Tag Archives: Question Time

Can BBC Any Questions / Question Time try a more radical approach?

Posted on April 5, 2020 by ianchisnall

We are in the middle of a major crisis in our nation, and at long long last, after 10 weeks since the Coronavirus first arrived in our nation (albeit unknown at the time when it arrived in East Sussex), the … Continue reading →

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We need to hold broadcasters to account

Posted on October 21, 2018 by ianchisnall

There are reports that Nicola Sturgeon and also a British journalist Ash Sarkar, the senior editor at Novara Media and lecturer in Global Politics at Anglia Ruskin University have chosen to turn down an invitation to attend a special Scottish … Continue reading →

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A life is a life

Posted on January 2, 2016 by ianchisnall

According to widespread news reports, the Government of one of our closest Allies has beheaded 47 people today. Asking our Government to challenge this appalling behaviour is probably unrealistic. Late in November 2015 the Government Minister, responsible for selling Arms to … Continue reading →

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Party Politics RIP

Posted on November 20, 2015 by ianchisnall

Last night on BBC One we were ‘treated’ to one of the clearest examples of why Party Politics is achieving so little in the leadership of our nation. The real question is do we throw our lot into movements such as the … Continue reading →

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Its all in the numbers

Posted on January 30, 2015 by ianchisnall

During last nights Question Time from Wrexham, blogger Kate Maltby speaking early on in the programme but after several exchanges between some of the MPs on the panel, pointed out that the rest of the programme was bound to be … Continue reading →

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I have a Question David

Posted on November 21, 2014 by ianchisnall

Last night on BBC1 the panel of Question Time from Birmingham consisted of Politicians from two main Political Parties, Ken Clarke (Conservative) and Andy Burnham (Labour). Both men have had Ministerial careers. There were three other panel members. One was Douglas Carswell … Continue reading →

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By Jove He’s Got it

Posted on July 4, 2014 by ianchisnall

Like the fabled stopped kitchen clock, I am afraid I find it very hard to agree with the eminently intelligent Peter Hitchens most of the time. However occasionally he nails it like he did at the end of last nights … Continue reading →

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Lets have some proportional representation

Posted on May 2, 2014 by ianchisnall

The panel line up for last nights BBC TV Question Time included Councillor Suzanne Evans, a UKIP Councillor from Merton in Surrey who is also their spokesperson for Communities. Her only other qualification for appearing is that next year she will be one … Continue reading →

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Totally inadequate response

Posted on April 4, 2014 by ianchisnall

Few people outside of Westminster have heard of Kathryn Hudson whose entire Wikipedia entry reads “Kathryn Margaret Hudson (born 28 March 1949) is the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards for the United Kingdom House of Commons. Appointed in September 2012, she … Continue reading →

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Its time to balance the books

Posted on July 2, 2013 by ianchisnall

                o The similarity between David Copperfields Mr Micawber and David Camerons Eric Pickles in theory at least goes beyond the visual similarity in the images above. According to the words written for Uriah Heaps Clerk, “Annual income twenty pounds, annual … Continue reading →

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