Managed to catch the ubiquitous Mark Easton sharing his thoughts on the battle to control illegal narcotics here this morning. There was a bit of a consensus from Mark and Mike Trace, chairman of the “international drug policy consortium”. Can you guess what it was? Yes, that’s right – being tough on drug dealers and cracking down on their illegal networks just doesn’t work. We need to find more, erm, … Continue reading
One of the few BBC programmes that I regularly enjoy is “New Tricks”. I think it’s a right laugh and I do enjoy the rather lovely Amanda Redman solving crime! HOWEVER, last night, in the run-in to the last Question Time liveblog, the New Tricks episode was all about a US secret rendition flight to Guantanamao Bay from England which had crashed on take-off killing innocent British citizens. The bad … Continue reading
David Dimbleby will be joined in Norwich by Geoff Hoon MP, Baroness Warsi, Baroness Williams, Clive James and George Galloway MP. I hope YOU will be joining this – the last QT of the season. With the verminious Galloway being given more publicity by the BBC, the omnipresent Shirl the Pearl, the gormless Hoon, there should be plenty for US to talk about. Make sure you come along…! QUESTION TIME … Continue reading
Time for a new one of these as the week draws on. Contributions on BBC bias most welcome. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
In last week’s episode of the ground-breaking new drama “Left of Centre”, the Guardian published a lament about the state of BBC drama by veteran producer Tony Garnett. The BBC’s drama commissioning controller Ben Stephenson responded, using the word “passionate” four times and – controversially – saying that the BBC ought to promote “left of centre” thinking. (The Biased BBC specials dealing with this story are to be found below.) … Continue reading
Continuing my occasional series on Mark Easton, I happened to catch him being interviewed on Eddie Mair’s PM programme on the topic of knife crime. In essence, Easton was taking the line that new statistics are far from compelling and that “knife crime” itself could include attacks with a broken bottle by drunk young men, bottom line being that it will take generations for any real trend to become discernible. … Continue reading
“the relentless, unremitting stream of anti-Israeli invective that has been pumped into the public mind in Britain over the last decade or so” A memorable phrase nicked from an article in the Jpost by Robin Shepherd entitled “New Era as British Hostility Reaches Crescendo” “a country (Britain) whose opinion forming classes rank among the most hostile to Israel in the Western world” is another. Robin Shepherd writes about the recent … Continue reading
Anyone catch Mark Easton’s breathless endorsement of the latest piece of NuLabour class warfare proposed by Alan Milburn? Mark’s just so excited by this instance of social engineering! Milburn was then afforded the prime time slot on Today here. It’s lovely to see how the BBC synchs with Labour, isn’t it? Flawless. Listen BBC – Vote Labour. By way of balance, Melanie Phillips has this take on it, with which … Continue reading
BBC executive says corporation should foster ‘left-of-centre thinking’ reports the Telegraph. Hat tip: DB, who wrote in the comments to David Vance’s earlier post on this: “An anonymous commentator mentioned the Ben Stephenson piece in the comments here yesterday. I brought it to the attention of Conservative Home where Jonathan Isaby blogged it. This led to the Tory culture and media spokesman commenting on it, as did a number of … Continue reading
I see that the BBC has been running a Lancet generated sob story about the alarmingly high African male gay AIDS rate. It seems that the cause of this disease is “cultural, religious and political unwillingness to accept gay men as equal members of society”. The solution is to spend more money on it, apparently. We have to wade through several paragraphs of nonsense to discover that “gay men were … Continue reading
