News Round-Up
23 October 2024
by Will Jones
Democrats Are No Longer Hiding Their Plan to Censor America
22 October 2024
by Will Jones
Twitter owner Elon Musk has accused a BBC reporter of lying during an interview in a row over whether incidents of hate speech are increasing on the social network.
In the end, the BBC declined to broadcast the last episode of Sir David Attenborough’s Wild Isles tale of ecological disaster and breakdown, tucking it away under an ‘extras’ slot on the iPlayer streaming service.
The widower of BBC presenter Lisa Shaw, who was killed by the Covid vaccine, is pursuing legal action against AstraZeneca, arguing the vaccine is an unsafe "defective product".
Following similar label changes to U.S. public broadcasters, the BBC has been designated "Government Funded Media" on its Twitter profile. The Beeb’s leadership is now pushing back against Elon Musk’s decision.
The BBC may have leaned towards pro-lockdown coverage of the coronavirus pandemic in a reaction to the threat to its funding, former Supreme Court Justice Lord Jonathan Sumption has said.
Many of the obituaries of Nigel Lawson have glossed over the work that dominated the last 20 years of his life, namely his climate scepticism. Daily Sceptic Environment Editor Chris Morrison makes good the deficit.
The BBC has run a story claiming that, according to modelling, Antarctic ocean currents are heading for collapse, but somehow failed to mention the data showing the continent is not currently suffering ice loss.
Last week's Start the Week on BBC Radio 4 provides a case study in how fiction is mixed with cherry-picked fact and presented as a learned contribution to our understanding of how the climate is breaking down.
Michael Vaughan has had racism charges against him dismissed, but the BBC still refuses to bring him back, showing that for the woke it's not innocent till proven guilty but guilty even when proven innocent.
Cancel culture is definitely real, as we have seen with the recent cancellation of comedian Alfie Brown. Finding out that the BBC is not renewing your show for a seventh series, however, probably doesn't count.
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