Had to laugh at the interview with the Woodland Trust’s Sue Holden on Today this morning (7.42am). Sue was on to spout the usual spiel that we need many more forest, more trees, since this is good for our health apparently. Naturally there was no voice of opposition to Holden’s tree-mania. When it comes to their favourite causes, the BBC are very careful who they put up for interview and … Continue reading
I listened aghast to this 5 minute paean to the ritual humiliation of Her Majesty the Queen otherwise known as the Irish State Visit. Royal Correspondent Peter Hunt demonstrated a lamentable lack of objectivity, parroting the government propaganda line that this four day event has been transformational. Included in the interviews was one with a certain Jackie McDonald, a self styled “Brigadier” in the loathsome terrorist group, the UDA. That … Continue reading
Given the hostility shown towards Israel by Obama in his blustering speech yesterday, it was of course entirely predictable that the BBC would get very excited about it. We had Mark Mardell and Jeremy Bowen praising the wisdom of Obama whilst bemoaning the negativity of the Netanyahu response in equal measure. Then there is the careful and contrived BBC skirting around the genocidal anti-Semitism that drives “Palestinians” in the first … Continue reading
Question Time comes tonight, unbelievably, from inside HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs. Built in the 1880s by convict labour (imagine trying that today…can’t do that, it’s me uman rites, innit) – past inmates include escapee Soviet spy George Blake and the only UK Minister to have been confirmed as a Soviet spy John Stonehouse. On the panel we have Ken Clarke, Jack Straw, token right-winger Melanie Phillips and Universal Shami Chakrabarti. To be … Continue reading
Charlie Haden, an obscure jazz bassist whose hero is the murderous thug Che Guevara – to the extent that he has written whole albums in praise of him – is not widely known outside jazz circles. No matter, his hatred of Nixon, his opposition to the Vietnam war and his lifetime of “political causes” and “liberation” made him a perfect Today programme guest this morning. Reporter Nicola Standbridge virtually wet … Continue reading
BBC news journalism to a very large extent relies on reporting stories that fit an existing left-liberal narrative and ignoring stories which challenge this narrative – the classic example being the enormous disparities in their reporting of racist murder – those disparities relating to the ethnicity of both perpetrator and victim. Where BBC journalists go looking to make the news, by unearthing new facts or obtaining an admission from a … Continue reading
I’m posting this on behalf of “The Aged P”…with thanks to him for nailing this one. “Probably much consumption of valium at the Beeb this morning as the ONS reported a 36,000 drop in unemployment, the second consecutive quarterly fall. There are now 29.24 million in work against the May 2008 peak of 29.56 million, just before the Blair/Brown regime’s chickens came home to roost (sorry, Mr Balls, before the … Continue reading
Well, has Victoria Derbyshire taken Ken Clarke’s scalp following this? I don’t recall such a tough approach from her with Labour Minister’s during the Golden Years but that said, since I find Clarke a C.I.N.O. I hope he does get sacked. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Midweek and time for a new Open Thread as I can see the Monday one is already approaching the 200 mark! Happy with good old Auntie – no? Well, tell me why… Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Following his whipping in the recent local Council elections and the heavy loss in the AV poll, Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg evidently feels that he must be seen to be more hostile to the Coalition in which he sits. So he takes that unadulterated object of BBC worship – the NHS – and says he is opposed to the Coalition plan to improve it. The BBC lines up with Clegg … Continue reading
