Managed to pick up a copy of the Beeb’s in-house classified ads and general internal staff stuff rag Ariel yesterday. The gossip column Green Room picks up up a story Chris Paul has been running and declares itself to be “bemused” by the finding on Conservativehome that BBC staffers with profiles on Facebook are elleven times more likely to be “liberal” than “conservative”. The piece concludes:
Green room, who is coming out right now as a Facebook libertarian, wonders whether anyone from Conservativehome.com also counted up the number of people who ticked ‘apathetic’ or ‘moderate’…
Quite.
Over on the letters page one wag writes in:
I am worried that I have not recieved my ‘Free Alan Johnston’ as advertised earlier in the year. Is there a supply problem?
I seem to remember a near-identical epistle in Smash Hits circa 1984 when Special AKA were top 10 with “Free Nelson Mandela”. Good to see recycling in action.
Incidentally my trip to Television Centre was to appear on Question Time Extra – the Any Answers style continuation of the “real” QT on News 24, following in the footsteps of Iain Dale and Alex Hilton. Catch it here for one week only.
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November 3, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Tim
Good to see you on the QT Extra clip Rupa – thought you came across well and completely agree with what you said.
It is a travesty that no-one within the police is being held personally accountable for the shooting. People hold positions of responsibility and that’s exactly what they are and people must accept that responsibility – with responsibility come consequences. A fine is just going to be passed onto the tax payers so we end up paying the police’s mistakes. Grounds of health and safety make out that it was an accident, but rather it was an intentional killing, albeit on the wrong man. Why is it that, within government (and senior management) people are given the opportunity to resign when in other, lower ranking positions people are fired for making mistakes.
As for immigration there are indeed many immigrants that are making a great contribution to British society in many different ways but at the same time there are many who have no real skills to use or take low skilled, low paid jobs that could be done by the unemployed, were they willing to work and others are having to be supported by society. At the same time it is our responsibility to protect those in genuine need or refuge but at the same time the UK only has limited resources.