Christianity and Capitalism…The Two Evils Of Our Time. The Springwatch co-host and outspoken naturalist, Chris Packham, declared that economic growth is a ‘recipe for disaster’ and blamed Christianity for allowing humans to think that they can exploit the planet’s resources. So pretty much the normal BBC view of the world then.
Gabby Logan admits tax avoidance but vows to pay it back Gabby Logan is the latest household name to admit being part of the tax avoidance scheme used by Gary Barlow and Colin Jackson. The sports presenter invested thousands into Icebreaker, a company which purported to support young musicians. However, a recent court ruling said the firm was “understood by all concerned to be a tax avoidance scheme”. … Continue reading
The Submarine Service is often called the ‘Silent Service’ but perhaps that could be as well applied to the BBC whose silence on matters Miliband is remarkable and where all his inglorious episodes sink without trace having made hardly a ripple in the BBC news at all….despite the most recent inglorious escapade having actually happened in a local BBC radio station interview. Two stories came out today that … Continue reading
We had a look at some of the hypocrisy of the Press now attacking Farage for his ‘racist’ position on immigration and Romanians, now attention turns to James O’Brien who interviewed Farage in what is called a ‘car crash’ interview…but who was it a ‘car crash’ for? We ask what motivates him, are his thoughts based on intelligent rationale or innate, ill-informed prejudice and is he really in … Continue reading
Htiler made a pact with Stalin…..it seems others are like-minded. Peter Hitchens says: Last Wednesday, the insider magazine Private Eye also claimed that the Leftist daily The Guardian had made a secret deal with the Tory Party, which claims to be conservative. The Tories, it was alleged, had promised the favourite newspaper of the liberal elite a steady supply of damaging stories about UKIP candidates saying daft things (Tories, … Continue reading
Monday morning arrives and with it comes this brand new Open Thread for your completion! The floor is yours….
Bishop Hill reports: Simon Buckle of the Grantham Institute at Imperial has penned some nice thoughts about the Bengtsson affair: ‘Professor Lennart Bengtsson’s resignation from the GWPF Academic Advisory Council has received wide coverage and raises important issues.’ ‘received wide coverage’?…..but not from one of the world’s biggest and best resourced news organisations. And a matter that ‘raises important issues’…….so important that one of the world’s … Continue reading
Danny Cohen has revealed that junior staff will sit on senior management interview boards to break up the “hierarchical” working structures at BBC television. The director of television wants to send out a “powerful message” about giving less experienced employees a louder voice in the organisation, including a stake in some of the BBC’s biggest recruitment decisions. Cohen outlined his idea, which he has picked up from studying US … Continue reading
‘Is the BBC biased’ notes this comment from Rod Liddle about Newsnight: I don’t think Rod Liddle was very impressed with last night’s Newsnight. “It was bad on a whole new level of badness”, he said. Presented by an Afghan-Australian woman called Yalda Kasem, of whom I had never heard. Yalda was hampered in her presentational debut by being unable to string a sentence together; nor did she … Continue reading
Extraordinary…not a peep out of the BBC about this story…despite a great deal of coverage by most of the other media outlets. Here’s the BBC’s best effort…… News Sorry, there are no results for ‘Lennart Bengtsson’ in the category ‘News’. Guess it is not only climate scientists who are engaged in a cover-up.
