A village in Kent has been told by the Reform-led council that, due to safety concerns, they can't put up Christmas lights until they take down all of the unauthorised flags. Why do they hate this country?
They should take the flags down and put up the Christmas lights Then after Christmas put the flags back up while they are taking the lights down Other than a bit of time it shouldn't add too much cost
BBC Director-General and BBC News CEO both resign over the doctored Trump video. A new low for an organisation that acts like a law unto itself...
Rather than acknowledge the massive issues they have, those still at the BBC seem intent on circling the wagons. It’s arrogant. It’s not the most important issue of the day but when everyone is obliged to contribute towards such a bloated and wasteful entity that spends an awful lot of money on ****e it doesn’t need then it’s right people are pissed off about it. It’s a bit silly this is what has done it rather than any of their other failings but I’m glad it’s happened. The license fee is objectively stupid.
The man is an open goal yet they convert it to an own goal, you have to be seriously up yourself to manage that...
Trump's lawyers all over this now demanding a retraction, apology and damages by Friday or they will launch a billion dollar lawsuit against the corporation. TV licence might not cover that...
A good piece by Lewis Goodall on the BBC fiasco.... The truth about impartiality at the BBC - by Lewis Goodall please log in to view this image
Just what you'd expect from a former employee, the groupthink that pervades the corporation will never change regardless of who is the next DG. So many have said it was a mistake/mishap rather than the reality it was a carefully edited piece distorting what was really said. There was so much media and clips they could have used rather than something that has severely damaged their reputation. The list of scandals and headlines over the past few years should be the catalyst for a total shake up but I can't see it happening with a Labour government. The fact the only Tory on their board is being lined up for the chop is a definite pointer to just more of the same, I'll bet this time next year we'll still be moaning about the next scandal and then the next...
Put Andrew in charge of the BBC. Not like the old nonce has anything else going on and there’ll be multiple witnesses at all times.
'The only Tory on the Board'? There shouldn't be any political Board members. You don't seem to have read Goodall's full piece, so here's a part which deals with the percieved left-wing bias that Gibb, director of communications for Teresa May and co-founder of GB News, was appointed by Johnson to eradicate.... For what it’s worth, I don’t think they are part of a right wing plot, as such. I genuinely think they think they are saving the BBC from itself. But that is because they suffer from the same affliction as much of the ailing, older British media class, ubiquitous across the lofty, windy diatribes in the pages of the Sunday Times and Telegraph, former BBC anchors and the like: a total lack of self-awareness. They believe their own politics to be neutral, impartial- and other people’s politics to be the aberration, or doctrinaire, a belief egged on by the fact that most of the media agrees with them. Orthodoxies are for other people. Many of these people lecture younger BBC staff as to being too rigid, or subject to groupthink, or unwilling to step outside themselves: it is these people, inside and outside of the BBC who are in my experience most rigid of all, because they are so convinced their politics isn’t really politics, but just some default setting shared with much of the country- when it is not. Worse, they usually claim to do what they do in the name of ordinary working class people about whom they usually know nothing. I’ve written before about impartiality, and that of course, as an individual I wasn’t impartial at the BBC. I had views which I can now more freely express. I had biases- but I actively worked against them in my work, as I was required to do. How many of these people, self appointed guardians of impartiality, actually do the same? They often can’t- in my view because they don’t recognise their inherent partiality in the first place. In other words, it wasn't that the BBC was too biased towards the Left, it was that it was considered insufficiently biased towards the Right. The editing of Trump on Panorama was a serious misjudgement, but it was broadcast a year ago. Why should it come to light now?
From 1937.... please log in to view this image Tory MP Captain Archibald Maule Ramsey was an actual pro-Nazi, interned by the Churchill coalition government for plotting a Fascist coup. If he was around today he'd probably just join Reform.
