Too Much Of A Good Thing

  You have to despair.   Dr Mary Bousted is general secretary of ATL.  She was being interviewed by Victoria Derbyshire on Monday  (11 mins) about Gove’s new curriculum proposals…..strangely before he had announced them…and she admitted she hadn’t read them yet in ‘their entirety’. This is why she opposes the new curriculum: ‘The proposals will be riddled with knowledge and lack skills and understanding.’ Shocking…that schools should be expected … Continue reading

Not What You Know But Who You Know

  From The Commentator: Baroness Tonge has spearheaded an appeal on behalf of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, claiming that the BBC is biased in favour of Israel! Laugh or cry?   The BBC has been having meetings with representatives of the PSC to discuss ‘BBC bias’…pro Israel bias that is.  In the UK, BBC News reaches 81% of the total news audience. This is a massive figure but, unfortunately, the … Continue reading

Murdoch, Lies And Video Tape

Last week Channel 4 had a ‘big scoop’…Murdoch on tape saying the police investigation into phone hacking was a crock and he would support any journalist who was convicted. A stunning piece of journalism making astounding revelations. The BBC must have thought so because this story was one of the headlines on all its news bulletins that day…..tone of voice was all as they relayed to us that Murdoch would support his … Continue reading

MISSING THE NEWS

One of the things that strikes me about the BBC coverage of the Egyptian unrest is its reluctance to report the sheer savagery of the Muslim Brotherhood supporters or “Pro Morsi” to use the BBC preferred euphemism. When it comes to appalling videos like this and threatening incidents like this, the world class BBC journalists seem to have fallen asleep.  Their entire meme has been thrown into chaos and they … Continue reading

‘Popular British Culture’

  The BBC undoubtedly thought this was a good pro Muslim story….I might suggest it was the opposite….far from showing Muslims ‘integrating’ it shows a distinct lack of will to do so and in fact shows that Muslims expect British society to adapt to them not the other way round…..you might even suggest that it was fairly disturbing that Islam is presented in such a positive one sided fashion in … Continue reading

Your Number’s Up

  This post shows the difficulty in using statistics to ‘prove’ anything…especially if the two sides are not singing off the same ‘hymn sheet’…i.e. not using the same sources of information or the same definitions…..especially so when one side knowingly uses  statistics that don’t agree because they come from a different source or are based on a different definition in order to confuse the issue.   Victoria Derbyshire interviewed Nigel Farage … Continue reading

HARRIET TO THE RESCUE

The story so far. Red Ed has problems with Red Len, so what to do? How about sending Harriet Harman onto the Marr programme on a Sunday morning so she can waffle her way through the Labour talking bite agenda? The BBC does gently point out that Unite is backing candidates in 41 other constituencies, but Harriet was allowed to claim that the problem is restricted to Falkirk and that Ed … Continue reading

NEVER FORGET?

Today is the 8th Anniversary of 7/7, the day the Jihad came to visit London and take 52 innocent lives. I note the BBC has nothing up to mark this sad anniversary. I suppose it is too busy marking Ramadan to consider such? The US media always marks 9/11, but our State Broadcaster has other priorities….

Is Miliband Lying Through His Teeth And Does The BBC Care?

    Is Miliband lying about his involvement with Unite and the stitch up of the selection of Parliamentary and MEP candidates? And does the BBC care?   This quote from a disaffected Labourite in April suggests Miliband may be lying: The real question is: why was Ed Miliband’s team happy to let this happen? Or how about this: Perhaps the leadership thought no one would notice? That no one … Continue reading