Start the Week 26th October 2026

Are you ready ? The Tommy Robinson political show trial is due to end . For the BBC he is a demon . So if found guilty theyll nail the coffin lid down .

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  1. harry142857 says:

    Just about Brexit. The company I work for is in the top three largest electronics wholesalers company in the UK.

    Our exports in the last ten years are up about 380%.

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  2. pugnazious says:

    Funny old thing….Burnham and co wanting an honest discussion about Brexit….let’s just forget that he said he didn’t want to re-open that can of worms…..in fact Rayner reiterated that today….

    ‘‘the last thing we should do right now is rerun those [Brexit] arguments’’

    But wait..she said more….

    ‘Rayner denied the Prime Minister had reversed his decision, and claimed that ten years on from the referendum, with exports down 20 per cent, the government wanted an ‘honest conversation’ about Britain’s relationship with Europe. ‘

    Lol…exports down 20%? Hmmmm…first, we have a huge number of exporters ‘despite Brexit’….

    ‘Number of Great Britain (GB) businesses exporting 2024

    295,300‘

    Second…exports have nearly doubled since Brexit….government’s own stats….

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    Exports to the EU alone have also risen hugely…

    Chart 2: UK exports to the EU and non-EU countries, 2015 to 2025 plus latest 12 months (current prices)

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    They lying to you.

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    • Flotsam says:

      Burnham honest about Brexit? I know politicians routinely lie but Burnham has gone beyond lies and instead departed from any attachment to the truth. He told a pack of lies in order to get elected as an MP and has zero mandate for what he’s trying to manipulate.

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    • G says:

      Thanks Pug.

      It would be interesting to see graphs of the EU’s total exports for the same periods in comparison.

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  3. pugnazious says:

    Wow….the reality of what goes on inside the BBC…and their lack of interest in resolving things and putting blame where it belongs….and you wonder why their output is so anti-Semitic….this is genuinely astounding but explains so much about BBC coverage…

    ‘Lucie Kon, an Oscar-winning Jewish producer, says she was victimised by colleagues after Oct 7

    The BBC has agreed a £400,000 payout to a Jewish documentary-maker who says she was the victim of anti-Semitism and was bullied out of the broadcaster.

    Lucie Kon, whose work for the BBC won awards including an Oscar and an Emmy, says she was victimised in the wake of the Oct 7 terrorist attacks in Israel by colleagues who said Zionists such as her were “evil”.

    Ms Kon, who has family in Israel, claims she was told that “if you want to call Hamas terrorists then you have to call Israel terrorists, too” and that she should “think about what drove Hamas to do what they did”.

    When she made a formal complaint about her treatment, the BBC told Ms Kon to stay at home for months, sidelined her and eventually put her out of work.’

    The BBC is institutionally anti-Semitic and needs cleaning out root and branch….it helps create, world-wide, the febrile anti-Israel and thus anti-Jew atmosphere that ends in attacks on Synagogues, ambulances and Jewish people.

    Never mind what the secret Balen Report said about BBC anti-Israel reporting we need another one…this time totally independent and one that will be published publicly….and then action taken with people sacked or indeed prosecuted.

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  4. StewGreen says:

    Birmingham born tough guy actor Matthew Marsden is not afraid to speak up

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  5. Fedup2 says:

    PUG – Just spotted your excellent post – here’s a repeat ….another story the bbc won’t be reporting …

    Not BBC – But X – the feed I get is totally at odds with bbc propaganda output – for instance – the banning of people wearing poppies being allowed into the gosport weatherspoons – with security getting police to support them ……
    Or Brendan kavanagh being ‘visited ‘ by the council planning department after ‘some one ‘ claimed he was running an illegal cafe from his home ( it was his daughters ‘ toy cafe complete with teddy bears )
    Or
    Ezra from Canada supporting Tommy Robinson taking legal action against the Islamic home office over the travel ban imposed on him – but now – as of Thursday – allowing him to come to the uk to support Tommy Robinson …… one minute he was a threat to the ‘community ‘ – now he is not …..

    … there’s so much more – and their bbc looks way …..now back to trivia Man U manager ….or markle

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    • moggiemoo says:

      I’d bet the teddy bears were far right.

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      • Fedup2 says:

        Mog
        Luckily the footage is on x both of he and his wife’s ‘ wrongful arrest last summer by a complementary 3 van loads of dolt plod – handcuffs and complementary computer seizures – all instigated by an anonymous ‘complainant ‘ – just like this most recent process punishment by Bedford Islamic council .

        It was chilling because the council lady showed her I d to camera – it looked like the emblem of Bedford council is an eagle so loved by the nazi regime … again the details of the complainant are with held .

        Luckily John Cleese retweeted the even so millions will know

        When the bbc spouts about ‘human rights ‘ with that smug liberal superiority left over from the empire – maybe it should look in the mirror …

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        • StewGreen says:

          The play cafe inspection is actually recycled news
          It happened a couple of years ago
          But Brendan recently tweeted it again

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          • atlas_shrugged says:

            Brendan Kavanagh the dangerous Boogie Woogie piono player on Londonistan rail stations with a world-wide following on youtube.

            And in our streets the police have forgotten why they’re there. Thank-you Lindisfarne for the near quote.

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    • harry142857 says:

      Piano player Brendan Kavanagh’s council visit.

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  6. Fedup2 says:

    An extract from the dt about Jewish woman who worked for the bbc getting a licence fee pay out –

    STARTS The BBC has agreed a £400,000 payout to a Jewish documentary-maker who says she was the victim of anti-Semitism and was bullied out of the broadcaster.

    Lucie Kon, whose work for the BBC won awards including an Oscar and an Emmy, says she was victimised in the wake of the Oct 7 terrorist attacks in Israel by colleagues who said Zionists such as her were “evil”.

    Ms Kon, who has family in Israel, claims she was told that “if you want to call Hamas terrorists then you have to call Israel terrorists, too” and that she should “think about what drove Hamas to do what they did”.

    When she made a formal complaint about her treatment, the BBC told Ms Kon to stay at home for months, sidelined her and eventually put her out of work.ENDS

    The piece goes on but I can’t be bothered to put it here – she worked for the BBC for 22 years so she must be a card carrying far lefty – coming up against the Islamic take over of her beloved organisation …

    But as always – anything tarnishing the bbc is good for us ….

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  7. tomo says:

    On May 8th 2026 the UK Home Office cancelled Ezra Levant’s Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA), saying his presence was “not conducive to the public good.”

    Levant applied for a visa the same day, paid the super-priority fee, and later sued the Home Office.

    The legal action is ongoing and the Home Office backed down and issued a visa end of last week…..

    Wonder why it’s not being reported ? 167 days of pretty much silence – I hope Mr. Levant can drag his banning into the media and make up for the lost time – he’s cute enough to drag Shabana Mahmood out – I hope he succeeds….

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  8. AsISeeIt says:

    News with a wink edition

    One always appreciates a frank difference of opinion…

    PM suggests there could be closer links to Europe without referendum (Guardian)
    Labour ‘to let public decide’ on EU reset (Telegraph)

    Even if two different and diametrically opposite policies are voiced by the same set of politicians – or indeed the same politician…

    Andy Burnham says he will not try to return UK to EU… Burnham vows to have ‘relentless domestic focus’ in Makerfield in first speech since announcing byelection run (This article is more than 5 months old – as the Guardian is at pains to point out)

    And we know a week is a long time in politics.

    Burnham open to ‘honest discussion’ on EU free movement (BBC) – but how ‘honest’ is our Andy Pandy?

    Our mainstream trash media loves a villain – and boy have they found a new one – care of our Meghan.

    Police suspect Markle Snr is ‘grossest kind’ of sex offender (the formerly serious Times) – seems our very own home team the Met police may have missed out on the kudos to be had from investigating this case: Police in Philippines analysing dital images… investigation to spread to Mexico and US (Mirror)

    That old conundrum ‘international law’ can be a bit of a complicated subject: I go to Far East as 12-year-olds are legal there… Markle’s confession to his ex-wife (The Sun) – I’m sure that line of defence can soon be swept aside considering all cultures all over the globe are equally liberal and enlightened and always have been – just like ours is now.

    Talk about kick a man when he’s down: Mail witnesses moment last year that Meghan’s father received her letter telling him she ‘knew he had abused young girls’… in hospital recovering from a leg amputation (The ever-excitable Daily Mail)

    Since Markel Snr would appear to be the correct nomenclature – see above Times headline – we can now say Markle Jnr appears to have played a blinder – restored in media affection to heroine… from zeroine.

    Leading scientists hope star power can convince PM to save observatory… Professor Brian Cox joins Burnham allies in plea for Jodrell Bank (i paper)

    One should have thought former forgotten PM Keir Starmer would have been the go to man for a Jodrell Bank. Connoisseurs of the art of Cockney Rhyming Slang will get that one.

    Goodness me but how the FT loves a far-off foreign election. Still, their article should provide a happy hunting ground for our regular daily FT word search game of find the “far-right”?

    Half a point score for a “hard-right”? Incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 80, is facing hard-right challenger Flávio Bolsonaro, who is serving a lengthy sentence for plotting a coup – Burn! – the kids would say.

    The BBC and Guardian are likewise all about these overseas ballots: Serbia celebrates Vučić concedes defeat in election… ousted by student movement in seismic election (Guardian) – ‘seismic’ – I could care less – I’m inevitably reminded of young Rodney Trotter of Only Fools and Horses fame and his familiar unimpressed exclamation “cosmic!”

    Celebrations in Serbia after veteran ruler Vučić loses election to student-led protest movement (André Rhoden-Paul and Jaroslav Lukiv, BBC) – ‘student-led’ – that has to be a good thing, right?

    Of course the US mid-terms are the big one our left-leaning media are looking forward to with relish: US voters saying they are worried by graft in the Trump administration (FT)

    Your Mr AsI has already insisted he doesn’t care if Americans tend to vote for Bernie Sanders or Colonel Sanders.

    He was of course borrowing the formulation from jazz poet proto-rapper Gil Scott-Heron:

    This country has been surprised by the way the world looks now.
    They don’t know if they want to be Matt Dillon or Bob Dylan.

    [from the track “B” Movie, 1981}

    Would we take Jesse Jackson?
    Hell, we’d take Michael Jackson!

    [Re-Ron, 1984]

    The FT frets: ‘The Chinese luxury consumer recovery that the industry was hoping for has taken a pause’ – when I was a kid people still warned children to eat up their greens and think of starving kids in China.

    Sometimes these segueways will write themselves…

    Let’s be starvin’ you! – this is the Daily Star (‘News with a wink’) reporting on celeb chef and nutty Norwich City football fan Delia Smith’s endorsement of the latest Labour government pre-Budget leak: Delia Smith suggests bringing back RATIONING… will cure the nation’s addition to sugar – I jest of course.

    Don’t worry, some things never change – to borrow from Robert Browning (as a poet he’s up there with Gil Scott Heron, you know):

    “God’s in his heaven -“
    The Indy is still banging on about the evils of Brexit:
    Europe: The way back… figures suggest UK has missed up to £240bn of growth since 2020 (Independent)
    All’s right with the world!”

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  9. tomo says:

    Grind them down , force players into the tired, bankrupt game that’s worked so well , for so long……

    It’s been too scripted and too cozy for too long – the f’ers in Westminster + Whitehall needs a wakey-wakey

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    • StewGreen says:

      The other day I thought it was strange that YouTube was suppressing History Debunked by not recommending any of his videos for months
      Then today they recommended one from him
      ‘Young Bob arrested for using the P word’
      .. oh a video where the righty is the baddie

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      • tomo says:

        … and if they can’t find something skewed like that they fill your “feed” with mind melting shite – I see that whenever on a phone version of YouTube if I flip between feed and subscription they autorun a short about 70% of the time or an ad the other 30% – some days the proffered list of stuff put into my feed is totally absurd. I feel it isn’t accidental.

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  10. StewGreen says:

    BBC pays out to employee bullied for being Jewish
    ..admits no guilt

    Lucie Kon, an Emmy award winner, said she was victimised in the wake of the Oct 7 terrorist attacks in Israel by colleagues who told her Zionists like her were “evil”.

    \\Ms Kon, who has family in Israel, claimed she was told
    that “if you want to call Hamas terrorists then you have to call Israel terrorists too”

    and that she should “think about what drove Hamas to do what they did”.//

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    • StewGreen says:

      Would they ever say to a black reporter “you can’t work on this story about black people cos you are black ” ?
      To a gay reporter “you can’t cover gay pride cos you are gay” ?

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    • Sluff says:

      The BBC cover this story……by burying the headline from the Telegraph in the newspaper review section. How very decent of them.

      Allow me
      ‘BBC’s £400k payout over anti-semitism’

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      • MarkyMark says:

        “University Challenge student gets payout from Tory peer over antisemitism claim”
        Published | 6 March 2024
        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68493685
        In a now-deleted tweet in November 2023, Baroness Foster criticised Ms Gorgianeh for wearing what she said were the colours of the Palestinian flag and for the team’s soft toy Octopus mascot, which she described as one of the most “disgusting antisemitic symbols,” according to a statement by Rahman Lowe Solicitors, external – the law firm representing Ms Gorgianeh.

        Jewish people were sometimes depicted as octopi in Nazi posters during World War Two.

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    • Scroblene says:

      What an utterly disgraceful response from the BBC – shame on them!

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  11. MarkyMark says:

    Stretch of London’s famous Oxford Street becomes pedestrian only
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cqkglj32ygr8t

    ….
    Around 41% of London’s population—roughly 3.5 to 3.6 million residents—were born outside the United Kingdom, making the capital home to nearly 40% of the UK’s entire foreign-born population.
    ….

    #LondonIsOpen
    #LondonIsClosedToOrangeMan
    #MeccaIsClosedToEvilPeople

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    • Sluff says:

      Hidden in that last photo in plain sight is the cultural tendency in many ahem Indian subcontinental states to have millions of specialist small shops.
      And not a department store in sight.
      And we wonder why our own traditional High Streets are failing….

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    • Scroblene says:

      That’ll be fun when the feral gangs begin to belt round, stealing everything and terrorising other shoppers!

      How many more reasons does one need to never visit London again?

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    • moggiemoo says:

      I wonder how many of that foreign-born population work for the civil service in some capacity?

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Gender: Women make up 54.5% of the overall Civil Service (as of 2024), maintaining majority representation since 2001. In the Senior Civil Service (SCS), female representation rose from 17.7% in 1997 to 48.2% in 2024, nearly matching the economically active population benchmark of 48.8%

        Ethnic Minorities: Ethnic minority staff account for 14.3% of the workforce, aligning closely with the wider UK working population. However, representation remains lower in senior leadership tiers

        https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/civil-service-diversity
        The civil service is more diverse today than it has ever been. But there is still more work to be done.
        18 NOV 2024 | Teodor Grama

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  12. Althepalerp says:

    We were lied to.. . . .

    During the 2016 EU Referendum, the Remain campaign—often labeled “Project Fear” by its critics—made several short-term and long-term predictions about the consequences of a Leave vote that did not materialize as described.
    The most prominent claims made by Remainers that did not happen include:

    1. The Immediate “Punishment Budget”

    • The Claim: In the week before the referendum, Chancellor George Osborne warned that a vote to leave would trigger an immediate emergency “punishment budget”. He claimed this would require £30 billion in immediate tax hikes and severe public spending cuts to stabilize the economy.
    • What Happened: The emergency budget was entirely abandoned. Following the Leave vote, Osborne was replaced as Chancellor by Philip Hammond, who scrapped the plan, choosing instead to allow the deficit to float to maintain economic stability.

    2. An Immediate Technical Recession

    • The Claim: An official HM Treasury forecast published in May 2016 claimed that a vote to leave would cause an immediate “shock” to the economy, resulting in four quarters of negative growth (a technical recession), a spike in inflation, and a drop in housing prices within two years.
    • What Happened: The immediate recession did not occur. The UK economy continued to grow at a steady rate of roughly 1.4% to 1.7% annually between 2016 and 2019 leading up to the formal departure.

    3. Half a Million Job Losses Within Two Years

    • The Claim: The same HM Treasury forecast explicitly stated that a Leave vote would result in a rise in unemployment by at least 500,000 people within the first two years of the vote.
    • What Happened: Unemployment did not rise; it actually fell. In the years following the 2016 vote, the UK employment rate hit historic highs, and unemployment dropped to 3.8% in 2019, its lowest level since 1975.

    4. Being Pushed to the “Back of the Queue” for US Trade

    • The Claim: In a high-profile intervention ahead of the vote, US President Barack Obama warned UK voters that if they chose to leave the EU, Britain would find itself “at the back of the queue” for any future trade agreement with the United States.
    • What Happened: Subsequent US administrations quickly dismissed this posture. While a comprehensive free trade agreement has not been fully finalized due to shifting US domestic trade priorities, the Trump administration actively prioritized bilateral talks with the UK, and the Biden administration signed a targeted “Atlantic Declaration” trade and economic framework.

    5. World War III / Direct Threat to European Peace

    • The Claim: Prime Minister David Cameron gave a major speech warning that Brexit could jeopardize the peace and stability of the continent, asking rhetorically if Britain could be confident that peace and stability on our continent are assured without the UK’s presence in the EU, invoking the specters of WWI and WWII.
    • What Happened: While Brexit significantly strained political and diplomatic relations between London and Brussels, European security and military cooperation remained intact. Security partnerships were largely preserved through NATO and bilateral defense pacts (such as the Lancaster House Treaties with France), rather than through EU mechanisms.

    6. A Mass Exodus of Financial Sector Jobs

    • The Claim: Various Remain-aligned consulting groups and politicians predicted that the City of London would face an immediate collapse, with up to 100,000 banking and financial services jobs leaving the UK for Frankfurt and Paris on day one.
    • What Happened: While some specific euro-clearing assets and corporate headquarters shifted to the continent to comply with EU regulations, the mass exodus did not happen. Most tracking metrics showed that the absolute number of financial services jobs in the UK actually grew in the years following the referendum

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  13. Doublethinker says:

    I see that the weekend headlines from Europe include the following signs of Globalist panic.
    1. Chancellor Merz of Germany makes a widely reported speech that his highest priority is defeating Putin. This when Germany is losing its industry and hundreds of thousands of well paid jobs. This is playing into the hands of the AfD.
    2. There are growing rumors that Merz will be replaced by Wurz who is going around saying that the AfD ought to be banned because it isn’t Russophic and it’s a threat to Germany. The AfD is polling at 30% way ahead of any other party.
    3. In Spain the ruling coalition of EU lovers and socialists is rapidly losing vote share , Vox the strongly nationalist party , is gaining ground . It looks as though a coalition of the PP ( centre right with a nationalist leaning) and Vox will win the election in a month’s time so installing an EU sceptic anti immigrant government.
    4. In France the Globalist centre left and centre right parties combined are polling at 25%. The RN is at 36% and the hard left LFI is at 18%. The RN is supported by the French equivalent of Restore which is polling at4%.
    5. In Italy it is suggested that if France and Spain vote for Populist nationalist governments Meloni will be emboldened to implement much more of the Populist agenda that she was elected on.

    The Globalists are losing on all fronts and will become increasingly panic stricken and therefore dangerous .
    Banning Populist political parties and risking a huge backlash or Provoking war with Russia might seem to them a viable way of preserving their power.
    Needless to say the MSM are doing whatever their Globalists masters want.

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    • moggiemoo says:

      Europe moving to the right will be countered by the UK moving so far to the left that they fall off the end of the scale.

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      • MarkyMark says:

        Mega far super dupa left of left! HA AH HAHA HAHA AHA

        “Andy Burnham explains how he will put power back in every postcode”

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    • MarkyMark says:

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  14. atlas_shrugged says:

    “The Army Needs More Feminists”

    https://www.army.mod.uk/support-and-training/our-schools-and-colleges/centre-for-army-leadership/leadership-resources/leadership-insights/leadership-insight-no10/

    The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstruous Regiment of Women
    John Knox 1558

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Feminism is not a war of the sexes, nor is it a quest to steal men’s jobs. It is a fight for equality and it can make all of our lives better.2 For too long, it has been seen by many as a threat, rather than an opportunity.”
      The Army Needs More Feminists | By Major Tim Towler (SCOTS)

      ….

      “China promotes education drive to make boys more ‘manly'”
      Published | 4 February 2021
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55926248
      A notice from China’s education ministry has caused a stir after it suggested young Chinese men had become too “feminine”. The message has been criticised as sexist by many online users – but some say China’s male celebrities are partly to blame.

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    • vlad says:

      “The Army Needs More Feminists”… like a fish needs a bicycle.

      The military and the police were two institutions that were resisting the catastrophic onslaught of feminism, progressivism and identity politics.

      The police have been captured some time ago (just look at the copettes acting all useless in any physical comnfrontation), and now, tragically, the military are going the same way.

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      • MarkyMark says:

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        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgn8dz3l0lo
        PC Lydia Ward suffered a broken nose after being punched at Terminal 2

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        • vlad says:

          Yes, the copettes are either standing around uselessly while their male colleagues take care of business, or they’re getting their faces smashed in, or they’re over-compensating to show how tough they are, like the copette who smashed into that poor white guy after he’d alredy been beaten up by a gang of savages.

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          • MarkyMark says:

            “Met chief says PC’s award marred by racist abuse”
            23 October 2026
            https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cked3x8w2vddo
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            “The federation put out this really positive thing about this award, and the online tirade of vileness, of racist, anti-Islam and all sorts of other abuse, and misogynistic, was horrific,” he said.

            Umar was commended by the federation for leading the development of the Hijab Project, through which new uniform options were introduced to meet the needs of Muslim women officers.

            Hijab Project
            Wearing the cross Project
            Wearing keffiyeh Project

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  15. MarkyMark says:

    In France the educated kids are burning down schools to protest against their lack of resources. 2026
    …. Education was not what it was …
    “Studied law at the SOAS University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies), graduating with a 2:1”
    March 2013 “During the election of a new Pope, the BBC posted a picture of the Sistine Chapel chimney with the caption: “Chimney of Sistine Chapel as conclave votes for Pope — will smoke be black or white?” Tweeting from the House of Commons chamber, Lammy condemned the post, writing: “This tweet from the BBC is crass and unnecessary. Do we really need silly innuendo about the race of the next Pope?”

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  16. Althepalerp says:

    Gibraltar voted in the European referendum.

    How will they get a say in the way forward at the next General election?

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    • MarkyMark says:

      In Piddington, UK the new citizens will help vote correctly! HA HHA AHA HH AHH AH !

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  17. tomo says:

    HMRC again

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  18. MarkyMark says:

    “Men guilty of ‘Good Samaritan’ killing after retrial”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmed3xngj6z7o
    Oliver Wright | Yorkshire | Published 23 October 2026

    Louis James, left, was convicted of murder and Dereck Owusu, right, was found guilty of manslaughter after a retrial

    Two men have been found guilty of killing a “Good Samaritan” when he stepped in to help a 17-year-old girl after she had been assaulted.

    “He did so in order to protect a young female who he had just seen being punched,” prosecutor David Temkin KC said at the time.

    ….

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  19. MarkyMark says:

    2014
    To mark the 799th anniversary of Magna Carta, the Prime Minister has written an article for the Mail on Sunday on British values.
    https://www.gov.uk/government/news/british-values-article-by-david-cameron

    Finally, we need to make the most of the things that bring us together as a diverse, unified nation.

    unified = diverse?

    The values I’m talking about – a belief in freedom, tolerance of others, accepting personal and social responsibility, respecting and upholding the rule of law – are the things we should try to live by every day. To me they’re as British as the Union Flag, as football, as fish and chips.
    ……
    2026 Chicken tikka masala is widely called an unofficial national dish of the UK.
    ….
    2026 Olivia held the top spot for the 10th year in a row for girls’ names and Muhammad topped the list for boys’ names for the third year running.
    …
    2026 Councils across the UK—including Birmingham City Council, Bristol City Council, and Leicestershire County Council—have
    removed unauthorized Union Jack and St George’s Cross flags from lampposts and public infrastructure.

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  20. MarkyMark says:

    “THIS is why France is burning…” | David Starkey Talks… to Steven Edginton | David Starkey Talks | 219k subscribers

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  21. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    So many times when commenting, the lefties come out with lies.

    On here there are so many examples of their lies yet the lefties on tv are rarely challenged.

    Take the charts by pug earlier.
    When some lefty comes on and says our exports to the eu are down or our growth is poor since Brexit the interviewer usually has a half hearted try at a response by saying something like “we have other Countries we trade with” and it ends there.
    Why can’t they put this chart on the screen when the lefty says our exports are down or whatever.
    They get a very easy ride the left (on GB News)
    Is it because very few will appear on GBN and we only get the obnoxious dregs on who have extreme tunnel vision, won’t stop talking, keep interrupting and insult the normal guests.
    Do they think if they upset this lot they will have no lefties willing to appear on GBN and that’s why they are so soft on them.
    A problem the other media don’t have when their ‘Right’ wing guests are usually the dripping wet Tories.

    If normal people like us on here can come up with so many examples to shut the left up when they come out with their lies why can’t a tv station with all its resources.

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  22. Emmanuel Goldstein says:

    The way Burnham is heading with his rejoining the eu plan is against those voters in Makerfield who voted him for their MP.

    If there’s a General Election, what’s the chances of Burnham losing his seat.
    If he does, what’s happens next.
    Does he need to find another patsy in a safe seat to resign so that he can stand for election and get to be PM again.
    The patsy will be extremely well rewarded, just like the Makerfield one who now has been given a very highly paid job.

    Otherwise, can he still be PM if he loses the election. It’s very possible he will lose.

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  23. MarkyMark says:

    “Now let’s be blunt, you seem to be talking about an Islamic final solution.” David Starkey
    “I’m not saying that”
    “Then what are you saying?” David Starkey
    “What I am saying is Britain should stand up for our historic traditions, we should be product and confident as a Nation, Islam does not need to be part of the fundamental state. Free to practice their religion in anyway they like, but, we should have our own traditions here we have been a Christian country. And we should be allowed (HA HA allowed ) to be proud of that and not enable these people (Islamists) and have them in our politicial institutions. In the way you (David Starkey) is suggesting. But there is a way to apply the law equally to everyone and allow religious freedom. I’m not in any way suggesting a genocide of Islamic people.”
    “No No, I didn’t talk about genocide” David Starkey
    “You said the final solution?”
    “Yes, yes….” David Starkey
    ….
    “In France religion has to be private. Because the state will not give it public space. In Britain we have given it the opposite view. The Church of England was like English Shinto. ….. I want to see Islam part of the political process, because there are important, large number of people here…. But the problem is we’ve given them admission to it unconditionally. ” David Starkey

    ….

    “I want to see Islam part of the political process, because there are important, large number of people here…. But the problem is we’ve given them admission to it unconditionally. ” David Starkey @3120

    …..

    The core of Christopher Hitchens’ argument regarding Islam’s inability to change rests on its foundational claim to be God’s final, unalterable revelation. While Hitchens heavily criticized all major religions in his book God Is Not Great, he argued that Islam presents a unique, inherent structural barrier to theological evolution and modernization

    ….

    ISLAM WILL NOT BEND, BUT THE WEST WILL BEND AND REVEAL ITS BARE KNECK TO THE SWORD OF TOLERANCE.

    ….

    “Either we go on playing the game of blindfold and machete, or we take
    off the blindfold, take away the machete and show Mr. Islam the door.”

    Breaking up with Mr. Islam by Daniel Greenfield {sultanknish jun2016}

    http://sultanknish.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/breaking-up-with-mr-islam.html

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  24. MarkyMark says:

    Give them a 100% pay rise and 364 days off! GO GO GO!

    “Consultants – the most senior doctors in the NHS – were given a 3.5% pay increase this year.”

    “Consultant doctors in England to strike next month”
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c69wzxw2pvv0o

    Average earnings for consultants top £150,000 a year.

    Basic pay starts at £113,500, with the most experienced getting £150,500.

    But many earn tens of thousands in extra payments and awards.

    The government estimates if the BMA demands were met in full it would cost £2 billion to £3 billion a year.

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  25. Fedup2 says:

    Excellent news

    Medical mafia culture traditionally driven by money – screw their NHS and the punters ….

       7 likes

  26. Fedup2 says:

    Tr verdict either after 4pm today or tomorrow – their state really making it last …..

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  27. MarkyMark says:

    “Anyone walking down the high streets would guess that the war was already fought, and we lost catastrophically.”

    Ready for war?… | Andrew Lawrence | 185k subscribers

    https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/12/19/1387482122778/Michael-Adebolajo-speaks–009.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none

    …………..

    The claim that the British Army would run out of ammunition within 10 days of a major conflict has been raised repeatedly by military experts, former defence ministers, and war-gaming exercises.
    https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/britain-army-munitions-run-out-armed-forces-defence-b1147565.html

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  28. Richard Pinder says:

    The BBC is censoring another violation of the Nuremberg Code by the British Government.

    Doctors world-wide are shocked and warn that the socialist government in England is adulterating the bread supply with Frolic Acid without the informed consent of the public.

    Too much synthetic folic acid—usually from high-dose supplements exceeding 1,000 µg (1 mg) per day—can cause several serious health risks and side effects. Suicide among pregnant women is not an uncommon scenario.

    Fatal Folic Acid Toxicity in Humans: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gerard-Pradeep-Devnath-2/publication/314274167_Fatal_Folic_Acid_Toxicity_in_Humans/links/6284c552a629047e3a9d78d5/Fatal-Folic-Acid-Toxicity-in-Humans.pdf

       8 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      Wes Streeting is telling me to buy water? Do I need this as well?

         4 likes

    • atlas_shrugged says:

      Folic acid free flour will still be available from small millers who produce less than a certain threshold.

         4 likes

    • tomo says:

      Overseen by a Food Standards Agency that couldn’t tell the difference between chicken pieces with added water and water with added chicken bits.

         5 likes

  29. MarkyMark says:

    “Englishness is the most problematic identity. People can tell you what Scottishness is.”

    ….

    Former Scottish First Minister and SNP leader Humza Yousaf did not state that Scotland has “too many white people”; instead, his comments addressed the lack of racial diversity in senior public and governmental leadership roles.

    …..

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  30. MarkyMark says:

    Independent review announced into murder of student Henry Nowak
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv70pnw784x7o
    The review will be led by former Lord Chancellor Alex Chalk KC.

    ….

    He prosecuted three members of a so-called ‘Muslim Patrol’ who were jailed at the Old Bailey for assault, affray and public order offences.[11] Chalk also prosecuted a group of radical Sunni Muslims who were jailed for attacking a group of Shi’ite Muslims.[12] Chalk prosecuted serious fraud cases, including a case against the socialite Edward Davenport, known as Fast Eddie, who was convicted in 2011 of being the ringmaster of a global fraud which saw 51 victims, including Elizabeth Emanuel, the dress designer, pay for “due diligence checks” to secure loans totalling £2 billion which were not genuinely on offer.[13]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Chalk

    ….

    https://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=25340&chamber=house-of-commons

    Until 4 September 2015, flat in Barons Court, jointly owned with my wife: (i) (Registered 21 May 2015; updated 18 December 2015)

    Type of land/property: Residential property (flat)
    Number of properties: 1
    Location: Unspecified, France
    Ownership details: A third share

    A third share of a cottage in Gloucestershire: (i) and (ii). (Registered 21 May 2015)

    Until 18 October 2022, a flat in Shepherds Bush: (i) and (ii). (Registered 21 May 2015; updated 19 October 2022)

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    • Emmanuel Goldstein says:

      And when the Novak inquiry is completed you can bet your house that NOBODY will be punished.
      A lot of rich lawyers and the like will get a bit richer but nothing will happen as a result. Just like all the others.
      *Maybe they can pin the whole blame on some bottom of the pile policeman who doesn’t matter but NO higher ups will be affected.

      His mother will certainly not be made a Baroness.

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  31. Richard Pinder says:

    History Repeats: The First Brexit:

    406 – Marcus declares Brexit from the Roman Empire for Britannia.

    410 – Lord Remainer Burnham, sends a letter to Rome asking to reverse Brexit and rejoin the Roman Empire. Emperor Honorius replied to Lord Remainer, saying “fup off, I am bloody well trying to save the Roman Empire from immigrant protesters burning down Rome.” Demoralised by the reply, Lord Remainer Burnham left for home in Rome.

    410 – Brexiteer, Old King Coel, killed the remaining Remainers, and ruled Northern Britannia from York.

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Trying to get into the mind of burnham is more challenging than TTK . Ok I concede he has a ‘ mind ‘. He is of a catholic background – which is where the socialism comes from – but the hard thing to get over is ‘legitimacy ‘ …. He is making pronouncements for which he has no democratic mandate – stuff which isn’t even in the labour manifesto – not that manifestos ever have ‘value ‘…

      So of burnham – loves the sound of his own voice – loves feigning emotion –
      Likes to be ‘victim ‘ ( hillsborough ) says one thing – then rolls it back – keeps an imbecile cabinet ….

      The number 10 operation is trying to keep in the public awareness by ‘dynamic ‘ announcements – free movement ? Associate membership of the EU ? Jackdaw ?

      Number 10 seems happy to say anything as long as he is keep in the headlines … perhaps that will work in getting some labour supporters back to the fold …. With the MSM trying to delete the sins of the uni party – 14 blue 2 red so far dragging Blighty down on EVERY front … helped along of course by the ever faithful BBCOFCOM …

         6 likes

      • tomo says:

        R AnDeh has been repeatedly called an empty suit – anyone wanting to get into his mind is going to find not much there?

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  32. Althepalerp says:

    Where are all the people who said Immigration is great for the economy, it fuels growth?

    The experiment didn’t work.

       13 likes

    • MarkyMark says:

      From a Theresa May speech …

      As Martin Wolf, the chief economics commentator of the financial times, says: ‘The desirability of sizeable immigration is a matter more of values than of economics. It is not a choice between wealth and poverty, but of the sort of country one desires to inhabit.’

      https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/home-secretary-speech-on-an-immigration-system-that-works-in-the-national-interest

      “the sort of country one desires to inhabit”

      Deng Majek stabbed Rhiannon Whyte 23 times with a screwdriver in a frenzied 90-second attack in 2024 after following the 27-year-old to Bescot Stadium railway station in Walsall.

      He was later caught on CCTV dancing and laughing.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yvwdgjpj3o

      He was later caught on CCTV dancing and laughing.

      “the sort of country one desires to inhabit”

         9 likes

    • Richard Pinder says:

      The immigrants have to be more intelligent that the residents. The Chinese say that this only works for Africa. However, white upper-class liberals regard immigrants as more intelligent than themselves, as is displayed in a BBC drama.

         13 likes

  33. Richard Pinder says:

    French Revolution 2.0 : France is burning. In a single day, 550,000 people took to the streets in 110 marches across the country, according to France’s Interior Ministry. Hundreds of stores have been looted in Paris alone, government buildings have been set on fire.

    President Trump called it “a full-on revolution” driven by uncontrolled immigration, warning, “They have to straighten out their act. Otherwise there won’t be a Europe left.” His message: “Close your Borders and take control, before it is too late!”

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “Close your Borders and take control, before it is too late!”

      … HAS FRANCE AGREED TO USE PLANES RATHER THAN BOATS? …

      Small boats data
      This page shows figures for the last 7 days for migrants attempting to cross the English Channel in small boats without permission to enter the UK.

      Date Migrants arrived Boats arrived Boats involved in uncontrolled landings Notes
      19 October 2026 0 0 0
      20 October 2026 0 0 0
      21 October 2026 0 0 0
      22 October 2026 0 0 0
      23 October 2026 0 0 0
      24 October 2026 0 0 0
      25 October 2026 0 0 0
      https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats/migrants-detected-crossing-the-english-channel-in-small-boats-last-7-days

         3 likes

      • Emmanuel Goldstein says:

        How long until they come over in drones.
        An injured Ukrainian soldier was picked up by a drone and brought to safety using a drone.
        Prisons are worried (well, maybe) that prisoners will be lifted out of prison by drones.
        Amazon can use drones to deliver orders.

        These drones are not the bomb ones that Russia and Ukraine use to bomb each other, they are like large hobby drones. Much bigger than the camera drones but much smaller than the bomb drones.
        They are reusable. One operator in the Calais dunes running a shuttle service to the White cliffs.

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        • atlas_shrugged says:

          These drones would also be able to carry metal fence posts. Although they may occaisionally shed their payload if they hit some air-turbulence.

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  34. Richard Pinder says:

    The BBC’s War on Empirical Reality:

    Messianic Mad Men, Medicine, and the Media War on Empirical Reality: Discourse Analysis of Mainstream Covid-19 Propaganda. This academic paper critiques the psychological messaging used by mainstream broadcasters—specifically naming organizations like the BBC—during global crises: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel-Broudy/publication/355191688_Messianic_Mad_Men_Medicine_and_the_Media_War_on_Empirical_Reality_Discourse_Analysis_of_Mainstream_Covid-19_Propaganda/links/61666cfa8ad119749b0e25e7/Messianic-Mad-Men-Medicine-and-the-Media-War-on-Empirical-Reality-Discourse-Analysis-of-Mainstream-Covid-19-Propaganda.pdf

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  35. vlad says:

    The British are a sentimental lot, and unfortunateely Meghan’s latest shenanigans are earning her a lot of sympathy in our touchy-feely feminised media.

    My own reactions are quite different:

    Firstly, there are a lot of inconsistencies in her version of events around Markle senior.
    Secondly, how very convenient the timing, just when she was receiving awful reactions to her UK comeback tour after failing at everything, both sides of the pond.
    Thirdly, what a hideous family the Markles are, every single one of them.
    And lastly, what a ghastly trailer-trash gene pool Harry dragged into the royal family, which hopefully William will be able to quarantine them against. Charles is way too weak and too dim.

       17 likes

    • Scroblene says:

      Spot on Vlad…

      Up to now, it’s been ‘Me, me, me, me, me’!

      Now it’s ‘Him, him, him, him, him’!

      Where on earth did you go wrong, Harry? Nobody cared about you getting pissed and photographed outside a club at 4.00am, it’s what kids did, with all that dosh!

      You used to be a great gallivanter – not so much now.

      Hundreds of years ago, a lovely friend and I would get into the office quite early (she had amazingly short skirts back then, but that’s another story), and the first thing we’d do was scan the Charles Greville columns in The Mail. There was one name which always appeared as ‘fun-loving’, and pictured in various establishments which cost a lot of money! I think we got to thirteen times that his name was mentioned in one edition, and various drinks were consumed as a celebration in our pub!

      He’s still around, but – er – not quite so rich, noisy or loquacious, so let him sleep it off in peace…

      Harry – take note.

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  36. Fedup2 says:

    It looks like the TR trial is to end Tuesday . The jury – so far – has not been able to return a 10 – 2 verdict – which suggests the case will be discharged .

    Will the CPS go for him again ? Betcha . But to find a jury which is unaware of the background ? Tricky .

    However – the CPS will ask that restrictions are imposed on TR until the retrial …. Which they’ll want to take place in 2028 …placing controls on TR worthy of any third world dictatorship .
    They might even try to get him into custody like Tommo …

       21 likes

    • Jeff says:

      I can’t see what the jury are struggling with…

      The revolting Daily Mail sent out a couple of scumbag “journo’s” to do a hit piece on Tommy Robinson. They tried to implicate him in demonstrations that were happening in Britain, while he and his family were having a sunshine break. It was nasty, unwarranted and dishonest.

      Anyone would be incensed and anyone with a backbone would confront these parasitic paparazzi. This he did and turned the tables.

      He threatened to do to them what they had done to him…and being a couple of spineless, lily livered cowards they’ve gone running to the police.

      As it transpired, he didn’t “dox them”. Their crime against him is the one the court should be hearing, not this utter bilge.

      Oh…and if you’re still buying the gutter Mail

      Give your head a really good wobble…

         21 likes

      • Fedup2 says:

        Jeff – the jury is in factions – the left Muslims v the British – the catchment of Southwark means the impasse is a miracle- particularly with a TTK judge and TTK CPS prosecutor ….

        If found guilty the TTK judge will bleat about ‘press freedom ‘ and remand in custody pending the full ? 2 year prison – if not more …
        The mail will have a full revenge piece from the TR neighbours and kids school bribed to sing their song …

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  37. StewGreen says:

    Important update from Young Bob
    “This is becoming absolutely ridiculous.
    Just a quick update on the case, I’ve received a phone call from the Metropolitan Police informing me that the case has been dropped with no further action.
    I’ve been arrested seven times simply for expressing my views, yet I’ve never been charged. Just endless stress, anxiety, and nights spent in a cell”

       19 likes

    • Mustapha Sheikup al-Beebi says:

      The process is, of course, part of the punishment. Just ask Tommy Robinson. Remember also Nick Griffin, who IIRC was only ever convicted of one charge, despite many attempts to incriminate him; and who was effectively “lawyered out” of the political process for telling the truth by what might be seen as vexatious litigation.

         10 likes

    • tomo says:

      Plod etc. self evidently unfazed by ridicule.

         6 likes

    • StewGreen says:

      Important context
      The video show he wasn’t throwing the word of his own accord
      The ethnic Pakistani said
      “I am asking you would you say the P word”
      So bloody he replied “p is the shortened form of Pakistani”
      So that is not him attempting to offend someone
      Video : https://x.com/jomickane/status/2114783733265875446/

         5 likes

      • StewGreen says:

        Typo : So Bob replied “p is the shortened form of Pakistani

        .. I’ve got not idea how autorrect inserted the word “bloody”

        It’s also bad that History Debunked lashed out at Young Bob , without checking the context video

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  38. tomo says:

    Labour voters

       5 likes

  39. tomo says:

    Screenshot-2026-10-26-22-26-37-66-40deb401b9ffe8e1df2f1cc5ba480b12.jpg

       11 likes

    • Richard Pinder says:

      Misinformation is Truth, Censorship is Wrong, Ofcom is Evil. GB News

      Truth is Misinformation, Safety is Censorship, Right is Wrong. BBC News

      War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength. George Orwell

      Rape is Liberation, Arson is Patriotism, Violence is Tradition. Emmanuel Macron

      The Chief Defence Staff Officer chants “Islamic invasion good for diversity, Russian invasion bad for diversity” and “Diversity is our Strength”

      Hate Not Love (HNL) say “Free Speech is Hate Speech”

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  40. Doublethinker says:

    Gove , the editor of the Spectator interviews Douglas Murray on the Spectator pod cast Quite Right about immigration and the danger we are in because of it. It might be behind a pay wall
    .
    Firstly, Douglas has moved quite along way in the past few years. He used to decry Trump as being crude and unnecessarily aggressive in his anti immigration policies. Now he sees him as an example to be urgently followed if our civilisation is to be saved. He also recognises that David Betz is probably right about the Balkanisation of Britain and civil war.
    Secondly , he politely points out that the entire political class of the last thirty years is responsible for our plight and that Gove was a key player. He castigates the weakness of our politicians and the stupidity of our civil servants and much of the MSM.
    Gove never accepts or denies responsibility nor seeks to justify or explain why the decisions which led to this disaster were made. He doesn’t exactly wash his hands of responsibility but he doesn’t accept responsibility either. He looks very uncomfortable throughout.
    But Gove says he still hopes that multiculturalism can somehow be made to work. Douglas tells him that it is far too late to hold such views, twenty years too late, Gove looks shocked.

    Perhaps our political class like Gove really did once think that mass migration and multiculturalism would work and are only just , decades too late, beginning to realise that it won’t but that it will instead destroy us. Of course Labour are going to find it impossible to admit that as they are increasingly reliant on the Muslim vote

    So sadly there seems little chance of avoiding the fate that David Betz and Douglas Murray predict.

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  41. AsISeeIt says:

    Foreign elections season.

    Or, perceived autocracy edition

    I know we messed about with the clocks the other night – but did I just sleep through and miss the budget?

    Chancellor will boost minium wage by 4% (Times)
    ‘Cliff edge’ rule to be scrapped in wake of carers’ allowance scandal (Guardian)
    10 million benefits claimants to receive 3.5% rise in payments (i paper)
    Fuel duty will be frozen for the 16th consecutive year… (The Sun)
    Healey to focus Budget giveaways on cost of living (FT)
    Pick up a Swizzles Sweet Tub at Iceland for only £2 (giveaway adsheet Metro)

    I jest of course. Particularly about that last announcement.

    But this next one is serious, apparently: Healey pledges cheaper marmalade and gherkins in pre-Budget package of ‘everyday fixes’ (Archie Mitchell, Business reporter BBC – with a name reminiscent of a 1940s radio comic – well, he seems to think we live on a 1940 diet of marmalade and gherkins – there’s a couple of products that need some explaining to the teenagers)

    “everyday fixes” in the Budget tomorrow – explains the FT – reassuring us we didn’t sleep through it.

    But all these budgetary premature ejaculations from ministers – don’t tell Lindsay Hoyle, he’ll do his nut: Speaker rages at ‘appalling’ treatment of MPs over Jackdaw announcement… announced in the media before it was put to the House. (Politic.co); During Prime Minister’s Questions, Hoyle berated Labour MP Michael Shanks after the UK Government’s decision to approve the Jackdaw gas field was leaked to the press. (The National); Energy Secretary slammed for ‘shamefully’ revealing Jackdaw decision to media before telling MPs (Evening Standard)

    Your Mr AsI has informally re-dubbed the Financial Times the Brussels Trumpet, and sometimes The Mid-Belgian Courier, in honour of its editorial admiration for the EU. Perhaps the two nicknames might be combined somewhat in the manner of vintage kids comic Whizzer and Chips – there’s one for the teenagers.

    The format of Whizzer and Chips presented the comic as being divided into two separate parts—a novel idea at the time. One part was called Whizzer and the other was called Chips, with Chips existing as a separate pull-out section in the middle. The slogan “Two comics in one, double the fun!” was used. – thank you Wiki.

    But when it comes to relentless devotion to the Brussels cause – no title is quite as irredeemably Remoaner in character as that recent cuckoo-in-the-nest addition to the BBC’s otherwise strictly print press daily front page review as the left-leaning virtual online-only Independent – let’s rename it the Brussels Beano – or some such.

    Burnham blames Brexit for small boats crisis (Indy) – and if you believe that I’ve got a Channel bridge to sell you.

    …he says he wants to rejoin in his lifetime – but rules out returning to free movement without another referendum (Indy)

    Well, go on then Andy, you retire as PM and sod off for a job in Europe.

    Just yesterday your Mr AsI proposed footballers as the analogy to free cross-border movement with Europe. They’ve taken two or three of ours – while we’ve taken about three hundred of theirs (figures anecdotal but representative)

    Just one day later in the news – the exception that proves the rule: Harry Kane, 33,last night became the first English player since Michael Owen in 2001 to win the Ballon d’Or (Times)

    There are approximately 393 foreign players out of 547 total players in the 2026–27 Premier League season… The breakdown of player representation by country and region shows that European nations… form the vast majority of the league’s roster… led heavily by France, the Netherlands… – thank you A.I.

    Mind you, A.I. tried to cloud the issue by combining home-based English players with Continentals in the Prem.

    When asked how many English players are employed by European clubs A.I. obfuscates somewhat. I’m guessing less than 50.

    In health news…

    What’s Up, Doc?

    Dismay at two-day strike by senior doctors over pay and hours – regrets the regime-mouthpiece Times in an embarrassed tone.
    Senior doctors to strike over ‘wellbeing and workload’ concerns – excuses the left-leaning i paper
    Consultants to strike despite £25k pay rise – the mildly conservative Telegraph with a classic example of the journalistic ‘despite’

    Go on, tell us our old NHS is overwhelmed this winter – you know you want to.

    Our mate Matt in the Telegraph is back and on form playing to the cynical side of our natures – he draws our London Mayor Khan’s vanity project Oxford St Traffic Free zone: “Now when thieves snatch you watch or phone, they can get away without being run over”

    Back to the Brussels Beano (Independent) and they get my Ballon d’Or for winning my daily “far-right” word search game. The Brussels Trumpet (FT) disappointed yesterday, mildly framing Brazil’s Lula opponents as “hard-right”

    Lula triumphs over far-right to win historic fourth term in Brazil (Indy)

    By the way, the “far-right” candidate got 48.24% of the vote representing nearly 60million Brazilians. If practically half of all Brazilians are “far-right” perhaps we ought to introduce special immigration controls to keep them out of our happy diverse multicultural Yookay? Makes you think, eh?

    Of course the BBC are all about overseas elections – almost putting the foreign elections obsessed FT to shame. Must be foreign elections season.

    Israel heads to polls for pivotal election defined by security and democracy (BBC)
    Lula’s comeback in Brazil dents Trump’s ambitions for Latin America (Ione Wells, BBC – the stranger your name the more likely you get a BBC byline. Plus extra TDS fan service there)

    Having got the leftist win – then what?

    Victors without a plan face puzzle of governing Serbia… Student-led resistance to perceived autocracy… opera singers and professors. “Now they need to figure out how to govern” – admits the FT in a moment of near self-reflection.

    I’m put in mind of Spike Milligan’s anarchic TV sketches where the joke tended to peter out with no clear punchline. As a solution the actors would shuffle off stage repeating the line “What are we gonna do next? What are we gonna do next?”

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    • Fedup2 says:

      Asiseeit – so healey wants to be remembered for cutting the cost of gherkins for hard working families .

      After being told about the need to stock up for the coming war in 999 days time I went and bought 10 years worth of gherkins . Can I get a refund ?
      I recall a certain Chancellor putting tax on greggs sausage rolls – his political testament … but gherkins ?

      I wonder what serious stuff it will cover up … ?

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    • AsISeeIt says:

      Healey pledges cheaper marmalade and gherkins (BBC)

      Sounds like an odd food craving. Is the Chancellor pregnant? Lammy warned us men can grow a cervix…

      It is very common to crave intense, salty, sweet, or sour flavor combinations—such as pickles and ice cream, peanut butter with pickles or hot sauce, and cheese dipped in sweet spreads

      Now the science bit…

      Strange eating and unusual food pairings are common during pregnancy, driven by shifting hormones like human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) and estrogen, which alter taste buds and heighten the sense of smell

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  42. Fedup2 says:

    The bbc would have us believe Israelis from around the world are going home to vote bibi out ….maybe true – someone has to pick up the tab for 7 October … but you can sense the bbc wanting this narrative to be true ….

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  43. MarkyMark says:

    BBC Radio 4 – Aggressive interview at Nigel Farage. Islam thought of the day the can says believe in people. Over to Smooth radio – advert to take day trip to Paris … HA HA HAH AHAH AHAH AHAH AHHA !

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  44. StewGreen says:

    Lots of Facebook posts are pushing the fake news that boxes of swords were delivered to asylum seeker or refugees house
    The give away is the lack of details
    The actual video comes from the arrest of a zombie knife importer Jonathan Soares in Croydon in July
    ..https://metro.co.uk/video/what-f-met-police-officers-stunned-uncovering-shipment-zombie-knives-3710147/
    “Croydon Seizure: Following his arrest, police tracked an incoming shipment destined for a property in Croydon and seized 150 zombie-style machetes on July 22, 2026”

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  45. tomo says:

    Close shave but one has to be very suspicious that adequate numbers suitably attired plod were so easily accessible…..

    Staged confrontation requires organisation on both sides….

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    • MarkyMark says:

      “But we have learnt somethings in the last 10 years. We have learnt that most of the press in free western countries are cowards. We’ve learnt that most of our artistic establishment are cowards. Most of our politicians are cowards. We’ve learnt that industries that spend much of their year in award ceremonies patting themselves on the back for their bravery, stop when bravery is required.” – Douglas Murray @5:00

      Douglas Murray speaks at “The Danish Muhammad cartoon crisis in retrospect” conference

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  46. AsISeeIt says:

    Rewatching I Claudius (BBC, 1976) on dvd.

    Or as a wag of a school mate used to call it I Clavdivs – watch the opening credits.

    My recollection for the original TV airing was sporadic – it was a past the watershed adult oriented series. As a treat I was allowed to stay up and watch one or two episodes. I distinctly recall hearing my mother’s aside “It was alright to let the kids stay up for once. Usually there’s orgies”

    We can all recognise that the BBC could never aspire to such quality of drama ever again. There aren’t the classically trained actors, nor the screen writing or directing talent any more. And sadly, neither is there the audience. We have to take some of the blame.

    Then there’s “woke”

    Could the BBC ever contemplate a drama featuring so many women behaving badly – the literally poisonous Livia… the competitively promiscuous Messalina (the Bonnie Blue of her day)… the scheming incestuous Agripina (who bumps off our hero to make way for her son Nero)?

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  47. Fedup2 says:

    Asiseeit – I felt chuffed when I found the Claudius box set really cheap … I know some episodes are on YouTube – and the reviews – particularly from Americans ‘discovering ‘ it are …interesting .
    The production was done on a limited budget so the acting had to carry it – which it did … the bit where Brian blessed goes ( spoiler ) is brave TV . No chance of that now ….
    However – at the other end of the scale is ‘Rome ‘ – the HBO series which I think nearly bust HBO – but it was also well worth the box set ….

    Back to the real bbc – ‘fall of eagles ‘ was made on a similar scale to Claudius . It was also past my bedtime when first shown. But I tracked down the box set …. Second hand of course ….

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  48. Flotsam says:

    Remoaners are obsessed nutters.
    GBNews interview outside Parliament punctuated by ‘Ode to Joy’, the EU anthem, sung by a freak.

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  49. StewGreen says:

    Why are gov depts circulating BS stories like this ?
    “Ministers battling to avoid reservoirs running dry by Christmas
    2 days ago — Ministers have been secretly warned that some English reservoirs are at risk of running dry, hitting water supplies to homes ..”
    Britain is a very rainy country
    We don’t have droughts in the winter
    The main problem is getting rid of excess water.

    When you look deeply it turns out that the idea that every home’s water depends on reservoirs is storytelling
    A good proportion of UK water comes from bore holes aquifers, rivers etc.
    So you could disconnect one or two reservoir for maintenance in winter anyways
    (Steve Loftus is one of the few that speak sense on water)

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  50. vlad says:

    The BBC, who always gets everything wrong, is now urging us to rethink our attitude to Meghan:

    “What has emerged so far means re-thinking some of the criticism she’s faced…
    (…)
    All of that might need to be viewed in a different and more sympathetic light.”

    No BBC, what has emerged so far shines a ghastly light on the whole, lying, money-grubbing clan.
    A more realistic interpretation of events is emerging that Meghan hid what she knew about her dad when she thought it might tarnish her carefully manicured image, and later revealed what she knew when she thought it might help her.

    And meanwhile totally ignored the risk Markle senior (allegedly) posed to the children she’d been informed he was (allegedly) abusing for 7 or 8 years !!

    In other words, we should not be rethinking Meghan “in a more sympathetic light”, but on the contrary, the light gets murkier and murkier

    The Murky Markles.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6qjn29lg2vzo

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    • StewGreen says:

      Thomas Markle has been under intense pressure scrutiny for a decade
      So when someone suddenly now says he’s a kiddie fiddler, that seems suspicious.

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