Words Dept.

It’s that time of year when a list of some sort becomes very much the order of the day. I also recently realised that virtually all people on television are deeply awful. Bearing these things in mind, I’ve come up with my top 10 most awful people on television 2009. In reverse order, natch. 10. [...]

Another day, another Tory using an absurd racist phrase. This time it’s Lord Dixon Smith, who used the term “n— in the woodpile” in a debate about the Housing and Regeneration Bill in the House of Lords on Monday. The comment, and his apology, is recorded in Hansard. Looking at the Hansard excerpt, I noticed [...]

Proving political correctness is almost certainly dead, Nuts magazine has a semi-nude photo spread this week featuring disgraced posh racist Emily from Big Brother. (For those unfamiliar with the intellectual tour de force that is Channel 4′s summer schedule, she got kicked out for calling a fellow contestant the N-word… apparently in jest, blah, blah, [...]

There’s a very funny article in the Guardian today by the excellent Charlie Brooker, who dons his emerging “grouch for all seasons” persona (rather than his former “foul-mouthed TV reviewer” persona) and buggers off to Glastonbury. Having listed camping, mud and “loud noises” as three things he hates, he is forced to admit that by [...]