Mark Mardell, the BBC’s US President editor, has published his first post of the new year, and it’s as awful as we’ve come to expect. Doesn’t anyone read this stuff for him before he published it? (H/T George R in the open thread) A big year for Obama and the Democrats First he says that making everyone purchase health insurance is the President’s greatest achievement. The plan to make all … Continue reading
“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” -Noam Chomsky Chomsky also said this: The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum – even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going … Continue reading
Extreme weather is a new phenomenon isn’t it? In January of 1953, unusual weather conditions caused Britain’s worst national peacetime disaster of the 20th century. A storm surge flooded the eastern coast of England, killing more than 300 people and leaving thousands homeless. Fifty years later, ‘Timewatch’ re-examines a calamity which is largely forgotten today. The 1953 storm, according to Ewen McCallum from the Met … Continue reading
Harrabin admitted he was a climate change campaigner: I have spent much of the last two decades of my journalistic life warning about the potential dangers of climate change. …bearing in mind his personal beliefs you can only admire his self control and determination to downplay his excitement at this from a few years back: The business of going green A small but influential group of CEOs are stepping … Continue reading
Look at this headline from January 2013: US 2012 heat record ‘partly due to climate change’ And this from 2012: The last year in the continental US has been the country’s hottest since modern record-keeping began in 1895, say government scientists. One of the agency’s weather experts suggested climate change was playing a role in the hot temperatures. However the BBC had to qualify the claim … Continue reading
Hi folks! Sorry for lack of posting but my home internet died on Saturday and had to wait until now to update! My apologies! Did you perchance catch Nicky Campbell’s “The Big Questions” with Comrade Owen Jones and the rest of the usual rent-a-lefty brigade? Grim stuff! Anyway over to you!!
Spokesman Alvin Stone tells The Australian that the stranding of their vessel, Akademik Shokalskiy, has been misconstrued. “One of the misconceptions is that this is a climate-change voyage full of climate scientists, which is actually not true,” he says. “There are a couple of climate scientists on board, but it is just a scientific expedition and it is quite broad, with biologists, geographers, looking at penguin and seal populations … Continue reading
The BBC reports today that a US ice-breaker, the Polar Star, has now been called in to rescue not only the trapped Akademik Shokalskiy, but also the Chinese rescue ship, the Xue Long, which transferred those passengers from one to the other, and is now itself trapped. In other words, the ship which rescued the passengers from the trapped ship by flying them in a helicopter to another ship, which … Continue reading
The Telegraph tells us this: Long-time immigrants almost as concerned about immigration as UK-born people, study shows Whilst the Daily Mail reports this: British families will ‘lose out’ from influx of cheap labour from Romania and Bulgaria, Miliband admits in call to close low wages loophole More British workers will ‘lose out’ from the influx of cheap labour from Romania and Bulgaria, Ed Miliband has admitted. The … Continue reading
A few days ago we had this from the Daily Mail: Skewed figures and a BBC agenda: As a new wave of Eastern Europeans arrive, JAMES SLACK reveals how the ‘benefits’ of immigration are endlessly overstated It was a fascinating and damning article…more of which later. But suddenly the BBC has ‘allowed’, I might suggest ‘directed’, Nick Robinson to pen this for the Daily Mail: NICK ROBINSON: The public … Continue reading
