Simon Evans on Woke Bias at the BBC 

@Trouble Came Calling he wasn't left-wing though, was he?

@@FatNorthernBigot he would savage interviewees on the left and right equally - which is what made him so valuable.

So the whole story just so you know is the Neil was offered a downcasting with worse tv times under the old head of bbc. The new one came in and tried to get Neil back but he’d already taken a job with that new channel.

@@Matmus Thanks for that... That now makes more sense, as the pieces weren't fitting.

@Chardonnay Smith In modern reporting, depth perception is no longer required.

but who of us never felt envy or hate? the whole of modern society is riddled with both. they call it ambition.

Is that an except from "Fear Of Freedom" ? Reading it at the moment. Fromm was also a great historian. :-)

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comedy!

He said it was less biased than the rest of the organisation, not that it wasn't biased. BBC news clearly is biased and he repeated that several times.

@@importantjohn good point

@@importantjohn Yeah, but that's not funny...also I'd ask the people of Scotland, Syria, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Gaza...etc...what they think...

@@stsr11 I'm a person of Scotland. Not QUITE sure why you're lumping these disparate peoples together as one blob of "victims", but fire away. What would you like to know of my thoughts?

He's definitely money grubbing. He's got very woke as a cynical career move. He doesn't care about trans issues but he knows the BBC does so he's saying whatever they want him to say to get his 💰

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My daughter never looked at the telly, even when we had a licence

Don't ban them - that's what a leftie would do.

Read your children's school textbooks. I read my kids' textbooks and was quite surprised by what they were being fed, but because I knew about it I was able to counter some of the nonsense. Some statements were actually ridiculous.

@@charlesbadoola535 yes, bbc indoctrination is one thing, but our kids spend 6 hrs a weekday being indoctrinated by the fine output of our woke universities

So they get all their news from genuine sources such as Facebook and RU-vid....

@Trouble Came Calling Your identitarian comment confirms my point. Thanks for that statement about 'white nationalist', which fails to understand that some narratives are neither racial nor nationalist. For example,: Galatians 3:28 is a widely commented biblical passage in the Epistle to the Galatians, in which Paul states: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."

@@lesliecunliffe4450 He's trolling you, Leslie. It never gets beyond insults with these people, I'm afraid. That's all they have.

@@johnneville403 John, that is probably true, but I like to think that if such people are countered with sound arguments that simultaneously reveal their bigotry, they are less likely to troll others.

@Trouble Came Calling you had the chance to say something meaningful, this is disappointing.

The nation can't maintain a shared narrative when we've been atomised by mass migration, promotion of foreign religions and deprecation of our own. The BBC merely reflects that because it's the lapdog of the establishment which has done this to our nations.

He's also a very funny comedian...you should check him out

@@Anastacia261 I literally just did 👍

Watch his stand up. Hes hilarious

If you listen to radio 4 he used to be on all the time, on panel shows, I think he had his own show for a time and has led panel shows. He's not very funny tbh. I've given up listening to radio 4 of late because of BBC wokery though so maybe he's not invited on any more

To be fair, the bbc is probably STILL less biased than the rest. And thats BAD. Because the bbc is now terrible. I grew up trusting the bbc for factual, impartial news. Its so sad.

It’s all over the place. I am also US based and have seen NPR and PBS follow the same path. I used to take the Economist rag but can no longer stomach it. I use to watch/listen to the BBC but my experience mirrors yours. Leaves me jumping around Al Jazeera and RT!! I’m embarrassed to admit

@@chriskshaw7601 Yeah, NPR used to be on all the time, but it's been literally hijacked by one narrow ideology, which is unapologetic, since they believe ethics are relative, and everything is just a power game. "If you don't have the majority, create one". That's the theme. No more NPR or PBS for me, either.

A lot of people going over to Newsmax.

Check out GB News, it was setup a few months ago for this very reason

Like Rock and Roll

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Benny Hill kept his hair 👍🏻😅

You can insult Sir Patrick all you want--it ain't my country! We don't Kee-night people here. All I know is that I saw Leonard Nimoy as Iago in an Orange County, CA community production of "Othello" in 1983. One for the ages.

To be honest he looks a bit old for someone born in 1965. Michael Portillo, for instance, looks younger and he was born in 1953.

@@ajs41 He must have good genes. My you, they're known to look after their looks, er... public school boys.

@@ajs41 I saw Portillo on the box the other night... he's had more work done than a bus-full of Essex birds. Looks utterly bizarre.

You’re wrong. Gavin McInnes is hilarious and he is right wing.

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My dad was brutally murdered last week but I can laugh about it now 🤣

True diversity lays in difference of opinions, not skin colours. Focusing mostly on the latter can only come from a racist view ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

BBC has quotas for non whites and women

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Ok you're a trans de belgie

No one is really Belgian. It's disgusting that Belgianism is now being pushed on kids.

@@stumbling Been going on for years, they call it the Long March through the Ardennes.

@@stumbling Hah. Flems v walloons eh

Then you almost certainly ain't no chick with a d%*k from Brussels!

I always thought BBC stood for something else? Sorry I am from Dearborn, Michigan

I think he was contrasting that with the response to Dr Dooms illicit liaisons.

*_Tedious, inane, embarrassing and utter cringe ..._*

That is because they are not funny.

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He'd make a great beat boxer.

@Ru22eLL I say left leaning mainly because of my views on health care and social programs but it would be more accurate to say I'm a centralist. But yeah, there are literally thousands of people like me who have rare (and common) medical conditions that have been managed quite well personally before the virus swept in. The virus changes the game completely and becomes something that is much harder to personally manage independently whilst also having to go into an office daily. My biggest concern is that the virus causes pneumonia which is a big killer of people with my condition, I nearly lost a close family member to it a long time ago. I remember sitting in a meeting with my boss and his boss about a month before the lockdown, people with conditions named by the NHS and PHE were being sent to work from home but because my rare condition (I think anywhere between 1 in 10000 and 1 in 50000 have it) wasn't named I was told I was not allowed to work from home. I tried bargaining and explaining my point and they were not very receptive to me. Thankfully the national lockdown came into play not long after and I've been working from home ever since. I have not seen another person in the flesh since march (barring delivery drivers who I'm extra careful around). I've took this shit very seriously not because someone sent me a letter telling me to do so but because I know my body and I know that if the virus grabbed hold I'd be fucked. My life is on the line when people say let it run through the communities. It feels like my life is an acceptable loss just because of the way I was born. I work hard, pay taxes and do everything a normal person does and more, how many 28 year olds can claim to have worked their way up from a council estate to having a mortgage in a middle class area? When people say let it run through I get massive eugenics vibes, something I thought we were done with decades ago. Let us born weaker die so the strong can live, fuck that.

@@J1mston At what cost to other people though? If the lockdown saves your life but results in more suicides is that acceptable? When the country cannot afford to pay for your healthcare in five years because its economy tanked is that acceptable? No one who advocates allowing the disease to run its course wants anyone to die. But it’s a balance of risks. I would argue that the problem is that your condition, whatever it is (a name would be helpful), was not on “the list”. Therefore argue for it to be put on the list. I’d support that. I’m assuming it’s something like cystic fibrosis, in which case I, like the rest of society would be happy to have you shield at home. Even if it isnt CF surely a chat with a GP would have made your case for you. I’m a fat hypertensive in his forties. My risk is a bit higher than most my age but I’d be willing to take the risk personally. Having my civil liberties removed in such a massive way to “protect” others is anathema to me and most of the population. Unfortunately as the Great Thomas sowell points out, life has very few “solutions”, all it has are trade offs. Trading off one thing against another. I do not think I have heard anyone who wants the lockdowns to end say that we want to trade off the lives of the sickly against the lives of the non sickly in some Darwinian survival of the fittest- but the trade off is that by destroying the economy we are making EVERYONE sickly. The measured appropriate trade off is to allow the actually fit and healthy to develop immunity, whilst shielding the sickly who wouldn’t survive. I work in health care- I have already lost two patients BECAUSE of Covid. Not OF Covid, but because I’ve not been allowed by management, despite my strongest objections, to treat sick folk who were unfortunate enough to not have Covid-19. Their conditions were allowed to kill them because the nhs has become a national Covid service only.

@@tozmom615 To my knowledge there was never a full specific list of conditions, it was conditions such as; then a small list of the highest risk such as COPD for example. A full list of each individual condition would've been great but would've been too much to create in a short time span and to much to manage, people would still have been missed from it. My condition is Osteogenesis Imperfecta and some with this condition did get shielding letters but not me because I've been self managing the condition mostly other than brief health check ups every 18 months. My condition is such that on the surface I appear healthy but underneath I can attest that I'm not. My GP is also unfamiliar with the condition so won't even put me forward for flu shots even though it's strongly advised. Believe me I'm happy to shield at home but when the guidelines leave me and many others like me in limbo it's simply not possible and I have had to threaten my employer with quitting to keep working from home (which is something not many are in a position to be able to do) which thank god I have because there's been a fair few cases at my work. How things are currently it's a toss up between my life and someone else's life and I'll always choose my own and I will not be guilted into thinking my life is worth less than anyone else's just because I was born differently. Another problem is that even the fit and healthy are being hit hard by the virus as evident by the uptick of hospital admissions. At the start of the pandemic people with disabilities were being sent DNR requests to free up beds and ventilators for other people without and guidelines were drafted to take life saving treatment away people with disabilities to give to normal people. Without lockdown I'd have been forced to work, probably got the virus then told I'll not be treated for it because of the way I was born. I fully admit that lockdown is not ideal but as things are showing a middle ground or perfect solution is hard to find. People are complaining because they're being asked to wear masks so if we can't even do that then I fully support the lockdown.

J1, what are going to do in 3 weeks when the lockdown is over? I strongly recommend that you take Vitamin D, Zn and be prescribed HCQ as a prophylactic! Good luck.

Intelligent discourse has no place in woke/left-wing phyllosophy.

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I don't know how true it is but I've recently read that when the woke institutions like the BBC employ, the successful job applicant is always further 'left' than the person(s) holding the interview thus enforcing that their mutually shared culture thrives. Think long march through the institutions.

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I listen to no BBC News: I find it unbearable. I watch little BBC drama for the same reason.

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Me neither, nice woman and all but not funny. I could say for Franky Boyle nowadays though. Have you tried listening to Leo Kearse's comedy? He's a decent bloke and quick-witted, not afraid to offend but nice enough that he would not offend without reason.

Sarah Pascoe is to comedy what Putin is to pacifism and diplomacy.

I reckon you should consider adding it again. It's good to read many reputable news sources if only to get an idea of what their prejudices and editorial lines are. I read the Guardian even though a lot of it is total nonsense (Marine Hyde, gawd almighty, she's like a Katie Hopkins of the woke, and just as intelligent), I like the Spectator but don't agree with some of the stuff there. One publication I used to read but now do not is the New Statesman, I don't see much value in the stuff they come out with at all.

@@charlesbadoola535 I subscribe to the Economist. Their format guarantees I'll get to hear about more than one subject.

@@rustyyb8450 The Economist! I hadn't thought of that newspaper for ages. Yes, they are rather good. I used to subscribe for a few years about 15 years ago and had it delivered to my home. I'll check it out again, I always liked it except the fact that you couldn't see who had written specific articles.

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Great strategy and I acknowledge your correct use of decimation.

Jack Welch would be proud!

Same in the military, I believe. We make light of things we fear so they seem less terrifying.

Same here in the ice-cream testing business.

That's what I thought too. There needs to be a public service and the BBC has it's problems but the whole defund cries are way over the top.

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Lol .

He's not so much right of centre, as right of what most people would have called communism not so long ago. Simon Evans' statement on Covid is common sense. Respiratory viruses that resulted in pneumonia were called "the old person's friend" by doctors, as they released the very elderly from chronic pain and dementia. Epidemiologically benign years are followed by ones that take a greater number of old folks. That's how things are, and no reason to put the lives of the young and fit into suspended animation. I was surprised to hear the guys say, "..and that's why he's called right wing" for stating the incontrovertible.

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