Is the BBC biased?
...and any other matters that take our fancy
Sunday, 28 February 2021
Late February Open Thread
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Flowers from Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh. Photo not taken by either Mr Salmond or Ms Sturgeon . Thank you for your comments and supp...
John Simpson Strikes Again
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I'm not entirely sure that the BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson always realises quite how unhelpful he's being to the B...
A helpful suggestion?
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It happens every year. It's as traditional as cheese-rolling in Gloucestershire. Andrew Marr invites on the Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Redoubtable
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I wasn't looking at the TV during Andrew Marr's introduction this morning , just listening, but when he described one of his guests ...
"It's a simple law of nature"
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Andrew Marr's public sector instincts leaked out this morning during the paper review. BBC reporter Nick Eardley was reading from a S...
In which Anthony Zurcher gets carried away and then repents
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(h/t JunkkMale) "Tweet in haste, delete soon after" is becoming quite the BBC thing. Senior BBC reporter Anthony Zurcher is the...
How to take issue with the BBC?
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Clicking into Twitter this morning the first thing I saw was Jeremy Bowen riding to the defence of a BBC sports journalist, Sonja McLaughlan...
How would the BBC have reported the US airstrikes on Iran-backed targets if Donald Trump had launched them so early in his presidency?
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Did you know that President Joe Biden has already bombed Syria? It's something that could easily have been missed if you simply relied ...
Mind Your Language!
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It's intriguing watching the changes to the BBC News website report Anas Sarwar wins Scottish Labour leadership race ( via Newssniffe...
Saturday, 27 February 2021
Nish v Nigel - An Update
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This comment from Jeremy Vine's nemesis LunchTimeLoather on the Open Thread needs a post of its own (especially for readers new to the...
True to form
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How well we know some BBC reporters! I read a prediction this morning that the BBC's Nick Bryant, reporting from New York for From O...
Aye Right, Sarah
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I see a dark Twitter storm gathered around BBC News's Scotland Editor Sarah Smith overnight with the usual calls for her sacking. (Th...
Nothing New
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An interesting little exchange here between Conservative former Scotland minister Lord (Michael) Forsyth and the BBC's Scotland polit...
A Modest Proposal
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Champagne may be being readied at the BBC with the news that Ofcom wants to give the corporation much greater freedom to set their own p...
Jon Sopel and the Case of the 'WTF' Eyebrow
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In The Times this week Patrick Kidd risked making readers' eyebrows "do ‘WTF’" by writing: In four years of covering Don...
Where's the roast beef?
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This takes me back to my youth, when you'd often hear people railing at the Americanisation of British children's TV - indeed, the...
For Peat's Sake
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The BBC is forever campaigning about something. I noticed this in passing in The Times : The amateur gardening sector is also under pressu...
Cultural “keep out” signs at Broadcasting House
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Trevor Phillips hit the nail firmly on the head this week, writing in The Times : Outrage at the BBC‘s Emma Barnett for the crime of as...
Bloodbath Reviews
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I much preferring reading reviews of TV dramas these days to watching those dramas. My loss maybe, or maybe not. Anyhow, here are two Time...
Tuesday, 23 February 2021
"Bunked off early"
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Here's the BBC's diplomatic correspondent James Landale this afternoon marking a moment of history for his country: A slice of dipl...
Jeremy Vine and Andrew Marr's discussion "misled listeners and did not meet the BBC’s standards of due accuracy"
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Those who enjoy reading BBC Executive Complaints Unit findings that go against the BBC are in for a treat here . This one concerns an edi...
Saturday, 20 February 2021
Mid-February Open Thread
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Apologies for the lack of recent posts. Thanks for keeping us afloat with your comments. Please keep telling the BBC what they don't ...
BBC - "Fascism is not an alien import but a central and on-going part of the British story"
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Thanks to Stew for helping to update an earlier post with something even more remarkable. BBC - "The unbroken thread of fascism in...
Blog Matters
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I'm seeking your advice please. Which would you prefer as a comments system for the blog? Should we revert to Blogger? Should we stick ...
Thoughts (without links) on the Emma Barnett/Woman's Hour/Muslim Council of Britain affair
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One of the major BBC-related stories of the week has been the furore over Emma Barnett's Woman's Hour interview with the new femal...
Something rotten in the state of BBC Scotland
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I'd seriously urge you to read two outstanding pieces before considering Andrew Neil's questions, as they provide all the necessary ...
"BBC diversity of opinion in action"
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If this blog becomes nothing but sponsored ads then maybe we'll need Andrew Neil to launch Andrew Neil's Is the BBC biased? He s...
Friday, 19 February 2021
BBC - "The unbroken thread of fascism in Britain"
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William Clouston, leader of the SDP, was looking at a new three-part Radio 4 series earlier called Britain's Fascist Thread . The on...
Wednesday, 17 February 2021
Lewis has un-spoken
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Lewis Goodall has done it again. He's deleted his controversial tweets about how how cancel culture doesn't really exist on univ...
Tuesday, 16 February 2021
"And who can forget that breathtaking finish when Lionel Blair came from behind and had Dirty Harry licked in under two minutes?"
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I've been led down a happy path tonight by news of someone whose name I didn't know but whose humour has punctuated my life in the...
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