The message of Biased BBC reaches farther and wider than ever: see this editorial from today's Sun:

Anti Auntie

THE BBC’s coverage of Tory plans for £14bn cuts in red tape and bureaucracy was a mockery of impartial journalism.

Instead of examining John Redwood’s arguments, it made a joke of them by unearthing his garbled version of the Welsh anthem from a decade ago.

The caustic bulletins could have been scripted by Labour ministers.

Mr Redwood may be a colourful character. But few can match his understanding of the way Labour and the EU have tied our economy in knots with pointless regulation.

Certainly not the BBC — a bastion of smug, self-satisfied bureaucracy which rightly stands accused by its own watchdogs of being “institutionally biased”.

Following on from Sunday's post about the BBC using that Redwood singing footage, again, since what's good for the goose is sauce for the gander, have a listen to this - James Naughtie interviewing Neil (now Lord) Kinnock, Leader of the Opposition, would-be (and almost was) Prime Minister, back in 1989:

Click the play button to listen online:

N.B. You might need to click play twice the first time.

To save yourself a copy:

Right-click on this link, Kinnock Kebabbed MP3, and select 'Save As...', save it to your computer, and then play it using your own choice of media player.

This incident was covered up by the BBC for more than a decade until it was finally admitted to in 2000 in a Radio 4 series called, appropriately, Kebabbed:

But James Naughtie pressed Kinnock on the likely effectiveness of Labour's alternatives.

What listeners heard was an abrupt pause in the conversation, followed by an explanation from Naughtie that the interview had been suspended when Kinnock objected to the line of questioning, before being resumed.

The tape recorders, however, whirred on to capture the unexpurgated exchange, never previously broadcast.

In it, Kinnock raged at Naughtie, telling him that he would not take part in "a WEA lecture" on Labour's economic strategy any more than he was inclined to be "bloody kebabbed" by Naughtie.

We are grateful to Mr Kinnock for giving us the title for our series, along with permission to transmit the untransmitted material. Even across the passage of more than a decade, it makes your ears go pink.

Note the sickening thanks to Kinnock for permission to broadcast the full interview - as if the BBC would have waited a decade and asked for permission if a Conservative had given them such an explosive interview - it would have been on air the same day, leading every news bulletin!

Thank you to Biased BBC reader Dave T for link to The Sun. Thank you also to Hotlink Files for their excellent online file storage service.