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The SNP/BinS alliance is certainly the best device available to us presently. Modest progress was also made at SNP conference in strengthening independence support on key party committees. I seem to remember that when a similar advance was made some years ago it crumbled quickly when the Sturgeon personality cult counter attacked.
ReplyDeleteHopefully lessons were learned that careerists and psychophants will defend their troughs and petty gods against what they consider to be 'non us'.
As the slow motion collapse of the UK continues we can't afford to be driven back again or we will be dragged down with the desperate and deluded supporters of the pound shop Mussolini, Farage.
How did a non story, run by The Telegraph last week develop into an avalanche which took out the BBC Director General and the CEO of News?
ReplyDeleteThe histrionic claims from The Telegraph spoke of a “whistleblower”, and an “internal audit”. In reality the document was the (biased) musings of one disgruntled, former employee.
Preposterously, and crucially, the document claims BBC bias against Israel. Repeat, AGAINST Israel. This is the stuff of Jonathan Swift, Lewis Carroll, and Franz Kafka, force fed on steroids.
While the BBC has run some investigative pieces which exposed an interesting light on the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, the overwhelming number of articles have been pro Israeli.
Israeli “hostages”, and Palestinian “prisoners”. Lurid, and unsubtantiable tales of mistreatment of one Israeli prisoners of war, while ignoring documented evidence of torture of hundreds of Palestinian hostages, up to, and including amputation of limbs, and bullets to the back of the head at point blank range.
If any audit is conducted, cherry picking individual news items is an invalid method of assessment. This is an academic discipline, and such work has been conducted in the past (University of Strathclyde, Media Department). Reporting has to be reviewed over a period of months on a quantitative basis. Any such exercise would prove a systematic PRO Israeli bias.