Here you go, a new Open Thread to continue the debate! The floor is yours!

  The Independent has this interesting look at Sky as it positions itself to take on the BBC’s news service: The BBC was impervious to the launch of Sky News. Now they have to take notice John Ryley treasures his framed memento of the launch of Sky News – a disparaging advert placed in the Financial Times by ITV showing rusty satellite dishes and the line “Money for old soap”. … Continue reading →

‘Thoughtful’ has castigated me for not understanding that the extremist hijackers of Birmingham schools are in fact just Muslims merely following their religion….I had thought that such a narrative had been the central theme of the oft repeated posts on this site that examined and disputed the BBC’s , and the ‘Establishment’s’, own interpretation of Islam, that it is the ‘religion of peace’, that those who follow a fundamentalist belief … Continue reading →

    The BBC has started its own Islamophobic witch hunt….and hints that the Trojan Horse letter might not be fake after all: Bradford school governors ‘promoted Islamic agenda’   After having spent such a long time firstly ignoring the Trojan Horse allegations, then downplaying them, the BBC has jumped aboard the bandwagon with allacrity and is banging out a new tune with the vigour of the converted, hunting out … Continue reading →

  One of the major problems with the BBC’s reporting of the ‘Trojan Horse’ story has been the failure to provide historical context, a lack of reference material that allows you to judge current events and put them in perspective, the lack of crucial information about people, their actions and beliefs, and finally a lack of a coherent analysis that ties all that together to bring the audience a genuine … Continue reading →

  Nicky Campbell’s phone-in today discussed ‘British values’: The education secretary Michael Gove says he wants to put them at the heart of what every school in England delivers — but what are they, and how do we make sure our kids are learning them?   Now Nicky tries hard to be impartial but as always his inner Liberal always breaks loose and rampages around, quietly in a nice middle … Continue reading →

‘WARNING TO ALL MUSLIM PARENTS OUR MUSLIM CHILDREN WILL LEARN AND PICK UP HOMOSEXUALITY IN SCHOOLS TODAY BECAUSE OF THE FORCED INDOCTRINATION OF HOMOSEXUALITY BY OFSTED’   ‘It is astonishing that a Labour government has managed to lead the country into this religious quagmire.’  Polly Toynbee   A large download of information regarding faith schools, of all faiths, and the consequences of their ever growing presence….starting from a very biased … Continue reading →

Monday morning arrives and so does a NEW Open Thread for your completion. Over to you….

    Incredible really, the BBC spent £300,000 covering up the findings of the Balen Report which was an important and revealing investigation into the BBC’s journalism in the Middle East but it is happy to tell us of the inner workings of the BBC press operation, the backroom politicking and media gladhanding that went on during the political bunfight between the Gove and May camps. Theresa May and Michael … Continue reading →

    The BBC is just relentless: A Point of View: Taking England back to the Dark Ages I am not sure that it’s just a coincidence that Switzerland is one of the more reactionary and anti-immigrant nations in Europe. My view is that we need fewer borders, not more. That’s why the European Union makes sense to me. I worry that if we were to go back to historical … Continue reading →