With soft power ripping off its velvet glove and ruling the cultural sphere with an iron fist, the BBC is doggedly determined to keep China’s image in the dark. The white saviours are back. This week’s BBC Radio 4 serialisation of the newly published book, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove, bludgeons the audience’s perception of the rising superpower into shape by placing it in a dark past.
BBC Soft Power and Daughters of the Bamboo Grove Read More »
The world is changing, the sun sets on the British empire and all that is solid melts like a Mr Whippy ice-cream in the summer heat. Some people can’t stand it. In terms of cultural appropriation, Dan Snow’s claim in his programme, The Greatest Tomb On Earth: Secrets Of Ancient China, that the Terracotta Warriors
BBC turns Terracotta Warriors origins into culture wars Read More »
Jeremy Corbyn, the BBC and the democratic process Why has Jeremy Corbyn’s election as leader of the Labour Party with a massive 59.5 per cent provoked more fury among the centre-left than the predations of the right which still overwhelm us? I’m bewildered by the preoccupation among good friends with diversions that have little to
Understanding the viciousness of the anti-Corbyn tendency: shades of the Paris Commune Read More »
I’ve had the good fortune to be one of the few ethnics who have slipped through the cultural net and been able to make a few good programmes at the BBC, having a great face for the radio. But it’s shameful that there’s still so much unconscious racism as inadvertently exposed in a recent BBC
All white at the BBC: South Africa would be proud of Newsnight Read More »
Reggie Yates: Race Riots USA review BBC3 Tuesday 29 Sept 2015 There’s a lot of shark-jumping going on down Fleet Street. You may have observed the liberal press laying into the resurgence in progressive politics of late with a hysteria largely missing in action when it comes to the current assault on the poor, about
Reggie Yates Race Riots USA review: white liberal Guardianista requires smelling salts Read More »
Beyond satire! The BBC has commissioned Britain’s Hardest Grafter, a “game” series described as “Benefits Street meets The Hunger Games” which pitches the poorest among us — the unemployed and the low-paid — against each other for a cash prize. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? is an early model for this latest hate-fuelled poverty porn
BBC gladiatorial combat and poverty porn in Britain’s Hardest Grafter Read More »
