Well, the BBC did all they could to spin Corbyn’s “straight-talking” speech, didn’t they? I note they casually dismissed the fact that a section of it was written years ago for Neil Kinnoch. I note they overlooked he read out directional advice from the autocue. Straight-talking? Anyway, here’s a mid week open thread and the last one of this month!
‘As a man he suffers from a fatal incoherence of the intellectual pretensions. He has wonderful dramatic ideas, but doesn’t have the drive or grasp to make a team of them. His politics seems to me to be founded in a real imagination, sinister and very odd…too much smiling insinuation….and a continuous impersonation of reality out of illusion and fantasy combines with dark sideswipes at the ‘evil’ Press in … Continue reading
A Biased BBC reader draws this nugget to my attention… http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34346621 I was particularly incensed by the following paragraph: “You may be familiar with the history of the 1967 Middle East War – a short, sharp conflict in which, Israel captured land from Egypt, Syria and Jordan in a series of lightning operations.” No mention of why Israel went to war or the threats of annihilation that the state was … Continue reading
Here’s a nice image from the Labour Party conference. As you can see, the Union Flag is being taken down and replaced with the Red Flag so beloved of the comrades. Funny how the world class BBC missed this one…
Well, as Labour gathers in Brighton, I am sure we will not be short of instances of BBC bias and here is where you detail it! Over to you.
Student union blocks speech by ‘inflammatory’ anti-sharia activist A human rights campaigner has been barred from speaking at Warwick University after organisers were told she was “highly inflammatory and could incite hatred”. Maryam Namazie, an Iranian-born campaigner against religious laws, had been invited to speak to the Warwick Atheists, Secularists and Humanists Society next month. But the student union blocked the event, telling the society that Namazie’s appearance could violate … Continue reading
The BBC’s Samira Ahmed asks a fundamental question about the migrant crisis…but in The Big Issue magazine and not on the BBC…. Most refugees are men – we should be asking why “Just as in East Germany, looking at gender opens up a legitimate question about how you build a strong and stable society” One of the most intriguing anecdotal demographic phenomena of the 1990s was what happened … Continue reading
Orla Guerin @OrlaGuerin Sep 16 Orla Guerin retweeted President Obama Ahmed’s clock gets the reaction it should have got at school….. President Obama @POTUS Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It’s what makes America great. A quick update on Clockboy’s story….his sister was suspended from the same school for allegedly saying … Continue reading
According to an editorial comment in the newspaper Westfalen-Blatt, police are refusing to go public about crimes involving refugees and migrants because they do not want to give legitimacy to critics of mass migration. Police chief Bernd Flake countered that the silence was aimed at protecting the victim. “We will continue with this policy [of not informing the public] whenever crimes are committed in refugee facilities,” he said. Police insist … Continue reading
Muslim accosts injured Para in hospital A paratrooper wounded in Afghanistan was threatened by a Muslim visitor to the British hospital where he is recovering. Seriously wounded soldiers have complained that they are worried about their safety after being left on wards that are open to the public at Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham. On one occasion a member of the Parachute Regiment, still dressed in his combat uniform after being … Continue reading
