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Wednesday, September 03, 2008 Hugh # Other people's money £29 million. That is a lot, isn't it? You know you're in trouble when even the Lib Dems are giving you a hard time. It's also worth noting this bit: "...it does not include transport costs paid for by staff and claimed back through expenses". Presumably that will include a lot of taxi fares. And all this is before the bill for the Olympics... Comments: 0 - Biased BBC Home Tuesday, September 02, 2008 David Vance # FOR RUSSIA, WITH LOVE. The EU's gutless response to the Russian invasion of Georgia gets the sanitised treatment by the BBC here. Nothing new there. But if you check out Mark Mardell's blog here you will discover that he reckons the EU has been astoundingly tough on Russia."I reported on TV last night that the EU summit was "surprisingly tough" mainly because of the suspension of talks on a partnership with Russia, but also because of pretty strong robust language" Gosh Mark, aren't you the intrepid journalist pointing out that strong language. Putin and his puppet Medvedev must be trembling at those tough words. Mark seems a tad distressed that some of us point out just how impotent the EU response has been to Russia territorial aggression, we can but wonder why..... Comments: 7 (unread) - Biased BBC Home Hugh # No pregnant pause If you suspected the BBC would never give the Republicans as much coverage as they gave the Democrats last week, shame on you. Since the Palin story broke, they been assiduous in keeping it on the front page, cooking up this feature on US teen pregnancies to do so. "There is," we are told, "a debate state-side as to the reason for this high pregnancy rate." I've no idea what the debate is, though, because the piece simply blames it on abstinence programmes while being careful to mention that McCain opposed a Democratic proposal to pay for prevention programmes other than abstinence-only education. Oh, the irony. Elsewhere Radio 1's Newsbeat is also keen on the story, and interestingly has decided that Palin's anti-abortion stance makes her part of the "far right". Quality journalism all round. Labels: anti-McCain Comments: 66 (unread) - Biased BBC Home