Category Archives: BBC bias

The new, and laughable, narrative from the Establishment anti-Brexit cabal is that they are now the insurgents…that’s right…all those senior politicians, the most powerful media organisations, billionaires, lawyers and academics….the new insurgents.  All routed it might be said by one bloke with a pint pot, a fag and a great disrespect for that unruly mob of the High and Mighty.

I might also suggest that rather than being the insurgents they are the same old Deadly Donkeys, with their deeply entrenched ideas and vested interests, misleading the Lions.  This is the power elite desperately trying to cling on to that power.

The utter contempt that these Donkeys hold Leave voters in is the same attitude reflected in Clinton’s dismissal of Trump voters as ‘Deplorables’.  Farron just has to open his mouth and the bile comes pouring out, the sneers and arrogant contempt that he has for Leave voters and democracy [apparently they’re not ‘decent nor moderate’ unlike the Richmond voters] whilst ironically claiming his push for a second referendum is ‘democracy’ rather than the Establishment seeking to crush one of the most democratic and representative votes this country has ever had.  Having said that he has had a sudden damascene conversion it seems…a vote in Richmond [Isn’t Goldsmith a complete knob?  When an MP he couldn’t block Heathrow…so stands down in order to get re-elected, he hoped, in order to er stop Heathrow as an MP], a turnout of 54%, or just over 41,000 voters resulting in a Libdem victory, apparently suggests to Farron that Brexit has been over-turned by popular consensus….ignoring the 74% turnout for the referendum and the actual vote of 52%, 17 million, in favour.  Funny old world democracy.  Never mind that the stats say the Remain vote fell.

Maybe Brillo is right….via Guido..

Nick Clegg follows in the footsteps of his old spinner James McGrory and takes a pasting from Andrew Neil on the single market. Brillo’s killer line: “Isn’t it time the LibDems had a rebrand and dropped the Democrat?” Cue Clegg silent death stare…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYdht0hg1ik

The BBC is of course, Andrew Neil aside, pretty well on-board the Remain bandwagon, with programmes practically turned over to subtle and not-so subtle Remain propaganda and narratives, and more often than not packed with Remain voices. We of course know, because the BBC keeps telling us, that the country is now ‘divided’…hmmm….isn’t that always the case?  What about all those voters who didn’t vote Tory in the election?  Where was the scream about a ‘divided country’ then?  It’s just a convenient narrative dreamt up to force the Remain agenda on Brexit….we must not ignore the 48%.  Why not? It was a clear vote on one question…in or out of the EU?  How can you compromise on that without completely overturning the vote and thwarting Brexit completely?  Wouldn’t want that to happen would we BBC?

Emma Barnett thought that the problem was the Brexit mob…they are so angry because Remain won’t accept the democratic vote that their anger is dividing the country…yes it’s the Leave voters whose irrational and groundless rage is driving a wedge across communities…not the Remain camp that steadfastly refuses to accept the democratic vote and is doing everything in its power to thwart the democratic process in order to crush Brexit then?  The Remain camp that rather than ‘heal’ things by maintaining economic and political stability and working to enact and enable Brexit seeks to cause chaos, uncertainty and instability.

You just have to see the language the Remain camp uses to describe Leave voters to see the contempt they hold them in and just who is really creating any division, anger and dissent.  We’ve already mentioned Farron dismissing Leave voters as not being decent and moderate, the wretched and untrustworthy Tory, Anna Soubry, calls them racist, prejudiced, ignorant and intolerant fools…though of course she tries hard to dress it up…saying they are ‘nativist’ rather than the Far Right Fascists she wants to call them.  She claims that the British Public are being misled and misinformed….she tells us that we have ‘ceded the field to the ill-informed, intolerant and often prejudiced.’  That’s half the voters then.

That is of course the narrative that the BBC presses as well….only this morning we heard that Trump was elected by people who voted based purely on emotion, how they felt, rather than on any reasoned basis…Trump had no policies, he just ran his campaign on the soundbite…‘It doesn’t feel great does it?…so vote for me’...whereas as Hilary was ‘facts, facts, facts’.  Naturally that is utter nonsense….Trump repeatedly stated his poplicies in reasoned and measured tones in interview after interview….none of which the BBC bothered to publicise or discuss preferring to shout racist and Islamophobe and sexist at him.

Historian Niall Ferguson quotes Salena Zito on Trump…..

‘The Press takes Trump literally but not seriously.  The voters take him seriously but not literally’

Ferguson thinks this is ‘the smartest thing said about the 2016 election and deserves a place in every dictionary of quotations’. Which is quite funny as Ferguson spent the election run-up denouncing  Trump as the spawn of the Devil…I guess as a historian it doesn’t do to be on the wrong side of history.  The BBC should have that quote tattooed on every employee’s forehead as a reminder to dump the hubris, the prejudice and the bias and to do their job….report the facts, report reality, report uncomfortable truths. Don’t report only what you think the Public needs to hear, what you want them to hear….such as the BBC’s very own definition of the new evil that stalks the world…’Populism’.

Ah yes…’Populism’…the new obsession of the BBC…it’s a negative thing of course…can’t have people actually being allowed to vote the way they want to…and that is the essence of the debate.  The BBC’s idea of Populism is a rampant, Far-Right mob out of control bringing to power someone who doesn’t hold the Liberal values they do.

The reality is that the BBC doesn’t like Populism because it is in fact people voting in their own interest and not how the elite, including the BBC, tells them they should vote….and, if they fail to vote that way, to vote again until they get it right…ala Clegg and Co.  This is the Populism that Kirsty Wark so unashamedly sneered at this morning as that ‘corralled by‘…and she paused…‘groups like UKIP’.  I think her language says it all as to how she views the Brexit vote….she compared the Levellers to Leave voters…..we heard they were ‘useful idiots’.  Note all her guests were the usual media types and politically left cabal that we come to expect from the BBC as they talk of populism and patriotism.  The whole programme was just one long, sneaky sneer at Brexit voters meant to dismiss them as fools telling us that the ‘elite’ would take over anyway once the ‘revolution’ was over….so the message was…why have the revolution?  Stay in the EU.

CapX provides us with another example of the contempt the Establishment has for the voters…describing them as Barbarians….the next worst thing to Attila the Hun…

In the chancelleries of Europe, in the gilded suburbs and Michelin-starred restaurants, the cry goes up: the populists are coming! The populists are coming! Not since Attila the Hun swept towards Rome has there been such fear and trembling.

Europe has long been a drag anchor on the world economy, and is likely to remain so. But the best way to improve its situation is for mainstream leaders to provide good economics with good politics – that is to say, reform with reassurance.

Doing so won’t keep the barbarians from the gates. But it might just prevent them from breaking through.

However CapX at least recognises there is a massive problem with the EU….it needs reform or shutting down…and this is a subject that you don’t hear on the BBC….the problem with the EU and its unelected technocratic government….the one the People voted against, a vote the BBC doesn’t recognise as about sovereignty and immigration preferring instead to say it is all about the economy…..which is why the BBC whole narrative is about insisting that leaving the EU is economically bad….which proves they just don’t understand what the vote was about….and why they lost….

While we hear an awful lot about populism, we hear an awful lot less about the equal and opposite problem – technocracy.

The European Union is, at heart, a technocratic project – one reason why it has always been so reluctant to submit itself for popular endorsement. But it also tends to produce technocratic governance in individual nation-states.

After the euro, the ultimate expression of the Brussels ideal, succeeded in impoverishing half the continent, the governments that resulted were often as beholden to the international money-men as to their citizens, if not more so.

The result has been an ungainly gavotte, in country after country, between populism and technocracy. Grey men in suits take power. Disillusioned voters turn to colourful extremists. Colourful extremists screw everything up. Re-enter the men in grey.

There is obviously an argument that none of this can be fixed in a fundamental sense until the euro is either mended (via proper fiscal integration of the continent) or ended.

But in the immediate term, both technocracy and populism are dead ends: the one infuriates the voters, the other ultimately disappoints them.

Shame the BBC doesn’t see fit to enter that debate about the utter and complete failure of the Euro and the damage it has wrought across Europe in respect of the Leave campaign….the BBC always told us that the Leave side were not voting for something [when in fact of course they were voting for something…getting their country back in simple terms], a BBC narrative intended to push a message that there are no policies at the heart of the Brexit adventure…it’s just a nihilistic scream of rage that will ruin us all.  The BBC never once raised the alternative, the inconvenient question as to what the future would be like if we voted to stay in the EU as it headed inevitably towards an ever-closer, stifling union [ie the total ending of Britain as a sovereign, united, nation] and dragged us ultimately into the ruinous Euro.

[As the Italian vote result came through this morning and the Euro fell the BBC rushed to tell us that the fall in the value of the Euro is a good thing….the Pound falls and it is armageddon….how different the narrative when you’re a believer]

An example of the BBC’s uniquely informative, thoughtful and educational programming…Wark’s programme ended with the thought that ‘Trump is terrifying for the world’.  Not Obama then who stood back and allowed Islamist terrorists to set up a Caliphate, a policy that inflicted millions of Refugees upon Europe, that allowed Assad to destroy his country and kill hundreds of thousands, that allowed Russia to control the geo-political world narrative, that handed Iran the keys to the nuclear weapons box…not to be opened for a few years ….so that’s all right then?  I can see why he got the Nobel Peace Prize.

OK folks, a new week dawns and a new Open Thread on which to detail the bias! Over to you!

The weekend beckons and so does this NEW Open Thread. Please detail the BIAS here! The floor is yours…

‘The Guardian has admitted that a rogue reporter fabricated interviews in articles for the newspaper and falsely claimed to have been present at events he wrote about.

Joseph Mayton, a freelance who has been writing for the Guardian since 2009, has been accused of making up quotes in some of his stories, even filing interviews with people who later said they had never spoken to him.’

The Guardian is always jam packed with fake news, remember the one about Milly Dowler that got 200 people sacked when the Guardian’s lies forced the closure of the News of the World?  Or how about the recent ‘traingate’ where the Guardian published a story fabricated by Labour HQ? Or how about that er ‘rogue reporter’ who made up interviews? Or how about this….is it real or fake?  Reading it and you might think straight away that it is a spoof, the language is very right-wing, to the point and not very subtle….

Alt-right’ online poison nearly turned me into a racist

I told myself outright: “You’re becoming a racist. What you’re doing is turning you into a terrible, hateful person.” Until that moment I hadn’t even realised that “alt-right” was what I was becoming; I just thought I was a more open-minded person for tolerating these views.

It hit me like a ton of bricks. Online radicalisation of young white men. It’s here, it’s serious, and I was lucky to be able to snap out of it when I did. And if it can get somebody like me to swallow it – a lifelong liberal – I can’t imagine the damage it is doing overall.

It seemed so subtle – at no point did I think my casual and growing Islamophobia was genuine racism. The good news for me is that my journey toward the alt-right was mercifully brief: I never wanted to harm or abuse anybody verbally, it was all very low level – a creeping fear and bigotry that I won’t let infest me again. But I suspect you could, if you don’t catch it quickly, be guided into a much more overt and sinister hatred.

I haven’t yet told my wife that this happened, and I honestly don’t know how to. I need to apologise for what I said and tell her that I certainly don’t believe it. It is going to be a tough conversation and I’m not looking forward to it. I didn’t think this could happen to me. But it did and it will haunt me for a long time to come.

You’d have to think the Guardian realised this was a spoof, it’s ‘anonymous’, and double-bluffed and published anyway….it may read like an simplistic mock lefty piece of angst, all too obviously fake, but maybe they thought all anti-Right-wing rhetoric is good rhetoric even if satirical…somebody might believe it and another recruit to the left’s anti-Right drive is another recruit to the cause.

Guido tells us someone has claimed to be the author and it is a send up…the Guardian of course denies it.

From ‘Infowars’….

A notorious Internet troll reportedly convinced The Guardian to publish a fake news story Monday on his journey to becoming a racist member of the “alt-right.”

Godfrey Elfwich, who jokingly describes Xirself (preferred gender pronoun) as a “Genderqueer Muslim atheist,” has gained a large Twitter following for trolling the far-left. In 2015, Elfwich famously made his way onto a BBC radio show and convinced the host that Star Wars was racist because Darth Vader was black.

In what could be the most trollish act yet, Elfwich appears to have had an article anonymously published on The Guardian entitled, “‘Alt-right’ online poison nearly turned me into a racist.”

Another day and another sneak attack on our consciences trying to make us think of the terrible plight of refugees, to open our hearts and open the borders.

The Tarpaulin…A biography

Historian Dina Gusejnova tells the story of tarpaulin from 17th century mariners to today’s refugee camps and those living on the periphery of society. In the process, Dina shines a light on statelessness, protest, heroism and transgression.

The tarpaulin is a fabric of conflict. Reinvented over its five hundred years of history, the material now has an important role in providing shelter to the millions of people who fall between the cracks of international geopolitics following periods of violence or natural disaster.

Good old Dina was a bit concerned, naturally, about Britain’s ‘closed door policy’ for refugees but she thought that there is only one image that has now come to dominate our understanding of the word tarpaulin…the tented cities that shelter refugees.  Yes, I have always been conflicted, morally and intellectually challenged everytime I picked up a tarpaulin…just what is this thing?  What is its meaning?  Why do I feel so guilty as I so carelessly and casually use it without a deeper understanding of its significant place in modern day life?  Now I know.  That association with refugees.  I’ll never look at a tarpaulin in the same thoughtless way again.

Incredible how hard the BBC works to find any excuse to keep refugees in the headlines…yesterday we heard that 5Live had miraculously, after a long search, found two malnourished children in an Iraqi refugee camp….well go figure…the real story is that they had to look so hard to find these children….kind of suggests the system is pretty much working despite the massive pressures.  And now the tarpaulin.  Clever idea but all too obvious and groan-worthy when you get hit by the conclusion which comes at you with all the subversive subtlety of a steam train at full speed.

Why did the BBC pick Dina Gusejnova to present this programme on tarpaulins?  Because she’s not really interested in tarpaulin merely in using it to explore the idea of statelessness, nationality and the idea that we must think ‘beyond the nation’….experience often shows the State turns against its citizens she tells us…so we learn that international communities and organisations are the utopian answer to protect us…..what saves us is transnational connections, social networks through which the refugees can tell their stories and persuade people to open their borders to the stateless refugee.

The tragedy is apparently that democratic states suspect some refugees of not being all they seem and think they are a possible danger to the State…and we all know that is nonsense.

Listening to R4 this morning and a programme about Jewish humour [not Muslim humour?  Wonder why] and the presenter came up with a joke…the punchline of which was ‘Why would I tell you I’m Jewish when I’m surrounded by all these well armed Christians?’ 

The presenter no doubt rather smugly thought she was being very right-on, edgy and telling it as it is….except of course that’s just not what is happening in modern day Europe as Jews are once again being murdered, attacked and forced to flee this supposedly liberal bastion of human rights, progressive values and cultural diversity.  As the Muslims move in to Europe there is often, all too often, a corresponding move out of Jews.  Coincidence?  I think not.

One day, maybe, we will hear a BBC presenter telling a joke with the punchline ‘Why would I tell you I’m Jewish when I’m surrounded by all these well armed Muslims?’   Don’t hold your breath.

Read this from Harry’s Place….ironically by a ‘liberal’ Muslim……

Who gave us post truth, conspiracy culture and the alt-right?

Some years ago, a friend sent me a shocking article. It said hundreds of British girls were being systematically gang-raped by Muslim gangs. It claimed this was being covered-up.

I’ve never had time for conspiracy theories, especially when they look as hateful as those in the article. So I checked the links and sources in the piece. I found an American racist-far-right website and from there, saw the original source was a similarly unpleasant website in the UK.

I did a brief search for corroboration from reputable mainstream sources. I found none. So I wrote a curt reply to my friend: “I’d appreciate it if you didn’t send me made-up crap from neo-Nazi websites”.

Some months later, I read the seminal exposé of the (mainly) ethnic-Pakistani grooming gang phenomenon by Andrew Norfolk in The Sunday Times.

I was stunned and horrified – not just that these vile crimes were indeed happening and endemic, but that they really were being ignored and “covered-up” by public authorities and the mainstream media.

Some on the left in the West see certain ideas and even some easily verifiable truths, as plain dangerous, much like the totalitarian communists of yesteryear. Dangerous to public order. Dangerous to the ‘common good’.

Whilst this section of the left has always existed, it now seems to have become more ‘mainstream’. It seethes and obsesses within carefully-policed ideological echo-chambers. It dominates in universities, trade unions and the public sector.  And whereas it was once mainly prevalent in fringe far-left outfits, it has now effectively co-opted the Labour party through its membership and leadership.

Anyone who has ever tried to engage with this section of the left will know that it doesn’t ‘do debate’ with conservatives on issues like immigration, multiculturalism and identity politics. For it, “the debate is settled”. Opposing views are intrinsically wicked. Such ideas are to be ignored. Muted. Blocked. Banned. Disrupted. Drowned out with fog-horns.

Whilst the overall number of individuals espousing this groundless sense of moral certainty is relatively small, its effect on political discourse has been disproportionately large given that its champions are focused, organised and operate in the relatively influential sectors mentioned above.

As a result, much of the mainstream media and even world leaders have either adopted its illiberal approach and anti-intellectual language or else avoided language that might provoke its ire.

Today, we’re seeing Western governments implement increasingly restrictive ‘hate-speech’ laws to suppress ideas and comments considered dangerous to the common good. Merkel is leading the charge, seeking to block what she considers to be ‘hate speech’ from social media in Germany.

Throughout the West, we see politically inconvenient truths partially censored or unreported. Or else they’re rephrased and altered in order to appear virtuous.

Post truth  – Framing ‘truth’ in emotional, ‘ideologically-virtuous’ terms rather than the complex and sometimes unwelcome reality real truth takes.

Didn’t the left invent it? Hasn’t it done this for decades?

It may not be pleasant or kind when the Daily Mail or Sun show pictures of grown men being admitted to the UK as ‘child refugees’. But what’s the alternative? Should such information be kept from the public? Won’t doing so give a monopoly on that truth to the extremists? Doesn’t a monopoly on inconvenient truths by extremists empower them more? Haven’t we learned anything from the grooming scandal?

No one’s suggesting it’s easy to engage with people whose views you dislike, especially over issues that you’d rather were different in reality. But ask yourselves this:

“How’s our current strategy been working out for us?”

I think we’ve all seen how the BBC has reacted to the death of Castro, with reverence, regret and rank hypocrisy.  How different was the BBC’s reaction on the death of Margaret Thatcher, or indeed to the life of Donald Trump…Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize before he’d set foot in the White House just about, yesterday the BBC was telling us Trump was about to cause world war 3 because he blamed the Chinese for the Great Global Warming Scam…actually he’s wrong about that, the Chinese benefit but the real culprit is the BBC’s very own Roger Harrabin (and his mate Joe Smith) who has driven the global warming narrative, suppressed the truth and made absolutely sure there are no dissenting voices allowed on the BBC…and when they do get under the wire their blasphemies are rapidly censured, censored and literally erased from history…ala Quentin Letts…..look at the transcript and you’ll wonder why on earth the BBC thought his programme was at all controversial….just Harrabin being a manic control freak.

The BBC’s reporting on Castro pretty much reflected Corbyn’s approach…Castro may have had a few flaws but he was really a jolly good chap…and so anti-American, how can you not really like and admire him?  As we’ve said, contrast that with Thatcher or Trump’s reception…but it’s not just the right of centre Big Beasts that get the BBC seal of disapproval…if you’re a simple American white girl from the country and you vote Republican and you let people know that then the BBC aims its guns at you….she represents everything the BBC hates and what’s more it’s that damned internet that’s bypassing the old-school media dinosaurs like the BBC…

Tomi Lahren: the young Republican who’s bigger than Trump on Facebook

The report is just a little ‘snarky’ in how it represents her views using perjorative, negative terms…..

One of Facebook’s most popular conservatives burst into prominence with sharp viral rants against liberals. But how will her underdog attack style play under President Trump?

She’s a free-speech advocate who tells her opponents to sit down and quit throwing tantrums.

A sharply partisan commentator who says she feeds people the truth. A rap fan who’s made an enemy of the Black Lives Matter movement. And a combative polemicist who says that all really she wants to do is start a conversation.

Meet Tomi Lahren: a 24-year-old Republican provocateur, a photogenic rising media star, a high-energy mass of contradictions.

They’re biting, outlandish, dripping with sarcasm and – depending on your political perspective – either righteous and rousing or obnoxious and infuriating. Lahren launched into her tirade against the athlete with characteristic snark. [‘Snark’ or truth?]

“Colin, I support the first amendment, I support your right of freedom of speech and expression. Go for it bud!”

“If this country disgusts you so much, leave,” she continues. “It seems to me that blaming white people for all your problems might make you the racist.”

Fair and balanced, she is not. [All the below…again the truth…not sure how her views here are unfair and unbalanced]

She takes a Trumpish tough line on immigration and Islam. She’s compared Black Lives Matter movement to the Ku Klux Klan, and in the Kaepernick video and others she criticises African-Americans for unemployment, drug abuse and other social problems. On women’s issues she hits at a popular theme on the right these days, that feminism was in the past a laudable quest for equality but has been taken “too far” by campus radicals.

Has she ever changed her mind on other things, or perhaps thought she’s gone too far with one of her videos? [In the BBC’s eyes or a normal persons?]

Remarkable how the BBC sees right-wing views expressed with passion and a level of truthfulness unknown on the Left as ‘snarky’ or ‘Trumpish’ or unfair and unbalanced, provocative, partisan, combative, not forgetting biting, outlandish and sarcastic…just how many negative words can the BBC apply to one person in  one article?  Bloody loads it would seem.  Can’t remember a similar level of ‘snark’ being aimed at Left wing commentators…such as Russell Brand or indeed James O’Brien who was actually given a job on NewsNight on the strength of his anti-Farage ‘provocative, unfair, unbalanced, sarcastic and outlandish ranting’ tirades.

Speaking of Farage…he speaks truth to power, the power that is, or was, the MSM…the internet made UKIP and Brexit, hence two good reasons the BBC hates the Web, he criticises their reporting on immigration, Islam and climate change….might get a job on this site now he’s at a loose end….should he not get the ambassador’s job that is….

Time for a new one of these so here is where you can detail the endless BIAS of the BBC!

Here is a classic example of the way that the Left and Islamist activists combine to attack the Right-leaning Press in order to pressure them into silence and to create a narrative that it is the Right-wing Press that drives ‘Islamophobia’ and anti-immigrant hate crime.

A train crash in Paddington during the period when Muslims practice Ramadan, the driver a Muslim….the Sun links the crash to Ramadan and the possible fatigue and inattention caused by lack of food and sleep.  Buzzfeed [the BBC’s new found ally] reports that the Sun has been forced to correct the report that supposedly drives negative notions about Islam by linking Ramadan to the train crash….note who the Buzzfeed journo is…

The Sun Has Been Forced To Correct Its Inaccurate “Ramadan Train Wreck” Story

The Sun has been forced to print a page 2 correction over a claim a train crash in June was caused by a driver who was fasting during Ramadan.

IPSO, the press watchdog, said the paper had made a “significantly misleading statement” in an article headlined “Ramadan train driver in crash”, published on 20 August 2016.

The Sun reported: “A Muslim train driver crashed after going without food or drink for 15 hours during Ramadan,” adding: “Rail accident experts claimed his fast caused the rush-hour derailment that led to three days of disruption.”

The Sun has been forced to print a page 2 correction over a claim a train crash in June was caused by a driver who was fasting during Ramadan.

After a complaint from Miqdaad Versi, a management consultant from London, IPSO said the misleading statement in the article resulted from a failure to accurately interpret the RAIB report, “representing a failure to take care not to publish misleading information”.

Who is the mysterious ‘Miqdaad Versi..management consultant from London’? He’s only the Assistant General Secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain, the extremist Muslim organisation that campaigns to stop the anti-terror and anti-radicalisation programme ‘Prevent’, that was at the heart of the Trojan Horse scandal and which provides the Islamic theological justification as to why Ahmadis are not ‘Muslim’…hence we get numerous violent attacks on Ahmadis by ‘real’ Muslims.

Miqdaad Versi@miqdaadManagement Consultant, Assistant Secretary General of @MuslimCouncil, Board member of @rightswatchuk, Grassroots activist.

Prevent is failing. Any effective strategy must include Muslim communities

But hang on…why did Versi only go after the right-leaning Sun?  Google the story and you’ll see just about every news organisation based their story around the same premise…that fatigue and hunger may have been the cause of the accident…thus linking Islam to the crash.  The BBC’s own report emphasised this link from the start to the cause of the crash…..you can see the video above and the opening paragraphs of its write-up….pretty clear what it suggests….

Paddington derailment driver ‘had fasted 16 hours’

A driver on a Ramadan fast had not eaten for 16 hours before his train was derailed, a report has found.

The crash, near Paddington Station, affected services for days.

A Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) report said it was “unable to determine” whether fasting and interruption to sleep was a factor in the crash.

But the investigation recognised there was research showing fasting can affect people’s concentration levels.

Fasting and driving

The Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) has published research on the effects of fasting on fitness to drive.

It says fasting can have a range of effects including tiredness, dizziness, dehydration, headache, and a reduction in concentration, prompting safety concerns.

The report advises workers to ask for physically demanding tasks to be delayed until after Ramadan, and says managers must be aware of the potential effects of fasting on their staff.

Employers are also called upon to provide as much flexibility as possible, as well as health and well-being guidance for those fasting.

And yet the MCB targets the Sun only.  Just another example of Muslim ‘lawfare’ as it’s proponents use every means possible to suppress all criticism of Islam and to force deference and surrender to its values.

Similarly this recent statement from the New Statesman spells out perfectly the Left’s own tactical narrative and how they wish to portray news and comment from the ‘Right’ as the driver of hate crime and thus should be suppressed…or at least made socially unacceptable….

Mair wasn’t endlessly glued to the Sun and Mail websites. He was occupying a place significantly to the right. But his two-decade long journey of radicalisation occurred against a backdrop of stories in which immigration was a problem, and its defenders in the “political elite” held up as an enemy within. When politicians act as if the £270m spent on foreign patients is the reason for the cash crisis in the NHS, when the Prime Minister talks about “citizens of nowhere”, when the Home Secretary says that foreign workers are allowing businesses to keep British ones unskilled and low-paid, that contributes to a political climate in which the opinions which Mair mainlined for two decades become more acceptable.

So let’s not talk about immigration or ‘health tourism’ fraud….but do let’s make false allegations….’citizens of nowhere’?  A comment about immigrants?  No…about the global elite who jet around the world living in their multiple homes loyal to no nation.  Cheap immigrant labour keeping down wages and Brits out of work?  A lie driving hate?  No….perfectly true as most genuine business analysts will tell you….just ask why is productivity is so low in the UK?…because businesses didn’t invest in training, innovation and R&D because they could just import cheap labour instead.

Fake news, news and comment and ‘lawfare’ that wants to suppress freedom of speech and the freedom of the Press?  That’s all coming from the Left and its Islamist allies.

 

In a tongue-in-cheek article, Washington Post journalist Philip Bump did some calculations around Donald Jr’s statement, using data showing that the annual chance that an American would be murdered by a refugee was 1 in 3.64 billion.

The BBC hated this….

Just how unlucky are those 11 Americans who were knifed by a Somali refugee?

Ohio State attack: Suspect with butcher’s knife, reportedly student and refugee, killed as eleven victims injured

The BBC tells us….

In a tongue-in-cheek article, Washington Post journalist Philip Bump did some calculations around Donald Jr’s statement, using data showing that the annual chance that an American would be murdered by a refugee was 1 in 3.64 billion.

Based on his sums, it would take about one and a half Olympic swimming pools of Skittles in order to find three killers.

One thing, amongst many, wrong with the BBC’s counter to Trump jr’s analogy, is that you don’t have to find the attackers…they come to find you…so the chances are increased massively that an attack will happen.

It’s only been two hours since the BBC reported the attack…can’t be long before we hear that the attacker had mental health problems…due to racism and society’s failure to integrate him and accommodate his values and cultural expectations.