Leith Green Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 (edited) Nothing to see here.......says his sister ! Edited January 22 by Leith Green 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirkieRR Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 What in the name of screaming chuff did Bungling Bonzo need an £800k loan for? He really is the eternal remittance man. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 6 minutes ago, KirkieRR said: What in the name of screaming chuff did Bungling Bonzo need an £800k loan for? He really is the eternal remittance man. His wallpaper. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alert Mongoose Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Paying off more of his grubby 'conquests'? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salt n Vinegar Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 1 hour ago, ICTJohnboy said: His wallpaper. 40 minutes ago, Alert Mongoose said: Paying off more of his grubby 'conquests'? Ah, so maybe ICTJohnboy was nearly right... Not wallpaper but walloper. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suspect Device Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 1 hour ago, KirkieRR said: What in the name of screaming chuff did Bungling Bonzo need an £800k loan for? He really is the eternal remittance man. Maybe 30p Lee could give him some advice on how to budget. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirkieRR Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 From the, ahem, BBC website. I hope this book of Bungling Bonzo's will include itemised accounts (no that I'm gonnae read it). He seems to go through cash like yon lottery winner who urinated his millions away playing dodgems with real cars in the garden of the mansion he bought. Mr Johnson was reported to be in financial difficulty in late 2020. The Sunday Times says multimillionaire Canadian businessman Sam Blyth - a distant cousin of Mr Johnson - raised with Mr Sharp the idea of acting as Mr Johnson's guarantor for a loan. It is not clear where the loan agreement itself came from. Mr Sharp - a Conservative Party donor who at the time was applying to be the chairman of the BBC - contacted Simon Case, the then-cabinet secretary and head of the civil service. The paper says a due diligence process was then instigated. The Cabinet Office later wrote a letter telling Mr Johnson to stop seeking Mr Sharp's advice about his personal finances, given the forthcoming BBC appointment, the Times says. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 They can sometimes be a bit behind on reporting deaths but I've yet to see the death of Tom Nairn, a radical and pro-independence but a major figure in Scottish political thinking over the last half century, reported on the BBC website. Hmm... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O'Kelly Isley III Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 2 hours ago, tamthebam said: They can sometimes be a bit behind on reporting deaths but I've yet to see the death of Tom Nairn, a radical and pro-independence but a major figure in Scottish political thinking over the last half century, reported on the BBC website. Hmm... I expect the Guardian will provide an obit but most of the folk currently involved in the Scottish media will likely never have heard of him. 'The Enchanted Glass' is as relevant today as it was when it was written. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 Not so much about BBC bias but the quality of their reporting on economics. Quite an interesting article. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/31/bad-economics-bbc-tory-austerity-uk-politics "The BBC occupies a unique position – it’s both the most popular source for all news and among the most trusted single source of news. How it chooses to report that news has an enormous impact. That means this report is an opportunity to dramatically improve the quality of the UK’s public debate on economic issues. Already, there are signs of change: the BBC seriously questioned the briefly popular rhetoric of “fiscal black holes”, which flourished after Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget implosion last September. Recently, the BBC News website has raised questions about the reliability of economic forecasting. More of this, and we may see a better informed public, and more robust, enlightening debate." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 11 minutes ago, Florentine_Pogen said: Not so much about BBC bias but the quality of their reporting on economics. Quite an interesting article. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/31/bad-economics-bbc-tory-austerity-uk-politics "The BBC occupies a unique position – it’s both the most popular source for all news and among the most trusted single source of news. How it chooses to report that news has an enormous impact. That means this report is an opportunity to dramatically improve the quality of the UK’s public debate on economic issues. Already, there are signs of change: the BBC seriously questioned the briefly popular rhetoric of “fiscal black holes”, which flourished after Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget implosion last September. Recently, the BBC News website has raised questions about the reliability of economic forecasting. More of this, and we may see a better informed public, and more robust, enlightening debate." The report is excellent and readable btw.. (without having read the whole thing) https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/documents/thematic-review-taxation-public-spending-govt-borrowing-debt.pdf 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirkieRR Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-64512195 A short clip concerning someone the BBC calls 'SNP Minister Jenny Kilruth' Not bias exactly but would they ever allow an error like, say, quoting someone called 'Rachel Keeves'? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Venom Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 14 minutes ago, KirkieRR said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-64512195 A short clip concerning someone the BBC calls 'SNP Minister Jenny Kilruth' Not bias exactly but would they ever allow an error like, say, quoting someone called 'Rachel Keeves'? That's like Limmy's "yes or no? Yes or no!?" sketch. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 On 31/01/2023 at 18:15, Florentine_Pogen said: Not so much about BBC bias but the quality of their reporting on economics. Quite an interesting article. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/31/bad-economics-bbc-tory-austerity-uk-politics "The BBC occupies a unique position – it’s both the most popular source for all news and among the most trusted single source of news. How it chooses to report that news has an enormous impact. That means this report is an opportunity to dramatically improve the quality of the UK’s public debate on economic issues. Already, there are signs of change: the BBC seriously questioned the briefly popular rhetoric of “fiscal black holes”, which flourished after Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget implosion last September. Recently, the BBC News website has raised questions about the reliability of economic forecasting. More of this, and we may see a better informed public, and more robust, enlightening debate." I'd say that their poor grasp of basic economics is a major source of bias. They basically promoted George Osborne's austerity for him because common sense. There's still a consensus that we can't have a fiscal expansion because it will" spook the markets" because none of them can actually recognise what Kwarteng /Truss did wrong. Everything is framed as "spending bad, tax cut good" despite the opposite being more true, at the moment, for growth. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandyCromarty Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 On 22/01/2023 at 11:06, ICTJohnboy said: His wallpaper. Paying off his hoors before they sold their story to the Sun. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandyCromarty Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 On 03/02/2023 at 12:24, KirkieRR said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-64512195 A short clip concerning someone the BBC calls 'SNP Minister Jenny Kilruth' Not bias exactly but would they ever allow an error like, say, quoting someone called 'Rachel Keeves'? The media always refer to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as Sturgeon, never her full name or her position. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antlion Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 53 minutes ago, SandyCromarty said: The media always refer to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as Sturgeon, never her full name or her position. Yet somehow it’s always “Mrs Thatcher”. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 (edited) 3 hours ago, Antlion said: Yet somehow it’s always “Mrs Thatcher”. One time presenter of Channel 4's Countdown (sorry, 15 to 1)programme, William G Stewart, always referred to Thatcher as "The Blessed Margaret" God knows why. Edited February 6 by ICTJohnboy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
German Jag Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 6 minutes ago, ICTJohnboy said: One time presenter of Channel 4's Countdown programme, William G Stewart, always referred to Thatcher as "The Blessed Margaret" God knows why. Fifteen-to-One surely?? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 1 minute ago, German Jag said: Fifteen-to-One surely?? Correct! Well spotted. I was just checking to see if anyone was paying attention. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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