COMPARE AND CONTRAST

Three interviews on Today this morning to contrast. First, EC President Barroso is allowed to waffle by John Humphyrs here with little interruption and a clear element of sympathy. The UK Chancellor Osborne is constantly interrupted by Sarah Montague at 7.50am here. Finally, Barclay’s Bank Chief Bob Diamond is assailed by John Humphyrs here. I’m sure the Occupy rabble will be happy with Humphyrs misrepresentation of Banking. How much does John … Continue reading

Occupy What Now?

On David Vance’s “That General Assembly” post from yesterday, DB posted a comment (his reply to mine at the top of the thread) about how a well-known clothing company, Men’s Wearhouse (an off-the-rack suit chain) spoke out in support of the Occupiers.  The dopey bearded CEO decided to have a store in Oakland put a sign of solidarity in the window. DB posted this picture of said window: The message … Continue reading

Question Time LiveBlog 3rd November 2011

Question Time tonight comes from Westminster Hall. On the panel tonight we have Home Secretary Theresa May, Ed “Blinky” Balls, sanctimonious old bat Shirley Williams, Peter Hitchens and vegan, ‘poet’, Green Party nutter and Animal Liberation Front terrorist supporting Benjamin Zephaniah. Nice. TheEye is able to join the Two Davids…Vance and Mosque…in the Moderators balcony tonight, so we all look forward to seeing you at 10:30pm! Question Time 3rd November … Continue reading

TREASONABLE?

The UK economy continues to teeter on the edge of recession, with all the misery that this entails. But Richard Black and his assorted greenie fascist chums want to push us even further down into the mire. Here, Mr Black wheels out a range of eco nuts led by the Committee on Climate Change (as well as his bosom buddies Oxfam and WWF, whose idea the shipping tax is) who … Continue reading

ENGLISH BREAKFAST?

It’s curious how the BBC treats some stories.  Take the one which suggests that lives in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland could be saved IF people adopted a more “English diet”. Cue disgruntled Scottish Professor to inform is how superior Scottish diet was and that it was only because of the economic disadvantage in Scotland that prevented “working class” people enjoying a better diet. Later on, I tuned into the … Continue reading

THAT GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Did you listen to this FAWNING interview with one of the Swampy’s gathered outside St.Paul’s this morning? Ms Colvin  could not have been treated with softer kid gloves by Evan Davies and I noted that he was extremely respectful to her repeated references to the all powerful decision making  “General Assembly” of the #OccupyLSX movement. It seems that the Nation must wait breathlessly on what the comrades in this ragbag … Continue reading

PAPANDREOU GONE

Another day and another concerted attack on Greek PM Papandreou by “the international community” and its mouthpieces such as the BBC. Did you catch this? David Buik was incredibly angry and outraged about the decision by the Greek PM to consult the Greek people – thus delivering the message the BBC wanted. Furthermore, the BBC itself is longing for Papandreou to lose the vote of confidence that will be held … Continue reading

Dumb and Dumber

Tweak a story to suit the presumed intelligence level of your audience, and you risk exposing the agenda. Omit a detail here, embellish another there, ignore chronology, obfuscate and gloss over, simplify and spin as you might do when explaining something nasty to a child. You want to make sure he knows what’s right and what’s wrong, without preaching or telling him in so many words. He must come to … Continue reading

ALL GREEK TO THE BBC

Another blow to the BBC. Greece’s cabinet has given unanimous backing to the plan by PM George Papandreou to hold a referendum on a EU debt rescue package. You will recall that only yesterday the BBC was hoping that perhaps Papandroeu would fail to win this backing, so another bad day for those living in the fetid Euro-swamps of the BBC. They wheeled on Elena Panaritis, an MP from the Greek … Continue reading