The BBC are confusing England and Britain again.  In this story about the poor availability of cancer drugs they keep referring to the UK when they actually mean England. England doesn’t have access to the best cancer drugs because they’re so expensive.  They are, however, quite often available in the rest of the UK at [...]

There is a poll on the BBC News website asking if St Geroges Day should be a public holiday or not. The poll currently stands at 85.78% in favour with 4,994 votes. However, it wouldn’t be the BBC without a bit of anti-English bias – despite 4,280 votes in favour of a St Georges Day public holiday, out [...]

The Biased Broadcasting Corporation always deny that they are anti-English.  They have a BBC Scotland, BBC Wales and BBC Northern Ireland.  They have a BBC English Regions which is making an increasing amount of BBC2′s programmes but there is no BBC England. There’s an election in May, you might have heard mention of it.  The [...]

The BBC News website has an article on the union in which the writer – a political editor for BBC Scotland – questions the value of the union. The article only appears on the Scotland pages of course, we can’t have English people seeing someone questioning the value of the union after all. The article [...]

Alistair Darling, the English Transport Minister elected in Scotland, is set to introduce a pay-as-you-drive scam in England but not in Scotland where he was elected. The story was reported on BBC Breakfast this morning, minus the bits about the discrimination unsurprisingly. Why is it always the English that pay?  Even when Scots drive in [...]

No matter how hard the BBC try to bury the story, it just isn’t going away … The Business Next May is the 300th anniversary of the Union of the Scottish and English Parliaments, which followed the Union of the Crowns in 1603 and began the United Kingdom. It should be a cause for much [...]

Yesterday’s poll in the Sunday Telegraph was possibly the most important news story of the year.  The results of the poll combined with the SNP’s projected win in the Scottish elections means that it is increasingly likely that the 300th anniversary of the Act of Union next year will be the last. So where is [...]

Mike Knowles, the chairman of the Campaign for an English Parliament (CEP), has written a strongly worded letter of complaint to the BBC over its anti-English bias in general and specifically over this regionalisation “story” which I covered the other day. On a related note, anyone in the West Midlands who is opposed to – or [...]

The BBC have carried out a poll in the North East euroregion on devolution and concluded that there is support for regional government because 69% want local control on issues such as transport.  The people questioned said they didn’t like unelected regional assemblies and only 20% of people think they do a worthwhile job. The [...]

Whilst sitting on the sofa in agony last night (I’ll explain later) I watched Holby City with Mrs Sane. Part of the plot was an … unconventional … doctor who decided to help out a patient who had sold her kidney on the black market to pay for AIDS medication for her brother in Ghana.  [...]

Nick Robinson’s blog on the BBC News website had some coverage of Boris getting himself into trouble. I posted a couple of comments, one of them explaining what Boris meant to say about the Ignorant Jock not being suitable for Prime Minister and one of them debunking the oft-peddled myth that North Sea oil subsidises [...]