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Does Strictly have have a trendy left wing agenda, does cash in the attic, does QI, does Match of the Day? What you are saying is you want to get rid of the BBC because you think an incredibly small percentage of the material they actually broadcast (i.e. the opinion bits in the news) during the year might have some 'trendy left wing bias'?

By everyone else you mean just you and him?

Generally I find when people say 'clearly' in situations like this it means they are taking it as read as its what they believe but without actually having any proof to back up their assumption....

So for all the alleged wide spread left wing bias on the BBC so far the only 'example' is a single episode of Question Time (which gave coverage to a Right wing extremist so not sure how that was left wing bias anyway??) ?

Care to share an example of this left of centre bias?

But we don't have Mellor we have Osbourne. Who in 2006 declared: Ireland stands as a shining example of the art of the possible in long-term economic policymaking. Be afraid, be very afraid.....

Agree totally. I think the problem is that those complaining of left wing bias at the BBC as quite far to the right so even unbias reporting is to the left of their position so they find it hard to determine the difference between real left wing reporting and unbias reporting, they just know the direction of it from their position.

And the fact people such as yourself were not smiling added to the smiles of the rest of us...

I prefer "Most people can remember what they were doing when Thatcher stepped down..... Smiling".

Oh dear, lost again. Such a shame...

I do wonder if Dune is the Steven Colbert of saints web.

But, and its a bit BUT, and once again shows how 'having a big idea' then falls flat on its face when actually start looking at what is involved. ALL the other companies that have been privatised took money for good/services and this source of money did not change after privitisation so there was no major effect on the market in which these companies operate. What you are suggesting is completely different as you are saying that somehow the advertising spend in this country which is enough to create a few good programs and a lot of crap programs on ITV/C4/5 is going to magically increase to cover the cost of BBC programs. Complete and utter twaddle really and not at all clearly thought through. Also the BBC do not operate on 'a handout' they operate on the money from TV licences which I, and many others, are quiet happy to pay for for what we get.

and where exactly is the money going to come from if we no longer pay a licence fee? I am sure ITV and C4 are eager to share the countries advertising spend with the BBC or is to be paid for by having wall to wall 'public voting' shows? If the BBC was forced to take advertising ALL free to air british TV would be worse off, but maybe that what Mr Murdoch wants so maybe it might happen.

Does not counter my point that with the cuts public services will get worse that they are now and that this will have a negative impact on people compared to now. Possible 'we have never had it so good' and will not have it so good again for quite a while. Anyway off to see a house elf die to cheer me up

Plus of course many of those on low mortgages may be better off financially but will that translate into a better standard of living once the cuts in public services start to bite? How do you factor in the effect of children being taught in schools that will be increasingly underfunded in decaying building that are no longer being replaced? How do you factor in all the local services that will be cut to the bone or chopped all together? Cuts in policing? etc..

Perhaps we are ungenerously comparing boasting with deluded rambling?

I believe you do have to travel very light in these cases as you not expected to hang around the baggage carousel with time sensitive documents in hand. On another note be wary of the cheapest airlines as once few the cheapest option we could find to New Zealand with Garuda. Possibly the worst inflight entertainment ever and the only plane I have been on where the cabin appeared to consist of about 10% araldite.

Rick Astley asked to borrow some Pixar films. I said, "you can have Toy Story and Wall-E, but I'm never gonna give you Up."

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/frattonlatest/Pompey-set-to-exit-administration.6583833.jp

Which is rather contradicting AA's rant about what the league wanted.

I would consider getting an SSD (say 60gb) for the main systems disk and then making sure all application are installed on the normal disk. Done this for one of my PC's and definitely gives it an extra zip and starting up is V quick.

I predict this thread, even at its now slow growth rate, will reach 40,000 before they either finally get taken over or go pop.

I expect after going over the books there was probably a strong smell of tippex in the room...

Doing 3D without glasses, for more than one viewer, is a very tricky task. There are displays (such as that in the new 3D nintendo DS) that do 3D is the same way as the old 3D postcards but this method is very susceptible to the location of the viewer. Say your head is to the right of someone else's. Their right eye has got to see the right eye image and your left eye, to the right of their right eye has got to see the left image and so on.