Channel 4′s groovy, topical, political comedy show for the nation’s yoof 10 O’Clock Live is being hammered in the ratings. It launched in January with 1.4 million viewers. Now its audience has slipped to less than half that. Its commissioners at Channel 4 are putting …
From Saturday’s Daily Telegraph Jeremy Clarkson has apologised for saying that strikers should be taken out and shot in front of their families. I suppose that was the right thing to do. To be honest, it’s a bit hard for me to judge because public-sector …
Just in case any of you missed it I was on the Richard Bacon show on BBC Radio 5 Live the other day and I totally pwned the swine. As you know, I’m not the kind of chap who calls someone a “swine” without good …
Denis Waterman claims that he punched his ex-wife Rula Lenska twice, but insists “She certainly wasn’t a beaten wife, she was hit and that’s different.” Ah, that’s all right then. The man who most of us remember as ex-boxer Terry McCann in “Minder” goes on to …
Hugh’s the daddy? Good on him. Nothing like an unexpected pregnancy to turn a playboy into a man – and, at the tender age of 51, actor Hugh Grant really did need to grow up. Accidental pregnancies can spell disaster or at the very least …
Some people watch Downton Abbey for the melodrama. Others watch it for the uniforms. Personally, I watch it for the architecture. You see, while the bulk of the location shooting is done at Highclere Castle in Berkshire, the scenes set in the village of Downton …
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Twitter may be regarded by some as frivolous but, on some occasions, it can be the door which opens between two people interested in the same subject – and, recently, that happened to me. I tweet rarely but check my dateline every day, which is …
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When I misheard the news of a lawsuit against Bideford council, I assumed the story was about fatcats cheating the Devon taxpayers. Perhaps they had spent ?4,000 on a dinner celebrating their thrift, as happened a few weeks ago in Manchester? Or bought themselves iPads …
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It has started already. For Left-wing republicans, Prince William’s engagement to Kate Middleton is not a national celebration, but a chance to wage a grubby class war. The BBC hasn’t held back for a moment. And soon, you can be sure, the Mirror will publish the florist’s …
continue readingOne of my daughters recently wrote to me: “I was speaking to a friend of mine who had been dating a very, very, anti-Israel activist for about a year. We don’t usually broach the topic but she asked me if most of the Muslim anti-Semitism …
From Saturday’s Daily Telegraph This week, I was told about a London primary school whose pupils are overwhelmingly Muslim. It isn’t having a nativity play. There was a plan to sing carols in a lesson, but parents banned their children from attending. Mixed swimming lessons …
The Lib Dem peer Jenny Tonge has done it again. Appearing at an Israel Apartheid Week event (the basic premise of which was that Israel is an “apartheid state”) in which a fellow-speaker spewed forth a tirade attacking Jews who did not condemn Israel, she predicted that the “Israel lobby” – sometimes known …
Just in case any of you missed it I was on the Richard Bacon show on BBC Radio 5 Live the other day and I totally pwned the swine. As you know, I’m not the kind of chap who calls someone a “swine” without good …
There’s nothing like a Royal Wedding to plunge the nation into a fit of sentimentality, but should we really be heaping praise on the Royal Family for being so “democratic” and “open-minded” about Kate? To my mind, the family that deserves credit are the Middletons, …
Peter Hain, a member of the shadow cabinet, has just posted this message on twitter: “Loads of TV coverage of Cam/Clegg at wedding but none of Ed. BBC airbrushing Lab like the Palace?” Well, Hain has just managed to airbrush Labour back into the picture …
Yesterday, a 68-year-old pensioner, Eric Reeves, admitted a charge of causing unnecessary suffering to a cat. He had shot the cat with an airgun, and it died the following morning. Mr Reeves was ordered to do 100 hours unpaid work and pay ?400 costs. On …
Denis Waterman claims that he punched his ex-wife Rula Lenska twice, but insists “She certainly wasn’t a beaten wife, she was hit and that’s different.” Ah, that’s all right then. The man who most of us remember as ex-boxer Terry McCann in “Minder” goes on to …
Why has it taken until now for the authorities to move to eject the protesters outside St Paul’s? First, because the cathedral authorities could not agree that the removal of the protesters was the right thing to do. That confusion led to the resignation of …
A friend of mine has ovarian cancer. Her husband, who is not a member of the medical profession, is conducting his own research project to find the best way forward for her. Her last programme of chemotherapy involved a drug which had such a serious …
10 OClock Live is shedding viewers. Oh dear
James Lind, still a pioneer of health science after 260 years
Left-wing republicans will use the Royal wedding to wage a grubby class war
Jeremy Clarkson ignites the hypocrisy of the Left
Royal wedding: any chance of a late call-up for Tony Blair or Gordon Brown?
