Oh, Donnie. Punked by the Intertubes again.

I think we should demand the release of those transcripts, don't you?

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN) Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday his campaign email account was hacked by Russians -- adding that the US needs to work together to stop this from happening.

"I do believe the Russians hacked into the (Democratic National Committee). I do believe they hacked into (John) Podesta's email account. They hacked into my campaign account," he told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room." "I do believe that all the information released publicly hurt Clinton and didn't hurt Trump. I don't think the outcome of the election is in doubt. What we should do is not turn on each other but work as one people to push back on Russia."

He added he doesn't believe that the hacking affected the elections.

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"They're trying to destabilize democracy all over the world. Not just here," he said about the Russians. "Here's what we should do. We should tell the Russians that on no uncertain terms, you interfere in our elections, we don't care why, we're going to hit you and hit you hard, we're going to introduce sanctions, it'll to be bipartisan."

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/14/politics/lindsey-graham-hacking-russia-donald-trump/index.html?sr=twpol121516lindsey-graham-hacking-russia-donald-trump

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Just to put this Ofgem individual's personal words in some context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_station

Flamanville: France's beleaguered forerunner to Hinkley Point C
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/27/flamanville-france-edf-nuclear-reactor-hinkley-point-c
(The French are having enormous problems because of their reliance on nuclear power.)

How much does the Hinkley Point nuclear power station cost compared to wind and solar?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/how-much-hinkley-point-nuclear-8839460
(Solar actually ranks lowest in terms of strike price. It also doesn't rely on direct sunlight.)

Hinkley Point: Overwhelming majority of British public oppose Theresa May's decision to approve nuclear plant
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hinkley-point-theresa-may-nuclear-power-poll-majority-uk-opposes-plant-edf-china-a7308701.html

The Telegraph article also ignores the international interconnectors used to trade electricity to balance supply and demand.

Here's a real-time readout showing the UK grid's status and the contribution of different forms of energy: http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

MSM:







Bella Caledonia blog:



Sutton Coldfield Observer story here: http://www.suttoncoldfieldobserver.co.uk/sutton-coldfield-to-host-bbc-s-question-time-programme/story-29633999-detail/story.html

Paul Long now identifies as an "Independent", but at least as recently as May 2015 did indeed serve as UKIP Sutton Coldfield's press officer.


Huffington Post:

If this story doesn't get picked up by the MSM, it'll be the result of a cover-up.

The makeup of studio audiences (let alone the panels) in the BBC's long-running Question Time has long raised eyebrows among those who live in the towns and cities it visits. "I never knew we had so many right-wing people living here" is a common reaction.

It turns out there may be a good reason for that.

Let me introduce you to Alison Fuller, a.k.a. Alison Fuller Pedley, whose Twitter profile says she runs "Full House Audience Management which researches and coordinates TV audiences for programmes where the people take part in the debate".

Her Facebook account (presumably more up to date) reads:



She's done this for years. This is from a profile written in 2010:



Indeed.

Rob Schofield at Medium.com reported in September:


The Telegraph also covered the fuss at the time:

BBC accused of encouraging racial tension by trying to get English Defence League to appear in the audience on Question Time
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/02/bbc-accused-of-encouraging-racial-tension-by-trying-to-get-engis/

Maybe Schofield and the BBC-bashing Telegraph are reading too much into a lapse in judgement from a producer seeking balance and a little heated controversy to liven up what's become a weekly predictable travesty of debate? Well ...



Not-too-deep digging by a number of people on social media has revealed some of Fuller's personal interests. Her Twitter feed's not very active, but here's a post from 16 May this year:


https://twitter.com/Fullhouse21/status/732171630869393408

And here are a few more from Facebook:





Now, maybe there's a reasonable explanation for all this. Maybe BBC Question Time's Audience Producer is naive on social media, and just likes and faves striking pics and posts at random and wants to engage as broad a spread of opinion as she can get and sometimes accidentally oversteps the mark. Maybe. But she's reportedly a member of the following Facebook group:



Which in a sane country with a sane media would mean that, at the very least, the BBC and Fuller have some questions to answer here. So far, they've ignored all approaches for comment. We'll see if that continues.

Sarah Olney 20,510

Zac Goldsmith 18,638

This overturns Goldsmith's 23,000 majority when he stood as a Tory.

The byelection has been widely seen as a straw in the wind about Brexit. Goldsmith thought his opposition to Heathrow's third runway would be enough to win it for him. Apparently not.

Lib Dems win Richmond Park byelection, overturning Zac Goldsmith's 23,000 majority - live

Last I heard, expectations were that Labour's share of the vote would be down - likely a lot of tactical voting.

ETA: Yes, Labour's Christian Wolmar got only 1,515 votes.

In the 2015 general Election, Goldsmith got 34,404 votes, the Lib Dems 11,389 and Labour 7,296.