I had a call tonight from someone I really care for. It's not somebody I have ever met, but just somebody for whom I feel an empathy and a sense of chuckle. I expect most people would call her a...
Watching Coast on BBC2, I am wondering why there is not a standard-issue thong for BBC-TV presenters. I'm not complaining, nor am I especially looking out for vpl, but if you are going to wander up a...
White man kills white man. White man kills black man. Black man kills white man. Black man kills black man. Can someone tell me why only the last case has its own very special force - Operation...
Can anyone supply a debate that this weather is not inflicted on the earth by its most advanced inhabitants ? It's not merely a matter of flooded houses, it's the long-term effects. House prices will...
on BB. Is it Ant or Dec ? What is the connection between Byker Groove and Eeeeiiiigght aaa eem the noo. This is a very silly programme and you have to wonder sometimes if it is not playing up to the...
Jeremy Clarkson is a best-selling author in Poland, and a Polish version of his latest best-seller is soon to be released in an Oxford bookshop. I find this very droll - Clarkson in Poland. The...
Is anybody watching the Channel 4 discussion with Jon Snow ? Let them get on with it. They are Arabs, muslims, of whatever sort, and completely poles apart from any grand notion of 'democracy' that we...
Booted out of Bejing. About time too, wicked Americans. Let's conveniently forget WWII and the disastrous racist way the USA got rid of Hitler. The USA is public enemy number one. Their culture is so...
Has got something going, a national assembly against racism, a celebration of multi-culturalism. RISE or similar ? Great, isn't it ? One day not too far away, the 'ethnic minorities' will be firmly...
I have just become captivated by slow cooking. I've done beef and gammon joints, the gammon in particular was so tender. However, I am slightly bothered about those meats which can be dodgy if not...
A few things seem different, even from one year ago. Very few cherries on the tree, normally it would have been laden with fruit (even though the pigeons get the lot). Fuschia bushes which were...
1) Fat-headed 2) Obsessed with your own importance 3) Not terribly good at speling 4) A part-time lawyer's clerk 5) A Vauxhall Corsa owner 6) Have your own air-rifle Did you answer yes to all ? AB has...
What sort of treachery is this ? A smooth silky sounding voice, hacking away at the establishment that PAID him, supported him, and put him where he was. I cannot stand people who try to make money...
There were some shown on BBC News tonight. Brilliant I call it, that'll shut up the God freaks. If God had been there prodding it along the camera would have caught him, there's no hiding from digital...
Now. I'm off to bed, phoarrrr !! Tonight she is wearing a slightly see-through white blouse over trim black trousers. What would you be wearing if you were broadcasting on Radio 4, not that you are of...
The Islamabad thing, Pakistani security forces (?) assaulting the Red Mosque, and of course as you would expect from a country like that, there have been many deaths. Could it happen here ? Yes, not...