Via Tim Blair, a reminder of stark warnings from BBC Radio 4’s Costing the Earth in 2007: The Australian of the year 2007, environmentalist Tim Flannery, once predicted that Perth in Western Australia could become the world’s first ghost metropolis, its population forced to abandon the city due to lack of water. While some critics scoffed at this idea, there is no doubt that it has forced the city to … Continue reading
Welcome to the Budget 2010 live-chat, which is simultaneously starting just before 12:30 here on Biased-BBC, and on All Seeing Eye, Barking Spider, Corrugated Soundbite, Dick Puddlecote, Governmentitus, GrumpyOldTwat, Man Widdicombe, and Subrosa <p>&amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=966f57a79b” &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Budget 2010&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;gt;</p> Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
From this morning’s Today programme: As the election approaches, immigration has become a primary concern for many voters but the sensitivity around it is preventing election candidates from making immigration a central issue. Could that sensitivity and reluctance perhaps have anything to do with the way the BBC has dealt with the issue in the past? When immigration – or more specifically Tory immigration policy – became a major topic … Continue reading
Bang-a-bang! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
You’ve got to hand it to the BBC. They won’t give up one some things – and especially their relentless advocacy of AGW. No matter what the facts, they will twist them. Take this item, on wind power on Orkney. It’s one long commercial for the joys of “renewables”, an ode to the importance of us all buckling down and accepting these bird-chopping, landscape-defacing monstrosities. Notice that the one thing … Continue reading
Matt Frei: Funny, I assumed from decades of BBC coverage that the Republicans were already America’s nasty party. Judging by Frei’s warning it would appear that there’s room to crank up the anti-Republican rhetoric even higher. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
On Wednesday afternoon at 12:30pm here on Biased-BBC we will be live blogging the last Budget before the General Election. The Budget will be carried on all major television channels except for BBC1 which will be showing Bargain Hunt (no, really!). Importantly for us here on Biased-BBC, we will be looking carefully at the different ways that channels report and editorialise the announcements. We’ll be able to compare, for the … Continue reading
Oxfam, one of the BBC’s favourite political organisations – spreading dissension and hate in the name of climate change – has spent megabucks of donor cash (no doubt given in the mistaken belief that it would help the poor)in a project to try and understand how the blogsphere supports sceptical thought about the causes of warming. In so doing, it’s drawn up this diagram (with the heading “how to combat … Continue reading
On BBC Radio world service yesterday Jon Donnison reported Ban Ki-moon’s depressing reaction to his Gaza visit. Somewhere along the line someone has used the word ‘medieval’ in connection with Gaza, language modelled on Michael Buerk’s iconic ‘Scene of Biblical Proportions’ speech.This emotive word must have appealed to the BBC; it appeared again and again in various news bulletins. Jon Donnison’s report contained the parts of Mr. Ban’s statement that … Continue reading
File under “Bears shit in the woods” – Dr Who luvvie hates the Tories. Becoming part of the Dr Who team must be similar to joining The People’s Front of Judea: “Can I join Dr Who?” “No. Piss off.”“But I hate the Tories as much as anybody.”“Are you sure?”“Oh, dead sure. I hate the Tories already.”“Listen, if you wanted to join Dr Who, you’d have to really hate the Tories.”“I … Continue reading
