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BBC Serving the Desires of the Tories

By Erik Loomis

In General

On March 13, 2023

This is.....bad. As an English soccer star, Gary Lineker was renowned for never having been penalized with a yellow or red card in his 16-year career. As a politically opinionated sports broadcaster for the BBC, Mr. Lineker has tangled regularly with the officials, and his...

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LGM Film Club, Part 37: Men and Iron

By Erik Loomis

On July 12, 2020

Wow, yet another film about work. Shocking I know. This is part of a 1978 BBC series looking at a week in the life of various groups of people in.

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False Balance

By Erik Loomis

On July 7, 2014

Huh. Imagine if CNN or other American networks followed the path of the BBC and had directives to stop bringing cranks on the air to present absurd and scientifically bogus.

Privatize by Stealth.

By Dave Brockington

In Dave Brockington , General

On July 24, 2010

After seven years of living in the UK, two institutions that I admire (which never fails to invite derision from some quarters in Britain) are the BBC and the NHS. The former is funded by one of the most regressive taxes on the planet, one...

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Consultation Periods Work?!?!

By Dave Brockington

On July 5, 2010

BBC 6 Music has been saved from closure.

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Sick.

By Dave Brockington

On December 18, 2009

usually it's the Michele Bachmanns and Glenn Becks of the world who afford me with soft, juicy targets, but the bloody BBC? And watch in stunned silence as Liliane Landor,.

"In previous decades people would have laughed about it."

By Dave Brockington

In Dave Brockington

On November 25, 2009

But, Bruce people laughed about a lot of hilarious things in previous decades that turned out, with the passage of time, to not be bloody funny at all.So when Bruce Forsyth, CBE, so called "national treasure" of Britain (and still on the telly every week...