Posts Tagged ‘BBC’

I’ve banned myself from watching any corporately owned news media, whether it be radio, print, digital or television. I think this is a good thing for the sake on my mental wellbeing. This leaves me with the myriad of alternative media outlets that exist (but for those who don’t know them, probably require a little [...]


According to this BBC ‘News’ story, Ilham Anas of Jakarta has a life of fame ahead of him as an Obama lookalike…

“I see my resemblance to Obama as a blessing – I used to look at the mirror and I had a negative perception of myself”
Wow, imagine how he’d feel if he actually looked like [...]


Is it only me, or is there something very odd about the BBC News website article below?
“A senior US official has described as a “significant step” Portugal’s offer of asylum for some inmates from the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay…In a letter to EU members this week, Portugal urged them to follow its lead.
The [...]


Since Barack Obama’s election victory in the US there seems to have been an outbreak of self-flagellation here in the UK media with commentators asking if we’ll ever have a black Prime Minister. Things are a little different when you look at how things work here in the sense that a lower percentage of the [...]


This is just a quick entry to recommend a couple of excellent features on Iran, one appearing on the BBC website (a picture slideshow accompanied by narration by a British guy who lives and works over there…interestingly, one picture features a couple of men hugging in a public shoping area… I wouldn’t try that in [...]