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SAINT BONO RAPPED

>> THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2010

The BBC's complaints unit have rapped the knuckles of BBC producers who decided to give the execrable Bono and his band U2 acres of free publicity at the launch of their latest boring album back in February. But what about removing the hundreds of free plugs on the BBC website? The admiring boys and girls at the corporation chart his and the band's every move, short of when they go to the lavatory. He repays them by spouting foul-mouthed abuse on air. But no matter, Bono ticks every box for BBC sainthood; he's a lefty, he hates Britain, and he believes Africa's salvation is through bucketloads of aid from 'climate change' supporting NGOs.

Question Time 14th January 2010

>> WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2010

With 2010 now not just through the front door but making itself fully comfortable in your favourite armchair and smoking your cigars, we must surely be due a return to the weekly joy that is Question Time.

And indeed we are, for Question Time tomorrow comes from Finchley and the panel will feature amongst others Conservative MP Ken Clarke, comedienneShappi Khorsandi and former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie. More on the other panelists when details are published.

For those who wish to take part in the B-BBC Buzzword Bingo, we will be playing by the "Tudor Court Rules" meaning that 'Thatchers' are worth double points and a 'Climate Change' with an 'Al Gore' on the same card means disqualification. The usual prizes will be awarded.

As usual, the live chat will begin here at 22:35 UK time. Please come and join us!

Today's Nazi words of wisdom from the BBC

You may think that headline is overwrought, but it's literally true. Today's BBC front page http://www.bbc.co.uk currently has up, effectively as quote of the day, without any comment, and indeed with a slight implication of approval, the words of a prominent Nazi. 

I don't know how to record it for posterity, but the quote is towards the bottom left of the front page (as seen from Britain, anyway; the international version of the site may be different).

It comes as part of a "QI FACT OF THE DAY", just after the information that Arthur Conan Doyle and WB Yeats believed in fairies. Placed thus, it reads to me as a kind of riposte to them: 

"Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh. MARTIN BORMANN"

Which is all very well, but the job of saying the stern words of sense in response to credulity could have been given to someone more savoury. Martin Bormannwas Hitler's Private Secretary and head of the Party Chancellery. He was condemned to death in absentia at Nuremberg.

OK, you don't have to explain it to me. Whoever put this up has no idea who Bormann was but there were lots of those German philosopher blokes weren't there? The BBC are not Nazis but numpties.

Update: Hat tip to Happysnapper who kindly provided this screenshot. I would also like to pass on Millie Tant's comment:

It's extremely crass of the BBC to quote a Nazi - and doubly crass: a murderer talking about the struggle for life. Yeah.

The Bormann quote is still there on the main page at 18.48 GMT.