Has the BBC Gone Mad?(What do they mean, "gone"?)
Should the BBC Face Execution? Should HYS be banned?
So many questions, so little time.
Warning. May contain words alluding to homosexuality.
CRU "FALSIFIED RUSSIA RECORDS"
On the web, it's everywhere. The Russian Institute of Economic Analysisyesterday released a report suggesting that the 'climate change' mob at East Anglia's CRU deliberately and massively rigged Russian climate records, ignoring stations covering 40% of the landmass and choosing only those sites which showed evidence of warming. On the BBC, it's nowhere. Step by step, the 'climate change' scam is disintegrating. But you won't hear about it on the BBC.
Those Hindu Terrorists Again
>> WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2009
... attacking the Muslim community.
Dickie tells Harry Pearce and Ros Myers that he has been running an asset who has infiltrated a group of Hindu nationalists, led by Harish Dhillon. Dhillon's group is planning an attack targeting Muslims and, with tensions between the Hindu and Muslim communities riding high, a furious Harry demands that Dickie hand over his asset ...
Once again Spooks reflects the real issues facing contemporary Britain.
RUSSIANS ARE WRONG
Hurrah! Most Russians don't give a monkeys about climate change. And who can blame them? If I lived in Siberia, I'd be pretty keen to see a bit more sun, especially at this time of year. But for the BBC correspondent Katia Moskvich, evidently as right-on in her political views as her London comrades, it's a bit of a problem. She's thought very hard about it and come to the startling conclusion:
But there may also be other factors involved, such as the lack of political discussion - because of the absence of any real political opposition - and the non-existence of a powerful middle class that would not only worry about its children's health but also be ready to stand up and do something about it.
So that's it, then, case solved. The Russians are waiting for the rise of the middle classes before they see sense and go potty about climate change, just like the BBC. It can't be because they are sensible and have seen through the whole freak show scam, it's because they are idiots.
Johnny Ball booed from Robin Ince gig
Johnny Ball was booed off stage last night after questioning man made climate change during his part in a Christmas show celebrating atheism and science. The crowd for 'Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People', organised by BBC regular Robin Ince, was too close-minded to hear him out. Ince has criticised Ball's views on Twitter and Ball says he won't be doing the climate change stuff in future shows. More from the Telegraph.
I see also that another rationalist, the flimflam debunker James Randi, has expressed scepticism over claims that the science is settled. Like Johnny Ball, he too has come under attack for his views.
(Full disclosure - I'm an atheist climate change sceptic.)
Copenhagen Guest Blogger
(This is a guest blog from BBC environment correspondent Richard Blackbin in Copenhagen.)
Why can't more people be just like me?
The question first came to mind on the plane to Copenhagen as I caressed my cheek with my Guardian COP15 84-page pull-out supplement.
If more people were like BBC environment correspondents, I reflected, then the world would be a better place because people like me understand things so much better than ordinary folk.
Gazing out from the window at the frosty city landscape while we circled the airport, another thought struck me: perhaps I should have worn a little more than a Greenpeace T-shirt, Bermuda shorts and Birkenstock sandals.
I asked the stewardess if there was a clothes shop in the terminal building where I could purchase some sturdy boots and a reasonably priced winter coat made from sustainable natural products, but she didn't seem to understand.
"Have you at least heard of Fair Trade in Denmark?" I asked, pointedly.
"Sir, I can't understand a word you're saying when you've got your thumb in your mouth," she replied, rather too harshly for my liking. Maybe she was one of those "conservative women" one sometimes hears about. I was quite shaken, and decided not to press the issue. I would jolly well find a shop myself, I thought.
As things turned out, I didn't have to.
There I was shivering by the baggage carousel waiting for my duffle bag (small size, made from sustainable Romanian hemp) when who should I see but Marmaduke Quimly-Farquharson, one of Oxfam's go-getting young press officers. We have shared many thousands of air miles together travelling the world to exotic locations for various climate conferences. Indeed, we'd both been on the same flight just then but thanks to all this frightful recent scrutiny about BBC expenses I'm no longer able to travel up in first with all my pals from the NGOs.
In one of the many acts of kindness one often experiences at these events (populated as they are by caring planet-loving types and not old right-wing white men with their sceptical views) Marmaduke offered to lend me a coat on condition that I give Oxfam a bit of a mention now and then during my reports. I agreed, of course. "After all, we're in this together!" I said.
"Indeed we are!" he replied. "Why quite can't more people be just like you, Richard?"
My thoughts exactly.
HOPELESS IN KABUL
Anyone catch wee Douglas Alexander being interviewed on Today this morning @ 7.12am? It seems that the ideal way to assist our soldiers is to send in 1000 UK civilians including "a number of economists" - and that's what Dougie announced. This nonsense was taken by Sarah Montague without comment. What next- a legion of aromatherapists?
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