Question Time LiveBlog 23rd February 2012

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Tonight Question Time comes from Tunbridge Wells. David Dimbleby is joined on the panel by Minister for Culture Ed Vaizey, Shadow Attorney General Emily Thornberry, UKIPs Paul Nuttall MEP, journalist Cristina Odone and dreary lefty Simon Schama. Your Moderators line-up consists of David Vance, David Mosque, TheEye and John Ward. It’s a 10:30pm kick off and afterwards we bid a welcome return to the maddess that is This Week. Unfortunately … Continue reading →

Confused

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The Today website is no longer providing clips of every part of the programme. No explanation, but I assume it’s something to do with the cuts. Hmm. More importantly, as stories about failed rogue states, Islamist wars, terrorism and piracy reach a crescendo, why doesn’t anyone publicly acknowledge there’s connection between them all? The only factor that determines whether the BBC sees Islamic terrorists as good or bad seems to … Continue reading →

IRAN, ISRAEL AND SYRIA

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Anyone catch this John Humphyrs interview with William Hague on Today this morning. What fascinated me was how a discussion regarding what could be done to help those people suffering under the Assad regime in Syria suddenly was switched by Humphyrs into trying to get Hague to say that the UK would never support military action against…Iran. And in particular, should Israel move against the Mad Mullahs, would the UK … Continue reading →

Hungry Baker!

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The BBC’s coverage of Khadar Adnan the Palestinian hunger striker closely resembles the extract from Al Jazeera highlighted by Elder of Ziyon, only the BBC’s version has been dumbed down, so that the public can understand it more easily. You know, large type and tiny paragraphs for those of us with poor comprehension.To help the public absorb the heroic nature of this martyr more fully and stop us being confused … Continue reading →

Non Story

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The following probably comes into the category of ‘what the BBC won’t report’.Admittedly, few outside the Israeli press have covered the story, but it merits a little mention by the BBC because ill-conceived references to the incident in question still rear their heads in the course of the day-to-day Israel-bashing to which we have become accustomed. The news that the BBC ignores is that the French supreme court has acquitted … Continue reading →

JIHAD AGAINST EMPLOYMENT

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The BBC is a strange beast. The past few days have seen it giving lots of publicity to those trade unionists/marxists/hard leftists who oppose the Coalition plan to allow unemployed people to gain unpaid work experience. I guess falling unemployment is unhelpful to the Left but am less sure why the likes of the BBC Nolan Show (both on 5Live and Radio Ulster) seem intent on persecuting TESCO for having … Continue reading →

Balen 2

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Who’d have thought that journalists who wish to investigate, uncover and expose scandals and injustices without compromising their freedom or exposing their pet whistleblowers, would be subjected to the whims and fancies of the Supreme court in the course of its earnest deliberations over such things as the meaning of the word ‘predominantly’. Who knows what was on the minds of Lord Phillips and pals as they grappled diligently on … Continue reading →