Laura Perrins: Christmas TV tip. Avoid the repeats and luxuriate in the...
If any of our readers are dreading the Christmas repeat TV schedule on terrestrial TV but have Netflix let me point you in the direction of the BBC made mini-series North and South. Indeed, all the...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: Crocodile tears from John Humphrys over BBC failure on...
John Humphrys ‘admission’ behind a paywall in The Sunday Times that the BBC has botched and skewed coverage of immigration – and failed to reflect genuine concern and genuine cultural and...
View ArticleNicholas Booth: The BBC’s leftist bias is endemic and risible. But it is also...
The BBC has a massive left wing bias, that permeates everything from comedy to Casualty. That’s actually working out rather well but how long can it last. So, you think the BBC is biased? Fantastic...
View ArticleOur top ten blogs of 2014. No 7: David Keighley on the Savile scandal
Two stories about the BBC this week underline how morally bankrupt the Corporation is becoming in its day-to-day operations and attitudes. Its default position – from new Trustee chairman Rona Fairhead...
View ArticleOur top ten blogs of 2014. No 2: David Keighley on BBC immigration coverage
John Humphrys ‘admission’ behind a paywall in The Sunday Times that the BBC has botched and skewed coverage of immigration – and failed to reflect genuine concern and genuine cultural and...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: One of Maggie’s biggest mistakes – leaving the BBC in its...
Cabinet papers released under the 30-year rule give interesting food for thought about botched reform, Margaret Thatcher, the BBC and the insidious power of the Left. They are deeply relevant at the...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: The strange matter of the sudden BBC U-turn over depicting...
Let’s be very clear. The BBC’s decision in the wake of Charlie Hebdo to allow in future depictions of figures from the Koran is more than a ripple in terms of Corporation internal regulation. It...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: Tony Hall orders his 8,000 strong BBC army into battle for...
Lord Hall of Birkenhead, the BBC’s Director General – whose only career roles, at the BBC and the Royal Opera House, have involved spending vast amounts of taxpayers’ money – has set his staff a new...
View ArticleKathy Gyngell: Humphrys’s BBC mindset blinds him to an end to Greece’s torment
What’s the difference between John Humphrys and Charles Moore? Apart from the fact that one broadcasts for the BBC and the other writes for The Daily Telegraph. They are both in their own ways amongst...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: In eight years, the BBC Trust has not upheld a single...
What will it take for the BBC to admit that anything it ever does is wrong or biased? New Chairman Rona Fairhead and Trustee Richard Ayre – a BBC career man to the core for almost 30 years, but now,...
View ArticleKathy Gyngell: The poisonous Hilary Mantel and the Thatcher-haters at the BBC...
Dr Starkey rather cuttingly said last week that he’d not read Hilary Mantel’s books nor seen the BBC adaptation Wolf Hall. Why would he want to, as someone who is a “massive believer in fact”? I...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: In the Rotherham madhouse, PC multiculturalism trumps child...
The Louise Casey report into Rotherham child sexual exploitation and abuse is one of the most harrowing and damning documents about British public life ever to appear. In essence, this grim catalogue...
View ArticleKathy Gyngell: ISIL’s brutes are terrorists. But only militants to the BBC
Language does matter, as Laura Perrins pointed out yesterday. She was referring to Alison Saunders, the Director of Public Prosecutions, in BBC interviews routinely describing rape complainants as...
View ArticleCora Sherlock: Ireland has guilty secrets about abortion. But not the ones...
Is abortion Ireland’s guilty secret? The question was the topic of a documentary that aired this week on BBC 3. The answer is a resounding “Yes”. Given the thrust and tone of presenter Alys Harte’s...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: The lefties in BBC drama turn their guns on the Tories
A hallmark of call-me-Dave’s period of disastrous misrule has been a frequent conspicuous absence of strategic thinking, or the application of good old-fashioned political nous. Politics, it is often...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: Now the BBC’s official historian joins the vendetta against...
It is not clear from Google how Professor Jean Seaton became official historian of the BBC. But she was appointed to that dizzying status in 2001 – and she is without doubt perfectly suited to the...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: The Cliff Richard affair is damning evidence the BBC cares...
The economical-with-the-truth Broadcasting Corporation – that’s the conclusion of a new report into BBC behaviour. In response, the Corporation has brushed aside without even a flicker of...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: MPs are right to demand a clear-out of the lefty timeservers...
At last! MPs have finally confirmed that they want very radical changes in the way the BBC is run, including the decriminalisation and eventual axing of the totally anachronistic – and hated – licence...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: So who did pay for the BBC’s latest blast of pro-EU propaganda?
Scratch the surface of almost any BBC statement about ‘impartiality’ or ‘bias’ and you unearth rather an unpleasant smell. The BBC says no EU money was used in the making of its Sunday night pro-EU...
View ArticleKathy Gyngell: BBC standards stoop to new low with Jihadi John coverage
The Today programme, renowned for its liberal bien pensant views, went beyond the pale yesterday. It’s airing of a ‘justificatory’ recording of barbaric ‘executioner’ Jihadi John, followed by a prime...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: Tony Hall should own up to the Beeb’s pro-EU bias
BBC Director-General Lord Hall is appearing before the Commons European Scrutiny Committee tomorrow. Does that matter? Yes, hugely. Sir William ‘Bill’ Cash, the committee chair, and his colleagues have...
View ArticleKathy Gyngell: BBC bias strikes again as Nigel takes aim at equalities agenda
The BBC, typically gleeful at the chance of branding Nigel Farage a racist this week, barely mentioned the legislation he was actually criticising, let alone followed it up with a reasonable...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: BBC-sponsored Comic Relief is just a front for the most...
It’s Comic Relief time again, and bingo! With this year’s appeal total of £78m, the charity has raised £1bn over 30 years. The BBC is beside itself with glee, and treats the charity’s press release...
View ArticleKathy Gyngell: If Tony Hall’s BBC is Britain’s world voice, heaven help us
The BBC has deigned to say Jeremy Clarkson can come back if he sorts himself out. How very generous of them. But he needs to go to rehab first, says a senior executive with a zero sense of irony. Not...
View ArticleKathy Gyngell: In the BBC’s Alice in Wonderland world, criticism by MPs...
Biased Today, biased yesterday and biased tomorrow, the BBC has much to answer for over its uncritical and inadequate EU coverage. More than any other news outlet the BBC shapes and moulds public...
View ArticleLaurence Hodge: The NHS encounters a new epidemic. Lead-swinging among its...
I hope you’re not feeling stressed today because if you are what follows may not help. Earlier this week, the BBC revealed that under a Freedom of Information request it had learned that NHS mental...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: It was not a punch that floored Clarkson. It was the BBC army...
Last Wednesday the BBC formally dropped Jeremy Clarkson following an internal investigation (which found the Top Gear presenter responsible for an unprovoked physical and verbal attack on a colleague)...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: Mishal Husain doesn’t like Nigel Farage. No surprise from the...
For 16 years, News-watch has been monitoring interviews by the BBC of Ukip leader Nigel Farage. It’s the broadcasting equivalent of painting by numbers. With wearying predictability, each one has been...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: Cameron, Miliband and the BBC all conspire to shut down...
This is without doubt the no-choice, phoney election. Take the EU. Opinion polls say that the majority of Britons would vote to leave if given the chance. That is why David Cameron and Ed Miliband are...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: How the BBC wormed its way to another boost for bleeding...
BBC Director General Lord of Hall of Birkenhead, unusually for any big media organisation, is both managing director and its editor in chief. It gives him immense power. His most important role in a...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: On planet Beeb only bigoted plebs worry about immigration
The BBC’s blizzard of election-related stories that spin immigration as a topic that doesn’t matter is impossible to track. Lift almost any stone and there’s another example. A Newsnight feature last...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: The Tory threat to review the BBC’s impartiality comes far...
As we head into the final week of this phony, no-real-choice election, Sajid Javid, the Culture Secretary, has had a revelation about the BBC. It seems it came as a bolt from the blue. A remark on the...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: BBC in shock election defeat. Will Whittingdale finish it off?
The BBC made it abundantly clear who they wanted to win this election. The interview by Mishal Husain of Nigel Farage which was highlighted here, is a typical manifestation of their subtle-as-a-brick...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: BBC bias knows no end. Now Toksvig compares Farage to Hitler
Close your eyes for a second. Can you think of any regular BBC presenter or programme contributor who is, or might be, vaguely right-wing? In the distant days of the Thatcher and Major administrations,...
View ArticlePaul T Horgan: Sell off Channel 4 as a dry run for privatising the BBC
Okay, we are into the third week of the new all-Tory government. The Queen’s Speech has been read and the nation has been rightly shocked not to hear the traditional address by Dennis Skinner. Already...
View ArticleKathy Gyngell: How would the BBC cope if it didn’t have Hezza to fuel Tory...
The BBC’s approach to EU coverage is pretty much on the lines of a word association game. EU – Conservative Party – split – europhiles – Michael Heseltine – Ken Clarke – reasonable – superior – prime...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: Cameron won’t shake up the BBC while he needs its help to win...
Is the Government planning radical reform of the BBC? Don’t hold your breath. Despite a bit of high-profile sabre-rattling, and intensifying speculation in the press based on ‘government leaks’ that...
View ArticleNick Booth: Robin Hood in reverse. How the BBC robs the poor and gives to...
Hello and welcome to WatchBlog, the first in an occasional series of investigations into where your money goes. Today we’ll be looking into a ‘uniquely funded’ broadcaster, which takes money off poor...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: Big business and big broadcasting. How the establishment...
Carolyn Fairbairn, the newly-appointed director general of the Confederation of British Industry, will play a crucial role in the EU referendum campaign. The CBI has access to massive resources, works...
View ArticleReader’s Comment of the Day: The BBC has replaced the Christian mission with...
In response to David Keighley: The BBC’s ‘religion’ is the promotion of equality not Christianity, BSO wrote: I listened to “Feedback” stuck in traffic. I turned it off at one point and put it back on....
View ArticleCraig Byers: The Bowdlerising Broadcasting Corporation
(This article is reproduced by kind permission of the website Is the BBC biased?) This is seriously getting out of hand… One of the top news stories of Monday was the conviction of a 14-year-old...
View ArticleReader’s Comment of the Day: The BBC always smuggles through a lefty message
In response to Craig Byers: The Bowdlerising Broadcasting Corporation, sammy gravano wrote: …oh and look out for the phenomenon that is ‘The BBC But.’ You can hear it in most news bulletins – you are...
View ArticleKathy Gyngell: Whittingdale backs away from putting the BBC in its place
The BBC should pay the price for its blatant anti-Tory and more importantly its anti (small c) conservative bias in the upcoming Charter Review. But under John Whittingdale, Secretary of State for...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: Ofcom shoots down Rona Fairhead’s smug defence of the BBC
Chairman of the BBC Trustees Rona Fairhead, appointed last year to safeguard licence-fee payers’ interests, has proclaimed in the pages of The Independent that the Corporation is damned near perfect....
View ArticleDavid Keighley: The BBC might ditch the Met Office but not its obsession with...
It is reported that the BBC is in the process of ditching the Met Office as its £30 million-a-year supplier of weather forecasts. But this will not make an iota of difference to the Corporation’s...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: BBC coverage of the migrant crisis is the gospel of the...
One of the key points of the BBC’s style guide is the need for terminological exactitude. But that’s exactly what we are not getting in the BBC’s coverage about the huge tide of humanity currently...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: BBC lets lefty actress run riot over climate change
(This article was first published by News-watch) An interview on Newsnight featuring the actress and Labour-supporter Emma Thompson has taken the BBC’s handling of climate alarmism to new depths of...
View ArticleKathy Gyngell: Bernard Jenkin takes Jim Naughtie to the cleaners over BBC...
Have I got news for you! The perfectly balanced and impartial James Naughtie is moving on from the Today programme in January. But before you cheer the departure of this arch eurosceptic hater, steel...
View ArticleDavid Keighley: BBC Drama revives anti-capitalist Priestley in a...
J.B Priestley, who in the 1930s and into the Second World War set himself up as the BBC’s master of socialist propaganda in his regular radio talks – so much so that Churchill believed he was...
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Laurence Hodge: BBC ignores religious background in its analysis of terror stats
Because TCW is a Public Service Blog, it has a clear duty to look at other public service media. That envy of the world, the BBC, fees be upon it, produced an analysis of the Government’s release of...
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