One of the “sacred cows” of British society is its National Health Service (NHS). Former politician Tony Benn once quipped that if any British government tried to fully privatize it, “there would be a revolution”. A recent public opinion poll showed a whopping 89% of British people support the NHS over an American style private [...]
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How the BBC helped privatise the NHS
Posted in Blog, England, Media on November 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
How dissent is crushed on the high street
Posted in Blog, England, Media on March 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Newsagents take what Smiths [News] tells them is selling well,” says Peter McCaig, of the Independent News Collective, which distributes radical titles such as New Internationalist, Permaculture and Red Pepper. “Which is fair enough. But the result is that money talks. You get porn titles in more easily than any magazine with a political view.” [...]
Chomsky responds to me on the BBC
Posted in Blog, England, Media, tagged BBC, bbc hardtalk, Chomsky, HARDtalk, hardtalk chomsky, noam chomsky on November 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
It’s not everyday you see something you’ve written on the BBC website. Last month I wrote a post about the chance to ask Noam Chomsky a question on the BBC’s HardTALK program. Well, like hundreds of others, I sent in a question in and the BBC decided to use it – the very first question [...]
A liberal whitewash of the ultimate crime
Posted in Blog, England, Media, tagged Bush, Iraq, Nuremberg, Soldiers, UK, USA; Blair, War Crimes on November 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The BBC and Guardian both report today that the UK Ministry of Defence is probing allegations that Iraqis were tortured and abused by British troops. But notice there will be no probe into the biggest crime of all – the war of aggression launched by the UK and it’s allies on Iraq. Since without this [...]
Question Time revealed more about the liberal elite than the BNP
Posted in Blog, England, Media, tagged BNP, Griffin, Media, Nick Griffin, Politics, Question Time, UK on October 25, 2009 | 22 Comments »
The appearance of British National party leader Nick Griffin on the BBC’s Question Time served to prove many things about the media and political elite in the UK, two of which are particularly notable and concerning. One is that a rational, open and honest political debate is impossible in the mainstream media. Two is that [...]
Ask Chomsky a question on HARDtalk
Posted in Blog, Media, tagged BBC, Chomsky, HARDtalk, News, noam chomsky, Politics on October 22, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The BBC are currently asking viewers of HARDtalk to submit questions to Noam Chomsky for a show to be broadcast on Thursday 29th October. Two questions will be chosen for broadcast. They must be grabbing their chance while he’s in London on the same day to talk on Human Rights in the 21st Century at [...]
3 very different Ted Kennedys remembered
Posted in Blog, Media, USA, tagged Alexander Cockburn, Chappaquiddic, Chappaquiddick, NAFTA, neoliberalism, Ralph Nader, Ted Kennedy on August 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I knew absolutely nothing about Ted Kennedy although I had heard of the Chappaquiddick (what a great place name that is) incident when he apparently ditched a car in lake resulting in the death of his lady passenger before finally turning himself in to the police a whole week later (thus ruining any chance he [...]
Benn blasts the BBC
Posted in Blog, England, Media, tagged BBC, Gaza, Tony Benn on January 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Good Night and Good Luck
Posted in Blog, Media on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This instrument [television] can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire, but it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. I know it’s been out a few years but I watched the [...]
Bloggers are bullies: Update
Posted in Blog, Media on January 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The UK media analysis website Medialens picked up my post a few weeks back about BBC documentary film maker Adam Curtis’s claim that Bloggers are “bullies”. It generated a bit of response on their message board including this one from the editors themselves which I think says it pretty well: It’s interesting that Curtis should [...]
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