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January 19, 2025
Jack Montgomery
UK

Britons Believe Media Covered Up Grooming Gangs Scandal ‘Because of Political Correctness.’

By a margin of more than two to one, the British public believes the legacy media’s muted coverage of the United Kingdom’s grooming gangs scandal was due to political correctness. Over 43 percent of respondents to a poll by Friderichs Advisory Partners and J.L. Partners agree that “the media did not cover the grooming scandal because of political correctness,” with only 18 percent disagreeing. This consensus extends across all societal groups, including Labour and “BAME” (Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic) voters.

Trust in traditional media to cover the grooming gangs scandal, which involved gangs of mostly Pakistani-heritage Muslim men abusing thousands of mostly white working-class girls, is alarmingly low. Britain’s de facto state broadcaster, the BBC, only garners a “great deal” of trust from 14 percent of respondents, with nearly half (48 percent) expressing little to no trust. Newspapers fare even worse, with just eight percent having “a great deal” of trust and 58 percent distrusting them to varying degrees.

Even journalists credited with helping to blow the lid on the scandal, such as Andrew Norfolk of The Times, admit to dragging their heels on covering the story. “I didn’t want the story to be true because it made me deeply uncomfortable,” he later confessed.

“The suggestion that men from a minority ethnic background were committing sex crimes against white children was always going to be the far right’s fantasy story come true,” he added, recalling his “liberal angst kicked instinctively into top gear.”

Over six in ten Britons (61 percent) told pollsters, “it does not matter if it upsets people, media outlets need to
cover the grooming gang scandal”, against just 27 percent who said “it is damaging to social cohesion and race relations for media outlets to cover the grooming gangs scandal.”

BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT.

Despite initially being uncovered some time ago, grooming gangs are back in the news due to Elon Musk, Nigel Farage, and others pressing the issue on social media. Farage is by far the most popular figure currently discussing the gangs, polling well ahead of Musk and imprisoned anti-grooming gangs activist Tommy Robinson.

Many foreign-born or dual-national groomers have now completed their sentences but are still in Britain, undeported. Others have never been charged. Moreover, no public official has been indicted for having enabled or turned a blind eye to the gangs.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s governing Labour Party initially resisted reopening the issue, rejecting calls for a national inquiry and suggesting a “far-right bandwagon” drove the outcry. However, his government has now begun offering limited concessions.

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By a margin of more than two to one, the British public believes the legacy media's muted coverage of the United Kingdom's grooming gangs scandal was due to political correctness. Over 43 percent of respondents to a poll by Friderichs Advisory Partners and J.L. Partners agree that "the media did not cover the grooming scandal because of political correctness," with only 18 percent disagreeing. This consensus extends across all societal groups, including Labour and "BAME" (Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic) voters. show more
January 14, 2025
Jack Montgomery
Media
Politics

Even the BBC Says Biden Has ‘Tarnished’ His Own Legacy.

The BBC has offered a scathing analysis of Joe Biden’s presidency, with North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher dissecting and largely condemning his lone term in office. Focusing on the outgoing president’s eulogy to the late President Jimmy Carter at Washington’s National Cathedral for Jimmy Carter, Zurcher noted it was “hard not to draw other parallels” between the incumbent and his unpopular one-term predecessor.

Zurcher bluntly states, “Each spectating president had achieved the validation of the American people (re-election to a second term) that has eluded Biden.” Of Biden’s hopes that history “records that I [governed] with honesty and integrity; that I said what was on my mind,” Zurcher expresses skepticism, noting the 82-year-old’s dismal 39 percent approval rating.

According to Zurcher, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s looming return to the White House next week marks “a dour end to a presidency,” at least from the Democratic Party’s point of view.

Zurcher predicts Biden’s tenure will be remembered merely as “the Democratic interregnum between the two Trump presidential terms. A blip, rather than a pivot.” He quotes Democratic strategist Susan Estrich’s damning assessment: “He’d like his legacy to be that he rescued us from Trump… But sadly, for him, his legacy is Trump again. He is the bridge from Trump One to Trump Two.”

DRIFT AND DECLINE.

While the BBC has historically downplayed the Biden-Harris government’s failures, Zurcher does not shy away from them in writing its obituary, highlighting the chaotic Afghanistan exit and a miscalculated response to inflation.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen‘s claim that inflation was “transitory” and Biden’s claim it was “temporary” now appear naive at best and dishonest at worst. Public gloom over the economy persisted throughout Biden’s term, which is a testament to his inability to manage perception or deliver tangible benefits swiftly enough for the average American.

Zurcher also highlights Biden’s personal shortcomings, such as special counsel Robert Hur’s assessment of him as “an elderly man with a poor memory” when he was investigated for mishandling classified documents. Zurcher portrays Biden’s later presidency as “less focused,” leaning into an increasingly widespread narrative of the octogenarian sinking into drift and decline as his presidency wore on.

Biden’s decision to seek re-election is where Zurcher becomes most critical. Biden’s campaign, marked by a disastrous debate against Trump and a belated, reluctant withdrawal under pressure from party heavyweights such as Nancy Pelosi, is presented as the final nail in the coffin of his legacy.

Zurcher portrays this not just as a political misstep but a mark of personal hubris, tarnishing what could have been a somewhat more dignified exit.

Image by Gage Skidmore.

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The BBC has offered a scathing analysis of Joe Biden's presidency, with North America correspondent Anthony Zurcher dissecting and largely condemning his lone term in office. Focusing on the outgoing president's eulogy to the late President Jimmy Carter at Washington's National Cathedral for Jimmy Carter, Zurcher noted it was "hard not to draw other parallels" between the incumbent and his unpopular one-term predecessor. show more
December 10, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Crime
Media

BBC Journalist Had 6,000 Indecent Images of Minors.

Duncan Bartlett, a former BBC journalist, has been sentenced to eight years in prison after admitting to multiple child sexual abuse crimes. The sentencing was handed down at Wood Green Crown Court in north London. Bartlett, aged 52, admitted to 35 offenses on August 30.

London’s Metropolitan Police uncovered electronic devices belonging to Bartlett containing nearly 6,000 indecent images of minors. Further investigation revealed he had paid individuals in the Philippines to organize live-streamed content of child exploitation for his viewing. The devices were confiscated after Bartlett’s arrest in September 2021.

Bartlett’s career at the BBC spanned 14 years until 2015. He served as a correspondent in Tokyo and presented for the BBC World Service. Post-BBC, Bartlett continued working as a researcher and China expert at SOAS University of London until his guilty plea.

Several current and former BBC personalities have been convicted of serious sexual offenses in recent months. Top-paid BBC News anchor Huw Edwards pleaded guilty to making indecent images of children in July. Former presenter Adam Britton, who appeared in nature documentaries alongside Sir David Attenborough, pleaded guilty to raping and torturing 42 dogs and killing at least 39 in August.

All Britons who watch live television—even if none of it is BBC content—are compelled by law to fund the public broadcaster by purchasing a TV license. Anyone who does not is liable for prosecution, facing fines backed by the threat of imprisonment for non-payment.

Image from Metropolitan Police.

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Duncan Bartlett, a former BBC journalist, has been sentenced to eight years in prison after admitting to multiple child sexual abuse crimes. The sentencing was handed down at Wood Green Crown Court in north London. Bartlett, aged 52, admitted to 35 offenses on August 30. show more
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September 10, 2024
Media
War

Biased BBC Breached Guidelines 1,500 Times Over Israel-Hamas War.

The BBC breached its editorial guidelines on more than 1,500 occasions at the peak of the Israel-Hamas conflict, more frequently associating genocide and war crimes with Israel compared to Hamas. British lawyer Trevor Asserson headed a report that identified a significant bias against Israel in the BBC coverage over four months.

The report documents 1,553 breaches of editorial guidelines, including impartiality, accuracy, and adherence to editorial values and public interest. Specifically, it highlights that Israel was more frequently associated with genocide and war crimes compared to Hamas, with a marked disparity in terminology. Notably, Israel was linked to genocide 14 times more often than Hamas.

Former BBC executive Danny Cohen has characterized the situation as an “institutional crisis” and called for an independent inquiry into the state broadcaster’s coverage of the conflict along with Jewish groups. The report alleges that some BBC journalists have shown sympathy for Hamas and engaged in biased reporting. Specific individuals such as Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s international editor, and Lyse Doucet, its chief international correspondent, are cited for excusing Hamas’s actions and downplaying the October 7 attacks on Israel.

In response to these findings, the BBC criticized the report’s use of AI for impartiality analysis and its interpretation of the BBC’s editorial guidelines.

The BBC has been criticized for months over its bias against Israel during the conflict with Hamas, with six BBC staff in the Middle East being removed from the air after their pro-Hamas social media posts emerged last October.

The broadcaster was also forced to apologize in November of last year for mistakenly claiming that Israel was deliberately targeting medical staff in Gaza’s Al Shifa Hospital.

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The BBC breached its editorial guidelines on more than 1,500 occasions at the peak of the Israel-Hamas conflict, more frequently associating genocide and war crimes with Israel compared to Hamas. British lawyer Trevor Asserson headed a report that identified a significant bias against Israel in the BBC coverage over four months. show more
August 8, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Crime
Media
UK

BBC Presenter Jailed for RAPING DOZENS OF DOGS.

A BBC presenter has been sentenced to ten years in prison by a court in Australia for raping, torturing, and killing dozens of dogs. Zoologist Adam Britton pleaded guilty to 56 charges of bestiality and animal cruelty last September, as well as child pornography offenses.

Britton was a senior researcher at Charles Darwin University and featured in several productions for the BBC and National Geographic. He even starred in a BBC series alongside legendary nature documentarian Sir David Attenborough.

Courts heard that Britton tortured 42 dogs and killed 39 of them in a shipping container, filming many of his crimes. Britton had a “sadistic sexual interest” in the animals and abused his own dogs and those of others who had been entrusted to his care.

“Your conduct on each of those occasions involved a degree of depravity and reprehensibility which falls entirely outside any ordinary human conception and comprehension,” the judge in the case told Britton.

THE BBC SEX CRIMES LEGACY. 

The sentencing comes just after the BBC’s top-paid news anchor Huw Edwards pleaded guilty to making indecent images of children.

Edwards was part of a depraved WhatsApp group in which images were shared from December 2020 to April 2022.

The BBC has plagued by sexual abuse scandals for decades, most infamously that of former presenter Jimmy Savile. The DJ abused children for decades while working at the broadcaster, which has been accused of covering up the abuse or at minimum turning a blind eye to it.

The BBC is funded largely by British television owners through the TV license, a de facto tax which anyone who watches live programming—even if none of it is BBC content—must pay, or else face criminal fines backed by the threat of imprisonment.

Reform Party leader Nigel Farage has called for the TV license to be scrapped and for the BBC to switch to a subscription-based funding model.

Image by Dan Bennett. 

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A BBC presenter has been sentenced to ten years in prison by a court in Australia for raping, torturing, and killing dozens of dogs. Zoologist Adam Britton pleaded guilty to 56 charges of bestiality and animal cruelty last September, as well as child pornography offenses. show more
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July 31, 2024
Crime
Media
UK

Top BBC Anchor Pleads Guilty to Making Indecent Images of Children.

Top BBC news anchor Huw Edwards has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges. Edwards made his court appearance at Westminster Magistrates Court on Wednesday, July 31 where he admitted to all charges.

The BBC broadcaster, recognized as the highest-paid news anchor until April, pleaded guilty to three counts relating to indecent images of children in his first public sighting in several months.

A Metropolitan Police investigation culminated in Edwards being charged with three counts of “making indecent images of children” in late June. The offenses, spanning December 2020 to April 2022, allegedly pertain to images shared via WhatsApp. Edwards is accused of possessing six category A images, which are characterized by penetrative sexual activity, sexual activity with an animal, or sadism.

Edwards, known worldwide for announcing the death of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022, was apprehended five months before his departure from the BBC and faced charges two months later.

Due to the ongoing legal proceedings, the BBC has refrained from commenting on the case, clarifying whether Edwards was on their payroll post-arrest, or confirming if they had prior knowledge of his legal troubles.

The case echoes that of former BBC host and DJ Jimmy Savile, who sexually abused children for decades but was never arrested or charged before his death in 2011.

This fueled speculation about how much the BBC knew about his activities. Many believe the broadcaster may have ignored it or engaged in a cover-up.

The BBC is funded by British taxpayers, who must pay for a TV license or face heavy fines backed by the threat of imprisonment.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has called for the scrapping of the TV license, arguing the biased broadcaster should switch to a subscription model.

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Top BBC news anchor Huw Edwards has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges. Edwards made his court appearance at Westminster Magistrates Court on Wednesday, July 31 where he admitted to all charges. show more

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July 2, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Lawfare
SCOTUS
UK

Presenter Tells Biden to ‘Hurry Up and Have Trump Murdered’ After SCOTUS Immunity Ruling.

David Aaronovitch, a BBC presenter and columnist for The Times of London, is calling on Joe Biden to “hurry up and have Trump murdered on the basis that he is a threat to America’s security” following the Supreme Court’s ruling that Presidents cannot be prosecuted for “official acts.”

“The President… may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled, at a minimum, to a presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts,” Chief Justice John Roberts explained in the ruling, which has major implications for the Biden regime’s lawfare prosecutions of Trump over January 6.

Aaronovitch, who hosts The Briefing Room news show on BBC Radio 4, is adopting the hysterical interpretation of the ruling by dissenting liberal justice Sonia Sotomayor. She claims it empowers Presidents to “[order] the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival” or “Organize a military coup to hold onto power.”

However, this is clearly inaccurate, as the ruling only immunizes the President against prosecution for “exercising his core constitutional powers.” These do not include powers to assassinate U.S. citizens at will or overthrow other branches of government in a military coup.

Moreover, the ruling clearly states that Congress can still remove the President’s immunity through the constitutional impeachment process. This is standard practice in the European Parliament and many European legislatures, where even low-level lawmakers often enjoy immunity unless there is a vote to remove it.

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David Aaronovitch, a BBC presenter and columnist for The Times of London, is calling on Joe Biden to "hurry up and have Trump murdered on the basis that he is a threat to America's security" following the Supreme Court's ruling that Presidents cannot be prosecuted for "official acts." show more
June 24, 2024
Jack Montgomery
UK

‘Election Interference’ – State Regulator Limits TV Coverage of Farage’s Party to 8%.

The Office of Communications (Ofcom), the state regulator of television and radio communications in Britain, has set Nigel Farage’s share of election coverage at just eight percent, despite the fact they are tying or ahead of the governing Conservatives (Tories) in national polls.

“We’re trailing [the Conservatives] in Scotland and in London, but in most of England, we are now clearly the challengers to Labour,” Farage said in a video statement on the situation.

“But we are having a major problem; a huge problem,” he said, noting his Reform Party’s relative lack of coverage by the state-owned BBC and Channel 4 and even independent broadcasters like GBNews.

“Why is this? Well, I’ll tell you: the regulator of broadcasters in Britain is Ofcom,” he explained. “Stuffed full of establishment types. And the rules they’ve given broadcasters are very simple… the main determinant of how much coverage each party gets is their performance in the last two elections. Well, Reform UK is brand new. We’ve never contested a national election before,” he said.

“Because of that, the coverage we’re allocated is eight percent. We are getting the same level of coverage as the Green Party despite the fact we’re polling more than three times their number.”

Farage argues that the establishment designed the rules to keep British politics and broadcasting as “a nice, cozy club,” shutting out “new challengers.”

“This is now an outrage; this now amounts to election interference,” he said. “Ofcom are a disgrace. They’re almost rigging this election in favor of the existing parties,” he added.

Reform is investigating possible legal action—but less than two weeks remain before election day on July 4.

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The Office of Communications (Ofcom), the state regulator of television and radio communications in Britain, has set Nigel Farage's share of election coverage at just eight percent, despite the fact they are tying or ahead of the governing Conservatives (Tories) in national polls. show more
June 19, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Media
UK

Yes, You Still Need a ‘License’ to Watch TV in Britain. Farage Says He’ll End It.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage, whose Reform Party is outpacing the governing Conservatives ahead of a July 4 snap election, says a Reform government will scrap the TV license that funds the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

By law, every Briton who watches live television is required to purchase a TV license for £169.50 (~$215.25) a year—£57 (~$72.40) a year for the handful of people who still only have a black-and-white set—even if they do not watch any BBC content.

The state enforces the license fee through criminal fines for non-payment. Failure to pay such fines can result in imprisonment.

Conservatives and populists argue the BBC harbors institutional bias despite its legal obligation to be politically neutral. The broadcaster often slants public discourse in favor of mass migration and multiculturalism and injects woke ideology into educational and entertainment content.

In August, The National Pulse reported how BBC News repeatedly doctored a report on homosexual pedophile Andrew Way, removing references to the fact he is a Pride organizer and drag queen.

Farage believes the compulsory license fee is out of date and unjust. He argues the BBC should transition to a subscription-based model and allow television viewers to choose whether or not to fund it.

He has also argued that scrapping the licence would relieve financial pressure on British households and incentivize the BBC to offer content the public actually wants to see rather than content serving an ideological agenda.

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Brexit leader Nigel Farage, whose Reform Party is outpacing the governing Conservatives ahead of a July 4 snap election, says a Reform government will scrap the TV license that funds the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). show more
June 7, 2024
Media

The BBC Has Spent £3,000,000 of Public Cash Investigating Its Own Staff for Sex Offenses.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has incurred over £3.1 million (almost $4M) in costs related to investigating alleged misconduct by former DJ Tim Westwood. A former BBC Radio 1 and BBC 1Xtra DJ, Westwood, denied engaging in any wrongdoing, stating: “It’s all false allegations.”

The review, launched in August 2022, is scrutinizing the BBC’s knowledge of and response to complaints and concerns regarding Westwood’s behavior during his two-decade tenure. Investigators have reviewed over 50,000 documents, including both oral and written testimony.

Led by Gemma White KC, the inquiry aims to address claims from several women accusing Westwood of predatory and unwanted sexual behavior between 1992 and 2017. Some allegations include incidents with women under 18, with one woman stating she was 14 when she first had sex with the DJ. The Metropolitan Police have interviewed Westwood four times in connection with the allegations. Though Westwood has been interviewed under caution, no arrests have been made.

The BBC’s external review, initially expected to conclude in six months, remains ongoing. Ms. White announced a call for evidence in October 2022, and the review team was later joined by safeguarding expert Jahnine Davis. Despite the extended timeline, White emphasized the necessity for thorough document examination and information gathering.

A confidential hotline was launched for a few weeks in April 2023 to assist with the review. The BBC says it intends to ensure a comprehensive understanding of what was known about Westwood’s conduct during his employment. Westwood stepped down from his show on Capital Xtra in April 2022 but continues to perform at various venues nationwide. In light of the allegations, some campaigners have urged nightclubs to avoid hosting him.

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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has incurred over £3.1 million (almost $4M) in costs related to investigating alleged misconduct by former DJ Tim Westwood. A former BBC Radio 1 and BBC 1Xtra DJ, Westwood, denied engaging in any wrongdoing, stating: "It's all false allegations." show more