Here we are, frantically battling against the bias at the BBC. Year in, year out, we stab away at our keyboards, foam-flecked spittle flying, blood pressure on the point of spontaneous combustion.Auntie, meanwhile, gaily carries on, undeterred, oblivious and undaunted. Then, along comes Bob. Hell hath no fury like a live-aid organiser scorned. The BBC sits up and openth one eye.So. Should we recruit a celeb?. Click through to read … Continue reading
Anyone else have the misfortune to watch the Andrew Marr show this morning? It was the usual left-liberal fest. First up we had the new Green Peace President Kumi Naidoo on to tell us about the horrors of global warming. He took the opportunity to also express his support for law-breaking. Andrew just smiled at him. Then we had author Ian McEwan on to warn us about the horrors of…global … Continue reading
Here are the opening paragraphs of two articles from the BBC today, both from stories about anti-government protest movements. One discusses the “egalitarian” Purple People movement in Italy while the other is about the “conservative” Tea Party movement in America. “Think of a world of politics without spin doctors, teleprompters, stage-managed conferences, party headquarters, manifestos, cynicism or even leaders.” “When the bearded activist in wraparound sunglasses put his hand on … Continue reading
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
