Mark Mardell is having a little freak-out about his beloved Obamessiah’s relentless rush to war (or is it only a rush when Bush does it?), which I’m enjoying immensely. It’s caused him to reveal his ignorance on US politics and scramble to find something that makes sense to him. UK Syria vote leaves US asking ‘what’s so special?’ That’s Mardell’s concern here: how an intransigent Parliament is hindering the President’s … Continue reading
Sure none of you will have time to fill this one up…too busy applying for the newly vacant position of HR Director, BBC….or you could win the lottery this weekend….either way, you’d be in the money.
£320,000 per year for a Human Resources director. No wonder the BBC is 75% repeats. For what was Ms Adams paid so much money, what outstanding values did she bring to the BBC? Ms Adams was accused of a “dereliction of duty” for her role in authorising the pay-offs, and Conservative MP Stewart Jackson said the practice would be called “corporate fraud and cronyism” in any other … Continue reading
Remember back in February of this year, when the US government was facing an across-the-board 5% budget cut, known colloquially as the “sequester”, because nasty old Republicans wouldn’t bow down to the Presidents spending desires? At the time, the BBC’s US President editor couldn’t have been more cross, calling it a “toxic tale of cruel dismemberment and government by crisis”. Oh, how we were fed doom and gloom. The emotive … Continue reading
Via BBC Watch and Archbishop Cranmer: It seems the BBC has been giving a platform to an organisation, greenbelt, that hosts an anti-Israel manifesto, its main motivation seems to be centred around Israel/Palestine. It has a strange notion of what exactly Christianity teaches: Our history is firmly rooted within a Christian tradition which is world-affirming, politically and culturally engaged…….. inclusive and accepting of all, regardless of ethnicity, … Continue reading
Remember Leveson and all that when so much was made of the dominance of one media giant…..no, not the BBC. Seems that all that foot stamping and those pious demands for media plurality was just so much hot air. Apparently Cameron has taken them at their word and gone forth and spread the word, literally, amongst the highest and the lowest in the land. Cameron has been talking to regional journalists and … Continue reading
Jim Al-Khalili has shamelessly, shamefully, set aside his scientific principles and those of his newfound career in Journalism to bring us half an hour of climate change propaganda….not science at all…just pure, outright hard sell and ‘facts’ that would not look out of place on Press TV. In The Life Scientific he interviews (and I say that advisedly as it is more a scripted ‘one-two’) Joanna Haigh who pushes … Continue reading
The BBC know full well Alastair Crooke’s ‘pedigree’ and who holds the leash for this particular lapdog. Just a couple of months ago BBC Watch commented on the BBC’s use of Crooke: If readers are now beginning to suspect that the BBC simply saved itself a phone call to the Syrian Ministry of Propaganda by inviting Alastair Crooke to this programme, they might not be far wrong. It … Continue reading
Another one…let ’em have it!
Paul Mason, soon to have his steel toecapped suede booties under a Channel 4 desk, seems to have cast off the shackles of BBC groupthink and ventured out into the world of thinking for himself…..well, tentatively: The economic recovery may be patchy, but the left is wrong to ignore it It’s not the same across the country, but there are signs of growth. The challenge for Labour is how … Continue reading
