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Interesting to note that al-BBCeera is marking Shimon Peres’ historically-significant state visit to Germany and Holocaust Memorial Day speech to the Berlin Parliament today, by presenting it as a traffic inconvenience.
Nice one.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/8482549.stm
BBC talk about why Boris is stepping down from MPA chair. Plenty of time to mention Boris’s mistakes but they just couldn’t bring themselves to say something positive about kicking Blair out…
BBC wants the BURQA.
BBC’s typically pro-burqa presentation, gives predominant space on the issue to Muslims.
BBC’s unliberated reporter, Ms. Barford, gives most space to quotes from Muslim women: Ms. Alibhai-Brown, of course, to Ms. Gohir,director of Muslim Women’s Network UK, and to Ms. Ridley, from whose views, BBC’s Ms. Barford does not demur:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Ridley
BBC’s biased presentation by Ms. Barford:
“Should the UK ban the Muslim face veil?”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8481617.stm
For the pro-Burqa BBC, the opinions of the vast non-Muslim majority of the British people are secondary.
‘Jihadwatch’:
“France: Burqa ‘contrary to the values of the Republic'”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/01/france-burqa-contrary-to-the-values-of-the-republic.html#comments
Interesting defensive spin strategy being facilitated by the Beeb on behalf of their terrorist-supporting bezzies, Salma Yaqoob and The Queen of Stockholm, Yvonne Ridley in the coverage so far on this issue in the UK, following Nigel Farage’s recent comments:
1. Wheel on the wimmin – most punters have no idea of these women’s affiliations and pro-terrorist connections and views – so they look and sound fairly inoffensive – perfect sofa TV Muslim guests.
2. Reductio ad absurdum – equate the wearing of these fem-tents and porta-prisons to childhood fads and teenage fashions – dying your hair, or going ‘punk, or ‘goth.
3. Mission accomplished – most Brits are generally fair-minded, but not too inquiring in nature, ergo Mr. Farage and co. are easily portrayed as as spoilsport Colonel Bogey figures by the real intolerant parties – al-Beeb and ‘R-r-rispek‘.
How does the BBC mark Holocaust Remembrance Day?
Claire Bolderson talks to “controversial revisionist historian David Irving” about collecting Nazi memorabilia.
I found Bolderson’s giggling chilling although I am not sure what brought it on. Was it nervousness?
“It was a fish knife that Adolf Hitler, one of the most apalling [giggle] people of the 20th Century would have held in his mand. There is something chilling about it [distinct inflexion of someone holding back laughter]“.
Who OK’d her interview with Irving? Surely there were collectors who don’t have a ‘Hitler groupie’ complex who would have done just as well? The BBC [remember Stalin opposed Hitler] usually oppose Holocaust denial and Fascism unless of the Islamofascist variety so I am surprised.
I listened to what you listened to and I have absolutely no doubt about Helen Bolderson’s detestation of Nazism.
This isn’t BBC bias.
Perhaps not. But don’t you think it bad taste to air it on Holocaust Memorial Day?
Could there be a more inappropriate guest than David Irving?
Not if the whole tenor of the piece is how repulsive the morbid fascination in Nazi regalia is. I didn’t get as far as the DI int but I’m supposing from what I did hear was that the purpose was to highlight the true nature of these auctions.
You refer to the giggle above as if she thought the whole subject was a lark. To me it came over as incredulity people could idolise vermin like Hitler.
However you feel it came over, and Irving did come over as a sick bastard talking about his locks of Hitler’s hair, it was the wrong day to air it.
In fact I can’t remember much, if any coverage of Holocaust Memorial Day on World Service, or anywhere else on the BBC.
BBC: spinning for YEMEN, and against the West.
A few minutes ago, the BBC’s Hugh Sykes gave much airtime on Radio 4 ‘World at One’ for Yemenis to blame the West for Yemen’s problems with Al Qaeda and Islamic jihadists. The BBC emphasis was to put the political line that e.g. for Britain to end flights between Yemen and Britain on security grounds is to harm the interests of the Yemenis.
The usual BBC line of Western guilt, dhimmitude and not indicting Islamic jihad but blaming the West.
Not bias- just a whinge.
Fact – There has been plenty of flak about BBC salaries – and rightly so.
Supposition – at the annual pay round the boss has said, we can’t increase your salary by too much but how’s about we give you a nice couple of business class 5 star holidays instead.
Victoria Derbyshire off round South Africa, Ed Stourton in China, Vassos Sing-song Alexander off to australia for the tennis. The last is a sports newsperson who seems quite able to give us the score of the Blackpool – Exeter game from Australia and thus I’m sure could manage to tell us that Murray’s taken the first game without having it cost us several thousand quid for travel and board.
How many licence-payers get to travel business/first class and stay in five star hotels?
The BBC have local staff, if they chose to use them.
That would be directly comparable to the MPs pay/expenses issue. Way back in the day, when MP direct payrises were seen as politically unacceptable, we now know that they were all told, to borrow part of your post <i>we can’t increase your salary by too much but how’s about we give you</i> a monthly food allowance, gardening costs, mortgage payments etc etc. Take the payrise through the perks.
Good use of FoI requests could demonstrate your point. Why don’t you try some and see what you find?
BBC: pro-Burka.
When it comes down to it, is this why the BBC supports the burka?:
“Liberal imam risks death by backing ban on burkas”
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/58915,news-comment,news-politics,mob-of-80-muslims-attack-hassen-chalghoumis-mosque-in-paris-suburb-burka
And, ‘Jihadwatch’:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/01/france-muslims-attack-mosque-of-imam-who-supports-burqa-ban.html#comments
For BBC:
“Political Correctness kills, says Islam expert”
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/25540
ISLAM KILLS SAYS POLITICALLY INCORRECT EXPERT…
Me!!!
Is it not time the BBC, and all three main political parties completely abandoned their very silly defence of man mad global warming?
The “real” scientists, and the evidence of many reputable researchers “in denial”, are now mounting up, especially after Climategate, and now Pachurai of the IPCC found to be manipulating data too.
UK GOVERNMENT’S CHIEF SCIENTIFIC ADVISER CRITICISES CLIMATE ALARMISM
Ben Webster, The Times, 27 January 2010
(2) DAVID WHITEHOUSE: 2009 AND GLOBAL WARMING
The GWPF Observatory, 27 January 2010
(3) BENNY PEISER: WHY I AM A CLIMATE AGNOSTIC
Jeremy Lovell, The New York Times, 26 January 2010
(4) NOW, IPCC CLAIMS ON AMAZON FALL FLAT
The Times of India, 27 January 2010
(5) ANDREW NEAL: THE DAM IS CRACKING
BBC Daily Politics, 26 January 2010
And so we could go on !
One to watch out for tomorrow on 5Live; Marcus Brigstock is a guest on Richard Bacon’s show. We can look forward to a left-wing liberal love-in for half an hour – nauseating!
Yeah, and don’t forget, Marcus has been to the Arctic twice which of course makes him an expert (at least in his own mind) on the disappearing arctic icecap. Now I have been to the Sahara a couple of times but to be honest I’m not really sure if there was less sand the second time I visited. Maybe I wasn’t paying attention.
On the BBC technology pages about Apple’s new product we read the following with a small sub-title . I wonder if they would ever have the balls to refer to this as a ‘Mohammed Tablet’? I personally think it would never have been allowed, but hey, the Christians are a rather meek lot. A case of bias I think!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8480063.stm
‘Jesus Tablet’
Speculation has been rife about what this mythical device, sometimes dubbed the “Jesus Tablet”, will actually do.
PM with Eddie Mair looks at Lord Goldsmith’s evidence to the Chillcott inquiry, with comment from William Shawcross and Nick Cohen….
sorry, of course that should say comment from Clare Short (Chemical Ali was unavailable)
Actually to be fair, they also interviewed Clive Soley, who spoke well.
But Clare Short is the one quoted on a later news bulletin
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/surrey/8482759.stm
this could play out interestingly whatever way the decision goes – at the moment it appears perfectly alright for a listed building to be demolished to make way for a mosque….
This may have been covered already but did anyone notice last night’s BBC 6pm News repeatedly using the term “back in the black” with regard to the country’s stellar +0.1% return to growth? Doesn’t that term have connotations of having a positive cash balance in the bank (which the UK definitely doesn’t)?
I would’ve thought the beeb would have banned the term ‘back in the black’ for fear of offending minorities
Difficult balance: shilling for NL or p1ssing off minorities… hmm…
Yeah, blatant bias. Like when the Tories were in power and Thatcher or Major asked the Opposition Leader a question at PMQ’s the BBC commentator would always point out its the PM’s job to answer questions, not ask them.
As soon as Labour got in and Blair would ask the Oppostion Leader questions at PMQ’s, the BBC comment would be ‘Oh! I dont think he’s going to answer!’. Ghastly people.
The BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg’s personal bias against Lord Goldsmith and the legality of the war in Iraq is on display in her Twattering about today’s hearing.
She acts as if Goldsmith wasn’t being clear about why he decided it was legal, when it’s really just that she didn’t grasp certain concepts in the relevant UN resolutions, and so couldn’t understand what he was actually saying.
Once she realized that Goldsmith was going to be confident that he was right about the war’s legality, she shifted her focus to the suggestion that he was pressured by Blair. Her personal opinion on this is pretty obvious, especially from the fact that she finds it relevant to post a quote from “1 of the families” that Goldsmith’s claim that he hadn’t fully decided until Feb. 27th isn’t credible.
It’s quite clear from his statement that Goldsmith was already confident that there was good legal case, but that he needed to work it out more before making an official statement about it. Either Kuenssberg can’t understand that this isn’t at all the same thing as not having made his mind up, or her opinion is already set and she simply doesn’t want to let it go.
BBC groupthink on display: the war in Iraq was illegal, all reports must encourage that Narrative.
Oh no, not more repeats of BBC ‘Woman’s Hour’ propaganda!
“New BBC 4 documentary series charts the changing role of women”
Of course, this series is a cue to make this series of propagandist ‘political correctness’, a women-only one, complete with BBC luvvie Ms. G. Greer, or Ms. B. Greer, or both; just as the BBC’s fantastic “Muslim Driving School” 6-week series on TV is a Muslim-only zone, complete with burqa-wearing driving instructors.
http://www.tvscoop.tv/2010/01/new_bbc_four_do.html
Next week’s Radio Times has a cracking joke on its Contents page:
David Dimbleby 18
The famously impartial presenter climbs off the fence to talk art, politics, money and society.
The blurb of the Today programme website for Mark Mardell’s latest report reads “President Obama is to deliver his first state of the union speech tonight, and is expected to explain why unemployment is so high despite billions of dollars being pumped into the economy.
Some Americans believe that the money is not being spent properly and that government-led solutions do not work.
North America editor Mark Mardell reports from Baltimore.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8482000/8482377.stm
This is misleading as Mardell’s report actually features nobody who argues “that government-led solutions do not work”. Instead it features two police officers who approve of some gizmo they got as a result of Obama’s generosity with the American taxpayer’s money, a chap from the Democrat mayor’s office who backed them up and an unemployed woman who, Mardell said, “thinks the president is doing a good job”. Only a ‘man in a hard hat’ at the end has a little dig at Obama for being big on words but shy with the “actual factuals”.
As David Preiser says, Mardell is one very biased reporter.
Yes, I heard Mardell’s piece this morning, but it just seemed totally pointless, as if he was just looking to fill air time because he had to file something that day. Of course the lady he found at the job center who thought the President was doing okay is black. Well done, Mark.
The BBC’s Chilcot Inquiry Narrative is in full bloom now. They’re spinning it as Lord Goldsmith changing his mind about the legality of the war against Sadaam Hussein’s regime, when in fact he changed his mind about the necessity of a second UN resolution.
The only reason Bush and Co. were trying to get a second resolution was because everybody was whining after the first one. It was felt that a second one would recude the whining. The legality was pretty much set out by 678, and then 1441 (Note the editorial bias where Beeboid Peter Biles refers to the latter as “infamous”).
Never mind the fact that the US and everyone else were already technically at war with Sadaam anyway – enforcing the No-Fly Zone, occasional exchanges of fire, etc – as the original Gulf War hadn’t technically ended but was in a mode of containment. Not unlike the deal with North Korea, really. But the BBC doesn’t want you to think about that, as it would confuse the Narrative.
Saying that getting a second resolution was “safer” is about the idea that it would be more palatable to the whiners rather than the notion that it wouldn’t have been legal otherwise. The BBC wants you to think that the war is illegal without that second resolution, and that Goldsmith “changed his mind” about that. This is false, and his own words in that video clip are pretty clear on that. Goldsmith felt that a second resolution would give added weight to it, not that only a second resolution would make it legal.
For years the BBC has been allowing on air claims that the war is illegal to go unchallenged, and I’ve always said that this is because that’s the opinion of most Beeboids. Now we see it again.
As usual, BBC reports Britain’s mass immigration problems from the point of view of of only the immigrants, NOT from the British people’s point of view.
Another excellent piece of political lobbying by the BBC’s apartheid-engendering ‘Asian Network”:
“Jobless Indians ‘face ruin’ in UK”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8481493.stm
Everyone be sure to compare the BBC’s interpretation of President Obamessiah’s State of the Union address tonight to the talking points memo released by the White House.
I wonder if the Beeboids will edit this speech to give people an impression that fits in with the BBC’s desires?
Any word from the BBC on this yet?
Mohamed Ali Harrath, Islamic TV chief, is held over terror claims
It’s been a couple days already.
Nothing yet.
From the Times Online report last paragraph.
The Quilliam Foundation, a British anti-extremist think-tank, has accused the Islam Channel of allowing speakers to promote intolerant and bigoted intepretations of their faith.
Any chance of the BBC looking at Islam TV? Nah.
BBC were kind to Goldsmith on the Toiday programme. They called him NOT being leant on to support the war and so changing his mind “an evolving decision”.
Confusing images on BBC1 10pm News – 2 men in Afghanistan, one American, one British, one very lean, one a pantomime dame. Surely it is the American who is fat – the BBC keep telling us they all are. But no the lean man is Gen McChrystal & the saggy one is BBC World Supremo Simpson.
Earlier in the report al-Bowen tells us about the primitive conditions in Yemen – How can that be so, when according to the usual Bowen line, the Arabs have led the world in scientific discovery & civilisation since we were in caves?
You forgot about the recent BBC docu-drivel about how the Ottoman Turks and their damned centralized government stifled innovation or whatever. Never mind the fact that they didn’t even remotely get as far as the area where Yemen is. That would be thinking logically, and paying attention to facts instead of emotions. The BBC doesn’t do that.
Here’s another photo of The Obamessiah looking less than brilliant that the BBC will not show you. This time He brought His teleprompter and podium to a meeting with His middle class task force. A meeting, indoors, in a conference room, with about 15 people or so.
Part of me hopes this is a Photoshop joke, because the alternative is just too cringeworthy to contemplate.
If this was Bush, the BBC would already have a slide show up with unflattering photos, and this would be the latest addition.
Benefit of the doubt. It wasn’t plugged in O:-)
Pay for the rubbish you watch …. there is no hiding place:
http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/Hundreds-caught-dodging-TV-licence-fee/article-1763667-detail/article.html
The BBC won’t like this. Fox News seen as the most TRUSTED News Network in the USA.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/27/fox-news-most-popular
Why does the Guardian like the BBC still prattle on about Fox being right wing when Fox is the most balanced news network out there?
The BBC’s (self-anointed) ‘attack dog’, James Naughtie was rather tame this morning. Of course he wasn’t interviewing a Tory, an Israeli, or a Republican, he was interviewing Captain Insensible and truly was in full Prime Minister What Message Have You Got For The Nation Today mode.
Re Afghanistan we got the BBC line – ‘Some (ie we at the BBC) would say that the Taleban feel that they are fighting an occupation. Luckily President Karzai (sitting at the back of the room out of the way) kicked that one into touch.
No sign whatsoever of tough questioning for Insensible – but then it’s difficult to ask the tough questions when your head’s lying on your master’s lap being stroked.
David P 6:25
Actually, Yemen was an Ottoman province for 150-200 years, but it is fair to say it was never really totally subdued.
Yemen was never advanced in the first place, so it’s not credible to blame the Ottomans for stifling the development of Yemeni Muslims.
Martin 8:40
In the eyes of lefties, being balanced is right-wing !
Just noticed this….
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8484385.stm
…whitewash in full swing it would seem.
Nod’s as good as a wink to a blind Trustee…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mediamonkeyblog/2010/jan/28/sindie-bacon-monkey
In case the ‘joke’ doesn’t pan out quite as intended, it seems there are some, in certain quarters, on hand to ensure the uterrings of an objective BBC employee travel far, wide… and are ‘properly’ understood. Can’t have the ‘wrong message going out.
I am sure he can clarify, with impunity, more pithily on his BBC twitter page.
Looking forward to the flood gates of partisan-based humour unleashed equally across all parties via our national broadcaster and its favoured sons.
Brown decides tide timetable for landlocked Islamic Afghanistan!
BBC headline:
“Afghanistan summit: Gordon Brown says ‘tide must turn'”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8484212.stm
‘New English Review’ headline:
“West To Try More Jizyah With Afghan Muslims Who Promise Not To Be A Threat In The Next Year Or Two”
http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm/blog_id/25556
Those who the Gods would first destroy first allow to get picky on the view… from a TV studio with some seats and some blokes chatting a lot about a ball going to and fro.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jan/28/bbc-view-vienna-euro-2008
Er… green screen?
Aw give them a break. Like every public sector operation, if they don’t spend all their budget in any given year it’s that bit harder to get more the next year.
Don’t underestimate just how hard it is to spend three billion quid of other peoples money year in year out.
As I’m sure eveyrone knows, the President gave His first “State of the Union” address. It’s really a “State of My Reign” address, but never mind. Naturally, the BBC had to make at least some effort to cover it, and had the genius insight of Mark Mardell and Paul Reynolds to tell you how to interpret it.
I will point out just one glaring error in this BBC summary first:
President Obama also tackled lobbying. He had openly criticised last week’s ruling by the Supreme Court rejecting long-standing limits on how much companies can spend on political campaigns.
“I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, and worse, by foreign entities,” he said.
This is not about lobbying at all, but rather is about corporations making tv ads and such about political issues or candidates. Even high school students know that lobbying has nothing to do with elections. Of course, Mark Mardell knows very little about the US, and what little he does know is heavily partisan, so he gets it wrong yet again.
Have a look at the whole sad BBC section on this speech, and notice how it’s essentially Beeboids speaking hopefully about thngs they thought they heard, and believing nearly everything the President said as Gospel. For balance, they mention that other people disagree. There’s essentially no explanation of why anyone would disagree, except for one line stating simply that Republicans are “philosophically opposed” to certain reforms on one particular issue. That’s not really an explanation either, but just another way of saying that they disagree.
Mostly, this is the work of hopeful cheerleaders explaining what He was trying to tell us, rather than breaking it down and pointing out the rights and wrongs.
For real insight into the speech, and to see by contrast just how utterly useless BBC analysis is, check out this video fisking from the non-partisan Cato Institute. It’s quite revealing, well worth the 9min. 38 sec. of your time, if only to get some actual information that the BBC is unable to provide.
Wow, actual truth from the BBC about bad behavior by their beloved Hugo Chavez, and no spin to try to shift the blame elsewhere.
Colombia protest over Venezuela ‘airspace violation’
The Beeboids have spent so much energy promoting him and covering for him in the past, but the reality of the last few weeks forces them to report the occasional truth.
Mr Chavez also moved troops to the border, blew up two bridges linking the two nations and, in November, urged his armed forces to “prepare for war” with Colombia.
This plus a trade embargo and other strong-arm tactics because Chavez hates the US and Colombia has made a deal with us. No attempt from the BBC to blame US meddling, which is a nice change. Obviously since Bush is no longer in charge, the Beeboids don’t see it that way now.
Matt Frei’s head may explode:
A Hillary Clinton Primary Challenge to Obama in 2012?
Frei Boy is a long-time Clinton fan. I’ve seen him musing dreamily on air about the wonderful potential of another Clinton White House, with Bubba as the US ambassador to the world. The smile on his face was that of a school girl with a crush on the latest pop star.
But he is also a committed Obamessiah worshipper, and as race-obsessed as any Beeboid. So what is he going to make of this? I can’t wait for him to address this one.
Even the AP – from which the BBC often pulls material – can see through the falsehoods in last night’s State of My Presidency speech. Check out the facts and then go back to the see where the BBC was dutifully repeating White House talking points rather than reporting honestly and impartially.
Why the scare quotes in this headline?
Iran ‘executes two over post-election unrest’
Are the Beeboids afraid to report this as fact or something? They sure never bother doing that when reporting on executions in the US. Typical BBC political bias.
Utter nonsense from the BBC about a Welsh MPs comment regarding rape by a Muslim.
They spared no effort to bring out the PC drivel, even finding a right-on bureaucrat from the Centre for Migration Policy Research, and a couple of ill-informed but politically correct Welsh politicians to condemn Davies’s comment unreservedly. Of course it’s wrong, they say, to intimate that rape is more prevalent in a certain community, and that there is no evidence to the contrary.
Ok, BBC, how about providing some facts for balance? Rape is not a problem in the Muslim community? Of course not, because that wouldn’t be politically correct. The BBC picks one side of the issue as correct.
Message from the BBC to the British people:
1.) give your money to the BBC;
2.) give your money to the Taliban enemy.
The BBC doesn’t even bother to justify the £3.2 billion it takes form the British people.
Similarly, the BBC has no qualms about its Labour government making the British people give hundreds of millions of pounds as a ‘politically correct’ bribe to the Islamic jihad Taliban enemy.
This is inconvenient to Labour (and to its BBC Boswell):
‘Telegraph’
“‘British troops in Afghanistan for another decade'”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7095012/British-troops-in-Afghanistan-for-another-decade.html
Only if Cameron is a prat. Son as he takes over he should order a withdraw of our troops. The way Barry Obama has treated our soldier fighting out there is a disgrace. Let Barry get soldiers from HIS friends the Germans and French (I can’t stop laughing at that)
David P 15:54
I was merely pointing out that your earlier comment that the Ottomans never got to Yemen was incorrect !
Yes, sorry. My mistake.
“Right wing” French politician Dominic de Villepin is acquitted of trying to torpedo Sarkozy’s presidential election campaign. Those elegant patrician features of M. de Villepin cause BBC reporter Emma Jane Kirby to see only virtue (rather than everyday political cliche) in his reaction to his release “Let’s turn the page,” he said magnanimously, “and focus on serving France.”
It seems the big advantage of his freedom to return to the political fray is the prospect of him splitting the right wing vote.
I’ve been hearing about this for years, and have even commented here a couple times about the BBC’s silence on it. It’s finally getting public attention now, and I think the BBC should, considering the recent questions about the way they handle gay issues, trumpet this from the rooftops:
Afghan Men Struggle With Sexual Identity, Study Finds
The study, obtained by Fox News, found that Pashtun men commonly have sex with other men, admire other men physically, have sexual relationships with boys and shun women both socially and sexually — yet they completely reject the label of “homosexual.” The research was conducted as part of a longstanding effort to better understand Afghan culture and improve Western interaction with the local people.
The research unit, which was attached to a Marine battalion in southern Afghanistan, acknowledged that the behavior of some Afghan men has left Western forces “frequently confused.”
What’s not to like? Come on, BBC. Do you what you know is right.
David P 20:58
Apology accepted !
“BBC spent £250,000 building new studio because it didn’t like view from one provided for Euro 2008 football”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1246804/BBC-failing-viewers-value-money-splashing-357million-music-sporting-events.html#ixzz0dwiMI5HE
“BBC ‘casually’ spent £580,000 of licence fee a day at Glastonbury”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1246804/BBC-failing-viewers-value-money-splashing-357million-music-sporting-events.html#ixzz0dwyfnVsN
BBC seems to approve of Labour’s socialist agenda of:
-increasing taxes on white British middle class;
-giving British taxpayers’ money to Islamic jihad Taliban enemy.
Islamic Republic of Iran.
Perhaps the BBC will report this online, sometime:
“Iran executes two dissidents for ‘waging war against Allah'”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/01/iran-executes-two-dissidents-for-waging-war-against-allah.html
Meanwhile, the Labour government continues to give hospitality to Ahmadinejad’s ‘PRESSTV’ HQ in London to propagandise on such matters. It’s all part of Labour’s bribery to Islamic jihad.