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Thu, 20/04/2023 - 08:12
Not for the first time, Starmer and Labour claim local elections will affect national policies Keir Starmer has suffered the indignity of corrective action by Twitter after he posted a claim that votes in the local elections next month will affect the NHS. Starmer claimed that voting for Labour would lead to ‘an NHS that […]
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Thu, 06/04/2023 - 09:33
Broadcaster slammed for falsely implicating immigrants The BBC has been hammered for feeding into racist stereotypes in its report of the conviction of twenty-one people in the West Midlands on child sex abuse charges. All those convicted are white Britons – yet the BBC illustrated the article with a headline image showing Palestinian flags: After […]
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Wed, 01/03/2023 - 09:22
Helen Marks and Rica Bird take BBC to task in letter to Guardian Two Liverpool pensioners smeared by a right-wing Labour staffer on the BBC’s Panorama in 2019 have shot back after the programme-makers claimed they had asked the staffer whether he came from Israel, despite their recording of the incident showing otherwise. The pair […]
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Fri, 24/02/2023 - 02:20
Newly-minted right-wing peer has long history of attacks on left The BBC has – belatedly and inadequately – ‘corrected’ its abject failure to challenge a smear by Baroness Anderson, known to many as Ruth Smeeth, against left-wing Jews. Anderson claimed last week on a live BBC News programme that Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) – […]
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Wed, 04/01/2023 - 05:28
Deleted paragraphs drastically change impression created by notorious 2019 programme ‘Is Labour antisemitic?’ An admission by the BBC that it radically edited an interview in its notorious 2019 Panorama programme that presented Labour as antisemitic has been discovered tucked away in a corner of the broadcaster’s website. ‘Is Labour antisemitic’ was broadcast just months before […]