A book by Vali Nasr, ‘The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy In Retreat’ has stirred things up in US political circles. You might have thought this would be right up Mark Mardell’s alley…not fast moving hard news but something that requires a bit of time, insight and analysis to digest and ponder over. It’s a fascinating and controversial insight into the Obama ‘foreign policy’ by an insider…this is how an … Continue reading →

  Riots in Turkey about ‘government policy’.  What could that mean?  Are they about austerity, or immigrants being discriminated against, or police brutality? No…even the BBC has to admit: ‘Creeping Islamisation’  Correspondents say the issue has helped highlight unhappiness among young people towards the government and ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party over what they see as creeping Islamisation.   Are these protestors ‘islamophobic’?  Maybe they’re ‘perverting atheism’…they’re not real … Continue reading →

  This is what happens when you have only one hand clapping…applauding its own genius. The BBC banished the climate sceptics to no man’s land where their voices went unheard whilst climate lobbyists could get  reports altered to suit themselves. Those supposedly with the best interests of the environment in mind, those with vested interests, those with an eye for an opportunity, the green lobbyists, the charities, the politicians, the scientists, the … Continue reading →

  The Daily Mail takes a closer look at the BBC’s coverage of what they termed the ‘British Guantanamo’. Farce of ‘British Guantanamo’: Lawyers (with BBC help) demand 90 Afghans be freed but now say they’re better off IN prison   The BBC teams up with lawyers and the Taliban to fight the British Army.  Is it any wonder that British forces have such little regard for the BBC? I … Continue reading →

  Two reports about Christianity that hit the BBC cutting room floor: Leading Anglican bishop: British Churches have ‘capitulated to secularism’ and politically correct lessons that whitewash Islam I can’t imagine why that was kicked into the long grass by the BBC….a BBC all too keen usually to report the word of the Godly …as long as they are slagging off Bankers and Tories.   Yesterday we had a tsunami of … Continue reading →

  This via Guido: We know that the BBC lost £100 million on its failed digital media project. But it’s worse than that. William Foxton in the Telegraph says: We may never know the true cost of the BBC’s latest disaster – but it’ll be a lot more than £100 million  ‘I heard that, over the five years of its life, factoring in staff costs, consulting fees and the money … Continue reading →

  I mentioned this tagged onto the end of the ‘Afghanamo’ post but ‘Emerson v’ in the comments says that when he posted a comment on the BBC site asking who was paying for the legal assistance to some Afghan detainees the comment was deleted so I thought I would highlight it. Defence Secretary Phillip Hammond said in an interview on the Today programme this morning that Britain was funding the legal … Continue reading →

  The BBC are going into overdrive  on the story of some Afghan detainees, held for their own safety and that of British troops, beyond what is claimed to be the legal time limit. Excited claims of a British Guantanamo are being bandied about….the detainee’s lawyers making sure they hype that line to generate a bit of ‘shock’….the BBC were happy to play along at first…but all mentions of Guantanamo seemed … Continue reading →

Something about bears and woods… “The BBC gives too much weight to pro-immigration voices and ‘almost totally ignores’ the negative social impact of multiculturalism, a new study has claimed. The corporation suffers from left wing ‘groupthink’ that prevents its journalists from challenging institutional bias and results in pro-immigration ‘propaganda’, according to the research published yesterday. It was also accused of ‘downplaying’ violence by Islamists while being happy to criticise Christianity … Continue reading →