Manchester United secured a record 19th top-flight title, a massive achievement. Local rivals City win the FA Cup. Both genuine successes, and worthy of congratulations from the sports press. Yet nearly all the news has been dominated in the last few days by the problems at West Ham United, who were relegated from the Premier…
Category: This is Stupid
The Taliban’s Great Escape
The Afghan government must have been extremely embarrassed by this. Several hundred inmates had successfully escaped from a prison in Kandahar through a tunnel that had been dug from outside the jail.
Press furore over Royal Wedding guest list
Oh, dear… when it comes to whipping up a collective hypocritical mountain out of a molehill, the British press are experts by a country mile. In this case it’s who was omitted from William and Kate’s Royal wedding guest list. Apparently, it includes many heads of state and heads of other lesser known royal families,…
Big Brother moves to Channel 5
Nooooooooooo………. Why is Channel 5 continuing to flog a corpse long deceased? The TV station signed a two-year deal to screen Big Brother. The show ended on Channel 4 last year after ratings fell sharply. More here. If the show becomes a flagship part of their schedule, then I’m a donkey.
TV drama producer suspended in ‘race row’
The producer of one of Britain’s most popular TV dramas has been suspended from his job after he commented that the success of the show was its predominately all white cast. In an interview with the Radio Times magazine, Brian True-May said the police drama, Midsomer Murders, was he described as ‘a last bastion of…
Oh, dear, more snow!
Yep, you’ve guessed it, the first real snowfall in the UK causes the usual typical disruption. Here we go again! It would take a hell of a lot of grit to put up with this. Some things don’t change!