Author Archives: David Vance

Time for a new one of these for your completion! The floor is yours…

Don’t know if anyone caught the BBC News on Radi0 4 at One but they managed to find a UK tourist in Tunisia who took exception to the Foreign Office advice to leave that country due to the “highly likely” nature of another terrorist attack. The gentlemen concerned said “It’s what you would expect from a Tory Government”. Now then, last time I checked, it was a Tunisian Islamist who massacred 30 of our fellow citizens of the beach in Sousse. Nothing whatsoever to do with OUR Government. Just how does the BBC hunt down these visceral Conservative haters even in places like Tunisia?

I wonder if the BBC will get around to defining the massacre of innocents on that beach in Sousse as ‘travel based violence”? The reason I ask if because of this…

BBC #wato says #sevenseven victims were “killed by extremists” – not “murdered by fundamentalist Muslims”. Ever-present bias. @DVATW

— Dalrymple Forum (@dalrympleforum) July 7, 2015

Sanitising Islamic driven terror seems fundamental to the BBC narrative and if they can turn the slaughter of 7/7 into just an “extremist” attack stripped of all context then anything is possible.

I came across this tweet from comedy writer Armando Iannucci.

Could those complaining to me about ‘left-wing’ bias in the BBC point me to specific examples? Otherwise it’s difficult to respond.

— Armando Iannucci (@Aiannucci) July 1, 2015

I have invited him to read this site where we have around some 10,000 examples of such. You may wish to tweet him in order to help inform his better?

Wonder what you make of this news?

“The BBC’s political editor Nick Robinson is to step down from his role after 10 years. He will replace Jim Naughtie on the presenting team of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Robinson will also report and present across television and radio for BBC News and Current Affairs.”

I’ll be glad to see the back of Naughtie, he identified so readily with the Left it was visceral. Robinson is an interesting character but Today is steeped in bias and it strikes me it will be very difficult to provide balance. Thoughts?

Well, seeing as how Labour weren’t up to much of a response to the Osborne Budget, the BBC obviously felt that they needed to step up to the challenge. All day they have been running the following attack line…

Budget 2015: Squeeze to hit 13m families, says IFS

And below the headline this..

Thirteen million UK families will lose £260 a year on average because of the Budget’s tax and benefits changes, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).

Well, the IFS is entitled it its opinion, of course, but it might be nice of the BBC to preface such with the qualification that the IFS swings to the Left. Furthermore, even the left-biased IFS caveat their claims with words like “could” but the BBC discard that when it come to headline generation and soundbites for their news bulletins.

Here we go, a new Open Thread to detail the bias! Over to you.

OK folks, time for a new Syriza approved one of these. Just say OXI to BBC bias and detail it here. The comrades seem most unhappy with Osborne after his comments on Marr yesterday! Your thoughts?

Well, the weekend approaches and so time for a new one of these to see us off into the wild blue yonder! Detail the bias here please.

1ST July and a new month beckons! Here is a new Open Thread. Please detail the bias here. Can I also request civility in the comment threads? I am aware of some impersonation that has been going on here and a plan is in place to permanently stop this. I also wanted to say that the credibility of the site with you – our excellent readers. Please be careful that you choose links with care and that you don’t accidentally damage the site by saying or linking to lunatic sites (right or left!) Many thanks.