Victoria Derbyshire had a caller (24 mins 40 secs), Sonora(spelling?), who relayed to us her tale of woe as she became a victim of the callous Bedroom Tax. Worth a listen….Sonora lives in Holloway under the care and protection of Labour’s Islington Council…..Derbyshire didn’t listen, didn’t have enough facts and didn’t seem inclined to challenge anything being said….it seemed more like a sympathetic ear and a shoulder … Continue reading
ChrisH seems to have taken over the world: EmersonV says in response to Dominic Sandbrook’s ‘Cold War Britain’: Just finished watching bbc2 Cold War what a load of lefty crap. Totally bias view , how the west was so bad and the East was just misunderstood and wouldn’t hurt a fly. ChrisH replies: Can`t say I agree. It was pretty balanced to me….Sanbrooke was ironic, but pretty fair … Continue reading
As noted in the previous post the BBC made a curious omission in their programme about the Kennedy assassination…..forgetting to mention that Oswald was a Communist…whilst also making less than subtle intimations that seemed intended to suggest the Republicans may have shot Kennedy. Perhaps they should have read the BBC’s own report from the time by Peter Watson: (Text Version here) The BBC’s attitude towards all … Continue reading
A bit of ping pong between the BBC bias sites……here is a look at the BBC’s revisionist view of history by ‘Is the BBC biased?’s’ Craig based on comments kicked off by JonT on this site: BBC exclusive: Kennedy was shot by a right-wing Republican Several commenters at Biased BBC have been pointing an accusing finger at a BBC documentary broadcast last night on BBC … Continue reading
The Telegraph wonders about…. The baffling recovery of Teflon Labour and Unpopular Ed Politics sometimes throws up great mysteries. Why does public spending always rise and never fall? How did Gordon Brown ever become Prime Minister? Why is David Cameron still clinging to his pledge on overseas aid? Nothing, however, is quite so head-scratching at the moment as the success of the Labour Party. The Tories are … Continue reading
They just can’t help themselves. The BBC love-in with Obama continues despite Guantanamo, drones, failed foreign policy, massive, inappropriate surveillance and lies about, well lots and lots of stuff. Naughtie on Today (08:25 ish) was going over the Gettysburgh Address by Lincoln. For some unknown reason we were suddenly treated to the comparison of Lincoln to another ‘gangling lawyer’….and a soundbite of the sainted Obama. The … Continue reading
From the Telegraph: There’s an interview with Sir Richard Eyre, the director of a new musical (he prefers “a play with songs”) in this week’s Sunday Times (£) “I never understand politicians – they could buy themselves, for such a small price, the silence of a swathe of articulate, prominent, celebrated people who give them a hard time.” And you thought the Lefty Bien Pensant cared … Continue reading
The BBC is giving Ed Miliband a massive platform to shape the public’s perception of him…he is to appear on Desert Island Discs. No doubt we will have heart warming tales of his family life…in particular his father. Any doubt that this is the BBC’s attempt to limit the damage that the Mail’s report about Ralph Miliband’s Marxism and the influence on his son may have had. … Continue reading
Hold the front page…another grand idea as to why Global Warming has paused. We were first told they had no idea why there has been a long, long pause in global warming. “We don’t really know yet what the explanation is for the slowdown,” said Bob Ward, policy director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of economics. … Continue reading
Treat all as equal citizens. An extra layer of unelected people who purport to represent communities aggregated by faith is a recipe for disaster. Douglas Murray Alvin Hall has presented a programme looking at the history of Black music in the USA…the politics and economics of the music industry. It is definitely worth a listen. However it does have a narrative that Hall shoehorns in regardless of … Continue reading
