One of the early and most enthusiastic supporters of the Electoral Reform Society was the Rev Charles Dodgson, aka author Lewis Carroll. The ERS has been arguing for proportional representation since 1884, and for all that time they have been viewed as little more than well-meaning cranks. The Liberal Democrats, of course forced a vote on the issue during the …
Culture Secretary Javid’s late, late realisation about BBC bias – too little, too late?
Photo by mrgarethm As we head into the final week of this phony, no-real-choice election, the culture secretary, has had a revelation about the BBC. It seems it came as a bolt from the blue. A remark on the Today programme by Scottish so-called comedienne Rhona Campbell , that all Tories were ‘a cancer’, was responsible. He now sees that …
Newsnight immigration feature casts worried Brits as xenophobes
The BBC’s blizzard of election-related stories that spin immigration as a topic that doesn’t matter is impossible to track. Lift almost any stone and there’s another example. A Newsnight feature last Wednesday was billed by presenter Emily Maitlis as ‘a long hard look at the subject’. This, it transpired, was a special piece of BBCspeak. It meant that Newsnight – …
Davis interview of Farage: descends into ‘painting by numbers’ farce
How many ways can the BBC find to insult those who support stronger controls on immigration? And to what extent is this an integrated, pre-planned strategy to rig the election? The latest round of name-calling came with Evan Davis’s so called ‘interview’ of Nigel Farage on BBC1 on Wednesday evening. It was actually closer to a party political broadcast by …
BBC CHALLENGERS’ DEBATE ‘SERIOUSLY BIASED’ AGAINST EU WITHDRAWAL CASE
BBC Director General Lord of Hall of Birkenhead, unusually for any big media organisation, is both managing director and its editor in chief. It gives him immense power. His most important role in a general election is to ensure scrupulous political balance. The BBC Charter and electoral law require him to do so. He recently told the Commons European Scrutiny …
BBC pushes green agenda – in tune with every political colour but purple
One thing is certain in this phony election: vote any colour but purple and you are supporting policies that continue to sanction the wasting of countless billions on climate change lunacy. At the heart of all three main party manifestos is labyrinthine state regulation, a forest of new restrictive measures foisted on both businesses and individuals. They want tougher measures …
Robert Peston’s Pro-EU bias Shows in BBC’s Blair Election Intervention Coverage.
Photo by myglesias This is without doubt the no-choice, phoney election. Take the EU. Opinion polls say that the majority of Britons would vote to leave if given the chance. That is why David Cameron and Ed Miliband are actually working to shut down debate on both the UK’s relationship with the EU and its closely-related bedfellow, immigration. David Cameron is as …
New BBC Trustees Fail Independence Test
While the BBC agitates with all its sinews to prevent those it loathes from being elected at the General Election, two new Corporation Trustees have been appointed. Will that change anything at the Biased Broadcasting Corporation? Do not hold your breath. Most go native the moment they are appointed, as chairman Rona Fairhead has repeatedly shown. This is what one …
More BBC pro-EU bias in Farage ‘painting by numbers’ interview
Photo by Euro Realist Newsletter For 16 years, News-watch has been monitoring in interviews by the BBC of Ukip leader Nigel Farage. It’s the broadcasting equivalent of painting by numbers. With wearying predictability, each one has been essentially the same. Question one usually suggests they are racist by wanting immigration controls. Question two posits the party is a flash in …
The Cliff Richard affair is damning evidence the BBC cares little for journalistic standards
The economical-with-the-truth Broadcasting Corporation – that’s the conclusion of a new report into BBC behaviour. In response, the Corporation has brushed aside without even a flicker of acknowledgement the findings of one of the UK’s most senior policemen over their disgraceful conduct in vastly inflating the importance of the raid last summer by South Yorkshire Police on the home of …