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After Hutton: a new face of political discussion Paid Members Public
Full Hutton details here [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3437315.stm]. So, the BBC is in trouble, standing accused of poor journalism and worse management. The Sun faces serious repercussions from its decision to publish the leak of the report this morning. We have some mild
High Hoon Paid Members Public
Geoff Hoon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Hoon] will not be resigning [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3400707.stm]. Sure, a man died because he was forced to give up his body armour. Sure, this was because the MoD [http://www.mod.uk] ordered their
The Hutton, It Arrives Paid Members Public
Well, actually the Hutton report [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_Inquiry] arrives in just under two weeks [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3400303.stm], with the involved parties getting 24 hours’ notice on the rest of us. Will this be a watershed for the BBC
New "emergency" powers for Blair & co? Paid Members Public
The Today programme woke me this morning with the level of frightening revelation that sent me scurrying for the newspapers. It wasn’t a sleep-addled hallucination. It was a piece of really bad news from Westminster about new powers for the Government in “times of crisis”. This is horrifying. [http:
It didn't take long Paid Members Public
Boy, it didn’t take long for the politicians to start backing away from the people’s law. The MP who said he’d put the legislation forward is trying to wriggle out of it, and Prescott says that it would encourage vigalantes. Vigilantes who sit at home, hoping that
The popular vote? Support Tony Martin Paid Members Public
BBC Radio 4’s Today programme is the agenda-setting morning broadcast in the UK. most people in any position of power here make it their first listen in the morning. This year the show’s producers hit of the wheeze of asking the listeners to propose a law, which a
