Futile Exercise

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I just did something unusual. I listened to Feedback on BBC radio 4, whereupon I heard a strange item. Roger Bolton summoned Alison Hastings,chair of the Trust’s Editorial Standards Committee, to talk about the BBC Trust’s upcoming review of the impartiality of the BBC’s coverage of the Arab Spring.Oh Roger! You challenged Alison about the wisdom of appointing Edward Mortimer to conduct it, in view of his close friendship with … Continue reading →

Peas in a Pod

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Isn’t Kevin Connolly like Mark Mardell? They’ve both got alliterative sounding names, their voices sound similarly sneery, and they even wear the same shirt.Kevin has been busy in the West Bank recording the sounds of a weekly Friday demonstration by Palestinians against Israeli occupation. “Israeli soldiers disperse the tiny crowd with a couple of volleys of stinging, choking tear gas!” The scoundrels! “It all feels a little jaded. A little … Continue reading →

COMEDIANS?

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Is Brian “Limmy” Limond worthy of a BBC license payer funded pay cheque? “Scottish comedian Brian ‘Limmy’ Limond has apologised for controversial Twitter messages about Prince William and the Conservative Party, after calls were made to sack him from the BBC, which also came to the attention of Conservative MP Louise Mensch this morning. Last night, Limmy, turned his attention to Prince William’s involvement in the FIFA Poppy ban on … Continue reading →

NOW, IT’S SERIOUS

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Mark Mardell is a busy chap these days. One moment is his salivating at Rick Perry’s 53 seconds of forgetfulness during the latest GOP debate (It’s finished Perry, reckons Mardell, and Republicans simply must support Romney, this years Dem/BBC approved John McCain) the next he is grimly pointing out that the only person that can beat Obama in 2012 is..yes, Angela Merkel. I believe that is called the assumptive close. Gosh, … Continue reading →

ALL THAT GLITTERS…

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This is beginning to look like let’s get Richard Black, but he (and the BBC idiots who employ him) deserve it. There is a delicious irony in this story. Mr Black has come out all guns blaring in support of his old chums Greenpeace against a nasty nuclear energy company, EDF. Greenpeace, like Mr Black, want the UK energy supply industry to go back to the dark ages, so the … Continue reading →

RICHARD BLACK: AVOID CLIMATE SCEPTICISM – LEARN ANOTHER LANGUAGE

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A couple of days ago he was getting his panties in a bunch about those evil Koch Brothers, today it’s the Anglo-Saxon world in general: To those who despair of the success of sceptical lobbying, the message is clear: learn one of the languages of Brazil, China or India. Even French might do at a pinch. Black’s article – which bemoans the apparent undue influence of climate scepticism in English-speaking … Continue reading →

Question Time LiveBlog 10th November 2011

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Question Time tonight comes from Newcastle upon Tyne. On the panel we have Nadine Dorries,  the Sec of State for Scotland and LibDem Michael Moore, the Shadow Chief Sec to the Treasury Rachel Reeves, neurobiologist Professor Colin Blakemore and Stephen Pollard, editor of the Jewish Chronicle. Could be an interesting one this week. TheEye is able to join the Two Davids…Vance and (hopefully) Mosque…in the Moderators balcony tonight, so we … Continue reading →