Jeremy Vine, BBC R2, has a new book out in which he relates many a story about his contacts with the Blair spin machine….Alastair Campbell and Mandelson….ALL SERIALISED IN THE DAILY MAIL: A piece in the Sunday Express ‘Cross Bencher’ reveals that the much vaunted BBC independence is easily sidestepped by the vigorous use of threats. Vine’s new book ‘pulled no punches’ in describing events and Alastair Campbell, also with … Continue reading →

I don’t think I can add anything to this story from the Telegraph  in which Newsnight’s resident Marxist, Paul Mason, gets a kick up the backside: ‘It’s not that bad to be a graduate, despite what Left-wing agitprop merchants like Paul Mason might tell you.’    

The mother of a British soldier in Afghanistan didn’t stick to the narrative in so many ways this morning on Nicky Campbell’s show (42 mins in,  Judy from Bracknall) in which he asked ‘Is the future of Afghanistan worth the price our troops are paying?’. That question alone should tell you all you need to know about the BBC’s attitude throughout the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The only time … Continue reading →

Strange article here on the BBC magazine site, and this caught my eye in particular.. And indeed there were Jewish anarchists in Europe, as there are Muslim extremists now. But there was never a Jewish problem in France, any more than there is a Muslim problem now Not sure the next of kin of those slaughtered in Toulouse might agree with that contention.

Interesting article here on the BBC concerning a massacre of Kenyan Christian by Islamic Jihadists. Now that’s the way I put it but the BBC article is more nuanced and it is quick to get a quote in from the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims condemning this latest atrocity from Al Shabab. The fourth paragraph almost suggests that Kenya had this coming for daring to deal with Al Shabab!

    Allah is our goal; the Prophet is our guide; the Quran is our constitution; Jihad is our way; and death for the glory of Allah is our greatest ambition. The BBC doesn’t like to frighten you with tales of Islamic jurisprudence but a good story’s a good story and needs to be told. Are you sitting comfortably?  Then we’ll begin. The BBC, and many others, wax lyrical about … Continue reading →

I’d seen this  in the Guardian the other day and was musing on how to work it into a post on BBC Bias….I could have used the usual ‘tenuous’ link of it being an ‘illustration of the BBC mindset’…..but to be fair the Guardian ‘proper’, and not CIF, does lay into the BBC at times whilst still retaining its lefty credentials (much like the Miliband brothers ) Fortuitously rather than … Continue reading →

“The power of the television networks does not lie in their economic power but in their ability to manipulate opinion. The degree of concentration in television is an attack on democracy. It gives them enormous power to extort.” A more dishonest appraisal of Europe would be hard to find in an astonishingly partisan piece about a European Referendum on Today with Evan Davis interviewing Peter Kellner…as Davis tells us ‘from the … Continue reading →

Normally that small but emotive phrase is used to honour and remember those who have either been prepared to sacrifice their lives or indeed have made that final sacrifice in order that the rest of us can live lives safe from tyranny, poverty and corruption.   Today I use it in another sense…Lest we forget just who lead us to the barren future that awaits us, that sacrificed all our futures and … Continue reading →