Just been listening to a bit of a royalist love-in on 5Live as Charlie makes a good impression with the boat people of Somerset-Under-Water….and the BBC ‘Royal’ correspondent. The BBC had no problem with his highly political comments…in fact they give them the headline on the website: Somerset flood delay a ‘tragedy’, says Prince Charles How times change when it suits…normally if Charlie interferes in the … Continue reading
Remember a couple of weeks ago when we heard this: Ed Miliband wants consumer groups to improve uncompetitive markets Labour leader says Competition and Markets Authority would seek independent advice on tackling suppliers and regulators Miliband said on the BBC’s Andrew Marr programme that under Labour plans, bodies such as Citizens Advice and Which? would work with the Competition and Markets Authority to define a programme for the … Continue reading
What the BBC doesn’t report is often as telling as what and how it reports other news stories. It does seem that if for instance you are Muslim, or someone positioned to influence government policy on climate change, you are pretty safe from critical BBC investigation. Andrew Gilligan has spent a long time investigating and reporting on the extremely dodgy happenings in Tower Hamlets where Muslim extremists … Continue reading
First one for February.
Man has been warming the planet by puffing out CO2….since the 50’s…before that it was Mother Nature….apparently. However these two graphs from the Met. Office are interesting: This shows the UK annual sunshine….and you can make a direct relationship between sunshine and apparent global warming time frames…..and a leveling off at the end of the 90’s…. This one showing the UK summer sunshine is perhaps even … Continue reading
Oops…more language problems at the BBC: From the Independent: Friday saw the start of the Chinese new year, with this being the year of the horse. Unfortunately the BBC News’ subtitle system didn’t understand the memo quite right, and instead declared this the ‘year of the whores,’ too much the embarrassment of the channel. “Welcome to the year of the whores. People around the globe celebrate,” read … Continue reading
Peter Hitchens shows the BBC’s strange double standards: The BBC just loves swearing – until it gets a dose of its own @!X*! medicine The BBC have refused to accept a complaint about bad language transmitted on national radio – because the complainer’s letter used exactly the same words that they had used on air. They told Colin Harrow that his letter’s tone and language were ‘unacceptably abusive … Continue reading
The OFSTED chair, Labour’s Baroness Sally Morgan, has been relieved of her post….but stays on until the Autumn (Though personally I would now sack her as she clearly is at odds with the government) She is complaining bitterly that this is a Tory Party coup to clear out non-Tory supporters from government quangos……she is Labour…but in the interview on Today this morning said it wasn’t about … Continue reading
One big yawn from the BBC over the large scale anti-terror police operation to arrest diplomat’s son James Sutcliffe….no sign of their having reported it at all…… Thankfully there’s always the Daily Mail: Police swooped on British diplomat’s son ‘after he signed for neighbour’s package while they were out’ Scotland Yard had feared that parcel contained deadly poison Abrin Turns out he was completely innocent. So … Continue reading
The BBC’s initial report on Scarlett Johansson, Oxfam and Soda Stream was this: Scarlett Johansson quits Oxfam role over SodaStream row And it ended with this fine bit of journalism: However, away from the factory, Reuters quoted one unnamed Palestinian employee as saying “there’s a lot of racism” at work. “Most of the managers are Israeli, and West Bank employees feel they can’t ask for pay rises … Continue reading
