Wednesday 30 July: Donald Trump exposed a prime minister hopelessly out of his depth

Posted on by Geoff Graham

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607 thoughts on “Wednesday 30 July: Donald Trump exposed a prime minister hopelessly out of his depth”

    1. "You're never alone with a Strand" – remember those short-lived cigarettes? (Good morning, btw.)

          1. I always thought that Coffin – a homophonous pun with Coughin' – would have been a good ironical brand for a packet of cigarettes: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2ab8f47c52e90134b6bb39c85549c3ea60c1a7734a6ada93eaace885561c9bae.png

            The Strand was not the only London place name used as a cigarette brand.

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    4. The hard left have already said 'up yours, we've going to control what you say, do and think and if you keep getting uppity you're for the gulag.'

  5. Just exactly what leverage does recognising Palestine put on Israel to stop the war against Hamas?
    I'm sure they couldn't care less what Starmer recognises.
    They are fighting for their survival against terrorists that use Palestinians as human shields and are willing to let them all perish as long as it gives them positive

      1. The parents always appear well nourished.
        In fact the women are what a tactful neighbour used to call "bonny".

        1. Indeed. No pictures of emaciated adults. Pallys have a history of staging photo ops.

    2. In my opinion the so called famine in Gaza is caused by Hamas not allowing the food to get to the starving and is nothing to do with Israel and yet Hamas has won the propaganda war and has succeeded in pulling the wool over the eyes of the MSM and all left wing politicians

      But I admit that I know nothing about Gaza apart from the fact that Milton's Samson was betrayed by his wife, Delilah, and blinded by the Philistines and then was paraded in their temple when he was:

      Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.

      Keir Starmer is not just eyeless in GAZA – he cannot see anything anywhere.


      1. When I sailed into Valetta I remarked that there was a drunkard in the island to the north of Malta who was legless in Gozo.

        This joke had rather limited appeal as nobody knew what I was talking about!

      2. Article in the Norwegian paper saying that there's plenty of food, just can't get it to the starving because of Hamas. So, they plan to air drop it.

  7. Good morning, Geoff and chums. Wordle today was NOT a par but a failure. Will explain later.

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    Explanation: I was struggling so much that I decided to seek a few tips. But the more tips I read, the more confused I became (I might explain this more fully tomorrow, because I don't wish to give any tips to other NoTTLers whilst they are working on today's Wordle. Eventually, without trying to do so I spotted the solution unintentionally. So really I failed miserably today.

    1. Good morning Elsie and all – it's not a failure if you spotted the solution, no matter how you came to it!
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      1. When I say I spotted the solution I mean that I accidentally read the solution as I worked my way down the Tips page. Otherwise I would alway get an Eagle by simply turning to the Tips page first and reading the answer shown at the bottom of the page. (Good morning, btw.)

        1. Oh I see – yes, that is very annoying!
          I now do the word games on the merriam webster site too – there are more wordles and other games there.

  8. 'Morning All
    Midweek Medley
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    3. Scary about the 'olive oil'. It's relatively easy to source good quality oil in Spain, but the sure way is to grow your own olives, or help a local farmer with the harvest.

      1. Can anyone tell me exactly what the banners say? Is it along the lines of "Immigrants welcome here" or "Immigrants not welcome here"?

        1. The one being held upside down next to the person's knee says "Far Right are not welcome in Epping" as do the other two in front of the leg in camo.

          2. Bit of a cheek as the "not far right but pi$$ed off" crowd are almost certainly from Epping, while the other mob have been bussed in – if anyone is unwelcome in Epping it's surely the illegals and the Lefties?

        3. Socialist rapists for the unions or some twaddle. It's long past time the funding was investigated, frozen and confiscated as aiding and abetting crime.

  10. Andrzej Rozenek, former MP for the Socialist party in Poland calls for ban on right wing party 'Before It Grows To Size We Cannot Handle' referring to Grzegorz Braun’s party in the “Goniec Poranny” programme.

    Clearly.. says Sir Keir we need to set up international working party to implement this on a globalist scale.

    1. Read that last line as "Clearly… we need to set up an international wrecking party…" which seems closer to the truth.

  11. Good morning all.
    A damp and dull morning with a light drizzle after heavier overnight rain and 16½°C on the thermometer.

    Step-son is having problems getting his gas and electric paid so I'm off to sort him out this morning, then up to Baguley to pick up some things.

  12. Morning, all Y'all.
    Drizzling / raining, in an autumnal way. 15C, down from 30+C just a very few days ago.

    1. Hmm…the clip that was promoted to many accounts on the platform controlled by Musk, who then further amplified it by calling on the unpleasant fool to resign.

      1. It's a taster of the No-Go areas.. as seen in parts of Saint-Denis & Bradford.

        1. Yes, but it is also being amplified by Musk – same strategy as in the UK of trying to tempt people to start rioting and fighting with their neighbours?

  16. "Russian Earthquake Triggers Tsunami" cry the headlines.

    Is this another Boris Wave?

  19. Good morning, all. Light rain overnight and currently overcast.

    POTUS and Vice-POTUS clearly can see where Europe is headed if the clowns in charge do not change their direction of travel.

    Compare J D Vance's clear and direct style to that of Starmer's ineffectual and boring delivery.

    https://x.com/AdamMoczar/status/1950270968728830437
    Then, there's Trump laying the truth out front and centre causing Starmer more and more to resemble a naughty schoolboy called into the headmaster's study for a reprimand.

    https://x.com/ArchRose90/status/1949815394199384526
    Recognise Palestine? Much better politicians than Starmer, and it's not a very high bar, have tried to solve the problems of the ME, and failed.

  21. HatanakaHacker
    8h
    Normally it takes a day for Two Tier's position to collapse.
    This time it's down to a few hours.

    Dissident
    7h
    Abandoning our allies in order to stave off a threat to his party from the left.
    Revolting.

    1. Jmc
      7h
      Well at least Stammer mistakenly thinks he has one friend in the whole world with the Mayor of London.

      But the Donald knows that the poisonous midget Khan can't be trusted as far as Stammer could throw him.

      Stammer has been turned over by Trump good and proper . It's been an absolute pleasure to see him in action.

  23. HatanakaHacker
    7h
    We're now in powder keg territory.
    And the Manchester boys being acquitted this week will set it off…………..

    Bananarama
    HatanakaHacker
    5h
    We have the 'throat gesture' trial coming up soon too.

    Lord Farquard
    HatanakaHacker
    6h
    Also the police in R0therham. The two tier stuff is bad enough but we are way way beyond that now, we are fully into third world hell hole status.

      2. Why do Lefties want this to happen? Why does the state close ranks to protect it's own? It's long past time this country was washed clean – starting with the pollution and just burn Westminster and Whitehall to the ground with the political class in it.

        They're utterly disgusting and beyond redemption.

  25. Morning All 🙂😊
    Sunny start on the east coast.
    I see that little wrecker kahnt is now plying for a job in Wastemonster. He's had plenty of practice being useless. I expect he's afraid he'll have to find a proper job out side of politics when he's eventually kicked out of 'office'.

    1. Good morning Eddy,

      I hope you are nicely refreshed after a good sleep.

      The midget Khan creature, who has rich Mayoral commitments , , probably feels he will have enough support from his Mussie pals to eventually become PM ?

      1. Where is a modern day Oliver Cromwell when we desperately need one. He'd have plenty of support.
        I sleep for a total of ten hours sometimes…..we managed to do a lot of walking yesterday as well. And ten hours with a bathroom break. 🤗👍

  26. Right, that's me off to Stoke to sort Stepson out and then pick up a couple of things from the auctioneers.

    TTFN and play nicely.

  27. Good Morning!

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    The stray from the beaten track, to Rhodesia which K.M. Breakey, in Rhodesia: The Brief History of a Magnificent Country , laments the loss of and reminds us of what happens when a country is destroyed in the name of 'progressive' ideology produced some very interesting comments and reminisces. .

    Energy Watch: Over the last 24 hours: Britain's electric power was sourced from Gas, 34.1%; Solar, 6.7%: Wind 6.3%; Imports, 25.2%; Biomass, 10.4%; Nuclear 15% and Miscellaneous, 2.3%. We are, idiotically, importing over 25% of our electricity – almost double that generated from wind and sun combined – while our gas power stations run on half load or less.

    1. I was in Rhodesia when Wilson was aboard HMS Tiger demanding that the Smith Government disband. Lots of their usual purchases had been rationed as imports were stopped by Wilson's actions and petrol was rationed. He should have been shot for ruining a country where the vast majority of occupants lived happily.
      Mugabe then wrecked the country and had Thousands of people murdered because he knew they would never vote for him. Bodies found in disused minshafts.
      Something very similar to what is happening in the UK now.

      1. Here's a good book, one of many about the ruination of then the best country in Africa.

        When a Crocodile Eats the Sun. Peter Godwin

      2. My parents and siblings walked out of Britain for good in 1967 when Harold Wilson made horrendous decisions .. and they left to live in South Africa .. I stayed behind here in the UK continuing my training and never had any desire to live amongst Africans , ever.

        Especially so after a few bad experiences as a child when my parents lived in Black Africa after the war.

        1. Six of my Tracey grandfather's eleven children made their lives in Africa including my father (The Sudan), two of his sisters (Nigeria and Kenya) and two of his brothers (Rhodesia and South Africa).

          My cousin, CG, was a prosperous famer and businessman in Rhodesia whose farm employed, housed, educated, and provided nursing medical care for all the workers and their families . He and some of his neighbours set up a scheme to have the brightest black workers sent to university and agricultural colleges so that they would have the necessary knowledge and skills to take over in the future.

          Under Mugabe my cousin's farm was stolen and given to Mugabe's friends, all the workers and their families were kicked out and made homeless and out of work and those who had been trained to be farmers were killed.

          Five years later one of the most productive farms in Rhodesia had returned to the desert it had been before the Tracey family arrived.

          The title of CG's autobiography is:

          All For Nothing?

          (Note the ?)

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        2. The area I once lived in near JHB Judiths Paarl a short walk from Ellis park, once safe enough for me to walk home at 2 am after a night out. Is now an absolute filthy dump. Rubbish piled up in the street and most of the houses have been demolished.

  28. matt
    14h
    Labour are entirely under the control of the Islamofascists now.

    Gary Halstead
    15h
    Starmer sells Israel out and appeases and emboldens Hamas in one fell swoop.
    But then what can you expect from a creature that has betrayed his own

    1. This useless and extremely ignorant government has to go. They do not and never will represent the British taxpayers and general public.

      1. But 20% of those eligible to vote voted for them.

        Has a British government ever been elected with such a low percentage of voters actually voting for it?

        The 80% who did not vote for Starmer should rise up and do something!

        (But they won't!)

  30. Good Moaning.
    Plenty of rain during the night.
    Happy garden and happy Temperate Zone Gal.

      1. First reporter I read on this was Mark Steyn, also GBN, many years ago. He was vilified for his efforts, sacked from GBN, went to France where he had four heart attacks short order – turned his hair white, and he was in a wheelchair for a while. Ann Cryer, Labour MP for Keighley, reported it to then DPP (one Keir Starmer) I think around late 2000s, who was defending some of the accused at the time. There are reportedly a number of police officers, councillors, involved. Good that Charlie Peters has picked it up again, as has I think Rosie Duffield in the House. It's not a new story, Maggie Oliver has also spoken about it on numerous occasions. Will it die down again, to be raised at some future point – perhaps so.

          1. Dunno, wibbling. It used to be said if you weren’t a socialist when young you didn’t have a heart and if you weren’t a conservative when older you didn’t have a brain. I think we can amend that now. I notice many protestors, any age and mostly white skinned, are female (I’m white, elderly, female – I’ve voted conservative post Thatcher but think I’m really an old fashioned Liberal similar to Peterson). I don’t identify with the protestors in any way, shape or form, if they want to change things, stand for election.

          1. You see that patch of long grass, Rastus…..? It may, but will Starmer be sanctioned/found complicit, or a whitewash (an expensive one to boot)…

          3. And empty rhetoric/promises…yes, that one….where politicians go to fade away…

    4. The Mail, pushing news that is guaranteed to get patriotic Britons' blood boiling. Again.
      Loads of stuff happens every day, they just pick and choose what to amplify to the masses.

    5. Flying the flag is not a very British thing to do – it's more of an American thing. That said, I can't see how it can cause a nuisance or annoyance, so I would say that the Restrictive Covenant has not been breached. It is up to the complainant to prove his/her case, so keep the flag flying and see if the neighbour takes legal action. I would bet that Andrew Smith would receive a lot of money in donations to fund his legal expenses.
      Edit: This appears to be an ancient story, so was probably settled years ago.

      1. I wouldn’t say flying the flag per se is not a British thing to do. It’s rare on private buildings except during the footie. Having said that, I regularly fly a flag from my own flagpole. The flag always flies from church.

        1. Yes, it was private houses I was referring to. In the USA, they delight in flying the flag from private homes. It’s very rare to see it in England (apart from during sporting events).

          1. I have noticed that on pictures from the US. They also, I believe, pledge allegiance to the flag in schools.

    2. Oh Donald, you have such an opportunity to help the UK. Just boot the loathsome whelp out the door at 10,000 feet.

      1. Now i need another cup of tea and a new keyboard. Thanks for that, Wibbles.

    3. Democracy in action.
      US President lets the junior steward sit down in his presence.

      1. thank you Belle. It’s beginning to look good. Finished painting and installing carcasses for cupboards and lighting. Ceiling and the bits of wall that will be visible done. Worktop’s still work in progress.
        Kitchen plastering almost complete and lights installed. New lighting fitted in living room.
        We’ve been back every day and progress has been made each day.
        Delighted with the installer and his team.

    5. Happy Bithday Alf and of course 364 Happy Unbirthdays, ' the next Anniversary.

      Remember, in OLT speak, that you are only 29!

    6. Happy Bithday Alf andof course 365 Happy Unbirthdays, ' the next Anniversary.

      Remember, in OLT speak, that you are only 29!

      1. Thank you Anne. Think we’ll save the Champagne until our project is complete.

      2. Happy birthday, Alf!
        Hope it's the best one yet! and many more to come, too!

  35. Good morning all

    Muggy cloudy morning , slight breeze , so very dark clouds , no sign of rain ..

    We are still watering the plants in the garden , Moh hasn't mown the lawn for nearly a month !

  36. Yesterday evening, BBC East Midlands featured the asylum row. It had filmed a demonstration last week in Sutton-in-Ashfield. That took place after a man was charged with raping a woman in a park. Local MP Lee Anderson said the man was an asylum seeker "but this has not been confirmed", said correspondent Jeremy Ball. He then went on to say that Anderson had posted on social media promoting Friday's illegal immigration protest.

    There then followed a film of the demo. Some of those supporting it were not, shall we say, the most articulate people: "I'm tired of women and children being raped in this country" was about the gist of it. Some of those there had clearly spent time in the pub.

    A much smaller counter-demo was held nearby:
    "I'm here because I take violence against women very seriously and I hate the fact that some MP has jumped on the bandwagon and only gets involved because someone with a foreign name has been accused."

    Richard Buckwell of 'Stand Up To Racism': "I'm horrified he's spoken out about it. It demonises everyone, not just asylum seekers and refugees. He's stoking up fear. It's not refugees that are causing austerity."

    Anderson stayed away "to avoid confrontation with far-left agitators" but he's not going to shut up about the subject. The police said of the rape case that they wouldn't confirm a suspect's immigration status because that would prejudice his trial.

    Jeremy then told us that only about 100 asylum seekers had been dispersed across the district which amounted to about one per 1,200 residents. About half the claims are accepted, at which point the claimants are turned out of their Home Office accommodation, often with nowhere to go and they end up on the streets. There then followed a report from Derby where rough sleeping has increased greatly. It featured a charity, a lucky Afghan with accommodation and a shiny-eyed volunteer opening up her home.

    It was a very subtle piece of propaganda.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002gkxw/east-midlands-today-evening-news-29072025
    From 1:10 for ten minutes. Available only until 6:30pm today

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    1. Al Beeb never asks these pathetic Lefties why they are endorsing and supporting the rape of children.

      1. Why would they? They (Al Beeb) don’t care. They are on the same side as the Leftard pro-immigration fascists.

    2. Al Beeb and the other Smug virtue-signalling Useful Idiots are playing a very dangerous game

      1. Love the exact numbers.
        Not 1850ish or 1840ish. And on what date was this count carried out?

    1. Starmer's desperate pleading there to excuse his abuses was appalling to hear. The man needs to be slapped every time he lies.

    2. And the US has history on this one. Many farmers were foreclosed on by their local banks on the Great Depression.

  38. SIR – In 2004/5, there was an episode of the television series Doc Martin in which the Doc (Martin Clunes) passed a urinal and shouted to the user: “You have been in there a long time – you should get your prostate checked.”

    At the time, I was experiencing “slow flow”, so I went to my GP for a “finger test”. Without delay, he said my prostate was enlarged, did a blood test and, when my PSA reading was high, referred me.

    After a biopsy, I was found to have prostate cancer, was operated on, and have been in remission ever since.

    I urge any man with “slow flow” to go to their GP and insist on a test.

    Jim Knox
    Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire

    Moh has slow flow , very slow flow , and mostly at night ..

    He is stubborn , very stubborn .

    The diabetic people at the surgery called him in for annual foot check and blood tests , I asked him whether one of the blood tests was for PSA , he said he didn't ask.. He hates needles.

    Can you imagine my blood pressure reading after that comment from him?

    1. Much is the humiliation, the denial, the sheer terror of 'what if it's not…'. When I had this abscess poked I hoped it was a bite of some sort.

    2. Obstinacy may be the death of him; don't let it be the death of you.
      We've reached the age where other halves are grown men and have to take responsibility for their decisions.

    3. Well I've told you about the crisis OH had in January 2021 – rolling on the floor in agony as he couldn't pee at all.
      At A&E he was drained of half a litre. The (female) doc did a finger test before he was released to go home. He had a PSA test at the GP surgery. It was sky high. We had a referral to the urologist and various tests showed metastatic prostate cancer. He had a TURP and all has been well on that front since then. He has a three monthly Leupronil injection and the regular PSA reading is negligible.

      Just make him get checked.

          2. He had an epidural and was able to watch the procedure on a screen. He was there as a day patient and I fetched him home later. He had to wear a catheter after the crisis but he was able to get rid of that a week or so after the procedure.

        1. The prostate cancer is well under control now so it’s not his major worry these days. The frailty nurse sent him her report very promptly.

  39. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/29/kemi-can-still-beat-nigel-if-mps-let-her-tories-reform-uk/

    Modern day politicians don't have any values. They are told what to say by spads who talk to selected, carefully chosen focus groups. Thus thy think they're saying what people want to hear but they're 3 steps removed from real attitudes and have none of their own.

    This is why folk are getting behind Farage (and will be disappointed): they believe he has a vision, a plan.

    It is for the same opposite reason Starmer is loathed. Aside from the usual Lefty hypocrisy and soundbite politics, everything he says is a lie compared to what he does. He's a two faced liar.

    1. Say what you like about the Don/Orange Man Bad – he is a conviction politician.

      1. He sometimes acts strange and says odd things but i think he is good for America.
        He has made mistakes but compared to Biden, Obama and Clinton he's a saint.

  40. SIR – Donald Trump may have an idiosyncratic personality, but he does appear to be right about many more things than our struggling Government (“Trump: Cut taxes and stop the boats”, report, July 29).

    On free speech, net zero, North Sea oil, illegal migration, the European Union, defence, inheritance tax on farmers and even the London Mayor, Mr Trump’s views reflect a greater understanding of Britain’s interests than those of Sir Keir Starmer and his ministers.

    Michael Staples
    Seaford, East Sussex

    All true.

    Yet Starmer can't do any of those things because he is a fully paid up member of the World Economic Forum. And he takes his orders from them because their ideology suits his agenda.

    1. I wonder which prime Minister will be remembered more by the country in 100 years time

      Churchill as leader in WWII, or Mo Starmer for turning us into a Caliphate in the 2020's

        1. An acquaintance recently took his grandkids on a trip to London and Paris as graduation gifts.One of them asked Who was Churchill?

          By the end of the trip they had been educated.

    2. I wonder which prime Minister will be remembered more by the countryin 100 years time

      Churchill as leader in WWII, or Mo Starmer for turning us into a Caliphate in the 2020's

    3. This is because Trump is working for his constituents to make them better off. Our GDP per capita in 97 was about par with the US. It's half theirs now. That's the damage the Left have done.

      1. Socialism starts with kumbaya and the brotherhood of man, and ends with you eating your dog.

          1. That reminds me, Phizzee. I plan to have a couple of Hot Dogs for my supper tonight. Lol.

    4. Also a Fabian (as is his entire cabinet).

      O tempora! O mores!

  41. Yo and Good Moaning to you all, froma warm and sunny C d S.

    SWMBO and myself have come into a small a small fortune, so we are off to the Costa Capital (Skegness) and be rich enough to afford the car park fees.

    1. Hello and a good morning OLT.

      Moh and I realised we had been married for 57 years at the week end , no celebrations .. we did that when we got married apparently!

      My suggestion , a silly one was to get down the road to Lulworth , park the car , walk across to Stair Hole and then trundle down to the cove and have a fast Rib ride across to Durdle Door .. less than a mile across the oggin .. the Rib ride was quite a wow factor for me , 12 passengers and then Zoooooom , left my tummy behind almost .. for a 20 minute ride .. cost.. £20 each !

      We were down in the cove area for less than 2 hours , or perhaps just a little over .. and we bought an ice cream …£3.50 each .. then departed , but first had to pay by card to get out of the car park .. £12.50+

      So, 2 hours of sea air , 4 miles from here in Wool where we live cost us nearly £70 !

      2. If you'd turned right when out in the sea, continue a bit and rock up in Kent, you could have free accommodation, food, treats for life, Belle.

      3. I am a typical ex ‘matelot’

        Been there, seen it done it, when we parked at Durdle Dor, 6 squid for 25 minutes.

        SWMBO could not manage the dry river bed, aka The Path, down to the beach

    1. Far simpler and fairer solution is to just scrap inheritance tax entirely. After all, it's money taxed about 30 times over already. The state has no defacto right to a single penny of our money. It wants more because it is lazy, incompetent, abusive and bloated.

    2. As one of my friends was saying at the weekend, certain types of combines come in at a million pounds.

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    1. I've always been careful with money and never have I needed a loan. I don't intend to have one now or in future. I use my credit card occasionally but always pay it off at the next bill.

      2. Caroline and I bought Le Grand Osier with our savings and so we did not need a mortgage other than a temporary loan while we realised them.

        1. We did have a mortgage – we both sold our previous houses and paid off the mortgage on our current home within 10 years.

      3. I had a loan to top up the money I paid for one of my cars. As soon as I could, I paid it off.

    1. At least one was, I wonder how many of those police officers were/are diverse?

      1. Oh dear – you just don't get it. These helpful obstacles are to protect the great unwashed from terror attacks by far-right extremists (often from Epping).

  49. Oh how handy for the arm waving presenters of bbc tv. Seemingly Blaming Russia for a possible Tsunami that might be about to happen.

  50. Hoorah. Given the combination the cyber police and media suppliers wussiness, I've searched through my laptop, and I already had Katie Lam's speech safely tucked away.

    An article from the Spekkie.

    David Shipley
    The horror of police involvement in the grooming gangs
    30 July 2025, 9:56am

    However bad you think the rape gang scandal is, it keeps getting worse. Yesterday, the BBC published a detailed investigation which stated that ‘five women who were exploited by grooming gangs in Rotherham as children say they were also abused by police officers in the town at the time.’ The report, based on interviews with the five women, along with testimony from 25 other victims, says that ‘corrupt police officers worked alongside the gangs or failed to act on child sexual exploitation.’ Most of the alleged victims were ‘in their teens but some were as young as 11’.

    Again and again we see signs that these rape gangs acted with the collusion or tacit approval of public servants
    One ‘says she was raped from the age of 12 by a serving South Yorkshire Police (SYP) officer in a marked car.’ This man ‘would threaten to hand her back to the gang if she did not comply’. The report is full of other horrific accounts. The victims describe ‘years of abuse from serving police officers’, with one woman saying that, ‘as a child she would hear a police officer having sex with girls in exchange for drugs and money.’ Another ‘says as a child she witnessed a police officer supplying illegal Class A drugs to a grooming gang.’ Three women ‘describe being beaten up by officers as children – one says this happened in a police cell.’

    The BBC say that the names of these officers have been redacted from the reports they have seen, although they do say that three former SYP officers have been arrested since December 2024 on suspicion of historic sexual offences, but none have been charged. One former officer is named though. PC Hassan Ali was named by one victim as having raped her. He died ‘in January 2015, a week after he was hit by a car’, on the day he had been ‘put on restricted duties because of an investigation’ into the abuse scandal.

    South Yorkshire Police are investigating these allegations themselves, something which has ‘shocked’ Professor Alexis Jay, who led the independent inquiry into sexual abuse in Rotherham. She’s right. The idea that a police force can investigate its own wrongdoing at this scale is laughable. Another force, perhaps the National Crime Agency or even the Royal Military Police should trawl through these records, and pursue every line of enquiry.

    Even this won’t be enough. Again and again we see signs that these rape gangs acted with the collusion or tacit approval of public servants.

    When Katie Lam MP spoke about this in the Commons in April she gave the example of ‘Anna’, a 14 year old girl from Bradford whose social worker approved her Islamic ‘marriage’ to her abuser. She also spoke of ‘the ringleader of the Rochdale rape gang, Shabir Ahmed’ who worked as a ‘welfare rights officer’ for Oldham Council.

    Despite these horrors, and despite the evidence of police involvement, not one single public servant has been prosecuted or convicted for hiding or facilitating the mass rape of girls by gangs of Muslim men. Sometimes the horror of this is too much to imagine. Thousands of vulnerable young girls abused and raped, sometimes by state employees they should have been able to trust to protect them. Meanwhile other supposed public servants excused, hid or minimised these horrors.

    A statutory inquiry is coming. But it isn’t enough. We need a full Royal Commission with powers to investigate, force the disclosure of evidence, compel testimony and ultimately to launch mass prosecutions of every guilty public servant. Those who are found guilty should face exemplary punishment.

    We treat attacks on emergency workers as requiring a greater sentence. The betrayal committed by a council worker who facilitated or covered-up these crimes is far, far worse. Misconduct in Public Office is a seldom-used charge, but one which carries up to life imprisonment. In these cases the maximum sentence should be used. Along with this we should strip honours, pensions and property from the guilty. Their punishment should serve as a signal and a warning to ensure that nothing like this ever happens again. As for the violation of trust, of people and of law committed by a uniformed policeman who rapes a vulnerable girl, there has seldom been a better case for the death penalty.

    All of this may sound extreme. It is extreme. But how else can Britain respond to these extremes of horror and abuse? Some crimes are unforgivable in this world. We need truth, yes. But there can be no Earthly reconciliation. Truth and justice it must be.

    3. Being a Pakistani Muslim and a Police Officer are not mutually exclusive, either.

    4. My God, it just gets worse and worse.
      I'm shaken: I had no idea the Yorkshire force was like that, and rendered profoundly depressed by it. I don't know what to write.

          1. I find it difficult to believe that only a few people in government (and local authorities) knew about it. Think I first heard about it on R4 You and Yours Programme (the irony of the BBC), Anne Cryer was Labour MP for Keighley – I was just driving through Keighley at the time, I’d say minimum two decades ago. At least it’s known about by just about everyone UK now, Paul.

      3. 410348+ up ticks,

        Afternoon O,
        Ex MP, mcclain, said in rotherham as the council has shown, it was generally aknowledge.

        Under, don't bring the party into disrepute helped muchly into getting us lnto the odious state we find ourselves in today.

    6. Thanks anne. Some of the reports I've read are truly, truly horrific – if the full facts are ever known to the GBP we will likely call for the return of capital punishment.

    8. I see it wasn’t “John Smith” who was suspended for the rape. Such enrichment we can well do without.

  51. UK Legislation
    3h
    the irony that labour accuse others of being like 5avi11e is too funny.. Farage should be calling for a full investigation into Kier defence of him and the BBC needs to be clsoded down until all the people connected with Sav are jailed

    Henry Flower
    UK Legislation
    2h
    Because no one from the Labour Party ever had anything to do with him. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/05c4a5d277123b6d89a6dac637d00e3c3443733b92794ea4e36e4922590d3e80.png
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/57b2ef4b3d0a2a8172196c0cbdee89eb7935f230f44fbeeb733d2e85137880eb.png

    1. I think even Thatcher was taken in by him, C1. I've wanted to cancel tv licence but am told it's not for the BBC alone, but covers all terrestrial tv, which I don't watch, so I still wanted to cancel it and I did. Him in the workshop re-instated it 'to watch the football'. Thought about taking a sub to Sky Sports instead……

        1. He’s happy to pay tv licence for solely MotD but not Sky Sports which covers all sport. A puzzle:-D

          2. That’s right, tv licence for all terrestrial tv…all of which I never watch, usually Amazon Prime or Netflix (currently re-watching Better Call Saul).

    3. Classic narcissistic bait and switch: DARVO

      Deny
      Attack
      Reverse
      Victim and
      Offender

    4. 410348+ up ticks,

      Afternoon C1,
      The other man in the public park toilet
      resulting in "matilda" getting found guilty in Bow street Court on cottaging.

  52. A puzzled pensioner writes:

    When did a "tidal wave" become a "tsunami"? And why??

    5. The 'why' is probably the same reason for, in meterology, the 'rapidly deepening depression' becoming 'explosive cyclogenesis'. It sounds more exciting or exotic.

        1. Some search results separate the two, some don't. The internet was going to make us all so much better informed…

  55. I hear that the mainstream media's over exaggeration of the earthquake tsunami has been causing a few ripples around the globe

  56. Bradford Council Offering Discounts on Bowls and Kayaking for Asylum Seekers

    It’s not just London councils offering asylum seekers freebies, as Guido has been well documenting. Bradford Council also offers discounts on a range of activities via a “Bradford Leisure Card” for just £3 a year. If you are a pensioner, on benefits or an asylum seeker, you get:

    Half price for games of bowls, tennis, putting, and pitch and putt (golf).
    Discounts at the Alhambra Theatre and St George’s Hall.
    Discounts at Doe Park Water Activities Centre. This includes sailing, canoeing, kayaking, stand up paddle boarding, dragon boating and raft building.
    Reduced price admission to all normal public swimming sessions.
    Free admission and equipment hire.
    Bradford hiked council tax by a whopping 10% this year. The Asylum Freebiegate scandal continues…

    July 30 2025 @ 11:30

    Send in the Clones
    2h
    Fast trains already booked to Bradford to catch all those lovely discounts. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d04f02007b715bea43bb7d4625d7f3171b9f73bd39589acf911375dfeefafc25.png
    Satan Claws
    Send in the Clones
    2h
    Is that the HS2 to Birmingham?

    1. I think running since the days of the BE? Make their own spares and repairs, quite the testament to ingenuity.

    2. Richmond council too. Once i have time, i will write to them to get the numbers and budget. And then cancel my direct debit for Council Tax.

  63. HAPPENING NOW

    620 + migrants have crossed so far today .. yes , today , and maybe 750 in total for the day .. Border force frantically working hard for an overwhelming surge of small boats now .. unbelievable ..

    All life boats from everywhere and Border force … packed ships .. a national emergency ..

    1. It certainly is an emergency for our nation. Turn the beggars back and deposit them in France.

  65. Stand by for another U Turn?

    From BBC News: "Palestine Action has won permission to challenge its controversial ban by the UK government under terrorism legislation. In a major decision, the High Court ruled that the proscription of the group, that has carried out break-ins at defence firms linked to Israel as part of direct action protests, should be reviewed.

    Home Secretary Yvette Cooper banned the organisation last month after followers caused an estimated £7m of damage to jets at RAF Brize Norton.
    Lawyers for the group's co-founder Huda Ammori have argued that the ban breaches the right free speech and has acted like a gag on legitimate protest. The government says its ban is justified because it narrowly targets a group that was organising serious criminality

    The ban means that membership or support for Palestine Action is a crime under terrorism legislation that can lead to up to 14 years in jail. But in his ruling, Mr Justice Chamberlain said, external that the ban might conflict with rights to free speech and the Home Secretary could have consulted Palestine Action before going ahead."

    Another useless member of a hostile to UK legal team? Pity his concerns for free speech don't include the Online "Safety" Act.

    1. To be fair, I understand that Judge was also the one who lifted the Afghan super injunction?

      1. Anything that harms the country?

        One might argue that lifting the injunction (which probably should not have been granted) actually accelerated the demand from Afghans to be resettled here and Labour have fallen over backwards taking them in.

    2. Being jailed for tweeting is a conflict with free speech as well. How about he gets hot under the collar about that? Or is it two tier justice again?

  66. I used to give this piece from a Monty Python Book to my Sixth Formers. I must confess that all the cited items were not familiar to me.

    It has been decided to devote the rest of this space to a page specially written for people who like figures of speech, for
    the not a few fans of litotes, and those with no small interest in meiosis, for the infinite millions of hyperbole-lovers, for those fond of hypallage, and the epithet's golden transfer, for those who fall willingly into the arms of the metaphor, those who give up the ghost, bury their heads in the sand and ride roughshod over the mixed metaphor, and even those of hyperbaton the friends.

    It will be too, for those who reprehend the malapropism; who love the wealth of metonymy; for all friends of rhetoric and syllepsis; and zeugmatists with smiling eyes and hearts. It will bring a large absence of unsatisfactory
    malevolence to periphrastic fans; a wig harm bello to spoonerists; and in no small measure a not less than splendid greeting to you circumlocutors. The World adores prosopopeiasts, and the friendly faces of synechdotists, and can
    one not make those amorous of anacoluthon understand that if they are not satisfied by this, what is to happen to them? It will attempt to really welcome all splitters of infinitives, all who are Romeo and Juliet to
    antonomasia, those who drink up similes like sparkling champagne, who lose nothing compared with comparison heads, self-evident axiomists, all pithy aphorists, apothegemists, maximiles, theorists, epigrammatists and even
    gnomists. And as for the lovers of aposiopesis — ! It will wish bienvenu to all classical adherents of euphuism, all metathesistic birds, golden paranomasiasts covered in guilt, fallacious paralogists, trophists, anagogists,
    and anaphorists; to greet, welcome, embrace asyndeton buffs, while the lovers of ellipsis will be well-met and its followers embraced, as will be chronic worshippers of catachresis and supporters of anastrophe the world over.

  67. A man has been found guilty of attacking two female police officers during a large violent disturbance at Manchester Airport.

    Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, was charged with assaulting the Greater Manchester Police officers during the fracas on 23 July last year, with a video of the incident being widely shared on social media.

    Following a three-week trail at Liverpool Crown Court, Amaaz was convicted of assaulting PC Lydia Ward, causing actual bodily harm, and the assault of emergency worker PC Ellie Cook.

    The jury was unable to reach verdicts on allegations that Amaaz and his brother, Muhammad Ahmed, 26, assaulted PC Zachary Marsden causing actual bodily harm.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y9y37eyddo

    No comment.

      1. But unless there is a retrial one of them appears to get off scot-free.

        Muhammad Amaad, 26, also of Tarnside Close in Rochdale, denied a single charge, namely that he assaulted PC Marsden. Jurors were unable to reach verdicts on that charge in relation to both Mr Amaad and his brother Amaaz.

        Mr Greaney, on behalf of the prosecution, said the Crown Prosecution Service would need time to decide whether there will be a retrial on that count – count two.

          2. I, robot…or HAL 9000….or even a combination. Initially a number of job losses, advanced automation – why Musk is very interested.

      1. "In view of your previous good character"

        If it is such a sentence I very much doubt even the Clown prosecution service would go for a retrial

  68. BREAKING – from BBC News "A man has been found guilty of attacking two female police officers during a large violent disturbance at Manchester Airport. Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, was charged with assaulting the Greater Manchester Police officers during the fracas on 23 July last year, with a video of the incident being widely shared on social media.

    Following a three-week trail at Liverpool Crown Court, Amaaz was convicted of assaulting PC Lydia Ward, causing actual bodily harm, and the assault of emergency worker PC Ellie Cook. The jury was unable to reach verdicts on allegations that Amaaz and his brother, Muhammad Ahmed, 26, assaulted PC Zachary Marsden causing actual bodily harm. That's a lot longer time from offence to verdict than some trials!!

    2. Those two found guilty for the airport assault could have got away with it if they had only said that in their country under Sharia law that punching women is permitted.

  69. Afternoon, all. Had a mixed day; drove to Market Drayton (the first time in over a year) to get a new battery for my travelling alarm clock because it was market day and the chap with a stall there is much more reasonable in his prices than the places nearer home. Alas, it wasn’t the battery, the movement was knackered. I did pick up a free drink I had a voucher for and managed to get a pair for my table lamp £20 cheaper than the first one had cost and this one came with a shade and a bulb.

    Starmer would be out of his depth in a puddle.

      1. It has a silver surround to the dial so I would like to be able to replace the movement.

    2. A productive day, Conway 🙂 Starmer is way out of his depth, here comes the dawning of the age of Rayner…….see how we like that.

      2. It's high time that Starmer, the dead man, stopped waving and got on with drowning. He has been out of his depth and too far out all his life.

        1. Well said, Rastus. I believe he was elected on typical Labour/Union votes and also the Muslim vote. I think Rayner’s going to give him a good run……just a question of when……

  70. This made me smile.

    A Jewish chap is run over by a car.
    When he is put on a stretcher, the ambulance man asks, "Are you comfortable?"
    He shrugs, winces and replies, "I make a living."

    1. Is she still up there? I understand she was very vehement that if she was to die in the mountains she didnt want anybody to risk their lives getting her down – impressive stuff!

  74. NATIONAL BROTHERHOOD WEEK
    words and music by Tom Lehrer
    Oh, the white folks hate the black folks,
    And the black folks hate the white folks.
    To hate all but the right folks
    Is an old established rule.
    But during National Brotherhood Week,
    National Brotherhood Week,
    Lena Home and Sheriff Clarke are dancing cheek to cheek. (*) ·
    It's fun to eulogize ·
    The people you despise,
    As long as you don't let 'em in your school.
    Oh, the poor folks hate the rich folks,
    And the rich folks hate the poor folks.
    All of my folks hate all of your folks,
    It's American as apple pie.
    But during National Brotherhood Week,
    National Brotherhood Week,
    New Yorkers love the Puerto Ricans 'cause it's very chic

    New Yorkers love the Puerto Ricans 'cause it's very chic.
    Step up and shake the hand
    Of someone you can't stand.
    You can tolerate him if you try.
    Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics,
    And the Catholics hate the Protestants,
    And the Hindus hate the Moslems,
    And everybody hates the Jews.
    But during National Brotherhood Week,
    National Brotherhood Week,
    It's National Everyone-smile-at-one-another-hood Week.
    Be nice to people who
    Are inferior to you.
    It's only for a week, so have no fear.
    Be grateful that it doesn't last all year!

  75. Palestine Action Allowed to Challenge Home Office Over Terrorism Ban

    RAF Brize Norton-invaders Palestine Action will be able to challenge the Home Office’s decision to proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation. The ban came into force earlier this month…

    Justice Martin Chamberlain found in favour of the group’s co-founder Huda Ammori will be able to bring a High Court challenge. Which could take place as early as September…

    July 30 2025 @ 14:29

    Stuart
    1h
    If the government had any balls at all, then all they have to do is announce that any unauthorised entry to a military base will result in the use of deadly force. It really is that simple.

    EnglandLaments
    2h
    Blair laid a trap for subsequent Tory governments with his 1998 Human Rights Act and his constitutional tinkering and Supreme Court.
    Blair neutered the law makers in Parliament and turned the judiciary into law makers in court.
    Of course, this was to nobble Tory Governments and Cameron et al, fell right into the trap.
    So there is some wry amusement to be had, when this appalling Labour government gets clobbered by the same trick!

    Lady Chablis
    EnglandLaments
    57m
    Bliar destroyed the back bone of the UK. Cameron adored his master and continued.

    Iain Reid
    EnglandLaments
    2h
    I would go so far as to state that Cameron knew and was complicit…

    Ernest Nowell
    2h
    What’s the point of an elected Government when the law and idealogically captured judges rule the roost?

  76. Arab world tells Hamas to lay down arms and end rule of Gaza

    Unprecedented move as Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt urge terror group to disband to enable a Palestinian state

    Our Foreign Staff
    29 July 2025 10:22pm BST

    The Arab world has called on Hamas to lay down arms and surrender its rule of Gaza.

    In an unprecedented move, Arab countries including Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt joined calls for the Palestinian terror group to disband in a bid to end the war that has devastated the territory. Seventeen countries including the European Union and Arab League threw their weight behind a seven-page text agreed at a United Nations conference on reviving the two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians.

    "In the context of ending the war in Gaza, Hamas must end its rule in Gaza and hand over its weapons to the Palestinian Authority, with international engagement and support, in line with the objective of a sovereign and independent Palestinian State," said the declaration.

    It followed a call on Monday by the Palestinian delegation at the UN for both Israel and Hamas to leave Gaza, allowing the Palestinian Authority to administer the coastal territory. The text also condemned the deadly Hamas attacks against Israel of October 7, 2023, which launched the war.

    France, which co-chaired the conference with Saudi Arabia, called the declaration "both historic and unprecedented".

    "For the first time, Arab countries and those in the Middle East condemn Hamas, condemn October 7, call for the disarmament of Hamas, call for its exclusion from Palestinian governance, and clearly express their intention to normalise relations with Israel in the future," said Jean-Noel Barrot, France's foreign minister.

    The text, co-signed by France, Britain and Canada among other western nations, also called for the possible deployment of foreign forces to stabilise Gaza after the end of hostilities.

    "We supported the deployment of a temporary international stabilization mission upon invitation by the Palestinian Authority and under the aegis of the United Nations and in line with UN principles, building on existing UN capacities, to be mandated by the UN Security Council, with appropriate regional and international support," said the declaration.

    Israel and the United States did not take part in the meeting.

    Earlier this month, Hamas sources told Saudi media that the group would consider laying down its arms as part of a ceasefire deal with Israel. It comes as Sir Keir Starmer said on Tuesday that Britain would recognise Palestine as a state unless Israel met a series of conditions, including ending the "appalling" situation in Gaza.

    The move follows Emmanuel Macron, who announced last week that France would recognise Palestinian statehood. For decades, most UN members have supported a two-state solution with Israel and a Palestinian state existing side by side.

    But after more than 21 months of war in Gaza, the ongoing expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, and Israeli officials declaring designs to annex occupied territory, it is feared a Palestinian state could become geographically impossible.

    The current war in Gaza began following the Hamas attacks on Israel, which responded with a large-scale military response that has claimed tens of thousands of Palestinian lives and destroyed most infrastructure in the enclave.

    Antonio Guterres, the UN's secretary general, said at the meeting on Monday that "the two-state solution is farther than ever before".

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/29/arab-world-tells-hamas-lay-down-arms-end-rule-gaza/

    It could be over in a few hours if the Arab world really wanted it to be…

      1. I copied that earlier. It's been edited since.

        Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt called for the Palestinian terror group to disband on Tuesday, the first time they have done so.
        They joined 14 other countries, including Britain and France, in signing a statement that also condemned the Oct 7 terror attacks and told Hamas to give up power. It is the first time Arab countries have condemned the group and demanded it play no part in the future governance of Palestine.

  77. Wordle No. 1,502 3/6

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    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    Wordle 30 Jul 2025

    Analysis for Birdie Three?

    1. #MeToo! It was the vowel(s) that did it – much needed birdie!

      Wordle 1,502 3/6

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      ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

    3. Par for me. Selected from a “best word” list. Ran out of options.

      Wordle 1,502 4/6

      🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
      🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
      🟩⬜⬜🟩🟨
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

      1. Snap.
        Wordle 1,502 4/6

        ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
        🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜
        ⬜🟨🟩⬜🟨
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    4. Late on parade again, but struck gold.

      Wordle 1,502 3/6

      🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜
      🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨
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  78. I see the new astronomer royal is a women, well it's about time I suppose.
    Women have always wanted their own space

  79. Where will the fires start?

    Two-tier policing is the nail in the coffin for Britain's social contract

    The law-abiding majority now feel they are being punished to help shield the state from its own failures

    Sam Ashworth-Hayes • 27th July 2025, 3:30pm BST

    Has a British Government ever appeared so terrified of its own people? More to the point, can you think of one that deserved it more?

    The social contract has been shredded. You go to work and pay your taxes for a state that seems to be crumbling into disrepair. In exchange, the Government takes your money, and uses it to fund an alleged secret scheme to fly in Taliban fighters to live on your street. But don't worry – we've got a new "elite police squad" to prevent trouble.

    That police unit won't be patrolling your neighbourhood to keep you safe from harm. Rather, it will be tasked with scouring social media for protest pre-crime, monitoring your opinions for anti-migrant sentiment. The police might not have enough resources to deal with shoplifting. They might not have solved a single theft or burglary, or recover a stolen bike, across a third of England. But we are to believe they have resources for what really counts: scrutinising your views for wrongthink.

    The current state of affairs is so absurd that simply writing it down feels almost subversive. But each element is true: we do appear to have flown unvetted Taliban members into Britain. The Government really will be watching your posts for signs of dissent. This isn't some accident, some Civil Service blunder. It's by design. It truly appears that Labour's strategy is to impose ever more restrictions on the freedoms of the law-abiding, in the hope that eventually people will acquiesce with a resigned shrug.

    The problem is that it isn't working. The population is fed up with being punished for doing the right thing. The hectoring about slavery, imperialism, war and all the other iniquities of history used to justify sacrificing our comforts and liberties on the altar of mass migration is no longer having the desired effect. British citizens living today did not build the empire. They didn't enslave anyone. Why should they foot the bill for housing illegal migrants up in four-star hotels in central London? Why should they put up with them working in the shadow economy?

    Unfortunately for the Government, the previously silent majority is beginning to vocally express its frustration. MPs and ministers are fearful that the country is becoming a "tinderbox". But even this isn't enough to convince them that we must change course.

    Why? Perhaps because doing so would be an admission of past failures. For decades we were told that mass migration was an unalloyed good while critics were denounced as bigots. To concede, after all this time, that it has not come without costs – at times intolerable costs – would be catastrophically damaging to the political class. The pro-migration fanatics, who promised to control numbers while throwing open our borders, who overrode objections to impose their policies despite what they were repeatedly being told at the ballot box, would be discredited.

    So instead, the state appears to be passing through the stages of grief. At first there was denial that people were worried about migration at all; Brexit had allowed us to be liberals. Then there was anger after Southport, with Starmer's denunciation of the "thugs" taking to the streets. Now we seem to have reached bargaining: if we can stop people talking about it, perhaps they'll stop caring?

    It was a strategy that might have worked prior to the social media era, and in particular prior to Elon Musk's buyout of Twitter. Now, even the censorship of protest videos, arrest of people for incendiary content, and threat of mass scanning of output isn't sufficient to quell dissent.

    And though many of the protests now cropping up across Britain are peaceful, shows of police force are not enough to deter outside agitators from hijacking them. Tiff Lynch, the head of the Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers, last week warned that officers were being "pulled in every direction" and commanders were "forced to choose between keeping the peace at home or plugging national gaps".

    Where do we go from here? As the costs of legal migration become apparent, with talk of labour market infusions and attracting the "best and brightest" seeming increasingly hollow, overall numbers must be reduced. As the impact of illegal migration becomes clearer, the establishment must stop trying to guilt us into acceptance, and finally stop the influx.

    It's highly doubtful Yvette Cooper has the will or the way. The Home Secretary would prefer to silence opponents, by censoring and arresting those who speak out.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/27/two-tier-policing-is-the-nail-in-the-coffin-for-britains-so

    1. You can see why the ten foot barriers went up in Westminster.

      First priority. Protect themselves. Not from the incomers (yet) but from the indigenous.

      1. Ah, so when the political class said that massive uncontrolled criminal invasion wouldn't affect our lives, what they meant was the public would have to stuff it while the state is protected.

  80. New film of War of the Worlds. I didn't rate the last one with Tom Cruise but this one looks exciting.

    It's called… Ice Cube War of the Worlds.

    It's on Amazon Prime.

        1. Actually that was Vanilla Ice, not Ice Cube (who generally goes on about niggas and ho's) but it's a great track!

  81. To be fair Muhammad Ahmed the elder brother did try to calm things down.
    As for psycho.. there's only one place for him..

    2TKs Elite police unit which will monitor social media posts on migrants

    1. Throughout the altercation, bystanders simply filmed it on their mobile phones, PC Marsden said, describing the watching crowd as 'hostile'.

      What do they expect?
      Help out? Nah those days are long gone.
      71-year-old Spectator reader was detained for eight hours in November 2023 before being interrogated and given a caution.
      Antifa, a violent, thuggish group, arriving at the train station, and literally by Essex Police, being bused to the Bell Hotel.
      West Midlands Police pay out £13000 to Christian volunteer “unlawfully” arrested for praying silently near an abortion facility.
      Far-right leader to appear in court after arrest by more than 20 Met police officers near London's Royal Courts of Justice.
      she was raped from the age of 12 by a South Yorkshire Police officer in a marked police car.

    1. To send them to jail or to let them off? The wireless has them 'convicted'?

      Was the sentence 2 weeks in a 5 star hotel?

      1. The one who was convicted has yet to be sentenced. The retrial will be for assault on a male police officer (charges upon which the jury could not agree).

    2. Perhaps the CPS have wised up to the fact that Public Anger & Disdain has gone up a couple of notches since the Welsh Choirboy in Southport.

      1. Ho ho! I do like a good larf of an early evening. Most of the CPS are slammers….

        1. If the CPS people on this case are slammers, why are they going for a retrial?

          2. Come now; are the Crown Prosecution Service no longer in the business of bringing Prosecutions on behalf of the Crown?

          5. Whether or not the cps are diverse or not, the standard generally is low, you only have to look at Starmer who used to be the boss.
            Organisation well-known as the criminal protection society.

    3. VERY surprising.

      Has the judge in the trial made a statement after the verdicts?

          2. Mr Jamil Smith from the well known Palestinian family Smith and Co, camel breeders to the gentry

          7. I bet they are nowhere near as traumatised as the police who were attacked while doing their job.

  87. Warning – extract from Jeremy Bowen opinion piece:

    In New York just after Starmer's statement, David Lammy, the UK foreign secretary, was given a big round of applause when he announced Britain's decision at the UN's conference on a two-state solution and recognition of a Palestinian state. His dismissed the accusation that Palestinian independence could be lethal for Israel.

    "There is no contradiction between support for Israel's security and support for Palestinian statehood. Indeed, the opposite is true. "Let me be clear: the Netanyahu government's rejection of a two-state solution is wrong – it's wrong morally and it's wrong strategically."

    A British official said the atmosphere was electric as Lammy told the delegates that the UK's announcement was being made "with the hand of history on our shoulders."

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8deme846mro

    I'm beginning to like Lammy. He's great entertainment value.

        3. In he days of big game hunting, they were called elephant guns…

          Trouble is, he always reminds me of Idi Amin.

        4. In he days of big game hunting, they were called elephant guns…

          Trouble is, he always reminds me of Idi Amin.

    1. I'd forgotten how familiar this material is – like it's only a few months ago… wow!
      But I'd forgotten how many ships we lost, and had to be reminded of events such as the Welsh Guards on the RFA gtting burned.

      1. L'horloge tourne….

        That clip I posted earlier of the Vulcan "barrel roll" is SEVENTY years old.

    2. I'd forgotten how familiar this material is – like it's only a few months ago… wow!
      But I'd forgotten how many ships we lost, and had to be reminded of events such as the Welsh Guards on the RFA gtting burned.

  89. Why were they both not convicted? At least there's a conviction. I doubt sentencing will be severe enough.

  91. Donald Trump has delivered an unprompted attack on former Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon, describing her as a "terrible first minister", PA Media reports.

    Trump made the comments on Air Force One as he travelled back to Washington following his five-day visit to Scotland. During his stay, he had a two-hour dinner on Monday with current first minister John Swinney, alongside Keir Starmer.

    Swinney, who also met Trump on Tuesday morning, said he had used the talks to push the president to exempt Scotch from US tariffs. Speaking to reporters on his flight home, the president was asked if he offered to drop the levy on Scotland's national drink.

    He replied: "No. We really didn't discuss it much. But I have a lot of respect for him [Swinney]."

    Journalists began asking questions again before Trump interjected: "I didn't have a lot of respect for the woman that preceded him – I thought she was terrible as a first minister of Scotland. But I think John is doing a very good job of first minister."

    A source close to Sturgeon responded: "Trump's lack of respect for women is hardly news. That said, the feeling was entirely mutual." Sturgeon added on her Instagram account: "Feeling was mutual, Donnie. Forever proud to represent all the things that offend your view of the world."

    Sturgeon truly was one of the worst kind of politicians. Devoid of real ideas, stuffed full of prejudices, standing not for something but against many things (mostly from south of the border). Under her rule of watered-down socialism, Scotland became a bigger basket-case than England. Her handling of Covid was her low point – just to be different from Boris.

    Trump was being truthful.

  92. That's me for today. More sorting out of jigsaws…..Still discussing how much to charge…

    Have a jolly evening. Market tomorrow. Must buy parmesan from Tony's stall to take to my son and daughter-in-law. My step grand-daughter is getting married on Sunday..in the church where her father is buried. A long and busy weekend awaits….

    A demain.

  94. BBC and Met Office team up to tackle 'weather disinformation'

    New partnership to take on conspiracy theorists comes eight years after corporation dropped forecasting service

    Craig Simpson • 30th July 2025, 6:01pm BST

    The BBC and the Met Office are to work together to counter "weather disinformation".

    Britain's main weather forecasting service, funded by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, was dropped by the corporation in 2017 (it moved to the Meteo Group). But the relationship has now been renewed in order to provide "weather education" to combat conspiracy theories and other false information.

    The concerns relate to a minority of online content that misrepresents the reality of the weather, including conspiracies about cloud formations and other phenomena.

    One widespread theory contends that vapour trails left by aircraft at low-temperature altitudes are in fact chemicals being sprayed into the atmosphere. The purpose of this is not agreed on by the conspiracy theorists spreading the claim, with some saying it is weather control, and others say it is for psychological manipulation of the human population.

    Other concerns about misinformation relate to exaggerated online claims about impending and devastating "heatwaves" and "snowbombs".

    Broadcast bosses are also worried that some online content could prevent the public taking proper measures to ensure their safety during severe weather. Tim Davie, the director-general of the BBC, said that there has "never been more need for trusted and impartial information to help people understand today's weather".

    He added that the new partnership would help everyone in the UK to make informed decisions about the weather.

    The announcement of the plan to work with the Met Office comes after the BBC's own weather app wrongly predicted 13,000mph winds across the UK in 2024. This error was blamed on a data issue with the US meteorological service, DTN.

    In 2021, the BBC made a "Climate Content" pledge to create programming with more information on climate change that would inspire audiences to make "greener choices". It began a process of embedding climate-related messaging into popular programmes.

    A 2024 report into the progress of this project stated: "The BBC has found opportunities to authentically embed sustainability themes into its content, from blockbuster natural history titles such as Asia, which launched this autumn, to gripping climate thriller On Thin Ice: Putin v Greenpeace. And even in coverage of the world's biggest sporting event, the Olympics."

    The report added that programme-makers would continue their "commitment to finding audience-relevant ways to reflect sustainability" in BBC output "across all genres".

    Penny Endersby, the chief executive of the Met Office, said of the new partnership with the BBC: "As the UK's national weather service, we are excited to be back working closely with the BBC again. Together we can reach even more people with essential weather information, helping them to plan their days, stay safe when it matters and keep well-informed in our changing climate."

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/30/bbc-and-met-office-team-up-to-tackle-weather-disinformation

    If I'd had a cup of tea at hand when I read this, I'd have spilt it. It's not conspiracy theorists that talk of 'heatwaves' and 'snowbombs' but the bloody presenters with their exaggerated terminology (I forgot to include 'baroclinic leaf' in an earlier comment about weather). And 'embedding climate-related messaging' started well before 2021, for Christ's sake.

    This is sinister stuff. The BBC would do better to instruct its weather crew to present forecasts as information, not politics, and to do so in a calm manner with moderate language rather than in the style of RADA auditions (Darren Bett is excused this charge).

    And the BBC's Ministry of Truth should get stuck into the weather station scandal.

    1. When I read that my first thought was that weather "disinformation" is disseminated by the Bbc and the Wet Office!

  95. Blimey.. one single Ad featuring a white person.. and the Lefties have lidderally a total meltdown.

    Why Sydney Sweeney’s ‘good jeans’ campaign is being compared to Nazism

    MSNBC News
    The internet has been quick to condemn the advertisement as noninclusive at best and as overtly promoting “white supremacy” and “Nazi propaganda…

    2. TBF; there are 2 adverts that figure whitey.
      The other one is for cheapo cremations.

          1. Well yes Katya – I rang up for some yoga lessons and the teacher asked me; 'How flexible are you?' so I replied 'Well I cant do Thursdays'…… I'll get me mat……

          2. Good to read you retain your sense of humour, V. I haven’t done any yoga for a while (Maiya Fiennes) must get back to it, spend far too much time online……

      2. They haven't got a clue. They think – genuinely- that they're justified and righteous.

        Of course, they're bigoted nutjobs. Has anyone said in reply to their 'Nazisim' 'well, you Lefties should know!'?

        Honestly, I don't understand the Left wing mind. It is a sort of knotted mobius strip of bilge, illogic, bile and hatred. A self deceiving, reality defying hellscape where up is down and left is right. Tey are wrong about everything, they know nothing yet they are convinced they're somehow 'good'.

    4. Conventionally beautiful lass? Je ne sais pas.
      Raunchy? 100% certain.
      But are they good jeans? Red hot & smoking.

  96. Sydney Sweeney's ad shows an unbridled cultural shift toward whiteness
    Advertisements are always mirrors of society, and sometimes what they reflect is ugly and startling.

    1. Well, the ones that show mixed race and mainly blacks in a European country do reflect ugly and startling tendencies.

    2. Time African elephants got militant about their lack of representation in India. And vice versa.

  97. Get me bed ready.. brekkie at 10am so I can get ready for UberEat deliveries. Don't want no Samsung either.. ProMax 1TB only.

    Border Force is being overwhelmed by migrant smuggling gangs launching boats with more than 70 passengers.

    1. I want to know how they got that picture of Winston and the popcorn! My pair are deprived; I don't have a TV, so they have to make do with treats and bones.

      1. I remember reading somewhere that a dog's eyesight considers even the best TV to have a rubbish picture.

      2. Winston has a lot of explaining to do, Connors. Maybe his traumatic previous life is not at all as he has presented it.

    2. Had a good number of dogs, never known one to take an interest in tv. Cats, on the other hand/paw, continually try to catch any moving object…

    3. Many years ago when I was living as a lodger, my landlady’s lovely little black cat used to like watching television with me. My set was black and white but when we watched a documentary about garden birds called Bird Brain of Britain, Tabitha the cat got up on her hind legs and did her best to catch the birds. When they flew off camera, she looked all over my room trying to figure out where they’d gone. She certainly recognised the images.

      1. I think we posted more or less the same time, Sue…..yes, cats my experience too. Dogs more likely to sit and bark at the screen.

      2. My GSD x wolfhound used to watch TV. Sometimes he'd try to go round the back to see where the other dogs had gone.

      3. My wife was always amazed that I discerned the colours of the balls on Pot Black when watching snooker on our portable Black & White TV.

      4. My wife was always amazed that I discerned the colours of the balls on Pot Black when watching snooker on our portable Black & White TV.

  101. For sake of argument: Greece.

    If the Greeks evacuated all the Greek nationals from a decent sized island and shipped every single asylum seeker there how long would it be before the new occupants of that island tried to stop more gimmegrants being foisted upon them?

    1. I suppose it depends on how generous the benefits are (and continue to be despite the influx of newcomers).

      1. If the Greeks did as I suggest the island itself would be responsible for those.

          1. True.
            But it might just tell the idiots in charge what the future of Europe is, unless something is done.

          2. I doubt it. They are convinced they're right and all it needs to succeed is more of the same – look at the EU!

          5. There is no future for Europe. You are not seeing it yet where you live but once the cities collapse you will experience a plague of locusts.

      2. We don't seem to have any say how the benefits we fund are distributed, do we. Don't recall it ever being in any manifesto. Not that it matters, CS decides anyway …always easy to spend someone else's money, many would like to try that…….

    3. Without the Greeks there to materially provide for the gimmegrants, there wouldn’t be anything to make the island an attractive destination.

      1. Exactly.
        It isn't supposed to be an attractive destination.
        It should be a compulsory destination.

    3. Apparently the King has taken to quoting the wisdom of Allah. I’d like to know what Odin had to say on the same subject. Or for preference, Minerva.

        1. I take comfort from the assurance that the Lord Jesus will be his final judge.

      1. Bournemouth
        Published
        28 July 2025
        People have been warned that cliffside goat enclosures at a tourist hotspot are "not a petting zoo" after visitors were seen stroking the animals.

        Bournemouth Goats, a group responsible for managing the herd living next to the town's beaches, issued the warning on Facebook after two people were photographed petting the animals inside a fence.

        The animals were introduced as a natural solution to control cliffside vegetation, replacing the need for petrol-powered mowers.

        Herder Tanya Bishop said the fencing was there for a reason – to protect both the public and the goats.

        "They are not pets, and approaching them is not safe," she said.

        "The cliffs are dangerous. One wrong step could lead to serious injury – or worse."

        A goat behind a fence on top of a cliff with the sea in the background
        Image caption,
        Signs are displayed by fences asking people not to feed the goats

        Ms Bishop explained that the male goats were not castrated, which made them more territorial and unpredictable.

        "They may look calm, but unfamiliar humans in their space can cause stress, panic, and herd disruption – especially during kidding season or when young ones are present.

        "Stress increases the risk of injury, weakened immunity, and changes in feeding patterns."

        The group is concerned that if someone is injured, the goats could ultimately suffer the consequences.

        "The second someone does get hurt, the goats are the ones who pay the price," Ms Bishop said.

        In addition to the risk posed by the animals, the terrain itself is hazardous.

        The cliffs are steep and unstable, with three landslips recorded last winter alone – one of which occurred near where the goats live on the East Cliff.

        In the past rangers have urged people to contact them rather than the emergency services if they spot any problems.

        The plea came after firefighters were called to the cliffs when a goat got its head stuck in a fence.

  106. News just out: Partnered lesbian appointed as Archbishop of Wales:

    " UK’s first female archbishop appointed.
    Rt Rev Cherry Vann has been appointed the new Archbishop of Wales and vows to bring ‘healing and reconciliation’ to the role.

    The UK’s first female and lesbian archbishop has been announced.

    The Bishop of Monmouth, the Rt Rev Cherry Vann, 66, has been revealed as the new Archbishop of Wales.

    As well as being the 15th person to hold the role, she is also the first woman and the first non-heterosexual member of the clergy to do so.

    Her appointment marks a break from centuries of tradition in both the Church of England, and the more recently established Church in Wales, where the role of archbishop is always assumed by a heterosexual man.

    Archbishop Cherry’s biography on the Church’s website describes her as living with her civil partner, Wendy, and their two dogs."
    Rest of text at:
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/30/lesbian-becomes-uks-first-female-archbishop/

    (I've read under for some way down, and not found this posted before.)

    The CinW is sliding headlong down the skids to its self-destruction.

    2. She’ll bring schism. Dante puts that in the ninth trench of the eighth circle of the Inferno.

      1. I think that the schism has already happened, with faithful Christians abandoning the CinW.

    3. Will there be special ceremonies and rituals for the blessing and consecration of episcopal dildos?

    4. "the first non-heterosexual member of the clergy to do so."

      How sure are they about that?

      1. That crossed my mind too. It should read '…first openly non-heterosexual…' but if they'd written that it would imply that there had been closet non-heterosexual member(s) of the clergy in the past, and that would lead to unwelcome speculation.

    1. Must be north of 200,000 or so now since the Rwanda plan was dropped last year.

      Truly, our rulers hate us

  110. Britain is now the West's capital of sectarian politics

    Palestinianism is a creed that is entrenching divisions and transforming our culture for the worse

    Douglas Murray • 30th July 2025 6:28pm BST

    With a stagnant economy, talent fleeing the country and absolutely no hopeful plan for the future of Britain, naturally the Labour Government has decided to do the inevitable. It has had emergency meetings on recognition of a Palestinian state.

    In doing so they are following the lead of the French government of Emmanuel Macron. And for precisely the same reasons.

    Although it might come as news to them, it is no longer in the gift of the British or French governments to create states in the Middle East. That era is over, and close observers might have noticed that modern European Leftists tend to be opposed to such "colonial" and "orientalist" reflexes.

    But the Starmer Government, like their counterparts in Paris, are not making a priority of Palestinian statehood for foreign policy reasons. Even before October 7 2023 the leadership of the Palestinian people was hopelessly divided. Fatah and Hamas are divided because, among other things, Hamas make a habit of killing their fellow Palestinians if they happen to be from Fatah.

    So even before the current conflict, the idea of a "two-state solution" in the Middle East was dead. At best, back then, there could have been some three-state solution. The state of Israel, some Hamas-run polity in Gaza and a Fatah-run territory in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria). But that option is itself utterly dead for the foreseeable future because nobody knows how to run Gaza or who will run it, and no one could trust the Palestinian authority in the West Bank which has not had an election in two decades.

    Still, historians will note with some amazement that the present Hamas-started war led to Western countries scrambling to once again try a Palestinian-statehood option. Not least because if the years 2005-2023 showed anything in Gaza it is a glimpse of what a Palestinian state's actual objectives and ambitions would be: not coexistence, but rather the continued effort to wipe out the Jewish state.

    But the interesting thing today is why Starmer, Macron and others seem so intent on prioritising this issue. Why do they get before lecterns and issue stern warnings about Palestinian statehood? All while they have effectively zero capability to implement their grandiose policies?

    The answer is that Palestinianism is not a foreign policy matter. It is a domestic one.

    Starmer decided to rush out an announcement on the matter not because the time is ripe for the creation of another Palestinian state. He did it because time was running out for him in Westminster.

    The SNP and others have been pushing Starmer from his Left. Part of his own party are pushing him from within. If Starmer had not made his intervention this week it was possible that the SNP would have brought forward a debate on Palestinian statehood in the House of Commons which the Labour Government would have lost.

    So in order to placate the ranks Starmer has tried to take the initiative from those to his Left and show that he is doing something. None of this will make any difference on the ground in the Middle East. But it does give us a good glimpse of some of the terrain here at home.

    The Scottish Nationalists, like all mini-nationalist parties, have failed at their own agenda and so have become vacuum-like devices, hoovering up the other issues that the radical Left likes to push. If the Scots Nats can't get independence for Scotland, why not push hard for independence for Palestinians?

    Within Starmer's own ranks similar pressures reign.

    We now have a number of MPs who have been elected to Parliament purely for their ability to speak to the Palestinian issue, and they have done so because the issue is – as they know – one of the two foreign policy issues which most ignites opinion among Britain's growing Muslim electorate (the other issue being Kashmir).

    Much of the Muslim world – even those hailing from the Indian sub-continent – have imbibed anti-Israeli views from birth. And they have decided that the creation of another Muslim state, and the eradication of the world's one Jewish state, should be a priority.

    As well as the "Gaza independents" in Parliament, Starmer also needs to head off the considerable number of his own MPs who share much of their sentiment or pander to the same electorate. He also has to head off the new oddballs party which is being set up by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana – someone who is expert (as so many radical Leftists are) at playing both bully and victim at the same time.

    Although Corbyn's new movement may not be significant in the House of Commons at present, it is perfectly possible that at a future election a party like his which makes Palestinianism its first priority could hoover up dozens of seats.

    Starmer's Labour Party would then be squeezed not only by Reform that is leading them in the polls, but by this other force to his Left. Were these two forces to come at Labour simultaneously it is perfectly possible that they could push the air out of the inflated Labour majority and lead to the party losing its majority in Parliament. With the Conservatives not yet seeing any meaningful uplift in their own popularity, this messy outcome starts to look like the most likely way that Starmer's massive majority would deflate.

    Some people will think that what Starmer has done is clever politicking. It may be in the short term. But in the long term it is yet another demonstration of a dangerous trend in our country. That is the way in which religious, sectarian conflicts from abroad have been brought into the heart of our own nation, a trend which sees blocks voting along ethno-religious lines.

    Starmer may have no way to lead this country to a positive future. But this week he has given us another glimpse into a future which is just as fractured and divided as some of us long warned it could be.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/30/britain-now-west-capital-sectarian-politics

    I'll make a prediction. Labour will be gone before 2029. Something ghastly will happen somewhere – and it won't be just the House of Commons that unravels.

  114. Right, chums, I'm off to bed now. I hope you all sleep well, and I hope to see you all bright and early tomorrow.

  115. 'Nye' at the National Theatre last night was excellent. Michael Sheen superb. I love Michael Sheen – he has a real twinkle in his eye.

    I was distracted tho' by the semi 'blind' casting. The ensemble cast played various members of Parliament who àt the time (early 20th C) would have been white and predominantly male. There were several actors 'of colour' and female actors playing these parts.

    The non- white actors didn't wear white make up but the female actors were made up with moustaches and bald wigs etc. Blind casting should be blind to all characteristics, not just race, shurely.

    1. Once a person starts down the path of lying, it is pointless to expect any honesty from them at all.
      I'm afraid the inauthentic casting would spoil the performance for me, so I avoid the theatre these days. Just read yesterday that the new Netflix Pride and Prejudice will have a mixed race Bingley family, but they will still set it in Regency England. So stupid and fake.

      1. So glad I read your post. Jan r Austen is my fave author and I’d hate to see a blik interloper.

        1. There is a brilliant Bollywood film of Pride and Prejudice set in contemporary India, most of the characters are Indian of course and it is superbly well translated, with Mrs Bennet as a scheming, desperate Indian mother trying to marry off five daughters. Nobody would object if they did something like that with black actors. But just trying to erase English history is despicable!

  116. I wonder who or which organisation has caused Starmer to suddenly announce a “policy” on the Palestinian issue. Hitherto the silly man has thankfully kept himself to himself on contentious issues.

    Starmer is, as ever, all at sea on geopolitical matters. He barely has a grasp of the Law despite pretending to be more than a Third Rate solicitor, with the KC and undeserved Knighthood supposedly giving legitimacy to his inane rants.

  117. I wonder who or which organisation has caused Starmer to suddenly announce a “policy” on the Palestinian issue. Hitherto the silly man has thankfully kept himself to himself on contentious issues.

    Starmer is, as ever, all at sea on geopolitical matters. He barely has a grasp of the Law despite pretending to be more than a Third Rate solicitor, with the KC and undeserved Knighthood supposedly giving legitimacy to his inane rants.

  118. I wonder who or which organisation has caused Starmer to suddenly announce a “policy” on the Palestinian issue. Hitherto the silly man has thankfully kept himself to himself on contentious issues.

    Starmer is, as ever, all at sea on geopolitical matters. He barely has a grasp of the Law despite pretending to be more than a Third Rate solicitor, with the KC and undeserved Knighthood supposedly giving legitimacy to his inane rants.

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