NOW here’s an offer from the BBC that’s too good to miss.
“What claims do you want BBC Verify to investigate?” That’s the headline on its website.
It then explains: “It could be something you’ve heard said about a story in the news or seen circulating on social media that just doesn’t feel right.
"Or it can simply be something you’ve always wanted to know the truth about.”
Well OK, you drongos. Here’s something, which to me, just doesn’t feel right.
Howzabout investigating the BBC’s claim that it is an unbiased broadcaster, especially over the Gaza crisis?
And especially the Palestinian sympathisers working in . . . BBC Verify?
This unit is just a year old. It was set up to provide the final word on every issue that arises.
An utterly ludicrous notion.
But worse, BBC Verify is now in trouble for its coverage of Israel’s war against the terrorists of Hamas.
According to one bloke, BBC Verify has become a “tool for promoting anti-Israel bias”.
Who says this? A former top executive at the BBC, Danny Cohen.
The latest outrage came when BBC Verify decided to tell the world the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about a supposed Israeli attack upon a Palestinian aid convoy.
Who did they turn to for an eyewitness report which blamed the Israelis? A man called Mahmoud Awadeyah.
Incredibly, he works for Tasnim News Agency, an Iranian outlet with links to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
And he has posted on social media of his great jubilation at seeing Israeli civilians blown to bits by Hamas rockets.
He was also shown having a nice meal with Islamic Jihad members.
So, just the chap to provide an honest, unbiased and transparent report about the wicked Israelis, huh?
Serially biased coverage
It beggars belief that the BBC and its special unbiased transparent unit is still standing by its report.
Still unapologetic that it turned to this appalling man for unpartisan testimony.
But then that’s been the BBC’s track record ever since Hamas launched its murderous attacks on October 7 last year.
At every stage the corporation has outraged Britain’s Jewish community. And the Israeli government.
And the Jewish Board of Deputies.
And, for that matter, the rest of us who have no axe to grind.
But are able to tell the difference between a democratic state and a terrorist organisation.
Its coverage has been serially biased.
Until quite recently it was still employing six “journalists” from the BBC Arabic service to report on the story.
Until it was found that they had allegedly made anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli comments on social media.
Only after this was revealed to the BBC bosses were those six reporters suspended.
It regularly uses Palestinians as reporters. Such as Rushdi Abualouf.
And Adnan El-Bursh. The last time we saw Adnan he was crying in a non-partisan manner over an Israeli rocket attack.
But here’s the thing. I am personally not aware of the BBC employing a single Israeli national.
I have a problem with BBC Verify because I think it is a flawed concept.
This is a complex world and no journo can give you the complete unvarnished truth on any issue.
There are so many pros and cons. Always many different sides to the debate.
But it’s even worse than that, because just like the rest of the BBC, Verify is happy to join in with the relentless Israel-bashing.
It has become a friend of Hamas and a national disgrace.
UH-oh – Haiti is in trouble again.
But then when is it not? There are armed gangs patrolling the capital, Port au Prince.
Anarchy on the streets.
And the prime minister, Ariel Henry, is in Puerto Rico, having been prevented from landing in Haiti following a trip to Kenya.
That’s pretty much par for the course.
It has been led, over the centuries, by despots, maniacs and voodoo nutters.
And the next time someone tries to tell you that colonialism is responsible for most of the world’s ills, point them in the direction of Haiti as an example.
It’s been an independent country for 220 years.
It’s down to serial, shockingly bad, governance.
WONDER if anyone will notice the benefit of having more dosh in their pockets as a result of Jeremy Hunt’s budget?
My guess is that the impact will be too slight to make much of a dent in Labour’s lead in the opinion polls.
But then, strange things can happen in politics.
This week revealed that the Tories were on their lowest level in the polls for 45 years – all the way back to 1978. Hmm.
Now, can anyone remember what happened in 1979?
Wasn’t there an election in which the Tories came to power for 18 years?
A WHOLE bunch of councils up and down the country are going bankrupt.
Including Birmingham and Brighton. And they are whining that it’s because the Government cut their funding.
Well, sure, so they did. But that doesn’t excuse you for not balancing the books. If the money isn’t there, you can’t spend it.
This is a foretaste, I suspect, of what will happen if we get a Labour government.
THE Metropolitan Police boss Mark Rowley says his coppers are being treated unfairly.
Morale is low because they are accused of being either “woke” or “fascist”.
Well, OK. I quite like the Old Bill when they’re a little bit fascisty.
You know, when they do their jobs properly and arrest people.
Stop worrying about the insults, Mark, and bang up some of those pro-Hamas anti-Semites in their Palestinian keffiyahs.
OH, what a shame!
Actor Michael Sheen’s leftie series for the BBC risks being one of the biggest flops in the corporation’s history.
It’s called The Way and it is about the Welsh being bullied by horrible fascist English people. And gloriously rising up.
Trouble is people did indeed rise up – and turned the TV off whenever it came on. It’s got shocking viewing figures.
Never mind, Michael. I have an idea for a new series for you.
It’s about a short Welsh actor who believes he’s Orson bleedin’ Welles. I wonder who would play the lead?
IT’S pretty much certain now that the US Presidential Election this autumn will be a shootout between a bad-tempered senile idiot and a narcissistic, orange-faced barbarian.
For what it’s worth, my money is on Trump – the barbarian – to win.
And for Joe Biden to doze through November and retire from public life.
But what a disgrace that the leadership of the free world should be contested between two such unattractive and inept candidates.
TUESDAY was a bit weird, wasn’t it? I wandered around my town centre and there were all these people sobbing.
Pulling their hair out. And jabbing furiously, over and over again, at their phones. And wailing.
The problem, of course, was that Meta went down.
So these folk couldn’t go on Facebook to tell their friends they’d just had a cheese and tomato sandwich and it was quite nice, but maybe a bit too much butter.
The result – panic and depression.
Never has the phrase “get a life” felt more appropriate.
THE NHS risks being overwhelmed by an enormous increase in the number of people who have self-diagnosed with autism or ADHD and wish for official recognition of their affliction, according to Professor Anthony David, director of the UCL Institute of Mental Health.
It is not clear quite when these neuro-psychiatric conditions were considered aspirational by the British public.
The professor, however, suggests that “influencers” on social media sites have contributed to the problem by listing possible symptoms of ADHD as “forgetting about food until it goes bad” and “having low self-esteem”.
I have added to these on my new medical social media app, “RUMental?!” with the following: Addressing the dog in an over-familiar manner, looking through a window when there is nothing to see outside, feeling annoyed after having watched Newsnight and eating packets of Mini Cheddars without checking the sell-by date.
