When the US jobless figures came out last month showing a drop in unemployment, this was the BBC’s headline: Today’s figures show the unemployment rate has gone back up to 7.9%, so this time the BBC headline concentrates on jobs created instead: Note the phrase I’ve highlighted above. A few minutes after taking that screengrab I noticed the page had been updated (although the timestamp remained the same): Someone had … Continue reading →

On time and all ready for you to complete..a new OPEN THREAD to detail the bias from the State Broadcaster.

Have a read of THIS letter of complaint to the BBC from Conservative MP Peter Lilley concerning his treatment on Newsnight.

I wonder if anyone else shared my misfortune and watched Question Time last night? I thought it was a remarkably biased edition, focusing on matters American. The BBC’s Obama cheerleading came through with an outstandingly skewed panel and audience.  Did you see it? Thoughts? Was it fair and balanced?

Thanks to Alfie Pacino in the comments for pointing this out: BBC left-wing political bias illustrated through UK political funding revelations A freedom of information (FOI) response seen by The Commentator has revealed unjustifiable bias in the BBC’s approach to UK politcal parties. The freedom of information request shows that over the past 10 years, the BBC has spent £335,000 with the Labour Party, £295,000 with the Liberal Democrats and … Continue reading →

Let’s strip the BBC of its automatic right to the license fee and its status as ‘State Public Broadcaster’…let’s put that out to tender…’privatise’ the BBC….if it won’t change let’s change it!   The BBC is no longer the upright pillar of the community that it is supposed to be, and indeed still thinks it is. It is rotten and corrupt to the core…and that rottenness starts at the very … Continue reading →

A recent Washington Post poll found that nearly 3/4 of Americans support voter ID laws. The old, the poor and non-whites all back the measures: Moreover, big majorities of those whom critics see as bearing the brunt of the laws are supportive of them, including about three-quarters of seniors and those with household incomes under $50,000 and two-thirds of non-whites. In the Democrat state of Illinois even the president was … Continue reading →

Evan Davis was speaking today to the amiable old fellow Michael Heseltine….the Coalition must have a  death wish asking him to review their economic policies…. Davis has his own views on those policies….believing there are no policies at all, the Treasury, George Osborne that is, has given up governing and has surrendered the initiative by collapsing into a ‘defeatist apathetic’ huddle that has lost all hope of finding a way … Continue reading →

Wonder if the BBC will ever get round to investigating this from Guido: ‘Sources close to Linklaters whisper to Guido that while Leveson only asked for specific evidence from 2008 onwards, they collected testimony from Fred Michel dating back to the crucial election-that-never-was period in 2007 that was not heard at the inquiry. This includes embarrassing details of failed attempts by Brown’s aides to lobby Murdoch for support and more … Continue reading →

Stephanie Flanders is caught on the horns of a dilemma…no,  not which labour senior politician to date next but how to report seemingly all round political support for the self evidently daft idea of a ‘living wage’. In her recent programme about Keynes  Flanders pretty much used every one of Miliband’s latest ‘lines’ in her eulogy to the benefits of borrowing and spending more…but here, in this report, you might … Continue reading →