Catalonia got your tongue?

    Maybe I don’t hear all the BBC reports about Catalonia but the ones I do hear and read always leave out one obvious parallel…Brexit.  How can that be when it is such an obvious link? The Today show discussed Catalonia today [08:40] but remarkably made no mention of Brexit, then they moved on to Italy where two regions want more autonomy and we heard that they were ‘following … Continue reading

The Right Stuff

  The six o’clock pips sound across the nation. The red lights flash and the studio blinks to life and the familiar old juices stir. Three hours of live broadcasting lie ahead with an audience of millions leaning on our every word. Three hours in which to wield the simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of British fair play. Three hours to educate the audience with stuff they … Continue reading

The Scoundrel John Simpson

And you don’t sound like a public service broadcaster anymore https://t.co/1YGJW43oSs — Tim Montgomerie (@montie) October 24, 2017 MP wants details of anti-Brexit univ teachers. Decent folk deported on technicalities. Daily hate in press. Doesn't feel like my country now — John Simpson (@JohnSimpsonNews) October 24, 2017   [H/T Guest Who] LOL…..A BBC über liberal grand-dame journo now declaring his patriotic love for his lost country…..the country that he and … Continue reading

McCarthyism….some sort of fork-tongued, two-faced affliction?

Brexit ‘McCarthyism’ is unacceptable to universities. Free speech must flourish Unless you are a Tory MP holding university lecturers to account….then you must STFU. Where are all these brave defenders of freedom of speech when right-wing speakers are silenced and no-platformed on campuses…where is the Guardian and the BBC then?  What does the Guardian think we should do with people who merely think and write about what they call ‘Fascism’ … Continue reading

‘What drives populism?’

    All fairly obvious stuff from Matthew Goodwin in the Spectator…except to the BBC and fellow liberals who, as noted below, continue to frame Brexit solely as an economic problem failing to understand or believe, despite being told again and again, that it was about immigration and culture in the main…communities did not like being ‘swamped’ by thousands of foreigners turning up practically overnight making them strangers in their … Continue reading

Gordon Bennett!!! Politics taking over the Art

  Who’d have thought?…. Gunpowder featured the most violent and visceral scenes of execution ever screened on primetime television.  This star- studded BBC1 drama about the November 5 plot was not so much brutal as psychotic in its quest for historical accuracy. It might seem hard to understand the need for this exceptionally graphic, nine-minute sequence… until you realise that the writer, Northern Irish novelist Ronan Bennett, is a Left-winger … Continue reading

Blue Planet, Green Propaganda

  A new series of the BBC’s ‘Blue Planet’ and of course we get the adverts, sorry, discussions about it liberally scattered around the BBC. Interested to hear that they see it as their ‘mission’ to change people’s minds about climate change.   Attenborough, now a convinced believer, told us that he thought there couldn’t possibly be any sceptics left…it was abundantly clear that the planet was warming…and that it was … Continue reading

‘Bitch’ is the new Black

  Jennifer Lopez brands Sarah Palin ‘a b***h’ in Spanish slang on TV R4 treated us to NBC’s Katy Tur who expressed shock and horror that Trump had introduced misogyny to America and that female reporters and politicians could no longer appear in public without abuse and threats.  Naturally the BBC presenter lapped it all up without demurring in the slightest because of course no female politician has ever been … Continue reading

Putin it about

  Funny world where the BBC seems to be in love with hard-line socialists who frequent the studios of RT but shout loudly about Russian interference in the US election…apparently it is OK for a terrorist supporting marxist to get into No10 with Putin’s help but Trump was too much….he’s clearly no friend of Putin, if Russia did help get him elected they did it because Putin hates Clinton…personal not … Continue reading