Wednesday, 25 February 2026

Colonialist BBC

Well, strike me as confused. The dear old befuddled, BBC, the proto-Communist broadcaster with the leftist of left leanings, actually produces websites in colonial languages. 

I thought it was a joke at first, but no. 

The BBC actually go to the trouble and expense of translating articles and publishing them online on separate websites. Not only that, they translate to colonial languages, like African pidgin English. 

Another is BBC Afrique, which translates to African colonial French. 

Have a look at Domot - BBC News Pidgin

and Accueil - BBC News Afrique

In fact the BBC, through the BBC World Service, supply web articles and more in the following:

Pidgin, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Afaan Oromoo, Amharic, Somali, Tigrinya, Gahuza, Bengali, Dari, Gujarati, Marathi, Nepali, Pashto, Punjabi, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Burmese, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Azerbaijani, Kyrgyz, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Brasil, Mundo, Persian, and Turkish.

And as far as I'm aware, we are paying for that through our TV licence.

The thing that gets me, is why? I understand that the government may want to get the British side of any story out there, but why are we paying essentially for propaganda?

I spy a saving there, unless someone can give me a bloody good financial reason not to just cut the lot.

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