Last night’s BBC Question Time debate was a deal more measured than in previous weeks. DavidDimbleby began with an introductory comment on the Chilcot Iraq Inquiry. I’m afraid to admit a feeling of depression coming over me. Iraq war, it’s history, mistakes were made, Blair and Alastair Campbell culpable, not our finest hour, and now [...]
Question timeBBC NewsBBC News NavigationQuestion TimeAbout the ShowHighlightsPrevious EpisodesDavidDimblebySchools Question TimeFAQs26/11/2009WATCH:NEXT ON:Today, 22:35 on BBC One (except Wales)SYNOPSISQuestion Time comes from Edinburgh, with guest panellists Lord Falconer, David Davis, Nicola Sturgeon, Melanie Phillips and Marcus Brigstocke. DavidDimbleby chairs....
... are sponsoring an event at the BFI which I hope to attend, which celebrates 75 years of PPBs. DavidDimbleby is hosting a panel discussion I believe. A few years ago I planned to turn the video into a DVD and add some more recent PPBs, but one of the parties wouldn't give copyright permission so it never happened. However, I think I'm going to revisit the issue and see if I can't...
Here's a few shots from our drive-by visit to Ely Cathedral . We first saw this place on the BBC documentary called " How We Built Britain " which aired a couple of years back, and thought - that'd be worth a look. How We Built Britain was an enormously cool show, and DavidDimbleby is a pretty cool presenter,travelling about the country from building to building in his bomby...
... never hurt anyone but, by contrast, Straw had the blood of 800,000 Iraqis on his hand. Later on DavidDimbleby asked Straw if it was his party's failures on immigration that had led to Griffin being there. Straw gave a rambling, irrelevant and inaccurate reply wittering on about Enoch Powell (who had little if anything in common with Griffin) before simply barking "no" when...