Is the BBC biased?
...and any other matters that take our fancy
Saturday, 22 February 2020
Pause for Art
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My goodness, there's actual sunshine gushing in through my window this morning and, thankfully, no ducks taking refuge from rainwater...
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Friday, 21 February 2020
Why 'Downton Abbey' isn't on the BBC
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Julian Fellowes, interviewed by The Times today , explains why his period dramas (like Downton Abbey ) appear on ITV rather than the B...
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BBC's worst nightmare
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Wonder if Andrew Neil had anyone in particular in mind when he tweeted this last night? I do wish British journalists — esp Brusse...
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Whiteness
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As noted on the Open Thread , the identity politics-obsessed BBC intends to broadcast a two-part TV series - a "social experiment...
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Like a polar bear on a receding piece of ice
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Last night's Question Time ended with a question about the BBC. Michael Portillo was particularly punchy about the BBC's...
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Thursday, 20 February 2020
Holocaust denial
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When I heard that David Baddiel was making this film for the BBC , I did wonder if a notoriously pro-Palestinian Broadcasting Corporatio...
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Oddbodophobia
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Another day, another example of identity politics lunacy treated as 'a real thing' by the BBC: The tweeting public aren...
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Ash to ash, dust to dust
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I see the BBC continues to champion Ash: Am I alone in thinking that Ash Sarkar is given vastly disproportionate airtime by @BBC ; depl...
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Wednesday, 19 February 2020
The Honesty Party
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Warning. This may seem slightly off-topic but it's not entirely unrelated to BBC bias and I'm going to say it. Each time we see the...
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Tuesday, 18 February 2020
MichaelRosenNo
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Michael Rosen is such an engaging presenter of BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth that his considerably less pleasant political side still...
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Sources
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Don't open the champagne yet! Andrew Neil sums up today's lead story in The Times as, "Hilarious! PM moves to protec...
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More questions
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Mark Wallace of ConservativeHome had a question - and a pair of paradoxes : How can it be appropriate, impartial or within BBC rules f...
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Questions of story selection
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A hot topic on my social media feeds over the past couple of days had been the extraordinary folly engulfing Labour over the trans issue, ...
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Monday, 17 February 2020
Clive mired
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So Clive Myrie wants the ungrateful, ignorant public re-educated about the BBC? Such sentiments, so charmingly expressed, can har...
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Sunday, 16 February 2020
Andrew Marr and RL-B (and Angela too)
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Not RL-B The best laid plans of mice and Labour leadership contenders... Rebecca Long-Bailey didn't get to debate the BBC wit...
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Just one more thing...
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"We can advise you that the information you have requested is excluded from the Act because it is held for the purposes of ‘journali...
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Get Cummings
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The Mail on Sunday has another dramatic headline today : Man who claims Dominic Cummings assaulted him is set to be interviewed by Em...
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A baker's dozen
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This won't come as a surprise to us, but The Mail on Sunday has carried out an "analysis" of the BBC's coverage of...
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Emily M liked
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Hmm : James Delingpole, for one, isn't impressed : "I stitched someone up. Got caught out. So now I believe passionate...
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RLB and the BBC
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Far-left Labour leadership contender Rebecca Long-Bailey will be 'platformed' and 'normalised' by The Andrew Marr Sho...
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"Mission: attack"
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It looks as if Dominic Cummings is "not bluffing". Tim Shipman of The Sunday Times has been told by "senior aides...
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"Two more paid speeches for BBC boss Kamal Ahmed in pay row"
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John Sweeney will doubtless be tucking into his Sunday sausages with extra relish this morning: The Sunday Times is in hot pursuit of ...
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"The BBC has overreached for too long. Now that must end"
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I bet Rupert Murdoch's ears will be burning today. His name is going to get bandied about a lot on Twitter. The Sunday Times ha...
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Saturday, 15 February 2020
Who to ask, Lewis?
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Lewis on the Road to Nowhere? Yesterday's Newsnight featured a report from policy editor Lewis Goodall. One of his three ...
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"It’s quite an experience to be on a floor full of Julians"
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Julian the Apostate The Guardian also has an interview with former BBC reporter Julian Knight MP, containing this quote: When I ...
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129,446
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Also from that Daily Telegraph piece : 129,446 people were prosecuted for not having a licence in 2018, and over 18,000 people under...
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A Knight in shining armour for the BBC?
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Hopes of anti-BBC licence fee campaigners that the incoming chairman of the Commons' Culture, Media and Sport committee, Julian Knight...
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30 Conservative MPs spurn Radio 4's 'PM'
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It's a while since I've listened to an episode of ( The Evan Davis Show ) PM all the way through. Does it always have two ...
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Hard work
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A typical Radio 4 listener The Daily Mail today tells us about a briefing document to BBC producers from BBC bosses saying that Rad...
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Kamal Ahmed v John Sweeney
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The BBC aren't so much having an embarrassment of riches at the moment, rather a richness of embarrassments. Having been largely ...
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