Question Time and This Week

what do people think of Sean O'Callaghan?

I forgot to watch QT and just switched on when someone was talking about immigration. He had been here since he was 11 or something, was that him?

Bizarrely, I also forgot to watch TW and just switched on to see some Irish fella talking about terrorism, I think. Who was he?

Both programmes are excellent, I think. I must remember to watch them.

I'm guessing this is Sean O'Callaghan .... call it a wild stab in the dark

Dreyfuss was frankly poor. He borrowed authority from his weathered stardom, but his actual remarks did not get anyone very far.

on the other hand, if you care about serious and informed debate on current affairs on the BBC, the pinefox OTM upthread

JtN likes Hughes, and his taxi-cab.

I always have a special affection for the Lib Dems, generally - they seem like nice people who handle politics the way I would like it to be handled. Now, if only they were socialists...

But her very final comment, about foxhunting, was correct.

Andrew Neil wondered where Tony Blair got his three and a half million pounds form, but hasn't Andrew Neil got three and a half million pounds as well?

Apparently saying "I can apologise" is the same as apologising.

Kwame Kwei-Armah pissed me off with his "There are billions of people starving and that is more important than fox hunting" response. I'm sorry mate but you're there to answer the questions asked and debate the issues raised so get off the moral high ground or fuck off to the World Hunger Debate.
By his standards the entire concept of political discussion is a waste of time until everyone gets a bite to eat.

Makes Blair look a twit, either way.

As someone said on 'this week', it'd be a ludicrous situation where aggressive 'intent' and not action can be a cause for war. Why hasn't Blair been pilloried and laughed out of the country for making such a statement?

Voices of sanity on that QT Panel: Matthew Parris and Jody Dunn. And yes, Patricia Hewitt was appallingly predictable in parroting the Blair line.

Anybody see last night's? I actually whooped when Michael Hessaltine told that Daily Mail woman were to get off about the EU. Dimmers was also particularly mischievous.

Drink when he says:
"You couldn't make it up!"
"Cottaging!"
"Hell in a handcart!"
"The PC brigade!
"Guardianista!"

Drain your glass when he says:
"Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve!"

Why haven't the Left got a lucid, authoritative spokesperson in this country (Tony Benn is too old now)? One is sorely needed.

Has the BBC ever given any kind of reason for having a tiny, hard-right corporate front outfit with a smaller readership than Model Aircraft Today on speed dial?

They're all middle class right wing cunts?

It's good television, innit.

As it seems aside from the BBC and Talk Radio producers that have them on speed dial, no-one much else cares about them, who funds these wasters? There seems to be more transparency at the Taxpayers Alliance ffs!

I wonder what proportion is that and what proportion is Good Liberals imagining the public is vastly more right wing than them and giving the audience what they think they want.

Even so, when you have actual Tory politicians and Brexit campaigners on the show, idk what the imagined audience for contrarian fash/ libertarians would be.

(xp) You're wrong there, they're on Sky all the time too, Brendan O'Neill virtually lives at Sky News studios.

I never watch it tbh, thank fuck!

(xxp) Pretty sure all they're interested in is entertainment.

Newsnight continuing to do the noble and important work of sorting out the good Free Tommy people from the bad elements:

"This isn't us, this isn't the Free Tommy movement... I'd say this is far-right" - this woman explains that the majority of Tommy Robinson supporters were protesting peacefully #newsnight pic.twitter.com/SnLwgIJb4v

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) July 18, 2018

Also good to give Gerald Batten plenty of time to explain why Robinson isn’t similar to Nelson Mandela, he is actually better, under robust questioning like ‘haven’t you misjudged this?’.

the BBC want socialism for their corporation, neo-fascism for their license payers. At least they are consistent on this line!

Our fourth and final audience question is about the Labour party. #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/WDe4PsieG6

— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) September 26, 2019

Our third audience question is about a future withdrawal agreement. #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/iFBxqKawUl

— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) September 26, 2019

Here's our second question from the audience tonight. #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/kUucyT8vxX

— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) September 26, 2019

Seem like good questions imo.

'we all break laws on a day to day basis'

send the rozzers round to this audience member's house asap

The guy who asked the question was a policeman!

... so, yes, a reactionary right wing twat, PC Gammon in fact.

PC Bacon

PC Gonemad

wtf

I didn't see the show last night, but surely the format means these questions get comprehensively twatted by most of the panel?

Damn I should start watching Question Time again pic.twitter.com/R58KJAKJ2J

— Clee (@jmsclee) September 27, 2019

"It was a one-off"

This is genuinely the most revolting thing I’ve seen on the bbc for a while. Alibhai Brown raises Stanley Johnson assaulting his wife (he broke her nose) & Fiona Bruce cites his friends saying it was a ‘one off’.

A feudal media elite in a modern country. pic.twitter.com/AROO9eGrB1

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) March 10, 2023