"The editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme has admitted sending a presenter on a flight to Sweden to meet climate activist Greta Thunberg 'felt awkward'. The 16-year-old campaigner, who was a guest editor on a special edition of the show, avoids air travel because of its environmental impact. The BBC sent presenter Mishal Husain on a return flight to Stockholm to interview her."
This is where the BBC are hypocrites. They burn air miles and taxi miles with no genuine regard for the environment.
Their mission is to get the story or make the programme. Attenborough progs, Thunberg, Glastonbury, Olympics - it doesn't really matter to them how many staff are burning carbon around the world yet they preach and spew their propaganda on the green agenda to the masses.
They must have about 50 people out in the USA, flying back and forth all the time. Absolutely no need. They could just take a feed from a few American news channels.
At the time, i remember thinking that this JM QC was a complete narcissist for getting wound up about the camera focusing on Joanna Cherry rather than the pair of them. Although he dressed it up as some kind of bias argument (bias against what i'm not sure). Since his attention-seeking tweet about fox-murdering on boxing day i think it is clear that the man is just desperate for attention.
Not sure why i feel the need to point this out but i think his complaint in september and his tweet on boxing day are related somehow.
Can't help thinking that the BBC's reporting of the honours list address release cock-up seems to be framed as the fault of the "government" (Boris and the wicked tories) rather than some civil service administrative incompetence, which should result in some new year P45 deliveries. The BBC is desperately looking for the next "Grenfell" moment, they must be sorry Australia is so far away...
It's odd that we never see any minutes of BBC News editorial meetings leaked. Leaks only occur when a whistleblower disagrees with the content. It's unlikely that there is any disagreement within the BBC. They all sing from the same hymn sheet.
The BBC is still leading with the Honours list, both on the main and local news.
The Police and Crime commissioner for West Midlands who happens to be a Labour activist was more explicit than the main news by blaming Priti Patel and demanding her to apologise and take responsibility for the breach.
As you might expect, the BBC didn’t mention his political allegiance when they gave him a platform to rant.
I just watched the main news at 5.30pm on BBC One. Chris Buckler, Washington correspondent blamed President Trump for the Jewish stabbings in a very pointed accusation. He said there is a hate crime problem in the US and it is all fuelled by Trump even though the White House will deny it.
Hardly objective reporting. He must have been groomed by Zurcher, Sopel and Bryant.
Odd - I thought it was Obama who attended an anti-semitic racist church for 20 years of his adult life, with Michelle...been written out of the records completely now (anyone seen any mention of Rev Jeremiah Wright on the BBC in connection with the Obamas in the last 5 years?).
Despite being wrong about the economy and Brexit every time, Mark Carney has waded into the climate debate and says ‘The world will face irreversible heating unless firms shift priorities soon.’
Carney is no expert on climate change, he has an opinion, fair enough, but the BBC accepts him as an expert and as usual Roger Harrabin reports the warning without challenge because it mirrors his worldview.
I did actually take a look at the Stern Report from 2008 I think it was, when it came out - commissioned by Gordon Brown - which was all about climate change and really gave climate alarmism in the UK a big push. As I recall, the huge report set out hundreds of negative outcomes from climate change and not a single positive one. How can that be?
The most obvious positive outcome would be that vast areas currently unable to produce wheat or trees would become super-productive. We too could produce a wider range of produce.
Also, how many trillions across the globe are spent each year on coping with the climate as it is now? Everything from sun blinds, to damp proof courses, to flood defences, to coastal embankments, to air conditioning units, to fridges and freezers, to tumble dryers, to wet grip tyres, to drains, to umbrellas, to wellington boots, to porches, to central heating, to roof tiles.
Probably 20% of our economy globally already relates one way or another to dealing with climate. Climate change may add a small amount of additional epxenditure but a lot of expenditure will be substituted for other expenditure.
Climate change will create hundreds of billions of pounds of new business opportunities of course.
Stern was a bit like a stone age man in Africa saying "there's no point in going north out of this land...you'll find the climate will change...it will get colder...you'll have to wear animal skins all day long, light big fires to keep warm and build houses out of stone, because it will be so stormy up there...honestly, it will be a complete disaster".
Why would Carney say that? Perhaps The Guardian knows why? - "Mark Carney has been appointed as UN special envoy for climate action and finance as he prepares to step down as governor of the Bank of England in January."
On Only Connect aired last night, Victoria felt the need to reinforce her credentials as 'very BBC'. She told us that the Christmas edition of the programme was made in Cardiff - and what a marvellous multiethnic team she had around her - listing their ethnicity.
We have said often enough that the white ageing male presenters' days might be numbered - could the white just-about-ageing female presenters feel equally under threat?
Only Connect teams have an air of traditional British eccentricity about them. Good for them, I say - but how does this fit with the overarching BBC agenda?
How weird. But then BBC folk prefer to be weird if it means they can preserve their careers. Coren's in a difficult position - hosting an elitist quiz, wrong extracurricular activity (gambling), wrong pigmentation, wrong ethnicity and wrong accent.
The radio moment of the decade has just happened, apparently.
To BBC metro-liberals perhaps. But not for the rest of us.
Jeremy Vine tweeted this yesterday Attenborough and Thunberg talking to each other for the first time (on @BBCr4today, right now) is surely the radio moment of the decade, just as it closes. Well done @BBC @MishalHusain
Lol - laughable!!! Someone who engaged in TV fakery for years to fool the public, never admitting it once, speaks to someone starting out on a career based on statistical fakery and emotional blackmail, which will be proven wrong in the years to come.
I am sure we all have fond memories of Attenborough from childhood but we all know his career would have been over 15 years ago if he he hadn't come out as an extreme climate alarmist. That's the only reason the BBC have let him stagger on into his 90s.
I can almost hear Kirsty and Jeremy cooing that line from the old "Three Degrees" song, imploring the British public: "When will we share precious moments?"
And the response has to be: "Er, never. Scrap the licence fee. That'll be the best kind of shared moment."
Just a reminder that the senior pastor of a church the Obamas attended for 20 years was a racist, a supporter of Malcolm X (who welcomed the deaths of white American children in an airline disaster - something the BBC can never remember) and someone who voiced anti-semitic conspiracy theories.
Can you imagine how the BBC would mention this every time Trump's name came up, if he had attended a similar sort of church for 20 years, supporting white supremacism?
When reporting the rise of the national minimum wage which has grown 13% faster than inflation in 10 years , the BBC chose to focus on a negative.
Andy Verity bemoaned the fact that wages for ‘joe average’ haven’t gone up at all in that time. He remarked that it was a strange situation because we seem to be adding jobs rather than increasing wages.
All of this dancing around the facts was to avoid saying that mass immigration is keeping wages down.
Well I did watch Hootenanny... it was noticeably absent of anti-Tory and anti-Boris jibes and even Stormzy kept going on about "British this" and "British that" like his advisors had told him to go easy on all the "Britain is racist" krap.
So a small result after a year that turned out better than we could have expected. I do get the feeling that the BBC are restraining their bias tendencies...that doesn't mean they are becoming more unbiased, jsut that they feel the need to disguise their bias a little more effectively.
Still, all this is down to two people: Boris and Dominic (Cummings - not Raab)! Without those two individuals we would be well and truly heading for perdition. Thank God Boris studied Churchill and wrote a biography of him is all I can say, it clearly put iron in his blood.
Boris has shown more spine than any other PM for the last 75 years.
Just to show you the kind of thing that the BBC's terrible twin in Australia,the taxpayer-funded leftist ABC, has been getting up to (and away with) lately. https://www.spectator.com.au/2020/01/luvvie-laura-and-their-abcs-problem-with-abusive-behaviour/?fbclid=IwAR3SnDJ1Rl1xX4gwkFnCoeCwMwb4fYWk5R6yeCyRRHpYoZjOlBy44fxNdm0
During 2020 we should address the question of ITBBCB? by asking: WHY - ITBBCB? I can't find a satisfactory answer to this question. Do the BBC see themselves as crusaders valiantly flying the flag of PC ideology when the majority of Licence-payers are not persuaded? Do they expect that their minority view will gradually defeat the majority of their own customers? It's the first rule of commerce - listen to the customer.
Why do the BBC suppose that by rejecting the views of the Licence-payer that they will ultimately be respected, that we might applaud these visionaries, and that their efforts will be rewarded by the majority coming around to their worldview?
I think the BBC hold to a perversion of the Orwell quote: “If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” The 'right' has become an excuse to serve up little else.
Spot-on Arthur! I've been struck by the number of post-election conversations I've heard in which a large element of celebrating Boris's victory has been sheer joy at giving the Beeb a poke in the eye! HNY to one and all!
I thought I'd come across a PC-free article on the BBC Website that I could recommend, all about the mysterious fate met by 9 students on a cross-country skiing trip in the Urals. It's a very interesting read (though I don't know why the possibility that the students picked the wrong sort of mushrooms and added them to their evening stew hasn't occurred to anyone - throwing off clothes and bizarre, sometimes violent or self-harming behaviour is a well known consequence of eating some poisonous mushrooms). However, just as they are getting to the finishing line, the writer has to spoil it all with this:
"Conspiracies help unite powerless people against an "other"..."
Really - so illiterate! Do they mean conspiracies or conspiracy theories? Conspiracies are real phenomena, BBC! The use of the "other" reference is a real alarm bell: PC Thought Control ahead.
It then gets worse..."The West is still reeling over accusations of election meddling, the Dyatlov mystery is a reminder that rumours of subversion of the truth by hidden forces are nothing new for the Russian people." Eh? Where are these proofs of election meddling that have left us "reeling" in the "West". It's just one of those conspiracy theories beloved of BBC Islingtonians, which gives the lie to the idea that conspiracy theories are the province only of "powerless people".
What a shame that such an interesting article had to finish off with all that PC guff!
Interesting article on Spiked '2019: the year the media lost the plot' which includes, of course, the BBC, not least in recalling its extreme bias against Brexit; also references an earlier Craig-like exercise analysing the 'balance' of Leave / Remain guests on flagship programme Question Time, and a complaint upheld against Maitlis of Newsnight for spitting bile at Rod Liddle.
There was also a steady background drum beat of menace: Trump is a would be dictator who won the Presidency because of the Russians...we are an increasingly divided society...hate crime is rising...populism is breeding hate...Boris Johnson is a populist, so he too is breeding hate...
The drumbeat is still going on, with no evidential basis whatsoever.
I like the article's reference to the "Rorymania" episode...when our MSM couldn't have been further from the mass of people. Rory Stewart, proposing a Chamberlain-like appeasement policy of capitulation, and with virtually no leadership skills himself (unless his weird spaced-out grin is supposed to count as "leadership quality") was probably the antithesis of what the British people and Conservative Party members were looking for by summer 2019.
But our mad media couldn't see it! They really did think Wee Rory was the acme of ability and the bright lamp of charisma!!!
I think you're right...I think maybe Hugh Schofield was another who did the same. Pretty sure Emily Maitlis was promoting him on her twitter account. She was still promoting him on Dec 10 with a retweet! lol
Ever wondered how we got to here, with the BBC or anything else? I came across a long article online by Julie Bindel on how the current trans ideology took hold in the media and how the press, even The Sun, work with the trans lobby and how the Home Affairs Select Committee, chaired by Yvette Cooper, got stuck into the press as well.
Most fascinating to me is the bit about the BBC - scroll down a bit less than halfway to a paragraph beginning 'But if Viner is struggling to strike a balance, the BBC appears not to even try....' and what she has to say about the BBC's appointment of Megha Mohan, the corporation’s first “gender and identity correspondent” and Ben Hunte, “LGBT correspondent”, the opinions of other journalists within the BBC about those appointments, and the crucial question of why the BBC made them. https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/january-2020/triumph-of-the-trans-lobbyists/
Personally I am not at all worried about the loony trans-lobby...even if they got their way on everything they are only about 0.01% of the population and people's everyday life as men and women would be largely unaffected.
This is quite different from the pro-no-borders lobby which has completely taken over the BBC so that all asylum seekers become genuine refugees, all persons claiming to be child refugees become "children", all migration is good for the economy, and mass migration brings no serious problems with it, quite the reverse it is a positive good in all aspects.
As a result of this lobby we continue with a situation where we allow in over half a million people from abroad every year - or 5 million per decade.
Add to that the pro-Islam lobby which has taken over the BBC and which seeks to brainwash the public into believing that Islam is a religion of peace and that Islam is compatible with democracy, political liberty and freedom of speech.
Add to that the climate death-cult lobby which has been shown the welcome mat at the BBC: that is trying to convince us we face a mass extinction as a species because of a little extra CO2 in the atmosphere and wants us to decarbonise within 5 years - something which would result in the deaths of millions and human misery all round.
Add to that the race lobby which also has been fully accepted by the BBC. This claims that all inequality of outcome between ethnic groups is due to racism and colonialism (despite the fact that many people from ex colonial parts are doing disproportionately well in law, medicine, commerce, broadcasting and finance) and seeks reparations and discriminatory action to remedy the inequalities.
The Daily Mail tells us Lord Hall has been girding himself for a fight and telling his troops in a New Year message that his personal mission is to be less London-centric. Don't tell me he's been reading the runes - like his Labour Blairite friends - and has suddenly discovered the regions. And to rally them further, he proclaims that the BBC and its values have never been more needed at this time in our history and they must be confident in the face of challenges about bias and continue the battle against fake news. Onwards! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7845955/Lord-Hall-says-making-BBC-London-centric-personal-priority.html
Relocating or recruiting a load of bbc metro-liberal journalists in to the provinces won’t work.
They already do loads of regional programmes which spew out London driven pc narratives that alienate the regions and push them further away from the BBC.
They really don’t get it - with their mission to educate us with cultural Marxism.
Quite agree Charlie. In fact the creation of BBC Scotland just confirmed Scotland's status as an SNP fiefdom.
What is required is full and respectful reflection of democratic political opinion across the full range in its news and current affairs, together with the full range of cultural orientation.
Another BBC reality check- another travesty by lack of facts and analysis.
Someone has just googled and lifted stuff from a Wikipedia and the CIA factbook .
It is just amateur journalism, gives no real insight to Iranian capabilities and offers no comparison to the US defence and attack weaponry.
How on earth do they get away with such rubbish as a national broadcaster with unparalleled resources? Are they not ashamed of repeatedly publishing reality checks of such low quality?
Paris Villejuif stabbings: Attacker shot dead after killing one and injuring others.
The BBC have reported this attack but failed to point out he was wearing a suicide vest. Every other report I’ve seen states that fact but it has been omitted by the BBC. I wonder why?
Not sure Adrian Chiles quite grasps the intricacies of climatology but at least his heart is in the right place and he would get a smile rather than the more typical scowl from St Greta...
This morning on Radio 5 Live (about 11.10am I think) I heard him opine that if climate change wasn't tackled the WHOLE planet would be "on fire"! lol Yep...he obviously doesn't know that previous major warming periods on Planet Earth have led to a huge expansion of lush tropical forest not Australian style desert...(and someone should tell him that that tropical forest doesn't burn very easily).
Meanwhile we are told by the Met Office that the last decade of the century was the second hottest ever! Wow!! What are the chances of that? Hmmm, about the same as it being the sixth hottest, or the hottest for that matter, viewed statistically.
I think any intelligent person would be deeply unimpressed by this information.
I'll also be more impressed by the domesday reports from Australia once the temperatures reach the 1939 levels (over 50).
The sad thing about climate alarmism is that it begins to spread a deep cynicism. When we are all still here (Iran willing) in 2025 and Greta's threats of human extinction, now another billion people have been added to our population on Earth, people will begin to associate environmentalism with sham science and false claims.
This is bad because we are doing serious damage to the natural environment and we need to start reversing that process.
Australia has been hotter and bush fires have been over a greater area before...in fact 80 years ago, when CO2 emissions were much, much smaller in comparison with today.
The odd thing about the climate change warriors is that they don't seem to realise that claiming the "worst fires in 80 years" means they were this bad 80 years ago.
Same with "hottest day in last 50 years" actually means it was hotter 50 years ago, because otherwise they would have said "hottest day ever since records began". Hiding the truth is what they are good at but the truth eventually rumbles them as we are now at 2020, the date when the apocalypse of flooding, melting and roasting was supposed to be overwhelming us if the forecasts from the 1980s and 1990s were accurate. The "10 more years to save the planet" seems to be a moving feast, moving yearly until they all have to say "we've moved past the point of no return, and we're all going to die in the next 10 years" which will make children cry and mental hospitals overflow with depressed folk who have given up the will to live.
Quite, that's my first thought. And there's a fair bet it was even worse than that 150 years ago!
They also are never honest about the amount of "statistical assumptions" (confidence intervals and the like) which go into making assessments about sea level rise, world temperature and so on (let alone the climate modelling of the future). Such assumptions can make a very significant difference. Don't think that a message comes over the intercom from a NASA satellite saying "The world got hotter by 0.1 degree celsius last year."! Humans make decisions about how to use the data and that is how figures about warming are arrived at.
But, as we know, there is huge social pressure on scientists, bureaucrats and data handlers to sign up to the "climate change" narrative. To think such pressure doesn't affect results would be naive in my view.
Similarly the report that the last decade was cooler that the one before could (that overused word so loved by the AWG crowd) indicate that things are getting cooler.
I read a report in the Sunday Times yesterday about a man having been poisoned by ricin...the allegation being it had been made from castor beans and his mother reportedly told neighbours she had been contaminated with the poison as well...
I thought - WTF! What's going on there in Manchester...
To my mind this should be top of the news! But in the modern era it's a case of "Move back folks - nothing to see here!"
I decided to check out the BBC. They have the story on the Manchester page. But now it is a v. anodyne report. Apparently the man consumed "poisonous seeds"...Poor old world class £5 billion BBC could work out what seeds they might be...just "poisonous".
Nothing about his mother screaming to neighbours to keep away. Nothing about castor plant seeds.
This reminds me of another poisoning story reported in the papers a week or so ago about three young women finding pills in their late-night takeaway kebabs:
One of the most annoying things about BBC-MSM coverage of the Iran crisis is that they refer to crowds chanting "Death to America" as though it is in reaction to Trump's killing of their General. But let me do a Reality Check here: Iran's Mullahs have orchestrated "Death to America" crowd chants EVERY SINGLE WEEK after Friday prayers since the Revolution triumphed.
All that has happened is the crowds are bigger. But our media have a responsibility to inform people of the reality and the reality is that the Iranian Mullah regime has been seeking the ultimate (actual not metaphorical) destruction of the USA and its allies for the last 40 plus years.
It's interesting to compare these crowds of 'hundreds of thousands' with those being reported by the BBC during the People's Vote in the Autumn of 2019.
The BBC still love a story where they can blame Brexit.
UK Car registrations is one where they can pile in and give Brexit a good kicking. There are other reasons of course, but none so sweet as the one caught in their cross hairs.
"Look thither my Lord, a goodly and noble knight doth came this way..."
"Let the trumpets announce: the Fair Goodall doth approach!! What news bring thee, good sir?"
"Hail, well met my lords -I bring thee News of the Night...I shall give great account of such battles and clashes that ere will be!"
"Speak on my Lord Goodall!!"
"King Boris shall meet his demise. Already great fractures and diverse contentions doth tear apart his ranks that once were of one voice. King Boris shall not succeed in the making of those great treaties and pacts on trade and commerce across the wind-tossed sea. Yet more news: there will arise a Great Lord of Labour to replace the Red Knight and challenge King Boris for rule of this blessed land. With Prince Rory across the water, he shall make common cause to unseat the Tyrant Boris."
"What name will this bold Lord go by?"
"Why Goodall of course..."
"My Lord, what news of Good Nick Watt who did in times past, though not long gone, give report as though hast done this night."
"Why - such foolish questions are not for this hour...he is now much reduced in rank...'tis best you forget his name as the dust under your feet is left behind by your shoe."
Awful bias by the Egregious Emma on Radio 5 Live re the Cyprus case. A "feminist" lawyer allowed to come on and basically say the woman was innocent of lying and the Cypriot legal system was unjust, with no challenge being made to the statements, only encouragement being given.
The BBC seem to be deploying their selective amnesia policy here. Cyprus is an EU Member State with an independent and honest judiciary according to the EU. When the EU Commission go after Poland and Holland (for political reasons) claiming their judiciary's independence and quality is being compromised, the BBC are eager to get on the high horse with the Commission. But now, it seems that the Cypriot judicial system has to be considered as being on par with that of a corrupt banana republic, according to our Emma.
There was no push-back against any of the claims. The ultrafeminist lawyer argued that "vulnerable" women should not be prosecuted when they made false claims of rape. Really? Really??? A licence to lie and destroy a man if you're "vulnerable". "Vulnerable" women are prosecuted all the time for crimes including neglect of their offspring, shop lifting, failure to pay the TV licence fee, and drunken violence. Why should they be excepted in the case of such lying allegations and perversion of the course of justice - extremely serious crimes? Egregious Emma didn't even ask the question.
This is how the BBC are. They really don't care about justice being done, they care about PC virtue signalling fake justice being seen to be done.
I've no idea about the rights and wrongs of this particular case (and I'm not sure anyone else has) - it's quite possible the woman has been dreadfully wronged - but no way was this an impartial treatment of the case.
Go on BBC. We know you read ITBBCB. Do you dare to report that more than 180 alleged arsonists have been arrested in Australia since the start of the bushfire season? https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/bushfires-firebugs-fuelling-crisis-asarson-arresttollhits183/news-story/52536dc9ca9bb87b7c76d36ed1acf53f
I guess they might try the old "nanosecond" gambit have it on the website for as near a nanosecond as they can reasonably get away with it, claiming they "covered it".
Also, they are not reporting how the areas of bush fires have been so low in previous decades in the run up to this year in New South Wales...all the while carbon emissions have been increasing...
They are also not reporting that temperatures in NSW were much hotter in 1939.
This year has certainly seen a huge spike in fires but there have been similar spikes in previous decades, long before the modern obsession with carbon emissions.
Why can't we have a rational discussion about climate change rather than a virtue signalling one? The climate changes all the time, so no one - well no one I know of - is denying that it is changing now, and most likely is hotter than it was, say, 50 years. But 50 years ago, it was colder (not warmer) than 50 years before. So do we really know what's going on?
The factors determining climate are incredibly complex and and not all known yet. There also seems to be something akin to an element of randomness (chaos theory, the butterfly effect and all that), so that small shifts in starting conditions can have big effects.
The BBC is anti-rational, closing off debate and true science by declaring "the science is settled" and de-platforming from its channels anyone who disagrees.
Can we ever have a rational debate about anything these days, especially when the BBC gets stuck in with its agenda? Anything from the EU, the health service, immigration and population, education system, sex education, state benefits, islam, children wanting to change sex, voting ages, environment and climate, crime, drugs, American Presidents, royalty...the list is endless. The BBC is not a promoter or facilitator of open discussion and free debate on opinions and ideas. More of an obstacle.
A New Year, a new decade...and the BBC is back in the groove, racialising everything and race-baiting the Great British Public. They never learn do they?
This time on WATO - it's the BAFTAs - not enough people of colour getting awards apparently. It's as if the BBC won't be satisified until every awards ceremony has to dole out its pathetic bling items on a race-by-race basis.
It would be comical were it not so very, very dangerous. Once you go down this racialising road, there is no stopping, because you are never going to achieve perfect "equality of outcome". All you are doing is creating a resentment culture...and that nearly always ends up in tears - big tears.
Also, it's extremely hypocritical of the BBC. Take Newsnight...they have just appointed yet another white male - Lewis Goddard - to take up an important reporting role on the programme, to go along with the all-white presentation team. I can't actually think of a single Black or Asian (in the BBC sense) member of the Newsnight team, unless you are going to count "Swaying" Ben Chu.
Obviously they must have been having a discussion at PC Central about the disastrous Labour result. Mr Soros is probably quite angry with the failure of the Left and the Remainers after all the money he ploughed in...He wants some new policies and fast to get the British voting Left again.
Tony's probably explained. "It's migration, Mr Soros, that the thing...it's tricky for us to go into reverse on that after 30 years of talking up the wonderful benefits of mass migration." At which point the Boss must have told me to get it sorted.
After a long chat with Alistair Campbell trying to think of the one person who they could put up to call for an end to unrestrained mass immigration, the wily PR man shouts "Got it! St Brendan!! The left will have to pause before they lay into him..."
Alistair is soon enthused with the genius of his own idea. "I'll phone up Lewis and see if we can get him on Newsnight..."
Just looked at the comments again...could be going better! The Left are piling in, raging and foaming...if he thought his saintly status would protect from lunatic criticism of such a mild and anodyne statement, he was very, very wrong!
St Brendan seems to have caught - and reflected - a glimpse of light yet fallen foul of the fetid, foam-flecked, far-left fecker fiends. Thoughts and prayers.
The tweet's had 1200 responses, 1300 retweets and nearly 8000 likes...looks like the baited trap is working.
Virtually all the responses - from Leftist Remainer "moderates" and Far Left one worlders alike - are negative, many abusively so.
I'd love to know who put him up to this. I do not believe he sat down one morning and thought: "You know what, I think I'll pen a tweet today which is strongly pro-migration control. You know, that thing I normally say is indicative of being a Far Right Hater Not Hoper, like Boris Johnson."
Someone's had a word with him, I'll lay money on it...Alistair Campbell?...well some cunning and conniving type. Cox was laying into RLB's speech before the migration control tweet, so I am sure - like all his stuff - it is highly political and probably in this case related to the Labour Leadership battle.
I'm guessing they (whoever "they" are) are aiming to make this a talking point, and get St Brendan on the main news shows. They hope then that RLB or other lefties associated with her will say something nasty in response and they can then pile in with "How dare you sully Jo's memory etc etc..."
I was looking at Cox's twitter timeline yesterday evening, and it struck me as being very apparent that he's firmly nailing his Labour leadership colours to the Jess Phillips mast.
Nothing explicit, but all the usual Twitter retweets, nudges and winks in that direction.
The BBC continue with their sombre reporting of the Soleimani killing. They seem to have changed tack today and now just use it as an opportunity to criticise Pres. Trump and Boris. Nick Bryant, Jeremy Bowen And John Pienaar piled in tonight. We learned nothing new from their reports other than their obvious dislike of Trumps action and Boris’s silence. They all seem to like the word ‘assassination’ though and use it repeatedly.
If you relied for your news on the BBC you would never realise that both Trump and Brazil's President Bolsonaro have been the victims of serious assassination attempts. Imagine if they were leftist Obama or Clinton types! It would be mentioned by the BBC every time they got a chance.
Because of the bias by omission, I think probably 95% of the UK population aren't even aware that the person who tried to assassinate Trump was a young British man, clearly warped by all the vicious anti-Trump propaganda on the BBC and in the MSM.
"The editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme has admitted sending a presenter on a flight to Sweden to meet climate activist Greta Thunberg 'felt awkward'. The 16-year-old campaigner, who was a guest editor on a special edition of the show, avoids air travel because of its environmental impact. The BBC sent presenter Mishal Husain on a return flight to Stockholm to interview her."
ReplyDeleteThis is where the BBC are hypocrites. They burn air miles and taxi miles with no genuine regard for the environment.
Their mission is to get the story or make the programme. Attenborough progs, Thunberg, Glastonbury, Olympics - it doesn't really matter to them how many staff are burning carbon around the world yet they preach and spew their propaganda on the green agenda to the masses.
They have no shame.
They must have about 50 people out in the USA, flying back and forth all the time. Absolutely no need. They could just take a feed from a few American news channels.
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At the time, i remember thinking that this JM QC was a complete narcissist for getting wound up about the camera focusing on Joanna Cherry rather than the pair of them. Although he dressed it up as some kind of bias argument (bias against what i'm not sure). Since his attention-seeking tweet about fox-murdering on boxing day i think it is clear that the man is just desperate for attention.
Not sure why i feel the need to point this out but i think his complaint in september and his tweet on boxing day are related somehow.
Very much so...they all have "issues" apart from Remain.
DeleteCan't help thinking that the BBC's reporting of the honours list address release cock-up seems to be framed as the fault of the "government" (Boris and the wicked tories) rather than some civil service administrative incompetence, which should result in some new year P45 deliveries. The BBC is desperately looking for the next "Grenfell" moment, they must be sorry Australia is so far away...
ReplyDeleteIt's odd that we never see any minutes of BBC News editorial meetings leaked. Leaks only occur when a whistleblower disagrees with the content. It's unlikely that there is any disagreement within the BBC. They all sing from the same hymn sheet.
DeleteThe BBC is still leading with the Honours list, both on the main and local news.
DeleteThe Police and Crime commissioner for West Midlands who happens to be a Labour activist was more explicit than the main news by blaming Priti Patel and demanding her to apologise and take responsibility for the breach.
As you might expect, the BBC didn’t mention his political allegiance when they gave him a platform to rant.
I just watched the main news at 5.30pm on BBC One. Chris Buckler, Washington correspondent blamed President Trump for the Jewish stabbings in a very pointed accusation. He said there is a hate crime problem in the US and it is all fuelled by Trump even though the White House will deny it.
ReplyDeleteHardly objective reporting. He must have been groomed by Zurcher, Sopel and Bryant.
Odd - I thought it was Obama who attended an anti-semitic racist church for 20 years of his adult life, with Michelle...been written out of the records completely now (anyone seen any mention of Rev Jeremiah Wright on the BBC in connection with the Obamas in the last 5 years?).
DeleteThree-quarters of Britons want the BBC licence fee SCRAPPED as ex-Ofcom chair calls for a Netflix-style subscription model to replace it
ReplyDeletehttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7834303/Three-quarters-Britons-want-BBC-licence-fee-scrapped.html
Despite being wrong about the economy and Brexit every time, Mark Carney has waded into the climate debate and says ‘The world will face irreversible heating unless firms shift priorities soon.’
ReplyDeleteCarney is no expert on climate change, he has an opinion, fair enough, but the BBC accepts him as an expert and as usual Roger Harrabin reports the warning without challenge because it mirrors his worldview.
And Maitlis wonders why we denigrate experts....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50868717
Nicely put.
DeleteI did actually take a look at the Stern Report from 2008 I think it was, when it came out - commissioned by Gordon Brown - which was all about climate change and really gave climate alarmism in the UK a big push. As I recall, the huge report set out hundreds of negative outcomes from climate change and not a single positive one. How can that be?
The most obvious positive outcome would be that vast areas currently unable to produce wheat or trees would become super-productive. We too could produce a wider range of produce.
Also, how many trillions across the globe are spent each year on coping with the climate as it is now? Everything from sun blinds, to damp proof courses, to flood defences, to coastal embankments, to air conditioning units, to fridges and freezers, to tumble dryers, to wet grip tyres, to drains, to umbrellas, to wellington boots, to porches, to central heating, to roof tiles.
Probably 20% of our economy globally already relates one way or another to dealing with climate. Climate change may add a small amount of additional epxenditure but a lot of expenditure will be substituted for other expenditure.
Climate change will create hundreds of billions of pounds of new business opportunities of course.
Stern was a bit like a stone age man in Africa saying "there's no point in going north out of this land...you'll find the climate will change...it will get colder...you'll have to wear animal skins all day long, light big fires to keep warm and build houses out of stone, because it will be so stormy up there...honestly, it will be a complete disaster".
Why would Carney say that? Perhaps The Guardian knows why? - "Mark Carney has been appointed as UN special envoy for climate action and finance as he prepares to step down as governor of the Bank of England in January."
DeleteThanks Anon - now all is clear!! HMV is playing a new record after "Brexit Will Be Bad" failed to chart.
DeleteThink of the future wine production here, as France becomes saharified.
DeleteOn Only Connect aired last night, Victoria felt the need to reinforce her credentials as 'very BBC'. She told us that the Christmas edition of the programme was made in Cardiff - and what a marvellous multiethnic team she had around her - listing their ethnicity.
ReplyDeleteWe have said often enough that the white ageing male presenters' days might be numbered - could the white just-about-ageing female presenters feel equally under threat?
Only Connect teams have an air of traditional British eccentricity about them. Good for them, I say - but how does this fit with the overarching BBC agenda?
How weird. But then BBC folk prefer to be weird if it means they can preserve their careers. Coren's in a difficult position - hosting an elitist quiz, wrong extracurricular activity (gambling), wrong pigmentation, wrong ethnicity and wrong accent.
DeleteBut the correct politics, husband and worldview. If you want to stay in BBC employment, one has to play the game darling.
DeleteShared moments, Kirsty Wark and BBC style.
ReplyDeleteThe radio moment of the decade has just happened, apparently.
To BBC metro-liberals perhaps. But not for the rest of us.
Jeremy Vine tweeted this yesterday
Attenborough and Thunberg talking to each other for the first time (on @BBCr4today, right now) is surely the radio moment of the decade, just as it closes. Well done @BBC @MishalHusain
Lol - laughable!!! Someone who engaged in TV fakery for years to fool the public, never admitting it once, speaks to someone starting out on a career based on statistical fakery and emotional blackmail, which will be proven wrong in the years to come.
DeleteI am sure we all have fond memories of Attenborough from childhood but we all know his career would have been over 15 years ago if he he hadn't come out as an extreme climate alarmist. That's the only reason the BBC have let him stagger on into his 90s.
I can almost hear Kirsty and Jeremy cooing that line from the old "Three Degrees" song, imploring the British public: "When will we share precious moments?"
DeleteAnd the response has to be: "Er, never. Scrap the licence fee. That'll be the best kind of shared moment."
Just a reminder that the senior pastor of a church the Obamas attended for 20 years was a racist, a supporter of Malcolm X (who welcomed the deaths of white American children in an airline disaster - something the BBC can never remember) and someone who voiced anti-semitic conspiracy theories.
DeleteCan you imagine how the BBC would mention this every time Trump's name came up, if he had attended a similar sort of church for 20 years, supporting white supremacism?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Wright_controversy#%22The_Day_of_Jerusalem's_Fall%22
And Trump is a practising good-old Episcopalian.
DeleteWhen reporting the rise of the national minimum wage which has grown 13% faster than inflation in 10 years , the BBC chose to focus on a negative.
ReplyDeleteAndy Verity bemoaned the fact that wages for ‘joe average’ haven’t gone up at all in that time. He remarked that it was a strange situation because we seem to be adding jobs rather than increasing wages.
All of this dancing around the facts was to avoid saying that mass immigration is keeping wages down.
Why the reticence the explain?
#itsokaytobewhite
ReplyDeleteA Happy New Year to one and all.
ReplyDeleteI am only just beginning to grasp the true horror that is 'preloading' in the hands of our youth.
Likely me and SWMBO heading out about to nurse three pints of real ale from 10.30 to midnight after a substantial absorbent lining meal first.
Maybe a wee dram on return to toast absent friends and those always missed.
It comes with age.
Happy New Year Peter and to all who run or post on ITBBCB!
DeleteWell I did watch Hootenanny... it was noticeably absent of anti-Tory and anti-Boris jibes and even Stormzy kept going on about "British this" and "British that" like his advisors had told him to go easy on all the "Britain is racist" krap.
ReplyDeleteSo a small result after a year that turned out better than we could have expected. I do get the feeling that the BBC are restraining their bias tendencies...that doesn't mean they are becoming more unbiased, jsut that they feel the need to disguise their bias a little more effectively.
Still, all this is down to two people: Boris and Dominic (Cummings - not Raab)! Without those two individuals we would be well and truly heading for perdition. Thank God Boris studied Churchill and wrote a biography of him is all I can say, it clearly put iron in his blood.
Boris has shown more spine than any other PM for the last 75 years.
Another (slightly mad) tour de force from our greatest ally - President Trump.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3VFVaxPv_g
Happy New Year everyone.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year - and Happy Blogging! - Craig.
DeleteJust to show you the kind of thing that the BBC's terrible twin in Australia,the taxpayer-funded leftist ABC, has been getting up to (and away with) lately.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.spectator.com.au/2020/01/luvvie-laura-and-their-abcs-problem-with-abusive-behaviour/?fbclid=IwAR3SnDJ1Rl1xX4gwkFnCoeCwMwb4fYWk5R6yeCyRRHpYoZjOlBy44fxNdm0
A better link? https://www.spectator.com.au/2020/01/luvvie-laura-and-their-abcs-problem-with-abusive-behaviour/
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year Craig, Sue and all.
ReplyDeleteDuring 2020 we should address the question of ITBBCB? by asking: WHY - ITBBCB? I can't find a satisfactory answer to this question. Do the BBC see themselves as crusaders valiantly flying the flag of PC ideology when the majority of Licence-payers are not persuaded? Do they expect that their minority view will gradually defeat the majority of their own customers? It's the first rule of commerce - listen to the customer.
Why do the BBC suppose that by rejecting the views of the Licence-payer that they will ultimately be respected, that we might applaud these visionaries, and that their efforts will be rewarded by the majority coming around to their worldview?
I think it's because they consider themselves to be the caulk that stops the leak that would ultimately sink the boat.
DeleteThey have comvinced themselves that the alternative to a total commitment to progressivism is too horrific to contemplate.
It's under those terms that they allow certain truths to slide so as to facilitate the success of what they see as the bigger picture.
I think the BBC hold to a perversion of the Orwell quote: “If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” The 'right' has become an excuse to serve up little else.
DeleteSpot-on Arthur! I've been struck by the number of post-election conversations I've heard in which a large element of celebrating Boris's victory has been sheer joy at giving the Beeb a poke in the eye!
DeleteHNY to one and all!
A new longer lefty list of BBC conspiracies:
Deletehttps://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1206992886841192451.html
Sorry Stew, something went wrong there, so I've re-posted it here.
DeleteOh I double posted it once in the old Emily thread then again in this thread.
DeleteMaybe the spam software blocked the identical post.
I thought I'd come across a PC-free article on the BBC Website that I could recommend, all about the mysterious fate met by 9 students on a cross-country skiing trip in the Urals. It's a very interesting read (though I don't know why the possibility that the students picked the wrong sort of mushrooms and added them to their evening stew hasn't occurred to anyone - throwing off clothes and bizarre, sometimes violent or self-harming behaviour is a well known consequence of eating some poisonous mushrooms). However, just as they are getting to the finishing line, the writer has to spoil it all with this:
ReplyDelete"Conspiracies help unite powerless people against an "other"..."
Really - so illiterate! Do they mean conspiracies or conspiracy theories? Conspiracies are real phenomena, BBC! The use of the "other" reference is a real alarm bell: PC Thought Control ahead.
It then gets worse..."The West is still reeling over accusations of election meddling, the Dyatlov mystery is a reminder that rumours of subversion of the truth by hidden forces are nothing new for the Russian people." Eh? Where are these proofs of election meddling that have left us "reeling" in the "West". It's just one of those conspiracy theories beloved of BBC Islingtonians, which gives the lie to the idea that conspiracy theories are the province only of "powerless people".
What a shame that such an interesting article had to finish off with all that PC guff!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/SoLiOdJyCK/mystery_of_dyatlov_pass
Interesting article on Spiked '2019: the year the media lost the plot' which includes, of course, the BBC, not least in recalling its extreme bias against Brexit; also references an earlier Craig-like exercise analysing the 'balance' of Leave / Remain guests on flagship programme Question Time, and a complaint upheld against Maitlis of Newsnight for spitting bile at Rod Liddle.
ReplyDeleteYes that article is a pretty good summary:
Deletehttps://www.spiked-online.com/2020/01/02/2019-the-year-the-media-lost-the-plot/
There was also a steady background drum beat of menace: Trump is a would be dictator who won the Presidency because of the Russians...we are an increasingly divided society...hate crime is rising...populism is breeding hate...Boris Johnson is a populist, so he too is breeding hate...
The drumbeat is still going on, with no evidential basis whatsoever.
I like the article's reference to the "Rorymania" episode...when our MSM couldn't have been further from the mass of people. Rory Stewart, proposing a Chamberlain-like appeasement policy of capitulation, and with virtually no leadership skills himself (unless his weird spaced-out grin is supposed to count as "leadership quality") was probably the antithesis of what the British people and Conservative Party members were looking for by summer 2019.
But our mad media couldn't see it! They really did think Wee Rory was the acme of ability and the bright lamp of charisma!!!
If I remember correctly the two Johns (Sweeney and Simpson) tweeted their endorsement of Rory.
DeleteThey showed once again to be the beating pulse of the nation.
I think you're right...I think maybe Hugh Schofield was another who did the same. Pretty sure Emily Maitlis was promoting him on her twitter account. She was still promoting him on Dec 10 with a retweet! lol
DeleteEver wondered how we got to here, with the BBC or anything else? I came across a long article online by Julie Bindel on how the current trans ideology took hold in the media and how the press, even The Sun, work with the trans lobby and how the Home Affairs Select Committee, chaired by Yvette Cooper, got stuck into the press as well.
ReplyDeleteMost fascinating to me is the bit about the BBC - scroll down a bit less than halfway to a paragraph beginning 'But if Viner is struggling to strike a balance, the BBC appears not to even try....' and what she has to say about the BBC's appointment of Megha Mohan, the corporation’s first “gender and identity correspondent” and Ben Hunte, “LGBT correspondent”, the opinions of other journalists within the BBC about those appointments, and the crucial question of why the BBC made them.
https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/january-2020/triumph-of-the-trans-lobbyists/
Personally I am not at all worried about the loony trans-lobby...even if they got their way on everything they are only about 0.01% of the population and people's everyday life as men and women would be largely unaffected.
DeleteThis is quite different from the pro-no-borders lobby which has completely taken over the BBC so that all asylum seekers become genuine refugees, all persons claiming to be child refugees become "children", all migration is good for the economy, and mass migration brings no serious problems with it, quite the reverse it is a positive good in all aspects.
As a result of this lobby we continue with a situation where we allow in over half a million people from abroad every year - or 5 million per decade.
Add to that the pro-Islam lobby which has taken over the BBC and which seeks to brainwash the public into believing that Islam is a religion of peace and that Islam is compatible with democracy, political liberty and freedom of speech.
Add to that the climate death-cult lobby which has been shown the welcome mat at the BBC: that is trying to convince us we face a mass extinction as a species because of a little extra CO2 in the atmosphere and wants us to decarbonise within 5 years - something which would result in the deaths of millions and human misery all round.
Add to that the race lobby which also has been fully accepted by the BBC. This claims that all inequality of outcome between ethnic groups is due to racism and colonialism (despite the fact that many people from ex colonial parts are doing disproportionately well in law, medicine, commerce, broadcasting and finance) and seeks reparations and discriminatory action to remedy the inequalities.
Those are really dangerous lobbies!
The Daily Mail tells us Lord Hall has been girding himself for a fight and telling his troops in a New Year message that his personal mission is to be less London-centric.
ReplyDeleteDon't tell me he's been reading the runes - like his Labour Blairite friends - and has suddenly discovered the regions.
And to rally them further, he proclaims that the BBC and its values have never been more needed at this time in our history and they must be confident in the face of challenges about bias and continue the battle against fake news. Onwards!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7845955/Lord-Hall-says-making-BBC-London-centric-personal-priority.html
Relocating or recruiting a load of bbc metro-liberal journalists in to the provinces won’t work.
DeleteThey already do loads of regional programmes which spew out London driven pc narratives that alienate the regions and push them further away from the BBC.
They really don’t get it - with their mission to educate us with cultural Marxism.
Quite agree Charlie. In fact the creation of BBC Scotland just confirmed Scotland's status as an SNP fiefdom.
DeleteWhat is required is full and respectful reflection of democratic political opinion across the full range in its news and current affairs, together with the full range of cultural orientation.
Lord Hall visiting BBC Wales new HQ in Cardiff in the coming weeks, big announcement imminent ?
DeleteAnother BBC reality check- another travesty by lack
ReplyDeleteof facts and analysis.
Someone has just googled and lifted stuff from a
Wikipedia and the CIA factbook .
It is just amateur journalism, gives no real insight to Iranian capabilities and offers no comparison to the US defence and attack weaponry.
How on earth do they get away with such rubbish as a national broadcaster with unparalleled resources? Are they not ashamed of repeatedly publishing reality checks of such low quality?
Paris Villejuif stabbings: Attacker shot dead after killing one and injuring others.
ReplyDeleteThe BBC have reported this attack but failed to point out he was wearing a suicide vest. Every other report I’ve seen states that fact but it has been omitted by the BBC. I wonder why?
Not sure Adrian Chiles quite grasps the intricacies of climatology but at least his heart is in the right place and he would get a smile rather than the more typical scowl from St Greta...
ReplyDeleteThis morning on Radio 5 Live (about 11.10am I think) I heard him opine that if climate change wasn't tackled the WHOLE planet would be "on fire"! lol
Yep...he obviously doesn't know that previous major warming periods on Planet Earth have led to a huge expansion of lush tropical forest not Australian style desert...(and someone should tell him that that tropical forest doesn't burn very easily).
Meanwhile we are told by the Met Office that the last decade of the century was the second hottest ever! Wow!! What are the chances of that? Hmmm, about the same as it being the sixth hottest, or the hottest for that matter, viewed statistically.
I think any intelligent person would be deeply unimpressed by this information.
I'll also be more impressed by the domesday reports from Australia once the temperatures reach the 1939 levels (over 50).
The sad thing about climate alarmism is that it begins to spread a deep cynicism. When we are all still here (Iran willing) in 2025 and Greta's threats of human extinction, now another billion people have been added to our population on Earth, people will begin to associate environmentalism with
sham science and false claims.
This is bad because we are doing serious damage to the natural environment and we need to start reversing that process.
Have the BBC decided yet whether it's going to be Jessomania?
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/ayeshahazarika/status/1213261524707483649
Or Stormin' Starmer?
Or Still Yet Yvette?
Or Nandy Pandy?
Stormin' Starmer I reckon.
I guess we will have to wait till the Newsnight staff reassemble after their Caribbean hols...
Certainly not as clear as Summer's outbreak of Rorymania when they were all happy to sing his praises.
Maybe I spoke too soon... the Sober Voice of Britain, John Sweeney, has given his favour to Jess - the "Moderates' Extremist". How can she fail now?
Deletehttps://twitter.com/johnsweeneyroar/status/1213534751883235328
To counter BBC propaganda, have a read:
ReplyDeletehttps://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/01/04/it-has-been-hotter-fires-have-burnt-larger-areas/
Australia has been hotter and bush fires have been over a greater area before...in fact 80 years ago, when CO2 emissions were much, much smaller in comparison with today.
The odd thing about the climate change warriors is that they don't seem to realise that claiming the "worst fires in 80 years" means they were this bad 80 years ago.
ReplyDeleteSame with "hottest day in last 50 years" actually means it was hotter 50 years ago, because otherwise they would have said "hottest day ever since records began". Hiding the truth is what they are good at but the truth eventually rumbles them as we are now at 2020, the date when the apocalypse of flooding, melting and roasting was supposed to be overwhelming us if the forecasts from the 1980s and 1990s were accurate. The "10 more years to save the planet" seems to be a moving feast, moving yearly until they all have to say "we've moved past the point of no return, and we're all going to die in the next 10 years" which will make children cry and mental hospitals overflow with depressed folk who have given up the will to live.
Quite, that's my first thought. And there's a fair bet it was even worse than that 150 years ago!
DeleteThey also are never honest about the amount of "statistical assumptions" (confidence intervals and the like) which go into making assessments about sea level rise, world temperature and so on (let alone the climate modelling of the future). Such assumptions can make a very significant difference. Don't think that a message comes over the intercom from a NASA satellite saying "The world got hotter by 0.1 degree celsius last year."! Humans make decisions about how to use the data and that is how figures about warming are arrived at.
But, as we know, there is huge social pressure on scientists, bureaucrats and data handlers to sign up to the "climate change" narrative. To think such pressure doesn't affect results would be naive in my view.
For which #unprecedentedsincethelasttime was created.
ReplyDeleteSimilarly the report that the last decade was cooler that the one before could (that overused word so loved by the AWG crowd) indicate that things are getting cooler.
DeleteI read a report in the Sunday Times yesterday about a man having been poisoned by ricin...the allegation being it had been made from castor beans and his mother reportedly told neighbours she had been contaminated with the poison as well...
ReplyDeleteI thought - WTF! What's going on there in Manchester...
To my mind this should be top of the news! But in the modern era it's a case of "Move back folks - nothing to see here!"
I decided to check out the BBC. They have the story on the Manchester page. But now it is a v. anodyne report. Apparently the man consumed "poisonous seeds"...Poor old world class £5 billion BBC could work out what seeds they might be...just "poisonous".
Nothing about his mother screaming to neighbours to keep away. Nothing about castor plant seeds.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-50992849?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/localnews/2643123-manchester/0&link_location=live-reporting-story
This reminds me of another poisoning story reported in the papers a week or so ago about three young women finding pills in their late-night takeaway kebabs:
Deletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/31/two-men-arrested-women-found-pills-hidden-kebab/
One of the most annoying things about BBC-MSM coverage of the Iran crisis is that they refer to crowds chanting "Death to America" as though it is in reaction to Trump's killing of their General. But let me do a Reality Check here: Iran's Mullahs have orchestrated "Death to America" crowd chants EVERY SINGLE WEEK after Friday prayers since the Revolution triumphed.
ReplyDeleteAll that has happened is the crowds are bigger. But our media have a responsibility to inform people of the reality and the reality is that the Iranian Mullah regime has been seeking the ultimate (actual not metaphorical) destruction of the USA and its allies for the last 40 plus years.
It's interesting to compare these crowds of 'hundreds of thousands' with those being reported by the BBC during the People's Vote in the Autumn of 2019.
DeleteThe BBC still love a story where they can blame Brexit.
ReplyDeleteUK Car registrations is one where they can pile in and give Brexit a good kicking. There are other reasons of course, but none so sweet as the one caught in their cross hairs.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50985412
https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1214155661564661760
ReplyDelete"Look thither my Lord, a goodly and noble knight doth came this way..."
"Let the trumpets announce: the Fair Goodall doth approach!! What news bring thee, good sir?"
"Hail, well met my lords -I bring thee News of the Night...I shall give great account of such battles and clashes that ere will be!"
"Speak on my Lord Goodall!!"
"King Boris shall meet his demise. Already great fractures and diverse contentions doth tear apart his ranks that once were of one voice. King Boris shall not succeed in the making of those great treaties and pacts on trade and commerce across the wind-tossed sea. Yet more news: there will arise a Great Lord of Labour to replace the Red Knight and challenge King Boris for rule of this blessed land. With Prince Rory across the water, he shall make common cause to unseat the Tyrant Boris."
"What name will this bold Lord go by?"
"Why Goodall of course..."
"My Lord, what news of Good Nick Watt who did in times past, though not long gone, give report as though hast done this night."
"Why - such foolish questions are not for this hour...he is now much reduced in rank...'tis best you forget his name as the dust under your feet is left behind by your shoe."
Awful bias by the Egregious Emma on Radio 5 Live re the Cyprus case. A "feminist" lawyer allowed to come on and basically say the woman was innocent of lying and the Cypriot legal system was unjust, with no challenge being made to the statements, only encouragement being given.
ReplyDeleteThe BBC seem to be deploying their selective amnesia policy here. Cyprus is an EU Member State with an independent and honest judiciary according to the EU. When the EU Commission go after Poland and Holland (for political reasons) claiming their judiciary's independence and quality is being compromised, the BBC are eager to get on the high horse with the Commission. But now, it seems that the Cypriot judicial system has to be considered as being on par with that of a corrupt banana republic, according to our Emma.
There was no push-back against any of the claims. The ultrafeminist lawyer argued that "vulnerable" women should not be prosecuted when they made false claims of rape. Really? Really??? A licence to lie and destroy a man if you're "vulnerable". "Vulnerable" women are prosecuted all the time for crimes including neglect of their offspring, shop lifting, failure to pay the TV licence fee, and drunken violence. Why should they be excepted in the case of such lying allegations and perversion of the course of justice - extremely serious crimes? Egregious Emma didn't even ask the question.
This is how the BBC are. They really don't care about justice being done, they care about PC virtue signalling fake justice being seen to be done.
I've no idea about the rights and wrongs of this particular case (and I'm not sure anyone else has) - it's quite possible the woman has been dreadfully wronged - but no way was this an impartial treatment of the case.
Go on BBC. We know you read ITBBCB. Do you dare to report that more than 180 alleged arsonists have been arrested in Australia since the start of the bushfire season?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/bushfires-firebugs-fuelling-crisis-asarson-arresttollhits183/news-story/52536dc9ca9bb87b7c76d36ed1acf53f
I guess they might try the old "nanosecond" gambit have it on the website for as near a nanosecond as they can reasonably get away with it, claiming they "covered it".
DeleteAlso, they are not reporting how the areas of bush fires have been so low in previous decades in the run up to this year in New South Wales...all the while carbon emissions have been increasing...
They are also not reporting that temperatures in NSW were much hotter in 1939.
This year has certainly seen a huge spike in fires but there have been similar spikes in previous decades, long before the modern obsession with carbon emissions.
Why can't we have a rational discussion about climate change rather than a virtue signalling one? The climate changes all the time, so no one - well no one I know of - is denying that it is changing now, and most likely is hotter than it was, say, 50 years. But 50 years ago, it was colder (not warmer) than 50 years before. So do we really know what's going on?
The factors determining climate are incredibly complex and and not all known yet. There also seems to be something akin to an element of randomness (chaos theory, the butterfly effect and all that), so that small shifts in starting conditions can have big effects.
The BBC is anti-rational, closing off debate and true science by declaring "the science is settled" and de-platforming from its channels anyone who disagrees.
Can we ever have a rational debate about anything these days, especially when the BBC gets stuck in with its agenda? Anything from the EU, the health service, immigration and population, education system, sex education, state benefits, islam, children wanting to change sex, voting ages, environment and climate, crime, drugs, American Presidents, royalty...the list is endless. The BBC is not a promoter or facilitator of open discussion and free debate on opinions and ideas. More of an obstacle.
DeleteIt will be extraordinarily interesting to see who these arsonists are, and what they have in common.
DeleteA New Year, a new decade...and the BBC is back in the groove, racialising everything and race-baiting the Great British Public. They never learn do they?
ReplyDeleteThis time on WATO - it's the BAFTAs - not enough people of colour getting awards apparently. It's as if the BBC won't be satisified until every awards ceremony has to dole out its pathetic bling items on a race-by-race basis.
It would be comical were it not so very, very dangerous. Once you go down this racialising road, there is no stopping, because you are never going to achieve perfect "equality of outcome". All you are doing is creating a resentment culture...and that nearly always ends up in tears - big tears.
Also, it's extremely hypocritical of the BBC. Take Newsnight...they have just appointed yet another white male - Lewis Goddard - to take up an important reporting role on the programme, to go along with the all-white presentation team. I can't actually think of a single Black or Asian (in the BBC sense) member of the Newsnight team, unless you are going to count "Swaying" Ben Chu.
I was just writing a post about that WATO BAFTAs discussion...Great minds and all!
DeleteA surprise tweet from St Brendan of Cox:
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/MrBrendanCox/status/1214468957199065088
Obviously they must have been having a discussion at PC Central about the disastrous Labour result. Mr Soros is probably quite angry with the failure of the Left and the Remainers after all the money he ploughed in...He wants some new policies and fast to get the British voting Left again.
Tony's probably explained. "It's migration, Mr Soros, that the thing...it's tricky for us to go into reverse on that after 30 years of talking up the wonderful benefits of mass migration." At which point the Boss must have told me to get it sorted.
After a long chat with Alistair Campbell trying to think of the one person who they could put up to call for an end to unrestrained mass immigration, the wily PR man shouts "Got it! St Brendan!! The left will have to pause before they lay into him..."
Alistair is soon enthused with the genius of his own idea. "I'll phone up Lewis and see if we can get him on Newsnight..."
New Year's Resolution - check the text!!
Deleteme = him and probably a few other errors as well!
Just looked at the comments again...could be going better! The Left are piling in, raging and foaming...if he thought his saintly status would protect from lunatic criticism of such a mild and anodyne statement, he was very, very wrong!
DeleteSt Brendan seems to have caught - and reflected - a glimpse of light yet fallen foul of the fetid, foam-flecked, far-left fecker fiends. Thoughts and prayers.
DeleteThe tweet's had 1200 responses, 1300 retweets and nearly 8000 likes...looks like the baited trap is working.
DeleteVirtually all the responses - from Leftist Remainer "moderates" and Far Left one worlders alike - are negative, many abusively so.
I'd love to know who put him up to this. I do not believe he sat down one morning and thought: "You know what, I think I'll pen a tweet today which is strongly pro-migration control. You know, that thing I normally say is indicative of being a Far Right Hater Not Hoper, like Boris Johnson."
Someone's had a word with him, I'll lay money on it...Alistair Campbell?...well some cunning and conniving type. Cox was laying into RLB's speech before the migration control tweet, so I am sure - like all his stuff - it is highly political and probably in this case related to the Labour Leadership battle.
I'm guessing they (whoever "they" are) are aiming to make this a talking point, and get St Brendan on the main news shows. They hope then that RLB or other lefties associated with her will say something nasty in response and they can then pile in with "How dare you sully Jo's memory etc etc..."
Interesting observation and speculation, MB.
DeleteI was looking at Cox's twitter timeline yesterday evening, and it struck me as being very apparent that he's firmly nailing his Labour leadership colours to the Jess Phillips mast.
Nothing explicit, but all the usual Twitter retweets, nudges and winks in that direction.
I was confused for a moment there about the reference to The Boss - I thought you meant Lenny Henry, Tony's boss.
DeleteThe BBC continue with their sombre reporting of the Soleimani killing. They seem to have changed tack today and now just use it as an opportunity to criticise Pres. Trump and Boris. Nick Bryant, Jeremy Bowen And John Pienaar piled in tonight. We learned nothing new from their reports other than their obvious dislike of Trumps action and Boris’s silence. They all seem to like the word ‘assassination’ though and use it repeatedly.
ReplyDeleteIf you relied for your news on the BBC you would never realise that both Trump and Brazil's President Bolsonaro have been the victims of serious assassination attempts. Imagine if they were leftist Obama or Clinton types! It would be mentioned by the BBC every time they got a chance.
DeleteBecause of the bias by omission, I think probably 95% of the UK population aren't even aware that the person who tried to assassinate Trump was a young British man, clearly warped by all the vicious anti-Trump propaganda on the BBC and in the MSM.