The Colour Of Money…It’s Green

The BBC’s Roger Harrabin was keen to highlight this: ‘No case’ to water down CO2 targets, chancellor told The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says there is no legal, environmental or economic case for lowering the fourth UK “carbon budget”, set in 2011. It says the budget (running from 2023-2027) should be tightened if the EU agrees strict targets on emissions.     But of course he has never once … Continue reading

And Merton Doesn’t Even Blush

    Amazing hypocrisy from the HIGHNFY crew on MP’s pay (11 mins)….all things considered:   At the start, Deayton got paid £3,750 a segment, £750 more than was paid to the less experienced Hislop and Merton. By the time he was fired, he was earning £50,000 a show. While Merton and Hislop receive less than that amount now, it is not considerably less. Fourteen years ago they got £12,000 … Continue reading

Nelson Mandela….’Prepared to use terrorism’

  In his autobiography Mr Mandela makes it clear they were prepared to go further and engage in guerrilla warfare and even terrorism.    Margaret Thatcher helped to avert a ‘devastating racial war’ by opposing tougher sanctions against South Africa’, F. W. de Klerk  (who in 1993 won the Nobel peace prize jointly with Mr Mandela) says.       The BBC et al have been delighting in smearing Mrs … Continue reading

FRIDAY OPEN THREAD…

Well, I could not bring myself to watch BBC Question Time from South Africa last night – first time in ages that I found myself in such a position. The BBC Mandelathon continues entering the second week now and it’s really all become far too much. I was on the BBC Moral Maze programme the other evening and it was all about the template Mandela set for ‘forgiveness”- never once … Continue reading

Media Distortion

  Artifacts. Some of the things we see in the microscope are not a part of the original structure of the living specimen but are artifacts. An artifact is a product of man’s workmanship. Workmanship may bring to mind the craftsmanship of the Eskimo’s polar bear carved out of walrus tusk or the graceful gazelle of African ebony. Man’s workmanship also includes the embedding, sectioning, and staining of tissues for … Continue reading

Ruff Trade

  Nothing to do with  BBC bias….just thought you might like to see something I spotted whilst passing through Herefordshire today….the ‘Missing Pet Search Team’ on manoeuvres:     Just an unfortunate coincidence for sure.    

Making It Up

    Does this make any sense at all?……. BBC Trust stands by ‘robust’ Pollard Review despite criticism Nick Pollard’s review of Newsnight’s dropped investigation into Jimmy Savile has been defended by the BBC Trust after criticism from a Conservative MP. Rob Wilson provided the Trust with a recorded conversation in which Mr Pollard appeared to admit omitting a key letter from his report. The Trust said it was a … Continue reading

You Have To Laugh

  Babar Ahmad appeals for trial to be held in UK “I absolutely reject any allegation that I supported terrorism in any way, in any place, whether in Afghanistan, Chechnya or any other part of the world. I believe terrorism to be wrong and I believe the targeting and killing of innocent people to be wrong.”   Oops….. Extradited Briton Babar Ahmad admits terrorism offences A British man who spent … Continue reading