Compare and contrast the two very different reports on the same subject, MEPS reject the cuts negotiated recently in the EU budget, one from the Telegraph, MEPs reject EU spending cuts and demand extra £1.7bn from British taxpayers MEPs have rejected cuts to European Union budgets agreed at an all-night summit last month and have demanded that national governments pay an extra £14 billion in spending for this year. … Continue reading →

    It is customary for news providers to only bring us the bad news…bad news sells. As former American vice-president Spiro Agnew said:  ‘Bad news drives out good news.’ The BBC has become a pioneer of a new type of journalism in which only good news is broadcast….at least when the news comes from Germany. Germany is a happy land, happy to be in the Euro, happy to have … Continue reading →

  Richard Black ?@enviroblack @LeoHickman The rules of the #climate battle are currently being set by the sceptics/deniers – progressives have yet to learn from them       Roger Harrabin will get a rap over the knuckles from the BBC’s PC police for this one: roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin It seems that Johnny Foreigner owns much of UK fracking rights. Quelle surprise. http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/newsdesk/energy/investigations/who-owns-rights-drill-gas-uk …     It seems OK to open … Continue reading →

Astonishing…a new political party in Germany and the BBC still ignores it one day after its official announcement….after all ‘German news magazine Focus found that 26 percent of Germans would be willing to vote for an anti-euro party’ : ‘The Alternative for Germany, or AfD. Founded by a group of businessmen, economists, politicians and journalists, this political party has a simple platform. They argue that the euro has subverted democracy … Continue reading →

  Greenpeace co-founder Paul Watson said: “It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.”   The BBC is going to tell you a story….. Next Monday Panorama broadcasts this: The Spies Who Fooled the World On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, Panorama reveals how key aspects of the secret intelligence used by Downing Street and the White House to … Continue reading →

  The BBC’s Dan Snow gives us a guided tour of Syrian history in ‘A History of Syria with Dan Snow’ But who is guiding Snow safely around the warzone is the question at least one Syrian is asking: ‘A History of Syria with Dan Snow (BBC Two) was an excellent opportunity to tell a complex story. But while it provided useful background information, experienced Syria-watchers were likely to be … Continue reading →

Here you go folks, time for a new one of these!

Wonder have you heard Gus O’Donnell present “In defence of bureaucracy” on BBC Radio 4? I wonder what it is about someone defending a bloated bureaucracy that so appeals to the BBC? Cough.

  The editor of Today is off to a new job next Monday. You may think ‘Good, perhaps we might have a different take on world events under new management’..…as always with the BBC you’d be wrong. Ceri Thomas is now ‘Head of News’….in charge of just about everything: ‘The BBC has confirmed that Ceri Thomas has been appointed head of programmes at BBC News. Currently the editor of Radio … Continue reading →

This is from a speech Patten gave recently….not much needs to be said other than perhaps it is interesting as to just how much reach Patten admits the BBC has compared to Sky…and how influential it is in defining the cultural and social narrative of Britain….something they would never admit to whilst fighting the Murdoch BSkyB bid….and how the scale of the BBC allows it to take risks that commercial … Continue reading →