"On 'Queen II,' with the song 'The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke,' where I was inspired by a painting I saw. That is very, very unusual for me. Being arty, or whatever, I go to art galleries a lot and I saw this picture in the Tate Gallery by Richard Dadd, who was a Victorian artist I liked. I was thoroughly inspired. I did a lot of research on it and what I tried to do was to put the words into my own kind of rhyme, but I was using his text, as it were, to depict the painting - what I thought I saw in it."
- Freddie Mercury
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The BBC stands accused of the most serious breach of trust in its history. An internal whistleblower has revealed that Panorama – the Corporation's flagship investigative programme – deliberately doctored a Donald Trump speech to make it appear he was urging on the Capitol riot. In reality, Trump had told his supporters to march "peacefully and patriotically" to make their voices heard. The BBC cut that line, spliced in phrases from another part of the speech, and broadcast the fake version a week before the 2024 US election.
The BBC didn't "misreport" Trump. It doctored him. It took an hour-long address, sliced it into pieces, and stitched together a line that never existed – turning a call for peace into a call for violence. It then ran the footage under dark music, cut to scenes of rioters, and presented the lie as fact to millions of viewers.
This wasn't clumsy editing. It was fabrication. It was intent. The Corporation made a man say words he never uttered, to feed a story it had already decided was true. That is not journalism. That is propaganda.
The revelation comes from an internal BBC adviser, Michael Prescott, who served on the Corporation's own standards committee. When he raised alarm at the distortion, senior executives dismissed his concerns. The Director-General looked away. The chairman said nothing. The culture that once prized truth above all now protects deceit in its own name.
And it fits a pattern. The same BBC that forged Trump's words has whitewashed Hamas's war crimes. It commissioned a Gaza documentary narrated by the son of a Hamas minister, paid him, and told the public he was part of the "Hamas-run government" – as though that were somehow different from Hamas itself. The same delusion runs through their coverage: terrorists are "militants," victims are "combatants," and Israel's self-defence is "aggression."
Like all Britain's great institutions, the BBC has been captured by a Leftist-Islamist ideology that prizes grievance over truth and allegiance over honesty. It speaks the language of compassion while serving the cause of those who despise the civilisation that funds it. From Whitehall to the classroom, from the Met to the newsroom, the infection is the same – a new clerisy that believes moral virtue gives it the right to deceive.
The disease is always the same: ideology before evidence. The BBC now begins every story with a sermon. In America it was "Trump the menace." In Israel it is "the occupier." In Britain it is "the oppressed versus the privileged." The facts are trimmed to fit the creed. When reality resists, it is edited out of existence.
They call this "narrative integrity." In plain English, it means lying for the greater good. It's why the BBC can run a campaign ad claiming that "the more you try to drown out reality, the harder we'll work to establish the facts" – even as it drowns them itself. It's why it lectures others about deepfakes while producing its own.
This is not accidental bias. It is the logic of a captured institution that sees its mission as moral correction. The BBC no longer trusts the public to think; it instructs them what to think. It decides which truths are dangerous, which lies are useful, and which stories must be rewritten for the cause.
And here is the irony. The broadcaster that once gave Britain its common voice has become the greatest source of distortion in the land. It claims to defend democracy, yet it meddles in elections abroad. It claims to stand for impartiality, yet it silences dissent at home. It claims to fight hate, yet excuses those who preach it. The BBC's real product today isn't news. It's obedience.
When a state broadcaster edits words to invent guilt, it stops being a mirror and becomes a weapon. The BBC's greatest lie isn't what it said about Trump or Israel. It's what it says about itself: that it can be trusted.
"The same BBC that forged Trump's words has whitewashed Hamas's war crimes."
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From the Crown Court's judgement in the Hamit Coskun case:
"There is no offence of blasphemy in our law. Burning a Koran may be an act that many Muslims find desperately upsetting and offensive. The criminal law, however, is not a mechanism that seeks to avoid people being upset, even grievously upset. The right to freedom of expression, if it is a right worth having, must include the right to express views that offend, shock or disturb.
"We live in a liberal democracy. One of the precious rights that affords us is to express our own views and read, hear and consider ideas without the state intervening to stop us doing so. The price we pay for that is having to allow others to exercise the same rights, even if that upsets, offends or shocks us."
Mr Justice Bennathan
Ms T Guest JP
Mr D Graves JP
10 October 2025
Imagine being anti-colonialism and pro-Palestine at the same time LOL.
The entire Middle East was Christian. Today it's not. How do you think that happened?
The final arrest total for today’s public order policing operation in central London is 492.
488 of the arrests were for supporting a proscribed organisation.
The remainder were for being drunk and disorderly, common assault, a public order offence and being wanted for an unrelated matter.
The youngest person arrested was 18, the oldest was 89.
297 remain in custody, the rest have been bailed.
#TommyRobinson is a dangerous thug, his supporters at #UniteTheKingdom are all violent racists........ they say.
Left 1 Million of us at Unite The Kingdom, vanishingly small comparative numbers of arrests (26), and half of them were hope not soap, not us.
Right, pro Palestine marches this weekend straight after a terrorist attack, major clashes with the police almost 500 arrested.
Where is #KeirStarmer addressing the Nation about this outrageous celebratory hate and antisemitism on our streets?
Where are his Southport style show trials? Where are his disproportionate prison sentences as a deterrent?
Look at how differently these people are dealt with in the courts of two tier Britain?