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I feel like I’ve sat through both episodes of ITV1’s The Duchess on the Estate, an unimaginative piece of factual entertainment in which the Duchess of York spends some time on a housing estate in south Manchester and jabbers poshly for a couple of hours about “broken Britain”.
I haven’t, of course. But helpfully the BBC [...]

Since the start of this week, I have been unemployed embarking on an exciting new freelance career, which means I’ve found myself watching daytime television. The programmes are dreadful but the adverts, which appeal to housewives, the retired and the out of work, are kind of fascinating for what they reveal about the UK’s socio-economic [...]

Has anyone else noticed that the Guardian has published some absolute garbage recently? A couple of weeks ago they had that stupid piece that implied comedian Richard Herring was some kind of a Nazi-worshipping racist and today there’s a piece on the website called “Women watch men strip for fun. Men watch women for darker [...]

I see Peter Mandelson is claiming some kind of moral victory over the Alan Duncan exposé that came out today. He says the secret tape of Duncan complaining that MPs are “treated like shit” shows the Conservative MP holds different views in private than he does in public.
Alan Duncan is very fond of speaking a good game [...]

Look at this picture I captured from the news earlier. I’m surprised the BBC allowed Michael O’Leary, boss of “low-cost” airline Ryanair, on air in this get-up. The point is to publicise some new routes from Leeds to fifty miles outside a number of European cities. In the most shameless and embarrassing way possible.
I actually [...]