If Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Wankbiscuit Johnson wins today, would the last person to leave London please turn out the light? (To paraphrase the Sun.) Obviously, it would help with the carbon footprint. Not that Boris knows what one of those is.
How come only Londoners get to vote, anyway? It’s my London too! I’ve been [...]
Archives for the ‘radio’ Category
Boris Johnson smells
Thursday, 1 May 2008
Extreme font prejudice
Saturday, 26 April 2008
Can there be anything more depressing than the new British film Three and Out? I haven’t seen it, of course, because it’s shit. How do I know it’s shit if I haven’t seen it, you ask. Well, just look at the poster (I reply) - in fact, just look at the font used on the [...]
Express’s kettle “May be black”, claims shocked pot
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
The rest of the media has joined in an extended reporting-as-gloating session over the out-of-court settlement that Express Newspapers agreed with Kate and Gerry McCann today. It has been top of the running order on news bulletins all day, with pundits queuing up to decry the coverage of Richard Desmond’s papers.
Nobody does schadenfraude better than [...]
Tabloid theory
Monday, 10 March 2008
Sunday Mirror columnist Carole Malone talking about Shannon Matthews, on the One Show tonight:
The media reflects the public mood, and the public just haven’t taken to Shannon’s family as they did to Kate and Gerry McCann.
Yes, it’s the fault of the public - the scum who read newspapers rather than the nice people who write [...]
Xfm Manchester is dead. Long live… something else.
Wednesday, 13 February 2008
What is, or was, the point of Xfm Manchester?
After launching with much fanfare just two years ago, GCap Media has announced that it is going to sell off its Xfm radio licence in Manchester. The reason is a cost cutting drive by GCap in order to fend off a takeover, exacerbated by rising costs associated [...]

