If I had had an opportunity over the weekend, I was planning to write an essay on my view of the whole Russell Brand / Jonathan Ross episode. Having read Charlie Brooker this morning however, I now realise I don’t need to: The sad, likely outcome of this pitiful gitstorm is an increase in BBC… Continue reading Charlie Brooker says it for me.
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The Daily Mail: the paper for pervs
I’m struggling to avoid writing about the Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand affair, but it has to be said that the Daily Mail really do take the biscuit on this one. In it, Georgina Baillie calls for Brand and Ross to be sacked for leaving her grandfather ‘utterly horrified and disgusted’ after ringing him up… Continue reading The Daily Mail: the paper for pervs
C4 News Poll: Cable for Chancellor! (UPDATE)
I was on MoreFourNews this evening, talking about Channel Four News’ YouGov poll of marginal constituencies: (it’s all televisual LIES by the way – the whole thing was done in green screen in ITN’s underground Danger Room. I half expected Gollum to virtually take part as the fourth guest.) Because the poll is mainly focused… Continue reading C4 News Poll: Cable for Chancellor! (UPDATE)