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
You may have noticed on your travels that any wind turbines that you come across have a rather unusual operational approach. On windy days they can be seen to be completely motionless, whilst on almost windless days they are ticking round quite nicely. I often thought that some clever chap who works for one of the turbine producers has come up with a cunning plan…..when there’s no wind … Continue reading
Andrew Marr hasn’t changed…he’s still Red Andy and pushing the Left’s agenda…this time a few thoughts from the IPPR, left leaning think tank: Who runs Britain? An Army of unregarded, unpaid carers. Now it’s time we cared for them says Andrew Marr and his wife who nursed him after stroke As a report today from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) points out, thousands of women in … Continue reading
BBC officer class enrages people, chief admits Executive salaries at the BBC have created an “officer class” which is causing “resentment and anger” among lower-paid workers, Lord Hall, the director-general of the corporation, has admitted. Liz MacKean, a former BBC Newsnight journalist, said: “The whole issue about severance payments gets to the heart of something that has gone badly wrong with the BBC over the last decade and … Continue reading
