Monthly Archives: July 2010

RISE OF THE NEO-PURITANS

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BBC leading the charge this morning about the evils of drinking. On both Radio and TV, it is running with the idea that up to one in three kids are horrified at the drinking they see going on in the home.The BBC itself has commissioned the study which suggests that a third of children said they feel scared when adults drink, a fifth say they have witnessed angry and aggressive behaviour, and the majority had seen their parents drunk. On TV, David Yelland was on to talk (again) about his recovery from alcoholism. The BBC has embraced the neo-Puritanism of the last Labour administration and lobbies to make us all feel bad about any form of enjoyment.

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NO REDUNDANCIES IN THE STATE SECTOR?

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Clearly the BBC seeks to engineer a confrontation between the State sector and the Coalition. This morning, it is hyping up the lunatic suggestion by Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union, that cutting jobs now would be “economically illiterate”. (Mark does not do irony, evidently)

He said: “I believe there’s no argument for any cuts in public services at all at the moment, that it would be a massive backward step that would throw up to a million more people on to the dole queue.”

Serwotka also made the not so veiled threat that should the Coalition dare to make the State sector conform to best practise in the Private sector then strikes might happen. This is a re-run of the Thatcher years as the BBC seeks to ferment State sector agitation. 

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THE BIG QUESTION FINISHES FOR 2010

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Hurray! The execrable “Big Question” presented by ..ahem…much loved national treasure Dame Nicky Campbell finished today for 2010. It won’t be back until January 2011 – a small mercy for which we should give thanks. This is an appalling programme so biased leftwards that I am surprised it does not fall over. Of course it follows the usual BBC schtick and puts on a token “right-winger” on the panel but stacks the rest of the studio with foaming at the mouth lefties who then spout inanities to Dame Nicky’s general approval. Not having this on our screens for six months will be a relief.

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BBC "GUIDE" TO TERROR WORSHIP…

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Have a read of this tribute by the BBC to Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah – a founding figure for the Hezbollah terror group. Note how he is described as being “a moderate” and indeed “a progressive”. OK, he loathed the USA, wanted to see the destruction of Israel BUT, on the other hand, he believed female masturbation was allowable. You can see why the BBC are in mourning.

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MASTERMIND…

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Interesting choice of BBC language here.

Munich 1972..Israelideaths ‘masterminded’ in an “audacious” Palestinian attack…which “killed” 2Israelis….9 others “died” in a botched german police rescueattempt.

Not machine gunned and grenaded to death then?


BBC weekend staff even more appalling than the usual crew. It’s almost as if they admired the Palestinian savagery on display in 1972, and every year since.

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Anything Goes

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Sabotaging £180,000 worth of equipment and similar crimes are now quite legal. All you have to do when caught is plead that it was all in a good cause.

Oddly enough the two legal precedents that have set this new standard concern two of the BBC’s favourite causes. Warmism and vilifying Israel.

Melanie Phillips, Robin Shepherd and Jonathan Hoffman have written about this staggering development which was brought about by last week’s judgement at Hove Crown Court, where the jury decided to exonerate all the perpetrators of a demonstrably criminal act merely because the judge’s summing-up directed them that that the end justified the means.

Judge George Bathusrt-Norman acquitted all the accused who had used the defence that “direct action was the only option left”. Never mind the law; now it seems anything goes, with the proviso that the crime involves destroying stuff believed to be aiding and abetting Israel, or causing man-made global warming.

Melanie Phillips reminds us that:
“In September 2008, a jury decided that it was ok to break the law and cause more than £35,000 criminal damage to a coal-fired power station because of the threat of man-made global warming.”

So, by coincidence, two of the BBC ‘s furious campaigns have affected our rational thinking so much that the rule of law can be thrown to the wind. Whole juries and judges have become inflamed with righteousness and indignation till they feel morally obliged to hit out, circumvent the law and chuck the democratic process over the side.

This verdict sanctions any activism as long as it’s in accord with the Judge’s fancy; it opens the floodgates for demos and violent protests.
Why wait for votes on BDS. Just traipse into your local supermarket and stamp on anything you think comes from Israel. Go ahead. The judge will probably think your heart is in the right place.

Notorious “Israel basher and ignoramus” Tony Greenstein was delighted at the verdict, but even he was worried that “Judge George Bathurst-Norman’s summing up was so favourable that some supporters were worried that the jury might react to what they perceived as an attempt to bounce them into a not guilty verdict.”

He continues: “We need not have worried!” adding a revealing comment that hands the judge’s critics a small gift: “Perhaps the fact that His Honour was born in the Arab town of Jaffa opposite Tel Aviv might have something to do with it!”

Another mystery surrounds this judge:
“Judge George Bathurst-Norman was brought out of retirement to hear the case.”
“Why?” one might ask, and “By whom?”

The BBC, obviously sympathetic to the cause, gives a platform to the activists.

Many people think several decades of delegitimisation and biased reporting is responsible for bringing this situation about. If you think this accusation is unjustified consider the alacrity with which the jury complied with the judge’s summing up. If the judge has a Palestinian connection that’s one thing, but how do you think he was able to get away with what he said to the jury?

“In his summing up, Judge George Bathurst-Norman suggested to the jury that ‘you may well think that hell on earth would not be an understatement of what the Gazans suffered in that time’. “
You may well think that; or you may well think that the BBC leaves its fingerprints everywhere.

The world has gone mad today,
And good’s bad today,
And black’s white today
And day’s night today…………
Now heaven knows.
Anything Goes.

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ANY QUESTIONS?

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Wonder did anyone else catch “Any Questions” this week? I caught the repeat this lunch-time on Radio 4. It is AWFUL. Jonathan, like his brother David, is effortlessly leftist. And as for the panel – well, good old BBC favourite anti-Conservative Chris Patten was there, to provide balance! Meanwhile. John Denham (= good guy because he opposed the liberation of Iraq) and Olly Grender (Nice Paddy Ashdown associated Liberal) ensured  it tilted even further left. Stuart Rose was the only voice of near sanity.

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THE GANGS OF BRIXTON…

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Another teenager has been stabbed to death in London and the BBC want to discuss the issue. Partially. The issue is framed very carefully and the elephant in the room which the BBC will not discuss is the blunt fact that much of this gang culture is black youth driven. The BBC talks about the knives, not about who is wielding them. Why not? Is it because it pierces a hole in the multicultural dream so beloved of the State Broadcaster and exposes the tragic breakdown of family life in the black community?

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STILL FIGHTING THE WAR…

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Long after Saddam’s corpse has rotted away, the BBC is still fighting the Iraq war. As you know, the BBC consistently opposed the idea that the UK should join in the fight to remove the Baghdad Butcher, and when we did do what was right, the BBC led the charge against it – with the dismal beat of defeat being a daily feature of the war coverage. Even now – with Afghanistan now being the major theatre of war (and also opposed) – the BBC can’t let go of Iraq. You see it needs to prove the war was illegal, and thus wrong. It ran this item today which is essentially the BBC continuing to press the case that removing Saddam was wrong because an academic says so. Plus ca change! The BBC is still stuck in some sort of John Lennon-esque “Give Peace a Chance” timewarp.

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