Anyone else catch Peter Mandelson being allowed a gentle canter on the Today programme this morning as he explained how Miliband has shown courage and real leadership by denying the British people a referendum on EU membership?

On time and for your edification, a new Open thread! Please detail the bias here!

As David has mentioned the BBC has been particularly fawning about Bob Crow so far….he is presented as a roguish lad with none of the tough  realities behind his actions given any credence…..Thatcher was immediately, within minutes of her death, being denounced as divisive and hated, Crow is apparently ‘loved and respected’.  Pienaar has been glossing over all the complaints targeted at Crow….his high salary, living in a council house, … Continue reading →

  The BBC were quick to fill the airwaves with critical comment about C4’s ‘Benefits Street’….not so quick to mention this dangerous programme from C4: Channel 4 News removes video report from their website after it emerges four of the five ‘normal’ people questioned were from the same marketing agency Channel 4 News has removed a video from its website after it emerged that four of the five people it … Continue reading →

Did you read that the BBC was not sceptical enough about immigration and the ‘European ideal’, according to one of its most senior journalists – John Humphrys? Thoughts? I don’t see how the Today programme has changed in any way and is still a toadying supplicant for the Euro ideal.

I was sorry to read of the death of RMT Trade Unionist Bob Crowe. He was only 52.  That said, I am a little surprised to see the BBC run this as the LEAD story on their news portal all day. Isn’t this a little over the top? What say you? There is also a deference in their coverage of his untimely death which was noticeably absent when Margaret Thatcher … Continue reading →

    Hot on the heals of Humphrys’ admission that the BBC promotes the all conquering EU we have this prime example of that type of thinking in action: The BBC should say it is based in Manchester instead of Salford in a bid to boost the area’s international reputation, one of the corporation’s star presenters has said. Evan Davis said it was a ‘serious problem’ for Manchester that areas … Continue reading →

    John Humphrys has admitted the BBC is biased in favour of the EU….it has ‘bought into the ideal’   I thought the EU had been the one doing the buying…. The millions in EU funding the BBC tried to hide   John Humphrys says: The BBC has not been sufficiently sceptical on the European Union or immigration, according to John Humphrys, who said staff had let liberal bias … Continue reading →

  Chris Warburton stands in for Victoria Derbyshire this week.   He was discussing this (10:41): BBC to argue for licence fee to be linked to inflation   The Sunday Times reported that the BBC had a preference for a subscription model of funding.   The BBC have leapt on that suggestion and denied it vigorously…. “The report recommends that the BBC pursue an inflationary licence fee increase with greater … Continue reading →

Here you go folks, a new OPEN THREAD to start the week.