Known by who your friends are

Nothing is too bonkers to be unthinkable these days. Jeremy Corbyn doesn’t know when to stop digging….why would he possibly think a man like Shameless Milne, the Guardian troll, could bring the slightest bit of respect and credibility to his regime? Harry’s Place tells us… Jeremy Corbyn’s hapless PR has been noted. I don’t think it’s the real problem – the man is the nightmare, not his messaging. But PR … Continue reading

Educating Tristram

  The BBC’s director of news, James Harding, has said there will be an extensive programme of training to educate BBC employees on how to report on issues surrounding the EU referendum impartially.  Can’t imagine why he would think this was at all necessary. Every BBC journalist will be sent on a compulsory training course about the European Union, as part of the corporation’s attempts to ensure that its coverage … Continue reading

Floating Voters?

  During the war there were so many American aircraft based on British soil that Britain was often referred to as America’s aircraft carrier.  The BBC seems to think that just like an aircraft carrier we can up anchor and sail away from Europe, presumably to somewhere nice and sunny.  Nigel Farage thinks the BBC’s strange concept of the British Isles is a plot to jerrymander the EU referendum…. BBC … Continue reading

Herr Majesty

  Bizarre BBC reporting on Chinese leader’s visit to London…. From the Mail….. TV star Kirstie Allsopp today accused the BBC’s royal correspondent of ‘loathing’ the royal family after he compared the Queen with the Chinese President. The Location, Location, Location presenter, 44, turned on Peter Hunt after he described how ‘one party state’ leader Xi Jinping was staying in ‘the palace home of an unelected monarch’ while in London. Describing … Continue reading

Cause and effect

    Germany’s traditionally pro-Israeli stance has been shifting, particularly since the 2014 Gaza campaign. A growth in Germany’s Muslim population, not least through the acceptance of hundreds of thousands of refugees, may also have an effect, long term.   What is the cause of the violent and often murderous attacks on Jews in Israel and the West Bank at the moment? Mark Urban tells us… Isn’t the new Palestinian … Continue reading

‘I could murder a Ukrainian!’

  Just what is it that makes a Brit fight for Putin’s blitz on Ukraine? Apparently it is zero hours contracts in Britain that drive the recruiting process…oh, that, Western aggression and the rise of the Far Right in Ukraine. Ukraine conflict: The Brits fighting with pro-Russian rebels His Manchester accent is unmistakable. His yearning for British food is too, as he declares that he “could murder a steak”. So … Continue reading

The Price of Appeasement

  The Danegeld (/ˈdeɪn.ɡɛld/; “Danish tax”, literally “Dane tribute”) was a tax raised to pay tribute to the Viking raiders to save a land from being ravaged.   We know that the BBC hides political and social messages within its programming, not just shamelessly distorting its news reporting to bring us a carefully shaped narrative but selecting the subject matter of its documentaries, historical dramas and, well, just about any … Continue reading

The Disabbeard

  Remember when the BBC insisted that a Syrian ‘fighter’ was definitely not a Jihadi on the run…the BBC knew this because ‘his identity is unusually well documented…He says that he was a Free Syrian Army commander, and that before the civil war he worked as a plasterer in his home city of Aleppo..’ Ah yes, that well known seal of authenticity….’He says….’ Here he is…fighter and ‘migrant’…     … Continue reading

BBC BOSS ACCUSES BBC OF BIAS

Seen this? The former chairman of the BBC has attacked the corporation over its reporting of the recent spate of Arab terrorist attacks in Israel. Lord Michael Grade, a member of the House of Lords for the Conservative Party, claimed the BBC had failed to show “impartiality,” and focused his fierce criticism in particular on a recent report by BBC correspondent Orla Guerin, which he said promoted an “equivalence” between Palestinian terrorists and their victims. Anti-Israeli bias … Continue reading