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newsjiffy (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
I was up late a few days ago watching some of the Democratic National Convention on BBC Parliament, and changed channel for a break. The FX channel sometimes has good comedy, so I decided to have a look. I was confronted by the rather scary Dateline: To Catch A Predator. This show involves the trapping of American sex offenders so they can be arrested- and so that host Chris Hansen can interview them....
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Pickled Politics (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
I've been meaning to put down my thoughts on Obama and how the election is going for a while now, so I decided to do a 'live' (watching rerun on BBC Parliament) blog of Obama's speech. Look forward to reading comments.
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A Word In Your Ear (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
I watched Hillary's speech to the DNC on C-Span (via BBC Parliament) and I very nearly applied for citizenship there and then. Blimey she was good. And I got the feeling a lot of people in the crowd were thinking "what have we done?". Too late, Hillary, too late. But Michelle Obama was good too - you get the sense she won't be the sort of First Lady who sits quietly and smiles on the official Christmas...
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Neil Woollcott (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
I turned over the television expecting to see one of the many repeats of the parliamentary year and the women's golf open was on. After a brief moment of confusion a message appeared saying that BBC Parliament was giving way for enhanced coverage of the Olympic Games. What is the world coming to!
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British Moon (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Watching all this Crossrail Bill business on BBC Parliament.
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The BN Village (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
*The UK constitution* Unit 2: Governing the UK by Nicola McEwen Lecturer in Politics at the University of Edinburgh writes for BBC Parliament Image: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38887000/jpg/_38887357_tornado_pa.jpg The Royal Prerogative allows Ministers to declare war without a vote in Parliament Constitutions are designed to set out the rules and regulations within which governments operate....
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Liberal Burblings (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Last weekend, the BBC Parliament channel re-ran the BBC's coverage of the 1983 general election. In a weird sort of way, I was glued to it. David Dimbleby looked 14 years old, there was Jeremy Paxman conducting what must have been one of his first TV interviews. There were many politicians who are now dead (e.g Peter Shore) but some still living (Cyril Smith and David Steel). There was the
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British Moon (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
Watching Transport Questions on BBC Parliament.
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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
Stef sez, "TheyWorkForYou.com, the Open Source re-imagining of the site that the British Parliament should be, has been quietly acquiring video from BBC Parliament for a while now, and has over 30,000 clips. However, due the archaic nature of the Mother of Parliaments, there has been no sufficiently accurate timecode data (anywhere!) to make it available on the site to users. Solution: they've built...
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Quernstone.com (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
Like everything else MySociety does, this rocks: crowdsourced timestamping to align captures of BBC Parliament video with the Hansard record already archived and searchable at TheyWorkForYou.com . Genius. I’ve matched 5 clips which at time of writing makes me the 25th most-prolific stamper today. WooT! [thanks to Jo for the link]
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Simon Willison's Weblog (Free subscription) | 01/06/2008
Video speech matching on TheyWorkForYou.com . Launched this morning at BarCamp London by Matthew Somerville—TheyWorkForYou now has video from BBC Parliament but they need your help matching it exactly to their transcripts from Hansard. Neat example of a game that helps process large amounts of data.
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Curly's Corner Shop, the blog! (Free subscription) | 30/05/2008
Tory landslide replayed The BBC’s Parliament Channel has started broadcasting 11 hours worth of the 1983 election night programme just to remind Gordon Brown how bad things can get us what it’s like to have a Conservative government. Iain Dale has mentioned it twice in the last couple of days - is he being paid to [...]
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Mars Hill (Free subscription) | 30/05/2008
The highlights of that election night are on BBC Parliament right now, blaring away on the television in the study as I am typing away. Interesting, although the graphics and use of synths in the opening credits were slightly excruciating. It's also faintly amusing to hear people like David Steel predicting the demise of the Labour Party. Ah well, here's to 2010
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Paul Linford (Free subscription) | 27/05/2008
This Friday, BBC Parliament is planning to screen 11 hours of coverage of the 1983 General Election , the one that has gone down in history as the point at which when moribund Old Labour finally committed suicide, although in truth the stricken patient lingered on until Neil Kinnock finally put it out of its misery at Bournemouth in 1985. I was at uni in London during the course of that election and...
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Musings from Middle England (Free subscription) | 27/05/2008
Last night the BBC Parliament Channel gave us one of its occasional Bank Holiday treats: an evening of archive programmes on the social reforms of the 1960s. It had the rather strange title of 'Permissive Night, with Joan Bakewell.' Many men of a certain age would like nothing better than a permissive night with Joan Bakewell, for she was famously described as "the thinking man's crumpet." I
