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Friday, November 28, 2008 David Vance # LEFT, LEFT, LEFT. Caught the beginning of Any Questions this evening and had a chuckel at the make up of the panel. There was Geoff Hoon (Left), Caroline Lucas(Left), Vince Cable (New to the BBC I think, ahem, but also Left) andDavid Willets (Soft-centre). So hint of bias there, right? First up was a question on whether "extremism"as evidenced in events on Bombay could be defeated. Caroline Lucas immediately launched into an attack on American foreign policy and then got stuck into Israel's "occupation" of Palestine as a probable cause of the Islamic terrorist scum attack in Bombay yesterday. Her rant was greeted by generous applause. Vince Cable also helpfully explained that "extremism" needed a political solution. Willets waffled about winning hearts and minds (Not the best advise when a deranged Muslim with an AK47 is hunting you down because you might have a British passport but still..) and amazingly only Hoon sounded even slightly gung ho, which is saying something! I look forward to the day when Any Questions will find the guts to allow an unapologetic spokesman for the war on Islamic terror onto its lousy show - but I'm sure it will never happen since a plurality of views is forbidden in easy consensus BBC land. Comments: 23 (unread) - Biased BBC Home David Vance #