The UK are to get tough on music swappers apparently. They want to fill the law courts with people accused of sharing copyright files over the internet. Blighty know someone with rather a lot of TDK chrome cassettes. Should he flush them down the loo?
We would ask the BPI but their spokesman seems a touch […]

We in Blighty are, in many ways, as fickle as our weather. We like nothing better than talking a chap up, only to bloody his nose (see below) at the first window of op.
On BBC Radio Four however longevity reigns. The pace of change is reassuringly slow. I was considering this yesterday lunchtime while listening […]

There’s nothing like a prophet of doom to liven up a sleepy Sunday. Step forward Professor Hugh Pennington, president of the Society for General Microbiology. He says that an outbreak of the predicted bird flu pandemic could kill two million in the UK. Now, we at Blighty are no great twitchers, but we like the […]

Our hearts lifted at Blighty when we found this site called ‘Backing Blair’. At last, support for our once esteemed leader. We have been rather worried about the poor chap recently. He seems to have lost all his friends. Except one or two in America perhaps. At last, a UK site backing him!
Imagine our dismay […]

This Max Hastings seems a bit of an unpleasnant chap. He doesn’t seem to like our Prime Minister very much either.
He’s banging on about this terrorism bill that has been in the news lately. It’s another reason for him to get all his best Blair brickbats out. Then towards the end of his article he […]

Prompted by the chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, Trevor Phillips’s suggestion this week that black boys could be segregated from white boys in an attempt to improve their performance at school, Kwame McKenzie questions whether the Commission for Racial Equality has lost its way.
It is difficult to argue with McKenzie’s view that […]

Talking of cuts in bureaucracy (post below) the BBC have announced a £335 million cost saving exercise amounting to an initial cut of 1,730 support staff. Eventually the aim is to make 5000 of its 26000 staff redundant. Many of those cuts will include areas responsible for producing the content of TV, radio, news and […]

A couple of days ago I suggested that John Prescott’s Mediterranean hotel suite complete with jacuzzi hadn’t been the great burden on the tax payer that the tories would have us believe. In the scheme of things it was not a lot of money. £35 billion, however, is a lot of money. No, don’t worry, […]

There is something ironic in the fact that Bill Wyman’s hobby, when he’s not gigging with his fellow pension-age rockers the Rolling Stones, is digging up old relics with his metal detector. Apparently Wyman once dug up a coin minted during the reign of Harold II. Back when the Stones were really good then.

I’m sitting at my desk listening to Melvyn Bragg’s excellent In Our Time on Radio 4 and browsing through the enormous BBC website. I’ve found another story about the Beeb being under fire. This time from the Tory Culture Secretary John Whittingdale and Labour’s Gerald Kaufman. Whitteringdale tells us:
The only justification for a state-owned or […]