I’ve watched this video a few times now and still can’t decide who was the bigger prick. See what you think: Was it Corden for shoving his chins into an old man’s face, or Stewart for believing he could beat Corden at his own game? Was it wrong for Corden to so relish slagging [...]
This is a weird one. I mean really, who’s next? Norman Tebbit and Kate Thornton? Paddy McGuiness and Sister Wendy Beckett? But then maybe it’s only weird if you’re totally sold on Brooker’s onscreen/in-print persona. The very definition of ‘mercilessly caustic bastard’ Brooker has cornered the market in ego-ripping bullshit-stripping criticism that penetrates the brain like a tickly laser of misanthropy. [...]
I don’t usually comment on videos, and I know it’s just a timelapse of the Iceland volcano, but when this popped up on Twitter I was blown away by the quiet beauty of it. The music’s not bad too. Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull – May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo.
Oh yes, it was only two months ago that I was pleading with everyone not to vote Tory but you crazed muthas did it anyway, and you couldn’t even do that right. No doubt fighting your own anti-Tory DNA you couldn’t quite manage to vote in sufficient numbers to give the buggers a clear majority and so what [...]
Yessir, I remember when lil’ Chef came to me back in ’78. He’d seen some Eyetalian movie with a couple a’ spidey-legged continental types doin’ the big jiggy and wanted to get a bit of the action for his birthday – poppin’ his cherry for the big 1-0. I had to set him straight. I said ”nossir, I [...]
In today’s transient working culture you’re less & less likely to find yourself working alongside characters who embody an era. Veterans who have absorbed every shift in management and technology over decades to the point where they are untouchable, in both talent and attitude. That’s why I feel so honoured to have worked alongside Andy Tully. Andy joined BBC News [...]
If you’re wondering why this site isn’t being updated quite as regularly as you might like. Well, that’s because I spent six days training a new picture editor at the beeb, two days trapped in a pc-less hole cutting a new programme, and now it’s half-term. I’ve a week of night shifts coming up where you may [...]
This was the people of Hackney’s response to David Cameron’s PR nightmare of a poster, and it may seem harsh, but his apparently tentative grip on his own policies does seem to reflect an airburshed toff rhetorically surfing every negative Labour wave rather than a genuinely progressive politician standing up for what he believes in. This time [...]
Oh DJ Bogtrotter, Happy Birthday man. Remember when you caddied for me at the Irish Open in ’97? Remember how you ran interference for me, buddy, when the Nolan Sisters serenaded us with ‘I’m in the Mood for Dancing’ and I had to cry off the 18th with the horn? And then when Dana handed me the trophy you [...]
Yes, it was our first birthday last week and our Head Chef’s Halloween climax was our 200th post, so I’d like to take this time to reflect on where the blog’s been and where it’s going. The first six months focussed on our ‘roomy radio’ podcasts, which were very creative and, I believe, truly original. They [...]
