What we saw on Thursday night was a nervous, sweaty, shifty, amateurish and confused man, manically grinning when confronted with his back catalogue of repulsive quotes and occasionally venting bursts of incoherent nastiness.
via The more people see of the BNP, the worse for the party.
These are great: Daily Kos: Pictures. Many. Many. Many Pictures. I mean, MANY..
There is a stunning number of non-white people being asked about Nick Griffin. Statistically it is twisted. You could even say it is engineered.
Why did he have to give exact answers when no other politician in the history of the BBC (save the Paxman interview) has had that requirement?
Why did the BBC and why do they still keep up the self-promotion. If ITV had done this it would have been a nothing?
Why does one man still dominate the entire news schedule despite the rest of crap going on? Why? Because the BBC are controlled by either the big banks or politicians and they both want people to look the other way.
I’m ashamed that I am forced by law to prop up this bigoted organisation.
Having had streaming news – apart from a break to watch a film because it was boring – it seems that the BNP have today occupied more BBC time that the events of 9/11.
Nice work Mr Griffin.
And to those protesting, be sure to do the same when your representatives who are convicted terrorists or terrorist sympathisers are invited to speak anywhere outside of their home / cell / whatever.
And here was me thinking I lived in a democracy, that I had freedom of speech. Okay, so it’s an illusion but it was a fairly level illusion. And now I have to watch groupie stoners on TV drawling on about their rights. Can someone out some flowers in the greasy lanky hair?
And to those of a religious bent – which of course includes the CofE and Catholics – your faiths are not based on peace love and equality either so go STFU please.
And unless you here people speak you can’t know what they think. And because of that you can’t counter it. So let the man speak. It’s just words.
I’d call this really really important. I wonder how – if – others will report this or try to report the actual event.
The Guardian has been prevented from reporting parliamentary proceedings on legal grounds which appear to call into question privileges guaranteeing free speech established under the 1688 Bill of Rights.
Today’s published Commons order papers contain a question to be answered by a minister later this week. The Guardian is prevented from identifying the MP who has asked the question, what the question is, which minister might answer it, or where the question is to be found.
via Guardian gagged from reporting parliament | Media | The Guardian.
There was once some kind of a social-democratic consensus which held that as an individual progressed through life’s journey they would progressively experience the benefits of social justice.
On a human level, anyone who can recite whole sections of Monty Python and the Holy Grail by heart is all right with me.
Muddle on, Mr President, that’s the best option | Andrew Sullivan – Times Online.
I am glad that Rio got the Olympics. Brazil is an emerging powerhouse, and South America has never received an Olympics before. Its about time.
Open Left:: We Didn’t Deserve The Olympics.
Given the reasons I don’t see how I could possibly disagree. Not that I did in the first place.
Wrong answer.
So ‘No’ doesn’t actually mean ‘No’? One to remember is that.
As the world’s population grows, competition for food, water and energy will increase. Food prices will rise, more people will go hungry, and migrants will flee the worst-affected regions.
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | What is the 2030 Perfect Storm idea?.
I find this scary for 2 personal reasons: my wife and I, and our daughters. If you read other scenarios they point to 2050 and the exhaustion of oil. This isn’t one source, it is several. So if this ‘perfect storm’ does not happen then wars for oil will continue and intensify. The environment in which my daughters have grown up will change, will get worse. And in 2050 J and I will almost certainly not be around for them. That is scary and saddening.