The PM Glass Box.
The Glass Box is where the PM team meets in at 18.00 every weeknight to discuss the content of the programme.
We try to be honest with each other, but not hurtful, as we talk about what worked and what didn't...what met our expectations and what fell short.
This virtual glass box is where you're encouraged to take part in the same spirit. Tonight's editor Roger Sawyer will read your comments and may well add his own.
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Someone should create a photo gallery of "The Adventures of Glass Box" one day...
...no, don't look at me!
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Coughs and Sneezes spread diseases!
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Can I say that I use Superdrugs version of Lemsip. It is cheaper and works just as well.
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Loose lips sink ships.
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Policeman found not guilty. There's a surprise.
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Roger,
As an editor, could you comment on the editorial point I raised in post #14 on the AM Glass Box this morning.
After our recent Parliamentary scandals, many people are looking outside the traditional party candidates, but there's evidence to suggest Regional BBC editors are 'short listing' candidates for BBC coverage. It could be argued independent candidates should have more coverage, given party candidates benefit from the allocation of five minute slots across terrestrial channels, for party election broadcasts. A better solution would be to give all candidates a five minute slot each, irrespective of party affiliation. Prospective independent MPs appear to be at a distinct disadvantage; Martin Bell was the exception to the rule. What needs to change before the next general election in order that all parliamentary candidates are treated equally? BBC editorial policy? The law? Ministerial guidelines?
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Did somebody sneeze their brains out?
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Now discuss that film about Morris dancing again.
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8 DMcN you have a thing about Morris don't you? You should see the Morris round 'ere - Herefordhsire - Morris with muscle I call it. None of your tourist-friendly white shirts, bells and hankies.
http://www.leominstermorris.co.uk/
What's all this about franchises? The Bond franchise, the Potter franchise?
Franchise: 1) An authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place. 2) A business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area
Are there Bond franchises all over the country like Starbucks?
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Nice juxtaposition: Far right fascist parties in the EU and Israeli soldiers 'raising their score'.
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6. Richard_SM
Good points. I think five minutes would tax the imagination of the MRLP and other 'entertaining rather than serious candidates'.
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What's the big deal, Aborigines go walkabout for months, the country is teaming with food, and even if totally ignorant of what to eat, 14 days without food is perfectly survivable.
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I'm very sorry to hear that Britain is to convert 40% of its electricity production to renewable and 'clean' sources by 2020. The doctrine of Global Warming is coming into more and more question on websites such as Anthony Watts' What's Up With That (http://wattsupwiththat.com/). In addition the Spectator has today published a long article titled "Meet The Man Who Has Exposed The Great Climate Change Con Trick," about the author of "Heaven and Earth", Professor Ian Plimer. It can be found at
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/3755623/meet-the-man-who-has-exposed-the-great-climate-change-con-trick.thtml
The debate about global warming is not over.
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Why even bother talking to representatives of Israel about their conduct in the occupied terriories. They have consistently failed to meet the demands of the relevant Geneva conventions, UN etc, and the social mores of the rest of the world.
I used to have such respect for israel, and now I have just contempt as they seem to try and replicate and copy the sins that were committed against the Jewish race in the past. Of all people you would think they would have compassion and empathy, but no, it seems the state os Israel has rage, anger and blind murder as its goals.
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Nice to have a piece of good news to end on.
BTW the glass box picture is driving me completely crazy! Lemsip and Solpadeine both contain paracetamol - it's the pharmacist in me coming out - not recommended that you take both at the same time. I'm desperate to pick one of them up and dispose of it appropriately. Blimey, haven't felt that uncomfortable since the last time someone labelled the bottom of a white box (not the top) and the label wasn't straight. It's like kryptonite!
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ia 9, Must be Border Morris men. Good stuff.
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A few weeks ago in The Telegraph a report stated that "counting the old-fashioned way", unemployment in America was 18.2%. Centre for Labor Market Studies CLMS Boston.
The old way included those who don't claim but also those who have taken part-time mac jobs in desperation.
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James Bond and the Deathly Hallowed Ground perhaps?
Bond is to be overtaken by Potters Wheel of Fortune? Ah me. I must watch a Harry Potterall the way through sometime and add to its coffers?
It was the PM programme looking forward to the Supreme Court in this country. Replacing the old Law Lords? Walking around the refurbished building with wonderment evident.
I had just watched the Parliamentary discussion on Extradition to and from the USA which already has a Supreme Court. MoP after MoP said there wasnt a level playing field for this agreement and it allegedly - needed one. OK.
I didnt stay for the result of the Division but as it wasnt a headline I assume the Government emerged unscathed if NOT triumphant.
Would they the UK Supreme Court sessions - be televised? Would the rulings be understood? lol
Seemingly not.
Would decision take forever still?
Eh, yes!
Subject: natures most curious Fathers and sons , eh? inside the ethics committee
Anagram: Miscontrue - Routs USA honest Fen - hard ass Comic esthete's hitmen tie Id
One day I will explain the above but meanwhile my apologies to Mr Stilgoe. lol
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13. Frank_Davis
You're not the Frank the government keeps telling teenagers to talk to are you?
The science is indisputable for all but the hard of thinking, and is accepted by 99% of the world population and all governments. How's it feel being part of the tiny minority which has the 'real truth' as revealed by the prophet?
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The idea that because electricity prices will rise to contribute to the costs of renewables expansion [at last, and about time] people are going to have to pay more, doesn't take into account the savings which will more than compensate in most cases. My energy consumption is around half what it could be, and my bills are far lower than they were years ago. Just replacing all light bulbs will take care of any increases in Kw price.
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17. At 6:07pm on 15 Jul 2009, normanmugabe wrote:
'A few weeks ago in The Telegraph a report stated that "counting the old-fashioned way"...'
Is that with the fingers?
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apropo nothing much
I was about to watch Prime Ministers Questions at noon today; so I clicked onto the BBC web page, and was informed not that it was simply 'LIVE' but rather, that it was 'LIVE NOW'
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15. RxKaren
LOL!
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Did we ascertain if Eddie was a Bond or Potter man?
I still don't get franchise.
Off to feed the dogs, who are on a diet as we loved them a little too much.
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invisibleatheist wrote: "The science is indisputable for all but the hard of thinking, and is accepted by 99% of the world population and all governments. How's it feel being part of the tiny minority which has the 'real truth' as revealed by the prophet?"
It feels just fine. Which prophet are you talking about? I don't know any sceptical prophets.
And is that your best argument? That 99% of the world agrees with you? You must know that most people simply don't care about AGW. Except they will start to get very angry when they're made to pay to prevent something that isn't happening.
Don't believe me? Go read RealClimate, who are trying to explain why there hasn't been any warming since 1998. "We are not talking about global cooling, just a pause in warming."
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/07/warminginterrupted-much-ado-about-natural-variability/
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Frank Davis
If your timescale is based on what's happened in the last decade, you clearly have not grasped the scale of the problem.
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No, that's only part of the argument, Sid. The climate simulation models didn't predict the current cooling. And that means these models are broken. And they got broken almost as soon as they'd made their predictions.
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25. Frank_Davis
I wasn't engaging with you or asking for your opinion, I was dismissing you. I have no intention of wasting precious seconds ofmy life refusting every pseudo fact you list in your condition.
Sid, don't encourage him, of course he hasn't grasped it, or anything else. Think of it as a cult, closest thing is the Moonies. There's a small [diminishing] band of denial merchants on the net; those with average intelligence write books, the others buy them. They bring to mind a Groucho Marx quote: 'Who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?' Nothing that happens in the world shakes this cult's belief that we are all duped by demonic forces of Illuminati world government, and it just isn't happening. They will be saying this as the water reaches their necks.
But you hit the nail on the head, they are on another time scale, if not another planet. The conflate weather with climate and can't seem to get the difference, and a cool year is enough to get them excited as hell, and they go round saying 'you see!'.
Enough time wasted.
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Frank_Davis, No doubt you will still be doubting when the oceans wash over us, just as many continue to smoke regardless of the evidence regarding lung cancer. I shall not try and persuade you otherwise, as blissful ignorance is often a relaxing place to be. But just remember that 7 of the 10 biggest companies in terms of turnover are oil companies - and buys you an awful lot of spin, PRopaganda and muddying of the waters..
Me, I'd rather go with the flow..
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Everybody, We all have a right to our opinions. If everybody posting are such experts, why haven't I read anything that you have written other than on this blog?
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29: 'But just remember that 7 of the 10 biggest companies in terms of turnover are oil companies - and buys you an awful lot of spin, PRopaganda and muddying of the waters..'
And green pressure groups, global warming theorists, and the Al Gore's of this world have nothing to lose if it all turns out to be rubbish?
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"There's a small [diminishing] band of denial merchants on the net;"
It's not diminishing. It's growing.
http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=c6a32614-f906-4597-993d-f181196a6d71&k=0
For example, Claude Allegre. 'His break with what he now sees as environmental cant on climate change came in September, in an article entitled "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" in l' Express, the French weekly. His article cited evidence that Antarctica is gaining ice and that Kilimanjaro's retreating snow caps, among other global-warming concerns, come from natural causes. "The cause of this climate change is unknown," he states matter of factly. There is no basis for saying, as most do, that the "science is settled." Dr. Allegre's skepticism is noteworthy in several respects. For one, he is an exalted member of France's political establishment, a friend of former Socialist president Lionel Jospin, and, from 1997 to 2000, his minister of education, research and technology, charged with improving the quality of government research through closer co-operation with France's educational institutions. For another, Dr. Allegre has the highest environmental credentials. The author of early environmental books, he fought successful battles to protect the ozone layer from CFCs and public health from lead pollution. His break with scientific dogma over global warming came at a personal cost.'
And he's just one of many who have been turning their backs on AGW claims.
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There have been at least four major ice ages. Wait 'til the sun dies and you will see a biggie!
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30. David_McNickle
You must lead a sheltered life not to have encountered my writings, although, not knowing my name, how would you know they were by me?
Of course we all have the right to opinions, it helps if they are based on facts and knowledge rather than reading crazed denial websites, which is where all the denyers get their factoids from. The chortle together a lot at the idiocy of the rest of humanity not being privy to the revealed truths they are cognisant of. Reads like a cult, smells like a cult...
People selling The Watchtower have opinions.
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32. No, it's diminishing. This site is Canadian! Need I say more? Read more widely rather than the diet you presently overindulge in. Having known a number of climate scientists over the years, and having read extremely widely since possibly before you were born, I have plenty of facts that back up my own observations. But you'l learn, it won't get any better, but much worse, and one day you will just have to accept it - as all these deranged sites slowly close due to lost interest and embarrassment.
They are all archived for the future to judge ...
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ia 34, I didn't say that some people don't have odd opinions, but they have a right to use their crayons.
Gimme a hint about what you write. Don't be shy. I just finished a book by Brian Viner, but you don't sound like him...or him like you.
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Vetting authors before they go into schools and talk to children?
Bananas! Barking, babbling, burbling, brain-bending bananas!!
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