The Somerset Levels…..climate change has meant they are now more like the Lost City of Atlantis…or that was the line we were being fed early on. Then the locals started kicking off….demanding dredging…..if the rivers had been dredged as they were 20 or so years ago this flooding would never have happened they proclaimed. All a bit inconvenient for the climate change brigade….not climate change but lack of … Continue reading →

      Funny what the BBC misses out of its news reports. One of the big political  battlegrounds is ‘fairness’….just how much are the Rich really suffering for instance…just how much are they paying in taxes? That’s right at the heart of Labour’s attack on the Tories…accused of being the party for Millionaires and big business.   First of all though, no mention of this by the BBC in … Continue reading →

Here you go, a middle of the week Open Thread! Enjoy!

  Not so long ago the BBC was accused of being Miliband’s Moutpiece:   BBC accused of becoming Ed Miliband’s mouthpiece The BBC is facing calls for an inquiry into the extensive coverage it has given to Ed Miliband’s dispute with a newspaper.     Now it looks like they have managed to avoid publicising another dent in his reputation: From the Mail…. Ouch! Ed Miliband is left off list … Continue reading →

      Just been listening to a bit of a royalist love-in on 5Live as Charlie makes a good impression with the boat people of Somerset-Under-Water….and the BBC ‘Royal’ correspondent. The BBC had no problem with his highly political comments…in fact they give them the headline on the website: Somerset flood delay a ‘tragedy’, says Prince Charles   How times change when it suits…normally if Charlie interferes in the … Continue reading →

    Remember a couple of weeks ago when we heard this: Ed Miliband wants consumer groups to improve uncompetitive markets Labour leader says Competition and Markets Authority would seek independent advice on tackling suppliers and regulators Miliband said on the BBC’s Andrew Marr programme that under Labour plans, bodies such as Citizens Advice and Which? would work with the Competition and Markets Authority to define a programme for the … Continue reading →

  What the BBC doesn’t report is often as telling as what and how it reports other news stories.   It does seem that if for instance you are Muslim, or someone positioned to influence government policy on climate change, you are pretty safe from critical BBC investigation.   Andrew Gilligan has spent a long time investigating and reporting on the extremely dodgy happenings in Tower Hamlets where Muslim extremists … Continue reading →

  Man has been warming the planet by puffing out CO2….since the 50’s…before that it was Mother Nature….apparently. However these two graphs from the Met. Office are interesting:   This shows the UK annual sunshine….and you can make a direct relationship between sunshine and apparent global warming time frames…..and a leveling off at the end of the 90’s….     This one showing the UK summer sunshine is perhaps even … Continue reading →

    Oops…more language problems at the BBC:   From the Independent: Friday saw the start of the Chinese new year, with this being the year of the horse. Unfortunately the BBC News’ subtitle system didn’t understand the memo quite right, and instead declared this the ‘year of the whores,’ too much the embarrassment of the channel. “Welcome to the year of the whores. People around the globe celebrate,” read … Continue reading →