A new open thread seems in order…….

  Have to laugh at this from the New Statesman, and the fact that it comes so soon after wee Owen Jones demands the Left defend the BBC:   Is the BBC’s “The Big Questions” the worst thing on television? It’s one of the broadcaster’s flagship religious programmes, yet it makes religious people look unfairly crazy. I’m sure you’re familiar with BBC’s The Big Questions. It’s that dreadful “ethics” show … Continue reading →

    The Daily Mail reports that the BBC’s favourite turbulent priest, Giles Fraser, is unhappy with politicians who merely pay lip service to the real meaning and demands of Christianity : Here’s the problem: no-one was ever crucified for kindness. Jesus was not strung up on a hideous Roman instrument of torture because of his good deeds. If Jesus is just a remarkably good person whose example we ought … Continue reading →

  “We are going to frame the issue of climate change as more of a distributional issue,” said Dr Petersen.       Remember this very negative report about gas from Harrabin, ooh what, 3 days ago?… UN set to warn countries over ‘dash for gas‘ Governments are likely to be warned next week that a “dash for gas” will not solve climate change. A draft report for the United … Continue reading →

    Harrabin is still out there smearing those who do not believe…. In one report he states: [Pickles has banned windfarms because of pressure from the right wing press suggests Harrabin…..] Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has staged a minor coup over coalition energy policy. Conservative newspapers have been demanding a cap on onshore wind farms, but the Lib Dems have refused to agree…..the Liberal Democrats, accused him of playing … Continue reading →

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtevF4B4RtQ       Remarkable isn’t it….climate sceptics are denounced as unqualified bloggers or lay persons with vested interests and therefore shouldn’t be able to criticise the consensus or be given due weight by the BBC…..however someone who supports that consensus, however unqualified, is welcome to comment…in fact the BBC will go out of its way to assure you that such a person is a ‘simple, unqualified, layperson’ merely … Continue reading →

  I see any definition of ‘dangerous climate change’ as a political act not a scientific fact. Who said that?  Dr Joe Smith in a moment of weakness…he being Roger Harrabin’s sidekick at the climate propaganda unit CMEP.     James Lovelock was the Green’s hero….when he claimed the earth was in peril from man’s exploitation. Not so much now. Lovelock has become the hate figure, the apostate, of the … Continue reading →

    It was fine, the BBC believed, to fling the Bible into the rubbish bin but not the Koran.   It seems that type of thinking is not just for Christians….the BBC is quite ready to report ‘concerns’ about certain communities, Buddhists in Burma were denounced as religiously inspired killers not long ago whilstthe BBC was claiming Islamic terrorists are ‘perverting the religion’, and now it seems elections in … Continue reading →

  A couple of days ago Michael Rosen was on the BBC with this: Journalese First broadcast: Tuesday 08 April 2014 Why are thugs always vile, market towns always bustling, blondes bubbly and tirades foul mouthed? With the help of ex Editor Eve Pollard, journalist Robert Hutton and Professor John Mullan, Michael Rosen takes a look at the language and the cliches of news journalism     Rather ironic considering … Continue reading →