Here you go, a new Open Thread for you to complete. The BBC has been quite hysterical in recent days, wallowing in the Senate Democrat attack on the CIA, trying to suggest that Miliband’s woeful speech on the economy could represent a leap forward for the glorious leader in waiting…..and the rest. The floor is yours.

    I hadn’t been able to check the background to the BBC’s hyperbolic reports on the NHS this morning…every news bulletin I heard announced that the NHS had practically been privatised…. A third of NHS contracts awarded to private firms – report   The only clue (other than a lot of past experience) that the BBC might be misleading us was hearing Nick Clegg on PMQs responding to Labour’s … Continue reading →

  The BBC’s Director of BBC News and Current Affairs, James Harding, has launched a counter-blast to Conservative complaints of BBC bias. Harding’s response shows how quickly new recruits to the BBC absorb the dominant cultural and political orthodoxy of the organisation and so rapidly adopt the unquestioning obedience to the hand that feeds them. Rather than admit what was a clear-cut case of bias and intemperate language by a … Continue reading →

    Remember this recent headline from the BBC? ‘Colossal’ spending cuts to come, warns IFS   When Osborne made his Autumn Statement the BBC went into overdrive to undermine any perceived good news. We know of its blatant comparison of the 1930’s depression to what they predict will be the outcome of his policies but they also hyped the IFS’s ‘revelation’ of those ‘colossal spending cuts’ after the election. … Continue reading →

In the past few days, I caught a couple of BBC stories which did little for my blood pressure. On BBC NI, they ran an item explaining the the “traveller” community was the most discriminated against in Northern Ireland. This was based in feedback from..the travelling community! Honestly, you couldn’t make it up although I suspect the Travellers do. I then heard another story elsewhere on the BBC network explaining … Continue reading →

Here we go, an overdue Open Thread! BBC went into food bank frenzy yesterday. I was invited into the BBC NI studio to take part in a discussion on such. My view is that Food Banks are street theatre agitprop sponsored by the left. To my amusement, the BBC in Belfast put on a caller from Cheltenham (!) who gave a tale of woe and explained how Food Banks saved … Continue reading →

    Remember this from 2011 when Richard Black tried to persuade us that it was the dumb, ignorant Anglo-Saxons who were climate deniers while the rest of the world wailed as it burned? The world wide web, where climate change is most vociferously debated, is predominantly an Anglo-Saxon medium. For we native English speakers who’ve never needed to become fluent in other tongues but speak the language of climate … Continue reading →

    The Media’s hypocrisy is quite stunning, the BBC’s most of all of course as it tells us it holds itself to a higher standard and is the news organisation that sets the standards for the rest of the pack to follow. Recently they have been shouting a lot about how dishonest politicians are, asking why politicians, especially the Tories, won’t tell us about the true state of the … Continue reading →

The BBC rushed to tell us…… World on course for warmest year The UK Met Office says the observed temperatures would be highly unlikely without the influence of greenhouse gases produced by humans. “There is no standstill in global warming.”   Not sure the ‘Central England Temperature Anomaly’ can be describes as ‘all of the UK’ let alone ‘The World’….but let’s not be too critical…we’ll leave that to Christopher Booker: … Continue reading →

      Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past Britain’s winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives. “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.”     The BBC is always busy looking for ‘proof’ of global warming….here they are in Oz in July…. Artificial snow on slopes of hotter Australia Australia is sometimes … Continue reading →