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His brother Christopher was once asked if he kept up with the tabloids and he replied "only to find out what everyone was thinking". It seemed a tad snobbish at the time, but absolutely spot on in today's climate.
Not quite right. One only attends to MSM these days to find out what they want us to think. It stretches my credulity to imagine they actually believe the material themselves.
FEED PEOPLE SHITE , PEOPLE BELIEVE SHITE .. his brother knows what he knows but neither are saints ..in the mix ..both are guilty of stirring the swirl
The other taboo subject that Hitchens will refrain from talking about, but one that undoubtably he hasn't missed, is the 'DEI diversification' of TV/Radio presenters. With the exception of perhaps John Snow and David Attenborough, every single presenter that you see on television is either; a woman, a queer/gay, or an ethnic minority, or a mixture of the three. If you occasionally see a white man, he's usually neurodivergent, never left alone to actually present the program, and often outflanked and dominated by co-hosts of the previous characteristics that I just described. The need to constantly interject the opinions of a tiny minority of people onto the airwaves that has little to no reflection of the views of ordinary British people becomes more intrusive year-after-year. Last week, whilst watching Spring Watch, unbelievably, they hosted a diversity segment about ethnic minorities in the countryside, and cut to live footage of some black guy rapping in a middle of a wood. Despite being an affront to the senses, what on EARTH does spitting out thuggish lyrics over a beat have ANYTHING to do with the countryside or nature?
@@terencewhite8105 Exactly. Every single advert features a race-mixed family, most of the time a black man with a white woman, and 2-3 half caste children. If you'd only watch television, you'd think that 90% of relationships are interracial. All of it is sinister piffle.
@@terencewhite8105 *I keep trying to reply to this comment, but they're being deleted the moment I post them. Exactly. Every family that you see on a TV advert is usually either ethnic or mixed-race, with usually a black/asian man with a white woman accompanied by 2-3 coloured children. If you only watched television, you'd think that 90% of relationships in Britain are mixed.
That would have made a great Monty Python sketch, and as I type I remember the Alas Smith and Jones sketch where candidates were promising better weather if elected.
I'm from Poland and I'm old enough to know communist's propaganda. From my point of view the BBC perfectly fits in that genre. I wanted to explain to my English colleagues but they didn't get it and just laughed. No funny now?
Many are still brainwashed, especially the older generation who had years of subtle programming and wouldn't dream of stopping their TV licence. George Orwell's 2 minutes of hate happened when Nigel Farage was assaulted and gleefully lapped up by the baying mob on social media.
Let me have a guess. The reason it reminds you of communist propaganda is because it presents viewers with an image of their country that bears no relation to reality?
Many years ago, when Poland was part of the USSR, I had a Polish lecturer at college. Obviously, as students who knew everything, we laughed at him being a Communist and falling for all the Russian propaganda. He told us that we were not exempt in the UK. He said the BBC spins stuff constantly. At that time there were many changes of government in South America. He told us to look out for the words the BBC used to describe the new government. Did it call it a government or a regime or possibly even a junta? If the BBC called it a government that meant it was officially approved of. Any other name meant it was not officially approved of. Shortly afterwards, I heard an account of the nasty Ruskies causing some violent incident on the BBC but shortly afterwards I happened to be playing with a radio that could receive "short wave" transmissions. The same incident was related by an English-speaking Russian news outlet and I recognised the events but the blame had magically completely reversed. Who to believe?
They hate white British and are constantly injecting guilt to reduce challenges to the population replacement and genocide underway. It is happening all across the West (even Down Under) all at the same time. It is overtly coordinated and WW3 is essentially the governments vs traditional European whites now. Evil.
@@insertnamehere5146 The BBC Chairman is a Tory, most of the management are Tory, the way Corbyn was treated by the BBC shows they are not even left-wing never mind socialist or communist which are two different things. The New Culture Forum is very right wing shady organisation backed by some big businesses and tax avoiders who loved Liz Truss' damaging budget.
I stopped watching TV generally, but the News in particular, many years ago and pretty much read most of the time. That's been one benefit of making TV unwatchable.
My finger never goes anywhere near the BBC button on my remote. Thank god for TH-cam, it's a positive goldmine for good docs and tv dramas all, I hasten to add, made over 30 years ago.
How does that work then? A vote for a party that has no chance of getting in as against a party that has some chance of getting in to stop Labour getting in.
@@alh915 the conservatives are cooked dude. They've let us down too many times & most recently done so with a big majority which should've made policy & law making straightforward. There's an entire subsection of society that flat out refuse to vote Tory anyway due to the Thatcher years. A new right of centre party without any of that baggage is needed. Vote REFORM UK 🇬🇧🏴💪🏻♥️🙏
@@jt5765 I'm not disputing that, it's the logic of thinking a vote for Reform will have any greater chance of stopping Labour. The only way to stop Labour is to vote for whichever party in your constituency has the best chance of defeating the Labour candidate. Hold your nose and vote. Dude🤔
Common folk! Peter Hitchens is a very rich privately educated man not a common man. The BBC Chairman is a Tory, most of the management are Tory, the way Corbyn was treated by the BBC shows they are not even left-wing never mind socialist or communist which are two different things. The New Culture Forum is very right wing shady organisation backed by some big businesses and tax avoiders who loved Liz Truss' damaging budget.
I used to go to Poland with my parents every year for 6 weeks in the summer from 1966 to 1980. My family constantly kept me informed on how to behave and what to say and not say out in public. This was done in an effort to help me avoid having trouble with the communist authorities whom controlled the country from the end of WW2. Having been brought up in England through the sixties to eighties where freedom of speech and expression were the norm It really hit home the differences of everyday life and I learned to appreciate my good fortune of living in the UK and the freedoms I took for granted. The changes that have occurred in UK society in the last 20 years bring back those memories of times spent with my family back home and I am sorry to say that with the creeping restriction of people's freedoms, and right to voice strongly held opinions in England give me the same feelings that had all those years ago in communist Poland. Much in the way that Peter Hichens finds that watching a national News Channel in the UK reminds him of broadcasts made in the communist Soviet Union.
The BBC Chairman is a Tory, most of the management are Tory, the way Corbyn was treated by the BBC shows they are not even left-wing never mind socialist or communist which are two different things. The New Culture Forum is very right wing shady organisation backed by some big businesses and tax avoiders who loved Liz Truss' damaging budget.
The Reform Party have scored a massive own goal by bringing in Charlie " personally I think if your not vaccinated you should be able to walk the street " Mullins... aka Poundland Rod Stewart
Is that really any different though from Farage wanting Blair back as some sort of V program rollout Czar and Tice and Dr. Bull calling for mandates on carehome and NHS workers?
I've met a few like that and come to the conclusion that they're either being dishonest or are so far to the left that their world view is seriously distorted.
The are many comments here that are suggesting the BBC is biased to the left. If the BBC is being criticised by the left for being too far right and by the right for being too far left it is reasonable to conclude it is walking a path between the two and exploring both.
I saw Nick Robinson interview Jeremy Corbyn a while back. He showed him total deference and was very polite when he asked his questions. The left claimed this was Tory bias. Now look at how people on the right are treated by BBC presenters, questions are almost shouted at them, they are repeatedly interrupted by the presenter when trying to answer and the presenters often try to put words in their mouths or change the question. Now if that isn't showing political bias I don't know what is. The lefties are only interested in hearing their political views, the very act of questioning them is perceived as right wing political bias even more so if the person being asked a question can't answer it. When I was younger I was more of a lefty than anything else but I saw through them, a lot of them are really very insecure people unable to think for themselves who walk around with very large chips on their shoulders. That's why they are so easily indoctrinated. The fact that hard line socialism has basically failed everywhere it has been tried seems to escape them as does the fact that since the capitalist West moved in a more woke left leaning direction it too began to fail.
The BBC has many biases which include a bias towards the Establishment. This is often seen as supporting the Government, and when the Government is Conservative the BBC is accused of parroting Government policy. I think it's more the case that the BBC only challenges the Government when the Government wants to do something the BBC doesn't agree with. Of course, a properly run BBC would not have its own opinions, but we're not getting back to that any time soon.
This last week a news channel , here in Portugal, showed a ‘documentary’ produced by Sky Uk. The subject was something along the lines of ‘here are people who were Covid skeptics, and they’re not very bright. Look they come from Stockport and go camping with others who actively thrive upon a diet of bad weather and misinformation.’ And so it went on , but by the time it was over, the Portuguese viewers were in no doubt that they should be on their guard not to follow Van driving thickness from England and remember to stay firmly on the side of Brussels and the clever folk from the left. I couldn’t quite catch if it was a co- production with Disney.
Be aware that Sky News UK is owned by CNN (communist News Network) of the USA. Sky News Australia is owned by the Murdoch organisation and 100% different.
I used to love the BBC, especially radio 4. From a very young age, when most of my contemporaries were listening to radio 1, I was happily listening to and learning from radio 4. I am so sad that I can no longer bear to listen to or watch any of their programming. I think that goes for most awake people of my generation. Such a shame that it has been infiltratated and taken over by communist, woke morons and, is now, not worth listening to anymore. That’s “progress”, I suppose!
I hardly ever watch modern dramas now. The writing is nothing like the great 70s 80s dramas before the thought police days. The last American drama i enjoyed was six feet under. So i tend to watch all the retro stuff, which of course included the creme de la creme of acting talent
@@InfinitePlain I can imagine. At the time it was probably called brash, violent, overly sexualised American trash but probably thoughtfully written and well crafted viewed today.
Farage was on the Today programme today. The chairwoman did to her credit let Farage speak. However, it felt begrudging on her part, like she was told she would have to have him on and she was codescending but I think she is always like that!
Occasionally a letter arrives ( well about once a month ) from TV licensing addressed to ' The legal occupier' . This letter should be returned unopened marked : ' legal occupier , not known here, please return "
Oh I’ve had hundreds of them, I just put them through my shredder unopened!. I’ve even had them on many occasions sending me letters that they were coming on a particular day, but they never come!.
Australian news is the same. As someone who follows politics, geopolitics and cultural trends very closely I used to watch commercial news (most local), followed by the ABC (most national), followed by SBS (multicultural service - most international). About 10 yrs ago I realised I was watching not to get news, but to see what they might be telling everyone today. Now I don't watch them at all .... as it is not only a waste of time but incredibly monotonous (same propaganda every day) and infuriatingly frustrating (increasing my stress levels no end!).
Smell the coffee moment ? We can only take so much entertainment . When the system has to push back against the will of the people . People wake up !! Wat happens next is democracy 😂
I wrote to the Private Eye guy who's always on it. His dreadful publication bashes Brexit mercilessly. I reminded him when Private Eye constantly criticised the EU, when the UK were members. They even ran a special column dedicated to doing so. I asked him why they were happy to pour scorn on the EU when we belonged to it, yet now mock us for leaving it. He couldn't provide a satisfactory answer , because there isn't one; it's rank hypocrisy.
I totally agree with Peter legacy. Media is Becoming like State-sponsored propaganda machine I’ve stopped listening to it for many months now and cancelled my TV license. It’s atrocious
I used to love HIGNFY until the Brexit campaign got going and ONLY then did I realise they were pushing THEIR OWN views. I haven't watched it or BBC since. Channel four are just as bad and ITV not far behind!
Hislop and Merton like to pretend they’re morally superior but they’re quite happy to take 20 grand per episode while the bbc threatens pensioners with jail if the don’t buy a licence.
Not only do I not watch mainstream news, I no longer watch any television or even listen to mainstream radio anymore. I'm glad this interview has made it to me as I was worried I was some sort of conspiracy nutter.
I must agree with Peter completely, I stopped watching the BBC over 12 years ago ,reading newspapers errr no, some independent radio programmes maybe, yes it's sad really, younger generations just don't know any equivalent .
Totally agree with Peter, at 53 I’ve been through the whole genre radio 1-2-4 the 6-10 o’clock news, question time news night and this week with Andrew Neil. However today I’d rather have a thermal lance placed in my retina than listen to or watch any of that current content. Minus Andrew Niel who is now irrelevant. What on earth has been allowed to happen to our national broadcaster over the last 40 years. Can someone please tell me.
It's the long march. They (the enemy, the technocratic madmen, the Scientific Marxists) have captured it all now. Media, education, police, HoC, etc. We are undergoing permanent political propaganda and everything is becoming politicised. From the weather, to the food we eat, to the racism of the countryside. In time our past will be erased and so will we, and within a century no one will even know we were here.
I stopped renewing my TV license years ago, as I no longer wish to support the BBC, which appears to have been taken over by activists. This means no iPlayer and no broadcast TV of any kind, but we all need to make small sacrifices to maintain our integrity. "Black History Month" contains fanciful outpourings which are plainly made-up to suit an agenda. Gender Identity is everywhere, and drama re-writes history with the aim of showing the past how the Beeb would like it to be. I once worked with the BBC on a technical project. It used to be an admirable organisation, if an inefficient one. I do still listen to R4, but I switch off the moment I hear some daft wokery, which sadly never takes long.
After the Today program's two legendary hosts Brian Redhead and John Timpson moved on, the program has sadly declined, bottoming out with Humphreys who, for me, epitomised everything I hate in bbc news broadcasting and put the final nail in the coffin of radio 4 morning news. 😢
Peter's point about the tight briefing of MPs was laid bare this week, when the Tory Party chairman gave a word perfect reply to a question he hadn't been asked three times.
WOW ! PETER HITCHENS---SMILING. WHAT MAKES ME, SMILE, AFTER i'VE SPENT AN AGE SPITTING BLOOD, IS THE TOTAL REVERSAL OF OUR MEDIA, COMPARED WITH THE SOVIETS. I INCLUDE ALL USA MEDIA TOO. HOW WE WOULD CRITICISE AND MOCK 'IZVESTIA', PRAVDA, & TASS. OH HOW WE LAUGHED; AND NOW ???
Channel 4 news got their own problems too. Tonight 'bout 15 mins in , threw the control at the tv, broke it, threw it outside. They are surely mixing reverse psychology with accelerationalism. Should sue 'em. .
I remember that even in late communist is Czechoslovakia you could hear criticism of the government on Czechoslovakia news. Now, you only hear criticism of governments that the global elite disagrees with.
I totally gave up on and almost totally stopped seeing MSM News a few years ago - one of the best things I ever did. Still pick up snippets, but that’s it and my head is better for it.
I still watch BBC News and Sky News. I like to know about the latest propaganda,which so many unthinkingly accept as fact. Forewarned is forearmed! I mainly watch GB News though. Yes,they too have an agenda,but it's far from being a mainstream one. This channel tackles so many matters, that are swept under the carpet by the Left-liberal Establishment. The latter had a monopoly on defining "truth", which extended back to my young days,in the Seventies. Not any more...thanks to GB News and social media!
Hitchens has been telling us for decades that the Conservative party is useless and should be allowed to die. He also tells us that Labour are even worse than the Tories. But he also tells us, that to consider anyone else, such as Reform UK or the BNP, are dangerous far-right extremists and should be avoided at all costs. He is a typical old school Conservative. He has made a career for himself, over decades, telling us all how terrible things are. And just like all Conservatives, whether the modern or old school variety, he provides no solutions whatsoever. He is, perhaps right, about one thing. Conservatism is useless and should be allowed to die. But that should include ALL the different varieties of it. It has never succeeded in conserving anything. It would be only fitting, that the last thing it failed to conserve, is itself.
Should the provision of solutions be the prerequisite for a journalist and commentator? His primary role is to react and to expose, and he does so, as you well pointed out, in equal measure across the board. You have some opinions on Conservatism. To that I say, do not confuse conservatism with the Tory Party, not when we have endured 27 years of Blairite governance in this country.
My wife insists on retaining the licence so that she can watch Masterchef etc. If I enter the room when the TV is on I feel like I want to scream after about 2-3 minutes. Because I cannot avoid the licence I have to avoid the TV itself. The number of people who see nothing wrong with mainstream TV are still in the majority I'm afraid.
My fear is to end up as a vegetable. But imagine ending up like that and still hearing and understanding what's going on around you. And then the tv is on and you can't smash it.
Just as many thousands of Britons are raised now on Scargill Row or Nelson Mandela Way, so in our glorious future Far Right Reich children will grow up on Scruton Road and Hitchens lane, immersed in Hayek and latin, Greek tragedy and opera.
I used to work with someone who had been in BBC current affairs. He said it was meant to be entertainment. It would be lamentable enough if it were only that, but it's not anything like so benign.
@stevebell6057 Well, duh! He knows which way the MSM have turned, he ain't stupid. (BTW, if you're the cartoonist, love your work. Esp the one about the idealist student who winds up as everything he abhorred: living in Birmingham, working as a teacher. Brilliant)
My grievance is not with MSM content-creation per se: they are only producing what their data analysis tells them their audiences want. The real grievance is with the audiences, for wanting it. People aren't stupid because they've been made to be. They are stupid because they don't mind being stupid.
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The BBC is part of the reason we cancelled our TV licence and the sky viewing package. Life is so much better without the TV.
Whats a tv?
Don't be surprise if a TV licence guy will charge you a fine for having just the sky viewing package, because it's still a life stream TV.
@@dubtribe1176 I think you need to read my comment more thoroughly.
@@MorvisChives chose life instead
His brother Christopher was once asked if he kept up with the tabloids and he replied "only to find out what everyone was thinking". It seemed a tad snobbish at the time, but absolutely spot on in today's climate.
Not quite right. One only attends to MSM these days to find out what they want us to think. It stretches my credulity to imagine they actually believe the material themselves.
The are slipping, now it is to find out what they *want* everyone to think.
FEED PEOPLE SHITE , PEOPLE BELIEVE SHITE .. his brother knows what he knows but neither are saints ..in the mix ..both are guilty of stirring the swirl
The other taboo subject that Hitchens will refrain from talking about, but one that undoubtably he hasn't missed, is the 'DEI diversification' of TV/Radio presenters. With the exception of perhaps John Snow and David Attenborough, every single presenter that you see on television is either; a woman, a queer/gay, or an ethnic minority, or a mixture of the three. If you occasionally see a white man, he's usually neurodivergent, never left alone to actually present the program, and often outflanked and dominated by co-hosts of the previous characteristics that I just described. The need to constantly interject the opinions of a tiny minority of people onto the airwaves that has little to no reflection of the views of ordinary British people becomes more intrusive year-after-year.
Last week, whilst watching Spring Watch, unbelievably, they hosted a diversity segment about ethnic minorities in the countryside, and cut to live footage of some black guy rapping in a middle of a wood. Despite being an affront to the senses, what on EARTH does spitting out thuggish lyrics over a beat have ANYTHING to do with the countryside or nature?
Totally agree,and what about advertising on the media and papers,is there not a white family in this country
@@terencewhite8105 Exactly. Every single advert features a race-mixed family, most of the time a black man with a white woman, and 2-3 half caste children. If you'd only watch television, you'd think that 90% of relationships are interracial. All of it is sinister piffle.
@@terencewhite8105 *I keep trying to reply to this comment, but they're being deleted the moment I post them.
Exactly. Every family that you see on a TV advert is usually either ethnic or mixed-race, with usually a black/asian man with a white woman accompanied by 2-3 coloured children. If you only watched television, you'd think that 90% of relationships in Britain are mixed.
I notice this on the rare occasion I see TV advertising - you'd think Britain was majority black.
These people have been completely captured by their own ideology to the point where common sense has gone out of the window.
The BBC can't even publish a weather map without making it political.
That should be a ludicrous joke, but somehow it is completely true.
Eric. This comment sums them up.
'Political' - false/ fraudulent reporting 45 mph winds when truth is 15 mph.
That would have made a great Monty Python sketch, and as I type I remember the Alas Smith and Jones sketch where candidates were promising better weather if elected.
Beats me what the point is of tv weather. We can all see weather on our phone and its specific to our onw town.
"I don't take my news from MSM for the same reason I don't eat my meals out of the toilet." Roger Stone.
Hahaha what a stand up chap he is!
Could easily be reversed, so not exactly a zinger.
I'm from Poland and I'm old enough to know communist's propaganda. From my point of view the BBC perfectly fits in that genre. I wanted to explain to my English colleagues but they didn't get it and just laughed. No funny now?
Many are still brainwashed, especially the older generation who had years of subtle programming and wouldn't dream of stopping their TV licence. George Orwell's 2 minutes of hate happened when Nigel Farage was assaulted and gleefully lapped up by the baying mob on social media.
Sounds familiar. Poles and other groups who lived under communism can see this nonsense a mile off.
Let me have a guess. The reason it reminds you of communist propaganda is because it presents viewers with an image of their country that bears no relation to reality?
They have no idea how brainwashed they are.
Many years ago, when Poland was part of the USSR, I had a Polish lecturer at college. Obviously, as students who knew everything, we laughed at him being a Communist and falling for all the Russian propaganda.
He told us that we were not exempt in the UK. He said the BBC spins stuff constantly. At that time there were many changes of government in South America. He told us to look out for the words the BBC used to describe the new government. Did it call it a government or a regime or possibly even a junta? If the BBC called it a government that meant it was officially approved of. Any other name meant it was not officially approved of.
Shortly afterwards, I heard an account of the nasty Ruskies causing some violent incident on the BBC but shortly afterwards I happened to be playing with a radio that could receive "short wave" transmissions. The same incident was related by an English-speaking Russian news outlet and I recognised the events but the blame had magically completely reversed. Who to believe?
Don't always agree with this gentleman but he's definitely right on this one.
Used to religiously watch HIGNFY, QT, NewsNight, C4 News, BBC News and listen to BBC Radio 4. In the last 5 years all became unbearable and stopped.
C4 News has gone so downhill recently, and QT fell from the late 90s.
Same. C4 News was the last to go, but it became so woke it was unwatchable.
Join the club!
You did well to last that long.
Stopped watching C4 news when Jon Snow took over from Peter Sissons, I noticed a shift from reporting the news to advocacy ‘’journalism.’’
Glad to know that Mr. Hitchens is heading toward shouting at the radio. I think he is in good company.
As a former soviet citizen i concur!
They hate white British and are constantly injecting guilt to reduce challenges to the population replacement and genocide underway. It is happening all across the West (even Down Under) all at the same time. It is overtly coordinated and WW3 is essentially the governments vs traditional European whites now. Evil.
Pravda is not Isvestya and Isvestya is not Pravda" they used to say for the two top Soviet newspapers.
The BBC is a surviving dinosaur, long past it's live by date!
Expiry date
if Labour get in, they will give it a license to carry on as usual. Expect to see a big push for the Labour Party on the BBC
@@insertnamehere5146 The BBC was made as a Nationalised by A tory government of 1927
True mate
@@insertnamehere5146 The BBC Chairman is a Tory, most of the management are Tory, the way Corbyn was treated by the BBC shows they are not even left-wing never mind socialist or communist which are two different things. The New Culture Forum is very right wing shady organisation backed by some big businesses and tax avoiders who loved Liz Truss' damaging budget.
I stopped watching TV generally, but the News in particular, many years ago and pretty much read most of the time. That's been one benefit of making TV unwatchable.
I stopped watching it in 2009.
Yes we don’t watch television news - certainly not the BBC.
I put all of the BBC channels on the "Do Not Recommend Channel" list. That way none of their garbage even appears in my suggestions.
Me too. Just tune them out.
I need to teach myself to do this..
My finger never goes anywhere near the BBC button on my remote. Thank god for TH-cam, it's a positive goldmine for good docs and tv dramas all, I hasten to add, made over 30 years ago.
A vote for conservative is a vote for labour,
VOTE REFORM UK.
👍👊💪 GO NIGE !!!!
How does that work then? A vote for a party that has no chance of getting in as against a party that has some chance of getting in to stop Labour getting in.
@@alh915 the conservatives are cooked dude. They've let us down too many times & most recently done so with a big majority which should've made policy & law making straightforward. There's an entire subsection of society that flat out refuse to vote Tory anyway due to the Thatcher years. A new right of centre party without any of that baggage is needed.
Vote REFORM UK 🇬🇧🏴💪🏻♥️🙏
@@alh915 You do realise Sunak has finally sunk the good ship Tory? The polls tell us that.
@@jt5765 I'm not disputing that, it's the logic of thinking a vote for Reform will have any greater chance of stopping Labour. The only way to stop Labour is to vote for whichever party in your constituency has the best chance of defeating the Labour candidate. Hold your nose and vote. Dude🤔
Thankyou for as always a very valued opinion 🙏
God bless common folk
Common folk! Peter Hitchens is a very rich privately educated man not a common man. The BBC Chairman is a Tory, most of the management are Tory, the way Corbyn was treated by the BBC shows they are not even left-wing never mind socialist or communist which are two different things. The New Culture Forum is very right wing shady organisation backed by some big businesses and tax avoiders who loved Liz Truss' damaging budget.
Don't watch any news or read any newspapers. Keep your mind uncluttered.
If it is important enough you'll hear about it.
Same.
I only listen to news on the radio or read it online, but hardly ever via an online newspaper or the bbc website
I used to go to Poland with my parents every year for 6 weeks in the summer from 1966 to 1980. My family constantly kept me informed on how to behave and what to say and not say out in public. This was done in an effort to help me avoid having trouble with the communist authorities whom controlled the country from the end of WW2. Having been brought up in England through the sixties to eighties where freedom of speech and expression were the norm It really hit home the differences of everyday life and I
learned to appreciate my good fortune of living in the UK and the freedoms I took for granted. The changes that have occurred in UK society in the last 20 years bring back those memories of times spent with my family back home and I am sorry to say that with the creeping restriction of people's freedoms, and right to voice strongly held opinions in England give me the same feelings that had all those years ago in communist Poland. Much in the way that Peter Hichens finds that watching a national News Channel in the UK reminds him of broadcasts made in the communist Soviet Union.
The BBC Chairman is a Tory, most of the management are Tory, the way Corbyn was treated by the BBC shows they are not even left-wing never mind socialist or communist which are two different things. The New Culture Forum is very right wing shady organisation backed by some big businesses and tax avoiders who loved Liz Truss' damaging budget.
B.B.C. has massively deteriorated. We used to listen to B.B.C. with confidence. Those days are over.
Get your household to vote REFORM
Best if we don't vote at all.
Excellent two men.
The Reform Party have scored a massive own goal by bringing in Charlie " personally I think if your not vaccinated you should be able to walk the street " Mullins... aka Poundland Rod Stewart
And where is Ben Habib?
AKA Sh*t Rod
@@camrileyindeed, where is Ben? Thought last week, we were missing his logic. Hope he’s ok? Perhaps just on holiday at the wrong time 🙄🤣
Is that really any different though from Farage wanting Blair back as some sort of V program rollout Czar and Tice and Dr. Bull calling for mandates on carehome and NHS workers?
Mullons is not standing as a Reform MP, and his money is as good as anyone's, provided he doesn't expect to have any influience on policy.
BBC: when rioters are called protesters
And people who stand up for themselves and others called out as far right hooligans!!
"BBC News Reminds Me of Soviet TV"
That's because both are run by the same people....
The bagel people….
What is almost unbelievable is the number of people I see who claim the BBC is biased to the right. 😂
I've met a few like that and come to the conclusion that they're either being dishonest or are so far to the left that their world view is seriously distorted.
The are many comments here that are suggesting the BBC is biased to the left. If the BBC is being criticised by the left for being too far right and by the right for being too far left it is reasonable to conclude it is walking a path between the two and exploring both.
I saw Nick Robinson interview Jeremy Corbyn a while back. He showed him total deference and was very polite when he asked his questions. The left claimed this was Tory bias. Now look at how people on the right are treated by BBC presenters, questions are almost shouted at them, they are repeatedly interrupted by the presenter when trying to answer and the presenters often try to put words in their mouths or change the question. Now if that isn't showing political bias I don't know what is. The lefties are only interested in hearing their political views, the very act of questioning them is perceived as right wing political bias even more so if the person being asked a question can't answer it. When I was younger I was more of a lefty than anything else but I saw through them, a lot of them are really very insecure people unable to think for themselves who walk around with very large chips on their shoulders. That's why they are so easily indoctrinated. The fact that hard line socialism has basically failed everywhere it has been tried seems to escape them as does the fact that since the capitalist West moved in a more woke left leaning direction it too began to fail.
The BBC has many biases which include a bias towards the Establishment. This is often seen as supporting the Government, and when the Government is Conservative the BBC is accused of parroting Government policy. I think it's more the case that the BBC only challenges the Government when the Government wants to do something the BBC doesn't agree with. Of course, a properly run BBC would not have its own opinions, but we're not getting back to that any time soon.
everyone thinks the BBC is biased and that's how we know it's not. What's amazing here is the level of paranoid delusional nonsense.
Peter Hitchens talking complete sense as usual. Two civilised men having a civilised discussion without shouting.
This last week a news channel , here in Portugal, showed a ‘documentary’ produced by Sky Uk. The subject was something along the lines of ‘here are people who were Covid skeptics, and they’re not very bright. Look they come from Stockport and go camping with others who actively thrive upon a diet of bad weather and misinformation.’ And so it went on , but by the time it was over, the Portuguese viewers were in no doubt that they should be on their guard not to follow Van driving thickness from England and remember to stay firmly on the side of Brussels and the clever folk from the left. I couldn’t quite catch if it was a co- production with Disney.
Be aware that Sky News UK is owned by CNN (communist News Network) of the USA.
Sky News Australia is owned by the Murdoch organisation and 100% different.
The rot happened when to say virtuous nice and sympathetic things became more important than doing the right thing
100%.... VOTE REFORM
100% stop voting.
I haven’t watched MSM for 30 years
I used to love the BBC, especially radio 4. From a very young age, when most of my contemporaries were listening to radio 1, I was happily listening to and learning from radio 4. I am so sad that I can no longer bear to listen to or watch any of their programming. I think that goes for most awake people of my generation. Such a shame that it has been infiltratated and taken over by communist, woke morons and, is now, not worth listening to anymore.
That’s “progress”, I suppose!
I hardly ever watch modern dramas now. The writing is nothing like the great 70s 80s dramas before the thought police days. The last American drama i enjoyed was six feet under. So i tend to watch all the retro stuff, which of course included the creme de la creme of acting talent
I watched the first episode of Miami Vice and it was surprisingly very good.
Avoid going to the theatre- unless you enjoy being brainwashed about all things woke.
@@InfinitePlain I can imagine. At the time it was probably called brash, violent, overly sexualised American trash but probably thoughtfully written and well crafted viewed today.
Farage was on the Today programme today. The chairwoman did to her credit let Farage speak. However, it felt begrudging on her part, like she was told she would have to have him on and she was codescending but I think she is always like that!
Kneeling footballers was the last straw for me…cancelled 4 years ago. Not another penny…ever.
spot on as always
I threw out the TV in 1998.
I don’t watch BBC News, and I have refused to pay for a TV license to fund it for many years!.
Occasionally a letter arrives ( well about once a month ) from TV licensing addressed to ' The legal occupier' . This letter should be returned unopened marked : ' legal occupier , not known here, please return "
Oh I’ve had hundreds of them, I just put them through my shredder unopened!.
I’ve even had them on many occasions sending me letters that they were coming on a particular day, but they never come!.
Former news junkie here. The only BBC channel I have on my presets now is Radio 3
Australian news is the same. As someone who follows politics, geopolitics and cultural trends very closely I used to watch commercial news (most local), followed by the ABC (most national), followed by SBS (multicultural service - most international). About 10 yrs ago I realised I was watching not to get news, but to see what they might be telling everyone today. Now I don't watch them at all .... as it is not only a waste of time but incredibly monotonous (same propaganda every day) and infuriatingly frustrating (increasing my stress levels no end!).
Same abc are bbc full of islamofascists and neo nazis gross
Stopped watching news programmes about 5 years ago as it became clear that bias was involved in everything that is said.
I stopped watching have i got news when it just focused on bashing Brexit.
The very best HIGNFY episode was with William Shatner hosting.
Same here...that was the turning point.
Smell the coffee moment ? We can only take so much entertainment . When the system has to push back against the will of the people . People wake up !! Wat happens next is democracy 😂
I wrote to the Private Eye guy who's always on it. His dreadful publication bashes Brexit mercilessly. I reminded him when Private Eye constantly criticised the EU, when the UK were members. They even ran a special column dedicated to doing so. I asked him why they were happy to pour scorn on the EU when we belonged to it, yet now mock us for leaving it. He couldn't provide a satisfactory answer , because there isn't one; it's rank hypocrisy.
I stopped watching it when Ian Hislop joked about the Paris shootings. Unbelievable.
I totally agree with Peter legacy. Media is Becoming like State-sponsored propaganda machine I’ve stopped listening to it for many months now and cancelled my TV license. It’s atrocious
Excellent journalist
I used to love HIGNFY until the Brexit campaign got going and ONLY then did I realise they were pushing THEIR OWN views. I haven't watched it or BBC since. Channel four are just as bad and ITV not far behind!
Hislop and Merton like to pretend they’re morally superior but they’re quite happy to take 20 grand per episode while the bbc threatens pensioners with jail if the don’t buy a licence.
Not only do I not watch mainstream news, I no longer watch any television or even listen to mainstream radio anymore. I'm glad this interview has made it to me as I was worried I was some sort of conspiracy nutter.
I gave up on BBC TV and Radio way back, it all became so obvious that it was slanted and woke.
I must agree with Peter completely, I stopped watching the BBC over 12 years ago ,reading newspapers errr no, some independent radio programmes maybe, yes it's sad really, younger generations just don't know any equivalent .
Totally agree with Peter, at 53 I’ve been through the whole genre radio 1-2-4 the 6-10 o’clock news, question time news night and this week with Andrew Neil. However today I’d rather have a thermal lance placed in my retina than listen to or watch any of that current content. Minus Andrew Niel who is now irrelevant. What on earth has been allowed to happen to our national broadcaster over the last 40 years. Can someone please tell me.
It's the long march. They (the enemy, the technocratic madmen, the Scientific Marxists) have captured it all now. Media, education, police, HoC, etc. We are undergoing permanent political propaganda and everything is becoming politicised. From the weather, to the food we eat, to the racism of the countryside. In time our past will be erased and so will we, and within a century no one will even know we were here.
I stopped renewing my TV license years ago, as I no longer wish to support the BBC, which appears to have been taken over by activists. This means no iPlayer and no broadcast TV of any kind, but we all need to make small sacrifices to maintain our integrity. "Black History Month" contains fanciful outpourings which are plainly made-up to suit an agenda. Gender Identity is everywhere, and drama re-writes history with the aim of showing the past how the Beeb would like it to be. I once worked with the BBC on a technical project. It used to be an admirable organisation, if an inefficient one. I do still listen to R4, but I switch off the moment I hear some daft wokery, which sadly never takes long.
They'd better not take the knee on Sunday!
I'd forgotten all about that rubbish.
When they do It now it's so desultory as to be meaningless
After the Today program's two legendary hosts Brian Redhead and John Timpson moved on, the program has sadly declined, bottoming out with Humphreys who, for me, epitomised everything I hate in bbc news broadcasting and put the final nail in the coffin of radio 4 morning news. 😢
But Rajan is the most ghastly of all
@@stephfoxwell4620 thank goodness I've not had that experience!
@@philgazz7273 He can barely speak coherent English.
Peter's point about the tight briefing of MPs was laid bare this week, when the Tory Party chairman gave a word perfect reply to a question he hadn't been asked three times.
Yes, I am old enough to still remember when politicians appearing on TV actually said what they thought.
Melvin Braggs Arena was a good cultural program
Years ago he used to be called Mervyn Bragg and it changed to Melvin suddenly. I never trusted him after that.
@@seamusburke9101 Was he ever Mervyn? I'm getting on a bit and I don't remember him ever being known as Mervyn.
The South Bank Show - you mean with Melvin Bragg? That was on ITV. Arena was on the BBC - but yes a great TV series for the arts.
Strangely enough there was a time when I looked forward to news night, with Jeremy paxman of course. Now I detest BBC news with a passion.
@@seamusburke9101 You've been mandela-ed!
Got it in one not forgetting the Grauniad, I use the FSU, Private Eye and yourselves
Radio 4
I used to listen practically every waking moment
They left me
I get my news from the local drunk down the pub , he is not a biased as the BBC and he also talks more sense
WOW ! PETER HITCHENS---SMILING. WHAT MAKES ME, SMILE, AFTER i'VE SPENT AN AGE SPITTING BLOOD, IS THE TOTAL REVERSAL OF OUR MEDIA, COMPARED WITH THE SOVIETS.
I INCLUDE ALL USA MEDIA TOO. HOW WE WOULD CRITICISE AND MOCK 'IZVESTIA', PRAVDA, & TASS. OH HOW WE LAUGHED; AND NOW ???
The BBC was nationalised by the Conservatives in 1927
Channel 4 news got their own problems too. Tonight 'bout 15 mins in , threw the control at the tv, broke it, threw it outside. They are surely mixing reverse psychology with accelerationalism. Should sue 'em. .
Channel 4 news is even worse than BBC news.
Sounds very similar to Australias ABC, they learnt well from the BBC.
I turned off the old/failed media back in 1995. I can only imagine how they act these days.
as Wilbur Smith said: Shout at the devil. ( i will leave it to your judgement who it is )
I remember that even in late communist is Czechoslovakia you could hear criticism of the government on Czechoslovakia news. Now, you only hear criticism of governments that the global elite disagrees with.
Never a more true word spoken.
Dont pay your licence fee,they can't prosecute you.
cancelled my TV Licence about 6 year ago...if I'm at somebodies house and they have TV news on it literally makes me cringe.
I totally gave up on and almost totally stopped seeing MSM News a few years ago - one of the best things I ever did. Still pick up snippets, but that’s it and my head is better for it.
It happened to me too, anything newsworthy will pop up here anyway.
I used to have multiple tabs open for bbc news, would check them regularly over the day. But haven't used it now in over half a dozen years.
Clarissa! Great Woman,met her at several Gamefairs with Johnny Scott,then in local pub..no booze for her though!!!
I still watch BBC News and Sky News. I like to know about the latest propaganda,which so many unthinkingly accept as fact. Forewarned is forearmed! I mainly watch GB News though. Yes,they too have an agenda,but it's far from being a mainstream one. This channel tackles so many matters, that are swept under the carpet by the Left-liberal Establishment. The latter had a monopoly on defining "truth", which extended back to my young days,in the Seventies. Not any more...thanks to GB News and social media!
Yes! I only watch TV news in New Zealand now to test my commitment to stoicism or as an eye rolling exercise.
It's a global issue. Corporate influence in all things. The money behind the power controls the message.
My trajectory has been the same as the speaker.
Brussels broadcast corporation
Excellent interview.
Agree totally
Completely agree 👍
I still flick through news channels, the only reason being is to see what 💩 they are pushing on that particular day..
Hitchens has been telling us for decades that the Conservative party is useless and should be allowed to die.
He also tells us that Labour are even worse than the Tories.
But he also tells us, that to consider anyone else, such as Reform UK or the BNP, are dangerous far-right extremists and should be avoided at all costs.
He is a typical old school Conservative.
He has made a career for himself, over decades, telling us all how terrible things are.
And just like all Conservatives, whether the modern or old school variety, he provides no solutions whatsoever.
He is, perhaps right, about one thing.
Conservatism is useless and should be allowed to die.
But that should include ALL the different varieties of it.
It has never succeeded in conserving anything.
It would be only fitting, that the last thing it failed to conserve, is itself.
Should the provision of solutions be the prerequisite for a journalist and commentator? His primary role is to react and to expose, and he does so, as you well pointed out, in equal measure across the board. You have some opinions on Conservatism. To that I say, do not confuse conservatism with the Tory Party, not when we have endured 27 years of Blairite governance in this country.
I stopped watching these programmes, too. I never listen even to Radio 3 any longer.
THE BIAST BROADCASTING COMPANY OH DEAR NO !
My wife insists on retaining the licence so that she can watch Masterchef etc. If I enter the room when the TV is on I feel like I want to scream after about 2-3 minutes. Because I cannot avoid the licence I have to avoid the TV itself. The number of people who see nothing wrong with mainstream TV are still in the majority I'm afraid.
My fear is to end up as a vegetable. But imagine ending up like that and still hearing and understanding what's going on around you. And then the tv is on and you can't smash it.
I don't think vegetables perceive that much by that stage but on the plus side they can go well in broths or soup.
Big fan of these guys. What a breath of fresh air.
I agree with him completely about TV news.
Even Radio 4 Today programme isn’t worth listening to.
Another area killed by woke is bbc radio comedies.
The demise of the sometime great BBC was inevitable after they abolished the 11-plus and Secondary Modern schools, right, Peter?
BBC propagandists telling us what to think
Haven't watched it for a long time.
He is spot on
Just as many thousands of Britons are raised now on Scargill Row or Nelson Mandela Way, so in our glorious future Far Right Reich children will grow up on Scruton Road and Hitchens lane, immersed in Hayek and latin, Greek tragedy and opera.
It's nice to see Peter smiling.
Vremya Soviet TV, likened to Western MSM, the idea should catch on !
I used to work with someone who had been in BBC current affairs. He said it was meant to be entertainment.
It would be lamentable enough if it were only that, but it's not anything like so benign.
Peter will, of course, be an avid GB News viewer
@stevebell6057
Well, duh! He knows which way the MSM have turned, he ain't stupid.
(BTW, if you're the cartoonist, love your work. Esp the one about the idealist student who winds up as everything he abhorred: living in Birmingham, working as a teacher. Brilliant)
My grievance is not with MSM content-creation per se: they are only producing what their data analysis tells them their audiences want.
The real grievance is with the audiences, for wanting it.
People aren't stupid because they've been made to be.
They are stupid because they don't mind being stupid.
VOTE REFORM MY FRIENDS...GOD BLESS(not that Allah tosser)YOU ALL!👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧👍👍
Sadly they're both the same deity, or the figment of the wild imaginations of the gullible and brainwashed.
I still remember when they were fond of telling us we loved them. It's not that i dislike the BBC, I utterly despise them.