by nabidana | May 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
If you ever wanted to crystalise the state of the election race, you couldn’t do much better than these two entirely adjacent posts on the BBC’s constantly updating election news ticker. This cut and pasted exactly as it is on the BBC website. 0854: David...
by nabidana | Apr 5, 2010 | Election 2010
The BBC is reporting as a certainty that our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, is going to ask the Queen to dissolve Parliament and call an election. Finally. After thirteen years of decay and vandalism of our constitution and the principles of our nation, the bottler in...
by nabidana | Apr 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
Very little to say here. M&C Saatchi Saatchi & Saatchi*, Labour’s poster people, have run a competition for any cretin with MS Paint to have a go at saving Gordon Brown from the apparently inevitable embarrassing and potentially intensely satisfying...
by nabidana | Mar 3, 2010 | Bbc, commerce and trade, politics
The announcement of proposed cuts to BBC services has been overwhelmingly welcomed by commercial broadcasters and judged as too timid by many conservatives. Yet the proposed changes and the timing represent serious challenges for the Conservatives as a party, and we...
by nabidana | Sep 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
September 11, 2001. Was in a BBC studio, talking about the new university year. Got a text message from a friend, who knew it was a rum do, but whose text seemed to suggest an accident. Simultaneously, a researcher from the newsroom interrupted the interview. In the...