Several Blogs have been investigating some of the media images of the recent Israeli attacks in Lebanon and have come to the conclusion that many of the images are at best stage managed. One Routers photographer has already been dismised for manipulating images and some photographs have been withdrawn because of the questions about their [...]
The Madness and Badness of the EU
May 4, 2013 By
Hair Dye and Soft Soap I was listening to Gardeners Question Time on the BBC this week, one reply was; that although a weak solution of soft soap sprayed onto roses would get rid of an aphids, as soft soap was not an EU recognized insecticide its use would be illegal. This is one of the problems [...]
Conservatives half-brained over the EU
April 26, 2013 By
It looks as if the Conservatives are at it yet again; they do seem to live in a dream world in which the EU does not exist and can therefore be ignored, because the EU is a constant source of conflict within the party, the Conservative leadership wish it not be above the political horizon [...]
Modest Brussels bureaucracy
April 4, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Looks like Labour Movement for Europe trolls are out today. This from the Independent Sir: Marc Glendening is talking through his hat in when he mentions the “over-centralised structures of the EU” (Letters, 27 March). The EU can only legislate with the approval of the ministers from its member states in the Council and [...]
Sport more important than sovereignty.
January 1, 2007 By Leave a Comment
The BBC Christmas Repeal The Hunting Act with 52.8% European Communities Act : 29.7% which means that 52.8% of those who voted consider their sport more important than this countries sovereignty. But perhaps it is a reminder for 2007 that if we are going to get anywhere we need to bury our differences and pull together all the [...]
Let`s Turn off the Tap
December 29, 2006 By Leave a Comment
It will take only 15 seconds: long enough for Britain to hand over another £6,000 to the EU. What are you waiting for? Daniel Hannan begs in the Telegraph; he is of course writing about the BBC Christmas Repeal Which law should be tossed into the dustbin of British history? Hannan says we should blowtorch [...]
Good News I think?
October 4, 2006 By 1 Comment
The BBC reports on the fringe meetings at Bournemouth (well some of them anyway) Apparently, the number of Tory MPs who want to withdraw from the EU is growing, thus claims Euro-sceptic MP Philip Davies and David Davies who is one of “six whole” Tory MP members of the Better Off Out group said: “There [...]
Keeping us all Entertained
October 4, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Simon Heffer questions whether Dave Cameron and his friends are on the right road although the new approach might be attracting a few younger people to the not the Conservatives, it is doing so at the expense of the core voters, I suspect the Conservative leadership thinking is, that many will bury their concerns and [...]
Bankrupt Policies Mean Bankrupt Parties
September 25, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Blair speaking on BBC’s Sunday AM programme was asked if he believed there needed to be a shake up in the way political parties were funded the Prime Minster replied: “I do, but the public will have to work out whether it wants to bear more of the burden as taxpayers.” Umm…… and how do [...]
Pigs seen flying over the BBC
July 12, 2006 By
Graeme Wilson writes in the Telegraph that “The Tories attacked the BBC last night after it emerged that it has a £100 million loan deal with a European Union bank set up to promote European integration. The BBC confirmed last night that it had borrowed £25 million under the deal with the European Investment [...]
Deep Authoritarianism
June 30, 2006 By Leave a Comment
I was astounded last night, whilst watching the BBC`s light hearted political programme “This Week”, when Diane Abbott the left leaning Labour MP and BBC lovey slipped in a comment about the Conservatives, “many Tories hate the European Convention on Human Rights because it is foreign, and that many Tories are deeply authoritarianism and they [...]
Nothing More Than Hot Air?
April 10, 2006 By Leave a Comment
There are two MSM articles that coincide with two separate themes this blog has referred to recently, The first was in yesterdays Telegraph “There IS a problem with global warming… it stopped in 1998 By Bob Carter” For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem. In truth, [...]
What just happened?
April 2, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Ping pong ends after record breaking 6 bats, On Wednesday the Identity Cards Bill was passed by parliament. The endgame began on Monday the House of Lords voted by 219 to 191 to amend the ID cards bill and duly sent it back to the Commons for a 5th time. At issue was the nature [...]
Like a parody of BBC bias
March 22, 2006 By Leave a Comment
A report on the BBC’s the World Tonight attacked the Conservatives for planning to sit with Poland‘s Law and Justice party in the European Parliament. The report explained: “Since David Cameron’s election as leader he’s moved fast to change the Conservative party’s image to make it more modern, more inclusive, more appealing to voters in [...]
BBC Poll Tax
March 17, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Sir – The Government’s proposals for the future of the BBC seem anachronistic (News, March 15). There are now numerous ways in which information and entertainment of the type the BBC provides can be obtained: terrestrial broadcast, satellite transmission, internet and mobile phone transmission. There are also many providers of services through these channels. In [...]
Apathy is a Problem for Democracy.
March 2, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Neil Herron has a post about the opening of the New Welsh Assembly Building by the Queen yesterday and a link to the photographs from Caernarfon Online of the thousands of people who did not turn up in Maes. At the request of the Assembly the BBC mounted a publicity exercise by putting up a [...]
Rule by Consent or by the New Aristocracy
February 23, 2006 By Leave a Comment
Even the BBC and the Guardian have at last picked up on the Reform bill story, which is gradually making its way into the MSM, under the somewhat conciliatory headline Reform bill could ‘sweep away parliamentary debate’ Matthew Tempest and agencies? Suggest that Conservatives and senior legal experts fear the bill will give ministers sweeping [...]
Freedom of Speech under Threat
January 13, 2006 By 2 Comments
Police are targeting Sir Iqbal for his religious beliefs Sir – I wholeheartedly disagree with Sir Iqbal Sacranie’s views on homosexuality (News, January 12), but I wholeheartedly support his right to express these views on Radio 4 – in a manner that was certainly not “threatening, abusing or insulting”. Surely the police pursuing him under [...]
The Retreat of Reason
January 3, 2006 By Leave a Comment
This should release a few pigeons amongst the cats, I have not read the full report yet but its puff looks promising. Happy New Year Anthony Browne (Who He) argues in The Retreat of Reason that political correctness, which classifies certain groups of people as victims in need of protection from criticism and allows no [...]
Two More EU Professors
October 9, 2005 By Leave a Comment
They used to say you could always tell you were in a tough area if you saw two policemen walking the beat together; one was there to back up the other. Well it would appear the EU professors are now writing in tandem, as if by jointly writing an article would in some way shield [...]
How EEOO Are You
October 4, 2005 By 6 Comments
My wife, having a rough idea about my interest in all things EU, mentioned that there was a political program she thought I would want to watch this evening, the title of the program was How Euro are you? At which point I opted not to waste my time, and decided to sleep through what [...]
Deportation for formenting terrorism
July 13, 2005 By Leave a Comment
BBC Home Secretary Charles Clarke has said he is “shocked” the suspected London suicide bombers were British-born. Mr Clarke said the attacks were a “clarion call” for everybody in the UK to defend their society rather than assume “we are all OK”. The Muslim community especially must “stand out” against the ideology which promotes bombings, [...]
EU to voters: Drop dead!
July 5, 2005 By Leave a Comment
This posted in the American Thinker By James Lewis June 2nd, 2005 For half a century the ruling class of Europe has owned the project of European unification. Nobody bothered to ask the voters. But now they have made a mistake. Purely as a gesture, France, Holland and Britain scheduled popular referenda on the EU [...]
Hold up for EU Constitution in Germany
June 16, 2005 By Leave a Comment
News from the BBC: Germany’s Federal President Horst Koehler will not sign the EU Constitution until the Federal Constitutional Court decides whether the charter conforms to Germany’s own constitution. Although the Constitution was passed in both houses it cannot become law until the Federal President signs it. Martin Stabe the London based Germany Blogger says [...]
“If voting changed anything, they’d abolish it.”
June 9, 2005 By Leave a Comment
“If voting changed anything, they’d abolish it.” Even before the member states had signed the constitution the Eurocrats began setting up “a European diplomatic service, a European president, a European foreign minister, a European space policy, the working of the new European charter of fundamental rights setting up a new European fundamental rights agency, and [...]
Construct a constitution
June 2, 2005 By Leave a Comment
BBC Newnight Construct a constitution Some figures for our numerate Newsnighters: Pencils and crayons Tools at the ready – now write a constitution The United States Constitution consists of 4,543 words (including signatures). It might take about half an hour to read. The Declaration of Independence is made up of 1,458 words (also with signatures) [...]
I won’t pay to be abused by the BBC
May 26, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Boris Johnson writing about the BBC in the Telegraph “The corporation is a cultural and political anachronism, locked in a pre-1997 mindset. It is also, of course, rather wonderful. The reason that it is so immensely politically powerful is that its Leftist message is subconsciously legitimated by association with things that we love and cherish [...]
The Soap Opera of Westminster
May 24, 2005 By Leave a Comment
The Hansard Society committee a team comprising MPs, academics and journalists headed by the Labour peer Lord Puttnam. The commission was set up after the 2001 election, when the turnout plunged to 59%.In a report out today says: “There is an extraordinary confusion between the role of parliament and the role of government. People genuinely [...]
