Words Dept.

BSkyB discovered a fun way of reporting its “mixed” half-year financial results today. The broadcaster, which announced a £112m net loss because of its pigheaded decision in 2006 to purchase a 17.9% stake in ITV at an hysterically overblown price just to stop Virgin Media doing the same, simply commandeered the business update on Sky [...]

Happy New Year to all 14 of my unique visitors! The beginning of 2008 is a chance to reflect on the fact that in the six months that I’ve been writing this blog, virtually no-one has read it. Despite my transparent attempts to build traffic by baiting Andrew Gilligan (which did, at least, result in [...]

On the day Tower Hamlets council decided to paint over some graffiti by Banksy, here (after the jump) is some less artistic but possibly more amusing vandalism of advertising hoardings. Sky’s ads seem to be a particular magnet for sarcasm… The second one is in Manchester. I recognise the hoarding underneath the advert. No, really.  

I could be wrong, but I’m sure it was no more than about six weeks ago I saw Mel “Melanie C” Chisholm on that vaguely annoying Sunday morning cookery programme with Tim Lovejoy, saying she would never be part of a Spice Girls “reunion” because she didn’t want to destroy the memories (man). She admitted [...]

I just took an early lunch break to watch Tony Blair’s final performance at Prime Minister’s Question Time. It overran by about five minutes and, just before the end, BBC 2 cut back to Andrew Neil in the BBC’s Westminster studio, who apologised and said they were going to have to end the Daily Politics [...]