Question Time this week comes from London; soon to be the first city in the world to host the Summer Olympics three times. So don’t expect any questions on how much money that will lose. The panel is Mayor of London Boris Johnson, the improbably named Lord Adonis, BBC favourite Shirley Williams, AllSeeingEye’s childhood fantasy Carol Vorderman and the mind-numbingly smug Will Self. For those who wish to take part … Continue reading
In his latest column for the commie Morning Star our new friend Chris T-T stands up for “performers from within the left-wing diaspora” against “anti-BBC wonks”. Bless. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Richard Bacon (Radio Five Live, August 27, 2009) vs Sarah Palin (Tonight Show, March 2, 2010) Varying levels of cringe arise from both first-time efforts (and, yes, some people in Palin’s Leno crowd seem overly keen to express their support, though no more so than your average please-reinforce-our-worldview Now Show audience) but I think she wins with the better gags and snappier delivery. The self-obsessed BBC presenter (and renowned Palin-hater) … Continue reading
I’ve been busy recently, but yesterday I started to write this: ***** What with the election, the fuss about Lord Ashcroft, and the BBC falling apart, you’d think they would tell us about this.The infiltration of the IFE into the British political system – I hear it’s not just Labour, — that’s news, isn’t it?I mean it’s as significant and deeply troubling, if not more so, than this, wouldn’t you … Continue reading
Bishop Hill has a clip from BBC Radio 5 Live in which presenter Peter Allen tells a phone-in listener that he is not allowed to question global warming. I wonder which department issued that diktat? Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Jim Naughtie to Baroness Ashton this morning: You’re a hundred days into the new job now. I mean, this is the kind of long term work that you have to do. Do you feel at all drained by some of the arguments that have been erupting in Europe about the settlement after the Lisbon Treaty was ratified and the way the appointments were made and so on? What touching concern … Continue reading
Behind the BBC’s warming fanaticism are a series of financially-driven motives. Richard Black, as readers of this site will know, is the BBC’s web environment correspondent. He – like many of his BBC colleagues – also makes a tidy income from chairing conferences. Back in 2008, for example, he was a lead facilitator at a Pew Symposium in Tokyo which considered the likely impact on whales of climate change (!), … Continue reading
As the John Hathorne character in the ongoing witch-hunt against the poor, voiceless, victimised comedians of The Now Show it would be remiss of me not to note (with ignorant sadistic crypto-fascist foam-flecked glee, naturally) that the Tory candidate for Brighton Pavilion is asking the BBC for a bit of clarification. Update. Brigstocke: “we had to be very careful to ensure that The Green Party were not hosting or organising … Continue reading
One more from Twitter: Piotr M. Kaczynski works for the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), a think tank which claims “high standards of academic excellence” through “quality research”. Roughly a third of its funding comes from EU institutions and national governments, and one of its main research areas is climate change (it gave a number of presentations at Copenhagen). And one of its leading “thinkers” believes that the earthquakes … Continue reading
OK folks, a new week and a new Open thread… Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
