Led Zeppelin don’t rock top gear
Well fancy that – Led Zeppelin played a loud and boring role on Top Gear three decades before Jeremy Clarkson made political incorrectness de rigueur on the programme. Apparently according to news leaked by the BBC today, legendary rockers-to-be Led Zeppelin were somewhat dull and unconvincing – and the pretentious BBC radio hacks would [...]
October 22, 2009BNP and BBC in cahoots
The BNP has gone all Churchillian in its quest for lots of free publicity. Seems to have worked a treat as the media are in a right old tizzy about the rather juvenile marketing campaign the political racists have dreamed up. And now the BBC has got in on the act by giving [...]
September 16, 2009Farewell Patrick Swayze
Now I am not much of a movie buff, but even i was slightly perplexed and annoyed by the way the media announced Patrick Swayze’s death. Listening to the BBC, you would have thought that the only thing he did in his life was Dirty Dancing and Ghost. But anyone who went [...]
September 15, 2009Adios Keith Floyd
So farewell Keith Floyd. The broadcasting legend, raconteur, bon viveur & erratic chef went out surely in a way of his own choosing – passing quietly away after a typically understated meal of oysters, partridge & champagne. His final words apparently were “I haven’t felt this well in ages”.
I had a lot [...]
Two on the One Show
I cannot be the only one intrigued by the One Show on BBC? Every day an amiable (but miserable-looking) Brummie and an Irish girl try and brighten up our evenings with a host of little stories and semi-topical features. They are joined by a stream of non-entities and wannabees of varying degrees of [...]
September 4, 2009Millionaire’s secret is a secret no longer
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 [...]
September 4, 2009Management Consultants take hack at NHS
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 [...]
July 19, 2009No Britons Involved
I don’t know if the callous news reporting of the Indonesia hotel bombings caught your attention earlier this week. They got a mention – but not much, while the search for a Brit who may (or may not) have been nearby at the time the bombs went off. But the tone of the [...]