Wyre Davies is a nice chap. Like Eric Idle, Wyre always looks on the bright side of life. He was in Tunisia, happily soaking up the atmosphere of optimism surrounding the glorious Arab Spring and basking in the warm glow of the inclusive and moderate Islamism of Rachid Ghannouchi’s newly elected Ennahda party. What a shame that Wyre had missed the joyous story of Ennahda’s first diplomatic move, their generous … Continue reading
BBC World Service journalist Piers Scholfield asks a question about Super PACs: What’s “a force for good” in the eyes of a BBC World Service journalist? The link takes you to this article about a Vermont-based Super PAC called “Americans For a Better Tomorrow, Today”. Here’s what they stand for: The group wants to highlight the issues and values brought into focus by the Occupy movement, including progressive tax policies, … Continue reading
The BBC really is the last bastion of defence for bloated Public Sector finances. Biased BBC contributor Alan notes; ‘Public sector workers will be “dramatically” better off in retirement and receive significantly higher wages than those in the private sector.’ Not so, suggests the BBC. Fascinating example of BBC deliberately down playing good news for the public sector employees and choosing words very carefully to give the facts but in … Continue reading
A Biased BBC reader observes; “Sean Coughlan,BBC education correspondent, reporting here on the BBC web page today about a Twitter-linked session of the Education Select Committee: “… when Mr Gove was asked about a campaign against turning Downhills Primary School in north London into an academy, he accused the protesters of being linked to the Socialist Workers Party – and described them as the “enemies of promise”. Mr Coughlan interposes … Continue reading
Day in Day Out, some within the BBC produce a relentless drumbeat to accompany the narrative that the Coalition is wrong in everything that it does. Take these consecutive items ran on Today this morning. First up is the a report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) which claims that the government’s public sector pension reforms are unlikely to save money in the long term. It looks like we just … Continue reading
Here’s a rather wonderful instance of anti GOP bias from our old pal, Jonny Dymond in which he characterises Obama’s opponents as the Party of “old white America.” Gosh, that sounds almost a tad…racist. It seems that Jonny has concluded that the Democrats have the election won so perhaps Romney, Gingrich and co should just give up now and keep Obama in the White House? No agenda being pursued here, clearly. Click … Continue reading
I got into a bit of a twitter debate with BBC Presenter Nicky Campbell yesterday. It started off with my tweet that I believed “same sex marriage is an oxymoron if you believe that Marriage is Biblically ordained”. Note the word IF. Anyway, Nicky seemed interested in this and started to pursue the subject of the Bible with me. I am an unapologetic believer in the Bible and Mr Campbell … Continue reading
Monday morning and time for a new Open Thread! Detail your observations here… Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
B-BBC contributor Alan also observes; “5 Live’s ‘Morning Report’ races to inform the population of impending doom before their ignorance kills them…… ‘The cost of flooding in the UK could rise to billions of pounds due to climate change by 2050….also there will be water shortages, drought and diseases.’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b019pq64 (17 mins in) And who do we get to advise us?.Craig Bennett from Friends of the Earth! ‘Food security will … Continue reading
B-BBC contributor Alan notes;“Another explanationfor why the ‘right-on’ Lefty liberals in the BBC hate Maggie Thatcher and are proIslam…and it has a nice symmetry…because it also gives them another reasonfor disliking Jewish people even more… Thatcher admired them: ‘Thatcher had no patience for anti-Semitism. “I simply did not understand it,”Thatcher wrote in her memoirs. Indeed, she found “some of [her] closestpolitical friends and associates among Jews.” “In the thirty-three years … Continue reading
