Greenpeace success shows Ofcom’s weakness

I’ve just listened to Ben Stewart from Greenpeace on the Radio 4 Today programme discussing Greenpeace’s successful defence of their actions: climbing up the Kingsnorth Coal Plant tower to paint ‘Gordon Bin it’ down the site.
How Greenpeace got it right
This from the Greenpeace website: “The defence was that they had ‘lawful excuse’ - because [...]

Censorship or sense? Well, sense actually

Well, that was interesting. My post on the limits to debate on cimate change has generated 40-odd comments so far (modest in the grand scheme, but detailed, and most of which has been useful and instuctive: couple of interesing sites in Devil’s Kitchen and QuestionThat). There were a few personal attacks here and here (and [...]

C4 Mykura’s half-right contradiction on climate change

Hamish Mykura, Channel 4’s head of documentaries, has published his reply to Monbiot’s claim that Channel 4 has harmed action against climate change.
Mykura’s central tenet is that the vehemence of people such as Monbiot do more harm to the ’cause’ of global warming than a dissenting documentary that is seen by 2.7m viewers. In Mykura’s [...]