358 Responses to Midweek 26th August 2026

  1. Fedup2 says:

    BBC in full natural disaster mode –

    The usual ritual – unknown cause – therefore blame green crap – why wasn’t it stopped ? What’s happened to the British tourists ? How much uk taxpayers ‘ cash being given ? Why is response so slow -? Will it happen again ? Ditto above – repeat for the next one …
    Meanwhile ONS Stats say 1 million yoof are unemployed – best not bother with that .., it’s boring … right BBC ?

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    • tomo says:

      The BBC web site is getting as unreadable as Radio 4 is getting unlistenable.

      Shame there’s no unstable glacial lake near Portland Place

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    • Up2snuff says:

      Fed, I’m currently reading the ‘The politically incorrect guide to Climate Change’ by Marc Moreno …. maybe you should get a copy, too.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Up2 – I have just finished my first full read of the Old Testament …gulp … might give reading a rest for a while …

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  2. Fedup2 says:

    Head of British Gas says there’s no / little reserves for the coming winter … and too dependent on foreign imports – but dont worrry – bodybags will come to the rescue …

    I just don’t get how basic needs are not governed properly ….

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    • tomo says:

      So fracking in Lancashire then

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    • MarkyMark says:

      A broken country can be bought by China for 1 dorrah!

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      • tomo says:

        see: Venezuela?

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        • MarkyMark says:

          “Yes, during the peak of Venezuela’s severe economic and food crisis (primarily between 2016 and 2018), multiple incidents occurred where hungry citizens and thieves stole and butchered zoo animals for meat. While it was not a government-sanctioned policy, chronic food shortages and widespread malnutrition drove desperate individuals to target local zoos.”

          “Jeremy Corbyn congratulates Nicolas Maduro”

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  3. tomo says:

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    https://x.com/DearRebelAda/status/2092620040445018275

    Worth a scan of the replies

    Trying to bring in selective blasphemy laws too – screeching for tolerance until the pottier ROP crazies / adherents sense that they’ve the upper hand.

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  4. Fedup2 says:

    Michael Howard writing in the telegraph about BBC Bias

    STARTS Most of the criticisms of the bias of the BBC tend to focus on examples of explicit bias, actual or perceived, on issues of party politics on the news programmes such as Today or Newsnight.

    Less attention is given to other programmes which, more insidiously, seek to influence the attitude of viewers or listeners on issues which may not seem to be, and are sometimes not, directly related to party politics – but nevertheless form part of people’s general opinions which, in turn, feed into their politics.

    One example is a recent series of programmes on BBC Radio Four devoted to the proposition that it is morally wrong to want to bequeath any money to your children.

    Another, which is what prompted this article, is a current series, also on Radio Four, about falling crime. This programme, presented by Mark Easton, sets out to prove that the fall in crime which has been happening over the last 30 years has nothing to do with the increase in the prison population or the number of police officers.

    It proclaims its dedication to honesty yet includes misrepresentations of me and other politicians to which we have been given no opportunity to respond.

    Here is what actually happened. The fall in crime, according to the British Crime Survey, began in 1995 though the recorded crime figures had begun to show a fall slightly earlier. I was home secretary at the time.

    When I was appointed by John Major, who is also criticised in the programme, I was told by Home Office officials that crime, which had been rising for the previous 50 years, was bound to continue to rise and that there was nothing I could do about it.

    My job, they said, was to manage public expectations in the light of this inevitable increase. I didn’t take this advice. Instead I put in place a number of measures which I hoped would reverse this trend. But I wasn’t confident I could do it.

    In my first debate in the House of Commons as home secretary, I was asked by Tony Blair, then my shadow, whether I would accept as the indicator of my success, whether crime would rise or fall. To my regret I dodged the question but, when I left office in 1997, nearly a million fewer crimes were committed annually than when that debate took place in 1993.

    What were the measures I put in place? First, I introduced a widespread use of CCTV cameras, which had led to a fall in crime in Northumbria where they had been introduced by John Stevens, its chief constable and later commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.

    This had the effect both of deterring criminals from committing crimes knowing they would be caught on camera, and making it easier to apprehend those who were not deterred.

    Then I established the first national DNA database in the world, building on, but going further than, the recommendations of a recent report from a Royal Commission. This made it easier for the police to track down those responsible for the most serious crimes, including murder and rape.

    I also changed the so-called right of silence, not abolishing it but making it possible for the silence of an accused in response to questioning to be referred to at any subsequent trial and taken into account in the verdict of the jury.

    Previously a burglar could, for example, claim at his trial that the house he had entered was, he thought, the house of his brother in law and no one was allowed to ask him why he hadn’t said so at the time. As many police officers told me, this change significantly increased the number of criminals who pleaded guilty rather than contesting their trial.

    And, of course, I made a 1993 speech in which I said “prison works”. By this I meant that if serious, prolific and persistent criminals were in prison the public would be protected from them – a proposition that is impossible to refute.

    And, far from releasing prisoners early, I was able to end the humiliating practice of slopping out, which had been a blot on our prison system for so long and which continued in Scotland for some time thereafter.

    It is sadly true that imprisonment is not the key to rehabilitation, a defect it shares with other sentences, but that key has proved frustratingly elusive despite the well-meaning efforts of so many to find it.

    The changes I made were vehemently opposed by the civil liberties lobby, which was given extensive media coverage by Mark Easton and his colleagues. Could this have something to do with their resolute refusal, even today, to admit that these changes might, just possibly, have something to do with the fall in crime?

    None of them, apart from the rise in imprisonment, have been so far mentioned by Mr Easton in his programmes. Yet they have all remained in place for more than 30 years regardless of the political party of my successors in that office.

    Had I been given the opportunity to reply to Mr Easton’s criticisms, I would have been able to mention these reforms. And the failure to offer me that opportunity is surely a breach of the BBC’s own guidelines.

    Is there any wonder that so many people have lost faith in the BBC’s ability to provide balanced coverage of the issues which are of such concern to the public?ENDS

    Obviously Lord Howard is deluded about le dos of crime – ie – whether people bother reporting it any more – but it will be good to hear a response from the likes of comrade Easton ….

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  5. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Around 41% of London’s population (about 3.7 million residents) was born outside the United Kingdom, according to the 2021 Census”

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  6. tomo says:

    We have to remove these fuckwits

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    • MarkyMark says:

      She did this by going on holiday to France – she must weep and repent daily.

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      • tomo says:

        She got dumped by the voters of Leicester and actually writes for The Morning Star… but still a star in the socialist firmament.

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        • MarkyMark says:

          Trade Unionist| Socialist| Feminist| Pan-African

          2.7K liked!

          “Claudia Webbe
          @ClaudiaWebbe
          Previously Independent UK Member of Parliament (MP) Leicester East 2019-2024| Patron @STWuk| Trade Unionist| Socialist| Feminist| Pan-African
          Leicester, England
          linktr.ee/claudiawebbe
          Joined June 2009
          11.1k
          Following
          122.2k
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    • tomo says:

      In 1941, the collapse of a glacier in Peru caused the Palcacocha lagoon to overflow. The flood, which carried blocks of ice and large rocks, reached Huaraz in 15 minutes, where it caused the death of more than 5,000 people.

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  7. MarkyMark says:

    “The report also called for research into why a significant number of perpetrators of child grooming are of “Pakistani and/or Muslim heritage”.[4] A Home Office report published in December 2020 concluded that existing evidence did not prove a link between ethnicity and grooming gangs.”
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_child_sex_abuse_ring

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  8. MarkyMark says:

    John Healy did such a bad job he now works at Sainsbury’s – ha hah ah

    “There was a girl in Rotherham. Twelve when the first man raped her. Fourteen when social services pulled her from school and called it “consensual.” She was doused in petrol and told to burn if she talked.

    She was one of 1,400.

    Between 1997 and 2013, while the Alexis Jay Report later confirmed industrial-scale child sexual exploitation in Rotherham Metropolitan Borough, John Healey sat in Parliament representing that same borough. Twenty-nine years. Three constituencies. Same streets. Same schools. Same suffering.”
    https://x.com/InTheTrenchesUK/status/2092548726535356438

    …………………..

    In 2015, three Rotherham Labour MPs, Kevin Barron, Sarah Champion and Healey, started a defamation legal action against UKIP MEP Jane Collins after Collins falsely alleged in a UKIP conference speech that the three MPs knew about child exploitation in Rotherham but did not intervene. In February 2017, the MPs were awarded £54,000 each in damages.[19]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Healey

    three MPs knew about child exploitation in Rotherham but did not intervene. In February 2017, the MPs were awarded £54,000 each in damages

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  9. tomo says:

    People across the UK can now sign up for Government phone alerts by SMS or email when local pollution levels are forecast to be high.

    PRasNews https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/26500110.government-launches-new-opt-in-phone-alert-service-across-uk/

    Chris Whitty , Angela Eagle and The Press Association still dancing on the coffin of Ella Adoo-Kissy-Debrah

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “SMS or email when local pollution levels are forecast to be high.” AND DO WHAT?

      The “Nudge Unit,” officially named the Behavioural Insights Team, is a UK-born global organization that uses psychology and behavioral economics to improve public policy. Created in 2010 inside No. 10 Downing Street, it designs subtle, low-cost changes—like reminder texts for taxes—to help people make better choices without force.

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      • tomo says:

        Jobs for the bureaucrats and fat consultancy fees all round – there’s a menagerie of contractors to DEFRA – who themselves are too monumentally dim + incompetent to build it themselves – they seriously couldn’t run a bath.

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      • moggiemoo says:

        Stay inside. Wear a mask. Don’t breathe.

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      • Nelson60 says:

        “It could be particularly useful for people with asthma and other respiratory or cardiovascular conditions, who can be more vulnerable to the effects of polluted air.”

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        • MarkyMark says:

          The main issue is that it never highlights who the target audience is and leaves a blank statement implying everyone will benefit – ”SMS/email warning for vulnerable people in the area” ** if you sign up you get free benefits an free air purifier from the uk gov (i made that bit up).


          “The median average age of death involving COVID-19 in the UK is 83 years old for persons, with a mean average age of approximately 80.3 years.”

          “I am speaking about indoor air pollution, the deadly pollution that comes from the burning of wood, coal, paraffin, dung and candles inside the shacks and houses of poor people in the townships, squatter camps and rural areas.”

          “The most shocking images of the relative dangers of energy came from Dr Philip Lloyd, a senior colleague in energy research. Shortly after the 9/11 disaster in New York in 2001, he composed a slide for a talk he was going to give on risks in the energy sector. The slide was entitled “Two paraffin accidents”. One image showed one of the Twin Towers with fire erupting out of the building near the top, after a plane had crashed into it. The other showed a cheap paraffin stove knocked over and on fire. An arrow pointed to the stove, and a caption read, “This kills more each year”. Jet fuel is paraffin.”

          https://irr.org.za/media/our-deadliest-air-pollution-is-ignored-farming-portal

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    • tomo says:

      The progressive academics (in cahoots with socialists) will torpedo any attempt to bring in trade schools – it was bad enough decades ago with requirements to sit through several hours weekly of lame sociology twaddle for science + engineering undergraduates.

      The tail is wagging the dog

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  10. MarkyMark says:

    The UK has now been turned into a basket case, industry running at net zero with prisoners released early and other prisoners allowed to roam free among the population as long as they don’t tread on the green squares. 230 people from France visit on a small boat to occupy the provided barracks to keep the population quiet and to ensure that all uber deliveries are on time and certified halal.

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  11. tomo says:

    Truly grim numbers building up….

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      • tomo says:

        Off topic a bit… – If there’s a single, comprehensively documented lingering effect from the coronavirus pandemic it’s that public health bureaucrats very simply cannot be trusted – I’m not OK with that.

        For the absence of doubt I’m not 100% anti vaccines – but the route to some spectacular successes is littered with plenty of failures that are rarely acknowledged.

        RFK Jnr has made this claim repeatedly – clinical trials often have low reproducibility (45% is often acknowledged) Commercial pressures have all too often led to very dangerous substances entering clinical deployment. The actual bar is quite high – but unscrupulous actors regularly seek to circumvent for $$$$$$$.

        Vaccines have risks – immunology is largely driven by genetic confounding factors with complicated, not immediately apparent consequences – ignore those and at best you’re a fool….

        RFK is obviously careful about what he claims (lawyer not a MD) – but there is a large body of evidence that demonstrates that experimental vaccines have to be deployed and monitored extremely carefully and there have been some simply awful outcomes in some testing. Vaccines aren’t simple and don’t materialise fully formed with a magical *pop* – mRNA drugs are not vaccines.

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  12. tomo says:

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    French people in the replies don’t seem happy…

    https://x.com/KahnRachel1/status/2092647919052521757

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  13. tomo says:

    BBC haram reporting – NGO twerps handing out pepper spray to migrants.

    Seems likely https://www.nonamekitchen.org/ are the perps – a Canadian and a German volunteer already arrested – but not for arming migrants.

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    • Nelson60 says:

      Fake news. There is no evidence of NGO’s handing out pepper spray to migrants.

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      • tomo says:

        Not actually “news” – is it? – it’s a claim by apparently a Ceuta resident with a mobile phone.

        wtf are NGOs doing there anyway ? An orchestrated / contrived mobbing of an essentially unprotected town – and the hi-viz tabbarded white saviours rock up… just too f’ing convenient – the whole episode absolutely stinks to high heaven.

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  14. MarkyMark says:

    “Sadiq Khan has a housing policy. It is called “London Affordable Rent.” It offers 65% discounts on luxury flats. Priority 1: asylum seekers in hotels. Priority 99: British taxpayers who fund it.

    Read that again. Sixty-five percent discount. On luxury developments. For migrants in hotels. While British veterans freeze on streets. While working-class Londoners wait decades for council housing. While the city chokes on unaffordability, Sadiq Khan subsidizes luxury for those who crossed the Channel yesterday.

    The Newham Council document lays it bare. “Those in hotels” get first dibs. The same hotels you pay for. The same migrants housed at taxpayer expense. Now they get luxury flats at 65% off while you pay market rates or sleep in your car.

    This is not affordable housing. This is replacement housing. This is the systematic transfer of resources from Britons to migrants, from citizens to foreigners, from the working-class to the welfare-class. Khan calls it progressive. The rest of London calls it suicide.

    Sadiq Khan is not the Mayor of London. He is the travel agent for illegal immigration. The concierge for Channel crossings. The estate agent for the world’s welfare seekers. He will find you a hotel. Then a luxury flat. Then citizenship. While Londoners born and bred cannot find a room.

    The 65% discount is paid by you. The luxury flat is given to them. The queue is jumped by those who broke the law to get here. And Sadiq Khan smiles for the cameras, the diversity poster boy, the man who turned London into a travel lodge for the Third World.

    Khan does not need re-election to continue this. He needs removal to stop it. The luxury flats must go to British families. The hotels must empty. The borders must close. And Khan must go. If not before the next election, then at it. But he will be removed.”

    https://x.com/InTheTrenchesUK/status/2092930318105755868

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  15. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Chi Onwurah 💙 | @ChiOnwurah
      Labour Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West.
      Newcastle
      chionwurahmp.com
      Joined October 2009
      1,250
      Following
      45.1k
      Followers”

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Chi Onwurah
      Shadow Minister (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)
      Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West

      https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24807/chi_onwurah/newcastle_upon_tyne_central_and_west/register

      Committee memberships held in the past
      Chair, Science, Innovation and Technology Committee (11 Sep 2024 to 11 May 2020)
      Member, Data Protection and Digital Information (No. 2) Bill Committee ( 3 May 2023 to 23 May 2023)
      Member, Powers of Attorney Bill Committee (22 Feb 2023 to 1 Mar 2023)
      Member, Professional Qualifications Bill [HL] Committee (12 Jan 2022 to 18 Jan 2022)
      Member, Science, Innovation and Technology Committee ( 2 Mar 2020 to 11 Sep 2024)
      Member, Business, Innovation and Skills Committee (12 Jul 2010 to 2 Nov 2010)

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  16. tomo says:

    John Cleese lifts the curtain on Ms. Margolyes

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  17. MarkyMark says:

    Dawn Butler ✊🏾💙 | @DawnButlerBrent
    “Bank Holiday plans sorted ☀️
    Notting Hill Carnival turns 60, Wembley Park is throwing a street party, you can try your hand at traditional crafts at Two Temple Place.
    So much to do for FREE in London this weekend!”
    https://x.com/DawnButlerBrent/status/2092960024658092435

    to do for FREE
    to do for FREE
    to do for FREE
    to do for FREE
    …………
    Notting Hill Carnival costs 2023
    Opportunity costs*
    *costed differently to previous years – Constable/Sergeant hours not included in opportunity costs for Bank holiday this year £3,856,198.53
    Overtime £5,501,110.27
    Internal Fleet £28,299.00
    External fleet hire £474,288
    Catering £545,517.56
    Hotels £208,706.57
    Infrastructure (includes areas such as barriers, Hostile Vehicle Mitigation, Safer Spaces support, IT and other spends £1,140,175.56
    £11,754,295.49

    https://www.met.police.uk/foi-ai/metropolitan-police/disclosure-2023/november-2023/cost-policing-notting-hill-carnival-2023/
    ……
    Many Notting Hill residents board up their homes and leave London during the August bank holiday weekend to escape the massive crowds and disruption of the Notting Hill Carnival
    ……
    A female police officer was sexually assaulted from behind by two men using the cover of a dense crowd during the Notting Hill Carnival on August 29, 2022
    ……
    Man filmed grinding on police officer at Notting Hill carnival
    ……
    “When the Met Police tweeted today that ‘in the run up to Notting Hill Carnival’ they had seized a kilo of uncut heroin in Catford, South East London it left me a bit bewildered.

    Heroin. Catford. South East London. Celebration of culture. Notting Hill Carnival. West London. Searching for relevance…? Nope. Haven’t found it.”
    – Funmi Olutoye | Christian, Londoner-via-Lagos, UK Garage & Funky House head, in-the-closet veggie, love politics way too much.

    Londoner-via-Lagos???????
    ….
    Toilets £5 https://i.redd.it/zs86hpy96ukd1.jpeg

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    • Scroblene says:

      Presumably the bBC will have the Glasto-babies out in full force, reporting on the ‘diversity’, the ‘food’, the ‘colour’ and all that rubbish.

      The line where about seven dozen people get stabbed will be left off the hundreds of reports.

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  18. MarkyMark says:

    Highest rated comment “Meanwhile: number of asylum seekers in council and private rented accomadation doubles in a year!”

    “Number of asylum seekers in hotels halves in a year”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3relr4xx27o#comments
    Dominic Casciani
    Home and Legal Correspondent |Published | 27 August 2026, 12:16 BST

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  19. Althepalerp says:

    MSM are silent of why Harry & Megan returned to the UK.

    No BBC Verify on this one.

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    • tomo says:

      I hope that the spare + missus have the sense to just keep a seriously low profile – the dying MSM will fight like rats in a sack to fill columns and drive clicks.

      I doubt they’ll be as reduced in circumstances as Uncle Andrew.

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    • digg says:

      Two of the worlds most twatish twats, could not give a damn….

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      • Scroblene says:

        Like all of us about them, Digg…

        I assume that when Bapman has to face Kemibaby in the HoC soon, it’ll take one’s mind off two more unwelcome re-immigrants.

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  20. tomo says:

    QUANGO declares not enough is being given to migrants.

    The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) watchdog said ministers weren't doing enough to prevent asylum seekers falling into poverty.

    £18 million / 186 staff

    The EHRC is funded by grant-in-aid from its sponsor department, the Cabinet Office. The Equality Act 2006 requires the Secretary of State to provide sufficient funding for its statutory functions.

    Bonfire required

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  21. tomo says:

    Biden…

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  22. Fedup2 says:

    Here is the first half of a piece about BbC funding

    STARTS The BBC is “screwed” unless its licence fee funding model is replaced, Amol Rajan has said.

    The outgoing Today programme presenter said the broadcaster’s finances were “much worse than people realise” because of a steep decline in licence fee revenue.

    Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director general, has outlined plans to slash 550 roles and close programmes as part of a broader cost-cutting drive that could lead to around 2,000 people – or 10pc of the workforce – losing their jobs.

    However, Mr Rajan warned it was not possible to “cut your way to growth” and urged Andy Burnham to “stop dithering” over the corporation’s future and announce a new funding arrangement.

    Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, the presenter warned the most recent round of job cuts were “just the beginning” and said that there was “worse to come”.

    He said: “The [BBC’s] finances are much worse than people realise. What we need is political leadership, and this country has new political leadership, and I happen to know they’re listening.

    “I have a message for them: make a decision. Stop dithering. This could not be more urgent and this could be a great legacy for you.”

    Mr Rajan, who will step down from the Today programme next week to launch his own media venture, criticised the licence fee funding model and backed the idea of turning the BBC into a mutual similar to employee-owned businesses like John Lewis or the Co-op.

    He said: “Under the mutual model, it actually would belong to all of us.”

    Lisa Nandy, the Culture Secretary, is leading a review of the BBC’s funding ahead of its Charter renewal. She has previously said she supports mutualisation to help promote “genuine public representation and participation”.

    In a sobering assessment of the BBC’s future, Mr Rajan warned that the taxpayer-funded broadcaster was standing over a “vast chasm called the internet” and faced a looming emergency as its licence fee income continued to decline.

    The corporation’s latest annual report showed that last more than half a million people stopped paying the fee, which rose to £180 in April.ENDS

    Trying to think what a socialist BBC funding would look like – ‘free ‘ to benefits scroungers – double the cost to higher rate tax payers – linked to national insurance number – a pin to log into any service … TV radio or internet …

    Frankly I don’t care because I can live without the entire BBC output … I’d miss ‘bells on Sunday ‘ but I’d drink some other blend instead …

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    2026 …Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Freddos and the Cost of Living

    Jeremy Corbyn playfully suggested investigating the rising cost of Cadbury Freddo chocolate bars during a February 2018 interview.

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  24. MarkyMark says:

    “You cannot introduce a plant into the EU without the … Ceuta … correct … Ceuta … certification”

    “The FRUMPS Have Taken Over…”
    Daniel Boland | 168k subscribers

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  25. MarkyMark says:

    Councillor Mothin Ali has faced criticism and questions regarding LGBTQ+ issues because he did not sign specific LGBTIQA+ campaign pledges, though he has also publicly called for solidarity with queer and trans communities

    During his 2025 campaign for Green Party deputy leader, Mothin Ali was the only candidate who did not sign a list of 10 pro-LGBTQ+ pledges from the LGBTIQA+ Greens.

    ………
    In it he said: “We will not be silenced. We will raise the voice of Gaza. We will raise the voice of Palestine.” He then went on to shout “Allahu Akbar”, meaning “God is the greatest” in Arabic.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-68970097

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  26. digg says:

    Time overdue to start dealing with such as the filthy scum who killed two cops in a car chase and burned two people in their home in a much more appropriate way.

    Bring back the rope…. If guilty they swing and are removed from society. Or a quick lethal jab, I don’t care.

    That’s it, normal people deserve this to be in place. We do not need these vermin in our society.

    They have lost their right to live so just bin them like the filthy trash they are!

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  27. tomo says:

    Los mojones de los medios mainstream get flushed from Ceuta

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  28. tomo says:

    Carney deliberately provokes trade war with USA – BBC version

    Some say Canuck economy is tanking and Carney + Liberals need to blame someone.

    The October 19, 2026 referendum ballot asks whether Alberta should remain a province of Canada or whether the provincial government should start the legal process toward a future binding referendum on separation.

    That is *not* a vote on leaving… apparently…

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  29. pugnazious says:

    Go woke go broke.

    ‘BBC ‘screwed’ unless licence fee replaced, says Amol Rajan’
    ‘The outgoing Today programme presenter said the broadcaster’s finances were “much worse than people realise” because of a steep decline in licence fee revenue.
    Mr Rajan warned it was not possible to “cut your way to growth” and urged Andy Burnham to “stop dithering” over the corporation’s future and announce a new funding arrangement.
    “What we need is political leadership, and this country has new political leadership, and I happen to know they’re listening.

    “I have a message for them: make a decision. Stop dithering. This could not be more urgent and this could be a great legacy for you.”’

    Not a political decision, not a new funding method…just produce accurate, factual ,honest news and programmes that entertain and inform but without the agendas, disinformation and outright lies…maybe if they didn’t treat so many of their audience with utter contempt whilst mocking and denigrating their beliefs and values they might get an audience that was willing to pay for the goods…but can’t ever see that happening.

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  30. harry142857 says:

    Is there a biasedcbs site???

    (Or don’t give the BBC ideas)

    Taxpayer-funded news outlet bans journalists from calling 9/11 ‘terror attacks’ and unveils woke new phrase to be used instead.

    ___________________________
    A top boss at Canada’s tax-payer funded broadcaster allegedly banned journalists from referring to 9/11 as ‘terror attacks.’

    In an apparently leaked memo to staff obtained by the Toronto Sun, Basem Boshra told reporters and editors at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: ‘Do not refer to the Sept 11 attacks as terrorist attacks.

    The note goes on to advise reporters to say that ‘the hijackings led to passenger jet crashes in Washington, DC, Pennsylvania and Manhattan.

    ‘The World Trade Center (WTC in second reference) was destroyed,’ the memo continued, citing the CBC’s internal language guide.

    Boshra, the senior director of journalistic standards and public trust at CBC News, appears to have released the memo as the outlet prepares to cover the 25th anniversary of the attacks, which were carried out by Islamic terror group al-Qaeda and killed 3,000 people.

    The reported directive has sparked outrage amongst taxpayers and Canadian lawmakers who say that refusing to call 9/11 a terror attack ‘dishonors’ victims and first responders.

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  31. AsISeeIt says:

    Following hard on the heels of the launch of your Mr AsI’s new featurette “Keep Vigilant” – his regular review of Vigils up and down this mournful country of ours – this morning keen readers hereabouts will be pleased to know their Mr AsI is to debut “Tributary” – in which he checks in on our ever-expanding world of Tributes… received… paid… given… but mostly just posted out over social media.

    The King says he and Queen Camilla are “heartbroken” by the deadly flash floods near the Nepal-Tibet border… The Prince and Princess of Wales also expressed their shock, saying they were “thinking of everyone caught up in this terrible disaster” (BBC)

    From Royal “Tributary” announcements to one of those serendipitous little co-inkydinks of features to be found in our media today.

    ‘Global independent branding agency’ Heavenly is pleased to take the prime ad spot on the cover of the FT to air their copy: If your customers don’t get what you’re selling, you won’t get them buying

    They told us many Britons were caught up in this far-off natural disaster in the foothills of the Himalayas – and apparently it’s true…

    Briton’s desperate hunt for wife lost in Nepal floods… Speaking to the Telegraph from Gatwick… British businessman… runs a street food company in Sussex… Pramod Poudel, 24, said he was rushing to his home village…

    Call it my unreasonable culinary prejudice – but I hold to the conviction that the words ‘Street’ and ‘Food’ didn’t ought to be combined in the same sentence. But I digress.

    More than 30 Britons are believed to be missing… Among the missing… Sumitra Sapkota who is married to Pramod Poudel… His uncle and mother Madhav Prasad and Tulasa Poudel… and Saranda Simpkhada… a nurse from Dartford, Kent (Times)

    The Mail shows us: Faces of Britons missing in Nepal – and in addition to those names already sadly cited in the Times adds: Nabhl Das

    Arch-feminist outlet the i paper isn’t dispelling any prejudices this morning: Gizzi Erskine My cat died, and the grief is eating me alive

    In a similar vein: I left my ex, quit my job and live in a caravan. It’s bliss – the anti-family i paper the voice of the atomised individual there.

    As we know, there’s a hue and cry out to remove Ernst Stavro Blofeld-lookalike, international football boss and apparent arch villain, Gianni Infantino, (the Donald Pleasence version of Blofeld).

    The posse is large and spans our full media spectrum…

    Uefa primes criminal lawsuit… Fresh call for new leadership (FT); See you in court (Telegraph); Gianni facing court (Daily Star); ‘Change is necessary’ – players unite against Fifa (BBC)

    Of course they have a replacement in mind: Members want to ensure ‘Fifa is once again governed as an institution – not around one individual’ (FT)

    However, given there has to be an individual boss at the top of the organisation – that individual really ought to be: The First Female President – Sepp Blatter says so…

    The Norwegian Football Association has been the most vocally resistant to FIFA in recent years under the leadership of Klaveness. She was a professional soccer player, appearing 73 times for Norway, before becoming a lawyer, and she already has the support of one former FIFA figure: controversial former president Sepp Blatter, who is serving a ban in the wake of a widespread corruption probe. Blatter said “it is time” for FIFA to have its first female president (ESPN)

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    • Fedup2 says:

      I’d like to pay tribute to anyone paying tribute – like wise my thoughts and prayers are with anyone with thoughts and prayers ….
      Meanwhile – away from disaster porn – the invasion continues ….

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  32. tomo says:

    The shell game

    shellgame.jpg

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  33. tomo says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      The inquiry team found examples of “children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone”.

      Prof Jay said the first of these reports was “effectively suppressed” because senior officers did not believe the data. The other two were ignored, she said.

      The inquiry team found that in the early-2000s when a group of professionals attempted to monitor a number of children believed to be at risk, “managers gave little help or support to their efforts”.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28939089

      ….

      A “taboo” subject, “ignoring a politically inconvenient truth”, threatening “community cohesion”, “fear of being thought racist”.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28951612

      This has left the leader of a Muslim organisation in Rotherham furious.

      “In the name of what community cohesion and political correctness? Not in the name of my community,” said Muhbeen Hussain, founder of British Muslim Youth.
      27 August 2014

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  35. Althepalerp says:

    Ethnics do not bother to pay the License fee.
    Especially in London.

    So why should anyone else?

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    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Same for trains.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Yes the black belt barrister put up footage of train staff physically trying to remove an invader who had no ticket and refused details … various wokes present protested … but the rail bylawes enable force to be used to remove non payers ….

        Really tough times coming ….

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  36. MarkyMark says:

    Comment “Spaniards 🇪🇸 expelled the Muslims in 1492 after 781 years of invasion.
    We will do it again, with the help of God 🙏
    And with yours”
    https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/2093028551935340662

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  37. MarkyMark says:

    When Andy is not working in Sainsbury’s he’s working in a pub … HA HA HAH A HA!
    “Prime Minister Andy Burnham announces 20% cut on business rates for pubs, clubs and music venues”

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  38. StewGreen says:

    FFS : “Barnet Hill Academy, an independent Islamic faith school, is set to join the state sector and be almost entirely funded by the taxpayer – despite the fact it requires girls as young as seven to wear the hijab”
    https://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2026/08/faith-school-that-makes-7-year-olds-wear-hijab-to-join-state-sector?v=2

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  39. harry142857 says:

    Bank holiday weekend

    Reading Festival – less than five arrests

    Notting Hill Carnival – hundreds arrested, assaults, muggings, drug offences, rapes and sexual assaults aplenty – millions spent on extra police endorsed by the four foot mayor.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Reading Festival – is a racist experience.

      Notting Hill Carnival – is multi cultural experience.

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  40. Althepalerp says:

    Financial Armageddon is on the way.

    Over spending year after year, despite the OBR and credit rating agencies. They don’t do their job.

    They are all complicit.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Rod Stewart left the UK for Los Angeles in 1975 to escape high income taxes, specifically a punitive 83% top income tax rate that could reach up to 98% on investment income under the Labour government.”

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  41. tomo says:

    LibDems … eh?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Western World offered a novel … Satanic Verses .. Islam replied with death.

      Western World offered a cartoon … Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten .. Islam replied with death.

      Western World offered a film … Submission .. Islam replied with death.

      Western World offered a word … Islamophobia .. Islam used it to hid terrorists (22 Lost In Manchester).

      Western World offered their slaughter houses … Halal … Islam replied with everything must be Islamic or nothing.

      Western World offered a capital City … London … Islam thanked them by shouting at the leader of the largest economy in the democratic free World.

      Western World offered a singer … Janet Jackson … Islam treated her with distain and she left the repressive religion.

      Western World offered to dress all its women in chains … #WorldHijabDay … Islam replied with everything must be Islamic or nothing.

      Western World offered a voice in media … BAME Quotas … Islam bans Peppa Pig and hides the nasty acts of Mohammed.

      Western World offered a hand in friendship … 1750 Mosques in UK … Islam chops it off and asks for the other hand as the West bows.

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  42. MarkyMark says:

    Conservatives admit they have no ideas left – HA HAH AHAH AH AH AH A! Greece accepts EU loans!

    …….

    “Kemi Badenoch | Conservatives | @KemiBadenoch

    Not long ago, Greece was a byword for economic crisis. Today it is cutting taxes, bringing debt down, attracting investment and has returned to budget surplus. So I met the Greek PM today to find out how he did it.

    Kyriakos Mitsotakis defeated a failing left-wing government because he did the hard work in opposition, built a strong team around him to deliver a proper plan.

    Conservatives are learning from centre-right governments that have confronted difficult economic realities and succeeded…because after Labour has finished raising taxes, driving away investment and making Britain poorer, we will need more than a change of government. We will need an economic revolution backed by a plan to Get Britain Working Again.”

    https://x.com/KemiBadenoch/status/2092630751661429110?

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Gypsy people will be around to help soon – hah aha hhahaah h a!

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Got to hand it to the kids in middlesborow – whatever – if they’d read their telegraph and seen hundreds of plod being deployed – they wouldn’t have torched cars and a field Thursday night …

        .. I wonder what their bank holiday weekend special will be ?

        TTK would be on his ‘full force of the law ‘gig by now with Hermer locking everyone up for 2 years complementary remand …

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  43. StewGreen says:

    Charlie Downes is smart
    Here he argues that group based politics wins
    And straight white people don’t see themselves as a group so they lose
    And the Islamists, Bangladeshis, Alphabet people win political power and grants etc

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    • MarkyMark says:

      It’s an All Day Certified Party with Nikita Kanda! We’ve got the best Bollywood, Bhangra, UK garage, R&B and hip-hop bangers to kickstart your weekend! Nothing but the biggest and best tunes from the likes of Karan Aujla, Tasha Tah, FLO, Divine, Central Cee, Pawni Pandey, Raghav and so many more!

      Plus DJ Kizzi jumps on the decks for this week’s Love Friday Mix! Expect to hear tracks from Sonu Nigam, Zack Knight, Neha Kakkar, A. R. Rahman and many more!

      Ask your smart speaker to play Asian Network.

      Produced in Birmingham by BBC Audio for BBC Asian Network.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live/bbc_asian_network

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  44. Fedup2 says:

    The Asian ‘today ‘ presenter has mentioned one of the reasons he is leaving the BbC is that YouTube is the place to be .

    How much money do these ex bbc types get from those podcasts ? I’d like to know the answer …. All about production companies and tax avoidance …

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    • MarkyMark says:

      YouTube owned by Google as BBC gets ex Google Exec! HA HA HAHA HA!

      …..

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    • tomo says:

      Take a look at the company info for The News Agents and Goalhanger …

      Some talented media producers have looked at the collapsing legacy broadcast businesses stuffed with talentless bureaucrats + DEI hires – and – the hard game for ears+eyeballs changed…

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  45. StewGreen says:

    Doncaster children’s waterpark partially funded by National Lottery
    Doncaster Council has moved asylum seekers into the accommodation

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    • tomo says:

      The social housing game is repositioning to pick up on migrant housing – see it hereabouts with housing associations allotting new builds to fresh migrants – locals are “noticing”. “hotel” funds are being reallocated from central government to enable this.

      Serco and the other main Home Office contractors (Mears and Clearsprings Ready Homes) are now working across the UK with housing associations for asylum-seeker accommodation.

      Lots of (your) money going into this…. Home Office volunteered cost of £1000+ / day / immigrant in April/May 2026.

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      • tomo says:

        The “dispersal accommodation” system under the Asylum Accommodation and Support Contracts is a wriggling morass of obfuscation…

        Screw the existing waiting lists….

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  46. tomo says:

    Not all about nukes

    The CIA and MI6 bought newspaper editors and parliamentarians across Europe.
    They didn’t buy me but they tried hard and after that didn’t work they tried to destroy me. Cancelled , smeared and financially attacked.

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  47. JohnC says:

    It’s news day at the Daily Telegraph. Here are the headlines:

    ‘Two overflowing lakes threaten to unleash second Nepal flood’
    ‘‘I want him home alive’: NHS psychiatrist flies to Nepal to search for missing husband’
    ‘How chunk of glacier bigger than Buckingham Palace unleashed destruction on Nepal’

    Meanwhile at the BBC it’s full-on porn:
    ‘Relatives wait for news of loved ones at recovery centres’
    ‘Stranded people only reachable by helicopter’
    ‘Really emotional’ to see affected areas washed away’
    ‘Hope for rescues remains despite fear of more floods’
    ‘My wife, mum, brother and uncle are missing’
    ‘Worker films moment he escapes torrent’
    ‘We want them home’: Daughters of missing couple’
    ‘Powerful torrent sweeps away car’
    ‘Nepali army rescue people covered in mud’
    ‘Man rescued from rooftop by helicopter’
    ‘BBC visits Kathmandu hospital as families wait for news’
    ‘My family members were swept away’

    This is what the type of people the BBC now employ thrive on. Virtue signalling their compassion for victims. When in fact I know for sure now that they don’t give a shit about any of them. As all the women and children blown to pieces because Hamas used them as human shields testifies.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      ‘‘I want him home alive’: NHS psychiatrist flies to Nepal to search for missing husband’

      flies- walks to Nepal to end Climate change? BBC are missing an angle here.

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  48. Fedup2 says:

    BBC heavily addicted to Nepal porn – they got that Tommy fletcher from the Far left UN to emote again – you might recall he was the big Hamas spokesman for gaza telling us everyone was gonna starve and it’s all Israel’s fault – the big lie ….

    Burnham must be due to fly to Nepal and emote and pee away more taxpayers ‘ borrowed money …

    Elsewhere – thoughts with ‘Anne turley ‘ the Marxist mp for Durham – poor devil has to leave londonistan and go there to ‘support the community ‘ …

    I bet the car and house insurance in middlesboro is going through the roof … can it be paid on benefits ?

    And it looks like someone’s gonna get a new yoof club and a royal visit ….

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  49. MarkyMark says:

    “Pakistan Ignores Miliband’s Pleas to Take Back Rochdale Rapist”
    https://order-order.com/2026/08/28/pakistan-ignores-milibands-pleas-to-take-back-rochdale-rapist/#comments

    The Pakistan Riots and Deaths (1989)Pakistan was the first country to officially ban the book in November 1988. However, tension reached a boiling point early the following year:The Islamabad Riot: On February 12, 1989, an angry crowd of around 10,000 protesters gathered in Islamabad.The Fatal Clash: Protesters marched toward the U.S. Cultural Center. They threw rocks, ransacked nearby offices, and clashed violently with authorities.Casualties: When police failed to disperse the crowd with tear gas, officers opened fire. Six protesters were shot and killed, and over 100 others were injured.

    The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) managed Pakistan as one of its largest bilateral aid programs, peaking at over £300 million to £450 million annually before DFID merged into the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) in 2020.

    https://icai.independent.gov.uk/html-version/dfids-bilateral-aid-to-pakistan-terms-of-reference/

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