BBC charity committed to promoting UK Government propaganda in Afghanistan
In August the right-wing pressure group the Tax Payers’ Alliance revealed that the charitable wing of the BBC World Service, the BBC World Service Trust, had received £205,000 under the Foreign...
View ArticleEvan Kohlmann; the Doogie Howser of terrorism?
When terrorism expert Evan Kohlmann first appeared on the scene he was dubbed the ‘the Doogie Howser of terrorism’. For those who don’t know, Doogie Howser was an American sitcom aired in the late ‘80s...
View ArticleThe British amateur terror trackers: A case study in dubious politics
An investigation by Spinwatch reveals that a group of freelance terror trackers who promote stories about the threat from violent Islamists have been involved in exaggerating and even fabricating such...
View ArticleRéalité-EU: Front group for the Washington-based Israel Project?
Spinwatch has uncovered evidence that an apparently London based organisation offering expertise on Iran to journalists and politicians is a covert propaganda operation run by a pro-Israel organisation...
View ArticleThe Political Mind by George Lakoff
Review of The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st Century American Politics with an 18th Century Brain, George Lakoff, Penguin, 2008 George Lakoff is a cognitive scientist and linguist who in...
View ArticleCompassionate Conservatives go to war
As the left prepares for a year of political struggles in defence of public services, the forces of reaction, and the corporations who fund them, are doing the same. The Telegraph yesterday published...
View ArticleIdeas for the BBC: Oblige any think tank contributing to BBC programmes...
The BBC’s founding father, John Reith, once remarked that there was ‘no electoral process anywhere in the BBC constitution and procedure’. This he considered quite proper, indeed he regarded it as a...
View ArticleThe General Strike to Corbyn: 90 years of BBC establishment bias
On the anniversary of the 1926 General Strike, looking back to the early BBC helps us understand the latest bias scandal, over coverage of Labour's anti-semitism scandal vs Tory election fraud. In step...
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