Simon Evans on Woke Bias at the BBC

[@tedbo1819]

I think Andrew Lawrence said it best about Frankie Boyle: "Who would've thought after all the jokes about Madeleine McCann, Katie Price's disabled child, Rebecca Adlington's face, thalidomide children, the Hillsborough disaster, his next career move would be taking the moral fucking high ground? Here I was thinking he's just a money-grubbing controversialist with all the personal dignity of a dog in a sausage factory."

[@ellie698]

He's definitely money grubbing. He's got very woke as a cynical career move. He doesn't care about trans issues but he knows the BBC does so he's saying whatever they want him to say to get his 💰

[@RightTurnClyde]

Our media is just appalling kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGe5gWB4jLudgbc

[@nuqwestr]

“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feelings as “moral indignation,” which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue." - Erich Fromm

[@gerrystevens9041]

but who of us never felt envy or hate? the whole of modern society is riddled with both. they call it ambition.

[@burntreynolds1068]

Is that an except from "Fear Of Freedom" ? Reading it at the moment. Fromm was also a great historian. :-)

[@RightTurnClyde]

Our media is just appalling kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGe5gWB4jLudgbc

[@FatNorthernBigot]

The loss of Andrew Neil negates any argument the BBC are trying to change their bias

[@FatNorthernBigot]

@Trouble Came Calling he wasn't left-wing though, was he?

[@Slarti]

@@FatNorthernBigot he would savage interviewees on the left and right equally - which is what made him so valuable.

[@Matmus]

So the whole story just so you know is the Neil was offered a downcasting with worse tv times under the old head of bbc. The new one came in and tried to get Neil back but he’d already taken a job with that new channel.

[@FatNorthernBigot]

@@Matmus Thanks for that... That now makes more sense, as the pieces weren't fitting.

[@FatNorthernBigot]

@Chardonnay Smith In modern reporting, depth perception is no longer required.

[@Knight766]

I'd never heard of Simon Evans before. Stunningly eloquent man and really switched on to current societal issues.

[@Anastacia261]

He's also a very funny comedian...you should check him out

[@Knight766]

@@Anastacia261 I literally just did 👍

[@boudecia22]

Watch his stand up. Hes hilarious

[@stsr11]

He said the BBC news department isn't biased - that's really funny!

[@just_another32]

comedy!

[@importantjohn]

He said it was less biased than the rest of the organisation, not that it wasn't biased. BBC news clearly is biased and he repeated that several times.

[@just_another32]

@@importantjohn good point

[@stsr11]

@@importantjohn Yeah, but that's not funny...also I'd ask the people of Scotland, Syria, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Gaza...etc...what they think...

[@simonking2869]

@@stsr11 I'm a person of Scotland. Not QUITE sure why you're lumping these disparate peoples together as one blob of "victims", but fire away. What would you like to know of my thoughts?

[@MrMarmalizer]

I’ve switched the BBC off. I’m sick of their woke-by-numbers agenda in everything they do. I feel there’s no longer anything for me there.

[@Natasha-tu5qs]

How exciting! Simon Evans had a podcast a while ago on Economics on the beeb. A very entertaining and educated individual, with a great sense of humour.

[@lesliecunliffe4450]

But how can the BBC maintain a shared narrative when it has invested all its efforts into promoting identity politics?

[@lesliecunliffe4450]

@Trouble Came Calling Your identitarian comment confirms my point. Thanks for that statement about 'white nationalist', which fails to understand that some narratives are neither racial nor nationalist. For example,: Galatians 3:28 is a widely commented biblical passage in the Epistle to the Galatians, in which Paul states: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."

[@johnneville403]

@@lesliecunliffe4450 He's trolling you, Leslie. It never gets beyond insults with these people, I'm afraid. That's all they have.

[@lesliecunliffe4450]

@@johnneville403 John, that is probably true, but I like to think that if such people are countered with sound arguments that simultaneously reveal their bigotry, they are less likely to troll others.

[@Joy-xu9wk]

@Trouble Came Calling you had the chance to say something meaningful, this is disappointing.

[@darknewt9959]

The nation can't maintain a shared narrative when we've been atomised by mass migration, promotion of foreign religions and deprecation of our own. The BBC merely reflects that because it's the lapdog of the establishment which has done this to our nations.

[@stommx]

My kids are banned from watching the bbc in fact they've been banned from watching tv altogether as got rid of the satellite dish..

[@zogy628]

My daughter never looked at the telly, even when we had a licence

[@robertcook2572]

Don't ban them - that's what a leftie would do.

[@charlesbadoola535]

Read your children's school textbooks. I read my kids' textbooks and was quite surprised by what they were being fed, but because I knew about it I was able to counter some of the nonsense. Some statements were actually ridiculous.

[@chriskshaw7601]

@@charlesbadoola535 yes, bbc indoctrination is one thing, but our kids spend 6 hrs a weekday being indoctrinated by the fine output of our woke universities

[@frusia123]

So they get all their news from genuine sources such as Facebook and KZbin....

[@marionreynolds7080]

Thank you Francis and Konstantin - this was one of your best. The truth will set you free.

[@tenacioustubbs8358]

I actually agree that there is no funny "right wing comedy", but I also think there is no funny "left wing comedy". For me, as soon as the content becomes partisan then it feels preachy, and it's not funny. If people respond to your comedy with applause instead of laughter then I think you've failed, as a comedian at least.

[@RightTurnClyde]

Our media is just appalling kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGe5gWB4jLudgbc

[@sumthingwickedly]

My dad was brutally murdered last week but I can laugh about it now 🤣

[@melanieeccles9602]

He is so right - not a health emergency! Herd immunity was possible but everybody panicked and caused all hell to break loose - Put this guy in charge please!!!

[@gratefulapostate3123]

I would agree that there's nothing wrong with encouraging organic diversity, as long as positions are earned honestly, on more important criteria than ones skin hue, or gender. But the woke movement seeks to enforce their vision of diversity, with the threat of being branded as racist, or sexist, if you fail to submit, and comply, with their social restructuring demands, and deny passage to those in the percieved oppressor classes. (White, straight, or male).

[@tamashumi7961]

True diversity lays in difference of opinions, not skin colours. Focusing mostly on the latter can only come from a racist view ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@DrJams]

BBC has quotas for non whites and women

[@RightTurnClyde]

Woke activism is a real threat kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZbSg2ismKmBhc0

[@RightTurnClyde]

Our media is just appalling kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGe5gWB4jLudgbc

[@richardneedham13]

I'm glad I finally got around to watching this interview. Simon is spot on.

[@stephenbrough8132]

I've got to admit I've never heard of him ... which kinda proves his point.

[@ellie698]

If you listen to radio 4 he used to be on all the time, on panel shows, I think he had his own show for a time and has led panel shows. He's not very funny tbh. I've given up listening to radio 4 of late because of BBC wokery though so maybe he's not invited on any more

[@Grigray80]

Such an articulate and knowledgeable guy. Very enjoyable listen

[@nuqwestr]

I'm in America and for years depended on the BBC for a counter-view to American media, but I've listened to that degrade over the last 4 years, no question, and now have to fact check the BBC the same way I've been forced to fact check American networks. The DW and France24 is suffering the same tautological derangement meant to alter culture, not to inform it.

[@boudecia22]

To be fair, the bbc is probably STILL less biased than the rest. And thats BAD. Because the bbc is now terrible. I grew up trusting the bbc for factual, impartial news. Its so sad.

[@chriskshaw7601]

It’s all over the place. I am also US based and have seen NPR and PBS follow the same path. I used to take the Economist rag but can no longer stomach it. I use to watch/listen to the BBC but my experience mirrors yours. Leaves me jumping around Al Jazeera and RT!! I’m embarrassed to admit

[@nuqwestr]

@@chriskshaw7601 Yeah, NPR used to be on all the time, but it's been literally hijacked by one narrow ideology, which is unapologetic, since they believe ethics are relative, and everything is just a power game. "If you don't have the majority, create one". That's the theme. No more NPR or PBS for me, either.

[@evenightingale6865]

A lot of people going over to Newsmax.

[@lmurphy6333]

Check out GB News, it was setup a few months ago for this very reason

[@wenshu888]

This one of the best shows on KZbin. Fantastic job guys.

[@scarlet8078]

The American philosopher he referenced is Eric Hoffer. I recommend his works "The True Believer" & "Temper of our Time" which has the quote about causes becoming a movement, then a business, corporation & a racket. Interestingly, while Hoffer was a famous philosopher who published many works, he continued working his blue collar job as a longshoreman until retiring at age 65

[@CSI5672]

This is a lovely and fascinating interview with genuinely interesting and thought provoking conversation. Therefore zero chance of it ever being aired on the BBC ...

[@vasilypugh1516]

When Jon Sopel is your America Correspondent, the chap who around a year ago released a book on Donald Trump that barely concealed the former's vitriol, you imagine his reporting of the election might be ever so slightly lacking in balance.

[@dionbram]

Eric Hoffer said "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business and eventually degenerates into a racket."

[@lapelcelery42]

Like Rock and Roll

[@RightTurnClyde]

Our media is just appalling kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGe5gWB4jLudgbc

[@Pengalen]

"Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable" is an ok idea until you realize most people can't really tell who is afflicted and who is comfortable.

[@darknewt9959]

Simon is ageing beautifully. He's the thinking man's Patrick Stewart. FF is the thinking man's Benny Hill.

[@FatNorthernBigot]

Benny Hill kept his hair 👍🏻😅

[@TheJoshuamooney]

You can insult Sir Patrick all you want--it ain't my country! We don't Kee-night people here. All I know is that I saw Leonard Nimoy as Iago in an Orange County, CA community production of "Othello" in 1983. One for the ages.

[@ajs41]

To be honest he looks a bit old for someone born in 1965. Michael Portillo, for instance, looks younger and he was born in 1953.

[@FatNorthernBigot]

@@ajs41 He must have good genes. My you, they're known to look after their looks, er... public school boys.

[@darknewt9959]

@@ajs41 I saw Portillo on the box the other night... he's had more work done than a bus-full of Essex birds. Looks utterly bizarre.

[@richardlloyd2589]

Thoroughly enjoyed that interview. Edit. Subscribed.

[@richln9682]

If he's right wing, I'm a transsexual Belgian.

[@simonbean3774]

Ok you're a trans de belgie

[@stumbling]

No one is really Belgian. It's disgusting that Belgianism is now being pushed on kids.

[@richln9682]

@@stumbling Been going on for years, they call it the Long March through the Ardennes.

[@simonbean3774]

@@stumbling Hah. Flems v walloons eh

[@wenshu888]

Then you almost certainly ain't no chick with a d%*k from Brussels!

[@daniellesebire2508]

I disagree about Dominic Cummings. He was supposed to follow the rules and he didn't and then gave some real BS why he didn't. People don't like to be fed a load of crap and told to swallow it.

[@moodobusiness]

I think he was contrasting that with the response to Dr Dooms illicit liaisons.

[@carwynj.thomas5057]

Thoroughly enjoyed and I agree with his viewpoint. We need balanced intelligent discourse

[@silasfatchett7380]

Intelligent discourse has no place in woke/left-wing phyllosophy.

[@RightTurnClyde]

Our media is just appalling kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGe5gWB4jLudgbc

[@adrianbarton4917]

It's not hard to understand that the BBC's editorial department does not think there are any funny right wing commedians. Being obscenely left wing woke, they are usually piously humourless and find nothing funny in some unwashed larrakin unveiling and ridiculing their ever more ludicrous positions on everything! Like all leftists, they know that their positions on most things are ripe for satire and as such does not stand scrutiny, hence the reason why they won't debate anything, they just call you racist etc. and try to get you cancelled!

[@clegsmegson2627]

I always thought BBC stood for something else? Sorry I am from Dearborn, Michigan

[@Vortklox]

Great guest. Great comedian. Thanks

[@J1mston]

As a left leaning person myself I was on board with a lot of what he was saying until he brought up the virus. Without the lockdown I would've probably died to it. I'm late 20's so have age on my side but I have health conditions that would make me much more vulnerable. Without lockdown I'd have never convinced my employer to let me work from home because my condition is invisible and I didn't get the letter from the NHS to isolate. I don't want to die thank you very much. We live in a world where my death is seen as an acceptable statistic to a lot of people...

[@J1mston]

@Ru22eLL I say left leaning mainly because of my views on health care and social programs but it would be more accurate to say I'm a centralist. But yeah, there are literally thousands of people like me who have rare (and common) medical conditions that have been managed quite well personally before the virus swept in. The virus changes the game completely and becomes something that is much harder to personally manage independently whilst also having to go into an office daily. My biggest concern is that the virus causes pneumonia which is a big killer of people with my condition, I nearly lost a close family member to it a long time ago. I remember sitting in a meeting with my boss and his boss about a month before the lockdown, people with conditions named by the NHS and PHE were being sent to work from home but because my rare condition (I think anywhere between 1 in 10000 and 1 in 50000 have it) wasn't named I was told I was not allowed to work from home. I tried bargaining and explaining my point and they were not very receptive to me. Thankfully the national lockdown came into play not long after and I've been working from home ever since. I have not seen another person in the flesh since march (barring delivery drivers who I'm extra careful around). I've took this shit very seriously not because someone sent me a letter telling me to do so but because I know my body and I know that if the virus grabbed hold I'd be fucked. My life is on the line when people say let it run through the communities. It feels like my life is an acceptable loss just because of the way I was born. I work hard, pay taxes and do everything a normal person does and more, how many 28 year olds can claim to have worked their way up from a council estate to having a mortgage in a middle class area? When people say let it run through I get massive eugenics vibes, something I thought we were done with decades ago. Let us born weaker die so the strong can live, fuck that.

[@tozmom615]

@@J1mston At what cost to other people though? If the lockdown saves your life but results in more suicides is that acceptable? When the country cannot afford to pay for your healthcare in five years because its economy tanked is that acceptable? No one who advocates allowing the disease to run its course wants anyone to die. But it’s a balance of risks. I would argue that the problem is that your condition, whatever it is (a name would be helpful), was not on “the list”. Therefore argue for it to be put on the list. I’d support that. I’m assuming it’s something like cystic fibrosis, in which case I, like the rest of society would be happy to have you shield at home. Even if it isnt CF surely a chat with a GP would have made your case for you. I’m a fat hypertensive in his forties. My risk is a bit higher than most my age but I’d be willing to take the risk personally. Having my civil liberties removed in such a massive way to “protect” others is anathema to me and most of the population. Unfortunately as the Great Thomas sowell points out, life has very few “solutions”, all it has are trade offs. Trading off one thing against another. I do not think I have heard anyone who wants the lockdowns to end say that we want to trade off the lives of the sickly against the lives of the non sickly in some Darwinian survival of the fittest- but the trade off is that by destroying the economy we are making EVERYONE sickly. The measured appropriate trade off is to allow the actually fit and healthy to develop immunity, whilst shielding the sickly who wouldn’t survive. I work in health care- I have already lost two patients BECAUSE of Covid. Not OF Covid, but because I’ve not been allowed by management, despite my strongest objections, to treat sick folk who were unfortunate enough to not have Covid-19. Their conditions were allowed to kill them because the nhs has become a national Covid service only.

[@J1mston]

@@tozmom615 To my knowledge there was never a full specific list of conditions, it was conditions such as; then a small list of the highest risk such as COPD for example. A full list of each individual condition would've been great but would've been too much to create in a short time span and to much to manage, people would still have been missed from it. My condition is Osteogenesis Imperfecta and some with this condition did get shielding letters but not me because I've been self managing the condition mostly other than brief health check ups every 18 months. My condition is such that on the surface I appear healthy but underneath I can attest that I'm not. My GP is also unfamiliar with the condition so won't even put me forward for flu shots even though it's strongly advised. Believe me I'm happy to shield at home but when the guidelines leave me and many others like me in limbo it's simply not possible and I have had to threaten my employer with quitting to keep working from home (which is something not many are in a position to be able to do) which thank god I have because there's been a fair few cases at my work. How things are currently it's a toss up between my life and someone else's life and I'll always choose my own and I will not be guilted into thinking my life is worth less than anyone else's just because I was born differently. Another problem is that even the fit and healthy are being hit hard by the virus as evident by the uptick of hospital admissions. At the start of the pandemic people with disabilities were being sent DNR requests to free up beds and ventilators for other people without and guidelines were drafted to take life saving treatment away people with disabilities to give to normal people. Without lockdown I'd have been forced to work, probably got the virus then told I'll not be treated for it because of the way I was born. I fully admit that lockdown is not ideal but as things are showing a middle ground or perfect solution is hard to find. People are complaining because they're being asked to wear masks so if we can't even do that then I fully support the lockdown.

[@chriskshaw7601]

J1, what are going to do in 3 weeks when the lockdown is over? I strongly recommend that you take Vitamin D, Zn and be prescribed HCQ as a prophylactic! Good luck.

[@martinlintzgy1361]

Maybe its me, but I don't find any "woke" comedians remotely funny.

[@jane---489]

*_Tedious, inane, embarrassing and utter cringe ..._*

[@johnsmythe7940]

That is because they are not funny.

[@RightTurnClyde]

Our media is just appalling kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGe5gWB4jLudgbc

[@carolnewdawn1517]

There should be a programme called 'Mock, Mock the week'.

[@johnfairweather9188]

Many funny people are also smart and well educated, Simin included.

[@yozzsongs]

This man is a wonderful conversationalist

[@spaccaboy]

Excellent interview. Keep it up, guys. Wish Hitch was still alive, you'd have done a great interview with him.

[@alistairgraham8073]

I find i cant watch the BBC anymore. My favourite shows are now becoming WOKE. Countryfile is the latest. I even watched a woman from the National Trust being interviewed - i think it was on the One Show, she was saying that due to covid the trusts properties and staff are suffering with prospects of lots of payoffs. She then went on to say they even had visitors from ethnic communities (words to that effect) and i know she had been scripted to mention that, it was so obvious. I also know from visiting these properties we don't see people from these communities often at all, why should they? its not part of their heritage, but the BBC has to include them on every show. Im now watching youtube more

[@burntreynolds1068]

Yeah,, according to Countryfile I'm a massive racist for the crime of living in a rural town.

[@benphilips9918]

The whole point of the BBC is to promote and protect freedom of expression: that's its core purpose. Has anyone inside that place spotted the grotesque irony of its current position?!!

[@michaelryan8996]

I don't know how true it is but I've recently read that when the woke institutions like the BBC employ, the successful job applicant is always further 'left' than the person(s) holding the interview thus enforcing that their mutually shared culture thrives. Think long march through the institutions.

[@RightTurnClyde]

Our media is just appalling kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGe5gWB4jLudgbc

[@bryn2903]

He's a very proud English nationalist and that's ok by me. Where's the British perspective?

[@simonking2869]

Jeez. The absolute beaten to death old horse of "Nick Robinson and Andrew Neil... therefore balanced BBC journalism". Robinson is hardly right-wing, and whatever Neil's personal views he is consummately fair. An obligation the 99.9% left BBC journalists feel no need to observe. They see themselves as front line warriors in an existential battle between good and evil, and any requirement of 'balance' as a hamstringing to be ignored or worked around to achieve the great good. What next? "Complaints from both sides, so probably getting the balance about right?" Yawn. And Evans chucked in the tedious, requisite Hopkins Derangement Syndrome. She represents a large section of public opinion, her views are neither fringe nor extreme. Nor is she thick or inarticulate. 'Balance' must include these views being aired and listened to fairly, and by all means examined and rebutted. Intellectually. Not "You're a revolting racist, shut up". That said, Evans makes many excellent and important observations about media bias, mentioning Gramscianism's influence, and the apparatus of woke control. Just, if the best 'our side' of rationality and fairness has is this level of equivocation and urge to immediately find fault on both sides we'll get chewed up and spat out by the monomanical Left; they are obsessive street-fighters who haven't the slightest interest in fair debate. Only crushing opposition, winning, and power. By any means.

[@robertcook2572]

This is all irrelevant because few people watch the BBC, these days, and that number becomes smaller day by day

[@mogadeet6857]

I never knew Simon was so clever. I just liked his comedy.

[@houndofzoltan]

I've never found Sarah Pascoe funny, not surprised she's not funny on Frankie Boyle: I've always felt she's part of a positive discrimination quota where someone much funnier is not on TV cause they don't tick the right boxes.

[@charlesbadoola535]

Me neither, nice woman and all but not funny. I could say for Franky Boyle nowadays though. Have you tried listening to Leo Kearse's comedy? He's a decent bloke and quick-witted, not afraid to offend but nice enough that he would not offend without reason.

[@FergusWalsh-dz7mq]

Sarah Pascoe is to comedy what Putin is to pacifism and diplomacy.

[@designanddirection]

Still the most important channel in the U.K. on KZbin.

[@bealotcoolerifyoudid7217]

You guys are heading into stelar space with the content of this channel. I'm honestly suprised seeing you not having a bambillions of subscribers already. Fucking hell I'll recommend this to everyone I know.

[@StimParavane]

Great episode, really enjoyed it. Erudite and amusing.

[@quinnisme]

We were having a family zoom with my partner's family when we had to leave because we were going to see Geoff Norcott's show. One of my sister-in-laws said, 'he's right wing, you know'. 'Nothing wrong with that', said my partner. Then they saw my burqa-looking face mask and one of my brother-in-laws said, 'watch out, you'll be kicked out if he thinks you're a Muslim.' I said, 'what a bigoted view you have of Geoff Norcott'. Truly, I have the patience of a saint with these bigots.

[@christopherdavies7213]

It is actually incredibly brave of Simon to speak up, and huge credit to him for doing so. There are a silent majority, of those above 40 at least, who agree with him.

[@christopherdavies7213]

I listen to no BBC News: I find it unbearable. I watch little BBC drama for the same reason.

[@RightTurnClyde]

Our media is just appalling kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGe5gWB4jLudgbc

[@daniellesebire2508]

Glad to hear him acknowledge the issues of the young, was interesting to hear about Robert Conquests 3 laws of politics and the quote beginning "Every great cause". Good guest.

[@ega9499]

Tragic we have to label comedians left or right wing. A good comedian should be able to make fun of both Trump and Biden (admittedly they are already their own comedians)

[@user-xe5jz8om7x]

great interview!

[@Patrickjwalsh1976]

A study has shown that BBC political output is right-wing. Call it conservatism whatever. Conservatism is right-wing - surprise! If you doubt the BBC is this, ask yourself why it’s called ‘Auntie’. Everything else, is just emotion. The facts are that BBC politics is right-wing. Maybe the real complaint is that it isn’t right-wing enough for some people.

[@boundandtied1]

Absolutely spot on at 53 minutes onwards. The issue is an economic one not an institutional racism, police brutality, toxic masculinity etc issue

[@deanedgx]

Simon Evans is brilliant.

[@pjsmoulder]

'Simon Evans' Comedy Gulag' should be the name of his next show.

[@timotharcher]

You know, and you know...so you.know... fuuuuuckin helll you Know!!

[@patwicksted7114]

I work in the NHS and black humour is a way of dealing with difficult situations. By "black" I do not mean humour aimed at black people but humour about illness etc.

[@jrd33]

Same in the military, I believe. We make light of things we fear so they seem less terrifying.

[@engurland]

Same here in the ice-cream testing business.

[@jeffreyoneill4082]

have to say the first shot of KK looks like he's back in the motherland reading his totally spontaneous thoughts.

[@tttm99]

Great video guys. Magic cubes seemed to kill the studio echo nicely. Also very glad Simon didn't pop during the interview. He sounded like he might for a while there, but in the end he held together! 😂

[@Tj930]

BBC: Start with decimation (Sack 1 in 10) to show seriousness. Explain the new vision. Assess its reception. Promote the most receiptive top 1/3. Sack and replace the bottom 1/3. Repeat as necessary

[@kesfitzgerald1084]

Great strategy and I acknowledge your correct use of decimation.

[@squatchy0000]

Jack Welch would be proud!

[@marklambert2777]

I have no idea when Simon breathes in.

[@DarkAngel2512]

He'd make a great beat boxer.

[@themythologer4073]

“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” - Eric Hoffer

[@DavidPirouet]

The BBC totally obsolete if people want old scheduled programming in can be delivered encrypted from satellite. The old terrestrial broadcast system is unnecessary, there's a waste of resources. The BBC should be funded commercially only, no money from licences or tax.

[@TheJoshuamooney]

Simon: Comedians who don't need the ball to be hit back over the net are called talented writers... Anyway, enjoying my first encounter with Simon. He's covering a lot of ground in fine fashion. I'm a Yank--I love the Trig lads because they speak to so many more realms than just the UK. This talk with Simon is delving into some granular stuff about BBC etc. that goes over my head, but that's fine. You must first find out what you don't know, on your path to knowing it.

[@timeweston]

Witty, intelligent and good humoured. I think perhaps Simon is a stranger to most of us because of that.

[@stevep2237]

The superb Simon Evans, great comedian (I was looking forward to seeing him at the Leicester Square Theatre in November - Covid delayed again!!). He nails the argument every time.

[@cybtb]

An effective right wing comedian would be one criticizing and making fun of the government, with all its failings and hypocrisy.

[@MatchesMalone1183]

Simon said it more eloquently than I likely will, but with regard to whether comedy should be left wing on the BBC with a conservative government in charge there are a number of problems. Chief among those problems is that what they are producing isn't funny or really even comedy. It's thinly painted activism. It's become completely transparent that they are directed by what they see as morality, as opposed to what is true about a situation, and subsequently what is funny.

[@RinneKid]

I'm so glad to hear someone talk about the economy...both the traditional left and right (european) can form such a strong alliance over this issue. The american left will go nowhere without a class consciousness, and nor will the american right.

[@onlygazza]

Dead on about Cummings, they wanted to remove him at a key two week brexit period for sure 👌

[@rustyyb8450]

A week ago I dropped BBC off my news play list for overt bias I've been hearing.

[@charlesbadoola535]

I reckon you should consider adding it again. It's good to read many reputable news sources if only to get an idea of what their prejudices and editorial lines are. I read the Guardian even though a lot of it is total nonsense (Marine Hyde, gawd almighty, she's like a Katie Hopkins of the woke, and just as intelligent), I like the Spectator but don't agree with some of the stuff there. One publication I used to read but now do not is the New Statesman, I don't see much value in the stuff they come out with at all.

[@rustyyb8450]

@@charlesbadoola535 I subscribe to the Economist. Their format guarantees I'll get to hear about more than one subject.

[@charlesbadoola535]

@@rustyyb8450 The Economist! I hadn't thought of that newspaper for ages. Yes, they are rather good. I used to subscribe for a few years about 15 years ago and had it delivered to my home. I'll check it out again, I always liked it except the fact that you couldn't see who had written specific articles.

[@RightTurnClyde]

Woke activism is a real threat kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZbSg2ismKmBhc0

[@RightTurnClyde]

Our media is just appalling kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGe5gWB4jLudgbc

[@tobytroubs]

He's right , didn't realise it but it's been years since I watched HIGNFY or Mock the WEEK

[@Mark_Dyer1]

(58:00) SIMON: This was most definitely NOT "a terrible, terrible ERROR"! It was deliberate: and it is being done to destroy the United Kingdom. This is why JOHNSON and his coven must not be allowed to simply resume business as usual. They need to be arraigned for 'cruelty to children', 'abuse of elderly people', 'crimes against humanity', AND High Treason.

[@SandyJohnson-ur6xi]

Wow Simon is a great speaker.

[@JC-yc7of]

Lot of respect now for Simon Evans.

[@ladylove3636]

Francis face at the thought of no carbs - hello darkness my old friend. Carbs are life mate x

[@Ozgipsy]

Christ, that was a tour de force.

[@alicehammond7438]

550 people are cancelling their licence fee a day

[@jonnyvirgomusic]

What an intelligent and informed guest. I don't agree with his main contentions but appreciate the interview.

[@chrisb8075]

On a positive note, the BBC cancelled The Mash Report, and Kumar is blissfully quiet.

[@androgyny77]

I love Simon. That description of Frankie Boyle's New World Order was very accurate.

[@dohlecarnett1866]

I like that this interview didn't look at this issue black and white. The BBC has deffo a problem with the whole idpol TV shows and one-sided jokes comedy. Though I never understand why their Brexit coverage is supposed to be anti Brexit. In the BBC they had a) numerous chaps from Stoke-on-Trent who should their stupid Brexit slogans in the camera, b) TV shows where 70% of the people in the audience were Leavers and they c) also reported on some tiny minority of Scottish Brexiteers. Just three examples. You know that on the other side of the spectrum they call it the Brexit Broadcast Center?

[@galaxytrio]

A charming and interesting guest. Someone you'd love to sit near at a dinner party.

[@murd0ck745]

The Great Simon Evans

[@carlosmelo5211]

At last some reasonable and balanced criticism of the BBC insteand of that whole defund it bollocks.

[@dohlecarnett1866]

That's what I thought too. There needs to be a public service and the BBC has it's problems but the whole defund cries are way over the top.

[@RightTurnClyde]

Our media is just appalling kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGe5gWB4jLudgbc

[@nathangriffiths6218]

It really is bizarre that such an obviously intelligent, entertaining and funny man doesn't get invited onto the usual topical TV shows. Anyway, it was a pleasure to listen to him discuss his thoughts outside of the frame of a comedy show. It seems to me that if Simon is now what's considered "right wing" then the centre must have swung very far to the left. I used consider myself as a bit to the political left but more and more I find myself feeling like the imaginary "centre" has moved so far that I'd now be considered by many on the left to be centre right.

[@FatNorthernBigot]

Simon Evans brings a bit of class to right-of-centre comedy, and an example to those that think right-wing comedy is Jim Davidson.

[@borderlands6606]

He's not so much right of centre, as right of what most people would have called communism not so long ago. Simon Evans' statement on Covid is common sense. Respiratory viruses that resulted in pneumonia were called "the old person's friend" by doctors, as they released the very elderly from chronic pain and dementia. Epidemiologically benign years are followed by ones that take a greater number of old folks. That's how things are, and no reason to put the lives of the young and fit into suspended animation. I was surprised to hear the guys say, "..and that's why he's called right wing" for stating the incontrovertible.

[@RightTurnClyde]

Our media is just appalling kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGe5gWB4jLudgbc

[@Monsoon-sd6vr]

Like Simon Evans I used to listen only to Radio 4 or during the day Radio 2 (not now Vine has a prime spot) but in the last three years I have completely pulled away from it - do I miss it ?? Not one bit !! One "woke" event after another. The ITV is getting as bad, anybody noticed the adverts over the past 6 weeks ???

[@martynspooner5822]

So now it seems that if you do not want to be manipulated and lied to you are now considered a radical. And they wonder why their labels are meaningless and have lost all credibility.

[@OldandCold6955]

Woke up this morning felt round for my shoes just couldn`t wait to hear that BBC bias news

[@user-ie7gm7kk6o]

Mass university education has baked Dunning-Kruger into society.

[@jsgdk]

Great guest!

[@beachcaster56]

Simon is a brilliant comic. one of my favourites......Interesting to hear his opinions.

[@marionreynolds7080]

I agree with Simon about herd immunity and dementia and I’m 76.

[@louispearson8306]

i cant believe someone who identifies as a rightwing libertarian has the audacity to complain about representation... Its beyond stupid.

[@painbow6528]

You should get Simon on every month.

[@deal2live]

Have not watched bbc for months!

[@FeliussRexx]

Solid conservative credentials "we need to redistribute wealth" "the great reset is inevitable due to the climate emergency".

[@kham6006]

Embarrassed to say my sister is a democrat and watches the bbc here on the states , that cnn etc ,, yes they are considered biased here as well

[@MikeKleinsteuber]

Simon talks a lot of sense