And the 'Hypocrites of the Week' award goes to....

ITV News - and in spectacular fashion.








With nothing better to do, ITV News have decided to sent their intrepid band of "reporters" to the ends of the earth to lecture us all on global warming.

One of them is in Antarctica telling us that all the ice caps are melting, that the polar bears are getting warm and that the sea is rising. Something he continued to tell us about for a good 10 minutes.

Then they cut to a bloke in some remote coastal village in Papua New Guinea. He tried to convince us that the villagers here would be the first "environmental refugees" (no, I don't know what that's supposed to mean either).

But it was the way he said it. He was a typical ITN mellow-dramatic, sharp peaks in voice type of reporter who was making sure we know who to blame.
"These people will become the first 'environmental refugees and they know which people to blame - it's YOU!
"Not me on the other hand, who flew 11,000 miles in a 747 just to tell you that and will fly another 11,000 miles back to London where a car will pick me up from the airport, but YOU!"

OK, he didn't say that last bit but I doubt he spotted the irony in what he was saying anyway.

Hopefully we'll have some proper news today. Maybe then ITN will stop acting like a set of complete muppets. I doubt it though.