The BBC cannot help itself. Each and every opportunity to either run down Jeremy Corbyn or big up Johnson The Joker. This morning (2019-09-04) we had the unedifying spectacle on Radio 4’s Today programme of Shane Warne, famous for his massive googlies, marathon sex sessions and detailed knowledge of politics being asked his opinion on Brexit. Following the lead of his fellow Antipodean and propagandist, R. Murdick, he said that we should ‘just get on with it’ and that Johnson is ‘great’.
Why should a foreign sports star who does not believe in evolution but that humans are descended from aliens, a theory he probably read in one of Murdick’s publications, be asked such a question by the, not at all biased former chair of Oxford University Conservative Association but now totally biased BBC ‘journalist’, Nick Robinson?
Could it be to do with the fact that the editor of said programme is one Sarah Sands, who is, also, not at all biased. Here are some aspects of her connections and CV:
She has been a journalist, in what Private Eye accurately calls ‘The Street of Shame’ and nothing more for her whole career. Before the Today job, she worked for, in order:
The Evening Standard
The Daily Telegraph, under the editorship of the Thatcher worshipper, Charles Moore.
The Sunday Telegraph
The Daily Mail
The London Evening Standard, as editor, when the paper backed the very racist London mayoral campaign of the pseudo environmentalist Zac Goldsmith
Her connections include Farage and Murdoch:
And, someone people recognise but can’t put a name low enough to:
There will be many more connections to be made in the murky world of the rich, privileged and, probably, distant cousins.
And so, there you have it, a guide to just one aspect of BBC bias, the more one digs, the more one finds.
A future piece will look at why Ludlow’s MP features on page 21 of Jeffrey Epstein’s little black book.
— Bandy Oddington