They’re watching us now. Forget the petty definitions about Old Labour or New Labour, Blairite diehard or Miliband revolutionary. Everyone on the Left is being scrutinised today. Does the compassion we claim to be our driving force extend to the passing of a frail 87-year-old woman? Does the Labour movement’s dignity and discipline enable us to mark with appropriate solemnity the death of a former Prime Minister who … Continue reading →

  I have been away all day, in London.  The news of the death of Lady Thatcher is THE story of the day, the week. I am personally distraught at her passing. On the way back from the Airport I listened to the BBC and a programme which praised her as amongst the top 4 Prime Ministers of the last hundred years. Oh, just behind Comrade Brown perhaps? I cannot … Continue reading →

Let this be the thread for catching BBC bias about one of the last of the giants of the 20th Century. Love her or loathe her, as the BBC says……

The BBC’s new Director General, Tony Hall, thinks the BBC is not left of centre. If that is the case then what is the explanation for the atrociously one sided reporting that floods out of the BBC providing neither context, history or genuine analysis of any depth or originality? Are its journalists just bad or incompetent then? What we get from the BBC is all too often what might be … Continue reading →

Hi everyone. See the last thread is bulging so time for a new one!

Is it just me but does anyone else feel the BBC has been leading the race to ensure that the Grand National is increasingly sanitised and the fences made easy? Might this sudden interest in Animal Welfare be at all linked to the fact that Channel 4 now have the rights to show this race and the BBC is now bereft of this event? What do you think?

OK, you can breath a sight of RELIEF! Nelson Mandela has been discharged from hospital and is BACK HOME! It’s the single most important story on the BBC news web site as I type this. Naturally…they DO love Comrade Nelson, not that it influences the editorial weight they out behind this non story, no way…..altogether now “Free Nelson Man-dela..”

  I don’t know if the BBC’s political correspondent, Carole Walker, has a dog which she walks in the park but if she does she should not be alarmed if some man sidles up to her and slips her a brown envelope full of cash. That could well be a very grateful member of the Labour Party who has seen her latest report that provided apparent, and no doubt unintended, backing to Ed … Continue reading →

Andrew Mitchell must be scratching his head in wonder. Allegations that he called a police office a ‘pleb’ were headline news on the BBC…indeed the story is still on their frontpage today. There was absolutely no proof he said anything of the kind. Today we learn that Labour’s ‘Obama’ in waiting, the black MP Chuka Umunna, called Londoners enjoying a night out in the West End ‘Trash’….. ‘The former DJ, now … Continue reading →

I was amused by the declaration from the new BBC DG Tony Hall that trust is rising in the BBC. I wonder what makes him think this? Was it the Savile revelations perhaps, Jimmy the long time BBC star and serial paedo?  Perhaps it was how the thorough and entirely professional way that Newsnight tackled the allegations against Lord McAlpine? I wonder HOW Hall comes to this conclusion. I also … Continue reading →