The Telegraph investigates: What Lonely Planet is the BBC on? £100m loss on travel book deal as corporation’s executives ride the gravy train   And remember the BBC lost £100 million on its digital media intiative. And remember it spent £1 billion moving house to Salford. And remember that the running costs of Salford will be £120 million more than they would have been if they’d stayed put in … Continue reading →

Bishop Hill tells us that: Is that a shift in the climate change ground I feel? Japan has backed away from its renewables targets. Rich countries seem to be on the verge of reneging on their climate change promises to poor countries. The  Climate Change Committee is to undertake an inquiry into the scientific integrity of the Fifth Assessment Report. And they have invited Donna Laframboise (and to my certain … Continue reading →

How the BBC turned a catastrophic crisis into a drama about global warming Listeners given a bogus message on Radio 4’s Today programme Listeners to Radio 4’s Today programme were given an unmistakable but totally bogus message last week: that catastrophic storms such as Typhoon Haiyan are linked to global warming – and are set to increase. The same claim, which has no scientific basis, was echoed by David Cameron, … Continue reading →

      The BBC has spent a long time and invested much treasure in grooming Alistair Campbell and keeping him sweet. As they say….keep your friends close and your enemies closer.   Such investment seems to have paid off with Campbell now back in the political game advising Miliband and saying things like this: ‘….whatever the criticisms of the BBC, it should be supported, remain central to our culture … Continue reading →

    David Dimbleby in the Sunday Times: ‘We’re coming up to the new BBC charter…that’s the big issue.’ What does he think about that? ‘I’ll tell you…there is an argument for funding things that are outside the BBC so it doesn’t have this all-powerful position.  I’m not sure democracy is served by having an organisation so huge and powerful.’   Perhaps he should swap notes with Alistair Campbell who … Continue reading →

  BBC Watch has an update on Sarah Montague’s claim on the Today programme that Israel persecutes Christians and this is a problem that the Israeli government could solve.   It includes a very rapid reply to a complaint about this interview which tries to whitewash the matter: BBC R4′s ‘Today’ programme implies persecution of Christians in Israel SM: “But are you saying – can I just ask – countries like … Continue reading →

‘First The Saturday people, Then The Sunday People’ Graffitti on a wall in Bethlehem where Christians are being driven out…and not by Israelis.   The Jews have pretty much been driven out of all their old communities in the Middle East….and now a drive to eliminate the Christians is under way…and not just in the Middle East.   Thanks to Downboy for highlighting this interview: Baroness Warsi was in the … Continue reading →

      One of the BBC’s favourite radicals has spilt the beans about Labour’s bean counting cock ups when in power. Just how will the BBC report this?  They love Ken but hate the message which is one they have been ignoring for 3 years….Labour smashed the economy:   Labour are cowards for racking up billions in debt, says Ken Livingstone The former Mayor of London criticises Labour for … Continue reading →

  roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin 11 Nov @billyblofeld @latimeralder @aDissentient This is wrong. BBC does NOT have an agreed approach to #climatechange which is why sceptics abound   Shame Harrabin once said this: I have spent much of the last two decades of my journalistic life warning about the potential dangers of climate change   And he famously engineered the adoption of the ‘scientific consensus’ within the BBC.   And I … Continue reading →

I suppose most reasonable people would think that anything that can be done to improve the level of service given by our GP’s to the most frail members of society is on balance a good thing? Yet the BBC has been sneering all morning at the announcement by the Coalition tha 100,000 of the most frail patients in England will be identified and given a named GP to co-ordinate their care. … Continue reading →