(Do scroll down; we’re building a nice little series on the BBC’s behaviour over the Lebanon situation. The general point seems to be that when the stress is even slightly on, the Beeb reveals its activist colours. Maybe it’s partly that yours truly awakes to them; who knows such things?) ++++++++++++++ Escalation, Beeb style The trouble is, they’re dying to interfere, aren’t they? DFH notespossibly an even worse example where … Continue reading →

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featured a virtual advertisment – in two senses – for demonstrations organised by the Stop the War Coalition and the Muslim Association of Britain, says USS Neverdock. His screenshot shows a box headed “Protest Assembly Points” and then the exact times and places for the demonstrations in Birmingham (“Outside Waterstones, entrance to Bullring”), Exeter, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Kirckcaldy, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Sheffield and York. To finish it off nicely there’s … Continue reading →

Had an interesting time using Google News recently. An hour or two ago I saw an article about Rowan Williams, the Arch-Bish of somewhere, who was quoted saying that Hezbullah was using Lebanese as a human shield. This was accompanied by numerous links reinforcing the fact. Reuters provided the lead article, I think. I also saw this. Later, trawling the BBC I came across a more than slightly different emphasis: … Continue reading →

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As part of the discussion of this post an anonymous commenter said the following: So what U.S. party was Gary Condit a member of? Chandra Levy: Accusation and denial Hmm, no clues there. How about this page? Condit passes lie detector test No joy there either. Strange. How about this page? Condit battles resignation calls Why, no. He mustn’t be in any party. Well, let’s see what this page says … Continue reading →

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In the previous post I mentioned Israelis killed by suicide bombers in pizza parlours. The crime I had in mind was the massacre at the Sbarro pizza restaurant on August 9 2001. One of the victims was a 15 year old girl called Malka Chana Roth, nicknamed “Malki”. Malki’s parents have a blog called This Ongoing War. Many commenters and other blogs have already pointed out this post: A Word … Continue reading →

I was listening to the ten o’clock news with half an ear and I caught Jeremy Bowen saying something like if Israel can’t prove that bombing the bridges in Lebanon was justified “then it’s a war crime.” I don’t get it, BBC. So what if it is. Why do you care? Note, I’m not asking why you, the readers of this site, might care – or you, the BBC audience, … Continue reading →

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