Immediately following Gordon Brown’s announcement that Labour and the Lib Dems have decided to screw the Tories and fuck the country up the arse with red hot pokers wrapped in barbed wire, BBC News had a panel ready and waiting – two Labour guys (Lord Adonis, Alastair Campbell) and one Lib Dem (David Steel) all spinning the message that a LibLab coalition was the best way forward. Hilariously, at one … Continue reading
Further to Robin Horbury’s comments about the BBC’s joy over Caroline Lucas winning her seat – here’s a wishful exchange from Friday morning’s post-election Today programme: Listen! Evan Davis: I love the idea that the first Green MP is possibly going to hold the balance of power in the House of Commons… John Humphrys: Wonderful thought. Wonderful thought. Evan Davis: … control the entire operation. Click through to read and … Continue reading
I enjoyed this headline from the BBC this morning…a Caledonian learning? Can Conservatives learn how to negotiate a deal with Lib Dems from the Scottish experience? Liberal Democrats and Labour governed in Scottish coalition for two terms until 1997. Jack McConnell, former Labour First Minister, explains how it could work. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Had a laugh at the BBC report this morning on the Today programme 7.18am mourning the failure of “the world” to meet a UN target on declining biodiversity. It seems that this decline is every bit as deadly as global warming, according to the strictly unbiased Tom Fielden, and as a consequence, we should instantly ignore such drivel. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
The EU’s “rescue” of the Greek economy has become a naked attempt by the Brussels machine to extend the powers of our EU government so that it will regulate all 27 economies on an unprecedented scale. The UK – still represented by the Brownite squatters – is powerless to prevent this happening, and is saddled with a bill that is estimated will cost the UK taxpayer £43bn. Meanwhile, the BBC … Continue reading
They can’t help it, can they? Even now they’re still spinning for yesterday’s man.An Open Thread to start the week… Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Throughout the election, the BBC regarded UKIP as the party it despised but had to mention now and again; when it did so, Paxman and his cronies treated them with sneering disdain, as if their libertarian policies were akin to Nazism, and in line with David Cameron’s description of UKIP members as “fruitcakes”. I accept that during the campaign, the party compounded the problem by sometimes appearing to be not … Continue reading
Election or no election, the BBC continues to spew out with wearisome predictability tendentious nonsense about global warming. This time, it’s another melting glacier alert. This one ticks all the boxes for a BBC scare story because the mountain in question is in Africa, and of course, a central axiom of the BBC’s belief system is that Africans urgently need more money to fight the endless injustices heaped upon them … Continue reading
Recently some of us linked to a comprehensive study of the BBC’s institutional hostility to Israel and its biased reporting of the I/P conflict. It mentions much of what we’ve been highlighting here for yonks, and includes a systematic analysis of emotive partisan terms and references. They submitted it to the BBC, and awaited a response. So far all that has materialised is a rejection, conveyed indirectly, via the Jewish … Continue reading
Now might be a good opportunity to reminisce; recalling those old, but not forgotten, times…. “I do remember… the corridors of Broadcasting House were strewn with empty champagne bottles. I’ll always remember that” Jane Garvey on BBC Five Live, May 10th 2007, recalling May 2nd 1997 (Audio / Transcript) We’re betting it’s not like that this year, eh, Beeboids? However this is currently the view from your liveblog Moderator’s desk at Chateau Eye. Cheers! Click … Continue reading
