From Autonomous Mind: John Inverdale, the BBC presenter fronting the Scotland v England Six Nations Rugby today, said a few moments ago on BBC1 that Christine Bleakley successfully managed to water-ski ‘across the whole of the British Channel’ yesterday. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
The first offering from Simon Schama’s much-trailed ten-week stint on Radio 4’s A Point of View is pretty much as expected – Labour spin from a Labour supporter. According to Schama the narrowing polls prove that “we” the electorate really want bad tempered tough guy Gordon Brown as our leader, in defiance of those nasty anti-Brown newspapers and their politically-motivated narrative about the PM as a bully. (Remind me – … Continue reading
The BBC needs every penny of that £3.5bn it steals from us each year. I mean, it does such invaluable work. The BBC has spent tens of thousands of pounds on teaching staff how to use Facebook. The corporation is holding classes for large numbers of its 23,000 workforce, despite the fact that using the social networking site is second nature to millions. Hundreds of BBC workers have already signed up for … Continue reading
Caught BBC TV news this morning, rather in the same way as one catches a cold. There was an item on Samantha Cameron talking about her husband, David. I thought she came across fine and quite human. The BBC instantly went to get a woman’s group who found the whole thing “patronising”. It’s clear they seek to undermine the Conservatives even on the most mundane level. Then there was a … Continue reading
Two untypical BBC items to report. The Culture Show BBC2 featured the Jewish Museum, soon to reopen after a £10 m refurbishment. Sharfraz Mazoor chatted to some well-known Jewish TV faces, and took us through various bits of British Jewish history. Which was nice. Item two, Radicalization in PrisonBBC News 24 has been featuring Daniel Sandford’s report about this topic as ‘news.’ It even appeared slightly critical, and perhaps a … Continue reading
When Alan (I’m telling your story) Johnston was kidnapped in Gaza we never heard the end of it from the BBC.But when whassisname was kidnapped, silence reigned.Now Paul Martin’s been released, and Tom Gross offers an explanation.Something to do with wanting to tell the truth. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Question Time comes from Dewsbury, which is represented by Muslim MP, Shahid Malik and has been a Labour seat since 1935. Sayeeda (now Baroness) Warsi was 4,615 votes adrift in 2005. On the panel so far we have Monty Don, who as a male makes him a plant, Caroline Flint, Justine Greening and Jo Swinson. Please join moderators TheEye and David Mosque here at 10:30pm UK time. <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=a232e7a3bd” &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Question … Continue reading
A new one, and about time too! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
From The Washington Examiner: Democrats have suffered from a string of scandals reminiscent of the corruption that plagued the GOP before the party lost the majority in Congress four years ago…Charlie Rangel… is under investigation by the House ethics committee for five separate matters…Eric Massa…stands accused of sexually harassing a male staffer… New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating whether (Governor David) Paterson improperly interfered in a domestic abuse … Continue reading
Some months ago, we commented on an item on The London Breakfast Show, hosted by Wossy’s brother Paul and an actress called JoAnne Good.They were interviewing Michael White, political editor of the Guardian. In synch with both the rag he represents and its conjoined twin the BBC, this man bears considerable hostility to Israel. Both news organs are renowned for their anti-Zionist position, but the BBC alone is constrained by … Continue reading
