After vowing to fight antisemitism, but still managing to offend almost everyone with some various so-called gaffes and ill-advised decisions, the Pope’s trip treads a pitfall-riddled path. There’s plenty of press and internet coverage of a jpost article about the Pope’s hasty exit after an impromptu speech by Sheikh Tayseer Tamimi. Pope Benedict abruptly got up and left before the end of the event, though not before performing the obligatory … Continue reading
It doesn’t matter if they are Conservatives, Labour, Lib-Dems – whatever. The fact is that the sheer greed of the political caste at Westminster is truly monstrous. Playing within the rules that they set, and that they policed, the enthusiasm with which they have ripped US off knows few limits. But how do you think the BBC is covering the issue? With The Telegraph providing us with details of how … Continue reading
I suggest that any progress against those who peddle dangerous and illegal drugs is to be welcomed. So the claim by the Britain’s Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) that it is making serious inroads on the cocaine market has to be welcomed. However the BBC was quick to invite Danny Kushlick, of the drug policy think tank Transform, to posit an alternative view, namely that it might be best to … Continue reading
Wonder what your thoughts are on the decision by the BBC to appoint a Muslim as head of it’s religious programming? The post – considered one of the most influential religious roles in the country – has gone to Aaqil Ahmed. What with having a Sikh producing its most popular and longrunning religious programme, Songs of Praise, the BBC seems determined to marginalise Christians. Click through to read and contribute … Continue reading
This is where you can discuss any BBC-related issue that concerns you. Please use it sensibly, no abuse and no trolls! And it’s rant free. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
I wonder what it is about this report on the situation in Sri Lanka that makes me think of Gaza? We’re all Tamils now… Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
It is a BBC meme that the UN = force for good. Meanwhile, on Planet Reality, the rest of us see it as an anti-Semitic US-hating tyranny loving moral cesspit providing jobs for the boys – especially if your name is Annan. But rather like Rwanda, Sudan is one of those names that instantly conjures up images of sustained UN failure, genocide is such a pesky irritation for grand-standing Internationalists, … Continue reading
As has been suggested on another thread, it really is time that the BBC linked to B-BBC in order that a sense of balance be provided to licence-payers. Here is a thread for your suggestions as to how you reckon we can achieve this….thoughts? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
I see that the politicians, and Labour in particular, are swarming over the BBC this morning claiming “the system” of expenses is wrong and that everything they have done is within the rules. Oh really? I don’t think so. The Labour Government has presided over this criminal abuse of OUR taxes and all that time the politicians kept mute about what they were up to. Blears says that that the … Continue reading
Just to say that those who can tune in to Sunday Sequence on BBC Radio Ulster just after 9am can hear me discuss the issue of journalistic protection of sources. This is the background. My own view is that given the neo-Totalitarian desires of those little Hitlers in the local devolved Assembly, I am grateful for those journalists like Suzanne who show an independent mind and who, via their sources, … Continue reading
