John Simpson lambasts BBC licence fee payers for their bias
John Simpson, the BBC’s veteran and rather pompous world affairs editor – who can forget his claims of liberating Kabul in 2001? – has been sounding off in Radio Times.…
Still blustering over Sir Cliff: The BBC’s arrogance knows no bounds
This is a guest post by Kathy Gyngell, from The Conservative Woman We have chronicled the saga of the BBC’s gross and inept intrusion into Sir Cliff Richard’s privacy from…
News-watch Survey – Britain at the Crossroads – March 2018
On March 29, 2018 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a day of programmes about Brexit designed to reflect the issues involved one year before the EU departure date. Eight separate programmes…
BBC ‘hardline’ bias brackets Brexiteers with extremism
Craig Byers, of Is the BBC Biased, has astutely nailed down that the BBC’s use of ‘hardline’ in the EU debate is deeply slanted. The adjective, he spotted, was reserved…
Time for a re-think on BBC1 Question Time?
There have been 1,369 editions of BBC1’s Question Time since its launch under Sir Robin Day in September 1979, and it has an estimated weekly audience of 2.4m in its…
Dead Ringers clangs out anti-Brexit bias
On 29 March 2018, the Radio 4 broadcast a day of programming under the title ‘Britain at the Crossroads‘ marking a year to Britain’s scheduled departure from the EU. The…
A figleaf swept away in the torrent of anti-Brexit bias
In BBC Radio 4’s Feedback on Friday, host Roger Bolton introduced a classic edition of Corporation Complaints Stonewalling. The subject? Primarily coverage of Brexit. The message? As always, the BBC…
News-watch Survey of Radio 4’s ‘Brexit: A Guide for the Perplexed’ – February 2018
News-watch monitored the five editions in Series 3 of BBC Radio 4’s ‘Brexit: A Guide for The Perplexed’, broadcast each lunchtime between Monday 19 and Friday 23 February, 2018. Each…
BBC assault on Brexit prospects continues
The third series of the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Brexit: A Guide for the Perplexed’ was broadcast on five consecutive days between 19 February and 23 February, 2018. Each programme…
News-watch Survey – Winter 2017
This survey focuses on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme during the period of the fifth round of Brexit negotiations, 4 October – 9 November 2017.