The withdrawal of free television licences for over 75s should really be looked at in terms of how the BBC should raise money in the first place. At present there is a universal flat rate tax on televisions with some exemptions. What matters is not so much who is exempted …
Read More »What Journalists should know about Brexit
If, as a journalist or news editor, you know about the facts below but have never reported them you should seriously consider your ethics. John Major, the man who threatened to see the Government in court if it prorogued Parliament did this himself in 1997 – see The Sleaze Report. Yes …
Read More »Brexit and the Media
Broadcast journalists and comedians are almost uniformly anti-Brexit. Curiously this unanimity of outlook applies to many other areas. If there were a billion people on the Earth global warming would not be happening. Global warming is the effect of seven billion people (and rising) on the planet. Journalists uniformly neglect …
Read More »Caster Semenya, Cambridge Slavery and the BBC
Three sports judges at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland have just pronounced that the South African athlete, Caster Semenya will need to take testosterone suppressants if she is to compete in women’s sport. The judges noted that women’s sport was discriminatory but this was “necessary, reasonable and proportionate” for …
Read More »The Mock Morality
Our media, especially advertising media, is full of what is right and what is good. Being right and good are the moral high ground from which product sales are made. But what is right and good? Why not just steal a loaf of bread if you are hungry? This question …
Read More »Has Question Time been unfairly dominated by Remainers?
On 4th April 2019, Charles Moore accused BBC’s Question Time programme of being biased against Brexiters, quoting research from the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) that Remainers featured on the programme almost twice as much as Brexiters. The host, Fiona Bruce, refused to accept that there was any bias, and …
Read More »It’s the Media: Terrorism, communism, fascism, globalism.
I was watching a biopic of The Beatles the other day. In 1964 young girls were shown screaming with adoration, collapsing in ecstasy and being carried off by smiling, paternal police. In 1967 young girls were shown fighting the police to get near their idols with grim policemen fighting back. …
Read More »Banning No Deal is banning Brexit
If No Deal were banned then the EU could simply sit on its hands and wait for the UK to request to Remain in the EU. Banning No Deal is banning Brexit. Oliver Letwin and Yvette Cooper are attempting to introduce a Bill that would force the Government to extend …
Read More »I’m Sorry, Is Brexit Boring You?
Laughing at Britain’s Brexit woes might be justified if other countries were successfully tackling the pre-eminent problem of the early 21st century — reconciling meaningful democracy and self-determination with the imperative for global regulation and governance. But since no-one else has bothered to pick up the torch of destiny, maybe it’s …
Read More »Chancellor Philip Hammond isolated in predicting Brexit will be bad
We have been warned by the BBC that Philip Hammond thinks Brexit will be bad for the UK economy. What do other sources of economic “wisdom” predict? The IMF Predicts the UK will have some of the strongest growth in European big 5 after Brexit: The World Bank in its Global Economic Prospects Predicts the UK …
Read More »Have economists and economics journalists sold out?
The UK has a trade deficit with the EU (Jan 2018) of £82bn pa – about 4% of GDP (larger than the UK bank bailout in 2008 annually see note 1). Trade deficits directly reduce GDP, the trade deficit with the EU reduces UK GDP by about 4%. It makes …
Read More »Who Is Truly Marginalised? – Part 2
Champions of intersectional identity politics in academia, culture and government have accrued near-hegemonic societal power for themselves by exploiting both the real and imagined oppression of certain groups on whose behalf they boldly presume to speak Last month, I wrote a short reflection on who is and is not effectively marginalized …
Read More »Review: The People vs Democracy
“The People vs Democracy” goes further than many other books which claim to “explain” Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, showing that it takes both sides – outraged establishment centrists as well as populist insurgents – to successfully undermine liberal democracy. Political renewal depends on the former group finally …
Read More »Should the media have rallied round the “experts” about Brexit?
There has been much talk over the past year or so of the public flagrantly ignoring the advice of the experts on public policy such as Brexit. What is surprising is that those supporting the experts seem to have so little knowledge of how well experts perform on matters of …
Read More »Have economists and economics journalists sold out?
Those who follow economics now know that the economic “experts” were wrong about their predictions for the period between the Referendum and today. This has scarcely been covered by broadcasters and this lack of coverage has left many Remain voters believing that an economic disaster is imminent. The absence of any coverage …
Read More »The Age Of Perpetual Crisis
When every single issue is falsely portrayed as a burning crisis, none of our national challenges will receive the considered attention they deserve “We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die.” ― …
Read More »Let the market decide the BBC’s fate.
The British Broadcasting Corporation, or as I like to call it: the Bias Broadcasting Corporation. For 95 years the BBC has kept itself in business on the backs of ordinary working people, claiming to be “impartial, free and fair”, but have proven to be quite the opposite. For years they’ve …
Read More »The media needs to get a grip
Like Churchill, one of my absolute favourite things to do is to read the newspapers. I love staying informed on events and reading the best opinion writers. My adoration of analysing the news is what led my co-founder and I to start the Daily Globe. The purpose of this website, …
Read More »WTO, Single Market, UK-EU Trade – the facts with links to original sources.
The broadcast media has suppressed coverage of the actual trade figures during the UK-EU Brexit negotiations. Here is the important data with links (in bold) that you can click to see the original sources to check for yourselves. How important is UK-EU Trade? The figures above are for both Goods …
Read More »We must act as Guardians of Truth
In the mid-eighties, David Hare and Howard Brenton joined forces and co-wrote a play about a South African newspaper magnate whose sole and contrived aim was to gain control of Fleet Street and the associated media, sound familiar? The fictitious character of Lambert Le Roux was created and based upon …
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