Xander Elliards – Yahoo News Jan 5, 2026
THE BBC has told its reporters not to use the word “kidnapped” when describing the US government’s allegedly illegal abduction of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.
The directive was revealed by The National contributor Owen Jones, who said it had been passed to him by a member of BBC staff.
BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists. pic.twitter.com/jn9qQZkVAH
— Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) January 5, 2026
It read: “As discussed in the Nine [a daily 9am meeting of BBC staff] to ensure clarity and consistency in our reporting, please follow these guidelines when describing the recent events in Venezuela:
“‘Captured’ – Please attribute this to the US description of the operation. Example: ‘The US said Maduro was captured during the operation.’
“‘Seized’ – Acceptable for use in our own reporting where appropriate.
“Avoid using ‘Kidnapped’.
“Thanks for keeping this in mind as you work on related stories.”
It comes despite US president Donald Trump explicitly saying that the word “kidnapping” could be used to describe the military operation.
Asked about Venezuelan interim president Delcy Rodriguez saying Maduro had been “kidnapped”, Trump said: “It’s alright. It’s not a bad term.”
Sharing the BBC directive on social media, Jones said: “BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.
“The BBC News editor has sent this to BBC journalists.”
Scottish historian William Dalrymple said in response that the BBC “beggars belief”.
Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were both taken by US forces.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines kidnapping as: “To carry off (a person) by illegal force.”
The UK Government has declined to state that the extra-judicial capture of Maduro by the US administration is in breach of international law.
UN secretary general Antonio Guterres said he was “deeply concerned that the rules of international law have not been respected”, while nations including France, Brazil, and Norway said the US had breached the law.
In Scotland, First Minister John Swinney has said he cannot see how the operation was within the bounds of legality.
The BBC has been approached for comment.
ELM HOUSE BBC AND THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA
Geoffrey Kenneth Dickens was a British Conservative politician. He was MP for Huddersfield West from 1979 until the seat was abolished in 1983. He was then elected for Littleborough and Saddleworth and held the seat until his death in 1995.
Dickens is known for his anti-paedophile work, including the naming of diplomat Sir Peter Hayman and others as a paedophile in the House of Commons and at the BBC
Dickens was born in London and fostered until he was eight years old. He never had contact with his mother afterwards.
Living in care he said he had to fend off Homosexuals who infested anything to do with kids
During his youth Dickens became a heavyweight boxer, sparring with Don Cockell and Henry Cooper. He had 60 bouts, of which he won 40. He worked as an Aviation Design Draughtsman at BSP Industries in Borehamwood, Herts, he became a member of St Albans Rural District Council from 1967 to 1974
In 1972 Dickens was awarded the Royal Humane Society’s Testimonial on Vellum after he saved two boys and a man from drowning in the sea off Majorca. The MP who passed a secret intelligence dossier of paedophile allegations to the Home Office in the 1980s and told his family the details were “explosive”.
Geoffrey Dickens, who died in 1995, said it would “blow the lid off” the lives of powerful and famous child abusers, his son has said he would have been “hugely angered” that the allegations had not been properly investigated.
It comes after one of the party’s MPs called for the then Home Secretary Leon Brittan to make public what he knew about paedophiles operating “in and around” Westminster in the 1980s.
Geoffrey Dickens, a long-standing campaigner against child abuse, passed the dossier of allegations to Lord Brittan, who has said he passed it on to his officials and raised concerns about some of the allegations with the director of public prosecutions.
His son Barry Dickens told the BBC’s Matt Prodger: “I would like Lord Brittan to name the very next person he handed it on to.
“And where did it end up? There must have been a person who was the last to handle it.
“My father thought that the dossier at the time was the most powerful thing that had ever been produced, with the names that were involved and the power that they had.”Mr Dickens said he did not know all the details of what was in the dossier but “it was talked about in the family, discussions now and then, sort of ‘Wait and see what happens – this is going to blow everything apart. These people won’t know what hit them’.”
Around the time that the dossier was handed in, Mr Dickens said the MP’s London flat and his constituency home were both broken into and ransacked within the same week, but that “nothing was taken”.
“They weren’t burglaries,” he added. “They were break-ins for a reason. We can only presume they were after something that dad had that they wanted.”Labour MP Mr Danczuk, who has been pressing Lord Brittan to reveal what he knew about the dossier’s contents, is calling for a “Hillsborough-style” inquiry to prevent allegations involving politicians being “swept under the carpet”.
It was said that UK MPs were invited to kinky parties in london and brighton then blackmailed by a foriegn power
Mr Danczuk, who has investigated claims of abuse by ex-MP Sir Cyril Smith, insisted there was “no reason” why the dossiers, which he said could include evidence identifying child sex abusers, should have been destroyed by the Home Office.The Metropolitan Police’s Operation Fernbridge is investigating allegations of child sexual abuse in the late 1970s and 1980s at the former Elm Guest House in Barnes, the scene of alleged parties involving MPs and other members of the establishment, also Barnabus house and the west lynn childrens home
Greater Manchester Police investigated allegations of abuse by Sir Cyril Smith at Knowl View, a Rochdale children’s home which closed in 1994. Officers are also looking at claims the authorities covered it up.
But calls are growing for an over-arching national inquiry, with hearings held in public, to get to the truth of what happened and deliver justice to the alleged victims. More than 120 MPs have signed a letter to the home secretary calling for an inquiry.Mr Danczuk recently published a book alleging more than 140 complaints had been made by victims but Smith had been left free to abuse children as young as eight.
> The Oxford English Dictionary defines kidnapping as: “To carry off (a person) by illegal force.”
It ain’t a kidnap then, because your overlords can’t break their own laws can they? Name one that’s ever been jailed for anything.
What’s more, the jew-k has an endless history of abusing anyone who stands up to its fascism. There are hundreds in jail at any one time for doing just that.
The ones with the guns write the laws and you’re forced to follow them or you’ll be killed. It’s fascism wrapped in “democracy”, where to get to choose who’s going to “represent” you, and if you raise a hand against any of them you die.
Donald Jew Trump merely did what he pleased, just as your “landlord” does as he pleases when he throws you into the street to die, just as all fascists do as they please all the time.
Ministry of Troof.