Ed Stourton asked for our views on the burqa. I didn’t know he cared, but now I do, here’s mine.I hate the burqa because it tells me that the wearer hates me. On the other hand, it’s hilarious. I’m against banning it because using the law as a sticking plaster to cover a self-inflicted wound is too little too late. Anyway, banning the burqa would give them yet another thing … Continue reading
Just another lively night in Grenoble according to the Beeb website….an armed gang robbed the local casino, police chased them, one of the robbers fired back and wounded an officer. The French police, instead of assembling a team of negotiators and counsellors, shot him dead. Parts of the city then erupted in riots as “protestors” demonstrated against police brutality. At first sight his sounds a little strange – is Grenoble … Continue reading
Yes, we know the refrain well enough by now. Those wicked Americans tortured all the poor innocent lambs held in captivity at Guantanamo and justice must be done. The BBC ran another story on this earlier today investigating British “collusion” on “torture” Here’s a story the BBC seems unaware of, wonder why? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Is it just me or is Laura Trevelyan not that happy about the news that BP seem to have a degree of success ij capping the spilling oil well in the Gulf? Throughout this period, the BBC seems to have aligned itself with Obama as he takes shots at BP – leading to the survival of the company itself being brought into question. What is it about British Petroleum the … Continue reading
In days of yore the BBC acquired a reputation for excellence. The world switched off their local news organs, suspicious they were being fed propaganda. They turned instead unto the BBC and they saw that it was good.Fastforward and into reverse. It has been said that Al Jazeera is now more impartial than the BBC. The lag between the BBC itself realising this and the media savvy public doing so … Continue reading
BBC News 24, reporting the government’s apparent intention to at last cut the extortionate, ever-rising BBC licence fee, described culture secretary Jeremy Hunt as being “aggressive” towards the corporation. How dare he suggest that the BBC should be part of cuts was the indignant tone, especially as sacrifices such as the closure of the Asian network were being made. Would that the same language was applied to Palestinian terrorists and … Continue reading
BBC website serial fantasist Mark Kinver spends his time combing the world looking for climate change alarmist tosh. His latest foray into the field is a full-scale scare story aimed – as ever – at terrifying our kids into believing that Red Sea coral reefs will stop growing by 2070 because sea temperatures will by then have risen so much that they will die. There’s just one problem in this … Continue reading
I found it interesting that a man who says he is the renegade Afghan soldier who killed three British troops in Helmand province in Afghanistan has contacted the BBC. The man said he had been angry at the conduct of British troops and that he had acted alone. He said he joined the Taliban after the attack. Well, he sure knew who to phone, didn’t he? Wonder do the Taliban … Continue reading
Yes, it is Friday and so time for a new Open Thread! Enjoy….. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
The BBC is opposed to war. In the mind of the State Broadcaster it is never right to defend a Nation by taking action against a foreign power. So, when we helped in the liberation of Iraq, it got very cross and still whinges about how “illegal” that war was. Of course even as it churned out a daily mantra of pessimism whilst our brave soldiers were doing their duty … Continue reading
