The arrogance is stunning. The BBC Trust cannot be trusted! Failed director general George Entwistle’s ‘obscene’ £450,000 pay-off was signed off by a BBC Trust boss as she watched Strictly Come Dancing, it has been revealed. Lord Patten telephoned his deputy Diana Coyle during the hit show on Saturday evening and they agreed that Entwistle should get double what he was entitled to if he did the ‘honourable’ thing and quit. After the … Continue reading →

  Bad Timing or what!!!   The BBC’s Martin Plaut  opens up…..Guido has the low down Who or what do you hate and why? Tories. As Aneurin Bevan said: ‘No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.’   Ich Bin Kentishtowner: Martin Plaut, … Continue reading →

Oh Dear what can the matter be?  Was it all Tim Davie’s fault? Kevin Marsh, ex Today Ed. explains…… Remember, George Entwistle told John Humphrys in the fatal Today interview that the Newsnight McAlpine film had been signed off “at management board level” – normally it would have been what’s known in the BBC as the News Board, usually chaired by the Head of News, Helen Boaden. The BBC Trust … Continue reading →

Site traffic is at an all time high! So here is a new one of these before the Monday one explodes. Over to you..

Thanks to GCooper in the comments who points out this revelation  (science writer Maurizio Morabito has unearthed a list – once hosted on the IBT’s website and now stored in the Wayback Machine‘s cache of the internet.) that the BBC tried to hide…and it’s a funny thing…can’t see many of the ‘best scientific experts’ amongst that bunch….lot of environmental pressure groups, businessmen, academics, media and charities….just a shame we don’t … Continue reading →

Saw this on Guido originally and thought exactly the same as the Telegraph fella….but thought nah!…must be more to this bloke Davie than that……. A rude, swaggering barrow boy. Meet the Beeb’s new (acting) DG – worse than the old one Seems not.   Only blessing is there’s only one of him…Not Davies!

Why hasn’t Lord Patten resigned yet? He is clinging on to his quanocracy but he needs to go. The BBC Trust is now the BBC DISTRUST. Go, in god’s name, Patten, and go now.

Here’s the first attempt at thinking through a solution to  the BBC’s problems that I’ve seen. Of course it depends what you think those problems are…and this is Labour’s Tessa Jowell: BBC crisis: let the public run our national broadcaster The BBC can weather this storm if we eradicate its culture of moral smugness The problems it faces are serious and need swift resolution, but they should not be allowed … Continue reading →

Shame the BBC can’t tell us what will happen if we don’t get borrowing under control…what would happen then?  Greece?   Never mind they can tell us, in ‘intimate detail’ the ‘cost’ of the spending restrictions, or is that savings?,  on people’s lives…..at least we get one side of the story! …and remember children….if you have no food on the table and the bailiffs are knocking and the dog’s got … Continue reading →

    “I have fought three elections against the BBC and don’t want to fight another against it.” Margaret Thatcher     You have to grin when you hear the BBC great and the good running round with their fingers in their ears shouting about tight budgets, Hutton and top management being to blame….where have we heard similar before? ‘The Daily Star, though quite accurately at the time, and possibly … Continue reading →