Re yesterday’s post – Guido reports that Chris Summers has been assigned alternative duties, and Hippiepooter points out that Summers has removed his Facebook page. And Sarah Bell has deleted Friday’s tweet linking to her Lib Dem article. Update. Chris Summers’ replacement will have been forced to watch the following BBC training video on dealing with complaints about left-wing bias: Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Hope you enjoyed “Thought for the day” with Abdal Hakim Murad this morning? I think the BBC is so brave to give Islam such prominence in this daily slot despite it being such a minority religion. Still, I bet that Aaqil Ahmed, the BBC’s Head of Religious Broadcasting will at least appreciate this. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Anyone have the stomach to listen to this grovelling interview by Naughty with Baroness Williams, that doyen of so many BBC programmes? The easy questions thrown her way contrast with those given to any Conservative figure but, then again, when you hear Shirley Williams talking you are hearing the political thinking of the BBC made manifest… Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Last Friday on Radio Five Live: Tina Fey: Will Ferrell played George Bush like he was a moron but no one seemed to think that he was going at him too hard. Richard Bacon: Yeah. I’m not sure how many other ways there are to play him. So says the university drop-out about the Yale graduate. Update. I am reminded that Bush also has an MBA from Harvard (hat tips … Continue reading
The Open Thread is slipping down the page, so here is a replacement. There’s plenty to talk about at the moment….enjoy! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Labour Candidate is BBC Bias Complaints Judge. (Hat-tips to all who highlighted this in the comments) Update. Craig has more on this. Good work Ryan. Update 2. I see that Sarah Bell, the BBC hack who couldn’t find a single non-LibDem supporter in the constituency of her LibDem Facebook friend Susan Kramer, hasn’t tweeted for a few days. Told to keep a low profile, perhaps? (Facebook screenshot from Ryan, via … Continue reading
Reports like this and this, which suggest that the flying restrictions over UK and European airspace are panic reactions based on EU bureaucracy and Met Office incompetence. Our chums in White City and elsewhere simply love EU regulations – and though they have begrudingly mentioned disquiet at the flying ban – the chances of them doing a proper investigation of what has gone on are close to zero. Click through … Continue reading
Today’s Guardian advises media types who to vote for. LabourProbably where your vote should end up if you work at the BBC (or derive substantial income from it as supplier), or C4. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Over in the States, the Obama regime is doing what it can to undermine the reputation of Wall Street and in particular in the form of Goldman Sachs. The BBC never misses a chance to kick those evil bankers and so Today joined in the fun this morning @ 7.50am. Isn’t capitalism just sooooo evil? If only we lived in a nice socialist collective where income was assured through enforced … Continue reading
Beautiful Monday morning, not a cloud or a plane in sight, so what better time for the BBC to run one of it’s very special polls which shows the world is warming to the USA since Obama came to power. The inherent bias in this World Service poll is TRULY wondrous with the US under the evil Bush seen as more malign than Russia or China! But hey, maybe the … Continue reading
