News Round-Up
7 May 2024
Feverish reporting from the BBC and other outlets hyped up the July 'heatwaves' in Europe with extreme forecasts, but the actual temperature readings show nothing out of the ordinary.
Nick Dixon and Toby Young talk about the hatefulness of Stop Funding Hate, the Conservative councillor suspended for objecting to Pride and the Left-liberal hypocrisy on show in the Huw Edwards BBC scandal.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are the Huw Edwards BBC sex scandal, Miss Netherlands being a bloke and are Harry and Meghan getting a divorce?
Lockdowns have been blamed for a sharp rise in teenage girls in the UK developing eating disorders and self-harming since 2020. Who could have guessed that enforced isolation isn't good for young people's mental health.
Sweden, having famously refused to follow the world in imposing lockdowns and mask mandates in 2020, had the best Covid pandemic record in Europe, a new analysis by the BBC shows.
The face of the BBC's new multi-million pound anti-disinformation unit, Marianna Spring, has been accused of spreading fake news by Carl Benjamin, who has complained to Ofcom and the BBC. Oddly, she hasn't responded.
Was the BBC guilty of breaching its own impartiality rules during the first lockdown, given how one-sided its coverage was? More and more evidence suggests the answer is 'yes'.
The BBC's war on 'disinformation' – defined as anything contrary to the Government line – is just state censorship by another name, says Shiraz Akram.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Boris Johnson quitting Parliament, Trump being indicted on federal charges and the BBC's war on 'disinformation'.
The BBC is looking at correcting the 'liberal bias' of its output by hiring more 'diverse' staff. But the BBC is talking about intellectual diversity, so it may not be a terrible plan.
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