FOOC featured Jeremy Bowen’s cosy chat with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Although we were told that Syria was a bit of a police state, the impression given was that Bowen’s sympathy lay with‘friendly and charming’ al-Assad, whose country had suffered the “trauma of creating Israel.”“The Turks never attacked Israel, never smuggled weapons, never did anything harmful to Israel. They only worked for peace,” he said.” In the web article there’s … Continue reading
Question Time tonight comes from Witney, the Westminster seat of David Cameron, and famous only for having had a woollen blanket making industry…now closed. On the first coalition Tory-free panel (no, Theresa May technically did count as one) we have Chris Huhne, Peter Hain, Jeffrey Donaldson, “Baroness” Helena Kennedy and Amanda Platell. For those playing the Buzzword Bingo, we’ll be playing the Lord Servile Rules which means players may bring a sub-machine … Continue reading
Here is a new open thread to keep you all going. I am sure my fellow writers will provide you with plenty of new material in my absence.. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Well, it is that time when I take a break from B-BBC. I’m off to Sorrento for a week of sunshine, relaxation and chianti. Hope you all keep well in my absence and behave yourselves! Best of all, no BBC for a week!! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
BBC insights on Islam… ‘Myself and everyone involved in the making of theseshows have nothing but respect for Islam. It is a beautiful religion (that Iindeed studied at University) and one that we’re fully aware of is based firmlyin love and peace.’ Colin Edwards BBCproducer ‘Islam is a vision of umma, of human community to whichis entrusted the trusteeship or stewardship of the planet. What an ideology for the good … Continue reading
Interesting catch here… “I was able to get quite close to the Muslims against Crusaders. The one with the loudhailer was going on about how dare the Royal Anglians “Come to this Muslim area”. A man near me yelled at him “This is a Christian area”. I yelled, “There was a Christian Abbey here in the year 600, (before Mohammed)” at which point a police officer asked me to move along. He … Continue reading
As provided by a BBBC reader… ‘BBC Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen has admitted in ananalysis article for the BBC News website that the recent strain in relationsbetween Israel and the US has been ‘enjoyable’. In ‘Analysis: Bleak climate for Mid-East talks,’published on Sunday 9 May, the head of Middle East coverage at the BBC examinedthe background to the recent resumption of (indirect) talks between Israel andthe Palestinians. In an … Continue reading
The City of Hull has just begun ‘Larkin 25′, a 25-week-long event, marking the 25th anniversary of the poet’s death on 2nd December 1985. BBC Radio 4′s ‘Front Row’ hosted by Mark Lawson, plugged the event, but spent at least half its time promoting the charges that Larkin was: a/ a misogynist; b/ a racist; c/ a Nazi sympathiser. No-one on the programme challenged these claims and even the suggestion … Continue reading
Three new items have just come through from Honest Reporting. I’m proud to boast that I have commented on these three topics myself in the last few days.1.) The one about the Al-Dura hoax which passed yet another stage in the legal battle between Phillipe Karsenty and France 2. This case establishes that once again the world rushed to condemn Israel prematurely. The big lie that spread around the world … Continue reading
John Humphrys writes for the Daily Mail about the EU and claims – with breathtaking arrogance that oozes from every condescending sentence – that the corporation might have been guilty of not recognising eurosceptics enough. Pardon? Which parallel BBC universe does he live in? He and his cohorts have ignored and poured scorn on euroscepticism for years; they have also made bias by omission (i.e not properly reporting EU affairs … Continue reading
