Is the BBC biased?

Time for the February open thread. Thanks for your comments and please keep them coming.

Such a pity Biden is ga ga and Putin is a maniac. But what do I know? I only listen to the media. Once again we’re in When the Wind Blows te...

So Mates and Soapless are off to join James O'Brien, presumably leaving The Zurch in the lurch.  It's worked out nicely for the Beeb...

    The Telegraph.   Hope you can all access the comments!   Quick summary for those who can’t : “Good riddance / we are all watching GB New...

Radio 4's Sunday had a very odd feature this morning. It concerned a perennial Sunday topic: 'Islamophobia'. The section began...

   I've learned a new phrase today, courtesy of Nick Robinson : “Rope a dope” is clearly Boris Johnson’s new tactic on partygate - he si...

Peter Hitchens has the BBC squarely in his sights in his Mail on Sunday column this week .  I'm rather proud of having helped him , eve...

Harry de Quetteville, special correspondent at The Telegraph , has a report on one epidemiologist's view of how we reacted to Covid.  O...

The Telegraph 's doughty Alan Cochrane today echoes Andrew Neil's concerns about the BBC's attitude to the SNP government at Ho...

Nadine Dorries has been interviewed by Charlotte Ivers of The Sunday Times . Here are her latest comments on the BBC from that interview: T...

Here's a civilised Twitter discussion (such things do exist) about an exchange on this morning's Radio 4 Today programme: Nick Ro...

   Andrew Neil has a piece in today's Daily Mail headlined The sinister abuse of BBC star Sarah Smith...and how Scots 'cybernats...

   The New Statesman is enthusing over a new BBC Radio 4 programme: A delightful mix of science, history and feminism, BBC Radio 4’s Polit...

11.15pm is past my bedtime, so I'll doubtless miss the debut on BBC Two next week of John Simpson's new show Unspun World with John...

I see the BBC is still making moral judgements rather than merely reporting and letting the public decide: Boris Johnson says he has "...

The Sunday Times has a strong piece today by seasoned business reporter Oliver Shah :  BBC’s dilettante attitude to business is a symptom ...

Today's Sunday programme on Radio 4 conformed to type when discussing the Macron government's latest initiative to tackle Islamic ...

There's a big headline news story on the BBC News website this evening using the word 'toxic':   It's a piece by Tom Symon...

  Qing dynasty art, attributed to Ma Quan  [no relation to Ma Barker] Regular readers will know that we value those vanishingly rare ' B...

“ Why is the BBC saying Boris’s Savile claims are false? ”  asked The Spectator this week : Is Boris Johnson’s claim that Keir Starmer fail...

Following on from the previous post... It was fascinating watching Operation Midland victim Paul Gambaccini [my teenage favourite] reacting...

Many hereabouts will have welcomed Thursday's ousting of Dame Cressida Dick, even if it was provoked by Sadiq Khan.  I was curious about...

The suspension of Labour MP Neil Coyle yesterday is receiving the kind of low-key BBC reporting we'd expect.  The story appeared on BBC ...

I accidentally listened to Nick Robinson grilling James Cleverly on the Today Programme one morning last week.    As others have mentioned ...

I've been a bit out-of-action recently, but here are a few things I noted down this week: I Never mind Partygate. Sue Gray and Dame Dick...

  ‘The BBC is not impartial and I think we can all see that’ ‘I don’t think Emily does offer opinion’ Martin Bell and Robin Aitken debate wh...

Gosh. A year ago I wrote about the case of the Israeli tourists who had allegedly gang-raped a 19-year-old British girl in Cyprus.    It cau...