Sky News has just reported on a new paper which claims households are more than £400-a-year worse off as a result of inflation caused by the Brexit vote. It may well be true, who knows. The BBC hasn’t actually reported on this yet, but it seems almost inevitable with a finding like that, so let’s see how long it takes them to plaster it on the front page of the BBC … Continue reading →

  The Remainders keep telling us that they are defending democracy and doing it for Britain and are not at all trying to stop Brexit and return us to the crushing embrace of the EU…..this of course tells the lie of that…   The time has come for Theresa May to tell the nation: Brexit can’t be done Alistair Campbell You can hear this classic line from Alistair Campbell as … Continue reading →

'If we want peace we need one thing – less Islam'. New, in today's Sun: https://t.co/kN03199KAr — Douglas Murray (@DouglasKMurray) June 4, 2017   ‘Out thought and undereducated.  We have lost the ability to think, to acquire knowledge, to advance intellectually and then we wonder why our community is in such decay.’   ‘Islam choked in the vicelike grip of orthodoxy….It was the end of tolerance, intellect, and science in … Continue reading →

  Britain’s standing in the world has been reduced [BBC fact] and we may lose our place on the International Court of Justice the BBC informs us….the unspoken term?  #duetoBrexit.  Note in the video Dimbleby once again denying that the BBC uses the term ‘inspite of Brexit’ or other forms of implying that.  Charles Moore also got similar treatment….and Guido has helpfully listed many examples where Moore and JRM are … Continue reading →

  “Full employment never meant zero unemployment,” says Christopher Pissarides, professor of economics at the London School of Economics.   Philip Hammond said there was ‘no unemployment’….naturally, with 1.4 million people without jobs, the usual suspects jumped all over him in politically motivated attacks…. Philip Hammond says there are ‘no unemployed people’ Speaking to Andrew Marr, the chancellor says “there are no unemployed people”, when asked about the threat to … Continue reading →

  If you have been following the Rohingya story, you will have heard how the Myanmar army cleared itself of wrongdoing this week. Jonathan Head, BBC South East Asia correspondent tells us: To no one’s surprise, the army has exonerated itself of pretty much all blame. But its findings lack credibility, both because the inquiry was solely carried out by the very institution accused of committing the abuses, and because of … Continue reading →

One of the worst and most ridiculous arguments goes like this: “the right say the BBC is too left wing, but the left say the BBC has a right wing bias, so it’s probably quite balanced in reality”. You’ve heard variations of this argument no doubt. The BBC has many presenters, journalists, employees. Not all of them have the exact same opinion. Andrew Neil is clearly more right wing than … Continue reading →

H/T StewGreen The BBC is screening a new programme today…a play from the National Theatre.  In the days following the Brexit vote, a team from the National Theatre of Great Britain spoke to people nationwide, aged 9 to 97, to hear their views on the country we call home. In a series of deeply personal interviews, they heard opinions that were honest, emotional, funny and sometimes extreme. The writers?   Carol … Continue reading →

  ‘Exodus’…the BBC’s name for its new programmes about the flight of Muslim immigrants to Europe…. Exodus: Our Journey In 2015, we gave cameras to some of the people who smuggled themselves into Europe, to record where no-one else can go. The result is a terrifying, intimate, epic portrait of the migration crisis. Across the whole of Europe, the rhetoric of the right is increasingly influential. The ‘rhetoric of the … Continue reading →