Did Russia interfere in BBC Sports Personality of the Year vote?

In these dark days, where we have to worry about “possible Russian interference in the 2016 Brexit referendum“, perhaps we should look at other votes too? Mo Farah has won the Sports Personality award. Did Russia try to exert influence on the vote in order to subvert democracy? Well just look at this damning evidence. Suspicious Kremlin linked Twitter bot accounts have posted many tweets about Mo Farah. Perhaps we … Continue reading

Unnewsworthy

  You may have noticed, as we’ve pointed out, that the BBC refuses to mention the fact that the Iranians arrested Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe because of her work at the BBC’s Media Action.  The Chair of which is still the BBC’s new head of news Fran  Unsworth. Will the BBC’s serious omission of dodging this inconvenient truth so as not to implicate the BBC in Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s plight be corrected now … Continue reading

Weekend Open Thread

This week the Centre for Policy Studies published a report claiming to have found a left of centre bias in the BBC’s online reporting of think tanks. They also claim right of centre think tanks are more likely to receive health warnings than their left of centre counterparts. The CPS itself is hardly impartial on the BBC – it argues for a smaller BBC and campaigns against the licence fee. … Continue reading

More on BBC News chief Fran Unsworth’s background

Can you learn anything about someone from the people they are friends with? New BBC Head of  News Fran Unsworth (top left) is pictured here in 1986 at the wedding of Jane Wells (bottom right), alongside Lise Mayer (bottom left). Jane Wells is the daughter of Sidney Bernstein ‘the dominant influence on the growth and development of commercial television in Britain’ and is the founder of 3 Generations, ‘a non-profit organization … Continue reading

New BBC Head of News

BBC appoints Fran Unsworth as next head of news What do we know about about her? Not much. She has a very small public profile and has worked at the BBC her whole career. Here’s one interesting titbit. Fran Unsworth – “Fortunately my parents were very non-gender specific.” Your guess is as good as mine, but it certainly sounds a lot like the type of rhetoric we hear from certain … Continue reading

BBCers should hunker down in a safe space…Brexit poll out

Is it game over for Brexit? Rebel MPs have defeated the government in a vote on the EU Withdrawal Bill – the bill that’ll take the UK out of the EU. But Esther Webber (@estwebber) tells us why it’s not quite game over for Brexit. BBC wishful thinking.   The BBC’s Rachel Burden, as do most BBC presenters, tried to push the notion that more and more people are against … Continue reading

Midweek Open Thread

  The BBC whines constantly that the DUP are disproportionately influential due to their alliance with the Tories.  Of course this is because the DUP in the main supports Brexit.  The BBC shows no such distaste for a small group of Tory rebels who betray their country and party and ally themselves to the Marxists of Labour in order to appease their foreign masters in the EU.  The BBC was … Continue reading

Oh Kay

  Katty Kay, always worth a watch.  Today she reported on Republican Roy Moore and looked like someone had just shoved a pineapple up her backside and she was desperately trying not to let on as she tried to control the pained surprise with tightly shut eyes, puffed out cheeks,  a strangely immobile face, speaking through a mouth shut tight giving us her impression of a white person acting as … Continue reading

Hyping inflation

  Listening to the BBC news and you’d think a 0.1 rise in inflation was the great crash of 2008 all over again.  Ever get the feeling that the BBC is so desperate to do away with Brexit that it would be very happy to see the economy crash?  Odd that for all the warnings about the supposed effects of Brexit on the economy the BBC doesn’t get anywhere near as … Continue reading