Blog off

We’re both away on business to sunny Europe until Monday, so no updates till then. Have a nice weekend.

BBC court case update

The Belfast Telegraph is reporting that the Beebs court case to try and deny FOI access to it’s internal report about it’s Middle East reporting has cost £200,000 so far. Blimey, they will be spending shed loads on taxi’s next. Arf arf arf.

Fight!, fight!, fight!, fight!

The Commons Education Select Committee have completed their report on bullying. It’s the usual big government solution to the problem ~ all instances must be recorded, categorised, complaints and appeals procedures, blaa blaa blaa, but other than that it initially appears fairly innocuous, albeit ineffective, stuff.
The Fib Dems weigh in with their usual liberal nonsense, [...]

Oh Lord, no, please, no.

Although I am an avid reader of the right of centre & libertarian blogs, I didn’t want this to become an introspective blogging exercise, where I constantly link to other blogs and give my opinions. We at the NOS receive few visits, so if you’ve found us, chances are you will have stumbled upon the [...]

What’s sauce for the goose, doesn’t apply to us, ‘cos we’re the Beeb.

The Times is reporting that the BBC is continuing it’s legal action to prevent the release of  the Balen Report, an internal BBC document on its Middle East coverage. The BBC has often been accused of bias in it’s reporting, of Middle East events in partucular. The BBC originally had its decision to refuse disclosure [...]

The other side of the coin.

Regular readers of the blogsphere will probably be aware of RecessMonkey’s faux par, when he prematurely announced the passing of Dame Margaret Thatcher. Apparently, a journalist acquaintance sent him a text message late at night informing of her death. Being a suitably sensible Socialist, he published the news on his blog without using his ‘contacts’ [...]