F-Bombgate Latest

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For those still interested in the ongoing saga, this comes from the Daily Mail’s Charles Sale column: Saboteur hunt at 5liveThe BBC are mounting a top-level probe, using CCTV and computer information, to find who was responsible for tampering with an early Saturday morning 5live sports news bulletin featuring a pre-recorded Jacqui Oatley interview with Wigan manager Roberto Martinez.The Martinez chat was interrupted by a voice saying ‘******* trumpet, ******* … Continue reading →

Have you suffered from disability discrimination?

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If you have, then the BBC wants to know. We all know the sort of things that happen and how upsetting they can be – when the lack of a wheelchair ramp means you cannot get to an art gallery, when the selection committee looks askance at your application because of your health problems, when persecution by feral youths drives you to burn yourself and your daughter to death… North-Northwester … Continue reading →

Log Lines

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The BBC and the Times have today both covered the news that old ships logs are being transcribed as a resource for climatologists. No prizes for guessing which media outlet thought the following could be of interest to its readers, and which chose to ignore it: However, some of the logs suggest that there has been little or no change in sea temperatures elsewhere in the Arctic. Climate change sceptics … Continue reading →

Rush Schools Katty

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Chicago’s first round exit from the 2016 Olympic voting on Friday was greeted with a certain amount of glee by Rush Limbaugh. Echoing the song of praise to Obama made famous by a group of New Jersey school kids, Limbaugh told his radio audience: Our president, “Barack Hussein Obama! Mmm, mmm, mmm. Barack Hussein Obama! Mmm, mmm, mmm,” had been running around the world for nine months telling everybody how … Continue reading →

NO PORRIDGE

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A recurring BBC meme is that Prison is “a bad thing” and that better results are obtained by keeping criminals out of jail. So when the Prison Governor Association (PGA) urges government to scrap one year sentences essentially for economic reasons, you can be sure this will receive a warm welcome with the State Broadcaster. Naturally there is A concern expressed but it is that those guilty of even worse … Continue reading →

DROPPING THE PRETENCE

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I commend this post by my colleague Andrew McCann over on A Tangled Web to you. Andrew is able to listen to the atrocious 5LIve more than I and so he gets to endure the full-on bias from that particular broadcasting delight. Give it a read, I think he makes some excellent points. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

PAXMAN TORY TOFF CLAIMS

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I’ve known Jeremy Paxman since I worked with him on the university newspaper in Cambridge in 1971. Then, like most students of that era, he was an crusading lefty. Over the years, his politics have undoutedly changed, partly, I suspect, because he’s now firmly part of the hunting/fishing set. But elements of that sneering lefty, it seems, are still not far beneath the surface. They came out last night when … Continue reading →

STRICTLY HYPOCRITICAL

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My thanks to B-BBC reader Martin for bringing up the curious reluctance of the BBC to take action against Strictly Come Dancing judge Anton du Beke who referred to contestant Laila Rouass as “a paki.” This compares with the alacrity with which the BBC moved to dismiss Carol Thatcher following her “golliwog” comment. Now then, I see no reason why Du Beke should be dismissed for what was a clumsy … Continue reading →

SHILLING FOR THE MULLAHS…

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I listened to an item on Today this morning in which IAEA supremo Mohammed AlBaradei was praised for his constructive engagement with the psychotic Iranian regime. Given that the Mullahs have run rings around the IAEA for years now, I wondered exactly WHO the BBC had found that holds such a view? Step forward Hans Blix! Remember him? He was the guy who set himself up as an arch enemy … Continue reading →

A LITTLE BLACKMAIL TO START THE DAY..

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Our wonderful Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, flies to Northern Ireland today to use “his negotiation skills as well as his wallet” to bring harmony between the IRA and DUP, currently bickering with each other over the timing of devolution of policing and justice powers. Now then, I notice that this article finishes with the suggestion by Shaun “Where’s my butler” Woodward that US firms are queued up to create jobs … Continue reading →