the judge named in the blackmail case that finished at the Old Bailey yesterday was referred to as Ilyas Khan and Mr. Khan. Curiously, other news outlets, including the BBC Ten O’Clock News, used the judge’s full name – Mohammed Ilyas Khan. Doubtless the Six’s omission was for lack of space. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

Could the main Radio Four news headline be that “London’s busiest jail is overrun with cockroaches and rats”. Not only that, but apparently officers didn’t always treat the inmates with respect – some of them apparently considering themselves to be a cut above the inmates. How judgemental can you get ? You can’t say our national broadcaster doesn’t have its finger on the concerns of the average Briton. Click through … Continue reading →

Michael Medved (presumably this Michael Medved whom I didn’t know until today was also this Michael Medved) writes: I would like to send you the following link from the BBC: “Lebanon’s president castigates UN” “Showing a picture of a child killed in the conflict, Mr Lahoud asked: “How many, children like this one here are going to die because nobody does anything for them?” It’s interesting to notice that the … Continue reading →

Please use this thread for off-topic, but preferably BBC related, comments. Please keep comments on other threads to the topic at hand. N.B. this is not an invitation for general off-topic comments – our aim is to maintain order and clarity on the topic-specific threads. This post will remain at or near the top of the blog. Please scroll down to find new topic-specific posts. Click through to read and … Continue reading →

“In an appearance at London’s Royal Albert Hall, former US President Bill Clinton charmed his audience in a wide-ranging talk.” Talk about a love-in. Telly taxpayers pay for this stuff. But I guess that’s just what the BBC do. Oops- maybe I got the photo and text confused. Find out what Bill Clinton did recently that was really newsworthy here (video) or here (text). Click through to read and contribute … Continue reading →

“Religious fears force off opera A Berlin opera company cancelled a Mozart production over security fears because it features the severed heads of the Prophet Muhammad and Jesus.” article here 1)The Mozart opera was not cancelled due to fear of “religion”. 2)It was not for the offence given by the (staged, obviously!) severed head of Jesus that the Mozart opera was cancelled. 3)If the cancelling of the Mozart opera had … Continue reading →

DFH pointed out that this recent article on Iran by Frances Harrison met with the approval of MPACUK. What do you think? I haven’t time to go a’fisking, but it seems to me a case of the BBC celebrating dhimmitude. Here are two articles to start you off: Here and Here This could be point one: 1) There are 25,000 Jews (est) in Iran. Our Frances says “few know that … Continue reading →

Please use this thread for off-topic, but preferably BBC related, comments. Please keep comments on other threads to the topic at hand. N.B. this is not an invitation for general off-topic comments – our aim is to maintain order and clarity on the topic-specific threads. This post will remain at or near the top of the blog. Please scroll down to find new topic-specific posts. Click through to read and … Continue reading →

The BBC on Russian demographics: wrong, wrong, ah, right– cheers Russian Prof. How did I miss that on the BBC’s frontpage? (I commented on the BBC’s clueless approach back in April; soon afterwards came Putin’s dramatic speech emphasising the demographic crisis- somehow this follow up article escaped me). I think a really important public service would have been to run a series looking at Russia’s (and European countries’) growing demographic … Continue reading →

Whose calendar? “Violence sweeps Iraq on Ramadan” Two problems, maybe three, or more, with this headline and splash across BBConline frontpage tonight. 1)The violence alluded to appears no worse than on many other days in Iraq over the last couple of years. Loathe as I am to follow the body count rule of headlines, this doesn’t seem to qualify for the big splash effect. 2)The violence alluded to has occurred … Continue reading →