358 Responses to Midweek 26th August 2026

  1. taffman says:

    My turn first?
    “Stop the boats and crush the gangs”, Mr Burnham!

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    • Scroblene says:

      Taff, you’re absolutely right – see the fantastic report here: –

      I’ll never go to Calais again – mainly because I haven’t got a passport any more – there’s no need, most of them are over here anyway…

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    • Pete says:

      Mr Burnham clearly out of his depth , oh lets pop over to Ukraine in my little jumper and give loads of free stuff away and pretend we can do anything about there borders,,whilst our own borders are being invaded every day .

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    • taffman says:

      Have you stopped the boats yet Mr Burnham ? Are you listening to the people?
      Reform have promised that they will ….
      https://reformparty.uk/news/under-operation-fortress-not-one-illegal-immigrant-will-make-it-to-britain

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    • Mrs Kitty says:

      @Taff 9.30 pm To my way of thinking I prefer crush or blow up the boats and stop the gangs. Yes it will lead to deaths but the gangs don’t worry about that so why should I? I consider it collateral damage after about 6-700 the gangs will be hard pressed to get anyone in the boats.

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    • taffman says:

      Furthermore, deport all foreign criminals, mentally ill or otherwise. This includes the ones the government is hiding from us.
      Why is our government letting them in?
      British lives are at stake .
      MPs who are responsible are culpable and should be held to account.
      Change the government and vote for Reform before its too late .

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  2. wwfc says:

    😂😂😂😂😂😂

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  3. Scroblene says:

    Ye Gods…

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  4. tomo says:

    One wonders if a few quid went to Labour funds?

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  5. tomo says:

    hell, yeah

    popcorn and champagne if true

    Not True – more’s the pity…

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  6. AsISeeIt says:

    Free, compulsory edition

    Virtual online-only (left-leaning) cuckoo-in-the-nest of the otherwise print press line-up – as presented to us by the BBC news page, the Independent ‘newspaper’, is getting Burnham’s house building excuses in early…

    Let me guess… blame Brexit?

    Exclusive Post-Brexit construction skills crisis could shatter Labour’s council house dream (Indy)

    I hear editor-in-chief Geordie Greig stubbed his toe on his brass bedstead at his home in Notting Hill yesterday – and blamed Brexit.

    Ah, Notting Hill… sometimes these segueways will tend to write themselves…

    Richard Curtis… The romcom king made Britain fall in love with its own decline (i paper)

    One has to admit to friends hereabouts, it’s getting progressively harder to parody the papers.

    Truly, Madly, Deeply… feminist !

    The poundshop junior Guardian, with 10% pre-Iran war inflation (£1.10 cover price) is the go-to for achingly feminist commentary: Juliet Stevenson I’ve always hated marriage. I only did it for tax reasons (i paper)

    Could this be a subtle luvvie-edorsed counter-strike against this evil and unconscionable Reform notion: Couples with children should be married, Reform UK’s deputy leader says. Richard Tice also said ‘British-born children’ are a ‘good thing’ and should be encouraged (Indy) – and we can’t be having that…

    In highly controversial remarks, Richard Tice said it would be “surely preferable” for children to have married parents (Indy)

    Another sad tale of two young black men struggling to make their mark at a British varsity…

    Man guilty of killing student after fake Rolex row… Dennis, who was a first-year business management student at the University of Leicester, told jurors he had been talking to Oladipo – who was in his third year at De Montfort University – about money and “doing fraud”. Harper Dennis, 19, plunged a knife five times into the chest of Khaleed Oladipo, 20, near De Montfort University in Leicester… Harper Dennis was told he would be sentenced on Tuesday… not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter (BBC)

    Sometimes these segueways…

    Our old mate Matt in the Telegraph has a gag about the genuine article – Rolex, I mean. A properly dressed London copper in shirt, tie and old-style helmet – like you only ever see in the cartoons these days – stands beside a newspaper hoarding which warns of ‘Tax Rises’: “A word of advice. If you don’t want to lose it, take off your Rolex before walking past the Treasury”

    Nanny state gets strict with the kids

    Free, compulsory – presumably non-controversial remarks

    Leith: Ban lunch boxes to tackle obesity… Dame Prue Leith… lunch boxes should be banned because parents’ habit of packing them with unhealthy food… she would like to see free, compulsory school meals for every child (Telegraph)

    To paraphrase George Orwell’s famous quote from his dystopian novel 1984

    “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a giant spoon lumping free food into a child’s mouth – forever.”

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  7. harry142857 says:

    Police in Birmingham forced to investigate ‘family voting’ at elections and intimidation of officials.

    No, they won’t.

    Same force that made up excuses to ban Tel Aviv fans because of moslem threats last year.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “The Gorton and Denton Allegations: Following a high-profile by-election in February 2026, political commentators and opposition leaders raised alarms about high levels of “family voting” impacting female voters in Muslim communities. However, a formal investigation by the Greater Manchester Police concluded there was no evidence of illegal coercion or voter fraud”

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  8. pugnazious says:

    AS the coroner’s investigation into Jason Arday’s death starts today the BBC continues its campaign against Nathan Cofnas implying that he is a racist and, as he began the racist feeding frenzy, is the cause of Arday’s death suggests the BBC.

    Trouble is he was not the first person to ask questions about Arday…not only did Arday’s colleagues have issues with him [and it was an insider at Cambridge who asked Cofnas to look at the plagiarism claims] but a Dr Dave Harris was the actual first person to raise this and he did so with Cambridge and journals that had published Arday’s work….then there was journalist Jack Grove…Arday set the police onto both these people and the Times spiked a story on him when Arday had high powered lawyers send them threatening letters. No mention at all about this on the BBC’s flagship news programme Today.

    So no, Cofnas did not, as the BBC claimed, start this affair off…it is an absolute lie that the investigations into Arday were started because of race. The BBC is once again spreading toxic disinformation designed deliberately to make this out to be a ‘lynching’.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Pug – I bet labour put in an ‘approved ‘ coroner – presumably coloured – who will follow instructions to turn the inquest into a public inquiry … when the function should be – ‘did he top himself or not ?
      In a sane world this case should act as a deterrent to those on the DEI bandwagon using some ‘white guilt ‘ crap to further their own interest / bank account …,

      … but it’s an insane world so unvetted foreigners will continue to get jobs for which they are unqualified and the subsequent suffering covered up by other DEIs …

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      • Fedup2 says:

        BBC news reports a fire in a maternity unit in Pakistan… can’t think why ….

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        • MarkyMark says:

          “Pakistan blasphemy: Student sentenced to death over Whatsapp messages”
          Published | 8 March 2024
          https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68511557
          The court in Punjab Province said he had shared blasphemous pictures and videos with the intention to outrage the religious feelings of Muslims.

          In August dozens of homes and churches were torched in eastern Pakistan after two Christians were accused of damaging the Quran

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Plagiarism aside, how does the Beeb quantify the endless marathons run in a week or the millions he was purported to have raised ?
      (Personally the manic look in his eyes said it all for me)

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    • non-licence payer says:

      Like mid Staffs hospitals and countless other issues, nothing can get in the way of the state narrative. Nathan Cofnas will be the fall guy.

      As an aside with the mid Staffs saga upto 1200 may have died prematurely and if I remember correctly the only person to lose their job was the whistleblower.

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  9. atlas_shrugged says:

    Burham’s gov considering sanctions against Israel for building houses in the West Bank for Israeli settlers.

    Sees absolutely no problem building social housing for Illegal Invaders to the UK.

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  10. atlas_shrugged says:

    Dolly’s death from cancer was two big losses to mankind.

    None of the MSM seems to mention that she was a big pusher for the covid gene therapy.

    No connection naturally.

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  11. MarkyMark says:

    “Iranian state TV broadcasts video targeting Barron Trump with $10m bounty”
    https://www.euronews.com/2026/08/24/iranian-state-tv-broadcasts-video-targeting-barron-trump-with-10m-bounty

    Jeremy Corbyn was paid by an Iranian state TV station that was complicit in the forced confession of a tortured journalist
    https://www.businessinsider.com/jeremy-corbyn-paid-iran-press-tv-tortured-journalist-2016-6

    ‘You weren’t free’: Iranians party in London and Manchester after strikes against regime
    This article is more than 5 months old
    The diaspora hope the death of Ali Khamenei will bring change – and peace – even as fears remain over Iran’s future
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/01/you-werent-free-iranians-party-in-london-and-manchester-after-strikes-against-regime

    Salman Rushdie: Iranian state media renew fatwa on Satanic Verses author with $600,000 bounty {independent 21feb2016}
    “The announcement coincides with the anniversary of the fatwa issued in 1989”
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/salman-rushdie-iranian-state-media-renew-fatwa-on-satanic-verses-author-with-600000-bounty-a6887141.html

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  12. Fedup2 says:

    Today

    Excellent news – the energy cap thing is going up again as usual . The ‘energy Secretary ‘ was on – she didn’t mention ‘breakfast clubs until 30 seconds in ….

    You couid hear that she’d been to the labour school of public speaking – hitting the right lines about ‘£2 bus fares ‘ and we are ‘uniquely exposed to the gas market ‘ – which wasn’t challenged by her mate amol .

    This character yapped and yapped and was allowed to just get away with it …crippling standing charges – ‘we re looking at it across the piece ‘ whatever that means ….

    You could hear that amol couldn’t give a damn about energy prices – he can claim them through his company ….

    On and on the ‘energy Secretary ‘ went – yap yap yap – nothing about North Sea oil yet alone fracking . … reducing standing charges ? Nope not gonna happen …

    The bbc got a couple of muppets called Roger / Gavin and Stacy who unusually work – both having trouble paying … I wanted to here from someone on benefits who is on a nice ‘social tarif ‘who I pay for …. But no …

    A DEI energy minister and disciple of mad ed – that’s all we need

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Excellent news

      The IPPR – a Marxist think tank – recommends to bodybags introducing national insurance on pensioners – anyone above £12500 – but don’t worry ‘it’s only 2% ‘ ….( but then rising every year until it hits income tax levels…..

      Will labour rule it out ? Or do the usual ‘ we will examine the idea ‘ …. ? The Dis incentive to work or save grows stronger every day ….

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      • Fedup2 says:

        The above news – increasing energy costs and taxing pensions – should be remembered the next time some uniparty politician says ‘we are the 6th richest country ‘ – when trying to defend sending tax money to bongo bongo land to buy new BMW s – i include Ukraine in the bongo bongo land definition …

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      • harry142857 says:

        Wasn’t VAT a temporary tax on” luxury goods” in the early seventies ?

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        • Fedup2 says:

          They’ll do the usual thing – ‘the tax is only 2% ‘ year two – more money for ‘our NHS’ tax going up 3% 5% 8 % _____ the uni-party will do it – and when a Reform government sees the books they’ll keep it too .

          There is no tax cutting party …

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    • non-licence payer says:

      Fedup, I never listen to the today programme. It is 100% state/bBC narrative. In fact I never listen to the bBC, with the exception of test match special. Unfortunately the DEI squad have managed to reduce my listening there from all day to a couple of minutes.

      Botham would never get his leg over these days!

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  13. Sluff says:

    I must be missing something.

    Dolly Parton has died. A larger than life character and a great showbiz personality. Nothing negative to say about her.

    But why on earth is the BBC treating her death as if the Queen had died? Headline news for the first 15 minutes. Can you name say 10 of her songs?
    Priorities, BBC. Priorities.

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    • BRISSLES says:

      Actually it makes a change to have extensive reporting of the death of someone Ive actually heard of and grown up with ! So many times Ive thought … who ?

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    • digg says:

      Sluff, my guess is that the BBC are maybe more interested in reaching out and aligning with the many legions of Dolly fans rather than any deep interest in Dolly herself…..

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  14. Fedup2 says:

    Bread Circuses …

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  15. Scroblene says:

    Sussex…

    My folks moved here in the 1940s
    Dad worked here for ages
    So did my uncles
    I was born there
    Lived there for ages
    Went to school there
    Played rugby, cricket and hockey there
    Learned to drink beer there
    Spent several weeks in various hospitals there
    Met my wife there
    Got married there
    Had our wedding reception there (The Mermaid, Rye)
    Raised our children there
    Worked for many years there

    And all this without the need to have a fake duke and duchess hanging around!

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  16. MarkyMark says:

    Send more aid?

    “At least 14 newborn babies killed after fire breaks out in Pakistan hospital”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cwnvne65863zt

    ………… Meanwhile in the uK…..

    More than 500 mothers and babies suffered potentially avoidable harm or died due to failings at a “toxic” hospital trust, a landmark maternity review has found.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1kyw24elv7o

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  17. MarkyMark says:

    “The Plastics Industry must be stopped.” – Angelle Bradford

    Plastic Activist BLINDSIDED After Markwayne Mullin Calls Out Her Glasses

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  18. Jeff says:

    So, there I was at the allotment yesterday afternoon. Lovely and sunny, bit of breeze. I didn’t feel like over doing it, so settled in my deckchair in the shade of an ancient apple tree, had a cup of coffee and a cheese sarnie… and in an unthinking moment I tuned into Radio 4 to catch the afternoon play. Honestly, I should know better…

    It started off well enough. A young lad from Lancashire who’s a prodigiously good cricket player. Soon he’s made his debut for England and on his maiden test he makes a ton. Brilliant…then we’re introduced to his girlfriend.

    I can’t remember her name, but we’ll call her Greta. Christ, she’s a pain in the arse. She’s studying climate science at uni’ and pretty soon she has our carefree cricketer watching films about droughts and starvation, mass extinctions and the burning planet.

    Within weeks he’s as worried as she is. He can’t concentrate. His form slips. While he’s fielding in Australia and being sledged by boozy Aussies all he can think about is that these blokes will all be dead, “due to the climate catastrophe” in only a decade.

    These aren’t plays in the original meaning of the word; they’re thinly veiled propaganda pieces with a story propping them up.

    He gets dropped by England; his girlfriend walks out and he starts seeing a psychiatrist…but the shrink is as fretful about the impending climate holocaust as he is. “There’s nothing irrational about your fears” she tells our hero. “The planet is in serious trouble”.

    And on that cheerful note…I went back to my weeding…

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Greta says don’t worry, Africa will keep the human race going.
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    • tomo says:

      Jeff

      28gate set the pattern for the BBC – *every* orifice was carefully set up to drip climate propaganda and that feed has been in place for 20 years

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      BBC 28gate refers to a 2006 internal BBC seminar and the subsequent multi-year effort to keep the attendees’ identities secret.

      Eco activism no matter how utterly ignorant or deranged gets top billing in every department at the BBC – just like The Guardian

      The BBC has spent hundreds of thousands of pounds over six years trying to keep secret an extraordinary ‘eco’ conference which has shaped its coverage of global warming,

      The seminar was run by a body set up by the BBC’s own environment analyst Roger Harrabin and funded via a £67,000 grant from the then Labour government, which hoped to see its ‘line’ on climate change and other Third World issues promoted in BBC reporting.

      Tony Newbery, 69, from North Wales, asked for further disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. The BBC’s resistance to revealing anything about its funding and the names of those present led to a protracted struggle in the Information Tribunal. The BBC has admitted it has spent more than £20,000 on barristers’ fees. However, the full cost of their legal battle is understood to be much higher.

      In a written statement opposing disclosure in 2012, former BBC news chief and current director of BBC radio Helen Boaden, who attended the event, admitted: ‘In my view, the seminar had an impact on a broad range of BBC output.

      If the BBC had handed the job of running the religious affairs coverage and department to Jehovah’s Witnesses it might be comparable… ( giving it to Rev. Ian Paisley might’ve been more entertaining)

      The BBC web s(h)ite topic ribbon has a *primary category* still headed “Climate”

      Harrabin’s Marxist climate runs through the BBC like a town name through a stick of seaside rock candy.

      Remember folks, propaganda matters…. https://twitter.com/JamieAA_Again/status/2091805145524809737

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “funded via a £67,000 grant from the then Labour government”

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        • tomo says:

          yes …. ecosocialism (or ecological Marxism) is a recognised thing.

          Proponents of ecosocialism argue that Marxism offers tools to diagnose environmental problems (I’d add real *or* imaginary)

          Then there’s the f’ing Fabians….

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      • Richard Pinder says:

        A complaint on behalf of the Space Special Interest group of Mensa, about a Climate Change documentary made by the BBC found out that the seminar comprised of 58 attendees, of whom half where BBC Management staff, and the other half where mostly Environmental activists. It turned out that only two climate scientists where present, and these two were only qualified in measuring the temperature. Not a single causational or attributional climate scientist was present. Not a single atmospheric physicist or solar scientist was present at that seminar.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Jeff – well done with the weeding – it really does remind me of the methods used by the nazis to indoctrinate the population into their policies – inject ‘the message ‘ into everything – brainwash the kids as early as possible – demonise
      Dissenters …..
      I feel really sorry for young British kids now because the far left / Muslims have complete control …with the help of the state RICU and other propaganda agencies – such as the BBC ….

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    • Scroblene says:

      Jeff, it could have been worse, you might have had to deal with Mares tail…

      It’s like socialism, it takes ages to take root, gets too far in to dig out, and you’ll never get rid of it!

      The only way to control it is to, ‘Never let it see a Sunday’, which sounds about right…

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  19. MarkyMark says:

    “How Therapy Became a Left-Wing Weapon”

    “A Reddit user described how UK officers contacted four members of a private WhatsApp chat for ‘edgy jokes’ uncovered in an unrelated probe, citing Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003. This law targets messages deemed grossly offensive by objective societal standards, even in private groups using the internet, with courts ruling the offense occurs upon sending regardless of recipients’ views. Recent cases, like convictions of police officers for racist messages, show enforcement applies to consensual exchanges, fueling debate over free speech limits in private talks.”

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  20. Flotsam says:

    PBS America regularly run a program series titled ‘The Truth About Franco’, obviously about the Great Dictator. There’s input from an obviously leftie historian, a scouser called Paul Preston who wrote a biography about the Dictator. I noticed how he compared Franco to Hitler to Trump. He’ll be on the BBC soon.

    Incidentally I believe Franco was one of the most horrible men that ever lived, worse even than Hitler. I’ve often commented on other fora (forums?) that I believe Spain is still a Fascist country although many argue against that claim. The Guardia Civil, the Spanish Police still bear the Fasces, the Fascist emblem on their badges.

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    • tomo says:

      Franco set Moroccan mercenaries to terrorising the Iberian population in the Spanish Civil War… Even the Nazis disliked him….

      Spain’s antics in NW Africa in the first half of the 20th Century were pretty awful.

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  21. MarkyMark says:

    UK NHS – no air con.
    Pakistan – has air con!

    “The fire broke out in an air-conditioning unit in PIMS hospital, and was quickly ignited by oxygen connections, a spokesperson tells BBC Urdu”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cwnvne65863zt

    ……….

    UK aid to Pakistan had scaled up dramatically, from £87 million in 2007-08 to a planned £446 million in 2014-15. DFID had not delivered programmes on this scale in Pakistan before. This challenge is magnified by the difficulties of working in insecure provinces, weaknesses in budgetary processes and public financial management systems and recent constitutional reform devolving federal power to the four provinces, which is leading to uncertainty.
    https://icai.independent.gov.uk/review/icai-report-department-international-developments-bilateral-aid-pakistan/review/

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  22. tomo says:

    The Dianne Abbott school of ecosocialism…

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  23. tomo says:

    CO2 levels in Glasgow?

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    • tomo says:

      Glasgow Council to whiteys hogging council rentals – please leave …

      I wonder what Rab Nesbitt would make of it?

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “Glasgow is widely recognized as a welcoming “sanctuary city” for refugees and asylum seekers, but the city is currently facing a severe housing crisis and financial strain from supporting them.”

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  26. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    Have you noticed it’s becoming increasingly common for newsreaders and presenters to break down and start crying or being unable to talk through emotion every time some celebrity dies or the news is about some person being badly treated.

    Do they think they come over as ‘showing their human side’ and are therefore really good people.
    I like Martin Daubney on GBN but he seems to break up at the drop of a hat.

    Is the news now so terrible or was it sanitised 10 – 20 years ago.
    I can’t remember any of the old news presenters such as Dermot Murnaghan, Richard Baker, Kate Adie or Moira Stuart crying when sad news was read out.

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  27. tomo says:

    Anyone care to speculate where this is headed?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Allah Akbar, Palestine will be free” as the councillors in leads say!

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    • moggiemoo says:

      “Anyone care to speculate where this is headed?” My guess is reduced bin size and increased fly-tipping.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        We need bigger bins so we can live in them?! HA HA HAHA HAH!

        See Birmingham for the future…..
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      • tomo says:

        Moggiemoo – reward yourself with a receptacle containing your preferred virtual beverage!

        Municipal musical chairs repurposed

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  28. Up2snuff says:

    TOADY Watch #1 – Incredible!

    Amol Rajan was co-presenting TOADY with a female, Anna Foster? I thought and hoped he was gone from the BBC. Amol’s voice grates on my ears!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Amol Rajan is still presenting select media projects because he only stepped down from BBC Radio 4’s Today programme and did not leave the BBC entirely.

      New Business Venture: He left the early morning Today show to launch his own company in the digital creator economy, but explicitly stated he was not leaving the BBC as a whole.


      FAKE NEWS “Amol Rajan to leave Radio 4’s Today programme”
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgqenv21ne1o
      The BBC’s editorial rules would likely have prevented Rajan from staying on as the presenter of a news programme while also launching his own company.

      On Thursday, Rajan said: “The pips have sounded, and it’s time to get my coat.”
      ** FAKE NEWS AS HE STILL IS FETCHING HIS COAT.

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  29. MarkyMark says:

    “Andy Burnham shares his plans to build more affordable homes”

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    • Up2snuff says:

      MM, Burnham appears to be tearing up that video clip. Does the PM realise he might need to make space for those new houses, by tearing down a lot more houses!

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  30. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      is article is more than 8 years old
      Manchester Arena bomber was rescued from Libya by Royal Navy
      This article is more than 8 years old
      Salman Abedi, who killed 22 people in a suicide attack last year, was saved from civil war in 2014

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    • taffman says:

      tomo
      Great Britain has become Europe’s dustbin.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “Nevertheless, a world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area does sometimes make me wonder whether this earth of ours is not a loony bin made use of by some other planet.

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  31. Fedup2 says:

    Yes taffman

    And if we had ‘formally ‘ stayed in the reichEU it would have been Far worse ….legalised invasion again …

    And the benefits theft would have been far worse too ..

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  32. Fedup2 says:

    It looks likes the blob has decided vermin driving badly to get internet attention is going to be the big thing – complete with new legislation to censor the internet ….

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  33. MarkyMark says:

    “Prince Harry and Meghan land in UK”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czrzm6p6zxeo

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    Prince Harry has previously said that worries about safety have prevented him from coming to the UK and bringing his wife and children.

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    …………

    Meghan Markle’s luxury “Her Best Life” retreat in Sydney failed to sell out its 300 available spots during her and Prince Harry’s April 2026 visit to Australia.Details of the Event and TurnoutThe Event: Held at the InterContinental Sydney Coogee Beach, the luxury women’s weekend retreat featured a fireside chat with the Duchess of Sussex.Ticket Costs: Prices ranged from around $2,699 for a shared room up to $3,199 for VIP access.

    Observers and attendees noted backlash over the steep pricing during a local cost-of-living and fuel crisis, alongside criticism when Meghan made only a brief appearance before attending a rugby match with Prince Harry

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  34. tomo says:

    Practical demos by real California politicians?

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    • tomo says:

      R An-deh could repurpose for UK?

      I’m confident that this crew of academics could come up with a doll or several?

      Distribute to migrant hotels?

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      • MarkyMark says:

        I feel you can walk around a building site and get the same experience with modern art installations!

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  35. MarkyMark says:

    “Enjoy the beautiful Peak District on a Ramadan walk with the Muslim Hikers” | National Trust

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTgBZVesdWV5o1YGUEZgeTJWGr6xDNeS-_QNV2rJ3WmvOVvBcO8dKxyIaQ&s=10

    WE WANT INCLUSION – BY ADDING A SIGN WHERE NON-MUSLIMS ARE ARRESTED! HA HAH AH A H! UK (Christian) Tolerant, Saudi (Islam) Intolerant.

    HA HA HAH AH AHAH A HA HA!

    Comment “I thought filming religious-themed stuff wasn’t allowed on your properties? Hypocrisy? No hypocrisy here! Absolutely mental that you discriminate against the religion that has been our national religion for almost 2000 years!

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    • vlad says:

      All part of the inexorable islamisation, takeover and eventual conquest of our country. To be followed by forced conversion, dhimmitude… or DEATH.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Mosques to be opened up for drinks and day care and bible sessions?

        “Windsor Castle hosted its historic first-ever open Iftar event in March 2025, welcoming over 350 guests to break their Ramadan fast in St George’s Hall”

        “Saudi Arabia allows tourists and foreign residents to bring exactly one Bible into the country, provided it is strictly for personal, private use.”

        “In Iran, possessing, reading, or distributing a Bible—especially in Farsi or among Christian converts—is treated as a severe security offense and used by courts as primary evidence to prosecute individuals for “propaganda against the state””

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    • Doublethinker says:

      There a growing pollution problem in our national parks. You can be out for it of fresh air when you stumble across it. A lot of it isn’t illegal fly tipping but government induced pollution. Doesn’t one in power care about our country?

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  36. Up2snuff says:

    TWaTO Watch # 1 – The Montacutie is back from her hols ….

    No more Jonny ‘Dalek’ Dymond presenting TWatO in Sarah’s absence. Woo hooo!

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  37. Richard Pinder says:

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    Burnham says that eating white people is illegal, unless it’s fresh foetal tissue, foetal organs, and body parts for Kabab meat.

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  38. Up2snuff says:

    BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – The BBC are still obsessed by wimmin although a male is featured if you read further down the accompanying article

    Warning: no Getty Images: I cite as evidence: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05q318501yo

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  39. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Experts say the pattern points to a repeatable model of money laundering linked to crime that is operating openly on UK high streets faster than regulators can respond”

      ^^ Rachel Reeves say this positive proof of UK success!

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  40. MarkyMark says:

    “From 1st October, tax on factory-made cigarettes will jump from £353.50 to £394.09 per 1,000, an 11.48% increase, or RPI+8.22% (once HMRC’s own assumption is stripped out). Hand-rolling tobacco is due an even bigger hike, rising from £503.80 to £574.30 per kilo, up 13.99%, or RPI+10.73%.”

    https://order-order.com/2026/08/26/imminent-tobacco-tax-hike-will-batter-legitimate-local-shops/

    Manchester authorities are actively shutting down illegal vape shops and seizing massive quantities of illicit goods through targeted enforcement campaigns. Over £1 million worth of illegal vapes, cigarettes, and counterfeit products has been seized within the last 12 months under Operation Elswick, a joint initiative by the Greater Manchester Police (GMP) and Manchester City Council’s Trading Standards.

    …..

    £1m worth of vapes and cigarettes seized in Manchester crackdown on illicit trade
    https://www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater-manchester/news/news/2026/august/1m-worth-of-vapes-and-cigarettes-seized-in-manchester-crackdown-on-illicit-trade/
    Over the last 12 months, the partnership has seized more than £1 million worth of illegal goods, including at least:

    £275,000 of illegal cigarettes – many hidden behind sophisticated hydraulic false walls, ceilings and floors
    £162,000 of illegal vapes
    £160,000 of shisha
    £97,000 of hand‑rolling tobacco
    £211,000 of other counterfeit goods
    £126,000 seized directly by Greater Manchester Police

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  41. MarkyMark says:

    “80 per cent of North African asylum seekers in Switzerland face crime accusations”

    Comment “The other 20% just haven’t been caught”
    Comment “Switzerland doesn’t hide the numbers like almost all other European countries”

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  42. MarkyMark says:

    “It did make more women feel secure, because in the face of potential sexual violence. It always makes us feel good that the Government is sending a sternly worded pamphlet.” – Esther Krakue

    ** I think she was being sarcastic but I can no longer tell.

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  43. MarkyMark says:

    “Meta agrees to pay up to $18bn to settle claims its platforms harm children”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy5v0vrlp4xt

    “Meta has accumulated over $80 billion in operating losses through its Reality Labs division since late 2020 while pursuing its metaverse vision”

    “Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook restricting a story about Joe Biden’s son during the 2020 election was based on FBI misinformation warnings.
    The New York Post alleged leaked emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop showed the then vice-president was helping his son’s business dealings in Ukraine. Facebook and Twitter restricted sharing of the article, before reversing course amid allegations of censorship. Zuckerberg said that getting the decision wrong “sucks”.”

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  44. MarkyMark says:

    Home Office to issue leaflets to all Lords and 650 MPs to stop them weeing in the streets! HA AH AAH AH HA!

    TELEMMGLPICT000449132310_17635480333780_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqoztRNdDZ_Xf0zEDngJpr7_xldIMI_Aa3q72_an6MGFw.jpeg?impolicy=OG-Standard

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  45. MarkyMark says:

    “Prime Minister Andy Burnham does a tannoy announcement at the big Sainsbury’s”

    …………

    Lord David Sainsbury is one of the Labour Party’s largest individual financial backers, and he was the biggest donor to Andy Burnham’s recent campaign to lead the Labour Party.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg3j131327yo

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Read his entry on Wikipedia to get a wider perspective on his involvement with the Labour Party and other ‘questionable’ activities. Scroll down to the section marked ‘Political career’.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sainsbury,_Baron_Sainsbury_of_Turville

      The biggest investor in the family business (Sainsbury supermarket) is the Qatar Investment Authority, owned by the Qatari government. Not sure how they reconcile that with Sainsburys promotion of ‘Pride’, given that homosexuality is illegal in Qatar.

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  46. tomo says:

    Top Dolly quip that I hadn’t seen before:

    “People would ask me how long it took to do my hair, and I’d tell them: ‘I don’t know, I’m never there.’”

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    • wwfc says:

      Never forgive never forget what they did …..

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      • atlas_shrugged says:

        I was having a tussle with Claude AI this morning:
        1) First it told me Dolly Parton was not dead
        2) Then it said that covid mRNA was not a gene therapy but a vaccine
        3) Then it could not produce a list of notable scientists that said it was a gene therapy
        4) Then I got it to start a list of scientists by naming them and their experience. At every name it argued like hell. For example it said the ex-pfizer toxicologist who gave evidence at the Bundestag was invited by the far-right AfD. Eventually conceding that Sterz could be added to the list. I had to repeat argue with Claude each time citing each scientist qualifications.
        5) I noticed that as the list should have grown each time Claude would drop an earlier name off the list.
        6) Then Claude refused to name any more notable persons who and died and also promoted the vaxxxx apart from Dolly Parton.

        Ye gods it was like trying to tell my Missus that Mike Yeadon was a good lad only for her to counter-claim that I had left the top off the toothpaste tube five years ago.

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  47. Fedup2 says:

    The 5pm bbc news spent the first 17 minutes on a case in the US where democrats are trying to control meta . Meta has paid a settlement of 17 billion dollars – which is a win ….

    The Marxist bbc presenter suggested a ‘code of practice’ for social media – which really aimed at controlling the arch enemy X … the real bbc / Marxist target …

    Btw – re meta – the real decider of who won is the share price – which the Marxists didn’t mention – so I checked – it is up 1% today ….heres to freedom

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  48. pugnazious says:

    This is what happens when you don’t shoot unarmed men in cars….

    ‘Two police officers among seven killed in wrong-way car crash’

    I imagine if the youths killed in their car had been black this would be a whole different story and interpretation of events.

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  49. pugnazious says:
    @emily_peach__

    Not all Men but it’s Enough Men!! You just have to make the box a safe place to reach into. What a great message by @Georgie Jones #maltesers #notallmen #women #poetrycommunity #deepthoughts

    ♬ original sound – 𝓔𝓶𝓲𝓵𝔂 𝓟𝓮𝓪𝓬𝓱

    Remarkable the hypocrisy that goes unnoticed at the BBC when it suits.

    A feminist poet on Woman’s Hour talking about men abusing women and she’s furious that people say ‘but it’s not all men’….not that she thinks all men are abusers but one, this line is turning men into the victims and diverting attention from the real victims…women….two, men must actively stop other men abusing women…somehow.

    This was all accepted as perfectly normal and fair…but of course if you were to apply this to the Muslim community after a terrorist act you’d soon be shouted down…not all Muslims are like this!!!!!…in fact the Muslim terrorists probably aren’t even Muslim we’d be told. One big difference is of course that much of the terrorism and indeed misogyny, slavery, anti-Semitism and general hate to non-Muslims is in the instruction manual…the Koran…it’s institutional….it’s in the mosques, in the Muslim institutions, around the dinner table….it’s in the community…they may not agree with violence but they are quite prepared to leverage the fear that results for their community’s advantage….they want the same end result as those who use violence.

    Hypocrisy number two is that the BBC is more than ready to criticise the numbers of tourists flocking to various locations and upsetting the locals…this can, the BBC understands, put a strain on local resources and ‘change the feel of a place’.

    Why is that not the same approach the BBC takes to mass immigration and invasion of people who definitely don’t bring money and jobs to an economy and cause enormous chaos and upset to the locals?

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      1. Could Mars Inc., the makers of Maltesers, have some sort of legal case against this wimmin? Reputational damage, that sort of thing?
      2. She might have noticed that some of the ‘Maltesers’ seem to be dipped in a slightly darker coloured chocolate in recent years. This might give some clues as to which ones are to be avoided.
      3. Why is she picking on people from Malta anyway? They are very friendly, especially towards Britons.

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  50. Doublethinker says:

    I was shopping in the nearest M&S food hall this morning and glanced at the newspaper stand . I was astonished to see many of the papers had banner headlines about the Russian threat to attack the UK.
    Obviously the ‘story’ is that after Burnham’s empty gesture on Storm Shadow blue prints the Russians are hopping mad and going to attack us in retaliation.
    The truth is more likely to be that the UK Globalist establishment are engineering a hit job on Reform and incidentally on the RN in France and AfD in Germany , all of which are equivocal in their support for Ukraine . Even the Mail , Telegraph and Express are saying that Burnham has done the right thing and that Russian aggression must be opposed, Munich, appeasement etc were all invoked.I expect that the BBC et al have followed suit.
    I expect that the idea is that if some sort of incident can be staged that can be attributed to Russian action then Russophobia will be stoked up and the spotlight turned on any political party which hasn’t supported Ukraine or perceived to have been soft on Putin in the hope that it dents Reform’s chances.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I think the incident has been staged. – a plane landed in Birmingham and an unwanted family got off …

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      • tomo says:

        Best way to deal with that is DGAF / ignore – rated lower than Charles III getting the palace guard band to play Dolly Parton tunes.

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    • tomo says:

      Newspaper war porn – totally orchestrated shit…

      US meeting with Russians – Alexander Bortnikov, Sergey Naryshkin and Igor Kostyukov likely met with Ratcliff and aides

      Oh, to be a fly on the wall…

      I wonder if the C17 detoured to Ankara (with transponder turned off ) before returning to USA?

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    • Ian Rushlow says:

      Russia is not a natural enemy of Britain. They are not neighbours. We do not have any territorial disputes with them. They are not an economic competitor. Their main motivation is to be able to defend themselves and ensure they are not attacked and invaded, having previously fallen foul of the Mongrels, the Swedes, the Lithuanians, the Poles, the French. Oh, and the Germans, who killed nearly 30 million of them not so long ago. That’s not to say they won’t behave belligerently towards us: if you poke a bear long enough it will eventually come and shit in your part of the woods.

      Our main problem is that the Foreign Office and Establishment won’t accept that the Charge of the Light Brigade was in 1854, and that The Great Game ended more than a century ago.

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