Here’s a great post over on The Shy Society….make sure you read it in full. “The BBC is routinely accused of bias from the left and the right – therefore it must actually be pretty centrist,” is the line you often hear. This is a lazy argument and one which we will return to shortly. But let’s just say for a minute that the statement was true and the BBC … Continue reading
Here you go, a brand new Open Thread to see us off into the weekend. Please detail the egregious bias here!
That the strangle-hold which the middle-class liberal elite have over our culture and society — without having anything close to hegemony — will be tightened still further, and their [right-wingers] views marginalised or even criminalised. And the excuse given will be they are trying to stop us being blown up, or stabbed to death on London Bridge. That’s my worry too — that in order to placate the sensitivities of … Continue reading
Gotta love this… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYqMUDHZf6Y
So we know that the BBC pays women less than men…..what do they pay transgender employees? Tricky one huh? Gotta love old Lord Hall Hall, so full of horses**t. His plea to the government not to publish the pay rates was based on his thought that if women found out they were paid less than the men the BBC would have to cough up more…therefore don’t reveal … Continue reading
On the day the BBC reveals that 100 of its employees earn more than the PM, here is a new OPEN thread. To me, the scandal is not the red herring of ‘pay gap” but rather one of the annual extortion of £3.5bn from anyone who owns a TV. A stalinist construction in 2017. Thoughts?
The BBC reveals… Dozens of residents of Grenfell Tower suffered electricity power surges so strong their appliances malfunctioned, overheated and emitted smoke a few years before the fire, it has emerged. Documents seen by the BBC reveal how 25 residents claimed compensation from the council following the surges in 2013. Some say electricity problems persisted into the months before June’s fire. Police say the blaze, in which at least … Continue reading
From Ian Katz….such truth… Few species can match the brutality of a teenage child appraising its parent. I was reminded of this the morning after last month’s election as I passed my 18-year-old daughter on the stairs. “I’m never going to believe another word you say about politics,” she announced matter-of-factly. “Because you’ve been wrong about EVERYTHING.” It was hard to argue….there’s a tendency to tune out evidence … Continue reading
Last night a BBC spokesman said: “The Proms is not a political platform and all artists are booked on the basis of their musical excellence.” From The Sun: proms hijacked BBC accused of turning the Proms into a platform for anti-Brexit fanatics BBC bosses are under fire after the Proms classical music festival was hijacked by anti-Brexit stunts twice in one weekend. Renowned conductor Daniel Barenboim ranted against the … Continue reading
‘The Labour Party set up an independent inquiry to examine the issue soon after coming to power in 1997. Sir Michael was a member of that inquiry team’. And in 2015 Sir Michael Marmot was still there advising Labour on their new ’10 year plan’…. Though Labour’s new approach to public health reflects changing times, our historic mission remains the same: to break the link between health and wealth … Continue reading
