Happy New Year

Have a Blessed 2026 and a TV Free Year (Especially the BBC)

Here are a few funnies on the media.

From the Spectator

From the Spectator

 

Over a Million households no longer pay

the TV Licence Fee

people walk away from the BBC

The number of households that no longer pay the licence fee continues to grow, with over a million households now not paying this tax. There are, of course, many reasons for this, not least the appalling content and bias to all things Woke—three hundred thousand stop paying the BBC in the last year. There has always been a number of lib/left extremists at the BBC; however, up until about twenty years ago, they still managed to make good programmes like their excellent historical costume dramas or funny series such as Only Fools and Horses or Fawlty Towers, even Doctor Who, with its minimal production values, could captivate, but not any more. There was also some semblance of balance, although this went out the window first as ideology took over.

There is, of course, no legal reason to pay the licence fee if you do not watch live TV or the BBC iPlayer. You can watch content on YouTube (as long as it’s not live), On Demand, and streaming services such as Netflix or Disney. Don’t think these subscription streaming services are free from pushing the ideological “message”; they’re not! However, it’s the BBC we are talking about, the Daddy of them all or rather Aunty. The BBC makes very poor content these days, Dr Who continues to push the “Alphabet People” message and lie to you, caught out recently editing Present Trumps speech, The BBC had the Gaul to set up Verify (a group of BBC staff and journalists to decide what’s true or not) If you check to find out what the BBC say Verify is about, they say “BBC Verify Experts in disinformation…” well we couldn’t have put it better! Although they go on to qualify this, we’ll stick to their first line as they are actually telling it as it is for a change.

The BBC has also, in recent years, tended to rewrite history, depicting the Romans who invaded Britain as Black. With disinformation regarding a basic historical fact that the Romans were actually white, how can you trust them to get modern facts right?

Perhaps the most egregious problem with the licence fee is the way the BBC intimidates people who do not need to pay the licence fee into starting to pay, or else. Some horror stories have come to my attention, with some people getting a continuous stream of letters with increased levels of threat! The BBC’s lackeys, the Guardian, report this in ways that make it sound criminal not to pay the licence fee. Dear Guardian, YOU DO NOT NEED TO HAVE A TV LICENCE if you don’t watch live TV. The Guardian, you understand, make a good proportion of its income from BBC job adverts - jobs for the boys, … Ah sorry girls … Ah sorry again … jobs for the gender fluid, etc, etc. No, rather jobs for the ideologically corrupt and corrupting. However, let’s hope that if the BBC dies, the Guardian will die with it.

Trump to sue the BBC

 

Are the BBC paying the price for decades of abuse, bias and misrepresentation?

 

For over 20 years, CUT (Catholics Unplug your Televisions) has been trying to save people from the BBC and even to bring the BBC and other Woke Western Media outlets to their senses. Perhaps we should not have bothered with the second part of the above statement; the BBC has been irredeemable for decades. They have their own twisted ethics and core values, - pro-choice, pro-“Alphabet” people, pro-the religion of “Peace”, pro-anything that is not traditional Christian values.

 

At CUT we have listed over the years many of the BBC’s biggest disasters, from Pope-Town, a anti-Catholic satire on John-Paul II’s Vatican, which we along with other campaigners managed to get cancelled, to Jimmy Seville and his being hidden in the BBC even though most at the corporation knew about what he was up to, Hue Edwards another paedophile, to today and the reprimanding

of the Newsreader Martine Croxall when she changed the autocue term from “pregnant people” to “women” and made a face, these are just a few areas of the abuse bias and misuse of the BBC’s power, but it is continues. To watch the BBC as a Christian is to be constantly shocked.

 

Now we have the problem with the BBC editing Trump’s speech on the 6th January 2021 to make it seem as if he was inciting violence when the opposite was the case – perhaps they were trying to help the Democrats in the election? Donald Trump, never one to take nonsense, has threatened to sue the BBC for a billion dollars if they do not apologise and appropriately compensate him. Tim Davie, the director general, has resigned, while stating that he is proud of his journalists. What does he mean by that? Head of news  Deborah Turness has also resigned. They are claiming that editing Trump’s speech was a mistake – a mistake? It was more than that; it was fraudulent and a blatant attempt to blacken Trump.

 

Change.org is circulating a petition that the licence fee payers should not be responsible for settling the lawsuit with Donald Trump! So who do they propose does? The general taxpayer? No, if anyone pays the licence fee, then the funds they have contributed to the BBC should be used to pay this settlement and no one else, for they are responsible for funding this evil corporation.

by Prayer Crusader St Philomena

Woke Hollywood

One Battle after Another

 

Hollywood at its most subversive?

 

Every year, Hollywood comes up with a film that’s so outrageous that it’s almost funny, almost, even when it is a comedy, well, almost. Last year, we had the ridiculous Emilia Perez about a Trans woman gangster who was portrayed as virtually a saint. This year, we have something just as silly: the dark comedy One Battle after Another, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Bob, a washed-up revolutionary whose daughter, Willa, is being pursued by the villain, Colonel Steven Lockjaw. Bob’s daughter is actually Colonel Lockjaw’s child, and he wants to kill her because she is from a black mother – Bob’s ex-wife. Lockjaw is a white supremacist and can’t have a black daughter, you see, or his white supremacist credentials would be compromised, and his membership in the far-right Christmas Adventurers Club would be over. (Note: Hollywood portrays anything with Christian connotations as far-right Nazis this year.)

 

Cardboard cut Far-Right Christian baddies and DEI, lesbian good guys – Phew, I almost went to see it after watching the trailer – however, the reviewers saved me – thank you Critical Drinker, however, I do wish you would not swear.

 

The film has everything DEI in it, Lesbianism, Gay Pride Marches, White Supremacist baddies, and Black Supremacist goodies. The revolutionaries are blowing up, and it appears they are killing ICE immigration police.

 

One of the most memorable images from this film shows a heavily pregnant woman firing a Machine gun! Too silly.

 

By Prayer Crusader St Philomena  

Main Stream Media radicalising young people?

 

Charlie Kirk, RIP

Charlie Kirk 

Shooter Radicalised by the Main Stream Media?

I have been meaning to write something about the killing of Charlie Kirk for almost a couple of weeks now, but I’ve been feeling a little overwhelmed by the media frenzy, both legacy and social. However, what this whole terrible episode has shown us is that many in the mainstream media have made some very disparaging and unwise comments, almost trying to blame Kirk for his own death. Some mainstream comedians, like Jimmy Kimmel, have made extremely insensitive jokes. Generally, the left, which seems to inhabit most jobs in the MSM, has exposed itself as being pretty nasty. Up until now, they seem to have got away with it; attacks on Trump and others of the right seemed to them as fair game. However, perhaps the death of Charlie Kirk has exposed who the real haters are.

Jimmy Kimmel (here with Biden)

The social media world has gone completely mad, with some left-wing social media influencers even dancing and singing in posted videos about how happy they are that Kirk was killed. It seems that the left has shown itself to be the true purveyors of hate speech, while claiming that it was Charlie Kirk who was the real hater. And yet he was always very polite; he respected the contrary view and let his opponents speak. He may not have been one hundred percent on all moral issues, but with a Catholic wife, it seemed as if he was almost there, attending Mass with his wife and children.

With other killings that have come out of the Trans movement, has this exposed mental health issues among the alphabet people? Could it be that with all the drugs these poor people need to take to transition, this is causing violent side effects? The media say no, but the spate of killings from among their ranks proves otherwise. The killer of Charlie Kirk, Tyler Robinson, had a Trans partner, to whom he texted his intention to kill Kirk, giving his hatred as an excuse. It would seem that for the left, pointing out the obvious fact that a “Trans woman” is still and always will be a man, and saying that is, to them, hatred.

Tyler Robinson, Charlie Kirk's killer.
Are millions of young people being radicalised
by the Main Stream Media?

It is shocking to see people celebrating Kirk’s death, and another shocking aspect of this is that 80% of the people laughing and dancing online are women! What has happened to women, young women especially? Have they all bought into a lie, and is this feminism?

The Oxford Union has been a bastion of free speech, although some of the topics debated have been utterly ridiculous. Charlie Kirk debated earlier this year and utterly out-thought and debated the hostile leftie students who were sent to try and outsmart him. One such loser who was outdebated by Kirk is the incoming president of the Union, George Abaraonye, who himself is guilty of gloating at Kirk’s death. There are calls for him to resign, and it is shocking in itself that someone who has made such statements is allowed by the Union to hold this post.

Charlie Kirk debates George Abaraonye earlier
this year at the Oxford Union

I have not watched the moment of Charlie Kirk’s death; I have assiduously avoided it, for the internet can sometimes throw things at you, it’s just a click away. Avoid it; don’t look. People say the image is burned into their minds, and they can never forget it.

However, why are so many on the left rejoicing at the killing of Charlie Kirk, why are ordinary western youth dancing and singing in social media posts at this murder? Why are so many celebrities, educators, college professors and Main Stream Media pundits losing their jobs after making cruel and ill-advised comments in the aftermath of Kirks death? Could it be that the youth have been radicalised by the Media, and the very same media celebrities have exposed themselves as the radicalisers? But don’t hold your breath, they’ll probably get their jobs back soon, left-liberals always look after their own.

Prayer Crusader St Philomena

TV Licensing Aug 25

Knock at door: open door to find a scruffily dressed individual with photo-ID round his neck 

 CUT Crusader St Cecilia writes:

 Just a note for CUT Catholics wondering what’s the best way of demonstrating their dislike of television culture and the BBC specifically.

   Like many sensible Catholics I have not owned a television for twenty years or more. But I used to respond – religiously! – to letters from the TV licensing authority to confirm that I did not access TV services in any way which required a licence. On three occasions when I did not respond I received a visit from an enforcement officer (of which more below).

   However, I became so disgusted at the immoral and increasingly anti-Christian (and pro-Islam) antics of the TV companies (as legally viewed on Youtube etc) that in August 2022, on receiving a TV licensing letter asking me to confirm my status, I decided to refuse to respond ever again. And so I entered a quite farcical roundabout dance in which I received every month letters demanding that I respond or face a series of escalating threatened actions – unannounced visits at any time of the day or night, prosecutions, fines, a criminal record etc. Well, I never received so much as a single visit: even when the TV authorities gave me a specific day on which I should expect a visit no one ever turned up! And after the TV licence people had fired their heaviest shots, the monthly sequence of letters would return to its starting point and I would receive a humble reminder that I had forgotten to pay for a licence and would I kindly now do so!

   And so this monthly carousel continued non-stop until May 2025, always following the same pattern from polite reminders to ferocious threats. Curiously, I have received no further letters since May – presumably the licence people have finally concluded that I am not going to play their game and have turned their attentions to more likely victims. Perhaps the fact that I have now turned seventy-five has influenced them, although, of course, the money-guzzling BBC insists on gouging the licence fee out of seventy-five year olds and over unless they receive certain benefits. (How extraordinary that a single BBC luvvie – Nick Robinson for instance, who does but a few hours BBC work per week – receives over £400,000 of licence-fee payers’ money each year just for preening his ego over the airwaves.)

   I think I’m right in saying that the private company SERCO handles the TV licensing contract; I assume they take a cost-benefit approach to gathering money, so if it looks too pointless in an individual case they will simply write it off and chase someone else. So my suggestion to others is from now on simply ignore all letters, e mails etc and refuse ever to respond. If the result is a visit from an enforcement officer, so what?

   As I said, I have had three such visits over the years. In each case they followed the same pattern:

 

Knock at door: open door to find a scruffily dressed individual with photo-ID round his neck (uniforms appear to be dead and buried!)

Officer: “Are you Mr X?” Me: “I am.”

Officer: Are you the owner of this property?” Me: “I am.”

Officer: “Do you use a television on the premises?” Me: “No.”

Officer: “Thank you. We’ll update our records. Goodbye.”

And the officer (pretty obviously a local person casually employed) beats a hasty retreat, thinking that for the wage he gets paid he is not going to risk any “argy-bargy.”

 

   Such has been my history of TV licensing visits. The last visit was in, I think, 2021; perhaps they have changed their methods since then.

   Hence, my advice to one and all, particularly as the BBC continues to present a vision of one of the circles of hell as normative and healthy human experience, is not just to get rid of your TV but also to refuse to respond to TV licensing approaches. If it results in a visit you can gratify yourself with the knowledge that you are costing them a lot of money whilst not paying a penny piece yourself.

Addendum

Perhaps I spoke too soon: after a couple of months without reminders, suddenly the letters have begun again; presumably they will follow the same pattern as before. It makes no difference to me: I shall not respond. If they wish to waste licence fee payers’ money on a pointless endeavour, well that’s up to them.

Nails in the coffin of Christendom part one

 

The Western Main Stream Media

and the death of Ossy Osborne

The extraordinary media reaction to the death of Ossy Osborne, the self-styled Prince of Darkness and lead singer with the rock group Black Sabbath, gives us a strong clue to the wasteland that the Main Stream Media (MSM) has made of Western Culture. Even King Charles had the Band of the Royal Guards play one of their hits, "Paranoid", outside Buckingham Palace. Despite being a Royalist myself I have often been dismayed by some of the actions of the Royal Family and even the Monarch, signing into law abortion. More and more homosexual rights, giving knighthoods to Mick Jagger and Elton John, to many, these actions seem scandalous. Of course, you can argue that it wasn't the Monarch that has decided upon these honours, but parliament. However, the Monarch can and does sometimes make their feelings known, but they did not do so in these cases, on these crucial moral and cultural signals.

Ossy Osborne is also being lionised throughout the MSM, on all media platforms worldwide. However, Osborne took drugs, looked and played the evil fend, and it is reported he bit the head of a live bat at a concert and a dove at a music executive meeting. His fans would throw dead animals on stage. It’s all very satanic and shocking, and of course, we hope he had time for a conversion before he died, and as Christians, we must pray for him if he has made it to purgatory. We are not judging the state of his soul at the point of death, only God can do that.

However, the sheer adulation for Ossy Osborne by the MSM is a clear indication of where we in the West are culturally, and it’s not in a good place. There are many indications that everything is being driven by the media, and not the Church or the monarchy, which more often than not fall into line behind the mediated lead. Could this be why abortion, homosexuality, and the ‘religion of peace’ are so accepted by virtually everyone outside of the small circle of devout Catholics? However, as Christians we know that Christ has won for us salvation already, all we have to do is follow Him and pray for our fellow man that they too will ultimately follow Him as well.

By Prayer Crusader St Philomena