contribution by Climate Sock Another week, another shonky poll? On Friday the BBC reported their new survey, which they claimed showed a clear drop in the number of people who believe in climate change or that it’s man-made. After the BBC’s inaccurate coverage of a climate poll last year, I was ready for this to be another bit of mis-reporting ripe for a take-down.

BBC chairman Sir Michael Lyons hits back at Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw's comments that the BBC Trust should eventually be scrapped.

HE NORMALLY specialises in jazz music, is a visiting music correspondent for the Fred MacAulay show and works in the marketing department for the Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Years ago I slated the BBC for commissioning a poll about religion and trying to draw conclusions about people from different religious groups using pathetically small sample sizes. They are at it again in this poll. The ComRes poll found that 63% of people agreed with the statement that “Our laws should respect and be

Modern classical music is so widely disliked by audiences because the human brain struggles to find patterns it needs to understand the compositions as music. So, let us start at the beginning. Music is what the human brain recognises as music: if it ain’t so recognised then it’s noise. Humans do not recognise “modern music” as

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The BBC reports: Almost three quarters of British people believe there should be a public inquiry into the invasion of Iraq, an opinion poll suggests. The BBC Radio 5 Live poll also found almost two thirds are not convinced UK soldiers should be kept in Afghanistan. … The survey, conducted by ComRes for the BBC, found 72%

I draw to your attention an informative and powerful essay by Guido Fackler on music in the Nazi camp system. It deals both with music as an instrument of domination and torment and with music as 'a defense against the...

The BBC have commissioned that rare creature, a Welsh opinion poll. On the downside, since it was commissioned by the BBC, there are no voting intention figures. Full tables of the ICM poll are here Asked about how they would prefer Wales to be governed, 13% supported a completely independent Wales (either outside or insider the

SHADOW culture secretary Jeremy Hunt today said he could not understand the BBC's logic in dropping 6 Music while retaining another "niche" service such as Radio 3