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This is extraordinary bogus equivalence from Sarah Smith who compares unquoted inflammatory rhetoric by un named people on the left to that of the POTUS and his appointees as two sides of the same coin.
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/18akTcvwNW/

Sarah Smith: another one whose voice grates and has me reaching for the tuning knob or off button.

I really should stick to Radio 3, although that is slowly getting 'dumbed down' by the BBC too

Boiler wrote: ↑Wed Sep 24, 2025 10:42 am Sarah Smith: another one whose voice grates and has me reaching for the tuning knob or off button.

I really should stick to Radio 3, although that is slowly getting 'dumbed down' by the BBC too

I think you'll be OK (The Folk show on R2 has also marked this anniversary in song)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jgck

Youngian wrote: ↑Sat Sep 27, 2025 12:43 pm

Boiler wrote: ↑Wed Sep 24, 2025 10:42 am Sarah Smith: another one whose voice grates and has me reaching for the tuning knob or off button.

I really should stick to Radio 3, although that is slowly getting 'dumbed down' by the BBC too

I think you'll be OK (The Folk show on R2 has also marked this anniversary in song)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jgck

I'm listening to R3's "Train Tracks" whilst doing my least favourite household job: tidying up. It is making the task much, much more bearable

The BBC have upset some snowflakes who oppose freedom of speech.

I think HIGNFY may have bigger worries on its plate at the moment.

As Chaminda Jayanetti said, if this had happened last year and someone had wrongly suggested a Tory was benefiting from a Tory policy, this would have been a major shitstorm about BBC bias.

I see last Friday's HIGNFY is back on iPlayer now - has the potentially troublesome bit been edited out, can anyone tell?

Boiler wrote: ↑Mon Oct 06, 2025 9:53 pm I see last Friday's HIGNFY is back on iPlayer now - has the potentially troublesome bit been edited out, can anyone tell?

I dunno, but they've left in the good bits.

Nice sighting of Jimmy Mulville, who I fondly imagine is working on a new series of Who Dares Wins. If only people who ran the rest of the BBC output could stop heeding online crap.

The arrival of a generation of young producers “marinated in social media” led to a false claim about Euan Blair being broadcast on Have I Got News For You, the production chief behind the show has said.

The first in a new series of the BBC show featured an incorrect claim that the company run by the son of the former prime minister Tony Blair had been given the contract to run the government’s new digital ID system.

It fuelled online accusations that it explained his father’s strong support for ID cards.

Jimmy Mulville, the founder of the programme’s producers Hat Trick Productions, said he wanted to highlight the dangers of “digital native” producers taking widely circulated claims from X, formerly Twitter, without questioning their veracity.

Spotted today - how true.

The main BBC news page is algorithm-driven to some extent, particularly if you're logged in.

To be honest it was better framed on Friday afternoon than the 6pm news. (Better I mean less leading).

I've just had a look at the BBC's SYB on the plan to house irregular migrants in former military bases.

It really does read like the Daily Mail now. It's such a pity that "ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydon'tyougoandlivethere" ceased - it'd have a rich harvest now.

Boiler wrote: ↑Sun Oct 19, 2025 6:59 pm Spotted today - how true.

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So true.
Last week a celeb breaking wind on an entertainment show made their top 10 stories.

Only left-wingers are activists.

Not the first time Question time have academic-washed a goose-stepper's job title.

I wonder how long ago a job at UKC (Kent at Canterbury) maintains academic status.
Can I still tag my contributions with "Writer and Academic"?


Also Notable, thorough pushing things a bit..

One of the first times there's a barrage of public questions about Farage's conduct.
BBC grants him a week off.
I wonder whether he's still collecting holiday pay.

You can tell how disappointed Laura is.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2emj9r4j22o

It is also the case that the royal furore has been incredibly convenient for the government this week - grabbing headlines while Chancellor Rachel Reeves' behaviour was being questioned.

During royal scandals, "you breathe a sigh of relief as you guys - the media - go crackers over something else," a former No 10 official told me.

By her own admission, Reeves broke the rules. She didn't get her story straight at the start. Had the King made his decision a few days earlier or a few days later, the chancellor's embarrassment might have been building into a bigger scandal.

How could it have developed into a "bigger scandal"? Wasn't even a scandal in the first place IMO. Basically didn't pay a relatively small fee that hardly anybody had even heard of to a council. No major financial gain from it - just pay the fee and move on. Kuenssberg's a fucking idiot.

Reeves paid a letting agency whose contract included taking care of the licence. They didn't do it - their negligence, not hers.

If I pay a garage to fix the brakes on my car but they don't carry out the work properly, if I subsequently cause an accident because my brakes fail, that's not my fault as I had good reason to believe my car was roadworthy.