Something to add to the general debate on free speech and which can inform our judgements on the BBC’s reactions to pressure from Muslim activists and its subsequent approach to ‘free speech’. A Channel Four debate from 2012 on freedom of speech in relation to Muslim demands on British society…asking ‘Is free speech under threat in Britain?’   The very fact that they need to ask that says everything…….   … Continue reading →

Here you go, a new Open Thread. BBC in a bit of a spot – they are delighted a hard left bunch of communists and other assorted leftists have won power in Greece but then concerned this could lead to the unravelling of the EU! Anyway, the floor is yours…

  Paris attacks: Do not call Charlie Hebdo killers ‘terrorists’, BBC says   Tarik Kafala, the head of BBC Arabic, the largest of the BBC’s non-English language news services, said the term “terrorist” was too “loaded” to describe the actions of the men who killed 12 people in the attack on the French satirical magazine. Mr Kafala, whose BBC Arabic television, radio and online news services reach a weekly audience … Continue reading →

  Not had a great deal of time to look at this but you might have heard the BBC plugging the IFS research that tells us that: Benefits cuts ‘cost average family £489 a year’   Lower income families have been hit the worst as a percentage of their income the BBC insist on telling us…. Low-income working-age households have been hit hardest, losing the most as a percentage of … Continue reading →

      A very telling reaction from a Pakistani ‘heritage’ Sunni Muslim MP, Khalid Mahmood, on the Today programme (08:50) to suggestions that it was inappropriate to fly flags at half-mast on the death of King Abdullah. Mahmood supported Saudi Arabia,  in denial about the malignant effect of Saudia Arabian values on the world.  He expressed surprise that we should have any concerns at all about those values, suggesting … Continue reading →

    Donnison is quick on the draw when a non-White person is killed and he thinks he can blame it on some form of racism…note all the trigger words…’Moroccan’,  ‘Murdered’,  ‘Islamophobic attack’ with the link provided to the report:   Not so quick to label an attack on Jewish bus passengers as a terrorist attack by a Palestinian…and note no link to the news report in his Tweet and … Continue reading →

    The BBC’s Jon Donnison really can’t help himself…he’s a man who supports a terrorist organisation so one can hardly expect him to have a great deal of sense…indeed he demonstrates that lack of sense when he tweets something like this:     Scraping the bottom of the barrel there with an attempt to smear the Sun by association…never mind Jim’ll Fix It was a BBC programme and the … Continue reading →

BBC in mourning for the “moderate reformer” and Saudi King Abdullah. I guess there was never a tyrant they couldn’t find some love for. Anyway, here is a new OPEN Thread for you.

    Matthew Parris quoting Samuel Johnson: Samuel Johnson never spoke truer than when he said that a man is never more innocently employed than in the pursuit of money. The pursuit of principle is an infinitely more corrupting thing.   Not saying Peston is corrupt or anything when he ‘reports’….   The BBC’s Robert Peston pushes Labour’s inequality narrative….along with the NHS, Labour’s central themes in its election campaign….so … Continue reading →

    From ‘Spiked’ in 2008….. In an ugly world, we need ugly newsreaders Newsreaders should not be employed because they are pretty. They should be employed because they are intelligent and can read the news. This is why it was a scandal that Moira Stuart was forced to retire prematurely. She was deemed too old. Not enough eye candy. Women should become newsreaders regardless of their looks, not because … Continue reading →