I am British born and bred.  I am male. I have a belief.  I respect democracy.  I am law-abiding.  I am heterosexual. I am a pensioner.  I have underlying health issues.  I value all lives.  I am white.  I no longer matter

I was brought up by working class parents who taught me to respect all people regardless of their gender, creed, ethnicity, orientation or political opinions.  They both served in WW2 to give me, and you, our freedom.  I have always practiced what I was taught, and continue to do so.  I passed that teaching to my children, which they have followed and will pass to theirs.  But I no longer matter.  Neither do they. Continue Reading

It is difficult to understand how a media organisation that, over the last few years, has consistently failed to correctly predict major election results can believe it retains any credibility.  Yet that’s what we have from a BBC statistics department that now has to go into full spin mode to cover its embarrassment even during a live results programme.

Such was the case on Sunday when it became immediately obvious that the Brexit Party were absolutely creaming the opposition, as if that hadn’t been widely predicted from the point, just six weeks ago, when Nigel Farage launched it.   But this article is not about the politics of these elections, it’s about whether our national broadcaster is fit for purpose in the field of political analysis.

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