Month: October 2003
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ID Card Heading for the Scrapheap
A report in yesterday’s Sunday Times seems to indicate that Blunkett’s not going to have his way over ID cards. It seems that Jack Straw is particularly against them, as is Gordon Brown. The problems are enormous, and yes, making people pay forty pounds would be seen as a tax. We already have National Insurance…
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Homicide: Series 7
Finally, after having to wait just over five years, UK viewers tomorrow night get to see the final series of Homicide: Life on the Street. I think that when Channel 4 first stopped showing this, you began to see the station for what it really is – a ratings whore. Anyway, we have the Hallmark…
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Trackback Spam
Well having only just properly got my email notifications working for comments (not that there are many), I receive the first couple of Trackback spams. Both target the same site and both reference an article about an anti-war march in Los Angeles. This could be the start of something horrible.
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David Millar – World Champion
Congratulations to David Millar for becoming Men’s Time Trial World Champion tonight, winning in Canada. Since it only happened ten minutes ago, I can’t find any online reports yet (not that it’d be a problem with football). Wait a moment – here’s one. He absolutely crucified the rest of the field taking three minutes out…
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ITV
Less than 24 hours after being given permission to merge into near enough one company, ITV are already out there trying to ditch some of their public service duty. Nigel Pickard, ITV’s director of programmes, is trying to reduce the amount of public service programming he has to put out, as he laid out in…
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More Governor
Although he can be a bit smug, the workaholic Mark Lawson has some interesting things to say about The Terminator being elected into office.
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Governor
When America is next confused as to why the rest of the world sees them as a total joke, look no further than your new Governor of California. Beyond the pale. Thank God he can’t become president, and to think that this was the country that gave Clinton a hard time!
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Football 2003
It’s been a shocking few weeks in football. There’s been the rape case which is ongoing, a second alleged sexual offense involving another player, Man Utd about to change hands, and goodness knows what else. The smallest suggestion that England players were not going to Portugal is simply the most outrageous thing I’ve heard all…
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Nokia N-Gage Launches
Today see’s the launch of the Nokia N-Gage, its phone and pocket games console combo. I’ve got to say that I’m not sure about the whole thing. I had a bit of a play with one in the Nokia shop on Regent Street yesterday, and the first thing that strikes you is its size. It’s…
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Attacks on Radio 3 Music Policy
Good to hear that Gerald Kaufman’s having a go at Radio 3 now. OK – he’s not alone in his attacks, with plenty of others complaining about the inclusion of non-classical music, and easy-listening like, er, Gershwin. I think the real objection seems to be that Late Junction and Andy Kershaw both pop-up on the…
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Derren Brown & Russian Roulette
Well last night Derren Brown’s Russian Roulette programme aired “live” on Channel 4. He survived of course. Mark Lawson writes a slightly more informed piece about it than you get from the average Daily Mail article just now. The main point of contention seems to be that there were a lot of gun incidents last…
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Delayed Football Rights
So BSkyB now has all the football rights that are going! They’ve now got delayed rights to all the premiership matches on a Saturday, being able to replay one match in full at 8.30pm and the rest either as 45 minute highlight packages or in full. I’d guess that Sky will put one on at…