Got the little one to school, sat on the sofa rolling up before I go bed (nightshift) and this gets announced. So random considering the little on was watching Peppa pig on the same channel about an hour ago 😂
Hopefully some angry granny's or golden trolls.
How is this guy still on the radio....He's a complete pillock! It honestly feels like torture if i ever have to listen to him. The end.
Makes my blood boil. And that is exactly what it is designed to do.
They're saying she 'got off with it'.
Now they've got Andrew Neil on representing GB News (those folk that started the conspiracy theory about James Hamilton being a member of the SNP).
Now they're both laughing together about how Scotland is a banana republic without the bananas.
Now Vine is grilling Alyn Smith about 'OnCe In A gEnErAtIoN'.
Wow. The Beeb are really not taking this well. Can't blame them I suppose, as they invested so much time and effort into all this.
Right, that finished quicker than expected. Must say that over the last 24 hours I've really enjoyed the contrast between STV/ITV's independent, factual, professional journalism, and the absolute spin on display by the state broadcaster. Full on damage limitation mode for the union, while trying to keep the smears and conspiracies going.
I wonder if all this will open the eyes of those who somehow haven't yet realised the full extent of the impact that the Tory takeover of the BBC has had on their 'impartiality'. They've absolutely disgraced themselves over this whole affair, and now they're doubling down. Desperate, desperate stuff.
I always see the intro to the show because my kid watches Milkshake in the mornings, and before the theme song is even over I want to go out and kick a puppy. Is it just me or am I missing the point of it?
Personally I find him very annoying. But not listened to him in a while, but a clip for him just came up on TV and reminded me how infuriating he is.
So today's Jeremy Vine show included a response to the Mary Wollstonecraft statue from a TERF group... https://objectnow.org/ .
While I'm sure we all appreciate the argument that the statue is inappropriate, it's disappointing that the producers looked to them for their input.
Do you think I should do it? Any advice?
With four minutes to go, Boris Johnson ran in. I was already concerned – maybe more concerned than Boris. It was an awards ceremony at the Hilton, Park Lane. The room was packed with financial people in bow ties. It was a couple of years before Johnson became Mayor of London. At this point he was a backbench Conservative MP and newspaper columnist. Right now he was due to make a funny speech.
In four minutes.
There I was, at 9.26pm, sitting with a table-load of London bankers, trying to answer their questions. ‘Will Boris actually arrive?’ ‘Is he normally this late?’ ‘Has he got lost?’
I answered them all as best I could:
(a) I’m sorry (b) I don’t know (c) I don’t see Boris Johnson that often
You see, I explained, I am only here to hand out the awards for… (I consulted the sign at the back of the stage)… ‘for International Securitisation,’ and Boris is making the after-dinner speech. So we have not coordinated at all. I don’t know where he is. Yes, I’m a little worried too.
To be perfectly frank, I had not the first idea what securitisation was either. The event was named something grand like The International Securitisation Awards 2006 and I really did not want to ask what exactly the prizes were being handed out for, since I was the one handing them out.
Suddenly – BOOM. A rush of wind from an opened door, a golden mop, a heave of body and dinner jacket onto the chair next to mine, and the breathless question, at 9.28pm:
‘JEREMY. Where exactly AM I?’
I actually had that stress feeling – a kind of sunburn, creeping across my arms and back. So he was late and he had not prepared a speech. And he was due onstage in ninety seconds.
I said, ‘It is the Securitisation Awards, Boris.’
He said, ‘Right-o. And who is speaking?’
‘You are.’
‘Good God,’ he cried. ‘When?’
I looked at my watch. ‘Um – pretty much now.’
Eyes widened around me. I speak at quite a few dinners and always feel most comfortable if I do some research a couple of weeks before – what’s the occasion (that helps), who is attending, etc. – then write the speech longhand in advance. It is not that I am the school swat. It is just that underpreparedness, that dream where you are sitting final exams in a subject you didn’t know you were supposed to revise, scares the pants off me. Later we will talk about public speaking and what I’ve learnt about it. But right now, this was an emergency.
I noticed we now had the attention of the whole table.
Boris said: ‘Okay, first up. What IS securi
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