January 12, 2010

The End of the World

There is bad news in the Times today everybody. The end is nigh – apparently. And whilst it may not be the Armageddon forecast by mad religious cults, it does indeed sound catastrophic. It appears that Simon Cowell is leaving American Idol.
I have to admit that my heart did indeed leap just a [...]

December 14, 2009

And the winner is….

The telephone companies. A curious thing happened this weekend. I found myself watching television – but apparently I needed a telephone to make the experience complete. On both Saturday night and Sunday night the BBC and ITV were urging me to pick up the phone and vote for my favourite. [...]

September 1, 2009

Beauty and the Geek

I was switching channels this morning and caught my first-ever reality TV show. Beauty and the Geek is now part of my life. For those of you not particularly au-fait with this piece of culture – it is a bunch of clever nerds paired up with self-obsessed attractive women. The rest [...]