We don’t normally scrutinise the BBC’s essayists. We haven’t tried a survey of how many we consider right versus how many left. As a matter of fact I’ve never read any in-house commentary on the BBC that showed any strong right orientation, but I thought I’d look at this piece from Iain Watson. It’s about the Labour party launching its election campaign for the Euros with the expenses row echoing … Continue reading
Great to see that the Sri Lankan government has cornered the remnants of the “Tamil Tigers” and are moving in for the kill. In my view, this is how you deal with the menace of terrorism – wipe them off the face of the Earth if they do not surrender and face justice. But, oh my, the BBC aren’t happy about this and I just watched a news report on … Continue reading
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I wonder what being Muslim in name only means? The BBC has an item on Today asking if Islam is not compatible with modernity, can Islam ever comfortably conform to Western society? Ali Allawi, former cabinet minister in the Iraqi post-war governments, argues in his new book The Crisis of Islamic Civilisation that Muslim modernisers have been seduced by a certainty in scientific knowledge to the extent that they are … Continue reading
Interesting to hear our old friend Abdal Hakim Murad, Muslim Chaplain at the University of Cambridge back on again Thought for the Day this morning. He’s never off and yet what % of the UK population is Muslim exactly? I have no problem with TFTD providing platforms for all faiths (and indeed for pathologies such as Islam) but it is the frequency with which the ROP gets to broadcast which … Continue reading
Nice to see the BBC oblige poor beleaguered Mr Brown by allowing his attack dog John McFall to posture on Today that it was the bankers that caused our economic recession, sorry, I mean down-turn that’s now on the up-turn, any day soon. It’s my view that the Labour spin machine is trying a three card trick routine on us by introducing the evil bankers as a useful distraction for … Continue reading
Isn’t life strange ? One day you’re trying to erase Berlin, another you’re trying to save its people. North by Northwest on this Dan Bell report. I can see what Mr Bell is trying to do – the human side and all that. But a little context would be in order – maybe a little about why Stalin was trying to “expel the Western powers from the city” – aka … Continue reading
QUESTION TIME LIVEBLOGCome along and watch Margaret a Beckett booed!!! Roll up, roll up…will someone in the audience have some ROPE handy….?? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Sorry, but still with the Pope, this time from Honest Reporting, on the BBC’s Tim Franks and the “reason” he gives for the decline of Bethlehem’s Christian population. Tim Franks uses the usual technique of evoking sympathy by recounting a personal story, and he follows the plight of “Jonny” and his difficulties with the security walls. Honest Reporting: “Franks quoted several Palestinians who claim that Christians are leaving the city … Continue reading
Hope you will be able to come along this evening for fun and games as Question Time liveblog commences hereon Biased BBC. This is the panel of lovelies appearing tonight. We have NuLabour stunna Margaret A Beckett, Lib-Dem failed leader Sir Menzies Campbell. Conservative wet lettuce Theresa May (what shoes will she wear?) Benedict Brogan from the in-the-news Daily Telegraph (Bet they all attack him!) and Ronald McDonald aka Steve … Continue reading
