the communist authorities ordered the construction of millions of backyard iron furnaces to forward the revolution. Nearly all this vast effort was useless. You can’t make industrial-quality iron from mud-brick furnaces. I thought of this when I read in Christopher Booker an item (scroll down) about Another ludicrous example of how the BBC now pushes its own cock-eyed agenda was an item on Radio 4’s You and Yours last week … Continue reading →

Do more people read the blogs than watch BBC Digital? Speaks for itself. Second comes a wee snippet about the Kirsty Wark affair which in turn links to this post from Freedom & Whisky. (Some of our US readers, or indeed some of our English readers, may not have been following Warkgate. You should. It’s something like Celebrity Big Brother for the Scottish ruling elite. Check out Ed Thomas’s recent … Continue reading →

writes: Just have a look at this. The Hizbollah attacks an Israeli army vehicle in Israel, Israel shoots back and the headline is “Israel mounts south Lebanon raid.” Not “Hizbollah attack Israeli army vehicle” or anything similar. Bloody Trots. UPDATE: That was the headline when I wrote the post. Now it’s different. David B comments: “Looks like they changed it to “clashes erupt on Lebanon border”. Let’s blame both sides … Continue reading →

The BBC must be the only people on the planet who are. Big Mike made sure his loyal wacko fans stuffed the ballot box. That’s fair enough, but the Beeb could at least mention this less than obscure fact. Leave it to one of those money-grubbing American broadcasters to let us know the fuller picture. Last month Moore posted a letter on his Web site, www.michaelmoore.com, asking fans to vote … Continue reading →

I noticed Greg Dyke’s recent book, Inside Story, being sold off in Waterstone’s for half price, only three months since it was first published. Amazon.co.uk have it for even less – a mere £8 – 60% off the list price! A quick search of the web turns up an article by Andrew Donaldson in the South African Sunday Times that throws some light on the matter: This was a year … Continue reading →

(never like doing that), but last time I mentioned Kirsty Wark at any length, I happened to remark, amongst other things, that ‘the public knows little (by the Beeb’s own definition) about the BBC’s ‘contacts’, and would probably be disillusioned if it did’ Now, of course, we know more about those close contacts- and what we find out is particularly disquietening, as forecast. The matter at issue is the official … Continue reading →

. Richard North at his EU Referendum blog caught a live one: ‘Nick Clarke, interviewer for BBC Radio 4’s World at One, ran an outrageous puff for the EU constitution on today’s programme. But what really gave the game away was Clarke’s own comment. Interviewing John Bruton, now the EU ambassador to Washington on the “positive” aspects on the constitution (which, incidentally, included to the “right” to withdraw), the egregious … Continue reading →

Sleep on it, they say. Sleep on it and you’ll feel calmer in the morning. I did and I don’t. Yes, I’m talking about the BBC peddling conspiracy theories about Diego Garcia and the tsunami again. Again because I find it more disturbing the more I think about it, and because I have a few more links to add. Actually, this is going to tie into one of the most … Continue reading →

That was the first line of an email from a reader. He or she then directed me to this: “Why did US base escape tsunami?” After outlining a current conspiracy theory about the tsunami mysteriously sparing the US base in Diego Garcia, the BBC article says: Is America a power for good or ill in the world? Was there a malign hand at work, or has America’s role in the … Continue reading →

In a lengthy speech on media bias, Melanie Phillips examines the awful consequences of biased reporting regarding Israel and Iraq. The speech runs to 17 pages in a pdf document on her website. Here are her observations on the BBC. But probably the greatest single reason for the obsessive and unbalanced focus on Israel,along with the irrationality over Iraq, is the hostility and prejudice of the BBC’s reporting. Unlike newspapers, … Continue reading →