With all the recent fuss about BBC mandarins wasting and trousering public funds, this BBC news brief caught my eye: NPR to shed 10% of staff amid budget shortfall The BBC reports that US public radio network NPR is having to cut loose 10% of its staff due to financial difficulties. What the BBC doesn’t want you to know: anchor of BBC World News America, Katty Kay, is the regular … Continue reading
This winter is possibly make or break for the BBC’s pro-AGW stance. If the winter is harsh it would take a remarkably brass neck and lack of ethics to continue pressing ahead, Al Gore-like regardless of facts, with its global warming propaganda. The time would come when it would have to reconsider that and start to take seriously the likelihood that things aren’t panning out the way the … Continue reading
BBC staff, underpaid as they are, as we all know, are having trouble making ends meet. In order to keep body and soul together they have been forced to take second jobs. A bit of baby sitting, bar work at the local tavern, stacking shelves on the night shift at Tescos you might think. Not a bit of it…they are running large scale corporate enterprises whilst at the same … Continue reading
In 1692 the Campbells, in cahoots with the English, set upon the MacDonald clan in an attempt to massacre them in an infamous moment in Scottish history….a ‘murder under trust’. Thirty eight men were slaughtered and forty women and children died of exposure when their homes were burnt to the ground. Nicky Campbell likes to remind us of past infamy and point the finger of blame however … Continue reading
The UN’s Special Rapporteur on adequate housing landed on our shores recently. The BBC seemed to take her seriously. No mention of her loony, animal sacrificing, hard core Marxist, witch doctoring proclivities though. Just as well that we have Guido Fawkes to bring us the low down on her.….not to mention the Daily Mail: Raquel Rolnik: A dabbler in witchcraft who offered an animal sacrifice to Marx … Continue reading
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
