Midweek 21st October 2026

The BBC has announced that BBC 3 BBC Scotland and BBC 4Extra are to close in order to save money .Could we have more closures please ?

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  1. Up2snuff says:

    Here am I, send me to the top of this Thread. The BBC are very wasteful. In the salaries that they pay to workers! The BBC are very wasteful. Defund the BBC! The BBC do not like Israel, the BBC are pro-Hamas, the BBC do not like President Trump and Nigel Farage and Reform. Cancel your TellyTax – defund the BBC. More closures indeed. Scrap Farming to day. Although I listen to it most weeks! Every day actually. Except at weekends. It pushes the Climate Change message! The Climate is not changing! The BBC is very wasteful. I have been wating for nearly two years for a visit from TV licencing!

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  2. StewGreen says:

    Things you don’t hear on the BBC
    Who brings and stokes violence these days ?

    Avi says It’s so often Greens and Gaza obsessives

    That describes attempted killing of an MP in Australia
    By a green party supporter obsessed with Gaza, no doubt stoked by the the Gaza obsessed politicians and their theatrics.

    https://x.com/OzraeliAvi/status/2112419322635382987

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  3. StewGreen says:

    Second Labour MP suspended amid questions over £50,000 taxpayer-backed Covid loan
    Perran Moon is the co-owner of training company Autoswot Limited, which was founded in 2019

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    • digg says:

      This sort of shit is endemic now. Nobody dare challenge these numties because of diversity…..

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    • Flotsam says:

      Perran Moon has been accused of changing his name from Peregrine in order to make him appear more Cornish than he is. For electoral reasons of course.

      https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/redruth-parliamentary-candidate-accused-trying-8134293.amp

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      • Scroblene says:

        Now must be the time to invest in every company dealing with issues like home security, businesses in secured populated shopping and commercial areas, but not vulnerable High Streets, and companies chasing government contracts for accomodating, feeding, clothing and healing illegal migrants.

        I heard that phone companies are cashing in on the illegals getting new mobile phones, so they could be a good bet too. There is a roaring trade in transport companies ferrying illegals everywhere to their new comfortable, heated accomodation as well!

        So the snidier, nastier profiteering from the breakdown of society being caused by far-left socialist dogma is creating a whole new portfolio of opportunity for the investor, as bonds will soon be off the scale, and banks are going to get hit to pay for the feckless.

        Invest in crime – you know it makes sense, especially where it appears to be the arch-socialist government-sponsored…

        (Presumably the independent companies like Google’s YouTube, Netflix etc., will need to adjust their issues to counteract the expected additional tax to fund the bloated far-left bBC too)!

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  4. Sluff says:

    Watched a BBC2 programme about the tragedy of Aberfan. 60 years ago. I remember the original news coverage.

    What I don’t remember is the circling of the wagons and denial of accountability by the National Coal Board, Lord Robbins, and George Thomas who later achieved fame as House of Commons speaker. Far more interested in protecting itself. And to be fair, the programme showed this in a clear light.

    60 years ago. A nationalised industry more interested in protecting itself as an untouchable institution than serving the public. Ring any bells?
    Today. Calls by the Far Left to nationalise water and energy and to leave unreformed the NHS, despite all the wagon-circling over various maternity failings.

    60 years. Socialism doesn’t change. Let’s hope a gullible public doesn’t fall for the dewy-eyed guff of the Far Left.

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    • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

      On a point of information, I think you mean Lord (Alfred) Robens, not Robbins or Robins.

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    • taffman says:

      “Aberfan”
      Poor little souls .
      I hope that they are all in a better place now.

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  5. taffman says:

    “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 ?

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  6. JohnC says:

    Man charged with attacking Australian MP silent and emotionless as he faces court for first time
    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cxvgymz3zzrmt

    After quizzing AI for the usual length of time to pull down it’s walls of ‘defending the establishment’ and sticking to the line of the MSM – especially the BBC and The Guardian (because they are free for it to read), it finally told me:

    ‘His core causes—environmentalism and anti-colonial/anti-Israel rhetoric—are rooted in radical left-wing thought. For observers focusing primarily on the specific issues he championed, these factors make a compelling case for categorizing him as far-left.’

    So another far-Lefty has been radicalised to a level of hate where he tries to murder someone who does not agree with him.

    When the far-Right do something bad, the headlines are all about how can we stop the rise of far-Right extremism. When the Left do it, the narrative switches to this:

    ‘Incident throws protection of MPs into spotlight’
    ‘MPs and public figures – backed by experts – have been warning of a volcano of threats against them as social cohesion cracks, polarisation intensifies and the tone of debate grows hotter.’

    I’ve noticed that the root of this ‘polarisation’ is that the Left force their own ideology on the Right then attack the Right as being ‘divisive’ when they do not agree with them. How many right-wing protests have been confronted head-on by violent far-Left counter protests ?. It certainly happened at Southport – I saw the Muslim’s carrying weapons run freely among police officers as they sought out the Right.

    The only utter and complete hatred I see online now is from the Left directed at the Right. They will absolutely celebrate if Farage, Musk or Trump are assasinated.

    The question being asked should be how the rise of far-Left extremism can be stopped. But that involves being honest about what the likes of CNN, the BBC and The Guardian are doing on a daily basis to promote hatred of the Right. Drip by drip. And we are now seeing the consequences as the worst of these nasty b@stards start murdering people.

    But I have not seen a single article in any of the MSM which even suggests this might be a problem. All they want to do is use it as an excuse to suppress the Right even more. The cancer of the Left has infested every part of public office now. These scum are drawn like magnets to taxpayers money because it means they get it even if they don’t work for it.

    This utter intolerance to opposing views is the one single attribute I can see which the Left and the Muslims have in common. Without the Right as a common target, they would despise each other.
    They are bizarre bedfellows : the Muslims think the Left are just gullible idiots to be used for their own gain and the Left support the Muslims through the most extreme group-think hypocrisy. It makes no actual sense on any level.

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  7. JohnC says:

    How plans to revamp a DC golf course landed Trump in a messy legal dispute
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6ly3dlm0dr2o

    This is more extreme TDS from the BBC. This is not world news in any way : it is pure petulant 12 year old schoolboy stuff.

    Basically Trump wants to renovate a golf course in Washington to broaden it’s appeal. So what do the BBC do ? – get themselves out there and scour it for any negative criticisms of Trump they can find.

    And so they focus the entire article on 2 people they found who will say negative things. And of course one is black. Who for some reason have raised objections using a group called ‘Democracy Forward’. We aren’t told any more about them. Here’s what AI says:

    ‘ The group’s primary focus is legally challenging conservative policies, right-wing legal movements, and the agenda of the Trump-Vance administration’

    Dirty BBC scum. Again. They are getting more and more blatant. It’s no coincidence that the more extreme Lefties are being charged with hatred then getting violent and murdering right-wing politicians. But that is exactly what the staff at the BBC want. They would be very happy if Farage or Trump got killed.

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  8. JohnC says:

    This is the real face of the Left when they are confident they can get away with it.

    https://www.facebook.com/reel/1648821920252505

    The rest we see in public is sheer hypocrisy. They are shallow, base creatures who loathe themselves deep-down and seek reassurance they are actually good people through virtue-signaling, the safety of group-think and buckets of hypocrisy.

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  9. tomo says:

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  10. MarkyMark says:

    Omission is the greatest lie….

    “Radio 4 News and Papers
    20 September 2026

    At 7am and 8am we reported Ed Sheeran’s on-stage response to the controversy over Macklemore being dropped from his tour over pro-Palestinian remarks. Although the report in these two bulletins focused on Ed Sheeran’s apology and his view on the situation in Gaza, we should have also included his condemnation of the 7th October attacks, which was featured in other Radio 4 output that morning and extensively across BBC News.

    22/09/2026”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications

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  11. MarkyMark says:

    “Guido understands the highest paid Verify boss, the executive editor, is on up to £172,000. Coming in second is the head of statistics, on up to £165,000, who manages the Civil Service plants inside the BBC. Neither salary is published, because the BBC only discloses pay above £178,000…

    That is on top of up to £480,000 spent on just four Verify correspondent roles. Guido’s moles say the unit has earned the nickname “Workshy Verify” among some staff internally. This comes as BBC News director Rachel Jupp announces a fresh wave of 100 more job losses to save £5.5 million. The top-heavy management layer at Verify looks set to escape the axe…”
    https://order-order.com/2026/10/20/exc-workshy-bbc-verifys-ten-managers-cost-taxpayer-1-million/

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  12. MarkyMark says:

    Isn’t she a boss? This is so confusing.

    “In the fight against the far right, public service workers are crucial.

    People who make our society work, who teach us, who care for us, who run our NHS, who feed us, and run our libraries.

    Collective action unites workers against the real enemy – the bosses.”

    https://x.com/AndreaEganGS/status/2112212589283258505

    Comment “I’m sorry but as a qualified nurse of nearly 30 years I can honestly say we’re importing African staff who in so many (not all) cases are not fit to practice! Too many rude, aggressive & uneducated staff who in some cases don’t even know the basics of the role yet they turn up with supposedly numerous duel qualifications that they can’t back up with their practice. 75% of my unit are African staff. Many hardly speak English & use Ai (badly!) for everything!
    Start training English nurses via cadet training from school again ffs!”

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    • Sluff says:

      Is it as simple as it is much cheaper to import a health professional whose training has been paid for by a foreign country than it is to train our own?

      Cheaper that is for the NHS on their budget.
      For the rest of society faced with immigration costs, the family and children costs of the said health professional, education costs, benefits costs, it is a lot more expensive.
      But that last bit is conveniently forgotten.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Josephine Iyamu was a London-based NHS agency nurse known as “Madame Sandra” who was sentenced to 18 years in prison for human trafficking. She used West African “juju” and voodoo rituals to force five vulnerable Nigerian women into prostitution in Germany, making it a landmark case under the UK Modern Slavery Act.

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  13. MarkyMark says:

    All BBC Stars to go on minimum wages, plus Directory general Matt Brittin
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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c15wxgjn9xjo

    Reeta Chakrabarti – £300,000 – £304,999
    News at One, Six and Ten. UK General Election
    2023/2024: £270,000 – £274,999

    Gary Lineker – £1,350,000 – £1,354,999
    Match of the Day, Premier League, FA Cup, Sports Personality of the Year
    2023/2024: £1,350,000-£1,354,999
    2022/2023: £1,350,000-£1,354,999
    2021/2022: £1,350,000-£1,354,999
    ….
    Background and Role
    • Incumbent: Matt Brittin (18th Director-General)
    • Appointed: May 18, 2026
    • Salary: £565,000 per year

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    • Sluff says:

      Do any of them actually work full time?
      What does Laura K do except on a Sunday? Or does her salary include double time for Sunday working?

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    • tomo says:

      The more an on message liberal nonentity the more loyal they’ll be be and won’t get ideas about who’s in charge…?

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  14. MarkyMark says:

    Scary stuff … watch in awe as people train robots to replace people….

    “Inside China’s Robot Schools: How Embodied AI Is Being Built | When Titans Clash | CNA Insider | 2.71m subscribers”

    …
    Elon Musk: SpaceX Will Attempt to Catch BOTH Starship & Booster on Flight 15!

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  15. AsISeeIt says:

    Stay in Canada edition

    Let’s jump straight in with a fine example of a close juxtaposition of apparently contradictory headlines…

    UK to deploy jets to defend Saudi Arabia from Houthi attacks (Rachel Flynn and her wingman James Landale, Diplomatic correspondent, BBC)

    ‘Labour cuts £2bn from Army’… The Daily Telegraph says… dropping plans to develop three new vehicles. The Ministry of Defence said the changes related to “future spend that was uncommitted” and that it was “exploring alternative options” (BBC)

    The Times sounds pretty gung-ho over the former of the two news lines: RAF jets to guard Saudi Arabian skies against Houthi attacks (Larisa Brown, Defence editor, and her wingman/rear gunner (?) `Samer Al-Atrush, Middle East correspondent)

    We wish our fly boys and girls all the best I’m sure – while you’re out there in the desert protecting our oil supplies and you’re all gassed up ready to go – do please remember to check you’ve replaced the fuel cap…

    AIR HEADS Doomed RAF jet that crashed in fireball yards from homes was flying without fuel cap as base training branded ‘shambles’ The £20million RAF jet caught fire on take-off (The Sun)

    The more overtly left-leaning of our news titles bemoan BBC cut backs.

    Cutting costs BBC Three and BBC Scotland to move online – frets the Guardian.

    And in what’s shaping up to be a ladies day on the front pages today the Gruan takes the opportunity to feature full-colour pin-up pics of: Jodie Cromer in Killing Eve and Phoebe Waller-Bridge in Fleabag. Both shows first launched on BBC Three

    I’m oddly reminded of an old gag about Canadian feminist icon singer songwriter Alanis Morissette’s album sales: “She’s sold 44 million copies worldwide – none of them to men”

    The junior cadet poundshop Graun that is the i paper worries: BBC reveals new cuts – closing three channels and shedding jobs in Scotland

    The i paper’s super busy front page rarely neglects to include a little something with which to belittle the male sex: How I finally got my husband to help more at home

    Although i paper regular feminist voice Kate Lister cautions: Midlife women are using menopause as an identity – it’s a disaster

    Yellow and blue flag brandishing Mark Galeotti warns: Millions could be forced to flee. Sparking a UK migration crisis (i paper) – he references Ukraine (I thought they were winning?) and worries as though our Yookay didn’t already have a full-on migration crisis.

    In-the-tank for Labour Daily Mirror is blaming the Tories for Covid. I thought the balance of expert opinion now blamed the Chinese, but hey-ho.

    If only we’d had a well-funded, judge-led, officially constituted, with powers of subpoena, long-running public inquiry into all that…

    I certainly do blame the Tories for Lockdown – which was a policy choice. Seems they quarantined all the wrong people in all the wrong places.

    But we’ve digressed from our developing theme of News From The Patriarchy.

    You’ve heard of No10 North…

    Helen Fielding launches new Bridget Jones writing prize for the North… author and former Independent columnist… (Independent)

    And if a white male author wins that prize I’ll eat my entire library of Martin Amis novels.

    The FT is our go-to for overseas election news and for the globalist editorial tendency I like to nickname The Brussels Trumpet it’s like all their birthdays and Christmases have come at once:

    Alberta rejects separatist bid… Mark Carney… urged voters… to stay in Canada and build a united front against US President Donald Trump’s hostilities… Carney who was Bank of England governor during Britain’s Brexit referendum in 2016, had warned Albertans that many proponents who wanted to leave the EU now regretted the decision (FT)

    Sorry to end on a sour note, despite all the maple syrup.

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  16. harry142857 says:

    Six Treasury Ministers Have Family on Public payroll ahead if the budget.

    From Guido.

    https://order-order.com/2026/10/19/six-treasury-ministers-have-family-on-public-payroll-ahead-of-budget/
    ——————————

    Six of the seven Treasury ministers have a spouse, partner or family member in the Civil Service, according to the latest List of Ministers’ Interests. John Healey, Lucy Rigby and Lord Pitt-Watson each declare a Civil Servant family member. James Murray and Dan Tomlinson have a Civil Servant partner, and Torsten Bell has both. Emma Reynolds is the only exception…

    A further 11 ministers across government declare Civil Servant relatives, including Shabana Mahmood, Dame Diana Johnson and Baroness Ramsey, who each have two. Any taxpayer hoping Healey will take an axe to a bloated Whitehall next Wednesday should bear this in mind. Temper expectations…

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  17. pugnazious says:

    Isabel Oakeshott doesn’t hold back as she tells truth to Power….it’s an invasion and all the troops who fought and died to defend our nation and our way of life would be ashamed of what our cowardly politicians can’t find the backbone to do.

    The authorities are trafficking as much as the gangs are and are encouraging and allowing people to cross the Channel knowing it is extremely dangerous and unsafe….Burnham, Macron and the police chiefs should all be prosecuted and jailed….along with their media lackeys who not just cover up their crimes but help promote them.

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  18. pugnazious says:

    Lol….think the men might not be doing so well either….

    ‘Britain’s top gynaecologist: ‘Women outlive men, but at a cost to their health’ ‘

    It’s a headline in the Telegraph but classic Woman’s Hour fodder….bloody men….dying off and leaving it to women to pick up the pieces! Selfish bast**ds! F**king Patriarchy!

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Men find way to avoiding putting up that shelve!
      ** do not misgender them
      *** Keir says men can have a cervix
      **** Andy Burnham ignores such questions

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  19. MarkyMark says:

    4% EV vs 38% diesel/petrol! HA HAH AH A H!

    “HMRC electric vehicle (EV) salary sacrifice schemes cost significantly less than diesel cars because EVs have a much lower Benefit-in-Kind (BiK) company car tax rate (4% in 2026/27 compared to up to 37%–38% for diesel/petrol) and are exempt from OpRA restrictions. Deductions come from gross pay, saving on Income Tax and National Insurance.”

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  20. pugnazious says:

    Ah yes…’man charged’ after assaults on Jewish women….wonder who that ‘man’ might be…

    ‘Abdisamad Siad, of Pilgrims Way, Islington, has been charged with three counts of assault by beating. He is due to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court later.’

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c60rl0vdr87eo

    A tiny little report that makes no mention of the attacker’s religion…which is highly relevant you would think….and you can guarantee if it had been a Reform councillor we’d get the full background and every tweet he’d done for the last 10 years revealing what a Far-Right Nazi he is apparently…in the BBC’s opinion.

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Siad has also been charged with grievous bodily harm with intent over an unrelated attack on a woman, who is believed to be known to him, in the Islington area on 16 October.”

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c60rl0vdr87eo

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “News
        —
        21 October 2026 08:37

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        Man charged after three Jewish women assaulted in Hackney
        A man has been charged after three Jewish women were assaulted in Hackney.

        Abdisamad Siad, 33 (20.09.1993), of Pilgrims Way, Islington, has been charged with three counts of assault by beating. He will appear before Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, 21 October.

        Police were called to Clapton Common around 13:40hrs on Monday, 19 October, following reports that a man had been detained by Shomrim after assaulting three Jewish women.

        The victims suffered minor injuries.

        Patrols have been increased in the local area in light of the assaults, and the Met is engaging Jewish community leaders to provide further reassurance.”

        https://news.met.police.uk/news/man-charged-after-three-jewish-women-assaulted-in-hackney-514123

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  21. atlas_shrugged says:

    I recently sent off a postcard to an address in Winchester and encouraged others to do the same.

    I have had two reports from others that their post was returned as they provided their senders address. I did not confirm this with my own post as I provided no return address.

    It is a criminal offence to interfere with post unless this has been authorised by a minister-of-state or the post is suspected of being a danger.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Atlas – er – what ?

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      • atlas_shrugged says:

        A defender of our borders IMHO deserves all our support. Sorry for being mysterious but RICU, 77 Brigade, GCHQ should have to do some work for all the coercive taxes we have to pay them.

        The address is in Winchester last time I looked.

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  22. JohnC says:

    Zelensky says intelligence sharing ‘works now’ as US envoy to meet Putin in Russia
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5ynkx3xy11o#comments

    The BBC have opened a Ukraine article for HYS and the far-Left troll farm has been unleashed again.

    Just go read the top comments and see how many upticks they get. They are written like spiteful children. Then find any comment against the grain and see how many downticks they get.

    I posted a comment pointing it out. Lets see how quickly it gets deleted : they will be monitoring it very closely.

    This is a defining example of what we are being subjected to constantly now. It is just the same thing at a more severe level. The principle is the same.

    It’s exactly the same mental condition which we are seeing in the riots. Nasty b@stards. I see a very bleak future ahead if this cancer continues.

    And in the time it took me to type this, my BBC HYS comment has been deleted !. I am ‘off topic’ again.

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    DEI versus Islam …..

    “Miatta Fahnbulleh was asked about whether she supported Shabana Mahmood’s immigration reforms on Sky News”

    https://order-order.com/2026/10/21/watch-energy-secretary-refuses-to-back-governments-immigration-reforms/

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  24. MarkyMark says:

    “Andy Burnham announces a small but pretty useful change”

    Can I borrow your phone mate? Yeah!

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  25. Fedup2 says:

    Presumably someone with such rigid principles as mad ed will resign from the cabinet over the gas field decision – as well as the next one to open the oil field

    But perhaps green crap isnt the vital climate thing its made out to be …

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  26. Fedup2 says:

    Bbc still very interested in an Australian politician who got run over — plenty of sympathy – far more than a murdered british politician called anne widdecombe . .. but secretly they are glad she is dead

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    • JohnC says:

      They are only interested to use it as generic ‘rising threats against politicians’ which in turn will be gradually shifted onto the Right.

      They won’t make any issue that it is another Left-wing activist murdering people who makes laws he doesn’t like.

      And he is a Lefty – but one who identifies with extreme policies of the Right as well. Bottom line he is an environmental and pro-Palestine/anti-Jew activist.

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  27. tomo says:

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  28. pugnazious says:

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    The problem isn’t the cleric but those in British Establishment who surrender to his ilk. Devolution in Scotland etc was bad enough and will result in the break up of the UK…devolution just led to more extremist separatism….but Burnham is ramping it up even more…they need to learn appeasement only leads to more demands….the acceptance of Sharia is ‘devolution’ for Muslims and will end in complete separation[legal and cultural as well as physical] of Muslims and the creation of mini-Pakistans in Britain beyond what is already in place.

    https://x.com/benonwine?lang=en

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  29. pugnazious says:

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    • MarkyMark says:

      You can turn up to negotiate, but only one side will win! Inshallah as they say in Leeds,UK Green Party Council meetings.

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  30. pugnazious says:

    It’s not just Rowling that the BBC has lost but the vast majority of its audience…yes they may well watch or listen but it is with a far more cynical mind…they no longer trust, respect or like the BBC.

    ‘No wonder JK Rowling wants nothing to do with the BBC’

    ‘Has the Beeb’s trans activism cost it access to Britain’s most successful living writer?

    The BBC announced last week it was making a two-part documentary series about JK Rowling. Everything we know about the Rowling series so far suggests the corporation has failed to take seriously last year’s leaked internal memo warning that its output is unduly influenced by trans ideologues.

    Take the press release for a start. This describes Rowling as ‘one of Britain’s most polarising public figures’, which implies some kind of equivalence between her mass popularity and the anger felt towards her by a tiny, if vocal, group of hysterical activists. Yet she has many magnitudes more fans than haters.

    The only justification for the BBC throwing shade on Rowling is, of course, that she defends the factual reality of biological sex – something taken for granted by the overwhelming majority of the public. This was even the case for the BBC once, until it began shelling out licence-fee payers’ money to Stonewall, a pro-trans charity, to brainwash its staff. If those are the rules now, the BBC might as well call its science presenters polarising because they insist the Earth isn’t flat.

    Yet the arrogance of the BBC in pontificating about Rowling wasn’t the most remarkable thing about its press release. Notably absent was any reference to her participation. Had she agreed to take part, you can be sure the publicity would have led with that announcement. After all, nothing matters more to television producers right now than signing up celebrities.

    It’s hard to imagine the producers would ever have been able to convince Rowling that she would be treated fairly. That’s because Auntie long ago gave up even trying to feign impartiality when it comes to issues around sex and gender. The Beeb may have been forced to sever its relationship with Stonewall, but the lobby group’s fingerprints remain smeared all over its editorial policy and corporate culture. After a decade of DEI brainwashing, the attitudes of many BBC staff towards JK Rowling are now closer to those of swivel-eyed, online trans activists than to those of the ordinary public.

    When historians come to write the story of the long, slow death of the BBC, the moment it lost the trust of Britain’s most successful living writer should loom large.’

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/10/20/no-wonder-jk-rowling-wants-nothing-to-do-with-the-bbc/

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  31. Up2snuff says:

    BBC – NEWSWATCH Site #1 – the BBC are obsessed wiv effnick wimmin – real white men shop as well!

    WARNING – GETTY IMAGES! I cite as evidence: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c17rgd8e9gjo

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  32. MarkyMark says:

    House of Commons | Wednesday 21 October 2026 Meeting started at 11.34am
    https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/431ed9fb-9220-45b0-b4be-e85dd6bfeb45

    UK MPs received a 5% pay rise from 1 April 2026, bringing their basic annual salary to £98,599, as announced by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA).

    ….

    Andy Burnham
    The Prime Minister

    Everton Football Club company limited – £677.34 🔗

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    The Jockey Club Racecourse – £500.00 🔗

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    The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland – £431.00 🔗

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    RL Commercial – £450.00 🔗

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    Nordoff and Robbins Music Therapy – £625.00 🔗

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    Sony Music Entertainment UK – £3,800.00 🔗

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    Lancashire Cricket Club – £458.00 🔗

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    Glastonbury Festivals Ltd – £1,520.00 🔗

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    PRS for Music LTD – £1,000.00 🔗

    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10766/andy_burnham/makerfield/register

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  33. MarkyMark says:

    £3.5 billion … news ….
    “Pink Panther rioting in France is actually AI”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/bbcverify

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  34. MarkyMark says:

    “Sultan of Oman”

    12:01:38
    Rt Hon Andy Burnham, The Prime Minister (Makerfield, Labour (Co-op))
    https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/431ed9fb-9220-45b0-b4be-e85dd6bfeb45?in=12:01:34

    “The Sultan of Oman operates as an absolute monarch where criticizing the ruler, the state, or the judiciary is strictly prohibited, routinely leading to the arrest and imprisonment of journalists and online activists. Under both the current ruler, Sultan Haitham bin Tariq, and his predecessor, Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the government and its Internal Security Service (ISS) have suppressed independent media”

    Total UK imports from Oman reached £600 million in the four quarters leading up to the end of Q1 2026, with refined petroleum and oil products forming a key part of bilateral trade alongside non-hydrocarbon goods.

    • Import Value: UK imports from Oman totalled approximately £600 million (an increase of about 14.9% year-on-year).
    • Top Omani Exports to the UK: Refined petroleum, power generators, non-ferrous metals, and raw aluminium.
    • Broader Economic Context: Total goods and services trade between the two nations sits around £1.7 billion to £1.8 billion annually, tied closely to the UK-GCC FTA to mark milestone in Oman-Britain ties and ongoing energy cooperation

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  35. Richard Pinder says:

    In response to violent anti-Government protests in France. The United States, China, Canada, Italy, Germany, Czechia, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and the Netherlands (but not Britain) have warned their citizens that the security situation in France has “spiralled out of control” with rampant looting and arson in suburbs with large immigrant populations, including descendants of immigrants from former French colonies in Africa. China warned their citizens to avoid violent immigrant cities, and stay safe in the peaceful French countryside, with white people.

    President Donald Trump said “The migrants have taken over France,” “They must CLOSE THE BORDERS, FAST!”

    British Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, imposed a curfew on Gosport, warning the people of Gosport not to protest against the RNLI rescuing violent protestors trying to escape from France. Burnham says his top priority in this situation is to save France by overturning Brexit. In Britain, the Labour Party is planning to impose curfews on white working-class areas and farming communities who say they are planning to vote Reform UK. The Labour Party intends to stay in power by declaring war on Russia.

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  36. MarkyMark says:

    Labour are introducing a golden ticket for migrants
    Under Labour’s new refugee sponsorship scheme, undefined “communities” will be able to nominate who comes to Britain. What could possibly go wrong?

    Artillery Row
    By

    Ameer Kotecha
    21 October, 2026
    https://thecritic.co.uk/labours-golden-ticket-for-migrants/

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  37. tomo says:

    On the beach

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  38. MarkyMark says:

    “Woke Plinth on Trafalgar Square Cost Taxpayer More Than £250,000”
    https://order-order.com/2026/10/21/woke-plinth-on-trafalgar-square-cost-taxpayer-more-than-250000/

    Lady in Blue, by American artist Tschabalala Self, went up in Trafalgar Square on 10 September 2026. The bill to the taxpayer includes a £200,000 “contribution” towards production and installation, and a £30,000 fee for Self. Oh, and don’t forget £1,000 for a plaque…

    …

    Tschabalala Self’s real name is Tschabalala Self. It is her given legal birth name, not a pseudonym or stage name. Her parents gave all of their children unique, globally inspired names, with “Tschabalala” being a Zulu-derived name meaning “disappearance” or “falling star”.

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    ….

    https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/1002E/production/_131128556_strengthofthehijab.jpg.webp

    ….

    UK to install ‘world’s first’ sculpture celebrating women who wear hijab
    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230919-uk-to-install-worlds-first-sculpture-celebrating-women-who-wear-hijab/
    Perry told Birmingham Mail that “The idea for the piece came from speaking to Muslim women who I work with at Community Connect Foundation. I asked them what artwork they would like to see and they talked about how they have no representation; nothing that looked like them.”

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  39. Fedup2 says:

    I tried to get a tapestry ticket – I joined the Q for the Q at about 0700 uk time – when the ticket Q opened at 1000 there were 33000 people ahead of me …. It got to @1300 and all was sold out – January to march ……

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    • pugnazious says:

      Good job it’s over here or it might be flambéd by now…..still…there’s always Nov 20….

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      ‘Following the youth and workers protests internationally, we are calling upon students and workers across the UK to mobilise on the day and rise against imperialism, capitalism, authoritarianism and the far right across all our governments internationally. ‘

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  40. pugnazious says:

    We know that the Welsh Reform leader, when he was in UKIP many years ago, took money to ask questions in Parliament that would be critical of Ukraine….

    ‘Reform UK’s former leader in Wales has admitted taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia while being a Member of the European Parliament.’

    Note the BBC did not mention that the crimes he committed were not from when he was in Reform…and yet the BBC highlighted and associated the comments with his Reform leadership.

    It was a big story…and he was rightly prosecuted for his actions.

    Roll on to now and we have this….

    ‘Senior Labour MPs asked planted questions in Parliament after being lobbied by a former MI6 officer, The Telegraph can disclose.’

    Hmmm….who might that former MI6 officer be? One Christopher Steele…he who cobbled together the dodgy dossier about Trump which was in fact information fed to him by Russian intelligence officers….so basically Putin’s disinformation which the Democrats, American media and our own BBC happily took and used in order to try and remove the US President…basically working for Putin.

    Naturally the BBC doesn’t seem interested in the latest Steele story…

    ‘Several of the allegations were later found to be inaccurate.

    In some cases, the questions directly benefited paying clients, a whistleblower has claimed.

    Statements made in Parliament are protected by law, and MPs cannot be sued for defamation – a rule known as parliamentary privilege – leaving targets without legal recourse. There is no suggestion Mr Steele knew the information he shared was inaccurate, or that he acted recklessly.

    Many of those targeted in Mr Steele’s briefings are on the political Right.

    Speaking in Parliament in 2018, Sir Chris accused Christopher Chandler, whose company backs GB News, and his brother Richard of taking money from “decidedly dodgy sources” then attempting to conceal this through “money-laundering”.

    These allegations were based on a briefing by Mr Steele, and were later found to be false.’

    Seems that Steele was playing from the same playbook that he used against Trump…of whom he was an avowed opponent. The trick?…to claim someone was in the pay of the Russians regardless of the truth, in order to damage them in some way.

    ‘They made claims about individuals conducting espionage, having secret ties to Russian spy agencies and having illicit financial dealings. Several of the allegations were later found to be inaccurate.’

    Steele has close ties to Russia and its security services…it having been his speciality when in the intelligence service…he kept up those contacts to run his business…about Russia….the BBC knows that….this was written by BBC reporter Paul Woods in the Spectator…

    ‘As a member of MI6, he had been posted to the UK’s embassy in Moscow and now runs a consultancy giving advice on doing business in Russia. He spoke to a number of his old contacts in the FSB, the successor to the KGB, paying some of them for information.’

    Seems Steele is either compromised, a fool or just doesn’t care and carries on recklessly to fill his own pockets with gold.

    So two stories here…one Labour MPs being used to plant stories in Parliament, and two, the activities of one Christopher Steele which must certainly raise a few eyebrows and a lot of questions….just not from the BBC it seems.

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  41. pugnazious says:

    Lol….they are the colonialists now…..advocating violent revolution…how are they not in jail ala Lucy Connolly?

    https://x.com/benonwine/status/2112878410858934389

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Benonwine | @benonwine

      Migrants and Gen Z all over Britain are apparently planning to emulate the French riots in the UK on the 25th October and 20th November, according to the posts going around on social media platforms.

      Um, how do you feel about that?👇👇👇”

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  42. Fedup2 says:

    Let’s hear it for pc 2627TW cliff mitchell whose sentence for multiple rapes has just been increases 22 years ? I think. He is 24 … so he’ll be out by the time he is 30 going on current practices … mr Mitchell helped increase the ‘diversity ‘ of the met …. Innit

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    • MarkyMark says:

      Cliff Mitchell: Ex-Met PC jailed for 13 years for multiple counts of rape
      Published
      1 May 2024

      A former Metropolitan Police officer has received a minimum jail sentence of more than 13 years after being convicted of 10 counts of rape, including three of raping a child under the age of 13.

      His two victims described Cliff Mitchell, aged 24, as “the devil” and “a pathetic excuse of a man”.

      Mitchell, of Wandsworth, south-west London, was a PC in the Met when several of the offences happened.

      He was sacked by the force in 2023.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68937440

      The jury was told he laughed at her as she cried, told her she was a slut and that no-one would believe her if she said anything because he was a police officer.

      “The fact that the police did not know Mitchell had a non-molestation order out against him whilst he was a serving officer shows total system failure in tackling violence against women and girls,” she said.

      She called for “wholesale changes to vetting procedures”.

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  43. MarkyMark says:

    “UCU have called a day of action in every University in the UK on Friday 20th November. We will be working with sister unions to ensure the biggest possible support for protests, rallies and events that will be held on this day.
    This is part of our fight to protect jobs and courses as well as build solidarity across the union.
    Materials will be dispatched to every branch. Start your local planning now.”

    Comment “Protests that could end up making the uk look like France and bring in martial law
    No thanks
    It’s like a tinder box
    Instead of protesting go to Church instead”

    Comment “Should I bring some shopping bags I’m hoping to get some new trainers and sports gear, also will you be providing the fireworks.”

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    • moggiemoo says:

      The universities should simply throw all of them off their courses. They won’t though, it’s all about money.

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  44. MarkyMark says:

    “Responsible use. Add 3 billion to economy. Free breakfasts. Still committed to green transition.” Andy Burnham to start burning dinghies to generate electricity.

    “An update on the Jackdaw gas field.”

    Comment “Just a shame you didn’t inform parliament before you told the BBC and Sky news. It’s good to drill baby drill but you need to inform parliament correctly. Otherwise you show disrespect for the electorate. Not that you’ve ever had any.”

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  45. Fedup2 says:

    Excellent news – debt up inflation up borrowinh up well above expectations- great signs for the budget in 7!days …

    Truss.. firm footing – imf report – bestist in the G7 – 14 wasted years – tough decisions – – will always defend our nation – million kids out of poverty- talking down our country – our NHS – free breakfast lunch dinner supper clubs –

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  46. Doublethinker says:

    I strongly recommend watching The Insider podcast with Alice Weidel. The Insider is run by the Economist , the house magazine of Globalists , and the interviewer , who is the editor of the magazine, is horrified by Alice’s , hence the AfD , view on the Euro, he EU, Ukraine , re migration of Syrians, Afghanis, etc ,Germany First policies across a wide range of issues, protection of German culture etc.
    The AfD sounds marvellous and its policies are desperately needed urgently right across the West even if this offends the Economist and the Globalist elite.

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  47. MarkyMark says:

    Thank you Holborn & St Pancras
    Bold Politics with Zack Polanski

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  48. tomo says:

    Not much surprise in Bristol – presently run by a bunch of spendthrift, ignorant ideological retards who can’t even weed the re- wilded M32 central reservation – an expensive, graffiti strewn failing shambles.

    No Palestinian flags were harmed…

    ‘Hundreds’ of Union and St George flags taken down in Bristol – BBC News

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Sorry, we couldn’t find that page
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      ….
      ‘Hundreds’ of Union and St George flags taken down

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c693z17jl1qvo
      Bristol City Council said it has spent about £50,000 on removing flags across the city, with many spotted in areas like Bedminster and Southmead.

      …..

      The cost to recover and preserve the toppled Edward Colston statue in Bristol includes £2,500 for harbour retrieval (primarily specialized divers), £3,750 assessed for initial damage and repair, and an £8,030 contract awarded to Beaufort Bespoke Ltd for building its museum display

      …..

      Avon and Somerset Police do not publicly bill or itemize routine policing costs for Bristol Pride, though historical large-scale operations involving simultaneous counter-protests (such as a 2012 English Defence League march) estimated extra taxpayer security costs between £500,000 and £1 million

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  49. MarkyMark says:

    https://n-somerset.gov.uk/news/north-somerset-council-calls-renewed-support-local-businesses-north-somerset
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    North Somerset Council calls for renewed support for local businesses in North Somerset

    ….
    ‘Hundreds’ of Union and St George flags taken down

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c693z17jl1qvo

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  50. tomo says:

    I forgot to mention Bristol’s “issues” with van / on street caravan dweller encampments across the city.

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