Month: August 2003

  • Alistair Campbell Resigns

    Well it’s come a bit out of the blue, but he’s gone. I think it was fairly well expected that he’d be going some time soon, but while the Hutton Inquiry is still ongoing seems very unusual. Does this take the heat off Geoff Hoon or the rest of the government? These are the questions…

  • Arsenal in Champions’ League

    Just been watching the Champions’ League Draw on Sky Sports. You’ve never seen so many containers of balls in your life. I won’t begin to try to explain how they made something so simple so complicated. I still don’t quite understand red and blue groups – something to do with A-D being red and E-H…

  • Tories Don’t Want To Shut BBCi Down – Just Review It

    Ah. So that’s OK then. Anyone might otherwise think that the swiftest 180 degrees turn ever had just taken place.

  • Al Franken Interview

    A nice piece on Salon interviewing Al Franken about his recent “run-in” with Fox News. It’s also interesting to read a little about the progression of the “liberal” talk radio network that’s being set up. I assume that this is the same project that Fi Glover left Radio 5 to write a book about.

  • Ryanair Suspends Flights to Strasbourg

    In an interesting turn of events, Ryanair has suspended flights to Strasbourg after a court launched an investigation into Ryanair receiving 1.4m Euros from the local Bas-Rhin Chamber of Commerce. I must admit that I’ve always seen something like this coming. Ryanair gets payments from a number of smaller regional airports around Europe in return…

  • ID Card Pilot

    So where abouts is the small market town where they’re going to test ID cards? I don’t suppose that it’ll take too long to find out. More civil liberties disappear…

  • MITOCW

    This is what the web’s about!

  • Spiders

    Spiders is an excellent web comic that I’ve seen referenced a couple of times in the last week.

  • Wilfred Thesiger

    When one is awarded one’s degree at the ceremony, in my case in a large tent on the grounds of Bath University, it’s common that some great and good person is given an honorary gong. It was with great pleasure that Wilfred Thesiger was there to receive an honorary degree of some sort (I say…

  • Tories Would Shut Down BBC Website

    Well how about that? The Tories would close down the BBCi website and BBC Three according to a story on Mediaguardian. That’s the way to make yourself popular with the voters. Shut down the fourth most visited internet site in the world. Why should we get the BBC News free? It seems a crime that…

  • Psychic Nonsense

    Living TV is making a very good living with all it’s “psychic” nonsense. This weekend was “paranormal weekend” with such shows as Street Psychic, 6th Sense with Colin Fry, and The Antiques Ghost Show (which I thought was a made up name when I first read it), as well as such American fare as Crossing…

  • Between the Lines

    My tape reruns have reached the end of series 2, and I guess that by common consent, the quality goes a little downhill from here on – well at the very least, it goes off the rails a bit. (I know that I’ve inadvertantly taped over at least one episode somewhere along the lines, so…