As Tripoli burns and the noose tightens around Gadaffi, there is one face that has been missing from our television screens during this monumental story. Rumour has it the BBC’s Middle Eastern Editor Jeremy Bowen is off skiing this week. How inconsiderate to hold a revolution during half-term.
Guido will try again later, but there was no one answering at his desk this morning…
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Norman Tebbit has a humble brag:
“We Maastricht rebels were derided and abused for opposing the single currency by the wise, clever, Guardianista soft centre left establishment from whom we now hear so little on the matter.”
Mr Bryant and Mr Watson managing to make the whole hacking affair look like a farce – the more they moan the less I care about the whole subject! So partisan it beggars belief at all costs. They cannot rise above it ! If I was to call the PM a ‘liar’ I would want to be VERY sure.
Think he will end up on a slippery slope!
Can you say that in a Clouseau accent, Mr Doff?
Bloody ‘ell – a talking knobcheese!
Putain merde… a la vache… zut alors… salop… mais, je pense ‘e vill terminé on ze colline glissant!
Merci beaucoup.
Fucking over emotional leftie wanker.
p.s. Don’t tell The Graun, they don’t like people going skiing.
Miserable Hunts.
Far better for the glitterati Gundians to go to Tuscany and show support for the Italians as they lose their best pal Gaddafi Duck!
Probably skiing down Polly-Twaddle’s gussett, bet it’s as crusty as a fishfryer’s cuff!
I’m not surprised, the guy is an utter twat
He actually looks like an unscrupulous arms dealer in that photo too
Fully paid up member of Hamas
Is he with Tony and Cherie?
Isn’t everybody?
I was gonna pop over to see Tony and Cherie but I was worried i’d miss the PMQs liveblog
Is it on today, with it being half term and all?
I have no idea, joke fail!
BBC2 not showing it today Urban; dunno why. Perhaps they don’t want to let the viewers see the LieBour incompetence in action.
Holidays
He looks like Cherie’s flange.
My new contraceptive equipment has arrived: http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ37l1Ut3Z2YZ4X-pTJd0esm4_YjdtgrgoxAJGKXRiDEPQqX5l8mg
Really quite funny
He isn’t with us. We only talk to very very rich people, these days. Pip! Pip!
Funny that. You wait ages for a bloody revolution and then six of them come along together.
+1
+2 LOL
+3 How refreshing – a genuine witticism
Wonder if he has gone skiing in North Caucasus?
Did anyone notice I did a documentary ‘The secret Mediterranean’ and visited Tunisia, Egypt and Algeria in that order. I also said they had wonderfully stable governments that the people loved and respected.
black mark then?
TM has no manners. Used to have a holiday home in Topsham, drank in my local. Bout 1983 was at a Tory conference, waited an hour for a table, got bounced by TM and party and told him the least he could do was buy me a pint back home. The pompous tw*t never did. No manners and nowadays a joke.
And Bowen should never be near a BBC microphone, unless the BBC reputation for impartiality be compromised…..Ah! silly me!
Errr um who is he again…?
He is someone who won’t tow the line of the chosen race so has to be villified. In this case through Guido.
It’s all kicking off in the Middle East and ..Rumour has it the BBC’s Middle Eastern Editor Jeremy Bowen is off skiing this week.
How vile indeed!
It’s ‘toe the line’, old chap, not ‘tow’.
No – it’s not about “not toeing the line of the chosen race” for which he should be vilified (a comment that says far more about you than it does him, incidentally). It’s because he adds no more val;ue in his comments on the events that pass him by than I could get from a bright 8 year old who’d just read today’s papers.
He’s useless.
No more useless than the rest of them, so it’s curious he should be chosen for criticism.
Are you an alien from Mars, Cydonian, or just an anti-semite in disguise? Have you ever watched the extremely biased and very poor journalistic “reporting” of Jeremy Bowen. Anyone from my local, would be able to do a better job than him. And now, he goes off on holiday during some of the most momenetous events there have ever been in the Middle East.
What an example of true professional dedication for us all to follow.
Maybe there is a connection?
Jeremy Bowen fucks off skiiing and his playground pals decide they’d rather have liberty and freedom rather than have Bowen permanently camped in their backyard blaming the Jews, the West and Capitalism for their plight?
Has anyone asked Bowen what he’s going to do when he has to take early retirement?
He will spend more time with his A rab family whilst looking for another outlet for his biased pro-A rab views.
There is an increasing demand for pro-arab views to counter the faltering barrage of eternal, yawn-inducing Israel panderisms.
I will be returning to the BBC as a freelance on five times my current earnings. After all, Marr is on £600,000 a year
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358509/Andrew-Marr-600-000-year-payslip-slip-revealed.html
Has not that fat old woman John Simpson been sent in to liberate Libya yet, or is he too busy down the hair-dressers?
In view of his previous success, he should be conscripted forthwith.
I quite like him – one of the few decent foreign correspondents who has a deep knowledge of the middle-east gained over many years. His reports are measured and I believe well balanced. To this day I still have no idea what his personal position is on Israel / Palestine. A rare quality and seldom seen in many journos who skew their reporting to appease their desk editors/political masters. I don’t resent his week on the slopes.
Anti-the-only-democracy in the region.
But that’s the official line to take at the BBC.He wouldn’t last long as Middle East correspondent otherwise.
A man so brave he decided to put to together an anti-Israeli documentary to go out on Yom Kippur, hoping no one from the relevant ethnic group would be watching.
Don’t call him Jeremy Al-Bowen for nowt.
At the same time, if you want pro-Israel bias all you have do is switch over the Sky News or just buy one of a selection of newspapers such as the times, telegraph, express, mail, sun, news of the world, star etc.
Wotever, that doesn’t get around the iniquity of being forced to pay for biased ‘news’ from the BBC otherwise one goes to prison DOES IT?!
That may well be the case Guido (it would be surprising if he didn’t have a view) . I suppose the point I am making is that it’s not necessarily apparent in his packages. Clearly there is a much longer discussion to be had as regards what is chosen to be covered from the region as regards a particular bias being advanced and that I accept can often be a subjective decision. By the same token, we have little information as regards which reports never make it to our screens due to more ‘important’ news items taking precedence such as a Royal visit to the studios of the Archers.
For me, the greater sadness is the piss poor quality of the BBC in its reporting of foreign affairs in general and the middle-east in particular. Dozens of well paid journalists around the world with no outlet given to the licence payer to view their work. If they are lucky, they might get a 4 minute slot on FOOC on R4 once every 6 months. Woeful……….
It is apparent in his packages — it’s just that your are too fucking dim and ill-informed to notice. Wanker.
Well they sure undermine western democracy with their huge lobbies, media empires and herds of bought politicians.
And what an admirable democracy it is too; there is of course no reasone to ever take issue with Israel or it’s actions.
It’s just a benign much misunderstood democratic utopia.
Bless.
Brainwash victim, keep siding with those who want a second go at the Jooooos — you fucking moral cesspit.
Spank, do you live in a parallel universe?
Possibly – do I owe you money?
Yes.
Obnoxious, overpaid, biased and a twat to boot.
Chirs Patten’s first day as BBC Chairman should be spent firing Andrew Marr, Kirsty Wark, Jeremy Bowen, Stephanie Flanders and Robert Peston. Labour, leftie stooges all.
Patten is as wet, liberal and useless as his new BBC bedfellows. Nothing will change except the amount in his current account at the end of every month.
In that case he should fire all the BBC right wingers as well so that’s nick robinson, andrew neil, James landale, john humpries etc.
WTF? You need to get out more.
“Joe” must be Joe Stalin to consider that lot right wingers.
Fuck me… when did that unmarried co-habiting fathering Welsh git Humphries lean to the right? He’s as bad as that other Mancunian Guardianista f’ker Brian Gingerbread who asked for a minute’s silence on the BBC back in the ’70s (or ’80s? can’t remember as I wasn’t really there) when accused of being a leftie.
Yes, and then never let Campbell set foot in a BBC studio again
You mean he doesn’t portray Israel as poor, downtrodden and needy, or what?
I expect Jeremy’s working on an anti-Israeli slant to the story. Mossad agents stirring up trouble in Libya, perhaps? Sinister men with funny sidelocks distributing anti-tank weapons and Stinger missiles to Libyan criminal gangs? Come on, Jeremy, use you imagination!
Nothing so sinister.
He’s a Taff isn’t he. So he’s having a week
falling over, Rome on Saturday for the big win
then back at work for the revolution.
Italy will win one home match this season. Jeremy could turn up for work on Monday a very unhappy boy.
I have read about what he’s accused of and it seems rather obscure. (ie discussing motives in 1968, or quoting people on the status of a “settlement” and not saying who).
What is the furthest he’s actually gone?
“Yes, Israel is stealing all the Arab land. I’ll just get my atlas out………, now where is Israel..?………It must be lost in the crease of the page………..ah there it is ! It’s vast……it’s nine miles wide at one point ! Much bigger than Saudi or Egypt. They should hand back the Golan Heights – it would be a great strategical position to launch daily rocket attacks into Israel. Hamas was democratically elected you know. (Ok, so they shot all the opposition and banned further elections). – This is Jeremy Bowen reporting .”
You forgot the massive armies of those six million Jooooos (that number rings a bell) and the enormous threat they pose to the three hundred million mostly illiterate and demented Ayrab mooslimbs surrounding them — their threats to draw cartoons, their refusal to bag up & beat their women and children — & Co.
If he was freelance he’d be back straight away. Nice comfy salary job at the Beeb means no need to bother…..
Why hasn’t he mocked up a few palms and towels in his hotel bathroom, stuck the Blackberry camera on and pretend he is there? Or have the snow in the background and just say it’s his BBC coke ration.
It would sum up the risible output the BBC forces down the throats of millions on pain of imprisonment.
Wankers.
‘noose tightening around gad afi’s neck’ ?
I hope you’re right Guido. But this man is madder than gordon, more slippery than st tone and more manipulative than mandy and no doubt, as his declared bosom pals, they’re advising him, on the quiet, how to survive.
A coalition is good way forward and maybe an AV system
Resident nutjob whipping himself up into a frenzy again and nicking monikers.
Family or job? Gee. That’s a tough call!
Yeah, it is, but that’s the choice millions of us are forced to make every day. Why don’t you try a Freedom of Information request and see how much the oh so talented Mr. Bowen is being paid by us the tax payers.
Who misses the leftie twat. He’s a Jew hater, all he’d be saying right now is “fucking Jews, fuck the Jews”
Martin, come back to Biased-BBC. All is forgiven.
Is Bowen friendly with that Arsenal so-called centre forward (Bendy or something) who can’t hit a barn door from 2 feet away? He was moaning last week that he needed 50K a week because he can’t go skiing when he feels like it. Poor underpaid fellow has to stay at home and kick a ball about every now and then. Wish I had a life like that..
I’m surprised anybody noticed. There are so many Beeboid correspondents for anything and everything that they wouldn’t notice one less. The rest of them will just have to do a bit extra, same as we all do when somebody’s off from work.
Here is one ex-minister, ex-holder of one of the great offices of state, doing a bit of extra:
http://tinyurl.com/62x29po
It’s strange how quite minor things tend to obscure the greater sin. Her husband watched a couple of porn movies; I suspect we’ve all done that at one time or another, and if she’s got a problem with it, it’s between them to sort out. None of anybody else’s business, really. So, he charged them to the taxpayer (about £20, if I remember correctly), which he shouldn’t have done. Meanwhile, his wife was claiming over £100,000 in second home allowances for what most of us would regard as their primary residence. Yet many in the media bang on about a couple of mucky movies? Haven’t we got our priorities somewhat askew, here?
Tabloid narritive. holds firmly in the imagination of the public and its a laugh.
as for “none of anybody else’s business” … well she probably thinks its her business to stop everyone else watching porn.
and, of course, the BBC benefit system for failed politicians is keeping her in the luxury that she learned to enjoy theough thieving from the taxpayer
There are (at least) two issues here IMO, Engineer. Both were highlighted by Stephen Glover.
Totally agree that the SHA claim was the worse sin. But the fact that she took part in that BBC production, and posed for that picture, in many ways reveals even more about her foolishness.
“The fascinating aspect of this episode is Miss Smith’s persistent lack of self-awareness, and her reluctance to admit any fault at all. There is a stunning absence of shame.”
She’s a cum shot short of the full DVD
And as the noose tightens round Rupert Murdoch’s neck, Guido talks about a BBC hack’s skiing holiday…..
Elisabeth Murdoch’s new Shine Production:
Come Dine with Me, starring the Metropolitan Police, David Cameron and George Osborne.
http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/hackgate-newscorp-the-police-david-cameron-and-elisabeth-murdochs-birthday-party/
What so big about this phone hacking sotry? Who gives a fuck that a few politicans and celebs got there voice messages snooped into? It’s not hacking for a start as hacking implies there’s some technical skill involved. Listening to someones phone messages does not require technical skill.
Technical skill maybe not but with Prescott’s messages the skill of staying awake comes in very handy.
I wonder what Google Translator would make of Prescott’s messages. They may, by some process of reverse logic, become coherent.
I think that’s Eric Pickles, not John Prescott.
Up close maybe.
The first time you use your voicemail you are given a very clear warning about using a PIN or changing the default.
Also, who is so fucking stupid to leave a risque or confidential message on a voicemail? Prescott’s friends, obviously.
Confidential messages: but clearly nothing worth writing a story about?
The hackee has to show the skill of being unable to change the default password to something else. Morons, the lot of them.
Yeah this is the big one ! all that bombing of protesters and open protesting by millions is just a bluff by Guido and the government to protect Murdoch! thank god the BBC has seen though it and now feels happy to send it’s top ?? reporters off on holiday as there’s nothing going on in the middle east at mo it’s all just made up !
Guido
Slightly off topic but while you’re calling people about jobs, you might like to call Tesco and ask them why they are still advertising for Polish workers to come to the UK to work.
http://www.tesco.pl/praca-UK/
click ‘translate’ for those of you with rusty Polish.
C’mon….we need the Poles……UK has got seven million orphans, widows and Media Studies graduates to keep in benefits.
today i am making my own aftershave
… called Cut Throat
The great smell of Brut
In April 2009, the Editorial Standards Committee of the BBC Trust published a report into three complaints, including one by CAMERA, brought against two news items involving Bowen.[13] The complaints included 24 allegations of breaching BBC guidelines on accuracy and impartiality of which three were fully or partially upheld.[14] The BBC Trust’s censure was based on articles about Har Homa in the 1960s, how the Six-Day War affected the Middle East, and an article on the aftermath of the aforementioned war.[15] Jeremy Bowen has voiced opposition to the censure, calling it a result of a “campaign group in the USA”, most likely referring to the organization Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America and calling said organization “the enemies of impartiality”.[15] Although there was no finding of anti-Israel bias against Bowen, Antony Lerman writing in The Guardian said that he should have used clearer language and been more precise in some aspects of the piece.[16] Also, on a claim that was found to be lacking in accuracy because it was not properly sourced, the committee accepted that Bowen had been provided with the information by an authoritative source.[16] A website article[17] was amended and Bowen did not face any disciplinary measures.[2
Lessons were learned!
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
This afternoon, I jumped on an RAF flight with Gordon to join President Sarkozy and his wife Carla for a private dinner at Carla’s house in Paris.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1359721/Sarah-Brown-diaries-Prince-Williams-royal-rescue-buckled-strain.html
Private dinner? In an RAF plane? At our expense?
What a fucking liberty!
i dropped a depthcharge shit in the pan and stunk place out
This would be the same Gordon who would not buy enough helicopters for the troops whom he sent to Afghanistan?
No. It’s the same Gordon who would’t stump up the cash to pay for a new avionics fit after MOD totally fucked up the original spec.
Gordon is still the Most Disasterous Prime Minister Never To Win an Election, but even the Bankruptor of the UK. deserves a little fairness.
Jim Bowen?
Super, smashing, great!
You can’t beat a bit of bully!
Pity we can’t give him BFH…
Bad week for Brown and Balls too
“US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has described as “deeply costly” the light-touch approach to financial regulation he says Britain adopted in the years leading up to the the crisis.”
Yes, another Boom to Bust article damning the friends of Lehman and Lord Sir Freddie G.
Where is your urgent question now Ballsup? (Guess what Balls would say, with no apology or contrition “Mr SSpeaker, the then shadow chancellor was calling for less regulation” despite this being a completely unconnected point.)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/8341911/US-Treasury-Secretary-Timothy-Geithner-blasts-UKs-costly-light-touch-regulation.html
The beebs reporting of Libya on radio 4 is the usual hand-wringing and weasel words to cover the fact they do not know their history or what is going on in Tripoli.
Strange also that Hague has gone into hiding and the story today that the FCO is sending a charter aircraft in the next 48 hours is truly unbelievable as they wait for permissions – others such as Turkey are far more pro-active.
20 years ago I won an award on restructuring the FCO, but today they still have the same type of people in place, and in charge, who know so little of their region, follow the traditional 20th century culture, and spend most time protecting their career.
Time for FCO change and for Cameron to get off his backside and stop emulating that ditherer Brown. He needs to set up an emergency committee to handle the changes in ALL the ME; protect British citizens and those citizens of oppressive dictators such as Gadaffi; and possibly put the so-called defunct Ark Royal and VTO aircraft off the Libyan coast – sending a frigate is a joke.
Quite. There is very little a type 22 frigate can do by way of an evacuation. The Ark is the ideal ship but you can be sure that the MOD will not send the Ark as it would be an admission that they got it wrong in deciding to turn her into razor blades.
So where is the French carrier that Dave promised would come to our aid?
Remember when the Royal “yacht” hove into view to rescue the Brits from the beach in I believe Kuwait?
My good friend Oleg Deripaska has a large yacht which could be used to evacuate the British Proles. My Other good friend Saif Gaddafi will arrange the safe passage of Oleg’s yacht in exhange for Nat Rothschild (another friend of mine) building a luxury resort on the Libyan coast when saif’s dad stands down.
I am sure that Tony, the middle East Peace envoy will oil the works.
And Beyonce will provide the musical interludes after auditioning at Hannibal Gaddafi’s New Year Bash in January.
theres probably some french ferries that aren’t in use (bound to be one of their lot on strike at the moment).
Greek air traffic controllers are striking right now, until 14:00. They’ll be a fair few Greek planes kicking about outside their airspace with nothing to do for a few hours. Nick ‘em
I must say I was only guessing.
http://www.demotix.com/news/599517/marseilles-twenty-two-day-strike-against-sncm
One of the more exhilarating aspects of these events in North Africa is that, as in Europe in 1989, the Commentariat didn’t see them coming. It will have to spend years now rewriting the history to show that it was all the result of and inevitable historical process, could have told you it would happen etc. etc.
Another is that it is only the threat or practice of violence that keeps autocrats in power. Despite what the Commentariat wishes us to believe, people don’t actually like governments like Gaddafi’s – or North Korea’s – and are prepared to die to get rid of them, when they have the chance.
Remember when millions marched the streets of Britain protesting against the Iraq war and fuck all happened because of one man’s ego?
Now that’s what I call democracy.
Something would have happened if 3 million people had burned some government buildings, looted the shops, banks and museums, beat up the police and demanded Blair and Brown’s removal from government. It was that old leftie Wedgewood Benn who said, nothing happens in a democracy until the people take direct action! How right he was.
Anyone want my opinion on Libya? I’m a highly respected statesman.
Should Gadaffi be wearing a Biggles hat and flying jacket?
Is ‘Elise tweets’ some literary agent whore type?
I like Gaddafi.
He farts and wears funny hats!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8341483/How-Britain-danced-to-Gaddafis-tune.html
Horsey horsey
Chocolate chocolate
i have my bag packed waiting for instructions
Bloody leftie gravy train. Disgusting.
Having fled England to escape the Brown terror we moved our family to NZ. In short I ‘get’ Cameron’s big society as we see it working here in NZ. We got used to St John being the Ambulance Service, and we were gobsmacked to see the Sally Army being involved with everything from elder care to civic rescue. From surf rescue clubs to civil defense – the people are proud to look after their communities
The average Kiwi does not wait around for the government to sort matters they are already organized, trained ready willing and able to do what is needed – and it is organised by volunteers – they have not, thank god, been brainwashed by a socialist Government who would still have the ‘helpers’ stood around filling in health and safety forms.
Cameron you are on to it! In the end you will never ever beat a man looking out for his next door neighbour
Dear God
Stop doing them earthquake thingies in Christchurch.
Of all the places as well.
Thanks.
Amen to that!
is it ok to have a poo in a caravan?
Yes. Just sit tight while we light this fuse.
Shouldn’t worry – they’ll be another middle east war along in a minute.
We live in hope.
Oh dear, Jim Devine declared bankrupt.
He’s quite relaxed because he doesn’t know what bankrupt means
Dealing a shock blow to the long-standing belief that members of the Labour Party have a strong grasp of all matters fiscal, former MP Jim Devine has been declared bankrupt.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-12551359
FFS Guido, you know bloody well that the only job of the BBC’s Middle Eastern Editor is to criticize Israel.
And as we all know Israel is of course beyond criticism
How dare they, one could almost be forgiven for thinking they shared some culpability for the absolute disaster that is middle eastern geopolitics.
But no, they are of course a misunderstood and maligned model of restrained democracy.
As usual there is blame to be had on both sides.
As per usual the dribbling partial lobotomy partisan hacks on here have taken one side and rigidly refuse to see the bigger picture.
And as usual anything about lesbians / totty watch / your latest boy crush Chuka will get the most coverage and interest this week.
Fuck right off with your vacuous moral equivalence garbage.
I’ll try and match the profundity of your bile filled pointless post.
If you don’t think theres been some massive ethical abuses on both sides then you need to try and have that lobotomy reversed.
You think your post had a point, you common or garden fucking brainwash victim? Get your news off the beeb do you? Ever been there? Know anything about pisslam? Think its all six of one half dozen of the other? You waste of fucking space.
Funny then that it’s actually been mathematically proven by word count and analysis that the BBC has a strong PRO-Israel bias.
You’ve read the Balen Report then ?
ft.com Defiant Gaddafi vows fight to death
Gordon Brown Refuses to Leave 10-Year-Old Girl’s Birthday Party
http://www.dailysquib.co.uk/world/2097-gordon-brown-refuses-to-leave-10-year-old-girl-s-birthday-party.html
Also – Last week, Mr Brown refused to leave a factory in Burnley and the week before that Mr Brown refused to leave the downstairs bathroom in Number10 Downing Street, eventually Mrs Brown persuaded him to leave only after telling him he could have some more of those special pills that make everything go away.
- squeak -
Cut Jeremy Bowen some slack. he is one of the few ‘war correspondents’ who is actually a decent human being. he does not have the monster ego of Simpson or the detachment of some. I wont hear a bad word said about him.
Apart from him being a member of Hamas
…but then I would say that.
Having totally missed out on the historical fact that the romans spent far more time controlling the Palestine region than any Jews ever did.
This means that Palestine really belongs to Italy and not a bunch of weird russian emigrants..
Read your Pentateuch my boy, already. I think you’ll find we Jews were in the promised land a lot longer than the Romans.
why is Douglas Alexander criticising the government for not rescuing people from Libya? Mr Blair and Mr Brown repeatedly told us how nice Mr gadaffi was and bought him in from the cold. Libya is in fact, so nice that we sent mr al-magrahi who is terminally ill back there to recover and we trusted mr gadaffi so much that we gave him arms. is mr alexander telling us that we were wrong??
Bowen is not bothered unless he can find some Israelis to condemn.
The man is as biased as a nine bob note.
Jeremy Bowen deserves admiration.
It’s incredibly difficult to ski down a piste in a full burka.
This is terrible has someone NOT told the Libyan people they picked the wrong week to have a revolution ? This means the Biased BBC will have to send twice the number of parasities, oops I mean Reporters in three weeks to Libya after “Reiss Bowen” returns from his tax payer sponsered holidays, just shows what happens without effective BUT controlled biased BBC communications !
Nick Robinson is off as well. Mind you he did manage one blog this week.
Not bad for £150k a year. Good license payer value that!
Well, bearing in mind the BBC sees as its mission to educate the lower masses, it should come as no surprise that their generous terms should also include swanning off for all the school holidays.
Does make News 24, etc look a bit thin, but at least the blogs can be closed for comments, especially when things get awkward on an interactive level as regards competence, objectivity or integrity … which seems to be 23/7.
Quick, get Douglas Alexander on again quick and give him the day to be a ‘critic’ of ‘the government’ (which it deserves on so many instances, but not from Labour’s shocked and whore troops).
greetings to J.BOWEN
the snow on the Bosnian ski slopes is great at the moment, i”ll keep a look out for J.B. in case he’s around, i know lots of people who will want to “say hello!”.
i noticed that when their man JB was a witness against Karadic at the Hague court the BBC never even mentioned it, useless broadcasters.
Jeremy Bowen was in Libya at the weekend. He is entitled to have a holiday. He doesn’t spend all his time sitting on his arse making snide comments on his PC.
And had an interview with Gaddafi by the Monday.