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
In a brilliant piece for UnHerd, Kathleen Stock takes aim at the BBC's 'disinformation' correspondent Marianna Spring, accusing her of disseminating 'disinformation' in her own right.
What Gary Lineker should or should not be allowed to say matters not a jot when set against the real scandal: that our national broadcaster could not care less about fairly representing both sides to contentious debates.
Jeremy Clarkson has poured scorn on the idea that the BBC is a Tory stronghold. Apparently he even had to leave his copy of the Spectator outside the Radio 5 Live offices, as it was deemed “extremist material”.
A Telegraph poll has found that 91% of readers want to scrap the BBC licence fee. Is the Telegraph out of step with the country, or has the BBC lost its place as the national broadcaster?
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are St. Gary's struggle to call people Nazis, the truth about the January 6th 'insurrection' and a victory against 'non-crime hate incidents'.
The Lineker incident will accelerate the demise of the BBC license fee, highlighting the fact that a broadcaster cannot hope to represent "all of us" in such a polarised era, argues Patrick O’Flynn.
Whether or not you believe Gary Lineker should be sacked for apparently breaching BBC guidelines, the notion that he is a freedom fighter against a Far Right government is an absurd metro liberal fantasy.
A new BBC Panorama episode from Marianna Spring blames Elon Musk for a tripling in abusive messages on Twitter. But there are clearly other reasons that might explain the data besides the influence of Mr Musk.
The BBC 'disinformation correspondent' Marianna Spring follows a wearily familiar formula in her articles, pitching the wicked 'conspiracy theorists' against the enlightened adherents of the orthodox narrative.
The BBC recently ran a headline claiming Antarctica sea ice had hit a "new record low", but inexplicably missing was the fact that since 1979 the trend in the ice extent is "near zero" and not statistically significant.
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