HAVE you ever been to a ‘conspiracy theory rally’? The BBC’s disinformation expert Marianna Spring has – well, that’s how she describes it. In a double-page feature in the i newspaper, the young debunker reported from the affluent Devon town of Totnes, where a culture war is waging. On one side are the metropolitan liberals (woke, faux green and pro-establishment) and on the […]
THE BBC is under fire over its forthcoming radio adaptations of Charles Dickens’s novels, which it says have ‘particularly striking parallels with life in Britain today’. Critics say equating modern life with the social evils of the Victorian era, with its grinding poverty and exploitation of workers, is yet another example of the corporation’s bias. […]
ASTONISHINGLY, it is almost ten years since I first wrote my first blog for TCW. By that time, I had been friends with and worked with Kathy Gyngell for almost 30 years, 14 of them in trying to hold the BBC in check over its outrageously pro-EU coverage, through News-watch, an organisation we set up jointly […]
As we approach the end of the year, we are repeating our twenty most-read articles of 2023, in reverse order. This is number 8 and it was first published on June 14. MARIANNA Spring, the BBC’s ‘Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent’, was aiming for the kill. Announcing BBC Verify a few weeks ago, Spring specified a ‘conspiracy newspaper’ as […]
ON November 6 I wrote to the BBC Executive Complaints Unit complaining about the insanity of not calling Hamas ‘terrorists’. I referred them to an old report on their website where they described the perpetrators of the 7/7 bombings in 2005 as ‘terrorists’ and asked why they couldn’t do the same with Hamas. I received […]
BEN Pile’s recent report ‘Clean Air, Dirty Money, Filthy Politics’ lifts the lid on how a few super-wealthy individuals influence public policy, and how the Guardian newspaper, in spite of repeated declarations to the contrary, receives funding from billionaire Gates to the tune of £92 per reader. The BBC, while constantly boasting about its public service role […]
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