'RICHARD' AND 'GAVE' ONLY

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Thursday's The World At One, with Shaun Ley, was characteristically tilted towards the Left.
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The BBC has (for some time now) been brainwashing us (along with its favourite economic commentators Vince Cable and John McFall) that bankers are the sole cause of all the economic woes that have so wounded this country in the last couple of years (absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with our own Labour government of course, despite its remarkable and well-document closeness to those very bankers throughout its long, long years in power). Should all those guilty-as-charged bankers who earn more than £1 million be named and shamed? That was Shaun's question. Who did he interview to explore the issue? Labour MP Jim Cousins, who is responsible for a Commons motion calling for a charge on banks that have received public help - a 'peoples' dividend', he calls it (I.C. of 0), and Labour peer Lord Paul Myners (I.C. of 0.5). All of Shaun's questions to Myners came from a 'name those names' standpoint. The brainwashing continues - as does the dominance of the Left in the BBC's worldview.
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Greens dominate the BBC's worldview too, of course. The programme's discussion of China's promises on reducing carbon emissions was introduced with these typical words: "Expert comment this morning praised China's move as a gesture and a morale-booster." 'Expert comment' indeed! Who did he mean? Come on Shaun, name names!!
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The issue was then discussed in interviews with Ailun Yang, head of Greenpeace China's Climate and Energy Campaign ("I think it's a very positive step"), and Charles McElwee, who "teaches environmental law at Shanghai University and has advised the Chinese government on the environment, though not on climate change. He stresses that today's move falls short of actual emission cuts" ("It's significant for a number of reasons. I think it shows a growing maturity on the part of the Chinese leadership.") So, both praised China's 'green' commitments but both wanted even more. Shaun Ley interrupted neither.
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The third topic up for discussion was 'The Special Relationship' in the age of President Obama. It was discussed with Gavin Esler's chum from Dateline London, Stryker Maguire of Newsweek, and Sir Jeremy Greenstock, Blair's man at the U.N. Maguire is always soft on Obama, but so it seems is Sir Jeremy: "Most of Europe, including the U.K.. welcome the fact that there is a president in the Whitehouse who knows the world and seems to understand the outside world."
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I'm not Shaun Ley and that was The World At One yesterday lunchtime.