Well, we are almost at the end of this year. Hope you all enjoyed Lenny Henry’s sustained whinge on BBC Today this morning. It seems selecting presenters purely on the basis of their ethnicity is fine by the BBC and Saint Lenny. Open Thread for you …NOW!

    The BBC’s Today programme had the ex-governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King,  on as guest editor (08:55)….and used the occasion to try and rewrite the history of the financial crash by whitewashing Labour’s part in it. King was asked about the crash and then led into the trap, Naughtie quietly asking about ‘the whole argument that there was light touch regulation that was in retrospect a … Continue reading →

    Here’s the headline for the latest BBC report on US police ‘racism’: Ezell Ford shot in back by LA police – coroner   The BBC chose a particular line there….clearly in a cheap attempt to generate some ‘outrage’ at police racist brutality…..never mind that the man was in fact shot three times in a struggle in which he tried to take the police pistol and was clearly shot … Continue reading →

    More BBC ‘outrage’ about ‘racist outrage’ : Rush Limbaugh and his ‘black Bond’ outrage The prospect of Idris Elba eventually replacing Daniel Craig as the next James Bond went from hypothetical internet speculation to something more substantial last week, when the Daily Beast uncovered an interesting nugget in the piles of hacked Sony emails. “Idris should be the next Bond,” Sony Pictures chair Amy Pascal wrote, reportedly to … Continue reading →

  The government was castigated recently, not least on the BBC, for not deporting enough illegal immigrants.  Not natural territory for the BBC but it takes every opportunity to beat the Tories when it can. One problem the government has of course is that every time it wishes to deport someone it comes up against the Human Rights Act and an army of pro-immigration pressure groups, lawyers,  activists and media … Continue reading →

  “Thanks to Israel, I Can Have a Merry Christmas,” by Father Gabriel Nadaf (translated by Avi Woolf), Mida.org, December 24, 2014: A safe haven in Israel Within this chaos, only one island of sanity can be found where the Christians are not persecuted, where they enjoy freedom of religion and ritual, freedom of expression, and where they can live in peace without fear of genocide. That island is the … Continue reading →

My aunt got me @NaomiAKlein 's book on link between capitalism & climate change for Xmas. Read it in 2 days. Buy it. pic.twitter.com/LKk7ADiKx5 — Megha Mohan (@meghamohan) December 27, 2014

Here you go, THIS is the place to detail the relentless bias! Off you go, what’s been bothering YOU then?

      Nought to do with BBC bias…..but I think you really need to know this. Have no fear…Owen Jones hasn’t been recruited by the Russian intelligence services going on this precedent: Tony Benn, a KGB spy? No, he was far too dangerous for us To the KGB, he was major threat to the stability of Cold War Europe and too “stupid” to be recruited as an agent. For … Continue reading →

  Rome will be conquered next, says leader of ‘Islamic State’ “So raise your ambitions, O soldiers of the Islamic State! For your brothers all over the world are waiting for your rescue, and are anticipating your brigades,” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph said.   Der Spiegel has been reporting on the anti-Islamisation marches in Germany for some time…..the BBC has just caught up, presumably after having several meetings … Continue reading →