LOTS of things grieve me about having to pay the BBC licence fee.
But the main thing that gets my goat is the corporation’s overwhelming bias on social and political issues.
Especially anything to do with race, immigration, LGBT stuff or abortion.
The bias is longstanding and unrelenting.
Report after report comes out identifying this bias.
And the BBC hems and haws and says we must do better.
And then it proceeds not to do better, but to do even worse.
Yet ANOTHER independent report has come out repeating, essentially, these findings.
This time on the issue of immigration.
The review, conducted by the director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, said the BBC had a duty to report the downsides of immigration.
It was not doing so.
Its journalists were sometimes reluctant to report negative stories about immigration.
Presumably because those stories conflicted with their own stupid opinions.
The report, authored by Dr Madeleine Sumption, said: “It is not racist to be concerned about the impacts of migration or to prefer more restrictive policies.
“BBC coverage should have equal empathy for migrants and UK residents who worry about the impacts of migration.”
I don’t know how many more of these reports we need to read before either the BBC mends its ways and starts telling the WHOLE truth, not only its truth.
Or we abolish the licence fee.
The review suggests the comfortable middle-class artsy background of BBC journos might account for the bias.
Yep, another thing we’ve been banging on about for ages.
They live in a monocultural bubble over there.
There is a complete absence of diversity of opinion.
The truth is the way the BBC has covered immigration has been utterly disgraceful.
They never tell the truth about the impact upon the infrastructure of our country by millions more arriving here.
The housing crisis, the pressure on our schools and the NHS.
All that is swept under the carpet.
And in its place we have tear-jerking little interviews with a one-legged boy who came here from Afghanistan and is now working as a brain surgeon.
While spending his free time rescuing stray kittens.
This is one of the BBC’s favourite lines.
How much is contributed by immigrants.
The real answer is — actually in net terms, they don’t contribute very much.
And the costs are horrendous.
A new report out by the Centre For Policy Studies says that the immigrants who have come here recently have not helped our economy.
Quite the reverse.
This is particularly true of immigrants from the Middle East, Turkey and North Africa, almost 40 per cent of whom — incredibly — are economically inactive.
By which the report means that when it comes to work, these people do five sixths of naff all.
This report tends to support what we have always suspected.
That actually immigration brings with it a grave economic cost.
Not to mention the cultural problems that accompany a sudden influx of migrants.
The BBC will only tell you about these cultural problems from the point of view of the immigrant.
Not from the point of view of the rest of us.
Incidentally, I read about this latest study in a whole bunch of our morning newspapers.
Guess which media organisation didn’t cover it?
RADICAL Muslims have been joining the Green Party because of its stupid stance on the Israel-Hamas crisis.
And the thicko Greens have welcomed them in.
Including the thoroughly nasty Leeds councillor Mothin Ali, whose comments look anti-Semitic to me.
And could I suggest to all those seeming Islamists thinking of joining the Greens to take a look at their policies on gay rights and transgender stuff?
Having done so, you might wish to reconsider your decision.
IS there anything that can’t be blamed on Brexit?
The American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright says our decision to leave the European Union is the reason his new musical has been cancelled after a very short run in London.
He said: “I do feel that since Brexit, England has entered into a darker corridor where it is a little more narrow in its outlook . . . ”
Ah, that would be right, Rufus.
Rather than the fact that the musical – called Opening Night and starring Sheridan Smith – is a crock of monkey poo.
As most critics decided.
Rufus is the son of the much more talented songwriter Loudon Wainwright.
Loudon once wrote a song about his kid.
It was called Rufus Is A Tit Man.
There’s one superfluous word in that title, Loudon.
WHATEVER way you look at it, those local election results were catastrophic for the Tories.
And the voting took place in one of Rishi Sunak’s best weeks since he became leader.
Hundreds and hundreds of councillors lost their seats.
The Conservatives managed to cling on to Mayor of the Tees Valley, mind.
But only because candidate Ben Houchen was never heard to utter the words “Conservative” or “Rishi” at any point in his campaign.
It wasn’t all good news for Labour, though.
As I’ve been saying for yonks, they have a big problem with Muslim voters who are turning away from the party.
They also got thumped out of sight by the Social Democratic Party in Middleton Park, Leeds.
Just shows that the two big parties don’t always get their way.
I’M flying to Madeira on Sunday.
I’m looking forward to falling over in the airport there and rolling around on the ground pretending to be in agony.
Yes, I’ll be landing at the Cristiano Ronaldo Airport.
And I thought that would be a fitting tribute.
But will I actually get there?
Or will I be camped out in London because the e-gates aren’t working?
There was chaos on Tuesday night. And it seems to be happening more and more often.
I’m all for speeding up the miserable immigrations process with automation.
But are staff really up to speed on what to do when it goes wrong?
I SEE that Astra Zeneca has now withdrawn its Covid vaccine globally.
It says that is because of a red-uction in demand.
But I wonder how much it’s got to do with the now proven side effects of the drug.
In rare cases it can cause a lethal kind of thrombosis.
Do you remember how people sugg-ested this at the time the vaccine was released?
And were called lunatics and con-spiracy theorists?
And had their posts removed from social media?
I’VE just been watching the Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals.
Yes, yes, I know.
It would have been more pleasurable to saw off both of my knee-caps.
The music was godawful.
And none more so than our own entry by a man who can’t sing, a bloke called Olly Alexander.
He also seems to be a loathsome little scrote.
And a pal of Jeremy Corbyn.
Did they scour the country trying to find the worst possible person to represent us in Malmo?
Anyway, the only song I didn’t actively hate was by Tali, from Luxembourg.
Bet it comes last.
A CAMBRIDGE academic faces the sack because of what he was researching.
Nathan Cofnas was studying academic ability and possible differences between races.
So of course the students got up a petition to have him removed.
And with their usual resolve and respect for freedom of speech, the university agreed.
They have become wretched places.
A monoculture of woke idiots howling abuse about Israel.
And shutting down debate on any issue that challenges their idiotic mindset.
Places where freedom of speech has no meaning at all.
And dim-witted kids are charged £30,000 for wasting three years of their lives.
