― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― teh pow! (blueski), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadrockismus (Dada), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:08 (nineteen years ago) link
on the other hand, if you care about serious and informed debate on current affairs on the BBC, the pinefox OTM upthread
― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― teh pow! (blueski), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:21 (nineteen years ago) link
JtN likes Hughes, and his taxi-cab.
― the bellefox, Friday, 24 September 2004 12:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― the bellefox, Friday, 24 September 2004 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 24 September 2004 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link
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...
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Peter Watts (peterw), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link
But her very final comment, about foxhunting, was correct.
― the bellefox, Friday, 24 September 2004 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Emilymv (Emilymv), Friday, 24 September 2004 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link
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?
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:24 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jedermann sein eigener Fussball (Dada), Friday, 1 October 2004 08:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 8 October 2004 11:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― mzui, Friday, 8 October 2004 11:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Makes Blair look a twit, either way.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 8 October 2004 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Tom May (Tom May), Friday, 8 October 2004 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 22:04 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Pete W (peterw), Friday, 22 October 2004 09:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 22 October 2004 09:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― What did you do in the war, Dadaismus? (Dada), Friday, 22 October 2004 09:46 (nineteen years ago) link
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!"
― robster (robster), Friday, 22 October 2004 10:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 22 October 2004 10:04 (nineteen years ago) link
Why haven't the Left got a lucid, authoritative spokesperson in this country (Tony Benn is too old now)? One is sorely needed.
― Venga, Friday, 22 October 2004 10:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― What did you do in the war, Dadaismus? (Dada), Friday, 22 October 2004 10:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 22 October 2004 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Friday, 22 October 2004 14:40 (nineteen years ago) link
It is funny how old Tories become loveable lefties, viz. Heseltine's slapping down of the odious Phillips. (It is funny also that she was a Guardian columnist for so long!)
I saw Michael Moore on QT once and was so impressed that I rang the Corporation and told them how good it had been.
Hey, maybe that's why they've asked him back!
― the bellefox, Saturday, 23 October 2004 09:23 (nineteen years ago) link
the snag seems to be that any member of the current cabinet, backbench labour types etc are aware that the pm may watching and have 2 constantly tow the line no matter how much the audience groans, dimbleby tears into them, fellow panelists laugh and suchlike. they've become just as toothless as the tories on the show were in the 80's. the current crop of blues couldn't give anything like as much of a toss what happens give or take, so they can kind of say what they like. i've seen the likes of boateng consistently reduced to the most simpering wet ball-less geeks, and felt sympathy even for tebbit at one point in the past few years. watching robin cook desperately unconvincingly trying to defend his position in early 2003 while sitting next to benjamin zephaniah was *agony*. he apparantly turned to bj as the credits rolled to say 'i agree with every word you said, i'm quitting next week' then did just that!
― piscesboy, Saturday, 23 October 2004 09:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 23 October 2004 11:56 (nineteen years ago) link
the caption on this is great...
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Saturday, 23 October 2004 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― the bellefox, Thursday, 28 October 2004 12:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 October 2004 12:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 28 October 2004 12:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 October 2004 13:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 28 October 2004 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link
The highlight though was Moore confidently stating that Kerry will make the better President because he's going to properly go and hunt down terrorists, wherever they are. "Dude, Where's Your Credibility?" Haven't you just made millions from a film saying the very opposite?
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 28 October 2004 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link
Watch again folks
― Gribowitz (Lynskey), Thursday, 28 October 2004 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gribowitz (Lynskey), Thursday, 28 October 2004 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 28 October 2004 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link
littlejohn would NEVER get on Question Time in the UK, which just shows what a poor shower this lot were.
the audience was woefully ignorant and incapable of expressing points that weren't related directly to their own experiences (and even that was done badly). it was as if they'd never seen a political debate before.
the miami voting league woman was terrific though. she brooked no shit.
― Pete W (peterw), Friday, 29 October 2004 08:25 (nineteen years ago) link
wtf
― hot dog go to bathroom (cajunsunday), Friday, 27 September 2019 09:57 (four years ago) link
I didn't see the show last night, but surely the format means these questions get comprehensively twatted by most of the panel?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 27 September 2019 10:12 (four years ago) link
Damn I should start watching Question Time again pic.twitter.com/R58KJAKJ2J— Clee (@jmsclee) September 27, 2019
― hot dog go to bathroom (cajunsunday), Friday, 27 September 2019 10:17 (four years ago) link
"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
― the pinefox, Friday, 10 March 2023 11:41 (one year ago) link