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Month: July 2005

  • Lance Armstrong

    So another fabulous tour ended, and Lance Armstrong retires from professional cycling with his 7th consecutive win in what is quite probably the toughest sporting event on the planet. It wasn’t his greatest win ever – he only won his first individual stage in Saturday’s time trial, and Basso stuck to him like glue in…

  • Jack FM

    A Guardian piece on the Jack FM radio format that’s been invading America of late. I had quite a good listen to the Dallas version of this service when I was there a couple of months ago. In the States you see many more posters for local radio stations anyway, and although I’d heard a…

  • Channel 4 or Sky News

    At work I’m lucky enough to have a telly near my desk. So if the distractions of the internet weren’t enough, and with the constant sound of the radio, I’ve got something else to distract me. Yesterday was the first day of the first Test, so it was going to be Channel 4 all the…

  • Stealth

    Stealth is the new film from Rob Cohen, the guy who brought us The Fast & the Furious and xXx, and let me say from the outset, if you know any thirteen year old boys, they’ve going to think that this is the best film ever made. It’s set among an elite Navy fighter plane…

  • Harry Potter on the Tube

    I know I must be thinking like a complete snob, but I can’t be the only one who’s disappointed by the number of adults they’re seeing reading the new Harry Potter on the tube. Last night I saw a couple sitting together each reading their own copy. I think the worst thing is that some…

  • Analogue Switchoff Inquiry

    The new Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee have announced an inquiry into the plans to switch off analogue telly between 2008 and 2012. Long time readers will know that I believe that it’s still far too soon to be switching off the analogue signal – particularly as there’s no real demand for the spectrum…

  • Today’s Steve Bell Cartoon

    I think this cartoon from today’s Guardian really says it all. See also today’s leader.

  • Lapel Badges

    Reading this piece talking about Jon Stewart’s new set for The Daily Show is worthwhile. I did raise a smile at “Senior UK and Falkland Islands Correspondent” Rob Corddry’s disgust at the lack of national pride./ C’mon! Where are the bumper stickers, the Union Jack lapel pins, the wanted dead or alive posters? This American…

  • Remembering The Dead

    The two minute silence was scrupulously observed here at work, with most people heeding Ken Livingstone’s wish for Londoner’s to go out in the street. I stayed in the office, but looking out the window showed I was in the minority. I won’t repeat what I said the other day about minutes of silence. And…

  • $2.33 A Gallon

    It’s always entertaining to watch Sky News’s feed of the CBS Evening News at 00:30 each evening (it’s delayed by an hour). Last week, on the day that London won the Olympics, and world leaders met at Gleneagles for G8, the headlines were all about Hurricane Dennis. Fair enough, but I’m sure that G8 really…

  • Death On The Staircase Weekend

    BBC Four is repeating the whole Death on the Staircase series this weekend. This is a fabulous series, so I urge everyone to set up the Sky+/PVR accordingly, or invest in a few 180 minute VHS tapes and record it. Either that, or you could cancel all your social engagements this weekend and watch it…

  • Back To Work

    Back on the tube this morning for the first time since the bomb blasts. I read a book and tried to drown out fellow passengers discussing how they were “nearly” caught in the blast at Liverpool Street or wherever. I could probably make a case for myself about how I “might” have been on the…