This blog would like to spend just a little time congratulating two or three mainstream media organisations as part of our newspaper review this week.
First up, we would like to congratulate the Mail on Sunday. It takes very big bollocks for them to have run with the story they've run with. But they obviously do have big swingers.
Only, the Mail on Sunday - through columnist Lauren Booth - has gone and printed what really happened to the marvellous and much missed Diana, Princess of Wales, in our conclusion. Which is also what Mike Mansfield QC thinks happened. And the Mail on Sunday's columnist - at least - seems to be intelligent enough to have worked it all out, too.
This is the second story mentioning Princess Diana and Mike Mansfield this week - the first coming in the Daily Telegraph on Wednesday which cited from the memoirs of the lawyer who this blogger frequently applauded when we read the transcripts of Diana's inquest. It's only a shame that the British media decided not to print or even mention 95% of the detail of the inquest.
The Sunday Times has a report on a change of policy at the BBC. Now, this blog was very down on the BBC over their failure to cover UKIP proportionately - in our view - during the recent by-election in Norwich. Now it seems that the BBC might be getting the message and are really going bravely into impartiality territory. In a move that has ZaNuLiebour up in arms, the BBC is to allow the BNP onto flagship political programme Question Time. Apparently, the Conservatives and the LibDems aren't getting overly wound up by the move. But Labour are. And it's easy to see why such a move should upset Labour. Those voting for the BNP appear to be former Labour voters. And anyway, we don't promise to agree with anyone's opinion, but this country has been built upon a tradition of defending a person's right to say it. So, while those on the "left" will no doubt be ranting and raving, this blog strongly supports the BBC's decision to allow the BNP onto QT. That's true democracy being allowed to do what it does, that's true representation of real people, real people's lives, real people's hopes and fears and should be supported. And now everyone in the country will get a chance to judge for themselves whether the BNP are as odious as is claimed. Not many people under the age of forty have ever had the option of listening to anything the BNP says. Well, have you?
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