The BBC were quick to spot these trends: Sydney cafe: Australians say to Muslims “I’ll ride with you” And this: #BBCtrending: The racist video that’s shocked Australia Strangely not so interested in this trending video: “‘How to Stab a Jew’ Going Viral on Palestinian Authority Social Media,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS6BHBai2Ug The “resisters of occupation in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem” are spreading on … Continue reading
Is Lenny Henry racist? Lenny Henry believes that the colour of your skin determines how you act and think. That is racist. Even Obama thinks it is: There’s no “authentic” way to be black, President Barack Obama told a group. Henry complains that ‘news in Britain comes from one perspective. A perspective that is almost exclusively white, and predominantly male.’ Henry is clearly a … Continue reading
Publishers Harper Collins apparently wiped Israel off the map in atlases for sale in the Middle East, can’t upset those tolerant Muslims. Apparently Jordan is now Palestine according to the map……but we knew that anyway….funny no one objects to Muslim Jordan being created out of a large chunk of Palestine by the British. Harper Collins claims it was a printing error. Of course it was. … Continue reading
From the Daily Mail: 47,000 Bulgarians and Romanians enter UK in a year Here is Migration Watch’s estimate of the likely numbers of migrants from Romania and Bulgaria: Our central estimate is that immigration from these two countries will add 50,000 a year to the UK population for the next five years of which about half is likely to be captured in the immigration statistics. The Daily … Continue reading
Distinct lack of ‘outrage’ at David Blunkett’s comments on Romanian neighbours: I’d find it a challenge if Roma gipsies moved into my street, admits Blunkett – the Home Secretary who opened Britain’s borders to new EU members No job offers from the BBC to the Mail’s Jenny Awford who writes the report unlike the less than honest James O’Brien whom the BBC decided was ‘one of them’ when … Continue reading
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
