I had the UTTER MISFORTUNE to listen to BBC Any Questions today. It was from the Bath Literature Festival with Justice Minister Simon Hughes MP, Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs Maria Eagle MP, Yale Law professor and author Amy Chua, and writer and broadcaster Germaine Greer. So, all to the left as usual. What stunned me was the question on whether Harriet Harman should apologise. … Continue reading →

OPEN THREAD.

  Nothing by the BBC about the founder of Greenpeace coming over to the dark side: Confessions of a ‘Greenpeace Dropout’ to the U.S. Senate on climate change There is no scientific proof of man-made global warming and a hotter earth would be ‘beneficial for humans and the majority of other species’, according to a founding member of environmental campaign group Greenpeace. The assertion was made by Canadian ecologist Patrick Moore, … Continue reading →

        Cover-up has become part of the story of child abuse   From Nick Davies in the Guardian in 1998: The sheer scale of child sexual abuse in Britain The sexual abuse of children is a special crime, not simply because of the damage it does to its victims, nor even because of the anger and fear it provokes in communities, but more particularly because it is … Continue reading →

I am sure Harriet Harman would not want to be affiliated with this thread! The floor is yours….

    The BBC’s adopted son, Moazzam Begg, has been arrested by anti-terrorist police: Ex-Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg arrested by terror police   Can we expect the BBC to bring out Jimmy Savile’s old caravan and park it in the car park again as they must have done the last time Begg was incarcerated and his father became a constant fixture on the airwaves demanding his innocent son’s release.   … Continue reading →

    The BBC long ignored the Daily Mail’s revelations about Harman and Co at the NCCL.  The BBC didn’t investigate the claims and only began to ‘report’ the story when Harman made her defence. The BBC on the other hand has been quick to report a story in the Times about Tory MP Peter Bone. Curious what catches their eye.   Having said that Newsnight did put the boot … Continue reading →

Daily Mail report. Daily Mirror report. BBC report (from Friday, but no updates).

    Guess who?       Not a peep from the BBC….who were happy to report his ‘Nobel Peace prize’ US President Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Committee said he won it for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples”.   Guess not everyone agrees……     Reporting on the ‘awards ceremony’, the IHRC stated in a press … Continue reading →

    Paxman has a general sneer at the world of the Media: The Invention of News by Andrew Pettegree The news – noisy, self-important and often pointless?   I wonder if he meant those lap dogs at Cardiff University who provide the BBC with so much academic cover for their bias when he said this?….. Reporters in rehab (now often posing as professors of media studies) have endlessly tried … Continue reading →