Now that the..ahem… “world’s highest moral authority” the UN has finally gotten around to authorising “all necessary measures” – short of soldiers going in – the BBC has instantly responded in tried and tested manner. Mark Mardell was on Today just after 7am telling us that thanks to Obama’s decision not to show leadership, this has enabled the UN to show leadership. However whilst the BBC pays tribute to Obama … Continue reading
Question Time tonight comes from Eastbourne, which boasts of being the sunniest place in Britain based only on a freak statistic from 1911 and is the location of the third most popular suicide spot in the UK. The ashes of Frederick Engels were scattered there upon his death. Marvellous. On the panel tonight we have…well, it’s just surreal. Question Time’s favourite minority box-ticker Baroness Warsi, the Labour guy who posed … Continue reading
Is The Arab World another world? Separate from the ordinary one?I thought the world was just the world, inhabited, but not owned, by various groups, creatures and vegetation. But if I was wrong, and the Arabs own a world, or part of the world I occupy, who owns my bit? Should we call it the Infidel World?Or is the Arab World like the World of Leather, not a world at … Continue reading
On Fridaynight, 11th March, a family of Jews werekilled in the West Bank. Once more the world saw Jews being killed forbeing Jews. Three of the victims werechildren, the youngest a baby of 3 months. This photoof the victims has been readily available since the 12thMarch. Nowhere has it appeared on BBCOnline. It is normal that photos ofmurder victims do appear in reports on their murder. It humanises the victims and … Continue reading
No sooner had I posted my complaints about Mark Mardell’s continued, slavish defense of the President and use of the BBC website to set forth his own personal opinions on foreign policy, the BBC’s North America editor put up another post on the matter. Actually he’s done two posts, but I’ll get to the second one in a minute. The Enigma Variations As if in rebuttal to my post, Mardell … Continue reading
I see that the BBC now uses China as voice seeking openness and transparency. Just waiting for the State Broadcaster to give North Korea an opportunity to also berate the Japanese. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Any attempt by Cameron to tackle the relentless abuse of the UK education system by those claiming to be foreign students coming from outside the EU (From Pakistan, for example) was always going to annoy the BBC. So on Today, at 8.35am on comes the oleaginous Keith Vaz to tell us about the “enormous damage” any attempt to staunch th is unwelcome and dangerous inward flow will have on our Universities. … Continue reading
The BBC and how it treats Islam and Christianity. A B-BBC reader informs; “The BBC continues its assault on Christianity and the Bible ( ‘a monstrous book that does more evil than good’ Melvyn Bragg suggests many people think). Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou has been given a primetime BBC Two series, ‘The Bible’s Buried Secrets’, in which she makes a number of startling suggestions. The good doctor works at Exeter University … Continue reading
A B-BBC readers writes!“The BBC has declarednuclear power not just potentially risky or even dangerous but actually ‘Evil’. On ‘Wake up to money this morning, at around 10.50 mins the presenter asks is it a necessary evil and says toKeith Parker, chief executive of the Nuclear Industry Association that heobviously would not say it is evil…’… but it is isn’t it’?He then makes sure we understand….’…there is a very evil by-product ofit…’. More … Continue reading
I would have thought that most decent people would feel that Wootton Bassett thoroughly deserves the Royal In it’s title, as announced by David Cameron today. However what to make of this piece from the BBC which instantly goes to a REPUBLICAN group for a reaction? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
