What you find funny all depends on your own biases and prejudices. I have laughed at those who find the extremes of politics ridiculous on both sides of the aisle. I find hard line Brexiteers fair game for the extraction of urine, but equally so those who support Corbyn, and especially those who think organic food is better for you than anything else. (my pet area of nonsense). I have heard comedians perfectly able to get an audience in hysterics on both, because both have such obvious frailties.

The first name that came to mind was Roy "chubby" Brown. He seems your sort of comedian.

So, interested in US politics but cant be bothered to read the Mueller report?

Watch this 30 min summary by PBS.

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Seems to be a something burger.

You have Wisbech's view of the BBC on bias and then you have people who have worked in the BBC for decades and their views on the BBC.

Of the now several books on the problems with the BBC on bias I recommend the 'The Noble Liar: How and Why the BBC Distorts the News to Promote a Liberal Agenda' by Robin Aitken, a man who worked for the BBC for 25 years as a reporter and executive,

Unlike the nonsense Wisbech's waffles I doubt you will find many books written complaining about the BBC's imagined right wing bias.

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Edited by Stirlingsays (17 Jun 2019 9.59pm)

Anyone with a particular bias can write a book from a biased perspective. As Aitken is in the same camp as the hard right contributors in these threads it is totally unsurprising that the book he writes meets with their approval and that it's conclusions are similar. That doesn't mean he is right! It just means he has an opinion.

The fact that he previously worked for the BBC doesn't change that. In fact it confirms that not all the journalists at the BBC hold "liberal" views doesn't it?

I have never suggested that the BBC has a right wing bias! All I have suggested is that the perception that they have a left wing bias is just that. A perception held by those whose own opinions are on the right.

They have well designed structures and controls that demand objectivity from their journalists, whatever their personal political views might be, most of which, quite rightly, we will never know.

All the moaning and wailing from the right about how unfairly they are treated by the BBC is resonant of Trump's treatment of the media in the USA.

This must never be allowed to get a toehold here because down that path is a very dark place.

Improve the controls. Make them more transparent if you wish. Allow citizens access to the decision making processes. Ensure that the BBC Governors include all shades of political opinion. But never try to compromise their freedom from political interference or their ability to provide us with the truth as they see it.

Did you bother to watch it?

Its basically reading out parts of the report.

Reading out loud tends to be neutral.

'Toehold'

You are a minority voice in the Tory community and especially its grass roots. Your opinion must never be allowed to 'get a toehold'......Not like there's much chance of that thankfully.

Honestly you are so deluded that answering your posts on here just feels like I should be receiving payment for psychiatric work.

Edited by Stirlingsays (17 Jun 2019 11.50pm)

I rather think the delusion is all yours. I am not expressing an opinion as member of the "Tory community", especially the current one. I am expressing it as a British citizen concerned about the drift towards hard right politics and populist sentiment in the UK.

That some, like me, whose natural home was within the "sensible" wing of the Tory party are worried about the widening divide in British politics is not delusional at all. It is there in plain sight.

How people on that wing coalesce with those on the right of the Labour party and others whose politics stand on the firm ground of the centre remains to be seen but coalesce they must to ensure that we don't follow the disaster that has engulfed the USA in the last 2 years. Hopefully the USA will come to it's senses and recover from that but I would much prefer that we avoided it altogether.

As I have told you many times you neither need to read my posts nor answer them. That is entirely your choice. I will though make my points as I see fit. As psychiatrists, by the way, should never be judgemental you would make an exceptionally bad one, so I doubt if your earning capacity in that field would amount to much.

So I suggest you stick to posting nasty hard right opinions on rather obscure web forums for you cannot cause much harm that way.

Edited by Wisbech Eagle (18 Jun 2019 10.47am)

LOL She say's right at the start of the broadcast 'That people don't always have time to read it' so we will.
Cue selected parts of the report.