Author Archives: David Vance

Sounds grotesque.  From Finchley..

#bbcqt‘s back on Thursday with Ken Clarke, David Blunkett, @MingCampbellMP, @pollytoynbee and Margaret Thatcher’s biographer Charles Moore.

By way of balance, I came across this item on the BBC this evening;

Gerald Scarfe on how he loved to loathe Thatcher

Here’s a new one to follow on from David’s last one. Thatcher is still the BIG news story so detail it here. I can’t recall being this annoyed at the BBC in ages.

This tweet made me feel nauseous, from BBC 5 Live Presenter Ian McGarry. Nice chap, and of course this is his personal account, so nothing to do with his Employer…

garbosj Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead. 09/04/2013 00:11

I am finding it almost impossible to watch the BBC at the moment. Last evening, the BBC wheeled on Ken Livingstone, Gerry Adams and Neil Kinnock to pay “tribute to Lady Thatcher. I can only assume the Brighton bomber was unavailable for comment. This morning, the BBC leads with the view of the ANC.  This is stomach churning and I can’t take it.

I have been away all day, in London.  The news of the death of Lady Thatcher is THE story of the day, the week. I am personally distraught at her passing. On the way back from the Airport I listened to the BBC and a programme which praised her as amongst the top 4 Prime Ministers of the last hundred years. Oh, just behind Comrade Brown perhaps? I cannot stomach the BBC coverage of her passing and will leave it with you.

Hi everyone. See the last thread is bulging so time for a new one!

Is it just me but does anyone else feel the BBC has been leading the race to ensure that the Grand National is increasingly sanitised and the fences made easy? Might this sudden interest in Animal Welfare be at all linked to the fact that Channel 4 now have the rights to show this race and the BBC is now bereft of this event? What do you think?

OK, you can breath a sight of RELIEF! Nelson Mandela has been discharged from hospital and is BACK HOME! It’s the single most important story on the BBC news web site as I type this. Naturally…they DO love Comrade Nelson, not that it influences the editorial weight they out behind this non story, no way…..altogether now “Free Nelson Man-dela..”

I was amused by the declaration from the new BBC DG Tony Hall that trust is rising in the BBC. I wonder what makes him think this? Was it the Savile revelations perhaps, Jimmy the long time BBC star and serial paedo?  Perhaps it was how the thorough and entirely professional way that Newsnight tackled the allegations against Lord McAlpine? I wonder HOW Hall comes to this conclusion. I also note that he was COY on the issue of the license fee, as reported here.