‘Today’ (08:40) brought us Steve Rosenberg, the BBC’s Moscow correspondent, who after a spell educating himself in Soviet Russia, pre the collapse of the Berlin Wall (No surprise there….a BBC journo studying in Moscow), and continuing to live there for the next 15 years (I’m sure he’s not gone native) tells us that the fall of the Berlin Wall was a disaster leading to war and conflict.  The … Continue reading →

          To Justin Webb…. Justin, when interviewing people it helps if you actually interview them.  Part of that is an inconvenient requirement that you ask questions, any questions, but preferably ones that actually make the interviewee reveal something of relevance to the subject. Unless a presenter is thrown into an interview without notice, they need to go in armed with good background knowledge. Presumably Justin, this … Continue reading →

Republicans win control of US Senate This wasn’t meant to happen…just as snow was a thing of the past the Republicans were meant to be on their last legs as the political landscape changed in the US along with the population profile. Guess all those Hispanic and Black voters weren’t persuaded by the Guardian and the BBC.  

  Isn’t it curious how the same person keeps bringing us ‘research’ that shows EU immigration benefits us….and the BBC loves it…. we’ve been here before… The BBC, Still Selling Us A Lie On Immigration   Christian Dustmann, an immigrant himself, was one of the architects of Labour’s EU immigration policy, and yet the BBC thinks it is perfectly reasonable to quote his research as if it was entirely trustworthy….I … Continue reading →

  Look away, look away. The BBC ‘manages’ Islam out of the story: Tower Hamlets Council ‘culture of cronyism’ criticised   Remarkably the BBC doesn’t think it important to quote what would seem a fairly incendiary statement from Eric Pickles which both the Telegraph and the Guardian quote….. Mr Pickles told the Commons, adding Mr Rahman’s administration had allowed homophobia, anti-Semitism and religious extremism to “fester”. “The abuse of taxpayers’ … Continue reading →

  Jon Donnison is infamous for his support for Hamas and his anti-Israel stance.  He continues the same narrative in Australia where his preoccupation is with the Islamic side of life there….in particular of course the ‘wave of Islamophobia’ sweeping across racist Australia.   Today he tweets a link to his FOOC piece on this subject (He’s so proud of it he has pinned the Tweet to the top of … Continue reading →

Interesting to see the sort of priorities that the BBC likes to push…  Why is Tim Cook of Apple the only major gay US CEO? asks BBC reporter Ben Morris. The answer is that most CEO’s in the US, just like in the UK, manage to do their job without feeling a NEED to discuss their sexual preferences. The fact that Tim Cook decides he has to publicise it is … Continue reading →

You have to admire the fact that the BBC can keep a straight face when pushing the wild exaggerations from the UN on climate change (formerly known as “global warming before the globe started cooling). The unrestricted use of fossil fuels should be phased out by 2100 if the world is to avoid dangerous climate change, a UN-backed expert panel says. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says in a … Continue reading →

Hi folks. I was away last week and my apologies for lack of posts so to get the new week and new month of to a good start, let’s fill up an Open Thread.

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 →