The most fabulous political photo for yonks was in Tuesday’s Daily Mail (23rd September) - centre spread, pages 8 - 9. It was an unforgettable moment after David Miliband’s speech to the Labour Party Conference on Monday. Apparently dismissing his own ambitions, he’d conjured an adolescent crush on his leader’s achievements (abroad, not at home!) [...]
Watching the Russian Ambassador to the UN deny the Russian army presence in Georgia was an extraordinary display of brass neck. Terrifyingly his plausibility wasn’t dented by the assembled press corps. The only reason I ‘know’ he was lying, was a subsequent report from the BBC which I have no reason to doubt was accurate. [...]
During the opening ceremoney, our own Hazel Irvine uttered two cringers:
She described China as ‘the least westernised country’.
Then she went on in a flush of enthusiasm, in praising them for their work in preparing for the 2008 Games, she said ‘They’ve had such a struggle to civilise themselves’.
Hazel’s probably a safe winner but Adrian Chiles, [...]
As a teenager when I heard the Sex Pistols on old analogue radio for the first time, I knew, with many of my contemporaries, that I was hearing history in the making, even out in nowhere-near-anything-north of England. That day burned bright in every teenager’s consciousness – radio had allowed us to activate in a [...]
The timid mediocrities and the begrudgers are at it again - squealing in statutory reviews and the media about the impact on competition of the BBC’s massively successful and massive website services.
Take it from Argyll. Listen, you blinkered whingers - where were all of you when the BBC had the vision to realise the power [...]
Industry sources suggest that if Carphone Warehouse succeeds in getting control of internet group, Tiscali, Vodafone is developing a partnership proposal to Carphone Warehouse which might see BT cut back as Vodafone’s main partner for consumer broadband provision. The plan might even see BT dropped altogether as Vodafone’s major source of telecoms infrastructure in the [...]
