Paris has the Eiffel Tower, we have the Matthew Parris, a tower of Piffel. Matthew Parris, the wettest of wet Tories, the great mouldering tower of Piffel that he is, doesn’t like criticism….his critics, all rightwing fanatics….a bilious, bigoted, resentful underworld of fomenting Fascism given voice by the affable Nigel Farage….   Reading the comments on my Ukip columns, I finally understand the Nazis It’s these voters’ opinions about … Continue reading →

    The BBC broadcast this recently… Rwanda’s Untold Story Twenty years on from the Rwandan genocide, This World reveals evidence that challenges the accepted story of one of the most horrifying events of the late 20th century. The current president of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, has long been portrayed as the man who brought an end to the killing and rescued his country from oblivion. Now there are increasing questions … Continue reading →

  Rudyard Kipling is described as an imperial racist by the BBC which can prove that contention by quoting to us Kipling’s poem ‘The White Man’s Burden’. This poem supposedly encourages Imperial conquest and obliges White people to go forth and civilize the more brutish and barbaric parts of the world….or you could interpret it as…if you are going to invade and turn a part of the world into a … Continue reading →

When you are reading this, I should be in Paris and so beyond the reach of the BBC! Here’s a new thread to see you off into the weekend. I’ll be back Monday night.

    The Today programme had a look at the Freud affair this morning but there was an essential element missing….Wallace himself .   John Humphrys at around 06:50 began by telling us what Freud had done ‘wrong’ and then we had a comedy sketch of Miliband ‘ambushing’ Cameron at PMQs. This didn’t enlighten us at all and could, if that was the sum total of the Today programme’s coverage, … Continue reading →

  The BBC announced that it, in the shape of The Media Show (13 mins), would investigate the ‘Media’s’ reporting of Europe…. A new report from the Reuters Institute of Journalism [John Lloyd] argues that the British media’s coverage of the EU is falling short. In spite of increased column inches and headlines since the Eurozone crisis hit, the study claims mainstream papers and broadcasters still struggle to distil and … Continue reading →

Alan has already covered the BBC onslaught against Lord Freud today. I wish to point out two further thoughts. First, isn’t is SO convenient that the BBC blasted this on the same day that the Government announced the biggest fall in unemployment in YEARS and at the same time as Miliband was given heat for dismissing the concerns of English voters re “English votes for English laws”. Oh, and then … Continue reading →

I commend this YOUTUBE post to you. Here is the background. “In the run-up to the BBC’s application for the renewal of its Royal Charter – i.e. the legal device by which the BBC has the right to demand a tax of £145.50 of every inhabitor of a U.K. dwelling with a colour TV – the BBC’s adherance to its present Charter’s conditions will come under scrutiny – in particular, … Continue reading →

Here you go and as requested, a new open thread. Detail the bias here please!

    The singer Cat Stevens became a Muslim….I’m sure it had nothing to do with Islam. However his stated desire to kill Salman Rushdie had everything to do with Islam.   Shame that, present day events considered, the BBC thinks such a person is fit to star on their shows when DLT has been erased from history for squeezing a girl’s boobs.