‘Mr Lord Mayor, we will not forget that the first and foremost duty of government – as the governor has reminded us – is to maintain and indeed to strengthen the monetary and fiscal stability that has enabled us, successively, to grow and remain free of recession…..stability through a predictable and light touch regulatory environment.’ Gordon Brown Mansion House speech 2007 The BBC has set out to … Continue reading
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Laughed a lot when Victoria Derbyshire tore a strip off the Police for running an internal review of their own behaviour because as we know the BBC is well versed in the ins and outs of that old trick itself. Always worth a reminder of all those reviews by the BBC into its own impartiality…what could go wrong? From the BBC Trust: Impartiality Ensuring the impartiality of the BBC … Continue reading
Everyone knows by now how the BBC got it wrong on Benghazi. I made a post about how the BBC was censoring news of what really happened on Sept. 13, 2012, two days after the attack. Plenty of people here from then on posted links to stories about it, and we all wondered why the BBC kept ignoring it or simply followed the White House talking points and dismissed those … Continue reading
Those pesky Jews. BBC Watch exposes some historical revisionism from the State Broadcaster. First the facts…. “In 1862 the population of Jerusalem numbered some 17,800 people, with the majority (eight thousand) being Jews. Two years prior to that date the first Jewish neighbourhood outside the Old City walls – Mishkenot Sha’ananim – had been built by Sir Moses Montefiore. Inside theOld City itself, restoration work on the Hurva Synagogue was in its advanced stages and the quarter … Continue reading
With global warming having stopped some years ago, the eco-cultists have been a bit down in the mouth so the BBC and our pal Roger Harradin have given them a bit of a much needed boost by leading the rising levels of carbon dioxide is bringing about the end of the world charge, without any sense of a need for balance.
Yesterday I praised Paul Danahar for his realistic and reasoned analysis of the situation in Syria and compared it favourably against the efforts of Mark Mardell whose reports seem coloured by his admiration for Obama. But I was looking at this which was published on the 3rd of May on ‘Jonathan Spyer’ (A well known blog that analyses the Middle East): Is Assad Winning? What is striking about it … Continue reading
If you tuned in to today’s ‘More or Less’ looking for an impartial broadcast spiced with facts then you had more chance of being run over by a yak. Radio 4 gave over the first ten minutes of the program to the subject of EU withdrawl. One of the main points we were asked to take away was an apparent validation of Clegg’s claim of 3 million job losses if … Continue reading
An investigation into a child sex ring in Telford has concluded. Around 100 white girls were abused by British Pakistani ‘heritage’ men…Muslims. The BBC tells us that: (11:27:30) ‘It’s a case that has echoes of Rochdale and Derby and other cases…the offenders all being British Pakistani Muslims and the vicitms generally being white British teens. No one is suggesting this is something endemic within that community…but obviously one … Continue reading
Victoria Derbyshire is in full on ‘Grandstanding’ mode today (10:40)…having a go at the Coppers as usual. West Yorkshire Police have published their internal investigation into its relations with Jimmy Savile…and given themselves a clean record. Derbyshire isn’t impressed and asks ‘How they can investigate themselves?’. She asks ‘Don’t you think this is odd that the Force is investgating the Force…how can anyone trust the report?…there is a conflict of interest…how … Continue reading
