Start the week open thread
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….
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
Here’s hoping all our readers and commenters have had a Christmas to remember and will have a good new year. Hope you got one of these subversive devices under your Christmas tree… Or a link to the Kodi download site where you can get the software for free to put the ‘device’ on your PC.
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
Hi all. My wifi problems have finally been resolved so am back online and able to upload! Here’s a pre Xmas open thread for you to knock the stuffing out of the BBC! Detail that bias here please and don’t be shy about it…