What’s the US military doing in a remote corner of the Philippines? Kate McGeown’s gone to find out.(12mins 30 secs) International terrorism brought the US troops to the islands….to advise and assist…‘and its clearly paying off’. And  look, the Filipino Jollibee restaurant chain is opening up franchises….   ‘The place is a bit safer now but also a bit more American too.’ Do I detect a bit of regret about … Continue reading →

The Guardinianista’s are up in arms about the Sun’s frontpage:     But not too bothered about the Star:     The Guardian’s Paul Harris though is most upset to see similar frontpages in New York and says: ‘But after having read about the scandal in the UK, what I was not expecting to see as I walked to work in New York was the same offence repeated in New … Continue reading →

‘There is no living musician who has been more influential than Bob Dylan.’ So he must have something worthwhile to say…. “I realized at the time that the press, the media, they’re not the judge – God’s the judge,” says Dylan. “The only person you have to think about lying twice to is either yourself or to God. The press isn’t either of them. And I just figured they’re irrelevant.” … Continue reading →

Had to laugh at this! The BBC will negotiate “tougher” contracts with new managers in future to avoid a repeat of the fiasco over George Entwistle’s £450,000 pay-off when he quit as director-general, Lord Patten has said. Oh really? Meanwhile… The appointment of a former Labour cabinet minister to a senior BBC job on a salary of almost £300,000 a year last night re-ignited concerns over the corporation’s links with … Continue reading →

I had the misfortune to listen to BBC Radio 4 “Saturday Live” this morning, presented by Rev Richard Coles and Sian Williams.  The special guest was Billy Bragg, yeah, I know. He was introduced as an intrepid fighter against “fascism” and the entire tone of the interview as simpering sycophancy. Bragg moaned about the fact that too many posh boys were in the charts these days and he proclaimed that … Continue reading →

The BBC pursues any Israeli weakness or fault with a vengeance that belies bias; Here is BBC Watch picking up the details… On February 14th – just one day after a report about a group of racist fans from the Beitar Jerusalem football club (one of two produced until then by the BBC) had finally given up the place it had held on the Middle East page of the BBC News website … Continue reading →

Here you go, better late than never! BBC bothering you, what’s the detail on it? Please spill the beans! I was on BBC5 LIVE this morning with Fi Glover and to be fair she gave me first and last word on the topic under discussion.

Harry’s Place explains it all: Lone voices against Terror   …expanding on Nick Cohen’s piece in The Spectator: ‘British Asian feminists and their supporters had gathered to launch the Centre for Secular Space an organisation whose work I would say is close to essential. It is not fashionable, however, because its focus is the collusion between the Anglo-American left and the Islamist right, which has betrayed so many Muslims and … Continue reading →

Thirteen years of Labour mis-government have been airbrushed from history by the BBC just like the Medieval Warm Period. We once had a Labour Prime Minister called Tony Blair and a Chancellor named Gordon Brown, who went on to become Prime Minister himself. If you only get your news from the BBC that all might come as a bit of a shock.   Today all that changed.  The archives have … Continue reading →

  In ‘In Our Time’ Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss ice ages, periods when a reduction in the surface temperature of the Earth has resulted in ice sheets at the Poles.   Melvyn Bragg has the decency to be seemingly embarrassed during this programme, presumably forced upon him….yet another global warming ‘persuader’ moulded to bring us into the fold….it was always clear where it was going to end up…and … Continue reading →