Here’s a full transcript, annotated with my thoughts as it went along: Darren Jordan, 21’14” into the programme: The Green Party says it has a real chance of winning its first parliamentary seat at the forthcoming General Election. The Greens have members in the European and Scottish Parliaments, as well as more than sixty local councillors, but they’ve never come close to winning a Westminster constituency. Well, our Political Correspondent, … Continue reading →

Just a day after the BBC’s telly tax was renewed for another ten years, allegedly in exchange for improvements to their public service programming, we learn that the BBC’s idea of public service includes paying career criminal Brendon Fearon £4,000 (£4,500 according to some reports) for a documentary appearance. Fearon, who has been in and out of jail many, many times, is the burglar who was shot, along with two … Continue reading →

In a comment to a previous post Rob directed our attention to this link from Melanie Phillips. It may shock you. Yes, even you, longtime Biased BBC reader, who think you have seen it all. Now scroll on to the BBC’s TV coverage on sunday of the Tel Aviv bombing, in which five people died and 49 were injured. Using a clip entitled ‘A family in mourning’, the family it … Continue reading →

James Naughtie of Radio Four’s Today programme, interviewing Labour Chancellor Gordon Brown’s special adviser Ed Balls yesterday. James Naughtie – “If we win the election, does Gordon Brown want to remain Chancellor ?” Ed Balls – “Erm … I …” James Naughtie – “You win the election” Spotted by the Observer blog, who also have an mp3 clip of the quote. Full interview here (RealAudio). Not his first ‘slip of … Continue reading →

of huge national, nay, international significance – yes, “The BBC keeps the licence fee for another ten years, but the Board of Governors will be scrapped. The Government’s plans for the BBC also include a sharper focus on public service programming and less emphasis on audience ratings”. Strangely enough, Sky News led, rightly, with the story of Shabina Begum, a story of much greater significance than the government’s disappointingly modest … Continue reading →

Despite the fact that hundreds of TV channels now exist, and the fact that subscriptions to channels can be easily managed these days, the government decides that the BBC will continue to have the power for another decade to extort money out of people who don’t even watch it, in order to make whatever programs they feel like making. Tessa Jowell’s statement is here. While she’s aware that digital TV … Continue reading →

Both BBC News 24 and BBC News Online have given substantial coverage this morning to the case of Shabina Begum, an orphaned 16-year old Muslim girl who, apparently under the sway of her older brother, in yet another ‘human rights’ judicial travesty, has won the right to drive a coach and horses through the rights of schools to set and maintain a school uniform policy. With all the BBC’s coverage … Continue reading →

The BBC have made a remarkable scientific breakthrough which has eluded the world’s medical researchers. They have discovered that unborn infants fall into two distinct classes. If the mother wishes not to bring the the unborn infant to term, it becomes, by a process not yet fully understood, a ‘foetus‘. “The procedure involves the extraction of the body of the foetus into the vagina before the contents of the skull … Continue reading →

Stephen Pollard reports hearing Sir David Frost on ‘Breakfast With Frost’ introduce Vanessa Redgrave with: And now, the social conscience of us all, Vanessa Redgrave. Pollard has his own preferred introduction. This seems to me to be another case where you suspect the BBC presenter must have their tongue in their cheek at first, but it appears not. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

Is the government going to be driving around with “Computer detector vans” soon? Will you need to pay the government to use a computer? The BBC faces losing hundreds of thousands of pounds in licence fees because of a legal loophole that allows viewers to watch television on the internet for free. Soaring take-up of broadband and technological developments are making internet-streamed television a reality. Last summer, for the first … Continue reading →