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  1. Sarah Simmons says:
    April 26, 2012 at 9:34 pm

    Oh Where, Oh Where Have Our Little Blue Dogs Gone?

    http://predicthistunpredictpast.blogspot.com/2012/04/oh-where-oh-where-have-our-little-blue.html

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  3. George R says:
    April 27, 2012 at 12:19 am

    GALLOWAY.

    Something to politically endear him to INBBC?:-

    “Is George Galloway Muslim? Socialite Jemima Khan claims maverick MP converted in secret ceremony more than a decade ago.”

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2135665/Jemima-V-George-Galloway-denies-socialites-claims-converted-Islam-secret-ceremony-decade-ago.html#ixzz1tBvjOAQ9

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  4. RCE says:
    April 27, 2012 at 7:47 am

    Himphreys just got pwned BIG TIME by Greg Cunningham.

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    • Guest Who says:
      April 27, 2012 at 8:27 am

      Himphreys just got pwned BIG TIME by Greg Cunningham.
      Would that be why the ‘response’, no doubt suitably melded with a careful edit for future broadcast, is coming later?
      BBC Radio 4 Today ‏ @BBCr4today
      Coming up in the next hour: Lord Howard on #Leveson and BPAS chief executive Ann Furedi responds to Gregg Cunningham #Abortion
      Must be nice to own the airwaves.
      I see Lord Creosote of Hypocrisy is on soon to ‘debate’ Levenson, while his other great passion, cycling, has moved now as a hashtag to #buslanes rather than the minicab company whose name dared be campaigned upon at the drop of a tribal bandwagon served up by his personal PR agency.

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    • Roland Deschain says:
      April 27, 2012 at 9:05 am

      Didn’t hear the Greg Cunningham bit… do elaborate!

      On the other hand, I did hear the Howard v Prescott bit. What struck me was Lord Two Jags’ reference to the Addison Lee affair, where he pointed out how Twitter was used to generate the row. What he failed to point out was how it helps if the BBC is prepared to fan the flames. Sadly, neither did Micheal Howard.

      John Prescott clearly understands the importance of Twitter. That will be one reason why he is never off the BBC airwaves. What is so depressing is that it was quite evident that Michael Howard does not, and by extension neither do most of the Tories. The BBC has an enormous ability to stoke up a Twitter row by its collossal broadcast presence in the UK and they just don’t get it. They’re more concerned with Rupert Murdoch’s relatively puny presence.

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      • Guest Who says:
        April 27, 2012 at 9:29 am

        ‘What he failed to point out was how it helps if the BBC is prepared to fan the flames’
        With, let us not forget, a direct appeal to said Lord by a BBC employee and big fan. Duly obliged.
        Said employee now on the naughty step having had a 3rd party say ‘sowweee’, possibly off the record (so the Trust complaints to upholds level stays at its uniquely low level), and free & clear as the entity he launched continues to be stoked by colleagues throughout the organisation.
        Must be nice to own the edit suite and be untouchable forever.

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      • RCE says:
        April 27, 2012 at 9:43 am

        Greg Cunningham was lucid, measured and firmly polite in his assertions.

        But Humphries didn’t agree so he was petulant, arrogant and hectoring. He was even reduced to suggesting that people consider Cunningham’s points and make up their own minds; you know it’s gone really badly when a Beeboid says that!

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        • Umbongo says:
          April 27, 2012 at 10:25 am

          Cunningham made mincemeat of Humphrys in an object lesson (CINOs please note) of how to deal with that sneering, hectoring pile of biased faux-journalism. Moreover, Cunningham evidently frightened off supporters of abortion on demand (still illegal in the UK although you’d be hard put to discover that if you relied on the BBC for your info) from debating with him on Today.
          I am not a supporter of Cunningham but it seems to me that the abortion enablers (who include the BBC) treat him and his allies in the UK in the same way that the CAGW nutters treat the sceptics: ie the “science is settled” and abortion on demand – no matter how long after conception – is self-evidently moral and healthy so why bother to even talk about it?

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          • Pah says:
            April 27, 2012 at 2:37 pm

            Funny isn’t it how thoese who promote abortion on demand are most likely against the death penalty too.

            Unborn innocents must be drawn and quartered but rapists and murderers need therapy and understanding.

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  5. Guest Who says:
    April 27, 2012 at 7:59 am

    Seems the cuts are biting so deep many families are having to make sacrifices:

    , and now not just the grannies.
    SKY just had a ‘right-on’ teacher claiming that he had classes of little mites who sleep in drawers.
    One is sure the BBC can go even better…

    Lord Creosote of Hypocrisy, the green room awaits and your, and the BBC’s, audience is ready…

    Let the entitlements begin!

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  6. Guest Who says:
    April 27, 2012 at 8:50 am

    Is this ‘news’ on BBC yet?:
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/9230439/Labour-MPs-support-opt-in-system-for-online-porn-to-protect-children.html
    I suspect many more comments like this and it will not be made interactive if they do cover it:
    ‘ don’t want my kids to be exposed to any damaging propaganda from the Labour Party.

    I demand that anything to do with them is censored from the internet by default, unless I specifically opt-in.
    With no little irony, in forwarding that headline to my other PC, Orange refused to send it unless I took the word ‘porn’ out of the headline.
    ‘The future’s dark, the future’s #banwagoned’.

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    • Pah says:
      April 27, 2012 at 2:31 pm

      Are Orange based in Scunthorpe or Derwant Water?

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      • Guest Who says:
        April 27, 2012 at 3:06 pm

        On a ‘how-to’ website I publish, I am still trying to figure out how to deal with the script that deletes posts using words like ‘scrape’.

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        • Pah says:
          April 27, 2012 at 3:38 pm

          Scrape? 2 for 1 eh?

          Have you tried whole word searches rather than literal ones? I think there’s a regex that does that. \bword\b IIRC …

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  7. Guest Who says:
    April 27, 2012 at 10:30 am

    I love Friday’s…

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  8. Guest Who says:
    April 27, 2012 at 10:35 am

    Meanwhile, one for Lunchtime Loather.. from Mr. Vine’s ‘private stock’..
    Jeremy Vine ‏ @theJeremyVine
    From @katejohnston92: “The funniest run of tweets I’ve ever seen.” | http://pic.twitter.com/s0byCb34
    I wonder what he might think of Stuart Hughes’ recent ‘run’.
    Oh, darn (can I say that here?)… they have all been erased.

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  9. Guest Who says:
    April 27, 2012 at 10:58 am

    Laura Kuenssberg ‏ @ITVLauraK
    Small protest at Barclays meeting, even some police here
    BBC will be on it soon. Just a wee while for the PhotoShop to boot up to get the twitterhordes worked up and then…
    ‘Massive protest over banker bonusses’

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  10. George R says:
    April 27, 2012 at 10:59 am

    Meanwhile, James DELINGPOLE on political correctness, etc ‘down-under’:

    “ABC: even worse than the BBC ” [!]

    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100153921/abc-even-worse-than-the-bbc/

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  11. Beeboidal says:
    April 27, 2012 at 11:43 am

    I’m sure the BBC have a large team striving to find out who is the liar – Gordon Brown or Rupert Murdoch? Nevertheless, trying to be helpful as always, I offer the Beeb team this clue.

    BBC presenter Andrew Neil, a former Sunday Times editor, said Mr Brown had vowed revenge against Rupert Murdoch, telling the media mogul: ‘I will destroy you.’

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