They've got an actual photo of the attention seeker now. I suspect she was in her last season and has decided this will launch her new career of appearing on crap TV shows to talk about it.

Optimistic as ever

Soon as I saw 'Mentor' in the article I completely lost interest. Anyone who feels the need to call themselves a 'Mentor' or for that matter one of the following Educator,or Activist is a complete & utter cock !!

Pro USA & Israel

From 2013 the report 'bias at the beeb' by the 'Centre for Policy Studies' showed the left wing bias at the BBC.

Statistically they looked into evidence that revealed this long known bias.

To quote from the article:

The BBC are more likely to cover left-wing think tank reports and to hail them as “independent” while giving right-wing research a “health warning” by pointing out its ideological position

Oliver Latham, who compiled the Bias at the Beeb report, said: “Our results suggest the BBC exhibits a left-of-centre bias in both the amount of coverage it gives to different opinions and the way in which these voices are represented.”

The team compared the coverage given to think tanks on the BBC website with that given by the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph.

The BBC covered seven out of ten of the stories on the Guardian, but only mentioned three out of ten reports which had been covered by this newspaper over the set period.

Of reports on four left-of-centre think tanks only one received a health warning - defined as statement of a think tank’s views, ideological position, or connection to a political figure - more than 10 per cent of the time, and one never received a warning.

In comparison, the warning appeared on between 25 and 60 per cent of reports on five right-of-centre organisations.

“In other words, the BBC seems to treat right-of-centre views as being more "extreme" and in need of caveats than roughly equivalent left-of-centre views,” Mr Latham wrote in the Sunday Times.

A similar trend was discovered in the corporation’s tendency to reinforce the views of an organisation by describing them as “independent”.

Three of the left-of-centre organisations were described as independent, compared with just one of the right-wing think tanks.

“The implication seems to be that the BBC sees left-of-centre views as being more reliable than right-of-centre ones. Overall, the picture is that the existing accusations of bias at the BBC are supported by a more dispassionate, quantitative analysis,” Mr Latham said.

He said they could not answer where this slant came from, but added: “The results are consistent with both subconscious "group think" among BBC journalists or a more deliberate left-of-centre bias.”

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

very misleading headline compared to the actual content. It wasn't Luton airport's fault his wheelchair was lost. They offered him a wheelchair which he declined and then decided to make a spectacle of himself to evoke sympathy.He didn't want to be pushed but he is a para athlete so he could have wheeled himself through the airport.

There is a problem with airports and airlines assisting wheelchair users but this isn't one of them and smacks of a compo claim.

One more point

BBC Social Justice BINGO!

'Ballet Black help create shoes for non-white dancers' [Link]

Isn't that "cultural appropriation"?

I would give you a Lol but actually its not funny.

One more point

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I know its in the Mail, but sounds about right for the Beeb.

Pro USA & Israel

I've probably watched every episode since it began and I well remember running from Selhurst Park on a Saturday to where I had parked my car and racing home to watch William Hartnell.

The scripting and storylines have gone downhill since the old days much as they did with each incarnation of Star Trek and problems nowadays are sorted with technobabble and a sonic screwdriver that can do everything.

The stories are now far more complicated than they used to be and the fact that CGI can make far more realistic monsters than in the old days doesn't paper over the cracks.

I used to find some of the stories and monsters quite scary way back when but nowadays I doubt whether anyone is scared

'The non-binary artist battling transphobia with burgers' [Link]