THE MURDOCH JIHAD CONTINUES

THE MURDOCH JIHAD CONTINUES

>> THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2011

BBC has picked up the Sarah Payne alleged phone hack story and is running it as main item on Ten News. Peston centre stage to help further put the boot into NI. Meanwhile those Piers Morgan/Mirror Group allegations seem to have vanished. Odd that.

RED TAPE IDIOCY

The BBC has been giving acres of space today to that nice Vince Cable in his quest to get rid of red tape. Of course, as usual, he has uttered not a peep about the biggest source of the deluge - the EU, and Martha Kearney did not even mention this when she interviewed him on WATO. Shame, too, that BBC reporters missed the irony of this. Even while the bonfire under regulations was allegedly being lit, Mark Kinver tells us of new labyrinthine government "guidance" for organisations on "reporting greenhouse gas removals and emissions from domestic woodland creation" as part of the sacred climate change battle. The spanking new, 10-page,red tape extravaganza opens:

This annex provides guidance on reporting greenhouse gas removals and emissions from domestic woodland creation and should be consulted when investing in, and/or maintaining, any UK-based woodland project for carbon purposes, as an additional option to overseas projects that comply with DECC’s Quality Assurance Standard for Voluntary Carbon Offsetting. This annex sets out who should report on woodland emissions/removals and how you should report them. This guidance does not cover how to report removals or emissions associated with ongoing management of existing woodland.

Of course, Mr Kinver, reporting the new rules in the context of even more new insane bureaucracy from climate change fanatics the Woodland Trust, does not spot the irony, and is instead much more keen to push the RSPB's perspective that - wonderful as the new red tape is - far more drastic measures are needed to save us all from the perils of temperature rises. As usual, you could not make it up.

WHAT'S MY NAME?

No, I'm not talking about one of pouting and posing Rihanna's hits but rather this curious tale the BBC has put out this morning that some children are going to nursery school without knowing what their name is. I admit this does seem bizarre and I accept Frank Field brought the topic up in the first place but the item they ran does suggest that this actually is the case. So far, so good. The BBC were quick off the mark to get the Headmaster of the school concerned to explain that these kids who do not recognise their own name are "white" children - whatever that is meant to suggest. A pre-emptive strike lest any of us bring up the impact of immigration, I wonder?

Jean Gross, the government's communication champion for children, agreed that anecdotally "we do have a problem" and teachers were increasingly concerned that it was "getting worse". She told Sarah Montague that hidden speech difficulties were sometimes to blame, but other times children were not getting "wide, rich dialogue" from their families, partly because parents "don't know how" to talk to their young ones.

Hang on. HOW have we arrived at the point where some parents do not know how to talk to their children to the degree that the kids cannot even recognise their name? Has the breakdown of the traditional family unit - cheered on by the anything goes BBC - had any impact on this? I suspect that there is a lot more to this story than the BBC seeks to portray and wonder what your views might be?

MARDELL UPDATE

Those wicked Tea Party folks. Thank goodness for Mark Mardell's exposure of their fiscal simple-mindedness here. You see they seem to believe that Government should not spend what it does not have and were THAT not bad enough they seem to hold the outrageous view that political representatives should stick to what they promise. Helpfully, urbane Mark is able to excoriate their wacky lunacy and when they claim that THEY are "the only adults in the room" he is on hand to point out that those viewing the US from abroad (Namely himself and other enlightened BBC liberal sophisticates) see them as children. Talk about throwing the toys out of the pram, eh Mark? Obama is running the USA to the edge to fiscal peril in order to secure electoral benefit during his election year. His calamitous stewardship of the economy is sanitised by the BBC and the idea is being projected that it is ALL the fault of the Tea Partiers.