I would love to be a fly on the wall at the conferences where the items for BBC television and radio news are decided – to try and work out why some stories make it and some don’t. Murders are a case in point – there are about a thousand a year over the United Kingdom – three a day. Yet not only do 90% of them not make the … Continue reading
I saw this on the BBC news and spotted you discussing it on the Open Thread and felt it deserved further attention. Gordon Brown has been exposed thanks to the Sunday Times as being the man who personally vetoed Libyan pay outs to the victims of IRA terrorism. Libya shipped Semtex and arms to the IRA for several years from 1985. Lawyers representing British victims have evidence that the Semtex … Continue reading
Here we go folks, a new Open Thread….at your command. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
“Is Mary a good role model?“, asks Nicky Campbell. Most vocal contributors from the BBC audience were Muslims. The other view was mostly Roman Catholic. I thought the UK was (at least nominally) a Protestant country though no one on the audience was able to articulate that opinion. You couldn’t make it up. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Nicky Campbell asks whether the arms trade is a necessary evil. Nothing like a loaded question, right? Audience populated by moonbats, of course, comparing the Arms Trade to the Slave Trade. Even those who advocate the use of arms in the audience such as Col Bob Stewart agreed it was “intrinsically evil.” Nicky wanted to know in what way was an arms dealers different to a drugs dealer. A guy … Continue reading
Andrew Marr reckons that we are now moving out of the recession whilst interviewing George Osborne. BBC news suggests likewise. Rejoice, and to all the unemployed out there, chin up. Keynesian uber alles. They never saw the recession coming, they will not see it leaving. Click through to read and contribute comments on this post.
Watching Sir Hugh Orde on the Marr Show. Orde is perhaps the most politicised Police Officer one could conceive but he was on to argue that is is wrong to politicise the police aka the suggestion that Police Chiefs should be elected. He also got a dig in at Boris Johnson. Orde is the guy, let us recall, whose proudest achievement is to brought IRA bombers and bank robbers onto … Continue reading
Excellent article by Chris Booker here. BBC viewers were treated last week to the bizarre spectacle of MrBan Ki-moon standing on an Arctic ice-floe making a series of statements so laughable that it was hard to believe such a man can be Secretary-General ofthe UN. Thanks to global warming, he claimed, “100 billion tons” of polarice are melting each year, so that within 30 years the Arctic could be “ice-free”. … Continue reading
So, despite Obama’s stimulus, US unemployment hits a 26 year high. Thank god the BBC managed to track down Nigel Gault, chief US economist at IHS Global Insight, who says that the rise in the jobless rate was not too discouraging. “The decline last month was too good to be true, really.” Fair enough. It’s an opinion- how about a counter-balancing one?
I see that the BBC is pushing the story that a former US attorney general can be sued by an American citizen held as a witness suspected of having information in a terrorism case, a court has ruled.” “Abdullah al-Kidd (Typical US citizen) accuses John Ashcroft, attorney general from 2001 to 2005, of violating his constitutional rights in 2003, when he was held for 16 days. The court said detention … Continue reading
