From BBC Radio 4’s statistics programme More Or Less presented by Tim Harford
Episode dated 9th September 2011
“The Justice Secretary Ken Clark wrote in The Guardian that almost three quarters of people charged with offences from the recent riots have previous convictions. Does that mean most of the rioters had previous convictions – as Ken Clarke seems to be suggesting – or were the police simply more likely to catch and charge looters who were already known to them because they had previous convictions?”
Ben Hammersley tweeted “My OCD is practically weeping with joy at this. Quite the most beautiful thing ever” with a link to this page at The Phoenixmasonry Masonic Museum and Library:
“If the workmanship in a tool chest is any indication of the maker’s talent, then the craftsmanship of Master carpenter and stonemason H. O. Studley must have been awe-inspiring. Brother Henry O. Studley (1838-1925) built this magnificent wall-hung chest while employed by the Poole Piano Company of Quincy, Massachusetts….” [See Original Article & Photos]
Incidentally, Ben H is credited as having first coined the term “podcasting” in his 2004 Guardian article Audible Revolution.
From BBC Radio 4 Media Show podcast 27 April 2011:
Guardian editor morally worse than Andy Coulson, phone hacking not “the greatest crime in the world”- and did Piers himself know anything about it when editing the Mirror? Absolutely not. Transcript below:
Piers Morgan: The interesting thing about phone hacking for me is the very curious moral and ethical position of The Guardian, who have appointed themselves at the great bishops of everything moral in the print trade. and yet they quite happily published Wikileaks day in, day out, and they based it in absolute knowledge – unlike Andy Coulson who has denied any knowledge of what was going on in terms of the material coming into the paper from illegal, or alleged illegal, methodology.
In the Wikileaks case, the Guardian knew, absolutely where the Wikileaks were coming from. I would like to know the moral and ethical distinction between an editor who denies knowing that material was gained illegally and it got published in his paper, and an editor who openly says “I know that these documents were gained illegally”. And then the question comes down to this: public interest – it’s the old debate – public interest. If Alan Rusbridger can say unequivocally that Gaddafi had four mistresses is in the public interest (because the Guardian published that information in Wikileaks), that is a good oldfashioned sex romp allegation… [More]
