Having been off grid for a while it is comforting to know that some things never change…one if them being the BBC narrative. When I left the BBC was pumping out the usual sympathy engendering pro-immigration propaganda in the shape of a sad tale about a missing migrant boy whom the BBC set out to find…..though you rather suspect that they were hoping they had another ‘dead baby on … Continue reading →

Here you go, a brand new Open Thread to see us all off into the wide blue yonder.

Middle of the week and time for a new House of Lords approved Open Thread!

BBC exultant over the decision by The House of Lords to undermine the Chancellor’s plan to cut tax credits. Robert Peston twisting the figures, Laura Kuenssberg claiming this is a “humiliation” for Osborne and hailing this as “a triumph” for Corbyn. The BBC has been leading the attack on the perfectly reasonable plan by the Chancellor and sees this as a victory for itself. I was on BBC5LIVE on Saturday Night … Continue reading →

New week dawns and time for a new open thread to detail the bias!

  Tony Blair has admitted he is guilty, his illegal and disastrous Iraq War adventure has detroyed Iraq and led to the creation of the Islamic State (‘so-called’  BBC™) Or that is what the BBC has always wanted us to believe and yesterday they spun a bit of Blair spin to their reflect their own narrative… Tony Blair concedes link between Islamic State and Iraq War Most significant, though, in … Continue reading →

  Just been listening to Labour supporting Jim Naughtie repeatedly saying Labour should be voting ‘no’ in the House of Lords on the question of tax credits. He had the LibDem leader Tim Farron and Labour’s Owen Smith on to chat at 08:10. Curiously, in light of both parties decision to break with constitutional precedent to not vote down financial legislation voted for in the Commons, Naughtie didn’t ask the … Continue reading →

William Shawcross is right: Islamists are skilled at lawfare   The Telegraph reported… Muslim men having ’20 children each’ because of polygamy, peer claims Muslim men in some communities are having up to 20 children each because of polygomy and the rise of “religiously sanctioned gender discrimination” under Sharia Law, peers have warned. Baroness Cox, a cross-bench peer, highlighted a series of “shocking” examples of the impact of Sharia law … Continue reading →

‘Media’ matters because it underpins how societies respond to the problems they face. This makes media not only relevant to the most urgent problems of poverty and marginalisation – it makes it critical to solutions designed to address them. Drama, discussion programmes, public service announcements – can be most effectively used to deliver information and stimulate discussion.   The BBC has been caught once again shilling for the EU and … Continue reading →