Friday 23 August 2013



FRIDAY OPEN THREAD…

Because these fill up with hundreds of comments every day! I tuned in to the BBC Radio 4 at 6.30am this morning. They DO seem so sympathetic to “the opposition” in Syria and Morsi’s supporters in Egypt, don’t they? Muslim Brotherhood propaganda is breathlessly repeated and how often are we informed that Morsi was “democratically elected”? The situation in Syria is certainly complex but the BBC seems to have aligned with “the rebels without probing too deeply as to who they are and what they want. Anyway, I’m off for the day so detail the bias YOU see here…

Babes In Arms

  LOLOL Leftwing BBC type in melt down. Tessa Dunlop on Today programme this morning (08:50) Talking about a book published by Civitas which puts the case for families having more than one child…as it can be beneficial for siblings, they claim. Dunlop, who has only one child herself, has other ideas saying:  ‘The world’s population is exploding….People are always coming up to me and saying when will you have another … Continue reading 

I DO WANT TO GO TO CHELSEA…

The BBC can still surprise me. I was driving home from work and had the PM programme on. It covered the rather bizarre story that Bradley Manning has issued a statement saying that “he” is now a she and wants to be called Chelsea henceforth. What amazed me was that Eddie Mairs instantly started calling this man a she … and called her Chelsea. Is this how it works then? … Continue reading