NUTT OUT (PART2)

The BBC is rousing itself today into a highly-predictable frenzy of indignation over the aftermath of Professor David Nutt's justified sacking as head of the government drugs advisory committee.

As a Biased BBC reader has pointed out, the pro-cocaine culture at the BBC is both illegal and has demonstrable victims. Now the BBC journalists are whipping this story up as if it were entirely a matter of academic freedom, when in reality, Professor Nutt and his associates are wet liberals who are as wrong in their analysis of drug-taking and its impact as our chums at the Met Office are about so-called "climate change".

The real scandal here is that for years, the corrupt government of Blair and Brown has stacked so-called advisory committees with their own cronies and poodles. When their pigeons come home to roost, they don't like it. Chances of the BBC investigating that? Zero.

Not Amused

For me, humour can overcome certain political views if it’s funny enough.

The assumption that everyone will automatically agree is still irritating , but I can put that aside if there’s a good laugh in there.

Did anyone see how miffed that Mark Steel fellow was when Ian Hislop called him a Stalinist on HIGNFY ? He was definitely bovvered.

The thing I’m not so sure about is the stupid Anne Frank joke from the ubiquitous David Mitchell who I usually quite like. His attempted joke drew a complaint on Feedback which was briefly and peremptorily dealt with, below several letters praising other programmes.

He thought an amusing example of something very ridiculous was the idea that someone whose need to keep quiet was a matter of life or death - would ask for a drum kit. Ha very ha.

The fact that we all know Anne Frank’s terrible fate makes this not one of the occasions where the humor justifies the content.