26 Feb
On Friday I wrote to the BBC to complain about their coverage of the British-Irish Council meeting in Wales.
I expected to be fobbed off, I didn’t expect them to dig an even deeper hole!
The reply from BBC Information Wales is as follows:
Dear Mr Parr,
Thank you for this message. This is an issue about which many [...]
Posted in BBC, Media Watch by: wonkotsane
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26 Feb
The CEP’s London branch held one of their regular protests yesterday outside the English Parliament …
Posted in Branches by: wonkotsane
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23 Feb
Excellent news from the West Midlands NO! campaign …
I would love to have been a fly on the wall in Simon Murphy’s office today when he got the call from Telford & Wrekin Council announcing that they were leaving his city region quango with immediate effect.
A week ago to this day I wrote an email [...]
Posted in Regionalisation by: wonkotsane
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23 Feb
On Thursday I went to London, to the Foreign Press Association, situated in the former residence of William Gladstone, to record a video for The Convention on Modern Liberty (who were holding a press conference there).
I should have known it was going to be one of those days when I asked the ticket officer at [...]
Posted in Liberty by: Toque
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20 Feb
The British-Irish Council is meeting in Wales today, hosted by the Welsh First Minister.
The BBC lists the representatives that will attend the British-Irish Council meeting except for the British ministers that will attend in place of England which has no representation in the Council.
Others due to attend include Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, the Irish [...]
Posted in Apartheid by: wonkotsane
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18 Feb
On February 28th individuals from across the United Kingdom will converge upon London to participate in The Convention on Modern Liberty. At stake are our freedoms, many of them long established English liberties, threatened, and encroached upon, by an authoritarian British state.
Joining organisations like Liberty, No2ID and Amnesty will be the Campaign for an [...]
Posted in Liberty by: Toque
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10 Feb
David Cameron, in an interview for the Spectator on Sunday, has all but conceded having no mandate in Scotland following the next general election.
I say “all but conceded” because on Planet Cameron the Tories are expected to win 25 seats in Scotland whereas on Planet Earth, they’re expected to lose their single, remaining Westminster seat.
Under [...]
Posted in Conservatives, Discrimination by: wonkotsane
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08 Feb
This excellent letter appeared in the Shropshire Star on Saturday:
England is denied EU aid benefit by Labour
The Labour Government is denying England a windfall from the European Union yet it is making sure that Wales, Scotland and Ulster benefit.
The fall in the value of the pound has increased the value of euro-denominated EU grants by [...]
Posted in Letters by: wonkotsane
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08 Feb
The Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish FA’s have ruled out participating in a British football team and aren’t prepared to discuss the matter any further.
The Daily Telegraph reckons this will kill of Gordon Brown’s dream of a British football team for the 2012 Olympics. Such naïvety.
The British football team will happen and it will consist [...]
Posted in Sport by: wonkotsane
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04 Feb
The ITV News at 10 programme (produced by ITN) last night covered the story about the British government intending to put dementia doctors into every hospital in England. But it wasn’t reported that way of course …
Hi,
I would like to complain about a report that appeared on last night’s News at 10 on ITV1.
The story [...]
Posted in Media Watch by: wonkotsane
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