Question Time this week comes from the Labour stronghold of Bolton in Greater Manchester. Dimbo will be joined by ‘Conservative’ Education Secretary Nicky Morgan MP, Scottish Labour Leader Jim Murphy MP, Plaid Cymru Leader Leanne Wood, Ukip MEP Steven Woolfe MEP and Janet Street-Porter. What feast for the senses that should be! Join us for the fun at 10:45 or before if you’re really keen. Here’s the log. We had … Continue reading →

I was listening to the BBC just after 6.30am this morning, to the Today programme. The news item being reported was this; The SNP would block a minority Conservative government by voting down its Queen’s Speech if it held the post-election balance of power, its former leader Alex Salmond has said. Mr Salmond said the move could bring down the government if Labour joined in, with David Cameron “locked out”. … Continue reading →

Greg from Not Another Teaching Blog   sends this article for your consideration. “How you see the BBC’s decision to remove the phenomenally popular presenter of its flagship worldwide show could very well depend on your view of the man in question. Those who support Clarkson see him as the last of dying breed of English TV personalities, the stubborn, old-school and humorous gentlemen who simply enjoys being himself while his … Continue reading →

Here you go, a new Open Thread to detail the bias!

  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!