After the ‘Ted Talk’ mentioned in the last post I heard a trail for Thursdays ‘Crossing Continents’ in which we were told that we would hear the story of Gaza’s last remaining piano, the only one to survive ‘the bombing’ and which was being used to help traumatized Palestinian children….so it looked like Israel was in the frame again. Curiously on looking at the actual blurb for the programme … Continue reading
Sunday night and the BBC brought us the ‘TED Radio Hour’ which had some thought provoking thoughts. Let’s hope someone at the BBC was listening…here’s the concluding remarks (46 mins 20 secs)… ‘The fact is that some of the biggest catastrophes we have seen rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and ‘out there’ but we which are … Continue reading
Interesting to hear the BBC constantly refer to the EDL in their reports about Afzal Amin as ‘Far Right’. Not sure how they come to that definition as the EDL’s sole ‘policy’ is to control extremist Islam….why is that a ‘Far Right’policy? Their opponents like to suggest this is a cover for underlying racism and anti-Muslim prejudice but that is not for the BBC to judge or to second … Continue reading
Nicky Campbell this morning ran his phone-in on the news that Nigel Farage and his family were attacked by anti-UKIP protestors who were doing much what the Brown Shirts did in the 1930’s. Campbell didn’t challenge the constant claims by the protestors that Farage was a prejudiced racist peddling fear…Campbell dodged that preferring instead to suggest merely that many people support Farage and vote for UKIP…which is … Continue reading
Bishop Hill details the lack of detail in the National Trust’s latest claims about climate change… Dame Helen Ghosh, the former Whitehall bureaucrat who now runs the National Trust, was on the Today programme this morning explaining why climate change is the biggest threat to the Trust’s work. Pressed to explain herself, Dame Helen had almost nothing to justify her position, apart from a suggestion that the Trust … Continue reading
Monday morning, and a new Open Thread for your completion!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdl_PCt1Yjs Back in 2013 Afzal Amin told us, courtesy of the ever helpful BBC, that ‘Muslims “are an integral part of this country” and the murder of a solider in Woolwich should not be associated with the entire Islamic community.’ And indeed they are…so integrated in fact that they join forces with the EDL..or at least the good Mr Afzal Amin does… Exposed: Star Tory candidate … Continue reading
Perhaps you have watched or listened to the BBC news recently and thought that there’s a lot of clever presentation but not much substance, altogether too much opinion and ‘interpretation’ in the News. You may not be alone…even the esteemed Guardian has its doubts about the ‘theatrical’ BBC and I was thinking along similar lines as I heard Jon Pienaar describe Osborne as the ‘craftiest’ of Chancellors and Peston … Continue reading
There is that well known saying that if you ‘Build It And They Will Come’, either Kevin Costner or the Bible, take your pick. Will Hutton has his own version….they are here, and they keep on coming, so build it. But he’s a bit coy about just who ‘they’might be. Hutton and another worthy Lefty on the Today show (08:55) agreed that we must concrete over the Uk in … Continue reading
Andrew Bridgen MP in the Telegraph: Why I am going to war with the BBC In its mission statement, the BBC says that it “exists to serve the public, and its mission is to inform, educate and entertain.” It exists, therefore, to report the news in an impartial manner – not to make the news or to push a particular agenda. I would contend that the BBC is now … Continue reading
