The full facts are not yet up on the BBC complaints site, but the Mail on Sunday today reports that the corporation has apologised to the vice-chancellor of the University of East Anglia because John Humphrys suggested on the Today show back in December that the Climategate emails may have shown that Phil Jones, the head of UEA’s climate research unit (CRU), had manipulated data. Stephen Mitchell, the BBC’s head … Continue reading
Melting glaciers are an essential part of the BBC’s AGW alamist narrative. Yesterday it was Greenland alarmism; back in June, it was that Mount Everest is becoming treacherous because of a deluge of meltwater. Mark Hendrickx has done some very thorough digging into the Everest claims, and found that at their root, as usual, is exaggeration and distortion. The source was a paper quoted in the IPCC AR4 report which … Continue reading
A Biased BBC reader spots the delights offered on RADIO 4 in just one day.. “Beyond Belief: Santuary” A look at Britain’s history of offering sanctuary to those fearing persecution. “The Mossad” The BBC’s Security Correspondent talks to the world’s most feared and fabledsecurity services. “Face The Facts” Is the legal aid system failing asylum lawyers and their clients? “Alan Johnson: Failed Rock Star” Alan Johnson meets people who have … Continue reading
An iceberg four times the size of Manhattan has calved from one of the main Greenland glaciers. As What’s Up With That? quickly pointed out last night, it’s entirely normal for this to happen; a far bigger iceberg similarly calved from the same glacier in 1962, well before even the most ardent warmists claim that CO2 was fomenting our doom. WUWT also warned that the media would be swift to … Continue reading
It’s Friday, these Open Threads get overwhelmed with great comments after a few days, so time for a new one to see us through until Monday! The floor is yours….so, what is the BBC saying that annoys you? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
The BBC seems outraged that Banks make profit. Today, it seems affronted that RBS has made a half-year profit of £1.1bn. We have Peston droning on each morning, and the BBC not being able to make it through a sentence on RBS without reminding us that the “tax-payer” owns 84% of this bank. The way I see it, the license-payer owns 100% of the BBC and it doesn’t provide us … Continue reading
It amazes me how often Mona Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic Studies and Director for the Study of Islam, gets a bully-pulpit on Thought for the Day. She was on AGAIN this morning, extolling Islam’s quest for academic excellence. Last time I checked in parts of the Islamic world education meets an explosive demise. It is very odd how Islamicn scholars get such prominence on the BBC given the minority status … Continue reading
For almost a week now, the BBC has been flogging the dead horse of the “tensions” caused by Cameron’s straight-talking concerning elements within the Pakistani establishment being sympathetic to terrorism. I am sorry if I am being repetitive on it but it is amazing to turn on the radio or TV each day and see the BBC coat-trail this non-story as if it were a matter of great global concern. … Continue reading
OK, the attack line is clear. When it comes to Foreign Policy, Conservative leader David Cameron is “a klutz”. The BBC delighting here in a non-event comment where he accidentally suggested that Iran – the nexus of evil – had a nuclear weapon. Whether he actually said what is being suggested by Labour, and promoted by the BBC, is beside the point because the BBC then uses the same item … Continue reading
Greenies want to control with jackboots, writs and taxes every aspect of our behaviour under the cloak of “sustainability”. This is chillingly illustrated in the latest offering in the BBC’s regular platform for fanatics, the Green Room. Here, a career agitator called Owen Gaffney, who works for the the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP)- an international body so incredibly manipulative in its goals that it is beyond Orwell’s worst nightmares – … Continue reading
