AA Gill comments on the BBC’s coverage of the Euro elections on Vote 2014. His conclusion…. Political reporting on television…..moribund, unchanged and unconsidered.  Politics on televison is a shabby, undemocratic national disservice. No kidding. He goes on to say that BBC 2 has been good, but is now ‘an arty social worker.’ No kidding…and of course that is a description that could sum up pretty much all of the … Continue reading →

Interesting item here by the BBC. It almost looks like they are trying to tell us that Sharia has a bright side to it.

Wonder what you make of this news? “Sebastian Coe is today being urged to step down from some of his current work commitments if he wants the role of BBC Trust chairman. The former track star and London 2012 chief is the frontrunner to replace Lord Patten, who stood down three weeks ago after heart surgery. However, MPs are today urging Lord Coe to step down from some of his 20 other … Continue reading →

I wonder why the BBC provide has-been singer Billy Bragg with influential platforms such as Any Questions from which he can spew his 1970’s agitprop?

Hi all. Here’s a Joey Barton endorsed Open Thread for you to complete. And to think some claim Question Time has been deliberately dumbed down. Next week, Wayne Rooney?

  Will the BBC spend a day pouring relentlessly over this report, as they did with the ‘racial prejudice ‘ one,  that over the past 10 years overcrowding has become a huge problem:   The Telegraph reports: Figures show surge in ‘overcrowded’ homes More than three million people now live in a household with at least five other individuals, according to figures from the ONS The number of people living … Continue reading →

The BBC reports: One third of Britons ‘admit being racially prejudiced’ Nearly a third of people in Britain admit being racially prejudiced, research has suggested. The British Social Attitudes survey found the proportion had increased since the start of the century, returning to the level of 30 years ago. Some 30% of the 2,000 people polled by social research company NatCen described themselves as either “very” or “a little” race … Continue reading →

  David Attenborough has long had a fan club amongst the climate change fraternity….they had already co-opted the BBC to their cause with Roger Harrabin’s help but  felt they needed the likes of David Attenborough, TV Royalty, to successfully sell the global warming message to a doubting public exploiting the status, authority and respect he has built up over the decades. He finally surrendered to the lobbyists and is now … Continue reading →

  …to deny them their fun…..  

    Via Bishop Hill.   This article examines the changes that have been wrought on the BBC’s science broadcasting….essentially the dumbing down and the belief that the audience can’t understand the science and therefore should just ‘obey’ the diktats of scientists and their TV promoters: The excellent 1996 Horizon episode on Fermat’s Last Theorem was directed by Simon Singh. Whereas Singh in the 1990s had high expectations of his … Continue reading →