The BBC was today accused of working with Labour to maximise ‘political damage’ of spending cuts in an escalation of tensions with the government. ‘Gullible’ BBC acting as backing band to Labour’s attacks on spending cuts, claims Eric Pickles in fresh attack on TV news Communities Secretary steps up criticism of the BBC reporting Claims Labour is behaving like a 1980s tribute act with local BBC acting as a … Continue reading →

The last Open Thread seems to be bulging at the seams so here we go again……  

‘It’s surely not just me who, reading this, thinks of the BBC telling us, in the brazen untruth akin to O’Brien convincing Winston Smith that two plus two equals five, that we’re all going to fry and then drown. Perhaps 2013 isn’t so different from Nineteen Eighty-Four.’  Apologies to Stuart Jeffries of the Guardian….the irony of that.       Just as famous film stars such as John Wayne, Noel … Continue reading →

    The BBC fought a long war against the Iraq war and the ‘war on terror’, their fight began in fact by campaigning against the start of the Afghan war in 2001. The fight continues.  Having taken a drubbing from Hutton the BBC never misses a chance to ‘correct’ history and to change your perceptions and views  of the various wars. The latest piece of re-education is from ‘Book … Continue reading →

Whilst the BBC wouldn’t suppress ‘Jerry Springer’ after tens of thousands of complaints it does censor, off its own back, a play on the grounds that it might suggest that the beliefs and values of the Muslim Community are offensive…to the Muslim Comunity.   George R in the comments highlights this from the Independent: ‘A leading playwright has accused the BBC of an “extraordinary” act of censorship after the corporation … Continue reading →

I am horrendously busy so my apologies for the lateness in the provision of this! Off you go now, detail your concerns.

The Labour Leader’s ex-Moll Flanders makes a desperate attempt to make a case against Tory George Osborne……she asks him three questions and claims he would only answer one…shock horror…politician evades answering questions!….except, if she read her own piece, she would see that he did answer all three questions….just not giving the answer that Flander’s obviously wants.   Question 1: I asked George Osborne three questions this morning, minutes after the … Continue reading →

  Mark Easton adds to his file of opinionated pieces with this ‘report’ claiming that removing the DNA of people not convicted of any crime from the police database will result in more rapes, murders and serious crimes….oh those nasty Tories! ‘Will the government’s Protection of Freedoms Act lead to an increase in murders, rapes and other serious crimes? New research from the United States suggests it might.’ No equivocation … Continue reading →

The BBC were trailing this programme last week, ‘In Search of The British Dream’ (Tonight (28th) at 20:00 hr)…it is of course about immigration. Yes, really, the BBC investigating immigration and its effects on British culture, society and infrastructure such as housing, the NHS and schools. If that’s what you thought, you’d have been far from the truth.  Needless to say. What we actually get is a pro-immigration piece of … Continue reading →

You can learn as much about a country from its silences as you can from its obsessions. The issues politicians do not discuss are as telling and decisive as those they do. You can also learn a lot about  media organisations from the stories which they decide to cover and those they try to hide. The BBC has an increasing tendency to smother any report which would reflect badly upon … Continue reading →