Why is A&E struggling? The BBC gives several reasons but one in particular stands out…staff shortages due to doctors emigrating to Australia for the good life. That stands out particularly because yesterday Nicky Campbell held a phone-in asking ‘Is A&E in crisis?’. One caller was a doctor called Ali who told Campbell that the problem stemmed from changes introduced to the doctor training programme by Patricia Hewitt under … Continue reading
The BBC, in the shape of Caroline Wyatt, finally confronts some uncomfortable issues: Paris attack highlights Europe’s struggle with Islamism In rational, post-Enlightenment Europe, religion has long since been relegated to a safe space, with Judaism and Christianity the safe targets of satire in secular western societies. Not so Islam. The battle within Islam itself between Sunni and Shia, so evident in the wars of the Middle East, and … Continue reading
This is what the Guardian and the BBC would prefer you to see: A savage attack on the offices of a satirical, left wing magazine. Ten staff are murdered as well as two police officers, and many others are injured. This wasn’t just an attempt to kill these people, it was an attack on the very basis of Western civilisation…that of essential … Continue reading
The Boston Bombs were, according to the BBC, the work of right wing white supremacists….as ‘all the evidence pointed to’ according to Evan Davis and Mark Mardell. Similarly a mosque is allegedly firebombed in Sweden and the implied culprits are ‘far right, anti-immigration, neo-nazis’…never mind no one has been arrested and there is absolutely no evidence that indicated this….and what is more the BBC refuses to investigate the well … Continue reading
The BBC has been blitzing us with tales of doom about the ‘crisis’ in the NHS…a target of 95% of patients seen to inside of 4 hours at A&E….the crisis being that only 92.6% has been achieved. The NHS is crumbling…never mind it was recently named as the best health service in the West and other health services do not have anywhere near as stringent targets. Notably the BBC … Continue reading
Something to chew on as you watch, listen or read BBC reports on the NHS. Labour claims about the NHS and what the Tories intend to do with it are even less credible than claims Man Utd will sign Ched Evans. The BBC rather disengenuously tells us that Reports over the weekend suggested that Labour is set to make the health service a key election battleground should come as … Continue reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6sr1kkCzr0 Judging by today’s Labour love-in at the BBC its going to be a very, very long 5 months or so till the election…..Perhaps we should just take it for granted that the BBC will be biased in Labour’s favour and shut up shop for the duration. Today was pretty full on and it might indeed take the dedicated forensic skills of Hercule Poirot to untangle … Continue reading
The BBC never fails to disappoint. I caught BBC radio 4 “Today” mocking the Conservative’s claims regarding Labour’s budget busting spending plans should they get back into power; then turned on BBC1 News to hear them give weird Ed Miliband a chance to rubbish the Conservatives. Not a sniff of bias there, no sirree. Anyway here is a NEW Open Thread.
You may have noticed the prominence the BBC gave on Saturday to Labour’s statements on the NHS….or rather statements to come, for Labour were supposed to be making those statements today. The BBC chose to highlight Miliband’s future statements in preference to the Tories’ actual launch of its election campaign….oh for sure the BBC paid that some attention….delighting in telling us that the Tory poster was dishonest….using an article … Continue reading
Alright folks, 2015 begins and here is the first new OPEN THREAD of this fresh year. It’s going to be a BIG year here in the UK as the Nation goes to the polls to elect a new Government. We can be confident of but one thing – the BBC will do everything possible to damage the prospects of UKIP and the Conservative party. The floor is yours…
