Continental Drift

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As deegee has been pointing out, if Barack Obama got it wrong by saying that Hawaii is in Asia, then the BBC News website has gone one better than the president on the ‘gaffe’ front. It now seems to think that both Australia and New Zealand are in Asia: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15768698 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15732012 The BBC’s World menu changed recently. The old Australasia/Pacific section has gone: Africa Asia Europe Latin America Middle East … Continue reading →

SLAP ON THE WRIST

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There’s an important investigation here by the Mail on Sunday of a grant to BBC environment “analyst” and greenie poster boy Roger Harrabin of £15,000 from the University of East Anglia’s climate centre, the outfit at the centre of Climategate. The cash, it is stated, was used to fund a range of climate change seminars. Mr Harrabin denies, of course, that the money has influenced his reporting…and the BBC itself … Continue reading →

BBC Censorship: Billions Down The Green Toilet Edition

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Everyone here is by now well aware of the Solyndra scandal, where the deadly combination of campaign cash influence and the Warmist ideology of Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, led the White House to give over half a billion dollars to a solar energy company, owned by a top Democrat money man, which they knew was going to fail.  Several people (DB, John Anderson, and Cassandara King, to name a … Continue reading →

NORTH OF THE BORDER

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Some interesting thoughts from a Biased BBC reader North of the border; “You may be interested to note that BBC Scotland has virtually shut down on all comment facilities on their ‘news’ threads.  Blether with Brian has pulled its comment section because the punters were not buying the pro-Labour spin being generated by the Tangerine Jelly as he is known to us Scots.  BBC Scotland in conjunction with Ian Gray … Continue reading →

LAZY

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Katty Kay on Twitter yesterday: BBC coverage of Obama’s “lazy” remark: No laziness from Kay earlier today – she fired out five tweets in a row all attacking Newt Gingrich. Meanwhile, the BBC continues to look the other way when it comes to America’s biggest ever crony capitalist. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.

QUESTION TIME LIVEBLOG 17TH NOVEMBER 2011

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Well, Question Time comes from the vowelly-challenged Aberystwyth and on the panel we have Grant Shapps, Chris Bryant, Elin Jones, Will Hutton and Sir Simon Jenkins. Regardless of that line up of dross, I am sure we will all gave a good time so come along, bring a bottle (or more, I fear you may need it!) and join the good natured banter. I’m hoping ASE and David Mosque will … Continue reading →

LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER?

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This man, Robert Lamb, appears to be at the heart of the BBC’s environmental programmes scandal. Surprise, surprise, he was trained as a BBC producer in the 1980s and has since become a one man blizzard of greenie programming. Two of the companies he has has set up and run have been named by the BBC trustees as “causing concern” because they accepted funding from external sources in alleged breach … Continue reading →