BBC/DEC And a sign of the times

27 January
The decision of the BBC not to broadcast the DEC (the Disasters Emergency Committee) Appeal for Gaza disgusts me. And, believe it or not, it is done in the name of "impartiality". In truth the decision is glaringly partial. It is partial to those who have created the mayhem and partial against the victims. And how can 'good boy' Greg Dyke come out to support the decision? We indeed live in a topsy-turvy world where good deeds are boycotted by the powers that be, the influence makers.

And if evidence is needed of how corrupt the Labour Party has become (a sign, as George Monbiot says in today's Guardian,that it has sunk as low as the Tories had in 1997, that it is just about to fall), look no further than the peers willing to take money to manipulate the law in favour of their bribers. And there we have Jack Straw's mate and funder, someone called Lord Taylor of Blackburn (I'd never heard of him before), who says that he 'umbly apologises. Financial chicanery ought to be a criminal offence and such lobbying outlawed. And it is wholly anachronistic and laughable that we have an utterly undemocratic second chamber, a breeding ground for corrupt practices.