John Humphrys on the BBC's 'liberal bias' | Liddle's Got Issues

[@robinwells8879]

The BBC represents such a small section of British society nowadays that it doesn't warrant the licence fee and should be cut loose to find its own way.

[@robinwells8879]

Paul Boobier rumour has it that there aren't enough Guardian readers to keep the Guardian afloat😉

[@fanfeck2844]

Robin Wells , the Guardian has an offshore trust fund, and doesn’t need to sell any papers

[@karenroberts1982]

how can anybody honestly say the BBC isn't biased

[@stephmill8547]

I for one, no longer watch or listen to BBC nonsense ( 5 years now) I urge all to follow me, until it is stripped from the top and restructured !

[@paulmccloud9395]

Same, 9 years for me. The ONLY thing that was good was the David Attenborough nature documentaries. But I either own all these or they are available elsewhere.

[@stephmill8547]

@King Brilliant Good man. My main prob is with the news and media side of the Beeb.

[@ivorbiggun710]

@@stephmill8547 Woke drama as well. Such a turn off.

[@ivorbiggun710]

I hadn't watched it for a few months but just happened to tune in to News 24 the other day. Four people and a presenter sitting round a table talking about current affairs. All of them overtly middle class left wingers. Just the same old same old.

[@nigelmitchell351]

I still look and listen to the BBC, but then I watch RT, you have to go to both extremes for balance?

[@paulleader7000]

we need to clear the BBCs house out completely

[@thewatchman6074]

@Boris Farage Well, maybe your right, because they've certainly got plenty of anti-white European activists there.

[@DeanJuvenal]

Of what/whom?

[@stevenhowe6677]

STOP paying for a 'license fee' the more people boycott the biased BBC the sooner it will be gone.

[@rogernewton7831]

And stop contributing to Sky. They are worse believe me.

[@stephmill8547]

I am with you, however. The license in question, is issued to receive a colour signal. Yes it does help fund the Beeb. Consider it like an old fashioned dog license. Purely a stealth tax, in effect.

[@AtheistEve]

steph mill We should definitely bring back the dog licence.

[@brynwright5156]

stopped paying 2 years ago, miss some programmes love some of the presenters but sacrifice is necessary to make the point

[@leenunn6446]

don't pay for your licence folks

[@davidwalker2296]

Yeah. Break the law and get a criminal record. Really sound advice

[@gerttjildsen5612]

Tax.

[@leenunn6446]

grow a pair of balls

[@davefitzpatrick4841]

@@davidwalker2296 if you don't watch live TV it's not illegal! Onus is on them to prove you do, and you just don't give them access to your house.

[@hamishsomerville4064]

Got a pint of milk in fridge does that mean I need a cow in the garden

[@thedativecase9733]

Rod Liddle was a bloody good editor. I have listened to the Today Show since I was a teenager and it used to be an excellent show . Now John Humphrys has left it will never be the same . They used to have real battle hardened journalists on the show, people with character and distinctive voices. Now they all sound the same. Because fundamentally they are all the same. It was the same with the News Quiz whose format was ripped off for HIGNFY on TV. In it's early days the panel was made up of real journalists, cynical, funny and sometimes far from sober. Now it's full of "comedians" that no-one outside the M25 has even heard of and are just not funny - by any standards. It's so sad - I have been a Radio 4 listener virtually all my life, now I can scarcely be bothered with it.

[@meirionowen5979]

An ordinary bloke who made it to the top at the BBC simply on merit. We will never see his like at the BBC again. Elitist, and feigning impartiality, it needs pulling down.

[@binmanblog]

I love the sound of John Humphrys voice, I hope he goes on to do radio plays and documentaries or audio books

[@jonathanmurphy6520]

Two exceptional and brilliant journalists

[@LLLLLLLLLucas]

I cant watch the biased broadcasting corporation anymore....

[@1adebarde]

BBC = Britain's CNN.

[@thewatchman6074]

Spot on.

[@ameyas7726]

What's British Fox News?

[@thewatchman6074]

@@ameyas7726 There is NO British fox news equivalent. OFCOM are globalists.

[@1adebarde]

@@ameyas7726 There isn't one.

[@hejla4524]

@@ameyas7726 There isn't one...that's the problem.

[@thewatchman6074]

I can accurately sum up how the BBC works. On the day that Cameron made his "I will give you a referendum" announcement, I made a written prediction to all my friends and family, that as from tomorrow morning, the "Calais migrant crises" would suddenly, and mysteriously, disappear from our screens completely, (even though it had shoved the "guilt" trip and "racist" trip at the viewer for the last 3 months.) I was 100% correct.

[@Adamgoms]

Hahaha yeah mate course you did

[@thewatchman6074]

@@Adamgoms Yes Adam, that is exactly what I did, and now those same friends and family see the BBC for what they really are, a "State propaganda" outlet, and this is again proving to be the case with the US election fraud evidence which the BBC (and Sky) say is "non-existent", and yet the lawyers now have 240 sworn affidavits of that fraud, several thousand witnesses, and hours of video footage, which has been presented to the Supreme court. I can tell you right now that Biden will NOT be president, and Trump will be reinstated for a further 4 years. I want you to remember Adam. You heard it from me first, not the BBC. Remember this.

[@MrDaiseymay]

The fact that all these once famous and familiar 'Broadcaster's', now retired or sacked, are speaking as one, and confirming what the viewer's/ listener's have been saying for years.

[@MrRQBQ]

If the BBC was privatised, many of those managers would disappear overnight.

[@macca8562]

I can always tell when someone on the bbc is lying, their lips move.

[@Shagnasty1956]

We pay to be indicrtinated! Trying to explain to none British that we pay for this, is hard work.

[@mrjagriff]

Jimmy savile loved Broadmoor ! And was completely at home in the bbc !! Say no more !

[@freethoughtpolice6266]

Nice and quite refreshing to hear someone like Humphrey’s speak out more freely about the machine 👍

[@markcreemore4915]

As an American, I cannot fathom why a publicly funded media company, and moreover one that only leans left, is in the least bit necessary.

[@markcreemore4915]

@Justin Time And I have a pet unicorn, and a bed that can fly.

[@AtheistEve]

Mark Creemore It’s not left-leaning. If anything it has a neo-liberal bias, which has very little to do with socialism. Neo-liberalism is a kind of Etonian gentlemen’s club with a nouveau riche twist; it strives to keep everyone in their place and no apple carts overturned for the few with wealth and power.

[@markcreemore4915]

@@AtheistEve Nonsense! They are passionate missionaries for the vile ersatz religion of intersectionality.

[@Kraken54321]

@@AtheistEve "not left leaning" yeah right 😂 😂 😂

[@AtheistEve]

Climbatize I’m a lefty, I would know if a media company was left leaning. The mainstream media are all neo liberal, pro EU. That isn’t a left wing position. Left wingers are EU-sceptic because of its neo liberal economic stance.

[@peterdixon7734]

Ironically, LGBBCGTW leaves out "i" - people born with an intersex medical condition who do actually need some support but are drowned out in the howling madness.

[@fox39forever]

Good point, well made.

[@joeking1019]

Probably the only genuine transgender situation

[@judgeporceddu8057]

and we know who the '+' includes? fiddlers.

[@karyne826]

John Humphries is one of the very best journalists ever . A true professional, through and through.

[@christophermonk]

Humphrys

[@karyne826]

@@christophermonktwo years too late..🤡

[@kevster1007]

The BBC is a dinosaur and becoming extinct to the Internet

[@jennygw1883]

What the BBC fails to recognise is that it is no longer taken seriously on political issues.

[@jeremysmith8035]

you are aware that liddle is a fascist who lives in a gated mansion in the us arent you?

[@2506JJhudson1990]

Make the BBC subscription! If anybody feels simultaneously that their IQ and bank balance are too high, then I'm perfectly happy for them to pay a BBC subscription to lower both. But forcing an entire nation to pay for highly dogmatic propaganda to make all who watch dumber, doesn't seem to me to be very sensible.

[@srs5933]

It makes perfect sense if that is your aim!

[@paulwild4330]

Can we find the knob at the BBC and turn it off.

[@martinheath5947]

John Humphrys is a National Treasure!

[@raywelsh5335]

It is so sad to see "Auntie" turn into Anti - rational thought. The days have gone where working class people can get anywhere near the BBC, so much for diversity.

[@mosesfeldman6757]

Diversity only means "non-White."

[@basicallywellfed3453]

I stopped taking BBC Radio 4 seriously in 2000 and haven’t looked back. Not just the news, the whole thing. Every programme biased.

[@fenbon3450]

What a decent man Who brought a sense humanity to many difficult news stories particularly during the 1980s & 1990s that few others at the BBC did regardless of any BBC bias.

[@martinorbidans1979]

Oh I miss the BBC so much. After school it was Blue Peter. It felt safe. I know the world has moved on, but Please reform and reset or just stay as you are and lose us more and more. The BBC can be much better than this. Or continue to plough on regardless and slowly sink, as you put on your makeup. The party’s over my friend.

[@joejoejoejoejoejoej]

I used to love listening to John Humphrey’s - I’m so pleased he decided to leave that biased broadcasting corporation !!!!

[@samsteve1000]

He retired you moron.

[@zoomerboomer3109]

It’s such a shame to see what was once such a well respected brilliant tv company which brought to us such things as the David Attenborough series Frozen planet, Life, life of birds etc and also tv shows like top gear, Fawlty towers, Monty Pythons flying circus etc just plunging downwards into degeneracy, unoriginality and overwhelming political liberal bias.

[@aclark903]

Attenborough was part of the problem. A science teacher at my comprehensive wrote to him & got an unbelievably arrogant & patronizing response. What were Dave's actual scientific qualifications?

[@nerdimmunity6690]

These should be longer

[@Jon962-h4i]

The BBC is incredibly biased. It’s a tragedy that it has come to this, but I’d vote to remove public funding.

[@SugarNut777]

I'd disagree with John and Rod that the management are liberal. The narrative is pure left

[@markdavids2511]

If you want the BBC sorted out then stop funding it, like I have for the last 12 years , I’ll never give them another penny. Learn your rights & TV licensings lack of them & it’s easy

[@jeremystalley3391]

Perhaps the most telling moment is when JH says “I speak from profound ignorance....” Pretty much sums up his Today performance in recent years 🙄

[@somecuriosities]

Funny I thought the exact same thing. Can you believe how much public money these kinda guys were/are paid? I shudder at the thought of not being able to see past the end of my nose like that one day.

[@Bungadin2845]

Peter Sissons said the same thing too - after he left, and was told he was mistaken by the BBC. The rot was already there in 1997 when Radio 4 and 5 presenter Jane Garvey let slip on air that when she came to work at Broadcasting House she had to pick her way over the champagne bottles strewn over the floors of the corridors on the morning after the Blair landslide. Once in power New Labour ended the convention of selecting a BBC Director Governor and a Commissioner with different political views. Just like they ended the convention of choosing Speakers for the House of Commons from alternating parties. There were articles in the Guardian after Humphries left arguing he had betrayed the BBC after his retirement and should have been got rid of before as he had previously been suspected of harbouring “right wing” views. (ie non liberal)- which of course count as unacceptable thought crimes. They are so trapped in their own reflection I wonder how many now really believe they are not bias and how many keep their gobs shut while they pick up their enormous salaries.

[@Slarti]

The inside science programme on BBC radio 4 yesterday was about extinction rebellion and gender diversity among Nobel prize winners - WTF!!!

[@UncleBoratagain]

The threats of imprisonment are real and disproportionate.

[@dc0775]

John Humphreys sadly missed, always head and shoulders the most neutral, fair but tough, intelligent interviewer, BBC has now totally descended into the pits

[@galaxytrio]

I like this Rod Little. He's often irrascible, but it's hard to fault him when he's provoked by unreasonable guests or hosts. Despite that, it's obvious he's got a good heart.

[@christophermonk]

Liddle

[@Jezza_One]

Privatise the BBC or better still shut it down.

[@Gabriel-er8pp]

BBC - building Britain's caliphate.

[@daveh9753]

I hugely enjoyed filling in the BBC online opinion form the other day. I bet they don't publish any of my choice comments that they invited me to provide and I would be equally surprised if they publish the results of the survey.

[@philippaine]

From the BBC news website today "The BBC has said an introduction about Dominic Cummings on Tuesday's Newsnight did not meet the required standards of due impartiality. The programme began with presenter Emily Maitlis saying "the country can see" Cummings had "broken the rules" The BBC said the news programme's staff had been reminded about its guidelines. At the beginning of the BBC Two programme, Maitlis said the country was "shocked" that the government could not see that Boris Johnson's aide had broken the rules"."

[@hixyhicks]

I cant stand the namby pamby BBC anymore.It seems treat everyone like we are 5 years old and dont know our own minds.The BBC one day will just be a memory and irrelevant.

[@whiterose6635]

Ln

[@highetk]

I have made complaints to the BBC news team about their bias a few times and asked for a response in the checkbox but they never reply. I think it’s only when people stop paying the licence fee en masse that they’ll take any semblance of notice of the silent majority.

[@andynixon2820]

Jeramy Clarkson . Ordinary people ( who pay the license fee ) loved him but the management despised him because he didn't follow the PC rule book .

[@Tj930]

Wow. I am surprised. Pleasantly

[@sephus99]

Most large organisations employ loads of people whose main job is to hinder the raison d'etre of the organisation. Finance, Legal, HR, Risk. It's usually not without purpose or reason but they can sidetrack the business with nonsense and if they're the parts of the organisation that's growing it's a problem.

[@edmundoftheangles7977]

"alleged" - as if the bias isn't patently obvious

[@grossherman3841]

The BBC have no right to support one side or the other, their mandate is to Inform, Educate and Entertain.

[@martydav9475]

Which is what they do.

[@samsteve1000]

@@martydav9475 Agreed. Show me any other Broadcaster that strives for that!

[@shspurs1342]

This is the wrong title/discussion topping. What they should be talking about is the BBC’s bias towards and unwavering support of Globalism.

[@peterfleming9871]

If JH feels so strongly that the BBC is biased why did he do spend do long there? Very easy to be critical once you gave a secure pension.

[@philging]

So Humphries only speaks out once he's not taking the BBC's over inflated wages and has a book to sell.

[@nordog55]

Every one of their pathetic programmes are riddled with left-wing bias. I can't watch anymore and should have the "ransom fee" withheld to see if they can stand on their own feet. They wouldn't last five minutes.

[@wangdangdoodie]

An interview with Peter Sissons would have been far more illuminating.

[@vladputin3664]

Can't comment I don't use the BBC and wll no longer pay its fees.

[@GrrMeister]

*In their defence The BBC produces absolutely wonderful programs, War & Peace, Poldark, Peaky Blinders, Line of Duty, Call The Midwife, Planet Earth, The Night Manager, Strictly Dancing, Doctor Foster, Gentleman Jack, Happy Valley, the list is endless. I consider my modest licence fee money well spent and for less than £3 a week terrific value compared to 'commercial channels' where you are subject to at least 15 minutes every hour of advertising chair Lifts etc. In France there is an annual TV licence, which, last year, was 116 euros - approx £92. This comes with the taxe d'habitation, which is a local community tax. For many years TV shops have had to inform the government of the name and address of anyone who buys a TV set. The programs are pretty dire! This will soon happen in the UK as many tightfisted cheapskates endeavour to cheat the system - I do not believe ANYONE who states they do not watch the BBC - total rubbish, however I do agree that their 'Political Reporting' is leaning to to the far left, and biased. Watch Sky News Australia for what I consider to be balanced and accurate reporting. In Germany, there is not only a TV license fee, but a **_Radio Fee_** as well for those traditionalists who do not own a TV set. Ordinary TV consumers have the radio fee included in their TV fee.*

[@hunterluxton5976]

You have clearly been brainwashed by the malignancy of the BBC's softening up" agenda. They give you entertainment as a deft means of control. I'm reading David Sedgwick's " BBC Brainwashing Britain". The author is a communications and media lectuer nd journalist. He examines the BBC's Marxist agenda, and how its really a media arm of the Guardian who also have an abject contempt for the working class, conservatives, Christians, White's and anyone pro British. It's well worth a read. Unlike the BBC it's full of facts.

[@noelfortune7920]

I Stoped watching Tv when I got my first Computer, 16 years ago, Didn't like being spoon-fed information like all the children around me, I have an acquired taste for the truth, and that black box wasn't telling it.

[@shiver_me_timbers]

He was holding back big time, you could see it in his face. But 100 decades at the beeb would make you be like that wouldn't it?

[@peterg463]

As with for example Generals and suchlike from the armed forces, these people are happy to take the shilling and toe the line whilst in situ, wait until they have their pensions before telling it as it really is.

[@WatchingtheWorldBurning]

Phfff. John Humfrys talking about ‘liberal’ bias on the BBC is a bit like Jimmy Savile telling me there’s a few perverts in the office.

[@terrortorn]

I simply do not accept that the BBC is filled with nice people who are just naive about their insanity.

[@samsteve1000]

No one has posited that so you're fine in your inanity.

[@terrortorn]

@@samsteve1000 Liddle literally says "They're all nice people". And given the BBC repeatedly deny their bias despite being proven to have it I don't give much for your ability to interpret what has been said.

[@alexmorris452]

It’s nice to listen to a couple of gentlemen telling the truth regarding the BBC ,,,,,,,,,,when is Richard dimbleby going to see THE LIGHT ?

[@cheechalker8430]

Panorama’s next exposé: ‘We’re Not Classists or Elitist, But We Do Have Fancy Accents’

[@daviddrake3504]

They have residual national/regional accents but not the faux Esturine of the young, urban university educated elite.

[@IanP1963]

Nah what I mean in it ?

[@cheechalker8430]

David Drake for whatever reason, Sweeney thought it important to bring that to Lucy’s attention If that’s not a red flag, I don’t know what is It’s kind of sad actually. Sad that someone would even think that. The only time that would come into my mind if I encounter someone speaking in an unexpected manner For example - there is a small phenomenon of white kids trying to sound more “street” and adopt an accent and vernacular completely out of context with the rest of their lives. There is a name for those kids - it’s the N-word, but with a ‘W’ instead of an N. Ah, the folly of youth!

[@peterbrunsden380]

Watching Emily Maitlis and Thornberry last night was hilarious but scary too.

[@ildertonmann4086]

In 100 years or so some archaeologist will dig up videos of Monty Python. They will watch them and 'he' will be hailed as a great prophet who predicted what came after the 1970s. They will not realise that it was a comedy show!

[@StillAliveAndKicking_]

The BBC new web site is obsessed with diversity stories. Many if not most are inane and hardly newsworthy. Why do they proselytise? And yet what is the alternative to Auntie Beeb? The Telegraph web site is very biased to the right. The Guardian’s is to the far left. The Indie is on the softer left. The Daily Mail’s is on the hard right. R4 is at times achingly right on, and yet which other radio station provides intelligent conversation and sitcoms? The Today programme has amazing journalists such as Justin Webb, Sarah Montague and Humphrys. Or at least it did. The reason Montague left highlights the fake right on-ness of the BBC as she was paid so much less then male colleagues.

[@WELLBRAN]

Took humphries long enough to see the light...AFTER MAKING LOTS OF MONEY FROM LICENCE FEES

[@markhorton8578]

Our greatest political interviewer of all time. I miss him badly already.

[@brianrunyon266]

Love his work. He's right about the BBC. I only tune into their world service program through a local radio station, but, that's it. American, but, fan of things from the UK and other countries.

[@cargumdeu]

all very well recanting now but at the helm of the Today program Humphries faithfully toed the party line for decades. And presided over the dumbing-down of Mastermind.

[@1Thedairy]

I will really miss John Humphrey because I never knew what his personal views were. He was so impartial which is what a responsible interviewer should be. The other presenters you would certainly know where their sympathies lie. I bought his book for my husband who preferred it to Cameron’s memoirs!

[@christophermonk]

Humphrys

[@englishstark8843]

John Humphrys and I quote I was slow about Saville!

[@jodonbaker43]

John Humphrys a real journalist the bbc are finished.

[@milea10]

You give me the big money I will say what you want , when I leave I will tell the truth!

[@sonyshooter8212]

Long gone are the days of honest unbiased journalism due to the prolific illiberal liberal media studies professors and their profound influence on the mindset of their favourite students.

[@simonking2869]

I would be wonderful if Rod's show could be expanded to an hour and added to the excellent line up of British 'Rubinesque' interview programmes now on KZbin like Douglas Carswell's, So What You're Saying Is..., Triggernomentry, Julia Hartley-Brewer's, etc..

[@williamhopehogson5927]

What a pity he didn't say more when he had influence.

[@markhorton8578]

He did.

[@kennyhayes4378]

Much nicer than seems.speak for yourself. Most straight talking person ever.

[@NoosaHeads]

They said nothing. They just congratulated each other. A waste of time.

[@lostinsweden5039]

"The moment will come when the barbarians are at the gates and we'll be arguing about which pronouns to use for them." Douglas Murray.

[@samsteve1000]

Stay lost in Sweden then.

[@ravenhill_the_crusader_1968]

i always liked humphrys on mastermind.

[@pocalvin]

This should have been 70 minutes, not 7.

[@johne5727]

Bbc terrible they New about jimmy Saville

[@eileenthompson5958]

The BBC has got far worse since this video was made in Oct 2019 ....

[@fractalnomics]

I've listened to the BBC by mostly the World Service and also my home Radio New Zealand (RNZ) for some 35 years, loved them. They are now so bad they are both unlistenable. Very sad for me.

[@matthewbrooker]

Fifty years in the same industry?Too old, tired and dusty, should have gone 25 years ago. Everything that is wrong with the UK's state broadcaster. Make way for the genuinely inquisitive, angry and hungry...

[@williambell2106]

What are the chances Sir Rod Lidde

[@si_w8201]

I have no sympathy for Humphreys. He's 76 and has been paid a fortune for years, if it really bothered him he could have left a long time ago. As it is, despite having never been to University, he still managed to espouse exactly the same views...

[@eleveneleven572]

If you want to get a job and get promotion in the BBC be upper middle class, jewish, ethnic minority or gay (or any combination) and be a Far Left liberal arts graduate. If you are male, white, heterosexual and working class...forget it. Our job is to fund it.

[@joanketelby752]

What's wrong with being old white men.

[@ivok9846]

it's better to be young woman these days. young minority woman! more doors open with lil effort. bureaucracy, media, marketing, banks, stores, hospitals...

[@ivok9846]

@Ford Torino yeah, that last sentence is paradox of this time...ie the truth can never be said by majority....or at least truth can never be heard thru media...heh...ergo more real talk, less screen time...

[@joeb5238]

Where's the rest of this??? Hearing a respected insider confirming all the things that we already know is very satisfying!

[@talloolahmoon]

Time after time after time after time after time. Destructive bbc

[@alicedell8595]

BBC = Big Brother Company.

[@trollop_7]

Oh, big deal! Who hasn't had a three-way with Esther McVey and Sophie Ridge?

[@GraemetheGuiriLordHaHa]

I'm out of Blighty for more than 15 years now, but Humphrys and Naughtie were part of a rolling 'vote Labour' campaign. In the end I sought 'political asylum' with Nicky Campbell on R5Live. From what I've seen of him in my years away he does seem to have developed more objectivity, but during the Thatcher years and Major and he was an utter disgrace. Let's remember, if they had a Tory Cabinet Minister on, he had to be interviewed with his Shadow. As soon as Blair got in, we were in a 'new era of politics' and that changed. Don't pretend your mate wasn't utterly biased or the TODAY programme wasn't.