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Yorkshire Post's supposed UK biofuel problem
"British grain crops that meet Red Tractor quality assurance standards can no longer enter the European biofuels market, because the scheme that allowed this to happen expired earlier this month" link

Twitter shows me an EU letter giving an interim 3 month extension.

Aug 26, 2017 at 3:29 PM | Registered Commenterstewgreen

AK, are you really using examples from 45 years ago when the 'establishment' was tory to excuse/justify/explain how unbiased the BBC is now? Can you really not see it or are you argufying? Did you hear that weasel Steve Jones on Feedback justifying the false balance policy? Don't you ever wish for real balance?

Aug 26, 2017 at 3:13 PM | Unregistered Commenterrhoda

Dave S. you should have experienced the Wilson-Heath-Callaghan years* when every BBC news broadcast ended with a list of closures and the number of employees made redundant - talk about political bias.

*but maybe you did and have forgotten.

Aug 26, 2017 at 2:19 PM | Unregistered CommenterSupertroll

It's been a while since I last deliberately listened to a BBC news broadcast, although I do scan the headlines on the BBC website fairly frequently simply to catch any significant breaking news. The BBC's relentless bias really revealed itself to me in the mid 1990s in the latter years of the Major government, when the evening news became a long-running party political broadcast on behalf of the Labour Party. Every public utterance of Blair and Brown was deemed newsworthy, and faithfully reported uncritically. Thus Brown was given a free ride to talk down the UK economy using all kinds of ruses - theŕe was his chalk and cheese comparison of two tables to show an apparent decline relative to other countries (I forget what the metric was); and his bizarre use of a 15-year rolling average to show another decline, where it was later shown (not by the BBC, of course) that choosing other averaging periods gave a different story. Of all the events across the globe, the BBC chose to use their main daily news broadcast to give publicity to Labour Party.

In the late 2000s we had two years of Obama worship. As if the primaries for selecting a candidate for election in the US were really priority news in the UK. The BBC's handling of global warming hysteria doesn't need any further comment here.

Of course, bias is to be found elsewhere. And unless we lead a Good Life lifestyle we contribute indirectly to funding commercial broadcasters whenever we buy anything that's been advertised. But we are obliged to hand over 150 quid to fund the BBC, in return for which we should expect, but manifestly do not get, balance.

Aug 26, 2017 at 1:49 PM | Unregistered CommenterDaveS

SG the BBC normally doesn't broadcast news until it has two independent confirming sources.
Also, why your interest? Typhoons happen all the time in the Pacific, what's so special ( to UK audiences) that you feel the BBC should delete other news items from its schedule to highlight this event?

Aug 26, 2017 at 11:54 AM | Unregistered CommenterSupertroll

BBC main news last night included items on 1) Buckingham palace police attack, 2) N. Korea missiles, 3) Rail disruption, 4) Hurricane Harvey preparations 5) Guru rape case riots, 6) Brussels stabbings, 7) Police prioritizing vulnerable + comment on self driving lorries and sports items. I wonder which PCar (his 12.48am.post) would leave out or reduce coverage of in order to get his prime items into the programme. Remind me what they were again. Oh yes A) a US marine is fed up, B) Philly AutiFa [Philly who?) and C) Poland feuding with Macron about costs of makeup.
I think the BBC probably got it about right.

Aug 26, 2017 at 11:43 AM | Unregistered CommenterSupertroll

9 are dead in the Macau typhoon
..but BBC didn't tell you that
https://twitter.com/PHILAlerts/status/901321827582136320
Oh 12
https://twitter.com/philmonitor/status/900697942910259201

Flood warning up as Typhoon Jolina hits Phl August 26, 2017
http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2017/08/26/1732882/flood-warning-typhoon-jolina-hits-phl

The switchon bingo was 7:15am Today prog

Aug 26, 2017 at 10:53 AM | Registered Commenterstewgreen

Re: Electric Superchargers.
As I understand it, the electric drive provides a boost function when the turbo(s) are spinning at low revs. This overcomes the typical turbo lag. Once the turbo spools up the electric drive cuts out. The aim is to get the immediate response of a mechanical supercharger with the better fuel efficiency of a turbo. Audi use it in their top models and it has been taken up by Bentley for their SUV.
Going the other way, harvesting electrical energy from a turbo is part of the horrendously complicated engine concept now used in F1.

Aug 26, 2017 at 10:47 AM | Registered Commentermikeh

Switch on bingo
- Oh it's a woman on a Texas island talking about hurricane
- Oh she's being fed a question "So what do you think about Al Gore saying these extreme weather events are coming more common and stronger ..."
"Oh yes sea level rise is real" (who says it isn't ?
Seems she just happens to be a Democrat councillor

odds on me switching on and it being a Republican skeptic ?

The same clip minus the Gore question was then used on the BBC radio Lincolnshire News

10:30am WTF Now on radio 4 another prog about cross dressing, ..oh it's actually supposed to be about the war
"Although there was a widespread expectation that war would cause society to return to Victorian ideals about the roles of men and women, instead it started challenged traditional norms."

Aug 26, 2017 at 10:33 AM | Registered Commenterstewgreen

Pcar

so 9 hp for that Audi system... that seems quite modest really and actually quite an achievement..

Thanks for the link - I had seen a mention previously but didn't recall who was "at it"

Aug 26, 2017 at 10:03 AM | Registered Commentertomo

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