Ed Miliband is here to save the banks and don’t the BBC love it? Here’s a new Open Thread to see us all off into the wild blue yonder of the weekend!

  Imagine a global spying network that can eavesdrop on every single phone call, fax or e-mail, anywhere on the planet. It sounds like science fiction, but it’s true. The power of the network, codenamed Echelon, is astounding. Every international telephone call, fax, e-mail, or radio transmission can be listened to by powerful computers capable of voice recognition.   That was written in 1999….and its still true now….what’s new?   … Continue reading →

    Met Office: Arctic sea-ice loss linked to colder, drier UK winters Richard Black ?@enviroblack @markpmcc Leveson… ‘a cultural tendency…to practice journalism which on occasion is deliberately, recklessly or negligently inaccurate’     On Sunday I posted this: Strangle The Climate Sceptics In Their Beds!! It was meant to add some context to a post I intended to write up looking at a BBC piece on the Today show, … Continue reading →

        ‘Is the BBC biased’ picked up on this Harry’s Place look at a Newsnight interview with a far right associate,  Alain Soral,  of Anelka’s good mate Dieudonne……..   BBC Newsnight presents Far Right Holocaust denier as “writer and film-maker”   An example of Soral’s writing.   Harry’s Place concludes: Neither Paxman nor Newsnight reveal the fascist and antisemitic background of Soral – he is simply a … Continue reading →

  Strange….just how important was Miliband’s announcement that he wanted to cap Banks’ market share? It was the BBC’s top Frontpage story at 02:43 last night……     ….But now it has vanished…relegated to a small line on the UK page…whilst ‘Rates of gout in UK ‘soaring’ remains frontpage news.   Could it have anything to do with the Treasury boss’s put down of Miliband? From the Telegraph: Mark Carney … Continue reading →

    The BBC reports: Ed Miliband to call for banking competition inquiry A Labour government would tell regulators to investigate whether there is adequate competition between High Street banks, the BBC understands. Ed Miliband is due to say on Friday that the authorities should look into whether breaking up banks would benefit customers.   The question ‘What should the Treasury do?’ actually refers to bank bonuses and not competition … Continue reading →

  Just listening to 5Live Sport (still on air now) talking to Lord Herman Ouseley, Chair of Kick It Out about Anelka and what is an anti-Semitic salute.   The FA has been taking a long time to come up with a verdict…the BBC presenter, Mark Pougatch probably, said that ‘cultural differences would have to be considered’ when Lord Ouseley said that a lot of information was coming back from … Continue reading →

  The BBC loathed the EDL which campaigned against an ideology that incites homophobia, misogyny, apartheid, death to apostates and anti-Semitism. But the BBC praises those who chase Neo-Nazis out of town: The North Dakota town that thwarted a neo-Nazi takeover [The Neo-Nazi’s ] plans for Leith were exposed in August last year by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an Alabama-based civil rights organisation.   The Southern Poverty Law Center … Continue reading →

  There’s hardly a day goes by without a sneer or a derogatory remark about the Daily Mail from a BBC presenter. Now that Murdoch has been somewhat neutered the Mail is the next in the firing line for the relentless barrage of criticism that is intended to close it down….either literally or by making life so difficult for the owners that they backdown and give in to what amounts … Continue reading →