So, I’m driving home from a late meeting and I turn on BBC Radio 4- “The World Tonight”. Not a great idea for my blood pressure. They ran an item concerning Obama’s decision to send an extra 30,000 soldiers to Afghanistan and sought the views of …..yes, a Taliban commander. In WW2, I suppose we were lucky the BBC did not seek the views on Concentration Camp guards to present … Continue reading
As a number of commenters pointed out over the weekend, the first in the new series of The Now Show (Friday 27 November) chose to deal with Climategate by circling the wagons around the poor put-upon scientists and mocking the sceptics. The best that the collected comedy geniuses could come up with was a crap James Bond evil villain conspiracy sketch, the set-up for which was an absurd straw-man quote … Continue reading
Time for a new Open Thread endorsed by the now world famous CRU! Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Professor Phil Jones, the man whose statistics-manipulating department at CRU is at the heart of ClimateGate, has stepped down, pending an investigation of what went on. To my amazement, the BBC is reporting the story this morning, but – true to form – the main aim of the item is to put across the professor’s point of view, that “sceptics” (climate realists) have taken his words out of context and … Continue reading
Today is the day that Britain lost almost 1,000 years of independence and became a vassal state of the EU. The Lisbon treaty (aka the European Constitution) came into effect. How did the BBC mark the event? With a predictable homily about how the ‘treaty’ has streamlined decision-making and will make the UK a much better place. Meanwhile, the real EU agenda is becoming clearer. The Open Europe think tank … Continue reading
How ostrich-like is Roger Harrabin? Very, is the answer. His latest post on ClimateGate discusses the veracity or otherwise of the IPCC. Yet again, he deals with the topic without reference to a single climate realist. And throughout, he assumes that the IPCC is, and has been, a legitimate scientific undertaking. He also asserts that irrespetive of what happened at CRU: Other scientists tell me they doubt the inquiry will … Continue reading
Biased BBC contributor Chris Hartnett writes.. Just back from a few days away to find that one Robin Ince has got a science/comedy programme series starting today. Robin is a sidekick of Ricky Gervais and had Dara O` Briain on as a guest.My problem is this-all three are militant atheists who have appeared at various functions to mock Christmas amongst other things. This is not to say that they may … Continue reading
I am sure you may have seen this “Tory Muslim Peer pelted with eggs” story. A B-BBC reader points out…. You have to get to the 3rd para before you realise she’s been pelted with eggs by fellow Muslims. It could have been the BNP or EDL or even those equally fascist Zionist Jews. But no… So why not,”Muslim protesters pelt tory peer Warsi with eggs” as a headline? I … Continue reading
A reader asks…. “As a matter of interest, did anyone see Matt Frei’s three part series on Berlin? Overall it was enjoyable and sympathetic. but his treatment of the fall of the Wall made no mention whatever of Ronald Reagan – having portrayed JFK as a continuing inspiration – certainly no footage of the Gipper’s call for Mr Gorbachev to \’tear down that wall\’. He contented himself with the remark … Continue reading
So, just in case you are a slow learner and don’t realise that every war the US now fights is ‘Nam all over again, on the day that Obama will announce more US troops for the war in Afghanistan, Today runs an excerpt from Lyndon Johnson’s speech in 1965 announcing more US troops for…yes, you’ve guessed correctly, Viet Nam. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
