The Question Time livechat last Thursday was quite promising. There were some teething problems as you’d expect with new software. The chat window needed refreshing for most people every now and then – more for certain people in certain browsers than others. The LogIn/Out button was also in a slightly awkward place. One or two things outside of our control too; emailed passwords stuck in spam filters for example. To address … Continue reading →

The BBC has dominated the Sony radio awards which makes a mockery of its claim that Murdoch monopolizes everything.   It does show that the BBC, funded by the license fee, smashes the opposition….pretty easy when you don’t have to worry where the next penny is coming from.   The Today programme gets ‘Best Breakfast Show’ (Over 10 million listeners)……Humphry’s gets Best Journalist…5Live gets best UK station…. There is essentially … Continue reading →

  ‘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 →

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 →