The BBC has been subject to dramatic changes in its Charter over the past 14 years and this has had a deeply negative effect on the Corporation. The BBC Charters until 2007 placed the BBC under fairly tight government control and used general advisory and national broadcasting councils to monitor fairness and …
Read More »Social media giants are all biased. This is serious.
When the tech giants rose to power I had an uneasy feeling that this was the start of something dangerous. What is to stop companies like Google, Twitter and Facebook from simply, automatically, suppressing political opinions that they detest? What is to stop them from taking money to do this? …
Read More »The BBC: A threat to all of us?
During the Referendum campaign and the three years that followed many supporters of British Independence cursed the BBC News and found it to be biased. The Remain campaign realised that this was a threat and made counter accusations to provide the BBC with apparent evidence that by offending both sides …
Read More »Impartial Journalism in a Polarised World
The BBC has recently produced a programme called “Impartial Journalism in a Polarised World”, created by James Harding, which discusses how they are being challenged by alternative sources of news. Organisations like the BBC portray themselves as heroes battling against a tide of disinformation but how far is this the …
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 »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 »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 »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 …
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