“Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest philosophers of the last 100 years, said that: ‘Once something can’t be said, you’re already in a tyranny.’ So, it is indisputable that we are all now living, in 2023, in a tyranny”
"Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest philosophers of the last 100 years, said that: 'Once something can’t be said, you’re already in a tyranny.' So, it is indisputable that we are all now living, in 2023, in a tyranny" https://t.co/rJuag0QmDC
There was an interesting interview on our BBC Stoke local radio yesterday. Between your standard BBC interviewer and it might have been Owen Jones or possibly the local Labour MP, I missed the intro.
Part of the discussion centered around Bet365 and its boss/owner Denise Coates and a forthcoming set of staff redundancies. She is possibly worth £8 Billion which was reason enough for the interviewed man to have a go, “she doesn’t pay enough tax” etc, “she earns too much”.
The BBC man suggested that Stoke should be grateful for the employment she gives the people of Stoke, our Lefties counters and says, ‘No Denise Coates should be grateful to her employees for making so much money for her.’ An interesting reversal and a great insight into the minds of the Left. Even our BBC man was struggling. What our Leftie fails to comprehend is Denise could set up her operation in tax free Dubai or elsewhere and without her hard work and enterprise there would be no Bet365 at all.
Although I am defending Denise Coates I absolutely detest betting and am sorry she couldn’t have employed her talents doing something more useful. She has however set up the Denise Coates charitable Foundation which is a major donor to various national and local charities.
“national and local charities” – refugee charities?
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Family Roots: She worked as a cashier in her father’s small chain of betting shops, Provincial Racing, during her youth and later managed them
The Big Gamble: She mortgaged her family’s physical betting shops to borrow £15 million, using the funds to develop proprietary online betting software.
Britain cannot defend the EU against Russian colonisation because the Labour Party’s decolonisation of Britain involves surrendering the nation to the Serco armed Islamic boat people, and the decolonisation of the Falkland Islands would involve surrendering the islands to Argentina: https://melaniephillips.substack.com/p/the-uks-surrender-monkeys
“Dr A said: ‘He said that there had been a man with a beard and full male genitalia who had been exposing himself to female patients and they were unhappy.”
Just In: Calls for @ElectoralCommUK and @metpoliceuk to investigate @Keir_Starmer who, when PM, ordered taxpayers funds to be used so @SteveReedMP (when a Government Minister) could video interview Sagal Abdi-Wali.
“Four stabbed FALL ON KNIFE in ‘machete DIVERSE gang fight’: ISLAMOPHOBIC Man fights for life and three others injured after knife attack in DIVERSITY BUILD London high street”
‘He said to me, “But what can you do about it?” I asked him, “What do you mean what do you do about it? You don’t allow it to happen. You’re in charge of the ward”.
Use all powers necessary on anti-migrant protests, home secretary tells police
In a meeting on Thursday she asked for reassurance that plans were in place for the police to move quickly and effectively in dealing with far-right groups seeking to intimidate communities.
It comes after masked activists brought Dover to a standstill on Saturday and in a protest on Sunday in Portsmouth about 200 people tried to block migrants being driven away for processing. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqjke44pr7zo
Proof again that anyone questioning unfettered mass immigration from young male economic chancers must by definition be a Far Right racist.
Do they realise how many tens of millions of people fall into this category?
When Broon took over from Bliar I suggested that Tony would be a shoo-in for Sierra Leonian President for life – having saved the people from The West Side Boys and being well popular there…
Been out of the UK for 2 sunny months but braved the Gatwick today – I’ve developed a practice of dividing travel into segments – any part of which can go wrong – on this mission it was the cancelled – terminated – rail from Gatwick to londonistan – 2 cancelled trains – one terminated early – the survivor crammed with legal British refugees returning to Blighty
…but looking at the news – really put up interest rates ? Wow – economy out of control – mad hospitality tax – Hamas celebrating mad ed the day before the 9/11 anniversary – multiple machete stabbings …. Blimey …
There was ‘concern’ amongst some – that burnham might be a ‘sensible ‘ version of TTK – but we need not worry – he’s far worse …’I will never favour defence over welfare ‘…
Apparently BBC staff are going in strike because of they are only getting a 2% pay rise.
Each extra percent of a pay rise will mean a extra 180 job losses on top of a proposed cut of 2,000.
Welcome to the real world. They will end up like Woolworths, Debenhams and WHSmith, ie in the history books.
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Any tweets from Khan after gangs of doctors and scientists stab each other over the last bucket of chicken in Bromley KFC. Just happen to be carrying machetes, as you do.
On last night's stream, I predicted with pinpoint clarity how The Blob would threaten an EU funding freeze to any AfD-run German state, rather than immediately have Germany seek an outright party ban while Trump/Vance is still in office. I wake up, Benzstradamus strikes again 🔮 https://t.co/PfP52s7rvNpic.twitter.com/tZHvu7fUvy
Of course the great irony here is that this person is now representative of much of Britainistan.and thus it could be argued an ideal parliamentary candidate.
I have just read the IQ Mensa magazine. The foolish and ignorant editor produced an article on misinformation by the left-wing charlatan and liar, Sander Van Der Linden. Linden is another discredited Cambridge Professor, and an expert in the Pseudoscience of mental illness and misinformation. He called the Covid lab accident ‘misinformation’ and a racist conspiracy theory. But the Fauci dairies released by the U.S. Congress show that Covid-19 was a man-made patented chimaera bioweapon made by a white man called Ralph Baric at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, in 2015. Another white criminal called Dr Fauci was given a pardon by the white skinned President Biden, for commissioning and funding another white man called Peter Daszak and his EcoHealth Alliance, to transfer Ralph Baric’s Covid-19 bioweapon to the Chinese Bat Woman in Wuhan, Communist China.
Sander Van Der Linden defended these mass murdering criminals when he participated in the NASEM Forum on Microbial Threats workshop titled “The Critical Public Health Value of Vaccines,” where Peter Daszak served as the forum’s chair and van der Linden presented his fake news propaganda on “inoculating” the public against misinformation: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Fauci-Intel-Release-2026.06.11.pdf
He discussed his extensive research on combating misinformation, specifically detailing his work on developing “psychological vaccines” and tools like the Bad News Game to “prebunk” false narratives and build psychological herd immunity against vaccine hesitancy.
He shared the panel with fellow vaccine advocates and researchers, including student activist Ethan Lindenberger and Harvard professor Kasisomayajula Viswanath
If a ‘professional’ news site can write such a lengthy article about Muslims carrying out an Islamic extremist terrorist attack without using the words ‘Muslim’ of ‘Islam’ even once in reference to what happened, their entire output can be disregarded as lopsided propaganda covering up the truth.
The BBC cannot be trusted to tell you anything that doesn’t fit their own ideological agenda.
Both mildly conservative Telegraph and BBC top pick for their online press review favourite Guardian present the same front page feature photo promoting the Bayeux tapestry.
The only diversity that doesn’t seem a priority these days is the choice of the day’s news topics.
There’s a rather orderly British slant to the Gruan caption: Conquering the queues… Visitors flock to see Bayeux tapestry in UK (Guardian) – better get yourselves down to London for a visit tout suite before: ‘A hammer blow’: Plan for English tourist tax angers hotel industry – Gruan top headline.
Apparently, long public queues alongside the hoi polloi aren’t an issue for our Alastair Sooke, chief art critic for the Telegraph: This is the fourth time I’ve seen the tapestry in London, since I witnessed it being installed in its display case over the summer. The initial critics’ preview was blessedly quiet… Monday’s opening reception… was a scrum… there were celebrities to spot – one begins to perceive how our journos tend to perceive themselves as part of the elite regime. More closely aligned to a “Norman” baronial class than a “Saxon” peasantry.
People dressed for the occasion… bellowing comes from re-enactors dressed as Anglo-Saxon and Norman warriors, invited to mark the moment… (Telegraph) – both left-leaning and vaguely right-leaning broadsheets feature the pic of two steel-helmeted women brandishing their circular Saxon shields – ‘cos that’s historically accurate – sarc. King Harold Godwinson would obviously have had many women fighting alongside his housecarls. (photo credit James Manning/PA wire) – we don’t know – maybe the Norman re-enactors were a pair of burly lads in chain mail supporting characteristically kite-shaped shields? But our media just can’t help themselves.
And what of our relations with the French these days? France wants UK to take migrants from EU (Telegraph) – well, isn’t that the story of the last several decades, as we’ve been both inside and now vaguely outside the EU?
I’m oddly reminded of an amusing exchange between Basil Fawlty and the Major as played by the wonderfully named actor Ballard Berkeley. Did you know the character had a name – Major Gowan? You learn something every day. As the bumbling obviously World War Two veteran Major complains vociferously of the Germans, Basil attempts to calm him: “Still, forgive and forget, Major… or pretend to”
So it’s the anniversary of 9-11. The topic in the spotlight is Islamic terrorism. But the BBC don’t like that – so instead the only headline on the front page is full-on empathy porn.
Exactly what these shameless, far-Left BBC hypocrites do when the real subject is awkward for their agenda. Divert the narrative to something emotional about victims.
And how do these BBC scumbags sum it up ?. They quote some words by:
‘Wales’ First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth covered the aftermath of 9/11 while working as a BBC journalist.’
‘”The beginning of the ‘war on terror’, the tensions, Islamophobia, the way that geopolitics have been shaped.”
He added: “We’ve also learnt that cool heads are needed, even in those most horrific of circumstances.”‘
That would be why it is still such a problem then BBC. What is clear to me is that there is no peaceful solution to Islamic terrorism. They cannot be negotiated with. There is but one single solution : destroy them before they destroy you.
An anyone who uses the word ‘Islamophobia’ now is a full on Lefty. It’s a nonsense word invented to sound nasty then used to attack the Right who live in the real world.
This kind of shit-for-Lefty-idiots-by-other-Lefty-idiots is very common these days.
Just a passing thought.
I note that under the Labour government’s utterly disastrous Ed Millibrain developed energy policies, we are now dependent for around 10% of our electricity on overseas suppliers.
The main one is France. Could there be a trade off between turning a blind eye to French refusals to stop the boats and a desire to keep the lights on this Winter?
There are zero small modular reactors (SMRs) actually under physical construction in the UK right now, as projects are still in the design, contracting, and site-preparation phases.
And the ridiculous Streeting now says that we should ‘know where our torches are and stock up on candles’!
To even contemplate that this idiot could have been in Downing St is a frightening experience!
In fact the whole sorry lot of the ‘cabinet’ seem totally unable to actually do or say anything to get the UK out of the hideous financial and sociological mess they’ve got us into. Having Burnham sitting at his big desk has made the matter far worse, and in only fifty or so days…
Now that face coverings are to be banned at demos (presumably only ‘Far Right’ ones) surely the simple solution is for everyone to wear a burqa.
Would they dare challenge that?
Fiji, an early example of the British uni-party – then going by the name of The Empire – diversifying a homogeneous population by shipping in infinite immigrants; Fiji getting their Windrush moment :
“The First Arrivals: the ship Leonidas, docked in Fiji on May 14, 1879, carrying the first 463 Indian laborers”
Indo-Fijians now making up over a third of the Fijian population .
Yet the numbers don’t lie — even if the Islamophobes do. “Since September 12, 2001,” noted a recent report prepared for Congress by the Government Accountability Office, “the number of fatalities caused by domestic violent extremists has ranged from 1 to 49 in a given year. … Fatalities resulting from attacks by far-right wing violent extremists have exceeded those caused by radical Islamist violent extremists in 10 of the 15 years, and were the same in 3 of the years since September 12, 2001” Imagine that.! {theintercept.com 31may2017}
– This story shows how to make data not seem as bad by grouping and looking for a story that fits your point of view.
– Please look at the data and decide yourself. I suggest you look at it and think of what trend you would determine, then read Mehdi Hasan interpretation.
– 106 vs 119 killings
– During the September 11 attacks in 2001, 2,996 people were killed and more than 6,000 others wounded, which is missing from the graph because it is since 9/11.
Zohran Mamdani performed Umrah in Mecca during a spiritual visit in early 2006.
Mecca – as tolerant and embracing as New York.
The Pilgrimage: Zohran Mamdani traveled to Mecca and Medina in February 2006 to perform Umrah alongside his wife, artist Rama Duwaji, sharing reflections on the sanctity of the holy sites
“The Lady in Blue will sit atop the Fourth Plinth for two years”
A sculpture inspired by a desire to bring a contemporary “everywoman” to Trafalgar Square has been unveiled on London’s Fourth Plinth.
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Q.1) Are all cultures equal? YES|NO
Q.2) Should Charles James Napier have let India’s Suttee to continue – widows jump onto fires when their husbands die to kill themselves? YES|NO
Q.3) Do you still believe all cultures equal? YES|NO
Q.4) If Charles James Napier had NOT stopped India’s Suttee and it cotinued in 2018, would you allow Indians moving to Britain to still practice Suttee as part of their culture in 2018?
Q.3) Do you still believe all cultures equal? YES|NO
“Be it so. This burning of widows (India/suttee) is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.”
– Charles James Napier
“Fabric, in Farringdon, had its licence revoked in 2016 after Islington Council found what it described as a culture of drug use at the venue.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8zx8209rzo Fabric nightclub plans gigs at St Paul’s Cathedral
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The Investment: The Church had an indirect investment of about £75,000 in Wonga through a venture capital fund. This made up less than 0.01% of Wonga’s value. [1]
Embarrassment: Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby had publicly promised to push payday lenders out of business by promoting ethical alternatives like credit unions. Discovering the church funds were tied to Wonga caused significant public awkwardness. [1]
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Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams did not explicitly state that Islam as a whole is entirely compatible with Western values, but he did argue in 2008 that adopting aspects of Sharia law into the British legal system was a practical way to achieve social cohesion for Muslim communities
“The NEA warms up with a little light non-judgmentalism by advising teachers not to ‘suggest any group is responsible’ for the, ah, ‘tragic events’. Just because Osama bin Laden and al-Qa’eda boasted that they did it is no reason to jump to conclusions. ‘Blaming is especially difficult in terrorist situations because someone is at fault. In this country, we still believe that all people are innocent until solid, reliable evidence from our legal authorities proves otherwise’ — which presumably means we should wait till the trial and, given that what’s left of Osama is currently doing a good impression of a few specks of Johnson’s Baby Powder, that’s likely to be a long time coming.”
“she might wind up at the discussion topic about whether it was irresponsible for the media to show video footage of Palestinians celebrating 11 September as this allegedly led to increased hostility toward Arabs. Real live Arab intolerance is not a problem except insofar as it risks inflaming yet more mythical American intolerance.”
🚨 SHE WAS 13. LET THAT SINK IN.
Her name was Leonie.
Just 13 years old.
In Vienna, Leonie was subjected to a horrific ordeal involving three Afghan men. Prosecutors said she was given a large quantity of ecstasy before being sexually assaulted while she was helpless.
Evidence in the trial included a mobile-phone recording made during the attack.
Leonie died from drug intoxication and asphyxiation.
Her body was then taken outside and abandoned.
A 13-year-old child.
Dead. Alone. Discarded.
Three men were ultimately convicted of murder and rape.
🔴 Zubaidullah R. — LIFE imprisonment
🔴 Ibraulhaq A. — 20 years
🔴 Ali H. — 19 years
“Just tune in to any Arab TV station for Friday prayers:
‘O God, destroy the Jews and their supporters. O God, destroy the Christians and their supporters and followers, shake the ground under them, instil fear in their hearts, and freeze the blood in their veins.’
That’s Sheikh Akram Abd-al-Razzaq al-Ruqayhi, some hotshot imam live from the Grand Mosque in Sanaa on 9 August on Yemeni state TV. https://www.steynonline.com/16400/the-way-to-lose
Sheikh Anwar al-Badawi on 2 August live from the Umar Bin-Al-Khattab Mosque in Doha on Qatar Television. ‘O God, count them one by one, kill them, and don’t leave any one of them.’
Same sheikh a week later: ‘O God, destroy the usurper Jews and the vile Christians.’
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“And, of course, let us not forget Britain’s great comic figure, Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws, QC, who thinks that it’s too easy to go on about ‘Islamic fundamentalists’. ‘What I think happens very readily,’ she said, ‘is that we as Western liberals too often are fundamentalist ourselves. We don’t look at our own fundamentalisms.’ And what exactly does Lady Kennedy mean by Western liberal fundamentalism? ‘One of the things that we are too ready to insist upon is that we are the tolerant people and that the intolerance is something that belongs to other countries like Islam. And I’m not sure that’s true.'”
Even google Gemini AI removes Islam from comments … HA HA HAH HAHAHAH …………. Lord Voldemort would be proud…..
“Roy Larner (London Bridge Attack)Who he is: Roy Larner is a Millwall football club fan.What he did: During the June 2017 terror attack at London Bridge, he fought three armed attackers alone to stop them from entering a crowded pub.Famous words: He shouted an expletive-laden phrase involving his football club (“Fuck you, I’m Millwall”) during the fight.”
Don’t forget the London bombings, also. I worked at Deloitte when these medieval savages blew up a bus, a colleagues wife lost both legs.
Ban the death cult and their vile ideology.
The trans nutters and their enforcers must be defeated.
More Canadian trans insanity.
A doctor in British Columbia has been ordered to pay $28,100 after refusing to inject a trans-identified 14-year-old boy with a prescribed puberty blocker!
The BC Human Rights Tribunal issued this decision. This is the same kangaroo court that… pic.twitter.com/2g6QR27iSe
“A double rapist who changed gender while waiting to stand trial has been jailed for eight years.
Isla Bryson attacked two women in Clydebank and Glasgow in 2016 and 2019 while known as Adam Graham.”
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has paid for 16 influencers (£10,000 ish each) to use sites such as TikTok and Instagram to promote green power. (DT article)
I wonder how much that cardboard cutout of Larry The Cat cost?
“the urinal”
David Starkey’s reference to “the urinal” is an analogy he uses to describe the modern evolution of free speech. The conservative British historian argues that the historical narrative of free speech is “bound by two pieces of porcelain”.
Starkey’s framework relies on two distinct cultural markers:
The First Piece of Porcelain: Marcel Duchamp’s famous 1917 Dadaist artwork, Fountain—which was a simple, inverted store-bought urinal. Starkey cites this as a radical starting point for modern creative and intellectual expression.
The Second Piece of Porcelain: Elon Musk carrying a literal bathroom sink into Twitter (now X) headquarters upon acquiring the company. Starkey views this event as a critical turning point and regards Musk as “a genuine liberator” for lifting speech restrictions on the platform
Oh this is delicious.@A_J_Snowden asks convicted fraudster Louise Haigh, why fraud related matters, (including Bounce Back Loan fraud decisions) have been removed from the Department she heads (the answer being she is a convicted fraudster)….
I'm a deputy mayor on £50 grand a year, spending £100 million a year on DEI projects, and I couldn't even speak until I was 18. https://t.co/PZx4uxZd1j
Meet Dylan Law, Hackney’s 20-Year-Old Deputy Mayor And A Dose Of Hope
At just 20 years old, Dylan Law is Hackney’s new deputy mayor – and the Green Party’s brightest new hope. Nosheen Iqbal meets the east Londoner on a mission to redefine politics. Photographs by Campbell Addy. Styling by Honey Sweet Elias.
By Nosheen Iqbal
20 August 2026 https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/dylan-law-hackney-deputy-mayor-interview
At 20 years old, 19 when campaigning began, Law is one of the bright young hopes of the Green Party.
Dylan Law had 29p in his bank account the day he was elected as deputy mayor of Hackney.
When he says he’s Hackney Central through and through, for instance, he means it. “Never been to it,” he says, deadpan, about much of London, let alone the rest of the UK. “I’ve seen it on the map. I know it exists.”
“antidote to the GB News-ification of public discourse”
oh, just dandy …. we’re lending money that we’ve borrowed … Not enough space to rave about who we’re lending it to….
The “we’re” not strictly true…. they’re mortgaging our future on a flimsy ideologically driven scheme to give what’s notionally public funds to people who’ve a shit record of paying back loans, let alone paying interest.
You know I find this stuff fascinating, stay with me.
The government has announced its giving £400 MILLION of our money to a fund called Tropical Forests Forever Facility. But … it isnt really going to pay for trees!
The Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) originated as an idea from former World Bank treasurer Kenneth Lay around 2009 (then called the Tropical Forest Finance Facility). Brazil revived and led the current version, first announcing the concept at COP28 in 2023 via Environment Minister Marina Silva and Finance Minister Fernando Haddad. The financial architecture was engineered with input from London-based financier Christopher Egerton-Warburton of Lion’s Head Global Partners.
devex.com
Brazil designed it in partnership with the DRC, Colombia, France, Germany, Ghana, Indonesia, Malaysia, Norway, the UAE and the UK, plus consultations with the World Bank, Indigenous groups, scientists and the private sector. The World Bank serves as trustee, interim Secretariat host and treasury manager for the investment vehicle (the Tropical Forest Investment Fund, or TFIF), which invests public seed capital plus private borrowing mainly in emerging-market sovereign and corporate debt.
tfff.earth
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva formally launched TFFF at the COP30 Leaders’ Summit in Belém on 6 November 2025, with Brazil pledging $1 billion; dozens of countries (53–67) endorsed the launch declaration. Other early sovereign pledges came from Norway ($3 billion), Germany (€1 billion), Indonesia ($1 billion) and France. The UK co-designed it from the outset (Keir Starmer confirmed support at the time) but delayed a cash contribution; the current £400 million loan was sanctioned in September 2026 by Energy Security Secretary Katie White under Prime Minister Andy Burnham, framed as a repayable investment rather than a grant.
taffmanOct 21, 00:02 Midweek 21st October 2026 “UK government to make Jackdaw gas field announcement” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvze4wx3elj1o About time I say. Has Ed Millipede made any comment ?
taffmanOct 20, 23:54 Midweek 21st October 2026 “Aberfan” Poor little souls . I hope that they are all in a better place now.
Mustapha Sheikup al-BeebiOct 20, 23:31 Midweek 21st October 2026 On a point of information, I think you mean Lord (Alfred) Robens, not Robbins or Robins.
SluffOct 20, 22:57 Midweek 21st October 2026 Watched a BBC2 programme about the tragedy of Aberfan. 60 years ago. I remember the original news coverage. What I…
diggOct 20, 22:16 Midweek 21st October 2026 This sort of shit is endemic now. Nobody dare challenge these numties because of diversity…..
StewGreenOct 20, 21:52 Midweek 21st October 2026 Second Labour MP suspended amid questions over £50,000 taxpayer-backed Covid loan Perran Moon is the co-owner of training company Autoswot…
StewGreenOct 20, 21:37 Midweek 21st October 2026 Things you don’t hear on the BBC Who brings and stokes violence these days ? Avi says It’s so often…
Up2snuffOct 20, 21:13 Midweek 21st October 2026 Here am I, send me to the top of this Thread. The BBC are very wasteful. In the salaries that…
MarkyMarkOct 20, 20:56 Start the Week 19th October 2026 [img]https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS9cfwBcB-0cpNN4DqcJWYgLpRNLK7BtEXGi0R0RJM-mg&s=10[/img]
GreencoatOct 20, 20:53 Start the Week 19th October 2026 ‘We need to ‘level the playing field’ so schoolkids in Blackpool do as well at GCSE as those in York’…
Far-left BBC staff angry about free speech billboards plastered across London Underground
POLICE- Non-crime hate incidents.
RIP Young man .
A brave man …..
“Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest philosophers of the last 100 years, said that: ‘Once something can’t be said, you’re already in a tyranny.’ So, it is indisputable that we are all now living, in 2023, in a tyranny”
More Khantery
Costing £3 per copy (or free online), the Migrant’s Guide is “interactive guide to support you through your immigration journey in the UK. For migrants, by migrants.”
https://www.charlottecgill.co.uk/p/sadiq-khans-deputy-chairs-4-million
Anyway, I’m sure you’ll be delighted to know that Praxis Community Projects received £4,014,260 from taxpayers between 2021-25.
There was an interesting interview on our BBC Stoke local radio yesterday. Between your standard BBC interviewer and it might have been Owen Jones or possibly the local Labour MP, I missed the intro.
Part of the discussion centered around Bet365 and its boss/owner Denise Coates and a forthcoming set of staff redundancies. She is possibly worth £8 Billion which was reason enough for the interviewed man to have a go, “she doesn’t pay enough tax” etc, “she earns too much”.
The BBC man suggested that Stoke should be grateful for the employment she gives the people of Stoke, our Lefties counters and says, ‘No Denise Coates should be grateful to her employees for making so much money for her.’ An interesting reversal and a great insight into the minds of the Left. Even our BBC man was struggling. What our Leftie fails to comprehend is Denise could set up her operation in tax free Dubai or elsewhere and without her hard work and enterprise there would be no Bet365 at all.
Although I am defending Denise Coates I absolutely detest betting and am sorry she couldn’t have employed her talents doing something more useful. She has however set up the Denise Coates charitable Foundation which is a major donor to various national and local charities.
“national and local charities” – refugee charities?
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Family Roots: She worked as a cashier in her father’s small chain of betting shops, Provincial Racing, during her youth and later managed them
The Big Gamble: She mortgaged her family’s physical betting shops to borrow £15 million, using the funds to develop proprietary online betting software.
The permissive UK gambling laws of 2005 were introduced by Tony Blair’s New Labour government via the Gambling Act 2005. [1] (https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/16/how-britain-got-the-gambling-bug), [2] (https://www.facebook.com/punchnewspaper/posts/the-gambling-act-of-2005-changed-the-uk-into-one-of-the-most-liberal-jurisdictio/6412372538800854/), [3] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling_Act_2005)The primary architect and cabinet minister responsible for drafting and piloting the legislation through Parliament was Tessa Jowell, who served as the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport at the time.
How does a mere Mortal, such as I, bet on the UK Bond markets?
That the UK Government will be bankrupt within a year.
Britain cannot defend the EU against Russian colonisation because the Labour Party’s decolonisation of Britain involves surrendering the nation to the Serco armed Islamic boat people, and the decolonisation of the Falkland Islands would involve surrendering the islands to Argentina: https://melaniephillips.substack.com/p/the-uks-surrender-monkeys
NHS – best in the world…..
“Dr A said: ‘He said that there had been a man with a beard and full male genitalia who had been exposing himself to female patients and they were unhappy.”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16120687/Doctor-sues-NHS-trust-bearded-trans-patient-allowed-womens-psychiatric-ward-exposed-himself.html
Channel 4 to investigate?
Allah Akbar – as they shout in Uk Leeds Council meetings!
“Four
stabbedFALL ON KNIFE in ‘macheteDIVERSE gang fight’: ISLAMOPHOBIC Man fights for life and three others injured after knife attack in DIVERSITY BUILD London high street”https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16121171/Four-stabbed-injured-London-machete-wielding.html
“Stop the boats” , “Crush the gangs” , Deport all illegals, when ? Now !
Change the government.
Keep the boats! Replace the population! Deport the legals! Now!
Poles or Holes? The NHS is confused….
“Andrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre, said the case ‘exposes the profound consequences that arise when an NHS Trust loses sight of biological reality'”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16120687/Doctor-sues-NHS-trust-bearded-trans-patient-allowed-womens-psychiatric-ward-exposed-himself.html
Dr A said: ‘He said that there had been a man with a beard and full male genitalia who had been exposing himself to female patients and they were unhappy.
‘He said to me, “But what can you do about it?” I asked him, “What do you mean what do you do about it? You don’t allow it to happen. You’re in charge of the ward”.
Burnham Broadcasting Corporation on message
Use all powers necessary on anti-migrant protests, home secretary tells police
In a meeting on Thursday she asked for reassurance that plans were in place for the police to move quickly and effectively in dealing with far-right groups seeking to intimidate communities.
It comes after masked activists brought Dover to a standstill on Saturday and in a protest on Sunday in Portsmouth about 200 people tried to block migrants being driven away for processing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqjke44pr7zo
Proof again that anyone questioning unfettered mass immigration from young male economic chancers must by definition be a Far Right racist.
Do they realise how many tens of millions of people fall into this category?
I do hope that those arranging such ‘spontaneous’ protests are taking the advice of whoever advises Zelensky. Noted for brilliant innovation.
The Pakistani home secretary says
Use all powers necessary on anti-migrant protests, home secretary tells police
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqjke44pr7zo
“Use all powers necessary on anti-migrant protests, home secretary tells police”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqjke44pr7zo
“‘Stash the weapons in the mosque and we won’t have to arrest anyone’ police officer filmed telling counter-protesters”
https://www.gbnews.com/news/riots-weapons-police-officer-amnesty-stoke
And that includes the far right muslim marchers.
Of course they’re far right, so treat them as such!
Blastoff! SpaceX launches classified US Space Force mission, sticks landing
VideoFromSpace | 2.14m subscribers
When Broon took over from Bliar I suggested that Tony would be a shoo-in for Sierra Leonian President for life – having saved the people from The West Side Boys and being well popular there…
“We designed this pad to support a launch every 60minutes”
Starship – Critical Path
SpaceX
6.97m subscribers
BBC WEB-SITE Watch #1 – The MSM+BBC are out to get Nigel Farage & Reform
I cite as evidence: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1e5j15en9wo
Been out of the UK for 2 sunny months but braved the Gatwick today – I’ve developed a practice of dividing travel into segments – any part of which can go wrong – on this mission it was the cancelled – terminated – rail from Gatwick to londonistan – 2 cancelled trains – one terminated early – the survivor crammed with legal British refugees returning to Blighty
…but looking at the news – really put up interest rates ? Wow – economy out of control – mad hospitality tax – Hamas celebrating mad ed the day before the 9/11 anniversary – multiple machete stabbings …. Blimey …
There was ‘concern’ amongst some – that burnham might be a ‘sensible ‘ version of TTK – but we need not worry – he’s far worse …’I will never favour defence over welfare ‘…
Welcome back to Britanistan, Fed.
For the first time in the press today, I read that Burnham was ‘naïve’.
Yup – in Spades, with Oak Leaves…
Are you with Utilita yet?
BBC WEB-SITE Watch #2 – the BBC are still obsessed by wimmin – real men write their wills, too
I cite as evidence: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8np9wwe35o Warning: No Getty Images.
She looks like she’d leave it all to a cat charity …
Apparently BBC staff are going in strike because of they are only getting a 2% pay rise.
Each extra percent of a pay rise will mean a extra 180 job losses on top of a proposed cut of 2,000.
Welcome to the real world. They will end up like Woolworths, Debenhams and WHSmith, ie in the history books.
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Any tweets from Khan after gangs of doctors and scientists stab each other over the last bucket of chicken in Bromley KFC. Just happen to be carrying machetes, as you do.
Good – anything that weakens / destabilises the BBC aids our noble cause – more redundancies as well hopefully …
Here’s some (humorous) clarification on the Lindsay Clancy the case…
Sound familiar?
They still want to “rub the Right’s nose in it”, don’t they?
By the way, what is it that you rub a puppy’s nose in?
💩
Of course the great irony here is that this person is now representative of much of Britainistan.and thus it could be argued an ideal parliamentary candidate.
Early Leaning Centres to be opened in UK!
Early leering centres.
I have just read the IQ Mensa magazine. The foolish and ignorant editor produced an article on misinformation by the left-wing charlatan and liar, Sander Van Der Linden. Linden is another discredited Cambridge Professor, and an expert in the Pseudoscience of mental illness and misinformation. He called the Covid lab accident ‘misinformation’ and a racist conspiracy theory. But the Fauci dairies released by the U.S. Congress show that Covid-19 was a man-made patented chimaera bioweapon made by a white man called Ralph Baric at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, in 2015. Another white criminal called Dr Fauci was given a pardon by the white skinned President Biden, for commissioning and funding another white man called Peter Daszak and his EcoHealth Alliance, to transfer Ralph Baric’s Covid-19 bioweapon to the Chinese Bat Woman in Wuhan, Communist China.
Sander Van Der Linden defended these mass murdering criminals when he participated in the NASEM Forum on Microbial Threats workshop titled “The Critical Public Health Value of Vaccines,” where Peter Daszak served as the forum’s chair and van der Linden presented his fake news propaganda on “inoculating” the public against misinformation: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Fauci-Intel-Release-2026.06.11.pdf
Van Der Linden spread racist lies about Covid-19 coming from bat soup, sold at a Seafood Market in Wuhan: https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/misinformation-researcher-sander
Sander Van Der Linden is a Purfessah of Social Psychology in Society in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge
This instantly rules him out of knowing anything about convid.
To my knowledge not one single one of the wankers at Cranebridge University stood up to be counted and opposed the medical marshall-law tyranny.
After two years standing on a roundabout one day a week with yellow cards I can confirm the Cranebridge public had the opposite opinion.
He discussed his extensive research on combating misinformation, specifically detailing his work on developing “psychological vaccines” and tools like the Bad News Game to “prebunk” false narratives and build psychological herd immunity against vaccine hesitancy.
He shared the panel with fellow vaccine advocates and researchers, including student activist Ethan Lindenberger and Harvard professor Kasisomayajula Viswanath
Spies, strategies and missed opportunities: How the lessons of 9/11 are still being learnt
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1l68gmqq24o
If a ‘professional’ news site can write such a lengthy article about Muslims carrying out an Islamic extremist terrorist attack without using the words ‘Muslim’ of ‘Islam’ even once in reference to what happened, their entire output can be disregarded as lopsided propaganda covering up the truth.
The BBC cannot be trusted to tell you anything that doesn’t fit their own ideological agenda.
Both mildly conservative Telegraph and BBC top pick for their online press review favourite Guardian present the same front page feature photo promoting the Bayeux tapestry.
The only diversity that doesn’t seem a priority these days is the choice of the day’s news topics.
There’s a rather orderly British slant to the Gruan caption: Conquering the queues… Visitors flock to see Bayeux tapestry in UK (Guardian) – better get yourselves down to London for a visit tout suite before: ‘A hammer blow’: Plan for English tourist tax angers hotel industry – Gruan top headline.
Apparently, long public queues alongside the hoi polloi aren’t an issue for our Alastair Sooke, chief art critic for the Telegraph: This is the fourth time I’ve seen the tapestry in London, since I witnessed it being installed in its display case over the summer. The initial critics’ preview was blessedly quiet… Monday’s opening reception… was a scrum… there were celebrities to spot – one begins to perceive how our journos tend to perceive themselves as part of the elite regime. More closely aligned to a “Norman” baronial class than a “Saxon” peasantry.
People dressed for the occasion… bellowing comes from re-enactors dressed as Anglo-Saxon and Norman warriors, invited to mark the moment… (Telegraph) – both left-leaning and vaguely right-leaning broadsheets feature the pic of two steel-helmeted women brandishing their circular Saxon shields – ‘cos that’s historically accurate – sarc. King Harold Godwinson would obviously have had many women fighting alongside his housecarls. (photo credit James Manning/PA wire) – we don’t know – maybe the Norman re-enactors were a pair of burly lads in chain mail supporting characteristically kite-shaped shields? But our media just can’t help themselves.
And what of our relations with the French these days? France wants UK to take migrants from EU (Telegraph) – well, isn’t that the story of the last several decades, as we’ve been both inside and now vaguely outside the EU?
I’m oddly reminded of an amusing exchange between Basil Fawlty and the Major as played by the wonderfully named actor Ballard Berkeley. Did you know the character had a name – Major Gowan? You learn something every day. As the bumbling obviously World War Two veteran Major complains vociferously of the Germans, Basil attempts to calm him: “Still, forgive and forget, Major… or pretend to”
“France wants UK to take migrants from EU (Telegraph)”
– all UK citizens to invade France to avoid Islam and african voodoo?
Enemy within
When they shout that there is a large increase in ‘Far-Right’ extremism reported to Prevent….
The church of England should be made wimmin-only – then they can rip each other apart as much as they want.
For all I care.
So it’s the anniversary of 9-11. The topic in the spotlight is Islamic terrorism. But the BBC don’t like that – so instead the only headline on the front page is full-on empathy porn.
I watched as a hijacked plane flew over my home – moments later my wife was killed on 9/11
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8e31lwnz9ro
Exactly what these shameless, far-Left BBC hypocrites do when the real subject is awkward for their agenda. Divert the narrative to something emotional about victims.
And how do these BBC scumbags sum it up ?. They quote some words by:
‘Wales’ First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth covered the aftermath of 9/11 while working as a BBC journalist.’
‘”The beginning of the ‘war on terror’, the tensions, Islamophobia, the way that geopolitics have been shaped.”
He added: “We’ve also learnt that cool heads are needed, even in those most horrific of circumstances.”‘
That would be why it is still such a problem then BBC. What is clear to me is that there is no peaceful solution to Islamic terrorism. They cannot be negotiated with. There is but one single solution : destroy them before they destroy you.
An anyone who uses the word ‘Islamophobia’ now is a full on Lefty. It’s a nonsense word invented to sound nasty then used to attack the Right who live in the real world.
This kind of shit-for-Lefty-idiots-by-other-Lefty-idiots is very common these days.
Just a passing thought.
I note that under the Labour government’s utterly disastrous Ed Millibrain developed energy policies, we are now dependent for around 10% of our electricity on overseas suppliers.
The main one is France. Could there be a trade off between turning a blind eye to French refusals to stop the boats and a desire to keep the lights on this Winter?
Google AI says:
There are zero small modular reactors (SMRs) actually under physical construction in the UK right now, as projects are still in the design, contracting, and site-preparation phases.
And the ridiculous Streeting now says that we should ‘know where our torches are and stock up on candles’!
To even contemplate that this idiot could have been in Downing St is a frightening experience!
In fact the whole sorry lot of the ‘cabinet’ seem totally unable to actually do or say anything to get the UK out of the hideous financial and sociological mess they’ve got us into. Having Burnham sitting at his big desk has made the matter far worse, and in only fifty or so days…
Now that face coverings are to be banned at demos (presumably only ‘Far Right’ ones) surely the simple solution is for everyone to wear a burqa.
Would they dare challenge that?
When we next get another fake ‘covid’ (flu) scam, face masks will be allowed, so we’re saved…
https://x.com/artemisfornow/status/2097999199136600194?s=61
The BBC are also going to Fiji! … for a PRE conference training session, before the PRE COP31 conference
Beats Glasto I guess.
Fiji, an early example of the British uni-party – then going by the name of The Empire – diversifying a homogeneous population by shipping in infinite immigrants; Fiji getting their Windrush moment :
“The First Arrivals: the ship Leonidas, docked in Fiji on May 14, 1879, carrying the first 463 Indian laborers”
Indo-Fijians now making up over a third of the Fijian population .
Is there a BBC Fiji dating back to the ‘20s?
“Fiji calling, Fiji calling… we are hearing reports of a Naziphobe name of Churchill warning of our plans…”
9/11 to dominate the News.
“Good day to bury bad news”
Seen this ‘since 9/11’ before ….
Yet the numbers don’t lie — even if the Islamophobes do. “Since September 12, 2001,” noted a recent report prepared for Congress by the Government Accountability Office, “the number of fatalities caused by domestic violent extremists has ranged from 1 to 49 in a given year. … Fatalities resulting from attacks by far-right wing violent extremists have exceeded those caused by radical Islamist violent extremists in 10 of the 15 years, and were the same in 3 of the years since September 12, 2001” Imagine that.! {theintercept.com 31may2017}
https://theintercept.com/2017/05/31/the-numbers-dont-lie-white-far-right-terrorists-pose-a-clear-danger-to-us-all/
– This story shows how to make data not seem as bad by grouping and looking for a story that fits your point of view.
– Please look at the data and decide yourself. I suggest you look at it and think of what trend you would determine, then read Mehdi Hasan interpretation.
– 106 vs 119 killings
– During the September 11 attacks in 2001, 2,996 people were killed and more than 6,000 others wounded, which is missing from the graph because it is since 9/11.
“Anthropic blocks ‘malicious use’ of AI that could develop biological weapons”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2zrrpkx20o
… fly planes into buildings and drive cars into crowds and decapitate Lee Rigby on the street ….
“Anthropic blocks ‘malicious use’ of AI that could develop biological weapons”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2zrrpkx20o
… fly planes into buildings and drive cars into crowds and decapitate Lee Rigby on the street ….
Anthropic has also accused Chinese AI firms of trying to replicate Claude’s capabilities.
BBC manage to find a story about a Moslem First Responder on 9/11
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/ce8e67l4330o
“Brother of Muslim policeman killed in 9/11 ‘disappointed’ by calls for Mamdani to sit out memorial”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/ce8e67l4330o
Zohran Mamdani performed Umrah in Mecca during a spiritual visit in early 2006.
Mecca – as tolerant and embracing as New York.
The Pilgrimage: Zohran Mamdani traveled to Mecca and Medina in February 2006 to perform Umrah alongside his wife, artist Rama Duwaji, sharing reflections on the sanctity of the holy sites
Like offence, the BBC is well aware that if you dedicate yourself enough to finding it, it will find you.
“The Lady in Blue will sit atop the Fourth Plinth for two years”

A sculpture inspired by a desire to bring a contemporary “everywoman” to Trafalgar Square has been unveiled on London’s Fourth Plinth.
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Q.1) Are all cultures equal? YES|NO
Q.2) Should Charles James Napier have let India’s Suttee to continue – widows jump onto fires when their husbands die to kill themselves? YES|NO
Q.3) Do you still believe all cultures equal? YES|NO
Q.4) If Charles James Napier had NOT stopped India’s Suttee and it cotinued in 2018, would you allow Indians moving to Britain to still practice Suttee as part of their culture in 2018?
Q.3) Do you still believe all cultures equal? YES|NO
“Be it so. This burning of widows (India/suttee) is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.”
– Charles James Napier
‘Sit’?
Looking at that pose, and it being London now, not a typo?
– anyway, effigies are haram ?
“Fabric, in Farringdon, had its licence revoked in 2016 after Islington Council found what it described as a culture of drug use at the venue.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8zx8209rzo
Fabric nightclub plans gigs at St Paul’s Cathedral
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The Investment: The Church had an indirect investment of about £75,000 in Wonga through a venture capital fund. This made up less than 0.01% of Wonga’s value. [1]
Embarrassment: Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby had publicly promised to push payday lenders out of business by promoting ethical alternatives like credit unions. Discovering the church funds were tied to Wonga caused significant public awkwardness. [1]
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Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams did not explicitly state that Islam as a whole is entirely compatible with Western values, but he did argue in 2008 that adopting aspects of Sharia law into the British legal system was a practical way to achieve social cohesion for Muslim communities
As I wrote in The Spectator in August 2002, as the first anniversary of 9/11 approached:
The real enemy in this war is ourselves, and our lemming-like rush to cultural suicide.
https://www.steynonline.com/16400/the-way-to-lose
“The NEA warms up with a little light non-judgmentalism by advising teachers not to ‘suggest any group is responsible’ for the, ah, ‘tragic events’. Just because Osama bin Laden and al-Qa’eda boasted that they did it is no reason to jump to conclusions. ‘Blaming is especially difficult in terrorist situations because someone is at fault. In this country, we still believe that all people are innocent until solid, reliable evidence from our legal authorities proves otherwise’ — which presumably means we should wait till the trial and, given that what’s left of Osama is currently doing a good impression of a few specks of Johnson’s Baby Powder, that’s likely to be a long time coming.”
“she might wind up at the discussion topic about whether it was irresponsible for the media to show video footage of Palestinians celebrating 11 September as this allegedly led to increased hostility toward Arabs. Real live Arab intolerance is not a problem except insofar as it risks inflaming yet more mythical American intolerance.”
…. I GUESS WE LOST THE WAR ON TERROR ….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g4vxjg2yno
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2042982459262790
🚨 SHE WAS 13. LET THAT SINK IN.
Her name was Leonie.
Just 13 years old.
In Vienna, Leonie was subjected to a horrific ordeal involving three Afghan men. Prosecutors said she was given a large quantity of ecstasy before being sexually assaulted while she was helpless.
Evidence in the trial included a mobile-phone recording made during the attack.
Leonie died from drug intoxication and asphyxiation.
Her body was then taken outside and abandoned.
A 13-year-old child.
Dead. Alone. Discarded.
Three men were ultimately convicted of murder and rape.
🔴 Zubaidullah R. — LIFE imprisonment
🔴 Ibraulhaq A. — 20 years
🔴 Ali H. — 19 years
“Just tune in to any Arab TV station for Friday prayers:
‘O God, destroy the Jews and their supporters. O God, destroy the Christians and their supporters and followers, shake the ground under them, instil fear in their hearts, and freeze the blood in their veins.’
That’s Sheikh Akram Abd-al-Razzaq al-Ruqayhi, some hotshot imam live from the Grand Mosque in Sanaa on 9 August on Yemeni state TV.
https://www.steynonline.com/16400/the-way-to-lose
Sheikh Anwar al-Badawi on 2 August live from the Umar Bin-Al-Khattab Mosque in Doha on Qatar Television. ‘O God, count them one by one, kill them, and don’t leave any one of them.’
Same sheikh a week later: ‘O God, destroy the usurper Jews and the vile Christians.’
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“And, of course, let us not forget Britain’s great comic figure, Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws, QC, who thinks that it’s too easy to go on about ‘Islamic fundamentalists’. ‘What I think happens very readily,’ she said, ‘is that we as Western liberals too often are fundamentalist ourselves. We don’t look at our own fundamentalisms.’ And what exactly does Lady Kennedy mean by Western liberal fundamentalism? ‘One of the things that we are too ready to insist upon is that we are the tolerant people and that the intolerance is something that belongs to other countries like Islam. And I’m not sure that’s true.'”
Even google Gemini AI removes Islam from comments … HA HA HAH HAHAHAH …………. Lord Voldemort would be proud…..
“Roy Larner (London Bridge Attack)Who he is: Roy Larner is a Millwall football club fan.What he did: During the June 2017 terror attack at London Bridge, he fought three armed attackers alone to stop them from entering a crowded pub.Famous words: He shouted an expletive-laden phrase involving his football club (“Fuck you, I’m Millwall”) during the fight.”
during the fight
during the fight
Let us take a moment to remember the victims of 9/11.
And let us take a moment to remember the perpetrators of 9/11: Muslims.
And the thousands of islamic terror attacks since, and the tens of thousands of dead and maimed.
See The Religion of Peace. The numbers are staggering:
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
August 16, 2026 Nigeria Mangu 30 Armed militants killed Christians and burned homes and churches
https://www.cspii.org/attacks
Don’t forget the London bombings, also. I worked at Deloitte when these medieval savages blew up a bus, a colleagues wife lost both legs.
Ban the death cult and their vile ideology.
The trans nutters and their enforcers must be defeated.
“A double rapist who changed gender while waiting to stand trial has been jailed for eight years.
Isla Bryson attacked two women in Clydebank and Glasgow in 2016 and 2019 while known as Adam Graham.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-64796926
Labour has spent more than £170,000 of taxpayers’ money on paying social media influencers to promote net zero
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has paid for 16 influencers (£10,000 ish each) to use sites such as TikTok and Instagram to promote green power. (DT article)
I wonder how much that cardboard cutout of Larry The Cat cost?
“the urinal”
David Starkey’s reference to “the urinal” is an analogy he uses to describe the modern evolution of free speech. The conservative British historian argues that the historical narrative of free speech is “bound by two pieces of porcelain”.
Starkey’s framework relies on two distinct cultural markers:
The First Piece of Porcelain: Marcel Duchamp’s famous 1917 Dadaist artwork, Fountain—which was a simple, inverted store-bought urinal. Starkey cites this as a radical starting point for modern creative and intellectual expression.
The Second Piece of Porcelain: Elon Musk carrying a literal bathroom sink into Twitter (now X) headquarters upon acquiring the company. Starkey views this event as a critical turning point and regards Musk as “a genuine liberator” for lifting speech restrictions on the platform
– anyway, effigies are haram ?
ham is haram – fill airports with pig pens – end the war on terror.
At least they used one of the better looking ones.
A new QUango to over see the quangos of quangos?!
I see “they” want to hold the Assisted Dying debate “in private”
In the HoC….
arseholes
Assisted dying = late abortions free on the NHS!
yee-F-ing gods…….
Meet Dylan Law, Hackney’s 20-Year-Old Deputy Mayor And A Dose Of Hope
At just 20 years old, Dylan Law is Hackney’s new deputy mayor – and the Green Party’s brightest new hope. Nosheen Iqbal meets the east Londoner on a mission to redefine politics. Photographs by Campbell Addy. Styling by Honey Sweet Elias.
By Nosheen Iqbal
20 August 2026
https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/dylan-law-hackney-deputy-mayor-interview
At 20 years old, 19 when campaigning began, Law is one of the bright young hopes of the Green Party.
Dylan Law had 29p in his bank account the day he was elected as deputy mayor of Hackney.
When he says he’s Hackney Central through and through, for instance, he means it. “Never been to it,” he says, deadpan, about much of London, let alone the rest of the UK. “I’ve seen it on the map. I know it exists.”
“antidote to the GB News-ification of public discourse”
We’re stuck with a new mare in Downing Street and he’s never had a proper job in his life…
oh, just dandy …. we’re lending money that we’ve borrowed … Not enough space to rave about who we’re lending it to….
The “we’re” not strictly true…. they’re mortgaging our future on a flimsy ideologically driven scheme to give what’s notionally public funds to people who’ve a shit record of paying back loans, let alone paying interest.
The Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) originated as an idea from former World Bank treasurer Kenneth Lay around 2009 (then called the Tropical Forest Finance Facility). Brazil revived and led the current version, first announcing the concept at COP28 in 2023 via Environment Minister Marina Silva and Finance Minister Fernando Haddad. The financial architecture was engineered with input from London-based financier Christopher Egerton-Warburton of Lion’s Head Global Partners.
devex.com
Brazil designed it in partnership with the DRC, Colombia, France, Germany, Ghana, Indonesia, Malaysia, Norway, the UAE and the UK, plus consultations with the World Bank, Indigenous groups, scientists and the private sector. The World Bank serves as trustee, interim Secretariat host and treasury manager for the investment vehicle (the Tropical Forest Investment Fund, or TFIF), which invests public seed capital plus private borrowing mainly in emerging-market sovereign and corporate debt.
tfff.earth
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva formally launched TFFF at the COP30 Leaders’ Summit in Belém on 6 November 2025, with Brazil pledging $1 billion; dozens of countries (53–67) endorsed the launch declaration. Other early sovereign pledges came from Norway ($3 billion), Germany (€1 billion), Indonesia ($1 billion) and France. The UK co-designed it from the outset (Keir Starmer confirmed support at the time) but delayed a cash contribution; the current £400 million loan was sanctioned in September 2026 by Energy Security Secretary Katie White under Prime Minister Andy Burnham, framed as a repayable investment rather than a grant.
cop30.br
That eco-loan has too many parasites of all stripes feeding on it to list here…