The BBC just see almost everything from the Labour government's point of view

Listen to the Radio 4 Today programme interview with Lord Krebs this morning, it's a fine example of the sort of built-in bias so prevalent at the BBC. Lord Krebs describes how Jacqui Smith when Home Secretary wrote to the government's Chief Scientific Advisor "I don't care what the advice is, I've already made up my mind". You will hear Evan Davis sniggering in the background during this claim, Jacqui Smith being an expendable, indeed expended, ex-Minister. However when Lord Krebs goes on to state that Gordon Brown had previously done the same thing when the previous chairman of ACMD "had to write to him to say please desist from telling the public what your view is before you've received advice on cannabis." the mood palpably changes and you hear one of Evan Davis's trademark move the interview away from dangerous ground - nervous "right" - and onto the more "fundamental" question of why "you need official science advisers for government?" Yes that's the "fundamental" question Evan, not why this Labour government ignores scientific advice when it is at variance with their prejudices.