Muslim Propaganda

    This has a prominent position on the BBC Frontpage… #BBCtrending: The ‘Eid Pray Love’ movement The BBC tells us that ‘These Muslims are fasting…and its not Ramadan’ to show solidarity with Christians.’ Really?  In what way are they ‘fasting’? What are the big sacrifices they are making ‘in solidarity with Christians‘? Sweets, cheese, no online shopping, Instagram…and the man who organised it…he’s giving up sour cream and onion … Continue reading

Peston’s Productivity Puzzler

  Despite the major economic news being manufacturing is growing at its fastest rate in eight months the BBC was pretty much ignoring that and instead is blitzing us with stories about productivity, or the lack of, in the economy and are trying to present it as a result of ‘Austerity’….that’s despite the lack of productivity being a very old story.  Robert Peston was on the R4 news telling us … Continue reading

JI – we’ve been- HAD

A contribution by Graeme Thompson who posts as ‘hippiepooter’. “Picking up from Alan’s post here on the BBC’s (ahem) ‘under-reporting’ of recent facts emerging about the Commons appearance of the families of ‘jihadi brides’, Britain’s patron saint of counter-jihad Douglas Murray prompts further thought here. So let’s give this another spin with all that has now emerged. The father of one of the girls who went off to do Jihad … Continue reading

MISSION – GET THE CONSERVATIVES

Wow, one of those mornings where I have received numerous emails from you folks mentioning the BBC Radio 4 Today programme hatchet job on the letter in the Daily Telegraph supporting Conservative economic policies. I also see it has been picked up on the Open Thread. I did hear Robert Peston in full “Save Ed” mode and the BBC was doing everything possible to push the Labour narrative that the … Continue reading

Think Pink

    The IFS, the BBC’s favourite economics thinktank…… Paul Johnson, Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.…..was at Oxford with Ed Balls… Johnson studied PPE at Oxford University between 1985 and 1988, when his tutorial partner at Keble College was Balls. Both got firsts. He also worked for the Labour government at the… Department for Education and had three years at the Treasury while Gordon Brown was chancellor. Just … Continue reading

Good News Blues

        One BBC correspondent tells us that ‘The Office of National Statistics (ONS) released two important sets of data today. The headlines have been grabbed by the better-than-expected GDP numbers and I have no doubt that growth will feature heavily in the political battle of the next few weeks.’ The rising GDP figures did make the headlines….here’s the Telegraph’s…‘UK economy grew at fastest rate for nine years … Continue reading