In 2005, journalist Peter Oborne published a book titled “The Rise of Political Lying“:
In it he traces the history of political falsehood back to its earliest days, but focusing specifically on the exponential rise of the phenomenon during the Major and Blair governments, Peter Oborne demonstrates that the truth has become an increasingly slippery concept in recent years. From woolly pronouncements that are designed merely to obfuscate to outright and blatant lies whose intention is to deceive, the political lie is never far from the surface.
There are so many lies told by the Blair government that it would be impossible to list them here. But two of the biggest were possibly:
Saddam Hussein’s supposed WMDs (Weapons of Mass Destruction). Blair used the infamous ‘dodgy dossier’ to justify going to war against Iraq. Google tells us that: ‘An estimated 180,000 to over 200,000 Iraqi civilians died from direct violent causes during the Iraq War, while total war-related deaths—including indirect causes like infrastructure collapse—are estimated to be significantly higher, ranging up to 460,000 or more’. An, of course, Dr David Kelly, who knew there were no WMDs, was conveniently ‘suicided
Gordon Brown was the supposed ‘Iron Chancellor’. This was nonsense. Brown spaffed our money away like a very horny drunken sailor in a whorehouse. During Gordon Brown’s tenure as Chancellor of the Exchequer (May 1997 to June 2007), the capital value of signed Private Finance Initiative (PFI) deals in the UK grew significantly to an estimated £56 billion to £68 billion, committing future taxpayers to long-term repayments exceeding £215 billion over the lifespans of the contracts. But by pushing the payments into the future, Brown pretended that he had public spending under control and none of our MSM journalists was smart enough or brave enough to expose Brown’s deceit though I did this in my two books “Plundering the Public Sector” and “Squandered”
Since then the lies seem to have got ever bigger. Perhaps one of the worst was that (IMHO) useless bloated bag of foul pestilential air, Boris Johnson, pledging to cut immigration to “the tens of thousands” while actually doing everything he could think of to increase it to hundreds of thousands every year.
What’s the point of all this? Well, I want to propose that Blair and Brown seem to me to have at least made an effort to disguise the fact that they were brazen liars. But I get the feeling that we are now in a new era where politicians no longer even bother to pretend they are not lying. Just a couple of recent examples:
The Manchester pipsqueak PM claims that it is “fair” that Burnham’s mostly uneducated, mostly unemployable, often criminal, often rapist Third-world illegal migrants are distributed around the country in both poorer and wealthy areas. This is, obviously, complete garbage. What would be “fair” would be to stop the boats (rather than supplying a Border Farce luxury ferry service to the UK) and deporting all the illegals already here.
The Chagos capitulation. Burnham and Streeting claim that giving the Chagos Islands away to CCP (Chinese Communist Party) vassal Mauritius and then giving Mauritius so much of British taxpayers’ money that Mauritius can scrap income tax for its citizens is the only way to secure the Diego Garcia military base. This lie is so preposterous that surely anyone with an IQ in double figures or more can see its absurdity.
What I’m suggesting is that there is almost a new pattern to our rulers’ lies. They hold us in such contempt that they no longer make any attempt to cover up the fact that they are lying to us. They know they are lying, we know they are lying, they know we know they are lying and yet they carry on with the most blatant lies because they couldn’t give a toss as they have so much power over us.
And now we hear that Burnham is setting up a Ministry of Truth (or Disinformation Unit or something like that) to decide what we are allowed to know and hear. So the only accepted narrative the Disinformation Unit and Ofcom and, of course, the BBC will allow will be the blatant, brazen lies our leaders want to feed us with.
I despair at what has happened to our once great country.
I’m afraid I recoiled in embarrassment for our once great country as our little pipsqueak of a prime minister, Prince Andy of Makkerfield, met the mighty Trump and tried to portray himself as a great international statesman. So, I’ll write about something rather less serious today.
In his novel – Anna Karenina – the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy wrote:
That brings us to our wonderful royal family. There has been much speculation about the reasons why the ‘gruesome twosome’ – Harry and Meghan – suddenly quit wonderful sunny California and returned to dismal, bankrupt Britain. This ranges from suggestions that Harry might lose his US visa due to having allegedly lied on his visa application about having used drugs to people saying that the ‘twosome’ had outstayed their welcome in America as the US public and media had got fed up with their constant money-grabbing schemes and self-centered whinging.
But it seems that the ‘gruesome twosome’ may have played a blinder. After all, if you read such reliable media as the Daily Mail and the Daily Express, almost all ‘royal’ stories concern what the non-royal ‘gruesome twosome’ have been up to and there’s hardly a mention of anything William and Kate have done. The ‘twosome’ seem to have sucked all the media attention and publicity away from the real royals, It’s almost as if Harry and Megham are the real triumphant returning royals:
I rather suspect that our future king – William – may soon have to go to the dentist as he may be grinding his teeth in fury at how he and his lovely dutiful wife have been so thoroughly upstaged by the return of the prodigal, attention-hogging duo.
On BBC Breakfast this morning, the news that ‘our’ NHS needs another 50,000 nurses. This is a bit odd in that data published on 30 November 2023 by NHS England shows there were 51,245 additional nurses in September 2023 compared to 2019. Though slightly worrying is the fact that 93% of the net increase in NHS nurses came from international recruitment rather than domestic training. Why that is worrying is the issue of widespread corruption in the testing of would-be nurses’ medical knowledge and English language skills to be allowed to practice in Britain. Nigeria, India and Crapistan are believed to be the countries where this corruption may be the rule rather than the exception.
But anyway, that’s not the point of today’s blog. Despite the latest report of the need for more nurses, the NHS seems to be enthusiastically recruiting ever more DIE (Diversity, Inclusion and Equality) officers and managers.
A week or so ago there was a recruitment ad for an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust to join the DIE team on a salary of £32,073 – £39,043 a year.
And today, we learn that Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust is looking for a Head of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion. This vital individual will be paid £79,504 – £91,609 a year.
Here are the duties of this (IMHO) expensive waste of skin:
Are you passionate about creating meaningful change and helping to build a truly inclusive healthcare organisation?
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking an exceptional and innovative leader to join us as our new Head of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (Staff and Patients). This is a rare opportunity to shape and drive our ambitious inclusion agenda at a pivotal point in the Trust’s improvement journey.
Working alongside Executive Directors, senior clinical leaders, staff networks, patients and system partners, you will lead the development and delivery of a Trust-wide approach to equality, diversity and inclusion that improves both workforce experience and patient outcomes. You will play a key role in influencing organisational culture, reducing health inequalities, improving inclusion and supporting a safe, respectful environment for our staff and patients.
As our senior EDI lead, you will have the opportunity to influence strategic decision-making at Board level, drive measurable improvements across the organisation and leave a lasting legacy for our staff, patients and local communities. If you are an inspiring leader who can turn ambition into action, this is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference in a progressive and forward-thinking NHS organisation.
Note that in both these ads there is mention of “DIE teams”. So there must be several individuals in each organisation dedicating their ‘working’ lives to increasing DIE in the NHS rather than improving patient care.
Nobody knows how to waste our money like ‘our’ NHS.
I watched a few minutes of the BBC’sBreakfast this morning while having my Earl Grey tea and piece of toast. The lead story was a report written by some professor – I’ll call him Professor Doolally for reasons which I hope will become clear.
Professor Doolally’s report claimed that young people today were reporting mental health problems because (according to Professor Doolally) they are having a more difficult life than any previous generation.
Here are some basic statistics of the supposed ‘youth mental health crisis’:
And here is the increase in reported mental health conditions among young people:
But let’s briefly test whether Professor Doolally might be right. Do young people nowadays have a more difficult life than:
the generation which fought in WWII?
the generation which fought in WWI?
the generation sent to work in cotton mills or down mines at the age of seven or eight?
the generations before that when disease and poverty were rife and life expectancy was 20 to 30 years lower than it is now?
I wasn’t listening too closely, but I think Professor Doolally also claimed he had suffered from mental health issues when he was younger and spent a lot of time in his bedroom feeling a bit sad – or something like that.
I might be tempted to agree with Professor Doolally that the post-war baby-boomer generation possibly had a better life than today’s young people. After all, the economy was growing, there were jobs for most people and, perhaps importantly, we had a generation of politicians who had experienced the war and were genuinely patriotic unlike the self-serving, incompetent, UK-hating scum we now have ruling us.
I, of course, am not as highly qualified as the great Professor Doolally. But I would nevertheless humbly suggest that his report is a load of utter tosh and that the BBC’s grovelling reporting is just another symptom of our increasingly snowflake, narcissistic society where nobody takes responsibility for anything and everyone sees themself as a victim of something or other and therefore believes they should get special treatment and even compensation for their imagined wrongs.
Incidentally, the second most ‘important’ story on the useless BBC Breakfast was a demand by teaching unions that Ofsted should no longer be permitted to grade schools on their performance. Yet another symptom of a snowflake society which seems allergic to anyone taking responsibility for anything?
I have written about this issue before. But we keep on getting more stories where the same thing is happening.
Here we go again
A national newspaper reported:
At least 20 women being treated for cancer had their breasts removed unnecessarily, the County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust (CDDFT) has admitted. The women have described feeling “mutilated” and “butchered” by the breast unit.
The trust identified 315 patients harmed, 77 of whom were significantly harmed during breast cancer treatment, a BBC investigation revealed. Amir Bhatti, a consultant, who was CDDFT’s clinical lead for breast services from 2013-2024, has been suspended from carrying out clinical practice.
The trust said it had launched an internal review of breast cancer cases between January 2023 and February last year, describing the failings as “utterly unacceptable”. The trust said it may extend the scope of the review to look at up to 10,000 cases dating back to 2015.
Pakistan’s finest?
That got me wondering in which world-class medical school did the good doctor get qualified. It turns out (unsurprisingly?) that Dr. Amir A. Bhatti qualified as a doctor at the University of Punjab in Pakistan, earning his MB BS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) in 1989.
He later moved to the UK, where he completed his postgraduate medical and surgical training within the Cambridge and Birmingham deaneries before becoming a Consultant General Surgeon.
Pakistan’s culture rears its ugly head yet again?
Now let’s just have a short but possibly relevant digression:
On 22 May 2020, Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303, a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Lahore to Karachi, crashed while on approach to Jinnah International Airport Karachi, killing 97 out of the 99 people on board as well as an additional person on the ground. The aircraft, an Airbus A320 with 91 passengers and 8 crew members on board, was on an unstable approach to Jinnah International Airport, with an excessively high airspeed and altitude. The aircraft subsequently belly landed nearly half-way down the airport runway as the captain forgot to lower the landing gear. I’m not a trained pilot. But I imagine that lowering the landing gear when landing is a rather basic requirement. Then the flight crew conducted a go-around. During the go-around, both engines started to fail due to damage sustained during the belly landing. Whilst attempting to land back on the runway, the aircraft lost airspeed and crashed into buildings. Following the ‘accident; Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) grounded roughly 150 of its 434 pilots (nearly one-third) in June 2020 after an official government investigation revealed they held “dubious” or fake licenses. Aviation authorities found these pilots had cheated on examinations or paid others to sit the tests on their behalf.
I propose that there similarities between pilots and surgeons. Both are responsible for many lives during their careers and both have to undergo intensive training and tests to be qualified and retain their permissions to work. If Pakistan’s system for developing pilots is so corrupt, that’s a good reason to suspect that the same culture of corruption is rife in the country’s medical schools.
Now Britain’s NHS.
From the little I understand, many of Britain’s best doctors are leaving for countries like Australia, Canada and New Zealand where they can get a lot more money and a more relaxed lifestyle than Britain can offer. But this is apparently no problem as the NHS is recruiting many doctors from some of the world’s most worthless and corrupt countries. As far as I know, there has never been any investigation into how these doctors achieved their qualifications – whether honestly, or by cheating or by paying bribes or even (in the case of female doctors) by offering sexual services. But given the morality of the countries many of these doctors come from, one might be justified in feeling concern about whether all these doctors are actually qualified.
We can perhaps get a hint as to whether there might be a more than minor problem by looking at the names of doctors attracting the attention of the General Medical Council (GMC) for questionable work. Here are the names and qualifications just for July 2026:
July 2026
Adnan Qamar SULTAN – MB BS 2003 University of Health Sciences Lahore – Nishtar Medical College Multa
Harvinder KUMAR – MB BS 2020 KLE. Academy of Higher Education & Research – Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College
Godage Ajith Prasanna Kumara APPUHAMY – MB BS 2007 University of Sri Jayewardenepura
Mahdi Abdel Mohamed HALIM – MB BS 1985 University of Khartoum
Vitali Panteleevich MALINOVSKI – Vrach 1988 Kujbisevskij Medicinskij Institute
Abdulmumin Ohida YAKUBU – MB BS 2003 Ahmadu Bello University
Craig BOWDITCH – MB ChB 2021 University of Sheffield
Kiran Roy BUNDHOO – MB BS 2007 University of London
Chalint MOCHAMENT ALI SAOUGKI – qualified at The National Ribat University (Sudan)
So, seven (78%) out of the nine doctors who got into trouble with the GMC in July 2026 were ‘educated’, or rather let’s say ‘got their qualifications’ in some of the world’s most useless and corrupt countries. And eight of the nine (89%) have names which suggest they are not third- or fourth- or fifth-generation British.
While researching this blog, I was shocked/amazed to learn that approximately 42% of licensed doctors working in the UK were trained overseas. The General Medical Council (GMC) reports that roughly 138,400 internationally qualified medical professionals now make up the workforce.
Of course, just one month’s results may not be representative. But if you look at the list of doctors in trouble with the GMC (link below) you’ll see that the majority appear to come from countries not usually known for their high standards of morality or medical expertise:
So, is there a problem with possibly unqualified Third-world ‘doctors’ employed by our NHS which is the envy of the world? Have a look at the list of GMC warnings (link above) and make up your own mind.
My previous blog was quite long. So, today’s will be short and sweet and have lots of pictures and very little text.
You’ll all hopefully remember the ‘brilliant’ Bud Light ad featuring a person of unclear gender which almost bankrupted the company:
Apparently, the majority of Bud Light drinkers didn’t identify with the man/woman/thing fronting the ads.
And you’ll hopefully remember the Jaguar ad which brought ridicule on the company, alienated most/all potential customers and led to a collapse in sales:
Jaguar are now reportedly looking for a new ad agency. Perhaps the company should also be looking for a new management team?
Well, apparently sports brand Nike have decided to follow the same “go woke, go broke” path to commercial suicide. Here’s one of Nike’s recent ultra-woke ads:
I’ll leave you to judge whether this would appeal to a typical Nike customer.
And here’s the gentleman who almost single-handedly destroyed Bud Light now being paid no doubt handsomely to advertise Nike sports bras and leggings:
And here’s Nike’s share price since 2015:
Clearly, Nike management seem to have lost the plot several years ago. But it does look like supra-woke ads featuring a gravitationally-challenged woman of colour and a titless man trying to flog Nike women’s sports bras has done little to reassure shareholders that Nike management have the slightest clue about who their customers are and what their customers want.
One of my first jobs was working for a London advertising agency. And I saw some real horrors which I might write about in a future blog. But I fail to see how the management teams at Bud Light, Jaguar and now Nike can have made such appalling advertising decisions.
Here’s a ‘jolly’ story you won’t see reported on ‘our’ BBC or any UK mainstream media.
North Carolina Democrat state legislative candidate Shelly Headen (reportedly) posted a Facebook story from a vacation showing her in front of ovens in a German concentration camp memorial, saying, “Visiting Dauchau [sic] Concentration Camp in Germany… This is where Trump supporters belong.”
Headen was reportedly visiting Dachau, where the memorial states that 41,500 people were murdered.
In social media photos (which I think are probably genuine, but can’t be sure) Headen is seen smiling as she stands in front of what appears to be crematorium ovens, which were used by the Nazi SS to burn the bodies of Jews and other prisoners who died or were murdered at the camp.
Headen says she is a CPA (Certified Public Accountant) and business owner “running to restore human decency,” possibly a slightly ironic statement after saying political opponents should be in concentration camps while posing and smiling in front of ovens at a Holocaust memorial site. The apparent call to burn Trump supporters isn’t her only expression of support for violence. In another Facebook post, Headen appears to call for an unspecified terrorist attack against America, writing, “I think our only hope is an attack on US soil… preferably Alabama, Louisiana… where the stupid people are.”
Headon seems to be a fairly feisty lady. She has also faced two domestic assault allegations in which her husband is listed as the “potential victim.”
A pair of what appear to be law enforcement “incident/investigation reports” from 2024 indicate Mrs. Headen was the suspect in both incidents.
In a statement on September 3, Headen said of the domestic violence allegations, “In 2024, during a high-stress time in my marriage, my husband and I had a couple of arguments that escalated. During one argument, my husband grabbed me, and I fell backward and hit my head. In my fear and confusion, I sought support and protection from those I trusted—I called 911.”
That description contradicts police reports, noting two separate law enforcement visits, not one, in both of which she is listed as the suspect and her husband the “potential victim.”
In an age of AI and deliberate misinformation one has to be careful about what one writes. But I’ve seen this story in so many media that it does seem to be accurate.
Conclusion
I hope you enjoyed this little tale of American politics today.
All the ‘experts’ seem to assume that Trump’s Republicans are going to be thrashed in the November Mid-terms. But there is another possibility. The Democratic Socialists like New York’s Mamdani and Seattle’s Katie Wilson and, of course, America’s most intelligent political figure (AOC) have become so extreme in their hatred for anyone who doesn’t share their deranged views that many traditional Democrat supporters won’t vote for them and the Republicans are going to win in November.
As our globalist/Islamist government decides to ban face-masks at (anti-immigration) protests, I thought it would be useful if I provided a brief guide to which face-masks are legal and encouraged and which masks will land you in prison for years.
Here are some government-approved face-masks:
First, a jolly entertaining face-mask which, of course, is legal:
And here’s another face-mask which used to be acceptable:
And here are some face-masks which our loathsome Jew-hating, West-loathing Islamist government actively encourages and hopes will be more widely adopted as Britain turns into Europe’s first Islamic republic:
And, here are some face-masks which our government really likes as our rulers would desperately like Israel to be destroyed and all Jews to be exterminated in order to keep the UK Muslim vote:
And here are some more government-approved face-masks:
And here is the government-recommended face-mask:
But here are some face-masks which are to be banned as they are patriotic and British – everything Burnham and his Jew-hating Labour scumbags despise and wish to eradicate as they try to replace the White British population with violent, often criminal, often rape-obsessed, often uneducated, often unemployable West-hating Third-world garbage:
I hope it is now clear which face-masks are encouraged by Burnham, Rayner, MIliband, Mahmood, the BBC, the Guardian and their open-borders, mass-immigration, Islamophiliac globalist overlords and which face-masks are now illegal.
What percentage of NHS staff do you think aren’t British?
10%
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What percentage of NHS nurses do you think aren’t British?
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What percentage of NHS doctors do you think aren’t British?
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Well, here are the figures. They come from the BBC in-house journal, the Guardian supposed ‘newspaper, so they must be accurate.
For NHS staff in general, 20.4% were non-British.
For Nurses, 30% are non-British nationals.
For doctors, the figure is even more shocking – more than a third of doctors (36.3%) are non-UK nationals.
The head honcho at NHS Employers tells us: “Teams across the NHS are hugely appreciative to their overseas colleagues for their support and contribution.” But he perhaps forgets the huge number of non-British nurses who get into trouble with the NMC (Nursing and MIdwifery Council) and doctors who get into trouble with the GMC (General Medical Council) for incompetence, uselessness, corruption, sexual offences and other problems.
Recently we had Dr Yasser Adly Abdel Rahman, an NHS locum surgeon from Egypt, who carried out a flawed emergency bowel procedure on a young man. It meant the contents of the patient’s bowel, leaving his stomach, were re-deposited back into his stomach through a circular “closed loop”, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) heard. The UK-trained surgeon who investigated this incompetence said this was: “as bad as it gets”. Interestingly, the BBC report referred to Egyptian-born and Egypt-trained Dr Yasser Adly Abdel Rahman as an “Oldham doctor“. Last time I looked, Oldham was not in Egypt. This looks to me to be just another blatant example of the usual BBC gaslighting trying to de-emphasis that the bungling excuse for a doctor was from a useless, corrupt, Third-world country.
Moreover, an independent review published by Great Ormond Street Hospital revealed that consultant orthopaedic surgeon Yaser Jabbar (not a typical British name – yet) harmed 94 children through substandard and botched surgeries between 2017 and 2022. Yaser Jabbar no longer holds a license to practice medicine in the UK and has reportedly relocated to Dubai.
Where do all these wonderful NHS employees come from?
Of the 1,282,623 full-time equivalent (FTE) hospital and community health service staff in England in September 2023 whose nationality was known, 20.4% were non-UK nationals. This was up from 13% in September 2016 and 11.9% in September 2009, when the data series began
The most common nurse and health visitor non-UK nationality is Indian, accounting for 10.1% (37,097) of all FTEs, followed by Filipino 7.7% (28,282), Nigerian 2.5% (9,182) and Irish (1.1%).
Indian was also the most common non-UK nationality among doctors, accounting for 8% (17,280) of all medics, followed by Pakistani 3.7% (7,992), Egyptian 2.9% (6,264) and Nigerian 2.0% (4,320).
It has long been known (but covered up by ‘our’ NHS?) that the tests foreign nurses must take before being allowed to work in the UK have been plagued by widespread cheating and corruption. It seems that NIgerian nurses have been some of the worst culprits. Though this is hardly surprising knowing what a corrupt hell-hole Nigeria is.
As for doctors, I haven’t been able to find any estimates on how many have bought or bribed or (for female doctors – f*cked?) their way to qualification. But I do know that after a particularly horrendous PIA (Pakistan International Airlines) crash, a Pakistani government investigation found that around a third of PIA pilots weren’t qualified to fly planes as they had obtained their pilots licences through corruption and cheating. There’s no reason to believe that a similar situation doesn’t exist in the Pakistani medical schools.
According to the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, India, where most of the NHS’s foreign doctors come from, is slightly less corrupt than Pakistan. So hopefully a greater percentage of Indian doctors working in ‘our’ NHS are actually qualified.
Meanwhile, it sems that thousands of UK-trained and thus probably competent British doctors have emigrated to places like Australia, New Zealand and Canada An estimated 18,000 UK-trained doctors are currently practicing overseas, which is about one in seven of the total.
Still, diversity is our strength. So, no doubt having so many (sometimes unqualified) nurses and doctors (from some of the world’s most corrupt countries) in our NHS has made our NHS better?
In its latest report, the RNLI boasted that it had saved 352 lives. To save these 352 lives, the RNLI spent about £250,000,000. That’s about £700,000 per life saved.
We are usually led to believe that the RNLI consists mainly of volunteers. But perhaps many people don’t know that the RNLI has 1,879 full-time staff and in the summer months this goes up to 2,438 when seasonal staff are included. Of these, 11 get paid over £100,000 a year and 137 get more than £60,000 a year. The average cost of an RNLI full-time employee is about £55,000 a year. That’s pretty generous for the supposed ‘charity’ sector. Perhaps the RNLI is rather more charitable to its own staff than most people imagine?
But a possibly more worrying figure is that, in spite of the RNLI’s lifeboats being mostly staffed by volunteers, the RNLI’s staff cost £111,100,000 a year. So, almost half (44%) of the money we give to the RNLI (£250,000,000) goes to pay for its staff.
The RNLI makes it very clear what its mission is:
“The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue”.
However, under its (IMHO) woke, (IMHO) UK-hating management, it seems that the RNLI has added a little sideline to its life-saving activities – providing a concierge and ferry service to illegal Third-world criminals, rapists and murderers whose lives were never in peril on the sea.
I believe it’s time for us to stop donating to the RNLI – an organisation which has (IMHO) lost sight of the reason for its existence.
David Craig, on September 24th, 2026
