A new poll has found that half of Britons no longer wish to pay a TV licence fee – and that many of them feel the BBC is biased in its reporting. A poll of 1,700 people by Redfield & Wilton Strategies found that 56% of respondents supported scrapping the licence fee and believed the BBC […]
Campbell had written on Facebook that he could not imagine the BBC allowing an all-white line-up on Songs of Praise.
BBC Radio 1 has said it will play an edited version of the Christmas classic “Fairytale of New York” due to a term in the lyrics that some listeners may find offensive.
Confession: I cannot figure out for the life of me what readers will make of this. On the one hand, it’s one in the eye for west brit lackeys like me, and presumably the membership of Fine Gael, who’s favourite part of the year is when “Rule Britannia” comes on at the end of the […]
A shocking report by BBC Newsnight has revealed that staff at England’s only service offering gender reassignment services for young people and children, the Tavistock Trust, believe that real harm is being caused to children because they are being facilitated in rushing to make irreversible decisions about changing sex. The testimony of staff in the Newsnight report is […]
Following the tearing down of a statue of Edward Colston, an English philanthropist and slave trader, by rioters in Bristol, the BBC has helpfully published a list of other statues of individuals with links to the slave trade. The list is in an article, headlined “London statues with slavery links ‘should be taken down’”, which quotes […]
China is now censoring news reports that discuss the controversial national security legislation currently being debated in the National People’s Congress, an entity which largely acts to rubber stamp the decisions of the leadership of the CCP. The legislation aims to crack down on “treason, secession, sedition, and subversion” within Hong Kong, and would allow […]
A disability rights group has said that a GP surgery which sent letters for adults with autism saying they should a ‘do not resuscitate’ plan in place if they become critically ill during the Coronavirus crisis behaved appallingly. Yesterday, BBC reported that Voyage Care, who cares for the group of autistic adults, “was the sent […]
Climate researchers now admit that the worst case scenario for carbon emissions is no longer plausible, with a key climate model used until recently overestimating the the amount of coal the world would burn.
A man is being treated in an isolation ward in Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital for symptoms consistent with coronavirus, which has so far caused 18 deaths in China. The BBC reports that he travelled to Northern Ireland from the city of Wuhan where the infection outbreak began. It is understood that the patient arrived from Wuhan […]
We’ve stayed away from the UK election on this site because, let’s face it, it’s impossible to escape it at the moment, but this has some relevance to Ireland, given the well-known problems at RTE. Boris Johnson says this morning, in Sunderland, that he may take the opposite route to that being proposed by the […]
The videos also include explanations by other teachers of how male and female may be the sex one is born with, but gender is determined by what the person feels inside.