It was a magical moment and, of course, the BBC captured it. A 13-year-old Indian school girl has addressed world leaders during the inaugural session at the UN Climate Change Summit in New York. During her speech, Yugratna Srivastava from Lucknow appealed to the world’s leaders to do more to combat the effects of climate change, asking “is this what we are going to give to our future generations?” But … Continue reading
The Today Programme and the Guardian. It just had to be …. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
The BBC reports here that the report on the events of Bloody Sunday has been delayed again. (Let’s hope the lawyers are not out of pocket!) Tribunal chairman Lord Saville has confirmed he hopes to hand the report to the Northern Ireland Secretary at the end of March 2010. Now, if you follow the sidelinks the BBC helpfully provides, you will see a profile on Martin McGuinness here and it … Continue reading
Tomorrow night, why not relax, pour yourself a glass of something pleasing, and JOIN IN the first of a new series of Question Time liveblogs. We go live at 10.30pm or so! My sincere thanks to G.O.T. for the smart new logo, much appreciated!! See you all LIVE tomorrow evening.. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd claimed that when Joe Wilson shouted “You lie” during Barack Obama’s speech to Congress, what he really meant was “You lie, boy”. This made quite an impression on BBC correspondents Kevin Connolly and Mark Mardell who both quoted it approvingly. They therefore might be interested in the Ace Of Spades Top Ten American Political Quotations (As Recollected by Pulitzer Prize Winning NYT Columnist Maureen … Continue reading
On Wednesday’s Up All Night, presenter Rhod Sharp spoke to BBC foreign correspondent Humphrey Hawksley about his new book “Democracy Kills”. It opens, he explained, with a puzzle: HH: Basically I’m trying to paint a scenario whereby a catastrophe is sweeping the world and you’re sitting in your house moments before you’re gonna be destroyed with your partner and your two children. One’s very bright and is a musician and … Continue reading
BBC giving lots of publicity to McDoom’s suggestion that we emasculate the UK nuclear defence capability. Now then, no real surprise there since the BBC has been a long time supporter of Britain abandoning nuclear weapons. But what is REALLY bothersome is that in this article is that the only view used to “balance” McDoom’s suggestion are those of David Miliband, Nick Clegg and CND’s Kate Hudson. Anyone detect a … Continue reading
Another Thought for the Day from a Muslim cleric, this time Abdal Hakim Murad – Muslim Chaplain at the University of Cambridge. Abdal is very concerned about how people treat all those poor “asylum seekers” that the French cleared out of the jungle yesterday, even razing their temporary Mosque he adds. Indeed he went on to suggest that we have a duty to show “charity” towards such people by inviting … Continue reading
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So, I’m driving home from the airport at the end of a long day and I turn on the radio to relax. Mistake. I happened upon the first in a new series of File on Four. It was about the terrorist threat we face here in the UK. It was about the extremists that seek to cause mass slaughter. It was about….the “extreme right”. Intrepid BBC reporter Alan Urry sets … Continue reading
