This one is a bit special. Would it, I ask, be usual to offer the opinions on an fatal incident of the mother of a murder suspect? Not saying it’s not possibly the truth, but since when is “he would never have “harmed Tash”, Mr Speight’s mother Jacqueline said.” the proper basis for a story? Oh, wait a minute, there’s a detail I’m omitting here- the suspect in question works … Continue reading →

The BBC is always carrying water for the interfering nanny state in Britain, and today is no exception, with an article where they manage to reinforce stereotypes of Britons and Americans as prime fatties:UK and US ‘keenest on fast food’ Trivial it isn’t, when you consider that “lifestyle change” is socialism’s new frontier. The annoying part is that it’s probably not even true, if the experience of that greatest of … Continue reading →

From the New York Times: “A year ago, British meteorologists made headlines predicting that the buildup of greenhouse gases would help make 2007 the hottest year on record. At year’s end, even though the British scientists reported the global temperature average was not a new record — it was actually lower than any year since 2001 — the BBC confidently proclaimed, “2007 Data Confirms Warming Trend.”” Read the whole thing. … Continue reading →

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the latest in a string of Newsnight gaffes:   Britons indeed! The BBC has been straining all day to imply that these non-Britons (with a penchant for ‘action holidays’, ‘study’ and ‘training’ in far-off lands) are British, but it’s taken Newsnight to put it down in black and white. On the same subject, David Preiser suggests a spot of comparing and contrasting between The Times profile of these non-Britons and … Continue reading →

BBC Views Online, On This Day, December 16th, 1969: MPs vote to abolish hanging: Much is made of the reasons why hanging was abolished, including then Home Secretary James Callaghan’s argument in favour of abolition that “figures show that the murder rate is not soaring as a result of the abolition of capital punishment but remains remarkably stable”. Sadly, the In Context panel, whilst finding room to explore varous subsequent … Continue reading →

In Spaniards tip too much – minister, we learn that: Spain’s inflation is higher than other eurozone states – at 4.1% last month. 4.1% in a month is certainly well on the high side. Perhaps the BBC meant that last month it was reported to be 4.1% per annum. Doh! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

In typical BBC bash-the-Tories style, David Cameron’s suggestion that: “…political parties, even though they may have serious disagreements over many aspects of policy, should work together in areas where they agree. I hope that in 2008 the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party will join us in putting pressure on the government to decentralise power, and that together we can create a new progressive alliance to decentralise British politics” …was … Continue reading →

, is undone, but with much less prominence, long after the damage has been done. Perhaps Panorama could do an investigation into how such unfounded nonsense got on the air in the first place. BBC Views Online do their usual anodyne write up of BBC related matters, Panorama wi-fi complaints upheld, complete with the usual blatantly obvious typos (blatantly obvious, that is, to anyone who bothers to re-read what they’ve … Continue reading →

– as does the bias and sloppiness that permeates our tax-funded state broadcaster. The posts above, and the round-up of tidbits below, are just a few of the things that I’ve seen and meant to blog about recently: El Reg asks Why is the iPlayer a multi million pound disaster? – the BBC is, as you might expect, betting big and betting wrong…   Just what we don’t need: After … Continue reading →