BBC Gripped by Weather Hysteria…And There’s More on the Way!
It would appear that The BBC is suffering its worst spell of weather hysteria this winter with experts predicting that this condition will last for at least the rest of the week. Clare, a BBC Breakfast reporter on a motorway bridge in Huddersfield, reported that last night the temperature had plummeted to -3c with a dusting of snow that is normally associated with winter on the West Yorkshire Moors. Clare, bless her, reported that the ...
Don’t Let the Paris Atrocity Compromise Freedom
Whilst running the bar at the cricket cricket centre last night, I got chatting to an Asian chap about the demise of Test Match cricket and the rise, particularly in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, of the one day and 20/20 forms of the game. Stay with me please, this isn't a cricket blog. He then informed me that he was originally from Islamabad in Pakistan, so, before the conversation about cricket could develop any further, a colleague ...
Ched Evans, the Paris Massacre and Freedom of Expression
What a chilling week it has been for democracy, independent thought and freedom of speech, with the tacky tale of a footballer not going away as the horrendous events in Paris continue to unfold. Because the whole seedy affair surrounding footballer and convicted rapist, Ched Evans, rolled on and on, I finally, after being persuaded by a solicitor friend, took some time out to read the details of the events of an evening that changed his life ...
Katie Hopkins, Charlie Brooker and Establishment Cover Up’s
After what seems to have been a never ending Christmas, many of us are returning to normality for the first time since the 19th December last year. When I say normality, I am increasingly aware that in Britain there is no such thing as normality after the consumer obscenity of Black Friday and the media demand for drunken violence on Mad Friday. We now (today) have what salivating solicitors are describing as Divorce Monday, which, I ...
Christmas, Sales, Boxing Day Hunts and a Happy New Year
Christmas is a funny old time as when it actually arrives, there is a general feeling that it is over the instant the big day dawns. As soon as the wrapping paper is in the bin, the adverts on TV are suddenly for holidays and mega, biggest ever sales at DFS, and the radio stations have reverted back to normality after a month of Slade, Wizard, East 17 and the Pogues. Boxing Day always brings news feeds of the masses knocking down the doors of ...