HAS the BBC completely lost its marbles? I ask because our esteemed national broadcaster, paid for by you and me, seems to have a bad dose of moral schizophrenia.
One minute, the BBC is obsessed with “hurty words”, racing to remove people from their airwaves for the slightest infraction when it comes to views they don’t like, on everything from race or trans rights to Israel and climate change.
Jake Fahri served a life sentence for the unprovoked murder of 16-year-old schoolboy Jimmy Mizen
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The next moment, lovable old Auntie Beeb is happily glorifying young men who are stabbing each other to death on our streets.
Which is a bit weird, isn’t it? And, yes, deeply troubling, too.
‘Soundtrack of gangs’
I am of course talking about the balaclava-clad drill rapper Ten, who has been showcased on BBC Radio 1Xtra and has now been exposed by The Sun as Jake Fahri, who served a life sentence for the unprovoked murder of 16-year-old schoolboy, “gentle giant” Jimmy Mizen, in South London in 2008.
The case caused shockwaves after Fahri — then aged 19 and with a long history of violence — attacked Mizen and his brother in a bakery, smashing a glass dish into his neck and killing him.
Now 35, Fahri was released from his life sentence in 2023 when he embarked on a career as a drill rapper.
His lyrics, like most of this musical genre, openly glorify knife crime and — even worse — appear to contain multiple references to Jimmy’s murder, with lines such as “Stuck it on a man and watched him melt like Ben and Jerry’s” and “Sharpen up my blade, I’ve got to keep those necessary.”
So here we are, forced to pay our licence fee for a BBC that refuses to allow anyone they disagree with on air while a killer is welcomed with open arms.
BBC journalists must not refer to Hamas as the terrorists they are.
Anyone who questions the Beeb’s climate change hysteria soon finds themselves banished, while Graham Linehan, creator of Father Ted, lost all his work for refusing to pretend that “trans women” are women (which they are not).
The BBC even refused to play a Christmas song mocking Keir Starmer over the Winter Fuel Payment cuts!
How can all these people find themselves persona non grata but a convicted murderer seemingly glorifying his crime gets a free pass?
Why is “misgendering” someone an instant red card but bragging about stabbing someone to death fine and dandy?
What on earth is going on at the BBC?
I don’t want to risk turning into Mary Whitehouse or an ageing judge asking who The Beatles are.
After all, I’m a strong advocate of freedom of speech and would never want any music genre or art form banned.
Yet the BBC has tough questions to answer about why your and my money is being spent promoting music that glorifies violence.
The BBC has tough questions to answer about why your and my money is being spent promoting music that glorifies violence
This isn’t 1957, when American TV refused to show Elvis Presley below the waist, so fearful were they that his gyrating pelvis would corrupt the nation’s youth.
And it isn’t 1984, when Radio 1 DJ Mike Read refused to play Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s hit Relax because it was, y’know, about sex.
I’m not getting in a tizz about seeing a bare nipple or hearing a racy lyric.
But drill music is the soundtrack of real-life criminal gangs armed with knives, machetes and guns, threatening, maiming and even murdering rivals — and anyone else who happens to get in their way.
Again and again we hear how yet another young teen has been stabbed after a drill rap video by his gang “provoked” a counter-attack by rivals.
Indeed, police are so concerned about the link between this music and real-life knife violence that taxpayers fund the Met to the tune of £1.4million to monitor online drill music.
‘Stench of hypocrisy’
They took down 315 drill videos from YouTube in just one year over fears they could incite more stabbings.
Meanwhile, drill and rap tracks were linked to 252 defendants over three years for offences including gang killings.
Yet at the very same time, BBC licence fee payers are funding Radio 1Extra to promote this music to listeners, and BBC DJ Theo Johnson is calling this killer rapper an “up-and-coming star”.
This is degenerate madness.
Yes, you can argue that Fahri has paid his debt to society after 14 years behind bars. You can even argue that ex-prisoners must be allowed a chance at redemption.
Yet, far from expressing remorse, Fahri is seemingly bragging about and attempting to profit from his heinous crime.
The BBC insists it follows “strict editorial guidelines” and that BBC 1Xtra “does not glamorise violence”.
That, we now know, is blatantly untrue.
The stench of hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy coming out of Broadcasting House is becoming impossible to ignore.
Amazon MusicThe BBC refused to play a Christmas song mocking Keir Starmer over the Winter Fuel Payment cuts[/caption]
THERE was much joy on all sides at news of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, due to start on Sunday – 470 days since the October 7 massacre.
If my loved ones were among Hamas’s hostages, there is nothing I wouldn’t do to get them safely home, while the innocent Palestinian civilians also crave an end to the war.
But negotiating with terrorists and paying ransoms, which is what this deal is, may turn out to be a price too high to pay.
More than 1,000 criminals and terrorists will be freed from Israeli jails, while billions in aid will pour into Gaza, only to be stolen and used to build up Hamas’s fighting machine once again.
There will be a change in US presidents next week, but we know Hamas has not changed. Their aim is still to wipe Israel from existence, and every Jewish person with it. And the West is next on their list.
Even if this ceasefire holds, this war isn’t over.
Indeed, it may have only just begun.
TULIP ROW TOO BIZARRE FOR TV
OH, come on, it could easily happen to anyone.
You’re given a £700,000 flat in King’s Cross and you’re not sure who gave it to you.
GettyTulip Siddiq has been named in THREE probes in Bangladesh amid a corruption row[/caption]
Was it Mum or Dad – or was it some bloke who’s linked to your dodgy aunt in Bangladesh?
Who can put their hand on their heart and honestly say that this hasn’t happened to them? Oh, sorry, literally EVERYONE can. Except Tulip Siddiq, apparently.
The Labour MP, who resigned as the Treasury’s Anti-Corruption Minister, has been named in THREE probes in Bangladesh amid a corruption row.
Her aunt, the former PM Sheikh Hasina, and her family are accused of embezzling billions from Bangladesh.
You really couldn’t make this stuff up. Even Netflix would turn down this screenplay for being too outlandish.
Siddiq insists she’s done nothing wrong, but now the focus is on the PM’s judgment as he’s lost his Chief of Staff, his Transport Secretary and a Treasury minister – all in just six months.
At this rate, he might need to install a turnstile at No10.
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