tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post2492059851628132715..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Fiction, paranoia and allCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-64343150437046772692016-06-28T15:07:04.745+01:002016-06-28T15:07:04.745+01:00A Jewish student got compensation for anti Semitic...A Jewish student got compensation for anti Semitic attacks from the University of York's students union but the BBC did not mention that one of the students who attacked him was none other than Jeremy Corbin's son Tom. Tom is events manager for the Palestinian Solidarity society and he organised the anti- Semitic play on campus " Seven Jewish Children". Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-39795680881018398052016-06-27T18:57:48.909+01:002016-06-27T18:57:48.909+01:00The one problem Corbyn won't go because of his...The one problem Corbyn won't go because of his principals.....<br /><br />Ah well it's a good conspiracy theory anyhow.Clockworkorangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07538039281226245073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-78221079481026971202016-06-27T18:48:45.801+01:002016-06-27T18:48:45.801+01:00My prediction this won't pass the commons, the...My prediction this won't pass the commons, they'll dissolve and call a GE which is why labour want a new leader.<br /><br />The new party will campaign on the basis of returning to the EU and get a majority due to SNP and all the other 48ers voteing their way. <br /><br />Whilst the leave vote will be split between conservative and UKIP losing those who bottle it due to the economy.<br /><br />This will then be used as a mandate for staying in EU rather than a further referendum.<br />Clockworkorangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07538039281226245073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-81543082462814539112016-06-27T17:48:16.727+01:002016-06-27T17:48:16.727+01:00I'm currently sitting at the airport waiting f...I'm currently sitting at the airport waiting for a flight, and the doom and gloom on CNN is a sight to behold. Same script as the BBC: uneducated working class wanting to kick the rich, want to destroy their country just to do it. They have "cut off their nose to spite their face," was the rejoinder from one of the enlightened.<br /><br />Some British woman correspondent (can't see the screen from where I am) is shouting that the markets hate uncertainty, banks hate uncertainty, "the British people hate uncertainty." If I could see the screen, I'd confirm that she is carrying a "The End Is Nigh" placard.<br /><br />Who knew that wanting to open up the country's market to the whole wide world instead of being strapped to a single sclerotic market in decline was "turning their backs on 40 years of globalization"?<br /><br />Not the BBC, I know, but it's the same bubble-dwelling nomenklatura. I'm embarrassed that these people are telling lies about you to my fellow countrymen. At least they're not the official national broadcaster with a legacy of trust spanning generations, and I don't have to pay for it on penalty of law.David Preiser (USA)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00055001852090086556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-28193551080200805582016-06-27T16:18:29.006+01:002016-06-27T16:18:29.006+01:00The young did indeed benefit from the advantages o...The young did indeed benefit from the advantages of remaining in the EU in ways that most of their parents could never have enjoyed. A gap year generation would have found the ease at which they could, for example, work abroad very attractive - an opportunity particularly available to the better educated young. But in a Europe that has become almost Napoleonic in its vision all of this came at the expense of democracy. Something that perhaps an older voter would be more aware of. There is also the naive utopian fantasy espoused by certain sections of the young of a world without borders. Most of us who are somewhat more mature in years also indulged in unrealistic idealism when we were young, but then we grew up and saw that the real world is a much more complicated and dangerous place. We saw the terrifying reality of utopian politics in places like the Soviet Union. I think the divide between the young and the old is just the same old divide that has always been always there.<br /><br />This is slightly unrelated and I’m not sure if it was on the BBC, but I caught a glimpse of an almost hysterical Will Self and the crime writer Dreda Say Mitchell in a referendum aftermath interview. Dreda Say Mitchell was a Leave supporter. One felt concerned for Self’s mental health as rolled his eyes, waved his arms in the air, and moaned incoherently, haranguing Dreda for not “feeling his pain”. Contrarily, he was quite put out by the fact she was conciliatory rather than triumphant. All of those ordinary people, Will, who you probably imagined you were championing in your newspaper columns, you never really knew anything about them. And it’s probably slowly dawning on you that they don’t like you. Poor Will, you thought you were a working-class hero, but you were just a middle-class metropolitan leftie, who has spent his entire career chattering to other middle-class metropolitan lefties. Don’t worry Will, we feel your pain.Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05818860172734529356noreply@blogger.com