6 Responses to Weekend 3rd January 2026

  1. atlas_shrugged says:
    January 2, 2026 at 9:18 pm

    Deff Deff to the bBC

    It will be this year, I can feel it in my water

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    • non-licence payer says:
      January 2, 2026 at 9:33 pm

      Well done Atlas. What a Christmas present the disasterous viewing figures were. I hope that the shite schedule was a financial function of the fed up and abused withdrawing their telly tax.

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  3. Fedup2 says:
    January 2, 2026 at 10:06 pm

    Dont mention Iran – from the DT

    STARTS The BBC is embroiled in a row with the Israeli embassy after the broadcaster was accused of obsessing over Gaza while “largely ignoring” the ongoing protests in Iran.

    Alex Gandler, the embassy’s official spokesman, said on X that there had been “near-total silence” on BBC news bulletins about the demonstrations against Tehran’s Islamic theocratic leaders.

    He questioned the BBC’s impartiality, claiming it continued to devote huge resources to its coverage of events in Gaza.

    The corporation criticised Mr Gandler’s claims as “factually incorrect”, but the spat amounts to the latest evidence of a worsening relationship between the Israeli government and Britain’s national broadcaster over its coverage of the Middle East since the Oct 7 attacks.

    At least seven people have been killed during clashes between protesters and security forces that have spread across Iran since they first started in the capital on Dec 28.

    Mr Gandler took to X to respond to John Simpson, the BBC’s veteran foreign correspondent, who had said it was difficult to get reporters into Iran.

    The embassy spokesman said: “This is not a good take. The scale of BBC coverage devoted to Gaza, including over the past few days, vastly exceeds that given to wars and humanitarian crises elsewhere in the world.

    “At the same time, the near-total silence on Iran is striking. A broadcaster that claims global impartiality cannot obsess over one theatre of conflict while largely ignoring the regime that destabilises the entire region.”

    Claims were ‘factually incorrect’
    The BBC hit back, saying his criticisms were “factually incorrect” because the corporation had given daily coverage to events in Iran across its TV channels and website.

    The BBC News press team used its X account to post links to TV news bulletins and online articles about the civil unrest in Iran, as well as screenshots of journalists reporting on the story on television.

    Critics of the BBC in Iran have taken to referring to it as “Ayatollah BBC” because they claim the broadcaster is too ready to parrot the party line put out by the office of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader.

    The BBC has pointed out in the past that its correspondents and their families have been persecuted by the regime for daring to report the truth.

    A BBC spokesman said: “These criticisms are factually incorrect. We have been covering the protests in Iran daily across all of our platforms, including our main news bulletins, in English and via BBC News Persian.”

    The spokesman said that on Friday alone the story had been covered on Radio 4’s Today programme, the BBC News channel, on TV and radio bulletins throughout the day and on the home page of the BBC website.

    Ever since the Oct 7 attacks and the start of the subsequent conflict in Gaza, Israel has questioned the BBC’s impartiality in its reporting of events, and in November, The Telegraph revealed that an internal memo had warned of anti-Israel bias.

    The memo, written by Michael Prescott, an independent editorial adviser, told BBC bosses that there was “a desire always to believe the worst about Israel” within the corporation.ENDS

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  4. JonathanR says:
    January 2, 2026 at 10:27 pm

    BBC correspondent Jeremy Bowen reported from bombed-out home of October 7 victims without consent after Hamas attack

    “Speaking to Jewish News, a member of the family, Tzeela Horenstein, said: ‘Not only did terrorists break into our home and try to murder us, but then the BBC crew entered again, this time with a camera as a weapon, without permission or consent’. ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15429529/BBC-Jeremy-Bowen-reported-bombed-home-October-7-consent-Hamas-attack.html

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