More than a century ago, British engineers and their African and Indian labourers spent five years carving a railway through what would become Kenya in a bid to open up East Africa’s interior. Not everyone was convinced and the radical MP Henry Labouchere denounced it memorably: “Where it is going, nobody knows, what is the use of it, none can conjecture … It is clearly naught but a … Continue reading
Stephaine Flanders said this about George Osborne’s recent speech about the state of the economy: “The chancellor isn’t declaring victory on the recovery just yet – he’s too careful for that. But he is declaring victory over Ed Balls” The BBC report on the speech opened with these words: The UK economy is “turning a corner”, Chancellor George Osborne has said in a speech in London. Mr Osborne … Continue reading
Morning all! Here’s a much needed new OPEN Thread to detail the bias! Did you watch Question Time last night? Another deplorable 60 minutes of Coalition bashing and leftist celebration. Over to you!
As the BBC shoots itself in the foot again and again, pressure is mounting with questions about its governance, structure and funding being asked…again and again. This from the Spectator: How to save the BBC? Privatise it A reckoning is long overdue. The BBC may not know the value of money, but those prosecuted for not paying its fines certainly do. Many of them struggle to make ends … Continue reading
The BBC is relentless and continues to push the AGW agenda, in fact pushing it harder now that global warming has ‘stalled’ (and the BBC’s impartiality review of their coverage of climate is over)….can’t have anyone getting complacent and thinking it’s nothing to worry about children! Once again they roll out the old trick of inviting someone on to be interviewed about their work knowing full … Continue reading
You have to smile at the BBC’s continued adoration of Obama. President Narcissus and his aide Kerry have been utterly ouflanked by Putin and Assad in recent days and yet the BBC is doing all it can to suggest that Obama and Putin are on the same page. Obama cheerleaders like Mardell have struggled to keep their hero’s halo gleaming but his tortuous efforts to win over Congress to military … Continue reading
Time for a new on-time Open Thread. Seen bias? Report it here please!
Excellent article here from Stephen Pollard on the BBC. Give it a read!
And now it’s global COOLING! Record return of Arctic ice cap as it grows by 60% in a year No mention of the huge rise in ice at the Arctic from the BBC, usually so keen to tell us that ice is melting there…but they have switched their attention to the Antarctic where they have 3 reports on the same story…..of course because they can relate to us a … Continue reading
Last Friday Nicky Campbell was asking if we should ban the Muslim face veil of whatever configuration. Who did he have on as the ‘pro-Veil’ advocates? The main one was Mohammed Ansar, Muslim activist….a regular on the BBC and on very friendly terms with Campbell. Harry’s Place has a short run down on some of Ansar’s activities, along with those of Mohammed Shafiq…from one of … Continue reading
