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…..

    The BBC’s early morning Labour Party Indoctrination broadcast, Wake Up To Money, is always worth a visit if you need a good laugh, the two usual presenters offering us a resolutely unusual world view….fortunately most of the guests, with some exceptions, talk a lot of sense…which is then completely ignored by the dynamic duo in charge. Tuesday was an exception (34 mins) when the guest was brought in … Continue reading →

  Listening to BBC radio news I was outraged and astonished to hear Charlie boy had been bending the ear of those trusty yeoman charged with keeping HMS Britain on an even keel…the politicians. The BBC revealed that David Blunkett told them that Charlie had been campaigning for more Grammar schools. Imagine my surprise when looking at the Telegraph we find a different emphasis, or rather, a more honest report: … Continue reading →

    The Mail reports: BBC spends £500k to ask 33,000 Asians 5,000 miles from UK what they think of climate change: Corporation savaged for ‘astonishing’ campaign survey on global warming The BBC has spent hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money asking 33,000 people in Asian countries how climate change is affecting them. The £519,000 campaigning survey by little-known BBC Media Action is designed to persuade the world … Continue reading →

    Does Peter Oborne not think the BBC is ethical, an organisation without a proper, working moral framework?  Does he think it needs such a firm grip at the tiller that Seb Coe couldn’t cope?   Lord Coe failed to instil a culture of honesty at Fifa. Why would he do better at the BBC? This concerns Lord Coe’s record as head of Fifa’s Ethics Committee in 2007. Allegations … Continue reading →

  The BBC were all too keen to report the words of a couple of Polish politicians when they were insulting Cameron….the BBC is not so keen to report our very own, home grown ‘LibDem Friends of Palestine’s’ little homage to Ed Miliband (via Harry’s Place): Lib Dem Friends of Palestine promote Atzmon Even though Gilad Atzmon’s vile views have been widely condemned by anti-racists, including many pro-Palestinian activists, Lib … Continue reading →

  Ever wondered why your complaints to the BBC about their coverage of climate change and immigration go nowhere?   Bishop Hill could have the answer to one of those…and the BBC register of interests the other.   Here Bishop Hill brings us a leak, via the Guardian, of the result of a complaint to the BBC about Lord Lawson being ‘allowed’ to speak on the BBC  (Transcript of interview) … Continue reading →