The nearest thing I've got to a catchphrase here is "If it's not the IPPR, it's probably Demos". (Nothing to worry Bruce Forsyth, I admit). Of course, it usually is the IPPR - the Labour-aligned Institute for Public Policy Research. (That could become a new catchphrase! In the style of Brucie: It usually is the IPPR, the IPPR it usually is!)
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Well, following yesterday's distasteful hatchet job on UKIP by Jon Manel, which name-checked the IPPR and used one of its former member as UKIP-basher-in-chief, this morning's Today, just before 7.00am (as David Vance points out at Biased BBC), based a story on a report on immigration by....the IPPR. That showed something or other that the BBC wants us to hear about immigration - and the BNP. Justin Webb twice called their research "interesting". He talked to co-author Laura Chappell of the IPPR (pictured).
It usually is the IPPR.
Matthew Taylor was the founder of IPPR and its first Director. It was set up to provide a counter-balance to the in-depth thinking behind conservative policies provided by an abundance of think-tanks.
ReplyDeleteI remember one week he was being interviewed on lunchtime BBC News as Tony Blair's Director of Policy, then the next week he was being interviewed as Director of the Think-tank the Institute for Public Policy Research without any attribution to his previous post with Labour. The intervier, Huw Edwards if memory serves right, as bent a BBC journalist as they come anyway if it doesn't, looked as shifty as Taylor in trying to pass the interview of as dispassionate policy advice from a disinterested think-tank.
By the way Craig 'Quinning ways', I love it! Between the puns you come up with on 'Quinn' and the ones I come up with on the Digest, I think we may just about have exhausted them! Lets see! ..
Quinn and tonic?
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