John Simpson

July 26, 2024

BBC ‘value judgements’ on terrorism again on display

For years we have documented the BBC’s employment of double standards on language when reporting t...

May 20, 2024

More bizarre terror commentary from the BBC’s John Simpson

The May 12th edition of BBC One’s “Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg” included an interview with th...

October 15, 2023

Does the BBC really want to be known as ‘objective’ about the mass slaughter of Israelis?

The BBC’s coverage of the thousands of atrocities against Israeli civilians carried out by Hamas o...

June 18, 2019

Over four months on BBC News amends claims about women’s rights in Iran

The BBC's 'effective' and 'timely' complaints mechanism on display yet again....

February 24, 2019

BBC world affairs editor’s holiday snaps exclude Hizballah

BBC R4 listeners hear that Israel 'interferes' and 'acts like a bully' in Lebanon....

February 7, 2019

BBC World Affairs editor misleads on women’s rights in Iran

Yet again we see just how seriously the BBC takes its obligation to provide 'accurate and impartial ...

January 27, 2019

More inaccurate and context-free Gaza framing on BBC Radio 4

The BBC's world affairs editor joins Radio 4's promotion of an inaccurate and politically motivated ...

October 14, 2014

BBC News website coverage of Operation Protective Edge: part two

In part one of this post we documented BBC News website coverage of the first ten days of Operation ...

July 24, 2014

Some BBC bright spots and the remarkable reaction of a presenter confronted with reality

They may be few and far between, but there are some bright spots among the BBC’s reporting of ...

July 22, 2014

BBC's Simpson admires Hamas engineering 'feat' and ignores its intended victims

A filmed report for BBC television news from July 21st – supposedly one of the BBC’s never a...