BY SAM HOOPER The hand-in-glove partnership between the mainstream media and the progressive “Resistance” may pay dividends in the midterms – but if so, it will likely also be their undoing in 2020. Here is CNN’s Don Lemon calling white men the greatest terrorist risk to the United States live on air last week – moments after sanctimoniously calling for an end to divisiveness or demonising certain … Continue reading Shrill Bias & False Equivalencies
BY ANDREW MOODY After I’d just been placed under Section 3 of the Mental Health Act, one of the ward nurses told me he was off for a week to enjoy the World Cup in the pub. I had no leave and it was boiling hot. “Mate,” I said, “and I mean this: If England make it to the final, I may deign to watch … Continue reading Moody’s Thoughts: Lineker
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN The Americans are way ahead of us Brits when it comes to fighting the culture wars. Their films are better quality, their best e-warriors have ditched their bedrooms for studios and content can be found across the board adopting one or another worldview. The Americans even have the #WalkAway movement, which is beginning to really grate with the enemy…. “Once upon a … Continue reading The BBC Must Fall
BY JAMIE FOSTER On Tuesday Emily Maitliss interviewed Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on BBC Newsnight. It was a remarkable interview for what was said by the straight talking politician. Maitliss was taking him to task for Hungary’s new anti migration laws. “We want to keep Hungary a Hungarian country and we don’t think that multiculturalism is by definition good.” Maitliss didn’t know where to … Continue reading The Artful Szijjarto
BY BEN PENSANT Every true liberal loves The Guardian. There’s been surveys and everything. Sure, the relationship between principled progressives and Britain’s favourite left-wing love-sheet has been somewhat rocky during the Corbyn years, and no-one has been more vociferous than me in demanding the paper’s subversive elements are dealt with in the strongest possible manner. (Or at the very least sent regular death threats on … Continue reading The G
BY JAMIE FOSTER The latest row at the BBC shows how byzantine and secretive the organisation is and how unfit for its role as a public broadcaster it is. China editor Carrie Gracie has quit her role in protest over the fact that male colleagues in similar roles get paid 50% more to do their jobs. She is supported by a massive twitter campaign under … Continue reading Byzantine BBC
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Since 1973 there have been eleven referenda held in the UK, the majority of them have been related to the issue of devolution. The first UK-wide referendum was held in 1975 on the United Kingdom’s continued membership of the European Community. The latest referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union took place on the 23rd June 2016, when the UK … Continue reading Bring it On – The BBC Referendum
BY EAMONN O’MAHONY If you thought you Brits had it bad paying out £147 a year for your TV licence, then think about us poor Irish who pay out €160 a year for our own poll tax imposed on anyone who watches the telly. We face a similar Stasi inspectorate and bailiffs, similar court appearances and jail sentences if we fail to cough up. Statistics … Continue reading RTÉ – Really Tiresome Emissions
BY BEN PENSANT Every now and then a heart-warming example of human endeavour allows you to fleetingly forget the horror of being alive today. And my day was brightened by one such example last week when I read about the brave Dutchman who took on a supermarket chain over their micro-aggressive positioning of hate-filled newspapers where customers can see them. ‘Dear @waitrose, could you put … Continue reading Stop Funding Hate Censor & Suck
BY JOHN ISMAEL On the 29th of August the BBC website published an article in response to the Times Muslim Fostering “scandal” which was titled, “My Muslim Family & Our Foster Kids”. It was copy taken from a BBC Asian Network interview with 28 year old Esmat Jeraj with Asian Network’s Nomia Iqbal as interviewer. In the article, the interviewee Jeraj describes how her family … Continue reading BBC Hindu “Idols” Scandal
BY JAMIE FOSTER Credit where credit is due, James O’Brien has finally said something that is worthy of praise. On his LBC show he came out against Corbyn’s epic hypocrisy in failing to condemn the actions of the government of Venezuela despite tweeting that if one remains neutral in the face of oppression one comes out on the side of the oppressor. O’Brien is a … Continue reading Credit Where Credit Is Due
BY BEN PENSANT There are few institutions more infuriatingly disappointing than the BBC. On paper the Beeb should be cherished by progressives everywhere: state-owned, publicly funded, impeccably PC and overwhelmingly staffed by the kind of people who suffer recurring nightmares about post-Brexit hate crime and Islington kale droughts. Yet it can’t help but let itself down with its rampant anti-Corbynism, regularly smearing and disrespecting the … Continue reading BBC3 is Marvellous
The BBC is generally disliked. What best to do with it? Reform or finish it? After all, it is the British Broadcasting Corporation and allegedly it belongs to us – the British People. Have Your Say. Continue reading What Shall We Do With The BBC?
BY JAMIE FOSTER 1 in 10 criminal prosecutions in the UK are for non-payment of the BBC licence fee. This is a staggering figure that accounts for 180,000 prosecutions involving disproportionately large numbers of women. Single mothers on welfare who must stretch their income to care for their children are particular targets of what can only be described as a regressive tax. This is a … Continue reading The Corrupt Mess of the BBC License Fee
BY MATTHEW CORRIGAN I suppose it might have escaped your notice, but yesterday the BBC released details of how much it pays its on-air talent*. Once the news began to seep out, one or two people were rather put out. A handful of them turned to social media and began to express their displeasure… Hang on. Let’s do this properly… At eleven in the morning … Continue reading Beelzebeeb
BY MATTHEW CORRIGAN On Saturday mornings I like to rise early, pedal to the newsagent and pick up a copy of the Telegraph (I know, I know, The Times knocks it into a cocked hat these days, but I like an hour of relaxation with a broadsheet and the only other option would be the Guardian – hardly conducive to relaxing). Today was no different; … Continue reading Game Of Groans
BY ALEXIA JAMES An extraordinary turn of events over at Impress – the dud press regulator into whose coffers monies from Max Mosley have been fired. Yesterday’s Press Gazette has the story of how Impress has ordered the conspiracy website Byline to cough up £2,500 in libel damages to the trained and professional journo, Mr Dennis Rice. Mr Rice is a former investigations editor of the … Continue reading Rice Reduces IMPRESS To Laughing Stock
Some of Sir Roger Moore’s quotes: I’m the fourth best James Bond. Working with UNICEF made me grow up and recognize how fortunate I am. I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure. There is nothing glamorous about death. If you don’t have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now. I would … Continue reading Sir Roger Moore RIP
BY JAMES TOWNLEY Since the British Broadcasting Corporation came into existence on the first of January 1927, it has attempted to remain market-free by defending its necessity for impartiality. Its first General Manager John Reith, a Scottish Calvinist, succeeded in building a high wall against the US-style, free-for-all broadcasting model in which the name of the game was to attract the largest audiences and thereby … Continue reading Let’s Have a Referendum on the BBC
BY ALEXIA JAMES The fit and proper person test is being applied right now as part of an open consultation by media regulator Ofcom into Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox’s proposed £11.7bn takeover of Sky. Ofcom have heard claims of alleged sexual harassment by former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, amid pressure to derail the multi-billion-pound deal. Lawyer Lisa Bloom travelled to London with Dr … Continue reading A-Grade BBC Hypocrisy
