Small Image Full Width

Does Fairhead departure presage May action against BBC bias?

The abrupt and unexpected departure of Rona Fairhead from her post as BBC Chairman is interesting indeed. David Cameron had appointed her Chairman for the first, crucial phase of the new Charter covering the abolition of the Trustees and their…

BBC continues to push Brexit race hate line

BBC Bias | by David Keighley

Photo of Gary Younge by boellstiftung So what is it that the BBC is trying to prove about Brexit? It looks increasingly that, as the dust settles on the referendum result, they are mounting an all-out campaign to find evidence…

BBC push Farage race-hate ‘ blood on hands’ post-Brexit claims

BBC Bias, EU Referendum | by David Keighley

BBC programmes have given a platform for claims that Nigel Farage has ‘blood on his hands’ for Harlow killing – despite local police warning against ‘jumping to conclusions’ about a ‘race hate’ angle. In Harlow, six teenagers have been arrested and…

BBC comedy ’spoof’ about Farage sounds alarm bells

BBC Bias, UKIP | by David Keighley

So finally, then, the BBC is going to make a programme about Nigel Farage. Not – as might maybe expected from the UK’s main public service broadcaster – a documentary explaining his remarkable role over 20 years in triggering the…

R4 Brexit Street maligns ‘out’ voters

BBC Bias, EU Referendum | by David Keighley

What could be the biggest threat to Brexit? Tory back-sliding and plotting by remainiacs like Anna Soubry? Undoubtedly they will have spent much of the summer fomenting new lines of subversion. They are ready pounce on and exaggerate any dissension…

BBC snooping intensifies in pursuit of iPlayer licence-fee dodgers

Licence Fee | by David Keighley

Watch out! Are you about to be packet-sniffed by the BBC? The prospect of millions of viewers being snooped upon by Corporation licence-fee collectors in unprecedented ways is firmly on the agenda. The BBC has denied that the actual ‘packet-sniffing’,…