Saturday, March 15, 2008

BBC - Not For Me

I tire of the BBC's obsession with British Politicians and their post political correctness faux paternalism.

I tire of it more than I tire of the politics.

I tire of the ever more showbiz charity appeals smattered with mock sincerity exploiting real concern.

I tire of the self promotion.

I tire of the conceit.

I tire of the fact that every spare hertz on the Frequency Modulation is colonised by their national and local trumpets.

I tire of the lack of public freedom of the airwaves.

I tire of the lack of balance and the excess of focus on what I can only call a propaganda drive.

I tire of the fact that there is no real alternative that is not mediocrity personified.

The real suffering and dying of the world have no true voice through them.

The real victims of AIDS, civil war, genocide, murder, state terror, tyranny, religious persecution, bigotry are not championed with true honour or vindication by them at all.
They are not objective.
They are not critical.
They do not question the status quo in any way at all.
They are not a force for change or progress.
The time for their middle class Oxbridge educated innovation came and went, but now they have no credibility as a whole.
Just as the English are unpopular all over the world, in an international context the BBC is seen as the voice that complements that unpopularity. They do us the British no good at home, and they prepare our unpopularity ahead of us overseas.

What a shame. There is so much that is good in this British Isles. And it would be lost to the world and to ourselves.

Sunday, March 9, 2008

The Government aren't Really going to not Spy on the Roads, are they?

But do not be lulled into a false sense of privacy. What I really dislike about the current government, is its determination to do everything it wants while making us believe it is doing the opposite. For every move they make these days, look for the technology companies looking to make big profits from the tax payer and deliver another layer of invasiness and control on our public lives. WE MUST NOT SLEEP WALK ANY MORE INTO A REMOTE CONTROLLED SOCIETY.