With global warming having stopped some years ago, the eco-cultists have been a bit down in the mouth so the BBC and our pal Roger Harradin have given them a bit of a much needed boost by leading the rising levels of carbon dioxide is bringing about the end of the world charge, without any sense of a need for balance.

  Yesterday I praised Paul Danahar for his realistic and reasoned analysis of the situation in Syria and compared it favourably against the efforts of Mark Mardell whose reports seem coloured by his admiration for Obama.   But I was looking at this which was published on the 3rd of  May on ‘Jonathan Spyer’ (A well known blog that analyses the Middle East): Is Assad Winning?   What is striking about it … Continue reading →

If you tuned in to today’s ‘More or Less’ looking for an impartial broadcast spiced with facts then you had more chance of being run over by a yak. Radio 4 gave over the first ten minutes of the program to the subject of EU withdrawl. One of the main points we were asked to take away was an apparent validation of Clegg’s claim of 3 million job losses if … Continue reading →

    An investigation into a child sex ring in Telford has concluded. Around 100 white girls were abused by British Pakistani ‘heritage’ men…Muslims.   The BBC tells us that: (11:27:30) ‘It’s a case that has echoes of Rochdale and Derby and other cases…the offenders all being British Pakistani Muslims and the vicitms generally being white British teens. No one is suggesting this is something endemic within that community…but obviously one … Continue reading →

Victoria Derbyshire is in full on ‘Grandstanding’ mode today (10:40)…having a go at the Coppers as usual. West Yorkshire Police have published their internal investigation into its relations with Jimmy Savile…and given themselves a clean record. Derbyshire isn’t impressed and asks ‘How they can investigate themselves?’. She asks ‘Don’t you think this is odd that the Force is investgating the Force…how can anyone trust the report?…there is a conflict of interest…how … Continue reading →

Interesting report from the BBC here on the dead Boston bomb suspect Tsarnaev. Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev already held extreme views when he visited Russia, Islamists in Dagestan have told US media. Tsarnaev’s cousin Magomed Kartashov, a local Islamist leader, reportedly spent hours trying to dissuade him from becoming a militant Russian anti-terrorist police have interrogated Mr Kartashov, who is in custody over an unrelated offense. So, he was … Continue reading →

Here is a new Open Thread to take us all off into the wild blue yonder of the weekend.

   Trying to close down debate by defining  someone as racist, homophobic or Islamophobic is a favourite trick of  those who want to avoid talking about certain issues…we get the race card etc deployed regularly on this site…so it is interesting to listen to 5Live’s Tony Livesey show  (from about 2300) which had a fascinating little spat between someone named ‘Kate’ (didn’t catch her full name), and Brendan O’Neill from Spiked … Continue reading →

‘When will the Syria crisis end? God knows.   God knows because this crisis is increasingly not about freedom but about religion.’  Paul Danahar BBC     Mark Mardell has long supported Obama’s dithering, sorry, masterly inactivity..no….cautious, wise, diplomacy over Syria. ‘It is clear Mr Obama doesn’t want to go to war in Syria. He regards it as too complex, too difficult, too uncertain. American action there would have a huge … Continue reading →

It’s a long overdue welcome back to the Question Time LiveChat. We’re going to try a new application instead of CoverItLive, which now charges heavily. Please try out the new software on a Test chat session here. The session for the Question Time chat this evening is here. Question Time comes from Coventry; a city which dates from 1945. On the panel we have former Shadow Home Secretary, David Davis … Continue reading →