I see the BBC have a new programme called Charisma: Pinning Down the Butterfly is a two-week series presented by Francine Stock starting on BBC Radio 4 on Monday, 24 August. I notice one of those to whom the BBC attribute “charisma” is Robert Mugabe. I am sure the next of kin of those white farmers murdered at the behest of this thug will be tuning in to hear just how charismatic Robert really is.
LIFE IS LIKE A BUTTERFLY
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In the BBC’s eyes, only dictators or terrorist leaders have charisma. Oh, and democrat US Presidents. However, Mugabe is a strange choice as he is one of the least charismatic dictators.
It is going to last two weeks. Ten episodes. Two and a half hours.
Groan.
Please can we have our half hour quizzes and comedy shows back?
Yes, the World at One is fifteen minutes too long. It was much better years ago when it was thirty minutes. That quarter of an hour before two o’clock is always a waste of time.
Re Mugabe; I am sure the relatives 20 000+ Ndebele men, women and children “culled” by Mugabe’s North Korean trained 5th Brigade in Operation “sifting the chaff” will also be celebrating the “charisma “.
Tiger, That is a forgotten Genocide which the BBC never mention. Mugabe should be on trial at The Hague. Personally, the day he dies , I shall open a bottle of champagne. He is an evil monster, fully supported by the BBC.
This, and the whole ‘Cecil the lion’ story, look like straws in the wind for an imminent rapprochement with Mugabe. This will be at the behest of the UK arm of the EU civil administration – our elected politicians will at best have been informed that there are visits to Africa placed in their diaries for the coming months.
I quite enjoy (in a gallows humour way) the idea of treating the BBC as though it was the old Soviet Pravda or Izvestia, or the All-China News Agency. It is an absorbing game to predict what will happen in British policy, both foreign and domestic, by observing the smoke signals coming from BH.
Such a shame it’s now our own country we are having to treat in this way.. Who’d have thought it, even twenty years ago?
No sign of Nigel Farage, then? He’s about the only politician with charisma that I can think of…
I remember Nigel Farage. He was attacked by the BBC and lefty street thugs on a daily basis during the election. I wonder what happened to him? Never hear about him on the BBC.