But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.

George Orwell – Nineteen Eighty-four

Yesterday, two Iranian nationals who had previously arrived in the UK on small boats were charged with plotting attacks on the UK’s Jewish community. One would think that the reporting of this extremely worrying development would feature prominently on any UK-based news outlet’s website. I’ve just taken a look at the BBC’s news website and I see that it is item seventeen, buried in the subsection ‘More Top Stories’. Amongst the items considered more newsworthy were:

“Woman deceived ex-partner that she had given birth to his babies, judge rules”

“Traitors claim their first victim as Richard E Grant tries to save his skin”

“EV drivers love their cars, but some passengers feel sick – this could be why”

“Spoiler alert! Is social media ruining big gig surprises?”

“Women given shorts at Oktoberfest to prevent upskirting”

“Why thousands of couples are choosing Scotland to say ‘I do’”

Only two ‘top stories’ were considered less deserving of its readers’ attention.

Such burying of items looks highly suspicious to those of us who accuse the BBC of being institutionally biased when it comes to reporting upon matters of Jewish and Arabic politics. Despite such suspicions, the BBC seeks to present itself as an impartial and trustworthy outlet, and it ‘invests’ a great deal of the license-payers’ money in promoting this image. It is an image that suits the government of the day.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has recently issued a consultation paper titled ‘Watch this space: a new strategic direction for UK media – green paper and public consultation’. Amongst the more notorious proposals up for discussion is the following:

Prominence for trustworthy news: We will explore legislative options to require social media to make news content from PSM providers – and potentially also national and local news publishers – prominent and easily discoverable. This is crucial for countering misinformation, especially during times of social unrest or crisis.

The document has a glossary, but there is no entry for ‘misinformation’. This is not surprising, however, since it is a document that has been largely guided by the Government Office for Science and their paper, ‘False and Misleading Information:  An Evidence Summary and Map for Policy and Practice’. As I have previously discussed, this paper was guided by ‘experts’ who felt that when it comes to discussing matters of mis- and disinformation, defining one’s terms would be a huge distraction. It also happens to be a paper that promotes so-called prebunking – again, an unsurprising move given that the majority of the consulted experts were behavioural scientists schooled in the dark arts of nudging.

Should these individuals ever get around to defining what it is that they are willing to go to such great lengths to suppress, might I suggest that it should include the avoidance of editorial decision-making that places greater importance upon the perils of sex pests at a piss-up than it does the UK’s growing anti-Semitism and the importation of terrorism to these shores.

Rant over.

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  2. I note that the story has now made it up to fourth on the list. It’s almost as though people have rumbled them and they are quickly trying to put matters right.

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  3. What has surprised most is that our Biased Blatant Corrupt did not report the attack by 100 Jewish passengers on a innocent pilot who was valiantly stabbing the captain whilst trying to land the plane vertically, possibly on Israel’s territory but more likely Saudi.
    Oh the opportunity was starring them in the face, the only problem was those damn Jews had started filming and sending footage out- note to Home Sec and Transport Minister- mobile phones to be banned from aircraft cabins, not even the BBC’s skilled cut and paste editors could spin this one……..

    Look how the “MSM” reported this attempted massacre of 170 + crew, and the one that sticks is the one I heard “two pilots have been having a scrap in the cockpit”, no context, no follow on, just two guys having a fight,they never report on the scraps outside a pub, restaurant, theatre or shop, and too be fair your imagination goes into overdrive, what caused it, did one want to push a particular button………..then as the day drags on, it becomes evident that an attempt had been made to murder everyone, the captain got the door open, the passengers jumped in- don’t mess with the Jewish population- unlike the wimp West, they want to live and will fight to ensure their people can live.

    I mentioned this to a friend who stated that no one will believe a word that Netanyahu says and anyway, would it be fact or convenient fiction- I was not going to get into a discussion, his views are shaped by the Guardian, but it concerns me that so many people in the West don’t see that Israel is our frontline and currently we are allowing a potential “fifth” column mass within our borders, slowly eroding our will and confidence.

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  4. The BBC article also says:

    Rahman Salehi, 34, of Salford, and Salam Ahmadyan, 36, from Liverpool….

    On the BBC radio report I listened to earlier, they were both described as being “from” rather than “of” UK locations. It doesn’t much matter either way – they are not of or from Salford or Liverpool, they are from Iran. They currently reside in Salford and Liverpool, which is very different.

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  5. Davisonfamily,

    I don’t have to take sides in the Arab-Jew debate. It is sufficient to note that anti-Semitism is on the rise in the UK and that allowing people to enter the country unvetted when they are from parts of the world that are hostile to the West poses a security concern. If a particular news organisation is to be given a privileged position by the government, I would want that organisation to be one that respects those facts in its reporting. I think there is a suspicion that the BBC is taking sides in the debate, and as a consequence it is failing to prioritise concerns in a way that would be appreciated by a large section of the public.

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  10. “BBC Complaint – A Victory”

    https://dailysceptic.org/2026/10/03/bbc-complaint-a-victory/

    The BBC’s mealy-mouthed acknowledgement it was wrong?

    The wording of the script should have been better, but please be assured there was no intent of bias.

    The point, of course, is that the BBC shows its bias every day. But it truly believes it’s unbiased. The complaint was about the BBC’s treatment of Farage in a report about Reform’s funding. As the author of the Daily Sceptic article says:

    …the claimed “no intent of bias” masks the fact that it would only have been possible to write the original script if the journalist concerned was operating from the position of assuming Farage is guilty, regardless of the Parliamentary Commissioner’s ongoing investigation.

    You don’t have to be a supporter of Farage and Reform (I’m not) to be aware that the BBC loathes them, and does everything in its power to discredit them (admittedly Farage and Reform often make it all too easy for them).

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