Framing The Debate

  It is interesting how the BBC frames the debate on immigration.  The Migration Advisory Committee has released a report into the impact of new entrants to the EU in regard to immigration to the UK.   The BBC’s first thought is for the immigrants: Low-skilled, vulnerable workers are at risk of exploitation because of lax labour checks, a report has warned.   But that is the whole point of … Continue reading

Refusing To Die Peacefully

    Good to hear on the BBC (2 mins) that  ‘Israel continues to bomb Gaza in defiance of the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas who has called for an end to Israeli airstrikes.’   Nicky Campbell talking to an Israeli military spokesman earlier in the day (09:41) was busy making equivalence between the Israeli government and the terrorist organisation Hamas. After asking if the Israeli airstrikes might be described as … Continue reading

Believe

    Victoria Derbyshire wants to know what Ramadan means for you. (11:50)   Remarkably the BBC didn’t find anyone who said Ramadan was a pain in the backside, you starve, you get irritated and angry, you get thirsty and for what?  It’s so stupid.   Instead we had the ‘wonders’ of Ramadan…it makes you more empathetic towards the less fortunate, the poor and starving, it cleanses your soul, detoxes … Continue reading

Perspective

  The BBC asks…… Were child abuse inquiries blocked?   Curiously it omits this statement from Geoffrey Dickens in the Commons in 1987: I have received on my desk many cases involving children’s homes where the children are mentally disabled and people are certainly abusing them but the Director of Public Prosecutions is unable to act in spite of the fact that he, the police and the Attorney-General know very … Continue reading

Harmanising

    Oh to have friends in the Media who smooth away your troubles. Whilst a s**t storm is raging around accusations of a cover up surrounding accusations of child abuse here is Harriet Harman in the Observer (Guardian) from this Sunday glossing over her PIE associations with the help of a Guardian journalist who suggests that it was the ‘times’, public morals were different then, the general atmosphere of … Continue reading

“4 innocent Muslims”.

    The BBC has been reporting the vandalising of the 7/7 memorial on the radio all day….unfortunately untill I’d seen a web report I had no idea what the graffiti said.     “Blair lied thousands died” and “4 innocent Muslims”.   Curious how coy the BBC can be when it wants to be….not wanting to stir up that islamophobic hate mob that is just waiting for any excuse … Continue reading

Turning A Blind Eye

              Note what the press clipping says……’There have been four Home Secretaries since the People reported on the “The Vilest Men in Britain” on May 25, 1975. Not one of Mr. Brittan’s predecessors took effective steps to deal with this festering evil.’   But only Brittan is in the frame today.   The BBC looks to be concentrating on the 1980’s as its starting … Continue reading

A View From The Guardian

DV WARNING —  I WILL REMOVE ANY COMMENTS THAT COULD OPEN US i.e. ME TO LIBEL. PLEASE BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WRITE.   Ex Guardian editor, Peter Preston, tells us that ‘the most vehement critics of the press are academics and campaigners who’ve long held the BBC as their news chronicler of choice (people who wish that grubby old print could match the loftier aspirations of Broadcasting House).   Ironically … Continue reading