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John Redwood MP for Wokingham

These are the most recent articles mentioning "bbc" The BBC’s nationalisation bias Posted 04/05/08, 09:23 I hear this morning the BBC have commissioned Will Hutton to explain why nationalisation can be a good idea, following hard on the heels of the BBC’s endless interviews of the Lib Dems to propose nationalisation of Northern Rock. If this were a balanced broadcasting outfit, after such airtim... UK human CO2 output represents 0.0025% of greenhouse gases. Posted 04/10/08, 08:06 Al Gore and The BBC climate change propoganda machine tell us the science of climate change is settled - all sensible scientists believe in global warming, and think the major cause is human produced CO2. This reveals an ignorance of the way science works. Science is never settled. One generat... Well done the Today programme! Posted 05/12/08, 08:09 As I am never shy to criticise the BBC I should be fair. Today they invited Brian Wilson and myself on to debate the issue of devolution and the PM’s wish to have a debate to “save the Union”. It was a balanced and sensible piece, which I hope the audience found worthwhile. It e... Let’s cut through the tax and spend debate Posted 07/15/08, 07:33 The BBC this morning started to do the government™s bidding again by presenting the tax and spend position in the usual Labour government way. As we have been taught, the government™s spending totals are designed as a trap for the Conservatives. Indeed, that is probably their only purpose no... New low with BBC’s coverage of the economy Posted 07/18/08, 06:27 This morning I awoke to the BBC telling us there are just two choices for the government - relax the rules on borrowing (i.e. borrow more) or put up taxes. What is with these so called independent journalists? Why is cutting public sector waste and undesirable spending never an option for them? ... The BBC follows the government on the economy Posted 07/19/08, 06:54 Yesterday the BBC did move from ignoring the idea of cutting public spending, to mentioning it in pejorative terms. At the same time they started pushing out the government propoganda that the UK exceeding the 40% limit on government borrowing should be viewed alongside Italy where governme... House prices and spin Posted 07/28/08, 08:45 ... ion, which look more and more ludicrous by the day as we watch the housebuilding industry in free fall close down site after site. Instead, on the BBC this morning prominence was given to a forecast from the National Housing Federation that house prices will rise by 25% over the next five years, ... Open Europe understates the true numbers involved in EU legislation. Posted 08/11/08, 06:15 ... om Open Europe of the 175,000 people involved in forming and enforcing EU legislation - far more than the EU normally puts out in its propoganda. The BBC did its best to discredit this low figure on the Today programme by refusing to understand how it was arrived at and trying to sugest wrongly it i... Why is wanting a referendum right wing? Posted 09/06/08, 08:06 The BBC in its report on UKIP said with some glee that the Conseravtives will face a challenge from the right at the European elecitons because UKIP will demand a referendum on Lisbon. Why is it right wing to want to ask the people about such a crucial matter? Was Labour and were the Lib Dems bein... Another UK mortgage bank in trouble? Posted 09/27/08, 09:46 ... Washignton before knowing the detail, back at home there is another reminder of that part of the Credit Crunch which is made in Britain. Talk on the BBC suggests some people are seriously considering another nationalisation. Please give us a break. Taxpayers cannot afford the last bank t... No to Bradford and Bingley nationalisation Posted 09/28/08, 05:39 The events of the last few days are spooky. Parliament remains on holiday. We learn from the BBC Business correspondent that the Bradford and Bingley share price has fallen a lot and they are looking at “solutions”. We hear that the PM has not ruled out nationalisation, and it is... Dealing with the BBC Posted 10/03/08, 06:46 In recent weeks the BBC have shown some interest in what I have been writing and saying on the Credit Crunch, and occasionally I have been allowed an interview to put a point of view. They still delight in juvenile “Gotcha” journalism. They always know my views better than ... Channel 4 and the economy Posted 10/28/08, 11:26 ... about George, who had made a good full statement earlier that day. Shortly afterwards I was told I had been cancelled. They are becoming like the BBC. They want to run unimportant and non stories, and do not want hard hitting analysis of the real crisis facing our country. e helped put into cir... Is this public service broadcasting? Posted 10/28/08, 19:18 ... h alike are spent on such huge salaries as that paid to Jonathan Ross, who then thinks it is entertaining to behave in the way he did recently. The BBC still has enough power of the airwaves to make people famous by giving them prominence on their programmes. It is diffiicult to see why they need ... Bank nationalisation Posted 11/01/08, 08:42 ... s us the UK taxpayer is getting a rotten deal from the proposed share purchses the government wishes to make. The way Vince Cable was allowed so much BBC airtime to front run nationalisation, without any Labour slap downs, tells us it was a policy they favoured. He was a useful front man to avoid ac... Slimming the BBC would be so easy Posted 11/02/08, 14:09 I am glad that the sick joke of Mr Ross has a good outcome - both Labour and the Conservatives now think pay is out of control at the BBC. This state pensioner needs to gain some financial discipline quickly, so the licence payer gets better value for the money we are forced to pay. The large num... Time for Tories to support George Osborne Posted 11/07/08, 08:32 The BBC are up to their usual games, seeking to undermine a top Tory. Conservative supporters should ask themselves why Labour, Mr Mandelson and the BBC are so keen to foment the Osborne story. It’s because George has a good political mind and is important to Project Cameron. Life would be ... How much longer will the BBC run their Osborne story as cover for Labour’s economic mess? Posted 11/17/08, 06:57 ... issues of tax, spend and banking, without questions on George Osborne. This morning I turn on the Today programme and a whole item is devoted to the BBC’s political correspondent examining the “Osborne crisis” before concluding that David Cameron will not move him! It is amazing ... How much longer will the BBC run their Osborne story as cover for Labour’s economic mess? Posted 11/17/08, 06:57 ... issues of tax, spend and banking, without questions on George Osborne. This morning I turn on the Today programme and a whole item is devoted to the BBC’s political correspondent examining the “Osborne crisis” before concluding that David Cameron will not move him! It is amazing ... More BBC lies about the Tories Posted 11/22/08, 09:04 ... casting” is and should be. I have heard three conventional explanaitons It is unbiased news - that would be good, but is clearly not what the BBC delivers, as it nearly always delivers news from the standpoint of someone who thinks more government is the answer and never the problem. It i... How much science do they teach in schools? Posted 11/27/08, 07:18 The BBC struggled this morning with the Royal Chemistry Society’s Report claiming that modern science students at 16 do not have anything like the mathematical and scientific grounding their parents and grandparents had if they studied the O level syllabus. They accepted the evidence t... Why are train fares so dear? Posted a week ago, 08:13 ... It is a scandal that train fares are going up by between 6% and 10%, with some off peak prices soaring. This morning on the Today programme the BBC interveiwer got through a discussion and commentary without ever once mentioning the word “costs”. There is one simple reason why trai... The MPC and the BBC Posted yesterday, 08:38 I try to give credit where credit is due. The BBC this morning allowed Roger Bootle and I to give a good airing to differing approaches to the Credit Crunch. It was refreshing to be part of a discussion and interview where we were not subjected to the idiocies of spin and interruption at all s... << back