tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post7539208550340848134..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: "Erm, let's get the weather..."Craighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-62502006864204766222018-11-28T12:40:59.975+00:002018-11-28T12:40:59.975+00:00Tx. You need it. I hope I have a working template ...Tx. You need it. I hope I have a working template for URLs at least.<br /><br />I got a flag that told me to clear my Google cache that enabled me to actually post directly once, but I am now back to going around the houses again ;(<br /><br />I have also changed from Google to DuckDuckGo on search, and may soon kill off Blogger, in part because they clearly are in the stone age still, but also Google is losing a lot of friends as a SillyValli Net Nanny with Censorious Tendencies. <br /><br />And need to be hit in the pocket by any who value free speech.Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550976834509947355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-14890332126311317882018-11-27T20:52:37.807+00:002018-11-27T20:52:37.807+00:00Good grief! With the level of smug in the thread u...Good grief! With the level of smug in the thread under that tweet it's a miracle it didn’t slide off the screen. It's pretty disgraceful that someone in Mr Simpson's place is so happy to trade in gossip.<br /><br />PS: Well done with the html - I haven't the patience!! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-90947145128462488642018-11-27T19:03:30.524+00:002018-11-27T19:03:30.524+00:00Success! Success! Craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-89966029128786413982018-11-27T17:51:20.824+00:002018-11-27T17:51:20.824+00:00If this doesn't work, I give up.
4th time’s th...If this doesn't work, I give up.<br /><a href="https://twitter.com/JohnSimpsonNews/status/1067462456535105536" rel="nofollow">4th time’s the charm </a>Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550976834509947355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-90285822899782636932018-11-27T17:47:29.959+00:002018-11-27T17:47:29.959+00:00<a href="https://twitter.com/JohnSimpsonNe...<a href="https://twitter.com/JohnSimpsonNews/status/1067462456535105536”3rd time lucky?</a>Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550976834509947355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-2962832310357010572018-11-27T17:37:56.078+00:002018-11-27T17:37:56.078+00:00Please work 2<a href="javascript:void(0);" rel="nofollow">Please work 2</a><br />Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550976834509947355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-85900513913904195042018-11-27T17:30:10.470+00:002018-11-27T17:30:10.470+00:00Here goes....
In case it doesn't work (odds?)...Here goes....<br /><br />In case it doesn't work (odds?), here is John Simpson 'quoting' a 'friend'. <br />+++<br />John Simpson<br /><br />Verified account<br /> <br />@JohnSimpsonNews<br /> 30m30 minutes ago<br />More<br />John Simpson Retweeted Kay Watson<br />An ambassador friend of mine says ‘Boris was far & away the worst foreign secretary I’ve served under. Not stupid - I could have put up with that - but unashamedly lazy.’<br />+++<br /><br />I would have had it the other way around.<br /><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/JohnSimpsonNews/status/1067462456535105536> ..</a> Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550976834509947355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-65533544446819797352018-11-27T17:24:49.164+00:002018-11-27T17:24:49.164+00:00Andy having read your Twitter feed (click on his n...Andy having read your Twitter feed (click on his name it takes you to it) I don’t think you can honestly say that you are looking at the issue impartially either, no matter how much you may believe otherwise.<br /><br />Your post is also needlessly aggressive and part of the problem.<br /><br />Anyhow carry on.<br /><br />Clockworkorangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07538039281226245073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-89123573430056419742018-11-27T15:25:01.082+00:002018-11-27T15:25:01.082+00:00Tweets don't embed here so you need to quote t...Tweets don't embed here so you need to quote them.<br />and make a link (a href="http://...") ..(/a) using pointed brackets<br /><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-46360310" rel="nofollow">RealityCheck: Is Trump right about the Brexit deal?</a><br />By Chris Morris<br />BBC Reality Check //<br /><br />JunkkMale replies<br />\\ Sanity Check: Is every BBC headline soon to be in the form of a question? <br />#bbcquestionasaheadline //<br />stewgreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10223073927227101097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-5389386166796202602018-11-27T14:24:45.206+00:002018-11-27T14:24:45.206+00:00Is this a Chris Special?
https://twitter.com/BBCN...Is this a Chris Special?<br /><br />https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1067422066108977152Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550976834509947355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-36504426541105496902018-11-27T11:47:19.889+00:002018-11-27T11:47:19.889+00:00Here's the BBC emole for today:
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By Justin ...Here's the BBC emole for today:<br />+++<br />By Justin Parkinson<br /><br />Brexit deal: Trump weighs in<br /><br />['weighs in', geddit!?]<br /><br />Theresa May has two weeks to persuade the House of Commons to back her Brexit deal with the EU. So the latest comments by Donald Trump on the subject might not be regarded as particularly helpful. The US president said the agreement thrashed out in Brussels seemed "a great deal for the EU" and that it might leave the UK unable to sign a trade agreement with his own country.<br /> <br />Mrs May took plenty of criticism from MPs following her statement on the deal on Monday. Mr Trump's intervention, writes BBC North America editor Jon Sopel, "can only be interpreted in one way - the president is siding with the prime minister's critics". Downing Street insists it's "very clear" the UK will be able to sign its own trade deals around the world after Brexit. BBC Reality Check looks at the challenges ahead.<br /> <br />And we have a guide to where we are with Brexit.<br />+++<br /><br />Lots of 'We' from the speaker for the nations... with added 'reality'.Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550976834509947355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-26178857913254542622018-11-27T09:17:28.603+00:002018-11-27T09:17:28.603+00:00Yep, Davis seems to think PM is an exercise yard f...Yep, Davis seems to think PM is an exercise yard for his preferences and his prejudices. Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-2885465689137366742018-11-27T09:15:22.492+00:002018-11-27T09:15:22.492+00:00So how do you explain the RTE link I posted above?...So how do you explain the RTE link I posted above? Makes clear Varadkar does not and never has had any intention of putting in place a hard border. Neither have the UK government. So where is the problem? There was no problem. It was a negotiating ploy which May was either too stupid and timid to call out, or secretly relished, being a Remainer. <br /><br />But the BBC is totally silent on this. <br /><br />For Davis, the BBC and 99% of UK academia it's a case of "Can't get used to losing EU" as Andy Williams might have sung. They aren't impartial, they are pro-EU partisans. The BBC often has "experts" from various bodies that receive large grants from the EU. Their conflict of interest is never mentioned. <br /><br />https://twitter.com/anandMenon1?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor<br /><br />Menon and Portes' fantasy forecasts are completely meaningless. For one thing we will never know what another scenario might produced once one has been chosen, unless that scenario is chosen. For another the Treasury, Bank of England and OBR, despite all the resources at their command (far more than Menon and co) have all been spectacularly wrong with their economic predictions, especially those relating to the alleged dire effects of a Brexit vote. <br /><br />Also Portes has form. He was one of those predicting only a trickle of migration from Eastern European back in the early 00s. <br /><br />Also they don't examine the impact of a Canada Plus deal. <br /><br />These people are policy lobbyists not objective, detached academics. Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-76375510835492991702018-11-27T06:23:16.492+00:002018-11-27T06:23:16.492+00:00 Hi Craig
yes you really should monitor PM more
... Hi Craig <br /><br />yes you really should monitor PM more<br /><br />I heard Davies the other day make a claim that all nations are vassal states so it really didn’t matter that UK was going to become an even bigger one Ozfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17351381043702605990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-44598376315659391282018-11-27T02:07:53.253+00:002018-11-27T02:07:53.253+00:00I see the partisan BBC Bashing Brexiteers are out ...I see the partisan BBC Bashing Brexiteers are out in force to high five the above latest episode in anti-BBC bias; no surprise there.<br /><br />Why you would think the views on Brexit of a lifelong anti-EU zealot like crazed Peter Lilley would have more credence than professional journalists being paid to uphold the BBC charter for impartiality (however imperfectly they might achieve that - which is debatable) and an academic who is paid to professionally study the politics of EU treaties and international relationships, says far more about YOU than all of the participants in the Radio 4 discussion.<br /><br />Lilley was trying to claim he has greater knowledge and insight due to his Brexit Irish Border 'study' and political experience than any of the journalists or a Professor of EU politics.<br /><br />He, and you lot, appear to be blind to the fact that Brexiteer zealot Lilley approached his 'study' of the Irish border issue from the perspective of someone passionately anti-EU, who already had a fixed view on the issue i.e. that it was all a trumped up nonsense by EU bureaucrats to thwart Brexit, and so he would inevitably cherry pick his 'evidence 'to demonstrate his case.<br /><br />The idea that he might approach this task in an academic or intellectual fashion to seek the truth of Irish Border logistics, whatever that may be, is laughable.Andy Williamshttps://twitter.com/@Adrewzznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-28949715258873169402018-11-26T21:11:02.919+00:002018-11-26T21:11:02.919+00:00Peter Lilley:2 - BBC:0
Pity it wasn't filmed....Peter Lilley:2 - BBC:0<br /><br />Pity it wasn't filmed.Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650372666915304667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-30536590036704496432018-11-26T21:10:50.702+00:002018-11-26T21:10:50.702+00:00I heard the start of it. I enjoyed Lilley's de...I heard the start of it. I enjoyed Lilley's determination not to play by the BBC's rules, his willingness to challenge every overt and covert assumption in Davis's questions. <br /><br />Here we saw Davis using every trick in his playbook included the uninvited summing up ("So really, you're saying you're a bit of a pr*ck...fine, so next question"),or the over-precise definition game (he often uses this - as he does in provoking a wrangle of whether "WTO rules" means "WTO rules" or "WTO rules plus side rules". <br /><br />And what about Davis's reference to the need post-Brexit for borders with France and Ireland? Er - does he think we don't have borders already? Did he mean "hard borders" - well perhaps, but a failure to make this clear is just the sort of thing he picks up on in interviewee's replies and makes a bit thing of, just to score points. <br /><br />As for Ireland, Davis and the rest of the BBC seem unable to use Google. If they could master Google they would find that Varadkar is not contemplating a hard border. He told RTE that recently: <br /><br /><br />https://www.rte.ie/news/brexit/2018/1118/1011673-brexit-uk-ireland-eu/<br /><br />We have also said we have no intention of putting a hard border in place. <br /><br />So where's the problem? <br /><br /><br /><br />Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-12228394283316473442018-11-26T21:09:32.003+00:002018-11-26T21:09:32.003+00:00He is a star. Very well done Peter Lilley. I'd...He is a star. Very well done Peter Lilley. I'd like to see more people challenge the BBC like that.<br /><br />Like so many BBC reporters and presenters, Evan Davis doesn't do his homework and allows his personal opinion to prejudice his questioning and reporting.<br /><br />Btw Chris Morris the BBC's new useful idiot has just published his latest unreality check which I've posted about on the main thread.Charliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07341313534441507081noreply@blogger.com