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 to support the Corporation’s long-held belief that the who support ‘out’ are motivated by xenophobia and racism. Last week, on …
BBC push Farage race-hate ‘ blood on hands’ post-Brexit claims
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 bailed on suspicion of killing a 40-year-old Polish man who was mortally injured in attack in the town centre on …
BBC comedy ’spoof’ about Farage sounds alarm bells
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 UK’s exit from the European Union. That’s not yet in the pipeline. The Corporation is still far too busy finding …
R4 Brexit Street maligns ‘out’ voters
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 in party Brexit ranks, as last weekend’s Sunday Times story about the alleged turf-war spat between Boris Johnson and Liam …
Can new Culture Secretary Karen Bradley Sort Out BBC Bias?
These are frustrating times for those who want an end to BBC bias. Post-Brexit, there has been a concentrated deluge of pro-EU, anti-Brexit broadcasting. The primary intent seems to be to force a second referendum and keep the UK in the EU. Evan Davis, as ever, is among those leading the charge. The highly biased coverage of post referendum affairs …
BBC Front Row: Brexit ‘threatens to generate riots’
Guest post from The Conservative Woman by Mark Ellse ‘There now follows a party political broadcast on behalf of the Socialist Workers’ Party.’ That’s what it should have been entitled. It pretended to be a programme about the arts, to wit BBC Radio 4 Front Row’s ‘Cultural Reponse to Brexit.‘ The programme came from the Royal Society of Arts, the …
HANG ‘EM HIGH
At last! Now we know why those misguided Brits voted for Brexit. It was the ‘hang ’em, flog ‘em’ brigade exerting their prejudices. That, in effect, is what the BBC tells us in this prominent website story. In case the message isn’t rammed home hard enough by the copy, there’s a large headline picture of a hangman’s noose. The central …
Ultimate Bias?
BBC reform, like so many other issues, has been pushed off the agenda by the referendum hullaballoo. But sorting out BBC bias as the Brexit process gets underway is surely an urgent and major priority for the new May government – that is, if she genuinely wants Britain out. The Corporation clearly now sees its central mission to push at …
Radio 4’s Food Programme unleashes tsunami of anti-Brexit opinion
BBC Radio 4’s Food Programme (July 3) set a new BBC high in the relentless scare-mongering about Brexit. The ringmaster was Dan Saladino. He presented, in effect, a half-hour rant against what he projected as is one of the most dangerous and foolhardy decisions in British history. The principal guests were supporters of ‘remain’ who predicted, among other things that …
Newsnight uses poll to push ‘remain’
At the beginning of Newsnight on Friday night was a poll by Ipsos Mori about alleged post-vote attitudes to the EU referendum. Presenter James O’Brien said that 56% of leavers and 76% of remainers thought negotiations would not yield a good ‘exit’ deal, 16% thought the UK would not actually leave (with 22% not knowing), and that ‘almost half’ of …