Stop the world, but Mandela is ill, again, and BBC instantly go into full panic. I dread to think what their coverage will be like should this ancient communist loving terrorist commander pop his clogs.

Here you go, a new Open Thread! Wasn’t it fantastic that Her Majesty put John Humphrys in his place the other day?

          Seems to be a slightly different tone from the BBC when reporting the same story, that of the US PRISM electronic intelligence gathering revelations.   This side of the Pond the Brits get this headline: GCHQ US spy claims ‘chilling’….allegations that Britain’s electronic listening post GCHQ has been gathering data through a secret US spy programme and the report adopts a pretty negative attitude towards … Continue reading →

    The BBC’s World At One  (7 mins 30 secs) dignifies and white washes Mau Mau terrorism. The BBC’s Gabriel Gatehouse talking to one of the, as he calls them, Mau Mau veterans: ‘I must say sir you sound very magnaminous considering what you went through.’ …the ferocity and barbarity of what went on at that time has left deep scars…on the victims of torture. Not the ferocity and … Continue reading →

    Spot the difference: From the Daily Mail: Cashpoint card snatches treble: Romanian crime gangs responsible for 92% of thefts from cash machines, police believe Number of thefts carried out by cashpoints has trebled in the past year Police intelligence suggests 90 per cent are linked to Romanian immigrants Cost of card fraud expected to total £400million by the end of this year     From the BBC: Bank … Continue reading →

              This is a response to some of the points raised in the comments about the last post on A&E …a good debate …thanks to everyone who had a go. The real point is to ask whether the BBC should have taken the King’s Fund’s press release at face value or should it have questioned the figures more deeply. Looking at the King’s Fund’s report … Continue reading →

Dragon Den’s Khan was given plenty of airtime to make excuses about employing his daughters…but so far nothing on the Telegraph’s story of Labour donor’s tax dodge..helped by the Labour Party…. Anyway…another open thread….all yours….  

    Compare and contrast: The Telegraph on the A&E targets: The graph that shows Labour is to blame for the pressures on A&E and Migrants partly to blame for A&E waiting times, Tory MP says   In 2004 Labour introduced GP contracts that paid them more for less work…resulting in patients going to A&E instead…and of course immigrants were ‘swamping’ the country by then as well, making use of … Continue reading →

  Clive Myrie talks to Sylvia Emenike   BBC News presenter, Clive Myrie, presents the second of his three interviews on immigration as seen from an immigrant’s point of view. This week he meets Sylvia Emenike.  Sylvia came to the UK from Jamaica in the 1950s. Clive will explore with Sylvia what her experience has been of living in the UK, but also of the changes she has seen since … Continue reading →

Hugely disappointed…been watching the BBC’s ‘Australia With Simon Reeves’ and it had been something different from the normal offerings we get which follow the usual beaten path showing us all the same old touristy sights and sounds. Reeves put in some effort and dug up some of the more interesting corners of Australia….but then the BBC flipped the switch and we got a BBC ‘Stepford wife’…obedient and mindless, repeating the … Continue reading →