The Guardian‘s readership have been giving their views on whether they’d pay £79 a year – $99 in the US – for a subscription which gave them exclusive access to Amazon Prime Instant Video’s new £160 million recruits – former
The BBC has wasted hundreds of thousands of pounds on in a futile chase for licence fee non-payments, as one in every ten people accused of dodging the fee were never convicted, new figures from the Ministry of Justice have
The BBC has aired a complaint accusing it of being too critical of hard-left politician Jeremy Corbyn while smearing Fox News’s coverage of Obama. Corbyn, a political outsider, is the surprise favourite to be the next Labour Party leader after
Despite being forced out of the BBC, open season on Jeremy Clarkson rolls on. The Traveller Movement has become the latest offence taker to bring a litigious grievance against one of the television presenter’s jokes. Ofcom, however, have ruled that his use of the
At the San Diego Comic-Con, Daniel Radcliffe expressed disbelief in video game critics’ assertion that violent games make violent people. The Harry Potter star was also confused as to why Rockstar Games, developer of Grand Theft Auto, was suing the BBC over the production of Game Changer, a film that explores a censorship crisis surrounding the game.
The BBC’s aggressive response to government plans to review the corporation’s charter, due to expire soon, has been widely criticized. The BBC has repeatedly denied it orchestrated a star-studded warning letter sent to the Prime Minister, despite several signatories saying
The taxpayer-funded British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) appears to have had intricate involvement in a letter sent to the Prime Minister, urging the organisation to be spared from government spending cuts. The news comes despite the BBC claim that it had
The BBC is likely to be told to stop chasing audience figures and return to public service broadcasting in the largest shake up of its remit in a generation. The government is beginning consultations on how to scale back the
In order to further victimize Palestinians in Gaza as peace-loving and not widely anti-Semitic, the BBC swapped out the Arabic word for “Jew” and changed it to “Israeli” in its new Children of the Gaza War documentary, which aired on BBC Wednesday.
Senior staff at the BBC are preparing themselves for the possibility of public condemnation when the outcome of Dame Janet Smith’s review into the Jimmy Savile affair is published. The former Court of Appeal judge is investigating how Savile was able
The BBC has long been a champion of the alarmist view of climate change. Now, with the UN summit in Paris just months away, it has taken the opportunity to crank up its climate propaganda wing. But according to the Bishop Hill blog,
The BBC has waded into the row over a man carrying an Islamic State flag outside Big Ben, in a broadly uninformative article which seeks to excuse the man carrying the flag of ISIS on London’s streets. Contributing nothing more to
At the weekend I had the pleasure of debating on TV with the BBC’s new pet Islamist, Dilly Hussain.
The BBC is a lefty haven taken hostage by liberal “group think” and dysfunctional governance. It’s a criticism often voiced by those with a dislike for the lavishly-funded national broadcaster – including UKIP leader Nigel Farage – but now a former
The headline “New York warning over Lancashire County Council fracking vote” appeared on the BBC news website this weekend, above a report about how “850 legislators” from New York City had sent a letter to Lancashire County Council, urging them
Margaret Thatcher accused the BBC of “assisting the enemy” during the Falklands War by broadcasting the moves British troops were likely to make before they actually happened, new documents reveal. Baroness Thatcher wrote that she was “very angry” at how
In a revealing video showing the plight of the British truck drivers who routinely run the gauntlet trying to avoid illegally trafficking migrants into the United Kingdom, BBC host Victoria Derbyshire engages in a public relations effort on behalf of the Calais migrants that
The Conservative Party’s attempts to character assassinate one of its own, long-standing supporters, has today unravelled, as the Conservatives Abroad, Madrid branch confirm the position of Benjamin Harris-Quinney as President. Just days before the General Election, the President of the Conservatives Abroad, Madrid
Roger Harrabin is the BBC’s in-house green activist-in-chief. He gets very upset when you mention this (journalists at the Beeb being obliged to be strictly impartial) – despite the fact that he has form a mile long – but just
The UN’s emergency Ebola response headquarters in Ghana’s capital, Accra, is to close as the outbreak slows.
A man has been arrested after dousing himself with petrol outside BBC New Broadcasting House earlier today. The man poured petrol over himself and was shouting outside the broadcaster’s central London office in Portland Place at about 09:10 BST. The
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) edited out all mention of Jewish people from a front-line report on the liberation of Belsen concentration camp in Germany at the end of World War II, it has emerged. The corporation had not wanted to air the
Twitter’s transgender police were out in force this morning after the BBC’s James Naughtie referred to Bruce Jenner as “he” and “he/she” on the flagship Radio 4 Today programme. Speaking to a colleague from the ‘BBC Trending’ website, which Naughtie also
Iranian-backed militias consisting of Shia Muslims have released a video showing an alleged Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) member alive being burnt alive in Iraq, reminiscent of a similar video in which ISIS jihadists burnt alive a Jordanian pilot. The terrorist group members identify as Sunni Muslims, who consider Shia Muslims heretics.
The principle of non-violence is central to Buddhist teachings, but in Sri Lanka some Buddhist monks are being accused of stirring up hostility towards other faiths and ethnic minorities. Their hard line is causing increasing concern.
