Showing posts with label BBC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BBC. Show all posts

Wednesday, 8 July 2020

It's an awkward truth, but white people are doing best out of the fight against white privilege

The increasingly bitter racial tensions of our times exploded again at the beginning of the week, when the BBC thought it wise to give a platform to 2 idiotic white women to pontificate on how other white women could not be ‘karens.’

Friday, 29 January 2016

Question Time review: buffoonery and the demeaning of tragedy

One can only hope that last night’s Question Time did not reflect the extent of debating skills in this country. IF it did, and it wasn’t just a classic lefty hijacking (as all episodes lately seem to be), God help our politics.

Wednesday, 22 July 2015

Forget DAB: the future of radio is on-line

This week, as debates start about how the BBC starts to live more within its means, discussion returned to the subject of digital radio (DAB), and its potential to replace FM. Some years ago, people thought this would happen by 2010, and DAB would be the standard mechanism through which Britain would listen to the radio. It could even replace FM altogether.

Tuesday, 21 July 2015

Analysis of Labour leadership debate: a hopeless horror show

On Sunday, the BBC gave the 4 Labour leadership hopefuls the opportunity to compete in a televised debate on Sunday Politics. My view: it’s looking really bleak for Labour.

Friday, 12 June 2015

We deserve better than this farce of a contest

It’s been a funny old week at West Minster. It began with David Cameron apparently issuing a clear warning to his ministers: back me on the EU, or face the sack.