Welcome to the Question Time Live-Chat, with your hosts All Seeing Eye and David Mosque. The panel tonight are Roy Hattersley, Rory Stewart, Lynne Featherstone, Ruth Lea and Tom Conti. We’ll be kicking off at 22:30 UK time and carrying on until the lights fall on yet another edition of This Week. Enjoy… Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) since 2006 – and thus the world’s climate change fanatic-in- chief – is stepping down from his lofty role. He’s off to make megabucks as a consultant at KPMG, the multi-national accountants and business consultants who are leaders in the carbon market scam, their efforts aimed at making sure their clients benefit from the trillion … Continue reading
Mark Barlex (BBC News On Demand Editor) quoted on the BBC College of Journalism twitter account: The link takes you to this BBC video report of the Iraqi guy throwing his shoes at George Bush, complete with different camera angles and a slow motion replay. A few minutes later there was a further tweet highlighting another one of Barlex’s favourite BBC online items: The BBC’s position on American politics summed … Continue reading
Where’s Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams and Sid James? I’ve got a great idea for a Carry on Film.It’s about a plot to assassinate this awful bloke, a murderer and a villain who deserves to die, and the gang bump him off after an elaborate Carry On type of adventure. The antics of the gang could be hilarious. They play members of Mossad, the infamous Israeli intelligence service. In real life … Continue reading
Did you see that the BBC has also been pushing the anti-country sports agenda of Hillary Benn this morning? We had a little trailer around 7.30am and then the blessed Benn himself came on an hour later to explain why he has written to Cameron asking why he seeks to restore freedom to those who live in the country. The little totalitarian Benn is fawned over by the dolts in … Continue reading
Having spent yesterday spinning the unemployment figures for Labour, today the BBC is obsessing on those evil Jews, Mossad in particular. How dare they kill cherubic vacationing Hamas warlords! Something must be done. I heard Hague being interviewed just after 8am and his responses were pretty pathetic as the BBC did everything possible to get him to condemn Israel. What he should have done was congratulate whoever killed the Hamas … Continue reading
From the new site for spoof Labour posters. Click on the image to enlarge or you may miss the speech bubble! Compare and contrast the following headlines today: Daily Telegraph: Long-term unemployment highest since 1997 The Times: Number of people on the dole hits 13-year high Guardian: Unemployment claimant count rises again ITN: Long-term jobless total soars BBC: UK unemployment falls for second month in a row Saving Gordoom….it’s what … Continue reading
Question Time this Thursday hails from Middlesborough. It’s QT’s second visit to what the local council describe as the “flagship” town hall…which presumably means that it has sails on and the crew have scurvy. The panel this week include Roy Hattersley and actor Tom Conti. For those who wish to take part in the B-BBC Buzzword Bingo, we will be playing by the “Gosling Rules” meaning getting “Self-Publicist”, “Pillow” and “Murder” on … Continue reading
The Marxist theory of history, as studied in their rebellious youth by so many senior BBC people, emphasises the importance of economic factors and the relations between what were called ‘the forces of production’. From these relations and their associated class relations sprang all the other institutions of society – and even the consciousness of the individuals in each class. As P J O’Rourke puts it : “As a philosophic … Continue reading
Interesting watching Breakfast BBC this morning. With the latest employment figures out later this morning, the BBC is running the line that many people who have lost their jobs have found this to be a good thing since they have gone on to do other things that they enjoy. Oddly enough, during the 1980’s, I don’t recall the BBC running with such a benign view on job losses, do you? … Continue reading
