You have to laugh…the BBC sponsoring a ‘festival of ideas’ based on free thought. Today (09:00) on R4 we have ‘Start the Week’…which I’m pretty sure I heard Anne McElvoy just introduce as looking at the evils of consumerism and asking is it a result of the worst economic system known to man?…that’ll be capitalism of course. Not sure she did say that but it would certainly fit with the … Continue reading
A tabloidesque heading for this post for sure, and yet based upon the facts, as reported by the Home Office, that drug use is most prevalent amongst mixed-race people and gays. Not something the BBC will ever be splashing across its front page or headlining in the news bulletins. However the BBC is happy to put this dodgy headline up in lights, and to … Continue reading
“We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are ‘enlightened’ all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our ‘enlightenment’, demands that the robbery shall continue” Labour MP Simon Danczuk tells us that Cheap immigrant labour has cost blue-collar Britain dear He blames the politicians who don’t care about the working class…..and we know from Andrew … Continue reading
Roger Harrabin, a strange conflicted, tormented soul unable to square the ethics of being a professional journalist with his desire to campaign for the climate change lobby. He’s settled for the green blob. Harrabin admitted he was a climate change campaigner: I have spent much of the last two decades of my journalistic life warning about the potential dangers of climate change. Harrabin knows many of the Public … Continue reading
I declare this thread open.
Nigel Farage is in the Independent today asking why the BBC et al mocks or simply and lazily vilifies UKIP when a great, great many people support its stance on immigration and Europe….. Liberal shows like Mock The Week just can’t understand why Ukip has so many supporters What a lot of moaning has gone on this week about comedian Andrew Lawrence and his comments about the … Continue reading
Where does Mishal Husain get her news from? Al Jazeera? Mishal Husain, the BBC’s Muslim presenter who thinks that Hamas rockets are pretty harmless and that it is part of her job to improve the image of Islam made a slight factual error this morning claiming that (08:52) ‘The Israeli authorities have reopened access to the Al Aqsa Mosque this morning….closed yesterday after unrest following the fatal shooting of … Continue reading
We’ve had Alvin Hall’s interesting and original treatment of Black musical history on the BBC and now we have another attempt to rewrite it and turn everything any Black person ever did or said in history into an act of resistance against the white ‘Massa’….. Dr Hepcat and the Hepster’s Dictionary In this programme we hear about the music of Cab Calloway and his ‘Hepster’s Dictionary’ the roots … Continue reading
Peter Allen told us yesterday that ‘It is very difficult to wake up the world and make it care about North Korea.’ Of course no one takes North Korea seriously. Thank God that we have the BBC to remind us of what a dangerous and nasty regime it is! Of course the BBC, in the shape of John Sweeney, had a famous stab at uncovering North Korea as they … Continue reading
A guy without a television has successfully sued TV Licensing for costs incurred dealing with its threatening demands for payment. In a wonderful twist he even threatened to send in the bailiffs. Read all about it at the TV Licensing Blog.
