Some days you just can’t win

Edward Stourton – co-host of BBC Radio 4’s excellent ‘Today’ programme – has been sacked.

He first heard about the decision from a fellow journalist – the news was leaked well before the BBC would have preferred – and he has apparently lost the job due to his unwillingness to indulge in idle banter with his [...]

Phew…

…I thought I might have inadvertently been like a bit Scrooge-like in my last post.

I had this sudden thought that the ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ phone vote charges went to the charity ‘Children in Need’ so I was going to suggest here that people donate their quid to it directly if they got the chance, instead [...]

Am I the only one…

…who’s heartly sick of all this?
‘Strictly Come Dancing’ doesn’t interest me in the slightest – along with all the other tired, trivial and frankly moronic reality TV shows, soaps and property guides – so I don’t watch it. However I do read and watch the news and it’s all the attendant hype there that really [...]

Is this racist?

This is an interesting case and one that has forced me again to examine my own feelings on the subject of the integration of ethnic minorities in this country.
In brief, a 33 year old NHS GP has been ordered to be given over to the custody of a Bangladesh court after being lured back there [...]

Last lap

I have a full day ahead of me.
The school I teach guitar at has asked me to play bass for their production of Lionel Bart’s ‘Oliver’.
I have the score and now I have to work out all the bass lines and then write them out on readable sheets I can use for the rehearsals and [...]