This Week’s Hero & Zero: Biased BBC & The AQA Exam Board
This week’s Hero is…Biased BBC – the excellent blog that leads the fight against the inherent left wing bias that permeates every crevice of the Corporation. This bias he been on glorious show throughout the US Party Conventions – where the BBC were wetting themselves with excitement at the prospect of President “ The One” Obama, and going out of their way to report negatively on the Republicans. Donal Blaney takes up the story here. The Biased BBC blog does a superb job, and it should be on your daily read.
This week’s Zero is…the AQA Exam Board, for censoring education in the name of ‘protecting children from knife crime.’ Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have the fondest memories of my GCSE Poetry Anthology, but the decision to remove a Carol Anne Duffy poem on the grounds that it might encourage knife attacks is just wrong on so many levels. The poem begins with the line “Today I am going to kill something. Anything.” As if a class full of GCSE students will suddenly think “Great idea. So will I.” On the same logic, I assume that World War One poetry will be banned on the grounds that it might encourage children to throw mustard gas?