Of course there is an element of snark in this BBC piece on the latest Palin video but there is also a reluctant admission It is one minute and nine seconds of pure advertising genius – a dazzling calling card from the woman who, most now agree, wants to be president. The writer, Paul Adams, is naturally sniffy about the imagery, calling it “political bromide”. That had me laughing into … Continue reading
Anyone catch moonbat Amanda Foreman on with Brillo Pad on “This Week” last night? I was impressed by the utter delusionalism of her analysis of the US Mid-terms and one can understand WHY the BBC lined her up. With Jacqui Smith and Portillo lining up to mostly agree with Foreman, we had the BBC view manifest. Obama won, the Tea Party lost. All is well. You couldn’t make it up … Continue reading
My sincere thanks to the NUJ for saving me from Today. I am indebted. Wouldn’t it be great if everyday was like this? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
I have concluded that the BBC is frantically busy compiling the equivalent of the Malleus Maleficarum, the documentation of “proof” by the medieval Church that witches existed. Here, we have alien species – in this case, floating pennywort, a nasty invader from the nasty US – callously and viciously invading the pristine waterways of Northern Ireland. Here, strange men called Megonigels are devising new and ever more cunning ways of … Continue reading
Here’s Peter Allen introducing the post-midterm edition of Drive on BBC Radio Five Live yesterday: Listen! Depends where you stand. (Hat tip John Horne Tooke) Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Question Time tonight comes from Sheffield, a city with the world’s first ever official football club, 2 million trees and absolutely no Tory councillors. On the panel tonight we have David Davis MP, Jeremy Browne MP, Jack Straw MP, Universal Shami (to be fair, she hasn’t been somewhere on the BBC now for, ummm, a whole 10 minutes) and Jon Gaunt. For those playing the Buzzword Bingo, tonight’s panel has been … Continue reading
Anyone know how they’re filling the schedules? Fingers crossed for 48 hours of Bilko (about time that was back on the telly). Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Last month, B-BBC reader La Cumparista made the following comment on David Vance’s post about a BBC interview with a Man Booker Prize nominee: I would really like Howard Jacobson to win the Man Booker prize this year. Has he had much publicity on the BBC? Jacobson is listed with the others on BBC news briefs about the authors on the short list, but only Peter Carey got a special … Continue reading
So hands up who knew that the BBC still has a secret underground bunker, 10-floors deep into a mountain in the middle of nowhere, built during the Cold War in case there was a nuclear Armageddon? Buried 10 storeys into the hillside is a fully functioning nuclear bunker, built at great expense in 1966, at the height of the Cold War. So few people knew of its existence that, even when … Continue reading
Whatever you make of the slur on Band Aid, the BBC’s apology to Sir Bob must have posed a dilemma.On the one hand, one of their favourite enterprises, fundraising for charities, fronted by one of their favourite personalities, Sir Bob Geldof.On the other hand, one of the BBC’s most intransigent internal organisations, the complaints department indoors which must be obeyed.So the complaints department eventually capitulated, and Sir Bob was sufficiently … Continue reading
