Monthly Archives: August 2010

OPEN THREAD…

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Phew – it’s Friday and time for the launch of our latest open thread which should take us across the weekend. Please detail here your observations concerning BBC bias. We know they read these pages so don’t hold back, I am sure they appreciate the feedback.

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BBC PEACE VIGIL FOR TRANSGENERATIONAL THUGGERY

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Today’s been a big day for Today doing it’s very best to “understand” terrorism.

At 7.12am BBC ace reporter Andy Martin went to Lurgan – a nexus for “I can’t believe it’s not the IRA” violence in Northern Ireland and but a few miles from where I live. He met with community workers to try and “understand” what makes young kids take to the streets, throw fire bombs at Police and wreck property. Guess what? Yes, it’s lack of social facilities. leisure activities.Mmm, and there was me thinking it was the fact that they are vicious little thugs who come from a generation of thugs in that area.

Then, in the prime morning slot at 8.10am, Andy was back with his tales of the terrible social woes that lead to young thuggery.(He forgot to mention all the local lesiure facilities about 3 minutes walk from the area concerned for some reason)

Coalition Sec of State Owen Paterson was on to assure us that violence does not pay! How he kept a straight face when claiming this is a testament to his powers of political delusion. He then causally pointed out that Policing is now under local control, with a Policing Board containing a convicted IRA bomber and a convicted bank robber. As Owen says, violence does not pay.

Owen also asserted, without contradiction, that “everyone” agrees N Ireland is in a much better economic position than it ever has. Odd how the interviewer did not point out how unemployment is at a ten year high and that it is the only part of the UK still mired in economic decline?

Isn’t it peculiar how BBC antipathy towards the BBC dissolves when discussing the “peace process” here in Northern Ireland. Love of appeasement trumps hatred of Conservatism?

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MISREMEMBERING THE FEW…

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You can always rely on the rancid BBC to try and undermine the glorious achievements of our past – and the Battle of Britain was always going to be in their sights. On Today at 8.31am (no link yet)

“It is the 70th anniversary of Winston Churchill’s speech praising “the few” of the Battle of Britain. History professor Norman Davies and author James Holland discuss whether we in fact mis-remember this hugely significant moment in the nation’s history.”

Was this REALLY a pivotal moment in the war? Was it REALLY a “David and Goliath” moment? Next week, were the Nazis REALLY that bad, perhaps we misremember that also? Why do we put up with this incessant anti-British chatter from the BBC?

UPDATE.
The BBC used the 1pm news programme on Radio 4 to interview  lady who had played a key part in the preparations for the Battle of Britain and beyond. It finished by her deep regret that Hiroshima was bombed and the assertion “Never Again”. So, even on this day, BBC advanced pacifist agenda. 

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"How Wimminz Won The War"

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Dumb Jon, who’s (wo)manfully taken on the task of watching BBC Breakfast so you don’t have to, reports on the shock BBC revelation about the Battle of Britain – women were involved, too !

“This is the other thing about the BBC’s crappy reporting. Not only is the bias bad in and of itself, it also blinds them to actual points. It is genuinely interesting to hear from a – still lifey – 100 year old veteran plotter, and there is a serious point here about how the real difference wasn’t Britain’s technically meh radar, so much as that it integrated with a purpose-designed home defence system. But no: chicks fought too, that’s all you need to know. “

At the time, of course, in the bad old sexist world of the 1940s, the existence of women in air defence roles was a little-known secret.

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COALITION TO BRING BACK CHIMNEY SWEEPS?

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With the electorate having engendered the wrath of the BBC for daring to throw out Labour. it’s only natural that every story be taken and given a twist that puts the knife into the evil Coalition. And so it is that on an item on an exhibition of life in the Victorian workhouses, there is the suggestion that “in a way” this is what the Coalition is proposing bringing back. Next week – Cameron to send kids up chimneys?

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BETTER GAY THAN PARENTED..

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Wonder if you listened to this interview on the BBC this morning? It’s one more of those which in essence is gay advocacy dressed up as anti-discrimination. It concerns the news that the Roman Catholic Church has lost it’s campaign to restrict adoption services to heterosexual people. Naturally the BBC sees this as a judicious move, ensuring that gay couples are not denied that right to adopt kids. (Not sure where they stand on the transgendered community having the same right but I am sure we will get there in due course)  My question is why did they choose to only interview the apparatchik from the government quango Charity Commission without allowing those genuine folks in the Catholic Church to posit their opinion? I know the BBC thinks that nothing could be more normal, more desirable, that children should be brought up by two fathers and no mother, but not everyone accepts that notion so why are THEY denied a voice on this debate?

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