Rob Wilson MP: Time to scrap unfair poll tax on television   The writing is on the wall.   The Telegraph tells us that: 49% of people questioned wanted the BBC licence fee scrapped…. and 21% want it cut.   Only 18% wanted it frozen… and 10% want it increased.     The BBC tells us: ‘…the licence fee is the most popular means of funding the BBC, ahead … Continue reading →

  The same wilful blindness that allowed girls to continue to be abused by Muslim gangs is still in operation…..it is a wilful blindness that refuses to examine some harsh realities about Islam.   From Harry’s Place: The Quiet Death of Moderate Islam These days, one can happily believe and even state publicly that the death penalty should apply to anyone who has sex outside of marriage, takes part in … Continue reading →

Better late than never, here you go, a new Open Thread to start the month and end the week!

    Mark Easton, the BBC’s immigration cheerleader, has leapt upon some research about ‘Diversity’ and manages to put a classic BBC spin on it.   Unfortunately the ‘research’ tells us nothing that you couldn’t dream up yourself….i.e. that where communities are segregated, separated into different races and religions, things will fall apart as a ‘society’. Conversely where there is no segregation and everyone mingles without adopting the identity politics … Continue reading →

    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 →