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  1. Old Goat says:
    April 2, 2013 at 10:03 am

    Evan Davis today ‘testing’ an electric car (for a few minutes), with Bjorn Lomberg (AGW supporter or critic – I’m no longer sure). The only thing he seemed to have to say about the vehicle, was that it was “quiet” (twice), and that it was “comfortable” (three times). A raving endorsement, n’cest pas?

    The “salesman” went on about how the batteries were crap, really (though in the next three years, they could be brilliant), Lomberg suggested that electric vehicles did little to reduce CO2 emissions (and, let;s face it – the CO2 nonsense has already been well put to bed, as the evidence ain’t there).

    So, all in all, a waste of everyone’s time, including mine.

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    • thoughtful says:
      April 2, 2013 at 12:28 pm

      You missed out the bit about how energy intensive the manufacture of the batteries is and how in reality the subsidy given is larger than any saving.

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    • Guest Who says:
      April 2, 2013 at 10:43 am

      In the spirit of ‘to be fairness’….
      It would be interesting to know what the proportion is from a similar-sized organisation, where these alleged acts were committed, etc.
      But really, as the chief cherry-picking outfit around, the inevitable howls from the defence teams will ring a bit hollow when they try and claim this is all a nasty plot to make them look bad and really it’s best left between them and the internal whitewashers.
      Holding to account is so what they only get to do with others, after all.

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  3. Guest Who says:
    April 2, 2013 at 10:31 am

    http://order-order.com/2013/04/02/ingrams-to-hislop-time-to-move-on/
    Well, there’ll always be HIGNFY. Always.

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  4. Guest Who says:
    April 2, 2013 at 10:38 am

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9966098/BBC-appointed-self-proclaimed-fascist-Di-Canio-as-football-columnist.html
    Is that the sound of suddenly anonymous ‘spokespersons’ (odd how the most vocal commentators get shy on the high-horse pulpit when things go off piste) looking up their redactions manuals?
    Ed Miliband is going to face a dilemma if he needs to go on a BBC footyballista show to show he’s down wiv da masses on the the beautiful game. Or the BBC at all.
    One sniff of the ‘F’ word and his bruvva was on a plane to New York before you could say ‘taking a stand’.

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  5. noggin says:
    April 2, 2013 at 10:51 am

    Orchestrated and myopic so called “debate” on 5live
    as predicted yesterday … “panto” pulls out all the stops,
    on DiCaneo, to see both sides? …. 😀
    by giving unwarranted amount of time to the thugs of United Assoc Fascism? … again trying to promote them as
    a voice of reason? … laughable and absurd in equal measure,
    yep! if you take out news breaks/self advertising
    the programme is barely 40mins – so how can these intellectually challenged individual warrant over 20mins?.
    when it is supposed to be caller led eh! …
    better ask the bbc 😀

    a solitary lone voice appears at 52mins to start to take them to task … and is sidelined …
    now theres al bbc fairness for you

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b01rlp1b/

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  6. Sir Arthur Strebe-Grebling says:
    April 2, 2013 at 11:17 am

    Balanced broadcasters a rapidly diminishing breed
    Perhaps it is time someone clipped the wings of those in the broadcasting world who seem to believe they rule more than the airwaves.

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  7. thoughtful says:
    April 2, 2013 at 5:32 pm

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21975225

    Back bBC Moslem news after the disgraceful story on child abuse at madrassas which was apparently the fault of white people for failing to prevent Moslem adults beating the kids.

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    • Sir Arthur Strebe-Grebling says:
      April 2, 2013 at 10:32 pm

      And not surprisingly, since this is a programme on the bBBC Racist Network, there is no mention of how the boys leaving the madrassas will treat the white English girls they meet on the streets outside.

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  8. David Preiser (USA) says:
    April 2, 2013 at 10:24 pm

    This encomium to departing NASA boss, James Hansen, who is leaving to become a full-time Warmist Evangelist, reveals the usual BBC attitude towards Warmism. Environment correspondent Matt McGrath mentions “critics” of Hansen twice, and both criticisms are from the Left, from the perspective of committed Warmists who are concerned that Hansen’s extremism and alarmist statements have “hampered the cause”.

    No mention of critics from the other side of the issue, like that from Dr. John Theon, Hansen’s former supervisor at NASA, or that he fudged data to support his beliefs. I suppose this is the BBC feigning balance and impartiality here, by allowing room for criticism of Hansen at all.

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