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 JOHN DREWRY Donald Trump has apparently expressed the thought that maybe Federal taxation is unnecessary altogether, and the economist Martin Armstrong agrees with him. It’s not such a crazy idea, and I’ve had a version of this in my mind for some years. Here’s mine for the UK. Replace all taxes with an automatic licence fee for using the King’s currency “You don’t understand, … Continue reading A Licence Fee Worth Paying
BY PAUL T HORGAN It is one of life’s small fortunes that Russell Brand did not overly intrude on my television-watching up to the point I ditched my TV licence over two years ago. It was actually the increasingly dominant televisual culture of the kind that Brand represented (and that I was paying the BBC to watch) that prompted me to restrict myself to catch-up … Continue reading Brand X
BY PAUL T HORGAN Surely one of the most cloyingly cringeworthy sights on British Television this year has to be the BBC’s Newsnight hosting a children’s choir marking the 75th anniversary of the creation of the NHS. All the young singers were clad in identical t-shirts as if they were part of some staatsjugend organisation. Some bureaucrat must have seen the 1980s music act St … Continue reading The NHS & BBC Are Falling
BY EFFIE DEANS Who should pay for BBC TV programmes? Should it be those who watch them or everybody who owns a TV? I can remember when there were only three channels. If you owned a TV in Britain, you almost certainly watched quite a lot of BBC programmes or at least listened to the radio. The number of people who only watched ITV must … Continue reading The BBC Dines Out on Those Who Can’t
Dear Editor, I have followed your magazine’s recent exposés of the mountebanks masquerading as representatives of animal rights. I commend you and your writers for giving light to the truth. May I suggest that as well as following the money, you also look in depth at my old employer the BBC and show just how it is responsible for repeated attacks on the countryside. Yes, … Continue reading BBC & the Countryside
BY ALEXIA JAMES Let’s be frank. The BBC does not have a good reputation for being fair and balanced over Brexit. Some argue that their Remain bias over recent years has done irreparable damage to public trust in the BBC, its ability to deliver news impartially, and will result in the end of the licence fee in coming years. Already there is desperate talk of … Continue reading Biased BBC Dissembling (Again)
BY QUENTIN PIGG Last month, Britain’s broadcast media subjected the nation to a series of bombshell revelations from which it may never recover. First came the news that Philip Schofield isn’t the red-blooded womaniser his tousled hair and flowered shirts would have us believe. Then the BBC’s Head of Drama, Piers Wenger (pictured), revealed that far from some happy coincidence, it is actual BBC policy … Continue reading Repurposing the Licence Fee
BY ALEXIA JAMES Hearing debates on the BBC about the BBC is sickening. They really cannot see the damage that the licence fee does to Britain’s poorest. How do they sleep at night? The single mother of three in Aldi tempted by an offer for two pounds off healthy mince but goes for a pack of cheap frozen sausages instead, as she knows that the … Continue reading BBC Licence Fee Must Go
BY ROBERT TRIBE There was a day not long ago when you could visit the BBC website and read the news. You could scroll down the UK and World news stories knowing that they had been written by some leftist but safe in the knowledge that it wouldn’t take that much deciphering to get through to the facts. Back in the good old days even … Continue reading The LGBTQBBC Website
BY ALEXIA JAMES It was always going to happen. Our public broadcaster the BBC is primarily funded by the licence fee, supplemented by income from commercial subsidiaries. And the number of licence fees received by the BBC has been decreasing markedly, principally because the word is out that BBC programmes are not worth £154.50 a year when competitors like Amazon Prime and Netflix return more value … Continue reading BBC’s Last Roll
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
