The BBC said it had no intention of taking any disciplinary action against Bowen. Nonetheless, the findings were made by the BBC Trust's editorial standards committee – which includes such figures as Richard Tait, the former editor-in-chief of ITN, and David Liddiment, the former director of television at ITV – and will cause great concern within the BBC newsroom.
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MOODY'S ANALYST BREAKS SILENCE: Says Ratings Agency Rotten To Core With Conflicts - 0 views
Bowen 'breached rules on impartiality' - April 16, 2009 - The Independent - 0 views
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"It was not necessary for equal space to be given to the other arguments, but ... the existence of alternative theses should have been more clearly signposted."
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some detail and context
CentreRight: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? | Apr 15 2009 - 0 views
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Not wearing a bulky jacket, didn't vault the ticket barrier, didn't resist arrest, wasn't alerted by the shout of 'Armed police' which wasn't ever issued, in fact.
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Lance Corporal Mark Aspinall. Held down and beaten in a street in Wigan, he was then charged and convicted of assaulting the police, a conviction only over-turned on production of the video evidence
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The police, particularly in London, appear to have forgotten that they police only with our consent. They are not the armed wing of the state.
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Conservative blogger asks if there is a culture of violence in the Met.
MIDEAST: Environment Emerges as a Major Casualty - 0 views
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A ban on materials required for their maintenance, including cement, steel and pipes, left them in a state of disrepair.
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Israeli bombs hit the already fragile sewage and water treatment systems, causing drinking water and raw sewage to mix across some of the most populated areas of Gaza.
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Tank shells hit the strip's largest wastewater plant in the Sheikh Aljeen area of Gaza City, sending sewage cascading directly into neighbourhoods, farms and into the sea.
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Countless fruit groves across the Gaza Strip are now gone, entire farms bulldozed. The remains of thousands of destroyed homes emit toxic asbestos, while dilapidated infrastructure dumps raw sewage into the Mediterranean Sea. An already deepening environmental crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip has been further compounded by the recent war.
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Gaza is a Kafkaesque situation that makes a joke out of rational geopolitical discussion.
Kimberley Strassel Says the British Conservative Party Is No Example for the GOP - WSJ.... - 0 views
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The next election will instead be a referendum on a worn-out Labour movement. If Conservatives win, it will be because the party has made itself less offensive to the electorate than those currently in charge.
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He instructed the party to do "social action" projects (say, helping renovate youth centers), to show it cared about ordinary Britons.
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Beyond this bold agreement with the status quo, the party has refused to articulate its own agenda, lest any part go down badly with voters.
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Thats how it looks to me right now as well. We shall have to see what the campaign brings.
Mainstream Populist Democrats: Taiwan may provide a health care model for the U.S. - 0 views
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A National Public Radio profile from last year points out that Taiwan has one of the world's best health care systems and it is cost efficient too. All Things Considered, April 15, 2008 · At the end of the 20th century, Taiwan became a rich country, almost overnight. But it still had a poor country's health care - about half the population had no coverage at all. So Taiwan set out to design a national health care system from scratch. What makes Taiwan unique is the way the country figured out how to cover everyone.
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My first post here. Just joined. Live in Taiwan and can attest to the brilliance of the healthcare system here. It's a much better model than Canda. (And I'm a Canadian.)
Op-Ed Columnist - The End of Philosophy - NYTimes.com | April 2009 - 0 views
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It challenges the new atheists, who see themselves involved in a war of reason against faith and who have an unwarranted faith in the power of pure reason and in the purity of their own reasoning.
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This makes no sense - perhaps Herbert doesn't want us to reason about it!
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hard for them to appreciate that most people struggle toward goodness, not as a means, but as an end in itself.
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This is certainly a vital question, but I don't think that link is hard, but instead obvious.
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A little pompous, but provoking and informative all the same.
EXCLUSIVE...Pentagon Pundits: New York Times Reporter David Barstow Wins Pulitzer Prize... - 0 views
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