Is the BBC biased?

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Saturday, 24 December 2016

The festive spirit

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Just to really get you into the Christmas spirit... If you fancy watching a BBC presenter and a couple of her (pro-EU, rightwing-ba...
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Miracle on 'Dateline London' Street

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Regular readers of our little blog will know that I've been closely monitoring the BBC News Channel/BBC World's flagship Date...
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The oracle speaks (well, tweets)...

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Talking of opinionated BBC reporters, here are BBC Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen's latest tweets , expressing exactly the kind...
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"He came in peace. And was teargassed"

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Talking of Hugh Sykes, here's another of his latest tweets : This publicity stunt by Palestinian activists seems to have become a...
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Sigh

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Newsnight 's policy editor Chris Cook tweeted the following yesterday: Hugh Sykes wasn't impressed : Our Hugh wasn...

Tweet, tweet, tweet

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A festive Twitter exchange  (delivered in a fascinating array of different fonts and font sizes, just because it's Christmas - or may...
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Hark!

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I bought myself a book for Christmas (Mark Forsyth's A Christmas Cornucopia ) and then, immediately after it arrived from Amazon, read...

Christmas Eve

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Tuesday, 20 December 2016

Welcome to Germany

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I don’t know if Jenny Hill was aware of it, but I detected an ominous black cloud over Jenny Hill’s report from Berlin this morning.  ...
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Don't be like Obama

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Further to the media’s attempts to discredit President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman by painting him...
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Sunday, 18 December 2016

Open Thread

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We used to laugh at the idea of having an open thread on this blog. Don’t make us look like Theresa no-Maytes , post your observati...
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"Enabling/normalising" Nigel

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Samira Ahmed is not happy again , this time about Radio 4's Broadcasting House . BBC producer Luke Jones (who works on BH ) doesn...
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A joke

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A  Have I Got News For You joke from this week's show , read by Gary Lineker, set Paul chuckling, Ian twisting his head and the stu...
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"I think you're fooling yourself"

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The final Newsnight of 2016 featured part of an interview with The New Yorker 's liberal, anti-Trump editor David Remnick and a tr...
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On Woman's Hour

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I haven't listened to it myself but Kathy at The Conservative Woman has a fine piece about last week's Woman's Hour power list...

Hands

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I did have to smile at yesterday's Dateline London  when Alex Deane found himself, yet again, outnumbered by hand-waving, talking-o...
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Friday, 16 December 2016

Anti-Zionism: ‘Antisemitism minding its manners’.

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As if Michael Gove hasn’t made himself unpopular enough already! Making mistakes, admitting he made mistakes, stabbing his best friends in ...
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Wednesday, 14 December 2016

Poor Sally

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Cutting Edge comedy from Kardashian-bottomed, camp comedian Joe Lycett. Think Julian Clary meets Frankie Howard, and, should you bother...
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Ridiculing a radical

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You don’t have to know much about television to realise that production companies function from the premise that everyone is gagging to app...
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Tuesday, 13 December 2016

Theresa May, friend of Israel

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UK Prime Minister. 12/12/2016. "One of the most important letters in history" We will marking Balfour 100 "with Pride"...
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Monday, 12 December 2016

What I Have Mostly Been Watching

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I watched Fern Britton’s interview with Michael Gove yesterday.”Fern Meets” etc. The religious content usually puts me off this pr...

Tell you later

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Black macaque reserving judgment When I first started blogging I often used go through my ‘prose’ and take out all the “I”s and “me”s...
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Sunday, 11 December 2016

Complaints from two sides

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Bias As Sue noted the other day, it seems as if the world and his wife appears to be noticing BBC bias at the moment - particularly o...
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The way things are

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Donald Trump’s presidency means that the end of the world is nigh (as any fule kno.) This is gist of the consensus, which has just rea...
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