Friday, 14 September 2012



BBC’s Sacred Illusions…And Unfit For Purpose
George R in the comments brings this to our attention…..the well known fact of BBC cowardice in the face of threats of violence by Muslims…..if the BBC will not  criticises or satirise all religions in the same manner as it does Christianity,  then perhaps it should refrain from such an approach until it can also bring itself to do the same with Islam. You would think that the BBC would in … Continue reading 

Ed, Ed and the Fed Can’t All be Wrong Says Flanders

Is Flanders taking a subtle swipe at George Osborne?  In this report about the US committing itself to more Quantitative Easing she entitles the piece ‘Your Flexible Fed’. Is that meant to subliminally suggest that Osborne’s approach in sticking with Plan A is ‘inflexible’ and wrong? She suggests that the Fed have decided to do what is necessary to get the economy moving: ‘In effect, the Fed’s policy committee is … Continue reading 

BBC Talking Down Economy

A quick return to the BBC’s ‘big conundrum’ of why employment is going up in a ‘recession’. The BBC continues to ask the question…but  it is one which it  stubbornly refuses to actually attempt to answer….because it believes its own invented answer, that  it must be caused by a drop in productivity, is damaging to the Tories. But….Apparently it’s not so much of a recession for manufacturing industry…a fact revealed … Continue reading