Lib Dem peer demands Strictly recount
The Daily Mail reports: A LibDem peer has joined the debate following Tom Chambers’s controversial Strictly Come Dancing win, calling Saturday’s final a ‘fiasco’. Former North Cornwall MP Lord Tyler...
View ArticleTime for a heated, televised debate?
De facto Deputy Prime Minister Lord (Peter) Mandelson has hinted that his boss might be ready to debate Nick Clegg and David Cameron in the run-up to the general election. The London Evening Standard...
View ArticleOh God … It’s Don’s “there’s too many repeats on telly” rant again
In what has become a tradition almost as eagerly anticipated as the Queen’s Speech, Lib Dem shadow culture secretary Don Foster has unleashed his annual broadside against telly bosses for broadcasting...
View ArticleCher. And Cher I like.
X-Factor-haters look away now. There’s nothing for you here. Cher Lloyd was the true star of X-Factor for me, no matter that she finished fourth. (Jade Goody, it may be remembered, finished in the same...
View ArticleLoving Borgen, but I do just have three questions about it…
So I’ve finally caught up with BBC4′s new Danish import, Borgen – which is to coalition tangled-web politics what The Killing was to grisly tangled-web murders. And it’s great. Really. I mean, the...
View ArticleBorgen and Elizabeth: how political leaders transform into Machiavelli’s Prince
** WARNING — SPOILERS FOLLOW ** Borgen, the Danish West Wing ((C) All Media), has just finished its first series on BBC4, and it’s been a joy (notwithstanding the caveats I voiced a few weeks ago). And...
View ArticleAre these the best opening credits of any TV programme ever?
Last night, when switching off BBC1′s Question Time — no, not even Tim Farron’s barn-storming showing could tempt me to endure a whole hour — I tweeted: In a perfect world, someone would watch #bbcqt...
View ArticleThe Eurozone crisis explained. OR: How not to get distracted by smurfs doing...
The Eurozone crisis isn’t, by common consent, a sexy topic rich with comic potential. Important, yes. A rib-tickler, no. So kudos, immense kudos, to comedian John Finnemore who performed a pretty acute...
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Why we shouldn’t ban political ads on TV
I was on the panel for Voice of Russia’s debate yesterday on whether political advertising on TV in the UK should continue to be banned. The debate’s been re-triggered following a legal challenge from...
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