The decision of the BBC to invite the leader of the BNP onto last week’s Question Time was wrong. I said so before the programme went out and nothing that happened during and after David Dimbleby’s choreographed disaster moved me from that.
The gasps were deafening when Griffin spoke of his friendship with leaders of the Ku Klux Klan, describing them as a non-violent organisation. The KKK’s Mississippi lynch mobs being sanitised on national television by a despot, who believes that the Auschwitz gas chambers and the Holocaust were a hoax, exposed the BBC’s inexplicable folly.
I was never persuaded by the BBC’s defence that giving the BNP free access to 8 million viewers was in the name of free speech and democracy. Fascism is about neither. It is the politics of vile racism, totalitarianism and despotism. My grandmother told me when I was knee high that “we should never offer the hand of freedom to those who would chop it off”. She was right and the BBC is wrong.
Royal Mail
There are similarities between the Postal workers strike and the Miners strike. It was deliberately provoked at the worst time of the year, i.e. the Miners in the summer and the Postal workers at Christmas. We are witnessing the propaganda of misinformation by Royal Mail. The CWU wanted a negotiated settlement and the Royal Mail bosses didn’t. Their refusal to go to ACAS proved that and scuppered any chance of a settlement.
BNP / Royal Mail
BNP
The decision of the BBC to invite the leader of the BNP onto last week’s Question Time was wrong. I said so before the programme went out and nothing that happened during and after David Dimbleby’s choreographed disaster moved me from that.
The gasps were deafening when Griffin spoke of his friendship with leaders of the Ku Klux Klan, describing them as a non-violent organisation. The KKK’s Mississippi lynch mobs being sanitised on national television by a despot, who believes that the Auschwitz gas chambers and the Holocaust were a hoax, exposed the BBC’s inexplicable folly.
I was never persuaded by the BBC’s defence that giving the BNP free access to 8 million viewers was in the name of free speech and democracy. Fascism is about neither. It is the politics of vile racism, totalitarianism and despotism. My grandmother told me when I was knee high that “we should never offer the hand of freedom to those who would chop it off”. She was right and the BBC is wrong.
Royal Mail
There are similarities between the Postal workers strike and the Miners strike. It was deliberately provoked at the worst time of the year, i.e. the Miners in the summer and the Postal workers at Christmas. We are witnessing the propaganda of misinformation by Royal Mail. The CWU wanted a negotiated settlement and the Royal Mail bosses didn’t. Their refusal to go to ACAS proved that and scuppered any chance of a settlement.