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 →

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 →

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 →

Thought this was rather interesting. The BBC seems to have a mea culpa moment regarding Jeremy Clarkson and is to provide him with a regular spot on their Newsnight programme. 

Here you go, on-time and ready for your completion! Detail the bias here please and keep it polite.

Now there was me complaining that the BBC were ignoring UKIP. I wish to apologise… 🙂 Election 2015: Why is UKIP off to a slow start? This is a candidate who has to win on 7 May. If he fails to become the next MP for South Thanet he has said he will quit as leader. Yet I have seen no door-knocking. Our cameras have not been told of any public … Continue reading →

    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 →

        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 →

Each morning, just after 6.30am, the Today programme trails the political agenda for the rest of the day. I notice that this seems to be restricted to the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrats. Given the UKIP are showing a poll rating double that of the LibDems, don’t you think this is unfair? It’s as if the BBC want to cut off any oxygen of supply to Farage and his colleagues.

I enjoyed this. It’s the BBC’s rightwing bias that is the threat to democracy and journalism So says the BBC’s much loved “pundit” Owen Jones, aged 13 and three quarters.