Here you to, let’s start the week with a new Open Thread to populate! Off you go…

  Who wants to be a Slumdog waif and stray?…well it seems quite a lot of Indians don’t mind so much despite the best intentions of those who know what is good for them…and you and me.   The BBC has given Miliband a free ride over his ‘Living standard’s crisis‘, pretty much allowing him to get away with murder whilst making headline grabbing claims for policies that even the … Continue reading →

  The BBC has often helped to spread the belief that the next generation is going to be poverty stricken whilst the baby Boomer generation live the Dolce Vita. BBC journalists have gone as far as to ask why the young aren’t out on the streets ‘protesting’…whatever that might mean. In 2011 Alvin Hall reported in a similar vein: Alvin Hall: The generation poorer than their parents Many young people … Continue reading →

  Is ‘Falkirk’ the Scottish tragedy that no one at the BBC dare mention any longer in case disaster follows? Disaster that is for Ed Miliband: Why Falkirk is a ‘cesspit’ for Ed Miliband   On the 5th November, which seems to be the last time the BBC visited this story, Nick Robinson had this headline: Falkirk – the row which simply won’t go away   The BBC however does … Continue reading →

    Astonishing that Paxman is allowed to get away with his political comments, especially as he is one of the BBC’s most senior political interviewers….here he is not talking about a past election but the next one and is expressing what are self-evidently highly political views… Paxman says that we “ignore the democratic process at our peril” and believes people should vote. However he is also damning about the … Continue reading →

  The BBC (& others) have been enthusiastically hyping the storm in the Phillipines as the strongest in history…then moderated it to ‘one of the most powerful‘….but still giving wind speeds  incorrectly: The storm made landfall shortly before dawn on Friday, bringing gusts that reached 379km/h (235 mph), according to the US Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center, with waves as high as 15m (45ft), bringing up to 400mm (15.75 inches) … Continue reading →

To my mind, the BBC have taken a perverse delight in the conviction of a UK Marine for killing a Taliban terrorist. Their airwaves have been full of the pious passing judgement on the actions of this soldier and yet, as we draw closer to Remembrance Sunday, part of me remembers that war IS hell, it IS savage and brutal, and many many British soldiers showed no mercy to the … Continue reading →

Here you go, a new thread to take us across the weekend. Start to detail the bias HERE.

  From the Daily Mail:   The BBC is too big and too left wing and should lose some of its licence fee, the Corporation’s former head of TV news has warned. Roger Mosey claimed the BBC had wrongly kept critics of Brussels, benefits and immigration off the airwaves and veered to the left on many issues. He said it would ‘enrich the nation’ if rival commercial broadcasters had access … Continue reading →

        The BBC asks: Kristallnacht 75 years on: How strong is anti-Semitism in Germany?   And reports: “The significantly strongest agreement with anti-Semitic prejudices is found in Poland and Hungary. In Portugal, followed closely by Germany, anti-Semitism is significantly more prominent than in the other western European countries. In Italy and France, anti-Semitic attitudes as a whole are less widespread than the European average, while the extent … Continue reading →