tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post5826307100250777756..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: Something for the BBC to Bragg aboutCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-72679745527471624892018-10-04T12:01:30.910+01:002018-10-04T12:01:30.910+01:00Quite apart from their academic shortcomings most ...Quite apart from their academic shortcomings most of them haven’t done anything at all apart from political activism. Corbyn is a classic case. He has never made anything, sold anything, provided employment for anybody or had any kind of meaningful career outside the trade union movement and the Labour Party.Terrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-62057635796808837092018-10-04T00:07:13.547+01:002018-10-04T00:07:13.547+01:00Melvyn may be a lefty but he is an old fashioned l...Melvyn may be a lefty but he is an old fashioned lefty: educated, interested in lots of ideas, prepared to change his views in the light of evidence, not one to wallow in self-pity, and able to produce work of a high standard whether it's novels, broadcasting, biography or whatever. You could equally cite Roy Jenkins, Michael Foot, Richard Crossman or Denis Healey as exemplars of a now dead tradition. <br /><br />What current Labour front bencher is actually capable of producing a reasonable novel or biography or anything else of note eg starting a business? Dawn Butler? Tom Watson? Jeremy Corbyn? Diane Abbott? Rebecca Long-Bailey? Angela Rayner? <br /><br />If they ever get their hands on power it will be the first ever Low IQ Government. I guess that will be their first equalities triumph! :) Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-90441581124278047292018-10-03T22:03:03.835+01:002018-10-03T22:03:03.835+01:00Melvin Bragg still seems pretty sharp to me. Amazi...Melvin Bragg still seems pretty sharp to me. Amazingly the anti-elitists and the detractors of dead white males haven't got their sweaty little hands on the subject matter yet. When Melvin does eventually go...Terrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-52354019173175208022018-10-03T21:33:41.330+01:002018-10-03T21:33:41.330+01:00Yes, The Forum was quite good as well though I thi...Yes, The Forum was quite good as well though I think the subjects were a bit more predictable. BK retiring? Good God - just seen she's 62. Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-35842155760000902342018-10-03T21:14:53.692+01:002018-10-03T21:14:53.692+01:00Yes, he slurs words. Mostly you can fill in any mi...Yes, he slurs words. Mostly you can fill in any missed words from the sense of the sentence but I can never catch the names of the guests. It's the same with Jenni Murray of Woman's Hour. They are broadcasters but not voice-trained actors so diction can be a problem. <br /><br />There used to be an interesting and serious programme on the World Service called The Forum, chaired by Bridget Kendall, which also had a very varied range of subjects. Sadly she has retired. They've been repeating some of them on Radio 4 on Saturday mornings.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-38290648573714041892018-10-03T19:42:00.103+01:002018-10-03T19:42:00.103+01:00Yes,for all Bragg's lefty pretensions, it'...Yes,for all Bragg's lefty pretensions, it's really quite an old fashioned sort of programme dealing with old fashioned (ie important) issues. It's definitely due a PC makeover. The irritating Mary Beard perhaps. <br /><br />I have often wondered why - when the programme was getting (maybe still does) 2 million listeners - the BBC never thought to put an equivalent programme on our TV screens. I think it would work well and could incorporate some visual material - graphs, photographs and so on. It's almost as if the BBC don't want us to think. Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-12008827933850226552018-10-03T18:21:27.749+01:002018-10-03T18:21:27.749+01:00Yes it's very good. The back catalogue is wond...Yes it's very good. The back catalogue is wonderful and I download a few podcasts for long journeys. Having said that I have felt recently that Bragg was sounding a bit doddery, and at 78 maybe that's to be expected. As any replacement would be a black muslim woman and the topics would very sharply into identity-based discussions, I have to hope he can keep going, but BBC does have a problem with the die-hards who just keep on and on like Simpson and Humphries.Ozfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17351381043702605990noreply@blogger.com