For all its squealing about budget limitations the BBC seems to have no problem finding the dosh for those little creature comforts for the staff: The BBC is spending up to £500,000 on a major refit of its £1 billion new headquarters because staff have complained their state-of-the art surroundings ‘lack character’. The high-spec London HQ was only opened in June – four years behind schedule and £55 million over budget. … Continue reading →

The BBC’s Roger Harrabin was keen to highlight this: ‘No case’ to water down CO2 targets, chancellor told The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says there is no legal, environmental or economic case for lowering the fourth UK “carbon budget”, set in 2011. It says the budget (running from 2023-2027) should be tightened if the EU agrees strict targets on emissions.     But of course he has never once … Continue reading →

    Amazing hypocrisy from the HIGHNFY crew on MP’s pay (11 mins)….all things considered:   At the start, Deayton got paid £3,750 a segment, £750 more than was paid to the less experienced Hislop and Merton. By the time he was fired, he was earning £50,000 a show. While Merton and Hislop receive less than that amount now, it is not considerably less. Fourteen years ago they got £12,000 … Continue reading →

  In his autobiography Mr Mandela makes it clear they were prepared to go further and engage in guerrilla warfare and even terrorism.    Margaret Thatcher helped to avert a ‘devastating racial war’ by opposing tougher sanctions against South Africa’, F. W. de Klerk  (who in 1993 won the Nobel peace prize jointly with Mr Mandela) says.       The BBC et al have been delighting in smearing Mrs … Continue reading →

BBC journalist Peter Biles tweets from South Africa: #Mandela Day 8. Forgive me if I'm wilting. — Peter Biles (@peterbiles) December 13, 2013

Well, I could not bring myself to watch BBC Question Time from South Africa last night – first time in ages that I found myself in such a position. The BBC Mandelathon continues entering the second week now and it’s really all become far too much. I was on the BBC Moral Maze programme the other evening and it was all about the template Mandela set for ‘forgiveness”- never once … Continue reading →

  Artifacts. Some of the things we see in the microscope are not a part of the original structure of the living specimen but are artifacts. An artifact is a product of man’s workmanship. Workmanship may bring to mind the craftsmanship of the Eskimo’s polar bear carved out of walrus tusk or the graceful gazelle of African ebony. Man’s workmanship also includes the embedding, sectioning, and staining of tissues for … Continue reading →

  Nothing to do with  BBC bias….just thought you might like to see something I spotted whilst passing through Herefordshire today….the ‘Missing Pet Search Team’ on manoeuvres:     Just an unfortunate coincidence for sure.    

    Does this make any sense at all?……. BBC Trust stands by ‘robust’ Pollard Review despite criticism Nick Pollard’s review of Newsnight’s dropped investigation into Jimmy Savile has been defended by the BBC Trust after criticism from a Conservative MP. Rob Wilson provided the Trust with a recorded conversation in which Mr Pollard appeared to admit omitting a key letter from his report. The Trust said it was a … Continue reading →