Midweek and time for a new Open Thread as I can see the Monday one is already approaching the 200 mark! Happy with good old Auntie – no? Well, tell me why…
I enjoyed Toby Young’s blistering attack on Oprah Winfrey in today’s DT. Most of it could apply to the BBC:
“Above all, it is Oprah’s incontinent sentimentality that I find so objectionable, the elevation of ersatz emotion over any critical thought. For Oprah, the only test of veracity worth the name is whether something “feels” true, as though our initial emotional response to something – whether a prospective lover, a spiritual belief system or a political leader – is a more reliable guide than a careful sifting of the evidence.”
tomoFeb 22, 10:00 Weekend 21st February 2026 https://twitter.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status/2025480665941074207 You’d think that a ship of state leaking this much might sink? elsewhere: The UK Taxpayer spent £50,000 to…
pugnaziousFeb 22, 09:48 Weekend 21st February 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15pARoTBx50 Maitlis’ hitjob on Rupert Lowe was of course an attempt to cover up the guilt that people like her…
MarkyMarkFeb 22, 09:38 Weekend 21st February 2026 Maybe BBC could start a war for Keir? BBC need to stop Trump somehow – editing clips is not enough.…
MarkyMarkFeb 22, 09:20 Weekend 21st February 2026 “Multiculturism is slipperiest ‘ism’, it does not invite an argument it says there is no point in having an argument.”…
MarkyMarkFeb 22, 09:03 Weekend 21st February 2026 Hooray – the gov has more money to waste! “The Treasury’s freeze on income tax thresholds is dragging people in…
ScrobleneFeb 22, 08:16 Weekend 21st February 2026 I guess that TTK is just desparate for some sort of ‘war’, and will say and do anything to get…
ScrobleneFeb 22, 08:07 Weekend 21st February 2026 Or as Dennis and Co used to say in ‘Auf Wiedersehn Pet’, the ‘Kermits…’ Still, Miss Piggy is quite safe…
AsISeeItFeb 22, 07:50 Weekend 21st February 2026 Non combat military edition Ten police forces ain’t enough inquiries for yer? Our BBC news online print press top picks…
Fedup2Feb 22, 07:09 Weekend 21st February 2026 I wonder what Boris Johnson – real name Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson- Yaxley Lennon – is up to ?…
atlas_shruggedFeb 22, 06:03 Weekend 21st February 2026 The greens would have him marrying your pet Shetland pony.
An antidote to Islam Not BBC (INBBC) on Israel:
GLENN BECK (Fox News):
“Beck: U.S. Policy Trouble For Israel”
( 40 min video 19 May)
http://thedailybeck.com/2011/05/19/glenn-beck-tv-show-may-19th-2011/
I enjoyed Toby Young’s blistering attack on Oprah Winfrey in today’s DT. Most of it could apply to the BBC:
“Above all, it is Oprah’s incontinent sentimentality that I find so objectionable, the elevation of ersatz emotion over any critical thought. For Oprah, the only test of veracity worth the name is whether something “feels” true, as though our initial emotional response to something – whether a prospective lover, a spiritual belief system or a political leader – is a more reliable guide than a careful sifting of the evidence.”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyyoung/100088655/goodbye-and-good-riddance-to-oprah-winfrey/
Just another one of those odd stories about the story one gets…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13413710
…and the rest you don’t get, with context that is less ‘narrative helpful’ included…
http://order-order.com/2011/05/19/milibands-made-up-coffey-morning/
Seems ‘NHS staff tell him’, and his guys tell others… who oblige with a context lite soundbite.
One is sure that Dr. Coffey will soon be the voice of the NHS, to explain the anger, and what critics are saying, etc, soon.
The BBC inclusion or exclusion of affiliations is getting rather brazen.
Mystery double poster. Sorry. Werentme.gov, honest.
And now… it’s gone! Confused? You will be.