Christopher Booker on the latest Arctic scare: Inevitably, when even satellite temperatures were showing 2016 as “the hottest year on record”, we were going to be told last winter that the Arctic ice was at its lowest extent ever. Sure enough, before Christmas, a report from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was greeted with such headlines as “Hottest Arctic on record triggers massive ice melt”. In March … Continue reading →

  From ‘Notalotofpeopleknowthat’…. BBC’s Silly Anthrax Scare Story The BBC have gone right over the top now, with this latest silly little scare story: ‘Throughout history, humans have existed side-by-side with bacteria and viruses. From the bubonic plague to smallpox, we have evolved to resist them, and in response they have developed new ways of infecting us. However, what would happen if we were suddenly exposed to deadly bacteria and viruses … Continue reading →

  ‘One hundred rusty, dilapidated boats leave India crammed with starving would-be immigrants. Indians, like so many other third-world citizens, are desperate and bitter about their lives. The first worlders know the boats are en route to France, yet they make little effort to prevent the ships from landing. The liberal press, churches and students have helped instill a sense of guilt. The people don’t have the will to defend … Continue reading →

New week, new thread! Here is where you detail the bias!

  Le Pen has lost and Macron is President, and the BBC is very happy….a pro-EU Hollande placeman has taken office…the BBC portrays him as centrist but he is leftist, and the BBC say he was an outsider…and yet he had been at the centre of Hollande’s government and had a war chest of over £80 million…not bad for an outsider….just where did that come from?  He says he wants … Continue reading →

  On Saturday the BBC was expressing great concern about sexual harassment at Music festivals….were the organisers doing enough to stop it?…maybe there should be women only areas…let’s have some zero tolerance. Contrast that with the BBC’s extensive efforts to playdown the mass, organised attacks in Cologne and the rising proliferation of sexual assaults across Europe and to hide who the culprits were…just as they failed to report what was … Continue reading →

  Fake news in the Guardian?  Curiously, despite the BBC’s rabid interest in exposing ‘fake news’ it seems not to be so concerned here….. though Robinson is given a voice, he is essentially shouted down and dismissed by the other three…including Neil at the end. Tommy Robinson was accused of being a white supremacist by the Quilliam Foundation…in the Guardian… That the far right has moved from the fringe into … Continue reading →

  The Sunday Times [pro-Brexit] has released its Rich List and revealed that ‘Brexit brings bonanza for billionaires’. It tells us that this is good news for Britain as business is booming…and that the ‘explosion of wealth is fuelled by a Brexit boom’ and…. Poll backs self-made rich, not inherited wealth. It also tells us… The notion that all the business community backed ‘Remain’ is bunk.  That may have been … Continue reading →

  Trump would win again if another election was held now, not only would he win the Electoral College vote, he’d win the popular vote as well…so reveals the Democrat supporting Washington Post, way, way, down their article… Asked how they would vote if the election were held today, 43 percent say they would support Trump and 40 percent say Clinton. A figure you didn’t hear bandied about on the … Continue reading →

    The BBC has gone all tabloid and been slagging off the royal family, as usual, all the while pretending it’s great art.   A play about the royal family in crisis and a constitutional problem.  And all in the best possible taste.   The Spectator’s take on the play on the stage?…….Charles III is made for numbskulls by numbskulls. Written in Shakespearean verse but brought right up to … Continue reading →