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 →

    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.