BBC Blows £100 Million of Licence Fee Payers’ Money

Sally Bercow Judgement in Full | Mr Justice Tugendhat
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DWP’s Welfare Failings | Isabel Hardman
Get Used to Coalitions | David Aaronovitch
Woolwich a Showcase in the Banality of Evil | Fraser Nelson
The Enemy Within | Max Hastings
Muslim Led Military-Style Free School Needed | Toby Young
How ITV Crashed Out Online Last Night | MediaGuido
Green Leader Blames Terror Attacks on Britain | Asa Bennett

BBC Blows £100 Million of Licence Fee Payers’ Money

Yet more frankly unbelievable waste from the BBC. New DG Tony Hall has called time on their Digital Media Initiative, which has by their own admission completely and utterly failed in its task of carrying them into the digital age. Hall’s scathing statement admits:

“The DMI project has wasted a huge amount of Licence Fee payers’ money and I saw no reason to allow that to continue which is why I have closed it. I have serious concerns about how we managed this project and the review that has been set up is designed to find out what went wrong and what lessons can be learned.”

The total cost is a staggering £98.4 million…

Farage Cautioned For Being Drunk and Disorderly

Nigel Farage’s city trader son will receive the caution after being found a bit worse for wear by cops in central London. A rite of passage for the offspring of any great leader.
It happens to the best of us…

Via CourtNews.

McAlpine Wins

The High Court rules that Sally’s tweet intended to mean McAlpine “was a paedophile who was guilty of sexually abusing boys living in care”, ruling that it was defamatory both in its natural and ‘innuendo’ meaning.
Defamatory face…

Via @jackofkent

UPDATE:

Ex-Centrica Lobbyist Becomes Number Ten SpAd

Brainbox Tara Singh is Dave’s new Energy adviser. A former Centrica public affairs manager, Tara is another Policy Exchange graduate who has made it to Downing Street. Makes a change from the PM’s Eton clique.
A welcome hire from outside the “chumocracy”, she only went to Malvern…

WATCH: New Mirror Footage of Terror Attack

Daft Draft Hammond Plan

Two days after Woolwich and the Tories are already back at it. Probably not the most opportune moment for Philip Hammond to have the suggestion he might resign as Defence Secretary and challenge Dave floated in the FT. Quitting over armed force cuts, gay marriage and Europe will set him up as the perfect candidate to oust the PM, say supporters of the thinking man’s Adam Afryie:

“Some Tories speculate that the 57-year-old Mr Hammond, who was previously considered somewhat grey and ultraloyal, might even quit rather than implement further cuts to the armed forces, setting himself up as a leader of the Tory right. His allies denounce any such suggestion as “ridiculous”, insisting that the minister is a loyalist.”

It would help if the public knew who he is…

THURSDAY, MAY 23, 2013

Judgement Day for Sally Bercow

COURT 14

Before MR JUSTICE TUGENDHAT

Friday, 24th May 2013

At half past 10

Jury List

ROBED
FOR JUDGMENT

TLJ/13/0509 The Lord McAlpine of West Green v Bercow

Guidogram Going Out Shortly

The Guidogram round-up of the week is going out shortly.
Thousands of Westminster insiders read the Guidogram, everyone from Downing Street insiders to Fleet Street never miss it. The EU’s bonkers conkers ban plan, and more…
Join the conspiracy and become a subscriber to the Guidogram, free, to keep in the loop. You’re either in front of Guido, or behind…

Top BBC Presenter Embroiled in Police Corruption Scandal

No end in sight for the scandal-hit BBC: nowToday programme veteran John Humphrys has confessed to bribing a police officer… with a bottle of whisky as a 17-year-old reporter. Humphrys has finally come clean over how he was the mastermind behind the crime 50 years on:“Now they would be banging my door down at 5am in the morning”. Operation Elveden have their latest suspect…