Look - Jonathan Ross is the senior broadcaster, the iconic boundary-pusher, pretty much a cult hero to those newer to the industry. Russell Brand - and who, including himself, ever thought good judgment was an arrow in his quiver - was performing for an audience of one - Jonathan.
Watch the clip - you cannot [...]
Teeth getting knocked out. Chins being split. Eyes lost. Fractured ankles being played on. Brains being dulled. Or were they dull already? I’m not sure. As an Englishman who played hockey and rugby I can’t believe the level of personal danger posed by playing shinty. Its unbelievable to me that safety kit is not used [...]
British badminton mixed-doubles pair, Nathan Robertson and Gail Ems, were down 17-12 in the third game of a key match. They are to retire after this games. An over-heated commentator describing their situation as ‘retire or get to the semi-final’ said: ‘It’s stark. It’s brutal. It’s reality.’
And a BBC commentator, wanting to talk up [...]
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 [...]
Will someone give me one irrefutable defence for leaving the legal limit for terminations at twenty four weeks? Of course there will always be compelling reasons for legal abortions in specific circumstances but there can be none for the capacity to leave it so late. At this stage we’re talking about a viable life outside [...]
Will both warring wings of the flightless bird that is currently the Oban Airport project decide now on their priorities? What’s important - scoring points, airing faults on both sides in public in an expensive legal battle funded by the taxpayer or retrieving what’s left of Argyll’s corporate credibility after this juvenile schoolyard brawl?
Regardless of [...]
