I agree with your last sentence but nevertheless believe it is incumbent on the BBC as a publicly funded organisation to make doubly sure its output is scruplously balanced and scruplously accurate. We should expect nothing less.

I don’t actually see why we should expect that. It might be desirable but I wouldn’t expect it.
I’d say it was more incumbent upon it to feed ‘the great unwashed’ the Government (or better still the establishment) line.
Something it’s been doing for a long time.

Fair enough but surely as we are equipped (well at least I am) to be able to judge, disect, and base our opinions on information gleaned and assembled from a number of sources–as indeed you are doing, the BBC is supplying a source of information.

Can you seriously name a one stop news media that you would completely trust..??

I tend to assemble my ‘World view’ from a number of different places.

Andy

Actually I listen to Radio 4 a lot and despite what people here are saying, I find much of it informative and reasonably well balanced.
Of course I look at every issue from the view-point that the rich are trying to screw the poor, and governments are trying to screw each other and everyone else, etc, etc.
I agree that if you only watch television or worse BBC1, then you’re likely to learn very little useful, apart from the prizes on ‘Pointless’ are sh*t–and infact, that ‘Pointless’ is indeed that–pointless.

If I tend towards believing the BBC has any bias, I tend to see it as ‘HMG’s Propaganda Ministry’. Whatever the government of the day is, they tend to fall in line with the establishment.

Well, I suppose as they all went to Oxbridge together that follows.

Andy

Thanks for the update DCW. Can someone explain why the Avro 504k’s Le Rhone engine had to be mounted on the Bristol M1c to test it? What of the airworthiness of the Bristol M.1c?

Yes.
The reason being as simple as the finish on the 504 being new, the engineers didn’t want it splattered with castor oil after loads of ground runs.
The rotary engine for the 504 is now running well and the second rotary for the M1.C is coming together nicely.
The airframe of the M1.C needs an inspection and will then be ready.
Word on the streets is that you ‘should’ see both the AVRO 504K and the Bristol M1.C in the coming season.
Weather, and all else permitting.
Andy

Charlie/Jim.
It’s a 1904, 250cc single cylinder Aurora–and yes is part of The Shuttleworth Collection.
Built in Coventry by the company of the same name. Aurora only existed for about four years from about 1902 to 1906. Then the proprietor absconded to London with the company’s money and parts of other people’s bikes. He was not heard of again.
As originally built, it was more upright in appearance (like a bicycle) but was cut down early in it’s career for either racing or pacing racing cyclists on an oval.
Last year three experts from the Coventry Transport Museum visited and they became very excited about it and wanted it. Their opinion was that it was the only survivor from the Aurora company.
Strangely enough, they brought a picture from their archives of what it would have looked like originally, the two things tied up very closely.
It’s exciting to ride, having no brakes, no clutch and no suspension.
The drive belt is straight off the end of the crankshaft, so once the engine fires, you’re a passenger.
As to performance. I reckon that if you had either an oval or a very long piece of smooth tarmac and a nice lightweight rider (obviously not me) you could screw 50 MPH out of it.
Whether you’d want to be on it at that speed is of course, something entirely different…..
I’ve ridden a lot of bikes in my time but this is my favourite.

To the original question.
No, this is…..!!!

And it pre-dates everything here by a large margin.
And there is only one.

A.

As I always say, I remain non-aligned.
However, Farage has made himself a pretty penny over the years doing largely what the others are doing–that being milking the gravy train. The one we’re paying for.

I’ve yet to to discover a politician, past, present or (probably) in the future who is worth the sream off my p*ss.
They’re certainly not worth the cost of petrol to run the car to vote for them.
Non of them–NOT ONE.

The whole shambles is due to the privatisation of the public utilities, Thatcher’s chickens coming home to roost.

Yes, and chronic under investment in infrastructure and plant–the real British disease.

I’m amazed some tw*t or other hasn’t jumped in yet to inform us all that Lady Margaret was the best person ever, the second coming, the best prime minister etc etc (delete where you feel applicable).