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As you shiver down south remember that this is just global warming you are feeling.

Have a thought too for the Poms who have been conned even more than us by the BBC, the Met Office and other luminaries who declared to us all that the science was settled.

They are all now trying to work out why it isn’t and that the world still hasn’t warmed as the models predicted.

About 20 of the UK’s leading scientists and meteorologists are due to meet at the Met Office to discuss Britain’s “unusual” weather patterns.

They will try to identify the factors that caused the chilly winter of 2010-11 and the long, wet summer of 2012.   Read more »

Think about how great it would be without the left wing bias and just plain wrong-ness of Radio NZ and TVNZ.

Earlier I blogged about what is happening in Greece…now the subsidised illuminati of the BBC are working themselves into a lather in the UK.

But others like me think it would be bliss, and the trough-snufflers of state funded broadcasting would finally have their throats cut.

John Humphrys has invited Radio 4 listeners to imagine life without the BBC. They are to picture themselves sitting down to watch Countryfile or Holby City, only for the screen to go black. That’s what happened to the Greek national broadcaster ERT, you see, the Hellenic equivalent of the BBC. On Tuesday night the good citizens of Greece were watching the news when… pfft. Apparently the money had run out.

I closed my eyes, but before I had a chance to imagine a Britain without the BBC, Humphrys dismissed the idea as “unimaginable”. You have to admire the complacency behind that “unimaginable”. The Herculean smugness. The scale of the self-congratulation. And it’s not just Humphrys. They’re all at it, all the 30,000 or so people who work for the BBC.  Read more »

It looks like the BBC should be renamed the Boy-Buggering Club as sex charges mount. They are in danger of becoming better known than the Catholic Church as the preferred workplace for pedophiles.

More than 150 allegations of sexual abuse have been made against 81 BBC employees since the Jimmy Savile scandal engulfed the corporation last year.

Half of the accused are current members of BBC staff or contributors, a Freedom of Information request revealed.

Of the cases involving those 40 employees, ten remain outstanding and are currently being investigated by either the police or the BBC.

The figures reveal a seismic shift in the number of people coming forward in the wake of the Savile controversy.  Read more »

It could only be academics who would suggest Dr Who is racist. They probably got a grant for it too.

Doctor Who has been accused of many things during its 50 years on TV – most to do with cheesy special effects – but “thunderingly racist” is probably not one of them.

A group of academics claim the popular British sci-fi show is steeped in attitudes “that continue to subjugate people of colour” and shows contempt for “primitive” people.

In a new book, Doctor Who and Race, they argue that the Timelord is dismissive towards his black companions and question why he is more interested in battling Daleks and Cybermen than fighting slavery.  Read more »

There are some out there who think name suppression and a culture of silence is important when people are arrested. It is the same belief that leads celbrities and sports people before the courts to suddenly become afraid of their own names.

The other school of thought is that by naming suspects it could bring other victims forward. This is certainly the case in the UK where on-going investigations into celebrity sex fiends is cutting a swathe through the celebrity ranks.

The Stuart Hall case shows why suspects must be named when arrested or charged, open justice campaigners said yesterday.

At the time of his arrest, the shamed presenter’s lawyers criticised the Press for identifying him, citing the Leveson report which called for a ban on naming suspects held by police.

But Lancashire detectives confirmed that publicity surrounding Hall’s arrest led to further victims coming forward.

The former BBC radio and TV star, who had initially denied the allegations, later admitted a string of sex offences against girls.

Philip Davies, a Tory MP on the Commons culture committee, said: ‘This is a prime example and perfect reminder for people as to why an open system of justice where people are informed about who’s been arrested or charged is so important.

‘It can encourage other victims to come forward and make sure those people who are guilty of offences are brought to justice.

‘By maintaining any secrecy over arrests or charges, the only people who benefit from that are criminals who could use it to get away with crimes they have committed.’  Read more »

The BBC seems intent on broadcasting Ding Dong the Witch is Dead as some sort of macabre celebration of the death of Margaret Thatcher. They are disgrace, perhaps David Cameron might look at some savage cuts, bound to be plenty of savings to be found.

The BBC is at the centre of a new row over the death of Baroness Thatcher after admitting it may broadcast a song mocking her passing.

Ding Dong the Witch is Dead, a song from the Wizard of Oz, has sold 20,000 copies this week after anti-Thatcher campaigners encouraged people to buy it to celebrate the death of the former Prime Minister.

It is currently number four and on course for a place in the top five by the time The Official Chart Show airs on Sunday, three days before Lady Thatcher’s funeral.

The decision on whether to broadcast the song is the first test for new Director-General Lord Hall, who started in the £450,000-a-year post last week.  Read more »

BBC journalists are some of the most over-rated repeaters in the world. Right up there with Radio New Zealand union flunkies.

And yet again they have been found out for the left-wing scum that they are.

BBC staff who went on strike yesterday said they were prepared to return to their desks if Nelson Mandela died, however the staff’s generosity stopped there.

After news that the 94-year-old was in hospital broke, union leaders declared that in “the sad event of his death, and for BBC news coverage of that story only” the staff would postpone the strike.

However when the strikers were asked whether the ailing Lady Thatcher, scourge of the unions in the 1980s, would be treated in the same manner, there was a marked change of approach.  Read more »

Polar Bears are the only animal on Earth that is said to see humans as a food source.

So Gordon Buchanan decides to put himself in a glass “box” to see what happens when he’s the local polar bear takeaway store.

This, care of BBC 2

Here is Gordon being interviewed about the experience:

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