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To begin, First up, Chris Vallance and I went to the Tweetminster event in London. Should MPs be Twittering in the chambers? Can social networking make politics more cohesive?
The Save Bletchley Park campaign continues. A comedy review was arranged to raise funds and awareness. Dr Sue Black tells us why it is important and what needs to be done.
You may have heard that the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall has been marked. 20 years ago many of us watched in awe as the wall was slowly dismantled. That was traditional media in 1989, to mark the anniversary, new media tools have been leading in lighter faster coverage. Alex Wood tells us about the The Berlin Project.
That's all for this week, but in the mean time, if you see something wonderful in the world of blogs, podcasts and more, let me know by dropping an email to podsandblogs at bbc dot co dot uk
Jamillah
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The airwaves today are full of comment about the payment of bonuses to MoD bureacrats. Without exception they are ill informed and/or deliberately misleading. This tells me one of two things:either the BBC?Sky News are wholly ignorant of the machinery of government or the facts are being wilfully misrepresented to cast the government in general and Gordon Brown in particular in the worst possible light. I incline to the view that both are true.
First it has been said that it takes 6 people behind the line to keep one man in the fron line. Secondly the government doesnt build battleships and thirdly since the time of Michael Hesletine it has been govt policy to have non-military aspects of defence done by civilians.
All this means that there are thousands of people beavering away across the country keeping our fighting forces fed, paid, equipped etc. They visit all the defence contractors to ensure that MoD specifications are being met in the manufacture of everything a fighting force needs. Across the UK defence estate, gardeners, cleaners, cooks etc etc are all civilians paid little more than skivvy rates. To call the pen pushers - as does todays Daily Telegraph - is as I said earlier either out of ignorance or more likely malice. Might I suggest for the future that when a Tory politician or a grieving relative is asked to comment, they are asked who these pen pushers are, what they do and whether their duties are un necessary. This is the biggest failing of BBC Political reporting in that when criticsm are made, the criticiser is never asked to give an example. Today on 5 live, there was someone ranting away about
the iniquities without ever explaining what they were or how they were putting 'our boys' lives in danger. As to buying your own equipment, this has always been a fact of army life. My main regret is that when I was a Private of the Buffs I did not have the sense to buy the most expensive pair of waterproof boots that were then available (Lotus Veldtshoen) which I know from subsequent experience never ever leak.
With best wishes
23193837 Cpl Holmans B The Buffs (Retired).
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