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Newsnight a couple of days ago…
At the end of a report from Afghanistan, where a young woman was stoned and burned to death for allegedly burning a copy of the Koran, the report having been couched in very strong terms of an anti-female, male-dominated society (Islam not mentioned once), we go back to Evan in the studio who says sombrely ‘Words fail…’
Really Evan? Do ‘words fail’ when womens’ rights are being trampled on in your own country – gender segregation in universities, mosques, Muslim weddings and Labour election meetings, FGM, honour killings, arranged marriages and young white girls abused and raped on an industrial scale? You know, all those things that go that you and the rest of your colleagues prefer not to talk about? How long before turning your collective blind eye results in a stoning here? Will you cover that?
Give ’em time ,it will happen!
Evan, with his sexual proclivities, would be one of the first to be trying out abseiling off a tower block (sans rope); if the Sharia ever became the law of the land here.
Yes, saw Evan get the onion out and say “words fail”.
Typical lefty emoting-all voguing, posturing and reflexes…but not ONE offer to actually help.
Give Malala a Nobel Peace Prize-but don`t worry that she`ll not be going home for her physio afterwards…she`s our problem now!
And none of that winding up the UN Arab lobby and blaming THEM for anything.
All sentimental crap-it`s all the Left have to offer us.
Sentiment is emotion without having any inclination to do something about it-especially if it costs them personally….hence the endless shit about “won`t the Government do something about it”.
Let the chavs pay -the Left of course will buy a T-shirt and let the BBC film them in their red noses!
Not so much bias but several on here, myself included, are starting to question the competence, the general knowledge, the memory, the ability to think quickly & clearly of the journalists and the presenters (often also journalists) who work for the BBC. My exposure is primarily to Radio 4 so I can only really speak to that: it now seems to be a frequent, daily occurrence on that station.
In a way, IT IS A FORM OF BIAS. A bias towards a quiet life. A continual bias toward dumbing down. A bias away from challenges, wide thinking and even more widespread debate.
Set against the BBC mandate: inform, educate, entertain, then it is certainly in breach of the first two parts on a daily basis on Radio 4. A point for the Charter Review to consider?
They studiously avoid challenging from any perspective which would undermine the narrative. For example they never, ever ask the environmentalist, renewables zealots ‘What will we do for energy when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining?’ or of the open borders brigade ‘So how many more millions of immigrants do you think this country can sustain?’ or ‘If immigrants are more than paying their way here, why are our schools, hospitals, housing, railways and roads under so much strain?’ or of the white left/liberal defenders if Islam ‘Do you approve of gender segregation in Britain? what about women’s rights?’ etc etc
Their interviews have become fragmented and meaningless because half the time they’re not concentrating on the interview but on the taboo avenues they mustn’t stray down.
Well said, Johnny. Hits the nail squarely on the head, fella.
“They studiously avoid challenging from any perspective which would undermine the narrative.”
Johnny, That sentence presumes that the ‘narrative’ is not just weak but completely hopeless, that they know it’s hopelessly weak, that we know it’s hopelessly weak and they know we know. That then suggests all the employees in BBC R4 are completely thick as breeze blocks and carry on regardless. I doubt that.
They are normal intelligent people who not doing their job and should be either trained properly, supervised properly or dismissed. They are coasting, taking the easy way out. Not good enough for the Licence Fee payer or the radio listener.
I disagree.
Try applying your theory to Roger Harrabin (as just one example). It wouldn’t work.
They are normal intelligent people who not doing their job and should be either trained properly, supervised properly or dismissed. They are coasting, taking the easy way out. Not good enough for the Licence Fee payer or the radio listener.
You have to be joking. The university I attended had a “School of Journalism” and the students doing the course had to be thickest idiots that I have ever had the displeasure of meeting in all my life. Their sole objective was to cause mayhem and disharmony. They were so thick that they were incapable of understanding or partaking in any intelligent or coherent discussion.
They are zombies whose little minds have corroded by manipulative and unscrupulous left wings drones. An this was in the early seventies. It is probably a hundred times worse now.
Interesting insights into the comedy ‘industry’ from someone who’s not a loony leftie, so we haven’t heard of him on the bBBC – Andrew Lawrence.
There’s a lot of activism cloaked as stand-up around at the moment. It all feels a bit sanctimonious.
I believe that if you present yourself as a comedian, your job is to be funny, not to educate audiences with your “progressive” politics. Russell Brand, Frankie Boyle, Stewart Lee — all stumble precariously between satire and demagoguery. Their motive should be “Look how funny I am,” but more often it’s “Look how clever I am, let me adjust your moral compass for you.”
Not your job mate. Just make me laugh.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/stage/comedy/article4523221.ece (£)
At least, Sir Arthur, those perceptive enough to read and appreciate the threads on here can still enjoy the ability to laugh at, rather than with, such eminent comedians – and then change channels.
It’s the same filter that has taken HIGNIFY out of my viewing list, having become bored to tears with the constantly arch Hislop and aloof, when not the centre of attention, Merton.
They conspired to ensure that Angus Deaton was dumped – though other ‘BBC stars’ have behaved far worse – but his wit, quicker than the two combined, was the only effective check to their primadonna status.
Typical race baiting shite churned out by our national broadcaster.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33856907
Makes me want to spew.
I wonder why the BBC never show this?
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=db5_1418177214
If the BBC was forced to show this they would say it shows ‘Brown apparently punching a man’. The BBC would then remind us that the ‘unarmed teenager Brown was shot dead by a white policeman’.
And while we’re at it, why TF are the BBC producing an ‘on-line magazine’? They’re supposed to be a ‘broadcasting’ organisation, one which according to it’s managing elite is down to its last £5bn.
The same can be asked of BBC Trending, whatever that is.
BBC Trending – you can be sure they won’t be reporting any trends on twitter that don’t suit their narrative – e.g. muslim atrocity followed by #enoughisenough wouldn’t be reported. Whereas #i’llridewithyou would make the 6pm news.
“Make sure you get my pain,”
Michael Brown Sr told photographers ?
In the photograph? …
Oh apologies … you mean, just give me a second, while I get my face right for the cameras, reminiscent of an second rate impressionist.
Anyway, the Bill Whittle vid was posted yesterday, whether you like him or not … J Taylor again simply reiterates the facts
Now these guys have had a had a torrid time, especially on the BBC
BBC – just who are the mysterious ‘Oath Keepers’?
“As the events marking the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death descended into violence in Ferguson this week, a handful of heavily armed white men were spotted patrolling the St Louis suburb – much to the ire of protesters. Dubbed by the media as right-wing vigilantes, they belong to a controversial group called the “Oath Keepers”
hmmmm! … well simply as a point of observation, from the horses mouth and these are US laws.
Thank you – was not aware.
Interesting – thanks.
So unemployment increased by 25,000 in the second quarter, April to June.
How many ‘migrants’ did we take in the same period?
And it was first item in the news surprising as any fall in unemployment is buried so deep in the running order you wonder if they will ever mention it.
During Maggies day the BBC always quote the rise in unemployment numerically but when she turned it round and unemployment started to fall it was always quote as a percentage. They never give up do they.
Sky news covered it in their business report. 170,000 UK citizens lost their jobs and 170,000 foreign people found work. Just remember – they don’t ‘steal jobs’ (of the metropolitan elite).
Incidentally, 25000 x 12 = 300,000 = number of net migrants coming to the UK. Is there a link? The BBC don’t appear to have anything to say.
Five Live now. An under pressure NHS – what could be the problem?
Ah yes, an aging population.
Anything to do with the swarms of immigrants entering our country?
Erm, not sure, because it wasn’t even mentioned.
Disingenuous, traitorous, fifth columnist fuckers. That’s your BBC.
The fact that the aging population have paid for the NHS for all of their lives is, of course, entirely irrelevant.
This ageing population member voted with his feet years ago, and having had recent need of fairly serious health care, was more than relieved that it was available, and made use of, in France.
Requiring regular check-ups, the thought of having to sit with hordes of other “outpatients” in a certain West London “hospital” makes my hooves tremble, and my horns droop.
Agree OG , at this moment my mother is suffering in an NHS “hospital “. I’m getting updates from my brother as like you I live in France and remember when “once upon a time ” we all used to be worried about falling ill abroad. Now the reverse is true and cannot help but put 2+2 together and blame not only the immigrants that have invaded but the mismanagement that awards themselves pay rises and cuts the level of nurses.
Perhaps you would like to reveal any bills that you have paid as part of your treatment and what you normally contribute for lesser treatments.
IIRC Mr Sarkozy changed the rules on “health tourism” in France a year or five ago to discourage retiring Brits to the effect that anyone who moved there earlier than the French pensionable age would have to fund all their treatment themselves, unless they got a job and paid into the social security system
I have paid NO bills in connection with my health care, zero, nada – nor have I been expected to.
I am “affiliated” to the French CMU, who pay a portion of my health costs (reimbursed by the British government, to whom I paid taxes and NHI all my working life).
I also have an annual “mutuelle” insurance, which covers the difference between actual costs, and what the CMU are prepared to cover. Therefore my health care has not required any bills, or invoices – and my experience of which is rather efficient, quick, clean, and friendly. Simple blood tests, for example, are followed up with results both to the GP, and myself, in next morning’s post – can you say the same for the Former UK? In my experience, I’ve had to wait a fortnight for results, which involved telephoning the doctor’s surgery, where my call (when eventually answered) was met by a surly, protective receptionist, who wanted to know the ins and outs of a duck’s arse, before reluctantly divulging the requisite information. Here, the doctor answers the ‘phone himself.
Nothing is “free” – you always pay for it somewhere down the line, unless someone else is fool enough to do so…
Ditto I’m the same as OG.
Funny how you get to be an ageing * population while being sick and treated at the NHS Doctor’s Surgery and hospital all day and everyday . . . . .
(* “OK, OK, I’m just rebelling against American spell-checking, Officer, my hands are up!”)
Typically BBC sniping voiceovers, and oh dears
Anyone catch, the Chinese teaching in a UK school documentary?.
You will have respect for your country, responsible cultivate, and do the best to serve all society and your country …
The droning BBC voiceover, “well! that just won t cut it” …
“a tough message if you happen to be a free spirit” …
Later on, “looks like the Chinese teachers can t control them”
“not taking it on board” … “clash of cultures”
“they believe the teachers are picking on them”
Anyway, it goes on and near the end the obligatory, tears and irritating piano music.
This could have been really good, but dumbed down, by the numbers, and society/nation sniping BBC, always snatch defeat from the jaws of victory … they missed out the “rainbow communities” message too, that must be in the last episode.
This is an embarrasing show for me as I have Chinese friends.
They try to be kind but cannot disguise their pity for our unpleasant and stupid young people.That there are exceptions does not alter things.
My six year old grandson has been helping us in the rain today. He knows what expected of him and takes his day seriously.
This country will let him down and it makes me angry
A case of common sense that the EU has not extinguished to date
Popular sentiment against further Muslim immigration into the Czech Republic is increasing. The latest manifestation of resistance is a series of exhibits in the public parks of Prague, featuring veiled female effigies representing women who have been stoned to death under Islam.
http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/08/czechs-protest-the-stoning-of-women-under-islam/#more-37075
That’s what I call art. I wonder if I could emigrate there ?
‘It’s art, Jim, but not as Grayson Perry and the BBC would know it’.
Strange you should mention the Czech Republic. The case of Teplice, a spa town that has essentially been taken over by rich Kuwaitis was mentioned on German TV. The German public, I think, was intended to tut disapprovingly at.the intolerance of the Czechs and polish their own halos at their own openness towards “the other”.
Prague, Oct. 8 (ČTK) — The Czech Interior Ministry has decided that the north Bohemian town of Teplice cannot issue a decree banning people from covering their faces in connection with the Arab clients of the local spa, daily Mladá fronta Dnes (MfD) writes in its regional supplement today.
The Teplice town hall was considering introducing such a ban in order to make some Arab tourists more respect “European rules” and keep public space tidy.
“A decree cannot regulate the covering of faces,” the ministry writes in a letter to Teplice Mayor Jaroslav Kubera.
The ministry says such a public notice would affect Muslim women who cover their faces in accordance with their religious belief and this would go against the Czech Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, the paper writes.
People living in the center of Teplice have recently complained about the large amount of waste produced by hundreds of Arab spa clients picnicking in the park and about noise at night.
The locals also say the way the Arabs drive their hired cars is dangerous, because they ignore the traffic rules and road signs.
The Teplice town hall, the local police and representatives of the Muslim community have been dealing with the situation.
The Teplice spa has become highly popular among Arab clients during the summer season. Several thousands of them arrived this year, mostly from Kuwait. Some of them even bought flats or land near the town to build houses because they want to visit every summer.
The Teplice spa had so many clients this summer that its accommodation capacity was full, and the Arabs rented flats in villas and prefabricated houses.
The Teplice town hall plans to introduce a spa fee of 15 Kč a day for tourists. The increasing costs of the cleaning of the town would be covered by these fees.
The ban on the burqa and the niqab, the latter of which covers the face below the eyes, was proposed by Teplice councillor Iva Dvořáková.
“The Teplice inhabitants are troubled by the life style of the Arabs, and I wanted to send a clear signal that our town recognizes democratic values,” Dvořáková told MfD.
“I assume those Arabs who would respect the uncovering of the face would be more willing to accept the local rules concerning safety and order. The extremely conservative who refuse to respect our rules simply would not arrive,” she said.
If everybody covered their faces, they’d soon find a way to ban it. Especially if they all start ignoring traffic rules as well.
Sounds like the citizens of Taplice will rapidly become familiar with the old adage ‘Lowest common denominator’, courtesy of their EU-subservient national government and despite the valiant efforts of their democratically-elected local council.
I think the EU is in for a shock as I can’t believe Eastern Europeans will meekly give in to ‘multiculturalism’ (aka Islamisation) in the way we in Western Europe have done thus far.
The Eastern Europeans won’t. They have had no experience of “multiculturalism” (up to now) and have only been able to re-express their national identities since the (relatively recent) fall of the Iron Curtain and the removal of Soviet oppression.
There are many of those states which historically suffered under the Ottoman heel for many centuries (forced conversions, dervishme, jizya etc) – they will not welcome the influx of votaries of the RoP into their countries. I recall watching footage online from Bulgaria; where they were seeking to re-open a mosque, which had been a museum for many years – it didn’t end terribly well as I recall.
most readers on this site are aware of the “hideously white” quote
but why do lefties have to be so hideously ugly? corbin looks like he is homeless, when was the last time he brushed his teeth or had a shave?
I’m not sure the BBC can be blamed for that. And there are some Tories who are less than pleasing on the eye, but it would be unchivalrous to name them.
Go on any lefty website and look at the pictures of their heroic demonstrators – all with mouths wide open, looking deranged. And these are the images they want to promote.
Corbyn frenzy explained. Maybe it is due to the daily discussions of Corbyn on the BBC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33881104
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Just listened to a bit of R4’s ‘You and Yours’ about insurance application fraud. 212,000 cases last year apparently so the dopey Al Beeb bint asked the ABI guy whether this was likely to be the tip of the iceberg (answer broadly ‘yes’ as you would expect)!
Compare and contrast with Al Beeb’s unquestioning stance on numbers of, inter alia –
illegal immigrants
numbers of health tourists
ineligible EHIC or NHI numbers
fraudulent claims for benefits (particularly disability where Leftoids claim an official! figure of iirc 0.2% is about all there is despite there being few DWP inspectors and that it can take 2 years of video surveillance of suspected fraudulent claimants to secure sufficient evidence for conviction.
Al Beeb’s usual bias present here.
Haven t heard about this on the BBC
“A Disgrace to the Profession”:
The World’s Scientists – In Their Own Words – On Michael E Mann
Climate Change … The FACTS
Mark Steyn
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tmjb8
Uncertain Climate
…BBC Environmental Analyst Roger Harrabin
Mark Steyn, in conversation with Roger “horrible” Harrabin
er … maybe not
A review on book of the week then … in all probability …no
A book at bedtime? …
Oh! come on how about … Bookclub?
I d pay to see him and Roger on “Hard Talk” (Yes, and I know we already are :-D)
Steyn would make mincemeat of Harrabin in less than one sentence.
I have been passed this about the new chair of the Culture committee:
http://www.jessenorman.com/profile-8.html
Like John W, there is the obligatory nation treasure suck-up, but a few lines in there may encourage if read between.
Have to admit I’m struggling to spot them, GW.
‘The culture committee has in the past called for the introduction of a household levy, paid by every home regardless of whether it had a television. It is an “interesting idea” that would guarantee an income, Mr Norman says. “What I don’t think you can do is to pretend that other approaches such as a subscription model are an automatic substitute for the licence fee.”
That’s pretty depressing stuff which echoes much of what I’ve been reading recently about BBC funding. I don’t reckon the Tories have got the balls to make the BBC stand on its own four legs.
Fair point.
Maybe I was willing myself to see what isn’t there, grasping at the ‘all options open’ rather than subscription being low on the totem vs. forced support via levy without choice.
If so, not a vote winner, Jesse.
The BBC know they are safe. Like a rebellious teenager who goes unpunished, she only acts worse. Hence the flurry of provocative programming (Songs of Praise from the Camp of the Saints, The Mark Duggan We All Loved etc) and plethora of race-baiting articles.
They may be safe from the government; they may not be so safe from their audience.
It’s A’ level results day and so where does the BBC news at 1pm report from? The multic-culti hotbed of Leicester of course – Yay!
And of all the students to interview who do they choose – a Chinese looking girl – Yay! and two dusky skinned males – Yay! Yay!
And to finish off the piece the bint correspondent tells us there are 27,000 more wimmin’ than men going to uni this year – Yay! and there’s been a significant increase in the number of international students – Yay! Yay! Yay!
You can’t pay for better propoganda than this
Dr Goebbels would have been green with envy.
I hope they are all studying the effects of climate change.
A full house for BBC bullshit bingo, yay yay and thrice yay
Well, grads will always have a berth at ‘Global News’, via Classic FM.
Their top of the hour BS segment decided to go large in fracking, and wheeled out a ‘commentator’ so bent he had to mutter about the ‘possibility’ of ‘dark deeds’ taking place with, as evidence… zippo.
And was allowed full airwave opportunity to make such allegations without challenge.
I’d take this one to OFCOM, but they make CECUTT seem like truth terriers.
just be thankful they were not in bradfordistan, i can just imagine the hijabs and the bbc making profound statements about “integration, we are all British, the Muslim community” blah blah blah
BBC, as usual, avoids any debate on unfettered immigration and health tourism –
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-33905737
With ever increasing swarms of marauding foreign benefit seekers and freeloaders seeking to milk this country for all they can get, the trend will continue to rise unabated.
The BBC has at last found a way to report how Julian Assange has wriggled out of answering rape charges.
“Julian Assange ‘disappointed’ as sex assault case dropped”
Aw. He is disappointed? Oddly, so am I.
He is, the BBC gushingly confides, disappointed that he wasn’t allowed to put his side of the story. Odd I thought there was a nice air conditioned court in Sweden, complete with ‘right on’ lefty, magistrate, all ready to listen to Mr Assange explain why the laws of the world don’t apply to him.
The BBC was desperate to hear Mister Assange’s legal team view of this outrage.
Apparently Helena Kennedy is perplexed. She doesn’t understand why the Swedish court didn’t simply move over to the converted ladies loo at the Ecuadorian embassy and listen to his pious explanation. That usually happens does it love? Knuckles McBride often says to the plod, ‘hey don’t arrest me. Just bring them judges and juries ’round to my pad. The missus will make a nice cuppa for them.’
Anyone else the BBC believes should have an opinion? Say the victims, who have expressed their fury elsewhere at how they cannot get closure? The Swedish legal team being run around in circles by this pompous twerp? Anyone who doesn’t read the Guardian?
Yes! Just about sufficient space for Julian’s mother to say “I have privately shed many tears for many years – the terrible injustice of it all.”
Well Mrs Assange there are many of us who have shed tears over it – and of the BBC’s coverage.
Where is the BBC outrage? Ched Evans, who served time for his offences of rape, found he couldn’t rebuild his life because of the BBC’s limitless reporting of his situation following his release. Viewers were constantly directed to an online poll vilifying Ched Evans. It received more mentions on the BBC than climate change, Strictly Come Dancing or how wonderful the licence fee is.
Still Mr Assange does hate the USA and always has time to attack the West, so that’s all right then.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33907874
Isn’t there the little matter of him breaching his bail conditions to be answered?
It’s blatantly a put up job to discredit him and extradite him to Sweden. The first judge said there was absolutely no case to answer. Whether you agree with Wikileaks, or not, this is really the stuff of fascism.
Bias? No. But the BBC cannot leave anything alone – their producers always have to manipulate everything. The tick box culture of choosing the contestants for Bake Off has already been raised. But last weekend the Daily Mail had a story about the number of contestants who had professional training before appearing as contestants. But we also heard lots about how betting had been suspended because the betting had all been for one person. And this week the likely candidate is out of the competition. Now why do I feel the Beeb and their publicists are behind all this? Bake Off used to be a nice little programme tucked away on BBC2 about real baking. Sadly the baking isn’t real – it is more like an art class in cake and the contestants are now the story rather than the cakes.
And while I am having a moan – last week it was the madeira cake. Again previous series of Bake Off had the odd double entendre that was done in innocence although it was becoming more evident. Last week all the contestants were worried about their ‘crack’ and whether Mary or Paul would see it. The joke was done to death. But the funny thing is that search the internet for madeira cake and crack is hardly mentioned, for this sort of cake it is not important.
Anything that has been PC manipulated ,by the Evil BBC ,don`t watch it. They think we are all stupid , but they have not fooled me, since the Year Zero , when the Evil Blair Junta took over .
Top marks for sticking with it for an hour!
The slightly jokey nature of this belies just how serious the multiples of standards are at the BBC, and how they use facts merely as a starting point to ladle on agenda-coloured opinion and corporate policy in guise of ‘reporting’.
http://bbcwatch.org/2015/08/13/variations-in-bbc-portrayal-of-fences-walls-and-barriers/
Yes. Why the differences? The BBC likes a fence and it is a good one. The BBC doesn’t like a fence and it becomes bad.
A simple question, then.
One I suspect a battery of FoI laywers and ECU Directors would be en route to intercept to ensure no answer is provided.
More’s the pity.
Maybe IKEA can create a fencing product and give it a funky name, like ‘Defns’?
Thanks for the link, GW.
Here’s an extract:-
“”In May of this year the IDF published figures relating to the anti-terrorist fence’s efficacy. Since the fence’s construction, suicide bombings have decreased by 100% and shooting attacks by 93.5%, bringing a dramatic fall in the number of Israeli civilians killed by terrorists. Unfortunately for members of the BBC’s audience trying to put both the Israeli security barrier and similar measures in other countries into context, that information is not included in the BBC narrative on the subject””.
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Rather puts possible reasons for BBC editorial by omission in sharp focus, doesn’t it?
I may well be writing to Messrs. Whittingdale, Norman and a few others to offer that being given no choice but to pay for the BBC’s standard of education and information will not be welcome in this household, especially if imposed for political reasons.
Being required to understand issues that have a bearing on how I vote, I no longer have any confidence in the national broadcaster to share the totality of them enough for it to be considered anything other than a propaganda organ.
Concealing inconvenient data to make idealistic social engineering ambitions fit a narrative is not acceptable.
Haven’t heard a Smiths song on Jeremy Vine for a while, has Morrissey died?
Nah because for sure we would hear it about to Nelson Mandella proportions on the bBC, a Smiths song every hour on the hour, Vine, Maconie, Radcliffe and Laverne will be presenting hours of in depth discussions and analysis of the mans songs and lyrics on BBC4, Jeremy Corbyn will be interviewed at length about the man and a crew of 100 at the funeral.
I dread the day! Hang the DJ’s!
(replied to Guest Who in error) and couldn’t edit my comment below…
Nah because for sure we would hear it about to Nelson Mandella proportions on the bBC, a Smiths song every hour on the hour, Vine, Maconie, Radcliffe and Laverne will be presenting hours of in depth discussions and analysis of the mans songs and lyrics on BBC4, Jeremy Corbyn will be interviewed at length about the man and a crew of 100 at the funeral.
I dread the day! Hang the DJ’s!
Looks like the bBBC ‘news’ editors don’t do irony: they report complaints that the Chinese state broadcaster is censoring stories about the Tianjin explosions.
Who would have imagined that a state broadcaster would stop its citizens from knowing what is happening in its own country?
This was written about liberals in America but it goes 100% for our beloved BBC. The 12 impossible things you need to believe before breakfast to be a liberal at:
http://john-moloney.blogspot.com/2015/08/be-best.html
The news blackout immediately following the Glasgow bin lorry crash convinced many people that it must have been a ‘nothing to do with Islam’ terrorist attack, what one might call The Peter and The Wolf Syndrome.
It looks that the ‘authorities’ must have been convinced too as the DVLA has decided not to prosecute either.
One wonders what the point of having medical checks is if there are no consequences, (apart from killing people), from not complying. Maybe the ‘authorities’ are just setting a precedent for when we have a real ‘nothing to do with Islam’ attack?
I remain unsatisfied. I don’t believe the truth has been told. The stakes are high. Anything is possible. Health checks my arse.
Taking this at face value lets apply some logic here;
Driver knows his vehicle has defective brakes but cannot afford to pay for the repairs. But he needs it to go to and from work. Brakes fail and he mounts the pavement killing several people. Vehicle examined and found to have defective brakes. Driver arrested and under caution admits that he knew his brakes were defective…………… CPS oh shame you poor man but listen when you have some spare cash it might be wise to get them seen to. Yeah right.
Driver mounts pavement killing several people. Admits he suffers from blackouts but he needs the job. CPS; Oh shame, can we arrange for you to have treatment so you can return to work.
What the hell is the difference in the two examples?
As we all know ‘cuts’ are being discussed on a daily basis now the tories are a one party government.
However LBC today talking about library closures the words ‘criminal’ and ‘vandalism’ were bandied about. I always thought libraries were closing because of the internet for information and cheap books from Amazon. But no the equation is as follows :-
Tories = tory scum = vandals = criminals. Total = Tory vandalizing criminal scum.
A question for LBC: Libraries are under local authority control and are a statutory obligation. Why are some authorities not meeting this obligation and what are they not cutting that in your view is a lesser priority?
Libraries are run by local authorities, but central government provides some support and guidance, as well as overseeing their services….
If a local authority is not fulfilling its duties to provide services as specified under the Libraries Act 1964, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport may set up an investigation. Interventions by the Secretary of State will be carefully considered on a case-by-case basis and an inquiry will only be started with very good reason.
Dialogue and engagement with a local authority is the starting point to understand how they intend to fulfill their statutory duties.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2010-to-2015-government-policy-library-services/2010-to-2015-government-policy-library-services
Johnnythefish
Of course if LBC were made aware of that it would be game set and match.. to the detriment of the detritus!
This is utterly pathetic –
http://rightwingnews.com/top-news/words-pig-and-pork-banned-by-oxford-university-press-in-childrens-books-because-it-may-offend-muslims/
I find it hard to believe!
I don’t – read Mark Steyn’s book:
“Lights Out: Islam, Free speech, and the twilight of the west.”
We cannot protest, everyone takes a step backwards, rather than criticise Islam, and panders to its demands, at the same time demonising those who do have the temerity to cry foul, to save their own necks.
Oxford Press, however, defended their politically correct move in a statement:
“Many of the educational materials we publish in the UK are sold in more than 150 countries, and as such they need to consider a range of cultural differences and sensitivities.” “Our editorial guidelines are intended to help ensure that the resources that we produce can be disseminated to the widest possible audience”
All in the best, (frantically crossing legs) possssssible taste eh!
I posted this a couple of weeks ago … people, it won t be long
Lunacy at University of New Hampshire.
The University of New Hampshire is a pretty pricey college, but Ezra Levant of TheRebel.media wouldn’t go there if you paid him.
That’s because of their “Bias Free Language Guide.” It covers “microagressions” — including “microinsults” — offenses against “ageism, sexism, racism” and other “-isms.” It gets off to a bad start with its dubious definition of “democracy” and goes downhill from there. It’s Orwell’s 1984 except it isn’t fiction
Getting to be enough repeats on here to rival the BBC !
(nah not really !)
I just wanted to see the tampon “statement” earrings” again, perhaps Mourinho s
Physio should have been wearing some, as a sensitivity reminder.
I thought it was the best paaassssible taste!
Huge, huge, huge story this morning on LBC and made all the papers and is headlines in the DM online…
Mourinho had a pop at a physio that attended a player when Mourinho didn’t want the player to get any attention as it was near the end of the game and ten men on the pitch was the last thing he wanted.
I know, not much of a story really but then of course the ‘offended’ person was a ……’woman’!
This whole story revolves around him being sexist, out of order etc etc. This is a prime example of how our country is disappearing down the proverbial league in every area except crime, as every decision that goes against a woman, ethnic minority, transgendered etc etc person is now not a decision based on capability or professionalism the issue is now ‘sexism racism and homophobia’. If this were a man Mourinho had a go at I wouldn’t even know about this non story.
There will now be a ‘ twatter’ campaign amongst others to sack him, fine him, or make him grovel an apology.
Muorinho is a brilliant manager ( I am not partisan ) because he is a realist and makes decisions based on his professional opinion pure and simple. Hopefully he will stick to his guns, and stick up for his decision, and I am fairly confident he will not bow down to the media fascists.
Meanwhile homogenous patriarchial traditional Japan, China and India are leaping ahead in the world in leaps and bounds not being hamstrung and disappearing up their ‘Jacksies’ worrying about trivia!
Strangely no mention of the Male physio Mourinho also bollocked in the same incident…!
Next up, lack of transgender coaches shames football.
Shelly.
Good point. The story made the BBC six o’clock news tonight again but the narrative was the amount of support she got on ‘Twatter’ or whatever in that thousands gave her support. How many we don’t know and of course how many were negative!
But I was correct in that Mourinho stood by his decision and didn’t offer apology or succour to the liberal fascists.
The despicable
tax-funded Labour propaganda showbBBC Northwest Tonight this evening decided to turn the news story of A-level results into a campaign against imaginary government cuts to sixth-form colleges. Disgraceful!Yes I saw that Sir Arthur so despite massive debts the kids are still going to university. Was I imagining it or did Eno repeat “Mid August” as well.i
Not BBC but on ITV London they were saying the better A-level results were due to immigration. What next?
The indigenous people of Britain have never achieved much, never done much and are useless except as slavers and warmongers.
Please get with the approved BBC/liberal media viewpoint.
And there is talk of bringing exams forward to avoid the fasting of Ramadan.
You couldn’t make it up, it would be funny if it were made up.
Watching the Sky report on the same subject, one could be forgiven for thinking that indigenous students amount to just 1 in 4 and predominantly female.
There is no escape from ‘this’ conditioning’ one watches Sky to avoid the bias of the bBC, but they’re fast catching up. UK news output is in a dire state.
High time for an alternative tell it as it approach, I guess we’ll be waiting a long time….
”indigenous students amount to just 1 in 4 and predominantly female.” It’s London, which has a detrimental impact on Britain.
Looks like somebody will be sent on a re-training course:
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/bbc-radio-dj-alex-dyke-suspended-over-breastfeeding-remarks/ar-BBlIgoP?ocid=iehp
Did he make a tit of himself?
And talking about dykes, the South West has had a severe weather warning on it all day with flash floods and thunderstorms (from the Met Office). The best we got was drizzle. There are a lot of very unhappy “storm chasers” across the U.K. tonight. The “Big One” that they had forecast to head up to Scotland during the evening had other ideas. It went to Holland. Expect a deathly hush from the BBC about the desperately poor U.K. weather forecast. I get the impression though, that what happens in Kent is good enough to be called the U.K.
You had drizzle? In my part of Somerset we didn’t even have that, in fact the sun came out this afternoon.
In view of the dire forecast I wonder how much it cost our tourist industry today in school holiday day outs?
Really poor forecasting .Thank God we did not have the current lot in 1944.
It only needed a look at the sky this morning to see that the forecast was way out.
Not that the average metropolitan knows where the sky is anymore.
Ten o’clock news. Chinese explosion, 4mins of coverage. Secondly, the labour leadership race 6mins, ended with the beboid robot explaining that there is “much more” info about the contest on the website. Biased, what gives people that impression!
Newsnight once again reiterating it’s incestuous relationship with both the Guardian and the Labour party, by obsessing over the leadership battle.
Real people in the real world don’t give a toss, but it seems like panic stations at BBC Towers.
Rosa Klebb on Newsnight tonight with serious face covering the Labour leadership farce, and then, bizarrely, doing a hatchet piece on Donald Trump with the help of……………Selina Scott, detailing his misogyny, evilness, right-wingery etc. FFS. Selina Scott? Surely Frank Bough should have been dug up too. At least he’d have had some interesting anecdotes.
You’ve got to hand it to Work though, she makes absolutely no pretence of her dully dutiful socialist credentials, and doesn’t care who knows.
Al Beebus can’t compute that Trump (unlike the professional politicians) is articulating what a lot of Americans fear has happened / is happening to their country; and like the MSM everywhere – they don’t like it when the majority have their views expressed (Farage & UKIP being the example in the UK) and they do their damnedest, by any means, to cancel the debate; rather than allow it to take place.
The BBC is the very antithesis of open debate and the freedom of speech.
Oh, it’s all so middle class, giggly and jolly on yet another bloody Newsnight focusing on that Marxist throwback Jeremy Corbyn. This is a disgrace! It’s pure far-Left advertising. The BBC get away with sodding murder. One can sense the BBC rooting for this IRA and Hamas sympathising clown.
It’s about time the British public had a referendum on the BBC’s left-wing crap.
They wouldn’t know what to do with a referendum, they get so few of them to play with. The way things are going, they don’t even seem to get the ones they were promised…
I see the Evil BBC`s favourite schoolboy , is allowed out to `review` the papers . He should have a permanent detention in Cuba .
By the way, off topic but important anyway. My other half works for a coop chemist ,and it is about to change over to become a “well” chemist, run by the asian family that own best buy discount warehouse. My mrs has been given a list of uniform options that includes headscarves! Give it five years and it will be law for white English girls to wear them, ten years, its over for us. By the way, she os strongly encouraged to order said headscarf, im assuming to not upset the r.o.p. who have put the money in.is it me ?
I think you mean Bestway, Best Buy were are an American electronics retailer than failed miserably in the UK, closing all their shops in 2011.
Bestway is owned by Pakistani ‘Sir’ Anwar Pervez who surprise surprise is a big Tory donor. He paid £620m for CoOp pharmacies.
Are there any British companies left?
I avoid shopping in retailers which employ Muslims as far as possible and never stand in a queue for a till with a Muslim operator .
BBC very excited about this: the mayor of Occupied Calais has alleged that ‘the English mafia’ are involved in the smuggling of illegal immigrants into Britain. And, by way of proof: “The BBC saw cars with UK number plates at a camp on Dunkirk’s outskirts” (what do you mean – just day trippers coming to buy cheap booze? You waycist!). See – it’s all self-inflicted, might even be UKIP and EDL responsible for the whole business for all anyone knows.
It is possible that some English criminals are involved in some aspects of this business in some limited degree. But it is far more likely that the terms ‘English’ and ‘British’ are being used interchangeably, as many French people do and indeed as the article itself does. And it is also probably the case that the BBC are using the term ‘British’ in their usual manner i.e. referring to people who many would describe as ‘new Britons’. In other words, people who were not born in Britain and have no real connection with it other than it is a place where they reside, claim benefits, commit crimes, vote Labour and are fawned over by the BBC.
Right at the end of the article the BBC slips this in: “Pascal Aerts, who leads the officers policing migrants in Calais, has told the BBC he is aware of the probable involvement of British people. “I don’t have proof that they’re English but we know perfectly there do exist links between the traffickers and the receivers in Great Britain, and with the traffickers who work in France.”
See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33909698
Watched Newsnight (Shite-n-light) with Yvette Cooper being horribly insincere. Mentioned “white men” in disparaging terms. Kirsty Wark let that go (of course). What if she said “Black men” in such terms?
She’s an economist apparently but as I remember seemed to have difficulty working out which was her home when claiming expenses. ( I have that problem constantly).
Well I looked through Yvettee Cooper’s Wiki page out of amused interest (being an affiliated Labour member now I feel I must peruse all the candidates before I vote for the Jezer) I notice that all mention of Yvette’s and her husband Ed Ball-up’s dubious expenses have gone down the “memory hole.”
Strange…
Happily she hasn’t yet purged these sources
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5325590/Ed-Balls-and-Yvette-Cooper-flipped-homes-three-times-MPs-expenses.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_expenses_claims_in_the_United_Kingdom_parliamentary_expenses_scandal#Ed_Balls_and_Yvette_Cooper
In September 2007, the married couple and Labour Cabinet ministers, Ed Balls, the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, and Yvette Cooper, then the Housing Minister, were accused of exploiting the Commons’ allowances system in order to pay for a £655,000 house in Stoke Newington, North London.
The couple subsequently declared this to be their second home, despite spending most of their time in London in order to fulfil their ministerial responsibilities and their children attending London schools. The declaration of the Stoke Newington property as their second home meant that they became eligible for a reported Additional Costs Allowance (ACA) of £44,000 a year to cover the property’s £438,000 mortgage.
The Conservative MP Malcolm Moss made a complaint to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, who agreed to launch an investigation into the matter. The commissioner ultimately found that the couple had acted in accordance with parliamentary rules and as such dismissed the complaint against them. The Committee on Standards and Privileges agreed with the Commissioner’s dismissal of the complaint.
I knew she was a wrong un!
Yes Polly , it’s truly wonderful to see Waaark pushing the Liebore leader election-very BBC.
For myself (and others ,I hope) on this board, I am enjoying immensely my new-found status as a Registered Supporter.It has given me immense pleasure to immediately bin the promotional stuff received from …..David Lammy, Dianne Abbott,and Yvette Cooper thus far.
They don’t know my heart belongs to Jeremy!
How amusing to see Liebore Bliarites moaning about ‘entryism’ , when that is exactly what the Left have been doing for 50 years.
I’m Jezzer’s boy too!
Got a nice letter from Yvette just today though through the post.
On the back of her leaflet is this comment from one of Y.C.’s supporters.
I quote;
“Yvette…will continue Labour’s historic commitment to those whose voices are often marginalized”
Who wrote that?
“Elli Wilson – Student at Girton College, Cambridge”.
Up the workers Elli!
I put it in the re-cycler. Hilarious. Best £3 I ever paid.
Newsnight has now devoted 22 programmes to the Labour leadership contest. Is this a world record?
It certainly means there is little else able to be considered.
So the Guardian came out for Cooper, the Daily Mirror is siding with Burnham….I’m assuming the most left wing of the three Labour supporting institutions, the BBC – will come out for Corbyn very soon – but because they’re supposed to be impartial are trying to think up ways of how to do it…
Somewhere, deep within W1A, a Newsnight pre-production meeting wonders if Ken Livingstone and Owen Jones would make suitable impartial expert guests to ‘discuss’ the options….
22?
I’d love to hear a BBC Editor of Integrity explain such devotion, but for sure a spokesperson and ‘purposes of’ exclusion would nip that one in the bud.
Taking BBC bias as a given, if there is an upside, like Ian Katz’ Operation Clarke County triumph, such coverage seems mainly to have kept the Cluster-FUBAR that is anything Labour top of mind for most.
Which is nice.
BBC tv new this morning – number one head line : Labour Party
number two head line : China Crisis
In other words a rehash of yesterdays story of the continuing fall out from an irresponsibly managed collection of toxic elements by people who didn’t know or care what they were doing – so the whole lot blew up
and the China story
Labour seems still an obsession at every corner of the BBC.
On Facebook there was a ‘Newsbeat’ (another youth job creation scheme, along with ‘trending’, ‘magazine’, ‘pop-up’, etc) post on their soul topic of concern.
Seems only one of the Leadership candidates is a fan of… Dr. Dre.
Apparently.
But there is at least a nice happy, smiley picture of them all, even though they are all fighting like BBC executives in a sack, including Mrs. Balls of latest ‘men’ fame.
It is the toughest job in British politics. Again… apparently.
The BBC has truly lost the plot.
I remember “China Crisis” being an insipid, whiny, light-weight, useless inconsequential group of moaners from the eighties…
Oops…Sorry I forgot I am a Labour party affiliate.
Late 70s early 80s synthetic would-be fashionable also ran, no doubt trying to make a nostalgic last hurrah second adolescence come back for pension enhancing reasons – sorry China Crisis fans, I was refering to Corbyn
Another vital topic at the BBC that may deserve a bit of popcorn for the casual observer:
http://www.timworstall.com/2015/08/14/there-really-are-some-idiot-tossers-around/?
It’s a pity when staff fall out.
I wonder if Newsnight might one day get around to reporting news again of interest to the public?
A case of handbags at dawn
I was listening to Today on Radio 4 (Friday morning) reporting on the black economy. Only the term wasn’t used, instead the term ‘Shadow Economy’ was used repeatedly.
The BBC strives not to use politically incorrect words or phrases such as ‘black’ with regard to subjects with negative connotations.
This is yet another example of the BBC subtly changing and replacing the language we use to comply with and advance their cultural-marxist agenda.
If your bank balance is in “the black” you’re OK . Better change that .
Be careful not to catch another dose of VD this morning. The subject of the Victoria Derbyshire programme is What if the UK population keeps growing?. The website claims that the programme ‘has been hearing differing viewpoints’ – that would be a first for the bBBC – but manages to mention immigration only once, two-thirds of the way through the article. They have also found an ‘expert’, Dr Jenifer Baxter (head of energy and environment at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers) – no, me neither – who thinks ‘We are all better off by having more people’.
Pass the sick-bag, please.
Interesting. Did they have anybody on the panel suggesting a population explosion might not be a good thing?
The BBC seems to have been banging the same drums now for weeks. On the VD show this week we have been given the Migrant crisis again, kids company again and relentless coverage of the Labour leadership contest. Speaking of which, is it just me or is the BBC starting to warm to Corbyn? On both Newsnight last night and VD this morning the “tone” of reporting towards him seems to be shifting.
The BBC/Guardian liberal left is going to end up confused. What is starting to happen is that the old divide bewtween left and right is breaking down,
What we are gearing up for ( and this blog is part of it ) is a battle between the new revived conservative forces of the West against the tiring force of the liberal left 68er era.
It is perfectly possible that on many matters the new conservatives will espouse old so called leftwing policies.
A new conservative will have great reservations about the position of the banks and the power and influence of the multinationals.
There are many other matters also. Education,law and the military, foreign policy etc, where the old divisions of left and right are redundant.
The MSM and particularly the BBC is way out of touch.
This change is a reaction to the status quo of the last 50 odd years. It is also a reaction to the events of the last 20 years and the growing existential threat to the Western way of life.
I cannot see how the BBC is going to be in any way relevant other than to be attacked and eventually ignored.
Nice to hear a positive view of things – not sure you’re right about the decrepitude of the left tendency though. We can but hope..
Jim on “Today” didn’t want to press the man claiming that raising the earnings cap for Non-EU migrants would be disastrous for the UK economy. As the cap is around £20,000 pa I am surprised that it buys so many high & rare skills. Or is it still set at he level of the vital occupation of curry chef?
Is the BBC lurching to the left? That old bastion of radio comedy, I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, seems to be ‘coming out’.
While it still sparkles it has for some time used undemanding ‘musical’ rounds to pad out the half hour. Now we’ve had the round ‘Daily Mail Headlines’ e.g. ‘Allies land at Normandy on D Day’ to which the Daily Mail headline would be ‘Lay off Hitler’.
Bias? What bias? Don’t expect a ‘Grauniad Headlines’ round any time soon.
And to think it used to be a partisan free half hour on the radio.
How are the mighty fallen! What a shame, it was a little island of real comedy without the guilt, without the looking-over-the-shoulder attitude checking. Perhaps the surviving originals could decamp to Amazon Prime.
From Corbyn to Clarkson, rescue Jeremy from ‘inappropriate attachment’!
In better news, R4 Dead Ringers actually made fun of all four Labour leadership contenders 😀
Another victory for the offendotrons. The bBBC has apologised to a fat woman, six years after Richard Wilson said she was fat.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13596019.I_Don_t_Believe_It__BBC_apologises_over_Richard_Wilson_gaffe/
‘…bBBC has apologised to a fat woman, six years after Richard Wilson said she was fat.’
6 years? They seem to be speeding up the process.
Of course this one will grace the Complaints homepage for months to show they do respond to critical issues.
Fraser Steel can rest easy a while longer.
Did the bBBC design the clothing for the World Athletics championships? The British team kit has no Union Jack on it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/33915289
This happened with one of our airline companies. Would any other nation do this ?
Disgraceful.
I am reliably informed that this was simply a matter of timing as Britain’s new flag – based on the EU flag overlayed with the crescent moon and hammer and sickle – isn’t due to be formally announced until next month.
Emily Thornbury approved suppliers?
This BBC Newsbeat piece outlines the solemn insanity of our liberal masters. They make the Apartheid South Africans look colour blind. It’s here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/33860433/do-you-tick-the-british-box-a-group-of-people-describe-their-identity
Thanks for the link, Alex.
Here’s an extract:-
Her brother Adu, 21, also defines himself as a Londoner.
“”Being a Londoner is a completely different dynamic to being actually British because when you go outside London you don’t feel that way.
I don’t go to Northampton or Norfolk and go ‘yeah I’m British’ and I don’t ever get that response””.
Why doesn’t the BBC question this attitude or even discuss it?
It’s simply reported as fact.
..
For some time the BBC has been encouraging the concept that London is now a ‘world city’ and therefore no longer anything to do with Britain, let alone poor old England.
Amazing what a short sharp shock* of multiculturalism can do for your country.
*Or was that a long drawn out battering.
Yeah I go to Manchester and Newcastle and don’t say yeah I’m British . I don’t go anywhere except abroad to feel that .
”I don’t go anywhere except abroad to feel that.” Like visiting London then.
I don’t have a visa to visit Londonistan .
I’d like to . Remember the I-Spy books ? . My one of Lost English Cities gives 10000 points if you see a Cockney living happily in Britain’s capital .
Well no one called Adu can be British can they?
Hey all you social media kidzzzz!
Just waking up after a night out celebrating getting into UoTowerHamlets to study Chemistry & Politics?
Well, BBC Facebook wants you!!!!!!
Liz Kendall · Trending
Newsbeat
Good morning! We want to hear from you if you’re a Labour supporter or member. Do you back leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn or do you think he’ll be a disaster for the party? Do you prefer either Liz Kendall, Andy Burnham or Yvette Cooper. We may get you on air! Please send us a message.
If I told mine Liz Kendall was trending, I’d be interested in the response.
Nice to see the BBC getting ’em young, and often. Sooooo very often.
Grant Smith I’m voting for Liz Kendall, people go on about how she is too conservative in her polices – but Labour wasn’t trusted with the economy at the last election so maybe this is exactly what we need!
Like · Reply · 1 · 3 hrs · Edited
Newsbeat Hey Grant, would you up for doing a quick pre-record with us? My email is nomia.iqbal@bbc.co.uk
Looks like Nomia Igbal has the vox pop she needs.
Meanwhile Today is hitting the big issues post Heath ‘allegations’…
The Today Programme
Being Asexual: Jenni Goodchild is asexual and Joseph De Lappe is finishing a PhD in Asexual studies.
there has been comment:
Samuel Furse Luke Fowler — I warn you, the woman in this clip may not have access to sexual feelings, but I think she may be making up for that in her use of redundant interrogative inflexion!
Duly educated and informed. The process of guest location always intrigues.
She was truly, staggeringly, incoherent. Mind you, the wanabe Dr De Lappe wasn’t much of an improvement.
It would be interesting to know how the BBC came upon these two – a former (?) student who could barely communicate in English and a PhD student researching in an extremely strange field.
I sensed a set-up.
Very appropriately perhaps, the Today Programme on Radio 4 is our daily alarm – alarmingly biased usually. I’ve been amazed at how often a certain Vicky Price is brought on to the finance slot around 6:15 to give her considered opinion (usually where Greece is involved as she is Greek I suppose) but surely her introduction should be accompanied by a typical BBC health warning – the controversial Vicky, or so called economic expert or former jailbird and perverter of the course of justice but no – just good old Vicky no questions asked…. I can’t imagine some other commentators being given such a seamless introduction.
al – beeb has no problem has no problem with prefacing footballer Ched Evans with “convicted rapist” ad nauseum. How about “Here to give her opinion on the Greek financial situation, is convicted liar Vicky Price”
And don’t forget to mention her husband and partner in crime.
Who used to be a favourite guest on guess which national broadcaster ??
Some time ago, after getting sick of hearing Ms Price’s gob on the BBC, I wrote to them inquiring about the difference in her treatment compared to that of Dave Lee Travis. The furry one, of course, never even went to prison, but still his editions of Top Of The Pops remain banned on BBC4. The answer I got was naturally a masterclass in not addressing the point I’d made. I never said that Ms Price should be banned. I’d just asked why the difference between her and DLT? The impression given is that the BBC is following its own warped moral code that has nothing at all to do with severity of sentence or the law of the land –
[i] In selecting contributors for our programmes we aim to choose those with the most suitable talents for the role. Vicky is a highly experienced economist who we feel is well placed to comment on national and international economics. That said, judgements are often subjective and we’re sorry you feel that Vicky should not be used due to her past criminal conviction. We have used a range of other economists throughout our programming, including Lena Komileva. We can also confirm that we will not be showing TOTPs repeats fronted by Dave Lee Travis. We do acknowledge that some viewers will be disappointed not to see these episodes, but we must balance the views of all sections of our audience. We will consider any other archive appearances on a case by case basis according to their editorial merits. [/i]