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…
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
