Lies, Damn Lies, And Statistics

Flanders rounds off her portraits of influential economic thinkers with a Marxist mirage. Ostensibly about Marx it was really just a vehicle to propagate the usual BBC rhetoric about inequality, Thatcher and the rich getting richer.   Flanders, like Marx, seems to have no interest in finding the truth but more in proclaiming it.  She embodies the virtues that Marx displayed…the poet, journalist and moralist….producing a fascinating fusion of visual … Continue reading

MR CAMERON – WHEN DID YOU STOP BEATING YOUR WIFE?

Last week, as Labour prepared for their conference, the BBC shilled about how “united” they were. One week on, as the Conservatives prepare for their conference, the meme is “division”…oh, and “cuts”…. “Further cuts to welfare, including curbs on housing benefit, may be needed to help fight the deficit, David Cameron has warned. Speaking on first day of the Conservative Party conference, the prime minister said housing benefit may be … Continue reading

Savile Row

Just as they hid Savile’s abuses to keep a legend going and the whole edifice that was built up around him on the road the BBC does the same for Marx and the Left.   Which is more sinister – The Swastika or the Hammer and Sickle? Some thoughts on the death of Professor Eric Hobsbawm Peter Hitchen’s asks a question that the BBC never does….. ‘Sometimes I see a … Continue reading

JEREMY VINE SEEKS SOLACE IN ROMNEY DEBATE CONSPIRACY

It seems that the BBC’s Jeremy Vine can’t accept the fact that Obama got his butt kicked fair and square by Romney in the first debate. In a desperate attempt to rationalise the beloved Obama’s defeat he is peddling a ridiculous conspiracy theory from lefty website Democratic Underground: WATCH. Eleven seconds in, did Mitt Romney use a magician’s sleight of hand to produce notes, which are banned? democraticunderground.com/1251119479 — Jeremy … Continue reading

Someone’s Got To Make The Tea

Wonder if the BBC feels any embarrassment when it lectures us so sternly on wimmin’s rights? Caroline Thomson has once again lifted the veil on the BBC Bubble….a little ungrateful considering she walked off with a pension pot of £1.7 million, and as she was made redundant she no doubt received a hefty golden handshake.   Why hasn’t a woman ever run the BBC?  It is quite clear how much … Continue reading

Any Questions?

  Amused but not surprised to hear Union Baron, Len McCluskey, saying that John Pienaar gave the perfect analysis of Miliband’s speech. Probably because Pienaar found nothing of value to say about it in any critical or meaningful way. Here’s some questions the BBC could and should ask but don’t: Will Ed Balls have to rewrite future speeches about public sector business genius giving us the Olympics….in light of rail failures, NHS … Continue reading