BY PAUL T HORGAN Competitive sports are not, we are constantly told, just about winning. They are also about taking part: This, to a degree, makes sense. If no-one apart from one person took part in a sports contest, it would not be much of a contest. This is also the case in lawsuits. The suit is not only about the result, but about the … Continue reading The Last Trump for the BBC
BY JOHN MUSGRAVE The final act of growing up, psychiatrists tell us, is to take responsibility for yourself. Children who never grow up, including sociopaths and the intellectually enfeebled will always blame circumstances and events. Never do they accept that what has happened is down to them. It’s always someone else’s fault. Two examples prove this point. Look at the government and the BBC. Far … Continue reading Persons Responsible
BY PAUL T HORGAN In all the furore following the revelation that senior BBC executives can’t get away with slandering the President of the USA without being forced to resign their jobs, it does seem as though people have forgotten that the BBC is stuffed to the gills with media professionals skilled at spinning a news story to their advantage. People may be excused this … Continue reading BBC DARVO
BY SEAN WALSH The broadcaster Mike Graham has been sacked (according to some reports) by Talk TV for offences real or imagined (past caring). This was always on the cards given the 24/7 diligence of the grievance junkies now in charge of the public and social media spaces. It was only last week that Mr Graham was involved in an entertaining “dust up” with the … Continue reading Toxic ‘Niceness’ Shouldn’t Stop Us Calling Out The Lies
BY JOE NUTT I’ve been a sports participant and a fan all my life. So one of very few things I can hand-on-heart thank the world of television for, besides Basil Fawlty and Noggin the Nog, is its near magical ability to gift me the joy of spectating, even when I can’t be there. I’ve been known to watch an entire stage of a cycling … Continue reading Lift Music Journalism
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN One notices, if one pays attention at all, that we have entered an era where the superlative has murdered the substantive. Where once we measured statements by their truth, we now appraise them by their capacity to startle. A headline declaring ‘Tax Policy Revised’ gathers dust; ‘Minister Claims Eating Cold Beans ‘Worse Than Welfare Cuts’ in Tone-Deaf LBC Interview’ goes viral. It is against this … Continue reading Why I Am Cutting Off My Penis
BY PAUL T HORGAN By late April 1945, there was no hope for the relief of Berlin by German forces. The irony was that the Nazi capital held little strategic significance in the war, with one obvious exception. The fall of Berlin would not alter Germany’s fortunes, apart from the fact that this fall would eliminate Germany’s current leadership, a leadership that refused to bring … Continue reading End Times Orgy at the BBC
BY PAUL T HORGAN The annual number of murders in the UK appears to always be between 500 and 600 these days. What can be said with a degree of certainty is that the overwhelming majority of the murderers will be male. Female murderers are exceptional. Females lack the strength and the aggression to kill another adult human being, especially if that adult is a … Continue reading Why The Public Can No Longer Trust BBC News
BY PAUL T HORGAN It is reasonable to suggest that the re-election of Donald Trump to be President, after a four-year hiatus, has sent shock waves throughout Western society. One aspect that has been covered in detail is how most TV channels in the USA, but also here in the UK, were against him with not just dislike, but open hostility. If the anti-Trump coverage … Continue reading The Death of Television
BY ALEXIA JAMES Gary Lineker’s departure from BBC’s Match of the Day at the end of the 2024-2025 Premier League season marks the close of a defining chapter in the history of the iconic football show. After 26 years at the helm, Lineker, who has hosted the flagship programme since 1999, will step down from his role but will continue to lead the BBC’s coverage … Continue reading Laters, Gary
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Imagine if BBC’s Countryfile became a programme, like Clarkson’s Farm, about what actually happens in the UK Countryside, rather than a show that appeals more to the four in five Brits who live in towns and cities who tend to prefer to coo at the British Countryside, or tut-tut at rural folk who are just trying to earn a crust. Imagine if … Continue reading Landline or Lifeline?
CSM STAFF WRITER Our Editor Dominic Wightman was on BBC Radio 4 this afternoon for an hour before World at One. He was invited onto a show hosted by Adam Fleming called Antisocial, described as: ‘Peace talks for the culture wars. In an era of polarisation, propaganda and pile-ons, Adam Fleming helps you work out what the arguments are really about’ Today’s debate was focused … Continue reading Dominic Wightman: The Countryside Not Racist
BY JOHN MUSGRAVE Britain’s first rock and roll radio station, Radio Caroline, started transmissions this weekend 60 years ago. Despite our country’s role as the world’s leading democracy, free speech has had a tough time of it in Britain. Back in the 60s the establishment loathed the idea of free radio. It couldn’t be controlled and playing rock and roll was considered unwholesome. Nevertheless, Caroline … Continue reading The Importance of Radio Caroline
BY JACK WATSON I have to admit, as a massive football fan, I quite like listening to The Rest is Football podcast with Gary Lineker. My generation doesn’t tend to, but I also enjoy watching Match of The Day (MOTD) with Gary Lineker every Sunday morning. Footballwise, I think Lineker is an intelligent (football) commentator and pundit. It’s just a shame that his political views, … Continue reading Lineker’s Star is Fading
BY ALEX STORY Last week a Jew, a Moslem, and a lapsed Christian walked into a studio, ostensibly for a civilised debate on a potential path to peace in the Middle East. It ended with the host shouting: “I don’t care about your sex lives!” Yet, it started so well… From the autocue Piers Morgan read “Israel at War: the uncensored debate” with all the … Continue reading How Far We Have Fallen
BY DANIEL JUPP Over the last week we have seen an all-out mainstream media assault on Elon Musk and X, formerly known as Twitter. We are told that Musk is embroiled in an antisemitism scandal. We are informed that Musk liked a post which said that Jews deliberately flood white majority Western nations with immigration, and that this is a vile, far right conspiracy theory. … Continue reading The War on Elon Musk
BY STEWART SLATER Who am I? Who are you? Don’t worry, you haven’t wandered into an undergraduate philosophy seminar. No, the point of the questions is the answers that you would give. I, for example, am a male of a certain age, born in Scotland. I attended a fee-paying school, the world’s best university and worked in the City. I write a bit (you’ve probably … Continue reading The Fox & the Hounds
BY JOHN MUSGRAVE Today marks the annual anniversary of the death of pirate radio back in 1967. Every year a dwindling band of ageing rockers and ravers mark the passing of the Marine Etc Broadcasting Offences Act; Harold Wilson’s infamous law that sank rock and roll radio. For three glorious years we’d listened to pop music from the high seas. Radio Caroline began broadcasting at … Continue reading On My Radio
BY DANIEL JUPP Once again the BBC finds itself mired in a sex scandal. This time it’s that paragon of virtue, Huw Edwards. That’s going to hurt a lot. Someone with an agenda against the BBC, like Murdoch, could not have chosen a better target. Squeaky clean Edwards was the safest pair of hands in the building. Now the public are asking, ‘if Huw Edwards … Continue reading Anyone at the BBC Not a Pervert?
BY THE EDITOR A few years ago, my colleague Nicholas Pearce wrote about how a Torbay-based dime store huckster known as Ellie Waugh managed to get the bleeding-heart LBC shock jock James O’Brien to promote her latest deception on air. Up to £70,000.00 was raised in donations by Waugh’s con, mostly using a crowdfunder that O’Brien innocently promoted live on air during his morning radio … Continue reading Recording of James O’Brien’s ‘Most Admirable Person’ Surfaces
