THE FALLUJAH HORROR

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I see the BBC has opened up a new front in Iraq by claiming that those bad Americans are responsible for a rise in the number of birth defects amongst the children born in Fallujah. Yes, John Simpson has been spearheading this investigation and we all know John is a very unbiased kind of guy. This is a great story that the BBC has created since it will then disseminate … Continue reading →

ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE

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I’m just hoping that the BBC will afford Lady Thatcher the same warmth of tribute as that afforded to Michael Foot, who, as you know, has passed away aged 96. Today has been running a series of tributes to him this morning and whilst I fully understand that it is civilised to not speak ill of the dead, I look forward to the same standard being applied to the former … Continue reading →

Question Time 4th March 2010

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Question Time this week comes from London; soon to be the first city in the world to host the Summer Olympics three times. So don’t expect any questions on how much money that will lose. The panel is Mayor of London Boris Johnson, the improbably named Lord Adonis, BBC favourite Shirley Williams, AllSeeingEye’s childhood fantasy Carol Vorderman and the mind-numbingly smug Will Self. For those who wish to take part … Continue reading →

Battle of the First Night Stand-Ups

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Richard Bacon (Radio Five Live, August 27, 2009) vs Sarah Palin (Tonight Show, March 2, 2010) Varying levels of cringe arise from both first-time efforts (and, yes, some people in Palin’s Leno crowd seem overly keen to express their support, though no more so than your average please-reinforce-our-worldview Now Show audience) but I think she wins with the better gags and snappier delivery. The self-obsessed BBC presenter (and renowned Palin-hater) … Continue reading →

Shhhh

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I’ve been busy recently, but yesterday I started to write this: ***** What with the election, the fuss about Lord Ashcroft, and the BBC falling apart, you’d think they would tell us about this.The infiltration of the IFE into the British political system – I hear it’s not just Labour, — that’s news, isn’t it?I mean it’s as significant and deeply troubling, if not more so, than this, wouldn’t you … Continue reading →

Naughtie: Can I Plump Your Pillows, Lady Ashton?

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Jim Naughtie to Baroness Ashton this morning: You’re a hundred days into the new job now. I mean, this is the kind of long term work that you have to do. Do you feel at all drained by some of the arguments that have been erupting in Europe about the settlement after the Lisbon Treaty was ratified and the way the appointments were made and so on? What touching concern … Continue reading →

BLACK AND PEW….

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Behind the BBC’s warming fanaticism are a series of financially-driven motives. Richard Black, as readers of this site will know, is the BBC’s web environment correspondent. He – like many of his BBC colleagues – also makes a tidy income from chairing conferences. Back in 2008, for example, he was a lead facilitator at a Pew Symposium in Tokyo which considered the likely impact on whales of climate change (!), … Continue reading →