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I’m a long-standing admirer of Noel Edmonds. How his work in the field of light entertainment hasn’t yet been rewarded with a knighthood is something none of us, I’m sure, can really fathom.
In case you haven’t noticed, the bearded libertarian tossbag (I use these terms in the most respectful way possible) has a new-ish show [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks.

Jeff Jarvis: The foresight of Google – If you can't be bothered reading What Would Google Do? then read this instead
Decca Aitkenhead meets Jeremy Paxman – Entertaining interview, even though all the juice is crammed into the last seven paragraphs (so skip to there)
Terence Blacker: You don't have to be [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks.

Christian Bale: Heroic swearing – "You don't fuckin' understand what it's like workin' with actors!"
A fine selection of photos of Stockport – Surely England's most beautiful town.
Stack: The blog, in newspaper form

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For some reason I got annoyed about the ITV ad break during injury time goal mess-up last night although in retrospect I’m not sure why. It actually spared me the horror of seeing Everton score.
Everyone has surely suspected for a while that ITV was going to do something like that. Everything about its footy coverage is slightly [...]