And another little gem from the BBC this morning at 7.09am. At a time when the eurocrats have shot themselves in the foot with their demanded bank heist of savers deposits in Cypriot banks, the BBC’s Chris Morris was in Italy, in Rome. He was talking to the Chief Executive of an Italian bank who was assuring the world that Italy’s banks were as sound as an….erm..Euro! Morris then SUGGESTED … Continue reading →

You have to smile at the way in which the BBC moves to get the first strike in ANYTIME that Cameron starts to act in the national interest. There was this item on Today that made me laugh at the sheer inherent anti Conservative BIAS of it. God forbid we seek to place the interests of British people ahead of those of immigrants; Speaking on the Today programme Jonathan Portes, … Continue reading →

      Something to chew on for our readers. Sue and Craig who used to post here have set up their own site reporting on bias in the BBC….‘Is The BBC Biased?’ They say that the reason for doing so was that they were being stereotyped and labelled because of their views…and secondly that the comments below the posts were too aggressive and cliched. Certainly there are attempts by … Continue reading →

  No sign of Miss Israel 2012, Shani Hazan, on the BBC:       For some reason we have an encyclopaedic entry for Miss israel 2013:     An immigrant from Ethiopia when she was 12 years old, Yityish Aynaw learnt Hebrew with no extra help and served as an officer in the Israeli army.  Those Israelis must be terrible people allowing that. The BBC can’t let all that success go without … Continue reading →

The BBC have launched an extraordinary hatchet job on Boris Johnson. using some pretty ancient history (the Guppy phone call  made the news in 1995)….no coincidence that the newspapers have in the last few days been full of stories that the successful and popular Boris looks like going for the leadership of the Tory Party…..the BBC’s Eddie Mair making the highly personal and opinionated comment that Boris is a ‘nasty piece of … Continue reading →

  ‘Flandering  V [flarn-der-in’]’:    Floundering whilst flimflamming on Labour’s behalf.   Fun day yesterday listening to the BBC old guard forming a ragged thin red line around Labour’s battered and discredited leadership just as Labour’s very own Old Guard are doing the BBC’s job and holding Labour to account. Yesterday as mentioned in an earlier post the Mirror’s Brian Reade launched an attack on Labour’s record on the economy and now, today, … Continue reading →

I thought this was a rather good point sent my way by Rodney Atkinson; I am must say I have always been incensed by the presumed right of the comic and BBC classes to insult everyone else and deny the insulted the right of equal – or indeed any – reply. I note that the new PRESS Royal Charter allows this, by making prominent or front page apologies (depending on the … Continue reading →

Hi folks. This is the official Friday thread. We have this new sticky thread thing which keeps the Open Thread top of the page but I’m not sure it works that well? Thoughts on a postcard?

  We know that it was the ‘rightwing Press’ that was opposed to press regulation by politicians…we know because we are bombarded with such messages from the likes of Alistair Campbell and ‘Hacked Off’  voicing off on the BBC…..the BBC doesn’t attempt to discourage that view. As far as I know only the Independent has come out in favour of the new regulations to date. The Guardian seems to be … Continue reading →