Oh my aching sides. And it was ALL going so well with the BBC relentlessly focusing on UKIP conflicts when suddenly, the “British Obama” Chuka Umunna decides he is stepping down from the Labour leadership race, having announced he was entering on Tuesday! BBC in tears…..

Friday arrives and time for a new Open Thread. BBC seems determined to talk UP UKIP divisions whilst staying mute on the chaos in Labour ranks! Over to you!

The News Quiz is back for a new series this week: We're back this Friday for the start of @sanditoksvig's last series, with @JeremyJHardy, @SusanCalman, @SamiraAhmedUK and @elisjames. — The News Quiz (@TheNewsQuiz) May 11, 2015 Elis James is a new name to me. Apparently he does things on BBC3 and XFM. I wonder why they’ve chosen him to appear this week. I'm starting to shit myself now. Not another … Continue reading →

  Prince Charles’ communications with government have been published after a freedom of information request from the Guardian which reports… The Guardian editor-in-chief, Alan Rusbridger, said: “We fought this case because we believed – and the most senior judges in the country agreed – that the royal family should operate to the same degrees of transparency as anyone else trying to make their influence felt in public life.   If … Continue reading →

    The BBC is straight on the story….no hanging about waiting for facts or details…essentially what they bring us is a headline with the words ‘Election fraud’ and ‘Farage’ in the same sentence…. Fraud probe in Nigel Farage-contested Thanet South seat   And that’s it…oooh hang on…there’s more… Kent Police are making inquiries into a report of electoral fraud in the Thanet South seat, contested in the general election … Continue reading →

  A ’30-day trial’?  I’m sure we can hang him out to dry in less time than that…… It is a remarkable thing isn’t it just how much energy the Labour Party and its fellow travellers expend on defending the BBC….the BBC which they insist is in fact right wing and in the pocket of the Conservatives. We had a look at some of this a while back and wrote … Continue reading →

Here you go, a John Whittingdale approved OPEN Thread for your completion! Detail the bias here.

    The feeding frenzy over Labour’s corpse is gaining momentum with the Unions demanding their pound of flesh and a lurch even more leftward than Red Ed promised to deliver whilst others in the party also say the problem with Labour’s election pitch was that it wasn’t Marxist enough, others want to disinter New Labour on whose grave Miliband junior danced…to the Union tune. Labour was always badly riven … Continue reading →

  From the Telegraph….     5Live wasn’t having a good day today…or actually it was the same old stuff we normally get from the BBC….leftist tosh presented as insightful comment. First thing I heard, as posted before, was that the Swedes were to blame for an atheist blogger being hacked to death by Muslim fundamentalists, then we had comedian Sean Hughes invited on to tell us not only about … Continue reading →