Blogger’s Note: Living in South-West London, as I do, I am forced to live amongst incoming Neo-Nazi Ukrainians – and Hong Kong Rioters – as my Borough was declared (decades ago) to be a “Gateway” into the UK for certain “privileged” migrant groups, ironically often decreed by US and EU foreign policy (as a nation we have dealt with the later – but the former is still causing us trouble). These groups are given every material benefit over UK citizens and any other vulnerable group – including legitimate refugees and asylum-seekers (the Hong Kong Rioters are the odd ones-out – as they are “non-White” – with “White” being the usual entry requirement). Chinese people already living in the UK do not like – or mix – with these “Christianised” and brain-washed Hong Kong Rioters. These Rioters were encouraged during the Covid Pandemic to rape, riot, and murder by US and UK Intelligence Services – which had infiltrated a certain strata of Hong Kong society.
The BBC, being controlled by the US, then reported from every angle that these foreign-financed criminals were the “victims” of the brutal Chinese State – whilst ignoring all the violence these criminals were committing. The US and UK (White) racists even had deluded young Hong Kongers hold-up Imperial Japanese flags – the very flag that Japan carried-out atrocities under whilst invading Asia and China – murdering and maiming around 60 million people between 1931-1945! Since the US occupation and colonisation of a defeated post-WWII Japan – the Japanese have been absolved of all guilt in this area – and here we see the descendance of their Chinese victims exercising a form of Stockholm Syndrome! Still, the BBC – and its US pay-masters – has misrepresented Socialist China from its inception from Tibet to Xinjiang, and now the contrived issue of Hong Kong (a place in which half my family arise – and within which I have lived). Inbetween all this has been false BBC allegations of child abuse, animal abuse, worker abuse, elderly abuse – and all other types of imagined criminality against China. (The excellent work of US Journalist – Anna Louise Strong (1885-1970) – should be better known).
The BBC lying has been a non-stop torrent of Eurocentric, racist abuse. Even when the BBC was relatively balanced in most other areas (prior to 2010) – China has always been presented as a racialised oddity to be shunned and ridiculed. A capitalist Taiwan, however, with all its inherent failings and terminal corruption, is presented as a pristine alternative to Socialist redistribution. The BBC lying is not a new phenomenon, of course, virtually everything it reported about the USSR was a lie, for example. Even during the 1980s Miners’ Strike in the 1980s, the BBC was caught “reversing” film footage of police confronting Miners – so that it falsely looked as if a retreating police was attacked by an advancing line of violent Miners! Years later, when this lie was exposed (the police were in fact carrying-out a brutal attack on unarmed and retreating Miners), the BBC blamed it on either an undiagnosed editorial mistake – or the actions of an unknown but disgruntled BBC employee. All this brings me on to the fact that the PRC formerly “banned” the BBC from broadcasting in Mainland China on February 12th, 2021 – for continuously pursuing a path of false (and racialised) reporting regarding Tibet, Xinjiang, and Hong Kong – designed to undermine the security of the Chinese State and the safety of the Chinese people. And long may it remain banned! ACW (15.11.2025)
The scandal has thrust BBC back into public controversy at a moment when its reputation for journalistic integrity has already been stained by earlier editing errors and accusations of reporting bias.
LONDON, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) — The BBC’s apology to U.S. President Donald Trump for a misleading documentary has triggered a political and media storm in both London and Washington, but the broadcaster insists on Thursday it will not pay the 1 billion U.S. dollars in damages Trump demands.
The scandal has thrust the institution back into public controversy at a moment when its reputation for journalistic integrity has already been stained by earlier editing errors and accusations of reporting bias.
The controversy erupted after The Daily Telegraph revealed an internal BBC memo showing that an October 2024 Panorama episode, Trump: A Second Chance?, had stitched together two segments of Trump’s speech on Jan. 6, 2021, delivered more than 50 minutes apart. The edit created the misleading impression that Trump was directly urging supporters toward the Capitol riot, sparking public outrage and prompting The New York Times to label it as the BBC’s “worst crisis in decades.”
The fallout quickly escalated, leading to the resignations of Director-General Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness last Sunday.
Trump’s legal team pressed on, demanding a full retraction, a formal apology, and 1 billion U.S. dollars in damages. The White House confirmed on Wednesday that legal action had been filed. By Thursday night, the BBC said Chair Samir Shah had written to the White House expressing regret for the “error of judgment” and promising the program would not air again, while rejecting Trump’s defamation claim.
The controversy has revived long-standing questions about the BBC’s editorial culture and oversight structures, which critics say have been weakened by years of reputational blows. The corporation, founded in 1922, has previously weathered major crises, ranging from the 1995 Diana interview obtained through forged documents to fabricated Panorama footage in a 2011 report on child labour in Bangalore.
In 2023, several journalists working for the BBC accused the organisation of failing to maintain neutrality in its Israel-Palestine coverage, arguing that reporting placed disproportionately emphasis on Israeli victims while omitting crucial context on Palestinian suffering.
The Telegraph also reported that BBC Newsnight had spliced Trump speech excerpts as early as 2022, drawing an on-air challenge from a guest and raising further questions about newsroom standards.
The series of incidents has fueled fresh international criticism of Western media bias, with Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova accusing outlets like the BBC of “turning black into white” and constructing fabricated narratives.
Analysts say the latest crisis exposes deeper structural weaknesses that, if left unaddressed, could undermine the broadcaster’s authority as Britain’s public service media institution. Yet the government has defended the corporation, with a spokesperson saying on Monday that it does not believe the BBC suffers from “institutional bias.”
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 