A critical and secret internal BBC report on its perceived anti-Israel bias is the subject of a Freedom of Information court battle, according to The Telegraph: BBC mounts court fight to keep ‘critical’ report secretBy Chris Hastings and Beth Jones (Filed: 15/10/2006) The BBC has spent thousands of pounds of licence payers’ money trying to block the release of a report which is believed to be highly critical of its … 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 →

This blog and its commenters has had hard words for the BBC’s Justin Webb many times. Sixteen times, a quick search tells me, so I won’t bother linking. But our hard words are as nothing compared to the response he got from Democrats for this post saying that the Foley scandal might end up being a trap for the Democrats. Some of these people seriously need a cup of tea … Continue reading →

wrote: Presumably you’ve heard the story of the 14-year old arrested for “racism”. The BBC report doesn’t mention any of the details i.e. what she supposedly did or said that was racist. Can’t imagine why. I’ve been busy, and by the time I came to look at this post and follow the link the BBC story had improved considerably. It now has many of the strangely-missing details, only, oh, a … Continue reading →

From Radio Four’s Law In Action programme : The prison population has risen rapidly over the past 13 years – up 78% to nearly 80,000 – yet over the same period crime has fallen substantially. I’m not asking for ‘yet’ to be replaced with ‘as a result’, although that would be my personal view. I suppose the word ‘and’ is just too neutral for the unbiased BBC. No agenda here. … Continue reading →

“Then imagine bumping into an old friend who tells you he’s now working in one of the old Soviet republics which has found it hard to throw off the state control. Here, your friend says, you have to inform the state of your address when you buy a television. This address and your name is then kept on a database which is used to verify whether you have a licence … 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 →

asks Drinking from Home. At some point since Wednesday 27 September the BBC changed the phrase “a Ministry of Defence (MoD) report has said” to “a research paper prepared for the Ministry of Defence’s Defence Academy says”. Paxman’s claim that “We didn’t say it was the Ministry of Defence view” is easier to justify with the updated version. Sneaky move, eh? For those new to the game, this is standard … Continue reading →

From the opening speil to a Have Your Say forum: Is UKIP the “voice of the British majority”?Is the UK Independence Party at the “centre-ground of British public opinion” as its new leader, Nigel Farage, claims? The party is best known for campaigning to withdraw Britain from the European Union. Despite this, it won 10 seats in the 2004 European Parliament elections. Emphasis added. Spotted by Pete_London. Click through to … 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. (UPDATE: I’ve bumped the timestamp … Continue reading →