Women’s representation in movies: Not half good enough
Many have been outraged by BBC attitudes towards women from sports personality to nominating a panda as a female face of 2011 but Hollywood does little better.
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And the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2011 could have been…
Shamik Das profiles some of the leading British sportswomen, asking why not one of them was nominated for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award in 2011.
Why is the BBC promoting scam merchants?
Alex Hern covers the questionable business model of Unbound, a company which has got huge amounts of free publicity from Sky and the BBC.
John Humphrys is wrong, wrong, wrong on social security; here’s why
Declan Gaffney explains why John Humphrys is wrong on social security and welfare reform, ahead of the presenter’s BBC2 documentary on “The Future State of Welfare”.
Lansley told to his face why his NHS reforms are wrong, wrong, wrong
On last night’s Question Time health secretary Andrew Lansley was told to his face by a GP exactly why no one trusts him on the NHS, reports Shamik Das.
Griffin runs for the hills when confronted with fraud allegations
BNP leader Nick Griffin was once more shown up for the coward he is by the BBC last night, reports Left Foot Forward’s Shamik Das.
Cuts threaten to “destroy BBC Wales” claim NUJ
The National Union of Journalists has told Left Foot Forward reductions to programming threaten to “destroy BBC Wales as a separate entity”, reports Ed Jacobs.
Cameron fuels right’s hate fixation on the BBC
In the wake of the phone hacking scandal, the right’s hatred of the BBC has loosened their grip on a core consevartive principle – upholding the rule of law.
On planet Tory, hackgate shows the real problem is… The BBC
The Right’s reaction to the News International, Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal has been, bizarrely, to rail against the BBC, reports Daniel Elton.
Aung San Suu Kyi: “An icon in Damascus”
Left Foot Forward’s Matt Gwilliam reports on the second 2011 BBC Reith Lecture from Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.