Month: September 2003
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Cabinet Split Over ID Cards
The Guardian carries a report this morning about the cabinet being split over the introduction of ID Cards. No need to explain again where I stand on the issue. I don’t know quite what to make of all this. Gordon Brown doesn’t want the treasury to pay for it, but the alternative seems to be…
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More4
Finally, Channel 4 have announced their new channel plan, using the space they have sitting on the Freeview platform (as well as securing cable and satellite coverage). With a working title of More 4 it’ll be aimed at 30+ year olds, carrying all the property and wife-swap type programming which Channel 4 currently fills its…
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Tabloid Indie?
MediaGuardian are reporting that The Independent is considering going tabloid – in the London region at least, possibly alongside its broadsheet version in newsagents. And this could all happen by 30 September! It’d be a brave and yet very interesting decision to make. I’d love a newspaper to have the look and feel of Liberation…
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Inter
Well it didn’t exactly go stormingly well tonight did it?
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UEFA
Well Mediaguardian has caught on to Sky’s usual domineering fun and games with this year’s UEFA Champions’ League. The format of the competition means that half the teams play on a Tuesday and half on a Wednesday. The following week, the all the play on the other night. So last night Man Utd, Chelsea and…
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BBC Resources
Just when good old Gerald Kaufman is once again calling for apologies before he wants the dismantling of the BBC, I discover a whole load of really useful resources scattered about. First off, there are the technical BBC Training resources, with tips on using DV Cameras, and interviewing people, or using MiniDiscs. Excellent stuff. BBC…
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The Summer That Never Was
I picked up the most recent Alan Banks novel in Asda last week at a bargain price, and devoured it in a couple of days. I do like these Banks books, even thought they’re not especially demanding. Of course there’s been something of a backstory build-up towards this for a while (how far back I…
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Demonstrators Arrested Under Anti-Terrorism Laws
Well it seems that the police have been arresting demonstrators at the ExCel centre which is hosting DSEi – Defence Systems & Equipment International. Strangely the ExCel website doesn’t seem to mention it, but of course, being Europe’s largest exhibition of this nature it does have it’s own site (this should not be mistaken for…
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Terry Lloyd
Sad news from today’s Mirror, that Terry Lloyd was actually shot in a second attack after he’d got in a mini-van of an Iraqi who was going to help him. There were also injured Iraqi soldiers in the van, one of whom was killed, when they all came under fire from a Helicopter gunship, seemingly…
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Tears of the Giraffe
Alexander Graham McCall has now written five novels in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, and this is the second, published here in its Abacus imprint. To be honest, not a whole lot happens in these books, with a couple of cases being solved with relatively minimal effort, but we learn lots about the…
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Salam Pax in the UK
He was on the Today Programme this morning. The site also links to the audio (at least it’s there today). The Guardian has a G2 cover story today as well.
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The Most Blogged Article?
Is this the most blogged article ever? David Aaronovitch has his say on it today.