…courtesy of BBC World Service journalist Stephanie Hegarty: There is something cuddly and teddy bear-ish about @drRouhani #Iran — Stephanie Hegarty (@stephhegarty) September 26, 2013 The leader of a terrorist-exporting theocracy is one thing, but Fox News is something else entirely: The world according to @FoxNews Gross. "Christians Under Attack in Kenya & Pakistan – Greg Gutfeld & Bob Beckel http://t.co/hJdNDTIlHv" — Stephanie Hegarty (@stephhegarty) September 24, 2013 BBC newsroom … Continue reading →

  Trust High in Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists and Jews. What…you didn’t get that impression listening to the BBC all day?   No nor did I.  In fact I didn’t hear those groups mentioned once….which is strange because you would think that the BBC would ‘celebrate’ that.  Instead we had an entirely negative story…and a unique interpetation of it, an interpretation which absolved the guilty and passed the judgement instead on those who had … Continue reading →

  Nicky Cambpell asks…..The Kenyan massacre….Why would British people be involved? …and…he asks…What can we do to stop them getting involved in Islamic radicalism?   The problem is that the BBC doesn’t recognise the problem…..an immediate one being these fundamentalists probably don’t consider themselves ‘British’…until they come to claim benefits or housing of course. For example this morning we had this from Peter Taylor, the BBC’s expert on Islamic terror…sorry militancy…says that the … Continue reading →

Ahead of time and all set to go, a new OPEN THREAD.

Red in tooth and claw, what is your view of the BBC coverage of that Miliband speech?

    John Pienaar told us that Victoria Derbyshire was so hard Damien McBride would be quaking in his boots in an upcoming interview. Derbyshire opened the interview with a quote from McBride: ‘It was just me being a cruel vindictive thoughtless bastard.’ …and then asked him where, on a scale of bastards, would he put himself. However that was about as ‘hard’ as the interview got…McBride far from quaking in … Continue reading →

  Damian Thompson in the Telegraph thinks there is quite a lot in ‘a name’: Kenya terror attack: disgracefully, the BBC still won’t call these murderers ‘terrorists’   I suppose it is hard to quantify exactly what constitutes a ‘terrorist’. A group which kills 61 people, deliberately selecting non-Mulsims, and then apparently burning off their faces and cutting off their hands to prevent identification, may have justifiable political aims or … Continue reading →

          Miliband has made a speech.  Without notes the BBC notes.  The BBC seem rather in awe of Miliband’s speech. Perhaps John Pienaar’s description of Miliband as ‘Bold and statesman like’ should have warned us of the attitude the BBC would strike in relation to this.  The Telegraph by contrast has a much more critical stance, some positive but mostly negative about the content of the … Continue reading →

  Victoria Derbyshire has on Bishop Nazir Ali (11:54) to talk about attacks on Christians…all going well until he mentioned Egypt when Derbyshire said: ‘Some might quibble…some argue that Muslims are now being targeted and that’s as bad as any other religious group being targeted.’ She goes on to mention that the Taliban claim that the attack on the church in Pakistan was in retaliation for American drone strikes….how does … Continue reading →

      Ed Balls today made a joke about Cameron and his beach towel then went on to hide his own embarrassment at Labour’s 13 years of destruction with a load of old flannel.   The BBC’s reaction to all that is going on with Labour at the moment?  Well…not too bad as I saw it….at least in parts.   John Pienaar was his usual Labour leaning self, in my opinion…with … Continue reading →