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MPs are right to demand a clear-out of the lefty timeservers running the BBC

BBC Trust, Licence Fee | by David Keighley

At last! MPs have finally confirmed that they want very radical changes in the way the BBC is run, including the decriminalisation and eventual axing of the totally anachronistic – and hated – licence fee. At the heart of the…

Now the BBC’s official historian joins the vendetta against the Iron Lady

BBC Bias | by David Keighley

It is not clear from Google how Professor Jean Seaton became official historian of the BBC. But she was appointed to that dizzying status in 2001 – and she is without doubt perfectly suited to the role. Why? Well because…

Bias by Omission as Romania and Bulgaria Influx Rises

BBC Bias, Immigration, Today Programme | by David Keighley

Happy New Year – it’s the anniversary of when, courtesy of the EU’s Free Movement of Peoples directive, restrictions were lifted on the numbers of Romanians and Bulgarians entering the UK. Latest figures released by the Oxford Migration Observatory show…

Wood Drama Shows Liberal Left Bias

BBC Bias | by David Keighley

My grandfather was born in 1901, joined the army under age to serve in the trenches of the First World War, then re-enlisted and by the age of 21 was discharged again having served in bloody theatres in both the…

Humphrys Mea Culpa – More Hot Air from the BBC

BBC Bias, Immigration | by David Keighley

John Humphrys ‘admission’ behind a paywall in the Sunday Times that the BBC has botched and skewed coverage of immigration – and failed to reflect genuine concern and genuine cultural and infrastructure issues, not to mention the malign influence in…

Is the BBC Biased?

BBC Bias, News-watch | by David Keighley

The answer is that on one particular subject – the coverage of EU affairs – it most definitely is. For 15 long years, News-watch has been investigating. Our reports deploy the most robust analytical methodology and demonstrate that, for example,…

Kathy Gyngell: We need a road map on how to quit the EU. Don’t expect head-in-the-sand BBC to help

BBC Bias, European Union, Withdrawalists | by Kathy Gyngell

Photo by CJS*64 A man with a camera Why was I not at all surprised to read of the huge shortfall in EU spending of £259 billion pounds? Yes, the one to which, all of a sudden, Britain will be…

Hall’s BBC Executive Board Climate Change Links

BBC Chairman, BBC Trust, Climate Change | by David Keighley

Rona Fairhead, who David Cameron has parachuted in as new chairman of the BBC, is being grilled about her approach to the role by the Commons Culture and Sport Committee on Tuesday – and already questions of conflict of interest…

New BBC Chairman – A New Broom?

BBC Chairman | by David Keighley

It seems that, barring major left-field interventions, Rona Fairhead, former boss of the Financial Times group, is in line to become next chairman of the BBC, in succession to the disastrous Lord Patten. What’s clear about Ms Fairhead, the government’s…

So That’s Alright Then, says Tony Hall

BBC Bias | by David Keighley

Tony Hall, the BBC director general, says he has investigated the BBC’s conduct in the reporting of the searching of Cliff Richard’s home in connection with an alleged sexual offence. Sir Michael Parkinson and Geoffrey Robertson (the latter not known for affinities…

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