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Canada #85
They've Learned Nothing… Because That Would Expose Too MuchPart One
Authored by Roger Bate via The Brownstone Institute Tuesday, Nov 25, 2025
The UK Covid-19 Inquiry has finally released the core political chapters of its long-awaited report. After nearly three years of hearings, millions of documents, and tens of millions of pounds spent on legal fees, the conclusion is now unmistakably clear.
They’ve learned nothing, as I detail in my latest research.
Worse, they may not want to learn.
The Inquiry’s structure, its analytical frame, even its carefully curated narrative all point in the same direction: away from the possibility that Britain’s pandemic response was fundamentally misguided, and toward the politically safer claim that ministers simply “acted too late.”
On November 20, 2025, Jay Bhattacharya captured this perfectly in a single sentence on X: “Fact check; not locking down at all (like Sweden) would have saved lives in UK. Hard to believe how much money the UK spent on its sham covid inquiry.” That tweet was provocative—but it was also accurate in its diagnosis of the Inquiry’s deeper pathologies.
The Inquiry’s Central Mistake: Asking the Wrong Question
From the outset, the Inquiry has framed Britain’s pandemic response as a timing problem. Lockdowns were assumed to be necessary and effective; the only question was whether politicians implemented them quickly enough. The result is a dry recitation of process failures and personality clashes inside Downing Street, all of which are said to have delayed the inevitable “stay-at-home” order.
But that framing was never neutral. It was baked into the Inquiry’s analytical choices—especially its uncritical reliance on the same family of models that drove the UK into lockdown in March 2020.
The centerpiece of that modeling tradition is Imperial College London’s Report 9, the document that forecast hundreds of thousands of UK deaths absent stringent lockdowns. That report assumed near-homogeneous mixing, limited voluntary behavior change, and high fatality rates across the population. Under those assumptions, lockdown becomes not a political choice but a mathematical necessity.
The Inquiry has now rerun the same machinery and, unsurprisingly, produced the same conclusion.
Its headline claim—that delaying lockdown by a week caused roughly 23,000 additional deaths—is not a historical finding. It is not based on observational data. It is simply the output of an Imperial-style model with a different start date.
The Inquiry has restated the model, not tested it.
The Evidence They Chose Not to See
The Inquiry’s blindness becomes fully apparent when we ask the obvious comparative question: if the lockdown paradigm were correct, what would we expect to see among countries that refused to lock down?
We would expect chaos. We would expect mass hospital collapse. We would expect mortality catastrophes to dwarf the UK.
We would expect, in short, to see Sweden in ruins.
Instead, we see the opposite.
Sweden kept primary schools open, avoided stay-at-home orders, relied heavily on voluntary behavior, and preserved civil liberties throughout the pandemic. After correcting early care-home errors, Sweden recorded one of the lowest age-adjusted excess mortality rates in Europe.
The Swedish experience is not a footnote. It is not an “exception.” It is the control case—the real-world test of the lockdown paradigm.
And it falsifies it.
A serious Inquiry would have begun with Sweden. It would have asked why a country that rejected lockdowns achieved better mortality outcomes than Britain while preserving education, normal life, and basic freedoms. It would have integrated that evidence into every chapter. It would have examined whether voluntary behavior changes, targeted protection, and risk-based messaging can substitute for mass coercion.
Instead, Sweden is barely mentioned. When it appears at all, it is described as an anomaly. The Inquiry behaves as though Sweden is politically inconvenient—not analytically essential.
Because it is.
>>23918828 (me)
They've Learned Nothing… Because That Would Expose Too MuchPart Two
The Modeling Was Wrong. The Inquiry Can’t Admit It.
If the Inquiry were genuinely interested in learning, it would examine whether the models that drove the UK’s response were flawed. It would review the assumptions underpinning Report 9. It would test them against real-world data from multiple countries. It would commission adversarial modeling groups. It would bring in critics. It would examine alternative frameworks.
It did none of these things.
The behavior of the public is a perfect example. Imperial-style models assume that people remain near-normal in their social contacts without legal mandates. But mobility data, workplace activity, and school attendance show that Britons began adjusting their behavior weeks before Boris Johnson held the lockdown press conference. High-risk individuals adapted earliest. Businesses reacted to perceived risks earlier than the state. Families responded faster than the Cabinet Office.
The models were wrong about behavior.
Yet the Inquiry’s analysis still treats people as if they only respond to orders, not information.
The result is a fantasy counterfactual: a Britain that would have carried on as normal in March 2020 had the government not intervened. That Britain never existed.
Where Is the Cost–Benefit Analysis?
The Inquiry promised to evaluate the “relative benefits and disbenefits” of non-pharmaceutical interventions. It has not done so. There is no integrated accounting of:
the millions of missed cancer screenings
the explosion in mental-health morbidity
the delayed cardiovascular care
the long-term educational loss from school closures
the widening inequality gaps
the years-long damage to the NHS backlog
the economic scarring that will shorten future lives
Lockdowns always look good when you only count Covid deaths. But public health is cumulative. It is intertemporal. Saving a life today by destroying ten years of someone’s earning power is not a victory.
The Inquiry refuses to engage with these trade-offs. It is easier to condemn “late lockdowns” than to ask whether lockdowns were the wrong tool altogether.
The Real Reason the Inquiry Learned Nothing
The central failure of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry is not analytical. It is institutional.
A real investigation would expose catastrophic judgment errors across the political and scientific establishment. It would show that ministers outsourced strategy to a narrow modeling group. It would reveal that the harms of lockdowns were not only foreseeable but foreseen. It would vindicate critics who were ridiculed or censored. It would anger parents whose children suffered educational harm. It would enrage families whose loved ones died because routine care was suspended. It would shatter public trust in Whitehall and SAGE.
That is precisely what the Inquiry cannot do.
Instead, it offers a politically safe narrative. The strategy was sound. The problem was timing. Ministers were slow. Advisors were frustrated. Downing Street was chaotic. But the solution next time is simple: lock down earlier, lock down harder, lock down smarter.
It is a comforting fairy tale for the people who caused the damage.
The Truth Is Already Clear
Bhattacharya’s November 2025 tweet may have been blunt, but it crystallized what the Inquiry is unwilling to say. Sweden shows that not locking down at all could have saved British lives—not merely reduced collateral damage, but saved lives.
That is the final heresy. And that is why the Inquiry cannot confront it.
Learning would expose too much.
The UK did not simply lock down too late. It locked down unnecessarily. The Inquiry should have been a reckoning. Instead, it became a shield—protecting institutions rather than illuminating truth.
Britain deserved better. The world deserved better.
Until we admit what went wrong, we remain doomed to repeat it.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/theyve-learned-nothing-because-would-expose-too-much
Canada #86
Pakistan Offers To 'Take Grooming Gang Leaders' If UK Hands Over Dissidents
via Middle East Eye Thursday, Dec 11, 2025
Pakistan has reportedly offered to take back grooming gang leaders in exchange for Britain handing over Pakistani political dissidents living in the UK.
Pakistani media reported that the proposal was made in a private meeting last Thursday in Islamabad between Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi and Jane Marriott, the British high commissioner. Naqvi reportedly urged the UK to hand over anti-government figures Shahzad Akbar and Adil Raja.
Akbar, who was a minister in Imran Khan's government, and Raja, a former army major, are both living in the UK. They have both strongly criticized the Pakistani government over its alleged human rights abuses and suppression of political dissent.
The British government has previously requested that Pakistan extradite Adil Khan and Qari Abdul Rauf, who were jailed in 2012 as ringleaders of a grooming gang that sexually assaulted and abused 47 girls over two years in Rochdale.
Both Khan and Rauf, Pakistani immigrants, were stripped of their British citizenship after being convicted. But days before a judge ordered them to be deported to Pakistan, they renounced their Pakistani citizenship. Pakistan has since refused to accept them.
According to Pakistani media, the Pakistani government said it would accept Khan and Rauf if the UK hands over dissidents Akbar and Raja.
'Unprecedented and deeply disturbing'
This comes as the Labor government is facing mounting pressure to take further action on child sexual exploitation. Its attempts to set up a nationwide inquiry into grooming gangs have faced repeated delays and debates about how wide its scope should be.
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch said on Monday the inquiry must "consider the role of ethnicity, religion and other cultural factors" and should "leave no stone unturned".
It is thought that Britain is highly unlikely to agree to the reported Pakistani proposal, and the Home Office and Foreign Office have declined to comment on the reports.
Raja, now a freelance journalist, told The Telegraph that the report "is unprecedented and deeply disturbing. It shows the extent to which an authoritarian regime is willing to go to suppress dissent".
"I have broken no UK law. My only 'offence' is practicing journalism and exercising free expression," he said. "I trust that the UK, a country committed to the rule of law and press freedom, will not allow political critics to be traded away under pressure from a foreign government."
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was ousted from government in April 2022 through a parliamentary no-confidence vote following a fallout with the country's influential military.
He has spent more than two years in prison. Last year a UN report concluded that his detention is arbitrary and in contravention of international law.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pakistan-offers-take-grooming-gang-leaders-if-uk-hands-over-dissidents
British Police Will NOT Investigate Former Prince Andrew’s Alleged Use of Taxpayer-Funded Security Officer To Dig Dirt on His Accuser, Late Epstein Victim Virginia Giuffre
by Paul Serran Dec. 14, 2025
Randy Andy is still protected from prosecution.
Now that Former Prince Andrew lost all his royal titles and honors, you could be excused for believing that he was finally about to face real law enforcement consequences for his decades of alleged crimes.
But you’d be wrong.
The British establishment is still fiercely protective of Mr. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
Today (13), it arises that the Metropolitan Police of London will not launch an investigation into the reports saying Andrew asked a taxpayer-funded officer to help dig up dirt on the woman who accused him of sexual assault.
Sky News reported:
“The Mail on Sunday claimed in October that Andrew tried to get his personal protection officer to investigate Virginia Giuffre for a smear campaign in 2011.
He reportedly passed Ms. Giuffre’s date of birth and social security number to his taxpayer-funded bodyguard in 2011 and emailed the late Queen’s then-deputy press secretary telling him of his request.”
The two-tier policing in the UK has never been exposed so out in the open.
“The Met said the force first received allegations, including one of trafficking to central London in 2001, and Ms. Giuffre was interviewed as part of an assessment of the evidence.
But the force decided not to launch a full criminal investigation in 2016 after officers and prosecutors concluded other international authorities were best placed to act on the allegations, which primarily concerned events outside the UK.
That decision was reviewed in August 2019 and again in 2021 and 2022; in each instance, the position remained unchanged, and Ms. Giuffre and her legal representative were informed.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/british-police-will-not-investigate-former-prince-andrews/
General Research #29259
Labour's 'stop the boats' promise in tatters as more than 41,000 migrants have arrived in Britain on small boats in 2025
By Matt Strudwick 21 December 2025
The number of migrants arriving in Britain on small boats this year has surpassed 41,000, casting further doubt on Labour's promise to 'smash the gangs'.
The latest Home Office figures showed some 803 people made the dangerous journey across the English Channel in 13 dinghies from northern France, starting overnight on Friday and into Saturday.
The total number of Channel crossings for 2025 now stands at 41,455 people. The annual record stands at 45,755, recorded at the end of 2022.
Saturday's crossings are the largest number of people to have made the journey since October 8, when 1,075 crossed in a day.
It also appeared to be a record number of crossings for a day in December in seven years, when compared with data stretching back to 2018.
It is not, however, the largest total across the month of December compared with previous years.
December is traditionally one of the quietest months for Channel crossings, with a combination of low temperatures, poor visibility, less daylight and stormy weather making the journey particularly difficult.
The most arrivals recorded in the month of December is 3,254, in 2024. Some 2,163 people have arrived across the month so far this year.
On Saturday morning, a Border Force vessel could be seen bringing people thought to be migrants into Dover after an incident in the Channel.
This followed a busy night, in which a large number of boats were witnessed leaving the shores of France.
A video emerged yesterday of French police throwing tear gas at migrants as they tried to launch a small boat in the town of Grand-Fort-Philippe, near Calais.
Fisherman Matthew Coker said earlier this month it was 'farcical' to claim Labour was getting on top of the problem. The lull in crossings in November, he said, was simply due to a prolonged period of strong winds and waves in the Channel this month.
'I've only had three [fishing] trips in the last 28 days – and they were quite rough,' he said.
'There has been no weather at all where a migrant boat would have managed to cross in the last 28 days. When the weather has allowed, there's been massive numbers [of migrants crossing].
'It's just as well we didn't have a fine end of the year, like we did last year, otherwise they would have been in real trouble with their numbers.'
The Government, meanwhile, continues efforts to grasp the so-called 'upstream' causes of the migration crisis, including through work with neighbouring countries.
Just this week, Germany passed a new law which could see people smugglers face up to 10 years in prison for trying to bring migrants to the UK.
The law change, which will come into force before the end of the year, aims to give more powers to law enforcement and prosecutors, and boost information sharing between the UK and Germany.
Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said: 'This major change in German law is the result of our close partnership working to tackle illegal migration and organised immigration crime.
'We will continue to ramp up our international co-operation to strengthen our own border security.'
France has meanwhile recently indicated it plans to halt small boats at sea before they pick people up heading for the UK.
A Home Office spokesman said: 'The number of small boat crossings are shameful and the British people deserve better.
'This Government is taking action. We have removed almost 50,000 people who were here illegally, and our historic deal with the French means those who arrive on small boats are now being sent back.
'The Home Secretary has announced the most sweeping reforms to tackle illegal migration in decades, removing the incentives that bring illegal migrants to the UK and scaling up the return of those with no right to be here.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15403581/small-boat-crossing-figure-labour-promise.html
"We have removed almost 50,000 people who were here illegally" From where?, sent where? (other than Scotland)
Updated Abuse Bun
>>23150283 Sick mum arranged for sex offender to stay at her home to abuse daughter
>>23173066, >>23173074, >>23173082, >>231731685 William, George, Billy & Scotch Myths re the Cullen Report on Dunblane
>>23177609, >>23177611 Survivors of Fornethy 'House of Horrors' plead for redress as debate taken to Holyrood
>>23222342, >>23222364, >>23222369 Inside Ireland's unmarried mothers house of horrors - by historian whose discovery shocked the world
>>23421516 The day Angela Constance got her Mob middle name of "CROCODILE TEARS" (video)
>>23425726 Abuse inquiry bill rises to £111million as cost to the taxpayer continues to soar
>>23442246 Father of boy, 8, sexually assaulted in Highland campsite 'saw suspect walk away'
>>23460010, >>23460022, >>23460045, >>23460049 How child slaves are being ‘delivered like takeaways’ & sold for ‘premium’ prices to sick new wave of Brit sex predators
>>23474496 "Massive cover up!" Keir Starmer blamed for failure to jail Jimmy Savile as Nigel Farage lashes out (video)
>>23496298, >>23496304 Chairman of abuse inquiry slams 'disgraceful abdication of responsibility' at top school
>>23496600 Shamed former Labour councillor jailed for 27 months for abusing schoolgirl, 15
>>23500501, >>23500508 Care home with links to 'Scotland's Jimmy Savile' added to child abuse inquiry schedule
>>23504281, >>23504299 Judge in charge of Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry pockets £2.5million
>>23569567 UK Court Hears of Plot To Rape, Dissolve in Acid Children For Pleasure of Unnamed ‘Top Politicians’
>>23639462 Baraka Amuri: The Labour Party Paedophile Mapped (video)
>>23822404 BBC shut down VIP abuse allegations (video)
>>23842603, >>23842612, >>23842656 NHS manager who groomed young girls on Snapchat jailed for 28 years for rape and abuse (video)
>>23854927, >>23854933 Detention centre guard a 'prolific sex offender'
>>23861748 Man admits sex offences against boys at summer camp
>>23903261, >>23903264 Graham Grant: Grooming gang victims face losing out because of SNP's failure to act… and that's only good news to the predators who inflicted so much pain
>>23905917, >>23905927 Paedophile lawyer allowed to keep working months after admitting vile crimes
>>23906111, >>23913846 Barry George appears in court charged with historic rape from 1987 (video)
>>23927782 Victims' growing calls for SNP to open inquiry into Scottish grooming gangs
>>23974784 The shocking story of a police officer involved in a grooming gang
>>23975619 (Canada #86) Pakistan Offers To 'Take Grooming Gang Leaders' If UK Hands Over Dissidents
>>23983707, >>24003747 Fornethy House worker found guilty of abusing children sentenced
>>24004276, >>24004281 Angela Constance may have breached ministerial code TWICE as she admits phone call blunder
>>24007456 Freed from prison, one of UK’s worst paedophiles who ran gay teens charity
>>24008344 Grooming victim labelled a 'child prostitute' by those meant to help her (video)
Updated Covid and Other Pestilence Bun
>>23122771, >>23122778 Nicola Sturgeon and SNP made us wear face masks for two years in panic over PPE shortages
>>23137045, >>23137050 I asked the Covid Inquiry NOT to publish my statements.. but I still hope the truth WILL come out
>>23171019 Vaccine against gonorrhoea to roll out in Scotland
>>23171074, >>23171081 Vaccination plea after measles cases rise in Scotland
>>23245306, >>23245322, >>23245328 Experts issue warning that Covid vaccine may trigger deadly brain inflammation - after man was struck down by just one jab
>>23262986, >>23271689 COVID’s Fall-Guy The Matt Hancock Inquiry (video)
>>23294783 (Canada #79) COVID-19 mRNA “Vaccine” Harms Research Collection
>>23399149 Dutch police arrest lawyer suing Bill Gates, Pfizer CEO over COVID jab injuries
>>23525722 UK Covid Inquiry 30th June to 31st July (video)
>>23525879 The Care Home Killing Fields: COVID-19 Inquiry Testimony (video)
>>23535318 UK COVID-19 Inquiry: Module 3 & 6 Testimony Highlights (video)
>>23649735 Campaigner's anger as new Scottish Secretary passes the buck on Lord Advocate's dual role
>>23692437 UK Covid-19 Inquiry Live Stream
>>23692845 NewsDrift: Michelle Mone PPE Scandal: UK Government Wins £122m Case Over Faulty Pandemic Contracts (video)
>>23692857 ITV News: Firm linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone told to pay back £122 million for faulty Covid PPE (video)
>>23692964 Freedom Podcast: Is the UK COVID-19 Inquiry Misleading the Public? (video)
>>23822769 Debbie Hicks Was Right? What the Covid Inquiry Just Revealed (video)
>>23881675 Nicola Sturgeon and John Swinney face Covid Inquiry D-Day as they are accused of 'deliberate cover up'
>>23898977 UK COVID19 Inquiry: 60,000 Excess Deaths during 10 week LOCKDOWN (video)
>>23918828, >>23918832 (Canada #85) They've Learned Nothing… Because That Would Expose Too Much (Parts 1&2)
>>23999597, >>23999599 PPE firm linked to Michelle Mone wound up after being ordered to pay back £148m
Updated Government Bloat, Waste, and Abuse Bun
>>23122244 Holyrood's 'impartial' Presiding Officer accused of being biased against John Swinney's opponents
>>23125964 Alison Johnstone refuses to correct Holyrood record after being caught 'not telling the truth'
>>23147246 Nicola Sturgeon and John Swinney would face criminal record over WhatsApp deletions under crackdown
>>23231986 UK launches £54 mn Global Talent Taskforce to attract skilled foreigners
>>23263713 Edinburgh Uni Chief squirms as he's grilled over FREE HOUSE amid £140m funding crisis (video)
>>23277486 (Canada #79) Professor Warns UK Gov't Is Preparing For Civil War, Using Russian Invasion Threat As Cover
>>23477313 NHS Scotland dragged into another secrecy storm over Sandie Peggie after internal docs reveal it tried to water down information released
>>23507265 Political Horizon: Sadiq Khan GRILLED by the Public - Can’t Escape 4 Minutes of TRUTH (video)
>>23634822 Taxpayers to fork out £20 million to cover Donald Trump's security costs for his five-day visit to Scotland
>>23833996 Taxpayers fork out £134,000 to help chief constable Jo Farrell buy second home
>>23896762, >>23896769 Covid Inquiry 'saw no evidence' of the SNP's Scexit push… because Sturgeon and Swinney deleted it all
>>23897686 Digital ID plans TORN APART in intense Parliament committee session (video)
>>23963264 Spiralling cost of public inquiries under SNP revealed as taxpayers lumbered with huge bill
>>23967386 Democracy For Sale with Peter Geoghegan (video)
Updated Immigration Bun
>>23222734 Migrant THREATENS Express reporter outside London asylum seeker hotel (video)
>>23268290 GB News: illegal immigrants illegally working for Deliveroo, Just Eat and Uber Eats (video)
>>23394324 (Canada #80) Trump Warns Europe on Immigration: ‘Horrible Invasion’ is ‘Killing’ the Continent
>>23455936 Aberdeen protest Hotel. Local 25 year old woman scared to walk the streets at night (video)
>>23477711, >>23477746 Glasgow facing £110million bill to house asylum seekers as city chiefs warn of cash crisis
>>23496653 Falkirk is far right now apparently (video)
>>23496673 Clydebank Patriotic Alternative Radical Banner Parade 20 08 25 (video)
>>23641991 REVEALED: Life Of Luxury Inside Migrant Hotels "Women Getting Pregnant To Force UK Stay" (video)
>>23642447 Asylum seeker hotel resident jailed for 12 months for sexual assault of girl, 14
>>23644409 Hotel attacker made threats day before stabbing six people
>>23673015 Scooby Doo News: Aberdeen Anti migrant banners paraded full support for Aberdeen against illegal Migrants 28 09 25 (video)
>>23806364 SNP demand money from the UK Government to house hundreds of migrants in Scotland
>>24011610 (General Research #29259) Labour's 'stop the boats' promise in tatters as more than 41,000 migrants have arrived in Britain on small boats in 2025
Updated Law and Disorder Bun
>>23141556 Paedo lawyer worked at charity accused of ignoring child sex harassment claims
>>23170970, >>23170972 Death inquiry chairman defends meeting Sheku Bayoh's family
>>23171284, >>23171293 Four jailed over 'outrageous' £6m NHS contract fraud
>>23204238, >>23207029, >>23210325 Group of 'neo-Nazis' escorted from council meeting
>>23236238 Sovereignty's Leader and Deputy discussing how Scotland's police and judiciary TARGETS THE PUBLIC (video)
>>23257931, >>23257936 Angela Constance boasts Scotland 'remains a safe place to live' despite sexual crimes rising to second highest rate ever
>>23271773 'Shameful' SNP 'capitulate' to criminals as cons to be let out after serving just 15% of sentence
>>23394328 (Canada #80) UK DYSTOPIA: British Police Forms ‘Elite Team’ to Monitor Social Media Searching for ‘Anti-migrant’ Posts, as Leftist Labour Government Braces for Citizens’ Revolt
>>23426739 Top lawyer loses appeal against misconduct ruling
>>23458747 Sicko Scots scientist who plotted to rape two kids walks free from court
>>23517149 Court hearings in Scotland to be live streamed in bid to improve transparency
>>23517490 Police Scotland admit couple involved in Dundee 'axe' girl incident were Bulgarians
>>23528628 Does Parliament Have ANY Real Authority Over You?? A Deep Dive into the ENGLISH Constitution (video)
>>23532054, >>23532057 Dundee grooming gang facing life sentences as 'Scotland's Rochdale' puts spotlight on Lochee
>>23569541, >>23569543 Protest over evidence rules in sex crime cases
>>23582063 Lotus Eaters Daily: The Police Force Is Collapsing (video)
>>23608870, >>23609446, >>23609505 African tribe mock eviction authorities in bizarre twist, as powerless police are forced to retreat (video)
>>23786640 Scottish protester charged with ‘hate crime’ for saying Whites have right to exist
>>23792092 Jon Wedger - The Whistleblower They Tried to Silence (video)
>>23818266 The Other Night - Episode 3 - Judges Co-ordinate the COMBAR Conspiracy (video)
>>23854737, >>23854751 Judges set to decide fate of police chief constable guilty of contempt of court
>>23858914 Trump says he will take legal action against BBC over Panorama edit
>>23861826, >>23861833 Judges say Scottish courts are risking right to fair trial in sex cases
>>23862910, >>23863065 Aberdeen Sherrif Court Police undertaking Hate Crime Bollox 13 11 25 (video)
>>24004078 Humza Yousaf brother-in-law cleared of extortion and drugs charges
>>24004314 Newspaper editor arrested and charged over 'indecent communications'
Updated Lord Peter Mandelson Bun
>>23582315 ITV News Mandelson sacked after Epstein revelation (video)
>>23590204 Epstein paid for Mandelson's travel in 2003, documents show
>>23599744 ITV News: Mandelson and Epstein's close relationship shown in new leaked emails (video)
>>23599752 Good Morning Britain: Scottish Secretary Grilled Over Past Comments on Peter Mandelson (video)
>>23601249 “Mandelson Is Part Of The Cabal” Says Rupert Lowe MP (video)
>>23601522 “I Have To STOP You” Furious CLASH Over Lord Mandelson's Conduct (video)
>>23611942 UK Column News: From Epstein to Savile: Mandelson’s Web of Secrets Unravels
>>23612025 The Mirror: MPs question Peter Mandelson appointment in the Commons (video)
>>23616121 IRV News: Mandelson and Epstein: The birthday book fallout (video)
>>23683204 Double Down News: EXPOSED: Starmer, Epstein, Mandelson & the REAL Prime Minister (video)
>>23697309 Disgraced Former British Ambassador to the UK Peter Mandelson Loses Another Civic Honor Over His Close Ties to Late Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein
>>23842847 Civil Service bosses grilled over Epstein-Mandelson friendship in tense Select Committee (video)
Updated NHS Bun
>>23171284, >>23171293 Four jailed over 'outrageous' £6m NHS contract fraud
>>23477313 NHS Scotland dragged into another secrecy storm over Sandie Peggie after internal docs reveal it tried to water down information released
>>23496506, >>23496511 Scottish hospitals inquiry: What is being investigated?
>>23608754 Mothers and babies at risk of harm in ‘toxic’ NHS cover-up culture, health leader to say
>>23609273, >>23609278 Hospitals inquiry enters new phase after dispute over expert reports
>>23889879 Rupert Lowe CONFRONTS ‘WOKE’ NHS boss for hiring ‘foreign doctors’ (video)
>>23906301, >>23906310 Scots patients forced to have electric shock treatment more than 1000 times
Updated Nicola Sturgeon & SNP Bun
>>23148234 One in three Scots would abolish Holyrood as support grows for movement amid SNP failures
>>23250631 Dorothy Bain STILL sits in on SNP Cabinet meetings despite Scottish Government being probed over Alex Salmond evidence
>>23263727 SNP MSP grins in disbelief at "Unenforceable" WhatsApp ban in tense exchange (video)
>>23442372 Nicola Sturgeon opens up on arrest and says she thought about 'disappearing into sea'
>>23442532 Nicola Sturgeon: 'I thought about leaving politics after first Holyrood term'
>>23451564 SNP Minister Angela Constance accused of breaching Holyrood rules over website
>>23460075 Nicola Sturgeon: The Extended Interview | ITV News (video)
>>23468284 Nicola Sturgeon gets snappy over her deleted WhatsApp messages & 'STALINIST' leadership style (video)
>>23496624 Nicola Sturgeon on misogyny in politics, Scottish independence & suffering a miscarriage in 2010 (video)
>>23504422, >>23504425 Concerns raised over Nicola Sturgeon's murky £586m loan to Sanjeev Gupta as his English business plunges into administration
>>23545298 Sanjeev Gupta could leave taxpayers stuck with £586m bill as SNP Government refuses to reveal if it has financial guarantees
>>23545368 SNP Government fail to say when Sanjeev Gupta will pay back £7m taxpayer-funded loan handed to him by Nicola Sturgeon
>>23609409 SNP 'turn blind eye' to grooming gangs as it blocks attempt to launch inquiry
>>23609597 SNP council leader slammed over her 'desperate attempt' 'attacking Glaswegians with differing views as she speaks out over 'misinformation' around migrants
>>23609770, >>23609773 SNP-led Glasgow City Council accused of 'corruption' and 'cover-up' over £1m golden goodbyes to five senior staff members
>>23642045 Council leader resigns and quits SNP after embezzlement charge
>>23650127 SNP election candidate and Nicola Sturgeon ally quits over secret swinger's profile
>>23663896 The Late Late Show: Nicola Sturgeon Full Interview (video)
>>23663960 Nicola 'Showbiz' Sturgeon spends thousands on styling and clothes for her book tour
>>23834056 Nicola Sturgeon corporate manslaughter probe is 'ongoing' as cops examine new evidence
>>23893847, >>23893848 Nicola Sturgeon slated for 'impeding' UK Covid Inquiry through deleting WhatsApps - and secretive Gold Command meetings reduced government 'transparency'
>>23893907 Secretive SNP Government 'waste' nearly £100k of taxpayer cash fighting to withhold documents in Nicola Sturgeon scandal
>>23897636, >>23897641 Sturgeon excluded ministers from Covid decisions, inquiry says
>>23952929 Holyrood demands answers over Humza Yousaf and Aamer Anwar friendship as lawyer nets 'significant public funds' through public inquiries
Updated Royals Bun
>>23125841 King Charles SHOCKS Canada With Land Acknowledgement Message | ‘Unceded Territory’ STUNS Viewers (video)
>>23369006 (Canada #80) Prince William’s cousin found dead aged 20
>>23402979 Virginia Giuffre was 'proud' in her part in the downfall of Prince Andrew
>>23403125 Mystery surrounds Prince William and Kate's Greek holiday aboard 'environmentally-friendly' £40m superyacht
>>23451621 Prince Andrew's response to HIV rumours reveals true colours as he's labelled a 'disgusting sexual pig'
>>23497121 Massive Late-Night Royal Motorcade Caught Outside Buckingham Palace (Prince William & Royal Family)
>>23513136 The High Class ESCORT Prince Andrew Was OBSESSED With – Andrew Lownie (video)
>>23650043 Sarah Ferguson is 'finished' after 'sycophantic, fawning email' to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein
>>23786663 BBC News: Prince Andrew hosted Epstein, Maxwell and Weinstein at Royal Lodge (video)
>>23787807 Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson agree to vacate Royal Lodge on one condition (video)
>>23822806 Andrew 'avoiding the US like a plague' to avoid being compelled to testify about Epstein (video)
>>23822839 Andrew summoned by US Congress after losing royal protections (video)
>>23842670 Disgraced prince Andrew could face jail time amid new misconduct allegations (video)
>>23871802 Clip from EP. 152 Wake Up: Abolish The Monarchy (video)
>>23889831, >>23889838 Queen Elizabeth II was a 'client' of Jeffrey Epstein, bombshell document claims
>>23979260 British Police Will NOT Investigate Former Prince Andrew’s Alleged Use of Taxpayer-Funded Security Officer To Dig Dirt on His Accuser, Late Epstein Victim Virginia Giuffre
Updated John Swinney Bun
>>23181036 John Swinney oversaw £1.1bn Budget black hole as he struggles to defend SNP record at FMQs
>>23268244 Swinney Under Fire: Did Buying Chinese Buses Cost Scottish Jobs? (video)
>>23553376 John Swinney may 'fuel prejudicial action' against Jews in Scotland through Israel sanctions
>>23553423 John Swinney claims more immigration after independence will stave off massive tax rises
>>23608843, >>23608854 Swinney considering use of X over 'reprehensible' Musk remarks
>>23644028, >>23644039, >>23644040 BBC: The blossoming relationship between Trump and Swinney
>>23644429 John Swinney publicly humiliated by Donald Trump as budding bromance destroyed
>>23682603 John Swinney humiliated as Scots back plans for mass deportation of illegal immigrants
>>23693146 SNP asked 'where has the money gone' as John Swinney accused of losing £5.2bn of public cash
>>23806399 'Desperate' SNP flog tickets to meet John Swinney to young Nats for under a tenner
>>23806430 John Swinney 'running scared of school kids' as he dodges grilling by pupils
Initial Operation Talla Bun
>>23795804 Moira Brown: 30th March 2024 members of the public are prevented from reporting serious crime
>>23795860, >>23795869 Operation Talla: Scotland's Police Force were used to enforce and track the democide, aka "covid response".
>>23795900 Police were instructed to ignore people trying to bring complaints of vaccine/hospital injuries and deaths
>>23795950 Operation Talla: Two Realities
>>23795978, >>23795988 Open Email Re: Operation Talla/Speirs Directive: Public Interest Fact-Finding under Scottish Law
>>23796006 Assistant Chief Constable Owen Weatherill on Operation Talla (video)
>>23796045 The UK Police Operation Talla Awards Ceremony (video)
>>23796059 Extract from oral evidence of Dominic Cummings - Parliamentary Committee meetings in May 2021 (video)
>>23914716 Mark Sexton introduces constitutional correspondence which has been placed into the public domain (video)
>>23927626 Pages 1-5 of 23
>>23927640 Pages 6-10 of 23
>>23927681 Pages 11-15 of 23
>>23927690 Pages 16-20 of 23
>>23927746 Pages 21-23 of 23
>>23927768 Sir Graham Brady, interviewed in July 2023 (video)
>>23932746 An update following our 'evidence reveal' on 1/12/25 - New info from members of the public (video)
>>23937925, >>23937937, >>23937965, >>23953057 Why Did the NPCC Take Control of All COVID-Related FOI Disclosures Across the UK?
>>23953057, >>23953063, >>23953080 The hidden contradictions of Operation Talla
>>23971301 UK Column News — 8th December 2025 (video)
>>23992568 Northumbria Police, 9 January 2022 - Relating to Covid Crime Reports linking to CRN 6029679/21 (video)
>>24004432 Relating to Covid-related evidence submission - Recorded 10 March 2022 - Durham Constabulary (video)
Notables are NOT Endorsements
coming up on 450
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>>23121635, >>23121644, >>23121658 Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election
>>23122441 The Land Rome Couldn't Conquer (video)
>>23174592, >>23174738, >>23174744, >>23223165 Remove 'far-right racist' banners from Clydebank landmark – councillor
>>23454968 British Navy behind radioactive leaks – investigation
>>23506633 Embarrassment for SNP as Turkish shipyard launches island ferry just two years after being awarded contract
>>23743705 Initial Dundee 'Axe Girl' Bun | Updated Government Bloat, Waste, and Abuse Bun
>>23743720 Updated Royals Bun | Initial Colin Smyth and Holyrood Loocam Bun
>>24011623 Updated Abuse Bun
>>24011627 Updated Covid and Other Pestilence Bun
>>24011628 Updated Government Bloat, Waste, and Abuse Bun
>>24011630 Updated Immigration Bun
>>24011633 Updated Law and Disorder Bun
>>24011635 Updated Lord Peter Mandelson Bun
>>24011636 Updated NHS Bun
>>24011639 Updated Nicola Sturgeon & SNP Bun
>>24011642 Updated Royals Bun
>>24011644 Updated John Swinney Bun
>>24011647 Initial Operation Talla Bun
Canada #86
King Charles Goes Full Woke: Parrots ‘Diversity Is Our Strength’ in Christmas Speech While UK Suffers from Migrant Mayhem
by Cassandra MacDonald Dec. 27, 2025
King Charles III used his annual Christmas broadcast to push the tired liberal trope that “diversity” is somehow Britain’s strength, even as the UK grapples with skyrocketing crime, cultural clashes, and anti-mass migration riots.
During the speech from Buckingham Palace on December 25, the King Charles stated, “In this, with the great diversity of our communities, we can find the strength to ensure that right triumphs over wrong.”
The King tied it to values like compassion and reconciliation, praising how people of different faiths share a “longing for peace,” a nice sentiment, perhaps, but one that ignores reality.
“As I meet people of different faiths, I find it enormously encouraging to hear how much we have in common; a shared longing for peace and a deep respect for all life. If we can find time in our journey through life to think on these virtues we can all make the future more hopeful,” Charles said.
Charles invoked the Christmas story of journeys and hope, noting the Holy Family’s homelessness and the Wise Men’s pilgrimage. He even quoted poet T.S. Eliot on finding a “still point” amid chaos.
However, critics are slamming the address as out-of-touch, especially after a year of violent unrest in cities like Leeds and Manchester, where tensions over unchecked immigration boiled over into violent clashes with police.
People were quick to slam the comment on social media, with several posting the alarming diversity arrest rates in Britain.
An X account called “Wall Street Mav” wrote, “Of course, he never has to live with the diversity behind his security and walls. He lives in a bubble. He does not represent Britain and refuses to defend the English.”
Another user with the handle “The British Patriot” wrote, “This man has betrayed the Christian faith, turned his back on the crown, and actively goes against the interests of the British people.”
They added, “The monarchy died with our late queen Elizabeth II.”
The UK is dealing with record migrant crossings, grooming gang scandals, and economic strain from housing thousands of asylum seekers.
Diversity is whose strength, exactly?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/king-charles-goes-full-woke-parrots-diversity-is/
Don't know why the admin thinks an old sailor like myself needs an excuse to drink
>extend the vibrancy of the urban core
from previous breads I'd say the urban core of Glasgow was anything but "vibrant"
>848 purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) units, 252 build-to-rent apartments (approximately 378 beds) and a mix of co-living units
I'm leaning toward the build-to-rent units are rented by the taxpayers for "migrant" housing
>I think the boat fag guys had taken a look
Yep, that was me,
I've been looking here and there through re-union stuff from the crews of not only Simon Lake, but the other ships, even the drydock they named USS Los Alamos.
So far no mention of any American car at Holy Loch. I'd think a big fancy one like your friend described would be something at least one of those guys would mention but so far no luck
I had asked as International Baker to have it raised to 45 lines due to the nature of the expanded buns used in several of the breads and BO agreed to do so
UK and France to send troops to Ukraine if peace deal agreed
Jaroslav Lukiv and Wyre Davies,Kyiv 6 January 2026
The UK and France have signed a declaration of intent on deploying troops in Ukraine if a peace deal is made with Russia, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced.
After talks with Ukraine's allies in Paris, he said the UK and France would "establish military hubs across Ukraine" to deter future invasion, while French President Emmanuel Macron later said thousands of troops may be deployed.
Allies also largely agreed robust security guarantees for Ukraine and proposed that the US would take the lead in monitoring a truce. But the key issue of territory is still being discussed.
Russia has repeatedly warned that any foreign troops in Ukraine would be a "legitimate target".
Moscow has not yet commented on the announcements made in the French capital.
Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and Moscow currently controls about 20% of Ukrainian territory.
Heads of state and top officials from the "Coalition of the Willing" took part in Tuesday's talks in Paris.
Speaking at a joint press conference after the meeting, Starmer said: "We signed a declaration of intent on the deployment of forces to Ukraine in the event of a peace deal.
"This is a vital part of our commitment to stand with Ukraine for the long-term.
"It paves the way for the legal framework under which British, French, and partner forces could operate on Ukrainian soil, securing Ukraine's skies and seas, and regenerating Ukraine's armed forces for the future."
The UK prime minister added London would participate in any US-led verification of a potential ceasefire.
Top US negotiator Steve Witkoff said "durable security guarantees and robust prosperity commitments are essential to a lasting peace" in Ukraine - referring to a key demand made by Kyiv.
Witkoff said the allies "largely finished" their work on agreeing security protocols "so that people of Ukraine know that when this [war] ends, it ends forever".
Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's special envoy and son-in-law, said that after a deal Ukrainians needed to know that "real backstops" were in place to ensure war would "not happen again".
Meanwhile, President Macron said Ukraine's allies had made "considerable progress" at the talks.
He said "robust" security guarantees for Kyiv had been agreed in the event of a potential ceasefire.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said a "huge step forward" had been made in Paris, but added that he would only consider efforts to be "enough" if they resulted in the end of the war.
What Ukraine calls security "guarantees" and what American officials have described as security "protocols" may leave some wiggle room for Trump in the event of coming to Kyiv's defence after a future Russian attack - but there is no doubt Zelensky feels he and his European allies have secured an important concession from Washington.
We heard few, if any, new details about where a future ceasefire line would be drawn and what territory, currently occupied by Russian forces, Ukraine would agree to surrender.
That prospect is still something many Ukrainians would find hard to swallow, especially as Russia continues to strike against cities and critical infrastructure across Ukraine on a daily basis.
But as the snows fall and bitter winds sweep in from the east, Zelensky knows the only alternative to a ceasefire and subsequent peace deal, is another costly, attritional winter of warfare with the inevitable loss of life that will hit Ukraine far harder than Russia.
Ukraine's president clearly hopes that guarantees of American monitoring, a multinational force on Ukrainian soil and more weapons support for his armed forces, will convince a sometimes-sceptical population that he is right to sue for peace, bolstered by a growing international coalition.
But, in concluding the Paris press conference, Zelensky acknowledged Tuesday's "milestone" did not necessarily guarantee peace. Real progress still needs Russian support, and Moscow has been notably silent in recent days about diplomatic efforts to end the war.
Putin is known to oppose the prospect of a European-led international force in any disputed areas and will be reluctant to halt his troops', albeit slow, advance if Moscow's war objectives have not been realised.
More:
www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17zee20qpzo
Canada #87
‘I Didn’t Know About Epstein’s Crimes Because I’m Gay’: Disgraced Former British Ambassador to the US, Lord Peter Mandelson Uses the ‘Gay Card’ To Try To Evade Responsibility
by Paul Serran Jan. 11, 2026
Mandelson thinks we are all gullible simpletons.
Disgraced former British Ambassador to the US, Lord Mandelson, has claimed to have been ‘kept in the dark’ about Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes ‘because he was gay’.
The Telegraph reported:
“The peer was sacked as ambassador to the United States last year after it emerged [that] he had urged the financier to fight for early release from prison.
Lord Mandelson claimed that, because of his sexuality, he was ‘kept separate from what [Epstein] was doing in the sexual side of his life’.”
He described Epstein as his ‘best pal’, but argues he was kept ‘at the edge of this man’s life’.
“In his first interview since losing his job, Lord Mandelson refused to apologize to Epstein’s victims for writing to him after his conviction for sex offences, claiming he was not culpable for any of Epstein’s criminal activity.”
Even a Labour Cabinet minister was led to say he had been guilty of ‘deep naivety’.
BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg carried water for him, and asked whether he was never offered sexual favors by Epstein ‘because he was gay’.
“He replied: “Possibly, some people will think that because I’m a gay man, I was unsensitized, or I wasn’t attuned to what was going on. […] I don’t really accept [any guilt]. I think the issue is that because I was a gay man in his circle, I was kept separate from what he was doing in the sexual side of his life. […] I mean, he in a sense had three buckets of people in his life, the business and the financial, the political and the academic, and then what he was doing with young women.”
More:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/i-didnt-know-about-epsteins-crimes-because-im/
Canada #87
Globalist World Health Organization Says Boozy Europe Is Making Alcohol Cheaper, and Putting Lives at Risk – So, Their Solution Is: TAXES!
by Paul Serran Jan. 14, 2026
The old – and drunk – continent.
Europe has a drinking habit – or is it a problem?
Those of us well informed by the independent media are not inclined to listen to the World Health Organization’s advice any longer – if we ever did.
The WHO campaigners are out in force saying Europe’s hard drinking habits ‘are putting lives at risk’.
The crux of the UN agency’ ‘warning’ is that, instead of ‘making alcohol harder to afford’, what many European governments are doing is allowing a lowering of the prices.
Politico reported:
“Beer has become more affordable in 11 EU countries since 2022, and less affordable in six, the WHO report revealed Tuesday. There was a similar but even more dramatic trend for spirits, which became more affordable in 17 EU countries and less affordable in two. And for wine, 14 EU countries do not tax it at all, including big producers Italy and Spain, the report found.”
Oh, no – beer is cheaper! It must be the end of the world.
So, the detestable Tedros Ghebreyesus has the nerve to share his ‘brilliant idea’: TAXES.
Whatever ous views on tobacco, alcohol and sugary drinks, taxation is never the solution, and health policy must be instituted at national level, with each country freely exercizing its sovereignty.
After discussing the health hazards of alcohol consumption, the WHO solution is a ‘masterpiece’ in Globalist thinking.
“The WHO said governments should target alcohol consumption to protect people from its ill effects. Increasing the cost of booze through taxes is one of the most effective measures governments can take, the WHO said. Yet, some EU countries have minimal or no taxes on certain types of alcohol.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/globalist-world-health-organization-says-boozy-europe-is/