The ‘Spare Room Subsidy’ or as some of its critics call it, the ‘Bedroom Tax’…or as some are now calling it, the ‘Under Occupancy Penalty’. Yes, a BBC presenter did say that yesterday…a new one from the BBC with impartiality in its DNA always wanting to give you every nuance and angle to a story, a grateful audience getting to hear every voice….of criticism. Some dodgy semantics going … Continue reading
BBC in celebratory mood today as the moment draws nigh when “gay marriage” becomes legal thanks to nice Mr Cameron. But hang on a moment, there is a cloud on the horizon.. “About one in five British adults would turn down an invitation to a same-sex wedding, research suggests.” Oh no. Homophobes! How VERY dare they not bow down to the new orthodoxy.
Nice to see that BBC enthusiastically “investigating” the Government’s removal of housing benefit aka “bedroom tax”. Labour must love the way the BBC sets the agenda on these issues so it can then row in behind.
Here you go, a new OPEN thread to see us all off into the wide blue yonder of the Weekend! Detail the bias here…
Today (0810) ventured onto the ‘frontline’ in the immigration debate as John Humphrys went to Sheffield to look at the ‘Roma’ question. Interesting as you got a clear picture of one problem in the immigration ‘debate’…those closely involved with immigrants have no intention of actually having a debate….immigration is ‘good’ for better or worse. Humphrys at least had a reasonable stab at balance…except no he didn’t…the things he … Continue reading
The BBC has been wonderfully generous with its time and money indoctrinating, sorry, ‘mentoring’, 30,000 school pupils from around the country and tutoring them on how to become journalists. Gord help us! Gord help us if this is what they are teaching them: Fiona Bruce mentors pupils for Michael Gove interview Fiona Bruce reveals the BBC’s greatest trick for eliciting sympathy for a ‘victim’ of whatever oppression the … Continue reading
I don’t know about a ‘full house’ but own a big house and you’re toast…if the BBC has its way. Listening to Today (around 07:25) and the BBC journo was interviewing Lord Turner, in charge of not regulating the banks at one time. Said journo stated that he thought the housing market was creating inequality and that we must surely have a ‘mansion tax’. Nice, as always, to … Continue reading
The BBC have a warning for you about the Far Right: France election: National Front gains trigger alarm It is always an oddity that the BBC is never ‘alarmed’ about the Far Left taking power…there is no ‘warning from history’ about them….as Stalin erased his enemies from the archives the BBC erases Stalin and his ilk and their massive crimes….apparently communist North Korea is a Nazi state…and … Continue reading
Middle of the week and time for a new Open Thread! Enjoy!
Via Guido: Labour Send “Solidarity” to New Newsnight Editor Just what the new Newsnight economics editor needs when he is being accused of being too close to the Labour Party, the Labour deputy leader sending him public solidarity on Twitter: @DuncanWeldon sorry to c Mail attacks on you. Sending u solidarity Hang on in there. Horrid but they’ll give up after a bit. H— Harriet Harman (@HarrietHarman) March 25, 2014 … Continue reading
