LEAVE OF ABSENCE

LEAVE OF ABSENCE

Hi all. As you may know, I am standing for election to the Northern Ireland Assembly in the May 5th poll and pressures mean I must step away from this site for most of the next month or so. I hope the other writers can keep you provided with copy whilst I am away. I will return.

GASSING AWAY...

>> WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2011

BBC Greenies love farting cow stories. And when their favourite fart-gas - methane - is the subject of a government report that could lead to new emissions laws, they are clearly in their seventh, miasmic, heaven. It defies belief that a time when we are supposedly making record cuts, DEFRA spends countless and undisclosed oodles of our dosh in working out the relationship of feedstuff to gas (though this story also indicates that DEFRA has at best a very tenuous grasp on sanity). Especially as other researchshowed as long ago as 2008 that despite the frantic greenie alarmism, methane emissions have stablised. Never let the fug of a marsh gas fog get in the way of a good BBC scare.

ON ZADIE

I see that Zadie Smith has caused a bit of a furore except to the BBC who see it all as fair and balanced;

"Her comments, broadcast during the Today Programme on Radio 4, were an impassioned defence of libraries and "shared institutions" in Britain.

The BBC has been criticised, however, for inviting Ms Smith to broadcast her comments without any interruptions or questions and for allowing the five minute piece to turn into a "party political broadcast". After telling listeners about growing up with a love for Kensal Rise library in north west London, which is earmarked for closure, Ms Smith rounded on the coalition Government's "shameful" policies."

It's the rancid BBC which is shameful.

ON THE BUTTON...

Don't know if you have seen this but Melanie gets stuck in to the BBC with a vengeance..