The La La land of Roger Harrabin

  The Today programme [08:52ish] had guest editor Michael Sheen talking to Jon Butterworth, professor of physics at University College London about the brain and this cropped up….. Sheen:  ‘Scientists are not a blank slate are they?  If their brains have been somehow effected by their life then how they measure the world is going to be effected by that too…obviously.’ Butterworth:  ‘We try obviously…there are statistical ways of trying … Continue reading

Because we’re worth it

‘I feel very confident that what we do is unique to us, that writers and producers still want to bring shows to us because of the relationship they have with us and the risks we take. When you get it right, it really does bring a nation together.’ Miss Hill also said audiences would ‘hugely miss’ out on agenda-setting dramas if changes to the licence fee meant that spending on … Continue reading

The Case of The Vanishing Islamophobes

  Curious that this story has vanished from the frontpage and worldpage of the BBC website when it would normally be frontpage for days… Muslim prayer hall attacked in Corsica The Mail tells us…. Up to 600 French protesters desecrated a Muslim prayer hall in Corsica in a revenge attack prompted by the wounding of two firefighters and a police officer. The furious mob smashed the prayer hall’s glass door, … Continue reading

Islamic State of Mind

In 2014 the US refused to issue over 1.6 million visas to non-immigrant tourist and business travellers [categories]….and yet the BBC thinks a family from Walthamstow, one of whose members put up a Facebook page promoting Islamic terror groups, is being discriminated against. As the Guardian said: If you share such a link [on social media for instance], then it is a pretty reliable sign that something is awry. If … Continue reading

Trumped up charges?

  A Muslim family sans women was stopped from entering the US.  Was it today?  Or was it over a week ago? On the 15th of December this family were refused entry to the US…now on the 23rd the BBC are filling the airwaves with the story.  Why?  Could it be that an orchestrated campaign has been organised to make this into a ‘Muslim’ issue intended to whip up as … Continue reading

Sultans of swing

    Which way to swing, that’s the question the BBC never asks itself.  It knows which way to swing….to the left. Week after week, maybe day after day, the BBC has ramped up the anti-right wing rhetoric in its attempt to label any and all criticism of mass, uncontrolled immigration as something akin to Nazism. They’re at it again today… Migrant crisis: Hungary denies fuelling intolerance in media The … Continue reading

Mark Mardell…..Oh Well

    Had the misfortune to catch Mardell on the radio today giving us his world view..…and it’s a view that is pure Planet BBC on immigration, Iraq and the Taliban. You remember the time when the Left were complaining that the reason Afghanistan fell to the depredations of the Taliban was because the West abandoned it after the Soviets were evicted, you remember the time when the Left complained … Continue reading