The BBC World Service Trust is an arm of the BBC that receives £17.9m a year – mainly from the Department for International Development and the EU (52%)- to train broadcasters to spread messages about development. Some of what it does is vital and laudable; for example helping to spread knowledge about HIV/Aids through the development of soap operas that are actually listened to. However, and as in everything the … Continue reading
Well now, did YOU catch my fleeting appearance on Newsnight on Monday evening perchance? It’s about half ways through. I’ve been away for the past few days so first chance to catch up and update you on my close encounter with Michael Crick and the guys. The background is that the political party to which I now belong – Traditional Unionist Voice – held a public meeting at the heart of … Continue reading
The big oil companies, once the greenies’ villains of the peace, are now in bed with them. They are the cats that truly have the cream, because on top of their massive oil and gas reserves – which of course the world still needs – they are now also benefiting massively from the lunatic government subsidies for building wind farms and other so-called renewables. Their grasping greed is part of … Continue reading
Matt Prescott, the well-connected eco-activist behind such ventures as the BBC’s failed Planet Relief project (see Bishop Hill here and here for details on Prescott’s connections with various BBC luminaries and for links to articles he has written for the BBC), has donned his recycled tinfoil hat to offer these observations on Climategate in the comments at the Guardian website: Without doubt, whoever orchestrated this combined computer hacking and smear … Continue reading
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“Hello and welcome to Outlook from the BBC world service. I’m Lucy Ash.”A heart-sinking announcement for anyone familiar with Ms. Ash “In Today’s Programme: The aid worker inside the Gaza strip helping traumatised children there to rebuild their shattered lives.” Lucy Ash is about to deliver rather more than an interview with the aid worker.In her introduction she milks the latest revelations by Israel about their own misconduct in Gaza … Continue reading
The BBC take a break from the ongoing euthanasia campaign to point out in the Radio Four news headlines the dangers of ‘a meddlesome pontiff interfering in British law‘. It’s not often that I hear a BBC newsreader emphasising the Britishness of anything. Could it be that at last we’re entering the new Elizabethan age ? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
It looks as though the BBC is going to give lavish publicity to Chris Morris’s film, the one that lampoons incompetent suicide bombers. Morris was treated to a flattering profile on Radio 4. He’s just the sort they like, edgy, dangerous, and as unpredictable as Russell Brand. His controversial paedo programme was overrated, but I appreciated the idea. His take on the public’s groupthink attitude to Paedophilia and the media’s … Continue reading
The BBC spokespersons that used to grace B-BBC with their presence always insisted that if one or two biased items slipped through, in the long term they would be counterbalanced, because balance was an overall concept, achieved over time. They must have had in mind a timescale of around two hundred years. Yesterday on News 24, they featured a story that has been on the BBC website for a few … Continue reading
Guess what? The man responsible for looking after the fat pensions of the boys and girls at the BBC is a climate change fanatic, and he is part of an international group of investment managers who bust a gut to invest in ‘climate change’ schemes. He’s called Peter Dunscombe, and he runs the £8.2bn corporation pension fund, advising trustees on a day-to-day basis about their investments. Mr Dunscombe, who addresses … Continue reading
