Sorry for the delay in putting this up but had a problem accessing the server this morning. A NEW open thread for you…

Certain this must be a sweep stake in the BBC news room…how fast will some one notice the deliberate evasiveness?….. ‘Three men from Birmingham have appeared in court accused of plotting to attack members of the English Defence League. Our correspondent says the defendants, all with dark hair and beards, wore black sweatshirts and trousers as they sat in the dock at Tuesday’s hearing.’ Guess I’ve just won someone a … Continue reading →

If you want a laugh, I suggest you tune into this programme on BBC Radio 4 this afternoon. In No Extremists Please- We’re British! Trevor Phillips, the chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, conducts a personal investigation into why extremist parties have never gained a significant electoral foothold in Britain; he asks whether there’s something inherent in the mindset of the white working class voter that makes us … Continue reading →

Anyone catch the Today programme this morning and the BBC doing it’s very best to extract an apology from Hague for Osborne suggesting that Ed Balls “had questions” to answer over the fixing of Libor? My goodness but Ed must be happy with his pals at Broadcasting House and their valiant attempts to protect his good name. I mean the very idea that those people in the Labour Government with … Continue reading →

  Listen to this, Marr’s ‘Start the Week’, and you will hear some outlandish stuff though standard fare for the BBC. First an ‘ex-Muslim radical’, Maajid Nawaz, who helped found Quilliam along with also ex-Muslim radical Ed Husain….having read the books and heard them speak I conclude the ‘ex-radical’ may be a bit premature…they seem to still aim for the same ends just with a softly softly approach. Then an … Continue reading →

‘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 →