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
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When Melanie Phillips went to Australia she thought she had died and gone to heaven. She discovered that down under, unlike here in Blighty, supporting Israel does not have to be done in private, by consenting adults. For your information, Melanie Phillips is “known to be an extremist Zionist insane warmongering Islamophobe” who must be treated with circumspection and labelled “Mad Mel” by all liberal-leaning followers of the BBC. She … Continue reading
The comedian Mitch Benn, having been fingered as an active Greenie by taking part in a Green party fund-raising event, attempted to justify in a series of responses to this post his partisan approach. I suppose I sort of congratulate him for at least making an effort; but his foray into what he clearly regarded as enemy territory ended in tears – he departed waspishly calling all the contributors to … Continue reading
BBC environment correspondent Richard Black, quoted by Robin Horbury yesterday: I’m not surprised at the level of UK scepticism as the main impacts of climate change are decades away and in other places. The problem is poor science awareness. We need to improve science education so people properly understand climate science. So it’s the sceptics who need educating is it? http://twitter.com/alexporter82/statuses/9733582968http://twitter.com/Meggyyyyy/statuses/9733330327http://twitter.com/JamesG29803/statuses/9731734871http://twitter.com/shine2u/statuses/9742357989http://twitter.com/A_n_gel/statuses/9743615199http://twitter.com/RexRayFan/statuses/9752321618http://twitter.com/justthemo/statuses/9746625752http://twitter.com/MichelleMichie/status/9746011386http://twitter.com/Penguinchic1/statuses/9770095174http://twitter.com/IshaSG/statuses/9768322179http://twitter.com/Bibhuti_Bhusan/status/9765934744http://twitter.com/iamanushka/statuses/9765786835http://twitter.com/rjscheiwillerr/statuses/9765581299http://twitter.com/hdnyc/statuses/9765292555http://twitter.com/senoritamayra/statuses/9764404410http://twitter.com/bineshbharath/statuses/9752728734http://twitter.com/VitoFun/status/9740331086http://twitter.com/camillabraine/statuses/9750411050http://twitter.com/EllissaP/status/9749480794 There’s lots, lots more like that. At least they’re … Continue reading
Bishop Hill has an interesting post which reveals yet again the hardcore pro-climate change mindset at the BBC. The post is about a public discussion about the impact of Climategate, held at Oxford University on February 26 between environment journalists Richard Black (BBC), Fiona Harvey (FT), Ben Jackson(Sun) and David Adam(Guardian). Richard Black made relatively few contributions, but his first was this: I’m not surprised at the level of UK … Continue reading
[Update Wed March 3. I see the photo has caused quite a bit of discussion. Chris T-T is of course pissing in the wind asking for money, but on reflection I can see his point about use of the image. I too would be pretty angry if, for example, the BBC used a photo of mine without permission. Therefore, in the interests of reserving my right to occupy the high … Continue reading
