, presenter Deborah Mackenzie introduced a report on Her Majesty’s trip to Malta with: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth… What a damn cheek! Almost everyone in the UK refers to Her Majesty as ‘The Queen’, but no, not the other worldly BBC News 24, even though it’s the BBC’s domestic 24 hour rolling news channel, targetted at and paid for by the BBC’s UK telly-taxpayers (as distinct from BBC World, or for … Continue reading →

Adloyada has an important post on what she has said in comments to the BBC’s Israel/Palestine impartiality review. The deadline for submissions is tomorrow. One of the BBC pages she cites is this page of statistics about the Intifada. As Adloyada observes, the BBC breaks down the statistics of Israelis killed by Palestinians into civilian and military but all the Palestinians killed by Israelis are placed in one large group. … Continue reading →

that BBC licence-payers have just coughed up for, and the BBC’s attempts, reported in the Sunday Times, to justify the expenditure: The BBC was embarrassed last night by e-mails that showed it “invented” a justification for spending £60,000 of licence payers’ money commissioning a Tracey Emin sculpture. Emin’s Roman Standard sculpture of a bird on a post was bought by the BBC at a time when Mark Thompson, its director-general, … Continue reading →

reminded me of the murder in Birmingham last year of the last police officer to die on duty in the UK. Alone among news organisations, the BBC’s pathetic choice of lead story that night was the appointment of Mark Thompson as the BBC’s Director General. Tossers. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

Yesterday’s edition of The Times reports that London bomb victim lied about rape history. Garri Holness, who lost part of a leg in the July 7th Islamist terror attacks in London, formerly known as Gary Linton, is revealed as a convicted rapist, guilty, along with six others, of a brutally violent gang sex attack on two sixteen year old schoolgirls in 1985.     Downing Street: What about the victims … Continue reading →

, BBC News Online reports that: Former Humberside Police Authority chairman Colin Inglis has been charged with 14 counts of indecent assault in relation to allegations of child abuse. News Online goes on to say: Following the launch of the North Yorkshire Police investigation last September Mr Inglis was suspended from the police authority and the Labour Party. He was replaced as leader of Hull City Council in May this … Continue reading →

continues with John Simpson’s thesis that the Jordanian bombing proves the Iraq war was wrong!!, and with this pictureof a suicide-dressed kiddy above a caption which says: ‘Palestinian children learn at a young age about the struggle for freedom. To some, the Palestinian martyrs are heroes. Here a child poses for a photograph at a rally organised by militants.’ This from a series about the making of a film about … Continue reading →

. But I must make time to draw your attention to the BBC’s Israeli-Palestian impartiality review. the Panel invites written submissions from any individual who would like to comment on the BBC’s coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and will take account of these contributions as part of its process. You can write to the following address: Israeli-Palestinian Impartiality Review BBC Governance UnitRoom 211, 35 Marylebone High StreetLondon, W1U 4AA Or … Continue reading →

This is not an example of bias. But the BBC do like to display their multicultural virtues and awareness of diverse faiths. So this cricket report is rather unfortunate. “Flintoff capitalised two overs later, with a delivery typical of former Pakistan captain Waqar Younis, utilising reverse-swing to beat new batsman Mohammad Yousuf.” New batsman, eh ? Most people would think 59 Tests, over 4,000 runs and 13 centuries made Mohammad … Continue reading →

Here is a BBC account of excavations in Gaza. These were the bones of the ancient Greek city of Antidon. And they were testimony to the extraordinary richness of Gaza’s past. Not only the Greeks passed this way. The Pharaohs of ancient Egypt, the Persians, the Romans, the Crusaders, the Turks, the British and many others left their mark on Gaza. Missing anyone? Now I don’t pretend to know whether … Continue reading →