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Trump Derangement Syndrome

A Panorama programme broadcast last year ‘doctored’ a speech by Trump, making it appear that he had encouraged a riot at he Capitol after his loss to Biden, according to a whistleblowing BBC memo. The programme misled viewers by showing Trump telling his supporters that he was going to the Capitol to ‘fight like hell’ when in fact he said he would walk with them to ‘peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard’. When this issue was raised with BBC Management, they apparently refused to accept that there had been a breach of professional standards.The false report was not just a deviation from the normal standards of journalism but a contravention of the BBC Charter which imposes a duty of impartiality on its journalists.  What is so surprising that the programme makers felt the need to fabricate evidence against when, for anyone opposed to Trump, there is a lot of true material available.The interesting question is why the Panorama team chose to jeopardise the BBC’s reputation in this way and why the Management refused to remedy the situation. I would attribute the collective failure of the BBC in this case to TDS. The BBC is largely staffed by a left leaning university educated elite. Like most of the progressive left nowadays they don’t believe in socialism but they haven’t replaced it with anything else.  They don’t know what they are in favour of so they define their virtue in terms of who they hate - Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and above all Donald Trump. So in their eyes any attack on Trump, whether factually based or  not, is justified. And even if he didn’t utter the words attributed to him in the programme, or if he used them in another context, it doesn’t matter,  because in the view of the progressives of the BBC it’s the kind of thing Trump would have said.

Steven Rose ● 10d54 Comments ● 6d

Britain should look at and take steps to follow Israel

People's Israelophobia might range from 'anti-'the state of Israel' though anti-Zionism (whatever that might mean) to anti-Judaism and even to antisemitism.However they cannot deny that Israel is a unique sovereign state of which its citizens are united and proud to be a part, albeit, taking advantage of its freedoms, they might disagree on many political issues.Unfortunately we cannot say the same of the UK where Pakistanis in Birmingham and Bangladeshis in Tower Hamlets take delight in demonstrating there desire, even achievement, of separatism from British norms and culture. In a counter to an anti-immigration march by Reform supporters in Whitehall (its original route in East London having been banned by Police) in Tower Hamlets, lefties and masked young Muslims gathered to gloat over UKIP’s banishment from their borough.And there were also columns of young men in black barking religious slogans from behind their masks. These are ‘our streets’, they roared, and then ‘Allahu Akbar’.  It was the anti-Zionist chanting that was most unnerving. The black-clad mob denounced ‘Zionist scum’ (Jews) and promised to drive them ‘off our streets’. The mob waved the Palestine flag, chanted ‘From the river to sea!’, and promised to honour ‘all our martyrs’.We live in a divided and unsettled state becoming more and more riven by religious sectarian violence."The Islamo-left is on the march across Britain"https://www.spiked-online.com/?%2Fsite%2FI doubt if Starmer and the Labour Party have any plans to remedy this.They might however look to Israel for guidance as described below."What the West could learn from Israel"'The Jewish State stands as a glorious rebuke to the frailty of the 21st-century West'.https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/10/26/what-the-west-could-learn-from-israel/

John Hawkes ● 18d10 Comments ● 7d

Lammy, the Labour Party, crime, illegal immigration, two tier policing

The state of the country in terms of crime - committed and prevented - seems to be in major decline and David Lammy, the Labour Party Deputy Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor must surely acknowledge a major responsibility for this state of affairs.Recently two Jewish people were killed and three left in a serious condition after a car ramming and stabbing attack outside a synagogue in Manchester.The suspect, who was shot dead at the scene, has been named as 35-year-old Jihad Al-Shamie, a British citizen of Syrian descent.At the time of the deadly attack on Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, Al-Shamie was on bail after being arrested on suspicion of rape.A post on Faraj Al-Shamie's Facebook page, which had been verified by the BBC but has since been removed, appeared to praise the 7 October attack by Hamas.Who authorised his citizenship ?Why was he not on the Prevent list ?We are now reading how prisoners seem to have been given the key to the door of Wandsworth Prison and some have gone missing.Police are continuing their manhunt to relocate Algerian national Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, a sex offender who was mistakenly released from prison on Wednesday 29 October.And finally the 'boat people'.The cumulative number of arrivals this year is 36,954.Where are they ?Over the last six days four serious crimes were carried out by illegal migrants have been reported.Safi Dawood, 22, is accused of one count of murder, two counts of attempted murder, and possession of an offensive weapon.Somalian national Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur, 47, who entered the UK illegally, knifed father-of-three Gurvinder Singh Johal, 37 at a Lloyds Bank in Derby shortly after complaining about his asylum application being rejected. Deng Chol Majek, was found guilty of the unprovoked murder of Rhiannon Whyte, a British mother who worked at the asylum hotel where he was staying. Shafiullah Rasooli, 29 - remains in custody awaiting sentencing for sexually assaulting two women while he delivered takeaways to their homes in Maidstone, Kent. Finally we have a situation in Birmingham where Muslim protesters, likely of Pakistani origin, have forced the obviously weak hand of the West Midlands police to enforce the banning of Tel Aviv Maccabi fans attending the EUFA Europa League match against Aston Villa because the Aston Villa Safety Advisory Group, a multi-agency group led by Birmingham City Council, recently reviewed its original decision to ban away fans and upheld it.None the less, protests are planned at nearby Aston Pavilion on the night by the Birmingham Palestine Coalition, who want Israeli teams out of UEFA and FIFA competitions.How soon will it be before Millwall supporters are banned from games against West Ham and Leeds expelled from the Premiership because of its Jewish associations ?When are Lammy and the Labour Party going to step up to the plate and get a grip on crime, and illegal immigration and two-tier policing ?

John Hawkes ● 8d0 Comments ● 8d

Brandlehow School

I wonder if the school has tried crowdfunding?For instance there is this group who are crowdfunding right now to raise enough money to keep on showing the film they have made of turning their street into a Power Station.  Their street is in Walthamstow and the film is now being shown not just all over London but in this country and abroad.  There have been several articles in the national press.Their current crowdfunder donations are being matched by Aviva and this particular crowdfunder runs out tonight or tomorrow - can't remember which.There are quite a few companies that do this.  With energy costs the way they are crowdfunding for solar panels etc should or could help them to bring their costs down.  Brandlehow is a Grade II listed property but there are churches which have installed solar panels to reduce their energy costs (including Salisbury Cathedral) so it can be possible on buildings where you just might not expect to find them...However there are also communities raising money for other projects.  Of course you'd need to check and know that you meet the guidelines.But maybe they don't need to do that and they have some past pupils or their parents who would love to help out?There is masses of infrastructure in this country that has not had as much TLC as it could have done with and should have had - including Hammersmith Bridge of course - and with climate change with the sudden heavier cloudbursts and high winds it brings there will be an even greater number of buildings that will need to pay more attention to their roofs - and gutters etc (ie making sure the gutters are big enough to take the extra water).  This is why you also see rain gardens and other methods nowadays of slowing rainwater down on its way to the drains.

Philippa Bond ● 21d11 Comments ● 13d