The (almost) complete history of ‘fake news’

  Just a week ago the BBC were investigating the history of ‘Fake news‘….. In record time, the phrase morphed from a description of a social media phenomenon into a journalistic cliche and an angry political slur. How did the term “fake news” evolve – and what’s next in the world of disinformation? It is, you may be surprised to hear, not a bad run down of how ‘fake news’ … Continue reading

Blowback for the Beauties

  It’s hard not to laugh and admittedly I don’t try too hard. The great and the good of the BBC who have been deriding and demonising Trump have had their pay slashed.  Coincidence? LOL.  They spend their time attacking the government about fair pay and equality and then find it is they who are lined up for a bit of that themselves…and it is one of  their own who … Continue reading

Brussels’ Touts

  When have you heard the BBC pushing the positives of Brexit and the real reasons for the vote to leave such as sovereignty and immigration being mentioned as positives?  When have you heard the negatives of staying inside the EU being discussed?  All we get from the BBC is an entirely negative view of Brexit, an emphasis on an economy doomed by Brexit using apocalyptic predictions from the architects … Continue reading

Weekend Open Thread

  So Trump’s tax cuts benefit only Big Bad Business [a bigly lie from the BBC]…but also an hypocrisy for this is the anti-capitalist, anti-business, anti-elitist BBC that has done a complete volte face and now cheerleads for Big Business, bankers and the elite in the UK and is keen to hear and promote what these Big Businessmen, foreign and domestic, demand Brexit should be….so these businessmen, foreign and domestic, … Continue reading

Exodus

  Only last July Lord Hall Hall was telling us that he paid his ‘talent’ so much because they are worth it and it is the going market rate, don’t pay it and there will be an exodus of talent……. “I completely understand that to lots and lots of people these are very large sums but we are a global broadcaster, in a very competitive market,” Lord Hall told BBC … Continue reading

At least she knows where to start

  The BBC tells us…. The head of Theresa May’s new anti-extremism commission – set up after the Manchester Arena attack – is facing calls to quit from Muslim groups. Sara Khan, who has campaigned for women’s rights in Muslim communities, has been given the task of rooting out extremism in the UK. She has promised “zero tolerance to those who promote hate”. But her support for the Home Office’s … Continue reading

Boris The Bullet Dodger

      The BBC just can’t kill off Boris try as they might…and they do try.  Hard. Every time he opens his mouth the BBC is there to attack and undermine him, Laura Kuenssberg leading the charge with her long in the tooth conspiracy that every word he utters is a machiavellian plot to take over the leadership of the Tory Party…and she’s not afraid to add in a … Continue reading

‘Widespread Outrage’

    No one has ever used sex to sell anything before in the history of mankind.  That’s why the President’s Club affair is so shocking.  What exactly is the problem?  That it was a bit of a raunchy night’s entertainment, or that some girls were groped, or that it was men only?  Just to be clear.  As far as I can see the ‘outrage’ is all directed in the … Continue reading

Mid-Week Open Thread

  Jeremy Corbyn owes Momentum big style…he is their man, bought and paid for.… Name of donor: Momentum Campaign (Services) Ltd Address of donor: Walkden House, 10 Melton Street, London NW1 2EJ Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: interest free, unsecured loan of £50,000 towards my campaign for leadership of the Labour Party. This loan is for an indefinite period. Interest free, unsecured and for … Continue reading

Dispatches dispatched

Channel 4 pulls ‘cash for Brexit’ TV exposé: Investigation into former Tory Cabinet ministers accused of offering advice to Chinese companies is dropped at the eleventh hour Ooops….things haven’t gone to plan at C4 recently as Cathy Newman might admit.  Now, as we suggested earlier, Dispatches’ attempt to entrap Tory politicians in a scheme engineered by C4 to discredit and deligitimise Brexit by making it look like a Tory get-rich … Continue reading