Former BBC presenter Robin Page has uncovered a blatant piece of agenda-driven editing in a recent edition of the BBC’s Countryfile: The woman talking about hedgehogs to John Craven was the excellent Rebecca Willers from the Shepreth Wildlife Park – she too was featured in my last Diary. On the programme she attributed hedgehog decline to road kills and loss of hedgerows, and then it was clear to me that … Continue reading →

　 ‘It will be vital to challenge apologists for terrorism.’     Prevent Programme   Margaret Hodge said this in 2010: ‘We need to have an honest conversation about what’s going on in our working class communities. The very mention of immigration causes controversy and the whole debate is often seen through the prism of racism. ‘The result is parties like the BNP tap into people’s frustrations and that’s why we’ve seen … Continue reading →

  From the BBC’s From Our Own Correspondent: Phil Goodwin on how war has changed Syria from a hospitable, friendly place into one that’s brutal, paranoid and vicious. Goodwin asks the friend of a dead Syrian Air Force pilot how Syria can be so friendly and yet so brutal at the same time. The answer…… “It’s religion…there’s a beast inside us.” Wonder which religion that might be? I guess in … Continue reading →

After  Harriet Harman declared that the BBC is the ‘gold standard’ that other broadcasters and media must look to for inspiration and guidance I thought no more could be said about the glorious Beeb…clearly I was wrong, the last open thread is bulging and Brian Sewell’s (H/T George R & Buggy) own assessment rings very true…‘Bollocks…it could be ten times better’……

  ‘One lesson well understood in both Stalin’s Russia and Nazi Germany was that propaganda is most effective when it is backed by terror.’…Sir Alan Bullock.    We refuse even to face it, let alone to stop it.   The Met’s head of counter-terrorism said that there had been an increase in reported hate crime in the wake of the Woolwich attack: “Every single incident is horrible but compared with … Continue reading →

  Harriet Harman spoke and the BBC listened.  Harman, Deputy Labour Party Leader, Shadow Deputy Prime Minister, Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport gave her speech last night on capping Media monopoly and the BBC have already started to implement her ideas…capping their news output…by not reporting anything she said.  Nothing.  Zip.  Nada.  Zilch.  Sweet Fanny Adams. A speech from someone in her position on a subject of unique interest … Continue reading →

    Patten, BBC, Trust…oh and Europe. All words which are increasingly hard to put together in one sentence that you could say out loud without laughing. Thinking of complaining to the BBC Trust about the BBC’s coverage of Europe?…shouldn’t bother judging by Patten’s latest bit of thinking out loud:  ‘Conservative Eurosceptics could be sending the party down the path to “political suicide” if they show they are unwilling to … Continue reading →

This is already going strongly on the Open Thread but I think it deserves top billing for a while:  Harriet Harman is due to give a speech  in which she will outline a plan to limit media ownership….can’t see any mention of the BBC funnily enough….maybe that’s the Guardian’s editing.  A media ownership cap as low as 15% across newspapers, broadcasting companies and online sites must be considered to stop … Continue reading →

Excellent post on Elder of Ziyon. Remember Howard Gutman? He is the US ambassador to Belgium who made an outrageous and ignorant speech in 2011 saying that Muslim antisemitism is nothing like the traditional European type, because it is really a result of Israeli policies. A DS [Bureau of Diplomatic Security] agent was called off a case against US Ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman over claims that he solicited prostitutes, … Continue reading →

Hi all. Can see the old thread is as full as Tim Yeo’s bank account so here is a new one for you!