COMRADES UNITED

Did you see this? The threat of industrial action by BBC journalists and technicians during the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee weekend in June has been withdrawn. Unions had balloted for a strike over a “derisory” pay deal. But the NUJ, Bectu and Unite unions have now released a joint statement with the BBC saying they had agreed to “key principles” on pay, performance ratings and redeployment. I wonder why UNITE get such … Continue reading

THE WONDERS OF THE EURO..

A Biased BBC reader asks for help. Any suggestions for him? “For years the BBC told us, on travel and business programmes especially, that the Euro was wonderful and that we were denied its advantages by an unholy alliance of retired colonels, Margo&Jerry and the BNP. If I wanted to put together a compilation video of clips from all these ghastly state broadcasts, how would I go about gathering the material?” … Continue reading

BUSY AS A BEE…

Phew, wot a scorcher! Yesterday saw almost 15,000 visits to Biased BBC. Many thanks to you all. We are now well into the relaunched site and all seems to have settled down well. I notice a few old regulars seem to have vanished in transition, no idea why! Hope they find us again. That said, all are welcome here, friend and critics, and the final interesting stat is that since we … Continue reading

Mark Mardell – Anti-War Correspondent

Sometimes Mark Mardell just can’t help but express his opinion on world affairs. This time he’s expressing his disdain for the way US troops will continue to engage in military action in Afghanistan even though a decision has been made by the President to hand full military control over to the Afghan Government in 2014. The fact that he simply doesn’t understand what this means shows just how naive and … Continue reading

YOU SAY EURO, I SAY DRACHMA, LET’S CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF!

Biased BBC contributor Alan writes… “Pro Europeans fighting back…..Ball’s answer to massive debt is more debt, the BBC answer to Euro implosion is more Europe. Enoch Powell has for the BBC been a scurrilous, dangerous race baiter whose views on immigration were an outrage to a civilised nation…his warning that mass immigration could result in a rise in race attacks and xenophobia and conflict between communities were evidence of almost … Continue reading

ON THE SAME PAGE BUT NOT TOGETHER..

It’s Monday and a new week and so time for the BBC to try and open up a new schism in the Coalition if at all possible! This time, it’s Saint Vince Cable who calls sacking plans in Beecroft report  ‘the wrong approach.’  That’s the headline the BBC chose. But then if you read the article you find Cable also says when asked whether there was a difference of view between … Continue reading

CLEANING OUT THE AUGEAN STABLES…

This is interesting. Terry Smith on his blog Straight Talking has engaged with someone posting a comment on how the BBC in the interests of “balance” is not helping provide a serious forum to discuss the issue of austerity and cuts. Give it a read! “Where does Ann Pettifor come from? The information I can find online suggest she has never held a job in the real world by which I … Continue reading