After 800 years Ludlow Castle is collapsing in parts….why? (Today 08:37) Climate change is the answer…especially in the last two years…last year, we are told, was the second wettest on record. Only it wasn’t……1872 is the wettest followed by 1768.  The wettest decade was 1871-1880. Never mind that though. John Humphrys raised a half hearted objection  to that claim stating that ‘We’ve had lots of different weather through all those … Continue reading →

Is the BBC trying to make any talk about gay issues socially unacceptable….as it has with immigration? Talk about immigration and you are labelled a racist.  That silenced debate for decades….and allowed Labour unopposed to swamp Britain with immigrants. Talk critically of homosexuality and you’re probably gay yourself….and you don’t want people thinking that do you?   So you won’t discuss it. Or that might seem to be the latest ‘trick’ … Continue reading →

Sanctimonious, hypocritical, ridiculously unwilling to admit his own organisation’s failings, the holier than thou Humphrys launched an assault on the Catholic Church this morning on the Today programme. He claimed the Church was the ‘moral arbiter of the World‘…I thought the BBC had long ago usurped that position and appointed itself the judge and executioner of world affairs. Humphrys states that the Church’s Message cannot be delivered if the Church … Continue reading →

Another week comes along and so does the first new OPEN thread for you to detail the bias!

The Sunday Times (paywalled) reports that:   ‘The BBC has used license fee money to buy the silence of about 20 former staff who left claiming to have been the victims of bullying or sexual harassment.’ ‘The 20 people forced to sign the gags, called compromise agreements, are barred even from revealing they have signed such a deal.’ ‘On the morning of Valentine’s Day, John Humphrys, the presenter of Radio … Continue reading →

  Living with Calcutta’s record low temperatures 3 March 2013 Last updated at 00:03  By Rahul Tandon BBC News, Calcutta ‘Dressing for the cold has become a major talking point in Calcutta, where the temperatures are the lowest for a century. One piece of cold-weather gear appears to be de rigueur in this city – the monkey hat.’         Climate advocate Mike Hulme from the CRU, in … Continue reading →

Mark Mardell continues his unrequited love affair with Obama.

The BBC love Baroness Williams. Shirl the Pearl is a regular feature on their political programmes, and she was on Today this morning just before 9am. The item was about disaffection  within mainstream politics across Europe and the BBC flagged up how this had manifested itself across the EU, from Golden Dawn in Greece to UKIP in the UK. Yeah, I know. And just in case there was any residual … Continue reading →

The BBC continues its war against the ‘Tory led Coalition’ with yet more invented crises of ‘NHS privatisation’ or specious connections to disasters in the NHS and government ‘cuts’. The first example is from R4’s ‘You and Yours’ with Winifred Robinson demanding to know if NHS nurses, sponsored by medical manufacturers, are making unnecessary prescriptions to meet the sponsoring company’s targets making NHS costs shoot up. Unfortunately either the BBC … Continue reading →

The BBC’s film ‘Madness in the Desert: Paris to Dakar’  is a fine example of how to make a pig’s ear out of a silk purse….a  race that has all the adventure, drama and excitement that any film maker could ask for turns out to be a dreary, dull and tedious affair in the hands of the BBC. One thing though that did catch my attention was this phrase from … Continue reading →