Site continues to buzz so here is a new Open Thread for you! As per requests..

I was just looking at the BBC News portal and for some odd reason they seem to have missed this story…. The number of people unemployed dropped to the lowest figure recorded for more than a year, it has been revealed. The jobless total dropped by 49,000 in the quarter to September to 2.51million – the lowest figure since the summer of 2011.  According to figures from the Office of National … Continue reading →

Short of time but here’s something to digest raw……. Guido has a document from Prof Joe Smith, Harrabin’s co-founder of the CMEP climate change advocacy programme. The document is from 2005 so not from the 2006 seminar but gives a good idea of what might have been discussed….and it looks like it wasn’t climate science but how to report climate science…they had long ago, well before 2006, decided the science … Continue reading →

  The BBC, under Chris Patten’s leadership, in defiance of its promises and all expectations of it living up to its ideals, has developed a new strategy to defend its unique political and ‘commercial’ dominance….and in doing so has abandoned all pretence of working in the public interest and encouraging the public’s trust.   ‘Kevin Marsh, Editor of the BBC College of journalism (not since 2011) stood before a class … Continue reading →

The arrogance is stunning. The BBC Trust cannot be trusted! Failed director general George Entwistle’s ‘obscene’ £450,000 pay-off was signed off by a BBC Trust boss as she watched Strictly Come Dancing, it has been revealed. Lord Patten telephoned his deputy Diana Coyle during the hit show on Saturday evening and they agreed that Entwistle should get double what he was entitled to if he did the ‘honourable’ thing and quit. After the … Continue reading →

  Bad Timing or what!!!   The BBC’s Martin Plaut  opens up…..Guido has the low down Who or what do you hate and why? Tories. As Aneurin Bevan said: ‘No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.’   Ich Bin Kentishtowner: Martin Plaut, … Continue reading →

Oh Dear what can the matter be?  Was it all Tim Davie’s fault? Kevin Marsh, ex Today Ed. explains…… Remember, George Entwistle told John Humphrys in the fatal Today interview that the Newsnight McAlpine film had been signed off “at management board level” – normally it would have been what’s known in the BBC as the News Board, usually chaired by the Head of News, Helen Boaden. The BBC Trust … Continue reading →

Site traffic is at an all time high! So here is a new one of these before the Monday one explodes. Over to you..

Thanks to GCooper in the comments who points out this revelation  (science writer Maurizio Morabito has unearthed a list – once hosted on the IBT’s website and now stored in the Wayback Machine‘s cache of the internet.) that the BBC tried to hide…and it’s a funny thing…can’t see many of the ‘best scientific experts’ amongst that bunch….lot of environmental pressure groups, businessmen, academics, media and charities….just a shame we don’t … Continue reading →