‘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
Friday arrives and so does an Open Thread to see us off into the blue yonder of a biased weekend from the BBC. Report what you find here!
Amazing amount of favourable publicity afforded to the Sutton Trust’s latest report on the Today programme this morning. Also used as an opportunity to mock Michael Gove. Yet isn’t the Sutton Trust a reliably left wing organisation? Why DOES the BBC get so excited about it’s press releases? Is it because any opportunity to somehow “do down” Gove is grabbed with relish? If our children really ARE lagging so far … Continue reading
Question Time tonight comes from Derby. On the panel we have Conservative MP Louise Mensch, Energy and “climate change” Secretary Ed Davey MP, former postman and occasional home secretary Alan Johnson MP, Sunday Times and Independent columnist Dominic Lawson, and John Lydon, former lead singer of the Sex Pistols and founder of the band Public Image Ltd. This Week will follow, and we have the standard lineup of Andrew Neil … Continue reading
Never quite sure about the ‘Wake Up To Money’ crew on 5Live….are they real financial journalists or have a bunch of school kids clambered in through a studio window to bluff us with gems from Google and Wikipedia? Apart from a determined effort to ignore any Labour connections to Libor a discussion about the new ‘Shard’ building in London caught my attention. What really started me thinking was their comment that … Continue reading
Today had an expose of a national television network that broadcasts propaganda for the government…..Syrian not British. Ghatan Sleiba, an ex-correspondent from a government affiliated news channel, met with the BBC’s James Reynolds near Turkey’s border with Syria and provided some insights into how the government controls the media’s message. The final words made me smile…. ‘The people can’t trust us…..the Syrian nation is a simple nation…they believe who ever … Continue reading
I’m wondering if the British Army which the BBC seems ever so concerned about today is in any way related to the British Army which the BBC routinely likes to run down as bloodthirsty mercenaries at every possible opportunity? Each time our brave soldiers go into battle, the BBC has been there to demoralise them; to undermine the legitimacy of the operations; to offer propaganda for their enemy. But today, … Continue reading
Wonder did anyone out there catch the debate on Today this morning concerning the claim from the Kids Company that there are “at least one million” kids in Britain who are starving? Well, when I say debate, it wasn’t. Instead we had two people, one from Netmums (who else? Yawn) and another from Leon restaurants who came on to agree that the one million starving figure was, if anything, underplaying … Continue reading
In this article in GQ we are delivered of some fascinating facts about the Guardian: Firstly that Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger admits the BBC is VAST. Second that the Guardian, losing £1 million a week, is sacrificing its journalism to make cuts…savings…or is it investing for the future? Third that Labour’s Lord Myners…he of the Libor inquiry, was Chairman of the Guardian Media Group….and a tax avoider big style. (So … Continue reading
