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On Sunday 6th of January heard the following report on BBC World Service.
It was about a woman who collects and appreciates the hand made Pashmina shawls of the Cashmiri weavers in India.. But the poor weavers have been stopped from working as the machine made copies of their work have taken over. Our sympathy is aroused for these poverty stricken workers who now have no work. They take a whole year to produce and hand embroider a shawl and get paid $750 per year which is the equivalent of $2 per day.
The presenter took her 3 shawls to be checked by this expert and was told that the one she paid the most for and which she thought was the most beautiful was in fact machine made. “How can you tell the difference?” she asked the expert.” The stitches at the back are too perfect to be hand made” was the reply.
Surely the logic is that once a product is made much more efficiently by machine, and is is just as aesthetically pleasing and the “copy” is in fact a superior product than the original, that the weavers redundancy is inevitable.
The BBC’s logic is that technology is evil because it has cruelly taken away the jobs of the poorly paid weavers.. The philosophy of the BBC seems to be that “going back to the Ark” to a pre industrial time is considered to be in the interests of progress for humanity.. .
Luddites ring any bells ?
I’d be happy to go back to the Ark just as long as the Toady programme was handwritten on a piece of parchment and delivered every morning by a runner using a cleft stick.
‘The BBC’s logic is that technology is evil because it has cruelly taken away the jobs of the poorly paid weavers.’
Guessing killing off local or net-based media via uniquely funded monopolist competition is just tickedy-boo?
toxic, lazy leftism …
In the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal and BBC management’s bungled attempt at first to stifle and now to play down its own central role in the story, Lord Patten has been busy commissioning a series of internal inquires. Naturally the latest far reaching report into what went wrong with the culture at the Corporation has been conducted by another old friend of the BBC. This time, however, Lord Patten has looked beyond the usual band of trusties and Common Purpose graduates and the report has been headed by a personality popular with the British public, one with a background in private enterprise: Derek Trotter.
Quelle de Jour! Eee-aah ladies and gents, do yourselves a favour and cop a load of this…. You can trust Del Boy, you know it makes sense. Will I be here next week, will I be here tomorra? Missus, I won’t even be here this afternoon! All joking aside now, this is a most serious matter. Appellation contrôlée.
Well, it was like this… Yer Jimmy-the-Savile he started out up norff as a nipper before he ever comes up to the Smoke. I hear as ‘ow he ‘ad some muckers who he’d ‘ang about wiv in the early days, who was a bit naughty like…. He was certainly no stranger to the Rozzers norff a Watford. Royaume Uni, nil pois!
Then it all changed ‘cos he was suddenly a big noise at the BBC. Massif Central! So he could knock about wiv allsorts of sorts off the back of his TV shows, his funruns and in the ‘ospitals – all over the shop. Dippin’ his wick where he didn’t ought to. Now where I come from we don’t take too kindly to that sorta fing. That just ain’t kosher. Sacre Bleu – that’s what that is. If only someone at the BBC ‘ad of said the word, then me, the Driscoll Bruvvers, Monkey ‘Arris, Denzil, Mike from the pub – even Rodney and little Mickey Peirce – we all woulda been up for givin’ ‘im a right seeing to. But we never ‘eard a dickybird – not official like – not on the BBC. Although there was a rumour or two down the Nag’s Head.
Course, the trouble started in the seventies, when yer whacky-backy was the crème de menthe. As me bruvver Rodney can tell you, some gets away wiv it easier than others. I know Rodders is a right twonk, but he’d no sooner finished his first day at college when this Chinese bint invited him up to her room, put on ‘er Bob Marley LP and lit up a fat ciggie – and straight away in burst the Old Bill. He hardly had a chance to say ‘hey man’. Course Rodney, he’s a plonker, but in the seventies they was all at it. And some got away wiv it. Pop culture it was called. Apart from the drugs there was a fair bit of the other, yer Lulu, yer Twiggy, yer Marry Unfaithful – it was all about the free love (or ‘on-special’ humpty-dumpty as we might call it) and the BBC wanted to get into all that. Course they did. Gwad only knows what licence payers – the likes of my old Mum (God rest ‘er soul) the silent majority as it’s known made of it. Course being silent they was kept schtum. Well, you still don’t hear their voices on the BBC, now do yer?
You remember Radio One? That funny bloke Kenny Leatherette. Hairy Cornflakes. Ed Stewpot. Gambaccini. And the other one who pretended to be Scouse…. used to play all those awful records…. wossisname? You know, everyone loved him….terrible music….posh bloke….Teenage Kicks by Infernal Sharkie…. Yeah, John Peel! Then there was yer Emperor Rosko – no leave it out, course I’m not making ‘em up! Yer Jonathon King. They was all up to one fing or another…. Yer Noel Edmunds ‘ad is Dingly Dell. Yer Garry Glitters – he’s bin ‘ad up! Anyroad, turns out that ‘arf of ‘em was NONCES! Who woulda known?
Mind you, and I wanna be straight wiv you on this point….I ain’t castin’ any diversions on the noofters. Yer Dirty Barrys. They might not be everyone’s cup o’char. Fair play to ‘em, if their preference ‘appens to be for an ‘owsyerfather up the jacksie wiv some ol’ sort what’s a geezer – so long as it’s all overage and contemptual – then far as I’m concerned that’s just cushtie. I’m sure there’s plenty at the BBC they’d be more than ‘appy to back me up on that.
Now, fromage frais! Was it all bound to come out eventual-like? Hors de combat.
Should the Beeb have tried to keep a lid on it? Well they ‘ad a go. As I always tell Rodders….He who dares wins….
Way I see it though, think of it this way (it was Trigger what described it to me like this) it was like trying to keep hold of some small brown Richard the Third what you’ve got. It’s bound to be desperate to get out. So let it go. Release it. It just wants to fly back to his nest. I know Trigger’s a divvy but I fink that’s poetic-like.
So no, they was complete prannies to try to cover it up. Should anyone have to carry the can for the way the BBC naused it up? And what about the top nobs? Well as I said to Boycie the other day, ‘let’s put all our cards on the table – including that fifth ace yer holding up yer sleeve’. Most of the big cheeses at the BBC are on very nice little earners. Hardly what you’d call potless. But then remember what a fantastic job they do, all the brilliant programmes…. Fabrique Belgique most of ‘em. We wouldn’t want to put the kybosh on that, would we?
I’m not saying as how some of what they get up to ain’t a bit ‘ooky – talk about no income tax, no VAT…. They must go into work thinking to themselves ‘this time next year we could be millionaires’. So suppose one or two of ‘em does get his marching orders, gets the old el-bow like – it’s always with a skyrocket full of pukka readies – then as far as they’re concerned it’s all just pate de foie gras! Lovely jubbly!
After the Speccy went a bit off reservation t’other day with a ‘we love the BBC.. that’s an instruction no a question of observation’ piece, this gets ’em a bit back on track..
http://www.spectator.co.uk/life/the-wiki-man/8824961/my-very-own-1970s-sex-pest/
check out 5live breakfast from 8am
panto campbell – puts his wisdom on
the murder of brits by islamic facists
and, for in depth anlysis on algeria with …..
wait for it, barbara castle.
the airbrushing at the bbc continues, as he spouts,
look … lets not mention, just call them, al quaida inspired
terrorists, and he does 3 times,, then comes
a tear wrenching diatribe of excusery pap from castle,
young men with no work you see? … girls with no prospects
oh obviously a career choice then? …
well you see somali pirate like? who again have nothing to do with … al quaida inspired terrorists?
yep! this confusing horse and pony show continues … before castle gets dragged back to the “home”.
you just got to hear it 😀 … but sadly no link yet
hmmm … oh dear … 5live “your call” beckons,
i bet panto has all his best “one liners” ready.
oh goodness, i nearly forgot … bbc could ignore muslim pak child rapes altogether, oh and benghazi too, so ……
5live “your call” after the weekend, where at least 5 brits have been murdered and many more by islamic facists, in
that massacre in algeria ……
bbc 5live your call …
has the snow got you down?, do you moan too much?
only at the bbc
ps. my apologies its shirley williams …
bleary eyes this morning
AND …. here is that panto/williams link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b01q1g11/
2hrs 8mins
My reply of “good god, is she still alive?” applies in either case.
My reply of “good god, why is she still alive?” applies in either case.
FTFY.
Ha Ha! “young men with no work”. Love it. That’s blinding. Yes, it’s all about economics, and nothing to do with the sick, violent, military political ideology of Islam. Nothing to see here, move along, now, move along. This isn’t the Islam you’re looking for…good ol’ Beeb!
Cue Gameshow with his…
‘Woz the roo cause – zipovery?’
The droids’ default position on almost all crime. That 99.99 repeater % of poor people don’t fly planes into buildings, take hostages, blow themselves and others up, thieve, assault, burn or riot seems to have passed them by completely.
A life of Jihad and suicide missions – food and board, 4 x 4 and all the guns and explosives you’ll ever need paid for by the company – or stay poor and peaceful, but with no job?
Hmmm, have to think about that one….
But the clincher is surely the 40 virgins in paradise!
Heard for the second time on BBC – this time on the Today programme – about Stansted being bought out for £1.5 billion. Now this morning we were told it was ‘Manchester Airport’ doing the buying. On the previous occasion we were told it was ‘the owners of Manchester Airport’.
What both carefully omitted to mention was that Manchester Airport is jointly owned by the various local authorities which make up Greater Manchester. Maybe that’s because it might conflict with the sob stories we get every day on north West News from local council leaders complaining about the sagagetorycutz, and the embarrassment it might cause them having suddenly to explain where they’ve managed to find £1.5 billion for a commercial venture that’s got nothing to do with mending potholes or emptying bins.
Not to mention the £650million ‘Manchester Airport City’ for which the city council has just given planning permission.
http://www.building.co.uk/news/go-ahead-for-%C2%A3650m-manchester-airport-city-project/5048972.article
Comment yesterday morning on some BBC current affairs programme with council talking heads.
‘Council Chief executives have been surprised by how easy they have found it to make cuts of 10, 15, 20%’.
They might be surprised by how easy it is to cut criminal levels of waste when they try. I’m not.
50% would be a far more realistic (and achievable) target.
Did anybody hear the woman from some retailers group on the Today business news talking about the increase in losses her members are facing due to shoplifting?
Was it just me or, when she was asked to explain the reasons for the rise, was she actually giggling when she explained one reason might be due to people’s economic circumstances? It was quite bizarre and it made me wonder what the hell was going on in the studio that we coudn’t see or hear.
Interesting snippet here from the Spectator columns on Rod Liddle and his take a s Will Self becoming ‘writer in residence’,(Seriously?!) at Radio 4.
The most interesting part is where he speaks of the time when as editor of the Today programme he commissioned Will Self and Frederick Forsyth to bring counter balanced essays each week.
“The essays came to an end because the top brass couldn’t abide Freddy, banging on about the EU or immigration or taxes every other week. I was asked by managers to end his slot countless times. In the end I got so weary of the battle that, shamefully, I gave in and Freddy was dropped, with Will as collateral damage. I notice that this time around there is no attempt to balance Will’s views. I suspect the notion of balance did not remotely occur.”
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/rod-liddle/2013/01/will-self-writer-in-residence-at-bbc-radio-4/
Coincidentally, I posted a comment on Liddle’s previous blog post. He wrote yesterday praising Lyse Doucet’s massacre porn piece from Syria as an example of how awesome and impartial the BBC can be when they want to. I asked Rod if he felt more excellent work was in the offing now that the BBC had hired Will Self to be R4’s intellectual leader. I also added that he doesn’t write about the BBC’s liberal bias as much as he claimed to do.
Curiously, my comment did not make it through the moderation process. But I see he’s now answered it anyway.
There are times when I think Liddle is angling for a job at the Beeb. Certainly his last 2 posts are going on his CV for them.
(I think if you don’t include links on your post at the Spectator comments go through without moderation. Least that’s what I’ve experienced.)
EGYPT.
INBBC’s Cairo Bureau, and INBBC Arabic are there to censor out reports critical of Islam.
Where’s the INBBC report on this (and where’s INBBC political solidarity with Egyptian journalist)?:-
“Sharia in action in Egypt: Newspaper editor accused of defaming Islam and ridiculing the Qur’an and Sharia”
[Excerpt]:-
“Sharia descends upon Egypt — and remember, this is the kind of law that Islamic supremacists and their Leftist allies want to force upon America.”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/01/egypt-newspaper-editor-accused-of-defaming-islam-and-ridiculing-the-quran-and-sharia.html
Clearly, INBBC and INBBC Arabic are overstaffed.
This area of INBBC broadcasting is designed to be politically compliant for Arabs/Muslims, especially for those of the Middle East.
We licence payers are being forced to pay for that propaganda service for Muslims, which is similar to that already provided by scores of Arabic broadcasters, including INBBC chums, Al Jazeera, and more recently Sky Arabic.
Where and when was the expression ‘Islamist’ coined? I seem to remember the BBC using it about the people of Northern Sudan who were killing the people of the south and its use was to avoid saying the word ‘Muslim’. Now with the latest problems in Algeria I realise that there has been so much trouble caused by these people the BBC has had to use the word so frequently they and others cannot hide the religion this way any more. Will they be finding another alternative shortly?
“Islam and Islamists.”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/10/islam-and-islamists.html
The favored term is : mohammadan .
Multiculturalism is great.
Here’s another bunch of loons being clutched to the bosom of the BBC. and given the oxygen of publicity.
Slap bang on the Corporation’s ‘news’ website today is advice from PETA (‘the animal welfare charity’ sic) on how people should be treating domestic animals in the current weather conditions.
To describe this bunch of nutballs as an ‘animal welfare charity’ is disingenuous at best. PETA has what you might call a ‘reputation’ (Google it). It’s a bit like describing the IRA as a ‘Hibernian pressure group’.
Still, since when has the BBC cared where it gets its press releases from? Providing they’re from sources on the radical Left, of course.
I heard a radio interview the other day, I think it was on the bBC, in which Alan Rusbridger was asked if he had been in line to be the next controller of R4. The rambling reply seemed to say it would have been a shoe in for him. When I heard it, it had no surprise factor at all.
The bBC living in a parallel universe. R4 about 8.20pm , Hague being interviewed. A demand by the imbecile bBC, why had not the U.K. stopped all the weapons in North Africa getting into the hands of the extremists. An exasperated Hague said the U.K. is not omnipotent.
I heard that interview. A bit of disgusting history re-writing going on there. The interviewer’s questions basically started with the statement of a fallacy – i.e. the UK was responsible for the transfer of weapons and Muslim Terrorists from such places as Libya, to Mali and Algeria, because it basically masterminded the overthrow of Gaddaffi, and then asked, as you point out, why Mr Cameron had not stopped all transfer of terrorists, their resources and weapons across the whole of North Africa. So therefore, the implication is, the UK government is basically to blame for the death of the workers at the refinery, and obviously, by extension, for any other terrorist activities in that part of the world.
Jeez – talk about the BBC willing to blame the UK and its current government for every ill that befalls the world ?
Other media are blaming the USA and its lack of a foreign policy for the last four years, but we wouldn’t hear that on the bBBC, would we?
Oh, dear. Surely you’re not suggesting that The Obamessiah was doing any gun-running in the region *cough – Benghazi – cough*. His Nobel Peace Prize wouldn’t allow it.
‘why had not the U.K. stopped all the weapons in North Africa getting into the hands of the extremists’
Presumably today not the day to ask any senior type in the Obama Administration the same about Mexico’s drug cartels?
“…why had not the U.K. stopped all the weapons in North Africa getting into the hands of the extremists.”
“Okay, Mr Everyday Mussulman: here’s a nice, shiny assault weapon for you. Just one thing: are you an extremist ?”
“No, you running infidel son-of-a-whore, *ahem*, my good friend. Of course not. I merely wish it for shooting vermin, i.e. pigeons. Rats. Jews. Sorry, I mean *Gnus*. Does it come with a big magazine and night scope (for night pigeons)? Salaam, salaam.”
Good news. There are no more illegal immigrants – just undocumented migrants. Story currently removed from BBC website.
Am I the only listener/viewer bemused by the endless publicity in respect of some mouthy politician’s re-inauguration as leader of a foreign country? I don’t recall the palpable (or any) excitement at the BBC when Reagan or George W – or even Clinton – were inaugurated for the second time.
As usual the BBC mistakes what is, this time round, a human interest story for something of historical significance. The significant bit of what’s happening is not the predictably crapola – but well-delivered – speech that Obama will be making (which has already been engraved on tablets of stone awaiting their revelation to the BBC24 audience) but what Obama will actually do in the coming weeks and months.
Sure his stated intentions are sort-of interesting (and are “news” in that, as a public statement, should be reported) but not, I would submit, that important: certainly not important enough that their very delivery be trailed for days – even weeks – ahead of the events this afternoon in Washington. His speech will, I’m sure, be endlessly “analysed” for the slightest nuance of meaning. I think I can predict that the speech will be assessed by the BBC team as, above all, the long-awaited and deserved silver bullet aimed at the evil hearts of the Republican Party and the NRA and, particularly, at the Republican majority in the House (which because it might be an obstacle to His ambitions has, in the BBC narrative, no democratic legitimacy).
I know the whole spectrum of the UK paper press is just as much in love with the US First Family as the BBC. However, as commenters here can’t repeat enough times, we’re not compelled to finance the love-fest in the Telegraph or the Mirror nor is the paper press required by law to provide an objective and impartial analysis of His politics and policies.
It is interesting to do a little basic research (such as a google enquiry like ‘Obama first inauguration promises’) to find that even some fairly hard-line pro-Obama media in the US strives to see where he has actually lived up to any of his first-term key promises in full.
Pienaar’s Politics last night played a clip of Obama’s private swearing-in ceremony at the White House. The BBC R5L’s political editor then commented:
“So it wasn’t a dream – or a nightmare if you’re a Republican commentator on Fox News – four more years!”
Praise be! It wasn’t all just a wonderful dream, he really is president again! Take that Fox News and the Republicans.
After 4 more years ALL USA citizens may regret the country he bequeaths them, tho it may take some time to sink in!
The lowest-rated re-elected President since WWII, with even less votes than George Bush got for his re-election, yet the BBC is treating this like proof of the Resurrection and the biggest moral mandate in history.
I’d wonder why the so-called Tory Press isn’t ridiculing the BBC for such childish displays, but I know they’re just as afraid of the BBC (or secretly hope to get jobs there) as everyone else.
“Even less votes than George Bush got”
Bush, 2004: 62m votes, 50.7% of the popular vote, 286 electoral college votes.
Obama, 2012: 65.9m votes, 51.1% of the popular vote, 332 electoral college votes.
Please enlighten us how the latter is less than the former?
Scott, probably because occupants of cemeteries, especially around Chicago, voted for him. Also the magnificent voter turnout in some states – 127% in Louisiana. How about bussing in Somalian refugees to attend polling stations? Then there were the groups of Black Panther members intimidating voters and the ejection of Republican Party observers from some polling stations.
Don’t take my word for it, check out the facts on the internet.
No wonder the Democrats were against voter I.D.
Louisiana turnout was actually 67.26%, and it was won by Romney. I don’t think I’m the one who needs to check their facts.
Oops! My mistake, Scott. Trying to concentrate in the early hours does tend to slow your mind.
I meant of course St. Lucie County in Florida that had the 127% turnout, thereby leading to the defeat of Republican candidate Allen West. Some sources put the turnout nearer 140%.
Of course you must have known that bit of information, Scott, but it served your purpose in trying to discredit my WHOLE post.
Perhaps you could explain how Obama received 100% of the vote in some counties? No votes against him or spoiled papers. How’s that possible?
Of course it does help if most of the electronic vote machines are manufactured by a company owned by Obama’s biggest sponsor, George Soros.
I notice my mistake allowed you to sidestep the other points in my post.
Cherrypicker to the last!
Here are a few more numbers for Scottie Boy to crunch- and these ARE verifiable:-
Wood County, Ohio, 106,258 voted in a county with only 98,213 eligible voters.
Palm Beach County, Florida had a 141% turnout.
Ohio County, Obama won by 108% of the total number of eligible voters.
It has also been noted that Obama lost in all the areas where voter I.D. was demanded and won in those areas where voter I.D. was abandoned.
You’ve been taken in by an email that makes a string of false claims. See Factcheck.org:
http://factcheck.org/2013/01/voting-conspiracies/
…the Factcheck analysis of these claims is heavily documented with links to accurate voting information. If it’s wrong, and the claims you make are actually “verifiable”, as you say, I’m sure you’ll be able to provide similar links that provide such verification.
Yes – Obama is the only President since WW2 to be re-elected with less votes than he got in his first election. So NO MANDATE got huge changes of the sort the BBC slavers for.
…and yet he still got more votes, and a bigger share of the popular vote, than Bush did in 2004.
I wasn’t aware presidents had to increase their share in order to win.
… they yearn for their very own : Chukka …
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21119031
An item about Denis MacShane. The challenge (at the time of posting) is to find the word “Labour” in this article. Don’t waste too much of your time on this. Strangely, the word “Conservative” is used when describing the person who grassed him up but inserting the word “Labour” in front of “MP” was deemed to take up too much internet bandwidth in Mr MacShane’s case.
…should have taken a screen shot. it’s been stealth edited (and time not changed…honest reporting for you.)
What a surprise! I like to think that we are keeping them on their toes, despite being a “minority interest, right-wing, crackpot, site” (C) dezNickedJimScottAndTheFormerRWB.
I looked at that link and I can confirm it was as you said.
News Sniffer confirms it as well. Not only was there no mention of Labour, but the “Conservative MP” bit was added after the first draft was published.
Bonus points for the nice verbal contortions from the editor to avoid writing “former Labour Minister for Europe”. They actually made an extra effort.
An interesting documentary on Glenn Campbell last night – until we got to the point covering GC’s role in True Grit (basically “despite being a rotten actor he got the role because John Wayne was a fellow Republican”) and his born-again Christianity, which was referred to sneeringly.
oh, and he got his prime time show because he wouldn’t mention Vietnam LIKE A GOOD TV LIBERAL SHOULD
Saw it on Friday!
Am about to go out and buy a couple of Glens CDs.
Maybe we should ALL be buying CDs of those who stood out against the lefty, hippie crap at that time.
Campbells politics make him a good man…and he might have a case for passive inhalation of dope causing his Alzheimers…the stress of not being a lefty liberal stooge at that time will not have done him any good either!
There are no doubt many Über-cool, metro-muso types who are having to come to terms with the revelation that a member of The Velvet Underground is no longer one of their own…and might be…a Tea-Bagger!!!
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In April 2009, Tucker gave a brief man in the street-style interview at a Tea Party rally in Tifton, Georgia to a WALB NBC news crew; during the interview, she voiced support for the Tea Party movement, and said she was “furious about the way we’re being led towards socialism.” In October 2010, British newspaper The Guardian discovered a personal page for a Maureen Tucker on The Tea Party Patriots official website, wherein it was stated, “I have come to believe (not just wonder) that Obama’s plan is to destroy America from within.” The page goes on to encourage readers to send the White House “a letter/postcard” addressed to “King Obama.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Tucker#Personal_life
Another one bites the dust…
BBC radio presenter Shelagh Fogarty merrily tells her listeners that she is now ‘following’ Michelle Obama on Twitter.
Well I suppose when your employer and your workmates are all fans, it would be churlish not to join in with the office culture.
Its His inauguration this afternoon.
The crowds are gathering (“from all over the United States”).
Shelagh Fogarty has reported excitedly on the Obama
family’s state of dress. (Michele’s is beautiful)
I am sure we all can’t wait!
“Washington will suffer happy gridlock on Monday”
I am beginning to think Mr. Mardell is seeing actual Oompa-loompahs too.
“The crowds are gathering (“from all over the United States”).”
And from the heavens, too, surely ?
When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
Matthew XXV: 31-32
Archbishop Cramner is worried about the religious aspects of the attitude towards Obama shown by the CoE and BBC in his blog:
“BBC and CofE unite in worship of President Obama”
Speaking of the (BBC broadcast) service in celebration of the second inaugration he says ‘.
His Grace reproduces the entire Order of Service below, for it goes slightly beyond praying for those in authority: indeed, it is verging on idolatry and blasphemy (score – Obama: 8; Jesus 8)’
He’s got an interesting piece today, as well. about the attempts to conflate Obama with Abraham Lincoln which will no doubt be made in the wake of the release of Spielberg’s new film.
http://www.archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.co.uk/
Yes, I read his transcript of the service. Can’t blame the BBC for such unmitigated devotion to the leader of a foreign country by your official State Church. But, damn. I was actually thinking of writing up a parody service, but no way could I have touched on the surreal quality of the real thing.
This Cult of Personality will only end in tears.
Is one reminded of any other state tax collection systems keen to share their powers in interesting ways?
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/01/big-brother-and-hmrc-is-watching-you/
http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/8823931/chavezs-useful-idiots/
Imagine if he got a £4Bpa propaganda outfit to back him?
No that would be u…niquely tidy.
The BBC’s Father Brown series (weekdays 1: 50 pm) set in the 1950’s (rather than the 1930’s) introduces several new characters including a hardworking female Polish housekeeper. According to one of the writers this character ‘introduces the world of Polish immigrants in the 1950’s – a nice parallel with today.’ If you were being cynical you might think they moved the stories to the fifties just to accomodate the Polish character.
I did a google search to see what other people thought of Father Brown and the Anglican Mainstream was none too impressed. Under the headline ‘BBC desecrates Father Brown’ they said, ‘in one of the episodes written by a contemporary author Father Brown defers to Hinduism in a way Chesterton’s character would never do. In dialogue with a Hindu the BBC creation concedes that the miracle of Jesus should not be taken too seriously.’ Sounds more like wishy-washy Anglicanism or the Bishop of Durham than Chesterton’s Catholic creation. Also, the equaling of Hinduism and Christianity is very BBC. There can’t be much left for the BBC to desecrate can there?
It’s actually weekdays at 2:15 pm if you want to watch this tripe.
I hadn’t noticed the BBC had had a go at father Brown.
BBC’s Ripper Street is a strange beast. Like all period drama it is prone to what I would call ‘the BBC Disease’: retrospective imposition of current PC thinking.
So on Sunday we had a female character pronounce ‘men are to blame for the ruin of many families’. Our hero is challenged to agree or disagree. A sensible chap he simply replies ‘My wife would agree’.
I like the the term ‘back projecting’
Michael Winner has died. Expect the BBC to gloat.
I was wondering which films from his body of work they would choose to pack out the rather broad 24/7 content void they suffer ‘in tribute’… without a few heads exploding (that can be taken a variety of ways this time).
I’ve heard the Beeb are going to make an up to date version of Death Wish. The current production is set in Hampstead and the Charles Bronson character will be played by Marcus Brigstocke. Brigstocke won’t be an armed vigilante who blows the vile miscreants away but an over worked social worker who intercedes and gives them a stiff talking to. Any muggers, murderers or rapists that insist on continuing their nefarious activities will be sentenced to a six week holiday in Barbados to help rebuild their self esteem.
Not so much “Death Wish” as “Heath Wish”, then?
Michael Winner:
Charles Bronson and Michael Winner wanted to make another film together, and were discussing further projects. “What do we do next?” asked Bronson. “The best script I’ve got is ‘Death Wish’. It’s about a man whose wife and daughter are mugged and he goes out and shoots muggers,” said Winner. “I’d like to do that,” Bronson said. “The film?” asked Winner. Bronson replied, “No . . . shoot muggers.”
Yet another video taken on the streets of London, that the BBC doesn’t want you to know anything about….
Inevitable: BBC-Democrat’s Obamessiah’s second coming trumps the Islamic jihad massacre of non-Muslims in Algeria.
This BBC-Democrat propaganda had been planned for some time.
News the bBC doesn’t bring you:
Nice of you British to pay for these people to live comfortably in your country while calling for violence elsewhere. No wonder the BBC keeps telling me that the number one quality of being British is tolerance.
This is the result of Labour Party’s (and BBC-NUJ supported) ‘diverse’, ‘multicultural’ policy of mass immigration from Islamic countries.
ALGERIA: Islamic jihadists’ massacre of non-Muslims, including Britons.
INBBC tries to knock this down the political agenda:-
“David Cameron: British spies will ‘find and dismantle’ Algeria terror groups.
“British spies will help ‘find and dismantle’ terror groups involved in the Algerian hostage crisis, David Cameron has said, as he pledged the fight of a generation against Islamist extremism.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9816236/David-Cameron-British-spies-will-find-and-dismantle-Algeria-terror-groups.html
Today Programme at 07:52 this morning (21/01) had an interview between James Naughtie and Professor Cathy Warwick CBE of the Royal College of Midwives. It was a masterclass is the cooordinated contempt of the intelligence of the audience.
The piece started (at 53:00 on iPlayer) with a background to the “Baby Boom”. In England in 2011 there were 688,120 births – “highest for 40 years”. James wondered “most people (I think) would be quite surprised by that figure – what is the fact that lies behing this boom?”
Could it be as reported in the newspapers “British birth rate has soared to one of highest in Europe thanks to increase in migrants” (e.g. Daily Mail article )?
The prof replied “Well we don’t really know …. baby boom is increasing and is expected to increase….although number of midwives has increased (and that’s great) but still need to ensure there are more”. Good to see Cathy plugging her profession. But, no mention of minor details such as how they are all going to be paid for…..
The Naughtie febrile journalistic mind trying to ferret out the truth wondered “one of the factors I imagine people assume – whether it is true or not – behind this is that a number of” (is this history about to be made on the Today Programme?) “women are having children later”. No of course not – they always follow the same script.
well observed ! Neither side dared touch on the immigration situation though it loomed above all else … later in the same programme immigration was also avoided in terms of crime stats … immigrant crime ? stratosperic but taboo …
the good old quotation marks around a word to belittle the meaning syndrome strikes again
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21117730
“Snow ‘attack’ Palestinians held2
you just know that the victims were Israeli jews before you even have to read another word
scum
The BBC reports this without prompting, but refused to mention the Fogel family massacre until they were publicly shamed. Nice priorities, BBC. You’re not fooling anyone with this, you know.
I followed the link from the bbC article:
Nine Palestinians from East Jerusalem have been arrested after two Jews were abused and pelted with snowballs, footage of which drew outrage online.
Police said the suspects have been charged with “intending to attack” the two ultra-Orthodox men. A video shows the group ganging up on the men, shouting insults and taking one of their hats, as at least one Palestinian filmed on a mobile phone.
And what the bBC writes up as high japes and a bit of fun is actually physical assault. In fact as they are Muslims attacking a couple of Jews, it is a racist attack. But for some reason the bBC refuses to say that, here have a look:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmnHkDX_IVQ&w=560&h=315%5D
At 10 seconds watch how a muslim lays the boot in, at 19 seconds how a muslim who purports to go to the aid of the two jews physically smashes a load of ice (not snow) into the fact of one of the men. as for taking the hat off one of the men, isn’t that a similar hate crime to removing a hijad off of a Islamic woman?
The bBC article is written as if to give the impression of just children ahving fun, however the actual video presents a much darker picture.
the bBC. the defenders of Islamic intolerance in which the victim is remade into the aggressor
The Jerusalem Post adds a few more details that the BBC preferred to omit.
A group of approximately 100 Arabs, mostly teenagers, spent much of the morning hanging out at Damascus Gate and pelting everyone who entered or exited the gate – Jews, Arabs and tourists alike – with dozens of snowballs, despite pleas to stop from various parties, including one woman with a baby carriage.
But the innocent snowball fight got out of hand when two haredim tried to leave Damascus Gate and were accosted by approximately 20 Arabs. The Arabs threw snowballs at them from less than a meter away and tried to steal one of their hats, while shouting obscenities.
A video taken of the incident went viral on Facebook with tens of thousands of people expressing disgust.
Police also became aware of the incident due to the video.
The two haredim in the video initially did not file a complaint with police, according to Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby.
“They didn’t want to complain, but then when the police approached them they did file a complaint,” said Ben-Ruby.
Ruby denied that the police arrested the Arabs due to public outcry over the video.
“We didn’t arrest them because of public pressure; we wanted to know what happened,” he said. “It was going up on YouTube, it was going down on YouTube, we didn’t care, but we wanted to know what the haredim said.”
E., one of the haredim who appeared in the video, told Ma’ariv that he “wasn’t sure that he’d get out of there alive.”
He said that he told his friend not to run away because he was worried it would escalate into a lynching situation, or someone would pull a knife, but that he felt helpless since there were so many people throwing snowballs at the two of them.
I doubt that any of the BBC staff would have liked to have been a target of the attack, though I’m sure if they would have been the first words out of their mouths would have been “Please stop – we’re from the BBC” wink wink.
I notice too they still have failed to report the activities of the ‘Muslim Patrol’ in London. They clearly feel the public doesn’t need to have any knowledge of it, and these ‘patrols’ would be empowered at the lack of concern given them.
The bBC, its stance of don’t shoot and kill Islamic terrorists and how Algeria is a nasty place for doing so.
Algeria’s response to the hostage crisis raises serious questions
While not a bBC article, the above is a guardian article written by the bBCs John Sweeney. In it he opines how bad the Algerians are for not surrendering to the Islamic terrorists and how in the act of removing
Allah’sthe bBCs fav terrorists from this plane of existence, hostages got killed.The in typical horrible histories fashion Sweeney tells porkies (halal) in which to shed tears for his fav band of brothers and to castigate the no nonsense approach of the Algerian government towards Terrorists:But the “ninjas” – the balaclava-clad Algerian special forces – killed 32 kidnappers. There is a grim tradition in Algeria’s history of civil wars of killing the other side’s wounded so that there are no witnesses. and:
Algeria is nothing like a western democracy. In the 90s a democratic uprising, fuelled by frustration over corruption, lack of equity and, in some quarters, Islamist leanings, was crushed in a civil war that left 100,000 dead, including many of the country’s bravest journalists. Today, the security establishment still calls the shots, relying on gas and oil for about 98% of the country’s income; that wealth is apparently controlled by a small clique. The rule of law and civil authority are sickly – and some critics go further, saying the regime is more akin to Assad’s Syria.
Wow get that the bBC’s ace reporter complains about how the Algerian SF shoot to kill and how actually the terorrists are the innocents here and how the Algerian government is the one to blame. Which brings me to that latter statement about how the Military clamped down on democracy. Really?
Here is what John Sweeney kind of left.
In 1991 there was an election in Algeria which the jihadists won, they then turned round and said as they were a party of god that no more elections would ever take place and that they would remain in power for ever. The army said hang on, that isn’t democracy and clamped down on the bBCs fav Islamic terrorists. The peaceful terrorists in turn murdered as many people as they could and only now almost 22 years later by treating the blood thirst Islamic terrorists by the very same book that they use, have the terrorists found that Allah doesn’t want them in power. But according to the bBC this is a bad thing and thus John Sweeney sheds tears for the fallen Islamic terrorists.
The bBC, the fifth colume within our midst
Any ‘reporter’ still trotting out ‘raises serious questions’ (as opposed to the flippant kind bandied about at such a juncture) deserves to be pointed and laughed at.
Oh, ok, he is from the the BBC.
Also he seems to so far be getting told that he is an ill-informed, idealistic, revisionist plonker… by Graun readers.
That takes some doing.
But should see a promotion in the pigeon hole at ‘got it about on message’ central.
Funny how every other news organization, apart from the Muslim extremist supporting Guardian, use the term ‘Islamic terrorists’, whereas the BBC consistently just use ‘terrorist’. I wonder whose side they’re on.
For the BBC to actually use the word ‘terrorist’ is a major policy shift . I suspect it comes from government pressure and is only temporary.
I know… they usually choose ‘radical’ or ‘progressive’!
The most appallingly sycophantic Obama worship/propaganda on the Six ‘News’. Simply terrible.
Yet another Narrative spread across the spectrum of BBC broadcasting. On all channels, radio and tv. No need for a memo from the DG, no editorial directive handed down from on high. They all think the same way, so the bias is institutional without anyone having to do anything.
Defenders of the indefensible will continue to remain silent.
“Pollard inquiry transcripts to reveal ‘bitter recriminations’ at BBC”
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/pollard-inquiry-transcripts-to-reveal-bitter-recriminations-at-bbc-8460035.html
“A BBC Trust spokeswoman said today that there had been a slight delay while preparing the documents for publication”
Double shifts at the ministry of truth?
Fascinating. This is the exact kind of thing David Gregory told us was the reason against publishing the Balen Report. So it’s okay for them to publish all these emails and texts from staff here, but the Balen Report must remain suppressed because it would expose a bunch of emails and texts from staff.
I have half a mind to try and email him directly, but I doubt he’d want to respond.
BBC repeatedly referred to Algeria and “militants”. Even saying that he Algerian prime minister had referred to them as such. Video of the Algerian prime minister speeches, and translation by native Arabic speakers, clearly show him referring to them as “terrorists”.
Not for the first time the BBC’s own political agenda is making them lie. They are reporting things that hadn’t happened, and failing to report things that have.
Just another example of what the BBC cannot be trusted to tell the truth. The news is filtered through their political prejudices, and if the facts don’t fit, they simply change the facts.
Classical group cognitive dissonance.
The BBC do not want to believe that these people could be terrorists. Especially as they seemed to act in the name of the religion of peace, singling out non-muslims for special attention.
This does not fit the BBC meme.
Even when the cold hard facts are staring them in the face, snapping at their noses, it is still impossible for the BBC to accept the obvious, and so they obfuscate, ignore, dissemble, excuse, fabricate their own interpretation of events for publicly funded consumption.
Exemplified by their reporting of the “nine men from Oxford” currently on trial at The Old Bailey for child abuse.
And by QT stalwart Mary Beard’s eulogistic description of the state of public services in Boston, Lincs on last week’s programme, thankfully comprehensively and mercilessly put down by an audience member from the town, who must have resorted to measures bordering on open deception in order to get into the audience at all.
One day, reality will call in on the BBC – I was kind of hoping that this Conservative led administration might have grown a set and taken them on, but the best dreams are sometimes cruel and lead to disappointment, so I guess I will have to wait a little longer.
This has nothing to do with the BBC I’m afraid. The Mail has been running an article today about a Yougov poll which “shows” that most people want to remain in the EU (???!!!).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2265867/More-people-want-STAY-Europe-leave-says-shock-poll-PM-reveals-big-EU-speech-Wednesday.html
I have tried several times to post on a so-called “unmoderated” comments section that Yougov boss Peter Kellner is married to EU bigwig Baroness Ashton, but none of my comments have been published – other people have apparently had the same problem. Strange that even the supposedly “EU sceptic” Mail seems to have a problem with this information becoming widespread – all of these media types are pissing in the same pot, if you ask me.
I tried to after reading this comment and it didn’t get published. Then I tried again, leaving out his name and deliberately misspelling a few keywords – it got published. Sometimes it’s worth experimenting to see if they have block filters in place looking for certain keywords.
… Ashton : laughable and super mediocre … poor old England .
BBC Pollard Review transcripts ‘will disclose bitter recriminations’
It’s obvious from the headline what this development is about.
The BBC Trust has pledged to publish the transcripts, which are reported to show staff making a series of accusations towards corporation colleagues.
More than a thousand pages of transcripts, emails, texts and other documents, are claimed to contain withering personal criticism of several staff, according to the Times.
What is striking is some of the comments made about this.
The Corporation is concerned that disclosing the documents from the inquiry, led by Nick Pollard, the former head of Sky News, would undermine staff confidence.
This one really takes the cake:
Officials also worried the contents, which detail staff thoughts on what went wrong during the scandal, will further poison the atmosphere at Broadcasting House and hit staff harmony,…
A wise mind might think that considering all that has happened over the years of this man being permitted to commit the abuse he did, and then the subsequent cover-up, the truth should out. The BBC believe that it would only serve to ‘hit their staff harmony’.
Any wonder I hate their guts?
‘Without making specific policy recommendations, Mr Obama said the US must overhaul the tax code, reform its education system, revamp the voting system and address climate change.
“Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought and more powerful storms,” he said.’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21133210
King Cnut
Leaning heavily on your earlier comment for inspiration: “Bonnet de douche Rodney”.
Apologies for being completely off topic – just thought I’d pass it round in case anyone’s interested in signing…
e-petition :
UKIP to be involved in 2015 Televised Debates
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/43153
It’s not going to make any difference, but if the number of signatures becomes significant, UKIP can talk it up all the more.
I’m sure this article has been linked to before, but what is striking is that the top comment has over 10,000 recommends!!!!!!!! TEN thousand! The truth is getting out, even on the BBC – however reluctantly!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2265592/The-mother-told-truth-immigration-BBC-Rachel-Bull-explains-HAD-speak-Question-Time.html
It’s been a rough old year for the Beeb, hasn’t it. Here’s to another 12 months of self-inflicted wounds.
PM CAMERON rightly calls out INBBC over misuse of word ‘militants’
re-Algeria jihad massacre:-
“BBC criticised for calling Algeria terrorists ‘militants’.
“David Cameron criticised the BBC for describing the perpetrators of the Algeria hostage attack as ‘militants’ instead of condemning them as ‘terrorists’.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/algeria/9816693/BBC-criticised-for-calling-Algeria-terrorists-militants.html
(Of course, the words ‘Islamic jihadists’ would be even more accurate and explanatory.)
If that’s the best criticism Dave can make he should hang hid head in shame!
Pathetic!
We’re doomed, all doomed i tell ye!
Elections tomorrow in Israel. While the Kevin Connelly piece is largely OK there are some glaring ommissions. Israel elections quandary for marginalised Arab citizens Marginalised? Surely that is an unproven value judgement.
Israel has changed a great deal since those days.
Its current leadership emphasises that it is a Jewish state; Benjamin Netanyahu would want the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to recognise it as such in any future negotiations. A law passed in the last parliament requires non-Jews who want to migrate here to swear an oath acknowledging its Jewish nature.
No. It has always been the Jewish State. It was refered to as such in the San Remo Conventions and in the Declaration of Establishment of State of Israel
Wouldn’t it be important background information that all 23 members of the Arab League (except Lebanon) are officially Muslim States as is the future (?) state of Palestine.
Wouldn’t it also be important to note that the existing Arab parties by concentrating on representing the interests of the Palestinian Authority and Gaza instead of their constituents makes it impossible for any Zionist party to work with them.
Asmi Bishara, former MK, passed information to Hizbullah while current MK Hanan Zouabi was a passenger on the Mavi Mamara. Both acts would in any other counrty be treason. That may have some influence on how the main parties look at Arabs but somehow Connolly has never heard of them.
David Bellamy tells of moment he was “frozen out” of BBC:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9817181/David-Bellamy-tells-of-moment-he-was-frozen-out-of-BBC.html
It’s nice to see lots of supportive comments for a great broadcaster whose career was ruined simply because he dared not to follow the BBC’s “correct line” on AGW. Are there no depths to which these eco-fascists won’t sink?
No
David Bellamy.
“The BBC froze me out because I don’t believe in global warming: Outspoken as ever, David Bellamy reveals why you don’t see him on TV any more.
“Conservationist dismissed man-made global warming as ‘poppycock’ in 2004.
“BBC ‘stopped giving him work’ and his career dried up as a result, he says.
“Campaigners spat at him in street and sent him ‘paedophile’ hate mail.”
By JANE FRYER
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2266188/David-Bellamy-The-BBC-froze-I-dont-believe-global-warming.html
2k comments, most supportive, suggests a degree of concern at the BBC’s hiring, and firing practices. Speaking of which..
‘“Campaigners spat at him in street and sent him ‘paedophile’ hate mail.”
An odd conflation to make, considering the topic, his employer and what was actually going on elsewhere.
David Bellamy is alas a rare soul. Intelligent, animated, knows his stuff, ethical, moral – still loves his wife of 63 years, and most importantly – stands up for what he believes – despite it going against the grain of ‘the powerful’.
In this case, stating publicly that he did not agree with the AGW agenda, which immediately made him persona non gratis at the BBC.
This is a person that our society is sadly lacking. Instead we have the likes of David Attenborough, who will speak passionately about the dangers of AGW but will jet all over the world for one scene of himself in his wildlife programme that really is not essential. Now recently, he’s also spoken out about the dangers of the population explosion on our planet, which is fine, but I’ve no doubt he won’t sanction the aid sent to a lot of third world countries, or the support of charities that make this explosion so prevalent, which would be a logical conclusion to help deal with it.
David – you are missed!
That’s Bellamy missed – not Attenborough 🙄
It may still be snowy but there’s at least one state school open for business. At Salford Comp Middle School our favourite trendy supply teacher Mr Nicky Campbell is always available to class sit for a wet break. Fourth Form debate…cool! Ok settle down at the back please. Ryan, I hope you’re not going to throw that. Mohammed, put Aaron down please – not on his head. Now who wants to talk about our subject this morning ‘Do you feel sorry for Harry?’ (No of course I’m not serious, I want to give you all a chance to slag off the Royals!)
http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/ubs-drops-another-bombshell-on-the-e-u-carbon-trading-market/
Mr. Harrabin gets a shout in the comments for his insights
A tad ironic this – a BBC journalist agreeing that all this fawning media coverage of Obama is not journalism.
Not sure if it’s ironic, unless he truly is looking only out of the bubble unaware of what’s all around him.
But that one has checked out the Emperor’s wardrobe collection and found no clothes is perhaps a small step, if worrying in its rarity.
And frankly the BBC… and MSM’s coverage of anything these days is hardly ‘journalism’. Either a twitter RT, best guess or tribal belief passed off as ‘analysis’.
Speaking of wardrobes, I doubt any President gets to the top of the greasy pole without a few bumps along the way, so often their tenure is marked by ‘skeleton management’.
Trouble is, Obama seems to have the entire chorus line of Thriller back there.
If lids pop off, it may not end well.
I was round at the property we look after yesterday. AS there is NO TELEVISION (Capita take note ) there I was listening to Radio 4. They were running an ad on the station for beyond belief with the hook of “Did you know the biggest hotel in the world was in Mecca?” It then went onto some speil about re-development in the area of Mecca and Medina. As I was planning to take a break in between trying to get the central heating to work. I sat down to listen.
Yes, suprise not. The whole program was in fact a front for the medevil superstitions of the cult of islam. Glossing almost completely over the re-developmment aspect apart from dragging that into comments on the Saudi regime. Still I did sit there laughing to myself and wondering if this really is the 21st century.
Good old David Attenborough has raised the issue of overpopulation again.
Richard Bacon on Five Live tries to counteract such common sense by giving air time to someone who insists population can just go on increasing and it will never be a problem because this is what has historically happened to
human populations.
Madness. Didn’t catch who the lunatic was!
And of course no mention of the fact that Britain’s indigenous are already diminishing in numbers, as are all European ethnic groups.
If DA is so concerned with over-population then why did he increase the worlds population by 2?
Oh, please, please let the BBC do a big feature advocating Malthusian policies.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2013/01/external_supply_review.html
While it lasts. A closing or everyone referred by close of play I’d hazard.
The funny part is they have attracted zero contributions ON their quaint topic so far.
But have obliterated near all else save their own and a ‘non-employee’ who we can trust isn’t, because they say so.
Former BBC presenter ‘comes out’ as wouldbe promoter of left-wing social and political issues
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2266283/Alice-Arnold-leaves-BBC-Im-finally-allowed-talk-gay-marriage-says-Claire-Baldings-partner.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
‘Since leaving BBC Radio 4 after 20 years, she has also changed her Twitter bio, which now reads: ‘Ex-radio 4 newsreader. Can say what I like now!’
‘If I ever did an interview for the press I wasn’t allowed to express an opinion on that and of course I had an opinion so it releases me now to be able to speak about it.’
‘She added: ‘I wasn’t allowed to give my opinion on equal marriage when I was reading the news.’
‘If you are reading the news you are absolutely bound not to have an opinion inside or outside the BBC on any of those topics so I was not allowed to talk about it.’
I shouldn’t worry love, the way the BBC is going give it a year or two and it’ll be compulsory…..
It’s looking depressingly as though Claire and Alice are to become some kind of lesbian edition of bloody Posh ‘n’ Becks.
🙁
Trouble at t’ Mill
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/bbc-email-reveals-disdain-for-nick-pollards-jimmy-savile-report-8461688.html
Exhibit one: an internal email written by Stephen Mitchell, the deputy director of news who played a central role in the affair, in which he describes the process of being interviewed by Pollard as “bizarre”.
In the email, sent on January 11, Mitchell writes: “I have returned to work as head of the programmes department and deputy director of news after a two-month interruption that included the arcane concept of ‘standing aside’, the bizarre process of being interrogated by Nick Pollard and his team of lawyers and the chastening experience of featuring rather prominently in Pollard’s report and the subsequent press coverage.
“As you know, the BBC has accepted the Pollard Review in full. I have not. For that reason alone it was right for me to hand in my notice on the day the report was published. Of course, the reasons for me choosing to end a 38-year career were rather more complex and have more to do with my relationship with the BBC rather than anything Nick Pollard wrote, but this isn’t the time or place to go on about that.”
Which explains things like this:
‘Culture of denial’ operating at top of BBC, says Royal Television Society chief
George Orwell.
“George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four on BBC Radio 4 for first time”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9818456/George-Orwells-Nineteen-Eighty-Four-on-BBC-Radio-4-for-first-time.html
I’m reminded of the comment by Roger Scruton on George Orwell, the BBC and ‘1984’:-
Scroll to Pages 36-37 here:-
Click to access cs49-8.pdf
-from pp 36-67 above:-
..”.the disposition, in any
conflict, to side with ‘them’ against ‘us’, and the felt need
to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are
identifiably ‘ours’. Being the opposite of xenophobia I
propose to call this state of mind oikophobia, by which I
mean (stretching the Greek a little) the repudiation of
inheritance and home. Oikophobia is a stage through
which the adolescent mind normally passes. But it is a
stage in which some people—intellectuals especially—
tend to become arrested. As George Orwell pointed out, intellectuals on the Left are especially prone to it, and this
has often made them willing agents of foreign powers.
The Cambridge spies offer a telling illustration of what
oikophobia has meant for our country. And it is interesting to note that
a recent BBC ‘docudrama’ constructed around that deplorable episode neither examined the realities of their
treason nor addressed the suffering of the millions of
their East European victims, but merely endorsed the
oikophobia that had caused the spies to act as they did.
The resulting portrait of English society, culture, nationhood and
loyalty as both morally reprehensible and politically laughable is
standard BBC fare—prolefeed, as Orwell described it in
Nineteen Eighty-Four.”
(-excerpt from Roger Scruton’s ‘England and the Need for Nations’ (‘Civitas’)
http://www.civitas.org.uk/pubs/Scruton_cs49.php