Hi Folks! Am back from my sojourn down under and finally been able to log in here. It was nice to get a break from the Ministry of Truth for three weeks and I have to say I found Australian news coverage on their “SKY” channel to be pretty decent (Better then Sky here for sure). Also wanted to thank Alan for keeping the posts coming and trust this finds … Continue reading →

  Access to online newspapers and magazines is becoming more difficult as it becomes common for paywalls to be introduced. I imagine the bean counters have done their sums and it all works out as an exercise worth doing….though it might indicate to advertisers that their adverts don’t work and so encourage them to take a lower, less expensive presence online. However whether it pays or not is irrelevant here.  … Continue reading →

The BBC is biased?  Tell us more….

Islam…Institutionally Racist?  ‘Did that mean that freedom of speech, parliamentary democracy, the rule of law or monogamy were no longer to be upheld as worthwhile? Here was the very nihilism which, if unchallenged, threatened to destroy the West. If all common bonds of tradition, custom, culture and morality were destroyed, there would no social glue to keep society together. It would gradually fracture into disparate tribes with competing agendas, and … Continue reading →

      The BBC’s Peter Taylor, for all his knowledge of the events in Northern Ireland always seems somewhat naïve when it comes to the whole picture…perhaps too caught up in the details to see it in the round?  Not just of Northern Ireland but terrorism generally…..Jihadists and all. Ever the loyal BBC man he manages to get a dig in at UKIP…associating them with IRA terrorists here (and … Continue reading →

   The BBC seem to be having a go at campaigning for the acceptance of polygamy in this country…for Muslims….that is legal recognition of multiple wives. …despite the catalogue of misery created by polygamy that the BBC paradoxically perhaps, exposes.  Polygamy already exists not just in Islamic society but in secular Britain…the recent case of Mick Philpotts being one such prominent example….of course such relationships have no legal standing…the second partner being essentially a ‘mistress’ … Continue reading →

    BBC Watch has reported this interview of Chris Patten by the BBC’s Stephen Sackur concerning James Harding:   Sackur: “He [Harding] said – quote – “I am pro-Israel and I haven’t found it hard because The Times has been pro-Israel for a very long time……James Harding is self-declared pro-Israel. Do you have any problem with that? Do you think that it might create problems for you and for the BBC … Continue reading →

   In 2004 David Goodhart wrote this: Is Britain becoming too diverse to sustain the mutual obligations behind a good society and the welfare state? Too often the language of liberal universalism that dominates public debate ignores the real affinities of place and people. These affinities are not obstacles to be overcome on the road to the good society; they are one of its foundation stones. People will always favour … Continue reading →

    Something for the BBC to chew over should they get around to discussing the causes of the financial crash. Andrew Bailey (in the Paywalled Sunday Times), deputy governor for prudential regulation at the Bank of England, said: ‘The crises that lead to such big changes often follow long upswings in economic and financial conditions that are allowed to go to excess.  Light touch regulation in the run-up to … Continue reading →