The BBC has been pushing the narrative that the floods are due to climate change….warmer weather leads to more water in the atmosphere and more rain they tell us….Harrabin told us that it would lead to more intense rainfall rather than prolonged wet weather. Does the BBC use science or reading the tea leaves to predict the climate because the BBC itself tells us that water vapour hasn’t increased … Continue reading →

      Sir Bradley Wiggins was the guest editor on the Today programme on Tuesday….the BBC can certainly pick ’em. Wiggins wanted to know more about cycling and politicians…or so we were told.  First we had a couple of minutes insulting the cycling Boris [potential next Tory leader] as sweaty and smelly because he rides his bike wearing a suit, goshdarnit! Nick Robinson suggested this demonstrated the BBC’s impartiality…as … Continue reading →

BBC radio 4 today was busy this morning running another propaganda piece of behalf of “refugees”. Around 6.45am there was an item that told us “many” of the “Syrian” refugees were children and it told us the story of one “child” who desperately wanted to get to Finland. He has no idea where Finland was, of course, he just wanted to get there and that was good enough for the … Continue reading →

  Here’s another open thread to tide us over the flood of BBC bias…..pull up a sand bag and tell us all about it….

  The BBC have been plugging away at the narrative that the Tory government has been neglecting t’North and favouring the South…..keep hearing that leeds city council leader, Judith Blake, thinks the North has been abandoned… ‘Real anger’ A thousand homes have flooded in Leeds, but the leader of the city council, Judith Blake, said the flooding had been a “preventable disaster”. She said the North had not received “anywhere … Continue reading →

Guest editors Monday 28 December – Michael Sheen Tuesday 29 December – Sir Bradley Wiggins Wednesday 30 December – Miriam González Durántez Thursday 31 December – David Adjaye Friday 1 January – Baroness Campbell Saturday 2 January – Lord Browne   The BBC’s Guest Editors are off and running, actor Michael Sheen being the first one… Cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins is to guest edit an edition of BBC Radio 4’s … Continue reading →

  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 →

‘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 →

  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 →

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 →