BBC coming under political pressure to silence climate sceptics (as if it needs it): From the Guardian: The BBC has come under fire from the chairman of an influential committee of MPs for favouring climate change sceptics in its coverage – and, according to documents seen by the Guardian, replied by saying that putting forward opinions not backed by science is part of its role. That has enraged … Continue reading →

    As comedian Robert Webb  re-joins Labour the New Statesman tells us: With Eddie Izzard and John O’Farrell already among the party’s celebrity supporters, it looks as if Miliband has the comedians’ vote sewn up.   Who’d a thunk eh?   Webb’s move was one of the unexpected consequences of panto dame Russell Brand’s guest-edit of the New Statesman   In the same issue Slavoj Žižek tells us: “Most … Continue reading →

I can see Monday’s Open Thread is overflowing so here’s a new one to see us through to the end of the month!

  I haven’t watched this yet: Quitting the English Defence League: When Tommy Met Mo   …..but Douglas Murray has a write up in the Spectator: ‘When Tommy met Mo’ revealed how far we have to travel before Islamism is uprooted Islamic extremism is not only a policing fault. It is also the fault of ‘Muslim leaders’ and others. It remains a melancholy fact that very few actual Muslim ‘leaders’ or … Continue reading →

  From the Spectator:   Didn’t the BBC know that Will Straw is a PPC before his dad told them? Former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw was on today’s Daily Politics, gushing with pride that his son Will is Labour’s prospective parliamentary candidate for the seat of Rossendale and Darwen in Lancashire. Yet it seems that this piece of dynastic info was news to Auntie. Will Straw was on the BBC News Channel this morning, … Continue reading →

  That old subversive Andrew Neil goes off message:   afneil Andrew Neil   Isn’t it difficult for politicians to attack energy cos for rising prices when Commons voted to raise prices by 40% by 2020.   And another subversive, Paul Hudson (via Bishop Hill) Real risk of a Maunder minimum ‘Little Ice Age’ says leading scientist It’s known by climatologists as the ‘Little Ice Age’, a period in the … Continue reading →

    There’s no Truth in the News and , for the BBC, no News in the Truth.   You might have thought that something like this would have mobilised the investigative journalists of the BBC: Miliband urged to reopen union vote-rigging probe: Email cache ‘shows Unite plotted to subvert Labour inquiry’ Labour leader under pressure to reopen vote-rigging investigation 1,000 emails appear to implicate Unite in thwarting original inquiry … Continue reading →

Monday morning..the storm has not washed the BBC away ..so let’s detail the bias!

  Always interesting what the BBC employees find of interest….not necessarily in the course of their work but in a personal capacity…which is perhaps all the more telling…as on Twitter which they usually claim the views expressed are their own and not the BBC’s…and in the case of Huw Edwards he disclaims the retweets…which is just as well really:   Here he retweets the BBC’s favourite economist who tells us: … Continue reading →

  Quite a few people have picked up on Grant  Shapps comments about spreading the Licence Fund around a bit more. A good portion is already doled out to Channel Four, but of course that is merely the BBC’s inbred cousin with fewer inhibitions and a disturbing tendency for showing off in the rudest way possible. Hardly a balance considering together they pretty well dominate political broadcasting in this country. … Continue reading →