Yesterday, the BBC aired an interview with me as part of its occasional “At lunch with…” series. The full episode was 18 minutes long and a shorter version appeared on the PM program on Radio 4. In the interview, I said that under the New Labour project, we alienated millions of our core voters, who have […]
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‘Genius of the modern world’ or hackery at the BBC?
Jun 21st, 2016 by David Pavett.A new BBC Channel Four series on Genius of the modern world was launched on Thursday 16th June. The series is to deal with Marx, Nietzsche and Freud – one 60 minute programme for each. The presenter of the programmes is historian Bettany Hughes (BH). In the opening passages BH says that her three […]
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Question Time and the the BBC’s problem with black people
Dec 22nd, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.David Lammy early this month made waves in theQuestion Time obsessives’ community by pointing out how limited the panel composition is. He wrote: Within the meagre 9.2% of Question Time slots filled by a BAME panellist, there is a staggering lack of diversity. Black women have appeared just 16 times in five years, and 12 […]
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Why the Establishment loves Jeremy Clarkson
Mar 27th, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.Petrolheads everywhere, sob into your empty oil cans. For Top Gear is, as was, no more. The verdict couldn’t have been anything else. Whatever you might think about Jeremy Clarkson, which in my case is not a lot, it was impossible even for him to cling on to his job after a 20 minute tirade, […]
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Time to empty-chair debate-dodging Dave?
Mar 6th, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.The weak man of British politics is at it again. Having moved heaven and earth to try and avoid the television debates, Dave has now condescended to appear in a single contest with six other party leaders. In what can only be described as some of the barest face lies I’ve ever seen the witless […]
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From the Holocaust to the Irish famine: can you make comedy out of genocide?
Jan 4th, 2015 by Jon Lansman.Can it ever be legitimate – possible even – to make comedy out of the world’s most appalling tragedies? A sitcom to be called Hungry, based on the Irish great famine (in which 1 million people died and another million were forced to emigrate in what some regard as an example of genocide), has been commissioned by Channel […]
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The paedophile next door – moving beyond condemnation?
Nov 26th, 2014 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.Are we living at peak paedophile? No, we passed that a few years ago. But we do live in a culture saturated by paedophile panic. You’re practically not allowed to have contact with kids unless cleared by the Disclosure and Barring Service. Nary a day goes by without a paedophile somewhere getting banged up. We’ve had dear […]
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Why BBC News ignored the People’s Assembly march
Jun 24th, 2014 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.By any common sense measure, a large protest ambling through London should be big news. The Graun covered it. Twitter was all over it. And yet, the many thousands who turned out on the People’s Assembly March Against Austerity got nary a mention on BBC News bulletins. All it merited was a postage stamp of an article on the website. And […]
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The BBC, Question Time and Wales
Jun 13th, 2014 by Nick Davies.If fresh insight or stimulating discussion is what you’re after, BBC’s Question Time is likely to disappoint. The only relief from the stifling conformity of the Westminster consensus is the occasional non-politician (Owen Jones, Billy Bragg or Benjamin Zephaniah, for example). More recently, it has effectively become an almost-weekly audience with Nigel Farage. Many people […]
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Ten reasons to NOT join a union (N.B. watch before you respond!!)
Mar 31st, 2014 by Conrad Landin.If you think the trade union movement doesn’t have a sense of humour, maybe you should head to Australia! This great video from Oz’s National Tertiary Education Union makes the case for NOT joining a union. The visuals get really good at number four: “you don’t mind being bullied at work!”
