Once a rightwinger, some Tory MPs believe that Bercow, whose role as Speaker is supposed to be impartial, is biased towards the Labour MPs who helped to elect him.
And it seems that neither the police officer that arrived at the school to confront the student nor the trial judge were impartial but rather biased towards Principal Milburn's position.
"My advice is to push the pause button on this hearing, get the information together, bring in the experts and put together a hearing that is fair, that is impartial, that is not biased by politics or by myth, and bring this information to the American public," she said.
First, that even supposedly impartial news is always biased (because of things like the editorial choice of stories) so even aspiring to neutrality is nonsense.
Cassandra did not catch all of the programme (which, for non-Beeb listeners, concentrates on the politics and current affairs of the moment), but what caught my attention was Mr Ibrahim's assertion that the western media he included the supposedly impartial BBC and CNN are biased in their reporting of Africa.
Despite their unaffected position, we find that many third parties do not punish in an impartial or normative manner.
Conventional wisdom has it that BBC political reporting is impartial, or even left-leaning.
Whether a show is distinctive, impartial or high-quality depends on your tastes.
The role of a litigation department is not to be impartial or independent.
The responses were either in agreement, impartial or disagreeing with the questions of the survey.
Since we construct the impartial spectator within us out of attitudes in the society around us, how can that spectator reach beyond our society sufficiently to achieve a sensitive and impartial concern for members of other societies, and to recognize where our society's sentiments are biased or corrupt?
