A search on the BBC website for ‘Occupy Wall Street‘ brings up pages of articles within the last month (the first appearing on 23rd September). There are now well over thirty articles just about the U.S. protests from that period. Compare that to an equivalent search for the ‘Tea Party‘. The movement took off in a big way during the first three months of 2009 and by April some half … Continue reading
I make no comment, I simply report; Rangers Football Club is withdrawing all co-operation with the BBC as of today. The decision has been taken due to the repeated difficulties the Club has encountered with the BBC this season.The Club was forced earlier in the season to suspend co-operation with the BBC over its serious misrepresentation of the Club manager’s position on violence and sectarianism. There have also been other … Continue reading
The wisdom of Occupy Wall Street protesters, via the Howard Stern show: For more radical insight from the Occupy movement check out David Thompson’s blog. UPDATE. For your amusement, via JammieWearingFool, here’s some hilarious piss-taking courtesy of Opie Radio. I don’t know who the woman is but she’s great: Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
I’ll be honest and state my own prejudice. I am pleased that Gilad Shalit is being freed today but I TOTALLY oppose the swap on the simple principle that rewarding terrorism usually ensures you get more of it. But it’s a big day for Israel and also for Hamastan. I was surprised to hear the BBC refer to Shalit’s five year incarceration as “detention” this morning. Detention, eh? Even after … Continue reading
It looks like Paul Mason’s witterings on the #Occupy movement are causing lots of concern. Here we have a take on his latest pronouncements from B-BBC’s Alan…“Paul Mason is quite scary…this man is the editor of Newsnight…supposedly a flagship BBC current affairs programme, and yet the editor is reliving his student days….romancing the revolution. The sheer idiocy of what he says is in fact probably beyond even what many a … Continue reading
Biased BBC contributor Alan writes…. “The Today programme interviewed Phil Bentley from British Gas and Chris Huhne the energy and climate change minister this morning. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/b006qj9z/console Prices are rising and the Today programme wants to know why. The government also wants to know why. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15308005 ‘David Cameron calls for action to cut energy bills. The government needs to work “harder and faster” to bring down energy bills, the prime minister has said … Continue reading
The BBC seems to be rallying behind the anarcho-communist rabble occupying St. Paul’s. With the Guardian contributing Thought got the Day providing Rev Giles Fraser on the scene banishing the Police whilst welcoming the great unwashed, it was predictable this was going to be presented in a particular way. But even I was unprepared for the BBC parroting the claim of one of those despoiling public space that “we know … Continue reading
Talk about a sympathetic hearing. You should listen to Sarah Montague’s 8.30am interview with Ali Soufan, “the FBI’s former chief interrogator in the Middle East” who has published what the BBC chooses to call “the fullest inside account to date of the US response to Al-Qaeda” In his book Black Banners, he alleges that the US government lied about how information was gained through torture and describes the tension between the … Continue reading
Given how porous our borders are, you have to admire the bare-faced cheek of fake Children’s Charity. They were on the BBC this morning to bitch about Government daring to stop and detain children at airports and ports. Spokesman Enver Solomon demonstrates a lamentable lack of wisdom although as ever it is only his point of view that we hear. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
So, when was the best time to be alive? One might suggest before BBC. (Very common era). I had a chuckle to myself at an item Today ran this morning at 8.20am. Two historians gave their views on when they would have liked to be alive. Kate Williams chose the era of Ancient Egypt because back then, women were treated as equals. Montague inquired as to whether this was the … Continue reading
