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For what it’s worth, I think the BBC had to treat the BNP - and Nick Griffin - as any other politician. To set up a rule deciding on which political parties deserved coverage - and then to ignore it because you didn’t like the results - would be about as unBritish as you can get.

But the results haven’t exactly been good. 22% of people polled ( Read more... )

Imagine if Jonathan Ross had been blackmailed over numerous affairs he’d had with women he worked with, by the producer of Crimewatch.

That’s the equivalent of what’s happening in the US, where Robert Halderman, one of the producers of 48 Hours Mystery, is charged with attempted extortion. He allegedly tried to extort $2m from chat-show host/king ( Read more... )

The 1990s were a confusing time if you were a bloke trying to figure out how to be a bloke. The choices seemed to boil down to being the waspy, sensitive “New Man” (aka today’s emo) “New Man” stereotype pastiche, or the “Lager Lout” (out all night in pubs, drinking strong beer and starting brawls in nightclubs) stereotype? (I’m sure the advertising ( Read more... )

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It’s almost become a science-fiction staple to depict dystopian futures where corporations are running the world, as opposed to countries. Which doesn’t mean it hasn’t already happened.

Despite Starbucks seeming to own every other coffee store in London and Edinburgh, it’s still not doing very well. Which hasn’t stopped the Starbucks chairman from ( Read more... )

- At a gig last night, comedian Mark Thomas said: “After tomorrow, it will now be safe for Americans to hold their hands up when a comedian asks if there are any Americans in the room. You are no longer a symbol of tragedy, violence and brutality …… any Israelis in?”

- There was some BBC coverage from a college in Tottenham, where the mostly-black ( Read more... )

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So, the man third in line to the British throne is caught on camera joking around and calling one of his Army colleagues and ‘mates’ a “Paki”. Apparently, it was all just a bit of joking, Harry gets called ginger quite often (so that’s alright then) and anyway it was all three years ago, he’s a different man, we apologise on Harry’s behalf, can we ( Read more... )