This could explain an awful lot….and give an insight into not only Mark Easton’s mind but that of many of his colleagues so often reluctant to wave the flag…from 2008:    About Mark Easton I recently filled out a form for a visa that asked me my nationality. The choices were English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish or Other. I didn’t want to be an “other” but the options were … Continue reading →

  Manchester’s boom shows what can be achieved when councils work together The city centre has seen a 40% increase in private sector jobs, and one of the UK’s largest expansions in recent years     Here is the truth about Labour’s job’s record, showing how they destroyed manufacturing jobs in Britain….the blue area showing job losses in manufacturing from 2001 to 2013….note from 2011 the jobs started to grow: … Continue reading →

    5 Live is having a shake up and a reshuffle  …..women are getting thinner on the ground and not much to keep Lenny Henry happy.   Derbyshire and Bacon are out….Adrian Chiles and Peter Allen doing Derbyshire’s shift on a job share basis….any bets Derbyshire won’t be working from Salford anymore?  Peter Allen slipping into Derbyshire’s high heels means there will be no shortage of comment on this … Continue reading →

I tuned into the BBC Today programme this morning before 7am. I was informed that the savage murder of the three young Israeli boys “may” have been “an unauthorised kidnapping” that “went wrong” and thus is no reflection on the good name of Hamas. This is EXACTLY how the BBC responded to the IRA’s bombing of Canary Wharf if you will recall – they instinctively default to the position that any … Continue reading →

“Three dead Israeli teenagers responsible for innocent Palestinian deaths….”

The BBC moves on swiftly. It most certainly annoyed Cameron’s humiliation over Juncker and will give Labour one more chance today to rub as much salt into the wounds as possible. But the BBC is keen to allow Germans such as Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble to suggest that the UK can now trust Merkel to be more sympathetic to our aims. He was on Today this morning being given a very … Continue reading →

I am sure you will have seen this from the BBC. Islamist militant group Isis has said it is establishing a caliphate, or Islamic state, on the territories it controls in Iraq and Syria. It also proclaimed the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as caliph and “leader for Muslims everywhere”. Setting up a caliphate ruled by the strict Islamic law has long been a goal of many jihadists. This suggests that only … Continue reading →

Here you go, on-time and all ready to go, a NEW Open Thread. Please detail the bias here….

    The BBC has a new series, The Honourable Woman, starting next Thursday. It is about a Jewish woman on a one woman peace mission to the Middle East.  Wonder who the villains will be.   Here’s the Telegraph’s take: Gyllenhaal plays Nessa Stein, a British citizen but an Israeli Jew by origin, whose father– a Zionist gunrunner – was murdered in front of her when she was a … Continue reading →

Mail: Police hunting for group of ‘Asian men’ who took a 17-year-old girl into woods and gang-raped her http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2673311/Teenager-17-taken-woods-gang-raped-group-Asian-men-Berkshire.html BBC: Police seek group of men in Slough after teenager raped http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-28072433 Muslim men might be more precise…..