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
The BBC’s latest review of its lack of impartiality from earlier in the year has resurfaced as one of its authors, Mike Berry, pushes the lie, lovingly created and honed by him and those ex BBC employees now ensconced at Cardiff University who manufactured this ‘report’, that the BBC is actually biased towards the Right. The BBC say it went to Cardiff University but you might conclude that it took a wrong … Continue reading
Two people from Nevada appeared in court yesterday on charges of plotting to abduct and murder policemen. They are members of the fringe group Sovereign Citizens, a movement of people who have an extreme, quasi-anarchic (in the old school sense), anti-government view. Apparently they were busted after an undercover operation exposed their plans. Nothing new or unusual, really, except that it’s a case of two extremist white people getting arrested … Continue reading
They fill up quick these days.
Because these fill up with hundreds of comments every day! I tuned in to the BBC Radio 4 at 6.30am this morning. They DO seem so sympathetic to “the opposition” in Syria and Morsi’s supporters in Egypt, don’t they? Muslim Brotherhood propaganda is breathlessly repeated and how often are we informed that Morsi was “democratically elected”? The situation in Syria is certainly complex but the BBC seems to have aligned … Continue reading
