235 Responses to MONDAY OPEN THREAD

  1. Dave s says:

    I have just watched an excitable young man on BBC4 discussing the French revolution. Actually the destruction of relics of the Ancien Regime and of Church property.
    Very odd. Like all liberals the thought of revolution seemed to excite him.
    As usual he could not resist drawing parallels with modern times. Some rubbish about graffiti in present day Paris.
    The liberal disease really got going in 1789. Remake the people and the world. They never learn these liberals. The terror and the monster Robespierre are the antecedents of the 20th century monsters Lenin Hitler and Stalin
    Nothing in the French Revolution to celebrate. Unless you are a liberal that is.
    Today in our land the liberal is busy remaking us and our country. Look at the last 20 years. It took Napoleon to put a stop to their nonsense in France. Who will do it here I wonder?

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    • Arthur Penney says:

      I suppose he has sympathy with this event then.

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    • chrisH says:

      What a gull this sap was.
      Seemed very pleased at himself whenever he used the word “shit” as I recall.
      In short, a classic BBC weekend rebel thinking he`s Tony Hancock in a black rollneck on the Seine.
      They say the French Revolution was a bloody affair-and certainly was mad, evil and as much a tyrant as any Sun King within a few years.
      This Mackenzie Crook/Neil Hannon lookalike was what passes for “art history” these days…the Good Rebellion of Turner Prize lollards like Grayson Perry.
      David Starkey or Brian Sewell have forgotten far more that our crock sportif has sponged in….why not them?

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  2. thoughtful says:

    If the way Patten came to be the Chair of Governors is any guide then I think we can expect some Tory Euro grandee being held to account at the next elections by UKIP.

    Isn’t it funny, they tell us that we can hold them to account at the ballot box come election time, but when we do as in the case of Patten they simply reappear in another role in which they cannot be held to account by anyone !

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  3. Jeff Waters says:

    ‘But with Mr Clinton’s wife Hillary said to be mulling a 2016 run for the presidency, the Lewinsky matter has remerged in US political discourse, in part because Republicans are eager to wield it against her.’ – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-27297351

    Paranoid, baseless bs.

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    • Thoughtful says:

      They tried this one on an interviewee on the Today program, and he basically told them that it didn’t matter when Lewinsky released her memoirs, it would be seen as her attempting to either attack the Clinton run for the Presidency, or to gain greater publicity.

      When he went through the possible coming release dates he showed beyond any doubt that the date chosen was the least bad for the Clintons.

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      • chrisH says:

        Funny how the BBC seem to think that Monica Lewinsky is a malcontent in the way of Democrat triumph…good ole` Bill and Hillary deserve better from this harpie!
        Yet those women who were subject to Lord Rennard over here are victims , survivors, vulnerable and subject to a creepy liberal perv with dark forces trying to suppress the poor women.
        Rennard and Clinton are one and the same-but one stops the traffic, and oozes BBC-type “charisma”,,,and is in the camp of progress; whereas the other is a creep.
        And I`ve not placed Prescott in the creep camp yet…the BBC sure as hell have forgotten HIS harrassment of employees like Tracey Temple.
        Hypocrite alert No 1!

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  4. Framer says:

    Diana Coyle, the new BBC chair, is Labour to the core and actually advises Chuku Umunaa (sp?).

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  5. George R says:

    Islamic Republic of IRAN:

    Islam Not BBC (INBBC) is inadequate on the jihad threat to West.

    -While ‘Jihadwatch’ has this:-

    “Iran Admiral: ‘Aircraft carriers are the symbol of America’s military might…So, it’s natural that we want to sink the carriers’.”

    By Robert Spencer.

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/05/iran-admiral-aircraft-carriers-are-the-symbol-of-americas-military-might-so-its-natural-that-we-want-to-sink-the-carriers/comment-page-1#comment-1051696

    -INBBC only has this:-

    “Iran: Naval drills ‘build and blow up’ replica US ships”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-27292180

    And, in a broader political context:-
    “The Khomeinist Dome: Iran’s larger nuclear strategy”

    By Walid Phares.

    http://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2014/05/04/The-Khomeinist-Dome-Iran-s-Larger-Nuclear-Strategy-.html

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    • Thoughtful says:

      Hogwash, Bunkum, Paranoia !

      The existence of these ‘replica’ ships has been known of for a long time, and for a long time it has been known that the Iranian regime has intended to use them purely for propaganda use. There is an intention should a time of tension in the region arise again they will ‘demonstrate their military capability’ using the replica which they intend to sink.

      It would appear that on this occasion Jihad Watch swallowed the Iranian propaganda hook line & sinker !

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  6. George R says:

    INBBC reporting violence in China.

    Its ‘report’ keeps us waiting until the final paragraph before using the word ‘Muslims’, and then only in a way to suggest ‘victims’ not perpetrators of violence-

    “Knife attack at south China station”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-27289398

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  7. Merched Becca says:

    I sense now that there is turmoil in the INBBC HQ.
    They have been given enough rope …..etc

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  8. stuart says:

    so the bbc and radio 5 live have just cottened on to the story about these boko haram sicko islamic child abusers have kidnapped 200 christian girls in nigeria and now want to sell them as sex slaves all in the name of allah,why did it take 3 weeks for the bbc to wake up to this story.well you have to wonder there,as for boko haram,well i think they are already operating in england with out the ak47s and machetes,are boko haram problem are with the ones who wear ties and suits,its called the trojan horse plot.all will be revealed or maybe not by the bbc about this boko haram islamist trojan horse plot in birmingham and other citys england in the next few weeks.

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    • Thatcher Revolutionary says:

      Who would buy girl slaves? No-one ask that question?

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      • Roland Deschain says:

        And a very good question it is. It was the first thing that crossed my mind: where is the market for selling all these girls into slavery?

        I’d have thought the BBC would be straight in there providing the answers to that, given their ill-concealed support for 12 Years A Slave, but no, I’ve not heard a peep. It’s just accepted. Or perhaps they’d rather not think about that.

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        • Llareggub says:

          Who would buy these girls? A question the BBC would not ask. But during the Rochdale trials – and others – of grooming rapists, the men were accused of using the children as prostitutes. Who were buying these services? A question the BBC never asked.

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      • Old Goat says:

        I’ll take dozen, please – where do I apply?

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  9. AsISeeIt says:

    I see this morning Obama has told the BBC it’s ok to slag off the Nigerian Islamist terrorists. ‘horrendous organization’
    Let’s see how long this lasts. I give it a week or two before we get their excuses, are fed Bonky Harem peotry, hear of their humanity etc etc…

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  10. EmersonV says:

    This puts the bbc in a dilemma, their favourite president criticising their favourite terrorists.

    Mr Obama denounced Boko Haram as “one of the worst regional… terrorist organisations”

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    • Thoughtful says:

      The thing about Boko Haram is the careful tiptoeing around the real central issues.

      The leader is displayed as being insane and not following any kind of teaching from the Qur’an, and unfortunately they do have a point.

      There are times however when he does follow the Qur’an it is ALWAYS omitted. There is never any kind of in depth examination of the religious aspect, and if you notice there never is.

      This is part of the bias of the BBC which simply refuses to open the lid and look inside, but it enables those who know absolutely nothing about Islam to carry on denying every truth in complete blissful ignorance.

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      • noggin says:

        BBC …and Obama, both – sending over experts that are explicitly not allowed, check the root cause are worse than useless.

        kidnapping/gaining through violence
        (IS mandated by Islam)
        the continuous gang rape of these children
        (IS mandated by Islam).
        the slavery, (IS mandated by Islam).
        This Islamic jihadi outfit, are following Quranic
        /hadithic principles.

        This leader, is following Islamic text, a fanatic
        … obviously, abhorrent, cruel, inhumane …yes
        insane? … which? … him or that dangerous ideology that he is following,.

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        • Thoughtful says:

          Perhaps you could enlighten us as to the Islamic text which is at the heart of their organisation, that Western education is forbidden?

          Following the Malala case, when the BBC dissembled to a disgraceful degree.

          There is no prohibition in Islam for the education of either boys or girls, on the contrary, it is encouraged. There is however a prohibition on them being taught together. But the Nigeria kidnapped girls were being taught separately so that does meet the teachings of the Qur’an.

          Some of what he is doing is undoubtedly sanctioned by the Qur’an, but an awful lot of it is not.

          It would make a good program if the BBC were to examine which of his murderous activities were Islamic, and which were not.

          No chance of the BBC ever admitting that some of Islam’s teachings are not very nice though

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          • noggin says:

            Have you not been aware, of the throwback ideals, of many of the “Islamic schools” in this country?
            Why do you think they, try to bring in more and more, rulings to end up with … all things Islamic, it is the same retarded mindset, (of course, nowhere near to the same degree)
            ie … to be “against the western education”.
            On the name
            “Haram,” in Arabic and in Hausa, could be translated not just as “forbidden,” but as “something forbidden according to Islamic law and precepts.” … important point
            A Hausa-English Dictionary. Translating “haram” as “Islamically forbidden” represents a middle ground between a one word translation and the longer phrase.

            “Boko” is trickier. It can certainly mean “Western education” – but it can also refer to the Romanized Hausa script. There is some debate over the word’s etymology. Some say that “Boko” is a corruption of the English “book,” which would link the word strongly to educational contexts. Others say the word is of Hausa origin and means fake or deceitful, and appears in contexts other than just education.
            Some add that the usage of “Boko” in reference to Western education.

            Lessons in the Quran: Lesson – 24
            http://www.muslim.org/islam/less-qur/l24.htm‎

            Muslims warned not to follow the ways of the Jews and Christians … These verses definitely have a strong connection with Muslims and Islam,
            the ways are often interpreted as western education, among many, many other things

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            • Thoughtful says:

              Muslims are warned not to follow the ways of the Jews and Christians, but it doesn’t say that they are to go and prevent Christians following the way of the Christians.

              If they are saying that they are against Western education of Muslims that’s one thing, but if they are against Western education of every other religion, then that’s very different.

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  11. AsISeeIt says:

    Awful 3 minutes on BBC Breakfast just now. Some chap very deeply immersed in the BBC campaigns agenda – and little else – brings to our screens a couple of giggly female cyclists. More than half of his questions were grievance-based whilst his few questions actually relating to their sport were quite obviously completely ill-informed.
    When he asked ‘were they pleased that their prize money was now equal with the men?’ the poor lasses were as embarassed as I was just watching.

    Agenda, what agenda. Give it a rest BBC.

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  12. tomfiglio says:

    The Beeb seems to be adept at getting everyone’s back up!

    http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2014/5/6/worst-bbc-show-ever.html

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    • Phil Ford says:

      That edition of ‘Costing The Earth’ really was little more than blatant campaigning by the eco-zealots. As BH mentions, ‘climate change’ (whatever that is this week) was mentioned countless times in connection with concerns over food production and the witless studio audience (and guests) seemed to all be singing from the same hymn sheet. Nobody – but nobody – on the programme so much as queried the prevailing climate narrative, all accepted as fact that CAGW is a real and proven fact.

      Must have been yet more of that celebrated BBC ‘impartiality’ at work, I guess.

      Today Climate Depot reports on the actual science – and we see from the actual data (not models, not propaganda) that the Earth is now 17 years and 9 months into a complete lack of global warming.

      Any news of this on the BBC..? Nope? I thought not.

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  13. Thoughtful says:

    BBC radio 4 on another of it’s favourite hobby horses – private tutors, and the campaign to reduce everyone to the lowest common denominator. It’s disguised this time in the guise of ‘pushy parents’, but it’s really parents who realise what a dog eat dog world the employment market is and know that giving their kids a helping hand now, will reduce problems later.

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  14. Sir Arthur Strebe-Grebling says:

    The One Show last night had an item on the Babylon Health app, a smartphone app that allows subscribers to talk to a GP via their phones without having to wait for an appointment or attend a surgery.

    The main concern of the presenters was that it would allow people to pay to jump the queue, contrary to the socialist principles of the bBBC and NHS that everyone has to wait, and to get the lowest standards of treatment.

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  15. Thoughtful says:

    This a little off topic, but prompted by the article on You & Yours about ‘dash cams’. Of course crash for cash was mentioned and a PC PC was wheeled on to talk about the value of ‘dash cams’ and relate some incidents. The most obvious lack of mention of the communities the vast majorities of the fraudsters come from was evident, which is the bias, but here’s the off topic bit.

    I bought a ‘dash cam’ for myself. I no longer trust the British Police to treat me fairly in an incident involving a member of the RoP. On the very first day I fitted it, I had to slow down because another driver couldn’t fit her car through a gap a bus could have got through, but as we both came to a stop, a Pakistani kid ran out from behind a parked car across the road. If I hadn’t had to slow down I would have run him over, & I know that there would have been several ‘witnesses’ who were never there, and no doubt accusations that it was a deliberate act with racist words being shouted!

    I’ve saved this footage, and reviewed it. A driver would have no chance what so ever of avoiding him.

    I would never hand this footage to the Police though. I would wait to see how many lying statements were made and then because each one has to be sworn, pressed for perjury charges to be brought. Not that I really expect the wholly politicised CPS would.

    These cameras are far cheaper than you might think. Mine cost just £21.50 and records in HD the reviews for it are very good. you can buy one here, and the price incl P&P has fallen to just £20 !

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/301121946825?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

    The memory card for it can be bought here:

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009HPFV3U/ref=noref?ie=UTF8&psc=1&s=computers

    There are loads of reviews on line for the ‘G1W dash camera’

    Protect yourself, you never know when you might need it !

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    • Thoughtful says:

      I think that’s quite a weak point. What is more of interest is the fact that it was Labour who weakened the law on takeovers and are now treating the situation as if they never changed it.

      The excuse they are giving is the usual ‘some bigger boys did it and ran away’, that it’s all the fault of Kraft making promises during the Cadbury take over which they never kept and as a result the law should be strengthened again (but it’s not our fault ’cause it never is).

      The reality is that if Labour had not weakened take over law, then we would not be in this position, regardless of the duplicitous actions of Kraft.

      It would appear that Pfizer would be even worse from it’s activities in Sweden where it promised to increase R&D, but then halted it altogether. Tens of thousands of jobs were lost, and thanks to usual big business aggressive tax avoidance, no tax is being paid either.

      We have no reason to believe that Pfizer would be any different in this case, and you cannot run a country without tax income and an employed skilled workforce. I have no doubt Greedy Leftie Dave will be looking first & foremost to how he & his cronies might line their pockets, and the last thing on their minds will be the potential harm to the UK PLC and the workforce.

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  16. Bonzo says:

    Global Warming/Climate changers will NEVER give up.

    This crap from David Willis, BBC US correspondent.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27300231

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  17. George R says:

    ‘Telegraph’ (£).

    The following article indicates a key reason why Labour Party and BBC-NUJ especially, campaigned and enabled mass immigration and colonisation of Britain, and why both political organisations must be vehemently opposed and resisted by British people:-

    “General election 2015: Look who’s not voting Tory
    Ethnic minorities are backing Labour in droves. But one country has bucked the Western trend for immigrants to support Centre-Left parties”

    By Daniel Hannan*

    (* who, in my view, cannot be trusted on vital issue of continuing mass immigration into Britain because he, like British political class as a whole, inc BBC-NUJ, campaigns for the entry of 80 million Muslim Turks into E.U.)

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/10811119/General-election-2015-Look-whos-not-voting-Tory.html

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    • Thoughtful says:

      He still hasn’t got it right, not got the first insight as to why they vote Labour / LibDem.

      Many ethnics come from countries where corruption is endemic, and they know no other way. The left wing parties with the rose tinted glasses of socialism believe that as soon as the aircraft carrying immigrants sets its wheels on UK tarmac, all those thoughts of corruption miraculously evaporate, and never ever enter the mind of the immigrant ever again.

      Those of us with minds intact realise that nothing could be further from the truth and that corruption is being perpetrated on a huge scale in the UK. Made easier by BLiars crazy postal voting scheme some fraudsters have been caught even printing postal votes. A couple of thousand fraudulent votes doesn’t half sway the percentages of support for a political party in a constituency / ward.

      On top of that you have the propensity that certain candidates themselves are corrupt and are being ‘helped’ into office by electoral fraud. Labour and the Lib Dems are parties too afraid to even consider the reality of what might be going on & even more scared to deal with it when it is brought to their attention.

      How many cases of electoral corruption have involved the Tory party or UKIP? non so far as I’m aware, all of them are either Labour or Lib Dem, although I await the first case from the ‘Respect’ party which I think might pop up soon.

      The fact that a blind eye is being turned is the reason for support and the only way the Tories will gain the numbers will be to do the same.

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      • Thoughtful says:

        There is another thing going on with postal votes in Muslim communities which to the best of my knowledge is not illegal.

        All the postal votes are collected by a man (yes it’s always a man) that the lefties would call a ‘community leader’ even though he’s no such thing.

        He then takes all the blank voting slips and opens negotiations with the electoral candidates. The one who will give him the closest to what he wants gets an enormous block vote.

        No guessing who that party normally is! and no wonder Labour were so keen on introducing a voting system which allows this.

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    • John Anderson says:

      In my local Council ward over 20% of electors have postal votes. It really is ridiculous.

      Instead of all the special costs of administering postal voting, to try to increase voter “turnout”, they should be providing more local polling stations – church halls etc, so it is easier to stroll down and participate in democracy.

      Postal voting should be restricted to the 2 or 3% of voters who are too infirm to get out, or have a prior appointment abroad. The new system is wide open to abuse and fraud. And bloody idleness.

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      • A says:

        I couldn’t agree more.

        Postal votes should require attendance in person at council offices with a passport with 2 weeks lee way each side of the election.
        Hospital and serving armed services votes could be collected by a designated officer and overseas votes in a designated embassy (which may not necessarily be English). The more stringent criteria could be used if individuals registered for postal votes exceed 5% of the total.

        Has anyone ever seen 2 graphics showing the percentage of BME voters by constituency vs. the percentage of postal votes? I would be very interested to see.

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  18. George R says:

    Hollywood, Beeboids and Islamic Sharia law: spot the phoney script at 2.) below-

    1.)

    ‘Jihadwatch’:-

    “Clive Davis, Oscar party dump Beverly Hills Hotel over Sultan owner’s Sharia in Brunei”

    By Robert Spencer.

    [Opening excerpt]:-

    “Wait a minute. Now all these Hollywood celebrities are against Sharia? ‘Outraged stars including Ellen DeGeneres, Sharon Osbourne, Stephen Fry and Richard Branson,’ as well as music mogul Clive Davis and others are aware that Sharia denies ‘basic human rights’? And Jay and Mavis Leno, who said in 2011 that ‘the Qur’an is more liberal with women than the Bible’? These stars who have never said a word about Sharia oppression of human rights, who wouldn’t dare make a movie dramatizing the oppression of women and gays under Sharia, and who aided and abetted the stigmatization of opposition to Sharia as ‘hatred’ and ‘bigotry’ have now all come down with a case of ‘Islamophobia? Will they now come out for anti-Sharia laws and make wry, charming public service messages calling upon Americans to support them? Will they be drummed out of the trendy Left by their pro-Sharia peers, or is that trendy Leftist/Islamic alliance now crumbling? I expect that neither will happen; rather, in a week they will all go back to the Beverly Hills Hotel, with all forgotten and forgiven, just as the stonings and amputations in Brunei begin to increase in frequency.”

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/05/clive-davis-oscar-party-dump-beverly-hills-hotel-over-sultan-owners-sharia-in-brunei

    2.)

    Islam Not BBC (INBBC) ‘Entertainment and Arts’ (!):-

    “Stars boycott Hollywood hotel over Brunei ‘Sharia'”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27307324

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    • Thoughtful says:

      Funny but none of them seem to be boycotting The Savoy which is owned by Saudi Billionaire Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Bin Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud.

      Of course Saudi Arabia is one of the most fervent adherents to Sharia Law, but the hotel has been so nice to Stephen Fry, especially in his attempts to be Oscar Wilde, whilst all the time appearing more like Gilbert Harding.

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    • JimS says:

      How about adding Media City, Salford to the list?
      The Saudi privately-owned Olyan Group is a 25% stakeholder.

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  19. Charlatans says:

    Received BBC reply ref audience bias – but complained again as they offer no real solution:

    Reference:
    CAS-2688658-26BZ8J
    Complaint title:
    Historical evidence unresolved bias.
    Complaint description:
    Thank you for your reply to my complaint and your apology regarding ‘swaying audiences on BBC 4 Any Questions (your Reference CAS-2688658-26BZ8J). I have further looked into what you say in your answer about having a balanced political programme ‘over a period of time’ and understand the practical difficulties you face to achieve that. However, notwithstanding your apology and that you have pro-rata the highest paid human resources public purse recipients in the land to rectify such statutory non-compliant political balance, from my research you have repeatedly not resolved this serious democratic issue for years. Please see just a few of the other historical media highlights of this unresolved problem going back to 2009:
    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100007144/any-questions-yeah-why-is-british-broadcasting-so-incorrigibly-liberal-left/
    http://isthebbcbiased.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/any-questions-yes-why-is-this-programme.html
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2447357/DOMINIC-LAWSON-My-question-panel-DOES-BBC-partisan-audiences.html
    http://livinginamadhouse.wordpress.com/2014/03/02/how-the-bbc-fixes-the-political-bias-of-any-questions/

    Please could you let me know if you have any plans in the future to rectify this democratic deficit, which will include also taking into account the views of the majority of those that pay for your service?

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    • Roland Deschain says:

      Have they ever provided any evidence that political balance is achieved over a period of time? By which I mean evidence stronger than “we think it is”.

      It’s all very well for the BBC to say that what you see as bias is balanced out elsewhere, but unless they can point to it, it’s nothing more than bluster.

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      • Charlatans says:

        BBC gave me no evidence – I Googled to see if I could find any – big zilch except some extremely dubious Cardiff Uni report – part financed by BBC!

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  20. Thoughtful says:

    Radio 4 PM a rendition of the Labour anthem ‘the red flag’ follow by a plug for a new book on the left wing activist working class.

    You can bet your last dime that they would never allow a book which told exactly how Labour betrayed that same working class and turned from hating, to absolutely despising them, deliberately giving their jobs to newly arrived immigrants and labelling them idle and unwilling to work.

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  21. chrisH says:

    Yet another Poly mooch around the fountain this afternoon on the execrable hogwash that is Laurie Taylors Thinking Allowed.
    Whoever bins that Marxist munt(or minger lest I thought sexist!) will get my vote next time around.
    The bloke is hopeless and horrid too. Witness his five minute sneer at coffee shop employment that started his feyfest earlier (Radio 4; 4p.m 7/5/14).
    Now I despise marketing tripe as much as anybody else-but when he sneers at “cool brands” taking advantage of gullible upwardly mobile kids for mere cheap labour and long hours-he fails to mention the BBC and the Labour/Liberal Parties that use free interns for THEIR exploitation.
    And-at least when they pour a coffee-someone will buy it, and it will give pleasure to somebody who drinks.
    What`s the BBC excuse for THEIR exploitation these days…they` can`t ALL be auditioning for Jimmy Savile victims on Crimewatch now can they?
    Hypocrite Alert No2!

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    • Buggy says:

      The best one can say for ‘Thinking Allowed’ is that it actually induces nostalgia for ‘Anderson Country’.

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  22. George R says:

    NIGERIA: Islamic jihad massacres without limit.

    Oh, INBBC, can’t we non-Muslims depend on the sense of outrage and opposition worldwide by Muslims to the jihadist atrocities committed in the name of Islam?:-

    ‘Jihadwatch’:-

    “Nigeria: Islamic jihadists murder at least 300 in attack on border town”

    By Robert Spencer.

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/05/nigeria-islamic-jihadists-murder-at-least-300-in-attack-on-border-town

    INBBC:-

    “Nigeria abductions: UK experts to provide advice”

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27316182

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  23. Pounce says:

    Can we have a new midweek board please?

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  24. Thoughtful says:

    How the hell did this comment get through the Fascist screening on the Beverly Hills Hotel Boycott??

    ” 126. Prem nidhi
    “The spirit of the Islamic penal code is to save lives, promote justice, and prevent corruption and tyranny”

    ——

    You do realise that homosexuality is something you’re born with, don’t you. It’s not something you have a choice to ignore. But according to the ‘spirit of the islam penal code’ you have to die…. Do you wonder why your religion is hated so much?”

    Well we don’t wonder why it’s hated so much, but its clear from the pages explanation of what Sharia law actually is that they either haven’t got the first clue, or they’re lying by omission again.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-27303085

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  25. Jeff Waters says:

    AstraZeneca Board Member Donated Thousands to Miliband – http://order-order.com/2014/05/07/astrazeneca-board-member-donated-thousands-to-miliband/

    The BBC should be all over this…

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  26. chrisH says:

    Oh dear.
    Assad 1 Syrian rebels 0.
    But it`s that word REBELS that makes it clear who the BBC backs.
    The BBC backs the rebels….if only Boko Haram could include that word somewhere in the title, and the BBC would back it…like ETA, IRA, Shining Path and the like.
    Wolfie Smiths, one and all.
    And as long as there`s WiFi and a long latte undisturbed by inconvenient rebellions that get close to home in Islington…they`ll be rebelling.

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  27. chrisH says:

    The BBC-ah bless `em!
    The Skullcraker has been caught-and I sense the BBC are not happy…not sure if he was Hannibal Hayes or Kid Curry( or is the latter a Carribean speciality these days?).
    Anyway…the BBC report Plod of refusing to confirm that they`ve caught Wheatley as he planned yet another robbery…but they DID say that a “55 year-old man has been charged with having been UNLAWFULLY AT LARGE”!
    WTF…yet no sign of a laugh, any irony or any efforts to mock this self-serving doublespeak..nor will there ever be…the BBC don`t mock the world they rather like.
    S`pose he`ll be getting another life tarrif now, poor lamb…maybe Butlins, Minehead could be offered for him…and he`ll be out for the summer season anyway.
    A circus I tellsya!

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    • thoughtful says:

      All the time in local news I see petty or non violent criminals being convicted, and bloggers screaming that they should have been sent to prison, or should have been given longer sentences.

      There seems to be very little realisation that the prison system is not an infinite elastic bubble which can expand & contract to accommodate their desires for incarceration.

      Worse they unwilling nay implacably opposed to spending any more money on the service, nor to have any new prisons built within a distance of 25 miles of them.

      Of course this is the result, a system which has to release criminals before they should be because it doesn’t have sufficient capacity.

      There’s a double whammy here – the hand wringing liberals who have a problem with anyone being sent to prison – other than people who disagree with them, and the other side who seem to think everyone should be sent to prison – unfortunately neither of them want more prisons built so we’re stuck.

      Just great!

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      • Buggy says:

        Nonetheless, it’s surely a bit dubious a man with the delightful sobriquet of ‘Skullcracker’ who was furnished with THIRTEEN life sentences should be serving them in an open prison isn’t it ?

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  28. George R says:

    It’s not BBC-NUJ ‘Newsnight’:-

    “Video: Robert Spencer and Paul Weston on Sharia, free speech, and the jihad threat”

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/05/video-robert-spencer-and-paul-weston-on-sharia-free-speech-and-the-jihad-threat

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