at the BBC is Jonathan Marcus.

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  37. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Now that the greens and binface have joined the liblabcon alliance against Reform it should be liblabcongreenbin in future.
    I’m sure there’s a joke about green bins somewhere.

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  38. MarkyMark says:

    “Bernie
    @Artemisfornow

    ‼️Fascinating…. Tony Blair’s son Nicky went from teacher, to football agent, to defence tech entrepreneur.

    He is now Executive Chairman and co-founder of Skyral, 1 of 5 companies in the consortium just awarded a £2 BILLION, 15 year contract by the UK Ministry of Defence.

    Skyral is very erm… “interesting”.

    Because as well as modelling defence strategy for the military, Skyral builds digital versions of complex systems and environments, combining real world data, infrastructure and human behaviour modelling, to show governments what might happen under different scenarios and interventions.

    And this is the good bit…

    Skyral told Parliament its digital twins can include “massive scale human behaviour modelling” er …. incorporating patterns of life and sentiment, and predicting how human actions may respond to changes in their ‘environment’.

    It says, plans and alternatives can be run thousands of times in a virtual world to see what works, assess risks and make adjustments before DEPLOYMENT in the real world.

    Don’t you feel better? It seems governments can now model our naughty behaviour much more efficiently using AI

    Quite the career trajectory.”

    …..

    https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/article/explainer/nudge-unit
    Why ‘nudge’?
    It is called ‘nudge’ after the book by Richard Thaler (who went on to win the Nobel prize in economics) and Cass Sunstein which set out how people are not the rational economic actors beloved of conventional economic theory – but can be influenced by “choice architecture” into making better choices in their own interests.

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  39. MarkyMark says:

    Edwina Currie to be the first to help the migrants in the UK’s first Migrant Brothel house filled with Ex-MPs!

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  40. MarkyMark says:

    Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Building Safety, Fire and Democracy)

    HA HA HA HAAH A!
    Democracy attached to fire and building safety! HA HAA HAH HAHA HA!
    https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/parliamentary-under-secretary-of-state–289

    Responsibilities
    Building safety, regulations, Building Safety Regulator and remediation 
    Net Zero and energy efficiency 
    Grenfell Inquiry response 
    Grenfell Community, Tower and Memorial 
    Fire policy and operations 
    Resilience, recovery, and emergencies 
    Elections policy  
    Planning casework 
    …………………..
    Burnham Leaves Heatwave Britain Without Fire Minister for a Month
    https://order-order.com/2026/08/14/burnham-leaves-heatwave-britain-without-fire-minister-for-a-month/

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  41. taffman says:

    Andy , “LISTEN” !
    The UK does not want illegals in our land !

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Manchester is widely cited by researchers and media outlets as arguably the most linguistically diverse city in western Europe. Studies by linguistic projects at the University of Manchester have revealed that up to 200 languages are spoken across the city.”

      “According to the UK 2021 Census, Manchester’s population is 551,938. The ethnic breakdown is 56.8% White (48.7% White British), 20.9% Asian British, 12% Black British, 5.2% Mixed, and 5.1% from other ethnic groups, making it a very diverse city.”

      ….

      Top 10 UK Cities by Knife Crime Rate (2024)
      Rank

      City
      Police Force Area
      Knife Crime Rate (per 100,000)
      Total of Selected Serious Offences Involving a Knife

      1
      London
      Metropolitan Police
      188
      16,847

      2
      Birmingham
      West Midlands Police
      156
      6,409

      3
      Middlesbrough
      Cleveland Police
      149
      875

      4
      Manchester
      Greater Manchester Police
      117
      3,452

      5
      Sheffield
      South Yorkshire Police
      105
      1,481

      6
      Leeds
      West Yorkshire Police
      97
      2,319

      https://www.eufy.com/uk/blogs/security-camera/city-with-most-stabbings-uk

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    • Pete says:

      The invasion should be so easy to sort, sink the boats , let the French pick them up.
      Problem solved.
      If the French don’t like it, no problem, a proper government with any courage could deal with that.
      We are fighting for the survival of our country any way, so we might as well up the ante

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      • taffman says:

        Pete
        We do not have such a government with the courage to do that . Next time vote for Reform.
        Alas! The French have become our enemy once more .
        The EU is punishing Great Britain for opting out of the failed union .

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  42. tomo says:

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  43. pugnazious says:

    What is it with female Tories?

    May forever branded the Tories the ‘Nasty Party’ and Edwina Currie single handedly did a Ratners on our egg industry….and now, she says jokingly, suggests the small villages targeted to be re-populated with hundreds of fighting age males should have brothels provided for their entertainment.

    Perhaps a new career path for Currie rather than the media circus she currently haunts. If nothing else it might well be the one biggest single deterrent for the invaders….they must have sex with Currie to get their citizenship.

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  44. taffman says:

    “Where does this unorthodox by-election victory leave Nigel Farage?”…..
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgvjnyz8k7o
    The next Prime Minister .

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    • pugnazious says:

      Pieces like this are part of the problem with the BBC now….comment and interpretation rather than just producing straight news and leaving to us to judge what to make of things…but the BBC feels it needs to filter everything for us…and in doing so colours it with their own opinions and beliefs.

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  45. Lucy Pevensey says:

    Edwina Curry, I don’t like the woman but I don’t think she meant it SHOULD be done. I think she was being sarcastic. Highlighting the absurdity of housing an army with nothing to do in a small village.

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    • pugnazious says:

      She claims it was ‘tongue-in-cheek’ but she said it entirely straight with no instant qualification…and as a veteran politician with a track record she should know better than to provide the media with what she must know would be instant headlines…don’t say highly provocative things that everyone will remember and hate you, and possibly your party, for.
      Badenoch will be despairing right now.
      ‘The obvious thing that 1,200 young men are going to need in the middle of a village like little Piddington is a brothel – I don’t think they’re going to provide that.’

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  48. Lucy Pevensey says:

    Recognise the pattern

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