Funny old world when a man who expressed so much contempt for the Westminster ‘gang’ as he calls them, now seeks to rejoin as an MP despite, apparently, the fact that the “writing is on the wall for Westminster”.….what’s more curious is that the BBC don’t seem to notice this hypocrisy in their grand analysis…nor do they notice that when the Slippery Salmond says: “We won’t have any deal … Continue reading →

Alright folks, the weekend beckons and time for a fresh one of these Open Threads. Enjoy and detail the bias!

  Apologies, no time to do this justice but here’s some rough workings to get your teeth into….   Labour’s spending as a proportion of GDP in 1998?  36% The Coalition’s projected spending in 2019-20?        35.2% Hardly an enormous difference and yet apparently ‘utterly terrifying’ according to the BBC.   There is an election coming and the BBC has been running a campaign to disparage everything the government does. The … Continue reading →

  Danny Cohen tells us that the BBC is an intrinsic part of the democratic process…I think it could be argued that it is the opposite and indeed encourages and supports terrorists and race hustlers who are intent on creating racial and religious conflict where they can for their own political purposes.   The BBC gave blanket coverage to the killing in Ferguson of a black thug by a white … Continue reading →

  The BBC is an undemocratic, rampaging beast that is pretty much unaccountable and has been given carte blanche to do as it pleases, politicians too afraid to make the necessary changes to it, preferring instead to tinker around the edges…..hence we get no real, meaningful change to the method of financing the BBC and more importantly we get no change to its highly politicised, left-wing world view of how … Continue reading →

  There were great expectations in the corridors of the BBC…George Osborne was going to announce the latest borrowing figures and the deficit would be rising, they just knew it!…’On Wednesday we get the Chancellor’s Autumn statement and it looks almost certain he will have to announce worse than expected figures for the deficit’ ….a damning verdict on the ‘Tory’ government and its economic policies…the deficit is ‘hanging around the … Continue reading →

    They don’t like it up ’em….and are fighting back…..from the BBC’s press office……

Here you go, middle of the week Open Thread. Detail the bias here!

    The Telegraph reports:   Politicians ‘pulled combat troops out of Afghanistan too early’ Britain and its allies would have been more prudent to keep combat troops supporting the Afghan government for longer, a former head of the Army says Britain pulled combat troops out of Afghanistan too early because of political considerations back home, a former head of the Army has suggested. Gen Sir Mike Jackson said a … Continue reading →

    Something for you to ponder from Matt Friedmann without comment from me: ‘This group of intelligent and generally well-meaning professionals ceased to be reliable observers and became instead an amplifier for the propaganda of one of the most intolerant and aggressive forces on earth. And that, as they say, is the story.’   What the Media Gets Wrong About Israel The news tells us less about Israel than … Continue reading →