Category Archives: Evan Davies

“I was alerted to this
Evan Davis interview with the Prime Minister on the TODAY programme this Friday
via the Daily Mail.
 PM
ROWS WITH TODAY SHOW A swallow does not make a Summer, but it is a chink of light
that Cameron got short with the partisan line Davis was taking.
 Davis
was like a cocker spaniel trying to impersonate a rottweiler/fox cross,
ungamely trying to cling onto his Bullingdon Club bone of contention in
pursuance of Labour’s attack line on Cameron as ‘Flashman’.  It comes about 15 minutes in, but please
don’t think Davis
asked Cameron three times about the Bullingdon Club because he was trying to
equate Bullingdon Club antics with the riots. 
He assured us he wasn’t.
 Craig mentioned in the comments the other week that this
Labour attack line was also used by Paddy O’Connell on ‘Broadcasting House’
against London Mayor Johnson.  I wonder
if B-BBC readers have spotted any
other of Labour’s BBC houseboys
looking for bias brownie points with Miliband?
 What appals so much about Evan Davis is not just that he is
biased but he is patently inept as well. 
Whatever else one might say about the BBC’s
dogs of bias such as Humphrys, Paxman, Naughtie etc, they are not inept, they
are heavyweights.  If they were impartial
they would more than merit their places at the BBC.  One can only conclude that the only reason a
light-weight like Evan Davis is on the TODAY programme is because of his
bias.  Being homosexual can’t have done
him any harm either.  A double whammy for
career progression on BBC Planet
Gramsci.  Or maybe I’m being unfair?  Maybe Davis
retains enough sense of shame to make his bias so lame and forlorn?
 When one harks back to the not so long ago days of Alexander
MacLeod and Gordon
Clough, when gentlemen journalists sought to edify the British public, then
looks at the adversarial dross that the BBC
serves up today on programmes like TODAY and Newsnight, one cannot help but
grieve.  One grieves the lack of gravitas
and public duty, and the lack of action by Parliament.  The next time a Gramscian hack on the BBC asks the Prime Minister if misdoings in the
financial sector contribute to the climate of immorality that leads to riots,
one hopes the Prime Minister rejoins that 40 years of the BBC pushing Marxist narratives and undermining
patriotism and authority has led to the moral breakdown that saw England’s main
cities overrun with lawlessness in August.”

It’s always important to remember that when it comes to the BBC, impartiality is in their DNA. It’s one reason why they are so special. Anyhoo….A BBBC reader observes….


“Evan Davies wants usto allow in more immigrants…nice that he has a BBC programme…and a helpful spot onthe news Frontpage to broadcast his own views in highly emotive language asusual:

 ‘There right in front of us were dozens of young men walking between thevehicles and opening the backs of trucks to clamber inside. They were evidently mostly Afghans, taking advantage of the fact the trafficwas moving slowly to try anything to sneak a ride into the UK.

For me, any thoughts of disapproval at the unruly behaviour I was witnessingevaporated at the sight of a teenage boy cowering dangerously at the top of alorry driver’s cab under the back canopy. He was not a trouble-maker. He was obviously petrified but still so desperateto get on to a car ferry to Britain, he was going to take the risk. I felt like stopping the car to ask him why. What journey had he taken to gethere and where did he think it might end? What is so good about our countrythat people would go to such lengths? It is a chance to tell the migration story from the point of view of thosetrying to get into our country, rather than those of us lucky enough to be herealready.

Perhaps the saddest revelation was the indecency of the reception in theEuropean Union. It is in Greece that many Afghan migrants’ illusions of Europe as a welcomingplace are quickly shattered. 

One young couple, Abdullah and Zarminah, made the trip with their three youngchildren. “The children ask me, is this really Europe? Is this Europe where we haveno place to sleep?” said Zarminah, who relies on a local charity to feedthe children once a day.  I defy anyone to watch the programme and not think that Greece and Italy badlyneed help in dealing with undocumented arrivals. 

At the heart of this investigation lies a simple dilemma – to tolerate thesuffering on our own continent is unconscionable – but to alleviate thesuffering by simply opening the door might attract vastly more people than wecan realistically cope with humanely. We meanwhile are trying to maintain complete mobility across borders for thepopulation of the rich world while trying to build ever higher walls to denythat mobility to the world’s poor. I am sorry to say our examination of the issues does not deliver a solution. ‘

Open borders means the end of the welfare state, the end of free schooling, theend of the NHS…..it’s a shame a senior BBC journalist, an economics one atthat, allows his personal prejudices to over ride common sense and to concealthe real consequences of unlimited immigration….never mind the social andcultural disasters that will entail. Naturally Davies is a very left left winger…so ‘Internationalism’ and the endof a capitalist state might have its attractions….and he has a foreignpartner who lives in the UK….any personal reasons then for wantingimmigration?

This came across my desk the other day, first chance to share. From the Daily Express,,,

“If the BBC has any sense of integrity it will reprimand news presenter Evan Davis. Mr Davis was once the BBC’s economics editor but is now a regular presenter on Today, Radio 4’s flagship current affairs programme.

He is undoubtedly a clever man but just what did he think he was doing yesterday when he was meant to be interviewing Lord Young about the Government’s proposed reform of daft Health & Safety legislation? Instead of sticking to the brief, Davis began to crossexamine a bemused Lord Young about his views on drugs, arguing that cannabis consumption was no more dangerous than horse riding.

Lord Young wanted to talk about plans to cut red tape that stops school outings and allows interfering councils to ban harmless local events, not “spliffs” as Mr Davis referred to marijuana cigarettes.

The BBC is wrong to allow its well-paid elite, in a position of responsibility, to casually air their views on drug-taking when the issue isn’t relevant to the debate.”