Archive For The “BBC” Category
I first became aware of Gil Scott-Heron around the early to mid-nineties, while I was at university, although it was a while till I actually got where he was coming from. He was often listed on posters around town as playing at something like that …
Andrew Neil’s polemic about the influence of the public school system on english politics and the evaporation of the meritocracy ushered in by the likes of Harold Wilson on the left and Margaret Thatcher on the right offered up some truly staggering statistics. Try this one for size – 75% of the coalition cabinet are [...]
A little bit of comedy here – BBC stalwarts Ronnie Corbett and Harry Enfield banging on about tech. The sketch is reminiscent of a different era, but the subject material is bang up to date.Wordplay at its best!
Choose between corruption, hypocrisy and cant – the press would have us believe that all of these are at play in our abject failure to win the right to host the next world cup. Actually, I disagree. It is a blessing for a number of reasons, not least that it spares us the ordeal of [...]
This post may be a long one, and it may well degenerate into an angry rant, but in the immortal words of Peter Finch in the classic movie, Network, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore…” It’s this government, it’s the so called Big Society, it’s every time I hear [...]
Witless, vapid and contributing nothing save a supersized ego to the sum of human knowledge. Ok, that may be a subjective opinion, but am I the only one who has grown to detest celebrity led Television documentaries to the point where I will actually refuse to watch them? There is a trend these days towards [...]
Internet myth or urban tragedy? When one of America’s most iconic cities is portrayed as a post apocalyptic dystopia, returning foot by foot to the prairies from whence it came, the temptation to mythologise is almost overpowering. Motor City, home of the automobile, Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, Kevin Sanderson and Tamla Motown as a metaphor [...]
