Was in a brief discussion about "forcings" at Jo Nova's yesterday. Everything's brief there: you just get into stride and it's all forgotten. I only got the 5-minute argument and I'm sure I paid for the full half hour!

Anyhow, odd that he seemed to be defending the strange concept.

tomo,
The e-bike schemes never made sense to me: doomed to commercial failure. The rampant vandalism was a surprise though. Usually socialist schemes have a honeymoon period where the ideals seem to work, but the e-bike schemes often went straight from inception to basket-case.

Ofcom does pay very well, but they seem to have missed the point about bias, don't they? Hidden bias is bad, but what's the problem with open bias? I don't think logic is in the equation though, they just want rid of GBNews. GBNews seem to have been cooperating in their own downfall, and might have been wiser to have fought from the beginning. With one "controversial" presenter after another departing the scene, it looks like the Yes Prime Minister "salami slicer" analogy. Is there any meat left?

Mailman,
Thanks, but no need to apologise. Since you enjoy games with names, you might check out anagrams of my name. There's a two-word one which is funny and, sad to say, extremely apt. Happy hunting.

The ABC's coverage of Gaza fits your description of the BBC's: never a mention of hostages, anything from the Israelis is called a "claim", but what comes from the Gazans is presented as fact, etc. And unlike in the UK, we don't even get an opportunity to "vote" with a licence fee: the ABC gets over $1 billion straight out of our taxes.

Not really worth getting your blood pressure up about though. I'd rate the movie V for Vendetta as quite good (in a curate's egg way), and its best part is the relaxed way the high-ups at the BTN channel decide how to spin each event for that evening's news report. That's exactly how i see the ABC News going together, and I think more and more people are seeing it that way.

AAAAAAnd breathe!

My apologies Robo and Tomo! Seems I got my T's and R's mixed up 😜

I made the mistake of not turning off the BBC news last night fast enough...actually, after listening to the Haiti report, where they were incredibly sure to be very neutral throughout the entire report the f88kers had lulled me in to a false sense of security.

Where things came unstuck was f00king gaza! Oh how they rolled out the crying children and the wailing mothers and the reports of them evil Jews attack Al Shifa hospital again because "Israel SAYS" its used by Hamas to plan and launch attacks...and then they moved on to Houthi's with a very solumn BBC voice over saying "the attacks ramped up after Israel and Hamas starting fighting" (no reason for what started the fighting) but when it came to someone saying who is behind the attacks (Iran) they left it up to the Aircraft carrier boss to state who was behind the attacks and funding the attacks...with the intent here to reduce the "truthfulness" of the statement because it was said by the US Navy guy and not the bbc.

Of course in Haiti there was no crying children or wailing mothers and no concern about the humanitarian crisis of not having a functioning f99king government and people being butchered on the streets by the gangs that now own the place. Naw, people might start asking what exactly the Clinton foundation was doing in Haiti all these years and for all those HUNDREDS of millions of dollars they sucked up for these people.

F99king BBC...raising my f99king blood pressure the dirty f88king a-holes!

MikeHig,
Thanks. That fleshes out some details missed in the comment I read at Jo Nova's. My thought process was that Sweden, now feeling vindicated by its against-the-tide action on COVID, feels brave enough to go their own way on energy. And thinking of the likely reaction of the western world led me to the word play.

Mailman,
Not sure whether to be needled by your attributing my brilliant wit to tomo, or relieved that you'll be blaming him for that stupid apostrophe in "abandons".

Have heard Katherine Birbalsingh on Brendan O'Neill's, and now I've heard her on John Anderson's. She put in a really good monologue at the end. When she'd finished, Anderson said there was nothing more needed to be said and ended the interview on a high note. Good call I reckon. Well worth listening to the last few minutes (the rest was good too).

Tomo said "But which party does "they" refer to?"

Yes, very good Tomo!! 🤣