Tommy Robinson has had the threat of prosecution lifted as a judge throws his case out of court… Tommy Robinson has had a charge of battery dismissed in court. He said the judge questioned the police’s motives for pursuing the case against him when they did. “My case has been dismissed. Even the judge made comments about the police’s motive of prosecution. Thank you all”, he announced….“The QC absolutely tore … Continue reading →

  Always thought ‘Citizen Khan’ was a documentary with the usual BBC policy of removing all the really awkwardly inconvenient truths about Islam.  Obviously not….. A BBC sitcom has been criticised as “Islamophobic” during a Commons debate about whether the BBC’s programmes and staff reflect UK diversity. Labour’s Rupa Huq criticised Citizen Khan’s depiction of a “quite backward” family of Muslims. The show was accused of stereotyping Muslims when it … Continue reading →

  Andrew Neil….where does he find the time?….From the Journalists’ register of interests in Parliament:   Chairman, Press Holdings Media Group (The Spectator, Spectator Health, Life, Money & Australia; and Apollo, the international arts magazine). Chairman, ITP Magazine Group (Dubai). Chairman, The Addison Club (London). Fees for speaking at, hosting or chairing an event were received from the following organisations: Fishburn LLP (law firm), NQC (online procurement solutions), Cushman & … Continue reading →

Here you go, a new Open Thread for you to detail the bias. The floor is yours…

  Perhaps an irony that as Whittingdale is being hounded the chair of IPSO gives his first speech on Press freedom and regulation: IPSO Chair: Newspapers needed more than ever Delivering the first Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) Lecture the organisation’s chairman, Sir Alan Moses, has said that newspapers are needed more than ever alongside “verifiable reliable sources of news and…journalism”. Eighteen months after its launch, the regulator is working … Continue reading →

    Why did the BBC not expose Whittingdale?  Did they have a hold over him or think they did? From The Conservative Woman: Whittingdale backs away from putting the BBC in its place The BBC should pay the price for its blatant anti-Tory and more importantly its anti (small c) conservative bias in the upcoming Charter Review. But under John Whittingdale, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport … Continue reading →

  Thanks to all those who pointed out these stories…… What has the BBC ignored recently?…. Whilst giving the IMF’s announcement of Brexit induced armageddon top billing the BBC failed entirely to report this… Cameron’s EU renegotiation is nothing more than a deal ‘hammered out down the local bazaar’ and isn’t legally binding, says top eurocrat Curious they ignore that as they went to town on Michael Gove when he … Continue reading →

  The Today programme (0730) does an indepth investigation of the Whittingdale story.  LOL. It’s all newspapers, newspapers, newspapers.  Just why didn’t they publish the story on Whittingdale and just how much did it influence government policy on Press regulation?…asks the BBC’s Norman Smith.  Trust is why this matters, its impact on government policy. The charge is this, he says, the redtops chose not to publish and you can contrast … Continue reading →

    Fascinating to watch Newsnight’s ‘coverage’ of the Whittingdale story (13 mins)…….what we got was only half the story because the BBC itself  and Charter review never got a mention. Maitlis begins by asking ‘Is this a story about breach of privacy or a fatal conflict of interest?’ Telling us ‘We bring you what we know’.  Now that’s just not true from the off. We hear that this was … Continue reading →