Compare and contrast

Compare and contrast the BBC's wall to wall coverage of the claims that Caroline Spelman may have paid her nanny from her House of Commons expenses back in 1997/1998 with the coverage they gave to Ann Keen the MP for Brentford and Isleworth who took out a life assurance policy jointly with her husband Alan and paid the £867 premium every month by claiming it on her House of Commons expenses.

The former story is headline news and was deemed worthy of being the Newsnight on Friday night. The latter story does not even rate a mention in the BBC's article on the release of MPs expense claims. Why the disparity? Would I be too suspicious to say that it might be to do with Caroline being a sleazy Tory whilst Ann Keen is, like her husband, a pure as the driven snow Labour MP.

The BBC are really not even pretending to be politically unbiased now. Their support for Labour is all but total and their attacks on the Tory party will be more and more common as they try to help Labour out of their pit.

Meanwhile the BBC's support for Barack Obama now that Hillary Clinton looks to have finally been defeated, although she may yet Glen Close like make a return, will be ratcheted up to unprecedented levels in the fight to ensure that a Democrat is elected to the US Presidency. John McCain rarely warrants more than a mention on the BBC and now that it is a straight fight you can expect more glowing pieces on the messianic appeal of the force for change Barack Obama with the only mentions of John McCain emphasising his age and his whiteness.

At some point soon the BBC, which I grew up respecting for reasons of quality, will need to be taken apart in order to ensure that the UK has a politically unbiased tax payer funded national broadcaster