I dreamt of a King on his steed on Kent beaches slashing dinghies with his sabre then swimming across the channel to the source of the invasion, the Jupiter King President Macron.
I awoke to a King swirling in a toilet like a discarded tampax, the the last words of the tampax King where “We have no borders, windfarms are a blot but bring me money. Inshallah.”
The ship was largely paid for with EU border funds. That funding comes with a condition that it spend part of the year under Frontex on other member states’ missions (figures in Spanish coverage vary between about four and six months a year). So the Channel tasking is treated as use of an EU-shared asset, not a purely Spanish deployment
So… essentially, easy to assign its tasking to Brussels controlled border meddling. Lithuanians lined up from November apparently.
Excellent news
The burnham Marxists have paid off the comrade teachers again to stop them going on strike again . And there’s me wanting to end state schools …
As expected the bbc is giving more coverage to a dead coloured lefty critic than they did to Ann Widdecombe – who was none of the above .bbc really is like poison .
How many of the cabinet are on the jabs? Just seen Lisa Nandy, half the woman she was a few weeks ago. Same applies to Louise Haigh and Angie Rayner. I hope they are not getting them on the NHS.
An MP says she has been diagnosed with an *autoimmune condition* months after returning to work following a “life-threatening” illness.
Chippenham MP Sarah Gibson was in intensive care at Bath’s Royal United Hospital (RUH) after a viral infection to her heart over Christmas last year.
In March she started a phased return to work in Westminster but has now said she needs to be back at the hospital for a “short period of monitored treatment”.
She added her recovery has “proved slower than I anticipated”.
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In December, RUH staff told Ms Gibson they were unsure if she would recover after contracting *pericarditis* following the flu.
Labour MP Ashley Dalton, who was diagnosed in 2025 with advanced breast *cancer*, speaks out against the Assisted Dying Bill,
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An MP has announced that she will be taking “several weeks” off from work to recover from mental and physical health symptoms relating to burnout.
Carla Denyer, who represents Bristol Central, said she made the “difficult” decision to take time off after advice from her doctor.
Denyer said she had been struggling with persistent health issues, which she attempted to manage alongside the long hours and significant responsibility her work entails.
What does this mean? “Zohran Mamdani, the New York mayor, announced on 14 September that New York City, alongside several other major cities, will sue the Trump administration over a new rule that would make it more easy to deny green cards and visas to immigrants based on their need of public benefits”
Bill McLaren was always a great rugby commentator – one of the best, – way back before the bBC ’employed’ screeching nobodies to ruin the commentary and the spectacle…
Why’s Bodybags, looking like a prat, sitting in a kids mobility scooter?
Labour Member of Parliament for Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley.
LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO TAHIR ALI
Let me introduce you to the man sitting in the British Parliament right now, drawing a British salary, operating under a British party whip, enjoying the protection of British law, and using every single one of those privileges to serve causes… pic.twitter.com/kiZ3t0DlAK
In November 2024, during Prime Minister’s Questions, Tahir Ali stood up and asked Keir Starmer to “commit to introducing measures to prohibit the desecration of all religious texts and the prophets of the Abrahamic religions.”
He prefaced the question by citing Islamophobia Awareness Month. He cited a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution condemning desecration of the Koran.
He was asking for blasphemy law. In England. In 2024.”
BBC not showing any interest in this….but they still love stories of drag queens in junior schools……from the Mail which, despite the rape of a girl and still obviously being male in all aspects and being jailed in a male prison, still calls him ‘she’….
‘A transgender policewoman has confessed to raping a 15-year-old girl in a McDonald’s toilet in Germany.
Maja S., 55, confessed before the Traunstein Regional Court wearing handcuffs and leg irons amid the ongoing trial.
Around 2,000 files containing child and animal pornography were found in her possession, as well as a Kalashnikov rifle, according to the police.
The alleged criminal activity can be traced back to 2024, when she uploaded ‘pornographic material’ for paedophiles to the internet, including depictions of the abuse of three-year-old children.
Maja S., 55, confessed before the Traunstein Regional Court wearing handcuffs and leg irons amid the ongoing trial.’
But remember it’s just one man…don’t tar them all with the same brush….it’ll be perfectly safe to allow men into female changing rooms and toilets….and just one of those things if a girl gets raped….a necessary evil…be more tolerant and understanding…..and the same goes for placing over 1,000 foreign men from very different cultures next to a small village….if someone gets attacked or raped…well..sorry but you have to play your part.
I bet she knows all the top end motorhome specifications?
Astonishing. The SNP’s Collette Stevenson has been an MSP since 2021, and had already sat through two hours of this morning’s Transport Committee meeting, when she asked a jaw-dropping question:
BBC news
Extremely limited exposure to the bbc – but they have a new ‘fear ‘… this time it is AI – whatever that is – which might cause a silicon based species ….
So let’s add that to green crap ( another lie ) but ignore the real threat from Islam and the third world invaders ……
Yesterday I queued for one hour – one hour – to spend 2 minutes collecting cash I’d ordered online – a third world customer service operative and a third world buyer arguing – for an hour – tip – use tescos …. AI …really ? Just unplug it …
When we decided not to travel abroad again, and our passports lapsed, I took all our Euros to a Tesco near Maidstone.
They were charming there, very quick, and even changed a load of coins which I guess was never the norm!
AI’s very good at helping you to get information – as I wanted – to check out a large building project at ‘The Turrets’! Rumours that the bBC is actually an AI algorithm with far-left socialist issues are unfounded…
And AI freely admits when it’s just told you something wrong and you politely ask it to check that point .
“Good catch” it humbly says as it corrects itself.
Not something a BBC worker would ever freely do.
I guess this difference is a kind of reverse Turing test to verify you’re communicating with an almost sentient machine, rather than a totally brain dead far lefty.
Fed a bit late reading this, but a bit of advice if I may, if you have a foreign bank account, I’m assuming this as you seem to travel a lot, if you do have a foreign bank account and you need euros, cash a British cheque to yourself in your local bank. No messing with exchange rates, Credit Agricola, my bank in France, lets me know what rate I will be getting, usually the bank rate. In my French account within two days.Hope this may help.
Northern -thanks 😎 but what is a ‘cheque ‘? And what is a ‘local bank ‘? – I mentioned the ordeal of an hour wait because of a third world imbicile who didn’t know what he was doing – …
I like to get a few extra euros through research …. The best cash dealer – in the recent past has been the Covent Garden exchange …. I always physically get the money as a matter of trust….
But Sainsbury’s ? Never again – at least Tesco has ‘pre bagged ‘ sealed envelopes from travelex …. Thanks again …
Btw – I used to use moneycorp but their rates for bigger sums – not so good …
Im trying to get more foreign currency because sterling is gonna die ….
Ed Sheeran’s backing band and all of his support acts have pulled out of the artist’s US tour. The rapper was dropped from the line-up after making pro-Palestinian comments on stage. (BBC)
Oh, the rapper made “pro-Palestinian comments”, did he?
The musician, who’s full name is Ben Haggerty, was kicked off Sheeran’s tour following backlash from his “Free Palestine” messaging during his opening act at MetLife Stadium over the weekend. (Fox News)
Macklemore was dropped… following an overtly pro-Palestinian performance at MetLife Stadium that alienated many Jewish concertgoers, the tour’s promoter said (Times of Israel)
…in a speech told the crowd that part of his reason for joining the tour was to repeat that message before large audiences across the US… He then performed “Hind’s Hall,” his anti-Israel protest song… The song accuses Israel of genocide and apartheid, criticizes Zionism and rejects the argument that anti-Zionism amounts to antisemitism… as footage from Gaza, images of Israeli soldiers, and pro-Palestinian messages appeared on screens behind him… Several Israeli concertgoers told Hebrew-language media they felt blindsided and distressed by the performance. One attendee told Channel 12 that two 16-year-old Jewish girls nearby left the concert crying, while other Israelis told the Ynet news site that some members of their group departed before Sheeran took the stage… (Times of Israel)
So you buy your ticket and you turn up for a pop concert…
Israeli music festival: 260 bodies recovered from site where people fled in hail of bullets… Partygoers run as gunshots heard in Israel [BBC footage “Contains upsetting scenes”] (Francesca Gillet & Alice Cuddy, BBC News, in London and Ashkelon, 9 October 2023)
Why did rock concerts have to get so political?
It may be considered somewhat flippant but your Mr AsI’s mind goes to Tony Hancock’s The Blood Donor where met with nurse June Whitfield’s egalitarian remark to the effect: “Blood is the same the world over, you know” our indignant Anthony replies: “I did not come here for a lecture on communism!”
There was a time in days of yore when the Independent was a physical print newspaper – and it would have genuinely qualified for the BBC’s daily print press line-up. The other item of note – the key selling point, if you will, for this left-leaning serious broadsheet, was that it promised never to put a Royal story on its front cover.
Oh how times have changed. Low circulation has led to the Indy going virtual online-only. The BBC has included the left-leaning title in its otherwise print-only press line-up. And low and behold there’s Royal stories on the front cover – just like like all the rest.
Hamas tortures protester to death and leaves body on family’s doorstep
Terrorist group kidnaps Uday Al Rabbay shortly after he took part in protest against war in Gaza
Melanie Swan
Tel Aviv
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Published 30 March 2025 5:20pm BST
Why BBC doesn’t call Hamas militants ‘terrorists’ – John Simpson
Published
11 October 2023 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67083432 It’s simply not the BBC’s job to tell people who to support and who to condemn – who are the good guys and who are the bad guys.
Asiseeit – seems to be a lot of that ‘protest ‘ stuff about at pop concerts and footy games – there is the case of bape? Who sort of refused to wear a shirt showing support for that invaded Spanish ‘enclave ‘ – he seems to prefer invasion. – but being third world I suppose he would ….
What is ed Shearan ? Does it do good tunes ? I will stick to the Beatles thanks …
Here’s one for the oldies: the attention span of a gnat younger generation have come up with a new phrase –
“Marathoning an album”
listening to a full musical record from start to finish in one continuous session without skipping tracks.
They’d hate listening to vinyl on my turntable then. I have a Rega Planar which is fully manual. Switch it on the start the turntable and pick up the arm and put it in the record then take it off at the end. If you want to switch between 45s and 33s you need to take the acrylic layer and glass platter off and move the belt to a different pulley. They’d never listen to anything.
When I collected my late dad’s Sony Music System, (remember them), the turntable had a speed well above the 45 or 33 rpm requirement… (Perhaps I’d dropped it in the move…).
The only way I could get some sense out of it, was to take a wine bottle with a decent punt at the bottom, and sellotape a sort of cardboard cutout of ‘The Angel of The North’ on the neck, and then plonk it over the label on the turntable!
It did actually work, as the air pressure on the ‘arms’ just slowed the whole thing down, but it all looked utterly ridiculous! A good friend laughed his head off when I told him, but I got my own back on him by offering him a really rare piece of music which he dribbingly coveted – for free.
He couldn’t take up the offer, as it was on a C90 cassette…
NEW – Germany's former Chancellor Merkel suddenly reveals how Bill Gates exerted pressure on policymakers regarding vaccinations.pic.twitter.com/dvmZaOiMTp
Interesting – i use YouTube more than the bbc now – but x3 I have gone to watch something – only to be accosted by the sight of a Muslim third worlder making a ‘speech ‘… I think she might be the Marxist candidate for TTKs seat – labour must be spending serious money on the campaign- im not even a voter …
Btw – the woman is unusually ok at the engleesh and her cardboard public speaking has been well taught … the replacement …
YouTube is an improvement on the BBC …. but different… the BBC is divesting from radio broadcast of content to “wired” consumers and that lands straight in YouTube’s bailiwick… new boss at the BBC being a ex-Googler too.
– the logical path being GE-BBC license down the crapper-nobody subs- Google buy BBC.
My YouTube experience is that they manipulate content like weather – thick fog and impenetrable downpours of rubbish are a feature, not a bug …. Plenty of squirrels and deliberately misleading, time wasting cul de sac clickbait
Tomo – I’ve been barraged with 9/11 stuff – which I suppose only Americans would do – recreations of the last flight of the hi jacked planes – documentaries about why / how the towers came down …. The jumpers …. Just awful stuff .
Life is too short for the frankly mad conspiracy theories so not for me ….
Looks like the Bank of England is to leave interest rates for another month – this should nicely stoke up the inflation rate and make the economic crash even harder ….panic buy while stocks last ….
Understandable, as the “independent” BOE has probably identified this period as a special case (for the 50th time ) meaning their sole remit to keep inflation in check by raising rates doesn’t need to apply again.
Even Trump seems to be in on the ridiculous low rate train, moaning because their rares have just been raised a little.
In search of economic development in Kenya: Colonial legacies & post-independence realities Miatta Fahnbulleh
Economics, History
2006
The post-colonial period in Africa saw nationalist aspirations for development entangled with the quest for industrialisation. However, the national experiences of industrial and economic development in this era have been marked by varying degrees of disappointment. Kenya, like much of Africa, has failed to engender the levels of industrial growth and subsequent levels of development to which it aspired. Much of the explanations for Africa’s disappointing record of industrial development have focused on two central factors: the structural constraints on industrial development and the policies that were pursued. In many ways, these factors are inherently linked to a colonial legacy. Africa’s disappointing record of industrial and economic development cannot be divorced from its historical context. It is thus necessary to consider the extent to which the structures that were in place at the end of colonialism predetermined the pattern of development that would emerge in the post-independence era. When evaluating the post-independence experience of industrial development, two specific colonial legacies stand out as decisive: ‘colonial under-development’ and the ‘policy inheritance’. This article argues that although these legacies were profound, it was ultimately the dynamics of post-independence realities that determined the path of development.
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https://www.gov.uk/government/people/miatta-fahnbulleh
Education
Miatta studied philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford and obtained a PhD degree in economic development from the London School of Economics.
PhD degree in economic development IN AFRICA! HA HA AHAH A!
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I think I’ll stage a coup in Tunbridge Wells during that fiasco, as our MP is Mike Martin, and will hondootedly be up there with the whole sorry lot…
I guess their only way to ‘go back to their constituencies and prepare for government’, (David Steele), will be to get in bed with the Greens and Bodybags…
Top story in the world…..what Earl Spencer claims Charley-boy said.
BBC must be conflicted….always eager to have something to attack the Royal Family with but knowing it’s pretty much bo**ocks.
Would Charley-boy say to Diana’s brother after her death…don’t worry we’ll soon forget her?….and I imagine she’d be hard to forget for many reasons not least she being the mother of his two sons.
Is it just a coincidence that this book and serialisation are being published just as Harry and family come back to the UK to restart their feud with the Family? You might ask if there was a degree of coordination between Harry and Spencer.
Saved by Newts. Slimy Pond creatures are more important than people now.
Piddington migrant camp for 1250 men could be scrapped.
Zoologist Dr Claire Brenner says great crested newts bats and other protected species are on the old MoD site and the Home Office wildlife check is not fit for purpose.
Going ahead without a licence could be a wildlife crime
The Home Office still says no final decision has been taken and hotels are being closed.
Curiously the BBC hasn’t made comment on this yet despite the story being out there for a good while and being all over other media….one of the BBC’s favourite and most favoured issues and curiously silent on this so far…
‘Scrap the term ‘net zero’ — it’s too toxic, net zero committee urges’ ‘The term “net zero” should be scrapped because it has “become a lightning rod for opposition to climate action”, the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee has recommended.
The influential committee of MPs argued that the term has become toxic among the public, warning that the “political consensus” in the UK around tackling climate change had “broken down” and that cost of living pressures in Britain had led to a “scapegoating of the transition” to net zero. ‘
Pretty delusional and dishonest…but what can you expect from nut zero advocates?
It’s not the name that’s the problem so changing it will not alter the direction of travel regarding debate on the subject….and yep, nut zero is a big part of the cost of living crisis given how much it adds to our fuel bills and thus everything else that depends on fuel from manufacturing to delivery.
Times Radio had on the bloke who coined the phrase and the policy basically….an eye-opener as you realise just how arrogant and superior such people are. As the interview went on he got more and more dismissive and contemptuous of the little people and their views….’how pathetic’ he thought….but then that’s the attitude taken by all who demand we impose nut zero upon ourselves…from the Mad Monk Miliband to the BBC….the BBC that on several occasions wished that we had a political system like China’s where we could just impose everything without debate and scrutiny….though in actuality that does happen here…the nut zero law went through with essentially no scrutiny at all in Parliament and Miliband imposed new laws and regulations and spending plans in the most imperious manner…..the Tories were just as guilty fast-tracking the legislation in 2019…..and oh wait…they now want to reverse it. Bloody politicians….should stop making policies that are purely intended as a virtue signalling exercises and instead produce policies that actually benefit the people and the nation instead of destroying our industry and impoverishing us.
“‘Scrap the term ‘net zero’ — it’s too toxic, net zero committee urges’
‘The term “net zero” should be scrapped because it has “become a lightning rod for opposition to climate action”, the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee has recommended.
The influential committee of MPs argued that the term has become toxic among the public, warning that the “political consensus” in the UK around tackling climate change had “broken down” and that cost of living pressures in Britain had led to a “scapegoating of the transition” to net zero. ‘”
They been found out and are desperate to change the branding? An administrative purge and a lynch mob of annoyed taxpayers is obviously being imagined in some places.
They’ve done it too often (morph the language) – they should be pinned down and strangled.
Like constantly changing the name we have to use for homosexuals- due to the current lattest word having developed servere negative associations and toxicity – all down to it now being associated with homosexuals- 🤔
I appreciate that the independence “vote” in Piddington is a little tongue-in-cheek, but something occurred to me. The village is (Hopefully) due to expand greatly, and this will include over a thousand single men of voting age. Any future ballots will have to include them, no? I’m thinking of unlimited white slags for M0slems, the right to sh1t in anybodys garden, shoplifting special days in the local minimart.
The whole place could be transformed in a few short weeks.
“If we keep holding people here in idleness for a very long period of time, then we are going to have problems wherever we put them.”
Edwina Currie seeks to clarify her ‘tongue-in-cheek’ suggestion that a brothel would be needed in the Oxfordshire village close to where asylum seekers could be housed, and even has another suggestion – use the famed ‘asylum hotels’ as courts to help “send them home”
“It tells the tale of a woman whom they call “Anne Marie”, and whose face is obscured, who bribed a housing association allocations officer to bump her up the waiting list. She was introduced to the officer by a fixer, and gave them £1,500, apparently due to her frustration after spending 11 years waiting with her two children to be given a social home. The officer accepted the bribe, then began the process of expediting the granting of the home, but when they demanded more money a few weeks later, Anne Marie threatened to go to the police. As a result, she got her £1,500 back and was housed by the association, apparently without further incident. ”
“Despite the scale of the investigation, Sky News revealed only a single case identified by Barking and Dagenham’s council, which seems to have been a housing officer trying to allocate a house to himself. This is because FOIA’s can only be used on public bodies and B&D Reside is technically a private company.”
London’s social housing is, however, disproportionately occupied by non-White British families, and all of the boroughs in Sky News story are majority non-White.
Rates left alone – looks like a nightmare Christmas . The Healey character is gonna need some Peruvian marching power to ‘ talk up ‘ prospects for the zero growth over borrowed failing state …
It’s that old line about a democrat being a republican who hasn’t been mugged yet …
The British criminal justice system just isn’t equipped to deal with the current level of offending – yet alone what is coming down the line as the uniparty connives in the invasion .
Doxing ? Of RNLI – border force staff is an inevitable desperation in the absence of any state control – with – of course the inevitable killing of invaders and destruction of their rat holes … something I see coming – but of course – could never condone – for the record 77 brigade – RICU … state monitors …
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 1 days
Research summary
The study is looking to see the sexual behaviour of HIV positive men who have sex with men in the UK, Greece and Spain. In particular, we’ll be looking at how common ‘Chemsex’ is amongst men who have sex with men who are attending a clinic for HIV care, in clinics in the UK, Greece and Spain. ‘Chemsex’ is the use of certain drugs (crystal meth, ketamine, mephedrone, cocaine and GHB/GBL) when having sex. It is an anonymous questionnaire, so no personal details are collected, and it will not be seen by the doctor or nurse nor recorded in the patient’s notes. There will be some questions about whether participants use ‘Chems’ and also about sexual behaviour, sexually transmitted infections and a few details about HIV treatment. There will also be questions about general physical and mental health and whether there are services available if there is a perceived problem related to using ‘Chems’.
Why did the Archbishop of Canterbury honour a Muslim cleric who gave Bin Laden a ‘Sword of God’ award?
The man on the right is Hafiz Tahir Ashraf I. He is the chairman of the Pakistan Ulema Council – a group of Islamic scholars.
The lady next to him is his wife.
It said Ashrafi had remained actively engaged for decades in bringing religious and sectarian communities closer, promoting mutual respect, defending the rights of minorities and vulnerable communities, and advocating peaceful coexistence while remaining firmly committed to his faith and Islamic identity.
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Comment “England has fallen without a shot being fired.”
Comment “0:42 I thought the thumbnail image was an AI generated one because it looks so ridiculous, but it’s real. These are crazy times indeed.”
Here is the piece in the Friday telegraph about the decision of the so called ‘archbishop ‘ to withdraw the award from this friend of bin laden ….
STARTS Lambeth Palace has withdrawn an “interfaith” award the Archbishop of Canterbury gave on the anniversary of 9/11 to an Islamic cleric who honoured Osama bin Laden.
Dame Sarah Mullally presented the “reconciliation and interfaith” award to Hafiz Tahir Ashrafi, chairman of the Pakistan Ulema Council, a group of Islamic scholars, at a ceremony at Lambeth Palace on Sept 11.
Mr Ashrafi’s council awarded Bin Laden its highest honour in response to the UK Government giving Salman Rushdie a knighthood in 2007, describing him as a “Muslim warrior”.
The cleric praised Bin Laden, whose terror group killed 2,977 people in the 9/11 attacks, for targeting British people
If a blasphemer can be given the title ‘Sir’ by the West … then a mujahid who has been fighting for Islam against the Russians, Americans and British must be given the lofty title of Islam, Saifullah,” Reuters reported him as saying.
Saifullah is an honorific originally awarded for military prowess and is an Islamic name that means sword of God.
Mr Ashrafi told the AFP news agency at the time: “We are pleased to award the title of Saifullah to Osama bin Laden after the British government decides to bestow the title of ‘Sir’ on blasphemer Rushdie. This is the highest title for a Muslim warrior.”
He also described suicide bombings in Afghanistan as lawful, supported Islamic blasphemy laws, which carry the death penalty, and claimed Jewish people and Christians were using the war in Iran to target Iran’s nuclear weapons.
Lambeth Palace said in a statement on Thursday evening that the award had been withdrawn.
It said: “The award was given for Imam Ashrafi’s longstanding support for religious minorities in Pakistan, particularly the Christian community – support that is valued by many Christians in Pakistan including its Anglican Church.
“It is a longstanding principle of interfaith dialogue and co-operation that we must engage with one another across deeply-held differences, and that remains the case.
“However, previous comments made by Imam Ashrafi have come to light that have led Lambeth Palace to reconsider this award and we can now confirm today that the award has been withdrawn. We have contacted Imam Ashrafi to make him aware of this decision.”
‘The naivety of the Archbishop is staggering’
Nick Timothy, the shadow justice secretary, said: “The naivety of the Archbishop in presenting an award to someone who openly praised Osama bin Laden is staggering – and on the anniversary of 9/11, too.
“Our leaders must face up to the reality that not all cultures are based on the same foundations as ours, and not all share our desire for co-operation and freedom.
“Western political and religious leaders should stand up vigorously for our own values and achievements, rather than apologising for our history or celebrating those who seek to do us harm.”
Travis Frain, a survivor of the 2017 Westminster Bridge terror attack and founder of the Resilience in Unity Project, the terror-victim support group, said it was a “grave misjudgment” by the Church.
“Giving an award for ‘interfaith and reconciliation’ to a man who honoured Osama Bin Laden, the architect of misery for so many of all faiths and a man responsible for thousands of deaths, shows a grave misjudgement by the Church – made even more egregious by the fact that this award was given on the 25th Anniversary of the September 11th Attacks,” he said.
“I would urge the Archbishop to meet with victims of terrorism to appreciate the hurt that this award may have caused, and to understand the real work being led by hundreds of brave survivors across the country to bring people together of different faiths and backgrounds under the banner of preventing the spread of radicalisation – far apart from those would seek to honour the perpetrators of these heinous attacks.”
Tim Dieppe, head of public policy at Christian Concern, said: “The absurdity of this beggars belief. How can a Christian leader give an award for reconciliation to someone who has honoured Osama Bin Laden? To someone who supports the draconian blasphemy laws in Pakistan which are a source of persecution of Christians? Mullally is clearly uninformed about both Ashrafi and about Islam.
“The only justification for meeting such a man is to pressure him about the treatment of Christians in Pakistan. There is absolutely no justification for giving him an award. Mullally should issue an immediate apology to Christians who are being persecuted in Pakistan. She should call for an end to the draconian blasphemy laws there.”
The Rev Dr Ian Paul, an Anglican theologian and member of the General Synod, said: “I understand that, in Pakistan, he has contributed to reconciliation. But I think members of the Church of England will struggle to make sense of this in the light of his past statements about blasphemy, the death penalty, and suicide bombings, and how he is accompanied by a woman in a niqab.
“It will do harm both to the confidence of Anglicans in their own church and to the reputation of the Church of England among both its critics and its supporters.”
A spokesman for Mr Ashrafi and his council said his remarks had been taken “out of context”.
He said: “Our position against terrorism, extremism, suicide attacks and the killing of innocent people is clear and unequivocal. We have consistently worked for peace, moderation and interfaith harmony.”ENDS
The bbc – – briefly – reports this story – there is no mention of calls for the ‘archbishop ‘ to resign – which in the circumstance should happen – i mean the muppet gave this vermin the award on the 25th anniversary on 9/11.
One might suspect that the emir of Windsor / one of his Muslim staff is behind this – surely he must have authorised / known about it ….
An attempt to bolster Canada and the EU’s resilience by forging closer ties in the face of global threats – which Carney said includes trade tariffs
A first step towards closer collaboration in a range of areas, from energy security to cybersecurity and student exchange programmes
What it isn’t…
This isn’t an attempt to become a full member of the EU, Carney told reporters, adding: “It’s a different framework”
It’s also not an attempt to create what Carney refers to as a “third bloc”. He said “we do not seek power to dominate others”
What we don’t yet know…
What form this partnership will take. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said yesterday that she’d opened the door for Canada to become the EU’s first “associate member” – an ambition which Carney welcomed today. But asked if he was comfortable with that term, Carney told reporters “what matters is the substance”
The timeline for closer ties. Associate member status doesn’t currently exist and, if agreed, could take years to implement. Further details have been promised at a summit in Montreal at the end of October
associate member??? No fees?
“we do not seek power to dominate others”
Kate Smith made a racist record in the 1930’s – be careful out there.
SteynPost #29: Year Zero
Mark Steyn |118k subscribers
Comment ““Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” – Orwell, 1984”
One of those characteristics of the time – a coloured lefty yank women – a bbc favourite died – the bbc was distraught – so I looked for the comments in the telegraph obituary – obviously not the obit itself as I care less – but guess what – no comments allowed
This creature was an approved regular on QT and the like – another for avoiding it – but cancelled – more valuable people ?- David starkey – steyn No sign …..
Sánchez has said he wants to bring 10,000 of the Cueta invaders into Spain. They will then be able to roam around the EU, & catch a dinghy here.@AdaLluch has been talking to & filming these men. They will end up here too. https://t.co/ZYl7DMmzNA
Dec '25 to July '26, Angela Rayner received £150,000 from 'Refrigeration House Ltd' for 'staffing costs'. The July 2026 accounts show: – zero staff – £62,733 net assets A company with no employees make a huge political donation exceeding it's assets to Rayner? Does it add up!? pic.twitter.com/k3D8ZHeZYB
That’s all the Church of England knows what to do anymore: obsequious grovelling apologies for things nothing to do with them.
Meanwhile the pews are emptying and the rotten Church will soon be dead, and replaced by the more ‘muscular’ Islam.
Religion, Evangelical Potestantism that is, is growing here in NI Vlad, especially amongst teenagers and young adults.
Kind of like the Christian fundamentalism that is growing in the States, where many of those involved have ancestral links to the north of Ireland
I agree, it’s the established churches pushing ‘the Message’ that are under threat.
If this silly old sod had any knowledge of history he would know that no British troops were involved. The shootings were carried out by the Indian Army, sometimes referred to as the British Indian Army, a separate entity to the British Army. The troops consisted of Sikhs and Nepalese Gurkhas. They were commanded by Colonel Reginald Dyer, who had been born in the Punjab and therefore, by modern standards was every bit as Indian as Mahatma Gandhi. In much the same way as Shabana Mahmood, Rishi Sunak, Meera Syal and Naga Munchetty (real name Subha Nagalakshmi Munchetty-Chendriah) are all British.
Warwickshire County Council’s own payment files show £11.76m paid to Sandeep Cabs for taking children and young people to school and college between 16 January 2023 and 29 April 2026.
This is the council transport system used by eligible pupils, including children with SEND.… pic.twitter.com/jnK5WJTAW6
“War effort on insulation and electrification” – bomb it into submission?
“Accelerate social cohesion plan” – invite more people on boats in?
They are summarised in a long list below:
Publish defence investment plan
Regulate more online political material
State-sponsored threat proscription law
Support gas-intensive chemicals production
Incentivise UK AI companies to stay
Secure critical mineral supply
Powers to suspend regulations to drive growth
Radical planning reform
Delay fuel duty rise
Ease red tape to lower food costs
VAT cut on summer family attractions
New digital childcare tool
Anti-profiteering framework
CMA review on unfair childcare costs
Leasehold cost reform
Neighbourhood services guarantee
House buying process cost reduction
Accelerate social cohesion plan
Halve “extra-curricular” participation gap
Ban social media for under 16s
Back residential conversion on high streets
Private finance to revive town centres
National AI security programme
AI biodefence lab
More cuts to adult apprenticeships to fund young people
New Help to Buy scheme
Reform high marginal tax rates
Social care profit cap
CMA investigation on private equity in SEND and social care
Pension funds prioritise UK equities
Let public corps borrow against future revenue Leeds and Birmingham trams
War effort on insulation and electrification
Move bad energy debt from bills to Treasury
Support Rolls-Royce narrowbody bid
Accelerate SMR programme
Opportunity-based welfare reform
Reform water industry
Reform capital and property tax Conclude new EU deal
Increase North Sea production
Link North Sea revenues to lower bills
Ease electric vehicle mandate Guarantee new North Sea energy used domestically
Tackle “dodgy” high street shops
Public transport discounts
Energy bill support
Fiscal devolution to mayors
Fingleton approach to infrastructure
Procure more from British firms
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Spanish Guardia Civil ship operating off Boulogne / Calais / Dunkirk
WTF

I dreamt of a King on his steed on Kent beaches slashing dinghies with his sabre then swimming across the channel to the source of the invasion, the Jupiter King President Macron.
I awoke to a King swirling in a toilet like a discarded tampax, the the last words of the tampax King where “We have no borders, windfarms are a blot but bring me money. Inshallah.”
tomo
Have the Spanish Guardia gone there to stop the boats?
Stop the boats ? not likely !
So… essentially, easy to assign its tasking to Brussels controlled border meddling. Lithuanians lined up from November apparently.
Creeping sovietisation of EU member states.
Canadians show up shortly?
Excellent news
The burnham Marxists have paid off the comrade teachers again to stop them going on strike again . And there’s me wanting to end state schools …
As expected the bbc is giving more coverage to a dead coloured lefty critic than they did to Ann Widdecombe – who was none of the above .bbc really is like poison .
The deranged doom pixie laying into Ed Sheeran wasn’t on my 2026 bingo card
Owen Jones – cancel culture is not real.
“Greta Thunberg leads pro-Palestinian backlash against Ed Sheeran”
Imagine having a border and no extra people visiting (for life) Piddington? HA HAH AH AH AH AH!
How many of the cabinet are on the jabs? Just seen Lisa Nandy, half the woman she was a few weeks ago. Same applies to Louise Haigh and Angie Rayner. I hope they are not getting them on the NHS.
If they overdose does that mean they actually disappear ? (clutching at straws here)
Debs you don’t say what the jabs were for: Flu? Covid? Something else?
I was replying to fellow poster Debs but the site software placed it here!
An MP says she has been diagnosed with an *autoimmune condition* months after returning to work following a “life-threatening” illness.
Chippenham MP Sarah Gibson was in intensive care at Bath’s Royal United Hospital (RUH) after a viral infection to her heart over Christmas last year.
In March she started a phased return to work in Westminster but has now said she needs to be back at the hospital for a “short period of monitored treatment”.
She added her recovery has “proved slower than I anticipated”.
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In December, RUH staff told Ms Gibson they were unsure if she would recover after contracting *pericarditis* following the flu.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1j51012wl5o
Labour MP Ashley Dalton, who was diagnosed in 2025 with advanced breast *cancer*, speaks out against the Assisted Dying Bill,
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An MP has announced that she will be taking “several weeks” off from work to recover from mental and physical health symptoms relating to burnout.
Carla Denyer, who represents Bristol Central, said she made the “difficult” decision to take time off after advice from her doctor.
Denyer said she had been struggling with persistent health issues, which she attempted to manage alongside the long hours and significant responsibility her work entails.
What does this mean? “Zohran Mamdani, the New York mayor, announced on 14 September that New York City, alongside several other major cities, will sue the Trump administration over a new rule that would make it more easy to deny green cards and visas to immigrants based on their need of public benefits”
“on their need of public benefits?”
Comment “UK needs to learn from this.”
“Immigrants are New Yorkers, to get to any of us you will have to get through all of us”
– Zohran Mamdani, the New York mayor
“1000 new jobs support 1000 more across the supply chain”
“Andy Burnham tests out a McLaren”
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McLaren is owned by two Gulf state sovereign wealth funds, with ownership split between its automotive and racing divisions. [1] (https://www.quantumrun.com/consulting/who-owns-mclaren/)
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McLaren to invest $675 million to expand UK manufacturing, launch SUV model
By Nick Carey
September 16, 20269:02 AM GMT+1Updated 11 hours ago
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https://www.gov.uk/government/news/boost-for-uk-auto-sector-as-mclaren-unleashes-500m-investment-to-help-reindustrialise-britain
The UK’s automotive industry is set for a major boost as high-performance car manufacturer McLaren Automotive announces it will expand its UK footprint and create 1,000 new high-quality jobs by 2032.
This investment builds on £4 billion of government investment into the wider automotive sector by 2035
£4 billion of government investment???????
Bill McLaren was always a great rugby commentator – one of the best, – way back before the bBC ’employed’ screeching nobodies to ruin the commentary and the spectacle…
Why’s Bodybags, looking like a prat, sitting in a kids mobility scooter?
McLaren to invest $675 million … £4 billion of government investment… when they say invest do they mean a free loan never to be paid back?
Wikkid Wushinz attacking Europe
Looks like the vaunted Leipzig airport Russian drone attack used a Temu drone.
Labour Member of Parliament for Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley.
tomo
Another nail in Labour’s coffin.
‘Reform’ is the way to go.
“BLASPHEMY LAWS. IN ENGLAND.
In November 2024, during Prime Minister’s Questions, Tahir Ali stood up and asked Keir Starmer to “commit to introducing measures to prohibit the desecration of all religious texts and the prophets of the Abrahamic religions.”
He prefaced the question by citing Islamophobia Awareness Month. He cited a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution condemning desecration of the Koran.
He was asking for blasphemy law. In England. In 2024.”
BBC not showing any interest in this….but they still love stories of drag queens in junior schools……from the Mail which, despite the rape of a girl and still obviously being male in all aspects and being jailed in a male prison, still calls him ‘she’….
‘A transgender policewoman has confessed to raping a 15-year-old girl in a McDonald’s toilet in Germany.
Maja S., 55, confessed before the Traunstein Regional Court wearing handcuffs and leg irons amid the ongoing trial.
Around 2,000 files containing child and animal pornography were found in her possession, as well as a Kalashnikov rifle, according to the police.
The alleged criminal activity can be traced back to 2024, when she uploaded ‘pornographic material’ for paedophiles to the internet, including depictions of the abuse of three-year-old children.
Maja S., 55, confessed before the Traunstein Regional Court wearing handcuffs and leg irons amid the ongoing trial.’
But remember it’s just one man…don’t tar them all with the same brush….it’ll be perfectly safe to allow men into female changing rooms and toilets….and just one of those things if a girl gets raped….a necessary evil…be more tolerant and understanding…..and the same goes for placing over 1,000 foreign men from very different cultures next to a small village….if someone gets attacked or raped…well..sorry but you have to play your part.
You cannot un-rape a child.
No, you can’t. But you can hang a perpetrator.
I bet she knows all the top end motorhome specifications?
https://www.parliament.scot/msps/current-and-previous-msps/collette-stevenson
https://www.parliament.scot/msps/register-of-interests
Special rules for Muslims in NY.
And you think the same isn’t happening in UK?
BBC news
Extremely limited exposure to the bbc – but they have a new ‘fear ‘… this time it is AI – whatever that is – which might cause a silicon based species ….
So let’s add that to green crap ( another lie ) but ignore the real threat from Islam and the third world invaders ……
Yesterday I queued for one hour – one hour – to spend 2 minutes collecting cash I’d ordered online – a third world customer service operative and a third world buyer arguing – for an hour – tip – use tescos …. AI …really ? Just unplug it …
When we decided not to travel abroad again, and our passports lapsed, I took all our Euros to a Tesco near Maidstone.
They were charming there, very quick, and even changed a load of coins which I guess was never the norm!
AI’s very good at helping you to get information – as I wanted – to check out a large building project at ‘The Turrets’! Rumours that the bBC is actually an AI algorithm with far-left socialist issues are unfounded…
And AI freely admits when it’s just told you something wrong and you politely ask it to check that point .
“Good catch” it humbly says as it corrects itself.
Not something a BBC worker would ever freely do.
I guess this difference is a kind of reverse Turing test to verify you’re communicating with an almost sentient machine, rather than a totally brain dead far lefty.
Fed a bit late reading this, but a bit of advice if I may, if you have a foreign bank account, I’m assuming this as you seem to travel a lot, if you do have a foreign bank account and you need euros, cash a British cheque to yourself in your local bank. No messing with exchange rates, Credit Agricola, my bank in France, lets me know what rate I will be getting, usually the bank rate. In my French account within two days.Hope this may help.
Northern -thanks 😎 but what is a ‘cheque ‘? And what is a ‘local bank ‘? – I mentioned the ordeal of an hour wait because of a third world imbicile who didn’t know what he was doing – …
I like to get a few extra euros through research …. The best cash dealer – in the recent past has been the Covent Garden exchange …. I always physically get the money as a matter of trust….
But Sainsbury’s ? Never again – at least Tesco has ‘pre bagged ‘ sealed envelopes from travelex …. Thanks again …
Btw – I used to use moneycorp but their rates for bigger sums – not so good …
Im trying to get more foreign currency because sterling is gonna die ….
In showbiz news…
Ed Sheeran’s backing band and all of his support acts have pulled out of the artist’s US tour. The rapper was dropped from the line-up after making pro-Palestinian comments on stage. (BBC)
Oh, the rapper made “pro-Palestinian comments”, did he?
The musician, who’s full name is Ben Haggerty, was kicked off Sheeran’s tour following backlash from his “Free Palestine” messaging during his opening act at MetLife Stadium over the weekend. (Fox News)
Macklemore was dropped… following an overtly pro-Palestinian performance at MetLife Stadium that alienated many Jewish concertgoers, the tour’s promoter said (Times of Israel)
…in a speech told the crowd that part of his reason for joining the tour was to repeat that message before large audiences across the US… He then performed “Hind’s Hall,” his anti-Israel protest song… The song accuses Israel of genocide and apartheid, criticizes Zionism and rejects the argument that anti-Zionism amounts to antisemitism… as footage from Gaza, images of Israeli soldiers, and pro-Palestinian messages appeared on screens behind him… Several Israeli concertgoers told Hebrew-language media they felt blindsided and distressed by the performance. One attendee told Channel 12 that two 16-year-old Jewish girls nearby left the concert crying, while other Israelis told the Ynet news site that some members of their group departed before Sheeran took the stage… (Times of Israel)
So you buy your ticket and you turn up for a pop concert…
Israeli music festival: 260 bodies recovered from site where people fled in hail of bullets… Partygoers run as gunshots heard in Israel [BBC footage “Contains upsetting scenes”] (Francesca Gillet & Alice Cuddy, BBC News, in London and Ashkelon, 9 October 2023)
Why did rock concerts have to get so political?
It may be considered somewhat flippant but your Mr AsI’s mind goes to Tony Hancock’s The Blood Donor where met with nurse June Whitfield’s egalitarian remark to the effect: “Blood is the same the world over, you know” our indignant Anthony replies: “I did not come here for a lecture on communism!”
There was a time in days of yore when the Independent was a physical print newspaper – and it would have genuinely qualified for the BBC’s daily print press line-up. The other item of note – the key selling point, if you will, for this left-leaning serious broadsheet, was that it promised never to put a Royal story on its front cover.
Oh how times have changed. Low circulation has led to the Indy going virtual online-only. The BBC has included the left-leaning title in its otherwise print-only press line-up. And low and behold there’s Royal stories on the front cover – just like like all the rest.
Hamas tortures protester to death and leaves body on family’s doorstep
Terrorist group kidnaps Uday Al Rabbay shortly after he took part in protest against war in Gaza
Melanie Swan
Tel Aviv
Show biography
Published 30 March 2025 5:20pm BST
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/03/30/hamas-beat-protester-death-oday-al-rabbay-gaza-doorstep
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Why BBC doesn’t call Hamas militants ‘terrorists’ – John Simpson
Published
11 October 2023
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67083432
It’s simply not the BBC’s job to tell people who to support and who to condemn – who are the good guys and who are the bad guys.
UK among worst in Western Europe for freedom of press after ‘staggering decline’, Reporters Without Borders index claims {independent 25apr2018}
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-among-worst-western-europe-freedom-press-reporters-without-borders-index-a8320691.html
Asiseeit – seems to be a lot of that ‘protest ‘ stuff about at pop concerts and footy games – there is the case of bape? Who sort of refused to wear a shirt showing support for that invaded Spanish ‘enclave ‘ – he seems to prefer invasion. – but being third world I suppose he would ….
What is ed Shearan ? Does it do good tunes ? I will stick to the Beatles thanks …
Give them AK47 and send them to solve the problem!
Here’s one for the oldies: the attention span of a gnat younger generation have come up with a new phrase –
“Marathoning an album”
listening to a full musical record from start to finish in one continuous session without skipping tracks.
They’d hate listening to vinyl on my turntable then. I have a Rega Planar which is fully manual. Switch it on the start the turntable and pick up the arm and put it in the record then take it off at the end. If you want to switch between 45s and 33s you need to take the acrylic layer and glass platter off and move the belt to a different pulley. They’d never listen to anything.
When I collected my late dad’s Sony Music System, (remember them), the turntable had a speed well above the 45 or 33 rpm requirement… (Perhaps I’d dropped it in the move…).
The only way I could get some sense out of it, was to take a wine bottle with a decent punt at the bottom, and sellotape a sort of cardboard cutout of ‘The Angel of The North’ on the neck, and then plonk it over the label on the turntable!
It did actually work, as the air pressure on the ‘arms’ just slowed the whole thing down, but it all looked utterly ridiculous! A good friend laughed his head off when I told him, but I got my own back on him by offering him a really rare piece of music which he dribbingly coveted – for free.
He couldn’t take up the offer, as it was on a C90 cassette…
Interesting – i use YouTube more than the bbc now – but x3 I have gone to watch something – only to be accosted by the sight of a Muslim third worlder making a ‘speech ‘… I think she might be the Marxist candidate for TTKs seat – labour must be spending serious money on the campaign- im not even a voter …
Btw – the woman is unusually ok at the engleesh and her cardboard public speaking has been well taught … the replacement …
“Richmond Park MP Sarah Olney said she wants to be London’s mayor”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd087m2zvnjo
YouTube is an improvement on the BBC …. but different… the BBC is divesting from radio broadcast of content to “wired” consumers and that lands straight in YouTube’s bailiwick… new boss at the BBC being a ex-Googler too.
– the logical path being GE-BBC license down the crapper-nobody subs- Google buy BBC.
My YouTube experience is that they manipulate content like weather – thick fog and impenetrable downpours of rubbish are a feature, not a bug …. Plenty of squirrels and deliberately misleading, time wasting cul de sac clickbait
Tomo – I’ve been barraged with 9/11 stuff – which I suppose only Americans would do – recreations of the last flight of the hi jacked planes – documentaries about why / how the towers came down …. The jumpers …. Just awful stuff .
Life is too short for the frankly mad conspiracy theories so not for me ….
Excellent news
Looks like the Bank of England is to leave interest rates for another month – this should nicely stoke up the inflation rate and make the economic crash even harder ….panic buy while stocks last ….
Understandable, as the “independent” BOE has probably identified this period as a special case (for the 50th time ) meaning their sole remit to keep inflation in check by raising rates doesn’t need to apply again.
Even Trump seems to be in on the ridiculous low rate train, moaning because their rares have just been raised a little.
Monetary committee wants to stay in bodybags ‘good books as long as they can …
UK Energy Secretary…..
In search of economic development in Kenya: Colonial legacies & post-independence realities
Miatta Fahnbulleh
Economics, History
2006
The post-colonial period in Africa saw nationalist aspirations for development entangled with the quest for industrialisation. However, the national experiences of industrial and economic development in this era have been marked by varying degrees of disappointment. Kenya, like much of Africa, has failed to engender the levels of industrial growth and subsequent levels of development to which it aspired. Much of the explanations for Africa’s disappointing record of industrial development have focused on two central factors: the structural constraints on industrial development and the policies that were pursued. In many ways, these factors are inherently linked to a colonial legacy. Africa’s disappointing record of industrial and economic development cannot be divorced from its historical context. It is thus necessary to consider the extent to which the structures that were in place at the end of colonialism predetermined the pattern of development that would emerge in the post-independence era. When evaluating the post-independence experience of industrial development, two specific colonial legacies stand out as decisive: ‘colonial under-development’ and the ‘policy inheritance’. This article argues that although these legacies were profound, it was ultimately the dynamics of post-independence realities that determined the path of development.
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https://www.gov.uk/government/people/miatta-fahnbulleh
Education
Miatta studied philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford and obtained a PhD degree in economic development from the London School of Economics.
PhD degree in economic development IN AFRICA! HA HA AHAH A!
Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Secretary of State has overall responsibility for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
Another Oxbridge PPE crack-head and then straight into the Fabian founded LSE.
X3 kids at private school – husband a hedge fund /insider dealer? – reports ….
Lib Dem Conference sponsors….Lloyds Bank, Bloomberg, Xero, Cadent,
https://www.libdems.org.uk/a26-directory
Exhibitors….
His Majesty’s Government
of Gibraltar 29 ALDE Party
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6 The Property Institute 35 Racial Diversity Campaign
9 Arthritis UK 36 National Secular Society
10 Epilepsy Society 37 Young Lives vs Cancer
11 Electrical Safety First 38 Liberal Reform
23 National Liberal Club 39 Lib Dem Business Network
and Liberty Network
24 Lib Dem Education
Association* 40 Lib Dem Friends of
Kashmir
25 Rights-Liberties-Justice 41 Chinese, East & South East
Asian Lib Dems*
26 Co-operative Council’s
Innovation Network 46 Times Radio
27 Lib Dems for Growth H1 Prater Raines Ltd
28 Keep Britain Tidy H2 Humanist and Secularist
Lib Dems*
LibSTEMM* H16 Lib Dem Christian Forum*
H4 Parliamentary Candidates
Association*
H17
&18 Social Liberal Forum
H5 ALTER* H20 Green Lib Dems*
H6 Liberal Software H21 Lib Dem Campaign for
Racial Equality*
H7 Lib Dem Friends of
Ukraine*
H22 Liberal Voice for Women
H8 Lib Dems for Electoral
Reform* H23 Lib Dem Disability
Association*
H9 Lib Dem Women* H24 Lib Dem Friends of Hong
Kong*
H10 LGBT+ Lib Dems* H25 Liberator Magazine
H11 Young Liberals* H26
Lib Dem European Group*
& Liberal International
British Group
H12 Lib Dems Abroad H27 ALDC* & LGA Lib Dems
H13 Lib Dem History Group HQ Lib Dem HQ Staff
H14 Lib Dem Friends of Armed
Forces* LDI Lib Dem Image
H15 Lib Dem Friends of
Palestine*
I think I’ll stage a coup in Tunbridge Wells during that fiasco, as our MP is Mike Martin, and will hondootedly be up there with the whole sorry lot…
I guess their only way to ‘go back to their constituencies and prepare for government’, (David Steele), will be to get in bed with the Greens and Bodybags…
That’ll be fun.
SpaceX – “Holy Grail Of Rocketry” Documentary 4K
Launch Heaven
20.7k subscribers
“SpaceX has invested more than $15 billion (£11 billion) into the development of the Starship programme.”
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The total expected cost of the High Speed 2 (HS2) rail project ranges between £87.7 billion and £102.7 billion (in 2025 prices).
Move to Ceuta when you sell your Piddington house … oh wait…

Plenty of migrants who’d love to move in.
Plenty of tax wasting lanyard wearers waiting to snap up devalued property using your money… for bonuses obviously….
There might be a real-estate dynamic that aligns with HS2 property blight?
I’m sure the government would pay for the houses.
Top story in the world…..what Earl Spencer claims Charley-boy said.
BBC must be conflicted….always eager to have something to attack the Royal Family with but knowing it’s pretty much bo**ocks.
Would Charley-boy say to Diana’s brother after her death…don’t worry we’ll soon forget her?….and I imagine she’d be hard to forget for many reasons not least she being the mother of his two sons.
Is it just a coincidence that this book and serialisation are being published just as Harry and family come back to the UK to restart their feud with the Family? You might ask if there was a degree of coordination between Harry and Spencer.
Bread – circuses….
Squirrels darting around
Saved by Newts. Slimy Pond creatures are more important than people now.
Piddington migrant camp for 1250 men could be scrapped.
Zoologist Dr Claire Brenner says great crested newts bats and other protected species are on the old MoD site and the Home Office wildlife check is not fit for purpose.
Going ahead without a licence could be a wildlife crime
The Home Office still says no final decision has been taken and hotels are being closed.
Colonists would probably eat them….newts not residents…though…
BBC Packham to opine on migrant related wildlife risks shortly?
BBC Packham to live in a hole to avoid using concrete that is destroying the world.
The most lefty middle class excuse ever.
Curiously the BBC hasn’t made comment on this yet despite the story being out there for a good while and being all over other media….one of the BBC’s favourite and most favoured issues and curiously silent on this so far…
‘Scrap the term ‘net zero’ — it’s too toxic, net zero committee urges’
‘The term “net zero” should be scrapped because it has “become a lightning rod for opposition to climate action”, the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee has recommended.
The influential committee of MPs argued that the term has become toxic among the public, warning that the “political consensus” in the UK around tackling climate change had “broken down” and that cost of living pressures in Britain had led to a “scapegoating of the transition” to net zero. ‘
Pretty delusional and dishonest…but what can you expect from nut zero advocates?
It’s not the name that’s the problem so changing it will not alter the direction of travel regarding debate on the subject….and yep, nut zero is a big part of the cost of living crisis given how much it adds to our fuel bills and thus everything else that depends on fuel from manufacturing to delivery.
Times Radio had on the bloke who coined the phrase and the policy basically….an eye-opener as you realise just how arrogant and superior such people are. As the interview went on he got more and more dismissive and contemptuous of the little people and their views….’how pathetic’ he thought….but then that’s the attitude taken by all who demand we impose nut zero upon ourselves…from the Mad Monk Miliband to the BBC….the BBC that on several occasions wished that we had a political system like China’s where we could just impose everything without debate and scrutiny….though in actuality that does happen here…the nut zero law went through with essentially no scrutiny at all in Parliament and Miliband imposed new laws and regulations and spending plans in the most imperious manner…..the Tories were just as guilty fast-tracking the legislation in 2019…..and oh wait…they now want to reverse it. Bloody politicians….should stop making policies that are purely intended as a virtue signalling exercises and instead produce policies that actually benefit the people and the nation instead of destroying our industry and impoverishing us.
“‘Scrap the term ‘net zero’ — it’s too toxic, net zero committee urges’
‘The term “net zero” should be scrapped because it has “become a lightning rod for opposition to climate action”, the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee has recommended.
The influential committee of MPs argued that the term has become toxic among the public, warning that the “political consensus” in the UK around tackling climate change had “broken down” and that cost of living pressures in Britain had led to a “scapegoating of the transition” to net zero. ‘”
https://memory-holed-news.blogspot.com/2023/05/we-demand-that-for-650-mps-who-get.html
They been found out and are desperate to change the branding? An administrative purge and a lynch mob of annoyed taxpayers is obviously being imagined in some places.
They’ve done it too often (morph the language) – they should be pinned down and strangled.
Like constantly changing the name we have to use for homosexuals- due to the current lattest word having developed servere negative associations and toxicity – all down to it now being associated with homosexuals- 🤔
Join the EU, remove your own leaders – it’s the only way!
https://memory-holed-news.blogspot.com/2023/05/eu27-freedom-juncker-wants-39bn.html
Here’s a thought then :-
I appreciate that the independence “vote” in Piddington is a little tongue-in-cheek, but something occurred to me. The village is (Hopefully) due to expand greatly, and this will include over a thousand single men of voting age. Any future ballots will have to include them, no? I’m thinking of unlimited white slags for M0slems, the right to sh1t in anybodys garden, shoplifting special days in the local minimart.
The whole place could be transformed in a few short weeks.
“If we keep holding people here in idleness for a very long period of time, then we are going to have problems wherever we put them.”
Edwina Currie seeks to clarify her ‘tongue-in-cheek’ suggestion that a brothel would be needed in the Oxfordshire village close to where asylum seekers could be housed, and even has another suggestion – use the famed ‘asylum hotels’ as courts to help “send them home”
https://e3.365dm.com/26/08/2048×1152/skynews-home-office-asylum_7325797.png
“It just wanted to do what it wanted to do.”
“SpaceX – “Holy Grail Of Rocketry” Documentary 4K”
“It tells the tale of a woman whom they call “Anne Marie”, and whose face is obscured, who bribed a housing association allocations officer to bump her up the waiting list. She was introduced to the officer by a fixer, and gave them £1,500, apparently due to her frustration after spending 11 years waiting with her two children to be given a social home. The officer accepted the bribe, then began the process of expediting the granting of the home, but when they demanded more money a few weeks later, Anne Marie threatened to go to the police. As a result, she got her £1,500 back and was housed by the association, apparently without further incident. ”
https://thecritic.co.uk/an-entirely-expected-fraud/
“Despite the scale of the investigation, Sky News revealed only a single case identified by Barking and Dagenham’s council, which seems to have been a housing officer trying to allocate a house to himself. This is because FOIA’s can only be used on public bodies and B&D Reside is technically a private company.”
London’s social housing is, however, disproportionately occupied by non-White British families, and all of the boroughs in Sky News story are majority non-White.
Excellent news
Rates left alone – looks like a nightmare Christmas . The Healey character is gonna need some Peruvian marching power to ‘ talk up ‘ prospects for the zero growth over borrowed failing state …
Isn’t this racist and horrible? “WATCH: Sadiq Khan Mocks Polanski by Speaking Urdu at Him”
https://order-order.com/2026/09/17/watch-sadiq-khan-mocks-polanski-by-speaking-urdu-at-him/#comments
Muslim attacks Jew who dances with gays on stage who has party member who will not sign off the LGBT agreements! HA HAH AH AHAHAH !
Paz49 exposes BBC bias, BBC agenda, BBC lies, BBC scum.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Rachael was ragged, bagged and shagged by one of the incomers. Laugh I wouldn’t stop.
It’s that old line about a democrat being a republican who hasn’t been mugged yet …
The British criminal justice system just isn’t equipped to deal with the current level of offending – yet alone what is coming down the line as the uniparty connives in the invasion .
Doxing ? Of RNLI – border force staff is an inevitable desperation in the absence of any state control – with – of course the inevitable killing of invaders and destruction of their rat holes … something I see coming – but of course – could never condone – for the record 77 brigade – RICU … state monitors …
Charity bosses are onto a winner here – they are trying to out virtue eachother.
“It came after Macklemore said he would donate $1m (£750,000) to Palestinian organisations, challenging Kraft to match him.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmp3073x6464o
Give them rifles to sort it out and a ticket to Gaza.
SEND MORE MONEY
How Oxfam ignored Haiti ‘convent girls’ who claimed they were raped by charity bosses
Bill Gardner
Published 11 June 2019 10:00pm BST
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/11/oxfam-dismissed-allegations-child-sex-abuse-fake-bid-protect/
Made I smile it did
1 years of data to find out what?
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 1 days
Research summary
The study is looking to see the sexual behaviour of HIV positive men who have sex with men in the UK, Greece and Spain. In particular, we’ll be looking at how common ‘Chemsex’ is amongst men who have sex with men who are attending a clinic for HIV care, in clinics in the UK, Greece and Spain. ‘Chemsex’ is the use of certain drugs (crystal meth, ketamine, mephedrone, cocaine and GHB/GBL) when having sex. It is an anonymous questionnaire, so no personal details are collected, and it will not be seen by the doctor or nurse nor recorded in the patient’s notes. There will be some questions about whether participants use ‘Chems’ and also about sexual behaviour, sexually transmitted infections and a few details about HIV treatment. There will also be questions about general physical and mental health and whether there are services available if there is a perceived problem related to using ‘Chems’.
https://www.hra.nhs.uk/planning-and-improving-research/application-summaries/research-summaries/chemsex/
Why did the Archbishop of Canterbury honour a Muslim cleric who gave Bin Laden a ‘Sword of God’ award?
The man on the right is Hafiz Tahir Ashraf I. He is the chairman of the Pakistan Ulema Council – a group of Islamic scholars.
The lady next to him is his wife.
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His journey has extended “from Pakistan to Makkah, and from Makkah to the wider world”, carrying a message of peace, moderation, brotherhood, tolerance and dialogue, while advocating for the oppressed and maintaining a strong voice against religious hatred, extremism, terrorism and sectarian violence.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2628887/tahir-ashrafi-receives-hubert-walter-award-for-reconciliation-interfaith-cooperation-in-london
It said Ashrafi had remained actively engaged for decades in bringing religious and sectarian communities closer, promoting mutual respect, defending the rights of minorities and vulnerable communities, and advocating peaceful coexistence while remaining firmly committed to his faith and Islamic identity.
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Comment “England has fallen without a shot being fired.”
Comment “0:42 I thought the thumbnail image was an AI generated one because it looks so ridiculous, but it’s real. These are crazy times indeed.”
He’s thinking ‘easy neck to slice ‘… what a joke – no wonder the c of e died ….
Puke.
🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮
Here is the piece in the Friday telegraph about the decision of the so called ‘archbishop ‘ to withdraw the award from this friend of bin laden ….
STARTS Lambeth Palace has withdrawn an “interfaith” award the Archbishop of Canterbury gave on the anniversary of 9/11 to an Islamic cleric who honoured Osama bin Laden.
Dame Sarah Mullally presented the “reconciliation and interfaith” award to Hafiz Tahir Ashrafi, chairman of the Pakistan Ulema Council, a group of Islamic scholars, at a ceremony at Lambeth Palace on Sept 11.
Mr Ashrafi’s council awarded Bin Laden its highest honour in response to the UK Government giving Salman Rushdie a knighthood in 2007, describing him as a “Muslim warrior”.
The cleric praised Bin Laden, whose terror group killed 2,977 people in the 9/11 attacks, for targeting British people
If a blasphemer can be given the title ‘Sir’ by the West … then a mujahid who has been fighting for Islam against the Russians, Americans and British must be given the lofty title of Islam, Saifullah,” Reuters reported him as saying.
Saifullah is an honorific originally awarded for military prowess and is an Islamic name that means sword of God.
Mr Ashrafi told the AFP news agency at the time: “We are pleased to award the title of Saifullah to Osama bin Laden after the British government decides to bestow the title of ‘Sir’ on blasphemer Rushdie. This is the highest title for a Muslim warrior.”
He also described suicide bombings in Afghanistan as lawful, supported Islamic blasphemy laws, which carry the death penalty, and claimed Jewish people and Christians were using the war in Iran to target Iran’s nuclear weapons.
Lambeth Palace said in a statement on Thursday evening that the award had been withdrawn.
It said: “The award was given for Imam Ashrafi’s longstanding support for religious minorities in Pakistan, particularly the Christian community – support that is valued by many Christians in Pakistan including its Anglican Church.
“It is a longstanding principle of interfaith dialogue and co-operation that we must engage with one another across deeply-held differences, and that remains the case.
“However, previous comments made by Imam Ashrafi have come to light that have led Lambeth Palace to reconsider this award and we can now confirm today that the award has been withdrawn. We have contacted Imam Ashrafi to make him aware of this decision.”
‘The naivety of the Archbishop is staggering’
Nick Timothy, the shadow justice secretary, said: “The naivety of the Archbishop in presenting an award to someone who openly praised Osama bin Laden is staggering – and on the anniversary of 9/11, too.
“Our leaders must face up to the reality that not all cultures are based on the same foundations as ours, and not all share our desire for co-operation and freedom.
“Western political and religious leaders should stand up vigorously for our own values and achievements, rather than apologising for our history or celebrating those who seek to do us harm.”
Travis Frain, a survivor of the 2017 Westminster Bridge terror attack and founder of the Resilience in Unity Project, the terror-victim support group, said it was a “grave misjudgment” by the Church.
“Giving an award for ‘interfaith and reconciliation’ to a man who honoured Osama Bin Laden, the architect of misery for so many of all faiths and a man responsible for thousands of deaths, shows a grave misjudgement by the Church – made even more egregious by the fact that this award was given on the 25th Anniversary of the September 11th Attacks,” he said.
“I would urge the Archbishop to meet with victims of terrorism to appreciate the hurt that this award may have caused, and to understand the real work being led by hundreds of brave survivors across the country to bring people together of different faiths and backgrounds under the banner of preventing the spread of radicalisation – far apart from those would seek to honour the perpetrators of these heinous attacks.”
Tim Dieppe, head of public policy at Christian Concern, said: “The absurdity of this beggars belief. How can a Christian leader give an award for reconciliation to someone who has honoured Osama Bin Laden? To someone who supports the draconian blasphemy laws in Pakistan which are a source of persecution of Christians? Mullally is clearly uninformed about both Ashrafi and about Islam.
“The only justification for meeting such a man is to pressure him about the treatment of Christians in Pakistan. There is absolutely no justification for giving him an award. Mullally should issue an immediate apology to Christians who are being persecuted in Pakistan. She should call for an end to the draconian blasphemy laws there.”
The Rev Dr Ian Paul, an Anglican theologian and member of the General Synod, said: “I understand that, in Pakistan, he has contributed to reconciliation. But I think members of the Church of England will struggle to make sense of this in the light of his past statements about blasphemy, the death penalty, and suicide bombings, and how he is accompanied by a woman in a niqab.
“It will do harm both to the confidence of Anglicans in their own church and to the reputation of the Church of England among both its critics and its supporters.”
A spokesman for Mr Ashrafi and his council said his remarks had been taken “out of context”.
He said: “Our position against terrorism, extremism, suicide attacks and the killing of innocent people is clear and unequivocal. We have consistently worked for peace, moderation and interfaith harmony.”ENDS
The bbc – – briefly – reports this story – there is no mention of calls for the ‘archbishop ‘ to resign – which in the circumstance should happen – i mean the muppet gave this vermin the award on the 25th anniversary on 9/11.
One might suspect that the emir of Windsor / one of his Muslim staff is behind this – surely he must have authorised / known about it ….
Shoppers run for cover after man seen walking busy London street with ‘assault rifle’
John Dunne | Senior News Correspondent
Published September 17, 2026 11:20am Updated September 17, 2026 11:25am
https://metro.co.uk/2026/09/17/shoppers-scramble-man-walks-london-street-assault-rifle-29628027/
The street is lined with shops run by members of the Jewish community, including a kosher supermarket and the well-known Grodz bakery.
Millwall fans and Obi Wan Nairobi seem better responses than lanyard committee PR drivel
“Canada becoming EU ‘associate member’ would be positive move, Carney says”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx3051ye5j0nt
What the partnership is…
An attempt to bolster Canada and the EU’s resilience by forging closer ties in the face of global threats – which Carney said includes trade tariffs
A first step towards closer collaboration in a range of areas, from energy security to cybersecurity and student exchange programmes
What it isn’t…
This isn’t an attempt to become a full member of the EU, Carney told reporters, adding: “It’s a different framework”
It’s also not an attempt to create what Carney refers to as a “third bloc”. He said “we do not seek power to dominate others”
What we don’t yet know…
What form this partnership will take. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said yesterday that she’d opened the door for Canada to become the EU’s first “associate member” – an ambition which Carney welcomed today. But asked if he was comfortable with that term, Carney told reporters “what matters is the substance”
The timeline for closer ties. Associate member status doesn’t currently exist and, if agreed, could take years to implement. Further details have been promised at a summit in Montreal at the end of October
associate member??? No fees?
“we do not seek power to dominate others”
Electing Carney is going to make for some considerable voter remorse in Canada – eventually…
People vote – forget – vote again – forget – vote again….
It seems unlikely his name was Mohammed – but if it was, well, hoo-ray for Clive the camel…
Good, I have no time for anybody who abuses animals.
Kate Smith made a racist record in the 1930’s – be careful out there.
SteynPost #29: Year Zero
Mark Steyn |118k subscribers
Comment ““Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” – Orwell, 1984”
One of those characteristics of the time – a coloured lefty yank women – a bbc favourite died – the bbc was distraught – so I looked for the comments in the telegraph obituary – obviously not the obit itself as I care less – but guess what – no comments allowed
This creature was an approved regular on QT and the like – another for avoiding it – but cancelled – more valuable people ?- David starkey – steyn No sign …..
Puffed up provincial rabble rouser getting above himself – need taking down several pegs.
UK cannot stop one boat – so could not stop any Israel pagers or missiles from blowing up!
He must well up the target list …. 🇮🇱
Another day another rape FFS…………..
Afghan migrant jailed for 14 years after raping two 14-year-old schoolgirls
https://www.gbnews.com/news/migrant-crisis-afghan-man-jailed-rape-teenagers-bolton-crown-court
“Afghan migrant jailed for 14 years after raping two
14-year-old schoolgirlsIslamophobes (c) Labour Manifesto”This is how low the CofE has become.
That’s all the Church of England knows what to do anymore: obsequious grovelling apologies for things nothing to do with them.
Meanwhile the pews are emptying and the rotten Church will soon be dead, and replaced by the more ‘muscular’ Islam.
RIP, C of E, Rot In Peace.
Religion, Evangelical Potestantism that is, is growing here in NI Vlad, especially amongst teenagers and young adults.
Kind of like the Christian fundamentalism that is growing in the States, where many of those involved have ancestral links to the north of Ireland
I agree, it’s the established churches pushing ‘the Message’ that are under threat.
If this silly old sod had any knowledge of history he would know that no British troops were involved. The shootings were carried out by the Indian Army, sometimes referred to as the British Indian Army, a separate entity to the British Army. The troops consisted of Sikhs and Nepalese Gurkhas. They were commanded by Colonel Reginald Dyer, who had been born in the Punjab and therefore, by modern standards was every bit as Indian as Mahatma Gandhi. In much the same way as Shabana Mahmood, Rishi Sunak, Meera Syal and Naga Munchetty (real name Subha Nagalakshmi Munchetty-Chendriah) are all British.
The Pally pile-on to diminutive warbler Ed Sheeran reaches Ireland
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2026/0917/1591862-classic-hits-radio-drops-ed-sheeran-from-playlist/
Oh dear.
From the bbbc, 2025.
“Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran has said he identifies culturally as Irish despite being born and raised in England.
Brought up in Suffolk, the Galway Girl singer’s dad hails from Belfast.
“I class my culture as Irish. I think that’s what I grew up with,” he told The Louis Theroux Podcast.”
As a Northern Irishman, I’m sayin’ nahtin’.
Tommy Robinson on Rory Stewart, real name Roderick James Nugent Stewart, aka Florence of Arabia, aka Clueless Posh C**T.
– where are the kids going – Ibiza?
“War effort on insulation and electrification” – bomb it into submission?
“Accelerate social cohesion plan” – invite more people on boats in?
They are summarised in a long list below:
Publish defence investment plan
Regulate more online political material
State-sponsored threat proscription law
Support gas-intensive chemicals production
Incentivise UK AI companies to stay
Secure critical mineral supply
Powers to suspend regulations to drive growth
Radical planning reform
Delay fuel duty rise
Ease red tape to lower food costs
VAT cut on summer family attractions
New digital childcare tool
Anti-profiteering framework
CMA review on unfair childcare costs
Leasehold cost reform
Neighbourhood services guarantee
House buying process cost reduction
Accelerate social cohesion plan
Halve “extra-curricular” participation gap
Ban social media for under 16s
Back residential conversion on high streets
Private finance to revive town centres
National AI security programme
AI biodefence lab
More cuts to adult apprenticeships to fund young people
New Help to Buy scheme
Reform high marginal tax rates
Social care profit cap
CMA investigation on private equity in SEND and social care
Pension funds prioritise UK equities
Let public corps borrow against future revenue
Leeds and Birmingham trams
War effort on insulation and electrification
Move bad energy debt from bills to Treasury
Support Rolls-Royce narrowbody bid
Accelerate SMR programme
Opportunity-based welfare reform
Reform water industry
Reform capital and property tax
Conclude new EU deal
Increase North Sea production
Link North Sea revenues to lower bills
Ease electric vehicle mandate
Guarantee new North Sea energy used domestically
Tackle “dodgy” high street shops
Public transport discounts
Energy bill support
Fiscal devolution to mayors
Fingleton approach to infrastructure
Procure more from British firms
https://order-order.com/2026/09/17/continuity-burnham-borrows-from-starmers-save-big-dog-policy-plan/#comments