Question Time tonight comes from London. On the panel we have Liam Fox MP, Norman Lamb MP, Sadiq Khan MP, Aaron Porter and Janet Daley.
For those playing the Buzzword Bingo we’ll be using the Broken Promises Rules. You should play your Clegg joker early as riot police, any excuse to miss lectures, anarchy, fire extinguisher, and we’re all in it together are all in play. References to Aaron Porter’s emails suggesting cutting grants and loans aren’t on the cards tonight, nor Labour’s promise to implement the Browne Report because the BBC have airbrushed all of that from history. Usual points for spotting a Thatcher, but points this week also for references to Gordoom’s new book and any direct quotes from Wikileaks (only if made in the context of undermining somebody who is right-of-centre).
The LiveBlog will also cover the insane This Week, with Andrew Neil, Michael Portillo, a random lefty politician and a collection of X-Factor rejects.
TheEye, David Mosque and Ollie Cromwell from the Red Rag blog will be hitting demonstrators with batons here from 10:30pm.
Hmm. Almost fairly balanced panel this week.
I’ll be here again as I am still snowed-in anyway and couldn’t get to any meetings even if there were any tonight(!)
“The insane This Week”. It did not used to be so. Time was when Andrew Neil was as sharp as Paxman, and better informed. But BBC groupthink has addled his brains, like it did David Frost’s. Frost and Neil degenerated from tigers into pussycats, letting shysters off the hook.
However, Neil did put the odious Jim Murphy seriously on the spot with the dismal performance of our politicised education system. I doubt we shall see any BBC analysis based on the OECD’s damning report on Britain’s schools.
The studio was filled with students and people in education shouting and booing it was just like a bear pit. no balance at all.