"It's the BBC here. We'd like you to say something angry, stupid and preferably racist about the new government"

"It's the BBC here. We'd like you to say something angry, stupid and preferably racist about the new government"

>> SATURDAY, MAY 15, 2010

MEP Daniel Hannan on the BBC's continuing search for the frothing wing of the Tory party who are the true face of Cameron's administration.

LOVING TYRANNY...

A baised BBC reader reflects on the BBC's love for tyranny....

Tiger Vs Dragon

10 May 2010 20:00–20:30

BBC Radio 4 (FM only)

The Power of the Poor

In this provocative series of programmes, Mukul Devichand travels across frontiers, from the controversial new ports China is building in the Indian Ocean to the poor interior villages of these continent-sized countries. He examines whether China's authoritarianism may in fact be doing much more for the poor than India's sometimes bloody democracy.

or this:

"Sometimes you look at countries like China and you think, 'Wouldn't it be nice to be an autocracy in times like these?'" Matt Frei, Americana, September 20, 2009

or even this:

"..the final answer, frankly, is the vigorous use of state power to coerce and repress. It may be my Presbyterian background, but I firmly believe that repression can be a great, civilising instrument for good. Stamp hard on certain 'natural' beliefs for long enough and you can almost kill them off."

Andrew Marr, The Guardian, Feb. 1999

Black is white (again)

>> FRIDAY, MAY 14, 2010

Richard Black discusses the alleged "review" of the IPCC that is underway today as if it were genuinely independent. As usual, in his writing, the views of sceptics are only marginally mentioned; and there is no reference to the mountains of work on dozens of websites which show that many of the IPCC's predictions are dangerous. fantastically expensive hogwash. Meanwhile, separately from the BBC, sources tell me that the forces of the legal establishment remain intent on crushing those who dare to challenge the climate change orthodoxy; latest in the firing line are Richard North (of EU Referendum) and Christoper Booker (along with the Sunday Telegraph) who are being forced into the High Court to defend various claims about his worship Rajendra Pachauri, the always correct and above reproach IPCC chief. Pachauri's lawyers are Carter Ruck, of course. Just rememeber, the BBC was peddling the Himalayan glacier melt as if it were gospel truth until the blogsphere subjected the IPCC claims to proper scrutiny. And, surprise, surprise, Richard Black himself was foremost among those pushing this particular scare. I repeat, of course, for his BBC lawyer's benefit, that Richard is above reproach in his expenses claims for attending conferences.

THE FORCES OF PROGRESSIVENESS...

I don't think I have heard the use of the words "forces of progressiveness" deployed on the BBC as much as in recent days. It seems to me the BBC is establishing a new post election meme, namely that Labour is opposition is the distillation of "progressiveness". And of course there is the oh so subtle implication that IF Labour is "progressive" then what does that make the new Government?