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Wednesday 22 June 2011

Sarah McDermott | 18:24 UK time, Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Tonight we'll be hearing testimony from the British Syrian community who say that protesters outside the embassy in London are being threatened, as are their family members back at home in Syria.

We go undercover for .

And Iain Watson has the latest on the House of Lords reforms.

Join Jeremy for all that and more at 2230 on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Two.

Comments

  • Comment number 1.

    These so called "faith healers" are nothing short of charlatons.......

  • Comment number 2.

    This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.

  • Comment number 3.

    With our population changing at a racing pace, of course people here now will believe in faith healers, what else do you expect?!



    It's easy to con the simple!

  • Comment number 4.

    4

    lots of people have made the physical trip but they haven't yet made the mental trip.

    belief in witchcraft as the cause for illness, rare animal parts as medicines, return to mediaevalism religiosity and superstitions etc are all symptoms of the age of ignorance descending on the uk.

  • Comment number 5.

  • Comment number 6.

    Ai Weiwei was incarcerated for 80 days i.e. around approx 7 million seconds...which was around the same number of seeds he exhibited at the Tate Modern.

    Coincidence eh?

  • Comment number 7.

    Wow, faith healing has even been shown on Fox News. It must be bad, then.

    Never miss an opportunity, do you? Impartial? Professional? Pah!

    We know faith healers are charlatans, so what was the point of this report? Appealing to the American demographic, via ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ World?

  • Comment number 8.

    Best of the evening was Jeremy with Nigel Lawson & Paddy Ashdown on Clegg's proposals for the House of Lords :o)
    :p I don't think anyone's interested in Syria....

  • Comment number 9.

    OH ALRIGHT BLOGDOG - HAVE IT YOUR WAY (#2)

    Hypnotism has 'real' effects; placebo remedies work in proper trials; why should faith healing not work? (Show working.)

  • Comment number 10.

    SHARP STICK SOLUTIONS - THE WISDOM OF DAVE

    It is all too apparent that, when Dim Dave gets the odd stingy wasp in his house, from a distant nest, he is moved to call fearless Billy the Spud to his side, to sharpen his stick, and to travel to the nest to give it a violent poking 'to discourage the others'. (In the event, he gets heroes to do this for him.)

    Why has Dim Dave not realised that the consequences are PRECISELY THE OPPOSITE: a great many angry wasps who bring their kids up in anger too?

    WE HAVE GOT OURSELVES ANOTHER ONE.

    Would it not be a smart move to make sure we don’t get any more incompetent Prime Ministers?

    SPOILPARTYGAMES – DISMANTLE WESTMINSTER

  • Comment number 11.

    Your piece about faith healers was shocking. People who take advantage of the sick and vulnerable to make a fast buck are some of the lowest form of scum on the planet.

    I assume this kind of thing is illegal? I was rather hoping to see something at the end of your report about what kind of follow-up you'd had with the relevant authorities. Can you confirm you'll be passing on the information to the police or trading standards or whoever's job it is to get these people locked up?

  • Comment number 12.

    anyone remember british police silencing people protesting during the Chinese premier visit?

    Lords a Leaping

    JP may be 'legitimate' but his decisions do not become laws over the public.
    Lawson trots out the endless 'do nothing excuses' of which the Lords Hansard is a textbook to preserve the apartheid of the inner empire.

    the house of lords is a granny flat.

    the lesson of the civil war is the the monarchy structure will never willingly choose to do the right thing for the people until they are looking down the barrel of a cannon.



  • Comment number 13.

    This country need another Thatcher to take on those lazy communist degenerates -those who moan about their diminishing pensions. Something tells me this Tory bunch ain't got the nesessary backbone. The only thing I was disappointed with Thatcher was she never sold off the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳. Because whenever I watch the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ -and this has been going on for years - all I hear is a Labour socialist mouthpiece dressed up as a ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ presenter (³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ northwest is really on another planet). I'm getting a bit sick of listening to it now. Why do Journos who work at the beeb appear to be all socialist liberial progressives who hate their own country?...is it because they hate themselves I wonder? or is it that they were insulated from the real world because of all their time spent at Jurno school, then some local rag office before the many years within the bubble at the Beeb? I reckon its a combination of the two.

    I hope the good folk at the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ haven't recently taken up any long term financial commitments because it'll be broken up in about 3-4 years. Oh and Pax won't be getting his Knighthood.

  • Comment number 14.

    CAN IT BE ILLEGAL TO DUPE THE VULNERABLE? IT'S CALLED 'THE WESTMINSTER ETHOS' (#11)

    Actually I have only told a part truth; Westminster dupes US ALL. Politics is the art of self-deception, wrapped in the craft of deceiving others 'for their own good'.

    As for illegality: Westminster passed a law against using 'False Instruments' (lies) at election time, but in 2010 allowed the Conservative party to issue a false instrument in a number of constituencies. I have contacted various part of the Body Politic - IT DOES NOT REPLY and never engages.

    If this is governance, in a democracy, under the Rule of Law, why shouldn't lesser charlatans similarly fill their boots? If we are to clean up the British act we must first:

    SPOILPARTYGAMES - DISMANTLE WESTMINSTER

  • Comment number 15.

    IF ONLY DIANA HAD LIVED (#12)

    Diana could have retreated North and raised an army (with a gert big cannon Jaunty) marched South, and taken London. She could have DISMANTLED WESTMINSTER, thereby SPOILING PARTY GAMES, and then gone on to Buck House with a message about people's rights.

    Cruise missiles just aren't the same.

  • Comment number 16.

    RANT NO MORE KEV (#13)

    Did you not go here when prompted?



    No shock-jock Yank - no theatricals - just good old gravitas. Annie Machon explains the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳, and a lot more.

  • Comment number 17.

    why do NN let kewesewey or whatever he calls himself infest these decent websites calling for the demise of the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ and all lefties in the bin, what small brained idiot is it that can lump anyone he doesn't agree with with the same loathesome brush, if he is so upset with the democratic principles of this country let him go to the bible belt in America where they hate just about everybody so he will fit in, as for the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ letting him spout his vile offensive views it is adeqaquate testimony to their fairness that they permit him to do so. Trade unions, freedom and free speech, all fine traditions this 'person' loathes have given him a platform to do so, decency is wasted on some people.......

  • Comment number 18.

    IF A TREE SPEAKS TRUTH IN THE FOREST . . . (#17)

    Holding no brief for kev's style stevie, I feel moved to point out that I have made wide representation to 'Greater Westminster', for over a year, regarding a proven breach of election law, AND SIMPLY BEEN IGNORED.

    If no one is moved to hear what is said, the sound is lost, like that of the tree falling in the forest. We are living in much darker days than you care to address, and the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ stands four-square with you. Ergo - I am a deluded nutter who, somehow, made a technology -based living, for 35 years, by observing and deducing - TOTALLY IN ERROR.

  • Comment number 19.

    No13 Kev,
    Well done. The most lunatic rant I have ever seen posted. Surely you can't be serious. Left wing bias with a former Tory chairman in pole position, a chief political correspondent former chairman of a Tory student group, an Old Etonian as his assistant and a former Murdoch hack and confidant hosting a daily politics show.

  • Comment number 20.

    No18 Barrie.
    I am sure you must understand the difference of being 'in power' and being 'in office'. Very few serious students of politics take much notice of what is happening at The House of Varieties.
    Have you tried speaking to The City of London Corporation? Is it true that a financial institution has the power to summon the Head of State?

  • Comment number 21.

    '17. At 18:35 23rd Jun 2011, stevie wrote:
    why do NN let..


    Blogger seeks even more moderation. That's a novelty. Or is it more 'selective' than that?

    However, in the spirit of Voltaire (Ok, via 'friends'), go for it. See who salutes.

    Bringing one to...

    '19. At 21:24 23rd Jun 2011, IPGABP1'

    Speaking of selective, some of the squad has been listed, mainly back to school days. No mention of proportion or the actual state of play decades later.

    Others may also find only playing the person significant.

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