On the Today programme Chris Morris looks at the disillusion spreading across Europe with the politician’s private project (08:36) (A written version here) It turned into an excuse to bash the Right along the way: The leader of the far right French National Front, Marine Le Pen, is in the Netherlands today to meet the Dutch far right leader Geert Wilders. The BBC’s Europe correspondent Chris Morris reports. Guy … Continue reading →

  Thanks to George R for this from Charles Moore in the Spectator: A Dickensian scene of human misery. Single mothers who cannot scrape together the £145.50 demanded are dragged before the magistrate to pay the six figure salaries of BBC bosses and stars. A cut would be very popular. Go into the next election promising to (say) halve the licence fee. This would immediately please millions and force the BBC to curtail its operations. Once its power starts … Continue reading →

    The BBC has very dutifully looked at the recovery and decided ‘nah….not gonna happen really.’ The Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, says the recovery “has finally taken hold”.  So why the worry?   The BBC goes on to tell us why we might worry: The challenge of good economic news   The final words from the BBC…. The challenge for Labour is to keep the … Continue reading →

  It was apparent from the start that Labour HQ knew of attempts to rig certain elections, not just Falkirk….and ignored them, even threatening disciplinary action against one person who raised the subject.   This is surely political dynamite, and yet the BBC are consistently ignoring or underplaying it. Embarrassingly this is from a Labour man prepared to state the truth that the BBC dare not: So now we know: … Continue reading →

    Once again the BBC dashes in to ‘protect’ Muslims by debunking claims about Christian deaths: Are there really 100,000 new Christian martyrs every year? On the internet, the statistic has taken on a life of its own, popping up all over the place, sometimes with an additional detail – that these 100,000 lives are taken by Muslims.   The BBC did the same when claims about Muslim birthrates … Continue reading →

    Pounce spotted an extraordinary piece of BBC propaganda in the BBC Magazine.         It tells the story of Somali immigrants to Norway.   First thing to note is that this is not an article in the magazine, the cartoon is placed, in prime position, without explanation, there is no attempt to explain what the cartoons are supposed to say, who produced them, nor who the … Continue reading →

  Albaman quotes this in reference to wind strengths over the Philippines: Haiyan hit Guiuan, on the Philippine island of Samar…the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) assessed Haiyan’s sustained winds at 195 mph, gusting to 235 mph, making it the 4th strongest tropical cyclone in world history. Satellite loops show that Haiyan weakened only slightly, if at all, in the two hours after JTWC’s advisory, so the super typhoon likely … Continue reading →

You would need a heart of stone not to smile at the BBC’s desperation to cloak the news that the UK economy is indisputably on the mend. It’s not so many months since Miliband, Balls and Cooper were never off the State Broadcaster imploring the Coalition to abandon current strategy and adopt “PlanB” – the Labour recipe for success. Now, as it becomes crushingly clear Labour got it so badly … Continue reading →

Oh my, it’s so tricky for the BBC. Yesterday we heard David Blunkett warn of riots on our streets as Roma queue up to bring us their multicultural riches and now today Jack Straw reveals that Labour got it badly wrong with their (deliberate) embrace of Open Borders. I am sure the BBC will give both these mea culpas from their political wing every due prominence. Now, back to the … Continue reading →

Here we go – middle of the week and time for a new Open Thread.