There is an old Bedouin saying that once the camel gets his nose in the tent the body will surely follow.    Sunday Morning Live which asked ‘Are Muslims doing enough to stop the radicalisation of young people?’, was I think pretty groundbreaking for the BBC, at least I have never heard anything quite so open, raising so many contentious and taboo issues. There were quite a few … Continue reading →

      Via Bishop Hill   Clive James has had a dig at Brian Cox and the BBC’s climate change coverage: Clive James: I’m not sure I trust this science rock star But hey, the smiling Professor (the smile sometimes switches itself on for no reason at all, like a refrigerator door loose on its hinges) might be right, and certainly seems so when backed up by so much … Continue reading →

    Polly Toynbee is a long time fan of the BBC and defends it relentlessly whilst being a long time not such a fan of the Daily Mail’s editor Paul Dacre (2008):  The feeding frenzy against the BBC, spurred on by Dacre and Murdoch, grows ever more threatening. It matters because politicians are afraid of both men. More sinister than the trip to Deripaska’s yacht was the less publicised … Continue reading →

      The BBC love Mehdi Hasan.  He is an everpresent presence on our screens, as much or possibly more than that other wretch Alastair Campbell. I wonder why….of course he’s a Muslim but he wears a nice suit and he talks of reform of Islam…the BBC lap it up. But really, what is it about this two faced, duplicitous, lying little toady of the Iranian regime who on … Continue reading →

    The Telegraph slams the BBC for its tidal wave of pro-Labour reporting over the Mail/Miliband punch up: The BBC insisted that its coverage of what was a significant political story had been “appropriate, balanced and impartial”. However, an analysis by The Telegraph found the story took up almost 49 minutes of the 12 hours of broadcasting by Today, BBC Radio 4’s flagship current affairs programme, over the four … Continue reading →

     It is a fact…Oswald Mosley loved Britain. How do we know this for sure? Because he served not only in the British Army in the First World War but in the Royal Flying Corps as well.   The Westminster Gazette told us…‘He has human sympathies, courage and brains.” So let’s have no more derogatory remarks condemning Oswald Mosley for his Fascist beliefs. He loved Britain, he served in … Continue reading →

  The Useless Idiots at the BBC are once again dancing to Labour’s tune…..as Peter Oborne noted: “Rather than representing the nation as a whole, it [the BBC] has become a vital resource – and sometimes attack weapon – for a narrow, arrogant Left-Liberal elite.”   We could look at the BBC’s cover up of Labour’s immigration policy, its cover up of Labour’s deadly legacy in the NHS, its cover … Continue reading →

I’m going to be away for the next few days so I am putting this Open Thread up in a timely fashion and hope that it can sustain you in my absence. I will return on Tuesday.

Quite remarkably, the BBC leads is news coverage AGAIN with a pro Ed Miliband anti Daily Mail story. It seems to me that the BBC has lost all perspective on this non-story and had decided to run with it as hard as possible with the intent of a/Seeking the head of  Paul Dacre b/Cowering the Mail from running future such stories on hardline Marxists c/Damaging the Mail in as many ways … Continue reading →

      A few times this week I’ve listened to John Pienaar intone in reverent awe that ‘The Boy done good….he’s on a winner’. Of course I paraphrase, but Pienaar likes to tell us that Miliband is coping admirably, showing strength and principled leadership as he battles the pervidious right wing rag that is the Daily Mail.     Now you could take a less charitable view and interpret … Continue reading →