Writing on her blog in 2006 Katia Moskvitch says “In about a month I will finally graduate and become a “real” journalist!“ How’s that working out for her? Becoming a Russian reporter for the BBC was only the start – having demonstrated her scientific prowess with this Junior Wikipedia and GCSE textbook-fueled report on nuclear power we now witness her inevitable rise to: BBC News – Geoengineering ‘not a solution’ to … Continue reading
A Biased BBC reader writes… Newsnight (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00tkx6p/Newsnight_23_08_2010/13 minutes in) had a go at explaining how the niqab is an empowering choicemade by Muslim women without pressure from husbands or brothers or indeedclerics. (Yes, seriously) I watched it and then by coincidence was clearing out old newspaper clippingswhen I found one from the Sunday Times in 2006 about the teacher, Aishah Azmi,who wanted to wear the veil in class. She at … Continue reading
B-BBC readers may recall a small furore over my tweet a few months ago that the Hate Flotilla should be stopped in it’s tracks and “no messing this time”. Gosh but the BBC were so VERY keen to hear what I meant by that with my political opponents claiming that this was “incendiary” and indeed verging on “bigoted” and “hate speech”. I rather got the impression that the dear old … Continue reading
Here we go, such is the stunning demand, a NEW Open Thread! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Marie Stopes, the birth control pioneer, is an icon of BBC lefties, feminists and trendies, as this glowing tribute posted today on the BBC website makes clear. Reporter Howard Falcon-Lang shows his breatheless admiration for what he portrays as a saintly pioneer of Darwinian science (thousands of brownie points in the BBC lexicon)and ensuring that women should be “liberated” through sex manuals (another brownie point subject, especially for contemporary ones … Continue reading
The BBC reports that Northern Ireland’s Police Ombudsman is due to publish his report into the alleged involvement of a priest in a 1972 IRA bombing in County Londonderry.Nine people, including an eight-year-old girl, were killed in the village of Claudy in one of the most controversial incidents of the Troubles. I covered the topic here. It was such an atrocious act that even writing about it now angers me. … Continue reading
Have a read of this report from the BBC on the nature of the “dissident” IRA threat. The Dissidents claim thatthe vast majority are it’s members are ex Provisional IRA but on the same page the BBC’s correspondent says there is a small number of ex Provisional IRA. How odd! It’s almost as if the BBC is lining up behind the peace process establishment which would, of course, be bias. … Continue reading
Curious report here from the BBC suggesting that the CIA was in fact to blame for the “mass hysteria” that erupted in the small town of Pont Saint Espirit in south east France in 1951. Wonder why the BBC felt obliged to indulge Mike Thomson in this regard? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Interesting interview here concerning the decision by Eric Pickles to remove the Audit Commission on the basis it has become costly and inefficient and by axing it the taxpayer can be saved at least some cash Compare the treatment handed out to Michael O’Higgins of the Audit Commission with that dished out to Bob Neill from the Government. I wonder what it could be about the idea of Government axing … Continue reading
Just when you think the world can’t get any madder, or crueller… Saudi man ‘faces spine-op punishment’ A Saudi judge is reported to have asked hospitals if it is possible to cut the spinal cord of the man, found guilty of paralysing another man in a fight.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11045848 We’ve been waiting days now for the BBC to report this story – another instance of commenters here and elsewhere on the internet … Continue reading
