Articles tagged Media:
Welcome to the Glenda Slagg School of Commentary
- 24 Mar 2013
What an astonishing reaction there has been to Boris Johnson’s car crash of an interview with Eddie Mair this morning. It’s so typical of our ‘hero to zero’ society. In a way it’s rather pathetic. Some people are seriously positing that after that interview there is no way Bo...
Is This The Day Oliver Letwin Effectively Shut Down This Blog?
- 18 Mar 2013
As Catherine Tate’s ‘Nan’ might say: “What a fucking liberty”. David Cameron was once a daily reader of my blog. Whether he reads it now, I have no idea. If he does, it might not be for much longer. Why? Because if what I read is even 50% correct, I may well be forced to clos...
Confused of Tunbridge Wells
- 18 Mar 2013
Sophy Ridge reports that a deal on press regulation was struck in the early hours of the morning. Present, she says, were Ed Miliband. Oliver Letwin, and four members of Hack Off. If that is true, just watch it unravel this afternoon. Tory MPs don’t trust Oliver Letwin’s backb...
How Eric Pickles Forces Councils to Subsidise Local Newspapers
- 9 Feb 2013
You know those rather boring adverts at the back of local newspapers? Pages upon pages of public notices and planning applications, all put there courtesy of your local authority. Many people wonder why on earth in the days of websites all these adverts appear, week after wee...
The Sun Replaces Archbishop With Bishop Basher Guido Fawkes
- 2 Feb 2013
It’s not often I burst out laughing when I read a tweet, but I did just now. The Sun has announced that Guido Fawkes will be writing a column for them each Sunday. What they haven’t announced is that Guido will be replacing the Archbishop of York’s column on the Op Ed page. I...
Why Are We So Obsessed By Non-News From America? What About the Rest of the World?
- 23 Jan 2013
Last night, while I was broadcasting my LBC show, I noticed a Sky News flash come up on Twitter. The thought occurred to me that it is doubtful whether any news organisation woud even cover it if it had happened in a country other than the US? Shooting in school. No one dead...
Suzanne Moore, Julie Burchill, Lynne Featherstone & Transsexuals - Time For Some Perspective
- 13 Jan 2013
Let me say from the start, that I have never been a fan of Julie Burchill. I started one of her books once but didn’t last long. Puerile rubbish. I’ve always thought her writing to be ordinary in the extreme, and have struggled to understand why she appears to be so popular. T...
No More Sky News Paper Reviews
- 21 Dec 2012
Well that’s a bit of a bugger. For at least 13 years now, I have been doing newspaper reviews on Sky News, but that is about to come to an end. In January they are changing the way they do it and I would have to commit to doing both the 10.30pm and 11.30pm slots. Trouble is, ...
TV Review: The Sunday Politics
- 15 Jan 2012
The main question from a viewer’s perspective on any new TV show is this: Is it better than what went before? On the basis of the first ever Sunday Politics I would say the answer is a cautious yes. Andrew Neil is now without a doubt the best political interviewer on British T...
Why Does the BBC Need Two Commentary Teams At The Same Match?
- 10 Nov 2011
Whenever I deign to say anything remotely critical about the BBC I am accused of all sorts of things. People say, ah, well if you hate it so much, why do you appear so much on it? As if there was some unspoken compact that in order to be invited onto a BBC show you have to be ...