Christopher Dine

[Brad @ Dread Central @DreadCentral]

'INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE' is coming to 4K UHD Blu-ray and SteelBook on October 5.

The newly remastered release features Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas, Christian Slater, and Stephen Rea.

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

Labour refuse to say if extremist groups influenced their so-called Islamophobia definition.

So I asked for a copy of all the responses received by the Working Group.

Every single one has been deleted.

Now why would that be?

[🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 @Classicbritcom]

Jimmy Cricket (17 October 1945 – 3 August 2026) R.I.P

[Lloyd Kaufman @lloydkaufman]

Tromariffic!! Thank you fans!!

[Robin Askwith @Robin_Askwith]

So sorry to hear about Bill Oddie…
A terrific bloke who survived many challenges…
I met him first when I auditioned for Doctor In The House in1968,which he co-wrote in the early years
RIP Bill

[That's TV Hampshire @ThatsHampshire]

"Vikings were renowned for their axes."

The 6th annual Valhala event is on at Dummer Down Farm near Basingstoke.

The Viking festival is on until Sun 26th of July.

[That's TV Hampshire @ThatsHampshire]

"It's one of those wonder herbs a bit like nettles."

A group of re-enactors from around the country got together at the Viking festival near Basingstoke.

The Hirt Stag group were demonstrating living history at Dummer Down farm.

[That's TV Hampshire @ThatsHampshire]

"Made from a waistcoat."

A Portsmouth nurse from Manchester was at the Valhala Festival for the first time.

Lisa shared with That's TV she'd made part of her outfit aiming to embrace the theme at the three day event.

[🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 @Classicbritcom]

Bill Oddie OBE (7 July 1941 – 25 July 2026) R.I.P

[WeGotitBack 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇸 @NotFarLeftAtAll]

Andy Burnham’s new cabinet arriving for work…

[Rachel @RachelD1892]

The White House have issued a statement that they are "deeply concerned" about the appointment of Ed Miliband to the post of Foreign Secretary.
A sentiment shared by the vast majority of the British people.
This nut zero zealot should be nowhere near power.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Sir Alf Ramsey had it right...

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Lammy's Data Cover-Up Is A Scandal About Power, Not Just Numbers

The Ministry of Justice is now in court to stop the public seeing crime data the public is legally entitled to see. That is the story, stripped of the politics around it. David Lammy's department asked the Information Commissioner for permission to withhold seven years of conviction data broken down by nationality. The Commissioner refused. The MoJ is appealing that refusal to a tribunal rather than complying with it.

The reasons the MoJ gave for withholding the data are worth dwelling on, because both were tested and both failed.

The department claimed the request would cost too much to fulfil. The Information Commissioner's office did not simply take a different view. It found the MoJ had never produced a coherent estimate of the cost in the first place. Complexity, the ruling noted, does not excuse a public body from having to show its working. A government department asserted a defence and could not substantiate it to its own regulator.

The department also claimed publication risked identifying individuals. The Commissioner rejected this too, and for a reason that exposes how thin the objection was: the standard method of suppressing any category with fewer than five convictions would resolve the privacy concern entirely. This is routine practice across government statistics. The MoJ did not explain why it would not apply here.

Two arguments, tested by an independent watchdog, both found wanting. That is the pattern that should trouble people regardless of where they stand on immigration. A department lost on the merits and chose litigation over compliance.

Nick Timothy and Robert Jenrick have both called this a cover-up, and it is easy to see why the word fits. But it is worth being precise about what is actually being covered up, because the temptation is to overreach. The published figures already show foreign nationals accounted for one in seven sexual offence convictions last year, against a population share of roughly one in eleven. What remains hidden is the breakdown within that figure: how many of those convictions were rape, how many grooming, how many child sexual abuse, and which nationalities appear most often within each category. Nobody outside government currently knows that with precision. That is exactly why the MoJ's resistance matters. The public is being asked to trust a conclusion it is not permitted to check.

Lammy's own account of this makes the pattern harder to defend, not easier. In a letter to Timothy last week, he defended the department's position by pointing to a "range of statistical breakdowns" already published, and said publication of further data was kept under "continuous review." Continuous review is not a commitment. It is a form of words that allows a department to say something is being considered indefinitely without ever being obliged to act on it. Put alongside two failed arguments before the Information Commissioner, it reads less like caution and more like a holding position dressed up as process.

It would not be the first time. When early release for serious offenders began this year, the same department declined to publish a total figure for how many foreign nationals would be affected, despite holding the data.

There is a version of this story that is simply about migration policy. It is not that story. It is about whether a government department will accept the ruling of the watchdog charged with enforcing transparency law, or whether it will use the machinery of litigation to delay disclosure indefinitely. Parliament does not need to wait for the tribunal to ask that question. It needs to ask why a government that says it has nothing to hide is paying lawyers to make sure nobody can check.

[Classic Horror Films @HorrorHammer1]

😂

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Not to be trusted

[🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 @Classicbritcom]

Brenda Fricker (17 February 1945 – 16 July 2026) R.I.P

[Higgy @higgyboson]

Last week this utter bastard released a statement about 12 "terror suspects" being arrested for "anti-muslim" hate.

He declared that "lives had been saved" by the prompt actions of the security forces/police.

London Mayor, Sad Dick Khan, echoed @Keir_Starmer's sentiments.

In reality the arrested people were just flying a drone over a gathering of several thousand Muslims at an event organised by a group who have been outlawed in several Islamic states for their own links to terrorism.

No crime was committed. No crime was EVER going to be committed. There was absolutely no danger whatsoever to the attendees.

But these facts didn't stop Bastard Starmer from claiming a major terrorist plot had been foiled.

Subsequently all 12 of the "terrorists" have now been released uncharged.

There was NEVER a terror plot. Starmer knew this.

Has he issued an update? An apology?

Has he hell.

@Keir_Starmer is an utter bastard. Pass it on.

[Classic Horror Films @HorrorHammer1]

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[N Ecc 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Neccccy]

Another Labour paedophile !!

[WeGotitBack 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇸 @NotFarLeftAtAll]

Now they are Knocking on Doors Devon and Cornwall

🚨 Scam alert!
This guy knocked yesterday and said he was from

BT working with Moneysupermarket and wanted to get me a better internet deal. I did an internet speed test on my phone at the door and something wasn't quite right. He was very polite and plausible but I later checked and MoneySupermarket don't do Door to Door. I've changed the passwords on my router and will be reporting him to the police. Suggest anyone else that has been in the same situation does the same. Also heard that another chap has been doing something similar in Lifton