Strangely. I misread the headline.

That is why the US Constitution's 1st Amendment is written as it is:



Freedom of the press extends not only to the approved "Media", but to Billy Joe Bubba Bob as he writes the Atchafalaya Mobile Home Park Daily Times as well. Even if he only publishes it electronically. Unfortunately, OUR Betters routinely ignore that, just as they do so many OTHER inconvenient parts of the document. Which is why I wish you well with the Harrogate Agenda, but doubt you shall have much success in implementing same. I am firmly convinced that the ruling elite only understand one thing. And until Mere Citizens are willing to deal with them thusly, they shall continue onward unfazed.

Conservative MP Karl McCartney, who obtained the information through a Parliamentary Question, said he was concerned that receiving the money could affect the way the BBC covers events in the European Union.

He said: “People will quite rightly continue to question what influence the EU exerts over the BBC, particularly in the light of EU loans and grants, and the BBC's often one-sided coverage of matters relating to Europe.

“This and other examples of BBC bias and left wing leaning politicised reporting worry and concern both me and my colleagues.”

Conservative MP Dominic Raab said that this “financial dependence of the BBC on the EU casts a shadow over its editorial independence”.

He added: “The BBC covers EU issues on a daily basis, so people will understandably - and legitimately - question whether there is a link between the money it receives and the reporting it broadcasts.

"Whether or not there is an actual conflict of interest, it risks undermining their perceived impartiality.”

Interesting ...

To my mind, it matters not at all what the fourth estate thinks, their opinions count for little [excepting the graun of course but that is a confirmation propaganda feel good rag for the 'intelligentsia'].

The BBC runs the agenda in Britain, a survey of people showed that 47% of Brit's rely on the beeb for news and info' - that's an astonishing figure and one which makes me very gloomy.

The power of the idiots lantern, reaches far and wide. The maleficent Socialist authoritarianism of the beeb, colours the political landscape of Britain, it is the medium through which the useful idiots and common purpose apparats drive home the jaundiced political ideologies of Gramsci and of the multiculturalists, the priesthood of the global warming cult and all of the liberal left filth which has utterly trashed British social mores and morality. The BBC, they are complicit too - in the Savile cover up - that whole sordid paedophile culture, which some say reaches right to the very top of the liberal establishment in Britain.

The press in Britain, are bought and paid for, the whole Levenson inquiry was a kangaroo court designed to defame Murdoch but ultimately got carried away in its own self righteous attitude - truly what an epic waste of public money and time and Dave will bin the findings anyway - we do not need to worry about the 'freedom of the press' in Britain - it was a chimera and still is a fantasy - as you say Dr. N - the really free press was silenced in WWII.

It is the BBC, who are the real problem, democracy has no chance of flowering here until its big gob, mouthpiece and apologist for the corruption endemic in Westminster and Brussels: is silenced once and for all time.

As you have referred to Duff Cooper, just want to say that I am thoroughly enjoying "The Many Not the Few".

That is all.