The following, by BBC presenter Dotun Adebayo, was, according to ‘Damon’, a commenter at the Pickled Politics site, printed in the Voice newspaper in September 2008. Damon’s view of it : “It seems all kinds of people can feel this ”loss of hegemony”. When it’s articulated by the white working class (in places like East London) it’s usually called racism.“ I’ll let it speak for itself, but I wonder – … Continue reading
A new Open Thread – just in time for the weekend… Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Question Time this week comes from Glasgow, home of the Red Clydeside socialist movement and not home to a Tory MP since 1982. On the panel we have Chief Secretary Treasury and Unite member Liam Byrne MP, the Conservative Shadow Minister for Communities Baroness Warsi, the Liberal Democrat communities spokesman Julia Goldsworthy MP, the First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond and businessman Sir Martin Sorrell. Liam Byrne is a late … Continue reading
Telegraph blog – Patrick West on BBC Radio comedy. He makes many of the same observations as I did in The Two Generics. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Following up the COMplus post, something that those who do not work in television might not realise is that organisations that are linked to it, such as the Television Trust for the Environment (TVE) would not exist unless they were adept beggars and propagandists and because of the BBC. TVE poses as an independent production company but it is not; the organisation is only economically viable because it receives lavish … Continue reading
B-BBC has already established that the BBC World Service Trust is an organisation that exists mainly to spread climate change lies. Now, the redoubtable EU Referendum has gone a very important step further. The so-called trust is a founding partner of a body called COMplus, which describes itself as a “diverse global alliance of organisations committed to scaling-up the impact of sustainable development communications through partnership and collaboration.” Thus the … Continue reading
Unbelievable. And no byline. Hat tip Pounce. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
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
