The corruption is not universally popular.

Donald Trump’s unprecedented pardoning spree for political and business friends since returning to the White House has prompted warnings from ex-prosecutors and legal scholars of “corrupt” pay-to-play schemes, conflicts of interest and blatant partisanship.

It has included hundreds of Maga allies, a cryptocurrency mogul with ties to a Trump family crypto firm, disgraced politicians, and others who could yield political and financial benefits.

Other than that it’s totally aboveboard.

Recently, Trump has sparked strong criticism for commutations or pardons that seem increasingly aimed at boosting political allies and some Trump family business interests, say legal experts and ex-prosecutors.

Last month, Trump commuted a seven-year sentence of expelled House member George Santos, who pleaded

Another pillar goes splat.

The International Olympic Committee is set to announce a ban on transgender women in female competition early next year after a science-based review of evidence about permanent physical advantages of being born male.

So they finally figured that out, eh? Well done, but we already knew about those there permanent physical advantages of being born male. We knew and we said, over and over.

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The BBC is beginning to sound oddly like Pharyngula…

As calls for reform mount, two former BBC employees have spoken to The Telegraph on condition of anonymity, offering a rare glimpse into the culture at the corporation.

Former employee #1

“There was something of a Left-wing cabal – and if you were more centrist in your politics, your opinion wasn’t appreciated. Eventually, you just stopped speaking up. They would absolutely talk about diversity of voices, then shut down anybody who didn’t agree with them.

…

“There was also this clamouring for diversity that made a bit of a mockery of it. They had a diversity scheme, but when they couldn’t find enough external candidates they just put internal people

The fix goes on.

President Donald Trump has pardoned a long list of his political allies for their support or involvement in plans to overturn the 2020 presidential election, according to the Department of Justice’s Pardon Attorney, Ed Martin.

The individuals listed in a proclamation, which Martin posted on X late Sunday, include high-profile figures like former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and the president’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, among dozens of others.

Filth. We’re in the filth up to our eyeballs. A filthy corrupt kleptocratic state, with no escape open.

“This proclamation ends a grave national injustice perpetrated upon the American people following the 2020 Presidential Election and continues the process of national reconciliation,”

Speaking of the dear darling beloved BBC…

"I do wonder why people are so offended by it… actually the word was invented by feminists, they were quite happily using these words a few years ago" – Sophie Cook tells Mark Urban.

@sophiecooktalks | @MarkUrban01 | #newsnight pic.twitter.com/okG13GsjHL

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) October 10, 2018

Two men agreeing with each other that the word “women” includes trans women, how cuddly and sweet. No need to consult women of course.… Read the rest

Transgender women to be banned from all female Olympic events

They never should have been allowed. Obviously.

The International Olympic Committee is set to announce a ban on transgender women in female competition early next year after a science-based review of evidence about permanent physical advantages of being born male.

Come on. They didn’t need a science-based review. They’ve always known about the permanent physical advantages. Everyone has. Letting men who pretend to be women compete against women was always a terrible idea. Everyone knew that, but way too many people were happy about it anyway.… Read the rest

I recommend playing the clip.

On sex and gender "I don't think we suffer from institutional bias in this area," says Tim Davie to MPs back in March 2024.

This – and what follows – absolutely reeks of complacency. https://t.co/qji4GpEC72

— Sonia Sodha (@soniasodha) November 9, 2025

At 1:04 Tim Davie gets passionate and says we have to be kind and caring in this – and in context it seems pretty clear that he means kind & caring to the men, not the women. We have to be kind & caring to the men because they struggle under the burden of being the sex that can beat up women if it chooses to. Women are just the boring bitches who … Read the rest

Not parody? Really? Are we SURE???

Good Law Project’s Xmas card that it’s promoting.

I particularly love the framed portrait of a pencil stub. It’s probably Euan’s tiny pencil, right? A profound and beautiful work of art.… Read the rest

Euan pretends he’s a journalist but he would flunk 3d grade English. The man is barely literate.

More classic commentary from the tip-top investigative jouno! Unfortunately, none of our directors were able to make the demo last weekend, so we couldn't have done this – unless we control minds from 100s of miles away! pic.twitter.com/nLIwKp2gG1

— For Women Scotland (@ForWomenScot) November 9, 2025

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Hadley Freeman on the witchfinders:

In 2021, when lockdown was driving people insane, Clanchy’s 2019 book about working with children, Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, was suddenly derided on social media as racist, because she used physical descriptions like “chocolate-coloured skin”. The charge was led by three women: Monisha Rajesh, Sunny Singh and Chimene Suleyman, all middle-aged, middle-class writers, like Clanchy. Pan Macmillan, Clanchy’s publisher through its Picador imprint, abjectly apologised to them and parted ways with its writer…

…When The Sunday Times interviewed Clanchy in 2022, Rajesh tweeted, “Jesus f***ing Christ. Picador have just emailed to let us know that @thesundaytimes will be running an interview with Kate Clanchy this weekend.” She then

For once the police back down.

Police have apologised to one of Scotland’s most prominent gender-critical campaigners for threatening to prosecute her over claims she vandalised a trans activist’s umbrella.

Susan Smith, one of the three directors of For Women Scotland, had earlier been informed she would have to accept a formal warning or face court action over an altercation with Tom Harlow, who attempted to drown out speakers at one of the group’s rallies with amplified music.

And by doing so harassed those speakers and attempted to deprive them of their right to protest being erased by people like…him.

…following a major backlash to news that Smith was facing prosecution, the national force said it would launch a

The thing about this is the air of confident certainty and enlightenment – in short the staggering vanity. She talks the most unmitigated bilge and she carries herself as if she were Hannah Arendt and Nelson Mandela combined.

This is how nuts they are.
Get this one. pic.twitter.com/1pkT2EJNER

— Barry Wall (@HeadWarriorTWM) November 8, 2025

No, kid. All that horseshit you’re reciting is complete horseshit. You’re just repeating your generation’s chosen mythology, which happens to be a particularly stupid and fantasy-laced one. You’re not brilliant, you’re not wise, you’re not enlightened. You’re a gullible patronizing twerp. And no the beret does not make you look like a Paris intellectual. … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on And producers let them.

Prescott notes an in-built censor: instead of a story on, say, the side-effects of puberty blockers being covered by health reporters, or the legislation by the political team, all gender stories were routed through an LGBT desk.

They need to find out who decided on this “routing” and fire them. It’s like giving control of editorial content to a bunch of astrology activists, who are going to present everything they cover through thei filter of their pseudoscientific world view, and who are never going to allow astrology-critical stories to see the light of day. All the while, the reputation and cerdibility of what was supposed to … Read the rest

BBC gender correspondent tried to block coverage of trans criticism

The BBC’s “gender and identity correspondent” sought to block coverage of a campaign group aiming to protect women-only spaces, The Telegraph can reveal.

Megha Mohan, who has held the specialist role since 2018, emailed a co-worker raising concerns about their plans to film a debate by the group Woman’s Place UK.

Apparently women are not part of the genner ann idenniny beat. I guess only men have genner ann idenniny?

In the email – sent months after she started her role – Ms Mohan wrote: “There’s some concern from LGBT+ about giving this group a platform, they are seen as a more extreme organisation that we would be legitimizing (sic).”

Janice Turner on The Eyeroll That Shocked a Nation:

The BBC executive complaints unit was spot on. When the newsreader Martine Croxall had to utter the words “pregnant people”, her facial expression — as she added, for clarity, the word “women” — did convey “disgust, ridicule, contempt or exasperation”. Because whose face doesn’t when confronted with the idiotic, ideological terms that dog the NHS and erase women even from motherhood?

I know the answer to that one – the faces of the people who have bought into the ridiculous destructive trans ideology and its Core Command that Everyone Must Tell the Lie. There are still lots of them, including many who work for major news media.

Back in 2019,

The current state of play in Trump’s campaign to starve us into submission:

The Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump to withhold about $4 billion in funding for food aid for 42 million low-income Americans this month, as the effects of the longest government shutdown in history continue to ripple across the country.

Oh good. How nice of the court to let Trump starve people.

The court’s ruling, known as an administrative stay, came after the Trump Administration appealed a federal judge’s order to fully fund the program by Friday.

The administration had previously agreed to a judge’s order to partially fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP or food stamps, by about $5 billion from a

Trump is doing his No YOU’RE the racists number again.

Donald Trump has said the US will not attend the G20 summit in South Africa over widely discredited claims that white people are being persecuted in the country. The US president said it was a “total disgrace” that South Africa is hosting the meeting, where leaders from the world’s largest economies will gather in Johannesburg later this month.

South Africa’s foreign ministry described the decision by the White House as “regrettable”. None of South Africa’s political parties – including those that represent Afrikaners and the white community in general – have claimed that there is a genocide in South Africa.

Ah yes “the white communinny” – who knew there … Read the rest

Police Scotland have finally backed off.

Police Scotland has been left humiliated after it was forced to drop its case against a famed women’s rights campaigner for allegedly damaging an umbrella. Susan Smith was told she would face charges unless she accepted a police recorded warning for vandalism after a confrontation with infamous trans activist Tom Harlow.

He disrupted a women’s rights protest outside the Scottish Parliament in September by playing loud music in an attempt to drown out speakers. He was asked to turn it down by Ms Smith, with pictures and footage showing him jabbing a rainbow-coloured brolly towards her face.

Despite which, the cops went after her instead of him.

According to the FSU, cops will

Qu’ils mangent de la brioche.

The Trump administration on Friday asked a federal appeals court for an emergency pause on a federal judge’s order to fully fund SNAP benefits this month.

U.S. District Judge John McConnell ordered the administration on Thursday afternoon to deliver payments in full to states by Friday, chastising it for delays that he said have likely caused SNAP recipients to go hungry.

No no no please don’t make us pay for poor people to eat food!

“People have gone without for too long. Not making payments to them for even another day is simply unacceptable,” McConnell said, adding: “This should never happen in America.”

This is the first time SNAP benefits have lapsed because

More on the “Shall we erase women? No let’s not” controversy.

To state the bleeding obvious, "pregnant people" is not 'impartial' language. It's deeply ideological, part of a project to erase the existence of women as a sex.
For a woman to pull a slight grimace at this phrase is an *extremely mild* reaction.

— Jon Pike (@runthinkwrite) November 6, 2025

And along with that, it occurs to me, there’s the having to say out loud (to an audience of millions) such a stupid clumsy false thing would be intensely grating. The phrase “pregnant people” is childish in addition to everything else. It’s baby talk. It’s as if some BBC rebel had sneaked “poopoo pants” into a script. Plus there’s … Read the rest