Is it BBC Apology Day ? The BBC being exposed for variety of bias recorded on this site day after day is now become a very official and very public issue – just in the run up to the apparent renewal of the Charter . Many here argue that the BBC cannot be changed in its current – anti British Anti Judeo pro Muslim pro green Marxist form . But with a Marxist government – it’s safe – but thankfully it is already down one DG and News Director … And the cover up of BBC Bias continues …..
Start the Week 10th November 2025 The Davie and Furness Show
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Kudos to the daily telegraph for doing some good journalism lately!
Kudos to you, Loobyloo, for being first in the New Thread.
Agree about the DT.
This is fake news, Loobyloo jumped in and edited the order of the posts to look like she was first – we need BBC verify to check all first posts because it is a trusted source of facts
** some facts are little facts and some are vague facts
*** Marianne Spring to get an award for investigating all first posts
“The row over BBC bias deepened tonight after two of its leading presenters claimed that airing concerns about its coverage was part of a political campaign to ‘destroy’ the Corporation.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15272719/Boris-blast-Nick-Robinson-bias-row-anti-BBC-plot-MPs-Trump-report-doctored-Today-host-political-campaign-destroy-organisation.html
Its nothing to do with bias its all political. They can’t even admit their idiotic bias. I wonder why? Maybe because no one else would hire them
The Farce is still strong…literally just turned on R4 to hear the presenter ask if this woman left for America because she suffered racism in Britain…
‘Yvonne Brewster, the Jamaican-born director and actor who founded the Black British Theatre Company Talawa.’
Britain and every white person are irredeemably racist and no Black person can ever achieve anything because of it.
“Mr Shah praised Mr Davie as “an outstanding director-general” who had “propelled the BBC forward with determination, single-mindedness and foresight” in a statement shared after the news broke. “He has had the full support of me and the board throughout,” he added.”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2131763/bbc-chairman-samir-shah-breaks-silence-tim-davie
Then he and the whole board should resign too
The darts on Sky—it’s fine for us to hear the crowd sing “Let’s go fucking mental,” but “Keir Starmer’s a wanker” gets blurred out, lol.
Elsewhere – is it true that the King in waiting didn’t bother with the cenotaph …. .? Presumably he cause something doing green crap in Brazil…. Or maybe he’s still counting the number of trees killed building a road to the crap green bash …
I am quickly becoming a republican.
I became one the moment Liz moved on.
Tim Davie gone, please don’t expect anything to change. The resignations will simply function to deflect criticism, the BBC can count on Labour and public sector support.
I keep hearing lefties bemoaning the resignations and supporting the BBC. I wonder why?
Just wait to see the DEI hire who replaces him. Organisations who live and breathe wokeism never learn. Look at the new Tories
Flotsam – agreed that we won’t see any changes in the output of the BBC – the bias – the corruption is too deep .
But anything that undermines it – anything that damages morale or public trust – nationally or internationally – is to be welcomed …
We have a long fight …
Not the bBC, but on day like today this happens in Hull, Diane Johnston MP, post’s on Facebook some guff about thanking all the servicemen that left through Paragon Station. Right next door to the station is a hotel used to house illegals. The comments were a joy, if you don’t lean to the left.
I got a train there a few weeks ago and I literally could have been a foreigner in a train station somewhere in Africa.
As I waited I wondered what on Earth has happened to our country when I feel like the odd one out in my home Town.
Tim Stanley in the Telegraph – enjoy
STARTS It always hurts when a Tim gets disgraced, but if the scalp fits the hat, wear it. Tim Davie had to resign as Director General of the BBC, as did CEO of News Deborah Turness, because the litany of errors on their watch was so great as to indicate a cultural rot from the head down. That rot has put the very future of the corporation in doubt. The BBC’s whole business model was to stake its survival on being a paragon of honesty. If it is caught lying – this brazenly, this often – consumers will revolt.
The Corporation was already in the soup for protecting vast egos accused of very different things – Gregg Wallace, Gary Lineker, Huw Edwards – and for offering a platform for anti-Semitism, but the dossier of biases that recently fell into the Telegraph’s lap took things up a notch.
These weren’t little porkies of the “there’ll be no hurricane tomorrow” variety but have touched upon, and reinforced, major political controversies. They are sins of consequence.
They suggested that senior figures ignored entirely valid complaints about editorial policy, eschewing the very balance the BBC claims to embody. The BBC is accused of downplaying criticism of trans rights, at a time when government policy is being rewritten. Of amplifying accusations against Israel while that country is at war.
The smokiest of guns was Panorama’s re-editing of a speech Donald Trump gave on January 6, 2021, in order to suggest that he advised demonstrators to march violently on Congress. Journalistically, I just can’t see how this could’ve been done without deliberate intent: stitching together remarks almost an hour apart, editing it to suggest it was seamless, accompanying it with misleading footage of far-Right thugs apparently answering the Fuhrer’s call.
The kindest interpretation is that production staff presented it as shorthand for something they assumed that we all assume that Trump did.
And that’s just the point: the popular assumption of Trump’s responsibility for Jan 6 is an interpretation of events, hotly contested by Trump and responsible for all-out legal and political war in the United States. It’s been the basis for the Democrats’ claim that Trump tried to steal an election – a claim that may or may not be true, but is now weakened by the Panorama scandal. Why? Because the White House can, and will, point to Panorama’s selective editing as proof that the President has been the victim of a wider smear campaign by liberal-Left journalists. By stacking its coverage against the President, Panorama ended up doing the man it presumably hated an almighty favour.
Moreover, BBC staff have destroyed their own trump card in future negotiations over the licence fee.
The problem is this: in the modern, post-TV world, the licence fee is entirely unjustifiable. The BBC has to explain why, when there’s so much else available, it should be allowed to compel us to pay for it – just when tastes are diverging, national identity is fractured and the quality of the BBC’s output is in doubt (every time Stephen Fry appears, which is often, I want to do an Elvis to the television screen).
It gambled everything on the proposal that, for all its faults, the BBC remains as honest and impartial as it seemed in the 1950s. Hence the investment in BBC Verify; hence those irritating adverts with Clive Myrie talking about exposing fake news as if he’s Roger Cook battering on the door of a fly-tipper in Cheadle.
BBC Verify’s official mission is to “fact-check information, verify video, counter disinformation, and analyse data to separate fact from fake” in order “to bring clarity on complex issues.” The hidden implication was always that commercial media platforms have surrendered to subjectivity – that, okay, you might be free to consume facts from, say, Fox or MSNBC, but you can’t really trust them. That’s the difference Auntie makes; the license fee purchases independence.
But now, of course, we know that one of the BBC’s flagship programmes outright lied. That it did not “clarify” the Trump controversy but added to the swamp of assumption, myth and conspiracy-thinking – in which case, why would we trust its Verify service? After all, no one buys their wedding rings from Ratners any more.
If the BBC difference is its impartiality, then that difference is suddenly contested. This not only makes it harder even for left-wing politicians to justify the licence fee: if they cut the cord and let the BBC move to a subscription model, who would now purchase it? The tragedy of the BBC is that many years ago, it enjoyed high ratings, a strong reputation and, believe it or not, was ahead in the technological field: it could’ve easily moved to subscription via the iPlayer and taken a vast share of the British audience to it.
By clinging to the licence fee model, however, it has whittled away that faith while delaying the inevitable, allowing competitors to outstrip it. It is the classic example of a state-supported company that, protected from genuine competition, rides out change while its market share dwindles.
All this could be sad had BBC executives not been so arrogant about their product, functioning as a welfare programme for middle-class graduates in an organisation that outwardly promotes diversity yet inwardly resembles a feudal hierarchy of luvvies. Good, hardworking journalists at the BBC there are plenty, and it’s always an honour to work with them, but they’ve been let down by a bureaucracy that suffocates creativity in a mass of red-tape and an incomprehensible pyramid of editors that seems to grant even the Archbishop of Canterbury a say in how to broadcast the snooker.
To commit so many errors while running something as superior-sounding as BBC Verify, is to invite catastrophe in the manner of a Greek hero – though this story tips into comedy. The Panorama-caught-lying scandal is as embarrassing, and enjoyable, as the discovery that a puritanical pastor is an alcoholic gambler with a Catholic mistress.ENDS
‘Errors’? No….deliberate, knowing and intentional.
Danny Cohen in the DT
STARTS The resignations of Director General Tim Davie and CEO of BBC News Deborah Turness became inevitable from the moment The Telegraph published Michael Prescott’s leaked report into journalistic standards at the BBC.
The Prescott report revealed not only that the BBC’s flagship programme Panorama had faked a video of President Trump, but that both Mr Davie and Ms Turness had known about it for six months and did nothing about it. This amounted to a cover-up of the most serious of editorial failings.
But this crisis is not just about the faking of the Trump video. The Prescott Report reveals systemic bias across a range of the BBC’s output and the failure of senior management to address it. It is an extraordinary and detailed indictment of a leadership and a culture in which standards of impartiality have taken a dramatic fall.
Chief amongst this, the Prescott Report has exposed systemic anti-Israel bias and antisemitism at BBC Arabic and problems of impartiality with the BBC’s wider coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.
For this, the BBC’s Chairman Samir Shah owes the Jewish community an apology. The Prescott Report provides prima facie evidence that the BBC has been gaslighting its Jewish audience. It reveals that Mr Shah, Mr Davie and Ms Turness received an internal report detailing evidence of systemic and widespread anti-Israel bias and antisemitism at BBC Arabic.
Yet BBC executives in public, in parliament and in private dialogue with British Jews have repeatedly said that there was no systemic problem with the service and that BBC Arabic was “an exceptional source of journalism” and its reporters were an “unrivalled source of knowledge and editorial content for the wider BBC”.
This is the definition of gaslighting: presenting a reality which you know not to be true. In this case BBC executives knew it was not true because they had themselves been presented with detailed evidence by a report prepared by their own organisation. Yet BBC executives continued to present the Jewish community with a very different story.
BBC executives did this to a small minority community facing a huge and frightening rise in racist attacks. It is utterly shameful.
So what should happen now?
The BBC has a choice to make. It can continue in a defensive posture, denying the problems it faces and attacking its critics, rather than focusing on the substance of what they have to say. Or it can see this moment as a critical opportunity to ask itself the hard questions on impartiality, bias and senior management failure that are long overdue.
I sincerely hope that those who lead the BBC going forwards can throw off the shackles of defensiveness and engage with what needs to change at the corporation. The BBC is staffed by a great many hard-working and committed people. Individually they aim to live by the BBC’s values and deliver high-quality work. Yet when you stand back what becomes clear is that collectively the BBC has fallen into a consistent pattern of liberal groupthink which has caused great damage to its reputation.
The BBC must look forwards now. It must understand it needs to change. The choices the BBC makes now about its journalism will define whether it can survive for the long term.ENDS
Every member of the bBC should be required to wear a kippa for the next 3 months and have to walk outside a mosque every Friday wearing their kippa.
Huge photos of President Trump should be hung in every bBC room.
Some forthcoming programmes for Christmas on the BBC
“Although rumour and speculation have long surrounded Donald Trump and his alleged friendship with Adolf Hitler, journalists have to date struggled in vain for incontrovertible proof of this widely held, but little talked about aspect of political intrigue.
That silence will be shattered once and for all by a two-part investigation that has not only unearthed new and verifiable evidence, but additionally has made allegations of a second, and for some, even more damaging relationship”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/trump-hitler-and-herod-the-truth-according-to-the-bbc/
The first 13 minutes of the BBC 1 news at 10pm was about the BBC …maybe the staff shouid update their CVs ….
At the risk of getting a slap from the missus here is my new favorite girl:
The thing which disturbs me most about this BBC fiasco is how shocked everyone is and how they are all now jumping on the bandwagon of ‘The BBC are biased’.
But it’s very old news to us. Their bias has been absolutely clear for a long time – especially at Trump and for Gaza.
The problem is not whoever is in what position – it is the fact that they got away with it for so long. Why has nobody called this into question long ago ?. Why did it take come leaked report being pushed by the Telegraph for everyone to suddenly gasp and pretend it just happened ?.
First port of call OFCOM and this rule that the BBC can police themselves. The BBC have proved they cannot be trusted and neither can OFCOM.
‘Ofcom’s role is to act as the BBC’s external regulator, ensuring it delivers on its mission to inform, educate, and entertain by overseeing its content’
They failed utterly. The head of OFCOM is a woman who has never had a proper job outside the civil service in her life. If she had any honour at all, she would resign. Ultimately it’s HER fault it has been going on so blatantly.
John’s
Your point about BBCOFCOM hits the spot . And at the moment it’s as though BBCOFCOM doesn’t exist . Regulation > Where is it ? I wonder if the Muslim chairman of the BBc will point at BBCOFCOM to blame when he turns up at the Commons Committee on Monday …
I don’t think he will try to protect the BBC by blaming BBCOFCOM because the Right members of the committee will just go after Him .
“While describing the accusations as “incredibly serious”, Culture Secretary Ms Nandy responded to the “100% fake news” claim saying: “I strongly disagree with that.” She added: “The truth is if the BBC didn’t exist, we would have to invent it.”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/donald-trump-white-house-claim-36215752
So don’t expect Labour to do anything to reign in the BBC bias
Trump:
“The TOP people in the BBC, including TIM DAVIE, the BOSS, are all quitting/FIRED, because they were caught ‘doctoring’ my very good (PERFECT!) speech of January 6th. Thank you to The Telegraph for exposing these Corrupt ‘Journalists.’
“These are very dishonest people who tried to step on the scales of a Presidential Election. On top of everything else, they are from a Foreign Country, one that many consider our Number One Ally. What a terrible thing for Democracy!”
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/politics/government/donald-trump-slams-corrupt-bbc-after-chief-quits-for-doctoring-perfect-speech/ar-AA1Q6POs
Both Lisa Nandy and Ed Davy seem in their statements to be using Tim Davie’s resignation as a reason to get Farage off GBNews. As far as I see it the two things are unconnected. I don’t know if it is a coordinated attack or coincidence.
I can see this whole affair being used as an excuse for the regulator to get more strict on it’s control of news channels.
And of course this extra ‘power’ will be used against the likes of GB News and anyone else on the Right, not the BBC or the rest of the Leftist MSM swamp who push bias and division on a daily basis.
The reason it happened will be quickly forgotten.
The BBC discuss their “mistakes” with 2 people on a panel Both from the BBC Chris Mason ( who has been the Political Editor of BBC News since 2022) and Katie Razall( She works for BBC News as its media editor and culture editor)
And they think this is balanced!! They will never learn
One comment I noticed:
“The report did not “SUGGEST” Panorama had faked Trump’s speech it catagorically stated Panorama HAD faked his speech. THE BBC CANNOT STOP LYING and NEVER will.”
Katie Razzall has form
from the2024 archive
What utter rubbish: ‘amid allegations of editorial mistakes’.
Even now after being caught red-handed, they still spin their lies. They simply will not admit what they did.
Not a mistake in sight. It was bias and deliberate editorial misrepresentation of the truth. Also known as FAKE NEWS.
“Allegations” doing some heavy lifting around the Leftardsphere still for something captured on video.
BBC TNI partners in the US are trying to sell it, but lying’ eyes vs. tv studio editorial techniques no longer an even match.
‘Suggests’ = ‘allegedly’ in BBC Under the table EdGuds.
People are saying.
Did Davie resign acknowledging what serious problems the BBC has and resigned through an admission of his own failure ?.
Nope. He said:
“Like all public organisations, the BBC is not perfect, and we must always be open, transparent and accountable.
“While not being the only reason, the current debate around BBC News has understandably contributed to my decision.’
“Overall the BBC is delivering well, but there have been some mistakes made and as director general I have to take ultimate responsibility.”
So it was just a mistake and this isn’t the main reason he is resigning.
There was no ‘mistake’. All of the things the BBC have been accused of are 100% deliberate.
What an arrogant slimeball weasel this man is. No wonder he got the job. I guarantee that he has been told he must resign – otherwise he would have released some statements and resigned earlier. He was clearly hoping some other news would bury it and absolutely fails to realise the gravity of what has happened. They tried to interfere in the election of the most powerful man in the world FFS.
This is the BBC line They have made “mistakes”!!! Everything they did was calcualted they were not mistakes. Their only “mistake” was to be found out
Indeed he is a weasel
“A BBC insider told the Daily Mail that Mr Davie was ‘furious’ at political leaders who ‘jumped on the report to bring him down’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15274979/BBC-Tim-Davie-quit-Donald-Trump-Gaza.html
So he sees this as political and he would not have had to resign except for political pressure. No doubt his next job will be head of communcations at No 10
They still don’t get it…outright refusal to accept there is a problem….if only the BBC had come out fighting and explained it all away….‘ it could have gone on to try to refute the other claims about institutional bias.’….lol….no…no they couldn’t…there’s such a deeply engrained leftwing/extremist progressive mindset that it’s absolutely ‘institutional’ and basically unfixable without major change in staff and recruitment and oversight.
The problem is glaringly obvious as BBC staff report on their own story in anything but an unbiased and independent manner…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c07m2v1z4evo
‘For the best part of a week, since the Telegraph first broke its story, I haven’t been able to understand why the BBC did not get on the front foot in the face of a deluge of damaging headlines about claims of systemic bias.
It needed to divide the allegations into two distinct stories.
The first, about the edit of the Trump speech in the Panorama programme, needed addressing immediately. Either with a swift apology – or indeed a case made for why the BBC believed it had not mischaracterised the president’s words.
That would have allowed the BBC to come out fighting more widely on behalf of its journalism. Remember, it was being accused of institutional bias. Of a lack of impartiality. Accusations that cut to the heart of its news operation.
With an apology for the mistake around the Panorama (or a robust defence), it could have gone on to try to refute the other claims about institutional bias.
It could have said that the BBC had already been taking action to ensure editorial impartiality, and had already acted, for example, on issues at BBC Arabic.
Instead the BBC allowed the story to fester – and we ended up in a situation where the Trump White House was calling the BBC “fake news” and it had some traction.’
This is an outright lie….there was every intention to deceive the viewer…
‘The BBC planned to say on the Trump edit that it hadn’t intended to mislead the public, but that in light of looking at it again, it believed there should have been some kind of white flash or wipe, to make clear to audiences that these were two distinct parts of the speech.’
But the line they will take, as the Guardian has…it’s a political coup against the BBC…
‘It appears there has been a rift between the Board and the news division with some arguing the BBC has, for too long, failed to address institutional bias inside the BBC and others questioning whether what’s unfolded has been an orchestrated – and politicised – campaign against the corporation which has claimed two big scalps.’
‘A political coup’ inspired by the U.K. national broadcaster trying to influence a US election any way it can?
Should be suitable…not a news person but entertainment…and such fitting programmes…
‘Names who have been rumoured as potential contenders in the running include Charlotte Moore, the BBC’s recently-departed chief content officer who was in charge of all programming except news, overseeing hits including The Traitors, The Wheel [of misfortune] and Happy Valley. ‘
Davie, who has worked for the corporation for 20 years, stressed that “our journalism and quality content continues to be admired as a gold standard” and that the organisation was “overwhelmingly kind, tolerant and curious”.
I reckon Davie has taken around £10 million from licence payers in the last 20 years, whilst sitting on his backside doing nothing, except maybe a few meetings a week.
The Trump edit was a ‘mistake’, you know. A lying man in denial, who insults our intelligence.
Hmmmm…
‘”The golden era for multilateral diplomacy is over,” agrees Joss Garman, a former climate activist who now heads a new think tank called Loom.
“Climate politics is now more than ever about who captures and controls the economic benefits of new energy industries,” he tells me. ‘
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c205jvyg3wjo
If the BBC had listened to Nigel Lawson who wanted to promote technological advances to cope with climate change we might have advanced things many years ago at lower cost….instead they demonised him, silenced him and helped send us into a cost spiral that threatens blackouts, poverty and industrial wipeout.
Radio4 news bulletin this afternoon brought on the totally IMPARTIAL IMPARTIAL IMPARTIAL Adam Boulton to comment on the BBC chiefs resignations.
FFS
Don’t forget Boulton is married to Anji Hunter – Baroness of Ockynocky – and the gatekeeper to Tony Blair !
“MISTAKE !”
@lewis_goodall tweets
The BBC panorama edit was a mistake.
It shouldn’t have happened.
But it is possible to think that and to think it did not fundamentally misrepresent Trump’s overall actions in the lead up to Jan 6th and on the day itself.
With the BBC resiling from it, it presents an entirely false impression, that Trump’s false version of events, is true.
Larry, Strumpet and Sopes are at last garnering more than their usual six comments.
Though they could… be better.
The whining and yapping has already started at bBC Kennels…
Mason’s already diverting the ‘discussion’ away from the facts that the various ‘editors’ and flunkies – with their cubiclists quavering five floors below, all tried to tell fibs.
Once caught telling fibs and the boss admits it, you might just as well pack up and go home, as they’re all tainted now.
Forget chuntering on about the ‘charter’, that was always going to be a problem for them, but perhaps a good drubbing for Ofcom is also on the cards as well, which of course is being avoided as much as possible!
Today’s bBC ‘reports’ will all try to divert the facts away from the deceit at the Kennels!
Woof woof!
They have no scruples whatsoever. They are now blaming the Right and a political campaign against them:
‘others questioning whether what’s unfolded has been an orchestrated – and politicised – campaign against the corporation which has claimed two big scalps.’
What ‘others’ are they BBC ?. Gross hypocrites like yourselves ?.
They lied about Trump a week before the election. They tried to interfere in the election. It’s from an internal report they commissioned themselves.
FFS – let us be rid of these spiteful activist children.
I’ll say this – the problem for them is not so much that they did wrong; it’s more that the wider public got to know about about it. That old notion of being caught with your hand in the cookie jar, so to speak… Or in the biscuit tin – if you want to be less trans-Atlantic.
Meanwhile, how yer feelin’ ’bout the onset of digital ID and various government agencies likely use thereof?
HMRC to review suspending 23,500 child benefit payments… The UK’s tax body is reviewing its decisions to strip child benefit… after it used travel data to conclude they had left the country permanently. Normally the benefit runs out after eight weeks living outside the UK, but many people affected complained that HM Revenue & Customs had stopped their money after they went on holiday for just a short time. The new system allows HMRC records to be compared with Home Office international travel data, and the tax authority had used this data to stop payments to thousands of families. (BBC)
On your way out of the country they cut your benefits – but on the way in – it’s benefits galore.
Anarcho-tyranny is a political term coined by right-wing columnist Samuel Francis in the 1990s that describes a system of government that exhibits two seemingly contradictory characteristics simultaneously: the tyrannical enforcement of laws against law-abiding citizens and the anarchic failure to enforce laws and maintain public order against actual criminals and dangerous individuals – thank you, A.I.
How ’bout that cashless society and central bank digital currency?
Honesty boxes should be dying like cash. But many are flourishing – the wonderously named Kevin Peachey, BBC Cost of living correspondent there. ‘Should’, mind you.
With cash use falling, they might be expected to disappear – a roadside relic as we all pull onto the technology superhighway. Cash payments are being replaced with online transfers via QR codes, and small traders are using honesty boxes as part of their marketing on social media. That online marketing has a payoff. Some are finding that instead of just attracting passing trade, customers are making a special journey to buy from them. (BBC) – Oh, so you thought our Mr Peachy was writing a pro-cash report? Au contraire.
Annabelle says 90% of customers pay online after scanning the QR code inside the box. Many other honesty boxes around the UK use the same technology, some even leaving a calculator inside for customers to tot up the cost of what they take. (BBC) – I’m thinking this requires a lot of social trust in the ‘community’. So, not ‘all around the UK’ as our Mr Peachy might suggest. Not really a modern UK city thing?
These images were literally the source of a collection by photographer Kathryn Martin, who spent a couple of years charting these quirky stalls during travels around Suffolk, Essex, Somerset and Sussex. – rural areas, rather English and ‘undiverse’ as they say – thought so.
In her notes, she says she loves an honesty box “not just for the delight of the home grown and the childish excitement and memories of playing shop but the discovery of the simple, unpretentious, local and handmade in a world saturated with high tech, fake news and globalisation”. – couple of big old buzzwords there.
But she says QR codes change the dynamics of an honesty box, and the sense of trust. Perhaps, as with other technology, it brings a loss of innocence. – I’m rather warming to this lady.
“Maybe it’s the uncertainty of being watched from behind that twitching curtain or perhaps it’s the nostalgic feel-good factor from playing shop, or the untainted natural beauty of their rural locations that remind us that honesty is indeed the best policy.” – twitching curtain – not the CCTV surveillance camera.
I’m put in mind of the open credits sequence of the brilliant HBO TV series The Wire where the Baltimore street corner drug dealers in their trackies chuck a rock to knock out the lamp post mounted CCTV camera.
Perhaps the BBC should be funded by a dishonesty box …
A five-year-old girl in Tower Hamlets was fined £150 for selling lemonade without a street trading license in 2017, but the fine was later cancelled and the council issued an apology after the incident received widespread media attention. The girl’s father, Andre Spicer, was told the fine was for trading without a license, and though initially shocked and upset, the council eventually acknowledged that their enforcement officers had not used common sense
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-40679075
Girl, 5, fined £150 for lemonade stand (Tower Hamlets)
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Met bans UKIP from protesting in Tower Hamlets
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce86vym0pyzo
BBC news just on….they’re just not accepting they have done anything wrong….the line of defence is that this is a Rightwing attack by people who want to turn it into Fox News.
Their top story is the resignations and the second is the BBC’s own Katie Razzall putting up the two fingers to those who dare to question the BBC’s actions.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c07m2v1z4evo
If they continue with that line then there is no hope and it should be closed down…..more suicide than murder….authors of their own demise.
I notice they have all come out singing from the same song-sheet : it’s just a political campaign by the Right.
Clearly the political-agenda team and their lawyers have formulated this strategy and the memo has gone out.
And in the process, they create even more division in society.
Hard Lefties right to the end. They would rather we all burn than admit they were wrong.
I still haven’t seen any apology for what they have done. Instead they are giving a soapbox to any old tat if they are supporting the BBC. They are blaming everyone and everything except the truth : that they ARE biased.
As usual for the Left: when they lose, they get nasty.
Today
Ah the beauty of it – comrade Robinson chatting with his mate comrade Craig Oliver about the BBC as victim . Poor BBC – sez the comrades – rudderless – sez the comrades …. It’s got enemies ….
It sounded like 2 criminals wondering if any one cared that they finally got caught – and how can they avoid being caught again ….. of all the people to talk about the bias of the BBC – Comrade Robinson ….
BBC interview the BBC to ask how the BBC is doing. The BBC say they cannot comment! H AHA HHA HAH A HAH AH HA!
In an alternative Universe……
‘Shaping the future of BBC through a strong commitment to education, academic excellence, and Christian leadership’
Sound good?
Three cheers for the Brisbane Boys College.
Which appears to have a vastly superior vision to certain broadcasters which may come to mind.
The UK will not contribute to a flagship fund for the world’s remaining tropical forests, in a bitter blow to the Brazilian hosts on the eve of the Cop30 climate summit.
Keir Starmer flew to Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon, on Wednesday to join the summit of world leaders hosted by Brazil’s president, Lula da Silva.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/05/uk-opts-out-of-flagship-fund-to-protect-amazon-and-other-threatened-tropical-forests
This fund aims to raise $125bn
** not using Prince William’s or his dad’s estate
The UK’s decision will be a major letdown, as Britain has previously played a big role in stopping deforestation. “The Brazilians are fuming,” one source told the Guardian.
Zac Goldsmith, the Conservative peer and climate minister under Boris Johnson, who led UK efforts on deforestation at the Cop26 summit in 2021 in Glasgow, told the Guardian the UK was making a mistake.
** no mention of China or India! HA HAH AHA HAH HA HHAH A!
*** Maybe Lenny Henry can help when he gets 18 trillion from UK reparations! JH AH AHHA HAH AHHA H A
MM, apparently (according to Not a Lot of People Know That) a considerable chunk of rain forest was demolished to build the place where COP30 would be held, with an access road – all those Global Warming greenhouse gases, oh dear oh dear – to enable the delegates and hangers-on and the MSM (including Justin Rowlatt?) to access the conference facility.
Just learnt that TTK told/begged Davie to go, to appease The Donald!
President Trump has had enough of the shower we have to put up with – Mohammed Street and the bBC must be called to account for interference in US politics!
TOADY Watch #1 – predictably more navel gazing from the BBC …
Rick Nobinson was doing the navel gazing. Tim Davie, the DG, and Head of News, Deborah Turness have both resigned. A partial victory for this site? But the bad news came later …
According to Nick, apparently, three wimmin are on the short list to replace Davie as D-G. As a mere male, I deplore this feminisation of UK Society.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G5V1vy-XEAAYheK?format=jpg&name=900×900
I’ll grant that the two resigning top people at the BBC, Davie and Turness, were not directly responsible for the broadcasting of the Trump edit. However the people who actually created that item were working within the leftist and anti Trump culture of the BBC. They will have believed the organisation would fully support what they were doing. No ‘errors’ or ‘mistakes’ it was 100% intended to be an attack on Trump.
Those resignations are fully justified, the only sad part is that they weren’t sacked forthwith some months ago.
There’s so much else of course.
BBC demand more TV Tax to afford the layoffs! HA HA HAH AH AH !
The ‘too big to fail’ pension consequences of the BBC expansion pyramid hiring scheme are coming home to roost
‘Killed because they are Alawites’: Fear among Syria’s minorities after the fall of Assad
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crex1zp3213o
No BBC. Your headline should be:
”Killed because they are Christians”.
Because THAT is the reason they were murdered by the Muslims.
The BBC simply cannot give the straight truth any longer. They always have to use carefully chosen words to hide or push things according to their OWN political agenda.
22 Lost in Manchester (c) Theresa May
** soon to be found
It wasn’t just BBC Panorama.
I remember well, they referenced the show constantly on BBC news, at the time.
Today
It’s the 0810 comrade Robinson show – he must have taken 10 minutes to tell us what may have happened at the BBC in the last week – then he talks to comrade razzle who is on – again – using the smoke screen of using ‘bbc haters ‘ … but of course didn’t explain why the bbc is hated more and more .
The today show had that Charles Moore on to tell the bbc what it is – but that was probably about 6am ..when sane people are asleep …
After Comrade razzle Robinson has a chat with comrade Dampiere ? – a BBC ‘insider ‘ who is so deluded as to think the BBC is ‘excellent ‘ – and said he’s a great fan of comrade Robinson . Enough ….
Hobo Toenails has lost it.
Guest – comrade Robinson went on X and repeated what he said – im sure he doesn’t read replies – but in essence he is told he is part of the problem ….
As I write Robinson is ranting with rushbridger about the BBC board doing nothing ….
Just Bum’s Rush Al?
Of too many to list now, the BBC ‘great and goon’ habit of getting in a single reliable sounding board to say stuff or prompt what suits is as obvious as it is silly.
Newsnight is a frequent offender, like they have the history to get away with it.
Two like minded propagandists chatting about beastly propaganda backlashes is quaint.
“Keir Starmer will change the country”
He never said for good or bad to be fair!
“Change the country on behalf of working people” Keir Starmer
** Keir could not define working people.
I’ve noticed social media is being flooded with AI generated anti-Russian stuff like this these days:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/813389918211133
It’s clearly AI : look at the puddles and soil in front of the van. The explosion doesn’t disturb them at all and you can see fire inside the van when it would never get through the bulkhead with an explosion so small.
Of course the BBC will never go near anything like this. It’s the wrong kind of misinformation.
Huw Edwards to report on BBC … oh wait ….
“They (Crisis) say that around 189,000 families and individuals who faced the worst forms of homelessness such as rough sleeping, sofa surfing and living in tents were not included in official statistics.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0ex5r4q82qo
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In the year ending June 2025, 43,309 people arrived in the UK via small boats, which is 38% more than the previous year but 5% fewer than the 2022 peak.
For the LSE team illegal migrants oscillate between 417,000 and 863,000, including a population of UK-born children ranging between 44,000 and 144,000.
The Today programme is a disgrace. All this irrelevant talk of coups and people out to destroy the organisation rather than face the fact that BBC bias has been exposed. Robinson and Foster – obfuscators, equivocators, deceivers.
They were caught out in a monstrous lie. Their darkness is now visible to the whole world.
From some stuff hidden away in the bBC ‘culture’ slot…
“Why have they resigned?
Their departures come after controversy over a Panorama documentary called Trump: A Second Chance?, which was broadcast a week before the US presidential election.
In her statement, Turness said: “The ongoing controversy around the Panorama on President Trump has reached a stage where it is causing damage to the BBC – an institution that I love.
“As the CEO of BBC News and Current Affairs, the buck stops with me – and I took the decision to offer my resignation to the director general last night.”
She added: “While mistakes have been made, I want to be absolutely clear recent allegations that BBC News is institutionally biased are wrong.”
Davie did not mention the Panorama documentary in his statement, although said: “While not being the only reason, the current debate around BBC News has understandably contributed to my decision.
“Overall the BBC is delivering well, but there have been some mistakes made and as director general I have to take ultimate responsibility.” (ends)
Don’t agree at all. They weren’t ‘mistakes’, they were direct fiddling by staff in the newsroom, altering a broadcast to change the narrative to form a totally opposite opinion, .
The BBC is biased – even now, a day after the resignations, the excuses are being cobbled together by the very same staff who doctored, (cheated with), the broadcast by President Trump. It’s there in full colour for everyone to see!
Getting rid of the ‘top’ few bods won’t make much difference, it’s the really nasty ones doing the cheating a couple of floors down who really need to be chucked out, and while they’re at it, they might as well stop employing kids straight from school, to read the dross.
The abuse of the BBC’s authoritativeness to dress up flat out activism and shameless propaganda was never going to run indefinitely – thing is – it went so far as to be irrecoverable….
The demise of the old media (90% +++ loss of circulation in 20 years) due in large part to their utter spinelessness – and now the BBC steps in with “Local Democracy Reporters”….
Where’s it all going ?
The BBC seem intent on marking their own homework and we don’t have a government with any competent players emerging – even after a year plus in office.
What an absolute shitshow.
The highest paid executive in 2023-24 was Tim Davie, the director general, who received total remuneration of £527,000, including salary and benefits. The highest paid on-air ‘talent’ in 2023-24 was Gary Lineker, with a £1,352,500 salary, the same as what he received in 2022-23.
https://www.taxpayersalliance.com/bbc_rich_list_2024_79_million_bill_for_bbc_bigwigs
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2013
The BBC spent approximately £5 million on the various inquiries into the scandal and its internal culture.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23325804
The report also highlighted the BBC’s failed £100m Digital Media Initiative – which was halted last autumn having never become fully operational.
Lord Hall said: “From redundancy payments to the failed DMI project, the BBC has not always been the steward of public money it should have been.
Comment “Or they could have just let the police do their job, and had my tax money spent on what it’s supposed to be spent on. ‘Trying’ to make good television.
The quicker this tax is made optional the better.”
There is a unique (BBC term) of person who gets into such positions in politics, NGOs, civil service, etc.
They know that eventually it will come to a humiliating end.
But don’t care.
Because they will still have their bubble.
And will be very, very rich.
Deep State BBC – sack the PM – get the same civil service!
https://news.sky.com/story/who-is-olly-robbins-the-civil-servant-on-whose-shoulders-brexit-deal-rests-11525917