HORRIBLE HISTORIES….UPDATE

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An update for you. It starts at roughly17 minutes in at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snz1m Some jarring quotes: “A time when the Christian people of Europe decided to go to war with theIslamic people in the Middle East just becasue they didn’t believe in the samethings…hard to imagine I know.” “The Pope doesn’t like to share” “Heaven hungry Christians” “The Muslims weren’t about to take all this lying down, no, no, they FIGHTBACK” “Christians … Continue reading →

HORRIBLE HISTORIES….

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Anyone out there caught the BBC’s “Horrible Histories”? A B-BBC reader spotted this… “I had to gulp at the opening introduction. There was a reference to the Westerners deciding to go to war with the Muslims because ‘they happened to live there’ laced with sarcasm. The rest of the narrative was blantantly anti-west. Who wrote this script, I wonder? Am I being paranoid or have they completely missed the Muslim … Continue reading →

MENTAL HEALTH NO-BRAINERS…

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It’s odd that when the BBC runs a programme concerning the day release from a secure unit of violent offenders/sex offenders with mental health problem, the issue revolves around the fact that the offenders are “tagged” and whether this may be a civil rights violation. Not a mention of whether releasing these VERY violent people into the local community should be happening in the first place. I suppose in the … Continue reading →

MORE SEX EDUCATION, PU-LEASE

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Another story the BBC was always going to spin. There were half a million new cases of sexually transmitted diseases last yea with more and more younger people getting infected. Up pops the BBC report on this in the prime post 8am news slot and the angle is clear, we need MORE sex education and the budget for sex education must NOT be cut. Agenda clear. I don’t suppose anyone … Continue reading →

MAVERICK

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I had to laugh at the BBC’s treatment of US General James Conway’s remarks that Obama’s deadline to get out of Afghanistan is encouraging the Taliban. The General was speaking common sense, of course, but he has committed the unspeakable crime of contradicting Obama and the BBC was not impressed. He was dismissed as “a maverick” on the Today programme. Yes, leave the expert opinion of those in the theatre … Continue reading →