A classic example of the BBC revisionists at work….anti-male, anti-western, anti-Christian,, anti-iconic image of western beliefs and history…attempting to undermine everything that you value about your society’s or cultural past.

Here the BBC attacks what it calls ‘One of the great icons of what it is to be a man’……The Knight.

Now from the BBC blurb you might think that this could be inclusive and wide ranging, taking in many different examples of ‘knight’ from various cultures of which there are many famous examples….Japanese Samurai, Native American ‘Braves’, Zulu warriors, Muslim warriors, Gurkhas amongst others.

But no….it is the European, Christian knight that gets the ‘treatment’.

Amanda Vickery explores the history of masculinity through six different archetypes of the ideal man, archetypes which still have an echo today.

The history of men and masculinity is now at the cutting edge of scholarship. In conversation with historians, Professor Vickery asks: Where did these ideals of how men should behave come from? How influential were they on the lives and careers of real men? And what did women make of them?

The series begins in the Middle Ages and ends in the 1950s. It explores The Knight, The Gentleman, The Lover, The Sailor, The Explorer, and The Suit.

Cultural historian Bill Burgwinkle introduces some revealing songs which suggest there was a strong homosexual subculture among knights. And medieval historian Helen Castor uncovers manuscript evidence of the struggle (personal and financial) ordinary gentlemen faced to live up to the exacting ideal.’

It turns out our ‘iconic hero’ is just an ultra violent murdering, raping, pillaging homosexual who doesn’t understand women but does it all for the love of Jesus….and is all the more conflicted because of that.

I am certain Knights were really bothered about the conflict of killing in the name of Christ just as Muslims are in the name of Allah.

But then of course the BBC always tells us that Muslims don’t kill because Allah demands it….he loves peace….so for Muslims the question doesn’t arise…hence they are not included in this piece.

And I can’t wait for the final example of ‘manhood’…the ‘suit’….another banker bashing exercise almost guaranteed….any bets on Gordon Gecko being mentioned?

This week has had the full panoply of BBC concerns laid out before us…climate change, Islam, Western manhood and imperialism and the banking crisis.

The BBC has decided long ago that these and a few other subjects are to be its main concern when it comes to ‘educating’ the British Public and inculcating in them a very particular way of thinking about the world.

The programmes as noted many times are specially selected, edited and broadcast in conjunction with other such programmes in order to mould our perceptions and make us realise that everything we think we know about our history and values is wrong and that the more we know about other cultures and their histories the more we will come to think that in fact we have much to feel guilty about and apologise for…and thence to make amends for.

One such programme is this which, if you know the recent history of the BBC and its ‘reviews’, you would have been just waiting for the inevitable denouement that you always knew was coming…in this case a defence of scientist Steven Jones’ BBC review of it’s scientific coverage in which he applauded the BBC and for which he was roundly and correctly criticised….and an attack on climate change critics.

Jones it should be noted is practically an employee of the BBC….it was the BBC who saved his career from encroaching obscurity as he couldn’t get any work as a scientist….the BBC set him up to deliver the Reith Lectures and then took him onto their books as a presenter.

Jones owes a lot to the BBC.

Jones states that the whole scientific edifice depends upon communication but that the BBC news is driven by the notion of impartiality (No really, it is)…but that notion shouldn’t be applied to science.

If a scientist were to say 2+2=4, even though that was empirically true, the BBC would have to turn to the ‘lunatic fringe’ to get a balancing comment…..this drives scientists ’round the bend’ because it is a false balance. ….what if 90% of scientists say 2+2=5?  Is the consensus to be questioned then?

Jones says it is OK to have a ‘lone maverick’ scientist stating his criticisms but many ‘deniers’ are not scientists and have a political or social agenda.

And pro climate change proponents do not?…even the scientists have agendas beyond the science.

Jones goes on to tell us that argument is the essence of science, scientists don’t lie or have an agenda….it’s just that the Media doesn’t understand scientific methods.

Unfortunately I think we understand all too well….huge amounts of money are at stake in this climate change argument as well as enormous egos and scientific careers and reputations.

Many, many scientists will have a great deal of egg on their faces if they are proved wrong about CO2.

Many, many scientists will lose a great many research grants…and after all there are only so many jobs at the BBC for hasbeen scientists.

A few days ago you may have noticed the LibDems being given a lot of airtime to complain about the Tories ‘breaking their contract’ in the Coalition. The BBC news happily repeated this lie ad nauseam throughout the day without reference to the facts.

Those facts being that there is no ‘contract’ regarding House of Lords reform…it is not in the manifesto and it was no part of the agreement with regard to boundary changes…that was part of the AV referendum deal…which the Tories fulfilled.

You may also have noticed that the BBC continually alluded to the Tories wanting boundary changes as it was to their advantage and would mean they would have a majority at the next election.

That is an outright lie…..Labour now has a massive advantage in that it needs far fewer votes to get more MPs than do the Conservatives…in fact the Tories often poll more votes in elections but lose because those votes are not translated into seats in Parliament….so the boundary changes are merely designed to even up the voting system and produce a fair outcome…something you’d think the BBC would be in favour of….it is not to generate a Tory ‘advantage’.　

Norman Tebbit has also noticed BBC trickery:

‘As for the monumental incompetence of my Conservative colleagues who have allowed Mr Clegg and the BBC to present boundary change as being proposed by the Tories solely to gain an advantage for themselves, that is simply unspeakable.’

He is of course right about Tory PR incompetence….I could go on…but how long have you got…it’s endless…and all the more remarkable because Cameron was in PR.

What’s all this nonsense about us having had a Labour government for 13 years?  I’ve been listening to the BBC since May 2010 and they’ve never mentioned this fact…never mind the below from the Telegraph:

‘Ed Miliband wants voters to believe that Labour is fit to run the economy again, but does his shadow cabinet really believe it?

Mandrake asks only because Hilary Benn, the shadow communities secretary, has appointed as his special adviser one of the harshest critics of the Labour government’s inability to regulate the banks properly and who said:

“Labour’s failure to intervene during its 13 years in power was unforgiveable and a prime reason for their 2010 general election defeat,” wrote Imran Ahmed in an article for the comrades’ weekly Tribune. “Under Labour, the Financial Services Authority was simply not fit for purpose.”

Unforgiveable?  As far as the BBC are concerned it’s unmentionable.

Was going to do a post on this bit of BBC anti-Tory class war but ‘The Commentator’ has beaten me to it:

‘Once again the BBC has decided to make a documentary exploring British youth on the right. Once again they have gone to that bastion of obnoxious Tory boys known as Oxford University Conservative Association (OUCA): the home of a particularly voter-repellent sliver of the right in this country.

No doubt this will be part of BBC2’s justification against accusations of bias. By all means, make documentaries about right-wingers from state school backgrounds, but was it really necessary to find the two most Tory Boy-esque they could?

Take a look at the BBC preview for tonight’s Young, Bright and on the Right:

“Do state school children feel they have any real chance of getting on in the Conservative Party? We followed two ex-comprehensive school pupils who got involved at Oxbridge universities.

“The whole point of the Conservative Association is it gives you a chance to pretend to be a member of the upper classes for an afternoon,” says Chris Monk, a second year Cambridge University student, who is dreaming of scaling the heights of Tory politics by joining the association.”

I know dozens of Tories who have interesting backgrounds yet don’t spend their days dressing up like Sebastian Flyte in a charity shop. It’s pathetic for the BBC to target this small clique. Why not profile some girls? It’s lazy and cheap.

However for a broader perspective and straight from the horses mouth, i.e. the real conservatives have a look at this…ignore the main article, it’s tripe, and look at the comments.

Taekwondo World no 1  and a current European champion Aaron Cook was denied a place in the British team in favour of  Lutalo Muhammad, ranked 59th in the world in the weight he is competing in at the Olympics.

 Listen to this interview by Victoria Derbyshire  (3 mins 40 sec) with Aaron Cook, this is the second she has done.  The first was unsympathetic and unfriendly, this second one was exactly the same….she ends by suggesting Cook should get over this, move on and it would make him a better person!

This remember is on the day of the competition at the Olympics when Cook would no doubt be at his most emotional as something he has worked for for 4 years at least, has been unfairly taken away from him….something he will never have a chance to compete in again…an Olympics in his own country.

Derbyshire rubs it in by demanding to know if he will be supporting Muhammad…not a diplomatic question.

Read this from the Mail and it puts a whole new light on things that the BBC don’t want to know:

‘The suspicion is his success — and a tendency to publicise the reasons behind it — makes British Taekwondo look bad and being overlooked for the London Games is the payback.

The personnel on the selection panel are hardly without ties.

There is Hall, British Taekwondo’s overall performance director whose methods Cook rejected. Salim is the high performance coach directly responsible for the -80kg programme and works frequently with Muhammad.

Jennings is one of their coaches, who is also married to Sarah Stevenson, a world champion, operating very much inside the programme. Paul Green is a former international taekwondo athlete once coached by Hall. Peters is a non-executive director.

To vote for Cook ahead of Muhammad would be tantamount to an admission that going outside their programme can produce better athletes.

For what is at stake here is the livelihood of a man. Cook left taekwondo’s private club and made a success of his career and for this he should be denied a goal for which he has worked all his life?’

A selection panel with a great deal of vested interests in picking ‘their’ man.

Here is a BBC pro-Muhammad selection article  which definitely comes more from one side than the other.

Victoria Derbyshire was extremely unfriendly and insensitive…a trait she reserves for white, working class people, suspected ‘right wingers’ and Tories   who don’t bow down before the multi-cultural, pro-immigration commissars.

I don’t remember Derbyshire ever suggesting to Muslim extremists that they ‘get over’ British foreign policy and ‘move on’  because it would ‘make them better persons’.

Derbyshire never has the stomach to challenge such people and their views accepting them as unquestioningly as valid and based upon credible reasoning….because of course the BBC has the same stance towards the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as the extremists.

I suppose some of the antipathy could come from the fact that Cook is a white man named Aaron whilst his rival is a black man named Muhammad…but that would just be guessing and probably entirely wrong of me to suggest.

 Update: You have to look very hard for this story….hidden away in a small ‘headline’ on the sport page.

All things considered you might have expected it to be on the front page.

‘Lutalo Muhammad did little to silence his Olympic critics after an emphatic 7-3 defeat by Spain’s Nicolas Garcia Hemme in the quarter-finals.’

Almost choked on my cornflakes this morning from laughing…no not at Evan Davis saying he was going to watch the Greco-Roman wrestling at the Olympics…that is probably a usual night’s entertainment in the Davis household.

What was laugh out loud funny was the Davis claim that the upsurge of Britishness  displayed during the Olympics must be a bad thing for the Right Wing.  The sense of ‘belonging, community and shared values’ not being something that the Right Wing aspire to.

Davis talking to Boris Johnson says that ‘a lot of people have tried to apply a bit of politics to these Olympics, you’re starting to see a lot written about British identity in the papers…many have interpreted it as not being so good for the Right.’

Note Boris Johnson’s astounded tone of voice when he exclaims  ‘FOR THE RIGHT???‘

Yes, it is a bit of a counter intuitive leap of imagination to say an upsurge of ‘Britishness’ is against the values of the ‘Right’.

Davis went on to ask if the Tories can be comfortable with the ‘fantastic advert for multicultural Britain that the Olympics represent.’

So there in a nutshell is the BBC attitude towards Tories and the Right Wing….you’re all racist.

The truth of course is the complete opposite of Davis’ assertion…..the Right want to see everyone merged into one ‘melting pot’….all essentially marching to the same tune whilst retaining their individualism….as has been the British way of existence long before Marx and the human rights lawyers took over.

All these values…belonging, shared values and community are traditional Tory values…nothing to do with Socialists who only value the ‘unity’ brought by the AK47 and the Berlin Wall.

Boris Johnson leapt into the breach to give a stout defence affirming that the Olympics exemplified Tory Values….effort and achievement bringing rewards….a Conservative lesson about life rather than the BBC et al’s approach of encouraging a culture of dependency, entitlement and instant gratification without having to work. (Note the BBC don’t quote him on that on the blurb for the clip.)

Davis wasn’t happy with that and had to claim the ‘Bankers’ were just the same…listen to the tone of voice….desperate.

As for the Olympics being an advert for Multi-culturalism, this displays a lack of understanding of what is actually going on…..as coincidentally Peter Hitchens makes clear in the Mail today….’

It seems to be almost illegal at the moment to attack multiculturalism. And people seem to think that multiculturalism is the same as multiracialism.’

What the Olympics displays is the multi-racial make up of Britain….nothing to do with different cultures or values.

And what of those ‘multi-cultures? What does Cameron say?

Speaking in Munich in February 2011, he said: ‘Under the doctrine of state multiculturalism, we have encouraged different cultures to live separate lives, apart from each other and the mainstream. We have failed to provide a vision of society to which they feel they want to belong. We have even tolerated these segregated communities behaving in ways that run counter to our values.’

So Davis was indulging in a bit of verbal sleight of hand….lying in essence because the BBC has been caught on the hop by the outburst of ‘Britishness’ and unity on display, something which it and the Labour Party have been working hard to destroy…but seem to embrace when politically convenient. Davis’ words were a travesty of the truth and a smear on Tory values when it comes to ‘race’ issues.

The BBC is vastly out of touch with not only the public mood but also the reality on the ground…multi-culturalism is a disaster that leads to division and conflict…..the shared values espoused by Tories, the respect for law, the police, parliamentary democracy, history and ‘Britishness’ are what keeps a nation together. Encouraging different groups to live by their own values is a recipe for war.

Patriotism…last refuge of the BBC and its Cabal of socialist revolutionaries….or at least ‘Plastic’ patriotism.

Shame probably the world’s biggest news organisation is no longer interested in news or investigative journalism…even of  the most simple and obvious kind…such as asking one of the corporate sponsors of the Olympics exactly where their money goes, who gets the sponsor’s seat allocation and are their drinks really just liquid sugar poisoning our Youth?

Never mind…..we have the Telegraph to enlighten us and provide balance to the BBC’s anti-business polemic:

Coca-Cola chief: ‘The Olympics needs sponsors to flourish’

Andy Murray wins tennis Olympic gold with straight-sets destruction of Roger Federer

The Team GB effect has given Andy Murray wings. At Wimbledon today he pulled off one of the most extraordinary results of the modern era, as he destroyed Roger Federer – the king of Centre Court – by the scarcely believable scoreline of 6-2, 6-1, 6-4, to claim a deserved Olympic gold medal.

I don’t think anyone can deny that being on ‘Home ground’ has given Team GB a massive boost and encouragement to reach just that little bit further.

Perhaps when the Games are over and the washup begins and a discussion of lessons learnt opens one  for the BBC might be that people are unaccountably attached to their own  country or nation, they are proud to be British and proud of British history.

The BBC might reconsider its relentless attempts to malign British history and the culture and historic events that moulded the national character that is so often denied by the Left for their own reasons of ‘Internationalism’.

There still is a national character despite Labour’s imposition of  alien cultures upon the country in its attempt to wipe out ‘Britishness’…and all cheered on by the BBC.

Parliamentary democracy did not just happen, the legal system did not just happen, a mainly safe and peaceful nation did not just happen, an NHS, a welfare system, an unarmed police force, a separation of Church and State…all did not just happen.  They were the result of hundreds of years of social, cultural, and industrial, scientific and political development…they were the result of conscious efforts by men who wanted to improve life for everyone…and not just in Britan.

Many of these developments have been ‘exported’…often as a result of the British Empire…..it is about time the BBC started to give more time to the good things that have been done in Britain’s name and in her wake….it is time perhaps to stop imposing modern values upon much older societies and judging them for actions that were entirely normal in their own time.

Winston Churchill once described democracy as `the worst form of government, except for all those other forms’.

The BBC should consider the wisdom of that and the several hundred years of history that such a statement is based upon before it gives its unalloyed support to a rabble of Marxist internationalists who proclaim they are from ‘Occupy’  and that…”To do what needs to be done, we must make good use of the actual revolutionary approach of Marx.”

Marx wanted to arm the workers and shoot those who didn’t comply….is Occupy turning to terrorism?

The Olympics are if anything about elitism, winning, high standards, self discipline, determination and never giving up in the face of adversity, picking yourself up and trying again after ‘failing’ the first time…it is also about national pride and honour, pride that some one from your part of the world succeeds.

Everything in fact that the BBC and the Left abhor and  endlessly rail against in a never ending stream of broadcasts and Guardian articles….the Leftist policies   being “flawed ideological policies” which were “creating a lost generation of children and young people and plunging millions into poverty”.

Happily for many in the BBC and Guardian this is just another chance to add to the barrage of attacks against the ‘rich and privileged’…never mind that it is pretty much a kick in the teeth for many of those athletes and medal winners whose success is, if anything, down to raw talent combined with massive amounts of hard work and determination…now they’re being told ‘You only won because you’re rich’….regardless that their parents probably made huge personal  financial sacrifices to get them to that success…..and no doubt rubbed shoulders at PTA meetings with the very same Lefty people who are squealing about people buying success but whose kids all want to be in the ‘media’ like mummy and daddy….and usually get there according to a recent survey which stated the media is dominated by privately educated people.

All those 5Live presenters and reporters so enthusiastically waving the flag and jumping for joy every time ‘Britain’ wins a medal will go back to their day jobs and the relentless drone about how there is no such thing as Britishness or Britain…we are so diverse that there can be no overarching unifying culture or ideology…can there?

They will go back to demanding that the middle classes be prevented from having a ‘stranglehold’ on education…rather than celebrating the fact that at least some in society value and ’embrace’ education.

They will applaud schools that hand out prizes for everyone and never allow anyone to ‘win’..because then there would be ‘losers’.

The BBC have reported with a straight face Moynihan’s ‘demand’ that Jeremy Hunt reverse his ‘damaging’ school sport policies, whatever they are, and start pumping more money into state school sports.

Not a blush from the BBC as it fails to mention the Lefties drive to eradicate competition and ‘elitism’ in both the academic and sports arenas.

The BBC raises the question why are so many ‘winners’ coming from private education….the question should be why aren’t they coming from the State Schools in such numbers?  See above for the answer.

It cannot be lack of money…billions are thrown into the State system….pupils don’t get much less spent on them per head than in many private schools….Teachers get paid very good salaries.

The State primary school down the road is buying iPads for the children….computer technology litters the place…and rightly so….I have no doubt that if a school wanted to compete and encourage its pupils to enter sports other than athletics or football such as rowing or eventing they could find a way working with already established local sports clubs which have the facilties….kids are shipped off to the local swimming pool and often to the ‘private’ local rugby club to use their pitches….so where’s the problem with money and facilities?

Half the problem is the schools attitude to these sports and the pupils knowledge about them….they may not even realise there is such a sport..so how can they possibly compete in it?…..and a wider choice of sports would give those not inclined to play football or rugby etc a chance to do something else rather than lurk unwillingly trying to avoid all contact with a muddy ball.

If the BBC were to actually do a full, indepth investigation into the sport facilities available to schools and the attitudes that prevail amongst the head teachers and trendy teachers towards sports instead of the usual guilt ridden, knee jerk middle/upper class bashing we get from the Today programme et al we might not only get a truer picture of what is going on in schools but also if anything, and what, can be done to improve opportunities for State School pupils.

Perhaps all those in the well paid ranks of the BBC or Arts who rage on about capitalism and consumerism and greed might like to dip into their own pockets and give up half their own rather too easily gotten gains and spread a bit of egalitarianism around and fund these budding state school sporting stars of the future….they can replace all those ‘evil’ sponsors such as McDonalds and Coca Cola.

The real problem is the ‘Left’ have given up on life….it’s so easy if everyone is the ‘same’….no one has to try.

What’s that French saying? 

Vive La Difference!

 PS:

I really don’t think it’s all about money….its more attitude and making a choice of what you consider important.

If you have a potential sports star should you spend money and time educating them in an academic subject of relatively little merit or use those resources to build on his sporting prowess?

The Army does exactly that…people in sports teams concentrate on the sports whilst sidelining other training…undoubtedly the Chinese and USSR did the same in their state schools system….even the Americans do it with sporting scholarships…where no scholarship is needed.

Why do private schools succeed?…because they are private and have to compete hard to build and keep their reputation and continue to attract fee paying pupils…they also like to compete just for the hell of it.

It’s more attitude and choice by schools on what to spend their money on rather than solely a quantity of money issue.