The BBC is slowly taking control of all the media, inculcating new recruits with the BBC ethos…another university succumbs: Former BBC news editor to lead new journalism degree A former Editor of the BBC Ten O’Clock News has joined the University of Essex as its founding Professor of Journalism. Jonathan Baker, who left the BBC earlier this year after more than 30 years in news, is the University’s … Continue reading →

    The BBC is very concerned…it has just learnt that Arab leaders are being trained in oppressive and tyrannical techniques for suppressing public discourse and debate by the dictator’s training establishment of choice…RMA Sandhurst: Sandhurst’s sheikhs: Why do so many Gulf royals receive military training in the UK? Generations of foreign royals – particularly from the Middle East – have learned to be military leaders at the UK’s Sandhurst … Continue reading →

    Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Rotherham (1997 – 2013)   ‘From a political perspective, the approach of avoiding public discussion of the issues was ill-judged.’     You have to laugh at the cheek of the BBC as it moves quickly into damage limitation mode and attempts to downplay any racial or religious aspect to the various sex abuse scandals whilst at the same time claiming … Continue reading →

Hi all! Well, it’s good to be BACK! As you may have gathered, the server that hosts this (and other) sites has experienced some nasty technical problems which has put us off-air! Thanks to the behind the scenes hard work of All Seeing Eye and Rob, we seem to back up and running. So, where to start? How about ROTHERHAM? BBC (along with much of the rest of the UK … Continue reading →

    Two events that seem eminently pointless and one sided discussing BBC bias but only its ‘pro-Israeli’ bias…all the speakers being the ‘usual suspects’….’sold out’ indeed:   Wednesday 3 September 2014, 8:15 PM Fully Booked Due to high demand this event will be held at the Shaw Theatre, 100-110 Euston Rd, London, NW1 2AJ. First Wednesday: Reporting the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict – Emotion, Bias and Objectivity The latest chapter in … Continue reading →

Jeremy Bowen gives a fair assessment of the consequences of the vote not to help the FSA against Assad…..the FSA now has to fight both the ISIS and Assad and the West is caught between a rock and a hard place having been out-manoeuvred by Assad and the likes of the BBC:   What if the West had intervened in Syria? The BBC’s Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen assesses the … Continue reading →

    With ISIS and its British recruits dominating the news we are also bombarded with ‘messages’ that parcel out the blame for radicalisng these Jihadi warriors….Western foreign policy being the favoured, default, unthinking but sometimes Machiavellian option. The BBC has always accepted that assertion without challenge…thereby adding to the credibility of the cause for potential recruits to the Jihad…it after all fits in with the BBC’s own agenda about … Continue reading →

  Actually no Haggis were spotted( rare and nocturnal) but this was: Glacier-like hazards found on Ben Nevis Hazards common in arctic and alpine areas but described as “extremely unusual” in the UK during the summer have been found on Ben Nevis. A team of climbers and scientists investigating the mountain’s North Face said snowfields remained in many gullies and upper scree slopes. On these fields, they have come across … Continue reading →

‘There is no rise in the number of reported major floods events over the past 129 years……it is unclear if climate change is implicated in recent flooding.‘   This report demonstrates why the likes of Nigel Lawson should have a place in the debate, the so-called debate, on climate change and its effects. The BBC seems to have done a volte face and is not only reporting things that might … Continue reading →

  The BBC, and most of the other media, use Ajmal Masroor as a Muslim spokesman asking his views on all the current issues concerning Muslims…..such as what would Sharia Britain look like, is it Islamic to punish people so cruelly ( he blames the Old Testament) and why are young Muslims being radicalised? We’ve had a look at him before in ‘Blowback’. Harry’s Place asks: Is Ajmal Masroor an … Continue reading →