Kim Ghattas Book Reveals Personal Misgivings About US Power

The BBC’s State Department correspondent, Kim Ghattas, has a new book out about Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State. A review of it is in the Murdoch-owned (but not tarnished by it) Wall Street Journal, written by their assistant books editor, Sohrab Ahmari. Ahmari came to the WSJ with a legal background, and has co-edited a book of essays from Middle Eastern dissidents entitled “Arab Spring Dreams”. So, much … Continue reading

Well Burger Me!

  The BBC, the Greens and the Veggies join forces to damn meat eaters. Their latest was a bit of nonsense about bacon sandwiches needing to have ‘gun licenses’ or some such daftness. All intended to bend our ear and save the planet from the evils of live stock farming. I wonder how they will react to the below:   We all know that livestock destroys the planet and turns … Continue reading

Palestinian Shot In The Head Dies

  Using the term ‘shot’ as an attention grabbing headline and in particular ‘shot in the head’ in the first paragraph, is an attempt to manipulate the way a reader views this report……’shot’   gives the impression of extreme violence intended to kill……when the fact is the man was hit by a rubber bullet in a violent ‘protest’ as the BBC later points out. But the heading and first paragraph have … Continue reading

Tunnel Vision

    The Egyptians started flooding Palestinian border tunnels with sewage last month. Here’s the link on the BBC: …………………………………………   Ahhh…it’s not there is it?   Why might that be?: On twitter, BBC correspondent Jon Donnison is downplaying the importance of the Egyptian actions: Jon Donnison ‏@JonDonnison Having further checked out #Gaza #Egypt tunnel flooding story, still think its being overplayed. Tunnels operating pretty much as normal. https://twitter.com/JonDonnison/stat…41827425435649   … Continue reading

Al Jazeera Does Climate Change Scepticism

    Climate sceptics have been debating the science and the policies of climate change…and Al Jazeera filmed it showing that Sceptics do have valid questions and are perfectly capable of questioning the science and climate policies in a credible manner and should have a place in any discussion about climate change on the BBC: ‘This series of events is a unique chance to be part of the audience of … Continue reading

CABLE CUTTER

Nary a peep out of the Beeb on Vince Cable’s desire to cut the NHS budget and presumably the services that would disappear along with such cuts. The BBC does say this: Cable warning over spending cuts Serious damage will be done to industry if only certain government departments are subject to spending cuts, Business Secretary Vince Cable has warned. In a Guardian interview at the Lib Dem spring conference, … Continue reading

Integrity Of The BBC At Stake

Guido has an audio clip of the ex BBC DG Mark Thompson admitting he knew about the Savile accusations…unfortunately, at least for me, the audio doesn’t play….have a look anyway: Audio Tape Reveals Mark Thompson DID Know About Savile Ninety seconds of audio released by The Times media correspondent Ben Webster has undone former BBC Director General Mark Thompson’s evidence to both Parliament and the Pollard Review over what he knew … Continue reading

A Labour Plant On Question Time

    Kebab time reveals this: One Nation Plant Did you see BBC Question Time Thursday night? if so you would have seen an exchange between an audience member and the UKIP candidate for Eastleigh Diane James .   This young lady is Amy Rutland and according to her twitter profile she works for the Labour party(  Regional Policy Co-ordinator ) . But that is not all, KT can revel … Continue reading