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The BBC Doubles Down
The Guardian reports that the BBC is shrugging off the unprecedented levels of criticism of their Diamond Jubilee television coverage with the practiced ease and disinterest of the vast, bloated...
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Sweet Justice
The BBC reports that Apple has failed in its attempt to block sales of Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet computers on the spurious grounds of copyright infringement: A UK judge has ordered Apple to publish...
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A Musical Glass Ceiling, Finally Broken
For the first time ever, the person given the honour of conducting the Last Night of the Proms, that great British musical occasion, will be a woman. An exceptionally well qualified woman, Marin Alsop....
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The BBC, Impregnable Fortress of Conservative Bias?
List your top three current threats to British national security and democracy. What did you write down? Government electronic surveillance and public apathy toward the erosion of privacy? The...
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England In The United Kingdom
Above is a screenshot taken from the Politics section of the BBC News website. There are clear and clickable links leading to separate sections for Northern Irish politics, Welsh politics and Scottish...
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The Establishment Rounds On UKIP
It is neither astonishing nor controversial to observe that the British political establishment – politicians and their client political journalists alike – have only animosity and contempt towards...
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The N-Word
One special word has been trending heavily in the British media over the past week, but you are unlikely to have seen it spelled out in print or on screen. Like the character Lord Voldemort from the...
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Local Elections: Mid-Earthquake Progress Update
Over half of the local election results are in, and so far we see UKIP picking up an impressiv number of council seats (139 and counting), running a strong second in many areas (which is impressive...
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At Long Last, Will The BBC Take Editorial Bias Seriously?
It is a sign of the times that things which used to cause outrage are becoming commonplace and shrugged off as unimportant, a fuss about nothing. And so it was that barely anyone spoke up when Jasmine...
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Biased Or Not, The BBC’s Political Coverage Is Shockingly Bad
The BBC – our national treasure or money and creativity-sapping black hole (depending on your viewpoint) has been given due notice by Sajid Javid, the new Culture Secretary, that every aspect of its...
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It’s The End Of The World As EU Know It
Full review of the programme here. You wait years for an apocalyptic mockumentary where Nigel Farage ushers in the end of western civilisation, and then two come along at once. Hot on the heels of...
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Review: The Great European Disaster Movie, BBC Four
Imagine that you are a young child in an alternate universe, a future world in which the European Union has been disbanded amid popular uprising and economic depression. Then imagine that you are...
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Why George Osborne’s 2015 Budget Was Such A Big Disappointment
Budget 2015 was yet another let-down for fiscal conservatives and opponents of big government, not that this beleaguered group have come to expect any better after five years of Conservative-LibDem...
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John Darvall And The BBC’s Warped Approach To Editorial Impartiality
It can’t be easy for the BBC’s news division, required by law to produce strictly non-partisan coverage while being assailed by both left and right for failing to sing their respective praises...
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Why Did The BBC Silence John Darvall?
The personal WordPress blog of John Darvall, the BBC Radio Bristol presenter removed from his regularly scheduled programme because of his relationship with a Conservative MP, offers further clues...
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Are People Waking Up To Left Wing Virtue-Signalling?
– When it comes to the British political debate, what you say now matters more than what you do. The BBC has apparently just noticed this trend The standard Daily Politics slapstick comedy treatment...
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The Daily Toast: After Paris, Andrew Neil’s Bravura Anti-Islamist Speech
– Three cheers to Andrew Neil for his bravura speech praising Western enlightenment values in comparison with murderous “Islamist scumbags” – and their sleazy apologists on the British Left It’s fair...
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In Defence Of Andrew Neil’s Anti-ISIS Rant – Political Journalism At Its Best
– No, Andrew Neil’s magnificent anti-Islamist rant was not a violation of the BBC’s commitment to impartiality It’s a strange world where I find myself writing in support of Andrew Neil twice in the...
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The Daily Smackdown: Cynical Bishops Exploit Terrorism For Publicity
– Who will condemn the bishops for exploiting our fear of terrorism in their grubby bid to preserve taxpayer funding of the BBC’s religious output? The Church of England is very upset that the BBC is...
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BBC Daily Politics: If Students Need Safe Spaces, They Have No Business Voting
– Today I will be a guest on the BBC’s flagship Daily Politics show, discussing the worrying and accelerating infantilisation of today’s university students and asking whether young people who need...
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