Kevin Maguire says the BBC cannot possibly be left-wing because Brillo once worked as a Tory researcher and Nick Robinson was a wet YC. He then manages to find a few other high profile Beeb characters like Craig Oliver, Thea Rogers, Will Walden and Chris Patten as proof there is nothing wrong. Less than half a dozen people in a organisation that has 8,000 journalists and 26,000 employees.
But panic not, Kev’s piece-de-resistance is still to come: “Bristol Con MP Charlotte Leslie was a researcher on The Weakest Link”. No further questions.
Via @FraserNelson.
Polly Toynbee is blaming her Guardian headline writer for her smear of the year contender this morning.
“many commenting here have not bothered to read my article carefully (or at all), and the headline (which I didn’t write, and which is more provocative than the print Guardian) I didn’t write.”
Of course that hasn’t stopped her from tweeting the very same headline. This excuse didn’t wash for Geoffery Levy. For some reason the same privilege wasn’t afforded to the Mail…
Polly Toynbee, or her Guardian sub, has found the culprit responsible for the deaths of young children at their hands of their parents: the Tories of course! Apparently Baby P and Hamzah Khan’s deaths can be blamed on “Tory vandalism”, Michael Gove to be specific. Just the one problem. Aside from Polly ignoring the role of you know, the parents, or even social workers, teachers and doctors, both Baby P and Hamzah Khan died under a Labour government. And this from a paper that moralises about rival’s ethics.
Hacked Off’s millionaire lobbyists insist they are non-political and only doing it for hacking victims and their families. As Ben Brogan argues this morning this is patently untrue, Hacked Off is a left-wing operation to screw the Tory press. Look no further than the company they employed to do their online lobbying.
Organic Campaigns was set up by Ben Soffa, a paid up member of the Labour Party. Its other clients are telling. Hacked Off’s online lobbying team also campaigns on behalf of Jeremy Corbyn MP, Islington Labour, Medway Labour and Tristan Osborne, Labour’s candidate for Chatham and Aylesford. You get the picture…
