‘The Long View’ on R4 this morning discussed nations who ignore carnage and human rights violations in other countries because they support the country committing the violence. The examples compared were Syria today and Putin’s Russia blocking moves to change regime there, and the Ottoman Empire attacking Bulgaria in 1876 whilst Britain turned a blind eye because the Turks were a buffer preventing Russian encroachment into the Balkans and the … Continue reading
The BBC’s ‘Wake Up to Money’ programme on 5Live finally woke up to the world and started examining the claims that the Labour government may have urged Barclays to manipulate the Libor rate. Better late than never…and fair enough it was a rigorous interview with Andrew Sentance, former Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member, who said the Bank was “monitoring the level of Libor very closely at the height … Continue reading
John Redwood writes an open letter to the new DG, George Entwhistle. Unfortunately he falls into the usual Tory trap of being too polite and seems unwilling to really point the finger in an accusatory manner…Dan Hodges expresses thoughts I have long held about the Tories and why they so often do not get the good headlines…they lack the will to win and the ability to land a killer blow….most importantly they … Continue reading
Monday morning and it’s time that we put up a new one of these. The floor is yours…!
As has been brought to my attention, the BBC hate reporting any good news for the Coalition! The headline here is that Government cuts have proven to be more effective than planned, resulting in even lower spending. However the BBC’s desire to spin this as a negative has resulted in them posting an opinion piece in place an objective report. Everything from the seventh paragraph from the bottom is just political … Continue reading
As has been pointed out to me, €16bn in Aid for Afghanistan is reported here by the BBC in jubilant tones whilst the Taliban denial of the brutal execution of a Muslim woman is parroted. Just in case you got the idea the Taliban are murderous savages.
‘Today’ (0850) finished with a bit of barefaced cheek, or complete idiocy, having decided to discuss Osborne’s sparring with Balls in the Commons. The complaint was that surely the politicians should all be getting together to work out how to deal with the recession rather than engaging in a political bunfight, point scoring off each other. Well perhaps…but then how does ‘Today’, Britain’s premier political bunfight programme in its own right, … Continue reading
The BBC, acting in its capacity of being the UK extension of Barack Obama’s “Palace Guard” (aka the US mainstream media) led on the website with an item headed Romney and Republicans raise $100m in June Under the headline the text confirmed that Mitt Romney, the likely Republican candidate in this coming November’s Presidential election, had raised more money than Obama. At first glance one could have sensed from this … Continue reading
‘One lesson well understood in both Stalin’s Russia and Nazi Germany was that propaganda is most effective when it is backed by terror.’ In Britain today there are over two million National Socialists living mainly in large enclaves separate from the rest of British society. Their lives are guided by the tenets taken from a book that orders them not to make friends with anyone who is not a National … Continue reading
‘Today’ asks is Russia becoming more autocratic?: ‘Russia’s lower house of parliament will be debating a draft law later today which, if it is adopted, means that any non-governmental organisation in Russia receiving funding from abroad and considered to be engaged in political activity, will be labelled a “foreign agent”. Vyacheslav Nikonov, an MP from the leading party and one of the authors of the bill believes Russian democracy “needs … Continue reading
