Thank God For Earthquakes

January 15, 2010 · Filed Under 24hour news, BBC news, Earthquake, haiti · Comment 

The men in suits (or more likely men in studiously casual open-necked shirts) who run the news channels must be delighted that God moves in mysterious ways and decided Haiti could do with an earthquake. They now have something else to endlessly talk about.
Day after day, week after week we have seen intrepid reporters [...]

Millionaire’s secret is a secret no longer

September 4, 2009 · Filed Under BBC news, Channel 4 news, bbc, channel 4 · Comment 

Interesting snippet of news today that one of the alleged millionaires in that hideous TV programme ‘The Secret Millionaire’ turns out to have about £30million less than you and I. According to the BBC today, a Nottingham businessman who featured in the TV series Secret Millionaire has been declared bankrupt. So much for [...]

Management Consultants take hack at NHS

September 4, 2009 · Filed Under BBC news, NHS, NHS reforms, bbc, management consultants · Comment 

How many of us who have seen the lack of care given to our elderly under the NHS would like to badvise the government in pithy terms on how best to sort out the NHS? I see from the news today that some men and women at suits at an expensive management consultancy grabbed [...]