Niall Ferguson writes in the Sunday Times that Trump, bad as he is, is not the tyrant America should fear.  So who is the real tyrant?

The modern American left…[it] thirsts to get rid of one of the most fundamental protections that the constitution enshrines: free speech.

He goes on to list the Left’s often violent attempts to silence those whose opinions they don’t want to hear and don’t want anyone else to hear.  Ferguson then illustrates the convoluted thinking and warped rationalisation to excuse such crimes…a New York Universty professor writing in the NYT [of course] tells us that..

The idea of freedom of speech does not mean a blanket permission to say anything anybody thinks….freedom of expression is not an unchanging absolute…it requires the vigilant and continuing examination of its parameters.

The good professor thought that if anyone had their feelings hurt by anything said then that cannot be allowed…apparently we must balance the right to free speech with the obligation to be all inclusive….if free speech, however truthful, means a negative view of certain communities with the result that that community feels that it cannot fully express its own culture and beliefs then we must keep quiet and not criticise those cultures and beliefs even if they are in direct contravention of the legal and cultural practices of the nation this community has embedded itself within.

Ferguson says ‘If the criteria for censorship is that nobody’s feelings can be hurt, then we are finished as a society’.

He finishes with this…

Mark my words, while I can still publish them with impunity: the real tyrants, when they come, will be for diversity (except of opinion) and against hate speech (except their own).

I’ve got news for him…the real tyranny is already here…and it’s the BBC, the BBC that does not concern itself one little jot with this massive threat to free speech but instead fills the airwaves with far fetched fantasies about the rise of the Fourth Reich.

Want to speak freely about Islam, immigration, climate change or the EU?  Not on the BBC.

The BBC is keen on shutting down and denouncing those who utter hate speech and yet this is the BBC which calls Nigel Farage a Nazi and labels UKIP voters as Far Right and racists, the BBC which labels Leave voters as violent racist little englanders….or mad as Rod Liddle reveals...

A senior BBC apparatchik said to me: ‘What you have to understand, Rod, is that these people are all mad.’

The BBC which dismisses all white people as racist, all white men as ‘male, pale and stale’….needing to be replaced by black or brown faces.  The BBC is one of the biggest, most divisive and dangerous purveyors of hate speech in the country….Vince Cable aside it would seem.

It’s not just the left-wing media or the academics who work hard to police our thoughts, it is the police themselves…here defining what they consider ‘Islamophobia’ to be….a rather open, catch-all definition:

An Islamaphobic Incident is “Any incident that is perceived by the victim or any other person to be due to a persons religion (of Islam)”.

An Islamaphobic Crime is any Islamaphobic Incident that constitutes a criminal offence.

And here is the ultimate definition they probably work to as a final reference…..extraordinarily wide ranging and wrong……it comes in a report done in conjunction with the Met. Police…..

Essentially say anything about Islam and you’re heading to the slammer regardless of its truth…for instance the first definition is one that is central to Islam itself…Islam is one single religion [Hence the separate Shias and Ahmadis are not considered Muslim], the Koran is unchangeable and timeless…Islam cannot be ‘reformed’…Tariq Ramadan is a fraud pulling the wool over gullible liberal eyes who are all too eager to believe.  And yet say that and you will apparently get your collar felt.  As for the rest….seems a pretty good description of Islam rather than Islamophobia.

Be afraid, very afraid.  They’re coming for you.

One for BBC journalists to pause and consider before they continue to help stir up a race war with sensationalist and false claims that all white cops are racist killers…so many of the ‘black deaths’ have been at the hands of cops of non-white origins…….just why are cops so nervous and fast on the draw when approaching people in vehicles?

Good old Drunker, never lets us down as he always provides the proof of why we should leave the EU in our dust.

Today he encapsulates perfectly the BBC narrative on Brexit…the very same narrative that the EU would love you to ‘understand’….it’s going to be very, very complex, much much too difficult…perhaps we should just call the whole thing off….

The European Commission is leading the EU’s Brexit negotiations on behalf of the remaining 27 member states.

Although he offered his full confidence to Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator, Mr Juncker warned that Brexit would be extremely complex.

“People will become more and more conscious of the density of problems on a daily basis, without always being able to provide a coherent answer to these problems,” he said.

The BBC works hard to assure us of that supposed density of problems on a daily basis….ne’er  day goes by without the BBC providing a doom-laden prediction of what Brexit will entail….and all too often it is spurious, sensationalist and vastly over-exaggerated and takes absolutely no account of the fact that economics was not the reason for Brexit and yet the BBC bases its whole narrative for staying in the EU on the supposed financial cost of leaving..hence we had the trail for ‘Any Questions’ asking ‘Is this our future in Europe now and is it a price worth paying [for Brexit]?’

We also had this recent piece of outrageous scaremongering from Newsnight essentially telling us Brexit means we are grounded and we’ll never fly to Spain again:

Pro-EU Lord Hall Hall is the enemy within.  We know he was greatly upset by the Brexit result and blamed the BBC for not getting the correct message across.  He is now in the process of rectifying that by overseeing a BBC that is blatantly and relentlessly pumping out misinformation and pro-EU propaganda that is meant to damage British interests and to ensure the Brexit negotiations fail.  The BBC’s loudest message is that the government is in chaos, doesn’t know what it wants to achieve and is completely unprepared for the negotiations.  A classic example of this was when David Davis and his team were photographed at the negotiating table with the EU team.  The EU team  posed with piles of papers whilst the Brits put nothing on the table.

John Humphrys, one of the BBC’s most respected and experienced journalists, seriously suggested on the BBC’s flagship news programme that this showed the Brits were completely unprepared for the negotiations.  Why on earth would he peddle such a blatant untruth on the basis of a photograph that was set up before the negotiations had actually started?  This was not the negotiation.  What Humphrys failed to tell people was that the Brits had a big team behind them for the negotiations…and Humphrys should have known that as the BBC itself mentioned it in a web report…

A UK government source told the BBC that 98 British officials were in Brussels for the negotiations.

So why did the BBC’s premier news programme promote what is obviously a lie, an anti-British lie designed to make the government look bad?  Why is it peddling EU propaganda that the British team is in chaos and is totally unprepared with no idea of what it wants to achieve?

The EU’s preferred tactic is to negotiate in public via the Media and the BBC is the willing fellow traveller who provides the headlines and narratives that the EU wants.  The EU wants to portray the British as in chaos, unprepared with no plans or any plans they do have are unworkable, unreasonable and ill-thought out whilst its own position is rational, reasonable and in the best interests of everyone…if only the Brits would accept what we, the EU, offer then negotiations could continue quickly and smoothly…however the unreasonable and intransigent British are making a deal impossible.  The BBC happily peddles this lie.

Here is an example of the BBC pushing EU propaganda and portraying the Brits as unprepared….

The call to “get down to business” from David Davis is meant to signal that the Brexit talks are entering a serious phase after an opening session of pleasantries and procedural discussions.

That might raise eyebrows on the European side where there’s a perception that Britain dithered for months after the Brexit referendum before getting down to talks.

Hmmm….we couldn’t start negotiations until Article 50 had been signed off…and that was delayed due to enormous opposition from the pro-EU Remainers trying to prevent it happening.  Any delay was down to the EU side not the British government.

Today we had a classic example of the BBC twisting someone’s words that damned the likes of the BBC and the Remainders who resist Brexit and turned them into an attack on the government when they actually back the government.

Ex-Governor of the Bank Of England, Lord King, was on the Today show this morning [08:10] stating that the opponents of Brexit had better get on-board as Brexit is going to happen and they should support it and do the best they can to ensure we have a successful exit from the EU…one way of doing this is to back the idea that we have the nuclear option of leaving the EU with no deal if necessary.  This he told us was a vital negotiating tactic.  We had to have a credible fallback position that would make the other side think they had better deal fairly, with no such fallback putting pressure on the EU we would have no leverage and be forced to accept whatever terms were imposed upon us.  He also told us that the media were producing hysterical reports on Brexit and were damaging British interests.  Did he mean the BBC?  Here’s a clue to his meaning…

This [no deal better than abad deal] ought to be something people can agree on irrespective of whether they voted for Brexit or not.

What was the BBC’s immediate reaction to his words?  They immediately span them into a lie claiming that Lord King had ‘urged the government to come up  with a credible fallback position’.  But that was not what he said.  He wants remainers to back the ‘no deal ‘strategy’ whatever their feelings as Brexit is happening and we need to be in a strong negotiating position to get the best terms.  The BBC is trying to make out that the government is unprepared and has no fall back…funnily enough the government does have a fallback, the famous ‘No deal is better than a bad deal’ position…exactly what Lord King was talking about….the BBC of course knows this as it has long sought to undermine that and paint it as a mad and ruinous strategy….

Brexit: What would ‘no deal’ look like?

Negotiations to uncouple Britain from the European Union are about to begin, with Theresa May warning the UK will not accept a “punitive deal”.

The prime minister says leaving the 28 nation organisation with no deal whatsoever would be better than signing the UK up to a bad one.

But the government has not done a thorough economic assessment of the “no deal” scenario, Brexit Secretary David Davis has admitted to MPs.

Here’s the Independent’s take illustrating perfectly the total opposition from Remainers to the fallback policy…

Theresa May’s ‘no deal is better than a bad deal’ Brexit logic could end up destroying the British economy

“No deal is better than a bad deal.” Those fateful words made it into the Conservative manifesto, in relation to Brexit.

It sounds plausible, of course. And rather like the Leave campaign’s “take back control” slogan, it rings true on an emotional level. Why on earth should we accept an insulting and punitive deal offered by Europe? Better, surely, to just walk away.

But it’s a delusion; a perilous mis-framing of the situation Britain faces going into in these negotiations.

Indeed here is the Tory 2017 manifesto….

We continue to believe that no deal is better than a bad deal for the UK.

And of course the video above shows May stating uncategorically that ‘No deal is better than a bad deal’ during the election debates.

So why does the BBC tell us this as if we had no ‘fallback’?….

UK ‘must prepare a Brexit fallback’

The UK needs a “credible fallback” in case no EU trade deal is reached during Brexit negotiations, former Bank of England governor Mervyn King has said.

Lord King said British negotiators needed to show Brussels the country has an alternative over a bad trade deal post-Brexit.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Lord King said: “We are where we are, and we are in a negotiation and it’s important that the negotiation succeeds.

“But it cannot succeed without a credible fallback position and that is something which I think is a practical thing that the civil service ought to be taking a lead on.”

Oh hang on the BBC slips in as if almost irrelevant and not actually the government’s main fallback position….

Previously Prime Minister Theresa May has said: “No deal is better than a bad deal.”

Ah but…it adds this to suggest that ‘no deal’ actually isn’t on the table which is complete nonsense…

Previously, Brexit minister Steve Baker said the government was preparing for all possible outcomes over Brexit talks, but added a no-deal with Brussels was unlikely.

What Baker was saying that a deal was likely which is totally different from what the BBC implies.

We also have this….

Lord King said: “I don’t know what the economic consequences of Brexit will be, that’s the only honest answer.”

If I remember rightly what he said was that there will be an economic shock of some description but long term we will bounce back.  Why does the BBC not mention that?

King is a Brexit supporter and would not be saying the things the BBC says he has in their own intepretation of his words.  He knows May’s position is ‘no deal is better than a bad deal’ and he also knows, as the BBC and Independent’s ‘analysis’ of that stance show, that the opponents of Brexit are trying to undermine that negotiating position of having a nuclear no deal fallback…he was not telling the government to develop a fallback but was telling the likes of the BBC to start to support the British Brexit negotiations by not talking them and the ‘no deal’ strategy  down.

Seems he failed to persuade them as they came straight out after the interview spreading misinformation and lies about the things he had said.

Another example of BBC pro-EU propaganda?  There are long queues at airport check-ins as new security measures are put in place and the EU countries fail to provide the necessary staff and systems to cope with this.  Some might suspect that this was a deliberate tactic by the EU in order to generate the headlines and photographs about chaos on the borders as checks are imposed on travellers with the intent that this create an image of what might be the result of Brexit for Brits travelling to the EU.  The BBC conveniently picks up with that narrative as Any Questions asked ‘Is this our future in Europe now and is it a price worth paying [for Brexit]?’

This is complete rubbish…. the queues are a result of EU incompetence [or machiavellian black propaganda] and even a moment’s thought would tell us that such an idea that having to go through passport control will cause massive delays is a nonsense.  Just how do we manage to travel to any country outside the EU without such queues?  There are no such queues when you travel to America or India or Australia etc etc etc…..because they have systems that work…glitches aside.  Having to flash your passport if you want to enter the EU will not mean 4 to 8 hours in a queue.  Just more BBC EU scaremongering and alarmism.

Oh..and the bizarrely deluded Owen Jones on the programme said this…

“I know I am banging on about it, but we do have to take the long view, this is all because of a Conservative Party that put their own views ahead of the people.”

Em….the ‘People’ voted for Brexit…Owen Jones’ current position on Brexit?…

I campaigned passionately from a left-wing perspective for Remain during the referendum campaign, in rallies across the country, on television, in my Guardian articles (like here, here, here, here, here, here, and here), on social media, in YouTube videos (like here and here). I received threats of torture and violence as a consequence, which was pretty unpleasant.

May is implementing Brexit, Jones opposes it…just who is putting their views ahead of the ‘People’?

And Owen Jones’ real view of the ‘People’?…

Britain would only exit on the terms of right-wing xenophobic populism.

Ah yes……little englander nazis.

Hmmm….2015 and this was little Owen [or ‘flip-flop’ as we might call him…radically changing his mind on the EU and Corbyn]…

The left must put Britain’s EU withdrawal on the agenda

Owen Jones

As austerity-ravaged Greece was placed under what Yanis Varoufakis terms a “postmodern occupation”, its sovereignty overturned and compelled to implement more of the policies that have achieved nothing but economic ruin, Britain’s left is turning against the European Union, and fast.

“Everything good about the EU is in retreat; everything bad is on the rampage,” writes George Monbiot, explaining his about-turn. “All my life I’ve been pro-Europe,” says Caitlin Moran, “but seeing how Germany is treating Greece, I am finding it increasingly distasteful.” Nick Cohen believes the EU is being portrayed “with some truth, as a cruel, fanatical and stupid institution”. “How can the left support what is being done?” asks Suzanne Moore. “The European ‘Union’. Not in my name.” There are senior Labour figures in Westminster and Holyrood privately moving to an “out” position too.

For those of us on the left who have always been critical of the EU, it has felt like a lonely crusade. But left support for withdrawal – “Lexit”, if you like – is not new. If anything, this new wave of left Euroscepticism represents a reawakening. Much of the left campaigned against entering the European Economic Community when Margaret Thatcher and the like campaigned for membership.

The case for Lexit grows ever stronger, and – at the very least – more of us need to start dipping our toes in the water.

A misleading headline and text from the anti-nationalist BBC…

The flag doesn’t matter – neutral athlete Klishina

Russian long jumper Darya Klishina tells BBC sports editor Dan Roan “it doesn’t matter about the flag” before competing at the World Athletics Championships in London as a ‘neutral’ athlete.

That gives the idea that she isn’t bothered about being identified as from a particular nation but that is just not true….she makes it clear that this is unfortunate and she wants to identify as Russian…the only reason she said ‘the flag doesn’t matter’ is because she says everyone will know anyway that she is Russian….a completely different meaning to that suggested by the BBC write up.  Lazy journalism or just stupid student politics?

Hadn’t realised there was such a racial category as ‘Grenfellian’……

Grenfell resident: Stop the racist abuse

Had to laugh as I listened to the BBC being outraged at what they allege is anti-White propaganda in South Africa as  PR company Bell Pottinger is accused of trying to encourage the idea that South Africa’s problems are due to the menace of supposed ‘White monopoly capital’ and is thus ‘stoking racial tensions.’

You have to laugh because the BBC itself is guilty of ‘stoking racial tensions’…anti-white and anti-Jewish.

There is a petition demanding Parliament discuss Bell Pottinger’s alleged actions...read the reasoning behind it and you can easily translate that into how the BBC’s own reports ‘stoke racial tensions’…..

Martin Peake’s petition‚ with about 10,450 signatures‚ is on the website‚ change.com.

In his petition Peake requests that former Bell Pottinger partner Victoria Geoghegan‚ who was directly involved in the campaign to blame tensions in South Africa on “white monopoly capital”‚ be indicted in The Hague.

Peake writes: “Bell Pottinger‚ a morally corrupt British company‚ has spent the last few years in a divisive campaign of racial and moral social decay that has left South Africa scarred‚ set back the lifeworks of great men like Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu‚ and resulted in the deaths of countless innocents as a result of their racially charged hatred. We demand a formal enquiry into this company‚ its directors and officers‚ and in particular Bell Pottinger’s senior Africa partner Victoria Geoghegan‚ and the indictment of these people at the ICC at the Hague.”

Peake‚ who said South Africa will always be home despite the fact he no longer lives there‚ said he is angry about Bell Pottinger’s campaign to use the term “white monopoly capital” and to blame problems on the country on elite groups of white people.

The BBC, which constantly tells us that the problem in the UK is the ‘monopoly’ of the ‘pale, male and stale’ in society and which encourages ethnic minorities to believe they are the victims of white oppression and racism…and that Brexit has encouraged this making Britain a ‘nastier more racist place’.  The BBC which encourages the world to think of itself as a victim of White Western imperialism and colonisation and wants Whites to admit their guilt and atone for it and as part of that they must be ethnically cleansed from the face of the earth by bringing in an endless stream of ‘brown people’ to interbreed and thus breed out ‘whiteness’….we know this was the Labour Party’s plan as Andrew Neather told us they wanted to ‘brown Britain’….a bombshell revelation that the BBC refused to report because of course it goes along with such a policy.  The same BBC that demonises Israel and invents Jewish war crimes and thus makes Jews a target all across the globe…the BBC telling us that in fact Jews should expect to get attacked because of the ‘crimes’ Israel commits in Gaza.

The BBC is a very dangerous left-wing mouthpiece pushing highly toxic and inflammatory narratives that are intended to stir up racial tensions and conflict.  Its support for Irish nationalist and Muslim terrorism, its support for black rioters, its support for anti-Israel terrorism, its support for the hard-left Corbyn whose support base has an underlying foundation of violence and intimidation as well as elements of anti-Semitism and his own open support for terrorists, shows us why the BBC is so dangerous as it not just fails to challenge these narratives but gives them almost unalloyed support.

As a black ‘diversity officer’ tells us that Whites should ‘geddit’ [ie be killed] people in Britain should wake up to what is going on and how that can only get worse as the  likes of the BBC recklessly incite anti-white racism and violence and encourage mass immigration of people who have no intention of integrating and being ‘British’.

Corbyn won’t condemn what is happening in Venezuela. Why? Because he supports the Socialist policies that have caused the economic chaos. pic.twitter.com/38DZN9rfGY

— Conservatives (@Conservatives) August 3, 2017

There are some problems in Venezuela, the extent of which you may not realise if you rely on the BBC to report on them fully.  Curiously in a report this morning on the Today show with Nick ‘let’s not report anything negative about Corbyn’ Robinson there was no mention of Corbyn’s long held support for hard left socialist regime in Venezuela that has reduced it to a complete basket case….nor of Ken Livingstone’s assertion that the problem was the government hadn’t shot enough rich people….

“One of the things that Chavez did when he came to power, he didn’t kill all the oligarchs, he allowed them to live, to carry on… a lot of them are using their power and control…to make it difficult and to undermine Maduro.”

The BBC wouldn’t go that far but a contribution from John Simpson wasn’t far off as he said the real problem was that of a ‘European settler culture imposed upon the indigenous one’.   Remarkable bit of racism from the BBC there…because of course immigrants are a blessing who contribute to the economy and diversity of the population and anyway the government invited them in due to a shortage of labour [sound familiar?]….never mind that Europeans apparently make up over 60% of the population and the ‘indigenous’ a mere 2.8%…not sure how that then translates into blame for the problems the country has now…aren’t they down to corrupt government and insane, unworkable and economically illiterate socialist policies?   Wouldn’t hear the likes of Simpson suggest that the ‘Muslim settler culture imposed upon the indigenous one’ is the cause of so much trouble in the UK with more to come.  Simpson told us that it was really just those horrible Western countries that opposed Maduro but have no fear because across the West individuals give him lots of support…..like Corbyn?

Nick Robinson’s interviewee was a Chavez/Maduro supporter….he asked her if it was right that the opposition to Maduro is led by US puppets?[the US having done so many appalling things in South America as he told us].  Not surprisingly she agreed…Venezuela is the victim of US imperialism rather than left-wing lunacy.  Nick Robinson…not mentioning his hero’s link to Venezuela and giving a Chavez supporter an unchallenged platform to schill for the socialist lunacy….he’s a complete waste of space as a reporter isn’t he?

What about Northern Ireland?  The BBC’s reaction to Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar’s remarks about Brexit was a perfect illustration of its position on Brexit and how it has gone about reporting the subject as it gives his comments high prominence with no ciritical analysis, the comments being presented as rational common sense that is in stark contrast to the ‘madness’ of the Brexiteers.  This is how the BBC reports all of what is plainly EU mischief making….the BBC making no attempt to interpret the comments and why they are really being made…instead what we get is the BBC nodding along in agreement, reporting them as ground truth and in fact actually adding to the anti-Brexit narrative themselves….in this case we hear that Brexit will end up with a plague of smugglers and criminals swarming the border and that any ‘checkpoint’, as the BBC called them instead of border posts, would mean that the customs officers manning them would be ‘sitting ducks’ for terrorists….er…isn’t there ‘peace’ in NI now?  No scaremongering alarmism there then from the BBC.

What other rubbish masquerading as ‘real news’ did we get from the BBC?  Oh yes…Trump has committed treason, his staff have been directing the Russians on what to hack, he consorted with prostitutes and is in hock to the Russian mafia and the Russian security services.  All this was reeled off as if it was proven fact with just a nod to the reality…that all of it is just so much hot air and Democrat mud-slinging at the moment.  The BBC’s conclusion?  Trump is on the ropes and is very worried.

Just another day at The Bubble.

The weekend arrives and so does this new Open Thread. Here is where you detail the bias! The floor is yours…

From the Telegraph…apparently evidence of BBC bias is ‘not useful’…..

Eurosceptic MPs accuse BBC of ‘whitewash’ after broadcaster rejects claim of Brexit bias

The BBC has insisted its Brexit coverage is not biased as Eurosceptic MPs accused the broadcaster of a “whitewash”.

MPs from across the political spectrum have called for new guidelines to be introduced to ensure the BBC remains fair in the way it reports on matters relating to the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union.

But those calls have reportedly been rejected with James Harding, BBC Director of News, writing in a letter to MPs that he believed the broadcaster is “impartial” over Brexit.

He said the BBC must not be “pushed or pulled by one political interest or another”.

A cross-party group— including Labour MP Kate Hoey, Tory backbencher Philip Davies and the DUP’s Ian Paisley Jr  held talks with Mr Harding.

The meeting came after a study in March found that just one in six contributors to the Radio 4 Today programme’s business news slot in the six months after referendum saw the result as positive for Britain.

MPs advocated the introduction of new guidelines to ensure the BBC remains impartial.

Meanwhile, Sir David Clementi, BBC Chairman, has reportedly declined to meet with concerned MPs to talk over the issue.

Sir David dismissed claims of bias as he said that analysis suggesting listeners were more likely to hear a pro-EU voice than a pro-Brexit voice on BBC Radio 4 were “not useful”.