Government picks Net Zero ideologue as chair of Ofcom

THERE is a huge and troubling paradox in the selection by the Government of Sir Ian Cheshire as preferred candidate to become chair of Ofcom. He has been presented as a safe pair of hands because he is a former chief executive of Kingfisher, the FTSE 100 retail group behind B&Q; a former chairman of Barclays UK and, until recently, chairman …

BBC judges itself over climate change bias. Guess the verdict!

A RULING by the BBC Editorial Complaints Unit (ECU) about numerous aspects of BBC climate change coverage in response to a complaint submitted by News-watch confirms with chilling detachment and arrogance that the Corporation is locked in biased denialism of the worst, dogmatic kind. They have determined that because the United Nations, governments round the world and their agencies such as the …

The BBC witch-finders are coming for YOU

THE BBC has crashed to new lows of bias. Director-General Tim Davie, who assumed office three years ago in September, set as his priority the restoration of impartiality. But in the past few months he has presided over a huge campaign – conducted through the so-called Trusted News Initiative, which the Corporation orchestrated, and BBC Verify – to root out and shut down ‘disinformation’ spread …

BBC REPORTS ENERGY BILLS CRISIS – WITHOUT MENTIONING NET ZERO

Today’s lead story (February 3)  in much of the media is that Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak is planning to spend billions of pounds to cushion the impact on householders of a huge rise in domestic heating charges which will take effect from April. According to green policy watchdog Net Zero Watch, the government will make £6 billion of …

Craig Byers: Even Libby Purves is slamming Radio 4

Even former Radio 4 stalwart, ex-Midweek presenter and self-declared ”life-long loyalist and listener” Libby Purves – though in many ways as ‘BBC as can be’ in her outlook – sees that David Blunkett has a point about her favourite channel BBC Radio 4. In her latest Times column she says that the BBC shouldn’t ignore him, and although she thinks it’s ”not …

Daily Mail jumps on the BBC climate zealots’ bandwagon

HOW much further into the mire of hard-line prejudice can the MSM – particularly the BBC – go in its blatant, militant anti-scientific and anti-free-speech perversion of climate science? In Saturday’s Daily Mail, under the headline ‘Green fury as BBC tells kids climate change isn’t all bad’, reporter Jim Norton said the BBC had come under strong attack from climate alarmist zealots.  …

BBC climate alarmism: ‘never let the facts get in the way of a good scare story’

How idiotic has the advocacy of climate alarmism by the BBC become? Last month, as was reported on TCW, BBC News Director Fran Unsworth issued a formal directive stating, in effect, that alarmism is proven and cannot be challenged on the BBC airwaves. One of her key minions, James Stephenson, the BBC’s overall editor of News and Current Affairs, has …

Nick Booth: The BBC is a candidate for a bonfire of the insanities

This is a guest post from Nick Booth of The Conservative Woman Broadcasting trade papers are reporting that the BBC has brought in mandatory carbon footprint rules. All independent programme makers will now have to log the carbon footprint of their output, using a calculation tool pioneered during the production of Eastenders by BBC Studios. So, if you’re an independent …

BBC lays down the law on climate alarm coverage

Outrageous. That is the only way to describe respectably the latest impartiality ruling by the BBC Trust. This band of climate change crusaders – led by the Trust’s Richard Ayre, chair of the Editorial  Standards Committee (ESC) – have ruled that a show that was a light-hearted dig at climate fanaticism by the Daily Mail’s Quentin Letts on Radio 4 …