Same Old story

Before 12:59, when it was updated, the top story on the BBC’s Middle East page was: “US urges Israel to end ‘isolation in Middle East’ “ Apparently US defence secretary Leon Panetta made another speech about Israel’s isolation.“Just get to the damn table” he urges Israel in his vernacularly vocal style.Just the other day, in October to be precise, he said more or less the same thing: “The most important … Continue reading

How the President’s Fecklessness and the Green Lobby Damage the Country and the World

A few months before the historic 2008 election, Senator Obamessiah declared His dream of transforming the US into a green energy economy. He promised to use His power to foster the development of green energy companies, reduce our dependency on foreign oil, and create five million green jobs. We all know how well that’s turned out, don’t we? He poured $4.7 billion down the Green toilet, creating precious few jobs, … Continue reading

Question Time LiveBlog 1st December 2011

Question Time tonight comes from Dagenham. On the panel Ken Clarke, Chuka Umunna, someone from Dragon’s Den called Deborah Meaden, Canadian-American journalist David Frum and union boss Mary Bousted. So David Frum is the token right-winger. Nobody would ever accuse Ken Clarke of filling that chair, could they? It’s a 10:30pm kick off. You know where to be. And how much alcohol to bring. <p><a href=”http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=f9a28087d2″ >Question Time 1st December 2011</a></p> … Continue reading

LEFTY COLUMNIST: WE DOMINATE BBC FLAGSHIP NEWS

Following Jeremy Clarkson’s comments about the strikers on The One Show yesterday, outraged Liberal Conspiracy editor and Guardian contributor Sunny Hundal tweeted: He received many replies, not least from fellow lefty and Guardian columnist Deborah Orr (wife of Will Self, one of the BBC’s favourite “controversial” lefties): “We dominate the really serious flagship slots.” Orr is only scratching the surface, but it’s interesting to see an insider’s take from within … Continue reading

BIASED BBC XMAS GIFT IDEAS

In the first of an occasional series dedicated to BBC-related Christmas gift ideas I would like to take this opportunity to draw our readers’ attention to the following items… Further Xmas gift recommendations from Biased BBC readers are welcome. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

SOCK-PUPPET BLACK

Spot the difference. Richard Black of the BBC leads the way in “sock-puppet journalism”. Jo Nova has a superb post showing how a select band of climate change eco-fanatics round the world have deployed 10 excuses to tell us that the Climategate emails should be ignored, for example, they are old, they were nicked, the timing is suspicious, or, the science is nevertheless valid. Surprise, surprise, Mr Black was the … Continue reading

FREE MASONRY?

Fascinating insight into the BBC’s Paul Mason here. “In what will doubtless be seen as further evidence of a Left-wing agenda at the BBC, Paul Mason, the economics editor of Newsnight, posits the case in a new book that the summer riots were part of a “global revolution”. The publishing house Verso gives a taste of the line that Mason takes inWhy It’s Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions … Continue reading

OPEN THREAD

Well, the public sector may be closed but we are OPEN and awaiting your comments. Just to let you know that I am going to be away for a few days on holiday so I pass the torch to my fellow writers. I shall return…,.. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

IN WORLD SERVICE, WE TRUST?

Here’s an interesting response to; BBC: World Service Trust Question Asked by Lord Laird “To ask Her Majesty’s Government why the Department for International Development has made a grant of £90 million to the BBC World Service Trust; what proportion of the trust’s income this grant represents; how they have assessed the cost-effectiveness of this grant; and whether they will place copies of the grant application correspondence in the Library … Continue reading